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Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Much FatiGued.
lie. Founded Converse College.

Atlanta. Ga, Oct. 5.-Word was re-
teived here of the death at Spartan
burg, S. c., of D! E. Converse, founder
of Converse college at that place and
one of the wealthiest business men in
the state. Mr.. Converse, who came
from New York about IS years ago, was
the president of five cotton mills at the
time of his DEATH He was 72 years old
and a man of great charity, his dona-
tions to Converse college alone amount
ing to $75O,OOO,
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

Secretary Long says the selection of
Admiral Dewey for the: Asiatic squad
ron can be attributed to no one else
than the admiral himself. The presi-
dent and the secretary were looking for
the officer who was fitted for the re-
sponsible position, and the record of
Dewey warranted his appointment.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

Americans enjoy being humbugged.
! All think tbnt French brandy Is the
best, and for hat reason thousands of
bottles 81 American brandy are each
year aent 10 France, stamped with,
French labels and shipped back fozbe
ssoid here ns French brandy The re-
I ports Sol The French oyernrnent show
this by stating that the manufactureof
brandy u. Erance last ear ano united
600 900 ga lions while the export
ysas 5000, 900 gall oIs The bug
{ shows up IA the exportat ton from
France of three lines @ much Isaady
= rance mad
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

Evelyn B. Baldwin, of the United
States weather bureau, who was men,
ber of the Wellman expedition, says
that the electrical energy which pro-
duces the aurora borealis can be, and
one day will be, utilized just as coal is
now to produce light, heat and power.
Perhaps so, but ''some day" means
great deal,
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

An old darky by the name of Mace
Jackson, living in Monroe City, No., eel
ebrated his one hundred and twenty
seventh birthday few days ago. His
great age is not as remarkable as the
fact that be does not claim to have seen
WaShinpf0n
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Fire Losses- in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. 2.-The large
warehouse of the Minneapolis Sash &
Door company was destroyed by fire
Sunday, entailing loss to this firm of
$so,ooo. The adjoining warehouse of
the Woodward Holmes company, man
ufacturers of wooden and excelsior
cave cutters, also burned, causing a
loss of $4,000. Three adjacent dwell
ings and store were also destroyed.
Fires in other parts Of the city caused
much other damage, swelling the total
loss to at least $4,000. .&zS =:
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Fell from n Window.

Julius Hartneck, of Morgan. went to
Springfield, and after looking for his
sister, who is the wife of Jos. Sch1eif,
went to the hotel to stay for the night.
Mrs. Schleif has been gone from her
husband some time. During the night
policeman found the body of Hart
neck by the side of the hotel building.
Upon investigation it was found that
Hartneck had fallen from a second
story window and received severe
bruises in the head and body. He was
taken to the village lookup, where he
WAS cared for
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Illlnoi. cavalry Reunion.

Chatsworth, ILL.,, Oct. 3.-Notices of
the first annual reunion and banquet
of the Illinois Cavalry Volunteers of
1898, which will be held at the Palmer
house, Chicago, October 13, at seven
o'clock. are being sent out by r. Fin
ley Brown, of this city, treasurer of the
association and chairman Of the invita-
ton committee. 81. ....,. ...... Y n
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
THE EAST.

The month of September was the
twelfth in succession in which the vol
umeo business throughout the country
was greater than in the same month OF
any previous year.
In the National league the per-
centages of the baseball clubs for the
week ending on the 1st were: Brook
lyn, .6s4; Philadelphia, .e22; Boston,
.621; Baltimore, .594; St. Louis, 500;
Cincinnati, SAT; Chicago, .5o4; Pitts
burgh, .4e3; Louisville, .4S9; New York,
.413; Washington, .34s; Cleveland, .1s5.
At Stockdale, Pa, Alexander Wust-
Itch, an aged and wealthy German, was
killed and his wife fatally wounded by
burglars.
The returns from the municipal elec.
tions in Connecticut show republican
victories in 101 towns and democratic
successes in 80.
In Poughkeepsie, N. Y, E.L. Cowden
an Eastman college student from Tex.
as, died from injuries received while
playing football. 49,. -
In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the Sd was: Wheat, 49,.
$4,000 bushels; corn, IL, 2,4eo, 900 bush
els; oats, 7,32s,0o0 bushels; rye, 7Oe,-
900 bushels; barley, 1,441, 900 bushels.
The first of the series of races of
New York for the Americas cup be-
tween the Columbia and the Shamrock
was declared off, neither yacht finish.
ing the 30-mile course within the time
allowed.
| Fire destroyed the immense lumber
yards of the Wheeler & Dusenberry
company at Endeavor, Pa, the loss be-
ing s500,000.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

