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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27
FOURTEEN PERSONS BURNED.
Fatal Fire in Boarding House at
Tower. Minnesota.


Tower. Minnesota.
A special from Tower, 30 miles north OF
Duluth Mimi, says the b arding-house aud
saloon Of Nelson Barnaby was burned. Itwas
q riekety structure and burned so rapidly
that it was W tn difficulty that any one IS
capped. Many Of the inmates jumped from
the upper stories, and fourteen persisted in
the flames. Those whose names are known
are Robert Nhitford, VIM. Bvrnes Mike
Trump, Dan O'Conuell and Alex Brandt
Two other boarding houses were burned bat
the inmates escaped, Seven tcdles have
been taken outof tie ruins, and seven persons
in addition are missing.
The stairway was very narrow, end the
men became so involved in the struggle that
none got out. The extreme cold, tho ther-
momtter indicating 40 fellow, made the sui
ferings of those who escaped very great, and
also made it almost impossible to do effec-
tive work in suppr ssing the flames The
bodies Of all the men taken out are burned to
IN unrecogn Fable mass, only the trunks 7
naming Robert Whitford was well known
explorer. He was the original proprietor If
Tower town site; the other men taken out
were WoCdsmen
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27


Last night my dream-clad feet did tread
On we'll remembered paths; and did see
The self same scenes-the same stars shed
Their dreamy light on you and me;
The little stream coursed on its silent way,
Our little boat rocked idly at our feet,
And side by side we watched the shadows
play,
And list to strange, weird music, wildly
sweet
Last night.
Last night we drifted down the self-same
stream;
And / looked down into those midnight
eyes.
And read in their clear depths my lifelong
dream;
& They were to me my heaven and my para
disc
You sang, and e'er the echoes died away
My heart beat wildly with throbbing
pain,
My eyes were weeping, for could not stay
The tears that came for the hopes long
slain
Last night
East night e'er the evening shadows fell
We met. we parted, twas the last on
earth,
heard, as of yore, the village church bell,
As it rang on that eve of the Saviour'a
birth,
How little we dreamed as he turned to go,
The different paths we were doomed to
treadl
then my heart grew sick and my head bent
low
oh, many the sorrow that lips never
knowl
And sprinkled with tears hope long dead
Last night
Last night my dreaming fancy led me where
In days forgotten we would often stray,
And bid me dwell for one brief moment
there,
And sip the fragrance of the new-mown
hay
And faces that the sod hath covered DER
And blotted from our sight, came back to
me,
And phantom figures pressed the tufted
floor
Where we two fingered in our infancy
Last night
George Wilmot Harris
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27
A Shrewd Farm Hand.

The New York Tribune tells of q
laborer who agreed to dig farmers
potatoes for one potato hill. Tho con-
tract did not confine the laborer to q
selection from each hill, so he took the
largest wherever found. These aver
aged about half a pound in weight, and
as there were 1000 hills to the acre, his
share was just one ton, or SO is bush
els. At sixty cents bushel they
amounted to $50. He dug at the rate
Of one-fourth Of an acre per day, max
ing his daily Wages IS. 1t took one
fourth Of the crop to pay him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

The monkey exhibited at a museum
established at Tacubaya, Mexico, was
condemned to be shot under Judicial
sentence. 1t seems that the animal bit
man, who died from the result ofthe
bite. Tho family Of the deceased
brought complaint before judge, who
was foolish enough to institute criminal
proceedings against the monkey and
sentenced him to be shot. Luckily the
manager Of the museum brought in
fuence TO bear, and succeeded in OBJ
tanning change Of the sentence to par
petuai imprisonment. The monkey il
now enduring the punishment Of his
crime behind the bars Of an iron cage at
the museum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

