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AERoNAUT's DROP TO DEATH.
One Killed at Streator and Another
browns at HillsdaIe.

browns at Hil1sdale.
Aeronaut Thayer of Niles, Mich, while
making a parachute trip at Streator, ILL.,,
fell 200 feet and was instantly killed.
The balloon ascension was one of the spe-
cial features of the annual picnic of the
Modern Woodmen. The balloon rose rap
idly and moved to the southeast about
half mile before Thayer cut loose.
When he did SO the balloon was already
settling, and before he could get out of
the way the great bag turned over and
struck the parachute. overturning it, and
all descended together. When Thayer's
body was found both arms, both legs and
his spine were broken.
Prof. Bert Kimball, who made a oal-
loon ascension at the Knights of Pythias
picnic at Bawbeese Park at Hillsdale,
Mich. dropped into Bawbeese lake and
drowned before assistance could reach
him. His home was at North Adams
Mich
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
MRS. STYLES is NOT GUILTY.
hicngo Woman Freed from Charge of
Numbering Her Mothrr.

Amid the hysterical weepings of Mrs,
Augusta Styles, Judge Waterman. in q
Chicago court room, read the verdict of
not guilty, which freed Mrs. Styles of
the charge of numbering her mother, Mrs.
Catherine Schultz. OH May 4. The jury
was out but one hour and fifty minutes,
only three being for conviction and q
short sentence at any time.
Mrs. Schultz was deliberately killed by
Mrs Styles May after she had waited
for her for some hours for that purpose.
The cause of the trouble was Mrs
Schultz revealing the story of the birth
Of Mrs. STYLES daughter Belle.
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when he was killed. He was the first man
killed in the Union ranks in recognized
warfare, though four Massachusetts men
had been killed in the Baltimore riots. He
was with the Seventh when it led the,
charge against the stone wall at Winches-i
ter-the charge which gave Gen. Stone
wall Jackson his first defeat. He was in.
the charge at Phillippi June 8, 1S61-the-
charge that opened the war. He was at
Gettysburg and on the other great field
of the North.
-
There died a few days ago in Terre
Haute, Ind, an unassuming man who left
behind him diary covering fifty years Of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

ANDREW WALKER. vice Mr. Walker
guided his engine over 1,0G0,91S miles OF
track, and that during all that time no
train of which he was the pilot met with
an accident of serious character Only
once did Mr.. Walker leave his work on
the railroad. That was in 1862, when for
a few months he tried farming near In
dianapols. With that exception his ser-
vice was continuous
Civil service reformers. who are dis
turbed by President Mckinleys recent
order, first gained national recognition in
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dary contended for by Canada, dotted
line near the coast, placing Dyea, Ska
quay and Pyramid harbor in British ter
ritory; the line claimed by the United
States north and west of the Lynn canal.
and conventional line proposed by Daw-
son which strikes through Pyramid har-
Dor. The latest proposition by the Amer
lean Government is to give Canada q
free harbor at the head of Lynn canal.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
College News Notes

Lafayette will erect n new libr,rv
building.
Radcliffe Alumnae Association now. has
more than 200 members.
Only five of the 300 members OF the
senior class of Yale failed to graduae.,.
Wells College Alumnae will try to raise
an endowment fund of 100000.
The Rev. Samuel May, now of I,iacS-
ter, Mass. is the Oldest living alu..n,,s
OF the Divinity School Of Harvard Uli-
verslty. BE is the only survivor Of tie
graduates OF 1888.
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active life. The
book would not
make exciting read
ing, because it tells.
only the simple
story of 4 man who
did his duty faith
fully and without
fault. 1T is the
daily record of the
life OF Andrew
Walker, railroad
engineer. 1t shows
that during his fifty
years of active ser.
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Horseless Paracraphs.

