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Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
JAPAN MAKES A DEMAND.
Korean Government Must Live Up to
Agreements.

Korean Government Must Live Up to
Agreements
LONDON, Feb. 7.-The correspondent
of The Times at Kobe, Japan, says:
The Korean government, having
adopted a resolution that no railway
concessions shall be granted to foreign.
ers, the japanese minister at Seoul, NJ.
Kato Masuo, will demand that the con-
tract for the construction Of the Seoul.
Fusan railway by Japan, under an
agreement made in August, 1894, shall
be signed without delay.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says it
is rumored there that the British
cruiser Edgar is slowing all possible
ammunition preparatory to going
north.
According to a special dispatch from
Shanghai, Admiral Sir Alexander
Butler, COMMUNICATIVE Of the
British feet on the China station, has
arrived there and all important ex-
change of views by cable has occurred
between him, the British minister at
Pekin, Sir Claude Macdonald, and the
admiralty.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
TWICE FIRE SWEPT
SAVANNAH, GA, SUFFERS A LOSS OF
ABOUT S35O,OOo.
Serious Wharf Blaze Followed by the
Destruction of the Magnificent Cath.
olio Cathedral-Winter Resort at
Aiken, 8. c., in Ashes.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. damage to
the extent of 1926, 900 was caused by a
conflagration which started in hay
warehouse on the wharf at the foot Of
jefferson street. The fire communi.
Gated itself to several brick buildings
on Bay street and three of them were
entirely gutted
Before the fire which broke out in
the hay warehouse had been brought
under control, flames burst out in the
magnificent Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, the head seat of the Catholic
church in the state of Georgia, and it
was soon mass of ruins. The edifice
cost about 1925, 900. It was one Of the
finest ecclesiastical structures in the
South and contained many works Of
art, all of which were saved.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
WASHiNGTON'S DEATH.
Centennial Anniversary to BE Observed
Under Masonic Control.

Centennial Anniversary to BE Observed
Under Masonic Control.
WASHINGTON, Feb. There will be
an interesting meeting in Alexandria,
on Washington birthday for the pur.
pose of arranging for the observance of
the centennial anniversary Of the death
Of the Father of his Country. The ar.
rangements will be under the control
Of the Virginia Grand Lodge of Ma.
sons. This is peculiarly appropriate
because Washington presided at the
laying OF the cornerstone of the capitol
in 1893, not only as president Of the
United States, but also as past master
of Alexandria lodge of Masons. Dur.
ing the ceremonies he wore his MASTER 8
sash, and the apron presented to him
by Lafayette, wrought with Masonic
emblems in gold and silver, by the fair
hands of the Marquise de Lafayette
herself.
AS President Mckinley is a Mason,
he will be invited to deliver the princi.
pal address at the ceremonies at Mt
Vernon, which will be held as near as
possible to the family vault in which
General Washington was laid in 1887,
after a scare which shocked the whole
country, of an attempted sacrilege at
the old family tomb, nearer the bank of
the river. Arrangements will be made
at this months meeting for a solemn
ceremony following as close as possible
the ritual of the burial itself, and the
intention is to have Masonic and other
bodies from all over the country par.
ticipate.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
DENY A CABINET CRISIS.
taoan AutOnomist Leader Conf lent Of
Bringing Insurgents to Terms.

