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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

The American home market is
the greatest in the world. aud it
makes q great difference whethc 81
the patrons Of that market are
able to buy freely or are com.
PEELED to economic. Thus it is
that procectlonkhelps the farmer,
whether applied directly to his
products or not. His market at
home is widened by every ex.
tension of home industry, and it
is easy to prove that no small por'
tion of the present agricultural
activity and profit has come
through the more general EN-.
ployment of American workers.
Troy, N. Y, "Record," Scptem'
Der Is, 1897.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
POLICY WAS TOO RIGOROUS

Queen Has Lens D1sappY0vod OF the COn-
No. i ser, ative Administration. ~ 'ss55%
LONDON, Oct. 4.-The Madrid corre-
spondent Of The Standard says: - The
queen regent took q, strong initiative
during the crisis and profoundly sur
prised General Azcarraga by leaving
him no alternative, but resignation.
She frankly expressed her disapproval
of the Conservative administration, es-
pecially in its treatment of the anarch'
list prisoners at Fortress Montjuio.
She said she had allowed Senior Cano-
vas to remain In Office in the hope that
he would modify the rigor Of his re-
pressive policy in Cuba and that she
had repeatedly called the attention OF
ministers to administrative scandals
and abuses. More over, her majesty
said she
Waited Patiently for Two Months
after the death of Senior Canovas in the
hope that the new government would
correct these evils. On it's failure to dc
SO she took it upon herself to consult
General Campos, Senior Silvela and
others as to the best means Of pacifylng
Cuba by an endeavor to satisfy the au'
Economists and thus virtually to steal
march on American diplomacy.
All the statesmen whom she co.
suited appear to have advised a Liberal
cabinet as tho best means of attaining
the queens wishes. Thereupon her
majesty thanked General Azcarraga for
his splendid services as minister OF wal
and intimated her intention to appoint
Senior Sagasta as president OF the
council.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

The voters of New York have
four candidates for Mayor who
will receive substantial sup.
port. Tracy is the regular Re.
publican nominee, Van Wyck, the
regular Democrat (Tammany)
n ominee, Low is the Citizens
Union candidate, and Henry
George is the candidate Of the
Democrats who insist on the free
coinage of silver as a necessary is.
sue in the campaign. It is still
possible that there will be = COM
promise that will remove part OF
the candidates fro + IL
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
Eastern Men Buying.

Duluth Tribune: Lumbermen
report q decided increase in inqui.
~ for stock this week. There
is quite . number Of Eastern
Iumbermen in this city, and they
are looking after stock with de.
termination that Is hid to mean
business. As yet the end of the
season Of navigation is not 50
close 1t hand that tho demand fol
stocking up for winter has made
itself felt. The inquiry Of the
buyers now here seem to b. large.
II for the purpose Of unc covering
what they would consider snaps,
Some lumber is changing hands
an the time and the market is by
no means stagnant.
Reports from the East indicate
that the lumbermen that have 81.
ready arrived from there are but
the advance couriers Of q large
procession Of buyers. The nun
Der 81 Eastern lumbermen now il
the West ssaid to be larger than
It has been for j numberof years.
It wasn't necessary for them all to
come out here while the tariff let
IN Canada lumber free.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
New Spanish Premier Outlines
His Course In Relation
to Cuban Affairs. @
Weyler viii Be Recalled and
the Conservative Cam
paign Reversed. 81
Offer Of the United States az
Mediator Cannot Be Ac- Il
copied, He Says.

