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Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

The science of surgery is accomplish
ing wonders. In Vienna wonderful
piece of work has been performed by
DR.. Schroeder. A 12-year-old child
swallowed a piece of lead as big as a
half sovereign. It was located by means
''f the X-ray. the lead having passed
the trachea and lodged in bronchus
of the second order. A bronchoscope
was inserted and electrically lighted
and then, with the X-ray still assisting,
the piece of lead was pulled out by
means Of q specially constructed pair
of pinchers. The operation was per-
formed without pain. u g.. III. zss
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
l I T'ER TURN I'D Ill.I
s'L'l Great p 2 DrailnaEe canaI II Opened At
chicaEo-No5 Formal Cere-
mOny Held.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-At nine o'clock
Tuesday morning water was, turned
into the $33,0oo,0o0 drainage canal and
began to flow toward Lockport, where
it will fall into the Desplaines river,
and thence. through the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, to the Gulf of Mex
leo. What is termed by the canal en-
gineers the collateral channel has been
Tor some time completed from the Chi
cago river in the southwestern part of
the city to within Is feet of the main
channel of the canal. This 15-foot wall
of earth with two sluice gates behind
it has been all that has kept the Chicago
river and Lake Michigan out of the
canal. At ten o'clock Monday night
steam dredge began to cut away this
wall of earth and few minutes be-
fore nine o'clock the water in the COL
lateral channel was against the sluice
gates, and only few inches of tim
Der remained to be removed before
Chicago was to realize her dream of
years and see the great canal in actual
operation. When the water began to
back up against the sluice gates the
timbers were knocked away and the
first water from the Chicago river ran
into the canal. The engineers of the
sanitary district have cut channel to
carry 100000 cubic feet of water
minute, but Tuesday the water was al
lowed o.f1ow into the canal at the rate
of only $4,000 cubic feet minute. The
effect of turning 100000 cubic feet of
water a minute into the empty canal
would be like the bursting of reser-
voir and would tear away every bridge
over the canal and wreck the control
ing works at Loclzport. Therefore the
water will be turned in gradually.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
The Finest Road.

IT suppose" he began, as he entered
railroad ticket ofce-I suppose you sell
tickets to New York;"
"Toa "Tsa1ahiniy, hayys, s'r direct wti ine? fsS 5eply
=. 1T is down on the map as the only direct
"As you see, sir" replied the agent, as he
opened folder.
"Y-e-s, see. You land passengers in New
4ork OK. ahead Of competing lines, Of course?'
Luxurious coaches-no dust-fnest din.
ing cars scenery unexcelled?'
Eyes, sir"
by taking your line avoid delays and re.
duce the chances of accident to mini
mum?"
York over our line, sir?"
Cant say yet. I'm going to see five other
agents, each with the shortest and most d.
rect line, and if I find a. liar among the six
I'll ticket over his road!"- Ohio State Jour
nal,
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Trees and shrubs are being planted
along the Suez canal to keep the sand
from drifting.
Extensive additions are being made
| to the United States naval station at
Newport, r. I.
Total expenditures at the Charles
town (Mass.) navy yard for the last
| fiscal year were $137,465.
The Ninth regiment of Pennsylvania
celebrated the one hundredth anniver-
sary of its organization recently.
Publishers in Finland lose from
| $4,000 to $4,000 a year due to suppress
sion of books by the government.
Mrs. George A. Pillsbury, of Mime
apolis, made Christmas present of
$4,000 to the Calvary Baptist church of
| that city.
James R. Garfield, son of the mur-
| dered president, announces himself az
candidate for congress in the Twen.
tieth Ohio district.
China has just received a cargo of
sewing machines from America, and
Chinese women are said to be. taking
kindly to the innovation. =
Pension attorneys are piling up cases
against the government on account of
the war with Spain, $4,000 applications
having already been filed.
For continuous service A. E.. Burr.
of the Hartford Conn., Times, is prob
ably the Oldest editor in the country,
having been in the editorial harness
for 81 years. Z.
Congressman James C. tNeedham,
from the Seventh California district.
was born at Carson City, New, in an
emigrant wagon while his parents were
pressing across the plains to Califor-
MIA.
Daniel S. Ford, for 40 years proprie-
tor and editor of the Youths Compan-
ion, who died recently in Boston, made
| it an inyariable rule that his name
should never appear in the columns Of
his own Journal. 81.
q 2. Huntington is the only survivor
Of the great Southern Pacific quartette.
composed Of Stanford, Croker, Hopkins
and himself, and he now owns. Or
holds, an option on three-fourths Of the.
stock Of the road. Il
Charles p. Moody, a millionaire Of
Bath, Me-, asked the Gil ty council q,
short time before his death to erect i.
lamp post in front Of his resid ence. The
Request was refused, and now his will
shows that he revoked an intended be-
guest sof $4,000 for q new city hall.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
A FATAL BLAST.
Twenty-Five Tons Of Powder Ex-
pIodc Near Eagle River. Mich.
Two Men Blown to Atoms.