taoan Autonomist Leader Conf lent of
Bringing Insurgents to Terms.
HAVANA, Feb. 7.-Senor Jose Gal
MA president Of the Autonomist cabi.
let' says there is no disagreement
among Its members, nor anything in
!le nature of crisis. Under the con.
litlons. declares Senor Galvez, it is not
Voc mission Of members of the cabinet
Daodress the insurgents officially or
. negotiate for peace unless they
so0uid have a guarantee as to the out.
come OF their efforts. Nevertheless
ue members of the cabinet, in their
unOmcial capacity, will do all in their
pSer to smooth the pathway and will
%lulonte y 10 all private efforts to
Whg about favorable issue.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
DOLE LEAVES WASHINGTON.
hawaiian President Ceases to BE the
Guest Of the Nation.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-President Dole
and his party ceased to be the guests of
the nation at 7:2O o'clock when he
started for Buffalo and thus began his
return journey for the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The party was escorted to the
station by Assistant Secretary OF State
Cridler and several friends of the presi.
dent. Minister Hatch and Mrs. Hatch
also were present. President Dole will
remain in Buffalo about IL hours, when
he will start for Cleveland, where he
will stop over for few hours in order
that Mrs. Dole may meet some of her
relatives living there. He will then go
directly to San Francisco, where he
will be given a banquet by former resi-.
dents of Honolulu. He expects to sail
on either the Gaelic or Mariposa, leav-
ing on Feb. % and % respectively.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08

father and son both on the retired list
on account of age, after having reached
the highest grade in the navy.
The father, Thomas o. Seltridge, is
now living in Washington, having re.
tired in 1866, after 36la years service,
and his name now heads the naval re-
tired list
The son, likewise named Thomas O..
Selfridge, had 45 years service to his
credit when he retired. He sailed for
the United States from France Satur-
day.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
loleOO CLOSED UP TIGHT.
'"'herto Wide-Open Town Has n Sudden
Wave of Reform.

''"s''o "ide-Open Town Has n Sudden
Wave of Reform.
ioLEDo, o., Feb. This hitherto
''ue'open town was closed up tight by
~ 0foer of Chief of Police Daitz to all
S!'ons who do business on Sunday.
@'afaay night all the saloons were or.
VI .'eu 70 close at / o'clock and remain
s.sea s all day Sunday. Milk dealers
~. ~e notined to stop serving their Gus.
Suess and the news stands were or.
~ rsIea to discontinue selling papers.
uasgists We're warned that if they
Sau a anything except upon prescrip-
.S A 'rom a physician they would
~,. arrested. Candy stores and
s s1 counters were closed. Manager
Ms. 'sus OF the Peoples theater, and
s1s saser McFadden OF the Wonder.
pnm., mn were y arrested during the evening.
NM, y 0'oOo people gathered in the vi.
sSo OF the playhouse to hoot the
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
VINES MUST COME DOWN.

r.,. ru'n sent by Mayor Harrison to
C"ph aud Telephone Companies.
esah0Aao, Feb. -Four thousand
r,snS h7aa wires belonging. to the tele.
il tha n' ,eiephone and other companies
dow aown towL district will be cut
70 n. W the city unless steps are taken
N,,pa p,aVe them underground before
Was,a u'imatum has been sent to the
The sin p Union Telegraph company,
,hs cps 1os'al Telegraph Gable company,
Chicana' Telephone company, the
and - Electric Detective company,
nDv 1 Mercurial Fire Alarm com.
asv Il. edward B. Eilioott, chief Of the
enn.s s.sosrlcal department, notified the
a'ss as the the request Of MayoS
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
GUESTS ESCAPED SAFELY,
Winter Resort Hotel at Aiken, s. c., De-
stroyed by Fire

AIKEN, S. c., Feb. THE Highland
Park hotel at this place was destroyed
by fire duriSg the morning. The
flames started somewhere in the laun-
dry room and gradually picked their
way over the building. The loss is
$4,000. One hundred and sixty.
eight guests were stopping in the build
ing but they had no trouble in getting
away with their baggage. The High
known of the Southern winter resorts.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
NORTHERN PACIFIC WRECK
Passenger Train Ditched and Three Un-
known Men Killed.

Passenger Train Ditched and Three Un-
known Men Killed.
RITzv1LLE, Wash, Feb. Probably
one of the worst wrecks for several
years on this division of the Northern
Pacific railroad occurred near Lake, a
station about 25 miles east of Pasco,
when the eastbound passenger train
No. plunged into washout. None
Of the trainmen or passengers were
killed. Two hoboes, who were beat.
ing their way on the blind baggage,
were crushed between the tender and
mail car. One of them was instantly
killed, while the other one lived but a
short time. Another man was fatally
injured and will probably die.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
SIX FiREMEN PERISHED.
Roof of Boston building Collapsed,
Burying Them in the Debris.

