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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-01
YOU kNOW =,
That We are Headquarters fc

That We are Headquarters for
A lros Of Hardware.
All kinds Of Furniture.
All kinds Of spring wagons and Buggies.
All kinds mountain and farm Wagons.
All kinds Of Farm Implements.
All kinds Of Paints and Oils.
All kinds of Harness and Strap work.
All kinds of Saddles, Bits and Spurs.
All kinds Of Crockery and Lamps.
All kinds of Clothing and Furnishings.
All kinds of Boots and Shoes.
All kinds Of Blankets and Bedding.
All kinds Of hats, caps, mittens, gloves.
All kinds Of special tin and iron work.
All kinds Of Sewing Machines,
And that we want to sell you anything
you want? Prices always right.
SWEENEY HfRDWHRF CO.
MAIN ST. RAPID CITY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
BAD PENNIES,
They Are Coming Into the Sub-Treas-
ury with a Rush.

They Are Coming Into the Sub-Treas-
ury with a Rush.
Counterfeit cents are coming into the
United States subtrcasury at New York
with a rush. Apparently the counter
feiters are working over time, and all
the efforts of the United States secret
service men have not awaited in locating
the plants from which the humble coun-
terfeits are turned out. More bad cents
are now being received at the Subtreas.
ury for redemption than ever before in
the history of the institution. Between
500 and 900 of the bogus coins are ar
irving daily. In April, of 3T3,S70 cents
turned in Is, 16S were counterfeit. The
range of dates on the bad coins covers
practically all the years during which the
small bronze cents have been issued. and
the metal of which they are made is be-
coming more and more like that Of the
genuine cent. Nevertheless it is not ex-
actly the same and it is the difference in
color that most easily gives away the
bad cents to the subtreasury money
counters.
The workmanship upon the bad coins,
too. is getting better and better. The
dies from which the coins have been
struck are excellent and it is evident that
the counterfeiters are experimenting con-
stantly upon alloys for the purpose of
better stimulating the genuine cents. Even
with the price of copper at the high figure
of II cents pound there is lots of profit
to the cOunterfeiters, providing. of course,
plenty of the bad coins are passed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
THE BOER WAR.
Has Degenerated from Earlier Stages
of the Campaign.

The war in South Africa between Brit
on and Boer still draws it's weary length
along, with widespread ruin and death
its accompaniments.. The parade to
Pretoria" has proven a costly venture,
and though the TransYaal capital was
long ago entered by the British, the strug-
gle shows little sign of ending. The
guerilla tactics employed by the burgh-
ers, the matchless ability of Gen. De
Wet and the grim resolve of the inhabit-
ants to fight to the death for their indie
pendence have prolonged the struggle be-
yond all preconceived ideas. And with
the prOlongatiOn has come deterioration
in the spirit of warfare. The British
have applied the reconcentrado policy Of
Weyler, of infamous Cuban memory, but
in mider and more humane form. Never
theless the face of the land has suffered
Buildings have been burned, crops de-
stroyed, and recently the Geographic
wires carried the announcement of Gen.
Kitchener intention of firing the grass
of the veldt so the Beers might be depriv-
ed of the means of grazing their horses
and cattle.
The Beers tactics consist chiefly in
swOoping down upon isolated British
posts, wrecking supply trains, whence
the burghers add to their stock of arms,
ammunition and clothing, and in looting
stores kept by pro-British sympathizers.
The stand-up-and-fgh features of the
earlier portion Of the war are wanting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11

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C lace Kat al has been consulting for centuries changed
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probably OF
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11

