Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 17, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 26 February 1896 — Page 6

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE. : : INDIANA. The News Condensed Important Intelligence From All'Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. The Proceedings of the first Session. The speech of Senator Davis (Minn.) supporting the resolution, of which he is the author, enunciating the policy of the United States on the Monroe doctrine was the event of the senate on the 17th. The military academy appropriation bill was considered and Senator Vilas (Wis.) offered an amendment increasing the number of cadet appointments by two at large from each state, an aggregate of 90. Senator Mitchell (Ore.) reported on the Delaware contested election case, recommending that Mr. Dupont(rep.) be seated —ln the house the agricultural appropriation bill occupied tho time and an amendment was pending when the house adjourned making mandatory the execution of the provision in the bill for the distribution of seed. In the senate on the ISth the military academy and the pension bill ($112,000,000'' Were passed. Senator Peffer’s resolution for an investigation of the recent bond issue W'as disclosed, but no a .tion was taken —ln the .muse the agricultural appropriation bill ($3,158,192) was passed after making it mandatory upoi. the secretary of agriculture to distribute seeds. A resolution was adopted directing the committee on ways and means to investigate the effect of the difference of exchange between gold and silver standard countries upon the manufacturing indus tries of the United States In the senate on the 19th Senator Carter (Mont.) offered a resolution to recommit the tariff bill to the finance committee for further consideration. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and about 60 private ptfnsion bills were passed. bill, carrying $:’3,275,902, was passed; the conference report so the urgent deficiency Dill was adopted; and the bill to extend for five years the time in wnich the government can bring suits to annul patents to public lands under railroad and wagon road grants was passed. The resolution for the recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cuban insurgents and the alternative resolution for the recognition of Cuban independence were discussed in the senate on the 2uth. Senators Cameron, Call, Lodge and Morgan speaking In favor of the resolutions—ln the house the conference report on the diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to, the senate amendments to the pension bill were sent to conference and the Indian appropriation bill whs taken up. The latter carries $8,630,995, or $132,732 lesu than the law for the current year. The senate- was not in session on the 21st ....In the house the senate amendments to the military academy appropriation bill were concurred in. The senate bill to amend section 5,294 of the revised statutes, relative to the power of the secretary of the treasury to iemit or mitigate fines, penalties and forfeitures, was passed; also the senate bill relating to final proof In timber culture entries. Mr. Colson (Ky.) introduced a resolution to investigate Secretary Carlisle’s action in declining to accept a certain bid for bonds. Adjourned to the 24th.

DOMESTIC. The annual meeting of the depart ment of superintendence of the National Educational association began atJacksonville, Fla. The visible supply of giain in the United State* on the 17th was: Wheat, 65,927,000 bushels; corn. 11,900,000 bushels; oats, 0,950,000 bushels ; rye, 1,553,000 bushels; barley, 2,295,000 bushels. Charles L. Spalding, a stationer, who died in Chicago at "the age ol 5S years, had during tue past year buried ten sons, and only one son and his widow survive him. Joseph Crampton and his daughter, Sallie, Jiving hear Tallulah, Ga., were shot,and killed by unknown assassins. Robert Laughlin, who reported his house at Augusta, Ky., burned by murderers, and whose wife and niece were burned in the building, confessed thal •he was the murderer. Judge Johnson, in the district court at Denver, approved an order requiring ladies to remove tlieir liats at theaters. Half of the business portion of the town of Greenville, N. C., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. The Ohio legislature raised the retail liquor license in the state from S2OO to $350. The safe in the bank at Hie hards, Mo.-, was blown open and robbed oi S9OO. The mercury m portions of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont ranged from 25 to 40 degrees below zero The fifth annual continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution began in Washington. Two adult daughters of Elmer Misi ear, a farmer of Kosciusko county, 2nd., were fatally burned while watching a brush lire. The Wisconsin legislature convened in extra session at Madison for the purpose of reapportioning the senate and assembly districts of the state. Crazed with jealousy because his wife and sons had left him, Franz Michael Schwab, a German laborer in Brooklyn, iN. Y.,shot and killed his wife and fatally injured his son and grandchild. The Vulcan coal mine near Newcastle, Col., was wrecked by r. terrific explosion of gaspand all the men employed in the mine at the time, to the Humber of CO, were instantly Killed. The United Brethren Mutual Aid society of Lebanon, Pa., passed into the hands of a receiver with heavy liabilities. 5

