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Fire In Chicago

Chicago, December 16.-DurIng a holiday
illumination this evening the store and
stock of Sidney Mendle, on Division street,
was destroyed by fire. The store was filed
with people at the time and serious panic
resulted, many women and children being
thrown down and trampled upon The
most severely injured were: Sidney Mendle,
proprietor, badly burned and head cut;
Frederick Rink, clerk In the store. badly
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British South African Forces Who Suffered Dis
asrous Defeat a Tugela River

satisfaction that could be regarded as Of
fensive by the British spectators.
The violently "Anglo-Phoeb press" such
as La Libre Parole and La Patre, natural
" treat the British disasters as joyful
tidings, but the respectable Journalistic
Temps, LIE Journal Des de Bats, La Liberte
and others discuss the news soberly and
moderately.
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Princeton, N. J., December 16.-Ex-Pres-
ident Grover Cleveland is confined to his
house with AN attack of rheumatism. Dr.
Wyckoff. his physician, said that the at
tack is slight, and that Mr.. Cleveland will
in all probability be in his usual health
soon.
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Lieutenant Brumby Worse

Washington, December 1s.-Lieutenant
Brumby, Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant,
who has been seriously i'll with typhoid
fever for several days, had bad day, and
physicians said tonight that he was worse
Inan he had been.
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Collision In Ohio

Cleveland, O.. December 16.-A Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus passenger train coll
lided with switch engine near the city
this evening. Engineer A. q. Shernan and
Fireman Charles Ehlers were killed Con-
ductos Harry echults was fatally hurt.
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burned while attempting to rescue his en-
ployer; Emily Knudson, saleswoman, face
burned. None of the injured will die, al
though all of them are seriously hurt. In
addition to these nearly a score of peo-
pie suffered trifiing bruises.
The fire, which originated by the crossing
of two electric wires caused total damags
of $4,000.
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Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston, De-
cember 16.-President Zelaya has appointed
Senior Fernando Sanchez minister of for
eign affairs, and Senor Lugo minister OF
public instruction.
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INFORMATION CHECKED
Only Meagre Details Are Allowed to
Pass the Censor

London, December I.-Beyond a partial
list and a summary of the totals of the
casualties in the Tugela river engagement
posted at midnight at the war office pro-
fesses not to have any news from the seat
of war, while the censorship evidently
blocks other channels of information.
Never within the range of the longest men,
ory has Great Britain met with three such
military reverses in a single week, and
hence 1t Is not surprising that notes af
anxiety should be heard amid the general
chorus of press expressions of grim phil
.osophy and resignation.
Mr.. AsquitQls speech at Newcastle last
evening fairly expresses the moderaee av-
erage opinion of the situation A more
radical view, which, however, has few
open followers was echoed by Sir Wilfred
Lawson in an address to the liberals of Car
isle. He accused the government after
bringing country to the verge of war with
America, Russia, Germany, and France of
having plunged 1t into war with South At
rica through incompetence diplomacy
The Sunday papers mostly follow the lead
of yesterday morning and after journals in
their comments of the situation.
German Press Jubilant
Berlin, December 16.-The German press
and people are julbilant over the news from
South Africa, and everywhere in the
streets people stop each other and offer
congratula tions- Among the press COM
ments tonight is that of the Kreus Zeitung.
which says:
"Thus the lighting power of the third
column is destroyed, and the campaign
against the Beers is disastrously ended.
What, however, means more Is that the
English decadepce, long ago apparent to
far-sighted statesmen. has thus become
visible before the whole world.
1.-THE English yesterday met the greatest
defeat in the campaign so productive of
disappointments and losses"
The National Zeitung says:
1.-THE second chapter of this war Is now
also ended, and is much worse than the
first. Its effect upon the Afrikanders in
Natal and Cape Colony must be very un-
fortunate for the English cause
The semi-offcal Post, after making mer-
ry of the English pretenstons in this war;
says: england had not better count upon
her colonies" citing the New South Wales
Lancers specimens of the colonial
troops
The Deutsche Tags Zeitung calls it the
beginning of the end, and concludes the ar
ticle thus 1--WE in, Germany don't wish
England to get off cheaply. The more they
are humbled in the Boer war, and the more
completely their power in South Africa is
broken, the better for u.s.
Excitement in Paris
Paris, December 6.-For the third time
this week Parisians met hoarse voiced
news vendors running along the boulevards
today shouting crushing defeat of the
English" great victory for the Boers,"
and displaying the front sheets of their
papers bearing big headlines "The English
Routed" etc.
The French people hear and read the
news with interest and discuss these
British defeats in the parks and cafes
without display of sorrow or sympathy
for the British, but at the same time with
out any outward demonstration Of gleeful
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Mules for English Forces

