Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 April 1899 — Page 3

WHERE THE WORLD'S PEACE

The Hague, Famous for Schnapps and Great Solemnity The Girl Queen's Palace in the Woods to Be Used as a Meeting Flace for the Delegates.

Of all spots in Europe in which the czar's peace congress could be neld, The Hague is tue most in consonance with the purposes of the conference. The very air anywhere in Holland, and particularly The Hague, breathes the spirit of contentment and goodwill. Nothing hurries there. In the paloCs by the side of the canalstreets the big wigs of the civilized world can sit and "resoloot," drinking the while deeply of Schiedam j schnapps. The Netherlands look peaceful, but it is a peace that is well won a peace that was wrested from man and nature. : There isn't a prettier city than the Hague for its size in all Europe, uor one more beautifully laid out. It has broad, finely shaded avenues, which flank quiet-moving canals; its houses, from palaces to the homes of the well-to-do, while not imposing, have the Dutch air of substance and stability. A city now. with some l.0,000 inhabitants, it was a village when some of the most famous treaties of history were signed there in bygone years. If it is remarkable as a city, it was still more remarkable as a village in the old days. Some one has said that The Hague is half Dutch and half French, a saying that arose probably from the fact that It is the court center of Holland, and that French ways and manners prevail to a great extent :'n diplomacy. The congress called at the suggestion of the czar to consider the question of international disarmament HUISTEN will meet on May IS in the Huisten Bosch, or House of the Woods. This palace, which Is 250 years old, is a mile out of town." at the side of the road to Haarlaem. It is in the middle of the Bosch, or forest park, which begins at the fashionable end of the town and extends for thre- or four miles. The park is full of lofty oaks, which have been allowed to grow to their natural size and in their natural waj, contrary to the usual Dutch eustom.whlch is to trim trees to symmetrical shape. The House of the Woo Is is one of the private palaces of the queen. It contains a great hali, called the Oranje Zaal. or Arange Hall. Here, doubtless, the conference will be held. One of the shov.' palaces of The Hague is the Royal Museum, in the Maurits Huis, which is named from Prince Maurice of Nassau, whn built It nearly three centuries ago. It contains a rare lor of Chineso and Japanese curiosities, which is rather an odd circumstance for a royal museum in Europe. It also shelters an invaluable collection of painting? from all the Dutch masters. Among the fine public squares in the town is that called the Vijverberg, or fish pond hill, which borders ou the fish pond. It is in the center of the town, and on the edge of the pond is the old chateau of the Counts of Holland. It was the first of these counts who gave the name to the town. The locality was then his hunting preserve and he surrounded it by a hedge, heuce the name Hague. This chateau, founded in the fourteenth century. Las been Improved and extended in modern days so that now it includes two courts, an outer door and an inner. The latter court probably is the oldest building in The Hague. It contains the Gothic hall, a room of magnificent extent, being 130' feet long, 62 feet A RIVER ST RE KT

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wide and 60 feet high. This building also contains the library of the records of the town and nation. It was opposite the door of this court that the aged patriot Barnevelte was beheaded in 1618. The people gathered sand wet with his blood and preserved it as a sacred relic. The house in which Barnevelte lived is now a part of the hotel of the minister of finance, in the Lange Voorhout. In this court, too, the chambers of th States General, or the Dutch Parliament, sit. The guests to the congress may be housed in some of the splendid hotels which border the Voorhout, one of the principal streets, and which is lined with stately lime trees, like most cf the avenues in The Hague. Or if courtly hospitality is to be extended, they can be cared for in some of the half dozen palaces. They call such buildings palaces over there, but they look not as well, from the outside, as some of the homes of New York milBOSCH. THE QUEEN'S SUMMER RESIDENCE. lionaires. and they have not half of their modern conveniences. There is the palace of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, built only three-quarters of a century ago. The palace of Prince Henry was built in 1743 for the deputies of Rotterdam. The palace of Prince Alexander was erected in the seventeenth century and was the home ENTRANCE of John De Witt, who, with his brother, was assassinated. What is called the Royal Palace was built three centuries ago, and has been rebuilt and extended several times since. The palace of the Prince of Orange is nearly two centuries old. When Queen Wilhelmlna is in The Hague she usually makes her home in the . House of the Woods, but during IN THE HAGUE.

