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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

The head of a house in Germany
which is one of the biggest buyers of
Russian wheat in Europe has closed a
contract for several hundred thousands
of dollars worth of American wheat.
The Russian wheat crop is almost a
failure:and the grain so inferior in quail
lty as to cause its rejection. The great
American wheat fields are the worlds
most reliable source of suDDly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Dewey to, Come west May

Washington Nov. ~. - Admiral
Dewey has written a4>letter to Mayor
forrnal saccepting the invita-
ton to be the guest Of the city of Chi
cago on the second, anniversary of the
battle Of Manila. Having previously
promised, to go to Chicago, the admi-
rails formal letter Of acceptance is sim
ply a statement that the date of May 1
is entirely acceptable to him T IT,, =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
FOREIGN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

"a London dispatch says that Gen.
Butler IS believed to have ordered an.
s i'm date advance for the relief 81
q 81 adysmit h.8 q Berlin dispatch an
IL ounces that Gen Lord Methuen has
been repulsed with great slaughte be-
yyond slGGras Pan. The Beers attacked
the British from the rear, &. shooting
down g hundred men belonging to the
naval brigade, and captured the regi.-1
ment Of Ninth lane
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
liable source of, supply

Thomas A Edison, Jr., has invented
long-distance telephone that he says
will enable him to talk to people in
Europeans easily as he can to those in
another part Of the city. He uses a
transmitter a thousand times as SEN
sit.ve as those to be found in ordi-
nary telephone instruments and very
powerful induction coils. He will be
able to. use the, present submarine
cables # he can get permission of the
oOm,naniaS
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Accidentally Killed.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Nov. 2s.-Gen.
Israel c. Smith, Of this city, aged 60
years, was instantly killed by the &C
cidental discharge of his gun while out
hunting Monday afternoon. He was
native OF. this city, where he enlisted in
1861 as a private in the Third Michigan
infantry and returned with rank of
brevet brigadier general, having made
one of the most brilliant records in the
civil war. He served thecity as chief
of the fire department forseveral years.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
! Are i I C,(:;Io;unle B !, I,.i ~ al.

IS New York, Nov. s2o.-By a fire. in a
four-story brick tenement building at
40 Houston street William Helmboldt,
60 years old, a civil war teran, and his
wife, Matilda, aged Is, were burned to
Dc death. Both were crippled. Many 9TH.
er occupants Of the house had narrow
escapes. Financial loss, s., 900. s555# 5
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

by the death of Vice President Hobart
Secretary Hay becomes heir in waiting,
so to speak, to the white house, and
Senator William P. Frye to the presi-
dency of the senate. Fortunately such
a contingency as has now occurred in
regard to presidential possibilities has
been provided for, though there is no
provision for filling the vacancy in the
vice presidency itself. = II 2 3
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
George r. Davis Dead.

E, Chicago, Nov: ss27.-Col. George ] r.
Davis, most prominently known forhis
official connection with the worlds fair
as director general, died at 10: IS o'clock
Saturday night in his home ,s6o2 Wash
ingtons boulevard. For two weeks he
had been gradually growing weaker
from palpita ton Of the heart Esd ~, T
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
At st. Louis, No., Andrew Wind and
Z. B. Harmon engaged in fight in an
elevator in. the Fraternal building, in
which the latter is engineer. During
the struggle Wind came in contact with
the lever which controls the elevator
and it started upward. Wind was
caught between the ceiling of the sec
ond floor and the car and was terribly
mangled, dying shortly afterward
Harmon is under arrest.
At Muncie, Ind, Frank Lakewood
in fotball game, had the tendon oil
his left leg broken, and as result will
be cripple for life.
=, Thanksgiving was celebrated by, the
American colony at Rome with the
usual enthusiasm. There was a lavish
display of the stars and stripes. -
The conference between the officials
of the Susquehanna Coal company and
committee of the striking miners has
ended. A new wage scale was promul
gated. It is satisfactory to both sides
and will terminate the long strike
The 1000 strikers have been idle since
Aug. s.
Harry Trumble, collector for the
Packers National Bank, shot and
killed highwayman in South Omaha,
Neb. While Trumble was on his way
home two men sprang out from the
darkness. One of the men threw his
arms around Trumble's neck. while
the other started to rifle his pockets.
Trumble grasped his revolver and shot
one dead. The other escaped.
A duel occurred between Buck Chairs
and Lou Petit (both colore6 at Sterl.
ing Colo, in which both were mortally
wounded. =. 49,: 49,
Walter Young was killed at Osseo,
Wis, by his son, who was trying tc
shoot turkey.
Jim Rogers, Black Hills desperate,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a penknife on Pacific Short Line
train just before reaching Plain View,
Neb. Rogers had been: convicted OF
horse stealing at Belle Fourche, and
was being taken to the penitentiary
at Sioux Falls by sheriff and deputy.
Sergt. Lewis Crawford, First cavalry,
was sentenced to 1879 years imprison.
ment for conspiracy in the escape OF
prisoners at Wardner, Idaho.
The deer hunting season just ended
resulted in a total of IL hunters killed
and seven wounded in Michigan and
the Lake Superior sections of Wiscon.
sin and Minnesota.
There are 5000 Spanish prisoners in
Abra prov ince, whose release through
military operations is soon expected,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Indicted for Alleged Bribery

