Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 2

The Herald-Review. By E. Kiley. GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. Happy is the man who can be proud of his friends. Chicago is the only city in the country that is already “greater.” This is the season when the back- sliders and drunkards are saved again, Man is apt to charge his failures to luck and credit his successes to sa- gacity. The Cherry girls are going to be- come living pictures. Animated chro- mos, we presume, . Fortunately for mankind their tastes for amusements vary more widely than their personal appearance. There are a great many people who would be better off if they only knew that asking questions is not conversa- tion, A half-breed Indian named Boulan- ger claims half of Kansas City. If he had been a full-blood he would have wanted the whole town. Pugilist Corbett indignantly denies that he thrashed his stage manager. It is a serious matter now-a-days to charge a pugilist with fighting. Why should a preacher, any more than any one else, be permitted to speak slightingly of women without securing the contempt of all manly men? Another miser, who wore seedy clothes and a sad countenance for many years, died in New York recent- ly leaving behind him a bank account credited with $14,000 and _ several strong boxes containing $1,520,000 more. No wonder the times have been hard. The government receipts from cus- toms during December amounted to $10,779,412, a gain for the month of about $800,000. The internal revenue receipts aggregated $13,198,998, a nom- inal gain over November. As com- pared with December, 1895, there is a loss of about $1,390,000 in the customs, and a gain of about $448,000 from in- ternal revenue. “Will the young man from the coun- try spend his evenings at a dime museum,” asked Edward Everett Hale last week, “or at a bookkeeping school?” It is not the more or less of bookkeeping which will be the result of the young man’s decision. It is the destiny of half a century. It is not im- possible that the destiny of America may rest on the decision. ra New York ladies have been discuss- ing the inroads made on the home by club life, and bewailing modern inno- vations generally. One woman de- clared that “homes are broken up that the home-maker may obtain leisure for lectures and clubs, and even babies of 6 are smitten with the fever. Cupid has no privacy in which to shoot his darts and can only make his advance un- der the cover of a hundred eyes.” But, worse than all this was the statement that the fin de siecle woman had no time to make mince pies. The results of the last French census, just published, show that there is no sign of recovery in the birth rate. The total increase in the population of France since 1891 is only 175,027, while the number of foreigners in France is decreasing. The large towns are grow- ing slightly at the expense of the small- er towns and the rural districts. The inhabitants have increased in twenty- four departments and have decreased in sixty-three departments. The min- ister of the interior, M. Barthou, notes an increase of emigration, but is com- pelled to confess the marked tendency of the population to remain stationary as to numbers, From Council Bluffs, Iowa, comes a story that illustrates several phases of human nature. In that city the other diay a man who is very poor and who 43 likely to remain so, owing te the fact that an accident has deprived him of both his arms, found a large roll of grcenbacks. The money lay in the gut- ter and the finder could almost hear it beg him to pick it up. This, on ac- count of his misfortune, he could not do. So he quietly kicked the treasure into the shadow of a building and tried to think out a safe method of transferring it to his lamentably empty pocket. At last a small boot- black) sauntered by, and the man con- eluded to take chances, With a fine pretense of having just dropped the pills, | the man gruffy ordered the younggter to assist him. The boy com- prehenfled the situation at a glance, seized the little fortune, took to his heels, alud, easily distancing his angry pursuer, vanished permanently from the scene. American girls who have married foreign noblemen are now furnishing with her daily consumption of Europ: x scandals, After the Princess dé Chi- may comes the Baroness Lucie Wan- genheim, who some . time ago jeft her hu band and began an intrigue with Counte Walde- nar Uexkuell. ‘The baron has fought a duel with the count to