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BICYCLE TRACK IN AIR.
Plan for One ON Roof of the Elevated
Lines.

$500 AoA ohS oh IhoOI VI tnc Elevated
Lines.
From the New York Journal
The rapid-trausit crusade in New York
which just now is being vigorously pushed
has taken on a new and inviting aspect The
spectacle of greater New York with an alb
solutely inadequate system of conveying its
people from one part of the city to another
has spurred the authorities to take a deter
mined stand in the matter, and has led the
Gould-Sage syndicate, which owns the Man
haitian Elevated system, to offer new means
for relieving the congested traffic
In addition to the plan proposed to Mayor
Strong for double-decked eight-track sys-
TEN on the present Manhattan line and a
new spur leading from the Harlem terminus
to Yonkers, Lawson n. Fuller has made a
proposition to the city to add to the proposed
system bicycle track extending the length
OF the city on top of the second story of the
structure The track will be forty feet wide
and separated to provide for up and down
town tracks.
The proposition is to charge a round-trin
fare of five cents for the entire system Sta
lions are to be half mile apart and pro-
Vided with elevators for the use of Wheel
men and their machines. If this plan Is ap-
proved by the city and adopted it will be the
first concession of the kind yet made to BIZ
cyclists.
The idea of the bicycle track originated
with the late Jay Gould five years ago, who
said that such an improvement would be a
paying investment.
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to be held the Goth instant. There appears to be
q general desire among the patrons of the schools
that the county commissioners may be induced to
to keep the schools in operation for at least nine
The heavy rain and hail storm which passed over
this section of the county Monday evening did
large amount of damage. At this place there
was perfect hurricane, accompanied ty deluge
Of rsin and hail, which did much damage to vege-
tation. A portion Of large tree was by the
force Of the wind thrown across the street and
striking upon building owEed by Mr. Henry
Welt. partially wrecked the same. A loaded
wagon, but the horses and driver ESCAPED without
injury. Much damage was also done in other PARTS
Of the town Along the Frederick road for several
every direction, rendering the road in some places
almost impossible. On the farm Of Mr. Lee offutt,
on the same road, within a space Of about three
Other farms in the same vicinity suffered in like
manner.
The Western Baptist Association will convene at
Mt. Zion Church Monday, June Q. A large at
tendance is expected.
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Q Detroit Bulletin of Pharmacy.

From the Detroit Bulletin of Pharmacy.
The apple is such common fruit that
very few persons are familiar with its re-
markedly efficacious medicinal properties.
Everybody ought to know that the very
best thing they can do is to eat apples Just
before retiring for the night. Persons I'M
initiated in the mysteries Of the fruit are
liable to throw up their hands in horror
at the visions of dyspepsia which such
suggestion may summon up; but no harm
can come to even a delicate system by the
eating of ripe and juicy apples just before
going to bed. The apple is excellent brain
food, because it has more phosphoric acid
in easily digested shape than other fruits.
1t excites the action of the liver, promotes
sound and healthy sleep and thoroughly
disinfects the mouth. This Is not all. The
apple helps the kidney sccretions and pre-
vents calculous growths, while 1t obviates
indigestion and is one of the best-known
preventives of diseases of the throat.
Everybody should be familiar with such
knowledge.
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WIDOWS MAY RIDE.
The "YOurnfng Wheel is the Latest
Fad for Her Diversion.

From the New York world.
Widows who have given away their BIZ
cycles and who shrink from wheeling as
an improperly will delight to know that a
wheel has been patterned for their special
use. The mourning wheel" is now thor
oughly approved by mourning etiquette, and
the widow can take her morning spin with
the comforting assurance that she is doing
quite the proper thing. The mourning
wheel is an appropriately somber affair of
solid ebony blackness. unrelieved by any
cleaning steel or nickel 1t is not nearly
as conspicuous as the yellow and blue ones
which are affected this year by some wo-
men, and surprise is no longer awakened
by the sight of an occasional black wheel.
The widow who rides does not make any
radical change in her costume. She still
clings to her crepe bonnet and veil, I'M
suited as the latter is for combat with q
stiff breeze. Her suit is of some soft black
material similar to that in her other
gowns, and is made with a closely-fitting
belted waist and short skirt. Very often a
little crepe is seen upon the gown, while the
wheelwoman who avoids long and dusty
rides, may venture to add a narrow white
collar and cuffs to her plain gown The
mourning wheel marks decided reaction
from conventionality and has proved itself
an admirable method of assuaging grief
and getting wholesome exercise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-21

