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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Another Outbreaks in Colombia.

Washington, March 4.-Reports re-
ceived here indicate that there has
been revolutionary outbreak in
Colombia near the capital and severe
fighting in the immediate neighbor-
hood of Bogota. It is asserted that
the government forces have tri-
unphed and that the revolutionists
have been driven into the mountains
with heavy loss.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Post Office Robbed.

Marceline, Mo-, March Robbers
wrecked the safe in, the post Office
here early Monday morning with
dynamite and got away with prac-
tically all it's contents, which is said
to have been a considerable sum.
The explosion brought citizens to the
scene, but not before the robbers had
made their escape.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Pax,enrer station Burned.

! Pensacola, Fla, March 4.-Fire at
Flomaton, Ala, Monday burned the
louisville & Nashville railroad pas
senger station, the dispatcher's of
Zee, the telegraph Office, hotel and
several small buildingA
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Hangs Himself with Trunk Strap.

Denver, Col, March A. Adam
Leech, of 3S2 East Fortieth street,
New York city. committed suicide by
hanging himself with trunk strap
to the transom of the room he was
occupying. He was found by his
nephew, Adam Leech, Jr., who had
accompanied his uncle to this city
in search of health. Leech was for
merly steward of the Knickerbocker
club, of New York city.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Desperate Prisoners Break Jail.

Baltimore, Nd, March 4.-Six pris-
oners broke jail at Easton, Nd, late
Saturday night, and in attempting
to rearrest them Deputy Sheriff
Thomas J. Thompson was instantly
killed. Lewis Green, colored, is
thought to have fired the shot which
killed Thompson. Green was await
ing trial on the charge of having
murdered his mistress, and it is
thought that he planned the escape.
The other prisoners were held on
minor charges.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Declared Elected Judge

Springfield, ILL.,, March Gov.
Yates Monday issued a proclamation
declaring Arthur 81. Frost, of Rock
ford, elected judge of the circuit
court, Seventeenth judicial district,
to fill the unexpired term of John C.
Carver, of Rockford, deceased.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Fire at standish. Mich.

I standish, Mich, March 4.-Fire
which started in the Standish house
Monday burned eight business
houses before it was brought under
control. The total loss is $4,000
with about $4,000 insurance.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Beaten to Death by Robbers,

! Harrodsburg, KY, March Edmond
Houp, aged 81, residing in Mercer, was
found dead Monday in his home and
his wife beaten to Inconsistencies.
They had $3.50 pension money in the
house and were the victims of robbers.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-03-06
Belmont III with Pneumonia

Washington, March 4.-Representa-
tive 0. 81. P. Belmont, of New York
city, who is i'll here with the pneu-
monia, is slightly better. There are
no alarming Developments in his con-
dition.
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
DON'T JUMP OFF THE CARS.
Nervous Disorders Are Said to Fre-
quently Result from This Too
Common Practice

Jumping off moving trains and street
cars as practiced to-day is fruitful
source of nervous disorders and one
not fully recognized for its Importance
by any school except oseopaths. Yet
the facts are easily comprehended.
Certain it is that nervousness in all
its protean forms, from irritability,
neurasthenia and general nervous col
lapse to paralysis is so caused and that
the careless habit of many people of
bowling off moving cars stiff-legged
lays the foundation for these disor-
ders of every hour of the day, says Os-
teopathic Health
In leading the strenuous life of our
cities men and women seem unable to
wait to get to their journeys end Be-
fore trains come to half stop at
crossings and platforms fidgety pc
destrians with muscles tense drop from
car platforms, and almost before their
bodies have recovered from the for
ward momentum are stalking a mad
foot race against time in the opposite
direction. This enterprise saves ten
seconds, of course. for that particular
errand. but possibly it hastens by
many months ones journey to the
grave. Positive injury is thereby done
to the spine and nervous system which
must gather in cumulative effect until
one day the whole nervous organism
may go to pieces. Mere slips of the
vertebrae from their true positions.
one upon the other, and the strains
brought to bear in consequence upon
the ligaments and muscles. binding
them together. are what first occur
from these sudden innumerable pound
ings of hard heels against adamant
pavements. These seemingly trivial
mishaps to the body are productive of
.he most far-reaching consequences.
At every point in the spine where
such a coneussion spends its force a
defective spot develops. 1t becomes a
weak point anatomically and point
of congestion, blockade and impaired
work physiologically
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
CZAR AND KAISER.
A Little Exchange of kingIy Courtesy
in the Brogues of Moscow
and Berlin.

