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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19

the construction of Stearns square in
conformity with plans on file in the
office of the city engineer.
1t was voted to give a hearing on
the petition of the American Steel and
Wire Company, for location of freight
tracks near the Quinsigamond mill, on
Tuesday, Dec. 26, at 8 O'Clock, and that
notice of the hearing be promulgated
by publishing in the four daily news
pers.
On motion of Alderman Vaughan, the
board took up the matter of electing
two members of the board of oyerseers
of the poor Alderman Back nomi-
mated Charles H, Ellsworth and the
nomination was seconded by Alderman
O'Connell A. NJ. Thompson was nomi-
mated by Alderman Vaughan, seconded
by Alderman Huot and Alderman
O'Connell named Councilman James
Hunt.
The first roll call resulted in the
unanimous selection of Charles H. Els
worth. On the second, Aldermen Bran
non, Huot Kendall and Vaughan voted
for Mr.. Thompson; Aldermen Back
Barrett, Carberry and O'Connen for
Mr.. Hunt, resulting in a tie vote. On
the next roll call Alderman Back voted
with the Thompson men, electing the
candidate by a vote of to 8.
garding matters pertaining to the de-
cree relocating and widening Webster
street, and the decree was laid over to
the next meeting.
The report of the joint committee on
parks. turning the matter of parks in
various sections of the city over to the
next city council, was accepted.
Reports of the aldermanic highway
committee on petition of the New Eng
NaIpnhny1n e "a nv
and the accompanying order granting
the petition in pat, was accepted and
the order adopted. The report on the
petition Of Charlotte E. w. Burlington,
recommending that the petition be
placed on file, was accepted.
Leave to withdraw was reported on
the petition of the Consolidated Street
Railway company, to construct cross
overs in Front and Summer streets;
and the petition of the New England
Telephone & Telegraph company, for
pole locations in Grove and other
streets. The report was accepted.
DEGREES establishing the grade of
new street around Dodge park and
Ferdinand street were ordered placed
on file.
The report of the committee on cleo
tons and returns was accepted and
placed on file.
These street betterment assessments
were ordered: Grove street, Mary A.
Walsh $35; Stephen Salisbury, $26;
Catharine O'Toole, $62 So Stephen Sal
isbury, $3.50; Stephen Salisbury, $141. rs;
annie Z. Cheney, Sal 70; stephen sails
bury, $28S.75; Daniel L. Lamson, SAL 25;
Stephen Salisbury, 1924 So; George A.
and Susan NJ. Brigham, S492 so; Alden
H. Sears, IS; John Doyle, $50 %;
Stephen Salisbury, S109 As; Stephen
Salisbury $S07 .0S; John M. Brigham
heirs, 1886 So; Sarah E. Parker s96
George A. and Susan NJ. Brigham,
$545. 10
The board adjourned until Tuesday,
Dec. g. at Z 30 o'clock.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
Trial Bottle Free

1t is easyrto tell whether your Kidneys
or bladder are diseased. Take bottle or
glass tumbler and fill it with urine. If
there is a sediments powder-like sub
stance-after standing day and night,
If It is pale or discolored, ropy or stringy,
there is something wrong with the Kid
neys. Other sure signs of disease are a
desire to urinate often, pain. in the back,
or If your urine stains linen.
There is no question that DR.. David
Kennedys Favorite Remedy is the best
and surest medicine in the world for dis
eases of the Kidneys, Liver, Bladder and
Blood Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Chronic
Constipation, and the sicknesses peculiar
to women. 1t quickly relieves and cures
inability to hold urine and the necessity
of getting up a number of times during
the night. 1t puts an end to that scalding
pain when passing urine and corrects the
bad effects of whisky and beer. 1t Is sold
for one dollar a bottle at all drug stores.
Send your full post office address to the
DR.. David Kennedy Corporation, Ron
dout, N. Y, and mention this paper. They
will then mail you trial bottle of Fa-
vorite Remedy and a valuable medical
pamphlet free, giving full directions for
its use. Every reader Of this paper can
depend upon the genuineness of this lib
.eral offer, and all sufferers from the dis
eases mentioned above should take ad-
vantage of 1t at once.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19

