Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 20, 1900, Page 2

—_ they there. i The Hevald--Review, - E. C. Kiley T J. Austed, WILEY & AUSTED, Editors ard Publishers. ) RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. It is better to have failed in a great undertaking than never to have made the attempt. When a rich man suddenly becomes poor, or a poor man suddenly becomes mich, his true character crops out. Don’t expect to get something for mothing. Value for value is the only honest rule in business, politics or morals, Tax valuations in Tennessee have been increased $25,000,000 by the op- eration of a new law requiring assess- ment at cash value. Happy thought! Perhaps small boys may so far join in the anti-Chinese feeling of the hour as to condemn the firecracker to disuse because of its as- sociations, The late Ward McAllister’s famous farm near Newport has been sold and will be turned into a cemetery. The late dictator. to the 400 frequently en- tertained the “smart set” there. Mexico’s census, recéntly completed, shows a total population of 12,491,573, over two-thirds of whom are entirely uneducated. Over eighty per cent of the population is of mixed or Indian blood. A Pekin correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press says that a medal will be struck to commemorate the heroic de- fence made by the besieged foreigners. The motto suggested for the medal is that noble one, attributed by Plutarch to the Greek lawgiver Lycurgus, equally applicable in war and peace, “Men, not walls, make a city.” The Crow Indians of Montana, who raise much wheat, have entered into a contract with the United States gov- ernment to suppliy the Cheyenne In- dians with flour, They are rich in farms, flocks and herds, This is the first time a government contract was ever let to an Indian—at least to a “blanket Indian” of the mountains. From a letter of Thomas Daven, a seaman of the cruiser Brooklyn, it seems that Admiral Remey and the Germans nearly clashed in Chinese waters, the American admiral clearing his decks for action for an alleged in- | sult. If the report be true it indicates that at Taku as well as at Manila Am- erican and German tars do not love each other as they should. One Paris “grand dame” is bound that France shall not be depopulated. The Vicomtesse de Rochemaille is 22 years of age, has bee married five years and is the mother of 11 boys, of whom the oldest are not quite four years of age. She presented her hus- band with four pairs of twins in suc- cession and has just topped off with triplets. The children are all sound and healthy. A new submarine cable is about to be laid between England and Germany. This is the fifth cable, and a compre- hensive idea of the increase in the cable traffic between the two countries y be gathered from the fact that, whereas in 1896, when the fourth cable the annual number of cable- grams was 1,867,868 per annum, no less than 2,465,613 cablegrams are now an- nually transmitted. was lai The plan of a commercial alliance between Germany and Great Britain to fight the United States would be ad- mirable except that Germany and Great Britain would then each want another alliance with somebody else to fight Germany and Great Britain respectively. An alliance between Ger- many and the United States to fight Great Britain, or between the United States and Great Britain to fight Ger- many would likewise be a good thing if each party to the alliance could be assured that somehody else would come along and help it whip thg other party. On the march toward Shiloh, a young color-seargeant noticed that Gen. William Nelson always mutterea to himself when he passed the flag. One day, as this happened, his adju- tant supposed himself addressed, and called out: “I did not understand, gen- eral!” The reply came like a shot: “I said, God bless the flag!’” “Amen!” cried both the sergeant and the ad- jutant. “Amen!” repeated the thou- sands of veterans of the civil war who, during the recent encampment in Chi- cago, marched—old, battered, lame, loyal—down the banner-hung Avenue of Fame. Not for self-praise, but for the honor and glory of the flag were Nor could the most care- less spectator have failed to be re- minded anew of the beauty of our flag, the respect due it, and the mighty heritage it has brought us. God bless the flag! Maryland has lately passed a law forbidding the sale of spectacles with- out a license. Both the near-sighted and the far-seeing may call this a form of paternalism. The motherly side of the question is taken by the London Spectacle Mission. This soci- ety provides free glasses