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Putting Children to Ned.

Not without reproof for any of that
days sins of omission or commission.
Take any other time but bedtime for
that. If you ever heard little creature
signing and sobbing in it's sleep you
could never do this. Seal their closing
eyelids with kiss and blessing. The
time will come all too soon when thev will
lay their heads upon their pillows lack
ing both. Let them then at least have
TINS sweet memory Of q happy childhood,
OF which no future SORROW or trouble can
rob them. Give them their rosy youth.
Nor need this involve wild license. The
judicious parent will not so mistake nv
meaning. If you have ever met the man
OF woman whose eyes have suddenly
filled when little child has crept trust
ingly to its mothers breast, YOU NAV
have seen one in whose childhood,s home
Dignity and Severity stood where Love
and Pity should have been. Too mucl,
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9 tender, who: escaped without serious In.
~. Mr.. Kinney was q resident of. Water.

stH{ : ; = =
the tender, who escaped without .eriou. ,..@ n.
jury. Mr.. Kinney Was resident % of wv W.ter. M
VILE. f.',r ar !; S.::z *- :s.zt; 7,,
An old man sixty years of ACE: named n;,ntd
Charles h. Pate, committed suicide at the ar
mold House In Owatonna on the 5th, bv cut4inr
ms throat with razor. The deed 10 attribut-
een ea TO mental depression caused by pecqniazy
.:.:et, =. e., = WRIGHT.
A four-year-old, son Of Martin Pyrlick
residing near Delano, was severely scalded
on the 7th BY the upsetting of = pot of coffee.
The house of the editor of the Press in
Glenwood was totally DESTROYED by drc on
the 10th with It's contents. Loss 1905 and no
insurance. ... - :. 80 s'-'
Land hunters are travelling all over the
County and they never fall to find exclusively
timber land OF timber and prairie together in
quantities to suit &c.,. 80
-. TODD
A reward of $s5 ha s been offered for
the recovery of the remains Of Charles Har.
lung VINO was lost In the woods three weeks
ago and is supposed to have perished. an d a.
though forty men have been diligently search
cred.
WRIGHT.
A little boy OF Mr.. Robin in the town
OF Marysville, while sliding with small hand
sled on the ice in Deer Lake. on the 10Th
broke through the ice and was drowned
The child was dead when found, his feet stick
ing in the mud and the hair on the top of bis
head just over the surface of the water. Mr..
y. berthlaumc, OF Marysville, lost ten horse
power threshing machine by fire on the night
Of the 10Th.
A. j. Lamberton has sold 100 acres of
9nimproved land in Courtland for &3900-
Hlnz purchasing 80 acres and Carl Rickert 80
acres. AT the recent letting of the wood
contracts for hospital for insane 14,OOO cords
OF wood were offered, viz: 1890 cords of hard
wood, and 5000 cords soft wood at prices rang
ing from $2.37 to $40 for hard wood, and from
$1.48 to $3.50 for soft OF this amount about
1,1OO cords of soft wood were accepted at prices
ranging from $1.48 to $1.7O at the pump
house; from $1.4 to $1.S5 at the main 6ospt-
tal, and from IS to 81 SO at the branch hos
ais0 az 1 accepted at prices ranging from $40 to
to $2.56 at the branch hospital. .Nicollet
county cast 1873 votes less this wear
than last. Hayes received last wear
1,116 votes and Tilden 667-a total Of
1,783. This year Pillsbury received
l!0O9, and Banning 636-a total of 1915. -.
The extension of the Hastings & Dakota road
is rapidly progressing, and there is fair pros
pect OF the completion of 80 miles by the 1st
Ninth Judicial district as far as known are ar % AZ
follows: Nicollet 307, Brown GIG, Renville 179.
Redwood IA. Lyon will probably give Wallin
200 or more majority, and Lincoln q small ma
jority.
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The Good Old Times.

