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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16
LISTS FEAT OF MEMORY.

William Mason, the veteran Amer,-
can musician tells of a remarkable
feat of memory performed by the com
roser List.
My friend knew List very we'll
and having taken a fancy to a COM
position Of mine Les PerIes dc Rosee
which was still in manuscript, he said.
Let me have Il for publication. Dedi-
cate it to List can easily get List
20 accept the dedication | am going
directly from here to Weimar. III %l
soc him about IT, At the same tim, !.
will prepare tho way for your rocep-
tom later as a pupil
Not long afterward received a
letter from my friend, In which he roll
me that when he handed the music
10 List the latter looked at the manu-
script, bummed it over, then sat down
aud played it from memory. Then,
going 10 his desk. he took pen and
accepted The dedication by writing hts
name al the top OF the title page
Encouraged 10y this wrote a letter 60
Commemoration 81 the hundredth an-
niyersary OF Goethes birth 1 still
have this letter, which is dated Aug
lis. 1919 tlad / understood then that
Ljsft was ready TO accept me as a
pupil / should have taken UP my resi-
deupe ut WeimW at once, instead Of
Lls2t expressing my desire to become
one nt his pupils, and asking what my
hauges were Unfortunately ! mis-.
interpreted his reply and received the
impression that 1t amounted % a re-
fusal. but at the same time he gave me
j cordial invitation 10 attend the test.-
val about Do take place in Welmar in
waiting until learned my mistake as
~ during q ea'l which paid to
L1slt nearly four years later July
Century
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16
FOREIGN.

The sultan Is reported sick.
The Per Iyian cabinet has resigned.
A cabinet crisis is imminent in
Bolivia.
Kurds are said to have massacred
Armeniaus.
King Humbert's body laid to rest in
the Pantheon
Loie Fuler's theater at the Paris eX-
position was seized
DR.. Wilhelm Lienbknecht, a famous
German socialist, is dead
The strike OF the Paris cabmen has
reached large proportions.
An alleged note from Andree has
been found 1t is dated June 2, 1900.
Renewed rains In India give promise
that autumn crops can be harvested.
Lord Chief Justice Russell OF Eng
land underwent an operauon and his
condition is serious.
A Pretoria dispatch says 1t is stated
positively that President Kruger is
willing to surrender.
Jean de Reszke and Saleza, the tenor,
are expected to fight a duel to settle a
quarrel Of long standing.
Great Britain Is said to have refused
to agree to the Russian army trans
ports passing the Bosphorus
General Baden-Powell is reported to
have been wounded in a fight at
Rustenburg, in the Transyaal.
Bresci, the assassin of King Hum
bert, has been put in a strait-jacket,
having developed fits of violence in
prison.
Luigi Luccheni, who assassinated
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, predicts
that all the soyereigns of Europe will
soon be murdered.
Augusta Nalette, a supposed accom-
| plice of Francois Salson, who tried to
murder the shah of Persia in Paris,
has been arrested by the French police,
King Alexander OF Servia was mar
rlea at Belgrade to Nine Draga Mas
chin formerly a lady-in-waiting to his
mother The bride is woman of no
rank or title.
Traffic ON the Seine is blocked by the
strike Of sailors and others, and the
strikers protest against the govern
ment,s action in using the army and
navy to replace the workmen.
Many persons were injured in a
panic at Rome during the passing Of
tho funeral cortege of the late king
Thinking that an attempt was being
made 60 assassinate Victor Emmanuel
the princes surrounded him with
drawn swords.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
CHINA

