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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

Gov. Bushnell, VINO last year APP
pointed Senator Hanna, and who
since ran for office as the nominee
sof the convention that endorsed
Hanna, is now opposing Hanna.
Bushnell must be a nice man.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Letter SELLING HIS GRAIN,

Said to Nave Closed Contracts for Most Of
His Eight Million Bushels.
CHICAGO. Jan. 8. Joseph Letter is
said to have closed contracts for the
greater part, if not all, of his i. 750, 900
bushels cash wheat. Negotiations have
been underway for several days and are
about closed. The buyers are L. Drey.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

On Monday Gov. Clough ap.
pointed members of several state
boards. B: F. Nelson was ap-
pointed one Of the managers of the
state prison. Gen. Becker was re.
appointed on the railroad rom.
mission. ...-5
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

Detective Weber, of the Pink.
erton agency, who said he could,
tell all about the Lambert lake
mystery near St. Paul. will be
summoned before the grand jury
to tell what he knows. He de.
.clared the matter a hoax. s
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
HAVE AGREED ON A BILL.
Opponents Of Civil Service Would Change
5sSt #. q .ss the Present Law.

49, the Present Law.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The special
committee appointed by the recent con.
ference Of the members Of the house OF
representatives opposed to existing civil
service reform has agreed on measure
and will report it to the conference
soon. It makes number of changes
in the Offices now in the classified
service and limits in specific terms the
powers and duties Of the civil service
commission ~ E.%s
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
eY DIRECT POPULAR VOTE.

Resolution to So Elect Senators to Be Fa-
y vorsbly Reported.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5.-The house
committee on the election of president,
vice president and representatives, has
favorably reported joint resolution
providing for the election Of United
States senators by direct vote Of the
people. While it is not anticipated
that any such resolution will pass con.
gress in the near future, the senate,
according to q poll which has been
taken lately, being opposed to any
change in the present method Of choos-
ing senators, the action Of the commit
tee and the almost unanimous senti.
ment in the house in favor Of such q
change is regarded as rejecting the
sentiment of the people as desiring it.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
70 Improve Water power.

saa MAR1NETTE, Wis, Jan. 5. The Mari.
nette and Menominee Electrical com.
pany has been organised with capital
stock of 100000. The company is or.
ganized to improve the power at Chap.
pie rapids on the Menominee river ant
viii furnish power to street railways
ana paper mill. H
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Bixamist Bstes Convicted.

CHICAGO, Jan. David e. Bates.
accused Of having six more wives than
the law allows, has been convicted OF
bigamy in the first of the numerous
cases against him. He was given a fms
Of $1,000 and an indeterminate sentence
in the penitentiary. & AZ
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

Eastern railroad men say that
the use of the long.distance tele.
phones by business men has de.
creased the passenger business on
railroads. Where men can thus
talk about busin ess matters it
saves many long journeys.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

To tune der III" School Question.
MONTREAL, Jan. 5.-Ten Catholl
bishops iron various parts OF Canad
have arrived mere to consider the pop,
encyclical o., tie Manitooa school gu,
ton, when wild Le published from
pulpits nexs SUNDAY.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

fuss & Go. of New York, the French
exporters, and Gill g. Fisher Of Balti-
more. Dreyfuss' manager is here look.
ing over the wheat and samples have
been forwarded to tho New York head.
quarters. Nothing is known about the
terms but they are believed to be salts.
factory to Letter. -
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

Judge Willis, Of st. Paul, holds
that a man must have his second
papers three months before he can
serve on jury.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
not Alter the Danish West Indies

LONDON, Jan. 5.--The Berlin. CORE.
spondent Of The Daily Chronicle de
MES that Germany has any idea Of pui
chasing the Danish West Indies.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07

"A company has been formed q
Marinette, Wis, with 420o, 600
capital, to construct 8 dam and
electric power works at the power
works at the Choppie Rapids on
the Menominee river.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
The Dingley bill produces : sur.
tplus for December. Watch Popo.
scrat comments. !.
Congress will surely pass = bank.
ruptcy bill; 50 say oil the Wash.
ington correspondents.

