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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
news OF NcTep PERSONS.

Il ~. 49,
j. j. Hill has been elected director
of the Erie railroad.
Samuel Gompers has been reelected
president of the American Federation
of Labor
It's reported that the condition q
Lieutenant Richmond Hobson is mucl
improved.
Consul General Goodnow at Shang.
hal has sailed for the United States on
leave Of absence.
Richard Croker has been ordered by
the British income tax assessors to pay
a tax on 100000 a year.
Mayor johnson of Fargo, N. d., has
been elected president of the League OF
American Municipalities
Emperor Nicholas for the first time
since his illness began went into the
open air Friday, sitting on veranda.
Mr.. Bryan announces that he will
enter the field of journalism about Jan.
/, when he will start weekly paper
called The Commoner
Senator Hanna has hired the cha lber
Of commerce building in Cleveland for
New Years night for the coming-out
party Of his daughter Ruth.
James F. J. Archibald, war corre-
spondent, has just returned to the
United States from the Transvaal.
He does not think the war over by any
means
The condition of King Oscar Of Swe.
den and Norway is so much improved
that it is expected he will be able to
resume the reins of government in a
few days
In reply to dispatch from Grand
Rapids, Mich, inviting him to the
United States, Mr.. Kruger has wired
that he has not arrived at any decision
with regard to visiting America.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRlTlsH-BoER WAR NEWS.


General Kitchener reports that th,
Beers under Dewet have again eludet
Knox.
| The Beers who attacked Vryheid
Dec 10, lost 100 killed and wounded
before they retired.
Sir Alfred Miner has been gazetted
administrator Of the Orange River Col
ony and the Transvaal.
Reports of British victory at Orange
river are current in London. The
Boer losses are said to be very heavy.
1t appears that Dewet's force was
twice repulsed before it broke through
the British lines in the neighborhood
of Thaba N'Chu.
Seven hundred Beers have crossed
from Orange River Colony into Cape
Colony, near Aliwal North, and have
reached Kaapdal.
Lord Kitchener is reported to have
sent fresh and urgent request to the
government to send every available
mounted man to South Africa.
Colonel Momfeld, moving on Vry-
held, defeated the Beers with heavy
loss, driving them from Scheeper's mex
and capturing a quantity Of arms.
Communication by rail between Pre-
toria and Lourenzo Marques is entirely
cut off, the Beers infesting nearly the
whole of the line to the Portuguese
border.
General Kitchener reports that Cen
eral Clements has arrived at Commando
Mex after losing 5 officers and men
killed and 10 officers and 555 men taken
prisoners by Commandment Delarey's
force.
A portion of Brabant's Horse, con-
sisting mainly of raw recruits, engaged
q superior force Of Beers. Dec. IS, near
Zastron, Orange River Colony, losing
a killed, l6 wounded and 40 taken
prisoners.
A train proceeding from Natal to
johannesburg, loaded with horses for
the British, was held up by $50 Beers
near Vlaklaagte. The burghers made
the horses jump out Of the trucks and
captured 100 of them.
Lord Kitchener reports that after So
we're fighting at Nooitgedacht General
ClemeeEts' forces were compelled to re.
ire by Commandant Delarey with a
force of 2, 500 men. Five officers were
filled, but the other Casualties arc not
reported.
Lord Kitchener reports that the
at Lichtenbnrg reports /
hat in an attack on the British column
here the Boer commander. General
lettmer, and two other Beers were
,illed. Attacks on Bethlehem and
Trede were repulsed and the Beers had
o killed and IA wounded.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

Officers 81 allied forces have formed
aprovisional government for Peking.
Tbs ministers at Peking are reported
TO have rejected Ii Hung Chang's ore
dentials.
According to Chinese sources ofsin-
formation Emperor KtEang Su is ready
to agree TO the demands Of the powers
Another delay in the presentation If
the preliminary note Of the powers TO
The Chinese ENJOYS hasgbeen caused By
the instructions received by Sir Ernest
Satow, the British minister, from his
government demanding that certain
changes be made In the document
Ii Hung Chang and Prince Ching
have sent an official notification to the
ministers that they have received the
promised documents authorizing them
/ TO act in behalf of China in the peace
negotiations and announcing that they
are ready to proceed as soon as the
ministers desire.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
A Gift to Give.