The allied army in North China Is
thought to consist now Of from $4,000
TO 10000 men.
The Chinese in Pekin are said to
have fortified their position outside
the British legation.
Prince ruan ordered the Chinese to
contest every foot Of the foreigners
advance to Pekin,
The construction Of the Siberian rail-
road is being seriously interfered with
by Chinese aggression.
The governor of Moukden issued a
proclamation urging the people OF
Manchuria to massacre Christians
United States Minister Conger, in a
dispatch from Pekin, says the attack
on the legations has been renewed.
Rain may prove a more potent enc
my than the boxers. Floods around
Pekin are likely to impede the troops.
The United States is ready to pro-
test against land grabbing. 1t Will
withdraw troops when Americans are
safe
rhe Chinese government has taken
measures for sending the foreign min
listers from Pekin to Iientsln under es-
cort
In a battle Sunday near Tientsin the
5000 allies engaged are said to have
lost 200 killed and wounded, chiefly
Russians and Japanese, The Chinese
retreated,
The French press is furious at the
appointment Of Count Won Waldersee
to command the allies. He will reach
Chicago about Sept. ! en- route to the
orient. He is understood to be the
kaisers choice.
Sheng notified the consuls at Shang-
hal that an imperial decree dated Aug.
. (the day after our uitlmatum to
China demanding it, authorizes the
foreign ministers in pekin to com
municate with their governments with
out restriction.
Ambassador White, who returned to
this country for short vacation, de-
clared that while Germany and Rus
sia have ample Justification for de-
clarlng war on China he believes Ger
many desires only indemnity for the
murder Of her minister,
Messages from Chaffee say that the
allies occupied Yank rsun on Monday
Indications are that Chinese resistance
is feeble, but there is fear Of mass
Ing of Chinese troops at rung Chow.
General Terauchi, Japanese, said the
allies would have $4,000 on Aug. Is for
an advance
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16

wounded is the outcome OF shooting
his four sons on one side and four
Harris brothers on the other, as a re-
suit OF feud at Deer Run, one OF the
mining towns Of st. Francois county.
Alo William Dooley, Wesley Harris,
James Harris and John Dooley were
killed and Frank Harris was fatally
wounded.
At South Raub, Ind, on the Monon
road, a passenger train coliided with a
freight engine and caboose. Charles
King, brakeman, VINO operated the
switch, is missing, but whether his
body in under the debris, or whether
he fed is not known. The dead are;
Lewis Raud, freight engineer; Thomas
Craft, freight fireman; Joseph ludlow,
passenger fireman. Four others We're
seriously and seven slightly injured.
BY an explosion of gas last evening
two buildings On Iackawanna avenue
in the heart of the business district OF
Scranton, Pa, were demolished ami 81
persons were injured The wrecked
buildings were the three-story Mer-
chants and Mechanics Bank at y
Lackawanna avenue and the adjoining
four-story building at No 422, occupied
by the D. /. Phillips Furniture Com
pany and the Scranton carpet factory.
The bank building was the former
home Of the late Judge John Handley
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16
SPANISH AMERICAN ISLANDS.

Fifty cases Of yellow fever are under
treatment in Havana.
Miguel Gener has been appointed
secretary Of justice in the Cuban cabi-
net.
The Philippine commission Will be-
come the legislative body OF the Islands
September !.
Filipino activity has increased dur
ing .ac past three weeks, in the way OF
ambusbes and attacks ON small parties
rhe proposed change in currency in
Porto Rico has caused a corner and a
sudden rise Of prices in an the neces-
sarea of life
The new marriage law for Cuba,
which reyokes the Brooke edict and
recognizes the ecclesiastical ceremony
went into effect
General MacArthur IS having great
dimculty in garrt8oning Philippine
towns ON account ot The sending of
part Of his troops % China.
A letter from Manila states that the
Filp.nos continue lighting Vigorously
displaying sraa. hatred Do Americans.
esptte the official reports That only
armed bands 8. rga1er# are now In
the HELD
Acting uuaetor-Geucral Of Posts
FosUgr o. cuba offered evidence Of t1e
drsr lime agalns. p e. Rutbhoaa gae
depasaJ director. whose ral ON
sb4Fea- 81 .rr....,tt.trffIaa u-#fF nrnr.f1,-,.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16
Repented at Leisure.
BERTHA M. CLAY.


to papa | know, and I am glad that he
has returned to England"
"He is not married, you see," said
Lady st. Norman.
mo, acknowledged the girl, calmly,
"he is not married; and, for his own
sake, | am inclined to think it is
almost misfortune for him.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-16