portant feature of the work. About
70.1 million gallons Of sludge have been
removed from the settling basins. This
amounts to LII per cent of the entire
flow Of the sewage settlement before
an attempt is made to draw off the
clear water.
About one ton of lime daily has been
added to the sludge since the large
amount of picking liquid has been
discharged into the sewage.
CONDITION OF THE BLACKSTONE
RIVER.
The condition of the river has not
been as good as in 1893 This is very
largely due to the great decrease in
the amount of water flowing Since
the Kettle brook system was added to
the water supply, there has been a
marked reduction in the flow Of the
river There has also been consider
able pollution of the stream by ripa-
rian owners. AS sewers have been
provided for several of these, it is eX-
pected there will be an improvement
In this respect in the future.
MAINTENANCE.
Total cost of new basins built, $7122-
%; total cost of repairing old basins,
man-holes and sewers, $4089.10; total
cost of cleaning sewers and h-ba-
sins $21S5 IA total cost of work charge
able to other parties, S4977.15; total ex-
penditure in maintenance account, $751;
1857.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
An Old Theory
Exploded
Food Not DigeSted in the
Stomach
This Organ only Prepares it for
Assimilation by the InteStineS

Until a few months ago the medical
profession, as well as the public at large,
have always believed that food was d.
gested in the stomach; but thanks to
science, they are now enabled to follow
the whole process Of digestion with their
own eyes from the moment food enters
the mouth until 1t is taken into the sys-
TEN, or carried off through the bowels.
Heretofore all remedies for the cure of
dyspepsia have been given with the idea
of assisting the stomach to digest food,
and the discovery that this organ does
not digest it at all explains the cause of
their failure to cure the disease, and its
constant increase in spite Of the thou
sand and one remedies used. Another
and equally important discovery was also
made; that there are three distinct kinds
of dyspepsia, two of which require differ
ent remedies, and the remedy for one
must be exactly opposite to that of the
other in character. For instance, acid
dyspepsia requires an alkaline treatment;
indigestion an acid treatment; these com
bined and given in one dose neutralize
each other, consequently, cannot be given
together with effect The third land most
dangerous of all Intestinal dyspepsia
requires a germicide which must be harm
less, and yet strong enough to destroy the
bacilli which cause the disease Under
standing this and knowing that they pos
sess the only gsrmicide which can be
taken internally without injury, (IyomeD
the r. T. Booth Company have placed on
the market dyspepsia cure, and the only
one made which treats every phase of the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
CONTINUED on Page Three.l
BEST IN THE WORLD.

American travel is the best in the world.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railway made 1t SO. The Lake Shore
Railway is the pattern after which ali
other railroads model their service, but
1t will take considerable time before thew
can reach the high standard of excellence.
which IS the watchword of this progress.
I've railroad: The careful regard for the
comfort and safety of travellers, punctu-
ality Of service and courteous treatment
America. -'As VI
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
In Non-concurrence

The common council adopted an or
der to the effect that in the event of the
abolition of the grade crossings, Hard
ing street should be extended to Front
street. In the upper board this was laid
on the table.
Abstracts of reports of several city
departments filed with the council, fol-
low.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
Superintendent of Sewers

During the fiscal year Of 1899 this
department has done the largest
amount of work accomplished in any
year since its organization. The win
ter of 1898 and 1899, was occupied with
tunnel work in Green and Water
streets. About $50 men We're employ
ed in this way. Throughout the re-
mainder of the year, about $50 men
have been on the department rolls
Many of the constructions have been
very difficult, and most of the trenches
have been heavy. Not as large guam
titles of water have been encountered
as during 1898, which possibly has been
due to the drought which lasted
throughout the entire year
TWELVE MILES OF NEW SEWERS.
over - miles of sewers have been
built, and may be grouped under the
following heads: General construction,
separating system and trunk sewers
fboth systems), each being subdivided
into sewers and surface water drains.
General construction-Sew 5.34
miles; surface water drains, 1856. To-
tai, $50.
Separating system-Sewers, 423; sur
face water drains. 126. Total, SAC.
Trunk sewers Sewers, 4.75; surface
water drains. 0.76 Total, 5.5l. Total
extent Of sewers, 1899; total number of
man-holes built 426; total number Of
catch-basins built, 1866
THE TESTING LABORATORY.
One Of the first steps taken toward
organizing Cor the increased amount
of work made necessary by the con-
struction of the senaratino system ,,,os
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
Do It Yourself

And Save a Doctors Fee--If Test
Denotes Kidney Trouble DR..
Kennedy's Favorite Rene
dy is the Only Medicine
That will Posi-
lively Cure
You
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
Upton AND BRUSSELS
srTrl rrTru,e,


A sewer has been built through
Crompton and Brussels streets and, al
though che sewer itself is small and Of
no particular interest, it is a very i'm
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
GREENDALE sTREET.

