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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Postal Affairs i'm Dakota.

Sioux Falls, =. d.. Special. Postal
Inspector FOsness. who has been the
terror Of postOf!ice robbers in this state
for Il dozen years. has been transferred
to Chicago. Joseph X. Brown was
postmaster at SissetOn and was re-
moved in 1895. He became angry
thereat ana delayed settlement until
September last, but the authorities
took no notice of his settlement and in
stitutcd proceedings. Last Monday
the graud jury had had his ease under
consideration and dismissed it; but
Johnson, who did not know Of this &C.
tion Of the grand jury, came here with
his attorney from Browns Valley
Mimi, to defend himself. The cost of
coming here and employing an attorney
was more than the matter under dis.
pute. and Mr.. Brown went home de-
claring that he would never again re-
fuse to settle with Uncle Sam.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
The Nations Capital.

The receipts for customs during Oc-
tober amounted 10 S9,113,414, rs com
pared with S11, 105, 493 for October.
1896.
The government is building 10o ncw
houses ut TIE Anadarko. agency. These
houses are for the Kiowa and Com
anche Indians. who have promised 10
live in houses instead of in tepees.
Brig. Gen. James Il. Wade at ST. Paul.
commanding the department of Dakota.
recommends the abandonment Of Fore
Custer. Mont, as Il nilitary post. He
also suggests the abandonment Of Fort
Assinniboine. Mont. the most north,
crn post in the United States. the ncces-
sity for which has now passed away.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Killed the Teacher

Scdalia, Mo, Nov. Z. - James Allen
teacher in school at Whetland. Hick.
Dry county. was beaten 10 death by his
pupils. AS punishment for mscon.
duct Mr.. Allen kept several boys after
school. When released the youths
went away angry, and later as the
schooimaster was en- his way home
they waylaid him. pelting him with
stones and clubs. Mr. Allen was
knocked down and his skull crushed.
He did not regain consciousness. The
youths have been arrested
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

An English inventor has contrived
an instrument, which he calls the
"dromograph," intended to record the
time and photograph the finish of a
race, whether of horses, athletes or BIZ
cycles. When, at the start, the con-
testants break q cord an electric bell
rings and chronograph begins to re-
cord the time. The breaking OF the
graph and at the same instant exposes
a Photographic plate, on which the po-
sition of the contestants at the end Of
the race is recorded
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

faster than any state in the Union.
Her mines. her fields and her factories
yield their fullness of wealth annually.
The best people in America are set
Ting within her borders. One hun
dred towns and villages have popula-
tions of nearly $500 each, showing
how equally the population is distrib-
uted. There is one thing, however,
that Utah needs very much. There is
a scarcity of printing presses. Thirty
one of the towns referred to have no
printing offices and no newspapers. 1t
would seem that this Is a condition
that cannot exist for any great length
of time.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Cattle ,ia Huron

Huron, :. d.. Special Montana cat
tie dealers are shipping through this
city large numbers Of cattle for East
crn markets. These shipments. added
TO these from ranges along the Mis-
souri, river and on the great Sioux res
crvatiop. tax the railways heavily.
The new stockyards' here are filled al
most continually with cattle. for feed
ing, this having been made the feeding
station between points of shipment
and Chicago. Only about twenty-five
hours time is required for covering the
distance between this city and Chi
cagO.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
General.