How good were the good old finest
From book recently published in Ber-
lin it appears that not longer ago than
the middle Of the last century no German
could leave his country without a permit.
If he did, his property was con6scated.
A little boy, 10 years old, being accused
and perhaps justly convicted, Of stealing
a lantern used for lighting the streets,
xing' Kin s'" the King forthwith night inn, sns
prison him. If a man drove horse too
fast, his sovereign beat him with stick
of white thorn. Princes and Princesses
were no exception to such treatment.
The civil service was conducted by off.
GERS who had purchased their appoint
ments. Lieutenants thrashed sefReants,
sergeants thrashed privates, masters
thrashed servants. A deserter from the
army had his nose and ears sliced of.
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A Strange Story

Thirty three years ago family named
Benton, consisting of father, mother, SOD.
and daughter, resided in Western
State near a small town called Blank.
The father was wealthy and lived in style,
and his daughter Mabel, child between
2 and 8 years,of age was always elegantly
dressed, and George, the son, 10y Of !,
was preparing to enter an Eastern school.
One daylittle Mabel disappeared, and her
parents never heard of her again, although
they spent thousands of dollars in search
ing for her. The heart-broken mother
died soon after the loss of her darling and
the fathe, wandered over this country
and Europe, and finally settled in New
York, where he died. Soon George grew
to manhood, and the memory of his lost
sister was almost effaced from his mind
In his 9th year, while visiting married
friend, he fell in love with the governess
of his friends children beautiful girl
Of about %, and after some months they
were married and lived happily for five
or six years, boy and girl being born to
them during that time.
By the death of an uncle in San Francis
co George was left a considerable fortune.
and the lawyer who conveyed the intelli-
gence to him also stated that his sisters
career had been traced. A tramp on his
death-bed in St. LOUIS police station
confessed that he and two companions
had stolen little Mabel Benton for her
clothes and locket which she wore, and
that she had continued with them for
several years, when her bright, pretty
face attracted the attention of kind
hearted lady in Ohio, who adopted her
and sent her to school, where she remain
ed until her patroness died. Mabel then
became teacher in large school in Gin
cinnati, but as her health began to fail
she applied for position as governess,
and was now in the family of Mr.. NJ, or
at least that was the last place he had
heard of her being in.
"What was the name of the family she
was with?" asked George.
"M-," was the answer.
''What name did my sister have2'
"Mabel Ferris"
my God!" cried George, in agony.
"She has been my wife for five years.
Upon further investigation this proved
to be the truth, and the girl nearly went
crazy, as she was devout Episcopalian.
A separation ensued, all property being
equally divided. The children were placed
with friends, as neither parent could
bear the sight Of what was to them the
fruit Of crime against God and man.
The poor girl is still living in . quiet
city in New Englsnd, while the husband
and brother, after spending all his prep
ertv awe a few hundred 601lara in 6issi
patton, shut himself off from all COM
munication with his friends, and is to-day
q poor farmer in the County of Garrett,
among strangers, and where few know
his sadly remarkable story.
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indulgence has ruined thousands OF chill
dren; too much love, not one.
THE CONFLICT IN THE OLD WORLD

The Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times, telegraphs the capture of the po-
sition which General Skobelcff has been at
tacking, would turn all intervening works
toward Rudizena, Tutchenitza and Gravitza
1t seems pretty certain the fighting has not
yet been for the rcdoubts themselves, but for
rifle pits In front of them. The rcdoubts arc
the same as were temporarily occupied by
Gen. Skobeleff, in the battle of Sept 11th. Ac-
c0rding to rumors from the Russian camp,
preparations are making for general attack
on Plevna
A special dispatch from Bogot says
General skobelcff, on capturing position on
Green Hill, NEAR Brestovac, Immediately threw
up a redoubt, which gave rise to the belief at
headquarters that one ofthe Turkish redoubts
had been captured. Mehemet Ali is moving
with his force at Sofia to position at Chalk.
ovety, ten miles west Of Sofia, where Low
Palaska intersects the road to Nish Herr. He
will be able to watch Sofia if needed to CO.
operate with the force at Orchanis.
The assault on Kars was fixed for the
18th inst The troops were ready for action
by nightfall, but, owing to the badness of the
weather the assault was Indefinitely post
poncd: Gems. Heinman and Tergukassoff
have only about p, 600 men, inadequate for a
regular siege of Erzeroum. They must carry
it by assault or retire to Soghauli Mountain.
They cannot assist the army of Dove Boyun.
The assault on Fort Azizie was hand-to-hand
fight for the trenches. Then the Fort was
carried at the point Of the bayonct, but Me.
hcmet Pasha, the Prussian, rallied the Turks,
who rctook the fort and repulsed the Rus
slams with great slaughter. The Russian
killed, wounded and missing, from the COM
mcnccment Of the war to November Z, is g.
663.
A correspondent at Constantinople tele-
graphs: council, over which the sultan
presided, was held. am informed that the
general feeling expressed, and by no one more
strongly than by the sultan himself, is in fa-
vor of making an effort to put an end to the
war, in which enough has been done on both
sides for glory, and which If continued must
inflict lasting misery upon two empires. 1.
was felt, however, that at present sufficient
reliance cannot be placed on the declaration
OF Russia. That even while seeking to obtain
profitable peace, preparations for prolonged
resistance must be vigorously carried on I
am told that subject to this determination to
prosecute war, if an honorable peace cannot
be maintained, it was resolved that the time
for cndcavoring to put an end to the war has
arrived. If my information is correct, the
grand vizlcr will inform the British ambassa.
dor of the decision ofthe council, in the hope
that England will aid in putting stop to the
war which SO greatly damaged her own trade
and threatens to compromise her best inter-
ests
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Pacific Cable Com pany.

The Trans-Pacifc Cable company for
laying telegraph cable from San Francisco
to Japan and China via the Hawaiian islands,
organized on the 14th. President, Leland
Stanford; vice presidents, C. c.. Morcns and
John 7. Miller; secretary, A. s. Hallidie;
treasurer, Mark Mcdonald; directors, George
s. Dodge, VIM. Norris, Eugene Sullivan,
William Irwin, o. II. LaGrange, D. L. McDon-
aid, VIM. Simon, Frank Pixlcy, N. X. Maston
4!l Of California, Henry O'Rclley of New York
Jafnes c. Flood was elected director, but has
not yet significd his acceptance. The capital
stock OF the company is $4,000, 900, in shares
OF 500 each. Vice President Dorcns will
leave in few weeks to secure the necessary
franchises from the Hawaiian, Japan and Chi
ncsc governments.
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A Kcokuk special of the 8th says the
Northern Line steamboat, Alex. Mitchell sank
TOUR miles below that city this evening at 5
O'Clock. She struck snag and went down in
half an hour, the water cominstwo feet above
the deck. All of the IS passengers got off
safely but some 200 tons offreight is damaged.
The same boat sank near Burlington in Aug
ust last.
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Anti-Silver Remen< .izat,on

A petition asking the Senate and Pres
idcnt to withhold their approval from the
Bland silver bill, or from any bill which pro.
yidcs for the reconciliation of silver as q full
legal tender, has received the signatures of the
banks of Boston, and is now in circulation
among the same class OF institutions in New
York
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sponsible for tho Coll,.,on

After investigating the recent disaster
at Two Rivers, Wis, by which the schooner
Magellan with all hands went down, indispu.
table evidence has been obtained that the pro-
peller Hurd, Captain Hunt, from Chicago to
Lake Superior was the vessel which collidcd
with the Magellan.
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- HOUSE,, Nov. 17:The army bill was
reported with the Senate amendments. All
were concurred in except the one striking out
the appropriation Of $4,000 for converting
smooth bore cannon into rites, few Demo.
Gratis voting with the Republicans. in the af-
hrmative. Mr.. Stephens introduced q bill
authorizing. the issue of $780, 100000 in ex-
chequcr bills cxchangcable for three per cent
bonds, for the redemption of legal tender
notes. The house went into committee Of the
whole on the Paris exposition bill and was
addressed by Messrs Swami, Hamilton,
Williams, and Others
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Tweed Again Confesses.

