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Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
The Rat and the Elevator.

A rats efforts to secure a breakfast
caused one of the elevators in Temple
Court, Minneapolis to run away and
that no one was injured was due to
the GOODNESS of Elevator Attendant
Alex Lundeen and the air cushions
at the bottom of the shaft. The eleva-
tor became unmanageable at the
ground floor and shot upwards, strik-
ing the beams in the top of the shaft.
1t demolished several of them, and
then shot downward seven stories.
The rat had attempted to secure a
breakfast from one of the oil cups
and when the elevator was started the
rodent was caught in one of the pull
ley-wheels and the cable thrown of
the sheave.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Over 800 Houses Burned in n Spanish
TOwn-Great Suffering Among
Inhabitants.

valladolid, Spain, Feb. 22.-About
SEQ houses of the town of Ataquines
have been destroyed by a conflagration
which, as this dispatch is filed, threat
ems to wipe out the place. There has
been great loss of live stock and several
of the inhabitants have gone mad as a
result of their terrible experiences.
The governor and minister of the in
terror have gone to Ataquines for the
purpose of providing assistance, es-
pecially provisions. Great suffering
is expected to follow.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Death of President Smart.

Lafayette, Ind, Feb. 22.-Dr. James
II. Smart, president of Purdue uni
versity, died Wednesday night at 1o:3o
o'clock, at his home in this city. He
had been in ill-health for several
years, as a result of overwork in his
ambitious zeal to further best inter-
ests of Purdue. Until within the last
month he has been able to look after
his duties at the university. Since
that time he has been confined to
his house. although his death was not
looked for until a few hours before
it came.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Wreck in Wisconsin.

Chippewa Falls. Wis, Feb. a.
West-bound passenger train No. on
the Wisconsin Central, which is due
here at 1880 p. M, was derailed three
miles west of Curtis, between that
station and Withee. The cause of the
wreck was the breaking of the rear
wheel of the tender, which was de-
rallied. causing the wreck of the en-
tire train, except the engine. which
did not leave the track. The en-
gineer and fireman escaped without
injuries. Sixteen persons were in
iured.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
PODuliStS to Meet NTny q

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 21.-The next
national convention of the populist
party will be held in Sioux Falls, s.
D., on May 9. Representation is
based on the vote for Gen. j. B. Weav-
er for president in 1892, or if any can
didate for state office has since polled
larger vote, that vote shall be the
basis. Two delegates at large are
given each state. This was the de-
cision reached in somewhat ex-
tended but harmonious meeting of the
fusion wing of the national commit
tee which concluded shortly after one
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Mary Thomas.

Mrs. Mary Thomas is in request by
the war department and the St. Paul
postoffice.
Several letters have been received
from the war department for her, but
cannot be delivered because she can
not be located.
The war department writes to the
postmaster that Henry Thomas, cor
poral of Co. B, 25th United States vol
unteer infantry, now in the Philip
pines, made arrangements to have
portion of his pay turned over to Mrs.
Mary Thomas, presumably his wife
or mother, and the letter now in the
postoffice contains voucher for this
money.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
F8mOua Artist Dead.

New York. Feb. 2l. - William n.
Beard, the artist, died Tuesday night.
Death was due to apop,exy. Mr..
Beard was famous as painter of ami
mails. He was born at Painesville, O.,
in 1925: He began his professional
career about 1916. Ten years later he
studied and painted in Europe. His
wife was the daughter of Thomas Le-
Claire. the portrait painter. He was
elected member of the Academy in
1862.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Leander j. Mccormick Dead.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-Leander j. Nc
Cormick, who came to Chicago in 164s
from Virginia and helped to found the
Mccormick Harvesting Machine CON-
pany, died Tuesday morning in his
apartments at the Virginia hotel.
Death resulted from an attack Of
pneumonia. s<>.. ......
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
MINNESO NEWS.
T. M. G. A.
mla ela4a nonuentinn of the Y. M. T..

The state convention of the Y. M. G.
A. closed at Winona.
The chief feature of the morning
session was the taking of pledges for
funds to carry on the state work. In
ternational Secretary F. B. Smith took
charge, and inside of an hour $4,000 OF
the required $4,000 had been promised.
This is double the amount pledged at
any state convention since 1892. Vi
this $3.50 was in personal pledges.
The different associations gave as fol-
lows: Winona, 5000; Minneapolis,
5000; Two Harbors, $50; Duluth, S1oo;
Mankato, $40; Agricultural College,
$40; Carlton College, $25; HamEne
University, $40; Manchester, SIS; Man
kato Normal, $40; Parker College, S.;
State University, $50; St. Paul Col
lege, SIS.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Robbed of a Big Sum.