Lake Linden. Mich. Jan. 4.-Tues-
day night buildings in this city were
shaken, as result of an explosion of
% tons of powder, which occurred
nearly 20 miles distant, near Eagle
River. Wednesday it was learned that
two sleigh loads of black powder, each
containing II tons, had been in some
unknown manner exploded. Two
men, Joseph St. Louis and Joseph
Pammerston, and four horses were
blown to atoms. The powder was
valued at $4,000, the horses $500. The
powder was the property Of Richard
Blight, proprietor of a fuse factory
in Eagle River,
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Eau Claire. Wis. Michael Griffin,
a member of the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-ffth congresses, died suddenly.
The Illinois republicans will hold
their state convention in Peoria April
10 next.
The death of Eugene V. Smalley, ed
itor and publisher of the Northwest
Magazine, occurred at his home in St..
Paul, MINI.
In Los Angeles, CAL, Orlando Stew
ems, of Ottumwa, Ia, made new
worlds record in a competition mile
bicycle race, his time being 1850 1-3.
The Mississippi river was frozen
over at St. Louis for the first time in
many years.
At Los Angeles, CAL, slight earth
quake shocks were felt, and at near
ly all points within 100 miles of that
city.
The general assembly of Ohio met
bus.
In their home near Barboursville, W.
Va, William Ellis and wife and two
children were burned to death.
It is announced that Cuba will be
divided into two military departments
and forces reduced.
At Macon, Ga, six inches of snow
fell, making a new record for that
portion of the south.
The Eden Baptist church at Stroms-
herg, Neb., which was dedicated only a
year ago, was destroyed by fire.
In a quarrel James L. Moore, aged
IS years, shot and killed his wife,
aged %, at Names, Mo-, and then COM
mitted suicide.
The water was turned into the $780,
100000 Chicago drainage canal and be-
gan to flow toward Lockport, where
it will fall into the Desplaines river.
and thence, through the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, to the Gulf of Mex
leo. = (
A resolution was passed in the
house in the Ohio legislature express
ing sympathy for the Beers: ~
The Chicago university received
$55o,oo0 in gifts during the past year.
: Senator Hanna. of Ohio, will man
age the republican campaign next
year. Ell
The Wisconsin prohibitionists will
Ecld their state convention in Mad
ison August 22. sl Fl. 5..a5 +
The legislature Of Mississippi met
at Jackson.
An incendiary fire nearly wiped out
the little town Of Massena, la.
The Indiana prohibitionists will hold
their state convention in Indianapolis
April "a. rs .sss :ss .sZ.3 I. 5 s
Il Twenty persons were injured in a
railway wreck near Pontiac. Mich,
Miss Ella Omer, Of Detroit, fatally.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Mccoy Wins in Five ROunds.

New York, Jan. 2. - "Kid" Mccoy
again placed himself in the champion
ship class by defeating Peter Maher
in brisk, well-fought battle of five
rounds before the Coney Island Ath-
letic club Monday afternoon. The
fight was scheduled to last 25 rounds
and the purse was to have been $40, 900,
but the attendance was not as large as
had been expected, and before the fight
was begun the principals agreed that
the winner should receive the gross re-
ceipts. Mccoy received $4,000, and
Maher $4,000.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

At dinner in New York some one
jokingly commented on prohibition in
Maine. IS Ex-Speaker Reed, whose turn
came later, defended his old home
against the mistaken view of the re-
suit of prohibition there" He said it
had resulted in Maine men losing all
taste for liquor. his was met with howls
OF derision and sarcastic laughter. but
Mr.. Reed never cracked a smile. He
said the popular mistake was due to
the fact that whenever d New Yorker
went to Maine the hospitable people
OF that state brokeytbe rule and gave
him drink only 10 save His life. II n
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
CAPTURED BY AMERICANS.
Our Troops begin Ge neral sOuthern
Advance by Occupying Ca bu-
yaO-TwO Killed.

