^p^^^'^^Piy?^:1^^^ 11^ mm^^^S^ss^Bss^^saeasssss^xSS^S^S. 8 F^^^rr^} ?^^Sf^^?^^^^^^^^W^^^\^ ^^^^^^"^^^Ji^l^^f^l^ff^^^W^^? J)AETH INDYNAMITE A CHRISTMAS CURE, SUIT AGAINST A DUCHESS. tinued the cricket, "how will he ever ceptance of a gift does not force upon learn better? To be sure, his mamma you its return. Her Grace of Marlborough Defendant and papja fend all his kind friends are Gift giving is like love, the desire is A Story of the Season for Small in a Cause Brought by Co-Heirs. trying to teach him, but it is necessary supposed to come from the heart, and Boys. ,. ,^C:^' si'^r Two Well Diggers Sear Graceville, NEW YOBK, Dec. 21.—John Mason hasbrought that everybody should help to no gift is worth anything unless it is an action against the duchess of Santa Clans sat by the fire in his Minn., Killed and Mangled by train such a boy as—" sent with that feeling, and that only? Marlborough, George G. Williams, Jacob own home looking very much troubled. But then you think you are to acqept, "I know," interrupted Santa, I a Premature Blast. K. Lockman and others to set aside the and never to return? My dearest girl, know. You're a wise little counselor, NEW ULM, MEW. agreement by virtue of which the will of we never know how we return things and not as hard-hearted as you seem. Santa Claus ap/b there thinking— Louis C. Hammersiey was withdrawn before And if you think it will cure the poor in this world, but everything does A Man, Wife and Child the Victims of argument in the court of appeals. thinking. I twas just before Christmas. little fellow, I suppose we must give equalize itself.' You have been a a Very Peculiar and Fatal Accident 'The will left a life interest in the estate to What was the matter with the him tho sawdust this year." charming companion, and have Mr. Hammersley's widow, who subsequently in Nebraska. brightened many a moment to good jolly old Saint? Had his sleigh "Yes," said the cricket solemnly,, was married to the duke of Marlborough. a woman whose purse is better "sawdust it must be." broken down? Had any of his reindeer The will was contested by Henry filled' than yours. She sends you, when Christmas morning came-. The littleboy Mason, John Mason, William P. Mason, got loose? a Christmas Day comes, some dainty GEACEVILLE. Minn., Special Telegram, whose name Santa Claus did not James R. Mason, Sarah P. Jones and others. present, some pretty trifle that she Writer Stuck, Chat. Wmgnm, 9*. But no,—it was none of these things. Dec. 21.—lra L. Bell of this place and E. G. •wish mentioned, saw all the' otherpull The will was admitted to probate and knows you will like, a book about •Gordon of Canada, while drilling a well in gochildren out one treasure after the decision was affirmed by the supreme Couldn't he find' toys enough to Fteeftek* O. JC CMM% A MM* which you hare talked, or a picture the town ot Malta, this county, were instantly another from.their long, well-stuffed! court, general term. An appeal was laken -V^I| jfitt round? Bless your dear little anxious that -you have admired the return killed by the (premature explosion by the contestants, but the settlement intervened stockings, while in his own, which hehad heart, don't you be afraid of that! you make should be your thanksgiving, •of a dynamite cartridge with which they DRAFTS O AJLL PARTI before the case was reached. hung up with so much hope thenight Santa Claus had toysenoAign'~ That and that is all. Your gift of a intended to blasta rock at the bottom ot In the complaint which was filed yesterday before, there wa3 nothing but OF EUROPE, ANI PA^ by John Mason he states that "he declined joyful presence was made long before ihe well. wasn't the trouble! sawdust! to sign the agreement until assured the material one. .1 do not mean by The explosion took, place about 2 o'clock If I should use all the sad words-i&: One stocking there: .was}4or Vwhieh '], SAGE TICKETS SWA f- that each contestant would receive the this-that the woman who. is not rich in the afternoon, but no notice was taken the English language I could never telli same amount of money. He says he has Santa Claus had nqt, v^t,plaiined „a. must hot give—God forbid it^-but I of the report at the house. Not appearing since learned that James H. Mason* also de* you how sad'that little boy:was as he' !do singlething iandthat^was^w.hy -poor me'aii she must not think, of attempting at supper time, a-search was made, revealing clined to sign the agreement, but his approval poured the sawdust out of his stocking, Close Attention Given-to :t© return at once the gift the ghastly scene ol two bodies horribly was subsequently secured by the dear old Santa Claus^was^/i.n^ audh,:a and found that Santa Claus had. payment to him ot $50,000. John Mason thatihas-come-.to bey. It is Vulgar, mutilated and scattered over the really sent him nothing else: '.