Alton Weekly Democrat (Newspaper) - December 25, 1886, Alton, Iowa m VOLUME Y. SIOUX DECEMBER 25, 1886. ALTON Editor PER EACH SIOUX Tse in at on June Will A. of the has lately ret a to many of tlie of the bo has running n gen. worthy of the aud of thu ie It That we recommend and the and it the of every in one per Vgal inserted rates by and furnished on D E JSr T I S T of Spring Main 3>oc:ar8. - M. C. Prop. Board by the day or Everything neat aud per 4 35 r fir the JOB 1) Printing of every description ia Yst of and at tlie lowest J of tbo j been furnished with new lines of liid other material so that extra j I can be offered to ilie Call and of aad get prices before D. A. 1'.A, J. Paul - t. A. of Supt. H. John Goeders and H. I. S. 0.51. E. C. C. D. D. Circuit M. Sioui in House every at 11 a Sunday at 10 a the Holland every i y at 10 a m and 2 pm: atiJ on the and nf at 7:30 p m. u m. Al c Bull Sunday oi Ach at 7,30 ii Sunday al services on the third y D. fooi at reasonable Rock Every lor the of nai cling Livery Stable Stage leaves daily for 3S A godd house in every Livery in connection with the at reasonable J. W. Two Blocks from 4 39 IL M. A hotel in every respect TKE SOY Ali HOT The only T hotel in A good bouse in every A livery stable in connection with the I furnished at reasonable j J and First class Also hotel barn and feed stable in U. Proj accommodations at reasonable VA Mut best n Also of Agent for the al Life Insurance i most reliable company in for the Insurance in Boots aii Horse Etc. market price paid Shoeing and Proprietor of the Does Horse iring cf all Your d and J. 1tebbejV, Will attend sales t desired in O'Brien or Chert iee Prompt attention and charges Collection and Office at his shoe jr. I Local agent for sale and collection all lota in owned by the Sf It. Co. Sec at Beach old A. P. Physician and VAN DEN BERG Insurance | Loan 10 Contractor GE Estimates giren on all kinds of and carpenter work done on and bur for sale at brick yards A Vet ' Orange j. Everything usually kept in a st Glass Furniture CaU if you want Of all sizes and styles CONSTANTLY ON THE The Arrest and Confession of Another Witness in the Haddock A Texas Fiend Lynched Had Wife's T. Stewart's Art Treasures to he Exhibited and Sold at Public foreign Criminal and Done at all hours of the day or SIOUX CITY FRAl PR OF of THE EXPORT SIOUX IOWA FRESH OYSTERS HOT COFFEE At all Also OTHER REFRESHMENTS And at IOWA ALTON Commercial Take notice that teams are furnished day oi right on short notice and at ON- Joseph IN- Etc. My Twelve one 2,000 pounds one 100 one Small Profits arid Ready MICHAEL 1"ETER Blacksmiths & JOB WORK of all kinds KINDS We can manufacture from & complete wagon or harrow to a how handle at than any shop in the a Another Witness Sylvester alias another in the Haddock murder has been at Kansas where he on the 15th inst. He was employed in a pork house there and lived with his wife on Ihe flat boat with which he from Sioux City the night of the accompanied on his by who was recently in Both Grauda aud his wife are said to have made a confession to Sheriff of while the latter was in Kansas City after the It corroborates the of Leavitt and that Arensdorf is the He says the scheme was for and to assault Haddock as he left stable and the others would follow them np was in and ha gave a They went up to Haddock in an abusive Granda snys he was not going to and don't remember just how he held the but at that Arensdorf rushed np and grabbed the pistol as be was about to throw it on the sidewalk and are too drunk to you Then Arensdorf fired nnd Haddock That night gave Grauda and each and told them to leave town at But awhile and got very and were put on the by Fred Grandas a butcher in the and started down the About twenty-five miles down they were signalled by a horseman on They went ashore and found it was Folger gave Mrs. Granda and took across the country to a small where he left for San Folger is also a cousin to Granda and his wife continued their trip on the boat to Kansas lif of a Texas James 35 was taken from jail at at midnight last Thursday night by a masked by whom he was a short distance below town and hanged to a Howard was arrestad Wednesday on a warrant sworn out by his Mrs. charging him with his who is scarcely 14 years Howard and his wife were married last Mrs. Howard tells a stoiy of atrocious brutality on the part of her She says he frequently tied her feet together while she was in a state of and hanging her up by the feet beat her and threatened to kill her if she told any one of his On the 1st of November took a common branding iron used to brand live heating it branded a large letter on his wife's person in two while she was tied to the After suffering several weeks