An important move has been made
toward the sewering of GreendaIe by
the construction Of the sewer in Grove
street and West Boylston street, a dis
lance oil about 5000 feet
The development Of building sites in
the vicihity of Pleasant street beyond
Newton square has made the sewering
Of this locality necessity. Although
this Is a newly improved district, there
which can be connected.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
SURPRISES SPRUNG
BY CITY COUNCIL

Continued from Page one.)
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
THE TESTING LABoRATORY.

One Of the first steps taken toward
organizing Cor the increased amount
of work made necessary by the con-
struction Of the separating system, was
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19
INTERMITTENT FILTRATION.

The filter beds have been put into
use as fast as completed, and consid-
cradle progress has been made in GET
ting them into working condition.
sLUDGE DISPOSAL.
The disposal of the sludge from the
chemical treatment has been an i'm
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-19

A large territory has been accommo-
dated by the construction of sewers in
Winthrop street, Granite street, Wa
bash avenue, and South Stowell street
The sewering of this section of the city
has been agitated for nearly ten years
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
RAILROADS OF PHILIPPINES.
In Luzon the Rails Are Laid On Ties
of Mahogany.

Philadelphia, Oct. 25.-At today's ses-
sion Of the International congress, Con-
gresham Robert Adams, jr., of this
city, former United States minister to
Brazil, presided Mr.. Adams referred
to the weakness of the consular service
of this country, laying the blame upon
the system, and not tine administration
OF it,
The achievements of American rail-
roads and their relation to commercial.
industrial and agricultural interests
were set forth in an address by George
H. Daniels. general passenger agent of
the New York & Hudson River railroad
and president of the American
association of Passenger Agents.
The present period, he declared,
is the age of transportation and
the dying nations are those with little
or no transportation facilities. A COM
parison was made between railroads
and canals. stress being laid on the
rapid transportation facilities provided
by. the former.
tsRailroad men. he said, will be in
terested in knowing that the Manila q
paguI9n railroad on the island. of Luz
zen. which is the principal one of our
Philippine group, IS laid upon nahog-
any ties the road passing through for
ests Of that valuable wood and over, an
inexhaustiblei bed of coal and other
rich minerals. Shall we wonder, then.
that American railroads are seeking
connections that will secure a. portion
Of the commerce that must come from
the DEVELOPMENT Of this rich region? 2"
Eugene Seeger United States consul
in. Brazil. referred To the great raili1ad
enterprises which had been maui ur-
ated and those which are to be estab-
iished connecting the great southern
countries of South America with Bra
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26

other Basuto chiefs at Patiatsus river,
where the chiefs have assembled at the
request of Lerothodi to pledge loyalty
to the queen.
A dispatch from Durham dated Oct.
% says information has reached there
from Metmoth, Zulu, that on Sunday a
Large Boer force was approaching. The
inhabitants forthwith entered Fort
Maxwell, anticipating an attack at
dawn on Monday.
According to a Brussels dispatch, DR..
Leyds. the diplomatic agent of the
Transvaal in Europe, has issued a
statement that the Beers have now
nearly 100, COO men in the field, made up
as follows; Boer regulars, $4,000; ar
tillery, 1850; police, 1,750; Orange Free
State troops, $4,000; Natal Beers, 5000;
Bechuanaland and Rhodesian Beers,
5000; foreign legion, 600; Americans,
1000; Germans, 5000; Dutch 1000;
Irish, 1000; Scandinavians, 60Oi French,
Swiss and Italians, 200. The Jews, it
appears, are doing police work.
A special dispatch from Pretoria dat
ed Oct. "a purports to give an inter-
view with one of the highest Trans
vaai executives, who is quoted as hav
ing urged that while the Boer successes
were vet unimportant there was still
time for an amicable settlement, as ne
believed the Beers had been missed as
to the real issue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
IS THREATENED.
OHIO REPUBLICAN vIoLAToRs
E. OF CIVIL SERVICE Law.
Sent Out Appeals For Contributions
From Government Employees
Congressman Dick Implicated.

