Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 22, 1896, Page 7

silver bullion, Gold and silver are different from other commodities in that they are limited in quantity. Corn, wheat, manu- factured products, ete., can be produced almost without limit, provided they can be sold at a price suflicient to stimulate pro- duction, but gold and silver are called precious metals because they are found, not produced. These metals have been the ob- jects of serious search as far back as his- gory Tuns, yet according to Mr. Harvey's calculation the gold coin of the world can be melted into a twenty-two foot cube and all the ver coin in the world into a ix foot eu Because gold and sil- are limited, both in the quantity now in hand and in actual production, it follows that egislation can fix the ratio between them, Any purchaser who stands ready to take the entire supply of any given article at a certain price can prevent that cle from falling below that price. So the gov- ernment can fix a price for gold and silver by creating a dem greater than the sup- ply. International bimetallists Believe that several nation entering into an agree- ment to coin fi ratio ail the gold and silver presented, can maintain the bul- lion value of the metals at the mint ratio. When a mint price is thus established it regulates the bullion price, because any per- son de y have the bullion con- verted into ¢ that price, and any person desirin ion can secure it by melting the co The only question upon which 1 bimetallists and inde- pendent bime: ts differ is: Can the y the free and unlimited at the present legal ratio, nd for silver which, taken in the demand already in be sufficient to utilize all t will be presented at the ee in their defense of the le, and they agree in un- sition to the gold standard. bimetallists cannot complain age gives a benefit to the mine nternational bimetallism owner of silver all the ad- ages offered by independent bimetal- at the same ratio. International bi- cannot accuse the advocates of of being ‘bullion owners who value of their bullion,” e to pay ther debts or “demagogues who de- y favor with the people.” They their opposition upon one ground nely, that the supply of silver for coinage is too large to be he United States : ng this question we must con- sider the ty of our people to use sil- ver and the quantity of silver which can come to our mints. It must be remembered. that we live in a country only partially de- veloped, and that our people far surpass y equal number of people in the world in their power to consume and produce. Our extensive railroad development and enormous interns must also be a Now, how much silver can come here ‘ot the coined silver of the world, because almost all of it is more valuable at this time in other lands than it will be at our mints under free coinage. If our mints are opened to free and unlimited coinage at the present ratio, andise silver cannot come here be- se the labor applied to it has. made it worth more in the form of merchandise than it will be worth at our mints. We cannot even expect all of the annual product of er, because India, China, Japan, Mexico and all the other silver-using countries must satisfy their annual needs from the annual product; the arts will re- quire a large amount, and the gold standard countries will need a considerable quantity for subsidiary coinage. We will be required to coin only that which is not needed else- where; but, if we stand ready to take and utilize all of it, other nations will be com- pelled to buy at the price which we fix. Many fear that the opening of our mints 1 be followed by the enormous increase in the annual production of silver. This is conjecture. Silver has been used as money for thousands of years, and during all of that time the world has never suffered m an overproduction. If, for any rea- create a dem connection ¥ existence, w! the owner, son, the suppiy of gold or sliver in the future ever exceeds the requirements of the a and the needs of commerce, we confidently the hope that the intelligence of will be sufficient to devise and islation necessary for the pro- ion of the public. It is folly to refuse to the people the money which they now need for fear they may hereafter have more than they need. I am firmly convinced that by opening our mints to free and unlimited coinage at the present ratio we can create a demand for silver which will keep the price of silver bullion at $1.29 per ounce, measured by gold. ome of our opponents attribute the fall in the value of silver, when measured by gold, to the fact that during the last quar- ter of a century the world’s supply of sil- ver has i ed more rapidly than the world’s supply of gold. This argument is entire], mswered by the fact that during the last five years the annual production of gold has increased more rapidly than the anr production of silver. Since the gold price of silve s fallen more during the last five years than it ever fell in any pre- vious fivi ars in the history of the world, it is evident that the fact is not due to in ed produ Prices can be low- ered as eff ng the de- mand for ana creasing the supply of it, and it in that the fall in the gold pr is due to