New Orleans, December 16.-The British
steamship Herms, Captain Levin, sailed
for Capetown this evening with cargo
of 900 mules for the British government.
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Many Notes of Anxiety Heard
in London.
THE GERMAN PRESS is JU3ILANT
News Created a Sensation in Paris
Bnt in the Parks and Cafes
There is Not Word of
Sympathy

London, December 16.-General Butler re-
ports to the war office that his losses In yes
tcrday's engagement were: Killed, 81;
wounded, 667 ;smissing, i8 "a total of 1,097.
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T and governor so Tar as reported:
NJ, H.l.. G

Total .... :. ,O2O lila 1895 1,125
Bostick will be elected for state senator,
Moody for legislature and Austin for sher-
iff.
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-23

two pounds of the fibre per day, and
even at that slow rate large amounts
of it have been exported and worked
up into textile fabrics. Recently, how
ever, Mr. CONFESS, of India, has devised
chemical process for removing the
gum from ramie, and still later Mr.. w.
H. Packer, of Cleveland, Ohio, has in
vented a machine for cleaning it. II
the Gomess process and the Packer ma
chine fulfill expectations, it is probable
that ramie will become an important
factor in the textile trade of the world.
The beauty, strength and firmness Of
ramie are such that it would go far to-
wards taking the place of cotton and
silk goods and would open up a vast
field of productiveness and industry in
the southern and warmer parts of this
country. The South would be able to
grow ramie in abundance. When 1t Is
considered that in place of the two
pounds a day which Chinaman can
clean up by hand it is claimed that Mr..
Packers machine can clean up four
hundred pounds a day, great change
in the ramie industry appears to be Inn
pending.
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LICENSED.

A young man is never so much sur
prised as when he learns that other
young men think his sister Is good
looking Globe.
Mrs. Swogly--I suppose your huspand
came home full of elation.
Mrs. Benthere-I wouldn't swear TO
the elation.-Syracuse Herald.
II am told that he is her fifth hus-
band Say, it must be awful to
man to feel that his wife looks on him
as a mere habit '-Indanapolis Jour
nal.
"And you will not eIope with me. Ma
mie?"
Certainly not Just look at pa and
mai They eloped. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Mrs. Skimpen--I think Mr.. Smith
must have liked the beefsteak pie. He
had two helpings of it. The tactless
boarder-Possiby he did it on wager.
Boston Transcript.
II suppose" she said, that you are
a close student of literature" mo"
answered the young man with black
trimmed glasses, I'm student of Hit
ington Star.
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TO BE OR NOT TO BEo

1t doth not yet appear what will be
the outcome of the Connecticut Mime
sota-Wolfer complication. Mr.. Wolfer
has been highly honored in Connecticut,
and has had his salary raised in Mime
sofa. He could probably like Connecti-
cut we'll enough if it We're not for Min
nesota, but at last accounts his heart
seemed to be true to Minnesota.
We do not know how strenuous an
effort to hold Mr.. Wolfer the directors
of the Connecticut State prison have
made, but it seems to us that if he
doesn't want to come where he can
have good place and educate his chill
dren it is not strictly necessary that he
should be much urged. There are good
men for the place in Connecticut, and
even if there isn't as good a man here
as Mr. Wolfer is there is perhaps one
who would be as successful as he would
be it he should be practically forced to
come here under unpleasant circum-
stances.
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THE FORTUNATE FIEJPINOS.

