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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-26
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able travelling IL II you have never trav-
eled Via the burlington.
Holds the worlds record for long
distance fast running. 1895 miles. iotf
minutes.
The burlington Route IN 1857 miles
lonE-nearly one-third the distanee
round tho world.
ofiara a wider choice OF routes than
any other line. TO and from Chicago.
81 Louis, Omaha. Kansas City and all
eastern points.
Two through trains each way daily.
Vehtlbulcd buffet smoking library
cars. Pullman sleeping cars, reeiin-
Ing chair cars tseats O. D. cosehea
Finest dining car service in the world.
Dining cars operated on the cafe plan;
that Is. you pay only for what you or.
der.
Tickets at offices Of connecting lines.
l. 4. BENTON. Ticket Agent. u. q.
W. I,y.. Dooly Block.
H. v. EEsLEN. Travelling Pass. and
Freight Agent
w. H. MMILLAN. Gen. AIT.
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-26

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-26
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-26

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Favofile Prescription,
which contains no
alcohol OF other siimu.
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promptly put thugs
tight. and make her
strong and healthy ~
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26

There are conflicting British and
French claims to certain territory in
West Africa, and the presence of armed
forces of the contestants in the dis
puted region makes the situation seri-
Gus. The coveted territory lies behind
French Dahomey, which gives France
a claim to it on the hinterland theory;
but it's natural outlet is by the Niger.
the mouth of which is in possession OF
the British. Both powers base tnelr
claims also on treaties with native
chiefs; but as the same chiefs have con-
ceded the same territory to both ana
possibly to the Germans as well, there
are difficult questions of priority to be
settled. Negotiations have been opened
through a commission at Paris to set
tie these claims, and an arrangement
recently effected for the adjustment OF
similar differences between France ana
Germany gives hopes of success.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
A GREAT LABOR WAR BEGUN.
Thousands of Cotton Mill Operatives
Strike Against Reduced Wages.

Thousands of Cotton Mill Operatives
Strike Against Reduced Wages.
Boston, Jan. 1S.-A reduction of
from 10 to Is per cent in the wages of
about $4,000 operatives employed in
nearly $50 cotton mills in New Eng
land, which the manufacturers decided
upon as temporary remedy for de-
preston in the cotton goods industry
of the north, have gone into effect in a
majority of the mills In several mill
centers, namely, New Bedford, Mass,
and Biddeford, Saco and Lewiston.
Me-, dissatisfaction among the mill
hands is intense and strikes are on.
The eighteen mills of the former city,
which give employment to about 5000,
have been shut down because the
operatives have refused to accept the
reduction, and the contest thus inaug-
urated promises to be one of the most
stubborn in the history of the textile
ipIrStrv
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
COST WHAT 1T MAY,
England's Ministers Say Door of Chinese
Contnerca shan Not 10 lIosod

England's Ministers Say Door of Chinese
Commerce Shall Not BE Closed.
LONDON, Jan. 19.-The country gen.
orally is pleased at the announcement
by the chancellor of the exchequer,
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, at Swansea,
in which he echoed the previous declar-
ations of Balfour at Manchester, on
the Indian policy of the government
and added that the ministers were de-
termined, even at the cost of war,
that the door of Chinese commerce
should not be shut to Great Britain.
This declaration is recognized as clear
ly defining the governments position,
and both liberal and conservative news
papers commend the plain speaking.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
IOWA CONDENSED.

