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New Ulm review., 1901-09-11
A Fiend's Work.

Some one with q grudge against Mr..
Fienlan, farmer in the town of West
Newton, Nicollet county, has been vent
ing bis spite on the dumb animals. Last
May a number Of Mr.. Fienlan's COWS
slckened and some died and it was dis
covered that the cause Was traceahle to
eating corn that had been poisoned. The
ears were bored into from the end and
poison put into the cavity so that the
cattle could not escape if they ate the
corn. Suspicion pointed to two families
and detectives were set at work trying
to ferret out the culprit. As result
arrests were made last Saturday and a
boy of one of the neighbors was taken
to st. Peter where various methods were
employed to implicate the suspects
through his testimony. This was only
partially successful b u enough, was
found ont to induce the sheriff to arrest
smother party who was taken in custody
Monday evening and will have his hear
ing today. Names are with held on &C
count of the seriousness of the offense
and the uncertainty under which the of
ticers are acting. The detectives en-
ployed are very amateur in their work,
but rs mysterious as the shades of night
and as silent as sphinx. When they
are certain that they have the right man
he should be prosecuted to the very
limit of the law and shown no mercy
whatever. A man who seeks to vent
his spite on another by inhicting pain
and injury upon dumb animals is too
low to be shown mercy.
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11
Climate and Crop Bulletin for the week ending
September 9, 1901.

There were light rains in the Red Riv-
er valley on the 5th, and heavy rains in
the southern half of the state on the 18th
and 9Th. The temperatures were about
80 degrees in most parts of the state on
the 3rd and 4th, and IN the southern por-
tions on the 9Th, followed b. decidedly
lower temperatures on the 7th and 9Th.
The rain will be helpful to pastures, gar
dens and blowing. Threshing has gone
on well in northern portions, except for
q slight delay due to the rains on the
9th, and in southern pol tions till the 9TH
Fifteen working days will finish the
threshing of all grain that is not to be
held longer in stack. In Red Lake Co.,
there are still some oats, barley and
buckwheat to cut, and the cutting of
late fax is not finished in northern por.
tions and in small areas elsewhere. Flax
is very poor in the north, but it is some
what better in the South. Much of the
corn is ripe and out of danger of the
frost, and in southern portions a great
is in shock. Corn varies in quality from
very poor to fair, according to local con
ditions. Small areas of rye has been
seeded where good seed bed has been
secured. The potato crop in north
ern counties is said to be good. In
southern counties very good crop of
clover seed is being secured In some
portions the cattle are being fed, the
pastures being entirely dried up. Plow-
ing has been much delayed by the hard
ness of the soil, but where the splendid
rains have fallen since the morning of
the 7th, it will be in excellent condition
for working. Wells and creeks have
been very low, and in Olmsted Co., Rock
river has been dry for 90 miles, for the
first time in the history of the county.
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11
Don't Miss This.

"When We Were Twenty One" is the
treat in store for New Ulm theatre goers
sunday evening, Sept. 18th, Turner Hall.
The play is one of the greatest of recent
theatrical successes, and it offers not
only an evening of pure enjoyment, but
it teaches lesson that no parent can
afford to miss. The members of the
company are all good, and when one
leaves the theatre one feels sincere
affection for the dainty Phyllis, warm
sentiment for the soldier man, the doctor
and Waddles, while the Imp is every
mothers wayward son, who comes to his
senses and redeems his folly. A more
beautiful play was never written. It all
turns around the foolishness of the lad
who had been left an orphan by friend
of the four men mentioned. They had
adopted him jointly, but Richard
Carewe took him to his home, and was
father, mother. everything to him.
When the boy falls into the clutches of
the "Firef1y" and marries her, while his
friends try to save him, he turns against
them all, but more bitterly against Dick,
as Carewe is called. There are many
complications, and some of the finest
and most dramatic situations ever pre-
seated. The whole play is simply per-
feet in every detail. 1t is SO tender that
tears are seen everywhere, and yet it is
a comedy, full of amusing episodes,
which but serve as setting to the real
jewel of the play. One thing about the
whole is the naturalness of it, for there
is not single thing that might not be,
and the art of the actors is SO fine that
it does not seem acting but reality.
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11