from the effects of these bums Mrs. Howard told her mother what had with the result that Howard was The sheriff bad anticipated that a mob would attack the jail and had employed extra but the mob gained an entrance while the guards were eating their midnight Sale of A. T. Stewart's Art All about disposition of the and other art treasures of the A. T. mansion has been settled by an order from the executors to sell them ot public Preparations will at once begin for what will probably be the most notable sale of this kind ever By it will be distributed 240 paintings and all the and brae bought by Mr. Stewart at an estimated outlay of between and Many of the paintings and other articles have even by the most frequent visitors to the Stewart About eighty paintings and most of the porcelains and bronzes be taken from the in addition to what the gallery A library of books upon the fine arts aud kindred subjects will be included in the As soon ap a catalogue of the articles can be prepared artists will employed to it. to be sold wiU be taken early in February to the American Art Gallery and a j An Prohibition 5 A local election took place in on the 13ihinst., in which the matter of prohibition was an exciting The canvass preceding the election was and the speakers on both sides indulging in offensive The Prohibitionists sent to Kentucky for Col. and to Atlanta for a Mr. which aroused the worst feeling of the The evangelists canvassed with and a speech delivered the day before election by Cheves was considered The of the disclosed a for the liquor whereupon they proceeded to celebrate the usual Execrations were loud against Cheves and and while the evangelists were standing on the platform the a crowd of whisky men gathered by Mayor T. Marshal and Perry knocked Cheves it is mth a pair of brass He continued to pound the fallen when Blanchamp whipped out his revolver to defend and would have shot the had not been for the who induced him to enter the CpL Cheves seeking great excitement and bloody times are The Bribed Alderman Oil 2()th;- sentences was upon leniency of the Tie said in you have been fairly and justly of You were elected to perform a public duty aud a public Instead of doing so you violated Your character as a business husband is You should have considered them before you did You did not add to your of which you have been as by taking the stand and committing I have reason to believe you received as much money as Duffy That money is not it is not the property of your If it is left them it will work the inevitable result of I would advise you to give up and back to the city the money which you have I have no doubt it wiU work to your The sentence of the court is that you be confined in the State's prison at hard labor for term of seven and that you pay a fine of During sentence stood his arms across his bosom in a manner habitual with The counsel for McQuade obtained a. copy of tho sentence arid left the was immediately the anil after the was locked up in a McQuade will be givoff a few days to fix his bank look after and draw necessary power of Gov. Alger's Thanksgiving day Alger of Michigan made the of Detroit a present of a silver quarter This tickled the boys aud the Governor so much that ho arranged with two tailors to make several hundred suits of clothing for who left their measures sixty a day until all The clothes will be delivered Christmas Gov. at had sent tho tailors a list of 600 names The Governor has also donated a bills various State and cily and will disburse several thousand dollars more in the same way between now and Jan. 1. The institutions have not been treated so by any Governor since Bagley's Base-Ball Contest for Base-ball men in New York City have been thrown into a state of excitement by announcement that the St. Louis champions of the had been challenged the York giants to play a series of games for a stake of best four out of A forfeit of a side was in the of Manager of Baltimore Three of the games will be played on the polo grounds in New York and three in St. If it should be necessary to play it will be played on neutral Compelled to Give Her The Court of has decided the case of Bessie White vs. The State Board of Pharmacy in favor of who sued out a mandamus writ to force the board to grant her a license to dispense which it had although she was a graduate of the Ann School of The plaintiff is a sister of John D. White and the first applicant for pharmacy honors in A Mormon On 16th at Deputy Marshal Thompson shot and killed indicted for cohabitation in 1885. Dalton had been arrested and He frequently declared he would never be taken Thompson aud Deputy Orton saw him in on and called on him to Dalton turned his horse to when Thompson intending