Lansing, Mich.,. Nov, 27.-The Ing
ham co,inty grandajury on Saturday
returned indictments for legislative
bribery against thessfollowing named
persons: William A.SFrench, commits
sioner of the state land office; Edgar
j. Adams, speaker Of the lower house
of the Michigan state legislature;
Charles q. Pratt, former representa-
tive Of the West Publishing o.,sof. st.
Panl. ~, s.s-4$ 4 r.. Is III
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

w. A. Eddy, the kite expert, has per-
*ected a'method for locating storms by
the means of kites. Most persons will
agree that leaving your umbrella at
home is just as effective method and a
much simpler one.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Goes to Pri1On.5

Chicago, Nov. 2s.-Alonzo j. White
man, former state senator Of Mime
sofa, who disappeared after being con-
yicted Of forgery in this city, and who
was recently rearrested in New Yoras;:
was taken to the house of correctio,
Monday IS 81 / Z 4 fncs ~ q y
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

London dispatches. say that Prof.
Stems is having great success in curing
blindness with electricity. One case is
a man who was totally blind for IA
years. He is now able to read coarse
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Cost of Ohio CnmpaiEn,,

Columbus, O., Nov. ss.-The state:
ments of the republican and demo
cratic state campaign committees
were fled at the office Of the. county
clerk Monday afternoon, as required:
by law. The republican committee.
expended, according tosits report, $91,-
1923. 97. The democratic state commit
tee renorfs receipts IF SIS. 14s s5,s anr
Expenditures Of ST 7sges.5s. vs.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Made u New Record.

Kansas City, Mo-, Now IS. Bert Re-
pine, of Nashville, Tenn, won the 49,
hour bicycle race that began in Con-
.vention hall on Tuesday afternoon OF
last week, and in winning the race es-
tablished a new record for 4s hours.
The distance covered, 961 10 miles, is
81 1-6 miles better than the previous
record for a similar contest.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

n New Jersey company is offering
something called artificial lumber. The
recent appearance of artificial oysters
leaves no room for surprise in regard
to limitations.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
WEEKS HISTORY
fhe Imp rtant Happ enings Of q
I Week Briefly Told. =.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the --latest News of Interest from
ashington, From the East, tho
West and the South. =
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

~ NNOM VyASHAMVxON. 80 +sf
The currency billacompleted by the
republican caucus committee appoint.
ed by the last congress provides for q
gold standard, redemption of green.
backs in gold, reissues only in exchange
for gold and maintenance of the gold
reserve.
Contracts have been awarded by the
navy department for building six un-
protected cruisers authorized by the
last congress.
The agreement as to the disposition
of the Samoan islands reached by Great
Britain and Germany has been declined
by the United States,
The president and cabinet have can
ce1ed all social engagements for the
present out of respect to the memory
Of the late Vice President Hobart.
Maj. Gen. Miles has returned to Wash
ington after a western tour of inspec-
ton i I a~e 9&gh -
J Charles G.Dawes, comptroller ofthe
currency, in his annual report says
that the number of national banks in
operation on September z, 1899, was
s,595, with Individual deposits of $2,-
$50, 725, 595.31,7 an increase of S419,271,-
055 over the same time in 1898.
At the age of 50 years Thomas w.
Upton, who represented Nebraska in
the United States senate for eight
years, died in Washington.
For conference with the president
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of San
tiago province, arrived in Washing.
ton.
In his annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1899, Commissioner
Wilson, of the internal revenue bureau,
shows that the receipts from all sources
aggregated $273,4S4,57a, an increase
over the preceding year of $1o2617,o0O.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

