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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
n W~OODPECKER.
-Four characteristics Of the Little Drum
mer of the Woods.

Four characteristics Of the Little Drum
mer of the Woods
There is an article by Frank NJ.
Chapman h St. Nicholas Oh "The
Little Drummer CT the Woods giving
much curious information concerning
the woodpecker. Mr.. Chapman says:
If we had a woodpecker in our hands,
we should see in s1e beginning that its
bill is not slightly hooked, with the
upper mandible turned down at its end
and overlapping the under mandible, as
in the crow and other birds that ''pick
up a living" but that both mandibles
are of equal length and cut squarely
off at the tip. 1t is, therefore, like a
! wedge or chisel.
Perhaps the tip of the birds tongue
will be seen appearing through its near
ly closed mandibles, and u attention
is at once attracted by its peculiar
shape. We discover that it is remark
ably long, and when fully extended
reaches almost if not quite al inch be-
yond the point Of the bill. 1t is not
fat, like the crows, but round and
heshy, and has a sharp, horny point,
which, by looking at it very closely, We
see has a series of barbs ON both sides.
In the meantime our hands have
doubtless been pricked by the kird's
tail feathers, each feather being stiff,
bristly and pointed at the end. Some
of the larger woodpeckers-the pileated
and ivorybill. for instance-have this
singular kind Of tail feather highly de-
veloped. The main stem or shaft of the
feather is much larger than usual, and
each barb growing from this shaft is
curved downward and inward and il
strong and pointed. Comparing this
feather with the fat tail feather Of q
crow, we see at once how different it il
in form.
The wings do not impress US as ir
any way unusual. They are neither
very long MOI very short, but the ar
rangement Of the toes is so peculia,
that they were at once commented upo1
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Notice of Mortgage Sale.

Whereas, default exists in the conditions Of u
certain mortgage. dated May 10. 1894. and eXeeu,
II. Wheeler, wife and husband. OF Lake rOun-v,
S. D., mort. sors, 10 North western Loan ana
Banking Company lake :" . $. D., mort
gagce. upon the i "-'> e So pc = fO..uw-,
to wit: From -. (-vl coin"r .. ine
northeast r ~ O.. sec ~ w.. 81 lUJ,
township o1a Luuored ,nd -x (1O6, oor'h Of
range ii V wo (32l, nm - i've W p cOG> on
sOuih iloe g said quarter : iivn, ,hstce North
GU D IL " parallel with west line o. said quarter
section, nine,een (19l roas, five Is, fee: from
this point as pace of ueginn &. thence nOrth
:wenty COZ 20. : e even ~ one. na!f Ulia) feet,
on a e 3 "a With y - line o, sud ulac'er
section. t'e"ce east twelve O2l rods seven -
feet. 90 a ire parallel with south lice of said
quarter ~ec'i"n. 'heuce sonth :wen'y coy rods
ciev-n anu oteta" (li ~ ON I ne .'N%,'iel
win west IL u lltti -r.t'oF, !UetC'
west Q Lace ri oe..r, z. 60 t.tD,Dg one aud
So ntrS Il 81 acr -, more or less. accord ~ TO
the Cnireo ST - !ove"ument survey tn'r'oi.
situate IL the y 'soii e and state OF >"n'n
Dakota: sa'd NOR gage having u Ven To Sc
cure The payDep, of n g ,ain lUsta!. meut note
da d May 10, 1874. and signed by the mort.agose,
for Sl3S.47, with interest at II per cent per an
mum rom d :" or - unpaid install neu--: said
mortgage having Deen ,eG FOR record q e Of
{ e ~ the y-"i>'er Of de. Is IN and .or .-ske
M"ty.S. D.. May Il, 1s9t, aJ 3t3o o ciorA p. m.
aud !ec, dtd in ms II. on page c0}: aud,
WherrI-. the said note a m"-"a'e con .alned
a conGlitOu that in case 0: y !a.ut %; any
inets: nent when due. the Wa e 'cttrftGe
not. th. J unpaiG : iOnil AZ once oe,Ome due and
pa aDie, and snOn q draw Int: est y. l! pet cent
from date: AZ +. whereas, the ius'aiimeu ~, due
or saio note January l: ls9b, July !, 1896, Janu-
airy /, 1891, and July /, 1897. respectively. a'e past
due anr unpaid, the mortgage does here-: cX-
e.; So sopttOu AID oec:a'e s tue wlof- -! said
Il e I'D mortgage 10 he due an,. payable; tnd,
wnefers, ilere i. low ella med TO be one On said
note ard mortgage the cum OF one hnDdred
thir,v-e,gnt dollars aud th;rty-iive cents (~Sl}>35),
p.ipcioa. and interest. AID the N .her -nm Of
ff'v dollars $50 I) attorney f.:s ~ st.pnt.ted
il -'in mot'-t.e IN case OF ,re,' sac and,
wY.san-,'ne i.- hrer 10 r.ore"h y . = law
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
EVIDENTLY SOME MISTAKE.
CalixtO Garcia and Another Cuban II
ported to Have Escaped From Africa.