It is often difficult to decide what
70 get your friends for holiday gifts.
Here is suggestion:
Good morning, Jennie, I have
brought you nice present. said
Gertrude, as she handed her friend
a neatly wrapped package.
The pale, weary looking girl, who
was slowly recovering from severe ILL
ness, opened the bundle and held up
a large bottle Of clear, rich medicine.
Hoods SarsaparillaH she exclaim
ed, q have been reading about it
today and wished Iihad bottle"
On New Years Day Jennie was
able to be out on the street. and
to her friends who remarked how vel
she was looking she simply said,
Hoods Sarsaparilla,Y and every one
knew it was this great medicine that
had given back her health.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

y
Six Indians were killed BY a gasc.
line explosion near Cannon Ball, N. D.
A wind and rain storm caused con.
siderable damage in and around San
Francisco.
Two thousand shops and houses were
burned at Canton, China. Nov. Is.
About 40 natives persisted.
The immense tannery plant Of
Zschetzche & Son at Sheboygan. Wis,
has been destroyed, by fire.
Three persons were killed and a
number injured in wreck on the
Great Northern at Brockton, Mon.
The German training ship Gneisenau
has foundered off Malaga, east-north-
east Of Gibraltar Over 1O0scadets and
seamen are believed to have persisted.
The state training and normal school
at Fredonia, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire, enteiling loss of $3.50, 900. The
janitor and six girl students were
burned to death.
A false alarm Of fire caused panic
among 1900 children at Chicago. Hun
dreds were swept from their feet and
trampled on, but not more, than half q
dozen were seriously hurt.
The falling overheard Of man from
a passenger boat on the West river,
near Ho Kau, China, led to rush Of
some 400 passengers to the side Of the
vessel, which caused her to sink, over
200 persons being drowned.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
CONGRESSIONAL DolNes.

.
The house has passed the revenue
reduction bill.
The pension bill, carrying $4,000
600, has been passed by the house.
The house committee on census ia.
vors limiting representation to S57, as
at present.
The house has defeated a bill to give
preference to ex.soldiers in government
appointments.
1t is regarded as certainty that the
ship subsidy bill cannot pass at this
session of congress.
An amendment to the revenue bill
has been adopted requiring express
companies to pay the tax on receipts.
The senate has adopted the Davis
amendment to the Hay Pauncefote
treaty. The amendment is to the fol.
lowing effect: "That nothing in the
preceding sections shall apply to meas
ures which the United States may find
it necessary to take for securing by its
forces the defense Of the United States
and the maintenance Of public order.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has adopted an amendment sug-
gested by Senator Foraker which de.
clares that the Hay Pauncefote treaty
supersedes the Clayton Bulwer treaty
and also strikes out. of the Hay
Pauncefote agreement Article 3, which
permits The submission Of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty to other powers and
invites their acceptance Of It.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Two negroes who had committed a
murder for the purpose of robbery
were lynched at Rockport, Ind.
Peter Wallert, who killed his wife
and four stepdaughters near Hender-
son, Mimi, has been sentenced to be
hanged 81 8
The secretary Of the North Dakota
Enforcement league has been indicted
on the charge Of accepting money from
blind piggers.
After being out four days the jury in
the case of Jessie Morrison, on trial at
Eldorado. Kan, for the killing Of Mrs.
DIN Castle, has been discharged:
a sensational attempt wa made to
rob the box Office Of Sioux City thea.
ter during a performance. The treas
urer resisted and received q bulletin
his side. The robbers then escaped.
Four masked men, discovered in the
act Of dynamiting the vaults of John
Doerschuck s private bank at zanes-
vile, o., drove off all who attempted to
interfere and got away with between
s., 900 and $4,000.
Masked men dynamited the safe Of
bank at Seville, o., and secured 50, 1SO
The town marshal and several citizens
attempted to interfere but were over
powered and held prisoners until the
job was completed. 4
A robbery on the Cotton Belt railway
occurred at Bassetts, Tex, 80 miles
south Of Texarkana, on the train com.
ing north, in which Postal Clerk John
n. Dennis was fatally wounded and
the mail pouches Of his car ri1ed Of
their contents.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
LIE pEATh REcoRp.

