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EEAFORTH BRANCH, - R. M. JONES, Manager
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
DISTRICT MATTERS
FROM DULUTH.
Dear Etpoeitor.—Phe voters of Ora-
torio on Monday, April 16th, by a
handsome majority, gave the demon
runt a staggering blow, and laid birn
low. Those who believe is prohibi-
tion here and also those doing their
best to enforce the law, are highly
neatened with the result. It will
make it ntueh easier to enforce the
law as a great dual of liquor was
smuggled into this country faint On-
ltario by many different ways, even the
aeroplane being brought into requisi-
tion. Since prohibition has went in-
to fora+ here Canadian whiskey has
rated legit as, as it has not the
poisonous eustities of much of the
kill -nae -quirk, er ieite:-t eeraey ntoon-
sliine stuff' il'ieitly 1, 011 un this side
of bite lwr o C)vor in dry Superior,
Wis., a drink eet (111,0 whiskey
often co,t q5 '•cats ane s :Mart must
lcircus .wool* 4pi),. kA eI Rio
• some of ids most owns
ors `and Omar ssissif,
by the nick and ejeetefl oheut,`Oneof
:,them applied more than Eeceaeary'
force, and a warrant was ewer* ard.
for hie arrig ,Ips Lader hid hist
in Borne' bushes' e$ the Melt' Ants
'sheriff searched for him la Tab..
This angered the (town people and
after consuming more liquor, they
I armed.- themselves and returrned
ithe railway aiding where Robinson
and his hands were trying -to pack up)
'and move away.
They opened fire, but the circus
men were better organized and they
• drove the mob hack through the
.streets forcing the fugitives through
atore after store where they tried to
barricade themselves and at last re-
turned to the railway siding. But
some of the thugs followed and stole
close to them in the dark. Suddenly
one of the circus men fell with a
knife wound in his back. There was
another outbreak of firing which
le
wounded one circus hand and killed
a hartbeest. ..The eircas hands hid
behind their cars and cages and rifle
bullets flow on all aides. The circus
might have been wiped out if one of
the mem more daring than the rent
had not rushed out in the main
street with some coal oil and threat-
ened that ho would set fir. to the
toWn if there as any more firing.
This ended the' fight, and the elrcus
leaded up and escaped from the
State. On another occasion when
aeverail young men ,tried to •take pos-
session of the ring, the father of one
of them came dawn from hie seat
to urge him to go home. As he ep-
proaehed the young man rose and
shot his father dead. The show end-
ed abruptly, but each year after it
returned to the same team and Mr.
Robinson nag that he never failed
to see this young man "hanging over
the front gate, crying" Which strikes
us as an inadequate sert of hanging.,,
time. Then he gave them orders not
to move on pain of death; then he
quickly made his exit from the room.
One report estates Ise took about 21,S0D
in money and vatpables; ethers make
1t somewhat higher. His victims
numbered fifteen whites held up and
rubbed by a puglistic emeke, Later,
however, be was arrested. Some of
the watches were found * eia nue-
delswoa. Figuring there was no es-
cape from the'clatches of the law, he
weakened and pleaded guilty to the
charge' and was sentenced by Judge
C. R. Magner to forty years at hard
labor in Stillwater penitentiary, Minn,
In order to aatiefy the law all r,f the
gamblers had to hand over more
money, Boss Gambler Wright parting
with • the most.
Several days ago we experienced
some pretty warns weather, but on
Wednesday last it blew up a strong
reale-ouster, which chimed the wa-
ters of the lake nrru• the shores, into
foam. At. tine's the wind blew 42
miles an hour. Very cold and strong
winds, at onion, prevailed Thursday
.,d l•'rlday. '1'.. day 1Sr.lurday)
a teemutifol day, lea rains 10•3u
1:n1l ars forecasted by the weather
have Been valued at en. I know 'neon.
that in acid Duluth, Horny idiots have ROBERT McNAUGHTON.
paid 56 cents a drink for moonshine ?),,!telt, Minn., April '_'a. Heel.
and $`M a quart for the same vile
stuff. 'There is a determined effort
here to enforce the laws. clean up
the bootleggers and stop the manu-
facture of the accured stuff. Many
of the plants raided have had a ca-
pacity of making a few gallons or a
very large quantity on short order.