made on Dgtl Sues IN lHS nov lttt-
procity agreement with Germany
Eugene Y. Debs has written a letter
accepting the nomination OF the So
cal-dem0cratic party for president
Rev. w. w. Holley, Of Christs Epis-
copal church Hackensack rebuked the
women OF his congregation Tor coming
to worship without hats.
1t was announced that Senator Han
ma would take the stump for Mckinley
in the western states, and perhaps
would speak in New York.
Train robbers shot and killed a pas
senger who resisted them while they
were looting Pullman coaches attached
to a fast Union Pacific train
Ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne
has declined the populist nomination
for vice president and says he will sup
port Bryan and Stevenson
The Rev. Braddin Hamilton in ser
mon at Newport criticised society for
petty gambling, intemperance, extrava-
gance and Sabbath dissertation.
Supervising Architect Taylor de-
clined to allow only local labor to be
employed on the government build
ings at the Buffalo exposition.
Oscar Hammerstein will paint his
new theater, the Republic in New
York, all over again. Green and gold
spoiled women's compilations
The Mutual Life Insurance company
E4i
and only one company now holds out
in the famous insurance case.
The demand in this country for the
new issue of British war bonds is 50
great that the entire 10000, 600 may
be subscribed for in this country,
The union republican convention Of
Delaware met at Dover and nominated
state ticket headed by Or. George w.
Marshall, of Kent county for governor,
At Beaver Falls, Pa, fire destroyed
the works Of the Shelby Steel Tube
company and Of the Boston Electroduct
company, doing damage to the extent
Of $500 900
At Ashland, Wis, a million dollars
worth of property was destroyed by
fire in the lumber district The flames
were checked after three hours
struggle
The civil service commission issued
its prediction warning to heads Of de-
partments that political contributions
are not to be solicited from government
employees.
At Piueyille, Ky, Daniel Howard,
prominent resident, was killed by his
son, George Howard. He was intoxi-
Gated, and drew a gun on his son, but
the latter fred first
One of the Chicago singers on his
way to the northwestern sangerbund
at Burlington, Iowa, fell between the
cars Of he train on which he was
trayela tilled
Oyerseer General Dowie of the
christian Catholic church left on a
trip to the holy land, where 1t is his
intention to emulate the doings of
Christ as far as possible,
The backbone of the long labor war
in Chicago was broken by the action OF
carpenters in deserving the unions for
employment under the members of the
contractors council, who promise to
pay the union scale
United states Commissioner Peacock,
OF San Francisco, ordered that Julian
! r. Biddulph Arnold, second son OF Sir
edward Arnold be eNtradited to Eng
! .tlt. ~ 20
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02

THE PROPOSED CANAL.
County Surveyors Report TO the Governor
In Favor OF the Canal.

In Favor OF the Canal.
Last week THE STAR mentioned the
fact that the proposed canal from the up
per st. Johns leading into Indian river
would be so constructed as not TO injure
navigation on the upper St. Johns. Our
information was given us by Mr.. J. D.
Fries, our county surveyor, who has for
INFLATED very interesting report In the
shape of letter to Governor Bloxham
on this matter, from which the following
paragraphs are taken.
Mr.. Fries says:
~ have examined the section lines and
corners in the vicinity east and northeast
of Lake Washington. l found the map
very inaccurate, the lines dim and the
corners missing. l made two lines favor
able for such a proposed canal. Both are
about - miles long and which one Is
the best will have To be determined by a
more careful survey. The fall by these
lines would be about 10 feet.
"In order to avoid possible complaint
against injury to navigation on the ST.
Johns river propose to dig very wide
canal (about 100 feet but very shallow,
making the average stage of water in
Lake Washington level with the bottom
of the canal. Wherever the lake, there
fore, is at its average height or below the
same. not drop of water will be taken
from the 1T. Johns. 1t is only when the
water i'm the river is above its average
height that the water commences 10 flow
in the canal increasing the volume of
water carried with the increasing height
of water in the ST. Johns.
''Such a canal would have the advan-
tage over narrow deep canal; that it Is
easier maintained, cheaper To build, less
dangerous to stock and less liable to wash
"Any objection of fishermen on the H.
dian river to the canal OH the grounds
that the fresh water of the ST. Johns
won Id injure the saltiness of that stream
is folly, as the amount of salt water con-
tributed from its numerous creeks and in
lets would be amply sufficient To over
come any effects Of the small amount of
fresh water that wonld go into il.
IL find from rough calculation il
would take "a daily flow of water to its
uttermost capacity lone hundred and fifty
million gallons per day fifty days To raise
the Indian river north of the inlet at Fort
Pierce one foot as the high status OF
water IN the 81. Johns never lasts that
long, and at the same time the Fort Pierce
or Indian River inlet is capable of carry
| ing OFF many times more water than would
be received by the canal, it seems ridicu-
lous that the saltiness of water in the In
dian river would be hurt.
''Such a canal would be of vast benefit
To cattle owners, greatly lessening their
loss by floods and redeeming for cultiva-
ton thousands of acres of land now over
flooded a greater portion of the time"
From this rongh report il would seem
that such a canal is that proposed would
not ST. as dangerous To navigation OLA the
upper II. Johns as was AT first supposed,
and it may be- that when other data has
! been secured that the committee of the
jacksonville board of trade will be- in Il
position To take a more favorable view Oi
/ the project.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
SPECIAL FAST EXPRESS.
Southern Express Company VIII Help
the Truck Growers.