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the sessions of the disarmament congress she will live in a palace near Utrecht. Out at Ryswick 13 the castle of Ryswick. where, in 1797, the treaty was signed which ended what the American colonists called King William's war. Nearly all these palaces will be aglow with entertainments given in honor of the delegates. Among the recreations of the visitors will be the beautiful drive to Scheveningen, at the seashore. It was off this watering place that the Dutch Admiral Van Tromp was defeated by the English. This will be the second international gathering in Holland within a year, the other having been at the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina last August. BLOOD AND TOMATOES. A Suspected Tragedy That Keaulted IlarmUssly. Unusual excitement disturbed the quiet of a Philadelphia residence one recent Sunday evening, resulting in the hurried visits of a policeman and two doctors to the house. Just as the man of the house and his wife had reached the front steps on the way home from church the door was hurriedly thrown open and out rushed the cook, who called for "Help!" When she saw her mistress she declared between sobs that the kitchen range had exploded, and that her cousin had been killed. The mistress ran into the kitchen after sending her husband for the doctors and found the place covered with ashes and a young man apparently half dead lying in a chair in front of the range. His head and face were apparently covered with blood, but it was soon discovered that he was still alive, as he said he was only stunned. The housewife immediately set to work to wash the man's head and face and prepare him for the doctors, but she was moved to merriment when she found that the supposed blood was only tomato juice. In truth the cousin was not injured at all. The explanation was that the cook had placed a can of tomatoes under the grate to melt the sealing on the lid, and that the explosion, which scattered the ashes and tomatoes, followed the ex pansion of the frozen liquid in the can. When the policeman and doctors ar rived they were told the story and joined in the laugh, which was on the cook and her cousin. FIELD FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS. Many Important DUcoverlea to Re Mad In th Soudan. From the London Chronicle: The opening up of the Soudan offers a rich field for the archaeologist, and Egypt ology will be enriched by many im portant "finds." A large number of monuments of Egypt's power which have never been thoroughly investigated lie scattered about upper Nubia The temples of Soleb, the ruin3 of the TO THE CASTLE. great Cushlte cities Napata and Meroe, of which the latter i3 560 miles above Assouan, between fifth and sixth catar acts, the antiquities at EI-Mesaourat, eight hours' journey from Shendy, are all waiting for the archaeologist. In fact, it is almost a virgin country, for its antiquarian treasures have not been Investigated since Cailliaud.the French traveler, studied them In the early part of this century. His work. "Voyage a Meroe, etc.," published in 1S26, is stil A 1 . . tue mam autnorlty for a country which If not the cradle of Egyptian culture, as was at one time supposed Is full of memorials of the power of the Pharaohs. English archaeologists have not been idle in following In:the sirdar's wake. Dr. Wallis Budge, the keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian departments at the British museum, was there last year, and has been visiting some of the antiquities in the neighborhood of Shendy this year. He returned to Cairo a few days ago from the Soudan. His discoveries have not been made public, and the result of his Important investigations are impa tiently awaited by all who take an ln terest in Egypt's wonderful past. He Gained Notoriety. Dentist "Did you ever take gas before?" Farmer Haycede "Ixiok here, smar ty, that Joke's gone fur enough, b'gosh Mmighty! Reckon that consarned ho tel clerk's bin tellin' you about it, too.

SOUTHERN UTE RESERVATION.

