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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
Death of Congressman Brattan.

BALTIMORE. Md, May 1l.-Congress- man Robert F. Brattan died this morn- ing at his home at Princess Anne, Md. The end had been expected for weeks; in fact, ever since the present session began. MT. Brattan was present at the extra session in apparently vigor- ous health. During the recess he was affected with heart disease and later Brights disease developed.
 Mr Brattan was serving his first term as member of congress. He was a Marylander by birth and would have been 5l years old had he lived until Sunday.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
TEN THOUSAND KILLED.
Appalling Loss of Life by Earthquake
 Shocks at Venezuela.

CARACAS, May 11.-A terrible earth quake took place in Venezuela on April 2S. Reports which have been received here from the districts affected tell of terrible loss of life and destruction of villages and towns. The cities of Me rida, Laguinallas, Chiguarra and San Juan, situated in the northwest of the republic in the region of the Andes, are reported as hay ng been totally destroyed by fierce shock at II o'clock on the night of the 2sth. Many will lages are said to be wrecked, but de- tails are not yet to be had. The con vulsion extended to parts of the adja- cent repub bile of Colombia.
 The full details of the catastrophe will be learned slowly, but it is prob- able that 10, 900 people have perished, and it is certain that the greatest sui fering prevails in the places visited by the earthquake. The United States minister here has notified the state de- partment at Washington of the terrible effects of the catastrophe, and has asked that assistance be given to the people of the stricken districts
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

STRIKING miners made an attack up- on a detachment of gendarmes guard ing a colliery in Polish ostrau and the gendarmes fired upo2 them, killing nine and wouading twenty.
 AT Newmarket, Eng, oi the 9th the Two Thousand Guineas stakes was won by Lord Rosebery's Ladas Ladas is a bay colt by Hampton out of Hum inata and is looked upon as being the probable winner of the Derby.
 A SPECIAL from Yakima, Wash, stat ed that battle had occurred between deputies and commonwealers in which two deputies were shot one fatally.
 A SUPPOSED anarchist outrage, re- sulting in loss of life, was committed in Algiers. A hotel owned by man named Torti was blown up; one person was killed and three people were in jured by the explosion.
 IN a riot that occurred on a Knox vile x Ohio passenger train near Knoxville, Tenn, Sheriff Burnett was killed and six others were injured.
 OFF Pelee island the Canadian revenue
 
 vessels, the Visitor and Le Roy Brooks, and forty men from Cincinnati, Day ton, Springfield and Decatur, H.. who were fishing for black pass. The ves- sells were dismantled. placed in charge of an armed crew and lowed to Am herstburg, Can. The men were after wards released.
 THE annual meeting of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers con- vened in St Paul, Minn, on the 10th.
 IN a head end collision between a passenger train from Minneapolis and freight train near Menomine June tion, Wis, several persons were in jured and the express messenger, fire man and mail clerk killed.
 GEN. SAUNDERS ard his army of com monwealers, who stole a train at Pu. eblo, Col, surrendered to United States Marshal Neely at Scott City, Kan, no resistance being made.
 JOHN WILLIAMSON, wife and five chil- dren partook of salmon for supper from can opened some days previously. They all fell into convulsions almost immediately afterwards The two youngest children died in frightful agony. The others of the family are in precarious condition.
 A SHORTAGE of s2s,OO has been dis covered in the accounts of Gus Weis- brodte, city treasurer of Middletown, Butler county, O. The irregularity is said to extend back several years, sl2,- . 900 being taken when Hon. P. J. Sorg was one of his bondsmen. The pres ent bondsmen are said to be unable to pay his shortage.
 HALF the people of Norway, Me-, a town of 5000 inhabitants are home less in consequence of a confagratoin that swept over the place. Two fremen were injured by falling from ladders. The loss will be about s239, 900, upon which the insurance is $139, 9,000.
 A SEVERE windstorm visited Indian. apolis, Ind, and vicinity on the 10th, unroofing houses, blowing down trees and outbuildings and injuring a num- Der of people, one child being reported killed.
 FIVE hundred Polish laborers, most of them in a starving condition, have demanded work of the mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich.
 As the result of the storm on the 9th the streets of Saltwater, Minn., were impossible in the business portions A conservative estimate places the total damage at $50, 900. Above Dutch town there were holes in the side hills thirty feet deep.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