-,: state of worry and anxiety. This .Oollerting-aigagaaHl '. wants the agreement set aside, the will contest ground. There were no witnesses to the .rnvdearf Poor little chap! argued in the court of appeats and an Stacking-. belonged..to^ a iittte^boj^ accident. Mr. Bell was formerly of Rochester, accounting made of all nioneysahe dnch,es# .-.It was almost a-.year la'ter, just before Wait until another gift* day* comes and leaves a wife and four children. whose good parents had'long before Empire Mill Go-, has receiyed since the agree*merit. Christmas, when Santa Claus rbundV'and'then give something that Gordon was a single man twenty-iour years Christmas sent in his.name to Santa again sat by. his fire—thinking. expresses yourself, the child'bf your •old. WILL HE felfo* .':":. :. I 'Claus!' But although'there had been But this tinWhe was in no trouble brain and your fingers rather than ROLLER MILL. no, indeed, not.he! He was rounder your purse After all, Emerson struck Robert T. Lincoln -Hay Conclude to Give plenty of time, and Santa Claus had AMMUNITION WASTED. and rosier and jollier than ever be- the key-note of. gift-giving when he "Up His Office. Burrs-$4. put plenty of thought upon the matter, 24 Rollers and 4 fore and how he was smiling and 1 said, "Our gifts-are for the most part An All-Night Battle in Which -300 LONDON, Dec. 21.—Minister Lincoln arrived he had not yet been able to decide chuckling to himself!t Mi —~s eye in London last week from his continental ~T ni i, TT:_ expressionless. Let the sailor bring a Harmless "Shots Were Fired. upon one thing for that little-.boy's •twinkled ., so, and -. were so tour. There is reason to believe that 'We take pleasure in informing tlM sea shell, the poet, a poem, thepainter WASHINGTON, Pa.. Dec. 21.—An all-night very bright, that" you could almost his resignation will be sent to President stocking. public that we are now ready tot a picture," and these are the gifts battle occurred Wednesday night between Harrison in a few days.- lit a candle at them. He and the business. The best machinery and Perhaps it seems strange to you that, being apart of yourself, may be Hugh Curry, a wealthy farmer in Ainwell cricket have been planning all sorts of WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Nothing definite that Santa should be puzzled about received as of greater value than anything all the latest improvements in£h» township, and a .number of men in ambush. can be got here in regard to Mmis:e" Lincoln's ecstatic surprises for the stocking of such a thing as that, when filling which money could obtain.— Threa hundred shots were fired, but manufacture of flour enable us to resignation, as everybody connected the boy to whom they had given stockings is his regular profession, but Ladies' Home Journal. no one was wounded. Curry's house was compete with the best mills-in til* with the administration professses ignorance. sawdust the year before for, if you the little boy to whom that stocking riddled with bullets and his terror-stricken country. It has been the understanding can believe it, the little boy. had been THE will of W. J: Florence, the actor, has belonged was a very strange and unusual family spent the night in the cellar. though that the minister might We are constantly buying -'.^ trying all the year to be careful and been filed. He makes his widow, Teresa a a Towards morning there was a lu-ll in the child. W given to not serve his term out. More Wheat, ,ifm gentle, and he was really quite changed! Florence^ sole executrix and legatee, battle and Curry alarmed the Village by him he would either break to pieces than a year ago, when his retirement might ringing the bell in the tower. Several very soon or do some naughty mischief nave embarrassed the president, Mr. Lincoin Chilblains, ohapned hands, iroet bites are •'~rf Rye, "Sawdust is a grand thing," chirped cured by bathing in Johnson's Anodyne friends came to his assistance and remained came to Washington, and the statement with. Corn, Liniment. was then made that his resignation, if the cricket leaping about in delight. with him until daylight. Yet kind old Santa could not bear Oats, It has since been learned that Curry's it came, would not be until the president to leave even this stocking empty. Fame comes only when deserved, and Buckwheat, ^w assailants were watchmen who were guarding was ready to receive it. The talk has been "Yes, but I am glad we do not need So he had been puzzling his brains to then it is as inevitable as destiny. the property of Marion Curry, whose that the minister did not like London, but to use it this year," replied Santa. &C. &C, -"l:C-'3t find something with which the little property adjoins that ol his brother High. was willing to take his old post as •'Let me see the list again. Don't Marion Curry has suffered from incendiary boy could not hurt people, and something secretary ot war if it should be offered to At the Highest Market Prices. you suppose we could cram in one or fires in which he has lost thousands