Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LEBLIB CLARK, Ed. and Pub. BBNSSBLABR, INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS of THE WEEK.

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. < Record of Happening* of Mnoh me Little Importance from AU Parte of the Civilised World —Incident#, Enterprise#, Accident#, Verdict#. Crime# and War Dr. George C. Hopkins of the University of Illinois succeeded in improving the chemical composition of the oorn kernel after five years of experimenting. Three masked men family of John Andigo, a farmer, near Kendallville, Ind., and robbed him of 13,000. Chinese quarter in San Francisco raided in attempt to break up traffic In female slaves. Three person drowned while attempting to cross the Potomac river at Green Springs. Washout near Charleston, W. Va., caused train wreck in which conductor •was killed. Dam at Mlddlefleld, Mass., destroyed (by flood and several houses swept away. Three hundred wheelmen to take trip from Milwaukee to Buffalo in August. Governor Ross, Alaska’s new executive, Inaugurated at Dawson. Aguinaldo’s manifesto to the Filipino people advised the insurgents to lay down their arms and accept the sovereignty of the United States. One thousand Filipino prisoners released. Franco-German expedition to Chinese province of Chili abandoned on aesurance Chinese force will withdraw from threatening positions. London Spectator, commenting on an interview with Count Canevaro of Italy, said America’s attitude on China annoys the powers. British officers rewared by King Ed- ! ward for their services in South As- ; rlca. Kitchener made lieutenant-gen- ' era!. * Mrs. P. D. Armour inherited half of ; $250,000 estate of her brother, Frank M. Ogden of Cincinnati. Combine of vessel owners expects to fix price for freight during coming season. Two hundred persons reported to have frozen to death in Alaska. Joe Wagner, 13 years old, accidentally locked in a freight car and carried from Chicago to Council Bluffs. Josiah, Flynt, for whom the police are looking, interviewed the chief of detectives without the latter being aware of his identity. British expedition punished natives \ of Somali country for murder of Subcommissioner Jenner. Mayors of Cuban cities charged with ignoring electoral laws imposed by the United States. Body of General Swartzkopf found in palace ruins at Pekin. Perished trying to save dog. Austrian crown prince aroused ire of kaiser’s subjects by anti-German declarations. Czar invited French minister of foreign affairs to St. Petersburg for a conference. Court decided duke of Manchester need not pay $2,500 commission to loan •broker. New political party, “The, Greater New York Democracy,” organized to fight Tammany Hall. Resolutions adopted ascribing ills of the city to Croker’s organization. Transport Rosencrans arrived at San Francisco, after taking forty-three Filipino generals to Guam as prisoners of war. President asked by representatives of the Boers to prevent British shipment of mules from New Orleans. The written opinion of Justice Gray in the North Dakota divorce case indicates merely that state laws must be observed or the decree is invalid. Miss Sartoris, grandaughter of U. S. Grant, engaged to Archibald Bal- . four of London. Chicago rats to be exterminated by the use of poison virus which has been successfully tested ia Paris. Charles H. .Sweer-.y of Nashville, Tenn., went to Chicago when he heard his wife contemplated a divorce suit, and killed her and himself. Saloonkeeper Marzen, twice convicted of murdering Fritz Holzheuter, must serve thirty years at Joliet. National league season began Thursday, but only one game was played, Brooklyn beating the Philadelphias 12 to 7. House of commons authorized British chancellor to borrow $3,000,000 for war purposes. A. J. Schroth, bookkeeper of First National bank of Birmingham, Pittsburg, Pa., arrested, charged with embezzling $35,000. Chinese indemnity claims of French departments of war. marine and colonies are 193,000,000,000 francs. Sir Alfred Milner in. South African blue, book, just issued, expressed gloomy view of Boer war. Recruit drowned in attempting to escape from David’s Island. Liquor interests reported to have raised corruption fund to influence legislation at Honolulu. Chief of Marinduaue Insurgents and aixty-one men surrendered to American troops. Convict in New Mexico penitentiary ikilled while trying to escape.