Interpretation. All these matters have
been discussed and much stress was laid
on the preciseness with which the Cuban
Interpretation is formulated.
The final article in the appendix is
pledge that the republic of Cuba will pro-
pose reciprocity treaty. Commercial
interests are highly gratifed that this
pledge is incorporated into the accept
ance of the Plat amendment.
Result Never in Doubt.
With the exception of a few American
and Cuban newspaper men and half
dozen politicians, nobody but the dele
gates were present to hear the result an
uounced. 1t is considered by some that
the voting was practically arranged be-
fOrehand, and that if there had been any
doubt as to the result more Of the dele
gates would have voted in favor of the re-
port.
The radicals made a hard fight at the
last, and POrtuondo Gomez and TamayO
bitterly arraigned the conservatives.
TamayO was particularly vindictive, and
declared that everybody who voted in ia
vor of the Plat amendment was traitor
to his country. The convention compell-
ed him to retract this statement On sew
eral occasions personal encounters seem
ed imminent.
Gomez spoke for more than an hour,
and his speech undoubtedly won over
Castro, Robau and Manauley. He APP
pealed to the patriotism of"delegates and
rehearsed the long fight for independence,
denOuncing as perjurers al who favored
the Platt amendment, on the ground that
they had sworn to draw up a constitution
for an Independent republic. Several con-
servatives rose and asked Gomez to re-
tract, but he absolutely refused.
The following delegates voted against
the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Por-
tuondo, Lacret, Manduley, Cisneros. Fer
rer, Forum, Robau, E. Tamayo, Silva,
Castro, Zayas and Aleman.
Rivea and Bravo were absent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11

and grew, dragging more people into its
meshes, ending, it is alleged, in the COM
mission Of a murder, in which two of
the participants were equally concerned,
and in which no two acted with the full
confidence of the others.
Prescriptions for medicine, said to
have been made out by Dr. August Nj.
Unger, who is charged with being the
chief eonspirator in the case, have been
discovered. They were compounded by a
druggist at the direction of Miss Defen-
bach, who gave the name of her sister,
Mrs. Ada Wells.
Evidence brought out in court tends to
show that the claim was made by the
alleged conspirators that the decedant,
Miss Defenbach, was afflicted with heart
trouble. Her illness prior to her death,
the State believes, was feigned, until
she received medicine from some source
which may have caused her death. Thus
far the prosecution has not undertaken
to charge murder, but admits there is
strong circumStantial evidence of murder
in the testimony held in store by the
State.
The theory of the prosecution, as it has
developed itself thus far, is that Unger
originally started in to have his sweet.
heart, Miss Defenbach, insured, give her
q mock death, substitute another body
for hers and divide the profits with her.
When Miss Defenbach had secured poll
cies for $4,000, Brown, who is said to
have entered the alleged conspiracy at
this point, got Smiley to pose as Miss
Defenbach's affianced husband, become
the beneficiary of the latter's policies,
and also the beneficiary Of the girls WILL
All probably would have gone well had
not Miss Defenbach's sudden and mystic
rious death aroused suspicion. Investi-
CATION developed the fact that a mysteri-
Gus package had been sent Miss Defen-
bach by Unger and that she died the next
day. The body was hastily removed to
an undertaking establishment, a mock in
quest was held, and the remains cremat-
ed few hours later. The three defend
ants were then taken into custody.
Miss Defenbach came to Chicago from
LaPorte, Ind, and was an artists model
Brown is the son-in-law of the late Mill
ionaire Washington Lucas Of Cleveland,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
MANS SPHERE IN NATURE.
Evolution Theorists Declare He Ha
Attained 1t by Slow Degrees

Evolution Theorists Declare He Has
Attained 1t by Slow Degrees.
Since Huxley's pioneer work in 1863
a host of investigators have carried
forward the study of structural resem-
blanceS connecting the genus man with
lower genera and orders, says Prof. w.
J. MCGEE in his address as retiring
president Of the AnthrOpolOgical So
ciety of Washington. To-day the phys
ical similarities are among the COM
monplaces of knowledge, whatsoever
the background of philosophical opin-
ion concerning cause and sequence.
During the last decade or two the in
vestigators themselves. with scarce an
exception, have gone one step farther
and now include sequence of develop
ment from lower to higher forms as
among the commonplace of opinion,
whatsoever the background of meta
physical notion as to cause. There the
strictly biOlogic aspect of the ques-
ton as to mans place in nature may
safely be considered to rest.
The chief advances in anthropOlogy
have related to what MEN do and what
men think, and the progress has been
such as to indicate with fairly salts
factory clearness the natural history
of human thinking, as well as that of
human doing. AS is shown by the
latest researches, the mental workings
of the human are analogous with those
of the lower animals while the ranCa
from the instinct and budding reason
of higher animals to the thinking of
lowest man would seem far less than
that separating the beast-fearing saw
age from the scientist and statesman.
In short, the evident tendency of the
science of anthropology is, according
to Prof. MCGEE. toward the establish
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
SEEK THE PRESIDENCY.
Foraker and Fairbanks Booms Are
Launched by Their Friends.
Washington special:

washington special:
The decision of the United States SUI
preme Court upholding the position o.
the administration in its treatment OF
the islands acquired in the war win
Spain, has caused two presidential booms
to be launched. Republican leaders re-
gard the platform of their party for 1901
as practically settled by the action of
the Supreme Court. As result Senator
Foraker, author of the Porto Rico bill,
is announced as a candidate. To Offset
this, Col. New of Indianapolis springs
Senator Fairbanks. Theodore Roosevelt,
in New York. is watching with Jealous
eye the preparations of his rivals to wrest
from him the honor which he was given
cause last year to regard as practically
certain.
Friends of Ohios senior Senator have
taken immediate advantage of the promi-
hence into which his name has been
brought by the formal opinions of the
justices of the highest tribunal in the
land. Before there has been time to di-
gest the judicial opinions in the insular
cases some of the practical politicians
point out that the Presidents have been
made in the past by the circumstances
of game identified with some public
measure. Mckinley is cited as the most
recent instance. The Mckinley tariff
act, they declare, installed Mckinley in
the White House. The Foraker tariff
act, they say, may do as much for anoth-
er man.
Harry S. New, Republican National
Committeeman from Indiana, and a pow
er in Republican politics in that State,
is authority for the statement that In
diana will stand solidly behind its favor
lite son, Senator Fairbanks for the Re
publican nomination as President in 1904.
THE whole State of Indiana will be back
of Senator Fairbanks at the next ma
tional convention" he said with his
nomination Indiana would be assured to
the Republican party. At present, at
least, he is the logical candidate for the
party"
Theodore Roosevelt realizes that unless
his campaign for the honor he covets is
pushed along with vigor the advantage
he gained over his rivals in the glory he
acquired as Rough Rider will be lost.
His preparations "e being made, there
fore, to fight during the three years in
tervening before the next convention with
characteristic vigor to keep his name be-
fore the public. He will also begin at
once to organize his forces to work quiet
ly in his interest among the leaders of
the party.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
CUBA YIELDS AT LAST
VOTES TO ACCEPT THE PLATT
AMENDMENT.
Agrees that Its Provisions Shall Be
incorporated Into the Island Consti.
tution-Radicais Make Bitter Protest

By narrow majority of one vote the
Cuban constitutional convention "a Ha-
yana agreed to adopt the majority re-
port of the committee on relations, which
recommends the acceptance of the Platt
amendment The members of the Cuban
convention have evidently come TO the
conclusion that if they cannot get all
they want it will be very wise TO take
what. they can get.
With this action the effort toward
final settlement of the negotiations ana
the withdrawal of American troops Is
brought much nearer to fruitiOn. Some
thing remains to be done in the way OF
examining the Cuban constitution with
view to making sure that its adoption
will not involve the United States in
some of the financial troubles with which
the young republic may seek to saddle
itself. Apart from that and the adjust
ment of possible details there is appar-
emily little to be done. 1t may be assum-
ed that the time is not far distant when
the last American soldier will have de-
parted from Cuban soil and the Cubans
will be left to their own devices. 1t rests
with Cuba whether it shall make itself
one of the worlds great little republics,
holding such esteem as is universally
paid to Switzerland, say, or will allow
internal dissensions to become q blight
upon its national existence.
The report adopted is put in the form
of an appendix to the constitution. 1t
begins by quoting the joint resolution of
Congress relating to the independence of
Cuba and the first article of the treaty
of Paris, gives the details of the sending
of the Plat amendment to the conven-
ton, and quotes the amendment itself.
Reference is made to the visit of the
Cuban commission to the United States
and the explanation of the meaning -of
the clauses of the Platt amendment by
Secretary Root.
The report also quotes the letter from
Gov. Wood, transmitting the letter from
the Secretary of War on the same sub
ject, as having the value of an official
document, and then states in very clear
terms, article by article, the convention
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
SUNSET ON THE FARM.

