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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Fireman Killed.

Alexandria, Va, March 12.-The
north-bound Manassas accommodation
train on the Southern railway dashed
into number of coal cars standing
on the main track just south of
Manassas Junction. Weston Atkin-,
son. the fireman, was killed, and Thorn
as B. Rowan, the engineer, was seri-
ouslY injured.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
nurxlar Shot Dead.

Peekskill, N. Y, March 12.-One
burglar was shot and killed and an
other was wounded by policeman
here early Tuesday. The men had
broken into the hardware store of
Durham Brothers and were seen by
two policemen.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
A High Honor

Minneapolis, Minn, March IL
Judge Ell Torrance, commander in
chief of the G. A. R., has just been Of
fcially notified of his appointment as
member of the board of visitors to
the United States military academy at
West Point.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
DOnent!
win Meet in Loui.ynle.

Louisville, KY, March 1.-THE ma
tional committee of the peoples
party has been called to meet at the
Willard hotel, Louisville, April /, to
consider matters which will come be-
fore the allied party's national con-
vention in this city on April2.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Pensioned mt Age of 1O2.

Washington, March 12.-The presi-
dent has approved the bill granting
an increased pension to Hiram Cronk,
of Ava, Oneida county, N. Y, who is
the last surviving soldier pensioner of
the war of 1912. He is now 1O2 years
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
New Declines.

Washington, March 11.-Mr. H. S.
New, of Indianapolis, has declined the
proffer of the Office of first assistant
postmaster general, rendered him
some days ago by President Roosevelt.
Mr.. News business would not permit
him to accept,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Decides Against Claimants.

Washington, March 1.-THE Span
ish treaty claims commission Thurs
day handed down a decision against
the claimants for death and injuries
received by officers and seamen in
the wreck of the battleship Maine,
in Havana harbor.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Priest Reinstated.

Chicago, March 10. = Rev. Father
Crowley celebrated high mass Sun
day at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, by permission of Cardi-
nal Martinelli. to mark his reinstate-
ment in the church.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Heavy Coal Shipment.

Cincinnati, March 1O.-The present
rise in the Ohio river has started
great run of coal for the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi valleys. The river men say
over 100000 bushels from the Pitts
burg district and over 100000 BUSH
els from the West Virginia mines out
of the Kanawha are now on the way.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Iowa Editor and Mayor Dead.

Ida Grove, Ia, March s.-George
A. Williams, editor and mayor of
this city, died at five o'clock Friday
morning. Mr.. Williams had been
actively engaged in journalism for 80
years and was widely known
throughout the west.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Grows Worse.

AT midnight it was announced that
he apparently was out of danger. That
more favorable condition lasted for
perhaps an hour and half, when, with
scant warning, the sick mans condi-
ton became much worse. Only one of
the doctors had been left with him,
but when evidences of sinking were
seen, and when he speedily lapsed into
Inconsistencies, messengers were
dispatched for the other physicians.
Earlier in the night the general idea
was that the eN-governor's condition
was due to stomach trouble, but the
physicians soon found that it was a
stroke of apopleNy with which they
were dealing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21
Domeatic Trnredx

Davy, w. Va, March 12.-In fit of
jealousy, Mrs. Fred Goulding shot her
husband to death and then took her
own life, firing a bullet into her left
breast.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21