The automobile wagons thus far built
have been, in many respects, reproduc-
tions of wagons and carriages intended to
be pulled by horses; but with more expe-
rience we feel confident that wide de-
partures will be made from this old type.
Boston Herald
The Chicago officials appear to be
thinking seriously of keeping automobiles
out of the parks, because they may
frighten horses. They fail to recognize
that the more automobiles there are the
fewer horses there will be to frighten.-
st. Paul Pioneer-Pr
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
HAD AWFUL PUNISHMENT.
Industrial School in New Jersey to Be


invest gated.
Gov. Voorhees, will investigate the girls
industrial school near Trenton, n. j.
Kate Barlow, II years of age, who was
recently removed from the school to the
city hospital, tells tale of frightful pun
ishment. She says she was put in dun
Gcon and kept there for twenty-four
hours Oh bread and water Then she
says she was taken out and compelled to
walk up and down stairs twenty five
times After this she was locked in a
room with the windows nailed down for
two days. Then she was removed to
the hospital. The girl may die.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
GOLD CLAIMS GosBLED UP.
Government Officials Charged with
Forming a Clique.

1t is learned that the miners of Gamer
on and Anvil City i'll the Yukon district
charge that clique has been formed to
gobble up all the good claims in the coun-
try and are disposed to lay the blame at
the door of United States Commissioner
Shepherd. A recent meeting of 1,OOG
miners was dispersed by soldiers. 1t is
charged that the ring has employed Lap
landers to stake claims. y protest will
be sent to Washington
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Ind, and entered the
Seventh regiment
the first one to leave
the State, the one to
lead the first charge
in the four years
war, the first one to
have a soldier killed.
He participated in
the forty-one battles
in which the regi-
men,t took part. He
w a s II e ar j O h n
Smith of Shalbvyilla
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
5;7lIz<z+zZEE y II Ii ~
| E4zHHh 4;7;zzzIzt!ANVV !ANVVjIkAls

Out of sixteen counties which have made
assessment returns to the State Auditor
net gain in valuation over last year is
shown of $SS9,Si5 There are yet thirty
seven counties to report, and if the ratio
keeps up there will be a substantial in
crease i'll value, instead of a reduction,
which has been the rule in the past.
+ I +
1t is denied that the extradition warrant
for the arrest of Grant II. Todd, the min
ing expert. was issued by Secretary Ayres
without the knowledge of Gov. Lee. Mr.
Ayres states that he wired Gov. Lee the
substantial facts i'll the case, and from him
received instructions to have the warrant
issued.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
First chinese Pensioner

All Yuh of Shanghai, China, lands
man who enlisted in the navy in 1884
and was formerly attached to Dewey's
flagship Olympia, Wednesday was grant
ed a pension of $50 a month for luna
trouble. He has the distinction of being
the first Chinese pensioner
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

noon. Several at
tenpts formerly
have been made to
kill him. The mur-
derer, Ramon Ca
ceros, made his cs-
cape. The death
of Gen. Ulises
HeureauX has cast
a gloom over the
entire Dominican
Government.
Immediately up
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
ALASKAN MATTER eRIeATENs.
Temporary settlement May Soon BE
Reached with England.

Reached with England.
Secretary Hay and Reginald Tower,
the British charge d'affaires, expect soon
to have the Alaskan boundary line prac.
tically settled on a temporary basis. With
Canada eliminated from the controversy
it is thought that the American and Brit
ish Governments will have no difficulty
in reaching an agreement
The map, made from Dawson's Cana.
dian map of 1887 and United States
coast survey of Alaska, shows the boun.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
Inhaling Poison Killed Him.

Philip Heger, aged 63, Il prosperou.
farmer living few miles west of Union
Mo-, scattered poison over his potato
vines to kill bugs. He inhaled so mucl
of the poison that in spite of the besi
medical skill obtainable he died.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

r. B. Elllcott Joseph G. ". CURTIS.
H. Blackfan and David c. Cox. In 1850
competitive examinations Of applicants
for certain positions were begun in a linn
tied way, but it took twenty years Of agi-
tation to induce Congress to act. In Eng
land free, open competition throughout
the public service was established in 1870.
The civil service commission of 1871
adopted rules governing the examination
of candidates. which We're in force until
Congress refused to make an appropria-
ton for the work, and President Grant
declared them temporarily suspended in
1915.
George Bruce Cortelyou, who has been
appointed secretary of President McKin-
ley during the indefinite absence in Eu-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

