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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
POINTERS FOR WOMEN.

Do not scorn to wear veil in high
wind.
Do not economic on the manicure's
services.
Do notneglect the day of small mend-
ings.
Do not regard the pin as a substitute
for the needle.
DO not wear shoes unbIacked or run
down at the heel.
Do not allow skirts To become fFnyed
or elbows worn,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
Apoplexy the Cause of Juror Dicks
Death.

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-The cause of the
dead jurors death was apoplexy. He
was n prominent citizen of the subur.
ban town of Winnetka, and secretary
for the extensive contracting firm of the
Fitzsimmons & Connell Co. When the
jurors filed into Judge Balls chambers
to decide on their line of action they
found that Mr.. Dick was not present.
A member was sent to find him, and
came upon his prostrate form in the
judges court room. He was unconsci-
GUS and died few minutes after a
doctor arrived. He held in his hand
the report of the jury which was about
to be pr resented to the court
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
outlook in the Senatorial Contest in Ken
tuclv.

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. o.--The spec
ial election in Nelson county for sue
cessor to the late Isaac Wilson, state
representative, passed off quietly Sat-
urday. j. Q. w. Beckham (dem.) de-
feated J. L. Willer rep.) by 1888 major
ity.
Poor (pop.) can be counted IN TO
vote for Hunter after Thursday next,
and as Senator ogilvie dem. will be
unable TO come to Frankfort, the dem
ocrata will have to stay away from the
Joint aOssIop to prevent Hunters clce
tivn,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

Gov. HASTINGS of Pennsylvania, on
the night of the 30th, pardoned Hugh
f. Dempsey, the Pittsburgh labor
leader, in accordance with the recon.
mendation of the board of pardons.
He also commuted to life imprisonment
the death sentence of James McMullen,
Pittsburgh, and William Penn Bow
man, Wikesbarre.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
A LIVELY FIGHT
Between the Crews of n GormNn and an
English Vessel.

English Vessel.
LONDON, Feb. a.-The Daily Graphic
to-day publishes dispatch from Brus-
sells saying that the crews of the Ger
man steamer Preussen and the British
steamer baltimore became involved
in dispute Saturday over the
message recently sent by EN-
peror William to President Kru-
ger, of the South African
republic. Words soon led to blows,
and the fight was progressing tiercely
when the police intervened and arrest
ed several of the combatants. One of
the German sailors was SO badly in
jured by the pounding he received that
he is likely to die.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

BERLIN, Feb. 4.--The reichstag be-
gan the debate of the civil code yes
terday. Herr Neidring, imperial min
lister Of justice, urged the passage Of
the measure without delay, but DIR.
Rintenlen, leader Of the centrist party
proposed that II be referred to com
mittee II marriage were Invested OF
its Christian character, he declared,
the centrists would oppose the whole
bill.
DR.. Won Cuny, national liberal, advo-
GATED the adoption Of themeasure with
slight amendments
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
The Distribution of the Cherokee Award
Money.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The United
States court of claims yesterday ap-
proved the mutual agreement entered
into by counsel for distributing the
Cherokee award money. The secre-
tary OF the interior is empowered to
appoint three commissioners to make
an enumeration of the freedmen in
the Cherokee nation. Upon that be-
ing ascertained each freedman is to
receive not to exceed $256.34 out of the
S9o3, 3e5, and any excess of that amount
is to be handed over to the Cherokee
nation,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

A DELEGATION, numbering 200 ladies,
appeared before the senate committee
on woman suffrage, on the 2sth, and
some twenty of them, presidents of as
many state organizations, argued in
favor Of universal suffrage and the
adoption of an amendment to the con-
stitution extending the voting fran
chise to women.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