M. Hanna is certainly finding
public life very active. Possibly
he has struck the pace that kills.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Seven Were Killed.

MADRID, Jan. GA dispatch from
Oviedo. capital of the province Of tina.
name, in the Asturias district, says that
200 Kilograms (about 440 pounds) of
powder exploded at the San Manjova
factory. Seven were killed outright
and many badly injured The build.
ings were completely destroyed.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Millionairs Lnmbermap Dead.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Jan. 81 William
Carson, the millionaire lumberman, is
dead after an illness Of several days,
aged 80. Mr.. Carson came to Wiscon.
sin 60 years ago. He was connected
with various business enterprises anu
did a great deal toward the building ul
of Eau Clare. He is survived by fiv.
daughters aud son. L
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Cau.el t.re.t Deaf : uct,o 7,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 5.-The
boiler OF an engine drawing freight be.
tween Cincinnati and Chattanooga ex.
ploded, causing the death Of Engineel.
Lenehan end Fireman Denham, be-
sides the destruction Of IL cars o..
freight. $ll&, z.#t& as Al 4. 4 ssi f
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
Hanna Loses Two Votes.

Late last night the Hanna managers
lost the two doubtful members that
they had gained during the day, so that
there is now no material change from
that of Monday, when the house stood
Sc to So against Hanna. This would
give the senator only 10 votes on joint
ballot, or less than enough to elect.
In connection with the change Of Rep.
resentative Griffith back to, the anti
Hanna camp there are most scandal.
ously sensational reports in circulation.
Mr.. Griffith has been on both sides sew.
eral times and has SO pledged himself
in writing. : -. - u
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Horses That Went Insane.

~ HE stampede of the camp at Tam
pa by three thousand horses
Thursday night was one of the
horrors Of war that had not been CUNT
ed upon. Reports sent from the camp
a few days in advance of the outbreak
from the corrals asserted that the
horses were acting strangely-that, in
fact, IN the opinion Of the veterinarians,
they were going insane. The symptoms
Of insanity" wrote one correspondent,
''are restiessness. irritability and vicious
ness. The number of hours OF sunshine
In a day here are many. and all these
hours the horses are forced to stand
whe the sunshine pelts them on the
back of the head. Then the fine sand
carried in the air irritates the men,
branes of the nose. throat and lungs,
and when the nerves OF the o horse
give way he IL accounted insane" Gen.
eral Wheeler. commanding the cavalry
corps. visited the camps exposed to the
uninterrupted sunshine. and decided the
army from becoming lunatics was to
put them In shady places. Whether
this was lone or not IL not recorded.
Certain II Is that the horses broke loose
Thursday night n made a night of 1t.
A thrilling and horrffying experience /,
must have been. Victor Hugo I'm his
tragic way has described the wild and
awful charges OF the bands of riderless
horses at the battle Of Waterloo. When
m novelists start at work upon the
present war. the Tampa experience will
furnish them choice material for a lit
tie fancy work on the side.
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Personal Mention.

II is said that Lord Rothschild has
adopted the Chinese fashion OF paying his
physician only SO long as the patient is
in good health. He pays Sir William
Broadbent a retaining fee of 1000 guineas.
tabout $1,000 a year.
Miss jamie Taylor. the young woman of
Fond du Lac, Wis, who did such good
work as nurse in New Orleans during the
last yellow fever epidemic there. has been
accepted by the Red Cross society and
expects to be sent to Cuba with the army.
Ernest Terah Hooley, the meteoric Lon
don fnanc,er. who has just failed with
liabilities of millions of pounds. is only 50
years old. and al the food-tide of his
prosperity was fond of making startling
displays of his wealth. He Is said to
have once made SO, 600 900 In three days.
80
Irving Scott, builder OF the Oregon. now
on his way to Russia at the cars invi-
tation, is accompanied by DIR. George
Chismore, the most persistent and enthu-
siastic bear hunter in this country Be
ing in a tight place on one occasion, the
doctor killed three bears with three shots
inside of 10 seconds.
President Kilgo OF Trinity college, at
Durham. N. c., announces the gift of
slUV,pV iTOIn dshinSioh wi az al ot'
ton to the endowment fund of the insti-
tuition. This sum brings the total contri-
button made by Mr.. Duke up to S50.0O0.
which In the largest sum of money given
by a Southerner to any Institution OF
learning.
Through the efforts of Mrs. Mckinley
| Mis-. Harriet Gault. her teacher at Brooke
Hall seminary. Media, Pa. many years
ago. has been appointed postmistress at
Media. with a salary of 81, 400 a year. Miss
Gault won against several prominent po-
litical workers. She viii taxi Office In
August, when the incumbent's term will
expire.
The commanders OF As American war
ships received instruction from Colonel
David M. Greene Of Troy. N. Y. From
1882 to 1865 the United States naval acade-
my was at Newport. r. L.. and II was
there that Colonel Greene In his capacity
as an active engineer of h navy taught
his pupils. Among the number was Cap
tain Sigsbee OF the Maine
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q What II 10.

