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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

WE gre somewhat inclined to believe
hat the report that most of the cart
ridges used in the Spanish magazines
md guns at the battle of Santiago were
made of wood and not of brass or lead,
u y hoax, started from Spanish sources
with the view of lessening the glory of
ahe American victories.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

A vERAcIOUs exchange is respon.
ihe for this: "What weapon did Sam.
9son use in staying the Philistines?"
asked the Sunday school superihten.
dent during the general exercises. "He
be-didn't use none" sputtered little
3ed-head urchin in the back row OF
fsats, she didn't get inter the scrap
I'LL they was all SUNK"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

WITH the completion of the fifty
i've. war vessels now in course of con-
struction and under contract, the Unit
nd States will rank third as naval
power.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

LEARN A Industrial Arts, taught by our cor
TRADE. respondence system; skilled labor
commands highest wages, master Of his trade
steady employment assured. Trades that Of
fer great opportunities for development and
distinction. Instructions consist OF actual
work, tools and instruments furnished. Cata-
logue for stamp. Address the Williams Trade
School, Kalamazoo, Michigan, u. 8. A. $3.50
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

THE official state ballot for this year
will contain five tickets, viz: republi.
Gan, democratic, prohibition, peoples
and socialist. labor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

AIN exchange credits Schley with be-
ing great medical benefactor because
Ne made the Spanish fly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

10000 Imperial Perfecto cigars just
received at Daubney's restaurant.
Guaranteed Samatra wrappers. Fin
est five cent cigar In the city.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

CERRo GoRDo county also needs .
lww court house.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

THE peace jubilee is over. Now
lhs Us have peace.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

BEprepared to cast your vote for a
nav court house on election day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Pursuant to law, I, LESLIE NJ. SHAW,
Governor of the State OF Iowa, do hereby pro-
claim and make known that at the general
election to be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday of November next, to-wit:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

All those In favor OF each or any OF said pro
positions will signify the same by marking
x in the square at the right OF the word Eyes,
and those opposed to the same will make q
in the square opposite the word NO"
In testimony whereof witness my hand THU
2ist day ofSeptember, A. d., 1898.
o. C. JOHNSON,
Co. Auditor and Clerk of Board OF Super
visors
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
Shall the following measure be adoptedr

(z)-Shall an annual tax in adj
dition to the usual taxes, be lev
led upon the taxable property OF
the said county, In sum not ex-
ceeding thirteen thousand dol
lars per annum for the purpose
of paying for the erection Of said
court house?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
Shall the following measure be adopted?

thorized to tear down the old
court house building and bond
the county in the sum of not ex-
ceeding seventy-five thousand
dollars, for the erection Of a new
court house building. and be
authorized to erect q new court
house on the old court house
ground?
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
SOLDIER TRAIN WRECKED.


Port Merheraon.
A freight engine Of the Central rail-
road crashed into an engine attached
60 the train which was 10 bear the
Eighth infantry to Austell Ca, Mon
day afternoon at 1870 o'clock at Fort
Mcpherson, Ga.
As result Of the head-end collis-
ion, Fireman Daney Vaughn was in-
stantly killed; Engineer Gus Wallace,
badly mnngled, aud died from his in
iuries at II o'clock Monday night;
Engineer j. J. Green. mashed, cut and
may not recover; Fireman ". II.
Chambers, internally injured and
cut and bruised.
Both engines we're demolished and
-four freight cars torn into splinters.
The collision occurred directly in
front Of the fort and just opposite the
railroad station 10 the barracks.
The passenger train 10 which No.
l,l3i was attached was standing in the
railroad yard OF the fort, but the en-
CINE and two freight ears, which were
IA iront OF tho passenger coachesi were
standing across the main line, thus
blockading the right-hand track going
south.
The train that caused the collision
was a fast freight, south bound, which
was going out on the right-hand track,
at a rate estimated to have been about
thirty or thirty-iye miles an hour.
The freight engineer, who was run
ming on the double track, is said to
have had the right Of way, as the
block at West End signal station be-
tween Atlanta and the fort gave him
the right to run his train to McPher-
son
When Mcpherson was reached, it is
said he was given the white signal to
go ahead. Whether he had his signals
all right or not, it is certain that the
engineer Of the freight thought the
track was clear, or he would have
slackeued the speed Of his train.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

Anew and Popalsr NoYsmsnt.

