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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1895)
TEE SOU.X COUfW JOURNAL I J. SMMOWS, Proprietor. SARRIOX, . NEBRASKA. i Now there Is i baking powder trual; this probably will raise trouble. t Kot every woman who cultivates a large waste makes the best wife. f Consumption Is sa!J to be decimating the Sioux. But it must be remembered that the Sioux never were very well red men. I Fire of the sweetest words In the English language begin with H: Heart, Hoi. Home, Happiness and Heaven. Heart Is a hope-place, and home U a heart-place; and that man sadly mls taketh who would exchange the happi ness of home for anything less than heaven. It is significant that summer hotel cir culars and booklets" are not as nunuT oui as they were. Proprietors and manager have about reached the con clusion that they are a waste of money, and that, after all, advertising by means of newspapers Is most advan tageous and prolitable, and, from every point of view, cheapest in the end. r. An aged inmate of the Los Angeles, Cat, poorhouse, a man who can neither read nor write, has had misfortune vis ited upon him In the shape of a 50,O0 legacy. In the mind of the sympa thetic observer a query at once arises as to how much more than the sum named will be required to settle with the lawyers, and where an infirm pau per can reasonably be expected to ob tain this necessary balance. 1 - A correspondent of the Detroit Trib une says that one of the chief causes of devastation by fire in Michigan rests, with the farmers. When they dear the land they set fire to the trees, underbrush and bushes, and rely upon the flames to free the ground of these obstructions. It la an expeditious way of clearing their land, but It also has the effect to clear their neighbors' lands of their barns, fences, fine timber, and often their houses. And yet Michigan farmers are guilty of this folly every year, and there is no law to prevent them. Is this equal rights? In New York two young men were arrested for wear ing skirts in Central Park and on a charge of disorderly conduct were fined $10 and coats apiece. At the same time a young English actress, as new as the newest woman, who had been arrested for riding a horse astride In Central Park, was released by order Of Police Commissioner Roosevelt, who declared that no feminine costume could legally be Interdicted. In other words, the new woman may wear whatever she pleases, but the new man must wean himself from skirts. Is this equal rights? Is this equality be fore the law 1 Cholera Is now at Hawaii and other points in the Sandwich Islands. It is within easy distance of San Francisco. It may enter the Golden Gate by any steamer unless the quarantine regula tions are strictly enforced, and once there the mild California winters will be no bar to its progress. Cholera has always been expected to enter our East ern doors and for this reason unusual vigilance has lxen exercised there. For the opposite reason our principal West am gateway to the ocean has been over looked. It has never been anticipated that cholera would come in at that door. All the more reason there Is, therefore, that precautions should be taken in time. There is infinitely more danger at San Francisco than there would be at New York were cholera ap proaching across the Atlantic The fight has been made at the latter port many times and usually with success, and the authorities are always ready for It They should bestir themselves on the Paciilc coast and set their bouse In order. ' This Is a commercial age. Since the days of the sign painter who first marred nature with his hideous trade marks nothing has been inviolate. The culmination of this audacious activity, Jiowever, sems to have been reached, when Niagara's cataract submitted to th yoke of commercial drudgery. After Are years of work and the expenditure of $3,000,000 the mighty cataract be fore which so many men have won dered and worshiped Is turning the wheels of Industry. Only Its mighti ness has preserved it so long from the Application of the turbine principle. Make Is possible and at the same time profitable and Buffalo will nse the whirlpool as a gigantic rinsing estab lishment for the regulation Monday's wash. No one will question the vaat advantage which the transmission of lectrlc power from this great natural force will give to the surrounding coun try. This power may be transmitted many miles in all directions and at a Comparatively small price. At the HM time Its production may not ma Issrlally mar the natural grandeur of iono of the world's wonders. Yet it Smay be questioned if the same conser Tatlve appreciation of nature's beauties (which took the paint-brush from the hand of the slim painter among the racks might not hare eared Niagara from the treadmill. There should be CJoga too grand and too sacred to be pMtitnted to ends of moneymaklng. 