"pjttshurc PhiT' is credited with WIN
ming S25O00O Oh The turf this season.
but il might he cut in two ana theh
placed at high mark.
The Houston hotel. At NeodcSha'
Kas.. which was burned seNcrai WcShs
ago. is To hc rebuilt When finished IL
will be one of the finest hotels III mat
part of the state.
A ,jsrroccful row occurred at the
Kankakee lllD state asylum among
the attendants and medical staff Ten
PEOPLE are in the hospital as Il result
of the injuries received.
1t is announced that ST. Louis VIII
soon have magazine printed IN
twelve different languages. and ii VIII
Ice the only publication of the kind III
the world.
Martin Flaherty defeated Danny
Mcbride in fifteen rounds ut Bridge
port. Conn. The fight was for Il purse
of $1,000. The men were clever ana
fought hard.
Mrs. Mary \. Walker of Chillicothe,
Mo-. aged Seventy-SiN years, whose
home was in Kneeland, Wis. was
stricken with heart disease and died i'll
II few minutes. just as she was about
10 enter Il theater.
Dion Geraldine has resigned rs SUI
ECrintcndent of the department or
buildings and grounds OF the trans
Mississippi exposition. This is the END
of fight that has been going on for
some time among the management OF
the exposition.
The South Pennsylvania Oil company
las closed deal for the purchase of
the property of the Deyonian. Emery
X MatSon Oil companies in the Brad
ford pa.) field The deal includes 20
100 acres of land and $50 producing
wells. The consideration was 81 HOO
600 i'm cash.
BY the will of Mary j. Bradford Of
South Boston, which has been filed in
the probate court for Suffolk county. Il
trust fund is created of $1,000, the in
come 10 be used for the care ana sup
port Of parrot owned by the test
ator. The bird is not TO be put in any
public place or store on exhibition.
Charges against forty of Chief Kip
!cy's recent Star league appointees to
the Chicago police department were
lliutt ttloTt the CIVIL StIN ice
sion. and are being investigated. The
accusations are being made 10y Il news
paper reporter and include murder. as
sault. arson, burglary. larceny and re-
cciving stolen property.
Dion GeraldnG. formerly n superln-
teadcnt in the construction department
Of the worlds fair. was married ut
Chicago To Miss Ellen l.. Cochran of
Chicago. They will reside at Omaha.
Mr.. Geralding was recently connected
with the trans Mississippi exposition
ut Omaha. but resigned his position
last week.
The property of the New Albany
lndl WOODEN Mills company. valued
1T nearly 100000. the plant of which
has been closed down for three years,
was ordered sold by Judge Herty.
Judgment in II suit To foreclose the
first mortgage have been rendered.
The company employed 700 operatives
and it is expected operations will DO
resumed within sixty days.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
CONTESTS IN ou,o
Courts VIII be Asked ,o
Hard In Tho NJ. take

Columbus. Nov. {. - Tho oh.
iature stands "A Republicans - n seg
ocrats and doubtful on the nff IL nei
turns received to date. Win "a, J
or more of the SIS counties von, uo1s
there have been no material cio
except in Wood county, which , mag
claimed by both parties nn Wni
courts pass on the action of tho CIV
Nisors. 'upeq
Chairman McConville, Of the Dom
cratic state committee. has
changed his claims of a Demoora.
majority on joint ballot. ana will,
do so until the official returns os
counties are in and show the 6no, y
suits to differ from those he b"s y
hand. '' a
Chairman Nash insists that Tho ,o,,
lature stands - Republicans - :
Democrats, and that the ma ioritv
joint ballot will not be less than sn ~
He says that he is satisfied with IN
situation in Wood county. What y
feared was that the official COW
might wipe out the small Rcpuhlica,
plurality in that county.
Ii has been learned that counsa, g.
both the Democratic and ReppbIica,
committees at Bowling Green hor
agreed to submit the Wood county cas
ut once to the circuit court. The cow
will he asked to decide whether IN
election board can go behind fhe ,,
turns. OF course it will be left for mr.
cecdings in contest in the house Ia A,
eide whether the vote of certain tow,
ships shall be counted. Informatio
has been received at Republican bcat
quarters of protests TO the soldiers
home vote at Dayton on the gronn
that the voting precincts were not !
the proper place. If the vote shoul
be thrown out the Democrats wonl
gain two Representatives from Mon
gomery county and one senator
enough ton the claims of the Republj,
ansj TO make the legislature stand :
Democrats 10 ~ Republicans on iCin
ballot.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

The stride of the German soldier Is
thirty-one and one-half inches. with
cadence of one hundred and twelve
steps a minute. The French soldier
has stride two inches shorter, and
cadence of one hundred and fifteen
steps a minute. The difference typi-
fies the methodical character or the
one nationality and the mercurial tenn
permanent of the other. Far distant be
the day when these varying steps shall
meet in a hostile onset!
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Town Girl Aired Her Knowledge fra
the Country.

a girl from town is staying with her
country cousins who live OH farm.
On the night of her arrival she finds,
To her modification. that she is igno-
rant of all sorts of things connected
with farm life, which. to her country
cousins, are matters of everyday
knowledge She fancies they seem
amused mt her ignorance.
At breakfast the following morning,
she sees on the table a dish of fine hon
cy, whcrcupon she thinks she has
found an opportunity of retrieving her
Illuminating experience of the night be-
fore, and Of showing her country cous-
ins that She knows something of life.
after all. So, looking ut the dish OF
honey. she says. carelessly:
"Ah. | see you keep Il bee."-Pear-
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
NEW WRINKLES IN SHIPS.
BiI Royal Yard-Stcel Yards aud
Masts-Scssels without Royals.