BRITAIN’S NEED LAID BARE.

Nation Ha# to Borrow 5300,000,000 to Meat It# War Expense#. The long-delayed budget statement was presented to the house of commons Thursday by Sir Michael HieksBeach, the chancellor of the exchequer. The statement, from the standpoint of the British taxpayer, was most discouraging. The national balance sheet for 1900-1901 shows a net deficit of £53,207,200 ($266,036,000). The Boer war, according to the chancellor, has cost the government £146,567,000 ($732,835,000), or double the cost of the Crimean war. The total expenditures for 1901-1902 are estimated at £187,602,000 ($938,010,000), of which £58,320,000 ($291,600,000) is for the Boer war, while the revenues will yield only within £57,000,000 ($285,000,000) of this amount. This deficiency is to be met ip part by an increase in the income tax, and a tax on raw sugar, molasses, syrups, glucose and coal. To meet the remaining deficit, which is estimated at £39,707,000 ($198,635,000), the chancellor proposes to borrow £60,000,000 ($300,000,000) upon consuls. Sir Michael stated that it was estimated that the total expenditures this year would amount to £187,602,000, of which £58,320,000 would be for carrying on the war.

STEYN IS RE-ELECTED.

Boers Again Choose Him H#ad of Orange Free State. “A gathering, for the purpose of electing a president of the Orange Free State, has been held in the Boshof diatrict. Steyn was declared re-elected president and a feast followed.

Mr. Steyn ia a highly cultured man. He is a native of the Orange Free State, was educated in Bloemfontein and Holland, studied law in England, and was called to the Inner Temple. In 1889 he was appointed state’s attorney, and was

PRESIDENT STEYN.

appointed state’s attorney, was made Puisne judge in the same year and supreme judge in 1893. Since the capture of Bloemfontein he has accompanied General Botha on his expeditions.

Passenger Trains Collide.

A head-end collision at Woodbine, lowa, between two Illinois Central trains resulted in the death of Engineer Meinger of Fort Dodge, lowa, and the probably fatal injury of Jame 3 Wheeler, the engineer of the other train. The following passengers were also injured: J. E. Jewell, 517 Greenleaf avenue, Chicago, hip; Evangeline Dahl, nose broken; A. Nichols, colored porter, Chicago, chest crushed; D. L. Pelton, Woodbine, lowa, druggist, badly bruised. The two passenger trains were under orders to pass at Woodbine. The east-bound train, No. 2, the Chicago flyer, was running at full speed on the main track, but instead of being sidetracked, the west-bound, No. 25, dashed into the east-bound at full speed. Both engines were demolished and several of the cars shattered.

Farmers Search for Bitter.

A posse of fifty armed farmers, determined on immediate justice, are scouring the country between Nashville, 111., and Pinckneyville in search of Martin Ritter, the fugitive slayer of Clara Cheek. The posse is ‘being led by William Cheek, the father, and Dan Cheek, the brother of the murdered girl, and unless the sheriff of Washington and Perry counties succeeds in apprehending Ritter before he falls into the hands of the posse, he will undoubtedly be lynched. Clara Cheek, a 16-year-old girl, was murdered at the home of her parents, near Rice, on Saturday night. Ritter, who is 24, and Miss Cheek had long been sweethearts, but the girl refused to marry on account of her age.

Boy Is Kidnaped by Thieves.

At State Road, Ohio, on the Pittsburg & Fairport railroad, four armed men kidnaped Melvin Croker, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather, Thomas Croker, the motive evidently being to rob Croker, a wealthy farmer. The boy says he was hound, gagged and blindfolded, and when released found himself in Warren at 10 o’clock at night. He hunted up an uncle, H. C. Stroup, who, after talking with the police, telephoned Croker to look out for the robbers. Citizens watched the Croker house, but the gang had apparently .been warned, as they did not appear.

Favored by the Newspapers.

Newspapers already are sending their replies to the circular letter sent out by the postoffice department asking whether a departmental rule that will absolutely stop all premium inducements for subscriptions would be regarded as injurious to legitimate newspapers and periodicals. All except one of the responses already in warmly favor such a rule, the exception being a request for further information on the subject.

