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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
Duties of a Godmoth.r.

The duties of godmother to-day are
limited to making present to the
mother on the day of the child's Chris
tening and remembering to send a.
small gift to the child now and then
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
Greater Than the suora.

The late Baron Faber. the nenciI
manufacturer. once said of the article
that had made him rich: 1T has done
more execution since it came into use
than the sword, while who can enu-
merate the libels it has written?"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
Passing of the Wild Horse.

1t is said that there were at least
200, 900 mustangs scattered over the
plains of Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas ten years ago, and that now
nearly all of them are gone. A few
were caught and kept by the Indians
In their reservations, but the Wild
horse in his natural state is practically
extinct.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
ClsrEymsn.s Hslf-Faras.

The TranscOntinental Passenger As
ISOLATION has decided to extend the ter
ritory for annual half-fare permits for
clergymen next year
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
Doesn't Boast Of Il Now.

Nell-"She used to boast that she
was one of the charter members of the
Woman's Suffrage Club. She doesn't
appear to be so proud of 1t now"
Belle-"Ohi she's just as proud, but
you know, the club was organized fif-
teen years ago, and she must have
been at least 20 when she Joined"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
The PM That Draw. . Ton.

On level pavement a pull of thirty
three pounds will draw a ton; on ma
cadam it takes forty-six pounds. and
On rough gravel 147 pounds.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-09
c. C. FORD.
Physician and Surgeon

Special attention given TO chronic dis
eases of all classes. VIII visit any
part of the county to attend the sick
day or night. Consultation confiden-
tial Calls left at the Botica del
Leon
OFFICE MILLER HOTEL.
Brownsville. Texas.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
CHINA WAR NEWS.

1t is understood at Washington that
the Chinese plenipotentaries at Pekin,
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang, are
prepared To give a guarantee to the
powers for the protection of all foreign
ers in China if the foreign troops now
stationed there are withdrawn. Thus
far the retention of the foreign forces
has been urged as necessary in order
to preserve order and protect foreign
ers, but the Chinese authorities say
that order has been so far re-established
that the imperial government is fully
able to direct the Chinese troops in
such way as to ensure complete safety
to the interests of all foreigners.
According to a dispatch from st.
Petersburg official information has
been received that renewed military
activity is beginning in Manchuria.
Chinese troops are strongly entrenched
at three points around Mukden. They
are armed with good Mauser rifles and
have 30 Krupp guns TO the eastward
of Mukden, near Turchausen, there
are IL, 900 men under the chief boxer,
Lutanse. To tile northwest, near Kulo,
there are 5000 Chinese under the for
mer governor of Mukden. TO the east
ward in Mongolia and near the In Shan
mountain there are 1900 more under
the Chinese Gen. Schu.
The report of Gen Kettelcr, received
at Pekin from Kuo Lu, differs from the
other reports concerning the German
French expedition previously received.
Gen. Ketteler's report shows that the
Chinese troops did not leave the prov
ince till they were forced to do so. The
entire brigade, commanded by Gen.
Ketteler, met the enemy on April 90
and inflicted immense loss. The re-
port does not give the loss. The Ger
mans had one officer and three soldiers
killed and % soldiers wounded.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
NEWSY BREviTIEs.

A dispatch from Vienna says the
car has signed decree expelling
Count Tolstoi from Russia and that the
decree has been served.
1t is cstima ted that 1928, 200 worth
of property went up in smoke at Pitts
burg. Pa, on the Goth. Over dozen
residences were destroyed
A bill was passed on the o3d by the
lower house of the legislature of Him
OILS, prohibiting the sale, giving away
or bringing into the state of cigarettes,
cigarette paper or substitutes.
President Mckinley and party left
Washington on the 29th on their long
western trip. A large crowd cheered
enthusiastically as the train pulled
out of the depot
There is considerable excitement at
present in Bermuda over the expected
arrival Of 100 Boer prisoners. The
British government has leased Oar
rells Island. one of the largest islands
in the sound. Bermudans are much
disturbed and fear that unless strong
force Of soldiers is sent with the pris-
oncrs, disturbances will follow
A grandmother at GO is the unique
distinction of Mrs. Mary Campbell,
who lives in the mountain district" OF
Oconee county. 5. G. She was married
at the age OF IL, and was mother of a
daughter " hen but ~, and her eldest
child has now become mother.
A dispatch from Hyannis, Ncb.
dated the 9th, says that prairie fires
has been raging for the past three days.
Another branch of the fire swept the
Brown, Lee and Zig Creek valleys. A
district of about 100 miles in length
and from 10 TO 40 miles in width has
been totally swept Of hay and dry
prairie grass.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
Said to Have 30 WIVES.

