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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
CONGRESSMAN OTEY DEAF
Representative Of the Sixth Virgini
District Passes AWav


District Passes Away.
Washington, May 5.-Ccngressman
Peter J. Ctey Of the Sixth Virginia
district died in Lynchburg, his home,
at 2:30 p. n. Mr.. Otey had been
named as q member of the committee
to accompany the remains OF the late
Congressman Cummings to New York,
but he notified the speaker that he was
too i'll to attend. Mr.. Otey was a
Democrat He was 81 years of age
and was we'll known in the South as
a business man before he came to con
gross. He was interested in railroads,
banking and insurance. He had been
active in the politics of his state since
1869, but never held Office until 1894,
when he was elected to the house of
representatives, since which time he
had been a member of that body. Dur
ing the Civil war he fought on the
Confederate side and commanded a
brigade under General Early.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
PHYSICIANS HOPEFUL.
Believe That Queen WiEheImina Will
Ultimately Recover.

Ultimately Recover.
The Hague, May 6.-The evening
passed quietly at Loo palace, but Doc
tors Roessingh and Pot have remained
at the queens bedside. Baron Gilt
ford, master of the queens household
said:
"Her majesty's fever has not in
creased and we are quietly and hope.
fully awaiting the results of good
nights rest for the queen. There is
no cause for immediate disquietudo.' .
At 10 o'clock her majesty was re
ported to be sleeping quietly, and at
that hour her condition was practically
unchanged. The Dutch newspapers
rather strangely publish nothing con
corning Queen Wilhelmina's illness be.
yond the official bulletins and brief
expressions of thankfulness that her
lnajesty's life has been saved.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09

developed week after an operation
for his primary ailment and since
April rs Mr. Cummings had been suf
fering from pneumonia, from which his
death resulted.
The congressman wife and his
cousin, Charles H. Cummings, were al
his bedside when death came.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
MOnC:ay, Nav S.

Robert J. (*Doc") Slater, for many
years prominent in Democratic politics
in Baltimore, is dead.
William P. Cannon, a brother of
Congressman J. G.. Cannon, died at
Danville, Ills, from injuries received
from fall.
John Beckethuseen,\ Chicago sa.
loonkeeper, was shot and fatally
wounded in a fight between himself
and two policemen.
Advices received at Madrid from the
Portuguese frontier indicate that the
political situation in Portugal is be-
coming extremely grave.
President J. W. Springer of the Ma.
ti0nal Live Stock association has sent
a telegram to President Roosevelt ask
ing him to veto the oleomargarine bill
A furious storm of wind, rain and
lightning, which at some places attain.
ed almost to the dimensions of a cy.
clone, ragged over the greater portion
of Iowa Saturday, causing hundreds OF
thousands of dollars damage.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
NEWS Il, CONDENs AT[IONs.
Wednesday, April so. !

VvSOtsVoO1y1 ~
The president has signed the legis-
lative appropriation bill.
William G.. Watson, an inventor Of
some note, is dead at Paterson,:N. J.
The French fishing feetswasscaught
in a gale in the North sea and many
lives were lost. -.
The president has nominated Will
lam H. Moody of Massachusetts to be
secretary OF the navy. ,<,zxssasal3as4 ssss;*ss'
Rev. Micah Bienford, one Of the
most widely known clergymen of the
Quaker church, is dead at Carthage,
Ind. His last passionate was at Brook
lynn IN, Y s.iss:ss's-'*Sa'a~'-
The lower house of the Hungarian
diet has ratified the Austro-H Hungarian
commercial and consular treaty with
Mexico which lapsed in 1867 and had
not since been renewed.
DR.. Frederick A. Castle, for many
years leading physician Of New York
city and widely known to the profess
sion through his contributions to vari-
GUS medical periodicals, is dead.
Thursday, May 1.
Drouth in New Mexico is killing
hundreds Of sheep.
The house has passed the agricul-
tural appropriation bill.
The reports announcing the death of
Tom Thunder, the celebrated Winnie
bagO Indian, are erroneous.
The fourth monthly installment of
the Chinese indemnity, amounting to
100000 taels ($1,292,200), was paid
Wednesday.
The budget for 1902 for Greater New
York has been agreed upon by the
board of estimates. The total is $685.
$4,000, an increase of $645,059.
Late accounts from Sand Creek,
Mon, the scene of the recent gold dis.
covery, tell of stampede to the new
fields. The ground for radius of 10
miles has been staked off.
The wholesale jewelry firm of Moore
& Evans, Chicago, one of the largest in
the West, has been placed in the hands
of receiver. The firm is said tC
have done business of $1,000,000 pei
year.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
AMOS J. CUMMINGS DEAD.

