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The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19
NEWS FOR M|CH|GANDERS.
A Whole Regiment of News Items
From Michigan Towns
CAPTURED FOR BRIEF READING.
Three Persons Killed by Howard City
Brutal Fiend- The Deaths in the
State for April were 800 Less Than
an March Other Items.
Brutal Murder at Howard city.

Joseph Harvey, who has lived all his
life on farm near Howard City, whose
boyhood training was good, and who
never had any vicious or eccentric
habits or characteristics to distinguish
him from tens of thousands of young
men whose lives have been spent on
farms near small towns, showed re-
Gently, Notwithstanding all this, that he
possessed murderous spirit that will
make him for all time a notable figure
in the list of cold blooded human STAY
ers. AS result of his insane desire to
kill, n wife, grandmother and uncle
met instant death, while his father-in-
law is fatally wounded and Harvey's
only six-months-old baby is crippled
for life. In addition to this the MUIR
derer shot himself in the mouth and
eye and lay down beside his dead wife
to die, but such fate was not his good
fortune, as he will not die from his in
juries. One theory for the awful trag-
edy is that Harvey had no intention of
murder, until his uncle took him to
task for keeping the horse out late.
Then, when he killed his uncle, an in
sane streak seized him and the other
murders were the consequence. How
ever, this is only n suggestion as to
what might have prompted the deed,
and the real motive for the crime may
never be known.
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FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE
BY Telegraph Giving a Brief Re-
sumo of the Weeks Events.
RELIABLE AND INTERESTING.
p. a. IL. Ry. and 25 Persons Gave
up Their Liyes-Tornado In Texas
Ex-Gov. Flower OF New York Is Dead
Cubans Don't Want to lay Down Arms.

Cubans Don't Want to lay Down Arms.
Gen. Maxine Gomez has informed
Gov. Gen. Brooke that he could no
longer act as representative of the Gu
ban army in the distribution of the
SO, 200, 900 appropriated for the pay
ment of the Cuban troops. Gen. Go
mez added that he had arrived at this
decision with great reluctance, and
with the most friendly feelings to-
ward Gen. Brooke personally and Of
fcially, but he felt he could no longer
represent the Cuban army, because a
cabal, composed of many of the subor-
dlnate commanders, existed to oppose
and If possible defeat the plans for
partitioning the money. He explained
that former members of the Cuban
military assembly, led by Mayai Rod
erigucz, Manuel Sanguilly, San Gaul-
berto and other malcontents, who had
organized a majority of the officers
against him apparently, and though
he (Gomez) might persist and possibly
carry the payment to successful con-
clusion, he was Disguised and wished
to wash his hands of the whole bust
ness. Therefore, he thought if he left
Gen. Brooke free, the latter would be
able to act with equal effectiveness
alone. Gen Brooke will cause a fore
ible disarmament of the Cuban troops,
provided the events of the next two or
three weeks show that such action is
necessary.
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WAR NOTES,

During recent engagement ut 81.
Tomas Gen. Luna, of the rebels was
dangerously wounded in the shoulder
by bullet. Just before the battle
of St Tomas, Gen. Luna, when he saw
that an engagement with our troops
was inevitable, sent back TO Gen. Mas
cardo for reinforcements. Mascardo's
reply was that he would take orders
from no one but Aguinaldo. This de-
fiance so Infatuated Luna that, in spite
of the impending conflict with the
common enemy, he took 800 of his
soldiers and made a force march to
Bacolor, intent on chastising his COM
rade in arms, and but for the timely
interference of Aguinaldo civil war
between the two rival generals would
certainly have taken place, as both
were actually drawn up in battle ar
ray when Aguinaldo interfered.
The civilian member of the y. S.
Philippine commission are favorable
to the meeting with Filipino com
mission which was suggested on behalf
of Aguinaldo, by Lieut.. Reyes, of the
staff of Gen. Gregory del Pillar, who
came to Gen. Lawton under n flag of
truce bearing the proposal. 1t is
thought by the American commission
ers that the idea may have resulted
from a recent meeting of the so-called
Filipino congress at San Isidro Def
mite information on the point, how
ever, cannot yet be obtained; though
the local Filipino committee which is
in close communication with the lead
ers of the rebellion, is doing its ut
most to secure peace.
The "tinclad" gunboats Laguna de
Bay and Cavadonga and a launch UNI
der Capt. Grant, ran into a nest of in
surgents concealed in the brush on
both sides of the Rio Grande river,
three miles above Calumpit, on the
14th, and were received with a heavy
volley at short range. A sergeant be-
longing to the Utah battery was killed
and one private was wounded. Open
ing with the rapid fire guns, the Amer
leans killed 20 of the natives and
wounded several others, filing the
Jungle with a hail of shot for half an
hour, until the enemy fled.
Ten members of Maj Ten. Lawton's
band of scouts, under w. M. Young,
the old Indian fighter, entered the
town of San Miguel, about Is miles
north of Norzagaray, not aware of
what place it was. They found 200
Filipinos there, but the rebels taking
the scouts for the advance of Gen.
Lawtons army, fed, after firing few
shots. Young and another scout were
wounded and were removed to Manila.
The First regiment Nebraska volun-
teer infantry has taken the unusual
step of respectfully petitioning the
division commander, Maj.-Gen Mac
Arthur, temporarily to relieve them
from duty at the front. The regiment
is badly exhausted by the campaign in
which it has taken an active part and
not many more than 300 men of the
organization are at present fit for duty.
Recently 100 men OF this regiment re-
sponded to sick call.
The 3lst Michigan will arrive in De-
troit, Saturday, May Goth.
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War Clouds mr.. Ia sight.

