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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
Bennington Grounded.

WASHINGTON, May S.-The following
dispatch has been received at the navy
department from Minister DENLY: The
Bennington grounded, shoal not on
chart on north side of Panay, Philip
pine islands: came off 90 hours later.
Has been examined by divers. Dam
age is not serious, but is necessary to
dock vessel. I have sent to Hong Kong.
No blame attached to anyone.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
ARE READY TO ASSIST.
Elevator Men at Buffalo Declare a WILL
ingness to Strike.

1ngnesS to Strike.
BUFFALO. May S.-The monthly men
at the elevators held big meeting dur
ing the afternoon. Resolutions were
adopted expressing sympathy with the
cause of the grain shovelers and it was
unanimously voted that whenever there
are signs of growing strength on the
part of Contractor Connors strike will
be declared.
Contractor Connors is beginning to
import men from other cities to take
the place of the striking grain shovel
ers. The situation on the water front
remains unchanged. Only seven ele-
vators are working. It is estimated
that when the big Duluth fleet is in it
will take several weeks for full force
of shovelers to clear the harbor and
catch up with the work.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12

WASHINGTON, May 8. -Reports re-
ceived by Acting Secretary Meiklejohn
y11or average weekly custom collec-
tions in Cuba to be $2S4,272. The col
lections at the port of Havana for the
week ending April 80, 1899, of 1914, 339
exceeds any previous week by $20,253
and is only $40, 1853 less than the weekly
average for the whole island for the
five weeks named.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
Rough Riders to Meet in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May S.-Postmaster Charles
U. Gordon, who is chairman of the gen.
eral committee of the Chicago Autumn
Festival, announces that Colonel Roose-
felt's regiment of Rough Riders will
have their reunion in Chicago in Oc-
to- er.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
4 BIG wheat FARM OF 987
ACRES FOR SALE CHEAP.

$50 acres under cultivation; II acres of grove ;
good frame house, with stone cellar, large frame
barn, four frame granaries, machine sheds,
good repair dug we'll of first-class water that
Will supply 200 to 800 head of stock. One of the
best farms in the great wheat belt of the world.
Price only 900 on terms to suit. E j. Lam
DER & CO., Grand Forks, N. D. Established
QS3
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
Apr % May 5 IL

Pau & Pau,
Attorneys foriPetitioner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
FUNERAL RUM.
Whisky Was Plentiful at the
Dingley Funeral.
Congress Committee Forgot His
Temperance Views.
BEER AND WINE BILLS
To Stake the Washington Law
makers Thirst
Helped to Make Up a Total of
$4,000 Expense.
BEER AND VINE BILLS

Washington, March 13.-Large funeral
bills for the burial of a congressman in
state are the rule, and the account pre-
scented to the clerk of the house for the
funeral of Representative Dingley is no
exception. The total cost will be 81, 800.
most of which is in a charge of So, $40 for
the special train of four cars from Wash
ington to Lewiston. Me.
The subsistence of congress party for
a considerable distance is no small item,
as the best of everything to eat and drink
funerals or junkets; but out of respect to
the temperance principles of the dead
Maine statesman spir1tuous liquors We're
forbidden on the Dingley train by order
of Mr.. Boutelle.
This order did not prevent the absorp--
ton of whisky, beer and wine from a pri-
waite stock by such of the congress mourn
ers as could not go without their accus-
without danger to their nerves, but all re-
straint was thrown off at Portsmouth, N.
H., where the state line was crossed and
Names prohibition laws came into oper-
alton.
To avert the danger of an enforced alb
stinence at the funeral a gOodly order of
liquor was insisted upon by some of the
thirsty congress committee, and the Off
GERS of the house had to lay in a supply
sufficient to last for the round Maine trip.
Mr.. Dingley'S friends, who remember his
life example and work at the meeting OF the
Congress Tenn erance Society, are much
shocked that the proprieties should have
been forgotten so far as to give scandal
on an occasion of national grief.
The whisky bills will be covered under
charge for food supplies, extra carriages
or something of that sort. 1t seems that
no amount of criticism will stop the GUS
tom of drinking when congressman travel
at their own or the public's expense. All
congress funerals have been alike in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
French Presidents Salary.

