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RauandRiver News

The annual report of the Rock Island
! company gives the following statement:
Total amount Of capital stock $4l $50, 900;
bonded debt, S17,500,OOO upon 1,11719
miles; aggregate liabilities, common stock
and bonded debt, $50, 49O,O 900. The total
length of main line and branches is $780,
AZ, the aggregate length of all tracks Elain
line branches, and sidings being 1,783.37.
The road carried 2,767, 251 passengers aud
3, l03, ,499 tons of freight during the year.
The total earnings were 81, 1858, ,05S, So, 703, -
POS being from the passenger departme mt
and 81, S39 255 from the freight department.
The income from other sources, rents for
use of road, telegraph earnings, etc, was
$3.50, S71, making the total income from all
sources $12, ,142, $50. The operating expenses
and taxes amounted to 1854, 437.
The Menominee railway, extending from
the main line OF the Omaha railway at Me-
nononie Junction to Menom0nie City, be-
ing a branch Of the Omaha line, three
miles in length, with sidiugs aggregating
two miles, has rendered its annual report
for the year ending June 80, to Railroad
Commissioner Hagen Of Wisconsin. This
shows the total income of the year to have
been 1909; operating expenses $17, ,357; ex-
cess Of operating expenses over income
S12, S47. The sum of s., 77S was received
from the Omaha company on account of
loss in operating for the six months ending
Dec. 81, 1882, leaviHg the deficit still S7,076.
r. NJ. Soeets has been appointed soliciting
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Panl
railway in place of Harry E. Dlckenson, re-
signed. Mr.. Sceets has lately been agent
for the Milwaukee & Northern al Green BAY
Wis, but is well known in Milwaukee, as
he hold the position of soliciting agent for
the Chicago d Northwestern there for three
years.
The Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia
railroad company reports its gross receipts
for September to be S2e5 900; net profits,
$24,65O. Notwitb standing the strikes in the
bituminous coal region the receipts for
October will be 1926, OO9; the net profits
$4,000, should the strike cease as il is ex-
pected it will.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway during the month Of
September aggregated 81, 22O, ,6s4.37 against
81 $50, 1904 for the corresponding month
last year, a increase of ;$269, 974 33 The
total eafnin during the fourth week of
September were $9740OO, an increase OF
$1,000 over the same week last year.
A Missouri Pacific and Wabash, st. Louis
& Pacific circular announces that these COM
panies are now running refrigerator cars ior
transportation Of perishable property from
Chicago to st. Louis every Tuesday. Thurs.
day and Saturday evenings. These arrive
in st. Louis every Thursday, Saturday and
Monday mornings.
The Railway Age shows in its current is
sue the amount Of main track added the
railways of the Union during the nine
months ending Sept. 30 to have been ,244
against sos for the same period of last
year.
The Grartsburg bIanch Of the St. Paul &
Duluth has reached the st. Croix river, and
as soon as the bridge is built It will at once
be extended to Grantsburg, Wis, on the
7th inst
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The art of tempering copper which
was known among the ancients appears
to have been lost, although it is so de-
sirable that it should be understood. 1t
has been repeatedly attempted in mod
ern times. but unsuccessfully. In this
the people of the dark ages appear to
have been much in advance of those of
the present day. Copper implements
found in the graves of Indians which
have undoubtedly been buried for CEN
turies, are found to be tempered equal
to the steel implement Of the present
dav.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
MashInRton News Notes.

The case of First Lieut. James F. Simp-
son, OF the third cavalry, tried by court
martial, on charges of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman, in marrying a
woman who had been his mistress, will soon
receive final action. The conrt found
Lieut Simpson gu''i and sentenced him
Advocate Gen. Swain, in his review of the
case, takes exception to the action OF the
court, and recommends that the sentence be
set aside.
Prof. Nordenskjold, referring to the
statement of Hans Hendrix. the Esquimaux
that Lieut.. Greely, commander of the Amer
ican Arctic e. edition, had been murdered
by his mutinous crew, telegraphs that Hen
dirk was told a brave commander had been
murdered, which, Prof. NOrdenskjol says.
is evidently an Esquimaux exaggeratiOn, re-
sembling the slander circulated rs to the
cause of Capt. Hal"s death IN 1871.
Officers of the First aud other army corps
met in Washington few days ago to per-
feet arrangements for a visit of veterans to
the battle field of Bull Run on the 18th inst.
A number of confederate officers were pres
ent. The latter have appointed a commit
tee of five to assist in locating the position
of bOtA armies. The union and confeder-
ate positions are to be designed by flags OF
different cOlOrs
The President has accepted two sections
Of the Northern Pacific railroad; one OF 75
miles in Montana territory, and tine other
of SO O3 miles, from Columbia river to
Portland, Oreg.
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Personal Gossip.

