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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
M'KIBBIN, TRUE SOLDIER
Career of the Man Who Has Been
Appointed Temporary Gov
ernOr of Santiago.

Washington, D. c., July 1S.-Gen.
Chambers McKibbin, who has been ap-
pointed temporary military governor Of
Santiago, is a member of an old and we'll
known Pennsylvania family He was born
in Chambersburg, not far from the ia
nous Gettysburg battlefield Early in the
Civil war he enlisted as a private in the
regular army and almost Immediately at
forwards was appointed a second Heuten-
ant in the Fourteenth infantry.
His first promotion was given him on
the 10th of June, 1864, when he was
made a first lieutenant. On August IS
of the same year he was given a brevet
commission as captain for gallant serv-
ices in the battle of North Anna River,
Va. and during the operations on the
Weldon railroad. At the conclusion of
the war McKibbin chose to remain in the
army, and on the 9th of January, 1867,
he was promoted to be a captain in the
Thirty-hfth infantry, and on May 1,
1896. lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty
first infantry.
1t was as heutenant-cOlOnel of the Tween
ty-frst that he went to Cuba During the
battle of Santiago his services were of so
distinguished a character as to win for
him special mention in Gen. Sha fter's Of
hclal reports. He was among the officers
recommended for promotion. and was last
week named by the President as a briga-
dier-general of volunteers That the ad-
miniStratiOn and Gems. Miles and Sha fter
have great confidence in him is indicated
by his appointment as temporary military
governor of the city.
Capt William McKittrick, who had the
honor to raise the Stars and Stripes over
the palace in Santiago, is an aide de-camp
on the staff of Gen. Shafter. On the 10Th
of May he was appointed by the President
to be an assistant Acknowledgement with
the rank Of captain and was assigned soon
afterwards to the Fifth Army corps, now
under Skaters command in Cuba. He is
a resident of California
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
DYNAMITE IN JAIL.
Desperate ConVicts Try to Blow
Up Missouri Lock Up
Escape Frustrated

st. Joseph, Mo-, July 1S-Great excite
ment was created last night by the explo-
sion of dynamite in the county JAIL the
act of a number of desperate conyicts,
awaiting transfer to the penitentiary.
The rear of the Jail was wrecked, but
the prisoners escape was prevented by
citizens and officers who hurried to the
scene armed with guns and pistols.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
Serve for Glory Alone.

London, July 15.-According to a special
dispatch from Madrid, the Correspon,
dencia Militar announces that the govern
ment has decided to suspend payment Of
salaries to all civil and military servants,
as the money is needed for war expenses
Feverish preparations continue at the
coast towns for the advent of the Ameri-
cans.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
MILWAUKEE, LIVESTOCK MARKET

HOGS--RReceipts, I car; lower; pack
ers, 3.7G0:5 30; mixed. 3.SO6I3. 90; light, B. *
$685.; heavy, 3.75@4.OO
CATTLE-Market steady; receipts none.
Butchers steers. medium to good 100 to
1880 lbs 4.35G4. s.; fair to medium. go to
1850 lbs, 4.15G4.35; heifers. fair to choice,
3.5Ga4 40; cows, fair to good, 2OOd3. IS;
cows. 2Cua2S So; bulls, common to COOL > IS
stockers. 800 to 700 lbs, 35Of14 20; Taals'
00a585; mixers and springers $500
SHEEP-Receipts, none: market steady.
3.OOQ425; yearlings, 35OG4. 70; lambs
steady. 40EI4.75; spring lambs, 45OG5.75.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee, July IS, 1893.
BUTTER AND CHEESE MARKETS
the addreSsee.

MILWAUKEE-Eggs = Firm. 11a1115e.
duck eggs 1Od15c per doz.
BUTTEh-Steady;. fancy creamery per ID.
dairy selections, 13@14c; lines, fair 0e 80
choice do, 12a13c; roll, 961Oc; packing
stock, do. 9@1Oc; grease, AGO.
CHEESE--Full cream fits, per N new
SC; New York full cream, 9hc; Young
Americas, Toe; brick, new, SIZE; Hmburger'
new, S12c; Swiss, new domestic, lie: block
Swiss, 13c; imported Swiss, 24c; Sapsago.
2Oc; farmers, 1O61O&c.
CHICAGO-Butter-F creameries. II
M16c; diaries. 11@1314c. Eggs-Dull; fresh,
111ac
NEW YORK-Butter-- Receipts 49, S1
pkgs; steady; Western creame- 13hd17c:
Elgins, lie; factory, 11M12ac Eggs-Re-
ceelpts' 9l48 pkgs; market steady; Western.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
SAN JUAN ALARMED.
Momentarily Expect an Attack by
AmericanS-Fiee to the
Interior.