Medical scientists agree that boiling
drinking water and milk is the best pre-
ventive, of typhoid fever. 1t is an easy
way toAavoid one of the worst diseases
known to mankind.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

Ess7,FI lie famous oarsman, WALLACE
Ross. died In Lond on. s5Sss5
. On her trial trip at Newcastle, ]. he
British torpedo boat destroyer iiper
made SO knots an hour, breaking al
records. .: J: - 5.s sE.5 S IS
Advices from Gen. Otis show that
the natives who have. been under arms
with Aguinaldo are deserving, refnrn.
ing to their homes, and acting the role
of "amigos;" that the leaders are hid.
ing in the mountains or fleeing for their
lives, with the natives ITO destroy
them, and that Aguinaldo has not more
than 1000 followers left. Three hun
dred Spanish prisoners who escaped
from their captors have arrived IN
Manila.
Burglars robbed the branch Of Ia
Banque Nationalist Montgomery, Que.
bee, OF sall it's funds, about $15, 1000.
The latest reports from Ladysmitl1
give promise of important battles, but
cable communication is again inter.
rupted, by the British authorities. Gen
Methuenhis believed to be pushing
northward, while the Beers are NOV.
ing down from Kimberley, and the op-
posing forces are certain to come to-
gether in deadly conflict. From Natal
and Cape Colony nothing is given out
and it is held that the situation is prac,
tically unchanged.
Col. Bell scattered the entire Filipino
fnrca ,1nder Con A1oiopdr;Do on1 oil
their artillery and ammunition was
captured. This defeat scatters the last
remaining organized portion of Agui.
naldo's army. Col. Webb Hayes and
300 men of the Thirty-frst volunteer
infantry arrived on the transport Man.
auense. The vessel was Struck by a
severe storm after she left Honolulu
and narrowly escaped laundering with
all on board J.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
News in Brief.

ing pineapple @caKe made from canned
pineapple. supposed to be poisoned.
TheRdWelling of r. H. Grace at Morris
and all it's contents were burned Mrs.
Grace in saving her baby was badly
scorched.
The new s.. Joseph hospital at Mankato
is to be formally dedicated Dec. s. Bishop
-Cotter will preach the sermon in the FORE
noon, and in the evening a reception and
banquet are to be given, to which 1000
invitations are to be issued. General ].
H. Baker has been selected as toastmas-
ter. 90
The body of, the man found dead near
Stockton about ten days ago has been
disinterred and identified by officers of the
Rochester insane asylum as an ESCAPED
patient from that institution.
The state grain department has sent its
remittance covering receipts :, for the
month of October to the state treasurer.
The check was drawn for $50, 900. In COM
parison with October of 1898, the months
receipts were $1,000 short "A u
F. The city OF Duluth has just completed
the refunding Of $4,000 in Z per cent or
ders into f1fteen-year AZ per- cent bond.
~nereoy saving something like 100000 for
the life of the bond -
Inc general store of John Beslin at
Nora ors vas burned to the ground. Loss
charles sternborg, a lumberman in the
employ OF tclough & Hurd, was instantly
killed while employed as a loader on a
logging train near 'Nickerson. "A log fell
from the topsof the load and. struck
skid, which bounded into the air, and,
= E1aifng, struck sternborg on the head,
crushing his skull.
E. Chris Johnson was arrested at. Mankato
and In the morning was found dead in
bis cell, He committed suicide by taking
poison - II
Is Secretary Randall announces that the
I State Fair next year7swill be held Sept.
to 8. The national Hereford cattle.
ghowsWills be held in connection with the
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09

