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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
News from Cuba,

Passengers from Havana say that through
the efforts Of Consul General Lee, Ora
Melton, who has been confined in Cabanas
for more than year, was released Mon
day; also that Jose Fernandez and G. w.
Aguirre, the latter brother of the insur-
gent general, Aguirre, will be released in
a day or two.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Rome Regulates Weyler.

Rome repudiates Weyler's deprecated
paper currency by refusing through the
bishop Of Havana and the parish priests
to accept the new ''shin plasters" in pay
ment for baptismal and marriage or burial
permits, and also when offered by the gov
eminent in payment OF their salaries.
Even the masses must be paid for in gold
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Peace in South Anne

Peace in South America.
Il IL understood that the governmentsof
Chilli and Brazil have entered into an alli-
Ance with view Of guaranteeing the MAIN
tepanco Of peace in South America.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
CAPTURED ev THE cuBANs.

important Town in Santiago de Cuba
Taken by Insurgents.
News comes from Havana to the effect
that the insurgents have captured the port
of Baracca, an important town in Santiago
de Cuba, after a strong encounter. The
Spaniards had heavy losses and retreated.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Court House DESTROYED.

The Pennington County court house at
Rapid City was almost entirely destroyed
by fire last week. The building cost Sl8.-
600 and was insured for $4,000, equally di-
vided among ten companies. All the
county records were saved by the vaults.
Court papers on file in suits now pending
were destroyed.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Supposed to Have Suicided.

0uppOBeU 10 have Su1C1ueU.
John 8. Sheldon, an old and wealthy res
Aent Of Lodi, ILL.,, proprietor of the Shell
don Bank, disappeared from the fremont
House, Chicago, Friday last and is sup
posed to have committed suicide by Jump
ing into the lake, as no trace of him can be
1iscOYered.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Four Italians Killed.

Four Italians were killed by an explo-
sion of gas in mine No. at Blockton, Ala,
Monday morning. The victims belonged
to gang of thirty men, who were working
1,eOO feet below the surface.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Japa.esc sharp at Bargains.

With few exceptions even those Jap
anese who prove estimable and high.
minded In all other matters are not
considered trustworthy in business
transa ctiens. In Japan the man who
fails to take advantage of his neighbor
In bargain is looked upon as fool.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
An Earthquake shock.

a severe earthquake shock was felt at
Cair0, H., at exactly 10 O'Clock Sunday
night. It consisted Of two distinct move
enfs from east to west, lasting about
Weaty seconds. The largest structures
s1ere shaken with swaying motion and
noople rushed in terror to the streets. No
damage has been reported.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29

In the mountains 0f Sweden, Norway
and Lapland all vegetation would be
destroyed BY the Norway rats were II
not for the white foxes, that make spe.
cial game Of the rodents.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Mexican Naval school.

President Diaz of Mexico has issued q
decree establishing naval school at Vera
Cruz, in July next. Youths desiring to
enter the navy or adopt careers as pilots or
marine engineers will be entered.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
New Fire Insurance.

The Commercial Mutual Fire Association
Of Mitchell has filed articles with the state
insurance department and has been granted
authority to transact business in the state
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Corn for India.

A union mass meeting called at Madison
Sunday by Rev. Mr.. Jenkins, subscribed
$50 bushels Of corn for India's famine suf-
ferers. Tuesday 1000 bushels were raised
and two carloads ordered shipped to catch
the relief boat from New York early in
Nav.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Duchess Of York Not Dead.

A rumor was widely circulated the other
day that the Duchess of York. wife of the
heir presumptive to the British throne, had
died during confinement. An investiga-
ton showed the report was unfounded.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29

A dispatch from Hecla says that y. D.
Heath, treasurer Of Portage school town.
ship, has decamped with 500 OF schooi
funds. A letter was received from MN:
da.ed st. PaEt, in which he threatenec
suicide.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29

Weekly Bank Statement.
The weekly statement shows reserve
increase Of $2,2Sl 900. The banks hold
as, 258, goo In excess Of legal requirements.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
Detective Fatally Wounded.