which he had not rallied at $3.50 a. m.
Four doctors were in attendance at
his bedside at that hour, and the grav-
est apprehensions were felt as to the
outcome.
At three a. m. the doctors said it
would be miracle if he lived till day.
light. DIR. Nash, DR.. Cushing and DR..
Stewart, of Joliet, and DR.. j. B. Her
rick, Chicago, are in the ex-governor's
apartment at the Munroe.
Hope Given Up.
At $3.50 a. m. the doctors in attend
ance on ex-Goy. Altgeld gave up hope.
His family and business associates
have been summoned. The stroke of
apoplexy has sent his pulse to "a and
his temperature to 1903.
Admitted II-HeaIth.
Mr. Altgeld came to Joliet in the aft
ernoon, having been widely advertised
as the principal orator for the big
Will county pro-Boer meeting. He
confessed that he was not in the best
of health, having been troubled with
some apparently simple stomach all
ment. He was not willing to allow
that to interfere with his speech, how
ever, his great interest in the South
African struggle having been height
ened by the announcement Of the Boer
success in the capture of Gen. Methuen.
1t was noted during the address that
the ex-governor threw an unusual
amount of energy and feeling into his
words, and the collapse, the physicians
I r. L.. =. 4
physical powers.
Falls In a Faint.
He went through to the end of his adj
dress without any evidence of weak
ness, but suddenly, just as he stepped
to the wings of the stage, he fell into
a dead faint. The audience that crowd
ed the hall and had been stirred by
his words was not at once clear as to
what had happened, for the ex-gov-
ernor was not visible to those in the
| body of the house when he toppled
over into Inconsistencies. All those
who as speakers and committeeman
and women sat on the stage saw the
fainting man and all rushed to his
rescue. He was picked up, still in an
insensible condition, and borne into
one of the larger dressing-rooms,
where there was lounge. No doctors
were in the opera house, but block
away a banquet of the Will County
Medical society was being held. A mes
senger was dispatched and in five min
utes DIR. Nash and DR.. Cushing had
reached the bedside of the unconscious
man. Restoratives, such as could be
found, were called into use and after
much effort Mr.. Altgeld was brought
back to consciousness. He was then
taken to the Hotel Munroe, where he
was cared for.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-21

Earthquakes Cause Great Distress.
ST. Petersburg, March 12.-Severe
earthquake shocks required at Sha-
maka, Transcaucasia, Sunday. About
$4,000 persons are destitute as result
Of the subterranean disturbances
which occurred at Shamaka about the
middle of February.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, l.. Il. Hickman nd his wife.
Ida W. Hickman. on the 3Oth day of
March. 1886. 10y their certain decd Of trust
duly acknowledged AMI recorded in the
deed of trust records of Audrain county,
Missouri. in book ii. page PSI. conveyed
to the undersigned trustee the following
described real estate. situated in Audrain
county. Missouri, ito-wit:
The North West fourth of the South
West quarter and Ten QO) acres the
South part of the South West fourth Of
the North West quarter of section Thir-
tyfourl3H Township Fifty threc(53DRangc
Nine 90 West. Containing 80 acres more
or less.
Which said conveyance was made in
trust to secure the payment Of Il Ger tain
negotiable promSSory note therein de-
scribcd and whereas default has been
made in the payment of said note, now,
therefore. |, the undersigned trustee. at
the request of the legal holder of said
note and by virtue of the authority in me
vested by said deed Of trust, will, between
tn" hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon
and four o'clock p. IN. on
FRIDAY, the 18th day OF DECEMBER
1902.
at the east front door of the Court House
in Mexico, Audrain county, Missouri, sell
the above described property at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash, to
satisfy said debt and costs of executing
this trust. w. w. Fry,
Trustee
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
An Accommodating Bust
ness.

The liquor traffic is very accom-
modaiing. 1t can furnish any
kind of liquor desired upon very
brief notice. But the strangcst of
all things about it is, that it can
produce all kinds from the same
vat Congressman Burrows of
Michigan, who introduced Il rcso-
luton asking for an investigate N
of he whisky trust. boldly de
clarcs tiiar the liquor sellers not
only produce the different liquors
from one vat, but manufacture
those liquors from things which
are very injurious. He says:
From the same vat Of spirits can
be produced whisky of any age.
rum from Jamaica, or any other
place on the globe, brandy from
the most celebrated districts of
France, and the most approved af-
ter-dinner cordials, and gin that
would deceive the most educated
tastes, can be produced from few
jars Of coloring matter, and walls
of drugs, upon the labels of some
of which appear the skull and
oss-bones as IA warning to the
user" a great deal of the stuff
that is sold for the finest liquors
was made by the rumsellcr himself
of drugs aud poisonous compounds.
y dealer i'll Il city within the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
was asked one day if he could fur
nish a barrel of whisky. mot
now" he replied, "but call again
in three or four hours hence, aud
1 shall be able to accommodate
YOU At the time appointed the
customer called and found the bar
rel of whisky waiting for him. The
rumseller had manufactured it dur
ing his absence. Alcohol is poi
son, but oftentimes that which is
sold contains very little alcohol,
but poisons which do their work
more quickly. Total abstine nee is
the only safe ground for the indi-
vidual to occupy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
THE PROFESSIONAL LETTER THIEF
Bold Rogues of Paris Rob tho street
Letter Boxes,

