davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

The Nicaragua canal matter is one of
great interest to the United States, and
it is said that a bill has already been
drawn for presentation at the coming
congress, by the terms of which the canal
is to be built entirely with American
caoital. Tue bill has been drawn by
Senator Morgan IF Alabama. It is sub.
stantialIy similar to the bill which passed
the senate last year and failed of action
in the house. Its essential features are
an issue Of S100,O0O,0OO of canal bonds,
each bearing an Endorsement Of the
United States government that they will
be met at maturity. OF this entire
amount thu government itself advances
S7O,OOO,0OO ard the canal company, or
gained u dr. the terms Of the bill,
raises $4,000 600. The entire amount
goes into tie c"t g ruction of the canal.
The passage IF such q bill, will bring
about. perh -. nm international contro-
versy Of mr,- Than usual magnitude, for
there is l't'|e doubt that Great Britain
will want ii ger ~ the pie, and as little
doubt that On4ress will refuse to allow
it. The bu,i.iiHg IT the canal should be
ar exclusively American undertaking,
and congress wi look at it that way.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

down so as to cover the hips. A pair Of
black stockings, bicycle shoes and a
neat blue riding cap completed the out
fit. It was pretty, everyone admitted,
but the chief Of police thought it was
'too much Chicago" aud that settled it.
The bill of particulars against the costume
is not forthcoming. 1t is impossible to
say wherein the principal objection lay.
Perhaps the chief of police thought the
knickerbockers were too shorten too long,
or maybe there was too much braid on
the jacket. But it does not matter.
What the general public yearns to know
is, to what extent the mayor, and chief
of police and poundmaster Of the city
Of Minneapolis can dictate bicycle Co.'S
tunes, and what right they have to
suppress boomers. This is no local
question. It is one which involves the
rights of every new woman in the ma
ton. Let the be-bloomered bicyclists of
this Country arise, array themselves
under q blood-red banner and charge
these naughty, self assuming Mime
apolis officials.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

League has received reports from 500
employers 10 %eighty-fve different indus
tries. These returns show that the same
industries employed $3.50 more hands in
1892 than in 1890, an increase of ~ per
cent. In 1894 they employed 24,081
hands less than in 1892, a decrease of 26
per cent; in the early part of 1895 they
employed 11,756 nor hands than in
1894, but 1926 less hands than IN 1892.
and 2,795 less even than in 1890. For
1895, the employment Of labor shows an
increase OF II FER cent, as compared
with 1892 and a decrease Of 8 per cent.
as compared with 1890. In the matter
of wages, the reports snow that the av-
erage Of wages paid in 1892 was 5 per
cent. higher than in 1892; in 1898 it was
16 per cent. less than in 1880 and 81 per
cent. less than in 1892; while tor the 1895
period the average rate Of wages paid
was IA per cent. less than in 1880, II per
cent. less than in 1892 and only 2 per
cent. greater than in 1894. While re-
ported "advances" in wages have been
diligently announced in the cases of the
industries that have been enabled to
make them, nothing has been heard OF
the far more numerous other instances
where they have not.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

THOSE who say there is lack of oppor-
tunity for young men in this age, should
pause and consider the offer of Mr.. Hop
Sing Lee of San Jose, CAL, who will
give $1,000 cash and a half interest in
a business worth many thousands to n
steady young American who will we'd
his daughter. Hop is worth from S5O, 900
to 100000, which will also revert to his
daughter upon his death. Perhaps the
principal objection to the alliance upon
the part of the nero Rallants who
might otherwise be happy to avail them
selves OF the offer, is that Hop is a
Chinaman.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