bi legislation and not to uatural laws. cannot ignore the fact that now ng abroad in spite of all on intended to prevent it, and no is being d to take its place. Not sbroad now, but it must road so long as the pres- y is adhered to, unless we tpone the evil, borrowed, together it, must be repaid in The American people ge 8 to European credit- ors, and falling pr! have left a larger and larger margin between our net nation- al income and our national interest charge. There is only one way to stop the increas- ing flow of gold from our shores, and that is to stop falling prices. ‘The restoration of bimetallism will not only stop falling prices but will, to some extent, restore prices by reducing the world’s demand for gold. If it is argued that a rise in prices lessens the value of the dollars which we pay to our creditors, I reply that, in the balancing of equities, the American people have as much ht to favor a financial system which will maintain or restore prices as foreign creditors have to insist upon a financial system that will reduce prices. But the interests of society are far superior to the interests of either debtors or cred- itors, and the inte’ of society demand a financial system which will add to the vol- ume of the standard money of the world, and thus restore stability to prices, Perhaps the wost persistent misrepresenta- tion that we have to meet Is the charge that we are advocating the payments of debts in fifty-cent dollars. At the present time and under present laws a silver dollar when melted, loses nearly half its vaie, but that will not be true when we again Seablish a mint price for silver and leave no surplus silver upon the market to drag vn the price of bullion. Under bimetal- lver bullion will be worth as much just as gold bullion is now s much as gold coin, and we believe that a silver dollar will be worth as much as a gold dollar. The charge of repudiation comes with poor grace from those who are seeking to add to the weight of existing debts by legislation which makes money dearer, and ho conceal their designs against the gen- under the euphonious pretense e upholding public credit and use the with interest upon appreciating dolla now owe a large he charge that gold will . it must be remembered that no * this country until the owner ves something In return would rather have. In old leaves the country, owned it will be bene- gold of the fited. There Is no process by which we can be compelled to part with our gold against our will, nor is there any process by which silver can be forced upon us with- out our consent. Exchanges are matters of agreement and if silver comes to this country under free coinage, it will be at the invitation of someone in this country who will give something in exchange for it. Those who deny the ability of the United States to maintain the parity between gold and silver at the present legal ratio without foreign aid point to Mexico and assert that the opening of our mints will reduce us to a silver basis and raise gold to a pren‘tm. It is no reflection upon onr sister reputiic to remind our people that the United States is much greater than Mexico in area, in population and in commercial strength. I1 is avsurd to assert that the United States is not able to do anything whict Mexico has failed to accomplish. ‘Tho one thing necessary in order to maintain the parity is to furnish a demand great enough to utilize all the silver which will zome to the mints. That Mexico has failed to do this is! no proof that the United States would also fail. It is also argued that, since a number of the nations bave demonetized silver, nothing can be done until all these nations restore bimetallism. ‘Chis is also illogical. It is Immaterial how many or how few nations have open mints, provided there are sufficient open mints to furnish a monetary demand for all the gold and silver available for coinage. In reply to the argument that improved machinery has lessened the cost of produc- ing silver, it is sufficient to say that the same is true of the production of gold, and yet, notwithstanding that, gold has risen in value. As a matter of fact, the cost of production does not determine the value of the precious metals, except as it may affect the supply. If, for instance, the cost of producing gold should be reduced 90 per cent without any increase in the output, the purchasing power of an ounce of gold would not fall. So long as there is a monetary demand sufficient to take at a fixed mint price all the gold and silver produced, the cost of production need not be considered. It is often objected that the prices of gold and silver cannot be fixed in relation to each other because of the variation in the relative production of the metals. This argument also overlooks the fact that, if the demand for both metals at a fixed price is greeter than the supply of both, relative production bqacomes immaterial. In the early part of’ the present century the an- nual production of silver was worth at the coinage ratio about three times as much as the annual production of gold; whereas, soon after 1849, the annual production of gold became worth about three times as “uch, the coinage ratio as the annuar production