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The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
A BLIZZARD RAGING.
Terrible Storms Prevailing Through
West and North.
MERCURY HAS DROPPED FORTY
DEGREES WITHIN SHORT TIME.

Streams Over Their Banks and Cyclones
Have Prevailed in Some Places-Heavy
Falls.of snowlin Michigan and Dakotahs
Winter on in Earnest.
St Louis, January 3.-The heaviest
rain storm of recent years has prevailed
throughout Missouri Northern Arkansas
and the Indian Territory the past thir ty-
six hours. Last night the rain turned TO
slset, and today furious snow storm is
raging. The temperature has fallen forty
degrees in Missouri and Eastern Kansas
in the last "a hours and in .the latter
section a genuine blizzard il sweeping
over the country. At Bagne, No., the
Usage river has risen fifteen feet and
Warsaw reports rise of Twenty-Five feet
and a repetition of last winters food is
feared.
At Osoeola the river is out of it's banks
and the bottom lands are submerged.
At Fayette the electric light power house
is flooded and the city is in darkness to-
night. A number of washouts occurred
on the railroads and traffic is badly de-
.laysd, In the vicinity of Sedal every
stream is reported out Of it's banks and
the rainfall continued until this 4 morn
ing, when it turned to sleet and later in
the day heavy snow storm set in. At
Lanonte and Knobnoster small Cyclone
prevailed last night, many trees being
uprooted. In many places in western
Missouri the mercury has fallen almost
to zero, and this drop in the temperature
will probably result in checking the
flood.
In St. Louis heavy rain has fallen
during the past twenty-fo hours, but
at tonight Ii was checked by decided
fall in the temperatures. At nine the
mercury had fallen thirty five degrees
and there was a high northwesterly
wind.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04

The confagration which visited Nash
vile, Tenn, Saturday night at 1l.l5,
was not well under control before three
q. M. Ihe total estimated loss is $500, 600.
of which slightly more than fifty per cent
In covered by Insurance. 49,
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
A MALICIOUS ARTICLE.
Syndicate Letter Published by
Speaker Reeds Enemies

Trouble Between Him and the President
Elect Exists Wholly in the Minds of
Those Who Spread Stories to Crafty
Personal Ends.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04

Shreveport, La. January ga CYCLONE
from the southwest struck and almost
literally demolished the town OF Moor
ingsport, Just north of this city. at 3.45
p. NJ, yesterday. Over twenty dwellings
were blown down and only seven build
ings were left intact. -Four persons were
killed and twenty injured. Three Of the
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whether they were intended to have sucf
an effect or not

whether they were intended to have sueh
an effect OF. not. -
Judge Webb-"If you present speclhc
exception to the courts Interpretation
of your argument, we will give 1t the az
tention which we think it, deserves. But
you must state your exceptions specl-
fical1y and with certainty"
Mr.. Cotter-"This is a case involving o
human life, and we think that should
be considered in granting our excep-
tions.''
Judge Webb-s'I don't understand that
the rules of law themselves differ with
tine characters of the case.
Mr.. Cotter-'sThe responsibilities
counsel, your honor, in this case are
very great. We have had sense OF this
responsibility constantly before us for
three weeks"
At 11.15 the court took recess TILL
10. 90.
At 10. 40, the
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
JURY AGAIN CAME IN

with a request for further instructions.
but the court declined to comply with
their request and again sant them back
for deliberation, and another recess
was taken until $50, at which hour the
court ordered that as no verdict had been
reached and as the jury had so far been
without dinner, they should be served
with dinner, and that they would not
be required to appear until they bad
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04

Boston, January 2.-There was intense
excitement in the United States Circuit
Court room when the jury that for
more than two weeks has been engaged
In determining the guilt or innocence
Of Thomas NJ. Bran. charged with the
murder of Captain Charles l. Nash, came
in at 8. this morning, and this was in
creased when Judge Colt two minutes
later said to the foreman: 81 under
stand that you have not agreed" Con-
tinuing, the court said that in the pre-
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
Blizzard in Northwest.