A movement originating among scv-
sral leading Chicago business horses
is attracting general attention. Tho
National Parcel Post league Is the
name Of "a new organization formed 10
induce the government 20 establish a
a system Of Transporting small pack
ag1a 81 merchandise through the nails
after tho manner Of the popular ana
profitable pascel-post system q Europe
This movement will meet with public
favor, and the political party that win
give &c hearty endorsement IN Us plat
form will be greatly strengthened.
There Is no reason why our post Office
department should not give TO the
public as great advantages as the
European post office systems confer
upon the people abroad. by extending
the rates Of cheaper letter postage to
small packages of merchandise. The
adoption Of such a system would add
enormously TO the business Of the
stores in all the cities. great and small.
and would give the people the bene-
At Of competitive prices for most ar
tiCles required for domestic consump-
tlon.-Lcslla's Weekly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
MERRITT APPEARS UNEASY.
Again Gables War Department of The
Philippine Situation.

Again Cables War Department of The
Philippine Situation.
A Washington special says: General
Merritt has again cabled the war de-
partment relative to the situation in
Manila, which he finds very unsatis-
factory, owing to the attitude of the
insurgents. 1t was reported to Gen
eral Merritt that the attitude Of the
insurgents is similar to that assumed
by Garcia's Cubans on the question of
their right to enter and possess them
selves of the city, although in this
case these insurgents are q very much
more formidable element, being not
only more numerous, but better armed
and filled with the arrogance follow
ing numerous victories over the Span
ish forces.
General Merritt, however, indicates
that he will do his utmost to protect
citizens from the savagery Of the in
surgents, though his task is a delicate
and difficult one, because of the fact
that he must, while fighting the Span
iards, be ready at any moment to
repel the insurgents.
The general gave notice that he was
about to combine with Admiral Dewey
in joint demand for the surrender OF
the city to the United States forces,
thus forestalling the insurgents, and
this movement may cause a rupture.
1t is possible, in view Of the fact that
General Merritts cablegram was sem
from Cavite last Thursday, that this
movement has been made already
by the combined American forces.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
ANOTHER PORT sILENCED.
Our warships lombard Nipe and Sink
Spanish GunbOat.

Our warships lombard Nipe and Sink
a Spanish Gunboat.
Acting under orders from Rear Adj
miral Sampson, four wsrships on
Thursday afternoon entered the har-
Dor Of Nipe on the northeast coast of
Santiago de Cuba, and after furious
bombardment took possession of the
harbor as a base of operations for the
Porto Rico campaign. 1t is under
stood, however, that the plans have
been changed since in consequence of
the occupation Of Santiago by the
United States forces and that Nipe will
not be used for the purpose originally
intended.
The vessels engaged were the Tope-
ka, Annapolis, Wasp and Leyden. In
the course of an hour they silenced
three forts, sank the Spanish gunboat
Jorge Juan-not the Juan George, as
before reported-and scattered Span
ish riAemen who had taken part in the
engagement.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

The Canadians had practically de.
termined to put an export duty on
nickel, Of which metal they are the
largest producers in the world, when
Mr.. Chamberlain made his famous
speech about an Anglo-Saxon alliance.
Now they are afraid to do 50, and wish
that Mr.. Chamberlain had waited a
few weeks longer. The United States
is a great buyer of nickel, and can
profit by this happy chance.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

