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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The Hague pesce agreement was sent
to the senate before holiday recess.
Chairman Burton says there will be
NO river and harbor bill this session.
It is the general opinion in Washing
ton that Senator Quay will not be
seated.
The claim of Swift g Co. for beef
shipped to Puerto Rico in 1895 has been
| allowed.
A general order has been issued by
the war department announcing the
death of General Lawton.
The United States board of engineers
recommends fixed weirs at the head of
the Niagara river to regulate the levels
of the Great Lakes.
Under the new census, which will
cause reapportionment of members of
congress, it is stated, electoral condi-
tions in the South will be inquired into.
The training ship Chesapeake, the
first sailing vessel built for the navy in
more than 40 years, has just completed
a most successful trial trip in Massa-
chusetts bay
The secretary of agriculture has is
sued the annual order, effective Jan.
next, establishing a federal quarantine
against splenetic or southern fever
among cattle.
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island,
who will have charge of the Republi-
can currency bill in the senate, will at
tempt to push it through that body
without amendment.
1t will probably cost half million
dollars at least to repair the Olympia at
the Brooklyn navy yard. The board of
survey has reported that the construc-
ton work alone will cost $3.50, 1000.
Adjutant General Corbin estimates
that the Lawton fund, including sub
scriptions received and pledged,
amounts to $50, 1000. It has been de.
cided by the committee having the
fund in charge to have the fund reach
$50, 200.
The officials of the house of represent
tstives have struck a balance on the
recent deluge of bills, showing that up
to the recess the record stood: Total
bills introduced, 5,O15; joint resolutions, !
%; simple resolutions, S.; grand total,
8, 176 measures Of all kinds.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
THE DEATH RECORD.

The Duke of Westminster, the rich.
est man in England, is dead.
Daniel S. Ford, owner of the Youths
Companion, is dead at Boston, aged 70
years.
The Earl Of Tankerville Charles
Bennett) is dead. He was born Jan.
10, 1910.
Dwight L. Moody, the noted evangel-
ist, died at his home at East Mortified,
Mass, Friday noon.
William Chapman Poynter, father of
Governor Poynter of Nebraska, is dead
at Albion, that state, aged 70.
President H. G. Simmons of the Fargo
Agricultural college dropped dead of
apoplexy, while in store at Fargo.
Rev. W. J. Robinson, D. D., pastor of
the First United Presbyterian church
of Allegheny, Pa, and moderator of
the last United Presbyterian general
assembly, is dead.
The death is announced at st. Peters
burg, Dec. y, of the Chevalier Anton
De Kontski, the famous pianist, aged
80 years. He was the author of the
celebrated work ''The Awakening of
the Lion"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS.


The condition of Congressman Bou-
telle is much improved and he has left
for Bangor, Ne.
Sir Thomas Upton has been uani-
mously elected rear commodore of the
Royal Ulster Yacht club.
The people of Indiana will erect a
monument to General Lawton, having
received the consent of his widow.
Oscar Strauss, the United States min
lister to Turkey. has left Constantinople
for the United States on leave of alb
sence.
Ex-United States Senator James W.
Bradbury of Maine is dangerously i'll.
He is in his 9Sth year and is not ex-
pected to recover.
Former Governor Robert w. Furnas
of Nebraska, now in his 10th year, and
Mrs. S. E. Jamison were married at
Brownsville, Neb.
It is authoritatively stated that Judge
Bradbury of the Ohio supreme court
will resign in few days to become
counsel for the 80 called salt trust
Seward Webb has been elected d.
rector of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Sol Smith Russell will retire from the
stage for year or more at the con-
clusion of his interrupted engagement
at the Grand Opera House, Chicago.
Roland Reed, the actor, is seriously
i'll in New York. He is suffering from
appendicitis and his road engagements
for the holiday week have been can
celled.
At New York, John l.. Sullivan, who
is being sued by a liquor firm for s., 800
for goods purchased, testified in court
that he was without money or property.
Afterwards he stated that his earnings
in his professional career had exceeded
81, 900, 900.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRITIsH-BoER WAR.


