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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03

pointed him minister to the German empire in 1879. In 1892 President Har- rison appointed him minister to Rus sia, and he was retained there by Mir. Cleveland for two years. As a member of the Venezuela commission he added to his services to the United States. In. 1897 President Mckinley chose Dr. White for the post of ambassador at Berlin, which position he still occupies.
 Mr. Choate, who took the post given up by Col. Hay, that of ambassador at the Court of St. James, had no easy task assigned him. It was no light matter to succeed such men as Col. Hay, Mir. Bayard, MT. Lincoln and MT. Lowell. It is very much to A1nbassa- dor Choate's credit that he has proven, himself acceptable to our critical Brit- ish cousins and to their jealously pa triotic relatives this side the water. Ambassador Choate is man of cul- ture, experience and character. He cannot only make graceful after-din- ner speeches, but is also an eminent lawyer with ability for the diplomatic business of his office.
 . MT. Tower has lived and studied much abroad. He is distinguished for his contributions. to historical and bio graphical literature, and has been very successful as man of affairs. Powell Clayton, though, appointed from Ar kansas, is a northern man and served as brigadier general in the civil war. When the war was over, he bought g plantation in Arkansas, and has spent much of his Ii fa since in f he OuthWe st. In 1897 President Mckinley appointed Gen. Clayton ambas ssador to Mexico. Gen. Horace Porter, whose executive ability is unusual, by the performance of his duties during the Paris exposi- tion, proved the wisdom of his ap- pointment to the post at Paris. As an all-around map Gen. Porter is espe- cially suited to the French position.
 He is rich man, scholar and keen student of human nature. Rob-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03

Vador, static n e d at San Jose, re- c e ives $10,O0o; Laurits Swensen (Minnesot al, t O Denmark and Do- minions, at c O. penhagen, salary $7, 500; William F. Powell (new Jer- sey), charge d'af- faires Dominican Republic and en- voy to Hayti, at Port au Prince, compensation $5,- 900; Archibald J. Sarnp s on GA ri-
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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03

commiss i Q n a P pointed by Gen. Grant in 1870 for the investigation
 of the resources and condition of San Domingo, and it was owing to him no recommen- dation for annex ation was made. He was chairman of the jury of public instr uc t i o II i n
 Philadelp h i a i n
 1876, and honorary commissioner to the Paris exposi- ton in 1878. Pres
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
p1antx nf Mnon.hine Linnor,

In the year 1900, out of 1,955 raids on illicit stills, 673 were made in Georgia, which is a prohibition state, except as to four of it's cities.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03


 90 pieces fine lace allovers. 25c. from soc; 29c, from 5Sc; 35c. from roc; 45c, from $1.
 Acase fine white cambric muslin. 9c, from 15c.
 A case fine wide printed lawns,love. ly patterns, 9c. from 15c.
 POO dozen mems fine imported fan cy cotton hose, usual price 50c to 75c, at 19c q pair or $1.15 by the box of one-half dczen.
 Ladies' white jersey shaped vests. high and low neck, also drawers. 19c, from 25c.
 POO dozen ladies' fancy seamless hose, also black and tan. also black with white feet, Sc pair, from 15c. ] 4 P
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
Hot Weather Toilet Hint

A dash or IOIIet VIHtgaT or eau ue cologne in the bowl of water before you wash your face will be found re- freshing.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
FoR RETH

One family hoase Of eight rooms. with large lot, on Burton street, $22. If you want a we'll drilled. or your old one las gone dry and you want It ceepened. we can do It for you. and do 1t right.
 w. F. JARE2 FIT
 1O4 BANK ST.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03

ert $. Mccormick, the new minister t Q Austria Hun gary, is also con sid ere q specially
 fitted for dipbo- matic work. He has travelled ex- tensively, is a man of wide culture and of very court eons manners. He is said to be not only a student of books, but also of men. Ms Nc Cor.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
he urnbull Go.
4o-53 South Main Street.

tn Remember, business Reliable Dry Goods at Less Prices n Waterbury Another deeper Dollar be turned into CASH
 
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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
pines Nof U.edfn Cabn.

