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The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
STILL ON THE UP GRADE,
Business Improves Steadily, According
r. G. Dun & Co.'s ReDort.

Business Improves Steadily, According t.
Il. G. Dun Co.'s Report.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says: Busi-
ness indications this week are generally
favorable. Throughout the Northwest
colder weather has made trade more ac-
tive, and at the East improving manu-
factures and heavy export trade stimu-
late business of all kinds. The exports
from New York for four weeks exceed
last years by 25 per cent, and like
gain elsewhere would mean an excess of
of exports over imports for the month
approaching SO, ,0OO, 900, for the increasein
imports here has been but 1-2 per cent.
But that excess would not meet the
months allowance for interest, under
valuations and freight charges, so that
foreign exchange has advanced during
the week half cent The Bank of Eng
land has raised its rates from to per
cent, and that bank lost 1856, 900 specie
for the week, the Bank of France also
losing $2,275, 900 and the Bank of Ger
many $2,124,C0O. These evidences of
foreign demand, with the low state of
reserves at New York. render the none
tary future less clear, and the rates for
money have advanced during the week
fully per cent. on call with increasing
caution in commercial loans.
The treasury has helped during the
week by disbursing 81, 100, 900 more than
it has taken ill., and the reports from in
terror points all indicate an ample supply
of money for legitimate needs, and no
stringency.
Wheat Has Risen.
Wheat has risen 3-8 cents during the
week on sales of $4,000, 900 bushels. not
because of larger foreign demand, but
because the supplies coming from farms
do not grade so well and are not as large
as was expected. The price is low at the
best, but there is nothing to modify the
belief that the supply for the year will
much exceed all demands. Corn has
fallen over 1-2 cent, and oats IA cent,
with moderate trading. Coffee is quar-
ter lower on sales of 912,O 900 bags, and oil
cent lower on small trading. Pork pro-
ducts are rather stronger, and butter 2
cents higher. The general tendency of
prices is upward, though the advance
for the week has been slight. But the
signs of greater activity in all directions
are encouraging, and the only ,nfavor-
able symptom is the uncertainty as to
tne monetary supply.
Business Failures.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days number for the United States
1855 and for Canada 81, total of 1872, as
compared with total Of 1893 last week
and 1913 the week previous to the last
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 220, representing 1856
failures in the United States and "a in
Canada.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
Chicago Socialistic Congress.

CHICAGO, Sept. 3O.-A congress of the
Socialistic Labor party convened at 2
o'clock p. M, i'll Vorweert's Turner hall
on West Twelfth street. Delegates are
arriving from all parts Of the country
and probably there will be several hum
dred in attendance. Busch and Gereke
of New York, Quaan of st. Louis,
Guwang Of Boston, Loether of Pittsburg,
Schraeder of New York and Mueller of
Cincinnati are among the speakers an
nounced. Various labor questions will
be discussed
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
A Celestial on the Police Force.

a Celestial on the Police Force.
P1rrsBURG, Pa Sept. 30.-Chief Brown
has appointed to the police force China
man named Yen Doc. better known by
the soubriquet Of Jim Blaine. Judge
Acheson. however, refused to naturalize
the Chinaman,
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
Make Grand Rapids Il Lake Port.

HOLLAND, Mich, Sept. 3o.-Grand
Rapids and Holland business men are
proposing to run canal from the former
city to Holland and Lake Michigan, at .
probable cost Of $2,OO0,00O. The Holland
route is the shortest and easiest for Grand
Rapids to connect with Lake Michigan.
A committee composed of members of
the board OF trade and other wealthy cit
izens of Grand Rapids and Holland will
fully investigate the route.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03

The output for the week ending
October 3 was 4S bars of bullion. con-
tanning 71.466 ounces fine silver and
l66 ounces fine gold
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
RICH SPECIMENS.

