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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-04-19
PITH OF THE NEWS
EVENTS OF THE PASTWEEK IN
4 CONDENSED FORM.
The Latest and Most Important Views
of the World, CulIed From the
Telegraph Reports of the PreHS
Associations.
From the Nations Capital.


Senator Lodge delivers Il speech in
opposition to the tariff bill.
Mr.. Villas is made chairman Cf the
senate committee on postofficas.
Congress Is not likely to adjourn be-
fore Aug. 10.
The department of agriculture re-
ports the average condition of winter
wheat as SG.7 per cent against TI.4
last year.
Senator Chandler proposes the ap-
preparation Of $500. 900 for the enforce
ment Of the immigration and alien con
tract labor law.
The proposed exploration of Elsmere
island, in the Arctic regions, by Rob
crt Stein has been abandoned until
next year
Admiral Bcnham having reached his
siXty-Second year was placed on the
retired list. Capt. Wilson is now i'll
command at BluefeldS.
j. d. YeomanS, nominated to the in
tcrstute commerce commission, is said
to be partisan of the railroads, and
opposition to his confirmation Is grow
ing.
AU0thcr silver coinage bill IS intro
duCed in the house. Meyers Of LOulsi-
ana being its sponsor. 1t is claimed for
the bill that it meets in large part
President ClevelandS objections to the
Bland bill.
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Criminal DOlnRs.

Hard times caused George Host. a
restaurant keeper at sGalesburg, ILL.,,
to commit suicide with poison.
Harry Fox attacked his father with
n knife near Bay City, Mich, infiict-
ing wounds that will prove fatal.
Farmer Uriah Scanlan was fogged
by whitecaps near Bourbon, Ind, be-
Cause he had i'll treated his wife.
James Boss, suspected Of being a
meat thief at Bourbon, Ind, has fed
and officers are searching for him.
Two white men and four Chinese
were arrested at Buffalo, N. Y, for
opium smuggling.
DR.. w. /. Brenlzer, a dentist of
Ithica, N. Y, accused of completely in
the Cornell hazing tragedy, committed
suicide.
Editor Moore, who has been indicted
for blaSphemy at Lexington, KY, will
surrender and force a trial Of the Is
sJe.
David Bell, school teacher at Sugar
Grove, Ind, was robbed of 500 after he
had been sandbagged by a burglar.
], D. scringer was arrested at Benton
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THE WAR IS OVER.
Admiral de MeIIo. the Insureent

Admiral de MeIIO, the InsurGent
Leader in Brazil surrenders.
Montevideo, April 10. ~ Admiral de
Mello and the 1900 insurgent troops who
eisembarked on the frontier of Uruguay
after having been driveI out of the State
Of Rio Grande do Sui by the troops of
President Peixoto have surrendered to
the Uruguayan authorities and the re-
bellion in Brazil may be said to have
completely collapsed. The authorities
have disarmed the Brazilian insurgents.
The state of siege at Rio de Janero has
been extended to June Ii, but it Is be-
lieved that, in view of the surrender of
Admiral de Mello and the insurgent
fcrces the Brazilian government will
shortly be able to raise the state of siege
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TWO WERE STRICKEN.
WELL KNOWN MEN PAss AWAY ON
THE SAME DAY.
senator Vance OF North Carolina
Dies Suddenly OF ApoDlexy, While
Gen. SiOcum, the Brave Veteran,
succumbs to Pneumonia.

Washington, April Ex-senator Vance
Of North Carolina died at his home, 1T20
Massachusetts avenue, this city, at 1910
o'clock Saturday night of apoplexy. His
death was unexpected.
ZebulCn Baird VaLce was born in
Buncombe county, N. g., May IL, 1880,
and after an education in Washington
college, Tenn, and at the University of
Norh Carolina, studied law. He was
elected to seat in the Thirty-ffth con-
gress at the age of twenty-eight years
and reelected to the Thirty-sixth. He
entered the Confederate army as captain
in 1861 in the Fourth regiment of North
Carolina, and few months later was
made colonel of the Twenty-sixth North
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Foreign Gossip.