the Truck Growers.
The Southern Express company has
just perfected arrangements with the rail-
roads To operate Il tram of their own be-
tween Florida points and eastern cities.
The tain will he made up solely of cX-
press cars, and will make IL schedule equal
ing in speed the very fastest passenger
trains, thereby giving To the truck grow
ers of Florida many market advantages
that have not heretofore been possible.
This service will start February 3rd,
and will make only seven stops between
Savannah and jersey City, and will run
daily except Monday.
President VI. j. O'Brien, of the South-
ern Express company, is making tour of
the lower east coast. 1t is believed that
he will endeavOr To- make arrangements
during his visit To secure Il fast special rX-
press train over the East Coast railway,
10 connect with the proposed special To
northern points Such train was oper-
ated last season, and proved a boon To
the truck growers.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
Tent Protection.

Mr. w. H. Mcfarland returned from
his trip to Sanford. Enterprise and Or
ange City Monday afternoon. At the
cassava convention he made an address
and gave an exhibition of his quick ac-
ton protection tent for orange trees, sew
eral of which he carried with him there
1t is to be regretted that some miscreants
nearly ruined his tents on the night of
his arrival there by cutting them. Mr.
Mcfarland informs us that it is highly
probably that he will have a contract
Ia cover the orange groves of the Travel
ers' Insurance company aud those of the
Standard Oil company. The latter has
a number of groves near CItra. These
two contracts would keep the factory 60
ing IA long time into the summer months.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
CaSSaVa Convention.

The opera house At Sanford was packed
with hundreds IF earnest c,IS-aNa growers
and SOME of the leading women of that
city when the C.lssIva convention waS
opened by Mr.. George II. Fernald on
Thursday of last week.
The morning programme consisted of
prayer by Rev. Charles ii Campbell, "A
cordial address of welcome by Mayor
Melbourne, responded To- hy Capt. X. f..
Rose, chairman, AMI Stephen Powers,
secretary, and music by the Indian River
band, of Titusville.
At tine afternoon session Prof. H. T..
Stock bridge made an admirable address
ON the culture and USES of cassava Prof
r. T.. Ewell, of the United States de
partment of agriculture, gave instructions
in ! speech on the culture and uses of
cassava products. \ great number of
questions were asked and answers given
by practical growers. President +. q.
Perkins, of the Lake Mary Manufacture
ing company, responded s"'i.5, - -"
searching practical Or lie to adVt.e..:.
The Florida Agri4'
rolled manv mem Fghbred l. Fan :, g 2, IA
land gave an obj " a.
tive samnleS -,
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
Passenger Books Restored.

The Passenger agents of Florida rail-
roads met IN jacksonville Tuesday and
decided 10 restore the sale of lOOO-.,,
books on all roads running through u lie, Fla.
ida, the sale TO 90 into effect Febrr t
This Is in line with the ~ ~
reached by the Florida railroao,,. IN at
sion and the Plant : tenn, WILSON except
announced ON Mem Ta5TiaiI;e p. IA
,IJ,. - - Ia N,. I-I oAii'e' iJR., =
ninsular Railroad h"@ks' -
9bOr two. To conn., are now open at RE
sIItet's,a saving oery c-fiv Sunday eY 70 dotl'.
rom"t JoNE
q loihPt a. xs.S
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
MuST RE SOLID

Ny stock of lumber and building ma
terial Will be sold AT greatly reduced
prices in order To prepare for the opening
Of my big yard in Palatka. Send me
your orders.
G.. +. PApDISoN,
Eau Gallie, Fla.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
NOTICE.