Cuba produces no tobacco for chew ing or for pipe-smoking. The Cubans who smoke pipes might be counted on oneis fingers without making a sec. ond round on the fingers. The cigar and the cigarette prevail. To what extent the Cuban cigarette might ever become popular with American smokers is a natter beyond determin- ation. It is certain that most Amer. leans of prolonged residence become if they be smokers, addicted to Gu ban brands, and find difficulty in weaning themselves back to Amer can brands on their return.
 Germany's Richest Citizen.
 Krupp. the German gunmaler, has ls fortune of nearly $5o.0oo,0o0, an in. tome of s4,ooo,ooo, and payroll oi 10000 persons.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
Accidental Happenings.

A trainman was killed and thirty pas
sengers injured in a wreck in Iowa.
In a fire in Chicago, seven people
were burned to death and several 9TH
ers injured, three fatally.
Fire in Augusta, Ca, destroyed Whit
ney & Co.'S and Phynizy & Co.'S ware
houses, causing a loss of about S175,000.
A six-story brick warehouse occupied
by Charles Webb & Co., at Philadel-
phia, importers OF wool, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at $751;
600.
Two were burned to death and
a number of persons were injured in a
fire which started in the five-story
apartment house at Lexington avenue
and Sixteenth street, New York.
The mill Of the Ashland Manufactur-
ing Company Of Ashland, Me-, tht
most modern and one OF the largest
sawmills in Maine, was burned and a
large quantity of lumber also was de
stroyed. The loss is estimated at over
$500, 900.
In the ruins of her home at Jackson.
Vile, Fla, the body of Mrs. Scion Rob-
inson was found, where she had been
buried in the fire last Friday. She was
the widow of Scion Robinson. for many
years agricultural editor of the New
York Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
MURDERED HIS WIFE.
Fiendish and brutal Deed of n
Wealthy Farmer.

Bloomington, ILL.,, May II. On a
farm near this city yesterday Merritt
Chism killed his wife. AS she was
starting 20 church in a buggy with the
two little daughters of Chism, her step
daughters, a quarrel arose. Chism
jumped into the buggy and with a
knife cut his wife's face and neck. He
then threw her into the road, jumped
upon her and stabbed her repeatedly.
Her son, Harvey Freeland. aged twelve,
struck at Chism with a ball bat. Chism
wrested the bat from the lad and
struck his wife three times with IL,
smashing her skull and dashing out her
brains. Then he tried again to stab
the woman. Harvey caught the hand
In which was the knife. Chism drew
the knife through Harvey's hand. al
most severing the fingers and stabbed
Harvey in the arm. Chism then fled
across the fields and tried to drown
himself in a stock we'll. The water was
not deep enough n he climbed ort
and went to the house of a son, where
he tried to kill himself with a revolver.
The con prevented this and took Chism
to bloomington, where he gave himself
up to the sheriff. Chism Is one of the
wealtEiest farmers in the county. He
Is a man of quick temper, but had new
err before been guilty OF crime. He is
forty-nine years old.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
TROLLEY CAR RUNS AWAY.
Over One Hundred Passengers Re-
cefye Injuries,


New York, May 14.-An apen trolley
car in which were packed about lie
persons got away from the motorman
near Fort Lee, N. j., and dashed down
Leonia Hill. Every person on the car
was bruised, three are seriously hurt.
but only n is likely to die. Frank
Sunstruck. the conductor, 1t is feared
may lose his life on account of posi-
bic internal injuries, and J. E. Robinson
and his wife of this city are the TIVE
others who were seriously hurt. The
heavily loaded car had started down an
incline a quarter of a mile in length
when the motorman lost control. It
was going so fast no one dared to Jump.
The road is a winding one. At the foot
OF the hill it curved sharply. When the
front trucks nit the curve they started
around 1t n made II. The rear ones
followed part of the way. The wrench
upon the car. however, as it swung
around, was so great that the BODY was
lifted n torn from the trucks and
rolled over on the ground. The passen-
gers were caught in under the car and
piled up in a heap.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
SWEPT BY FLAMES.
$500 900 worth of Property Destroyed
Near Detroit.

