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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02
CHOkED THE CHILD,
Farmer Near Whitehall, Wis.,, is
Arrested

Whitehall, Wis, April 2S.-Alvah
Andrus, a farmer living near Osseo
this county, was brought here to-
day, charged with numbering the in
FAINT babe of his daughter Mabel
Andrus Clark. He was arraigned be-
fore County Judge Oden and his ex-
animation adjourned until May /.
The story of the crime, as reported
by his daughter, who made the COM
plant. is that on April %. 1892, when
she was but seventeen years old, she
gave birth to an Legitimate child at
her fathers home. Immediately at
ter it's birth, it is alleged, he took the
child from it's mothers side and
choked it to death on the bed. In the
house at the time, it is said, there
were three small children and Ed
ward Andrus, the twenty-one-year-old
son of Alvah. AndruS had previously
sent some of his family away to
friends at Augusta, about ten miles
distant. In spite Of tie girls pleas to
spare the life of the child, it was
strangled and the body was buried
near the barn, and the father threat
ened that the girl would be hung il
she ever told about the affair.
District Attorney ,Gkern and T7der
Sheriff Frederickson visited the prem
ises yesterday and made an unsuc-
sessful search for the child's body.
Edward Andrus, the son, is now
student at Lawrence university at
Appleton, this state, where he is
studying for the ministry. The sheriff
has gone there to arrest him as an
accessory to his fathers crime. The
elder Andrus is now in jail here. The
son has borne a good reputation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02

Appleton. Wis. April %. - Edwin
Andrus left Appleton this morning in
company with a stranger, who is
supposed to have been an officer The
man called very early at the house of
Janitor Carpenter, Of Lawrence uni
versity, where Andrus has a room.
If he was arrested no one in Apple
ton knows anything about it. He
left word that he was going home
and would be gone three or four days.
President PlantZ and other officers Of
Lawrence university, where Edwin
Andrus has been a student for the
past five years, were greatly shocked
% learn that he was under suspicion
Il being an accessory in the crime.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02
GEN. M'COON.
IN Denve'

She Retired Army Officer VIII Soon
Go Abroad.
Denver. May 1. - Gen. Alexander
Mcdowell AIcCook, the retired army
officer, has nearly completed arrange
ments for his European trip. On
April p Gen. McCook completed his
sixtyfourth year, and that being the
age prescribed by law, he retired from
the United States army after forty
three years in its service. He is the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02
THEY WE'RE CUNNING
klCARAGUANS TRY TO PLAY A
TRICK ON THE BRITISH.
rbey succeed In Securing the Aid of
the United States in Adjusting the
Dispute, and Then Back Out ut the
Last Moment.

London, April 30. - The United
STATE attempted to adjust the pending
dispute between Great Britain and
Nicaragua. Ambassador Bayard,
acting under instructions from Wash
tngton, represented to the British for
eign Office that Nicaragua, II given
two weeks additional time from the
expiration of the three days fixed in
the ultlmatum, would meet Great
Brltaln's demand for the payment of
Elo,OOO indemnity for the expulsion OF
Consul Hatch. Lord Kimberly ac-
coded to this, and as it was presumed
that the state department at Wash
lngton was acting for Nicaragua 1t
was thought that the incident would
be closed without further complica-
tons. But as Nicaragua refused at
the last moment to acquiesce in this
arrangement, the original plan of oc-
cupying> COrinto was carried out 1t
is now believed here that Nicarag qua
secured the INTERPRETATION of the
United State for the sole purpose of
delay.
Washington, April 3O.-The state de-
partment has been officially notified
of the landing of the British troops
at Corinto. The events of the day
in diplomatic circles here were the
landing of the British troops at Cor
into, Nicaragua, the abandonment of
the town by the native officials and
the population and the shrewd move
Of the Nicaraguans in declaring Cor
into a closed port. DR.. Guzman, the
Nicaraguan minister here, received
two cablegrams from his govern
ment forwarded from San Juan del
Sur, the Nicaraguan cable port, about
12o miles south Of Corinto. The first
stated that the British troops had
landed at Corinto and that the British
flag was flying over the town, which
had been deserted by the Nicaragu
officials and the native Inhabitants
The second cablegram showed that
the authorities had gone to San Juan
del Sur, cutting the wires connecting
the cable port with Corinto, so that
the British forces at the latter place
could not communicate with their
home government except by sending
boat to the cable station. The main
body of the Nicaraguans who had
abandoned C6rinto had crossed a
lagoon which separates the town from
the mainland and had strongly en-
trenched themselves.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02
HE HAD A TEMPER.
The Cause OF n Murder and Suicide
= In IllinOla.


