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Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
April q.

 t7s0-Dr. William Ellery Charming, distin- guished Unitarian divine and one of the most eloquent American writers, born at Newport, R. l.; died 1S42- Dr. Charming inherited high moral worth and intellectual powers from both par ents At his graduation from Harvard the English oration, an exceptional honor, was assigned him. After hold ing a tutorship in a family in Rich mond he travelled in Europe. On his return he becamer active in public questions. was an abolitionist and . peace advocate.
 1s88-General Quincy Adonis Gilmore, Un- ion commander on the Carolina coast, died; born 1895.
 1S93-Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, died in San Francisco; born 1874
 1900 - Frederick Edwin Church, noted American painter, died in New York city; born 1S2A
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Happiness In Helping Others.

How often we hear people say that they are never so happy as when they are helping others, and how true it is that he who lives for self cannot be happy. Selfishness and avarice in the heart are incompatible with happiness. The social instinct Is one of the stron- gest clements of the human soul. Its basis Is love. Love inspires benevo- lence, and benevolence reJoices in re- lieving the sufferings of others. There fore would you be happy during this year? Then give some time to commu- nicating joy and gladness to the hearts of others.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Chicago Election.

Chicago, April 2.-The Republicans and Democrats each made net gain of one alderman in the city election. The new council will consist of 39 Repub- licans, 30 Democrats and 1 independ- ent. The old council consisted of 3S Re publicans, 20 Democrats and 8 inde- pendents. The hottest fight of the cam paign was in the First ward, where a determined effort was made by the op- ponents of John Coughlin, known as "Bathhouse," to defeat him. It was the only ward in the city where anything like a full vote was boiled. Coughlin won easily.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Aristocrats as MiIkmen.

The milk trade attracts aristocrats. Lord Rayleigh is a milkman and owns one of the finest businesses in the home counties. Every morning special trains loaded with cans of milk from his dairy leave the station at Hatfield Pew erel for London. He owns a herd of over a thousand cows. The late Lord Vernon had a large dairy farm at Sud- bury Hall, near Derby, and carried on an extensive business The late Lord Hampden started and maintained a large establishment of this sort at Glynde, which was known as The Creameries, and proved highly sue cessful. Not long ago a MT. Dormer, nephew of Lord Dormer, is said to have Joined the milk trade.-London Express
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Michigan Coal Miner. on Strike

Saginaw, Mich., April 2.-The strike of the Michigan coal miners ordered several days ago after the conference between the operators and miners fail ed to agree on a scale has begun, and HOO miners are out in this county. AL most the same number of men have quit the mines at Bay City and in the St. Charles district. There was no dem onstration, the men simply staying away from the pits. The Owosso Coal company last Sunday signed the scale offered by the men, and theirs is the only mine in operation.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Tennessee Floods.

Reports from the flooded districts of Tennessee estimate that the damage resulting from last weeks storm of rain and wind will reach $4,O00,000. Twenty-two lives are believed to have been lost. Several counties known to have suffered heavily are yet cut off from communication, and the loss in property and life may reach larger fig ures when additional information has Deen received.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Virginia Village Wiped Out.

Roanoke, Va, April 2.-The small town of Newport, in Giles county, has been practically destroyed by fire. Ev- cry store iD the place was burned. Two hotels and the best residences in the town were leveled to the ground. The fire originated from an unknown cause in a shed back of Dunklee & Martins big stone. The loss is estimated to be over $10O,000, with very little insur-
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Deaths from cholera at Mecca and Medina number 1,129
 The British government has asked Canada to send 2,0oo mounted men 10 South Africa.
 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria performed at the Hofburg the tradi. tional Maundy Thursday ceremony of washing the feet of twelve aged men. The nobility and the diplomatic corps witnessed the ceremony, after which his majesty hung bags of money on the necks of the participants.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Locomotive Hit. m Street Chr

Utica, N. Y, April "A locomotive used in the construction of the exten- sion of Richfield Springs of the Oneon- ta, Cooperstown and Richfeld Springs railway crashed into an electric car which was standing at Hartwick. The car was demolished. Fireman Benja- min Williams was seriously injured, Floyd Witeman, a passenger, had his knee badly hurt, and two women pas scngers were slightly bruised. Track. master J. Near was also injured.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
April 0.