| work so thick as to be almost impene-
trable, a wounded bear will roll down
| the side of mountain. tumbling over
| rocky crags and into deep caverns, and
will eventually land right side up with
nerve and vitality enough left to hug
hia enemy to death.
| Reaching well forward, / grasped the
branches Of some brush and drew my
| SELF INTO more commanding position.
| AT last / detected him lowering direct
~ above in a clump of chincapins,
greedily feasting and utterly uncon-
sclous of my presence. After Yainly
trying to distinguish which way he was
standing, excitement got the better of
prudence, and | took the chances and
fired. He dropped instantly, but quick
ly struggling to his feet, came Whirling
down toward me, when I gave him a
second shot. AT the third shot he rose
to his launches and / fired again.
Plunging forward with a mighty roar,
he started down again, crushing the
bushes with his ponderous weight, as he
made his way rapidly toward me. A
moment later something turned him in
his course and he fell headlong over a
perpendicular wall of rock, striking the
earth fully twenty feet below.
With feeling of relief and satisfac-
ton l. lowered my gun. but, to my COM
plete surprise, through the heavy
growth of bushes with a snort and a
Whit, rushed the grizzly which / bad
felt confident lay dead at the foot of the
bluff. So startled was l at the indie
scrbably wild and fearless manner Of
his cha tbat tbn fire in,
life q doubt crossed my mind of the
killing power of forty-callbre rifle, and
| realized the extreme danger of my DO
stior.
The situation demanded instant ac-
ton. When he was within twenty feet
OF me | braced myself for supreme eff
fort, took quick aim, fired, and he lay
dead twelve feet from me, the bullet
having entered the brain just over the
eye
But here was still something breaking
down the bushes above me, and I stood
with rifle ready. TO my great surprise.
another baar soon appeared, slowly roll
ing over and over down the steep in
cline between me ard the rocky wall.
It was the bear that had tumbled over
the blu, and by his fan had rushed out
the second bear, which / supposed was
charging me with vengeance in his eye.
MY faith in my rifle was restored, ana
| 1nWardly apologized for my misgiv-
mss concerning the power Of a forty
calbre, TWO magnificent prizes lay at
my feet, and Their Clio sly skins provide
a perpetual memento of one Of the
h"est kours srort that can ever have
l1IlCn ia thl llIp1S of q b,,.,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09
WHEELMEN AS BENEFACToRs'

Good Roads Cranks' who Have Ac-
complished Much Through Iheir
strong Organization
There is no public institution more po-
tent in social, political and commercial
well-being than the public highway
There is nothing which, by it's absence,
its presence, its goodness or its badness'
may so make or mar the community
which uses it or would Ike to use it, as
the road by which its people may come
together for the discussion of matters
of public good or for that traffic IN
products which stamps man as the .ad-
ing animal Therefore, the man who
makes two blades of grass grow where
but one grew before has his counter
part as a public benefactor in the per-
son who puts down a good, solid, horse
saving, wagon economizing roadbed
where at first only rocks and mud or
dust and sand held full sway. Reads,
like people, are prone to wear into ruts,
and many Of the ruts in which the FAR
mer's half laden wagon jolts are primal
rily caused by the ruts into which the
farmer has jolted his representative IN
legislative assemblages. The farmer
has always wanted good reads, but he
knows that the farmer has always had
to pay for Them consequently he has
generally looked upon anymovement in
their direction as a raid upon his own
pocket. 1T required, then, some new
force to join hands and voice with him
both in the demand and in the sugges-
ton of ways and means,
This new force has arrived in the BIZ
IN thn n of the
League of American Wheelmen, the
riders of the tireless tire have since
their organization. in 1890, raised the
cry of good roads,, and have kept 1t
up with wondrous energy They have
not only through their engineers de-
vised or selected the best methods of
making the cheapest durable thorough
fares, but they have conquered many
obstacles that have stood between them
and other groups of persons who are to
be benefited equally with them in secur-
ing smooth roads, though these very
groups hositated to join the wheelmens
movement for fear it was selfish and
was designed to saddle the costs upon
them. The horsemen who drive fine
road stock and the farmers have been
the two classes which have required
the warmest efforts Of the good roads
cranks," as some of the wheemen are
called, to wipe away suspicion. But the
suspicion has now evaporated.
The Farmers National congress,
which has just closed its session at
Fort Worth, Texas, has passed strong
resolutions in favor of the wheelmen's
way of getting good roads. 1t is known
as the state aid system, and the adop-
ton of these resolutions marks a signal
success for the Highway Improvement
of the League OF American
and it's chairman, Otto Dor
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09

