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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-07-22

: NEIGHB0RING COUNTY NOTES.
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The storm Friday wrought great
amount of damage by beating down
standing grain. destroying good roads
and washing away small bridges
about Darlington.
Fridays rain washed the front
windows of the Journal office so
clean that rays of the afternoon sun
became bothersome, and we had to
get new curtains, or roast. Not car
ing to be roasted in this life, we pro-
cured the darlington Jour
nal. How about the life beyond,
Bro. Brown?
John Jones, of Darlington, had
narrow escape from Kingdom come
during Friday ; storm. He was walk
ing h0mewards while the electric
fluid was frightening people by its
wild intensity, when "A terrific thun-
derclap knocked him flat on the
ground and at the same instant a
bolt Of Lightning the size of mans
fist shot through the air about three
feet above him.
The electric light company of
Darlington, drained the water from
the race recently, and hundreds of
carp and catfish were left founder
my in the muddy puddles of the
race bed The barefoot boy was not
long in discovering this snap, and he
whispered it to others, and in few
hours the fish were frying in a hun
dred pans.
While in Darlington recently Bob
Livingston purchased Judge Is, a
two ear-old colt, from Nelson Bow
er, paying Sl75 for him. The colt has
been in the hands of that crack
horseman, Willis Proctor, for about
six weeks, and had gone a half mile
in :27, and the proud owner of Mon
arch was SO much pleased with his
style and beauty that he could not
rest easy until he secured him.
one day last week while King
Fisher, the crack runner who was be-
ing trained by Fred Mckinley, of
Darlington, was being given some
fast work in company with another
horse, he, in some way unaccounta-
bic to all who saw him, stumbled
and broke his left fore leg near the
shoulder joint, and had to he shot.
His skin will be tanned and noun
ted, and placed on exhibition at the
Darlington fair. The horse was
owned by John Gallagher, of Shulls-
burg
\ new school house is being built
at New Diggings, to replace the one
recently destroyed by fire. The new
building will he much larger than
the old one.
A young man named beethoven,
son of Peter Udelhoven, of Elmdale,
was struck by lightning recently and
instantly killed. He was in the barn
ut the time unloading a load Of hay.
Charles Pritchard, "A veteran Of the
Twelfth Wisconsin Battery, was
drowned in Pine river near Richland
Center He was so years old and
leaves a wife and two children.
Dir. Walter Z. Mitchell, of Spring
Green, who was arrested in Chicago
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-07-22
DODt,ENlILE.

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The work of frtscoeing the interio,
Of the NJ. Il. church has been going
ON during the past week. There /.
some tall of ruttinp In ,.,,,,ri,l
windows.
ThoSunday school nrths.pIvpouth
Congregational church of this city
viii ran an cNcuy>io TO the NIonono
Lake Assembly. at Madison. Thur,.
day, July %. The fare from Dodge
willie. for the round trim. viii "a. SIM
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-07-22
Professional Cards
PH fSfCIINA.
DIR. CHAS. ROSS.

(,RADutTr RUSH MEDICAL CoLLEGr 49,
VI Resident Physician and Surgeon 70 @t NJ isle
terrain Hospital, Chicago. i1esby-
Especial attention given to Chronic sr,,.
diseases, Asthma. Bronchitis, Consrruo gicsl
rheumatism, Diabetes and Brighps disoinoh'
chronic diseases of the Liver Eiiusys t,seasei
Nerves and Skin chronic diseases Of w ytalgs
and Childftn. Indigestion and diseases ~ J'. ,
stomach aud lntestines n specially " me
Practice limited TO Office practice aud OH,
diseases. No night calls Hours. Ia ~ Iii 10
except sundays; also from to AZ NJ san.
Office over Gundry & Gray's rsoeays
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
commissioners Sale!

