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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
Florida ship CanaI.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem.)

1t is estimated that 2o0-foot ship route
through Florida would cost about $40. 0OO =
0OO That sum is almost a third as large
again as the price paid by the great COM
mercial commonwealth of New York for
its Erie canal. 1t is good deal of money,
but the Florida canal would prove a de-
cided benefit to the maritime interests of
the Gulf. which with the rapidly increas-
ing export trade of Texas. Louisiana and
Alabama are bound 70 be of the first
magnitude.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

Ut is inconceivable how any such para
graph as this, which we find in the An
gusta Herald, could find its way into a
sane and intelligent newspaper: "Savan-
nah is threatened with yellow fever, and
so Mayor Meldrim is very properly con-
sidering a quarantine" The statement is
not only asinine, but the publication of it
indicates a spirit of reeklessness which
has no place in respectable journalism
Savannah is no more Threatened with
yellow fever than Augusta is.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

The governor is forced to the acknow.-
edgement that offering rewards for the
arrest and conviction of lynchers is
practically valueless as a means to the
end of bringing lynchers to justice. Not
withstanding he has offered thousands of
dollars in such rewards, not a dollar of
the amount has been earned or claimed
The reward system now having been prov
en- a failure, it devolves upon the authori-
ties to devise some other method of meet
ing the emergency Some of the states
are trying the plan of holding sheriffs re-
sponsible for the safety of prisoners in
their custody and of depriving of office
the sheriff who permits one of his pris-
oners to be lynched We believe there is
such law in South Carolina, and, when
we come to think of it, there have been
few lynchings in South Carolina lately
II sheriffs and constables were made to
know that they would suffer if they per-
mitted a prisoner to be lynched, there
would probably be an immediate dlmnu-
ton in the number of lynchings.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

There is said to be some doubt as to
whether or not Fitzhugh Lee viii return
10 Havana as consul general of this gov
eminent in Cuba. If the situation is stin
critical and there is need for brains,
courage and true Americanism, Gen. Lee
will be returned If the crisis is past and
all danger averted, then the office may be
turned over TO some republican politician.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
The tennessee Boundry.
From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.)

The boundary question between Tennes-
see and the three states south of her, is
one Of long standing. 1t has not been seri-
ously discussed. however, since the remov-
al of the Cherokees. sixty years ago. OF
course, no matter where the old line ran,
as between the state of Georgia and the
western territory of North Carolina, the
line, as it has been recognized for a hun
dred years. Is there to stay, between Ten
nessee and her southern neighbors.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

The Washington Post observes: Rep
resentative Livingston says there is no
prosperity in Georgia. Why does Georgia
limp behind the procession? Georgia used
TO pride herself on her progressiveness.' -
Pshaw. the Post cannot appreciate wit.
The representative said there was no
prosperity in Georgia" in the same spirit
that the young woman said of the saucer
Of ice cream that she "didn't do thing 10
IT,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

Has not the government of Spain, it its
own act, recognized the belligerency of
the Cuban insurgents? The other day,
according to the authorized dispatches
from Madrid there was an exchange of
prisoners of war at Las Tunas. between
the Spaniards and the Cubans. Would a
great, strong, organized government ex-
change prisoners with a parcel of rioters?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

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The WEEKLY NEWS. . issues a week.
Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year.
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senders.
Transient advertisements. other than
special column, local or reading notices,
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EASTERN OFFICE, % Park Row, New
York city, c. S. Faulkner, Manager.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

A new woman, aged 80. is a candidate
for chief of police of the city of Denver.
She says Denver is very wicked city.
and that If elected she will reform it.
Other women may play hearts and dia-
monds, if they please; this woman pro-
poses to try clubs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

A Brooklyn lawyer, it is said, has in
vented bicycle which runs easily and
smoothly although gesred to $50 inches
1t has not been ytr published whether
he will be made mayor of Greater New
York. sent to the federal Senate or
honored with a monument and an annuity
Of 81 100000,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
The Tariff Is So Much Worse!
From the PHILADELPHIA Press (Rep).

Southern democratic newspapers con-
tinue to denounce the north because of
the tariff, but no northern paper has
yet been found TO denounce the south
because she threatens to give the rest
of the country the yellow fever.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

Georgia does not want Chattanooga.
The part Of Tennessee that it bankers
for is Lincoln county. That is where they
brew a liquor that makes a poor house in
mate five times millionaire.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

The admission of the first colored woman
to the practice of law took place at Mem
phis, Tenn, and not at Boston, Mass.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

Presently the number of Andree pigeons
captured will be greater than the number
of twigs cut from that Appomattox apple
tree
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15

From a Chicago Point of View.
From the Chicago Times-Herald Qnd.).
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

In the South, Not New England.
From the Washington Post Qnd.).
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
RIBBONS FOR THE ASKING.

