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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27
HEALTH OF THIRTEENTH.
Three Serious Cases Reported Ia the
Minnesota Regiment

st. Paul, Oct. PA cable from Gen.
Reeve to Gov. Clough says that three
members of the Thirteenth are in Sc
riouS condition: \. Newbahl. proba-
bly, Aaron h. Newburgh, of Company
G., Pine Island; Elmer c. Kenyon,
Company IL. saltwater: Frank J. Ruff,
Company Nj. Arban. Jesse l.. Stegner,
Company |. Minneapolis, is better
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27

Swiss exports to the United States
last August showed an increase OF over
$2sO, 900 compared with August OF the
preceding year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27
Clark Hanged.

san Quentin Prison, Cal. Oct. %. :
George w. Clark. the st. Helena frati-
eide, died coolly on the gallows to-day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27
BEFORE THE
~ 0Vu VI WV ~.
A.. vs.
BEAR ISLAND INDIANS PLACED ON
TRIAL.
.-i.-l.ISsA...

Three OF the Reds Plead Guilty to
the Charge of Resisting the OH
GERS, One Is DISCHARGED and Nine
stand Trinl-Dcputy Marshal Nor
rfSOn Tcsti1cs Regarding the
man Martin, Several Indians and
Don Morrison, Clerk ut the AiScn-
cy. We're Among: the Witnessed
Government Rests It's Case.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-10-27

London, Oct. 21.-The Madrid corrc-
sponi!ent Of the Times says: Capt
Auncn, the minister of marine. has re-
ceivcd dispa'c', from Manila an
nounciEg a naval engagement between
the Americans Hlli' tue rebels in conse-
quence of AlmirA: Dewey frrbi,lding
the latter to fly ~. rebel flag from
their ships. In" ,:>....';h adds that
there were lcsS'.:. on both sides. but
that the Americans e: :Gr"d the rebel
ships. Tie seen o. -. engagement
is not stated. bHt !: * snil,nScd to have
been Manila bay
Madrid. Oct. 21.-&Ilr cniincl has t.e-
cidel to forward to the Spanish rea,r
commissioners at Paris an official dis
patch received yesterday from Manila
reporting an engagement between the
American and irSuryrnl war>hiDS
growing out Of the refusal Of Admire.
Dewey to permit the insurgents to hy
their flag from their war>hiu>.
Washington. Oct u. - AS far as
could be aSccrtaineu no information ~
gardiny the reported naval engage
ment has been received at the navy de-
partment. nor has Gen. Otis. COM
manding the United States troops at
Manila made any reference to it in
any communications hc may have
made to the war department. The
dispatch created considerable interest
i'll Washington. Recently the newspa-
pers contained a statement that Ad-
miral Dewey had dispatched one or
two of his ships to another portion of
the Philippine group Gil a mission. Of
some Importance, and the suggestion is
made unoficially that it may have
been these vessels which have been Ell
gagged in combat with the Insurgents.
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pers. Still other taxes, such as an in
come tax or other form of direct taxa
ton, apportioned among the states in
proportion 10 population, SO as to be
constitutional, might be imposed If the
necessity were urgent enough. At best
these additional taxes would not yield
money enough to meet the current ex-
penses of a war and to supply the ready
money for the necessary OUTLAWS for pro-
curing, while the war was in progress.
the enormous supplies of material of all
kinds, which ought to have been pro-
vided gradually during the years of
peace, so as to be on hand for an emer-
gency. They would be useful in raising
the money to pay the war debt after
peace had been restored, but the great
bulk of the money that would be re-
CURED for the prosecution of the war
would have to be secured by borrowing.
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were less severe. The attempt to run
human nature in fixed grooves was a
failure and Sparta went to grass.
The Cleveland Palm Dealer predicts
the failure of the marriage bill. II
seems to think that the scientific gen
tlemen made a fatal mistake in disclos-
ing their ultimate intentions, for it says:
"If the Parker marriage bill is the first
step in this movement for the establish
ter. Parker's brother legislators will be
likely to hang back, for they may ask
themselves when the reign of science is
fully established, how many Of them will
be suffered to live?"
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Russian Gold Production.