In the arrest of Count Leopold de
Melville, otherwise known as Leo
Fralquini, who is held by the New
York police on charge of bigamy
sworn to by brother of one of his
Chicago wives, there was brought to
light in that city a romance whose un-
folding reveals the count as the hero
of more than 100 love affairs. He is
declared to be the husband of an as
sortment of wives whose number a re-
Gently deserted wife in Chicago esti-
mated not less than $50 or So" AS a
duelist on many blood-stained field
of honor in Europe, the count became
celebrated nearly n generation ago.
His duels were always fought for love,
and the wounds received in the onsets
he proudly bears on his face and body.
He at last broke altogether with his
father, a nobleman high in the court
and councils of the king of Belgium,
and came to this country.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

News from Honolulu, dated the 18th,
says the transport Fitzpatrick has ar
rived there from San Francisco with
two cases of smallpox on board and
several cases of mumps and measles.
She is in quarantine outside the harbor.
! All the soldiers on board will be trans
ferred to another vessel while the
steamer is being cleaned. Lieut.. Thos.
! Cobb, Jr., of the 39th infantry, who
landed from the transport Lawton,
died on April 10 at quarantine, from
smallpox. He was taken i'll while on
the way home from Manila.
1t has been determined to increase
the regular army TO approximately
| &c, 900 men and to leave il at that num-
Der unless conditions in the Philippines
should make more troops necessary.
The President and Secretary Root
reached this conclusion on the 23d and
| the details will be worked out by the
secretary and Gen. Miles The number
of officers appointed will be as origin
ally contemplated.
Gen. Macarthur on the Esd informed
the war department that the transport
Sheridan sailed April 22d via Nagasaki,
with Gems. John c. Bates and Frederick
| ID. Grant; 66 officers and 1893 enlisted
men of the 45th and 10th infantry.
| Also that the transport Kintuck arrived
at Manila on the ED.
The session of the Philippines COM
mission at Catbalogan, Samar island,
on the 23d developed the fact that the
| Inhabitants of Samar are still terrorized
by the forces OF Gen. LUX ban, the rebel
| leader, which consist of 600 rifles and
many bolomen.
| Maj Noble, Acknowledgement of the
department of the Visayas, has received
the surrender of Quentin Salas, and
three of mis- officers. All the insurgents
under Salas will surrender soon. 1t is
claimed this will terminate the insur-
rection.
Over 100 officers and 2,157 bolomen
have surrendered and sworn allegiance
to the u. S. at Narvacan, province of
South Ilocos. The Americans are active
throughout the archipelago, accelerat-
ing surrenders.
1t is estimated that there are %, 900
lepers in the Philippines, and it is
planned to isolate all of them on one
! island.
The investigation of the commissary
frauds is proceeding.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03


Here is the new program of 1.-THE
Rippers," devised to get around deci-
sion of the supreme court in the Detroit
board of works case:
The board of works bill to be
amended so as to declare the superin-
tendency vacant and to give the alder
men the power of appointing a success
sor to George w. Fowle, who will be
De Witt II. Moreland.
The abolition of the board of police
commissioners and the substitution of
a superintendent to be appointed by
the aldermen, the place to be given to
Frank C. Andrews.
The abolition of the park commits
sioners and the substitution of super
intendent to be appointed by the alder
men, the place to be given to Robert
Bolger.
1.-THE Rippers" have secured the CO.
operation of the aldermen by promise
that the patronage of the several de-
partments should be shared by the
aldermen, an aldermanic caucus to be
held on all appointments This would
give each alderman in the neigh bor-
hood of $4,000 of patronage year.
The scheme was endorsed by the Re-
publican aldermen in caucus on the
2sth.
Mayor Maybury, is of course natur-
ally opposed to any such legislation,
and may call mass meeting to protest
against the scheme.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
sanderson Murder Case Recalled.

