Williamsburg Journal Tribune (Newspaper) - March 15, 1889, Williamsburg, Iowa f EVERY FRIDAY per In lest Advertising Medium in tho Journal VOLUME IOWA MARCH NUMBER JOB BITCH A3 EXECUTED TO ORDER to tbe Neatest and Promptest Mama AT THIS BARBER SHOP South Side of Public opened a shop most solicit a of patronage SouthSide Harness A nud complete slock of v lAnd nil other usually kept in a class Harness n Speciality Call and see Peter Livo Stock Dealer AT Convoy and South A man Always pays the very highest prices market for fat hoes and STEAM WELL We have the champion deep well drilling machine of the can go DOWN DOWN Just as cloop as you want to ORDERS PRICES Has a Largo nnd Complete Slock of Our goods nro of nnd combine nnd Wo carry a line lino of Kid In fncl full oC Shoes nnd Hub for both nud Wo manufacture custom work to nt Bottom All our goods tie Savings 0 Q ii a BOARD OF John TRANSACTS A LOANS ON FOREIGN AND BOUGHT AND PAID ON AND C All HI First National National City National WITH THE OP THE WILL MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF THE GREAT ROCK Book Island Pacific and Kansas Nebraska in Traverses new and vast areas of rich farming and affording tho bast facilities of intercommunication to older States and to ail towns and pities Jn Southern New Indian and pacific coast and SOLID FAST VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS all competitors in splendor of equipment and Choicer of to and from Salt take LOB San San and intervening Quick prompt transfers In Union THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE guns superbly equipped Express Trains daily each way between Rack Joseph Kansas City and Minne apolis and ik The Favorite Tourist Lino to the scenic and hunting and fishing of the Its Branch courses tho moat lands of Northern Southwestern and Bast Southern LINE VIA SENECA AND KANKAKBB offers facilities to travel between and Kansas mi or desired apply to any Coupon E THE BOY OF In this enlightened A boy A lot of run Inventions for him 3 N Joy His never M hold A U A Ot curl U C Ti untold And mostly in D In K 0 must his Ho has no N U when ho helps N A bors He works with X T Sweet things to R T will K Q pie Blurt that goes In N E Would E Z us He hates to his Though dirty to X But when n sweet K T commands How XL In To A K sleepy boy for school Is awful to S A To go N A pool Hes up D 4 the On thinnest 10 loves to In water D P In D D goes In us U In P 0 nover lots you rost Hell C Q right And then to TZ tries his best With noise you At his young A O must enthuse Or Conn not grow His youthful spirits we X Wo used a D Just Hut In the N n will repay All trouble X So let him C K to piny B 4 his cares In COMETS AND Fow Facts About Thess Ce Theory of the the Me und There are few persons who have witnessed the striking of tho They arc visible any clear and with little patient observation several may be seen during an ng out in various quarters of tho they are seen to dart across tho with motions more or less rapid and with brilliancy more or less some down towards mother others across tho starry behind them a phosphorescent glow generally visible only for a mo Larger meteors and the term at this stage can only be used in ex pressing their size by their light often leave behind them a very marked much like a faint and which when the meteors Ilight is thus usually remains suspended in sky for some considerable Tho writer saw such a meteor on the night of August which loft in its path a greenish visible to the naked eye fully twenty Such occurrences are and few are witnessed in a In stances arc on record of meteoric showers visible in broad and statements have been made of single meteors of groat size soon to fall in various parts of tho country between sunrise Meteoric showers have in numerous instances been so marvelous that tho fall presented an appearance like that of u light fall of illuminated Ono of tho earliest of recorded phe of this and which is well was witnessed by Hum boldt and Bonpland early on tho morn ing of November during their visit to tho coast of Another statement is that of tho wellknown who on tho night of November 1833 and here note that both occurred on the same day of tho same and divided by a space of thirtyfour witnessed such a marvelous shower that ho estimated that during his observation of three hours visible meteors passed over tho A rough estimate of the number of bright to bo seen by tho naked eye under favorable nnd those invisible owing to and which enter tho earths atmosphere during the space of twen is about Some wellknown taking into consideration those which would bo revealed if the eye