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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
AT A STANDSTiLL
Business IN : Torpid State, Although
Conditions Have Improved.


New York, Aug. 1.-R. g. Dun & Co.,
in their weekly review Of trade, say:
Business conditions have clearly i'm.
proved. though business has not It Is
the torpid season, and better prospects
have little effect as yet. Gold exports have
been stopped and foreign advices are more
promising as respects an early and large
demand for American products. The OPP
erations of foreigners in the stock market
have reflected little beyond the troubles OF
spectators at the London settlements, and
varying degrees OF ignorance about Amer
lean affairs. The prospect for large crops
of cotton and corn is still excellent and
neither movements of wheat nor markets
give countenance to low estimates.
Wheat Is going out with more freedom
than Is usual for the season. Lower rail
rates helped corn to make new low
record at 1912 cents, and prospects are gen.
orally favorable. Cotton advanced one
quarter on reports of injury, but there are
really few who expect less than large
yield. Several weeks OF extremely slack
demand for cotton goods have brought a
further reduction in print cloths to 2.44
cents instead of the advance expected in
consequence of the stoppage of 10000
spindles, but prints are selling more freely,
while brown and bleached goods are dull
except for export kinds.
1.-The boot and shoe industry has secured
slight further advances from the lowest
point, in brogans and calf boots and, shoes,
but new orders are scanty, the more be-
cause the permanence of advance is ques-
toned. Leather is stubbornly held with
out change in prices, and some grades are
really scarce.
1.-The iron industry is helped but little
by the settlement which gives puddlers of
the Ohio region 50 cents advance in wages,
because the demand is so light that few
mills can run and the associations price
is 1.2 cent, while steel bars are not being
sold at less than LOS cent. A ray of en-
couragement comes to rail mills, two con-
siderable sales having been made, &c, 600
tons to New England road. and 10000
by the new Premier Steel company of In
dianapolis, but otherwise sales are small.
1T is not surprising that failures have
been considerable in magnitude, and in q
days of July defaulted liabilities were s2,-
O6a, 4S1, against IS, 1892 72 in rs days last year.
Failures for the week have been PSI in. the
United States, against 261 last year, and 40
in Canada. against % last year.
Bradstreet's says:
political uncertainty continues an un-
favorable factor in trade and Industrial
and mercantile lines are unusually dull.
Mercantile credits are closely scanned and
in many instances shortened. Merchants
in Northern Louisiana and Southern Ar
kansas have Cancelled orders for fall deliv-
cry in some cases, owing to the effect on
trade of the drought there. The industrial
situation is less favorable. Among manu-
facrurers of iron and steel it is regarded as
serious in some lines, owing to the surplus
and falling off in demand"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
COLOR LINEN SOUTH AMERICA.
1t Is as strongly Drawn There as in ANY
Part OF America.

AZ Is as strongly Drawn There as in Any
Part OF America
1t rarely ii ever happens that native,
whatever his rank, is received on anv
social occasion inside white house: in
deed, he would seldom be permitted, ex-
cept as a domestic servant, to enter
private house at all. When Khama, The
famous chief of the Ba-Mangwato, a
Christian, and man of admittedly
high character, who, ruled his people
with singular wisdom and ability, was
in England LAST autumn, and was there
entertained at lunch by the duke of
Westminster and other persons of social
eminence, the news excited general an
noyance and disgust among the whites
in South Africa. A story was told me
of garden party given by the wife OF a
leading white ecclesiastic, the appear
ance at which of a native clergyman led
many of the white guests to withdraw
in dudgeon.
Once, when I was guest at mission
station in Basutoland, was asked by
my host whether I objected to his bring
ing in 10 the family meal native pastor,
who had been preaching to the native
congregation. When expressed some
surprise that he should think it neces-
sary to ask, he explained that race feel
ing was so strong among the colonists
that it would have been deemed i'm
proper, and, indeed, insulting to make
white guest sit down at the same table
with black man, unless special permits
sion had first been given. Thus one may
say that there is nc social intercourse
whatever between the races; their re-
lations are purely those of business.
Now and then black man gets ahead
of the white, but the latter's pride of
race remains. / was told of a white
who condescended to be hired to work
by kafir, but stipulated that the Kafir
should address him as Boss
OF intermarriage there is, of course,
no question. 1t is not forbidden by law
in the two British colonies, as it is in
most, If not all, of the southern states of
America, but it is excessively rare; nor
does it appear that there are now other
irregular unions outside marriages, as
there constantly were in the old days
while slavery existed. In this respect
the case of South Africa remarkably
resembles the southern states, where
also there is now very little mixture of
blood, though there was great deal
50 years ago. Probably in both cases it
is better that the races should not min
gle their blood; for the white race would
be likely to lose more than the black
race would gain.-James Bryce, NJ. z,
in Century.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
A Tramp Convention.

