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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20
The News Of the Week.
FlFTY-THiRD CONGRESS.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.

Proceedings Of the Second Session.
TUESDAY, Dec. 11.-Senator Morrill,
spoke at length in the senate in OPP
position to various financial measures
introduced by Senator PETER (Kan.)
providing for the issuance of large
sums of greenbacks. The Nicaragua
canal bill was further discussed In
the house the bill amending the inter-
state commerce act to permit of rail-
road pooling was passed by vote of
1865 to 10.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 An unsuccess-
full attempt was made in the senate
to secure consideration of the bill to
strike out the differential duty on
sugar and a resolution for an amend
ment of the rules was also defeated.
A bill was introduced providing for
the adjustment of the death penalty
in the army and navy except in cases
of murder, rape, desertion to the enc
my in time of war and aggravated mu-
tiny. Bills were passed granting pen
sions of 500 per month to Mary Palmer
Banks, Mrs. Katherine Todd Critten-
den and Maj.-Gen. A. McClernand. In
the house consideration of the urgency
deficiency bill was begun and a motion
to strike out the appropriation for the
collection of the income tax was de-
feated.
THURSDAY, Dec. Ex-senator Blan-
chard (La.) introduced a bill in the
senate directing the secretary of
the treasury to refund to the Citi-
zens' bank of Louisiana money taken
by union soldiers during the war. The
bill for the establishment of uni
versity of the United States at WASH
ington was discussed. In the house
the urgency deficiency, Notifications
and military academy appropriation
bills were passed and the pension bill
($l41, 1881 500 was discussed. The post
Office appropriation bill ($s9, Az, s97)
was reported.
FRIDAY, Dec. 14.-The senate was
not in session. In the house the
pension appropriation bill was passed.
The evening session was devoted to
the consideration of private pension
bills and the house adjourned over un-
til the nth,
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ness and weight. A government has NO
right to issue paper with nothing
back OF 1t. and to make 1t legal tender-to
create currency and by an act of law
force the people to take It at full value
without regard to the intrinsic worth. All
such issues up to date have ended In
trouble. The greenbacks and treasury
notes are Of this character. they are the gov.
ernment's notes to the extent of $500 600. 600
payable on demand and in gold. They have
Caused trouble enough already They are a
constant menace to the gold reserve They
should be paid up.
2. The vacancy should be filled with bank
notes. The best currency Of the best nations
to-day Is mainly bank notes, which are
first lien upon the assets Of the bank.
These assets are commercial possessions.
representing the product Of the brain and
muscle OF millions of people They are the
wealth OF the nation. WHAT better basis for
circulation can there be than this-the actual
wealth Of the nation?
out the complicated and delicate problems at
tending this an impartial expert commission
should be appointed .
Editor Dodsworth Talks.
The next speaker was Mr.. w. Dods
worth, of New York, editor of the
Journal of Commerce. He said thai,
it will be manifestly desirable to
adopt course least calculated
to disturb existing banking arrange
ments that need no change, but that
the power of issuing notes should
be conceded to the banks operating
under state laws, conditioned upon
the terms that they shall conform to
the terms of issue imposed upon the
national banks, thereby securing from
all banks a uniform circulation. He
continued:
ANY course short OF this would be not only
political Injustice but an unwarrantable dis
elimination against class OF tanks in every
way deserving the privilege and upon whose
operations the business interests of the
country are largely dependent. The state
banks OF the country have total cap
ital Of about $275 900 600 and are the Gus
todians OF $3.50 100000 of the peoples deposits.
Their capital bears ratio OF SO per cent. to
their loans. while in the case of the national
banks the proportion is only 80 per cent, and
their ratio of capital to deposits is 81 per cent
which is Identical with that Of the national in
situations"
Regarding the proposal OF Secretary Car
Isle that banks be required to keep re-
serve on account of deposits. he said that
when banks are pressed by emergencies they
have more respect for their interests than to
hesitate to disregard the statute, which
meant that In practice the reserve law fails
OF Its purposes. Some pantcs might have been
wholly avoided had banks been free to use
their money resources according to their dis
erection. So that the result designed TO pro-
tect bank deposttors really imperiled them.
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Z WIT AND WISDOM.