possessed the power of our larger increase that number to about Wo often hear of the falling of great balls of with startling explosions Scientists toll us that tho socalled balls of lire are really compact groups of small When such a group comes within tho attraction of tho earth it is drawn rapidly toward her Tho encounter with tho at separates them and at tho same time consumes producing no little agitation of tho and thus causing tho This action of separation and burning would a result in some cases much like that of a rocket exploding in tho with which display all aro Instances of meteoric bodies falling to earth are comparatively To enable it to roach the earth tho mass of matter composing meteor must bo of bulk to prevent complete dissipation or consumption during its passage through tho atmosphere to tho showers of stones are matters of On the 20th of such a shower occurred nt in Tho number of found within a spaco of fourteen square miles was over two This fall was accompanied by light and loud Tho height at which meteors appear visible is a Estimates made by well known observers results varying from forty to ninety miles tho aver age velocity accorded thorn being about twentysix miles per or nearly half as fast again as tho earth travels around tha 801110 how boon observed to possess a velocity of over one hundred miles per or hundred and sixty thousand miles per hour Perhaps tho reader will ask Why are these burned up The answer is this Suppose two bodies moving in with such great velocity and in independent orbits encounter what will the A sudden of motion motion into This rule applies In all In the caso of the earth nnd tho tho action is The moan rate of motion of tho 111 her orbit is about nineteen per Moving along at this raid she encounters a cloud of meteors whose motion is further increased by tho attraction of tho greater The cloud of meteors encounters re in tho earths and tho friction produced converts tlm motion into heat so great that tho meteoric bodies aro rapidly Of some heat is generated in tho earths as its share of tho but tho relative amount to tho or is It is stated that tho amount of ordi developed by tho above do scribed encounter is enough to vapor ize any known substance almost in Tho fact that tho greater number of meteors nro consumed and disappear before they reach the earth is evidence that their mass is Such of those mete visitors as have been discovered on the surface of the earth and afterward analyzed in gen only terrestrial Dis tinction is made accidental meteors and meteoric As relates to tho their visibility is common at all and might be called accidental they usually appear in widely different quarters of tho sky and possess widely different Meteoric showers make their appearance in certain por tions of tho is they appear to radiate always from some particular Those showers always take place on certain nights of August and November of every His be from the fact that they occur and that the meteors causing them revolve in orbits at points reached by her in August and Novem that these rings of meteors aro of varying thickness at different giving vis showers ol varying Tho greatest dis play by tho November meteors takes place every thirtythree The orbits of the August and November meteors have been calculated by Lev and who discovered the wonderful relationship between me and The shows us thai comets appear to shine by reflected of es tho identity of tho August meteor shower and comet of This astronomers theory of tho won relationship existing between meteors and is worthy of careful It is about as follows Clouds of meteoric parti cles exist and move about through Their motions may at some time bring them within the at traction of the and tho influence of our powerful luminary transforms them into and as the paths ol these clouds may assume any they may or may not become visible to us because of the direction in which they approach tho sun as related to our line of If tho path as by tho comet after leaving the sun is elliptical tho visitor will become a member of our Further possibilities nro The cometary wanderer consists of a col lection of individual moving particles or The following portion of the or in tho course of lag far and what to us was onco part of a comet may event become a ring of parti If any portion of the orbit thus formed should lie near enough to the orbit of tho earth wo can on reaching that particular in our journey round the to witness the appearance of n fall or shower of me and tho magnitude of tho ills play would depend on tho thickness of tho meteoric ring at that ier states that a entered our