The czar has given the kaiser gold
smoking set, and the kaiser has given
the car a gold writing set-and its
nobody's birthday, either. In this
connection it may be stated that the
correspondence accompanying these
somewhat valuable gifts has not been
made public, but without much men
tai effort it can be imagined it runs
something like this:
The czar to the kaiser: "Dear Will
liekoff, here's little smoking setsky
that l thought you might likesky. It's
1s-caretsky and warranted solidsky.
When you take pipesky and handsky
and puffoff few ringsky don't forget
sky your czarikoff friendsky."
The kaiser to the czar: 'Lieber
freund. heremit gif you some writing
geschaft pessnesses. Dey are pooty
goot goldt, verstehen sic? Ven you
dake your pen in handt and writet
down some of dose Russian langvidges
ton't vergiss your loving Willie poy. I
also by de same oxpressness send you
some Cherman ink of de best gwali-
fcations. Blease ton't trink it, it vos
got poisonings insite. If you do trink
it, den you must go gwiek alretty
schwallow de plotting paper for an an
didotelets. Write soon, und pelieve me
effer yours of drulyness. Wilhelm"
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Texas is spending three quarters OF
Q million annually on the education of
her negroes.
The pope has grievance against the
Methodists in Rome. He thinks they
have no business there and that they
are entirely too aggressive in their re-
igious and educational work.
The library of Washington and Lee
university has recently been enriched
by number of valuable books and doc
uments contributed by DR.. r. Under
wood Johnson, associate editor of the
Century Magazine, who is an alumnus
of the institution.
Prof. Melville M. Bigelow, of the
University of Michigan, who has just
been appointed dean of the Boston uni
versity law school, was born at Eton
Rapids, Mich, in 1916. He was grad
uated at the University of Michigan in
1866 and received the degree of doc
tor Of philosophy in Harvard univer-
sity in 1879.
Some persons believe that students
graduate from college much younger
now than formerly. other persons
think that the average age increases.
Yale statistics do not show any per-
ceptible drift either way. In 1863 the
average age was % years, 10 months,
II days; it is now % years, 10 months,
and 81 days.
1t is stated in England that prom
inent brewer is building church as a
memorial of King Edwards corona
tion. Dean Swift's cathedral-St. Pat
rick's, Dublin-was restored by the
late distiller, Sir Benjamin Guinness.
1t was famous distiller, too, who're
built the Protestant cathedral of Cork
and another distiller restored Christ
church in Dublin One of the famous
brewing firms in England has erected
no less than six churches at various
times.
The bishop of Exeter, England who is
pronounced low churchman, said when
consecrating the church at Shaldon
that, "although he should continue to
be faithful friend and brother to the
clergy so long as they were faithful
to the law, he had been obliged to
decline to consecrate the church until
a written agreement had been signed
by the clergy and wardens that GER
tain Illegal things, including the stone
affairs should be removed with out de-
lay The crucifx and other figures IN
the church had also been objected to,
but they were not illegal and merely
stood as works of art.''
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
HowELL,s HuMoR.
Funny stsry Related BY Him In Re-
prevail of an Overardent
Admirer.