New York Congressman Succumos
After Long Illness.
Baltimore, May Congressman
Amos j. Cummings of New York died
during the night at the Church Home
and Infirmary in this city.
Congressman Cummings came to
Baltimore early in April to undergo
treatment for kidney trouble. Pleurisy
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
Tuesday, May 6.


Three brokerage firms connected
with the New York Stock Exchange
have suspended.
J. Gratz Hanley, one of the oldest
turfmen in the world, died suddenly
of apoplexy at Louisville, KY. -
The nomination of Fra1:c P. Sargent
to be commissioner general of immi-
grafton has been sent to the senate.
AS result of the peasant disorders
martial law has been proclaimed in
five districts of the province Of Pol
tava, Russia. .,
Three hundred houses at Bartlett,
Hungary. the famous health resort,
have bern l...GS=troyed by fire. Several
persons ',-t. . injured.
The Ctt1:. can government is asking
for ter c,e1s for the work OF. laying an
ocean cable to the Straits Of a. at--an,
starting from Talcahuno, Chile.
Former Judge George w. Ambrose
of Omaha and afterWard Of Chicago,
a close friend Of William j. Bryan,
died at Wesley hospital, Chicago, Of
pneumonia.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
Saturday, May 8.

The st. Louis exposition is to be
formally postponed from 1908 to 1904.
Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, the Norwe.
gian poet, dramatist and novelist, is
seriously i'll.
Congressman Frank M. Eddy of Min
nesota announces that he is not can
didate for reelection.
The officers of the United States
cruiser Chicago, in prison at Venice
have been pardoned by the king OF
Italy.
The coming Austria-H Hungarian budg
ct will provide for supplying new guns
to the artillery at a cost of 38,000,00O
crowns.
United States Consul McWade, at
Canton, China. has informed the state
department that the plague epidemic
east OF Honan, Canton province. is
increasing.
The plant OF the Hagers steel com
pany at Madison, Ills, employing 400
men, has been destroyed by fire which
resulted from an explosion. The dam
age is estimated at $250,000.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
POTTER PALMER DEAD.

Chicago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Passes Away
q. Suddenly. -g.s. -.
Chicago, May 6.-Potter Palmer, for
half century one of Chicago's leading
business men, died at his residence on
lake Shore drive, as the result of a
sudden and unexpected collapse from
nervous disorders. Mrs. Palmer and
her two sons, Honore and Potter, Jr.,
were with Mr.. Palmer when he died.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
DR.. 0. B.Prickett,

whose name it bears. My proposition
is that after these notes have once
been paid they should be treated as
mutilated currency and sent to the
treasury department for destruction,
like other wornout bills, instead of
having them go to the postoffice to be
checked again and again and stored
away like the present money orders.
The system of auditing money orders
is very laborious and involves an i'm
mense amount of clerical work.
"Tbey are handled five times, check
ed up twice before we can straighten
up the postmaster's accounts and are
then kept in u files for seven years
for reference purposes before they
are destroyed. The adoption of the
postal currency scheme would effect
a great saving of time in the handling
of money orders. Of course the latter
would still be used for large sums, but
postal notes would take their place
for small sums. The large department
stores in the big cities get thousands
of money orders every day. I know
of one New York firm that presents
about $4,000 worth of money orders,
nearly all of one dollar each, for pay
ment every day"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
Lime as a Fertilizer.