for the poor who suffer from defective sight. By means of the spectacles given out last year, over one thousand working men and women were enabled to retain em- ployment which they might have lost, To assist the poor to resist pauperism ds the truest function of philanthropy. ORRCION! SENSATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF COER- CION AND INTIMIDATION. Will Discharge Employes for: Voting for Bryan—See That They Cannot Win by Fair Means, So They Determine to Win by Foul—Sensational Proceedings* of Sound Money League—A New Burchard—Yellow Bow Stands for Co- ercion—Bureau Notes, Ete. Rerorm Press BuREAU. Sr. Paux, Oct. 15, 1900. The sensation of the week has been the meeting of the Sound Money League in Raudenbusch hall in this city and the campaign of coercion and intimida- tion which was there inaugurated. The call for this meeting had been signed by a number of business men, mainly members of large wholesale houses, combines and syndicates, with hardly a sprinkling of middle class business men among them. This call came from the class most directly concerned with the trusts and money powers that have determined to secure the election of McKinley, by fair means or foul. When Bryan made his triumphal tour of the state and called forth such an overwhelming and irresistable dis- play of enthusiasm that swept over the country like a tidal wave and carried everything before it, the Republican leaders realized that their cause was hopeless, and seeing that they could not win ‘by fair means, they deter- mined to fight by foul, and this meet- ing was one of the results. The sentiments of the resolutions adopted.at this meeting were extreme; but the speakers were positively rabid. ‘The chief speaker of the evening was Mr. Grover, who was certainly plain spoken enough and left no ground for misunderstanding as to the purpose of the meeting. Among other things he defended government by injunction, such as was employed on the striking miners in Idaho. But it was Mr. Jesse Gregg of the firm of Nicholls & Dean that expressed it in all its brutal blunt- ness. Said Mr. Gregg: t “I was in New York last week, and passing down the street I was surprised to observe a large banner floating from ‘a business house upon which was the inscription: ‘Bryan’s Traveling Men’s Club.’ In our firm we have 20 travel- ing men at work, and I donot know how but one of them is going to vote this fall, but I want to say to you gen- tlemen that if any one of thes? travel- ing men should vote for Bryan, and I knew it, I would discharge him imme- diately. Don’t understand me to say that I would discharge him for being a Democrat, I would discharge him for being adamned fool. Iwould presume that any man who didn’t have b>tter sense than to vote for Bryan, didn’t have sense enough to represent our business.’ The audience received this speech with ringing applause, and thus ap- proved the sentiments expressed and subscribed to them as their own. The morning papers brought an ac- count of the meeting and the speeches, and soon it became the all absorbing topic of the streets. Everywhere on the street corners groups of men were excitedly discussing it, and when the papers reached the outlying towns and country districts, telegrams and letters of inquiry began to pourin at the Democratic headquarters from all sides and very soon it became evident that in the excitement and interest aroused all over the state and adjoining states, this incident would surpass in sensa- tional interest even the celebrated Burchard episode which defeated Blaine in ’84. Coming in the wake of Roosevelt’s rabid speech here in the Auditorium, in which he put Democrats on a level with horsethieves, and made that fa- mons assertion: “They staud for lawlessness and dis- order, for dishonor and dishonesty, for license and disaster at home, and cow- ardly shrinking from duty abroad,” it has made St. Patll the storm center of the Burchardism of the present cam- paign,and shows more plainly than anything else to what desperate straits the Republican party of Minnegota feels itself reduced. This speech of Gregg’s harmonizes well with Roosevelt’s famous or rather infamous speech here in the Audito- rium, and the passage in Rooseyelt’s book, ‘Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail,” (Century Co. 1899) in which he accuses the cowboys of drunkenness and rioting, yet declares that they are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than farmers and farm hands, and tells the world that the mechanics and laboring men of a great city are so far beneath those same cow- boys whom he charges