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Daily Public Ledger, 1892-04-06

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Lives and Property Lest, Railroad Traffic Blockaded. Snow Drifted te an Knormens Height In Seuth Daketn A Terrific ToriindeTcur Through AVlnceniln Illtnel, VUltcd by Storms and HIrIi Wntcrn. Red Lake Falls, Minn., April . The storm is growing mero violent every hour. A furious blizzard is rag raging - ing raging north, the wind sweeping ever the prnirica at a tremendous velocity, ac accompanied - companied accompanied by volumes of drifting snow. Over a feet of snow has fallen. Many have left their supply of weed dwindle during the recent warm weather. If many lives nre net sacrificed It will be providential. Redfiele, S. D., April 0. The sever severest - est severest storm that has ever visited this sec section - tion section Is raging here. It commenced with rain and is increasing in fury. About neon Monday the rain chnnged te sleet and 6new, and with a high wind has practically suspended all business. The wind is driving the snow at hurricane velocity. All the train service en the Northwestern read is abandoned here. Snow west of here is drifting te enor enormous - mous enormous heights. Oeallala, Neb., April 0. The storm drifted cattle in droves into the Platte river, where many chilled te death. The lej.s will be heavy. Telegraph com communications - munications communications has been cut off since Thursday. Milwaukee, Wis., April C A tor tornado - nado tornado passed through Orant county, at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, leveling barns, fences, telegraph poles, and un unrooting un uneooting un unreoting - reoting unreoting houses. There was no less of life. se far ne known. Later reports from the country near Blattcsvllle, may be of a mere serious nature. Des aieiNES, la., April 0. Reports received in this city from different points in the western and central Iowa show heavy rainfalls and great dam damage. - age. damage. At Outhrie Center the storm sevms te have been its severest It was ac accompanied - companied accompanied by hall, which, with the strong wind, broke windows aud did ether damage. The streets were cov covered - ered covered with layers of large 6tenes, which the rain following swept into huge drifts, which acted as dains and caused a flood of water. It is net known hew extensive this fall of hail was, but it is feared that it extended ever considera considerable - ble considerable territory. ErriXGHAM, III., April 0. During a severe thunder storm here Lee Dale was instantly killed by lightning, and his brother probably fatally injured. The storm has caused seven washouts en the Vandalla line between here and Terre Haute, and all the trains arc temporar temporarily - ily temporarily abandoned. The Wabash river is the highest ever known, nnd the Illinois Southern railroad bridge ever that stream near here Is gene. At Clay City the Wabash river rose fourteen feet last night, and pony malls are cut off owing te the washout of bridges. St. Leuis, April 0. Dispatches from many points in the path of the second cyclene and rain storm in Missouri indi indicate - cate indicate that great damage has been done. In Moniteau county hay stacks and fences wcre leveled and houses and barns were unroofed. Near Arcadia the 0 creeks and rivers arc out of their banks and the streets of the town are running rivers. The city bridges are washed away and much damage was done te the railroad north and south. The storm reports from Moberly say that the several streams near that town are higher than for many years, and farmers owning land in the bottoms have suffered great less. The dispatches from ether points arc of the same tenor as the above, all Indicating that almost incalculable damnge was clone. TO KILL TEN MEN DrKprntde Murphy Declared Himself