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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
Delinquent Lands Sold.

d. 7. Stafford, sheriff and ex officio
tax collector, sold at the courthouse
at Alexandra Saturday, pursuant to
advertisement, all property upon which
taxes had not been paid for the year
1896. OF the property advertised
eighteen pieces were sold to individ-
uals. In default of bidders tho re-
mainder was adjudicated to the State.
The Hoops Burst on n Huge Water Tank.
The hoops on 40, ,000-gallon tank of
water gave way Friday afternoon, at
Lutcher, with startling explosion.
Water was thrown i'll every direction
for 100 or more feet around, terrifying
the operators in Lutcher, Moore &
Co.'S blacksmith shop. For the mo-
ment they forgot the river danger was
over, and thought crevssse was at
hand. No one was hurt.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
The BUCKINGHAM HOTEL

Mrs. G. Buckingham desires to in
form her patrons that she has added
two new rooms on the second floor,
newly papered and reftted the Hotel
for the fall trade. Satisfaction guar
anteed. The table service, as usual,
unsurpassed. sep25
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
HENRY A. GARRETT.
Attorney-at-Law.
ST. JOSEPH, LOUISIANA.

VIII practice in the parishes OF Ten
sas, Ooncordia and Madison, and In
the Supreme Court.
Particular attention paid to collec-
tions, the sale and lease Of lands, and
placing of loans on real estate.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
MoNEYITo LEND.

I am prepared to place loans on
good plantation property in Tensas
parish with nrst-class loan company
on ten years time.
II. A. GARRETT,
Attorney-at-Law,
St Joseph. Ls
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
Cemsas embellishments

have for sale 16-horse power en-
pine with tubular boiler, and 70-saw
gin stand, with feeder and condenser.
Cheap. ID. MOhhiS.
Hard Times, La
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
TORNADO IN MISSOURI.
Buildings Demolished, but No Loss
of Life Reported,

RICH HILL, Mo, June 25.-A tor
nado struck the northern portion of
this city last night. The damage will
amount to thousands Of dollars. One
set OF kilns and one set OF furnaces Of
Cherokee, Lanyon Smelter company.
were blown away, caught fire and
were totally consumed. The black
smith shops and other buildings at the
plant were blown away. The Rich
Hill canning factory was totally
wrecked. The brick block of the NJ.
). Cowles Mercantile company was un-
rooted, and the water poured in, great
ly damaging the block. Buckeridge
block was unroofed, and buildings oc-
cupied by the Daily Review badly
damaged. The city hall was unroofed
and the Wiseman block unroofed and
the front end blown In The KIunp
block was blown in, the Amphitheater
house, horse stalls, sheds and floral
hall, together with agricultural halls
and other buildings a the fair grounds
were completely demolished. The
streets are blocked with trees
fences and outbuildings, signs and
plate glass. The Christian and Epis-
copal churches were wrecked. The
round house of the Memphis route is
a total wreck. and freight cars are
blown from the tracks in the Pacific
and Memphis yards. No lives were
lost, though Thomas Smith was badly
injured, ana several others were more
or less seriously hurt. The damage TO
crops alone will reach thousands Ct
dollars. The storm lasted for thirty
minutes The rain fell in binding
sheets, accompanied by hail.
Sedalia, Mo-, June 25.-An electrical
wind and rain storm struck this city
this morning, doing much damage.
Trees were uprooted and barns. fences
and many small houses completely
wrecked. A Missouri Kansas & Texas
passenger train ran into~a couple of
box cars that had been blown from
the siding near Montrose. The engine
was practically demolished, and
young man whose identity is I'M
known, and who had sought shelter
in one of the cars, was killed. Crops
have been utterly destroyed in many
sections of this county.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
LIGHTNING PLAYED HAVOC
Several People Killed In Various
Parts of GeOrSia