Mead, Neb., Feb. 21.-Lee johnson
sold his hardware store Monday and
received the cash in payment, amount
ing to little over $1,000. He put the
money in his trousers pocket and left
it there when he went to bed. When
he woke Tuesday morning his clothes
were gone, but were found later in a
small outbuilding on a neighboring
property. The money was all gone,
but his personal papers, which were
also taken from the house, were left
by the robbers.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
BOycOtt Raised.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 21.-The Spring.
Geld Federation of Labor, after a ses-
sion of three hours Tuesday night, de-
clared the boycott on the Springfield
Consolidated Street Railway company
raised. The boycott has been in force
ever since the strike of the employees
last fall, but of late the street cars have
been we'll patronized.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

While travelling through the Philip
pines a government geologist reports
that his ship passed over stretch of
water whereon there writhed 5O,000,000
snakes, of a golden yellow color, with
checkerboard patterns done in black
and green. The eminent scientist neg
lects to give any accompanying analy-
sis of the alcoholic beverages sold in
the PHILIPPINES.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

In a recent sermon at Central music
hall in Chicago a minister boldly pro-
claimed that, in the first place, there
never was any ADAM" and, in the Sec
ond place, he did not fall. And now a
judge comes along and asserts that
the Washington hatchet and cherry
tree story is myth. If the doctors
and judges keep on at this rate they
will leave US nothing to believe in.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The recent sale of an art collection in
New York brings out the fact that
within 12 months nearly 100000 has
been paid out by Americans for the
work of American painters. This is
encouraging, and shows that patrons
of art are basing their selections on
the merit of the work and not on the
fact that it was done by foreign art-
lists
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
MnrRh ReSixna.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 22.--Arthur F.
Marsh, ex-inspector of the Michigan
national guard. and chairman of the
republican state central committee,
resigned the latter office at meet
ing of the state committee held
Wednesday afternoon. The resigna-
ton was accepted, and Charles Flow
er, of Detroit. was selected to fill the
vacancy. Detroit was selected as the
place for the convention. The con-
vention will be held May 3.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

1t has been remarked that Mr.. Ho-
bart is the fourth vice president of the
United States who has died in Novem.
ber. His death occurred on the 21st
(1s9o). Henry Wilson died on the ED
(1s75), Elbridge Gerry gave his
name to the still popular trick of ger
rymandering-on the Esd (1s14), and
Thomas A. Hendricks on the 25th
(1ss5). The fact is of no significance;
yet, now that attention has been called
to it, future vice presidents will per-
haps eat their Thanksgiving dinners
with q peculiar satisfaction when the
holiday falls, as in 1899, on the 3oth. 3
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The commission appointed by the
New York senate to Investigate the
prisons of that state has filed its report
with the legislature. The commission
presents several suggestions toward
carrying out the idea that prisons
should be conducted with the end in
view of reforming the prisoner and not
simply furnishing him. They condemn
any treatment thatw will tend to decrease
self-respect, and they urge the aboli-
tion of the lock-step and the prison
stripes. The commissioners hold that
the prisoners should be classified upon
the basis of present behavior.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Three men who had formerly been
newspaper reporters in Albany, N. Y,
became members of the cabinet. Dan
iel Manning, Daniel S. Lamont and
Charles Emory Smith less than 25 years
ago sat side by side reporting the pro-
ceedings of the New York legislature.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
A Big Deal.

Unless the unexpected happens, one
of the largest mining deals negotiated
in long time will be consummated
within few days and the National
Steel Company will acquire two of the
most valuable iron ore properties in
St. Louis county, the Spruce and Clo-
quet mines at Eveleth. The Spruce
mine is controlled by the Spruce Min
ing Company, of which NJ. P. Kimber-
ly, of Pittsburg, is the principal own
er, and the National Steel Company
has practically closed a deal for the
lease of it and the Cloquet mine for
consideration of approximately ST.
100000
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The twenty-seventh annual report of
the New York diet kitchen shows that
great amount of good work has been
done by that institution during the past
year. The object of the institution is
to furnish nourishing food to the sick
poor. During the year four kitchens
have been maintained at an aggregate
expense of $7,536. With this money an
immense amount of good has been
done, and thousands of poor people
have been helped through sickness.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Both houses of the Mississippi legis-
lature have passed bill appropriating
$So,o00 for the purchase of a 10,0o0-acre
farm upon which the states convicts
will be kept. The convicts will work
the farm, and it is expected that they
will not only be able to feed, clothe and
house themselves with what will be
earned by the farm, but that the state
will make some revenue out of the sys-
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
BOYCOTT Uchcld.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 21.-Judge
Stover in the circuit court Tuesday
declared that labor unions had the
legal right to put in force a peaceful
boycott against employers of non
union labor and had legal right to
try by peaceful and fair persuasive
means to induce customers of a boy
cotted person or firm to quit that per-
son or firm and patronize employers
of union workers. .~
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Dig Lumber Deal.