In the case of the People vs.. William
NJ. Tweed, to recover $9s3646, paid by the
city on fraudulent bills through conspiracy
with Watson, deceased, judgment against
plaintiff was entered by confession in the su-
preme court of New York on the 18th inst.
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Der. Once an attempt was made at res.
cue, by cutting through a stairway, but
it was Intellectual. The cries grew louder,
then suadenly decreased, and all that
could be heard after wore groans and
cries at slight intervals. t
" There were others in the building also,
clerks and policemen, and they too left
in . hurry. Scarcely half had reached
the sidewalk when another crash was
heard, and in few moments three OF
four firemen were brought out by their
comrades One was seemingly dead. and
the others badly hurt. BY twenty min
utes of 10 every one who had been inside
so fur as known, except the two caught
in the elevator, had sought safety in
flight. '-...'
By 10 O'CLOCK
the fire had reached its greatest height
when, bursting through the upper win.
dows in both fronts Of the building, it lit
ur the city for miles around. By the
time the firemen had removed their
streams from the interior to the outside,
and by putting on extra steam some of
the engines were able to send fair streams
into the topmost windows. But the ma
jority fell short. So it confined to burn,
raging most fiercely about the elevator
ways, until II o'clock, from which time it
commenced to wane.
The firemen continued their work all
night and even the next day some of the
engines continued to play upon the ruins.
The loss is variously estimated from
on to two million dollars, but one and
half will probably cover the loss.
Field & Letter had from one million to
twelve hundred thousand dollars of stock
on hand. The building was owned by
the Singer Sewing machine company and
cost about $7oo, 900 though it could now
be built for half a million. Insurance on
goods and building aggregates $780,
There were seven hundred clerks, and
one hundred and fifty sewing girls en-
ployed in this immense es Establishment.
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The Dcad.vood Mine Trouble.

The soldiers ordered by Gen. Sheridan
to assist Sheriff Bullock in enforcing the law
in the Kccts mine case, are reported in close
proximity to Deadwood Affairs at the mine
remain virtually the same as last reported.
The miners are holding possession and close
ly watched by the deputy sheriff.
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Now Trlals Denied, !,

Judge Townsend has overruled mo-
tions for new trials in the case Cardozo and
Congressman Smalls. Motions in arres4
OF Judgment were then made The court
holds these under advisement until the 26th
inst.
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that sort of a woman, very we'll. am
sorry fo1 her, but I can't help it. How
can / communicate to her nature those
little subtle refnements and delicate
graces that are alone the preropatiye of
finer spirits s?"-Puck.
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"lf my wife chooses to throw sauce
pans and stove-lids at my head, and tear
my shirt and chuck me out of the
house," he soliloquized, as he got up
from the gutter, livery well. If she Is
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SUMMARY OF THE GENERAL NEWS.
An EaRth4aake Near Home.

=, A very perceptible shock of earthquake
was felt on the 18th, in southern Dakota west.
en- Iowa, ,Ncbraska and as far south as Topeka
Kansas. An Omaha dis: atch of that date says:
An earthquake shock visited Omaha and
vicinity at about twenty minutes to twelve
O'Clock this morning. It was pretty generally
felt all over the city. By people ON the streets
and in the buildings especially the shock was
very distinctly felt creating intense excite
ment among thcoccupants and causing them
to rush for the doors. The shake lasted from
one-half minute to minute, according to the
statement Of different parties after the excite
mcnt occurred. AT the post office building the
United States circuit court was in session in
tho large court room on the third floor. In
the middle of the business suddenly a large
clock on the wall swung to and fro, and a
large chandelier suspended from the ceiling
swaycd. The general vibration of the
i building was noticed. A general panic
ensued. The court adjourned or rather
stopped short in business. Tables
moved, chairs rocked and men them
selves were shaken from head to foot.
Persons who were on their feet at the time
weakened at the knees and became faint.
Similar scenes occurred at the county court
House, whore the district court was in session.
At military headquarters the shock caused the
inmates of the building to make start for
outdoors. In the Grand Central hotel the
shock caused some little sensation. In the
upper stories of Caldwells. block the earth
quake was distinctly felt; at the smelling
works, in the lumber yards, in the Union Pa
cifc headnuarters n was stronr whom mocv
employees ran out In offices in every quarter
OF the city similar incidents occurred Dis
patches received state that the earthquake cx-
tended from Omaha to Sidney, and was se-
vcrcly felt at nearly every station on the road
between these two points. The walls of the
Court House at Columbus were severely
cracked in many different places, and one or
two buildings are more or less injured.
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THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURES.