William Dean Howells has no consider-
able reputation as q teller of humorous
stories, but once in a while an excellent
yarn is attributed to him. 1t was provoked
by the action of a young author who had
been protege of Howells and who when
he arrived never lest an opportunity to
say something nice of Howells. On one
occasion the younger author made an ad-
dress before body of literary men in
which he virtually asserted. that, every
thing good and great in native literature
owed its inspiration TO Howells. The ad-
dress was printed far and wide and COM
mented ON at length, not always in man
ner complimentary TO las author. Mr..
Howells' attention was naturally called to
the matter and he wrote his protege a let
ter in which he involved story of two
men who, bathing at the seashore, were
seen struggling and heard crying for help.
A crowd gathered to watch the efforts of the
life guards, who could hear above the roar
of the ocean and the noise made by the
crowd a voice believing: Save the red
haired man. Save him hrstt The red
haired man, SURE Both men were saved
and the guards, going after the excitable
fellow on the beach in the hope al graf.
uity, asked: s.Red-head chap relation o.
yours, sir?" Mono relative at all, I" he
replied, but he owes me $40"
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18

greater attention than can be given
now.
The old manor house, which, from
its appearance and close surround
ings. would seem in place perhaps a
hundred miles removed from the hustle
and dine and movement of modern life,
lies within a few minutes walk from
this city's limits, and but seven miles
from the gates of the white house
1t is located on what is known as the
Jones Mill road, and is beautifully
situated. overlooking miles of the
surrounding country, and at its feet
flow the historic waters of Rock creek.
On the slope of the'hill, about hun
dred yards beneath the house, is the
spring from the purity of whose
waters the curious name of the
manor is taken.
On expressing a desire to see the
spring we were taken down to it,
passing through the old apple or
chard on our way. AS we regaled
ourselves with the really fine wa
ter we were told that we were
then standing on the stone slab on
which Washington stood to drink
when he stopped there on his return
from Pittsburg, after the defeat of
Braddock, in IT'S. He was accom-
panied by few of his men, and the
party afterwards went up to the
manor house to rest and visit the
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18

family. Another event that this re-
calls. and adds to the historic inter-
est of the place, is that during the
British invasion of Washington, IN
1914, Mr.. Thomas Monroe, then post
master of Washington city, took
refuge at Clear Drinking manor, Mr..
Monroe keeping the post office open
there .ilI after the British had gone.
The United States mails were taken
to a log house then standing oppo-
site the manor house. From this
point were seen the flames of the
burning of the capitol.
The estate of Clean Drinking
manor has been in the family whose
descendants live there to-day since
1850, when it became the property OF
Col. John Coates, who was the grand
son of either John Coates or Col.
Henry Coates, who came from Sprox-
ton, England, in 1889. 1t descended
to Eliza beth, the daughter of Col.
John Coates, who married Charles
Jones, gent, who built the present
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rudyard Kipling has written 100
short stories.
An American, DR.. c. 0. Hood. of Bev-
erly, Mass, is the appointed dentist of
the German emperor.
p. D. Harrison. of Manchester, n. H..
has been for three years gathering
data for history of the stars and
stripes. The volume will consist of
all important first raisings of our ma
tionai emblem during war and peace IN
this and foreign countries.
j. c. Pelton. the first public school
teacher of California, is still living at
Los Angeles at the age of 76. He is
great-grandson OF Joel Pelton. who
fired the first shot at Bunker hill and
was killed by the first British cannon
shot His father used to tell with
pleasure how CORVALLIS bowed his
head as he passed under his extended
bayonet at the Yorktown surrender.
Lord Salisbury's father was an &C.
centric character, who had writing
mania, among others. Abraham Hay
ward records that the elder marquis
used to ''secrete a good deal of poetlcal
natter His method of securing cir
culation was certainly original This
was by slipping printed copies OF his
verses into the greateoat pockets OF
the visitors at Hatfield and by himself
throwing them into all the market
carts"
The late Lord Acton, the celebrated
English scholar, had in his London
house collection of some 10000 books
many of them old~and rare. Joseph
Chamberlain at one time rented the
house by the season and when he left
to 90 into a house of his own some
one said to him that he must miss that
fine library Library" replied the
member from Brummagem, Il don't
call that library. 1t doesn't contain
q single book of reference.
Jean De Reszke receives the highest
salary paid to male singer. His con-
tract for 16 appearances during hls
last American tour amounted to $780,
900. an average of $2.250 for every time
he appeared on the platform. Nine.
Patti. however, can claim even a better
record For singing at Covent garden
in 1870 on 16 nights she received S43,-
ooo an average of $1,000 for each ap-
pearance. But the famous prima
donna beat this record while on her
American tour, for while in New Or
leans in the SOS she received as much
as $4,000 per night.
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
THE TRAINED NURSE.
Thanks to Her Services. the Doctor
May Now Get sleep and Time
to Eat.

