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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
NO WORD FROM MISS STONE.
ENJOYS From Missionaries Refuse to
Negotiate With Pretended Captors.

London, Jan. 14.-Wiring from Con-
stantinople the correspondent of The
Daily Chronicle says there is no news
of Miss Stone, the captive American
missionary, and that M. Gargiulo.
dragoman of the American legation
at Constantinople, and w. w. Peet,
treasurer of the missionary society in
Constantinople (who some days ago
left Salonfka for the interior to meet
Miss Stones captors) have not yet
met the bandits holding the mission
airy prisoner. They have been inter-
viewed near Sores, Macedonia, AZ
miles northwest of Salonika, by sew
eral pretended delegates, who thus
far have not been furnished with let
ters from the captives, in the absence
Of which M. Gargiulo and Mr.. Peet
decline to negotiate.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
: First Map OF America Found.

Baron Weser announces that a Cath
;olic priest Of the name. of Fischer has
just discovered the first map on which
the word '.Amerika" appears. It was
found by the priest in the library Of
the prince of Waldeburg at his castle
near Wolfegg, in Wurtemburg, Ger
many. It was printed in 1907, at St.
Dee, and bears the following inscrip-
ton: 'Phtolomac traditionem ct
America Vespucii aliorumque lustra-
tiones.'' Immediately over the tropic
of Capricorn is printed for the first
time in the history of map making the
word sAmerika." ! ..
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
CONGRESS SHOULD ACT.
Attention Called to the Alarming Num-
Der Of Railroad Accidents,

Attention Called to the Alarming Num-
Der Of Railroad Accidents.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Representa-
tive Wood of California has written a
letter to the chairman of the house
committee on interstate commerce and
foreign commerce calling attention to
the alarming number of railroad acct
dents in various parts of the country
and suggesting that congress should
inquire into the causes and provide
legislative remedies as far as these
are possible. Mr.. Wood points out
that congress brought about the use
of uniform safety coupling devices
and he says it should require railway
systems engaged in interstate com
merce to adopt the amplest means of
protecting the public against acct
dents. ~. .:. -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS. ETC
STATE OF MINNESOTA ISIS.

COUNTY OF MORRISON.
In Probate Court.
Special term, Dec. 81, 1901.
In the matter OF. the estate of Charles
Hoppe, deceased.
On reading and fling the petition of
Peter Virnig,- adn1inistrator with the
will annexed of the estate of
Charles Hoppe, deceased, representing
among other things that he has fully ad-
uninsured said estate, and praying that a
time and place be fixed for settling and
allowing final account of his ad ministra-
ton, and for the assignment of the resi-
due of said estate to the persons entitled
II is ordered that the said account be
examined. and petition heard, by the
this Court on Friday, the 3lst day of
Jan. A. d. 1902, at 10 o'clock a. M, at Lit
tie Falls, in said county.
And it is further ordered that notice
thereof be given to all persons interested
by publishing copy of this order once
in each week for three successive weeks,
prior to said day of hearing, in the
Little Falls Herald, a weekly newspaper
printed ami published at Little Falls In
Dated at Little Falls, Minnesota, this
31st day of December. A. d. 1901.
by the Court,
[SEAL- N, RICHARDSON.
Judge of Probate.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
SUPREME COURT ACTS.
Will Hear Arguments in Railroad Mer


VIII Hear Arguments in Railroad Mer-
ger Case Jan. ~.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Chief Justice
Fuller of the United States supreme
court has announced that argument
upon the application of the State of
Minnesota for leave to file bill of
complaint against the Northern Securi-
ties company, bearing upon the CONSOLE
dation of the Northern Pacific Railway
company with other railway companies,
wouldAbe heard Monday, Jan. ~. The
chief justice also issued an order re-
curing that notice of the application
should be given to the Securities
company. d lzz:4 5 III
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
IN GUAM AND HAWAII,
Secretary Root Asks for Money to
Build Fortifications,

Secretary Root Asks for Money to
Build Fortifications.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Secretary
Root has sent to congress estimates
of 1907 900 for the defenses of the ISL
and of Guam and $526,000 for the de-
lenses of Hawaii. The defenses of
Guam are to include a seacoast bat
terry, $142,000; defensive sites, $45,-
600, and torpedo batteries, mines, etc.,
$125,00O.
The defenses of Hawaii are to in
clude those about Honolulu and Pearl
Harbor. General Gillespie, chief of
engineers, states in the estimates that
these defenses are urgently needed to
protect the newly acquired territory of
the United States and to prevent the
interruption of cable communication
these islands being in the line of the
projected cable.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
M Dancer of Crowdinr.

