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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
GRIDIR0N TO FORUM
Interest at the University Shifts
From Football to Debating
:'', Contests =. .<,. a..
First Important Battle Is That With
Northwestern at Evanston,
=, Ill.,, Jan. 16. ~.*..> - -.

Football with all it's glory and ''dope"
is past for another year. While the root
er has been noisy the debater has been
busy. For the next four months debate
win be the dominant factor in intercol-
legiate contests. Already arrangements
are well under way for two contests at the
university, one with Northwestern and
one with Iowa. Wisconsin also. owes a
return engagement which, of course, she
will fill. -
Recently the University debating board,
assisted by Judge Brooks, Eugene Hay
and H. V. Mercer, chose the three who
are to support the maroon and gold
against the purple, Jan. Is; at Evanston
ILL.,, where a hard battle is in store. The
Northwestern debaters remained at their
university all summer making prepara-
ton for the contest while the western men
did not get to work until the first of o.
tober owing to a misunderstanding as to
choice of sides. But Minnesota expects
her representatives to win, not only in the
preliminary" against Northwestern, but
against the victors in the Chicago Mich
gan contest, which will take place in
Chicago the same evening as the Mime
sofa Northwestern contest and thus hold
for. another. year: the western champion
ship won last year by McClearn Drake
and Norton over Chicago and Michigan
and by Londa, McElmeel and James in
the Iowa league 4ilt ~. ~ - ~
The team chosen to meet Northwestern
is an excellent one.ay, Some think it is as
good a team as Minnesota ever elected.
The question asked at the I"U' is, can
Chase, Lundeen and EGrannis do the work
thatris cut out for them. -. &c ,. 49,.
The Members of the, Team. :~< -.
RAYMOND ..PaaChasev is; q: !, senior AGA
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
A WARIO The KNIFE
Retail Cigar Dealers Preparing an
Elaborate Campaign Against
the Cigar Trust.
Circulars Are Received by Minneap-s
Il oils Business Men Asking
5s.A Them to Cooperate. 80

Local business men are receiving COM.
munications from the headquarters Of the
Cigar Dealers Association Of America So
Letting their cooperation in the crusade
against the tobacco trust. They are re-
quested. to advise their employees to dis
courage the sale and consumption Of trust
made tobacco goods and especially, the
travelling men should be advised not to
patronize hotels cigar stores. drug stores.
restaurants, barroons and barber shops
which. deal; in trust made cigars and to-
bacco. - - 4..,..s, Z. /: sa#
Attention is called to the magnitude of
the movements, especially in such cities
as Chicago, Detroits ST. Louis, Boston and
Omaha, where hundreds of stores handle
no trust products and announce the fact
by big signs. Among other things the
circular says: ~.a =
. "Thetr own interests and future exist
ence as independent men imperatively de-
mands active cooperation of this kind.
Unless such hotels or other aboVe-men
toned places agree to discontinue the pur-.
chase and sale, trust made goods after
they have disposed of the stock on hand,
your agents and travelling men should
withdraw their patronage entirely from
them. ~~' '.
IF the trust, should gain complete con-
troll Of the cigar and tobacco business,
travelling. men, agents and independent
firms Will be. a thing Of the past. A
gentlemanlY argument of this kind will
prove to the hotelman, that if he persists
in selling trust goods, he kills the goose
that lays the golden egg
"The cigar dealer, the druggist the sa-
loonkeeper. the: barber and the grocer
can be advised that the retail cigar
stores Of the trust sell cigars and tobacco
| to the consumer cheaper by the, piece than
they themselves pay to the trust factories
by the thousand. In selling the trust
| made goods they are feeding their own
| competitors and assist in their own de-
| struction. Why should anybody pat
ronize his own enemy?''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
THE TALK OF TWO p '.:,'.
VERSATILE COMEDIANS