David A. Wells says in Popular
Science Monthly: 'sThe men in actual
service at the present time inNthe armies
and navies Of Europe is in excess of
1000, 900, and il undoubtedly requires
the product of one operative or peasant
labor to sustain one soldier. The pres
emit aggregate annual direct war expen-
dit,lre Of the world is probably ia excess
Of a thousand million dollars. We ex-
press this expenditure in terms Of
money, but it really means work per-
formed; not that useful and abundance
Of useful and desirable things may be
increased but decreased; not that human
ioil and suffering may be frightened, but
augmented.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

The theory is advanced BY Professor
Mendeleef that petroleum is Of mineral
origin, and that its production is going
on and may continue almost indefinitely.
Engineering states that he has succeeded
in making it artiticially by process
similar to that which he believes is
going on IN the earth, the experts find
it impossible to distinguish between the
natural and the manufactured article.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

1t is said of trustee of Vassar that
when once visiting the college he left
his boots in the hall at night, as though
at hotel. Some Of the gir.s, for the
joke Of it, set to work and bIacked them.
and then stuck.a pretty bouquet in each
This is leap year. Keep your boots in,
gentlemen, and don't be betrayed BY
finding boutonnieres in tho toes Of your
slippers. Men have rights that even a
leap year girl is bound to' spect. In.
ter. Ocean.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27
CHAPTER VI.


The morning Will Tryfoil had devoted to
Ada's second drawing lesson. found Emily
Graham seated, as usual, behind the coun-
ter of the little fruit shop.
As she sat there she pictured Hardwood
House-its exterior. with the surrounding
country, of which viii had written and its
interior, with the three ladies, Of whom
he had also written, though with some
reservations.
He considered that it would be breach
Of confidence on his part to have recount
ed Miss Bentley's story toany one-even to
Emily. In his letters to her he had de-
scribed the personal appearance of the in
mates of the Hazeiwood House, but he had
gone no further. He said that he liked
all, but he did not say that his pupil was
mad
Therefore, in his letters, Miss Went
worth was described asa Strange, eccentric
child.
Altogether, Emily's notions of the sur
roundings of the new leaf of Wills life
were imperfect; so, sitting in the shop that
morning, she added the Hazelwoed House
of his letters to the Hazelwood House of
her brain, and pictured one that was mid
way between the two.
Her brother Jack entered the shop as
she was thus employed. and brought deal
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aSt, IaoL how Won atsrtlad mern she
explained, rising and shaking his hand;
land what made you call me Mr.. Try
foil2"
Because he's all over your face. Emily;
all over the shop, in fact. Hang me if !
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"Then You will be able to see him." said
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

The George Peabody building fund in
London, left BY him for the purpose pf
constructing improved houses for the
poor, has grown, through rent and IN
terest, from So, 500, 600 to nearly
IS, 600, 900. There are now over 5000
i.ouses, containing II, $50, 900 rooms, and
the average rent per week Is &1.s5 each.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

The New Orleans Tines emocrai
presents tables showing that from 1879
30 to 1s86-97 the assessed valuation Of
property in twelve Southern States has
Increased from 81. 1914, 792, 705 to So,
O84, SOC, 443, and the rate of taxation
has fallen from s SO 10 4 3.5.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27
DIR AliOlolo 1onr1oI.
Rising sun, Cecil County, Nd.

New York City is reported ovcrruu
with pickpockets, and Gotham con-
temporary consequently reminds its
readers Of Inspector Bryne's advice to
keep your mind on your watch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27
Tack Graham s features.