Mrs. Marie Sanderson, who received
much notoriety by being placed on
trial for the alleged murder of her hus.
band, Rodolphus Sanderson, of Battle
Creek, by feeding him ground glass,
and was acquitted, has commenced suit
in the circuit court that may reopen
some of the sensational things con-
nected with the famous trial. Mrs.
Sanderson, who is now in Grand Rap
ids, has commenced suit in the circuit
court to recover property which would
have been hers in the event of her hus-
bands death, providing that his death
had occurred in a manner which would
have left her free from the suspicion
of having murdered him, of which
she was found innocent Mrs. Sander
son was obliged to sell her rights in
property valued at $50, 900 for the sum
of S4, 500, in order to secure the SER
vices of lawyer.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
Forged Diplomas.

Secretary of State Warner has had
his attention called to the fact that
school diplomas for country schools
have been sold in Michigan to which is
attached fac similc of the great seal
of the state. 1t is understood that
these diplomas, which are issued to
pupils completing prescribed course
of study in the country schools, have
been sold by q publishing house in
many counties of the state. OF course.
the representation of the great seal OF
the state on these diplomas is wholly
unauthorized.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
Diseases in NIichigan.

Reports to the state board of health
by representative physicians in active
gencr practice in different parts of
the state indicate that influenza, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, tonsilitis and bron-
chitis, in the order named, caused most
sickness in Michigan during the week
ending April 90, 1901. Cerebrospinal
meningitis was reported present at 4
places, whooping cough IL, diphtheria
&c, measles rs, typhoid fever IS, scarlet
fever 30, smallpox "a and consumption
at 1914.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
New Comet is orange Color.

on the morning of the eth at Yerkes
observatory at Williams bay is said by
the astronomers to be the brightest
that has appeared for 10 years. When
the comet was discovered at Queens
town, April 30, its position was about
10 degrees southwest of the sun. Its
position on the above date was some
some IS degrees north of the sun, indi-
eating a very rapid northeasterly move
ment
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
ALLEGED FRAUD IN OtFICt.
Jas. H. Brown, Of Battle Creek,
Must Answer to This Charge.
TROUBLE DATES BACK IN 1898
When it Is Alleged That Brown Charged
the state and Collected Pay for Four
Days Service at Pontiac While at the
Same Time He was Otherwise Engaged.

Must Answer to the Charge of Fraud.
The trial of James ii Brown, of Bat
tie Creek, a member of the state live
stock sanitary commission, who was
indicted by the grand jury for alleged
fraud in office, commenced in the cir
cult court at Lansing on the ED. Pros
ecutor futile is assisted by Watts s.
Humphrey, of Lansing, and the de-
fendeut is represented by Philip L.
Colgrove, of Hastings. No trouble was
experienced in securing a jury, only
two jurors being excused. Prosecutor
Tuttle, in opening the case to the jury,
stated that the people would show that
during the week of April IL, 1893,
Brown charged the state andcollected
pay for four days services in Pontiac
when, in fact, he was engaged in MAX
ing test of Farmer Elliott's cattle,
and those of Farmer Jennings under
private contract Elliott paid him SCI
for his services, but Jennings, who has
since died. failed to remit for bills sub
sequently rendered The prosecutor
also promised to show that at the same
time Brown was under contract to give
the Michigan Farmer service amount
ing to two days work each week, and
that he did furnish that paper the re-
CURED copy for the week in question.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
An Enormous Field Expected.