Nasts-tcss without Royals.
A man not familiar with ships, who
saw the royal yard lying on Il South
street wharf the other day. might have
mistaken it for Il mainyard. il looked
so big. II was il new spar for an
American wooden ship Of 800 tons,
lying alongside the wharf and was
fOrtyseven feet long. The mainyard
Of the ship measured about eighty nine
feet in length. The royal yard was Of
spruce. the main Of Oregon pine. On
Il ship built nowadays the lower yard
would be Of steel
Ships mGsts We're formerly made
with the several parts each Il solid
stick. When big timber became scarce
and more costly, the lower masts We're
built up of n number Of pieces of wood
and banded with iron hoops. When
ships began to be built of iron, the low
or masts We're made Of iron, and also
the lower yards: and when the build
ing of steel ships was begun. the lower
masts and the lower yards were made
If steel. There are ships now that
carry steel yards up to ANA including
the tOp-gallant sails.
There are built nowadays ships that
carry no royals. The other yards are
made longer, so that the ship spreads
the same amount of canvas, which is,
however, carried lower. With less
weight aloft there Is less leverage on
the masts, and the ship stands up bet
ter. Fewer yards are required and
less rigging. The low rig is in line
with the common modern endeavor to-.
ward greater economy Of operation
New York Sun.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Croker Ia Not Dead.

New York, Nov. Z. A rumor that
Richard Croker was dead was in circu-
lation in all quarters Of the city all
day yesterday. II also spread through
out the country. and inquiries as to the
truth Of the report were received from
points rs far distant as San Francis
SO. The Tammany leader has simply,
"a slight cold and will probably be wen
enough tomorrow to start on trip 10
Virginia.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

Serious calamity Is reported TO have
befallen the crops in nearly every part
OF Ireland. The situation is most SER
ious along the Atlantic seaboard, where
the potato crop, which is almost the
sole doncndence of the population, has
been rhine by blight and a wet sum-
mer. 'r-. excess of rain has inflicted
injury also upon hay and grain. The
harvest in general is described as the
worst since 1879, when there was great
distress.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
How COni Ia puf I'm.

Denver. Nov. IA deal has been con-
summated whereby the Northern Coal
company becomes the absolute owner
Of eighteen of the larger coal mines in
the same time controls the remainder
of the mines in that district excepting
the Enterprise. As result the price
of Northern coal advances from $50
per ton to $3.50 and Southern Ignite
coal from 1928 to 81.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Another BODY Found.

Havcrstraw, y. Y, Nov. I. The
body of Algernon w. Mckay. who lost
his life i'm the New York Central rail.
road disaster at GarrisOns, was found
floating in the middle of the river off
Ionia island, four miles below the
scene Of the wreck. The coroner and
his jury viewed the body, after which
ii was turned over TO Detective
Humphrey. The inquest has been adj
journed indefinitely.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
No Treaty. No Lights.

London, Nov. THE COnstantin0ple
correspondent Of the Times says: The
sultan pcremptorily refuses to permit
the lights In the Dardanellcs or the
Gulf Of Salonica until the peace treaty
between Turkey and Greece has been
signed. The order of the palace 10
the porte areSarding the Bulgarian
berats is to temporize. and the Bulgar-
ian agent here threatens to demand bis
passports.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
The oIIcst Fortrcss.

Pensacola, Fla. Nov. Z. - Maj. NC
Murray, commanding the First ar
tillery at Fort Barrancos, has been W,
structed by Gen. Wilson the cher ~
engineers. to restore the walls OF oiu
Fort San Carlos, near Barrancos. mus
is the oldest and most interesting lort
in the United States.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Soldiers Arrested.