COINAGE executed at the United
States mints during January amounted
to 3,as3,6i5 pieces, Of value of 81, ,033,-
500, as follows: Gold, 6s4, ,415 pieces, Of
the value OF S12, GOO; silver, 100000
pieces, Of the value Of S65,oo0; minor
coins, 2,4e0,2 200 pieces, Of the value Of
S56,ooO National bank notes out
standing on January 81 aggregated
S213, 407,5s5, decrease of 1920, ,2Je
during the month. The amount Of
national bank note circulation based
on United States bonds aggregated
S1eo, ,426, 480.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
Montbly Clrculatlon Statement.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The treasury
circulation statement issued yesterday
make the amount OF gold in the United
States, outside the treasury, $49o, no.
5S5. The amount of all kinds of money
in circulation is placed at Si,5s9, 72o,-
e07, an increase since January 1, 1906
OF Si0,li3, 1853.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
A YOUTHFUL MURDERER


bhOOtB q MinIster After DemhndInB q COh-
tribution OF Forty Cents.
PAoLA, Kas., Feb. 2.-While Rev.
George Hall, of this city, was walking
ON the railroad tracks in the outskirts
yesterday he was accosted by George
Dusenberry, 16 years of age, who
asked for 40 cents. Tho minister said
he had not that much, but gave the
boy dime When the minister's back
was turned Dusenberry fred the con-
tents Of shotgun at him, tearing
away the top of a shoulder and enter
ing the face and neck. The boy is in
jail and the minister is believed to be
dying.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

JUDGE PAYNE, Of the civil court Gre
ated sensation in Chicago, on the
2sth, by the announcement that he had
full proof that one of the commission
ers of Cook county had accepted bribe
of $500 in connection with a murder
case before the grand jury.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
orderod TayorabIy Iteported.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 4.--The nomina-
tion Of Patrick s. Nagle, to be United
States marshal OF Oklahoma was or
dered 10 be favorably reported by the
senate Judiciary committee Yesterday
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

THE American line steamer st. Paul
went ashore on the outer bar off Long
Branch, N. j., at 1870 a. IN. of the 25th,
during dense fog. At last accounts
she was resting easily, and assistance
was sent to her. Another steamer,
supposed to be the Campania, narrow
ly missed going ashore too.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

DIR. NUEssER, professor of medicine
In the Vienna university, showed, on
the Goth, by means of photographs
taken by Roentjen's newly-discovered
system, the presence and position OF
calcareous deposits in the bladder,
liver and kidneys of a subject.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
CANADIAN TIMBER THIEVES
Paving the Way for Big Claim Against
the Dominion.

BUTTE, Mont, Feb. at is likely
huge claim will be made against
Canada for timber depredations in the
northern part OF this state. Col. I. A.
Root, government inspector for Mon
tana and Idaho, has received many
complaints lately from settlers in
northern Montana that the Canadians
have tor some time been coming across
the border and cutting trees until the
forests in two counties are nearly
stripped of timber
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

The debt statement issued by the
secretary Of the treasury shows net
increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during January, OF
$5,747,976 Total cash in the treasury,
$774, ,553, 725. rF
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

Mr.. H. Nick, TwoMBLEY has pur-
chased for 81, 900, 900 the estate of Louis
L. Lorillard, at Newport, R. l., known
as Vineland. The price paid is the
largest ever paid for summer property
in Newport, or in fact, in this country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

RAMS SMITH died in the lunatic asy-
lum at Lexington, KY, on the 2Sth.
He was from Garrard county, where
he was grower of watermelons, and
last summer cursed God because his
crop failed, and afterwards went crazy
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

The London papers, discussing what
Great Britain will do in the event OF
the alleged entente between Russia
and Turkey proving to be well found
ed, suggest the open annexation of
Egypt, the seizure of an island near the
Dardanelles, and the sending of fleet
90 Constantinople to bottle up the Rus
sian navy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

A MEMORIAL service was held in ST..
Georges Episcopal church in Berlin,
on the 10th, in memory of the late
Theodore Rupyon, United States am
bassador to Germany.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
House Committee OH Elections Decided in
Favor OF Van Horn

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The house
committee on elections No. Q, Mr..
johnson, Of Indiana, chairman, yester-
day decided the contested election case
Of Van Horn against Tarsney, from the
fifth Missouri district, in favor of Van
Horn (rep.), the contestant.
Mr.. Tarsncy asked permission to re-
open the case for the purpose OF talk
ing additional testimony. This prop
osition was rejected and, by o strict
party vote, Mr.. Van Horn was decided
to have been legally elected and en-
hlea 10 the seat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
Throws Up Its Hat for Dlaz and Ahu-
tnaIa.

