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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02

Office and the Man-sIn England
they say a nan stands for Office.
In this country we say man runs
for office Why is this?n well,
the principal reason is that il man
stood for office over here he'd never
get one.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02

1t has been predicted that the
Pittsburg coal bed will not be ex-
hausted for centuries and Prof.
Linton in paper read before the
Western Pennsylvania Mining Insti-
tute puts the time at l25 years.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02

LADIES if you want the dresslest
and best shoe in the city buy the So
rosis Waters Shoe Store.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02

GoLF players, SpaIding's whole
stock is at your command through
the Acme.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02
TIME TABLF

Trains daily except Sunday.
No persons will be carried on any
ether than the trains named above, and
stops will only be made at Stations de-
signated.
j. A. MARTIN,
Gent Supt.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02
The Daily IntelIigencer.

the Intelligeneer sent free to any adj
dress.
We want an agent at every Postoffice
in West Virginia, Eastern Ohio
Western Pennsylvania.
Remittances should be made by reg
istered letter, postal money order or
check. Address,
IntelIigencer Publishing Company,
Wheeling. w, Va.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02

1t is little early yet but the
campaign liar is making some very
noticeable preliminary skirnfishes.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02
Nose Glasses.

z Pair of gold trimmed nose glasses.
Finder will return to this Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05

terprises in Oshkosh and in northern
Wisconsin that VIII miss Mr.. Sawyer's
financial aid and encoura cement. In
politics Mr.. Sawyer was not less sue
ceSsful than in business. In 1863 and
1864 ne served as mayor of Oshkosh
He was a member of the legislatures
of 1857 and 1861. In 1881 he was elect
ed to the thirty-ninth congress and
served continuously for ten years. In
1881 he was chosen United States SEN
ator and served for two terms.
Ex-Sen. Sawyer was always in the
habit of subscribing for the benefit OF
the public in many different WAYS
Not only in Oshkosh but throughout
Wisconsin, churches, hospitals. col
leges, schools and public institutions
generally have felt his generosity and
for many years committees have felt
that they could rely upon him to give
them a good round gift. It is not
alone in charitable work that he con-
tributed largely for the public but. es-
pecially was it true in the world OF
politics He always contributed freely
not only to the funds Of the republican
organizations in the city and county
where he lived but also to the congress
sional, state and national committees
This was so well known that commit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
FOREIGN.

} Abyssinia is to buy modern guns in
Russia.
Russia is said to be arming to at.
tack Turkey.
There will be free vaccination at the
Paris exposition.
Lord Wolseley is reported to be suf-
fering from cancer.
Russia has brigade of 200 officers
and 1900 Cossacks in Persia.
A cabinet council agreed to open
the Paris exposition April IA.
Field Marshal Sir Donald Stewart
Of the British army died in Algiers
Alfred Austin issued a book OF
poems dedicated to the Irish people.
Additional waterworks are to be
built for Vienna at cost of $4,000, 900
The pope is growing thinner and
pale, but his mind continues vigorous.
Baron Ziemialkowski, Austrian
statesman, is dead at Vienna, aged SO.
Viceroy Cruzon said 100000 per-
sons are receiving famine relief in
India.
Italian socialists appointed a COM
mittee to work for constitutional re-
vision
Liberals navy, consisting of two
gunboats, has been destroyed by acct
dents.
1t is said the duke of Orleans has
bought an estate in Hungary and will
live there.
refusal of Roumania to admit Jews
to the schools led to the emigration of
5000 to Asia Minor.
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Pow
er Palmer will succeed General Lock-
hart as commander in India
The German richstag adopted the
budget bill and adjourned for the
Easter holidays until April "a.
A chorus of 1000 children will sing
Horatian odes on the 2,652d anniyer-
sary of the founding of Rome.
kIrishima and Asmayama, volcanoes
IN Japan, are reported in violent erup-
ton, causing great CONSERVATION.
Cardinal Camille Mazzella, who,
though a native of Italy, became a
citizen Of Maryland, died in Rome.
.O~bS'A ASoIS RuSSId VIII seize q
Corean port. A strong japanese fleet
was sent to within twelve hours sail of
Corea.
Count Vincent de Benedftti, French
ambassador to Prussia at the time of
the outbreak of the war between Prus-
STA and France, in 1870, is dead. He
was born in Corsica in 1917.
he British government has taken
no steps towards bringing up the
Alaska matter and it is unlikely any of
the conferences will be resumed until
after the presidential election in the
United States.
Supporters and opponents of Mrs.
Katherine Tingley, successor Of Nine
Blavatsky, are fighting for a legacy OIL
$4,000 left by the Baroness Malcolm
OF England, for the propagation of the
doctrines of Theosophy.
Determined 70 control the Asiatfc
cotton yarn markets, the spinners oil
Japan have organized a cotton yarn
trust on an immense scale. Though
this is Japan's first essay in the trust
line, it will include no less than 200
manufacturers in Toxic, Nagova |
Okayama and Kinshiu
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05