. We give below the names of the Sena-
tors and Representatives elected to the
next Minnesota Legislature, Republicans
in Roman, and Democrats in ltaltc. The
Senate stands, Republicans 80, Democrats
II. The House stands Republicans 50,
Democrats 81, Republican majority on
joint ballot 81:
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Leprosy In New York.

The New York Sunday Mercury an
nounces leprosy in that city owing to arrivals
Of Cinnamon from California and that some
cases had been fatal,
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Strikers Convicted.

Geo. W. Stevens. Geo. w. Kemp, War
rcn H. Walker, Chas. A. Ste, ems, Benz. Whit
ten, Taylor s. Dodge, Henry G. Mills and Ed
ward Merrill, striking engineers on the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad have all been found
guilty at Portland, Me-, of conspiracy in OBJ
structing the mails.
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A Railroad Kinx's Failure.

A petition has been filed in the United
States district court at Brooklyn to adjudicatc
Conrad Poppenhausen, an extensive manu.
facturer Of hard rubber in this country and
Germany, a bankrupt. He was reported worth
many millions. His embarrassments grew
out Of investments in the Long Island rail-
roads, all of which he controlled Liabilities.
1921 ,s56, nominal assets *7,3OS,8 1888, chiefly
Long Island railroad securities Drexel, Nor
gan & Co. discounted 100000 in notes of the
Finishing, North Shore {. Central railroad
company endorsed by Poppenhausen. He
was also largely interested in real estate at
college Point Long Island, which has rapidly
decreased in value within a few years.
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The ray OF Letter Carriers.

The House Committee on post offices
and post roads have agreed to recomend the
passage Of the bill providing that all letter
carriers in the free delivery service shall be
divided into two classes, and that the first
class shall receive $3.50 and the second class
$500 per annum, the distinction of classes to
be made by postmastcrs aud the appoint
ment to the first class to be made by promo.
tions from the second class.
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Border Mexican Trovb,~.

San Diego dispatch says: The chronic
revolutionary state of affairs below the line in
Lower California, presents new aspect lust
now in an uprising under one Rodeniquez. land
the capture of party who have been authorl-
ties defacto since Villagrana's Punishment
nearly year ago. It is reported that two
persons were killed in the emeuta. People
on our side at Campo have been kept con-
stantly on the alert for several months in
view Of the unsettled state of affairs in their
nciShb0rhood
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Suspension or chree Ranks.

The Reading, Pa. Savings bank, the
leading banking institution Of the county has
suspended. Deposits nearly one million dol
lars Liabilities are not stated. The officers
announce that the assets will be sufficient to
pay all claims. The shrinkage of values, de.
probation Of property, depressed condition of
business and general distrust and want of con-
fidence are given as the causes which led to
the suspension. Deposits have fallen off
100000 III the last two years. Immediately
upon the announcement that the Reading
Savings bank had suspended, the banking
house Of Bushong & Bro, having deposits be-
tween 100000 and 100000, closed its doors
and also the Dime Savings bank, Boyer & Sell,
crs proprictors.
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1nc EAueAAty 0oV1n4S bark stockholders
Judge Moore, in the case of the suits
OF the individual stockholders against the
stockholders of the Fidelity Savings bank of
Chicago has decided the stockholders are
liable and must pay their indebtedness to the
banks. creditors as a whole.
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service policy of the administration, with
special reference to the Louisiana contest and
sundry nominations before the committees.
Opinions were freely interchanged by nearly
oil the senators. showing that majority were
not In accord with the views and action of the
President on the subjects discussed, and less
than majority disposed to make any formal
Issue with him. Such an issue was not
deemed cxpedient in party sense, nor called
for by the public interests under the present in
tcrests under the present circumstances.
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R~publi acn Senatorial C.-e-.

~ The Republican members of the United
states Senate held caucus on the 10th,- last
ing from about noon till after S O'Clock. It
was very fully attended. The topics discussed
were the so-called Southern policy and civil