We have set the Cubans and the Fill
pinos free. The Filipinos don't seem
10 know it yet, but they will find 1t out
later, and then how glad they will be
that they can share in our blessings
and rights. Especially glad will they
be that they can have the great right
of free speech, the right which the des-
potic and cruel Spaniards have denied
them. They may be little surprised
when they discover that United States
Tree speech is as often followed by
United States persecution as Philippine
free speech was by Spanish persecution
but they will understand that there is
difference between United States per-
secution and Spanish persecution. In
this country a man who speaks his
mind about public matters-such as ex-
pansion, etc.-is not shot, nor even cast
into dungeon cell. He is only called
liar, a traitor, crank, fool, foe
to progress and a fly on the chariot
wheel of Destiny He may also be per-
sistently followed and fired out of his
pulpit or his teachers chair and harmed
in other ways by those who disagree
with him. But the great right of free
speech is always upheld. The Filipinos
will certainly like us and they will be
delighted to find that they can speak
their minds without being promptly
murdered, or having to undergo any
thing worse than the malignant spite of
those who are proud that this is a
country of free speech and equal rights.
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ToH tne HARTFORD lOurantI
President Clark of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company sailed for Europe on the 18th
of January, intending to go to Egypt
and make a long stay abroad for the
restoration of his somewhat impaired
health. During his absence Vice Pres
ident John M. Hall will be acting presi-
dent of the company, having admins
trative supervision of the whole sys-
tenn.
Judge Hall came to the vice presiden-
cy in 1898, succeeding Lucius futile AL
though then inexperienced in practical
railroad management he brought to the
place combination of peculiarly useful
qualities. In the first place he was an
able lawyer of large experience at the
bar and on the bench. He had served
in both houses of the Legislature and as
speaker of the lower house and presi-
dent of the upper one. He had wide
acquaintance with the people of south
ern New England and knew their
interests characteristics and senti-
ments. While these were special, and
possibly decisive qualifications, they
were supplementary to high reputa-
ton for general talent, acumen, integri-
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y, working power and hard common

ty, working power and hard common
sense
1t is mistake to suppose that Judge
Hairs service has been chiefly as legal
counselor of this company. While his
professional learning and skill have
been available in the consideration of
all legal questions that have arisen,
this service is only one phase of his
various employment and responsibility.
His work has been restricted to no
special department; but has embraced
all, being as general in it's scope If not
as authoritative as that of the president
himself.
From the beginning he has been init
mately and confidentially associated
with the president in formulating all
the schemes Of finance, consolidation,
construction and operation of both
steam and electric roads that have
marked the last six years. Their offices
In New Haven have been practically
one office, and while the president has
been absent most of the time for the
past two years, giving personal atten-
tion to the extensive improvements in
and around Boston including the great
terminal station, Judge Hall has been,
as 1t were, the presidents other self in
active management of affairs in the
multifarious and complicated than was
the whole system when President Clark
took charge eleven years ago.
This does not mean that Judge Halls
work has been confined to one part Of
the system. He has been called into
consultations with regard to all matters
of moment everywhere. He has been
of the inner council which DELHI
Grated upon and determined, in gener-
al and in detail, the plans of all i'm
portant engineering and construction.
He is thus well acquainted with the
great works accomplished and in pro-
gress in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut and New York. He will
as President Clark has done, spend
portion of his time at the Boston end
of the line, and railroad men at that
capital will have an opportunity of be-
coming better acquainted with him.
To the problems of traffic and of op-
GRAFTON he has given earnest attention
and is thoroughly conversant with the
details of freight and passenger traffic.
His knowledge Of the department of
operation is comprehensive as the result
of special study Of the conditions of eff
ffciency and economy in accomplishing
results He knows what results must
be obtained from every department of
the road to insure it's successful opera
ton, and upon whom the responsibility
rests for any failure to produce the de-
sired results.
In short, Judge Hall, by diiigent use
of an exceptional power of acquiring
information by study, by observation,
by assimilation of the intelligence of
others, by the extraordinary opportunl-
ties of instruction furnished through
his close and trusted relations with
President Clark, has become an all
around railroad man, in whose wise
and conservative management, during
the presidents vacation, stockholders
and the public have reason to feel per-
fectly secure,
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UBLE IN HTLLSBORO.