NEW YORK, Oct. "A dispatch te
The World from Madrid says: The
World correspondent called on Premier
Sagasta, who said in" response tc
queries: "You ask me if the Liberal
party would assent to mediation BY
the United States with a view to has
tening the paciication Of Cuba and In
ducing the rebels in arms and the exiles
to accept autonomy. Why should We
need mediation when our intentions
long aud often expressed by the Libera
party-aim at realizing all that Americs
could suggest? =.
mo Spanish party, certainly not the
Liberals, could assent to foreign inter
ference in our domestic affairs o.
with our colonies. No government
could hope to induce the nation to &C
cept such interference. "ss.
1T America, Is we firmly believe and
hope, is daqpesd to be sincerely friend,
" with US. st l9 0p the rules q
information law and stop the flow q
Moral and AAter111 AlOs
without which the insurrection could
not last six months. We shall reverse
completely the policy of the last two
years in Cuba, beginning, naturally
with the recall Of Weyler. Z. t
II informed the queen that the LIB
raj party would accept the RESPONSE
Ll4itles Of office most willingly it he1
majesty honored the party with bel
confidence; that the Liberal party had
plans for all the leading questions 9!
the day in Spain, and certainly would
grant to Cuba autonomy along tht
lines traced ii the progremme OF the
Cuban autonomists themselves.
1.-THE Liberal party Is prepared x
grant to Cuba ali possible selt.govern'
ment. "a broad tariff and every conces
sion Compatible with infexible defense
Of Spanish rule and sovereignty in the
West Indies. We believe this will sat
isty the majority Of the Cubans and We
viii act thus spontane ously." .
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
Tanners Mill in Operation.

A. Tanners -four mill ON the West
side was put IN operation Monday
a ID will he kept running day
and night to fiji the orders now in
for -four and other mill products.
The rope power works perfectly and
would Furnish power for a much
larger mill. 1t IL We'll worth a visit
to the West side to see the mill in
operation by the power which OPP
crates it. To the water wheel of the
w Interstate mill Ia attached a
shaft which turns a large fly wheel
especially constructed for a rope
power. There are four lines Of
II inch rope. and each line has a
groove in the fly wheel and all pulleys
to run In. This rope IL made especial
" for this work and the four lines
are nearly u mile III length. The dis
lance from the water wheel is nearly
four hundred feet, and two idlers. at
tached to the upper stories of the
Interstate mill, raise the cable to q
height that permits cars to run un-
der it.
The capacity OF the mill is about
125 barrels In twenty-iOur hours; it's
machinery is Of the most improved
pattern and Mr.. Tanner is now
quipped for manufacturing and
marketing flour az cheaply as any
mill in the country, and Of as good
quality as can be made.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

The retirement of Mclean
from the field as Democratic can.
didate for senator in Ohio places
A. J. Warner, prominent free
silverite, in the field az the LEADING
Democratic candidate for that
place. There are no indications
Of serious doubt but the Republic.
ans will carry Ohio and : re:elect
Mark llama to the senate.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
Sab SfA-I.'-s ~ q = Z lNstAt-t ~ - y.
VIM Demand, an Advance

11sa., Belgium. Oct. The national
congress Of miners, which has been in
session here, has. decided 70 make 9
demand for an advance Of 10 per cen,
IN wages. II this demand is not grant
ed by the middle Of November the ex'
scutive committee viii call : geneEa!
,erike. 555
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
KINGSLEY Revised.

Kingsley Revised.
Three tandems went whizzing out into the
west
Out into the west az the sun sank low.
Each man took the woman that pleased him
the best,
. And the children stood watching them mer'
=, rily so,
For men must work, and women will coast,
Ana the man on the tandem will pedal and
boast
Gill the handle bar is mo-o-oaning.
London Wheeling.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
OPPOSED TO MEDIATION.
Change of Cabinet Will Not Affect Amer
iCa'S Offer. .*'&

Change of Cabinet Will Not Affect Amer
iCa'S Offer. @E
MADRID, Oct. 4.-The ministerial
changes will not affect the instructions
which United States Minister Wood
ford originally received from President
Mckinley. Both General Woodford
and Senior sagasta, the premier, main.
tain absolute reserve ON the question OF
American relations to Spain. Leading
Liberals, however. declare that Spain
can never officially accept American
mediation in Cuban affairs.
Senior Sagasta had conference with
the queen regent during the day and 1t
Is expected that the new Liberal cabinet
will be completed, SOON, General Cor
rea has accepted the portfolio OF min
lister Of war. r. -<s.< #
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
At 4 NOvice'S Mercy,

u Pedals-What! You let that fool Hedder
have my new wheelS -
Mrs. Pedals-Ot course, did! What
are you making such fuss abouts He
doesn t know how to ride He told me SO
himself!-Nev York Sunday World.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

Sometimes She's a. Quick a. He II.
= When street car conductor calls on the
passengers to sit closer, the young man
who has bis best girl with him is the
quickest to respond.-Roxbury Gazett~
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
lNvEsTIN A WATERPOWER