Judge F. s. ellison, Of Fond du Lac, Wis,
was gone to Washington tolargue before the
supreme court of the United States a case
that involves the liability of the general
government. Judge Gilson's clients own
land along Lake Winnebago. which thew
claim Is injured by the overflow caused by
the dam at Neenah, which Is a part OF the
Fox and Wisconsin river improvement.
This case governs some seventy-fve or a
hu -dred others. The aggregate damage
claimed amounts to $4,000. Judge Gil
sons clients have secured a verdict OF $40. .
600 from the state circuit court, and this
has beea affirmed by the supreme court OF
the Slate.
Rear Admiral Benjamin Franklin Sands
died at Baltimore, Nd, on the Sd inst. He
was born IN Baltimore, Feb. IL, 1912, and
entered the navy April 1, 1926, as a
midshipman. He was promoted to a lieu.
tenancy In $780, 10 the rank of commando 7
in 1855, captain in 1852, and commander in
1866, gaining the post Of rear admiral in
1871. He served with distinction in the
Mexican war. and commanded the Fort
Jackson in both the Fort Fisher fights.
he was recommended for promotion by
Rear Admiral Porter in the latter's official
dispatch of Jan. 28, 1862. He retired from
active service in 1874.
Cardinal McCabe has issued a pastoral
letter in which he says tsat, owing TO tie
Justice and good sense OF modern states
men, many former educational grievances
had been redressed, but much remains 10
be done II Catholics are 10 be placed upon
level with other denominations. In this
respect he says he does not ask for his peo-
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General News Items.

Concerning the failure Of Coleman Bros,
clothiers of New York, a gentleman famil-
lar with their affairs says the failure was
not unexpected. At one time they were
rated among the 500, 900 firms, but the re-
tirement of a son of one Of the Coleman &
who lives in Europe, and who took $3.50, 600
out Of the business, together with the heavy
mining losses of one member of the firm
are the causes Of their gong under. The
assignees have commenced taking stock,
but have been delayed by Jewish holidays.
II is believed the liabilities will not exceed
500. 600.
s. r. Crumbaugh, the collector of internal
revenue of the Second Kentucky district is
IN Louisville to answer before the United
States circuit court on a charge of using
government envelopes and stamps for
private correspondence. The opinion pre-
walls that the charge grew 0nt Of personal
ehihlty on the part Of former attaches of
Crum oaugh's Office, and that an invsstiga-
Ton wil result in the matter being dis
missed.
The removal ofthe remains of the IO7
North Carolina COnfederate dead from Ar
hngton has been completed. The caskets
were taken TO Alexandria. and will be placed
IN Grace church until their shipment TO
Baltimore on the 10th.
ChOng Non, Philadelphia's Chinaman.
has been refused citizenship by Judge Yerkes
In compliance with the anti-Chinese law.
New Yorks imports last week were Ss,-
6IS,sSO. There has heen a falling of since
January Of t4O,OO0.0O0.
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pie the slightest privilege as against Others,
but only equSlity and justice.
Maj. T. ]. Abbott. for forty years a clerk
in the war department, died in Washing.
ton few days ago, aged eighty.four. Under
his pillow after his death was found $33, 0Oc
in government bonds. He had a consids
able amount besides in other securiues-a.
in money.
Father Carroll, the Chicago priest, eighzI
six years old, who was severely hr ~
New York in August, was called <
Mgr. Capel the other day. He is reco~- -
ing.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his
eighty-third birthday on the 80 inst, ct
Newport, r. l., and received numerous let.
ters and kilograms of congratulations.
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The Railroad Gazette of Sept 2sth re-
ports the construction Of POS l-2 miles
of new railroad throughout the United
States during the month ending Sep
tember 25th, making 1898 miles thus far
this year. The total new track reported
in the corresponding date for twelve
years past has been as follows: 1888,
1896 miles; 1882, 7,2S5; 1881, 4,774; 1880,
1907; 1879, 2 1924; 1873, ,267; 1877, l, 1853;
1876, l,677; 1875, S04; 1874, 1896; 1873,
PISS; 1872, 1870. The statements in
clude main tracks only, no account be-
ing taken of second tracks or other ad-
ditional tracks or sidings. Last weeks
report was about the largest this year.
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A noticeabIe feature in south Ameri

