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Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


mayor of Boston.
Slight shocks of earthquake were fel:
at Ashland and Richmond. Va.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned to the I'd of January.
Freezing weather has greatly dam !
aged the orange crop in California.
AlDhonse Daudet, the famous French !
novelist, died in Paris, aged 81 years.
Three young persons were drowned
while skating on creek at Toncwanda,
n. Y.
The Southern Express company's Of
flee at Columbia, S. c., was robbed of
$4,000.
The constitutionality of the civil
service law was upheld by the Illinois
supreme court.
The Chinese government has granted
Russia permission to winter squadron
at Port Arthur.
The United States training ship Ali
ance has arrived in New York after an
extended cruise. .
In Guatemala six political prisoners
accused of aiding the revolutionary
party were shot.
BY the bursting of land boom in
Australia C. II. James failed in Mel
bourne Tor ST., $50, 900.
The Northwestern overland limited
train was wrecked at Vail. Ia, and 10
persons were injured.
The reciprocity negotiations between
the United States and Germany are
practically suspended.
4 report as to the penitentiary scan-
dial in Nebraska discloses irregularities
aggregating $537, ,s71.s7.
Twenty-year-old Peter S. McA1ahon,
crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed
himself at Syracuse, NY.
In an open letter to the Federation of
Labor Secretary of the Treasury Gage
defends the gold standard.
Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford
| were blown to pieces by an explosion of
dynamite at Clearwater, n. Y.
The expectation of raw cotton from
the southern states to Japan is prac-
| tically double what it last season.
In riot during trial in the court
| house at Macarthur, O., Elijah Brown
and Plyly Teeters were fatally injured.
A number of earthquakes occurred
around Smyrna, Asia Minor, and sew
eral persons were killed and many in
jured.
The Pennsylvania republican COM
mittee has decided to hold the next
state convention at Harrisburg, June
2, 1898.
! Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged G5 years, and
Miss Mary Baird, aged so years, died
in Plainficld, n. j., from drinking wood
| alcohol.
A wreck caused by runaway freight
eral men being badly injured and 81
cars demolished.
The makers of book paper in Wis
consin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio
have formed an association to stop the
cutting of prices.
DR.. Zertucha, whose cowardly be
trayal of Gen. Maceo resulted in hi.
death, has been made mayor of Bejucal
Havana province.
The Hide and Leather bank in Chi
cago went into voluntary liquidation
and the assets were transferred to thu
Union national bank.
The Citizens bank at Oelwein, Ia, Ii
C. Sturgis & Co., proprietors, made :
voluntary assignment and closed it!
doors. Liabilities, $35,0O0.
Charles Doring, enc of the best-knowr
bandmasters in the United States anc
organizer of the famous Doring's band
died at his home in Troy, N. Y.
Rev. w. NJ. Brown, originator ant
president of the True Reformers, pow
erful organization among the negroes
of the south, died in Washington.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
President Greatly Grievea.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Thc death of
Mrs. Charles r. Miller, Of Canton, o.
4 cousin of the president, was sad
blow to both the president and Mrs.
Mckinley, with whom Mrs. Miller was
a great favorite. 1t was the first inten-
tion of President Mckinley to go to
Canton to attend the funeral but cn-
ing to pressure of public duties he
was compelled to forcgo the trip.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
Supposed to lie Lost.

Gloucester, Mass, Dec. 22.-Three
schooners of the Gloucester fishing fleet
with 49 men have been given up as lost.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
WeyIcr Prepares to Proto..

Madrid, Dec. 22:-Lieut. Gen. Weyler
is preparing to publish protest against
President McKinley's message to con-
gress. 's-..-- ..
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
Dogs KIN slnnv sh..