Snow. DOCTOR" said the trained
nurse to the great physician, what do
] owe you?"
The wear and tear of her calling had
begun to tell, and the nurse had taken
her turn at playing patient. After
dozen visits she had come to pay her
bill. saws the New York Herald
The specialist looked at her mo-
ment gravely Then he said: "You
know | charge $3.50 for prescrip-
ton
The nurse gave little involuntary
gasp of alarm. ''Oh, doctor" she ex-
claimed, "you mean for each prescrip-
ton? Why. I've been here"
Then it flashed upon her that the
high priced specialist might be jok-
ing.
yes" he resumed, with suspicion
of smile, you must pay me $3.50 for
each prescription or nothing
There was no mistaking his meaning
now.
"But, DOCTOR" said the nurse, 'that
doesn't seem quite fair. Here I've
been coming week after week to see
you and get your advice-you who are
so busy, and with so many demands
on your leisure that you scarcely have
time to eat. Oh, l know, as outsiders
do not, how precious every minute is
to you"
But do eat" returned the redoubt-
able NJ. D., "and at rather regular
hours. And l do manage to put in a
good nights sleep as a rule. Now, how
do I manage to do this? Because of
the trained nurse. Do you think I've
forgotten the old days before she
came? Don't I know very well that
without her the physicians work
would be dogs work. If l get the
rest that / need and can eat without
interruption it's due to her.
Its good of you to say so, doc
tor"
Its only decent that / should bear
it in mind. How can forget the times
when, night after night. would be
called from my bed to visit some pa
tient who didn't need me at all; some
sick child, perhaps, who was doing
finely. if the mother had only known
it? That is all changed since the nurse
is on watch and shares the response
bility. I'm only too glad to have been
of some service to you in return for all
you have done for me-"
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
GEN. MILES DUPED.
Hackman at Leominster, Mass, Gets
Fee for Carrying Him TO Imag-
mary Reception at Fitchburg.

An enterprising hackInan got the
best of Gen. Nelson A. Miles during
his visit to his sister at Leominster,
Mass, the other day. After dinner
the general took stroll downtown
unacconpanied, and incidentally
called upon one of his aids. whom he
had left at hotel when he went to
dine with the Merriams.
While at the hotel he was waited
upon by hackman and informed
that he was wanted immediately at
the Johnsonia hotel, Fitchburg. The
message was a surprise to the general,
who intended later in the day to go
TO the city by trolley. He thought
If the people of Fitchburg had plan
ned little reception earlier in the
day he would not disappoint them,
and told the hackman he would be
ready TO start at 3 o'clock.
Promptly on the hour the hack
man in full livery appeared at the
Merriam homestead with the best
turnout he possessed. and Gen. Miles
got aboard, accompanied by his wife
aud sister, Mrs. Mary J. Merriam.
In about an hour the party reached
the Johnsonia, but aside from the
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
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Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
DECEIVED BY ITS LOOKS.
Negrs Soldier for General
Shafter.

