People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Page 2

The People’s Pilot. BENSSELAER, t : INDIANA.

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From Ail Parts. "" V CONGRESSSONAL. Kegular Session. IX the senate on the 22d the members present at the opening session numbered twentyone—less than half of a quorum. The vice, president announced his signature to the deficiency bill. A motion was made that the serjeant-at-arms be directed to request the attendance of absent senators, which he did. and an executive session was held. The house was not in session. After an hour's wait the senate on the 23d was unable to secure a quorum, and adjourned. A clerk reached the capitol with some important nominations, but owing to the absence of a quorum they could not be laid before the senate.. .In the house the chairman of the committee on naval affairs presented the preliminary report upon the investigation of the armor plate and billets furnished to the government by the Carnegie Steel compiny. The bill to give the Hutchinson & Southern Railroad company two more years in which to build the road through the Indian territory was passed In the senate on the 24th the house joint resolution was adopted for a final adjournment August 28 at 2 p, m., after which an executive session was held, and all nominations to which no objections were offered werd confirmed.... In the house a joint resolution was adopted for a final adjournment on the 28tb. The antianarchist bill was brought up and an amendment to it offered, but objection being made to Its consideration the bill went over. The senate held a short session on the 27th and adjourned without transacting any important business....ln the house a resolution was offered to print the tariff biJi, and Mr. Wilson said the senate bill, which is now a law. would increase the basis of taxation $63.000.000 over the McKinley law. The death of Congressman Shaw, of Wisconsin, was announced, and a committee was appointed to attend the funeral.

DOMESTIC. By a decision of the attorney general women will hereafter be allowed to vote for superintendent of public instruction in North Dakota. Henry R. Pearson killed himself in Kansas City. He was short in his accounts with the Plano Manufacturing company. •James Hale was murdered by white caps near Pennington Gap, Va, His offense was the whipping of a boy. George Baldwin was foully murdered in the presence of his family by Deputy Sheriff Jackson Lily and a posse in the Choctaw Nation. The national encampment, Sons of Veterans, in session at Davenport, la., elected Col. William E. Bundy, of Ohio, commander in chief. Three men were killed and three seriously injured in a wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern road near Fort Atkinson, Wis. Squire William Bland, a prominent citizen of the Conemaugh, committed suicide at Johnstown, Pa., while , melancholy from business reverses and drink.

A. S. Tucker, a prominent board of trade broker at Chicago, committed suicide. Unfortunate speculation was assigned as the cause. Prof. Charles J. Hinkel, who for years occupied the chair of Latin and Greek literature fit Vassar college, died from heart failure at Amagansett, L. I. Slav and negro miners indulged in a fight at West Overton, Pa., during which one man was fatally shot. The great textile strike has developed into a lockout, and as a result 25,000 mill operatives of Fall River, Mass., are idle. Before the American Bar association Moorfleld Storey said public honesty and trust had reached a low ebb. Adam Stivetts, father of John Stivetts, the Boston baseball player, was accidentally killed in a coal mine at Ashlands, Pa. Miss Madge Howe, of Springfield, 111., was elected president of the Ladies’ Aid society, auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans, at the national encampment at Davenport. There were 234 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 24th, against 226 the week previous and 410 in the corresponding time in 1803. Twenty-five of Rybakowski’s commonwealers were injured in a fight with deputies at Buffalo, N. Y.,and 150 more were placed under arrest. William Day, former champion cross-country runner of the country, hanged himself because he had been accused of embezzlement. Henry Henrici, jobber in woolens at New York assigned with heavy liabilities. According to the report of Patent Commissioner Seymour, 21,496 patents were issued during the year, and 13,167 expired. John Vermillion and William Jackson were killed and a number of others seriously injured by the bursting of a sawmill boiler at Frankfort, Ind. Two men were killed and eleven injured by an explosion ol gas in the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa. An explosion of gas in a mine at Franklin, Wash., imprisoned sixty-two men, thirty-seven of whom were taken out dead. Gaft. H. O. King, a mechanical engineer of Memphis, was killed by Alex Carr, an employe to whom he was indebted. Notwithstanding industrial disturbances and the continuance of drought in certain sections, trade continues to show steady improvement, according to Bradstreet’s. Riley Walker and Richard Jordan, two negroes convicted of murder, were taken from a train at Mitchell’s Station, Ala., and lynched. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 24th aggregated 9813,498,631, against $790,683,185 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 19.5. Philip Petebs (colored), was hanged at Helena, Ark., for killing his wife. Cajkl la>wer, an ex-employe, fatally wounded Alois Mehetretter, a tailor, at Buffalo.

