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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18
THE WAY THEY FRozE HIM OUT.


II was one of the first five owners APP
preached when they started to establish
the cottonseed OIL trust sad a southern
oil mill man, and as | didn't ike the
idea ! sent the promoter to the right
about. He came back when all but SIX
mills had roined, ard | Still refused to go
in. BY and by all the mills but mine were
in, and he gave me a third call. l was
running so hands and making money, and
decided to stay out. In those days you
could buy seed for half dollar wagon
load. l got hundreds of bushels for mere
ly carting it away. About two weeks
later the stranger appeared and began to
buy seed. His price set everybody to
talking, and l had to match it to keep up
supply. Every time l came to his fig
ures he would RAISE and inside of 80 DAYS
he had run up the price to 80 cents a
bushel was $4,000 out of pocket before
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

You are a fighter, Mr.. Blank, and
admire you for it,
Yes
I'm expecting a friend on here who
VIII make you an offer for your mill"
But l don't want to SELL"
Not this week, of cource, and he
doesn't want to run it as. an~o:l mn. He
wants to turn It into coffin factory
But l WON'T
oh, but you see" he interrupted. ..cot-
tonseed is up to so cents a bushel to-day,
ard l have options on every pound in
Alabama! Yes. it will make a good coffin
factory
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

Il debated over the point about a min
ute" concluded the oil man, "and then
got IN out of the wet Next day cotton
seed was down to cents bLshel and
the market was weak at that. / used TO
pride myself on my backbone. but the
way that s5Go00,oG0 trust reached out its
claw AID raked me in has made me as
humble as cat ever since"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

l woke up to the fact that I was being
trodden into the earth in great shape.
Then, one morning. met the trust agent
at the depot, and he sad:
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
A Grateful Patient.

A celebrated German physician was
once called upon to treat an aristocratio
lady, the sole cause of whose complaint
was high living and lack of exercise.
But it would never do to tell her so,
and his medical advice ran thus: "Arise
at five o'clock, take walk in the park
for one hour, then drink cup of tea,
then walk another hour and take cup
of chocolate. Take breakfast at eight"
Her condition improved visibly until
one morning the carriage of the baron
ess was seen to approach the physicians
residence at lightning speed. The pa
tient dashed up to the doctors house,
and, on his appearing on the scene,
she gasped out: ooh, doctor, I took the
chocolate irst!" ''Then drive home as
fast as you can" CALCULATED the astute
disciple Of Aesculapius, rapidly writ
ing prescription, land take this
emetic. The tea must be underneath"
The grateful patent complied. She 10
still improving.-Troy Times.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
WOE IN IOWA.

Furious Wtndstorm Destroys Prop.
erty and Causes Loss of Life.
Ute, Ia, April 2s.-This section of
.Monona county and the whole of the
Soldier river valley was swept by ter
rife tornado about midnight Wednes-
day, and the list of killed and injured is
extensive, while the property damage is
immense.
The killed are Hanson severson,
Harry Fern, Mrs. George FERN. un-
known man, believed to be tramp
named Shields, John Amerston. A
great many were injured, all being dan
.gerously hurt.
In Crawford county, on the county
line four miles from Ute, the residence
of Monday Peters was demolished by
the storm. The grain bin and barn
were also destroyed. For a mile on
either side of the Peters residence the
ground is strewn with pieces of houses,
trees, dead cattle and hundreds of ar
ticles Of household furniture.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
CRIME OF A FIEND
A widow and Her Four childrea Mur.
dered In Missouri and Their
Bodies Partially Burne~

st. Louis, April PA specia. to the
Post-Dispatch from Dexter, Mo. says:
Mrs. Jane Tettaton, widow, aud her
four children, two boys and tive girls,
ranging in age from 6 to IL years. were
murdered in cold blood in their home
II miles south of Maiden at night and
their bodies partially consumed il. the
fire that destroyed the residence j..
H. Tettaton, a stepson of Mrs. Testta.
ton. who had hitherto borne good
reputation, has been arrested on sus-
picion of having committed the crime,
as all the circumstances seem to point
to his guilt. The feeling against Tct-
taton is intense, and there are threats
Of lynching.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
PUH0Bur pARACRIp1a