various
Parts of Georgia.
ATLANTA, Ga, June 25.-Lightning
played havoc with lives and property
in Georgia yesterday. he daughter of
the mayor of Powder Springs, a pop
ular summer resort in this state, Miss
Hattie Scott, was slain by a bolt yes
terday evening, and at the same place
a powerful threshing machine was torn
TO pieces by lightning, It's operators
dangerously injured, and the draught
oxen killed. At Carrollton, the center
or the stock raising industry in the
state, James Downs Jr. and Samuel
Connie, both white, were struck and
killed by lightning, the bolt tearing
their clothes and discoloring their fea-
lures. Damage to property at this
place will be immense. At Miner in
the northern portion of this state, a
bolt struck J. A. Farley's farm and
killed Samuel Lawrence a colored farm
hand, badly burned another, and in
jured Mr.. Farley's son. The storm
which accompanied the electrical dis
play flooded all the water ways, and
the loss of property owing to fires
originating from lightning and result
ing from the floods will range very
high. The lightning played curious
freaks, sometimes merely touching an
old ruin and again destroying some
pretentious planters residence. The
damage to large towns was compar-
atively light.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
BIG CORNER IN WHEAT.
Armour Is Now Credited With
Engineering 1t.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 25.-Rumors of
corner in July wheat are agitating the
grain market. One report names the
Armours as the controlling influence
and another from Minneapolis credits
responsibility for the situation to C.
A. Pillsbury. The visible supply is not
more than 100000 bushels and in
few days will fall several million
bushels below that figure. Of this 90
1000 it is said the Armours now con-
troll 100000 bushels. Anyway, it is
now In the hands of the bulls. and
While no concerted attempt to corner
the market is admitted by their repre-
Sentatives the bears are alarmed at
the slim prospects Of being able to
cover their shorts. But short time
ago July wheat was selling at only 8
cents per bushel over September. To-
day it was " cents over. On Wednes-
day last 1t was only 4 cents over.
The total worlds stocks of wheat now
are practically 1921, 900 bushels against
stock of 137, TBS, 900 bushels in 1896.
Heavy transfers of July wheat have
been made within a few days Some
say that from 20,00O,uO0 to Is, 00O. 900
bushels are held by somebody indi-
vidually or collectively. Whatever the
amount, the question is how are the
shorts going to fill in their contracts
with wheat?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
CONFIDENCE WIDESPREAD,
But Business Not Yet Greatly I'M
proved, Says Bradstreet's.

NEW YORK, June 25.-Bradstreets
tomorrow will say: The persistent mis-
representation of the actual state or
trade throughout the country, during
the past month, in an apparent en-
deaVor to make the prospective I'M
provement in business appear to be It's
present condition, demands an eXam1n-
alton as to the facts, and BradStreet
presents condensed results of interviews
with representative manufacturers, ana
merchants at more than fifty impor-
tant commercial and Industrial CEN
ters east of the Rocky mountains.
There is no material increase in the
volume distributed compared with
year ago, and prices for many sta
pies are lower But there; has been an
Improvement compared with the STU
alton prior to the presidential election
of 1896 and as contraSted with last
January Many of the larger mer-
chants and manufacturers character
iZe the business record for the first half
of 1897 as a disappointment in contrast
with anticipations in December, 1895.
On the other hand, confidence is wide
spread in revival Of demand TINS tall.
Of the three great manufacturing
industries iron and steal, cottonS and
woolens the first shows relatively most
Improvement and woolens next, al
though tariff delays have taken the
edge off demand in that line and per
nitted importers to stock up with
nearly two years supplies. Cotton
goods still suffer from cut prices, eX-
cessive competition and heavy pro-
duction. There is a better demand for
silks. millinery and confectionery,
which, aside from the prosperity of the
bicycle industry, constitute exceptions.
Higher prices for leading cereals, for
meats and Havana tobacco are note
worthy and reflect respectively unuS-
ually small supplies Of wheat and
strength of the control of the meat
supply and existing conditions in Cuba.
Exports of wheat, flour included,
from both coasts of the United States
and from Montreal this. week amount
to 2,156,24S bushelsl r compared with
2347 GOO bushels last week, 1881 600
bushels In the week one year ago, J, 946,-
900 bushels two years ago. l,Hi,O oo
bushels three years ago. and as con
trasted with 1871 900 bushels in the like
week of 1898. Exports of Indian corn
amount to 2,2S1 1851 bushels this week,
compared with 1,924,000 bushels last
week. 1,736,000 bushels in the week
year ago, $4,000 bushels two years ago,
900 bushels three years ago, and as
contrasted with 100000 bushels in the
like week of 1893. lie
There are 215 business failures report
ed throughout the United States this
week. compared with 226 last week,
218 In the week a year ago. 2l5 TWO
years ago, and as contrasted with lS9
in the third week of June 1894. Only
seventeen business failures are report
ed from the Canadian Dominion this
week, against thirty-four last week.
nineteen in the week year ago, and
twenty-eight two years ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
Minneapolis.
OFFICE 20 SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