The president of the French Republic
receives a salary of $125,000, and allow
ance of one kind OF another to the ex-
tent of as much more. That is to say,
the expenses of the presidential estab-
Hshment cost the nation the tidy sum
of $3.50, 900 a year, which does not COM
prise the military pay or allowances Of
the army officers attached to the execu-
tive household, nor yet the keeping IN
repair of the Elysee or of any other OF
the palaces used by the president For
the ElySee is merely the town residence
of the chief ma gistrate, and for sum-
mer and autumn use he has at his dis
posal the former royal palaces of Fon-
tainebleau and of Rambouillet, which
are furnished and maintained in habit
able order at the expense of the state,
quite outside the executive allowances.
The nation likewise maintains for the
use of the president a number of valu-
able preserves at Marty and elsewhere,
with a large corps of foresters and
gamekeepers, where the chief magis-
trate is accustomed to entertain MS
friends. President Loubet, as was
Faure, is never so happy as when pot
tering about with gun, and may be ex-
pected to make full use of his new
fledged prerogatives in connection with
the game preserves, differing therein
from poor President Carnot, who never
got over the fact that at one of his first
shooting parties after becoming presi-
dent he wounded Grevy'S controller,
General Brugere, in the lower part OF
the back, the general in consequence
thereof being kept on as chief of the
household in lieu of receiving his dis
fnissal which had already been detern-
ined upon at that time.-New York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13

If you have had La Grippe, you can
realize something of the surrounding en-
dured by it's thousands Of victims every
year. You know, perhaps, how it tears
and strains at your spinal column; how
it twists your neck and fairly seems to
split your head wide open. You know
how it siezes you with a vise-lilze grasp,
whirls you up into the black cloud of a
nervous cyclone-then suddenly let's you
go and you fall back bruised and
wounded when the storm is over. Per-
haps you also know that DR.. Miles
Nervine will kill La Grippe-that it is
a wonderful healer and will close up
the lacerated wounds and revive the
vanQuished spirits. Thousands of I'M
fortunate victims have found in that
great nerve food and tonic just the med
icine needed to repair the injuries in
fficted by the modern scourge, La
Grippe. If you don't ned it tell your
friends about it. It will help them
Mr.. J. M. Allison, 81 Tacoma ave,
Indianapolis, Ind, can not say too
much in praise of DR.. Miles Restorative
Nervine. He writes: "In January, 1892,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13

Noyes Norman & Co. VS.. Blanchard
Shelley & Rogers. Error from Decatur
county; affirmed.
Richardson, Roberts, ByrneS Dry
Goods Co. VS.. Blanchard Shelley & Rog-
ers. Error from Decatur county; af-
firmed.
J. NJ. Allen, county treasurer, ETC., VS..
Kansas Town & Land Co. Error from
court of appeals; affirmed.
Joint district No. 20 ct al VS.. School
district No. IL ct al. Error from Jeffer-
son county, certified to court of appeals.
Nicholas Casner VS.. Jos. Gahlman.
Error from court Of appeals; affirmed.
Martin Bender ct al. VS.. Caroline F.
Smith ct al. Error from Brown county
dismissed.
Gertie Merritt VS.. w. F. Furman.
Error from Shawnee county; affirmed.
J. r. Miller VS.. Nordyke & Marmon
Co. Error from court of appeals; dis
missed.
Jane Atkins ct al VS.. Nordyke Mar
mon Co. Error from court of appeals;
dismissed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
UNPAVED STREETS
Result In Serious Delay to the Fire
Department.

The firemen experienced considerable
difficulty Friday in reaching fires on
account of the condition of the unpaved
streets.
The first alarm at 8 o'clock called the
hose wagon and chemical engine from
headquarters and the hook and ladder
truck from No. 8 to 1886 Polk street.
The wagons were forced to leave the
pavement at Sixth and Polk and when
the horses had pulled the heavy engines
three blocks through the mud they
were well nigh exhausted. The heavy
wagons sunk from six to eight inches in
the mud.
When the alarm at 10 o'clock calling
the same two departments to Second
and Klein streets was responded to
the hose wagon was left and four horses
put on the chemical engine at Fourth
and the railroad tracks and it was a
load for the four horses to pull the
single engine through the mud. The
three horses on the hook and ladder
truck are able to pull their load through
almost any sort of roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
We Publish the Story of Another
Wonderful Cure of Kidney
Backache For the Benefit of
Topeka People.