Very Low Rate Excursion Tickets to the
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y.
Via the North Western Line are sold
daily with favorable return limits. Di-
rect connection at Chicago, with fast
trains of all lines to Buffalo. For furth-
er particulars, apply to agents. An IL
Illustrated booklet will be mailed on re-
ceipt of two cents postage by W. B.
Kniskern, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent. Chicago So 81 SO
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11
$15o

Excursion to ST. Paul & Minneapolis
and return, Saturday, September 21st,
1901, via the North Western Line. Spe-
=cial train will start from Tracy, and
will pass New Ulm at 1918 noon, ar
rivlng in st. Paul at 4 80 and Minneap-
oils at 500 P. III.
Returning special train will leave
Minneapolis at $40 P. M. and ST. Paul
s 40 F. M. Sunday, Sept. 22nd.
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11
SLEEPY EYE FIRE.

Two o'clock Wednesday afternoon
fire was discovered in the Hagermann
building occupied by the stock and fix
lures of the ]. L. Hansen restaurant and
almost at once the flames spread to the
Conley hotel, the next door north. The
fire was discovered by Mrs. Mary Honl
and the alarm Immediately turned in.
When first seen the flames were pouring
from the roof of the bakery. There had
been no fire in the building upstairs or
down for at least day. The insurance
on the Hanson stock and fixtures amounts
to $3.50 in the Connecticut Mutual, be-
ing $3.50 on Soda fountain and 500 on
cash register. This insurance, we are
told, will not be paid. The loss on the
Conley building and stock is about $500
with 5000 insurance on stock and con-
tents and $1,000 on building. The Hag-
ermann building, partially destroyed, is
insured for $500. Mr.. Hagerman had
800 insurance on household goods. The
Windsor hotel was slightly damaged by
smoke and water.-Dispatch.
New Ulm review., 1901-09-11

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New Ulm review., 1901-09-11

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Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
She Kne,r AMI Ahnnt n

81 was dining out one evening among
notable company of people. most OF
whom knew only by reputation. " says
George Inness, Jr., in The Home Jour.
nal. 81 was assigned seat next to a
very charming and intellectual woman
and did my best to entertain her. Said
|: What can talk about that will in
terest you? have had some little ex-
perience as cavalryman. Possibly
you may care to hear something about
horses in the field
Why, yes; certainly answered my
fair companion. I know a little con-
corning army life, and l once wrote a
book called Boots and Saddles And
then It dawned upon my poor, dull
brain that was talking to the widow
Of the great cavalry leader, General
Custer, so said no more about horses
or army life"
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
MRS. PLATT DEAD.
Wife Of the Senior Senator From New
York State.

Wife of the Senior Senator From New
York State.
New York, Feb. 14-Mrs. Thomas
G. Platt, the wife of United States
Senator Platt, died during the day
at her apartments in the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel, after long illness. Sen
ator Plat with his three sons and
their wives were at the bedside.
Mrs. Platt's affection was nervous
affection of the heart and despite the
efforts of doctors and trained nurses,
that organ had been gradually grow
ing weaker for some time past. Pow
erful heart stimulants were admins
tered and under their. influence the
strength Of the patient was sustained
for weeks. A change for the worst
came Tuesday. Mrs. Platt's heart
showed every sign of giving out and
every moment of the day and through
out the night she was watched by
the nurses or the doctors. :.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
you. Hang them on a chair with your
trousers or drop them in a glass of wa
ter with your teeth"
A Museum of Pawn Tickets.

4
London possesses many fine muse
ums which no country cousin" who
values his opportunities would miss
seeing. There is one, however, which
is not in the guidebooks and has no
visitors, because scarce any one knows
Of it's existence. 1t belongs to the
county council and is a museum Of
pawn tickets. They were acquired by
the council in the course Of an inquiry
some considerable time ago into. the
question Of establishing municipal
pawnshops. Some of the documents
are mean looking things, others so
magnificent that pawning ones watch
must be almost pleasure. Such is
the ticket in use at Naples. ample in.
size, elaborate in design and gorgeous
in color. An impecunious Dick Swiv-
eller receiving such document in re-
turn for his Sunday clothes can scarce
ly feel that he has done anything
mean, but rather that he has received
a handsome testimonial. London
Chronicle.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
UN-CLASsIFIED.