Lime is not a form of fertilizer that
can be used indiscriminately on all
lands with the expectation of protita-
BILE results. 1t is liable to have the best
results on our, peaty soils and those
having a large amount of undecompOs-
ed vegetable matter. on heavy or cay
lands in conjunction with barn ma
nures and other coarse organic sub
stances and on sandy lands if in con
junction with d system of green ma
nuring. Wherever lime can be obtain
ed cheaply. from 10 to Is cents per
bushel. it car be used at the rate of
twenty to forty bushels per acre. in a
small way at first. and the results care
fully noted. for its value can only be
decided upon by actual application.
Place the quicklimc in small piles on
the field where it is 10 be spread. Make
the piles OF from three to five bushels
each and cover them with earth. Ii
the soil is moist. the lime will slack in
a few days. but if dry add a little wa
ter before the lime is covered with the
earth. The mass should slack to Il fine
powder without Jumps. If too much
water is used. the mass will be lumpy
and hard t spread. AS Il rule it is
best spread iii the fall.-II0ard's Dairy
man
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
The Great Dismal Swamp

OF Virginia is a breeding ground of
malaria germs. So is low, wet or
marshy ground everywhere. These
germs cause weakness, chills and few
err, aches in the bones and muscles,
and may induce dangerous maladies.
But Electric Bitters never fail to des-
troy them and cure malarial troubles.
They will surely prevent typhoid
1--WE tried many remedies for malaria
and stomach and liver troubles, .
writes John Charleston of Byesville.
o., "but lever found anything as good
as Electric Bitters." Try them. Only
SOC. Chapple Drug Co. guarantee
satisfaction.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
HILL AND MELLEN IN NEW YORK.
Presence of Magnates in Metropolis
Puts People to Guessing.

New York, Feb. 27.-The almost
simultaneous arrival in this city of
President Hill of the Great Northern
road and President Mellen of the
Northern Pacific, as we'll as the report
ed postponement Of Harriman's trip
to Mexico, gave rise to considerable
conjecture today. Mr.. Hill was not
accessible at his Office but a repre-
sentative of the company said that
there was absolutely no new feature
to the Northern ecurities situation.
Mr.. Mellen was one of Mr.. Morgan's
early visitors, as We're also Vice Pres
ldent Lamont of the northern Pa
cific, President Samuel Spencer of the
Southern Pacific, and Norman B.
Ream of Chicago.
In the afternoon Mr.. Morgan con-
ferled with Messrs. Spencer and
Ream, but up to a late hour he had
not seen Mr.. Hill. !
A representative of Mr.. Hartman
denied the truth of the report that
MI. Hartman would delay his trim
to Mexico. 1t is probable that Mr., Har-
riman will leave not later than to-
morrow.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
POSTAL
Auditor Henry A. Castle Favors the
Proposition for a New ssvteno

Washington, Feb. 27.-The PROPOSE
ton that has been advanced in CON
gress to provide a system O. postal
currency to take the place of money
orders for small amounts. meets with
the general approval of Auditor Cas-
tie, of the postoffice department.
When Mr.. Castle went into office in
1897 he discovered within six months
that wholesale frauds were being car
REC on by dishonest ~postmasters in
connection with the old money order
system. He peremptorily changed the
system and inaugurated the present
method OF issuing and paying money
orders. In speaking of the PROPOSE
.tlon to substitute postal currency for
money orders. Mr.. Castle said: "The
scheme is to retire $75, OOO, 900 of our
present circulating notes and substi-
tute for them postal notes of less than
$40, payable to =, or order, like a
bank draft, instead of to bearer. Such
notes will then pass as currency until
wants to use a note as a remit
lance. Then he puts the name of the
payee in the blank, which makes a
draft of it. payable only to>the person
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
RUSSIA.
Japanese Agents In Manchuria In
Guise of Drummers.

Japanese Agents IN Mdncnuria IN
Guise of Drummers.
Tien Tsin, Feb. 27.-The japanese
government is distributing emissaries
throughout Manchuria in the guise
of commercial travellers in order to
obtain exact information regarding
the character of the Russian occupa-
ton.
British and American representa-
tives in China cordially though priv
ately indorse the precautionary in
quisitiveness Of Japan and venture
the opinion that St. Petersburg will
be unable to make a move in Man
churia without the full knowledge of
Toxic.
It is further we'll understood that
whenever the Japanese decide that
Russia is Tightening rather, than
.loosening it's hold on the disputed ter
ritory they will file the strongest pro-
test Russian diplomacy has ever en-
countered in the far east.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
HINTS O FARMERS
Dimcultie. In Farming.