Miss Winger-'.wha = H. Slsass1
scandal?" Miss Prodder-ssI AaSoast
heard any" Aiss Winger 'Bab WAa1
have you told ?"-Town Topics.
"A man has to die to make anytAine
out Of life insurance" said the citasen,
''Oh. no." replied the insurance ageatp
blandly. II never died yet."-YonhsEs
Statesman.
Paul Plodder-''I wonder Il I AaWo
time to catch the train?" PolieenoD
Rounds-"Ye have tonne enough, but
yes haven't the speed, Ohm thinking"
Boston Transcript.
"Dearest," asked the conAdiug Girl,
after her usual manner, Fam really
your first and only lover" mo, dar-
hng," said the young druggist; "but
you are something just - good. I'm.
dianspolis Journal.
Ingenious, but Precise.-.Are you
the defendant in this case?" asked the
Judge. sharply. mo, subj" answered
the mild-eyed prisoner. II has law
yer hired ter do de defendin'. Use de
man dat done stole de Articles. Wash.
ington Star.
Father my boy, I shall expect you
- succeed me in the management Of
ny business. Would you like tor The
Son Why. yes, dad. But il you don't
Mid would like to wait until am
~. want 70 be fully equipped."-
Town Topics.
Talking Of patriotism" said Asbury
Peppers, '.the south furnishes the only
genuine article" 'What?" shouted
the boarder from Connecticut. "Fact
Think Of the clay eaters down in Geor.
gia. Just think Of how they love their
native soil."-CincinnaN Enquirer.
How 1t Struck Papa Mamma went
10 the auction and bought one Of those
Decorated Chinese praying-machines.
She thought Il would please papa"
did h?" AT A1st. He was just look.
ing into it when he asked the price.
When mamma told him he swore like
. trooper" "What did your mother
say?" "She said she was glad it was
praying machine and not phone.
graph! "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
shirt.waast Backs.

Some Of the new and very smart shirt
waists have no yokes in the back at all,
but merely show tucks, which run
lengthwise all the way to the neck. The
yoke in the back has had an almost M
precedented vogue in time when fash
ions change every hour, and SO, doubt
less, this departure will be hailed with
much satisfaction by those who love
variety. The double-pointed yoke will
have its following, however, and, in
deed, more changes will be rung on this
feature during the season than were
ever dreamt of before. To the very
long-waisted woman the yoke was .
blessing that improved her figure. and
it will probably be her short-waisted
sister, therefore, who will adopt the
yokeless style.-san Francisco Chron.
lcle.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Il takes crocodile 50 seconds to turn
f,nMne3

It takes . crocodile 50 seconds to turn
completely round.
Collection Of mail by trolley cars has
been INTRODUCED in Hartford, Conn.
Blood flows through bones of very
young children almost - freely az
through the veins.
st. Petersburg has the largest bronze
statue in existence that Of Peter the
Great, which weighs 1000 tons.
A good Arabian horse will canter in
the desert for "a hours in summer and
4S hours in winter without drinking.
The assessed valuation Of Boston is
81, O36, 600, 57s, and the value Of the prop
erty exempt from taxation is $172,926,-
67s.
The depth Of water affects the speed
Of steamers very considerably, the ves-
sells moving more slowly in shallow
than in deep water.
Cider has been discovered by q French
investigator to be fatal to the typhoid
fever bacillus. It is the malic acid, he
believes, that the bacillus cannot digest.
A telephone girl in Owensboro, KY,
was recently cowhided by an enraged
patron, who charged her with having
disclosed an important conversation she
had overheard over the wire.
A rare experience is that Of Miss
Mary Spooner, of Acushnet, Mass. She
has lived in three different towns with
out changing her residence. A change
of the boundary lines removed her
dwelling from New Bedford to Fair
haven, and then to Acushnet. Her age
10 105 years.
A malady puzzling to the doctors
Frustrated William Dickerson, of Ches-
ter, Pa. After three days suffering he
lay helpless on lounge, when in q
coughing fit he elected a lizard from
his mouth. 1t is thought that while
drinking from spring he took the rep
tile into his stomach.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
INADEQUAcY OF WORDS.
Az Timea Language Fails to Fully
Impart the state Of Mans
Feelings.