The town Of Minneapolis has been all
torn up for the past few days over the
appearance Of q bloomered woman.
She rode up one Of the nam streets on
a bicycle, and was at one apprehended
by an alert partfolman, whose acute
sensibilities and intense modesty we're
lnexpresslbly shocked at the display.
She was taken to the mayors Office,
after the obnoxious costume had been
covered with q street dress Of approved
fashion, there to await the sentence OF
an august tribunal of city officers. She
expostulated with the mayor, but he was
deaf to e%ntreaties. She made q motion
as though to expose the costume for his
inspection, but he was overcome with
maidenly modesty and fed. After a
lengthy conference, in which the mayor,
chief of police, poundmas'er, and several
prominent officials participated, it was
decreed that the costume was too utter
to roam about in Minneapolis, and q
bull was promulgated against its further
appearance. From a local paper, we
learn that the costume consisted of q pair
of knickerbockers down to the knee
which were not tight. Over q natty
shirt waist was a blue jacket, trimmed
with broad white braid, and coming
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
A RATHER startling dispatch from New

A RATHER startling dispatch from New
York conveys the sensational informa-
ton that dress suits for gentlemen may
hereafter be of plum hue. Following, as
it does, upon the heels of the Chicka-
manga dedication and the rise in wage
in eastern manufacturing districts, this
broad concession to plum color will tend
to crystalline, as it were, the still rather
nebulous restoration of confidence
throughout the nation, and dispel effec-
tually any stray bits of gloom which
have been floating about, with the radi-
ant sunshine of renewed trust and con-
fdence. The new will be gratefully re.
ceived throughout this section, as there
was considerable doubt as to whether
plum color would receive it's we'll merited
recognition, or whether the award of
fashion would go to watermelon color, or
strawberry color, or even water-color or
butter. color. For this reason many of
US have delayed ordering dress suits
until the social fabric throughout the
whole north western country has suf-
fered severely from the negligence. The
settling of the vexed ques ion will be
hailed with general satisfaction, and the
construction of dress suits may proceed
without any further fear of interruption
or vexatlous delay.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

In order to compete with it's rivals on
an economical basis, the extraordinary
expenditure of tile Northern Pacific road
in the next five years should be S9,O00,-
900. This is the estimate of the re-
oeivers of the road, in a report made to
Judge Jenkins. It 10 made upon the
basis of 100000 for 1,400 miles of new
steel rails, which will have to be laid in
the time specified, and 100000 for per-
manent steel bridges to replace tempo
rary fills and ~culverts, in addition to
other incidental expenses for repairs
and improvements. The maintenance of
it's roadbed in such a condition as to in
sure successful operation of it's traffic
has been a matter requiring endless
trouble and involving ceaseless outlay.
An expenditure of the sum proposed,
however, should certainly place the line
of the road in a condition of permanent
repair, and reduce operating expenses
thereafter to a minimum.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
The Railway Age publishes some

HE Railway Age publishes some in
teresting comparative statistics of Ameri-
can and British railways for the year
1894. While our mileage is nearly nine
times thatc the United Kingdom, u
railway capital is only two and one-thjrd
times as great, u gross earnings are
but two and two. thirds times as great.
and our net earnings lack considerable
OF being twice as great. But as for pas.
sengers carried the British roads beat
Us nearly two to one, without counting
the unnumbered trips Of !. lS4, 600 British
season ticket holders; and although our
freight tonnage is more than twice as
great rs theirs, the earnings per mile
OF road were considerably more than
twice as great 10 Great Britain as iii
the United STATES. The better re-
suits in net earni, &c on British roads
are largely accounted for when it is seen
shat our operating expenses are very
much larger per mile than theirs. stand
ing at over 70 per cent, against
Sc on British roads. With such a
difference in the ratio of expenses it is
not 80 strange to find that the British
roads last year earned 3.77 per cent. on
their much heavier rate OF CAPT alization.
while the rate earned by American roads
averaged only 2.24 per cent. But it is
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

triumph of peace and progress, and an
other link otthe chain of common interest
and friendship which joins north and
southfas inseparable parts of the worlds
greatest nation.
And then, as the last in this trio of
gracious and ausp,cious events is the
dedication of battlefield Of Chattanooga,
and the adjacent fields. The event is
one of the most conspicuous in the
nation'shistory. From north and soutL,
from confederacy and union, soldiers
have come to participate in the dedica-
ton ceremonies. Not as northern and
southern soldiers do they come, but as
soldiers Of one great national army OF
peace, whose dedication will be the
dedication of the nation to an era oil
peace, plenty and prosperity.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
OFFICIAL PAPER BuRLEIGH co.
f EN- FIGHT.

