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The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

REDWOOD FALLS, Mimi, Jan. 31.-
The wheat stealers are still carrying on
their nefarious work. Friday night Fred
Heathley, - miles west of town, had IA
large quantity of wheat and fax stolen
out of bins and the same evening George
Jackson, three miles nearer town had
two sacks of wheat stolen. There is "A
clew to the thief, and an arrest is ex-
pected soon.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Run two fast trains daily between St.
Paul, Minneapolis. and Chicago, Mil
waukee and all points in Wisconsin,
making connection in Chicago with all
lines running east and south.
Tickets sold and baggage checked
through to all points in the United
States and Canadian provinces.
For full information regarding routes,
maps, folders. etc, address your nearest
ticket agent, or Jas. G. Pond, Gen'l Pass.
Agt.. Milwaukee, Wis.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3l.-A local
paper says new company to be rknown
as the Oakland Packing and Provision
company, will in all probability succeed
to the Union Stock Yards company, the
Rodeo Packing company and the Harris
Packing company of Rodeo.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
ARGUED BEFORE cox.

Terrible Loss of Life by the Earthquake
at Kuclan, Persia.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 3l.-Additional
advices by the steamer Belgic from
China, announce the complete annihi-
lation by earthquake of the town of
Kuchan, Persia. Twelve thousand per-
sons were killed in the awful disaster.
Ten thousand bodies had been recovered
to date. The once important and beau
tiful city of 1000 people is now only a
scene of death, desolation and terror.
Fifty thousand cattle were destroyed at
the same time.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
An Old Grudge.

HANCOCK, Mo-, Jan. 3l.-Jack Decker
shot and instantly killed j. NJ. Duncan,
two bullets entering his brain and one
piercing the heart. Decker is a son of
one of the wealthiest farmers in Pulaski
county and Duncan was prominent
merchant in this place. Former trouble
and an old grudge led to the result.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Burn Wood

1t is the cheapest and best. The Butte
e. Montana Commerc company will
deliver wood to any part of the city at
the following prices:
Dry Short Edgings, stove ler 9Th.
large load. ......... :....... $500
Dry Board Ends, large load. 49,. 400
Add so cents per load for delivering to
West Side, North Great Falls and Bos-
ton and Great Falls addition.
FOR CASH.
BUTTE & MONTANA COMMERCIAL Co.
Foot of Ninth Street North.
Telephone 141.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

A British Bark Goes Down With Twenty
Five Sailors.
DUBLIN, Jan. 31.-A dispatch from
Tralee announces the wreck of the
British bark Port Yarrock, Captain
Forbes, and the drowning of all her
crew, consisting Of 25 men. The Port
Yarrock sailed from Santa Rosalia on
July for Queenstown and Antwerp,
and anchored in Brandon bay on Jan.
81, the last heard Of her, in distressed
condition, when she reported that pro-
visions had run short on the passage
and that some of the crew were sick
from exposure and lack of nourishment.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

ST. PAUL, Jan. 3 The Franklin
and Morris case and many other i'm
portant matters will occupy the atten-
ton of the grand jury at their present
session. 1t is expected that Franklin's
case will be considered at once and an
exhaustive review of the matter is at
hand for their immediate attention.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Raise Duty on Wheat.

PARIS, Jan. 3l.-The government has
notified the customs commission of it's
intention to Introduce bill to raise the
import duty on wheat to z francs, and
also raising the duty on flour proper
tionately. In addition grain will not be
allowed to remain in bonded warehouses
for over year. and temporary admis-
sions must pay interest at the rate Of
cant
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Disciiar ging Census Clerks.

