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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
PANIC IN STOCKS.
Third Serious Defeat of British in Afri-
ca Sends Values Crashing Down.

Third Serious Defeat of British in Afri-
ca Sends Values Crashing Down.
The third defeat Of the British in the
Transvaal made q second panic on the
stock exchanges Monday. Twice within
q week securities In England and the
United States suffered severely. Mon
day values reccded as precipitously and
almost as far as in the slump of the pre-
vious week, when the industrials were
the shining mark of the professionals and
their hackers, who were working for "a
December drop to make room for the
January RISE" In the present instance
the rushing depreciations bore particu-
larly on railroad certificates, especially on
those in which Boston, the Flowers and
the Rockefellcrs were interested. Both
the Rockefeller party and the Gotham
syndicate found too late that too much
pressure has been utilized. The markets
slumped beyond their control. The arti-
6cial scare was made a reality by the
battles in the Transvaal. London, instead
OF buying here on the breaks, was COM
PEELED to liquidate, and London's liquida-
tion became inductive.
Houses with foreign connections were
forced to relinquish stocks that had been
carried to the time the English began to
sell. The pressure spread until it was
reported that the Rockefeller party, the
whitney syndicate and the Flower com
bine were forced to yield in their pet
properties. Banks refused to advance
more money and brokers became insist
ent in the matter Of margins. Computed
at Mondays level, the losses in the value
Of stocks and bonds amounts to more
than all the gold ever taken out Of the
Transvaal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
Grand Opera.

"Yez needn't be taken on sich airs,
Missus Mulvaney, iist beycuz yer mans
bin made "a jigger on tn perleesh force.
Me man went 4 tn gran opphra n
sthyle."
Gran opphra nuttin'. 1t 'ud be
takin' a months villages whurkin' loike
yer man docs, Missus O'Hoollhan, { get
dough ernuff { go T. gran opphrar'
"But e wint, jhust tn same, yez
desatcful creathur. T. tauld me ivry-
thin consarnin' tn perphormence."
'Oh, did e, ycz bhloomIn' parbhari-
katur? An how did e injhoy tn songs
in tn Dago linguageT
"Dago? 1t wuz good Amerikhan
Ooirish, begorrah, that they spuk. fur
me man tould me sum o. the jhokes."
"Jhokes?"
"Yis, jhokes, ycz haythcn. They
alluz hez jhokes whin tn gran opphra
Gums t tn Capital Shquare The-a-ter."
Detroit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
HENDERSON NAMES cHAlRMEN.
Speaker Announces Heads of Hons,
Standing Committee.

| Speaker Announces Heads of House
Standing Committee.
The chairmen of the various House
committees, as announced by Speaker
Henderson, are as follows:
Elections, No. Robert w. Taylor Ohio.
Elections, No. 2-Walter l.. Weaver, Ohio.
Elections, No. 3-Willam s. Mesick, Mich
gan.
| York.
Appropriations-Joseph G. Cannon, ILL.
| nois.
Judiciary George w. Ray, New York.
banking and Currency--Marriott Brosius,
Pennsylvania.
Coinage, Weights and Measures James Fl.
Interstate aud Foreign Commerce
| lam u Hepburn, Iowa.
Rivers and Harbors-Theo. +. Burton,
! Ohio.
Merchant Marine and FIsherles--C. H.
| Grosvenor. Ohio.
Agriculture-J. w. wadsworth, New
| York.
Foreign Afrairs-R. R. Hit, Illinois.
Military Affairs-J. A. T. Hull, Iowa.
Naval Affairs-C. A. Boutelle, Maine.
Postoffices and Post Roads-E. #. Loud,
California.
Public I.ands-J. f. Lacey, Iowa.
Indian Affairs-J. =. Sherman, New York.
TerrItories-w 8; Knox, Massachusetts,.
Insular Affairs-H. A. Cooper, Wisconsin.
Railways and Canals-Charles A. Chick
Msnufactures~ W. Faris, Indiana.
Mines and Mining-R. o. Crump Michi-
gan.
Public Buildings and Grounds-D. II. Mer-
GER. Nebraska.
Pacific Railroads.&c.. III. Powers. Vermont.
Levees and Improvement OF Mississippi
River--R. Bartholdt, Missouri.
Edncation1G; A. Grow, PennsylyanIa.
Labor. j. Gardner, New Jersey.
Militla-B. II. Marsh, Illinois.
Patents-W. =. Herr, Ohio.
Invalid Pensions-C. A. Sulloway, New
HAMPSHIRE
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