Duluth, Minn., Feb. 21.-Word has
reached Duluth from a reliable source
of the completion of a large lumber
deal that has been pending for some
time. The deal involves the sale by
w. Fl. Gilbert, of Ashland. Wis, of
55,00o,000 feet of log run stock to
Cleveland parties, for consideration
of between $650,GGO and 100000.
About ao,ooo,ooo feet of the stock will
be sawed in Duluth and the balance
in Ashland,
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The agricultural experiment station
work which has proved of the greatest
practical value to the agricultural in
terests of the United States is likely to
he extended to the Philippines, Porto
Rico and Hawaii. Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson has asked congress to
appropriate $4,000 for Hawaii, $4,000
for the Philippines and $4,000 for Porto
Rico in order to establish experiment
stations on these islands. He believes
that even these small appropriations
will accomplish a great deal of good on
account of the present lack of knowl-
edge among the natives.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Coal famine of the most realistic va
1iety prevails in England, and the price
of the fuel has gone up to $11 ton,
while the wages of the great working
class, the people who do not live in
steam-heated apartments and who
therefore need and use great quanti-
ties Of coal, are but half what they are
on this side of the ocean. All of which
is calculated to make the average
American feel rather happy over the
fact that he lives in this great republic.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Church Burned.

McHenry, ILL.,. Feb. 19.-St. Joseph's
church was burned Sunday morning.
A large congregation was at worship
when the fire was discovered, but there
was little excitement, all escaping
without injury. The loss is 100000,
with $4,000 insurance. The church
will be rebuilt.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The retirement of Susan B. Anthony
from the presidency of the National
Woman Suffrage association is calling
forth a fund of interesting incidents
and stories of her life. 1t is recalled
that in 1872 Miss Anthony was arrested
for attempting to vote for president.
Her action was intended to test the
amendment, and she attempted to
force the election judges to accept her
ballot. Miss Anthony was arrested
and fined, but she never paid the fine
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

Alaska begins to knock at the terri
torial door with considerable earnest
ness. 1t has been American soil 80
years, and feels that it ought to have
resources.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

And still science is on the move. The
newly-discovered system of chilling
moving freight cars by electricity gen
Grated from the axle while the car is in
motion, has just proved very successful
on trial run through the southern
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

A starving man discovered in New
York refused to eat anything until his
dog was relieved. Though Aesop missed
this point it deserves a place among
stories with u moral.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

New York, Feb. 19.-The Herald
says: H. H. Vreeland, president of the
Metropolitan street railway, has re-
ceived 100000 valentine in the shape
of check. The check was given by
wealthy capitalists who practically
control the Metropolitan street rail-
road, and they drew on their indi-
vidual accounts for the purpose of
showing their appreciation of the
work of Mr.. Vreeland as president of
the street railway.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Defeat for woman Suffrage.

Boston, Feb. 21.-The house on
Tuesday had its annual debate on
woman suffrage, resulting in the de-
feat Of the proposition, 124 to 80. a
larger majority than for many years.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

A Chicago woman married man on
Is minutes acquaintance and she is
now bewailing the fact that it is much
easier to get into trouble than to get
out of it.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Republican Conventions.

According to decision of the re-
publican state central committee at st.
Paul the basis for representation in
both the state convention to send del
egstes to Philadelphia, and to nomi-
nate state officers will be the same as
for the state convention in 1S9S-that
is, one delegate for each $50 votes cast
TO, President Mckinley in 1896, and
6v. delegates at large for each county.
The convention to choose four dele
gates-at-large to the convention at
Philadelphia will meet at Minneapolis,
Wednesday, May Is.
The convention to nominate state Of
ficers will meet at St. Paul Thurs
day, June %.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
News In Brief.


y. +. johnson, wood sawyer, was
accidentally killed on the railroad
tracks in St. Paul. johnson was walk
ing along the track toward his home,
and stepped onto another track to get
out of the way of an engine.
H. Stong, a shipper of grain from
the country, has entered complaint
with the governor on the state grain
inspection. Mr.. Stong holds that the
inspection is untrustworthy. He says
that wheat which last year was grad
ed No. hard can now only be sold as
No. 1 and No. 2 northern.
Wesley Methodist church, of Mime
apolis, lquidated in ninety minutes it's
debt of $20,50O, which had been stand-
ing for number of years. Within the
time stated just 23,6OO.10, in subscrip-
tions of from $4,000 down to 10 cents.
was raised, leaving a surplus of $3,-
10O.1O.
The next State Sunday School con-
vention will be held in St. Paul. April
17-19: Mr.. C. D. Meigs, superintendent
OF the Indiana association is to help.
Inc meeting promises to be one of the
most interesting ever held in the state.
"A murderous assault was made upon
William Hemore, a saloon keeper at
Brainerd.
The potato warehouse of NJ. F. Ken
nedy, at Harris, was burned with 5000
bushels of potatoes. -
j. F. Stanton was.found dead in bed
at his home in St. Paul, the cause of
death being epileptic commissions. -,
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

At the nge 81 s years LeAnder U
sMcC Cormick ], the last Of the trio Of
brothers who founded the Mccormick
Harvester Machine company, died in
Chicago.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
Enforce the Laws.