Woodstock, ILL.,, May l. William
e. Ellsworth, the famous breeder OF
Poland China hogs, has for some time
been having trouble with one Of his
hired men named George Filweber
EARLY this morning the trouble broke
out afresh and Ellsworth became en-
ragged. When F1weber started to din
ner Ellsworth, who was standing in
the doorway with revolver in his
hand, shot at him four times. each
shot taking effect. Then Selling
shotgun, and walking to where Fill
weber lay, Ellsworth deliberately dis
charged both barrels into the body.
After shooting Filweber, Ellsworth
reloaded his gun, stepped up close,
placed the stock OF his gun on the
ground, looked into the barrel If mis-
piece and pulled the trigger The
charge carried away the top If lis
head. EllsWortl's family connections
are Of the best and he was know n
far and wide. His principal fault was
his terrible temper. He leaves
widow and three grown sons.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-02

Marquette, Mich, May 1. There
was a small riot on the ore docks.
the union trimmers driving off the
new men imported by the old bosses.
A number of men were badly beaten,
but it cannot be learned that any
one was seriously hurt. Sheriff
Broad had ten Of the imported men
sworn in as special deputies, but they
ran at the first attack. The sheriff
then called out the local military
company and they assembled ut their
armory, but AS the Pontiac. tue only
vessel in, decided to clear without
trimming, the troops were not brought
ont. Public sympathy IS IN the side
Of the old trimmers and against the
bosses.
The advocate., 1895-01-23
Governor Lswelllng's Message.

EDITOR ADVOCATE - During the
war nothing caused me SO much plea
sure as the reading of the great and
good Lincoln's message. Purity OF
thought and love for the people was
represented upon every page, in fact,
such was his nature and pure aspira-
tions that such ebulitions were a mat
ter of course, simply the bubbling over
of a heart bursting, as it were, with
Christ-like love of mankind. Since
those dark and gloomy days, l have
never read a message given out by any
executive that seemed the very ennis
sion of the heart of one perfectly inn
imbued with an interest in the whole
people until read the late message Of
Governor Lewelling. No doubt the
craVens who have spent their time for
years in destroying not only the influ-
ence of all such men, but every spark
of justice to the masses will see no
good in this clean.cut showing of their
damnable attempts to destroy the lib
critics and rights of the masses.
How small the cowsrdly ours of the
press will become in the eyes of ths
people, who for two years have lied
about this man whose finger nail con-
tains more manhood than their whole
body the most powerful microscope
will be unable to discover. One would
suppose that such old frauds, politi-
cally as the Bsal of the Capital, ,on read
ing the message and rejecting would
feel like crawling into some miaSmatic
The advocate., 1895-01-23

