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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Transport OLDHAM Arrives.

New YORK, Nov. 15.-The transport
OLDHAM, from Porto Rico and Santiago
with - convalescent and discharged
soldiers and several civilians. arrived
here during the day and anchored in the
upper bay. Among the passengers was
Lieutenant Frederick l.. Brandon of the
Cuban army. His home is in Minmeap-
lis and he was a member of the staff of
Brigadier General Amanda Sanchez.
Lieutenant Brandon is the bearer of dis
patches to the Cuban representative il,
Washington.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Not . Candidate for Speaker.

DUBUQUE, a., Nov. 15.-In an inter-
view Congressman D. B. Henderson
said: II see my name is being men,
toned in connection with the speaker
ship of the next house. This is wholly
without my authority. If Mr.. Reed de-
sires reelection, and assume that he
does, am for his reelection"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
BRECKINRlDGE TEsTIFIEs.
Tells Of Conditions at Camp Thomas While
in Command There.

in Command There.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. - General
Breckenridge, DIR. Huidekoper and Ma
jor Knox were before the war investiga-
ton commission during the day. Gen.
eral Breckinridge's testimony dealt with
conditions at Camp Thomas, of which
he was for time in command, and he
took occasion to say that but for the
change that was made previous to the
war, requiring inspector generals in the
field to report to the adjutant general
instead Of the inspector general, the
condition of the camps now being devel-
oped by the commission would have
been developed three months ago.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18

Mr.. Peck and congratulated him upon
the great success of his efforts. He in
formed him that he had already .rnrd
of the excellent progress he had 4ade
and that he was highly gratiied thereat.
Mr.. Peck said that the intention of
this country to erect a monument to La
Fayette in Pats was pleasing to the
French people and had gone far to help
him in his work.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
scandal Sails From Manila.

WASHINGTON, Nov. ia dispatch
has been received at the war department
announcing that the hospital ship
Scandal has sailed from Manila for San
Francisco, with about 70 sick soldiers
On board.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
CAPTURED Dy BelglanS.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-The Daily Chron-
icle eays: We are reliably informed
from the Congo Free State that the Bel
2ians have captured Bohrd, dervish
post 80 miles north Of Rejaf, on the
White Nile.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Austin. Tex. to bar Harb0r. Mo.

AUSTIN, Tex, Nov. 15.-The last wire
has been strung by which Austin can
have telephone connection with Bar
Harbor, Me. The line is 1900 miles
long and will be opened to the public
Dec. /,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Arch b isIlOD Of Oregon Dead.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 15.-William Kick
ley Gross, archbishop of Oregon, Roman
Catholic church, died at st. Joseph.
hospital in this city of heart disease.
Archbishop Gross came to this city t.
attend celebration at st. Charles col
lege, Elliott City, Nd, and was taken
lick Nov. 6.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
PECK SEES THE PRESIDENT.

Commissioner General to tho Paris Ex-
position Makes His Report.
WASHINGTON, Now. 15.-Ferdinand
w. Peck, commissioner general of the
United States to the Paris exposition,
called upon President Mckinley and
gave him q brief account Of what had
been accomplished at Paris. The presi-
dent extended very cordial greeting to
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18

IHe FO"orB HAVe lAKen NO ACt1On.
BERLIN, Nov. ia high official of
the German foreig n Office asserts that
no communications or negotiations have
occurred between the powers respecting
the Philippine question. Germany, he
says, has only commercial interests to
protect there,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
SPANS Case Hopeless.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-The morning pa
pers comment editorially upon the peace
conference crisis and the American
naval preparations, reiterating their
conviction Of the hopelessness Of Span
ish opposition and realizing that the
United States have no alternative, espe-
cially after the elections, than complete
annexation.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Ex-MINiSTERS EXAMINED
Court Of CaHsatiOn Hears I.v,a. noe ~ ~
DreyIus Case.

