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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
INSURGENTS SHELL A TOWN.
Filipinos Fail in nm Attempt to Drive
Americans from Angcles-ImpOrt-
ant Stronghold Captured.

Manila, Sept. 4.-The insurgents made
an unsuccessful attempt early Saturday
morning to drive Col. Smiths command
out of Angeles with artillery, the first
time they attempted to use this arm
for months. They brought two krupp
guns from Porac and fired eight shrap-
nels at the town at dawn. Only few
of the shells exploded, and, the aim of
the gunners being bad, no damage was
done. Lieut.. Kcnley's guns of the First
artillery were brought into action i'm
from their position.
At 4:3O o'clock Sunday morning a
small party of insurgents fired on Qua
qua, which is held by two companies of
the Ninth regiment of infantry, sup
ported by the gunboat Laguna de Bay.
One native resident was wounded. The
enemy was driven off by infantry fire
and the guns of the gunboat.
Manila, Sept. 4.-Argogula, the most
impregnable stronghold of the bands
which have been destroying plantations
and levying tribute on the people of
Negros, was taken Tuesday by the Sixth
infantry, under Lieut.. Col. Byrne. The
only means of reaching the town was
up an almost perpendicular hill COW
cred with dense shrubbery and 1000
feet high. The Americans accomplished
this under fire, and an officer and sew
eral men were hit and rocks were rolled
down upon them. The native strength
was estimated at 400. Many of the in
surgents were wounded and captured
and 81 were killed. The American
forces captured quantity of stores and
destroyed the Notifications.
Late Sunday afternoon the Kansas
regiment embarked on big barges in
the river and were towed to the United
States transportTartar, the regimental
flag flying and the men cheering and
singing. The Tartar sailed for home
in the evening"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
Tragedy in Chicago.

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Ilenry Imde, a car
penter, shot and killed his wife and
mortally wounded his five-year-old
daughter Iilda while they were in bed
at their home in the lower flat at 35s
West Belmont avenue at an early hour
Sunday morning. Then he killed him
self by cutting the blood vessels in his
forehead and wrists with pair of scis-
sors and hanging himself to the top
hinge of the kitchen door. In letter
written in German, the last sentence of
which is dated at two p. H., Emde said
that he would kill his wife because she
had continually tried to make trouble
for him: that he had tried to starve her,
SO that she would leave him, and that
the privation had been worse on the
three children than on her.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
RIOTERS ARRESTED.
Street Cars in Cleveland and Ten
of Them Arc Arrested.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 2.-.Another riot
broke out on Central avenue near Gid
dings avenue. A small torpedo en-
ploded under the wheels of a Central
avenue car and a large crowd of foreign
woriingmen assembled. They soon be-
gan to throw stones at the passing cars.
Stones were thrown at a patrolman
who ordered them to dispense, and after
fighting his way through II crowd he
telephoned for help. Officers responded
and charged the crowd and dubbed it
severely. AS the rioters broke away
the police made ten arrests. During the
rioting the crews Of several street cars
that passed fired revolvers over the
heads of the mob. With two exceptions
the prisoners are foreigners, scarcely
able to speak English.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09

PROBATE NOTICE.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
Hennepin. Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Charles n
Parker, Deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
Charles II. Parker, deceased, late of the
County Of Hennepin and State of Mime
sofa, being granted to Lawrence P. Ryan,
1t Is Ordered, That six months be and
the same Is hereby allowed from and after
the date Of this order, in which all persons
having claims or demands against the said
deceased are required to file the same in
the Probate Court of said county, for exam
ination and allowance. or be forever barred,
1t Is Further Ordered, That the first
Monday in March, 19OO ut 10 o'clock a. M,
at general term of said Probate Court, to
be held ut the Court House in the City of
Minneapolis, in said county, be. and the
same is hereby appointed as the time and
place when and where the said Probate
Court will examine and adjust said claims
and demands.
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That notice
of such hearing be given to all creditors
and persons interested in said estate by
forthwith publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks in the
Irish Standard, newspaper printed and
published in said county,
Dated at Minneapolis, this oath day of
August, 1900.
By the Court:
+. C. HARVEY,
Judge of Probate
j. II. Steele, Atty for Executor.
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DEADLY BOILER EXPLOSIONS.
Three Men Are Killed ut Copemish,
Mich, and Five at Pitts
burEh, Pa.

Manistce, Mich, Sept. 2.-The boiler
IN Chapman e. Sargent's bowl factory
at Copemish, 80 miles north of here,
exploded, killing three men and fatally
injuring four others. The dead are:
Charles Handy, Perry Melafont and
George Estabrook. Fatally injured:
Oliver Sanders, Robert Peterson,
Charles Taylor and Howard Ketcham.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. "A boiler ex-
plosion at the Republic iron works
on South Twenty-fourth street, short
ly before daylight, killed five men and
seriously injured seven others. Fire
which broke out following the explo-
sion added to the horror. The mill was
partly wrecked and the entire plant
was compelled to close down,
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TO HAVE sEARcH-L1GHTs.
Re Placed About the Har-
Dor Of New York.

