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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-25
Laugh and Grow Fat. 1"

Lille Is such a serious business to
'"s average mortal that an oppor-
UNITY for a hearty laugh is more
Una" welcome to most people. "A
merry heart doeth good like a med
clAe and 50 do the humorous feat
1ie' OF that great metropolitan daily,
lA1 Chicago Record ierald. The
Hi-. thing that greets you on the
lI>t page of every issue is the hui
A'Ious cartoon that frequently tells
'i'oEeat "a glance than could be con-
''lr4 iu "A column of reading mat
'sI Every issue contains also a
humorous story ~ the editorial page
'' wen ms ont OF the Ginger Jar"
noted Tor its snappy qualities. and
..s Alternating Current column
written by :. +. Kiser, one of the
..'s popular humOrists in the coun-
lh addition tn aii these the
A"AaE issue always includes COM
'#ciiou neutrality-suspicious. of NOR
~. Then the inimitable Bob y
.a.aette, one Of the most noted of
h..eiiean humorists, is regular
ributor 20 The sunday Pccord-
I''-.ald and every issue contains, in
ZION, other special article of a
'1l@Gt'uliy humorous character.
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Those famous little pills, De-
Wits Witch Hazel saIve should be
promptly applied to cuts, burns. and
.Ai3s Il soothes and quickly heals
az INJURED part. There are worth
=, eonterfeits, be sure to get De-
Wits. W. II. Prideaux.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
He Was Murdered.

John Russell farmer living near
Tower Hill. Illinois, suddenly and
mystcriously disappeared SO years ago,
and until Saturday no trace of him
ever has been found. The skeleton Of
man. found beneath the floor of
house, which was torn down has been
Identified as that Of the man who van
ished Il generation ago. Trinkcts
found with the bones made the iden-
tilication complete. Several wealthy
citizens are under arrest for alleged
connection with the affair The cir
cumstanceS of his disappearance are
said TO he that he went to Shelbyville
and drew $500 from the bank with
which to pay for some land. He was
last seen some miles from his home.
and his horse returned home ridcrlcss
the following day from which limo ~
clew was found till to-day.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Gnve Himself LIN

William Lewis Gray, the man for
whom the police have been looking IN
connection with the Fosburg case ut
Pittsfeld, Mass, voluntarily surren-
dered himself to Captain of Detectives
Titus at police headquarters Saturday.
Gray was implicated by woman
named Olive Handyside. or Olive Gray.
with whom he had lived. She alleged
that Gray committed the burglary and
the murder. Gray denied any connec-
ton with the case, and said he told the
woman the story to brighten her and
to make her leave him.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
TIC roshurg Murder.

Judge Stevens ordered a verdict for
the defendant in thH Fosburg case.
Robert S. Fosburg was OH trial for the
alleged murder of his sister, May Fos-
burg, ut the family home in Pitts
field, Mass. She was killed 10y
a pistol shot The family claim-
ed that burglars who broke into
the house caused her death,
but the chief OF police of Pittsfield
worked on the theory that Fosburg
and his father had quarrel, and that
May was accidentally killed while try
ing TO make peace between them. No
evidence had been adduced In the trial
to support this theory, the family adj
herring to the burglar story, and their
statements being mistaken by cross
examination. Owing to the wealth and
social standing of the Fosburgs, the
case has attracted great attention.
Without the knowledge of spectators
and newspaper men. Charles f.. Hib-
bard, senior counsel for the defense
moved late Thursday p. IN. that Rob
ert Fosburg be acquitted Of the charge
of manslaughter for which he had
been on trial for seven days. All the
evidence had been put in and the court
Immediately adjourned. but counsel
for both sides and Judge Stevens re-
tired to the lobby, where Mr.. Hibbard
and District Attorney Hammond ar
gued the motion. No decision was rem
dered until Friday morning.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT.
A Secret Conference of the Steel
Leaders Held.
MURDER MYSTERY OFLONG AGO
Lines of SettIement-Flrc at Davenport
Briefly Told.
The steel workers strike.