Three Indians on the Winnebago reservation in Nebraska secured a jug o ! whisky, drank the contents, auk into • stupor and were found dead. Advises from Washington ay that thenewreeruiting system for the army, aided by the hard times of the last tew years, has resulted in bringing the enlisted strength up to its ma.\imutn. Mrs. E. H. Uowne. of Hartford, Conn., was reunited to her husband at Sandusky, 0., after a separation of >4 years. The annual meeting of the American newspaper Publishers association began in New York city. A colony of 50 mechanics and their families will leave Cleveland, 0., to settle on a tract of luud in Oaxaca, Mexico. Jacob Moser, aged 65 years, shot and Jellied in Milwaukee Marguerite Senger, wife of a neighbor, and then committed •nicide. The tragedy was the rei.ult of • quarrel.

The boiler of a rnilw-ay locomotive exploded near Richfield, N. Y., Killing Engineer John Keach and Fireman John Lewis. Milford and Felix Fee, brothers, were shot to death by each other at Slater’s Fort, Ky., while drunk. The convention of delegates to arrange for a Chicago-Southern States exposition in Chicago next fall began in that city. \ Four men were killed and seven others seriously injured at McKay’s lumber camp near Seneyv Mich., by the running away of a steam log machine. While temporarily insane Mrs. Ethel Kelso, wife of George Radford Kelso, business manager of a printing establishment in New York, killed her two children—Ethel, aged four, and George, aged two—and then attempted suicide. Wiley 0. Cox, a banker, bought the Kansas City Times at auction for $52,300. It was reported that 13 fishermen lost their lives while out in the lake at Buffalo, >•• Y., during a storm. John Thompson, aged 87 years, for over 50 years publisher of arious weekly papers in different parts of Indiana, committed suicide by hanging himself at Fowler. Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of the vice president, was chosen president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the annual meeting in Washington. The holding of the southern states exposition in. Chicago next fall was practically assured. A fire in 1 lie Leader newspaper building at Cleveland, 0., threatened the entire plant, but was finally extinguished, w ith a loss of SIO,OOO. The monitor Monadnoek was formally placed in commission at Mure. Island navy yard in San Francisco. The construction of the Monaduock commenced 21 years ago. ~ *

The Maryland house of representatives passed a bill referring the whole matter of civil service reform to a vote of the people at the election in November. James Fitzgerald was hanged at St. Louis for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naessens, on the night of November 24, 1893. When the trap sprung the rope broke, and anew rope had to be procured. Fitzgerald’s father, mother and sister died of grief as the result of his conviction. The 23d annual meeting of the American Paper Manufacturers* association was held in New York, reports showing trade to be in good condition. Richard and John Steele, brothers and farmers, were killed at a crossing near Winchester, Ivy., by a passenger train. John Olives and Andy Williams engaged in a quarrel at Ashburn, Mo., which resulted in each man being shot fatally. The Delaware county children’s home was burned at Delaware, O. No one was injured. The bank at McLouth, Ivan., was robbed by burglars of $3,500 in cash. There were 280 business failures in’ the United States in the seven days ended on the 21st, against 381 the week previous and 302 in the corresponding period of 1895. Ducat & Grantham’s livery barn at St. Joseph. Mo., was burned, and GO horses, many of them \aluuble blooded animals, w ere cremated.