Webster City, Ia, Dec. Ill. G. Lin.
don' OF Clear Lake, has lost 81 500 by the
raVages OF dogs among his sheen.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
Would Save MilliOns

Washington, Dec. %. - Chairman
Loud, of the mouse committee on post
offices. has been working during the
recess on the report of the committee
on the Loud bill and has practically
completed it. He believes that the
measure will effect saving OF at leass
$1o,ooo,ooo annually and will wipe out
the enormous deficit that confron,s >
the post Office department every year.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.
The Mileage OF New Track Laid in
1897 Is 1,S04.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-The Railway Age
makes the following statement of new
railway lines built in the year 1897:
While the year 1897 has shown larger
railway earnings and better business
conditions than its immediate predeces-
sors, marked improvement in the fnan-
cial outlook did not begin early enough
in the year for the completion of many
new railway undertakings, and so it
now appears that although much con-
struction work is under way the mile
age of track actually laid is but little
greater than that for the preceding
year. The lowest point in 20 years. in
respect torailway building, was reached
in 1895, when only 1903 miles of track
were added, and 1897 has done little bet
ter. the total now reported being .sG4
miles. At the commencement of 1898
the United States will have lS4,4G4
miles Of completed railway.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
Hunter Accidcn,,IIv !

Hunter Accidentally Killed.
burlington, Ia, Dec. 21.-Parr Swain.
OF this city, is dead. He was accidental
" shot while out hunting.
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
Canadian Parlin1

Canadian Parliament Called.
Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 23.-The Canadian
parliament has been called to meet on
February 8. . I. 6: o. - 80. 49,
Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Both Houses Have Adjourned Until
, January 8.

Both Houses Have adjourned Until
- January 5.
Washington, Dec. II. - A bill was
passed in the senate yesterday appro-
priating $250,O00 for the relief of Amer
ican miners and other sufferers in the
Yukon valley in Alaska. A resolution
was adopted for holiday recess from
December is to January S.
Washington, Dec. 1S. 49, A joint reso-
luton accepting the invitation of Nor
way to participate in an international
fisheries exposition next year was
passed in the senate yesterday, also 13s
private pension bills. Resolutions on
the death Of William Steele Holman,
late representative from Indiana. were
adopted.
Washington, Dec. 20. The senate on
Saturday received and adopted the con-
ference report on the bill appropriating
$2OO,COO for the relief of miners in the
Yukon river country. The nomination
Of William Penn Nixon as collector of
customs at Chicago was confirmed.
Adjourned to January5.
Washington, Dec. 17.-In the house
yesterday a bill requiring all immi-
grants on reaching here to be able to
read or write was favorably reported,
and 4 bill was passed appropriating
$4,000 for relief of people in the
Yukon valley.
Washington, Dec. 1S. - The consider
alton of the Legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill was COM
pleted in the house yesterday, except
ing the paragraph relating to the civil
service.
Washington, Dec. 20. - The confer
encc report on the emergency relief
measure for the Klondike country was
presented and agreed to in the house on
Saturday. Adjourned to january S.
The times., 1897-07-19
THE kAIsER's IMPAIRED SIGHT
Injury to wilheim's Eye Due to
His Couceit.

New York, July 1S.-The World has
the following dispatch from London:
The injury to the kaiser's eye was the
result OF d characteristic exhibition OF
personal vanity Oh his part. He was In
formed that II would be unsafe, if not
impossible, to lower one OF the heavy
steel pole masts of the Hohenzollern, his
gigantic yacht. unless she were in dock
and under a derrick. He exclaimed that
rothing was impossible to him, and said
that III the naval engineers aboard Were
unable 10 devise means OF lowering the
mast while Jhe SHIP was afloat, he would
teach them how. Accordingly he drew
up scheme for unshipping it by means
OF hawser attached to the bow and to
the other masts.
II was while steel hawser was being
rugged up under his personal direction
that a rope snapped and the en- d struck
MIN IN the face. His eye was seriously
Injured, yet the Kaiser tore the intense
pain without flinching while in sight of
the crew. But when he withdrew TO his
own cabin he threw himself on the bed
writing in agony.
When by surgical aid he obtained some
relief he returned to the deck with his eye
bound up, and in spite of the III gings of his
Officers, he had the pole mast lowered,
doing considerable damage to the yacht
deck and rigging by the operation.
Having given this demonstration of his
divine" power he had the crew SUNNI oned
and prayer was offered up. The episode
was due TO one Of those attacks of mania
to which he is subject in midsummer
The private letter from a diplomatic
source in Berlin giving this authentic
account OF the incident says the eye is
very grayelv hurt and that it is quite
possible the Kaser's sight may be per
manently affected With a defective eye
ear, and arm, he would be the worst
MANNED ruler Europe has known for cen
turieS
The times., 1897-07-19