4Ki ' G vala of McycUa. for women la , P) rtet npoa wkiek otchtsea worn- '- L.- t-rte' 4MOom pro. K - -lJtothmkflIwopayettM. : tzZm aaaotQsg t ttsm pnygM.n, -nxr iQ CM C axonUe of tiding a bicycle is of great value to the ..verage woman. Outdoor exercise Is of great value to every one, and women as a class suffer greatly from the lack of It Women commonly suffer also from clothing that Is both too heavy and too tight. Both of these Ills, how ever, the average woman is entirely un conscious of, and she commonly denies the need of more exercise on the one hand, or the existence of heavy and tight clothing on the other. The great est good that the bicycle Is doing, aiid is destined to do In the future, Is to awaken the feminine ult.il to the ut that these evils are the cause of most of the poor health common among the members of the weaker sex. The bicy cle is doing more than any amount of drefcs-reform talk to bring to women a knowledge of the Ksibi!ities of en joyment of life attending upon g.to.1 health. The Iron Age exhibits In tabular form and by diagrams the Increase iu prices of iron and its products iuce th close of last year. B-seiner pig baa advanced from los than $10 to nearly 14.50 and sled billets from lew than 1j to $-'1..j. Beams advanced from 1.2 to 1.5 cents per iw.mul, punnun bar iron from 0.9 to 1.1! cents per pound, wire nails from 05 cents to $2.o. and cut nails from 75 cents to fl .. The exceptional rise In wire nails Is stated to have been partly due to the work of a combination. Th paper states that If It could plat costs as well oh selling prices the diagrams would show that profits, which practically did not exist last winter, have attained to very con siderable proortlons. Evpry day the furnaces and mills are completing con tracts which were made at lower rates than those now ruling and are taking up work contracted for on the better basis. The present situation is so sat isfactory that If It should be continued for a reasonable length of time it would offset many losses of the past But the feeling now Is strong that prices not only will be maintained but that they will go higher. The Illinois Steel Company Is said to have contracts ahead for nearly half a million tons of rails, and has been buying thirty or forty thousand tons of Bessemer pig in the East. The Homestead works broke the record In July by producing 43,000 tons of steel, 40 per cent of which was beams. "Bloomers will be suppressed In this town hereafter." According to press reports Chief of Police MacMahon, of Little Rock, Ark., made this speech Just after the arrest of Mrs. Martha Noo. charged with riding a bicycle through the streets of that town while clad In regulation bloomers. Without stop ping to question Mr. MacMabon's es thetic taste In this matter, it may lie remarked that this Is a very wabbly old world. In which the unexpected happens so unexpectedly that there's no keeping tab on things. The other day a blushing bride was led to a Chi cago altar, clad In cadet-gray bloomers, and from It she went away with the blessing of the officiating justice. On t. very heels of this pretty little ro mance comes this story of persecution from Little Rock. With the dignity which the bicycle Is so fast assuming as a means of transportation, this ac tion of the chief of police at Little Rock will serve to precipitate a needed agi tation in lawmaking bodies. Suppose Mrs. Noe had been the new Sirs. Some-thing-or-Other who was married in Chicago and who might have taken a run down to Little Uock on a honey moon trip; suppose it was this Chicago bride, dressed In brown traveling bloomers, who was yanked np by Po liceman Carmlchael because of bur dres. What then? Would the act not have been something more than a re flection on the recognized tastes of the Western metropolis? Bloomers have become