He Commences by Mj1iik Hit llrettier He Is New Half IVny Through Ills Contract. MvRi'iiv, N. C, April 0. Bill Murphy, a Jelliee mountain desperado, has de declared - clared declared his intention te hill ten men, and he has already made a geed start in that direction. Recently his brother Geerge married a daughter of an enemy of the family and dur during - ing during a quarrel ever the matter Bill shot his brother dead. Frank Medlin, brother of the dead man's wife, gave the body burial, and en Wednesday he was shot dead from ambush. A moment later Bill Murphy sprang out Inte the read nnd threatened death te any ene ene that should touch the body.' It was about te be mutilated by hegs.and a Mr. Merso and wlfe approached te guard It, when Murphy fired nnd fatally wounded Mrs. MOrse. On Wednesday Murphy went te the heuse of 0 man named Bailey, and demanded lodging. Bail,ey hesitated, and Murphy shot him, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Murphy heard that Ben Martin had been criticising his conduct and Mon Monday, - day, Monday, armed with his Winchester, he found Martin and shot him dead. Killed for a Klsi. Wiikeline, W. Vn., April Q. William Mater, a baker aged 23 years, shot and hilled his wife because she refused te kiss him. The couple wcre married six months age andMenday night quarreled. Tuesday memingMaier arose and usked Ills wife te give him a hiss. Upen her refusal, he drew a revolver and fired four shots into her body. The young woman never spoke. Maicr escaped, and has net yet been arrested. Sucd Her Mre mid Wen. Oskaloosa, la., April 0. Nannie Roberts, who sued her father and unc?e for 50,000, for falsely incarcerating her In nn insane asylum, has secured a ver verdict - dict verdict for $."5,000, the jury remained out forty-eno hours. Motion was mnde for a new trial. TuiMityNluu Injured. Havana, April fl. An ImiHewwtelwe- 90 factory in thl my vmrnect. xu leaa Is vwy hvy. 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ONE CENT. A find dlHplnv of trimmed Hats and Bennets Mrs. M. Archdeacon. 0 TitEii:aie pcvurul wedding of which we have heaid miners, bm fuel hcslstaticy about announcing tln-ui until authorized. R,9niNfN'9 circus opens tlu seaen in Cincinnati fenn- tlm this month. It then makes a tour of Kentucky, nnd Maysville will, no doubt, be included. This fIiew has been for .e.irs one of our earlv summer features. Sami'el B. Oi.diiam the Plumber ad advertises - vertises advertises iu tills impression of Tun Ledekii the "Eclipse" stove, which cooks with a cuirent of het air. New that the summer heat i? coming, the hnuewifc will be looking for something te relieve the kitchen of Its horrors, and a non-heating stove will go a long ways in that direc direction. - tion. direction. Te Moiiiiew Mr. P. F. Martin of Flem Fleming - ing Fleming I'Oiuiiy ill wed Mies Alice L. Dcgmun ut her lather's home. Spiiugdale. The luide is a dauihter of Mr. 0. C. Degin'im, 11 highly esteemed citizen of this county, ami u lady of rurejnccemplishments. The gi 00111 Is one of Fleming county's meat prominent young farmers. The Puhlic Ledeeu extends hearty congratulation!!. A couple of 'drummers" yesterday afternoon jumped off the F. F V., while going down Frent stieet. As there Is an ordinance against such peifermunccs, olll olll-cer elll elll-cer - cer elll-cer Bland, who wn 11 witness te the act, promptly arrested them and took them beterv Mayer Peaici. They were of offended - fended offended at wlint they thought the unwar unwarranted - ranted unwarranted action of the 1. Ill cer, but were in informed - formed informed that he hud enlv hne his duty, and te go with n warning as te the future. ADIgTelMcrvEteiit. The new $00,000 tobacco warehouse known as the Bedmnnn is new open nt Cincinnati. It is six stories high and 200 by 12.1 feet. It is a completc tobacco beuse. At tne openlng a hnndseme