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The Irish standard., 1899-11-18
POSTAL STATISTICS
Report Of Fourth Assistant Post.
master Bristow-Prcscnt Number
of Post Offices, $4,000.

Washington. Nov. 11.-Fourth Assistant
POSTMASTER General John L. Bristow, II
his annual report, announces that during
the past fiscal year 14,GO4 postmasters were
appointed, 1888 being fourth-class post.
masters and the remainder presidential
Concerning the policy of removals. the re-
port says:
'The policy of former administrations Of
removing fourth-class postmasters for pc.
ntcal reasons, regardless of length OF
service, resulted In the changing of post
masters in all the important fourth-class
offices early in those administrations. The
-FOUR years term of the great majority Of
1ourth-class postmasters, therefore. en-
pred early in this administration, which
accounts for the greatly decreased num-
Der or appointments made during the fis-
cal year as compared with the preceding
one. Special attention to disciplinary
measures and the general Improvement of
the service has therefore been permitted -
Ihere were 2,9SS5 post offices established
and 1,505 discontinued AT the close of
the year, the total number of post Of
noes In the country was an even 5000.
The department has discontinued q num-
per or private post offices, which II has been
advised We're conducted for the sole bene-
ut OF some private institution; not only
deprivinS the government of its legiti-
matereNenues, but giving undue advantage
over competing firms in postal facilities
Extension of rural free delivery neces-
stated disseminating 50 post offices, appli-
cations TO restore number of which are
now pending.
About 1000 more post Offices were inspect
ed than In any previous year. Registered
mall lost averaged one piece in every
25,9so handled There We're $40 postal ar
rests during the year, including 1l9 post
masters. IL assistant postma sters. al post
office clerks. q railway postal clerks 81
letter carriers and SG1 post office burglars.
or all these, G59 were convicted and 629
cases are still pending in the courts. The
report says the practicablity of trans
porting the mails over the proposed all
American route to the Yukon in Alaska Is
problem yet to be determined ard a re-
cent inspection found so few settlers in
this interior country that only one post
office was established.
Among the recommendations arc for au-
thorlty for inspectors to take out search
warrants wherever necessary; for pay
ment of expenses of various authorities in
arrest, and detention Of post Office prs-
oners; an appropriation for constructing
inspectors look-outs In Offices wherever
oeemed necessary; an amendment to tho
interstate commerce law to prohibit tcle-
graph and express companies or employees
from abettinG in green goods swindlcs, lot
terles or similar schemes; legislation pro-
hibiting loose pouchag Of circulars and
other small mail matter. and providing a
larger newspaper wrapper than is now
issued
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War on Prize Fiyhts.

New York, Nov. 11.-prizc fights IN
New York state are doomed. Gov,
Roosevelt has started crusade.
against them ord will forra through
the legislature n repeal of the lIor-
ton law and the enactment of n new
statute prohibiting pugilistic contests.
He will if necessary make the matter
a. party issue. At Albany Friday lie
declared that no more prize fights
would disgrace New York after Jan.
uary /, 1900.
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RUNS EVERY DAY.
When Travelling

Look out for your comfort and con.
venience. Two fast trains, equipped
with Pullman sleeping, dining and cafe
cars, leave Minneapolis and ST. Pau
daily via Wisconsin Central lines 70,
Milwaukee. Chicago, and Eastern and
Southern points Ask your nearest tick
ct agent for further information. Jas. c.
Pond. Gen'l Pass. Agt., Milwaukee
Wis. V: c. Russell, c. P. & T. A., csc
Nlcollet avenue Minneapolis.
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Sent to Prison.

Northampton, Mass, Nov. 1o.-In the
superior court Thursday Lewis Warner,
aged 60, who wrecked the Hampshire
county national bank and the Hamp-
shire savings bank by embezzling $780,
900, was sentenced to term in state
prisontof not more thap IL nor less than
nine years, the first day to be in solitary
confinement. y
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Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 13.-Two peo-
pie are dead and third is seriously
i'll in Kansas City, Kan, from eating
mince pies apparently containing
ptomainc poisoning. The pics were
eaten at dinner Sunday evening.
George w. Hoffman, aged 70 years, a
carpenter, and his son-in-law, John
Salmon, aged as years, died after
hours of agony. Mrs. Hoffman is crit
;co11v III
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corcnn Minister of War Dead.