NOTICE is hereby given that, under and by
~ authority of decree rendered on the chan
Gerry side OF the Circuit Court of Crawford
County Arkansas, on the 2nd day of December,
1895 In an action pending In said court between
MeKbben h Pape. Plaintiffs and Geo Brock
ct al, Defendants wherein it was adiudged that
unless within 80 days from the date of said
decree the defendants, George Brock, wyatt
Brock and Edy Jones' should pay off the note
given by them to Berkeley Neal amounting to
$33l %. described in said decree, the mortgage
executed by them to secure.the payment of said
note should stand foreelosed and their equity Of
redemption in the land described in said decree
be barred. the sum of money aforesaid remain
ing unpaid, will on
Saturday, June ., 1897,
at the front or Main Street entrance to the Court
House in the City of Van Buren,, within the
hours for judicial sales offer for sale and sell,
at public cutlery, to the highest bidder on a
credit of three months. the tract of land
described In said decree, to-wit:
All that part of the Northeast quarter OF
Section Fifteen, Township Nine, North, Range
Thirty-two West lying and being west OF Lees
Greek containing Ninety-on acres, three roods,
and twenty seven poles.
The purchaser will be required to execute
note with approved security, and lien will be
| retained on the land for the purchase money.
W. 7. SADLER,
Special Commissioner
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
When Patience Is Hard.

From the New York World
In reply to Mr.. Wanamaker 8 com
plants of the failure of the Republican
party to restore prosperity, members of
the president cabinet and other
prominent Republicans ask the country
to "have patience. .
1t is hard to see, however, why the
country should do anything of the kind
after the circus poster style of campaign
which has become chronic with
politicians who propose to make every
body prosperous by increasing the
taxes.
In the campaign of 1892 the spell
binders talked of the home of the
American workingman of the future as
glorious with Brussels carpet and
pianos, and in 1896 the country was
given to understand that the Republican
party had at last secured the advance
agent of the prosperity through which
these splendid dreams were to be
realized.
So far as it could be done voters were
made to believe that prosperity depends
not on thrift, prudence and energy, bu'
on putting some particular man il
power at Washington.
When the country does put him in
when the circus does come to town
when the public goes in to realize thu
gorgeous promises of the bill boards, i
finds that the giraffe is far from bein,
forty feet high, that the roaring den o
lions is one small animal with thu
mango, and that the monster python
swallowing an OK whole, is hardl,
larger than a chicken snake.
1t is very easy under such circum
stances for the ringmaster to call on TIN
audience to be patient with the ex
hibition, but the audience does not se
things from the ringmaster's stand
point.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
Given Another Chance.

The case of Bob LaRue charged with
killing John Johns in Lees Creek town
ship and whose case was taken to Logan
county on change of venue, where he
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to 10 years
in the penitentiary, will be remembered
by many of our readers.
LaRue's attorneys after the trial
appealed to the supreme court and he
was taken to Little Rock for safe keep
ing pending his appeal. A short time
after his incarceration in the pen he
made his escape and was only recently
recaptured by Felix Houck and returned
there. On Saturday his case was
reached on the supreme court docket
and was reversed and remanded to the
Logan circuit court for new trial. What
the outcome of new trial may be IL
hard to tell as time obliterates much OF
the evidence.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
~ cure Liver Ills; easy %
Hoods Pills take, easy to operate. &c.
Hood s Sarsaparilla and Pills for sale
at JOHN O'KANE's DRUG STORE.

of the government is paid by taxes on
consumption. The inheritance taxes
that have now been adopted by seven
teen states and the undeniably strong
feeling over the failure of the income
tax law are signs of the times which
wealth cannot afford to neglect. 1t is
the part of wisdom to yield to a popular
demand that is obviously just. And to
yield would be to draw the poison OF the
demagogues, to allay the anger and
discomfort of the masses, and to pro-
mote that spirit of fairness and con
fidence without which there is grave
danger of injustice.
If wealth would consent to bear its
just share of the burden, even the
threat of confiscation would be silenced
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
Practical Talk to the A. !. ". Law
School Graduates by
Hon. A. F. Miles.