Some rich samples of ore were shown
lis this week from the Butcher Bros
properties. near Black Pine. One speci-
men contained quantity of native silver,
said to have been taken from 4-foot
body of like material in the Inez claim.
The Viola and Bell Flower are included
in their locations, and they are said to
be the best looking prospects in that
part of the country.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03

Moonstone has the virtue for max
ing trees fruitful and of curing cpl
lepsy. It contains in it an image OF
the moon, representing its increase and
decrease every month.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03

about i feet. and many nuggets OF
smaller size have been found near the
spot. One, - pounds in weight. was
found only few yards distant about
twenty-four years ago. The present
discovery was made by a miner named
Charles Smith and his son, who wore
working out old blocks on the side of
the lead. A model of the nugget is to be
taken for the Colonial Mining Depart
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
STOCK QUOTATIONS..

Closing quotations, Wednesday, &C.
tober 2, furnished by John ". Daw-
son. broker:
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CONSOLIDATED IRON INTERESTS.
Tennessee and Alabama Companies Com
bine(l in One Big Orranization

Tennessee and Alabama Companies Conn
bined i'll One Big Organization.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 3O.-Pro-
minent Tennessee and Alabama capital
lists, who have been in conference here
have just settled the preliminary details
of a plan to consolidate all the big char
coal and steel furnaces in the two states
under one company and begin the manu-
facture of steel rails. The gentlemen
interested have left for Alabama to effect
a corporate organization. Their plan
embraces the consolidation of the La
Grange, Etna and Warner furnace
companies. the Roam Iron company of
Chattanooga; the Wayne County Iron
company and other properties. Six
furnaces now in operation are involved
in the deal and many acres of fine ore
lands in Pickham, Stewart and Wayne
counties.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
FREIGHT Trains Collide

BALTIMORE, Sept. 30.-A dispatch from
Harper's Ferry states that there was a
rear-end collision four miles west of
there between two freight trains on the
nine-mile grade Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. The forward train parted.
The conductor stopped the detached por-
ton, but before the fagman could go
back to flag a following train crashed
into it. Six cars were smashed and their
contents spilled to the ground. The en-
gine of the last train was also badly
damaged. No one was injured.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
Site for the New Boston Grounds.

Slte Tor the New Boston GROUNDS.
NEW BEDFORD, Sept. 3O.-Frank c.
Bancroft, the well known base ball man.
ager, has been approached by Boston
gentlemen representing owners of large
tract of land near the Hotel Vendome,
Boston, who are anxious to lease it to the
agents of the ball players brotherhood
for new bali park. The gentlemen are
now in correspondence with John NJ.
Ward and Albert S. johnson to that end.
The gentlemen will pledge themselves to
take stock in brotherhood club in Bos-
ton,
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
Murdered by His Mother,

HoLYoKE, Mass, Sept. 3d. Judge
Pearsons has not yet filed his report on
the inquest into the death Of Thomas
Brennon. He has. however. found to
the effect that Thomas Brennon died on
June 81 from arsen;cal poison adminis-
tered by Elizabeth Brennon. his mother
The grand jury has brought in true bill
for murder in the first degree against
her.
Union Pacific Will Build to Puget Sound,
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 30.-Owing to
the axorbitant demands of the Northern
Pacific, General Manager Smith, of the
Oregon Short line, says the Union Palific
has given up the idea Of entering into a
trackage agreement with the Northern
Pacific and proposes to build a line be-
tween Portland and Puget Sound.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
Wisconsin Delegates to a Farmers Con-
gress.

MADISON, Wis, Sept. 3O.-Governor
Hoard has appointed as delegates to rep
resent Wisconsin at the national farmers
congress at Montgomery, Ala. Nov: IS,
rose; Peter Tubs, Seymour: R. L. Jo-
mer, Wyoming; John Bender, Oconomo-
voc: S. S. Lamb, Friendship; A. l..
Hatch, Ithaca; William Wilson, Wausau;
J. J. Sem, Fountain; F. A. Norton, Bur-
lington; E. D. Frost, Almond; Mark
Douglass, Melrose; Charles Laruse, La
Crosse; S. R. Edgerton, Spring Prairie;
G. w. Washburn, Oshkosh; S. S. Stick
ney, Wauwatosa; August Paulson, New
Holstein; John Lachsinger. Monre: A. J.
Decker, Fond du Lac, and R. T. Pember,
JOhnStOWn.
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DUE TO WHISKY.
The Capsizing of Boat Results in Five
Deaths.