Serious horse sickness has broken out
in British ami 5oer camps in Natal.
General Butler has moved back in
order to defeat any attempt at a flank
move.
Typhoid fever is e"id to be more of.
fectiye in reducin, the Ladysmith gar
rison than Boer artillery.
At meeting of Milwaukee Holland.
ers the w lsconsin- Transvaal Red Cross
association was organized.
British General Gatacre has issued
modified reconcentrado order for the
benefit Of the rsbellious Dutch In Cape
Colony.
It is understood that an Anglo Turk.
ish alliance has been formed and Egyp.
tian regular troops may be sent to the
Transvssl to aid the English.
A Stekstroom dispatch says the Beers
have been largely reinforced since Cat.
acres reverse at Stormberg. The
country north is in, arms and farms OF
loyalists are being taken by Beers, who
reap the crops. s.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Over $5,00O,0 900 gold was shipped to
London from New York Saturday.
President Hill of the Great Northern
is opposed to the proposed merchant
marine subsidy bill.
The yellow ware pottery manufac-
turers have agreed to advanced their
selling prices b per cent.
Comptroller Dawes has appointed
Special Examiner Daniel G.. Wing tenn
porary receiver of the Globe National
bank Of Boston. e.
The Melbourne Argus publishes a
forecast of the wheat harvest of Aus
tralia in which it says the average
yield is 9.37 bushels per acre, and that
the exportable surplus is 13,00O,0 900
bushels.
The Rand & Latin powder mills at
Pleasant Prairie, near Kenosha, Wis,
have started up. The plant is one of
the largest in the United States. It
consists of 65 buildings, covering several
hundred acres of land.
Sioux City is after the big plant of
the Glucose sugar refining company at
Marshalltown. Officials of the COM
pany are said to look favorably toward
Sioux City. The reason the company
desires to remove from Marshalltown is
because of trouble over the disposition
of sewage. The plant employs about
900 men
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

The Milwaukee carshops at Dubuque
have been destroyed by fire.
The British steamer Ariosto was
wrecked off Cape Hatteras, u lives be-
ing lost.
At Quincy, Ills. IL children were
burned to death and others seriously in
jured in Christmas rehearsal fire.
Whaleback barge No. lis, supposed
to have been lost with all on board, has
been heard from The barge was
wrecked on Lake Superior but the crew
was rescued.
The main building of Buchtel college
at Akron, O., including all the labora.
tories, library, mems and women's dor
mitories. were burned to the ground.
The loss was fully 100000.
By wreck on the Northern Pacific
six miles east of Bear Mouth, Mon,
four men we're killed and. several in
jured more or less seriously. The dead
are Engineer Rheim, Fireman Dickson
and two tramps.
Upwards of 40 school children were
drowned in an ice accident at Freling-
ham, Belgium, near the French frontier.
The children of the district had been
given holiday with permission to play
on the frozen River Lys.
At Lee Harpe, five miles east of lola,
Kan, fire destroyed two-thirds of the
Lanyon Zinc company's plant, causing
loss estimated at $50, 900, fully in
sured. Two workmen, Jesse Matthews
and J. J. Schaub, both married, were
crushed to death by falling smoke
stack.
Heavy rains and deep SHOWS in the
mountains, accompanied by chinook
winds, have combined to send an i'm
mense food coursing down Western
Washington rivers. The White, Stock,
Cowlitz, Chehalis, Skagit, Skokomish
and Nooksack are overlooking the low
lands, doing great damage.
An enormous rock at Amalfi, Italy,
poular resort, slid into the bay carry
Ing with it two hotels, famous Capu-
chin monastery and several villas. 1t
crushed four vessels to the bottom of
the sea and all on board are lost. Many
people, including occupants Of the ho-
tells and number of monks, are buried
in the debris.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
PHILIPPINE NEWS.

The cruiser New Orleans has arrived
at Manila
The body of General Lawton, who fell
in battle at San Mateo, has been placed
in vault at Manila.
General Otis has notified the war de-
partment that the transports Senator
and Ben Mohr have arrived at Manila
with the Forty.ffth infantry and two
batteries of the Sixth artillery. No
casualties were reported.
General Young has been appointed
military governor of the provinces of
Northwestern Luzon, with headquar-
ters at Vigan. He will establish per-
manent station at San Fernando and
I.aoag, with outpost wherever needed.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Snow to the depth of between tive
and three feet has fallen in the north.
ern section of Texas.
Between 80 and 40 Chicago poolrooms
besides a score or more of handbooks
have been closed by order of Chief of
Police Ripley.
Southern California was visited Mon
day by severe earthquake shock last
ing IL seconds. At San Jacinto and
Hermit the damage is estimated at
$50, 900.
immigration continues TO be unus.
ually heavy for this time of the year.
For the month of November Is, 460 i'm.
migrants came to New York, as COM
pared with 1896 during the same
month last year.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
FOREIGN NEWS.