WAsHlNGToN, Jan. 3l.-The reduc-
ton in the force of the census depart
ment is being thoroughly carried out.
Clerks are being dropped daily from the
lists and the recommendation for dis
missals are submitted by Superintendent
Wright TO Secretary Smith. They are
caused by the completion of the work
on which the employees have been
eupauaI
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. 31.-Gov-
ernor Stone has granted reprieye from
Feb. to March 2 in the case OF Phil S.
Martin, under sentence of death 1t Kan
sas City for murder. He also pardoned
Frank Gordon, in prison under two
years sentence for felonious assault, COM
mitted in Lafayette county.
Smoke FL Principe de Gale cigars
The Cataract City club keeps them
Try one.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-The steamship
Paris brought Spanish gold to the value
of $50. 900 francs, in transit to Cuba, to
move the sugar crop. The movement of
gold for this purpose is likely TO be con-
tinued, as the rates of exchange warrant
theimport of gold to Cuba.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, Jan. 20 1891
CLOSING PRICES.
WHEAT-Steady. Cash, 6Oc; May; 64l6c;
July. 65ssc.
CORN-Firm. Cash, 35l4c; January, 3418c;
May, $3.50; July, 3s1sc.
OATS-Steady. Cash, 5c; May, 3Oc;
July, 28ISc.
PORK-Steady. January, $lS.ls1f; May
sl32U
LARD-Steady. May, $7.52H.
SHORT RIBS-Easy. January, $3.50; May
S6.65.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
May Live Two Days.

ST.. PAUL, Jan. 31.-Dr. j. H. Murphy
Is not expected to live more than day
OF two longer. During the morning the
doctor was much lower and almost un-
conscious. DR.. Wheaton said that he
might live AZ hours at the most. He re-
fuses all nourishment.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Without the means at hand for com
batting it, cold may prove more danger
Gus than the small pox. No family is
is safe unless provided for such an emer-
gency. In succinct attacks of cold, Group,
asthma, ETC., Ayre's Cherry Pectoral is
an Invaluable specific.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

CHEYENNE, Wy, Jan. 81. - Henry
Harrington, one of the pioneers of Wyo-
ming, and well known resident Of
Cheyenne, dropped dead in Thomas
Henney's club rooms of heart trouble
Mr.. Harrington was bankrupted during
the late panic.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

SELMA, Ala, Jan. 3l.--Thomas Dun
can, who runs dairy farm near here,
left caldron of buttermilk standing in
his yard. His son, aged 3 years, climbed
up and fell over into the milk. He was
subsequently found on the bottom of the
vessel dead,
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO. Jan. 20. 1894.
CATTLE-Most of the sales n en- reported a
rather better market than on Saturday, but
prices show no particular change.
HOGS st ady. Rough heavy, S5.20a5.25;
packers, $5.3OlD5.35; prime heavy and butcher
weights, $40 GAS prime light, S53595.4O.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Steady. Top lambs
Sis5G4.75 top sheep. $3.0ta3.O.
Receipts: Cattle, 1850; hogs, 3l,OOO; sheep.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
San Antonio and Gulf.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 31.-The
building of the San Antonio and Gulf
Shore railway will begin within 10 days.
Prominent capitalists from Kansas City
have furnished all the outside financial
assistance necessary to build and equip
the line. Over $3O0,0O0 has also been
raised by the several counties through
which the road will be built.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. Y1.-The car is
suffering from a severe attack Of infiu-
euzs, bronchitis and Inflammation of the
lungs. The lower part of the czars
right lung is inhsmed, and Saturday his
temperature was 102.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Sam HerskOvitZ,

the popular and reliable jeweler ard
money lender, having concluded to le-
main in Great Falls, has opened at No.
4 Second street south, two doors from
Central avenue, where he will be pleased
to see his old friends and patrons.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

MINNEAPoIIs, Jan. 20, 1894.
WHEAT-January closing, Coo; May OPEN
ing, 6OAr, highest, 6lc, lowest. 60Ac.
close. G.jsc; July opening, &c. highest t2ssc.
lowest &c, close t23sc On track-No. /
hard, Cic: No. l Northern, 6l1sc; No. 2
Northern, 6Jc.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
LATEST MARKET PRICES.
Milwaukee Grain.