Hopes that the great strike of steel
workers will soon be over are en-
couraged by negotiations for settle
ment which began in New York Sat
urday, between President Shaffer and
Secretary Williams, OF the Amalga-
mated Association, and j. z. Morgan
and Il group of his associates in the
United States Steel Corporation. The
conference and the movements of the
conferees were secret, and no intima-
ton Of the result Of the deliberations
has come from anyone in authority.
It is believed. however, that substan-
tial progress toward an agreement was
made, and that formal announcement
CT the compact for peace will come
within few days. The conference re-
suited from several days Of prelimin-
airy discussion, all of which was kept
secret.
1t is reported that the terms Of set
Element will be as follows:
81. The mills recognized as non-union
on July will be continued as such, save.
possibly where the Amalgamated Asso-
citation has effected a strong organization.
- The Amalgamated Association will
recede from its demand that the company
sign the scale for all mills.
3. The steel company Will pay the scale
in all mills. union or non-unlon.
-. All mills shall be open to all men
with or without union cards. The assoc
citation shall not attempt T. force men into
the union or oblige the company to en-
ploy only union men
-. The steel company will permit the
organization of men when they manifest
desire to join the Amalgamated or other
associations"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
The Great War claims.

+. Il. Rittman. auditor for the war
department. has made his annual re-
port to Secretary Gage.
Speaking of the work Of the military
claims division, Mr.. Rittman says that
1870 civil war claims, 1891 Spanish
war claims and 7103 regular army
claims were received during the past
year, bringing the total of pending
claims growing out of the civil war
up to 2G,616; Spanish war, 1876, and
regular army claims, 0,513.
OF these were allowed: Civil war
claims, S,S1S; Spanish war claims,
1920; regular army claims. 6,426; leav-
ing pending on June 30, 1901, civil war
claims, 5,117; Spanish war claims, l.
S93; regular army claims, 1923.
A total of $5.S94 ,266 has been claim
ed Ivy states on account of the war
with Spain. OF this sum. $3,3S6047
was allowed and paid, leaving a claim
balance of $2,50S.2 1S.
Since his last report, A, AL deposits
by enlisted men of the army under the
act of May II. 1872. were made,
amounting to 1,S23,47 and 80 AT de-
pOsits have been withdrawn, amount
ing to S1,t0S.215. upon which the de-
positors received interest amounting to
SGG. 2J7.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Railroad Earnings and Crops.

Discussing the relationship between
crop yields and railroad earnings. the
New York Times declares that the ag-
ricutural output has recently been no
larger than decade ago, while rail
road earnings have grown 80 to GO per
cent. Agricultural products furnish
only IL IL per cent Of total tonnage
while manufactures comprise 10 ID
per cent and mine products over 80 per
cent. OF agricultural products. more
over, not over 30 per cent consist OF
grain. There has been no general in
crease in the volume or value of corn,
wheat and oats in the past decade.
The vast increases in earnings have
had most of their rise elsewhere. AS
n single instance earnings gained
S173.000,000 for 1900. while the value
of the 1899 crops, supposed to have
had much to do with this outcome.
gained only S15,000.000.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Sent the Negroes Back.

General Manager Aertsen Of the La
trobe Steel and Coupler works. ut Mel
rose Park, Chicago. gave out a state
ment. declaring the company has aban-
doned the effort to bring colored la
borers to MelrOse Park and that they
will be sent back to their homes in
Alabama.
All day the 300 men sat in their
cars at Lagrange. 2S miles from Chi
ago. in fear A committee Of five cit
liens of MelrOse Park called on them
during the morning and urged the men
to return to their homes in Alabama.
They informed the negroes Of the ac-
tual state of affairs in MelrOse Park.
where 300 armed men were awaiting
the arrival Of their train, determined
not to allow them TO alight in the viii
lage. The statements alarmed the inn
ported men more than ever, and it
was with difficulty that the trainmen
managed TO keep them from running
away in n panic.
Out at MelrOse Park the armed cit
liens remained on watch until assured
the negroes were not coming, when
they dispersed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
IN michigan.
The Examination Of Mrs. French
Begins at Mason.
HUNG HIM ON A MEAT HOOK.
The States Heavy Observation-Disclosures HIS
Wife-Pa.d fly tho State-Various Bits
of News Gathered Here and There of
Michigan People aud Events.
Tn. Alleged French Murder.

