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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
NEELY'S F|NANC|ER|NC
As Descibed by Reeves, Also a
Financier, Who Swears
He Knows.
GOOD, EASY WAY TO MAKE MONEY
Scheme Was for RathbOne, Nicely and
Reeves to- Run Things
i'm Cuba.

Havana. Jan. 1.-The government
has finished the examination of Reeves,
and today he is being cross-examined
by counsel for Nicely and RathbOne
1t was evident throughout Reeves tes-
timony that the charge against all the
defendants is based on Reeves state
ments. for the fiscal conducted his eX-
animation question by question from a
typewriter copy of the accusation, and
Reeves testimony substantiated the
conclusions drawn i'm the accusation.
Reeves said that Rathbone had APP
pointed him chief postal accountant,
but that he had originally been ap-
pointed to this position from Washing
ton. He said that he had a converse
ton with Nicely about the destruction
of stamps: that Nicely told him Rath-
bone was willing to do business" and
that the stamps had been burned at
the suggestion of Nicely.
Repudiates n Previous Statement.
Reeves. MARRIED. and Nicely appoint
ell commission. Martield did not
know about the intended fraud. He
figured up the amount Of the value
and marked each package of
stamps. amounting to total of
100000. Nicely made up declaration
and some days afterward he. Nicely
and Martield signed it. Rathbone. he
said. ordered him to credit the amount
on the books Here Senior LanuZa
called attention to Reeves statement
in Assistant Postmaster Bristow's re-
port that Reeves did not know fraud
had been committed when he had
made the credit in the books. Reeves
refused to recognize the printed state
ment as his.
Tells of One of the .'Divvies."
Reeves said that before burning the
last surcharged stamps amounting to
So, 1000. Nicely told him that the
amount credited for the first burning
was wrong. and that there was $15.00O
to be divided up between him, Nicely
and Rathbone. Reeves testified that
Nicely told him that RathbOne had paid
off Il mortgage in Cincinnati with this
money. Shortly after this Reeves said
that RathbOne. in referring to the
burning of the stamps. said that it was
an easy way TO make money.
Things Fixed in Great shape.
He also said that Nicely told him
RathbOne would be civil governor OF
Cuba. and that they would benefit
thereby. because Nicely would be treas
urer of the island and Reeves auditor.
Reeves also testified that Nicely had
credited $4,000 in his own department
in changing accounts to the North
American Trust company. and that he
(Neelyl had appropriated this amount.
Wanted Accounts Fixed Also.
Regarding Rathbone's trip to the
United States in October. 1899. Reeves
said that S1.500 had been drawn for
expenses and that RathbOne returned
him S613. Reeves said further that
just before his arrest Nicely left an en-
vclope containing $1,000 upon his
(Reeves1 desk, telling him to fix up
the accounts. Reeves said he after
wards gave this money to General
Wood. telling him that Nicely had been
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
She Wants il Published.

Gooch's Mexican Syrup has given
perfect satisfaction in my family, and
want to recommend it to everyone as
the best remedy for coughs, colds, and
all lung troubles. A young lady in my
employ, who had been forced to quit
work and who had been given up to
die by her friends, with consumption,
has by the use of Gooch's Mexican
Syrup been restored to health, and is
now at work earning her living and
enjoying good health. She wants me
to publish this as it may be the means
OF saving the life of some other con-
sumptive. r. M. Fleming, Pique, O..
Gooch's Mexican Syrup cures a
simple cough as if by magic, ard is
the best remedy for whooping cough.
Price 25 cents
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
A P. Oiitable Investment.

II was troubled for about seven years
with my stomach and in bed half my
time" says +. Demick, Somerville
Ind. 81 spent about 81 900 and never
could get anything to help me until
tried kodol Dyspepsia Cure. have
taken a few bottles and am entirely
WELL" You don't live by what you
eat, but by what you digest and assim-
ilate. If vouI stomach doesn't digest
your fOodlyou are really starving. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure does the stomach's
work by digesting the food You don't
have to diet. Eat all you want Ko.
dol Dyspepsia Cure cures all stomach
troubles. Engbretson Pharmacy.
Wapgler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
NEW YEAR OUTLOOK IS GOOD
Dun Il Go. See No Clouds ON the Horizon
Of the Business World.