Morrow's Kid-ne-oids received the
highest possible praise from an Elk
hart. Indiana, business man. If Nor
rows Kid-ne-OidS were not g. worthy
remedy, or the remedy we claim them
to be, it would be impossible to get
people living in Elkhart to praise them.
Geo. Towman, the barber at Main and
Franklin streets has much to say for
them. and stronger language could not
be used Here is what he says word
for word: Il doubt very much If there
are many people living who have suf-
fered worse with kidney complaint and
lived, than l have. My conditions had
gradually been growing worse for years,
Notwithstanding the fact that have
used much patent medicine as well as
being treated by physicians which has
cost me lots of money. Only two months
ago I paid large doctor bill for which
/ had received not one particle of bene-
fit My condition has been so bad at
times have had to quit work for q
week or more. The pain through the
small OF my back was so intense that
q seemed to me as if 1 were dying by
inches. This condition made me so
nervous that by spells 1 was unable to
hold a razor steady. The kidney secre-
tons were highly discolored and accom-
panied by a scalding pain in its pas
sage. This showed an exeessiveness Of
uric acid No one could blame me for
being completely discouraged. had
begun to believe that my condition was
a hopeless one, until hope took the place
of despair through reading the many
oids. I could no more than fail (Which
/ had been doing right along although
taking treatment from physicians and
paving doctor btlls) If gave the Kid
ne-oids a trial I bought two boxes to
start with, it seems almost incredible
when 1 say that l began to feel better
in "a hours but such was the case. In
side of a week my condition was more
improved that it had been for years
from other treatment. Today, my back
ache has entirely disappeared, my nerves
have grown steady and strong and
am perfectly free from urinary dis
turbances Notwithstanding the fact that
I work hard all day. I am SO elated
over my present healthful condition
that I suppose have told and recon-
menGed Kid-ne-oids to over thrifty OF
my customers. / make this statement
for publication with the hope that those
who read ii will not delay one moment
but stop their suffering at once, by US
ing Kid-ne-oids. for I positively be-
Heve them to be the only cure for this
disease to be had"
The people of Topeka and surround
Ing country should be convinced at once
through this statement and lose no time
from being cured Kid-ne-oids are yell
low Tablets mot pills. and are for sale
by ell druggists and at Swift 81 Holli-
days drug store at SO cents box.
Jehn MORROW a. Co.s Chemists Spring.
eelds 0hi0A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME.

In America a class of men take to bust
ness and do great things both for COM
meree and manufactures who in Europe
would carefully avoid it,, not from any
feeling of caste-that has been given up
but because it was altogether too dull and
stereotyped a life. A boom, in fact, acts
on them like a war on our own country
iadsi II summons them into the ranks by
ITS promise to provide them something ex-
citing and adequate to do. There Is no
reason that We know of why business
should not have its adventures and cap
tains. and even heroes well as war and
p0utlcs, ana they are not produced, or, a t
all events, do not reveal themselves, in the
piping times OF commercial peace. The
Americans are supposed, as we also are
supposed, to care overnuch for money,
but in reality their care is for the excite
ment and glory of making it. The true
American of New York, or Chicago or
St Louis, who has made a million dollars
in a straight deal' feels the 'striumph
and the vanity, the rapture and the strife
and hears in newspaper comments the
earthquake voice of victory He has
his temptations like the soldier, but he
fights difficult campaign. and if he will
but fight fair-as we freely admit he too
often does motive cannot consent to put
him altogether outside the bounds of hui
man sympathy.-The Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
OONIGH I'LL OOEOa
Cuban Assembly AbOIishes the
Office of
General in Chief and Declares
1t Vacant.
FOR DISOBEDIENCE
And Failure i'm His Military
Duties,
Which Means the Members Get
None of the 50, 100000.
DISOBEDlENCE