The American Book Company has
filed an amended and substituted petit
ton in the federal court at Des Moines,
asking 100000 actual damages from
President Gates for alleged libels COM
mitted against it.
Burlington dispatch: The coroner's
investigation into the death of John
England who was supposed to have
died from inhaling coal gas, tends to
show that he died from poison, self-ad-
ministered and that his wife is now
suffering from the same cause. An
autopsy is now being held to ascertain
the facts. The husband and wife are
said to have had much trouble with
each other.
j. w. Stone, who killed Frank Kah-
Ter on the evening of January 5, and
shot and wounded Thomas Ariss, at the
Kahler shoe store on Walnut street, at
Des Moines, has been locked up
in the ward for the criminal insane at
the Anamosa penitentiary. This was
done on the Judgment of the court
that he should be confined there until
sane, when he should be returned to
this county for trial on the charge of
murder in the first degree.
A few days ago Fred Gilbert, of
Spirit Lake, Iowa, defeated j. A. r.
Elliott, the wing shot from Kansas
CITY, in a one hundred bird match for
the Dupont championship trophy and
500 a side at Dexter Park, Long
Island, by score of 90 to Of. The
match was shot in "A drizzling rain that
did not deter two hundred enthusiastic
sportsmen from wading more than hall
a mile in slough of yellow mud to see
the contest. Elliott was slight
favorite before the start, but after the
first twenty-five pigeons had left the
traps, every Indication pointed to p
victory for Gilbert.
Clinton dispatch: After being ir
session two days and examining many
witnesses, the jury in the Rademachei
inquest returned curious verdict
| Two Jurors, +. w. Meyers and H.
| Frazier, signed verdict to the effect
| that Charles Rademacher met his death
by being thrown from a buggy which
| had collided with one driven by Ed
Ware, who, it was alleged, was driving
recklessly. The third juror, Leopold
Schneider, signed separate verdict
recommending the case be laid before
| tho GRAND iurv The ease is causinp
much comment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Russian Horror.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 19.-Forty per-
sons were killed and eighteen injured
in an explosion of gas in one of the
mines of the Donetzaer Company, in
the Tagenrog district, on the north
shore of the Sea of Azov.
In most of the cities of Mexico chick
en- coops are kept on the roofs of the
dwellings. This custom, if adopted in
the southern states, would soon tend
to alarmingly reduce the population.
"Thief! Go way, you thief" screamed
q parrot in bird store on Ninth
avenue, New York, as Policeman Tay-
Tor was passing, on his nightly round.
The officer entered and found u burglar
concealed under n cot bed.
A peculiar flavor of the cake sold by
a London baker led TO an investigation.
Then it came TO light that decayed
eggs were an important ingredient of
his cake. Officers seized 1,6i5 ancient
eggs in his bakcshoD.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26

There are four different grounds on
which European nations base their
claims to territory in Africa. One is
actual occupation; another is a treaty
with a native chief, conceding terri
tory; third is the claim that the oc-
cupation of the mouth Of river gives
a right to the country which it waters;
a fourth is the "hinterland" theory, by
which is meant that nation which oc-
cupies strip of territory on the coast
has a right to the country lying behind
II. or these grounds Of claim, the frs
is least likely to be contested; but as
to the others, the same chief may give
concessions to two or three rival ma
eions; or the territory which is claimed
by one because it is watered by river
the mouth of which it controls may Dc
claimed by another because 1t is In the
''hinterland" or territory which 1t pos
sesses on the coast.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
FOUND EVIDENCE OF POISON.
Chemist Macy Reports On His Analysis
of Selhausen's Remains.

Chemist Macy Reports On His Analysis
of SeIhausen's Remains.
CLINTON, Jan. 1S.-The county attor-
ney has received a letter from the state
chemist at Des Moines, to whom was
sent the stomach and brain of Sell
hansen, who is supposed to have been
poisoned by his wife and Bertesch, who
is now her husband, saying that he has
analysed the brain and blood and finds
unmistakable evidence of arsenic
poison. He has not yet completed the
analysis of the stomach and intestines.
This is regarded as almost conclusive
evidence of poisoning and murder. 1t
is said that finding of the poison in the
brain is unmistakable evidence of poi
son having been taken before death, as
its presence in the stomach might have
been caused at the embalming. Mr..
and Mrs, Bertesch are still in Jail and
bail is refused.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GERMANY AND CHINA SETTLE.
The Former Gets Practically All That
Was Demanded.