Near Detroit.
Detroit. Mich, May 14.-Fanned by a
Observation-Disclosures wind, hre yes
terday afternoon swept the west bank
of the Rouge river in Delray, a suburb
to the south of Detroit, for three-quar-
ters of a mile, and destroyed over $780,
600 worth of property. Following are
the losses:
Salliotte & ferguson, lumber mill,
$50, 900, covered by insurance; Brownies
& Co.'S sawmilI, salt block and part or
their stock of lumber, $40, 200, insurance
SIS. 900; the Western Union Telegraph
company, loss on cedar poles stored IN
a yard which was swept by flames,
about 5000. 600, insurance unknown; Car
kin, Stickney & Cram, loss on dredg
which was tied up at the dock, $4,000.
insurance unknown; Maltby Lumber
company. cedar poles and sawmill, $780,
900. insurance $685. 900.
The fire originated shortly after 1
o'clock In the roof of the Salliotte q
Ferguson mill. The mill had not been
running for several months and the
roof was as dry as finder. h building
was soon in ashes and the fire swept
across a dock to where dredge NO. D,
of the Carkin, Stickney & Cram fleet
of dredges, was tied up. Despite ef-
forts to save her this craft was burned
to the waters edge. Great embers
we're picked up by the wind n
dropped on the root OF Brownlee az
Co.'S mill and Salt block and both these
buildings were destroyed. Delary has
a very small fire department and a
call for help was sent to the Detroit
department which responded with three
engines and the fire boa Battle. Even
the great streams from the fire boat
Were Powerless to Check
the flames which were rolling down the
river bank for hundreds of feet. From
the Brownlee property the fire jumped
over into the large yard which the
Western Union Telegraph company
used as a storage point for it's d
telegraph poles. The yard is the dis
tributirs point for ten states and over
lOO,O 900 poles were stored there. The
fire swept through the great yard,
which comprises about eight acres, in
less than two hours, but the poles
blazed until far into the night. The
streams from the fire boat Battle were
centered on this yard but they had no
effect in staying the flames. The four
inch streams were turned into steam
almost before they reached the burning
piles of poles.
The plant Of the Maltby Lumber
company was the las n on the river
bank, and it vas o o destroyed, to-
gether with a large stock of cedar
poles which was stored in the yard.
When darkness fell the glare from
the burning poles illuminated the sky
for miles. The firemen worked on the
fire almost all night but 1t was only to
keep it from spreading to other proper
ty, for they realized that 1t would
simply have to burn itself out in the
Western Union storage yards.
While this fire was burning the lum-
Der yard of G. A. Raupp & Co. in
Ecorse, about a mile from Delray, was
set on fire by sparks from a passing
engine and 500, 900 feet of lumber was
destroyed. The loss is about $4,000,
covered by insurance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
People Talked About.

The state Prohibition convention of
New Jersey nominated Joel w. Brown
for governor.
Col. Emmett Taggart OF Akron, Ohio.
has Eeen elscted commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment OF Ohio.
The pope has confirmed the appoint-
ment OF Father O'Connell. rector of
the American college at Rome, az bish-
op OF Portland, Me.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and family have
left Omaha to return to their Ole home
in Virginia, where they have scarcely
lived for fifteen years.
Capt. H. l.. Cope. captain United
States engineers, died at Greenville,
Miss. He was in charge of the Yazoo-
Mississippi levee district.
Charles l.. Cooke, president Of Hol.
Inns institute, one OF the most widely
known colleges for women in the
South, died at Roanoke, Va, aged
eighty-one. Mr.. Cooke had been pres
ident of Rollins since 1856.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
Sins and

Emily Weeks of Albany, n. Y, out of
love for a a IL is charged, threw car
bolic acid in he mothers face. to cover
up the crime of having forged her name
TO checks. She is now in prison. and
has confessed, so the police say, to the
forgeries.
Jesse r.. King OF Milheim. Pa. shot
and fatally wounded his bride of two
months, and when an officer attempted
to arrest him, King shot himself
through the heart, dying almost in
stantly. King and rs wife quarreled
over family affairs.
Two of the county judges of st.
Clair county, Mo-. Thomas ID. hewitt
and S. e. Peden. We're arrested by dep
uty United States marshals on a charge
OF contempt, for not levying a tax to
pay interest on bonds of the issue OF
1870. The third judge, Walker. escaped
I'M rode to his home.
Mrs. Mollie Randall. wife of Freeman
Randall, a farmer living twelve miles
south al Edwardsville, H., in a At of
temporary insanity, shot and killed her
two-year-old daughter and MORALLY
wounded herself with the same weapon
The Randalls are among the most
prominent people in the ne~ighborhood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
General

