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The Washington times., 1903-10-05
RECHABITES TO HOLD
ANNUAL CONVENTION
High Tent to Assemble Here
Tomorrow.
FOUR STATES REPRESENTED
Order Has 400 Members in Washington
and 5000 Altogether-Preseat
Officers.

Local Rechabites have completed all
arrangements and everything is in readi-
ness for the annual convention Of the
High Tent of the Independent Order of
Rechabites of North America in Wash
ington beginning tomorrow.
From reports received, the convention
gives promise of being the largest and
most successful ever held. 1t will be
attended by delegates from Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland, Virginia. and Ohio.
The convention last year was held at
Midland. Md. The membership is over
S.00O. of which the District furnishes
about 400.
The sessions will be held at 62S Louisi-
ana Avenue northwest daily until all
business has been completed. This will
consume about three days. An enter
tainment committee, representing the
nine local tents. has been appointed and
will arrange for receptions, banquets,
and amusements for the visiting dele
gates. The headquarters of the dele
gates has not yet been selected.
The convention will consider the
funeral benefit fund and the Insurance
features of the order These were in
augurated about three years ago and
have proved entirely successful. Several
proposed changes in the bylaws have
also been taken under Amusement by the
executive committee.
The officers of the order are: High
chief. ruler. John Abbott, jr., Lonacon-
ing. Md: high deputy chief ruler. H. E.
Wagus. Midland, Md. high secretary
J. H. Dony. OF Jehu Tent. Washington:
high treasurer. W. B. Kelly. Washing
ton; past high chief ruler. S. NJ. Ellis
Pittsburg. Pa.
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The committee is former Secretary of
the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy. chairman;
Sidney J. Smith, of Smith & Stewart;
Otto Barnard. president of the CONT
mental Trust Company. ]. W. Henning,
governor of the Stock Exchange; D. s.
Ramsay. vice president Of the Mercan-
tile National Bank; B. W Jordan. presi-
dent OF the American Loan and Trust
Company. Boston; James H Warner.
counsel, and B. W. Dinsmore. secretary.
Railroad Extension.
Dispatches from Richmond say that
George Carter, president of the road.
announces that the South and Western
Railroad, formerly the Ohio River and
Charleston. is TO be extended at once
from Johnson City to the West viz
ginia coal fields. and from its present
North Carolina terminus at Spruce Pine
TO the Atlantic coast The extensions
Will aggregate several hundred miles.
The road originally was projected from
Charleston TO Chicago, via Cincinnati.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
Mr.. BlSSELL'S ILLNESS
CAUSES GRAVE FEARS

Wilson S. Bissell, Postmaster General
In President Cleveland's Cabinet is SER
iously Ill at Buffalo, n. Y, and grave
fears are entertained for his recovery.
He has been incapacitated from work for
ten days. The attending physician ad-
mits his condition to be alarming. The
malady is believed to be an internal
cancer. Mr.. Bissen recently returned
from a long vacation In the East to re-
sumo his law practice in Buffalo.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
LABoRER's LEG AMpurATED.

yesterday found IL necessary to ampr-
tate the leg of John COhedan, thirty Eve
years old, of Philadelphia. Cohe5an WIS
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
in the excavation of the tunnel leaSiag
TO the new Union Station and had his
leg injured by the caving in of dirt. The
amputation was made below the knee.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
KING ORDERS MEMORIAL
SERVICE FOR HERBERT

LONDON. Oct 5.-By the Kings COM
mand a memorial service for Sir Michael
Herbert will be held IN Marlborough
House Chapel, adjoining ST. James
palace, on Tuesday afternoon Special
seats viii be reserved for members OF
the diplomatic corps.
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GENEVA. Oct. 5.--A savage ana ;ypi-
cal vendetta duel has been fought in a
forest at Fontaine. st. Andre, in the
canton of Neuchatel. by two Neapoli-
tans.
There was an old standing enmity
between the two men. one Of whom lived
at Neuchatel ard the other at st. Gall.
and they agreed to meet and fight to
the death.
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$4,000 TON TURBINE LINER.