Within the past few years the posi-
bilities of that section of country lying
around st. Joseph for fruit raising
have been fully demonstrated and
southwestern Michigan now leads the
far famed California in the production
of all fruits. The prospects are the
coming season will bear the heaviest
output of fruits ever known in the u.
5. Conditions all through the winter
have been highly favorable and the
farmers are preparing to reap their
golden harvest. Within the past three
years the Michigan peach has gained
a reputation second to none in the
world and this county now produces
more peaches than any other county in
the country. Within the past three
years the peach output of st. Joe has
been multiplied three times according
to statistics forwarded to the state de-
partment of agriculture.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

Courtesy for courtesy is, unfortu-
nately, not the motto of all shoppers.
During recent month a large dry
goods store sent out, in answer to re-
quests, thirteen hundred dollars worth
of samples. Every package contained
a printed request to return samples af-
ter examination. The head of the de-
partment says that less than one
tenth ever find their way back. Where
are the nine?" is no new lament for
benefits forgot.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
is STILL ON TFE Increase.
Uncle Sam is Making Steady Gains
in Exports to Cuba.
CUBANS SHOW Production
stu for Spanish Manufactured Goods -
other Happenings OF a Week Boiled
Down for Ready Reading = A Perusal
VIII Convince You.
U. 5. Trade with Cuba ON the Gain.


In a recent statement given to the
press by the division of insular affairs
of the war department, considerable
loss was indicated in the trade of Cuba
with the u. S. for the first eight
months of 1900, as compared with the
same period of 1899. 1t is now ex-
planned by the division of insular af-
fairs that in the statement above re-
ferred to the value of gold and silver
coin and bullion was included in the
total value of commerce between Cuba
and the U. S. Eliminating the coin
shipments it is ascertained that instead
of there being a decrease in the value
of imports into Cuba from the o. s.
there is an increase of Sl.222, 205 for
the first eight months of 1900 over the
same period in 1899.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

Rather than lose his five-foot cue
Lee On, New York Chinaman, who
jumped from trolley car backward
recently and received fractured skull
in consequence. will return to Hong
Kong in a gaudy coffin. The surgeons
want to trephine Lees skull and that
means hair cut. Although prosper
Gus Mott street merchant and well
versed in western ways, Lee thinks he
would rather die.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

The Revue de Paris contains some
very interesting details by Count de la
Vaulx about his projected balloon trip
across the Mediterranean. He says
MY balloon will be made of French
silk, which is much lighter than Chi
nese pongee silk, and has quite as
much resistance. The car will be made
of rushes, and will measure two metres
eighty en-, by three metres twenty,
and will be attached to the balloon in
the same way as is used by the mill
tary balloonists at Chalais. The crew
of the balloon for the Mediterranean
voyage will be four in number-two
naval officers and aeronauts. The voy-
age will be made in June or July, when
the wind and sea are their calmest.
There will be preliminary trials, and
provisions for.three weeks will be pre-
pared.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
Decrease in Cuba,s Trade.

A decrease of S226, Os1 in the customs
receipts of Cuba for the months of
January and February, 1901, as COM
pared with the same period of 1900, is
shown in statement issued by the
division of insular affairs, war depart
ment, on the 23d. Cuba's trade with
the outside world has decreased over
81, 500, 900 in imports and over So. OoO, 600
in exports for the first three quarters
of 1900, as compared with the same
neriod of 1909
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

The daughter of Admiral Montojo,
who commanded the Spanish feet at
the time of its destruction by Admiral
Dewey in Manila Bay, has just COM
mitted suicide by hanging at Genoa.
The admiral and her mother are now
living at Barcelona, and as she wrote
to them a long letter just before she
put an end to her days, they probably
are aware of the mysterious reasons
that prompted her to the deed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

1.-THE Extirpation of Rabbits" "Heav-
ems Dead Letter Office" and Revival
by Constitutional Methods" have been
recently announced in Australian
newspapers as subjects of Sunday dis
courses. So 1t appears that America is
unfortunately not the only country
where sensational titles are chosen to
attract listeners to sermons.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

A mountain goat farm is a new busl-
ness in Center and Tioga counties, Pa.
A pioneer in the business opens with
cleared mountain land and a cosign-
ment of 1000 white goats, costing SIS
a head. The mountain cleared land
affords an ideal pasture for the hardy
animals. The New Mexican goats have
a good fur, their hides made a fine
leather, and the meat, for food, is said
to be delicious and most nutritious.
The pasture grounds of the goats are
inelosed with a wire fence.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