Ribbons in all the beautiful shades at
25c for this week only.
Baby Caps in great variety, all fresh
and clean, at your own price.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
The MORNING NEWS IS ppbllshed

Registered at the postofice in savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
THE BALANCE
AT YOUR FIGURES.

Ladies' Shirt Waists-You know what II
means at this season of the year No use
to quote prices. We only have few left
and you can have them at bargain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-15
SUNDRlES For TIE T0ILET.

Tar Soap 1Sc, Cuticura Soap tic, Cash
mere Bouquet 23c, Tapco sc, Sheffield
Tooth Powder 19c, Murray e. Lanman
Florida Water SIC, Best Florida Water
&c, Michalson's West India Bay Rum
22e, Mchalson's Double Distilled Bay
Rum Sc bottle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
First publication, Jan. 7, 1897.
OTATE OF WISCONSIN, County

OCourt for KenOsha County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a regular term
of the County Court, to be held in and for said
County. at the County Court Room, in the City
of KenOsha, in said county, on the first Tues
day, being the second day of February. A. d.
1897, at 10 o'clock A. M, the following matters
will be heard and considered:
In the matter of the last will and testament
of Joseph Hunter deceased.
The application of Alexander Bailey. eXecu-
tor, to admit to probate the last Will and tes-
lament of Joseph Hunter, late of the town of
Salem in said county, deceased.
In the matter of the last will and testament
of William Yule, deceased
The application of Mary Yule, eXecutrix, for
the examination and allowance of her final
account as eXecutrix of the last will of William
Yule, late of the town OF SomerS, in said
county, deceased, and for the assignment and
distribution of the residue OF the estate of said
deceased.
In the matter of the last will and testament
Of Harriet P. Strong, deceased.
The application of David H. Flett, executor
for the examination and allowance of his final
account as executor of the last will and tes-
lament Of Harriet Z. Strong, late or the town
of Somers in said county, deceased, and for
the assignment and distribution of the residue
of the estate of said deceased.
In the matter OF the estate of Helena M
Gibbs, deceased.
The petition of Geo. T. Gibbs, of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, praying for the judgment of this
Court finding and determining who are all the
heirs of the said Helena M. Gibbs, deceased,
and of the said Oliver Gibbs, deceased, and
what are the respective rights and interests of
the parties in the title of the said Helena NJ.
Gibbs, deceased, and Oliver Gibbs, deceased, in
such lands as are fully described in said petit
tion, and naming the persons entitled to the
interests therein and the part to which each
is entitled.
BY Order of the Court
ANTHONY VAN WICK. County Judge.
Dated January 9th, A. D. 1897. 81
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
Payne or Hoard. Which?

The question which is agitating Wis
consin politicians just now is: Will
Henry G.. Payne be turned down agalnY
1t has been a general impression IN
political circles that Mr.. Payne is
slated for place in President Mckin-
ley's cabinet. 1t is fact, nevertheless,
that ex-Gov. Hoard and his friends are
making vigorous fight, and are
bringing pressure to bear from all sec
tons of the country in the ex-goyern-
or's behalf He is being urged for sec
rotary of agriculture, and his indorse-
ments for this place are very strong. 1t
is conceded that the president cannot
fill two places in his cabinet with men
from one state, and he will consequent
ly be compelled to choose between
Payne and Hoard. If Payne is again
beaten, it will be a case Of history re-
peating itself, as it was under similar
conditions that Harrison threw Payne
over and placed Jeremiah Rusk at the
head of the agricultural department.
Mr.. Payne has been, from a partisan
standpoint, of very much greater serv-
ice in making the campaign than was
Mr.. Hoard. Mr.. Mckinley may, there
fore, be said to owe more to Payne
than Hoard. But the same thing was
more or less true of Harrison's cam
paign in the matter of a comparison
between Payne and Rusk.
Mr.. Payne stands closer to the adj
ministration than does Hoard, the
friendship between him and Mr.. Hanna
is strong, but that may not count. SO
it is interesting to speculate as to which
it is to be.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

WE know it is common form OF
pessimism these days so impute wrong
motives and sinister actions to all OF
humanity, but it seems to us people
who do that get some severe setbacks
in such cases as the suicides of bankers
Wasmansdorff and W. A. Hammond,
both of Chicago, who preferred to die
because they feared their good names
were lost and their honest business
methods impugneG in the recent Chi
cago bank failures. They teach the
world a severe lesson in the plainest OF
common honesty. They placed the
highest value on righteousness, con-
denim them though we may for their
final deeds. They press home the
lesson, too little needed by the Ameri-
can people, that there is value in char
acter above price.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
MAY STOP RACING.
The State Legislature Expects to Act This
Winter.