Muskcgon, Mich, Nov. 14.-Gen. Will
liam McE. Dye, minister of war to the
king of Corea and ex-chief of police in
Washington, D. c., died here Monday
night Of diarrhea, disease from which
he has been suffering for several years.
Gen. Dye, owing to i'll health, left Seoul,
Corea, on May for home. He arrived
in San Francisco June ~, and after re-
naming there several days came to
Muskegon. At Chicago he was Joined
by his wife. Since his return here he
has been confined to his bed. His deaf h
was UNEXPECTED,
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AC1YIlittcll.

Chicago, Nov. 1l.-.\ftcr a trial last
ing three weeks Harry Hammond, a
tailor, was acquitted of the charge Of
attempting to murder John Il. Shayne,
a prominent merchant of this city.
Last spring Hammond shot shaync in
the cafe of the Auditorium Annex,
where Shayne was at lunch with Mrs.
Hammond, the divorced wife of the
tailor. Much evidence was introduced
in the trial TO show that Shaync had
rendered 1Iammond's home unpleas-
INIT
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CRUISER WRECKED,
west COas: of Iuxon-OGiccrs
and Crew Saved.

Manila, Nov. lathe United States
cruiser Charleston, which has been pa
trolling the northern coast of Luzon,
was wrecked on a reef off the north
west coast Tuesday, November T. All
on board were saved. The Charleston
ran aground near Vigan on hidden
reef, with IS fathoms of water on both
sides. She worked her machinery for
two days and nights in trying to get
ailoat.
a typhoon arising, the crew were
compelled to take to their boats and
seek refuge on small island five miles
away. The natives are friendly. Lieut..
Mcdonald and number of sailors put
off in Il small boat and reached the CAL
lao, which brought them to Manila.
The gunboat Helena has been dis
patched to bring away the crew.
Lieut.. Mcdonald describes the
Charleston when he last saw her as
hard and fast aground, with her bottom
badly stove and we'll out of water.
The cruiser Charleston, which was
built in San Francisco, in 1883, had a
displacement Of $3.50 tons, was 312 feet
Z inches in length, &c feet inches in
beam, and 81 feet 8 inches in draught.
She was of steel, having two propellers,
one funnel and two masts with military
tops. She had the following armament:
Two eight-inch guns, six six-inch guns,
four six-pounders, two three-pounders,
six one-poundcrs, two machine guns
and one light gun, with four torpedo
tubes. She had a complement of BOG
men. The naval register issued at the
beginning of the year gives as her COM
mander Capt. William II. Whiting, and
her lieutenant commander was Gotfred
Blockinger.
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New Treaty with spnin,

Washington, Nov. lo.--The Spanish
minister, Duke d'Arcos, was among the
callers at the state department Thurs
day. 1t is understood that the ncgotia-
lions for the new treaty of friendship,
commerce and navigation have opened
at Madrid, and while not directly par
ticipating, the authorities here arc en-
changing views on the various features
of the treaty.
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victors Mt Football.

Chicago, Nov. 13.-Results of the lead.
ing football games played Saturday:
Pennsylvania, II; Michigan, 10. Wis.
consin, %; Illinois, 0. Chicago, 7e;
Northwestern, o. Harvard, IL; Dart
mouth, o. Yale, AZ; Pennsylvania State
0. Princeton, ~; Carlisle,o. Columbia
1e; West Point, O. Lafayette, 6; Cor.
nell, s.. Beloit, 8; Minnesota. Brown
SO: Massachusetts,. 0.
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Prices Of humber Raised.

La Crosse, Wis, Nov. 1I.-White pine
lumber manufacturers have agreed
upon uniform mark-up in prices, talk
ing effect at once. The advance is so
cents per thousand in some grades of
dimensions and one dollar n thousand
on sumo grades of uppers. Notice is
given that all grades not advanced now
will be shortly, making uniform adj
vance of one dollar per thousand all
around on all grades.
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Wnr on Illegal Firhe RIM en-.