with drunken- ness and rioting, that they are not even to be mentioned in the same breath. The passage reads literally as follows: “WHEN DRUNK ON THE VIL- LAINOUS WHISKY OF THE FRON- TIER TOWNS THEY OUT MAD ANTICS, RIDING THEIR HORSES INTO THE SALOONS, FIRING THEIR PISTOLS RIGHT AND LEFT, from boisterous light heartedness rather than from any viciousness and indulg- ing too often in deadly shooting affrays brought on either by the accidental contact of the moment or on account of some long standing grudge, or per- haps because of bad blood between two ranches or localities; but except while on these sprees they are quiet, rather self-contained men, perfectly frank and simple, and on their own ground treat a stranger with the most whole souled hospitality, doing all in their power for him, and scorning to take any reward in return. Although prompt to resent an injury, they are not at all apt to be rude to outsiders, treating them with what can almost be called a grave | courtesy. THEY ARE MUCH BET- TER FELLOWS AND PLEASANTER ‘ Eis ¢ COMP. ONS THAN SMALL FARME) OR AGRICULTURAL LABORERS; NOR ARE THE ME- CHANICS AND WORKMEN OF A GREAT CITY TO BE MENTIONED IN THE SAME BREATH.” Yet this samo Roosevelt, after offer- ing such a gratuitous insult to the la- boring man and farmer, poses as their special friend and would-be idol. To the same category belong Beveridge’s fulminations telling the people that we. are making a great mistake in setting Cuba free, as well as Mark Hanna’s bumptious assertion, ‘There are no trusts.” These utterances furnish a glaring commentary on the characterof their leaders. the futility of their logic, the utter hopelessness of their cause in a fair and open campaign. They can not win out on fair means, so they take to foul, and right here they show the worst kind of judgmené in making their selections, and the mistakes they have made in this respect will -prove their ruin. ‘ Of those who had signed the call for this meeting, some of the most prom- inent were interviewed by a repres2n- tative of the Press Bureau, and while they disclaimed any responsibility for the speeches made there, they endorsed the calland the resolutions adopted. However, when any society allows such utterances to be made and to pass with- out rebuke or protest, the public can not do otherwise than to seein such utterances an expression of the senti- ments of that society and to hold the society and its individual members re- sponsible for them. The insolent arrogance of such a course can not be but condemned in the strongest and most emphatic terms. Isitany wonder that the blood of lib- erty loving American citizens should boil with indignation at such brutal methods of coercion and intimidation! If the money powers dare to come out with such shameless, barefaced brutal- ity, to force men to vote against their convictions, it certainly forbodes ill for the laboring man and the middle classes, and everyone realizes that if such an affront can be offered and pass unheeded, our boasted American lib- erty will soon beathing of the past and will be swallowed up by the money power in a rule sorapacious in its greed, so absolute in its disregard of human rights, that the rule of the Rus- sian czar will seem a paternal blessing in comparison. The Republicans at this meeting de- cided to wear as their emblem a yellow bow. This is the national color of REBELLION SPREADS i SBT UAT, TS SITUATION IN SOUTHERN CHINA GROWS WoRSE. British Torpedo Boat Shells 2,000 Rebels Who Were Advancing on San Chun, Killing Forty and Wounding Hundreds— Evidece of Prince Tuan’s Contin- uance in Power Causes Anxiety— Reported Capture of Paoting-Fu Is Generally Discredited in Lon- don. Destroyer London, Oct. 18.—There is no con- firmation of the reported capture of Pao-ting Fu, of which, according to the Shanghai Echo, M. Dochine, the French consul there, has receivea news. The report is generally dis- credited in London, especially as there is no telegraphic communication be- tween Shanghai and Pao-ting Fu. Hongkeng dispatches tell of the continued spread of the Southern re- bellion. The Hongkong correspond- ent of the Daily Express sends a re- port that the British torpedo boat de- stroyer Handy shelled 2,000 rebels who were advancing on San Chuan, kill- ing forty and wounding hundreds. This is not confirmed from any other point. The evidence of Prince Tuan’s continuance in power causes anxiety. According to the Shanghai corres- pondent of the Morning Post it has produced a serious depression in trade there. Two Chinese banks have failed there, two others are expected to close, and it