system in January in the year and by passing too near tho planet Uranus in its path became transformed into an elliptical orbit around tho This us agreed with tho calculated orbit of Temples comet of and this latter orbit agrees with the calculated orbit of tho No Neat PinCushion Take cushion six inches and cover tho top with dark satin eight inches Sow ill around tho edges of tho cover before attaching to cushion a band of roso pink satin throe inches right sides of satin together and sow it in slashes one inch wido and one and onehalf inches Cut the slashes out with the turn thorn and then with a noodle and thread tuck each slash half way showing tho satin against tho Under the slushes all around put a frill of and on tho upper corners of tho slashes put tiny chenille balls of roso Embroider or paint in tho center o cover a design of wild Faster this cover to tho top of tlm Free Farming East and Tho Western with hi hundreds of acres of now and looks with contempt upon thp small and often farms that are to bo found in some parts of Now En Tho owner of a Western furn of eight hundred nearly all ol it under who was visiting in sent u letter in ho expressed his mind freay as fol lows Hero in this country they rill two acres of six lions and an old rooster a and half tho time ono aero of ground is nu old Kansas every ought to bo Ho told ono of our customers in Croydon that I am an ignorant Senior shall speak to him without and insist that no more be English judge recently de fined gentleman as a term which in anybody who has nothing to do und is ut tho Texas IOWA STATE A SALOON nnd Tommy il Shoots Kills Tommy chain llon pugilist ot town shot nud killed Frank in Carroll1 nt Council tho hnd boon about tho nil day md drinking Ho wnH standing n front ol whan n started on the between floored The Is n of The two dice when thoy jogan in nml that was Dotting tho worst of It drew his placed It nt lend mid Tho bull just bolow ho loft our nnd lodged In tho bum of tho deceased n thirty years nnd hnd only boon In tho city three who nr IH n resident of this nnd his lather rood nnd tin Industrious An Bo who nt nko tho other n noted Ho onco tho secretary of Oou who with Napoleon nnd ono of the tve the return to France of Na with Napoleon In sev enteen nnd banished In 185 by the Ho then to engaged In the liquor business tit until whon bo wont to nnd taught drawing ami painting or iivo be returned to Storm where be died of lung to Ip tho Tho mine of the dealer from whom two of beer were by the sheriff tried in Dodders court nt lown City tho other After n long sheriff ordered to return the court held that tho beer held by brewers of Milwaukee nnd by them sold to unlit that tho In town City not the owner of the property unit did not any The beer wus put back In Hotly About three weeks ago tho wife of n living near High died nnd buried In township ceme A recent visit to the grave tho fact that It hnd been nnd on further investigation discovery was made that the body had been Armed with n the medical colleges in Dee Moines were but no of body Tho affair bail much local the attorney controll ing the river land in Fort Dodge the other dny making arrange ments preparatory to eviction of all settlers in Weaver stated that sovon hundred judgments In Hamilton and Boone counties bad been issued four hundred nud that In tho first week of March every one of them would be served and evictions tin About twenty years ngO Univer sity Fund lost which under the Inw the State to Recently nn effort was made by the regents to get but State Auditor refused to draw on the Treasurer for tho on the ground that tho liability of tho had expired that the claim had and the Attorney General guys he is with Two brothers were nr rested nt recently on the charge of rilling the of Patricks One of them was seen to leave the which with the box un der his accused the other of the They were also suspected of stealing the of tho Heart Supposed of u K The body of Mnc n found the other day in n ravine about fifteen miles north of Sioux There was n bullet bole in the The coroners jury hnd not returned n but thoro was a supposition that Mac Killip con with n feud which had caused much violence in ol Presence of and prompt action saved n farmers life the other Ho was crossing track of the Kansas City railroad near Farley when his team became Just then a freight train hove in whereupon ho pulled the pin from double started the horses ahead and saving his News In Many lown farmers nre signing n pledge to mack their grain the coming without unless the price of binding twine is Henry of wus fatally burned the other night by tho sion