of silver, and yet, owing to the maintenance of the bimetallic standard, these enormous changes in relative produc- aon had but a slight effect upon the resa- tive values of the metals. If it is asserted by our opponents that the free coinage of silveer is intended only for the benefit of must ‘be remembered mine owneers, it that free coinage cannot restore to the mine owners any more than demon- etization took a it must also be remembered 1 which the demonetization toox awa and it must also be remembered that the loss ation of sliver has which the demez ficant brought to the m con.pared to the loss whic policy has brought to the rest of the peo} ‘The res- toration of silver will bring to the people generally many times 2s x advantage as the mine owners ¢ 1 from it. While it 1s not the purpose of free coinage to especially aid any particular class, yet those who believe that the restoration of silver is needed by the whole people should not be red beezuse an jucidental bene- fit will come to the mine owner. ‘The erection of forts, the deepening of har- ent of rivers, the erec- i public } dings—all these confer incidental beneti upon duals and communities, and yet these in tal bene- fits do not deter us from making appropria- propriations are necessary for the pubile good. Phe argument that a heavier than a gold dollar fore, silver is le: large quantiti the silver cert doar is t, there- arry in complet answered by e, which is as easily car- ried as the gold certificate or any other kind of paper money. There are some who. while admitting the benefits of bimetallism, object to coinage at the present ratio. If any are deceived by this objection they ought to remember that there are no Di- metallists who are earnestly endeavoring to secure it at any other ratio than 16 to 1. We are opposed to any change in the ratio for two reasons: First, because a change would produce great injustice, and, second, because a change in the ratio is A change would produce in- use if effected in the manier ed it would result in an tion in the value of stand- decided by inter- raise the ratio agreement to ughout the world to 32 to i the change at be effected in any one of three ways: national ver dollar could be doubied in size, oo that the new silver dollar would weigh thirty-two times as much as the present gold do! or the present gold dollar could be reduced one-half in weight, so that the present silver dollar would weight thirty-two times as much as the new gold lar; or the nse could be made by in- of the silver dollar and of the gold dollar until silver dollar would weigh thirty- h as the new gold dollar. the two times as mu: new Those who have advised a change in the ratio ve usually suggested that the sil- ver dollar be doubled. made it would necessitate the recoinage of four billions of silver into two billions of dollars. There would be an immediate loss of two billions of dollars, either to indi- viduals or to the government, but this would be the least of the injury. A shrinkage of one-half in the silver money of the world would mean a shrinkage of one-fourth in the total volume of metallic money. This contraction, by increasing the vajue of the dollar, would virtually increase the debts of the world billions of dollars and decrease still more the value of the property of the world measured by dollars. Besides this immediate result, such a change In the ratio would permanently decrease the annual additjon to the world’s supply of money, because the annual silver product, when coined into dollars twice as large, would make only half as many dollars. The people of the United States would be in- jured by a charge in the ratio, not because they produce silver, but be- cause they own property and owe debts, and they cannot afford to thus decrease the yalue of their property or increase the bur- den of their debts. In 1878 Mr. Carlisle said: “Mankind will be fortunate indeed if the 1 production of gold and silver coin shall keep pace with the annual in- crease of population and industry.” I repeat this assertion. All of the gold and silver aunually available for coinage, when converted into coin at the present ratio, will not, in my judgment, more than supply our monetary needs. In supporting the act of 1890, known as the Sherman act, Senator Sherman on June 5 of that year sai “Under the law of Feb- rvary, 1878, the purchase of $2,000,000 worth of silver bullion a month has by coinage produced annually an average of nearly $2,000,000 per month for a period of twelve but this amount, in view of the re- cement of the bank notes, will not in- ease our currency in proportion to our increasing population. If our present: cur- rency is estimated at $1,400,000,000, and our population is increasing at the ratio of B per cent rer annum, it would require 000,000 increased circulation each year to keep pace with the increase of population; but, as the increase of population is accom- y a still greater ratio of increase of s, it was thought that se of circulation might If this change were be obtained by large purchases of silver builion to an amount sufficient to make good the retirement of bank notes and keep pace with the growth of population. Assuming that $54,000,000 a year of additional cur- rency is needed upon this basis, that amount is provided for in this bill by the issue of treasury notes in exchange for bull- ion at the market price.” If the United States then needed more than $42,000,000 annually to keep pace with population and business, it now. with a larger population, needs a still greater an- nual addition; and the United States is only one nation arong many. Our oppo- nents make no adequate provision for the increasing monetary needs of the world. In the second place, a change in the ratio is not necessary. Hostile legislation has de- creased the demand for silver and lowered its price when measured by gold, while this same hostile legislation, by increasing the demand for gold, has raised the value of gold when measured by other forms of property. We are told that the restoration of bi- metallism would be a hardship upon those who have entered into contracts payable in gold coin, but this is a mistake. It will be easier to obtain the gold with which fo meet a gold contract, when most of the people can use silver, than it is now when every one is trying to secure gold. The Chicago plaiform expressly declares in favor of such legislation as may be necés- sary to prevent, for the future, the demon- etization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. Such contracts are objected to on the ground that they are against public policy. No one questions the right of legislatures to fix the rate of inter- est which can be collected by law; there is far more reason for preventing private in- dividuals from setting aside legal tender law. The money, which is by law made a legal tender must, in the course of ordinary business, be accepted by ninety-nine out of every hundred persons. Why should the one hundredth man be permitted to exempt himself from the general rule? Special con- tracts have a tendency to increase the de- mand for a particular kind of money, and thus force ‘it to a premium. Have not the people a right to say that a comparatively few individuals shall not be permitted to de- range the financial system of the nation in order to collect a premium in case they suc- ceed in forcing one kina of money to a pre- mium? There is another argument to which I ask your attention. Some of the more zeal- ous opponents of free coinage point to the fact that thirteen months must elapse be- tween the election and the first regular ses- sion of congress, and assert that during that thme, in case the people declare themselves in favor of free coinage, all loans will be withdrawn and all mortgages foreclosed. If these are merely prophesies indulged in by those who have forgotten the provisions of the constitution, it will be sufficient to remind them that the president is em- powered to convene congress in extraordi- nary session whenever the public good re- quires such action. If, in November, the people by their ballots declare themselves in favor of the immediate restoration of Dimetallism, the system can be inaugurated withing a few months. If, however, the assertion that loans will be withdrawn and mortgages foreclosed is made to prevent such political action as the people may be- lieve to be necessary for the preservation of their rights, then a new and vital issue is raised. Whenever it is necessary for the people, as a whole, to obtain consent from the owners of money and the changers of money before they can legislate upon finan- cial questions, we shall have passed from a Democracy to a plutocracy. But that time has not yet arrived. Threats and intimida- tion will be of no avail. The people who in 1776 rejected the doctrine that kings rule by right divine, will not in this generation subscribe to a doctrine that money is not omnipetent. In conclusion, permit me to say a word in regard ito international bimetallism. We are not opposed to an international agree- ment looking to the restoration of bimet- allism throughout the-world. The advocates of free coinage have ou all occasions shown their willingness to co-operate with other nations in the reinstatement of silver, but they are not willing to await the pleasure of other governr when immediate re- lief is needed ne people of the United States, and they her believe that inde- pendent action offers better assurance of International bimetallism than servile de- pendence upon foreign aid. For more than twenty years we have invited ‘the assist- ance of European nations, but all progress in the direction of international bimetallism has been blocked by the opposition of those who derive a pecuniary benefit from the ap- preciation of gold. How long must we wait for bimetallism to be brought to us by those who profit by monometallism? If the double standard will bring benefits to our people, who wiil deny them the right to enjoy those benefits? If our opponents would admit the right, the ability and the duty of our people to act for themselves on all public questions, without the assist- ance and regardless of the wishes of other nations, and then propose the remedial leg- islation which they consider sufficient, we could meet them in the field of honorable debate; but when they assert that this na- tion is helpless to