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AUTHORIZATION GOSSIP.
Many Democratic Delegates Favor
Nomination of Cleveland.

Many Democratic Delegates Favor
Nomination of Cleveland.
st. Louis, July 2.-Talk in the inter-
est of Mr.. Cleveland for the presidency
constitutes the most prominent feature
of the ante-convention gossip heard
here, and the publication of Washing
ton dispatch quoting Mr.. John R. Nc
Lean in advocacy of the ex-president's
nomination had added somewhat to the
volume of prediction. There is no
definite movement discernible as yet in
Mr.. Clevelands interest, and the few
delegates in the city generally decline to
discuss the probabilities, saying that all
predictions would be premature at this
time. The discussion is therefore con-
fined to politicians other than delegates,
and with reference to the Cleveland
nomination these are divided into two
classes-those who favor him and those
who fear him. In general way eastern
arrivals are favorable on the ground
that Mr.. Cleveland can carry eastern
states, such as New York, which they
say no other man can carry. 1t is assert
ed that strong influence among the bust
ness interests is being organized in his
interest
At the Jefferson hotel, where the ma
tional committee makes its headquar-
tiers, the friends of Judge Parker are con-
gregated in large numbers, and included
among them are a number of leaders
from the west whose delegations are not
instructed for the New York candidate.
They are very antagonistic to Mr.. Cleve-
land and, believing that Mr.. Parker is
the most available instrument with
which to accomplish the defeat of the ex-
president, they are quite prepared to ac-
cept him. They freely predict Parker
nomination at a comparatively early
date in the convention. Delegates in
structed for Mr. Hearst say that gentle
man will not be able to control all his
forces in case of a break, and the claim
is made that even many of them will go
to Parker. Indeed, the friends of
Parker assert. that the Cleveland talk
which is now so plentiful will have the
inevitable effect of aiding their candi-
date. The Parker men do not accept the
theory that Mclean and German are sim
cere in their support of Cleveland, call
ing attention to past antagonism in sup
port of their theory.
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"JuSt Folks"