is reported the Russo- Chinese bank is in difficulties owing to the removal of the Chinese court to the province of Shen Si. Shanghai telegrams report that local mandarins have received a dispatch from Prince Tuan ‘announcing the court is now in safe keeping and exhorting them to have patience until winter decimates the allies, to keep the peasants in constant work and “everything in readiness for a massacre of all for- eigners when the proper time arises.” It is also reported that the empress dowager has issued a decree remov- ing Liu Knu Wie, viceroy ef Nankin, from his post and ordering Gen. Yung Lu to join her at Sian Fu. The Shang Tung Boxers are returning to their homes. Twelve thousand of them were utterly defeated outside of Tsang Chao, near the Chili border by 5,000 of Gov. Yun Chi Kai's. troops under Gen. Mei. ’ REBELS LOOT NATIVE BANK. Spain and China, and therefore awa- | pisturbance Is Reported in Shang- fens memories of rapacious greed, cruel injustice, bigotry and oppression. The Democrats have chosen for their emblem a minature United States flag. The yellow bow fittingly stands for dictation, coercion and inutimidatio The flag stands for the sentiment, ‘ free man anda free vote.’”’ Let us all wear and display the badge of freedom. It isa great thiug to talk with sanc- timonious unction about the Filipino and tell of all the blessings we are go- ing to bestowupon him, but just put yourself in his place and consider how you would like it to have the constitu- tion with its guarantee of rights and privileges withdrawn from the state of Minnesota, and the government of the state put into the hands of a military governor sent out here from Washing- ton who would be responsible to no one but the president and have such laws proclaimed as the military governor with a big army at his back might see fit and have them carried dut by force of arms. With all the confidence in the gov- ernment at Washington, and with all -due respect for McKinley, there is yet not a single. Democrat or Populist in the state of Minnesota that would sub- mit tosucha proposition, but would fight to the last ditch and to the last kopje, and there are mighty few Re- publicans in the state that wouldn’t do the same. Asa sample of the work done in the Democratic campaign, and the ‘enthu- siasm aroused, we give the following extract from a letter received at the Democratic headquarters from St. Cloud: “Beginning Monday, we put up the greatest campaign that the Democratic party has ever had in this county. Truelson and Calhoun will speak all week, making three or four speeches a day. All the candidates on our county ticket will accompany the speakers. «“‘We have organized clubs in all the towns, and the meetings have been ad- vertised thoroughly for the past two weeks, This is on old line Democratic county, and the fact that there is more interest here than ever before, argues well for the Democratic cause in gen- eral.” The Republicans of St. Paul decided to hold a grand mass meeting for the benefit of the German voters, and so they imported a speaker by the name of Donald from Iowa, who was to ad- dress them in German and do the Dem- ocrats up brown. And lo and behold! After all the blowing of horns and beat- ing of drums, there were of all the 6),- 000 Germans in St. Paul just 197 that felt enough interest ina German Re- publican mass meeting, to take the trouble to be present. Will the Republican papers kindly explain why the Republican legislature prevented the passage of the bill to raise the gross earnings tax of the rail- roads from 8 per cent to4 per cent. Governor Lind and the Fusion mem- bers of the legislature did their utmost to secure the passage of this bill, but the Republicans, being in the majority, opposed and defeated it, and by taking sucha stand they deprived the state of upwards of $2,000,000, even if a new legislature can be elected to act on this measure as soon as possible. If the railroads had been obliged to |. pay in these $2,000,000, the people of the state would bia at 80 Fas ped topay. Nowif the Repnblicans are really such great friends of the people, why did they vote against meas- ure? : L hai. i Shanghai, Oct. 18.