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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23

State of Wisconsin, County Court of Grant
County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the Special
Term of the County Court. to be held in and
for said County. at the Court House in the
CITY of Lancaster. in said County, on the I'd
Tuesday of January. A. D., 1898 being the
18th day of January 1898 at the hour of !
O'Clock in the afternoon. the following mat
ter will be heard and considered.
The application of Samuel L. Borah, as
administrator of the estate of Betsey A .
Root. late of the Town of Mount Ida in said
County, deceased. for the examination and
allowance of his final account as such
administrator and for the assignment of
the residue of said estate to such other per
sons as are by law entitled thereto.
BY order of the Court
46w3 GEORGE b. CARTER
County Judge.
Dated December 18th. 1897
Bushnell. Watkins & Moses Petitioner
Attorneys.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23

or ten Of the latter every time. Ia
the whole ride through Arkansas and
Louisiana the writer saw only one
country dwelling that had ever known
a brush Of paint. and what Is worse.
they were not worth painting Paint
and varnish on or in those houses
would be a. homogeneous and ridicu-
lous a. the white powder some Of the
vainer black bellies of that country put
on their faces.
PORT ARTHUR AND THE GULF.
The new town Of Port Arthur Is
hardly a year old but is already put
ting on metropolitan airs. There are
graded streets. electric lights, teIe-
phone. a fine hotel, school house and
depot. besides numerous business
houses. The population numbers
some 500 or GOO. A long pier. pa
vilCn and bath house have been con-
structed into the lake and the grounds
about the hotel and along the lake
front are laid outas parks with walks,
flowers and tropical plants. Most OF
these improvements have been made
by company of the railroad men.
The main business Of the town is
selling real estate. Business lots sell
for from 500 to 5000 and farming
lands on the wide prairie north Of the
town from so to $50 an acre. The
company have sold and have for sale
some three or four million dollars
worth of real estate at and about the
new town.
Most Of this property Is being
bought by spectators who base their
hopes on the belief that the deep water
canal will be brought to Port Arthur
and that there the future Gulf me-
tropolis will be located.
ANOTHER VIEW.
Their friends, the enemy" down
at Sabine Pass are trying to boom
their own town and have begun to
improve and advertise. They init
mate that the Port Arthur scheme is
only Pretense that will appear as soon
as the juice Of the real-estate cocoanut
has been extracted, and that sooner or
later, probably sooner, natural condi-
tions will force the new road to build
to deep water, and that Sabine Pass is
the place for man to invest a few
hundred dollars and reap fortune in
a few years.
As matter Of fact if city Of any
thing like the proportions the boomers
predict, is built it will include both
towns for they are only six or seven
miles apart.
THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
The country is practically undevel-
oped so faras agriculture is concerned
and the railroad company have estab-
lished an experimental farm to show
the possibilities of the soil and climate.
Since February last two or three crops
OF garden truck have been grown in
GLIDING peanuts, watermelons and
strawberries. Strawberries are in
bloom now and cabbage. lettuce, car
rots, onions, turnips-in fact all sorts
of garden vegetables are growing
nicely. The farm will be devoted
mainly to fruits and has already set
out many acres of pears, peaches, figs,
plums and semi-tropical plants The
young trees look thrifty but are not
old enough to bear yet.
Lack of space and time forbids Civ
ing incidents Of the trip and COM
ments on certain matters intended for
this article, but some other time will
do as well, perhaps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23
= STATE ANNlNGroN MILLS. deceased.

= STATE-MANNINGToN MILLS deceased
State of Wisconsin. County court of Grant
County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given. that at the special
term of the County Court, to be held in and
for said County, at the Court House in the
ity OF Lancaster, in said COUNTY on the 18th
Tuesday OF Jan. A. D.. 1885 being the 25th
day of Jan. 1898, at the hour of one O'Clock
in the afternoon. the following matter will
be heard and considered:
The application of Geo. X Mills as eXecu-
tor OF the last will and testament of Man
nington Mills, deceased late of Hazel Green
in said county. for the allowance of his final
account as such executor and forthe assign
ment Of the residue of said estate
BY order of the Court
GEO b. CARTER.
County Judge.
Dated Dec 20, 1897 46N3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23

At jamestown. Dec. IA. by Samuel Johnson
Esq, Mr.. Chorus Burkart of Dubuque and
Miss Emma Gartner.
At Patch Grove. Dec. l. by Rev. Ellis Mr..
Chas. Shrake of Wyalusing and Miss Emma
Lyons.
At Burton, Dec. II, by T. Elwell. Esq. Mr.
John Daily of Lancaster and Miss Katie
La PORTE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23
Holiday attraction.