New York. Oct. 25.-A statement was
given out today by George MeAnenys
secretary Of the National Civil Service
Reform league. in which he says:
= The National Civil Service Reform
league has addressed a letter to the
civil service commission, asking th8t
steps be taken to secure the pF0secu-
ton of the federal officer and others
responsible for the action of the Ohio
Republican state committee in sending
appeals for political contributions To
government employees throughout the
country. The chairman of the commit
tee in question is Congressman Charles
Dick of the Nineteenth Ohio district.
In this letter to the civil service COM
mission, IL is alleged the letters To the
governments employees We're printed
on letter heads of the Finance Conn
mittee of the Ohio State Executive
Committee" and it Is pointed out that
these letters explicitly state that the
money solicited is to- be applied 60 the
uses of the full committee. of which
Mr.. Dick is chairman.
1t is alleged further that the circular
has been sent to thousands of govern
meut subordinates in all parts of the
country. including even clerks and
other minor employees in the New
York custom house.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
lHE WANTS OF ALASKA.
Memorial to Congress Adopted By
Territorial Convention.

Juneau. Alaska, Oct. q (via Seattle.
Wash, Oct 25).-The Alaska territor-
iaI convention, which has been in ses-
sion for more than week, adjourned
today. The most important work ac-
conipliSned was the adoption of mem
oriaI to congress and the selection 0I
John G. Price of Skagway as a repre-
sentative to go to Washington, ID. c., In
the interest of the people of Alaska.
The memorial to congress provides
for two additional judges of the district
court. delegate to congress: probate
judges having in addition to the usual
probate powers jurisdiction in certain
civil and criminal cases: commissioners
having the jurisdiction of justices of
the peace, and magistrates, with like
powers for Incorporated cities and
towns: for education Of the white chill
dren of the district fer a. civil code
and a. code Of civil procedure. for
amendments to the criminal CODE for a
general municipal Incorporation law,
for the extension to the district OF the
homestead, timber and stone and coal
land laws. with provisions for special
individual surveys. and for mOdifica-
lions in the mineral land laws to stop
the wholesale appropriation by a few
individuals of the public mineral lands
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26

evacuate the Natal triangle which the
Beers naturally rightly claim as a. con
spicuous success, and which they may
even emphasize by proclamation an
neXing northern Natal, is proving an
unpalatable pill TO the public, whose
appetite has been whetted by the pre-
vious successes, which had been repre-
scented as being greater than they
really were, as the determine ton and
gahantry Of the Beers enabled them
to quickly reorgaIize and achieve de-
sired objects by other methods.
Later estimates of the Beers losses
at Elandslaaste give 800 killed. Their
GOODNESS. bravery and good aim can be
judged from the fact that out of seven
teen or eighteen officers with the half
battalion of Gordon Highlanders, four
were killed and thirteen wounded, while
the casualties among the rank and file
were u per cent during less than three
hours fighting. Lieutenant Campbell
of the Gordon Highlanders has since
died from his wounds.
A dispatch from Cape Town today
says General White has engaged the
Orange Free State Beers who were adj
vancing ois Isadysmith. about seven
miles northward, and that it was be-
lieved the advance had been repealed
This is probably another version of
yesterdays fighting as already known
Other dispatches from Cape Town say
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26