square him- self with his honor. It is said that he will have to fight two or three more duels for a similar reason, but the saron prefers the fighting to giving up 4 wife whose dowry was 1,000,000, PITH vt THE NEWS. ot EVENTS JF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. A Gencral Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per- usal by Busy People. Washington Talk. McKinley is said to favor a depart- ment of commerce with a tariff bureau. The president has approved the act to authorize the entry and patenting of lands containing petroleum and oth- er mineral oils under the placer min- ing laws of the United States. Postmaster General Wilson has been formally notified of his election as president of the Washington and Lee university. He stated that he had not yet quite made up his mind to accept. Senator Roach has introduced an amendment to the sundry civil bill au- thorizing the secretary of war to ex- pend $50,000 annually for the removal of snags and obstructions from the up- per Missouri river. The house committee on judiciary has decided to report favorably a bill giving authority to governors of terri- tories to make appointinents during a recess of the executive council to any oflice which becomes vacant during the recess. People in Print. Thomas Keegan, aged sixty, dropped jJead at Lyons, lowa. There are rumors of Corrigan for Cardinal. Tom Watson of Georgia loses tn his contest of Congressman Black's seat. Gen. D. W. Couch, the aged soldier, died at Norwalk, Conn., of heart trouble. Moritz Rosenthal, the great pianist, has recovered his health sufficiently to | take a trip to Southern California. Judge Sanborn has appointed Judze Cornish of St. Paul special master of the court in the Union Pacific case. John G. A. Leischman, president of the Carnegie Steel company, has re- signed his office to take effect April 1, next, on account of ill health. The Rev. U. M. Kinkaid, 56 years old, secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary society, died of enaemia at his home in Broklyn. He was born in London in 1841. Mrs. Esther E. Bacheller, mother of Postmaster Bacheller, died at La Crosse, aged 70 years. She came to La Crosse in 1866. She leaves two children. Herbert Chapler was struck and instantly killed near Fort Dodge, Iowa, while chopping timber by a fall- ing tree. The t®e broke his skull, striking it on the back. He was about 25 years old and leaves a wife and child. Crimes and Criminals. Gov. Drake of Iowa has offered a re- ward of $500 for the arrest of Frank Novak, accused of murdering Edward Murray at Walford. F. B. Dettwold, late manager of the local lumber yard of Ricker & Brat- nober, at Parkersburg, Iowa, is short in his accounts and is missing. Frank Winchell, arrested with twen- ty careasses of deer in his possession, was sentenced at West Superior to pay a fine of $450,or 330 days in jail. M. Albert Abeille committed suicide at Paris by putting a revolver in his mouth and discharging the weapon. His brother was killed by Edward Parker Deacon at Cannes in 1892. Clem Lindke, a saloonkeeper of Maus- ton, Wis., has been found guilty of having a rifle in his possession belong- ing to the state, and has been fined $45 and costs. J. V. Elton, the last of the Kingston gang of dangerous counterfeiters, who have operated in nearly every state in ya Union, has been arrested at Clyde, Ohio. Accidental Happenings. The plant of the American Plate Glass works at Alexandria, Ind., was badly damaged by fire. A.B. Clark, editor of the Daily Amer- ican at Newark, Ohio, was killed by a railroad train. He was seventy-two years old. Through the collapse of the scaffold- ing of a viaduct on a railroad in Corn- wall, England, twelve men fell a dis- tance of 150 feet and were killed. A. B. Clark, for many years editor of the Daily American of Newark, Ohio, was killed by a railroad train. He was 72 years old and had retired from newspaper work three years ago. Fire has broken out’in the naptha district of Baku, Russia. Twenty-nine boring platforms and five depots con- taining 1,000,060 poods of naptha have been destroyed. The boiler of the county jail at Frankfort, Ky., exploded, wrecking the jail office. Several men who were in the jail were injured, and James Rodg- | ie Cabell Hardin and Lew Hill, may le. Brigham City, Utah, was visited by the heaviest earthquake shock ever ex- perienced in the valley. It was so se- vere that the bell in the court house tapped six times. The shock was felt as