INvEsTINA WATERPoWER.
The following from Wednes-
days Duluth Herald is another
proof Of the increasing favor with
which investors view water power
properties: .S~~.
That an English syndicate has
an option on the St. Louis river
water power and that it has
thought well enough Of the prop.
erty to invest a considerable sum
of monev IN preliminary investi.
CATION of it can no longer be
doubted. The original option
probably expired sometime in July
and an extension was given for a
few months longer and the time
in which the deal was closed is
nearly up. This Information The
Evening Herald has from a gentle
man who recently talked the
matter over with Jay Cooke at his
home in Philadelphia.
Included in the option which
Mr.. Cooke has given the syndicate
are the interests vested and pros.
pectlve of all the companies that
have been organized for the
St. Louis river water power.
Should the deal finally be closed
the syndicate would probably
operate under the name of the st..
Louis River Water Power CON-
pany. Under the terms agreed,up.
on for the transfer of the property
Mr.. Cooke will be given first
mortgage bands in the sum of ST..
000,0 drawing interest at the
rate 5 per cent, and the syndicate
will furnish the money necessary
to make theimprovements AMIGA.
BILE arrangements haye been made
by Mr.. Cooke with the Altamonte
Water Power company by which
the English syndicate has been
assured that it will be involved in
no litigation because Of any rights
they may have obtained in the
water, and if the capital
lists over the water are con.
vinced by the reports of experts,
wao have been making the in.
vestigation for them, that a profit
can be realized from the property
after it has been developed, over
and above the $4,000 a year
which must be paid Jay Cooke
annually IS interest on the first
mortgage bonds, the deal will be
clossd and the power improved.
Mr Cooke has every assurance
that the men with whom he is
dealing are amply able to carry out
their part of the contract and has
received sufficient sum as earnest
money to insure their good faith.
It will be seen that if the power
is to be developed by thesyndicate
which holds an option on it that
there must be a asonable Ger.
tainty that it will yield a revenue
oyer the above operating expenses
of at least 100000 year, $50, 900
of this being the interest on the
bonds given Jay Cooke and the re-.
naming $4,000 being the inter.
est OH an additional $1,000, 900
which it is estimated will be the
expense of developing the power.
Jay Cooke has owned the St.
Louis river water power property
for thirty years. during which
time he has expended large sums
in taxes and in other expenses
connected with the various
schemes that have been devised
for it's imprOvcm ent. From the
first he attached a very high value
to it, and during the nearly third
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
Gettinr lack at Her

She-You shouldn't wear made up ties
They'r not fashionable
He-Neither are made up women.-Up
to Date.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08

expense OF developing the power.
Jay Cooke has owned the St..
Louis river water power property
for thirty years. during which
time he has expended large sums
in taxes and in other expenses
connected with the various
schemes that have been devised
for it's improvcm ent. From the
first he attached very high value
to it, and during the nearly third
of century Re has held it his
faith IN his Importance has never
wavered. While there have been
many capitalists during that time
who were willing to invest heavily
in it, they have asa rule been kept
from doing 50 by Mr.. Cookies un.
compr omising determination to
get out, Of it what he. has con-
sidered : fair price. When Du.
luth was : struggling village and
when there was not enough bust.
ness to warrant the investment Of
SO large = sum III i water power,
he was Just IS nsiistent for his,$1..
600, 00o,as he Is now. Il is TO-, be
hoped that present ndltions will
warrant The payment IF this large
sum and that at last.the time has
arrived when the wasted power of
the st. Louis will be harnessed
TO- the wheels. i, Of innumerable
factories in Duluth, which will
give the city an new impetus! f
not, perhaps the heirs Of tie
Philadelphia financier at some
time Id the future will encourage
the great enterprise by accepting
smaller price for the valuable
property.
The record-union., 1897-01-03
EVENTS sON THE TURF.
Winners Of the Races at San Francisco
and New Orleans.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-Weather
fine. track slow. Favorites We're again
successful in taking four Of the six
events run.
One mile, purse, Ruinart won, Flash
light second, Merry Monarch third.
Time-1 40.
Seven furlongs. three year-olds, purse.
Good Times won, Caspar second, Es-
taca third Time-1:31.
Six furlongs, handicap, Zamar III.
won. Pat Murphy second, Peril third.
Time-1: 16l@.
One and one-half miles, over six hur-
dies, Governor Budd won, Bedford sec
ond. Esperance third. Time-2:56.
SIX furlongs, purse, Salvable won,
Olive second, Shield Bearer third. Time
Iii.
One and one-sixteenth miles, selling,
dead heat between Morte Fonse and
Gallant. Thornhill third. Time-1 :52L
Purse divided between Morte Fonse and
Gallant.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan 2-Results
Six furlongs, Ptfall won, Meddler Sec
end. Hillshoro third. Time-1 1914.
Seven furlongs Tom Anderson won,
EIkin second, Pommery Sec third. Time
Il :35&4
Mile ard twenty yards, Dave Pulsi-
fer won, Van Brunt second, Branteman
third. Time-1:31&I.
six furlongs. Paladin won, John Carr
second. Pelleas third. Time-1 :19A.
Seven furlongs, ]. II. Grafton Won
Albert S. second, Elano third. Time
1:34l2.
The record-union., 1897-01-03