Age does not always mean decrepi.
tude, observes the New York CONNER.
rial Advertiser Admiral Dewey is
sixty-one, General Merritt is sixty,
and is chosen as the smartest general
In the service for the most arduous
and remote command. Farragut COM
manded a feet for the first time at
sixty-one. The fact is that age is
only weak when vigor declines, and
that an old man who has preserved
his vigor unimpaired is the strongest
man Of all. When man reaches sixty
or seventy and still retains his vitali-
ty, energy and fire undiminished
young men need to look out for him.
When he is their equal in activity and
sim, and has in addition the craft and
cunning of sixty years experience he
lis formidable, and likely to be as dar-
ing and bold as if he were thirty. A
man who has these qualifications
~when he is on the stage in any walk
of life is pretty sure to be its foremost
figure. A country is safe when such
men command its fleets aud armies.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

The conclusion arrived at by DIR.
See of the Lowell Observatory, in
discussing the question as to whether
there are other habitable worlds
than our own, differs from that of
Garrett P. Seryiss, says the New York
Sun. In his account of his most re-
cent observations, the fact is stated
that there were disclosed stars more
difficult than any which astronomers
had seen before-among these obscure
objects being about half dozen of a
truly wonderful character, in that
they seem to be dark, almost black, in
color, and apparently shining by dull,
reflected light, and, as it is unlikely
they are self luminous, it may be said
that, if they should turn out dark
bodies in fact, shining only by the
reflected light of the stars around which
they revolve, they would be the first
case Of planets, or dark bodies, noticed
among the fixed stars. Mr.. Seryiss
is not Of the opinion, though PROBES
sor See appears to hold it, that there
are no planetary bodies in the uni
verse, revolving around other suns
than ours; and he argues that these
obscure objects, named by Professor
See, are visible proves that they ar,
enormously larger than Jupiter, and
though it is by no means certain tina
che latter is a habitable planet, it i
quite certain, unless terrestrial analo
qies are abandoned altogether, tina
these enormously larger bodies car
not be habitable.
-. .s-.. 80
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

1t is said, for the first time in the
experience Of an army in actual SER
vice, the commanding officers of the
United States troops will have COM
plete outfits for maintaining tele-
graphic communication with the va.
rious brigades and regiments that go
10 make the divisions and corps OF the
army. General Greedy also has
equipped and has ready for service
his field telegraph outfit.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
DIRECT WIRE TO PONCE.
General Greedy Has Established Commu-
nicatlon With Miles.

General Greedy, chief signal officer,
was able to announce with great
deal of qualification Monday that he
was now in direct communication with
General Miles headquarters at Ponce.
Heretofore all messages from the
general have come via a dispatch boat
to ST. Thomas and thence by cable, in
volying a delay Of from twelve to
twenty hours. When the Spanish
forces retreated from Ponce they de-
stroyed the cable instruments. Gen.
eral Greedy succeeded in getting the
officials at st. Thomas to send over
new instruments.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
SKATERS FEVER REPORT.

Commander Shows see New Cases Among
Soldiers For One Day.
The war department posted the fol-
lowing Thursday night:
"Adiutaut General of the Army
Condition for the 9th; Total sick,
4,122 total fever, 3,193; new cases of
fever, 800; cases returned to duty $40.
Deaths-PriYate J. H. Farrell,
company H. Ninth Massachusetts vol =
unteers, at Siboney, yellow fever; Cor
poral Thomas Robson, company d,
Twenty-fourth infantry, Siboney, yell
low fever; Private William H. Bers,
company D, Seventeenth infantry,
cerebral apoplexy.
SKATER, Major General"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
MUST FURNISH STAMPS.

Illinois Judge Decides Against an Ex-
press Company Regarding stamps.
A Chicago dispatch says: Judge
Tuley. Of the circuit court, has ruled
in favor Of the shippers in the test case
brought by the Illinois Manufacturers
Association, granting q writ of man
damus compelling the United States
Express Company to accept for trans
portation packages for shipment with
out the payment of one cent in excess
Of the regular rate. The case will be
appealed by the defendants.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
H0BSON VISITS HIS Mother.
HERO OF THE MERRIMAC Ar.
RIYEs AT LYTHIA sPRINFs.
A JOYFUL WELCOME ACCORDED.
Meeting Between Mother and Son Was
Pathetic aud Anectionato Oyatlons
Along the Way.

Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hob
son reached Lithia Springs, Ga,
Monday morning from New York on a
visit TO his mother who is temporarily
soiourning at that resort
The Lieutenant arrived in Atlanta at
5l0 o'clock, a. m, and notwithstand-
ing the early hour there were many 10
greet him and shake his hand. The
stop in the Gate City was for only
twenty minutes aud the hero Of the
Merrimac was soon speeding toward
Austell.
In the meantime a loving mother
awaited a long absent son on the plat
form by the railroad at Lithia Springs.
When the train finally pulled up to the
station where the mother waited, a
crowd Of guests from the Sweetwater
Park hotel had gathered to join in the
welcome.
Lieutenant Hobson alighted from
the rear end of the car when his moth
er was looking for him to come from
the front He saw her ahead and
went to meet her. She turned, and
seeing him, came toward him. The
meeting was a pathetic one. The son
kissed his mother, who threw her arms
around his neck and for several mo-
ments rested her head on his shoulder,
shedding tears Of Joy. The crowd
stood aside in reverence to such affec-
ton.
To say that Mrs. HoOson was over
joyed to see her son would express it
too mildly. AS she walked up the
lane from the depot to the hotel, lean
ing upon the arm of her boy, her face
was aglow with happiness She was,
too, Justly proud of her son, of whom
so much is being made. These two
led the way from the railroad station,
and the hotel guests followed, two by
two.
At the hotel the lieutenant was
stopped but moment to receive the
welcome few guests we're eager to
extend-those who had not gone to
the train.
The hotel parlors were decorated
with the most beautiful flowers, flags
were draped over the portieres and
the word "Welcome" made of green
leaves was spread over the door. A
string band furnished music
The proprietor of the hotel spared
no effort in his arrangements for break.
fast and his table decorations. The
flowers used were magnificent and
were, after the meal, removed to the
lieutenant's room.
After taking breakfast Lieutenant
Hobson retired to his room for rest
after his long ride from Asheville, n
c., and the crowd, never tired of see
, ing him, waited expectantly for his re-
appearance.
1t is easy to zee that above the APP
plause that waits upon him every.
where he turns Hobson's mind is riv
( eted on something more substantial
+ something that absorbs his every mo
ment and often leads him off in alb
straction. He is thinking of his
scheme for raising the Cristobal Co
lon, the proudest ship of Ceryera'I
feet that went down off Santiago
Conversation with him on this subjec
is easily obtained, although the lieu
tenant talks to the landlubber il
$ technical language that only a nava
f expert could fully appreciate.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
WITH WRECKlYG OUTFIT.

The Merritt Company Sends Second Ex-
pedltion to Santiago.
The Merritt Wrecking Company has
sent a second expedition out from
Norfolk, Va, bound for Santiago with
full wrecking outfit to work on the
Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon.
This expedition is the outcome of
Lieutenant Hobson's present trip to
the United States. The expedition
proceeded on the German steamer
Senior, which is under charter by the
Wrecking companY.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

The umpirein the boundary dispute
between Great Britain aud Venezuela
has received twenty-five large printed
volumes. They are the first instalment
of testimony on the British side.
There will be much more on that side,
and no'one dares guess how much on
the other. Assuredly international
arbitration is no sinecure.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
FATAL CHICAGO FIRE.

Three Lives Were Lost In the Burning
of Hotel.
Guests of the Berwin hotel, 149
North State street, Chicago, were
reused from their slumbers at o'clock
Monday morning to find the hotel on
fire. So rapidly did the blaze spread
that men and women found themselves
cut off from escape by the stairs.
Three lives were lost and a number
Of others were manned and bruised in
jumping from high windows.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

When Rear Admiral Dewey has re.
ceived oil the presentation swords
which admiring Americans are talk
ing about giving him ho viii likely
have enough TO furnish plowshares for
half the farmers IN Vermont needing
Ahafn
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
ASTOR AT THE CAPITAL.