LONDON, Oct. 5.-The Allan Line has
ordered at Belfast 12.OO0-ton turbine
steamer. the first of this kind to be used
on the Atlantic The steamer is
destined for mail service between Liver
pool and Canada. She will have a speed
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RELIGIOUS ORDER MULcTED.

LONDON. Oct. 5.-Mary Archer, form
erly of Milwaukee. who sued the Order
Of the Sacred Heart for damages for
dismissal from the order and incarcer-
alton In an asylum on the ground of in
sanity, and also for remuneration for
several years services. has been award
ed IS, 600 damages. $4,000 for wages. apd
$1,000 for wrongful dismissal after her
liberation from the asylum.
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BondhoEders Investigating.

The committee Of bondholders of the
Mexican Central. who were appointed to
investigate the affairs OF TIE company
began its work today. The committee
has issued the expected call for the de-
posit OF bonds from those who are dis
satisfied with the offer of the company
made through the Landenburg, Thai
mann & Co. syndicate, also 70 ascertain
why no return has been made OF the
business affairs OF the company.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
AMERICAN RELEASED
FROM COLOMBIAN PRISON

The state Department has received
message from Minister Beaupre. at Boz
gotta. stating that Charles Radford. OF
Georgia. who was sentenced 10 imprison-
ment for twenty years for murder. has
been released by the Colombian govern
rsui
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
RUMOR OF RETIREMENT
OF JUSTICE HARLAN

Rumors OF the retirement of Justice
Harlan from the United States Supreme
Court have been started by the call at
the White House Saturday Of Justices
Harlan and MeKenna. The further TACT
that Judge Gray was a caller Friday. has
served to couple Judge Gray's name
with the succession
The Washington times., 1903-10-05
FIRST SNOW OF SEASON.

FERGUS FALLS. Mimi, Oct. Snow
fell for more than three hours yester-
day to the depth of several inches. 1t
was the first of the season. and was
driven by a high northwest wind.
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MAI. GOES SENTENCE APPROVED.

dispatch from Vancouver Barracks,
Wash. announces that Gen. Frederick
Funston has approved the findings OF the
court-martial which found Major J. Goe.
Nineteenth Infantry. guilty of drunken
ness and sentenced him TO confinement
within the limits OF his post for eight
months and a less CT $50 a month Of his
pay for that period.
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FELL TO DEATH OFF TRAIN.

UTICA. n. Y. Oct. SO. NJ. Wood, of
Lowville. a brakeman on the New York
Central Railroad. was instantly killed at
Carthage, by falling. while attempting
20 jump from one boxcar to another
His head struck one of the rails
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TWO KILLED BY TORNADO.

PLAINFIELD. Wis, Oct. 5.-The tor
nado Saturday night wrecked many
buildings. Mrs. John Fisher and Mark
Wood were killed. Much live stock was
injured and the farmers are heavy
losers
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The UnquestionabIe Purity

And delicious favor Of Nat Cap. Brewing Cas-
'Auenchenery commend il TO lovers % fine
beer. doz-. S125, delivered Phone I'D for case
The Washington times., 1903-10-05

H. A. Wilson. city ticket agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio. who has been away
on his vacation several weeks, returned
to his desk today. He spent much OF his
leave in the West Virginia mountains,
and on one of his hunting expeditions he
killed a good-sized bear.
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Personals.

w. A. Cox. general passenger agent of
the Chicago and Northwestern, and T.
A. Hendricks, of the Union Pacific were
in the city yesterday.
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Awning Rope Ignited.

In lighting a pipe yesterday afternoon in
'front.' Of the tailor shop q samuel Eouffer at
sll Fourteenth Street northwest, two unknown
came near resulting in a serious FIRE The
flames were promptly extfnguished however.
and meantime the men slipped out Of sight.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05

Boys Missing From Home.
The police have been asked to locate two
missing boys One is Edward Ekbert, fourteen
years old, who has run away from his home at
s02 Street northwest and the other is james
Heistsnd, seventeen, who has been missing from
his home in Lencolia, Fairfax county, Va,
since Friday last
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Birds and animals mounted schmid. 712 18th.
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a Bottles of Lager Beer for &c.

