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CHAPTER vi.
The Spanish-American War.

The following winter the Maine
was sunk by a foreign foe, and over
200 American sailors murdered.
Simon was extremely anxious for ms
TO lick Spain "then and there.n But
President Mckinley, knowing that we
should not make an accusation without
proof, waited until it was proven that
the Spanish were the perpetrators of
the crime, and until this nation should
be in readiness to settle the difficulty
quickly.
II never saw the like" said Simon.
"how outlandish slow they are I'D there
N Washington. | suppose McKinley's
waitin' for Hanna, or somebody else. to
tell him to go. I'll bet il Bryan was
President of the United States spain
never would have sunk the Maine.
They'd have been afraid to. / tell Won
II | was President of the United States
and another nation sneaked around and
blew up one Of our ships, or pitched
onto us, in any way, I'd do the same as
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NEARLY ALL TIN PLATE
PRODUCED AT HOME.
Striking lntance Of the Value of Protec-
tive Tariff.

The Democrats have fashion of claim
ing that the tin plate duty is an impo-
sition on American consumers. Without
the duty which was originally imposed
by the Mckinley law of 1890, tin plate
manufacture would never have been be-
gun in the United States.
To-day nearly all the tin plate used in
the country is of domestic manufacture.
The factories give employment directly
to thousands of men and indirectly to
other thousands who produce the iron
which goes into the plate.
The United States imports and produc-
ton from 1892 to 1898, inclusive, have
been as follows, in long tons:
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b. H. Roberts Doubtful About utah

Brigham Fl. Roberts Of Utah will be
well remembered by the American peo
pie on account of the struggle over his
seat in the House of Representatives
Mr.. Roberts is a Democrat. Here are
his ideas ON Utah:
"Candor compels me to admit that
Utah is doubtful State. -Four years
ago Mr.. Bryan carried it by 1000, but
there has been marked change in senti-
ment since that time, and it is serious
question whether the Republicans will
not win this fall. Most of those who
had left the party on the silver issue
have returned to the fold and there is n
strong sentiment in favor of expansion. ;"
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Like Joseph's Coat.

My platform is like Joseph's coat,
A crazy quilt to get vote.
The widest hobby l will mount,
If l can call it paramount.
Come We to me who nurse sore.
And l will cure you evermore.
On one, thing only I'm intent
want TO be your President.
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More Freight Carried.

According to "Poor's Manual of Rail
roads" which is about to be issued, the
quantity Of freight carried by all the
railroads Of the United States in 1899
was 126,991 100000 tons-miles; that Is,
the equivalent Of carrying one hundred
and twenty-six billion nine hundred and
ninety-one tons of freight the distance
of one mile. This is the largest on rec
ord in the history of the country, and is
only another proof of the prosperity of
the nation.
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SHALL THIS RETURN7
(From the Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec
13. 1S93.l

10, ISJo.J
Boston, Mass, Dec. 13.-A circular
was issued to-day to landlords by the as
sociatons for the unemployed, asserting
that $4,000 workmen having as many
persons dependent upon them, are unable
to find employment and asking that no
rent be required of such until they are
employed. Another appeal, addressed to
the citizens of Boston, asks them to see
that the city provides work. A move
ment is on foot for procession of the
unemployed on the common. and meet
ing III Faneuil Hall next Tuesday.
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The creation of the tin plate industry
stands as one of the most marked in
stances of success in the history of the
country. The Republican principle of
protection is directly responsible for the
establishment of this new industry on
American soil.
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(To be continued.)
Value OF the New Industry.

Inc value of the American tin plate
prouueed ten IN the United States from 1892
10 20 lo9S, both years inclusive, was S7O.-
oohooo. All of this vast sum would have
gone abroad but for the establishment of
.ne industry in America, made possible
2: ~ tne protective tariff. That's Repub-
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Money in Circulation

The money in circulation in 1870 was
$675, ,212, ,794; in 1900 it was $2,006, ,6S3,-
042, or three times as great And this
under a gold standard where all dollars
are OF equal value.
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who Fills the Dinner pailq
Total

lotal .-......-........... ~ cents
The farmer produces all Of these ex-
cept the coffee or tea, and perhaps not
all Of the sugar.
1t is to the interest Of the farmer to
see that the wage Garner has chance
to live such as he has enjoyed during the
Republican administration
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Total. !. .1,oo5,7s6 1926 asa 2,232, ,27o
Prices have gone down as the result of
home manufacture.
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A STORY OF COUNTRY LIFE.

