Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 5, 1901, Page 6

ass The Revald--Review. iley T J. Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Lditors and Publisher: MINNESOTA. AND RAPIDS, - The oldest duly qualified physician in the world resides at Carlsbad, in the person of Gallus Ritter von Hock- berger, M. D. He is 97 years old. He has been in practice 71 years, and still gives medical advice, but. only visits poor people who live in the re- mote corners of the town and on the hills. The veteran doctor is a daily visitor to the Carlsbad theatre. A man in Philadelphia takes five daily papers, just to read the patent medicine advertisements. He imagines, «hen reading the symptoms of any disease, that that malady is growing unseen within his body, and he skips off to the drug store and buys a rem- edy, During the past two years he has taken 772 bottles of various proprie- tary preparations. A society is being organized by Dr. A. J. austen Kelly, of Brooklyn, for the purpose of establishing colonies for consumptives in Northern New York. Something like 5,000 acres of land have been bought in the foot hills of the Adirondacks. The purpose is to es- tablish a number of small farms, each with its own house, and the patients will be given light work out of doors when the weather is favorable. A Minneapolis widow fitted up a room in her house, where for months she nightly communed—or thought she did—with the spirit of her dead hus- band. Then a dashing young physi- cian laid seige to her heart. Among other good advice he said to her: “It is your duty, Emma, to turn your at- tention from the dead and seek hap- piness with the living.” The spirit chamber has been dismantled, and the widow will soon be cheered by a liv- ing husband. The Maori party in the New Zealand house of representatives contains but four native members, but it has great power in the Moari interests. The maoris have been agitating lately for a certain measure of home rule, and it is another example of the practical spirit which obtains in New Zealand that they are to be given what they seek. A measure has now been intro- duced to parliament at Wellington em- bodying the modest claims of the na- tives in regard to the Maori lands, and no doubt it will, after sympathetic discussion, be placed upon the statute book of the great progressive colony. The practice one-hundredth of commemorating the anniversaries of im- portant events operates to keep fresh in recollection the historical occur- rences of just a century back. A few years ago we had a long series of Revolutionary celebrations, beginning’ with Concord and ending with Yo: town. The centenary of the Louis iana purchase is now in preparation. Many of the states will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of their admis- sicn to the Union; Te: has @l- ready done so, and Ohio will soon fol- low, In this way the world is steadily living over again the great events of the pa The time wi] dcubt'ess coms when Honolulu, decked in gay colors, will celebrate the centennial of its an- nexation to the Urited States. Congress usually passes a general “River and Harbor’ bill every other year, and such a bill is due this win- ter. In the appropriations of this sort thé people of seaports and river towns are naturally more interested than are those of inland regions. A sea- port representative in personal conver- sation the other day put the case thus, in order to persuade his inland asso- ciates that they had as much to gain by a certain harbor improvement as he: “It is not the mouth that profits by the food that goes into it, but the whole body. The harbor of my city is but a mouth of the nation; by making access to it easier, goods going and coming have less to pay for transpor- tation. This leaves more remaining as your share on what you have to sell abroad, and also makes what you have to buy cost less.” At the recent meeting of the Ameri- can Ornithologists’ union, the commit- tee on bird protection submitted an encouraging report of work done dur- ing the past year. With the co-opera- tion of lighthouse keepers, captains of life-saving stations and owners of is- lands on which gulls and terns breed, the plum hunters were kept away from fields which have heretofore yielded their largest returns. Under the Lacey, Dill, passed at the last sessicn of con- gress, the society was able to seize the bodies of 2,600 birds from a Hary- land dealer, and to bring suit against him. The good effect of this action was felt at once. All the wholesa'e milliners in Baltimore asked to have their stock inspected, and offered to withdraw whatever