Not one immoral, one corrupted
thought, one line, which, dying, he
could wish to blot.-Lord Lyttleton.
lis Miss Elders hair artifcial?''
ooh, no; it is human hair" II mean
is it her own?'' Certainly; she bought
it.''-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Miss Underhill-I have been told
that you are poor think we had bet
ter break our relations. Stewart
have broken all mine already.-Truth.
Young LADY, should like to give
my intended little surprise before
our marriage What would you recon-
mend? Lady Friend-Don't wear your
false teeth just for once. lodi Glot-
to.
Doctor Shaking his head)-Well,
my dear sir, I can do nothing more for
you. Patient.W-h-a- Good graz
cious, doctor Doctor-No; really, my
friend, you are in perfect health.-Der
Schalk.
Fine sense and exalted sense are
not half SO useful as common sense;
of good sense; and he that will carry
nothing about with him but gold will
be every day at loss for reader
change.-Addison
Theatrical manager-I'm not going
to pay you for my theater. Contractor
Why not? Theatrical manager-Be-
cause you contracted to build a theater
to hold $500 people and there haven't
been 500 people in the place any night
since it opened.-Truth.
SO much as we ourselves compre-
bend of truth and reason, so much we
possess of real and true knowledge.
The floating of other mems opinions in
our brains makes us not one lot the
more knowing though they happen to
be true; what in them was science is in
us but opiniatrety.-
--Dashaway-"You say your sister
will be down in minute, Willie.
That's good news. l thought perhaps
that she wanted to be excused, as she
did the other day" Willie-"Not this
time: 1 played a trick on her. Dasha-
way-'What did you do?" Willie (tri-
umphantly)-''I said you were another
fellow. "-London Wonder
Niece Auntie dear, Mr.. Mailer, the
artist, has asked me for my photo: He
wants to make use of it in his last pic
ture. Ought l to send it to him?"
Aunt-"Yes, you can do so; but be sure
to inclose with it picture of your
mother or some elderly lady. It would
be highly improper to send your photo
by itself" -Deutsche Warte.
"A principle of honor, as long as it
is connected with virtue, adds no small
efficacy to its operation and no small
brilliancy and luster to its appearance;
but honor, the moment that it becomes
unconnected with the duties of official
function, with the relations of life. and
the eternal and immutable laws of NOR
ality, and appears in its substance alien
to them, changes its nature. and, in
stead of justifying breach of duty,
aggravates all it's mischiefs to an al
most infinite degree; by the apparent
luster of the surface it hides from yo,.
the baseness and deformity of the
ground.-Burke.
THERE are good many people who are
well enough in their weigh, but the caSl
man Is not among them.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

THE doors of the City national bank
at Quanah, Tex, were closed.
CARL ScHURz presided at the nation
al Civil Service Reform league in an
nual convention in Chicago.
w. B. SIMPSON, of Holden, Mo-, and
w. NJ. Conner, of Indianapolis, died
from grief at the hayward actions of
their sons.
IDA NELSON drowned her two chill
dren and herself at Omaha, Neb.
In Cleveland W. II. Price, prom
inent business man. was killed by
burglars whom he discovered at work
in his home.
A MOB lynched a negro who MUIR
dered a boy near WILLIAMSON, s. e.
FIRE destroyed two-thirds of the
business portion of Gallop, N. M.
NEAR Sioux City, Ia, a Sioux City &
Pacific railroad train ran through a
herd of cattle and killed Twenty-Five.
"A PATENT has been granted Frank
Rowley, of Wisconsin, upon an ex-
press car calculated to withstand the
assaults of train robbers.
The Illinois appellate court decided
that any mandatory that menaces
the health of the community is a
nuisance. ~.
In session IN Chicago the National
Civil Service Reform league reelected
Carl Schnrz as president.
AT the age of 81 years Lewis T.
Ives, the well-known portrait painter,
died at his home in Detroit, Mich.
OFFICERS of various rival companies
formed a combination at Toledo, O., to
fight the Standard Oil trust.
For no cause known, Philip Grow, q
Kansas City bartender, killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
For white Gaping a grand jury in
dicted thirty-six prominent men of
Murray county. Ga.
The doors of the Kearney (Neb.) ma
tional bank were closed with liza bill
ties of about 1926, 900.
A HIGHWAYMAN held up the stage
8 miles from Fort Thomas, A. T., and
secured the mail-pouch, supposed to
contain large sum.
In Chicago the Meadowcroft brothers
were found guilty of illegal banking
and sentenced each to one year in the
penitent.ary.
FLAMES at Evergreen, Ala. destroyed
twelve stores, post Office, hotel and
livery stable, the loss being 100000.
DETECTIVES working in Michigan
claimed to have unearthed a scheme
whereby graves were robbed and cof-
fms sold again.
For the murder Of Newt Hampton
last July Alec Williams, a negro, was
hanged at Elberton. Ga.
AT Rice Lake, Wis, Joe White, chief
of the Naveosh tribe Of Chippewa In
dams, was fatally shot by game
wardens.
The Denver Times Office was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
AT Sandwich, Ont, Joseph Truskey
was hanged for the murder Of William
Lindsay on May 8 last.
In Chicago Judge Woods sentenced
Eugene v. Debs, the leader of the
American Railway union strike, to six
months, and G. w. Howard. S. Kelli-
her, Z. w. Rogers, M. j. Elliott, James
Hogan and William Burns to three
months in the county jail for violating
an Injunction.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