A farmer over in Swift county was
badly troubled with blackbirds in his
cornfield and resolved to slay them
He took down his old muzzle loader,
and having no shot, he showed in a
handful of tacks onto the powder and
went to his field. He was shouting
mad and made the corn stocks rattle
with profanity. A shower of the
blackbirds rose and few into tree
near by-he fired, and was the most
surprised man in that section-every
bird in the flock was nailed to the
tree, with its wings Tapping. Said
he: Il was struck with the sight and
while stood watching them dern
my buttons if the te1nel things didn't
pull up the tree and fly away
Montevidio Leader.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

The action of Governor Van SAINT
in stopping the ''boxing exhibition
in Minneapolis on Monday night
should meet with the approval of all
who believe in having the law en-
forced. Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis,
appeared to have been very much
put out by the ruling of the attorney
grneral that the contest was illegal.
and says that he will hereafter stop
all sports in Minneapolis that jeopar-
die life and limb. In trying to make
the Governors order appear ridicu-
lous, the mayor has made spectacle
of himself,
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

At banquet Of the National Whole
sale Druggists association in Chicago
the Rev. Frank Crane compared the
respective remedial qualities of laugh.
ter. Some of his epigrams were these:
Man is the only animal that was
made to laugh, and as science teaches
that laughter is sure boon to health it
is sin for us to substitute excessive
drug taking for laughter.
Laughter increases the blood circu.
lation.
1T enlarges the heart.
ut expands the lungs.
; ut jiggers the diaphragm.
''It promotes the dioculation of the
spleen. A
~ once knew man who laughed so
much that when he died they had to
cut his liver out and kill it with club.
Beware Of theologians who have no
sense Of mirth. They are not altogeth-
er human.
Keep your chin up.
Don't take vour troubles to bed with
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
ABANDON FESTIVITIES.
Attitude of Popuiace Alarms the Span.
ish OFFICIALS

ANuGuue OF FOPuIaCS Alarms Ine span
ish Officials.
Madrid, Feb. 14.-Music on the pub.
lie squares and general holiday had
been arranged as the days pro-
gramme Of the .Asturias-Bo Bourbon
marriage festivities, but all this has
been abandoned, on account of the at
titude of the populaoe.
Up to this hour, the day has been
perfectly calm. The students decided
to participate in the funeral of Ramon
de Campoamor, the poet and philos-
opher whose death was announced
Tuesday. If they carry out this plan
it probably will result in a nantes
tation.
According, however, to best opin-
ion, there will be no serious trouble
this week.
Paris, Feb. IA dispatch to The
Temps from Madrid says there have
been very serious disorders in. San
lander. Thousands of rioters attack
ed several converts, the bishops pal
ace and the Jesuit Adjustments and
forced an entry into the Carmelite
convent, where they looted. every
thing and set fire to the building.
The gendarmes arrived in time to ex-
tinguish the flames before much dam
age was done. A number of persons
were injured on both sides.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

THE WAGES OF LAWLESSNESS.
The conrse of lawless procedure in
augurated by Mrs. Carrie Nation in
Kansas has had its inevitable result.
A party of her imitators at Milwood,
town near Leavenworth, got into a
squabble with a jointist and his fami-
ly and in the melee the saloonkeeper's
wife was shot and killed, while one of
the raiders was wounded. It is said
that 100 shots were fired.
This outcome is not surprising. It
is rather surprising that more people
have not already been killed or MAIN
ed through the attempts of private
and irresponsible persons to enforce
the prohibitory law.
Is it not time for the state of Kan
sas to call halt? If the state gov
eminent is paralyzed and helpless, as
it would appear to be, surely there
are reputable and influential citizens
who can come to the front and raise
their voices in behalf of law. and
order. The trouble is that there has
been too much tolerance of Mrs,
Nations violent method among the
class of people who in every com
munity are looked upon as the bull
wark of order. When these classes
join the mob, either actually or in
spirit, as SO many of them have in
Kansas, then the condition of public
morality in the commonwealth must
be truly deplorable. Cannot this
class now arouse itself and say that
this attempt at private enforcement
and its accompaniment of violence.
punctuated with murder, shall stop?
Tribune.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