was held illegally. It is worth noting that among the many ladies present at the meeting of fhe union, not one wore a hat trimmed Witt-birds or feathers. The memb:rs evidently practice what they preach. Holland, the submarine boat man, proposes to cross the Atlantic in a new craft whiclf will live under water or travel like an ordinary, respectable steamer, just as the owner desires. He nas planned the itinerary and de- clares there is no more to be feared in making this experiment than when he first took a dive in the original Hol- land boat. His new invention will go first to Bermudas, thence to the Azores, Lisbon and Cadiz, Spain. Much of the trip wil: be made under water, he says. i Sen nner eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee EERE EEEEEEEEEEIEEREEEEEEEEIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREREEI x a BRILIAANT RECEPTION BY PRESI- DENT WKINLEY. Crowds at the Historie Mansion— Social Function Ever Given at the President's Mansion — People of Every Class Call to Extend New Year's Felici- tations — Marks the Inauguration of the Secial Scasou im Wash- Most Notable ington, Washington, Jan, 2.—The representa~ tives of the various civil and military branches of the government and of numerous private organizations yes- terday paid New Year's greetings to the president of the United States. For two hours and a half Mr. McKin- ley stood in the Blue room of the White Hou: d shook hands with a steadily passing line of officers and civilians, beginning with the members of his cabinet and their wives, and concluding with many hundred repre- sentatives of the “plain people.” M McKinley also jofed in the New Year reception, at her right standing the ladies of the cabinet in regular order of official precedence. The New Year's reception of the president is alwa an occasion of unusual formality and no little bril- but yesterday the thought was body’s mind that the present lianey in ev event Marked Not Only the beginning of another year but of a new century. The thought found ex- pression in the greetings of many of the guests as they grasped the presi- dent’s hand and offered their best wishes for his health and happiness and long life. It was evident also in the crowd of persons who entered the executive mansion between the hours of 11 and 1:30 o’clock, which was some- what larger than usual, and in the sumptuousness of the floral decora- tions. The Marine band, stationed under the stairway, discoursed national airs and lively marches throughout the cer- emony. The members of the cabinet and their wives, together with the ladies of the receiving party, were the first to arrive. They doffed their wraps in the state dining room and ascended to the private apartments of the president, where they Exchanged Greetings with Mr. and Mrs. McKinley. The ladies of the receiving party entered the Red and Blue parlors and took their places behind the line. Mean- time the ambassadors and ministers of foreign count with the attaches of the yarious legations, resplendent in unif had their gorgeous court ‘ms, gathered in the state dining room. Promptly at 11 o'clock the bugles sounded the approach of the presiden- tial party, and led by Cél. Bingham, the master of ceremonies, and Maj. McCauley of the marine corps, Presi- dent and Mrs. McKinley descended the main stairease, followed by the mem- bers of the cabinet and their wives. ‘As the party passed along the re- ceiving room the president reflected in his smiling face his health and happi- ness He bowed repeatedly to the crowds assembléd in the corridors and grected many of them with the well nes of the day. Mrs. McKinley also owed her cious grectings upon any of the throng. QUAY THEIR CHOICE. Serntor by a Re- publican Caneus, Harrisburg, Jan. 2.—Col. Quay was the unanimous choice of a joint caucus ef Republican sonators and representa- held in the house chamber last to nominate a candidate for, ted States senator. The caucus was attended by 123 members of the assem- bly or four less than required to elect at the joint session which will be held Jan. 16. Those absent were Messrs. Hill and Tiffany of Susquehanna county, and McPherson of Adams, who absented themselves Monday night from the house caucus and yoted with the Democrats in the house yes- terday for Gen. Kontz for speaker. Mr. Beaver of Juniata, who voted with the stalwarts for Marshall for speaker, was present, but did not answer to his name. It was stated that he will abide by the caucus. Thompson of Center and Haldeman of Montgomery, who are detained‘at home by ilfness, were pledged by their colleagues to Mr. Quay. This apparently gives Mr. y 126 of the 127 necessary to a Nominated for Famine Is Threatened. St. Petersburg, Jan. 2. — A dispatch received here from Vladivostok reports that famine threatens the Amur and Maritime provinces. The crops there are bad and the railways, being al- most wholly engaged for war purposes, cannot be used for the transportation of food to the inhabitants. In addi- tion the prohibition of foreign coast- wise trade has prevented importations into the threatened provinces. The situation is deplerable and becoming worse. Engineer Killed. Chicago, Jan. 2.