Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — Page 6

JASPER CfICNTY MOM 1 . F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. 1 ". t•: r t.l REMf-SELAEB, - ■' INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

President Francis I. Gowan of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Kailroad, announced that a majority of the stock of that road had been sold, to Hpeyer At Co., New York brokers, who are supposed to be acting for the Kock Island road. Blanche Walsh, who was presenting “Janice ..Meredith” at the opera house in Seattle, Wash., fell from a rickety rear entrance of the theater into Puget Sound and was so badly crippled and shocked by the icy bath that she was incapacitated sot; several days. Miss Maud De Witt Talmage, daughter of Kev. T. De Witt Talmage, and Clarence Frederick Wy< koff of Ithaca. N. Y.. were married at the residence of the bride's parents in Washington. Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage of Chicago, brother of the bride, officiated. A remarkable and difficult surgical operation has, been performed on Mrs. Frank C. Mohan of New York. Eight inches of I’ter backbone was taken out to permit the removal of a tumor that pressed,upon the spinal cord. It is expected that she will recover entirely. Enrico Malatesta, the Italian anarchist, has been sentenced by a Roman court of justice to five months’ imprisonment for contumacy on account of certain articles applauding the murder of President McKinley which were written for and published in an anarchist newspaper. Lewis J. Thumbs, charged with the murder of Carrie Larson mi the steamer Peerless on the night saved from conviction in Judge Ball's court in Chicago by two brothers, who held out against the arguments of ten other jurors over eighteen hours. Unable to reach a verdict, the jury was discharged. The Ohio House passed the congressional redistricting bill after amending it by taking Fairfield County, which has a normal Democratic plurality of about 1.500, from the Twelfth District and (idling it to the Eleventh, Gen. Grosvenor's. This leaves Franklin County, which is nominally Republican by a small majority, to constitute the Twelfth District. No other districts were changed. Daniel Kramer, aged 43, a St. Louis laborer, has been robbed three times during two weeks. He determined to catch the thief, and rigged up a trap. He placed a revolver ill the closet in his room where he kept his clothing and valuables, arranged so that the opening of the door would discharge the weapon. The other afternoon Kramer absent-mindedly opened the- closet door and was shot through the left breast. The i>ostoftice at Hudson, Pa., was broken into the other morning by four masked men and ?11>7 in stamps and $65 in money was taken. While the thieves were at work Father Spotauski of St. Joseph's Catholic Church passed and was held up until the burglary was completed. The burglars compelled Father Spotanski to witness the jobbery. They threatened to shoot if he gave the alarm until they were out of sight, and when he siiecmsled in arousing the people the burglars had too good a start to be captured. They were all masked, but the prleat thinks he knows one. of them.

BREVITIES.

The 500-barrei flour mill of 11. 11. King & Co., located at Gordon, Minn., was entirely destroyed by tire. The Norwegian government commission appointed to report upon submarine boats has decided in favor of the Holland type. The Commercial Club and City Council of Omaha have joined in an invitation to the National Editorial Association to meet in that city in 1903. James Whitfield, president of the West ern Baseball league, committed suicide at Kansas City. Overwork and financial worries were the supposed causes. Justice Gaynor of the New York Supreme Court has decided that it is not libelous to publish of a ju-rson that he has consumption or that he once had it. Carl J. Carrollson, tailor, of Mum-ie, Ind., claims to be grandson and heir of William Marsh Rice. for whose murder Albert T. Patrick has been sentenced to death. A frog five inches long, which probably had been swallowed in drinking water when it was much smaller, was taken from a woman's stomach at Williamsburg, N. Y. Dresden has a most sensational ease of infantile depravity. A boy 9 years of age has been arrested, accused of drowning seven small children by throwing them into the Elbe. Gen. Kitchener reports to the war office that the trial of Commandant Ki-itz-inger has ended in" his acquittal, and he was accordingly treated as an ordinary prisoner of war. F. Godfirnon, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Falls City, Nob,, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Despondency is assigned the most probable cause. The estate of the late Philip D, Armour of Chicago amounts to $14,751,106 ami to a large extent consists of personal property. This figure covers, however, only the property in Chicago and New York.* King Leopold was mobbed by socl<k|is(a on his arrival in Brussels from Bhirrita, The meeting between the socialists and the King was quite accidental. The King <*ca|H-d after a few very unpleasant minutes. The American Iron and Htee) Asaocl.ltion reports that the total production of often hearth steel in the United States in 1901, including direct steel castings, was 4,850,399 gross tons, against 3,398,145 tone in IiMMI, an increase of 1,258,154 tons. The production of open hearth-steel lias more than doubled in the last four years. Lee Gallagher, the paying teller of the First National Bank of Ht. Joseph. M<>., was arrested on n charge of embeasHng funds at the bank. The specific sum is alleged to be 12,000. Gallagher confeased that he is an embezzler.