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 21st ag gregated $1,092,244.54ft, against $905,.145,252 the previous week. The increase. compared with the corresponding 1 week in 1395, was 31.0. The Conrey-Waller and Depriz furniture manufactory at Shelbyville, lud., failed for SIOO,OOO. Koliart Fitzsimmons won the heavyweight championship of the world from Peter Maher in one minute and 4.3 seconds in tlie state of Coahuiia, Mexico, opposite the town of Langtry. Tex. Ivan Kovalev was hanged at San Francisco for the murder of F. If. L. Webber and wife, an aged couple of Sacramento, December 30,1894. Kovalev was a Kussian exile.Daniel Kessler, prompted by jealousy, murdered his cousin, Ella Kessler, aged IS, at Cramer, I’a., and then committed suicide. The executive committee of the International League of Press clubs decided to hold the next convention at Buffalo, X. Y., July 20. The union passenger station of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road was burned at Providence, R. L, the loss being $200,000. Commander and -Mrs. Ballington Booth were forced to relinquish their command of the Salvation Army in America, and it was thought that this action would result in an organization exclusively for the United States. Mr. Booth and his wife laid disappeared from their home in New York, and their whereabouts were unknown. For the first time since September 7, 1895, the gold reserve passed the $109,000,000 point, the exact figures being $105,092,843. Angus D. Hilbert was hanged in Boston for outraging and murdering Alice Sterling, a girl aged eight years, on April 10, 1305. Christopher C. Waite, aged 53, president of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo railway, died in Columbus, 0., of pneumonia, and a few hours later his mother, the widow of the late Chief Justice Waite, died in Washington, aged 76 years.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The republicans of the First Illinois district nominated James K. Munu for congress. Harrison Burdick, aged 70 years, a wealthy farmer, and Miss Hannah Nintz, aged 17 years, were married in Joliet, 111. . John D. Lnwler, president of the First national bank of Mitchell. Sj- I)., and territorial governor of Dakota under Cleveland’s first administiation. died in Sioux City, la. The North Dakota republicans will meet in Fargo on April 15 to select delegates to the national convention.

Jefferson T. Cook died at his home near Carlyle, 111., aged 101 years. The Arkansas populists will meet in Little Rock on July 15 to nominate'a state ticket. Amelie Rives Clinnler, the,authoress, was married’ at Castle Hill, Va., to Pierre Troubqtzkoy, a Russian prince. William Scott, of Delphos, 0., celebrated his 100th birthday. He claims to be the only original Jackson democrat living. Republicans of Indian territory will hold their convention to. select delegates to St. Louis at Muskogee April 25. The democrats will select their national delegates at Vinita June 9. The National Republican league will hold its annual convention at Milwaukee August 25 to 27, at which time the* presidential campaign for the ticket will be officially opened. Leander J. Critchfield, an attorney, G 9 years of age, for 15 years reporter of the Ohio supreme court, died at Columbus. Indiana democrats will meet at Indianapolis June 24 to select delegates to the national convention. Judge John R. Grace, of the court of hppeals, died of heart failure while sitting alone in his room at a hotel in Frankfort, Ky. He was G3 years old. lowa democrats will meet at Dubuque May 20 to select delegates to the national convention, and at Ottumwa August 14 to nominate state officers. Detroit lias been selected as the place and May 14 as the date for holding the Michigan state convention to choose delegates to the national convention at St. Louis.

FOREIGN. It was reported that Maceo, the insurgent leader, had succeeded in crossing the military line drawn across tho island to prevent his escape from the province of I'inar del Rio, and that he had passed between Neptune and Waterloo mi the south'coast and had entered the province of Havana. It was announced that the French cabinet had unanimously agreed to remain ill office, to defy the senate ami to risk a revolution. • All the j lowers have recognized Prince Ferdinand as ruler over Bulgaria in accordance with the request of the sultan. At r masked ball given at San Taren, Portugal, a fire broke out and in the panic that ensued over 40 persons were killed. An explosion of dynamite at Vien dendorp, Transvaal, wrecked hundreds of houses, killed over 50 persons and injured 200* some fatally. Papers in London were urging Lord Salisbury not to further delay the reply of Great Britain to the proposal to appoint a joint British and American Venezuelan commission. A widow named Farnham, who lived at Wimblington, England, murdered her four children by cutting their throats, and then cut her own throat. One hundred persons were killed, possibly 300 severely injured, many ethers more or less hurt, and thousands were rendered homeless by the dynamite explosion in Yiedendrop, in tho Transvaal. John J,. Waller, ex-eounsul to Madagascar, was released from prison at Nimes, France. A dispatch Jrom Odessa says that during recent storms on the Black sea sevensteamers and 18 sailing vessels foundered and 100 lives were lost. The latest estimates place the number of deaths from the explosion of 20 tons of dynamite at Viedendorp, in the Transvaal, at 120, with about 400 persons more or less seriously injured.