Prof. Young's Projectoscope & Vau-
deville Co., at the City Opera House
two nights, Monday and Tuesday Dec.
% and %.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23
= sTATE-BETsEY A. RooT. Deceased,

Dated pec. %. lsg7.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23

There will be a Merry hanging il
Chicago soon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
REVOLUTIONARY WIDOWS.
Seven Pensioners Whose Husbands Served
Under Washington.

Seven Pensioners Whose Husbands Served
Under Washington.
"Seven women are still drawing pen
sions as the widows of men who saw
active service in the war of the revolu-
ton; women whose husbands served un-
der Washington more than one hundred
and twenty years ago." writes Clifford
Howard in the February Ladies' Home
Journal. ''The eldest Of these surviving
widows of the revolution is living at
Los Angeles, Cal. She is Mrs. Lovey
Aldrich, now in the ninety-eighth year
OF her age. Her husband was Private
Caleb Aldrich, who was born in the year
1853, and served as a soldier boy in the
New England campaigns of the war.
Mrs, Nancy Jones of Jonesborough,
Tenn, whose husband was Darling
Jones, private in one of the North Car
DINA regiments, is the youngest of the
revolutionary widows, being now about
eighty three years of age. The other
five are Nancy Cloud, who is living at
Chum, Va, and il the widow of Ser
geant William Cloud, of Captain Chris
tian's Virginia line; Esther S. Damon of
Plymouth Union, Vermont, whose hus-
band was Private Noah Damon, of
Massachusetts; Mary Snead, living at
Parksley, Va, widow of Private Bow,
dom Snead; Nancy A. Weathermann,
who lives at Elk Mills, Tenn, and
whose first husband was Robert Glas-
cock, fifer in one the Virginia regi-
ments, and Rebecca Mayo, living at New
bern, Va, widow of Stephen Mayo, a
soldier from Virginia. That these wo-
men can be the widows of revolutionary
soldiers is readily understood in view OF
the fact that their husbands were well
| in years when they married. AS, for
example, when Esther Summer married
Noah Damon in the year 1S35-fifty-two
years after the close of the war-she
was but twenty-one, while he was seven
ty~six. The last revolutionary widow
| pensioner who had married prior to the
close of the war, and therefore had actu-
ally lived during revolutionary times,
was Nancy Serena, widow of Daniel F.
BakemGn. She died about twenty-sevez
years ago, only year or two after her
husband, who was the last of the revOlu-
ionary soldiers on the pension ron.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
NO ROOM FOR CONSERVATIVES.
"MOVe On" Regulations of Science Crowd
ing Them Off the Earth.

move Oh" regulations of Science Crowd
ing Them Off the Earth.
At the next meeting of the city coun-
ell of Cincinnati, Ohio, a measure will
be introduced compelling all consump-
tives to carry small tin boxes or spit
toons to hold sputa expelled from their
mouths. 1t is becoming daily more ev-
ident that the victim of that dread dis
ease may as we'll get off the earth, be-
fore he is gradually crowded off by the
"move on regulations of science. AL
ready several cities have ordinances re-
curing consumptives to expectOrate on
their own premises and not on the
streets, while only recently the New
York board of health has declared the
disease infectious and ordered all cases
Isolated. These inhuman regulations,
it is said, are adopted in the in
terest of humanity, with view of
stamping out the disease entirely.
All of this is very commendable, no
doubt, from an ultra scientific stand
point, but as a humane measure it's
value lies altogether in the future. 1t is
very manifest that this feature does not
figure so far as the present generation is
concerned. Science seems to be, in this
case, exerting itself more for those un-
born than for those already here. But if
it must persist in multiplying the hor.
rors of consumption for the unfortunates
of today, that coming geuerati MS may
be freer from it, why not expedite mat
tiers by simply putting to death at once
the victims OF sciences humane mo-
lives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
TOOK THE WRONG MEDICINE.
ALARMING REPORT ABOUT CON-
GRESHAM RUSSELL,
He Did Not Try to Commit Suicide.
Facts About His Real Condition
FOOlishly Concealed.