Indian Lands In Colorado Opened to Settlers. The opening of tho Southern Ute Indian Reservation has at last been accomplished. This vast area of arable lands, fifteen by sixty miles in extent, lies on either side of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, South and East of Durango. Under the law, the Ute Indians are entitled to 374 allotments. leaving about 635,000 acres subject to entry under the desert homestead, tim ber and townsite laws and the laws governing the disposal of coal, mineral, stone and timber lands, and a3 the Indians may lease their allotments, intelligent white men will soon con trol many of them at reasonable rent als. The lands embrace both vauey and mesa, or Unlands, but the supply of water for irrigation is many times he amount reauired. making tne lanus suitable for grain and grasses, vegetables, alfalfa and fruit trees. Clover often yields three and one-half tons jer acre. The stock industry gives promise of almost unlimited growth. The lands allotted to the Indians ag gregate 60,000 acres and are generally in compact form. They may be leasea for three years for agricultural pur poses and ten years for mining ana grazing lands. These leased lands are exempt from taxation and free from cost of water charges as the Indians own the canals and ditches. The rental is generally a small amount in cash and from one-third to one-fot rtn or the crops. The Indians may be hired to work at low wages. This money and the $00,000 which is to be paid to the Indians annually by the government "forever," means plenty of the circulating medium in the locality at all times. Homestead settlers are required to pay not less than $1.2o per acre, fifty cents of whicn. per acre, snail be paid at the time of filing. This provision shuts out the professional boom er and invites men of thrift ana energy and industry. These will be the last of the public domain entries in Colorado. It is the last chance for ehean. fprtile and enviable homes. The land offices are at Durango. Colo., the terminus of the Denver Ac Rio Grande railroad. The traveler from the middle West should take the Missouri Pa cific System to Pueblo where he will be taken by the Denver & Rio Grande which is the only line reaching the Ute Indian Reservation. It traverses for CO miles the most desirable por tions of tne lands subject to eutry. Practical Puzzle. Our readers who are interested in puzzles should secure one of the map puzzles sent out by the Chicago Great Western railway. It is a map or tne United States on heavy cardboard and cut ud into states, each state and ter ritory being on a separate piece. They are nicely colored and show the capitals of the different states, as well as the large rivers. The puzzle consists in nuttintr the different pieces to gether so as to form the map of the United States. It makes more of a nuzzle than would at first be SUP posed and will be found interesting a3 well as instructive to the older teonte ns well a. the voune ones. In cidentally it is quite valuable a3 showinc the comparative size or af ferent states, and this will be a matter of some surnrise. This nuzzle will be sent to our readers if they will send 10 cents to Mr. F. II. Lord. G. P. & T. A.. Chicago. 111. "Mark envelope Puzzle Department." Chine Cooking. Chinese cooking depends on the mea and the cook. They have literally no peculiar implements and no extraordinary methods. Despite Charles Lamb, they do not burn down a house to roast a suckling pig. They have, in fact, too little initiative; they love to imitate, and the housewife who grum bles at her Chinese cook generally has only herself to blame. She has shown him too much so much that he is firmly convinced that the example is to be copied on each day and every occasion, and if a Chinaman has a fault it is that an idea once in his head is never got out. The true plan is to show him just enough for the particular occasion. Are Ton I'stng Allcu's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting. Ilurning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. Considerate. Little Boy (to sister) "Look here, Kitty, we must be very naughty today, so that we can please mamma by promising on her birthday tomorrow that we will be better." Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In ordei to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. The heretofore rumored changes in the system of paying the employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad took permanent shape last week at a meeting of the heads of the several departments and general superintendents, called by General Manager Underwood for the consideration of that matter. It was determined to replace the present dilatory process of running the pay cars over the entire system, involving an expenditure of three weeks time in distributing a large bulk of currency aggregating one million dollars per month, by a more convenient, expeditious and safer process of distributing through the hands of the station agents checks payable at any one of the 37 banks upon the line of the system and by any agent of the company. The new arrangement is effective May 1st. Chicago is enjoying a veritable sensation theatrically in the phenomenal run of "Sporting Life" at McVicker's theater. The total attendance for the first eight weeks was 218,587 people and the gross receipts for that period reaching the magnificent total of $93,000 or very nearly $12.000 a week for eight consecutive weeks. The play has still three weeks to run at McVicker's before it makes way to other attractions. This will make a total of twelve weeks during the heighth of the season; a record that has not been surpassed in Chicago and has not ben euuallcd since World's Fair year.