Boston, Feb. THE bodies of six
firemen, among them that of District
Chief Egan, have just been taken from
the ruins of the Bent building, which
took fire at a. nj. Four other firemen
were buried III the ruins, but they es.
capped with more or less serious in.
juries. The fire is supposed to have
started in the rear of the fourth story.
The firemen had entered window and
were at work on the fourth floor, when
the roof collapsed, tearing away the
top floor and the one on which the fire.
men were engaged, burying them be-
meath the wreck.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
SheIved for tho Iresent.

LONDON, Feb. THE Constantinople
correspondent of The Daily Mail says:
The candidacy of Prince George of
Greece for the governorship of Crete
and the Cretan question generally have
been shelved for the present.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
issuing Many Miners l. censes.

VICTORIA, B. c., Feb. 7.-Over 100
miners licenses for the Yukon district
were issued Saturday and almost as
many Monday ny the collector of Gus.
toms. He has issued over 90 daily since
the Licenses arrived
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
BOURSES ARE AFFECTED.
Pasmistic Impression Current Regard.
ing Spanish A american Relations.

Pasmistic Impression Current Regard
ing Spanish A merican Relations.
LONDON, Feb. Z. The Madrid CORE
Ipondent OF The Standard says: Senior
agasta's response to the official note
Presented Saturday by General Wood
ford, the United States minister, com.
pains of tiI;bustering expeditions and
declares that Spain cannot entertain
ne suggestion for fixing date for her
completion of the pacification of Cuba.
Pessimist impressions are now current
ngarding the relations between Spain
and the United States and have de-
pressed the Madrid and Barcelona
nurSes Public feeling among all
classes is strong against America.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
SENTENCE MUST STAND.
Dean of Iowa University Declines to Miti-
gate punishment.

CHICAGO, Feb THE Tribune's
Iowa City, Ia, special says: The final
and decisive step in the State Univer.
sity of Iowa kidnapping case was taken
during the morning, when Professor
Currier, the university dean, announced
that the faculty refused to mitigate the
punishment of the % students sus.
pended for abduction. The faculty's
resolution expressed sympathy for the
young men and women sent home, and
for their 1000 friends who assem- bled
in mass meeting, but declared that, for
the sake of discipline, the period Of
suspension could not be reduced.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
Nansen Didn't Like Our Style.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. I'm an interview
ON his return here from the United
States, DR.. Fridtjof Manson, the Arctic
explorer, is quoted as saying that lee.
turing in America is as bad as explor.
ing, adding that when not lecturing he
was travelling, and the American style
Of travelling was not 10 bis taste
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
PRISONERS CREMATED.

Three Men I'm the Victor (Colo.) JAN
Burned to Death.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Feb. 7.-Three
men were burned to death and another
received fatal injuries in fire which
burned the Victor Jail early in the day.
The dead are;
Thomas Quinn, railroad grader OF
Pbiladeluh.a: railroad man known as
"Snorry;" James Connors.
The lCur men were arrested during
the night tor disturbance. Their
screams for help were heard by hun.
dreds ii people who were powerless to
aid them,
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
Greatly Offended Russia.

LONDON, Feb. Z. The Daily Chron.
icle says it believes that the recent
speech of the chancellor of the ex.
chequer, Sir Michael Hicks.Beach, at
Swansea, when he said that the gov
ernment was determined even at the
cost OF war that the door of Chinese
commerce should not be shut to Great
Britain, greatly offended Russia.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
Klondikers From England.

SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 1.-THE first
large party of Klondikers from this
country, numbering 300 people, sailed
from this port on board the British
steamer Tartar. They expect to reach
Vancouver in month. They carry a
quantity Of stores, provisions and a
tslsgrsphie apparatus.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
Grounded Vessels Safely OF.