Manila, Jan. 2. -- The first movement
of "a general southern advance oc-
Cured Monday morning, when two
.battalions Of the Thirty-ninth infantry
landed and occupied Cabuyao, on the
south side of Laguna de Bay. Two
Americans were killed and four were
wounded. Twenty-four of the en-
emy's dead were found in one house.
One hundred and fifty prisoners and
four six-pounder :rapid-fire guns were
captured. The gunboat Laguna de
Bay bombarded the town before the
Decentralization of the troops from the
cascoes, which was made under the
enemy's shrapnel fire. The enemy
evacuated the place before the charg-
ing Americans, retreating to Santa
Rosa, to which town they we're pur-
sued. Heavy fighting occurred along
the road to Santa Rosa, which was oc-
cupied by the insurgents retreating
south toward Slang. The Americans
burned the country between and
around Cabuyao. The gunboat re-
turned to Calamba for reenforcements
and thence came to Manila to fetch
ammunition. She recently captured
two of the enemy's steam launches.
one under the fire of artillery at Ca
lamba, and also four cascoes loaded
with rice. Other regiments are mo-
bilizing at San Pedro Macati and
Pasig. preparatory to continuing the
southern advance.
Sundays capture of bombs involved
the seizure of documents inculpating
thousand Filipinos who intended to
rise against the Americans. Papers
were also found showing a distribu-
tlon of the city into districts and a
careful assignment of leaders and fol-
lowers. The precautions taken by the
Americans on Saturday, it is now evil
dent. alone prevented all uprising.
The provost marshal has requested
that two more regiments be detailed
for the protection of Manila. Three
thousand troops are now actually in
the city.
Manila, Jan. 2. - Aguinaldo's wife,
who was recently reported to have died
in the mountains; her sister, Col. Ley
bas, two sisters of the insurgent colonel
and is men have surrendered to Mai.
March, of the Thirty-third infantry, in
Bontoc. Two Americans and several
Spanish prisoners of the insurgents
were released at the same time.
Madrid. Jan. 2. - Dispatches received
here from Manila confirm the reports as
to Agulnaldo's growing unpopularity
with the insurgents. Through failure
to make headway against the Ameri-
cans the Filipino commander in chief is
said to be falling into deeper discredit
every day.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

1t is intimated that the census of
Cuba will show larger population n
the island than was expected. Esti-
mates from careful authorities on the
ground put the number of inha bitants
at about 100000. which is 100000
more than has been commonly sup
posed. Another fact which will cause
general surprise is that the proportion
of negroes in the island is found to be
much smaller than has been imagined.
The ratio, it is now believed, will be
found much below that in Mississippi,
South Carolina and Louisiana. We
have already enough.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

Representative Cushman, of Wash
ington. has already made reputation
in congress for an Abelincolnesqne
style of humor. He is tall and lank
and his legs are SO thin that he him.
self says he has often been arrested
for being without visible means Of
support. Another quaint expression
is that he was once so poverty-stricken
that he sewed buckshot in his sum-
mer coat to make it heavy enough for
winter wear. This is all said in a Sc
ricus manner, and Cushman may be
said to have made q decided hit,
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
A Laundry Combine.

Chicago, Jan. 4.-Seventeen of the
large laundry concerns in Chicago
Lave formed stock company under
the name of the Sanitary Laundry
Company of Chicago, with a capital
stock of $2,o00,000, to which articles
ofincorporation were issued at Spring.
field Wednesday. According to the
incorporation the company is formed
for the purpose of laundering, dyeing
and repairing, and the manufacture
of toilet articles.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Another Gift by Carnegie.

New York, Jan. 2.-Andrew Carnegie
has given 100000 to Cooper union for
the establishment of a day school, sim
liar in scope to the present night school
and the object of which will be to give
such practical instruction as shall en-
able young men to become first-class
and skilled workmen. The school,
which will complete the last depart
ment of the original plans of Peter
Cooper, the founder of Cooper union,
will be technically known as the Me-
chanics' Art High School of Cooper
union.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Anti-Trust Convention.

