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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-20

Total Clearanceso--Wheat, $1,000 bu; -four,
Wheat and flour equals 1O9, 900 blu.
terday. -.
Budapest Close-Wheat, Ike lower.
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RANGE OF WHEAT PRICE IN MINNEAPO is

w e6fse' a samPes o0gSgc: oats@Lower; No
Wheat-Puts, Htsc; calls, 7Sasc.
Corn-Puts, 6l6sc
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Estimated receipts by cars to-day Of the
railroads centering at these yards: Chicago.
Great Western, 9; Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, 5; Minneapolis & St. Louis, IL; Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, ID: Great
Northern, g. 500, :; Northern Pacific, 3; total,
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Puts and Calls,

Two o'clock report:
Puts-May wheat, 74A@74Ho.
Caus-May wheat, 75kc.
Ourb-May wheat 74M@76c.
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GENERAL PRODUCE
The MinneapoIi Market.
Thursday, Feb, 20.

- -
Extra creamery butter, firm; ex-
: dairy, steady. Strictly fresh eggs.
: nrm: Dressed hens, steady; spring
chickens, hrm; fancy turkeys, firm.
POTATOES, firm. Turkeys, firm. Fancy
country dressed veal, easy. Oranges,
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Wheat Movement by Roads.
=. 49,. % Feb. 10.
Observation-Disclosures, 40 cars; Omaha, 10;
st. Louis, 20; Great Northern, 81; 500, IS;
Northern Pacific, g..
Shipped Milwaukee, Is cars; Omaha, T. St.
Louis. 4; Great Northern. 4; Burlington, 8;
Northern Pacific, 1; Chicago Great Western, 8.
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Wheat Movement.

etc., 10000 lbs; railroad materials, 10 cars;
sundries, 20 cars. Car lots, 764.
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Lead.
SPECULATIVE GOSSIP

St. Louis. Feb. 2O.-Lead-Firm; s405.
Spefer-Higher; 81.
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EDWARDS, WOOD & CO.

Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Provisions.
Private wire. Members Board of Trade. Chi
cago, Chamber of Commerce. Minneapolis.
312 Guaranty Loan building, Minneapolis;
8 Chamber Of Commerce. Minneapolis.
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| --' Feb. 10.
! The following are the receipts and ship
ments at the principal primary wheat mar
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New York Provisions.

New York, Feb. 20.-Pork, steady Lard
steady; prime western steam, $9.65.
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Sioux City Live stock.

Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 2O.-Receipts-Cattle,
800; hogs, 5000. Hogs-Steady to strong.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
MIN 10 nE MAX

NJ Ssevera1,cs:t@4 s%> of the world a resi-
hearing considerable resemblance to
beeswax, is found, usually in connec-
ton with rock salt and coal. There
are deposits in Austria, Russia, Rou-
mania, Egypt, Algeria, Canada and
Mexico, but, says our consul at Trieste,
Mr. Hossfeld, ozocerite has, so far, not
been discovered in sufficient quantities
to pay for mining anywhere except in
the district OF Boryslav, in Austrian
Ga]icia. and on an island on the west
coast OF the Caspian Sea. In mining
this mineral wax, shafts are sunk un-
til a bed, or nest" of ozocerite is
struck. Then connecting galleries are
driven. There is considerable danger,
and many lives: have been lost in con-
sequence Of the sudden forcing up Of
the soft wax into the shafts by the
enormous pressure to which it is sub
jected. 1t is used largely for manu-
featuring ceresin, which is employed,
together with DeesWaX, for making
wax candles, as we'll. as in the manu-
factnre of photographic cylinders. and
'or many similar purposes.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26

New York. His method was to de-
stroy the mosquitoes with petroleum.
and he attacked Muller's pond, which
has for years been a breeding place,
to the discomfort of the inhabita4ts
of Concord, where malaria has been
prevalent. Doctor Doty proposed to
distribute oil over the water, and for
that purpose he contrived wooden
float eight feet long and four feet
broad. Within this, in a manner some
what resembling a harp, were placed
pipes perforated with small holes six
inches apart A hose, connected with
a tank filled with crude petroleum, and
a pump were then attached to the
pipes, and petroleum was. driven
down through the water with consid
erable force. There is thus formed
upon the surface an oily scum which
destroys the floating larvae of the
mosquito. During the process Of dis
tribution the float is pulled backwards
and forwards over the ponds so that
every inch of the surface is treated
with petroleum. The ground around
the pond has been cleared of rank veg
citation, and the bank: have also been
saturated with OIL Doctor Doty will
now watch the health reports of his
district for some indication that his
experiment has been successful
Pennsylvania Grit.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Eight of the Men Who
Convicted GarfieId's
Slayer Still Living.
The Guiteau Jury