The first anti-tramp mass convention
In this state was held at Beaver Falls.
There were representatives from six Of
the nine villages in the county. It was
representative gathering and very
much in earnest in its deliberations.
The tramp question was thoroughly
discussed from every standpoint, and a
set of resolutions adopted that, if car
ried into effect by the village and town
authorities, will soon rid the county of
these men. An executive committee Of
two from each village was appointed
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
News In Brief.

The returns of the assessor for the
city of Winona show total valuation
of 5000, 055. The personal property
amounts to 81, s44,6s3. The gain in
personal property over last year is s62,
TT.
Gray's sawmill at Duluth was burned,
causing loss of $4,000.
Mike Conneu, a tramp, stabbed Chas.
Richards, at Fulda, with a pocket
knife, once in the left side and once in
the left arm. DR.. McCrea says it may
result seriously. -----..-s-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
Death Of Robert Garrett.

Baltimore, Md, July 5o.-Robert Gar
rett, ex-president of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company, aid head Of the
widely known banking house of Robert
Garrett & Sons, died Wednesday norn-
ing at Deer Park, Md.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
MINNESOTA. STATE NEWS.
High School Bows.

The g. A. R. committee on arrange
ments has provided guiding star for
the 100000 wayfarers who will end
their journey at the thirtieth encamp.
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie
e his guiding star will be the High
DOL cadets. This organization will
1any respects be to the Grand Army
NO. ampment what the Columbia CARDS
Re to the worlds fair.
airing Monday and Tuesday of en-.
spment week, when the crowd is
- ing into the city, one of the cadets
M, ) be posted at every corner in the
WIZ ness district of the city. This will
Re four cadets at each street inter
~ ION, SO that inquirers may not be
~ Yged to search long to find the young
lnuh with the white caps. Outside of
e business center the cadets will be
in tloned only at the principal points
Ewhere the crowd is likely to assem-
niSs: cadet will be known at once by
T'trlm military cap of white duck
son Rmed with white silk cord and,
ROM ring in gold letters the words '.High
sides the cap an artistic badge of red,
Tste and blue silk will be worn by
theStinformati corps.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
Philosophy.

5 Scranton, please, sir, your daugh-
ter has e1oped with the coacnman.
Mr.. Well, it might have
been worse. She might have run OH
with my French cook.-N. 7. Weekly.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-06
No Great Danger.

--'rof. Lugger, state entsmologist,
Mrs ties as follows regarding the army
rm: It is sometimes recommended
lev Spray with Paris green all the plants
Frlehe way over which the army worm
-5ses. 1t seems to me that is an ex-
= ,alent remedy in theory, but have
lied thus far to receive any good re-
halts from it.
agearmers need not fear a REPETITION of
army worm for some time to come,
.ept the spring of '97 should again
mO'except ionally wet. The very great
whtjority of these worms are doomed to
Shy their numerous enemies, nor is
ere any great danger that the army
daJrm will ever eat fax, fear ex-
t,essed by some people in their letters
lie food Of the army worms-is taken
nc ely from the grass family.
81 would be very important for all
b..epers in the country to copy this arti-
,1e, as by so doing some damage and
1n1ch worry will be saved to the hard
1rking farmer who sees, in part, the
olults of his labors pass down tho
acious mouths of these worms.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
Labor Looms Un.