of he could not break and although him. Gen. Harrison, however, preferred We sell all kinds of dollars. The first fire was on May 17, and two more things? Have you put down that Mr.Lincoln should remain in London. he had been thinking over all his lists FLOUR, *-ti since tiien he has lost twenty-nine hay the—" It is stated that the health of his family has of toys and presents, nothing had stacks, a barn and a stable. The frequent SHORTS, 'i-ajf When Baby was^ick, we gav»her Castoria, not been good, and that was the reason This is the end of the story or at he found yet!" fires have almost crazed Curry, and he has When shewas a Child, she cried forCastoria, for his desire to return to the United BRAN, &c. :m been fearful ot hisli e. Recently heplaced least, all that could be told before "Chirp! Chirp!" sounded a sharp little States. AT LOW RATES, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, guards about his farm to protect it. The voice. "You may as well give it Christmas for if I should write more guards claim that Hugh Curry fired the Nearly Eiffiit Hours Saved. tpben sb» had Children, she gave-themCastorith up. He doesn't deserve anything, the and a certain little boy should read first shot, and as he had been annoying NEW YOBK, Dec. 21.—A train consisting little scamp!" it, he would know just what would be them they returned thefirewhich resulted Qf three postal cars leit Jersey City at 9 a. Special Attention given Workot Custom in his stocking and that would never in a perfect fusillade for the rest of the "Oh! Is that you, Cricket?" said m. to-day via the Pennsylvania railroad. night. The brothers have not been friends Santa. "Come up here," and as he do in the world.—St. Nicholas. These cars are equipped with new and improved for years, and the trouble is looked upon as appliances for the quick distribution held out his fat forefinger a tiny black a family affair. and assortment of mail matter. The An extra stone for grinding feed: cricket reached it with a sudden jump. cars were in charge of experienced mail Naomi was 580 years old when she got "You may as well give it up!" creaked SteamCornsheller. .,..»„„ ACCEPTING PRESENTS. clerks. By means ot the improved facilities married. Truly the Bible is a great consoler. SPOKE FOR TH E IEFEXSE. the cricket. "You Can't think of put into service on this train all fourthclass Wood taken for cash or in exchange anything. I know." Joh BIaztie's Counsel Msikes st Long Empire Mill Co. postal xnatter, including newspapers, The Mere Acceptance of a Gift Does For General Debility take Allen's Iron "I know, I know said Santa. "No! Address OR Hehalf of His Client. wili reach Chicago at 9:4T Monday morning, Not Force You to Return It. Tonic Bitters. All genuine bear the signature reducing the time from this city seven I can't give him the donkey!—nor any BUFFALO, Minn., Special Telegram, Dec. of J. P. Allen, St. Paul, Minn. CASH PURCHASES *& hours and forty minutes. This service At the holiday season the giving of other of those fine little animals that 21.—The opening address for the defense in will be continued for awhile and if satisfactory we have this year. I had thought of No first-class lunatic asylum is without a andfcHEAPSALES. gifts is prevalent. Now everybody the Mazue murder trial was begun at 7:30 will be made permanent. a nice little hammer and box of nails, man who has discovered perpetual motion. p. ni. last evening. W. E. Culkin, defendant's can give sweetly, graciously and lovingly. and some blocks of wood for him to couusel, carefully outlined the How many can accept in the The Only One Ever Printed. A Chicago Strike. drive the nails into! Hey, now! what facts which could be proven by witnesses Fr. Aufderheide, CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—All the union workmen CAN YOTJ FIND-THE WORD? There is a 3 same spirit? I felt last year that there do you think of that?" for the defendant. He spoke for fully two inch display advertisement in this paper, on the Leiter building, one ot the hours. Nellie May, witness for the state, "What do I think?" said the cricket. was a thread of coarseness in the girl this week, •which has no two words alike largest store and office structures in Chicago, except one word. The same is true of each who followed John Mazue as he trudged will be ordered out in the morning. I think, Saint Nicholas, that you who, looking at a fine book that had ndw one appearing each week, from The This decision was reached to-night at joint have forgotten how the little boy beat merrily home with his string of fish, was IfaMfoetiror el been sent her by a friend, said: "Oh, Dr. Harter Medicine. Co. This house meeting of the trades interested. Eighty spoken of in the highest terms. his brother with his- drumsticks how places a "Crescent" on everything they carpenters struck because the superintendent dear, I suppose I shall have to get her He would prove by testimony given