St. Thomas, D. w. l., July 15.-Advices
received here from San Juan de Puerto
Rico show the inhabitants of that place
are greatly alarmed They expect the port
to be attacked by the Americans today.
The terrified inhabitants are fleeing into
the interior, and it is said that the city
and suburbs are practically deserted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
Bank Teller Arrested Again.

Toronto, Ont. July 1S.-W. H. Pom
ton, formerly teller of the Dominion bank
at Napanee, Ont, ana vino was arrested
last fall on a charge of being implicated in
the theft of $4,000 from the bank vault.
has been rearrnsted in Belleville on the
former charge. PontOn was dismissed by
the police ma gjstrate and has since been
pushing $4,000 damage suit against
the bank for false arrest and wrongful dis
missaI.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
Cardenas Batteries Gone.

Key West, Fla, July 15.-From off
Cardenas comes reports that batteries in
the course of construction, as we'll as two
others already completed, have been de-
stroyed. The Spaniards made a brave
resistance, and the American shells
caused many fatalities. The American
ships were not struck
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-20
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET

Aogs-Estimated receipts to-
day, $4,000; left over, 22S7; market fairly
active, sc lower; light, 3.70Gl4.GO mixed,
@3.S5. Cattle-Receipts. 1850; steady to
Zoe lower: beeves, 4.15@J.3 80; cows and heif-
ers, 2.5OG4.75: Texas steers. 3.GO64. IS:
StOckers and feeders, 31074.65. Sheen
Receipts, II, 900: strong; natives, 8 25Mj.15:
Westerns. 4.1Od4.85 lambs, 4.O06660.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

knows that the country was bare
of reserves and that il will take a
large fraction of the yield to fill up3
interior bins to normal point be-;
fore any big overflow to primary
points begins. A good authority
estimates that it will take Is, 000,-
600 bushels, or about 40per cent,
of the crop of Minnesota and the
Dakotas to replenish the milling.
and interior stocks in that territory
alone. If this proportion holds
throughout the country, there is
some likelihood that the anticipat-
ed big reserves in farmers hands
next spring will be like the Irish
mans flea. There is every prospect
that the European demand will
continu ne liberal, at least until an :
other crop is raised IN Russia, for,
from the best reports, this years
Russian yield affords very small
'exportable surplus. The 1898
wheat crop of the world as a whole
is probably the largest ever made,
but as there were scarcely any
reserves, the entire consumption
must be of this years product.
One of the best English journals
estimates that the years consump-
ton will be within 80, 600, 600
bushels of the aggregate crop and
what small supplies there were on
hand. If this proves true, we will
go into the crop year Of IS SO with
even less wheat in the world than
there was this year.-Ex.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04
A Hunting Party,

Four young men from this city,
Strong and true, brave and gritty,
Started one day to try their luck
In neighborlng state, at shooting duck
Two were aldermen, couldn't be beat,
One a merchant, never could cheat;
The fourth; the girls from every town
Proclaim his praises long and loud.
They killed the chickens by the score,
They captured ducks till they wanted no
more,
But in the camp there was no peace
For two, were anxious to get some geese
They tried to kill them with No. shot
But didn't strike in just the spot.
Then up the lake crept T. and D,
And brought them down with Double B.
With shouts they carried them down the
lane,
When they met farmer, who said they
were tame:
So they gave him so cents apiece,
And came to town. The only geese.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04
Situation in Wheat.

The short side of wheat looks
more and more dangerous as the
days go on to any one VINO be-
lieves that legitimate conditions
will have their due influence on
the price. The story of expected
heavy receipts in the Northwest
and elsewhere has become thread
bare, with much using. Still prim-
airy receipts are running about the
same, or little less than last year,
and there are no accumulatlons to
speak of. Last week there was an
actual decrease of nearly 1,00O,-
900 bushels in the domestic visible
supply. This is unprecedented at
this time of year, after bumper
crop. Every body knows it was
bumper crop, but every body also
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04
The Republican County Convention.