Ell PAso, Tex, Feb. 2.-The El Paso
Visitor, the weekly paper of the local
Ministers union, came out yesterday
against prize fighting in the strongest
possible way. The Visitor throws up
its hat for Diaz and Ahumala, who will
not allow the fight south of the line;
calls on El Paso Christian people to
avoid countenancing in any way the
carnival; scores as q conspiracy this
planning to invade New Mexico for
what is felony in Texas, and calls on
Gov. Thornton to do everything to
stop the disgrace.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

Ir was asserted, on the 31st, that the
Standard Oil Co. was about to organize
as corporation, with capital stock
OF $500, 100000, and 20 out of the trust
business.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

MRS DIR. F. KATHRYN, the lady ply
sician who is to be assistant at the
Hopkinsville (Ky) lunatic asylum,
the first appointee of the kind in the
states history, is native of Newport,
XIV
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

THE London Observer claims TO have
authority for the statement that Ger
many recently invited Russia and
other powers to cooperate with her In
O plan hostile to the British oocupn
tIon Of Egypt. Russia refused TO ae
cOpt Tho propoaitiOn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

CHIEF O'BRIEN of the New York city
detective bureau has been requested
by the authorities of Dublin castle to
look for a quantity of bonds stolen
from that city. The securities are
enumerated. in The request
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

THE American commission, consist
Ing of Sheridan r. Read, United States
consul at Tien-Tsin; Commander Mer-
rill, of the United States navy, and Mr..
Cheshire, interpreter, appointed to in
vestigate the outrages perpetrated
upon missionaries in the province of
Sze-Chuan, in June last, arrived at
Shanghai on the Cd.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08
DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT.

Mysterious Disappearance of Mrs. A. II.
Cody at Tacoma, Wash.
TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 4.-Mrs. A. Il.
Cody, wife of prominent Chicago
lawyer, who resides on the south side
in that city, mysteriously disappeared
last Friday afternoon while shopping
in this city. She became separated
from her friends on crowded street
and sank out of sight completely.
Not the slightest clew can be found
regarding her whereabouts, although
twenty men and several officers have
been searching for her ever since.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

A DISPATCH from Rome, on the 31st,
said that 45 members of the party
of the left in tho Italian cham
Der of depties had subscribed their
names to a resolution condemning and
calling attention to the illegality OF
the war in Abyssinia, in the prosecu-
tion of which, they declare, vast sums
were being squandered.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

CECIL j. RHODES, ex-premier of Cape
Colony, arrived at the island of
Madeira, on the 3lst, and telegraphed
n statement of the events leading up
to DR.. Jamieson's raid in the Trans.
vaal to his London solicitors to
be used as evidence in Jamieson's
defense when the latter's trial comes
nff
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

A BILL appropriating So, ,951 ,915 to the
state of California; S355, 152 to the
state of Oregon, and $4o4,04 to the
state of Navada, being moneys ex-
pended by those states in the suppress
sion of the war of the rebellion, was
favorably reported to the senate from
the committee on claims on the Goth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

AT the meeting of the house commit
tee on mines and mining, on the 3lst,
a favorable report was ordered made
on the bill authorizing the payment to
each of the public land states of rs per
cent. of the receipts from sales Of pub
lie lands in the several states for the
maintenance of schools of mines; pro-
vided that the states themselves shall
appropriate like sums for the same pur-
pose. A similar bill had already passed
the senate.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-08

NEWS from Cuba, on the 30th, was to
the effect that the towns of Jimuani
and Raire, on the road between Man
zillo and Santiago de Cuba, had been
captured after severe fighting by Col.
Wilson and his party of Ohio filibus-
ters, who took 16o prisoners and seized
300 Mauser rifles and 10000 cartridges.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11

A good story is told of a barber in an
eastern Ontario village who was fly
converted by a religious sect of aggressive
methods. 1t was pointed out to him that
it was his duty to interest himself IN the
souls of his customers. Next morning
his first customer was a nervous looking
stranger, who noticed tho BARRIERS preoc-
eupied manner The lather was put on,
and he strapped the razor, the barber.
who was evidently struggling between in.
.clination n duty. muttered TO himself:
will l d" it? l don't like to, but l guess I
will have TO-" Fortified by this resolution
he turned quickly toward his curtomer
and enqnired: my friend, are you p re.
pared to die?" The nervous gentleman
in the chair waited no longer. With a yell
that would have done credit to a Conan
chic brave. he bounded from the chair and
out of the shop with towels, lather and all.
The barber has since resolved not to en-
quire about the souls of his customers IN
til they have been shaved.
--Morrlsburg Herald.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11
WHO SHOMBURK is.