Mrs. John ID. French, of Onondaga,
has been taken to Mason for eXamina-
tion on the charge of numbering her
husband. She denies that she poison
ed French and now says her confes-
sion was made under great fear and is
not true. she repeated the statement
that the arsenic must have been adj
minis; red by n neighbor who lives
across the road from the family.
Some discriminating notes were found
In Mrs. Frenchs possession. One OF
them was addressed to William Gid
dmgs, the neighbor whom she now ac-
cuses, and read rs follows: William
Giddings. June, Saturday, %, 1901.
Say, what is there about John French
that You like? When you go in
through the woods with John why
don't you take your revolver and shoot
him and make believe it was done by
aXident? | have been trying to kill
him for the last four weeks"
Another note read: II have tried to
he will die while he is gone. Don't
tell anybody and | will you what l
done. | fixed three strawberries with
poison"
a third sheet of paper in Mrs.
French's handwriting contained Il list
of the beatings which she claimed her
husband had given her. Another slip
contained transcript of her husbands
property with the valuations. a footing
and the total divided by three, which
would be the amount of her dover in
terest i'm case he should die without
having made a will.
Since the present trouble came up
Mrs. French has been suspected by her
son, Nernie Il. Allen, who lives with
her, of having poisoned others, in adj
dition To the Springport family.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
DnNcnport. In. FiresNent.

Fire laid waste TO an area Of saw-
mill and residence property in Daven-
port Thursday evening equal to 20 or
binary city blocks. The flames started
in big piles of kindling wood of the
Rock Island Fuel Co. on the levce. 4
brisk breeze was blowing and carried
the flames directly across the immense
lumber yards of Weyerhauser & Denk-
mann. which was soon n seething mass
OF tiames. The spread Of the fire was
so rapid that wOrkmen barely had time
to desert the yards. The flames push
ed their way into the adjoining resi-
dpnce district, closely settled with
middle class homes. the average value
a few thousand dollars each. from
which the occupants escaped only with
their lives and the clothing on thcir
backs. Residences and other losses.
S}00.0 900.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Many stock Companies.

The secretary of states Office has
done an Unprecedented half years bus
mess in the filing of articles of incor-
poration of new stock companies. Dur.
ing the six months ending June 30 the
articles of 405 corporations were re-
ceived and recorded or these COM
panies. % were mining companies 203
mercantile and manufacturing, 10 rail
road and 100 miscellaneous corpora
tons. These companies paid franchise
fees of $37,9jS The secretary Of
states office has also collected 81, $50
IL other fees.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
DetrOit's birthday.

Detroit has been in holiday attire
the past week and has celebrated the
two hundredth anniversary OF the
founding by Cadillac. Everything to
make the streets gay with color by day
and electric devices for the night was
brought into use. The festival opened
Wednesday noon with the shrieking Of
steam whistles. ringing of bells and
boom of cannon. At p. m. Cadillac
and his officers landed and were re-
ceived by real live Indians in all the
glory Of paint. feathers and other III
dian accessories. Thursday the great
parade of civic, military and Industrial
bodies drew thousands of people to the
streets through which 1t passed. 1t
was an hour and Il half passing Il
given point. Friday the floral parade
made one of the most beautiful street
pageantS ever seen in the city. The
parade of floats on street ear trucks
was made in the evening over the
principal lines of the street railway.
Thousands Of visitors thronged the
city 10 view the sights and general re-
joicing was INDUCED in.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Settlement I'm sight.

Confirmation of the amplest kind of
the encouraging news that has come to
the press from Pekin relative to the
settlement of the financial problems
that have engrossed the attention of
the ministers there for many weeks
have just come to hand from Mr.. Rock
hill. Moreover he adds to the general
items already reported the news that
the ministers will be ready to sign
protocol within two weeks that will
result in the speedy withdrawal from
China Of all foreign troops except the
legation guards and those who will oc-
cupy certain stategic points to be held
under the treaty to safeguard the road
between Pekin and the sea.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
KEENAN, Had to Go.

A high Russian police officer called
upon George KEENAN,, the American
author and lecturer at his hotel in st.
Petersburg. Thursday evening, and in
formed him he must, leave the country.
Mr.. KEENAN, was not allowed to leave
his room in the interim. but he was
cOurteOusly treated. This action by
the Russian authorities is taken UNI
der the law giving the minister Of
the interior power to eXpel undesir-
able foreigners. The notice served
upon Mr.. KEENAN, characterized him
MS untrustworthy politically. Mr. Ken
nan has informed the United States
minister to Russia. Charlemagne
Tower. OF this action of the Russian
authorities hut has not asked Mr..
Tower 20 intervene in the matter.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
shot His wife.