From the Philadelphia Record,
Russia holds the third place among
goId-producing countries. Gold is only
found IN large quantities in the Ural
mountains and east and west Siberia; the
very limited output Of washed gold in
Finland i not Of any Importance. Ii is
only natural that The Russian govern
ment should do all in its power TO ad-
vance the gold-minlnC industry. Its plan
is TO train up a stan ~ mining engineers
and 10 let these experts visit North Amer
lea South Africa and Australasia. It is
also proposed 20 attempt "a second ex-
traction Of gold from some 81 the vast
quantities ~ RESIDUE, etc.. in the various
mining districts.
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rHE cost of a war with Spain
would depend upon it's length.
The impression is That such a
war would be short and sharp. but even
so the expense would be heavy. As far
as its resources are concerned, the
United States is in good shape to stand
the strain of a war. There is now in
the treasury a cash balance of about
s225 900, 900 OF this amount $l00, 900
constitutes the gold reserve held for the
redemption of legal tender notes The
balance, s125. 0O0. 900. would be quickly
absorbed by the extraordinary expendi-
lures incident to a war At present the
receipts and expenditures Of the govern
ment nearly balance each other Con-
gress ne doubt would hasten to impose
increased taxes on the country, A
writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer shows
khe rather curious facts that in reversing
the tariff law 10 increase the revenues
derived from duties and customs, 1t
would be necessary i'm instances to re-
duce the tariff. Where the duties have
already been placed above the maximum
revenue producing point for the purpose
Of protection, increased revenue could
only be obtained by reducing the rates
imposed.
Most of the increases would have to
come from internal taxes however, and
these would have to be very largely in
creased At present the principal sources
Of internal revenue are whiskey. beer
and tobacco. The tax on whis<ey is at
present above the maximum revenue
producing point. and IL is doubtful If
an increase or a lowering Of this tax
would increase the receipts appreeiably
Beer does not pay as much as some
think it ought to even for peace times,
and should war taxes become necessary
there would be little difficulty in raising
from $50, 600 To $4,000, 600 more a year
by doubling or trebling the tax on beer.
The policy of congress FOR some years
has been To decrease the taxes On to-
bacco and to exempt from the eNact!on
some KINDS Of tobacco. These taxes
could be restored as a war measure, and
$4,000. 600 to $2oo00.0o0 additional could
be raised from this source.
other millions could be raised by tax
ing proprietary medicines and other
preparations Of this character. including
cosmetics and toilet articles, and still
ether millions could DE- brought iu by
stamp AK on legal and commercial pa
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The Cuban Horror.

e a man should deliberately try to
| exaggerate the awful condition of
the people of Cuba, he would find he
had addressed himself to a task impos-
sibe to perform. What a tale of hor-
ror is that told by the officers of the
United States cruiser Montgomery.
This cruiser was sent to Cuba with in
structions to make friendly call at
different ports other than Havana, and
to make inquiries as to the disposition
of the congressional funds for the as
sistance of destitute American citizens
and at the same time investigate as to
the necessity for further relief to those
not coming within the scope of congress
sional aid The first port touched at
was Matanzas, next east of Havana.
A board of officers was organized and
careful investigation made into the
condition of the inhabitants of the city
and province of that name. Within
the limits of the city $4,000 people were
found absolutely destitute of both food
and clothing. literally starving to
death. OF these, 1000 were huddled in
improvised huts made of branches of
palm, and 1000 were in the streets,
without even a pretense of shelter.
The funds in the hands of the United
States consul for the relief of destitute
Americans were nearly exhausted, the
money furnished by the Spanish au-
thorities in Havan for the relief of the
destitute in MatanZas had all been
spent, and many of the better provided
citizens who had shared their means
with the wretched people driven into
their neighborhood are now on the
verge of restitution themselves.
In the province of Matanzas $4,000
people have starved to death. Out of
population of less than 254, 900 in the
province last December there are now
9S, 900 absolutely starving, and the NOR
tality is increasing week by week The
unfortunates who have died by the
| thousand in the city of MatanZas and
| the other thousands who are starving
or rotting to death in the streets of
| that city are tillers of the soil who
were compelled by the orders of Wey-
! Ter to remove TO the fortified towns,
and who are still confined there by the
continuance of the policy, although
! Weyler has given place TO Blanco. A
very large proportion of those yet alive
are women and children. IL they VEN
ture beyond the dead line they arc
shot. If they remain where they are
they perish of starvation and exposure
And this is happening within a stones
throw of Christian America.
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TEN PAGES.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 2s. 1898.
The Indian Style.