Grand Forks News An interesting
fact in connection with the famous S chom-
burgk line which has escaped observa-
tions ia that the man who provided the
British Government with that boundary
cnme tn this country from Germany whom
he WINS % years old, and after working
for some time as a clerk in Boston and
Philadelphia, became a partner in a Rich
mond (Va.) tobacco manufactory, in 1928.
The factory was burned. and Schomburgk
drlf!ed to the West Indies, where, after
unsuccessful ventures, his botanical work
attracted the attention ''ef the London
Geographical Society, and secured means
to Ell EXPLORE the unknown region OF the Or
inoco. He remain ed there from 1888 to
1899. and discovered the Victoria Regia
lillv and many other plants. This work
led the British Governmen to commission
him to suggest a boundary between Vene-
zueln and Guiana and to make further
OK explorations. The line was drawn. and
he was knightsd by the Queen for his ser
vices. Schombulgk until his death, in
1865. continued in the British consular
service, but devoted himself chiefly to
geographical studies. being a member of
the principal American and European
learned societies.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11
GAMBLING HABIT.

The following composition was recently
read in the Washburn school by Jay Fritz
O the gambling habit:
Gambling is getting to be a common
source of evening entertainment, and in
fact not only evening, but all night is
spent in this pursuance. Dear friends
how many of you take part in this sort Of
social enterprise? 1 hope that you will
for the sake of God Almighty and your
precious reputation, never indulge in any
thing of the kind Honor being lost, all is
lost" At the gambling hall, robbers, MUIR
derers. drunkar.is. loafers and vile scoun
der els f every description are met with.
many Il yolny man has met his fate at
such {, place in some blood curdiing way,
not only the large cities like New York
running with gambling and vice, how
many precious souls are led into the
depths of hell. yearly? I again mako an
appeal to- you friends, come to the front
and let as do all in our power to form a
confederacy agai" st Satan and his vast
army before it is to late, Let some one of
US set a good example. Come, 1 implore,
there may be the means of rescuing some
precious soul from the very jaws of hell.
Dr. Parkhust Of New York, serves his
master faithfully and I think we all aught
to adopt this, 500 work in my vineyard"
as a motto and follow it,"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11
The Companion Calender for 1896.

The Publishers of The Youths Com
panian are sending co their subscribers
free an art Calendar which will be highly
appreciated. Four elegant vater-color
paintings are reproduced in all the
beauty of color and design Of the originals.
and of such size OK 10 inches) that
they may be framed with fine effect.
Tho first two pictures offer a stalking
sontrast,-a clustering March day In the
sugar orchard, and peaceful scene in
midsummer. Then follows the monday
rest in the harvest field, a charming bit of
color with a foreground of goldenrod and
brilliant autumn foliage. The winter walk
to church over the s~now-eovered fields is
the last of the series.
To all now subscribers to the paper who
send their name and address and s 1.75 at
once, the Publishers Offer to send free
this handsome Calendar, Autographed in
nine eelors, the retail price of which Is
80 cents, The Companion free every
week until January 1, 1896. Also, the
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years
double numbers free, and The Compan.
ion ffty-two weeks, a full year to Janu.
airy /. 1897. Address,
The YouTH's COMPANION,
1856 Columbus Avenue, Boston.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11
JOHN A., RISE UP