a result of that storm nine men are
known to be dead, and of these five
bodies have been recovered. With one
exception all were sheep herders and
all were found lying in such positions as
to indicate that they had stayed with
their herds to the last, dying in their
attempts to save property of their en-
ployers.
William Graham, working for the
Cascade Land company, was found in q.
coulee near Healy butte. 1t is evident
that he had tried hard through the
night to get his sheep into camp. but
had not succeeded. Conscious of the
death which was impending, he return
ed to his tent about midnight and there
wrote and left a note. saying he was
nearly exhausted, but was about to
return to the sheep, which were drifting
up the coulee. He was found stretched
on the snow, his lantern about twenty
feet distant. OF his two dogs, one re-
manned to guard the body while the
other followed the sheep. He was I'M
married. and recently said that he had
not relative in the world.
Realized Mistake Too Late.
Norman Bruce worked for Will Flow
cree. He remained with his sheep un-:
til he managed to drive them into a
sheltered spot where they would be.
safe. Blinded by the storm he mistook
the coulee where his cabin was built
and wandered up another. Realizing
his mistake too late he turned back
and fell less than 200 yards from his.
home and safety. The searching party.
found his dog stretched across theadead
body. Bruce was unmarried and a ma
tive of Prince Edward island.
Matt Gregorich was found with his
arms crossed upon his breast. His dog
had followed the sheep into camp and
returned with the rescue ' arty-too late.
H. E. Herald. working Tor S. c. Schif-
rim, was lying in tho deep, snow his.
beard eaten off by the sheep, which
had also eaten his clothes and part of
his boots.
This is only "a portion of the pathetic
side of the disaster. and the fidelity of
one herder is probably no greater than
any other.
1t is probable that the death list ID
hardly begun. Bands of sheep without
herders have been reported from var
ious points in the storm district, and
later these will be traced and the dead
herders found
Now the snow covers up everything
on the prairie, and TIE coulees, many
of them more than 100 feet deep with
steep sides, are filed with it, Without
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
REPORTS ARE DocToRED.
English People Indignant at the
Methods of Lord Wolselev.

London, Oct. 25.-The con mander-in-
chief, Field Marshal Lord Wolseley,
has apparently now been convicted of
''doctoring" official reports from the
front, and there. is a strenuous demand
on all sides for a reversion TO the. ear
Her practice, when the reports OF. Cen
era1 Sir Stewart White, the British
commander in Natal, were given out
textually as soon as received. The
chiefs summary read in.
the house Of commons yesterday spoke
of General White having fought a sue
cessful action, whereas General Whites
own account puts an entirely different
complexion on the sitl alton, and re-
duces the movement to its proper pro-
portions, and shows that further ex-
citing intelligence may be expected
from the same quarter at any moment.
1t is quite evident the war in Natal
has only commenced, and that the
Beers are by no means discouraged at
losing the first two battles. and many
experts are satisfied General Joubert is
even now close to the heels of the Brit
ism, and that a decisive action may be
fought today or tomorrow. The main
fact that the British were forced to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26

ton, but from a high authority the
World correspondent learns that these
are the exact terms AguinaIdo desires:
1. Absolute free trade between the
United States and the Philippine is
lands. carrying with4it tine fullest COM
mercial favor between the two coun-
tries.
2 Perfect religious freedom, as now.
exists under the government of Aguin-
aldo tine same being a concession made
by him to the wishes of the United
States.
8. Coaling stations for the United
States upon all important islands of the
archipelago, to be selected by the
United States and ceded outright for
ever by the Filipinos. This would in
clude Manila.
Military Reservations.
4. Military reservations at Manila,
Iloilo. Panay. Mindora, Negroes, Mas
bate, Samars and such other islands as
may be determined upon by both gov
ernInents.
S. The employment of United States.
officials in the customs and all other in
ternall branches of the government, to
be selected by the United States and
paid by the Filipino government.
6. The introduction of the American
police system.
Z. The establishment of a judiciary
as now exists in the island of Cuba,
8. The reconstruction of the entire
Filipino government upon lines as,
nearly consistent with those prescribed
by the constitution of the United States
and adapted to the requirements of the
natives.
9. Recognition of the Filipino gov
eminent as an independent republic I'M
der a protectorate Of the United States.
Senior Regidor will have plenipoten-
tiaTy powers to treat with the United
States government upon all of these
points in order 10 reach an agreement
by which hostilities may cease.
/ Powers of the Ambassador.
+ Senior Regidor will be the most i'm
portant political emisEary ever sent to-
the United States by the Filipinos He
will have more power than Aguinaldo.
who was summarily driven out Of
Washington after presenting a memo-
rial to congress, which was notable
alone for its indiscreet attack upon the
United States. Senior Regidor will rep
resent Aguinaldo himself. Regidor is
said 10 be a man of great ability and
learning. having a long experience in
European diplomatic circles.
The Filipino government has had no
representation here since the Danish