The Former Gets Practically All That
Was Demanded.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-A cable dis
patch has been received at the Chinese
legation from the Tsung Ii Yamen,
Picking, to the following effect: "a
settlement of the difficulty with Ger
many has been effected. Kiao Chou
bay is to be leased, belt surrounding
the bay extending about thirty miles
to the boundary. All the German
troops outside the prescribed limits are
to be withdrawn. Two of the culprits
charged with the murder of the mis-
sionaries are to be punished with death
and the others with imprisonment.
Permission will be granted for the
building of churches in the cities of
Isl Nung, Tsao Chow Flu and Chu
Yeh, and dwelling houses for the mis-
sionaries in the seven places in the dis
tricts of Tsao Hen and Shan Hien will
be secured, for which the sum of 2O,O
taels will be allowed. This amount is
to be taken also as a compensation for
the killing of the missionaries. The
scanction of the throne has been OBJ
tanned to the above mode of settle
ment"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
ROWE TO SUFFER.
Poweshiek Embezzler is as Guilty as the
Principal, Says the Supreme Court.

Poweshiek Embezzler is as Guilty as the
Principal, Says the Supreme Court.
Dies MONIES, Jan. 19.-The important
state case against Richard Rowe, OF
Poweshiek county, has been decided,
the supreme court affirming the trial
court, in convicting Rowe of embezzle-
ment. Rowe was charged with being
accessory to his brother, Chester Rowe,
treasurer of Poweshieb county, in the
embezzlement of $4,000 belonging tc
the county. He was brought back
from Mexico and tried at great expense
to the state, convicted, and sentenced
to Fort Madison for term of three
years. He was unable to give bond in
the sum of $40, 900 and was sent to Fort
Madison a year ago last December.
His case was carried to the supreme
court, Rowe's attorney holding that he
was convicted as principal in a crime
in which he was only accessory. The
court holds that under the statute there
is no distinction between an accessory
and a principal, and all persons,
whether they commit the offense or aid
in its commission, must be tried as
principals
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
BIsEyITIES.

dispatch from Shanghai says that
the new japanese cabinet has been
completed with the Marquis Ito as
premier.
Latest advices from the Orient say
that the japanese transport steamer
Nara was wrecked December "a and
eighty lives lost.
A dispatch from Batavia that the
capital of Amboyna, one of the
Molucias islands, was completely de-
molished by an earthquake. Fifty
were killed and two hundred injured.
Bland, of Missouri, has introduced
free coinage bill in congress. 1t
makes gold and silver the standard and
declares all rules discriminating
against the legal tender of such coin
age unlawful.
1t is announced that Prof. Nordensk
jold, the arctic explorer, has informed
the Swedish academy of science that
the foreign office has received intel
ligence from persons worthy of ere
dence that they saw Prof. Andree's
balloon early in August, in British
Columbia, seven miles north of Cues
nellie lake, in the district of Cariboo.
The professor regards the news of suf-
ficient Importance to call for closer
investigation.
The dispatches say as several chiefs
of Spanish columns have burned farms
and canefields and have burned prison
ers of war, including six sick and
wounded men, Gen. Blanco has issued
new decree prohibiting the destruc-
ton of all kinds of property and for
bidding the shooting of prisoners who
are sick or wounded. The captain gen
eral has also issued decree supplying
the planters and farmers, for their de-
fence, with the rifles which belonged
! to the invalided soldiers sent lack t.
| Spain.
The British steamer Ranze cleared
from Savannah for Bremen recently
with $500 bales of cotton weighing
! 8, 963, $50 pounds and valued at 1924, 952.
| This is the largest cargo of cotton ever
| shipped from an Atlantic port, and is
over 1000 bales more than was ever
shipped from this port on any other
vessel.
A dispatch received recently from
Shanghai is responsible for the state
ment that the Chinese minister of war,
Joung Lou, has explained to the vice
roy that Port Arthur was coded ia
| quiet Russia because a warcloud was
| looming and all the powers had cast
envious eyes upon Chinese ports.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Woman Justified in Shooting.