At Ashland, Wis., an entire blook of business buildings was destroyed by fire. Lightning strnek an emigrant’s wagon near Columbns, Tex., killing husband and wife, but leaving their babe unhurt. David Ferran, aged 20, a deaf mute living at Curtisville, Ind., was run over by a switch engine and his body ground to fragments. A Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul freight train was held up at Deerfield. 111., by two men, who killed a detective who was on the train and robbed the conductor. Mrs. L. B. Christ, together with her two children, was burned to death as a result of a gasoline explosion at Forest City. Mo. A New York syndicate has furnished the whisky trust £5,000.000 to take its spirits out of bond, the Illinois trust and savings bank of Chicago to act as trustee. Hugh Lyon, who killed a peddler on Sanary island, was hanged at New Westminster, B. C. George L. McCahanl of Baltimore, was elected grand high chief of the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons at the convention in Topeka. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 35th were: Boston, .660; Baltimore, .640: New York, .635: Philadelphia. .571; Cleveland, .540; Brooklyn, .525; Pittsburgh, .500; Chicago, .456; Cincinnati, .436; St. Louis, .404; Washington, .330; Louisville, .311. G. E. Williams won the bicycle road race from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, traversing the 234 miles in 20 hours and 37 minutes. The town of Guerneville, Cal., was destroyed by lire. 11. F. Griswold and William Lake, who held up a St. Paul train at Deerfield, .111., and killed Special Officer Owens, were captured after a running fight in which they shot an officer and both were wounded.

Lightning from an almost cloudless sky killed William Carr, aged 20, who was bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Twenty persons were badly injured by the falling of a bridge in Fairmount park at Kansas City. The steamer New York made the passage from Southampton to New York in six days eight hours and thirtyeight minutes, breaking all previous records. At Washington park, Chicago, Di rectly paced a mile in lowering the world’s record for two-year-olds a quarter of a second. Adam A. Parrott, his wife and two of their three children were drowned while attempting to ford the Scioto river in a wagon near Portsmouth, O. An incendiary fire in the yards of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber company in Chicago destroyed £15,000 worth of property, including twenty-seven horses. Ben Kershaw and his brother John and Robert Thomas were drowned at Waltham, Mass., by the overturning of their canoe. Are Buzzard, the notorious Pennsylvania outlaw, was sentenced to eleven years’ imprisonment for burglary. Thomas W. Heathcote, chairman of the Pullman strikers’ committee, declared the strike at an end. Mistaking a party of young men for burglars, Stephen Albright, of Allentown, Pa., fired at them, wounding six.

The new democratic tariff bill passed by the Fifty-third congress became a law without the signature of President Cleveland. In a letter to Representative Catchings, of Mississippi, the president gave reasons why he did not sign the measure. The Diamond Drill company of Reading, Pa., failed for $115,000. Geronimo and his band of Apaches are to be removed to Oklahoma from Alabama, the climate of which has greatly reduced their numbers. Charlie Bennett, the maimed baseball player, is $6,000 richer as a result of a benefit game played in Boston. The expense to the state of Illinois caused by .the calling out of the militia during the late strike is placed by the adjutant general at $350,000. Coejaree, a Seminole Indian, was executed at We wo, O. T., by being shot to death.. His crime was murder. At Springfield, Mass., Harry Tyler lowered the bicycle record for an unpaced mile to 2:07 2-5, a cut of 2 3-5 seconds. Miss Mary Desha, a sister of Breckinridge's first wife, in an op’en letter calls on the men and women of Kentucky to defeat the congressman. After a pastorate of forty years Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, has retired from the pastorate of the Park church at Elmira, N. Y. The national encampment of Knights of Pythias commenced in Washington. Mrs. Charles Null wrecked the windows add fixtures of a saloon at Delaware, 0., whose proprietor had sold her husband liquor. Forest fires invaded the settlement in Michigan known as Finland and completely wiped it out of existence.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations were made as follows on the 22d: Massachusetts, Sixth district, John S. Williams (dem.). Missouri, Third district, A. M. Dockery (dem.). Texas, Twelfth district, A. W. Houston (dem.). Wisconsin, Sixth district, Riley Bishop (pop.). Kentucky, Second district, E. G. Sebree (rep.). Michigan, Fourth district, Dr. L. F. Weaver (dem ); Ninth district, Roswell P. Bishop (rep.). lowa, Third district, Rev. S. H. Basher (dem.); Eleventh district, .Bernard Graeser (dem.). Indiana, Fourth district, W. S. Holman (dem.); Tenth district. Dr. J. J. Hatch (rep.). California, Second district, Anthony Caminetti (dem.); Sixth district, GeorgeS. Patton (dem.); Seventh district, W. H. Alvord (dem ). Tennessee republicans in state convention at Nashville nominated H. Clay Evans for governor. Nebraska republicans in convention at Omaha nominated a ticket beaded by Thomas J. Majors for governor.

