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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

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sY g run across lots OF things II this
Inc OF business nat would make
I Top newspaper storie :, g said an old
Time accident "a 1ira zee man toaa New
orleans g Tines-Democrat reporter
DIM very few of them serefa leak out.
what s. &. i have in mind especially are at
srempts to defrand the. company. As
2sassrlle we let snch mat tiers drop, II
Il &c claim is hdFaWn, but sometimes
we pay when we could clearly WEI a
suit simply to. avoid the unpleasant
Sadyertis ement Of slitig atio on. Frequent
slys the cases are very curiou call
TO mind a fellow in. a certain little
town who presented a claim against
our company for the loss Of "a toe. Ac:~s
scording to his story he was cleaning
his pistol when the weapon went OF
accidentally and the second toe OF his
left foot followed suit. ]. He had his
papers made out all right, and on its
surface the case seemed perfectly
straight and honest, but some instinct.
warned me thatzwe ought to inyesti~
gate. An old insurance man develops a.
singular sixth sense in such matters,
by the way, and will often spot fraudt
without being able-to tell how he does
1t. I looked into this particular affair
myself and found the claimant limp
as big as pillow. When I suggested:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
swedes Know Good Thing.

It has been said that the SWedes: are
a SLOW" nation, but many a. sWeds.
knows a good thing when he sees it.
and in many instances American con-
5triyances are used as, models, a. great
many Of the tools used in this conn-
try are manufactured in the United
States, and those made here have ina-
proved wonderful during the last last
fifteen or twenty years. They are.
more or less limitations of American
patterns. When the newspapers re-
port the establish ment: Of new facto-
ries they general y, saa recommends
ton, mention that the machinery is Of
mod American make. his applies
especial " to certain kinds of machine
tools in the manufacture OF which the
Americans excel. - rank Woodward
in Chicago Record sss s5ss
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
INDIANA. MAN IN J0LO.
He Writes Of His Experiences in tie :
. IA a. ( Sultan's Island, 5. 1913

He Writes of His Experiences in the !.
9: :. Sultan,s Island. & IT. - S,<. :.
-. Robert Gray, Of IS West ~ Georgia:
street, says the Indianapolis News,
has received letter from William G..
Cox, who is serving, with company B.,
Twenty sixth infantry, at Jolo,,5P. I.
Mr.. Cox says: eve are TOO miles below
Manila and 100 from Borneo, on a very
pretty island of the same name as
. the town we are in (Jo1o). There, is
: no trouble here, and we are doing gar
/ :rison duty inside the walled city at
present When we first came here we
+ were stationed about a mile out in the
country at an old Spanish fort We
stayed there until the 18th Of Noyem
, Der, then went up to Fam boanga, which
is ZOO miles above here. In, about three
!. weeks we came back here and were
stationed inside the city. We are quar-.
tered in an old Catholic church, the,
only one in the Sulu archipelago. -Four
of us got pass last Sunday to go be-
yond the lines, We went back up the
mountain We were gone one day, and
had very good time, climbing hills,
eating bananas, ,cocoanuts and, bread
fruit The native houses are all built
of bamboo and up off the ground about
five feet. Underneath they keep their
hogs and horses, or water buffalo,
They have to climb up poles to get.
inside their shacks, which consist Of
one room. They don't know what,
chairs are, and tables they have no lsea
for. The clothes they wear chiefly
consist of pair of ear rings and a.
piece of cloth the size of a handker-
chief The much talked of .Sultansof
Sulu'' lives about fifteen miles across
the, island from here, at Mia bum. He
with his .bodyguard, comes over hers
once in a while "a bum looking setsofs
soldiers. This is the. prettiest place
I have seen yet, except Honolulu. and,
I don't think that place can be beaten
for beauty. Our duty is very pleasant
now--driH an hour five days in the
week and on guard every eight days. ''s
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES o006o600o00000
8 The Pompom Gun
oZoooooooooooooo oooooooooooe

