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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
WORK ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
Over Ten Million Dollars Expended
Since 1873

Washington, July 16.-Maior c.
Med. Townsend has made his annual
report on the Improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river between the mouth of the
Missouri and st. Paul. 1t shows total
expenditures and appropriations from
1878 to date $1O,607 622; estimated for
the fiscal year 1904, $1,030,000.
Major Thomas l.. Casey has made
his annual report to the chief of engi-
neers upon the improvement of the
Mississippi river between the Ohio
and Missouri rivers. Owing to the
lack of available funds the work has
been confined to care of and repair of
the plants, etc. y N
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mission merchants this plan was held
in abeyance pending the success of Mr..
Young's efforts. A little ordinary
merchandise, it is said, was also hand
led by the teamsters direct. Pickets of
the freight handlers did not interfere,
90 far as could be learned, They
Knew from the determined tone Of the
meeting over which Mr.. Young presid-
ed that interference would ALLEVIATE the
sympathy of the drivers on whose
steadfastness their success admittedly
relies.
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FRIEND OF THE POOR.
Philanthropist Spends His Last
Days Donating $1o,ooo,ooo.
CLOSELY INVESTIGATES GASES.
Abraham Simmer of Iowa Acquired
Hfs Fortune For the Sole Purpose
Of Aiding the Needy and SICK.
How He "Drives Bargains" to Make
Institutions Self Supporting.

Of Aiding the Needy and Sick.
How He "Drives Bargains" to Make
Institutions Self Supporting.
In Abraham Simmer, Waverly, Ia,
has philanthropist who has master
ed the science of successful charity,
says the New York Evening World. In
many ways he resembles John M.
Burke Of New York, and he works
great deal along the lines Of Mr..
Burke's ideas, save that he seeks to
help the very poor. He has accumu-
lated $1O,O00000, and he is going to
give it all away. Already he has ar
ranged for the disposition Of a part of
it. He gives with as much care as he
has exercised all his life in his busi-
ness. In his own language, he "drives
q hard bargain" but the recipients Of
his charity come to see the common
sense Of his arrangements.
MIR. Simmer is bachelor. He says
he has made money all his life, and
the only pleasure he finds now is IN
giving it away. He expects to die With
out cent.
In an interview in which he outlined
his plans Mr.. Simmer told Of some
things he has done and discoursed up
on the foolishness of the general run
Of charity. He has q safe full OF IRON on
clad contracts he has made with the
recipients Of his bounty ana prldes 1le' I
himself on the fact that they cannon l8l1ll'1l
be- broken. Said he, showing one .'s. oI
these documents: Z.
Here IS a contract with q s hosplits'i' li''
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HEAVY LOSS TO DEALERS.
Hundreds of Cars of PerishabIe Goods
Standing in the Yards.


Chicago, July 16.-Hundreds of
freight cars loaded with perishable
goods are standing in the railroad
yards and no effort is being made to
unload them owing to the freight
handlers strike. Many of the cars
contain fruit and produce. There are
cars of decaying tomatoes, watermel
ons, berries of every description, but
ter and the countless other products
of farms shipped into the city in the
expectation of being speedily unloaded
and transferred to the retail markets.
Nor have the cars been resupplied
with ice.
A majority of the cars have been
standing so long that their contents
are wholly spoiled and will have to be
burned. The loss to commission mer-
chants and farmers will be very heavy.
Hundreds of tons of food, it is said,
have gone to waste since the tieup be-
gan. The amount is estimated to have
been enough to feed the poor of the
city twice the period of the strike.
Eight hundred policemen were held
in reserve at downtown stations or at
the railroad warehouses during the
morning in anticipation of possible
<1CLSupC " IdlSc Iuc CuuUdA OA
freight. The situation was regarded
as even more serious than Monday as
the failure of conferences scheduled
for the day was believed to mean that
the merchants who are suffering over
a million dollars loss every day of the
strike would assume determined at
titude.
A continuance of the strike threat
ems to tieup building operations in the
city. Several cars of brick are on the
tracks. where they have been for some
time. The supply comes in day by
day and it is said that the present sup
ply will last only little time, possibly
not more than twenty-four hours.
Business Agent Hanks of the Brick
makers union declared that should the
freight handlers continue to refuse per-
mission to move brick from the freight
yards between ten and twenty thou
sand building men would be out of
work within a week t-" az
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Woman Blown From a Train.