The army engineers in charge of the
Notifications in New York harbor have
secured the consent of the war depart
ment to place at New York rs first
power searchlights. Sixteen are to
cover the southern approaches and
eight the eastern. The principal sta
lions will be Sandy Hook, Norton's
Point, Quarantine, Fort Wadsworth,
Fort Hamilton, Romer Shoals, Fort
Schuyler and Willets Point. Two hun
drel trained signal men will be re-
quired to handle these lights, which
will be placed in groups of two.
Guns of 16-inch calber, which were
recommended by the fertilization board
IN the original defense scheme, are to be
replaced with l2-inch high-power weap-
ons. Probably not more than one 49,
inch gun will be installed there.
1t also has been decided to construct
1850 submarine mines for use in the
channels leading into New York harbor.
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SUMMONS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Hennepin. District Court, Fourth Judi
cia District
Hannah Mantle, Plaintiff, against Frank
August Mantle, Defendant.
The State of Minnesota to the above nam
ed Defendants:
You, Frank August Mantle, are hereby
summoned and required to answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff in the above entitled
action, which complaint has been filed in
the office of the Clerk of said District
Court, at the City Of Minneapolis, County
of Hennepin, in said State Of Minnesota,
and to serve a copy of your answer to said
complaint on the subscriber, at his office,
in the City of Minneapolis, in the said
County of Hennepin, within thirty (3O) days
after service of this summons upon you, ex-
elusive of the day of such service; and If
you fail to answer the said complaint with
in the time aforesaid. the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the Court for the re-
lief demanded In said complaint. Said ac-
ton is brought for divorce on the ground
of cruel and inluman treatment.
Dated July 10, A. d. 1899.
WILLIAM KENNEDY,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
No. 81, Western Ave, Minneapolis, Min
ncsOta.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Hcnncpin. Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Carl e.
Beckman, Deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Car
stem Hansen, administrator, Of the estate
of said deceased, praying that license be
to him granted to sell certain of the real
estate of which said deceased died seized,
and it appearing by said petition, that
there Is not sufficient personal estate in the
hands of said administrator to- pay tho
debts outstanding against the deceased and
the expenses of administration, and that
1t is necessary in order to pay such debts
and expenses, and would be for the benefit
of said estate to sell the said real estate In
said petition described,
1t Is Therefore Ordered. That all persons
Interested in said estate appear before the
said Probate Court. ut a special term there.
of to he held on Wednesday, the Goth day
of September, A. y. 1899. at ten o'clock in
the forenoon. at the Court House. in the
City Of Minneapolis, in said County, then
and there to show cause Gf any there bel
why license should not be granted to said
administrator to sell said real estate, ac-
cording to the prayer of said petition.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
Coal Interests Unite.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 1. - The Pitts
burgh rail-coal mine combination has
been formed. The new corporation is
the Pittsburgh Coal company, and it's
capital stock is S64, 100000. 1t owns the
coal properties of 1o4 of the 1O7 individ-
uals and firms in the business, has prac-
tically absolute control of the docks and
coal-loading plants on the great lakes
and has monopoly on all the outlets
to the coal markets of the east, west
and northwest.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
Call for w. C. r. u. Meeting

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Ofiiccrs of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union have issued call for the twenty
sixth annual convention of the organi-
cation in Seattle, WASH, October 2O-25.
The call, which is signed by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, and
Susanna M. D. Fay, the corresponding
secretary, recalls the success of last
years gathering at St. Paul and pre-
diets an even more momentous meet
ing this year.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09
Seven Lives Lost,

Halifax, N. S., Sept. 5.-A sailboat
was sunk Monday night near the mouth
Of Halifax harbor and seven lives were
lost, the victims all belonging to this
city. There were II persons in the boat
and four were saved. Those drowned
are: Robert Davidson, wife and three
unmarried sisters; W. Hamilton, en-
ployed in the city clerks Office; John E.
Hancock, steamship checker.
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Transport Ashore.

Kobe, Japan, Sept. 4.-The United
States transport Morgan City has been
wrecked near a small town called
Onomichi, which il located on the in
land sea. The vessel was bound for Ma
nila and had nearly 1000 recruits on
board for the American commander in
the Philippines. ID, H &
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More Aid Needed.