In Paris the gentle art of letter
stealing has reached such proportions
as to call for government interference.
The letter thief goes about with lit
tie wire, one end of which is bent into
a sharp hook, and fishes letters out of
the street letter boxes when nobody
Is looking. Last year the French pos
tai authorities estimate that no less
than $4,000 letters were thus stolen
Now they are putting up boxes with
sharp teeth in the Sits for posting,
which, they hope, will render it i'm
possible for the thieves to continue
their letter fishing successfully. The
principal object of the letter thieves
is, of course, to get hold of letters
which contain money or valuables, but
every letter which they catch they
read carefully and sometimes they
find in 1t something of more value
than a small sum of money; that Is,
information which they can use for
purposes of blackmail Many men
and women of the gay French capital
have been made to pay through the
nose" to get back discriminating let.
ters which have been stolen by the
professional thieves from the street
letter boxes.-New York Press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
Rev. irI X. Hicks 1908
Almanac.

To say this is a splendid Work
of science and art is better and
finer and better than ever, is stat
ing it mildly. The demand for it
is far beyond all previous years.
To say that such results, reaching
thru THIRTY YEARS, are not
based upon sound sense and use
fuluesS, is an insult to the intelli-
gence Of the millions. Prof. Hicks
thru this great WORD AND
WORKS, is doing Il work for the
whole people not approached by
any other man or publication. y
fair test will prove this to any
reasonable person. Added to the
most luminous course in astrOn
omy for 1903, forecasts of storms
and weather are given, as never
before, for every day in the year,
all charmingly illustrated with
nearly 200 engravings. The price
Of single Almanac, including pos
tage and mailing, is THIRTY
CENTS. WORD AND WORKS
with \ lmanac is $l.00 ii year.
Write to WORD AND WORKS
PUBLISHING CO., 220l Locust
Street, st. Louis, Mo-, and prove
10 y0ursclf lheir GREAT whine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04

1t is said that the removal of
the accommodation trains on the
Alton is but temporary. Will be
replaced as soon as the great corn
crop is off the market.
The road needs all its locomO.
tives that can be spared just now
in the freight department.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
CAUSES Fer AVOIDING CHURCH
Long MINDED and Vociferous bishop
Found No Favor with q Child.

Long MINDED and Vociferous bishop
Found No Favor with u Child.
There is certain biashop whose
an unfortunate habit Of preaching
very long sermons. He has, besides,
an exceedingly sonorous voice, and
people living anywhere within a block
of his church can hear him without
taking the trouble to enter the sanct-
uary, A few Sundays ago he was an
nounced to preach at popular church
and the people who entertained him
had little daughter who was very
fond OF attending service. When the
family got ready little Elsie fatty re-
fused to 60 with them.
Il don't want to so to church." she
declared.
What's the matter?" asked the
mother, much surprised, ARE you ill?"
Il don't like the bishop" confessed
the child
"Oh, Elsie, that's n wicked thing TO
say!" gasped the mother.
IL hate the bishop" insisted the lit
tie one.
Tell mother why" said the hostess.
Well" said Elsie, confidently, "the
bishop breaches so long that can't
keep awake, and he breaches 30 loud
that l can't 30 to sleep" AS the d.
vine tells the story on himself. It's
probably true.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
Tribute to American Literature.

Professor Hartmann, well-known
German authority on modern litera-
ture, stated in recent lecture that
in no country in the world is litera-
ture in so healthy condition as in
the United States. The faults of taste,
the habit of eXaggeration. of loading
the page with purple patches, sink in.
to comparatively unimportant place
when it is considered how virile the
style is, how searching and complete
the treatment of subject. Hartmann
is of opinion that the modern Amer
lean novel at its best Is better than
anything ever produced in England or
France. For poetry the American
people, he says, are not yet ripe. Be-
fore the nation as a whole can appre-
ciate great poetry or breed a school
of great poets, It must pass through
much tribulation or trial.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
JEFFERSON CITY BRANCH,
/. M. RICHARDS,
Passenger and Ticket Act.

GEO. J CHARLTON,
Gen. Passenger Agt., C.&A. R.R., Chicago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04

Poverty nips many budding genius
IN the bud.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04

Home-scekers Excursions via
the Wabash on first and third
Tuesdays of each month. Home
seekers tickets will be sold to
many States and Territories for
one fare plus $500. For further
informal call on nearest ticket
agent.
|. NJ. Richards, ticket agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
s ss%ssss "a" ,TvzE CONSTITUTIONS, A'1 a.
Message Subscriptions.