. 3
Charles 9. Beaman, general counsel
Of the Wisconsin Central, is dead.
John Addison Porter, former private
secretary to President Mckinley, is
dead.
George A. Fuller Of Chicago, the or.
iginator Of the modern steel skeleton
building, is dead.
General Michael J. Bulger, aged 100
years, the oldest ex.C Confederate, is
dead at Dadeville, Ala.
Oswald Ottendorfer, the venerable
editor-in.chief Of the New York Staatz.
zeitung, philanthropist and reformer,
is dead
Paddy Ryan. at one time champion
pugilist Of the world, who was defeated
by John L. Sullivan in their famous
fight in Mississippi some years ago,
died at his home in Glens Falls, N. T.,
Friday.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
Eve 5000 Priees &C Chieago.

CATTLE-M Market weak, l0c lower
Sales ranged at So. 25@6. 10 for ge to
prime steers. e8.75@5. is for poor me-
dunn, 81. 5O@f.SO for stockers and iced
ers. $S.5O@465 for COWS and heifers,
Sc. 25@4. % Tor Texas led steers.
HOGS Market shade lower, closing
weak.
Sales ranged at $4.65@4.9711 for mixed
and butchers S47O@4.95 Tor good to
choice heavy, Sc. 60@4.7O for rough
heavy, 81 65@4.9 S5S Tor light. Bulk Of
sales, $475@4 go
SHEEP Market lo@25c lower.
Sales ranged at s3.65@4.50 tor sheep,
a. OO@4.7o for lambs.
Grain and Provision Prices ct Chicago
WHNAT- -Decem Der 7O@701S,. Janu-
AIRY 701S@7o5Sc February 1880, March
ny, May 7311c.
OORN-&D esember SO 1Sc. January 36111,
February sosSc, May $500.
OATS December 81 7zc, January 91A,
May 2yss@s 10
PORK December s1LS5, January
SaS. l5 May $l3s07
FLAX CASH Northwestern S1.64
No. i SL6S5z, December $l.61 May $l.6l.
POULTRY Dressed, turkeys SO,
chickens 7@715c, ducks $1,000.
BUTTER Creameries 100 40, dairy
lS@30c.
EGGs Fresh, as11o a
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
SPORTING NEWS.

Rubin and Maher fought Ground
draw at Philadelphia.
Joe Cans was knocked out by Terry
McGovern in the second round.
Fixes and Mcfarland won the six
day bicycle race in New York city.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
POLITICAL NEWS.

Representative Hit Of Illinois has
made formal announcement Of his can.
didacy for the United States senate.
The Kentucky court Of appeals has
oyerruled the petition for a rehearine
OF the contest for minor state Offices.
This closes the cases finally.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22

When the stomach is tired out it
must have rest, but we cant live
without food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
s,digests what you eat SO that you
can eat all the good food you want
while it is restoring the digestive
organs to health. It is the only prep
aration that digests all kinds Of food.
Hulburd & johnson.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22

Don't use any of the counterfeits Of
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Mosto
them are worthless or liable to cause
injury. The original DeWitt's Witch.
Hazel Salye is a certain cure for piles,
eczema, cuts, scalds, burns, sores and
skin diseases. Hulburd & johnson.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
FINANCE AND TRADE.

The season of 1900 was q record
breaker for Minnesota iron mines
/. Gold production Of the United States
iin 1893 was the greatest in the history
HOf the country.
Neg tiations are on foot, and de-
clared to be certainso Of successful con.
,clusion, for the formation Of pool By
a. OF the largest steel plate manufac-
turing Establishments in the United
States,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
Tirnotlhx Healy wants Damages.

DUBLIN, Dec. 81, Timothy Healy.
Nationalist member Of parliament for
the Harbor division Of Dublin, will sue
The Freeman 8 Journal for libel for
having intimated that his vote in the
Dublin corporation was influenced BY
pecnniary considerations. He de-
mands e3. 600 as compensation.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22

Help is needed at once when a
persons life is in danger. A neglect
ed cough or cold may soon become
serious and should be stopped at
once. One Minute Cough Cure quick
" cures coughs and colds and the
worst cases Of Group, bronchitis,
grippe and other throat and lund
troubles. Hulburd & johnson.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22

Now is the time when Group and
lung troubles prove rapidly fatal:
The only harmless remedy that pro-
duces immediate results is One Min
ute Cough Cure. 1t is very pleasant
to take and can lie relied upon to
quickly cure coughs, colds and all
lung diseases It will prevent con-
sumption. Hulburd & johnson.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
LiYa Stock Prices al sd. PanI. !.