Paris. Nov. Tt is announced in
dispatch from Nancy, capital OF the
department Of Meurthe-et- Moselle,
that a number of soldiers have been
arrested there for distributing anar-
chist literature among the French
troops composing the garrison OF that
place. The authorities also seized u
quantity of revolutionary documents
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

A volume treating of the returns OF
the latest federal CENSUS has just
been issued at Washington. 1t has
come out in its turn. This is sp.en-
did system of ours and there is rea-
son to believe that in the course OF
few decades we will be able 10 know
something about the nation as il was
i quarter of a century ago.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

Constant success shows us but one
side of the world, fer it surrounds us
with fiatterers who will tell US only
our merits, and silences our enemies,
from whom alone we might learn our
defects.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
In the same Conn.

Indianapolis. Nov. Mrs. Angelina
Mendenhall died at her home, aged 81
years. Forty-five hours before ne,
husband, DR.. Elijah Mendenhali' nau
passed away Mt the age OF 81. Tue
husband and wife were buried in the
same coffin. They had been tosether
through fifty-siX years of welded IRE.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
Deaths From Typhoid Fever.

WATERFOWL, s. d.. Special.-Durihs
the past four weeks over forty cases
OF typhoid fever have been reported III
this city, with several deaths. There
are also a great many cases In the sur.
rounding country. and two deaths
were reported the past week.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
\ Greut Benefit.

First Daughter of the Revolution
She says she'd like to know. for her
part. what practical good our society
does.
Second Daughter-Why. the mean
thing! Just as il we hadn't made 1t
almost fashionable to be pariotic.--
Judge.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11
nth OF THE NEWS
EVENTS 0F THE PAST WEEK IL \
CONDENSED FORM.

pOrtant News of tho Week From
All Parts of the Globe. Boiled
Down and Arranged I'm Con-
by Busy People.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

To lose our charity in defense Of cur
religion is to sacrifice the citadel TO
maintain the breastworks.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-11

IA dasllilI
Rightly d
Eughter, '
|hoolgirl {
Iho asked
III say,
kOlnnler e
/ we don
NJ comes
tanllna q
harry hin
tlnl, then
kR," rep
ksh from
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Beggars
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han ~
The news & observer., 1897-11-23
IN THE MAYORS COURT.
A Chronic Thief of Women's Dresses
A Lovers Quarrel.

Timothy Williams, young In years,
but old in crime and black in color, was
up before the Mayor again yesterday.
The offense was larceny, the same that
it has been every one of the many times
Timothy has claimed His Honor's at
tention.
Timothy seems to have a natural af-
finity for other peoples property, and
only a few weeks ago he completed a
term on the roads for an offense similar
to that for which he was yesterday bound
over to court-stealing a dress from one
Bowery belle of his acquaintance and
selling it to another.
1t was a dead open and shut case this
time, and though '"Tempsy," as the wo-
man called him. protested his innocence,
and plead that the woman who charged
him with the theft was jealous of his
attention to another woman, the Mayor
thought the jury ought to have whack
at him, and he is now in Jail awaiting
the next term of court.
The next offenders were two young
and tender colored sprouts, Ed. Dancy
and Mag. Brooks. They were charged
with being disorderly ON the streets.
Lum Foster, a colored man, was the
only NItuCsS. huill lOlu the VI uG
was very busy, and so didn't see much
of the row. He ''jest heard Mag fetch
an oath and tell Ed. to stop punching
her ON the breast"
"You say you were busy; what were
you doing" asked the Mayor.
Il was setting on beer keg in front
of the bar-room door,"
absorbing what was in the keg?'
queried the Mayor.
mo, sir; it was empty. l was sorter
drumming"
How come you to let these two Gus
toners, Mag and Ed, pass by without
saying anything to them?"
''They are sorter home folks and
knows where to get it if they wants any
things"
Ed. then made his statement of the
trouble between himself and Mag:
''There won't nothing the matter 'cept
l jest passed by and to'ched 'er and she
cussed me and told me to not to'ch her
any more. | asked her why she didn't
tell that feller what whipped her the
other night to let 'er alone. That made
'er mad and she rared and cayorted till
the policeman come and got her"
On this showing the Mayor decided
that the matter was too trivial to claim
his judicial attention further and he dis
to Mag that in future she keep Ed. at a
distance and he would 'to'ch' her
aly more.
The news & observer., 1897-11-23
TRINITY-WAKE FOREST DEBATE.
The Preliminaries Have Been Arranged
Takes Place in Raleigh.