The Evening Constitution prints the
following special from Washington:
DR.. P. E. Hicklin, who is one of Con
gresham Ben Russell's physicians, re-
ports his condition as considerably i'm
proved this m orning.
There has been a disposition on the
part of the people caring for Russell to
conceal the real facts about his condi-
ton, and the truth has just leaked out
through report that Russell had at
tempted suicide.
This is not true.
Russell has had much trouble with his
eyes, and by mistake took a spoonful of
eye medicine in his mouth.
The result was that he was very badly
burned.
He indignantlyGdenies the suggestion
of suicide.
He is much better today and seems on
the high road to recovery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
SATURNALIA OF CORRUPTION.
SAVANNAH'S MUNICIPAL ELECTION
DISGUISED GOOD PEOPLE.
The Votes of Negroes and White Men
Openly Bought at the Polls.
DiSgraceful Scenes.

Savannah has just gone through mu-
nicipal election, resulting IN the
election of what is known as the 'Liber-
ap' ticket, headed by Major P. W. Mel
drim, which disguised all good people of
that city. This statement does not refer
to the results, but to the scenes around
the polls, the general rowdyism, the ex-
cessiVe drunkenness and the open buy
ing of votes. When it comes to these
matters neither side can fling any mud.
1t may be said in justice, however. that
the leaders on each side did not conduct
these offenses, but their political lieu
tenants were in power and the lieuten-
ants did the work and no iniunctions
were issued. Every precinct had its
crowd OF drunken negroes; every pre-.
clnct had its agent for each faction. Cit.
liens and Liberal clubmen were there
with the ready money to be paid to the
coiored or white voter as soon as he
could produce satisfactory evidence of
the fact that he had voted for the side
from which he sought remuneration.
One man openly boosted that he
bought seven negro votes at SIS each.
You got them cheap" said friend
standing near by. "They were paying
as high as $50 and $50. at some of the
precincts | visited"
Negroes who ordinarily worked for Is
cents day were seen Haunting $40 and
$50 bills in the faces Of those about
them, openly boasting that they had
been paid these amounts for their votes.
The situation of affairs was such that
IN the principal portion of the town la.
dies were afraid to 60 out on the street
Tor fear Of coming into contact with
some drunken man. White men openly
rode around the streets in hacks and
carriages with negroes, and never was
there more servile treatment of the col
Ored race on the part of those who were
seeking their votes.
But the negroes were not the only ones
who sold out. Many white man took
the $40 or $40 that was paid for the vote
right along. 1t is estimated that any
where from $25, 900 to $50, 900 was spent
upon the purchasable vote, for the votes
themselves as we'll as for the whiskey
and eatables which we're given them dur
ing the day.
Without prejudice to the result, for
the same would have been true in the
event Of the election of either candi-
date, the opinion on the part of many of
the conservative people of Savannah is
that the grand jury should take the mat
ter in hand and indict few of those en-
gagged in the bribery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intOxi-
can't, but acts as tonic and Alternative.
1t acts mildly on the stomach and bow,
els, adding strength and giving tone to
the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the
performance OF the functions Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and
aids digestion. Old People find it just
exactly what they need. Price SOC. and
81 90 per bottle at Sale-Davis Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
A Subject Of Great Interest.

Above all be careful of your eyes. Call
on Prof. Hirschberg, the recognized
New York eye specialist, or one Of his
staff, who will be in Dawson from Febru-
airy 11th to 18Th inclusive, at the store Of
his agents, McLain Drug Co., and have
your eyes fitted with pair of his cele-
brated spectacles and Eyeglasses. Con-
sultation free.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
AVILLAINOUS TRAMP.
Mrs. English Attacked and Knocked Down
Near FIT. Valley.