All grades of refined sugar were ad-
vanced 10 cents a hundred pounds.
Mayor Reel of Kansas City has issued
a positive order that all saloons must be
closed on Sundays.
The members of the Missouri state
commission to the Buffalo exposition
have decided to take the space which
had been allotted TO Maryland.
The pudding department at the
Wilkes rolling mills at Sharon, Pa,
ha resumed operations, giving en-
%ployment to a large force of hands.
Orders have been received az the
twelve to fifteen factories of the National
Starch company to get ready to close
down until the corn market becomes set
tied again.
The 700 union carpenters in Toledo
have won their strike and went back
to work, receiving $40 for eight hours
instead of s2,25 for nine hours, as was
the case before the strike.
The transport Egbert, which has ar
rived at San Francisco from the Phil
ippines, will be detaired in quarantine
for q week or more, a soldier having
died from smallpox during the voyage.
Charles b. Hare, the Ann Arbor stu
dent who was taken with bubonic plague
April 4, has been released as cured and
Cumming, the friend who nursed him
through the sickness, was released with
him.
A special convention Of the United
States grand lodge, Independent Order
Sons OF Benjamin, was held in New York
ritr racantlu Akn,,t 900 Jnlonn., --x-o
present and all states of the Union were
represented.
Carefully consolidated reports from
American agriculturist corps OF observers
make the May / conditions of winter
wheat 91.5 against 95.5 last month, and
compared with an average at this date
for five years of 81.
Three thousand union workmen of the
Louisville building trades are on a strike.
The contractors agreed to the mems de-
mands as to hours and wages, but re-
fused to discharge non-union men from
the jobs under way.
+. NJ. Phelps and other Californians
returning To Ogden. Utah, from the
fossil oil fields in Western wyoming,
report the discovery OF innumerable
springs flowing with oil which has
been determined to be a lubricant.
Frank J.. Bowen, proprietor of the
Windsor hote! at Jacksonville, Fla.
was married to a Bucyrus (Chio) girl
Friday. Just after the a
dispatch telling OF the destruction of
the hotel was handed to him. The
wedding journey was cut short.
William t. Phillips of tuscaloosa, Iowa,
and Harry Birks of Montreal, Can, have
secured all the interest in the American
Coal company and the American Supply
company controlled by William McNeall.
The property is located at Evans, Iowa,
and Is valued at 100000.
Mr.. NJ. w. Hanna. a brother Of Sen
ator Hanna. has given to the Western
Reserve university Of Cleveland. Ohio,
$4,000 to establish a research fellowship
In its medical school in the department
of physiology and pathology. 1t is one
Of the first foundations Of the sort in the
country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
Resume Of the neWS.
Washington Notes.

The secretary of the treasury has pur-
chased $412,0 $50 short-term 4 per cent
bonds at s113.64.
Ambassador Cambon gave a dinner
recently at the French embassy in
Washington in honor of Cardinal Mar
tinelli. Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul
was among the guests.
Inquiry in Washington confirms the
report that the United States is work
ing, and finds support in it's effort to-
ward the opening of all China, including
the provinces, to the trade of the world.
The extensive work of the isthmian
canal commission is nearing completion.
Admiral Walker, chairman of the com
mission, says that the final report will
be ready for submission TO the presi-
dent in about six weeks.
Col. William p. Hall, adjutant gen.
eral of the department of the lakes, u.
s. A, has been ordered by the war de-
partment to succeed Gen. Thomas III.
Barry as adjutant general of the de-
partment of the Philippines.
The state department has been in
formed of the death of Richard A.
Gadd, United States consular agent at
Port Limon, from malariai fever. He
was a native OF New York. but had
spent a large part Of his life in the trop-
les.
The indian bureau has received word
that the official count of the votes of
the Cherokee nation on the Cherokee
agreement with the Dawes commission
shows a majority of 1000 of the votes
! for rejection, instead Of 1,235 as first an
nounced.
The surgeon general Of the marine
hospital service was advised of a death
from bubonic plague at Honolulu,
which occurred March %. The case
was that of a japanese woma 1t is
believed to be sporadic, and the city is
reported to be in good sanitary condi-
ton.
The military authorities at Manila
have prepared a schedule and forward
ed the same 20 Washington covering the
sailing dates of the ten regiments of
volunteers still in the Philippines. I'm
less unforeseen delays arise, the last of
these regiments will leave for home be-
fore June 80.
The state department has paid to the
Mexican government, through the Mex
lean ambassado here, 50. 200. as full in
demnity to the heirs of Florentino Su-
aste, a Mexican citizen, who was
lynched in La Sale county, Texas, in
1895. Tbc payment was provided by
congress. out of humane consideration,
and without reference to the question Of
federal liability.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
COLoRED MANS HEROIsM.
losses His Life by Giving His
Friend First Chance at Escnve.