The Capsizing of a Boat Results in Five
Deaths.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Sept. 30.-By the
capsizing of row boat in South Wa
tuppa pond Louis Dubois, aged So years,
Nathalie Dubois, his niece, aged 3Syears.
Mrs. George Michaud, her daughter,
Leah Michaud, aged 7, and Rosanne Le-
vitere, aged s, were drowned. Mary
Michaud was rescued. The party had
been across the pond for grapes, and
were returning. Dubois is said to have
been drunk. An empty whisky bottle
was found in the boat. The water was
only five feet deep where the accident
occurred. The lamentable affair was
witnessed from shore, but although sew
people started to the rescue, only one of
the boats occupants could be saved.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03

The Colorado Mining Exchange re-
Gently adopteda a resolution to investigate
the constitutionality of the act restrict
ing the coinage of silver, and appointed
committee Of three, consisting Of Messrs.
Winkoop, Gillespie and Weston, all
prominent mine owners, with authority
to employ necessary legal counsels
The committee propose to visit the mint
at Philadelph1a with 100 ounces Of silver
and demand that it be coined into dol
lars. This being refused, they will bring
suit against the Director of the mint for
damages, thus bringing the subject be-
fore the attention of the United States
supreme court.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-03
THE NORTHWEST CONDENSED.
The DakOtaS.

Huron.-An irrigation convention, at.
tended by $50 delegates from various
parts of the state and some from Mime.
sofa. is in session here. Professor Cul.
yer, of the Vermillion university, and r.
L. Casey, of Jamestown, addressed the
convention.
Jewish New Year was celebrated, Rabbi
Rosenberg officiating, in the opera house
to large audience of Israelites.
Aberdeen.-A terrible accident occurred
at the state fair Immediately after din.
ner. Premium stock was being led out
for a parade, when Oscar Lundstrum W az
kicked over the heart by the stallion
Pompey. He.sank to the ground, raised
up once and fell back dead without ut
tering word.
Iowa Items.
Keokuk. arguments before
Judges Love and Shiras in the federal
court decree was made ordering the
sale of the Fort Madison and North.
western railroad to satisfy a foreclosure
by the Union Trust company. The mas
ter in chancery will sell the road within
a few weeks. It has been run at a net
loss for months.
Sioux City.-Several days ago the
state pharmacy board gave D. w. Wood
authority as attorney to prosecute a
druggist in this county for violating the
regulations regarding Intoxicating liq-
uors. Wood thereupon began prosecu-
tions against a large number of druggists
in this and other counties. Commits
sioner Weaver, of the pharmacy board,
who has been here making an investiga-
ton. revoked Woods authority and can
celled all prosecutions.
Des Moines.-The reunion of the Sec
ond Iowa cavalry will be held at
Maquoketa, Oct. 9 and 10.
Minnesota Matters.
Park Rapids.-Mr. Millen, chief engin-
eer of the Manitoba railroad, has arrived
here and is looking over the town and
county. Report has it that the Manitoba
Railway company is about to accept the
very careful survey made by local COM
pany this summer, between Wadena and
Park Rapids, and push actual construc-
ton of railroad north at once.
Duluth. Wilhelm Boehing, of Detroit,
Mich, who claims title to the lots taken
for the ship canal through Minnesota
Point, has issued circulars announcing
that he shall take possession of his prop
erty by stretching rope across the
canal, and will hold the owner of any
vessel breaking the same financially re-
sponsible for the act. The rope has not
yet been stretched across the canal, and
it is not thought that Mr.. Boehing's OBJ
struction will prove serious obstacle to
navigation.
Duluth.-An important suit is in pro-
gress involving property valued at $780,
900 to $4,000. About 1865 Patrick Sey-
mour deserted wife and family in Can
ada and came to Duluth, where he took
up with another woman, who thereafter
passed for his wife. He acquired con-
siderable real estate and died in 1888.
His wife has come here and is now suing
for her dover rights.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19