Plan a Big Steel Mill.

Final arrangements-have been made at Detroit for the building of a steel and iron plant at the Soo which will employ 10,000 men and he capitalized at $50,000,000. According to the promoters it will be one of the most extensive in America, and second only to the Carnegie plant in Pennsylvania. They say it will have a marked effect on the steel and iron market of the United States and Canada. The enterprise will be organized under the name of the International Steel, Iron and Pipe company.

HOLDS HUGE GOLD STORE

Treasury Aggregate Now Exceeds $500,000,000. WAS SURPASSED ONLY ONCE. Immeni. Sam on Hand Causes Secretary to Offer to Bny In Oatstanding Bond# —Large Amount# Required to Carry •n Business. The government’s aggregate gold holdings for the first time in history have passed the half billion dollar mark. The exact total given in the United States treasury report of yesterday was $500,278,506, of which $252,078,959 was held against certificates in the hands of the outside public and $150,000,000 as a reserve against outstanding United States notes, the balance having free assets. This is the largest amount of gold now held by any single financial institution in the world, and it is the largest ever held by any institution with one exception —the Imperial Bank of Russia, which in February, 1898, raised its total holdings to $590,300,000. At present, however, the Russian bank holds only $371,500,000. The Bank of France now holds $472,271,000, its high record being $479,244,000 on the 4th of this month. Most of this gold is held against outstanding notes. The Bank of England holds $169,100,000 and the high record of its history was $245,500,000, in February, 1896. Present gold holdings of the Imperial Bank of Germany are $130,000,000, and its total of gold and silver combined never ran above $222,500,000. The United States treasury’s gross gold holdings have increased $76,439,000 within the last twelve months. In April of 1899 they barely exceeded $278,000,000, as against the $500,000,000 now held. On Feb. 10, 1896, they reached the low level of $94,239,542. This immense amount of money in the treasury is causing Secretary Gage to buy government bonds as fast as he can get them. On this point A. Barton Hepburn, vice-president of the Chase National hank, at New York, discussing the financial outlook, said: “The fact that Secretary Gage is prepared to buy government bonds and is actually buying them from day to day is hound to have a strong influence upon the money market. There ought not to he a large increase of cash from this source, however, because the classes that have government bonds for sale are not in need of money. If rates fall off it will be gradually. The enormous business that is now being done requires a large amount of money to carry it on, so there is no sign of abnormally easy rates.” Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary of the treasury and president of the New York Security and Trust company, speaking of the money situation said: “I do not look for a return to the extremely low rates prevalent a few weeks ago. With deposits at about $1,000,000,000 and surplus cash reserves down to $7,000,000 extremely easy money is hardly probable. The rate of interest is largely a matter of habit, and when banks get to lending at 4 or 5 per cent they are apt to expect those rates from borrowers. Borrowers do not think them unreasonable.”

Vetoes the Compulsory Bill.

Governor Dockery of Missouri has vetoed the compulsory education bill entitled “An act to enforce the constitutional rights of every child in the state to ( an education, to provide for truant or parental schools and attendance officers in cities of 10,000 population or more, and to prohibit the employment of children during school hours.” Governor Dockery declared that the act interfered with the personal rights of parents and savored of paternalism on the part of the state.

ROYAL WEDDING ANNOUNCED.

GRANO DUCMESS HE[?]ENE.

It is publicly announced at Brussels that Prince Louis Napoleon has married the Grand Duchess Helene of Russia, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir. The statement is made in the

Die of Barns and Scalds.

By the explosion of the boiler on the river steamer Ramona near Vancouver, B. C., four persons were killed outright and seven others seriously injured. The dead include two women who were passengers on the steamer and two deckhands. Of the injured the purser and the mate will probably die. The dead are: Mrs. H. M. Morrison, Fore Langley, B. C.; Mrs. Bailey, Mount Lehman, B. C.; John Mack, deckhand; Henry Phipps, deckhand.