—J. W. Bell, engineer, was killed, and John Scott, fireman, fa- tally injured by the derailing of a Chicago & Northwestern locomotive at Barrington, near here. Editor Meets Violent Death. Pittsburg, Jan. 2.—J. P. Saln, for the past seven years city editor of the Volksblatt, this city, was killed by a street car, He was, forty-six years old. Killed His ather’s Antagonist. Eatonton, Ga.; Jan. 2—Will Turk, a boy of seventeen, shot and killed Kim- ball Aiken near here. Thomas Turk was engaged in a fight with Aiken and called on his young son to shoot Aiken. The boy fired and Aiken fell dead. A Native Rising. _ London, Jan., 2.—The Colonial office is in receipt of news of a native rising in the Gambia river region of West Africa, The dispatch conveying this information adds that a punitive expe- dition is being organized. Gracious Greetings to the Assembied WHITE HOUSE EVENT |... BRITISH HIT AGAIN, Amother Disaster ft the Hands of the Boers. Londen, Jan, 1.—Lord Kitchener re- ports another British disaster in South Africa which will tend to still further increase the depression in England and in an adverse ratio decrease the New Year’s joyousness throughout the country. Lord Kitchener's dispatch, which is dated at Pretoria, Dec. 30, 7:50 a. m., is an follows: “Gen. Lyttleton reports that our post at Helvetia was captured yesterday morning by the Boers. About fifty were killed and wounded and 200 taken prisoners. Col. Kitchener reports that he is following with a small force in the track of the enemy. Helvetia being reoccupied by Reeves, who has been reinforced from Belfast. Helvetia was a very strong position the Machadodorp-Lydenberg railway, and was held by a detachment of the Liv- erpool regiment. Am asking for fur- ther information.” Discouraging to Britons. The revelations of an enormously wide field of Boer activity are discour- aging to the Britons. Gen Dewet is still at large. Kimberley is isolated. The Boers are in force enough to have captured a strong position at Helvetia. in the Lydenburg district, while, judg- ing from Lord Kitchener's very recent advices no progress is being made against the Boer invaders in Cape Col- ony. The Boers are said to have two or three horses each, though in bad condition. They have no guns or transport, but are well supplied with ee-Metford rifles and ammunition. Captured Boers say that the intention of these commandops is to roam about and wait until Gen, Dewet appears on the scene. All dispatches arriving in London agree that the Cape Dutch show no inclination to rise, but on the contrary, appear to be tired of the war and de- sirous of peace. Many refuse to sup- ply the Boers with food and are willing to give information to the British re- garding Boer movements. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Jan. 1. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 72 @ 721-2c; No. 2 North- ern, 69 1-4@701-2c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 35@35 1-2c; No. 3, 34@343-4c. Oats—No. 3 white, 241-2 @ 25c; No. 3, 23 1-2@24c. Seeds—Timothy, $1.75@2; clover, $5.20@ 6; flax, No. 1, $1.52@1.53, Minneapolis, Jan. 1.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 743-4c;| No. 1 Northern, 72 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, €93-4c. Corn — New No. 3 yellow, 321-2c; No. 3, 23@23 1-2c. Rye — No. 2, 451-2c. Barley — Feed grades, 37@42c; malting grades, 50@52c. Duluth, Jan. 1.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, cash, 78c; No. 1 Northern, Tle; No. 2 Northern, 61 1-2@661-2c; No. 3 spring, 521-2@591-2c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 731-2c; No, 1 Northern, 711-2c; De- cember, No. 1 Northern, 707-8c; May, No. 1 Northern, 75c; oats, 24 1-2@24 3-4c;, rye, 471-2c; barley, 35@55e; corn, 33 1-2c; flax, to arrive, $1.56; cash, $1.62; December, $1.64 1-2; May, $1.62. Chicago, Jan. 1—Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 721-2%741-2c; No. 3 red, 69@74c; ‘o. 2 hard winter, 68@70c; No. 3 hard winter, 651-2@69c; No. 1 Northern spring, 70 1-2@731-2c; No. 3 spring, 64@ 72e. Corn—No. 2, 361-2c; No. 3, 35 1-4¢. Oats—No. 2, 22 1-4@223-4c; No, 3, 22@ 22 1-2¢, Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 1. — Flour is steady. Wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, 721-2 @ 73c; No. 2 Northern, 70 @ 71c. Rye stead: No. 1, 511-8c. Barley dull; No, 2, 60e; sample, 45@57 1-2c. Oats firm; No. 2 white, 251 26c. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 1. — Cattle — Beeves, ¢ @5.50; cows, bulls and mixed, $2 @ 4; stockers and fecders, @3.75: calves and yearlings, $3.25@ Hogs, $4.70 @ 4.80; bulk, $4.75 @ 1-2. Chicago, Jan. 1. — Cattle — Gocd to $5.25@6.10; poor to medi um, $3,754 ; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.30; cows and heifers, $2.50@4.40; Texas steers, $3.30 @ 4. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $4.65@4.97 1-2; good to choice heavy, $4.75@5; rough heavy, $4.60@4.70; light, $4.80@4.921-2; bulk of sales, $4.80@4.95. Sheep, $2.50 @ 4.65; lambs, $4.25@5.75. South St. Paul, Jan. 1. — Cattle -- Good to choice butcher steers, $4.5095.25; fair to good, $4 @ 4.50; common to fair, $2.40@4; good to choice butcher cows and heifers, $3.50 @ 4; fair to good, $2.75@3.50; thin cows and can- ners, $1.50@2.50; choice corn-fed bulls, $3@4; fair to good butcher bulls, $2.75 @3; bologna bulls, $2@2.75; good to choice veals, $5@5.75; fair to good, $4@ 5; good to choice feeders, $2@3.50; good to choice stock steers, $3@3.40; fair to good, $2.70@3.10; common, $2@2.60; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $2.50 @2:75; tair to good, $2 25@2.50; common, $1.75@2.25; good to choice steer calves, $3.25@3.50; fair to good, $2.75@3; good to choice heifer calves, $2.50@2.75; fair to good, $2.25 @ 2.50; stock and feeding bulls, $2 @ 2.40; good to _ choice milkers and springers, $35 @ 45; good to fair, $30@35; common, $20@28. Hogs—Good to choice light, $4.60@4.70; mixed and butchers, $4.60@4.72 1-2; good to prime heavy, $4.60@4.65; common to fair, $4.56@4.60; rough packers, $4.45@ 4.50; boars, $1.75 @ 2.50; pigs and skips, $3@3.75. Sheep—Good to choice butcher lambs, $4.50@5.10; fair to good, $4.25@4.40; good to choice fat wethers, $3.60@4; fair to good, $3.25@3.50; fat ewes, $3.35@3.75; good to choice stock and feeding lgmbs $3.75@4.25; fair to good, $3.25@3.75; feeding wethers, $3.25 @3.75; stock and feeding ewes, $2.75@ 3.10; ‘thin sheep, $2@2.50; buck lambs, $2.75@3.10; killing bucks, $2@2.75. Prof. Northrup Dead. Chicago, Jan, 1.—George W. North-' rup, D. D., LL. D., professor of the- olegy and head of the department in the divinity school of the University of Chicago, died yesterday. Dr. North- rup was in his seventy-fifth year and his health has been failing for a num- ber of years. WANT IRELAND FOR CARDINAL. French Priests Organize to Induce the Vatican to Give Him the Red Hat. Paris, Jan. 1. — Influential French priests and laymen are organizing ap independent movement to induce the Vatican to appoint Archbishop Ireland cardinal. They cite the American pre- late’s affection for France, and say that the more liberal, wide-awake churchmen of that sort are the best for the church. CROWE IS CAPTURED ALLEGED ABPUCTOR ARRESTED IN SOUTH DAKuTA, After a Running Pight He Is Taken Prisoner Nene the Agency of the Pine Ridge Poxse Has Been on His Trail for Reservation — Large Several Days—Omaha Police Dis- ‘rowe's Broth credit the Report- er, a Coancil Bluft’s Saloonkecper, Arrested on Suspicion. Chadron, Neb., Jan. 2. — Pat Crowe, charged with being the leader of the gang which kidnaped young Cudahy at Omaha, has been captured and is being brought here. A large posse re- cently went from here search: of, Crowe, and one squad overtook and captured him near the agency of the Pine Ridge reservation and is bringing him to town. Another reports received here When the detectives started a after Pat Crowe they were on a hot trail and captured their man. Three raiders following Crowe's trail came upon him on the Pine Ridge reserva- tion near Oelrichs, S. D., and cap- tured him after a wild chase. Crowe was driving a team and buckboara. He whiped the horses and tried to out- run the horsemen, who soon brought him to a halt with their six-shooters. John Delfelder, a cattleman, has just reached town with the news. He says the posse stopped at a ranch about thirty miles out for lunch and to feed their horses. The Report Not Believed. Omaha, Jan. 2.— The police here know nothing of the Pat Crowe at Oelrichs, S. D., and discredit the report of his arrest. Crowe's Brother Arrested. Omaha, Jan. 2.