EASTERN.

At Mount Holly, N. J., Mrs. Howard Haines was acquitted of the charge of murdering her stepdaughter. . E. Lawrence Fell of Philadelphia was elected president by the Phi Kappa Psi national convention at Pittsburg, Martin A. Knapp of the interstate commission in an address at (Philadelphia said trusts bad come to stfty. Organized labor won a victory when Ignatius A. Sullivan, clerk in a clothing «tore, was elected Mayor of Hartford, Conn. W. H. Lane, colored, was sentenced to death at Philadelphia for the murder of Mrs. Jardjne and daughter, three days before. Jewels valued at over $5,000 lost by Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beal of Washington on a train en route to Florida htsve bedn returned to her. Committee of Massachusetts House re- ■ ported adversely on an appropriation of ' $25,000 for a military statue of the late Benjamin F. Buller. The United States Steel Corporation has closed a contract with the Bessemer Furnace Association for 225,000 tons of Bessemer°pig iron for delivery in 1903. New York company will develop fine natural park and erect $500,000 casino near Irving-on-Hudson, establishing a summer resort that will rival Monte Carlo. An attempt by anarchists’to distribute pamphlets at the Altgeld memorial meeting in New York brought prompt suppression at the hands of the police. Three men were arrested. Albert 'J'. Patrick, who was convicted March 26 of the murder of William Marsh Rice of New York, was sentenced to be put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison May 5. John Merely, a painter, fell seventy feet from a scaffold at Morristown, N. J., into a pond. The water was only ten feet deep, bnt it broke Merely's fall, and it is believed he will recover. For the second time within a year the Barker, Williams & Company’s furniture Installment bouse, at Pittsburg, burned, causing $40,000 loss. Other tenants suffered $30,000 loss. All are insured. Consumption, believed to be the direct result of years of practice among sufferers from lung diseases, has compelled Dr. Clinton H. Catherwood, one of the bestknown physicians in New York, to give up his home and practice and go to Colorado Springs. Two men were killed ami one was seriously injured, a number of cars were wrecked and many cattle killed in a freight wreck at Crag Dell, Pa., on the Allegheny Valley division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The accident was caused by a landslide. Col. John McKee, aged 81, one of the wealthiest colored men in the country, died in Philadelphia. His estate is worth about $1,500,000. At the time of his death he owned between 300 and 400 houses in Philadelphia. He was the founder and owner of McKee City, N. J. As a result of the breaking of the will of the late Henry B. Plant by his widow and the consequent eagerness of the heirs to divide the $17,000,000 estate, the famous Plant system of railways and steamships practically has been sold to tho Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The main building, gymnasium and chapel of St. John's Military Academy at Manlius, N. Y., one of the best known I military institutions in the country, were destroyed by tire. The 1.500 cadets showed excellent discipline throughout, even saluting the flag at the sound of the bugle at sundown. Ellen Johnson, aged 21 years, of Chicago, who has been visiting friends at Worcester, Mass., for about two months, has been committed to the Worcester insane hospital as wildly insane. Her friend, Mrs. Hanson, states that the girl worried continually over a faithless sweetheart. James Regel of Titusville, Pa., found a long-lost son in Akron, Ohio, in the person of Emmet Regel. Eighteen years ago the boy’s mother died and the child was taken West with its grandparents and uncle. All trace of the boy was lost to the father until the other day. Regvl had understood his father was dead. Although ho fell 300 feet down n mine shaft at Hibernia. N. J., Andrew Michaliquo, a miner, is still alive and the chances are good for his recovery. There win no obstruction in the shaft and the miner bounded from side to side. When his companions found him breathing they were almost as much surprised as if they had seen the dead arise. He was hoist;ed up and taken to a hospital. One of i his legs is broken and his head is cut.

