& WL ItBjgggggBI llljVl II FAlfL GREETING! ruent and thereby struck the deathblow to Italian civilization^ On the other hand, behold our own THEOrCRONE country, freest of the free republics of & 1.1 the world. It is the inalienable birthright of every American citizen to hang "^'j or be hanged. We offer to the ambition Wednesday, November 23, 1887. of the humblest American boy two KUETZING'Sm FRANK goals which he may aim to reach, both We admire the daily press of America wishes to thank the public for the immense trade of last season and attainable only by an upward course, we admire its purity, its decency, the presidency and the gallows. As begs to announce the its patriotism and its enterprise. But one of these can be conferred on but a ARRtVAt- despite this boundless admiration, we MEEIDIAN BLOCK few of our fellow citizens, we are all must admit that among its members the more liberal in granting the other. there are a few whose utterances now Scarcely a we passes in which the STOREi-1 and then scarcely fall short of treason. dangling noose is not seen to hug a The Minneapolis Evening Journal, for DRY GOOD S OF THE MOST COMPLETE number of necks. Sut we must not instance, has the audacity to print the FULL anil WINTER S rest content here. Progress ha3 ever following been the watchword of our civilization. 'The execution of the anarchists teaches Everv city, town and village in the a lesson not only to those yearning land has its fire department let each ALL-L JUST RECEIVED LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF and planning for the destruction of society, add a hanging department to be prepared but also to society itself. The for such emergencies as may WOOL FLANNELS OFFERED AT LOWEST PRICES. NEWS- enemies of social order have learned ai ise in the near future. Party strife that liberty is not license, that law is of General Merchandise ever offered to the public. will never cease until the majority shall ASSORTMENT7 DRY GOOD S LINE OF FALL DRESS GOODS, LARGE not less supreme in a republic than in have been invested with the right of a monarchy. Society is reminded that voting the rope to the minority. That OF WOOLEN GOODS. CLOAKS-CLOAKS FOR LADIES* while the law itself must be inexorable, glorious day arrived, nothing will remain its execution must not be barbaric. The to be done our civilization will be form of executing capital punishment AND CHILDREN. WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCKI perfect. of all Styles and Shades and the best of Everything and no high prices. in vogue in this country is a relic of MILLINERY1' We feel the deepest gratitude toward I shall continue to give great bargains in Men's and Boys' barbarism. Tne object of the death AND OFFER AT THE LOWEST PRICES. the daily press of our country for its penalty is not to torture the criminal, Clothing, Hats, Caps and Fur coats. insisting on the execution of the law to much less to make it appear to the STOCK] FOR FALL. CALL IN AND SEE OUR MAMMOTH the very letter It was principally due Our $5.00 all wool Over Coat is a dandy and sells like hot cakes. spectators that he is tortured in djing. to the attitude of the daily press that The object is simply to take his life for OF DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS BEFORE BUYING ELSE-i Come and look at them before they are all sold. Good Men's Suits from Gov. Oglesby could develop into that the protection ef society. The execution type of noblest manhood which relegates $4.00 up. Boys Suits from $1.50 up. I keep a large line of winter caps by hanging is a most shocking and WHERE. WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. mercy to the beasts of the wilderness revolting spectacle. Whether or not to suit everybody. Our line of mufflers is the largest in the city and no and if, in his last hour, a pleasant the executed suffers intense and prolonged vision should loom up to teach him Don't fcrfget flh6Q. mistake and will be sold at the lowest prices, ranging from 25 cts. up. agonies of death, it is impossible how men can face death, he will be to conceive that he does not. The execution A full line of Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Syrups, Oils and Crockery. indebted for it to our daily press, whose of capital punishment should magnanimity is only surpassed by its Come and see us and make our store your headquarters while in impress the public with nothing but the skill in figuring on prospective sales. majesty ef the law. As it is, the public town. It has always been our custom to treat people well. Please call Let no one doubt the infallibility, the is more impressed with horror at the purity, the decency of our daily press. and oblige methods of the law than with its power. That semibarbarian whose name has The shocking nature of the crime is been permitted to go down into the history forgotten in the revolting character of of English literature, Charles Dickens, the execution sympathy for the victim disgraced himself by the following of the murderer is to some extent transferred For the last fifteen years the remarks concerning the American F. H. BEHNKE. Star Sample Boom, to the murderer himself. Time press may have been when hanging was a CityDrug Store has maintained =DEALKR