OCCeCCtVG F0CAIIy WOUnUeU.
Charles Mahony, a government detectiSe
from Windsor, Ont, was shot and fatally
wounded Sunday while trying to capture a
pair of negro robbers at Belle River, Ont.
One of the negroes was seriously wounded.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-29
YELLOW FEVER IN NEW YORK

Dies in a Hospital.
Otis e. Bullock Of Haverhill, Mass,
aged q years, died of malignant yellow
fever at Swinburne Island Hospital, New
York. Bullock had accompanied party
of naturalists to Central America. He was
a passenger on the Columbian line steam
ship Finance from Panama. On the
steamers arrival at quarantine he was re-
moved to Swinburne Island, where he died
a few hours later.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
WOMEN LEAD THE WAY.
Improvements In New York City Due tc
Their Active Work.

Improvements In New York City Due to
Their Active Work.
The Woman's Health Protective asso-
citation of New York has for it's object
the suppression of nuisances which are
detrimental to health and society, and
it has already accomplished much in
this work. At session of the conven-
ton of the Health Protective association
in New York Mayor Strong, who was
presiding, said: 81 have frequently said
to myself, What would this city be
without its good women?
From the moment the women took
hold improvement began.
"The improvement of the charitable
institutions is owing to the women Of
our city, as we'll as the separating Of
the Charities and Corrections, the i'm
provement of the Tombs and the ap-
preparation of $1,000 to improve the
almshouses. The foundations of all
these great works were laid by the good
women of the city of New York.
Foreigners coming to our city now
speak of it as the cleanest city of the
world, and that it is SO and that so
much other good work has been accom-
plished and projected are due to the
energy and example of the Woman 9
Health Protective association.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
ADVERTISING A TOWN.
The Good Points of Community Should
BE Clearly Stated.

The Good Points of a Community Should
BE Clearly Stated.
Advertising town is always an in
teresting problem, says Printers Ink.
In small town which possesses good
natural and other advantages it is diff
cult to do this properly, owing to lack
of means and organization. The citizens
of Clinton, S. c., have organized bust
ness league to attract settlers to their
town and have issued an inexpensive
but interesting folder giving "Some
Interesting Facts About Clinton. From
this folder we infer that Clinton would
be good place for any man to settle in
except doctor.
The circular says that at this time
there is not single inhabitant sick in
bed, and the large orphan asylum locat-
ed there has not had death in ten
years. The good points about Clinton
are clearly and convincingly stated. We
have no means of knowing how these
folders are circulated nor what results
they bring. The circular gives the name
of the chairman of the league and states
that he will be glad to correspond with
any one interested. If this folder is en-
ergetically followed up, it ought to
bring good results.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09