Calixto Garcia and Another Cuban Re-
ported to Have Escaped From Africa.
New YORK. Aug. ~ Madrid
cablegram says: The premier, Senior
Canovas del Castillo, has received a dis
patch announcing that 1.-The Cuban
chief Calixto Garcia, and another Cuban
had escaped from the fortress at the
Spanish penal settlement off the Chat
farine islands, off the coast Of Morocco"
1t is believed the escaped prisoners have
reached the coast Of Africa.
1t would appear that there is some
mistake in the information sent to the
Spanish premier. Major General
Calixto Garcia, the famous insurgent
leader of Cuba, who would seem to be
referred t in the above dispatch, is not
known to have been. captured by the
Spanish, much less sent to the Chat.
ferine islands. \ letter from General
Garcia was received at the Cuban head
quarters in this city last month, dated
from a Cuban stronghold, giving a full
statement of the situation Of affairs in
Cuba.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Tad seven Wives.

CRlCAG". .Ang. ~1.-.Another warrant
charging o!gamy has been served on
David Ellsworth Bates in a cell at the
police station. 1t wa sworn out by
James L. Mccarthy. who said he was
the father Of Mrs. Bates No. 3. The
police say Bates married at least seven
women, all OF whom are living, and
only one Of them divorced. This makes
the lean and sallow-faced little book
keeper a polygamlst extraordinary.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
NO INJUNCTION GRANTED.

New Rates of the south Dakota Railroad
Commission to Go Into Effect.
Sioux FALLS, S. D., Aug. Limited
States Circuit Judge Garland has de-
MED the order for an injunction to re-
strain the railroad commissioners from
putting into effect the schedule Of rates
adopted by them. He holds that what
the commission did prior to July l was
void as the law did not goin to effect un-
til that date. 1t is believed the railroad
commissioners will at once promulgate
their schedule Of rates and that the
railroad, will continue the fight.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
To Establish Grain Grades.

ST. PAUL, Aug. THE railroad and
warehouse commission will meet at
their offices in the Endicott building,
St. Paul, Thursday, Aug. IL, at 2 p. M,
Tor the purpose Of establishing "Minne-
sofa grades of grain" for the ensuing
crop year. All parties interested are
invited to communicate any suggestions
to the committee pertinent to the mat
far
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
AUTONOMY ACCEPTED.

Foreign Admirals Officially Notified That
Cretans Will Try Their Plan.
CANEA, Aug. THE belief Of the
Cretans that Djevad Pasha, the new
military commandant, is really charged
by the sultan with instructions to wreck
the autonomy scheme, has had at least
one very important result. The depu-
ties representing the principal provinces
have sent to the foreign adnairals an
official declaration accepting autonomy
and expressing a desire that the Turkish
troops should be withdrawn from the
island.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Lawyer Browns Affidavit.

New YORK, Aug. 7.-Melville c.
Brown, an attorney Of Laramie, Wy,
has filed an affidavit in which he swears
that Mrs. Sarah Ann Angel, who is
seeking to prove a marriage with the
late Jay Gould, admitted to him she
never was married to Gould and that
he was not the father of her daughter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07

ST. Louis, Aug. . Umpire Hurst Of
the National league. who is wanted in
Cincinnati for ~as>aulting a mar with a
a beer glass at a recent game OF ball
there, has heen arrested and is now in
custody at the -Four Courts awaiting
the arrival Of an official to take him
back to the Ohio metropolis. Bail was
refused.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Sent to a Foreign Dock.

WASHINGTON, Aug. THE battle.
ship Indiana will be locked and cleaned
at Halifax, being the first battleship OF
the United States that has been sent tC
foreign dock for lack of docking facili.
ties at home. 1t is probable that she
will be followed by the Massachusetts
and the Iowa as it is not expected tina,
the New York dock will be repaired il
less than a year.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Brought Out BunOla Miners.