IK= and "When any man, of any grade of proper form of taking a criminal's life. mini Farmers' Home. desert in intellect or character, can its reputation of carrying the If so, that time is passed. Hanging no climb to any public distinction, no matter longer serves, but on the contrary largest stock and being the what, in America, without first works to defeat, the ultimate object of JACOB HOESCHELER, Prop'r. L~ grovelling down upon the earth, and punishment. A far better method may cheapest place in the city to Dealer in bending the knee before this monster of be devised by the use of electricity. In Wines, Liquors depravity when any private excellence buy your holiday presents. This I that event death, of course, would be is safe from its attacks when any social instantaneous. There would be no revolting and Cigars. year we carry a finer and larger I Gfcoderieg, Fruit^Crodk- confidence is left unoroken by it, or scenes, -no horrible writhings of any tie of social decency and honor is A fine lunch will be served every day. the criminal's body, no struggling for stock of holiday goods than held in the least regard when any man life that will ever awaken horror and Cor. Minn. & Center streets. in that free country has freedom of ever before. Our assortment of sympathy. The hangman must go. GOOD TABLE BUTTER. New Ulm. Minn. opinion, and presumes to think for Electricity should take his place." himself, and speak for himself, without Toys, Albums, Brush and Comb I New Brick,Cor. Minn. & Centre Strs., SCHUBERT FLOR, The above plea in favor of the abolition humble reference to a censorship which, NE W UM MINN of an institution which constitutes Sets, Odor Boxes, Jewel Cases, for its rampant ignorance and base dishonesty, the very bulwark of our liberty, is as he utterly loathes and despises infamous as it is un-American. As a Cuff and Collar [Sets, Perfume Goods sold at Rock-bottom prices for in his heart when those who most Agents for the improved native American we protest against any yf cash. Goods delivered in any part of acutely feel its infamy and the reproach Stands, Smokers' Sets, Season such innovation which would destroy UICK SEL BINDER S the city. it casts upon the nation, and who most one of the noblest outcomes of ur Ilfiyittiiliifl Cards and other holiday novelties is unexcelled. Prices are#' denounce it to each other, dare to set civilization and maim the educational their heels upon, and crush it openly, AND usefulness of our cherished idol, the lower than ever before and our assortment is such that we in the sight of all men: then I will believe daily press. Steel Mowers, that its influence is lessening, and can accomodate any purse, no matter hew small. Our stock It is by means of the gallows that our men are returning to their manly sens- civilization, in its humane aspects, has es." of Herbs, Roots and Barks, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils also for the Northwestern Self-dumping gained a distinction which, among the Dickens is physically dead. Let him Hayrakes, Banner Hayrakes, the unexcelled civilized nations of the globe, renders and Glass is always complete and prices are extremely low. be hanged in effisrv. Norwegian Plows, Cultivators, it second to nonp, with the possible exception AN EXAMINATION OF OUR STOCK AND PRICES WILL durable and light running Smith Wagons, of that of the Russians. It is A new craze is developing in "cultured" self-oiling Wagons with steel axle. by means of the gallows that we have CONVINCE THE MOST SKEPTICAL THAT THE PLACE TO Boston. Society ladies are studying tbeen enabled to destroy a personified THOS. MULVERHILL, Prop. Repairs for ihe above named MAchinery always on hand the language, the literature and AT is Oity Dr\ig Store OF theory which had for its purpose tne BUY GOODS THE Fine turnouts furnished with or without the institutions of the great empire of BINDING TWINE of the best quahty. abolition of government. We have drivers at reasonable rates Fishing, hunting CHAS R00S, Russia. Russian gowns are expected and Pleasure parties furnished teams. Ladies' Our prices aie low and suitable to hanged anarchy. Such a thing would Saddle horses Fine Carriages for funerals to become fashionable at afternoon Offlco in Skating Rink. everybody. We ask the farmers to call have been impossible in despotic Germany. teas. Bostomans evidently desir to on us before buying elsewhere. Under the laws of the German RUEMKE & SCHAPEKAHM, keep abreast of the times. Empire, those anarchists could only have been senrenced to imprisonment Carpenters, Builders and Contractors. The Secretary of State has received a WM. FRANK. JOHN BENTZIN. Po^t Offide Slodk. Xewl/K JViiDn. for a number of years they could not Cottonwood Mills, note from the Chinese minister, returning NhW ULM, MINN. PROMPT ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS. have been tried in hulk, so to speak, the amount of all claims which in Designs and plans made to order and and several of them might have been the distribution of the Rock Springs indemnity estimates on all work furnished and B. BEHNZE & CO., acquitted because under a law which appropriation were found to contracts faithfullv executed. Custom grinding solicited. Will is evidently an outcome Ui