Fond du Lac, Wis.,, Nov. 14.-The
largest haul of illegally used fishing
tackle ever made in Wisconsin was that
completed Monday in Lake Winnebago
by special wardcns. Forty thousand
feet of deep-water gill nets and eight
miles Of set lines comprised the seizure.
Two alleged illegal fishermen. Charles
and August Lang, were taken after a
display of firearms. Fish weighing ,575
pounds were in the nets and were sole
as provided by law.
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Are Wasting Their Efforts,

Washington, Nov. 11.-Postmaster
General Smith has been notified by d.
rector Of Posts Vaille, at Manila, that
large numbers Of circular letters from
business firms in the states are being
addressed to the Philippine provinces,
and that under present conditions 1t is
waste of time and money to send mail
for points outside of Manila, Cavite, Ilo-
lilo, Cebu, Jolo and Negroes islands,
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Scenic Line.
On November 21st and each succeed
ing Tuesday. we will run an additional
car via Kansas City and Fort Worth
The Southern Route-no attitudes and
no snow.
Through sleeping car berths, large
enough for two persons, only Sc. 90. A
gentlemanly conductor and colored por-
ter accompany the car to attend the
wants of the passengers. Our parties
are select.
We receive hundreds of testimonials
from pleased patrons. No better refer
ences could be required than our pas
senger list containing the names of our
best citizens who go with us year after
year.
For full information address,
A. B. QUITS,
G. P. & T. A. NJ & St. L. r. R.
Minneapolis, MINI.
Send for descriptive matter.
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Fatal Collision.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. ia double
headed Pittsburgh g. Lake Erie freight
train Of IS loaded coal cars crashed
into the caboosc OF another train at
McKee's Rock Sunday night and piled
the wrcckagc up high. Three men
were in the caboose. One of them was
taken out dead. Another had one foot
crushed and both legs broken and a
third was SO badly injured that he may
die
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VIII Pay All.

Marion, Ind, Nov. 14.-William E.
Heal, the Grant county treasurer, who
disappeared from Marion October s,
1897, returned home Monday after an
absence of over two years. When, he
left Marion it was disclosed that he was
an embezzler of nearly $4,000, of which
$4,000 was Grant county funds. Upon
arrival here he was arrested. Mr.. Heal
says he has returned to face the pen
atty and to pay every cent of his short
age.
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Cleveland, O., Nov. 13.-Fire broke
out at six o'clock Sunday evening in
the Bradley block on Bank street, de-
stroying the upper two of the seven
stories. The damage done amounts to
100000, chiefly by water.
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Says Queen MAY Abdicate.

Frankfort-on-Main, Nov. 11.-Ac-
cording to q London dispatch to a
Frankfort paper, it is quietly rumored
in the immediate encourage of Queen
Victoria that her majesty has deter
mined to abdicate the throne, and that
the first definite announcement of her
intention will be made during tho
coming visit Of Emperor William to
ENGLAND.
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A Land of Sunshine and Flowers

Don't fail to write Tor reliable inior.
nation about the best and cheapest
route to California. No Objectionable
parties taken. Special attention giver
to ladies and children travelling alone
Send i'll your name and address, stating
time you expect to start, and receive
prompt reply.
CALIFORNIA TOURIST GUIDE,
Minneapolis, MINI.
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GOING TO CALIFORNIA?
Our Upholstered Tourist Cars are tn
Best.

We are the Pioneers in the tourist car
business. The Minneapolis & St. Louis
Railroad runs elegant upholstered tour
list cars to California points without
change, leaving St. Paul 200, Mime
apolis 7:35 P. M. every Thursday, via
Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake-The
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SUMMONS.