WESTERN.

Santa Rosa. N. M.. was almost destroyed by fire. A phenomenal gold strike is reported in Taos County, New Mexico. Fire destroyed the Xenia (Ohio) Company's warehouse, causing a loss of $25.000. Plant of the Albert Sehinder carriage works at Cincinnati burned, causing $50,000 loss. At Duluth Daniel Karvo was sentenced to life Imprisonment for killing David Mylluiaki. Clinton Dotson was hanged at Deer Lodge, Mont., for participation in the murder of his father. Jasper Privitt wns found guilty of murder in the first degree at Milan, Mo., for killing John W. Wilp. lowa House voted to grant a pardon to Johu Wesley Elkins, who killed his father and mother in 1889. Fire destroyed (he Baxter-Kerns Mercantile Company's warehouse at Colorado Springs, causing SSO.tMX) loss. Richard Bayless, aged 19, rescued nine mefl from n burnbig mine at Joplin, Mo., risking his own life In thq feat. Burglars got away with jewels valued at SIO,OOO belonging to Mrs. E. E. I’nrarnore. wife of a St. Louis capitalist, Henry Ilornberg of Burna Vsllcy. Minn., and his team were kilit-sl by lightning while driving in a thunderstorm. Miss Anna Woodward, aged 17, died nt Denver from burns received ut the wedding of her father by her dress catching fire. * Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Ihc rights of those who purchased railroad grant lauds from Archbishop Ireland in 1883. Law ton, 0. T., tried to expel negroes.