1871. In that year
Congress passed Il bill
authorizing President
Grant to appoint a
civil service co.lmis-
sion. The members of
this first commission
We're George William
Curtis, Alexander G.
Cattell, Joseph Medill,
D avidson \. Walker,
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rope of Secretary
Porter, was made
assistant secretary
in 1898 and for the
past few months
has been filing the
principal post and
conducting affairs
at the w hi t e
House. Mr.. Cortel.
you is 4 native OF
New York and is q
lawyer of ability,
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else. He is net only
the owner of the
Mexico Opera House
and other valuable
property. but is an
athlete who gees in
his shirt sleeves in
the depth of winter,
A street fair is to be-
held in Mexico and
the committee in.
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OF bachelor and master of laws and his
extensive experience amply fits him for
the present position.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

Mr.. G. d. Ferris of Mexico, Mo-, is
prominent business man who holds the
interests of his town above everything
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
HERE'S AN ARMY HOBO.

Frequ ents Small Towns and Poses as
Spanish War Veteran.
The police of many small cities are on
the lookout for the so-called Spanish war
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
SAN DOMINGO RULER SLAIN
President Heureaux Finally Falls ii
Victim to Assassin.

Gen. Ulises Heureaux, president of the
Dominican republic, was assassinated at
Moca, Santo Domingo, Wednesday after
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04

veteran, who shows his wounds, not yet
healed, and asks aims for the sake Of his
victories.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
SNAKES ON HIS CNI..,-.
4 Pennsylvania Engineers Strange
Pets on His Run Through
= the Mountains.

c. L. Pownell an engineer on the
Tyrone division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, has been a snake tanner and
fancier ever since he was a boy, says q
Bellefonte (Pa.) correspondent of the
New York World. For 20 years he has
been living in the Allegheny mountains
which abound with rattlers, and he has
had many of them for pets.
Not onl y does Engineer Pownell car
ry his pet rattlers with him on his en-
CINE in box, but frequently turns
them loose in the cab or on the tender
to roam at will, and it is not an infre-
quent sight to see Pownell's engine go
spinning by with rattlesnakes visible
over the top of the tank, their heads
hanging out of the cab, or to see them
snugly ensconced on the footboard of
the engine.
Arriving at his destination, Pownell
calmly picks up the snakes and puts
them securely in their box for the time
being. Not infrequently he turns the
feptiles loose on the depot platforms
and plays with them for the amusement
of large crowds.
Pownell handles the snakes us the
average man would handle a cat. and
with as little fear. The only time he ap
pears to take any caution is in picking
up the reptiles, never doing this when
they are in coil, as that is the only time.
he declares, when they will strike,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
THE BARRE EVENING TELEGRAM
BARRE, W., NOVEMBER 13, 1899.

The Barre Telegram advises the
state of Iowa to put it's convicts at
work upon permanent road building,
instead of letting them out to corpora
tions in competition with free labor.
Why not advise Vermont to do this
same thing? Every man with an eye
in his head knows that the state needs
better roadwayS and also that her
convicts are drug on the market.
BY all means put them on permanent
road construction and make them huS-
tie. Essex Record.
We do believe most thoroughly in
using convict labor upon the roads,
especially the kind that is sent to the
house of correction at Rutland. In
no way can the state recover perma-
nent highways SO surely and quickly
as by using convict labor to build
them. The effect would be two fold,
good roads would result and tramps
and criminals would be less if the lat
ter class knew they would have to
work out the fines on the highways.
Try it. No harm can come and much
good would, we believe, result from
the trial.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
Seeking Promotion.