Thomas Flanagan, Lightweight years old
died Thursday at his home, zoos Seventeenth
avenue south. The interment will take place
at Oneota.
II. F. Collins, old resident and well
known here, sustained a paralytic stroke al
Twentieth avenue north and Aldrich avenue
last evening. He was taken to his room at
the Great Northern hotel, High street. by
the North side police.
Michael w. Nash was aIraigned before Judge
Simpson yesterday morning on second in
dictment charging the receiving of a deposit
in an insolvent bank. He pleaded not guilt
and he had already given bail in the
amount of s., OOO he was released on his own
TecogniZance.
The bond of Ernest A. Kempe, assignee &C
the Vanstrum Supply house, sled with
the clerk of the district court yesterday morn
ing. The amount is $150.000, and me United
States Fidelity and Guaranty company is
the surety. This perfects the assignn' mt,
which will stand until proceedings have been
taken for the removal of the assignee ny an
order Of the court.
Commencing Sunday evening at the Metro
politan and continuing for the week, The
Giffen-Nell stock company viii prese 1t A:
W. Pinero'S farccal comedy. The AmaZons
In many respects this odd farce is one vi the
most delightful he has written. The tone OF
the play is light and cheerful. the tone NEST
appreciated by summer audience, and espe-
cially by a summer audience in Minneapolis.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
SALTWATER NEWS.
Many Delegates In Attendance On
the Lutheran Convention.


the Lutheran Convention.
The Rutledge and bow boat cleared yes
terday with logs consigned to the Rock
Island Lumber company. The r. j. Wheeler
and bow boat came uD after a tow of logs
and lumber for the Burlington Lumber COM
pany The Cyclone, of the Durant line, is
lied up at Winona with broken shaft.
There increase in the number of
delegates present at yesterdays meeting of the
Minnesota district of the. German Evan
gelcal Lutheran synod. The forenoon ses-
sion was devoted to discussion of Thesis
on Sanctification," and the adoption OF one or
two annoiatiCns, seven annoations having
S. D., who prepared the paper on the sub
ject. At the afternoon session a number of
committees made their reports, and sew
eral new members were received into the
synod. Rev. Moench was elected visitor
of the Iowa conference The German Luth-
eran> congregation N this city will tomorrow
celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the
organization of the society here. and three
services VIII be held in which a number of
visiting clergymen will participate.
John Standby, George Standby, William
Middlestadt, Albert Throndson and Frank
Richardson were received at the prison yes
terday from Cottonwood county. The first
three will serve one year each, Throndson
three years. and Richardson two years for
grand larceny in the second degree.
Remenyi, the celebrated violinist will give
concert at the Presbyterian church this
evening
The weather Of the present week has been
particularly helpful to growing crops and
farmers feel more jubilant than they did a
short time ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
SHE SKIPPED TO ST. PAUL.
August Stark Thinks His Fiancee
Had Another Lover.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WINONA Mimi. June %. - August Stark
came to Winona several weeks ago from
Huntley, ILL., Today he was to have been
married to his cousin Miss Annie Stark, of
this city. August is farm hand. He says
he paid $40 for a wedding dress, 81 for a
ring and then finally 81 for marriage Ii
cense. But for some reason Annie did not
want to be married. Last night she left
her sisters home, saying she was going to
her own. But she did not She went to
the barn, packed her clothes from her trunk
in some paper secured from a neighbor and
left note in the trunk saying she was going
to drown herself in the river, and if her
people wanted to see her they could come to
the Diamond Joe dock. Her prospective
husband, however. thought differently. With
her sister he went to a dressmaker's where
the wedding garment was being made Here
he found Annie had secured the dress and
paid $3.50 for its making. He knew she
had not cent. and at once suspected some
thing. He went to the Milwaukee depot
next, and there ascertained that his loved
one had gone to st. Paul on the 4:30 a. m
train Also that a man whom August swears
is certain troublesome Bill Smith, bought
the girls ticket, and must have also given
her money to secure the dress. He believes
she is with Ella Kruger in St. Paul but
does not know the address. He has placed
the police on the trail to return his bride.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
is THERE PAVING COMBINE.
Unanimous Advance in the Size of
Rids,