]. We take little stock in the assertion
Of the statisticians that the world will
be so full of inhabitants 800 years
hence as to be uncomfo rtably crowded,
says the Chicago Tribune. New and
expeditions ways Of killing people OF
are discovered almost{every day.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17

A fine 1902 Gale ndar given free
the Diamond Sign jewelry sto re
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17
Five Ccat. 4 q Order.

With each dollars worth 81 goods
bought at our store for cash We will
give q fve-cent money order, and
when twenty are presented to us at
any one time We will cash them, Civ.
ing
81. ONE DOLLAR IN MERCHANDISE
or We will accept them TAT uime)
when returned as part payment on<a
bill OF goods ranging from one dollar
upwarde. That is. we will accept one
on each dollar cash purchase, or 10
or on a ten dollar cash purchase. .
SPIRIT J. VAsALY,
Diamond Sign Jeweler, Little Falls,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-17

FOR SALE-Good six-room house
and lot, 500; easy terms. Also
house and lot, $325-$4O down and
$6 per nloath; also house for rent
...,.-,> STEPHEN G. VAsALY-
New-York tribune., 1902-05-18
TAP DAY" AT YALE.
HOW THE MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR So
CIETIES ARE SELECTED PUBLICLY
REWARDS OF MERIT

New-Haven, Conn, May 17.-Next Thursday
as tap day" at Yale, the most important day
Of the four years course for every of the
33O-odd men who make up the junior class.
man may have succeeded the athletic field
J in the classroom or on the college papers
6her organizations. but his undergraduate life
eliminates far actual rewards go, on the
outcome Of short tragic hour under the
Herrick oak in front of Durfee the afternoon
of tap day" No matter what a junior has
made of himself in his college life there are
probably not a score of men in the class who
d. not have some hope that they will be among
the chosen few to be slapped" by a member
Il one Of the three senior societies on the fate
ful afternoon. AS there are only forty five men
who will receive honors fifteen to each of the
focieties. Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and
VOLTS Head. there naturally results great
deal of disappointment.
The ceremonies begin promptly at o'clock
in the afternoon. For months the class has
been stirred up by the approaching election.
and for weeks half Of the class who certainly
expect to be slapped. and nearly all the rest who
think they have some chance, have neglected
their college work, discussed chances. made out
lists and otherwise brought themselves to a
degree of nervousness that has no counterpart
in campus life All the afternoon undereradu-
ates have been assembling in groups at the
fence. and by 4:30 there is i great crowd OF
students on the open space around the junior
rail silent and eXpcctant. All Of the college
and good part Of the faculty and town
throng the Yale campus at these times. 1t is
of the great campus events of the year.
by o'clock the whole junior class has
crowded in on the fence in dense mass.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-18
Y" SCENE ON YALE CAMPUS AT SENIOR SOCIETY ELECTIONS

citement and suspense, as more and more men
join the crowd. and as prophecies of the cleo
tions are passed about. In the windows of Dur
fee and Farnam by, and on all of the
doorsteps. stand hundreds of persons girls who
have friends who may be slapped, the fami-
lies of juniors who know that they are going to
get it. the friends Of men who ought to get it.
but who won't.
Five O'Clock booms on the chapel chimes over
head, and as the last echo dies away a young
man. dressed in black with black tie, black
hat and black gloves. is seen coming across the
campus from Hgh-st. He is Bones man.
the first of the fifteen Bones men sent out to
slap the first of the fifteen juniors who will
elections A hush falls the crowd You can
hear a pin fall The senior solemn and without a
smile, walks up to the crowd. which makes way
for him wherever he starts TO go. and pene-
trates the jam of men, who push in from all
sides to see whom ne is going to slap He
may find his man Immediately. 1t may take
him five minutes. ten minutes. No other man
comes from Skull and Bones before he re-
turns with his report.
Suddenly there is yell. sharp and clear. Then
the crowd surges forward around a little space
where the solemn senior has found his man.
The junior he has been looking for is pale and
red by turns. The senior "saps'' him hard be-
tween the shoulders and says. sharply: Go to
your ROOM There is a terrific cheer if the
man to be elected is popular, as he is likely to
be. and out between ranks of cheering. clap
ping men comes the junior at a brisk walk
and behind him the who has given him his
election The two silent, the junior happy
and smiling all with delight the senior
still solemn. They walk rapidly across the
campus to the room of the junior. and the
crowd turns to another election.
From ; o'clock till q the election continues
There has been not a suspicion beforehand OF
the makeup OF the elections. Some men who
have been regarded certain do not get cleo
tions at all. Others who had been on no junior
lists elected Tragic things happen often
New-York tribune., 1902-05-18