Chicago, Jan. 4.-The antitrust
conference to be held in Chicago, on
.Lincoln's birthday, February 12 next,
and continued several days, is ex-
citing extraordinary interest. The
success of the conference is assured.
Already men of national reputation
by the hundreds, including business
men, orators, scholars. students and
authors, have signifed their intention
to be in attendance, and the interest
is growing.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

The Imp portant Happ enings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON. "
During the last six months the gov
eminent receipts amounted to $2S4,-
793,494 and the expenditures to $685.
766.5G0, which leaves a surplus for the
half year of $21, ,026, 1884, against a de-
ficit for the corresponding period of
$s3,719.422.
The secretary of state has informed
the British government that the
United States regards the seizure of
American -four at Delagoa bay by a
British cruiser as illegal, and that in
demnity is claimed.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the I'd shows that the debt
increased $5,791,s24 during the month
of December. The cash balance in the
treasury was $3.50, 3,595.453. The total
debt less the cash balance in the
treasury amounts to $1,134, ,30O,007.
The total circulation of national
bank notes at the close of business
December 30, 1899. was $246, 195,523, an
increase for the year of $2,46O,41S.
At the mints of the United States
the total coinage during the year 1899
was $130,e43,191, as follows: Gold,
$l11,344,22o; silver, $26,061,519 minor
coins, 81 ,S37, ,451.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Won't Go lBaclx

Washington, Jan. President
Schurman will not return to the Phil
ippines with the other members of the
Philippine commission when the body
goes back to Manila. on account of his
duties at Cornell. Admiral Dewev's
return is also more than doubtful.
Mr.. DENLY and Prof. Worcester will
remain on the commission after it
completes the report upon which it is
now engaged and will return to Ma
Mia to aid in the establishment of
civil government.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Bank Closed. :.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. "A Wa
basha. Mimi. dispatch to the Journal
says the Peoples bank of that place
closed its doors Wednesday morning
and is now in the hands of the bank
examiner. Depositors, it is claimed,
will lose nothing. No statement of
assets and liabilities has been given
out. ~ '' q Do
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Generous Gifts.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-Dr. Harper an
nounced at the University of Chicago
convocation that only $315,303 was
needed to complete the $2,ooo,ooO nee
essary to secure a like amount from
John D. Rockefeller. In 1889 $55O,O0O
was raised. He is confident the bal
ance can be secured by April /. Mrs.
Annie Hitchcock gave 100000 and
Leon Mandel $4,000.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Great Gas Well Struck

Findlay, o., Jan. A 100000 cubic
feet gas we'll was struck four miles east
of here at noon Wednesday by operators
who are "wildcatting" in new territory
All tools, casing and tubings were
blown out of the we'll, and the roar of
escaping gas can be heard for five miles.
This is the greatest gas well in Ohio
since the famous Karg well of ten
years ago, which started the natural
gas boom in northwestern Ohio.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Church Burned.

stromsberg, Neb., Jan. 2.-Eden
Baptist church, which was dedicated
only year ago, was totally destroyed
by fire early Sunday morning and two
people seriously injured. The fire
was caused by an explosion of acety-
lene gas, with which the church was
lighted. New Years watch meetings
were being held and large number
OF people were present. but most of
them had just left the building when
the explosion occurred. The building
was badly wrecked and what was not
destroyed by the explosion was con-
sumed by fire. Mrs. J. L. johnson and
her daughter Pearl were seriously in
iured.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

Foreigners who visit the Paris ex-
position this year will have an oppor-
tunity of seeing a typical American
machine shop in full operation. Not
only will the machinery in the build
ing. such as travelling cranes, hangers,
shafting, electric motors, etc, be of
American make, but the structure it,
self will have been made on this side
of the Atlantic.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Left No will.

Springfield. Mass, Jan. "A petition
was presented in the probate court
here Monday by w. r. Moody, eldest son
of the late evangelist, Dwight L. Moody,
asking that he be appointed admins
traitor of his fathers estate. The petit
ton will be acted upon to-day, when
it is expected that the request will be
granted. Mr.. Moody left no will.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Puritan was driven ashore at
Cabot Island, n. :. and eight Of the
schooner's crew Of nine we're lost.
At esburg Gen. French, with
1000 men. surprised the Beers and
forced q hem to q aband on the town and
retreat reconnoite tering part Of
British, meeting the Beers at. Dord-
1recht, were forced to retire after six
hours battle with ight losses. Gen.
Kitchener says It will take year ami
$50. 900 men to conquer the Beers.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

It is said the oleomargarine facto-
ries have driven 100000 cows out of
business. Between these and the pump
it begins to look as though bossy
would soon have nothing to do but lie
in the shade and ruminate. Y d.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Honor for NaXal Oficers.