In many places there are long tunnels
through the rock, and in others the
mark of the blasting drill where the rock
has been torn from the face Of the cliff
is to be seen fully so feet above the
road.
This is one of the moststupendous
specimens Of modern roadbuilding in
Europe, but something hardly less diff
cult and expensive is the road now in
course of construction by the Swiss gov
eminent from the Rhone glacier over
the Grimsel pass to the lake of Brienz.
The road is already completed from
Meiringen to Handbag falls, perhaps 5
miles-as fine and difficult specimen
of macadam as can be found anywhere
and from Handegg to Rhone glacier
hundreds OF men are at work cutting
their way through the rock, over barren
SUBMITS which are always in or above
the clouds whenever clouds are in the
sky.
With the object lessons in roadbuild-
ing which Europe presents, why should
not public sentiment in this country be
appealed to through every medium in
favor Of good roads? What Europe has
done in the last century America may
do i'll the next. The obstacles of cost
and magnificent distances" will look
less formidable as we approach them.
In the state of New York alone, outside
of villages and cities, more than S.
900, 900 is expended annually in the
so called repair and construction of
roads. The most of this immense sum
is thrown away. Expended under the
direction Of competent engineers, it
would build from 600 to 800 miles of
the best macadam pavement.
At this rate how many years would
it take to embalm Macadam and Telford
and all their wisdom under every high
way and cOwpath in the state of New
York? And the increased value Of farms
brought nearer to market in wet weather
rs well as dry, the saving of time and
wear and tear On men and horses and
wagons, would more than offset the en-
tire cost And why should not the state
prisons be opened and the convicts
taught bodybuilding on the European
plan? Superintendent Lathrop reports
that over 1000 prisoners are still out of
employment. What worthier work could
be given them than the building of good
roads9
The agitation for good roads should
not be confined to the several states.
Persistent appeals should be made to
the general government. Congress has Il
special warrant under the constitution
to build roads. In 1896 an act of COLI
gress authorized a national road from
Baltimore to the west. 1t was built for
$50 miles, so feet wide, with broken
stone 80 feet i'll width, on a stone foun-
dalton, through Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois Though out of repair, it is still
good road. 1t ought to be extended at
least to the Missouri river, and th5
states through which it passes should
build their macadam systems into this
great national artery stretching across
the continent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
The James Clark DXti||ing Company,
Cumberland, MARYLAND.
Talk 1t over.


I have learned some things in the
course of long business life and still
have great many others to learn.
But the chief thing have learned
can be condensed into one nugget Of
wisdom in three words, Talk it over.
If thy business enemy offend thee,
don't smite him on the cheek. Take
him by the buttonhole in friendly
manner and talk it over.
Some one tells you that Smith, down
the street, has said or done something
to your detriment. Perhaps he has, and
perhaps he has not. If he has, your best
policy is to prevent his repeating his re-
mark or deed in the future. If he has
not, you don't want to do him an injus-
tice, even in your own mind.
Put on your hat. leave your temper
at home, go down and make friendly
call. Be neighborly, frank, open. Tell
him the truth and ask him for equal
frankness. Nine hundred and ninety
nine times out Of a thousand the whole
matter will be explained and straight
'ened out in five minutes, and you will
part as personal friends rather than as
personal and business enemies. You
will both feel better, you will live side
by side i'll harmony; the earth will be
brighter, the sunshine clearer, your own
heart lighter and mankind take on a
more friendly aspect. Don't get mad
and rush to your desk and send scorch-
ing letter; be man and a Christian
and go yourself.
Talk it over Hardware.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
EUROPE'S HIGHWAYS
SPLENDID SPECIMENS OF THE ROAD
BUILDERS pET.

Object Lessons of the Value of Good Roads.
Built For Pleasure Well Utility.
Much of Our Labor and Money Expended
on Roads Is Wasted.
To the advocates of good roads the
progress made in Europe is full of en-
enlargement. 1t was about 1920 before
Macadam was able to arouse Scotch and
English sentiment i'll favor of his prof
cct He had no army OF wheelmen at
his back to encourage him and to com
pei the public to listen, but wherever
a mile of macadam road was built the
sharp contrast between it and the
wretched roads about it compelled pub
lie attention and approval. TClfOrd, the
Scotch engineer, turned aside from his
great engineering projects and gave the
movement his powerful support. In less
than 80 years the gospel of good roads
was spread not only throughout Great
Britain, but through all the settled dis
tricts on the continent. Now good roads
of the maCadam or telfOrd type are
everywhere writes G. NJ Dickinson i'll
Home Magazine Every day i'll the year
the peasant farmer of Europe can haul
to market as heavy load as he can
draw across his thrashing floor. He
makes one trip instead Of two or three.
There is no mud, no stone working up
to the surface. His beast of burden am
bles along easily instead of the fret and
strain from stone and rut and wabbling
wagon and would doubtless sing his
masters praise if he had the power Of
speech given to the beast ridden by
Balaam.
Nor is the good roads movement in
Europe confined to highways that are
strictly necessary 1t is as contagious as
measles. The governments are taking it
up and building expensive roads, which
must be largely for the special delight
of tourists A splendid road has just
been finished from Sorrento, Italy, to
Salerno, fully 80 miles. Except for a
few inconsidorable villages it runs
along the rocky and uninhabitable coast
of the gulf of Salerno, and much of
the road is cut through the almost per-
pendicular limestone cliffs that rise
from l, GOO to 1900 feet above the sea.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
Questions For Young Men.