The city council was expected to
have a seance on the new telephone
ordinance last night, but the commit
tee failed to agree, and the matter
did not come up. Aid Phillips cited
this as an excuse for the delay in the
consideration of Aid. Elliot's ordinance
reducing the water rates. 1t was evil
dent that the council was not ready
to reduce the rates at once, and the
Elliot ordinance went over to the next
meeting.
The reason given for this action is
that the money will be needed for the
building of a fltering plant at the
reservoir next season. Unless this
money is secured from the excess of
water rentals there will probably be
no money available. The Elliot ordi-
nance will either be directly killed or
permitted to die by postponement 1t
will. no doubt, come up in a year or
two, and will be passed without oppo-
Sition. But it has no chance of pass
ing under present conditions.
Two bids only were received for the
paving of Seventh street, from Henne-
pin to Seventh avenue south, with Wit
rified brick Both bids are 20 cents or
more above the city engineers esti-
mates and about is cents above the
figure at which the same work is now
being done in this city upon much
smaller contracts. The bids are as fol-
lows:
]. w. Fleetham, Minneapolis, paving
and whatever excavation and leveling
may be necessary, 81 per square yard
for burlington brick, or $2.02 for any
| kind of Des Moines brick.
Des Moines Brick Manufacturing
company, same specifications, 81. "a pei
square yard for Des Moines brick. Al
the same time, the Des Moines com.
pany took two contracts for paving OF
alleys in blocks SO and Sc, of the towr
of Minneapolis, at $1.& per square
yard. The bids were referred to the
j committee on paving. 1t is possible
! that both bids may be rejected. The
city engineers estimate for this worl
| was $32, 445.70, but the contractors have
| asked about 10 per cent more.
| The Falls Festival association, which ha
! charge of the harvest week festivities il
Minneapolis, sent petition asking the cit.
| council for an appropriation of 81, 600 for tn
| purposes of the association It went to tn
! committee on ways and means.
The council appropriated $40 to the boart
! of trade to pay for the distribution of 200
! or 5000 copies Of Minneapolis Through
| Camera at the Nashville exposition A sim
/ liar request had previously been denied bu
on the motion of Aid Adams and with
! strong plea in favor, it was passed by a vot
| of 20 to A. $50
Upon the recommendation Of the committe
| on Claims all LnOSe cdDOlQdIeS VINO, at tn
last election, paid twice to have their name
placed upon the election tickets as fusion
candidates were granted return Of thei
money, provided they formally proteste,
against the double fee at the time it wa
! filed. There were about twenty OF these can
didates, and the amounts which they will
receive S. or $40 each.
| The pay check of Patrolman August Void
drawn upon the Scandal bank last Januar
| was not drawn before that bank closed it
doors. Hence Mr.: Void did not get his. pay
The council reimbursed Mr.. Void for hi
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
HAS NO CORNER ON WHEAT.
&. A. PiIlsbury Punctures an Even
Ing Newspaper Fake.

Ing Newspaper Fake.
An evening paper published a story
to the effect that G. A. PillSbury WAS
credited by grain men in Minneapolis
with having secured a cornar control
Of about all the cash wheat in the Wis
ible supply of the country, and sup
port their statement by quoting the
action Of the Chicago July wheat mar
ket yesterday compared with that of
the Minneapolis market, while, as a
matter of fact, such comparison would
tend to prove that no such corner as
they credit Mr.. Pillsoury with, could
exist.
THE only market w lere there ap-
pears to be any signs Of a corner"
said Mr.. Pillsbury, when asked in re-
gard to the matter, lis IN Chi ,agO, and
1 do not believe that there will be a
corner in July wheat there. AS far
ais Minneapolis is concerned, last fill
when we believed the wheat crop to
be considerably shorter than it turned
out to be. We contracted for wheat
enough to run our mills until another
crop, and sold wheat as hedges"
against the same in this and other
markets. We did not buy any more
wheat than we expected we would
grind.
THE idea of a corner in Mime
apolis is ridiculous, as l know of one
lot of wheat, at least 100000 bushels
held by an elevator company, which
may be purchased. There is also an
other lot of 900 bushels which any
miller may buy in if he wants it. We
are not interested in any markets ex-
cept in Minneapolis, although we have
sold in other markets as against wheat
owned or contracted for by us IN this
market
ITO prove that there are no signs OF
this market being manipulated, I
would add that while Chicago ad-
vances one and one-third cents
bushel today, Minneapolis only ad-
vanced one-fourth of a cent, closing
lower, compared with the Chicago
closing, than it has done in long
time
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
HANGED TWICE.
Terrible Expiration of IL Negro MUIR
deFer i'm Texas.