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CHAPTER L. Lieutenant Loring of
the regular army, having been Tilted by
Geraldine Allyn during his cadet days
at West Point. is ordered to Arizonia
III and IIl.-Lientenant Blake arrests
a deserter. Higgins, whom Mexican
girl, Pancha. endeavors to protect. Nv
Captain Nevins, appointed to the
regular army from civil life, a gambler
and embezzler of government funds, is
tried by court martial. He makes a
confession, stating that he was always
bad, but had married good woman.
He asks Lieutenant Loring. judge adj
vocate of the court, to carry his watch
and some jewels to his wife, stating
that Loring is acquainted with her
sister, Miss Geraldine Allyn. N.-Lor-
ing accepts the trust, putting the jew
els in an envelope and placing the
watch and jewels in a safe. VL-Nev
ms sends for LoriEg. who does not
respond, whereupon Nevins demands
the return of the jewels. He is inform
ed that they have been sent.
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for the entertainment of the mem
bers of the court, and the four poor fell
lows who constituted that frontier club
had been only too glad when It's mem :
bers from other stations insisted that
they should pay their share OF the long
three weeks burden Oh the culinary
department But Nevins now was PEN
niless, so he said, and why should I'M
pecunious infantry subalterns support
in idleness a disgraced and virtually
dismissed officer? Yet that is precisely
what that government compelled them
to door starve him
Thinking it all over during the day.
Major Starke concluded that at least
Camp Cooke had something to be thank
full for, and sending for Privates Poague
and Pritzlaff he sternly rebuked them
for their probable negligence (for dis:
cipline must be maintained J, and with
dire threats of what they might expect
in the way of punishment if they trans
crossed in the slightest way for six
months to come he babe them go back
to duty, released, which they did, each
with his tongue in his cheek and wink
of the inner eye, as they strobe off to-
gether and went grinning to the guard
!, tents for their blankets
All the same, Starke wished to know
whittier Nevins had gone and whether
anything new had started him This
time no horse or mule had disappeared,
but the tracks of two quadrupeds were
found on the mesa coming from Rat
He'll, - as Captain Post, who had done
time in Libby, named the gambling
ranch outside the reservation. to point
within 100 yards of the corral, and
thence bore away southwark straight as
the flight Of the crow. Two reprobates
in the captains company declared that
the black bearded clerk arrested with
Nevins, but released because he was a
civilian over whom the military had no
jurisdiction, had been over at the ranch
all the previous day. Sentry Poague
frankly admitted that he had heard
horses hoofs out on the mesa and voices
in the captains tent, but saw nobody
crossing his post and couldn't be ex-
pected to in the pitchy darkness.
Whittier Nevins went was therefore
matter that could only be conjectured
in the light of later events. How he
went was matter of little moment. 1t
was good radiance to bad rubbish, said
| Starke, until at last the next A1lil came
from Sancho's. For nearly five days the
major declared himself content if he
never saw Nevins again. Then he turned
to and prayed with all his soul that he
might catch him-if only for five min
| utes.
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CHAPTER VIII.

1t was two long days. cavalry march
from Sancho's to Camp Cooke, and
many time it had taken three. Mid
way, very nearly, the Hassayampa
emptied its feeble tribute into the murky
Gila. There was water enough. such as
it was, for man and beast along the
way, but, except in the winter months,
both man and beast preferred the night
hours for the journey. In order to pro-
vide mounts for the three officers Blake
had left as many Of his men at Cooke,
and pushed ahead with the veteran pres
ident two hours before the dawn. That
his march was watched from afar by
mounted men he knew as soon as the
sun rose upon his pathway. but Blake's
only concern was that they kept at re-
spectful distance. Not more than half
dozen did he see. and these were as sim
gle scouts or in pairs. He felt little
anxiety for Turnbull and Loring They,
too, were we'll guarded. The only thing
he hated about the whole affair was
having to dismount any Of his men, but
there were only two ambulances at
Cooke-one was undergoing repairs,
and. the inspector being present, the
post surgeon wisely protested against
the other being sent to the distant south.
1t was the plan Of the party to ride
leisurely to Sancho's, there to await the
coming of the stage, which should pass
through on its way to Yuma Saturday
noon.
And early Friday evening the troop
went into bivouac at the same old will
low clump, and Sancho, profusely and
deliberately courteous, had come forth,
sombrero in hand, to implore the cabal-
leros to partake Of his hospitality. His
brother was returned from a visit to
Guaymas and Mazatlan, and he had
brought wine of the finest and cigars
such as Arizona never had known, and
Sancho was manifestly Disconnected at
the regrets or refusals. coldly courteous
on part Of Loring, blunt and brnsque on
part Of Blake. The veterans, however,
saw no harm in going and were sump-
tuously entertained by mine host in the
best room of the ranch. Blake caused u
strong guard to be posted at camp-a
most unusual thing and one instantly
noted among Sanoho's people-and, aft
er making the rounds and giving strict
instructions to the three sentries and,
further, ordering side lines, as we'll as
lariats for the horses-all this as q re-
suit of low toned conference with Lor-
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You can think OF nothing else In the quov
OF prccduttoa, Loring?"
ing-he came back, to find that officer
with his valise rolled in blanket and
used as bolster, while the owner Law
OH his back gazing dreamily up at the
stars A trooper was silently making
down the bedding of the other officers
The sand was soft and dry no campfire
was needed, no tent, no mattress All
four were hardened campaigners, and
the night was warm and devices
For moment or two Blake lfidgetel
about Good wine and cigarg were as
acceptable to him as to anybody. 1t
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TAe Stoys Comfovtbh.
Hand Painted Novelties