BY ALMA |. PARKER, GUIDE ROCK, NEB.
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THE EAST,

The New Jersey delegates elected
delegates to the national convention
favorable to Mckinley.
Throughout the country the Ma
tional league and American baseball
season opened.
The founder of the piano firm of
Haines Bros, New York, n. j. Haines,
died suddenly, aged 76 years.
At the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the goth aggre-
gated $1,725, S67 $50, against S1,S75, 425,-
COS the previous week. The decrease
compared with the corresponding
week of 1899 was 1878.
In the United States there were 1S4
business failures in the seven days
ende on the Goth, against 1873 the week
previous and 1874 in the corresponding
period Of 1899.
Flames destroyed ten buildings in
the business portion of Lewiston, Me.
The democrats will hold their state
convention in New York city June 5.
Despondent over poverty Marie Ros-
dIle DluSt JulIP Ch lIOli ~ CShiy -
bridge into the East river, 125 feet. but
will live.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the god were: Phila-
delphia, 1000; Brooklyn, .667; st. Louis,
.667; Chicago, 1888; Pittsburgh, 1888;
New York, 1888; Boston, 900.
Ed Ames and John Highly (negroes)
were lynched by a mob at Allentown,
Pa, for attempted assassination of
white people.
Almost every country in the world
was represented at the opening of the
ecumenical conference on foreign mis-
sions in New York. Ex-President Har-
rison presided and President Mckinley
and Gov. Roosevelt made addresses.
a well-known newspaper man, Ben
iamin Northup. formerly managing ed
itor of the Mail and Express, died in
New York, aged A years.
In New York Rev. Charles Beecher,
brother of Henry Ward Beecher, died
at the age of SIS wears.
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MERCHANTS
Appeal to House for Abolition OF
stamp TRX-Express Companies
Under Fire.

Washington, April 90. = Chairman
Payne, of the house committee on
ways and means, received a memorial
from the Merchants association Of
New York, which will be presented 10
the committee to-day. 1t is an appeal
for the abolition of the stamp taxes
on express shipments, railroad and
steamboat shipments and kilograms.
The petitioners state that they repre-
sent 1,400 business firms in New York
city, giving employment to several
hundred thousand wage-earners. be-
side a nonresident membership of 3d.
600 other business firms distributed
throughout the United States. The
memorial complains at considerable
length of the Oppressive charges ex-
acted by express companies, speaking
of them in strong terms as "monopo-
lies of quasi-public function, beyond
the reach of competition or the on
troll of the interstate m com
mission to which other common car
riers are subjected" 1t is stated that
the charges exacted by the express
companies are ruinous to certain
classes of mercantile business, and
that to this the express companies add
the stamp tax. placing it on the ship
per, with the sanction of the supreme
court.
The petitioners in conclusion ask
that the stamp tax on express ship
ments be either abolished or removed
from the shipper and placed in a lump
sum on the express companies, and
they further request the abolition of
the stamp tax on railroad and steam
ship shipments and on kilograms.
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H B CENSUS.
Results of the Enumeration Recently
AXE Under Direction of
Gen. sanger.