HOUSTON, Tex, June 25.-Jim Williamson.
young man, was hanged today at Whar-
ton, for his completely in the murder of
the Croker family last May. Williamson s
nerve failed him at the last and it neces-
sary to twice inject strychnine into him to
enable him to mount the scaffod He de-
clared his father. also indicted for the crime,
was innocent. Williamson was pronounced
dead by the attending physicians three min
utes after the drop fell, but upon being cut
down was found to be alive. The body was
hauled up and again sent through the drop
and was allowed to hang % minutes. The
first drop was very hurried as the con-
demned man nearly tainted when the moose
adjusted
The massacre of Crocker his wife and 49,
year-Old son grew out of a feud over land.
Mrs. Crocker had previously been indicted
for killing Day, a member of the Will
hanson faction, but had not been tried. On
the evening of the murder Crocker and hts
family were surrounded by six men in a
neighbours house. Seeing escape for himself
was hopeless he sent his wife out on the
prairie and put his boy between mattresses.
The murderers finally shot him many times,
found the boy and killed him he lay,
then pursued the woman. A Winchester was
placed to her head and her brains blown
out. Another member of the gang is serving
a life term,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26

loss by appropriate resolution last night. The
amount is $75.75.
The claim of the father of liver Iversof
for damages alleged to have been sustained
by the death of his son at the workhouse,
was referred to the board Of charities and
corrections.
K""hi introduced an ordinance re-
healing the ordinance ssre.,nted the North
western Telephone Exchange company IN
1888. 1t is the purpose of the author of the
ordinance to require all the telephone cop-
panies now operating to operate In the
future to pay a gross earnings tax, and an
ordinance to that effect is to be introduced
in the present ordinance is repealed.
Aid. Webster gave notice that he would
introduce an ordinance at the next meeting
themselves with suitable bells and lanterns.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
DEATH ENDS HER WORK.
William Klein Drops LifeIess While
Trying to Earn Breakfast.

A man. supposed to be William Klein,
dropped dead while engaged in pilin@
wood at the residence of f. H. Smith,
2512 Stevens avenue, at 10 O'Clock yes
terday morning.
He called at the house Thursday
night and asked for work, stating that
he was very hungry and would be glat
to do anything in exchange for some
thing to eat and small compensation
He was instructed to pile load OF
wood in the rear of the house and
worked until dark, returning again
this morning.
He had been working but little
while when the hired girl saw him pitch
forward on the pile. She informed
Mrs. Smith that the man was sick, but
Investigate 4 showed that he had died
almost instantly.
His clothes We're examined, and from
letters and papers it is thought that
his name is William Klein. This name
is the address of a letter from the pat
ent office at Washington. The letter Is
evidently in reply to some request re-
garding perpetual motion. The name
of Klein also appears on a time book
with the name of William Kaboki. In
this time book are drawings of a me-
chanical nature. The mans death was
undoubtedly due to apopleXy. He was
about twenty-five years old, had red
hair, was about five feet eight inches
in height, and 165 pounds in weight.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-26
Sentenced Five.

Judge Simpson presented a few criminals
with caTtes de visite yesterday afternoon en-
titling them to free board in the states prison.
Lee Harris, convicted of stealing bicycles
secured one year at hard labor.
Albert Sheldon, tried under the name Of
Lund, one of the gang of burglars appre-
hended and convicted, secured four years in
states prison at hard labor. Maud Sheldon
indicted as Maud Golden, was given year
for the same crime.
Sam Berg, another Of the same gang who
stood trial. given four years at hard
labor.
George Wilson, the other of the same gang
was given three years at hard labor Three
other indictments against the gang were
nolled.