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state News in Brief.

Vicksburg's Council will put in fire
alarm system.
A lodge of Modern Woodmen has been
organized at Milford
The Globe Casket Co. of Kalamazoo
has absorved the Kalamazoo Casket Co.
Lawrence Vandenberg has been elect
ed principal Of the Grand Haven high
school.
The Globe Printing Company's office
at Flint was damaged $4,000 by an incen-
diary fire. Insurance $2,500
The third annual meeting of the Cal
houn County Teachers Association will
be held at Battle Greek on May II.
The infant child of Mrs. James Herr
of. Ludington fell into a pan of boiling
water and received burns which caused
death.
1t has been discovered that the United
States government does not own the land
on which its life-saving station stands at
Ottawa Point.
Rev. Il. NJ. McMillin, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Adrian, fell on
the ice in front Of the parsonage and
broke his right leg.
Battle Greek citizens will vote this
spring on propositions to pay the alder
men 500 per year salary, and to bond
for 100000 for paving.
Tubbs & Black, well-known lumber
firm operating west of Standard, have
banked 100000 feet of logs and ship
ped part of them by rail.
City Assessor Seyler has received word
from the State tax commission that Ann
Arbor city must raise its assessed valua-
tion more than S2,00O,000.
The Hambleton stock of dry goods has
been sold at Adrian to Chicago firm for
81 ,425. The creditors of the Hambleton
concern will receive about - cents on
the dollar.
The Michigan Manufacturing and
Mercantile Co. has secured enough tim
Der this winter it is claimed, to run its
stave mill and factory at Standish for
three years.
Miss Mary Isabel Smith, general Sec
retary of the Kalamazoo Y NJ. e.. A.
for three years, has resigned to accept
the secretaryship of the st. Joseph, Mo-,
association. EtIf tl nt
The farm house of Mrs. L. NJ. Angus
all of the household goods in the upper
part of building were destroyed
j. jacobs, a cousin of John Jacobs, the
Indian who was frozen to death near
Standish recently. came near meeting a
similar fate near Saganing. He was bad
ly frozen when found. but will recover
An Ann Arbor north bound freight
train was wrecked at Bannister. Seven
teen cars were demolished, among them
were some oil tanks. People living in the
vicinity carried away the oil by the pail
full. TA..l
The total amount of logs which will be
foated down the Menominee river this
spring is estimated at 255,0OO,OOO feet.
besides which about 10000, 900 feet will
be hauled in by rail.
The Kalamazoo News has been sold
to the owners of the Gazette of that city
and will be discontinued as an evening
newspaper. The News-Gazette will be
the name Of the morning newspaper
hereafter.
A thre--story brick building at Jack
son, owned by Ann Griffith and occupied
by Charles Flats market and lodging
rooms on the upper floor, was gutted by
fire. Loss $4,000, partly covered by in.
surance
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Another "sham" Industry.

During the past year fax to the value
of about $10,O00,000 was raised in
North Dakota. A large flax mill has
also been built at Fargo. The flax in
dustry Is another of the industries des-
ignated ''sham industries by the free
traders. An industry which represents
a product for one year of $1O,000,0OO
is pretty lusty sham" If all, or
even any, OF the shams of the free
traders had as much sound reality as
that about them, there might be some
reason for treating the doctrine of free
trade with some slight respect. Such
a reality as that would indeed be a
bonanza to them, TO bolster up their
empty theories.
The fax industry is not yet such
lusty "sham" as that other so-called
''sham" industry of the free traders
viz, the tin plate industry; and $10,-
10000 is only fractional part of the
value of the yearly product Of our tin
plate mills, but it is making a very
good beginning and will undoubtedly in
time be as unpleasant subject of dis
cussion to the free trader as the tin
plate industry and the iron and steel
industry now are. The 'sham" indus
tries, so-called, brought into being by
our protective tariff policy, have a
way, undoubtedly very unpleasant to
our free trade friends, of becoming i'm
portant factors in our industrial pro-
gress as q nation.
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But MISS AnEnouy u0es NOT RAM
quish the presidency, q enter into Q
period Of rest. She means 20 complete
the history OF the woman suffrage
movement in the United States. In
1876 she and Mrs. stanton began writ
ing the history of the movementl and
brought II down to 1884. During the
last sixteen years there has been more
practical advance In the status Of won,-
en- than in all which preceded. Miss
Anthony has preserved the necessary
materials. and now. at 80 years Of age
will begin at once the stupenddus task
of completing the story, bringing 1t
down to the present year.
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Modified His Views.