The arrangements for the inter-colle-
giate debate between Trinity and Wake
Forest have been completed The de-
bate will take place in the Academy of
Music on next Thursday Thanksgiving
night. The debate will open at s o'clock
sharp. The query will be:
Ought the system of water works,
lighting and street cars to be operated
by the city for its people, or by private
indiyiduals?'
The Trinity debaters have the affrma-
tive, the debaters being Messrs. Need
ham, North and Stewart.
Wake Forest has the negative, the de-
baters being Messrs. Utley, Johnson and
Cannady.
President James Dinwiddie, of Peace
Institute, Capt. S. A. Ashe and Prof.
Hugh Morson have been requested to
act as judges, and have signifed their ac-
ceptance of the honor.
The debaters will each speak twelve
minutes in their first speeches, and each
will have a rejoinder Of seven minutes.
The Raleigh orchestra will furnish the
music The presidents and most of the
members of the faculty and most of the
students of both institutions are expect
ed to be present.
The promoters of this debate hope to
organize an intercollegiate league and
have frequent debates.
The news & observer., 1897-11-23
he MUST .EXPLAlN AGAIN
Will, HE SAY SIMONTON PAYS
NO EXPRESS?
MORE CHARGES AGAINST ROBINSON
Claimed That His Whole Family Has Been
Totin' Free Passes--Did the Judge Ask
For Pass the Day After That
Famous Charge?

The free pass business grows apace.
With the denials and explanations tor
Judge Robinson by his friends, come
other charges.
One is that his family has been riding
on passes-that they came home from
Waynesville the past summer ON pass.
Another is that the Judge went INTO
the Southern Railway office the DAY at
ter delivering that famous charge mere
to the grand jury and asked for pass
for another man in the western part
OF the State, saying that his presence
here was necessary, and if he couldn't
get a pass for him he (Robinson) would
have to pay his fare.
He didn't get the pass.
This all reminds me that while Gov
.ernor Russell was trying so hard the 9TH
.er day to explain how Judge Robinson
passes were not judicial passes at all,
but private individual passes, he might
have done little explaining for him.
self.
Not exactly on the free pass ques-
ton. though He had already tried that
made very ridiculous spectacle of him.
aud made a very ridiculous spectacle OF
himself. But he might have told the
people how it is he gets all his ex-
press free.
The two-free express and free per-
sonal transportation-come in the same
class. ANY reasoning that will
apply to one will apply to
the other. Will he defend him.
self this time by saying that Judge ST.
monton gets his express free and when
the Judge quits he viii quit? If not that,
what can he say? We shall see.
I have it on good authority that dur
Ing the month of November His Ex-
eellency received no less than half a doz-
en- express packages shipped by the
Southern Express Company, each and
every package marked dead head"
xOn the November End. he received
package from Wilmington, weighing a.
bout nine pounds, duly marked ID. H."
On November 9th two packages came,
one weighing one hundred pounds and th
other twenty-five pounds.On November
9th, still others were received from Will
mington marked I'D. H." and on the 11th
another twenty-five pound dead head"
package came from Wilmington.
On numerous other dates, no doubt,
many others packages came free from
Wilmington, the Brunswick rice farms
and other points-all shipped to His Ex-
sellency or other members of his family
and not penny of charges on any one
Of them.
Will HIS Excellency please rise and ex-
plain?
The news & observer., 1897-11-23
Ct d..
Do YOU WANT TO BUY A SUM
MER DRESS?

On account of the mildness of the
weather We have opened up our lines
of Black and Colored Summer Dress
Goods, for spring and summer 1898.
Many of these in the Blacks were late
arrivals from B. Prestley & CO., Brad
ford, Eng, the celebrated English
makers of Black Dress Goods. These
goods were not shown last summer and
are correct styles in every way for the
coming spring and summer, 1898.
It's a good time to buy-goods will be
much higher in price next year.
HAYWOOD, SNOW & TUCKER,
Trustees