Nominations for congress were made as follows on the 23d: New Jersey, First district, H. C. Loudenslager (rep.) Tennessee, Third district, Foster V. Brown (rep.). Nebraska, Sixth district, Omar M. Kem (nop.). Kansas, Third district, W. T. Sapp (dem.). Pennsylvania, Fortieth district, D. S. Walton (rep.); Twenty-eighth district, Aaron Williams (dem.). North Carolina. Sixth district, J. A. Lockart (dem.). New York, Twenty-third district. W. T. Foote, Jr. (rep.). Missouri, Seventh district, C. B.Wisker (pro.). Virginia, Fifth district, Claude Swanson (dem.). Sixth district,O. C. Ruck *r (pro.); Tenth district, Edmund R. Cooke (pop.). Missouri. Fifth district, B. P. White (pro.). Florida. Second district, C. M. Cooper (demj; Mont Atkinson (pop.). Nebraska populists nominated a ticket headed by Silas A. Holcomb for governor. Democrats in state convention at San Francisco nominated Congressman James Budd for governor. John Newell, of Chicago, aged 64, president and general manager of the Lake Shore railroad, died of apoplexy at Youngstown, O. In convention at Reno the republicans of Nevada nominated A. C. Cleveland for governor. The democrats of the Fifth California district nominated J. P. Kelly for congress and Daniel G. McKinnon was nominated by the populists in the First district of Florida. Mrs. Rosamond Foldett, until recently editor and owner of the Gazette at Green Bay, Wis., died of cancer, aged 47. George B. Shaw, aged 40, c< ngressman from the Seventh district of W isconsin. and ex-supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, died at h s home in Eau Claire from malarial fever contracted in Washington. The terms of thirteen republican and nine democratic United States senators expire next March and the legislatures which choose their successors are to be elected this fall. Celia Leighton Thaxter, the authoress and poetess, died suddenly at Appledore, Isle of Shoals, N. H., aged 58 years.

FOREIGN. Christopher F. Frazer, of Toronto, until recently commissioner of public works in the Toronto cabinet, was found dead in bed. Americans and Englishmen arrested at Bluefields by Madriz consented to be taken to Managua for trial rather than submit to exile. Resolutions were passed by 70,000 persons in London demanding the abolishment of the house of lords. Chinese soldiers who murdered Rev. James Wylie, the Presbyterian missionary at Ligo Yang, will be beheaded. In her speech proroguing the British parliament the queen said strict neutrality would be observed in the war between China and Japan. Six persons were killed and much property destroyed by a dynamite explosion in the mines at Miniilos, Mexico. More than 8,000,000 feet of lumber, ready for the American market, was destroyed by fire at Ottawa, Ont., the loss being $200,000. A terrible Irurricane swept over the Sea of Azov, in Russia, and many vessels were sunk and over 1,000 persons drowned. In a wrestling match at Liverpool for the championship of the world Cannon defeated Mclnerney. Tawhiao 11., tfie Maori king is dead. His death was due to inflaenza.