—A large native Shanghai bank hes been broken oper and destroyed by a band of emis- saries of the Southern rebels. The United States consul, Mr. Goodnow, publicly denies that Li Hung Chang asked him to arrange an American convoy from Shanghai to Taku. —_~— CHINESE SENTENCED. They Distributed Revolutionory | Proclamations at Port Arthur, Moscow, Oct. 18. — At Port Arthur two Chinese have been court-mar- tialed and sentenced to death for dis- tributing revolutionary proclamations of*the Boxers. It is announced that during the occupation of Tsitsihar in Manchuria, the Russians captured 450 Boxers and an amount of silver bars valued at 4,500,000 roubles. From Blagoveshchensk it is reported that typhus fever is raging and that ninety troopers are’ ill with it. CHANG BEHEADED. Another Instance of the Perfidy of the Dowager Empress of China. Washington, Oct. 18.—Confirmation has ‘been received here of the exe- cution on July 20 of Chang Yen Hoen, the former Chinese minister to the United States. Chang was a loyal adherent of the emperor and a’ warm supporter of the latter's reform movements. When the empress dow- ager supplanted the emperor two years ago he was banished to Ne- pradoo, but through the intervention of the American and British ministers his punishment was commuted to banishment in the distant province of Kashgara. It now appears that the empress dowager, taking advantage of the late reign of terror at Pekin, and knowing Chang’s influence’ with the emperor, ordered his execution by decapitation. DRIVEN TO DEATH. Wife Shot Herself Because She Was na Care to Idle Husband. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 18.—A strik- er’s wife shot and killed herself at Lee, near here, because she was a eare to her husband, John Jones. She was ill and needed medicine and rest, but her husband was out of work and these could not be obtained. After several days’ struggling to make both ends meet she committed suicide. Rumor of Mutiny. San Francisco, Oct. 18.—The British ship Lansing, which left Port Blakely on June 1, bound for Port Pierie, Aus- tralia, is now out thirty-six days and 20 per cent of reinsurance has been of- fered on her. She has a cargo of nearly °2,000,000 feet of lumber. A story is current in shipping circles that the crew had mutinied, killed Capt. Chapman and located on Bon~ ham island, in the South Seas, after wrecking the vessel, but the report lacks verification, ¥ King Albert's Illness. Dresden, Oct. 18. — The illness of King Albert of Saxony has become more acute recently. His majesty fainted yesterday, causing considera- ble alarm. i Milner Will Be Governor. Pretoria, Oct. 18—Sir Alfred Milner, who is announced will be appointed governor of the conquered republics, has arrived here. He was met by Lord Roberts at the railway station and was assigned a house near head- quarters. A New British War Secretary. London, Oct. 18. — Lord Salisbury, according to the Daily Express, has offered the portfolio of war in the reconstructed cabinet to Lord Balfour, secretary for Scotland THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Oct."18, — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 76 3-4@77 1-2c; No. 2 North- ern, 72 3-4@74 3-4c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 40 3-4@41 1-4c; No. 3, 40@401-2c. Oats— No. 3 white, 251-2@26c; No. 3, 243-4@ 25 1-4¢c. Minneapolis, Oct. 18.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 791-8c; No. 1 Northern, 77 1-8¢; No. 2 Northern, 755-8c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 39¢; No. 3, 38 @ 381-2c; No. 4, 371-2@38c. Oats—No. 3 white, 231-2@24c; No. 3, 23 1-4@23 3-4c. Barley—No. 4, 48@52c; No. 5, 41@49c; feed grade, 40@46c; malting grades, 46 @52c. Rye—No. 1, 49@51c; No. 2, 51@ 511-2c. Flax—Cash, $1.761-2; to ar- rive, $1.75 1-4. Duluth, Oct. 18.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 79 3-4c; No. 1 Northern, 773-4c; the close, No. 1 hard, 79 3-4c; No. 1 North- ern, 773-4c; No. 2 Northern, 73 3-4c; No. 3 spring, 69 3-4c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 80c; No. 1 Northern, 78c; Octo- ber, No. 1 Northern, 78c; No. 2 North- ern, 777-8c; May, No. 1 Northern, 808-4c; oats, 23@231-4e; rye, 511-2c; flax, cash, $1.811-2; to arrive, $1.81; October, $1.803-4; November, $1.75; December, $1.68; May, $1.691-2; corn, 40 3-4c. Chicago, Oct. 18.—Cash Wheat—No 2 red, 741-2@761-2c; No. 3 red, 70@ 741-2c; No. 2 hard winter, 70@72 1-2c; No. 3 hard winter, 681-2@711-2c; No. 1 Northern spring, 74 1-2@781-2c; No. 2 Northern spring, 741-2@781-2c; No. 3 spring, 68 1-2@761-2c. Corn—No. 2, 41c; No. 3, 401-4@40 3-4c._ Oats—No. 2, 21 3-4@22c; No. 3, 211-4@211-2c. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 18.—Flour is dull. Wheat dull; No. 1 Northern, 78c; No. 2 Northern, 75@76c. Rye is steady; No. 1, 53c. Barley lower; No. 2, 57! cc; sample, 46@57c. Oats dull; No. 2 white, 25 1-4@25 1-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 18.—Cattle— Beeves, $4.75 @ 5.25; cows, bulls and mixed, $2@3.50; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4; calyes and yearlings, $3.25@ 4.25. Hogs, $4.72 1-2@4.75; bulk, $4.75. Chicago, Oct. 18.