This countryiis going to learn, be-
fore the corn is In h shock.
that General shcrman's dehni-
tion of war has more than blunt rheto-
ric in II.
There has been abundance of active
bombarding along Cuba and at Porto
Rico: we are to remember that all this
is the merest preliminary. The opera
lions in front Of Santiago. for instance.
are only a preface: the navy there
can accomplish nothing until General
Skaters forces reach the scene and
then, we are given to understand, the
land forces. under what protection the
ships can furnish. will begin the real
work Of taking the place.
The Spanish feet is practically use
less: the Notifications have been ST.
fenced: a land base has been secured;
the first opportunity to start intelligent
guessing as to the length of the war
so all military authority tells us-wm be
when we see whether SPANS soldiers.
behind entertainments, will show their
ability to make a strong. well-~sustained
defense.
1t may be that General Skaters COM
mand will be victor at Santiago. with a
rush. II he makes a siege that is long,
we can ngure that n is going to be a
| slow process for our army to work its
way to Havana and bring that place
to capitulation.
There are intelligent people who know
so little about war that they complained
because Havana was not laid low and
left wide open to us in forty-eight hours.
Sixteen years g General Grant wrote
tina Havana is impregnable to a sea
attack but II can easily be taken by
military operations In h rear" That
appears 10 be the present-day opinion
I'm military circles: we are now getting
ready to approach Havana by the rear
and it's a long march.
Most OF us have yet to learn what the
relations OF the army Inc navy are to
military operations; II appears that
these stunning bombardments are a sort
of overture TO the more complete per-
Torrance. So. what Dewey must have
is troops: Sampson must sit still till ths
delayed foot soldiers reach him; Havans
must be taken by land. They are COINS
to be disappointed who had II "sised
up" that the war would consist of pic.
turesaue exhibitions OF naval taget prac.
tice. OF a truth. General Sherman's de
f%inition doesn't write II wrong.
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Any Month Will Do.

gHEN April Of this year brought
wv its declaration OF war people
who are fond OF tracing his
country's experience April Is a warlike
month. When Dewey led on with a
victory on the frst day of May. other
people quoted May dates to show that
II is a month made memorable by the
large number OF its historic events In
war on land or yea. June came, and II
brought out the calendars tina tell of
Bunker Hill and Stony Point and Trip
oil and Big Bethel and Petersburg
June was q warriors month, according
to the chronicles.
You have only to get a little hand
events. and you can hnd Seat military
achievements hitting any month I'm the
ear. The only practical point is that
April victories equip the Memorial day
orator: Mays furnish eloQuence for the
college commencement season; June's
put hot stun into Fou~rth-of-July ora
tory-and so through the list.
Any month wall do; all months are
good enough; each month Is suited TO
new tr1umphs for our arms. Yet. now
and then there's a preference. For In
stance. the Americans would rather the
complete destruction Of Cervera's ships
in June than In July. Fol- obvious
reasons: It would be better to finish
with Cervera In June and with Camsra
In July than to daily with Cervera
through the. summer and deal with Ca
mara some other rear.
The people Of this country are gettfns
iattering reports about the doings OF
our forces in front Of Santiago. and
doubtless. in these reports. the truth
reaches us. Doubtless the prais,
OF our navy Is all we'll merited
but, all the same. the feeling
grows that We ought to be able to sweeI
Santiago harbor clear of Spaniards and
Spanish ships on reasonably short no
tice. At any rate. this country Is no
c~onsecrating any particular month t.
victories on land or sea. Now is thu
accepted time.
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nsht. but u win wayiay them all along
the cute. Thus the experience of the
past week teaches that. In spite Of the
impression that at FIRST prevailed. the
insurgents really are IN essential fac
tor in the advance Of y land forces
westward over the island of Cuba.
And recent days have taught another
lesson. Our people used to Wonder why
the war in Cuba, between the Span
iards and the islanders. should be so
tong kept up. We are better informed
on that point now. Our fancy was that
we could sweep the island from end to
end In q few days-as fast as men
could march or ships sail. Since with
our vastly superior forces and resources
the lapse of weeks finds us with hardly
a beginning made. we no longer wonder
why crude methods and worse than in
different equipment did not sooner
avail when the fight was between Spain
and her rebelliouA subjects.
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The Plat Revival.