Extensive strikes are threatened in
France.
The New South Wales assembly has
passed a bill authorizing the issue Of
treasury bills to the amount Of "a
700, 900.
Deroulede, the Royslist agitator, was
sentenced to two years imprisonment
Dy the French senate, sitting as high
court of justice. 81
1t Is reported that the bubonic plague
has made its appearance at Noumea,
capital of the French penal colony Of
New Caledonia.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
CUBA AND POETIC RICO.

General Wood has assumed the duties
of governor general of Cuba.
All the street railway interests in the
city of Havana have been consolidated.
A band of counterfeiters has started
operations in Cuba but to what extent
is not disclosed.
General Wood has accepted the resig-
nation of General Brooke's advisory
cabinet. 1t is stated they had made
themselves obnoxious to the majority
Of Cubans.
General Wood will at once begin
work on Cuban highways, which are
greatly in need of repairs. This will
also serve to give employment to a
large numb Der of men.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
sPoRTINe NEWS.

At Troy, N. Y, Spike Sullivan
knocked out Martin Flaherty in the
Goth round.
Carlisle Indians defeated the Univer-
sity of California football team by a
score of 2 too.
Joe Cans of Baltimore and Kid Nc
Partland of New York fought Ground
draw at Chicago.
The American Baseball league will
probably begin the season with teams
in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago,
Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, Detroit and Buffalo.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
LABoK NEWS.

Upward of 1900 seamstresses have
been thrown out Of employment by the
closing Of most of the departments Of
the Schuylkill arsenal.
The strike of the employees of the
Springfield (Ills.) Consolidated Street
Railway company, which was settled
Tuesday morning, is on again.
AS the result of joint conference an
agreement has been reached for a per-
manent board of arbitration to settle
disputes between Chicago trades union
lists and building contractors.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
POLITICAL NEWS.

The formal call for the national Re.
publican convention in Philadelphia,
June 10, has been issued.
A Washington dispatch says Corne.
Illus N. Bliss, formerly secretary of the
interior, is seriously talked of by the
president and other Republican leaders
at Washington as q vice presidential
probability.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
RAILROAD NEWS.

Chicago men have started national
combination of shippers to combat the
advance in freight rates.
All of the roads eastbound from Chi.
cago have signed an agreement not to
pay commissions of any kind ON tick.
cts sold over these lines after Jan. /.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
CRIMINAL NEWS.

A Missouri farmer, because Of finan.
cial reverses. killed his three children
and himself, his wife having previously
committed suicide.
Henry F. Corbett, who was arrested
on suspicion of having shot the Rev.
David B. Cheney and wife at Racine
two weeks ago. was taken before the
Cheneys separately and positively iden-
titled by both as the guilty man.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
Live Stock Prices at Chicago.

Live Stock Prices at Chicago
CATTLE-Market generally steady.
Sales ranged at "a 40 1875 for beeves:
$50, @50O tor COWS and heifers; 5000
40 for stockers and feeders; s4.50@5 40
for Texas fed beeves.
HOGS-Market strong active.
Sales ranged at %. 95@4.20 Tor mixed
and butchers, S405@420 for good to
choice heavy; So 90O4 o. for rough heavy
SS.s5@4 10 for light. Bulk of sales $4.0S
@41l
SHEEP-Steady to strong.
Sales ranged at $390@45O for sheep;
"a Dogs. 90 for lambs.
Receipts: Cattle, S0O hogs, 10000;
sheep, 1900.
Grain and Provision Prices at Chicago.
WHEAT December, 6511c; May, 6sN
@69ssc; July. 6OIc.
CORN-D December, so9S@3O1So Jan
nary, 3OssG3oAc May 1890.
OATS December, ago; May, 1890.
PORK December, IS 81; January.
$1,000; May, 10 321<
FLAX-Cash Northwestern, 81 1915
Southwestern ST. 4911; December, 81. 4S15;
May, S1.44
POULTRY Dressed, turkeys, $1,000;
chickens, 61107
BUTTER Creameries, 16@s5c; dairy.
16@22c.
EGGS Fresh, 200
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Price Of wheat at Duluth.