Double satin head rests, hand painted, 3oc and 4ec up to 2.25.
 3-inch satin pin cushions, hand painted, with ruff1es, 25c.
 o-inch satin pin cushions, hand painted, with rufae, real value 75c. Price, 4oc.
 Others at 75c up to IA. oS.
 Satin glove cases, hand painted, 75c, o8c. up to 2.25.
 Mouchoir cases in satin and silk, trimmed with dainty lace, oSc and as high as 7.5o.
 2o-inch satin covered pill lows, hand painted, has 5.inch satin ruhae. At regular sell ing the price would be 3.oo.I Price, 1.o8.
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Ladies pure silk umbrellas, with warranted ebony han dies, at $50.
 Ladies fine umbrellas, with Dresden and silver trim med handles, at 100.
 Ladies changeable silk red and black, navy and black, green and black um- brellas. A 500 value at 3.75.
 We are also showing some exceptionally high grade um- brellas, the finest work of the umbrella maker and made to sell for I5.oo. Prices from 700 to 1000.
 Mems fine English twill, fast black umbrellas, best Paragon frame, imported handles, at 100.
 Mems fine taffeta umbrellas. made on best Paragon frame, sterling silver mounted han dle, at 1,5o.
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500 dozen ladies' fine lawn hemstitched handkerchiefs, full size, 2c each.
 Ladies handkerchiefs in plain white, hemstitched, with lace corners, lace edging and hand embroidery, SC each.
 Ladies fine all linen hem stitched and embroidered handkerchiefs, at 1oc, 12Hc, I7c, 25c, 3oc, soc, LOO. 1.25, I. 50, 200, 2.25 and 2.So.
 Mems fine all linen hem stitched handkerchiefs. fine values at roc, 12Hc, 25c, soc, and 75c.
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Mems strong Union taffeta silk umbrellas, congo han eles, silver mounted, at 200.
 Mems fine Union taffeta silk umbrellas, best Paragon frame, horn, imported furze or boxwood handles, sterling silver mounted, at 2.5o.
 Mems Union taffeta silk umbrellas, with imported box wood and furze handles, artistically mounted with sterling silver, 800 and $50.
 Mems pure silk umbrellas with ivory and buck horn handles, sterling silver trim med, best interlocking frame, at 500.
 And, as in the showing of ladies umbrellas, there is a specially high grade also for men. These embrace the ultra features making for uln- brella perfection. And while they're worth from 1000 to 15.oo, are priced at 700, 7.5o and 500.
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The second page of the Journal and Courier to- day is given over to the story of Oh ristmas at our store. The story is inter- esting from both price and news standpoint. We ad- wise a careful perusal.
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Children's initial handker- chiefs, 3 in a box-in plain white-hemstitched and fancy borders, 25c a box.
 Children's fancy colored handkerchiefs, 6 in a box, at 25c a box. uie1i
 Children's hemstitched col ored border handkerchiefs with fine initial, 3 in a box, a5c the box.
 Children's all linen hem stitched han n1kerchiefs, with neat initial, I2Hc each.
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Books

Standard Sets. Cooper's Leather Stockin 2 Tales, 5 vols, cloth. Publish
 ed at I.5o. Our price, ooc. Edna Lyall's works, 6 vols,
 cloth. Published at 200.
 Our price, o8c.
 Marie Corelli's works, s vols, cloth. Pub ished at 200 Our price, ooc.
 George Eliot's works, q vols, cloth. Published at 800. Price, oSc.
 Waverly Novels, 1a vol umes, cloth bound. F ubljsh-. ed at o.5o. Our price, Ago.
 Washington. Irving's works complete in 12 vols. Imita tion morocco binding. Pub lished at 1900. Our price GOO a set. q
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 Cooper's complete works, 16 volumes, imitation morocco. Published at 1o.oo. Our | price, 8 co a set.
 Dickens works, IS volumes, | cloth bound. Published at 1 9, %. Our price, o.a5.
 Woodbine edition of the. poets, padded morocco bind ing, gilt edge, each book in a box. Published at 1.5o. Our price, ooC eaCn.
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Tooth Brush and Tooth Powder Holders.

Tooth brush and tooth powder holders, with sterling silver caps, the kind that has always sold at 25c. For this selling, the price is 15c. A limited quantity. Combs