MoNoNGAHELA, Pa, Aug. Be
tween 300 and 400 striking miners
marched on the Bunola mine. headed
by the G. A. r. band Of this place.
The body was composed of miners from
Catsburg, Black Diamond, Webster and
other points in this vicinity. The
Bunola miners were brought out. and
the strikers established a camp to see
that work is not resumed. The strikers
are quiet and orderly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07

New YORK, Aug. IA cablegram
received here says that Gus thinner
man, the rifle shot, again distinguished
himself in a shooting match at Frank
fort-on-the-M Main, Germany, taking first
prize. Zimmerman has won first prize
in all the important shooting matches
in Europe since he has been there.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Number of Natives Killed at
Malakand Estimated at
200.
Those Left Alive Greatly Dis
heartened and Will Prob
ably Submit.
Cretans Accept the Scheme OF
Autonomy Proposed by the
AdmiralS.

S1MLA, Aug. 1.-THE British political
officer at Mainland reports that prac-
tically all the tribes Joined in the late
attacks on the British forces i'll the
Chitral district. He adds that 2,7NO
men Of the enemy were killed and that
in addition many of the tribesmen were
wounded. The latter are greatly dis,
heartened and much further resistance
il not likely.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
IOrillard'S Colt Won,

LONDON, Aug. At the first days
racing Of the Lewes summer meeting
the Lorillard Beresford stables chestnut
flly Atossal beat H. S. Gray's bay flly
Camp in the race for the Nevill plate.
This race was for 200 sovereigns, dis.
lance five furlongs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Unable to Account for 1t.

LONDON, Aug. THE Times in its
financial comments admits its inability
to explain the persistent weakness Of
silver but thinks it is due perhaps to a
well grounded belief that the results OF
the American bimetallic commission,
headed by Senator Wolcott, are not
likely to prove satisfactory to silverites
here and in the United States.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
Rising Against Turkey Proposed.

LONDON, Aug. "A special dispatch
from Sofia says that it is rumored there
that the object of the visit of Prince
Ferdinand NJ. Stoiloff, the Bulgarian
premier. to King Charles Of Rounania
is to induce reluctant RcSmania to join
Servia and Bulgaria in , rising against
Turkey for which it is alleged secret
preparations have fer a long time been
in progress.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
CAPTURED NEAR TRIESTE.

One of .Andree'S Carrier Pigeons Found
in Austria.
PARIS, Avg. THE Gaulois says
that 4 pigeon bearing news regarding
Prot sN,r AndreC, balloon expedition
across IL" North Pole, has been cap
turpG al tradl-ca, near CoritZ, 22 miles
tron. Trieste. Iii Austria Hungary.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07

BY a blind girl. to whom I had handed
a specimen of one of these birds. In
stead OF the disposition common to most
birds, three toes directed forward and
one backward, we discover two front
toes and two hind ones, and we will
note also that each toe is armed with a
strong curved nail.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07
THE FIGHT AT DE ARM1TT'S.
Mines at Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek
Closed Tight.

Mines at Turtle Sfeek anu SaHuy STeei$
Closed Tight.
P1rTsBURG A-g. Out Of the 1000
strikers who ca,nped at Turtle Creek
last Saturday barely 800 10Y remain at
Camp Determination. In addition to
the large number Of men who were
turned out Of camp and cut off from
free lunch distribution many were
drafted to Plum Creek, where the great
struggle for supremacy between the
strikers and the New York and Cleve-
land Gas Coal company will be car
ried on.
At Turtle Greek and Sandy Greek the
strikers have practically won. Turtle
Greek mine is closed down as tight as
the strikers can yer hope to close it by
their present peaceful means Of agita-
ton. 1t is true that a few men are still
at work in the pit but they are not pull
ing out any coal. The same holds good
at Sandy Greek. Reports from Plum
Creek are complicating. Superintend-
ent de Armitt claims tnat 255 men are
still working while the strikers say they
counted but 80 going into the pit this
morning.
Deputies Are Ov+rworked.
The deputies at Plum Greek are hav.
ing a hard time, many are complaining
, and a number have resigned. There i
no such thing as uninterrupted rest fol
the deputies, and they are under a con
slant strain. All the mines are con
nected by private telegraph and tele
phone wires and every stranger or body
Of strangers moving along the highways
is Immediately reported to the nearest
Office by scouts and, when the foremen
or managers Of the pits get notice at the
points upon which any march thus re
ported seems to be directed, there is d
stir among the deputies. AS these
marches are matters of almost daily oc'
currence day and night i'll all directions,
the deputies are in IA state Of apprehen'
sion and activity. The feeding and
| lodging facilities are limited and are
not adequate to the demands made
! upon them,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-07