. LATER. The last day of the second session of ■he Fifty-third congress was attended jn the 28th by just a score of senators. The committee appointed to call upon the president announced he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and the senate adjourned sine die. In the house the resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama, to take effect December 3, was presented.' The committee appointed to wait upon the president reported that the president had no further communication to make to congress, and the speaker declared the second session of the Fifty-third congress adjourned. At an old settler’s reunion at Chandlerville, 111., Ed Oliver fatally wounded Anna Carlock and then killed hims.elf. Gov. Waite, of Colorado, and three Denver police officials were arrested, charged with opening a letter addressed to an ex-police matron. Fifteen thousand Knights of Pythias joined in the parade at the encampment in Washington. Nearly every house in Vesper, Wis., was destroyed by fire, together with 8,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss was put at $150,000. The democrats in state convention at Dover, Del., nominated Ebe W. Tunnel, of Sussex county, for governor Recent rains have so benefited corn that it is now believed it will be an average crop. Vegetation generally has been greatly improved. The League of American Wheelmen has decided to enter politics in the interest of good roads and to prevent the enactment of discriminatory laws. In a runaway near Fairland, Ind., Mrs. Lizzie Newton, aged 65, was j killed and James Gray, aged 73, was fatally injured. Tramps entered two Lake Shore trains at the depot at Erie, Pa., and robbed the passengers. Five were captured. The first direct steamship line between America and the west coast of Africa has been chartered in New Jersey. \V. C. Howells, consul at Toronto and Quebec under President Grant, and one of the oldest journalists in Ohio, died at his home in Jefferson, aged 87 years. Ihe date for the Torthcoming convention of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union, to be held in Cleveland, 0., has been set for Friday, November 16.

REFUSED TO SIGN IT.

President Cleveland Allows the Tariff Bill to Become a Law. It Does So Without His Indorsement—Hfl Explains His Attitude in a Letter to Mr. Catchings—End of a Long Struggle. NEW TARIFF GOES INTO EFFECT. Washington, Aug. 28.—At 12 o’clock : Monday night the McKinley tariff law, 1 which had been in operation since October 30, 1890, practically four years, died on the statute books and tne new democratic tariff bill passed by the Fifty-third congress became a law without the signature of President Cleveland. “Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug 27.—Hon. T. C. Catchings—My Dear Sir: Since the conversation I had with you and Mr. Clark, of Alabama, a few days ago in regard to my action upon the tariff bill now before me I have given the subject further and most se- : rious consideration. The result is, I am more I settled than ever in the determination to ali low the bill to become a law without mv signature. “When the formulation of legislation which ■ it was hoped would embody democratic ideas : of tariff reform was lately entered upon by J this congress nothing was further from my an- ! ticipation than a result which I could not , promptly and enthusiastically indorse. It is therefore with a feeling of the utmost disapi pointment that I submit to a denial of this privilege | “I do not claim to be better than the masses of my party nor do I wish to avoid any responsibility which on account of the passage of this law I ought to bear as a member of the democratic organization; neither will I i permit myself to be separated from my party to such an extent as might be I implied by my veto of tariff legislation, which, though disappointing, is still chargeable to i democratic effort. But there are provisions in i this bill which are not in line with honest i tariff reform and it contains inconsistencies and crudities which ought not to appear in tariff laws or laws of any kind. “Besides, there were, as you and I well know, • incidents accompanying the passage of the biil through congress which made every sini cere reformer unhappy, while influences surrounded it in its latter stages and interfered j with its final construction which ought not to i bo recognized or tolerated in democratic tariff i reform councils.

