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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
A STEERING COMMITTEE
will Expedite the Transaction of Legis-
latiye Business.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, Feb. 9.-In the senate this
morning President Spriggs announced
the senate steering committee. Its mem
bers are Hoffman, Norris, Eggleston,
Cullen and Mckay Hobsons salary
bill was made a special order for next
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. An
derson introduced joint memorial to
congress for constitutional amend
ment providing that United States sem
ators shall be elected by the people.
In committee of the whole Stanton's S
bill making rent due lien upon per-
sonal property was favorably acted
upon by a vote of Il to g. Courtney,
Anderson and Hannah opposed the
bill. The following bills passed on their
their third reading:
Senate bill, 49, relating to special
road taxes; SO, relating to killing sage
hens, prairie chickens, etc: so, relat-
ing to directors of corporations, and
43, the educational bill; the substitute
rate of interest. and house bill 16, es-
tablishing free kindergartens.
The judiciary committee recommend
ed for passage senate bills 66 and S.
introduced by Myers. The first re-
lates to trials in justices courts and
the second requires county treasurers
to publish verified lists of licenses col
lected at least twice a year in the Of
fetal county papers. The committee
on towns and counties reported for
passage Arderson's bill annexing a
portion of Meagher county to Cascade.
Gruwell presented a petition from res
idents of Fergus county living in the
portion of the county that the sena-
tor proposes to have annexed to yell
lowstone, asking to have the bill en-
acted.
Senator Courtney presented the fol-
lowing resolutions passed by the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor assembly. pro-
testing against the enactment into law
of the bill introduced by Hannah. en-
roneously attributed to Getger, repeal
ing the present law, reqri ing public
printing to be done in tire state:
whereas, We have y re us the pe-
tContinMed on PAGE trwnl
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
TWENTY FEET DRIFTS.
New York and Long Island Swept by
Raging Storm.

Raging Storm.
New York, Feb. 9.-Throughout New
York state the past "a hours all rail-
road traffic was delayed several hours.
Short suburban lines We're completely
blocked by the snow. which on the level
averaged a foot and in many places
drifted 20 feet high. The Hudson river
oVerfioWed its banks wherever it could
get chance. flooding brick kins, lum-
ber yards. freight piers and private
places, and causing great deal of dam
age. Long Island felt the severity of
the storm. Greenport had the highest
tides in a quarter of a century, The
wind blew in from the east with heavy
snow and submerged all the piers. Nes-
sells moored there were on a level with
the string pieces. The village of Orient
was completely cut off from the rest of
Long Island by the water from Long
Island sound flowing over acres of beach
into Orient bay.
The cold wave also hit Connecticut.
Hartford reported eight inches of snow
and II degrees below zero. Bridgeport
had the highest tide on record, and all
the freight on the steamboat docks had
to be removed to higher ground to keep
it from being washed out into the
sound. Long Island sound is swept
from end to end by high tides-the high
est in the history of the state of Con-
necticut. All the water front at New
Haven was submerged.
Greenwich was storm swept. and E.
F. Benedict's palatial yacht Oneida was
blown so hard against the dock in In
dian harbor that its bow stuck through.
1t was hauled off with only a few hun
dred dollars damage. This is the yacht
on which former President Cleveland
has made SO many of his famous trips,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
NINE DEATHS.
The East Is Still in the Grip of the Cold


Chicago, Feb. 9.-To-day was the
coolest here in six years, and there is
no record of a February day SO cold.
The mercury registered q below zero
at o'clock in the morning. The cold
wave fingers persistentlv over the en-
tire central and eastern sections of the
country and runs far down to the bor-2
ders of the gulf stream. The highest
temperature recorded during the day
was eight below Nine deaths from
freezing are reported from Illinois and
neighboring states. as follows:
H. BLtTENSLEID. Chicago.
FRANK DR1BRIET. Joliet, III.
GEORGE HAMILTON, Joliet, Ill.
THOMAS KEEGAN. Rockford, III.
HENRY K. FORTUNE. Oskaloose,
Iowa.
ANNIE MILLER, Louisville. Ky.
THOMAS BRIDGES, Princeton, Ky.
MARY LYME, Henderson, Ky.
Unidentified man, Toledo, Ohio.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Slightly Wounded.

Washington. Feb. 9.-General Otis, in
his report of casualties, stated that
Lieutenant +. s. Abernathy, Sd United
States artillery had been wounded"
To-day cahegram from Manila was
received stating that Lieutenant Aber-
nathy had been only slightly wounded
in the arm
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
The Worst since 1872.