Albert Ryan, who lives half mile
east Of Litchfield. shot and probably
fatally wounded his wife, Thursday.
Ryan and his wife moved to Lltchfield
three years ago and from that time TO
this there has been a succession Of
family disturbances. They have aired
their affairs in court once or twice.
Thursday afternoon they had another
quarrel in which Ryan threatened to
shoot his wife. She then started TO
go to the residence of James Adams,
who lives north of them. Just before
reaching Adams yard Ryan, who had
followed her, fired three times, each
shot taking effect, one in either arm,
and the third in the abdomen.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Crn,t Sell the Logs.

At hearing before Judge NJ. j. Con
nine on motion by the state to dis
solve an injunction restraining Land
Commissioner Widely and State Tres
pass Agent Shien from selling or TAX
ing possession of $50 600 feet of hem
lock logs belonging to the Pine River
Lumber Co, and being doomed ana
RATED by the II. NJ. LIQUIDS Sons o..
and also on the hearing of motion to
hold Trespass Agent Shien in contempt
Of court for disobeying the injunction
and taking possession OF the logs az
ter the service OF the Injunction upon
him. Judge Connine found that Shien
was in contempt of court and denied
the motion of the attorney general to
dissolve the injunction and gave abso-
lutte possession of the logs to the Pine
River Lumber Co.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Hung on n Meat Hook.

\ man hanging to n meat hook 10y
his wrists was the sight that met the
gaze of a party in the slaughter house
of James Lillibridge. in Ottawa eoun-
ty. His skull was fractured and he
is certain TO die. His name is John
Russell The wounded man and
Lillibridge engaged in a quarrel in
the slaughter house. When Russell
recovered consciousness he said that
Lillibridgc attacked him with knife,
then felled him with an aX. afterwards
tying his hands and hanging him TO
Il beef hook. Lillibridge denies that
he hit Russell with an AK. but says he
knocked him senseless with blow
from his fist
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02

The busy bee at best gets a day off
about as seldom as country boy in
haying time, but the modern apiarist
has contrived to make her even more
industrious than she is when left to
herself. The orchards of the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin valleys bios
som some months before the southern
sage brush. The bee-farmer, there
fore, carts his bees about from place
to place as the seasons advance, and
thus, by keeping them busy nine
months of the year, gets three crops of
honey. The difficulty of moving bees
during the active season is overcome
by travelling at night. AS the bees
help TO pollenize the flowers and thus
produce superior fruit, the owners of
the orchards regard them with favor
In results the plan is even better than
that Of the enterprising farmer who
crossed his bees with firefiies so that
they could work nights.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Wheat in Calhoun county is reported
in bad shape.
George Taylor. of Ionia, was
drowned in the river Saturday night.
Calvin Finn, living near Lake City,
has been arrested on II charge of in
Cest.
II. y. Steadman. a Ronald farmer,
well-to-do, has been missing since the
10th.
Herman Nochastslli. of Detroit died
ut Michigan City as the result of sun
stroke.
Carl Richardson. of Lansing. aged
20 has mysteriously disappeared in
New York
The Calhoun county soldiers and
sailors reunion will be held in Albion
August 2S and %.
Herb Steadman, an IOnia county
farmer, has been missing since Satur-
day, with no clue.
The colored knights Templar of
Michigan and Ontario have been hold
ing sessions in Detroit
Mrs. Chas. Ware, Of Battle Creek,
caught fire from Il gasoline stove and
was dangerously burned.
Andrews hotel barn and contents,
including a horse, burned at Holly.
Loss 5000; insurance 5000.
Modesto Ruiz. Cuban. has been
visiting at Albion. where three sons
have been attending college.
During the first six months Of 1901,
304 cases were prosecuted in Calhoun
county with % convictions.
Somebody with diamond cut a
number of Ishpeming plate glass win
dows, to the extent of $4,000
Rural free delivery routes have been
established at Cereseo, Calhoun coun-
~, and Sand Lake, Kent county.
Dr. Arthur C. Perbert, of st. Luke's
hospital, Niles. is wanted in Indiana
ON the charge OF wreckiug bank.
Charles Fry, a Williamson farm
hand. is in a critical condition rs the
result of falling off Il load of hay.
George Hathaway. the Detroit letter
carrier, who disappeared one week ago
Thursday, has not been located as yet.
The cid soldier. Uri Nudge, miss
ing was found dead in n swamp near
Au Ores. He had o7idcltly taken poi
son.
Charles Richie an inmate OF the
northern asylum. eluded the vigilance
of brother. and hanged himself from
tree in the woods.
Chas. O'Brien. of HilIsdale. will
serve g. days sentence in the De
troit house of correction for selling
obscene literature to boys.
Two Prescott women. wives OF sec
ten laborers. recently went to Cincin-
natl and We're presented by their rich
father with 100000 apiece.
The Bloomingdale Cheese Factory
received over 2T.O00 pounds of milk
during the month of May and paid the
patrons for the same $1.6T2.
The storm which for five minutes on
Sunday swept over Detroit and vicin-
ity ragged with great fury and did
thousands of dollars in-damage.
Walter Bryce Hutton. of Chicago.
auditor of the Illinois steel shops of
the steel trust. was drowned while
bathing at South Haven Sunday.
Michigan asylum physicians believe
the disease ut the Institution is not
smallpox. but some new disease little
known TO the medical fraternity.
Chairman Aplin. of the Republican
congressional committee fixed upon
August - as the date for the holding
Of tie district convention at Standish.
Mclci Edwards. n young boy of
Deep ri FER. shot William Mckenzie. OF
Pinconning, through the arm during
IN alteration. The wound Is not seri.
Gus.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
A Clerical wife Denter.

