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The Penn's Grove record., 1901-10-04
To Anhlyze Food and Drink.

Operating under a new law control
ing the Investigation of food and drink
the State Board of Health will begin
an examination of drinking water and
canned goods which will be more
searching and widespread than any
heretofore made. All the drinking
wa II of municipalities is to be ana
lyzea, and so are the so-called cura-
tive spring waters sold in bottles and
Jugs. The food law is to be amended
20 as to, compel the year of packing to
be STAMPED on canned goods, and to
make i'll a m.sdemeanor to relabel
goods outside of the cannery. or to re-
urn any Anvoice of canned goods to a
cannery to- be relabled, which now Is
the practices of jobbers holding old
stock. An additional chemist is 10 be
stationed at he>hacteriological .iabora-
tory at Princeton University
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The Awakening of the Boy.

There was always something very
brave and beautiful to me in the sight
of a boy when he first wakes up and
seeing the worth of life takes 1. up
with a stout heart and resolves to
carry 1t nobly to the end through all
disappointments and seeming defeats.
| was born with IA boys nature aud
always had more sympathy for and
interest In them than in girls, and
have fought my fight for nearly fifteen
years with a boys spirit under ny
bib and tucker and a boys wrath
when l got 'floored. so Pm not preach
ing like a prim spinster, but freeing
my H. Ike one of our fellows and
as such / wish you all success, n
cheerful he" t, an honest tongue and
a patient ger to "a you through
he world, .or it's rough going and up
L. work much of the way."-"Miss
Alcott's Letters to Her Laurie" IL
the Ladies' Home Journal.
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THE VILLAGE RUBBERsMlTH.

Under a spreading blacksmith sign,
The village blacksmith sat;
He heard the ehuf-chuf-chnf and said
"Where is my business at?
The road is full of horseless things,
And bikes and such as thai"
The smith was deeply in the dumps
Ali that was plain to see.
His wink-eye winked a knowing wink
Up at the chestnut tree;
And then he said, 'NThese horseless things
Have put a horse on me-"
And through his erish nd curly hair
His sinewv hand he Y,
SAYS he. "Ill get some ditte, 1T tools,
As well rs any man
I'll mend a %punetured rubber tire
I'll charge whate'er | can
Week in. week out, from morn till night
His bellows blows no fires.
Instead it feeds a rubber tube,
That blows up rubber tires.
He has a tank of gasolene,
And cement, pipes and wires
And children coming home from senool
Rubber in the open door.
They rubber at the rubber tube
A-rubhering round the floor.
Thev rubber at the rubbersmith,
Who rubbers tires that tore.
He can't go, Sunday, to the church,
For that's his busy day.
Some city chauffeur's in the lurch,
And here is work-and pay.
The Chauffeur buys ONE gasoline
And chuf-chufs on his way.
But never mind, his daughters there,
Up in the choir stand;
And as she holds the hymnbook high,
Shows diamonds on each hand;
For daughters buying jewelry
And Dad is buying land.
Repairing and pumping and mending,
Onward through life he goes.
Each morning sees some tire break,
Each evening sees it close.
Something mended, somebody done,
Puts money in his clothes.
Thanks. thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
On the lesson I'll mediate.
All must at times get different tools,
This world will never wait;
If we would live the strenuous life,
We must keep up to date.
j. N. H., in the New York Sun.
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Statistics indicate that the United
States consumes more sugar than any
other nation, or approximately me
quarter of the whole of the worlds
product. The conditions of soil, eli
mate, and other advantages are quite
as good in the United States, and es-
peclally in Colorado. Nebraska and
Illinois, for the development of the
beet as in any of the countries of
Europe or Asia. The worlds produc-
ton and consumption of sugar is now
about S,250,o0o tons per annum, two
thirds of which is produced from beet
and only one-third from cane, while
the normal consumption is estimated
as increasing at the rate of 100000
tons yearly.
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The immigration Bureau has founu
it expedient to order the return to
their homes in Labrador of three Es-
kimos who have been on exhibition at
the Buffalo Exposition, The reason
is that the youngest has been making
violent demonstrations with his knife.
Every time Il fat man appeared in
the audience the young Eskimo got
out his knife and made for him."
says a dispatch. Fat is the luxury of
the Arctic region, and the young man
from the North could not look on the
sleek, fat Americans and keep his
sanity, His undisciplined sou was
not equal to the role of T~antalus. To
speculate on the flavor of the adipose
tissue which shook as tile fat men and
women walked and laughed was to
excite his appetite to such a point
that he could no longer keep his knife
under control. 1t is a pathetic case,
and it wac wrong to subject him t.
-nch tnrtnta-
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ith The necessary apparatus.