PARIS, Nov. 15--The court OF CA:
ton examined General Zurlinden al
General Chanoine. who rec emily r.
signed, successfully, the lm1t.li" o
minister of war. and it is said that theii
evidence was highly important III ul
holding the attitude they have tala1
throughout that Dreyfus is guilty AM
that communication Of the secret dm;
sier would compromise the safety ant
relations of France with foreign ia
TONS
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
silverite Probably Chosen,

CARSON, New, Nov. Rheinhold
Sadler will probably be the next gov
ernor of Nevada. The vote between the
Republican nominee, William McMil-
Ian, and the choice of the Silver party
has been very close, with Mcmillan in
the lead, but returns from outlying dis
tricts have placed Sadler ahead by II
votes.
Special Session Talked OF.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 15.-Since the re-
suit of the recent election in Kansas be-
came known there has been much talk
among Populists throughout the state of
a special session of the legislature, the
proposal being to pass more restrictive
railway Legislation and to enact other
legislation advocated. by the Populists.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Hundred shots and NO Ono Hur t.

OMAHA, Nov. l5.-During the after.
noon four detectives had battle with
two highwaymen in the outskirts Of the
city. About 100 shots were exchanged
with no effect and the detectives fled,
allowing the highwaymen to escape.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Banking House Quits Business.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.-The Tai
liant Banking company, one Of the Oldest
institutions on the coast, has retired
from business and transferred all of its
assets, valued at over $1,000, GOO, to the
Croker Woolworth National bank of
this city.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Held Up by the Indians.
Brakeman Charged with Murder.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 15.-Harry Dun, a
brakeman on the La Crosse division Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road, was arrested at Portage on sus-
picion Of being implicated in the smur-
der OF Emil Lieber on Oct. in tho
town Of Lake, south of this city. Dun
was taken before Mrs. Lieber, who posi-
lively identified him.
Receivers for Coal Companies.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.-The Turney &
Jones Coal company of Columbus, O.,
and the Pennsylvania, and Ohio Fuel
company of st. Paul with Offices also in
Chicago, have been put into the hands
of the Security and Title company Of
thicago as receivers.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
Junta Sends an Appeal to the
President and People of
This Country.
OFTEN TREATED AS ENEMIES
Spaniards, on the Contrary,
Have Been Shown Every .
Consideration.
Bad Feeling Growing Daily and
1t May Result in Fur
Their Trouble.

HONG KONG, Nov. 15.-The Filipino
junta, representatives of General Aguin-
aldo and the Filipino government here.
has drawn up what they designate as an
''appeal to President Mckinley and the
American people, but what is in reality
rather in the nature of al arraignment
Of American actions in the Philippines
The memorial AYERS that false reports
are spread broadcast alleging that the
Filipinos are responsible for all the f1ic-
tion," points out that the tension ia
greater every day and any moment IL
shot may be fired by al irresponsible
American or Filipino soldier leading to
great bloodshed." and beseeches the
United States to ''help the junta to con
troll our own people by directing Amer
lean officials at Manila to temper their
actions with friendship, justice and fair
ness"
Arc Treated ~ En0lnies.
From the commencement Of the hos
tilities." continues the memorial, 1.-The
Filipinos acceded to all the American
requests. but, after bottling up the
Spaniards III Manila, the Filipinos were
completely ignored when the Americans
advanced and thus deprived Of tho
fruits of victory. Now, after months of
campaigning, the Filipino troops have
been ordered beyond the suburbs, where
they have no quarters and where sup
plies are difficult to obtain. All our
launches have been seized because of
foolish rumors that we would attack
the Americans and when we asked en-
plantations we were not even answered.
The Spaniarls. of late the enemies of
the Americans, have been shown every
consideration, while the Filipinos, their
friends and allies, are often treated az
enemies
Reason for the sudden Change.
After asserting that the Filipinos
uniformly acted upon the advice of the
Americans and were informally recog
nized by them until Manila was cap
tured. the memorial goes OH to say:
1--WE can only attribute this sudden
change to orders from Washington to
American officials ut Manila to avoid
compromising the American govern
ment by recognition Of the Filipinos
or their government The Americana
are carrying out these instructions liter
ally, losing sight Of the former friendly
intercourse and assistance and Of the ,ls-
surance the American officials gave
General Aguinaldo, which he colnlnuni-
Gated to his followers"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18