river Atbara, and some months Iatar.
In September, 1898, at Omdurman,
beat the khalifa himself under the
walls OF his capital and drove him. a
fugitive, into the western desert
Since that time the Khalifa has been
leading precarious existence. moving
from place to place and finding enemies
everywhere. His demise will doubt-
less restore peace, more or less COM
plete, to the Soudan, and permit the
development of its resources. Before
the end of the present year the rail-
way, which has been DELAYED nv
storms and "washouts," will be com
pleted TO Khartoum. General Kitche-
ner announces that a hotel will be
built at khartoum and facilities WI
be provided for tourists and CONNER
clalmen, so that it will soon be practi-
cable for the globe-trotter to include
the Mahdi's capital in his itinerary.
To the student who ponders over the
causes Of the rise and fall of empires
the dervish empire is of special in
terest, presenting, as it does, an OBJ
Ject-lesson compressed within the
limits Of short lifetime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
RIGHTS OF PASSENGERS
Interesting Case Recently Tried in the
English Capital

An interesting case involving the
rights of passengers in public convey
ances was recently tried in London. A
woman endeavered to enter car OF
which every seat was already occupied.
One of the passengers protested
against her doing so. She persisted,
remained standing throughout the
Journey, used abusive language to the
protesting passenger, and at the jour
neys end hunted up her husband and
melted him to assault the passenger
with a club, The latter procured the
arrest of his assailant and the matter
was brought into court.
In passing Judgment upon the de-
PENDANT and fning him for assault up
on the protesting passenger the Judge
declared that no one had right to en-
ter a car of which all the seats were
already occupied The passengers oc-
cupylng the seats had already paid
fares for the use of them and of the
car. 1t was an infringement upon
their rights for others to crowd into
the car, perhaps jostling and incom-
moding them, and certainly depriving
them of air and light. Persons in a
car which was already full had moral
and legal right to prevent, by force il
necessary, the entrance of any more
passengers. No one had a right to in
| convenience passengers already in their
| places. If the railroad company is
/ jaly
seats IN the train, passengers might
demand return of their money or might
| recover in an action for damages
these were, he added, the legal as we'll
as the moral principles of the case, and
the sooner they were understood by the
public the better it would be for all
concerned.
| 1t is to be believed that the same
legal as well as moral principles exist
here. They have, it is true, been permit
ted to fall into allegiance. But a little
public spirit and a little judicial fear
lessness would quickly restore them to
vital force. 1t does not matter that
a passenger is willing to stand in
crowded car, thus humoring the com
pany in it's selfishenss and inhumanity
and permitting himself to be defraud-
ed. He has no right to do so, to the
inconvenience and discomfort of the
passengers who have paid for and are
occupying seats. These latter have the
right to put their feet upon the floor
without their being trampled upon, to
sit erect without having elbows, hips
and other parts of bodies thrust
against their faces. to enjoy a reason
able amount of light and air instead of
being coOped into a peripatetic Black
Hole of Calcutta-think of allowing
only ten or twelve cubic feet of air to
each person!-and to enter and leave
the car without physical violence.
These rights are now fagrantIy.
needlessly, wanton1y violated in thous-
ands of cases every day.
We wonder on what terms Curtis
Bennett, judge of the Marylebone
police court, London, could be i'm
ported to New York and put upon the
bench?-New York Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05