LATER. Commander liallington Booth, of the Salvation Army, announced to the’members of his staff in New York that he had decided not to relinquish command of the army ill tlie United States and that under no circumstances would lie lake orders from England. It was announced from London that Commissioner and Mrs. Booth-Tucker had been appointed successors to Commander and Mrs, Ballington Booth. Washington’s birthday was very generallly celebrated throughout the country. Seven persons were asphyxiated, one was fatally hurt by jumping from a window and five others were more or less injured during a fire in the dwelling of James li. Armiger, a jewelei, at Baltimore. Heorge Davis, who was attorney-gen-eral for the confederate states during the war, died at Wilmington, N. C., aged 76 years. Ex-Congressman M. D. Harter, of Philadelphia, shot and killed himself at Fostoria, O. Insomnia was said to have been the cause. He was a member of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses from the Fourteenth Ohio district. Ilcnry Maul, a farmer residing near Millstadt, 111., who had acquired an unenviable reputation as a wife boater, was terribly whipped by white ea'ps. Edgar W. (Hill) Nye, the noted humorist., died at lii.s home 12 miles east of Asheville, N. C., of paralysis, aged 40 years. Peter Anglo and wife, an aged couple living near Beverly, 0., were burned io dentil by a lira that destroyed their home. The oldest .Baptist preacher in Kentucky, Rev. Henry Maher, of Powell's Valley, committed suicide. He would have been 100 years ofcl in June. Advices from Constantinople say that rapine, on tragi' and murder continue to be the atrocious policy pursued by the sublime porte in Armenia. Heorge I), ltobinscr. died at his home in Chicopee, Mass., aged 02 years. He was four times elected to congress nnd three times governor of Massachusetts. It was stated that Russia did not intend to annex Corea, but considered it a duty to guarantee its independence. It wns iinnounced that ex-President Harrison nnd Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Diinmick would be married in New York on Monday, April 6, by Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown, of St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church. a

OMAHA GRAVES ROBBED. Two Bodies Are Found in Trunks by tho Des Koines Police. Des Moines, la., Feb. 24.—A wejldressed man giving the name of George Smith was arrested in front of the post office here Saturday charged w ith robbing graves either in Omaha or Council Bluffs and with illegal transportation of corpses. The penalty for the latter is three years’ imprisonment. Smith was following a dray in the street on which two small zinc trunks were being taken to a medical school. The trunks contained two bodies, one a woman and the other a man. The bodies were crowded into the trunks and the limbs wired together. No one knows Smith, and he refuses to be interviewed. He intimates that there is a of body snatchers at work and that he will have friends when he needs them. The officers-are working on the theory that a gang of body snatchers is working in Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines and the smaller towns between. The authorities of the medical department of Drake university deny all knowledge of the two corpses found in the trunks. There was no address on the trunks. Smith tokl the hack driver to take the trunks to the medical college, but the authorities of the school deny knowledge of or connection with Smith. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 24. —The police received a telegram from Chief oi: Police J. H. Ford, of Des Moines, Saturday, asking tlie Omaha authorities 10 examine hospitals and graveyards, as It was thought that two bodies found in trunks at that place had been shipped from here. Defectives made a thorough search of the cemeteries and in the evening discovered that two graves in Mount Hope cemetery had been robbed. The description of tlie bodies found at Des Moines tallies exactly with that of a man and a woman w ho were buried, from Immanuel hospital in this city during the latter part of January. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 24.—The chief of police here received a telegram from the chief of police of Des Moines that the alleged grave robber arrested there had confessed that his name is William Clay Colm and that he and three other men did the work. These are William Glasco, a constable named Smith and another man named Brown. Glasco was captured hero Saturday evening. He is an old criminal and is being tried for highway robbery. The others are still at large.-