| Hillsboro, Indiana, is all torn up. The
has been raised by some of the pious
| people Of Hillsboro, who wanted to give
the impecunious Sunday schools of the
village a lift. They decided that more
| money could be made out of an sold
| fiddlers' - contest than In any other
way, such contests being very popular
in Indiana. At these contests prizes
are offered for a score of excellencies
in the fiddler's art. If the Hillsboro
affair had been limited to that all would
have been well, but the Hillsboro COM
mittee, many of whom are church mem
bers, added prizes for the best clog,
shuttle and wing dances. Although
dancing is an immemorial accompani-
ment Of fiddiing, the good people of
Hillsboro baked. Many Of them left
the hall when the dancers We're an
nounced, and on the following Sunday
morning the deacons and elders met and
denounced the affair. The Sunday
schools will accept no part of the pro-
ceeds, and the matter is debated at
every gathering and on every street cor
ner. Friends of the church members on
the committee stand by them, and still
livelier times are promised when the
churches begin to take threatened dis
ciplinary proceedings.
There can be no doubt about the right
and the wrong Of this matter. Sunday
schools shouldn't rely upon anything
that looks like or is like variety show.
If some profitable kissing game could
have been added to the fddling that
would have been all right and proper.
Or perhaps the girls might have stuck
their pretty little feet through a hole in
a curtain and charged for guess on
them. But dancing! Oh fie, for shame!
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cumulators may be charged, but accom-
modations, supplies, and repairs pro-
vlded for bicycles and all forms of auto
carriages. There will be a restaurant
and Doctors office on the premises, and
probably in direct or near connection
hotel or inn where travellers may put
up for the night. 1t is intended that the
first system shall be operated on the
road between Brussels and Paris along
the Meusa valley. Eventually the sys-
tenn will cover all the Well-travelled
roads of France and Belgium, and 1t is
believed that sufficient patronage will
be given the wayside stations by the
large number Of wheelmen now fire.
quenting these roads, to afford them
support until the practice of travelling
by electric or other self-propelling car
riages becomes firmly established.
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Papa" said Sammy Snaggs, ''ths
paper says that a phantom party was
given last night. What sort Of a party
is that?" "Oh, it's some sort of a
ghost of show" replied Mr..
Snaggs. - Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
Mrs. CT wonder where in the world
the alarm clock has gone! I saw 1T on
the mantel yesterday. Mr.. Cit was
there yesterday, but heard it going off
this morning. Mrs. C.-Well, I hope it
hasn't gone where you told it to 60
Yonkers Statesman.
His Way of Weighing. -"My way is
dark and lonely" hummed the grocer,
as he finished tying up a package of SUI
gar.
Perhaps your way may be lonely"
remarked the customer, but l guess
it's light enough '-Chicago News.
The Sad, Sad Truth.-"You're a very
observing man, Blanks. Why is 1T that
the multiform joke about the plumber
making such exorbitant charges and
getting enormously rich is never worked
any more?"
1T won't go. People have found out
that it is no joke."-Detroit Free Press.
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tIle lTOHt ny Hat DuW-klOtSt WIFI sfHdll
rhinestone or cut steel buckles in the
center. The same design is used on the
sleeves, and meets the bands on the
bodice. 1t may also be carried out on
the skirt, and may reach the waist, or
may be only a half dozen bands, ac-
cording to the taste of the wearer. 1t
should be borne in mind that this is
meant only for a slender woman, as a
stout one would look like a bag of meal
with so many strings tied in the mid
die
Not quite so new in it's ribbon garni-
ture was the bodice pictured herewith,
but the manner in which the ribbon
trimming was combined with the other
enrichment was so new and SO strik-
ingly pretty as to make the garment
rank as novelty The material was
green silk poplin, but In the deep yoke
heavy cream guipure. White satin was
the color of ribbon, which also appear
ed on the sleeves and in the collar. A.
current fancy in such lace as this, es-
pecially when cut out and applied to
cloth, has it glinting with gilt thread.
The richness of it's appearance is there
by increased, and so is the cost, worse
luck!
Some strikingly handsome embroidery
designs appear in matched effects, in
the all-over for guimpes, in insertions,
which will be largely used between
cores on skirts, and in the lengthwise
effects on waists and edgings to match
the above in several widths. The de-
signs are largely in floral effects; one
which would be especially effective is
of roses and leaves in matched sets,
The work must be on very light ba-
tiste and be heavy enough to show very
little of the ground. Then the insertion
will have the appearance Of a wreath Of
roses. FLORETTE.
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RI MZE.