cham champagne - pagne champagne luncheon wns set for the guests with the compliments of Mr. H. II. Heff man, the owner. Cel. E. Withers sold 32.1 hogsheads. The highest price se se-cuied - cuied se-cuied was $50 50, old hogshead, the best price known in years. It belonged te n Mr. Yeung, of Ripley, O. In I80I there wcre 2,300 hogsheads of tobacco sold in Ciudnnnti at a valuation of 825,000; in 1891 the stle was 20,070, value $2,050, $2,050,-060 - 060 $2,050,-060 91. List or "Aiberttned" Letters. Belew is a list of letters remaining un uncalled - called uncalled for at the Maysville Postefllce for the weck ending April 5th, 1892: Asrcalskr & Shnchett Moncke. Hans llradferd, Klzzah .Mciienry, wiiuain McMurty. Frank McN'utt, Samuel Outcalt, O. N. (2) l'eth, Leuis Roberts, E. M. Steward, Mrs. Taraer Stale, A. E. Stephens. Mae Savnge, Mrs. Alralra Vlee, Nnnnle Vance, Win. L. Weed, Lutle Williams, Llsby WelI, J. W. Webb, Mlley Wright. Mrs. Ella Weed, James iiradiey. k.t; Hradley, Themas Coimell.TIra Clark, Annie Caldwell, Saniuel Davis. Mrs. Hachnel Dtile, Llllle Ferd, Mrs. Loulse Orcjrery, Charles E. Heward, Mrs. Jonnle llelmer. Miuule Jenes, Mrs. I,ucy Jobst, Lizzie Jehnsen, Jeseph (cel) Jenes, Jack Llndertuan, Henry LundrlKan, Llzzte Myers, Mrs. llartmra COne cent due en ench of above. Persens calling for these letters will please say that they are advertised. Themas A. Davis, Postmaster. HE WILL MAKE A FIGHT ANYHOW. Manager of the Frankfeit Lettery Files an Answer te the Suit Against Him. Manager J. J. Douglass of the Frank Frankfort - fort Frankfort Lettery has filed an nnswr te the quo warrante proceedings against his com company - pany company in the Law and Equity Court nt Louisville. The opening paragraph of the answer denies that lie has for moie than four months lust past, or for any period of time, exercised the privileges of the lottery charier without lawful authority, or that he litis at any time or place usurped the right or frnnchise te opernto n lottery under the charter re referred - ferred referred te in the petition filed by Attorney General Hendrlck. Manager Douglass declares that his charter is valid, and that he intends te fight for his lights with all his lawyers' might. Departmeut of Kentucky, U. A. It. Bnmuel Q. Hillls, Department Com Com-maudor, Cem Cem-maudor, Com Com-mauder, - mauder, Com-mauder, has issued au order announcing the programme for the coming Tenth Encampment of the Grand Army boys iu Kentucky, which will be held ntLobanen en Thursday and Friday, April 28th and 20th. Reduced rates have been secured from all points en the Chesapeake and Ohie and Loulsvllle and Nashville Railroads, and the Lebanon hetels will charge only $1 CO per day. Iu rofcrence te the matter of attending the Twenty-slxth National KnjMpment, te be held at Washington, DrU.'thU fall, Commander HUlla recommends the plan proposed by Messrs, J,el Walsh, Jehn Y. Day, Dr. Samuel burn, Geerge Crawford of M, dinger and Qeeri JmPH IlelMr Pest r, and urM t' ? Comrade Utn state te eer

Prier te 1890, the lerelpts of thoMnys thoMnys-Postotllcc, theMnys theMnys-Postotllcc, thoMnys thoMnys-Pestotllcc, - Pestotllcc, thoMnys-Pestotllcc, from sales of stamps, stumped goods and box lent, had net exceeded, in round numbers. $8,000, and the salary of the Postmaster was $2,000. Thepiesent Postmaster ass'nmcd chnrge en the 3rd of February, 1890, nnd at the cloe of his (lrt full year, ending March 31st, 1S91, the receipts bad risen te ?I),143,S7, the salary ndvaucing te $9,100 by reason thcieef. New comes the close of the second year, as it is technically called by the Department the "Allewnncu Year," ending Maich 31st. 1602, and the results set forth below roust be gratifying te every citizen of Maysville who has a pride in the prosperity of the geed old town. The sales of stamps and stamped gieds for the past year, compared with the same quarters of 'the preceding year, wcj&as follews: tvttuei. tsat-02. ? 