Inseparably associated with women's bicycles In many sections of the country; it Is common, too, for both men and women to go on wheeling trips, taking in whole States. Shall every woman In bloomers who may wish to take a run from Missouri, Kan sas or Texas Into and through Arkan sas be subject to arrest In passing Lit tle Rock? The sooner this question is taken up by the Interstate commerce commission the better. A Cautions Bishop. Bishop Potter, of New York, while staying at a Syracuse hotel was called upon by a reporter, who finally put the question: "Bishop, what do you think of the new woman V "Why do yon ask me that question V the bishop replied. "They have Bishop Doane stretched upon a gridiron. Do you expect me to ascend the funeral pyre? Every good work has received its Impress from woman. The new woman, if she be true to herself, will be, as she has al ways been, the sharer of man's joys and of his sorrows, and his helpmeet" Date Mark a Bagdad Malady. Bagdad date mark la the name given to a mysterious disease that attacks nearly everyone who stays In Bagdad for any length of time, and Is found also at Aleppo and other places In Turkish Asia. It Is a sore that comes only once, but lasts a year, leering scar the shape of a date. Nearly all the natives are marked with it No remedy has been found for it, but hy posulphite of soda seems to hare some effect on the mark. English Firemen. Firemen's clothes in England are In the future to be made of asbestos or mineral wood. The efficiency of suits composed of this material depend an three facta It la n on -combustible, a non-conductor of host and la no way Injured by water. ft to very ran nowadays that the oflce seeks the man; and area whoa Mb a thing ocean the chase to nsoaUy MAT THE WORLD IS DOING Ths lews of the Globe Boiled Down for our Headers. PITTSBURG TO BE INVISTIGATED. A t lenrtteh Toong Man Burn ma Ola Lady AIHe to get Control of her Froptrty. Philadelphia, Sept. 20. The Lex owing process will, from present in dications, be carried out in Pittsburg, where strong pressure Is btiug brought to tear on the committee to pay the smoky city a visit. .Mate Senator Pen row was seen and questioned as to whether his committee bad authority to Investigate the municipal affairs ol Pittsburg. In reply he said: The committee was appointed on a petition of the municipal association of Philadelphia, but as far as the commit tee is concerned, it ouid very cheer f u'ly $:o ta l'iH.burg if the people of tUt city desire it. As Mr. Magee has fluted that he would welcome the com miitee into Allegheny county, I do not believe there would be anybody left to dispute its authority.. The committee could certainly hear voluntary testi mony, even it there was any question as to its Jurisdiction. One of the ob jects of the commiittee members is to recommeud legislation, looking to wards improvement in municipal gov ernment, and they will undoubtedly visit other cities, with the view of com paring their municipal Institutions. It is probable, therefore, that they will v.sit Pittsburg in any event. The committee," be added, "will undoubtedly begin active work In Phil adelphia the first week of October, and 8 It does not have to report until Jan uary, 18y7, it has ample time to com plete the investigation." A Terrible Crime San Antonia, Tex., Sept. 10. Ad vices have reached here of the arrest at McKinney of a young man named Dod Kates, charged with burning alire an old lady near Wylie, Tex., three years ago. The rictim was in feeble health and Bates is alleged to have saturated ber dress with coal oil and then deliberately set Ore to It cremated her in her own bouse. The horrible deed was committed so that he would come Into possession or her property, as be was the nearest relatives. May Open a Mew Track. Chicago, 111., .Sept 20. The Lake side jockey club injunction case, In volving the validity of the re-opening this year of the Koby race track, was continued at Crown Point, Ind., yester day until next Monday. Neither At torney General Ketcbam nor Judge Fields, chief consul of either side, could be present, hence the delay. Judge Shirley will be the trial judge. In the event of Roby'g defeat new track the near Roby will open tbe latter part of next week. A Tug of Iron. Washington, Sept. 20. On Satur day next, or early next week, tbe new iron tug for the Mare island navy y