ANGRY FLOODS ARE SUBSIDING

Ohio Talley Relieved —Damage at Pittabore: About 93.000,000. The floods in the rivers at Pittsburg are receding after inflicting damage estimated at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and throwing out of employment 50,000 workingmen. While there have been greater floods at Pittsburg there was never one that caused so much financial loss and discomfort. On the Fort Wayne road the worst trouble was a snow blockade between Salem and Massillon, Ohio. This began Saturday morning and tied up the road In twenty-four hours. At 9 o’clock Sunday morning the track was cleared and trains began moving. The same trouble kept the Cleveland trains of the Pittsburg and Lake Brie late, five trains having been blockaded at Windom, near Leavittsburg, for twentyfive hours. This snowfall did not extend east of Newcastle, but at Youngstown, Ohio, it was two feet deep, and the drifting in the cuts north of that city were up to locomotive headlights. The submerged districts in Pittsburg and Allegheny were Sunday a scene of abject misery. Cellars and in home instances the first floors of stores and dwellings are covered with water. Where the flood has subsided it has left behind a greasy, yellow scum two tq three inches deep. The damage to furniture and buildings in Allegheny is estimated at about SIOO,OOO. It will take two months of hot summer weather thoroughly to dry out these houses. In Pittsburg the loss to residences and stores and goods and the cost of cleaning up will amount to amont $250,000.

ERRING BANKERS END LIVES.

President and Cashier, Facing Shortage of 881,000 Die Together. Remorse caused by years of stealing which has made penniless hundreds of their friends and other residents of Vancouver, B. C., who trusted them, or fear of violence at the hands of wronged depositors who were pursuing them, caused Charles Brown, president, and E. L. Canby, cashier, of the First National Bank, which was closed Saturday, to kill themselves. They met death as they had incurred disgrace, together. Their bodies were found Sunday morning, one lying on the other, in a clump of bushes in Fruit Valley, on the outskirts of the town, from which they had fled on being confronted with evidence of their guilt. The wrecking of the First National is supposed to have been brought about by speculation on the part of Brown and Canby. The exact amount of their shortage is not known, but Examiner Mitchell, who is in charge of the institution, is authority for the statement that it is at least SBI,OOO.

G acier Threatens Dawson.

Dawson arrivals at Seattle on the steamship Humboldt say the Klondike is in the throes of a glacial phenomenon. Two months ago a glacier made its appearance on the hillside hack of Dawson. The ice of the glacier is from twelve to fifteen feet thick in places, and besides rendering that section of Dawson uninhabitable, It threatens to render the trail leading to the cemeteries impassable during the summer. Such a result, it is predicted, can he averted only through the construction of a series of culverts and ditches, as the broiling summer sun will keep torrents of water flowing from the ice mountain.

Miners Go on the Warpath.

Three hundred coal miners, armed with revolvers and shotguns, left Evansville, Ind., Thursday night for the Kentucky fields to force the non-un-ion workmen from the mines. Preparations were made at Sehree and other points to handle the invaders. At Earlington 100 citizens from different parts of Hopkins county were summoned on the sheriff’s posse to handle the miners if they come into Hopkins county.

PRINCE SOUIS BONAPARTS.

newspapers and is generally credited. The Grand Duchess Helene is the youngest child of Vladmir, a brother of the late Czar Alexander. She was born Jan. 17, 1882, and is 17 years the junior of Prince Napoleon.

Bride Commits SuiCide.

Mrs. Fanny Coney, wedded last Thursday, committed suicide at English, Ind., by drowning in a well. The well, which is twenty-two feet deep, contains nine feet of water, at the bottom of which the body was found by the husband, who was directed tfl the spot by a note saying: “Good-bye Frank, I love you with my whole soul, but life is not what I expected My body will be in the old well whei you read this.”