3 00:1 12 2,378 7 2.4W 48 3,171 l3 June 3.1th f-'.ew-n Septomber aetn 2.M1 41 2,3 83 2,151 Kl December 31st.. March 31st Totals 0.HJ 57 $11,130 31 This shows an increase ever 1890-91 of $1,993 77, and places the efllce three grades higher than it ever was before, and will give the Postmaster a salary of $2,300 from the 1st of July next! In the Registry nnd Meney-Older De partments the transactions have also been qulte large, as sliewn by tliose ugures: No.re jtlstered let ters recelved and dls- pntched r,3"0 Ne. postal notes Issued 1,460 Ne. domcstle meney erders Issued... 2,5.1) Ne. forelirn money orders Issued 35 Nn. postal notes paid 022 Ne. doaiestle money orderu paid 1,700 Ne. foreign meney orders paid 8 Vnlue of postal notes Issued $2,080 10 Vnlue domestic money orders Issued, 19,711 60 Vnlue forelpti meney erders Issued., 391 84 Vnlue postal notes paid 1.671) 24 Vulue domestlo meney orders paid.. 15,411 01 Vnlue forelBii raonev erders paid ... 154 0 Kees rcoelved for postal notes 44 07 Fees for domestic meney erders... . 1ft! 87 Tees for forehrn money orders 6 50 It should be borne in mind, however, tbnt nioney-order and registry business cut no figure in the receipts of the office. The person who buys a ene cen,t postage stamp contributes mero tewnid building up the business of the olllce than the man who buys a million dellais worth of monoy-erders, if the latter were possible. A Sample of Our Assessment. ' The Ledeeu had something te say yes yesterday - terday yesterday about ihoeulragous Incrense of the assessment of Masen county by the auto autocratic - cratic autocratic State Beard of Equalization ut Frankfort. The County Assessor, Mr. Jehn C. Everctt, has slnce given us a satnple of the assessment of property In this county as 1 chimed te the Frankfort authorities. The 99-acre farm of David Hcchluger is assessed at $0,000, and the highest offer he has been able te get for it is ?7,000. 3lJer Tlllmau Iu Clucluuatl. Majer Tillman, whose $25,000 embez embezzlement - zlement embezzlement from the Falls City Bank, Leuis- ville, nnd subsequent mysterious disap disappearance - pearance disappearance after making away with $10, $10,-000 - 000 $10,-000 additional belonging te a Mrs. Alex Alexander, - ander, Alexander, of that city, created a sonsatleu last yenr, Is new residing with Ids daugh daughter, - ter, daughter, Mrs. C T. Woodrew, the wife of the senior inomber of Woodrew, Baldwin & Ce,, printers, nt lier residence Ne. 10 Huntington Place, Mt. Auburn, Cincin Cincinnati. - nati. Cincinnati. The indictments against him for embezzlement will probably be quashed, as his abstractions from the bank have been repaid In full. ' . m 1 1 Wrc with that our friends throughout the county would take It upon themselves te seud us the news In their respective localities. It take news te make a real live leeal paper, and that l what wa want te wake Thk Pvblw Luimiiw. Remember that anything which lNtreia yiHi my nteve ftf lWet te mm urn

HousK-cLKA.sihe new. If you want n Step-ladder, any size, i feet te 10 feet in length. tep t Frank Owens Haidwnre Ce.. for it very low prices -i m 1 1 Mb&sus. Uaiiuinu & Thompson, of the Sixth Ward, have been awnidcd tlie con contract - tract contract for erecting a nice frarae residence tei Mr. Lee Gray in the West end. James Smith, after being kept iudoers several months fiem injuries received in 11 fall, was out yesterday for the fiist time. He celebrated the event by subscribing ter Tin: Leijeeh for a year. 1 11 1 1 ii Among the new advert hers in this im impression - pression impression of The Ledeeh, is J. J. Fitzger Fitzgerald, - ald, Fitzgerald, the Plumber. Mr. Fitzgerald is a lirst clnss weikinan. He nlse has for sale the Jewel Gas Steve, which we knew from experience te be the best