A noticeable feature in South Ameri-
can commerce of late has been the very
large increase in the number Of steam
ers visiting Argentine ports. There is
said to be a foreign steamer now for al
most every day of the month. Five
steamers now ply regularly between
Beunos Ayres and Bahia Blanca, a fact
which strikingly testifes to the devel-
opment of the southern territories of
the republic. These vessels are British
built, and owned chiefly by British cap
italists.
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A horse chestnut tree in City Hall park,
New York is in blossom.
Doings of Criminals.

The smuggling of Chinese across the
borders from British Columbia has be-
come a thriving business. The Victoria
Colonist confirms the statement that, not
withstanding the representations of the
treasury agent sent TO investigate the mat
ter, Chinese smuggling is largely carried
on, and that Victoria has become the rem
devious forChinese settlers TO cross over to
the United States. A great number of saw
mills on Puget sound employing Chinese
is tao immediate cause why so many are
smuggled over in that section.
Frank Meyers and Austin Gutherie cou-
sins, quarreled about girl at Black Fork
Creek, Choctaw Nation. They we're mount
ed on horseback. Knives were drawn, and
a most terrible fight ersued, the combatants
spurring their horses together and slashing
at each other with their weapons. The fight
lasted half an hour. Meyers YVES cut in q
shocking msnner, one arm being mass OF
gashes. Gutherie was terribly wounded.
At Northboro, Mass, on the 7th inst, a
man named Taylor, from Brooklyn, on q
visit with his ife to the home of Richard
Elwood, shot his wife and then blew out
his brains. The woman was indUced to go
into field, and while there The shots were
fired. The woman is expected to recover,
the ball having entered her throat and COM
ing out through the roof of her mouth.
The man died instantly.
Herman Hillman, = young farmer of
Lawrenceburg, Ind, was recently fatally
stabbed at dance, which was given in his
honor at the house of Henry Humfeldt, by
Albert Ross. Ross and one Trulock had
catered unbidden, and apparently for the
purpose Of killing Hillman. Trulock COM
menced the quarrel by insulting Hillman,
and Ross rushed in and stabbed him and
then got away.
A man named Kelly and Luretta Mungle,
a fascinating widow, whose conduct was
not approved by the good people of Hills
boro, Ky, were so notified and refusing TO
heed the warning, were visited at night by
mob, who tied them to trees and gave them
an old-fashioned slave whipping, the lash
being laid the heavier upon the man.
John K. Snyder, president of the Elk.
change bank Of Chenoa, ILL.,, which made
an assignment a few days ago, was arrested
recently aud taken to Bloomington on a
charge Of swindling and embezzlenent
preferred by two Of his creditors, who assert
that be received funds knowing the bank
was insOlvent.
An Lung, the Chinaman sentenced to be
hung Feb. at Maiden, Mont, has escaped
from the Meagher county Jail. The China.
man took with him heavy chain (riveted
about one OF his ankles), and also a pair Of
handouts, with which his wrists were fa3-
tened together.
On the morning { ( the LIST inst. the cloth.
ing store of Rosenthall Bros, Minneapolis
Minn., was robbed Of nearly all the over.
coats in the establishment and a number
Of dress suits. The loss was about 5000.
Mrs. John Austin had her husband ar
rested in New York for desertion. She
showed 200 love letters he had received
from a dozen different girls.
Frederick Mathews, who suicided in New
York last month, left Ellen Fields, his
sweetheart $40, coo.
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An address of congratulation from the
international Arbitration and Peace
Association for Great Britain and Ire
land has been sent 70 Signor P. S.
Mancini, minister for Italy. The ad-
dress dwells on the services Of sisnor
Mancini in procuring the embodiment.
in the treaty ofcommerce between Italy
and Great Britain, signed on the 10th of
June, 1883, of clause binding the two
high contracting powers TO submit TO inn
partial reference any dispute that may
arise in the Interpretation orapplication or
Of the said treaty, and Of a clause of ar
bitration IN q treaty between Italy and
Belgium, signed Dec. IL, 1882, and on
his long labors TO give practical effect to
the bene6cent principle Of arbitration,
instead Of diplomatic conflicts and ulti-
mate appeals to force. The address is
signed by Lord Shaftesbury, the duke
Of Westminster. Lord Aberdare, Lord
Robartes, the bishop Of Exeter. Mr..
Bright, NJ. p, Mr.. villers, NJ. P, Sir
Wilfrid Lawson, NJ. p, Sir John Lub-
book, NJ. p, Sir Edwin Watkin, NJ. p,
chairman of the Channel Tunnel com
pany, and many members Of parliament
and other gentlemen
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The London Times is supporting the
project for a memorial 10 the inventor
Of Illuminating gas, William Murdook. 1t
is related of him that when he was ma
king his experiments with ish-skins 10
be used by brewers as a substitute for
isinglass, he went to London and took
expensive lodgings at the West End.
Absorbed in his new discovery, he used
TO 90 out with a fish basket, which he
brought home full of fish; then he would
fay the fish on his drawing-room table,
and hang the skins to dry on velvet sofas
and silk curtains. When his landlady
caught him at work there was a scene 7;
and Murdock, much to the surprise Of
his simple mind, was ANONYMOUSLY
elected, after being made to pay DANA
ges. The Murdock memorial committee
which is to be formed under Sir VIII
liam Sieman's auspices, will endeavor
to collect funds for erecting statue on
the Thames embankment, and also for
purchasing Murdock's house at Hands
worth, which it is propose to convert
into a gas museum, with library and
reading-rooms, for the workingmen of
Birmingham.
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One of the create st feats OF raft tow
ering yet recorded was that recently
announced of a raft measuring twelve
feet deep and twenty-four feet wide,
consisting .i5,3OO logs, towed in safety
from st. Johns, N. B., to -Sew York, a
distance of65O miles, which demonstrates
the practibility of furnishing mills with
logs cut at long distances from the lum-
Der manufacturing establishments.
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There does not appear to be that
unanimity of feeling and opinion in Ire
land which precedes national victory.
The old feud between Orangemen and
Ribbonmen is revived, and the bitter
antaeonism comes to the surface in the
shane of mobs and riots.
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insurance, $4,000. Thirteen firms were
burned out.
Sykes & Hughes lest a valuable barn and
several stacks OF gain by prairie fire near
Darlington, OAK, few days ago.
A Mr.. Lewis Of Milhank, Dakota, recent
ly fell usder a moving train, bis body being
completely severed at the hips.
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1t is not very creditable to the skill
aud enterprise of American saw-makers
that, while an American band say forty
feet long is produced for Si5, French
blade the same length costs $40, and is
much the cheaper even then because OF
its superiority.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-11-07