The German rcichstNg has adopted
the commercial treaty negotiated with
Uruguay.
The duke of Veragua has been ap-
pointed president of the senatorial COM
mittee on treaties of commerce with
Germany, Austria and Italy,
A dispatch to the London Daily News
from Vienna announces the failure of
David Wiener & Sons, with liabilities
amounting to $2,50O,O0O.
A Moslem band, which had committed
many depredatiOns in Malabar, were
attacked by mounted police and thirty
three killed,
1t is announced that Lord Rosebery
has decided that Great Britain shall re-
tain Uganda. and that the African
miniStI3tiOn.
Attorney General Russell assured the
house of commons there were no seri-
Gus differences between Great britain
and the United States in regard to the
Berirg sea bills.
The leader of the Radicals in the
Hungarian diet has notified the govern
ment that he will move Il vote Of CEN
sure against the government for its atti-
tude on the occasion Of Kossuth's ftl-
neral.
At New Orleans Judge HOnlonge in
the United States circuit dismissed the
suit on the ground Of no cause of action
brought by the widow of Monasterio
against the city for $4,000 on account
of the Italian lynching.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Buenos Ayres says that increased fears
are entertained Of a commercial crisis
i'm the Argentine Republic within three
months, owing to the universal heavy
losses that have been incurred through
the drouth and the low prices of prod
uce.
Kabba Rega, king Of Unyoro, and the
most powerful and troublesome Of the
| East Africa chiefs, was attacked early
in December by a detachment of the
British East Africa cOmpany's forces,
under Mai. owen. The fight lasted
three hours and resulted in Kabba
| RegA's defeat, fifty of his warriors be-
! ing left dead,
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Unfortunate Events.

Many cattle were killed in Gillespie
county. Tex, by fall of hail.
Prairie fires have caused heavy losses
to farmers in Western Kansas
Fifteen men are killed by a powder
explosion at Petersburg, Va.
Seven men are killed in a Michigan
railway accident.
An incendiary fire destroyed 5000
bales of straw at Anderson, Ind.
Four frame stores burned 1T Geneva,
Neb.
f. Webbers house and hardware
store at Fairbury, Ill, were burned,
with loss Of $1,000.
The three-year-old child Of G. d.
Green drank carbOlic acid by mistake at
Mexico, Mo-, and died.
ROIla Boyd, Il farmer, was tramplcd
to>death by Il stallion near Decatur,
Ill.
A fishing steamer ran on the rocks
off the coast of Grimsbv and six of her
crew were drowned.
Clemens Higley, twenty-fOur years
old, was kicked to death by horse at
Lafayette, Ind. He was to be married
the next day.
W. B. Price, purchasing agent for the
Utility Paper company at Hartford
City, Ind, died from the effects of in
jurieS received in the boiler wreck at
the mill
News reached San Francisco of the
wreck of the British barkentine Cafe
City in the North China sea while on
her way from Chez Foo to Annoy. The
vessel is a total loss, and half her crew
We're drowned, including Capt. 7. A.
Rodney
James Shaffer of Portland, Ind, had
been using cyanide of potash for some
purpose and dropped Il few of the par
ticleS on the floor. His two children,
twins, aged six, gathered the poison
and ate it, One died in a short time
and the other cannot survive.
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OthcrwfSe,

The Indiana fee and .,alary law has
been declared unconstitutional.
The Aspen National bank of Aspen,
Colo, has gone into liquidation.
Coke operatives met at Scottdale, Pa,
and decided to continue the strike.
The Indiana antitrust distillery of
Terre Haute has incorporated with
$5OOOO0 capital,
Congressman Hermann was renomi-
mated by the Republicans Of the First
Oregon district.
John Rinker was found dead in his
yard at Dubuque, Iowa. He had been
drinking heavily.
1t is alleged Sioux City commission
ers profited personally in disposing of
the recent issue of 100000 bonds at
par.
The Rev. Isaac Branson, q minister
near Muncie. Ind, has made an assign
ment. Assets and ii Utilities are $4,000
each.
Helen NJ. Cougar proposes represent
atives Of farmers and miners wives
visit Washington to show the evils
Of protection,
The strike Of Paterson, n. j., fax
spinners is at an end. The operatives
returned 70 work at tho old scale OF
| wages.
A female keeper of q toll-gate near
Brownsville, Pa, refused to permit the
passage Of Coxey's army until $1.S9 had
been paid.
Refusing to comply with the Illinois
law the license of the American EN-.
| ployers' Liability Insurance company
| has been revoked.
| Many important questions are to be
considered ut the annual meeting of the
whisky trust to be held at Peoria, Ill.
April 18.
Mrs. Sarah York was found dead or
the foor Of her room at Kokomo, Ind
She is supposed to have died of hear
disease. Her husband was similarly
found dead In the same house twenty
years ago.
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Personal Mention.