ley, Wormley, Stewart. Gates, Shea
ham, Brawner and myself are living.
enjoying the consciousness of having
performed our duty when We convicted
the arch assassin. Poor Sheaham,
from physical troubles, has been in the
insane asylum for some years-not
from the Guiteau trial, / am sure.
Those of our number who have died
lived to be old men, you might saw.
and died as other men die, REGARDLESS
OF Guiteau's bitter curse. Those of us
living are all doing frst-rate. I often
meet my fellow-jurymen, but scarcely
ever refer to that incident in our lives
L suppose with them, as with me. it ia
a memory of the past.
l was one of a hundred names drawn
and the 18th man called that would
answer, and, being the first selected of
course was made foreman. The CON-
hnement was long and arduous-over
TWO months in the National Hotel
closely guarded by United States mar
shals. When Judge Coke gave us the
charge and we retired hardly think
we We're out more than an hour IL
that. Brawner, who is now an en-
ploye of the District service, read tho
indictment. We voted only twice: II
We're for conviction. We soon found
the: trouble for the blank vota and
withzan explanation removed it.. and in
a few minutes *Guiteau was convicted.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26

1t is quite generally thought, and
has been published from time to time,
that the Guiteau jury, which was COM
posed of II citizens of Washington,
have all died since the trial and con-
viction of President Garfeld's assassin
20 years ago. But such is not the case
Only four of that famous 12 good men
one, retired merchant, Mr.. Prather,
having died few weeks ago.
John P. Hamlin, the foreman of the
jury, is still living in Washington, a
hale and hearty old gentleman of more
than threescore and ten years. The
.other day he talked Interestingly of
the Guiteau trial and the personnel OF
the jurors.
':We were fully convinced" he said,
"that Guiteau was conscious of what
he was doing when he fired the fatal
shot. You know he denounced us with
a curse that caused shudder to pass
over the vast throng in the court
house. When I announced the verdict
he said: My blood be on the head of
that jury, and don't you forget it!
That is my answer, and God will
avenge this outrage The average age
of the jury was so years; Gates, I
think, was the youngest, and Mr.
Hobbo the Oldest. Hobbs, Thomas
Heinlein, FRED Brandenberg and
Prather are dead, while bright, Lang
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
1t is the Result Of One Of
the Great (atdStrophes Of
Nature. e = e q e e

lcal elements is necessary to this, but
what they are is one of the mysteries
of science. All that chemists know is
that petroleum is mixture Of carbon
and hydrogen. But they do not know
the proportion in which these elements
ere AHMED to make it, Attempts
analyze it have always failed, and no
means of manufacturing it artifcially
have ever been devised. Petroleum is
not formed exclusively in any particu-
Lar stratum of the earth's crust. On
the western boundary of Wyoming
there is ledge of rock of the tertian
period. If you scrape piece from this
rock you will find that it smells
strongly of petroleum. Borings have
been made out there and enough oil is
being taken to supply the demands of
Wyoming and Idaho. The tertian age
was the one Immediately preceding the
present period of the worlds life. This
shows that the oil of Wyoming is of
comparatively recent origin.
The oil of Pennsylvania is found in
strata of the devonian period. This
was part of the paleozooic age, the
earliest of which geologians have any
record. This shows that the oil il
Pennsylvania was formed millions or
years before that of Wyoming.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
NOTES ON SCIENCE.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Eaght Immense Monolitlls-They Are to
BE Used Columns in the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine Being Erected
in New York.
LARGEST EVER OUARRIED,