The Canadian Government has n
unique bargain sale on hand. 1t is
placing On the market about five hun
dred small islands in the St. Law.
renee. They are distributed over the
river between Kingston and Brock
Vile, opposite the townships of Pitts
burg, Leeds. Lansdowne, Escott,
Young and Elizabethtown. and range
from five square miles to two one
hundredths of an acre in extent, In
the event of two or more applications
for the same island the parties will
be asked to tender bids, and the prop
erty will be sold to the highest bidder.
Only two islands will be sold to the
same applicant.
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1t is an interesting fact that the
wireless message can be flashed
through fogs and storms, and seems
only to be affected by electrical dis
turbances of the atmosphere, and not
seriously W. by those. The effect Of
the earth's curvature is also said not
to materially interfere with its use.
That we shall at some not far dis
tant date communicate through the
air with Europe from ship-to-ship sta
tons, so that the breaking of cable
connection will be of no account, is
by no means a wild dream. The great
ocean liners are already being equipped
with the necessary apparatus.
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yi1Ass%
8CA~S
~ JeSt S@

"Were you left much in your uncle's
willY" Eyes, confound 1t. complete
ly.''-Town and Country.
Inquiring Person-'What do you
think of barking as a business?" Spiel
er-"Dog's life, sir; dogs life."-Buf-
falo Courier.
Observation-Disclosures, Junior, strikes me
as being a very promising young
man." Timkins-"Yes; more promis-
ing than paying,"-Chicago News.
"Were l the wind" the poet sang,
I'D blow"-he paused to wipe his brow
And heard his heartless wife remark,
Not more, l hope, than you do now!'
Town and Country.
"But he doesn't seem to know much
about the topics of the day" 'Well,
no wonder. He got all his education
in a Observation-Disclosures Bull
letin.
She sat on the step at eventide,
Enjoying the balmy air.
He came and asked: Can 1 sit by your
side?"
She gave him the vacant stair.
Philadelphia Record.
Scribbler-'I sign my name to every,
thing write now. What do you think
of the id,a" Wabble-"That's all
right, old man, as long as you don't
give your address ."-Town and Coun-
try
Forge-"Ae says in his native city
the streets are always well watered,
and yet they never used sprinkling-
carts" Fenton-"For goodness sake,
where is he fromT Forge-''yenice."
Philadelphia Record.
Doctor-"Well, Johnnie, don't you
feel better since l gave you the medi-
cineT' Johnnie-"Yes; l forgot all
about being ILL.," Doctor-"That's
what l thought; and 1t wasn't hard
to take, was it,? Johnnie-"Well, 1t
was rather, for 1t took two of us boys
to hold Carlo while we gave it to him"
-Tit-Bits.
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Wrongs Perpetrated on Shopkeepers,

The people who preside over the
exchange desks in big department
stores get to know all the tricks
worked by customers, and yet they
are in a measure powerless, because
the rules about taking articles back
are so liberal. Said one of these men,
who ought to know what he is talking
about: MANY persons who have
charge accounts with the store are
notorious for bringing back things
that they have taken and used for spe-
cial occasions. Lots of women will
take such expensive things as opera
cloaks, have them charged, and then
in a couple of days bring them back
and receive credit slips. But when it
comes to umbrellas, the practice is
simply shameful. More umbrellas are
returned than anything else In the
establishment, and always after a sud
den storm. 1t begins to rain and peo-
pie who have left home without um.
brellas, and who have charges here,
rush in and pick out the choicest ones
in stock. By simply showing their
charge coins they are permitted
take the umbrellas with them. The
next day they come back, with the
umbrellas wrapped carefully in the
covers, and the rules of the store per-
NIT them to be placed back in stock,
while the alleged purchaser is given
credit for the amount on the monthly
charge."-Philadelphia Record.
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President G.. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, describes in the Forum
THE Ideal School as Based on Child
Study incidentally he condemns
the present ineficiency of the high
school, and criticises the secondary
teachers Of America as prone to all
the narrowness and affectation of the
specialist, without his redeeming yir.
tue of productiveness in research.
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Tiny insect enemies in the
United States an average annual loss
to agriculture of about $4,000 900,
according to the entomologist of the
Department of Agriculture. This av.
erage of destruction is kept up not
only by the occasional widespread
plaques of locust, chlnch bugs, etc,
but by what might be called a scat
tered guerrilla warfare which is going
on nearly all the time.
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NEWot.SF THE STATE
Rurelars esx Woman in BED.

