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The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD.
Northwestern States in the Sweep of the
Most Terrible storm In Years.

Northwestern States in the Sweep OF the
Most Terrible storm in Years.
The first storm of the winter has
swept over the northwestern states and
was probably the worst i'm years. The
blizzard started in British Columbia
and blew down through Montana,
Idaho. the Dakotas, Minnesota, and
touched up Kansas, Nebraska and
western Missouri. The snow was piled
10 feet deep in the streets of Fargo and
other places. Trains were snowbound
and three Northern Pacific trains be-
came stuck in the North Dakota drifts.
Live stock suffered very heavily, par
ticularly in Kansas and Nebraska.
AS the blizzard continued for several
days the reports of the effects of the
cold, and wind and snow became more
terrible, particularly in North Dakota.
Human beings have been frozen to
death, cattle have been stampeded and
buried and smothcred in snow drifts,
trains bloclladcd, and wires blown
down. The drifts in Dakota are small
mountains and coal famine is threat
ened. How many human lives have
been sacrificed cannot be told until the
snow drifts clear away, months hence.
Men are missing everywhere in the
heart of the storm. The dead and
known missing are: Thomas Anderson,
is years old, lost in the snow near
Moorhead, MINI. +. NJ. Burrows,
mail agent, lost in the storm at Devils
Lake. n. d. Frank VacI, of Chicago,
frozen to death near Fargo, n. d..
Two unidentified men found frozen to
death near Fargo. Three missing men
lost in the snow near Fargo. From
the cattle country in the western part
comes reports Of intense suffering OF
the live stock on the ranges I'm
doubtedly this was the worse blizzard
| since Jan. 10, 1855.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
PENINSULA MATTERS
RELATED IN A BRIEF. CONCISE
MANNER.
Ehe state Board of Canvassers Complete
Their Work on the Ohicial Election
RcSurns-TwO Lives Lost by the
Earning OF Lake steamer.
suichiean's omciaI Vote.

The state board of canvassers has
Sompleted it's work on the official re-
turns of the votes cast at the recent
election. The total vote cast for Pres
tdent and state officers in order of Re-
publican, fusion, Prohibition, gold
Democrat and National. is as follows:
residcnt-McKinley, 203, 1927; Bryan,
s37, 251; lowering, 4,96S; Palmer, $3.50;
Bentley, 1900. McKinlcy's plurality,
t6,O76.
Governor - Pingree, 3O4, 431; Sigh,
s21 ,0s2; Stafford, 8, 400; Giberson, OBS;
Sprague. 1,944. Pingree's plurality,
s3,4O9.
Secretary of state-Gardner, 294, 525;
Bruce. 1885, 51; Roclofs, 5,l97; Boyce,
1880; Dean, 2.O4G. Gardeners plurality,
s9,274.
State treasurer Steel, 292, 7S5;
Karste. $50 $40; King, 5,362; Stevens,
1859: Shepherd, 1869. Steels plu-
rality. 56,445.
Auditor-general-DiX, 293,591; Cole,
e35, 2O3: Heath, 1867; Conlley, 1928;
jackson. l.sl4. Dix's plurality, IS, 3SS.
Land commissioner-Fre 293, ASS;
Loennccller, 232, 01s; Parmenter, 5,345;
tinker, T.d62; Atkins, 1855. French S
plurality, G1,470.
Encouragement 293, 934;
Murphy, 23G. 500; Cheever, 5.37j; 10th
rop. 7,6ls; Porrinc, 1854. Maynards
plurality, 57,425.
superintendent of public instruction
.-Hammond, 203, 57s; Haskins, 232, 1876;
Avann. 5.367: Heap, TAG; Willett,
1885. Hammond's plurality, 6l'3s2.
Member of state board of education
Simmons, 203. 535: Dewey, 231, 14l; Haul
ser, ,379; Edwards. 7,45s; Stecre, 1854.
Simmons plurality, G2, 1914.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
n,,chlgnn.s stnte Troops.