protect the rights of its own citizens we challenge them to submit the result to a peopie whose patriotism has never been appeaied to in vain. We shall not offend other nations when we declare the right of the American people to govern themseives, and without let or hindrance from without, decide upon every question presented for their consideration. In taking this position, we simply maintain the dignity of seventy million citizens who are second to none in their capacity for self-government. The gold standard has compelled the American people to pay an ever-increasing tribute to the creditor na- tions of the world—a tribute which no one dares to defend. I assert that national honor requires the United States to secure justice for all its citizens as well as do Justice to all its creditors. For a people ours, blest with natural resources of sing richness, to proclaim themselves surp impotent to frame a financial system suited to their own needs, is humiliating beyond the power of language to describe. We can- not enforce respect for our foreign policy so long as we confess ourselves unable to frame our own financial policy. Honest difference of opinion have always existed and ever will exist, as to the legis- lation best calculated to promote the public weal; but when it is seriovsly asserted that this nation must bow to the dictation of other nations and accept the policies which they insist upon, the right of self-govern- ment is assailed and until that question is settled all other questions are insignificant. Citizens of New York—I have traveled from the center of the continent to the seaboard that I might, in the very begin- ing of the campaign, bring you greeting from the people out West and South to assure you that their desire is not to de- stroy but to build up. They invite you to accept the principles of faith rather than listen to those who preach the gospel of despair and advise endurance of the ills you have. The advocates of free coinage be- lieve that, in striving to secure the imme- diate restoration of bimetallism, they are laboring in your behalf as well as in their own behalf. A few of your people may prosper under present conditions, but the permanent welfare of New York rests upon the producers of wealth. The great city Is built on the commerce of the nation and must suffer if that commerce is impaired. You cannot sell unless the people have money with which to buy, and they cannot obtain the money with which to buy unless they are able to sell their products at re- munerative prices. Production of wealth goes before the exchange of wealth; those who create must secure a profit before they have anything to share with others. You cannot afford to join the money changers in support of a financial policy in which they destroy the purchasing power of the products of the toil, and which must in the end discourage the creation of wealth. I ask, I expect, your co-operation. It is true that a few of your financiers would fashion a new figure—a figure representing Columbia, her Tands bound fast with fet- ters of gold and her face turned towards the East, appealing for assistance to those who live beyond the sea, but this figure can never express your idea of this nation. You will rather turn for inspiration to your city —a statue as patriotic in conception as it is colossal in proportions; it was the gracious gift of a sister republic and stands upon a pedestal which was built by the American people. That figure—Liberty enlightening the world—is emblematic of the mission of our nation among the nations of the earth. With a government which derives. its powers from the consent of the governed, secures to all the people freedom of con- science, freedom of thought and freedom of speech, guarantees equal rights to all and promises special privileges to none, the United States should be an example in all that is good, and the leading spirit of every movement which has for its object the up- lifting of the human race. SEWALL SPEAKS. The Vice Presidential Nominee De- livers a Short Address, Mr. Bryan spoke for one hour and fifty minutes, and the hands of the clock pointed to thirty-five minutes after ten when he finished the eloquent peroration addressed to the citizens of New York, speaking with uplifted arm and with manuscript thrown aside. The terrific heat had made the upper galleries almost unendurable, and before Mr. Bryan had finished a majority of their occupants had defiled through the doors. Candidate Sewall was very heartily cheered when he stepped forward, after he, with “Silver Dick”’ Bland and other leaders on the stage had grasped Bryan’s hand in con- gratulation. Mr. Sewall makes no preten- sions to oratorical ability and although his voice might fill an ordinary hall it was hardly equal to Madison Square Garden with hundreds trampling about the floor. He spoke as follows: “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee—You have given me official notice of my selection by the Democratic national convention as its candidate for vice president. For the courteous terms of your message and the kind personal ex- pressions, I thank you. Having been pres- ent at thet great convention I can more truly estimate the