New York, Sept. 5.-The Central Por-
to Rican relief committee has issued an
other appeal to the people Of the
United States on behalf of the sufferers
from the hurricane. The appeal de-
clares that $.,5O0,O00 will be required to
procure for the destitute bare necessi-
ties Of life. ~ SRI n 3l 8ii3 X -
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And It Is Further Ordered, That notice of
such hearing be given to oil persons inter-
ested In said estate, by publishing this or
der once each week for three successive
weeks, prior to said day of hearing, in the
Irish Standard, newspaper printed and
published In said County.
Dated at Minneapolis, this oath day of
August, 1899.
By the Court:
F. c. HARVEY,
Judge of Probate,
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o1ERlf Il tAECOIlON SALE.
Under and by virtue of an execution
district court of the state of Minnesota
in and for the fourth judicial district
and county of Hennepin, on the 9th day
of August, 1899. upon Judgment rem
dered and docketed in said court and
county in an action therein wherein John
was defendant, in favor of said plaintiff
and against said defendant for the sum of
ten hundred sixty-eight and 16-10O dollars
&l ,O6S.16) which said execution has to
me, as sheriff of said Hennepin county.
been duly directed and delivered, l have
levied upon and will sell at public auc-
ton to the highest cash bidder, in the
lobby of the sheriff's main office in the
district court house, in the city of Min
neapolis, in SAID county OF Hennepin, on
Tuesday the 18th day of September 1899
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon of that
day, all the right, title and interest that
the above named judgment debtor had
scribed on the 9th day of August, 1899.
that being the date of the rendition of
said judgment, or any interest therein
Which said judgment debtor has since
that date acquired The description of
the property being as follows, to-wit:
Lots FIVE % and eighteen QS). in block
nine 80, in Lakeview Addition to Min
neapolis, according to the plat thereof
on file and of record in the office of the
Register Of Deeds in and for Hennepin
county, Minnesota.
Dated Minneapolis, Mimi, August 18th,
PHIL. t. MEGAARDEN.
JOHN J. WHALE,
Attorney for Judgment Creditor,
3O1-2 Bank of Commerce Building,
Minneapolis. MINI.
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SIMMONS

... SUMMONS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Hennepinss. In District Court, Fourth
Judicial District.
Nellie Weymouth Plaintiff, against
James S. Weymouth. Defendant.
The state of Minnesota to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the COMPLAINT of the, plaintiff
in the above entitled action which COM
plant has been filed in the office of the
clerk clerk Of sid DISTRICT court at the court
of Hennepin, and state of Minnesota. and
to serve copy of +t your S answer to the
office in the city of Red Wing. in the
county Of Goodhue. and state Of Mime.
this summons upon you, exclusive of the
day Of such service; and # you fail to
time aforesaid, the plaintiff. will apply
to the court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
Dated June 29th, A. D. 1899.
S. ]. NELSON.
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Red Wing, Minnesota.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-27
WEDNESDAY,, DECEMBER 81, 80.
The Staple Crops of Florida.

Directly after the war and for
twenty-five years the people of F'lori-
da were so absorbed in the culture of
cotton and oranges, which bore al
most fabulous prices, that little
thought was bestowed on the noble
pursuit of general farming. 1t was so
much more comfortable to sit on the
veranda the greater part of the year,
only going out what little was neces-
sary to oversee the cOlOred labOrerS
and to harvest and ship the the crop
a pleasurable OccupatiOn-then at the
end of the season carry the commits
sion mems checks, to the value of ST.
800 or $1,000 to the store and liquidate
the bills of the year-and begin the
same process over again.
Sugar Cane Culture.-The climate
of Florida is very favorable to this
pursuit, but the average pine lands are
not adapted for it on large scale, as
the cane is a very heavy feeder. But
there are hundreds of thousands Of
acres of reclaimed, or reclaimable,
swamp and muck lands which offer an
unsurpassed fertility, such as this
staple demands. But even on the
pine lands, by the aid of cowpenning,
the farmers have always made more
or less strip and pure brown sugar
for their own use; though during the
flush tines of orange culture, even
this was neglected.
Seed cane can be purchased at about
| cent per stalk Some charge 1 4
cents. while sometimes inferior lots
sell at 1-2 cent per stalk.
1t is often the case that cane ma
lures in this climate eight or nine fnet
in length. The point to which cane
has matured is indicated by the point
at which the green blades set III, as
the blades die from the ground up As
the stalk natures.
Preparing the Land.-The land
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-27