White and black residents collected in two armies. Forty negroes have been driven out. . ' ■ British camp at Lathrop, Mo., has shipped more than 72,000 mules and horses to South Africa since the beginning of the Boer war. James Wilson has been conrictev} at Ava, Mo,, of murdering Orville Lyons 35 years ago, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Rich gold strikes are reported in three mines near Pony, Mont., w here ore assaying from $l5O to $175 a ton is said to have been uncovered. ' , The United States Savings and Loan Company, with headquarters at St. Paul, has gone into liquidation. Liabilities and assets are SBOO,OOO each. Charles Kratz, former city councilman of St. Louis, indicted on bribery charge, did not appear for trial when lils case was called, aud a reward of SBOO is offered for his arrest. Clyde Felt, 15 years old, confessed to killing Samuel Collins, watchman at Wasatka mines. Warm Springs, Utah. Watchman wished to die atid asked him to cut his throat. Gov. Durbin of Indiana has ordered an investigation of Michigan City charges by full prison board and State board of charities. Inquiry will begin at once and proceedings will be made public. Harry Prestoq. a plumber at Toledo, Ohio, shot his wife in the head, killing her instantly, then shot himself three times and died a few minutes later. He was under the influence of liquor. Former Governor James P. Eagle of Arkansas has refused to resign from the Arkansas State capitol-commission at the request of Governor Jefferson Davis. Eagle opposed the - renomination of Davis for Governor. Fire destroyed an entire block of buildings at Thirty-ninth street and Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. The loss will aggregate $20,000. Two firemen were nearly overcome, and eight persons narrowly escaped with their lives. The first trip of canalboats on the Miami and Erie Canal, drawn by an electric motor, was made at Hamilton, Ohio. Six boats in line, laden with materia) for building the line to Cincinnati, were drawn to Port Union. W. J. Carton, 62 years of age, said to be a wealthy merchant of Utica, N. Y., who has been stopping at the Antlers in Colorado Springs, lost control of a team which he was driving and was thrown out of the buggy and killed. The Bank of Fowler, Colo., was entered by burglars. The amount they obtained is not reported. The large safe was blown to pieces. A. H. McMasters, a grocer, saw the robbers running away ami fired several shots at them. While resisting arrest at Boonville, Mo., Louis Sage was shot and killed and Mike A. Logan was seriously wounded by Policeman Albert S. Bena. The men were on a railroad train without paying fare and drew their revolvers when about to be arrested. Eugene McGlanehlan. a homesteader from near Guthrie, O. T„ wa's'-found insensible upon the street at Mermidji, Minn., and died soon after reaching the hospital. An inquest was held, which developed evidence that MeGlauehlan hid been poisoned and robbed in a resort. Albert Weintemper, a lad 10 years old, dropped a penny through the crack of a sidewalk in front of 113 Canalport avenue, Chicago. He went beneath the walk to search for his penny, and discovered the body of a woman hanging to a gas pipe. The corpse has not been identified. Mrs. Fannie Abraham was burned to death in her home at Steubenville, Ohio. Her husband, on returning 'Srom work, found her charred body lying on the floor, while two feet away their baby daughter was asleep in a little basket. The woman’s clothes nre supposed to have caught fire from the grate. The Indianapolis special on the Big Four road between Indianapolis and Cleveland was wrecked while running through Walworth run, a low-lying body of land on the west side of Cleveland. Two trainmen are dead and three others injured. The wreck is believed to be the result of a washed-out track. C. D. Emory, sentenced recently to serve ten years in Walla Walla, Wash., penitentiary for burglary, has been positively recognized as Peter Perley Lowe, son of former Gov. Lowe of lowa. His home is at Keokuk. He served four terms in prison, two at San Quentin, one in Oregon and one at Walla Walin. Sheriff Parks and deputies captured seven cattle thieves on Eagle (’reek, near Morenci, Ariz., after a hard fight. On* of the thieves was killed in an exciting shooting. The outlaws had killed a muu4»er of cattle from time to time, and were in possession of six freshly killed beeveC from which they were making jerky. Blind men of Toledo, Ohio, fifteen in number, have formed a combine. The. object of this combination is to obtain from the County Commissioners the SIOO to which every needy blind man is entitled by act of Legislature. This amount has never been paid, and, the individual efforts of the blind men having proved ineffectual, they have pooled Issues. Mrs. Clara Ward, 32 years old, and her 10-month-old baby. Mabel, were fatally burned by tin* explosion of a kerosene lamp from which the mother was pouring oil into a stove at her home in St. Louis. A son. Miles, 5 years old, wns seriously burned about the face and hands. The father and husband, an invalid, was so severely shocked by the accident that he, too, is in a dangerous condition. The .ex-soldier who committed suicide in St. Patrick’s Church, in Sun Francisco, has been identified as Dennis Splain of St. Louis. Splain recently returned from the Philippines. When he lauded he received a letter fTorn a sister nt St. Louis, telling Win that his mother had been killed by bis brother Thomas, who Is now under arrest at St. Louis. The news is believed to have led to Splaln’s suicide. Burglars broke into the State Rank at Ruskin, Neb., but only succeeded in stealing W-tween S2OO and SSOO and some notes. In their baste they overlooked $3,000 scattered around the room by the explosion when the safe was blown. It is known that SI6,(MM) was in the vaults, birt the robbers did not have time to get at it. The noise of the explosion aroused the town, and the citizens swarmed to the "bank and put the robbers to flight. The State of Minnesota began its merger suit at home. The bill of complaint