—Cattle — Good to prime steers, $5.30@5.80; poor to medi- um, $4.35@5.25; stockers and feeders, $2.75@4.50; cows and heifers, $2.65@4.80; Texas-fed steers, $3.40 @ 4.90. Hogs- Mixed and butchers, $4.80 @ 5.171-2; good to choice heavy, $4.80@5.15; rough heavy, $4.65@5.75; light, $4.75@5.17 1-2, bulk of sales, $4.90@5.10. Sheep, $3.50 @4.20; lambs, $4.40@5.75. South St. Paul, Oct. 18. — Cattle — Good to choice butcher steers, $4.65@5; fair to good, $4.25@4.60; common to fair, $494.25; good to choice butcher and heifers, $3.50@4; fair to thin cows and can- ; choice corn-fed bulls, cows 2 bologna bulls, $2.50@2.75; good to choice veals, $5@6; fair to good, $4 @5; good to choice feeders, $3.40@3.75; good to choice stock steers, $3.40@3.: fair to good, $3@3.40; common, $2.50@ 2,9; good te choice stock cows and heifers, $2.75@3.10; fair to good, $2.50@ 2.75; common, $2@2.40; good to choice steer calves, $3.50@4; fair to good $2.50 @3.5 good to choice heifer calves, 2, $2.75@3; and feeding bulls, $2.50@3; good to choice milkers and springers, $35@40; good to fair, $30@25; common, $20@ 28. Hogs—Good to choice light, $4.75@ 4.90; mixed and butchers, $4.65@4.85; good to prime heavy, $4.65@4.75; fair heavy, $4.50@4.60; rough packers, $4.40 @4.45; boars, $1.75@2.50; pigs and skips, $2.25@3.75. Sheep — Good to choice butcher lambs, $4.60@4.90; fair to good, $4.40@4.60; good to choice fat wethers, $3.50@3.75; fair to good, $3.25 @3.50; fat ewes, $3.25@3.60; good to choice stock and feeding lambs, $4@ 4.50; fair to good, $3,50@4; feeding wethers, $3.25@3.75; stock and feeding ewes, $3.15@3. thin sheep, $2@3; buck lambs, 75@3.25; killing bucks, $2@2.50, MARINE DISASTER. Thirty-three Passengers Lose Their Lives. Victoria, B. C., Oct. 18.—News of a marine’ catastrophe, as a _ result of which thirty-three passengers, nine- teen of whom were English, were drowned, was brought by the Em- press of Japan. The Norwegian steamer Callanda, a new steamer ot 3,899 tons, was making her third voy- age from Port Arthur with a general cargo for Japanese ports, and when off Iosa she was run down by the steamer Maru. She had forty pas- sengers and a crew of twenty,. with five foreign officers. The Ize Maru picked up the survivors and brought them to Nagasaki. Two foreigners, twelve Japanese and Chinese escaped in a boat and twenty-two of the crew, including the captain and second of- ficer, were rescued by the Ize Maru. The others were unable to escape. The captain, it is said, refused to let the officers drowned come on deck. VICTIMS OF A STORM. Three Persons Killed and Two Fa- tally Infliured. New York, Oct. 18—A storm which passed cver this city struck Newark, N. J., with frightful force and caused the death of three men, fatal injuries to at least two others and seriously injuring two more. When the storm came up the men were at work on the new Mairn-Olum works The building had been taken up to a height of fifty feet and the iron gird- ers for the floors had been put in. The mer. had taken down the scaf- folding inside. When the wind rushed inside and formed a whirlwind the structure collapsed like an eggshell. The four walls fell in at once and the men were buried beneath the debris. The dead were removed to their homes and the wounded to a hospital. Wilhelmina Will Wed. The Hague, Oct. 18. — Queen Wil- helmina has proclaimed her betrothal to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg- Schweren. Butler and Jewelery Missing. New York, Oct. 18.—Charles Pfizer, who lives near Bernardsville, N. J., has reported to the police that David Richards, his butler, has disappeared, as well as diamond studded jewelry worth $20,000. The police of the large cities have been notified. Victims of a Fire. Detroit, Oct. 18—As a result of a fire in the building at No. 15 Jeffer- son averue two men are dead and eight persons are more or less seri- fair to good, $2.50@2.75; stock’ O00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ‘In Minnesota. : State News of the 2 Week Briefly Told. @ eo 00 00 ce 00 00 00 00 Oo 00 Diptheria is spreading in Blue Earth City. Brainerd gets the next meeting of -the Northwestern M. E. conference. Settlers are establishing a new town in the northwestern portion of Aitkin county. ; i Burglars entered the store of Ed- ward Arneson, at Lyle, and took quite a sum of money. The season's output of the St. Croix Boom company, at Stillwater will ag- gregate 240,000,000 feet. Thousands of acres of land in the vi- cinity of Wheaton cannot be plowed this fall because