We use the aluminium stoppers-the latest pat
ent- Beavers. 423 ~ St Phone NJ l0OsD
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LOCAL MENTION.

Skaters Flowers at Weddings
Attract admiration. 14th and !. III Pa ava
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each. We furnish the cans free Drop US a
postal phone East 6s3- Home Safety oil
Delivery, Half and K sts sv
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New Model Gas Stoves and Ranges
GIG l2th-c. a. Nuddiman & Co.-l2os G.
The Washington times., 1903-10-05

Genuine IS, So, and ~ Sample Shoes,
Three hundred styles at s2-s5 Keene's shoe
Store. Dos Street northwest
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ULCERS
RARTEn LIZ rAE RI nnR

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begin @ doitar when heard OF s. s. g.
festeT and before
heel and taking
eating Cancer hoFe are
Whenever good MRS r.
with your poison that has ben sI
there
sores rooted In the blood ard while Washes
49, the surface clean, they arr noth healing blood
kC& fS% gc medicine purify strengthen the polluted
~ ~ ~ blood and a tonic to build eneraisy
ESX Nz hSE is what is needed S is
remedy. No poison powerful md germ
SO deadly that this great vegetable blood remedy
ulcers OF kind quickly yield its
you have an old ulcer write eli CHARGE for
nedlcai advice JZ5E SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., AyEAsTA ca
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Hot Tomales and Chill
kerosene on. zoe; Gasoline. &c ner caI

At 500 Thirteenth Street NV.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

To ape anything is a sign Of vacuity
Of mind; to ape the follies of those
above you is one Of the most offensive
forms of vulgarity. Yet we see the fol-
lies of the uppermost classes steadily
initiated all down the different sets Of
society. and the popularity of every
book dealing with the peerage is a
proof, if one We're needed, of what alb
sorbing interest our failings are to the
public There is nothing we will not
write upon to crafty this vulgar curl
osity; nothing is in TOO bad taste if by
its publication we can raise little Of
the ''needful" Our scandals. our in
trigues, our inane conversation, our
bills and even our menus are recorded
for the benefit of public which. while
processing to be Mortified greedily
cries for more.--A Countess in London
Outlook.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19
Wisconsin Fuel Resources.

Chiffon Times:
Maple wood, OF ordinary stove
length, is selling in Milwaukee for
$40 cord. This is not, the dealers
say, due to any conspiracy to boost
prices, but simply because wood can.
not be obtained except at great ex-
pense. 1t is fact worthy OF grave
consideration that Wisconsiu's forest
resources are rapidly dwindling. Be-
fore another ten years have passed,
coal and peat will have to be relied
upon altogether for fuel except by
such fortunate farmers as have exer-
cised foresight enough to reserve a
tract of virgin timber. While it is
doubtful IL the prices exucted in
Milwaukee are the lowest possible,
nevertheless it is an indication OF the
coming famine In fuel. Wood at such
prices, or even at So or 81 a cord, is an
expensive luxury, to be INDUCED in
only by the well-to-do. There is only
one remedy for the condition grow
Jag out Of the wholesale destruction
OF timber, and this is REPRESENTATION.
| Sooner or later this means will have
to be resorted to supply that most
necessary article Of commerce, lum-
Der. Though brick and steel supplant
to great extent the use of wood in
building, timber isstill indispensable
to many classes of architectural work
| Now, while the forests are not quite
destroyed, is the time to inaugurate
the movement to secure to coming
generations the inestimable benefits
OF mbered lands.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19
A Piano at a Nominal Price.

Chicago's largest music house,
Lyon Il Healy, announces clearing
sale of pianos. Severai hundred
splendid instruments are offered
without reserve unth all are sold. In
this stock are IA number of Steinway
and Knabe pianos, and new and Sec
ond hand pianos including instru-
ments of the following well-known
makes: Miller, Mason and Hamlin,
Hazelton, McPhail, Sterling, Hunt
ington, Nose, Fischer, Weber, Chick
ering, etc. In square pianos there
are fine-toaed instruments at S26, $40,
$50, and upwards. In upright pianos
neat instruments ut 800, Sl20, $40
$3.50, 1865, $3.50, $500 and upwards. In
baby grauds some nice specimens at
$3.50 and upwards, Nearly all these
pianos were intended to sell for much
more than these clearing sale prices,
LYON K Healy will send a list and
full particulars upon application.
Any piano not proving entirely sat
isfactory may be returned at their
expense. Address Lyon q Healy,
| Adams St, Chicago. Distance is
no obstacle in taking advantage Of
this remarkable chance to obtain a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19
Must Come to Time.