Some army officers who were in Cuba
with Gen. Skaters army of invasion told
the other day an anecdote at the expense
of the commander of that expedition. The
troops with all their paraphernalia of war
had landed and were awaiting the order to
advance on Santiago. Staff officers were
busy carrying out the details for the ad-
vance and everywhere there was hurry and
hustle. Shafter was lying in hammock
in front of his headquarters at Siboney,
while 100 yards down the road the men OF
the signal corps were initiating the. war ball
loon preparatory to making the first as
cension. Without warning the ropes which
held it captive parted and the balloon, half
inflated and looking forall the world like
the body and legs of a gigantic fat man,
started down the road toward Santiago.
There was just enough gas in it to keep it
upright without entirely clearing the ground
and it went bobbing along, up and down,
as though it were walking. A negro soldier
passing along at that moment saw the bal
loon and shouted at the top of his voice:
Hi, dar! Guess dat mus be ae ole man
goin' fur de 'front.'"
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18

elevator boy and one or two bystand-
ers nobody was on hand to receive
the distinguished guests. The gen.
eral was not slow in expostulating
with the hackman, who had previous
ly relieved him of S4. Then the
hackman drove off. The general
Joined the family circle in the hotel
rarlor, where, as soon as his COM
ing to Fitchburg had been announced,
he was formally waited upon by a
committee appointed for that pur-
pose,
Oxford eagle., 1902-09-18
QUEER OLD MANSION.
Known in History as the Clean
Drinking Manor.
xVa. BuiIt i'm 1850 and sfiIl in Excel
lent Condition-Washin
Name Associated
with 1t.
Especial Washington Letter.l


a LTHOUGH the law of entail
~ ment is fixed in the common
law and the statutory laws OF
Great Britain, there has never peeh
any effort made to engraft that ex'
crescence of aristocracy upon the
laws of our land. Therefore 1t IS
strange and almost anomalous 10
find an estate which has been IN one
family for more than 200 years on
this continent, and near the capital
city of our great republic.
AS the French origin of the word IS
well known it will not be necessary
to explain to readers that the law
of entailment is a cutting OF OF an
estate from all other estates, so that
il proceeds directly from one heir to
another, through many generations
Although the law is a rule by whleh
estates are fixed il also extends IN
some instances to ineorporeal hereo'
itameuts in law. 1t was with reier-
ence 70 this that Prior wrote o1
"Joab's blood, entailed on judah
crown"
Driving over the country roads
north and northwest of this city IL
sometimes happens that the Oldest
residents here come upon places OF
historic interest which are not known
to the public and have no place IN
history. Such a place is Clean Drink
ing manor, within an hours drive oil
the executive mansion, on road
over which not less than three score
of our people travel every day III
their peregrinations for pleasure ana
recreation. The old manor house IL
sheltered by foliage and does not at
tract the attention of casual obserV'
ers. It is half surrounded by broad
veranda as beautiful originally as
any of the verandas of colonial and
ante-colonial days.
Built in 1850 the venerable frame
mansion is yet in good condition, al
though time has dealt unsparingiy
with it, giving the outer timbers a
weather-beaten appearance and wear
ing away some of the interior wood
work. But there are very few eVl'
dences of decay in any portion Oh
the place. There have been no
changes nor alterations made in the
house. On one side is clustered
what remains of the old kitchen and
servants quarters, built of bricks
made IN England.
On the other side, surrounded by
an old-fashioned stone wall, is the
manor garden, now overgrown with
hedges of lockwood, which at one
time bordered the trim, fancifully-
shaped flower beds, but are now sc
thick that they completely hide the
little beds they used to outline
Round the entire garden, inside the
stone wall, is magnificent hedge OF
tall lockwood. This is reputed to be
finer even than the famous box" al
Mount Vernon, planted at about the
same time. Roses and vines, lilac
and other old-fashioned plants and
shrubs, run riot now over porch, wal
and outbuildings, making the house
quaintly picturesque amidst its set
ting of tall cedars, locusts and hem
locks. When servants were numer
Gus, all of these plants received