Three burglars visited the home OF
Mrs. Annie Sprower, a mile outside Of
Boonton, a few days ago. They were
heard to enter the house by Frank
Sprower, a brother of Mrs. Sprower's
dead husband. and he started to make
an investigation. AS he began to de-
scend the stairs one of the burglars
fired at him. The shot did not take eff
feet, and Mr.. Sprower, who is an old
man, tried to escape from the house
by the real to give an alarm. One of
the burglars felled him with a club,
leaving him unconscious. The burg
lar then assembled to the room where
Mrs. Sprower was in bed, too fright.
ened to move. She was bound and
gagged with her own Undertaking
and left lying on the bed while the
burglars ransacked the house. They
were evidently in search of money,
for they took nothing but S574 in cash.
Mr.. Sprower recovered consciousness
half an hour later and gave the alarm.
Both the victims were Frustrated.
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Carrie Nation has declared her in
tention of residing in New York City,
1t is said that in the forty years of
his business life in Chicago Secretary
Gage took only ninety days of yaca-
ton.
King Edward needs a No, Z hat; the
Kaiser is fitted with a Gs size, and
the Duke of Cornwall wears one meas
uring 6s.
Henry James, the novelist, has spent
the summer in Norway, whittier, it is
said, he intends taking the people in
his next story
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1t was a marvellous exhibition OF
skilled seamanship, with honors near-
ly even. Captain Sycamore, OF the
Shamrock, got Columbia under his lee
Mt the start and neyer let her get ou1
of it. once around the mark Captain
Barr nursed his charge carefully ana
skillfully and slowly obtained a lcal
that Sycamore could not overcome.
and that finally won the first race OF
fine series for the American boat.
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Should Italy and Switzerland fall
out, what would happen he Sim.
plon Tunnel, The openin. . either
side will look like the grea 4oors of
some medieval fortress. And tn
will be ~fortresses in all reality. S
pose these two belligerents should
out They would rush like a who b.
ing plague through that tunnel and
invade each other? Indeed they would
not. In the little fortress at each
end there will be a man and q but
ton, The man will press the button
and bring down the mountain. When
the smoke lifts there will not be any
tunnel any mor Some five or six
thousand men will have worked night
and day for five years and a half at a
cost of 70.o0o.O 600 francs-and destruc.
tion?-Everybody's Maids. Throat
$I.o0. Trial Ia,
Common sense isng Stors For,
mon as one would tun
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Professor thinner, of Berlin, a spe,
cialist in mental diseases, has been in
vestigatfng the cause of insanity
among women, and has concluded that
if women were admitted into competi-
ton with men the result would be a
tremendous increase of insanity among
the women.
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schriyer hasn't stolen a base this
season.
Callahan's value as a pinch hitter Is
extraordinary.
selbach, it is said, wants to get away
from New York.
Miller, the new New Iork second
baseman, is a diminutiye chap.
A tail-ender in two seasons is a love
Iy record for u New York club.
Pitcher Jack Dunn has developed
into a nrst-ciass third baseman.
George Magoon says he will play In
the American League next year
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Jules Verne, who was at n time
regarded as the most fantastic of
novelists. lived to see many Of his
Impressions realized. Let the weather
prophets take heart and persevere.
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The Confederate Soldiers Home at
Atlanta, Ga, has been destroyed by
fire. About seventy veterans were in
mates of the building, some Of them
being invalh1s, who were rescued with
difficulty. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
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The London Academy explains that
the British poet laureate is nothing
more than a salaried member of the
royal household, but Alfred Austin's
predecessor, Tennyson, was something
immensely superior to any such mental
position.
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Cartain Lemly's Sister Burned.

Miss Laura Lemly, forty-five years
old. a sister of Judge-Advocate Lemly,
was burned to death at her home, in
Salem, n. c. Her clothing caught fire
from IA kitchen stove, and she was so
badly burned that her death resulted
in four hours.
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WILL OF Mr.. M'KINLEY
An Estate Of Over $225,000 Be-
queathed to His Wife.