Charles Gurley, whe now has a real es-
tate and loan office, in Washington, DC.
but formerly a clerk IL the great Durfee &
Peck trading company that done busin-
ess along che Upper Missouri in Territorial
days, and was also afterward a commits
STONED officer in the 9th U. S. Infantry
writes a letter from the National capital
TO the Tribune, of a recent date, con-
corning a historical incident published in
Col. L~ounsbsrry's Record, about who
first carried the news of the massacre of
General Custer aud his men to Mrs. Gus
ter, then living at her husbands quarters
at Fort Lincoln. Col. L%ounsberry cor
recte6 Sara ( lak; Ct arls, Galley o c Dr.
reefs the Colonel ard John A.. Mclean,
will, We opine, soon come forward and
Correct them all. The LEADER will be
pleased to hear from Mr.. Mclean on the
subject in question. Rise up Mr.. Mclean.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11

TM Cuban insurgents have become SO
bold and successful as to invest Havana,
the capital city and chief seaport of the
island, and almost ths only foothold
which Spanish authority can now exer-
else itself in the lands of the Gem of the
Antelles. Cuban independence is as good
rs won. The United Suites government
hardly acted :alr III not giving beligerent
rights to p people like the Cuban patriots
who have been 80 long and 81 manfully
struggling for liberty mud independence.
But the American pubic have been
in full sympathy with the Cubans and
preston hasn't help kill many Spainards
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11

The sudden turn of the trumpet of war
from the semi tropical lands of the slow
moving Oriuoco to the burning sands
of South Africa, has been one of the
surprises of the week. 1t looks very
much-at this writing-like if the young
Germun Kaiser will have tn fight his
grandmother, good old Queen Vic of the
seems to prevade the air everywhere, and
the LEADER thinks that we can confideI ally
10 TX 70, q world vide war that will put
to pale the wars:of Bonaparte, the Gaze
zers or the Crusades.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11

We have been shown n copy of a news.
paper printed somewhere among the
mountains of tho State of Georgia, and
therein among its columns is print
cd a lstter from Editor Wood, of the
Steele Ozone, in which orr modern Do
genes proposes to take his lantern and
hereafter pick his way among the rattle
snakes md watermelon patches of that
sunny cline. The Businesses of the Geor.
gia mountains we suppose-will make
ns e God probation retreat as any other
plnca. but all the same Elitor Woul will
be found paving the earth up for his
frantic right Of way in North Dakota
politics the coming campaigl.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-11
SHER1FF's SALE.
State of North Dakota.
County of Mclean. 8

NOTICE is hereby given that, by virtue of a
Judgment and decree In foreclosure, rendered
dicial District, in and for the County of Mclean,
and State OF North Dakota. and filed In the Of
flee of the Clerk Of said Court OH the 18th day Of
December. A; p, 1895. IN an action wherein
Rhude is defendent, in favor of said plaintiff
and against the defendant for the sum OF $559.6 6
the principal and interest secured by q certain
mo 91as ;;;t given ,nts ny the thareSn frd to pla pece%b 5er
4th, A. y. 1885. the date ct said decree; and also
500. 80, which Judgment and decree directed The
eri5ed, to satisfy the amount Of said Judgment
said s:.lo, and by virtue Of a writ issued out
OF the office Of the clerk OF SAD court
and under the seal th en r Glrf &c said n i1d 10 sslt
and decree: 1 Hans Hultberg, Sheriff OF said
county, win sell the hereafter described real es-
tate 70 the e highest tiea f1on bidder aal d foF the ea Snar It H Ranl1e
4 clean, and State Of North Dakota, on the 2lst
may Of January, A. y: 1886, at 10 O'clock a. N.
MI that I'd day, to tnd sa t5s So sa' ana }n eSnenses S 81 SAID Id
sale, or so much thereof as the proceeds OF such
sale, applicable thereto, will satisfy. The prem,
Uses to be sold as aforesaid! pursuant 70 SAN
jju judgment s,a a1 Gas SsfLeee anu in s sai , Wdisi a,1t d decree rec
and writ as following, to sit: All that tract and
parcel Of land, lying and being ~ the county OF
Mclean and State Of North DaKota, aescIiRea
Thirty, Township One Hundred and Forty-Four,
Dated. Washburn, North Dakota, December
'''"' a. HANS HuLTRERG, Sheriff
of Mclean County, North Dakota.
nr piaintin; s;Attorneyy, Bismarck, North Dakota.