BOMES BURSTING IN HAVANA. Insurgent* Determined to Retaliate on Weyler for His Butchery. Key West, Fla., Feb. 24. —Advices from Havana indicate that the Cubans, goaded to desperation by Weyler’s'murderous policy, have determined to retaliate. Saturday morning the inhabitants of Havana found circulars scattered all over the city announcing that, as Weyler continued to order suspects >hot, the Cuban revolutionary, committee had resolved to retaliate by using-dynamite bombs against the re sidences and business houses of Spaniards. The circular went on to state that from eight to twelve suspects confined in Hie Cuba mis and Morro castle are being shot every night by order of Gen. Weyler, and that since the latter's arrival the total number ot Cubans thus murdered exceeds 200 in Havana alone. The circular concludes with flic statement that ns'Weyler has raised the black Hag the Cubans are forced in selfdefense to adopt a similar policy. To emphasize the threats contained in the circular two dynamite bombs were exploded in the city yesterday. The Henry Clay cigar factory was wrecked by one of the bombs. The bomb was exploded near the palace and caused great consternation. In spite of the denials cabled by Weyler to the United States, there is no doubt that suspects are being secretly executed by his orders. Havana is full of the stories of 1 liese executions, and they come from sources above suspicion. The number of men presenting themselves and claiming amnesty has greatly decreased since Weyler came. Campos’ amnesty proclamation has not been recalled, but as administered by Weyler it is simply a death-trap foi the Cubans. An American planter from Santa Clara says that the Cubans who present themselves for amnesty neat his estate are quietly shot. lie states that GO men have been butchered in this way in the last ten days. Washington, Feb. 24. —The following dispatch has been received at the Spanish legation: “Havan, Fob. 21.—You will pleaso emphatically and absolutely deny the reports of the correspondents of executions since my arrival. Siifdff lam In the island not a single execution has been made. Signed Capt. Gen. Wetlbr.”

OLNEY FOR PRESIDENT. Josluh Quincy Arouses tlie Enthusiasm o t Bouton Democrats. Boston. Feb. 24.—Mayor .Tosinh Quincy on Saturday furnished both enthusiasm and surprise to 250 democrats •who attended the Washington banquet given by the Young Men’s Democratic club and the democratic state committee here by presenting the name of Secretary of State Olney as the candidate of Massachusetts and New England for the democratic presidential nomination. The name was received with unbounvled enthusiasm, and it was several minutes before the speaker could continue his oration. Mix Ostknburg. a fellow of Columbia college, New York, who has been assisting Prof. Pupin in his Rontgen experiments recently, had an odd thing happen the other day. He desired to get a Shadowgraph of a mouse, and, as he thought, killed it by drowning. It was kept under water 15 minutes and was taken out, as he thought, for dead. For over an hour it lay lifeless, but, to Prof. Ostenberg’s surprise, when laid over a photographic plate and exposed to the ‘ Rontgen rays’* it came to life. It spoiled the shadowgraph, but gave the experimenter a tttw sensation in the new discovery.

THE FIGHT 18 ON. There is an intense rivalry between the watermelon and tomato growers as to who can produce the earliest. Salzer’s Earliest Watermelon ripened in 1695 in 52 days. That record is to be beaten, and Salzer pays SIOO to the winner! Then on tomatoes the record on “50 days the Earliest Tomato” in 1895 was 08 days. That’s to be beaten, and SSO paid. Salzer challenges the world to produce earlier melons, tomatoes, cabbages, radishes, peas or sweet corn than he offers. Get his mammoth catalogue. There is money in it. If you will cut this out and send it with 12c. stamps to the John A. Salzer Seed Cos., La Crosse, Wis., you will get free their great catalogue and a package of the yellow rind watermelon sensation. (k) Snobberlt— “What do you think I found last year when I was at Long Branch?” Knickerbocker—“l've no idea. Was it n pocketbook?” Snobberly—“No, 1 found that everything was very dear.’’—Texas Siftings.