Last Of the Turkish Troops in Crete.
CANEA, Crete, Nov. 15.-Chakir Pasha
and the last Turkish soldiers have left
here.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-11-18
DAWSON C|TY'S BIG FIRE.
Kloneiike Metropolis Suffers a LOSS of Hall
Million.


SKAGUAY, Alaska, Nov. Z, via Vic
toria, B. c., Nov. l5.-Rcturning Klon.
dikers arriving in this city during the
day bring the news that the city of
Dawson has been visited with a $500, 600
fire, in which 40 buildings were burned,
including the new postoffice building
and some Of the best buildings in the
city. The fire took place on the morn
ing of Oct. Is. 1t started in the Green
Tree saloon as the result of row be.
tween two women Of the town, Belle
Mitchell throwing a lighted lamp at
another woman. The lamp broke, tho
oil spread and in a few seconds the
building was on fire.
Held Up by the Indians.
VANCOUVER, B. G., Nov. 15.-Henry
Simpson, a large horse dealer of Mani
toba, who has just returned here from
an unsuccessful attempt to reach the
Klondike via the Edmonton route, de.
clares that he and his party were held
up at Hell Gate canyon, Lizard river, by
Indians with guns and forced to give
the red skins their outfits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05

'The strangest money I ever saw"
said a drummer for a Main street house
the other evening, ''was in the noun
tain districts in Kentucky and West
Virginia. Last summer was making
my semi-annual tour through this dis
trict and I stopped one day at little
grocery and saloon, not to sell goods,
but to get drink of the mountain
dew While I was pouring out my
drink n big husky mountaineer en-
tered the place and called for drink.
AS he finished gulping it down he
reached into big bulky pocket and
drew forth what looked to be a COON
skin. He laid the skin on the counter,
the barkeeper took the skin and open
ing a drawer, hauled out rabbit skin,
which l suppose was the change. The
mountaineer picked up the rabbit skin
and started to the front part of the
store, which was the grocery. He
there bought twist of tobacco and
rendered the rabbit skin in payment.
He received big twist of long green,
and was surprised to see the store
keeper reach in another drawer and
tender him a squirrel skin. The noun
taineer tucked the squirrel skin in his
pocket, walked out. unhitched his
horse and rode away.
81 became interested and engaged
the proprietor in conversation. He
told me that sometimes he would go
months without seeing any real money,
and that the mountaineers used the
skins in all kinds of trades, such as
buying horses, etc. He saidfhat four
times year hide buyer from Lex
ington or Cincinnati visited this coun-
try and bought up all the skins, which
We're generally concentrated in the
few stores in the vicinity. Louis
vile Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05
Ivory Used by the Ancients.

The earliest recorded history-we
might say prehistoric, the hieroglyphi-
cal-that has come down to use has
been in carvings on ivory and bone.
Long before metallurgy was known
among the prehistoric races, carvings
on reindeer horn and mammoth tuskS
evidence the antiquity of the art. Frag-
ments of horn and ivory, engraved with
excellent pictures of animals, have been
found in caves and beds of rivers and
lakes. There are specimens in the Brit
ish museum, also in the Louvre of the
Egyptian skill in ivory carving, attrib-
uted to the age of Moses. In the latter
collection are chairs or seats of the six
teenth century, Il. c., inlaid with ivory,
and other pieces of the eleventh CEN
tury, II. G. We have already referred
to the Ninevah worries. Carving of the
precious substance was extensively
carried on at Constantinople during the
middle ages; combs, caskets, horns,
boxes, etc, of carved ivory and bone,
often set in precious stones, of the old
Roman and Anglo-SaXon periods, are
frequently found in tombs. Crucifixes
and Images of the virgin and saints
made in that age are often graceful and
beautiful. The Chinese and Japanese
are rival artists now in their peculiar
minutiae and detail.-Popular Science
MoDtbIv
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05