A case OF extraordinary longevity
is reported by Russian papers from
a Bessarabian province, where Savt-
chuk, man Of above 100 years Of
age, enjoys perfect health and
strength, but whose white hair has
a greenish tinge. He is Little
Russian by birth, and settled in
Bessarabia when it was yet under
dominion. His eldest son, who is
more decrep,d than his father, is
eighty-seven years old. The village
Of 1870 houses where Savtchuk now
lives has risen from one cottage,
which he built a long time ago with
the help Of a friend, and is exclu..
sive|y inhabited by direct descend.
ants Of the two first inhabitants.
The tribe of the Saytchpks is COM
posed Of fifty families.
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'1TEe question Of his care and
food is not important. He eats very
little and ia annfont Ia ctond with

'sTEe question Of his care and
food is not important. He eats very
little and is content to stand with
much dignity in the shade and seem.
ingly ponder on the past.
This letter was received by Gener.
al Holbird, Quartermaster. General
of the Army, who forwarded it to
the Adjutant General. That officer
sent the letter through the routine
rounds, and when it reached Score.
tary Lincoln there Were eleven in.
dorsements of "Don' t sell the MULE
upon it.
The following protest against
the sale Of the mule comes from
General William Tecumseh Sher-
man:
81 have seen that mule, and
whether true or false the soldiers
believe it was left at the Big Spring,
where Mt. Vernon barracks now
stands at the time General Jackson's
army camped there about 1920.
Tradition says it was once sorral,
but now it is white from age.
'sThe Quartermaster's Depart
ment will be chargeable with in
gratitude if that mule is sold or the
care and maintenance of it thrown
on the charitable officers of the post.
/ advise that it be kept in the De.
partment, fed and maintained till
death. y
The General adds the following
postscript:
II think that mule was at Fort
Morgan, Mobile Point, when [ was
there in 1872
Secretary Lincoln, under date of
October rs, comes to therelief
Of his muleship in the follow.
ing official order, duly signed, and
with The big and great seal Of the
u nited States upon it;
''Let this mule be kept and well
cared for as long as he lives.
''By order of the Secretary. Sig.
ned, John Tweedale, Chief Clerk. .
The mules fate having been set.
tied, it is hoped that tranquility
and peace will reign supreme in
army circles.
HOWARD.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-11-07