■ And yet, notwithstanding all its vicissitudes and all the bad treatment it has received at the hands ot its pretended friends, it presents a vast improvement to existing conditions. It will certainly lighten many tariff burdens that now rest heavily upon the people. It is not only a barrier against the return of mad protection, but it furnishes a vantage ground Irom which must be waged further aggressive operations against protected monopoly and governmental favoritism. "1 taae my place with the rank and file of the democratic party who believe in tariff reform and who know what it is, who refuse to accept the results embodied in the bill at the close of the war. who are not blinded to the fact that the livery of democratic tariff reform has been ato.eu and worn in the service of republican protection, and who have marked the places where the deadly blight of treason has blasted the councils of the brave in their hour of might. “The trusts and combinations—the communism of pelf, whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserve, should not be forgotten or forgiven. We shall recover from our astonishment at their exhibition of power, and if then the question is forced upon us whether they shall submit to the free legislative will of the people’s representatives, or shall dictate the laws which the people must obey, we will accept and settie that issue as one involving the integrity and satety of American institutions. T love the principles of true democracy because they are founded in pa iotism and upon justice and fairness toward all interests. lam proud of my party organization because it is conservatively sturoy aud persistent in the enforcement of its principles. Therefore, Ido not despair of the efforts made by the house of representatives to supplement the bill already passed by lurther legislation and to have engrafted upon it such modifications as will more nearly meet democratic hopes and aspirations. “I can t be mistaken as to the necessity of free raw materials as the foundation of logical aud sensible tariff reform. The extent to which this is recognized in the legislation already secured is one of its encouraging and redeeming features, but it is vexatious to recall that while free coal and iron ore have been denied a letter of the secretary of the treasury discloses the fact that both might have been made free by the annual s. rrender ot only $700,(M) of unnecessary revenue. "I am sure that there is a common habit of underestimating the importance of free raw materials in tariff legislation, and of regarding them as only related to concessions to be made to our manufacturers. The truth is, their influence is so far-reaching that if disregarded a complete and beneficent scheme of tariff reform cannot be successfully inaugurated. • ■ When we give to our manufacturers free raw materials we unshackle American enterprise and ingenuity, aud these will open the doors of foreign markets to the reception of our wares and give opportunity for the continuous and remunerative employment of American labor. “With materials cheapened by their freedom from tariff charges, the cost of taeir product must be correspondingly cheapened. 1 hereupon justice and fairness to the consumer would demand that the manufacturers be obliged to submit to such a readjustment and modification of the tariff upon their finished goods as would secure to the people the benefit of the reduced cost of their manufactures and shield the consumer against the exactions of inordinate profits. ■'it will thus be seen that free raw mater als and a just am fearless regulation and reduction or the tariff to meet the changed conditions would carry to every humole home in tue land the blessings of increased comfort and cheaper living. The minions of our countrymen who have fought bravely and well for tariff reform should be exhorted to continue the struggle, boldly challenging to open warfare and constantly guarding against treachery and halfheartedness in their camp. Tariff reform will not be settled until it is honestly and fairly settled in the interest and to the benefit of a patient and long-suffering people. Yours very truly, “grover Cleveland.' The placing of the bill upon the statute books ended one of the longest and most remarkable struggles in the parliamentary history of the government. It was practically a year ago that the comoilation of the new tariff was commenced. The extraordinary session of congress was called August 7. 1893, tor the purpose of repealing the Sherman silver-purchasing law. Two weeks later the ways and means committee of the house, with Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, as chairman, was appointed, and almost immediately the work of framing the democrat!, tariff-reform measure began. Months were spent in its preparation, and it was not reported until after the holidays during the regular session beginning in December. For three weeks it was debated in th house, pa-s----ing that body Janu-.ry 29. seventeen house democrats voted agains it. The bill went to the senate, and, after being considered until March 20. was reported, greatly changed from the house bill. The debate which began in the senate April 2 lasted until July 3. when the bill passed by a vote of 39 to 34. The crisis occurred when the bill reached conference. On August 13 the house yielded and accepted the senate bill in toto. Two days afterward, Wednesday, August 15, it went to the president, and Monday night at the expiration ot the constitutional days (aundavs not counted) it became a law without Mr. Cleveland’s approval

FOR A NATIONAL PARK.

Gen. Sickles Wants the Government to Acquire 4,000 Acres at Gettysburg. New York, Aug. 28.—Gen. Daniel E. Sickles has a scheme for the creation of a grand national park which will include the battlefield and other historic points of interest at Gettysburg. The purchase of something like 4.000 acres in and around Gettysburg is embraced in the plan. The government already owns several hundred acres at the scene of trie decisive battle of the war, ana Gen, Sickles proposes to acquire abopt 2,500 acres more.

CONGRESS ENDS.