On a coral reef in the Pacific
Ocean, just off the coast of San Fran
cisco, lives modern Robinson Crusoe.
In this case, however, there is not
even a man Friday to break the terri
BILE monotony of his solitude. Theo-
dore Gussman is all alone. For
months his horizon has been bounded
by dreary stretch of sea. He is un.
disputed monarch of all he surveys,
but his only subjects are the seagulls,
his only companions a couple OF
hounds. His little domain is out of
the usual course of vessels, and until
recently he was unable to send word
to his friends on the mainland.
He might have returned on the ship
that brought word of his condition,
but high sense of duty prevented
him from deserting his post. He was
one of three men sent to Chippenton
Island in July last by the Oceanic
Phosphate Company, to keep posses
sion of the island and the company's
property there. His companions de.
serted him when the Mexican man-of-
war, Democratic, came upon them, and
hauling down the American flag hoist
ed that of Mexico. He was captured
and taken on the vessel. But he
watched for an opportunity to escape.
Before he had gone very far he
flung himself overheard, and swan to
the place of his self-banishment, with
the papers of his company concealed
in his shoe. All the heroes and all
the lively adventures it would seem
from this are not between the covers
of works of fictions. New York Jour
| nal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05

years thereafter. Farmers have many
an opportunity to bring home o load
OF manure from town which they do
not improve. For instance, when the
team goes to the blacksmith shop,
while the smith is doing the work
there can nearly always be load of
manure got at the shop that the smith
IS glad to get rid of. I notice year
after year some farmers living out of
town some three miles who for years
have hauled wood into town occasion-
ally, and never q load of manure has
any one of them hauled home, and
their farms have got poorer and poorer
until they get but little more than
their seed back for their work. But
just think; if L would give gold dol
lar to any one of those farmers for
each load of manure, no doubt there
would soon be value set on manure
in the town, and each farm wagon
would return loaded. For an object
lesson [ scatter load of manure on O
piece of land twenty feet wide and two
hundred feet long, and when gather
the crop 1 note the difference with the
same amount of land adjoining that is
not manured, and L always find L have
got my gold dollar out of each load of
manure the first year.-Horace T.
Wilcox, Julian, San Diego County,
CAL, in New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05
Turkish Army Rations.

Correspondents who accompanied the
Turkish army during the recent war
with Greece refer often to the dietary
habits of the Turks. Pilau, or pllaff,
the national dish, receives great praise.
1t is what we should call a chowder,
composed of lamb, rice, butter, aim
onds, raisins, allspice, powdered mace,
cardamoms, cloves, saffron, onion, GIN
ger, salt, whole black pepper and dhiey.
The butter and onions are placed in the
bottom of the earthen pot; then a layer
of rice, over which are distributed more
onions, raisinS and almonds, sprlnkled
with saffron in water; then a layer Of
meat, and so on alternately until the
vessel Is filed. Butter is then poured
over the whole, and the cover of the pot
Is closed with paste so that no steam
may escape. 1t is placed in an oven
and cooked for three hours.-New York
Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05
Makes His Own Money,

A man who has been an inmate OF
the asylum at Pontiac for many years
has devoted every moment of his spare
time in manufacturing what he fondly
supposes to be bank notes. His pro-
cess of manufacture is very simple
and unvarying. Placing a piece OF
paper of bank note size over the dec.
GRATED border of the cover of q book,
he rubs heel ball over the paper and
thus obtains replica of the pretty
part, as he calls it. Having formed
the border of his note, he fills in the
interior with similar decorations, at.
tanned by placing his paper on the
Ids of tobacco and other tins; any
surface answers so long as it is hard,
indented or embossed. He finishes
his note by writing in the center in
large figures the value he wishes to-
give it. AS he has been engaged for
fifteen years at his hobby, and has
been allowed to keep his accumulated
wealth of paper money, he is the proud
possessor of three little stacks of
notes, each about foot high. He
calculates he is worth billions. He
has never been known to miss night
or waste minute of the time at his
disposal in all the long fifteen years.
Detroit journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05
Derivation of the Word KIondikc.