through which 1t is next to impossible to wedge
your way. A certain few of the leaders of the
cIass-the football captain, the chairman of
"The Yale Literary Magazine" the big men"
on the crew and baseball and track teams, and
the social leaders of the class-are regarded
sure men, and are therefore early surrounded
by tightly wedged crowds of underclassmen,
who want TO see their favorites get their cleo
New-York tribune., 1902-05-18

tions Outside the crowd. and nervously wan
dering about some OF the less certain men,
who have earned an election in one way or an
other. but who are not at all that they are
going to receive it Men with prepared lists"
that they have been working for weeks
mingle in the crowd. Some have bets up on the
accuracy OF their guess. There is growing ex-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
1000 LIVES LOST.
Terrible Result Of Another Eruption
of Mont PeIee-Th ousands OF People
Leaving Martinique.

Castries, Island Of st. Lucia, B. w
l., Sept. 5.-The mail steamer Yarq
arrived here last evening from the
island of Martinique. She brings the
report that violent volcanic erup-
tion occurred there Wednesday night
and that about 1000 persons are said
to have perished. Large numbers of
people are leaving the island.
Paris, Sept. 5.-The Paris edition Of
the New York Herald publishes a
dispatch from Pointe-a-Pitre island
of Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
dated September 4, which says that
constant detonations heard there
Wednesday night indicate a terrific
volcanic eruption on the island of
Martinique. Thick, black clouds were
seen to the southwark of Guadeloupe,
and the heat at Pointe-a-Eitre was in
tense. The population was said to be
greatly alarmed and apprehens;ve of
tidal wave in the event of the col
lapse of Martinique.
The minister of the colonies, in plac-
ing 100000 at the disposal of the
government Of Martinique to relieve
the distress in that island, has urged
the governor not to congregate refu-
gees at Fort de France, but to dis
tribute them in the south, where their
necessities can be most easily sup
piled.
Recognizing the danger of a tidal
wave at Fort de France, the colonial
minister has instructed Gov. lie
Marie to adopt all the measures
necessary to enable the inhabitants
to Immediately evacuate the place in
the case of necessity and seek refuge
on the heights above the town, where
food depots should be established.
The minister has also recommended
the establishment of observatory
posts whence the least signs of fresh
outbreaks of Mont Pelee can be imme-
diatcly reported to the authorities.
Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 5.-1'he
German steamer Castillo, which ar
rived here from st. Thomas, ID. w. l.,
reports encountering a heavy fall of
volcanic dust while 500 miles at sea.
She also reports that the coast of
Hayti was completely obscured by
haze caused by dust.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
GREATER LONGEVITY.
The Census Bureau sssues an Interests
ing Statement Which shows the Age
of tho Population to be Hncreasing-
Whites Live Longer Ihnn blacks.