of a By the death of a relative in Sweden a porter at tho Hotel in bus the possessor of OuO At Keokuk the other dny the coroners jury Warden ii killed William r negro At tlm State oratorical contest held ni Mount Vernon the other Put of Parsons won honors of Iowa Agricultural Col und of Drake Uni Tho interState contest wil bo belli at in Several citizens of Bonaparte recently re threatening from White Caps Tile at West Branch was en tered by burglars early tho other morning and in postage stamps of Sioux has in vented a by which ho claims per motion con lie Four masked White Caps assaulted an uu offensive old named Jaol Kelly ut the other bonne him to n nnd left him to Buffo from Ho was released by n when and said bis us had ordered him to leave the clt under penalty of of Sioux eighteen hundred bogs the other the days work in the packing house vu by Fowler of In a quarrel in n saloon nt Afton recently Young Councilman was shot und wounded by of was arrested re charged with sending letters through postoffice ti young ladies residing in At Keokuk the other morning Master ii Chancery sold the North western railway ut public It bought by Charles Perkins for Tile road hud long operated by thi Davis and of Dii tho inventors of file burglar detect ive camera and received thoi first papers from tho Patent The seventh commencement of th dental department of the State of lowu took place at DCS the othe John a living Ep was fatally wounded tho other da by the accidental discharge of his gun The farmers of North Iowa were u duys ago preparing for spring Th snow was all oil tho Fifty pe of tho would ho imt in uml lu but or BLUE GRASS n Organization Formed for tlm of Mil Senator called tho Bluo Grass con dition to order at the now dity building In reston recently and nominated UR temporary ort tho position nnd called for ic nomination of temporary Islo was On motion of d the roll of committees was died to report list of localities nnd the names of n motion of of a of ono from representation as appointed on permanent organization s follows Ed U and deliberation the committee reported of for president of nnd of permanent Thomas Maxwell was in to represent Mayor witli an of which he delivered nd which received with by no Tho following resolutions passed This association has for Its ob the development of tho resources of of the ig nml ami thereby Iho profitably employed population nd and This that access depends largely the earnest nnd early of tho railroads pone our nnd for tho pur losos of this tho true welfare nnd icst Interests of this region nnd of the mil ends which serve It are sympathetic and pur bo It this appreciates lie interest manifested In the by ho railway its Daven That this society solicits ho continued cooperation of the Chi nnd other In tho region In In y nn assurance of nnd In the proper distribution of np nn organization bo formed Hint part of Southwest lown lame grasses grow luxuriantly nnd blue can exist without seed hav 7 been sown by tho band of tho of organization to bo Bluo Grass League of Iowa tho objects of tbo organi to be tho advertising to the world tbe advantages of tho blue grass region or Iowa as n place for permanent ionic nnd bringing to tho notice of emigrants ot older rlty of water and natural re sources and productiveness of tho territory After nnd immediately following the adoption of the above by tbe convention Davenport was voted to be i member of ihc without a dissenting WUH presented the of an or composed of business nen and railroads working in unison nnd TEMPERANCE Mooting of Tills Stalo The State Alliance bold Its annual meeting recently nt Des The attendance largo and much entis notion expressed at work accomplished during the were to the Governor for bis fidelity to the cause of and condemnation of those public who neglect to do their duty under tho law es hearty thanks to John Mayor of for bis fearless perform ance of duty Indorses the teaching of tem in the public schools requests tho more earnest cooperation of the pulpit and tho revival of moral suasion asks Legislature to appropriate to bo used by tho Governor in enforcement of tho law in places where local officers refuse und further for n providing for the re of local officers who neglect to do their duty in enforcing the prohibitory Inw in dorsing the Wilson now before Con placing InterState within the purview of laws in favor of nonpartisan effort to carry on tho temperance Tbe statistics presented showed eighty three counties reporting tho law seventythree counties u de crease in crime of from twenty to sixty per In over half tho counties the jails were empty decrease