—The first arrest in the Cudahy kidnaping case has been made. J. J. Crowe, brother of Pat Crowe, whom the police believe to be a principal in the abduction, was taken into custody in Council Bluffs yester- day afternoon by Omaha detectives and brought to this city. The warrant charges Crowe with the abductios of young Edward Cudahy on Dec. 18. Crowe consented to accompany the of- ficers across the river without the formality of requisition papers. Crowe was put in the sweat box by the po- lice, but denies any knowledge of his brother's wehereabouts and that he had anything to do with the kidnap- ing. The police expect, however, to secure some valuable information about Pat Crowe and his recent do- ings. says: posse RELIEVING MR. CUDAHY. Omaha City Council Offers a Reward for the Capture of Kidnappers, Omaha, Jan, 2.—At a specially called meeting of the city council that body unanimously adopted a concurrent res- olution offering a reward of $25,900 for the apprehension and conviction of the desperadoes who abducted Edward Cudahy, Jr., on the night of Dec. 18. For the arrest and conviction of one, the resolution provides a reward of 8.900; for two, $15,000 will be paid, and the whole amount is offered for three principals, The council also asked Mr. y to Withdraw his offer of a re- rd of an equal amount for the cap- ture of the criminals. The object of the city’s offer is largely to relieve Mr. Cudahy his family of the fear of reprisals from the bandits and to re- cm the police and detectives the y have felt in trailing the of the very trying v . Cudahy has been ‘he action of the council is ymmended by the citizens move restraint bandits on BURGLAR KILLED. Shot While He Was Trying to Vorce an Entrance Into a Warchouse. St. Louis, Jan. 2.—While attempting to force an entrance to Cole Brothérs’ warehouse at No. 720 South Seventh strect, Thomas Walker, wel! known to the police, was killed by Harry F. Kretzer. Walker's left lung was lit- erally torn away by the charge of shot. Mr. Kretzer, who was taken to the four courts and later released on a $10,000 bond, said the warehouse had been robbed fourteen times in the past two years, and considerable valuable material taken. : ANOTHER CHILD KIDNAPPED. Twelve-Year-Old Boy Stolen by an Unknown Man, Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 2.—Bethlehem has been thrown into a terrible excite- ment through the kidnaping of a bright little boy, son of well known and well- to-do residents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Kerschner. The boy is twelve years old. Telegrams and telephone mes- sages have been sent out in all dire» tio! and people are volunteering to go in pursuit of the kidnapers. Tne motive of the kidnapers is not appar- ent. LOCOMOTIVE EXPORTS. One Hundred and Twenty Millions the Value During Past Year. New York, Jan. 2.—In 1900 American locomotives to the value of $120,000,000 were exported. About $4,000,000 worth of these went to British North America and $2,000,000 worth to South Africa. HAS LOST HIS HEAD. Decapitation of the Chinese Mur- derer of Baron von Ketteler. Pekin, Jan. 2.—The man who killed Baron von Ketteler, the German min- ister to China, was beheaded in the presence of a large number of specta- tors. f Killed by Robbers. New Orleans, Jan. 2. — Dr. James Gibbons, one of the ambulance stu- dents of the charity hospital, and-a | nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, died of wounds received Monday night while being held up by two men. One Killed and One Fatally Injured. Chicago. Jan. 2——Mts. John J. Powell of Chicago Heights was killed in- stantly and her husband fatally injured by being struck by a passenger train while driving across the tracks near Crete. OOOO SOSH SHSHHSHHSHHHHHSHHHHOHOHOD OHOOOHOOD Sd Northwest News SSSSHSHHHSHHHHSSHHHSHHHHHHHHHHHOHHOD TAW) Y IS A CANDIDATE, He Makes His Formal Entry Into the Senatorial Contest. ¥ St. Paul, Dec. 30. — Congressman James A. Tawney of Winona yester- day afternoon became an avowed can- didate for the United States senate to complete the unexpired term of the late Senator Davis. The announce- ment of Mr. Tawney’s candidacy was made after a conference at the Mer- chants be*ween Mr. Tawney and six- teen members of the First district legislative delegation. Mr. Tawney takes the field with the solid backing of the delegation from the First dis- JAMISON FOR SECRETARY. Gov.-Elect Van Sant Makes a Per- sonal Appointment. St. Paul, Dec. 20. — Robert Jamison of Minneapolis has been offered and will accept the appointment as private secretary to Gov.