all the time, and acted as his personal
representative in many matters of detail
He was regarded by Admiral Dewey as
bright, energetic and capable assistant.
The lieutenant's illness dated from
about Nov. 81, the first symptom being
nothing more than a cold, which, how.
ever, failed to yield to treatment, and
soon afterward he went to the Garfield
hospital. The officers aged mother is
living In Marietta, Ga. His father, who
Is dead, was a colonel of the Fourteenth
Georgia regiment in the Confederate
army.
Lieut.. Brumby was A years old and
unmarried. In his report of the battle
of Manila Admiral Dewey spoke in very
complimentary terms Of the services and
gallantry of his flag lieutenant and rec
commended that he be advanced on the
list of lieutenants. The lieutenant's
death is the third among the officers as
sociated with Dewey Mt the battle OF Ma
nila. The others were Capt. Gridley and
Commander Wood.
Lieut.. Brumby was presented a sword
by the Legislature Of Georgia Oct. 26.
He remained in Georgia some days after
that and returned to Washington about
the middle Of November.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

rounding the cap LIEUT.. aILMORE.
:ure of the lieutenant. April 13 he, with
party of fifteen men, left the Yorktown
N launch to go to the relief of Span
sh garrison at Baler which was being
oesieged by the Filipinos. He left an en-
sign and one sailor at the mouth of a
creek, densely wooded on both sides, and
hen passed in out of sight. This was
he last seen of him or his crew. The
ansign heard shouts up the stream, but
40 reports of guns. For three days the
Yorktown patrolled the coast and then,
he lieutenant not appearing, started for
Manila
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
FACES GRAVE CRISIS.
ENGLAND NOW TO TAKE HEROIC
WAR MEASURES.
Whole Available Strength of British
Empire to BE Flung Into South Africa
Mobilization Will Take Five Weeks
First Plan Of Campaign Abandoned.

England is aroused indeed. All her re-
serves. a strong force OF yeomanry, otn-
er mounted volunteers, all her available
colonial troops, and n strong division or
militia are ordered to the seat of war.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts will go as
commander-in-chief, and Gen. Lord
Kitchener, OF Khartoum fame, will ac-
company him as second in command.
These startling orders have been issued
by the war Office. They mean that al
most the whele strength of the British
empire will be flung into South Africa.
The mobilization of the troops will be
pushed with the greatest possible speed,
and the fastest ships from the British
merchant marine will be used 70 hurry
the forces to the Cape. 1t is calculated
that these re-enforcements will begin to
reach South Africa in about five weeks.
Meantime the original campaign Will be
abandoned, and a general policy of mark
time will be adopted by the commanders
OF the forces now in the field.
The news of Great Britain's tremen-
dous preparations may spur the Beers
into serious aggression before the fresh
British troops arrive, but thus far they
have shown no desire to attack intrench-
ed forces, while the British disasters
have been caused by just that thing.
BesieRed Towns Must Wait.
All the indications now point to the be-
ginning Of a great campaign late in jan
vary. Meantime Ladysmith, Kimberley
and Mafeking must wait. Their situa-
don is perilous, but according to all ac-
counts there is no serious danger that
famine will be added to their other suf-
ferings.
The chief interest in the new campaign
centers in the Governments decision to
use as volunteer forces the yeomanry
and militia. For active service the yeo-
manry should supply useful contingent.
They, as the London Telegraph edito-
rally says, like the rest of the volun-
teers, are drawn from the great middle
and lower middle classes in England,
Scotland and Wales. They may not pos
sess the mechanical perfection of drill
Of the regulars, but there are no better
cross-country riders in the world than
the British yeoman."
Section ID of the reserve, which has
been called out, consists of men who have
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
Chicago Correspondence:

year. The selling was induced to some
extent by fear Of gold shipments.
After a week of much apparent heavi-
ness wheat at the close of the session
Saturday was only 1ac a bushel lower
than it was the Saturday previous, but
the situation does not appear promising
for any immediate or nearby advance in
price, stocks in sight being adequate and
prospects for future supplies more en-
couraging to consumers than to growers.
The problem connected with the future
value of corn Is hotly debated by the spec
ulators who make speciality of dealing
in that commodity. Estimates Of the
last crop generally agree in a generous
total of about 1000, ,O00,0 900 bushels, and
there is further concurrence in an opinion
that such quantity is an ample provision
for all possible requirements. II farm
ers, however, in view of the small re-
serves of old corn, heavy export demand,
great interior demand for feeding and
uncertainty of the crop TO follow, con-
clude to hold off the market any consid-
cradle proportion of their grain, the ample
crop might be made to appear made
quate. Prices now ruling are moderately
low, but not so enticingly cheap as to
attract buyers prepared to crib and hold
in the country any unusual quantity, and
it is questionable if, in the present tenn
per Of the speculative community, any
considerable addition to commercial
stocks in sight would be possible without
some material concession in price.
The natural conclusion from such prem
ses is that the course of the market will
follow the indications of the growers
intentions TO accept current prices or to
keep back supplies Of any magnitude un-
til they can make some calculation re-
garding the prospects for another crop
Receipts meantime are small, without
any decided prospect of material enlarge
ment, and with exporters still in the mar
ket for considerable quantities.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
THE MOONS ECLIPSE.

Diagram Showing the Recent Astro-
nomical Phenomenon.
A view of the recent almost total
eclipse of the moon was obscured in
many localities because of a cloudy sky.
The sight was most interesting one
where visible, and was more satisfying
when observed by the naked eye than
through telescope.
The accompanying illustration clearly
demonstrates the relation of the moon
10 the earth's shadow, the large black
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

pital in Washington
Sunday evening.
Lieut.. b u m b y
went out to the
Asiatic station with
the admiral and re-
mained there until
both returned to the
United States sew
eral months ago.
In his capacity as
flag lieutenant to
the admiral Lieut..
Brumby was with
his chief practically
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
Sparks from the Wires
Iir trust failed to materialize.


Whisky trust wants taxes reduced.
Former Mayor Bruck, Columbus, Ohio,
has assigned.
Charles Tawney, %, fremont, Neb.,
hanged himself. Tilted.
National w. G. T. u. will meet in
Washington Nov. 81, 1900.
Stove manufacturers will advance
prices % per cent.
Mrs. Mary Schlindwein, Al, ST. Louis,
committed suicide. Jealous.
Hollanders in Chicago have collected
$1,000 for the Boer wounded.
Walther Hauser has been elected presl.
dent OF Switzerland for 1900.
Matte Bustard, 4, Philadelphia, swal-
lowed pint Of whisky and died.
Three hundred British gunners will 20
from Gibraltar to the cape.
Smoke ruined $4,000 worth Of leaf
tobacco Tor George D. Worth. Cincinnati.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Lieut.. J. G. Gill
more of the gun
boat Yorktown has
been the rebel
chieftain's star pris-
oner and is taken
by him in all his
many and rapid
moves to escape the,
American forces.'
There has been
much mystery sur
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
|, BUSINESS SITUATION.

TOCKS, because Of
excitement in Lon
don on account Of
b r ritis b reverses,
slumped to such an
extent during the
week as to bring on
a semi-panic. An
army of traders has
been forced to liQ-
uidate its holdings.
Prices for a number
Of the leading stocks
have touched the
lowest noints of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
OTIS SEXES DOCUMENTS.
Letters Are Said to Show Moral Sup
port for AguinaIdo.

Gen. Otis. 1t Is stated, has forwarded
to Washington a number of important
letters found in the rebel archives, which
were recently captured by the American
troops. The letters show, it Is said, that
Aguinaldo had the active moral support
Of prominent anti-expansionists in the
United States.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
BELIEVE NINE ARE LOST.
Barge Thought to Have Gone Dow
with All ON Board.

with All ON Board.
IT was thought almost certain Monday
that whaleback barge 115 was lost, to-
gether with her crew Of nine men. Those
Of the crew whose names are known were
Capt. Arthur A. Boycc, Mate Michael
stynop and Cook William Buckner.
Search has been abandoned by the
steamer Colgate Hoyt, which had the
barge In tow. There was no insurance
on vessel or cargo. The vessel was own
ed By Rockefeller interests
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
LIEUTENANT sRUMsY DEAD.