WHEAT-Cash, No. hard, 65sSc; No
Northern. 64sSc; No Northern, 61Xc:
No. 3, $500. To Arrive-No. hard
$3.50; No. Northern, CASIO; December,
$3.50; May, 6S96c: July, 1880.
FLAX-To arrive s1.59H; December,
Il. AZ; May, 81 3.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
Sioux City Live Stock.

CATTLE-Market steady
Sales ranged at "A. 50@o.7 for beeves;
So 0O@3. 80 for COWS, bulls and mixed;
$1,000 l.40 for stockers and feeders; S. 90
GA. 30 for calves and yearlings.
HOGS Market strong to shade higher.
Range of prices, 80 95@4.0O.
Receipts: Hogs 4,3O0; cattle, 100.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
Live Stock Prices at St. Paul.

HOGS Market strong with yesterday.
Range of prices $1,000 80.
CATTLE-Butcher cattle steady and
in good demand stockers and feeders
dull
Sales ranged at ss.s5@3so for COWS;
$500 1900 for calves $1,000 80 for bulls;
g. 75@3 40 for stookers % 600 800 heifers.
SHEEP-Market for sheep and lambs
dull Very little stuff sold.
Range OF prices % 00@3. 80 for bucks
"A 55 for lambs.
Receipts: Cattle, 100; hogs 1900; calves
%; sheep 90
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30
Grain Prices. at Minneapolis.

WHEAT-In Store No l Northern,
December, 641Ic; May, $500; July 671s
@68c. On Track-No. hard, 67sSo;
No. / Northern, $780, No 2 Northern,
$3.50.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27
HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY,
Comment on Com monp1aces by the
Atchison Globe Sage.

Commen on Com monp1aces by the
Atchison Globe Sage.
Some burdens are easier carried than
thrown off.
Whoever finds a fool first plucks him
most thoroughly.
No young man can be in love with all
the nice girls.
No man can be always right, but he
always blames the other fellow.
You should keep your inward feel.
ings secret, particularly silly ones.
If you don't believe you are a bore,
watch people get away when you turn
your back.
In extremely cold weather. people
can't understand that ice will ever be
in demand.
Somehow man who has sense
enough to keep his own counsel is new
er liked.
There should be a good deal of pleas
ure getting into trouble; it Is hard
enough getting out.
W AANAA hAiS'h winch Sh1L ddlAly It.
freshments are served, the men present
never get enough to eat.
A little gambling game will attract
as many spectators as the ordinary
sermon, and hold them longer.
To agents: If you sell to man who
does not want to buy, and who does
not need the article you sell him, it is
robbery.
There are too many of us who mag
Inc that an iron-clad resolution, born
every few hours, is all there is to being
economical.
No banker could ever succeed in put
ting his bank on such a firm financial
foundation that he could write poetry
without injuring it.
When a man wants a woman to take
a particular interest in him, he tells
her that some day he will tell her the
true story of his life.
An Atchison girl feels that she alone
knows what true suffering is. Her
lover is an actor, and every time she
sees him acting the hero, it is with an.
other woman in his arms.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27
WILD GAME ABOUT EXTINCT.
Work of determination in Switzer-
land Is We1I-NiRh Complete.