New subscribers who pay IL dol
lar in advance can have the MIS-
SAGE from now until Jan. |, 1904;
or if you are i'll arrears, pay up
same and one dollar in advance
and we will push you up to the
same date. Tell your friends
about this-how they can get the
"best newspaper i'll the county"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
EXCHANGE.

The Modern Woodmen boys of
Mexico Camp gathered 100
bushels of corn for their sick
neighbor, A. j. Hood, southwest
of town, last Friday. Mr.. Hood
and several of his family have
been sick of typhoid fever for sew
eral weeks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
BUCK THE LINE.

Are you up against hard luck!
Buck he lnrl
Show the world you re full oI pluck,
Buck the line!
Smash ahead with all your might,
Toss obstacles left and right,
Brace up, friend, and make the
fight
Buck the line!
Is your path beset with foes?
Buck the line!
Does hard fate your way oppose!
Buck the line!
Hump your shoulders, bow your
neck,
Don't lay down at ev'ry check,
Smile and always be on deck
Buck the line!
Long the way unto the goal!
Buck the line!
Strive with all your heart and
soul;
Buck the line!
Grit your teeth and try some more,
Tho you're hammered till You re
sore,
And some time you're bound to
score
Buck the line,
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
Largest independent Col
iege

in the West. The attendance at the
Chillicothe, Mo-, Commercial,
Shorthand, and Telegraphy Col
leges is by far the largest in its
noted history. Students are en-
tering every day. Come at once.
1t pays to attend IA prosperous
College.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-12-04
TIME: T ABL=.
Standard Time.
WEST-Bound Trains Leave

WESI-Bound Trains Leave
No. = Colo. Cal. Limitcd..... 1901 u IN
no. II Kansas City EXprcsS.....9: 300 Il m
No. - Missouri Stat" Express 1:lO p m
NO. Chicago a Mexico Ac.lArj $50 p m
"No.II5 Way Freight. l:0Oa m
EAST-Bound Trains Leave
No. T. StLouis Limited Express l:52 m
NO. Mexico y Chicago Accom-. 9:O5 m
No. Ii Missouri State Express. 1:lO p III
No. 10 Cal Colo. Limited ...... lO:jOp m
jEFgEgsGI CITY BRANCH,
SOUTH Bound Trains Leave
"No.2u Fulton Accommodation. .. $40 m
#NO.2l5 jefferson City Malice. / 30 p m
"No.2l3 Way Freight. .......... 1880 Il IN
NORTH Bound Trains Arrive
*No.2l0 Jefferson City Mail...... $40 Il IN
"No.2l4 Fulton Accommodation. e. 1905 p m
#No.2l2 Way Freight. 600 p m
*Daily Except Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

work on corsets, not only for Paris, but for
all parts of France and for shipment
abroad. The French corset is an expensive
luxury, and a good one from a high-priced
maker costs as much as $40. You can get
others shaped to your person for as low as
So, and If you are so plebian as to buy a
ready-made article you will find a large
variety of such goods at still lower prices.
Paris manufactures a great deal of furni-
ture. 1t has about 5000 workshops of this
kind, each employing three or four hands.
The furniture is costly and 1t does not COM
pare in quality with that Of the United
States made by machinery. France has a
high tariff on such importations, however,
and at present about the only American
furniture sold is office chairs and roll
top desks.
There are 1000 shops here which make
watches, turning out n yearly product
worth about s., 900, 900, and there are many
thousand people engaged in making arti-
cles in Paris, which means notions and
fancy goods of all sorts, including jewelry,
artificial flowers, buttons and other things
in leather, ivory, horn and bone. Indeed,
the French make almost everything you
can imagine, and they make everything
well.
like these. common people of Paris.
They are more civilized than the lower
classes of the English cities. They wear
better clothes, are better fed, and seem to
be happy and prosperous. There is drink
ing everywhere, but no intoxication. Every
one has wine with his meals, but | have
yet to see a drunken man in Paris. In
London you meet drunken men on almost
every block in the poorer parts of the city,
and a common sight is a drunken m
dancing with her fellows while she holds
a baby at her breast.
The average London laborer lives from
hand to mouth. The average Frenchman
patronizes the savings banks. He lives
within his means. and there is no such
thing as the regular spending of the sur
plus en- drink, as in England. If our trea-
ties can be modified so that American
goods can be brought in on an equal foot
ing with others the French will become
good customers, for they appreciate what
is cheap and good, and they have the money
to buy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