MILwAUKEE. Jan. 29, 1894.
WHEAT - Quiet and unchanged. No. 2
spring, '014c; No. Northern, 651ac; May, 6l5sc.
CORN-S al. @. No. 8. 36c.
OATS-Steady. No. white 29j4G3J1ac; No. 8
white. 29Ipc.
BARLEY-Steady No. ., 5lc; sample,
k2G5'c.
RNE-Firm. No. l. 46i1c.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

PnPEsToNE, Mimi, Jan. 3l.-The ele-
waited water supply tank of the govern
ment Indian industrial school here
burned. Loss about $500, no insurance.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
COMMENCING
Monday, Jan. 29.
WE WILL SELL
NO Action on Peckham.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.-The senate
judiciary committee adjourned without
taking any action on the nomination of
Mr.. Peckham to be associate justice of
the supreme court.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Duluth Grain.

DULUTH, Jan. 20, 1884,
WHEAT-No. hard, cash, 63c; January,
6lc: May CSC; July, 18ISc. No. / Northern,
cash, 6ls4c; January, 5934c; May, 63Ac; July,
65lic. No. 2 Northern, cash, 5S4 No. 3, 5314c
rejected. 4134c. On track. No. Northern to
arrive, U234c.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

On and after Friday, Jan. 26, we will
close our store at $50 every evening ex-
cept Saturdays.
The BosToN CLOTHING & SHOE HOUSE
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Drink pure Pepper Bourbon whiskey
at the Cataract Club rooms 1t is fine.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Crushed by q Cavein.

MoRAvIA, Ia, Jan. 81.-Whils exca-
waiting for bridge near here eight men
were crushed under fall of dirt. Will
Cline may die.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Lumber, Lath, Shingles, and all kind
OF building material for sale at lowest
prices.-The Goodrich Lumber Co.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Secure your Blank Books for the
new year at Calkins' Book Store.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Cephalia.-Instsnt relief for headache
2j cents at Lapeyre Bros.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Do you want to keep warm Ihel
uee Gait Uethbridge) coal. The bes
is the cheapest.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

Special prices on Picture Frames at
Calkins' Book Store.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-02
Millinery

Everything in the Millinery line MUST GO.
You get Hat outlay You will find
Just reprcser led Best Goods at LOWEST PRICES.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13

On my second expedition into north
ern Brazil some years ago, we camped
for several weeks on the Rio Branco,
about one hundred miles above its
junction with the Rio Negro, of
the principal continents of the Amazon.
The rainy season was past, and, al
though we were almost on the equa-
torial line, the weather was not unen-
durably hot, the constantly-blowing
eastern trade winds greatly reducing
its temperature and rendering III big
tent, pitched in the shade of an i'm
mense saman tree, a comfortable
abode.
Our party consisted of eleven men
ten Americans and n newly caught
Irishman-"Teddy' O'Brien by name,
who more for the sake of ''divilment
and divarshun' than forty dollars a
month, as he had said, had engaged
with us as cook. And a truly wonder
fnl cook he was,
However, as we all survived his in
genious experiments in that line, ii
would, perhaps, be ungrateful to
specify them. Anyhow, the fellow
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
"A LITTLE NONSENSE"