Havana, March 13.-The Cuban mill
tary assembly, in public session, has
impeached Gen. Maxine Gomez and re-
moved him from his command as gen.
eral-in-chief of the Cuban army, the
first ballot taken resulting in twenty
six votes being cast in support of the
motion to impeach and remove Gen.
Gomez against four in opposition.
Gen. Gomez's only supporters were
Gen. Cespedes and Gen. Nunez. The
original motion, which was introduced
by Senior Manuel Sanguilly. provided
for the abolition of the grade of gener-
al-in-chief. but an amendment was Of
fered to this by Senior Aguerro which
read:
ITO abolish the grade of generaI-in-
chief and to remove Cen Gomez for
his failure in his military duties and
disobedience to the assembly"
Senior Aguerro declared that Gomez
was insubordinate and should be pun
ished, and Senior Sanguilly insinuated
that the general was a traitor to Cuba.
Much passion was evident in the
speeches, in some of which Gomez was
declared to have been delinquent in his
duties and disobedient because he had
accepted the proposition of Robert P.
Porter, President McKinley's special
emissary, without consulting the assem-
bly,: because he had taken upon him.
self the arrangements for the disarming
of the Cuban troops Independent of the
assembly, and because he declared to
the assembly that he would observe it's
rulings in so far as he considered them
beneficial to Cuba
The assembly then declared that the
IS, GOO, 600 is insufficient and that it has
not vet accepted the proposition. The
discussion of this question will soon be
taken up, now that Gen. Gomez has
been removed.
Senior Gonzales de Quesada, who ac-
companied Mr.. Porter to Cuba, was at
"a rl- rod nv lher-r
Sanguilly and Aguerro, who declared
that he had acted in bad faith and had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13

I was taken with a very severe case Of
La Grippe which hung on for five long
weeks; and as a result 1 was left in a
very weak condition. My nervous sys-
tenn was affected to such an extent
that I could not sleep at night, and 1
was restless at all times. AS my physi-
clans were unable to relieve my suffer-
ing, decided to try DR.. Miles Res
torative Nervine. After using one bot
tie I began to sleep at night, and my
sleep was quiet and restful. AS I con-
tinued the use of the medicine my
nerves steadied up, the crazy feelings
left my head, and have not been trou-
bled with them since. DR.. Miles Ner-
vine did more for me than all the doc
tors medicine I ever took"
Another victim Of La Grippe writes
as follows: 81 had an attack of La
Grippe which left me in a fearful con-
dition. I lost all appetite for food, was
troubled with q futtering sensation of
my heart, and my nerves were so shat
tered that it was almost impossi-
bic to obtain sleep or even to lie
down. The doctors did all they could for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
1T BEATS PALINDROME.
frank Montgomery in Kansas Cit.
TOl1rua1

Drank Montgomery in Kansas City
Journal
"Ironquill'' has in his volume of pub
lished poems a pretty bit entitled THE
Palindrome,' in which he gives two ex-
amples of this form of language con-
struction. One is Rare was ere saw
war;" and the other is mo evil deed
live on At a glance it will be seen
that these sentences read the same
backward as forward and they are
good examples of the palindrome.
However. we find in a western Kansas
exchange a piece taken from an old
print which gives the most remarkable
example of this form of construction
the world has ever known. 1t is the
Latin sentence, "Sator arepo teret opera
rotas," meaning THE sower will wear
away the wheels; L cease from labor"
This sentence not only reads backward
word for word and letter for letter, but
it is susceptible of an analysis even
more wonderful. By taking the first
letter of each word and arranging these
letters together, the first word is
spelled, and by taking the second letter
of each word the second word is spelled
and so to the end. The old print de-
clares that a medieval monk spent his
whole lifetime in composing this SEN
tence,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
AtchisOn Widow Shoots Her
self in the Breast
When Arrested by the Police
I'm Male Attire.
CONDITION SERIOUS
Caught PrOwling Around Cash
Ter Barrett's Home.
Excused For a Moment She
Attempts Suicide.