AN attempt will be made soon by William Oldham. of Nottingham, Eng, to cross the Atlantic on water cycle. His craft, which is named the Marion, is the smallest boat that was ever pro- posed to use for such an adventurous voyage. Its dimensions are 10 feet 6 inches in length, 8 feet beam and feet 6 inches deep with a draught of 20 inches of water. In the center is q small abin, rising inches above the deck. It is feet long and ? broad. At the top of this miniature cabin is a water-tight hatchway l6 inches square. The boat is provided with a brass screw worked from inside by the hands or feet in q similar manner to bicycle. The mast and bowsprit are constructed of iron pipe with steel wire ropes and there is small steering wheel
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

ALI attempts to have wrestling match" between lion and a bear at the Midwinter fair having failed, ar rangement are now being made to have Sandow, the strong man, wrestle with lion. He has signed a contract to meet Col. Boone's big lion, "Commo- dore" in the arena. The lion will be securely muzzled and his claws clipped Sandow will endeaver to throw or con- trol him by main strength.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

A COMPANY has been organized at Washington, composed of Russian and American capitalists, with capital of $500, 900, for the purpose of cultivating the sunfower. It is claimed the seeds of the sunflower produce an oil equal to the olive oil and that the cake from the seeds is eqlal to cotton seed cake, and can be produced much cheaper, The company will enter the field to compete with the cotton-seed oil manu- facture. A committee will leave shortly for a tour of the southern states to select large body of land suitable for raising the sunhower. The seeds are used in Russia as food by large num- bers of the poorer people.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

Col C. L. KEENAN,, of the Fifth regi- Lent, o. x. G., at Cleveland, O., has been notified that three members of company E have been discharged by their employers for responding to May or Blee's call for militia to suppress the recent riots. Mayor Blee has taken the matter up and will force settle ment with the employers. The Ohio law imposes a penalty of six months imprisonment and sl,OOO fine for at- tefnpts to prevent a soldier from re- spending to a call
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

IN Madison Square garden, New York, Prof. Gleason, the horse trainer met the vicious Iowa stallion, Tro- cadero which had killed eight men. There were fully 5, 1000 persons present Held fast by ropes and a ring in his nose Gleason tickled his side and legs with a whip causing him to snort with rage. The tanners next move was to fire several shots from revolver held close to Trocaderos head. This seemed to overawe him, and then Gleason fastened a hopple to one of the horses front pasterns and with a bully rope lifted the foot at will and soon convinced his ugly subject that the man was master of the situation. The horse seemed to lose heart and was by degrees harnessed, hitched and driven about the garden.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

EX-SURvEYoR-GENERAL HOBART be- gan the survey of the mammoth new storage reservoir for the Santa Fe Water Co. at Santa Fe, N. M. The dam will be 2,95O feet long, s5 feet high, 500 feet wide at the bosom and 80 feet wide at the top, with cement core securely sealed to bedrock. It will contain 800 cubic yards of earth. It is estimated that when completed the reservoir will be capable of irrigat- ing 20. 900 acres of land.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

A STORY was current among street railway men that syndicate had been formed in Chicago, composed of wealthy men, four of whom live in Chicago, two in St Louis and one each in Boston, New York and New Orleans, for the purpose of operating street rrilroads by underground trolley roads in the principal cities of this country and Eu- rope on a system invented by coiored man, Graville T. Woods, originally from Melbourne, Australia
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

JUDGE PARKER, who presides over the federal court at Fort Smith, Ark, created sensation the other day by his address to the grand jury, which is significant in view of the present agi- tation of the Indian problem. He said: "The government of tke United States has made many pledges to the Indians which have never been re- deemed. When these people were re- moved to the territory the government said to them: Not only will we give you farms and homes in fee simple, but we will protect you in your rights. We will give you every protection against lawlessness; we will see that every refugee, every bandit, every mur- derer that comes into your country is put out Not one of these pledges has ever been kept"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
Switchmen's League.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, May l4.-The in- ternational convention of the Switch mems Aid association of North America will begin it's session here to-day. Two hundred and fifty delegates will be present from every part of the United States The session will be secret and it is expected will last two weeks
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