Canton, Ohio. - Secretary Cortelyou
ooun ,o,.o IA ossis+ ,rrs Hro1St,roy in
5,aas.,H- - -t1a ~.
u'SpoSius VI Ii"tler7 coiilecleo WIN
the late Presidents estate. The ques-
ton of fling the will was taken ND,
Tho trying tast, Of raadfng r. IN tho
nnoz,,an4,, - - 9,ont.r..
"i'o" Oeins uiNei'"Nen
by the Secretary.
Mrs. Mckinley made an effort to
bear up and succeeded in doing so, al
though the ordeal was difficult. All
legal formalities necessary for her to
subscribe to were disposed of. Judge
Day and Mr.. Cortelyou went to the
office of the Probate Judge and offered
the will of Mr.. Mckinley for probate.
They carried with them the following
written statement:
81, Ida s. Mckinley, widow of Will
lam Mckinley. deceased, hereby de-
cline the administration of his estate.
and recommend the appointment of
William r. Day and George r. Cor
telyou as administrators with the will
annexed" This recommendation bears
the dnte of Srntpmber 27. 1901.
Following IS the text of President
McIIinIpv's will:
urroor+fro s1o,stor vosbi,r+o,
n q
..T n,h,,.,, 4,o ro,,oufnn os NV ,ost
u,Ii pnJi +nan,ant hor9 = nIo1.in~
III fo ~ til. NN-0'' 'S'N9
az ~ NJ %iIIS'
30 MY peloveI VIC, Iua .. Nc
tote wbnrovaI sft,7ated and the in
come NJ onv personal nronertv Of
which T NAV no nnssessed ot death.
" 49, AA'.H az - $4,000
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SEYMOUR NAMED FOR GOVERNOR.
The Mayor of Newark Nominated by the
New Jersey Democrats.

Trenton, N. J.-James NJ. Seymour,
now Mayor of Newark, was nomin-
ated on the second ballot for Govern
or on the Democratic ticket. The first
ballot resulted:
Seymour. ass; Farrell. 4S6; CarrCw,
81; Braun, 81; Mattine. 81.
AS the vote was being announced
Camden tried to change its vote by
transferring its Carrow votes to Sey-
mour, but it was too late. The taking
Of the second ballot foll@. 81. Cam
den swung into lineo&$ Seymour.
Then the changes GGe so fast his
nomination >dssured long before
the ballot q 3 ID.
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Staten
Tarral&|
for thu
State B
If lasty
from l.
being l.
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THE coLumBIA.sHAMRocK RACES.
The Defender Won the First of the Series
by a Narrow Margin.

New York City. I the greatest
closest and most exciting yacht race
in the history of the Americas Cup
contests the American defender, Col
umbia, defeated Sir Thomas Lipton's
challenger, Shamrock II. On actual
time she won by thirty-seven seconds;
with her time allowance of forty-three
seconds added she won by one minute
and twenty seconds. =.
In the fifteen mile beat to windward
the Shamrock led the home yacht at
the outer mark by ~thirty-nine seconds
Once around the turn, however me
white Herreshoff flyer surely
steadily made amends for this. She
caught the Shamrock, passed her and
crossed the finish line far enough in
advance to enable her admirers to say
that, boat for boat, she won without
her time allowance.
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Would Abolish spanish Navy.

Admiral Valcarel has prepared a re-
port for presentation to h queen he'
gent of Spain asking for the necessary
funds for naval defences, and propos-
ing. in the event OF their being re-
fused, that the Spanish Navy be Adolf
isbRd
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Milton FATHER, of Boston, was fined
one zen for knocking down Lorenzo
Fettis, of Damariscotta, Me, and was
banqueted by the citizens of the town.
Fattler knocked Fettis down after the
latter had said he was glad Mckinley
was dead.
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CRIED HIMSELF TO DEATH.
Caleb Harvey's Grief over the Presidents
Assassination.

La Porte, Ind.-Caleb Harvey died
here as the direct result of grievlng
over the assassination and death of
President Mckinley.
The physicians say that he literally
crstd himself to death. He wept for
hou3 continuously from the afternoon
the PrtaXent was shot, and while in
these ,aToxysms Of grief his suffer
ing W S intense.
1t was found impossible to control
or assauge his grief, and up to the
hour of his death he walled constant
ly. The physicians consider the case
without precedent.
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roller Hancock has issued
ION the state Treasurer in
e several county collectors
Iirtv-hve per cent. of the
NJ TAX which, under a law
liter, is appropriated directly
Estate Treasury instead of
Ed by taxation. The total
he warrants Is $500, 5SS.2o
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Automatic Farm Gate.