Dewey's Flag Officer at the Battle of
Manila Passes Away.
Lieut.. Thomas NJ Brumby, flag secre-
tary to Admiral Dewey, who had been i'll
with typhoid fever, died at Garfield hos
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
GILMORE is SAFE.
Lieutenant and Other Amer
fcau Captiyes Rescued.
NUMBER As.

lean Captives Rescued.
A report from Gen. Young, who is at
vigan, p. l., sent by boat to San Fabian
and thence by telegraph to Manila, says
that Col. Howze's column has all the
American prisoners who were captured
by the insurgents, including Lieut.. Gil
more Of the Yorktown, who was cap
tured some months ago near Baler.
Since his capture by Aguinaldo April
i3, while operating near the town of
Baler on the eastern coast Of Luzon.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

In the San Francisco schools Jap
anese children nre not segregated on
the school rolls, but are classed ~
whites.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
A AS Million GnIlon Re.erxoir

One of the largest reservoirs ever con-
structed Is to be built by the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad for the
purpose Of supplying its engines and
shops with water. II will be located FIVE
miles southeast Of Galesburg, a division
point on the main line, 163 miles from
Chicago. The reservoir will be two and
half miles long, 1900 feet wide, and
20 feet deep, and will have q capacity
Of 445, ,0OO, 900 gallons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

sphere representing the shadow and the
small sphere the moon. The line Alb
denotes the shadows course of travel,
and CD the moons course. Number 2
shows the moon overtaking the shadow
Mt 5:45 p. M; number 3, the moon at its
greatest eclipse at 1926 p. m, and num-
Der 4 the moon passing out of the shad-
ow at 9:01 p. m.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
HAPPENINGS OF 1899.
SUMMARY OF A YEARS I'M
PORTAnT EVENTS.

War I'm Philippine Islands and South
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa. Death and De-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Wolves destroy $4,000, 900 worth e nvs
skeck annually IN Russia.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

PatsenIss those who adyertise.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

7-Eieven lives lost In burning of wallac,
Andrews residence In New York.
9-Death of Justice y. ]. Field, retired.
Seventeen lives lost by breaking of an lc,
gorge on Yellowstone River at Giendiye
Montana.
10-seven persons killed In riot at Pana
Illinois.
11-Exchange Of peace treaties with spaiI
ends the state of war. Greek coaster Ma
rla sunk or Tripoli with loss of forty-fv,
lives.
14-Twens y-three Crow Indians drowned
In foods nevr sheridan, Wyo.
15-Great IRE In Cleveland; loss almost
$1,OO0,00O.
tuckct, with eleven OF her crew.
24-Death Of ex-Gov. II. J. 0glesby OF iii
nois >. Thirty persons drowned In wreck o1
British ship Loeb Sloy on Kangaroo Island
ont BY nre.
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NOT A GOOD RATION.
MIX and Otherwise Injuries
Dairy Cows.

Generally right after the threshing
machine has pulled out of the barnyard
the cattle are turned in to pick up the
scattered heads and loose wheat and
eat as much as they wish from the
straw stack. There is nothing so det-
rimental to the flow of milk as straw,
especially oat straw. | have known
milch cows that were giving two and a
half to three gallons of milk day, in
two weeks to decrease to less than a
gallon a day. Not that they were fed
on straw. They had good fresh fall pas
lures, but they were allowed to eat
from the strawstack also.
know by experience that nothing
gives the butter such cheesy taste and
smell, besides making it much harder to
churn, as feeding the cows oat straw.
1t also dries up the flow of milk much
faster than any other feed you can
give them. Save your straw for your
young stock; they will do well on it il
you give them some ground corn along
with it. Feed your cows middlings,
with good clover or timothy hay, or,
what is better yet, cornfodder or silage.
! know of no better dry feed for milch
cows than cornfodder. Feed them that.
Keep oat straw away from them and
there will be no decrease in the flow OF
milk in the fall and winter.-Beatrice
NJ. Ebbinghaus, in Ohio Farmer.
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Mrs. Col. Richardson
SAVED BY MRS. PINKHAM.
LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. za,s96l

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SUITS FOR WHEELING.
still nm Interesting Subject to Most
Women, Although No Longer .
hone of Contention.