At special meeting of the Phila-
delphia Workingmen's Protective
Tariff League the following preamble
and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
"Whereas, The Wilson Tariff bill,
after one years trial, has failed to
raise sufficient revenue to meet the
expenses of the Government, while
under its operation the imports of
manufactured goods have increased in
some instances by 200 per cent.
"Whereas. The Fiity-fourth Con-
gress will be called upon to devise
some means to increase the revenue
for the support of the Government,
and
"Whereas, The late ver,iict of the
American workiIgmen, as expressed
by their ballots on November 3, is
further condemnation to TIE present
revenue system, and is also fresh
mandete to their representatives i'll
Congress to make the necessary
change in the present tariff bill SO as
to afford adequate protection to all
American industries, and also to raise
sufficient revenue to defray the neces-
sary expenses OF the Government witn-
out having to resort to the question
..ole method of issuing bonds for taat
purpose; therefore, be it
"Reso.ved, That we enter our pro-
test against any further internal taxes
upon the American people, but believe
that all additional revenue should be
raised by increasing the duty on i'm
ports, especially imports coming in
competition with the pro iuction of
American labor.
sesolved, That a copy of these res
@ ions be sent to our representatives.
Congress-.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
"Lit!le Kentucky"

'Little Kentucky" rs it might be
dubbed very appropriately, is located
opposite Island No. 10. where Ken
lucky and Tennessee meet. The river,
by gradually cutting outthe Kentucky
bank, had worn off narrow strip OF
land, until one bright morning several
people who lived on this side OF the
line woke up to find themselves on the
other side. In other words, the swift
current had washed away the neck of
Garth which made the extreme south
western corner OF this State part
of the commonwealth of Kentucky.
The section of territory thus separated
from its parent, as it were, is ten miles
long and five miles wide quite good
mouthful to take in at one bite, even
for the greedy Mississippi.
Every well-posted river man and
every person who is acquainted with
the geography and Typography of this
State will understand how such q
thing could happen. Right at the
State line the river forms loop about
ten miles long. The loop extends up
'uto L Iuitou Oouuty. LILO SWltC StreaHl
has simply drawn this moose tight and
formed an island out OF what was
formerly peninsula. Hickman is
the closest town of any size to the
place where all this land making oc.
Cured. Darnell, little hamlet over
in Obion County, Tennessee, is quite
near the spot.
The boundary line between Ken.
tucky and Tennessee has always been
rather complicated down about Island
No. 10, owing to the peculiar bend in
the Mississippi mentioned above. The
lakes, bayous and sloughs which bisect
that corner of Fulton County in all
directions also serve to mix matters.
Tue biting off of such large strip of
soil will add to the general confusion,
and the question may arise as to
whether Little Kentucky" will here
after belong to the domain of the
volunteer State or still be part and
parcel of the dark and bloody ground.
-Paducah News.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
Let Louis aua Celebrates

1t has been suggested by the Cham.
ber of Commerce of New Orleans that
the one hundredth anniversary of the
admission of Louisiana into the Union
be celebrated, oa December 20. 1903,
by great international exposition of
the products of the worlds progress.
Such a celebration would practically
include Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
parts of Utah and Colorado. as these
States were included with the prchase
of the Louisiana OF to day when the
French flag was lowered in 1903. The
idea is good one, because it cannot
fail to convince our Southern friends
of the great advance tnat the country
has made, both IN its agricultural and
industrial resources. during the un
disturbed period OF protection that
ended in 1898. a policy that, let us all
hope, will again be in operation in
1909.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31

The result of the census taken the
other day in Berlin has caused some
surl rise. 1t shows the total popula'
tion of the German cap tai to he l.,
GA, 112. whereof 797, ,1SG are males
and S76,92 females. The estimate,
based on the periodical returns OF
births and deaths and OF departures
and arrivals, which In Prussia have to
be reported to the police, had shown,
as worked out on November 10, total
population of 1.757,S9S. Moreover,
the increase in the population during
the last five years, according to
this census, has been only six per
cent, as against twenty per cent. be-
tween 1885 and 1890, and sixteen pei
cent between 1880 and 1885. The
explanation lies in the enormous
growth of the subru5sas compared
with Brlin proper.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
IIanoyerian Etiquette.