Some have been raided where hund-
red's of gallons of mash all reader for
distieling and hundreds of pounds of
raisins and ether material ready for
en.nufacturs was en hand. The stuff
seized has at times been estimated tat
seaeoaI thouaand dollars. i'wece in
this city the fire department has been
eared to pot old fires caused by ex-
plosions in illicit plants. One oper-
ator, a prize fighter, fled, later re-
turned, gave himself up to the author-
ities, ,pleaded guilty, was sentenced
to the work farm for PO days without
the option of a fine. At another
plant which blew up Betting fire to the
building, the operator was badly burnt
and had to be taken to a hospital.
After his recovery he was hauled tato
court and, I understand, fined, isdaey
who violate the laws are foreigners
with no respect far the laws of this
eountay. Respect for the same kas
to .be pounded into them by aevere
Punishment. Others, and sheave on
ttl'em, are Americana, who know bet-
ter. Others have been placed in pow-
er to enforce the laws, yet they have
conspired to violate the same, all for
the sake of the money god. These
latter class of criminals should re-
ceive double punishment when proven
guilty. Late last Sunday night or
eerier Monday- morning, the Orpheum
Theatre, at 2nd Avenue east, and Su-
perior, at this city, was entered by
burglars. The knob of the safe was
broken off by blows from a heavy
hammer, then the tutnblers were taken
out and the rest was easy. ti sum of
money, estimated between $3,500 and
$3,794 was taken and not a anger
stark left for indentification, showing
the yeggs were experts' at the game.
One suspect, with a bad record, has
been arrested on suspicion but as yet
I believe nothing certain established
as to his conneotion with the crime..
A negro prize fighter, over two months
ago, pulled off quite a hold-up stunt
at 222 West 3rd Street, this city, and
within a stone's throw of the First
Methodist Church. Rastus Wright, a
notorious gambler for years here was
operating a gambling joint at the
rumber described. The incident oc-
curred shortly after midnight on a
Sunday morning. The negro rapped
on the entrance door of the gambling
room. The watchman on duty asked
who was there, the dusky Son of Ham
'replied, "Frenchy." Being admitted
then, at the point of a revolver he
backed the watchman towards the
table where a gambling gaine was in
progress and around which were seat-
ed many players. He commanded
these to arise, hold up their hands
and line up faceward towards the
wall. Two who tried to bolt for the
door were brought back in quick or-
der by two revolver shots. Rastus
Wright, the boss gambler, was a lit-
tle slow in complying witle the hold
up hand order, but a shot iround his
feet •broaght him quickly to time.
Seizing the cash on the table, the
negro then quickly turned his atten-
tion to the men facing the wall,
quickly relieving them one by one of
their monies, watches, stick pins and
other valuables and keeping up a
rapid fire conversation during tins
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IIelRON NOTES
Phe eelirene of (Clinton were
itorl;cd to Wednesday of last wee;;
;him it hrc•:ut,e known that Mr. Thos.
te,ttle. an old resident, had passed a-
' 1.- y suddenly about eleven o'clock at
los hums on Joseph Street. lie had
reit been well foe some days and had
been eenfined tr bed but it was not
thoue'h>: that his coadtion was au
semis. He had felt better Wednes-
"1-ley, Rube,” ie more than a jeer
addressed to a person front the coun-
try. It is the battle cry of the circus
when a fight between circus hands and
the citizenry is imminent. This ie
explained by ]Carry Barnet, who has
been writing a series of articlero en
vircneses in the Deari, rn Independ-
ent. Nowadays armed clashes. be-
tween cercus hands and fares lsetnds
Lot common, especially In centres+
where there is police prote ides• hat
in the old days and in parts of the
country where two people can make
the law of the moment for the single
constable, these fights wore sot only
romareem but they frc-lmenfly ended in
homicides. Two or three reasons are
given for this by "Governor" John
R. obinson, the veteran circus man
vtyyhho supplied Mr. Barnet with his
irate •ial. One of them was that when
a muses came to town, a sort of in -
forestal holiday ensued. There was
much drinking and thie led to fight-
ing. There also was the ambition of
the fecal rowdy to lick a circus man.
However puny the circus man might
be the rowdy who trashed Thio
would boast of it ever after. It
seemed to set the seal on kis repu-
tation as a bad man. especially if he
could get his"hudience to believe that
the circus hand was a citizen of New
York er Chicago.
From motives of decent reticence
Mr. Robinson does not meation the
faet that many of the circuses in the
old days were peripatetic schools of
crime. They were frequently man-
ned by neer-do-wells, by fugitives
'from justice, by wastrels that hated
steady work. They were infested by
gamblere and by short change artists.