ed vice tempar; E. NJ. Ball. secretary and Maurice
Trammell, sentinel. Miss Ida ]. Quick was APP
pointed chOrister. Company b. with Mr., Il. f.
RoIebeck leader will entertain the lodge next
Tuesday night with q sociable.
Miss Matte Jarvis of Washington was the guest
OF Miss Fannie Moore Monday.
Miss Sale Yeatman, who has been visiting Miss
Edith o. Mortified, has returned home.
Miss Jennie Fish Of Denver and Miss Persis Proud
fit of Washington were the guests of Mrs. E. j.
NOrthrup Tuesday.
Mr.. Il. S. Pitcher of iona wanda, NY, and Mr.
j. l.. Hume of Texas are visiting Mr.. NJ D. Church
Mrs: Elizabeth Russell of Washington has pur
cbbsed ten acres of land On the Sleepy Hollow road
Of Mr. r. 1. Gardner for $500.
The public graded school of the town will close
Friday, May 20.
large number of the members Of Pioneer Lodge
of Good Templars will attend the session of the
district lodge at Fairfax CH Friday.
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FALLS CHURCH,

Miss Edith o. Merrifeld entertained some of her
friends Monday evening at her home on Washing
ton ftreet with delightful informal dance In
hoIor Of her guest, Miss Nell McCarde of Hagers-
town, Md. Among those in attendance were Mr.
and Mrs. G. R. Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Par
ker, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Davenport, Misses Fannie
Moore. Matte Jarvis, Eva Birch, Margaret Nourse,
Hannah Selby, Anabel Rowell, Gertrude Nourse
Anita Phillips, Claudio Curtis Mary Davenport,
Salle Yeatman, Tinnie Merrifeld, Messrs E. f.
Rorebeck, Philip Nourse. W. W. Kinsley, IT,, G.
7. Mankin, Webster Flagg, Geo. O. Birch, Elmer
Jacobs, Arthur Flagg, 3. NJ. Talbot, Boyd Wat
Boswell
At the meeting Of Pioneer Lodge of Good Tenn
plars Tuesday night Miss EStslls Birch was install.
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1.-The most northern railway in Europe"
says the Revue Scientifque, lis the Swedish
line between Langsen and Boden, built be-
tween 1887 and 1895, whose length is 400
kilometers about 300 miles). This line
traverses vast forests and crosses the river
Angermann and several other large rivers:
it cost 360000 600 of francs ST,200 00m, in
Guiding the rolling stock, and traverses a
sparsely settled and almost uncultiyated
region. The line includes no less than
seventy-eight bridges, of which the longest,
over the Angermenn, is go meters 1855
feeO long and crosses the river 375 meters
Q24 feeO above the water"
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FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE.

The May term Of the county court convened Mon.
day. Judge D. NJ. Chichester presiding. The wills
Of Sarah W. Tudor, Mary E. Binns and VIM
Jasper were probated, and the estates of Sarah
Dimsey, Elizabeth G. Francis, r. P. Newman and
Annie Gibson were committed to the sheriff fol-
administration.
The case of Harry Poss and Thomas Henry, fol-
jail breaking continued to next term.
special grand jury was sworn, with Geo W.
Hunt as foreman and returned true bill against
Jos. L. Money for seduction under promise of mar.
rage.
Letters Of administration on the estate of LLOYD
Washington were granted to James McCuen, it,
and he was appointed guardian Of his infant chill.
dren.
The inquest Of Eugene McNerhaney was received
and filed.
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BR0OkLAND.

Miss Gertrude Hamilton has returaed from Wood
side, where she has been spending a short while
with relatives.
Mrs. Chas. Gill and her little daughter Mildred
Of Baltimore were the guests OF Dr. and Mrs
Howe yesterday.
The pupils OF Miss Sarah willard Howe's dancing
school are making extensive preparations for the
coming May ball, which will take place tomor-
row evening at the BroOkland Hall. There Will be
many fancy dances presented In full costume
MRS: Horace Mull1n is expecting a visit soon
from her sister, Miss Josephine Doty.
II nothlng happens 70 prevent there Will be
mass In st. Anthonys, the rev Catholic Church. on
l2th street, Sunday, May "a The congregation
Is much pleased with it's house of wOrslin-
The dedicatory services will take place soon
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Queer Lot of Animals,