A great national crisis has been passed
in safety, and a question of grave public
importance finally settled. A decision
of the courts has established that Mr..
James J. Corbett may hammer Mr..
Robert Fitzsinlmons, or vice versa, az
the case may be, to the entire content of
the hammerer, the complete satisfaction
of the hammeree, in accordance with
the laws and statutes Of the state OF
Texas, and pursuant to the tenets and
precepts laid down by that revered bene-
factor of the sporting world, the Marquis
of Queensberry.
The only thing lacking, at this writing,
to insure a contest between these two
amiable blowhards, is a disposition to
fight. If this can be supplied, the
sporting world will no doubt be RECALLED
at Dallas, IN October 81, with a smuggling
match which shall eclipse anything of
the kind which has occurred up to this
time.
The generosity of the laws of Texas,
in thus permitting them to enter into 9
comparative test of brutality, should ap-
peal to both MI. Corbett and Mr.. Fitz-
simmons. The public has suffered to
such an extent from the insuferable
and disgusting volubility of the two,
that it may be said to be eager for the
contest. Not that the public is clamor-
ing for more prize-fghts; but the vocal
duel between Mr.. Corbett and Mr.. Fitz-
simmons has been wased so relentlessly
that the people thirst for revenge. And
they hope that the contest, if it must
occur, will be such a one as shall settle
effectually the question as to which of
the pugs is the greater brute, and that
each of the contestants may be punished
to An extent conmens urate with the
agony he has helped heap upon the un-
covered head of the nation.
It is a matter of Indifference, except
to a few misguided individuals who
favor the American out of a mistaken
sense of patriotism (save the mark),
what the outcome of the battle may be.
Exhibitions of brutality are hardly fit
occasions for the display of national
pride or "patriotism." If MI. Fitz-
simmons can slug MI. Corbett into
insensibility, he is certainly welcome to
the honor of championship, until some
bigger brute may wrest it from him. If,
on the other hand, Mr.. Corbett should
prove the victor, it is to be hoped the
victory will not be made excuse for a
more conspicuous paradipg and foisting
of his obnoxious personality upon a
long-suffering public.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

LUoK1ER than his countryman the
Earl of Dunraven, the young Duke of
Marlborough has o a prize of consid-
erably greater intrinsic value than
Americas cup, in Miss Consuelo Van.
derbilt. The unsettled state of the
markets in this country may perhaps
have been the reason for the delay IN the
announcement of the engagement.
but now that prices are sterdier and the
tendency Is a rising one, the duke feels
no hesltancy in taking the matrimonial
plunge. 1t is not known, as was the
case in the Gould Castlemaine alliance,
how much the duke is to get for him
self. Perhaps no definite settlements
have been made. But he should at least
be worth as much, if not more, than
Castlemaine, for an English title should
sell in open market as we'll as 3 French
ono a . 0,4 r.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE,