| Word comes down the line that the
candidacy of Gen. William w. CIRCUIT
for the SenatOrship in the second dis
trict, which has been limited at as
probable, from time to time, is an
assured fact and that he has really
and truly entered into the contest for
the place made vacant by Senator
Morrill,, and filled temporarily by Gov.
Smith by the appointment of Jona-
than Ross of st. Johnsbury for the
umexpired term.
Gen. CIRCUITS candidacy occasions
little surprise. He is naturally and
logically the districts candidate. He
has seen years of service in the house,
much of the time on important COM
mittees. This has added largely to
his fund of experience and will be of
incalculable benefit to him in the SEN
ate.
The fact that Gen. Grout has been
returned to the house time and again
by his constituents in the second dis
trict attests to his popularity, and no
other evidence is needed to show that
they appreciate the value of his SER
vices to the district and to the state.
Vermont has not had a representa-
tive in congress within the recollec-
ton of the writer, who has shown the
interest in legislation that affected
Vermont or her people that has been
shown by Gen. Grout during his years
of service at the capitol. He has been
a tirelesS worker in behalf of his state,
and if there was ever public official
who deserved promotion Gen. Grout
is that official. Haven Era.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
THE NEGRO IN HOT WEATHER.
lie Likes the Heat ON His Head, hut
lie Tries to Keep His Heels
Cool.

IT has often been said that the capac-
ity of the negro race for enduring heat
has never been fully tested. An acct
dent related by Il dairyman living on
the outskirts of the city seems to bear
out this assertion. He has young
negro boy who looks after the cattle
and does chores around the place. The
only effect that the heat produces in his
case is a desire to slumber. The dairy
man had young calf in the barnyard,
and as the sun was pouring in on the
poor animal his wife sent "Carlina" out
to turn the calf loose, SO that he could
seek shady spot. After waiting an
hour for his return the housewife went
to the barnyard to investigate. There
she found both boy and calf curled up
in the hot and sitting barnyard. The
calf was dead from the effects of the
sun, but the boy was slumbering peace
fully by its side, says the jacksonville
(Fla.) Times-U Union.
While negro can stand any amount
Of heat on his head. he loves to cool his
nees. 1t is common sight in the win
ter to see negro boy on frosty morn
ing with his head bundled up to keep
out the cold, and at the same time walk
ing unconcernedly along the frosty
ground in his bare feet. One of the hot
test places in the city on a hot day is at
the lumber wharves of the Florida Gem
trail and Peninsula railroad. When the
mer knock off for noon they frequently
take nap with their faces upturned to
the rays of the blazing sun; at the same
time they get their feet under the shad-
ow of some friendly lumber pile.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
MIDDLE PART DYING OUT.
Fashion DEGREES That Men Must Re-
turn to the Side Division
of the Hair.

Changing style has decreed that the
fashion of parting the hair in the mid
die, which has prevailed so long among
men. must go. The young man about
o make an appearance lin society"
hereafter need not stand before the
mirror dividing his smoothly brushed
locks exactly in the middle, thereby
setting off his face in symmetrical
frame of glossy hair, and his elderly,
sald-headed rival is soon to be denied
the pleasure of making disdainful COM
ment upon parting ones brains in the
middle
"By far the great majority of my
customers nowadays have their hair
parted on the side" said a Washington
street barber the other day. 1.-The part
in the middle is going out of style 1t
never was popular with elderly people,
as so many of them are bald, but it's
been the rage within the last ten years.
ali right. ! remember when a man who
had his hair plastered down each side
OF his face was called a 'chappie.'
when Lord Chumley' was first
played in this country lots of theater-
goers were greatly amused because he
appeared with his hair parted in the
middle. Probably the style was import
&c from England. 1t spread just after
the pompadour went out. Lots of peo-
pie could not wear the pompadou1s
which did not stand stiffly unless the
hair was bristly, so they adopted the
part in the middle. You never see a
man with pompadour to-day. and |
venture to say that in couple of years
every one will be back to the old style
CT parting the hair on the side"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
STATISTICS OF THE INDIANS
Their Numbers Estimated At 25O,OOU
1850 schools Are Maintained
for Them.