Switzerland will soon be entirely
free of wild animals If the rate of ex-
tinction that has prevailed of late is
maintained. In the official archives in
Zurich are records of the various
kinds of beasts that once existed in the
land of the red cross. Evidences of
beaver life have been found on the
shores of Lake Morat, the bones and
skeletons being fully six centuries old.
One of the tributary streams which
feed the lake is called Beaver brook,
the title being due to its former inhab-
itants. That the name is old is shown
by the fact that no beavers have lived
In Switzerland since the twelfth OF
thirteenth Gentry
Brown bears were plentiful in the
mountain lands until the seventeenth
century. The last one killed of which
there Is any official knowledge came to
his end In 1893 in Barbereche. Nova.
days the bears that are raised in Berne
for various show purposes are import.
ed young from other countries. Deer
were more than plentiful in the high
lands in olden times, but they were
cleaned out pretty well in 174S to 1850.
There is record in the Swiss archives
that deer was seen in the woods in
1871, but it was apparently far from it's
own stamping ground.
Up to the seventeenth century wolves
were such plaques that several cam
tons offered substantial premiums for
their heads and skins. 1t took ages to.
chase them off the plains, and fully 100
years more to clean them out of the
highlands. Not a live wolf has been
seen in Switzerland since 1887. The
lynx disappeared about the same time.
Wild boars were numerous in the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries, but
none has ben encountered since 1900.
few wildcats are reported to have
been shot since 1891, but the authori-
ties doubt the authenticity of the re-
ports.
Not less than seven prominent kinds
of quadrupeds have been exterminated
In Switzerland in five centuries, not to
mention the world-famous wild goat,
or channels. A few of these beautiful
animals are raised and kept by the
landlords of some Of the leading resorts
to maintain the impression that cham
OILS are part and parcel of the Swiss
mountains. But they are domesticated
and are vastly different from the timid
little animals that nobility used to hunt
and poets rave about.-New York
Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27

Now, in time Of peace, the outlay on
education in European states is only
from one-half to one-twelfth the expen-
diture for ornaments. In the last thirty
years Europe has doubled this expendi-
ture, only to have the nations relatively
where they We're before. Bankruptcy
and reputation must be the outcome
of the present policy, even if war is
averted. Poverty and disorganized In
dustry on a stupendous scale in Europe
mean no foreign market for American
goods. When one nation suffers all
must suffer under our modern CONNER.
cial system.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27
Emperor William rs a Robber

Emperor William never plays cards
except for very low stakes. Yet in a
game with Leipzig lawyer, once upon
a time, the latter lest twenty marks.
He laughingly exclaimed: II have got
into a regular robbers den." Every
body roared with laughter, the Emperor
as heartily as the rest. When his ma
jesty was staying, the following year.
at Barby, and noticed the lawyer. he
went up to him, handed him twenty.
mark piece set in diamonds, in the form
OF scarfpin, and said: Restored by
the robbers"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27

ing given their names and ages nothing
further would be required of them than
to answer ayes" to the questions put.
Accordingly, the first applicant, to the
questions, "Will you bear arms against
the United States?' "Will you join the
anarchistsT' would you assist for
eign power against the United States"
promptly and smilingly answered,
YES" and was ready to declare his
willingness under oath. He was com
manded to stand aside" and of the
thirty-four others, it Is gratifying to
know, the judge summarily disposed Of
all but two in the same manner.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27

Through the Middle States and in
some parts of the South, a mischiev-
Gus trade is carried on during the win
ter and the early spring. 1t is the
slaughter of destroying birds, to
be sold as "reed-brdS" in the city mar
kets. "Reed-bird on toast" is a favor
lite dish with the epicures; but the
epicures seldom get the "reed-birds"
they order. Authorities at Washing
Ton declare that hundreds of thousands
of robins, bluebirds, cedar-birds, shore
larks and other insect-eating birds are
killed for this purpose every year. a
single dealer in Washington received
five thousand robins in one shipment
from North Carolina, and sold them
all as reed-birds. Not only is the traffic
reprehensible as a commercial fraud,
but it is a direct and very grave injury
to farmers, whose fruit-trees, shrubs
and crops would be seriously injured,
and in some cases ruined, If inSectiVor-
Gus birds were eXterminated. Through
the work of the men of science in the
government departments at Washing
ton, our farmers are learning the value
of misunderstanding birds to their fields
and gardens. They are, therefore,
neglectful of their own interests if they
do not protest against this cruel and
ruinous traffic, not in the name of hui
manity, but because of the imperative
needs of agriculture.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27

1t would seem that at last Great
Britain, with her logged determina-
of her European competitors, has tired
out one of her rivals. 1t is noteworthy
that in the French naval program for
1899 there is no provision for new bat
tle-ships. In this respect, at least,
France begins to see the hopelessness
of the building contest in which she
has been engaged. 1t was plainly
ridiculous for France to keep up a
rivalry in this regard with the greatest
naval power in the world.