NEW YORK, Feb THE North Ger.
man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II,
for Naples, and the French line steamer
La Bretagne, for Havre, which were
reported to have leen grounded off
Sandy Hook during thick weather, pro.
ceeded to sea during the morning.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
THOUSAND FIRE FIGHTERS.
Big bucket Brigade Saves Much Prop
erty at Albany, Ind.

erty at Albany, Ind.
ALBANY, Ind, Feb. IA furious fire
broke out here at midnight in the
Speicher business klock and ragged for
two hours and a half. An application
to Muncie failed to bring relief. AL.
bany has no fire protection to cope with
a big confiagration and the citizens
were powerless. By tearing down
buildings the fire was finally stopped
by want of fuel. One thousand men
formed in line with 500 buckets and
saved much property. The total loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
Need Them on the Yukon.

BUTTE, Mon, Feb. 7.-1nformation
received from Lethbridge, on the Cana
dian boundary, is to the effect that
great excitement has been caused there
by orders received from the Dominion
government that every man of the
mounted police holds himself in readi-
ness to proceed to the Yukon at a mo-
ment's notice for Temporary duty.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08

BERLIN, Feb. AT o largely at.
tended meeting of the Society of Fruit
Dealers the speakers unanimously con.
demned the exclusion of American
fruit on the ground that it would cause
a rise in the price OF all fruit. A reso.
luton embodying this conclusion was
adopted and will de sent to the bundles
rath.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
A Kentucky Pool Room RilI.

FRANKFORT, Ky, Feb. 7.-The Bron.
ston pool room UilI passed the senate
and was sent TO the house. The bill
not only makes pool selling felony,
except on race courses, but excludes
foreign books from even there.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08

"That's strange case of the aged
gentleman who moves in the highest
circles, isn't it?'
81 hadn't heard of it..
Hadn't you? Why, the Yerkes tele.
scope is authority for the story that the
man in the moon is all burned out. -
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08

Harrison, who is determined to bury
every wire and cable that stretches
from the buildings in the down town
district
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
ADMIRAL SELFRIDGE QUITS.
Reaches the Age Limit and Joins His
Father in Private Life.

WAsHINGToN, Feb. Admiral Sci.
fridge, who has just relinquished the
command of the European station,
went upon the retired list of the navy
Saturday, having reached the age fixed
by law.
The event is entirely peculiar in the
naval history of this country, in that
ihere is presented the spectacle of a
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
MISSING GENERAL BOYCE,
Man Badly Wanted in the Ohio Investiga-
tioE Found at Montreal.

tfOG Found at Montreal.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-"General" II.
H. Boyce, who is alleged by Legislator
Otis of Ohio to have offered him $lO,.
900 for his vote to retain Mark A.
Hanna in the United States senate, has
been found in Montreal, Can. He says
that when the proper time comes he
will tell the whole story of the sena.
torial election in Ohio. Boyce disap.
peared from New York about Jan. 90
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08

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Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-08
DECISION FOR PlNGREE.

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The silver lance., 1898-03-11
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.
Ono VIII BE Seen by the People OF
America on May as, 1900.

One VIII he Seen by the People of
America on May IS, 1900.
The people of America will have a
very unusual chance to see a total solar
eclipse right here at home on May 2S,
1890. Astronomers are even now study
Ing the meteorological tables for past
years in order to find the localities
promising clearest skies, says the
Washington Post. The line of totality
first touches the continent on the Paci-
fc coast in Mexico, north of Cape Co.
rientes. pursuing a northeast course,
leaving Mexico at the mouth of the ltio
Grande. crossing the gulf of Mexico and
entering the United States at Atchafa-
laya bay. Louisiana. The breadth of
the line is about fifty miles. The eclipse
will be total at New Orleans at about
1922 a. m, Washington time. The
eclipse will be visible in Macon, Raj
eigh. Norfolk and intermediate and
neighboring points. Crossing the ocean
the land first touched is near the port
of Coimbra, Spain, passing southeast
across southern Europe and the Medi-
terranean sea. Thus all the astrono-
mers in both hemispheres will be with
in easy distance and with every facil-
ity for using any amount Of instrument
tai equipment. The greatest Duration
will be two minutes. nine seconds,
about the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
The silver lance., 1898-03-11
Couldn't beat Him.