The State Legislature Expects to Act This
Winter
While the Wisconsin legislature is in
session this winter a determined eff
fort is to be made to put stop to rae
ing in this state. Milwaukee, because
of the recent reign of the poolrooms
there, is decidedly opposed to the game,
it's followers and consequences, and
the influences that will be brought to
bear will come chiefly from that city.
Whether these influences will succeed
depends upon the influence that the
State Park Jockey club Of Milwaukee
and the Ideal Park Racing association
may have.
The success of the State Park Jockey
club in escaping legislation led the
Ideal Park Racing association to es-
tablish just across the state line, and a
successful meeting was run there last
fall. Had Wisconsin's experience
with the racing game ended with the
Ideal Park meeting, it is probable no
attempt would be made this winter to
stop it, But as soon as Ideal Park
closed, three poolrooms opened in Mil
waukee and ran for several weeks.
Their presence kept the young men of
the Cream City continually broke, and
brought to the city all of the cheap
touts and followers who make a living
by what they are able to pick up from
the unsophisticated. Finally the po-
lice of Milwaukee closed all three
rooms, but the determination on the
part of reputable citizens to check
racing before it's abuses got the firm
footing they once had in Chicago, was
firmly rooted, and as soon as the Wis
consin legislature meets it will be in
evidence.
The Ideal Park Racing association
evidently does not feel there will be
legislation putting an end to racing in
the Badger state. Secretary Martin
Nathanson has announced nineteen
stakes for next year, aggregating in
value $26,500 and ranging in value
from $1,000 to $4,000. The circular
which announces the stakes, states that
the meeting last year, which ran from
August %, to November %, was con-
tinued at the request of the horsemen
who raced there, and the language of
the circular following gives impression
that a meeting equally as long as that
of '96, and perhaps longer, will be con-
Quoted in 1897 The stabling room is
to be doubled, the infeld leveled and
grassed, and large number of cottages
and kitchens for the comfort and con-
veniences of horsemen added, and the
course and stands are to be improved
as we'll This looks very much as
though the Ideal people were confident
of being in existence after this winters
meeting of the Wisconsin legislature.
None of those connected with the
Ideal Park Racing association care
to talk on what the Wisconsin legis-
lature may do. AS has been stated,
however, the association very likely
fears nothing from the lawmakers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

On. for war correspondent What
is the matter with this generation that
it does not produce one? Here it has
been month or more since the re-
ported death of MaceO and there has
has not yet been an authentic report
of the truth of the matter one way OF
the other since. Do you suppose such
time could have elapsed after so i'm
portant an event in our late war with
out the worlds knowing the truth
Not a week even. But today we not
only have no reliable information, but
there seems to be no striving to get it.
is present day newspaper enterprise
content with the publication of one
side of a story from unreliable sources
one day and denial upon equally rid
Jealous authority the next?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

THE fact most strongly brought out
by the first week Of the tariff hearings
before the house ways and means COM
mittee is that, taken as whole, the
men who have appeared before the
committee have taken common sense
business view of the tariff, and have
asked for nothing that could not be
granted without violating the an
nounced intention of the committee to
make a moderate tariff bill just
enough protection to give our own
manufacturers, producers and working
men the first call on the American
market, admittedly the best in the
world. Needless to say that Chairman
Dingley and his republican colleagues
on the committee are pleased with the
hearing as far as they have gone. IT
would have been a waste of time fol-
anybody to have asked unreasonable
things, but it is none the less pleasing
that they have not done so.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
TO MAKE INSURANCE SAFER.
Codifcation of All Insurance Laws in This
State TO Protect Policy Holders.

Codiication of All Insurance Laws in This
State TO Protect Policy Holders.
! The codifcation and revision of the
insurance laws of Wisconsin by COM
mission appointed by the governor is
completed and will be recommended to
the legislature for passage. 1t con-
tains some important clauses. One OF
them compels all life companies which
pay annuities covering one year or a
period of years to deposit with the
state treasurer the full amount of the
annuities. 1t is also provided that in
life insurance policies the statements OF
an applicant shall be merely taken as
representations, not as warranties.
The proposed law provides also for a
reserve fund from which all flexible
premium companies can increase pre-
miums without the knowledge of their
policy holders, and it also requires that
all assessment companies have printed
on the back of their policies their con-
stitution and bylaws in full and not
partially, as is done now. The policy
holder is bound only by the plain pro-
visions of the policy. If company
shall not pay death or any other loss
within sixty days from the demise Of
the insured, the insurance commissioner
is empowered to levy an assessment tc
meet the loss and has the right to de-
mand the appointment of a receiver fol
the company. In the case of a foreign
company he has the power to revoke
it's license at once for failure to comply
with these requirements. The state
charter of any mutual life insurance
company will be declared forfeited if il
pays commissions in excess of the ex.
pense part of the policy for two years
The law provides for the state mar.
shall; which office shall be held by TIT
insurance commissioner, who will, il
this capacity, be empowered to inves
tigate all the suspicious fires and thu
entire force of the insurance commits
sioner's office is placed under civi
service rules. There is clause Which
abolishes the 80 per cent. co-insuranc,
clause. Any company which insist
on placing this clause in its policie
will forfeit it's license to do business il
the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