Nearly every humorous character that
is ever met with in real life has been
impersonated on. the stage but there is
one which can be encountered any pleas
ant day in the vicinity of Fourteenth
street, New York. 1T is the versatile,
"aH round'' comedian, who can do any
thing from fire eating in a museum to
reciting with melo-dramatic effect 1.-The
Face upon the Bar-room Floor" Two of
them met the other day and the follow
ing conversation ensued:
'Hello, Billy! Shake!''
why, hello, Jack!'
Say, amt met you since we was with
that Tom show that went up against it
in Kankakee.'' -~..>.
'Sure! That's right! Ware you been
since? Been dom anythin'?''
"Sure! Ben workin' all the time. You
out last suIn1ner?''. s-::.. +;
Sure thing! Same OF graft. Been
out with a Tom show under canvas.
What'd you do?'
"Wus wild same kind O. trick I
doubled Marks an de dekin, an ST..
| Clair, put up a black face in, the Heaven
tableau, played the tuba in the parade, an
helped to git up the big top. Had all
the rest O. the time to myself, excepting
to keep an eye on the dogs. Twas a
snap!" >. ..
"Wel 1 should say So. You beat me.
! Got anything now?''
"Oh yes, I'm going out playing dates
| with my partner. We've got a pretty stiff
| knock about turn. What you doin'?'
Say, Jack, I got a great act. I was
out eatin' fire in the kid show with the
| Great Consolidated, London, Paris and
St. Petersburg Syndicate Circus and AL
lied Shows all summer after the Tom
show closed. till the sheriff caught up
with us and laid down on the big top out
! in Xenia Ohio: but nv new acts a. cork
er. I'm out dom the strong man in a
| hall show 49,. =:
| 'That SO? What you call yourself
'"That's what catches 'em. I got the
SWEETEST name yet. cal myself The Mar
velous Human Sandow and my acts the
| hit the show ..~rt
This is the character Edward Garvie is
| impersonating in "Mr. jolly of Joliet, -
at the Bijou. this week.
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shown by the fact that he ran Mr.. Drake a
very close race for senior class president
this year. He is already we'll known to
University debaters He has won his
spurs in many a hard-fought battle in the
inter-class debates between the freshman
and sophomore classes and later in the
annual inter society contests. In thought
he is perfectly clear and severely logi-
cal. He is known as a hard student
who goes to the bottom of any subject
which he undertakes to investigate. The
university, it is said, has produced few
debaters who can sift material with bet
ter judgment or arrange it: with more
telling effect. Delivery has been Mr..
Chase's weakest point. But in this he
has improved greatly in the past year.
He is not eloquent in the sense in which
Drake, Lende and McClearn are, but his
clear logic and tremendous earnestness
appeal to some judges as the best kind of
eloquence.
Ernest G. Lundeen is a newcomer at
the university. He is a Carleton product
and Won high honors for his college in
both debate and oratory. He has been
heard here but once. That was in the
preliminary from which the Northwestern
team was chosen. In this single contest
he seemed more the orator than the de-
batter. His voice is under good control
AMI his presence is good. He speaks dis
tinctly and has considerable magnetism.
A Good General.
= Or all the men who have become prom
inent in debate at the university in
recent years, probably not one has a
moro striking personality than Day l..
Grannis. He comes from Iowa. Like
MI. Chase, he is regarded as a good
fighter. Grannis, Stanford and Sperry,
as members of the law literary society,
made the seven other societies "bte
| tho DUST in the series of ,inter-society
contests last year, and thereby earned
the right to inscribe their names on the
Jacobs prize cup. The men who worked
with Mr.. Grannis last year give him great
credit for his ability to plan a debate and
| it takes good generalship to win inter.
collegiate debates just as it does to wir
| battles and football contests. Mr.. Gran.
| MIS- style as speaker is the type of sim
plicity-direct, earnest and entirely free
| from Evolutionary tricks and rnannerisms
| This and his resourcefulness constitute
| his most striking charactertics. He is
| never at a loss for something to say
| and way to say it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
A Cold Wave Is Comlno.

Go to California, warm and genial.
reached best over the most direct and
shortest line, The Rock Island Ell Paso
Route the line Of lowest attitudes. Tho
highest point enroute is several hundred
feet lower than that of any other line
across the continent. Call at the t.Rock
Island" Ry Ticket Office, 1922 Nicollet avs
enue, and talk it over.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
Homeseekers, Excursions.