and conducted by the Universalists of
the state.
President Mckinley will approve
the application for retirement of Rear
Admiral ]. F. Day. president of the
retiring board, and that officer will re-
tire with the rank of senior rear ad-
miral. Rear Admiral A. H. Mccormick
will be retired.
The publication of a Washington
dispatch to the effect that William ].
Bryan contemplates leaving Nebraska
and taking up his residence in Texas
| causes considerable comment. Charles
| W. Bryan, brother of the presidential
! candidate, denies the report
| President Harper of the University
| of Chicago announces that within the
last week endowment money aggregat-
| ing S127, 500 has been bequeathed to
! the Chicago university. Absolute Sc
crecy will be maintained as to the two
donors, who gave between them $780,
O00
Representative Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts wants the house of represent
atives to have full information regard
ing the orders which Captain Richard
P. Leary, governor general Of Guam.
IS alleged to have issued, interfering
with religious ceremonies and church
! holidays.
Mrs. de PimentaI, of New York. after
twenty-seven years of unquestioned
cred that he had a second wife in the
Azores, whom he deserted thirty years
ago. In her suit for annulment she de-
clares that she crossed the ocean to
find her rival still living.
The Michigan supreme court had de-
cided that the complete dominion over
Roman Catholic church property is
vested in the bishop. The decision wa!
the result of suit brought by Bishop
Foley to GUST from some church prop
erty in Allegan county a number OF
disenters from his authority
In Chicago Albert Stedge, II years O
age, avenged the insults cast upon his
mother, Mrs. Bridget Stedge, 4414 Ash
land avenue, by William Hobson, {
boarder, by dealing Hobson a fata
blow over the head with barrel stave
leaving his victim dead on the side
walk The boy then went to his room
The war department has recognized
Honolulu as an open port by orderin!
that the transports soon to sail from
here call there en- route to Manila. TIL
Hancock, which sails with the Philip
pine commission on April 10, will stol
at Honolulu and Guam. The Mead
and Grant will also touch at Honolulu
President Mckinley has nominatet
Rev. Barton w Perry of Oakland, Cal
to fill the only vacancy in the list o
: chaplains in the regular army Will
the nomination was set a preceden
for future selections. Mr.. Perry ha
, been subjected to a rigid physical AM
mental examination such as is requir
ed of a lieutenant in the army
Grace Holmes of Peoria located an
: other dead body in the Illinois river
Two weeks ago this wonderful girl de
clared that the body of Mrs Som
} mers was in the river and stuck tt
: her story, although few people pait
any attention. A week ago, while
dredging, the body of the woman wa!
found about. 300 feet from where the
girl first declared it was located.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
DOMESTIC.

Chicago March wheat, 65Ac.
Rabbi Isaac NJ Wise died at Cincin
natl
Pork reached the highest price sine,
August, 1895
North Hollands (Mich.l name wa
changed to Cronje
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer is deaC
at Oshkosh, aged 81.
Governor Tanner will remain il
Florida until April 10.
c. Z. Wennerstrum was appointed
labor commissioner for Iowa
Rear Admiral Benjamin F. Day has
voluntarily applied for retirement.
Senator Davis introduced free trade
substitute for the Porto Rico bill
The Kentucky court of appeals will
hear the gubernatorial contest Mon
day.
Congress may forbid the transporta-
ton of game killed in violation of local
laws
Ex-senator J. J. Coyle of Philadel-
phia was acquitted on the charge of
bribery
The government decided not to inter-
fere in any manner with Kentucky
affairs
The house committee agreed to ap-
propriate S725,000 for postal pneumatic
tubes.
Neither Carnegie nor Prick is on the
board of directors Of the new Carnegie
company.
The state department said that nego-
tiations for the Danish West Indies
are in progress.
It is officially denied that Great Brit
ain has made an apology anent the
Macrum incident.
The president sent in the nominal
ton of j. H. Goddard. as postmaster of
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Charges of heresy may be brought
against Rev. Dr.. N. D. Hills, of Plym-
outh church, Brooklyn.
The battleship Wisconsin, which has
been building at San Francisco, is
ready for her trial trip.
Ex-senator ingalls, condemned
Preacher Sheldon for attempting TO
run a paper as Jesus would
Senator Tillman again justified the
use of violence in disinfranchisng the
negro in the southern states
Rev. Newell D. Hills says he is
ready to resign from the Chicago pres
bytery if his views are obnoxious.
The prosecution in Senator Clark's
case filed brief in which it is declared
that the senator is guilty of bribery.
The bill repeating the Norton boxing
law passed the New York senate and
now goes to the governor for signature.
The trial Of Olga Nethersole and her
co-defendants for the Sapho produce
ton in New York was set for April 8.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
YUKON CROP POSSIBILITIES.