rectly accused him of wrecAing the in
stitution, of playing the role of '.kiter, -
of speculating with other peoples
money, Of practicing carefully planned
deception On his fellow-directors and
the depositors for years, and sealing
the lips of President Schneider by al
lowing the accounts of Weiss and Ber-
pass safe bonds. This paper alleged:
He has violated, willfully and deliber-
ately, the law which is supposed to pro-
tect the public from the operations of
such as he.'
Referring to these charges, friends of
Mr.. Hammond united in declaring that
they had driven him to his death.
Receiver McKeon of the Bank of Illi-
nois said Mr.. Hammond had been daily
at the bank to assist him, and nothing
had been said by him which would have
led the suicide to suspect criminal pros
ecution.
Mr. Hammond had been employed in
Chicago banks for twenty-five years,
beginning as a messenger, and being
steadily promoted from the beginning
of his employment in the failed bank.
Most of his fortune was invested in the
banks stock, although he was promi-
nently interested in other banks, insur-
ance and other companies. He leaves
four young children. He carried $780,
900 life insurance. Mrs. Hammond is in
a serious condition tonight.
The record-union., 1897-01-03
THE NATIONS FINANCES.
STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THE
MONTH OF DECEMBER.
A Decrease of the Debt, Less Cash in
Treasury, of Two Million Eight
Hundred Thousand.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. - The debt
statement issued this afternoon shows
decrease in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during December of
81, ,S39,5I1 4S. The interest bearing
debt increased $170. The non-interest
bearing debt increased S123, ,534, and
cash in the treasury increased 81, $685.
PSI 4S.
The balances of the several classes
cf debt at the close of business Decem-
her 31st was: Interest bearing debt
$S43, ,361 500; debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity, S1,3S3,0I0 20;
debt bearing no interest, S1I2, ,502,-
POI a. total. 1,221 ,249. .961 40.
The certificates and treasury notes
Offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury outstanding at the end
of the month were $3.50, 500, ,573, an in
crease of 3,2S5 $50. The total cash
in the treasury was 1858, ,463, 551 o.
The gold reserve was $100,O00,0O0. Net
cash balance, S125, ,320,379 80.
In the month there was a decrease
in gold coin and bars of S5,616SS1 IS,
the total at the close of business being
$175, 203, $50 80. OF silver there was
decrease of $54. .S66 90 OF the surplus
there was in national bank repositories
SIG, 159, 153 q, against SO, ,S32, ,S94 81
at the end of the previous month.
The coinage executed at the mints of
the United States during December
amounted to S7,117,049. In detail. the
coinage consisted of double eagles num-
bering 205, 800 eagles 1884, half eagles
16046, quarter eagles 6,4S6: total value
of gold pieces coined, 81. 1863, ,165.
Silver dollars 1,7002 go, silver half
dollars 96S, $50, quarter dollars 1886
$50, dimes 1,035, ,S36; total silver COIN
age. $2.551 .96S TO- Five-cent nickels
500, 030 40 one-cent pieces S33, ,254 21;
total minor coinage, $102, ,2S6 81.
From information received from Off
GERS of the mint service and other
agents employed to collect the statistics
of the production of gold and silver
from the mines of the United States
during the calendar year 1896, the Di-
rector of the Mint estimates the product
of gold to have apprOximated S51, ,500,-
600, being an increase of S5,000,000
over 1895.
The product of silver in the United
States in 1896, from the information
now at hand, is estimated to have been
100000 to 53,500,000 fine ounces, a
decrease of two and a half to three
million ounces from that of 1895.
The record-union., 1897-01-03