Practical Talk to the A. I. v. Law
School Graduates by
Hon. A. F. Miles.
From the Little Rock Gazette.
Hon. A. F. Miles address was a
plain, practical talk, full of good advice
deduced from the experiences of a
lawyer. He applied as good motto to
adorn every attorneys Office Davy
Crockett immortal saying, BE sure
you are right, then go ahead - Gospel,
law and medicine were the three great
est professions gospel looks after our
hereafter, the law after our present
affairs, and medicine furnishes an
occasion to explore and investigate the
question of future rewards and
punishments. The law was a jealous
mistress, but rewards her faithful
pupils. What she demands of every
one who undertakes to do her bidding is
devotion, constancy, application and
uprightness. Mr.. Miles incidentally
referred to women who aspire to become
lawyers. He thought 80 long as there
were dishes to wash, buttons to sew on
babies to look after and homes to make
happy, the legal profession could get
along without women. He oontrasted
the old lawyer-the circuit rider, so to
speak-with the lawyer of the present
day, and spoke of the discouragements
confronting the young lawyer.
The good and honorable lawyer was
respected by all classes. The demands
upon a lawyer are very great-from a
murder trial to Fourth of July
Grafton. 1t was not all of high life to
get a fee, nor all of death not to,
though each may come near resulting
in life or death. He advised the
graduates to conduct themselves
through all this life so that they may
receive the salutation, well done,
thou good and faithful servants. -
Mr.. Miles address was devoid of
oratorical flights; it was plain, I'M
vanished tale, and somewhat re-
freshing in its departure from the
beaten paths of rhetorical exhortation
to young graduates standing with
reluctant feet where the brook and
river meet.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Circuit court convenes June 81.

Circuit court convenes June 81.
Mrs. j. d. Knowlton came dowr
from Wagner Thursday
Miss Grace Strong, of Ozark, is visit
ing Rev. G. N. Wall s family.
Miss Fannie Scott left yesterday on a
visit to relatives at Little Rock.
Mrs. Mary Marshal, of Hot Springs
is visiting Mrs. Chas. Hiteman.
Grocery stores now close at 7:30 p. NJ.
This is according to an agreement
entered into by the various firms.
A number of shade and fruit trees
were injured by the heavy wind that
accompanied Wednesday nights thunder
storm.
Mrs. C. R. Cordell has been very i'll
this week and for day was dangerously
so. We hope to hear of her speedy
recovery.
Col. Ed Sommers came down from
Kansas City Thursday morning and
spent day with friends here, returning
that night.
Miss Kate McIlroy and Mrs. Oar
Allen arrived Thursday from Fayette
vile on a two weeks visit to Mr.. and
Mra y n Allan
Miss Bertha Alexander, who has been
the guest of Miss Fannie Scott for
several weeks, left Thursday for her
home, st. Louis.
The rainfall of this week up tc
yesterday morning amounted to 2. OF
inches considerable more than for the
entire month of May
Mrs. Julia Wilcox and Miss Carrie
Hamilton returned Wednesday, to
Eureka Springs after an extended visit
to relatives in Van Buren,.
Mrs. Keif, who has been the guest of
Messrs. Adds and Lewis Bryan for
some weeks. returned to her home at
Salem. Ill. Thursday.
P. n. Morony, assistant division
freight agent of the Mo. Pacific, is in
the city and will make this his head.
quarters during the potato shipping
season.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
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The Tariff Bill In the Senate.

From the New York World
When the extra session was called
The World ventured the prediction that
1t could not enact a tariff bill before
midsummer. 1t is now perfectly
obvious that this prediction is to be full
filled.
Meantime the country must needless
ly suffer that prostration which always
attends uncertainty as to the conditions
of commerce and industry.
All this is inflicted upon us for purely
partisan purposes. 1t was entirely
within the power of congress at its
regular session to give the country the
Retrenchment, Revenue and Rest
which alone were needed to secure
prosperity. 1t was only necessary to
pass simple measure, which Mr..
Cleveland would have been glad to
approve, imposing obviously just taxes
upon beer and few other articles.
But Mr.. Mckinley demanded of his
party that it should give him an excuse
for calling tariff ripping extra session.
1t was foreseen that if sufficient
revenues were provided and no session
of congress held until December, there
would be no excuse for tariff tinkerine
and hence no opportunity to repay
campaign contributions with benefits.
So the country must endure business
prostration and industrial uncertainty
in order that the trusts and the favored
classes may be rewarded for theii
liberality in supporting campaign
upon totally different and now ignored
issue.
The tariff bill has at last come to
debate in the senate. In opening the
discussion Mr.. Aldrich claims that its
impositions are lower than those of the
house bill. Whether they are so or moi
we frankly do not know. Nobody
knows. For nobody really knows what
this senate bill means or what it is like
ly to effect after each of the majority
senators has put his fingers into it and
demanded whatever he wants as con
dition of letting it go through.
This is the situation. The bill can
be passed only by securing for it every
Republican vote. Each Republican
vote has some special interest behind il
and each must be secured by granting
whatever it demands.
1t is the most perfect illustration Of
log rolling ever seen outside an
appropriation bill.
And even this is not the worst.
Senator Aldrich frankly admits that in
the opinion of Mr.. Worthington G.
Ford, the non partisan and expert
statistician of the treasury, the bill il
passed will not produce sufficient
revenue to meet the expenses of the
government. - Why, then, is it to bt
passed. Why is it not so amended az
to provide the needed revenues-the one
thing that can justify or even excuse
taxationr And if it fails of this purpose
what is to be donef Are there to BIZ
some further bond sales, increasing She
national debt in time of peacef
! Is this craftsmanship Does il
promise prosperity Is it what the
/ Republicans and Democrats who elected
Mckinley voted fort
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
Well Represented at the Big Expo
sifiOu.