Indeed, there are many things that the
French do as well as the United States.
Their postal service is better than ours. 1t
includes a system of pneumatic tubes, by
which, for six cents, you can send a pos
tai card flying to any part of the city.
You can send a reply card for the same
amount, and thus get an answer'as quickly
or even more quickly than by telegraph.
The telegraphs are under the government,
and the charges are less than half those
of America. The rate is ten cents for the
first ten words, and one cent for each ad-
ditional word to every part OF France.
You can send a telegram to Great Britain
for four cents a word, and a cable to the
United States for twenty-five cents per
word.
The post office department has a parcel
system by which small packages weighing
up to twenty pounds can be sent. Six
pounds will be taken to any railroad sta
ton in France for twelve cents, or for
seventeen cents it will be delivered at your
house. A ten-pound package costs twenty
five cents, and a twenty-pound one only
thirty cents The stores take advantage OF
these rates, and many thousands of pack
ages are sent out by them daily to their
customers in all parts of the republic.
The telephones are also ConneCIeu ~
some extent with the post office. they are
to be found at every station, and also in
stands on the streets. The fee for all
parts of Paris is five cents for a talk Of five
minutes and five cents for three minutes
up to fifteen miles outside Paris, and ten
cents additional for the same ime for
every sixty miles beyond.
In buying stamps outside the post office
in the French cities you go to the cigar
shops, for the government here sells all the
tobacco, and the tobacco agents handle
stamps as well. The shops are called
debts de la reggie; they have red lamps
over them, and you can tell them as far as
you can see. The prices are the same
everywhere and the tobacco is universally
bad. The most popular brands of the
native cigars are the Londres, which you
buy at six cents apiece, or the demi-Lon-
dres at three.
Foreign cigars and cigarettes are very
high and are sold only by government per-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

81 DAObI1l ~ UT l. A"1lASHAN
Bcuiogne and thinks that this Is Paris. The
real Paris is a hard working city, with more
labCrers, perhaps, to Its population than
any other city of Europe. 1t Is the city
Of workshops and petty factories. 1t Is es-
timated that there are 98, 900 factories and
workshops in the city, and in addition there
are thousands of outsiders who work at
their homes. The usual factories are very
small, the average number Of hands being
six.
A great deal of work is done by sweat
shops, who give the stuffs out and take In
the completed product at so much apiece.
This is largely so as to gowns and hats,
upon which, It is estimated, 60 1000 girls are
kept working for about eight months of the
year. The girls receive very low prices
and ordinary sewing girls can make less
than a dollar a day while working, and some
not more than half that amount. The de-
signers are, of course, paid well, but the
average wages are far below those paid in
the United States.
In the factories themselves the hours are
long. / have gone through the busiest
parts of this city at 7 o'clock in the even
ing and have seen sewing girls working in
the cellars far below the level Of the streets.
The stores here close between 7 and s p. m
Many of them have women clerks, and one
of the curious sights of Paris is these clerks
leaving work. Some Of the stores have iron
shutters, which slide down from the top,
making a wall of sheet iron over the whole
front. This wall is let down before the
clerks leave, and there is a little door
about three feet high and two feet wide
which is left open until they get out. They
crawl through this door at night and crawl
in in the morning, a long procession OF
women and men, going in and out like
so many dogs. They straighten up, how
ever, Immediately they get outside, and
walk of so ~jauntily that you would never
imagine they had been working all day,
have spoken of Paris as a manufactur-
ing city. 1t makes everything under the
sun, from pins to locomotives, from buttons
to balloons, and from gloves to gowns. 1t
has %, 900 people who are engaged in max
ing only parts of women's dresses, in con-
tradistinction to the complete gowns, and
these turn out a product amounting to $40,
900, 900 a year. It has tens Of thousands at
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

ARTS, France, oct. Especial
Correspondence of The Bee.)-
The United States treasury Is
costing Paris millions of dollars.
The rigid customs examinations