1t is very certain that there is no
problem more difficult to solve than
that Of how to manage . farm ut the
present time in order to make it pay.
writes Oscar Crum of Clark county.
Ind. in Prairie Farmer. Each year
prices in commodities rise and *
penses increase. Modern Innovations
ey than the receipts from the product
Of the farm will warrant. The young
men are leaving the farms for the cit
les. where they 20 to learn 4 trade or
seek a fortune and lay by something
for old age. The result of this is that
half Of the farmers have to depend OIL
incompetent help or rely on strangers,
who are not safe to have about the
farm, or do the work themselves.
There is a great Cry for better roads.
and all taxation is getting higher. Our
road tax at the present time is about
three times what it has been hereto
fore. Now, to renee Ills state of
affairs my idea is for farmers to go
slow with improvements and make
them when needed il possible. The
time is at hand when we will have to
do better farming-make every acre of
land grow every bushel Of grain that
we can and feed it on the farm. Do
not remove any straw. fodder or any
thing that makes manure from the
farm. Keep more and better stock.
With hogs at S6.25 and cattle at pres
ent prices, it will pay YOU to raise all
the stock the farm will feed rather
than sell the feed. There is :, class Of
farmers who keep abreast OF us. and
there is Il reason for it. They are in
sympathy with their work. You will
find these men know what their eX-
penses are. In fact. they keep Il set of
books that shows just what they are
doing. They do not let their farm ma
chinery stand out in all sorts of wealth
err. Their stock is found well housed,
instead of standing by q fence during
a snowstorm. These lei have found
that to be successful they must give
the closest attention to business. Would
it not be we'll for us to resolve the
coming a to better our condition?
! am sure we would find it more profit
able in every way We're we to do so.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
FLOOD WARNINGS SENT OUT BY
WEATHER DEPARTMENT.,
HIGH WIND. WITH STORM
In Texas 1t Was a Sand Storm-In
Some Places It Was A.
most a Cyclone.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 27.-The south
eastern gulf states where deluged by
rain last night and today. The pre-
cipitation was very heavy and at Co
lumbus, Ca, a bridge was swept away
this evening. The rainfall there was
almost a cloud burst, the Chatta-
hoocie river is rising at the rate of
two feet an hour. Several washouts
were reported on a number of roads,
and trains out of Columbus were an
nulled. There has been no loss of
life.
The rain has been falling in tor
rents all day. No trains except the
Central Of Georgia from Macon have
reached Columbus since noon. There
are several washouts on the Sea
Board Air line between here and AL
bana, Ga. which stops traffic on that
line.
Tonight the Associated Press wire
is the only one in operation toward
the north. The weather bureau to-
night sen flood warnings to all points
in Alabama and Georgia reached by
the Chattahoochie and Alabama
rivers.
In the southwestern section of this
state the rain and wind storm almost
attained the proportions of a cyclone
and it is feared considerable damage
will result. In Americas, tree and
fences have been blown down by the
gale. At Savannah, Ca, terrific surf
is running tonight and the wind is
blowing so miles an hour on shore.
At Tampa, Fla, hurricane signals
are out and the wind is blowing "a
miles an hour with increasing speed.
All boats are close in port and a
severe storm is raging in the gulf.
Indications are for a hard blow before
morning. Advices from Martin, Fla,
state that a hurricane has struck that
place and scores of houses in the
town and community have been de-
molished or damaged. There was a
cloud burst in Tampa and the town
was flooded.
Advices from Key West state that
a heavy blow is in progress.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
Unofficial Family Meal.

Washington, Feb. 27.-Prince Henry
accompanied by Ambassador Won Hol-
leben, dined at the white house to-
night with President and Mrs. Roose-
welt. Dinner was entirely unofficial
and of personal family character and
owing to Mckinley exercises making
this a day of mourning there were no
formal toasts or exchanges, the pur-
pose being to permit a more intimate
personal exchange than was possible
during formalities of official inter-
change last Monday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
RAIL TO ASIA.
Project of the Trans-Alaskan Rail.
road Company.