~HE Toledo News is on the war
path. brandishing it's tomahawk
in good. set curves. 1t wants
blood. blood, blood-nothing will satisfy
il but blood. Indemnities won't go. AS
for claim. of damages against Spain,
the News rises to remark: Damages,
the devil An outraged and long-suffer-
ing American free people don't want
damages. If Spain is responsible for the
lives of those Maine seamen, we want
them back, alive and well, or we want
and. by the great Jehovah, we Will have.
not an eye for an eye, but an hundred
and one Spanish lives for every muir
dered American who sank to death and
the sharks in Havana harbor. And all
the delay of diplomacy and all the quib-
bling of craftsmanship at Washington
or Madrid cannot stop it,
The News undoubtedly echoes the
sentiments of many American people
who are afraid to come out quite so
openly AT the same time that kind of
talk is more fitted to the Mohammedans
of Turkey than the Christians of the
United States. 1t is eminently sugges-
policy had prevailed. America and Eng
land as the close of our civil war would
have sprung at each others throat in
stead of submitting their differences TO
the Geneva board of arbitration. Wan
with Spain may come, but it should not
be permitted To come until all honor
able expedients to avert 1t have been
exhausted-with the accent on the hon
orable." The trouble is. we are dealing
with a nation in which a sense of honor
is almost entirely lacking. If, as seems
probable. the Maine was blown up by
spaniards. Spain should have an op-
portunity to offer an apology and make
alfis country money restitution. in ac-
cordance with the usages of civilization.
She should also be permitted voluntarily
to stop her inhuman methods of war
fare in Cuba. Refusing to accept these
terms, she deserves a sound thrashing
and the United States cannot be too
quick in administering IL.
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menace to labor that the successful
white truck farmer is almost an un-
known quantity. They have usurped
the business, driven the white man out.
and had 1t not been for the law restrict
ing Chinese immigration they would
either have driven the white labor from
the coast and adjacent territory or have
pIecipitated race war of determination.
We persistently buy from China and
send our bullion to the Orient: even the
greater part of the savings of the Chi
nese being religiously transmitted to
the region about Canton for investment.
Our imports from China for the year
1892 amounted to $50, 4SS, POI, while they
purchased from us coal, oil and other
commodities amounting to the very in
considerable sum of about $6,000,000 In
one year we ship to China S34, 100000
more in coin and bullion than we re-
ceive from her. In short, China is. so
far as our commercial relations at pres
ent are concerned. of little value to US,
while the compact body of aliens find
in this country a productive field for
their peculiar enterprises. and during
the past 80 years have firmly intrenched
themselves, reaping rich and remun-
eratve harvest-From THE Chinaman
in American Politics." by Charles Fred
erick Holden, in North American Re-
view for February.
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Marrying by Rule.

~HERE is a bill before the Ohio
legislature to regulate marriages
from the standpoint of the ply
sician-to require candidates for matri-
1nony to undergo a medical examination
in order that the human breed may be
improved. Nor is this all--it is only the
first step in a contemplated reign of
science The Ohio matrimony bill is
said to be only the beginning OF an elab
crate scheme of social government on
scientific principles. Not only Will mar
rage be restricted to the sound and
sane, and to those capable of caring for
the children they bring into the world.
but science will kill the wretched" In
cura bles will be given a painless death
TO save them from further torture and
misery. Misshapen babies Will be put
out of the way like superfluous kittens.
The little unfortunates. deformed. de-
fective. demented. or whatever their in
durable i'll. will be painlessly sent out of
a world that has only suffering in store
for them. This. for their own sake, and
for the good of mankind. Chronic, con-
firmed or incurable criminals are also to
be scientifically killed instead Of put
ting the community 10 the annoyance
and expense of their repeated crimes and
punishments. When the reign of science
is established and these methods Of re-
generating the race are in fun opera
tion, America will develop men and
women who are able TO work out the
great problems Of social and political
life. which is their appointed mission. ="
The idea isn't altogether new. An
cient Sparta tried running society on the
same principles. The Spartans worked
up quite a reputation for themselves for
bravery and hardihood. but their model
state didn't last very long. To tell the
truth. society wasn't very pleasant in
Sparta Many people preferred the ties
Of family affection To abstract scientific
principles and emigrated 10 PLACES
where The, restdeuohs ppon breeding
and succoring the deformed and indTm
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William NJ. Singerly.