Bishop Potter frankly admitted that
his views upon the question of expan-
sion had undergone change since his
sojourn in the East, so far as the re-
tention of the Philippines was concern
ed.
The holding Of these islands," he
said, ''has become purely academic
question. The issue relating to the
holding Of those islands has got beyond
discussion. Although the attitude of
my mind toward expansion in the abb
stract has not greatly changed, am
convinced that we must adhere to our
possession of the Philippines. Time
will settle all the problems that con-
front us in those islands, and whatever
the difficulties may be in store, we
have all the gifts that are called for to
meet these increased tasks and respon-
sibilites. 1t is idle now to indulge in
any speculation as to what course
America ought to pursue with regard
to the Philippines. What might have
been done the day after the battle of
Manila is phase of theorizing that
can have no place in practical consid-
erations of to-day. We cannot now
put aside the responsibilities we took
upon ourselves, whether the outcome
be for the better or for the worse.
Apart from the moral obligation of car
rying out the duty we have imposed
upon ourselves, the comfy Of nations
requires that this country should keep
its control of the islands. New York
Tribune
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door to door with petitions praying the
Legislature to enact laws which would
permit a woman to own property and
control the wages she earned, and
would take from fathers the power to
will away their children, it was women
who slammed the door in her face, tell
ing her they had all the rights they
wanted. In the winter of 1855, one OF
the coldest and snowiest on record, she
eanvassed the whole State of New
York in the interest of those petitions
and also one asking for the franchise,
going from village to village, from
schoolhouse to schoolhouse, most of
the distance in sleigh, with not
home open to her, not dollar sub
scribed toward her expenses. 1t was
an unheard-of thing for woman to do,
yet not only one but many winters did
she make this canvass, and after ten
years of effort on the part of herself
and few associates the Legislature
began to yield.
Undaunted by abuse, SANDER and
threats of violence. and strong In their
sense of justice, Susan B. Anthony and
a few companions went steadily for
ward, blazing the way which is now
80 smooth and fiowery for the millions
of women banded together in organi-
zations and holding their great public
meetings. Scores and scores Of conven-
tions, alone and almost unaided, she
has originated and carried through to
a successful conclusion, advertised
them, hired the hall. secured the speak
ers, and made herself responsible for
the expenses. She has been always
and is to-day the financial burden bear
er Of the suffrage organization, and can
raise more money than anybody else
more than all the rest.
The first memorial ever sent to Con-
gress asking for the enfranchisement
of women was prepared by Miss
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
in 1867. They, with others. organized
i'm 1869. in New York City, the first Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association.
The same year the American Associa-
tion was organized in Cleveland Twen-
ty years later the two consolidated.
As.Head of the Association.
Miss Anthony never could be per.
suaded to fill the office of President Of
the association when it was possible to
persuade Mrs. Stanton to do so, but
with that lady's family affairs in early
days, and lecture engagements In later
years, the former was acting president
much of the time, and from 1870 Vice
President at large. In 1892 Mrs. STAN
ton. then 20 years ofd, begged that the
gayel might be transferred to Miss An
thony. and the delegates yielded to her
wishes.
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Murdered and Then Burned.

Paul Reno, a farmer, living alone in
Jefferson avenue, in Crosse Pointe town
ship, near the Detroit city limits, was
burned to death. All circumstances sur
rounding his death point to conviction
that he was murdered and that his house
was set afre to conceal the crime Reno
had recently sold most of his household
goods, but had left the cash received
therefor with a daughter in Detroit. 1t
is believed Reno was killed for the pur-
pose of robbery.
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NEWS OF OUR STATE.
ITEMS or iNvEREsT TO NIGH.
oANDERs
Trombiey Convicted OF Murder at hay
City-Mason County Tax Titles Are
Void Flooded by an Ice Gorge-Mur-
der Near Detroit.