-"Becfeat is a great favcritc with
the men at the club" Shells it be-
cause he drops his hs?" mo, its the
VS. he let's 90 of."-Inter Ocean.
Young Lady-''How much does it
cost to have u tooth taken out?"
Dcntist-'Onc form, miss; but by the
dozen it comes chcapcr,'-Dc Amstcr.
dammer.
-"Mladc an awful mistake at the
Gotrox's reception. Stepped up to n
of the guests and told him to call me ii
horse and carriage ibid he do it?''
No, He called me an ass. "-Indianap-
oils Journal.
Miss Westend Then you don't be-
lieve that Adam and Eve really lived
in Paradise" Mr.. Murray Hill-'Oh,
yes, they must have lived in Paradise
they didn't have to keep servants. -
Lifc's Calendar.
-Dinks-"What did that reporter
say when you told him that in the
duels you have witnessed there were
over forty principals and sixty sec
onds?" Danks-"Nothing, just made a
minute Of it"-Buffalo Courier.
"A Kicker Hicks-"Somc men are
never satisfied. came over in a steam
ship recently that lowered the record
nearly an hour, and the fellow with me
didn't like it a bit" Robinson-"What
was his Objection Hicks-''Hc said
we might have had another round of
jack pots."-N. Y. Sun.
A certain debating society is dis
cussing the question as to which is the
augricr-the husband who goes home
and finds that the dinner is not ready,
or the wife who has dinner ready and
whose husband does not come home?
1t is believed that the debate will end
in a draw. -Worthington's Magazine.
-Visitor-"I am most gricved to
learn of your mistress illness. Nothing
serious; no great cause for alarm, l
trust?' The New French Maid-"No,
monsieur; nozzing bceg; nozzing
grandc. Somczing-what you call
%lectle, petite" Visitor-"What is it?'
The New French Maid-."Eet is what
zey call 70 Observation-Disclosures" ~
Tit Bits.
The Scene Of Conflict -"This talk
said the bachelor, ''of woman's engag.
ing in the pursuits of man is all nom
sense" II don't know" said his friend,
doubtfully. There's no doubt about
1t. Suppose a war should arise. Wom-
en- couldn't fight could they?" whats
the reason they couldn't?" ''Why, be.
cause they are not naturally consti.
tuted Tor warfare '.Humph! Just
come over to the bargain counter in
our dry goods store some day and you'll
change your mind. Washington Star.
$50 young" unused the editor, look.
ing over a poem that had just come in
by mail. $50 young and so gifted!
Hardly sixteen, yet q graduate Of one
OF the most exclusive and expensive f.
male seminaries in the country! There
is o vigor about this production, a dash,
a brecziness, q wealth Of imagination
and a faculty Of expression truly won.
derful in n Of her youth. and mex.
perience. And yeti added thc editor.
firing It energetically into the waste
basket, ''she can't work off on this
paper a poem that tries 10 make 'yiraro'
rhyme with Chicago"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
SHE MERELY WANTED TO KNOW.
And Did Not Realize that Her Curiosity
Was Delaying Traffic.

And Did Not Realize that Her Curiosity
Was Delaying Traffic.
The cable car had just stopped at
the corner when she started TO enter it.
LET the passengers off first" yelled
the conductor.
She did not seem to hear him, but
climbed up with her two hundred
pounds upon the platform. Stopping
Just before the door, she turned
around and inquired sweetly If the
car went to the postofiice.
''Take the downtown car" said the
conductor, adding, "Let the passcn.
gers off"
Indeed" she chirruped back. 'and
how long will it take to get down
thereT'
'Twenty minutes; let the passen.
gers off please" fairly screamed the
conductor. Another a had come up
behind and two had whizzed by on
their way downtown
"Will I have to change cars any
where?' she smilingly inquired.
The conductor was abouI - do some.
thing desperate. His face had become
as red as the .proverbial beet, when the
woman suddenly dropped her fan upon
the ground.
ooh, my!" she exclaimed, and started
to climb down. In an instant the
whole line of passengers who were
waiting to leave the a pushed for.
ward, the stylishly-dressed lady was
showed overheard, and, before she had
recovered her senses, the car was hur.
rying around the curve at Union
| square. The last seen of her she was
standing in the middle of the road
writing something on her tablet, prob
ably that horrid conductors nun
| bern. Y. Recorder
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
Double Faced.

Lawyer-Now, madam, you say tina
on the night of the robbery the moon
was so bright that you could see the
robbers in your room. Was your hus'
band awake?
Witness-I don't.know, sir.
"Nas his face turned toward you OF
away from you"
81 can't say, sir"
"Now, your honor, and gentlemen OF
the jury, do you hear that? This wom-
an positively identifies these men as
the robbers who were in her room.
and she can not tells us how her hus.
band was lying at the time. And, turn
ing to the witness, he continued: Why
can't you tell us, pray"
II could not see"
"Ah! you could not see? Yet you
positively indemnity the prisoners. How
Is this?"
well, you see, sir, my husband is SO
very bald that in anything but n bright
/ light | can not tell whether he is look.
ing at or away from men, Y. Her
aid
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13