THE track record of the Ken lucky association for a mile was broken by Ducat, Eugene Leighs great Deceiver colt The smash was made in the Straus stake for all ages. The great colt finished only a nose in front of Strathrol, the Cincinnati colt Ducat got away last, and until the stretch was four lengths behind the winner Ducat's mile was equal to 1889, and he could have gone the distance in 1888 had he been called on.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

A PIONEER party sent by the Ameri- can board of foreign missions is about to start for Mashonaland to examine the country's resources and its fitness for farming purposes If they make a favorable report American farmers will follow them to Mashonaland. Many Americans have already settled in the Transvaal and the country north of that republic.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

The citizens of Woodward, Ok, have ordered all disreputable characters to leave town at once.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
JpdRe Harlan Is Better.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 14.--The re- port that Judge Harlan had been stricken with appoplexy proves to be untrue. He was overcome by the heat and tainted. He is doing nicely and will be all right again in short time.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

It is about settled that the Knights of Pythias will build national sani- tarium at Hot Springs, Ark.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03
BIOOmingdaIe.

The M. +. Aid society met at the par
sonage Wednesday.
Miss Mccoy of Dowagiac is the guest
of the family of r. 5. Babcock.
Mrs. e. L. Stewart is visiting her
brother, o. Thayer, in Trowbridge.
Mesdames Hubbard and Haven re-
turned this week from a visit among
friends in Ohio.
A number of the friends of Mrs.
Mary SnOdgrass gave her very pleas
ant surprise party Monday evening.
1t is very evident that there is not a
person in town who more ardently
wishes the renewal of his youth than
e.. L. Stewart, for we understand that
he often stops on the street corner and
repeats the lines
Backward, turn backward, O Time in your fight,
Make me a child again just for tonight.
The drought has seriously affected
Bloomingdale and the country round
about, but the persons suffering most
severely from its effects are Messrs.
Hubbard, Virgins, Babcock, Whitney
and Palmer, who were obliged to part
with their mustaches and whiskers,
which the hot winds and sun had made
SO parched and withered as To render
them unfit to longer adOrn the faces OF
handsome men.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03
SsObleviIle.

Mrs. Marb. Thayer is seriously ill.
We still head our items, No rain"
Jerome Stoughton was in town last
week.
DR.. Ferguson and wife of Chicago are
in town.
A DR.. Whitney occupies the office of
DR.. Post.
Covenant meeting at the +. b. church
Saturday.
Mrs. N. Ferguson has returned from
California.
Clark Heron of Minneapolis is on a
visit to this place.
The campers-out at South Haven are
beginning to return
Mrs Maggie Beardsley of Marcellus
was in town last week.
The suit of Post VS.. Dorgan was ad-
journed to the Sth of August
Mrs. Westcott has been visiting at
Bloomingdale and vicinity the past
week.
Bush IL Lyle took in carload of
hogs Monday, paying from 81 to $4.25
per cwt.
Prof. Aseltine and family started on
Tuesday for Scranton, VT, for six
weeks visit.
The much talked of arrest of our
marshal for being drunk and disorderly
on show day still hangs fire.
Four ministers concentrated their
forces at the M. +. church last Sunday
evening, and sinners quailed.
Fish bite so well during the dry
weather that there isn't much chance
for fishermen To lie, only in weight.
Harry Heron has returned from his
peach picking trip TO the lake shore, at
present there being not much to do.
Many from here took i'm the excursion
to st. Joe last week. Many others are
at South Haven camping out, and our
town is quite dull.
Mrs. Arch. Smith will teach i'm the
primary room the coming year. The
last years corps of teachers are reen-
gagged with the exception of Mrs. Sooy.
Mrs. DR.. Hathaway and daughter of
Bloomingdalc arrived home last Tues
day, the former from Jonesville and
the latter from school at Battle Greek.
Many fires in such dry times as the
present are caused by careless smokers.
For instance: man putting pipe on
the street; tobacco burned up; the fire
knocked out of pipe on fence or some
other convenient place; man trudges on
lets the fire take care of itself, which,
if not seen, would soon create a con.
fagration.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03
('OrWin.