The pompom gum, used by the Beers,
is a dangerous weapon, says a British
writer Tt is an automatic Maxim gun,
firing one-pound shen at the rate of
300 minute. The cartridges are like
overgrown rifle cartridges; they are
about six inches long, but instead of
having bullets they each have an iron
shell loaded with powder and provided
with a percussion fuse, which explodes
the missile when it strikes anythinfi.
Each she'll breaks up into from ten to
twenty pieces, SO that a minutes, con-
tinuous firing would cause at least
5000 whizzing, Jagged bits of iron to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

the dervishes, ia the Soudan to .hg1ts
against the English, and al may. be re-
membered that the M arqcuis 81 Mores,
married to the daughter Of Banker
Louis Hoffman Of New York. lost his:
life while on his way to Khartoum3
for the purpose of placing his services
at the disposal of the .KhaIif ia. 81,
Another case which came under my
notice is that Of Oliver. Pain. one OF
the most prominent leaders Of the
French commune III 1871. Condemned
to death for his participation IN that
Instruction, his sentence was subse-
quently committed to one OF penal
servltude for life in New Caledonia
He succeeded in efecting his escape
thence with Henri Rochefort, and.
passed through New York in 1876 on
his way back to Europe. Seven or
eight years later I met him at Cairo,
Where he made no secret of the fact
that he was on his way to offer his
services to the Mahdi infash1s war
against the English. He set forth ON
his adventurous trip into the desert en-
route for Khartoum, the English au-
thorities making no attempt to inter
fere with his movements. No authen-
tic news was heard Of him until am
Austrian missionary, Father ARRIVAL
der, subsequent to his escape from
Omdurman, reported that Pain had
reached the Mahdi in safety, and after
living at Omdurman for several years
as one Of the counselors of the false
prophet, had finally incurred the lat
ter's displeasure and had been buried
alive. *.<ss>s &>>sFs} II = I T
Both in Egypt and Turkey there are
quite large number Of pashas, most
devout Mohammedans, who are moth
ing more Or less than European rene
gades. Thus Omar Pasha, the most
distinguished Turkish general of the
present century, was an Austrian by
birth and served in the Austrian army
under the name of Mikail Won Lottas.
r Old Cherif Pasha. who was on nu-
merous occasions prime minister and
regent of :. Egypt, was a son of that
French general, De Selves, who reor-E
ganized the army of Mehemet Ali on
a. European footing, and embraced
Mohammedanism with the object of
increasing his influence over his
troops. One. of the. most interesting
renegades Of this kind that ever. met
was old Sefer Pasha, whose real
name was Count Koscielcky, and who,
while holding the rank of lieutenant
colonel in the Prussian army, had the
misfortune to kill in duel his COM,
manding officer. Count Kleist. = ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
How Circus llenin Mexico Managed to
Pull, the Mighty .llloldr II h.

Pulling am eIephaut' tuoth IS mot
the easiest task in the World This
was disco vered at The; Orrin Brothers,
circus, now cling. IN Mexico, when
two well known; and experienced SUR
sgeons and dent lists worked for two
hours before they succeeded in remoY-
ing the huge molar. 5zs@. Z,
The patient In the operation was the
big Astatic elephant CoIum bus, who for
years has been one Of the leading at
fractions of the orrins' circus. For
over twenty years Columbus has been
with the show He figures in every
parade, does his little act in the ring,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
p<<lS 8
~. Orators III Mar Clnss ~