honor its action has con- ferred—it was the greatest and most ear- nest convention in the history of our party; it was closer and more in touch with the people. The delegates were there to voice the sentiments of their constituents, the people of the party, for the people of the party controlled and conducted the conven- tion. The Democracy of the country re- alize that all the great principles of our party are as potent and essential to the well being of the country to-day as they have always been and as they ever will be, but the overshadowing question before the country now made dominant by the dis- tressed condition prevailing throughout the land, is the demand for reform of our exist- ing monetary system. Our party and, we believe, a great majority of the American are convinced that the legislation 73 demonetizing silver was a wrong inflicted upon our country, which should and must be righted. We believe that the single gold standard has so narrowed the base of our monetary structure that it is unstable and unsafe; and so dwarfed it in its development and in its power to fur- nish the necessary financiai blood to the nation that commercial and industrial pa- ralysis has followed. We belteve that we need and must have the broad ond expand- ing foundation of both gold and silver to support a monetary system strong and sta- ble, capable of meeting the demands of a growing country and an industrious, ener- getic and enterprising people—a system that will not be weakened and panic-stricken by every foreign draft upon us, a system that will maintain a parity of just values of the nation’s money and protect us from the frequent fluctuations of to-day so disas- trous to every business and industry of the land. We demand the free coinage of silver, the opening of our mints to both money metals without discrimination, the return to the money of our fathers, the money of the constitution—gold and silver. We be- lieve this is the remedy and only remedy for the evil from which we are suffering; the evil that is now so fast devastating and impoverishing our land and people, bringing poverty to our homes and bank- ruptey to our business which, if allowed to continue, will grow until our very in- stitutions are threatened. The demonetiza- tion of silver has thrown the whole prime money function on gold, appreciating its yalue and purchasing power. Restore the money function to silver a silver will appreciate and its purchasing power in- crease, Take from gold its monopoly, its value will be reduced, and in due course the parity of the two meals will again obtain under natural causes. We shall then have a broad and unlimited foundation for a monetary system, commensurate with our country’s needs and future develop- ment; not the unsafe basis of to-day, re- duced by half by the removal of silver and continually undermined by foreigners carry- ing from us our gold. : This is the reform to which we are pledged, the reform the people demand, the return to the monetary system of over eighty years of our national existence. The Democratic party has already given its approval and its pledge. Our opponents admit the wisdom of the principle for which we contend, but ask us to await permis- sion and co-operation of other nations. Our people will not wait. They will not ask permission of any nation on carth to relieve themselves of the cause of their distress. The issue has been made. The people stand ready to render their verdict next November. Mr. Chairman, unequiv- ocally and throngh sincere conviction, I indorse the platform on which I have been nominated. I believe we are right, the people are with us, and what the people de- clare is always right and must prevail. I accept the nomination, and with the peo- ple’s confirmation, every effort of which God shall render me capable shall be ren- dered in support of the principles involved. At eight minutes of eleven Chairman Dan- forth declared the meeting adjourned, while the silver enthusiasts were calling for Will- jams, the young white metal advocate from Massachusetts. A Rare Palm, A palm, which is said to have cost $30,000, was recently imported by Miss Gould and placed in her conservatory at Tarrytown. One of the New York papers prints a description of the plant. which is of the species Ravenala Madagascarienses, from the forests of Madagascar. A much finer specimen of this palm, however, is owned by Richard Y. Cook of this city, and may be seen at his Lansdowne residence. Mr. Cook has owned it for many years. It was imported from Madagascar in 1876, is now. thirty feet in height, and is probably 100 years old. When in ploom it bears from three to five flow- ers of enormous size. Mr. Cook is dis- posed to dowbt the reported cost of Miss Gould’s plant, for, while they are yery valuable, they may be imported at a much smaller figure, although it would be difficult to transport one as large as hers is reputed to be.—Phila- delphia Record. A Princely Tip. A Western congressman who be- lieves in discouraging the practice of tipping once gave a Pulman car porter a penny after traveling on the train with him two days and a night. The negro, observing the denomination of the coin, said: “I beg your pardon, sir, but haven’t you made a mistake?” “Oh, no,” replied the statesman, plandly; “I never give less.”