The first direct shipment of Amer
lean grain for France has been made
from Philadelphia. 1t is announced
that other shipments are to follow.
This may be interpreted to mean a
great many things. It will give room
for innumerable conjectures. The most
plausible explanation, however, is that
France needs our grain and is able to
nav for IT,
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
!. !. Fire n Dec Aioinea.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. - Fire Tues
day destroyed the fiye-story depart
ment store Of the Harris Emery COM
pany and communicate ed to the Masonic
temple, Murphy house, Hegele cigar
store md Hill shoe store, HE total loss
amounting to $500. 600 /. The loss 10 the
zHarris Emery company alone is esti-
mated at $3.50. 600. Al the buildings
were insured. The origi e of the fire is
unknown.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
.Lum,17 =, ~, PIant Durne Cd !,

Oil City, Pa, Oct. The immense Sc
lumber yards 81: the ~ heel Ter q Dusen-
berry Co. located at tSEndeayor, Forest
county about IS miles from this city,
were completely burned out Tuesday.
Over 4, ,0OO. 600 feet sof lumber were de-
stroyed, together with three houses,
#entailing q total loss Of about $500, 900.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Breaks the Worlds Record.

Philadelphia, Oct. 5. - William H.
Stubbs, compositor on the Baltimore
Sun, broke the worlds record for ma
chine typesetting in. a contest for a
wager of $3.50 side with William Duffy,
of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The con-
test was held in the Philadelphia Times
office. Stubs set 66,617 ems in hours
and IS minutes, or an average of 11,o40
ems an hour. Duffy set 55,026 ems in
s hours and % minutes. The previous
record was 10000 ems an hour, made in
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Office four
years ago. .....
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
NJ Ar kErS.
Minneapolis. Minn,l.

neapolis, MINI, Oct.
" heat northern, 600 @70c;
No. 2 northern, sc @8sc; Dec So Z.
IS Oats 8, white 2lc.
Corn No &,
Cattle Steers s.. 90 @4. 0;;cows, $500
s@8.7
Sheep tons, So. so; lam lam ilbs, So, Is.
Hogs ,00@ 4.s0.
Butter repmery extras, 100000;
Ecreamery firsts 1s@ 19c;; dairy fancy,
[s17@1sc
Ponltr urkeya loc; prine
chickens 1ac sss=.sss,,
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

=. DO you mobe?" is the question of
Z the day, its single variation being ,:Do
you mote?" 1t applies, of course, to
your habits in regard to automobiles.
Nothing in the way of such slang could
ever be quite as Objectionable as the
mutilated ''bike," but these two recent
authorizations are nearly as bad, and, as
they are having fashionable vogue,
they viii doubtless be heard from one
end of the country to the other.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

Prince Alexis Karageorgewitch is
now in this country for the purpose Of
pressing his suit. While he is at it he
ought to be required to iron out q few
OF the wrinkles in his name.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

An Ohio man and woman who have
Y been twice divorced have just been tied
I. mp in the silken cord Of matrimony for
the third time. Their motto seems to
be: IF at first you don't succeed, tie,
fiA apain - -. ~ ns. .r9 sis2 &-5
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

AS a general utility statesman, Ii
Hung Chang has no living equal. If the
empress dowager gets sick, or the hired
girl puts too much indigo in the wash
ing. there is an instant demand for Ii
Hung Chang to take charge of the ship
8 0f state 49, III. 4 .-,4
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
I Strikers win.