Jacob B. Carpenter, eX-mayor of
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, is dead.
John Wanamaker has just purchased
$1,2OO,OOO worth of Philadelphia real
estate.
The Rev. Hayden Rayburn and Mrs.
Rayburn celebrated their siXticth we'd
ding anniversary at kokOmo, Ind.
Ira Mathew, the Well known business
college educator and text book author,
dropped dead in Detroit yesterday. He
was eighty years old.
Capt Cranfield and his crew of twcn-
ty men have stated for New York from
Liverpool to take Lord Dunraven's s
yacht Valkyrie back to England.
Lord Rosebery one introduced a bill
ia substitute an elective senate for the
house of lords. He is heartily In favor
Of removing the veto power Of the lords,
Sir Arthur Sullivan receives on an
average $4,000 year from the Savoy
theater London, when one Of his mu-
steal successes is running there.
London Truth says that Sir Julian
PauncefOte, British ambassador to the
ambassador to Germany at the end of
the year.
Prof. John Moore Leonard, a well
known educator and scholar, who re,
Gently filled a chair in the faculty of the
University of Cincinnati, died yester-
day.
BY the retirement, Tuesday, of Rear
Admiral Benham, Commodore Ramsey
became a rear admiral. He has beer
for the past five years chief Of the nav
igation bureau of the navy department
George s. Hubbard and his sister
Mrs. Abner Roberts, twins, celebrated
their eighty first birthday anniversary
at Farmville, Conn. They We're botf
married the same year-1S39.
Jim Corbett, the champion pugilist
has purchased new three-story brown
stone residence in New York city fol
$25,OOO. Corbett will probably MAKE
the house his home after his return
from Europe.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Populist, ant
Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar, prohibiti0nist
will speak from the same platform il
Mount Carmel, ILL.,, on April "A. Mrs
Lease will talk on Money, Monopoly
and the Masses" and Mrs. Cougar
subject will be Political Responsibility
for Hard Times"
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DendEy ExuIOsfOD.

Chicago, ApriL1G- Union Tank Line
B oil car standing on the Northwestern
tracks near Sacramento avenue and
Kinzie street, took fire and exploded to-
day. The killed were Charles Muller,
fifteen years old. injured: Patrick Fitz-
simmons, railway laborer, burned, will
die; John Foute, letter carrier, burned
and crushed, will die; John Kleinfeldt,
railroad laborer, burned about head, prob
ably fatally; Joe CraDsden, railroad EN-
ploye, bruised and burned, will recover
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MORE FIREMAN HURT.
Another Accident Occurs Among the
In y.iGIsorn TIL, 20

Another Accident Occurs Among the
Davidson Theater Ruins.
Milwaukee, Wis, April 1.-THE body
of Fireman ia lssen, who lost his life
with eight of his companions in the Da y
id<on tleater fire yesterday, was found in
the ruins this morning. While the fire.
men were in search for the body there
was q terrible qFash, 0ccasioned by the
falling of large amount of debris from
the gallery to the balcony. Several fire.
II er were carried down by the crash,
one of them, Truckn:an Lancaster of
Company No. 2, being seriously injured
Work on the ruins has been stopped.
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ST. Juan d'AyiIa.

Rome, April 16.-A most picturesque
and interc sting ceremony took place in
st. Peters church yesterday morning.
The ceremony was the beatifcation cf
Juan fAvila, the Spanish thaologian.
who is known as the Apostle of Anda-
lusia." A statue of D'Avila, light ri by
c"ndelabriae, was placed at the altar end
of the Basilica, while on each side were
banners depicting miracles illuminated by
seveal candles. Arranged against the
background were heavy tapestries.
Among the great number of persons prs
ent were the members of the Sp lnish en-
hassE, 1000 Spanish pilgrims and twenty
Spanish bishops.
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Carolina In 1862 he was elected from
the army governor of North Carolina and
was reelected two years later. In 1876
he was elected governor for the third
time. He was next elected to the SEN
ate and took his seat March Is, 1879.
He was twice reelected and was can
didate for fourth term before the next
legislature, his. present term expiring
March 3, 1897. His death is likely to
result in a hot fight, both for the short
term and for the full term, a number of
candidates having been in the field for
the latter term for some time. The leg
islature which will elect his successor, is
Democratic with radical tendencies. He
was strong advocate of free coinage of
silver and very low tariff.
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Heart Disease the Cause.

