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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

preceding the introduction of the sys- tenn in the district, and no new distil- leres can be erected or old ones reop- ened without the consent of the gov ernment. The amount required in a district is fixed by the Minister of Finance, and two-thirds of this amount is furnished by local distilleries at a fixed price; the remaining third is ao- quired by contracts. Spirits required
 by manufacturers of liquors must be purchased from the government and, in the interests of public health, no un- rectifed spirits are allowed to be sold, the government making itself responsi-
 is done in government establishments,
 whence the spirits are issued for sale to the dealers. The spirits are issued in
 bottles of various sizes, with quantity,
 strength, and price on the labels, and,
 with few exceptions, these bottles must
 not be opened on the premises, the prices on the bottles must not be in- creased, and the only interest of the
 sellers is small commission they get
 from the government. In 1895 the monopoly was introduced first to Perm,
 Ura, Orenberg, and Samara provinces,
 where the consumption of spirits was comparatively small, though the area was large. The following year it was introduced into nine more provinces, and in July, 1897, into seven more. On January 1 last it was extended to Po- land and to five more provinces, in- cluding St. Petersburg, so that it is now in operation in about half of European Russia. The reports as to the effect of the system in the four provinces first tried seem to have been satisfac- tory, on the whole, as regards the de-
 crease in drunkenness, and apparently
 the government made considerable profits. In St. Petersburg, however,
 there has been a good deal of discon- tent, owing to the number of persons thrown out of employment and to re-
 duction in the number of beer licenses, although the monopoly was supposed
 not to affect the sale of fermented bev- erages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
FOR PREsENTATIVEs.

The New Haven Republican conven- sentatives met last evening, and did it's work with skill. Ex-Judge Julius c. Cable and John V. Rattlesdorfer are the nominees. This is a we'll balanced ticket.
 Judge Cables long and thorough ex- perience in the law win make him an especially valuable member of the leg islature, and few members of that body will be better equipped for law-making than he is. In addition to his legal knowledge and experience he has a clear head, good common sense and sound judgment. His career as prac- ticing lawyer and judge has been an uncommonly creditable and successful one, and he is in every way well fitted to represent New Haven in the legisla ture.
 MT. Rattlesdorfer is an able and pros- porous business man who has taken much interest in public affairs, and has had much influence ill municipal mat ters. He has served the city as an all dernan, and his course as alderman was thoroughly sensible and public spirited. He is generally respected and trusted, and the people of New Haven would feel that their interests in the legislature, would be safe in his hands. MT. Rattlesdorfer was reluctant to be nominated on account of the bearing his nomination might have on the for tunes of another candidate for office, and there is talk that he may decline to accept. We hope not. He has been nominated without seeking the honor, and it is not his fault that the situation is what it is. He has been heartily chosen, and it is his duty to heartily serve.,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

can be fulled just the least bit and the result in profile outline will still escape the severe closeness to which we so protest in spite of the attempted dictum of Dame Just-so. Even franker loose- ness is permitted, and blouses like that of this picture are admitted for figures to which they are especially becoming. The one sketched was in gray cash mere, the skirt trimmed below the hips with wide band of black lace The bodice was trimmed in front with verti- cal bands of narrow black lace inser- tion, and with band of the lace reach- ing from shoulder to side The sleeves had lace caps and cuffs of insertion and lace.
 The shawl cape is still much used for travelling and heavy wear, but the jacket made of fringed shawl stuff is newer, and though perhaps a little patcty in effect is very pretty on a jaunty figure. It is the very latest touch to have bag covered with shawling to match the material of your cape or jacket. It proves you the pos- sessor of a travelling outfit made by an English maker. There they supply rug, cape or jacket, and Gladstone ali of the same material. The newmarket of shawling topped by a detachable golf cape makes a useful combination, and such can be purchased now with the assurance that the cape will be as cor
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
FASHION NOTES.
License stin Holds for Looseness.

Women cannot give up all looseness in the front of their bodices, though fashion is inclined to snub the blouse. How about one of the later yoke collars that are cut cross the back like holero and are pointed up suddenly in front? of this yoke in front, deep at the notch ed point and narrow at the sides, so that the line of lace is straight across the bust at the edge. From under the frill and the yoke the rest of the bodice
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent q Worw each in- sertion. Five Gents Word for full week lseven tlmes).
 Display advertisements, per inch one in sertlon, S1.20; each subsequent insertion. 40 cents; one week, $3,2o; one month. $10; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. IS cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths anl Funerals, 30 cents each. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be n9bjectionablel. and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
RUssrA,s sprRry MONOPOLY.