far north as Logan. A special from Little Rock says the town of Melvern, which was almost wiped out by fire last July was visited by a conflagration to-day which de- stroyed the rebuilt portion. The loss will aggregate $100,000. Louis Oehlke, a young business man, shot and fatally wounded his wife, Hulda, in front of the Hotel Moser, St. Louis. The shooting was witnessed by a score of men, and Oehlke narrow- ly escaped being hanged to a lamp post. From Foreign Shores, Director Rothen, of the Internation- al Telegraph bureau, is dead at Brene, Switzerland. t The safe in the Clearfield, Pa., pést- office was blown open and $1,000 in stamps and $300 in cash stolen, Count Wolkenstein, chief of the em- eror’s hunt, has committed suicide at Vienna. \ The charge that American trie to Germany is diseased has dis- proved by official Prussian reports to the German government. A dispatch to the London Daily ‘rel-|, egraph from Vienna confirms the re port that Michael-Munkacsy, the cele- brated artist, is hopelessly insane. A private has been received at Ma?- rid from Manila that eight ministers |of the insurgent government have been shot. A dispatch to the London Times from St. Petersburg says that a seri- ous strike has occurred in the Serpuk- ho cotton mills, accompanied by riot- ing. Considerable damage has been done to property and several persons have lost their lives. The viceroy of India, the earl of Elgin, has. given his sanction to Mad. ras*being made a-port of departure for the pilgrims en rout eto Mecca. The artisans of Madras, however, have en- tered a vigorous protest. Garcia Zapata, one of the wealthiest Spaniards in Mexico, was attacked at his home a few days ago by a band of brigands, led by Fredrico Longorio. He attempter resistance and was killed. Four of the brigands, including the leader, were captured and will be shot. The newspapers of Berlin announce that Emperor William, at the parlia- mentary dinner given by Dr. Miquet, minister of finance, strongly urged that | the strength of the German navy be | increased, and advocated’a coalition of the Conservatives, Imperialists and National Liberals, in order to carry out this patriotic work. As Gen. Weyler was marching with his columns, just before entering Santa Clara, his horse was shot under him by a Cuban sharpshooter. It is sup- posed the shot came from a distant hillside. Throughout the march from Redas, the captain-general was as- sailed by missiles of this kind, and sev- ane times barely escaped being wound. ed. | —— Miscellaneous. The Brooklyn was badly damaged by fouling the rocks. | ‘There is talk of trying to suppress the Cuban junta. Letroit is trying to get the capitol from Lansing. As a result of the business done in 1896 the Illinois Steel company showed | a deficit of $349,399. The yarn mill of Gilbert F. Whipple at Haversville, R. I., has resumed op- erations after several weeks’ idleness. When Lewis Keiser of Hubbel. Neb., was notified that he had been allowed a pension of $72 a month he dropped dead. A revival of industry is beginning up the Monongahela valley. The Home- stead steel works have started up, giv- ing employment to 4,000. | The members of the National Acad- emy of Design have bought a site for its future home at Amsterdam and 110th street, New York. The New Hampshire senate has | adopted a resolution of sympathy with ; the Cuban insurgents, passed by the house last week. A great many Nebraska farmers are bringing their cattle and hogs to Ver- million, S. D., and shipping them from there to Sioux City and Chicago. It is officially stated that 2,750,000 persons are now employed on _ the famine relief work in the different. dis- tricts where the scarcity prevails. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has signed the fellow-servant bill, making railroad companies responsible for ac- cidents resulting from the carelessness of employes. The world’s record of a mile in 2:502-5, held by Frank Delmont of London, on roller skates, was clipped one second at the Portland rink at Epping, N. H., by Fred C. Morrill of Prince Edward's Isle. The senate in executive session has confirmed the nomination of Carroll D. Wright of Massachusetts to be com- | missioner of labor and that of Martin A. Knapp of New York to be interstate comimerce commissioner. Thomas R. Bentley, who is building | ladies’ hall-at the University of Wis- | consin, and the Wisconsin historical | library building at the capitol, has as- signed to Frederick Ketter, who