Just try a lOc. box of Cascarets, the
finest liver andbowel regulator ever
made.
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Wanted--En luS;a y~.,

Protect your ideas: they HAY triag YOU ~-ai;
Write JOHN W~EDDERRCS L O.. Fa;rAt alto
aeys. Washington. D.. e.. fnr thsi. Sl.a, nr.e off.
and list of two hurGre'! irvertiOns wanted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
SPECIAL NOTICES.
~~-~-~-N-~-~-~-~-~
PROCLAMATION.

City of Savannah, Mayors Office, Sept
10, 1S97.-On account of the prevalence of
yellow fever in the cities of Mobile and
New Orleans, and the intervening and ad-
jacent territory, and for the purpose of
protecting the people of Savannah from
the said fever, a rigid quarantine is here
by declared against the said cities of No.
bile and New Orleans, and all other
places and districts which now are, or
which may from time to time, become
infected with yellow fever.
No persons, baggage, cars, boats, YES
sells, or packages of any kind, from said
cities, or any other infected place or
places. will be allowed to enter the city
of Savannah, except after such detention
and under such regulations as may be
prescribed by the sanitary board of Sa-
vannah, Ga.
No mails from said places, unless and
until disinfected under the regulations of
the United States postal authorities, will
be allowed to enter the city of Savannah.
The officers, agents and all persons in
charge of railroads, vessels, express COM
panies, and other means of public or priv
ate conveyance, are requested TO assist in
enforcing this quarantine, and
All citizens are earnestly requested to
cooperate with the authorities in main
tanning the present good sanitary condi-
tons of this city, and in enforcing a rigid
quarantine.
This quarantine shall continue in force
until further notice.
Any person violating any of the quar-
antine. regulations will be punished in ac-
cordance with the statutes and ordinances
in such case made and provided
p. w. MELDRIM
Mayor City of Savannah.
Attest; VIM. P. BAILEY,
Clerk of Council.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
BLoDGETT OUT FOR BATTLE.
4 Disappointed Job Hunter Makes
Dire Threats Against the Bosses.

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 23.-Henry Rucker
the negro collector of internal revenue
and MI Tom Blodgett, the man who has
been threatening all sorts of awful ex-
posures in Georgia republican circles if
he is not given a job, came near having
a pitched battle in the Office Of the United
States marshal, Walter Johnson, to-day.
Blodgett says he was promised job I'M
der Bucker, and, although he and john
son have not been on speaking terms for
some time owing to his denuncation Of
Johnson, he went to the latters Office to
meet Rucker this morning. He says he
had been sent for and supposed it was to
confer about his job. Instead of talking
Job" however, Rucker opened up on
Blcdgett by accusing him with having
threatened to assassinate Col. Buck and
himself also while he was in Washing
ton recently. Then Blodgett got hot in
the collar and said all kinds of things to
the collector, who in addition to the al
legged threat of assassination, upbraided
Bodgett for his intentions to go to Ohio
to tell what Hanna did in Georgia last
year, and then help defeat him for the
Senate.
II all ended in Blodgett leaving the Of
flee jobless and in a rage, swearing that
he would wipe up the earth with Collector
Rucker when he gets a chance at him on
the street
Blodgett and some of the other disap-
pointed fee-hunters have undertaken to
get a state convention next month for the
purpose of ousting Walter johnson from
the Craftsmanship of the state committee
and 10 do other things which they think
will give them revenge upon the crowd
that has captured the offices. 1t is said
they win try to have Tom Johnson of Sa-
vaunah made chairman.
Ii is all nasty row, characteristic of
republicanism in Georgia, but with pros
pect of being carried further this time
than ever before. If Blodgett's mouth is
not stopped by a hunk of something in the
way of patronage he threatens to tell all
manner of corruption tales when next
months convention meets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
WALK WITH WlNcHESTERS
AN ARMED GUARD PATROL DOCKS
AT BRUNSWICK.