We now have an office in Jacksonville,
Room 4, Robinson Block, Vaduct, where Mr.
Painter will be pleased to see any of our SUBJ
scrbers. Any time we can be of service in
jacksonville drop us line to above address.
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ceSSfully preserved for from one To
three years, and disqualification of su
gar can also be prevented, if care Is
taken to prevent cooking the sirup to
too great a density.
The crop of the State is about 1000
600 gallons of sirup, equivalent tG
about 100000 pounds of sugar
Profits vary from $50 to $3.50 Der acre
Cotton Culture.--In west and MD
die Florida the upland variety Is
grown; in eastern and south Florida
principally the sea island staple.
The cotton crop is one Of the great
staples of the world, and the conlrct-
ton of hundreds of thousands OF
planters, not only in this country. but
in Egypt and India, has reduced the
profits of it's cultivation to a low mar
gin. 1t is customary with most plant
ers to declare there is no money in it
at ALL still they continue to plant ccl-
ton, because it is always a cash crop
at some figure. Probably a farmer
could not pay expenses, or even his
own labor in growing it, on the com
mon pine lands of Florida; but, on the
better grades of soil, with rigid econ.
omy, careful husbandry and use of
manure, thorough cultivation and saw
ing all the staple as soon as it opens,
a fair living can be earned, BETTER in
fact, than the majority of Wheat-grow-
ers of the North make one year with
another The writer has known a
farmer, on ordinary fatWoods soil, in
central Florida, running a one-plow
farm. to raise S675 pounds of seed
cotton, worth $556.56; 9S4 gallons of
strip, worth $295.20; and 335 bushels
of sweet potatoes, worth $134 But
seed cotton was worth, that year. over
6 cents, whereas now it is worth a
cent or two less.
The Tobacco Crop-The tobacco
crop of the State in 1897 (the latest
year reported by the State Commits
sioner of Agriculture was 3,719 acres,
yielding S97, 335 pounds, valued at
1891 ,911, or about 43 cents per pound.
1t was mostly a cigar wrapper leaf.
and nine-tenths of it was grown in
Gadsden county. GadSden county
growers seek a sandy loan, with red
clay subsOil but avoid a surface clay
soil as being too heavy. In South
Florida they select, if possible, a soil
producing hardwood timber, such as
hickory, oak, magnolia, gum, ETC.,
though excellent crops of tobacco have
been grown on pine land. A new gray
or ''mulattO" hammock is also cOnsid-
cred good. A limestone subsoil is a
favorable indication, but not the mas.
sive ''rOttOn limbstOne'' which occurs
in some sections of the State. A good
orange soil is generally a good tobacco
soil; one with a free yellow subsO;l
undertake with. clay. Low, heavy fat
woods soil is to be avoided Some
very fine texture leaf has been produc-
ed on this class of soils the past sum-
mer but it is found to have so much
weight and body as to require year
or more in curing satisfactorily, and is
believed to be chiefly adapted for I'LL
Ter. The aim of the Florida growers
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inches deep; lay off rows five and one
half, or, if preferred, six feet in width.
Use a bull-tongue ploW, or what is
known as a shovel plow will answer
good purpose. Either kind mentioned
will answer equally well.
Planting.-The cane is laid length
wise in the rows, tapping over the top
little. Take a sharp cane knife, and
hack the cane between the joints,
leaving two or three joints in each sec
ton. The reason for cutting the cane
up in short pieces is that the the joints
toward the top of the cane are more
sappy, and the eyes will start more
readily Consequently, if the cane
should be left whole the harder eyes
toward the butt of the cane would not
sprout.
Fertilizing.-In cowpenning it will
require an outlay of time and expense
every way of say something near $50
per acre to bring the pine land up to
the point of proper fertility for sugar
cane. Land properly fortified will
yield remunerative crop for thee
years without replanting. The first
year the yield will be the largest; the
second and third diminishes but tie
grade is higher. AS to quality, the
very best results may be attained by
high fertilization, and the crowding of
heavy stand on the ground, when
the yield may reach as high as four
hundred gallons of good strip per
acre.
The plow known as the gopher sweep
is excellent to use in the cultivation Of
cane on limited scale. Very deep
cultivation is not really necessary The
cultivation differs but little from that
! of corn.
Enthusiastically average small
farmer still adhereS to the old-faShi0n
ed roller mill, which does not extract
much over 80 per cent. of the actual
sugar contents. Besides that, his
processes Of Qualification are so crude
that a dark article of sirup is prOduc-,
ed, which is sometimes unstable. The
crude preliminary system of claritica
ton now in general use can be much
improved by resOrting to the sulphur
ing process.
In this process the juice fresh from
the mill is allowed to run SLOWLY
through a sulphuring box, containing
a number of inclined shelves, and as
the juice trickles slowly down from
shelf to shelf, it meets with an as
cending current of sulphur fumes,
which are produced by burning brnn-
stone or roll sulphur in roughly con
structed brick furnace
In this way the juice is at once rem
dered lighter in color, and when heat
ed i'll the evaporation the separation of
aluminous matters and other impure
ties is effected much more readily and
rapidly. After the heating of the
| juice is commenced, the addition of a
small amount Of milk of lime is fire.
quently found to facilitate the clarifi-
cation and renders the separation OF
ScumS more easy.
Where the above process of clarifica-
ton is employed, the resulting sirup is