robe. The object thereof is plain living
Brook Farm, except that the thinking
scars upward, downward, sidewise and
inside with a thoroughness quite unknown
to the humble followers of Alcott ard
Ripley. One of the difficulties at Brook
Farm was the cultivation OF the crops,
and it is related that on one occasion,
when with much toll and tribulation W heat
fields had been brought to fruition, just
at harvest time call of the spirit
waited away all the men, Then, with
the heroic spirit of the New England
inatroD, Mrs. Bronson Alcott marshallcd
her little girls and small boy who
happened TO belong To the establishment,
brown linen sheets and clothes baskets
Wheat and the spirit are somewhat In
compatible, though spirit of both the
material and immateriaI form is much
assisted by wheat.
There will be no trouble OF that kind In
the new settlement, since the members
viii not attempt to raise anything but
particular heaven, and there is a hotel at
handy distance. The occupations pur-
sued will be first, medita ton, and next to
that, bathing The garments worn win be
Oriental however, and not OF q sort
to scanda lize the natives. There is moth
ing of the vaudeville pattern about them
They consist Of long yellow robes and
turbans. the robes ornamented with gay
colored sash.
Potta watomie settlement, or Riverside,
as 1t win be otherwise known, should be
a SUCCESS Almost anybody could make
success o: life with nothing to do but
bat the and mediate.
The times., 1897-07-19
The Tariff.

The conference work OF Messrs. Hanna
and Reed is finished, and their men of
record and detail on the committee have
received their orders, adjusted their diff
ferences, mended their breaches, and to
day win be ready TO show their Demo
cratic colleagues what precious picture
they have been able 70 paint Then the
bin win be reported to the two Houses
That VIII bring US rapidly to the clos
ing scene Of the struggle AS whole, 1t
seems apparent that the measure will come
out Of conference with nearly ali OF the
vicious additions made to 1t in the Sen
ate, and without most Of the Senatorial
amendments TO things which in the House
had been most flagranuy atrocious The
sugar schedule is partial exception. The
Compromise rates are little worse than
the House schedule, and not nearly as
viIiainous as that Of the Senate That is
ehout all that can be said for it.
Starting at the bottom OF the Ladder as
the Dingley bill, aud nsing q notch to
become Identified with the ames of
4Aidrich and Allison, il has cliInbed another
step in the conference and viii live In
history as the Hanna-Reed bill AS It
is the most stupid and colossal blunder
that the Republican party could make. yet
one which that organization S bent upon.
ii is hardly worth while for Democrats In
the Senate TO bother themselves much 10
further opposition, except that they ought
to make a determined fight for the free
list Cotton ties, bagging, and other
things. which the conference has taken
from il and subjected to duty, ought to be
restored as a mere question OF decency
TO one agricultural section, in view of
corresponding articles left free for the
benefit of others
Aside from this, there would be little
to gain from obstruction unless that could
be availed OF TO compel the Hanna Ad-
Ininistration TO DO something in the line
OF national duty 10 liberty and humanity.
TO knock the secret Cleveland Pacific
Railway deal on the head, and force acton
On several other matters OF urgency or
honor Otherwise, Democrats might as
well let the Republican death warrant be
engrossed and signed-and go home to
answer for their sins, OF which there have
tcen plenty.
The times., 1897-07-19
BARkED AT TIE MENAGER1E.
Fox Terriers Antics AInong Central
Park Wild Beasts.