"My boy" said a Texas man to his
son, who was starting out for an eastern
city, "let me tell you something which
may be of help to YOU" His advice was
homely, but good. ''You get up there
and you'll see heap of people who have
got more money than you have-a heap
of people who have got more brains
than you have, and more success. Some
of them may even be better-looking
than you are. Don't you worry about
that, and don't you be scared of any
body. Whenever you meet a man who
allows he's your superior, you just look
at him and say to yourself: After all,
you're just folks You want to remem-
Der for yourself, too, that you're just
folks. After you have lived as long as
l have, and have knocked round the
world, you'll learn that that's all any
one Of us is-just folks" Forest and
Stream.
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Kelsey bill was enacted by the New
York legislature, giving women tax
payers the right to vote on questions
-of appropriations at special elections,
only very small proportion of the
women availed themselves of the priv
ilege. The woman-suffrage amend
ment was defeated in Massachusetts
by vote of 1877 to Al. In the Connec-
ticut constitutional convention there
were but three votes in favor of CIV
ing the suffragists a hearing on
woman's suffrage amendment. In
Iowa, where the great battle was
fought, the waning power of the suf-
fragists is indicated by the following
figures: in 1898 the legislature voted
40 to AZ against woman's suffrage
movement; in 1900 it voted SIS to 43.
and in 1902 when the roll was called
the vote stood 81 to SO. In New York
state there is an organization forceful
in numbers, but more particularly
forceful in the character of its men,
bership, which has for its avowed pur-
pose the making of persistent protest
against laying on woman's shoulders
the burden of the ballot"
In recent reading on the subject, we
had expected to come upon great
! amount of material eulogistic of wom-
ans work in public life, but found most
of the articles perused either mildly or
else strongly critical of woman suf-
frage; both men and women writer's
seeming to have plentiful occasion for
criticism of the methods and results OF
the use of the ballot by women. Eliz-
abeth McCracken, in an article in the
Outlook on woman's suffrage in Colo
RADIO, a state where women have had
| the equal suffrage for IL years, writes
| rather discouragingly Of the opportu-
nifty afforded women voters. Her main
argument is that grave disaste, has
been brought upon the women them
selves, that there is noticeable low
ering of womanly ideals.
A man writer on the same subject,
Mr.. William Macleod Raine, strange to
relate, does not chronicle any loss Of
womanly dignity, but gives as his con-
illusions, after seemingly careful
study of the matter, that women voters
do not regenerate politics to the ex-
tent heralded by their friends; but
does think women are being awakened
to some desirable interest in civic at
fairs; says that this new1y-aroused in
terest has manifested itself in the
greater cleanliness Of streets, in city
park improvements, in the care, ven
tilation and artistic decoration of
school buildings. All of which Mr..
Raine thinks comes very properly in
woman's province, are matters that
she naturally would supervise very
successfully.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER
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Leslie, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Harriet
Prescott Spofford, the writer; Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps, the novelist.
Many eminent men of the past were
advocates of woman suffrage Elmer
son, Alcott, Bryant, George William
Curtis, Eugene Field, Longfellow, Paul
Leicester Ford, Robert Ingersoll, Whit
tier; and many eminent men of the
present are counted as friends Of the
movement: Mark Twain, George w.
Cable, ex-Gov. Dole of Hawaii, Com
missioner of Education William T.
Harris, Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
w. D. Howells, Gen. Miles, Carorll D.
Wright. In addition to these might
be mentioned the names of surpris-
ing number of statesmen, senator's and
congressman Abraham Lincoln de-
clared himself publicly for woman's
suffrage, and Roosevelt, when COVER
nor, sent this message to the legisla-
ture: 81 call your attention to the de-
STABILITY of gradually enlarging the
sphere IN which the suffrage can be
extended to women
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was ordered to advance to the assault.
So soon as the order was given the Sec
ond regiment rushed into the town,
shooting down all opposition and en-
gaging in a hand-to-hand encounter.
Veering around the men then stormed
the forts on Hwangkinshan. These were
one and, and all occupied shortly after
four p. M The Mixed brigade had in the
meanwhile carried Laolaitse by assault.
At this moment the strains Of military
music were heard coming from the pa
rade and drill ground of one OF the
Chinese army divisions inside the town.
This was soon recognized as the music
of the band belonging to the staff OF the
second army. They were playing the
grandly impressive national anthem OF
Japan; Kimi ga 20. Asthe triumphant
music echoed over the hard-fought field,
the japanese troops gave vent to their
loyal enthusiasm in cheer upon cheer.
With regard to the forts west OF Hwang-
kinshan, the attack was now suspended,
the short autumn day being at an end.
The First division went into bivouac
Just north of the town of Port Arthur,
while the mixed brigade took up a posi-
ton on the left. The next day the Japa'
nese troops advanced to attack the re-
naming forts, but found them deserted.
The Chinese had decamped to the last
man. More than 20 of the great forts on
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the Port Arthur peninsula had thus been
conquered in a single day, and the sun
flag waved proudly over the well-won
field
The Rose Cross Of Thibet.

Any of the British officers now on
the road to Lhase who may happen to be
freemasons have, perhaps, just an out
side chance of solving an interesting
question. For there are those who be-
lieve that the high Rosicrucian adopts,
having emigrated to the east about the
beginning of the seventeenth century, still
inhabit the Thibetan plateaux to-day,
and some of the mysteries of freemas-
onry have been supposed to have been
acquired from the Rosicrucians. If they
ever existed, the Rosicrucians were q
secret society possessing the art of turn
ing baser metals into gold, and vowed
themselves to gratuitous healing of the
sick. Sceptics, however, maintain that
there never was such a society, but that
it was invented as ponderous joke by
a learned seventeenth century treatise
writer.-London Chronicle.
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on the advancing Japanese. But after
the fall of the third fort, the first and
second were easily taken.
After the land forts had been success
sively captured, an attack was made on
the coast forts, the highest of which
were those on Hwangkinshan. These
contained cannon of very heavy calibre,
easily turned in any direction. whose
range included not only the inland forts,
but even those in the place occupied by
the Japanese artillery.
There was one gun in particular which
had greatly annoyed the besiegers at
long range, throwing shells in the di-
rection Of the Etseshan, Erhlungshan
and Sungshushan forts. 1t was thus alb
solutely necessary to attack this high
fort first of all, and in order to carry out
this plan the Second regiment, which
had been left to guard the field guns
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-07-08
Double Murder.