Mrs. Ben Johnson is on the sick list,
caused by rheumatism.
Miss Lula Davenport of Hartford was
a guest at Fred Harris last week.
Mrs. Nina Shepard has just returned
from visit TO her mother at Eau Claire.
Mrs Byron Odds of Hartford is help
ing to care for her nephew, Neil Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Olds are enter
tanning Robert Odds and wife of Hart
ford and Mamie Conklin of Keller.
The ball game played last Saturday
between the III. r. Banners and the
Corwins was won 10y the Banners. An
other game will be played next Satur-
day.
The little sixteen months old daugh-
ter OF Mort Billiard died last Friday
morning of cholera infantum. The
child was sick less than twenty-foul
hours.
While on >isit to his grandparents
little Neil Martin was taken very i'll on
Friday last. Dr. Baldwin was sum
moned who pronounced it cholera in.
fantum He is III "A dangerous cundi'
ton
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03

Mrs. Cassius Barker is entertaining
three ladies from Chicago
Mrs. j IL. Stoddard of Decatur is
visiting relatives at this place.
John Mower and family went to &C.
neva last Thursday to visit friends and
pick berries.
+. A. Chase was elected a delegate to
the Republican convention at Grand
Rapids and started for that place last
Monday.
Herbert Bacon of Paw Paw and his
brother Fred, principal in the Salem
Center schools, visited recently at the
home of their uncle. ID. s. Bacon.
Our pastor is attending the Crystal
Springs campmeetng and there will be
no preaching at our place on the COM
ing two Sundays. Sunday school rs
usual.
Erald only son and heir of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tommy Chase, died July %;
funeral services the 25th, Rev. A. n
Eldred of Edwardsburg officiating. The
parents and friends have the sincere
sympathy of the community in their
sad bereavement.
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Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becoming so we'll known
and SO popular as to need no special mention.
All who have used Electric Bitters sing the
same song of praise.-A purer medicine
does not exist and it is guaranteed to dc all
that is claimed. Electric Btters will cure
all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will
remove Pimples, Boils Salt Rheum and 9TH
eratfections caused by impure blood.-Will
drive Malaria from the system and prevent
ms we'll as cure all Malarial fevers.-For cure
of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion
try Electric Bitters-Entire satisfaction guar
anteed or mouey refunded.-Price soc. and
800 per bottle at Longwell Bros, Paw Paw
md j. F. Barrows', Lawrence.
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Mattawan.
Miss Lille Moore of Kalamazoo is
isitipQ In town.


Miss Lille Moore of Kalamazoo Il
visiting in town.
Phil Lee of Chicago was a guest al
Mr.. Stainton's last week.
G. +. Dolbee of the c. and G.. T.
made brief visit in town last week.
Mrs. James McCarter, who has been
sick SO long. is slowly improving under
the care of DR.. Dewey.
A most refreshing rain came Wednes-
day night but too late to do much good
as far as gardens are concerned.
Frank Long of Sand Lake, who was
called here by the death of the late
Mrs. Long, returned home Thursday
Since the school question has been
settled and the strike ended, the only
noise now heard i'm town is the screcch
of the steam thresher.
Rev. III. II. Miller and wife have re-
turned from their visit at New Buffalo,
and he will resume his duties in the
NJ. f. pulpit as usual next Sunday.
Mrs. Stephen Long, who has been
suffering for many months with cancer,
died on the 2Sth ult The funeral was
held Aug 1st at her home, Rev. III. W.
Harvey conducting the services. Mrs.
Long had been a resident of Mattawan
since 1859, and was well known and
by all.
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Lawrence.