WoMAN's influence has not been con-
fined to the home. She has played as
important part almost on the foreign
field as has man. The first unmarried
woman was sent ont by the
church missionary society in 1920. In
1888 there We're only fifteen. In 1913
theythad mounted up to 100. The pro-
portion of female to male missionaries
has risen from one-twentiethi in 1878 to
one-fourth in 1898, Native female
teachers in the same society have in
creased from 375 in 1878 to S92 in 1898.
The total number of female mission
aries in the field outnumbered the men
Nv 600 s-r
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

ONES surprise at the fact that no
two persons voices are perfectly alike
ceases when one is informed by an
authority on the subject that, though
there are only nine perfect tones in
the human voice, there are the
astounding number of II, 500, So, O44, Ais
different sounds. Of these, IA direct
muscles produce 1888 and 80 indirect
muscles produce 1874, 1923, while all
in cooperation produce the total given
@ hnvo T. -
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BECAUSE his congregation gave q
fair in an opera house Rev. R. NJ. Dill
lon, Presbyterian preacher of Green
castle, Ind, resigned.
For no cause known Casimir Her
ner, a Polander. aged As, pounded his
wife to death at Manistee, Mich, and
then committed suicide.
OFFICERS arrested members of gang
OF connterfeiters in Oklahoma and cap
tured much spurious coin.
GOLD leads of fabulous richness were
struck by drillers at Iowa Gulch, south
west of Lillian, Col
LEADERS of a Tennessee mob which
lynched six negroes last August were
acquitted of the charge by jury at
Memphis.
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Lewiston, ILL.,, together with judg-
ment records extending back ten
years.
In Terre Haute, Ind, Isaac Bridges,
lovesick youth, shot Mrs. Joseph
Montgomery, who had interfered with
his match
In a riot three white men were shot
and fatally wounded by negroes at
Ca baniss, Ga.
A CYCLONE at Little Willis valley,
near Atlanta, Ga, killed George Stoval1
and negro child and wrecked two
dozen dwellings,.
In Atlanta, Ca, the trial of white
caps developed the fact that a far
reaching ku-klux organization exists
in the state.
INNew Orleans Kid Lavigne, of Sag
iuaw, Mich, knocked out Andy Bowen
in eighteen rounds. 1t was thought
Bowen would die from the pounding
he had received.
AT South Fork, OAK, James Vivian
fatally wounded his wife and sister,
in-law, Miss L. Draden, and then cut
his own throat, dying instantly.
AT Council Bluffs, Ia, John Hunt
ington, suspected of embezzling from
the Citizens state bank, wounded two
inspectors sent to examine his &C.
counts and killed himself.
The two Schultz children. who wan
dered from their home near Waupun,
Wis, were found dead in bog.
In 1885 Henry Graben disappeared
from Hebron, Ia, and was believed to
have been murdered by his stepmother.
He has returned home.
The two daughters of Rev. Solomon
Beckerman, of Cleveland, O., were
burned to death in their home.
Miss OLLIE WILHELM and David Or
wig, of Findlay, O., resolved to quit
this world together, and did so by
taking morphine.
The death of James Gilfllan, chief
justice of the supreme court of Mime
sofa since 1869, occurred at St. Paul.
By an explosion of gas in the Vulcan
mine at Newcastle, O., ten men were
injured, several fatally.
DURING the past season on the great
lakes sixty sailors were lost, and thir-
ty-eight vessels with an aggregate
tonnage of 1881 tons passed out of
existence
In New Orleans Andy Bowen died
from the injuries he received in the
fight with George Lavigne.
MASKED men held up Smyth Taylor
at Greenville. Tenn, and robbed him
of $4,000 which he had just drawn from
bank.
EP-PENs1oN AGENT VAN LEUvEN
pleaded guilty at Dubuque, Ia, to con-
spiracy to defraud the government and
was sentenced to- two years imprison-
meut
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