New York, July 2.-After separation
of year and half, Lester May, former
ly connected with Brooklyn newspa-
per, has killed his wife and committed
suicide at Ocean Grove, N. ]. Mrs. May
had been living with her mother and
was walking toward her home with her
four-year-old child, when she encoun-
tered her husband. Words were ex-
changed. May suddenly drew pistol
and fired, the bullet piercing his wife's
head. He then turned the weapon on
himself, placing the barrel in his open
mouth. Both died instantaneously.
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Found in the River.

The body of young woman was
found in the river by workmen at the
ST. Paul boom. 1t was afterward sent
to the county morgue, where it re-
mains unidentified. There are indi-
cations of foul play, but as Coroner A.
w. Miller is out of the city no official
investigation has been made.
A long, narrow neck scarf, such as is
worn by women, was tied tightly in
four knots about the neck, the skin
was broken and the tongue protruded
from the mouth. 1t is supposed that
the woman was either strangled be-
fore being thrown into the river or had
attempted to strangle herself, and fail.
ing to accomplish her end, jumped into
the river.
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REPUBLICANS OF MICHIGAN
NOMINATE A STATE TICKET AT
DETROIT.
Warner Receives Unanimous Vote of
the Delegates-Other Candi-
dates-The Platform.

Detroit. July a. But two contests
worthy of the name marked Thursdays
state republican, nominating convention
in Light Guard armory One of these was
the fight in the resolutions committee
and in the convention, by Congressman
William Alden Smith, of Grand Rapids,
and State Senator Charles Simons, of De-
troit, for broader declaration in the
platform in favor of primary reform,
than the county local option declaration
favored by the so-called machine ele-
ment of the party and the other was on
the nomination for auditor general.
In addition to the name of Fred M.
Warner, of Pennington, who was nom
mated for governor, Homer Warren, of
Detroit, and George B. Horton, of Fruit
Ridge, were placed in nomination. Be
fore the first ballot was finished, how
ever, it was evident that Mr.. Warner
had received large majority, and Mr..
Horton moved that the rules be suspend
ed and the unanimous vote cast for Mr..
Warner. which was done amidst much
enthusiasm.
The remainder of the ticket nominal
ed is as follows: For lieutenant gov
ernor, Alexander Maitland, of Negau-
nee; state treasurer, Frank P. Glazier
of Chelsea; secretary of state, George
A. Prescott, of Tawas City; auditor gen.
eral, DR.. ]. B. Bradley, of Eaton Rap
ids; attorney general, Charles A. Blair
Of Jackson; superintendent of public in
struction, P. H. Kelley, of Detroit; mem
Der of the state board of education, L. L.
Wright, of Ironwood; land commission
er, w. H. Rose, of Clinton.
The amendment to the resolutions
prepared by Congressman Smith and
Senator Simons, pledging the party tt
the nomination of governor by direct
vote. was defeated by vote of TIA to 304
The platform, which was very short
indorses the platform adopted by the
national convention at Chicago; in.
dorses Roosevelt and Fairbanks and ex
presses confidence in a memorable vic
tory for the state ticket and "our fear
less leader and typical republican, The
odore Roosevelt"
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swallow HEADS
NATIONAL Ticket
PENNSYLVANIA MAN NAMED AS
PROHIBITION CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT.
MAY BE COMPELLED
TO DECLINE HONOR
Convention Gossip at st. Louis-Cleve-
land Boom Gaining Volume-Par-
ker Men Strongly Opposed to the
Ex-President.