\ Danville, Ill, Oct. ST Three thousand
miners who have been out for two
weeks will return to work to-day, the
=iremen's demands having been con-
ceded BY the operators. The conten-
ton was for an eight-hour day and
.$1.75 per day The new agreement
stands until April ]. . So
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

William Owen Smith, who is to rep
resent Hawaii at Washington during
the coming session of congress, was
j born in Hawaii about so years ago. He
is one of the most prominent and in
fluential men in the islands. -
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
News in Brief.

The body of an unknown man was
found in the river at Fort Smelling.
William G. Smith, st. Anthony Park,
has received the appointment of field
assistant in the department of agricul-
ture, with salary of $1,000.
Josie Swanson. aged years, was
burned to death in Minneapolis. She
was playing around bonfire and her
clothing caught fire.
John T. Anderson, laborer who has
lived three years with his spine frac-
tured near the base, died at the city
hospital, st. Paul.
Mrs. Martha PEBBLES, an aged lady,
fell down stairs in Minneapolis and
was killed.
Mrs. Carl Stople, of Minneapolis, died
from arsenic taken with suicidal in
tent.
The Washburn-Crosby company has
been notified that their famous Gold
Medal -four has received blue ribbon
and diploma at the Illinois state fair
just closed at Springfield.
w. 81. Shoemaker, an old resident of
Owatonna, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
By the falling of scaffold in the
union depot at Minneapolis four paint
ers were injured.
The Lake Superior Consolidated,
sometimes known as the Rockefeller
company. paid the state a fee of SIS, 200
as a foreign corporation, and an
S~t m %ho
constitutionality of the Somerville act.
John Nelson, an employe of the Mil
waukee road at Minneapolis, was be-
headed by the cars.
Bad weather about spoiled the Good
hue county fair.
The Merchants State bank has been
incorporated at Long Prairie, with a
capital of 5000
Gov. Lind has named Oct. ~ as the
day for the execution of George J.
Ferguson, the Itasca county murderer.
James Doyle, an aged man, fell down
stairway in St. Paul, and died after
being unconscious for 81 hours. y
The Minneapolis milkmen raised the
price of milk one cent per quart. ~;
The state school of agriculture has
oponed for the winter term with pros
poets better than ever.
An order was issued at the postoffice
department for the establishment. of
rural free delivery service at Roches-
ter. The length of the route is 25K
miles, the area covered is 25 square
miles and the population served 500.
Adam Britzius has been appointed reg
ular carrier and F. G. Timm substitute.
Capt. Amasa S. Crossield, Browns
Valley, who was an officer of the 18th
Minnesota volunteers, has been COM
missioned as captain in the 44th vol
unteer infantry, and has been assigned
to recruiting duty at his home.
Battalion Sergeant Major Loye, 18th
Minnesota, was notified by the war
department that he had been appoint
ed captain in the 45th infantry. Lieut..
johnson, Co. F, has been appointed
first lieutenant in the 42d infantry.
The men will be mustered out with the
regiment, and will then receive orders
After q stormy session Of three days
Lat White Earth agency, the Chippewa
Indians decided ii favor Of no junkets.
The little - 11S{-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Dawes, living at Warsaw,
became lost and was not found until
1.-The next day. He was found IN q
Islough, alive hut terribly chilled
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
sFlirat Rnce Called on.

New York, Oct. &. he first OF the
international series of yacht races be-
tween the Shamrock i and the Colum-.
| bia, Tuesday, was declared of, az
neither boat could reach the finish line:
ii the time allotted By the rules.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
Fell from q Plow and Killed.

A farmer named Frederick Martin,
living in the town of Foran, about 10
miles south of Wells, was killed by
falling under a sulky plow. He had
been driving the team on the plow and
was going to the house for dinner.
His son and hired man went in ahead
of him, but when the old man did not
come they went to look for him. They
found him dead under the plow. The
pole was broken and the horses had
run awav.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
spewev.. an. a :Hlal1u,,led Down.