Washington, Sept. 4.-The census
bureau has issued statement show
Ing the increasing age of the popula-
tlon from decade to decade. The
statement gives the results of com
putting the median instead of the
average age. The median is such an
age that half the population is under
it and half is over it. The median
age of the total population in 1900
was 22S, as compared with 21.9 in
1890. The median age of the white
population in the last census year
was 23.4 and the colored. including
negroes, Indians and Mongolians, was
1877, while in 1890 the white popula-
tion was 22.4 and the colored 1873.
The report shows that there was
an increase in the median age of the
white population during each decade
from 1910 to 1900, amounting in the
80 years to IA years, or an average
amount of about five-siXths of year
in decade. The medan age of the
colored population increased after
1880, but with less regularity. The
median age of the colored population
increased three years in the 70-year
period from 1880 to 1900, or only
about half as fast as that of the
whites. But during the last 90 years
of the century the increase has been
substantial.
The statement concludes as follows:
"Many complex influences have CO.
operated in producing this steady
change in the age composition of the
population. Three may be mentioned,
the rapid progress of medical and
sanitary science, which has tended to
increase the average length of life;
the decrease in the relative number
of children born, which has made the
earlier age periods less preponderant
numerically in the total population;
and the influx, especially since 1910,
of great numbers of adult immi-
grants, increasing the number in the
older age periods. The difference be-
tween the white and colored popula-
tions is doubtless due to the fact that
the influences have wrought more
powerfully upon the white race than
upon the colOred."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
Lnte Returns from Vermont.

White River Junction, VT, Sept. A.
With practically complete returns
from the state election. but one town
out of the 24G towns and cities having
failed TO report it's vote, the result
is as follows: John G.. Mccullough
(republican) 31,SlO, Felix W. McGet-
trick (dcmocraD 7.247, Percival w.
Clement (high fcense) 2s,6O7, Joel o.
Sherburne (prohibition) 2,4js. Since
n majority over all is necessary to
elect, there has been no choice Of
governor and lieutenant governor by
the people and the election will be
thrown into the general assembly,
and in this body the friends Of Me
"ullough claim that he will have ma
iority of 10 over all other candidates.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
Cheer upl Competition may be close

Cheer up! Competition may be close
md occupations overcrowded but a
Coveruucnto, new held is open
ing to INDECENT and
ambitious young
men. The duties of those who enter
this field will consist in eating food
furnished by the government and tell
ing how they feel afterward, saya
Youths Companion. The salary has
not been named, but it will undOubtcd-
~ be handsome; and of course practice
and experience will bring a suitable
increase. The work will be under
cover, too, with no heavy lifting, and
will realize the hired mans dream of
nothing to do between meals. This,
if the agricultural department carries
out its plans, is to be the new industry
developed by the Investigation of food
adulterants and preservatives. If the
proof of the pudding is in the eating,
says the department, the best way to
lind out whether boric or salycilic acid
is injurious to health is to get some
one to eat food preserved with them.
The department purposes, therefore,
to establish training table" the
patrons of which shall be volunteers,
and if possible healthy young men
from some educational institution in
or near Washington. During the time
they are under observation they will
eat nothing but the food furnished by
the government. Memoranda will be
made of their physical condition at the
beginning of the experiments and rec
ords kept of any changes which take
place. In this way it is hoped that
much may be learned about the hy-
gienic characteristics of canned goods
and other preserved foods. In spite
of its attractions this office of eater in
ordinary to the United States govern
ment will have its drawbacks. The
days will bring a comfortable sense of
repletion, but the nights may be filled
with sadness and collie. There should
be added the inducement of a gener-
Gus pension, and in the event of fatal
outcome, the honor of a burial at Ar
Hngton and an epitaph:
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to glory hitherto unknown.
Fair science proved his patriotic worth,
But grim dyspepsia claimed him for her
own.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
REPUBLICANS GET CREDIT.
Chief Mucyvump Organ Makes True
Statement Regarding the Coun-
try's Prosperity.

An admission by the Springfield Re-
publican. the chief organ of the mug
wumps of New England. that sit is
mostly true that everything good and
great in the legislation of the past
- years is the work of the re-
publican party" has caused consider
able comment in the newspapers of the
country. What the Repblican says,
however, is true, obsery the Cleve-
land Leader.
To be sure, the democrats have not
had much chance to enact laws since
1866. In 1876 they obtained control Of
both branches of congress. but there
was republican president in the
white house to veto the political bills
that were passed. Again, in 1892, the
democrats gained contr2l of both
houses, and they also elected a demo
cratic president at the same time.
Then nothing stood in the way Of their
making laws. Yet the tariff law which
they had promised to enact was only
passed after bitter quarrel Ietwcen
the house and senate. aud il was de-
naun"ed by President Cleveland as n
measure filed with "periidy ana dis
honor" lie refused To sign the bill.
permitting IT 60 become a law without
his si"uaturc. That was the only
measure Of cpurucc enacted hy
that congress, and In view Of the dis
astruu- result. of it, enforcement. mo-
body will .ay that IL was. good and
great.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
HARDSHIPS AND EXPOSURE.
The Sad Case of an Officer of tho
Army Signal Corps.