Homeseekers' tickets to nearly all
points on sale at low rates by Chicago
Great Western railway on first and third
Tuesday Of each month, November to-
April inclusive. Available in the through
tourist sleeping cars. For particulars ap-
ply to L. C. Rains, agent, corner Nicollet
avenue and Fifth street. Minneapolis
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08
California;.

The Chicago Great Western railway
offers the choice Of three through tourist
cars via different routes, making fast time
and having every comfort. Ask for book
let about them. L. C. Rains, agent, corr
ner :Nicollet avenue and Fifth street, Min.
neapoljs.
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. VIII Cost 10000, 900.

The Worlds Fair at st. Louis in 1904
will be more than twice as large as the
Chicago Worlds Fair. One gets full
view of the grounds and buildings. from
the car window on the MinneapolisE&s st,
Louis railroad. Take the famous North
Star Limited to st. Louis or Chicago
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-08

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Child Study.

Joint session, Sunday school room. Cen
raj Presbyterian church-President child
study section, George A. Franklin, Fari-
oault; president elementary section. W. F..
Webster. Minneapolis: president kinder
garten section, Stella I. Wood, Minneapo-
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Make Money! Save Money!. -
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chanoe Of Time. e. Il. /. & IS, N.

Commencing Nov. 80, Rock Island trains
will leave milwaukee, depot $40 a. M and
7:10 p m. daily, arriving $40 am. and
ass ap.+ M. 5sssi 60 49, zsslz.
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Carey Flexible Cement Roofing, best on
earth. W. S. Mott Co. TEL 376. ..
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
DRUGGISTS IN A RATE WAR.
Cut Rates on Patent Medicines to BE
the Order From Now on.

Cut Rates on Patent Medicines to BE
the Order From Now on.
Savannah druggists are no longer
hampered by any agreement relative to
the cutting of prices on proprietary
medicines, and a lively fight for trade
in this class of goods in likely to re-
suit from row on.
Until short time ago practically all
the drug dealers of any consequence
were members of the Chatham County
Pharmaceutical Association. and as
such had an agreement that prevented
the cutting of prices. Recently how
ever, three druggists have withdrawn
from the association and have been
selling patent medicines at a price that
seriously interfered with the trade of
the members of the association, ham
pered as they were by their agree
ment.
Yesterday morning matters came to
a head when at a special meeting of
the association it was decided to dis
solve this agreement and to let each
member make such prices in future as
he cared to. The fight from now on
is likely to be a warm one: one dealer
who formerly lived up to the agree
ment stated yesterday that from this
time on every reduction that is made
by the outsiders" will be met and
may be gone one better.
Mr.. j. T. Shuptrine, president of the
association in discussing the matter
yesterday, said the whole trouble had
been brought about by enc firm. The
head of this concern, he said, had no.
titled the association that he desired
the privilege of cutting prices in order
TO reduce his stock q ~ n tic .,1f
mate intention when this was brought
about to sell out his business.
Under these circumstances no OBJ
lection was made. but the cut prices
brought the dealer a line of custom
that he hitherto had not had, and so
he changed his mind about quitting
the business, but continued cutting
prices. The inroads made on the trade
of two of the other firms induced them,
too, to pull out of the association, and
so was brought about the result of the
meeting yesterday.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
KILLED his FAMILY
JOHN DOTsON's DARK DEED ON
SATILLA RIVER
DOMESTIC LIFE UNHAPPY.
THE DEAD WOMAN WAS HIS SEC
OND WIFE.