One OF the minute points OF ett-
quette upon which the King of Han.
over insisted was that he would not
receive visitors for first presen tation
to him except in uniform. Sir Joseph
Grove had no uniform, and he com.
ments on "the fact that a King who
was utterly blind could not see sic
unless the person he wished to honor
was in uniform" An American Jour-
nalist was once refused an interview
with the same King OF Hanover on the
same ground but he was ultimately
more successful, for. pleading that no
was an American republican, and
therefore could not do otherwise than
appear without a uniform, he was re.
ceived, the King commenting himself
at the beginning of the interview
upon the special ground for the ex.
ception. The Athenaeum.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
UqAH-..OUR new STATE.
EXTENT OF ITS VALUABLE PROD
UCTS AND INDUSTRIES.

Farms, Mines and Factories a Source
of lnterminable Wealth-Active
Progress and Public Improve
ments Always In Hand-A Bright
and Brainy Senator.
The admission Of Utah as State of
the Union suggests brief review of
its agricultural, mineral and industrial
conditions, which we are able to com.
pile from the annual report of the
Governor of the Territory, Hon. Caleb
w. West.
The population Of Utah increased
44.4 per cent. between 1880 and 1890,
and Is per cent. between 1890 and
1895. 1t now stands at total OF 247,
324 persons, of whom 1876, S03 arc
males and 100, 521 females. The as
sessed valuation of real and personal
property and improvements was $97,-
942, 1872; the revenue from taxes was
$497,516 Almost So, 750, 900 were ex-
pended last year on private and public
buildings and in public works, and
440, 900 acres of land were surveyed.
The report upon the farming inter-
ests of Utah are very extensive. There
are 1870 acres under cultivation,
AT, 455 acres irrigated, 294, 725 acres
of pasturage fenced in, S06,65O acres
of improved land a4d 979, 1872 acres of
unimproved land. There are 20,5Sl
farms, of which only 212S were mort.
gagged for $1,971,352 and $4,000
were expended on farm buildings dur.
ing the year, 1926, S79 In repairs aud
over $l,000,000 were paid out for
farm labor. We have condensed the
principal crop areas and products for
1894 as follows:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
LAPORTE, PA FRIDAY, JANUARY 81. 1896.
SELECT sIFTINGS.

Corn is being used as fuel in Central
Iowa.
Bristol, Penn, claims the credit of
holding the first annual fair in Penn
sylvania.
Crab pots and eel rots are exact
models, on an enlarged scale, of the
Emperor moth.
1t is said that two women swindlers
have been selling colored sawdust for
ground coffee at Dunkirk, Penn.
A citizen of Bridgeton, Maine, who
is nearly ninety years of age, was
shaved for the first time one day re-
Gently.
The Mexican sword, in use among
the aborigines at the coming of the
Spaniards, was modelled after the nose
of the sawtish.
Chicory is used t, adulterate coffee.
Chunks OF dried carrot are used to
adulterate chicory, but the carrot is
rock bottom.
Thieves visited John Brooks farm,
at Plymouth, Montgomery County,
Penn, and stole live porker weigh.
ing $50 pounds.
Lots of acorns are bought in Pike
County, Missouri, and sent to spice
mills IN st. Louis, to be made into
coffee and spices.
A mountain lion measuring eleven
feet from nose to tail, and weighing
$50 pounds, was killed in San Antonio
canyon, CAL, recently.
The use of nets in fishing for stur.
geon is rapidly supplanting other
methods OF taking the big fish in the
upper Columbia and Snake Rivers. The
nets are from 600 to 900 feet long,
and the meshes vary in size between
twel md nineteen inches.
L. possession of the Baroness
BurdeGt- Coutts is guinea which she
treasurers above all her minor belong.
ings. Her grandfather, who was a
gentleman of slovenly outward ap.
pearance, was given it by benevolent
old party, who chanced to mistake
him for pauper.
Several large consignments OF salm-
on eggs have lately been sent from
this country to Europe. A crate of
so, 600 eggs was shipped from the Uni
ted States fishery at Baird, CAL, to
Ireland, and another crate, containing
so, 1000 eggs, was shipped from the
same place to Germany.
Two hunters of Boise, Idaho, had a
sorrowful experience. They spent half
a day loading shells, being dissatisfied
with those on sale, and next morning
drove twenty-five miles to the hunting
grounds. On arriving there they dis
covered that they had left all their
ammunition at home in Boise.
A fox and hunter together stalked
a partridge near Tyron, VT, the other
day, but each unknown to the other.
The bird alighted in an apple tree be-
hind a barn, and the hunter tiptoed
around one side of the barn and
brought the bird down. But as the
bird dropped, the fox, coming round
the other side of the barn, seized it
and was off with his dinner before the
hunter could appreciate what had
hapDened.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31