Al meeting OF the commandants on
the western border of the Transvaal
on the 18th instructions were issued TO
The burghcrs tc take the 1eid at Il
moments notice from Pretoria The
negotiations are still pending for the
proposed meeting between Kruger and
Sir Alfred Miner tgcverpcr Of Cape
Colony and British high commissioners
for South Africa.l Mr.. Chamberlain
british colonial secretary), 1t is said.
will not assent to the conference IN
less the Transvaal executive pledges
himself 10 initiate bona fidc reforms.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19
1905 Deaths in tho state In April.

The total number of deaths in Mich
igan for the month of April was 2 965,
about 800 less than the number re-
ported for the previous month. The
date rate for April was 1916 per 1000
estimated population, as compared
with the rate of 16 5 for March. The
death rate was low for infants and
children, but remained high for the
aged The most important causes of
death were as follows: Consumption,
474; other forms of tuberculosis, Sc;
typhoid fever, SO; diphtheria and
Group, 90, scarlet fever, 6; measles, IS;
whooping cough, lG; pneumonia, 354;
diarrheal diseases of children, SIS; cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, 40; influenza,
14S; puerperal septicaemia, IL; cancer,
1I6; accidents and violence, 1913. Pneu-
monia and influenza markedly de-
clined, as compared with the preceding
month, while cerebro-spinal meningitis
showned an increase of "a deaths over
March,
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Barry County Murder.

A most strocious murder was COM
mitted in Barry county some time dur
ing the evening of the 18th, when Mrs.
Sarah Newsberry, living il Yankee
Springs township, was assaulted by
some fiend, and probably ravished, as
every strip of clothing was torn in
shreds from the body, except both
stockings and one shoe. Her head was
smashed in. Robbery was not the OBJ
iect; as she was in destitute circum-
stances, and what little money she had
was found in the pocket of her dress,
which was in the room. Mrs. New
berry was an old lady rs years of age
and lived alone in little log hut.
Chas. p. Smith, half-witted young
man, is under arrest suspected of com
uniting the awful crime.
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Commission has not Disagreed.

With reference TO the progress of
negotiations by and the status of the
Washington joint commission, the cor.
respondent of the Associated Press at
London, has obtained from the high
est quarters the following authorita-
tive statement: Negotiations have
never been broken off nor endangered
at any time since the adjournment of
the commission. II matters precede
as smoothly as they are at present,
Sir Julian Pauncefote's return TO
Washington will be signalized By the
conclusion OF treaty embracing every
question in dispute in manner hon.
orable and pleasing to the two coun-
trio
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go Killed and so Injured.