Grin Bellznap's story Of the old
flintlock gun, which he found in a pile
of rubbish, reminds me of a circum-
stance which occurred away back in
the tWenties, in newly settled part of
Erie County, New York. 1t was here
that man. while cutting out a new
road, had occasion to roll out an old
rotten log, which lay bedded in the de-
cayed leaves and rubbish, under which
lay ritied gun, the barrel and lock
covered with rust and the stock mostly
rotted off Near by was a blacksmith
shop built Of logs, owned and occupied
by an old uncle of mine, not so very
old, however, at that time, ass it was
about seventy-fiv years ago. The shop
was quite resort on rainy days, and
several men had gathered here, when
along came the man with the old gun
barrel and stuck the breech end into
the red hot forge, thinking perhaps by
heating he might get the breechpn
out. AS it became sufficiently heated
the barrel did not go off, but the charge
did, and sent a bullet into one Of the
hardwood side logs of the building,
barely missing two or three men IN it's
tpulSe. Liz COulu D6lLeT De
imagined than described. OF course
there was no clew as 20 how or when
the gun had been left there. 1t had
evidently been secreted for some pur-
pose, and nothing more was ever
learned about it.
In my boyhood days, when 1 began
my shooting, it was only flintlocks that
were known or used, and every store
kept gun flints in plenty, and they sold
cheap, at the one, two or three cents
each, as near as / can remember.
I never could learn how or where
they were manufactured from the
rough material. There were two sizes
the larger for muskets and the smaller
for the rifles, and they We're nearly uni
form in shape and had the appearance
of being cut out.
1t was on some rare occasions that I
was compelled to break out my own
fints, but they were ill-shaped and
sometimes / had to break up a peck of
flint stones before / could get one in
shape to answer the purpose.-Forest
and Stream.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09

ner, who never suffered anything to
chill his efforts to get next to the farm
ers with his project. For three success
sive years he has attended the Farmers
| congress of some four hundred and fifty
delegates, representing nearly every
state in the Union, and now they see
his idea clearly and like it. The state
aid system, as shown in the resolutions,
recites that the cost of construction of
( first-class roads connecting farms with
| market towns is too considerable to be
borne by farm property alone; that as
the entire population is benefited direct
ly and indirectly by good roads, all
property ought to contribute through
the medium of a state tax The Hig-
bee-Armstrong law, by which state aid
has been introduced in New York, is
popular. 1t provides for a division of
the cost of road construction among the
state the county and the local town
ship. and, it is said, many of the towns
awaiting themselves of it will secure
from outside sources four or five times
the sum they raise themselves, while in
the large cities, which will pay most of
the funds, the tax will not fall more
heavily than one cent per thousand dol
lars Of the assessed valuation. 1t is
making such calculations that the
League Of American Wheelmen has
fought its way to the farmers sympa-
thy.
1t is no wonder that the farmer fear ed
the cycler at firstThe man on wheels
was at first looked upon as a dude in
knee breeches out for an airing with his
best girl, who demarded that others
should, without cost to him, smooth the
roads that he alcne might have mora
pleasure. For years the farmer drove
behind his horse with many bumpety-
bump, and the horse became stalled
without ever swearing about it or wri-
ting long protest to the county paper.
The coming of the bicycle marked an
epoch, Here We're people who could
swear ard write, pushing their vehicles
by main strength on Wretched PATHS
when street, even so rough as Bel
gian bl2ck Pavement makes it. permit
ted them to glide along almost without
effort. Then the Wheelmen's League
spent vast sums of money printing il
Illustrated road books, thousands of
Which have been distributed free of
cost and other thousands barely at
cost In various quarters they have
raised large sums to build cycle paths
between sections Of country on which
the cyclers rass to and fro on business
and assure. MONEY has been spent ~
them, as in Mr.. Dofner's case, to be rep
resented at convent ems and to screa
what they love t call the gospl of good
roads, and now in Baltimore Chief Con-
sui Sams OF Maryland civ sion, Leagua
OF American Wheelmen and Chairman
Auguste Faure, Of the division commit
tee on highways, arc holding out the
hand of friendship to the horsemen. and
endeavorinS to lay out combine
speedway and cycle path that shall be
a local monument to the battle of good
reads and serve as model to be fol-
lowed by visitors from every communl-
ty who take spin, a ride or a drive
upon IT. May Their efforts succeed in
full measure.-EaltimC Sun