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About Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1895)
Clierrg County ladepenflent VALENTINE NEBRASKA That oriental Turkey has been roast ed long enough baste it A St Louis paper says Time moves even in St Louis Thats odd It is asserted that a man cannot de stroy his life by holding his breath Eut he may prolong the lives of others If the Cuban junta would send a few American collega foot ball teams to Cuba the war wouldnt last a week General Campos is only waiting for better weather to wipe out the enemy The insurgents are waiting for the same purpose A Dayton bank burglar blew off his left arm by a premature explosion of dynamite And yet they call such wort a safe business Peary will write several books and deliver lectures this winter The entire country will send up a call for relief expeditions pretty scon The Spanish troops in Cuba have killed eight more insurgents in three battles Is Campos doing his deadly work with insect powder The manufacturers of rubber made 5000000 last year on bicycle tires At thisrate we shall soon have to refer to them as the rubber barons Peary says the Esquimaux women originated the bloomer costume and have worn it for centuries Why not lei them have a monopoly of it If Louise Michel comes to this coun try to preach revolutionary anarchy she will have her trouble for her pains and possibly pains for her trouble The water in the Ohio River at Ciucin nati is now only thirty inches deep Next week they expect to begin sprink ling the river to keep down the dust The coffin trust has a new trade or gan called The Obituary It isnt a very progressive paper however for It is made up of dead matter exclu slvely And now the scientists declare that It would have been impossible for Sven gali to make Trilby sing when hypno tized Heavens Why didnt we know this before it was too late According to Professor Helm the most pleasant of all deaths is to fall from an Alpine height And yet most of us who cannot afforJfa European VjfaJpvpr complain 3 Tlvs thejgTeyed of my condi tion sac JUjf ersian poet Sadi but once when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes but I met a man without feet and became content ed with my lot It is a dear delight for a soul to have the fidelity of another It makes a pil low of softness for the cheek which is burning with tears and the touch of pain It poursia balm into the very source of sorrow St Louis boasts of a young woman dentist who recently pulled thirteen teeth in three minutes Such a new woman as that ought to have a great pull in any community a greater pull to the acher than in any other calling An Indiana farmer girl wrote heq name and address on an egg which wa sent to market with a large shipment and as the result married a St Louis grocer three months later Matrimony often is a kind of shell game anywayr nowadays The English disigner of Valkyrie III says Americans have no mere sense of Immor than a cow that they cannot see a joke But they can They see one almost every time au Englishman of just the designers degree of stupidt ity opens his mouth Some jokes are worth a great deal more than others A San Francisco wag who told one of the Durrant jurors merely as a joke that if he didnt con vict tho prisoner he would bo lynched himself has been fined 250 by the court Mighty good joke all around The value of the Kaffir gold mines in 3S93 was quoted at 83000000 Now the market quotations reach a total of 1500000000 The South Sea Bubble of John Law Cid not involve more than 400000000 when inflated the most but of course there is a difference between 1720 and 1805 There are many shining qualities in the mind of man but none so useful as discretion It is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest and sets them to work in their proper places and turns them to tho advantage of their possessor Without it learning is ped antry wit impertinence and virtue it self looks like weakness and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in error and active in his own prejudices The Minnesota courts will have to de cide what reparation can be made a man who was attacked by a moose in that State and seriously injured He defended himself as well as he could but did not dare use his gun as there is a Minnesota tow forbidding the shooting of rariiio except at certain jeasons When will people learn that the right to defend ones self is to all laws and that it is impossible Cor a State to protect an animal com mitting an assault on a human being Whatever force is necessary to destroy 5uch animals is within the law The far reaching effects of the Cuban war can easily be seen from the remark of a New York official of the tobacco trust who nonchalantly says that a drought or freshet in Connecticut would be more serious to local Havana interests than a dozen wars In Cuba Our pure Havana cigars come from Bridgeport American farmers are unquestionably at the head of their business and there Is good reason to believe that American Cruit growers will