The Republican county conven-
tion convened at Ellsworth
yesterday and the following nom
nations made: Member of assem-
bly,, C. r. Morse; county clerk,
Ole Hohle; treasurer. O. I. Bur-
sing; sheriff, Mike Nugent; coron-
er, J. s. Copley; clerk of court,
L. G.. Spinney; district attorney,
A. Combacker; register of deeds,
w. Walsingham; surveyor, B. R.
Eaton; superintendent of schools,
A. J. Ingle.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

There is no good anarchist, but
a dead anarchist is not so bad as a
live one, and that Is the state in
which he should be put as soon as
he avows himself. The interests Of
law and order require it. and it is
folly to wait for him to kill some
one before he is killed. 1t is not
customary to wait for venomous
reptiles and animals Of prey to
strike before we kill them. The
fact that they are such warrants
their removal. An ounce of pre-
vention is worth many pounds of
cure.-X.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04
Resolutions.

WHEREAS death has remOv-
ed from the activities of mortal
lifeour friend and fellow student,
Harry L. Currier, and
WHEREAS, the sad event Oc-
Cured in a foreign land, under
tropical skies, and amid the dis
tressing circumstances Of war,
and,
WHEREAS, the example of his
am bilious, energetic, and noble
life will be an inspiring and slim
ulating memory to US forever,
therefore, q
BE IT RESOLVED, that we,
the faculty and students of the
River Falls Normal School, here
in express our admiration for
his manly character, our pride
in his achievements and our af
lection for him as a friend and a
fellow student, and,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we
herein extend our tender sym
pathy to his mother and father
and sisters and brother and
other relatives in their bereave-
ment and do assure them that
we sorrow with them in their
loss and mourn with them that
the brave young life SO full OF
promise of success to himself
and comfort to others has thus
early finished it's earthly career,
and,
BE 1T RESOLVED, that we
offer our consolation in the re-
hinder that his life was sacrific-
ed in the cause of his country
and that though we are deprived
Of the companionship of hisnoble
soul, we are sustained by the
belief that he has gone on to the
enjoyment Of higher life and
more blessed opportunities than
the dearest affections of earth
could bestoW, and,
BE IT REsoLvED,-that copy
of these resolutions be sent to
the family and that they be pub
lished in the local papers, in the
BADGER, in the Ariel, and in the
Minneapolis Journal.
lCHAs. J. VENT,
Committed ALICE H. sHULTEs,
LOUISE CoGGEsHALL.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

Andrew Menser will trouble the
good people of Dawson no more for
three long years. A guard will
watch him with a gun and Men
ser's friends will no more be sub
ject to the petty larceny and thefts
of their townsman. But Menser
did not want to stay here for three
years. Indeed he had his ticket
purchased and in few hours
would have been aboard the Mon
arch bound for freedom and
Seattle.
w. Fl. Morrow has been here a
year and had sack when he came
down from the mines a month a.
go. He was delighted to meet three
old timers in the persons ofBarney
Carolain, Ted Smolick and the
prisoner. He accepted an invi-
tation and stayed at their camp
with them. With Barney he came
in one morning and went to bed,
throwing his trousers carelessly
upon the floor. The prisoner Men
ser, rose and left the tent. Getting
up from his sleep Morrow soon
missed the weight of the four and
a half pounds of gold and immedi-
ately reported the loss of his $3.50
to the police. Constable Piper was
detailed, and with commendable
sagacity soon located the culprit.
Finding that Menser was about to
go away on the first boat the con-
stable arrested him on the eve of
his departure. Examination of his
person failed to reveal the lost
gold. At last it was found that the
prisoner had another friend named
Townsend and had left with him
for safe keeping two sacks partly
filled with gold. Piper took charge
and Morrow Immediately indent-
flied one of the sacks as his own.
The gold had simply been divided
and put into two sacks instead of
one. Before Justice of the Peace
Starnes, the prisoner refused to
plead guilty and called for a jury.
Tuesday, before Judge Mcclure
and a jury of six the damn1ng
evidence of the mans robbery of
his friend was again produced. The
Jury did not hesitate to find him
guilty. The judge, in sentencing
the man, took occasion to remark
on the villainy which would rob a
friend. Three years at hard labor
5 was the sentence, but dose of the
seat" he thought would fit his
case.
There has been more or less
thieving going OH in the camp OF
3 the Wisconsin boys for some ime.
and they are very glad to have at
last detected the rascal who came
Sail the way from River Falls with
them just to rob them.-The
Klondike Nugget.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