Prosperous Farmers. Yankton Press and Dakolian: In Y r ankton County, South Dakota, there are at least one thousand farmers who came hero poor as the proverbial turkey of Job, and vvhotoday count their worldly possessions by thousands. Many of them started in with a house built or sod, and almost empty handed so far as horses and cattle go. Today they occupy fine dwelling houses, have large barns, fine horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, granaries filled with grain, fruit orchards, and money in hand. We mention this to siiow that South Dakota farmers are the prosperous class. Prosperity is the rule—not the exception. With fair prices for grain and livo stock they, would be rolling in wealth. Prices, however, have nothing to do with the fertility of the soil and tho favorable character of tho climate. These natural advantages are here to stay and assure prosperity to thefarmiugclasses^ A copy of an illustrated pamphlet on “Irrigation in South Dakota,” just issued by tho Chicago, Milwaukee and Ft, Paul Railway. can be had by addressing W. E. Powell, General Immigration Agent, Chicago, 111. A northern exchange asks; “Why do most authors wear tlieir lmir long?” “Because barbers cut for cash.”—Atlanta Constitution. A Trip to the Garden Spots of the South. Oil February 11 and March 10, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the north, to all points on the Louisville 6c Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within thirty days, on payment of $2 to agent at destination, and will allow stop-over at any points on the south bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if lie can not sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmorc, General Passenger Agent, Louisville. Kv., or J. K. ltidgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, 111. “Yes, doctor, it still hurts me to breathe —in fact, the only trouble now seems to he my breath.” “Oh, well, I’ll give you something that will soon stop that.”—Life. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Will on March 3rd sell one way homeseekers’tickets to all points in tho Southeast, including Florida, at the lowest rate ever known. On March 10th round trip tickets to many points in tho South, including Georgia, -can be purchased at one faro plus s2.o<); good for 30 days. For maps, folders and all information write to or see Briard F. Kill, N. P. A., 328 Marquette Bld’g, Chicago; It. C. Cowardiu, w. P. A., 405 lty Exe. Bld’g, St. Louis, or W. L. Danley, G. P. & T. A., Nashville, Tcnn. A collecting agency in New York is run by women exclusively, which seems to disprove the adage a woman’s work is never dun.—Texas Siftings.

To California in i’ullmun Tourist Sleeping Cars. The Burlington Route (C., B. & Q. R. R.) runs personally conducted excursions to California, leaving Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to California destination, fitted with carpets, upholstered seats, bedding, toilet t rooms, etc.; every convenience. Special agent in charge. Route via Denver and Salt Lake. Sunshine all the way. Write for descriptive pamphlet to T. A. Grady, Excursion Manager, 211 Clark St., Chicago. Let dogs delight to bark and bite; To do so is their fate. They can’t be turned; they never learned, You see, to arbitrate. —Washington Star. Immigration to tlio South—lloiuescekers’ Recursions. February 11th and March 10th, 1806, Land Seekers’ Excursion tickets will he sold from all points in the nonthwest oyer the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Virginia and North and South Carolina at one fare plus two dollars. Virginia hus a perfect climate, no blizzards; good markets and cheap transportation, fiend for rates, and free descriptive pamphlet of Virginia lands. U. L. Truitt, N. \V. P. A., 234 Clark St, Chicago, 111. “Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give me back my silver heart.” ‘T can’t,” the clever damsel cried, “My new beau’s picture is inside.” —Chicago Record. Personally Conducted Excursions to California, Via the Chicago, Union Pacific & NorthWestern Line, in upholstered tourist sleeping cars, leave Chicago every Thursday via the North-Western Line. Low rates, picturesque route, quickest time and careful attention are advantages offered to those who ioin these excursions. Cost of berth only ftkOU. Ask your nearest ticket agent for full particulars or address W. B. Kniskern, G. P. & T. A.. Chicago, IIL God oft descends io vt.it men, unseen, and through their jubilation walks, to murk their dciugs.—Milton. Home Beekers’ Excurulop to the South. February 11th and March 10th, 1896, Land Seekers’ Excursion tickets will be sold from all points in the north and northwest over , the Big Four Route to points south and southeast at one fare plus two * dollars. Tickets will be good thirty days returning. For excursion rates, time cards, and Free Earn phlet 'descriptive of southern farm inds address J. C. Tucker, G. N. A., Big Four Route, 234 Clark Street, Chicago, IIL Tiibhb is money to be made in Cripple Creek. Whea you go take the “Rock lslund Route” to Colorado Springs. This is the only direct line- suves several hours* time to Cripple Creek. Bend for full information. John Sebastian, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Chicago. McVlcker* Theater, Chicago. Beats for James A. Herne's engagement in -Shore Acres” are selling two weeks in advauce. Don’t miss seeing this play. Half rats. land excursions Booth March 10th via the Queen & Crescent Route. Lands 13.00 to #5.00 per acre. Write W. C. Rixkau bon, G. P. A.. Cincinnati, for information. Schiller Theater, Chicago. Welb& Waehsacr s Stock Company from the Fabst Theater, Mil’vuuLce, begins a week’s engage.neat Feb. 23. Tim Quceu A: Crescent is tlie only line operating a tlujuga sleeper to Florida via Asheville, N. C. Three car lines doily to Florida: Unequaled service.

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