in the soft of the Stateurgainst the Great Northern! and Northerp Pacific Hallway Companies, the Northern Securities (Company and- J. J. Hili as president of the Northern Securities Company and individually, waa served on the defendant Hill in his various capacities and return made to the sheriff’s office in St. Paul. W. B. Douglas and M..D. Munn are the solicitors for the complainant and George P. Wilson is of counsel. it is illegal in the State of Minnesota to form a corporation to own or manage a cemetery for pecuniary profit. In the case of P. E. Bfowu and others against the Maplewood Cemetery Association of Luverne, the Supreme Court reversed the lower court, TJie private incorporators took in over $6,000 from the sale of lots and put It in their pockets, as owners, of the cemetery. The Supreme Court decision says all this money must be account for to the lot owners, as stockholders, and used in improvement of the cemetery.

SOUTHERN.

Charles M. Ford, a military'prisoner, while trying to escape from Fort Thomas, Ky., was shot and instantly killed by a guard. Passenger train service, which was interrupted by floods, has been resumed over the Queen and Crescent road between Shreveport, La., and Meridian, Miss. In Griffin, Ga., Assemblyman James Flynt in a political quarrel shot and killed Butler Hudson after Hudson had fired two shots into Flynt’s body, which may prove fatal. Senator Hanna, former Secretary of the Interior Bliss and several Congressmen attended the Jefferson memorial and State good roads convention at Charlottesville, Ya. Lieut. John W. Starke, accused of sending an obscene letter to President Roosevelt, was released by the United States Court at Richmond, Va., upon presenting a letter of apology. Negro at Tuscumbia, Ala., sought by the sheriff, killed three persons, fatally wounded three, and seriously wounded four more. He whs then shot and thrown into a burning building. -- C. E. Coxe, formerly of St. Louis and Joplin, Mo,, committed suicide in his room at the Vendome Hotel, Knoxville, Tenn. Coxe had been there two years as a promoter of zinc properties. Asa Humble, an alleged moonshiner, was killed and Deputy Revenue Collector R. A. Hancock narrowly escaped death in a fight between officers and moonshiners in Hardin County, Ky. Charles Burns, who was shot at El Paso, Texas, by George Cole in a duel, died. He was struck in the same place McKinley was shot. Both men are exarmy officers, Cole being a frontiersman and Burns a rough rider in the SpanishAmerican war. A Louisville jury in Judge Field’s court was ungallant enough to fix the value of a hug at 1 cent. It gave that amount of damages to Mrs. Elizabeth Cecil, who accused Richard Langan, a retired capitalist, of embracing her. She says he went to her house ostensibly to collect the rent and while there put his arm around her and told her she was a sweet little woman.

FOREIGN.

Lord Kimberley, the English Liberal statesman, who had been ill for some time, is dead. The will of Cecil Rhodes leaves milllions for free scholarship at Oxford University. Every State and Territory in America is given a scholarship, tenable for three years, and provision is made for German students. In a dispatch from Pekin, in which the advantages secured by China in the revised Manchurian treaty are indicated, the correspondent says that China submitted this convention to Great Britain, Japan and the United States and that all three powers expressed approval of it. High diplomatic circles in London are discussing plans, believed to be far advanced, for a visit by the Prince of Wales to the United States. The Prince's visit will be in acceptance of an invitation to the dedication of the magnificent new home of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The struggle of the ero-vds which gathered at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Scotland, to witness the last International Association football contest between teams from England and Scotland caused the collapse of a portidn of one of the spectators’ terraces, resulting in the death of 22 persons and the Injury of 250 others. Two cases of cholera have occurred in the Bulibid prison at Manila. Consequently all the prisoners there have been discharged and will be taken to a detention camp, which will be quarantined. The total number of cases of cholera reported here was 140 and there have been 115 deaths from the disease. It is officially announced that the Persian government, with the consent of Russia, is about to issue n new gold loan of 10,000,000 rubles, with interest at 5 per cent, guaranteed by nil the Persian customs with the exception of the customs of the Persian gulf and the ports of the Province of Farsistan. The Vali of Adrianople, European Turkey, telegraphs that a band of Bulgarians with the object of provoking retaliation, recently killed and mutilated three Mussulman peasants and a boy, near KirkKi liaseh, and then sought refuge in Bulgaria, hoping to be pursued and anticipating that a conflict would ensue with the frontier guard.