New York, July Is. "A little fox terrier
wandered into the mcnagerie at Central
Park yesterday morning and started to
have some fun
He barked at the big male lion, and that
animal got up TO see what had come in SO
early to disturb his slutnbers The dog
looked tue lion fun in the face and barked
at him The lion walked up and down
the cage looking ffercely at the dog, as II
he would annihilate him. Then he roarsd
loudly, but the noise did not disconcert
the little dog st all, and, after a time, as
If fired of daring the lions and tigers and
leopards to come out and fight, he walked
calmly away.
Next he got in front OF the hippopataml
He stopped short as he saw the head OF
one OF the big fellow against the cage
He walked up close TO the cage and barked
a loud bark tight into the place where
he thought the ear of an ordinary animal
ought TO be. The animal got up in
hurry. When ne saw thathe had been dis
turbed by a little thing like the object
he saw before him he was apparently
angry. Two others OF his kind joined him
They che sed the misehievous animal up
and down the edge OF the cage. 1t actually
seemed rs ~ the dog was plaguiug them,
as when they had all got to one end of
the cage, following the dog as If they
expected to get him at that end OF
their prison. the willy terrier would inn
mediately hurry himself TO the other end,
barking aggIavatingly.
Then he trotted off. and, after lots
of fun soaring the IA abhits, he strolled to the
bears den.
In half minute he was teasing the life
ont OF the bears. He had them allclim bing
I'D and down the stills an rocks and stairs
OF their cage, falling over one another and
getting into quarrels among themselves
as they tried toclimb up the same ladder or
stilt. at tire same time, TO get at their
little torn entor.
Keeper Snyder heard the racket got his
gun, and found the terrier on top Of the
ledge OF rock behind the bear cage. The
fuacral was held Yesterday afternoon.
The times., 1897-07-19
REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS.
Admirable Qualifications of the APP
poiptee. Mr.. Thoryaid SoIberp.

AuH1ifuBic QuaHftcutlOuS OF the Ap.
pointee, Mr.. Thorvald Solberg.
Mr.. Thoryald Solberg, of Boston, has
been appointed register of copyrights
Librarian John Russell Young notified him
Of his selection on Saturday, and today Mr.
Solberg wired his acceptance, and stated
that he would take charge Of the depart
ment on Tuesday morning. There Were
large number OF applications for this posi-
ton which, next to that or the chief as
sistant librarian, Is the most important
place on the staff of the new Library
Mr.. Spofford Is the chief assistant and Mr.
HutCheson has been made superintendent of
the reading room. With Mr. Solberg as
head of the Copyright, or business depart
ment OF the Library, Mr.. Young has Sc
cured three men specially qualified for
their respective positions
Mr.. Bolberg Is d native American cit
izen. He was born in Wisconsin in 1852.
For thirteen years he was employed In
the Congressional Library, and eight years
since was picked out ny the Boston Book
Company assthe best man in the country
to take cha rye or one OF their most i'm
portant departments. He Is now at its
head. and the president of the company
wrote TO Librarian Young that Mr.. Sol
berg "has shown rare intelligence, tact
method and organizing ability Similar
letters and teIegrams Were sent by the
Authors Copyright League. the Century
Company, Harper Brothers d. Appleton &
Co. and other leading publishing houses
strongly urging Mr.. soIberg's appointment
The pressure for the place was very
eleven or whom were evidently highly
fitted to discharge the duties of the Of
flee. All possessed influence and 1t was
a matter of difficulty 10 make the proper
choice. Mr.. Young determined that merit
alone should decide him. He was very
much impressed by q treatise OR copyright
law and the duties OF register which ac-
compant cd Mr.. Solberg's application
With this paper were copies OF a uum-
ber or articles Mr. Solberg had written
on copyriebt sub jects for foreign and
domestic publication His views were
expressed 50 clearly and in such excellent
English. and showed such tn orough
knowledge of what was wanted at the
head OF the registers office and In It's
conduct. that Mr.. Young sent for Mr.
SoIberg for personal interview.
This confirmed him In his impression Of
the ran. whom he had never seen. but who
from his own writings and the letters OF
leading publishers he Thought was the
applicant best fitted for the position
The appointment was made on Satur
day, and on Tuesday Mr. Solbarg win
take charge OF his department He Will
superintend the fitting mp OF the rooms
In the new Library tn be occuv,ied nv the
copyright force. The business thereof will
be removed from the old Library at the
earliest practical moment
The times., 1897-07-19
Wheat PROSPECTS,.

