Alton Weekly Democrat (Newspaper) - November 27, 1886, Alton, Iowa he Alton We VOLUME Y. SIOUX 27, 188(>. NUMBER 23. BE ALTON DEMOCRAT nnn * PER EACH SATURDAY SIOUX Tm Democrats of in Convention at Orange on June 26, 1886, the following of the Alton lias among yet a stranger to many of the of the he has been a genuine of the and patronage of the oret Be That ire recommend and indorse the and request that it receive the hearty support of every erat in Sioux Business one per Legal advertisements inserted at rates prefer by Rates Advertisements and local furnished on JOB Job Printing of every description executed in the best styles of the and at the lowest This branch of the Office has just been furnished with new lines of type and other material so that extra can be offered to the Call and see specimens of work get prices before going JOHN overhauled and First class Also hotel bam and feed stable in H. Firstclass accommodations at reasonable 3f. J. Agent for the New Mutual Life Insurance the best and most reliable company in Also agent for the of in Boots and Etc. Highest market price paid for NIC Proprietor of the Blacksmith Does Shoeing Repairing cf all patronage and CITY D. Street H. Joseph A. P. A. Paul COUNTY P. N. E. Dr. W. A. Clerk of of W. H. H. Michael John H. C. I. S. O. M. B. C. Rook C. H. D. Circuit B. M. District Sioux Services in the school House every Sunday at 11 a Sunday School at 10 am. Services in the Holland language every f at 10 a m and 2 pm: in the English language on the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 7:30 p m. Sunday School at 3:30 p m. Services every Sunday the fourth Sunday of each at 7,36 a 10 a m and 2.S0 p m. Fourth Sunday at 7,80 a m English services on the third Sunday of each J. D. at reasonable A ZEPH Prop. Rock Every convenience for the accommodation of the traveling Livery Stable in Stage for 36 A good house in overy Livery stable in connection with the Teams furnished at reasonable J. W. Prop. Two Blocks from 4 39: HA WAR West Side Main ct. r H AK ROCK H. M. Prop. A hotel in every THE Sinus The only hotel in A good house in every A livery stable in connection with the Teams furnished at reasonable J. B. Will attend sales wherever desired in or Cherokee Prompt attention and charges JOHN and Conveyancing Office at his shde J. Local agent for the sale and collection all lots in Alton owned by the Sioux City Paul St. It. Co. Office at Beach DR. A. Pe Physician and TAN DEN BERG BROS. 1 Loan J. Contractor and Estimates given on w all kinds of carpenter work and jobbing done on short stucco and for Sale at the formerly owned by Snoek & Ver Orange J. 0 BAKBER FRED quickly neatly and Two doors cist of John House M. C. Prop. by the day Everything 4 35 stairway north of Spring V ' 9. J. W. s. BELL & at At the BEFORE BUYING ANT to get prices of A. DE Sign & Ornamental Paper and attended and satisfaction Give us your BRUNSMANN & IOWA STATE him lAT Opposite the Alton BAMBERG Everything usually kept in s First Furniture Call if you want COFFINS Of all sizes and styles CONSTANTLY ON HAND UNDERTAKING Done at all hours of the day or Full supply of all kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats always on Price Paid for Tallow Sf F. J. Photographer and Jeweler SIOUX B E Y THK FRAi umm BREWERS OF Has a fine of call and examine my goods buying ALTON LASER BEER of THE EXPORT IOWA Commercial Take notice that teams are day oi eight on short at reasonable 1? \m JOHN MEYER Keeps a complete stock of Boots and Neatly and promptly HOT COFFEE At all Also OTHER REFRESHMENTS And at ORANGE IOWA D. N. The Maurice Hardware will give the readers of tne great bargains in Etc. ON- IN - LUMBE Etc. My Twelve one 2,000 pounds one Tone Small Profits and keady m BOOT He has also a full line School Books Call at his store in and his stock before purchasing MiCHAEL SHOO & k JOB WORK Of all kinds PROMPTLY KINDS We can manufacture anything from a complete wagon or to a how handle at LESS MONEY than any shop in the ' - or no a IS ew Remember the The big shop of Duncan's SHOO & Council Bluffs paper mill begun regular operations on poisoning has become a frequent event in the vicinity of new system of fire and signals has been put in operation at is after the new of the Rock Island and four large sawmills at Davenport are preparing to shut doTO for the Cily Council of Des Moines has passed an ordinance for u of total number of arrests made by the Cedar police for October wna 112. - The meetings of the Salvation Army are in attendance at Council of had his foot smashed by the cars in that last oil Bluffs have been granted increased County farmers are suffering severe losses to their hog crop by the ' and Hugh Booney wire each fined and costs for illegal Voting at Alvin the Governor-elect of is a son of John of Floyd -A dangerous counterfeit of the new issue of silver certificates is afloat in the eastern part of the Council claims to have business enough to entitle it to a place on the assessed valuation of property in Dubuque for 1885 amounts In 1884 it was -A Fairfield restauranter by the name of Sell has skipped with belonging to the of oat crop of the while not up to the average is of a much heavier and excellent Anderson Republicans in the Eighth District have boycotted Des Moines establishment of a