to all the land that we have, we have
done our duty, and it is not a valid ar
gument against doing so to say, as you
do, that subdivisions of land are larger
here than in Europe, by which you
seem to mean that because all cannot
have large farms and several city lots
and few good mines, therefore it is
useless to destroy land monopoly. You
may say this was not your meaning,
but / can see no other use for it as an
argument against the single-tax.
You seem to attach some Importance
to my admission that taxes on high
alue city lots are paid by purchasers of
goods made or sold on them, as all
other items in cost of production and
distribution fall eventually on the con-
sumer. But you overlook the differ
enCe between the high rents of such
lots going to enrich a millionaire under
the present system, and going to re-
lieVe labor of all other taxation under
the single-tax system. And you over
look the fact that under our present
system of taxing personal property the
buyers must, in addition to paying the
landlords taxes, also pay the taxes on
kba ~ onrobo Df'c Nv uoopufo ohuror'c
stock and on the buildings. In this
case only the landlord enjoys monop-
oily, as buildings, machinery and goods
can be multiplied indefinitely but lots
cannot, hence we would tax only the
monopoly.
Trusts are subject to competition, or
to destruction by change of laws, by
new processes and inventions, but
landlordism is not subject to any of
these dangers, nor is the tax-gatherer.
Monopoly, whether of a natural Oppor-
tunity or of public utility, is crea-
tion of class legislation, but labor, en-
ergy and ability are not, hence the
former and not the latter should be
taxed, for it is through taxation alone
that monoplies can be controlled.
Land requires to be controlled through
taxation so it can be exclusively occu-
pied by individuals or associations,
but public utilities must be collec-
lively owned and operated because
they do not admit of division and ex-
elusive occupancy.
The advocate., 1895-01-23
"Among the Ozarks.n

''The Land Of Big Red Apples," is an at
tractivs and interesting book, handsomely
illustrated with views Of South Missouri
scenery, including the famous Olden fruit
farm Of 5000 acres in Howell county. Il
pertains 10 fruit raising in that great fruit
belt Of America, the southern slope Of the
Ozarka, and will prove Of great value, not
only 10 fruit growers, but 70 every farmer
and home seeker looking for a farm and q
home. Mailed free. Address,
J.E. LOCKWOOD, Kansas City, No.
The advocate., 1895-01-23
THE sINGLE-TAX.
An Able Champion Presents His Side Of the
Case.
az WI q q WAKEFIELp,

direct and specific remedies for the
evils of which they complain. Popu-
list editors and speakers generally in
clude land along with transportation,
and that mysterious and underlined
something they call finance, as the
three cardinal points of reform, but
they have never to my knowledge
asked for land monopoly. The Omaha
platform starts on the land plane by
quoting from Henry George the moral
basis Of the single-tax, and then asks
things utterly inconsistent with it, in
cluding reclamation in some unspecifed
manner of alien and corporate lands,
but nothing whatever calculated to
change the present system of land
monopoly. Your method of ObVisting
land monopoly by taking direct posses
sion of it for all the people is open to
this objection of Vagueness and uncer-
Eainty. Reforms can never be accom-
plished by declarations of general prin-
ciples, but only by specific acts.
You say: "We would take posses
sion of lands for the people in some
way, leaving details to be settled later
and as the respective cases of forfeit
ture require" The details are all there
ID Of anything of legal nature, all else
being mere sentiment. The single-tax
provides for all the details of a SPECIFIC
measure for taking away the statutory
privileges OK land monopoly, while you
say you would do the same thing in
some other and unspecihed manner.
Suppose you had thus taken posses
sion of all land by and for the whole
people, would you not at once be con-
fronted with the very questions which
the single-tax is designed to settle,
Neither government, nor the people
collectively, can occupy or use land,
but it must be apportioned out to indi-
viduals. Can you devise more
natural, just and practical method than
having each one pay back into the peo-
ple's treasury in lieu of all other forms
of taxes the value of the special priVi.
lege Of using any particular tract
There must be some method Of decid-
ing by whom and upon what terms
each and every piece of land shall be
used. All admit both the impossible
ity and the injustice of dividing land
by area, hence it must be divided by
value if divided at all. What possible
reason can you assign for wishing "to
take direct possession of land for the
people," if it is not that land values
produced by all the people may be
shared by all the people. Under any
possible system of distribution some
persons must use land of much greater
value or larger area than others, but if
all have a natural right to land, it fol-
lows that they have an equal right to
land, and as this right can be expressed
and exercised only in terms of value,
as there is nothing of the right but its
value, and as the single.tax secures to
each person his equal share of all land
values, and as this method both of dis
tributing land values and raising pub
lie revenues is the most simple, direct,
and economical ever devised by man,
as we'll as unsuitable and uneVadable,
why should we discard it to make
The advocate., 1895-01-23