In tuo of liquor seventy per Number ol United States special liquor In to from over In Tho only sale of these permits was in and The following were elected Dos DCS District Bur lington John Cedar Falls Colonel Mount Ayr Stuart Algona Lo Thoro considerable discussion of submission of u constitutional amendment but no was OLDEST UNION of Mount has been claimed that David i the oldest soldier now living of tho lato war but a correspondent writes to the Stub us follows Allow mo to the claim of Captain Peter of Moun to still higher Ho wa horn September ut Ko lian moved to Butlor County in was in the war of enlisting when eighteen years of May wus seriously wounded ut tho fumou of wus nt the battle o nnd other noted ones of that war wus discharged in Camo to in enlisted in tin Iowa was badly wounded in service and was honorably discharged In 1801 A hale old delights to talk of hi early exploits In tho early days of Ohio u nnd near of stirring times o tho war of and of tho lato war from to Wo think he is entitled to carry th battle Hag at head of Un til other appear Fisher soem to buve title to tho claim of tlie Union EDUCATIONAL tbe lust yoar the sum total of cdu gifts ia this country was BOSTON spent tho ventilation o Its schoolhouses last year and proposes t continue tho good Tnn lowest annual expense at a numbe of colleges is estimated to bo us follows MO und IN the South there are colore They have un und and are wortl in A BUSINESS education is a am tho ono who on tors upon the duties of lif without its guiding influence has tho chance of success all Tan French Minister of Education ha offered a gold medal for the best Frenc scholar to be found in English Hi offer is intended to the study o RUSSIA last year appropriated fo tho education of children in Alusk thus shaming the niggardly of the United States for education in tha Tun Harvard professors are for for tho purchase of th site of for the purpose o excavating RESTING FROM HIS I be Kn ho Story of His NnW John tho Swedish who do and launched the Ironclad Monitor In nt 12 oclock Thursday boon 111 tor only one week nnd nt last physician called Owing til bis ad iccd age fulled to was exactly twentyseven years pro March that Iho famous buttle between the Monitor and the In which tho was compelled to from Hampton she ad destroyed wooden warships ress nnd other Tho grout engineer and Inventor born July nnd nt tho go of 10 began by Inventing tho windmill and the creative work that nt tho JOHN go of 80 be briskly was n mine nnd tho oys earliest experience was with ma At 13 years of ago ho lade n cadet of mechanical nnd at 7 ho entered the Swedish army as an Ho reached a lu of the beauty ot his military which the attention ot King John In while In jondon on of absence to Introduce ho sent bis resignation homo t was ho had been pro to tho lank of Ho never ro to but his country bus ont him many honors and nnd lu HOT n monument was erected In ront of his house bearing tho simple Ericsson was born herein His Inventions and engineering achievements orm a catalogue of and tho impor anco Is indicated by the fuel that his world or more than Half n century ago has been strengthened and Increased by each sue work to which his attention has boon The versatility or bis genius is lost sight of la tho importance to his groat improvements in en ginery of Tho rapid ami energetic construction of his Monitor and ho important work of tho n n very critical period or tho war ho principal popular interest iu tho inventor n Uut his with her and many In aro of fnr greater Im The undivided honors of Iho practical screw he screw war aud tho first turret accorded to Captain Ericsson by tho Mechanics are undeniably Among tho many other inventions which uo has given to tbo world arc a ma an instrument tor Inking the artificial draught for a static weighing u sailmaking appii n rotary tbo device for condensing steam and returning tho water to tho link motion for reversing steam tho IHC of n loco engine among tho first i calorie and an alarm contributions to the centennial exposition ro a volume of tWJ quarto pages In their Ills He Investigations In many valuable astronomical A few years after a of experiments extending over twenty Captain perfected his famous sun and de termined tho which tho great luminary has in store for mankind whon coal Holds become Tho motor Tarnishes a steady power under ordinary THE EARTH Shocks of Fait lu Maryland nml Aro Hut No lEo March About oclock Friday evening a violent earthquake followed by a rumbling lusting u few disturbed people of this Dishes on tables were by the chimney tops tumbled uml windowpanes were broken