Omaha. July 16.--Miss Marie Karous
of this city was blown from train rum
ming forty miles an hour and was un-.
injured. She was on an excursion
train running from Wilber, Neb., to
Omaha. While she attempted to pass
from one car to another the strong
wind lifted her twenty feet in the air
and dropped her in a cornfield. The
fact that she was not injured is att,
tributed to the condi ition of the ground.
made soft by recent rains.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
JULY OPTION DROPS TEN AND A
HALF CENTS IN THE FIRST
HOURS TRADING.
BEARS ARE HIGHLY ELATED
Believe the Gates Corner Has Been
Permanently Smashed by the I'm
mense Amount of Contract Stuff Ar
irving and Settlement Day Two
Weeks Off-Present Price 25 Cents
Below the High Point Reached.

Below the High Point Reached.
Chicago, July 16.-Corn fell with
thud at the opening Of trade. Fair
weather, lower cables and immense
receipts broke the market jaggedly,
and, incidentally, it is thought, broke
John w. Gates corner in July options.
All interest was centered in the corn
pit, where July was cutting queer ca
pers. The opening was weak, to 2
cents down from the previous days
close. There seemed to be no support
within miles of the pit and, left to it.
self, the market plunged headlong un-
der the hammering of the elated bears.
In the first hour of business 1917 cents
was knocked off the price of July,
69h cents being the price, or loss Of
2072 cents since the fancy price of 80
cents that this option brought during
the recent rainy weather. There was
no controlling the break during the
early hour. Fluctuations were mostly
1 cent apart. September was in a
measure weak also, opening unchanged
at 81 to 605s, and selling off to 60A.
Receipts were very large, 827 cars, 29S
of contract grade. Private elevators
marketed 116 cars and $4,000 bushels,
making a total of 414 cars and $4,000
bushels for the day. This, with that
of $4,000 bushels Monday and pros
poets of half a million bushels day
for some time yet and delivery closing
day two weeks off stampeded the
crowd. All hands argued that no cor
ner could withstand such abundant Of
feringS.
Hope the Corner Is Smashed.
While the bear interests in the corn
pit expressed hopes that the turmoil
In corn presaged an end of the July
corner brokers affiliated with the bull
party stated publicly that the reason
that the congested option was not be.
ing supported by the Gates-New York
clique was that prices were too fancy
in consideration of the quantity OF
stuff being rushed to market. Prac-
tically the only buyers in the market
have been the bull clique. 1t has been
somewhat difficult for this party to uE
load all the cash corn which it has
been forced to take in order to support
the corner. With half a million BUSH
els coming in daily they say the mar
ket must take care of itself. Pursuing
this course they allowed July to make
q further dip to 81 cents before noon.
This was break of 19 cents under the
previous days high price. Conserva-
tive spectators said that the trade
was really as much in the dark over
the real position of corn as at any
time during. the congestion.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
ANOTHER MINING DISASTER.
Four Men Killed and Many Injured at
~ Winber, Pa. .''

Winber, Pa.
Johnstown, Pa, July ia blast of
dynamite caused an explosion in No.
4 mine of the Berwind-White COM
pany at Winber, Pa, about noon, kill
ing four men and injuring many others.
No. mine is about seven miles from
the Mill Creek entrance of the Rolling
Mill mine, where the terrible explosion
occurred last Thursday.
Reports of the loss of life at the
Windber mine are conflicting. The of.
ficers are reticent and while admitting
that an explosion had occurred, refuse
to say anything as to the damage to
life and property.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
ADRlFT IN LAKE
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF CHI.
CAGO YACHTING PARTY IN
SEVERE STORM.
VESSEL CAPsIzEs SUDDENLY