Mrs. English Attacked and Knocked Down
Near FIT. Valley.
A special from FIT. Valley says: There
was quite lot of excitement here last
night when it was learned that tramp
had called at the house of Mr.. George
English, who lives near here, and had
choked his wife until she was insensi-
BILE.
The tramp, who was a white man,
knocked at the front door and Mrs.
English went to the door and asked him
what he wanted. He told her be want
ed something to eat. She told him that
she did not have anything to give him
and started to shut the door, when the
tramp kicked the door open, vent in and
cursed her and told her that she did have
something to eat and that he must have
it. SIZE told him that there was moth
ing but some cold victuals and he then,
by threats, made her build fire ana
cock him something to eat, sursing her
all the time. After he finished eating
he started to leave and passed where
Ms. English vas standing and grabbed
hold of her. She then tainted and knew
nothing until her husband returned
home about two hours later, when he
found her lying on the floor in an insen~
sible condition. When she came to she
told all about it and described the man.
The culprit was captured by posse,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
10000 HUNGRY
IN COLD CHICAGO.
leTcury IVenty-One Below Zero,
Distress Has Reached a Crisis.
AN APPEAL FOR CHARITY.
FER One Hundred Persons Overcome
in Day by the Terrible Wealth
er. Officials at Work.

with the thermometer at q degrees
g low zero and 10000 people actually in
Aed of food and fuel, Chicago has on
8 hands the biggest task of charity it
y seen since the great fire of 1871.
1.-The aid societies, the churches, the
punty agent and the police have exerted
Perry energy to relieve the distress, but
here are yet thousands of suffering peo-
|le who have not been reached. Ten
pouSand dollars day have been spent
nee Friday of last week through these
literent sources. That amount, howev-
yer, has fallen far short of the actual
beds.
rerSons who need assistance, provis-
aS Or coal, number 10000.
Mayor Swift has intimated that $780,
" should be raised Immediately to
eeI the situation. His estimate is in
Feased to 100000 and 100000 by
'OoSe who are in the field and who have
personal knowledge of the extent of
uS suffering, That this large sum will
\ raised and expended in one way or
'DO'1sF IS assured. The people of Chi
"S0 are aroused as they have not been
quarter of century. ,.,-..
'''' i0o persons were listed as over
lie oy the terrible cold in one day, and
exc rescued in partly frozen condi-
'"' TIE day before the total reported
IL ntty-three. Two deaths have &C..
F''ed' due to the cold, and a number of
OPAe are likely to die as the result of
go limbs Or exposure
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
A CURIOUS STORY OF LOVE.
Young Lady of COrdele Acts as Adminfs-
traitor on Dead Lovers Estate,

Young Lady of Cordele Acts as Adminfs-
traitor on Dead Lovers Estate.
A curious story of love which survived
the grave has eliminated at Cordele, in
which the young lady acted as admins
TRAITOR on a dead mans estate. The ap-
peacance in Dolly county several years
of jefferson Collins, who came from
North Carolina, proved to be quite an
event in the family of J. Z. Hatcher. So
strong was the affection which grew up
that during subsequent illness of Mr.
Collins, who was absent in an adjoining
county, he was nursed through it by
members of the Hatcher family, and la
ter still, when Mr.. Hatcher grew i'll, Mr..
Collins returned the service. Last Feb
ruarY Mr.. ColliLs, while in LenOx, was
shot and killed by a man named Davis.
The news was sent t. the dead mans
mother by Miss Hatcher, who took out
letters of administration on the estate,
arranged all the affairs thereof, had the
dead mans body exhnmed and removed
to Cedar Greek cemetery, where she
could watch over the grave, and finished
up her work of love by having aphOtO-
graph taken of the spot, which she mail
ed Tuesday to the aged Mrs. Collins.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
BAD PLIGHT OF A CYCLIST.
He Tramps Twenty eight Miles, Carrying
a Broken Wheel.


A young Eheelmau of this city, when
next he calls upon his best girl, will
take the train or hire vehicle with four
Wheels. Sunday morning he rode over
t. her home in Webster county, dis
lance of twenty-eight miles, and after a
pleasant day started at sunset on the re-
turn trip. While crossing Kinchafoonee
swamp his wheel broke down, and, be-
coming lost, he stayed in the swamp the
greater part of the nighF with only owls
and alligators for company. He reach
ed home Monday afternoon, hsYing to
walk the entire distance and lug the
heavy bike besides.--Americus Record
er.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
Wait for Prof. Hirschberg.

Do not trife with your eyesight, but
consult Prof Hirschberg, the recognized
New York eye specialist, or one of his
staff, who will be in Dawson from Feb
rdary 18th to 18th inclusive, at the store
of his agents, McLain Drug Co. Eyes
examined free of charge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
DYKES COTTON ACREAGE.
An Effort to Be Made to Have the Farmers
hold 1t Down.