The working of the government spirit monopoly in Russia is interesting. A full account of it is given in a British Foreign Office report The monopoly was first established in 1895, and in only four provinces. It does not extend to wine or beer. The manufacture of spirits still remains in the hands of private persons. but no distfllery must produce more than it's greatest produc- tion during any one of the three years
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

A queer result of prosperity in Kan sas is the stopping of seventy five four ing mills. The farmers count so confi- dently on a rise in the price of wheat and are so we'll supplied with money from their good sales of last year that they are holding on to this years wheat So the mills have nothing to grind.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE F. LOUNsBURY, of fRidgefeld FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LYMAN A. MILLS, of Middlefield. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, HUBER CLARK, of Xvindham.
 FOR TREASURER, CHARLES s. MERSICFx, of New Haven.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, THOMPSON s. GRANT, of Enfield. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CHARLES PHELPS, of Vernon.
 FOR CONGRESSMAN, Second Distriot--N. ID. SHERRY, of New Haven.
 FOR SENATOR. Eighth trict-FREDERICK l.. AVER
 ILL, of New Haven.
 FOR REPRESENTATIVES. JULIUS c. GABLE and JOHN W. RAT-
 TLESDORFER.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
FOR CONGRESSMAN,

The national benson bill for the next fiscal year, says the Washington corre- spondent of the Baltimore American, is being estimated at about $2OO 900, 900. Last year 1t was s15o,0oo,0 ,00O. Up to Wednesday 525 claims had been pre- sented on account of the Spanish war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

rect for wear next spring and summer as it is now. The newmarket either topped or not by the cape is stylish for city and country, too
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

IHIlyERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, II CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, sSroR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY NAH.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

MT. Zangwill, the author of Children of the Ghetto and other novels dealing with Jewish life, tells how, when an obscure lad, engaged in teaching in an eastern school he sent q short poem to one of the best-known American maga- zines. The poem was speedily returned to him and MT. Zangwill put it away safely till some little time back, when he again sent it to the same magazine. This time it's reception was a contrast to the last The proprietors of the magazine cabled to MT. zangwill offer ing to buy the word rights of the poem and very shortly they issued huge poster, proclaimfng the fact that their next issue would contain a poem by I. ZangwilI The poem was the same as before, but the tide had turned, the ship of the erstwhile obscure Jewish
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

Kind women of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, have a Society for the Promo ton and Amelioration of Cats" They actually attempt the education of the felines, and the president of the society says: "We feel assured that under our process of culture many hidden and un- suspected good qualities in the nature of the cat will be brought to the sur- face"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

MT. Mohun, an American, has just left Brussels, accompanied by five trained electricians, to extend the te1e- graph in the Congo country from the present terminus at Stanley Pool to Stanley Falls, and thence in two differ ent directions to Lake Tanganyika, on the one side, and to Redjaf, on the Nile, on the other. The work is to cost about $5oO,00O and it is expected that it will be completed in 1900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

AFOREMENTIONED PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

The Czar may cry peace, peace, but since his accession Russia has added enormously to her military strength. Two new army corps have been created, as we'll as two new cavalry corps (not merely regiments); the field artillery has been increased by seventy new bat teries, or over 400 guns; the Siberian rifles have been doubled and now four new army corps are to be added and the artillery is to be reorganized so as to double it's strength within a short time Russia already has twice as many army corps as Austria and when the new ones are raised will have by far the largest army in the world, with eight more army corps than either France or Germany. Yet this immense force costs just about what Great Britain spends on it's comparatively small army.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

A French railroad company has painted the outside of it's passenger coaches with poetic devices, or the inl- ages of stars, fishes, birds etc., sketch ed large and in emphatic colors. The object is to enable the passenger who gets off for refreshments to recognize his carriage and class from amid the crowd and in the gathering dusk. He says to himself, I'm the fish, the scales, the swallow, etc., and makes for his own place.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
F. M. Brown & Co.'S Fine Stocks.
ssss6 ssNss M 6 October's Opportunity B

Your ti1neis worth something, too! You don't have to wade through a weary waste of worthless words to get at these values Metropolitan marts can't show handsomer, and Meanness wouldn't ask the cost to be less.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
MISS wTLLARD,s SCH
MRS. AND MISS CADY,s

SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
 Finishing Course or College Preparatory. Primary and Kindergarten, Department for Boys and Girls, School reopens Monday, October Sd. sir If
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

THE WEEKLR JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, Ono Dollar Year,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
Edtcattn,r.
M,LLE de METs

WILLIE de NETS
 WILL receive private pupils and form classes at her home, 6S HOWE STREET, man, and favorably known in New Ha- ven, her past success is guaranty of the satisfaction her teaching has given for many years. Preparing students and coaching them for examination. a special tY. s27 7t-then Wed Fri Mon 3W
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01

HE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUH-
 LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS
Thomas Will Not Arrest for Serving
 Wine in Pitchers.