A collision of passenger trains occur
red on the Philadelphia & Reading r.
r. at Exeter, about six miles south of
Reading, Pa, on the 18th, and the
number killed was 90, and fully so
others were injured. The regular ex-
press train from Pottsville for Phila-
delphia connected at the station in
Reading with a train from Harrisburg,
which was crowded with eXcursionists
who had been to the state capital to
witness the ceremonies in connection
with the unwilling of the Hartranft
monument. Many of the Harrisburg
passengers at Reading went aboard
the Philadelphia express, but it being
found that all could not be accommo-
dated 1t was decided to send an extra
train to Philadelphia TO run as the
second section of the express. The eX-
ira train left 90 minutes later than the
express. At Exeter the express stop
ped for orders, and while standing
still the extra train crashed into it
while moving at great speed Three
of the rear cars of the express were
telescoped and the first car of the extra
train was also wrecked.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19

American bicycle manufacturers will
occupy 5000 feet of floor space at the
Paris exposition.
The authorities have relaxed the
rule under which Manila streets have
been cleared from to $50 p. IN.
The Neueste Nachrichten of Berlin,
in an article urging the immediate IN
crease of the German naval power,
confesses that Germany is mot able to
compete with the u. s. at sea, quite
apart from English intervention.
The validity of the action of the Sec
rotary of the treasury in refusing to
pay rebates of the internal revenue
tax on alcohol used in the arts under
section 81 of the Wilson act, will be
tested in the u. S. court OF claims and
the supreme court of the U. s.
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but wa, Rr,rrered.

Roland Durham Molinenx. who has
spent several weeks in the Tom bs
prison, New York, charged with the
murder OF Mrs Kate ] Adams, was
discharged recently, the grand jury
having failed to rcindict him, but he
was Immediately rearrested on war
rant charging him with assault with in
tent to kill by sending cyanide of mcr.
curry TO Harry Cornish.
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r,-cov. roswell p. Flower Dead.

Ex.Gov. Roswell r. Flower, Of New
York, is dead Deceased was taken i'll
early in the day on the 18th inst. with
severe attack OF acute indigestion,
which was followed by heart failure,
from which the patient grew steadily
worse until the time of his death. De
ceased was of English descent and was
born at Theresa, jefferson county, N.
Y Aug z, 1885.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19
Lost In n Storm,

The schooner Nelson of Bay City
foundered in storm in Lake Superior
on the 14th, and nine persons, includ-
ing the captains wife and 2-year-old
child, went down with her. The Nell
son was in tow of the steamer A. Fol-
som. which also had the schooner Mary
II. Mitchell as n consort In the heavy
wind the tow line parted and the
schooner which was heavily laden with
coal was left to the mercy of the
waves, her canvass having all been
taken in before the breaking of the
tow line. Shortly after the parting OF
the line, and before her crew had time
TO lower the yawl boat, the Nelson
threw her stern into the air and dived
straight to the bottom in 800 feet of
water.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19

The Fidelity Fire Insurance Co., of
Baltimore, and the Pelican Fire Insur-
ance Co., OF New York, have been au-
thorized by Commissioner Campbell to
transact business in Michigan.
The secretary of war has received a
cable from Gen. Otis at Manila, saying
that it is inadvisable on account OF
sanitary conditions, to send to the u.
S. the bodies of any more of the troops
who lost their lives in the Philippines
until after the close of the rainy sea-
son, and the cold weather sets in. The
recommendation of Gen. Otis has been
approved by the secretary of war.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19
BASE BALL.

Below we publish the number OF games OF
ball played by the Western and National
Leagues giving the number OF games won and
lost, together with the percentage OF each club
TO date. Monday, May 18th:
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Lower Fare on the Michigan Central.

Railroad Commission Osborn has
made another very important ciscov-
cry. The great wave of prosperity
which came the Wabash railway sys-
TENS way some months ago, was not
without its draw backs. The earnings
of the system have increased TO so great
an extent as to subject it 20 the pro.
visions of the so-called "two-cent a
mile" law, of the 1899 session of the
legislature. The enforcement. OF the
law would mean saving TO the pa
irons of the road OF fully S25, 900 n
year. 1t is probable that a big legal
fight will be the result.
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GRAIN, ETC.

'Detroit-Hay. No. timothy, $40 per ton.
Potatoes &C per bu. Live Poultry, spring
chickens, lOc per 10; fowls, &c; turkeys lie;
ducks c. Eggs strictly fresh, 12c per doz.
Butter, best dairy, 1ic per Id; creamery, lie.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19