Indianapolis, Ind, July 2.-The pro-
hibition party in national convention
on Thursday nominated Silas c. Swal-
low, of Pennsylvania, for president,
and George w. Carroll, of Texas, for
vice president The platform was
adopted without argument, after a
long deadlock in the resolutions COM
mittee. 1t was described by l. H.
Amos, of Oregon, secretary of the
committee, as the broadcast platform
ever placed before the people by the
party. In addition to the planks on
the liquor question, it declares the
party to be in favor of international
arbitration, a suffrage law based on
mental and moral qualifications, uni
form laws for the country and depen-
denotes, popular election for senator's.
civil service extension and the initia-
tive and referendum. The trust ques-
ton was recognized by demand for a
rigid application of the principles of
justice to all organizations of capital
and labor. A reform of divorce laws
is demanded and polygamy denounced.
Convention Ends.
Over $4,000 was raised by subscrip-
tion pledges from the floor of the con-
vention, which, with $1,000 in the
treasury, will be the nucleus of the
campaign fund. National Chairman
Stewart and National Secretary Tate
were reelected The prohibition edi-
tors organized for the campaign by
electing Edward Clark, of Indianapo-
lis, president. The convention pro-
gramme closed at night with mass
meeting at which addresses were made
by National Chairman Stewart, John
G. Woolley and others Several hun
dred of the delegates left for St. Louis
to visit the exposition.
NAY Decline the Honor.
Harrisburg, Pa, July 1.-THE Patriot
cline the nomination after all. Last
evening, in response to a congratulate
DRY telegram, he sent the following tt
Chairman Stewart:
Harrisburg, Pa, June 30.-Hon
Oliver w. Stewart, Prohibition Nation
al Convention, Indianapolis, Ind: II
honor referred to in your dispatch i'm
plies duties requiring my absence from
home, while highly appreciate any
honor or duty the grandest party OF
the age can give me, yet unless Mrs
Swallows health greatly improves,
would be compelled to decline
IS. C. SWALLOW"
DR.. Swallow said that he had moth.
ing further to say as to whether he
will accept the nomination. He also
said that he did not think it advisable
at this time to make any statement as
to his plan of campaign if he shoult
consent 10 remain candidate.
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News Notes.

Zutic Quesnel, aged Sc, former res
ident of st. Paul, was found dead in
bed at his home in Centerville.
The st. Paul Postoffice Clerks as
ISOLATION will give it's annual picnic at
Forest lake on Sunday, July II.
Donald Nicolet, an Italian miner,
20 years of age, was killed in the
open pit at the Cypress mine near
Hibbing.
The visit of the rivers and harbors
committee of congress to st. Paul and
the headwaters of the Mississippi has
been postponed until some time in
August.
After twenty years of railroad serv-
ice without mishap, William j.
Foley, yard foreman at the union
station, st. Paul, stepped in front
of one passenger train while trying
to avoid another, and was fatally in
jured.
Charles A. Pitts, employed by the
Diamond Fuel company, was run over
by Fourth avenue car at Third
street and Second avenue south, Min
neapolis, and his left leg was cut oil
between the ankle and the knee.
Hereafter only married men will be
given work on the streets of Mime
apolis.
A fire which started in the Girard
flats, st. Paul, rendered seven fam
lilies homeless, caused a loss of $4,000
and resulted in serious injury to Miss
Alga Henderson, IS West College av-
enue, and the injury of Mrs. c. x.
Capron.
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Accidents.

A brace of accidents have been re-
corded near st. Cloud. Martin Kelly,
foreman of the large Whitney farms
four miles from there, is lying at
deaths door as the result of a scythe
falling from tree and striking him in
the neck. A cash requiring ten stitches
was cut and the walls of the carotid
artery penetrated. Jacob Bier of st.
Johns university at Collegeville fell
from a machine shed, eighteen feet to
the ground, breaking both arms below
the elbows, fracturing his nose, and
sustaining other injuries which make
his recovery doubtful.
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Receives Serious Injuries.

Atlanta, Ca, July 2.-As result OF a
terrific fall while racing Thursday night,
Bobby Walthour, the bicycle rider, is
Friday in critical condition. The extent
of the injuries cannot be told, say his
physicians, until the shock to his sys-
tenn shall have been passed, at least
partially. At present both legs are par
alyzed, his left collar bone is broken,
his right elbow and fingers lacerated,
both hips badly cut and large wound
appears across his abdomen.
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A Definition.

At one of the registration places in
his state Congressman Bankhead, of
Alabama, stood listening to officials
testing a colored mans qualifications
for exercising the right of suffrage.
The negro was unusually intelligen.
and one of the officials said quietly to
the congressman: That's very smart
darby. He has answered every ques-
ton correctly"
"Ask him to explain a writ of GER
tiorari," suggested the congressman.
This was done and the negro, after
scratching his head, said: Deed
boss, guess you done got me. dun
no what dat is less it's somethin' ia
keep a niger from votin''
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At the Fair.