Nikola Tesla has consented tc
make definite statement as to his
system of wireless telegraphy. He
says he has perfected the invention
or at least brought it to a practical
commercial basis; that the capital is
pledged and operations will begin in
about eight months. No paltry six
ty, eighty or a hundred miles will be
the limit of his messages. He will
send his communications across
oceans and continents. Hitherto
Tesla's promises have been some
what greater than his performances
from the practical non-scientifc
viewpoint--but he is entitled to
credit for the wonders he has per-
formed and let us hope that he will
be able to put his marvellous wireless
telegraphy in operation eight months
hence as per agreement Minneapo-
lis Times.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

While thousands of men through
out the Union are as busy as they
can be scheming, lobbying and legls-
lating, stacking up new laws, there
seems to be but one poor lonely
woman in the United States, actively
engaged in the enforcement of the
law, and she has to do it with a
Ratchet, while the judges sit on their
benches and the policemen beat their
beats.-Midway News.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

The Hay-Pauncefote treaty will
lapse on March 4, unless Great Bri-
tain takes action upon it before that
date. 1t would have lapsed year
ago had not the United States re-
quested more time to deal with it;
and this extra time is up within three
weeks. Any request for further ex-
tension must come from Great Bri-
tain, and the failure of the latter to
request this is equivalent to reiec-
ton of the treaty. The senate is al
ready preparing for the abrogation Of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, a step
which will be taken in the extra ses-
sion, if one is convened. According
to the precedent of the French treaty
in 1908, the action will require the
assent of both Houses of Congress
and the signature of the President.
No doubt is expressed as to the con-
currence of the senate and house in
the effort to abrogate the treaty, and
it is also held that Great Britain will
be compelled to accept the abroga-
ton. The ground of abrogation will
be that the conditions which led to
the negotiation Of the treaty no
longer exist, cause deemed ample
by Wharton and other authorities on
international law. AS soon as the
treaty has been declared abrogated,
steps will be takento pass the Nicara-
guam Canal BILL
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

The Cuban constitution has been
signed and a copy sent to the United
States. The matter of handling the
constitution in this country is very
delicate one, but the only sensible
thing to do with it is to leave it alone
except when any of its provisions
may lead to foreign complications.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

HE premiums collected in Mime
sofa by fire insurance companies do
ing business in the state during the
year 1900 amounted to 81, 1872, 1872 and
the losses S2,9O8,2l8. After deduct
ing commission and expenses it is
said that the companies sustain a net
loss. In 1897 the ratio of loss to
premiums was Is per cent. in 1898
40 per cent, in 1899 So per cent and
last year 70 per cent. This would
seem to indicate that a general up-
ward trend in insurance rates may be
expected.
On the matter of fire insurance
rates, the question arises, where do
all the losses come from nnless II ia
from the large cities. There have
been no losses to speak of in Morris
for many years, nor in other small
places does the annual loss seem to
bear any just proportion to the in
surance money collected. The infer
ence is that the country towns are
paying the fire losses of the cities,
We do not have paid fire depart
ment like the large cities. but neither
are there the enormous difficulties to
be overcome in fighting fire that
there are in the large places.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
Obedient to Orders,

''You must push matters a little
James," said a chemist to his new boy,
"By calling customers attention to
this article and that article you often
effect a sale."'
"Yes, sir. responded the new boy,
and tAen he FASTENED to wait upon an
elderly person who wanted stamp.
Anything else, num-" inquired the
ambitious boy politely" chair dye, cos
metic, face powder, rheumatic drops,
belladonna, mole destroyer
The elderly lady deals. over the way
now.-London Tit-Bits.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.
Frank H. Hamilton on the Witness
Stand.