article en the maiket. Any subscriber wliec paper has net been promptly and legularly delivered, will confer a favor by letting us knew of the fact. It being a new route and a new carrier there has, deubll ess been some coo coo-fusion, - fusion, coo-fusion, which we nsk our patrons te gen generously - erously generously pnrden. "A little tee late," and " a little tee seen." Just arrived, n let of thirty very fine imported Deuble Brccch-Leadlng Shet-guns thecclcbrated"Centlncntnl." New Is the time te buy a Breech-Leader out of season. Prices low, of Frank Owens Hardware Ce, The stained glnss Avlndews that Imve been placed in the M. E. Church, Seuth, are very handsome. But when the Build Building - ing Building Committee is composed of gentlemen having the geed tnste of Tem Keith. Ed. Browning and Jehn Adnunen, hew could it be otherwise? Ne charge. The fight between Cudaby, the great Chicago perk packer, who Is building a big packing heuse In Louisville, and the Bourbon Stock-yards is ever. Fer $2S0,000 in stock of the Bourbon Stock Stockyards - yards Stockyards Company, Cudaby lias agiecd te withdraw from the field and te threw all his influence te the Bouiben people. Chahles BitKCiciNitiDOE, colored, who who was bound ever Monday by 'Squire Grant en a charge of petit larceny, was yesterday tried before Judge Pulster, and senttejail for sixty days. The articles stelen wore: A five dollar bill, n knlfe, ft pair of suspenders nnd a quart of whisky. The victim was Jehn Reach, Tenth Aunhers-ary Celebrated. Mr. and Mrs. Rebert Davis the latter was Miss Annie Ort of this city ten years age ccVebrated the tenth anniversary of their wedding at their home back of Aberdeen en Monday. Among these present wero Henry Ort and family, and the families of Messrs. Douglas P. and Gcerge Ort of this city. m 1 About the Free DtliTerr System. ' In nnsw.br te many Inquiries, The Lr.naEit can stale, ort authority I that is efllclnl in the first dogrce, that Maysville has been entitled te the Freo Delivery System slnce the 1st day of July, 1801. But Maysville is only ene of sixty-live thousand Postefllccs in the United States, and the details of each ene of them has te be looked after by the Dopartment at Washington, New, dear reader, If you hed the affairs of slsty-Uve thousand families te leek of ter, don't you think It would keep you out of ether nilschief for h few weekst The fact I, Mayavllle will get Her Letter Carrier! Just as seen at the appropriation tilll for the ytmr im-'i U mvm by Cm Cm-trm - trm Cm-trm awl tka DtIWMiti rwalt the

tS. Wkatiiku. Buiikau. I WASiuJ-eniN. U C , April 0, 1B92. f SHCnttO,';lJ PC1ILIO Lkdeeii. " Fajr tu Thursday night, pre pre-1 - 1 pre-1 ceda'dby showers in the East por portion, - tion, portion, followed by colder weather. tSTlm nbove rereemt urn mnile for n ;. period of ihlrtj'"Klniiir. emlliiR ut 8 e clock Sim.ine H.vr KcIhuii'-. SimtTS iinuk' ti nlei Xcl-ei Piiik nud Ac! lent In-. W. II Wurder. f'm-Mt'Ksr W'nll P.im.r ut On i'IuvehiI'm. , l'Newlst in Wall Paper at Greenwood's. Ge TO Eitel's Uesiaurant, Ne. 12i Mar ket street. "& Watchks Clocks and Jewelry cheap, ' nt McUarihe . N .".Daily meat m-irket, Weed & Beckett, Clerk s old stand. sWciWunt an Intelligent, hustling news- v gatherer in ever- town in Masen county. Iluv. 4. E- Wmuirr will hegin a pro pro-'tracted pre pre-'tracted - 'tracted pre-'tracted meeting nt Meransburg next .Wedneaday. Hen. James Baiiueur, President of The Bank of Mnjsville, will leave te-day - for Cliften Springs, N. Y. Yeu will find Mecrlein's, Knuffraann's and Wiedemann's Bottled Boer.ferfamily use, nt Eitcl'e. 125 Mnrktt St. The rates for advertising In The Ponue Ledqeu arc rcnsonable and uni- ' fermi Patrons who pay $50 a year may rest assured that their neighbors de net ' get off with C0 for precisely the same sTervlce. These wishing fresh and reliable Gar- .den