Washington, Oct. miraI Dewey
made san earl start ednesday tos I'LL e 8
number of engagement. The dmira1
wentstos see sSecreta Long his re
quest Ehe was deta ched formally from ll,li
the lympia and Hs H he elegrap phed 70
pnp kinsyiIle h. to have his fag hauled
down.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
lNBDi|HllI
The Important Happenings Of .
... eek Briefly Told. /.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
# Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

+. 80 j. b
FROM WASHINGTON. =.
During the three months ended Sep
tember 80 the receipts OF the govern
ment exceeded the expenditures by
$3,7o3, ,s01.39. s .' - S
On September 80 the total circulation
of national hank notes was $243, 300, 1913,
an increase for the year of S., 1913, 49,:
Upon his arrival in Washington Adj
miral Dewey was given a magnificent
reception. He was given the freedom
of the District of Columbia, greeted by
his old friends of the navy department
and then was presented to thepresident
and Mrs. Mckinley. Later in the even
ing he reviewed the parade that filled
Pennsylvania avenue from one end to
the other. -...
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the I'd shows that the debt de-
creased $s,4oo,775 during the month of
September. The cash balance in the
treasury was $1,o15,241,os6. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the treas
ury, amounts to $1,14s, ,9O5, ,s7G
During the month of September the
tOlol CACSulCu at luc Is VI
the United States was $9.566, ,794.
/ In the shadow of the dome of the na-
tional capitol the elimination of Ad-
miral Dewey's triumphal Homecoming
was reached. Here he received from
the hands of the president the magnifi-
cent jeweled sword voted him by con-
gress in commemoration of the victory
of Manila bay.
1t was announced after a consulta-
ton with advisers in Washington that
President McKinley's policy covering
the Philippines is to push the war to a
successful conclusion with all possible
vigor, and when peace comes to submit
to congress for settlement the question
of the future of the islands.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11
0 ia NEWS. I!
1 rhe Fair Was ProntabIs.

The Fair Wes PrO6t Ahdss
The profits of the last state fair are
over $40, 900, the exact amount not pc
ing ascertainable until all the plils
have been audited. The books now
show q balance Of $23, 00O.
The record is brilliant one, SHOW.
ing that the fair has been the most mo J.
successful in the states history. 8 Lass -.s
years fair closed with q balance q %o'
672.s7. :.i 5z5 $.s s5
The total receipts were sol, S76. q, de-
rived from the following sources:
+ Balance from 1898, $5,672. 81; state ap-
preparation, $4,000; entry fees, 9SoV' =
stall rent, $755.50; forage, $s144.45; ply plls
ileges, $5.Os4.6O; race account, Sl!o'
miscellaneous receipts, $4,561. Il, rali- lll
road tickets unaccounted for, S6,65s.
The total receipts from tickets, IN
Guiding railroad tickets, for which set
Elements have not yet been made, are
$61, 5000. As last years receipts from
the same source were $50, ,951.75, there
is an increase in this item OF $S4, ,921.oo'
The expenditures already foot up
SOS, 900, and will be more than $40, ,Ooo'
the chief items being: Premiums, $l4'-
527.73; races, $14, 4,O77.25; permanent I'M
provements, SIS, 5,954.97; attractions, w.
73O.1S. ., -E5
The chief increases in receipts were
in tickets and sale of privileges
Frogs. :
Minneapolis has become the largest
primary frog market in the world. The
total receipts of frogs and frog legs in
the city for the current year will be
somewhat in excess of 200, 1000 dozen,
which means that 2, 400, 900 croakers
have paid the extreme penalty. The
business has reached such proportions
that an army of men now depend upon
frog catching throughout the state for
a livelihood. It is said by frog con-
noisseurs that the Minnesota article is
vastly superior to other brands in
points of flavor, and for that reason
eastern and southern epicures have q
great preference for it. One large
firm handles the business exclusively.
While the receipts from the business
did not exceed $1,000 five years ago,
they will run close to $4,000 now.
Swell restaurants in New York, Chi
cago, Cincinnati and other cities have
standing orders for so many dozen per
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Willmar tribune., 1899-10-11

The woman who rode . wheel 700
miles in 81 hours is said to have seri-
sously impaired her health. Sensible
4 persons will, not und ertake to disturb
& the record. 55 5E 1--
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05
SIGNAL LIGHTS.