permanent brunch of the Salvation Army has proven to be a Council Bluffs -A fortunate young lady of Keokuk had ten propositions to serve as an escort made to her on one block Tuesday twenty-first session of the Iowa State Association will be held in Des Moines on December 28. H. a very honored citizen and business man of died at his residence in that city on the inst. are 2(35 inmates at the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Council and several more The institution is B. H. of on the 10th assumed the responsible position of chief clerk of the pension office at Dee on a Central Ohio was run over by the He slipped off the which backed over -A freight train collision of Pottawattamie Tuesday wrecked a caboose and destroyed two freight cars hy hotel at Muscatine burned to the ground Monday The fire is supposed to have had its origin from a defective -An attempt is being made to organize a chapter of the White Cross Army by Bishop Perry at It is a movement in the interest of purity among Joseph of the Methodist Iowa died at Page of typhoid He was a son of Mayer of telephone proves to be a great No less than six operators in. the Davenport central office have married happily in the last the Fayette implicates E. L. Smith in the Peek In consequence of this confession Smith has been lodged in girls are so scarce in the vicinity of Cedar Rapids that an agent has started into the business of canvassing the towns in that vicinity for desirable female the leader of the members of the German delivered a lecture on Socialism at the German theater in Davenport on Monday Bassett killed seventeen prairie chickens and knocked eleven patches of skin from his face in one shot on the 9th near by the premature discharge of his -A named Connolly was sent to jail at Dubuque for fifteen days for grossly insulting men and women connected with the Salvation and for threatening bodily -A small party of Cheyenne on their way to join took a lunch at the eating station at Cedar twelve gallons of coffee and 150 bacon and Mrs Thomas their golden wedding at the city at on The ceremony was under the fonn used by the Society of the whole of 1885 there were hogs in the State of lowal The first ten months of the present year there have been 566,842, showing a vast over last near was and jailed on on the charge of Both he and family connections are people of a at Boone on L. D. Cook was pitched the ditch and so seriously hurt that his life was despaired of. The doctors report two or three ribs broken and internal in troubled with vandals who occupy themselves with smashing window A large pane in the costing was shattered by a rock Sunday -A young supposed to be the missing reporter of the was trying to pawn his rubber in Keokuk the other It is his mind is Gerstenberger and Oliver Jones were too drunk to navigate up Broadway at Council on Monday but they managed to put a the man that attempted to awest of the Grand Jury Murder Case Ind Both Murder jmd racy Against Arensdorf and THE BAKER Great Thrown Into the Eighteenth District to Defeat Orders GiTen the Knights of Labor Assemblies to Tote Against than a week past the public impatiently awaiting the the Grand Jury in the Haddock the interest in has held froin the time the crime was over three months The las completed its ig the results of its investigations to 9n afternoon lash the officer 5 of the court deeta it make no ther of porters than that all the parties over by the magistrates at the preliminary examination are indicted for the offenses for which they are yet from almost official authority the details of the jury's work in the case has been Two one for murder and the other for against each of the are shown by the evidence to present when the fatal shot was John H. L. Henry Sylvester Albert Frod Munch G. Louis George Paul Henry The action of jury in returning double indictments in each of the above cases is since it leaves uo chance of the guilty parties Each must first clear himself of the indictment for and then answer to the charge of On their own statements already all' of the named above are implicated more or less in the while no reliable evidence has yet been made public changing the general established by the evidence in the preliminary that Arensdorf fired the Conflicting as some of the statements no doubt the unanimously held that double indictments against each was the safer It is stated that Leavitt was indicted at his own that lifter consulting his attorney he concluded it might be Well to have a turned against him with the understanding implied nothing should come of it when brought up for It will be remembered that prior to Leavitt having his statement charging Arensdorf with the he was promised immunity the so far as such promises could be made relating to the Should it be that he was more deeply the executive influence in his behalf does not So far as has been the evidence before the Grand Jury was about the same as given to the Several parties whose statements have been published as bearing case were not their evidence being considered of no importance and little to be relied Among these was the railroad who claimed to have been approached by a with a proposition of pay if he would secure a party to the Methodist Neal's knowledge of the facts was found to be very Also brought