The Ninth infantry and n mountain
battery OF six guns, have been sent to
the front.
1t is now expected that Admiral
Dewey will be in the U. S. in time for
national demonstration on July 4.
The McCallum bill has been reported
out by the house general taxation COM
mittee. 1t proposes a plan of general
taxation for Michigan similar to the
Indiana law, with board of state as
SCISSORS at SIS, 900 salary each, to super
wise the work, with power to raise or
lower assessments.
AS a result of a tornado near Eagle
Pass, Tex, on the 18th, % persons were
killed outright and over 100 were
wounded. Buildings were blown to
pieces and split into kindling wood,
and many bodies were buried beneath
the fallen walls. A tremendous fall
of hail accompanied the tornado.
The Conservative, 1899-12-28

practicable, town meeting to a very
small-tOo small-body.
Later in it's history, and prior to Bos-
tons acceptance of a city charter in1S22,
other notifications of a town council
were proposed, but none of them was
accepted, for they were all too violent a
departure from the town meeting idea
so strongly imbedded among the Boston
people of that day.
In Rhode Island the functions of the
selectmen were performed by a body
long known by statute law as the town
council, of from three to five in number.
The present Brookline plan of a town
council is based upon an experience far
surprising that of Boston, or any other
community which has tested the town
meeting system. The men of Brookline
OF years ago had nothing like the ex-
perience and tests which signalize
Brookline's splendid record.
The entire municipal expenses of Bos-
ton 100 years ago, in 1899, were only
$49, 1901, OF about $135 a day. Even up
to 1922, when Boston became a city,
with about 43, 900 people, it's annual ex-
pense was only $249, ITO; whereas the
annual expenses of Brookline are now
about 81 500, 900, or about $4,000 a day.
Boston's fiscal operations a century ago
were a mere bagatelle when compared
with those of the Manhattan Club, for
instance, of New York, which are about
81 800 a day.
The merits of the proposed Brookline
town council are simplicity and eff
cheney, according
to those advoca-
ting the change, with the least practical
departure from familiar and long tried
conditions, keeping in view the demands
to arise from an increasing population.
The amount of property OF money to
be handled does not disturb Brookline
people for under the thorough system
of accounting which they employ, and
the watchful scrutiny of the town, they
feel assured that they a manage any
increase OF their fiscal operations as
successfully as heretofore.
But the size of the body to finally
pass on appropriations, apart from cleo
tions, must be limited. That is com.
mon sense to Brooklineites. The only
question is, what number shall be
chosen as a sufficient body in which to
repose public confidence?
On the whole, a town council of about
300 chosen citizens, 60 from each of five
precincts, together with the chief elected
town officers, is thought to be reason
ably safe. That avoids the extremes
upon which Boston's former citizens
differed, and it conforms more to what
the great experience of Brookline sug-
gests as a safer number.
The Conservative, 1899-12-28
TOWN COUNCIL OF 800.
Change in Government of Brookline
Proposed.

interest the course the town of Brook
line is taking for the adjustment of the
me.honored and historic town meeting
system of municipal government there,
and the 81 Institution of a town council,
which shall have the powers now pos
sessed by the town in town meeting.
There has been NJ public question con-
sidered in recent years in Brookline that
has brought out more discussion in less
than two weeks. 1t is the opinion of
hundreds of the townspeople that, should
the legislature pass an act to enable
Brookline to establish a town council,
to be limited in numbers, and it proves
successful, it will afford the most effec-
tive solution for a radical improvement
in American city governments that has
been preached.
Professor Bryce, in his great work,
1.-The American Commonwealth" says
1.-The town meeting has been the most
perfect school of self-government in any
modern country"
That author also says: eff we COM
pare the New England scheme with that
of England of today, we are struck not
only by the greater simplicity of the
former, but also by the fact that it is
the smaller organisms, the towns, that
are the most powerful and most highly
vitalized."
Again he wrote: "Of the three or
four types or systems of local govern
ment which I have described, that of
the town or township, with its popular
primary assembly, is admittedly the
best. 1t is the cheapest and the most
efficient it is the most educative to the
citizens who bear a part in it. The
town meeting has been not only the
source, but the school, of democracy"
Thomas Jefferson, who wished the
system to be transplanted to Virginia,
was the author of the famous eulogium
"Those wards called townships in New
England are the vital principles of their
government, and have proved them
selves the wisest inventions aver devised
by the wit of man for the perfect exer-
else of self -government and it's preser-
vation."
Since Jefferson's day the town meet
ing system has attained a degree of eff
cheney far beyond
anything of the
kind then known, especially as exempli-
ed by the town of Brookline. But it
as long been realized in Brookline that
a change must come with the rapid
growth of the town. The present de.
cade, from 1890 to 1900, witnesses an in.
crease in the population of Brookline
of from about IL 900 to about 20, 200, and
the next decade will undoubtedly bring
it proportionally greater accessions.
The Conservative, 1899-12-28
Che Conservative.