IN GENERAL.

Fire losses of United States for March were $10,852,780, nearly 50 per cent less than for March, 1901. The Buffalo Express is authority for the staiemeut that the physicians who attended President McKinley will receive not to exceed $25,000. Rear Admiral Ilobley D. Evans has sailed from San Francisco fob Yokohama to command the United States fleet in Asiatic waters. He was accompanied by bis family. Frank Saigent, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, was tendered the position of commissioner general of Immigration, to succeed T. V. Powderly. Mr. Ssrgont accepted the offer, but told the President that it would be necessary for him to close up his business affairs before he could take charge of the office.

Congress.

The Senate deyoted the entire ‘day Thursday to discussion of the oleomargarine bill, which was passed by a vote of 39 to 31. The Chinese exclusion bill i was made the unfinished business. In I the House the Senate bill to promote the efficiency of thfc revenue cutter service passed by a vote of 135 to 49. The opponents of the measure fought it to the last ditch. very e °d they attempted a filibuster, but were swept aside by the overwhelming majority in favor of the measure. Consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill was begun in the Senate on Friday. Mr. Mitchel) of Oregon made the opening speech. He pointed out what he deemed to be the necessity for the exclusion of Chinese laborers and elaborately analyzed the bill. He said it had been constructed on the basis of existing law, in the light of experience and of the decisions of the courts. While its provisions were drastic, the bill, he said, in some respects was more liberal than the Geary act. During the consideration of the Chinese bill NFinister Wu was in the diplomatic gallery and took a lively interest in the proceedings. The Indian appropriation bill was under consideration for a time, but was not completed, in the House the Chinese exclusion bill occupied most of the session. No opponents of the general principle of exclusion appeared, but members were divided in their support of the two bills presented. Messrs. Hitt (Ill.). Perkins (N. Y.), and Adams (Pa.) supported the majority bill and Messrs. Clark (Mo.). Kahn (Cal.) and Naphen (Mass.) spoke for the minority substitute. Congressman Sulzer (N. Y.) introduced a resolution asking the Secretary of State for such information as he could give, not incompatible with public interests, regarding the charges about an alleged British war camp near New Orleans. After passing the Indian appropriation bill consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill was resumed in the Senate on Saturday, occupying the rest of the session. A bill to supply additional urgent deficiency appropriations, carrying $200,567, was reported from the committee on appropriations and passed. The usual executive session preceded adjournment. In the House debate upon the Chinese exclusion bill occupied the entire day. Mr. Taylor (Ohio) from the committee on elections presented the report on the HortonButler contested election case from the Twelfth Missouri district, which declared the seat vacant. The minority members were given three weeks within which to file their views. Discussion of the conference report on the war revenue tax reduction bill occupied most of Monday in the Senate. The. report, which removes the tax on bucket shops, the chief bone of contention, was adopted by a vote of 36 to 20. A bill was passed appropriating $55,000 tor a public building at Sterling, 111. Consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill was then resumed. Mr. Simmons said he expected to vote for the bill, but was reluctant to do so, especially because the cotton manufacturers of his State and of the South generally were appealing against its enactment. They tear, he said, that it will lead to retaliatory action on the part of China and that their market in the Orient might be checked if not destroyed. He explained that he did not agree with the cotton manufacturers and therefore, as people of the Pacific coast and other sections were demanding the passage of the bill, he would vote for it. The bill was read at length and then the Senate adjourned. In the House the Chinese exclusion bill was passed after several amendments were adopted, the conference report on the war revenue tax reduction bill was accepted and the Senate bill extending the charters of national banks twoaty years was passed. Most of Tuesday in the Senate was devoted to debate on the Chinese exclusion bill. When the session opened Mr. Simon, rising to a question of personal privilege, explained that had he been present when the vote on the ship subsidy bill was taken he would have voted against the measure. Mr. Hoar secured the passage of his resolution providing that rnle XIX. be amended by inserting at the beginning of clause 2 thereof the following: “No Senator in debate shall directly or indirectly by any form of w>:-ds impute to another Senator, or to other Senators, any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator; no Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any State of the Union.” Thirty-nine private pen.sion bills were passed. The House passed a bill to protect fish and game in Alaska and devoted the rest of the day to debate on Cuban reciprocity. Throughout the session of the Senate on Wednesday the Chinese exclusion bill was under consideration. Mr. Gallinger and Mr. Dillingham opposed it, and Mr. Turper supported it. Mr. Fairbanks reported favorably from the committee on immigration the Chinese exclusion bill passed by the House. It was placed on the calendar. Mr. Patterson offered a resolution, which was adopter!, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for certain regulations regarding the exclusion of Chinese. In the House Mr. Henry (Conn.) asked unanimous consent to disagree to the Senate amendments to the oleomargarine bill, but Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) objected, and the bill went to the committee on agriculture. The rest of the day was devoted to continuance of the debate on Cuban reciprocity.