New York. Jan. l1.-R. G. Dun 4
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade today
says With the unprecedented holiday
business ended transportation facilities
are more nearly adequate for regular
requirements Normal conditions have
by no means returned. however. Buy
ing of staple commodities Is on a large
scale. fully sustaining quotations at 4
high level. except in the far instances
where efforts were made to hold prices
above the point warranted by the ratio
of needs to supplies. Labor controver-
sizes are few and unimportant, while
the new year has brought advances I'm
the rate of wages ut many points.
Holiday idleness. inventories and an
nual overhaulings were all cut down
to the lowest possible limit at iron
and steel plants in the effort to meet
urgent demands from customers. Foun-
dry iron at the east is still scarce.
high prices being quoted at Philadel-
phia and Chicago, mills cannot secure
material in desired quantities. Activ-
ity continues ut cotton mills, although
domestic buying is on Il moderate
scale. .Iobbing trade i'm woolens grad
ually expands. new lines selling fairly
at moderate advances over prices pre-
vailing II year ago. Leather has sold
freely at Boston, with quotations fully
maintained. Reports. of unfavorable
weather in winter wheat regions slim
ulated prices and there was further
support in the general resumption of
activity at flour mills, together with
added inquiry for foreign account.
Failures for the week numbered 513
in the United States, against 324 last
year, and 2T in Canaua, against 81 last
year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Children Especially LiahIe.

Burns, bruises and cuts are extremely
painful and if neglected often result in
blood poisoning. Children are espe-
ciaily liable to such mishaps because
not SO careful. AS remedy DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve is unequalled.
Draws out the fire, stops the pain, soon
heals the wound. Beware of counter
feits. Sure cure for piles "DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve cured my baby OF
eczema after two physicians gave her
mp" writes James Mock, \ Webster,
Ind. "rhe sores were so bad she soiled
two to five dresses day
Eugbretson Phar. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Child Worth Millions

"My child is worth millions to me. -
says Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg, Pa.
yet would have lost her by Group
had l not purchased bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure" One Minute
Cough Cure is sure cure tor coughs,
Group and throat and lung troubles.
An absolutely safe cough care which
acts Immediately. The youngest child
can take 1t with entire safety. The
little ones like the taste and remember
how often it helped them. Every
family should have a bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure handy. At this
season especially it may be needed sud-
denly.
EngbretsOn Phar. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
A Cure for Lumbago.

W. &. Williamson, of Amherst, Va,
says: "FOr more than year / suffered
from lumbagO. l finally tried Cham
6erlain's Pam Balm and il gave me en-
tire relief, which all other remedies
had failed to do.n Sold by Wangler
Bros Druggist.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Let US speak of man as we find him,
And ceDsure only what we can see,
Remembering that no one can be
perfect.
Unless he uses Rocky Mountain
Tea. r. A. Engbretson.
Cut this out and take it to Wangler
Bros. drug store and get free sample
of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets, the best physic. They also
cure disorders of the stomach, bilious
ness and headache.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Some time ago my daughter caught
a severe cold. She complained of pains
in her chest and had bad cough. |
gave her Cham berlain's Cough Remedy
according to directions and in two DAYS
she was well and able to go to school.
| have used this remedy in my family
for the past seven years and have never
known it to fail" says james Fender
gras', merchant, Annato Bay, Jamai-
Ca, West India Islands. The pains in
the chest indicated an approaching at
tack of pneumonia, which in this in
stance was undoubtedly warded off by
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t
counteracts any tendency of cold to-
ward pneumonia, Sold by Wangler
Bros. Druggists.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Lost 1000 Worth of Hogs.