to fire over but the ball took effect in Dalton's He died in about an Thompson and Orton were for murder by the local and will be taken to There is a good deal of excitement over the Methodist At a meeting of commission appointed by M. E. Conference of Nebraska to locate Methodist University for the unification of the educational interests of that denomination in the State of Lincoln selected as location for the proposed Fifty thousand dollars in cash and lands valued at were the inducements offered by the which secured the Omaha and York were the principal their bids being respectively and in cash and McPh Orson's Oleo Senator McPherson has introduced a amendatory of the oleomargarine act. It provides that the section of the statute all to be packed by its manufacturers in tubs or other wooden packages not before used for that each containing not less than ten as stamped and branded as the Commissioner of Internal shall shall not apply oleomargarine transported in bond for exportation and actually A Mining Town Caves In. A dispatch of the 17th inst. says between 3 and 4 o'clock of Friday morning people along West Coal in the northwestern section of that were aroused by the creaking noise of the of resembling a series of successive shocks of The was produced by a which took down fully four acres of that section of upon which stands of fifty The alarm prevailed from 3 o'clock until after After surface sank the houses swayed and and the frightened many of them with children in their ran in search places of while men collected their most property conveyed it from the doomed The surface settled from two to four feet and damaged property to the extent of from to The cave-in was caused by the robbing of the workings of the Kohinoor which is located under that portion of the A Fine The President has remitted the fine of and costs to in the case of Elihn B. who was convicted District Court of the Northern District of July 15, 1885, of obtaining a pension by fraud and penury and sentenced to two years in and to pay a of Case was granted a pension per month in for in. 1883 he applied for an 0ii;iny^sli^ on ed while picking At the time of hei death it was believed that she had a fortune hidden but her immediate friends scouted the Nma hundred dollars of hers was in possession of Lahey Jersey City and they surrendered it when called upon lo do so. A of Clark has discovered the of belonging to and it Jias been learned Bliss & tho well-known banking firm of have of her It is supposed that about is concealed in the Glendale near the Hackensack a search will be made for has made to Surrogate of Hudson for letters of administration upon her mother's ' A Duel in In Humboldt last Thursday a duel was fought with A little before 7 o'clock two closed carriages the Each carriage contained a principal with second and a They alighted in a secluded spot the arrangements being principals each drew a sword of cut imd pattern and the duel So skill was manifested on either side were- soon one through the breast and other by a slash across The party quickly entered the carriages and were driven to a drug where their wounds were It is said the cause of the affair was a disputed right to the hand of a and that rivals were the editor of a pharmaceutical journal and a medical A witnessed the duel from a too dumbfounded to CONDENSED Two Indian Territory Sam Star Aon drew revolvers to settle old Foreman got in the first his ball As Star fell he bullet of revolver breaking Foreman's men died almost Senator introduce d a on the 21st inst. providing that after any alien shall have resided in the United States for three years he may present his petition for admission to Upon presentation of the petition the court shall grant a certificate stating the whereupon the petitioner shall be subject to all the duties of and have all the rights thereof except that he shall not be entitled to vote until two years have elapsed from the issuance of his No person shall be admitted to citizenship who cannot speak the English A certificate of incorporation of Morgan Iron Works was filed in New York City on the 21st inst. The incorporators are John Garrett and Stephen W. The capital is It will and repair steam boilers and The private oi O. G. Hush & suspended payment on the 21st. As Mr. Hush is quite it is thought the depositors will be paid in It is announced that and Burke bankers of have failed for These gentlemen are proprietors of the hank at Benkleman and the Valley at Neb. They were at Denver on the 21st on sworn out by Joseph manager of the Akron The American District and San Francisco District Telegraph of San Francisco conceded the demands the striking messengers for 75 cents a day of twelve The boys returned to work on