From Dawson the trail to the
mines leads over steep hill to the
creek made so famous by its tributa-
ries; for there is not q single mine on
the principal stream, which in the
miners slang is called Klondike. And
yet this stream does in reality bear q
characteristic name given it by the
Indians, which is utterly murdered
by this pronunciation, now so COM
mon.
The Indians namo the creeks
throughout the country from some
characteristic in connection with the
stream itself; and as this one is so
swift that in order to set their salmon
traps or nets they were obliged to
use hammer to drive the stakes to
anchor them, the creek was named by
them Hammer Creek, or, in their
language, phonetically, Troan Dix.
The spelling Klondike means obso-
lutely nothing, but has been accepted,
so 1 learn, by the Board of Geograph-
ical Names of the United States. -
John Sidney Webb, in the Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05

If soils are not fully porous natur-
ally, or if they are we'll filled with
roots, it is quite common at this sea-
son for plants to fail when good care
seems to be given. The trouble, too
often, is that the water given rushes
through some fissure, or else does not
pass through at all; and, in either
case, the plant does not receive the
root watering which the owner appar-
emily gives. The motions are gone
through, without the proper result.
This state of things is especially bad
for decorative stuff like aspidistras,
palms and ferns. One severe drying
ut the root may destroy the usefulness
of such plants. For this reason let
the grower be sure the water applied
reaches its destination and does its
work. 1t may be good idea to plunge
the pot in tub of water. Floral
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-05
POPLAR SCIENCE.

There is to be new electric light.
house placed on Fire Island, off Long
Island, that will have the estimated
power of 45,000,000 candles, making
it the most powerful artificial light in
the world.
If the inhabitants Of the fixed stars
had powerful enough telescopes to
see us, they would not see us as we
are to-day, but as we were fifty, 100
years, or even longer ago, for it would
take light that long to travel to them.
One of the attractions of the Paris
Exposition in 1900 will be a huge pic
ture of the coronation of the tsar. The
canvas will contain 200 nearly life-size
portraits, and odd devices will be re-
sorted to in an effort to produce an at
mosphere of realism.
The radiation of the heat from the
sun is not eternal; it had its beginning
and will have its end. If the sun rad
iates light and heat in all directions it
cannot be more than 100, 900, 900 years
old. This is Lord Kelvin's estimate.
At the present rate the sun will con-
tinue from seven to fifteen millions of
years, but the end will surely come.
The nervous system, says Professor
w. ii. Thomson, has greater store of
reserve vitality than all the other bod
lily systems together, and is the only
texture that does not lose weight in
death by starvation or other cause. 1t
is the last to grow old. AS to tho
mind, it need not grow old at all, pro,
vided it be supplied with mighty stim-
ulous called interest, by which it will
grow steadily, even while bone and
sinew are wasting through age.
According to reliable computation,
a single tree is able through its leaves
to purify the air from the carbonio
acid arising from the respiration of a
considerable number of men--as many
as dozen or score. The volume of
carbonic acid exhaled by ahuman being
in the course of twenty four hours is
estimated at 100 gallons, and a single
both the upper and under sides of the
leaves, can decompose about a gallon
of carbonic acid day.
According to a German publication,
chemist of that country has prepared
fluid that has the power when in
jected into the tissue of a plant near
itsroots of anesthetizing the,plant. Tho
plant does not die, but stops growing,
maintaining its fresh, green appear
ance, though its vitality is apparently
suspended. 1t is also Independent of
the changes in temperature, the most
delicate hothouse plants continuing to
bloom in the open. The composition
of the fluid is shrouded in the great
est secrecy, but it is said to have
pungent odor and to be colorless.