Jack Grahams features.
He looked again, and thought himself
fool for fancying that there was any resem-
blance between the ugly drawing and Jacks
face.
Then he crumpled thesheet Of note-paper
In his hand and threw it into the fire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

Curious designs in fruit at Cali-
fornia citrus exhibition were full-sized
miners cabin with its mining outfit
fashioned from oranges and lemons, a
beehive, Ladder, a bell, a fac smile Of
church and cornucopia Of oranges
and lemons. The golden fruit was
given new uses.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27

s'Pretty good farming was done By
q Louisiana farmer during the past year.
On ten acres he raised o. bales Of cot
ton, 100 bushels Of potatoes, 5000 stalkS
Of sugar cane, go gallons Of sorghum and
ten dollars worth Of watcrmelons, bb-
sides carrying on farming opcratioha
with acres sowcd with grain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-01-27


A Parliamentary committee at Ottawa
has recently undertaken an investiga-
lion Of the producing capabilities of
Manitoba and the Northwest. 1t has
elected the interesting fact that largo
tract Of country stretching eastward
from the Red River to Labrador pro-
auces what is known as Labrador tea,
an article that has been extensively
used for number Of years by the resi-
dents Of that part of the world. The
plant grows to the height 0 I about three
feet and produces white flower, thclcaf
used for tea BENG about an inch long and
having flavor closely resembling that
brought from Japan. TIL harvested in
the middle Of July, when the leaf is
green, and used extensively during the
season Of haymaking and harvesting. It
Is said to be not only an excellent bey-
erage, but to possess valuable medicinal
properties which commend il 10 the at.
tertion Of Investigators. and RAY be tbs
means q bringing it into NidespFead
sFor among rs people Of this contil
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
Cable Flashes.

TIE German empress met the emperor
on his arrival at Potsdam and drove with
him in an open carriage to the marble
palace.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
conyoke the Cortez about the middle of
November and submit bill providing
for extensive army reforms.
A REVOLUTION occurred at Port au
Prince, Hayti, on Sept. %. Firing was
continued all night, 300 persons being
killed and 500 more injured.
IDA DYER has been sent to the Kansas
peniter tiary for a year, for trying to
help her convict lover out of jail by pass
ing him spring saws concealed in a mince
pie,
THE official investigation into the Lon
don Times accusations against ParnelI
and his Irish Home-rule coadjutors bids
fair to result in tho failure of the Tin es
to establish its charges.
Two attempts were made Monday
night, near Mexico, Mo-, to wreck Chi
cage and Alton passenger trains. A
| Wabash Western train was wrecked near
the same spot recently, oeveral passen-
gers being injured.
| VIENNA.-The Fremdenblatt states it
has been reliably informed that Russia
| has completed preparations for the trans
fer OF large number of troops from the
| interior of Russia toward the Austrian
and German frontier, and that the trans-
fer will shortly be made.
PEsTB.-The Hungarian Budget for
| 1889 las been submitted to the Diet. It
| is estimated that there Will be sur plus
IN the ordinary Budget of 1,175,826 form
while the transItory and extraordinary
expenditures and the expenditures on ao-
count of reproductive works will show a
deficit of 19,080,370 form.
The pope has been sending rich pres
ents to noted Europeans, including a gold
| jubilee medal to Prince Bismarck, cam
60 set with diamonds to Prince Henry, Of
Prussia, and his portrait embedded in
diamonds to Baron Won Schloezer, the
| Prussian representative at the Vatican.
In the London Times Parnen investi-
| CATION Attorney General Webster charged
John f. Finnerty, O'Donovan Rosa and
James Redpath-all of this eCuntry-with
being the chief instigators of the alleged
| political crimes in Ireland. So far as Mr..
Fiunerty and Mr.. Redpath are concerned,
the Attorney General is evidently on the
wrong track.
The emperor of Germany has instruct
ed the foreign office to thank the govern
mepts which he has visited, recently, for
the cordial reception rendered to him and
to express his qualification that a peace
full Interpretation has been placed on his
tour.
TWENTY persons were severely injured
during row at a Boulangist meeting in
the Sale Wagram, Paris. The Boulen-
gist newspapers charge the police with
bringing about the disturbance, and
allege that they are DESTROYS of interrupt
ing in a similar way, a banquet to be held
soon at which General Boulanger will
preside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
rending. Women and children are
literally freezing and starving to death.
Criminal.