From the Little Rock Democrat
According to the estimate OF the
Nashville Sun, Arkansas and Texas are
about as we'll represented at the expo
sition as any two states In the Union
notwithstanding the fact that the legis-
latures made no appropriation at all.
Upon the refusal of the legislatures OF
these two states to make necessary
appropriations two well known railway
companies, the st. Louis, iron
Mountain and Southern and the Cotton
Belt, took the matter under consider
alton, and the result was that hand
some building, south of the Transport
alton building, was erected for the ex'
hibition of agricultural, mineral and
timber products of the two states,
especially sections of the states traversed
by these roads.
E. M. Phillips, of Little Rock,
representing the land department of the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railway, is in charge of the company
affairs at the centennial, and j. St.
Koslowsky, of st. Louis, land and
immigration agent of the Cotton Belt,
represents that road.
Among the fruit products of Ark Insas
in this building is the famous Shannon
apple that has taken first prize for
fifteen years. 1t took first prize at
the Columbian exposition. There are
sixty varieties of timber on exhibition
most of which grows in Arkansas.
The most valuable timber in that state
is the yellow pine, oaks of all varieties,
ash, gum, cypress, hickory, black
walnut, birch, cherry and white
holly.
Some very valuable timbers, such at
pine and oak, grow along the line OF
these roads In the eastern part of Texas.
Pictures of scenes along the lines OF
these roads adorn the walls of the
building. The agents in charge OF
these exhibits have for free distribution
literature giving all required inform.
alton of the two states and any country
contributory to the lines of road.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
Self.Interest and the Income Tax.
rom the New York World.

From the New 1ork world.
Mr.. Cochran, of Missouri, has taker
the first step towards undermining oui
system of taxation by introducing into
the house constitutional amendment
TO place the legality of the income tar
beyond question.
If self interest were even feebly en-.
lightened instead of being stone blind
the influences now powerfully against
such efforts rs Mr.. Cochran's amend.
ment would be working so strongly in
their favor that this or a similar amend
ment would pass congress and the state
legislatures without opposition.
Wealth now pays no tax to the
Federal government. The whole cost
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

WE learn from Republican authority
that hard times began Immediately after
the presidential election of 1899, be-
cause Democratic success then presaged
the passage of low tariff bill, which
had immediate effect far in advance.
So did the election of Mckinley last fall
presage the passage of a high tariff bill 4,
but it had no beneficial effect in ad-
vance. What is worse, it will have no
beneficial effect after its passage. -
Batesville Guard.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

LAND OFFICE AT DARDASELLE. ARK.,l
May &C. 1897.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has iiled notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the County
Clerk of Crawford County, at Van Buren,, Ark, on
July II. 1897, viz: Ransom r. Rhodes, HID.
Entry No. l9, SCI, for the E1I of the Ne14, the
5w4 of the Mex and the SEX of the NwA Sec.
e. TIP. II. North, Range 80 West
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of
said land, viz: p. s. Peters. A. NJ. Vaught Will
liam Turner and John Gerhardt, all Of Noun
hamburg. Ark.
VIM P. WoorEN Register.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

AT the end of the present month the
last company of Indian regulars in
the United States army will be mustered
out. says the Detroit Free Press. The
experiment began six years ago in the
West, but gradually abandoned by the
different posts. has been prolonged al
Fort Sill, 1. T.. for the purpose of Civ
ing it thorough trial. But now the
red man is to go even there having
demonstrated his incapacity for soldierly
duties and discipline.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