st. Paul, January "a blizzard Is
blowing tonight in this section over an
area of four hundred miles north and
south and six hundred miles east and
west. Over most of Minnesota 1t has
been showing fourteen to twenty hours
and there are seven to sixteen inches OF
snow ON the ground. The wind is blow
ing gale from the north. The snow is
damp and packs so sulidly on the railway
tracks that it is difficult for che snow
plows to work through 1t. The snow
made wreck of the telegraph wires
north and west of ST. Paul. All trains
are still moving, but some are hours
late. South Dakota dispatches say the
storm extends as far west as the Black
Hills.
The temperature is fifteen to eighteen
degrees above zero. At nine O'Clock 1t
was rapidly growing colder. There will
be suffering among the live stock If the
mercury drops to zero.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
VERDICT WAS GUILTY.
Mate Bran Convicted Of the Fuller
Murders.
SENSATIONAL SCENE WHEN YER.
DICT WAS RENDERED.

Prisoner Declared That He VIII Die An
Innocent Man--Jury Out Over 26 Hours
ATTORNEY Hoar Refuses Congratula-
tions
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
Nebraska Catches 1t Too.

Omaha, Neb., Neb., January 3.-Ns-
braska ia experiencing an old fashioned
blizzard, the most serious of the winter.
Friday night the temperature began to
fall and the mercury has steadily fallen
ever since. Last evening snow storm
aet in and it is still general throughout
the state. High winds are drifting the
snow and If they continue through the
Right may make the situation on the
plains alarming. Omaha seems so far to
have escaped the worst of the storm.
From every section Of tine state come re-
ports of heavy winds, driving the snow
in binding clouds before it, SO it is
dangerous TOR any one to venture ont.
At Meadow Grove the storm began about
midnight Saturday, and has been raging
ever since with no signs OF abatement.
The drifts are over ten feet high.
The Blizzard in Kansas.
kansas City, Mo-, January 3.-The
unprecedented rains of the past three
days have been checked by cold wave,
and Kansas is experiencing the tirst
winter weather. Snow has fallen all
day, in various parts Of the state. At
Larned, Kansas, snow is piled in drifts
of four to SIX feet deep. Traffic on the
Larned Jetmore extension of the Santa
He Ia completely blocked, and travel over
land in any direction is almost I'M
possible. In Northern Arkansas and as
far west as Fort Smith, rain fell during
twenty -fours up to noon today, when 1t
turned to snow, accompanied by drop
of thirty degrees in the temperature.
Guthrie, Cklohoma,. reports drop OF
sixty degrees since last evening.
severe snow storm prevails in the western
portion of Indian territory.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04

dined unless sent for by the court. The
judges then retired.
1t became noised around the corridors
at 315 that the jury had agreed. The
tension was fearful during the next 10
minutes There was buzz of convorsa-
tion which seemed painful in contrast
with the awful issue about to be decid-
ed. The jury were evidently finishing
their dinner before coming into report.
Bran showed signs of mental distress.
but MIR. Cotter walked over to the dock
and bade him be Of good cheer. Except
that he looked more worried, there was
no change from his ordinary appearance
in the prisoner. At 8. 40 p. M, the judges
returned to the court room, the prisoner
being in the dock and all the counsel in
their seats. Judge Colt ordered the
marshal to bring in the jury and after
they had fled In the clerk called the
roll and they responded to their names.
Then with the usual solemn formalities,
the clerk ordered Bram to stand and
arise his right hand while the foreman
was asked what verdict had been decid-
ed upon.
"Guilty," responded the foreman, and
in this reply each of the other Jurors
acquiesoed There was slight distur-
bance among the spectators and cries OF
" Order'' from the officers, while Judge
Webb called for perfect silence as the
Jurors and counsel resumed their seats.
Bran never faltered for an instant. He
remained standing as though partially
dazed for some minutes, after the an
nouncement was made and until the
court directed him to be seated. Then
Judge Colt said to Mr.. Cotter that he
would be allowed any reasonable time
within which to file exceptions. Mr..
Cotter spoke a few words, his voice brok-
en- with emotion and his hand trembling
as he laid 1t ON the rail in front of the
Jury. He was given a week within which
to prepare and file exceptions to the YER
dict, and such further time as he may
deem necessary. Except that
BRAM'S FACE FLUSHED.
he showed no signs of nervousness OF
| weakness. although 1t was plain that ii
| took a tremendous effort for him to ap-
pear calm. A minute after the verdict
had been announced, be was seated In
his customary attitude in the dock, ex
hibiting no more sign of emotion than II
the verdict had been of acqu1ttel.
"If have got to die, thank God that
shall die an innocent man. have
mst more trouble in this world thar
usually falls to the lot Of most men. ant
If I have to bear this much in addition
| shall do it as an innocent man should. >
This was the declaration of BraA made
while the tears streamed down his cheeks
as he sat in the dock, branded by th'
law convicted murderer. The tears
chased down his cheeks rs he gazed into
the faces of those around him. Their
turning to Deputy Marshal Waters, wht
|
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04
TOWN ALMOST DEMOLISHED.