of excessive moisture. S. E. Peterson of Slayton was caught in the belt of a thresher, receiving in- juries from which he died. ‘ It is conceded that, in case St. Louis a county is divided, Virginia will be named as the temporary county seat. { While working around a thresher at Madelia, Oscar Seris had his arm torn off near the shoulder. - Hog cholera has begun to spread very rapidly in Blue Earth county. One man lost thirty good hogs in a short time. The machinery is being placed in the ‘ new brick building of the Wells Co- Operative Creamery association. The 4 plant will cost $7,000. = 4 Cyrus Gazaway was accidentally } shot in the left arm at Le Sueur by ; John Chasteen. The bullet en d at | ; the wrist and came out at the elbow. Christidn Schmidt, eighty-two old, who wandered awa daughter’s home on a fa Mor- k ris, was found dead. entangled in a ’ wire fence. HH While Nels Fernstrom was’out hunt- f ing about fifteen miles from Stephen, he mistcok Mrs. Stromer for a wolf, and shot her, killing her almost in- stantly. The loss to the town of Eveleth on account of the glass breakage, etc., ine , occasicned by the powder ma explosion at the Spruce mine is esti- mated at $10,000. The Albert Lea & Southern railway, between Lyle and Albert Lea, built by the Illinois Central, is nearly complet- ed. From Albert Lea on the company ° will use the Burlington route. 4 j The city council of Winona has re- bin elected Wise Norton as chief of the fire department for another year. His f retention was asked by all the leading business men and many insurance companies. Grading for the Minnesota & Inter- | national railway, north of Bemid. The ing slowly. contractors all short of men. It is safe to say that not over ten miles of track will | , be completed this year. The two-year-old daughter of Mr. , wrence Durland, who re- sides just east of Faribauit, wu pail of boiling water over herself, was scalded so badly that she died ry from the effects of the burns. The creditors of Anna Austi Breckinridge ask that she be de a kankrupt. but after hearing the t court decided that the entitled to the relief they dem: Mrs. Bridgman, wife of Col. man, died at St. Cloud, aged years. She was married in 15 Massachusetts, and since 1856 h a resident of St. Cloud. The re of red y the were taken to Marsachus*tts for bur- ‘ ial. a Another of those horri mill acei- dents is reported, this e at Clo- quet, where a lad named tain got too near a revo which caught his clothing. machinery stopped the boy mangled corpse. The directory estimate of the p tion of Duluth throws the gover figures in the shade. Thr 19 ory is soon to be issue< Stanley who got it up, est the population of the city is stead of 52,995, the census figures. Lightning struck the Catholic church * * at Dakota and completely wrecked it. Wind also damaged a number of other bd buildings, besides uprooting a number 2 of other buildings, besides uprooting a r number of ‘trees. The loss to the y church will amount to over $10,000. The Business Mens’ Association of Red Wing has appointed a committee of six to meet J. Hughes of Baltimore, and interest him in building a canning factory. It is understood that Mr. Hughes is willing to locate in Re@ Wing if given proper encouragement. In response to the arguments of a large number of citizens of Duluth, who attended a recent meeting of the school board, that body reduced the tax levy frem 11 to 6 mills, making the city tax rate less than 30 mills. This makes taxes about half what they were last year. The case of John and Joseph Rollon- ga, two young half-breeds. charged with assault, has been brought to a close in the United States court at Fergus Falls, the jury returning a ver- dict ofrguilty after being out two days. { They were sentenced to nine months at Stillwater in each case. Rosenbaum Bros. & Co., of Chicago are putting in cattle with farmers ah over Blue Earth county fo fatten. They are bought in the Dakotes rnd shipped into that rich and pro*n-tive ccunty. where corn and feed is ~‘entr ful and cheap. The idea ‘is to --ing the cheap cattle and the chean ~->? "1, | contact with éach other and proiuce good, dear cattle. ‘ Considerable interest was aroused at — Bagley"by the receipt of a telecram — from Washington stating thet four * townships of ceded Chippewa I-nds, lying just south of town, wold. be thrown open to séttlement this fall. Efforts have been made to s n-~ate _ these towns from the mass of (hip- pewa lands wanted for the nationat park scheme, and the order of S-cre-_ tary Hitchcock, just issued, will ac- to Ue Aboot ROE | about 000 * Pine in the four es lands