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Our Troops Have a Furious Battle with Filipinos. COL. STOLZENBERG DEAD. Oar Victorious Coarse in the Philippines Kecelves lt First Serious Check Loss of Hie Enemy Very Light in the Fatal Euagemeut, In an encounter with the Filipinos April 24. near Quingua. about four miles northeast of Malolos. seven Americans were killed and forty-four wounded. The following were killed: STOLZENBERG. JOHN M.. colonel. First Nebraska regiment, formerly of the Sixth cavalry. SISSON, LESTER E., lieutenant of the same regiment. TWO PRIVATES of the Nebraska regiment. The Filipinos retreated with small toss. The Nebraska regiment lo.-t two pri vates killed and had many wounded. including two lieutenants. The Iowa regiment had several wounded. The Ftah regiment had one officer and three men wounded. Thirteen dead Filipinos were found !n the trench. Their loss was compartively small on account of their safe shelter. Col. Stolzenberg had won a reputa tion as one of the bravest fighters in the armv. He always led his regiment and had achieved remarkable popularity with his men since the war began. LYNCHING INGE0RG1A. Nejpo Murilerer and Kavlsher Ilurnetl to Death hy a Mob. Samuel lluse. the negro who murdered Alfred Cranford, and. it is claimed, criminally assaulted Cranford's wife, near Palmetto. Ca., was burned to death amid horrible torture, in an open field two miles from Newnan. Ex-Gov. Atkinson and Judge Freeman pleaded with the mob for moderation, but the enormity of the crime had stirred the crowd to mad ness, and the pleadings were unheeded. The Atlanta Constitution and the leading papers of the south, while de ploring the event, justify the action of the lynchers. There was no attempt at concealment on the part of any of the members of the avenging party. REED TO RESIGN, Speaker of the llouite of Kepreaentatlve Enters a New York Law Firm. Thomas Brackett Reed, speaker of the house of representatives, has be come a member of the law firm of Simpson. Thacher & Barnum of New York. He will take a brief vacation in Europe, and on his return will resign from congress. WILL NOT RESIGN. Senator .lone to Itetain the National Committee Chalrmanali United States Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee, denies the statement that he intends to resign the chairmanship of the committee. He is going abroad for his health. Coal .Miner' Strike firowlns. The Belgian coal miners' strike is assuming more serious proportion-. Forty thousand men have now left the mines to enforce their demand for a 20 per cent advance in wages. Miimniotli Hanking Trust Planned. Plans are being made, it is said, to organize a mammoth banking institution that shall control the finances of all large centers of trade and commerce in the country. Hoy llurnel to Death. Selborne school for boys, in San Rafael. Cal.. was burned to the ground, and Felix, the 7-year-old son of Capt. Armstrong, now at Manila, was burned to death. Dnrbln Would lie Governor. Col. W. T. urbin of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana is a candidate for the republican nomination for governor of Indiana. Cannon Is a Candidate. Congressman Joseph E. Cannon of Illinois says he will be a candidate for speaker when the republican caucus meets next December. Senator June Getting Itetter. United States Senator Jones, chairman of the national demorcatio committee, who hs been ill for sereral Aeeks. is improving. Favor Tax on Chinamen. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian premier, favors a $300 poll tax on Chinese entering Canada, but Is opposed to a tax on Japanese. Regiment to Come Home. It is believed that the regiments in the Philippines for whose return t'ie most pressure is brought, will be the nrst to come home. No New Orleans Quarantine. The Mississippi state board of healh decided not to establish yellow-fever quarantine against New Orleans on May 1. Sugar Crop of Cuba. The sugar crop of Havana for 189!) is officially estimated at 307.903 English tons, against a total for 1S'.)S of 232,032 tons. JefTrlet Commence to Train. Jim Jeflries has commerced to train foi his enco inter with Don Fitzsim-uioas.