HOGS Market opened shade lower
and closed steady at the drop. Range
of prices $460@4.80.
CATTLE Market steady. ss
Sales ranged at "a. 5o@5. 95 for good to
choice butcher steers, IS, 50@4 90 for COWS
and Refers, s. O0@4,00 for bulls. $4,000
500 for calves. -s.1.ss Il.
SHEEP Market steady.
Sales ranged at sa5O05.25 for lambs,
$S.60@4.00 for sheep.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Price Of wheat at Duluth.

WHEAT-Cash No hard 1870, No.
Northern 7211c No. 2 Northern $3.50
$500, No. 3 spring 525s@59%c. To Ar
riye-No ! hard 1916. No. Northern
71Ac, December No Northern 71Lc,
May 7514c. vi
9 FLAX Cash December ST. 6s5S, to ar
rive Sl.6S1S, May S1.65
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
Sioux CITY Live stnnIr.
TITLE Market steady.

CATTLE Market steady.
Sales ranged at 81. 50@5.50 for beeyes,
50. s5@3.75 for COWS, bulls and mixed,
S3.25@4 10 Tor stockers and feeders $500
@4.00 for calves and yearlings.
HOGS Market about steady. Range
of prices S. 70@4 30
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
Hoods Pills

On retiring, and tomorrow your d.
gestive organs will be regulated and
you will be bright, active and ready
for any kind Of work. This has
been the experience of others; it
will be yours. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all medicine dealers. 25 cts.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22

c. "A. SNOW & Co., Patent Lawyers, op
posite the United States Patent Office
Washington, D. c., who have actual
clients in every city and town of the
United States and Canada, report that
never before in their Is years practice has
the work of the Office been so well up to
date. They claim that patents can now
be procured in less than half the time
formerly required
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
Grain Prices at Minneapolis.

WHEAT-In Store Cash 7ssSc, De-
cember 7l1sc. May 1890. On Track ~
No. / hard 745dc, No Northern 72s6c,
No 2 Northern 691s@701sc.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

A receiver has been appointed for the
order of Chosen Friends.
The National Civil Service Reform
league asserts that the civil service law
is being violated.
In it's annual report the Minnesota
railroad commission advocates gov
eminent ownership
The League of American Municipali-
ties met in annual convention at
Charleston, S. O., last week.
AdYices received from Iloilo, Island
Of Panay, say that the insurgents have
burned q large part Of the village of
Callahan. s,sas4sagsl
The number Of Chinese entering
Canada who paid poll tax for the year
ending, June 80, 1880, was 4,2sl, as
against z 1886 for 1899. IN
The Michigan legislature is in special
session FOR the third time in two years.
The passage Of law for the taxation
Of corporations is the object Of the seq
sion. Z --ss
me secretary Of war has cablsd In
structions to Major General Mao Arthur
at Manila to begin the work Of return.
ing the volunteer troops from the Phil
ippines in order to permit of their dis.
charge in this country by the 3oth Of
June next.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-12-22
4 Tonight

# your liver is out Of order, causing
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart
burn, or Constipation, take dose Of
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The sun., 1900-12-03
CLEANED IN THE ARENA
OF PRACTICAL POLITICS.
Column Matters of Both General and Local Inter
est---Political Questions Which sBeng Dis
cussed From Editorial Standpoint
Various Papers
From Milford Chronicle.

From Milford Chronicle.
The cases brought in the Superior
Court against DIR. Thomas Moore of
Kent county, by Attorney-General White
have all been disposed Of by the court
ruling there was no evidence of an in
eliminating character. The entire pro-
secuticn of the political cases was in
tended for effect on the recent election
and they failed utterly of the purpose;
but the tax payers of Kent county
must pay Il pretty bill for this Demo-
cratic play to the galleries. The wit
ness fees, mileage and court charges
will foot up several thousand dollars,
and the people can contemplate the re-
suits Mt their leasure. Political perse-
cution is the proper term for this piece
of court history which should be re-
membered for future guidance. and as
the closing work Of the first Democratic
Attorney-General of Delaware.
Doctor Moore has come out Of the
entire affair unaffected anu respected by
all respectable citizens, and the com.
munity in which he lives, has honored
him with an election to the Legislature
as their representative.
The sun., 1900-12-03
AMERICA THEIR HOPE.