Frank H. Hamilton on the Witness
Stand.
Minneapolis, Feb. 14.-Frank H.
Hamilton, the defendant, was put on
the witness stand during the day in
his trial for the murder of Leonard
Day,
The substance of his story was that
he could not remember. He acknowl-
edged that on the night of the homi-
eide he was drunk and could only re-
call a few details of what occurred in
the West hotel.
He did recall, he said, the first
scrimmage with Day, who had said
something to him which he had not
liked, and they had clinched and gone
down.
He denied in positive terms the
story told by ex-Of1cer Rooney, and
declared with a rising infection:
"It's lie!" and further on in, his story
he said again, "it's made out of whole
CLOTH
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
Things yvashinrton Never sa,,

1t is hard to make it seem true that
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and
the fathers Of the republic never saw a
railroad or telegraph line or sewing
machine or q photograph or typewit-
er or a rubber band, or shoe or a piano
or a stem winding watch or cyclope-
dia or dictionary or a chrome or a
steel engraving or a friction match or
heating stove or a furnace or gas or
or an electric light or fire engine or
thousand and one other things com
mon to every one today Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

The senate has passed a bill pro-
viding for tax commission, whose
duty it shall be to codify the tax laws
of Minnesota, and submit them to
the next legislature with such altera-
tions and recommendations as they
see fit to make. The reform is one
that has long been needed.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

A comma is very small thing, bnt
another case of making quite differ
ence where it Is placed has just come
to our attention. Some one handed
local item to Greedy paper saying:
"Two young men from Leota went
with their girls to Tribune to attend
the teachers institute, and as soon as
they left, the girls got drunk. The
comma belonged after girls. At last
accounts the editor of the paper was
still in hidding.-Ex.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
The subcommittee of the re-appo

The subcommittee of the re-appor
tionment committee Of the Minneso
ia legislature has reported plan oil
re-apportionment which makes nine
congressional districts. Stevens
county is put in a new seventh dis
trict consisting of Pope, Grant
Traverse, Swift, Stevens, Big Stone,
Chippewa, Kandiyohi. Renville. Lac
qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lyon
and Redwood.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23
Marks Of the Merchant.

Did you ever notice the queer little
letters on the outside Of the boxes
in the shops and wonder what they
meant? For instance, when the girl
at the glovef counter handed you the
, tan skies, did you not note on the edge
of the box a legend something like
this, "Ti-Gee," or something on that
order? To be sure you have.
Those marks mean something. They
say to the clerk or to the chief Of the
store: II was bought for rs cents, and
/ am selling for 81. Look at me, and
observe my proper PRIDE" or words to
that effect
Ten letters are required to carry out
the plan-that is, letter for each
mineral from to O. The terms most
in use are .'gas fixture" "black horse"
misfortune" Importance" "Black-
stone,'' fish tackle" "cash profit" $50
friendly" ''gainful job," "joiners' tax"
"brown sugar." "now, be sharp,'' "elu-
cidator'' and ''of industry"
Each of these words or phrases con-
tains ten letters and only ten letters,
and there is no letter repeated. Sup
pose the private mark to be brown
sugar" and the article tagged a cut
glass decanter. There is apt to be.
some such combination as this on it,
"War-Nsr"
In case two letters come together, it
is frequently the practice to avoid repe-
titions by using some other letter
which doesnot appear in the key word.
For instance, if it were desired to ex-
press SAT- in the ''brown sugar" mark
ing "Yuu" would be the ordinary way,
but to keep from repeating ''blind"
letter, say K, is introduced. and the
sign therefore would be "wux."-New
York Herald.
Morris tribune., 1901-02-23

REPRESENTATIVE jacobson has again
introduced bill to increase the gross
earnings tax on railroads from three
to four per cent. The bill is said to
have been drawn by the attorney
general. The recent decision of the
supreme court on the Anderson law
seemed to indicate that while the
state is committed to the gross earn
ings plan, yet no bar exists as to
raising the rate of that tax.