fur- nished a bond in the sum of $50,000. Postmaster Daytcn of New York, in reply to inquiries, says that the amount of gold shipped from the West for delivery through the postoffice to the banks in that city, sent by regis- tered mail, aggredate $1,540,000 since Jan. 28. At a meeting of the Republicans at Madrid on the anniversary of the proc- lamation of the republic in 1873, there were 4,000 persons present. The lead. ers urged the necessity of a union of the Republicans. Their remarks were | frequently interrupted and the attitude | of the crowd was hostile. A pleasant incident out of the usual routine took place in the pension bu- reau when a delegation from the G. A. | R. Posts SS and 41 of Allegheny City | and Pittsburg formally presented res- | olutions of thanks to Commissioner of | Pensions Murphy for his humane ad- | ministration of the bureau. | Count Limburger-Sterem has sent a | challenge to Baron von Bieberstein, ‘the German minister for foreign af- fairs, owing to the latter’s structures of the court’s criticisms of the gov- | ernment’s attitude in the Von Leut- | zow affair. A. M. Howard, through attorneys, has filed- a $500,000 damage suit at Indianapolis against the State of In- diana. The complaint sets out that Howard lost money on the state house which contract he assumed as bonds- man for the contractor, 4 The controller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the cred- itors of insolvent national banks as follows: Grand Forks National bank, 10 per cent; First National Ban kof Mount Pleasant, Mich., 20; First Na- tional Bank of Redfield, S. D., 20. Application has been made at Jack- | sonville, 'la., to United States Judge Locke for an injunction against the collector of the port and the captain of | the revenue cutter Boutwell restraining them from interference with the move- ment of the suspected filibustering tug Dauntless. The art exhibit of the San Francisco Chronicle, designed to illustrate the progress of pictorial journalism in the United States will open in that city on the 24th inst. Drawings have been re- ceived from all the leading papers of the country, and the work of nearly 200 artists will -be displayed. } UNDER GREEK FLAG es KING GEORGE'S FORCES OCCUPY THE ISLAND OF CRETE, It Looks as if the Powers Are Tacit- ly Agreeing to the Ultimate Transfer of Control of the Island —Greece Seems to Have Pc rses- sion of Crete—Great Enthusiasm at Athens, Athens, Feb. 17.—It is generally be- lieved here that the Cretan feature of the Eastern question is now almost a thing of the past and that the landing of Greek troops on the Island of Crete is not likely to turn out a casus belli between Turkey and Greece. The ab- solute decision of Greece to persist in the occupation of Crete and the pro- tection of the Christians of that island in spite of the attitude of the powers is founded on the declaration of the Cre- tans that they are prepared to she the last drop of their blood in order to at- tain their national aspirations, which they add, cannot be satisfied with any- thing short of complete union with Greece. These circumstances were communicated by Greece to the pow- ers and the policy of the Greek gov- ernment has been carried out in every point. Reinforcements of men, arms and ammunition are on their way from Greece to Crete, and it is intimated that in due course of time the ma- rines from the foreign warships will be recalled and Greece will be allowea to assume the administration of Crete, possibly under some restrictions. The announcement that Prince Nich- olas will start for Larissa, ‘hessaly, with his regiment created the greatest enthusiasm in military circles. ‘Che Greek troops in Crete, it is announced, are advancing on Canea. The Powers Make Demands. London, Feb. 17.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Vienna says that it is reported the powers have addressed a collective note to Greece demanding the withdrawal of her naval and mili- tary forces from Crete within forty- eight hours, failing which the port of Piraeus will be blockaded and general hostilities commence. Athens, Feb. 17.