At Bay City ID. ]. Trombley was found
guilty OF the murder OF his wife and
child. The jury was out five hours and
returned verdict of murder in the first
degree. Trombley was unmoyed by the
verdict. The case has>occupied two weeks
and was the most notable criminal trial
in the history of the county. Every eff
fort was made by the defense to prove
the defendant Of nnsound mind, but the
jury thought otherwise. The crime for
which Trombley was convicted was the
murder of his wife and child ON Jan. 1,
1895. He cut the formers throat, then
set fire to the house, his child being suf-
located. Trombley was pronounced in
sane by commission OF physicians and
sent to the Pontiac asylum, from which
he escaped last November. He was trac-
ed to Canada and arrested.
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The career OF Susan f., Anthony. who
has retired from the presidency of the
National Woman's Suffrage Assocla-
ton. and to whom, In honor of her
eightieth birthday, a grand reception
was rendered In Washington, has been
\ remarkable one. She made her first
speech inpublic in 1S49, at Canajoharie.
N. u, where she was teaching In the
academy. Her subject was the rela-
ton OF women to temperance. Two
years later, at Rochester, n. Y,
whittier her family had moved, she first
became interested in the anti-slavery
agitation. Before 1851 had ended she
had made the acquaintance Of Garrison,
Phillips, Greeley, Pillsbury, Douglass.
Stephen and Abby Foster, Lucy Stone
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all beliey-
ers In woman's right to the franchise,
and she became enthusiastic In the
cause. She attended her first woman's
rights convention in Syracuse In 1852.
.Lucretia Mott was elected President
and Miss Anthony was made Secretary.
From that date to the present she has
attended from one to a dozen conven-
tions every year. and never has been
out of office.
For several years she worked. might
and main, in the temperance cause, but
indignant at being ''snubbed and insult
ed" by the mems conventions. and "dis-
gusted with the subserviepcy of wom-
en-" she resolved to devote her life to
the emancipation of her sex. From this
decision she never has swerved, except
during those years when she labored
for the freedom of ,the negroes She
has been mobbed again and again, and
often las held her ground when every
man on the platform fed to place Of
safety.
Her Great Labors.
At the present time it is difficult to
conceive the ridicule and contempt
,heaped on the pioneers in this move
ment; nor did it come from men alone.
When Susan &. Anthony tramped from
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SOME OF REWARDS TRICKS.


When Pursued by Them.
Not long ago the Washington hunt
OF Valley Forge started young fox
in the. North valley hills, and the
hounds were running 1t across the open
fields when the hunters were surprised
to see a much larger fox come from
the woods and run diagonally across
the track of the young fox ahead of
the hounds, and when they struck the
stronger track ofsthe bigger fox they
took it up, young Raynard thereby be-
ing saved from being run down and
killed by the hounds. Hrl
Old hunters say they have frequently
witnessed this trick when young foxes
were being closely pressed and in dan
ger Of being run down and killed by
the hounds. Another and an even
sharper trick was played by an old fox
some weeks ago while being hotly
chased by hounds. The fox had run
some twenty miles, and while crossing
an open stretch of country was in dan
ger of being run down and killed. In
a field through which the fox was run
ming with the hounds close to its heels
was tho cellar of an old house, with
a portion of the walls still standing.
The fox made straight for the old Gel
lar, leaped into it and made its es-
cape through a narrow, opening in the
walls. The hounds, supposing the fox
was trapped, dashed into the cellar
pell nell, only to find Reynard gonA
and themselves in a trap as the hole
In the wall through which the fox had
escaped was too small to permit them
to get through. 2GG K
When the hunters rode up they found
the pack in a trap, with one of the
hounds wedged fast in the hole
through which the fox had made its es-
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Tax Title sharks in Hard Luck.

Ludington attorneys with one accord
unite in confirming the surprising state
ment that not single tax title acquired
in Mason County during the past five
years is worth a dollar. There is no
doubt that the statement is true. The
reason assigned for the extraordinary
condition of things is said to be the
failure Of the circuit judge to hold court
the required number of consecutive days
during which objections to the proposed
sale of lands advertised for delinquent
taxes might be made. The oversight of
this technical requirement is said to be
not alone in effect upon Mason and other
counties of this circuit, but the same err
ror has occurred in several of the judi
cial circuits of northern Michigan.
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He Engaged the Boy.