It is gratifying to note that arrange.
ments have about been completed TO an
investigation by this government of the
destruction of American missions and
the property appertaininR thereto, by a
heather organization in China, who term
themselves vegetarians. It does not
much matter whether they are vegeta.
rians or greenbackers or free silverites
1t is a fact that an unprovoked assault
was made upon citizens Of this nation,
tenn porarily resident in China. The
greater number of citizens of the United
States would like to know what is to be
done about it.
It is a fact, and it has been demon.
strated many times, to the modification
of residents of the United States boil
at home and abroad, that Uncle Sam is
too forbearing in his treatment of indig-
mites done his citizens. His foreign
policy needs starch. It is not to
be inferred from this that there is any
occasion for buster or braggadocio upon
the occasion Of every wrong to an Amer.
a while in a foreign country. But, on
the other hand, it is not wise that he
should be too long suffering and kind
Foreign nations should be made to
understand that when a wrong has been
done an American citizen, that wrong
muet be righted: and that it will not
answer to right it a quarter of a century
after it has happened. 1t is poor salts.
faction to an American to pass the sum.
mel in prison in a foreign land, and get
a profuse apology for the injury.
It is Lot jingoism to demand imme.
diate and adequate r%eparation for in
jury done an American Citizen, If it is,
let us have me jingoism and see how it
works. The power of the nation should
not be made excuse for d%illy-dallying
with some impertinent and bankrupt
potentate, who relies upon Uncle
Sans notorious forbearance for delay
ing the day of reckoning. If it should
become necessary, in order to bring
about a more becoming respect for the
American flag, to spank some pusillani-
nous p~otentate, let the spanking process
begin. If the sentimentalists do not
approve OF it, they might move to some
foreign country and be naturalized.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

WHAT the Merchants hotel of st. Paul
10 to the people of the northwest, so is
the Palmer house of Chicago-a welcome
place for North Dakotans. The rates,
always reasonable, are now considerably
reduced, and the service the best. This
will be remembered by all northwestern
visitors to the worlds fair as one of the
hotels that refused to increase it's rates
for that event. The location is central,
the building is absolutely freproof, and
guests can be accommodated on either
the European or American plan. Willis
Howe, the veteran hotel manager, is still
IN charge, and everybody who has tried
it will admit the Palmer is we'll managed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

The suggestion of the Home Trade
association of st. Paul to hold a grand
Northwest exposition upon the state
fair grounds next fall at which Mime
sofa, Iowa, Wisconsin,, the two Dako-
tas, Montana, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon shall be represented and par
ticipate is a very important one, and
deserving of more than a passing notice,
says the St. Paul Dispatch. The ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
Of the Republic will be there at that time
for n week, which will bring to the
city an immense crowd of people from
all parts of the Union, and this will
help to make any industrial exposition
at that time a success, so far as attend
ance is concerned. The northwest Sec
ton of the Union has been developing
industrially in a most remarkable man.
ner during the past few years. There
has really been an exposition
which has brought the group of states
named into close relations in an D
sltlon wholly devoted to the interests of
the great section named, so that the
time has certainly come when it is judi
cious to make the attempt. OF course,
it will be attended with great expense
and labor, but that will be the case no
matter to what date such an exposition
shall be postponed. There is no good
reason why it should not be next year.
By a combined energetic effort 1t can be
realized and made q complete success.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
SEND THEM HOME.

Whenever any blatant foreign dema-
gogue makes his way across the Atlantic
ocean and attempts to unlimber his
vocal artillery with the avowed purpose
of stirring up dissent and dissatisfaction
among misguided "workingmen in this
nation, he should be treated as was An
archist Mowbray in Chicago the other
day-made to confne himself to temper
ate speeches Or be taken in charge by
the authorities.
Unfortunately, we have so large a
supply of disturbers here at home, that
it is altogether unnecessary to import
either raw or finished material from
Europe. Whenever it is felt that the
nation is in need of any lugubrious and
pessimistic walls, we have but to press
the button, and any one of a score of
homegrown and fre-eating politicians
and agitators of national notoriety will
do the rest. The list Of available mourn
ers, who are citizens of the United States,
is ample, and their willingness to mourn
in any one of a half dozen languages,
remarkable. Conspicuous among these
is Ex-Governor Waite Of Colorado, who
mourns in frenzied accents, which super
induce avalanches among the mountains
Of his native state, and who tears his
long, white beard to order at the briefest
notice. Senator PETER of Kansas, is an
other professional calamityite, who is
ever willing to vail at greatly reduced
rates, and the list might be supplemented
with dozens of others, including Ignatius
Donnelly. Governor Altgeld, Eugene v.
Debs, J. s. Coxey, Mary Ellen Lease,
and a host of others, time-tried, fire.
tested, adjusted TO heat and cold, and
warranted to keep in any climate.
Bitter experience has taught us the
undoubted genius of each of the afore-
mentioned persons, and 80 versatile are
they that the home supply Of sadness
and grief is ample for all sorts of occa-
sions. It will be evident, therefore, that
no outside aid is needed in the dissent
nation of gloom and circulation of sad
| ness and sorrow. @
For these reasons, therefore, it is sug-
gested that the import duty on such
articles al Keir Hardie, Mowbray and
other things of the kind, be made prac.
tically prohibitive. To allow these foreign
grief-mongers to come into direct COM
petition with those who have struggled
30 hard to establish the business there
at home is not in line with the American
policy of protection to home industries.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
THREE NOTABLE EVENTS.