sist Of q narrow creek, and this was
closely bordered on both sides by water
palms. gum. rubber, saman trees and
gigantic tree-ferns, with a dense under
growth of bushes, while. running
through all. reaching to and binding
together the ~loftiest tree-tops, was a
wondrous network of Llama vines
amidst which, when we arrived, in
Vulnerable monkeys were just begin
ming their morning sports, >
With some difficulty quartette,
comprising Tom Alden, two other men
and myself, gained the westward mar
gin of the watery lane, where we en-
sconccd ourselves in the matted brush
wood, decming it inprudent to take
opposite sides for fear of accidents in
possible crossfring. .
We were perfectly concealed from al
observation except that of the ieering
monkeys, who, looking down on us
from their heights, kept up II ceaseless
clamor of derisive cries,
For nearly an hour we c%rouched,
watching in motionless attention the
ponds surface, seeing a laz~ily-tioating
cayman or two, but no sign Of the
game we sought,
Directly fronting us, on the east side
Of the creek, there lay, extended along
the waters edge and not more than
nine yards away, the fallen trunk of
a laurel tree, from which rose several
broken and partially decayed branches,
the whole being in deep shade, as the
sun had not yet risen high enough to
fully light that part of the island.
While we were patiently waiting,
Alden nudged me and whispered: See
what beautifully variegated moss COW
ers one of those limb stubs. We must
gather some of it before we go back to
camp
! was about to make some common
place reply when, thirty or forty
yards south of us, | noticed a slight
undulation of the water, and present.
" there appeared above its surface,
first the head and then the back of q
full-grown monster, followed immcdi-
ately by a like emerging of a calf, "A
comical looking creature not half as
long as its mother.
After inhaling air for a half minute "
so, the pair sank again, and, as we saw
plainly by the ripples, began to feed
IN bottom-growing plants, along the
east shore and directly toward the head
of the lagoon.
The next time they rose for air they
were twenty yards nearer us than be-
fore, and | whispered to Alden: wait
till they get into the shadow between
us and the big log; then, when their
heads show, you take the old one and
I'll take the youngster, shoot straight
for the brain and they'll never know
what hurt them" Tom nodded assent
and we waited in silence.
The water shoaled SO rapidly now
that by the time the animals were
( b east of MS and within two feet of
the laurel log the mothers rounded
tark appeared above the surface, and
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13

N PARAGRAPHS.

Factories engaged In the manu-
facture OF anti-tariff-reform sentiment
are not prospecting. Their product is
out Of date. m. Y. World.
The people recognize the clamor
against the Wilson bill as a repetition
Of the campaign thunder which failed
to scare them.-N. Y. World.
While delivering lectures TO Cali
fornia students on International law
ex-P President Harrison should give
them the one he has just received
through his successors message to con.
gress on his management Of the Ha-
waiian affair. louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Another calamity from tariff re-
duction apprehensions: Green r. Raum
Jr.' S grocery has failed. The paralyz.
ing of infant industries among the
Usage Indians seems TO have got Mr..
Raum down. Mr.. Raum joins the mel
ancholy procession headed by ex-Sec-
Rotary Foster and Mr.. Mckinley. st,
Louis Dispatch.
Had ex-Minister Stevens been as
careful to keep within the proper
limits of his authority MS President
Cleveland has been, there would have
been no Hawaiian tangle, and Granny
Hoar would not have made a spectacle
Of herself by de%nouncing the president
for a supposed purpose to smash
the constitution. -Iouisville Courier.
| journal.
Upon the tariff Mr.. Carlisle clear
ly and distinctly supports the Chicago
platform that there is no constitution
81 authority to levy taxes for protec
ton or for any purpose except to main
tain the government This is sufacien,
proof, il any were needed, that tn.
Wilson bill will receive the backing o.
the administration and that the
southern confederate wing Of the
democracy Il, for this time being, II
control OF the destinies OF the American
reople.-Cleveland Leader.
There Is the irony Of fate IN tn,
fact that the largest manufacturing es
t~ablishment in McKinley's own town
where he was first put up by the inter
ests that wanted all the protection
that could be had, succumbed to the In
evitable workings Of his nefarioul
system and passed into tho hauds of .
receiver. Given his own swing tor ,
little time longer he would have ruines
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
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Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
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