ard will be launched there. The tug will be christened the Unadilla, after an Indian tribe of that Btate and after the old gun boa Unadilla, which did good service during th war. The gun hoat was christened by Mrs. Hamilton Fish and the bell of the old craft which she presented at the time is now at the New York navy yard. Tenting- tbe Kight Hour Law. Washington, .Sept. 20. Frank M. McVaugh, a sub-contractor on the new addition of the government printing office, was arrested Wednesday night on a warrant charging him with mak lng his employes work more than eight hours per day, which is a violation of a statute requiring eight honrs a day work on all government buildings. The law was approved August 1, 1802. and this is said to be the first test case. She Cannot float. London, Kept. 20. Tbe report that the British steamer Belgic, Captain Walker, from Sn Francisco August 24 for i'ohohama and Hong Kong, be fore reported ashore at King's Point, Sateyania, bay, had been floated, is erroneous. Telegraphic advice from Yokohama are to tbe effect that the prospects of floating the vessel bare become leas farorable. A ratal Fall. St, Lock, Mo, Sept. 20. Joseph R. of 4139 West Pine street, manager of the Tennant-Stribllng Shoe com pany's factory, fell through an elevator shaft In the factory yesterday after noon, a distance of fifty leet, and alighting on his bead was instantly killed. He lesres a widow and three small children. Cleveland to Offer Oold. Cleveland. Om Sept., 20, A reso iUlion was adopted yesterday by the directors of tbe Central National bank authorizing tbe cashier to confer with the other bankers of Cleveland with a view of offering 11,000,000 in gold coin to the trearsory In exhsnge for legal tender notes. Will try to Make Money. New York, Bept 80. John L. Sulli van will begin a farewell tour of the principal cities of the United States boat September 30. under the direc tion of Charles E. (Parson) Darls. Paddy Ryan will probably be tail sparr ing partner. Sullivan hones to earn money enough on hla tour to pay all of nil aeou and bay a farm somewhere in Nsw England. The "big follow" hat not tonehed wine for several months. THE CBIME PAIhTED. ITtae riMMii on Indulge. a Soma Vlvbi Word Picture. San Fkancico, Cel., ot. 19. Durrant in Ilia Emmanuel Baptist j church, pale, tired, with blood shot eyes and his hair dieheveled, his coat and hat off and with every evidence of J weakness, was presented to the jury I by the prosecution as he appeared after j bis alleged travels from the normal school on the afternoon of Aprils. It had been shown by four witnesses that be lefi the school Willi Blanche La in on t on that afternoon and by three others that he rode with a young lady of her description out to the church , and entered it. From the time he en tered the church, about 5 o'clock, jt is j the theory of the prosecution that he i was occupied until 5 o'clock iu per i titrating the murder. At 5 he was seen in the church by another witness ; George It. King, the church Organist, ! who occupied the stand all of today, j The murderer "'of Blanche Lamont, ; after hating Killed her, locked the door : to the belfry, broke the locs and took J the knob off the door and threw them Under the belfry door. t was then necessary for him to cross the space above the celling to a rear garret of the church, from which there wag a passage down to the basement. It was down this rear passage that Durrant came when he burr on King's Tiew. He stopped in a space between partly opened folding doors, when be saw King sitting at s piano in a corner and when King asked him what was the matter he did not at once reply. When he did reply It was to explain that be had been fixing a suuburner bore the ceiling and that he had been overcome by escaping gas. Durrant'a appearance was go startling that King ran to drug store a block and a half distant, at his suggestion, to get him some bromo-seltr.er and hastened back with It. King was in doubt as to whether Durrant on big return was standing iu the vestibule at the church entrance or lying on a platform in the rear. As be remembered it Durrant was lying on tbe plattorm. HE DID DETECT GAS. Upon first entering the church King had detected tbe odor of escaping gas, the only thing In this testimony favor able to Durrsst, and this led him to enter the closet used for a Horary, wbere the body