In some things the power of man
seems woefully deficient, and one of
these is his language, which is as yet
inadequate to do justice to the opera
tons of nature. Stirring as it may be,
the ordinary account of a mighty event
is generally far beneath what it might
be. The description of wreck may
cause us to shudder slightly, but there
is no approach to the feeling that would
arise in US could we but behold the oc-
currence itself, and no combination of
words and sentences can bring the
whole truth home to us. We look from
the portfolios of our stateroom and see
the water dashing itself against the
side of the ship. Then the vessel rises
out of the wave, and we can look out
ON mountainous tumbling masses that
raise their heads in ominous portent.
Where the sky should be the clouds are
scudding by as if driven by some terrific
fear. We hear the shrill piping of the
boatswain's whistle and the running of
the feet of men overhead. How the
hours drag and drag by until there
seems to be no end coming to the mer-
ciless pounding of the sea. However
cheerful we may make ourselves ap-
pear. fear is in our hearts, fear of that
nerve-consuming sort that takes away
all energy and leaves us as if without
support. Better would it be to have
the crashing of timbers and the break
ing of plates than this long waiting in
uncertainty. Every day seems like a
year, and yet the storm only grows
worse and whistles and Kisses fright
fully. And if the worst does come, the
hardest thing is to realize that we, we
who have all our lives been in and near
and around danger, and who yet have
never seen it, are at last within it's
clutches. Literature alone as it is can
never make us realize these things per-
fectly. Nor can art, which may give us
nevertheless the benefit of magnificent
representations. And here is the power
of the drama that unites both liter
allure and art and combines them with
action. If it is possible to move us, we
shall be moved, and the truth will be
brought home more fully and more
sharply than in the other ways.-De-
troit Free Press.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
An Interesting Experiment.

The customs authorities are watch
ing an interesting experiment now be-
ing made in the United States bonded
stores to restore the commercial value
of 146 cases of champagne which was
frozen during the blizzard in railroad
cars while being transported in bond
from New York to Philadelphia. The
wine came on the French steamship La
Bretagne from Havre to New York, and
was consigned to a well-known club in
this city. AS rule, experts state that
frozen champagne should be consumed
at once or it is valueless. AS this could
not be done in this case, the wine was
stored in the warm cellars of the bond
ed stores, which are below the surface
of the earth, and where there is always
a uniform temperature. It was noticed
that there was deposit of cream of
tartar in the bottles, which, the gov
ernment officials think, if gradually dis
solved in the warm temperature of the
bonded stores, will restore the wine to
it's former value.-Philadelph Record.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Fer the Week Eaaing April -.
The New York legislature has ad-
journed sine die.
The town of Cheek. I. T., was entirely
destroyed by fire.
C. A. Shinkle's bank at Ellsworth, ILL.,,
was robbed by burglars Of 81 100.
Speaker Reed sailed from New York
for Europe on the steamer New York.
Confederate Decoration day was OBJ
served generally throughout the south.
Heavy and almost continuous fight
ing in Samoa is reported in the vicinity
Of Apia.
The Lakerort savings bank at Lake
port, n. H., closed it's doors with liza
.bilities Of s230,o00.
The business portion of st. Francis,
Kan, county seat of Cheyenne county.
was destroyed by fire.
The transport Comal arrived in New
York from Havana with Ga passengers
and $50 discharged soldiers.
Four families were annihilated by q
cyclone at Milan, Mo-, and great dam.
age was inflicted on property.
Millionaire Robert Goelet, head of the
famous New York family, died at
Naples, Italy, Of heart failure.
The international Sunday school con-
vention at Atlanta, Ga, refused negroes
representation on committees.
Fire destroyed ]. j. Welden's grocery
and the Novelty candy works in Pitts
burgh, Pa. Total loss, 100000.
Three hundred thousand square feet
of space has been allotted to American
exhibits at the Paris exposition.
There is big oil strike in the fields
at Cambridge, O., and spectators are
rushing in from all over the country.
Mitchell Daniel, q negro, was lynched
by mob near Leesburg, Ca, for at
tempted assault upon white woman.
Thomas Robinson (colored) was
hanged in Hillsboro, Tex, for having
assaulted Mary Adams, a white woman.
Rev. w. j. Reese had just concluded q
marriage ceremony near Alton, o. T.,
when lightning struck his house and he
was killed.
Rear Admiral Howell has been re.
lieved as senior member of the naval re-
firing board and will be succeeded by
Admiral Schlcy.
Work on the harbor at San Pedro,
Cal, commenced when President Nc
Kinley, in his library at the white
house, pressed an electric button.
Rev. Alexander H. Clapp, D. u, 81
years connected with the American
Home Missionary society as secretary
treasurer, died in New York, aged 81
years.
The United States transport Zea-
landia, having on board several COM
panies of the Ninth infantry and q
large quantity of supplies, arrived at
Manila.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
True Thrift.