The aneophisticated county folk were
their easy prey. That they sometimes
took revenge by trying to beat ap the
show is net remarkable. Mr. Robin-
son says that at nearly every little
town some fifty or sixty years ago
there would be a local belly or several
bullies who wanted to make trouble
for the circus. This was bad for
business since their brawling and foul
language would frighten away the
decent .people. He sought therefore
to deal with these disturbers as soon
as possible. For this purpose- ha,
usually carried along several bruisers
well able to act as bouncers. The
local talent that mixed it swith the
Robinson circus usually regretted it.
One season he adopted the plan of
hiring the bad man of each town as
special constable. If the bad man re-
mained with the circus to the next
town he usually met another bad man
and as often as not the first was
licked and fled without waiting for
his money. Mr. Robinson found this
an economy. When the larger towns
were to beevisited, not one or two or
a half' dozen bruisers could deal
with the drink crazed crowds that
came to the circus for the purpose
of breaking up the performance.
Robinson tried to awe the crowds by
having a pile 'of Muskets placed in
a conspicuous position. When ' the
warning ery of "Hey, Rube" was
raised the circus hands rushed to the
main tent, picked up the rifles and
fell into a military formation. An-
other scheme was to buy two hun-
dred pistol holders and provide ,Pis-
tols for them. Each employee wore
two strapped to his waist and instead
of being numbered from one to twb
hundred, they would dee numbered
frown two hundred up, thus conveying
the idea that there might be a thou-
sand revolvers available for the cir-
cus men.
The most famous circus fight in
history, says Mr. Robinson, was the
Jacksonville Might, in a year he
does not mention, The circus had
trouble from the start. Several
rowdies took possession of the
ring eo that the horses could
not be stied. After tolerating
this as knit as possible, Robinson
realized that either. the , men Wbnld
have to be put mit of the ring er the
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110 was only up a short time and was
about to retire again when he euelden-
ly collapsed and died alnn,et inatmnt-
ly. Dir. Cottle was a native) of Eng-
Land,
ng-
Lnd, but came to this country in 1563.
Ile had been for marry years a resident
of Clinton and had taken an active part
in the public' life of the town. He
had s••rsed fir many years as Pmblie
School Trustee and for two or three
years as councillor, and last year was
elected Mayor. He had alas token a
great interest in the Horticultural
Society, being a florist by trade and a
flower -lover by nature. Ile was a
nevntber of the 1.O.O.F. and of Willis
I'reebyterian Church. His wife sur-
vives hist and a grand -nephew, Alex.
Fagle.;on. who had made his home with
then for some yoars.
•` --Tuesday, April 12th, the ordiaa-
tion and induction of Rev. C. G. Jonas,
took place in the Presbyterian Church,
Belgrave. '$lie church was well filled.
The singing was led by a union choir.
Rev. Ma. Gomm, Pine River, took the
devotional exercises, speaking from
Mioah, 6th chapter and 8th verse, "He
Fath shewed thee 0 man what is good,
and what doth the Lord require of
thee but to do justly and love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God."
Rev, Mr. Gotten, South Kinloss, Mod-
erate% of Presbytery, took charge and
Rev. Mr. Scobie, iuterm Moderator for
Belgrave, told in brief the proceedings
which led up to the call of Mr. Jones.
The usual questions were put and the
ordination and induction took place.
Rev, Dr. Perris, Wingham, addressed
the minister and Rev. Mr. Stobie, the
people. A hearty vote of tlhanks was
tendered Mr. Suobis for hie, services
during the vacancy, after which Ds.
Penrie pronounced the benediction.
Tea was served in the basement and
the new pastor and wife were heartily
welcomed. He and Mrs. Jones have
taken possession of the comfortable
manse and will now assume the ven-
ous duties incumbent on them. Cal-
vin church is associated with Belgrave
in this pastorate.
SUFFERING OF
YOUNG WOMEN
This Letter Tells How It May
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Interested.
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I was a school girl with pain in my left
side and with cramps,
growing worse each
year until I was al➢
rundown. I was so
bad at times that I
was unfit for work.
I tried several doc-
tors and patent
medicines, but was
only relieved for a
short time. Some
of the doctors
wanted to perform
Ian operation, but
my father objected. Finally I learned
through my mother Of Lydia E. I'ink-
ham's Vegetable Compound, and how
thankful 1 am that I tried it. I am
relieved from pain and cramps, and
feel as if it bas saved. my life. You
may use my letter to help other
women as I am glad to recommend the
medicine."—Mna. H. A. GOODMAN, 14
Roekvale Ave., Toronto.
Those who are troubled as Mrs.
Goodman was should immediately seek
restoration to health by taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Those who need spacial advice may
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