q >EW YORK politics will presently
nj be made interesting as the result
Of Mr.. Platt's determination to
run that states republicanism In con-
temptuous disregard. as far as the
party's machine work Is concerned, Of
the so-called reform republicans. or
mugwumps. or independents, who bolted
last year and who, at the mayoralty
polls. were two to Piatt's one
An odd thing has happened in New
York. The Low better element" made
up their minds to rig up q primary law
that would be Platt-machine proof.
They had their way: they got their law.
Plat beat them at their W game,
giving them cards and spades-he won
At the primaries held under the law
which the anti-machine republicans in
sisted should be passed and by which
they expected to win easily. Plat now
asserts that he IL ''vindicated." He IN
noupces that he Is regular" and by
the law he can prove that. He pros
poses e discipline the other fellows.
and he begins by making Quigg the
chief engineer Of the machine. That is
unldnA-ths Low fellows are particular
iy down on ouigg. They can stand
Plat. bat they cam tolerate Quisg.
Montana had Lemuel Ell for q
season ana rather enjoyed him. He
came est here TO run b republican
Helena Journal. II ran into the ground
but that wasn't necessarily Quigg'i
fault. Perhaps he would have been on
Of us to-day but for circumstances oveI
which he had no control-the way Quigs
tells II he had q s~ure-enough honor
bright coapact with b owners of thu
Journal which. after he had settls<
1evu h Helena. these owners hatiy re
puoiased. By h terms Of which Quise
vas to become the owner OF the Journal
you wouldn't psrhaps believe 1t. In th'
Isgst q III that has happened. Blu
ou1Gg actually feit sorry and disap
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pointed and swearing mad when the
Journal outnt refused to hone its
promise!
Montana liked Quigg well enough. He
wasn't our kind Of people. but he did
pretty well: and the state was Just get
ting the hang of his name when he quit
us. The bane Of QuIgg's Rocky-Moun-
lain career was that the Butte Inter
Mountain persistently fumbled his name.
the usually -accurate editor OF that
newspaper always getting II Emanuel
Levi Quigg instead of Lemuei Ell
QuIgg. During his s~ojourn out here
Quigg kept feeling worse and worse
about this. and the editorial page Of the
Inter Mountain kept getting II wrong
oftener and oftener. There are q few OF
us among the survival Of newspaper
wreckage In Montana who have always
felt that II he a tried real hard. and
II he had given the subject prayerful
study. the editor of the Inter Mountain
could have spared Quigg these tears.
1t is certain that they do not love
QuIgg in New York. He says mean
things-the apt comment OF the Brook
lyn Eagle Ii that Quigg's facility for
saying smart and sharp things has been
badly overworked." 1t happens that
there IL neither roof nor dome to
Quigg's idea Of his own gifts for poli,i-
cal Leadership. He was disposed to run
for mayo Of Greater New York last
year: ne thinks he IN the sort OF timber
out Of which they hew good governors
for New York; he finds that the way to
restore New York's prestige 10 what It
was In the federal senate in Roscoe
Conkling's day is TO send Quigg there.
One newspaper has written Of him hat
there In q hopeless disparity between
Qulgg's ambition and the general party
estimate OF his actual capacity"
Really. Quigg isn't 30 bad. but his
methods and. somehow. his personality.
make even Piatt's %lieutenants tired Of
him. That Is u~naccountable, but 1t Is
painfully true.
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What We Have Learned.