He Had Been Separated From Her
Twice-Dotson Was Employed ms
Overseer by MIR. IsidOre siIverberg
on His Plantation at Owens Ferry.
Indefinite News of the Tragedy
Reached Mr.. Silverberg Last Night.
Children of DOtson's First Wife
Probably Met Death With the
Others-The Murderer Killed n Ne
gro on Grove Hill Plantation Five
Years Ago.
"Mr. Dotson shot and killed to-day
his family. Wire instructions"
This startling and indefinate tele-
gram was received last night from
White Oak. Ga, by Mr.. Isidore Silver
berg. 1t was sent by his partner d.
P. Rose, but nothing further could be
learned. The telegraph station at
White Oak closed Immediately after
the message was sent and not until
to-day will full news of the tragedy
be learned.
The man to whom the message re
fers is John u. Dotson, who was en-
ployed as an overseer by 1. Silverberg
e. Co., at OWENS Ferry, on the Satilla
River, in Camden County, about 80
miles from Savannah. He married
twice and his domestic life was by
no means happy. His second wife was
a young woman, and they had frequent
quarrels. They led a cat and dog life
for months and finally separated.
Later they made up and again separa-
ted for the second time Recently
the woman returned to her husband on
the Satilla River. fl
1t is presumed that the tragedy oc-
CURED after one of their usual quar-
rels. Dotson had several children by
his first wife, and they lived with him
at Owens Ferry. 1t is not known if
all of them were killed with the wo-
man, or what happened to Dotson after
he committed the murder.
Mr.. Silverberg was at n loss to eX-
plain the full meaning of the telegram,
and tried in every way to secure fur
Their information, but without any sue
cess. He took the message to mean
that Dotson had killed his family, and
was of the opinion that all of the chill
dren suffered with the woman. There
was nothing in the message to convey
the impression that after committing
the awful act Dotson had taken his
own life.
Five years ago Dotson killed a ne
gro on Mr.. T. M. Cunningham Grove
Hill plantation, where he was employed
as overseer. For the work required
of him he was an exceptionally good
man, and the news of the tragedy was
great shock to Mr.. Silverberg.
Dotson's unhappy domestic relations
were known to Mr.. Sllverberg who re-
called them as soon as the commission
of the crime was made known TO INN.
Mr.. Silverberg will act when further
information is received.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
TORN by DYNAMITE
TOMMY MADISON VICTIM OF A DAN
GEROUs PLAYTHING.
WAS ONLY A LITTLE STICK
But WHEN HE DROPPED A BRICK
ON 1T, 1T EXPLODED.

The boy Was Playing in a Yard
Near His Home With other Chill
dren-Had Found the Dynamite
Near Fort Screven-TOId His Play
mates What He Was Going to Do
But Didn't Know What the stick
Was-Was Hurled Backward by
the Explosion and Badly Injured.
Carried to the Georgia Infirmary
Nearby.
The explosion Of a dynamite car
fridge at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
seriously injured Thomas Retalic, the
13-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as C. Madison, and created great deal
of excitement in the vicinity of Thirty
seventh and Habersham streets.
Young Madison was badly injured
about the face. chest and hands, and
his condition is regarded as serious,
though it is not believed that the in
juries will result fatally. The piece
of dynamite was little larger than a
match. according to the boy, and was
secured from Fort Screven. With 9TH
er members of his family he had been
visiting his brother-in-law, Sergt.
Charles Jackson, at the government
reservation.
During his ramble through the fort
young Madison secured the piece of
dynamite, and took it home with him
when he returned to the city yester
day morning. He kept the members
of his family in ignorance of his pos
session, and not until after the dam
age had been done were the facts al
ready related, brought out. Master
Madison was playing in his fathers
yard at No. 1916 Habersham street
before dinner, and thought that it
would be great sport to frighten the
other children.
He slipped into the house and Sc
cured the little piece of dynamite from
its hiding place. The boy told the
other children that he intended to have
some fun, and that he was going to
see if the thing" would shoot. He
placed it on a brick and held another
one over it. The other children had no
idea what Master Madison intended to
do and offered no interference. With
the drop of the brick there was an ex-
posion and the boy was sent back
wards TO the ground, with much
force. His playmates were too badly
frightened to act, and scampered> to a
safe distance.
The child's mother was engaged in
preparing dinner and was startled by
the explosion. She rushed into the
yard and discovered her injured son
on the ground, screaming with pain.
Mrs. Madison did not lose her nerve
and grabbing up the wounded boy she
ran with him to the Georgia Infirmary.
DR.. H. P. Adams was at the hospital at
the time and dressed the boys wounds.
Later the child was moved back to
his home on Habersham street, where
he was resting quietly last night.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
An Ererrdnx-pny occurrence.