A little boy from California who has
been about a great deal is spending
the holidays with his Washington cous-
ins. He has enjoyed the sights of the
capital. but he hasn't permitted himself
to be in the slightest degree oyerawed
by anything he has seen. His cousins
took him-"carried'' him, they said OF
it themselves-to the National Museum
one day, and called his attention to a
great log of petrified wood lying just
outside the door. The little Califor-
nian had been a little depressed. but
he frightened up at the sight. 1--WE
seen a whole tree like that" he said.
The Washington cousins maintained
their composure. We've got whole
forest of trees like that out west" went
on the young westerner. Still the
Washingtonians were not at all i'm
pressed. The California boy drew a
long breath We've got whole woods
of putrefied trees" he said. "Yes, and
they's putrefied birds sitting on 'em,
and-and," with one last effort to dis
turb the calm self-satisfaction of his
companions. they're singing putrefied
songs, too."-Washington Post.
The silver lance., 1898-03-11
A Queer Cucumber,

Mrs. Rose Marimon found in her
garden the middle of las July a Gu
cumher eleven inches long and twelve
inches in circumference which she left
for seed. but looked in vain for the
vegetable to ripen and turn yellow
The first week in September it was
discovered to be loose from the vine
and was taken in the house and put
away. Today it is as green and firm
as it was in July, and there is no in
dication that it will ever change its
state. Mrs. Marimon has been gar
dening fer forty years and never OBJ
served the like of this cucumber before
-Harrodsburg (Ky) Sayings.
The silver lance., 1898-03-11
THEIR ORIGIN.

The caulifiower came from Cyprus.
The eggplant is a native of Asia. Az
rica and South America.
Mushrooms are native to all temper
ate countries in short grass.
Potatoes are native to Peru, and the
Spaniards discovered them. From
Spain they passed into Italy and Bel
GUM.
Melons were grown by the old Greeks
and Romans and were carried to Am
erica by Columbus. The watermelon is
native to Africa.
The cabbage still grows wild in
Greece, where it originated. Radishes
were native in China, but have been
grown in Europe for centuries.
Garlic came from Asia and has been
used since the earliest times. 1t formed
mart of the diet Of the Israelites in
Egypt, was used by Greek and Roman
soldiers and African peasants.
Brussels sprouts came from Belgium:
beets are native to the southeast sea-
coast of Europe; sage comes from south
Europe; rhubarb from China and Tar
tary. The arrowroot is from South
America.
Cucumbers are native In the East In
dies and are grown in Cashmere. China
and Persia. They much esteemed
by the ancients and - common IN
Egypt. where drink Dfepe<ed from
them When they are ripe.
The silver lance., 1898-03-11
SWERS.

Miss Willing-The idea of a 16-year-
old girl sending a "Bless-Our-H Home"
motto to young man is absurd.
Scribbies-There is a number of So
called remedies for writer's cramp. but
probably the most effective is a pub
lisher's check
sylvia-We may be wrong, sylvia,
but, confidentially, between us end our
selves. we believe the best time to
marry is on the 31st of February.
Young Father-No papa, the Ding
ley bill will not increase the tacks on
carpets. The pleasures of your mid
night walks will not be interfered with.
Farmer-Our experience in fence
making has grown somewhat rusty,
but we think the best way to make
fence posts last is to make the fence
first.
Jaggsley-No. there is no earthly rea.
son why you shouldn't use a shoe horr
to aid in putting on your hat, after
loving a sherry cobb,er not wisely bu
too we'll.