As FAR as wheat is concerned, there ap-
pears to be a little ray OF hope for the
farmer, during the next tweivemonth. Dis
covery Of a shortage in the worlds crop
last autumn helped out our agriculture,
through some small improvement in farm
prices, but more by using up aecumula-
ticns, and so bringing demand nearer TO
tkeiine of supply than IL has approximated
for decade at least This is encourag-
ing, and tending to put little life into
an interest that has been all but ground
tC destruction between the I1illstones OF
gold TponometalIism, and, hence, falling
prices, ana an advancing competition from
wheat-producing countries in all parts OF
the world
Incidentally, the situation is prophetic,
of a great improvement in our ability TO
reach correct information regarding area.
yield, stocks in reserve, stocks in the hands
of farmers, and many other factors neces-
sary TO an accurate statistical under
standing OF the conditions and prospects
of the national wheat interest at any
given time. The prospect that the export
demand of the coming year will equal or
exceed the exportable surplus, after pro-
viding for domestic consumption and seed,
should afford ground for believing that
statisticians Of the subject will be able
TO Teauange their bases OF calculation on
a practically clear deck, and with the
chance of reaching more satisfactory
statistical results than has been possible
in the past. Current conditions in this
respect Fortunately coincide with thor
oagh reform OF the Agricultural Depart
ment's statistical service, under chief
who is without a superior as an agri-
cultural s.atistician. We shall, there
fore, expect to witness the disappearance
OF these discrepancies between depart
mental and outside commercial esti-
mates and deductions, and a proper and
harmonious correlation OF all important
statistical work under the leadership of
the Government
One OF the first things that should
The times., 1897-07-19

be done would he TO call together IN
some way the leading and accepted an
thorit,es on wheat production in It's rela-
ton TO domestic consumption, and at
tempt to figure ont new and generally
acceptable basis of wheat consumption per
capita. We still are figuring on a per
capita consumption OF 465 bushels for the
whole United States, which was assumed
by the department decade or more ago.
We are satisfied that this arbitrary
bass is not correct, and so, we think, are
the leading economists of the country;
but there is not any other OF sufficiently
universal acceptation to substitute for It,
Agreement upon this point would do much
toward placing investigators and reporters
upon safe ground in attempting to pre-
scut statistical situation satisfactory
TO the various elements Interested
According to the chief European wheat
authority, the current crop in the United
Kingdom and on the Continent will be
from 96,o00,00o to 120,oG0,00o bushels
less than it yielded last year The crop
of the United States is estimated by the
Department of Agriculture at 450, ,000,-
600, a figure much below any reported
by .ou tside ssatisti clans. If depart
ment fiEutes are correct, there should
follow an actual shortage OF exportable
surplus. Brtdstreet's, which under past
conditions of statistical organization in
the department, has been both critical and
increduious respecting Government esti-
mates ana data, places the crop approx
matelY at $50 100000 bushels, and on
that basis argues, allowing for present
avail able supply, visible and invisible
for hone and foreign demands for the
next twelve months, $4,000 600 bushels
On the official estimate OF per capita
consumption we shall need 325 100000
bushels for domestic food supply; and We
shall require about $4,000, 900 bushels for
seed This wouIdleave I61 ,0o0, ,000bushels
eADUfl- past year
our wheat exports have aggregated 146,-
o0o,0oo bushels, and this year, with the
prospect of much better demand, due to
crop shortages and failures else where, our
whole exporfable surplus ought To be alb
sorbed and at living prices. If it should
prove later, tnat the department estimate
is correct, and those OF Bradstreet and
others wrong, then the exportable surplus
would appear TO be far within 100 100000
bushels, and that, We believe, would not
nearly meet the demand
There would be solid satisfaction for
once, in a way. TO see the American farmer
facing an active demand and a remunera-
tive price for his wheat Perhaps it may
happen during the ensuing year,
The times., 1897-07-19
Hanna in n New Role.

To the Editor OF The Times:
''Uncle Moses" said a Republican poll
tician TO an aged coiored voter, Il hope
yon will vote for Mr.. Mckinley. He is a
good Christian gentleman. and a good
friend OF the laboring mantle colored
workingman in particular; in favor OF
living wages and sound money"
''Well, boss, l suppose what you say
about Mr. Mckinley am tIse truth; that IN.
is good Christian, an d that he viii be
kind to the caloIed folks-gfve US plenty
of work, good pay, aud good money, but
/ don't like those bad stories they tell
about his wife, Hanna"
Uncle Mosesis onlyoneo OF many Thousands
who don't like those bad stories about his
wife. Hanuat" And What makes the mat
ter worse, the ''bad stories are all true
He is the political wife" Of the present
Administration, possessing the same arl-
bition, lust for power, and opulence that
the would be queen was to Macbeth
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