DR.. McTavish of Edinburgh was
something Of a ventriloquist, and it be-
fell that he wanted a lad to assist in
the surgery who must necessarily be
of strong nerves.
He received several applications, and
when telling lad what the duties
were, in order to test his nerves, he
would say, while pointing to grim
ming skeleton standing upright in a
corner:
Part of your work would be to feed
the skeleton there, and while you are
here you may as well have n try to
do So"
A few lads would consent to a trial,
and received a basin Of hot Cruel and
a spoon. tt&tf8 " a
While they were pouring hot mass
into the skull the doctor would throw
his voice so as to make 1t appear to
proceed from the jaws of the bony Gus
toner, and gurgle out:
"Gr-r-r-gr-h-uh! That's hotr' ,
This was too much, and without ex-
ception the lads dropped the basin and
bolted. f'.-s
The doctor began to despair OF ever
getting suitable helpmate until a
small boy came and was given the
basin and spoon. ~ - a Ah4& -
After the first spoonful the skeleton
appeared to say, -.
"Gr-r-r-uh-r-hr! That's hotv'
Shoveling in the scalding gruel as
fast as ever, the boy raped the skull
and impatiently retorted:
"Well, jist blow ont, We auld bony"
The doctor sat down on his chair and
fairly roared. but when the laugh was
over he engaged the lad on the spot--
London Tit-Bits.
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of three years ago, and our exports Of
hroa drf Iax 20 Hon Of cixaao fhaxa

of three years ago, and our exports Of
breadstuffs have fallen off since then,
but prosperity continues.
Cotton is worth nearly three cents a
pound, not from starvation in India nor
short wheat crops, but from entirely
different causes.
Protection to American industries
and workingmen and the establish
ment of honest money are the causes
Of our prosperity. Short crops increase
for a time the price Of wheat, but the
which followed the defeat of the free
silver heresy are responsible for all the
rest of the improved conditions and
their continuance.-Tac (Wash.)
Ledger.
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Discovers a New Mineral.

A 15-inch fssure vein of ore recently
discovered crossing the lode at the Mo-
hawk mine, near Houghton, and first
thought to be copper sulphuret, proves to
be an absolutely new mineral never be-
fore determined by mineralogists. Prof.
George A. Koenig, the eminent scientist
Of Houghton, whose authority is recog-
nized in Europe and America, has con-
Quoted extensive experiments with the
mineral and pronounces it hitherto un-
known combination Of copper, nickel and
arsenic, possessing great value. He has
named it mohawkite, from the mine
where found.
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Ice Gorge Floods Monroe.

1t is estimated that the damage result
ing from the ice gorge in the Rasn river
will be at least $4,000. The gorge was
broken with dynamite, but formed again
and flooded cellars in the business and
finest residence districts of Monroe. The
fires in st. Mary's convent, a mile from
the gorge, were put out by the water
and the convent was without heat. When
the gorge broke it left ice piled as high
as the second stories in the flooded dis
frcte
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Did Nor Doubt Him.

"He says he would gladly lay the
world at my feet" said the sentimental
young woman.
That's what he'll do" said Miss
Cayenne. after you're married, he'll
lay the world at your feet and compel
you to walk on IL, because you can't af-
ford a cab. Washington Star.
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Fables Of tho Fusiou prc.s.

The bimetallic press Of the country
has been telling its patrons that the
prosperity of the nation, including the
rise in the price of wheat from 80 cents
to 81 a bushel, was caused by starva-
tion in India, short grain crops In Rus
STA, Europe and South America. says a
leading fusion organ ''The bimetallic
press is good, when Is meant the
monometallic, free silver, fusion press.
AS to what It has been telling its pa
irons as to the causes OF prosperity,
there is no doubt of that, and 1t was
as near the real facts as the fusion
press ever gets. Starvation now pre-
walls In India, but II is not the cause
Of the increased demand for American
manufactures, and consequent employ
ment Of millions oflforinerly Idle men.
Short wheat crops were an incident
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po4a.I, AM o-chara

Potash Is of great value in an orch
ard. 1t Is the backbone of all fertilizers
used by fruit growers. The trees where
1t is used are vigorous and the fruit
large In size, with a high color and good
flavor. No manure which does not con-
tain high percentage Of potash should
be used in an orchard
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The Fly on the Wheel.

Touching the question of the de-
mands for higher wages which, in cer-
tain localities, are being made, there is
this to be said: The men are aware
of the fact that their earnings are
greater than under Democratic rule,
but they hope to have them made
greater still.-Phihldelphia Inquirer.
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cape. By the time the hounds We're
gotten out of the cellar the fox was
safe in its hole.-Philadelphia Times.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
THOUGHTS WORTHY or CALM
~ REFLECTION. U

A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instruct-
I've Lesson, and Where IL May Bs
Found-A Learned and concise Re-
view Of the Same. .4c 4Gfl
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY.