occupy a similar posi tion before many years The demand for our fruit is growing in Europe and it is already acknowledged that our ap ples are unequaled The Italian lemon crop is very poor this year and but for the Florida freeze wo mignt perhaps be shipping lemons to Palermo All lives in which the sense of duty is lacking are unregulated lives Uvea going to waste with no principle of coherence or growth in them worth less to day and holding no promise for the future The home whose Inmates are destitute of this organizing germ of happy useful united life is a poor lonely desolate place no matter how sumptuous its furnishings or how state ly its adornments It was stated a few days ago as showing the crazy lengths to which speculation in the African gold mines lias been carried that the present sell ing price of the mining shares exceeds the greatest possible output of the next ten years without allowing anything for the cost of operation The state ment is fully borne out in an article by Mr S F Van Oss in the Investors Re view He writes that the yield of the Witwatersrand mines last year was 2000000 ounces worth 37500000 One third of this amount was reckoned as gross profit and nearly 8000000 was paid in dividends The yield of this year is estimated at a 25 per cent in crease and if that of next year should be 3000000 ounces at the same rate of profit there would be 11500000 for dividends But the present market value of the Witwatersrand gold shares is fully 8750000000 on which there would be a return of only 153 per cent for the business of next year if the expected rate of Increase be kept up and it is but 1 per cent on the busi ness of ast year And this makes no allowance for the gradual and inevita ble exhaustion of the property The use of money can be obtained more cheaply in England than in the United States but the owners of money are not likely to want to invest much of it in Kaffirs at current rates and when this fact is once ascertained there soon will be a asaus to ell r tfiose who bought only in the hope of being able to sell again at a further advance There are enormous quantities of gold in the Witwatersrand district but when the mines there are capitalized at three or four times their value there is bound to be a collapse just as certainly as in the case of wheat pork cotton or copper soon after either of them has been pushed up to fancy prices His Political Record In every county of Kentucky you will find a lot of old men who take great pride in telling you that for 40 or may be 50 years they have never voted anything but the Democratic ticket They began perhaps with Jackson and have come on down the line An old man of this sort who waa called Uncle Billy and who was very close fisted one day saw a group of voters about Gov Proctor Knott Un cle Billy leaning on his tall staff edged his way in and asked to be introduced He was formally presented as thtj oldest voter in the county Yes govnor said Uncle Billy wltli eviuent pride I certainly am the old est voter in the county If airy man will tetch a man as has throwed mora Democratic votes than I hev Ill fur nish the liquor Hereupon several of the crowd know ing Uncle Billys stinginess but eager for any chance to come into a treat pricked up their ears and Uncle Billy noticing this and becoming alarmed at the probable outlay if he should be proved wring hemmed and hawed and added mat is Ill furnish the liquor to airy man as fetches the man Cen tury Indian Jugglers The jugglers of Indian are unsurpass ed in natural magic A juggler took an earthenware pot filled it with earth moistened with a little water and plac ed among the earth a mango seed which had been examined beforehand This done he threw a sheet over the pot and almost immediately removed It again when it appeared that the seed had in the space of say half a minute become a young mango tree Again the sheet was thrown over the pot and on being a second time removed the man go tree had doubled in size The same process was repeated a third time and now the tree was covered with small unripe mangoes This time the juggler plucked the tree up out of the earth displaying the roots and the remains of the original mango stone from which the tree was supposed to have sprung Ambitious Fruit Trees On a farm at Hamilton Mo is a cherry tree that Is now bearing its sec ond crop of cherries of this years growth An Ontario Ore farm has a pear tree that has borne a full crop in due season and is now again in fall blossom and a few miles from this is an apple tree that is covered with a sec ond crop of this years fruit IT WAS A LANDSLIDE REPUBLICAN VICTORY NEARLY UNIVERSAL- New York Iowa Ohio Maryland Massachusetts Pennsylvania Ne braska Kansas and New Jersey Go with the Surging Tide Results of the Election A landslide in Maryland a Republi can victory in Kentucky and the return to power of Tammany in New York City were the features of the elections In Maryland the Democrats met a ver itable Waterloo The whole State seem ingly repudiated Senator Gorman and the