Washington Notes.

General Fitzhugh Lee may be appointed first United Stntej Minister tor Cuba. Friends of Representative Hltt are urging him to enter the Illinois senatorial race. Fifteen thousand Chicago business meg petitioned Congress for red procity treaty with Canada. h. rt. Rand of Milwaukee has been appointed confidential secretary to the Postmaster General. , Congressman Griggs of Georgia has been chosen chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee. Army appropriation bill which passed the House atithorised re-examination of retired officers if they are fit for duty. Countess Cassini gave a coiffure party, in which the guests dressed their hair after the style of historical characters.

TO YOUNG LADIES.

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Mora Factories Needed

What the Western towns need is more manufacturing industries. Take Unionville, Mo., for example. Ten years ago it was an ordinary country town; to-day it is the best town in North Missouri, because in this town is located the Putnam Fadeless Dye Company's factqjy, which annually manufactures three million packages of Putnam Fadeless Dyes. This not only gives employment to s large number of men, women and children, but it makes the postoffice the beat paying office in North Missouri. The mail from this firm alone runs from 500 to 7,000 letters per day. It also largely increases the express, telegraph, and railroad business, besides indirectly benefiting every business in town. •

All About Spirit and Okoboji Lakes.

A descriptive and illustrative booklet of Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in northwestern lowa, located along the line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Hy. will be sent free on application to the undersigned. This book also contains the game laws of Minnesota and low's. There are a number of good boarding houses and hotels around these lakes and plenty of good cottages to rent. Jno. G. Farmer, A. G. IT &T. A., 8., C. R. & N. R’y., Cedar Rapids, lowa.

An Optical Illusion.

Lady of the House—-Why, Bridget, this chair is covered with dust! Bridget—Well, well! An’ I • alius t’dught it was rale silk!

You Can Get Allen’s Foot-Ease FREE.

Write to-day to Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Alien’s FootEase, a powder to shake into your shoes. It cures tired, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists and shoe stores sell it. Xo There are no millionaires in Iceland. The people there are all poor, but there are no dependents and no paupers in the land. All are self-supporting. There is little or no crime.

EARLIEST RUSSIAN MILLET.

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