The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-25
With the Long Bolu
Cuban Revolution and the Familiar Old News of Firing
Heard from Mole ST. Nicholas and Insurgent
Activity in Peanut del Rio.
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n Activity in Peanut del Rio.
TT HIS Cuban revolution with coming from
Peanut del Rio recalls the grand old days of the
Spanish when boys
Why, do you know we can remember perfectly, in
fact it is about earliest recollection the stirring
time when the gallant Sampson steamed up under tho
guns of Matanzas and by wel,directed shot
fetched'a mule about forty rods to the left of the
lighthouse The loss of the animal seriously crippled
the Spaniards and struck blow for Free Cuba from
which they recovered. s
It about this time that gallant leader,
Colonel W. Jennings Bryan, marched his Nebraska
command into the Carolinas and encamped there
Indefinitely while Ager and the administration nearly
split themselves laughing in their sleeves.
The colonel obliged to sit around camp in his
shirt sleeves day after day. while Colonel Roosevelt
surgng up San Juan hill and slaughterng
spaniards by bales. Those were indeed the glorious
days. =.
Editor stratton of Westhope, N. D., has been thru
the 'shivaree' mill and considerably stirred to
Nnger by the experience. Mr.. Stratton welded
last week and spent the honeymoon with his brids
ION their claim leaving the devil and the pastor to
run the paper His prairie neighbors learning of the
presence Of the newly married couple in the cabin
put in appearance the night after their arrival
with COW bells, tin pans and horns to give them an
ovation and serenade. The bride and groom had tip.
The visit relished and the visitors to get
secured piece of scantling and using 1t as lever
tilted the editor domcile up at angle of about IS
degrees from terra irma to the accompaniment of
plosive remarks from the inside. -.
Do you know the crowd thought that this
Sunnys How do you account for such strange ideas9
Lmverne worked, criminally worked, the other
day, by travelling bicycle artist who gave open
air entertainment the bicycle and a,buggy wheel
which really worth seeing After he had finished
these stunts announced that he would loop the loop
without 1loop, on his bicycle, which, he said tsis
the most daredevil death-defying and nerveracking
act attempted" But before giving it he had to
sgot them The crowd contributed freely He then
mounted his Wheel rode around in circle half dozen
tmes appeared to be getting ready to turn bicycle
Handspring but did in fact suddenly ride the hills
and far away and never back He also forgot to
leave the money. =. -.t
/ Farmer Ben, in his Austin Transcript Says
There's woman up to Austin that knows how
to auto it ain It and fright every
time you meet it, IT,
The wide difference in the manner of running the
machines has caused comment everywhere. Some
auto owners use the vehicle for pleasure riding With
Others it is business. The commercial idea involved
lis to get all the ground possible. It is these
drivers who make the auto into what Farmer Ben
calls "a and frght.' The country horse is
not as we'll schooled as his city cousin. Farmer
Ben adds
''In this county there are nervous and chill.
dren who practically shut up on their farms all
and don't to get out on the road with q
team horse of the careless reckessness
of the motor ends. If this thing keeps up we might
all stay to home.'' 49,
There is better way. than that. It is to have
the law. on EN-. :l2->~
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t'That will be enough" said Mrs: White '|>
The other day Mrs. White, wife Of Abraham White,
the Wall Street broker who bought John A. Mccall $
house out of the Hartman DEAL called up her husband
and said that she needed a little shopping money.
White went to the office of Wolf Bros & Co.. brokers'
and said -
''Mrs. White needs shopping money and there is
reason why should not get it out of Wall street
It bought the house for me- let it finish the job
Great Northern preferred came out on the ticker
at 1905. :.' - f.-0I
THAT looks cheap; think III get some Of that -
White said: buy me 500 shares Of it and also get me
500 Northern Pacific at 21O or better.' *%"@ q wv
Early in the afternoon Mrs. White arrived at her
husband office and told him that she prepared to
go shopping. Mr.. White, asking her to wait few
minutes, closed out the 500 Great Northern
preferred at 1922 and the 500 Northern Pacific at 21s