Upper Egypt. and are selected IN carry
childhood for the career they are to
fill. The blacker and uglier the eunuch
is the bigger price he brings A tall,
well-developed. imposing-looking eu-
much. with the requisite amount of
swarthiness and ugliness, is worth from
81. 600 to s.. 600.
The eunuchs are required to keep
strict watch over the harem, and to
hold the inmates in order. They are
pretty careful in their bearing toward
those inmates who are mothers. and
consequently have certain rank, but
they frequently cuff and spank the
other ladies, and upon occasion even
resort to the bastinado. which consists
of a whipping administered 70 the soles
of the feet
In the harem the ladies spend their
time in slipping chocolate. eating sweet
meats. playing cards and talking to-
gether. One would imagine that there
was very little good for discussion
among them, but it is strange how
much news from the outer world leaks
into these harems. Scandals and di-
vorce cases which have taken place in
European capitals are the favorite
subjects of discussion Her.
aid
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19

take any thing reasonable. The young
men bought 200 of the Habauas at a
hundred. Thatevening the reporter was
walking by The place when one of the
young men called him in. The other
young man was there, and with him
was a man about town who knows all
that's worth knowing about the queer
tricks that go on in a big city. The
young man was telling how he had
found most of the cigars that he had
used thus far to have been of the
cheapest character, and the man about
town was smiling quizzically. When
the young man got through the smil-
ing cynic said quietly: 'sLet me see if
I can describe the Cubans who sold the
cigars" and he proceeded to describe
with marvellous fidelity the two pictur-
esgue wanderers of that days episode.
my dear boy" he said, consolingly.
I'm sorry to say you've been duped.
These fellows are rogues who make q
practice of swindling the susceptible
tenderfoot. Instead of being stranded
Cuban wayfarers, they are regular
" established in profitable business
in this city. They have q place on
Kneeland street, in garrett where
they manufacture these very cheap
cigars They mix in q reasonable
number of well favored and really
good cigars. and their method is to go
about and tell plausible stories that
will make smart young men, who
know a good thing when they see it,
bite hard. They pick out, with dex-
terious movement born of long practice
and general skill and expert knowledge
of tobacco. the good cigars, and they
open or smoke these specimens, blow
ing the smoke into the purchasers
face. They will let you choose the
cigars if you like. But they have
enough skill to direct you to the cigar
they want you to take They repre-
sent themselves as strikers, and they
want to sell their goods at any price.
So far as my experience goes, they
are pretty nearly all swindlers." -
Boston Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
FARM IMPLEMENTS.

Why Piows, Hoes and Spades Should AL
ways Be Kept Sharp.
The tests which have been made in
determining the amount of force re-
quired in moving pillow through the
soil, have pointed out the Importance
of sharp cutting edge for separating
the adhering portions The expert
ments made many years ago in En-
gland gave about thirty-fve per cent.
of the whole required draft expended
in overcoming friction, ten per cent.
in lifting and turning the sod, while
fifty-five per cent. or over one-half was
used for cutting the furrow-slice.
This amount would. of course. vary
with the character of the soil If
hard. dry and clayey, nearly three
fourths of the draft would be required
for cutting the slice, while ain soils
which have been previously pulver-
lied by blowing and narrowing. it
would be much less than one-half.
But the average. taking all soils to-
gether, the cutting force will be rather
more than overcoming all the friction
of the mold-board, sides and bottom.
and for lifting aud turning the furrow-
slice.
This fact shows the Importance of
keeping all tools sharp which are used
for cutting the soil. A dull hoe or a
dull and rusty spade will waste about
two-thirds of the strength of the
laborer who uses them, compared
with tools with sharp and bright
blades. The gardener, whose daily
work in the use of the spade
amounts to lifting hundred pounds
of compact soil in a minute, or
six thousand or three tons an hour
Cthirty tons day.. if he has bright
and sharp spade. will perhaps move
only fifteen tons. possibly less, with a
dull and rusty tool The other fifteen
tons which he might have turned over
with perfect spade will yet be used
in making himself needlessly fatigued
and discouraged. Work which is
easily and neatly performed is more
cheerfully and satisfactorily accom-
plished. and is not attended with that
peculiar disheartening fatigue which
attends feeble accomplishment
Every farmer and gardener should
tools. kept bright and sharp and in
perfect order. Hoes should be often
sharpened on the grindstone. spades
should never be laid aside with earth
adhering to their blades to produce
rust; the same care should be given to
plows and to the teeth of cultivators
and bladed harrowa The season IL
approaching when all these tools are
brought into use. and when labor may
become more efficient by the selection
and use of good. well-sharpened tools
Gentleman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19