1199-Richard I. of England Occur de Lion) died of wounds at Fontevrault, France; born u57.
 134S-Laura de Noves subject of Petrarch's . amatory poetry, died at Avignon, France: born 1907. The death of Laura inspired Petrarch to pen series of sonnets of rare and perhaps unsur- passed melody and pathos. It was commonly believed that she died on the anniversary day and hour of her meeting with the poet. 1S61-General Albert Sidney Johnston, Con- federate commander in the west, killed In the attack on Grants lines at Shi- loh; born 1S03
 l892-Ex-United States Senator Willard Salisbury, chancellor of Delaware, died at Dover, Del. born 1920. 1S99-Obsequies at Arlington cemetery to honor the remains of soldiers who died in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
pr. Thoma. Dunn English Dead.


 pr. Thomas Dunn English, who has been i'll for long time, died on Tues day at his home in Newark, N. I. Dr. English, best known as the author of the ballad Ben Bolt" for many years extraordinarily popular and more re- gently revived through Du Maurier's novel 'Trilby," was born in Philadel- phia in 1919. He was the author of several novels, mostly under pseudo nyms, and of twenty dramas, only one of which, "The Mormons," was ever printed. In 1859 he settled in New Jersey, where he had since devoted himself to the practice of medicine. During the civil war he became ac- lively engaged in politics and served in the New Jersey legislature in 1S63-64. He sat for two years in congress as a representative from the district in which Newark Is included.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Tried to Kill Entire Family.

ent over the partial loss of eyesight and financial troubles, w. R. Mills, aged fifty years, attempted to kill his entire family and then sent a bullet into his own brain. Mills shot at sev- eral members of his family, but the only one injured was Mrs. Victoria Moore. who received a bullet in the neck. She will recover. After shoot ing himself Mills was taken to a hos pital, where he died.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
CiKara and Tobacco,

There are between 1,50O,OOO and 2,OOO, 900 brands of cigars sold in this country, and your average smoker thinks that every brand means a differ fact 15O is an outside estimate of the different kinds of tobacco that can be procured from all sources, and even ex- perts can't tell some of these apart.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
A Pas.enEer Train Collision,

New York, April "A passenger train ran through a switch at Babylon, on Long Island, last night and into an other passenger train halted on the sidetrack. Conductor Clinton S. Weeks of the first mentioned train was proba- bly fatally hurt and two of his brake men slightly injured. Others slightly hurt were William D. Teece, lawyer; Mrs. Edward Riess and John Willough- by, passengers.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Apr1l g..

1626-Francts Lord Bacon, reorganizer of philosophy, died; born 15S1. 17S4-George III ratified the first treaty with the United States after its inde- pendence.
 1894 - Jacques Necker, famous French died; born 1732. 1S95-W. Jennings Demorest, founder of Demorest's Magazine and a national temperance leader. died; born 1923 1S97-Daniel W. Voorhees,, noted politician and former senator from Indiana, died in Washington; born 1927. 1899-Stephen J. Field, associate justice of the United States supreme court, on the retired list, died in Washington; born 1S17
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
PhfIfDufue Schools.

The schools of the Philippines are steadily improving and are daily grow ing in popularity among the natives. The children themselves take the live Hest interest in the schools in learning English.-Manila American.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
The Arknnsn. senator.hip.

Little Rock, Ark, April 2-With ten counties yet to report official and unof- fcial reports yield the following results sn the United States senatorship: James P. Clarke, 69; James K. Jones, 30; necessary to elect on joint ballot, 67. These figures are deemed reliable.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Frixhtened kin9 Edward

Rome, April 2.-The Corriere Della Sera asserts that King Edward aban- doned his proposed visit to the Riviera on account of tSe discovery of an an- archist plot against his life. The an- archists purposed to give the appear ance of Boer revenge to their opera lions
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
H. C. EVANS RESIGNS.
The Commissioner of Pensions May
 Become an Embaxxndor.