0he Has at the Ripe OLD Age Of Eighty
Years Retired from the Presidency Of
the National woman's Suffrage AS
sociation.
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The sum of $10,s1s. .554 ,031 is invested
In railroads in the United States. This
represents an Increase over the previ-
Gus year OF $1s3, ,54J,957.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-12
EVER WoNDERFIE NIAGARA FALLS.
Ten Dollars Ten Day Trips via Philadei-
phia a Reading -Lehigh Valley Route.

puma hNfdtihE '''fN
Niagara Falls, one of natures most wonder
ful and majestic sights, never fails in interest,
however often visited, the visitor always OBJ
serving new and interesting sights not noticed
before
For the season of 1890 the Philadelphia y
Reading Railway hasarranged n series of Ten
Day Excursions, at the popular price of Ten
Dollars for the round trip, giving the excur-
sionists the privilege ON the return trip of 4
stop-oft at Buffalo, Rochester Junction for
Rochester); Geneva, Burdette Gor Watkins
GLEN and at Mauch Chunk
The dates for these excursions have been
arranged rs follows: June 3oth, Jnly l2th,
August "a and 10Th, September Isl and 18th,
and October 9Th
The special train of Pullman Parlor Cars and
Fine Day Coaches leaves Reading Terminal
3 80 \ NJ, arriving at Allentown 1015 A NJ :,
where passengers can connect from Reading,
stations on main line above Reading, and on
Lebanon Valley and East Penn Branches, and
passing by daylight through the picturesque
Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys APPLY STYLED
The Switzerland of America reaches Niagara
Falls the same evening
The grand panorama, as viewed from the
car windows, of fertile farming lands and
magnificent mountain scenery, interspersed
here and there with hamlets running streams
and placid lakes and ponds, is of itself well
worth the cost of the entire trip, and Niagara
Fals-who ever attempted 10 describe them
and could give an anyway near adequate de-
scription of their many wonders and beauties2
For any further information desired, Pull
man Car Seats, etc, apply To any Philadelphia
X Reading Ticket Agent, or address Edison j.
Weeks, Gent Passenger Agent, Reading Ter
minal, Philadelphia
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-12

At the August meeting of the
Common Council, the city clerk stated
that the garbage collector was dump
ing garbage within the city limits
contrary to ordinance. Councilman
Randolph said that George W. Arnett
had promised to Cover il mp" Presi-
dent of Council Solhday replied that
that had nothing to do with it-that
an ordinance of the city was being
violated, and the dumping should be
stopped. The councilman rather per
sisted however that if it was covered
up the thing was all right We trust
the honorable member will not get il
into his head that to Cover up" any
thing makes 1t right, In that case
attempting to cover mp very mean
attempt to mn2zle the press by the
withdrawal of patronage, under pre-
tense of saving expense to the city,
might be all right, provided it was
covered, which it isn't
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-12

Al recent speech in Maryland,
Mr. Bryan snld
Il believe that man should max g
has party affiliations suit his convic-
tons, not make his convictions suit
has party creed
If that We're done, what an increase
the Republican party would have.
There are thousands of men who cling
to the party name and vote the ticket.
while knowing that the Democratic
principles of today are no more like the
principles of ten years ago than Decem
her IL like May, and who vote AGAINST
their own convictions whore they vote
the Democratic ticket, They know
that the National Democratic party is
nothing more nor less than Populist
party, having in it the cranks ana
Missionaries Tint have run through all
the political vagaues of the past TWEEN
ty-tive years. But they stick to the
name while the substance has run
away from them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-12

IF there is any one who
believes the Gold Standard is
a good thing. or that it must
be maintained. / warn him not
to cast his vote for me, because
| promise him it will not be
maintained in this country
longer than l am able tb "et
rid of it"
This language was used by Hon
William Jennings Bryan in speed
at Knoxville, Tenn, ON Sept. 10, 1896
The election of Mr. Bryan 10 til,
Presidency would, therefore, be i'm
mediately followed by attacks upol
the financial integrity of the Unitec
States and of every individual citizen
The result would be repetition of tn,
business panic and disaster that W,
experienced during the last Demo
cratic administration.