It is curious commentary On hui
man nature that White men should de-
.sert their kind and fight the battles Of
savages against civilizatio on. Z ct in
+ stances ct that kind are very common.
In nine cases out OF ten these desert.
s'ers from civilization adopt all the
worst vices and sayagery Of the people
D among whom they cast their lot and
vie Y IN SURPRISING them in cruelty and
ss'd l[es says a writer. In Cochin
China, where the French have for
nearly twenty years been carrying on
g relentless warfare against the blood
thirsty pirates who infest the scoasts,,
and especially the great liVers. the
naval and military forces every now
and again discover that the pirate
chiefs whom they succeeded in captur-
Ing are European renegades, some
times Frenchmen. remember in par
:ticular the case of q man Of the name
! of Cussade who was shot at Hanoi on
the occasion of my visit there, and
who, having deserted from the French
4 army, had become one Of the principal
ileutenants of the black flag, or pirate
force OF the dreaded chief and mandar-
3 IN, Doc Tich.In the Soudan the Khali-
Ia has a:large number Of European
irenegades under his orders, Including
ssthe ex-Prussian sergeant of artillery,
-Klotz and AN ex-Austriail officer, who
now bears the. name of .Inger: while
his principal lieutenant is the cele-.
brated Osman Digna, the most clever;
of all his generals, and who, the son Of
a French shopkeeper of the name Of,
i Joseph Nisbet, was born in Rouen and
baptized in The magnificent cathedral
@of that ancient capital of Normandy.
His father failed in business, migrated
ito Egypt, where, after his death, his
widow married a wellknoWn Moham-
imedan merchant of Alexandria, Digna
by name. ffaving no children Of his
own, he became exceedingly fond OF
his French stepson, insisted. on his
becoming converted to the faith of the
prophet, and entered him under the
name Of Osman Digna. at the military
school at Cairo, where the lad receiv-
ed careful training at the hands Of
the distinguished. French, German and
British officers attached to the college
as professors. It is to this training at
the military school at Cairo that must
be ascribea the remarkable skill which
Osman Digna has displayed in. the
construction of Notifications and en-
trenchments in his numerous en-
counters with the ) Anglo-Egyptian
forces. Quite a number Of other
Frenchmen have sendeavored to. join
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all Of Europe, have been sold long agol
!. for debt, and she does not know Who
owns them now. 1850
She has de with barely one step.
the voyage from magnif eence to bitter.
misery 40 51zs
It was as the high school equestrian.
Jenny. Weiss that she first became one
of the celeb rities OF the con inent.
Many sWooed her OF them all none.
.wooed did the BIC, ndsone dash.
ing, prodigally rich Russian Baron
Won Rahden He won her. ana be-
came as fierce an adorer Of his wife
rs he had been her adorer during
Scourtship.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

from slipping. lille all thisFwas go-
ing on the cocaine was being applied.
When le all the preliminaries had been
COMP t'11le eted the tarre rope was run
/ thro ' ugd "a pulley. was then carried
Soltsand attached to the traces OF four
n 2big horses. When everything was in
readiness Lfi1 the doctors and attendants
retired: tosa safe distance, u
The Tn other attendants were armed
with elephant hooks, and not a few
& had Winchesters, as there was no tell
ing how Columbus was going to take
the real thing. Finally the word was
given and, the driver whipped up his
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

fly. about the enemy's position. Our
only experience of the gun on service
has been to act as a target for it in the
present war. This eminently practical
trial has taught us that when used at
moderate ranges say, within 5000
yards-the moral effect is immense,
and the material damage is considera-
BILE. There is no weapon our men have
a greater respect for. Shells from field
guns give you little breathing time
between their bursts at any particular
place, but the pompom sends stream
of shells at the rate of five a second to
the same destination. &F ..sS-s5 - q
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

Of paris a fourth of an inch thick, and
it is covered with a specially prepared
paper. AS the plaster, is bad con-
ductor Of heat, the temperature inside
the Theoretically sealed receptacle re-
mains constant, being unaffected by
external changes. The cost of pack
ing is only about 2 cents per pound.
{ It is Used to a great extent in AUS
.tralia. Butter has been sent from
Melbourne to Kimberley, in Africa,
and the butter was found to be in a
perfectly sound condition. Cases. are
now made which hold as much as 200
pounds of butter Scientific American.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
!. Terrible New. Women.

A woman made a spectacle Of the
Sioux City convention, women are an
noying the Methodist i conference at
Chicago, and women have become a
terror to the British officials in South
Africa. whats got into um?"-In-
dianapolis News. f~.~ 80
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
TIE DOTH 9 'OI. NBu is

ten. The great potential ties Of the
invention ma be understood when iit
is explained that under the conditio ns
which the exhibi tor, r ichard Kerregs,|
proposes; twill be possible for all the
3clocksin London 70 be stimuli aneously
adjustad BY one clock 10 Whic Is the
necessary contr vance IS attached To
render q clock sensitive to the in
;fuence OF the wave stem it will only
be necessary to afffx the receiving I'M
strunaent with a coherer cement
which might be extended, not only to
the public clocks but to those in PRE-
.Vate residences. S5&t s*s5
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
TERRIBLE RIDE