j. A. SWAN, eI-treasurer of Knoxville
county, Tenn, is missing. His accounts
are short $4,000.
The registry list in seversl precincts in
Joliet, Ill, have been stolen by unknown
persons.
Albert FIELDS has been sentenced to
fourteen years at Joliet for shooting
Miss Florence Fitzpatrick CT Decatur, H.,
with intent to kill.
The postmaster and city treasurer of
Minot, Dakota, has fed TO Canada. He is
short in his accounts s., 800 due to mis-
management.
THF city OF Tuscaloosa, Ala, has a
mystery of horrors. Within few days
the dead bodies of four negroes have
been found in different localities with
their Threats cut.
MASON and Harley, the men charged
with stealing $4,000 bushels Of wheat
from Minneapolis elevators, were dis
charged owing to the absence of the
chief prosecuting witness.
Coz. W. G. ToEREY, United States
swamp land commissioner, was arrested
at Iowa Falls and taken to Eldora&o
charged with treating personal friend
to drink of whisky. He admitted it and
vas fined 800 and costs by Mayor Ward
| FIVE members of business firm in st
Louis have been indicted by the Grant
Jury at Memphis, Tenn, on the charge O.
conspiracy to corner" the market TO
| begging.
NEAR Mount Gilead, Ohio, Thursda.
night, the house of David Sellers,
wealthy farmer, was fired by robbers
after they had murdered Sellers and hi
wife. Sellers daughter and the hire'
man narrowly escaped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
ELECTRIC SPARKS
Fires And Casualties.

The village OF Enterprise, Fla, is seri-
ously afflicted by yellow fever. The fever
continues its ravages In Jacksonville.
WILKES Bank, Douglass, Ks5., failed
recently, with liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$4,000.
FIRE at Hanover, H., destroyed $50,
600 worth OF buildings and goods in the
business part of town. Insurance 81
coo.
TEN cases smallpox have been report
ed at KesWick, small village in tie
northern part Of York county, Ontario
The place has been quarantined.
ISAIAH EVERLE, of Patricksburg, Ind.
died recently of milk sickness, his widow
is seriously i'll, and cattle have persisted
from the disease, which prevailed twenty.
five years ago on the same farm.
The liabilities of the Conway Manu-
featuring Company, as fled at Milwau
kee, are 86,525.14 assets, $4,000 in cash
and insurance, with large stock of goods
and lumber not yet appraised.
FAST freight train on the Erie road
ran into the rear of q freight train stand
ing on the track at Olisville, n. Z. 4 few
minutes later an express train crashed
into the wreck. The engines and {
dozen cars we're wrecked, and one mar
killed and three others terribly injured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
n ews in Brief.

OREGON claims the only five mastcd
schooner afioat.
EVANGELIST SANLEY is going to London
to assist Spurgeon.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, is the second largest
cigar making city in the United States.
Mr.. MOODY is now laboring in Victoria,
British Columbia.
THE physician attending on Justice
Matthews says that the judge is on the
road to recovery.
DELEssEps says the Panama canal will
be open for cratic July 1890.
GEORGE GOULD is beginning to suffer
with neuralgia, the same complaint that
has unnerved his father.
IT is claimed in Canada that no Ameri-
can fishing vessel has been seized during
the past year.
MARK TWAIN has secured a jnd gnen
for $500 against Detroit man for royal
ties on Huckleberry Finn.
ROBERT W. WILCOX, husband of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, the poet, is traveller for
an eastern iewelry firm.
THE failures for the week number 254,
against 224 last week, ana 216 for the
THE Montreal $14O0O,O00 perpetual 8
per cent. loan has been taken by Barring
Bros. at 80.
THERE has been more stock shipped
east this season than ever before. One
road alone has shipped $1,000 head of
cattle.
GENERAL BoULANGRR and the Prince of
Wales "Never speak as they pass by" but
it is because they have never been intro
ducsd.
Miss ECHEL SPRAGUE, daughter OF the
once famous beauty, Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague, is in New York studying for the
stage.
wARLIKE force OF the Grow Indians of
Montana Is reported to be on the march
for the camp of the Sioux in Dakota, and
battle is expected.
THE Southern Pacific Railway has Civ
en- the Central Trust company of New
York, deed of trust to secure a new
mortgage loan of $50, 100000 about to be
offered.
TIE publication of private letter
written by Mr.. West, the British Minister
to the United States, expressing himself
in favor of the reelection of President
Cleveland, is the subject of various COM
ments in diplomatic circles and in the
press Of this country and England.
TIE national convention of the VIC.
L. U. elected Miss Frances E. Willard
president, Caroline B. Boel, correspond.
ing secretary and Mrs. Mary Woodbridge,
recording secretary.
The particulars of the sufferisgs of TIE
destitute farmers in Ramsey county,
Mimi, ss related by Minneapolis man
after personal Investigation, are heart
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
Something for tie Boys to Consider.