The constant reader of the daily
newspapers sees many advertisements
and announcements that he passes by
with a glance, yet if he would stop TO
draw aside the curtain and inquire, he
would be confronted with facts that
might melt his heart. We here give
few of the announcements and the rea-
sons for their appearance in print;
1.-TWO little orphans, age twelve and
seven years, are seeking home among
strangers" The Untold part of this
story is that they came from good par
ents, but their father failed to insure
his life for their protection.
"A young lady desires a position IN
a respectable office. Is a good penmah
and willing to work hard The secret
of this case is her father did not De-
lieve in life insurance.
There will be an auction sale OF
household goods, all in first class con-
dition, such as Turkish rugs, fine brio
a-brac, mahogany chairs and bed room
suites, etc Sale begins promptly at 10
a. m, April 18th at No. -. There
will be bargains for some one. Come
early" The reason for this advertise
ment is the father died suddenly with
not enough life insurance, and the
creditors are cold.
We could go on publishing similar
rotices until we could fill this issue
with them, but we hope these few will
set many a heretofore doubling father
to thinking, and not only thinking, but
acting. With a sufficient amount of life
insurance your memory will be a
blessing and your picture will remain
en- the wall in the home where neither
the wolf of want" nor sheriff with
an execution will ever enter. Write to-
day, state your age and address, Harry
& Apple, managers for Georgia, III
Bay street, east, Savannah, Ga.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
Lots. Lots, Lots.

On Thirty-Sixth street, facing Thorn
as Park. as many feet of land as you
want and terms to suit. Price accord
ing to size of lot.
On Thirty-sixth, between Barnard
and Jefferson, facing south, at $1,000
each.
On Thirty-eighth, between Abercorn
and Lincoln.
On Thirty-ninth, between Bull and
Irayton
Or Tortieth, between Bull and Alb
erCorn.
Above vary in price according to To-
cation, but are all cheap.
Also three lots on Maupas avenue,
be tween Bull and Drayton, worth $3.50
each. Will sell for $500 each.
And beautiful lots in the eastern sec
ton at from $500 to 5000.
Homes built for purchasers. Terms
to fit your circumstances. John L.
Archer, 10 Sorrel building.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
WANT ANOTHER CONCESSION.
Retail Clerks Will Ask That Stores
Close at O'clock.

Close at O'clock.
The Retail Clerks Protective Asso
citation intends to ask for further con-
cession from the Retail Merchants As
ISOLATION. The clerks want the mer-
chants to make o'clock the closing
hour during the summer, from June
to Oct. 1, except Saturdays. Satur-
day nights they desire the stores to
close at 10 o'clock
At a recent meeting of the merchants
it was decided to make $3.50 the closing
hour, from June IS to Sept. Is, except
Saturdays. President Adler of the
Merchants Association says that it
was further stipulated at the meeting
that the rule would not hold good on
excursion days, when a large number
of purchasers would be in the city. AS
president of the Merchants Association
he has received no communication from
the clerks asking for further conces-
sions. Mr.. Adler said that when such
a communication is received he will call
meeting of the merchants and lay
the matter before them.
The clerks are hard at work in an
effort to make o'clock the closing
ing the innovation. A letter has been
submitted to the various labor organi-
cations and indorsed, and has been in
dorsed by several societies of women.
When the Endorsements have been COM
pleted the letter and those who APP
prove it will be called to the atten-
ton of the merchants. In the mean
time, the clerks are urging their GUS
toners not to put off their shopping
until late in the afternoon, conveying
to the merchants the natural impress
sion that it is necessary to keep open
late.
The letter of appeal which is now in
circulation follows:
The Retail Clerks Protective Asso-
citation, an organization whose mission
and aim is the betterment of the gener-
al condition existing in the retail trade
throughout the United States and
Canada, is now meeting with great
success in shortening the hours of toll
for the clerks, without in the least
curtailing the volume of business done
by their employers:
Encouraged by the feeling that our
Employers agree with us that our work
is trying during the hot summer
months, and believeing with the aid
of our friends we can influence people
generally, to do their shopping between
the hours of seven a. m, and six p. m,
thus avoiding the necessity of keeping
open after six p. m, we take the lib
erty to ask our fellow wage-workers,
and all well wishers to assist US in OBJ
tanning from the merchants, an agree
ment to close at six p. m, from June
first, to October first and Saturdays at
10 D. m, of each year.