The inventor of the gate illustrated
! II the accompanying picture claims to
V designed a gate that will not
sag, that will not be affected in its
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POSTAL SERVICE BUDGET.
For Free Delivery Systems Postmaster
General Wants &24,995 900.

Washington, D. C.-The official es-
Inmates for the fiscal year beginning
July /, 1902, which Postmaster-Gen-
eral Charles Emory Smith will submit
to Congress at the apening of the ses-
sion, call for an aggregate Of $6,500,-
900 for rural free delivery service
throughout the country.
This is an increase of $ 2,750,000 over
the expense of that service for the
current year. The total for the free
delivery service proper, which is that
operated in cities is SIS, 745,000, an in
crease of nine per cent. The grand
aggregate for the entire postal free
delivery services, inclusive of both the
free delivery and rural free delivery,
is 1874, 995, 600.
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Three Drowned Near Kalamazoo, Mich,
A sail boat containing persons
capsized on West Lake, near Kalama-
zoo, Mich, and Mrs. Peter Krondkye,
j.. Van Halst and Miss Edith Maud
were drowned.
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Yeff Zlngler, five years of age OF
Paters,n while crossing u street, was
run Id and killed by a trolley car
close her home. The body was
mangll badly.
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Carnegie Helps a scotch College.

The authorities of the glasgow
Technical College have received a let
ter from Andrew Carnegie saying that
he will give S125,000 toward the $3.50
600 needed to complete the required
fund, S750,000, for the improvement
of that institution.
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Last PAYMENT of moKinley,s Salary

Warrants were drawn at the Treas
ury Department in Washingtsa in set
tlement of the salary due President
Mckinley at the time of his death,
The amount was S1S56,SS.
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Salson, who attempted to shoot the
Shah of Persia August 2, 1900, WINE
His Majesty was visiting the farls
Exposition, died ut Cayenne, trencn
Euiau9
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An exR = oil stove set fire to the
1ouse Of ry Brown at Mt. Holly.
The fanE |read rapidly TO an upper
.oop. NJ The infant child of the
lousek4 Mrs. Mary Gauntt, was
,leepiny 1t was burned to death.
Georgeh n dashed through the
danes ytuc the child, but 1t was
lead wi ; reached It.. Linton was
liphtlI4 ID.
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By a curious coincidence Czolgosz's
name is a Polish noun meaning "a
creeping, crawling thing, such as a
snake"
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lGood Roads Increasing.

, road built between Egg
Io " and Greenbank has been
al by Contractor Hanselmann
/, I'd Of Freeholders. The road
We niles long and cost $4,000.
ri br is now the centre of good
!, n be county, having connection
good roads in Burlington
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confidence

ycn.ey's friends say that up and
down the coast, from Key West to
Santiago, there seems to have been
something more than accidental fail
ure to support Schley with informa-
ton that he should have had, while
he had plenty of information Of a
character to perplex and delay him.
The bearing Of the court has been
that of a tribunal intent only upon
having the facts. Such opinions as it
has allowed to come in have some
times been so contradictory that they
do not give much concern to Rear
Admiral Schley's counsel. The Judge
Advocate has endeavored to remove
the impression that the differences
found between dispatches as sent and
printed by the Navy Department were
o. small consequence. The counsel
for the applicant have admitted as
much in regard to the 'Disobedience
Of orders" dispatch.
At the most the case as made out
by the Judge Advocate shows only
that there were officers who differed
from their commander, and that they
do not agree as to the facts upon
which they based their differences of
opinion. Nothing has been elected
that was not known in the fall of
1898, when Schley was named for
advancement for his services in the
Santiago campaign.
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Beers May Come to Us.

Ii is reported that the final scheme
of the fighting Boer burghers Is to
make for the Damaraland border and
accept the offer Of the German con-
sui Of land at four pence per acre. 1t
is rumored in the refugee camps that
10000 Boer families will go. 1t is
also said that a number of burghers
in Johannesburg have asked the Amer
lean Government on what terms they
can secure land in the United States.
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IA. Is. OVhl
WI AKLES LOEFNLEIi

1t is announced on good authority
that the Mckinley estate will amount
TO between S225,0O0 and S250,000, In
Guiding life insuranccof $4,000. Aside
from this insurance the estate consists
of real estate here and contiguous to
Canton, and of deposits in Washington
banks.