The boy who has an ambition to rise
IN the world, and who has to make his
own way, yet has no means of assuring
himself what particular line of business
is best adapted to his latent talents, has
a problem before MIN that Is difficult of
solution. 1t is fact in problem that has
changed greatly in the last decade, and
is changing every year. 1t has changed
wonderfully since the day the Cnetropoli-
tan newspaper Office was considered q
royal road to practical education. A
writer in the New York Trib0uc recently
called on leading publisher In that city
to ask him to give place IN his house TO
lad Who desired to learn the Trinter's
trade, anticipating in that line of work
the opening by which the boy might
climb to something better than manual
labor. The publisher gave a bit of ad-
vice which is worthy of dissemination.
He said:
"Unless the boy has great strength of
character, established habits, and full
control of himself, beyond what you
coold expect of an ordinary boy, you
might better go and drop him IN the
East river and be done with it, than to
put him into a printing Office IN New
York City TO learn the printers trade.
The offices are governed by the unions to
large extent, md while some of the best
printers in the country belong to the
unions, some of the worst scamps belong
to them. When they cannot get work
elsewhere they flock here, and By the
rales of the unions are given work for a
small porte of the time each week, bare
ly sufficient to support them. The rest
of the time they drink and loaf around.
Their example and mpanionship are
enough to destroy any lad with whom
they come in contact, and TO demoraliz
him utterly. Unless he has the strength
of character to Withstand tenn ptation they
will lead him TO ruin. The country news
papers are still schools for self education,
just as they were in the day of Greeley,
Bennett. Colfax and Raymond, but not to
the extent that they were in those days.
The editor of a country weekly thirty or
forty years ago was generally man of
advanced thought, who printed as care
fully prepared editorials as any that
might appear in The London Times
The lad VINO comes in contact with such
an editor, putting his ideas into type, and
hearing him discuss in his sanctum the
questions Of the day, secured in that way
alone liberal education. Nowadays,
with patent plate n after and ready print
ed sheets, and the great daily newspapers
oigng to every community and hamlet,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
IN GENERAL.
VICTORY FOB PROHIBITION.

The Decision Of the Iowa Court Sustained.
5WAsHINGToN. = The supreme court
on Monday sustained the constitution
atty of the prohibition law Of Iowa. The
point of issue was the right to manufac-
ture Intoxicating liquors solely for ex-
portation to other states. spite the
state law, and it was pleaded that the
prohibitory feature, insofar as the manu-
facture for expectation is concerned,
was in conflict with the constitutional
provisions giving congress the sole right
to regulate Interstate comm cree. The
case is that OF j. S. Kidd, distiller,
plaintiff in error, versus I. E. Pierson
and S. j. Longhras. The court holds
that the state law prohibiting both the
manufacture and sale, except for
mechanical, medicinal, culinary and
sacramental purposes, is not in conflict
with the inter state commerce provisions,
and the decision of the Iowa court is
sustained. The opinion is by Justice
Lamar.