The following recent decisions have been issued regarding internal revenue taxa tion and the special war tax:
 Merchants do not bring themselves within the section of the act of June IT, 1898, by reason of selling their own drafts to their customers. they are not on this account required to pay special tax as bankers.
 An unstamped package of cigars cannot be repacked In another box made expressly for it. The stamps an outer box will not pro- tect the inner box, neither cal, q stamped ho,, be contained In unstamped outer box
 The office will not approve. of dummy pack Cigar packages having less or greater mum Der of cigars packed therein than the number denoted by the stamp will be forfeited
 In reply to letter of inquiry which you have addressed to this office to whether you 'can make and sell blackberry wine without spec ial United States Internal Revenue license. D you are hereby advised that you cannot do so unless the wine is made by you from blackber- ries of your own growing gathered wild by yourself or by persons in your employ, and un less this wine Is sold by you only at the place of manufacture, or at but one general office (Section 3246, Revised Statdtes). If this or any other wine Is put up in bottles for sale, tax must be paid thereon under the following pro 1898 (war revenue act): Sparkling or other usl wines, when bottled for sale, upon each bottle containing one pint or less, 1c; upon each bot tie containing more than one pint, 2c.''
 fair or entertainment given by fraternal organization (even though the public pay for admission) Is held not to be such an exhi- bition show is contemplated by the eighth paragraph of section of the act of June 13, 1898, If the proceeds are to be devoted to sick benefts'' or to other like subjects, and special tax Is not required to be paid therefor under this act.
 A draft or order drawn on the treasurer of such an organization by another of it's off, cers for the payment of money to third per son whether flor payment of bills or for sick benefits . as you state, for any other pur- pose requires % stamp under schedule 4 of thls act
 An entertainment given by grange of the Patrons of Husbundry. such as a harvest home festival or the like, Is not regarded as such public exhibition or show for money as the statute contemplates and special tax is not required to be paid therefor.
 Jugs, pitchers. etc, used In serving wine in restaurants and elsewhere for the purpose of evading the war tax stamps will be considered as bottles and must be stamped as such. But a saloon-keeper selling wine by the glass is al lowed to draw it from the cask into bottles for that purpose without stamping the bottle.
 Special Revenue Agent Bert M Thomas said yesterday that he would not arrest any restaurant keeper for serving wine in unstamped pitchers. He Is of the opin- ion that the courts will not decide that a pitcher Is a bottle
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
CLAYTON BUL WEIR TREATY NV WAY OF NICARAGUA
 CANAL.
TT IS EXPECTED THAT ENGLAND MILL AID UNCLE SAM IN SECURING CONTROL
 OF THE GREAT WATERWAY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

hTEW YORK, Dec. 8.-The Wash
 N ington correspondent of the Her.
 VI aid says: President Mckinley is j ' in favor of opening negotiations
 with Great Britain for the pur- pose of modifying the Clayton-Bulwer treaty so as to permit the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States.
 Should Congress during the present gan bill the President also favors en- tering into negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica looking to the construc- tion of the canal under the auspices and control of the United States. On the authority of high official of the administration I am able to state there is absolutely no foundation for the re- port that Great Britain, through Sir Julian Pauncefote, has protested to the State Department against that feature of the Presidents message dealing with the canal question.
 On the contrary the authorities have every reason to believe that Great Brit ain will consent to any reasonable mod ification of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty that the President may desire, so as to remove obstacles which it places in the way of the control of the canal by this Government So satisfied are the off, cials on this point that understand negotiations will soon be actively under way, which, it is hoped. will eliminate in an agreement especially intended to
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
APPROVE THE NEW CHARTER. Citizens of Vallejo Vote in Favor of
 Proposed Reforms,

VALLEJO, Dec. S.-The election here to- day on the adoption of the new freehold ers' charter resulted in 65S for the char ter and ITO against 1t. Only one-fourth of the vote was boiled. Vallejo has virtually been without a charter, working under the general laws. The new charter is not radical in its changes from the old, nor does it in any way attack local interests. The new charter makes a small increase in the list of salaried officers, gives the city Mayor with authority which prop erly belongs to such officer a uniformed police, whose continuance in office will de- pend on efficiency alone, a Superintendent of Water Works, who will devote his whole time to the duties of his office, a Board of Health with power to enforce it's orders and Board of Public Works to look after the city Investments. It pro- vides safeguards against extravagance, and the duties of the officers as defined in- sure great improvements in the city gov ernment. The only material change in the government of public schools was the doing away with a salaried Superntend- ent, and making heads of families only eligible as members of the Board of Edu- cation.
 After passing to the Legislature the charter takes effect in 1901.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09