Adit.-Go Green has submitted to
Gov. Rich his biennial report. The
strength of the Michigan National
Guard in detail is as follows: Govern
ors staff, -: brigadier-general and
staff. s; First regiment, $50; Second,
629: Third. 54S; Fourth, 500; Fifth, 502;
total, s.S76. Tho following is the
strength of tie naval brigade: Battal-
ion officers, petty officers, etc, IA; first
division, CT: second, CT; third ST; total,
1913. Gen. Green commends both forces
very highly Seven companies have
been disbandcd, viz, at Ypsilanti, Me-
nominee, jackson, Grand Rapids, Port
Huron. Marquette and Three Rivers.
With Che exception of those at Menom-
inec. Marquette and Three Rivers, all
the disbandcd companies were replaced
by companies at the same places, the
three new companies being located at
Iron Mountain. Sault Ste. Marie and
Battle Creek. The present equipment
of the troops is said Co be far from
what it should be. During the bien-
NAL period there have been 2,5Sl hon
orable, and 3O5 dishonorable discharges
issued The latter being principally
for non-attendance.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
rwo GIL. N.lled BY a .rAln.

Alice and Anna, the two 16-year-old
twin daughters of Riley Taft, of
Orange. were instantly killed at the
D., l.. .S n. railroad crossing, just west
of Lyons. In company with Miss May
Luce, of Orange, they were returning
home from school, when the west
bound passengers train struck them.
Miss Luce cannot live. The remains
of the Taft girls were taken TO Ionia.
The victims were among the most pop
ular of the young people in the vicinity
of Orange.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
Fatal Family Quarrel at st. Johns.

Ezra hutcn was probably fatally
stabbed at-St Johns. during n violent
family quarrel, by his son, Jud, aged
90 years. Jud and his sister, Viola,
had dispute. The mother and father
took sides against son and daughter.
ii is claimed the daughter struck the
mother and Jud intcrfcrcd, when his
father stepped in between. 1t is al
legged that Jud showed his father
against an organ and knocked him
down. Then he drew "A knife and
stabbed him several times about the
head and neck. Viola attacked her
mother, who was trying TO separate
the conbatants Jud was arrested.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
REVIEW or TRADE.

When the rush of orders after election
Stacked many began 10 think business dwin-
ding. Subsistence of deferred orders is not
decrease of business. Broadly speaking, the
gain has been greater than anybody ex-
nected. and ii is not surprising II small
part of II is in excess of the present Consum-
ing demand. Reports from all parts of the
country show clearly enlargement of trade
not at All points in the same branches, bu'
everywhere helped by more confident feel
ing. Extremes of weather have made the
past week not altogether good for retail
trade. but in that line also there Is improve
ment on the whole. Wheat went up over &c
for the week. without material change in
foreign adviceS. which have been on the
whole less stimulating. Western receipts
are falling behind last years. Corn has
sympathizcd with wheat only little and Is
coming freely. The most important factor
IN the wheat market is that the visible sup
plies do not gain rs much as has been eN-
pected. Cotton has gained but little after
It's considerable decline. Wool is sun perm
bought largely for speculation and the mills
are doing but little more than on the pre-
vious week. Prospects appear good ioI
larger demand for iron and steel produces;
The collapse of the nail combination ana
probably of the beam combination teho 10
materially help the situation.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
An Insane Mans Awful Deed.

On Oct 30 Henry Powers, farmer
near Marion, o., escaped from the in
sane asylum at Columbus. The asylum
authorities were notified but they said
allow Powers his liberty and await to
developments. This was found to have
been serious error, as while the
family were at breakfast, Powers went
to the barn. securing an old musket,
and placing the barrel close TO his wife
head, blew the top of her head off.
Three of the children escaped to a
neighbor's house. Powers reloaded
the muskct, went to a potato patch SOC
yards away and shot himself.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04

A deal by which German capitalists
secure possession of five Houghton cop
per mines has been practically closed.
The property purchased comprises the
Huron. Grand Portage, Sheldon, Col
umbia and Isle Royale mines; the Mon
tezuma mineral property adjoining the
Grand Portage. and u mill site ON Port.
nce lake. The purchase price was less
than sl75, 200, but the merging of tn.
five properties and their Development
on a large and modern scale will re
auire an additional outlay of 81 200, 900.
Work for 500 60 900 men viii be fur
nished by the consolidation.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04

The Sturgeon River Lumber Co.
has opened two camps in Houghton
county and will cut but l0,O00,0OO feet
this winter.
Deputy Sheriff Lawless probably ia
tally shot VIM. Duff, during personal
alteration in the poStofiice at Royal
Oak. Oakland county.
TNc salt industry about Saginaw is
very much demoralized because of the
5xsY price OF the commodity. Over
slqken blocks pre- Idle.
Dennis fllSqn,, an eufploye at the
Nnes paper mills, was perhaps fatally
scalted by cap on rotary bursting.
lie also inhk3ed steam.
Mrs. JoE wootcn, aged ~ while
driving naAEbsyzheysS<ttx RAIN bridge
was throwGIfASSrSSE-5Nsfag AND
killed. She was pioneer.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
Ste.,oer r,urned-Two sailors Dead.