indications now are that a Republican will succeed Senator Gibson Baltimore went Republican by from 5000 to 10000 Lowndes election as Governor by a ma jority of anywhere from 10000 to 20000 is conceded by the Democratic committee In New York the Republicans elect their entire State ticket and carry the State by an increased majority Conservative es timates place the figures at from 50000 to 60000 New York City is carried by Tammany but the combined Democratic vote of that city and Brooklyn shows a loss of about 12000 The Legislature is solidly Republican New Jersey was carried by the Republi cans by from 18000 to 20000 John W Griggs is elected Governor Cities and precincts expected to give large Demo cratic majorities were found to have gone the other way when tho returns came in and the general result was considerable In Kansas the election of David Mar tin the Republican candidate for chief justice of thrSupremeConrt is conceded The Republicans carried Chicago and Cook County by pluralities considerably less than those given their ticket one year ago The Democrats made gains in al most every ward of the city but their combined gains were not sufficient to over come the Republican excess in 1S94 Far Iin Q Ball Republican defeated Richard W Morrison Democrat for the vacancy on the Superior Court bench by 3G09S plurality For the full term on the same bench Judge Henry M Shepard Demo crat was elected without opposition to succeed himself Judge Shepard received a total vote of 134339 which was only about 2000 less than the combined vote of Ball and Morrison The Republicans also elected five of the Drainage Commis sioners which gives them control of the new board SUCCESSFUL STATE TICKETS The Princinal Candidates Elected in T T - i tfEW YOPK Secretary of State JOHN PALMER Controller JAMES A ROBERTS Treasurer ADDISON B COLVrN State Engineer CAMBELL TV ADAMS Register WILLIAM SOHMEP ilARYLAD Governor LLOYD LO WTDES Comptrollor ROBERT P GRAHAM Attorney General HARRY M CLABAUGH UTAH Governor HEEER M WELLS Secretary of State JAS T HAMMOND Attorney General A BISHOP Tresiourer JAMES SHIPMAN Auditor MORGAN RICHARDS MASSACHUSETTS Governor FREDERICK T GREENTIALGE Lieutenant Governor ROGER WOLOOTT HORROR IN DETROIT Boiler Explosion Wrecks a Building Seventeen Persona Killed At about 9 oclock Wednesday morning the boilers in the Journal Building ner of Lamed and Shelby streets De troit exploded with terrific force That portion of the building about forty feet wide immediately collapsed burying scores of people in the ruins A great many girls and women were employed in the building Within a short time nine unidentified bodies had been taken from the ruins and many more were inaccessi ble While the work of ro3cue was pro gressing voices could be heard from im prisoned sufferers Shortly afrer 9 oclock the ruins broke out in names and the great clouds of stifling smoke seriously impeded the fire men in their work of rescue A number of stereotypers at work on the fifth floor went down with the wreck There were from twenty live to thirty at work in tho building The large building was cut cleanly in two from front to rear by a gap of forty feet wide at the bottom of which was left an almost solid pile of timbers bricks and debris From revised lists of tenants and em ployes it is thought there were nearly fifty people in the collapsed section Up to mid night Wednesday seventeen bodies had been taken to the morgue and twenty seven persons were still unaccounted for It is almost certain the explosion was caused by the oil tank which fed the boil ers Boiler Inspector McGregor gives it as his opinion the calamity was caused by the ignition of gas generated at the tank The most shocking scene attending the holocaust was the struggle for a bodv CANDIDATES iwPKSS m c TV i ww zr i VE JWCKJRI0U3 of a surprise Massachusetts Republicans re elected Gov Greenhalge by increased majorities In spite of its being an off year the ticket went through with more to spare than it had last year Blj Majorities in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania went Itepublican with in creased majorities The voting early in the day indicated but little interest and a probable falling off of the votes of both tho big parties In tho late hours how over this was overcome by the rapidly increasing number of electors who ap peared at the pools The vote was fully up to expectations and the majorities will average 80000 and better In Philadel phia alone there was a heavy increase in the Republican vote The city went Re publican by 00000 This may send the toal majority in the State over 100000 In Ohio Bushnell the Republican can didate is elected Governor over Camp bell by from S0000 to 100000 majority His vote exceeded that of McKinley right through the State In addition to elect ing Bushnell and the rest of the State ticket the Republicans have fully three fourths of each branch of the Legislature thus enabling them to elect a Republican successor to Brice in the United States Senate Iowa surprised the Democrats and