Insurance Commissioner Host has
started a strenuous campaign against
the unauthorized (wildcat) fire in
surance companies that intention
ally refuse to comply with the laws
of Wisconsin and thereby encroach
upon the rights OF honest companies.
70 recover Il claim against one of
these unauthorized companies, the
assured would have to bring suit in
the state in which the company is
organized
The campaign is now assuming n
federal significance. Mr.. Host pro-
poses TO have a bill introduced dur.
ing the present session of congress to
amend sections 1894 and 1929 of the
Revised Statutes.
This amendment is SO framed as
to apply the provisions of existing
laws to letters, postal cards, circu-
lars, pamphlets and publications
concerning any business Of, and con-
tracts and policies of life fire or
other insurance transmitted into
any state, district or territory by
concerns or persons not authorized
to transact such business in the state
from which the same are transmit
ted. The amendment provides that
the penalty for the first violation
shall be imprisonment for not more
than two years and fine of not
more than $1,000, OF both, and for the
second ana after ofTeuses by such
imprisonment only.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19
Why the Average Man Suffers.

Inter Ocean.
Secretary Job Of the Employers
association has issued bulletin Civ
ing the results Of an investigation
into the cost of living in Chicago in
the first half of 1903 to men earning
$500 to $1,000 year, as compared
with the cost in 1898
The articles taken for price com
PARSONS were flour, graduated sugar,
coffee, tea, potatoes, butter, eggs,
milk, round steak, corned beef, pork
chops, breakfast bacon, ham, lard.
rent, fuel and clothing. According
to Mr.. Jobs figures the percentage
Of increased cost o! all these items
taken together is 1863.
| In other words, family which
spent $1,000 on its living in 1898 had
had to spend $l,l6S in 1903 to live on
the same scale.
Mr.. jobs figures are lower than
those shown by Dnn's Review. That
Journals reports of prices of $50 COM
modities show an increase of about
% per cent on Oct /, 1903, as com
pared with Oct. |, 1898. However,
Dun's Review figures cover materials
of industry as well as articles of per-
sonal consumption and are obtaiued
by averaging prices in all the prin-
cipal markets, many of which are
more distant from the great food
producing districts than is Chicago.
Taking either set of figures it is
easy to see why the average man
who is neither a capitalist nor n
member of labor union is not over
we'll pleased with his condition and
prospects aCthe present time. While
his income has not materially in
creased since 1898, he Is paying 8 per
cent more on the average for staple
| groceries, 20 per cent more for milk,
cent more for fuel, 20 per cent more
for rent, and only per cent less for
clothing. The facts that he spends
nearly twice as much for groceries
as for meats, and over two Thirds as
much for clothing as for rent are
what makes his total expenditures
for living in Chicago only 1863 per
cent more than in 1898
Those who think that everybody
ought to be contented when trusts
and labor unions tlouri, h should
study these figures. They show that
the average man, from whom in the
long run both organized capital and
organized labor derive the profits
over which they quarrel, is not do
ing as we'll as he was in 1898 And
they point to the necessity of consid'
ering in finance and legislation the
DNpr1Vp man.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

The coyote has small chance for life.
1t is hunted upon all occasions and by
devious and sundry methods. AS the
cowboy careers along the plains he
pops at it with his six shooter. The
wise ranchman has a shotgun or rife
hanging in convenient place await
ing the appearance of q coyote near
the ranch house The hunter Of more
choice game never misses shot at q
coyote, while there are professionals
who do little else but pursue it from
one years end to another. Besides,
there are organized hunts inaugurated
in settled communities for both pleas
ure and profit, when a large scope of
the country is swept clean and the coy
otes falling into the meshes of the hunt
are dispatched and their skins tanned
for rugs and doormats. Then animals
are baited with poisoned meat. This
method Of destruction is not only used
by ranchmen, but by persons who
make a business of killing coyotes for
a living.-Kansas City Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