Two of the Ten Persona on Board
the III.Fated Boat Caught in the
Cabin and Drowned and the Other.
Are Rescued, Nearly Exhausted
After Spending the Night cIinsin:
to the Overturned Yacht.
Chicago, July 16.-Two persons pei
ished on the lake during the night anu
eight others fought hours for life
clinging to the overturned yacht Aral
w., owned by John H. Cameron, cash
ier of the National Bank of the Repub.
lie. The yacht, struck suddenly by the
fierce storm which rushed over the
city late in the evening, capsized. The
boat Is twenty-one-footer and one Of
the best known yachts in the harbor,
The dead are: Mary Taylor, six
teen years old, 141 Fifty-first street.
and Harry Jensen, seventeen years OLD.
The rescued are: John H. Cameron.
Mrs. Cameron. Miss Cameron, Miss
Mamie Goodman, William Corey, E. S.
Haskins, Arthur Barber, skipper of the
Arab w., and one unknown.
When the storm struck the yacht no
attempt had been made to reef sail
and, with all its canvas flying, the
boat went over in flash, filed in
stantly and left eight persons strug-
Cling for life In the waters of the lake
three miles from shore.
Their predicament was given added
terror by the fury of the water. lashed
by the storm, and by the constant
lightning. BY heroic efforts on the
part of the men the women were sup
ported in the water until they could be
given firm hold on the overturned
boat. The yacht. as it left it's moor.
ings, had fortunately towed along be.
hind it a small yawl.
a., Start for Shore in a Yawl.
Setting to work to right the yawl
which had been dragged under and
filed with water when the larger boat
went over, the men finally got all but
Cameron and Barber and the two
drowned persons into it and started fol
the long row to the shore in the face
or the chOppy water ana strOng WING
which made it herculean task tt
make the boat move through the water
at all.
Along toward midnight Harry Boy
Ian, the steward of the Columbis
Yacht club, heard hail of the faintes
kind come from out the darkness of
the clubhouse. Slowly the heavily
laden rowboat came creeping up to the
landing with the women in state o
collapse and Corey so exhausted tina
he could hardly move the oars. All HI
could say was: "Send out lifesavint
crew. Arab overturned. Two deat
and more clinging to boat"
Cameron and Barber when fount
were nearly exhausted and about tt
drop from the boat. They had de
SPARED of rescue before dawn. Th'
bodies of the two young persons
drowned were found in the cabin o
the yacht when the boat was towe'
into harbor at a. m. Presumably tn
boy and girl who had met death ha'
taken refuge in the yachts cabin whel
the storm broke and were unable t.
extricate themselves when the boa
went over.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
OFFER REJECTED
RAILROADS REFUSE COMPROMISE
PROPOSAL OF the STRIKING
FREIGHT HANDLERS.
FIRM IN THEIR POSITION

Situation Somewhat Relieved ty the
Teamsters Hauling Perishable Goods
In Carload Lots Not Handled by Non.
union Men.
Chicago, July 16.-Thc faint hope OF
q settlement of the freight handlers
strike was dashed shortly after noon
when President Curran receive word
that the Erie and the Santa Fe roads
had refused to entertain the compro
mise proposed in petitions presented
by committees of the strikers. There
was only the barest possibility that the
other roads might prove less firm fol-
it had been repeatedly stated that the
roads would take identical action
However, the Northwestern, the Wa
bash and the Wisconsin Central roads
told the committees to return later in
the day. It was believed the delay was
wanted in order that conference might
be had with the other roads. The Erie
and Santa .Fe managements told the
AlOA IAVy WOuA0 oSSOPC AO OCAOA oOC
tlement than that proposed July l.
This is sitter stand than they have
made any time since the date named
The proposition made by the com
mittees to the managers was that the
scale of July be adopted, plus the fol
lowing important concessions:
First-Elimination of the term OF
probation before advances should be
effective.
Second-Straight time for overtime
for employees charged for loss of time
Third-Seventeen and one-half cents
an hour for truckers.
PerishabIe Goods Handled.
BY noon the good effects of the pres
ence of President Young of the Team
sters' union in the city was apparent
Through the efforts of Mr.. Young the
teamsters working for South Water
street commission firms were per
suaded to carry perishable freight from
the straight" cars. BY Straight
cars is meant cars containing one kind
of freight only and consigned to one
firm. The objection of the teamsters
to handling freight touched by the non
union men now in the warehouses was
overcome by having the teamsters take
the freight direct from the cars them
selves. In this way much perishable
goods reached the street during the
forenoon and the situation was partly
relieved. Many cars of vegetables ant
fruit, however. still remain in the rail
road sheds as the teamsters will MOI
touch it after the nonunion warehouse
men have once handled it.
ll Another result Of Mr.. Yonng's eff
forts was the aband donment OF the plar
!, to man the teams with their owners ii
an attempt to move caravans undel
police protection in and out Of ths
! freight Yards AT the meeting Of com
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
Member of QuantrelI's Band.