Down behind the western hill the red
n sun sinks to rest.
All the world is weary, and am weary
too.
The partridge seeks its covert, and the
redbird seeks its nest,
And 1 am coming from the FIELDS, dear
heart, to home and you.
Home when the daylight is waning;
4 Home, when my toiling is done;
All! down by the gate, sweet, watch
ing eyes wait
My coming at setting of sum-
The sheep from off the hillside haste to
the shepherds fold,
For death turks in the mountains and
darkness comes apace.
The fleeing sun looks backward and turns
the sky to gold,
Then folds the mantle of the night
across it's crimson face.
Home when the daylight is waning;
Home, when my toiling is done;
All! down by the gate, sweet, watch
ing eyes wait
Ny coming at setting Of sun.
Lay aside the hoe and spade, and put the
sickle by;
All the world is weary, and 1 am
weary, too.
Gently fades the rosy light.from out the
western sky,
And | am coming from the fields, dear
heart, to home and you.
Home when the daylight is waning;
Home, when my toiling is done;
All! down by the gate, sweet, watch
ing eyes wait
My coming at setting Of sun.
American Agriculturist.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11

R.
syocke flights of railroad and industrial stocks has earned the title the
OF
the fifteen years he has made and lost at least fortunes the
with sbackto
Mr. fenced with the late Jay Gould and
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
G>l 2''l|'t.5,l8ELL

Gov. Odell, New York, signed the anti
scalping bill.
Small potteries in Ohio have combined
against the larger ones.
S. r. Galloway viii be president OF
the locomotive trust at 100000 a year.
At Livingston. Tenn, Riley Lowe, a
farmer, was given the death sentence for
poisoning his stepson.
During a church service, a Chicago
burglar gave up his jimmy and announc-
ed that he 'had religion"
\ plea Of insanity is now made by
Mrs. Nation as an excuse for her Kan
sas crusade against saloons.
Government officials scout the idea
that a foreign trade combination against
the United States will be formed.
James r. Garfield. son Of the former
President, was admitted to practice be-
fore the United States Supreme Court.
The Rev. w. A. Conner, aged 1O1. be-
lieved to be the oldest negro preacher in
the country, died at New London, Conn.
Secretary Root has issued an order
putting into effect the reorganization act
providing for a regular army OF 77.O0O
men.
Germany has now 100000 more in
babitants than France, 100000 more
than ustria-Hungary, 22,0O0,OO0 more
than Italy.
Excluding $1,000 small craft the com
merce of the world is carried on by A.
600 vessels. with a carrying power Of
100000 tons.
The Ego incident at Tien-tsin, where
German troops fred on a tug fiyine the
British flag, killing two Chinese, may be
made the basis Of diplomatic, action.
Two parts Of a train humping together
caused Ernest Randolph, a brakeman,
TO force his head through the w.ndsE,
cutting his throat, az Newburg, n. Y.
Statistics just published b. the liner
national Sugar Association show that
Germany's beet sugar acreage this year
is 1,165,170 acres. or an increase Of Co.
DAT.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
RIVER BOAT BLOWN UP.
steamer Laurine Wrecked by GasoI
line and Dynamite.

The Laurine, a 14-ton freight boat ply
ing between Bonneville, Mo, and Roche
port on the Missouri river for the new
railroad, was blown to atoms by explo-
sives stored on board, and two laborers
are believed to have been killed Con-
siderable damage to adjoining property
resulted from the explosion, that was felt
for miles.
The Laurine was propelled by a gaso-
line engine, and when match was ap-
piled to the generator, the gasoline ex-
ploded. The captain and employees of the
boat Immediately vacated. The fire spread
rapidly to the supply tanks with gasoline,
and a second explosion occurred. In the
rear end of the vessel was stored 2,1OO
pounds of dynamite. about leo kegs Of
powder, eight cases Of fuse. and 600 de-
tonating caps. When the fire reached the
powder and dynamite. the Laurine was
blown TO atoms, and many thousands of
dollars worth of property in the city
was destroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
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The News Y