—According to a dis- patch received here from Crete the Greek troops have attacked and occu- pied Fort Agra, capturing 400 ‘Turks. Included among their number are 100 soldiers. BETTER PARDON HIM. Sad Stery of Capt. Howgate and His Devoted Daughter. Washington, Feb. 17. — President Cleveland is to be asked to pardon Capt. Howgate, who was convicted of embezzling public funds while disburs- ing officer of the signal office fifteen years ago. He escaped from jail in 1882, and for thirteen years lived in New York city and carried on business as a bookseller. After three trials he Was convicted on two indictments two years ago and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on each count. If Capt. Howgate secures a release by virtue of the president's leniency he will owe his good fortune to the heroic efforts of his daughter, who has yoiedly in his behalt, FOR JAPANUSE SMOKE. Big Steel Smokestack Made Ameriean Fir adelphia, Web. Philadel- phia Engineering company will in a few 4: ship overland to San Fran- cisco, and thence to Japan an immense steel plate smokestack, to equip a large new electric light plant in Yoko- a. The stack is a huge affair, be- ing 175 feet high and seven feet three inches in diameter in the clear, weigh- ing over by an Phils BVeaths Frew the Plague. London, Feb. 17.—An ofiicial dispatch from Bombay that 1,835 deaths occurred there Gd ny the week end- ing Friday, Feb. 12, of which 813 were due to the bubonic ue. At Poona 47 cases of the plague were reported &s compared with 48 the week previ- ous. At Karachi 269 deaths were re- ported compared with 297, 181 and during the previovs three atping Bill. Washington, Feb. 17. — The senate committee on interstate commerce held § 2] meeting and agreed to report the auti-scaiping bill with amend- ments. The most important of these provides that purchasers of a.ticket in gocd faith for personal use in the pros- ecution of a journey shall have the right to resell it. One Editor Goes to Jail. 17.-Herr Wagner, ed- ter of the Deutsche Tagzeitung, has been sentenced to two morchs impris- for an article stating that the gn office inspired the paragraph stating that the czar was dissuaded from visiting Prince Bismarck by ad- vice trem the highest government quarter. The Bema Campaign Ended. Bra: West Coast of Africa, Feb. 17. —The camprign conducted by the ex- pedition of the Royal Niger company against the emir of Nupe is practical- ly atancnd. The emir and his leaders are suing for peace. The prisoners captured by the English forces include a son of the late sultan. One New battleship. Washington, Feb. 17.—The subcom- atittee on appropriations of the house naval committee has decided to recom- mend one new battleship in the bill, and that a lump sum be appropriated for the ship and armor plate. Henry Villard’s Suit. N York, Feb. 17—The suit brought toy Henry Villard against the Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railway company for an accounting as to the disposition of bonds helonging to the road worth between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, has been discontinued. The terms of the setuement are not known. Johnny Jobuson Il. ‘forovto, Ont., Feb. 17.—John John- sou, the skater and cyclist, jis lying dangerously ill at Bradford With ‘con- ion of the lungs. di ® worked most de- , & FAMILY MIX-UP. Teo Much Affection Between Eng- lishmen and Linn Co. Women. Cedar Rapids, lowa, Feb. 17—A Linn county farmer, O. E. Fleming, and two Delaware county farmers are mixed up in a mess of love and law that is truly wonderful. Roger and George Treve- lyen are respectively the eldest and third sons of Sir Arthur Trevelyen, an Englishman. George came to this country a number of years ago and purchased a large farm near Man- chester, The two brothérs formed the acquaintance of the Fleming family, where both were frequent visitors. George paid attention to the daughter while Roger found in the mother a most congenial companion. George and the daughter are in the early days of their honeymoon, while Roger is a defendant in a $10,000 damage suit, which the senior Fleming claims for alienating his wife’s affections. SquIRTED 0 A Modern Woodmen Fisht at ton, il. Fulton, Til, Feb. 1 THEM. Fal- A sensai‘onal encounter resulted f a decisi: » by the appellate court in the injv . tion case as to the removal of theo > ot head clerk of the Modern Wood): of America from this place to Ro: Isl and, Il, the court deciding adve sely to Fulton. Before daylight a mod of over sixty Rock Islanders arrived on a special train and went direct to the Woodmen office, seized the records and started to board the train for Rock Island. itizens discovered it aud remon- The visitors also Then the tire entrance to the building with a stream of er and locked the front entrance, trapping the Rock Islanders. They were prisoners for two hours and were finally forced to restore the records to the building. Meanwhile an injunc- tion had been secured and the train was held. The unwelcome visitors were at length allowed to depart crest- fallen. A RACE WITH DEATH. A Father Half Crazed With Flies Across a Continent. Denver, Feb. 17.