Washington, April 20.-Gen. Sanger
on Thursday made public the COM
pendius results of the Cuban census
taken under his direction. The hg-
ures are very instructive, and in the
opinion of the wal department officials
fully Justify the decision of the Id
ministration to allow municipal suf-
frage in Cuba at this early stage.
The total population of Cuba is
1879, 797, including s15,205 males and
1852 females. There are 447, 372
white males and 462, 926 white females
of native birth. The foreign whites
number 1890 males and 26,45S fe-
males. There are 111,S9s male negroes
and 1927 A female negroes. The
mixed races number 1850 males and
145,305 females. There are 1864 male
and 163 female Chinese. The popula.
ton of Havana city is 235,9s1, and of
the province of Havana, 424,S04. The
population of the province of Matan-
zas is 202. 444; of Pinar del Rio, 49,
064; of Puerto Principe, 1924; of
Santa Clara, 356,536, and of Santiago,
327,715. OF the total population of the
island, 1,10s, 700 persons are set down
as single, 246.351 as married. while
131,7s7 live together by mutual con
sent. There are S5,112 widowed per.
sons.
Of the total population, according to
citizenship, 20,47s are Spanish, 1896.
367 are Cubans. 1851 are in suspense;
1886 are of other citizenship, and Gle
are unknown. The Spanish by birth
number 129,240. OF the children ten
years of age and over, 49.414 nave at
tended school. OF the total population.
443, 426 can read and write, and 1855
have a superior education.
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DISASTROUS o.
In Southern states Is Ap-
paIIing Feared Worst Is Not
Yet Known.

-
Memphis, Tenn, April 21.-A spe-
cial TO the Commercial Appeal from
New Orleans says: The food which
commenced the early part of the week
has already caused, at a conservative
estimate, fully $3,oo0,0o0 loss in cen
trail and southern Mississippi, to say
nothing of the damages sustained by
the railroads. The extent of the losses
has not yet been fully realized, and 1t
may be some days yet before an accu-
rate total can be reached, for malt
communication has been totally cut
off between those localities which
have suffered most and the outside
world. In Louisiana, too, the damage
done by the unprecedented rains was
great, but in this state they are more
inferential than positive.
A special from Columbia, Miss, fixes
the loss in that little town and its
immediate vicinity at 100000. Many
farmhouses were carried away by the
mad waters, the occupants barely es-
Gaping with their lives, and the num-
Der of cattle destroyed was great. A
great many gins and millhouses were
washed away. Nearly every bridge
around Columbia was swept down
stream. Pearl river is now higher
than ii has been known for many
years. Miles and miles of the New Or
leans & Northeastern track are still
under water.
Meridian, Miss, April "a. Addition
al rains have added gravity TO the flood
situation in the surrounding country.
Small stream are all out of the banks
and larger ones began to rise again
by nightfall. The temporary track
work which had been done will be dam
aged on all railroads entering the city
and resumption of traffic will be long
er delayed. The situation in cutoff
towns is growing desperate. Food
stuffs are RUNNING short and relief is
nowhere in sight. Reports from the
interior continue to come in showing
great devastation. Farmers are aban-
doning farms as worthless and enter
ing the service of railroads, which en-
ploy all applicants. Meridian suffered
great damage in Sunday nights rain
by severe ~washouts. Fifteen inches of
rain nave fallen so far this month.
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N FILIPINOS SLAIN.
ing which BIS Insurgents Were
Killed and Many Wounded.

Manila. April 23.-Last week was
one of the bloodiest of the war since
the first days fighting around Manila.
Authentic reports, mostly official,
show a total of 37S Filipinos killed, II
officers and Pa men captured and
many more wounded. The number
wounded is hardly guessable. Con-
sidering hat the Filipinos entirely
lack hospital facilities, a great ma
iority of the wounded will die. Prob
ably the weeks work finished 1000
insurgents. The Americans loss was
nine killed and 16 wounded. Two ser
geants and one private were killed
in ambushes while escorting provision
trains.
Col. Smith, of the Seventeenth infan-
try, who captured Gen. Montenegro
and brought him to Manila, is in the
isolation hospital suffering from small
poX, presumably caught from the Fill
pinos. Col. Smiths command captured
$50 officers and men with Montenegro.
The officers were brought to Manila.
Montenegro, who was formerly n
of the most dapper officers in the Fill
Pine army, looks worn and haggard.
He says he has led a terrible life for
months, and he has offered to return
to the north with Col. Smith to en-
deavor to persuade his former COM
rades of the uselessness of opposing
the Americans.
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DIVES INTO COKE OVEN.
Unknown Man mt COnneIlsviIle. Pa,
Commits Suicide by P~Iunging
Into n Fiery Furnace.