Chicago, Feb .9-rThis city is in the
grip of the coIdestt weather since 1872.
TWenty-tWo below is last nights rec
ord. About 20 persons were SO severely
frostbittan during the early morning
that they had to be taken from the
streets to the hospitals. Several por-
tions of the city are suffering from a
lack of water supply, due to frozen
pipes. One man was frozen to death on
the street last night While intoxicated.
the United States to-day, 36 below
port 80 below to-day. The cold wave
shows increased intensity in the central
portions of the country. The line of
zero temperature passes from Chesa-
peake bay westward over Tennessee,
Arkansas and Oklahoma. Freezing
temperatures to-day are reported as far
south as central Florida The indica-
tions are that the extreme cold will
moderate somewhat Friday.
Newspaper dispatches from st. Paul,
Louisville, K, New York city and 9TH
er places too numerous to mention tell
of the coldest weather in many years.
At Kansas City 20 degrees below broke
the local low temperature record. There
is much delay to all kinds of traffic
throughout the country, due to extreme
cold weather
At Joliet, ILL.,, it is 26 below George
Hamilton and Frank Dubriet were froz-
en- to death.
AT ST. Louis. Mo, Is below was regis
tered. Sam Kennedy, laborer, was
frozen to death
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
IN THE SENATE.
The Supervising Arc,si ect Is Raked Owe,
ttl., stnalS.

Washington, Feb, 9,-Throughout it's
open %.ss!on to-day the senate had uli-
der consideration the legislative, eNecu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill A
lively debate was precipitated ever the
appropriation for the support of he
Office of supervising architect of the
treasury, and that official was criticised
for the delay in the construction of
public buildings throughout the United
States, a speech made by Mr. Allen. in
which he commented unfavora5lv ulthn
the methods of the appropriation com
mittee caused rejoinder from MIR.
Chandler of New Hampshire, which re
suited in a sharp tilt between the TWO
senators. Fifty-one pages of the pend
ing bill We're disposed of before the sen
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
OuaY's EieiIt.

Harrisburg. Pa. Feb. 9-Hugh B. Es-
bourne. the Doylestown lawyer, dropped
out of the senatorial race to-day. In the
absence of Senator Prouty. Postmaster
General Smith lost his customary vote.
There were half a dozen changes in the
ballot
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Given Il Coaling Station.

London. Feb. 10.--The Bombay corre-
spondent of the Morning Post says; Il
am able to confirm the report that the
sultan of Oman has conceded a coaling
station to France, and the rumors of the
existence of Franco-Russian schemes to
destroy British influence in the sultans
dnmininnS -
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Peach Crop Nipped.

Macon, Ga, Feb. 9.-Advices received
from the peach-growing centers in
South Georgia indicate the peach and
plum crop has been cut off at least "a
third and maybe half by the present
cold snap.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
DISTRESS AND DESOLATlON.
Many People Have Been Frozen to Death
in Texas.

Houston Tex. Feb. 9.-A special dis
patch from Dallas, Tex, says: Deputy
Sheriff Davis returned to Dallas to-
night from the Pan Handle, along the
line Of the Fort Worth e Denver rail-
way. He says the storm caused des-
tress and desolation. At TeXline the
snow is five feet deep on the level. The
mercury was Is degrees below at Clar-
endon. The loss Of cattle along the
line of the railway is something tef-s
rible. There wer6 reports at stations
of terrible distress among the inhabi-
tants in sparsely settled districts, and
it is regarded as a certainty that many
persons have frozen to DEATH
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Ordered to Galveston.

Havana. Feb. 9.-The battleship
Texas. Captain Sigsbee, was ordered
to Galveston to-day and sailed at 5
o'clock this evening. She will return
here week from to-day,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Cattle Are Dying.

Fort Worth, Texas, Feb 9.-The heay-
lest snow known in Northern Texas fell
to-day. Street car traffic is suspended.
Reports from Northwest Texas say cat-
tie are dying in large numbers from the
severe weather.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Cattle Are Suffering.

Wichita. Kas.. Feb. 9.-It is reported
here that many cattle on the range are
suffering from frozen hoofs. This usu-
ally proves fatal.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10

Boston, Feb. "a howiing northeast
snow storm prevailed on the bay and
along the Massachusetts coast the past
"a hours. y three-masted schooner,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Skilled Labor

Our workmen are the best that
money can hire. thoroughly skilled
and experienced in each depart
ment.
In fine engraving. badgemaking,
jewelry manufacturing and design
ing we are equalled by few and sur
passed by none.
If you watch does not give salts
faction, bring it to us and have 1t
overhauled by skillful and compe-
tent hands. It will not cost you
any more and probably less than
to be entrusting 1t to unskilled
hands. ]*t
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Watch an,
..,.Jewelry
REPAIRING