Eighy of the largest blocks of stone
ever quarried in this country are lying
at the works Of the Bodwell Granite
company at Vinal, Maine, awaiting the
completion of a great lathe which is to
turn and polish them. They are to
be used as columns for the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine, New York city
The weight of the stones in the
rough is from 1870 to 13O tons each.
They are from ffty-seven to sixty feet
IN length and about seven feet in di-
ameter. When ready for shipment each
stone will be a round column six feet
in diameter and fifty-six feet in length
and will weigh more than sixty tons.
The contract price for the eight stones
is $220,0O0, something more than $685.
900 for each column.
As there was no lathe in existence
large enough to turn the columns,
John Pierce, the contractor, is having
one built at cost of about $4,000.
The shafts OF granite are SO long that
they will not hold their own weight
when suspended from the ends to be
turned down to proper shape. TO OBJ
viate this difficulty a central support
Will he put in the lathe, which will
turn with the shaft, and after the
stone is made into cylinder the ma
chinery will be moved ahead to take
off the uncut section..
In 1856, when the columns in front
of The treasury building at Washing
ton were cut on Dix island, Maine,
stone workers said they were the linn
it OF size in granite work. From that
date until the early sos the treasury
columns, which were twenty-seyen feet
In length. were the greatest feat OF
the stonecutterS Then the monument
to Gen. Wool. which is erected az West
Point, was cut at Vinal Haven, and
held the record until the architect OF
the Cathedral Of st. John the Divine
came forward with a plan for eight
columns, each Of which was to be fifty
six feet long.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Big Orders for Wild Animals.

Carl Hagenbeclk, the we'll known
animal dealer, was passenger on the
Hamburg American steamship Penn
sylva,ia, which sailed from Hoboken
recently. Herr Hagenbeck said that
in the course of his two weeks stay
in this country he had received larger
orders for animals than he could 11l-
''There is scarcity" he said, "of such
animals as camels, giraffes, sable an
telopes, big horns, babiroussa and ar
gals in the market and their price has
almost doubled in the past year. I
have only a few of them in my me-
nagerie at Berlin and 1 would not sell
them at any price. However, 1 shall
make large shipments of elephants,
lions, bears, leopards and other ami
mails within the next few weeks
enough, in fact, to start several me-.
nageries. New York Sun. =:
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Electricians Gloves.

The Electric Laboratory OF Paris has
been carrying out recently a series of
experiments bearing on. the Insulating
qualities of electricians gloves. AS a
result the members having the matter
in charge have arrived at the conclu-
sion that insulating gloves cannot be
considered as affording efficient pro-
lection against the dangers connected
with high-tension currents, and state
that in their Judgment it would even
be better to prescribe their use alto
gether rather than to rely upon their
efficiency in contact with dangerous
connections. 1t is prudent, they say,
TO consider them useful only for work.
ing with those parts already insulated
from the lines, such for example as
the non-metallic hands of switches
Philadelphia Times.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Origin Of Petroleum

Petroleum is one of the results of
great catastrophe. Scientists agree that
at some period in the worlds history
there was an upheaval Of some kind
which completely changed the charac-,
ter of the earth's surface As legacy
to the world Death left petroleum.
Geology teaches us that animal and
vegetable life were ruthlessly destroyed
in this great cataclysm. Countless mil
lions of fishes were carried on the crest
of the food Then the waters subsided
and the fish were left 1oundering in
the mud. They could not release them
selves. They sank deeper and deeper
in the thick deposit which closed over
them and hardened rapidly. The fate
Of animal and vegetable life on land
was the same.
The clay gradually hardened into
rock, which inclosed these animals and
vegetable forms and held them firmly
imbedded. In some places this harden
ing process was SO rapid that air was
completely excluded from the buried
forms before decomposition set in. The
animals, fishes and plants remained in
their rocky repositories in a state of
perfect preservation for centuries. But
changes in the earth's composition are
constantly taking place. Improvements
made by man or natural shifting of
the strata gradually caused conditions
which admitted air to the imprisoned
fossils. Disintegration ensued. The
result was petroleum.
1t is probable that this decaying
matter which had been incased in
rocks for millions of years does not
always result in the formation of Pc
troleum. The presence of other chem
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
ef RELICS
By Curio Collectors Not Uncommon.