Chicago, April 16.- DR.. w. II. Ha-
worth was found in an unconscious and
dying condition in his room in the Well
ington hotel this morning. All efforts to
arouse him to consciousness We're una
vailing and he died at 10 o'clock. His
wife, to whom he was married last De
cember, had been visiting her parents at
Minneapolis, and arriy ed a few moments
before her husbands death. An ex.
amiration after death showed that death
was due to heart disease.
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Has He SkiDDedR

Dubuque, Iowa, April 1G.-van Leuven,
The pension attorney whose trial begins
here this week, has not been seen at his
home in Lime Springs since last Mon
day and the impression prevails there
that he has left the country. Before
leaving Lime Springs he transferred his
property to his wife. His disappearance
dates from the announcement of his in
dictment bY tha grand jury at Minneap
oliS
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The Won L,.uyen Gose.

Dubuque, Iowa, April 1G.--Van Leuvea
and Kissel, indicted for pension frauds,
to day demurred that the indictments
charge no public offense and do not set
out the charges with sufficient particu-
lars. Should the demurrers be overruled
rtxt week they will ask continuan &c
because they have not been permitted te
See the evidence taken before the grand
jlry. 1t is the custom to permit de-
fendarts to inspect evidence. The priv
ilege was denied the defendants becarse
the testimony before the grand jury was
given by unwilling witnesses,
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Assaulted and Robbed.

Chicago, April 16. - Yesterday after
rcon Wiley Tindolph was found pn-
conscious in the subway" ef the illinois
Central depot. Near him was a coupling
pin covered with blood. 1t is supposed
Mr.. Tindolph was knocked down and
re bbed, but until he RECEIVERS conscious
Less the details of the affair cannot be
known. He had several railroad passes
in his possession, emitting him to ride
over roads in Minnesota, and in his peck
ct was 1925, ''S ?"'
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A Dad AnaEchist Arrested.

London, April 16.- D. tective Inspector
Melville arrested last evening in Earring
son Road an italian named Francisco
Pollti, who is we'll known as dangerous
ana rchist. He had in his possession
when taken into custody, a bomb which
was wrapped in brown paper. He was
4 great friend of Boudin, the anarchist
who was fatally injured seme tfi1e since
by the premature explosion of bomb
that he was carrying in Greenwich Park
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-04-19
colon Burnanr.

New York Specialize Worlds Pan
anna dispatch says: A big fire is ranging
at Colon, and several houses have already
been consumed. Panama has been ap-
pealed to for aid, and firemen from here
are on the way. The danger is increased
many fold by the fact that here Is No
water and high wind prevails,
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Wanted for Robbery.

Chamberlain, S. D., April 1G:-Dennis
Mccarthy, q fugitive from Iowa. was
arrested here to-day after eluding tht Of
icers for many months. He is wanted
at Cherokee, Iowa, for robbery commit
ted early in the winter. Mccarthy had
been in hiding here since last December,
but some of his associates finally save
him away.
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Receivers Retained,

Milwaukee, April 16.-Judge Jenkins
has handed down his decision on the pc
tition of certain Northern Pacific stock
holders to remove the receivers. The
judge dismisses the petition as to Messrs.
Payne and Rouse. AS to Mr.. Oakes,
the petition will be retained for the pur-
pose of an investigation of the Rocky
Fork Coal company matter, which will
be referred to q master to be named later
on
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congressman Heard
Receives

Washington, Special. The war CON-
mittee on claims of the house has agreed,
in accordance with the recommendation
of Secretary Hoke Smith, to report bill
authorizing the payment to Representa-
tive Heard of Miss ouri of $4,000 for
services rendered the Cherokee Indiana ia
their claim against the United States.
The money is to he paid out of a fund
set apart by the Indians for the prosecu.
tion of the claims.
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SeaIers Warned,

Washington, April 11-President Cleve-
land to-day issued a Bering sea proela-
nation, warning persons against violating
the recent seal fisheries act Of congress.
London, April lin the house of
lords to-day the Bering sea bill was read
for the first time. The second reading of
the same same measure mmeeaas will take place to
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New London, Conn.,, April 11.--Capt
Thomas Davidson, the last survivor OF
the battle of Stonington when the Brit
ish fleet bombarded that town in 1914,
died at his home here yesterday, aged
ninety-three years Up to the last he
retained a vivid recollection of the stir
ring events Of that period.
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FeFt Dodge, Iowa, April 16.-Charles
Bo1way, lad aged about ten, was killed
by Mason City & Fort Dodge trail OF
Eagle Grove while switching, He had
climbed on q coal eaH when sudden
bump threw him ur,der the wheels. His
hesd was severed from his body,
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Berlin, April 11.-An explosion of dyn-
amite in laboratory just outside the
toNn of Dogmitz, in Mecklenbury
Schw erin, destroyed the manufactorv
and killed three workmen and mangl II
five others SO that they cannot recover
Wreckage of the building was hurled
Lalf n mile
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His Mind Is a Blank,