TERRIBLE RIDE
Made by Two Boys Thropg:: a Tunnel
. =, - on Car Roof.
New York Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean:
Having expended all the money in
their possession in a week spent in
sightseeing in New York, George
Huxon, aged eighteen, and John Cor
key, aged seventeen, both residents OF
East Cambridge, Mass, determined
Friday night to steal a ride homeson
New Haven train. The boys loitered
about the foot bridge at Forty-eighth
street that spans the Grand Central
train yards, and the idea suggested
itself to them to drop to the root OF a
car of the Boston midnight express as
it was passing under them. AS the
Montreal express steamed out of the
station at IL: OF O'Clock at lively gait
the youths mistook it for the Boston
train. They vaulted over the railing
Of the bridge and droppedto the roof OF
mail car. They had just seated them
selves when the train swung out in
the. side track and headed for the sin
gle track tunnel. Once inside the tun-
mel the train began to increase in speed
until it was travelling at high rate.
The predicament of the boys was
frightful.2 Smoke, hot cinders, a ter
rible draught, darkness and loud
roar made them fear for their lives.
Corkey, it is said, suffered from collid-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
Egg Eating Feats &c Enxlana. /.

Great last :,e imported
nearly 2;;ooo, o0o, 900 eg N having 5
value Of s2.4, $50, 900. While many 81
these eggs came from Russia, Italy.
France and Germany Belgium cap-
tured asslarge trade which has been
built up on sound principles IN the,
rural Districts Of the 4 little Baltic
kingdom, co-operative societies under
take the exploration of fresh eggs st
d good quail and members are re-
CURED to Ascrupulo usly cont form to the
rules ot the saoiaty
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and being as. docile as. a lamb has. car
ried hundreds of thousands of children
on his back. In fact, there are grown
men. and women in Mexico and other
parts of the world who have been car
rled by Columbus when they wore kits q
and 4p1nafores. .s.3 sz Ss
Consequently there is not child in
thesstate of Mexico who does not know
Columbus. The elephant man with the
show never had the least trouble with
Columbus. Consequently, when he re-;
ported to the owners that there was
something the matter with Columbus
the owners Of, the circus Were sur
prised. They went to his quarters and
found Columbus sitting back on his
launches swinging his head from side
to side. His trunk was swing ing
around like a huge pendulum. Every
now and then he would below as If in
great pain, The elephant keeper or
the owners had no idea what allied the
even-tempered Columbus, who now had
become rather ugly, In fact, It was
deemed safe to chain, him, something
unusual for Columbus, who was in the
habit of going about very much as he
pleased. For two days he was not on
exhibition, and the children We're not
permitted to ride on him. a "a
y Several tveterinaries were called in
and examined Columbus, but they
were unable to tell what allied him.
The elephant keeper, however, noticed
that when he watered Colum bus the
latter would fill his trunk and blow the
contents into his mouth and permit it
to run out. This was reported to DR..
Fabbi, the wen-known veterinary sur
geon, who made an examination and
found that Columbus gum was swollen
in terrible manner and he was con-
fdent that a huge tooth was decaying
at the root, and this was the cause of
the trouble An operation was decided
upon and DR.. Patchek was called in.
It was a new operation for the sur
geons, but it proved successful. Pain
was relieved by the frequent applica-
ton of cocaine. This was applied by
using big syringe. AS soon as it be-
gan to ease the pain Colum bus began
to grow quiet and he was then chained
down on his launches. His forelegs
were chained closely to a couple OF
stakes, and being safely chained his
trunk was strapped up and SHIELD tight
by a rope around his back. In this
position he was put at the mercy Of the
surgeons, unless he should manage to
break loose. The doctors then went to
work.
The gum was soaked with cocaine
and then a three-quarter inch augur
was brought into use. "a spot several
inches from the gum was selected and
a hole was started. i Boring through
Esol1d ivory is no easy work and each
doctor took his turn at the instrument
Every now and then work would be
suspended, as Columbus would be get
ting nervous. More cocaine was ID,
ljected around the. spot, and the work
OF drilling through the big tooth vas
Presumed. For nearly two hours The
Ilsurgeons worked and finally the hole
was completed. This done, they rested
lfor + and than t9e real Wlorl
was begun small rod WassruI
through the ole. the ends projeetine
about four inches on eithsr end. b Ar
Inch rope, heavily soaked ana s1neaareii
with was then s az sIi trapped
sponpq ttasl prevent TING i
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
! Automobiles for Depot Service.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railway COM
7pany has established an automobile
service at Washington, D. c., in con-
@nection with its trains. This Is be-
lieved to be the first railroad to intro
duce this means of transpo ton reg
ularly to and from a railroad station.
An electrical system is used. Two
small trunks can be carried on sup
ports on each vehicle and additional
baggage can be placed upon the top.
AS the streets in Washington are in
very fine condi tion, there is every
prospect Of the service being success
full.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
"A Wonderful Clock.