llman's pitchfork has a busy summer

Tillman's pitchfork has busy summer
before it.
General Dicker now has charge Of that
Chinese indemnity matter.
The dry goods box constitutional law
yers can now tackle some new problem.
Money and husbands are two things the
Princess Chimay does not seem to know
the value Of.
King Edward is the latest monarch TO
find that he cannot command the winds
and the waves.
Princess Chimay, who is allowed but
$4,000 a year to live on, will not be
able to hold up her head when she meets
a trust president.
The guessers on the Supreme Court de-
cisiOn were right in the points on which
they were not wrong. This should be
some consolation to them.
Susan B. Anthony says the woman suf-
frage movement IS growing. She sees
quite a difference since the time the Or
ganization consisted Of herself and Lucy
Stone.
Ragtime music may be all wrong. but
DO the musicians think the Spanish war
could have been won without the aid Of
the tune concerning the hot time that was
70 come of in the old town that same
evening?
Every day or so the Beers kindly 20
out and shoot an obscure British officer
up into the peerage.
When Hill and Morgan have completed
their plan TO girdle the earth will they
lug II off some place where they can
have it all TO themselves?
The political pull OF the man who
waited thirty-nine years TO have .he gov
eminent allow a claim o. - - nave
been too small to be located with a mi
croscope.
The selling by the sheriff Of an old BIZ
cycle plant in Indiana calls to mind the
fact that the bicycle was a machine in
quite general use before the automobile
was invented.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
A Suggestion.

Don't you know" said the kind.
faced old gentleman, who stops to talk
to the children, that it is very wrong
for you to fight a boy smaller than
yourself?"
Yes was the reflective reply. I'm
willing to take my share of the blame.
But think he ought to have a lecture.
too, on the imprudence of speaking
rudely to boys that are bigger than he
is. "-WaShingtOn Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11

All business in Beaumont, the center
Of the oil regions in Texas, where for
tunes are being made in a day, IS carried
on on cash basis, writes a correspon-
lent. Every other man you meet has a
roll Of hundreds or thousand dollar bills
in his pocket. / saw one man counting
off 4 number OF these four-fgurad notes
in settling some transaction when he
came across a s. bill among them. With
an exclamation Of annoyance he threw it
into the street. There was nc bragga-
docio about it; the man simply couldn't
be bothered with such small bills Ye-
he looked the painstaking type Of bust
ness man who ordinarily would not pass
by 4 nickel lying in the street.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
Mans Social Standing in the Yves

Mans Social Standing in the West.
The majority of Western men are
out of their element, says W. D. Ly-
man in the Atlantic, in anything ex-
cept business and politics. The wife
usually acts as head of the family in
all manner of social and religious
crises, as inviting a ministerial guest
to ask a blessing at table or conduct
family worship, while the masculine
partner slOuches around at such times
in hulking and uncomfortable con-
seriousness of his own lack of piety and
polish. That solemn sense of his own
dignity as head of the house that
shrinking Difference paid to him by the
weaker vessels" of his family, which
magnifies the pater familias in Eng.
land, and to some degree in the old.
fashioned New England community
this never lightens up the pathway of
the average Western householder. He
may consider himself in great luck if
he is not discrowned entirely.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
BAR SECRET ORDER MEMBERS.
United Presbyterians Rule Against
Masons and Odd Fellows.

Masons and odd Fellows.
By a vote of 90 to GO the general as
sembly of the United Presbyterian
Church in Des Moines adopted the re-
port of the judiciary committee on the
interpre tatiou of the fifteenth article OF
the testimony of the church, which bars
Masons and Odd Fellows from the church
and will drive out members of those or
ders who are now in the church. In gen
eral terms the article debars from the
church members of secret orders (which
require oaths to obey unknown obliga-
tions and those which inculcate Christ
less religion"
The adoption of the report Is aimed
principally at the MasOns and Odd Eel
lows. 1t was expressly stated in the
assembly that members of the Grand
Army Of the Republic and Of labor unions
are not placed under the ban of the
church.
The Presbyterian general assembly in
session at Philadelphia adjourned Tues
day evening. after appointing a commit
tee of twenty-one to make recommended
tons for the revision of the creed with
Moderator Minton as chairman, and list
ening to a brief address by the modera-
tor complimentiug the commissioners N
the harmony which had prevailed during
the deliberations of the assembly.