Bicycle riding having now become al
most as common a habit as walking,
the bicycle costume is an interesting
subject to most women, although it is
no longer the burning topic that it was
at first, when it served as bone of con-
tention for extremists both pro and
con. All women do not wear the same
kind of bicycle suit, not simply be-
cause there is diversity in taste, but
because there are individual points to
be considered, such as age, weight and
the sort of riding to be done. A wOm-
an who bowls along few miles upon
an asphalted pavement in the level
streets of a city can clothe herself much
more daintily than one who takes long
trips over rough country roads where
mud, water and dust are abundant, tum-
bles thing to be anticipated, and a
drenching shower not an impossibility,
to say nothing of great deal of exer-
tion and consequent warmth, prone to
wilt frills and furbelows. Frills and
furbelows are never, indeed, appro-
pirate to bicycle clothing, which should
be always of the tailor-made order,
trim, close and free from floating ends
and fluttering accessories, but white,
mastic and pale gray gowns, patent
leather shoes and similar attire may be
worn by the easy rider, who is content
ed with spin around the square,
whereas the country excursionist must
get herself up in far more substantial
fashion,
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INCORRECT POSITION.
That Assumed by a Majority of BIZ
cvcle Riders Is Unsafe and
WastefuI of Power.

Anyon who considers the bicycles of
five or six years ago, and who looks at
the machines of to-day, must be struck
with the remarkable difference which
exists between the designs of then and
now, more particularly in the posi-
tion of the saddle, althd Ugh perhaps it
Is not quite so accura e to speak of
this as difference in dc lgn, as differ
ence in fitting and adj stment by the
rider. In many cases, however, the po-
sition assumed by large proportion
of the riders of to-day is quite as wrong
as was that of the years that have
gone, and while fully admitting That
the cycle manufacturer has to follow
the fashion, and supply that which his
customers require, it is our object to
point out the error of their way.
With the idiotic, absurd and awk-
ward backward squat" of three or
Eour years ago, who does not remember
the serious statements that such po-
sition was the only one suitable for
speed purposes, and that, however in
elegant it might be, it of all positions
was the right one for the scorchers-
and yet what do we see to-day? 1t is
not the slow rider and the tourist who
have jumped to the opposite extremes
but the racing man and the would-be
speed merchant, the latter very much
more than the true speed man.
As a matter of fact, the bicycle as
we see it ridden by the rational rider
of to-day, and the seasoned tourist, is
about as correct in its adjustment and
position as it can well be, but the posi-
ton in which the rider is hung out to
dry on the projecting peak of an un-
duly forward saddle the while he kicks
backwards at his pedals, and has to
support himself on his dropped handle
bar, is just as wrong as the old, far
away rear position was in the other
direction-indeed, not only the saddle
but the handles on most machines of
the latter class are about as wrongly
positioned as they can be, for it will
be noticed that very many of our fastest
path-riders adopt handle-bars very lit
tie dropped below their saddle level,
whereas we see riders about the streets
with the handle-grips set six or eight
inches below. This position is incor-
rect, inelegant, unsafe and wasteful of
power. and the sooner the younger gen
Grafton of riders recognize that it is so
the be.ter.-Golden Days.
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It would be safe to say that preserva-
tives in anything to be eaten, in the
shape of boracic acid, salycilic acid,
formalin, and the whole family, are a
damage to the health of those who eat
them, says New York Farmer. No
number of certificates from chemists
and medical men who are willing to sell
an opinion on these subjects should
have any weight with sensible people.
There has been good deal of such
dirty work done, and by men who rate
themselves as authorities in sufh ques-
tions, but such opinions have no weight
among their professional brethren
whose opinions are not for sale. 1t
seems pity that such men can have
any standing among their honest and
conscientious brethren, and if the truth
could be fully known we opine such
would be found to be the case.