mitted to mOnOpolize, and there is GER
tainly more than enough such values
to raise all public revenues. You
doubtless admit that public revenues
must be raised by some method, and l
cannot imagine a juster method than
for the people to take their public or
social values for public or social use,
AS have before stated, l do not re-
gard this as a "tsx," Notwithstanding
the name, but a clearance Of values be-
tween individuals and SOciety-a set
t.ement of accounts, by which each
receives, through the public expendi-
lures, his just proportion Of the land
values Of the nation,
Only positive things have value, and
my position is positive one, calling
for specific action for a specific pur-
pose, while yours is either negative or
lacking in certainty. fully agree
with you that use of the earth is a
natural right and not one conferred by
society, but our present land laws do
not recognize any natural right to live
upon or from the earth, but only the
rights conferred by society through
statutes. But l cannot agree that the
singletax invades this natural right,
when the very object of it is to secure
such right.
Much to my astoniShment you say:
Government is no more justified in
leVyiDg tax upon land or upon the
use of land than it would be in levying
tax upon the air we breathe. The
one is as much the common heritage
of man as the other, and society has
no more right to tax the one than the
other.
If air, like land, could be monopo.
lized, there might be some pertinency
in the above quoted remark, but do
you know of any millionaires made by
a monopoly of the air? The only pos
sible method of monopolizing air is to
monopolize the land on which the
creature lives who breathes it, and
many persons living in city tenements
have scanty and foul air, not because
the air costs anything, but because
land monopoly has deprived them of
access to it.
Your confession of thought comes
from not seeing that the rental value
tax is for the purpose of protecting
persons in their right to use the earth,
not to invade it, the raising of revenue
being both necessary and desirable
incident of such protection. The right
to breathe air does not need protection
by law, except to give "a breathing
place" there being no paper titles to
air, and no necessity of its division for
exclusive use.
1 cannot see the force of your claim
that tenants could not readily and at
once avail themselves of vacant lands
given up by landlords and spectators,
when they do at once avail themselves
of any new lands opened, and even
fight for the chance to get the poorest
of it, as in the recent opening of the
Cherokee strip, the western part of
which is very poor indeed, yet the set
tiers had to pass over millions of acres
of better vacant land owned by specu-
lators to reach the strip. Certainly we
The advocate., 1895-01-23

hole where none but the destrOyers of
life and characters reside.
When one who knows LeWelling and
his prompting in life, recall to memory
the offal that was emitted from the
msWs of beings styling themselves
men against him during his term Of
office, feeling of disgust for Ameri-
can politics comes over a person who
loves justice. When men who teach
bible classes and attempt to teach the
young morality will sanction such rot,
such disgusting lying as has been prac-
tlced against LeWelling simply to gain
pelf and power, it is high time that a
social fabric that originates such a
condition in mans moral nature be
supplanted by some more God-ike
system.
1t would be we'll if every voter read
and re-read this message and compare
it with messages of others, especially
with the incoming governors, and note
the sparkling truths as their scintilla-
tions are compared with the produc-
tiOns of the routinist and methodical
grave follower, whose only thought is
business methods, regardless of the
fact that not only method, but man
changes, and that to be thus adaman-
tine as to the changes and needs of
people is to be as the barnacle on a
ship impedimental and in no sense in
the interest of civilization or it's chill
dren.,
Two years from now the laboring
people of Kansas who crucifed-as it
were-their friend, will be in a good
mood to bring forth this document and
digest it, while looking back over the
two years rule by the shylOcks Of their
state, and note the emptiness Of the
hands of toll. 1t will then be their
privilege to comprehend to its fullest
the fact that "the mills of the gods
grind slowly but they grind exceeding
SMALL" In that day such men and
messages as dwellings will be appre-
ciated by the laboring people Of Kan
sas. Two years rule of the aristoCracy,
ruling in their own interest, will
satisfy the most exacting that it is to
the interest of the productive and busi-
ness classes that LeWelling once more
take charge of the affairs of the pro-
gressiVe state of Kansas, while the
bankers return to some more secluded
nook to follow aVocatiOns more near
in accord with their nature, than un.
dertsking to lead great and progress
siye people who demand more when in
their right mind than inaugural balls,
or the Aim-hsm of the money changers
and political roustabouts, who now
prey upon that misguided people.
No accurate balance will be required
to decide which of the two administra-
tions were in the interest of the people,
or whose messages possessed marks of
greatness or true worth, for the in
coming will go out like Grover Cleve-
lands either despised, or representa-
tive of two years of the time that
should have been used in the reclaim
ing of the people, wasted in behalf of
corporate greed that knows no god but
Mammon, and no justice that in any
way interiors with plans to coin Jewels
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-19
RALLY OF Y. P. S. C. E.
Endeayorers Gather to Listen
to Delegate Lewis.
FATHER DAsOvIcH IN SEATTLE.
English Services at Greek Church-A
Columbia River Coiony-New
Baptist i aston.