in a number of Houses were shaken all over tho and gront consternation People went run ning into tho streets witli terror depicted on their countenances to ascertain tho online of tho lio ports from tho counties that tho shook was Tbe wus much more distinct than thai which was felt hero in oclock Friday evening u slight shock was felt on Cemetery Houses wore shaken until windows rattled for ter t wus also Hanover aud points March pronounced shook was felt bore Friday evening at oclock which had o frightening nearly every body In the city and Houses trembled for nearly a and articles of furniture wore Women ran shrieking from houses with infants in their niv for a while iu some sections of tho city tho excitement was No damage result ed March from tho towns through tho northern and west ern portions of Maryland give account of n severe earthquake shock that fell about 7 oclock Friday In Carroll Hurford and Cecil counties tho effect of tho shock was quite perceptible Is be llevod to been an earthquake shock wus noticed by some people here about There was a shuko accompanied by a rumbling inquiry shows that shock wus felt in tlie surrounding nnd ii neighboring Tlie shock lusted throe seconds and was from west COUNTERFEITERS IN MORE President Par of Minister to us of of the nml Fills n Number of Senate Com March President sent following nominations to tho ban Arthur of to bo Governor nf of to bo Secretary of Cornelius of Washington Terri to bo Chief of Supremo Court of Iho Territory of of to bo Marshal of tho Stales lor Iho Territory of Mou of to United Stales for district of In of Now to bo of tho vice of to bo Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary of tho United Slates lo John of to bo Minister Resident and Consul General ot tbo United Suites to Postmasters Ward at Ilontov Root nt Tho in executive session oon following of to lie to Spain John of to bu to Japan John ot to bo Minister to nil of to bo irst The sent yesterday weru to appropriate tho then March tho Watt n was for tho of standing an fol owa Agricultural and I ones and Appropriations Cull nnd Oor Pnd oik and Wilson Stoclt and Civil Servico nnd Vilson and Jones Wilson mil Const Hampton aud Jones Cam and District of Far Daniel ind und Wilson uyno and Bills Quay and Col Epidemic and rjo tho soveral branches of civil conduct and ol Executive Jibson and Jonos Harris and and Foreign Payne and Improvement of tho Mississippi and Indian Jones nnd Wilson and Wilson Hour and Col quilt and Milliary Mandor Walt iall and Mines ami Jones Faulkner and Naval nnd and Faulkner and Bur nnd Post Wilson and Hawley Land Claims Ingalls ami Wol Privileges and Quay and Tar Public Buildings and nnd Public Berry Railroads nnd of Wilson and Revolutionary and und Routes to George anil A was appointing committees To Condition of the Potomac Rivar from Edmunds to Inquire inlo of Citizens of tbo against Wilson Hunr and Cameron on Woman und Wolcott Additional Ac commodation for luc Library ol and Murs ion on the of tho Constitution nnd Discovery of on Five Tribes ot Cameron nnd Teller the Prcs dents Transmitting Iho Report of tho Hallway Buller and Hearst with and on tha Transportation and Sale of Meat Productions Cullom and Coke and of Ar d Reagan and Junes Arkansas n Gront tily of March Unite Marshal in Con way County Thursday Thorp um William loaders of tbo most Bivo gang of conn in tho Tho been on tho track o these men for An Slur of bogus comprising 510 and Imitation gold was also secured Over a dozen persons aro com prising some wellknown people of and Sulino Thorp and Game have boon bound Tho arrest causes great A PRINCELY of tbo Standard Oil makes an Immense llou lo March Hunting uu original member of Standard 0 has signed u deed worth of li per stocks to board of seven composed of Tho stocks will bo Job Trust and tlie in thereon Is to be dozen charitable Port of tb la to be hold until the fund amount to when all the ws b PROHIBITION Tho Amendment Falls to Curvy Iu March partial returns from the New Hampshire elections are ro but there sonnis little doubt that the prohibition amendment has boon defeated by u decided In Nashua and vigorous were made by the who stood ail day ut tho polls soliciting votes and aiding tho movement in every possi ble from sixty cities and towns a majority of Indications are now that tbo prohibitory amendment will be defeated by nearly Dlvk March funeral ol the late Congressman Towns bend place at Matthews Catholic of which Townshend is a Father The attendance wus very largo and bored all tho Senators and Repre iu tho Tho pall Justice First ex a Marshall of Pensions Cullom and Hoium and