Atchison, March 13.-Mrs. E. S. Rey-
nolds. an Atchison widow, lies in a dan
gerous condition at her home, zoe North
Fourth street, from the effects of
pistol shot inflicted at II o'clock Satur-
day night with suicidal intent. The
shooting followed her arrest hour
before for being found in male attire.
She was seen prowling about the resi-
dence of Charley Barrett, assistant cash
Ter of the Atchison National bank. Nor
man Barrett, a cousin of. Charley Bar
rett, was at the house at the time, and
thinking the intruder was a boy, start
ed out to capture him. The prowler
ran out of the yard and down the street.
Norman Barrett gave chase, firing three
shots to brighten the supposed boy and
bring about halt Being unsuccessful
in this, he continued the chase and over
took the prowler, who turned out to be
Mrs. Reynolds in disguise. She was
turned over to the police and afterward
to the county authorities. Mrs. Rey-
nolds pleaded with Sheriff Hartman to
be taken to her home and permitted to
change her attire, and was granted the
privilege.
The sheriff and policeman accom-
panied her and permitted her to go into
a room at her home and arrange her
toilet. She had been alone only a min
ute or two when she shot herself, the
bullet entering the lower portion of her
breast and coming out at her left side.
She fired a second shot, but without
effect. A physician was called and ex-
pressed a belief that she could not re-
cover and is still of that opinion.
Mrs. Reynolds is 48 years old, rather
good looking and dresses stylishly, but
has long been regarded as peculiar by
many of her acquaintance. 1t is known.
too, that she had been addicted to the
use Of morphine. Within the past
month a dozen barns have been set on
fire in the night time and several of
them were burned. One of them was
rented by Charley Barrett, who lost a
horse and phaeton in the fire. Her own
home was destroyed by fire a year ago.
Mrs. Reynolds has been suspected of
setting fire to the barns, but there is no
positive proof against her
Mrs. Reynolds has no relatives here
Her husband, who was a carpenter and
contractor, died two years ago, leaving
her comfortable home and 81 900 in
life insurance. The affair has created a.
big sensation in Atchison. Mrs Rey-
nolds is resting easy at last accounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
THE OTTAWA DISTRICT.
Work the Methodists Have Completed
the Past Year.

Columbus, March 13.-Presiding Elder
Martin of this district of the NJ z.
church, has made his annual report
Some interesting extracts follow:
Il have Travelled in all kinds Of
weather and in nearly all kinds of ways
In these six years, and yet I have not
missed one appointment on account of
sickness myself or in my family, for
which am very thankful.
Il in the six years we have paid off
about $4,000 old long standing debts We
do not owe the Chuch Extension society
cent, and have but two old debts that
I found on the district and they are fast
disa ppearing. At Leroy the old debt of
81, 500 is now $3.50, and that is provided
for if we have good crops this year. The
pastor. Brother Benham, has a wheat
crop of SIS acres on the Neosho bottom
that will most likely pay the debt. He
secured the work and seed most all by
donation and is now getting work prom
Used to harvest it.
THE other debt is on the La Harpe
parsonage of 5000. La Harpe has grown
from so people year ago to 500 now.
1t is the center of the gas belt, and the
parsonage is to be sold as it is on de-
sirable lots.
I'VE have built 10 churches costing
about $4,000 and don't owe dollar on
any of them. About $4,000 has been
spent in charging churches which is all
paid. We have built and bought nine
parsonages and rebuilt seven others
and there are no debts on any except at
North Ottawa where we bought house
last fall valued at $500 and owe 1925 on
it. But this will be paid soon after con-
ference. At Richmond we bought a
good parsonage property worth 5000 and
owe $40 which is provided for
1.-THE membership six years ago was
$500; now it is over 1000, and this takes
into the account the change in district
boundary. Then the district paid on all
collections, 81. 800; this year we report
about Sc, OO0 Missions have about dou-
bIed and Baker collection is four times
greater.
I'VE have had about 500 conversions
That is the lowest in the six years The
highest was LOO, three years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-13
FOR CHARITY's SAKE.
The Fashionable Society Ladies of Os-
borne to Give a Cake Walk.

Osborne March 13.-The most fash
ionable society order in Osborne City is
the Ladies' Embroidery club, composed
of about 35 of her ladies, young and old.
Mrs. Eva Lands is president, and
Miss Juliet Ogden treasurer. They meet
on the fancy work each is to perform
and give entertainments. This is an or
der to which the men cannot belong.
Recently they have decorated the court
house park with shade trees, and paid
for piano. They are now rehearsing
for coon party, each one of the
club to bIacken her face, and in the
event of any of them refusing a fine of
81, is to be exacted.
The entertainment is to consist of
music, singing, dialogues and recital
lions, followed by a cake walk. A we'll
filled treasury is expected, for many of
the ladies refuse to black themselves
up.