for he snipped his sister's fingers with the make and publish. Look for it, send them Fire, Well Bvlldln* a** Bte«|9» discharged theirshopsteward. Saturday the state and bv his own witnesses that his scissors how he threw his harmonica something in return for it!" That's the name of the word and they will return police were called in and several union client was as innocent as the babe upon its at the nurse how he—" yOU BOOK, BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS OT SAMELES carpenters arrested lor loitering about the barter and exchange. It isn't giving. Brick, ,'! mother's knee. The station agent at Montrose FKEE. builriimr. This action of the superintendent "Dear, dear, dear!" groaned Santa, testified that the alternoon passenger Nothing was to be sent in return for caused bad feeling.and pa'nters, plumbers, "so he did, so he did!" train on the day ol the murder was on schedule Absence makes the heart grow fonder, steamfitters, iron workers, plasterers the book unless it were the sweetest Fine Pressed Brlek fo» «'fi3 "And if you keep giving him things time—4:19 p. in. That Johnnie Mazue but presents cause it to glow like a full aiid other unions determined to. make the was in Waveriy and started homeward of thanks, and the mere fact of the ac- when he uses them so wrongly," con- moon. •nuunental fronta. carpenters' cause their own. down the track just before the alternoon %M passenger arrived was proven by oreditable witnesses. Nellie Ma}-, according to her A M. P. Accused of Framl. HAT* tk* hm% of iMpplaf hMlHMM- •evidence, had followed him past the scene LONDON, Dec. 21.—Mr, Hasting, member will pay prompt attentiontonull of crime, and when left by her at p. m. he of parliament for East Worcoftershire, was was nearing his own home, which he arrested to-day on arriving at Folkestonefrom reached at 5:30. His mother was still busy HIGH APPRECIATION. NEW ULM, MINNESOTA. ^M the continent. He is charged with in the field aud, being displeased because defrauding Malvern college of £15,000 under he had gonefishing against her will, refused his trusteeship. Rudolphir to give him supper. Being hungry, as he der his trusteeship. Mr. Hastings is about had gone without dinner, he cleaned his sixty-five years of age, LikeCapt. Verney fish and, building a fire, cooked and ate he his fiirure 1 as a reformer "and has them, which took him until 8 p. ni. "As the It pays to make honest, pure goods. Take the success of Dr. Priced been secretary of National Reformatory outrage must have been committed between union, and secretary of iaw amendment the hours of 4 and 8 p. m.. when did Johnnie society. He has also been a conspicuous Mazue commit this horrible deed?" was Cream Baking Powder that has maintained its standard for purity and figure in social science congresses. the question asked. "Was it the boy Manufacturer of and. Dealer is •on trial or some villain steeped in crime excellence for the past forty years. It is the oldest and now the only who, alter per.orming his hellish work, BOOTS AND SHOES! A Franco-American Treaty. bound her hands and leet and leit for parts PAEIS, Dee. 21.—The foreign office isdrafting unknown?" Pure (bream Tartar Powder to be obtained. Dr. Price has spent almost a treaty of commerce between the Minnesota and 3d N.'Sta.,- N-4W TSiSk, Minn. United State* and France. Mr. Reid, the Peculiar and Horrible. A large assortment of naen's and American minister, who intended to leave his whole life perfecting it, and enjoys the distinction of being the only PAWNEE CITY, Neb., Dec. 21 —A. L. Ferguson Paris yesterday for an extended absence, boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' and wie were instantly killed and has postponed his departure with the view and children's shoes constantly kept physician that has devoted his time entirely to perfecting the articles their three months' old child fatally injured of expediting the treaty negotiations. Minister by a freight train to-day. They were on on hand. Custom work aud repairing Patenotre's sailing or New Yoik yesterday •their way to Pawnee City in a spring wagon. promptly attended to. ©f human food that bear his name—a name and a reputation synonymous was hastened by the same cause. In While attempting to cross the railroad the best informed circles it is expected that track the vehicle was struck by the engine JOHN HAUENSTEIN, an important announcement on the subject with pure food preparations throughout the land. and carried three-.ourths of a "mile before Brewer w7iil soon be published. The matter the train could be stopped. will be carried on very quickly. The engineer ran to the front of his engine Here are the indorsements of the United Cooks and the Pastry aud found the wagon astride the pilot Will With UH Again. and the seat with its occupants securely ROME, Dec. 21.—Baron Pava, the late Cooks' Association of the United States. What higher praise. Its lodged in the debris. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson Italian minister to the United States, was were sitting nearly upright on the seat, Malster,$.if_.DNA|\. summoned to this city recently and had a officers, whose signatures are given, are all men who have given both dead. Mr. Ferguson's neck wa* long conference with the president of the broken. No marks or bruises were found council on President Harrison's message. on his person. Mrs. Ferguson's skull was He has now returned to Naples. It is asserted dignity and character to their profession. Members of these associations crushed to a pulp and her rij ht leg broken. that diplomatic relations wili shortly be re-established with America. Baron are the chefs and cooks of the leading hotels, restaurants, clubs ]?ava wili not return to Washington, but A Cowboy Duel. Our brewery is faMy equipped and able to fill will b»-transferred to some other diplomatic all orders. CHEY ENNE, Wy o., Dec. 21—William post and some other diplomat will be sent and private families, and certainly no higher commendation could be Hopkins, .known as "Lasso Bill," and JacK to Washington. SEW ULM, MEflft Hill, two cowboys, fought a duel at Otto, in the Big Horn basin, on Tuesday. The found for an article of daily use in the practical culinary art, like that Bugus Transactions. men quarreled over the ownership ot VIENNA, Dec. 21.—The painter Verestchagin. horses, and agreed to settle the of baking powder. Here is what they say: writes to the Presse to say that the selling trouble with revolvers. They fought, of the "Angel us" and the reselling to at fifty paces. Hill shot first, missing his France were bogus transactions, being part man. Hopkins then shot and missed. WENZEL SCHDTZKQ, Proprietor of a trick of American art dealers to enhance Hill's second shot struck Hopkins in the Thi is to Certify, That the Cooks of this Association, the value ot Millet's woiks. Verestehagin breast, killing him instantly. -Deputy says thatSuitpu, the supposed Sheriff Irey, who came vmoir ihe scene as and its members, have used Dr. Price*s Cream Baking Minn. Str. Uew Ulm, Minn. purchaser, made a similar offer, to him, ihe duel was endinir, tried to arrest Hill, Powder and recommend its use in preference to all otners. which he declined. but he escaped. The only first class brick fire proof For quick raising and fine cakes, pastry, etc., it has no Inciting a StriKe. A Complete Mystery. Hotel in the city. BERLIN, Dec. 21.—Berlin Socialists are equal. It is free from ammonia, lime or alum. The most SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 21.—This morning fA' carrying on a propaganda agitation among fust be.'ore thesteamer Carlos Pachet, which perfect Baking Powder made. bricklayers, busying themselves in holding runs between this port and Ensenada, Lower ED. PAULSEN, meetings and distributing pamphlets in efforts California, reached here, the steward, J. A. .* & to inaugurate a general strike. McKenzle, informed the captain he had Licensed Auctioneer killed a man and asked to be£arrested. On Thrown Prom Hi» Harsit. •r Afc"- 't investigation, C. Murrillo, a passenger on SHANGHAI, Dec. 21:—The chief acting general the boat and a prominent citizen, was found of the imperial army has been thrown LINDEN, BBOWNCO.,MINN. ,f dead in his cabin, shot in the neck, evidently from, his horse and his neek was broken. from above. McKenzie has three Correspondence promptlj tttraded HtL He was the finest commander in the cuts in his clothing, but no knife was.lound Chinese army and was greatly admired. on cither ot the men. The affair is a complete China will hud it difficult to replace him. mystery. fVUv Is This? ^-3 Froaclier a»vd_ Contractor. ST. JOSEPH, MO., Dec. 21.—There was a SPRINGFIELD, Neb^ Dec. 21.—Luther wholesale discharge of all men on the Rock Smith, a Baptist minister of this place, has Island in this city last night. All ot the disappeared, leaving a number of creditors. shop men, as well as trunk and" terminal He came here a year ago and, besides employed, were discharged, and so iar as preaching, began contracting. He married can be learned no cause Was given the daughter of a wealthy grass widow and lor the dismissal. A sufficient used her money in speculation. He took lorce oi men was held in. readiness by,-the contracts at ridiculously small fignres. Last company to take the places of those discharged week the mother-in-law remarried and, .as and in consequence suflFered.no inconvenience. financial disaster stared him in the ace and The 'discharged -employes his creditors began filing lieus on his property claim that they do not know the reason-of he let wile, home and creditors lor their dismissal and propose to take action greener fields. His debts amount to about at once. The local railroad officials pro.ess $5,000, which the o.wuen of. houses he was entire ignorance of what was the cause. bui1 ding must pay. About sixty ni.-n were discharged. •x&-