Londons Geological Garden has been re-
Gently enriched by a Campbelrs monkey,
two black-backed jackals. a puff adder
from South Africa; condor, from South
America: guillemot. Morrisa tortoise,
an lsabellfne lynx, a white-crowned manga
hey, Maguiri stork, a Guira cuckoo, six
Mexican guam, scarlet tanager, three
scarlet ibises, burrowing owl, q run and
two red sharks.
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putting in an electric plant at Mt. Vernon Park,

u.
Misses Isabel and Janet Miller expect to sail for
England the last of June in company with their
sister, Mrs Joseph NJ. Shoemaker of PHILADELPHIA,
and remain there about two months.
The violent wind storm of Monday afternoon blew
down number OF large trees and the hay houses
corn house of DIR. Roger Brooke were almost a
total wreck. DIR. Brooke's loss is estimated at
500
The rhrenaskela will give itself a banquet on
the evening Of May %, at Rock Spring farm, the
nome OF Misses Anna and Sarah Farcuhar.
There Is TO be n lawn party at The homo OF
Mr. and Mrs. George +. Nesbitt Tuesday afternoon
next
IN the last of three games between the Brooke
vile Academy and Sherwood School base ball teams
the latter were victorious for the second time.
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stephen Sprague, two dwellings in North Takoma
The Clark house on Maple avenue is nearly com
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
DUNRAVEN SAILS FOR HOME,
The Earl Makes Rather an Uncermo
nious Departure.

The Earl Makes Rather an Uncermo
nious Departure.
NEW YORK, Dec S0.-Lord Dunraven
and his friend, Arthur Glennie sailed
on board the Umbria for England. In
answer to questions put to him at the
steamers pier, by an Associated Press
reporter. Lord Dunraven said:
II really don't wish so talk"
Mr.. Glennie was little more commu-
NEGATIVE, and when asked what was the
reason of Dunraven's s sudden departure,
said ominously:
"It's avery sad ending"
Mr.. Glennie did not feel inclined to
qualify Or define this statement when
urged to do so. He said that there
were only two men left behind to look
after the interests Of Lord Dunraven,
namely, Lawyer Askwith and Secretary
Hamilton.
The reporter asked Mr.. Glennie if all
the evidence in the case, as far as the
Dunraven part of it was known, had
been submitted. The reply was:
"You can't expect Lord Dunraven to
speak before the committee when he
was ON the ocean, and as my testifying,
well, I'll be ON the ocean, too"
What effect Lord Dunraven's SEEM
ingly unceremonious departure would
have in determining the committees
course cannot be foretold.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
Four Americans Accused of
Being Spies Put to Death
in Bolivia.
Had Trouble With a Local
Official, We're Arrested
and Tried.
Situation i'm Cuba Unchanged
But Rumors Come Thick
and Fast.

NEW YORK, Dec 30.-A special to
The World from La Paz, Bolivia, says:
-Four American citizens Charles
Joiner, George Miner, Alfred Heard
and Thomas Caldwell-arrived at Chu-
quisaca last week, after a five weeks
journey from Brazil, where they had
been working for years and had amassed
considerable fortunes, which they were
taking home. They remained several
days, spending money freely and
gambling extensively.
On Tuesday Miner accused Pepe Con-
zales, the acting mayor of Chuquisaca,
of having cheated them, playing
marked cards, and offered to prove the
assertion. Gonzales drew pistol but
was knocked down by Joiner and q
general fight followed in which 80 per-
sons threw themselves on the friendless
Americans.
Finally the police arrested the Amer.
leans, letting the others go free. They
were taken to filthy jail, left two
nights and one day without food, and,
after being given the semblance of a
trial, in which they were accused OF
being spies, they were sentenced to
death. The sentence was carried into
execution Thursday noon, publicly.
Their horses and other property have
disappeared, but it is known that Con
zales has distributed them among his
friends and the police.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
THE TALK OF EUROPE.
Transvaal Question Displacing venezuela
in Public Interest.