II an art that requires thoroughly
competent and experienced men to
handle successfully.
There are many watchmakers and
jewelers., but few thoroughly COM
petent
Many a good watch and fine piece
OF jeWeiry is irretrievably ruined by
being entrusted to unskilled work
men. .+.sf$
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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28

am farmer located Stony Brook the maaous
districts In this State and bothered with malaria for times
could work and always very coSpaed WE'LL For
had malaria bad in the when engaged poWng
sat could do nothing but shake must have taken about barrel
qnne pills besides dozens of other remedies but obtained
any permanent benefit Last fall in peach time had
attack OF ehS and IL commenced to take Rpans Tabues
friends advice and the first box made all right and
been without them since take Tabue each morning and night
and sometimes when feel than usually exhausted
day. They have kept stomach bowels regular
have had the least touch of malaria splitting headache
commenced them know also that sleep better and wake
refreshed than formerly don't know how many complaints
Rpans Tabues will help but do know they will any
condition and would not be without them price,
honestly consider them the cheapest priced medicine the world
they also the beneficial and the
years and have worked hard all my life the
farmers both early and late and in all kinds weather
and have enjoyed such good health
fact have all remarked my improved condition and have
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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28

construction of a large locomotive FAC
tory and rail mill to cost $5.000.000.
The Inter-Island Telegraph company,
which intends to use the Marconi wire
less telegraph between Hawaiian Is
lands. has incorporated for 100000.
The American Federation Of Labor.
in session at Detroit, adopted a reso-
luton in favor of reducing the United
States standing army to $4,000 men.
The appellate division of the New
York supreme court decided it was just
as libelous to charge immortality
against a man as against womaA.
Josiah Browne, secretary and treas
urer of the American Tobacco COM
pany, died at his home in Paterson, NJ.
j., from typhoid fever. He was IS
years old.
The two great whisky interests Of
the country, the trust and the indie
pendent association, are about to unite,
it is said. 10 gain reduction of, taxes
on whisky.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28
BOER-BRITISH WAR.

British cabinet designations are ex-
pected.
Boer advices state that 672 British
prisoners and three guns were cap
tured in the fight at Stormberg, Cape
Colony.
Lady Sarah Wilson was exchanged
for a boer woman.
Winston Churchill, held prisoner by
the beers. escaped.
Heavy rain-storm flooded Mafeking,
putting one gun out of service
General French won one small fight
with beers and lost another in north
ern Cape Colony.
The northern parts of Cape Colony
and Basutoland are reported in rebel
ion against the British.
The British losses, killed, wounded,
and missing. during the entire cam
paign are estimated at 1880.
Representative Jetts resolution of
sympathy with the beers excited great
interest in and out of congress.
Fighting in the direction of Mod
der river. Cape Colony, is reported
but there is no definite news of it.
The beers continue to harass Gen.
Methuen's line of communication
near the Orange river. Cape Colony.
British at Ladysmith. Natal. made
a sortie and destroyed boer gun. but
they lost 60 men in killed. wounded
and captured.
\ pro-boer demonstration was held
in Dublin. marked by expressions of
hostility to the queen, the empire and
the administration.
Sharp fighting occurred at Kimber-
lex December 9 and at Mafeking De-
cemSer 10. Both places at last ac-
counts were still holding out.
ChanNberlain's presence in Dublin
caused demonstration of boer sympa-
thisers, who were attacked by the POI
lice, VII 10 captured Transvaal flags.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28

to be appointed her employers guard
ian. G ~
The Delaware grange, at meeting
at Dover, adopted resolution favcring
the election Of senators by popular
vote.
The trouble over Shortstop Wrigley
is settled by the Brooklyn Baseball
club being fined $500 and losing some
games. rs Nw
The National league passed resolu-
lions asking that soldiers and sailors
be supplied with implements to play
baseball
The American Federation of Labor
adopted a resolution favoring inde-
pendent political action of its men,
bers hereafter. 4
At Wheeler, Mich, Theodore Nelson,
aged 60, shot and killed his wife, aged
So. and then attempted to kill himself,
but was prevented.
Although under indictment on a
bribery charge Speaker Adams will
preside at the special session of the
Michigan legislature.
Congressman Lacey thinks Secre-
tary Root may be nominated for vice
president. Lands suggests Serene E.
Payne of New York, I'D
The Civil Service Reform League, at
meeting in Indianapolis, criticised
President Mckinley for his civil SER
vice order of last May.
The troubles of the Globe National
Bank of Boston are said to be due to
the Standard Oils attacks on Montana
stocks it sought to control.
AT Fremont, Neb., Charles Tawney,
aged % years, a nephew of Congress
man Tawney, hanged himself to the
rafters of his fathers barn.
Miss Amante Electa Semmes, a
granddaughter of Admiral Raphael
Semmes, was married to Perry Finlay,
young lawyer of Memphis.
A Philadelphia firm is negotiating
with the Russian government for the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28