The Colonel Reports With Dispatches
From General Shafter.
Col. John Jacob Astor, who was de-
tailed by Gen. Shafter to bear to the
secretary of war the official report Of
the surrender Of Santiago, reaehed
Washington Monday. He called at
the war department and, with Adiu-
tant General Corbin, went to the white
house and reported to the president.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

Sensitive 20 every lntle lndlserriion IN
eating. even Co exposure 90 dnughis and
90 oTer-peupImtlou -ihh condition Is
pleasantly positively end permanently
overcome by the magic i0ulo touch a
Hoods sauhpaHllla. which literally
"makes weak siomacha stroue" u also
craatea 40 appetite makes sou feel real
hungry. and drives away all symptoms o.
dyspepsia. DO sure % gee
Hoods SaFsapaTilla
America Greatest Medicine All drugri.ts.
Hoods Pills cure aii liver ms g scu,,.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

1ol4OWeu your Clrec-
tions, and cannot praise your medicine
enough for what it has done for nc.
Many thanks to you for your advice.
Lydia Z. Pinlxhams Vegetable Com
pound has cured me, and L will recon-
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r. HOFFMAN, SIP Roland St., Canton, 0.
The condition described by Mrs. Hof-
man will appeal to many women, yet
lots of sick women struggle on with
their daily tasks disregarding the
urgent warnings until overtaken by
actual collapse.
The present Mrs. Pinkham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
leled, for years she worked side by side
with Mrs. Lydia Z. Pinkham, and for
sometimes past has had sole charge
Of the correspondence department Of
her great business, treating by letter
as many as hundred thousand ailing
women during q single year.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
Deauty Il blood Dccp.

Clean blood means q clean skin. No
beauty without 10. Cascarcts Candy Cathar-
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and that siekly bilious complexion by taking
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05
A LIVING WITNESS.
Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She
Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for
Advice, and is Now Well

DEAR Mrs. PISKHAM:-Before using
your Vegetable Compound l was a
great sufferer. / have been sick for
months, was troubled with severe pain
in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-08-05

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Vet pdrb OF DOW
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asking your
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-02

ing or the League OF American Mu-
inequalities was called to order. About
200 were in the proper hall, viz: ths
Light Infantry armory, while scat
tered few assembled in Light Guard
armory, three blocks distant. Gov.
Pingree was among those who waited
at the wrong place, but he delivered
his welcoming address later, neverthe-
less
Up to noon 200 visitors Identification
cards had been handed in, and possibly
100 more representatives of Ameri-
can municipalities had arrived.
Mayor MaXbury cordially welcomed
the city's guests.
The president, Mayor John MacVic-
ar, of Des Moines, Ia, after Il short re-
sponse, delivered his annual address
After adoption of some amendments
to the leagues Constitution, providing
that dues be payable to the. treasurer
direct, instead of through (he secre
tary, the convention adjoGrned un
til two o'clock.
At the opening of the afternoon ses
sion Gov. Pingree welcomed the con
vention and characterized it as the
most important which had metiin De
troit, because it's object was study o,
the great problems of municipal af
fairs
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-02

the authorities of Yauco, as Un1tee
States city, expressing delight at an
nexation and the administration of
Gen. Miles and welcoming our troops.
The mayor of Ponce has called upon
all the residents Of that place to ex-
ercise calmness and circumspection
under the new and desirable condi-
tions. He also urges forbearance to.
ward conquered enemies.
Cheer stars and Stripes.
Much enthusiasm is everywhere
manifested at the sight of the stars
and stripes.
Gen. Miles has issued lengthy
order of instructions to Gen. Wilson,
who will be military governor of Ponce
province and city until Gen. Brooke's
arrival. 1t is of the same tenor as the
instructions which Gen. Miles gave
to Gen. Shafter at Santiago. Both or
ders are based on the administration
instructions given to Gen. Merritt re-
garding the government of the Phil
ippine islands. The local mayor and
judges and police will remain in au-
thority, subject to the orders of Gen.
Wilson. The custom house also will be
conducted as formerly for the present.
The receipts amount to a considerable
sum of money!