There is said to be a woman re-
siding IN the eastern part ofPierce
county who has been married four
times and has had but one husband.
After her first marriage she was
divorced. Subsequently she mar
ried the same man again. Later
they we're again divorced and she
married another man. He tireing Of
her, left her, and subsequently it
was discovered that he had another
wife living. So the marriage had
been illegal. Later the woman a
gain married No. and she is now
living with him.-Red Wing
Republican.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

The caucus held in A. P. Car
rolls Office, Friday, for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the
Republican County Convention,
resulted in the election of the fol-
lowing delegates; A. w. Kaler,
z. Chichester, e. G. Glass, Geo. j.
Dodge, Mr.. Sanderson, A. T. Car
roll, G.. E. Pratt, 0. w. New
comb.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

We are laying in a full supply Of Fall
goods in the latest styles Dry. Goods,
Dress Goods, Woolens. Trimmings of all
kinds.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

The Latest Patterns in all wool goods,
Tailor made and warranted to ut. eau
and see them.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

Up-to-date political economists
have all declared in favor of pub
lie ownership of city lighting
plants, waterworks, street rail
ways, etc. Why not have our city
in possession ofthe lower flats, the
Lower Falls, power plant, and
It's own electric light plant?
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

XT7ANTED-SEvERAL TRUSTWORTHY PR
w sons in this state to manage our BUSH
ness in their owl. and nearby counties. II is
manly office work conducted at home Sal
ary straight 5000 year and expenses def
nite bonifide, more, NO less salary.
Monthly SIS. References. Enclose self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert E. Hess,
Prest dept NJ. Chicago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29

whether to play him at half back or
quarter back.
Outland is said to possess great
shrewdness upon the field. He Is
quick to recognize the weakness of an
adversary, and just as quick to take
advantage of 1t. If there Is a weak
place in the opposing eleven none
grasps the fact with more avidity than
he, and last year he rendered valuable
assistance to his captain by his mark.
ed ability In counsel. The Pennsylva-
MIA men are disposed to believe they
have the best captain on the gridiron
this year.
Chamberlin is exactly the type Of a
player that the Yale eleven needed last
year and it had more like him. Ag-
gressive in the spirit with which
bulldog is aggressive; persistent, as the
waves are persistent in beating upon
the beach; combative, as the Ameri-
cans were combative when they rush
ed up the slopes of El Caney, he never
knows when he is defeated or when
to "let up" on an adversary.
Whether he will be a successful
leader is another problem. A player
may be game to the backbone, pug
nacious from crown to heel and still
not be good leader of his fellows.
Yale's coaches and advisers say Cham
berlin is all right. Certainly he has
little of which to complain In his team.
as compared with the other three of
the "big four" and IL he is as success
full as the Sons of Eli hope he Will
finish his season with more glory than
lighted about the heads of the late
comers" last year when they success
fully walloped Princeton. after a pre-.
liminary campaign that tried the heart
of every man at New Haven.
The Cornell team Is somewhat erin.
pied by the loss Of many of last years
best men. including Captain McKeever
and Tracy at the ends. Schoch and
Tangeman at the centre. Wilson Mt
half-back and Faville ut guard. TIL.
team Is being coached by ex-Captain
Glenn S. Warner. Of Buffalo, who was
so successful last season. He is as.
sisted by Thomas f. Fennell of FL.
mira. who formerly played In the Cor.
nell line.
Among the old players who are can.
didates for the team are Dempsev
Bassford, Alexander, Porter, Morrison
Starbuck, Cross and Captain Whiting
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29
THE STAFF OF LIFE IN MEXICO.
Tor:ilIas. the National Bread, Is the Food
of All Glasses.