The passenger steamer City of Kala-
mazoo burned to the waters edge at
South Haven about 4 a. M. The flames
spread SO rapidly that the sailors were
soon cpvclopcd, and two were over
come by the smoke and burned to
death. They are: Robert Van Os-
trand, OF South Haven, and Joseph
Lang, OF Covert. Three other men
escaped without their clothing. Van
Ostrand was single. but Lang leaves a
widow aud family.
The boat was owned by the III. w.
Williams Transportation Co. The loss
is so. 600. said to be well insured. The
boat had been tied up a week for win
ter repairs
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
Hawaii Looking for Annexation.

The Hawaiian representatives at
Washington are quietly at work per-
fecting their plans to secure recogni-
ton by Uncle Sam. The plan mapped
out by Minister Hatch and Henry f.
Cooper, Hawaiian minister of foreign
affairs, is to work up all possible senti-
mcnt in favor of annexation among
members of congress at this session
and further to endeavor to influence
friends of the incoming administration
in favor of annexation pure and simple.
1t will be pointed out by the Hawaiian
representatives that it will be danger
Gus to permit DELAY. The encroach-
ment of Japan, China and other for
eign powers has somewhat frightened
the Hawaiian government.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
rnmilr or Fi,e rnrncd 70 peath.

The home OF Luther Greenman, n
farmer four miles from Perry, \. ".
was destroyed by Gre. and the entire
family. consisting of Ave persons, was
burned to death. "A detective stove
pipe caused the Gre.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
nurled Alive, by by Wcli Cavc-in.

Lowell ciIeSAher,a erpatiHent farmer
near Alden. 5tet with a terrible fate at
his home NIc went down in well rs
feet deep Mfepair the curbing, when
il cavcd I'M On him. burying him alive.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04

Options have been obtained on, 900
acres of land in Crawford county, Kan,
where it is proposed to locate n colony
organized on the cooperative plan.
Among the leaders of the movement
are Chairman John W. Brcidenthal. of
the Kansas Populist state committee;
Congressman-elect Ed. Il. Ridgelcy, a
fusionist, and other Populists.
The st. James Gazette, of London,
commenting on the statement that the
British government is meditating the
appointment of commission to in
vestigate the critical condition of the
sugar industry in the West Indies,
SAYS: UNLESS the government meets
the European bounties, by duties on
beet sugar or an equivalent measure,
the ruined sugar planters of the West
Indies are liable TO conclude that the
stars and stripes might do for them
what the union jack will not.
The Chicago Times Herald publishes
cable from Berlin which says that
of Germany is in state all
of revolt in consequence of the
murder of the citizen Siehmann
by Lieut.. Baron Brucscwitz. The act
itself enragct athe people, but the en-
perors approval of the attitude of the
military towhFls the public. together
with Won Gossler's bold communication.
have driven the people into frenzy and
q cabinet aud parliamentary crisis is
! threatened as result OF the excited
state of the peoples minds.
Walter L. Rhuc. aged is, was killed
while playing football at Brooklyn.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
GRAIN, ETC.

aDetroit-No Timothy Hay. $3.50 per ton
Potatoes, 25c per bu. Live Chickens, &C per
10; turkeys SIC: ducks. Sikc Eggs. strictly
fresh. 2Oc Butter, fresh dairy, 14.ac per Id;
creamery. laC.'
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04
Blew His Head OF.

Leslie ID. Ortt, committed suicide at
Grand Rapids. 10y putting the muzzle
of a shot gun into his mouth and then
pulling the trigger His head was
blown off,. He was % years old. un-
married, out of work and melancholy.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04

Five children were burned TO death
I'm the destruction OF Sam Henderson
home at Conway, Ark.
The Yale expositor., 1896-12-04

All the men in the gas works at
Bordeaux. France, struck and 300 sol
diers of the Eighteenth army crops
took the strikers places.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18
Is Mckinley Thinking of the Poor NOw2
Has HE Left Their Side?
Courts May Be Corrupt.