Lexington, Mo-, July 16.- Joseph Cal
laway, aged sixty-two years, "a mem
ber of Quantrell's band during the
Civil war, was stabbed and fatally
wounded on ferryboat here by Doc
johnson, who escaped but was cap
tured by posse after being surround
ed In the woods for several hours.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
Patrons Exchange.
#

Neglected by the buIls ana with casn
corn slumping badly July corn contin.
ued to break all session. Shortly be-
fore noon 65H cents as low price was
reached.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1902-07-17
DUE TO ovERcRowDINe.
Thirty Russians Drowned by the Sink
81 ing OF a Boat.

st. Petersburg, July 16.Thirty per-
sons were drowned by the sinking of a
small passs rer steamer on the Luge9
river near Probroa-S -Schansl l.aia. The
disaster was caused by overeroWdins
Only those Of fth ! nassengers who Wee
on the liI d ae3.. " ere saved.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-04

Mr.. Lewis NiXon's accession to the
Tammany leadership is still the sensa-
ton in New York politics and evidence
of it's wisdom continues to come. Even
The Tribune, staunch republican antaS-
OniSt of Tammany, comedies Mr.. Nix
on's high character and attachments as
a scholar and business man. Among
democrats there is nothing but APPROX
al. No one else can speak for the de-
mocracy so au~thoritatiVely as Mr.. Bry-
an. He was in New York on Monday
and gave to the papers a written state
ment in which he said: MI. Croker
showed good sense as we'll as devotion
to the party's interest when he threw
his influence to so excellent a man as
Mr.. Nixon and caused him to be select
ed as leader of Tammany. Mr.. Nixon
represents hat element in the organi
cation which has stood for clean gov
eminent and has opposed the use OF
official position for private gain. He is
n man of character. honesty n ability,
and MS leadership will silence much OF
the criticism which has been aimed al
the city organization in recent years
Tammany is a strong organization and
Mr.. Nixon can make it a powerful in
1uence in democratic politics If he
adopts the principle that the only way
to insure democratic victory is to MAXI
the organization deserve public conn.
dence. Mr.. Nixon, I am informed, wa:
not a candidate and knew nothing Of
the proposed honor until he was select.
ID. He announced that he entered upoI
his duties without pledges to anyone
and he is thus able to act with an eye
single to the party's welfare. The dem
ocrats of the country at large will ap
plaud the selection of Mr.. Nixon AND
Will wish him success" Hugh Ac
Laughlin, the veteran democratic lead
er of Brooklyn, also commends the So
lection Of Nixon. The new leader ha1
an suspicious start and IL successful
| there is much in store for him.-Coluin
bia Sta @
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-04

Bears the Inc Kind You Have Always Bought
''s; :: &xNzZz%
The Court Dfsgraced.

Mr. Watson, of Indiana, is an enter
tanning conversationalist. He likewise
tells a good story, generally with SOM
flavor of Hoosierdom.
Not very many years ago, when he
was a young lawyer in Winchester, Mr..
Watson was one of the attorneys in a
suit over a pig. Judge Goodrich, subse-
Quently chairman of the republican
state committee, was on the other side,
and the case was before a portly mag
istrate of the name of Reverdy Pickett,
who was running as candidate for
mayor of Winchester. "Puckett." said
Mr.. Watson. to him one afternoon, be-
fore the case came up for trial, "I must
win this suit. If I don't. 1 will fight you
for mayor I'll fight you to a finish"
Goodrich also got the magistrates ear
with a similar appear and threat, he
and Watson having arranged the mat
ter between them to get some fun out
of h situation.
THE day before the primary" says
Mr.. Watson, in concluding the story,
Good rich and I thought we would go
around to Puckett's office and ascer-
tain how we stood. He was absent when
We called. but his docket lay wide open
on the desk. We couldn't help looking
at it. There in the boldest character
he could write were the words:
"~'Disagreed. by thunder
There was no jury in the case, but
that little matter hadn't bothered Puck
EFT ."-Washington Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-04

Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature at &WMzZM
Baking Passover Bread.