j. rom DaHy ltepuDHcan.
The Every Evening continues its trca-
sonable phiiippcis in regard to the con-
dition Of affairs in the Philippine Is
lands. II magnifies the number ofdeaths
that have occurred and the effects of the
climate upon the minds and health Of
the officers and men. 1t denounces the
efforts being made to suppress thr re-
bellion Of Aguinaldo as unwise and
unpatriotic. and calls upon the President
to stop the war and permit the Fiiipinos
10 enjoy the same measure Of self-gov-
crnment that Uuba is to enjoy
III rcbutial of the rawlings of the
Every Evening we may refer 70 a
letter written by Rev. w. y. McKin-
non, Catholic priest, who went to tile
Philippines as chaplain with the First
California Volunteers in which he declar-
ed that the vast majority Of the natives
are opposed to the insurgents aud in
favor of the American policy. lie de.
nounccS the insurgents for their inhuman
treatment of the Catholic priests On
one occasion he asked the Arch -bishoT
of Manila what he thought would he the
effect on religion il the Americans wrrC
TO withdraw and leave the islands to the
Filpinos. tIc threw up his hands and
sand he dreaded to even contemplate
such catastrophe, and he believed Tho
only hope for religion in the archipelago
was for America to retain possession
there
The sun., 1900-12-03
A COMIC WEDDING.
Other Dover News of General
Interest.

Dover, Dec Limitations have been
issued by MI. and M's w. ). b site for
the marriage OF their daughter, Miss
Julia Bertha Bostic, and George Iiyans
Mllbnurne, in the First BAPTIST Church
on Wednesday evening, December y,
AZ s O'clock.
Interesting revival services are now in
progress at Dover M. Church, the
pastor being assisted by Rev. James l.,
Nichols, of Wilmington, who is a fine
singer.
James Alice, who is attending the
Cht ltenham School at Ogpmz Pa, spent
Thanksgiving with his parents.
james Peterson of Dovrr has been
made foreman os the blacksmith depart,
nent at the new bridge over the Della
war. and Chesapeake canal ON { Della.
ware Railroad.
Wm H Jakes Of Wyoming, promi.
nent Union Republican. has announced
his candidacy fnr the office OF Enrollrg
Clerk OF the next House of Representa-
rives
K L. Holiday has rendered his resig.
cation as hrigadier general on the Gov,
rnor's staff and the same has been ac,
"epted.
The sun., 1900-12-03
rhc cienr Makers, Strike.

Tampa, Fla, Dee. 2.-Leaders of the
general strike here declare that they have
communication from President Comp
ers saying that all transportation 81
Tampa made cigars will bc stopped hy
the American Federation Of Labor. lie
says, according 10 statements Of the Ia.
Dor men. that lie is aware that two Of the
railroads entering here have no union
men and that they cannot stop those
roads from hnnllins Tampa goods, but
that all the men on the connecting lines
Of these two roads have the power 70
stop it and will do 50. lie says he will
have also The handling Of empty boxes
coming 70 Tampa stopped. The Trades
assembly say they have assurances that
the boNmakers in every factory will ~
fuse 70 make boxes for Tampa manu
facturers.
The sun., 1900-12-03
HoBs0N HAS TYPHOID.
Taken In nm Ambulance 10 Hos
pifal In New York.

New York, Dec. 2.-Lieutenant Rich
mond Pearson Hobson. I. $. ~, the hero
Of the Merimac, has typhoid fever here.
He was taken 10 the Presbyterian hos
pital and put 10 bed in private room.
1t may prove 10 be n very light case. for
he was resting comfortably, and the ply.
sicians are still somewhat doubtful about
their diagnosis.
Hard work III Hongkong and Manila
for more than year affected Lieutenant
Hobsons eyes, and a few weeks ago he
came back ON six months leave. He
reached Washington from San Francisco
recently and three days ago came here,
taking room at the Army and Navy
club, in West Thirty-frst street, where
he is member.
Lieutenant Hobson found much CORE
spondcnce and other work TO attend tC
and started i'll TO clear it up before start
ing for brief visit to his old home in
the south. At 10 p. Ill. on Friday lie
was taken suddenly ILL., and DR.. Russell
| III. Bellamy. who has an Office across
/ the street was summoned. He found his
| patients skin hot, his pulse rapid and
i his temperature above normal.