Three events Occurring in the south
this fall are especially notable as signi-
tying the complete healing of the
wounds, from which the nation suffered
in the civil war, and the wiping out of
the last veetige of sectional feeling
which may have existed between the
north and south. To every true, Amerl-
can, to whom the welfare and prosperity
OF the nation are paramount to every
other interest, these events will be noted
with sincere joy and satisfaction. For
they inaugurate, in a way, a new era.
The line which may have divided north
from south has disappeared. Its obi.
iteration is complete.
First, there was the G. A. r. encamp-
ment at Louisville. For the first time
since the custom of holding these an
nual reunions was inaugurated, q south
ern city was chosen as the place of meet
ing. The veterans of the union were
met and welcomed by veterans of the
confederacy. The boys in blue were
welcomed with southern cheers, and
southern h%ospitalitys was genial and
kind. On the same soil where the blood
OF the opposing forces mingled land ran
down, in the bitterest struggle a nation
has ever known, there, thirty years after.
ward, the survivors of the conflict met
and clasped hands, in token of peace
and reconciliation. Time duiled the edge
of memoir and purged it of it's bitter.
ness and sorrow.
Again, in token of the recovery of the
south from the rsvages of war, the re-
building Of industries which were de-
stroyed, and the u%pbuilding of new ones
to the commercial and business revival
OF the southern states, is the Cotton
States Exposition at Atlanta. The pro.
ducts of southern genius and industry
are displayed.on every hand. No trace Of
past disaster is there in the m%agnifcence
of the exposition buildings, the beauty
Of the grounds, and the extent and
scope Of industry represented in the ex-
hibits which have been made It is q
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27

FROM the divorce hopper in the east
ern part of the state comes a case which
is worthy of passing mention. Mr.. H. T.
Chapman, 30 report says, has just Sc.
cured his third degree of divorce, after
four marital experiences, all of which
appear to have been far from lasting.
Mr.. Chapman is now g years of age,
and is arranging again to forsake the
condition of single blessedness to which
he has been restored by the courts. The
TRIBUNE is not informed as to whether
Mr.. Chapman has been especially un-
fortunate in his matrimonial alliances,
or whether he is working for a record in
the Observation-Disclosures line. If the
latter, since he is now but 63 years Of
age, he should be able to add several d.
vorces to his list, even should he attain
no more than the three score and ten
years which are allotted to mortal man.
II, on the other hand, Mr.. Chapman
has been unfortunate in the selection of
hymeneal timber, it cannot but impress
the average person that, fortified as he
is with the varying experiences and valu-
able knowledge which must have come
to him through four marriages and
three divorces, he should be so expert at
this time iu the frailties of women as to
choose for himself q bride who will stand
the test oftime and trial. Having drawn
three blanks, as 1t were, there is no rea-
son why he shall not benefit by his OK
%perience, and get the capital prize.
Either that, or he should refrain from
another marriage. It should not be for
gotten that in the present crowded con-
dition Of u divorce courts, no one man
should expect more than one decree.
Even at the rate of one apiece, it is be.
ginning to crowd the courts to readjust
all the.matrimonial difficulties which are
coming up for settlement.