@EOPLE who were opposed to the
~ war with Spain comforted them
selves with the earlier tidings as
to the conduct Of the Cuban insurgents
when the FIRST attacks were made on
the fortincations at Santiago. Indeed.
there were reports to the effect that
our forces were not greatly assisted by
the Cubans. but the news OF later
operations. during last week. seems To
put the conduct OF the insurgents above
criticism. These rebels are not much
trained to open fighting: they are
samiliar with the guerrilla methods to
which h Spaniards and themselves
have uniformly resorted.
The testimony OF the American cor
respondents with the Sampson forces
Is that the land attack OF last week
was q striking illustration of this in
sidious manner OF hghting-the Spanish
soldiers. hid In the brush OF concealed
behind trees. without battle array and
apparently without military methods
were found to be q nue. more danger
Gus foe than massed troops would be
II IL as good as acknowledged by thos
at the scene of the recent fighting that
the insurgents are a more useful fac.
tor than our own well disciplined ma
rines OF land forces In opposing this
lurking enemy and In driving II from
Its hiding. When moe we hold San
tiago we are a Ions distance overland
from Havana; our land forces must
IL they propose to advance toward that
city, contest every inch of the ground
after the manner of guerrilla warfare
The enemy may not face them In oper
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TWENTY PAGES.
SUNDAY. JUNE 10. 1888.


DE must have the Ladrones
w to add to our string OF
spoils from this war. Com
mercialiy they may not be very I'M
portant. and their loss In that respect
might cause no chagrin to Spain. But
they lie on the route from Honolulu to
Manila, and will form. accordingly. a
convenient way station for US be-
tween our two main possessions In the
Pacific"
This is the testimony Of the New
York Sun. which discovers daily some
new island which we must have be-
cause we need II In our business and
because II belongs to Spain and there
fore we can have II for the taking.
There are many islands in this world
which would be worth more to us--im-
measurably more-than these Spanish
possessions and which we really need,
II we are going to embark In the trans
Atlantic-isiapd business. They are
islands which. however. the Sun and
the other ACKNOWLEDGMENT organs are
not saying we must take: they are
islands which belong to powers that
would be u match in war. 1t is diff
ferent when we crave the possessions of
f~ffth-class, tumble-down Spain. We
make superior right out Of u might.
It would be different even II these
coveted islands were a good thing to
have or were worth having. The Sun
cannot ind any geography which says
that the Ladrones. for instance. are
good real estate: II has been looking
them up. and II discovers that many OF
them are not inhabited, while some
OF them are the abode of about eight
thousand people Of the grade of natives
of the Philippines. These islands,
named appropriately by Maeellan''
sailors, are known. in English trans
latfon, as the Islands Of the Thieves.
The Sun softly suggests that we
would probably follow SPANS christen-
ing Of them a. h Mariana-whicf
would leave the loiterers in Park Row
under the SUMS windows. to call then
che Mary AIMS. n that's too good 9
name for them.
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Fogg On Women.

women are curious things" remarked
Fogg. as he took his cigar out of his
mouth I'm order to chuckle.
$50 I've heard before" said Bass, 'bu
what is the particular curious thing you
have In mind?'
when 1 got home last evening ! found
Mrs. Fogg In tears because the girl had
broker a plate that Mrs. Fogg had said
had been In the house ever since we went
to housekeeping. And IL was only last
week that she made a row over a dish
that had been broken. just because IL
was brand new. There's no knowing how
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We infer from the testimony Of the
surgeons who deny that anything OF
the kind happened. that that story Of
the Spanish mutilation Of the American
dead At Guantanamo should have been
reserved exclusively for the marines on
the ground.
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i. IL u~ndeniable that Germany's spirit
Ii distinctly inimical to the United
States. n II In equally u~ndeniable
that the conditions are such that Ger
many's distinctly inimical spirit to the
United States 10 bottled up.