Cyclone Gets in Its Work on Mooringspol
TouisiaDa.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-04

Streams Over Their Banks and Cyclones
Fave Prevailed in Some Places-Heavy
Falls.of snowIin Michigan and Dakotahs
vUfutar on in Earnest.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

The sewingmachine, one of the great.
est blessings in the way of machines
ever offered the public, sold for years
at sixty dollars in the United States.
The same machine, however, to be
shipped TO a foreign land, could be
purchased below twenty dollars. After
the patents ran out the price fell
rapidly until now sewing machines are
sold for twenty-five dollars and often
below twenty dollars. The sewing
machine manufacturers became i'm.
mensely rich from their profits Of
several hundred per cent. 1t has
been estimated that typewriting ma
chimes cost less than twenty dollars to
build, while they sell for from fifty
dollars to one hundred dollars each.
1t is generally understood that an
agreement exists whereby. these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from three hun.
dred to five hundred per cent. profit
or go without the machines.
Are there any other machines which
yield such profits as the sewing ma.
chine did for years. and the type.
writing machine has and does, except
it be the bicycle?
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11
The Ounce Of Prevention.

The Boston Our Messenger notes that
"the Central W. G. T. U. OF Chicago has
issued a word OF alarm and warning to
young girls concerning the drinks obtain
able at tie ~soda-fountains Of that city.
They are called by different names, sherry
flip, claret sangaree, ETC., and are ordered
by young girls for a cold, to take the place
OF a luncheon, or for q chance to sit down
and rest after a tiresome day at shopping.
These drinks all contain large quantities Of
alcohol, and while the girls would spurn a
glass Of whisky, or hold up their hands In
horror at the thought OF rum or brandy,
yet in their soda-fountain beverages they
get all the effect of the liquor and the
growing appetite thrown In. The w. G. I.
U. warning comes none too n
Yes, and the warning should go to the
boys even more thanto the girls and be
brought home to all parents. Fortunate
are they who never learn to crave alcoholic
stimulants. This Is the Of preyen'
tion.-Pathfinder.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

The finest potatoes may be grown
under straw on land too sandy to pro-
duce a crop otherwise. 1 put in an
acre in this manner the year of the
Worlds Fair. The ground was well
ploughed and the seed dropped and
covered with. straw to the depth OF
six inches or more. In the fall ]
piled the straw and picked up a fair
crop of potatoes. In planting, the
rows need not be more than IS inches
apart; and the hills from a foot to 1S
inches in the row, as they require no
working. For covering any kind OF
straw may be used, no matter if it has
been used as a bedding for horses or
cattle, and there need be little fear of
getting it too thick for the vine to
make its way up through. Leaves or
hay are a good covering.
The chief advantage in planting
potatoes in this way is found in the
fact hat the mulch saves all the mois-
ture for the growing plant. A near
neighbor has adopted this plan on a
bit Of land too sandy for ordinary til
lage, and with marked success. A
small area brings a large return-the
potatoes are clean when tho straw is
taken off, and the result in every way
satisfactory. He recently expressed
himself as greatly pleased with the
result, although he has to gather
straw and refuse for covering and
draw it a considerable distance. This
is no 'lazy mans expedient." When
properly attended to a given acreage
may be expected to yield more than
double the bushels of the like area
planted in the usual way.-Rural
World.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

When spring opens G good many
trees will be found to have been girded
by rats and mice. They should have
been protected with wire screening.
1t is easily put on and will last a long
time. 1 was caught that way once,
and this was my cure: Go to each tree
and cut off about six little limbs as
large Is a pipestem and long enough
TO reach over the gnawed place.
Sharpen each end like a wedge. Make
q cut above and below the injured
place with the point of a knife and
then slightly spring in the sticks,
putting some grating n clear around
the tree on the end of the stock, and
then wind a waxed cloth around the
place. The sap will go up these scions
and the tree will not be set back at
all. In three years the body of the
tree will be smooth, with nothing to
indicate that it had been gnawed ex-
cept that it will be little larger where
twas mended. If the sticks are grated
in properly every tree will be saved.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