An old chronicler tells curious story
of an explosion which occurred in Lon
don Jan. 4, 1919. a ship chandler, 1t
seems, about Z of the clock at night.
being busy in his shop about barrel
ing up Of gunpowder, it took fire and
in the twinklilg of an eye blew up
not only that but all the houses there
about to the number of fifty or sixty.
The number of persons destroyed by
this blow could never be known, for the
next house BIZ one was the Rose tav-
orn. house never Cat that time OF
night but full Of company And in
three or four days, after digging. they
continually found heads, arms, legs,
etc" The most interesting part of the
account comes further on:
"In the digging they found the mis-
tress of the house of the Rose tavern
sitting in her bar and one of the draw
ers standing by the bars side, with
pot in his hand, only stified by dust and
smoke, their bodies being preserved
whole by means of great timbers fall
ing across one upon another. There
was also found upon the upper leads Of
Barking church young child lying in
a cradle as newly laid in bed, neither
child nor cradle having the least sign
of fire or other hurt. 1t was never
known whose child 1t was, so that one
Of the parish kept it for a memorial,
for in the year 1906 | saw the child,
grown to be then a proper maiden"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

In the early history of Virginia and
Maryland tobacco was by all odds the
most important crop, aud it was even
possible at times to secure a wife in eX
change for moderate amount of to-
bacco. as in later days in the west a
squaw could be obtained in exchange
for small amount Of whisky. In 1882
at Jamestown tobacco was made a le-
gal tender for all debts, including Gus
toms. In about dozen years after the
founding OF jamestown by Captain
John Smith an English nobleman, Sir
Edwin Sandys, brought over with a
ship load of supplies ninety young Eng
fish maids, who Immediately upon their
arrival were wooed and married by the
colonists, each being paid for at the
rate of "120 pounds of good tobacco"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19
GOOD THINGS TO LEARN.

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is bet
ter than medicine.
Learn to attend strictly to your own
business; very important point.
Learn how to tell n story. A well
told story is as welcome as a sunbeam
in sick room.
Learn to stop croaking. If you can
not see any good in this world keep
the bad to yourself.
Learn to keep your own troubles to
yourself. The world is too busy to care
for your ills and sorrows.
Learn to greet your friends with a
smile. They carry too many frowns in
their own hearts to be bothered with
any of yours.
Learn to hide your aches and pains
under IA pleasant smile. No one cares
whether you have the earache, head
ache or rheumatism.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

We are we'll prepared for the fall
and winter season Of 1904 with the
latest imported and domestic goods,
which we can make up into all the
different styles to please our clients
at very moderate prices. The latest
English and American fashion plates
on hand. Read the following letter
from Mr.. Rashe Hubbell, promi-
nent citizen of Boscobel, and an en-
ploye in the U. S. mail service:
BoscoBEL. WIS, Apr. 18th, 1903.
A. f. Dresden, Mineral Point, Wis
DEAR FRIEND ADAM
The suit ordered of you came duly to hand
and, as the case has always been during all
the years you have supplied my wants in the
clothing line. they are the very acme of the
cutters art They certainly could not be inn
proved upon. and am highly pleased rs well
as grateful that you are in such easy reach of
us; but rest assured that no difference where
the future may find you. whether nearer or
thousands of miles away, no one else can
many clothes Ike while you are in the bust
ness AS ever. your friend.
RAsHE HUBBELL.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-11-19

SINCE the victory Of Ohio, Senator
Hanna j. being talked Of as pres
identlnl candidate. There is just one
thing mat will kill Mark and that Is
to come up ~ an opposition candl'
date To President Roosevelt.
PRoF. HENRY, TX Gov Hoard
Judge Grimm and other good men
labored with tive county board OF
Jefferson county to feet an agri-
cultural and domestic science school
but the supervisors said no, twenty
two to ten.