Connellsville, Pa, April 24.-An un-
known man committed suicide Mon
day morning at the works of the
Frick Coke company by diving into
a coke oven. The coke workers saw
him only for an instant as he pre-
pared for the leap. He was well
dressed. For the slightest possible
space of time he seemed to pause on
the sloping ground behind the ovens,
then he ran down the steps. Eight
feet from the owe tops the man shot
into the air, his hands poised above
his head in the fashion of a diver, and
descending swiftly dropped head first
into the head of an over that had
burned to the white heat of coke just
before it is drawn. A rush was made
for the oven by the oven drawers, but
all there was to show of the man was
a charred mass.
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THREE MEN L
Terrible Result of an Explosion in a
Dynamite Factory Near Bay
city, Mich.

Bay City, Mich, April 21.-The pack
ing house of the Ajax dynamite works,
near the village of Kawkawlin. this
county. was blown up Friday after
noon, killing three men. The dead are:
William Weaver, Kawkawlin; Edward
HaIligan. Kawkawlin; William Van
Vlassar, West Bay City. All left young
wives and children. Their bodies were
orr to shreds, only enough being
found to fill a bushel basket. Great
trees were uprooted or torn TO splin-
tiers, and houses and stores in Kaw-
kawlin were wrecked by the force of
the explosion. II. H. Thomas, of Bay
City, is the owner of the works. 1t is
believed the explosion, which is the
fourth in seven years, was caused by
one of the men dropping a pailful of
dynamite on the floor. The financial
loss is slight.
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WISCONSIN A NEWS.
New Mircon.in Linz.

1t is reported that a powerful com
bination of eastern capital has deter
mined to build a connecting line of
100 miles between the 500 road and
the Green Bay Il Western TO furnish
a new lake port for seaboard traffic.
The plan is to build . road from Prem
tlee, in Price county, southeast to
Grandfather Falls. on the Wisconsin
river, in Lincoln county; thence south
in the Wisconsin river valley to Wau-
sau, IN Marathon county. where the
line will again bend toward the south
east, crossing the corner of Portage
county into Waupaca county. where 1t
will meet the Green Bay & Western
at lola, which is at the northern ter
minus of a short branch of the Green
Bay system. From lola the trains
Will run southeast TO Green Bay,
where elevators win be built to ac-
commodate the expected increase of
business.
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ENDS ITS LABORS.
Final Adjournment of the Trans-Mis-
sissippi COnGress-Work of
the Closing Session.

Houston, Tex, April 21.-The elev-
enth annual session of the TRANSMITS
sissippi commercial congress adj
journed Friday afternoon, to meet
next year in Cripple Creek, Col. The
important business Friday VAS the
adoption of a plan for the organization
of the congress on a permanent basis;
the endorsement of the St. Louis expo
sition and the appointment of a com
mittee to represent the congress in the
hearing on the st. Louis fair bill, in
committee, next Saturday, and the
adoption of a resolution calling for the
immediate passage of one of the Mica
Taguan canal bills now pending before
the national congress.
At the afternoon session the commit
tee on resolutions reported as follows,
all of the recommendations being
adopted:
Calling on congress to foster the sugar
industry; calling on the national govern
ment to open the Gilsonite reservation in
Utah; recommending exhibits at the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo; urging a
systematic plan of improving waterways;
indorsing various enterprises for improve
ment of Waterways; recommending open
ing of Indian reservations, and favoring
irrigation and settlement of reclaimed
Ior6a
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RAIN D NEEDED.
Forest Fires In the Cass Lake CMtnn.)
Region Threaten Enormous
Destruction

Minneapolis, Mimi, April 24.-Unless
a heavy rain speedily visits the Cass
lake region the fires now rioting in
the "toppings" will extend to the
standing timber, inficting losses which
will run into the tens of millions of
dollars. The fire is confined to the
stumpage and boughs, the old cuttings
of the past two winters. Minneapolis
log owners are greatly alarmed. Ev-
erything is as dry as finder. M. j.
Scanlon, of the Scanlon-Gibson Lumber
deal of property destroyed in the re-
gion west of Cass lake, and extending
back about % miles to the west and
northwest, and probably so miles on
the southwest. The streams have
dried up and everything favors a most
disastrous forest fire.
Winnipeg, Man., April 24.-Con-
tractors Keith and Buchanan, whose
outfits were burned in the woods near
Vassar, had a final roll call of their en-
ployes Monday night, and the result
was most encouraging, as only -four
men now remain who have not IN
swered to their names. 1t is hoped
hat these have also escaped and will
find their way to the city before many
days. The fatalities among the set
tiers are unknown. but no bodies have
been found by the search parties so
far, and so many fugitives are reach
ing places of safety it is hoped all will
escape, especially as the fire has abated
in fury and the wind has fallen. The
people who escaped tell of fearful ex-
periences, and the scene of desolation
over an area of more than 1000 square
miles is said to testify to the fury of the
fire. Wild animals by thousands have
escaped to open prairies, but hundreds
of carcasses are found.
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Revise Pension Rolls.