Human nature in broadcloth Is no better than human nature In rags. A St. Louis girl is so modest that she bushes at the bare state of facts.
 A man with an elastic imagination is apt to mistake it for his conscience.
 A man who lives on hope will spend his old age at somebody's else ex- pense.
 Women weep audibly when they are angry; silent tears mark the deepest grief.
 The difference between repartee and impudence is in the size of the speaker.
 Sweeping changes are made under the head of appropriations for street cleaning
 The man who knows but one thing feels capable of giving advice on all subjects.
 Some folks are kept in the dark in order to prevent them from bringing things to light.
 Lots of men would never be recog- nized as fools if they didn't fall ln love and give themselves away.
 But few men ever make their way through the world on the strength of their chronological developments.
 Lots of men go where duty calls, then stand around with their hands in their pockets after they get there.
 The wise man turns up his sleeves and goes to work while the fool sits around and waits for work to come to him.
 An Irish philosopher says it's a great blessing that night comes on late in the day when one is too tired to work longer.
 Half the people in the world are unhappy because they have too much and the other half are unhappy be- cause they haven't enough.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05
GREAT NATION
The Jews of the World Might Con.
 atItuke.


 stItute.
 Three million Jews live in Russia, where they are shut up in the western provinces and villainously treated. If he ventures to live outside the Jew ish pale in Russia Hebrew has to carry on some humble trade, and the richest banker In Odessa, If any Rus sian has grudge against him, may be compelled to work as cobbler on pain of banishment. Naturally the Jews retaliate, and delight In getting Rus sian officials and nob1es under their power with loans of money. One mill lion five hundred thousand Jews live in the Austrian empire, where they are perseeuted. The present mayor and corporation of Vienna were elected for the express purpose of bullying the Jewish community. France has 80.. 900 Jews, Roumania has 100000 Jews, Germany 100000, Holland 80,000, and Italy 50,000. Great Britain has S0,- 900, including many of our most no- table and popular public men. Europe has 6,000,000 Jews, America 350,000, Africa 500, ,000, Asia 25O,000, and Aus tralasia 10000. So altogether there are 7,120,000 of this nation, which is pretty fair, considering that 5000 years ago they only numbered about 3,000,- GOO, and the whole civilized world has been massaering and bullying them ever since. They seem to be by far the most capable race on earth. There is not single art, industry or science in which they have not excelled.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05
The 1nstinct Of sslf.nefenss.

Every boy who owns rabbits knows that if 8 stranger goes into the shed where they are kept they give a re- sounding thud with their feet upon the floor. This is a warning signal. Wild rabbits strike the ground the same way just before they enter their burrows. An interesting point is that rabbits give this warning stamp with their hind feet, while sheep, deer and antelope use the fore feet. This is be- cause the action of striking was in former times method of defense or attack, and in rabbits the hind legs are more powerful; in the other anil mals mentioned the fore lags.-Chi- cago News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05
iNQUIsiTORfAL
Methods of Collecting Taxes InstItuteG
 by an omcIaI of San Francisco.

Methods of Collecting Taxes Instituted
 by an Official of San Francisco.
 They are going to collect the tax, the whole tax, and nothing less than the tax out in California. It seems that there have resided in the city of ups and downs many of that ubiquitous class of citizens who believe it cheaper to lie than to pay taxes. Salaries, it is rumored. were falling behind; his honor needed cuspidors in his office. The methods adopted by the new as- sessor, elected on reform platform of his own making, whose name, cur fously enough, is Dodge, savers pung- ently of the ancient inquisition. The way the thing has been done in most cities is for the deputy collector to call and leave blank. This re- ceiving no attention beyond a few minor items, such as "Steinway piano, twenty-five doils;" household goods, furniture, chattels, etc, one hundred dolls" the deputy humbly pockets what he knows to be a lie and goes his way; the result being that the very signer of such a libel is obliged for another year to stumble over the pave ments he has since childhood decried and stand up for more months in the street cars, whose overloaded condi- tion he has in print so violently exc erated. These unmethods are de. clared by Dodge archaic. The new way is to force ones way into house and estimate the value of the goods from the standpoint of an outsider. The procedure is naturally meeting with much opposition, even by those who voted for reform and Mir. Dodge. The latter gentleman, however, is seemingly careless of reelection and pursues the even tenor of his way all undisturbed. The constitutionality of the case is being contested in the San Francisco courts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05

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