BRET HARTE, who was miner, ex-
press messenger, schoolmaster, and
always poor, before he became liter.
AIRY celebrity, is regarded as one of the
handsomest and bcst-dressed authors
in London nowadays. Thirty years
ago he was writing condensed novels
for the Golden Era of San Francisco at
SIS per column
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20
LATER NEWS,

SAM'L G. SEELEY the defaulting book
keeper of the National Shoe & Leather
Bank, of New York was brought before
Judge Bennett in the United States dis
trict court the 18th. He pleaded guilty
to the charge of making false entries
and abstracting funds.
In the U. S. Senate the 18th Senator
Villas presented an amendment to the
Sundary civil bill. In the house the
banking committee presented Carlisle's
currency plan and recommended the
bills passage. It is understood. how
ever, that it will not be urged until
after the holidays, Democratic opposi-
ton to hasty action having developed
The bill to protect public forest reser-
walton was passed under suspension of
the rules.
The two little Schultz children who
wandered from their home in Wah-
peton; N. D., the 10th, were found the
10th about two miles from home. They
were dead from exposure and cold.
The home of Rev. Solomon Becker
man, of Cleveland. O., was burned the
18th. His two little daughters were
burned to death and the rest of the
family had great difficulty in escaping.
In the matter of the murder case of
Catherine Cling, Claus Blixt was ar
raigned before the court in Minneap-
oils the 18th. He made plea of mot
guilty." and will stand trial. The trial
is set for January 7. Harry Hayward
was also arraigned and was given time
to make his plea,
Two men attempted to rob the grave
of Miss Morris, at Mount Hope, Ky.
Her betrothed lover, who was watch
ing the grave, shot one of the robbers
dead The other escaped.
The Citizens Stock bank at Slater,
Mo-, was closed the 18th.
The convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in session at Denver,
Colo. decided on Indianapolis as the
next place of meeting. The election Of
officers was then taken up. Mr. Com
pers and John Mcbride, president Of
the United Mine Workers, were the
only candidates for president. The
vote resulted: Mcbride, 1,162; Com
pers, 937.
DURING services at Harmany, Ind,
the night of the nth, William Early
threw lasso around the neck OF e. M.
Watts. pulling him out of his seat and
choking him breathless before he was
forced to release him by persons inter-
fering. When Watts regained his
strength he knocked. Early down and
was pounding him in the face when
Early drew knife and stabbed him.
inficting dangerous wound.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20
FEARED EXPOSURE,
Discovery of Shortage heads to Tragedy

DhcOVefy OF shortage AeaQS Co Tragedy
In Iowa.
Council BLUFFS, Ia, Dec. 1S.-John
Huntington, remittance clerk in the
Citizens state bank, of this city, shot
and seriously wounded F. n. Hayden,
of Chicago, and A. Cromwell, of Mime
apolls, respectively superintendent
and inspector Of the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty company, Of New York CITY, and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head Sunday
morning at about 11;l5so' clock in the
private office of the bank. at the corr
ner of First avenue and Main street,
There was shortage In the bank
accounts of $500, and this caused the
act. The shortage dates from last
July. On the 10th of that month four
$500 checks passed into the Citizens
bank. Only three of those checks
have ever been accounted for. A most
searching investigation was held, and
resulted in the production of strong
circumstantial evidence that the
amount had been misappropriated BY
HUNTINGTON .i
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i PENNSYLVANIA is about tf

PENNSYLVANIA is about to take
measures to preserve her forests. She
is contemplating buying back all the
forest lands in Monroe, Pike and
Wayne counties. which form the
watershed of the upper Delaware
river, which has passed under private
ownership, and forming a reser-
walton there, as well as about the
headwaters of the Susquehanna and
Allegheny.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

DAVID Mccoy. of Redlands, Cal, is
the. oldest pensioner of the United
States. He is veteran Of the war of
1sb2 and is 104 years old. The next on
the list, which contains forty five
names, is Hosea Brown. of Grants
Pass, Ore, who is 102 years old. The
Oldest widow of 1912 is 95 years old.
She was married after the war was
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

KANSAS supplies Queen Victoria with
her winter apples. She gets her flour
from Minneapolis, and her fresh meat,
us everybody knows, comes from Chi
cago. Queen Victora's mincer pie is
substantially western institution.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

GoRLEY PHELPS, farmer living two
miles east Of Fort Niagara, on the
shore of Lake Ontario, has an odd pair
OF pets They are cat and rat.
They are the best of friends. They
eat together, sleep together and play
together. The cat shuns other cats,
and so far as Mr. Phelps can ascertain
there are no other rats on his prem
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TlLLMAN ELECTED SENATOR.