Washington, Sept. 5.-An example
of the mental havoc wrought by eX-
treme exposure and privation is fur
nished by the case of Capt. Joseph +.
MaXfield, of the signal corps, who,
for about six months, has been In
charge of the army's signal work in
Alaska. In the early spring Capt.
MaXiield left Valdez and Travelled 300
miles to the north to look over the
work to be performed by the signal
corps during the summer. Then, with
but single Indian guide for com
paniOn, the captain started back by
boat. lie endured terrible priyations
and suffering before he finally ar
rived.
\ few days ago the war department
received "A telegram stating that Capt.
MaXiicld was bcSet with a hallucina-
tion that there was conspiracy di-
rectcd against his life, and il was
suggested that the officer should ne
returned To the United States. Or
dcrs were forwarded Yesterday by the
war department directing Maxiield To
return to his home To recuperate
from what, IL is hoped, Is only tenn
purary lapse of his mental faculties.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
Refuse TO Join tho Federation.

Kansas City, Sept. The National
Association of Po~tofiice Clerks by
unanimous vote yesterday rejected
American Federation Of Labor. Reso-
buttons were adopted declaring that
such uu alliance would prove detri-
mental. The ra---lutions express un-
qualified sympathy with the aims and
purposes - the Federation ~ Labor,
and assistance aud support are prom.
isrd that organization In every way
that viii not conflict with the post
Office clerks obligation 20 the govern
ment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11

Many people are under the impress,
sion that to place fruit and yegeta bles
Co,, S. in an ice box is to
render them harm
less, whether raw
or cooked. Cooking fruit or vege-
tables, if thoroughly done, we are told
by experts, does destroy all evil germs.
The banana is prolific breeder of mi
crobes. The fruit is picked before it
ripens and in this country is generally
ripened by subjection to heat, often of
doubtful origin. In its native climate
the banana is not eaten raw. 1t is
baked by the cleanly and intelligent
and its sheath is always carefully re-
moved before it is put in the oven.
Heat alone destroys noXiCus germs.
Refrigeration prolongs their power
for evil. Frozen edibles of every de-
scription are now carried all over the
world. So long as their refrigeration
continues they are deemed market
able. Those that are pure remain so.
Those that have become noXious be-
fore refrigeration remain noXious.
Only intense heat destroys animal and
vegetable germs capable of conveying
fever or other maladies to man.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-11
BILLrON-DOLLAR SESSION.
Democrats Den0uncinE Republicans
for Extravaganza of which They
Are Equally Guilty.

The latest paramount issue" bears
the caption "A Billion-Dollar Ses-
sion." 1t is striking phrase. The
orator who has no head for facts
but roomy space for a luXuriant
imagination to run riot in can ring
great many changes on such a
topic. That the statement is want
ing in the element of truth does not
trouble those who find in the charge
of republican extravaganza a para
mount issue, says the indianapolis
Journal.
Men who will take the pains to ex-
anime the appropriation bill will dis
cover at the outset that the aggre-
gate IS little over $S00,000,00U, or
nearly $200,0OO,0O0 short of billion
dollars. There is $2G3, 1000 author
lied ont not appropriated. That is,
money authorized for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors is the
amount necessary to complete certain
proposed improvements, which is APP
The same is true of public buildings
This year it is especially true of the
sum designated for the construction
of the isthmian canal, the entire
amount authorized being $1SO,OOO, 600.
For public works 10000 600 was au-
thorized, but not appropriated. Here
are two items amounting to 1928, ,OOO,-
O00
The appropriation actually made
aggregate a little over 100000, 900.
OF this sum $5O,OOO,O0O is for the Pan
anna canal and $5O,OO0,OOO more is for