Charlottesville, Ind, Jan. l1.--lohn
Slower, breeder of fine Berkshire
hogs near this city, who attended the
Chicago live stock show with his drove
OF fine hogs has lost every one from
the cholera since his return home.
StoVer's loss will reach $1,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
salary for Ex-Prcsiden,s.

Washington. Ian. 1l.-Lovcring of
Massachusetts has Introduced a bill in
the house providing salary for eX-
presidents of the United States, at the
rate of S2a.0u0 annually.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Dcwcy's Four Exceptions Endorsed.

Jackson. Miss. Ian, 1.-THE state
senate has passed II joint resolution in
dorsing the propositions in Admiral
Dewey's exceptions from the verdict OF
the court of inquiry in the SchleN case.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
To The Deaf.

A rich lady, cured of her deafness
and noises in her head by DIR. Nichol.
sons Artificial Ear Drums, gave
$4,000 to his Institute, so that deaf
people unable to procure the Ear
Drums, may have them free. Address
No 1912, The Nicholson Institute, 7SC
Eighth Avenue. New York. lS-l-yr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

What you doin neighbOr? Helping
Bill What's Bill doin? Helping Mandy.
What's Mandy doin Helping Mother.
What's Mother doinH Taking Rocky
Mountain Tea. sensible family. II. a.
Enghretson
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
100. DIR. E. Detchon's Anti Diuretic

May be worth to you more than 500
If you have child that soils bedding
from INCONVENIENCE of water during
sleep. Cures young and old alike. 1t
arrests the trouble at once. 81 Sold
by Engbertson's Pharmacy, DEBORAH,
Iowa. 2-lvr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Co,nbin.tion I'm FHnIosiy,..

Chicago Jan. 1.-The RecordIlcr-
aid says; "A combination of gas,
gasoline and oil stove factories is the
latest"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
REMARKABLE CURE OF GROUP.
A Little Boys Life Saved

/ have few words to say regarding
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. II
saved my little boys life and / feel
that l cannot praise it enough. !
bought bottle of it from A. E. Steere,
of Goodwin, S. d., and when / got
home with it the poor baby could hard
ly breathe. | gave the medicine as di-
rected every ten minutes until he
threw up" and then / thought sure
he was going to choke to death. We
had topull the phlegn out of his mouth
in great long strings. / am positive
that il / had not got that bottle OF
cough medicine, my, boy would not be
on earth today. JOEL DEMoNT, In.
wood, Iowa. For sale by Wang!er
Bros. Druggists.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

What would you think of your
grocery man if he sold you sand for
sugar? What do you think of a drug
gist, who offers you a substitute for
the Madison Medicine Co.'S Rocky
Mountain Tea. r A. Enc bretson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Two old friends will come before
the Legislature in the form of Joint
resolutions. one TO amend the constitu-
ton by striking out the word male"
from the suffrage section and the 9TH
err TO do away with elections in odd
numbered years. The equal suf-
fragists have not been idle day since
the adjournment of the last assembly
when they came near to victory. The
house passed their resolution, but it
met defeat in the senate by narrow
vote. They have maintained head
quarters in Des Moines and kept up
an active campaign.
Mrs Daisy Deighton of Shenandoah
will be in charge of equal suffrage
work before the legislature assisted
by Mesdames Ballard and Bedding.
III. r. JONES,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
low A LEGISLATURE
TWENTY-NlNTH GENERAL AS
SEMBLY BEGINS JAN. IS.

Some of the Proposed Legislation
Which Will Come Before That Body.
Senators Allison and DoIliver to BE
Re-eIected-Advance Guard Gather
ing at Des Moines.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-06-21
OF the man VINO invested or III cents,
can now be enjoyed by the child with
his DQnnv