Washington, Jan. 4.-The Venezu-
elan government has conferred the or
der of the ''Bust of Bolivar on Ad-
miral Sampson, Capts. Taylor, Cook.
Sigsbee, Chadwick, Goodrich, and Com
manders Mead, Dayton, Symonds and
Todd, Of the navy, and Representative
Hit has introduced bill authorizing
the acceptance of the decorations.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

A soldier in New Mexico has been
married to Kentucky girl by tele-
graph. AL that is needed now is sys-
tenn OF engagements by mail. honey
moons by long-distance telephone and
divorces by thought transference to
make marriage an estate of beatitude-
for those who don't do it.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

Again an excited woman in Chicago
has claimed man as her husband only
to learn later that she never saw him
before. If this sort OF. thing keeps upit
will soon be unsafe for any man to go
abroad without taking his wife along
for protection, and if he has no wife
there will be nothing for him to do but
to remain indoors and keep away from
the windows where anxious females
might get glimpse of him.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Shot Through the Heart.

New York. Jan. 2.-Ellen Labash was
shot and instantly killed at Passaic, N.
j., at the beginning of the new year
Monday. Michael Schwartz celebrated
the advent of the new year by going
outside the house and firing four shots
from his revolver. After entering the
house he pulled the trigger, believing
there was no other bullet in the pistol.
There was loud report and Miss La:
bash fell to the floor, shot in the heart.
Schwartz was arrested.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Country Bank Robbed.

Tolono, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-The Bank of To-
lono, private institution. of which R.
A. Bower is president and S. NJ. Bower
cashier, was entered by burglars at an
early hour Saturday morning and $4,-
500 in cash taken from the safe. Besides
this about $500 in stamps and postal
funds were taken from a deposit box
which Postmaster Campbell had placed
in the bank for safe keeping. The safe
was ruined.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

Residents of West Hartford, Conn.,,
have organized the Noah Webster Me-
mortal association, the object of which
is to erect library building in that
town in memory of the great lexicog-
rapher. Mr.. Webster was born in Oc-
tober. 1858, within the limits of West
Hartford, when it was portion of the
town of Hartford, and he died there in
MAY 1S42
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Fatal Boiler ExDlo.ion.

Lancaster, Pa, Jan. -Four men
were killed and several Others injured
by a boiler explosion one mile west of
Elizabet thtown. They were employees
of Keller and #Kresson, railroad con-
tractors. The dead are: Donald.
Haldeman, Of Bainbridge; Wit Sher-
balm, of West Donegal; Burt Harris,
= negro; an Italian, known as Tony.
The latter was hurled $50 feet.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

Albert Fl. Holder, an expert mining
engineer who has arrived from Az
rica. says that the war between the
Beers and the British will last at
least two years. He predicts that be-
fore giving up johannesburg the Beers
will destroy the mines and everything
else. the whole being valued at a bill
lion and half dollars.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Seven Men Hurt.

St. Paul, MINI, Jan. "A passenger
train on the Chicago Great Western
railroad Wednesday night crashed into
the rear of a Northern Pacific stock
train near the Mississippi street bridge
in the eastern portion of this city, split
ting the caboose in two and injuring
seven men.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Beware Of Ointments for Catarfh
That Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable
p often a ten fold to to- the good you Can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
O., contains no mercury, and is taken inter:
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
uine. It is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi-
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
Blackburn Kominated.

Frankfort, Ky, Jan. 3.-After four
years Of retirement, former Senator
Joseph Clay Stiles Black burn was
chosen Tuesday night by the joint
caucus OF the democratic members of
the legislature as the successor of
Senator William Lindsay in the Unit
ed States senate. 81. zs
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

A dispatch from Vienna says that
the government is fearful that the
country will be depopulated by the en-
igration to America. From one county
alone $500 men have started for this
country during the past II months.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10

An automobile enthusiast made the
trip between Boston and New York. a
distance of PSI miles, in II hours, one
day the past week. The trip cost him
As cents for gasoline, or little more
than one-sixth of cent per mile.