—Tfhe special train from Chicago over the Chicago, Burt lington & Quiney, and the Burlington & Missouri railroad, chartered by H. J. Mayham, .a Denver mining invest- ment broker, reached this city, having run 1,026 miles in eighteen hours and minutes. The journey goes ory as the greatest railroad feat ever accomplished. Mr. Mayham, who left New York on the Pennsyl- vania limited, chartered a special train at Chicago im order to r h the bed- side of his dying son, Williaun B. May- ham, as qui s possible. In spite of the Burlington's splendid record Mr. Mayham arrived in Denver too late to see_his son alive. Fear To Pretect the ngion, F s has taken ect the r pe all precautions to beneficiaries of the pay- ment to be made to the Cherokee freed- men as their share of the Cherokee cutlet sale proceeds. In view of sen- sational publications that a horde of gamblers and swindlers would gather about the settlement the war depart- ment has-sent troops there. alize Prize Figt + Boise City, Idaho, Feb. 17. iaho may go into a competitive ness with Nevada to secure prize fir’ 's as a means of advertising the stat ud pro- moting the art of self-defens \ bill s been presented in the house legal ng glove contests, whici, it mauy s, follows the lines of the Ne- rege Made. Reh, 16-/= Dr. rrested on A Coro- charging him with the Reli Sutliff, a school uiliff made a dying ging Dr. Bobo with the 1d be- teacher. statement ch: double crime of malpractice ing the father of her unborn chi Western Lumbermen Meet. Tacoma, Wash., Feb, 17.—The annu- al meeting of the Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association of the Northwest has been called and will be held here Feb. 24. The question of the prospec- tive tariff on lumber will be considered as well as the proposed excursion of Eastern Iumbermen to this coast. on a Street Car. Milwaukee, Feb. 17.—The trial of the seven men accused of having fired on a Howell avenue street car on the night of June 4, 1896, when Motorman Breen was shot and nearly killed, resulted in a disagreement of the jury. The case was immediately placed on the calen- dar of the criminal cour William Warner's Place. hington, Feb. j. Willam er of Missouri, according to ad- s received here, has accepted the position of assistant secretary of the interior, with tbe assurance, it is un- derstood, that if Judge McKenna -leaves the cabinet and goes upon the supreme bench. he (Warner) will be promoted to retary of the interior. Will Destroy the Opiam. Washington, Feb. 17. — The senate committee on finance has agreed to re- port a substitute for the house Dill au- thorizing the sale of domestic prepared smoking opium seized by the internal revenue authorities. The substitute provides for the destruction instead of the sale of this article. Filibusterer on Trial. Philadelphia, Feb. 17,—John D, Hart was placed on trial in’ the United States district court to answer the charge of setting on foot a military ex- pedition against Spain and in connec- tion with an alleged filibustering trip to Cuba of the steamer Lauradia last fall. tes ireen, A large crowd New York, Feb. 17.—4 in the ice skating palace saw Join Nilsson of Minneapolis, the world’s champion, defeat Wilson Breen of St. Johns. N. B.. in the easiest style im- aginable in the two-mile professional race. jaribalat. New York, Feb. 17.—Among the pas- sengers who arrived on the steamer : Kaiser Wilhelm II. were Lieut. Mantio son of the famous Italian patriot. SUPREME COURT DECIDES THE LAND GRANT CASES The Court Below Had Decided Favor of the Railroad Compan: and the Supreme Court Affirmed Them—Many Tracts of Land in Minnesota and Other States Were Concerned in the Question. Washington, Feb. 16. — The United States supreme court has affirmed the decision of the circuit court of Minne- sota in’ four cases of ‘immense im- mense importance to the settlers upon public lands in that state. These were the United States against the Winona & St. Peter Land company, the United States against the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad company, and the United States against the St. Paul Investment company. The effect of the decision is that the land having been certified by the gov- ernment to the state for the benefit of the railroad company, and the rail- road company having disposed of lands to bona fide purchasers for value, cannot now. in the absence of fraud in the certification of land to the state, disturb the title of the present occupants, who by this decision are held to be bona fide purchasers. THE SHERBURNE MURDERS. Lewis Kellihan Will Be Tried for the Awful Deed. Fairmont, Minn., Feb. 16.