Uncle Sans new directory Of the In
1ian tribes shows that the parlor car
companies and the apartment house
builders have still a big fund of names,
puphonious and otherwise, to draw
from. although, in running down the
list, it is seen that there are limits to
.he selection of Indian names. No one,
Tor instance, would want to live In the
Two Kettle Sioux apartments, and
some objection might be made to names
like Winibegoshish, Humptulip and
Muckleshoat, but there are many Pot
tawatomie, Maricopa, Menomonee,
Nomelackie, Pembina, Piankeshaw,
Shoshone, Tonkawa and Wylackie,
which, If they do not appeal to the
manners of parlor cars and apartment
houses, ought to keep those American
horse owners who name their thor
oughbreds by fantastic and inane sys-
tens. Such seekers for names are re-
statistics of Indian tribes. Indian
agencies and Indian schools" for 1880,
issued by the government printing Of
fee, says the New York Sun.
This handbook gives the names Of n
Indian agencies and $50 tribes, with
statistics of $50 schools, including
agency day schools, independent day
schools, reservation boarding schools
and non-reservation boarding schools.
The Indian population, summing the
agency totals, which range from 1888 in
the Sac and Fox agency in Iowa to
7701S in the Union agency, Indian ter
rtory, is nearly 100000. The estimated
value of Indian school plants is $3,5G2,-
100, nearly s2,0oo,ooo representing
schools on reservations
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
CAPITAL $500, 900.

one and onehalf miles south of the
Grand Cannon of the Colorado in Co.
conino County, Ariz., which has been
constant shipper of 32 to 80 per cent.
ore since last May. Smelter returns
from the Philadelphia Smelling and
| Refining Co., from June 18th to Sep
TENDER II, 1899, show an average of
over $1,000 net profit per week.
A pyramid of low grade ore from 10
to 80 per Gers. copper remains to be
concentrated, or otherwise treated.
Estimating with a degree of accuracy
seldom reached in mining propositions
the following figures give the posi-
bilities of ore in sight 300 feet by
200 feet by 20, and result divided by
II Cubic feet of ore in place per ton)
makes 100, 900 tons of ore averaging
this ore at 20 per cent. copper, at 10
cents per pound, shows $4,000, 600
gross value.
The property is endorsed by one of
the oldest and best known mining en-
gineers in Arizona. as showing more
favorably than did the Longfellow
group, copper queen or the United
Verde until after $1,000 had been
spent to develop them. His report is
backed by four other expert mining
engineers and managers.
The superintendent of the mine is
Hon. Louis Woltey, Ex-Governor of
Arizona, and of the best mining men
in the state.
1t will pay every investor to not
only read, but study the reports on
this property, which, with prospectus,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
Saloon Business in Cuha.

"A New Orleans newspaper tell how a
Havana saloonkeeper bewails the pass
ing OF Spanish rule on that island.
I'VE have not made much out of the
privates under either rule" he began.
THE Americans have forbidden us to
sell liquor to them, and the Spanish SOL
dlers were too poor to buy. It's the Off
GERS of the two nationalities that COM
pare. In Weyler's army, drinking was
very heavy. The rebellion might have
been ended in a short time if these Off
GERS had cared to attend to it. They were
making too much money and having
too good time"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13

The BrattleborO Reformer notices
the candidacy of Mr.. Plumley in a
sneering way but does not print the
article from the Northheld News.
That is just the difference between an
organ and real newspaper. The for
mer will print only what it thinks
will help its favorite: the latter prints
all the news political as well as other
wise. If a candidate cannot stand
publicity he is not worthy of support.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13

The withdrawal of Mr.. Read will
throw considerable strength to Mr..
Haskins in Windham county, but this
is believed to be more than offset by
the support that will gravitate to Mr..
Plumley from Windsor county solid,
but on the other hand Mr.. Plumley
will have Washington county to a
delegate. The contest will be one of
interest, quite as much SO as the con-
greSsional battle in the first district,
and it will wax warm from now on.-
Essex Record.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
COMMON STOCK
AT soc. PER SHARE
and of the s per cent. cumulative
PREFERRED STOCK
At Sl.OO PER SHARE,

the right being expressly reserved to
withdraw this offer WITHOUT NO.
TlCE. This company has also bond
ed 1900 of mineral land in south
western Missouri, near the famous st.
Joe Lead Mine, which has produced
millions of dollars. Experts reports
on this property claim is to be very
valuable. Should this company's in
vestigation of the property prove
these claims, we have the option of
acquiring it on very favorable terms,
and in this case the profits of the lead
business will be added to those from
the Grand Cannon Copper Mine, thus
offering an opportunity to secure DU-
PLICATE PROFITS ON ONE IN
NESTMENT.