despotism, be duplications. There is no case on grind wheat for (one eigth) or exchange MILLINERY '.N~ verbal utterances do not render one an recoid in which a nation more civilized 34 lbs. flour, 5 fts. shorts and 8 accomplice before the fact unless it can than the Chinese returned indemnity AND lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour EXTENSIVE OPENING OF NEW AND DESIRABLE be proven that he has received or given moneys. DRESS MAKING. and feed sold at low rates and deliyered remuneration.Such a deplorable condition FALL AND WINTER GOODS. a New Ulm free of expense. Among the educated classes of Japan of affairs is plainly due to ignorance Miss Mary Hopt, the English language is steadily gaming FRANK & BENTZIN. of the art of hanging. The capital punishment inflicted in that despotic coun- ground. In 1885, the number of TIVOLI 1 E i opposite the English books imported from England try is decapitation and as this process Union Motel, New Ulm, and the United States was about 100,- requires considerable skill and it is exceedingly 000: in 1886, about 175,000 and during AND difficult to find a person who Has on hand a good stock of Millirery Goods con BREWEEY, the present year there.has been a corlesponding sisting in part of Hats, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks will submit to the contempt in which Ribbons, Feathers, Flowers, Stc. increase. The English language Also Patterns for stamping monograms Stamping i one who takes human life even in pur- of all kinds. Embroidery Work and Fashionable ur Coats is now taught in the elementary -r j?4 suanoe of a legal warrant is held by dressmaking done to order. JOS. SCHMUCKER, PROPRIETOR. public schools of Japan. C. Baltruscli, VS that tyiannized people, they have but GROCERIES NEW ULM, MINK. p*r^4one executioner. The entire penal code A number of iron steamers are building DI|Y GOODS 1 $. is so arranged that this officer is seldom Pure beer sold in quantities to suit for the Standard Oil Company. the purchaser. Special attention paid called upon to perform his peculiar -DEALER INDry These steamers are devised for carrying to the bottling of beer. JJV, duty. Thus, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Goods, oil in bulk. Each vessel is to carry Itr _, a period of seventeen years (1865-1882) 700,000 gallons of oil, and will make NOHTH-WESTEHH HOTEL, "s^.elapsed without a single execution. An Eats and Caps, the trip across the Atlantic in two '^entiregeneration vas allowed to grow PR. GOLLNAST, PKOPK. weeks. The holds of these tank steamers |?2up without that ennobling sight withslij Men's and Boys' Clothing, will be devided into a number of ETC. on ETC. Opposite the Railroad Depot. compartments, which will be so arranged *^out which it is impossible to uphold yjsw ULM, MINJST. Ladies'Jackets and Dolmans that in case of a leak in any of Ijtf'the majesty of the law. It is needless JI them the oil in the others cannot escape. First class accomodations V'to say that during theat protracted pe- at LADIES' AND GENTS' The oil will be pumped directly reasonable rates. Good WE TAKE THIS EARLY OPPORTUNITY TO INV1TJ: OUR 'm j&S&i-riod of gloom the people of Saxony re?lapsed Furnishinc* Goods, from the storage tanks into the compartments i stabling on, the into utter barbarism. JFRIEXDSAXD CUSTOMERS TO GIVE US A CALLt^ of the steamers. premises. -~*fh Kingdom of Italy furnishes another Pa* GKOCERIES, noteworthy example of the dire AND E::A::I: E OUR GOODS, WE SELL AT/?S%^ I AUG. QTJENSE, Land Commissioner Sparks had to consequences that are inevitable wherever THE LOWEST PRICES. 4|f4' resign ostensibly because he was to free CROCKERY & GLASSWARE the art of hanging is unknown. HARNESS MAKER in offering advice to secretary Lamar. A& Before the re-establishment of the '2 BOOTS AND SHOES, It astonishes us that his resignation was A. Behnke, Manager. BEHJTKE & COL frft united kingdom, hundreds of men were And the very latestpatterns in not demanded sooner, because ha has and Dealer In ^fiii annually executed in the petty states of Dress Goods & Trimmings. Whips, Collars, and all other been very persistent in telling the secretary & A. C. OOHS, Italy tor their political creed, and civilization H. HANSCHEN, ^My purchases have been made di articles usually kept how the land department should was evidently in its prime. rect and for cash, and I am thereby VSi in a first-class harness Contractor and Builder, be operated. The real reason seems to ^t^MContractor and Builder. But less than twenty years after the enabled to \iake the lowest prices. shop. be that Sparks desired to run the office Agent for the celebrated^Boynton and Gall and examine my stock and compare amalgamation of these states, the despotic & other Furnaces. Also ajrent for Western honestly and had to tread on some powerful prices before purchasing else* New harnesses made to order and re government, fearing that the Special attention given mason Stocco Co.. Fort,l)odge, a fine where. l^. peoples toes in order to accomplish pairing promptly attended to. death penalty might educate the people work in the city and cotatxy. plastering material. what he wanted. BALTRUSCH SW ULM. -r MINN for liberty, abolished capital punish- New Clm, Minn. KEW ULM. MIKK. g^^^