Arrangements are being made py the
state fair managers to make the live
stock department and the race pro-
gram more attractive than ever. The
premium list for live stock and the
race program have been revised and
amplified by the managers for the next
fair, which will open Aug. 80 The
race program will be enlarged by two
purses of $1,000 and $4,000, making
the total of purses offered more than
SIS, 900. The meet is expected to be
the most important held in the west
this season.
The most interesting departure in
the live stock department is the offer
of score of premiums exclusively for
sheep owned in Minnesota.
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Injured by Torpedo.

Mrs. John Swenson was badly in
jured by flying sand from torpedo
while riding on Minnehaha car in
Minneapolis. Some boys bombarded a
street car. One of the torpedoes went
off inside the car and the sand flew in
her eyes. She was taken to her home
by her friends and the police were ask
to find the bows.
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-HE similarity OF the present

HE similarity OF the present
8: !: !: !: ]: !: !: !:
0TH Japanese plan of campaign
l to the lines of advance in the
.GA Chinese war has been so re-
Sl,WS markable that an account OF
w assault on Port Arthur in
autumn of 1894 is sure to be
instructive. 1t was on October rs that
Count Oyama's force commenced to land
at Pitsuwo, 25, 900 in all, with field artil-
lery and siege guns. Within fortnight
Kinchu and Dalny were in Japanese
hands, and on the 18th of November the
invading army was on the highway to
Port Arthur.
This highway is commanded by two
main forts, Etseshan and Sungshushan,
and of these Etseshan has always been
recognized by military authorities, as
the key to the stronghold. On Novem-
Der 21st at two a. m. the assault formed
up for the final march from the camp at
Tuchengtau, each man carrying only
knapsack and rifle, with their ammuni-
ton.
The night was clear and the moon
shone with placid, silvery radiance.
There was not breatlSof wind; all was
silent But as the day broke the field
and siege guns burst into fame, aNd
with their thunderous cannonade reused
the enemy from their sleep. The van of
the Third infantry regiment, under Maj.
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Successor Appointed.

Washington, July g. - President
Roosevelt has appointed as commission
er of education of Porto Rico, DR.. Roland
P. Falkner, at present chief of division
of documents, library of congress, vice
DR.. Samuel McCune Lindsay, who re-
signed to take effect October next
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Collides with British Cruiser

Gibraltar, July 2.-The United States
dispatch boat Mayfiower collided Friday
with the British armored cruiser Bac-
chante, while the latter was at anchor.
The damage done, if any, has not yet
been ascertained.
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Rights Of Parents Respected.

A man who marries Laplandef
girl, against the will of her parents, is
deemed guilty of crime second alone
to murder, and in Lapland the punish
ment for it is very severe.
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Democratic Committeeman Dead.

st. Louis, July 2.-Joseph r. Ryan,
national democratic com mitteeman
from Nevada, and head of the Nevada
delegation to the democratic national
convention, died Friday at the Jefferson
hotel, of pneumonia.
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All Women,

The convention of the Ladies Catho-
lie Benevolent association, which will
be held in Saint Paul, July 1920, will
be anevent of more than usual inter
est. The association is a fraternal in
surance society for Catholic women,
and the fact that it is managed entirely
by women makes it unique among the
larger successful business enterprises OF
the country. All of the supreme Off
GERS of the association, with the ex-
ception of supreme spiritual adviser,
are women and there are no men con-
nected with the association in any ca
pacity except as medical examiners.
The men would be probably excluded
from these positions were it possible to
secure in alkplaces competent. women
physicians.
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She Ought to Get Married.

United Presbyterians of Greenville.
Pa, have decided that woman of 80
is not eligible to membership in young
peoples societies. Perhaps she may
find a place in the infants class
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A Spoiled Cook.

Mr.. Grumps-You'll have to discharge
that cook.
Mrs. Grumps-You liked her at first.
Mr. Grumps-Yes, but she's getting
into your way of cooking.-N.Y.Weekly.
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Educators Adjourn.

ST. Louis, July 1.-THE National Ed
ucational association convention ended
Friday. All the meetings of the day
were diminished in attendance.