At Champaign, ILL.,, there is a
young man from Turkestan, Asia.
learning to make sugar from sorg-
hum. In Asia sorghum is extern
sive'y grown as a forage crop, but
no attempt has been made to make
sugar of it. At the close Of the
working season he will return home.
In conversation with writer in the
Fa,'me, s. Review he said that on his
return, Sin connection with his
family, he would commence prepar
ations for sugar manufacture, which
he said, would require till the sea-
son of 1885 to perfect, as all the
machinery required in the business
will have to be transported nearly
one thousand miles on the back of
camels.''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-11-07

The Attorney General has decid-
ed, in an opinion just rendered, that
women are not qualified to vote for
candidates for office Of County Sup
erintendent of Schools in this State.
He construes the law permitting
women to vote for school officers to
apply only to the Office Of district
directors. This view of the question
is we believe, in conflict with that
taken by a former Attorney General
of the State.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

Eight acres of oats on H. D. Cho]-
lars farm, near Redwood Falls, aver
age seventy-six bushels to the acre,
and on forty-two acres of the same
grain Gfty.three bushels to the acre
was the average yield.
A large party of people from Owa.
tonna are going to California or other
districts on the Pacific cost to spend
the Winter. The number is so large
that a special chartered car for the
travellers is talked of.
Sunday night Henry Griesee of
Rushford, a young man Of twenty
years, employed as brakeman on
the Southern Minnesota division, fell
from the train between Peterson and
Whalan and was killed.
Diphtheria is said to prevail again
in Minneapolis to such an extent that
a quarantine has been established
against large number of families in
which the disease prevails.
Minneapolis has Aourishing society
made up of the sons of veterans.
Next to being a soldier is being the
son of soldier, is what these young
men think.
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The adjutant generals annual re-
port contains the very significant
admission that, in spite of every ef-
fort, it has been impossible to find
satisfactory recruits to fill even our
nominal army of 5000 men, and Of
those who were accepted nearly ane-
half were foreigners. Another extra
ordinary feature Of the report is the
statement that the losses by dis
charge, death and desertion for the
year footed up 9,749 men, Or 40 per
cent Of the whole military establish
ment. During the year 1878 men
deserted, and apparently without
recapture or Inconvenience to them
selves.
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Judge John @. Farmer of Spring
Valley was shot at Howard, Oak,
a few days ago, but not dangerously
hurt. The shooting was caused by
the accidental discharge Of the gun
Of Lawyer Pidge, who belonged to
Judge Farmers shooting party.
One shot penetrated the forehead of
the Judge, and lodged near the left
eye, where it was extracted; another
entered the right cheek, and the
third wounded the left hand at the
base of the thumb. The main
charge missed the Judge, the three
stragglers doing the mischief.
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Pennsylvania Republic
an by 10000.
Even New York makes
a Good Showing.
Snecial Telegram to New Ulm Review:

Special Telegram to New Ulm Review:
ST.. PAUL, MIMI, Nov. 9th, 1885,
"Pioneer Press estimate midnight: To-
tai returns from fifty-four precincts
in State give Hubbard Loss l,l22. Zig
uring on this basis total losses will be
from fifteen to twenty thousand,
which places his Majority about ten
thousand. Republican committee figur-
ing from same reports place Republi-
can majority fifteen thousand above.
This however, does not include remote
towns where Republican gains are ex-
pected, nor lIennepin and Ramsey
Counties, in former of which Hubbard
will have from five hundred to two
thousand and in latter about five hun
dred maj. Everything quiet through
out State. Weather fine. Vote in
creased one fourth over last year.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-11-07

The feeling among the colored
people of the south over the recent
civil rights decision is growing
quite bitter. In New Orleans the
State laws are being put in force to
the disadvantage of the negro. The
railway companies have already
given orders to exclude negroes Of
every rank from the cars in which
white men ride, and the street car
companies of that city are moving
in the same direction. The Demo.
Gratis are naturally taking advan
tage Of this state of things to Sc.
cure the colored vote, and the ne
groes are looking anxiously to the
north to learn what aid and comfort
the Republicans are disposed to
give them.