ELDoRA, Jan. 20.-The case of the
state VS.. Lena Kicks was tried in the
district court. The jury, after being
out about forty minutes, returned a
verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Kicks is
the wife of L. J. Kicks, barber living
at Stanhope. She was living at Stan.
hope last fall, and when alone late one
night in her home with her small chile
she discovered a man prowling around
the house. She opened the door lit
tie and fired a revolver and inflicted
a wound in the leg of man. The
man proved to be j. A. Parks, well!
TODD farmer living near Alden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
THE NEWS IN IOWA
FAMOUS DITCH CASE DECIDED.
Decision is Adverse to Those Who Were
Fighting the Tax.

Decision Is Adverse to Those Who Were
Fighting the Tax.
SIOUX CITY, Jan. 2O.-Judge Hutch
inson, of the Fourth judicial district
of Iowa, has decided the famous Mono
ma county ditch cases, which have been
pending in the courts for the last elev-
en- years. The court finds for Monona
county, as against Judge Addison Oil
yer, eX-United States congressman, and
other prominent Monona county land
owners. A portion of Monona county
is very low, and Judge Oliver got bill
through the Twentieth General Assem-
bly, authorizing county supervisors to
construct bitches to drain off the wa
ter. 1t was decided to construct one
in Monona county, and Judge Oliver
was one of the signers of the bonds to
have the work done. Then an assess
ment was made against all lands to be
benefited, which was to pay for the
ditch. Then Judge Oliver attempted
to fight the tax levy and the legal fight
has been going on in the courts of the
state ever since. One of the cases has
been up to the supreme court, and
these cases will be taken to the SUI
preme court also. More than the pay
ment for the ditch is involved in the
matter. 1t affects the whole political
situation in Monona county, and every
man in that county is much interested
in the case
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
New York journal VIII Support Bryan

New York journal VIII support Bryan
New YORK, Jan. 20.-The New York
Journal in an editorial disowns any
responsibility for Arthur McEwen's
contribution in recent number of
that paper repudiating VIM. j. Bryan.
The Journal says its political opinions
are to be found in its editorial columns,
not over the names of it's contributors,
even though they be editorial writers.
The Journal says it will support Bryan
again if he is the democratic nominee
in 1900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
The modern moralists who think o,

The modern moralists who think OK
business" as an INSCRIPTIONS scram-
BILE for wealth may profitably consider
two events that recently occurred in
New York within a single week. In
one case gentleman who OF late years
has prospered, paid his share-many
thousands of dollars-of the debts CT
firm that failed in 1861. In the other
father volunteered to pay his bank
rupt sons proportion of the very large
liabilities of an insolYent partnership.
These debts had already been regularly
discharged" by process of law. No
man-made obligation rested on the
gentlemen who paid them. But the
sense Of honor is higher and finer
thing than insolvency statutes, and 1t
is well to be reminded that the fierce
pressure of commercial competition
does not necessarily crush it out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26

The clergyman who, few Sundays
ago, whipped out a cheese-knife from
behind his pulpit and brandished it be-
fore his throat, and another who dur
ing his sermon weighted balloon with
a whisky bottle, may have convinced
their congregation that drink is both
suicidal and debasing, but they seem to
have forgotten the rule of rhetoric that
such SMILES burlesque both the subject
and object. Eccentric and yellow"
methods, whether in speech, or journ-
alism, or social life, may enforce st
tention and excite comments, but are
meretricious in character and Of doubt
full utility.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
ADVERTISING EXPLAINS 1T.