As a result of Investigations by the
special pension examiner about 500
names have been stricken from the
rolls of the Milwaukee office. Some
of these names have been carried SUI
perfiuously for nearly three years and
have been a source of great annoy
ance to the pension office officials and
clerks. Nearly all the names are those
of persons who have died, but whose
pension vouchers have been made out
continually. the office not having been
notified of the demise.
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The five children of Harvey jackson
we're fatally poisoned near Fairbury,
Neb. by eating a wild plant.
In Chicago Mrs. Glass killed herself
and two children by asphyxiation.
The death of Mrs. Caroline E. Has
kell. of Chicago, who gave a large for
tune for education and religion, &C.
Cured in Michigan City, Ind.
In Minnesota and North Dakota
prairie fires were doing immense dam
age.
Former Congressman David G. Col
son was acquitted of murder at Frank
fort, Ky.
Count Lautrec, a French nobleman,
was arrested in Chicago, charged with
forging Cuban government bonds.
Charles Smith shot and killed his
wife and himself at Brownville, Neb.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
Fire destroyed the plant of the ST.
Louis Chronicle, the loss being $4,000.
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Fire wiped out every industrial
plant in the village of Wilmot. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
Kenosha is making elaborate prep
arations for the dedication on Mem
orial day of a monument to the a
heroes of Kenosha county.
Edward Carroll, a veteran of the
Fourth Wisconsin battery, died in Be-
lott.
The body of Charles Singleman, who
died in the Philippines from wounds
received in battle, was buried in Mani
towoc.
The body of Mrs. Mary Bigus was
taken from the river in Milwaukee,
where it had evidently been since she
disappeared March 10.
All the BARRIERS in Menominee have
signed an ironclad agreement to close
their shops all day on Sunday.
James Murphy, a convict sent to
Waupun from jefferson county,
hanged himself to his cell door.
The university regents have pro-
NOTED DR.. S. 4. Babcock, inventor of
the Babcock milk tester, to assistant
director of the College of Agriculture
at an increase of $500 salary. He for
merly received $500 a year.
The Wisconsin division of the TRAY
elers' Protective association in session
in Oshkosh elected II. S. Fellows, OF
Milwaukee, president.
Samuel Howard, a well-known law
yer and veteran member of the Mil
waukee bar, died of pneumonia.
Mrs. Anna Strand, of Warrens. was
run over by a freight train at Mills
ton and killed.
The Darn OF +. Denzer was struck
bv lightning at Elkhart Lake, about
one-half of his stock was cremated,
and his grain, with some machinery,
destroyed.
Jennie O'Neill Potter. aged 2s. the
well-known elocutionist who died in
New York from cancer. was born IN
Patch Grove, this state, and was
buried there.
Fire destroyed the large ieehouses
of Conklin g. Sons at Madison. Loss,
$4,000; Insurance, $4,000.
The village of Wausaukee is to have
a distillery. and building operations
have been started.
Count Frenfanellicibo died in Fo-
lingo. France. Ten years ago he mar
ried Miss Marie l.. McClurg, a wealthy
society belle Of Racine.
o. s. Newell, ex-mayor of Kenosha
and one of the best-knowr men Of
southern Wisconsin. died suddenly. 4
widow and five children survive him.
Theodore Eberts. a farmer of Utica,
shot an alligator in Eight Mile creek.
The reptile was fOur feet two inches
in length and Is inches around the
body.
DR.. l.. p. Bradley. for so years a
dentist in active practice in Beloit.
died Of pneumonia. aged IS.