PROBE FOR MANILA FRAUD

Scandals Stir Capital Chiefs at Washington. SURPRISE IS MANIFESTED. Commissary Irregularities Cans* the War Department to Take Active Steps to Secure Poll Information —Rapid Living In Certain Army Cliques. Secretary of War Root has cabled General MacArthur at Manila for a full report on the latest developments in the commissary department frauds there, adding that an early reply by telegraph would be expected. The latest disclosures in the scandals hare excited war department officials to renewed efforts to learn the truth, the statement made by General MacArthur heretofore on the subject having led the department to conclude that these frauds amounted to little. Surprise is manifested at Washington because of the report that Captain James C. Read is implicated in the scandal. The Manila dispatches are to the effect that he has already been arrested and that he is deeply involved. Captain Read hails from Pittsburg; his family is reputed to be of considerable social prominence and his father a manufacturer of wealth. Captain Read has been In the service of the United States in the commissary department of the army since July 16, 1898. He was in the military academy at West Point for a short time ten years ago.. The semi-official judgment at Washington is that the scandal will assume considerable proportions before all has been revealed. There is no question in the minds of those who claim to know the situation in Manila as to the high and rapid pace of living in certain army cliques there. Private reports from Manila for months and verbal statements by officers and men who have witnessed passing events in that city are to the effect that thf army of officers in many instances were devoting much more time to dissipation and midnight revels than to chasing the wily insurgent or otherwise doing their duty. It is pointed out at Washington that naturally a few officers will succumb to such temptations, but that it does not follow there is a general laxity on the part of a majority of the men in command. It is believed that arrests will follow within a few days. Major George B. Davis, whose name is mentioned in the dispatch from Manila as 'being credited upon the books of Evans & Co., as having received SI,OOO, is in Washington. He would say nothing when asked by reporters if he desired to reply to the assertion. He was called upon by the war department, however, for an explanation and to an officer said that he knew nothing about the matter. He was closely questioned and said that he never had any money from the firm of contractors mentioned, had not borrowed, and could not explain how there had been any charge made. Evans, of the firm of Evans & Co., is known to some army officers in Washington. Evans was in this country a short time ago, and may now be in New York, if he has not returned to Manila. He is from Niagara, though from which side of the river is not known. At the commissary department General Weston said he had no information to impart concerning the scandal. He reiterated the high praise of his subordinate, Colonel Woodruff, who is in charge of the Manila service, that he expressed when the first reports of the irregularities were received.

Prison for Policy Men.

Recorder Goff of New York in sentencing two men for running policy games said: “Policy gambling, I understand, is the worst form of gambling. If I am informed correctly, there is absolutely no chance for the player to win. It is a villainous scheme to fleece the poor. The gambling in the palatial parlors of our uptown houses is not one-thousandth part as bad as this lower form of vice. It is a poor man’s game, and you have done the worst kind of injury in taking from the poor man his earnings without giving him even a chance for his money. I will sentence you both to three months in the penitentiary.”

Too Cool for Crops.

The crop report of the weather bureau issued at Washington Tuesday shows that over the greater part of the country east of the Rocky mountains the week has been abnormally cool and unfavorable for germination and growth. Excessive rains retarded farm work in the states of the middle Rocky mountain slope and lower Missouri valley, while a large part of the lake region, Southern Florida, and California, need rain. With thee exception of portions of the lake region, Florida, Texas and California, there is generally ample moisture in the soil, and the conditions now most needed.

Bombards Palace of SUltan.

A Rome dispatch from Aden says the Italian consul at Zanzibar has arrived at Aden from the Somali coast, where he went on a special mission to break up the trade in contraband goods. He causea the palace of the sultan of Mijertain, Italian Somaliland, who was largely concerned in contraband transactions, to be bombarded. The sultan’s son was captured and large quantities of arms and ammunition were taken. The sultan fled.

FINDS NEW ELECTRIC POWER.