A novel and unexpected experience
befell the wife Of q well-known citizen
of Cape May, N. j., n night lately,
who does not wish her name published.
Upon retiring for the night she heard
a great buzzing in her bedroom and
was spoken to by her husband as to
what it might be. While making a
search for it she was severely stung in
half a dozen places by what was subse-
quently found to be a ground 'fbum-
BILE bee" which had in some way
crawled between the blankets. The
bee was nearly the size of q humming
bird, and when disturbed made a noise
like those birds when their wings are
in motion. Next morning the dam
aged limb of the lady was much in
famed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11
sleepIng onarters FOR Hog..

A very good arrangement for sleep
ing quarters for hogs consists Of a
house six feet wide, east and west,
and from six to ten feet long north to
south. Let the side walls be made of
broad boards and about eighteen
inches high, nailed up as a box aud
cover with a comb roof at half pitch.
Entirely close mp north end and close
up the gable at south end down to
where hogs can walk under nicely.
Spike q strip one and one-half by six
inches securely across next to the
ground at south end. For bed fill
about six inches deep with dry cobs
from the corr shelter. They do not
get dusty or heat. When you wish
to clean the bed lift the house off of
the bed and set fire to bed and burn
it. Then set house back in same
place aud refill with cobs as before.
When convenient, locate sleeping
house twenty-five rods or more from
feeding place, that hogs will take more
exercise in going to and from feed. 1
have tried almost every plan suggested
by breeders, and regard this as the
most practical, healthy and conven-
ient.-Indiana Farmer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11
speed Of corrsea bottles.

Numbers of experiments have been
made to test the speed and destination
of corked bottles thrown into the sea
at various portions OF the world. The
most remarkable example ever heard
of was hat in which a bottle travelled
5000 miles in about two years and q
half, roughly at the rate of six and q
half miles a day. 1t travelled from
sixty-three degrees south latitude and
sixty degrees west longitude to West
ern Australia.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

The following is taken from valu-
able paper read at a Farmers I~nstitasey-
in Nashville, Illinois by NJ. W. Greer.
In answer to the proposition, "How
shall we maintain the fertility of the
farm?" he said in part: SIN regard to
maintaining the fertility of the soil, the
wording of the question presupposes
the idea that such a thing is possible,
and just here l remark experience has
demonstrated that it is not only pos
sible to maintain, but even increase
the fertility of our farms, and by o
judicious and proper course of treat
ment and management hand them
down to future generations in at least
as good condition as when we received
them, and thus demonstrate that in
this respect, at least, we have been
faithful stewards of the trust COM
mitted to our keeping.
''The first question which presents
itself is what do we mean by the term
fertility of soil, to which 1 answer,
possession of and power to furnish
plant food, because it is not sufficient
of itself that the soil shall simply be
in possession of the different elements,
chemicals and substances, upon which
plants feed, but it is essentially nee.
essary hat these shall all be in such
condition as to be readilytaken up and
made available by the growing plant.
$50 illustrate: Experience has de-
monstrated that bone meal is a very
valuable fertilizer and great stimulator
of plant growth, especially beneficial
to the wheat plant, and yet we might
scatter tons of dry bones over the sur
face of au acre of ground and still the
growing crop receive not one particle
of benefit therefrom.
snow, 1t is a principle we'll under.
stood in the business Of farming that
exhaustion of the soil, or reduced fer.
tility, simply mean that these differ
emit elements upon which plants de-.
pend for their growth have been re.
moved from the soil by the continued
cropping of the same.
ST have an old German friend who
says some very sensible things in
rather an awkward way, and upon one
occasion, in speaking of q field of
corn that had not come up to his ex-
peetations, explained it all by saying
he guessed the corn juice was all out
Of the ground
Snow it makes no difference by
what name We call it, we may speak OF
it as the richness of the soil, or We
may apply the names which science
and chemistry has given to these diff
ferent elements and speak of them as
the nitrogen, the ammonia, and the
phosphoric acids, the potash and aka
lies, or adopt the more homely ex-
preston of my old friend, and refer to
it as the juice;' yet the fact remains
that if these have been removed from
the soil the fertility has been reduced
to that extent, and in ORDER to main
tain the former condition a system Of
restitution must be adopted; and if we
succeed in restoring as much as las
been removed VIC. maintain the fertil-
ity, and more than that tends to il
crease the fertility"
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