—Tbe trial of Lewis Kellihan for the murder of A. E. Oestern at Sherburne last Oc- tober commences before Judge Sever- ance, and is one of the closing acts of the most tragic drama in the history of Martin county. The attorneys who will appear for the accused are H. G. MeMillan and J. W. Dunlap of Rock Rapids, Iowa, his home city, and M. EF. L. Shanks of Fairmont. County At- torney B. F. Voreis, assisted by his partner, F. A. Mathwig, wil] conduct the prosecution. Talks Like a Pugilist. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 16.—A joint con- vention of the Michigan legislature listened for nearly two hours to a fervid address from Senor Gonzalo de Quesada, charge d’affaires for the Cuban republic at Washington. Senor Quesada praised th: legislature for its recent resolution d_claring for Cuban independence. He asserted that the Cubans asked not for men nor money put only for the privilege of fighting on equal ground with their oppressors. Winona Wants the Beeterie. Winona, Minn., Feb. 16. — The Wi- nona Business Men’s association has decided to investigate for a beet sugar factory in Winona. President Cutting will go to New York and look up ma- chinery. Max Goltz has secured sugar beet seed for distribution to farmers, and next summer will analyze the pro- duct of local farms Doctors Apply the Law. Madison, Wis., Feb. 16.—The state medical law was given a test last week by local physicians, who brought to trial one BE. James, manager of the James Family Swiss Bell Ringers, for practicing medicine without a license. He was found guilty of the charge and was fined $25 and costs. The case will be appealed. He Squandered a Fortune. Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 16.—W. J. Me- Nabb, a well known young man who has squandered a fair sized fortune in the past few years, was arraigned in the municipal court on the charge of forgery. He pleaded not guilty and his attorney has filed a special plea of insanity, demanding a separate trial. Burned in the Blizzard. Luverne, Minn., Feb. 16.—During the blizzard Saturday fire was discovered in the boarding house on section 16, Magnolia, owned by Thompson Bros., of St. Paul. The families lost all their household effects and sought shelter in the barns until after the storm. Frozen by Hundreds. . Stephen, Minn., Feb. 16.—This has been a disastrous winter on grouse and chickens in this latitude. They bunch near straw stacks and are covered by drifts and smothered. Several farmers report finding numbers togeth- er frozen under the drifts. New City Tressurer. Minneapolis, Feb. 16. — Josiah H. Thompson has been elected treasurer of the city’ of Minneapolis to succeed A. C. Haugan, resigned. Mr. Thomp- son is a successful business man, a millionaire, and a resident of the city since 1856. May Take Risks in S. D. Pierre, S. D., Feb. 16.—The state in- surance department has granted au- thority to transact business in this state to the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of New York and to the Norwalk Fire Insurance Company of Norwalk, Conn. Co-Operative Elevator Short. Delavan, Minn., Feb. 16.—The Varm- ers’ Warehouse company here is in trouble and the elevator has been closed. Outstanding wheat checks, which there is no money to meet, ag- gregate about $2,500. Killed by a Falling Tree. Tomahawk, Wis., Feb. 16.—Joe Bell, working in Fred Hanson’s camp at Squirrel Lake, while felling a tr-e, was struck in the side. He was brought to this city and died. - Caught at Marshland. Winona, Minn., Feb. 16. — Thomas Blagett. who broke lail here, hss beg e captured at Marshland. South Dakota Crenerymen. De Smet, S. D., Feb. 16—W. FP. 'T. Bushnell of Aberdeen, secretary of the couth Dakot« Creamerymen’s. as- sociation, is-at work upon the pro- gramme for the annual convention to ue Be here on the 10th and 1ith of ‘arch, A Son of the Revolution. Sparta, Wis., Feb. 16.—George Wash- ington Root celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He was born in New York fn 1807, and is a son of the revolution, belonging to the Milwaukee division.