Charles Sumner of the greatest of American statesmen
once said Of the judiciary:
LET say here that I hold judges and especially the
supreme of the country much respect but too
familiar with the history of judicial proceedings regard them
with any supersous reverence Judges are but and in all
ages have shown full share of fralty
Aas alas the worst crimes Of history have been Pepeated
under their The blood of martyrs and of patriots crying
from the ground summons them to judgment
ut judicial tribunal which condemned Socrates to drink
the fatal hemo and which pushed the Saviour barefoot the
pavements of jerusalem bending beneath his
judicial tribunal which, against the testimony and enates of her
father surrendered the fair Virginia slave which arrested the
teachings Of the great apostle the Genes and sent him in
bonds from Jerusalem Rome which in the Of the old
religion adudged the saints and fathers the Christian church
DEATH in all its dreadful FORMS and which afterwards in the
of the religion enforced the of the nquson
amidst the sheks and agonieS Of its victims while compelled
Calico to declare solemn denial Of the great truth that he had
disclosed, that the earth did not around the
ut judicial tribunal which, in France during the reign
Of her monarb lent itself be the of every tyranny
during brief reign terror did hesitate to forth
the Implying accessory of the uniting gulotine
cay sir it judicial tribunal in England surrounded by
all forms of law which sanctioned every depoc caprice of Henry
VIII from the unjust divorce of his queen the beheang Sir
Thomas Moore which lighted the fires of persecution that gowd
at Oxford and Smhfed the cnders of Lamer Ridley and
John Rodgers which, after elaborate argument upheld the fatal
tyranny ship money against the patriotic resistance Of Hampden
which defiance of justice and humanity Sidney and Russell
the block which persstenty enforced the laws Of conformity
that puritan fathers refused to obey which afterwards with
eeres the bench cmsoned the pages of English history with
massacre and murder with the blood of innocent
GAY sir judicial tribunal in country surrounded by
all the forms of law which hung witches Saem which affirmed
the consuonay of the stamp while admonshed Jurors
the people obey which our day lent its
sanction to the unueabe aOciy to the fugitive slave law
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

the doubtful states" i. E., Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Indi-
ana, with "a electoral votes which we
do not consider doubtful at all. Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins says that the COM
ing election will produce no halfway
vietory-it will be decisive either one
way OF the other. Stephen is right,
and those "a electoral votes cast for ".
J. Bryan viii make the victory decisive
enough for most anyone. The follow
ing is our classification Of the vote:
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18
rlcKinIey's Testimony.

Treating Of Mr. Cleveland IN a speech
at the Lincoln Day banquet in Memoir.
iai Hall, Toledo. o., February 13. 1891
Bfr. Mckinley spoke as follows:
"During ali his years at the head
Of the government he was dishonor-
ing one Of our precious metals, one
OF our own great products. discred-
iting silver and enhancing the price
Of gold. He endeayored even be-
fore his Inauguration to Office to
stop the coinage Of silver dollars
and afterwards and to the end of
his administration, persistently
used his power to that end. He
was determined to contract the cir
culating medium and dsmonetize
one Of the coins Of commerce, limit
the volume Of money among the
people, make money scarcer and
therefore dear. He would have in
creased the value of money and
diminished the value of everything
else-money the master, everything
else the servant He was not think
ing Of the poor then. He had left
their side. He was not standing
forth in their defense. Cheap coats,
cheap labor, and dear money; the
sponsor and promoter of these pro-
Tossing to stand guard over the vel
fare Of the poor and lOwlyl Was
there ever more glazing inconsist-
ency Of reckless assUmptiOn?"-T
ledo Blade, February IL, 1891.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

A change has since come over the
Ohio man. In his letter accepting the
presidential nomination, August IS
1886, Mr.. Mckinley wrote as follows:
sIf there is any one thing which
should be free from speculation and
fuctuation, it is the money Of a
country. It ought never to be the
subject Of mere party contention.
When We part with our labor, our
products, orourpropsrty, We should
receive in return money which is as
stable and nnchanging in value as
the ingenuity Of honest men can
make it. Debasement of the cur
renCy means destruction of values.
No one suffers so much from cheap
money as the farmers and laborers.
They are the first to feel its bad ef-
fects and the last to recover from
them. This has been the uniform
experienced all countries, and here
as elsewhere, the poor and not the
rich are the greatest sufferers from
every attempt to debase our money.
It would fall with alarming severity
upon investments already made,
upon insurance companies and
their policy holders, upon building
loan associations and their mem
bers, upon the savings Of thrift,
upon pensioners and their families
and upon wage eaFners and the
purchasing power of their wages"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18
All for Bryan.