Agents Of the johnson Steamship
Line Determined TO Load Their
Vessels in Spite of the Strikers.
sixty LOngshOremen Put to Work
Under the Protection of Winches-
ters-The Mallory Line Will Also
LOad-A COmmissary at the wharf.
Brunswick, Ga, Sept. 23.-Manager Fos-
ter denies that the St. Simons mill men
are on a strike.
The strike situation assumed the most
determined aspect to-day when sixty men
were carried out in a box car to the
Southern docks, surrounded by an armed
guard They will be put to work on the
Johnston line steamship and are loading
her rapidly. Part of these men came in
under care of supt. Beaupree Of the
Southern railroad.
Tonight Agent Strong of the Johnston
line said: 1--WE carried sixty men to our
docks at 5 o'clock this morning accom-
panying them was a complete commissary,
bedding, etc. These men will be housed
and fed on our docks and our steamships
loaded regardless of all strikes. We nave
twelve men patroling the dock armed
with Winchester repeating shot guns
violence towards our men will be resisted
to the last ditch
Agent Raymond of the Mallory Line
New York weekly steamers said tonight:
1--WE are receiving and delivering freight
promptly despite the strikers Inc tenn
porarv inconvenience we were first put TO-,
has been completely overcome. Please
say to the press that strikers or no strik-
ers, the Mallory Line will continue prompt
service"
Speaking cojontly, these gentlemen eX-
pressed themselves decidedly in regard to
citizens who are subscribing money TO aid
the strikers They state that but for this
outside Interference, the strikers would
have returned to work and their thou
sands of dollars in weekly wages would
have been distributed among the mer-
chants.
The steamship men who distribute large
sums weekly in wages met to-day and dis
cussed the plan TO retaliate for the way in
which outsiders are aiding strikers. They
decided to stick together and fight IT out
with the strikers. They will open an i'm
mense Joint commissary and pay off in
checks receivable only at their store. This
plan if operated, will be a severe blow to
Brunswick merchants. A good strong
man Is needed badly now to step in and
arrange this difference between labor and
employers. Unless a settlement is eff
fected Brunswick merchants will sufter.
The Mallory Line steamship Rio Grande
came in this morning about thlrty-six
hours overdue She sailed considerably
out of her course to avoid the storm. NO
damage was done TO the vessel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
NEW MEDICAL DISC0V-
cry.
A Positive Cure For Dyspepsia

This may read as though we were put
ting it a little strong because 1t is gen
orally thought by the majority of peo-
pie that Dyspepsia in its chronic form
is incurable, or practically so. But we
have long since shown that Dyspepsia
is durable, nor is it such difficult mat
ter as at first appears.
The trouble with Dyspeptics is that
they are continually dieting, starving
themselves or going to opposite extremes
or else deluging the already over-burden-
ed stomach with "bitters," after dinner
pills" etc, which invariably increase the
ditficulty even if in some cases they do
give a slight temporary relief. Such treat
mont Of the stomach simply make mat
tiers worse What the stomach wants is
a rest. Now how can the stomach become
rested, recupera ted and a the same time
the body nourished and sustained
This is the great secret and this is also
the secret of the uniform success of
Stuart Dyspepsia Tablets. This is a
comparatively new remedy, but it's sue
cess and popularity leaves no doubt as to
its merits.
The Tablets will digest the food any
way, regardless of condition of stomach.
The sufferer from Dyspepsia according
to directions is to eat an abundance of
good, wholesome food and use the tablets
before and after each meal and the re-
suit will be that the food viii be digested
no matter how bad your dyspepsia may be,
because as before stated, the tablets will
digest the food even if the stomach is
wholly inactive. To illustrate our mean
ing plainly, If you take 1880 grains of
meat, eggs or ordinary food and place il
in a temperature of 9S degrees, and put
with il one of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets
IL will digest the meat or eggs almost as
perfectly as if the meat was enclosed with
in the stomach.
The stomach may be ever so weak yet
these tablets will perform the work of
digestion and the body and brain will
be properly nourished and at the same
time a radical, lasting cure of dyspepsia
will be made because the much abused
stomach will be given, to some extent, "A
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tell you that of the many remedies adj
vertised 10 cure dyspepsia none of them
has given so complete and general sat
isfaction as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and not least in Importance in these hard
times is the fact that they are also the
cheapest and give the most good for the
least money.
A little book on cause and cure of
stomach trouble sent free by addressing
Stuart CO., Marshall. Mich.