even the Republicans by giving Gen Drake an estimated plurality of G0000 The Legis lature will be overwhelmingly Republi can and a Republican successor to Sena tor Allison is thus assured The vote throughout the Stato was light farmers in many sections being too busy in their fields to take the time to go to the polls The Populists showed a large gain in their vote many free silver Demacrats giving their ticket support In Nebraska T L Norval Republican candidate for the Supreme bench is prob ably elected by 15000 majority Max well Pop polled less than 60000 while Phelps Silver Dem got about 25000 Mahoney the straight Democratic candi date will not receive to exceed 10000 Forty two precincts out of seventy six in Omaha gave Broatch Rep for May or 800 plurality His total plurality is estimated at 2000 Kentucky Goes Republican Kentucky has been conceded to the Re publicans oa the Governorship by the Democrats The chairman of the Repub lican State committee claims the election of Bradley over Hardin by 15000 and as serts that the Legislature will be close In Virginia the Democrats elected three fourths of tho Legislature Little interest was taken in the election all over the State In many counties there was so little at stake that many negro voters remained nt home The Utah Republicans elected the State ticket and carried the Legislature by a safe majority Re turns from 215 pre cincts out of 320 give Wells for Governor a plurality of 2482 and Allen for Con gress a plurality of 1072 The contest hi Mississippi was one-sided Not more than half the Democratic vote was polled and the majority ranges between 30000 and 40000 The princi pal interest centered in six or eight of the strong Populist counties where there were lively contests over the county offices- yicmwiiwsimkhsmff j K VMit m l j zsgassim vu in w sssswgsuwuiufl I D Secretary of State WM M OLIN Treasurer EDWARD PAYSON SHAW Auditor JOHN W KIMBALL Attorney General HOSEA 1L KNOWLTON MISSISSIPPI Governor ANSELUM J MLAURIN Lieutenant Governor J H JONES Secretary of State J L POWER Auditor W D HOLDER Treasurer A Q MAT Attorney General WILEY N NASH IOWA Governor FRANCIS MARION DRAKE Lieutenant Governor MATT PARROTT Supt Public Instruction HENRY SARIN Railroad Commissioner GEO W PERKINS Judge Supreme Court JOSIAH GIVEN KENTUCKY Governor WILLIAM O BRADLEY Lieut Governor WM J WORTniNGTON between Coroner Butler and an under taker The latter clung to the stretcher while the body was being carried out through the crowd and as the spectators were becoming excited over the ghoulish scene tho police in the interests of order rushed the undertaker outside the fire lines and would not permit him to return SHES NOW A DUCHESS Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt Marrisd to the Duko of Marlborough Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt was united in marriage at 1230 oclock Wednesday in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM WKssn mm w smm J r l 1 X I I I I - I t u s i a I mm r JL - n J Vw I Hi w yv - iri rzLlT N i i in - f MiSifjgm22 fciv ma r M LO VyO - 1 ST w THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH Auditor SAMUEL H STONE Treasurer GEORGE W LONG Attorney General W S TAYLOR Secretary of State CHARLES FINLEY OHIO Governor ASA S BUSHNELL Lieutenant Governor ASA W JONES Auditor WALTER D GUILBERT Treasurer SAMUEL B CAMPBELL Attorney General PRANK S MONNETT Fred J Spiesman has been charged by the coroners jury with tho murder of his wife at New Whatcom Wash and the police are now in search of him His house burned and among the ruins was found the body of his wife An investiga tion showed that she had been murdered and the house set on fire to conceal the crime Sergt Matthew M Wolff Company B Twenty third Regiment U S A died suddenly at the recruiting office at Dal las Texas from hydrophobia resulting from the bite of a cat Richard Barnett a Lake Shore ami Michigan Southern conductor was shot by train robbers who lay in ambush His wouads are serious i MlSd CONSUELO VAynEEBILT Thomas New York to Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill ninth Duke of Marlborough MarquLs of Blandford Earl of Marlborough Earl of Sunderland Bar on Spencer of Wormleighton Baron Churchill of Sandridge Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Prince of Min delheim in Swabia The church edifice was guarded by fifty police ofiicers spe cially detailed to hold in check the im mense crowd of spectators who began to gather as early as S oclock in the morn ing As upon previous occasions when American Ireiresses have bestowed them selves upon titled foreigners the cere mony was witnessed by that select and exclusive body known as society Fol lowing the ceremony at the church for which over 4000 invitations were issued there was a breakfast and reception at the home of Mrs William K Vanderbilt the guests for the latter function being limited to 300 in number St Thomas Church wa3 converted into a veritable conservatory of rare tropical foliage and vines The bridesmaids were composed of