HIM
Friend First Chanc mt Escnpe.
Indianapolis, May 1-winiam Phelps
OF Richmond, KY, and James STAINS
oury or this city were cleaning the in
side OF an eight-foot upright boiled at
the cerealine mills yesterday afternoon
when an employe turned on the steam
thinking h cock was tight. 1t leaked
anG the scalding steam poured I'm on
the w o men. The only exit was up a
ladder 10 a manhole in the top. Both
Jumped for the ladder. Phelps reached
1t hrst, took one step and stopped. He
jumped aside and shouted You go first
Jim, you are married." Stansbury
sprang up the ladder and escaped with
slight burns about the face and legs.
Though Phelps followed at his heels
his act of heroism cost him his life
Both men were being cooked when
Phelps jumped aside. BY the time he
had followed Stansbury up the ladder
the flesh was dropping from his limbs.
He was cooked alive and with supreme
effort dragged his scalded body from
the manhole. He lived for two hours
In terrible agony but did not let a
groan escape him. 1T was Jim'e right
to go first" he said. quietly. He is
married" Phelps has been boarding
at Stansbury's house. Both men are
co,ored.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16
Foreign.
-.
~,

Gerhard Dryssen, minister of marin"
for Norway and Sweden, has resigned.
He was appointed Oct. 81, 1893.
The rumors that the relations between
Germany and Russia are strained on &C
count Of Sights upon the part of Count
Won Waldedsee are discredited.
The statement that Germany has Sc
cured a concession in Canton, Of which
1t will shortly take possession. Of has
made a special demand upon China,
is absolutely without foundation.
The military captive balloon with tw
men in the car, which assembled
Cologne, broke loose in a gale and
lost to sight in the clouds, has descG
safely. The occupants were not int
The death rate per thousand en- "
during last year was 34.4. This is 81,
than the rate prevailing in Mexico City
and in Bombay. Bubonic plague claimed
1919 victims during the year out of 2I1
cases.
An official circular has been issued in
Constantinople informing the members of
the diplomatic corps that in future only
distinguished visitors accompanied by a
d~ipiomatist will be admitted to the
selamlik.
w. Martin, the American consul at
Nankin, in a cablegram
that the secret societies there have
Joined issues with the reformers.
Chinese troops patrol Nankin and sleep
under arms.
The British steamer Tantaiion Castle,
from Southampton, April 20, for Table
Bay. Cape Colony, with relief troops and
passengers on board, is ashore On Robelin
island. near Cape Town. All her passen-
gers have been landed.
The rigsdag committee which has been
considering the ministerial army propo-
sails has reported in favor OF increasing
the expenditures by 22,500,0 900 kroners,
making a total of 45, 1000 kroners. The
naval estimates are increased to 14,000,-
600 kroners.
A dispute has arisen as to the owner
ship Of the flag which Queen Victoria
presented to the hospital ship Maine.
Mrs. George CORVALLIS West Uady
Randolph C%hurchilD asserts that it be-
longs to her and Bernard Baker, owner
of he vessel, declares it is his property.
The flag is now in Lady Randolph's pos
session.
The British war office has given out
the actual number of deaths in the
South African war as ia officers and
24,164 men. Four officers and ga men
have teen invalided home and subse-
ouently died. Two thousand four
Kindred and ninety-three non-commis-
stoned officers and men have left the
service unfit for duty.
The American colony in London is
plunged to its ears in gossip over the
Tree divorce. Mrs. Arthur Tree, the de-
PENDANT, is a daughter of Marshall Field,
the Chicago millionaire, and is heiress to
some S30,000,000 The wife makes ap-
parently no defense and the case will go
by default. Meanwhile husband and wife
seem the best of friends. They see each
other every day and move and meet con-
stantly in the same circles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-16

Scores Of old barns in Ohio have
floors and hangers of black walnut,
put in fifty or seventy-five years ago,
when the chief endeavor of the pioneer
was to clear the dense forests for crops,
So popular is black walnut furniture
abroad that English and French agents
buy even old barn timbers and fence
rails. One of the few walnut groves
left in Ohio was sold last month for
export as lumber. The largest tree
eight feet in diameter at the stump
brought twelve hundred dollars.