If you have any ambition to bear
yourself we'll, to succeed in life in all
ways as well as in the financial way,
success is mentioned, you must become
aware of the fact that you cannot live
any kind of life you may like for years
and still have the highest character. 1t
is the little incidents from day to day
which make a man S character, and per-
haps the strongest Of all these little in
cidents are those which concern the
treatment of women and girls by men
and boys. The fact of being constantly
with women sometimes cultivates the
habit of paying little attention to them,
Of not recollecting that they are to be
treated with never failing courtesy.
This is but step in the direction lead
Ing to such incidents as one sees in Eu-
rope, where young brothers sit about the
house i'll their uniforms, paid for by
their sisters sewing or teaching, and
let these same sisters bring their shoes
or coats or glasses of water, and what
not. When we go to Germany and see
this sort of thing, we acquire contempt
for the men of that race. They do not
begin to equal the vigor, the manliness,
the civilization, of our American men.
And yet we must not behold the mote
in our brothers eye unless we consider
the beam i'll our own. We must not crit
icise others unless we can at least say
that our OWL men have clear idea Of
their proper course i'll such q matter
Furthermore, when you are dealing
with the other sex it is wise to bear in
mind that as you treat them so are you
building up character in yourself. If
you do not bear in mind the courtesies
of all kinds which are woman's due,
you cannot retain for any length Of time
pride in yourself, satisfaction with
your behavior, which is commonly called
self respect. And without self respect
you will have hard time of 1t in the
orld.-Harper's Round Table.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.
Ladies' of st. Paul Take Steps Toward
Beautifying Their City.

Ladies' of st. Paul Take Steps Toward
Beautifying Their City.
The women of st. Paul have taken
hold of the proposition to beautify st.
Paul by maintaining the street lawns
in good condition and planting trees.
They have gone at the work with their
usual earnestness and enthusiasm, and
they will achieve success where the men
have failed.
At recent meeting held to discuss
ways and means the matter of neatness
received much attention.
What is most urgently needed now,
said one of the speakers, what should
be taken hold of at once, is to put and
keep in order the streets already i'm
proved within the more densely settled
residence districts of the city. For this
work of pushing and taking care of the
tawn and tree ornamentation on settled
residence streets the women We're better
fitted than the men. And there is plenty
of work of this kind to do Throughout
all these streets there are long stretches
of unkempt, frousy and disheveled
lawn, patches on which the grass is sell
dom or never cut, choked with noxious
and ugly weeds. Trees were planted i'll
front of some lots and not of others.
They were often planted too close to-
gether, so as to prevent their SYM
metrical growth. They were often
either not trimmed at all or trimmed
too much, so as to destroy their correct
ness and beauty. In many places the
streets were lined with fences and the
street lawns with networks of ugly gas
pipe, relics of remote antiquity,
when cows roamed at will through our
streets
The problem that seemed to bother
the ladies the most was how to induce
the nonresident owners of vacant prop
erty to bear their share of the cost of
keeping up their street lawns and keep
ing the vacant places clean; also in re-
gard to keeping the alleys clean and to
get storekeepers to stop sweeping the
dirt from their stores into the streets.
Another speaker aptly said: The sur
roundings Of every home are an integral
part of it. The street which leads to it,
if adorned with stately trees and trim
lawns, is our street, a beautiful ap-
proach to our homes and belongs to US
as much as our own lawns If the
street is bare and naked and untidy, it
detracts from the beauty value of our
homes. Into this field, into this home
out of doors, if opened to the activity of
the women, they will carry the same
housekeeping spirit, the same love of
order and neatness and beauty which
prompts them to make their own house.
holds pretty and attractive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
Banks
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF FROSTBURG.
DAWSON ARMSTRONG, President
FRANK WATTS, Cashier.