Chicago, April 11.-William Sturges,
plaintiff in the suit to recover $4,000, 600
from John V. Farwell and others, now
pending before Judge Tuley, lies at hi
hotel-bis mind a blank. His fortune is
at stake. The nervous anxiety and worry
over his business interests have shattered
his reason. Physicians think he will
never recover his reason,
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Harbor, Mich, charged with embez-

zling 500.
The trial of ex-Secretary of State
Jochim on q charge of falsifying the
records was begun at Lansing. Mich.
Walter and Annie Jaeger, kidnaOed
from Cleveland school, were found
by their father. His wife had eloped
with boarder.
Attorneys for the Collins, charged
with aiding to wreck the Indianapolis
National bank, claim the concern was
never legally Incorporated.
Prof. J, II. Dickerson, Il music teach
or at Lebanon, Ind, has been arrested
charged with assaulting Miss Sarah
kcpner.
Three cars of clothing :, boo,s and
shoes were robbed by tramps at God
frey, Ill. Three of the gang were
caught.
The trial of Mrs. Bennett for the muir
der of Anna Weise was resumed ut
We're developed.
The safe of the Home Security COM
pany at Cleveland, Ohio, was robbed
of nearly $4,000 worth Of diamonds
and watches.
Henry Joy was drugged and robbed
by unSought friends in New York
tenement. His wife drove the intrud-
erS out.
William Naylor has been arrested at
Rushville, ILL.,, for trying to shoot Lewis
Dennis. Both are horse trainers, and
Naylor was jealous of Dennis.
c. o. Summers, the express robber,
again escaped from the Jackson Miss,
prison, this time with the aid of
guard.
An attempt by discharged employees
to wreck a Chicago & Southeastern
train at Joliet, Ind, was frustrated by
farmer.
After Il ten days trial the jury in
the case of Martin Ke:win, charged
with the murder of Frank Marr, re-
turned Il verdict of manslaughter at
Dubuque, Iowa.
At Marion KY, the jury in the case
Of Miss Sallie Moore against l.. w.
Cruce for $4,000 damages for betrayal
and breach of promise, returned u ver-
dict to-day for the defendant.
The United States authorities have
begun an Investigation of the trasmis-
sion of lottery and policy matter
through the mails between st. Louis
and Kansas City.
A convict now confined in the Ana
mosa, Iowa, penitentiary claims he is
the Col. Heath who commanded
Heath's division of Hills corps at the
battle of Gettysburg.
Miss Lois James, a bright young So
ciety woman of Ann Arbor, Mich, is
missing, and is supposed to have end
ed her life. Her father, retired army
officer, is in Japan.
Louis Barager, who keeps store at
Fountain, Mich, shot and killed Ed.
Laughlin. BarageP was fined for sell
ing liquor without license. 1t is sup
posed the quarrel arose oyer informal
ton leading to Barager's conviction.
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Minot, S. D., April 16.-A carpenter by
the name of Smith, who disappeared two
days ago, is believed to have committed
suicide. and parties are ont searching toE
his body. He was sixty-6va years of age
and had lately fallen heir to several
Thousand dollars and had been dissipat
ing
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Trude Out of If.

Chicago, Anil 1G.-Attarney A. y,
1f'de announced tasdsy his withdrawal
f'cm the prosecution in the Prendergast
case; "pp to the present time," Mr.
Trude said, "all indications point to the
fact that Judge Chetlain will rule favor
ably to Prendergast. 1 do not think it
necessary for me to remain in the case
lei ger"
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Mr., Hail yumped the Town

Hayward, Wis, Special-C Charles H.
Hall of Phipps, logger and hotel pro-
prietor, has left for parts unknown. A
few Hayward merchants mourn his de-
parture,. as he left several large unsettled
accol nts.
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Ed Morrill, Found Guilty.

Fresno, Cal, April 16. - Ed Morrill,
who aided Chris Evans to escape from
the jail here, and who has bevn on trial
for Tobbing City Marshal Morgan of his
rht9l immediately after the escape, has
bean found guilty,
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Eirst Clearance Eror, D.,u.n

Duluth, Mimi, April 16.-The pr ,p eIler
Mahoning cleared here to-day for Buffalo
with -four, the first clearance of the
seeson. Last year the first clearance was
May 3, but boats did not start until
week later