PnaiTifubi Inventor Discovers an Da* explainable Third Current. Daniel Drawbaugh of Eberlys Mills, Cumberland county, Pa., the original inventor of the telephone at the ace of 74, has stumbled across an unexplainable electrical current of high potentiality in some experiments he has been making recently along lines of wireless telegraphy. Mr. Drawbaugh’a machine is very small and is constructed similarly to the electro-mag-netic apparatus found on telephone Instruments. He turns on the positive and negative currents, subsequently short-circuiting these currents, whereupon he draws anotheaJmd an apparently unknown another part of the diminutive apparatus. The short-circuited current and the third current combined make such a powerful flow of electricity as to completely puzzle those who have witnessed the machine’s performance.

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Buried Corpse as Trespasser.

Mrs. Mary Clybourn, the aged moth-er-in-law of Allen Gregory, now dead, is seeking from the Circuit court at Chicago a decree for the removal of Mr. Gregory’s body from its grave in Rosehill, charging trespass. That a body can be evicted from a grave at the desire of the nearest relatives, even though opposed by the cemetery authorities, has been determined. The question now to be determined on Mrs. Clybourn’s petition is whether a body can be “removed for trespass.” In her petition Mrs. Clybourn sets up her ownership of the lot in which the body of Gregory, “the founder of the Stock Yards,” was buried. She declares that the burial of his body in the lot, being without her express permission, was illegal, and she asks that her property be cleared of the unwelcome incumbrance.

Wall Street’s Faith in Boom.

The apprehension in government circles over the situation in Wall street appears to have considerable basis in the facts as they exist at New York. But whether operators are unaware of the grave possibilities of the present speculative fever, or refuse to inform themselves, or do not care is not quite plain. Over two weeks ago the more conservative men declared it was time to go a bit slow, that while the general prosperity of the country justified present high prices to a considerable extent there was danger in overdoing and in banking on hope and optimism as if there were no limit to their sustaining powers in the market. These words of caution were followed by a slight reaction in prices, but it was for one day only, and then the upward march began and has continued ever since.

Russia Export ing Batter.

“Russia in recent years has been creating a large export trade in butter,” reports Consul Mahin, at Reichenberg, to the state department at Washington. “The exports in 1897 amounted to 19,018,030 pounds, and for the first ten months in 1900 doubled that amount, being 37,729,220 pounds. The principal increase is the butter product of Siberia. To facilitate the trade butter trains, equipped with refrigerating apparatus, have been employed to transport the goods to the ports for shipment. During the season of 1900 two special trains of twen-ty-five cars each were dispatched weekly, loaded with butter for the Baltic ports, where in four months 14,428,000 pounds were delivered.”

Kills Husband and Self.

At midnight, Tuesday night, Mrs. H. B. Tunure arose from her bed at Mason City, lowa, and shot her husband twice through the head, and after making sure that her husband was dead she then killed herself. The six children were awakened only in time to extinguish a fire which had caught in the clothing of their mother, but her body had already been badly burned. Not until after the deed was committed did anyone suspect that she had been acting strangely of late. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that the deed was committed while she was temporarily insane.

Steals $35,000 from a Bask.

A. J. Schroth, a bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Birmingham, was arrested by United States Marshal Leonard, charged with the embezzlement of $35,000 of the bank's* funds. He was released *later on furnishing bail in the sum of SIO,OOO. The defalcation was discovered by National Bank Examiner Slack, who found a number of false entries in the books. Mr. Slack says the bank is in excellent condition and will not be affected. It has a capital stock of sloo,oo#

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why Peruna has become so Justly famous In the cure of catarrhal diseases. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures remain. Peruna does not pallitate; it cures. Mrs. Frederick Williams, President of the South Side Ladies’ Aid Society of Chicago, 111., writes the following words of nraise ............ c for Peruna from: E 973 Cuyler ave., 4 Chicago, m.: 3 /AlyH| “My home is: never wl t h o u t: ing the past six: t years that there: that will at once: c alleviate suffer— Jtttt.ttttttttttttttt. vrynx Ing and actually Mrs. Fred Williams, cure, as Peruna does. Four bottles completely cured me of catarrh of the head of several years’ standing, and if my husband feels badly, or either of os catch cold, we at once take Peruna, and in a day or two it has thrown the sickness out of the Bystem.”— Mrs. Frederick Williams. Mrs. W. A. Allison, of 759 Sheffield avenue, Chicago, 111., is the Assistant Matron of the ...... ....................... People’s Hospi- 2 | tal. She has the 3 i following to say 3 E “I have bad fre- 3 *53 quent opportuni- 3 flg | t ties to observe 5 dbl J the wonders u 1 3 E curative effects t of Peruna espe- 7: daily on persons : suffering with a mm........... ttt A congested condi- Mrs. W. A, Allison, tion of the head, lungs, and stomach, generally called catarrh. It alleviates pain and soreness, increases the appetite and so tones up the entire system that the patient quickly regains strength and health.” —Mrs. W. A. Allison. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.