FOUR LIVES LOST. Barnlng of an Orphans Horn la Indiana Results Fatally. Four lives were lost in fire which nearly destroyed the Hope and Light Orphans' home at Berne, Ind. The dead are: Mamie Flraddoek of Chicago, aged 15; Kittie Diddlebacker of Cleveland. Ohio, aged 14; Delia Taylor of Lynn Grove. 111., aged 7. Katie Coble fell from a window of the burning

building and broke her back. CONFESS PANA CRIME. Marder of Miss Jane ürunot Fred Slbtey and Henry Rrunot the A in. Fred Sibley and Henry Brunot, two well-known young men of Pana, 111., were arrested at the Hrunot farm, six miles north of the city, charged with the murder of Miss Jane Ilrunot of Dana. Ind.. who was visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Brunot. They have confessed the crime. Their ob ject was robbery. HAS NO TIDINGS. Admiral Dewey Knows Nothing of tha Fate of Our Sailors. Admiral Dewey is still in the dark respecting the whereabouts of Lieut. Gilmore and party of the Yorktown, who were captured by a party of Filipinos while on a voyage to rescue Spanish prisoners. otis"is"höpeful Kxpects Shortly to Iteport Improvement in the Philippine. In a cable message to th? war department Gen. Otis made the hopeful remark that he exrecs very shortly to be able to report a decided im; rovement in the situation in the Piiil ppines. t Acree On a Scale. Southern Illinois mine operators ani top mine workers agreed on a scale o! $1.30 a day and pay for overtime. The scab1 is effective from April 1. 1S93. uutii April 1. 1900. Odin refused to agree to the scale. Wilt Fight Kansas Law. The recent session of the Kansas legislature passed a law reducing telegraph tolls 40 ppr cent. The companies have ignored the law and announced they will fight it. Campaign to Ite lul.el. Notwithstanding the presence of th hot season and the imminence of the rainy season in the Philippines, there is to be no cessation of active hosti'.t ties against the Filipinos. Kiports Itrcuk the Kerord. The total value of our domestic exports for 18&S reached the enormous sum of $1.210.291.01.:, exceeding the record-breaking figures of the preceding year by $178.281.310. To Select llniMing Sites. Supervising Architect Taylor has gone on a tour of the towns in th northwest for which congress appropriated money during its last session for a public building. Otis Not Knlistln? Filipinos. Gen. Otis has not taken advantage of the authority granted to him to ealist Filipinos and -it Ls presumed ha will not do so until the ie t:r.iti;u o: peace in the islands. Immense Sum for Charity. The Baroness de Hirsch left J0,0t0.000 ($100,000,000). to be expended in carrying on the various charitie founded or fostered by the baroness and baron. , 7 Fite I. "bs at Omaha. The bi? five-story warehouse of th? Kingman Implement company at Omaha was totally destroyed by fire, together with all its contents. The lass is heavy. Safe Manufacturer to Combine. Manufacturers of safes are forming a combination. It is proposed to capitalize the company at $7,000,000 preferred stock and $10,000.00'.) common stock. Left S300.0 to Charitr. The will of the late Nicholas II. Cheeseborough of New York, d.soäs of the entire estate, estimated at $30).000, to charities and re!ig:o.:s bodi a. More Kegnlnr for Manila. Fourteen thousand regulars ate ta he sent to re-enforce Gen. Otis at Manila as soon as the necessary marine transportation can be providd. Condition of Kaimt Wheat. The proportion of Kansas wheat which seems a failure and likely to In plowed up is 26 per cent. The condition of the remainder is 08 per cenL John I.auK Lav leaI. John Louis Lay, inventor of the Iaj torpedo, which was used by Ll.ut. dishing to desttoy the confederal gunboat Albemarle in lSrt4. Is dead. For Silver In I90O. United States Senator Henry M. Teller and Congressman John F. Shafrotn are confident the silver question will be the paramount issue in 1900. Yellow Fever at Ilarnn. Three cases of yellow fever have developed at Havana. The sanitary department has the situation well in hand. riague Racing; In .la pin. There are from 60.000 to 100.000 new cases of plague in Japan, of which about AO per cent result fatally. AI et Iran Senate Adopt Treatr. The Mexican senate unanimously adopted the new extradition treaty with the United S a'es.