Col. w. A. Broughton, president of
the Georgia division of the American
Cotton Growers Protective Association,
and Hon. Hector Lane of Alabama, pres
ident of the parent association, will hold
an important conference in Atlanta this
week. They will discuss plans to be
brought to bear ON the farmers to secure
a reduction Of the cotton acreage next
season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

A torpid liver means bad complex
ion, bad breath, indigestion and frequent,
headache. To avoid sush companions
take DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
famous little pills.
SALE-DAvIs DRuG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
ADVICE TO GIRLS

Il" zones Remarks to Than, Al. n,.
Dude Beaux.
49, o Vl0s Is just running over with
gooS 4no the world would be better if
i good deal of it was fo,1o '
b. '"'''noe' here is what he says abou.
Rle @,'5 ISM have no taste for a young man
this co,,.,+ sport. Cod pity the girls
] ' Will country ,., The average girl of to-
l. h "'i. PICK out dude, with his name
btb.picl, parted in the middle. with
arrr p ~ shoes and red cravaf and
pnn52, /. IN preference to sturdy honest
! me- me- mar man She will take Tie thimg
he of FIJI ~ !, 3er father will have to take
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

bme h "A dear little child who made
mio LL%sPpy by its smiles. And to tbinI
hts 9 o,',l nave been saved had the "a.
Il Guy guy 6ept in the house One Min.
lon TVush Cure, the infallible remedy for
SALE-DAvIs DRUG Go.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

Get box of Schnapps tobacco from
Y. Y. Lewis. Thirty cents pound bv
the box.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

SALE-DAvIs DRuG Co.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-12
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

BY local applications rs they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way o cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inilamed con.
dition Of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When the tube is
inlamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, deafness is the result,
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be des'
troyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition Of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars fol-
any ease Of deafness caused By catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrl
Cure. Send for circulars; free.
FL. CHENEY II CO, Toledo, o
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-12

SOUTH BATIN

Mrs. Brithuur has been Oh the j Is
list for - few days.
Mr.. MOodp has been ,ilolliug corn FOR
a number IF Turner, in oul locality "i
late.
Frank Bean i, at Topcka, Kansas.
visiting with his sister Mrs. 5. +.
Kelly.
j. Il. Wisecarvcr has contracted If
teen hundred bushels of corn TO j. j.
Miner aud is now engaged in hauling
it To his ranch.
Fred Lamberts little child, Delah,
has been seriously sick but j. improv.
ing under the skIllful treatment IT
Dr. +. +. McKceby.
Henry Brithour has been staying
with j. Beau for a few weeks.
Miss Tishic aud Dora Marker visited
at j. Beans one day last wees.
MIR. Wright seems to be popular
with The school marms as he has been
seen taking 1--WE ut Il time to their
schools on sunday evening
There is still some corr to hu,k IN
oui locality az cold weather has de-.
tanned some from work.
Mr.. Ramey has been Smelling his
corn ou the poor farm this week.
Dick.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-12
w N E
II change in the weather.

VIitu Il Chahg" III the weatser.
W" have the largest school in this
vicinity we have had for years.
Nh. ID. NJ Hunter was Il pleasant
ca rr on the school Tuesday. We
we q all glad to see him and hope be
vii call again.
Little Charlie Aubushon was pretty
badly hurt Monday. They we're put
ting up ice and the ice house caved in.
A chunk of dirt hi, him in the back
He is not able 90 be around. We hope
he vii recover soon.
school has four new scholars.
Charlie Gust aud wife were callers
at Mr. Rudd', Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Turner and Leouu were visiting
Mrs. Aubushon Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. John Burton of McCook, brother
Of Mrs. Rudd was visiting here sun.
day.
Carl Rudd and wife will soon move
on the old MmrSden place.
Jim keag,c aud wife are going To
move on the old Case farm.
Mr., Rudd'~ young folks were %cal,eis
at Mr.. Turner'S Sunday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. VIM. Kuchn were visit.
ing at Mr.. RuddS Saturday evening.
Ira Collins and wife were visiting ON
this creek Sunday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Throckmorton were in
Kansas this week visiting
John Marsdcn will soon leave this
part of the country.
Ask Mr.. Rudd how he likes to haul
hay. INDIA.