OF red snow we all know something
from books on the High Alps. Black
snow-except when II is "manufactur-
ed" in London, and consists of a fine
blend OF SCOT and slush-is less we'll
known. But 1t might have been seen
some years ago In a corner of the
Muette Valley. where dark snow.
which formed a thick layer, almost
black. on the ground" came down in
heavy shower. Jll-smelling. it was,
and. what is worse. its color represent
cd an enormous host OF tiny insects. A
strong wind, we are told. brought ffiSm
ever from some distant part,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
The Yale Expositor.
]. A. MENzIEs, Publisher.

A fine specimen OF the perlophtal-
mus family, a species OF fish that is
supposed to be confined strictly to AZ
rican waters. was recently caught near
Fernandina, Fla
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

Cattlemen in Greenwood county,
Kansas, are making hard times for
lawyers. They have established sys-
tenn of arbitrating differences. Three
men are chosen as an arbitration COM
mittee. They investigate the trouble
and make a decision, which is final.
A fuss involving 100000 was settled at
Eureka last week by an arbitration
committee.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
TRANsvAAL WAR ITEMS.

Lord Kitchener has issued procla-
nation TO the effect that any resident
in the martial law districts of Cape
Colony found in arms, meeting to fight
aiding the enemy or endangering by
overt act the British forces, will be
tried by court martial and be liable TO
the most severe penalties. Such per-
Sous may even be shot
The annual return of British recruit
ing for 1900 shows total enlistment
of 9s, 361, against 46, 700 in 1899. The
recruiting for the infantry is regarded
as unsatisfactory. In spite of the inn
putes of the war and the reduction in
the standard of hight, the number of
enlisted infantrymen is below that of
1890.
According to a dispatch from Lon
don, Maj. Gen. Horace Lockwood
Smith Dorrien, now in South Africa,
is to be promoted TO the rank of adju-
tant-general to the forces in India.
Joseph Keller. Racine, Wis. SOL
der who was reported shot and killed
while engaged in battle in the Phil
ippines, astonished his relatives and
friends on the 23d by walking in on
them. Not until he reached San Fran
cisco did he learn that his friends had
mourned for him as dead.
News has just been received of the
complete destruction in Maragnone,
Brazil, of the Roman Catholic mission,
established few years ago by Capu-
chin Fathers, by band of hostile In
dians.
The announcement that 70 is the
purpose of the President, following the
the suggestion OF Gen. Miles, to hold
the new army down to 7G, 600 men, of
whom 40, 900 men are to go to the Phil
ippines 5000 20 Cuba, and 1000 to
Porto Rico, 10000 remaining in this
country, gives an opportunity for def
mite calculation that did not exist le-
fore.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
Detrolt.s nIcentenary CeIebratIon.

A quorum of the general committee
having in hand the proper celebration
of Detroit's bicentenary, met in the
mayors Office on the 2sth to consider
ways and means of the celebration.
Various forms were suggested for a
proper celebration, the committee
finally voting that a $4,000 memorial
arch to span Woodward avenue from
curb to curb ut Grand Circus park, was
about the right thing. The committee
selected L. ii. Wakefield as secretary
and decided to open I'm Office and head
quarters in the immediate future.
President Dclamater of the M. 81 NJ.
exchange, and President Hutchins
of the Detroit United railway, both
offered the assistance OF their two
organizations. 1t was practically
settled that the celebration will take
form of a three days carnival with
fetes and parades.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

The market for bridges is far great
er in the United States than elsewhere.
The states have now 100000 miles of
railways, and it has been estimated
that there is an average of one span
of metallic bridge for every three
miles of railway. This gives $4,000
bridges on existing lines, without in
Guiding those required for new lines.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03

To such an extent has the blackball-
ing practice grown In Paris that the
Union, which is the most fashionable,
exclusive and aristocratic club Of the
French metropolis, has been obliged to
alter its method OF election, and to
restrict the balloting to the governing
committee. instead of allowing the en-
tire club to take part therein, as here
tofore