the 22d Boliem & lace manufacturers of have for on the 7th murdered David Christmas aud attempted the of old Mrs. Christmas and then set her bed on was lynched on the 21st. the presented in the Senate on tbo 2181 was one signed by sixty ministers of the Nebraska in faTOr of the Chinese indemnity also one from St. Louis merchants aud favoring the immediate transportation act. Mr. Ingalls introduced a resolution to discharge tho Committee ou Pensions from consideration of the to remove tho limitation of the of arrears of The having been introduced by him last with no action as he took that there must be an irreconcilable difference of opinion regarding its Mr. chairman of the Committee on said he favored the but a majority of the committee were against it. Mr. called np the conference report of tho commerce and Mr. of addressed the Senate in support of tho He said the railroad system of the country has steadily and unreasonably refused to recognize the simplest business and has worked out lines of action for which had excited the resentment of almost every interest which it had been created to it made itself an in almost every department of He enumerated recent instances of the injustice in rates whereby the of Iowa were obliged to sell in Chicago markets for from 3 to 6 cents a bushel less than they could get for it if they could afford to ship it to that of their own State where the crop was a The Senate will resume consideration of the after the Holiday In tbe Mr. of colled as a question of the President's veto on the granting a pension to but the House voted not to consider it The Senate amendment to the for relief of the survivors of the Arctic explorers was in. In Committee of the Whole the army appropriation was passed witli NEW 89)6v3>- 2.......,-.....,,,....: 6.57}2(^ 3.25 4.50 Stockers and 2.00 3.30 and 3.15 3.85 2.70 r 3.50 red winter 4-15 Prime to choice 3.70 r 4.00 & 2.......................37 & 2.......................25%0 2............________......53ii@ 2....................52M@ 1.83 1.83 & Fine 18 Light 4.80 4.83 6.10 Short 5.75 Dry 11 St 1.18 r 2.................... 2...................... 2...____............... 1....................... 2. 2.....----'........... 1.58 2...................... 126 2.........., 3-------......... Second 2.40 .mm - IOWA STATE ice on at Dubuque IS unsafe for improvements for 1886 foot up -A camp of the Modern Woodmen of America is being organized at dog and wolf fight will occur at Dubuque as soon as police watchfulness can be State Home trustees at Marsha have about concluded work Adeline for the past thirty years a resident of Cedar died on the 8 Ih inst. cracker of the State met in annual convention Moines on the J. a noted vagrant and drunkard of dropped dead in a butcher shOp -An at Dubuque to cool her anger boiling water on the head and neck of her Sunday school Of the at Dubuque has reached an attending membership of 300 of Labor of. Boone are making for the saloon They prosecuting to We the and bench exhibits at Marshalltown there were 386 and 100 thoroughbred forty fishermen were engaged at the at Des Moines on the 8th spearing The tribe is new Silsby fire engine and 1,000 feet of hose with cart was purchased by the City Council of Brooklyn on the 7th inst. Claude formerly of was sent tho Home at Davenport on the 8i;h inst. insane commissioners at Council Bluffs decided that the mental disturbance of Mr. was the result of the city license law and suggested better well-known bridge firm of & of Council made an 1 assignment on the 10th inst. It is that assistance from friends will the firm on its feet again in a few -A at New Mahaska on the 15tiia destroyed ten business houses the including a lively etc. insured for ' H. D. State Dairy is making an earnest search for bogus So far he reports very little oleomargarine in the and that it is apparently old stock left over from last sociables are the Ladies appear in Monday morning costumes and gentlemen are with not less than two patches on their Prizes are awarded to the most distressed looking -A colored girl named Bertha Perry was thrown a bridge at Burlington on the night of the 13th inst. by a white because she refused to accompany She was seriously The fellow - Hill and Clifford the boys accused of robbing Elkader were bound over at Dubuque on the Slh inst. to appear before ihe Grand Jury at the April term of the United States Circuit T. E. of a leading attorney and Grandf of the State Arch slipped on a frosty sidewalk on the 14th and in the fall broke his arm in two places and splintered the -Some sensitive and particular people living in Burlington are casting base insinuations at the honest They say the f is getting to be as much of an expert in measuring as the coal