ROAD company.
New York, Feb. 27.-From San
Francisco to st. Petersburg by rail
in II days in parlor cars, with no
more of a water voyage than a 80.
mile transfer across Boring strait in
enormous steel lighters.
. This is the trip promised five years
hence by New York, Seattle, Denver
and Washington capitalists, engineers
and explorers who have completed
the preliminary work and have ar
ranged to start the building of the
Trans-Alaskan railroad on April 10.
This line, which will be $50 miles in
length, will open up one of the richest
countries in the world. More inter
esting and spectacular than that is the
certainty of it's making what will be
practically an all-rail route to Asia.
D. S. Granger, a Seattle capitalist,
who vas for many years connected
with the Burlington road, and J.. c.
Cornforth of Denver and Skagway,,
have spent the past five years on the
project.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
COMMITTEE NOT LIKELY TO REC
Commend SUSPENSION.
OF nLLMAN AND MLAURIN
Democrats Prepare to Make Long
Talks If Committee Urge Sc
we're Punishment.

Washington, Feb. 27.-The sub-com-
mittee of the senate committee on
privileges and elections which was ap-
pointed yesterday to formulate a
proposition for the proper punish
ment of Senators Tillman and Nc
Laurin of South Carolina for their
Offense to the senaIe OF
last Saturday, today practically con-
Guided to recommend that the two
senators be severely censured for
their conduct, and to limit the pun
ishment to censure.
monious n and little difference of
opinion developed. The republican
members of the subcommittee did
not themselves contend for a resolu-
ton ~suspending the two senators, but
repl resented that there were some re-
publican members Of the full commit
tee who adhere to the opinion that
through suspension only can adequate
punishment be melted out to the Of
Tending members. Senator Beveridge
is understood to be among the most
strenuous advocate Of this form of
proceeding, and Senator McCommas
is inclined to agree with him. Some
doubt is expressed as to whether they
will unite in a report limiting the
punishment to censure. On the other
hand some of the democrat members
made it very plain that they only
would not agree in committee to the
reporting of a resolution of suspen-
sion but that if such a resolution
should be presented to the senate by
a majority of the committee, they
would resist it's adoption by the SEN
ate to the extent of insisting upon
prolonged debate. The republican
members of the committee and also
many republican senators who are not
members of the committee have given
serious attention to this possibility
of delay in the senate, and there is
no doubt that it is having a %onoun
ed influence on the disposal of the
question.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
Blew Hard In Texas.

San Angleo, Texas, Feb. PA wind
storm prevailed over this section all
last night and today. Reports from
various points show a number of
houses blown over, stock killed and
other damage done. At Robert Lee
COKE county, many houses were
wrecked. That of Judge Graham
caught fire and his IS year old daugh-
ter persisted. Near Abilene the in
mates of the ranch house of j. w.
Wilson were badly hurt but particu-
lars are not obtainable.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
Preparing SOIL For Planting.

d Continue the preparation OF the soil
for spring planting. The recent freezes
will be found to greatly aid the har-
row in pulveriZing the surface soil.
Remember, the soil cannot be too fine
ly p%ulyeriZed. Less seed is required
because a larger per cent will germi-
nate on a finely comminuted soil, and
a quicker and more vigorous growth
will result. Such Il soil will both con-
tain more and retain better whatever
water it may receive. and the plant
food is rendered more easy of access
to the finely divided feeding roots.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
Big Wheat Yields.

A Minnesota man claims that by a
careful breeding of wheat he is going
to produce q variety Of wheat which
will produce fourfold more than any
we have now. We do not believe that
this can be done, and if it could be it
is doubtful if such a discovery would
be OF any real benefit. Wheat pulls
the life out of the best soil fast enough
as 1T IS and one year with another is
one of the least profitable crops which
can be raised.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
FIREMAN Ro9s A N
Locks Up Cashier and Takes Money
From the Vault.

Glencoe, Mimi, Feb. 27.-William
Matthew's, a fireman on the Hastings
& Dakota division of the Milwaukee
road, put on a mask this morning and
entered the bank of Plato and seized
and locked the cashier in the back
room, robbed the vault of 1900 and
took a freight train for Glencoe. The
robbery becoming known and Frank
Norton saw him jump from the train
and held him up until Sheriff McKen-
zie arrived and arrested him. He
confessed and told where the money
was. It was all found except $40 and
returned to the bank of Plato.