The Everett boys spent Sunday in
Hartford.
V.O Harrison and son have returned
to our village.
Truman Parker is cutting meat in
Dunbar's market.
Dell Allen and family now ride in q
canopy-top carriage.
Miss Osa Everett is visiting her friend
Miss Ada Blakelege, in the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Younglove are the
happy parents of pair of twin girls.
Mrs. Marion McColom of Cadillac is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Lew. Barnard
Mr. Glenn McCollster has returned
from Wisconsin; he is in very poor
health,
Mrs. Frank Hall has so far recovered
from her recent illness as to be able to
visit at Mrs. McFern's.
Miss Alice Rowland has secured the
primary department in the school at
Baroda, Berrien county.
Mrs. Philo Cadys funeral was held
Sunday at the residence. She leaves "a
husband, two daughters and son to
mourn her loss.
The families of Carpp, Stearns and
Martin have been camping az Prospect
Lake the past week; also Chas. Corn
well and family.
Frank Chase and Ed. Wildey waited
in Lawrence on Monday to get train
to Hartford but none appeared after the
morning train, so they had to get con-
veyance to take them over. No COM
mentS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03


The Rothsmstsd reports make it ap-
pear that, contrary to the popular belief,
an average crop Of oats takes more fer
tility from the land than an equivalent
yield OF wheat. Farmers, as a rule, con-
slider wheat the most exacting of all the
grains on the soil and believe that oats
may be grown on much less fertile land
than wheat. The result, says Henry
Stewart in the New York Times, is that
one very rarely finds n really good crop
Of oats. and the quantity as well as the
quality of this grain produced per acre is
rarely OF any profit to the grower. And
yet some growers do secure excellent
and most profitable crops of this grain by
the best method of culture, based ON the
requirements of the plant. We read of
or sometimes see yield of seventy-five
or eighty bushels To the acre of grain
weighing nearly twice the average Of the
ordinary crops. and there are a good
many cases in which oats are really the
most paying crop grown on the farm.
The reason why this is uncommon is,
first, that its character as an exhaustive
crop Is not generally known; second, that
manure is very rarely given to it, and
third, that the procuring of the best
kinds OF seed is commonly neglected.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03
bee Buzzing.

The editor of The American Bee Jour
nal says: "(ienerally an unfertile queen
will lay eggs if she has not been injured
III any way. All her eggs will produce
drones only. Worker bees are incapa-
ble of being fortified. Sexually they
are undeveioped. Any eggs they may
lay will produce only drones."
Ventilation in bee cellars was dis
cussed at the Minnesota state conven-
ton and the conclusion arrived at that
in most cellars ventilation is needed in
some way. Some ventilate through the
doors or windows, and think it lust as
good as regular ventilat0rs made for the
purpose.
AT beekeepers' convention held at
Ashtabula, o., a talk on hiving swarms
made apparent the fact that some use
bushel basket. Mr.. A. Webster uses a
common market basket with a cover.
Others use a regular hiving box. To all
Of these poles are attached, of different
lengths, owing to the height of the
swarm TO be taken.
The laying of bees, the German writer
Gerstung contends. is not continuous,
but periodic, about seven periods of
twenty-five days each in a season; six
teen or seventeen days of laying, fol-
lowed by five to seven days Of rest, makes
the period of twenty-five days. DR.. Mil
Ter says, i'll Gleanings in Bee Culture:
81 should have said eggs can be found
any day in my hives; but if Gerstung is
right, there ought to be day or two
every three weeks when there is not an
egg in the hive. Let's watch this sum
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03
It Nav Do as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller of irving, III writes that
he had Severe Kidney trouble for many
years, with severe pains in his back and
also that his bladder was affected. He tried
many 40 called kidney cures but without any
good result About year ago he began
the use of Electric Bitters and found relief
at once. Electric Bitters is especially
adapted to cure all Kidney and Liver troubles
and often gives almost instant relief One
trial will prove our statement Price only
SOC. for large bottle. At Longwel Bros,
Paw Paw and J +. Barrows', Lawrence.
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BuckIen's Arnica Salve.

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