Ex-Governor Received 81 Out of IS Votes
In the South Carolina Legislature.
< CoLUMBIA, S. G., Dec. BIB R. Till
man was elected United States senator
Tuesday at noon, receiving 131 out of
155 votes. M. C. Butler received 81
votes. Three negro members of the
house voted-two for George Murray
and one for w. ID. Crum. The vote
stood in the senate 80 for Tillman, 8
for Butler; in the house, 102 for Till
man. Is for Butler. The two houses
will meet in joint session at noon to-
day to canvass the vote and declare
the result.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

THE United States now has about
forty vessels engaged in whaling-the
remnant of a fleet which once num-
bered 500 ships. The demand for
whale oil has sogreatly decreased that
the industry has dwindled away. 1t
is now supported chiefly by the, de-
mand for whale one.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

On payment Of $500 young man is
excused from military service in
Spain. The other day man wrote to
the queen that he had already paid
$4,000 to~exempt ten Of his sons and
begging her to excuse the other four
teen from service, as he had no more
money. The queen, granted the re-
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MURDERED FOR CASH.
A San Francisco Drug Clerk Assaulted
and Robbed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IT, Eugene
Weir, drug clerk, was killed Friday
morning by burglars, who sub
sequently rifed the cash reg
lister. Weir was about to close up
the store in which he was em-
ployed. Later q policeman found
the door open and discovered the
remains Of the murdered man in the
cellar with tWenty-eight stab-wounds
in his breast and side. The proprietor
subsequently found almost all the
money in a secret hiding place, only q
small amount Of silver being left in
the cash register.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

AFAPER in Washington vouches for
the truth Of the story that Ben Cable
was on the floor of the house when a
gay and breezy page met him, and
with that sweet familiarity which is
proof that he at least believes that the
whole world is kin, addressed the ma
tional committeeman in this wise:
''Hullo, Ben" Mr.. Cable looked at
the youth for a moment and then, re-
moving his cigar from his mouth,
placed his hand on the pages shoulder
and replied: 'sDon't call:me Ben; call
me Renilie ;" y. -. =. :
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On TIE GALLONS.

Daniel Robertson Hanged at Now Bedford.
Masa., for Wife Murder.
New BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. 17.-Dan-
lei M. Robertson was hanged in the
jail here at 1O:43 o'clock Friday fore,
noon and pronounced dead ten min
utes later. Robertson was about 4o
years of age, and a carpenter by trade.
On Sept embe, 8, 1899. having been re-
leased from the. house of correction
earlier in the day, he went to his wife's
house and cut her throat with pocket
knife because she had refused to send
him some money to pay his fine.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20

A SINGLE ranch in Wyoming is six
times as big as Rhode Island. Its di-
mansions are rs by 100 miles, and it is
stocked with 1000 horses, $4,000 cattle
and 100000 sheep. The owner is ex-
Senator Warren.
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New Canadian Premier.

LoNpoN, Dec. The Times Friday
definitely announces that Hon, Mac
kenzie Bowel, Canadian minister Of
trade and commerce, has consented to
form ministry for the sominion Of
Canada.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-12-20
CANADA'S PREMIER DEAD.

Sir John Thompson Suddenly Called at
Windsor. England.
WINDSOR, England, Dec. 13. - Sir
John Thompson, the Canadian prime
minister, expired at Windsor, Wednes-
day, after the meeting of the privy
council at which he was sworn in as a
memb Der.
Sir John Thompson's death occurred
at LAS p. m. His attack lasted fifteen
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.ProYIsions for Nahr..ka snnerers

PFoylsions for Nebraska Sufferers.
PORTLAND, Ore, Dsc. IA commit
tee from the chamber of commerce has
been appointed to solicit supplies for
the So fferers inNebraskA.