Facts.

Taa de,rease in our exports o
American products and manufactures
during tho first fifteen months of the
German tariff, as compared with the
first fifteen months of the Mckinley
tariff. was 1920, ,353, 800.
The decrease in our imports under
the German tariff, comparing the same
periods, was $63, 1887
The excess OF exports over imports
in the Mckinley period was $213, ,972,-
96S, but only S56, 1856 under the
German period. loss, under the lat
ter, of $157,214,345.
Under the German tariff we exported
$40, ,010, 210 more gold and imported
$40, 759, ,052 less gold than during the
Mckinley period.
The net loss in the trade balance OF
the United States has been $196, 9S3,-
607 during the first fifteen months
operate of the German tariff as COM
pared with the first q i-teen months of
the Mckinley tariff. This loss is at
the rate of $13, 1870, 600 month, or
$500, 900 for every business day in the
month,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31

The Atlanta Constitution says
About six months ago Massachusetts
created the State Highway Commits
sion, and since that time eighty. nine
miles Of frst-class roads have been
constructed under the auspices of the
new Board. The experiment is 60
satisfactory that the Legislature this
winter is expected to make larger
appropriation for roadways, and it is
now certain that the work so auspic.
iously begun will be pushed forward
with decreased vigor. The fact that
the people.are willing, after spending
100000 in 1895, to spend still
larger sum shows that the movement
in favor of good roads is already pop.
u.ar enough in Massachusetts to hold
its own, and it is natural to suppose
that other States will organize their
commissions and go to work on the
same line. New Jersey had some.
what similar experience lew years
ago, and after few score miles of
substantial roads had been completed
the people all over the State demand.
ed their extension and expressed their
willingness to submit to a much
higher tax rate in order to secure
these improvements. As the country
fills up with population the highway
question will assume greater promi-
nence and COOL roadways will be con-
structed at the expense OF future
generations, instead OF causing the
entire cost to fall upon the people
who are progressive enough to inaug
urate such reforms.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-01-31
l,O6c.1so pounds copper, at five

1,06c.160 pounds copper, Mt five
cents per pound ....... s5s, ,sos. 90
202,500 pounds refined lead, at
s3.11 per 100 pounds . 62,977. so
SIS, ,55l ,663 pounds unrefined
lead, at S32 per ton. ....... SsS, ,S26. 90
6,65979S ounces fine silver, at
so 97-100 cents per ounce. 4,193 ,674 80
56,427 ounces fine gold, at $50
per ounce. ,...,.....,.. -. 1,lae 100
Total export value. ...S 80
Computing the gold and at
their mint valuation, and otf als
at their value at the sea ~, it
would increase the value of the prod
uct to $11, ,631, 402.7
The last delegate sent to Congress
from the Territory of Utah was Hon.
Frank J. Cannon. Upon the admis-
sion of Utah to Statehood it is be-
lieved that he will be elected the first
United States Senator. Mr.. Cannon
is a young man, bright, energetic and
progressive. He has already made
many friends in Congress and gained
the respect of the older members by
his diligence and intelligence. He is
expected to make u name for himself
in National politics. So large and
diversified are the industrial interests
of Utah that he is firm believer in
the policy of protection for the United
States.