Experiment has now demonstrated
that wheat, barley and oats will grow
and ripen on the banks of the Yukon.
Whether it will ever pay to raise grain
in that region is a question more than
doubtful, but the fact that it can be
done is of considerable economical i'm
portance. The original inhabitants of
Alaska had in difficulty in supporting
themselves on the products of the
country, but they were hunters and
fishers, not agriculturists. At least
it will add to the possibilities of sue
cess, as well as increase the safety of
life, to have a food supply close at
hand. The unlucky miner will not be
confronted with the instant necessity
Of taking an almost endless Journey
toward the south, for the soil that re-
fuses gold may be kinder when asked
for grain, and so failure may turn
into greater or less degree Of sue
cess.-Kansas City Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05

him in the last twenty-five wears
Counting the amounts subscribed for
schools, churches, charities and no,it-
zeal purposes, Mr.. Sawyer's donations
since 1872 will exceed $3.50. 900. In
other words, for the past tyentv-6va
years he has given to the nuh,io !,
charities large and small an averaqe
OF $4,000 year and an aggregate of
over quarter of a million dollars
When the project OF raising money
10 meet the Harris bequest was in
danger, ex-senator Sawyer subscribed
| s2o,uO0 and 1t was this splendid sinh
scrlption which undoubtedly made the
| project success. 1t is scarcely q
| wonder that the "Old man had largo
political influence. He was on the bonds
| OF several eX-treasurers and of him
1t is popularity supposed that a hundred
thousand or more were collected
! One trait in the character of Mr.
Sawyer that won him respect from .
vast number of people, who objected to
much else that he did, was his untiring
devotion and sOlicitude for the comfort
OF his wife, who was an invalid for
years before her death. The people
saw and appreciated the conditions
and many man who would fight the
ex-senator at the polls and on the
stump, said in the privacy of his own
thoughts God bless old SAWYER. when =
picture of his domestic life fitted for 2
moment in public.
In addition to his residence in Osb-
kosh, Mr.. Sawyer had a home in Wash
ington that was one of the Iandma IL
of the national capital While he was
a United States senator his family
spent most Of their time
in their Washington home, and
after he retired from public life it was
occupied by one of his married daugh-
tiers. The house of Mr. Savers son.
Edgar P, on the opposite side OF the
street from his Oshkosh residence is
much the finer in external appearance,
1t is said that once when the senator
was asked the reason for such a dispar-
ity he replied: We'll, you see my boy
had a rich dad and | didn't" Edgars
son, Philetus Horace Sawyer, was we'd
ded some three years ago to a daugh-
ter of Gov. Upham.
Mr.. Sawyer's domestic life was sin
gularly happy. His greatest sorrow
came when he lost his devoted wife
who had shared with him his humble
quarters in the log cabin and his
mansion in Washington. When she
died, twelve years ago, after a linger-
ing illness, the senate adjourned as q
mark of respect to her memory. The
remains of Mrs. Sawyer repose in q
marble mausoleum in the cemetery, in
which will also be deposited the body
of the senator. Mr.. and Mrs. Sawyer
were blessed with five children-Ed
gar R., Ema and Erna, and Earl an6
Ella, who died in early life. Edgar
of late years has had the care of his
fathers large interests.
At the Capital
On the receipt of the news of Sena
tor Sawyers death at the capitol the
flag was Immediately hung at half.
mast and many expressions of sorrow
were heard about the corridors of the
state house. 1t is expected a large del
Il egation of state officials and other cit
liens will go to Oshkosh to attend the
funeral.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
MAHDlST EMPIRE ENDED.
Rise and FALL in the Case of the
DerViShes.