When thieves decide to "break
through and steal" they will penetrate
almost anywhere and take anything
which comes to hand. Stealing relics
and curiCs is a recognized branch of
the 'profession," and it requires a
nice discernment and a thorough
knowledge OF the value OF such arti-
cles. A rich Arab living in Cairo re-
Gently delighted his friends with the
exhibition of a collection of war relics
and jewels valued at $2,500,000. He
said he had bought them in London.
lhe sulJan's spies, however, thought
otherwise. That potentate had spent
100000 in the past three years in try
ing to trace missing portions of his
splendid collections, which he keeps
housed i'll his palaces in CONSTANT
nople. And there was no mistaking
the portion found in Cairo. The rich
Arab and his collection mysteriously
disappeared, and no one thinks it safe
to be too curious about the mans fate.
Some slight sensation was caused re-
Gently by the theft Of relics from the
Vatican, but it was nothing to the con-
sternation created some years ago by
the stealing of the Pope's "golden
rose.'' This much-prized emblem is
blessed in mid-Lent by the Pope, after
which it is sent to some Catholic wom-
an whom His Holiness desires to hon.
or. On the particular occasion re-
ferred to the rose was nowhere to be
found and a duplicate had to be manu-
factured hastily. 1t turned out that
the original rose had been stolen by
the connlvance Of one of the inferior
palace officials and s1nuggled out of
the country to adorn the cabinet of a
Well-known curio collector. In the
New Forest, England, is stone which
marks the spot where Purkis picked
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SOUND.

During the firing of minute-guns by
the English fleet at Sp1thead, on the
occasion OF Queen Victoria's funeral,
the sounds were heard at surprising
distances inland, and the English sci
entiic journals have since published
many interesting facts about these
phenomena. 1t seems to be established
that not only the direction of the wind,
but it's relative velocity at different
elevations from the ground, affected
the direction of the sound-waves. In
some cases, contrary winds refracted
the sound over the heads Of observers
between 10 and 45 miles from the
ships, SO that they did not hear the
guns, but the same waves We're after
ward brought to the ground by favor
able upper currents, rendering the
sounds audible at so miles, and even
as far as 40 miles, while at "a miles
they were so loud that laborers in the
fields put down their spades and lis
tened to them.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
ELEPHANTS IN AFRICA.
In the Lake Rudolph Country Hunters
Encounter Elephant Herd

In the Lake Rudolph Country Hunters
Encounter Elephant Herd;
On December 19 we reached the
much-talked-of Hawash river. a fina.
broad stream Of ninety yards in width.
deep, with fast-fowing CURRENT this
river is another which is said to run
out and disappear some seventy miles
further northeast; such a volume of
water, one could hardly believe it, says
a writer in the Geographical Journal
Here our BerthOn boat became dectd-
edly popular, especially as crocodiles
abounded. We found at this camp our
keen to procure some ivory to take up
as present to the emperor, We all
separated and entered a three-milss
patch of dense African jungle, huge
prlckly aloes, enormous cactus with
long, sharp points, and tall, feathery
plant like privet made up q safe
asylum from ordinary mortals. Very
few minutes sufficed to turn hunters
into hunted No. 1, a COW, charged
down on us. Jumping aside, I killed
her as she rushed on my shikaree, not
four feet from him. Hardly had We
struck the spoor of another lot when
young bull suddenly bore down on
me; however, a lucky forehead shot
laid him low. While skinning one OF
these heads, the whole place seemed
alive with elephant crashing toward
u.s.. Selling my rifle. I ran ahead to
try and cut off the troop, when sud-
denly line of over forty elephants
broke cover, about twenty-five in the
first line jammed together like cav
airy regiment charging. Being ever
twenty yards from me when they ap-
peared, with the center bearing di-
rectly down on me, l own to feeling
they had the best of me. I saw my
only chance was killing the flank one,
In a second I dropped the left-hand
one, which, falling inwardly, inclined
the whole troop a little to the right
Within ten yards fired my remaining
barrel, dropping another, causing stin
further detection to the right; another
second the flank one on the left rushed
past, almost knocking me down. I felt
thankful for such lucky escape, and
blessed my new .45O cordite rifle by
Rigby, which had done such good
work, five elephants in six shots un-
questionably proving it's value. I
found, on returning to camp, White
house and Butter had both undergone
similar experiences, and I felt bound
to apologize for introducing them to
their first elephant-such elephants,
and-i ;suchza- Jungle. =,
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
TO KILL M()SOTTTOES.

Some time ago we illustrated in de-
tail the experiments which are being
carried out in. the. Roman Campagna,
Italy, for the reduction of the mos
quito plague It has been esta ablished
beyond doubt that these insects are
the cause of the dissemination of ma
larial microbes, and further light has
been thrown upon the subject by Maj
Ronald Ross, r. A. NJ c., who re-
turned to England from West Africa
on September 2, after having con-
Quoted extensive investigations into
tho origin and spread of malarial fever
At Freetown the investigators en-
ployed workmen' to- destroy mosquito
larvae and within thirty-four day.
they had cleared more. than 1000
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
A S7.ooo,ooo BABY.