dealer is with the Kennedy struck Spencer Lee head with a club Jefferson from the effects of which Lee died shortly Kennedy is reported They were brothers-in-law and resided in the same Ain and Otto Nelson were injured by a runaway at Burlington on the 10th, inst. Nelson was so badly used up that recovery is He is editor a Swedish paper published at Des of claims the following to be a sure cure for Golden 1 1 1 nitrate 1 1 To be used as a following gentlemen were examined and admitted to the bar by order of the Supreme at Des Moines on the 8th John Bert Van B. J. J. Thomas F. A. J. fish commissioner has issued a circular calling attention to the violation of the law regarding the spearing of The circular law makes it my duty that the laws relating to the protection of fish are and I shall do so to the fullest extent of my -A 6-year^oId son of George of Webster has established his as a musical displays wonderful talent as a performer on the French reproducing melodies from a violin played by an None of the family having any knowledge of the direction of his genius is case of saloonkeeper ol New presented a petition to the Court on the 14th inst. for a removal of his case to the United States Courti ' The petition shows that Kelson bought in 1881 from a prohibitionist a lot and erected thereon a building to be used as a Judge in a very lucid and able held that there was a federal question and the -A case of reckless driving terminated in a sad accident at Des Moines on the inst. J. Miller was knocked down at a street crossing by a heavy delivery wagon and dragged some He was an insensible and examination showed the lower jaw was the right torn nearly the left knee badly and possibly internal in driver took advantage of darkness ' Eichard C. eral United States of of the Iowa National report of annual is .no DOINGS OF of Proceedings of Ronses at the National Is the on the ISth Mr. of presented a memorial against the admission of foreign-built ships to Mr. Vance a biU to repeal chapter 27 of the act of relating to civil Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution for an accounting of the expenditures of the appropriation for improvements of the Kiver at Omaha and other points in Nebraska and Ihe resolution gave to considerable and will probably be again called np at an parly Mr. Beck called up the prohibiting Senators and Representatives from acting as attorneys for subsidized He opposed the substitute the judiciary Mr. of the defended the He was opposed to such as is proposed by Bock's reaching a vote on the measure the Senate went into Tho early in the went into committee of the whole on the for the of lands in severalty to the consideration the On motion of Mr. of the was passed bringing the cities of St. Kansas City under the of ' section 5101 of the Revised which requires national banks in certain cities to keep on hand in money of the United States a sum 25 per of their and A appropriating for public printing and for distinctive paper for United States for of silver was Os the inst. Mr. Von introduced a to amend the relating to the election pf United States and called np Jus resolution calling upon the Secretary of War for informal as to how the money was apportioned in the river and harbor for the improvement of the Missouri was A granting a pension to Mrs. Barbara a stepmother of a was opposed by Mr. Cockrell as establishing a new and was defended by Messrs. Blair and The was and a motion to reconsider was 8, nays 36. On the motion of Mr. Van Wyck the for the relief of settlers and of land in Nebraska and Kansas the Denver and St. Joseph was made the special order for the second in Mr. addressed the Senate in opposition to the to repeal the tenure of office Mr. George made a constitutional and historical argument in favor of and Mr. Evarta in when the Senate went executive leaving the biU as unfinished The House resumed consideration of the Senate for the allotment of lands in severalty to the to which a number of amendments recommended by the committee were and tho On the sundry civil Mr. Atkinson moved to increase from to the appropriation for relief of persons entitled to entrance in the which was to 117. On motion of Mr. an amendment was adopted the payment of any of the money appropriated United States Marshals and Clerks for any issued or arrest made under the internal revenue unless the prosecution has been approved by the United States District Attorney and Collector of Internal for the district in which the prosecution wore presented to the Senate on the by Senators from several States for a reduction of the tax Mr. Butler a preamble resolution reciting the Of and States and the of maintaining the closest ties of een the two Sign Sb Ornamental