Plymouth Congregation church had yes
terday marked as red-letter day in its
calendar. The service at night was
grand Christian Endeayor rally. AS the
pastor. Rev. w. III. G.. Temple expressed
IL, the church was celebrating the Chris
tan Endeavor idea" The building was
beautifully and appropriately decorated.
Red and white were the dominant and al
most exclusive colors. these being the
convention colors OF the recent national
convention OF the Y. Z. ;. C. E. at Bos-
ton. Red and white flowers ahoanded on
every SIDE and bunting in festoons and
masses enriched the effect. The national
flag of course found a place of honor,
and two OF the banners used in the Bos-
ton convention were exhibited as souyen-
irs OF that great meeting. Electric lights
made the whole scene a brilliant one, and
the large number OF young people present
gave IL plenty Of animation.
After song service, there were brief
devotional exercises. and the pastor then
introduced William II. Lewis, the Seattle
delegate to the Boston convention. who
made his report in an address full OF the
most inspiring information concerning the
Christian Endeavor work as represented
In the national convention He succeed
ed in bringing the spirit Of the conven-
ton home with him. and he evidently
does not propose to keep IL all TO him.
self -&or his address showed that he has
the happy art of imparting 1t to others.
This meeting was of course confined TO
the Y. r. s. G. +. of Plymouth church.
With his usual enterprise and good judg-
meDt. the pastor, Rev. W. II. @. Temple.
who takes a profound and far-sighted in
terest in the work of the young people,
Is making the best use of the society in
correlating 1t closely with the work OF the
church. He thinks it probable that the
meeting of last night will be followed by
a general rally OF all the Christian En-
deayorers in the city.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-19
OHIO STEEL RANGES
PERFECT BAKERS.
MILES co. Yeer Ave- bet ix Fpsn and Railroad Ave.
PERFECT BAKERS.

The Puget sound conference this year
viii be honored by the presence and pres
idency Of Bishop Thomas Bowman. u. d,
LA D., who is the senior bishop of his
church. both in age and in Office. He is
over 20 years old. but continues 20 work
actively. and is locked upon with respect
an5 reverence by the whole church
The honor Of acting the part OF host 10
the conference has been accorded to
Grace church. corner of King and Rainier
streets. though OF course all the Method
fist Episcopal churches in the city viii
hear their share in the duty of entertain
ing. The First church, the strongest
Methodist church. will probably enter
tain fully one-half of the members of the
conference. but the sessions win be held
in Grace church, and all the official bust
ness OF entertainment, such as the as
signment OF homes to the various guests.
is carried on under the direction of the
pastor of that church. Rev. W. T. Ford.
The bishops OF the Methodist Episcopal
church are not diocesan. as in the Ro-
man Catholic and the Protestant Episco-
pal churches. Each bishop has charge of
several conferences. often widely sepa-
rated, of which he serves as president for
the year. Ii is rarely the case that a
bishop presides over the same conference
two years In succession, for although he
himself has a permanent home. his al
Iotment of conferences varies from year
TO year.