eight of New Yorks haud somest girls 1 HIS WITS SAVED HIM An Incident in a Lawyers Career that Won a Case A man who has his wits about him remarked a learned judge Is greater than he who conquers a- city or word3 to that effect for he Is always sure of getting there In respect of what was the in quiry made with the ulterior purpose of drawing the judge out for he knew a good many things worth the telling In many he went on but in thin particular case I refer to an experience I had when I was practicing for two or three years and had an idea that Coke Blackstone et al were scarcely In it with me In the ordinary business of the courts There were a lot or young fellows at our bar and I am free to confess that we did not always maintain the dignity of the law which is one of its strongest points Some times we even exceeded the limits and now and then somebody had a fine to pay for contempt We had fun at times with visiting lawyers and the best practical joker in the lot was always held in great respect by the rest of us One day an old lawyer from the neighboring county seat was defending a prisoner for stealing a cowr I believe and I had tho other side and was quite sure of making my case The old fel low had been in our court many times and he was the slowest and longest talker I think I ever listened to He didnt seem to know when to let up Well on this occasion he had been talk ing until the young fellows were worn out and they thougkt they would teach him a lesson and at the same time help me in downing him So they quietly went out to the telegraph ofiice got blank and an envelope and fixed up a telegram which read Great Caesar Governor wont you ever stop talking Then they got a boy to bring the message Into the court room and they sat around the bar to see the old man fall dead when he read the dispatchJ The boy came in all right and the sher iff promptly delivered the message Of course everything became quiet when1 the point was reached and the lawyer asked permission of the court to read his message he tore it open amida breathless silence everybody watching him and those who were in the jok expecting an explosion as soon as the end had been reached But there was nothing of the kind He read it over slowly once then more slowly again and then he looked up at the judge and over to the jury May it please the court he said In tremulous tones I have just received a message announcing the death of a very near and dear relative one who and his lip quivered was more to me than I can tell and I must ask to be excused from speaking further This was an entirely unexpected turn to the affair and of course the jokers were powerless to change tho current They simply sat dumfound ed while tho old fellow was asked to finish his speech He finished very briefly but it was to tho point and when my turn came to end the business I was not in it with the grief strickea man by my side and the jury gave the case to my opponent without leaving tho room After it was all over the old lawyer called one of the crowd aside and said something to him with a mild sort of x smile that residted in his taking up a collection among us sufficient to pay fox a fine dinner for the entire bar Wash ington Star Nearing the Age of Glass A North Carolina inventor O W McLean has patented a number oC curious devices Among them is a gloss coffin which is guaranteed proof1 against decay and rats So long as no deliberate attempt is made to smash It It ought to last forever Another con trivance is a staircase made wholly of glass steps landings and newel posts being all of that material Yet another is a glass barrel But perhaps the mostj remarkable invention of Mr McLean is a billiard table of glass Glass bricka are now being made and the time will come perhaps when glass houses will not be much of a curiosity A Clever Cat William Gilen of New London threw some lobster meat to his cat Cats are very fond of this delicacy so what wa3 Williams surprise on seeing Grimalkin lug the meat around the corner Fol4 lowing her he found that she had placed it carefully In front of a large rat hole as a bait Then she lay in wait behind a barrel until an unwary rat came out and snapped the bait when pussy pounced on him and broke his back with a single shake HartH ford Courant Delta of the Danube An Anglo Dutch syndicate Is trying to reclaim the land in the delta of the Danube between the St Georges and Sulina branches by means of dikes The dredging of the bar now permits ve33els drawing twenty one and one half feet to reach Sulina and before long it is hoped the channel will be deep enough for ships drawing twenty four feet One Meaning Say pop what docs the letters D C mean dat dey always put after Washington Dey means daddy of his country yo fodl chile yo Why doan yo read hlstry The baby did come mighty nigh be ing named Trilby said the lean man with the yellow vest -but I managed to save her How asked the fat man Told my wife that we would be liable for infringement of the 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