of Minnie Williams was afterward found. At that time be did not see Durrant's coat and bat in the room adjoining the closet, but after his return with the bromo-seltzer he en tered the room with Durrant and the letter's coat and hat were lying on a box. The door to this room was arrived at the chujeh be found the door open, Only Durrant and King had keys to It. The prosecution attempted to show that the defense had tried to tamper with this witness and had got him to change his testimony so as to place Durrant lying on tbe Sunday school platform instead of standing in the restibule, but a reference to tbe re cords of tbe police court showed that King had testified on cross examina tion that he thought Durrant might have been lying on the platform. 'I he point Is immateiial, except as to the alleged attempt to Influence the wit ness. Miss Lucille Turner was on the stand for a few minutes to say that she was not in the church on the day of the murder. Her testimony was to clear up a point left in doubt by Mrs. Ieak, tbe witness who yesterday testified that from her front window she had seen Durrant enter tho church with a young ludy she said looked either like Blanehe Lamont or Miss Turner. Healing the HirK. Denver, Colo., Sept, 19. Interest in the work of Francis Schlatter, the modest arid simple-minded cobbler who believes be has the power to heal the sick, the lame and the blind, grows with each succeeding day. Yesterday was the third of his ministry, which be says be will continue until November 10, when be goes to Chicago, and it showed no diminution of the crowds. From 9 o'clock he t lands iu the open air with bared beat, clasping with a warm grasp the hands ot the tafferert wbo are trying to find relief from their ills, and at the close of each dsy hundreds standing In the long line are turned away. Besides tbis work Schlatter an swers the hundreds of letters whleb come dally from all orer tbe country. All tbli be does without pay. Alder man Fox, at whose borne tbe man stays, says of him: Schlatter does not claim to be tbe Christ and he never did. He merely says when asked the direct question, 'I am; that's all.' To me be avers that he is nothing but a poor, ignorant man. He is dominated by some strange power, he claims, comes from above, but no man can be curtd unless be has 'faith,' and by that one word yon know alL" While reports are current of cures already performed, time has not been sufflcUnt to prore them. LaagtrT'e Divorce Malt Filed. La REPORT, Cel., Sept. 19. Tbe pa pers eontaalDg lira Langtry's applica tion divorce were filed in this county yesterday. Tbe summons was issued and order made for publication of tbe same. Separation Is asked for on two groends desertion and failure to pro vMa. At the Irritation, Congress. ALBuqrBaqCK, N. M Sept. 19. The whole mornlag's session of the Irrigation congress was occupied by the eonte orer tho next meetlag place. The priatspal contestants were Pboe- ita. AriB, and Llaoolo, Neb. Able and it adrtatsi war made by the iploa of both placea, and the partl- aolar claims and adrsntagsa of eaeh o soroibiy presented that tbe del- era sorry Uey ooahi not vote for bota. EVINCE CSIEOSCtRj- f i The Durrant Trial is ' rowing Very I teretting. CH0TERA RAGIHG IN HONOLULU Dr. George Eraser tl.e Man who l rap poeed to be the I itftarnce wlaHr U Still in Jul', Waiting for sympathy San Fban-ico, Sept. 18 There was another interesting session of the Durrant trial yesterday, and the chain of evidencB received two more import ant links. By theiu Durrant and the girl he is supprged to have murdered were traced through the gate leading to the lear entrat ce to the church. Ti e witnesses we e even more positive than the others, who hava testiiied to Durrant's Identification as the man who accompanied the girl, and they had the additional advantage of know ing hi:n. The tirnt of the witness.