Why Dollar Daily is Possible.
DIES MONIES, Jan. 1S.-The newspaper
world is still agog over the wonderful
success of the Des Moines Daily News,
the only daily paper in the world for
81 year. The publisher explains that
the low rate has given the News it's
nearly $1,000 circulation, double that
of any other Iowa daily, and that
advertisers gladly pay two or three
times as much for space in the News as
in any other Iowa newspaper.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Many a little pile carefully saved b,

Many little pile carefully saved by
industry and economy is going to be
lost in Alaskan ventures next spring,
in the hope of having it doubled or
trebled or quintupled. We advise all
who think of going into such ventures
first to ask the advice of somebody
who is disinterested and who knows
something about them. And If they
can't get any light on the subject it is
very easy for those about to invest to
take Punch's advice to those about to
marry-don't.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Dubuque ex-Aidermen Indicted.

DUBUQUE, Jan. 15.-The grand jury
reported new indictments against the
city aldermen of 1895 for raising their
salaries from $500 to $500. The alder
men indicted are Cullen, Halpin, Shea
Schultz, Volger and Kaufman. Alder
man Crawford, indicted on two previ-
Gus occasions, escaped this time because
he paid back to the city treasurer the
alleged excess of salary taken by him.
Sewer Inspector Broadhurst was indict-
ed for uttering forged order, which
he presented for payment to the city
treasurer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Senator Mason Assaulted.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-United States
Senator William II. Mason, of Chicago,
was the victim of an unpleasant affair
in the Office of the Hotel johnson,
when he was assaulted by the clerk
after some words over securing room
for the wife of one of the senator's
Chicago friends who was passing
the city. The proprietor of Hotel
johnson afterward said that his clerk
had been overzealous and that he
greatly regretted the occurrence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Dubuque Has a Fire.

DUBUQUE. Jan. 1s-The flour and
feed store of Waters and Dennis and
the paper box factory of e. III. DiclSin.
son were ruined by fire and water,
Waters e. Dennis estimate their loss
at $4,000 insurance. $4,000. f. H..
Dickinson estimates his loss at $4,000
insurance, $3.50. The loss on the
building is placed at $1,000, fully in
Sllrnl
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
Complaint Against lola.

PARIS, Jan 19-The minister of war
has lodged with the minister of justice
formal complaint against Emile lola
and the manager of the Aurore. The
complaint will be forwarded to the
public prosecutor. The Aurore re-
Gently published an open letter from
lola to President Faure, pointing out
irregularities and illegalities in the
Esterhazy court martial and challeng-
ing the government to prosecute him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
LAW WILL STAND.
Railroads in Iowa Can Be Forced to Pay
for Property Loss.

Railroads in Iowa Can Be Forced to Pay
for Property Loss.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The United
States supreme court has decided the
case of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad VS.. Patrick Solan, from
the Iowa supreme court. The case in.
wolves the constitutionality of the Iowa
law rendering void any contract limit.
ing liability in cases of loss. Solan
sought to recover damages on cattle
shipped and was awarded 1000,
though his contract limited liability to
$500. The supreme court has affirmed
the opinion of the state court that the
law did not interfere with interstate
commerce and the regulation attempted
was within the province of the states.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26
LOOKS BLUE FOR ENGINEERS.

Employers to Insist on Complete Control
of Their Works.
MANCHESTER, Eng, Jan. 17.-Interest
in the engineers strike has shifted to
the attitude of the employers. They
are disposed to stand for a complete
victory, and say the withdrawal of the
demand for forty-eight hours work per
week does not end the difference. They
still insist upon complete control of
their works, and will effect reconcil-
iation only on the terms outlined at
the last conference.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-01-26

Six pretty girls act as ushers in a
Trenton, New Jersey, church, and pass
be excursion trains to and from that
establishment, and the congregation
will get so rich that it will pass most
of It's time in the pleasing work OF
cutting its coupons. Yet there are
the part of the better half of their
members, however much the money
they command may be able to talk.