aud Flower Seed, Plants and Grape Grape-' - ' Grape-' vines, should call en II. II. Cox & Sen, Seuth lde Second street, two doers from ' button the largest dealers in bulk seed In Maysville. In another column appears a commu communication - nication communication te The Puiilic Ledeeh from the Prank Owens Hardware Company. It contains se much that will be of positive benefit te the public that we chcrfully give place te it. REMKMiiKn that Tin: Public Ledeeii office Is en the "gieuud fleer," and that visitors arc always welcome, especially these who nre bearers of news items, subscriptions, advertisements or erders for job printing. It is uotlceablethat the wcek preceding, the cenveniug of Circuit Court is always nn exceptionally dull one. Se many of our farmers are required te attend court, as jurors or iu soine ether capacity, and postpeno their visit te the cltyuntil then. a "The Peeple's Building Association" 'started with 1,0 W shares. Fer saving, "Investing or borrowing money it effers MUiBurpasscd advantages. Take stock in second scries cemmeuciug May 7th. Eebcrt L. Baldwin Secretary, Jehn Duley Treasurer, O. L. Salloe Attorney.h f m i. . , The books of the Limestone Building Association are still open for subscription te stock In the soventh. series. Call en m11. O. Sharp Socretary, James Thrulkcld ITreasurer, O. D. Newoll Solicitor or any of the Directors and secure stock and ty you a home en easy payments. uhimiy, the Jeweler, is showing the rgMt line of ladles' and gentlemen's iW watches, diamond rlngi, pitu, pond t8, mr, drops, studs, emerald and dla- mhm1 tings,,, ruby and diamond rings. MrilHir Hver forks, spoeiu and ladlw, Nt) ffeM HMk-ehaliis, with ad without my a 'tfliiMBft Hitiiiiir (

AnarchUt Arrrited la the gpitilltal nil 1 11c usum-Meaiing iiumiwrr 011 Uli l'erien. j, Madrid, April . The police'-' day aftornoen arrested a Frenchman! named Devat, as he was enterinffjUwy uacK aoer 01 tne pariiamentaryim ing. He had excited their 8uapLS' uy tus enert te avoid ouscrvatlev by holding with great care a ' under his cloak. When arcv was prevented. He was' .taw police station, where thejl)f ieunu 10 contain a uyneraite u a fuse ready for Ughtlng. JT The Frenchman said thai placed a similar bomb in the trance, but evidently the fustjj out An examination of, the! suited In the discovery eftel hind a pillar. Each bera about six pounds of dyar te have wrecked the wne' -the Frenchman's papers anarcldstic preclanW1 statement: (j. "Everything enjoyed b. created by the labor of tr wicked system of medernwsafityW vents n erkingmen from possessing they produce. Whatever- the feri government the rich rob the pej no party dares te oppose them. ' laws serve only te protect the r their plundering, let us help our Let us attack the rich in all cencc means with fire, knife nnd Ownership is theft Death te gceisic Strlke new." . c There were three larjre red 1 the top and bottom of theprocle but no signatures. The police tl prisoner is a member of the Man6v the oreanlzatien of murderers YA 3 41 1 rVlrtVi (Vim - nMAKnU!(lfl IUW

station. He is thought te. be Devat's accomplice. Compromising papers were found also in his possession. Besides several incendiary placards he had a plan of the palace and the senate cham- ber. The police think he may, have eecn selected te blew up thesebuild- ings in accordance with the plans of Devat Each of the bombs seized had 1 il at Beth I leved, minute fuse attached te it Betht made iu this city, it is believed. houses of anarchist suspects wxa buiii searched by the police in an eilert find the factory. The news of the discoveries has" cited gravest fears among the wcalt classes. Iho palace Is doubly gur- ana extra watchmen have been i en duty at the banks and mnnlu buildings. Several private far have reported that they have

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