The following letter from Hon. H. Clay Evans resigning the commission ership of pensions, together with an appended statement, was made public at the White House on Friday:
 "For some time have been consider ing the question of resigning. It will soon be five years since I assumed the
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Rau Fixed EorR,tbbors

Havana, April 2.-The supreme court has fixed the bail of Estes c. Rathbone at $1O0,0O0 cash. The court ruled that until sentenced Rathbone was entitled to bail under the postal code.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03

with electric storms. Floods in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. 1S95-Governor Joshua H. Marvtl of Della ware died at Laurel; born 1826. Gen eral James L. Kemper, ex-governor of Virginia, and one of the brigade lead CTS in Ptcketts charge at Gettysburg. died; born 1923
 1S97-Dr. von Stephen founder of the Uni- versal union. died in Berlin; born 1881.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
Pacific Again Open.

St. Paul, Minn., April 2.-The North ern Pacific main line across North Da- kota Is again in operation, and through traffic to the coast has been resumed.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
April 6.

1732-David Rittenhouse, e m n c n t American mathematician an d astronomer. born at Germantown, Pa. died in Philadelphia 1796. 1S85-R c h a r d Grant White, author and philologist. died in New York city; born there 1921.
 1890-Tornadoes in the north central states,
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES. Some Current Selections From His
 tOry's Broad Page.

April {. 17H-Oliver Goldsmith. poet and miscel- laneous writer. died in London; born in Ireland 1728 l841-President William Henry Harrison died.
 1S65-President Lincoln entered Richmond The president was with Grant at Petersburg when word came of the fall of Richmond. He went there i'm mediately. His acts and speeches in the southern capital were kindly and pacific.
 1ss6-Ex-Governor William Marshall of Minnesota died; born 1925. 1901-D'Oyly Carte, noted theatrical man. ager. died in London. Roland Reed, popular American actor, died in New York city; born 1853.
 April B. 1685-Catherine I. of Rus sia was born; died M8A 1727; empress 1725. & Russia's first Gather
 inc was not Catherine A@ the Great. Catherine A I. succeeded Peter the EA Great in 1725 and A reigned two years. AS Her life story Is ob- z scure and seems to '6SSSu(GR have been romantic. 0010 As the wife of Catherine l. Swedish subaltern Peter the Great waa attracted to her by her beauty and in I'll acknowledged her as his wife. She accompanied him on his Turkish cam paign and rendered important service as a diplomats He caused her to be crowned empress In 1724. l887-Henri Dupin, called the Father of French Dramatists" and author of 200 plays, died; born 1791 191-Orrington Lunt, noted pioneer and phEanthroptAt. died in Evanston. H. i; born 1S1k
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-03

Credited by Many With Having Caused Boer War, He Was Never theless One of the Great Men of the Nineteenth Century.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
COUNTY FAIRS.
(Newton Journal.)

1t is fact that in many counties in
Iowa. the annual fairs have been dis
continued and the fair grounds and
buildings have been sold. This is not
as it should be. and the fault is attrib-
uted to the farmers, who should be
most interested in their success.
Some one has said: "a good county
fair increases the value of every piece
of real estate in the county in which
it is held" and we believe it.
Jasper county has the finest natural
fair grounds in the state, and its man.
agement has always been in the hands
of men who have exhibited the great
est interest in its success, and by their
persistent and intelligent work our
fairs have been very much better than
the average of such exhibitions. But
to keep them up to their standard, all
old citizens of the county should inter-
est themselves. 1t has been suggest.
ed to us that the board of supervisors
might appropriate a given sum for the
encouragement of the fair. Three
| hundred dollars would not be more
| than few cents to each tax payer,
and that amount would greatly aid the
society in it's work. In making this
! suggestion, it should be kept in mind
that it is Jasper county fair, and not
fair of any particular section of the
county, and chat with this idea an ap
preparation by the board would be for
the benefit of all the people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
DEFAMERs OF WOMEN.