Although it lacks about three months
of the Feast Of the Passover (Nisan 15),
the baking of the Passover bread has
already commenced, owing to the fact
that there are but three or o u bakers
in the city who prepare the bread.
Before the grinding of the Passover
our the mill must be cleaned N put
in thorough order and a trustworthy
representative of the rabbiS is always
on hand during the process of grinding.
Rabbi S. Schaffer. of Greene Street
synagogue. explained yesterday that the
baking of the Passover bread involves
an immense amount of labor and care.
After the flour and water are mixed the
dough is placed in the kneading ma
chine. AS soon as properly kneaded it
must be taken out and put in the ovens.
According to traditional law. if the
bread is allowed to lie for five minutes
it becomes leavened and unfit for use.
Neither before nor after the baking
must the bread come in contact with
any leavened bread.
During the Feas of the Passover an
orthodox Hebrew will not eat or ever
allow his hands to be p%rofaned with
the touch of leavened bread. Those OF
the reformed Jewish faith generally
have the unleavened bread on their ia
bles during the feast, but the eating Of
it is rather optional.-Ex.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-04
NORTH

Fayetteville Observer: A lady of this
city killed a rat last night measuring
Is inches from tip to tip.
Raleigh News and Observer: News
has been received 1 Raleigh that Rev.
e. e. Vardell president of Red Springs
Seminary, has declined the very fiat
tering call made him to become presi-
dent of thu new Presbyterian college
Tor women in Texas.-The following
changes of Methodist preachers is an
nounced by the presiding elder of the
Norganton district: A. E. Wiley, of the
Table Rock circuit, goes to Connolly
Springs, in place of J. A. Clark, sus-
pended; 7 c. Mock, of the Old Fort
circuit. goes to Table Rock in place of
A. r. Wiley; w. B. Lydia t. Old Fort
circuit; S. M. Davis goes to MooreSville
circuit in place of James Wilson, who
declined to serve.
Charlotte Observer: While at New
Bern last Sunday, Rev. DR.. John w.
Stage succeeded in raising $500 for the
twentieth century movement and ex-
poets that this sum will be increased to
1000 in the near future. In canvass
ing thus far among the Presbyterians
in this state Dr.. Stage has succeeded
far beyond his expectations and is con-
fdent tina he will have no trouble in
securing the $500, 900 expected from
North Carolina Presbyterians.-Mr
J.. d. Mccall, chairman of the democra-
tic executive committee of this county
expects to stand for the congressional
nomination in this, the Ninth, district
shelby, January, 2S.-Your cores.
pondent has just had an interview with
E. Y. Webb, Esq, of this place, and he
informs me that he will be a candidate
for congress from this district. Thi:
county will be solid for him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-04
Republication i'm the South.

The fact is that since the republicans
turned loose Louisiana and South Caro-
lima in 1877 there has been nothing more
tangible to republicanism in the Gulf
states than a close corporation of form
er carpet-baggers. pap-produced con-
verts. and colored convention heelers.
They have survived upon the policy of
h republican administrations of CIV
Ing the federal offices in the south to
b men who could produce p~repledged
delegations in the national conventions
of the party.
1t is a prophecy Of better things when
the president turns down such fellows
and guarantees the purity and fidelity
Of the public service by appointing
democrats of approved characters. 1t is
also a good sign hat he does not pro-
pose to pension political parasites and
reward political padrones. The process
he a hit upon may not build up a
dominant republican party in the south,
but 1T viii benefit the public service and
put a premium on patriotism instead OF
partisan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Con.
stitutiou-