—Washing- ton Times. ; and family, MINNESOTA NEWS. Interesting Hrppenings in the North Star State. Philo S. Whitenan, a switchman, was run over and killed at St. Paul. An unknown man committed suicide at Wildwood, White Bear lake. The state fair this year promises to be of great value to the entire North- west. Two young people eloped from Northfield on a tandem, but were ar- rested at Hastings. The residence of Tom Langlay, at Delano, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $500; fully insured. Joseph Gross and Caddie Buttrick, while getting from a row boat to a sail boat, near the dock at Pine City, were drowned. The bodies were recovered. A body was found at Wells, supposed to be that of a newsboy who disap- peared in March, 1894. He was evi- dently murdered. Amos Shallman, a young man cf eighteen years, was drowned in the Root river about six miles from Chat- field. Peter and Nicholas Hverling, aged thirteen and eleven, were drowned | while bathing. One body has been re- covered. The house of Joseph Mahany, three and a half miles southeast.of Byron, was destroyed by fire, together with its contents. Insured for a small sum. Italian laborers, returning from work on the Great Northern on a train collided near Melrose, and two men were run over. One of them was badly bruised and injur2d interrally. Col. George Healy, a pioneer of Olm- sted county and state, died at Roches- ter. He was born in Cayuga county, N. ¥:, in 1812. He accumulated a large fortune, considerable of which has been left to charitable institutions. James Thompson, aged about fifty years, an employe of the Brainerd Lumber company, was killed on the landing st Brainerd while unloading logs. Five logs rolled over him, crush- ing him into a unrecognizable mass. Stephen O’Donovan, a well-to-do farmer living a few miles east of Graceville, was kicked in the stomach by a horse and died from the effect of the injury an hour later, before med- ical assistance could be had. A sneak thief named Samuel Wright of Minneapolis was sentenced to 240 days in the county jail by Justice New- ell of Hastings upon three charges of larceny. At the time he was arrested he had with him for protection a vicious canine. Lamberton is now having erected an eight-room brick school house at a cost of $15,000, to be completed for occu- pancy after ihe holidays. Erick, Lund & Co., Minneapolis, have the contract. The Smead system of heating will be used. A fatal accident occurred at Crooks- ton whereby W. C. Talleda, a brake- man on the Great Northern railway, and a highly respected citizen, was in- stantly killed. While making a coup- ling his foot was caught between the rails and his body ground to pieces. Erick And_rson, a Swedish laborer, whose home is at Iron River, Wis., was drowned in the Misssissipi river at St. Cloud. He was playing on a plank and, being unable to swim, fell off and drowned in about ten feet of water. The man had no family. Lightning struck two large barns west of Princeton, totally destroying them, together witk several head of horses, 100 tons of hay and a lot of farm machinery. G. McFarland and L. Rochfort were the owners. Small insurance. William Soure, a man about fifty years of age, at Lakefield, took a dose of laudanum, and died. He was sup- posed to be a little off ia his mind. He was an old soldier, was not a drinking man and was a good citizen. He leaves a wife and three children in moderate circumstances. A threshing machine exploded at Elgin, north of Rochester, injuring two men seriously. Schuyler Bigelow, the engineer ,was blown from the engine, breaking an arm ip two places and one leg. The other man was badly scald- ed. The engine had been condemned, and the men knew the chances they were taking. Burglars attempted to enter the hardware store of C. BE. Bondy, at Eyota. The clerk who slept there was awakened by the cracking of glass, and seeing a man’s form working before the rear window, he fired at him, the bullet striking close to” the casing. The man disappeared in the darkness, and no trace has yet been found of his identity. The house ocupied by Mr. Williams at Park Rapids, was struck by lightning, the bolt entering the bed room, injuring the bedstead on which Mrs. Williams was sleeping and singeing her hair and clothing, but leaving her uninjured. Lightning also knocked the end out of a granary for S. L. Doran, aud caused about 2,000 bushels of wheat to run out on the ground. Judge David Wilcox, of the munici-, pal court of Sauk Center, has com- menced action iu the Stearns county district court against the city council of Sauk Center for an alleged libelous resolution adopted by that body Jan. 6, asking him to resign. The resolu- tion was the result of a row over Wil- cox’s salary. ‘The suit is brought against Alex Moore, W. V. Whipple, J. F. Cooper and A. E. Ewin, all members of the city council. James Willis, an old employe of the Northern Pacific, fell backwards from a stepladder at Brainerd, while trying to tighten a bolt in the shafting, strik- ing on his head and fracturing his skull. 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