IN 3 OR 4 YEARS BN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED TyCTßrtsifllKl If you take up your rbrVjKPViIJ home in Western CanRr* ada.tbe land of j Jenty. kaUvTpL ij Illustrated pamphlets. D giving experiences of %al farmers who hue bef* rt PL, come wealthy In growv*irfin 3 ing wheat, reports of < delegates etc-and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent "of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton. 1223 Modnadnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6. "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Special excursions to Wes tern Canada during March and April. Jk HOLLYHOCK POULTRY FABM jpA Illustrated Poultry Catalogue. BSwfeil The secrets of successful pou.try rais* wmkl ing told in plain language; all about in* l|9f cubators, brooders, poultry houses, bow .to hatch and raise every chick, what, when and bow to feed, forcing bens to lay and hundreds of valuable subjects contained in no other catalogue. Tells of 35 varieties popular thoroughbred fowls and quotes extremely low prices. Send 4c in sum ns for postage. Hollyhock Poultry Farm. Box 1467, Des Moines. Is AGENTS WANTED TO CONTROL SALE IN CITIES anti Counties of Our Improved Shoo-Fly Door Spring a useful and quick selling article wanted by every housekeeper In fly time. It keeps flies from getting in the house when door la opened end holds screen doors firm. Territory granted to responsible agents and big profits paid. Bend 2c stamp for details or 50c for sample and begin work. Address ANUERBQX jIFG. CO.. BuAa. Illinois. T AGENTS WANTED Best sefiiap article out. Agents make SIO.OO per day, selling the Rational Window dealer. Brush, rubber, A pail combined. Agent’s sample, prepaid, on receipt of 75 cents In Stamps. Add., with stamp. MSul Wiafcw Cltiser C*. DAYTON, OHIO IU-I-L _ . Fine Gun Metal Watches, WW aTGiIES frum Guns ca; :ureJ In the Spanish American War. Every patriotic American should have one of these Souvenirs of the War with Spain. Gold Filled Bo waod Crown Jewelled Movement; Stem Windsnd Stem Set. Ladle*'size.S4.6o; Genu' size, •A. 66. Order quick. The most serviceable case made. Will send C. O D.. subject to examination, H requested. Diamonds snd High-Grade Gold Filled Watches sold on easy payment*. Agents wanted. J. A. BARTON, 169 Oak wood Btvd., Chicago, UL ■ si Trulanrt ofDr^T^Vß Fbel;>s Brown's Great Remedy for W Ffc*. EpOepsv snd all Nerrons Diseases. Address W a PHILPS BROWS, »S BrMdwtr. lowW|fc, LX. 1 MfINFY tnSh ® e>lnMon UsaaUßAFßandpeys UIIL I 36 per seat laUneL Xow Is the time to NVRTFn l “’' ,t - 6et ,n •*bottom prices 111 If LO ILU and be prepared for four more snd^articid o*^* 0 *^* for our annn.i report Aeetama (o-Opersilvs Ranch Ca.. Great Falls, Msetaea. STOCK FARM FOR SALE. for 050 per sere. Libera] terms arranged. The farm u 1 and *4 miles Xorthwest of VtntouTlowa. Vinton U located on the B. C. B. * X. rallfoad; has MM lnhaMtanu; two number-one Canning factories; one large Pearl Button factory; two Creameries and aumbef one schools. MATT QAABCH, Vinton, la.