G. P. Reynolds, Michigan, says in
New England Homestead : l doubt II
there is any one thing, with the pos
sible exception of feed, that has more
to do with success in raising young
turkeys than a suitable yard. Select
some spot that will afford a good stu
alton. This should be rather high and
sufficiently rolling to give good drain
age so that the surface water will run
off quickly, carrying with it a con-
siderable part of the impurities. 1t
is also important that the ground be
as free as possible from little hollows
where water can accumulate. II such
are not avoided, dampness, u of the
most deadly enemies of the young
turkey, will be given a foothold. In
selecting q site for a yard, a spot
underneath a tree or near q building
should be avoided. Shade means an
absence of direct sunlight and the
next thing in order is dampness, es-
pecially after a shower or a heavy
dew. The interior of the yard should
be well sodded, the thicker the better,
but cut the grass as low as possible.
If kept short, the heaviest dew will
disappear in a comparatively short
time. Otherwise, especially if stu,
ated in the shade, it will require quite
a portion of the forenoon to get rid Of
oil the moisture.
AS to size a three-cornered affair
made of ~ or IA feet boards placed
end to end is used, and I have never
found such a pen large enough. l
mnch prefer one % or 25 feet square.
The idea is to give the poults plenty
of exercise and yet not overdo the
matter; plenty of exercise is the life Of
the growing turkey. In building pens
of this size, especially if one requires
several, it will prove difficult if old
boards are depended upon. Much the
better way is to make some permanent
gates. A year or two ago 1 tore down
an old fence, took a portion of these
boards and made them into sections of
different lengths. Each gate was
made thirty inches high. If 1 were
going to make more / would extend
them to three feet. The boards were
placed an inch apart near the bottom,
but wider toward the top. These
gates are the most satisfactoryarrange-
ments I have ever tried. They are
handy and always ready. Housing
turkeys during the night and stormy
weather is important.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

Occasionally the hay crop fails, max
ing it necessary 20 provide some kind
of forage. Millet is usually depended
upon but is difficult to cure. / much
prefer fodder corn, closely drilled.
Two years ago l drilled a field of six
acres on the fourth of June, using two
bushels OF seed corn to the acre. 1t
gave me n full crop of fodder with
many nubbins and some fair sized
ears: 1 cut the crop October 2, using
a reaper which dropped the fodder in
nice g%avels. Two men set up in shock,
containing six gavels each, and tied
the tops with tarred binding Irvine.
When partially cured 1 had it all
bound into small bundles which were
set up in fair sized shocks, expecting
to store in the barn when thoroughly
cnred. However, rains and snow
prevented this, so l hauled once q
week what was needed for my cattle
and sheep and gave my horses an oc-
casional feed.
Everything on the farm seemed to
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-11

Ever since 1843, more than a half a CEN
fury ago, when the printing presses of
London gave birth to the first volume Of
Modern Painters, p its author, John Rus
kin, has stood in the front rank of writers
in the English language, particularly upon
subjects of art. Three times was he elected
state professor Of Inc art at Oxford Uni
versity. He was also chosen to a similar
professorship at Cambridge. His whole
life has been spent lecturing and writing
upon subjects connected with bis profess
sion. Royalties from his books and writ
ings have enabled him to give away three
quarters Of q million dollars In charity.
-Four years g his private secretary
thoughtlt-2Mpa4Atim for Mr.. Rdskin to
die, 50 wrote his Biography. But Ruskin
didn't die. He is stin alive, seventy-eight
years of age, though no longer active with
his pen, 1t is always of interest to know the
attitude OF such a man upon social and
moral questions, such as the drink prob
lem, which this man was always ready to
denounce. Here's n of John Ruskin's
most pointed utterances upon this great
evil:
Drunkenness is not only the OF
crime, it is crime; and the encouragement
to drunkenness, for the sake Of profit on
the sale Of drink, is certainly one OF the
most criminal methods of assassination for
money ever adopted by the braves OF any
age or country"