b London Special" The Royal Society,
at its annual Conversations, Burling-
ton house was shown remarkable
new invention in the shape of clock
controlled at a distance by wireless
te1egraphy of the Herztian wave sys-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04
Size of Audiences.

: Max O'ReH, who was so i'll that he
had to give up lecture engagements
in this country has. recovered his
health since his return home Won
der if the size Of the audiences made
him sick?-Indianap News. -
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Packing Butter. In Glass.

"a new use has been found for glass.
consists IN packing butter in a box
made of SIX sheets Of ordinary vim
dow glass; the edges being covered
with gummed paper. The closed box
is then enveloped in layer Of plaster
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Meaning Dudes.

js Evangeline Have you become ac-.
rquainted with many Of the young men.
I in our social circle Angelina Oh,
yes; know thin g,ss or two.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-09
Tanner and the Campaign.

1t was generally supposed that Gov.
Tanner would not take an active part
in the present campaign. 1t was
known that he cared nothing about
Yates and that he preferred defeat
for his party rather than a victory for
Senator Cullom. 1t was also known
that he hoped for the defeat of Nc
kinley in Illinois. and that the success
of the national ticket generally was a
matter of indifference to him. His
feelings on all these matters being
known. people naturally expected hin
to keep in obscurity during the cam
paign; therefore it was with some sur
prise that the public received the an
nouncement that he would make
was subject Of conjecture until his
speech in Chicago last week. Then it
became clear.
While he attacked the democratic
party as a whole, his principal on
slaught was made on NJ. F. Dunlap,
demo cratic candidate for state treas
urer. In fact, Mr.. Dunlap was the
only democratic candidate whose name
he mentioned. His speech made it very
clear, to those who heard or read it.,
that his only interest lies in the cleo
ton of Mr.. Williamson for state treas
urer. 1t is easy to guess why he is
interested in Williamson. 1t will be
remem Dered that at the state conven-
ton the governor insisted on the
nomination of Mr.. Williamson, and
turned down German in order to
get him nominated. Mr.. Williamson
is his creature.
Further proof that his object. is as
stated above is found in the fact that
his speech is calculated to lose Yates
many votes. His abuse of Andrew
Russell. the republican leader in the
Sixteenth congressional district, and
the man mainly responsible for Yates
nomination, shows that he is willing
to sacrifice the remainder of the re-
Publican ticket, provided he can elect
Williamson.
The active opposition of Gov Tan
ner is the strongest point in DunlaP's
favor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-09
Republic or Empire-whIch?

Either Bryan or Mckinley will be
elected president the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of next month.
Either the republic or the empire
will be Endorsed.
If BRYAN wins, it will mean the end
of war of conquest for unholy greed.
If Mckinley wins it will mean that
that war will 90 on; that American
ideals will be repudiated; that nation
al faith will be betrayed; that the
rights of man will be denied; that the
declaration OF independence will be-
come a mere mockery; that the con-
stitution will be ignored that polyg-
amy and slavery will be Endorsed, and
that all for which we have stood and
of which we have boosted and of
which we have been honestly proud
during 125 years of glorious nation
al history will be put behind US for Il
mean and ignoble am bitiOn.
The citizen must choose. He may
affect to believe that there is some
other duty before him but that of de-
Gliding between the republic and the
empire. But if he shall vote for any
other man than for ByIan he will vote
to strengthen the arm of imperialism
and to cripple that of free government.
The issue cannot be lodged. 1t is
either the republic or the empire.
Which shall it be? Which does the
citizen want?
If he desires the republic to stand
he must vote for Bryan.
If he is careless whether it stand or
fall he may vote for anybody else or
fail or refuse to vote at all. And that
will be his contribution to the coming
of the Man on Horseback.