North Topeka has a Bryan club of
over $40 members, and 1877 of them are
free silver republicans.
Fort Scott has Bryan club Of over
LOO members and many of them are
free silver republicans.
A free silver club Of over 600 names
was organized at Clay Center one day
last week. If silver men are all anarch-
lists, as the gold advocates claim, then
anarchy is not so very dangerous after
all.
A Bryan club was organized at Hia-
watha, Brown county, last week with a
membership of LIZA voters. This is at
the home town of Gov. Z. n Morrill,.
1t is an indication as to how the 'silver
craze" is dying out.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

HOBART, the man who was hooked up
to Mckinley at st, Louis is member
Of the coal trust. The trust has re-
Gently made q perpendicular raise in
the price of coal, presumably TO accu-
mulate funds from the people to donate
to Mark Hanna's campaign pile. That
is the way these patriotic republican
plutoCrats generally get their cam
psign contributions.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

If there was anything left which
could further bring reproach on the
Hannacrat ticket put forth at Indiana
polls, it was the endorsement of Cleve-
land and Carlisle. Now that it has it,
the unsightly thing should be put IN
derground as soon as possible. The
people will ask for no inquest.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

States gold and makes the visit. BE
has a Jolly good time and returns home
to find his remaining 80 silver dollars
have been earning a little interest dur
ing his absence.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

As election day draws nearer, the
success of the silver cause becomes
more apparent, The great common
people are awakened and are focking
to the standard of Bryan. Intimida-
tion, coercion and corruption, the
methods employed by Hanna, can never
be successful in forcing or betraying
the people to vote for a mortgsged man,
who is the slave of plutocracy.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

We have given no place in this elias
siheation to the indianapolis ticket for
the same reason given by the old line
democrat in Harvey county for not
supporting Palmer aud Buckner. Said
ne: "AfteF the election is over, wewil
ali crowd around the telegraph Office
to hear the results, and a message viii
come that says that Vermont has gone
for Mckinley, and the republicans will
howl and slap the democrats on the
back; pretty soon another message will
come that will say that Arkansas has
gone for Bryan and then all the Bryan
men will shout themselves hoarse and
| so it will 60. After while when there
is a pause in the noise, some old seedy
democrat that has been standing in the
edge of the crowd and waiting for q
chance to cheer will meekly inquire,
Say, has anyone heard anything Of
Palmer?' :" There was some talk of the
indianapolis ticket making inrOads in
the solid south, but the Arkansas cleo
ton dissipated any such theory. The
solid south is as solid as it ever was for
democracy, Bryan and free silver. The
shifting of political lines cansed by the
! free silver movement has not weakened
the democratic party south nearly so
much as it has the republican party
north. Old republican strongholds like
! Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado are iu
the hands of the enemy, for in those
states the fusion tickets are certain to
receive large msiorities. When the
nations of Europe were enabled singiy
to OYeFcnme Napoleon they united and
what one had striven in vain to do they
all easily accomplished. A similar plan
has been adopted by the American sill
yer allies and with Capt. Wellington
Bryan at their head the modern Napo.
leon may expect to meet his Waterloo
November 3, 1896. The shrewd politi
cal generalship of Gov. Altgeld, who
viii be reelected governor, will carry
Illinois for Bryan and he is easily safe
in Indiana and Minnesota, while only
the most strenuous efforts in the part
of the Mckinley managers will enable
them to keep Michigan and Wisconsin
in the republican column. A few news
! papers seem TO think that an electoral
vote for Bryan and Sewall is a vote
against Bryan and Watson. All such
statements may be treated as mere
| political buncombe. An ELECTORAL vote
for Bryan and SewRl may be vote
against Watson just as an electoral
vote for Bryan and Watson may be E
vote against Sewall, but in neither cas-
| is it q vote against Bryan, and the votes
so cast will never elect Hobart vict
president. Bryan is surer of nlinoi;
with Palmer against him than McKin
| ley is of New York with the mighty
Tammany organization to combat anC
representing as he does the people ant
the peoples cause, Bryan is more likely
to carry his own state than is thS
apostle of high protection, monopolie'
and gold syndicates. The fact is, thi,
is not republican year, but the peoples
year and W. J. Bryan is their leader
He is a live man representing a live
issue and making a live campaign, and
his triumphant election in November
is already assured. W. G. MYERS.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18

In seeking TO convene a convention
TO nominate Bryan and Watson cleo
tors after the regular state convention
has nominated Bryan and Sswall cleo
tors, q few disgFuntled pOpulists are
doing themselves no good and the
cause Of silver nc harm. The pOpuiists
OF Kansas are fighting for principles
and al the Rightmires, Willets, ETC., in
Kansas cannot turn them from the
course which they have chosen, which
they believe to be the most feasible
means Of gaining the end for silver