- was Martin Quin an, a p dice court at torney, fie was on his w.iy to keep an appointment with a friend near the church when a man he idei tilied a? Durrant, accompanied by a young bidy, pissed him They were going toward the church and were but a half block from it. The other important witness of the day was Mrs. Caroline 8. Leak, whose residence is nearly oppoei'e the church, and who says she saw Durrant enter the church gate on the fatal afternoon in company with a young lady. She was at that time s anding at a frout window, looking out into the street in anticipation of the arrival of a daugh ter. When Durrant and the first came Into Mrs. Leak's view they were about seventy. five feet from the gate through which she saw them pass. She had s full view of Durrant's face, but could not see that of the girl' as she was talk, lng with him and her face was averted. The descriptions given for that of Miss Ltmont and the clothing worn by her was similar to that taken from the dead girl and shown in conrt. Mrs. Leak wag closely questioned as to her sight and was asked, among other things, if she had not frequently found it necessary to apologize to Durrant and to ladies of tbe Emmanuel church congregation for having overlooked them on the street because of ber de fective sight. She said she had not done go and that her sight was not im paired. She used glasses for reading, but not for distance. The point where Mr.. Leak gars she first saw Durrant and the girl was seventy-two feet from the window wbere she stood and the gte through which they passed one hundred and seventeen feet. The prosecution says it will show that she could easily recognize anyone at that distance. Ibey Kat Hainan Fleah. Tokio, Sept 18. The man-eating propensities attributed by report to the aborigines of Formosa are said to have been Illustrated recently at An-ping-Cheng, A Japanese detachment having attempted to capture tbe place was repulsed with a loss of twenij killed and wounded. So soon as tht atsallants retired the garrison skilled out, carried In the Japanese dead ami wounded, roasted the latter to death and then made a feast ot the most fit ting subjects. When the Japanese captured the place on the following day they found nineteen headless and d sembowled trunKS and the bones ol the twentieth picked bare. Dally Death. 8 an FkaJ Cisco, Cu., Sept. 18. The mails brought by the steamer Rio d. Janeiro were released from quaran tine late Tuesday afternoon. I'nder date of tbe 8lh Inst, the United press correspondent at Honolulu writes: "Choleracaseg to date, all, fifty-six; deaths forty-three. Since tbe morning of the 5th twenty-two cases, with six teen deaths; occurred. Ten patients are now In the hospital, two deaths. The first cases were carried to tbe hos pitable yesterday; both died before morning. They were: Mr. Carroll aged fifty, and Mr. Dodge oi the Ha. wailan Star, aged thirty-six. Both were infected by the same native woman, who still survives. Tbe town Is being thoroughly canvassed and watched by a large organization ot several hundred health o dicers. Every man, woman and child is inspected twice a day, Tbe steamer U. E. Hail returned yesterday morning from Hilo, not being permitted to land the tourist party for Australia, wbo did not come ashore at Honolulu. The ex-queen returned to her own bouse on the 6th. Xo Bond OSerad. IUchmond, Mo., Sept. 18. Dr. George Frsker, tbe insurance swindler, wbo has been in jaii here since big cap. ture in tbe Minnesota woods, waived preliminary exsmlnatton yesterday afternoon and was bound over to the grand jury in the sum of 080,000 by Judge A. A- McCuistlon. Fraker was not prepared with bondsmen, and It g said to be the policy of tbe defense to keep him In JM1 to add to tbe public gym pa by in his behalf. May be DISIeuli lo Coarlai. WAsniKwTON, D. C. Sept. 18. Attorney-General Harmon has been In communication with the United States district attorney at Wilmington, Del, Id regard to tbo trial of the Caban filibusters. Ho baa instructed tbe district attorney to prosecste the ease rigorously. It to believed here that It mat bo difficult to establish a chain of evidence that will prova eon ei naive, bat tbo government reoogniaet Its nsvoMfaaUtr fa ajlvoid the law. Several cas. s of s.-arlet fever are re ported Irom Seward. The Union Pacific pay roll at Co lumbus is over $4,000 rr month. Three D.inburv men are kind enoueh A) assUt their wives at the washtub. Several dog owners In liavenna ob ieet to natinir a canine tsx. and the marshm has decmrtd war. A. Holleiibeck of Norfolk shipped a 'train load of cattle from California to ;oe fattened on Nebraska corn, j The dog poisoner has begun his leadly work at .