Inlleritor of Estate of Lady William
Beresford's First Husband.
James Hooker Hamersley, for many
years a prominent figure in the fash
ionable life of the city, died Of heart
failure recently at his country home
at Garrison s-on-the-Hudson. M
Ha1nersley was the cousin of Louis G.
Hamersley, the first husband of Lady
William Beresford. Lady Beresford's
second husband was the Duke of MARI
borough. She is now widow. Louis
C. Hamersley left an extraordinary
will when he died in February, 1883
He provided that his widow should
her life. but upon her death the whole
property, valued at $7,O00,000, was to
go to the male issue of his cousin J.
Hooker Hamersley. In event Of the
latter having no male issue the es-
tate was to go to such charities as his
widow should name in her will At
the time of Louis C. Hamersley's
death J. Hooker Hamersley was re-
garded as confirmed bachelor. But
soon after he married Miss Catherine
Chisholm a noted southern beauty
One baby daughter and then another
baby daughter was born to the couple
But on July ?. 1892, baby boy was
born, and since then he has been
called the $7,000,000 Hamersley
baby" although he is now a sturdy
boy of nine years. The boy is named
Louis Gordon Hamersley, and his
health has been guarded as carefully
as if he were the heir to a kingdom
New York World.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
TO REMOVE HAIR FROM COMB.

dandruff and other matter which clog
up tie teeth after the comb is in use
a short time, the machine being es-
pecially useful in barber shops and
hairdressing parlors. where the combs
are i'll constant use and it is necessary
to have them always clean. The ar
rangement consists of a box with a
removable top in which is mounted
rotary brush Of wire or stiff brist1es
with a crank at one end by which it
is revolved. In the bottom of the box
is row of curved fingers, which serve
to remove from the bristles whatever
the latter dislodge from the comb, it
being small task to remove the mat
ter from the bottom ofstne box at in
tervals as it accumulates To operate
the cleaner the comb is placed on the
slanting end of the box underneath
the thumb rest, being adjusted in re-
lation to the brush, when a few turns
Of the latter will force the bristles be-
tween the teeth and dislodge the hairs
ETC.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Not Much Danger in Ice

The Boston board of health has beam
considering for some time the ques
tion of whether typhoid fever l1rksS
in ice, and is prepared to report thar
there is little danger. In natural fca
the bacteria are thrown out by. frcez-
ing, and in artificial ice they are
killed in steri1izing. 20 #
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
is THERE A PLANET BEYOND <EP
TUNE:


This question was revived before the
Royal Society of Edinburgh lately by
Prof George Forbes, who called atten-
tion to the fact that there are seven
comets whose aphelion points, accord
ing to their calculated orbits, corre-
spond with the position OF planet re-
volving around the sun at distance
100 times greater than that of the
earth, and having a period of about
1000 years. He suggested that the dis.
turhing attraction of this supposed
planet had altered the elements of the
orbit of the great comet seen in 1884
and 1856 so that it did not come back
when expected in 1S4S. This comet, he
thought, might be identified with the
third comet of 1874 or the second
comet of 1843, it's return having been
hastened by the perturbation of the
planet.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Making Light from Smoke.

A Belgian engineer, Tobiansky, las
invented an apparatus for producing
light from smoke. It appears that the
origin of the smoke is matter of in
difference. 1t is simply forced into a
receiver, where it is saturated with hy-
drocarburet, and can then be burned.
giving brilliant illumination.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
Looking Ahead.

Miss Breezy-Yes, I'm engaged to
George. 1t was pretty hard to decide,
because liked Tom quite as we'll as
George, and they're equally wealthy.
Miss Wabash-What finally decided
you? Miss Breezy-George promised
me the most alimony in case of dl~
e.-Philadelphia Press.
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26
First Modern Woman Missionary.

The first Of all women missionaries
in modern times was Hannah Marsh
man. She was born in England in
1867, and spent forty-seven years in
missionary work in India. -
The Cook County herald., 1902-04-26

The real object Of education is to
give children resources that will en-
dure as long as life endures.-Sydney
Smith,