The Closing Session Is Totally Devoid Interest. Washington, Aug. 29. —The first regular session of the Fifty-third congress is a thing of the past. It became a matter of history at 2 p. m. Tuesday. Compared with previous adjournments, it was a very tarne affair. There was not a quorum in either house. The senate galleries were packed when the gavel fell. Chaplain McCarthy in a long prayer included not only the customary officers of the government, the president and vice president and senators, but even the senate pages and the venerable Isaac Bassett in his appeal for grace. A message was received from the house immediately after the reading of Monday’s journal, and then Senator Ransom (dem., N. C.) offered the customary resolution to notify the president that the two houses were ready to adjourn. The resolution was agreed to and the vice president appointed Senator Ransom and Senator Manderson (rep.. Neb.) a committee on the part of the senate. No other business of importance was transacted, and a recess was taken until 12:45 o’clock. At that hour the vice president announced that the senate was again in session. A message was received from the house announcing the death of Representative George B. Shaw, of Wisconsin. In the absence of the two Wisconsin senators, Senator White offered the customary resolutions of regret, and the vice president appointed Senators Mitchell (Wis.), Cullom, Davis, Roach and Kyle to attend the funeral. At 12:55 a further recess was taken until 1:30 p. m. At 1:30 p.m. the senate was again called to order and the committee appointed to call upon the president announced that he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and Senator Harris, president pro tem, and at 2 o’clock the vice president declared the senate adjourned without delay. The galleries of the House were packed to overflowing. The attendance on the floor was very light, however, the great majority of the members having already gone to their homes. The resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama, to take effect December 3, was laid before the house. In accordance with the usual custom Mr. Wilson (dem., W. Va.) offered a resolution, which was adopted without division, for the appointment of a committee ■ of three members of the house to I meet a similar committee of the senate ' and wait on the president and inform him that congress was ready to adjourn and ascertain if he had any further communication to make. The | speaker appointed Messrs. Wilson I (dem., W. Va.), Holman (dem., Ind.) and Hepburn (rep., la.). When the committee reported that President Cleveland had n® further communication to make, and the usual votes of thanks to the oflicers of the house had been passed, Speaker Crisp declared the house adjourned sine die.

FOREST FIRES.

Great Damage in Wisconsin and Michigan —Town of Vesper BurnedMarshfield, Wis., Aug. 29.—The little town of Vesper was destroyed by a forest fire Tuesday. The large saw and planing mills belonging to the Sherry-Cameron Lumber company and twenty-three buildings, all there were in the town, were burned. A dispatch from Marengo, in Ashland county, states that forest fires are still raging along the line of the Wisconsin Central railroad. Farmers from adjoining towns report fires in every direction, doing much damage and requiring a constant watch to save their homes from destruction. Five deers and several bears were seen Saturday almost within the eity limits, having been driven in to escape the heat and smoke in the forests. The aggregate amount of damage done thus far to timber, wood, ties and logs, besides farm dwellings, hay and farm implements, will reach many thousands of dollars. There is no sign of rain, and as the leaves have commenced falling the situation begins to look desperate. Ishpeming, Mich., Aug. 29.—While smoke is very dense throughout the entire upper peninsula fires, though umero us, are confined principally to old slashings; few homesteaders have been burned out, and heavy damage done to poles, ties and posts in the woods, but little injury io standing pine. A heavy rain would extinguish the fires or a high wind would cause a rapid spread and great destruction of timber. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 29. —Word was received from Hibbing that extensive fires were driving into town the logging and mining operators near there. A crew of over 100 men arrived there from one logging camp in the WrightDavis operations, their camps having been burned, as well as over 150,000 log feet of logs that had been skidded and were ready to be hauled to the river. The fires are burning fiercely in old choppings. Hibbing, though a village of one year, has a fairly good water system. The smoke from fires In this vicinity and northern Michigan have been so dense here that fog signals have been blown almost continususly for a week and navigation at this end of Lake Superior is very much hindered.

Laborers at a Premium.

Arcola, 111., Aug. 29. —Broom-corn hands are at a premium in this locality. Monday night’s Vandalia train brought an extra coach filled with men looking for work and by midnight over 200 strangers were in the city By 9 o’clock Tuesday morning not an idle man was in town. Eyery train that comes into the city is met by farmers who are looking for help to harvest their crops before it gets too ripe. Tuesday night’s Illinois Central fast mail brought in about 100 men and they were all hired before the train left the station Five hundred more broopi-corn cutters could find work here at once.

Cheap Excurslons to the West.

An exceptionally favorable opportunity for visiting the richest and most productive sections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the Home-Seekers’ low-rate excursions which have been arranged by the North-Western Line. Tickets for these excursions will be sold on Sept. 11th and 25th, and Oct. 9th, to points m northwestern lowa, western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dake ta, Manitoba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana ana Idaho, and will be good for return passage within twenty days from date of side. Stop-over privileges will be allowed on going trip in territory to which the tickets are sold. For further information, call onoraddresa Ticket Agents of connecting lines. Circulars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed, free, upon application to W. A. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chicago. When the shoestring of a girl thirty-seven years old comes untied you may be very sure that it was by accident; also that she will have to tie it up herself.—Somerville Journal.

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