from was not his statements very much It is suspected that the Dane has been by the defense and will be brought as a witness in their behalf when the trial comes Kone of the prominent saloon men m City were the attorneys for the prosecution thinking it best to dispense with their Of the men implicated in the six are now in Sioux City and four are in parts as yet John Arensdorf is held in bonds of on the two charges of murder and the bail in the first-named case being and in the last Fred Paul Leader and Sherman are held in bonds of each on the conspiracy Albert is in jail in default of bonds on the two charges of murder and being required on the first charge and on the Leavitt is held in bonds as a The whereabouts of Granda and Peters is The above-mentioned bonds were exacted by the magistrates before whom the parties were for hearing some weeks Bail will no doubt be furnished and accepted in and most of the other parties will likely be able to furnish unquestioned security for their appearance when The Sioux City on the 19th in its account of the jury's contained the evidence before the jury disclosed the fact that just previous to the there existed in the city a the magnitude of which has never been dreamed of. The idea of this conspiracy among those the liquor traffic was to a number of prominent temperance who were forward in pushing the injunction It was not developed that the general intent of those interested was to kill these but simply to give each one a good with the view of scaring them out of the work There persons connected with the conspiracy who would not hesitate to do should the opportunity be A number of the jury was asked about this conspiracy by an Evening Times and in reply am not telling what passed in the Grand Jury but am free to tell what did not occur No such evidence of a great as the Journal states to the Grand If any such evidence had been indictments would have been I believed before I went on the Grand that there was no conspiracy to murder that a the evening of the Waylay him and beat resulted in the No evidence presented to the Grand Jury showed anything beyond Proposed Extra ' labor men in that there will be an effort made to induce to an extra session of the Congress as soon after the March They say both the trades-union and the Knights of Labor are interested in the and that its object will be the passage of important labor LoTE is hate is In her youth the German Empress was a pupil of A GOOD grooming is as refreshing to a horse as a to a a man should call you a what would you Jones sized man? Smalls of South has had his daughters educated in Massachusetts SosiE dairymen save the last fourth of the milk from the cow in a separate and pour it directly into a cream A word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a one inch and special to Chicago The Monroe County Democrats are tn troable over the defeat of Col. Nobody would believe the fact until Friday or Colonel does not to be much cast down over the all well he said did not it could be but it all the Tna people around 9, i worse about the matter than I. The fight was made tariff but this defeat will only be sure to intensify future The Colonel ib not to be nor does he make use of vindictive language toward the This contest the important in r ional last v riSt fight of tlie one party against that of It was battle of the combined protection monopolists and reformers against ihe recognized champion of The gentleman for whom a seat in the Fiftieth Congress has been bought cut no figure in the wooden backed by the same would have won just an easily as Jehu Baker but the fio far as he personally is concerned the victory is a barren He was the inside facts concerning the campaign of the protectionists are brought the Jehu Baker will be in any but enviable A of precisely the character was two years ago made in the Thomas B. whom Col. Morrison defeated of over 2,000. The Pennsylvania iron ' gave the campaign all the financial deemed necessary to insure the success of the Money came into the district by the The Knights were not concentrated in 1884, and from one-half to two-thirds of their members belong to until the election of Tuesday last received 50 per of the vote of the members of the and had every reason to believe he would not be deserted at tnis Jehu Baker's nomination signified He has been absent from the district for six or eight The gentleman in perfect accord the and in the at East St. Louis and a. year or two joined a s posse and is said to have carried a gun during the continuance of the No Democratic Knight of Labor in the Eighteenth District if left to espouse the cause of Jehu who is by every association an and not in sympathy the Morrison entered into the campaign with every assurance of The Democrats appeared to be reasonably well and the laboring men of St. and Madison were not disposed to unite in common war upon the Democratic Morrison's meetings were well attended many coal and toilers of other trades came long distances to listen to his sentiments upon the questions of the day received the unqualified indorsement of a majority of the The masters of their lodges colled upon and it almost to the eve of as if Morrison would win with all John the slipped into St. and opened headquarters at He very quietly maide stealthy