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can now be enjoyed by the child with
his penny.
American crackers this year, in Penn
sylvania at least, contain only black
} gunpOWder. Previously chloride Of pot
ash and dynamite were used, but these
explosives are now prohibited. Amer
| lean crackers are confined within the
price Of extremes of One-third and %
! cents apiece. Their most expensive
! form is in string. A leading dealer
offers a string of $4,000 large crackers
twenty feet long and requiring twenty
minutes to explode, for $40.
The newest explosive is a lozenge
| shaped torpedo about the size of a pep
permint drop, green in color and of IN
certain ingredients. If trod on, it sim
ply ignites and puffs; if a flame is APP
piled, it burns Sputteringly, but when
it IS laid on metal and exploded by the
percussion of other metal it makes a
terrific noise. Intended to be laid on
street car tracks, the torpedo will eX-
plode with the report of a ten FOUNDER,
and if there be dust about binding
cloud will be thrown into the air.
This torpedo is also made in the size
Of a pea for explosion at the end of an
iron tipped cane. 1t is very cheap. A
can and fifty torpedoes neatly packed
in piIlbox are offered for cents. 1t
is believed that the torpedo will sup
plant blank cartridges.
The common penny American crack
er is offered in variety of forms, SO
that the savage joy of destruction may
be had. The cracker, for instance be-
comes the chimney of a cardboard
"house that Jack built" Its explosion
makes fuzz of the house. Again, it is
used as the smokestack Of a Spanish
ironclad or is mounted as a cannon on
cardboard carriage. This years par
ticular novelty, however, is a paper
representation Of dusky damsel max
ing "googoo" eyes. The fuse in the
cracker becomes her plat.
Hot air balloons Of various styles are
very popular this year, Santos-Dumont
and other aerial navigGtOrs having no
doubt unconsciously contributed to
their vogue. These goods sell from 8
to so cents and more. Set pieces enjoy
considerable favor, Good night" be-
ing most in demand. They may be had
at prices ranging from $3.50 to $500,
the latter sum commanding Niagara
Falls" or George Washington on
Horseback" or other complicated de-
signs.
But all fireworks are not strenuous.
Fireworks are offered this year for use
indoors par!oT fireworks, they are
called-and included in the assortment
are genteel snakes in the grass. self |
contained pinwheels and subdued tor
DedOeS
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-06-21
FOURTH OF JULY TIPS.
Various Forms of Novelties In
This Years Fireworks.
CHEAP CRACKERS FOR SMALL BOYS

Young Patriots Can Buy Them Sew
enty For a Cent-A LOzenge Shaped
Torpedo Is the Newest Explosive.
Variety of Forms In Penny Crack
ers-ParIOr Fireworks.
Orient and occident will share honors
on July /, for then there will explode
side by side the seventy-fOr-on cent
baby tirecrackers, handmade by untir-
ing Cinnamon. and the twenty-five cent
machine made American tirecracker,
says the Philadelphia Press
Both out of the east and out of the
west new things in the fireworks line
have come for the next Fourth, and
advance purchases show that enthuSi-
assn and patriotism will explode more
loudly than ever. In fireworks, as in
other things, America leads the world,
but the Chinaman is the best COPPER
once the model has been set. All the
American tirecrackerS are made by
machinery almost as complex and per-
feet as the machine which swallows
tree trunks and turns out boxed tooth
picks. And yet, despite the labor saw
ing economy Of the machine, American
ffrecrackers Of the cheapest kind cost
one-third Of q cent apiece retail, while
Chinese crackers can be sent across
the seas, contributing upon their en-
trance to the United States to the e1-
pense of maintaining the national gov
ernment, and sold for one-seventieth of
q cent.
These seventy-fOr-a-cent frecrackers
are the newest things in their line.
They are about half inch long and
IN eighth thick, but are all handmade.
The cylinder of paper, the string fuse,
the plug of clay at one end and the
secure tie at the Other-all have been
arranged by Chinese fingers. The
child who pays his penny for seventy
Of them pays out of that penny the
profit Of the retailer. the profit of the
jobber the profit of the importing bro
ker, the customs duty, ad valorem and
specific; the profit of the steamship
company, tie profit of the manufac-
turer, and finally the wages of the en-
ployee. The Chinaman who makes the
cidcheiS secures dOOGL Oue-elSnIQ Oh
the penny the child paid.
Chinese crackers run from the afore-
mentioned baby to the common
mandarin" cracker This year. for
the first time. there is offered a com
plete bunch Of -mandarins, sixteen in
number. for cent. All the crackers |
are united Ey fuse. which sets off |
one Immediately after the other. and |
the continued crackIe of the cracker,
alberto only the privileged enjoyment !
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-06-21
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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-06-21