Mr.. CLEVELAND may or may not
send the special message to congress
on Cuban affairs, which report says he
has prepared during the recess, but his
action in ordering the cruiser Vesuv-
Jus and the dispatch boat Dolphin to
proceed to Florida waters and join the
United States vessels already there in
preventing fillibustering, is a notItlca-
tlon to congress that the administra-
ton has not in the slightest changed
its attitude toward Cuba. ConserVa-
tive men IN the senate will endeavor
to privately argue with those senators
who are regarded as likely to make
incendiary speeches on the Cameron
resolution, in order to have them mol
speak at all, or at any rate If they dc
speak, not to use language calculated
to excite the country. There is nc
question that the conservative men II
both branches Of congress, regardless
of their personal opinion about Wha
should ultimately be done by this gov
eminent, believe that as long as th'
matter has been allowed to stand III
to this time, it will be wisest to leave i
Enacted upon until the change of ad
ministration. And it is our opinion
that whatever the senate may do, thu
house will take this view of the matte
and will do nothing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

THE custom of new year resolutions
seems to be an antiquated one. There
are few who are disposed this year to
resort to the time honored means OF
moral, mental and physical improve
ment. Perhaps the weather is not
conducive to righteous state of mind.
or maybe the great lot of contracts on
hand from past years is little dis
couraging. Whatever the cause it is
certain that good resolutions have been
given the marble heart.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07

WHILE republicans in congress have
nothing but good wishes to express
toward the trip Senator Wolcott has
undertaken for the purpose of ascer-
tanning what is thought in Europe OF
the proposed effort to bring about in
ternational bimetaliSm, which the
present congress will authorize, and
which will be made early in the ad
ministration of President Mckinley,
they do not wish the statement to 60
uncontradicted that Senator Wolcott
went upon this GRAND at the request of
the republican caucus committee OF
which he is chairman, or of President
elect Mckinley. This contradiction
can best be given in Senator WOlcott's
own words: am going solely at the
request of the Bimetallic league to ex-
anime into the general sentiment on
the subject throughout the world, and
report to the league. | go informally
and unoficially, and | deprecate any
publication which intimates anything
else. The league desires to know be-
fore the extra session of congress is
called, exactly what the situation is.
I expect to be able to return and make
my report within two months. I can
not say what my course will be abroad,
except that will first consult with the
Bimetallic league OF Great Britain. F"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
THEY DIVIDED 5000.
The Fire Department Trustees Hold Their
Quarterly Injecting.


The quarterly meeting of the trustees
of the fire department took place Mon
day evening. The regular business
was transacted, viz: the distribution
of the 5000 gotten from the insurance
premiums and the interest of ST. 900.
Instead of dividing according TO de-
partments, as had been customary, it
was decided to make the division &C
cording to the individuals. This
brought out an amusing factwith refer
ence to the north side company. It
seems that this company, supposing the
division would be by departments as
before, had made regulations that no
members of the company but those of
at least two years standing should
draw a dividend. AS there were only
three such in the company this rule
would bring them about $50 each.
But their plans were most cruelty upset
by the new regulations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
Your Bones Ache.

Your joints are stiff, your appetite
poor, your nights restless, your ambi-
ton gone, your liver is affected, your
remedy is DR.. Rays Celebrated Liver
T. For sale by Woodward &c Conley,
Starkweather & Co., c. 81. Hurd and
Hackley's Corner Drug Store. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1897.
a WINTER fog will freeze an In
dams dog, " the Indians say.

THE Racine News never loses an OPP
portunity to speak slightingly of Ke-
nosha. We really did not think that
Racine was so overwhelmingly jealous
of Kenosha's prosperity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-07
ONLY ONE s

The price of the TELEGRAPH CoUR-
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ment to increase our circulation. We
want to reach the 5000 mark before
July LIST. $I.oo, Strictly in Advance,
buys the TELEGRAPH COURIER for
one year. This offer will continue
open until further notice. If