Hicks appreciated the shrewd as well
a. the humorous sayings of the Cornish
countryfolk. There dwelt not far from
his abode dairywoman and her hus-
band who had begnn life in a very small
way with one cow, and who, by industry
and thrift, had acquired quite NUM-
Der. Elbow is it," said Hicks to her
one day, "that you have got on SO well,
Mrs. P-?" "Well, you see, Mr..
Hicks" she replied. "most people be
allus thinking of what they do want;
but and my old man, we be allus think
ing of what we can do without. Corn
hill Magazine.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
A Big Turtle Story.

An excellent turtle story comes from
Pembina county. Robt. Foster brought
home huge turtle last fall and placed
it in barrel half filled with Stops and
water. The extreme cold of the winter.
weather froze the contents of the bar
rel solid, and for five months the turtle
was encased in solid ice. This spring
the barrel was placed on it's side and
when the contents had thawed out the
turtle walked sedately out of the bar
rel and made it's way to the river, none
tile worse fof It's experience.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
CUBAN FRREB0OTERs
TAs Hardy Rssaers Have Laia u
Waste Many Hones AID
Parma

They are mostly mongrels, weather
hardened and soul-hardened savages,
who have reverted to the type Of their
primitive ancestors, and reacquired the
faculty of making q feast day COM
pensate the hardships Of six fast days;
digesting the sun-dried bull beef Of
their bivouacs as readily as the made
dishes Of q ransacked hotel, and sleep
ing in quagmires on pillow of willow
hurdles az soundly as in a feather bed.
Their fox-trail instinct will easily pre-
vail against the methods of civilized
warfare; and their raids have already
depopulated numerous districts. some
Of which once boosted prosperous
farms, but are now Stunned as the
haunts Of the predatory Kabyles are
Stunned by the Algerian settlers.
In the Sierra Mesilla, northeast Of
Bayamo, the industrial population has
almost entirely disappeared under the
terror of the freebooters, whose camp.
fires can be seen smoking in the sum
mit-glens, and whose constant raids at
last ceased to leave the farmers liv-
ing share in their agricultural prod.
ucts. The Cerro de Cobre, some 80 miles
forther south, is approached only by
cattle hunters with military escort;
travellers who have attempted the passes
of the old overland road have rarely re-
turned to tell the results of the all but
inevitable encounter with the scouts Of
the outlaws. The valley formed by
the west fork of the Rio Verde, in the
Province Of Puerto Principe, was long
dreaded as haunt of runaway slaves,
and these refugees have now been
joined by desperadoesnum enough
to become savagely aggressive. Their
neighbors, too, have abandoned hum
dreds of farms that can no longer be
hoped to repay the toll of tillage. In
stress of circumstances the outlaws exc
out subsistence by hunting and fish.
ing, but withal continue to extend the
range of their marauding expeditions;
and last winter one Of their restless
leaders was caught and hanged by q
posse Of exasperated rancheros, on the
charge Of having decorated his head
quarters den with arabesques of human
heads, mailed up spread-eagle fashion,
or like collection of dried fern-leaves."
The total value Of the property de-
stroyed by these moss troopers has
been computed to exceed half q bill
lion dollars, and list of their MUIR
ders would resemble the bulletin of
Dahomey war chief.-Dr. F. L. Oswald,
in Forum.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
The oueen,. mn.