give this Government the right to con- struct and control the proposed water way.
 It seems to be pretty generally under stood that the conflict of interests over the construction of the Nicaragua canal will prevent action during this session on the Morgan bill, and in this event there Is reason to believe that when President Iglesias of Costa Riea re- turns to Washington the latter part of the winter he will discuss with Presi- dent Mckinley and Secretary Hay the advisability of entering into a treaty for the construction of the canal by this Government. Iglesias Is in favor of such action and so informed the au- thorities while here. But nothing can be done by the authorities on this line until the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is modified
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-In the Sen ate to-day Caffery of Louisiana intro duced the following resolution:
 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate of the United States that the President enter into negotiations with the Government of Great Britain for the purpose of abrogating or mod flying the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty so far and to the extent that the same may be deemed to prevent the United States from owning, constructing, controlling or operating an oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
TWO HUNDRED CASES OF SMALLPOX AT BEDFORD.

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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
JOINT COMMISSION
 MAY PROBE SCANDALS
Senator Vest Introduces Resolution Providing for a War Inves-
 tiCation

WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Senator Vest to-day introduced in the Senate resolu- tion providing for the appointment of joint commission to investigate the charges of corruption in the conduct of the war with Spain.
 The preamble to the resolution recites that charges have been made through the press of the country over the sigma lures of responsible parties that corrupt and improper means have been used to secure contracts from the Government for the purchase of vessels for the navy and for the furnishing of clothing and other necessary articles for the army of the United States during the war with Spain at excessive and exorbftant rates.'' . The resolution calls for the appointment of three Senators and five members of the House and imposes upon them the duty of ''inquiring as to the truth of all such charges and to make report by bill or otherwise"
 The Senators are to be appointed by the Chairman of the Senate, and the mem- bers of the House by the Speaker of the House.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09

advantageous alliances. At last, worn out with troubles with which she had not the ability to cope, she gave up the strug gle: The prayer that Bertha Bockman had offered day and night for close on to two years was answered.
 T have always triumphed over my en- emies Let Magdalena Wittmeier not live to enjoy the wealth that belongs to my boyi'
 That was her invocation up to the day she disappeared from Oakland. And there is prospect that the money she believed was rightfully her sons will yet fall to him. for George Wittmeier yesterday stat ed that so far as he knew Magdalena left no near relatives and he intended to make another fight in the courts for the prop
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
sHARKEY AND McoY SIGN ARTICLES.

YORK Dec SArcles of agreement for boxing  Athletic Club this city, January M signed to-day by both  all refer In
 
 
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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09

of the State. The proceeds are to be. set aside as a special fund to aid irrigation; also reserving and dedicating all lands in township S2 north, range e $ starss east ras Mt ervoir, and $15,000 is appropriated to con. struct dtches, etc., to store the water or Humboldt River.
 The Secretary of War has submitted to Congress the report of the board of engineers on the Sacramento and Feather rivers and their tributaries. The report recommends an appropriation of $2SO,0O for the purpose of deepening the Sacra- mento River below the city, which can be improved by a system of wing dams at or near shoals so as to give depth of obtained above Sacramento City to Col usa and three-foot depth then to Red Bluff by the removal of snags, and the concentration of the channel widths by temporary works at an annual expense of $25,000. The board reports the river has been surveyed from Red Bluff to it's mouth.
 Representative Loud has introduced a bill amending An Act in Relation to Internal Revenue" by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, how ever, that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be authorized upon application of a distiller. to allow any package or cases, or packages, encasing not less than two tins, said packages or cases, or packages encasing tins, to be of not less capacity than ten gallons. wine measure, to be fill- ed with distilled spirits from receiving cisterns in such manner as said Commis- sioner may. by regulation, prescribe for the purpose of exportation from the United States. And there shall be charged for each of said packages or cases for the expense of providing and aff1xing stamps five cents, instead of ten cents as now required by law
 The bill is limited to export. and, there- fore, in no way conflicts with the spirit distiling interests of the country The size of the package is in keeping with the law and regulations of the department and does not increase bureau labor. The charge for export stamps is not designed by Congress to realize revenue. but to assist the export and shipping trade.
 Representative Barlow has intro duced a bill appropriating s25 600 to pay Fred B. Mallory Jr., of Los Angeles, for injuries received by him while visiting the United States transport Arizona while she was lying at Seattle. The Ari- zona was not then the property of the United States, and MT Mallory's claim is not regarded as meritorious.
 Barlow also introduced bill granting certain lands in San Gabriel to the Lowe Institute of that place.