-terling. A very ralu- tble mastiff was the limt victim. Typhoid fever has lout its grip on the i,a.!le f Danburv MDd those who , Were slot with It are convalescing, j While Master Herman Godel of Fre mont was spilling kindling the toma- hawk sliped and "landed heavily" iu i the fleshy part of his leg. j The plecric belt fakirs met with the ' usual measure of success at Columbus i arid left nearly two hundred citizens iu an ugly frame of mind. Fastures have suffered all over the State from the recent hot winds, and cattle iu many places are being pas tured in "short" corn fields. Theodore Wornemmi. who lulelv died at his home in Strang, knew that he i wag going over, and chose a text and 'scripture lesson for the preacher to use at the funeral, j The Nebraska Loan and Trust com pany of Hastings began suit In dlg i trict court against the First Presby j terlan church of Hastings, the board of .church erection fund of the First ! Presbyterian church of tbe United states et ai, to ioreciose a uiongnge ou the church In this city for 61 i,3'JJ. Miss Ethel Meigg, a teacher in the First ward school at Hastings was : assaulted at noon by Mrs. Ada Stew art, wbo took the young lady's parasol away from her and broke it orer hei I bead, inflicting several bad cuts about the face, because the teacher had seen i fit to correct one of her children with a rule. A farmer took a load of wheat to Ravenna and left the team unhitched while be went inside to buzz the miller. Ou going out to drire to tbe dump no U-am was In sight. Tbe wagon was found Dot far away totally wrecked, the wheat scattered along the road and the horses at home somewhat tbe worse for wear. Carl Kunsman of the butcher firm of Patterson Si Kunsman of Plattsmoutb s? ig quite seriously Injured Wednesday aiternoon. He was riding a ponvt when the animal stepped Into a hols and fell, throwing the rider violently to. tbe ground, Kunsman mag picked np Insensible, and bis bead and shoulders were found to be badly bruised. Ons of his arms Is practically useless, the shoulder being dislocated. J. A. Thompson and Osmer Rew, two Winter Creek, Scott's Bluff county, farmers, got into a dispute the other lay. The ultimate result was that Thompson swatted Rew with a shovel, whereupon the swattee filed com plaint against the swatter in Justice King's court, and upon verdict by a jury ths value of such gwatg was assessed st 920 per swat. Half the line was re mitted and the balance wag paid. M bile threshing ou the IJockelman farm four miles northeast of Piercs sparks from the engine set fire to ths threshing machine belonging to Klug & Koehler and consumed it. It was a new machine, having arrived in Pierce about four weeks ago. The loss is not only felt by Its owners, but by the farmers whom they had contracts to thresh their grain and who will now have to wait some time to secure an other one, as threshing machines are few here. The total loss amount to about 81,200. R. W. Owen, a preacher of the de nomination of "saints." who has herr : travelling about over this Dart of the , state holding meetings in a tent, was arrested and paid a tine of 20and costs in justice court at Falrbury Wednesday for brutally beating hli two daughter. . Owen lives near Kes terson, and It seems has made a prac tice of calling his daughter, a young lady, up in the middle of the night to read the Bible to ber and pray for her. Last week she rebelled against this uncommon procedure, and In conse quence received a terrible beating.' She left home and came to a sister's bouse, who Is married and lives in this city. When she arrived here she was In a pitiable condition, her body being covered with evidences of the cruelty inflicted upon her. The father came to town and attempted to take the girl home with him, but when .be resisted be commenced beating her again. Hei Sister Interfered and he knocked hei down, but by this time asslstanne had reached the scene and be wsg banded over to the officers. When taken be fore the court he refused to hire an attorney, saying that be would plead bis own case as St. Paul did. When yon feel like swearing about the dry, hot dusty weather, ssyg the Weeping Water Itepublicac, Just stop short ank thank the Lord that it did not come earlier In the season. The funeral of W. W. Dlosmorc was held Wednesday at Fairfield and was ona of lbs largest ever bold In that city. The local lodge of K. P. had charge of tbe ceremony. The deoeased was a member of the school board . few two years, and bis death will Da a great loos to the com m ualty.