! ing European composers. l have heard
! him in France, Denmark. Germany
| and Belgium and whenever he has ap-
I'peared he has been accorded the same
! enthusiastic reception. His music is
| weird, fascinating and highly pleasing
| and whenever his concerts are given
| he at once becomes the popular idol.'
The Swedish acknowledgements
| ton leaves TromsO July 26. The lead
er of the expedition is DR.. P. Rubin.
The astronomer who accompanies the
expedition is DR.. H. Won. Zeipel and
Lieutenant II. Duner will go as ''karto-
graf" The object of the expedition
will be to reach the Seven islands
north Of Spitzbergen. The expedition
will return to TrOmso Sept. 10. Pro
visions for year will be taken.
Emperor William will visit Norway
this summer. AS proof Of his COM
ing is the fact that he has chartered
steamer from the Skien-Telemark
Steamship company, and will make
the trip from Langesund up the Ban
dOks canal to Dalen, from which place
his previous visits to Norway the en-
peror has always confined himself to
the west and north coasts.
There is a movement on foot to or
ganiZe another Norwegian south polar
expedition. The whaler ''Magdalene"
has been leased by Captain Bernhard
Jensen of the Southern Cross. H. l.
Bull, who was the commercial agent
for the Antarctic will be Of the expe-
ditiOn. These gentlemen are now try
ing to raise 100000 crowns, which
are necessary in order to get started.
Statsminister Steen will spend the
summer in VOss. He is still in very
bad health, but it is hoped that he
will improve by enjoying the pure
mountain air among the fields in the
vicinity Of picturesque VOss.
Merchant H. j. Macs of Alien has
sold interests in the copper mines at
Alien and Kvaedfjord to a French
company for 100000 crowns. The new
company will start working the mines
in the beginning of August.
Ludwig Muller has just finished his
"Unge Dage" C'Young Days'O and the ,
same is now for sale at the different |
bookdealers in the capital. Mr. Muller
has finished both text and music.
Edward Grieg and wife are spending
the remainder of the month at Trold- |
haug. The popular composer will |
spend the greater part of next month
in Trondhjem.
The Naering's committee of the
recommend an appropriation
for the erection Of 4 sanitarium for
in Kristiandsands ''stift."
Emil POulSen, the well-known Dan
full season by the National theater of
ChriStiania.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-06-21

After the terrible fight between Ma
Mia and CalOOcan, while we were yet
gathering our scattered forces in order
to man the trenches Of Polo and MaIa-
bon, we gradually got over the effect
and came to look upon the Americans
lying at Cal0Ocan so quietly as not so
dangerous after ALL They were afraid
to come out and fight, so our men
went in small parties and engaged
them at times. One day a corporal
named Leon went scouting, as he was
anxious for promotion. III fortune
was his, so he caught no Americanos
unaWares, but on the way home he
found great iron ball of obIOng
shape and brought it into camp at
Meycuayan. The captain ordered it
taken before the general, who said it.
was an Internal machine of the Amer
1canOS-lOs diablOS.
corporal Leon was ordered to inyes-!
tigate it. He took it outside of the!
camp under great mango tree and
unscreWed the point of it, for it was
a six inch shell. Seeing nothing dan!
gerous about it, he put a lighted ciga-
rette in the hole and then put his ear
down over it to hear the result. We'll,
we did not recover from the result
for some time. When we did and
looked for Leon and some twenty or
thirty other men, we found them, or
small pieces of them, hanging in the
mango tree and scattered around the
ground. From the roll called that
night there were forty-six missing,
with the wounded.''