Transvaal Question Displacing veaezuela
in Public Interest.
LONDON, Dec. 30.-The Times pub
fishes long dispatches from Cape Town,
Paris and Berlin bearing on the Trans
vaal question, which seems to be dis
placing the Venezuelan question in the
public interest.
The Paris dispatch quotes The Debats
as saying: The London Times seems to
be avenging itself on the Beers for the
moderate tone it was obliged to adopt
towards Uncle Sam. The Debats then
proceeds to argue upon the danger to
French interests Of allowing England
to seize to Transvaal.
A dispatch to The Times from The
Hague says that Hollands attitude on
the question is apparently one of in
difference.
The Berlin dispatch says: The ac-
ton of the Uitlanders in the Transvaal
has given rise to an unusually violent
explosion of anti-English feeling in the
German press.
The National Zeitung is quoted as
follows: Germany, Portugal, and pos
sibly France, cannot allow the Boer
republic to become the exclusive prey
of England, and especially of such q
dangerous parsonage as Mr.. Cecil
Rhodes
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
FCRTY-SEVEN AGAINST 1T.
Republicans Far From Unanimous for
the Bond Bill.

hepuDucans Far From Unanimous for
the Bond Bill.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The house
passed the bond bill by vote of 10 to
1876. The margin of 40 by which the
first section of the bill, against which
the Republican opponents of the meas
ure massed their opposition, was passed
showed that the friends of the measure
had marshaled every available vote in
its favor. AS it was, AZ Republicans re-
fused to act with the majority of their
party. The Populists and Democrats,
with the exception Of Mr.. Hutchinson
of Texas, who voted for the bill, pre-
sented an unbroken front against the
measure.
The bill, as passed, amends the re-
sumption act so as to permit the issue
of 3 per cent coin bonds redeemable
after five years at the pleasure of the
government and payable in Is years,
with the specific provision that nothing
in the bill shall be construed to repeal
the act of 1878 for the reissue of the
greenbacks, and that the bonds shall
first be offered for subscription at the
sub-treasuries and repositories of the
United States. The second section of
the bill provides for the issue of 3-year
per cent debt certificates of denomina-
tions of $50 and multiples thereof, in
amounts not exceeding $50, 900, to
meet the temporary deficiencies.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
MURDERED BY A MANIAC.
DR.. A. A. Young, . Prominent North
Dakota Physician, the Victim.

DIR. A. A. Young, Prominent North
Dakota Physician, the victim.
FARGO, N. D., Dec. 30.--The village
of Buffalo, 40 miles west of here, was
thrown into great excitement by the
discovery of the dead body of DIR. A.
A. Young on Peterson's farm, three
miles south of the village. During the
afternoon hired man employed by G.
A. Peterson came to the village and
stated that Peterson had gone crazy
and wanted DR.. Young to go out and
prescribe for him. The doctor agreed
If the hired man would return to the
village and procure assistance if Peter
son was found to be dangerous.
Two hours passed and neither the
doctor nor the hired man returned. A
posse was formed, and when the Peter
son place was reached DR.. Young was
found lying in the front yard dead.
Near the body was large Indian club
covered with blood, which told how the
crime was committed. Peterson was
found inside the house, a raving
maniac, and it required considerable
struggle to overpower him.
The hired man who came to Buffalo
after the doctor was nowhere to be
found, and it is feared he, too, has been
murdered and the body hidden away.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
DULL WEEK IN CONGRESS
Moth ing of Importance on the Pro-
gramme in Either House.

Moth ing of Importance on the Pro-
gramme in Either House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The business
in the senate this week will be to per-
feet the organization of the committees,
to refer the bond bill to the finance
committee and then adjourn over until
Thursday, unless the house can be pre-
vailed upon to adjourn over until the
following Monday. In case of session
Thursday, there will, in all probability,
be slim attendance with another ad-
journment until Monday, the 9Th of
January. The adjournment over is
almost certain unless a financial de-
bate should be Unexpectedly sprung.
Some of the members of the
finance committee have expressed
the hope that the revenue bill
might be reported in some shape by
Thursday, and if it should, more or
less talk in the senate would occur.
The programme in the house is for an
immediate adjournment on Tuesday
until Friday, and from Friday till Mon
day Jan g.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
England's Latest Move RouSe3
the Ire of the Other Euro
pean Powers.
French and German Press Bit
terly Denounce the Brit
ish Policy.
Venezuelan Question For the
Time Displaced in Public
Interest.

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 80.-The politi-
Cal situation here is acute on account of
the struggle of the British in the
Transvaal to obtain equal political
right with the Beers, and the German
and American inhabitants are support
ing the government. There are per-
sistent rumors of secret arming of the
miners and warlike preparations, on
account Of which ladies and children
are leaving. General Joubert, COM
mander-in.chief of the Transvaal
forces, has been summoned to Pretoria
from Natal.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
CAUSING UNEASINESS.
Spanish Omcials Would Like to Locate
the insurgents.