The Wagner Palace Car Company is revo-
futionizing the equipment Of its cars and
making them superior 70 anything of the
kind In the world One of the greatest inn
gas The New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company is also equipping
Its passenger coaches with gas. About one
hundred Of them running out Of New York
City have been 50 equipped. The gas il COM
pressed in . cylinder under each car, and
one filing OF q cylinder will last the round
trip between New York and Chicago. The
gas is made from petroleum, aud furnishes
s60candle power light as against q 16-candle
power light under the old method. Coaches
lighted with gas are as light as q parlor, and
passengers can read as well in the night a.
In the daytime.-Rome (N. " Sentinel
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
A Table for Housewives.

As all families are not provided with
scales and weights. referring to the
ingredients generally psed in cakes
and pastry. we insert a list of weights
and measures: Wheat -four, one pound
is quart; butter, when soft. one
pound one ounce is quart; powdered
white sugar. one pound one ounce is a
quart; eggs. ten usually pound As
to liquiG measure, sixteen large table
spoonfuls are half a pint; common
sized tumbler holds half pint; a COM
mon-sized wine glass holds half gill
Allowing for accidental differences in
the quality. freshness. dryness or
moisture of the articles we believe
this comparison between weight and
measure to be as nearly correct a.
possible. PlowmAn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
FISHING FOR SUCKERS.
Swindling Cigar Vendors Catch Hundreds
of Them Every Week.

Swindling Cigar Vendors Catch Hundreds
of Them Every Week.
The young man stood on the corner
and held his hand between his eyes and
the blazing sun which had swept the
street quite clear of all but a few bold
and hardy pedestrians. Across the
square two stalwart figures came roll
ing up ragged and brown. One of the
sunburnt fingers box that might have
contained pair of dueling pistols or
any thing else of equally romantic sug-
gestiveness. And this was the vision
that caused the young man to stand on
the corner and shade his eyes in-closer
scrutiny. Subsequent developments,
however. didn't realize the young mans
romantic anticipations, but the discom-
fort that he endured was sufficiently re-
compensed by information which he
received of one of the most an
noying tricks of swindling itin-
Grant Cuban cigar sellers, for
to this class did the brown-skinned,
stalwart strangers belong. The time
OF this episode was yesterday after
noon, and the scene was a busy part
of a prominent street in this city. The
two strangers and the young man
brought up in the back room of
two other young men were industri-
ously trying to edit long columns of
figures and keep cool. Neither of the
strangers could speak English. SO they
indicated their purpose by pantomim-
&c gestures, and they quickly displayed
the contents of the romantic-looking
bundle and wanted to sell the gentle
men some fine cigars. The gentlemen
didn't want the cigars, they said. but
Xenophon's ''Anabasis," with equal
effect for the Cubans didn't under
stand the conversation, or, if they did.
they concealed their knowledge quite
artistically. and. by their rapid
and eloquent gestures and ex-
postulatory chatter, soon reduced
the young men to a condition of
PROSTATE helplessness- Out of the
little piles of damp. attractive-looking
cigars they jerked half dozen speci-
mems. which they ripped open with q
pocket-knife. and showed to have been
made of good material. While they
we're destroying their cigars for the
edification of the young men they told
their story. They we've Cubans who
were travelling through Boston. and
cigars were the best Habana- They
had the material. and the cost of labor
was very small, and would the gentle
men offer price? ALI this informa-
ton was conveyed by means of gesture
and broken scraps of English and writ
ten signs They could afford to sell
good cigars for less price than the re-
failers could sell common cigars, and,
being stranded. they were willing to