Paper and Promptly attended to any place in and satisfaction Give us your & Tlie Maurice will gWa readers of the groat J. Pho call and bamberg Full I Fresh - STAPLE & FANCY P. H. and for a to visit places alone the the of the Mexican to inquire into any I troubles that may have between the I citizens of tho two power to send * for persons and and to sit during Tho for the retirement of the trade dollar was token up and passed as was also the House to extend the free delivery system of the postoffice was passed by the House on the 9th It provides that letter carriers shall be employed for free delivery at any incorporated village or having a population of not less than 10,000, or any postoffice which produced a gross revenue of for the preceding fiscal Taking up the unfinished business the Senate passed the repealing the tenure of office act further After the session the Senate adjourned till In the Mr. Belmont introduced a biU authorizing the President to appoint a commission to talie testimony relative to the losses and injuries inflicted by British authorities upon citizens of the United States engaged in fisheries on the northwestern coast of British North The sundry civil appropriation was after voting down the proposed amendment to increase from 315,000 to 83,000,000 the for relief of persons entitled to admission in the At an evening session the House passed eighteen pension There was no session of the Senate on the 18th inst. In the Mr. of asked unanimous consent to put upon its a appropriating 9500,000 for a public at S. C. Mr. objected on the ground that Charleston has had too many earthquakes recently to justify at this time such an appropriation for The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Oklahoma Mr. of opposed the because it did not provide a territory over which the government was to be the extent of the being dependent upon the ability of the government to coerce or the five nations to surrender a of their He believed that the the country would be affected for good faith towards a people required that it morning further consideration of the biU According to his previous Mr. Morrison moved the consideration of revenue The was 154. Twenty-six Democrats in the and seven the The result was received on The House adjourned the petitions presented in the Senate on the 20th inst. were several in favor of a reduction of the tariff on and another asking for legislation for an increase of the trade with Central and South Mr. Vest introduced a substitute for the to incorporate the Ship Railway It for naked incorporation without any government A concurrent resolution was laid on the requesting the President to negotiate the of the principal sugar-producing countries of the world to secure a mutual agreement by which the United States admit their sugar and molosses free of duty on condition that such governments shall reciprocate as relates to our mineral and agricultural The joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a tract of twenty-five miles from on Lake for military was After a by the President pro the Senate Mr. in the introduced a resolution inquiring into the conduct of the Russian Government in the matter of the expulsion of S. an American who was expelled from Russia on of his being a Mr. of appropriating 6100,000 for the erection of a monument to negro the The on leaf not for was It proposes a tax of 75 cents per if per There being already a tax of 35 cents per pound to protect the home Morrison opposed the The motion to suspend the rules and pass the was 108, nays 4'J.- A spirited discussion followed on Mr. motion the rules and pass the the jurisdiction of United States Courts in patent and to protect persona are manufacturers or ders of patent To prevent a vote being a motion to adjourn was agreed 124, nays 13L Seeking said a little from her does - across the of Don't bother you make me forget my always mean suppose it If you don't stop bothering me with your questions you'll go to mean a cross Had No Reason you take me for an idiot - said an irate husband his sarcastic she replied has any poor ever idiot done to me should it that Willing to be his apprentice after a gives me real pain to tErash you .so of Pains you does Then let's have another Patti lo the New YoA reporters who went down the bay to meet fier that really her a and ' of and Deposits deceived and Interest Paid all principal Eastern and Europe hought and to FoT or a term of at lowest and Telegraphic Sioux E D side Court House is tbe place DRUGS AND OF ALL The finest line in the county Kalsomine & School & Guaranteed to give satisfaction WAIL PAPER is complete and the latest ORANGE O. 3DI - CARPENTER MACHINE BELTING AND In connection the store and all short I ani age nt