they had never been known to over
look. -.s cost of making these pro-
ducts was now lower than ever before,
and in addition the improvement of
machinery enabled one employe to do
great deal more work.
Mr.. Rutherford, the first witness, said
that he did not object to being called an
alarmist, but he would not submit to
being characterized as misleader, and
he went on to argue that he was right in
his original statement
John Wilson of Newark, N. j., flax
worker asked for the restoration Of the
duties of cents per pound on dressed
flax with free raw material.
j. N. Bemis of Boston. representing
the burlap bag manufacturers of this
country, claimed that there was no
burlap industry here to compete
with that board, and therefore no indus
try to protect.
E. r. Biddle of New York said that
the samples submitted by Mr.. Ruther-
ford of California. as coming in free of
duty at San Francisco, were paying
duty at New York, and suggested that
the attention of the Treasury Depart
ment be called to the fraud.
C. E. Pierce of ST. Louis, represent
ing the manufacturers of cotton bag
ging and cordage, asked for the restora-
ton of the duty on these articles pro-
vided in the Mckinley bill
j. w. Bell of Andover, Mass, said that
his mill did not use American flax. He
had used some from Canada, but most
of their product came from abroad. He
had tested a sample of fiaS grown, he
thought, in Minnesota, which had prom
ised we'll. 1t was only a sample, how
ever, and had not been manufactured.
American flax, he said, was grown more
for the seed than the fiber
The committee adjourned until Mon
day, when the tobacco interest will be
heard
The record-union., 1897-01-03


like these long reviews with copious ex-
clever reviewer.
Advices. received here from Bombay
| show that the bubonic plague which is
supposed to have been imported into
that city from Hongkong. where it
ragged with great violence about a year
ago. is rapidly extending among the
natives. who have thus far been the
principal sufferers. Thousands of the
residents have fled from the city, but
their exodus is more than counterbai-
anced by the arrival of large numbers
of victims of the famine who are pour
Ing into the city in the hope of either
obtaining work. or of at least finding
among the charitable relief from the
pangs of starvation. These, weakened
by want of food, quickly fall victims to
the disease, which thus far has baff1ed
the skill of the physicians. The sani-
tary conditions of the natives houses
also tend to the spread of the disease,
but the natives, with their usual fatal
ism, are not TO be taught the benefits Cf
cleanliness in their habitations. and ac-
cept the plague as a visitation from
their gods. 1t is thought that unless
sanitary regulations can be enforced by
the civil authorities it will be necessary
to call upon the military for assistance
in compelling the natives to observe the
health laws.
Although the British revenues are in
a fiourishing condition, it will tax the
ingenuity of Sir Michael Hicks Beach,
Chancellor of the ExcheGuer, to produce
a surplus in the budget for the COM
ing year. The increase in the army and
navy estimates is calculated at t., so,
900, and the increase in the education
grants at 100000 In addition to these
amounts, votes will be required to meet
the expenses of the Dongola expedition
and the expenses in connection with
South Africa.
The death of Bertram Wodehouse
Currie, the well-known banker on Tues
day last, coincided with the anniversary
of the birth of Mr.. Gladstone. Mr.. Cur
rie was a warm friend of Mr.. Gladstone.
who frequently consulted him on the
budget and general questions of finance.
He was an ardent home ruler, and
might, had he been so disposed, have
had prominent place under Mr.. Glad
stone when the latter held office. Mr..
Currie keenly supported the Irish finan-
cial claims. He was one of the most
eminent members of the financial Rela-
tions Committee.
Major w. H. Waters, military at
tache of the British Embassy at st. Pc
tersburg, has gone to Manchuria and
Vladivostock to examine into and re-
port upon matters pertaining to the
Russo Chinese Railway.