In two bloody conflicts, one at
Abriadil, q miles west of'the Nile,
and the other seven miles southeast of
Gedil, General Wingate has at length
destroyed the dervish power in the
SOudan. In the first of these two bat
ties Ahmed Fedil's force of $500 men
was decimated; in the second the
khalifa's sole remaining army was
beaten and captured and the Khalifa
emirs, excepting the willy Osman
Digna, were killed or captured, in
Guiding the Mahdi's son and the
Khalifa's two brothers AS the Khalifa
had himself killed off the other sue
cessors to the throne nominated by the
Mahdi, there remains now, it is be-
lieVed, no nucleus about which the
dervish power can recrystallize. The
Mahdist movement, which began
about 1881 as politico-reliious re-
form and produced a secular empire,
extending from the Red Sea to the
western limits of Darfur and from
Egypt proper to the Bahr-el-Ghazal,
has thus now at length collapsed,
after some sixteen years of military
rule. An absolute despotism, held
together by the double tie Of ia
naticism and terror, no regime re-
corded in history has surpassed that
OF the khalifa Abdullah in the
thOroughness of destruction of the
lives and property of the people sub
Ject to its sway. Vast areas Of coun-
try formerly thickly settled and fairly
prosperous are now absolutely desti-
tue of population.
The Khalifa Abdullah began life as
a camel driver, which hard lot he eX-
changed for that Of disciple Of the |
new Mohammed. His piety and devo-
ton so won upon the Mahdi's regard !
that he was given the exclusive control |
of the derVish empires affairs, even |
before the Mahdi's death. After that |
event he succeeded to the rel gious, as
we'll as secular, functions of his teach
er, and consolidated his power in the
usual Oriental manner by filling all
important Offices with members of his
own tribe and destroying all rivals or
PO0o1D1S 4SUGIS. his wars WCIC
Gus, his program at the beginning Of
his reign being to compel the whole
world to embrace Mahdism. 1t will be
recalled that he sent letters to the
Of Egypt, to the King Of
to the Sultan of Turkey
and to Queen Victoria, calling upon
them all to embrace his religion or
expect to be destroyed, by his invinc-
Die armies. He did in fact invade
ana acquire parts of Abyssinia and
over Egypt. His first serious check !
was received in August, 1889, when
lis army Of $4,000 men, sent to con-
luer Egypt, was met by an Anglo :
egyptian force at Toski and destroyed. :
nIsgovernment bred disloyalty, and 8
n 1895, when General Kitchener be- ;
ran his famous campaigns, many OF
us subjects were ready to revolt
In bis first campaign General
reconquered Dongola; in
he next he regained Abu Hamed and t
'uilt railroad across the desert: in f
he third he destroyed a considerable S
erVish army under Mahmoud at the S
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
SAWYER is CALLED
VENERABLE EX-SENATOR PASSES
AWAY AT OSHKOSH.
AN HOkORED LIFE ENDED
Deceased III But a Short Time and
Death Rather Unexpected-Suc-
cessful Career as Business Man and
Legislator-How His Great Wealth
Was Accumulated.

Oshkosh, March Sex United
States Senator Philetus Sawyer died
Thursday morning at 9:15 o'clock at
the residence of his son, Z. P. Sawyer,
in this city. The Illness resulting in
his death became serious at o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. The attack at first
affected the stomach, but later the
bowels and kidneys became involved.
He was conscious to the last and hav-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-05
SPANIS4-AMERICAN ISLANDS.

fhe Cuban national party has three
Candidates for mayor of Havana.
The Filipinos in General Young S
district in Luzon are becoming aggres-
sive.
The proprietor of a Manila theateI
was arrested for permitting the pre-
sentation of an incendiary play.
General Oti, has suppressed La Pa
sTia, a Manila newspaper, and impris
ored the editor for alleged sedition.
Captured documents reveal the ex,
istenCe of a cabal among the Filipino!
to oppose Americans before Dewey
sailed to Manila
Relief work in Porto Rico will a
ence begin. Governor General Davis
will give upward of $4,000 persons i'm
mediate employment.
Governor General Wood of Cuba is
considering the advisability of raising
revenue for the island by taxing estates
rather than the product
Senator Davis authorized the state
ment that he will vote against an!
revenue policy for the island which
carries with it tariff duty.
At Santiago de Cuba a meeting con
vened of various political factions will
view of effecting an agreement on the
candidates for the approaching cleo.
tons broke up in riot.
BY direction OF the President the
military post at Cayey, Porto Rico
hereafter will be known and designated
as Henry barracks, in honor of the late
Brigadier General Guy V. Henry.
Speaker Henderson wrote q letter
explaining the attitude of the house OF
the Porto Rican tariff, declaring that
free trade would benefit the trusts
alone, and intimating that that is The
secret of senatorial opposition
Captain Simmons, while visiting the
scene Of the battle of El Caney, discov,
cred six graves of soldiers of the eight
infantry near the station of CaprOn'S
battery. They were overlooked when
the general disinterment was made.