Perhaps the South will find some re-
lief from the production of cotton
in the production of ramie. Ramie is
a valuable textile fibre, and cloth made
from it is stronger than linen and near
ly as lustrous as silk. 1t has been used
for ages in China, and the old Romans
wore garments made of it. Hitherto it
has not been easy to work. The gum in
the plant has interfered with the sepa-
ration of the fibres, and the fibres have
resisted any but manual cleaning. In
China one man cleans by hand about
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AnyERrIsING RATES.

ADV EKTIbING KATES. ~
Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small
Advertisements. One Cent Word each In
aertio-l. Five Cents Word for full week
sSeven times)
Display advertisements. per Inch, one In.
sertion, $1.20; each subsequent Insertion: 20
cents one week. $500; one L-onth. $40;
one year. $40.
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. Is
cents per line. Notices Of Births Ma
Fiages, Deaths and Funerals. 30 cents each.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (all matter to be
unobJectlonableV: and their contracts do not
Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. ETC.
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"A company is being formed in Brus-
sells. under the name of the Interna-
tional Electric Post System, to erect
electrical central stations for charging
good driving-roads, where automobile
vehicles, particularly of tourists, would
be likely to travel. The plan provides
for establishments where not only ac-
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HIGH CLASS HOSIERY.

Ladies' Hermsdorf Black Cotton
Hose, double sole, high spliced heel,
regular 25c value, for 100 pr.
Ladies' Fan Isle Hose, c1npris-
ing stripes, plaids, booS patterns all
fancy clockings, regular 75c pair,
for SOC pr.
All pure SILK Hose in even ng shr es
pink, blue, Nile yellow, ca airy,
bronze and white, sold re ularly at
$1.25 pair, for CSC pr.
Chldren's Ribbed Fast Black Cot
ton Hose, heavy we ght, all sizes s
toe, for IL f-2c pr.
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SEAISKIN
JACKETS

in fashion of the year 1899.
The sale of these garments
during the month of Deem
bsr having exceeded any pre-
vious record for that month,
Messrs. Brooks & Company
beg to announce that in pre-
paration for January's bust
ness they have obtained a
great number of London
Dyed Alaska Sealskins of
surprising beauty which they
are prepared to make into
Jackets at greatly reduced
prices.
sassS
The skins themselves bear our un-
qualified recommendatfon-th rem
dering the purchaser resp onsible
warranty and intrinsic worth.
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FASHION NOTES.
A Trimming That suits SienderT

A Trim ming That suits Slenderness.
Bow knots are no longer reserved for
hat trimmings and for headdresses, but
are used as ornamentation for gowns
and appear almost anywhere on shirt
or bodice. Like other devices of trim
ming, they may be made helpful in dis
guising defects, as we'll as be generally
ornamental, if only they are applied
adroitly. An especially pretty trim
ming for slender woman's bodice con-
sists of six rows of inch-wide velvet
ribbon extending around the blouse
waist. and fastening on the left side of
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According to General Wood, all the
railroad ties, as we'll as all the docks
and public works in Cuba, are of ma
hogany. This isn't extravagant, be-
cause mahogany is abundant there.