The city tax books are now open at the
court house every day, Sunday excepted,
from o To IL "A. m, and from To , p. IN.
VI. =. JoNEs, JR.,
Tax Collector
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
Boat and Yacht sails.

Fit and workmanship guaranteed. Fish
boat sails specially. Send for estimate
ii. BENECHE,
Titusville Florida.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02
CAKE WALK.
The First OF Series OF Local Entertain
ments 20 Be Given.

A concert and cake walk was given at
the opera house Tuesday night which
was quite largely attended when it is tax
en- into consideration the affair was very
quickly arranged. Indian River band,
which is now playing an excellent class
OF music, and who acquitted themselves
80 creditably at Sanford last week as to
win encomiums of praise generally, rem
dered the following excellent programme:
Overture, Impromptu Daily
Minerva Waltzes- Miller
TwO-Step. Belle of Mobile ---------------Zita
Waltz, Sweet Dreams
Two-Step, Happy Days In Dixie--------Mills
Waltz song. In the Shadow of the Pines Lang
overture, EncOre-------- Barn ham
Cake walk, Jasper jenkins, the Cake Walk
Coon.
DlAlc------------
1t is very noticeable that the members
of our band, now that they have quite
mastered the art of execution in their
extensive list of pieces, have given con-
siderable attention to the higher points
in expression, tone shading and har-
moniZing, which are only rendered by
experienced players. They have made
wonderful improvement within the past
few months, and Titusville has just rea-
son to be proud of this organization.
When the cake walk was struck up
number Of our Young men focked into
the spacious hall from an adjoining room
TO the spirited rag-time music and Ell.
tered the cake walk contest. The COS
tunes were all strictly negro makeup
and dress. The decision of the Judges
finally resulted in the award of the first
prize of s. to Messrs. Jim Greek and
Bert Ives, as Babe and Rosa; the second
to Ed T. Knox and Phil Wright, amount
81.
The proceeds of the evening amounted
to about $24, which will go toward a
fund for the purchase of new uniforms.
A series of entertainments is to be given
for this purpose.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-02-02

For thoroughbred poultry and pouI-
try supplies of all kinds write E. w
Amsden, Ormond, Fla.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-24
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

Emperor William has ordered that a
special report be prepared for him on the
case of Prince Won Arenberg, recently
courtmartialled in German Southwest
Africa for killing subordinate without
provocation, and sent to Berlin for SEN
tence.
The Swiss bunderathe, abrogating the
previous regulations, has granted per-
mission for the importation of dried
American fruits, and also fresh fruits, on
condition of their examination at the
Basic custom house.
A wildly enthusiastic crowd, esti-
mated to have numbered $4,000 people
ton of the second Canadian contingent
which embarked at Halifax for South
Africa.
The state department has been in
formed that Consul Adelbert Hay has
sailed from Cape Town for Delagoa bay.
Marquee for Pretoria, relieving Mr..
Hollis there.
Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander
Duke of Teck, who in 1856 married Prin-
cess Mary Adelaide, daughter of Prince
Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cam
bridge, seventh son of King George III
died at White Lodge, Richmond Park
in his 63rd year.
Richard D. Blackmore, the novelist
is dead. He was born at Longworth
Berks, in 1925.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-24
To Telephone Under Seas

Thomas A. Edison, Jr.. and William
Holzer are at present working on an
invention by which they hope to tele-
phone across the ocean. Their expert
ments so far have led them to believe
they will be successful. If so, it is their
intention to form company to promote
the invention. Mr.. Edison said yester
day that he and Mr.. Holzer hoped to
have cable laid as soon as possible.
Contrary to the general impression, he
said, 1--WE have found that it will not take
very powerful current to send ines
sage across the ocean. We have taken
more than three thousand miles of wire
and subjected it to the same pressure and
the same conditions as nearly as possible
as those of the ocean, and we found that
our devices were successful. We sub
merged the spindle on which the wire
was and subjected the wire to heavy
pressure and at the same time made the
spindle revolve at the rate of ten or
twelve revolutions minute. 1t was
found that the sounds were carried very
distinctly. Telephoning across the sea is
bound to come. There is no reason why
it should not be done and the cost can be
made cheaper than biography. 1t may
take some time to have the progress
reach the same degree of pei Fiction as on
land, but there is no reason why it
should not do so eventually"