Rev. Eugene Griggs. formerly of st.
Marks church. Candor. who has been
holding parish in Michigan, has been
charged with wife-beating and noh
support His wife swore out war
rant. She charges him with leaving
her without anything to eat. She al
leges that when neighbors brought in
food he returned TO the house and ate
it up, and he has a family of four chill
dren. He disappeared and now it is
learned that he accepted charge of Il
parish at Big Rapids Mich. but resign
ed at the request OF the congregation.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02

Llbertad is authority for the state
ment that Senior Palermo will leave the
federal party and will organize the
nationalist" on platform re-
resembling that of the conservatives.
with Aguinaldo as president and form.
or insurgent military officers and
former members of the federal party.
as leaders. The purpose. of the new
party will be the ultimate Independence
OF the Philippines. This comedies
with Senior Paterno's policy. as he has
been making efforts TO induce Aguinal-
do TO unite with the new party.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Killed by lightning.

Albert Emmons, aged 80. working
for Carlton Town, of Allegan. was
killed by lightning at o'clock We'd
nesday morning. He was sleeping in
the loft of Towns barn near the open
front door. There is mark on the
left side of the neck and forefinger of
the right hand is burned. Robert Kay
Tor, who was down stairs caring for
the horses, had pitchf0rk knocked
out of his hands. There was no other
damage. Emmons was lying on u
robe, and the lightning burned a hole
through it the size Of dollar. He was
n veteran of the civil war. serving in
the Ninth Michigan Infantry, and
leaves a widow and five children.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02

There is great rejoicing among the
Norwegian advocates of the rights of
women 1.-The New Woman in Nor
way" says the Kleine Zeitung, "has
gained a glorious victory" For many
years the Norwegian "Feministen"
have been waging war against the use
of the word "obey" in the marriage
service of the Norwegian church, and
their labors are at length crowned
with success, or at least with par"
tial success. The Staatsrath in Christi
ania has ruled that the use of the word
shall henceforth not be obligatory
upon the bride, but 'facultative." That
is to say, the bride is to be free either
to say that she will be faithful and
obedient," or simply to say that she
will be faithful"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
Dir. Doty. health officer of the port Of

Dr. Doty. health officer of the port Of
New York, announced Wednesday that
the illness of Rabviane. the stoker on
the steamer Hohenfcls. who was sent
to Swinburne island on Monday, has
been diagnosed as bubonic plague. The
Hohenfels came from Calcutta. Dir.
Doty says the case Is n mild one. All
of the crew of the Hohenfels will he
held mt Swinburne island for observa-
ton. the vessel will be thoroughly dis
infected. the cargo will be discharged
into lighters at quarantine, and sui
phur will he burned in the hold to kill
the rats. which, It is sald carry the in
lection.