Capital...... ............ $50, 900
Surplus and Undivided Profits ri 900
INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL
l. DEPOSITS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
Power of the Newspaper.

Rev. I. De Witt Talmage sagely OBJ
serves that "a newspaper whose col
umns overflow with advertisements of
business men has more influence in at
tracing attention to and building up a
city or town than any other agency
that can be employed. People 60 where
there is business. Capital and labor will
locate where there is an enterprising
community. No power on earth is so
strong to build up town as newspa-
per we'll patronized, and its power
should be appreciated. "-Newspaper-
dom
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
How to Make Brown BOOTS Black.

Take equal parts of ordinary am
monia and shoe ink, which amy shoe
maker will supply. Mix the ammonia
with half a pint of cold water and
with it sponge the boots all over twice,
carefully applying it to every part
Then sponge the surface over twice
with the ink aud dry. Afterward apply
backing in the usual way.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
Keep on Advertising.

Don't stop your advertising because
duller. Besides, the more competitors
chat leave the field temporarily the bet
ter is it for you during their absence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09

Object Lessons of the Value of Coed Roads.
Built For Pleasure as Well AS Utility.
Much of Our Labor and Money Expended
on Roads Is Wasted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09

Why do the night birds lend their song
To mournful numbers the whole night longP
List TO their songs and the words they trill-
Though "Katie-did-it" they ''whip-poor Will.
New York Sunday Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09
Several of Them.

"That girl is peach"
eyes, but she thinks she is n whole
orchard '-TWinkles
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-01-21
Minstrel Performance Next Tuesday.

The Elite Minstrels, an amateur com
pany composed entirely of home talent,
gave very meritoriouS performance in
Washington Hall on Friday evening,
Jan. lst The hall was comfortably filed
with people Of this city as well as a
sprinkling from neighboring towns. The
programme consisted of songs, dances
and Jokes, which were executed with
the ability of artists. a vocal quartette
by Henson, Dunlap, Ryan and Thomas
deserves especial mention. The playing
upon different musical instruments by
Rust. in the music store, was one oil the
best features Of the evenings entertain
ment. \ laughable after piece entitled
the Barber Shop" brought down the
house with storms of applause. Young
impersonated the character Of the bar
Der with realistic imitation, Thomas
as the Dutchman, Henson as the colored
chappie. Johnson as the lrishman, and
Dunlap representing Mr.. Jake Mathena'
were equally up-to-date.-C AarIeSf071'l
AdU0cafe.
The minstrel troupe referred to above
will give an entertainment in the town
hall, Shepherdstown, Tuesday evening
January 26th, for the benefit of the
hall fund. The admission is % cents
children 10 cents gallery 10 cents.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-01-21

Mr.. William Aud died at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last
Friday of heart disease, after an Ill
ness of but a few days. He was SUI
perintenden5 of Mr.. J. Y. Campbell's
country seat near Baltimore, and be-
coming i'll went to the hospital Tues
day, where he died on Friday. Mr.
Aud, who was thirty-nins years of
age, was born in Kilmarnock, Scot
land. He came to the United States
in 1884, and soon afterward became
superintendent of Mr.. Henry Shep-
herds Wild Goose Farm, near Shep-
herdstown. He held this place for
Mr.. Shepherd and later for his son,
Mr.. R. D. Shepherd, with couple OF
intervals, ever since. He went to
Baltimore last year. Mr.. Aud was
an excellent manager, being a person
of untiring energy. He had many
admirable traits of character, and was
the sincerest of friends to those to
whom he took a liking. He was a
member of Mt. Nebo Lodge of Masons
of this place. Mr.. Aud is survived
by a widow, but LETT no children.