The movement inaugurated last
summer in the interest of better gov
ernment and the enforcement of laws.
has eliminated in the organization of
the Detroit League for the Enforce
ment OF Laws and Ordinances. The
league will nominate a ticket pledged
to the enforcement Of all state laws
and village ordinances, and to the is
suance of no liquor license for less
than $1,000. On that issue the village
election, which will be held March 13.
will be hotly contested.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
An Historic Cane.

j. C. Hull, of Minneapolis, an old
veteran, has just completed peculiar
looking cane upon which he has been
engaged the past four months.
Mr.. Hull served with the 18th Wis
consin cavalry during the civil war,
and the many articles and utensils of
cavalry use have been engraved on the
cane in spiral formation. Mr.. Hull
took piece of Havana wood, and the
work was done with an ordinary jack
knife.
The head of the cane is deer's
hoof, and in this has been placed 25-
cent piece which Mr.. Hull found in the
streets of Washington the day Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated. The
cane was completed Lincoln's birth
day, this year.
Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28

The United States government uses
nearly 10000 new typewriters each
wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-20
DIVISION OF FLORIDA.
An Impracticable Question, Declares a
Local Paper.

Abiding to the action of the Young
Mems Business League of Pensacola in
passing resolutions favoring the an
nexation Of that part of Florida west
of the Apalachicola river to Alabama,
the Jacksonville Times-U Union in a
leading editorial says
The subject has been much dis
c1lssed in west Florida and Alabama of
late years, and it may be added that no
question so impractical has ever
received more serious attention. We
characterize the project as impracti-
cal because it will depend for it's sue
cess on the support of so many Sec
tons. 1t cannot be done without the
consent of Alabama, of Florida at
large and Of the people of that portion
OF the state that would be annexed to
Alabama if the plan were carried out.
There is no doubt of the approval
OF Alabama, though Mobile would
doubtless oppose the proposition. If
1t would benefit Pensacola as it might
to very slight extent, it would be so
at the expense Of Mobile. It's benefit
to Pensacola and injury to Mobile,
however, is doubtful, and would be of
small amount, for transportation lines
care little for state pride. They will
ship through the port which offers the
best facilities, and the exporters OF
Alabama products are not apt to make
IL condition with the transportation
company Offering the lowest rates that
the products be exported through an
Alabama port. Much of the iron OF
Alabama is already shipped through
Pensacola, in spite of the state line.
and it is not certain nor even probable
that appreCiably more would be
shipped through that port if Pensacola
were an Alabama city.
But while the hope of gain in bust
ness, however remote and uncertain.
might influence d number of business
men in Pensacola to throw state pride
away and consent to annexation TO
another state, no such motive would
apply to the remainder Of west Flor
ida. The state pride of the people of
that section would cause them to op-
pose the proposition and they would
have no motive for favoring it.
But even if west Florida were will
ing the balance of the state would GER
talnly not be, and the majority against
the measure in the state as a whole
would be large. No state has ever yet
given up thickly settled territory, and
there is no reason to believe that Flor
! ida will take the lead in a movement
for the readjustment Of State lines.
The talk Of removing the capital
from Tallahassee has added something
to the little vitality that was already
in the movement, but it has not added
enough to make it at all probable
that it will ever amount to anything
more than talk"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-20

Military uniforms were not originally
especially splenuIu. 1t was the Prus-
sian army, and then Napoleon, who
set the example of adjoining the
soldiers dress all over with fur, gold
lace, and so on. The NapoIeonic
armies suffered from a perfect mania
for snowy trappings.
People Of this country who are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of the red clover, if hung in
the room and left to dry and shea its
faint, fragrant perfume through the
air, will drive away more flies than
sticky saucers of molasses and other
fytraps and fypapers can ever couect.
Rhubarb and raspberries can be pre-
served with cold water. Fill the jar to
the top with rhubarb cut fine, or
berries, and pour cold water into it
slowly until there is no sign of an air
bubble to be found; then cover quickly,
and set away. The berries will keep
perfectly, and retain much of their
natural flavor