President Roosevelt has refused, in
very emphatic manner to pardon a
man who was sentenced to term of
five years in prison in South Dakota,
for sending obscene letters through
the mail in which he attacked the
character of a woman. MI. Roose.
velt's judgment in the matter is SO
good and so characteristic of the man
that it is introduced below:
Denied. In my judgment those
sending this petition, at least the
judge and the district attorney, should
be notified that | sincerely regret that
4 it is not in my power materially to in
crease the sentence for the scoun
drel."
Signed by the President.
1t will increase the respect of the
people of the United States and espe
cially of the women toward Theodore
Roosevelt that he has thus made him
self the champion of women who have
been slandered and prosecuted by COW
ardly scoundrels.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20

but what failure! No artists paint
or pencil was ever able to half por-
tray the scenes of that four years OF
annihilating, desolating civil war.
And through all those dreary days and
darksome nights, surrounded by STRAIT
agems, perils and disease, in the cold
and fireless camps, on the weary, foot
sore march. through victory and de-
feat. Old Glory guided. it's myriad
sons through hope and despair to the
throne of final triumphs, unto the
promised land, the uncrowned sover-
eighty of American citizenship.
And when the Star of the Southern
Confederacy set beneath the green
hills of the AppamattoX, there arose
from that vale of sorrow and tears
the star-gemmed promise of everlast
ing freedom and unity.
But, comrades, of all the mighty
hosts which had gone forth in the full
ness of their vigor, how many tens
and hundreds of thousands had cross.
ed the great river AS we stood upon
that mighty eminence of hopes great
est fruition, eXulting in that God Civ
en- victory we paused, comrades, to
look back over those vast fields OF
carnage and our ears involuntarily lis
tened to that endless fateful roll call
And as we looked over a thousand
historic fields, through the lonely wild
woods of the Southland, on the spot
which marked their historic endeav
or, we saw countless comrades calm,
ly sleeping in their lonely battle
graves.
And, comrades, with our faces turn
ed towards the westward, our eyes
already beholding the happy twilights
of evening. we extend our hand tc
! those whose feet must soon measure
our retiring footsteps and, with oul
| hearts pulsating in well-earned ant
honored pride, we bid them look witt
lunflinching confidence to our battle
tried flag as it proudly waves over Thu
inseparable union Of states, and o'el
distant seas, Haunting at the mast
\ head OF thousand golden freightet
argosies, a. stranger to, no port of en-
try. kissed by the winds of the world
commerce. 1t casts its shadow ia
into the distant future-a future pro
phetic with hopes, future ripe witt
promises, future of destiny and duty
and ever aloft on freedoms hol.
mount shall it wave in peerless tri
umph. the beacon light of liberty, jus
tice and humanity.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
GOOD WORDS FOR CARROLL.

Hon. A. B. Funk, editor of the Spirit
Lake Beacon, knows Hon. B. F. Car
ROLAND warmly supports him for state
auditor as follows:
Hon. b. f. Carroll, of Davis county,
editor of the Bloomfield Republican, is
announced as candidate for state
auditor subject to the decision of the
republican state convention. He has
been for years factor of importance
in sixth district affairs. He was for
three sessions an exceedingly useful
state senator. He has just the sort of
ability to manage successfully the af-
fairs of the auditors Office. In his
hands the interests of revenue, bank
ing and insurance with which the de-
partment is charged would receive the
most thorough treatment. He would
make a valuable member of the execu
tive council. Figures are his delight
and facts his chief stock in trade. His
judgment is safe and his purposes
above suspicion. A search through all
the ninety-nine counties will not dis.
cover a better man for this important
position than Ben Carroll"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
$4,000 is ExTRAvAGANcE.
burlington Hawk-Eye.)