Weigh four eggs. Take their weight
both in -four and in sugar, and three
quarters of It in butter. Cream the
butter, add the -four with one scant
teaspoonful of baking powder and
pinch of salt sifted into 1t, beat the
eggs well, and add them and the sugar
and a few drops Of lemon extract. Drop
on buttered pan, put . few currants
and bits of citron and sprinkle Of
cinnamon on each, and bake from IS to
20 minutes in brisk oven.-Puritan.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
Planlng MIL. Combine.

Toledo, O., April 2s.-Eight of tho
planning mills of the city have formed q
combine to control prices. These in-
cluded all the leading mills except one,
MacClaren & Sprague, which concern
has held out, desiring to be paid in cash
for their plant. The combine repre-
sents nearly 100000.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
Cursed the sultan.

London, April 26.-Curses for the sui
tan of Turkey and censures for the em-
peror of Germany, the prince of Wales
and the Established English church
were features of the address of Rev. DIR.
Joseph Parker at the City temple, where
a meeting was held to commemorate
the three hundredth anniversary Of
the birth of Oliver Cromwell.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
Brand book.

The Stockgrowers' association which
met last week at Dickinson, made ar.
rangements for the publication of are
vised brand book, fixing a charge of SIS
on all members of the association for
membership, the insertion of the brand
and copy of the brand book. The
executive committee of the association
has made arrangements with the Nor
tana association for the inspection of
ervations, to insure the pryment of
owners for stray cattle wherever
found
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
NeNs in Rrief,

The Devils Lake Chautauqua asso-
citation is putting forth every effort this
season to secure nothing but the very
best talent, and among other noted
speakers who will deliver lectures at
this session, is Ignatious Donnelly, Of
Minnesota, for July 4th, the contract
having been closed last week.
Rolette county commissioners decid-
ed not to distrain this year on account
of failure to pay personal taxes.
A North Dakota admirer of Governor
Roosevelt living at Grafton, suggests
the presentation of q medal to the
rough rider by his admirers living in
North Dakota, where the governor Of
the Empire State has had cattle
ranch for many years. He opens sub
scription list with IS, and proposes q
gold medal inscribed, HE did his duty
as he saw it."
Some one has pitchforked two horses
belonging to John Toftley, in Sargent
county, so they are thought to be
ruined and may have to be killed.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-05-04
LIVES lost ACYaON[
Kirksville and Newtown, Missouri,
the Principal Victims Of the
Destructive Storm.
KILLED AND INJURED RON INTO SCORES.
Four Hundred Buildings Levelea IN
rounding Country Also Devastated
-vlndstorm in Iowa Destroys
Property aad Causes Loss OF Life.

st. Louis, April 2S.--A special to the
Globe-D Democrat from kirksviile. No.,
says: A gathering storm that had been
threatening all afternoon broke upon
Kirksville at 6:2O o'clock Thursday
night in all the fury of cyclone. A
path quarter Of a mile wide and as
clean - the prairie was swept through
the eastern portion of the city, and 400
buildings, homes and mercantile, were
levcled to the ground in scattered ruins.
In the heavy rain that followed the peo-
pie who had escaped turned out to res
cue the injured. For two hours not
much was accomplished, as all was con-
fusion, but by eight o'clock 25 dead
bodies had been taken from the ruins.
Lives Lost ln the Country.
Reports coming in from the country
districts state that many farmers have
suffered severely and that several lives
have been lost outside of Kirksville.
The home of Henry Lowe, three miles
north of town, was demolished and Mr..
Lowe and three children were crushed
to death. Other members of the family
escaped. Other fatalities are reported
from the country, but no names are
given.
fifteen Dead at Newtown.
Kansas City, Mo-, April ga special
to the Journal from Chillicothe, Mo-,
says: A tornado, probably the same
one that swept over Kirksville. struck
.Newtown, q small town in Sullivan
county. Thursday night and caused ter
rible destruction. It is reported that Is
people were killed in the city and that
many others were killed in the country
near there. A great number of build
.ings were blown down. A heavy rain
followed the tornado, adding greatly
ITO the damage.