Boer sympathizers in Cape Colony
hold secret meetings. The whole
country northward is in rebellion. Ma
tives are losing respect for the Brit
ish.
The London Times correspondent
estimates the beers near Modder river
at 10000. A balloonist claims that
Methuen's lyddite shells killed 1000
beers. f4flfH lt
All the remaining portions of the
British army reserve are called out
and arrangements are made to send
volunteers and colonial contingents to
south Africa.
by saying that he was led, innocently,
he thinks, into an impossible posi-
ton" His supplemental report adds
so to his list of missing.
Herr Eugene Richter, the German
radical leader, speaking in the
reichstag, said the south African war
had proved that Great Britain's sea
power has been much overrated."
The British transport Hermes with
900 mules sailed from New Orleans
Tor Cape Town. The Hermes is the
sixth vessel which has left that port
with mules for the English army in
south Africa
The foreign press regards the
Britain's crisis as grave, possibly por-
tending a dissolution of the empire
The Partisan press is gleeful, the
Austrian sympathetic, and the German
unusually reserved. There is little
talk of interference or of an attempt
to take advantage of the situation.
The British determined upon heroic
measures to end the war. The whole
reserve was called out and volunteers
were to be selected from the yeomanry
Lord Roberts assigned to command in
south Africa with Kitchener as chief
of staff. They will have 100000 men
in all. The reserves cannot reach field
before the middle of February.
Butler was badly beaten near
Colenso. He divided his forces, 30,
900 men, in three parts to force pas
sage across the Tugela river. Harris
wing led the attack, but suffered
severely. Hilyard came to his relief
and his two field batteries and naval
batteries were surprised with the loss
of eleven guns, of which six were the
12-pound naval quick-firing. The
loss of men is over LOO
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
SPANISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS.

Work of disinterring Maine victims
at Havana began.
Bicuabato, a mountain stronghold
in Luzon, has been captured by Ameri-
can cavalry.
Gen. Brooke Indignantly denies that
he protested against being superseded
as governor of Cuba.
American troops have taken pos
session of Subig bay, an important
strategic point in Luzon.
The republican party of Porto Rico
has carried 8 out of II towns in which
elections have been held
One thousand additional recruits are
to be sent to the Philippines.
Lieutenant Brumby, Dewey's flag Of
ficer, died in Washington of typhoid
fever.
Only about 1000 Spanish prisoners
are now left in the hands of the Fill
pinos.
Aguinaldo is reported, in disguise
and accompanied by 500 men, fleeing
to Cabugaon province of Cagayan.
The junta at Hongkong states that
Filipinos under General Tino have
defeated American marines at Vigan.
The mayor of Tunis, Cuba, surren-
dered a large supply of arms and am
munition which had been concealed in
Santiago province.
In fight at Madrigal island of Ne
gros, body of American troops killed
2S Filipinos without losing a man on
the victorious side.
General Young's soldiers, who are
pursuing Aguinaldo, are shoeless and
are often compelled to go hungry.
They are keeping up the chase.
Gen. Otis reported that organized
rebellion in Luzon was at an end"
Unofficial advices were that the gueril-
Ia warfare would be continued.
A Filipino band of guerrillas re-
Gently captured in Luzon will be shot
or hanged, it is expected, and other
guerrillas may share the same fate.
The members of General Brooke's
advisory cabinet rendered their resig-
nations, but were asked to remain in
office until the arrival of General
Wood.
General Otis notified the war de-
partmeDt that the transports City of
Sydney and Pathan with the forty
sixth infantry volunteers arrived at
Manila. No casualties.
The cabinet considered petitions
from Porto Ricans urging early action
in the matter of the government of the
island. The president will probably
send special message to congress.
The news of the appointment of
Major General Wood as governor of
Cuba was received with enthusiasm
Even the most bitter Cuban national
lists agree in praising him as soldier
and an administrator
All classes in Havana express salts
faction with General Woods appoint
ment as encouragement of Cuba
Wood will reduce military forces in
Cuba and may enlist natives as police.
Civil rule is to be extended gradually
Secretary Gage has called the at
tention of congress to the lack of
facilities in our new insular possess
sions for the safe keeping of large
sums of money and more banks or
bankers in each of these islands be
designated as repositories.
The navy department has given
notice that any person claiming the
remains of any of the victims of the
Maine explosion before the end of the
month, may have them sent to their
late homes for burial at the expense
of the department. The rest will be
buried at Key West and have monu-
ment.