The Hawk-Eye heartily concurs with
Major Mahon in his recent statement
to the Ottumwa Courier that if the leg
islature does not propose to appropri-
ate more than SIZE, 900 for the Louisiana
none at all. 1t is preferable that the
state shall sink into its own isolation
during that memorable celebration of
it's Edenic nativity than to disgrace
itself by so meager and parsimonious
an appropriation as $4,000 If Iowa
cannot go to that notable and to-ba
historic event appropriately costumed
and equipped she had better stay
away: If she were poor; if there were
pinching necessity, she might be a
guest, though humbiy clad, and still
have the respect and courtesy due to
noble and worthy commonwealth
But such are not the, conditions. Nd
state has more fortunate conditions, nc
state is more prosperous than Iowa
The world knows it. And Iowa knows
it and has been doing unstinted boast
ing about it of late years. That puts
usin an entirely different attitude than
would be the case if we were poor and
unfortunate. We must not boast OF
our affluence and whine about our pow
erty, all in the same breath. Tkal
would be hypocrisy, and that is about
what SIS 900 would stand for.
The men who talk about $4,000 be.
ing enough, and that more woni1 be
! extravaganza, don't know what they
are talking about. They are unable &c
measure up the magnitude of the event
and the importance of Iowa, the grand
est state of the Louisiana Purchase
| taking a foremost place in the great
gathering of states and nations at st
Louis in 1908. Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars would be wise anI
economic outlay; seventy-fve thousand
| dollars would be extravaganza: be
cause it would be money wasted
Seventy-fve thousand dollars i:
profigacy because it would be an in
vestment for nothing. Not only {
waste, but humiliation. The invited
| guest who is too poor to attend SO
cial function can save his self-respec
and the esteem of the host and thu
other guests, by sending his regrets
| But if he sends his hired man ;ls Il sub
stitute he insults himself as well as
the host Iowa must observe The prJ
prieties of the occasion. Illinois Whlcj
was not in the Louisiana territory, ha:
appropriated quarter of a million dol
lars and expects to :noSe than get j
all back in advertising the state
Whether we consider the matter of TIN
proprieties of life Or from DA:rel,
commercial viewpoint, $4,000 is foil,
and $250,000 is wisdom. With whom
does Iowa propose to class herself?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20

ponds upon the man. There are men
who are aged and decrepit at forty
five; there are bright examples of lit
erature written by men when eighty
years old. AS to the active life of
the physical man, that also depends.
There are men who become so lazy at
thirty-five years that they are entirely
worthless; there are men of seventy,
who handle the spade, the hoe or the
shovel, and earn the full wage of a
man in any condition. 1t all depends
on the man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20

the late Felix Clark once to the writer,
register of the United States land Of,
flee here all through the river naviga-
ton and railroad epoch, putting his
finger on map: fright there is over
eleven thousand acres which that com.
pany took and sold, got the money for
it, when they had no more right OF
title to it than you or | have-not a
shadow of right, and it stands today
open to homestead exemption, if any
bodybody was disposed to test it,"
In view of all this, it seems only
right. and eminently proper that fish
should be granted the opportunity tc
pass unobstructed the entire length oil
the river, meagre compensation fol
what the state has lost.-An Old Set
tier in the Des Moines Capital.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
CHEAP LIVING AS COLLEGE STU
DENTS.

A Chicago paper says that club of
young men at Milton college, Wiscon-
sin, has reduced cheap living to a
science and have managed during the
past three years to subsist upon SIPS
per week for each of it's members. One
of the young men acts as the steward
and does all the buying. The cost of
the food for each is rs cents per week
and the cost of cooking for each is SO
cents per week. This is a good show
ing and indicates that the young men
of the present day are made up of the
right material. However, the Courier
has college man as a friend, who
says that in his day the students who
took rooms in the college building
lived on rs cents week but they did
their own cooking. He gave the name
of one student, who afterward became
wealthy man, who lived on 40 cents
a week during six months term. He
! bought rye flour, corn meal and
Shorts" and from these he made his
bread; he bought bacon and occasion
ally beef, and knew how to make good
gravy His drink was water. He was
of course his own cook. 1t is not wise
to be stingy in administering to the
demands of the appetite but in these
days when the tendency is to extrava
gance, it is we'll to recur to noble ex
amples of prudence and economy, es
1pecially in student life. ID,