Spanish OmciaIs Would Like to Locate
the Insurgents.
HAVANA, Dec. 30. In spite of the re-
ports received here that the main body
of the insurgents had retreated from
the province of Matanzas and were
once more in Santa Clara, reports con-
tinue to come in of damage done at
various points in Matanzas and of
threatened movements of bodies of in
surgents. Whether these are wander
ing and isolated bands cannot be esti-
mated accurately. An engagement
with an insurgent band is also reported
from the province of Pinar del Rio, the
westernmost on the island.
Uneasiness is also caused in official
circles by reports that come from San
tiago de Cuba. The report of Jose
Maceo's fight seems to have been with
out foundation, as there are renewed
evidences of his activity in that prov
ince, and the troops stationed there
Are Finding Abundant Occupation.
The Spanish authorities have reason TO
suspect that movement is contem.
plated in the Oriental province to
bring about junction of the insurgent
bands there and troops are actively en-
gagged in trying to prevent the coming
together of Jose Maceo and Rabi, whose
combined forces would afford means
for formidable movement that would
effect diversion and prevent the with
drawal of Spanish troops to reinforce
those acting against Gomez, Antonio
Maceo and Bandera in Matanzas and
Santa Clara provinces.
Nothing authentic is known of the
immediate whereabouts and doings Of
Gomez and his forces who were said to
be threatening Cienfuegos. Nothing
has been heard from there, though
several skirmishes are said to have oc-
cnrred in Santa Clara province.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.--Thes battle
ship Indiana will leave the League
Island navy yard in the course of a few
days for Newport, where she will re-
ceive her torpedo outfit. She will then
60 to sea for a few days to test her bat
terry and machinery, and if all goes well
with her, she will be sent to Port Royal,
s. O., to be placed in the new dry dock
there TO be cleaned and painted.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
She Blackmailedg the Minister.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.-Mrs. Mary
A. Davidson has been arrested on the
charge of extortion preferred by Rev.
G. o. Brown, pastor of the First Con-
gregational church, the most fashion
able one of that denomination in the
city. DR.. Brown charges her with
blackmail and says he paid her $500 to
secure her silence in regard to his al
legged relations with certain young
woman
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
JOINT TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION
Action Against the Railway Combine to
Be Commenced.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The prosecu-
ton of the joint traffic association OF
Eastern trunk lines, recently formed in
New York city, will be begun imme-
diately by the government. The deci-
sion of the interstate commerce COM
mission, holding the association to be
violation of interstate commerce law
has been forwarded by Attorney Gen.
eral Harmon to the United States dis
trict attorney for New York, with an
official communication, and the latter
doubtless will endeavor at once to pre-
vent the carrying out of the agreement.
The procedure doubtless will be by
injunction against the members ct the
association. This, it is assumed, will
be served upon several of the roads that
are members and which are within the
jurisdiction of New York state.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
IN HONOR OF CAMPOS.

Popular Demonstration of Immense Pro-
portions in Havana.
HAVANA, Dec. 3O.-1he demonstra-
ton of political parties in honor of
General Campos proved the grandest
popular outburst of sympathy toward
the Spanish cause that has ever taken
place in Havana. Conservatives, Au-
Economists, Reformists, Spaniards, Gu
bans and everybody united in great
brotherhood. About 10000 people in
all took part in the demonstration.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01

ST. PAUL, Dec. 30.-F. FL. Stolze, the
assignee of the Elmer Dearth Adver-
tising agency, has made report of the
standing of the company when he took
charge of its affairs, and has filed
schedules of assets and liabilities with
the clerk of the district court. The
liabilities are found to be $l56, 1877. .2l,
while the nominal assets amount to
$l69, ,057. 45. The actual value of the
assets is estimated at $94, ,55l.O8.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-01-01
Big Deal in zinc Mines.

ST. LOUIS, Dec 30.-The biggest deal
in the history of zinc mining in Mis-
souri, will be closed by Jan. l. 1t will
unite all the zinc smelters Of the coun-
try, except four, under one manage
ment practically, and the result will be.
the promoters claim, better prices for
zinc in all branches and q general re-
rival Of the industry,