Tor:IlIa the National Bread, Is the Food
of All Glasses.
A table of various commercial data
of the City of Mexico shows that s.
000.0 tortillas are consumed daily
In the city. The tortilla, the national
bread of Mexico, Is made Of maize.
1t is an unleavened bread, the food of
rich and poor alike. For common use
it is sometimes made quite thick; for
the tables of the better class 1t Is
small, four or five inches in diameter.
1t is prepared now as 1t has been for
thousand years. The maize is par
boiled to cleanse and soften the grain,
and then left to cool. Afterward 1t Is
crushed on a metate, or block of lava
stone, about sixteen inches broad and
twenty inches long. and mixed with
water. The paste Is patted by hand
until 1t Is as thin as pancake, and
then toasted on q brasero, or native
charcoal brazier. Tortillas cost about
,three cents n dozen, and a family Of
ordinary size will consume on an aver
age eight dozen day. There are nine
factories in the city of Mexico where
the tortillas are turned out by ma
chinery. The Importance of the IN
dustry is further shown by the num-
Der of "maicerias," or maize shops, In
the city, which are said to number not
less than two hundred. In the early
part of the meal of the working classes
In Mexico the tortilla Is used as a
plate, receiving the meat or other edi-
BILE which forms the principal course.
When this is disposed Of, 1t is the
turn of the tortilla, which is curled up
and eaten with great gusto.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29
The Popular Duroc- Jsrs.y Hor.

The exact origin of this breed Is not
definitely known, hut probably 1t is
purcly American, being developed from
hogs in New York and New Jersey.
If the breed did not originate here, 1t
was certainly developed in this coun-
try. 1t early began to attract atten-
ton because OF its unique color and
ability to lay Oh flesh rapidly. The
hogs had, from the first, splendid con-
stitutions and consequent capacity for
asslmilating food, a characteristic
which they still retain. The sows are
doubtless the most prolific of any breed
of swine in existence. Young sows
usually farrow from eight to twelve
pigs ut a litter, and from ten to eigh-
teen Is not uncommon for old sows.
The pigs are very strong at birth, and
the sows and pigs very seldom need
any attention at this time. They al
most invariably im2art to their off
spring their wonderfully prolific breed
Ing qualities. are good, quiet mothers,
supplied with generous flow of milk,
raise large, even litters, and other
breeds, when crossed with them, are
greatly improved in vigor and as
breeders and feeders.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29

Corn fodder that is cut and left
standing in the field Is often greatly
damaged because of the loose way In
which the shocks are bound. A handy
and enective way to draw the shock
together for tying is to take a strap
and fasten an iron ring two or three
Inches in diameter to one end. By
putting the strap aound the shock near
the middle and running the free end
through the ring, the shock can be
brought to its smallest compass and
held there while additional layers are
being put on. There Is little difficulty
In keeping fodder which Is well tied,
and this method insures tight, COM
pact shocks that will stand wind and
storm.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29
Cold Does Not Hurt Seeds.

Experiments with plant seeds sub
jected to extreme cold have shown
that the power of termination is not
destroyed but merely suspended ty
the cold. BY the use of liquid air,
seeds of barley, oats, squash, cucun.
Der, peas, sunfower and some other
plants We're recently kept for ITO hours
at cold Of from 1888 degrees to 1872 de-
grees centigrade. They were then care
fully and slowly thawed for fifty hours
They were then planted, and sprouted
as well as II they had not been frozen.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-29

Princeton was crushed by the unex-
pected reverses received at Yalc's
hands last year, and it will take much
men into the proper humor for winning
work.
Outland's task is not entirely un
easy one. as he succeeded n winning
captain. and at the outset was some
thing of a stranger to the duties that
are required of the head of an eleven.
One thisg in his favor. however, is the
hitherto cordial relations between the
members of "Pennsy's" football eleven
and the harmonious support with
which they always "back up the
head of the team. They seem to be
keeping up their record this year.
If any one of the four might be said
to have comparatively easy sailing,
Chamberlln appears to be the man. He
is the leader of an eleven that finished
the season of 1897 with an overwhelm-
ing stock Of confidence In its ability to
defeat anything in the football lne.
Criticised, abused. even sneered ut
when the season was in its infancy,
Yale made finish that startled the
sporting world and sent the young
sters Of the eleven home with pride
beaming from every lineament of their
features--and it was pardonable pride,
too.
Something about the personal char
acteristics of the present captains is
not amiss.
Dibblee and Kelly belong to the
dashing class of players. The latter.
particularly. when the sky seems over.
cast for Princeton In important match.
es. has evoked the widest enthusiasm
from his college partlsans by making