LILLIAN NJ. SINCERELY, whose
w death occurred yesterday. was
one of those men who, pos
sessed of many brilliant parts. fancy
that combined with their other abili-
ties they have a genius for gigantic
financiering. Mr. Singerly was born in
Philadelphia in 1882. He left the high
school in 1850 to take employment as
an accountant in a produce commits
sion house. Ten years later in Chicago
he started in the same kind of bust
ness on his own account, but he soon
gave it up to become at the request of
his father. who was a pioneer in Phil
adeipha street railroads. manager of
suburban railway, which from an un
satisfactory condition he brought to
paying basis. Later he bought a street
railroad in Girard avenue. which with
the growth of the city soon became
gold mine. In 1878 Mr.. Singerly inner
tied fortune from his father. con-
sisting mainly of street railroad stocks,
which he afterwards sold for $1,500,000,
twice their original value.
Mr.. Singerly bought the Philadelphia
Record in 1877. The dairy sale then
amounted to $500 copies. He rapidly
increased the business, brought the
circulation up to 100000 copies, and
made the enterprise exceedingly profit
able. In 1884 he began crusade
against the local coal dealers, cut down
the retail price S160 a ton and saved
to the people of Philadelphia about
81. SOC. 900 a year. He also entered into
the manufacture of printing paper and
for years owned several large mills in
Maryland He helped secure an en-
trance for the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road into the city, and in many other
ways the aggressive policy of the Rec
ord proved beneficial to Philadelphia
and Philadelphians.
Mr. Singerly invested heavily in Phil
adelphia real estate, building and SELL
ing hundreds of dwellings,. He bought
farms, put up factories for the manu-
facture of farming implements, owned
theaters, went in for yachts and yacht
ing, became president of the Chestnut
Street National bank and the Chestnut
| Trust 4 Savings Fund company and
| tried to cut wide swath in the finan-
cial world. The crash came few
months ago in the failure Of the Chest
nut Street bank-the circumstances are
fresh in the memory of readers of the
daily press. Mr.. Singerly's honesty
was not called in question. He had I'M
dertaken too much. Da2zled with his
other successes, he deceived himself as
TO the extent of the banks ability. He
endeavored to preserve an honest name
by giving those who had suffered 10y
the failure stock in the Record To the
extent of their losses. All of the Phil
adelphia papers, and the press gener-
ally throughout the country, treated
him very kindly. But he felt the fail
ure keenly, and his death was undoubt-
edly FASTENED by disappointment and
chagrin.
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Current Comment.
q the Lewiston. Me. Journal.

From the Lewiston, Me, Journal.
The American navy has glorious past.
traditions rich in valor and genius. We
have the same valor. equal genius, but
while we are boasting of our better tools
of warfare we seem yet to be inadequate
ly possessed of the gift of using them.
We shall learn. but il seems that the
schoolmaster is charging u merciless
price.
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Widening the Preach in Ohio.

From the Columbus Press.
No doubt Senator Hanna will feel tick
led to death when he hears that Governor
Bushnell has reappointed Colonel A. L..
Conger "A member of his military staff.
Colonel Cenger is the talented Ohio re-
publican who advised his fellow republic
cans to throw the harpoon into Hanna.
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Everybody Excent sherman.


From the Chicago Chronicle.
While every Tom, Dick and Harry who
can corner a reporter is giving to the
public his views concerning the Maine
disaster. has it occurred to anyone to in
terView John sherman. secretary of state.
on the subject If SO. his remarks have
not been published.
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Driving the White Nan ON.

The Chinaman. with few exceptions.
does not vote. neither does he desire the
rights OF citizenship, yet he + free 10
compete with Americans in trade with
out the accompanying Responsibilities.
ON the Pacific slope where the Chinese
mostly couGregate, they are so serious a
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safe Plan for the Democrats.
the New York Journal

From the New York Journal
The maxim in each congressional dis
trict should be- ''one anti-republican can
didate. and one only" So shall there be a
clear majority against Mckinley, Hanna
and Reed in the next house.
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Keeping Up the J,ngo Talk.

From the Nashville American.
The galleries always applaud the lingo
speakers in congress and the applause
brings on more lingo talk. 1t is a kind
of endless chain arrangement.
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senntor Mnson Classitled.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Prince Bismarck once referred to GER
tain kind of politician as the shrieking
women of public opinion" IL Is in this
class that Senator Mason belongs.
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Zen Titlman Rish, for Once.

From the Manchester. n. IL. Union.
Ben Tillman is against Hawaiian an
nexation. For once the South Carolina
senator has turned his pitchfork in the
right direction.
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MAKING US SOLID.
Commissioner Peck Addresses French Public
on Diplomacy Of Lafayette and Cambon.

Washington, Sept. 23.-An agreeable
impression has been created in con-
nection with the arrival at Paris of the
United States commissioner to the
Worlds Fair, Mr.. Ferdinand w. Peck,
according to word received here The
French press is much pleased at a
speech of Mr.. Peck in which The linked
together the names of Lafayette and
Cambon. the present ambassador at
Washington, in the following words:
Lafayette and Camibon: The
Knight of Liberty of the 18th century,
and the wise diplomat of the 18th CEN
fury. The fraternity inaugurated by
the immortal Lafayette more than a
hundred years ago is again cementea
by the friendly diplomacy of the aanbas-
sador of France in promoting the
blessings of peace that have come after
our recent struggle with a foreign foe .
Mr.. Peck's plan Of erecting at Paris
a monument to Lafayette, as one of the
features of the exposition, also is at
tracing much favorable comment with
~the officials and public generally at
Paris, and altogether it is said the
friendly sentiments between the two
republics is being made more apparent
than ever.