visits to East St. interviewing the officers and leading spirits of the lodges of Many of these men were induced to cross the river to Louis and consult with Jarrett at his He shrewdly selected a number of men who were set at task of sowing the seed of discontent among the Col. Morrison knew all about Jarrett's and for a time felt just a little It cropped after a time that Jarrett was not meeting with much Many of the Knights refused to support They had always voted for and were not disposed to leave him This fact served to reassure the Morrison and no Democrat in the district felt Morrison to be in danger until a day or two before the On a week ago in private one of his lifelong don't like the It is and I feel that something is Is it among the workingmen was the is Yon will get the German vote and your support from the Jarrett cannot control the This as it from one of the shrewdest politicians in the had the effect of Col. Morrison's Subsequent events proved the Colonel's suspicions to be well A member of one of the lodges of Knights .in the district a few weeks ago changed his removing from this to an adjoining The night before the election he received a letter addressed to him at his old and forwarded to at his place of The envelope contained a letter from the master of the assembly to which he belonged commanding him to vote a ticket which was The Tor Eighteenth Jehu The recipient of the who had for been a friend of Col. made all haste to his old residence for the purpose of disclosing the scheme to Col. Morrison's The night before the election the Knights do not know who we shall Morrison or as received ua The friendly Knight brought his warning late Tuesday Colonel Morrison was in Waterloo election during the evening received a dispatch announcing the vote of Washington to hia am to his and in less than hall an hour was in bed sound are about 2,500 Knights in the Eighteenth With very every these men voted against The story as to the means employed to secure the result is little by little coming to the It is very but quite In view of the close proximity of the Presidential contest of 1883, and the control of the the by at the in the Eighteenth make a living page of political As before in an cut no figure in the A deaf-mute been elected as well as The gentleman stumped the inveighing long and loud against debauching the He said he was opposed to the use of money in only desiring a free and full When asked by an indigent constituent for the loan of fifty he with much show of a dollar I I have you to understand this ia no boodle In a speech made here anight or two - before the Mr. Baker Monroe County give Morrison its usual but he would carry St. and He then gave the and the result of the election conclusively that Mr. Baker knew exactly what he was talking fie placed the vote Of the Knights where it all this time Baker howled for an He must have what aa the agent of the was doing in the otherwise not foretold the Nor would himself so strongly in favor of a clean and against the use of unless he the was by Jarrett's agents being flooded with money in his He waa evidently preparing himself for a contest in. case of his met with much opposition in his endeavors to capture the Some of the leaders were bought true to their friendship for refused to yield blandishments of the They declined all offers of employment at and tenders of large of for campaign positively refused to support Jarrett saw muat be that He played the highest and the night before there came from the a. telegraphic all Knights in the district to The dispatch iii question is have been signed by Mr. The Morrison Knights were whipped into the and Baker Since the and there has been no such boodle in the West as the protection money in this One mau a of days before requested by Jarrett to come over into St Louis and see man did aa Jarrett was informed that it waS necessary to employ a few men until electron at per to work against He had been recommended as ona of the The man to St. where he exhibited a roll of amounting to he Was for hia services until the evening of election This was but one instance out of scores which are of dollars spent among the floating voters of the very received a single cent. The commercial element was confined to a score of the leading spirits of the fulfilling of a good politician or delegate Tto a were and did as they statement is but ah outline of the scheme by which received a biody In of. the that this very fight will ere long be a some collateral circumstances are very - He Was a whv haven't paid that of - a new secret of Eed took up all iny don't excuse your acting meanly about this you cant maa tor act can WE ALTON CASH * We take great pleasure in balling your attention to our extensive new stock of DRESS - FLANNELS A FALL A WINTER BOOTS & 8H(>ES1-. - TS & OA STOCK OF GROCERIES IS We cordially invite yott to examine our goods and prices and thanking our friends for their we Very Truly T. & M. lit i m for Easterly Hapgood Sulky Thompson Hay And other implements Also dealers in the Best of F. & Sasy And all of Building including I Gedar I Oak tlie Store May be found a choice selection of OILS Wall Fancy Toilet i Prices as Low as the Prescriptions carefully day or night Call and see C. 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