A CLEAN of sardonic humor is thrown
into the Cuban question by the gable
of the Havana newspapers about the
lack of regard on the part of Americans
for the honor aud chiyalry' of Spain
In view of the attempt of the Spanish
authorities to whip the Cubans 10y sub
jecting women and children to starva-
tion. butchery and outrage, this re-
minder of the honor and chivalry of
Spain is pathetically humorous. What
Spain needs more than anything else is
a little regard on the part of the
Spaniaris for the honor and chivalry of
The nation. Republic.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
CASTO1IA.
he hs- IT
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1T is reported that Senator Jones, of
Arkansas. says that the dispensing with
the usual general debate on the tariff in
the senate and proceeding with the con
sheraton of the bill by paragraphs
means curtailment for the time to be
consumed in the consideration of the
bill and that this is simply carrying out
the policy the Democrats have all along
intended 10 follow. The Democrats, he
says. have no desire to delay action on
the bill. and that their intention is to
proceed in a business like way with the
bill by paragraphs.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

THE Little Rock Democrat of Wednes =
day says: Gov. Jones signed the general
appropriation bill at O'Clock this
morning and as one of the clerks in a
state department put it, a raid on the
state treasury followed. The officers,
clerks and employees in the various de-
partments had been without funds for
more than two months, and were glad
to get on cash basis once more.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

THE case against Havemeyer for re-
fusing to testify before the senate com
mittee in regard to the sugar scandal
was brought to close by the court
sustaining a motion to instruct the jury
to bring in a verdict for Havemeyer.
A like instruction was given in the case of
Searles, Havemeyer 5 right hand man.
Meanwhile Chapman, the broker,
though convicted and in jail, has every
thing he could wish for except his
liberty. Thus is justice debauched in
the interest of wealth.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

d. L. BoURLAND, president of the
Arkansas State Sunday School Associ-
alton, has issued call for state con
vention to meet at Ozark September 8.
Where there are no county organizations
the superintendent of the county are to
select delegates to the convention.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

RUSSELL SAGE has been charged with
all kinds of meanness, but nothing
meaner than permitting his nephew to
die of consumption brought on by want
and privation, of which the dispatches
of last Friday gave an account. He
died in an Illinois poor house. his par
ents being unable to take care of him.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

TEACHERS who intend to attend the
meeting of the State Teachers Associ-
alton Little Rock next month, and
desire free accommodation should send
their names to Geo. r. Brown, Little
Rock. secretary of the local executive
committee.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

THERE is considerable i'll feeling be-
tween whites and negroes near Atkins.
Sunday night three of the latter attacked
a couple white men with knives and
pistols; Monday night one of the negroes
implicated was taken out and badly
beaten
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

1T is understood that the president has
fully decided upon Fills H. Roberts of
New York, for United States treasurer
Mr.. Roberts at one time was assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

Mrs. ]. c. Moore is reported quite i'll.
And now Alma is to have a daily
newspaper. Beginning next Monday
The Herald will during the month OF
June publish a daily in the interest of
the county normal which will be held
at that point during that month.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

THERE is no use for the legislature to
waste any more time trying to enact a
railroad commission law. The majority
of the senate as at present constructed,
it seems, is opposed to any kind of a
railroad commission. 1t has also re-
jected the resolution creating joint
committee to form railroad commits
sion bill
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

SENATOR PLATT of New York is an
other of the leading Republicans who
have expressed a determination to de-
feat the proposed increased beer tax in
the new tariff. Senator Plat makes the
positive announcement that he will vote
against the beer tax. The senator will
propose a stamp tax in lieu of the pro
posed beer tax
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

THE United Presbyterian General AS
sembly of North America elected Rev.
T. H. Hanna. of Monmouth Ill. mod.
orator.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05
ALTO 10 WiuslOu and Return.

Beginning May % and 30 and continuing uniil
Sept . and 26. 81, the Frisco line will sell
tickets to Ninslow every Saturday and sunday
at one fare for the round trip limited 70 return
on Monday following date OF sale.
c. E. GooDISG,
Ticket Agent
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-05

AN earthquake shock of nearly
minute duration was felt throughout a
portion of the Eastern and Central States
Monday afternoon.