Ina time is now recognized as at hand,
and the course to be taken has been dis
closed for the public consideration, with
characteristic Brookline promptness and
confidence.
A town that set defiance to the power
full local and state agencies brought to
bear 20 years ago to put it out of exis-
tence as a township, approached the
present issue calmly and intelligently,
fortified by the assured position it now
holds, which rests upon an %unparal-
leled record of successful administrative
autonomy.
While Brookline's present action is
prompt, it is not considered hasty by the
major part of the citizens. They say no
more deliberate community exists in the
state. Its leading citizens never attempt
to rush" the town. The exercise of
patience in dealing with the public has
been a notable feature in the conduct of
Brookline's affairs. But, given a general
recognition of an exigency, and al in
telligent, prudent, conservative remedy,
and Brookline responds with alacrity,
rather than incur the perils of sluggish
ness and som~nolence.
This has just received a striking illus
t~ration, for during the last fortnight
Striking
illustration. Brookline's repre-
sentative men,
from the various walks of life, and taxed
for many millions Of dollars of property,
have united in a petition for a special
town meeting, to consider al
application to the next general
court for the creation of a town council
in Brookline, to be limited in numbers,
and to take the place of the town meet.
ing when acting upon the fiscal and
general affairs Of the town.
They are a unit in the belief that this
action indicates no haste, but merely a
prompt recognition of the fact that the
time has come for action, in a matter
long anticipated, and long under con
sideration by leading citizens. Hardly
one -third of the voters can now gain
access to the town hall for deliberations
at town meetings, and where public
spirit is strong and general as in Brook
line, if not even a majority can take
part in debate and in voting, the pro,
priety of some satisfactory equivalent
for the present system becomes self
evident.
The idea of a town council, in name at
least, is not new. More than a century
ago, in 1871, a
committee of 81
inhabitants of leading influence of the
period reported a new system of govern
ment creating a town council for the
town of Boston, which then had about
The record-union., 1899-04-15

Four more attempts have been maze
to poison women by means of bouquets
and candies sent to them by unknown
parties, by messenger or by mail. Thus
does one crime suggest another. IN
questionably Mrs. Botkin's poisoning
success has induced these more recent
infalnies. The safe thing in these times
for women, indeed, for everybody, Is
to refuse to partake of CONNECTIONS OF
to accept flowers, which come to one
anonymously. There are SO many
cranks loose in these days that one
cannot tell when he may be aimed at
by one of them. Then, too, everybody
worth considering at all has an enemy
or so, and some of them may be cow
ards and assassins.
The record-union., 1899-04-15

Mr. Bryan may very well ask just
now where he is to get off. Carter Har-
rison was the regular Democratic nom
NEE for Mayor Of Chicago. Altgeld
practically bolted the party and became
the nominee of faction that braced
itself upon the Chicago platform of
1896. Mr.. Bryan and the National Com
mittee officials recognized the Altgeld
movement as legitimate because. as
Mr.. Bryan put it, it stood upon the only
party platform, and the Nebraskan
thereupon proceeded to declare that no
one can rightfully claim to be a. Demo-
Graf who does not swallow that re-
markable platform hoof horns and hide.
But Carter Harrison was elected by a
great majority. Altgeld and Bryan are
now both to speak at a Democratic din
ner in New York that is pronounced by
Ole wing OF the New York Democracy
to be off color. and which will not take
the Chicago platform at dose Or in
any other manner. 1t looks very much
as II Mr. Bryan had steered the Ma
sional Committee officials up against It.
and succeeded in widening breech in
the party SO greatly that any closing of
it will be improbable, if not impossible.
The record-union., 1899-04-15
Take One With Me.

Oh, why must men treat every time
that they meet?
1t does no good lin the end
If to please is your plan, then my dear
Mr.. Man,
Do the sensible thing by your friend.
How easy 'twould be, Have a necktie
with me-
Or collars and cuffs-take a box;
I'm loser, 1 see; SO the gloves are on
mot at ALL Shopman, set up the socks!'
Or you might. when you meet, treat" to
something to eat,
{. Or ride. or a shave. or a shine.
But of course it's no use. and I'm only a
goose,
To think that you'd heed words of mine,
Polly Pry.