-elect Van Sant. The appointment was first offered Judge Jameson shortly after election. Judge Jameson is nét only an astute poli- tician but a lawyer of ability. The ap- pointment is a personal one and proffered without the solicitation or acquiescence of the Hennepin county politicians. Capt. Van Sant and Judge Jameson have been friends since the boyhood of the latter. NEW CONSUMPTION CURE. Young Towa Osteopath Creates a Sensation at Des Moine: Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 30. -- Dr. William West, a young osteopath at Centerville, Iowa, caused a sensation at the state meeting of osteopaths by an- nouncing a new method for curing tuberculosis. He said he tested it on ten patients, all of whom recovered. The essence of the treatment consists in vibration of the spleen, releasing the phagocytes that prey on _ bacteria. Osteopathic treatment to strengthen the alimentary canal and lungs is also* used and patients are given diet and good air and light. GALVESTON RELIEF. State Committee Completes Its Re- port to Gov. Lind. St. Paul, Dec. 30.—The state commit- tee on relief for the Galveston suffer- ers has completed its report to the governor. The report shows that col- lections amounted to $8,824.72, all of which went to the sufferers except $170.50, the expenses of the committee for printing, postage and clerical work. NOT DROWNED. Sensational Story of Calamity at What Cheer Without Foundation. Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 30.—Investi- gation has disclosed the falsity of re- ports circulated Thursday night to the effect that forty-nine school children had been drowned in a skating pond either at What Cheer or Foster, Iowa. It is stated that the story was started as a joke by some trainmen. Wisconsin Teachers Elect Officers, Milwaukee, Dec. 30.—The Wisconsin Teachers’ association elected officers as follows: President, W. H. Cheever, Milwaukee; first vice president, J. F. Sims, River Falls; second vice pre: dent, R. L. Cooley, Oconto; third vice president, Miss Frances Kippenberger, Milwaukee; secretary, C. H. Maxson, Tomah; treasurer, J. Lamont, Wau- sau; member of executive committee, William Griffith, Wilmot. Advancement of Nuns. Dubuque, Iowa, Dec. 30. — Attended by a number of priests, Archbishop Keane officiated at a memorable cere- mony at the Presentation convent in this city, where a class of novices were advanced to a higher degree in the order. Fifty invited guests witnessed the heautiful.and solemn ceremonies. The nuns of this order are of the cloistered class, who never leave their apartments. Kidnaped Boy Is Found. Fort Dodge, Iowa, Dec. 30.—Joh:.aie Tonhose, the nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Tonhose of Judd, Iowa, who was supposed to have been kid- naped ten days ago, was found hiding in a hay loft. The boy had lived on vegetables which he had taken from the cellar. His feet and legs weie frostbitten. Was a Deceiver. Helena, Mont., Dec. 30.—J. W. Tins ley, who shot and killed his wife at Los Angeles and then committed sui- cide after having basely deceived her as to his wealth in Montana, formerly lived near here, but possessed no prop- erty whatever. He was a small truck farmer. USM ke SRE ee Hunted Rabbi Montevideo, Minn., Dec. 29.—Sports- men of the town and vicinity engaged in an extensive rabbit hunt, and brought home 226, a mixture of jacks and cottontails. Sides were chosen be- | fore starting, and the defeated ones furnished a supper to the others. Stewart Regularly Held. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 30.—William Stewart, who was arrested at Fargo, N. D., charged with stealing a fur cape from a Sioux City store, and who put up such a determined fight against being brought to this place, was bound over to the grand jury for larceny. Killed in His Cab. Marchalltown, Iowa, Dec. 30.—Engi- neer John Norton was killed in his cab while running a passenger train near Eldora. The fracture of the skull in- dicated some blunt instrument had been used.+ There is ro clue. Fatally Scalded. Langdon, Minn., Dec. 30.—The one- year-cld boy of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus J. Dalton was so badly scalded by fall- ing into a pail of hot ‘water that death resulted during the night. The water had been placed there for scrubbing. ALPHEUS B. STICKNEY TO WES). \President of Great Western to Marry Miss May Crosby. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 1—As the re- sult of a romantic attachment of the long ago Alpheus B. Stickney of ‘this: city, president of the Chicago Great. Western railway, will be married next month. The bride will be Miss May Crosby, second daughter of Judge Josiah Cresby of Dexter, Me. She is a sister of Attorney S. P. Crosby of this city and of Oliver Crosby, presi- dent of the St. Paul Hoist and Derrick company. Miss Crosby and Mr. Stick- ney are nearly of the same age. M1. Stickney’s first wife died about a year ago. It was when Mr. Stickney was « young lawyer, soon after his leaving college, that he met Miss Crosby at her home in Maine. He was then a law student in the office of her father, who had been a classmate of Mr. Stickney’s father. It is probable that the wedding will take place at Bos- ton and that Mr. and Mrs. Stickney Will spend the winter in New York. WILL CONTEST, Fight for the Possesion of Dr. ¥ srove’s Estate. Fargo, N. Dak., Jan. 1, — Some months 2go Dr. Musgrove of Grafton was at Hudson, Wis., for treatment at a sani- tarium. It was announced that he had committed suicide and a body found in a stream there was idemiified and buried us Lis. The doctot left a valuable estate, including several thousand dollars’ worth of life insurance, to Mrs, Judge Sauter of Gratten. The lady's husband was named as executor. Recently there has been some litigation atid the relatives of the deceased intend to contest the will. Yesterday a local representative of an insurance company in which the doctor carried a $6,000 policy, received an an- onymous letter staiing that Musgrove Was not dedd, and had been seen by the writer within forty-eight hours. No credence is given to the letter and it is thought to have been wriiten by friends of interested contestants to tle up the money. . BIG IRRIGATION DITCH. Arid Land in Montana to Be Re- claimed and Cultivated. Helena, Mont., Jan. 1, — The state arid land commission let a contract to L. D. Beary of Helena for a fifty-mile irrigation canal, intended to reclaim 33,000 acres of land located in the northern part of Lewis and Clarke county, of which Helena is the: county seat. The contract price is $412,000, to be paid in bonds, which are to be se- cured by the lands sought to be re- claimed, and the work must be com- pleted within three years. The con- tractor also agrees to place settlers upon the lands. Work on the canal will be commenced next May. % GOV. ROIES ROOBED. Thieves Drive Off a Drove of Caitle From His Farm. Eldora, Iowa, Jan. 1. — Another drove of fine cattle have been stolen from the farm of . ex-Gov. Boies in Grundy county, fifteen miles east of Eldora. This time there is no clue as to the thieves nor where the cattle are. This is the second loss Goy. Boies has had from cattle stealing within two years. In the former theft he lost a car load of cattle, but he,discovered the theft and the proceeds were sent him in an unknown manner by draft from Chicago, where the cattle were sold, FIRE DESTROYS 1OWA MILL. Union Mill Company's Plant at Wat- erloo Burns With Contents. Waterloo, Iowa, Jan. 1.—One of the two large flouring mills of the Union Mill company was destroyed by fire, together with its machinery and con- tents,’ including 3,500 sacks of flour ready for shipment. The loss is placed at $60,000, with insurance at $33,000. The mill was originally built in 1868 at a cost of $40,000, and had in late years been remodeled and fitted with modern machinery. Dust explosion in the basement is said to have caused the fire. STAMPEDE KILLS 3,000 SHEEP. Masked Men Drive Big Flock Over a Precipice, Miles City, Mont., Jan. 1—A tele- phone message from Otter, Custer county, says eleven masked men stam- peded 3,000 sheep, killing the whole flock. The sheep belonged to R. R. Selway, the largest owner in Eastern Montana, and probably were driven over a precipice. There were range troubles at Otter all summer and many here look for further deeds of violence. DIED AS HE HAD PREDICTED. Iowa Man Ttakes Last Drive, Bid- ding Friends to His Funeral. Clinton, Iowa, Jan. 1—Several days before Christmas Jacob Mathiessen, a, well known business man who has been suffering from consumption, was taken for a ride about the city, calling on members of the uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, to which he be- Monged, bidding them good bye and asking them to attend his funeral. The’ funeral took place as he had predicted. EXPLORER DEAD. Gustave Pecaut, Who Located the Present Site of Sioux City. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 1—Gustave Pecaut, one of the French voyageurs: who left St. Louis in 1839 for a trip up the Missouri river and in 1848 located at the present site of Sioux City, died here, aged seventy-four years. He died a wealthy man, Drops Dead in the Pulpit. ‘West Superior, Wis., Jan. 1. — Rev. Anton L. Moline, pastor of the Scan- linavian Free Church of God of this city, dropped dead during services yesterday. Dev. Moline was but twen- ty-two Years of age. Heart failure. North Dakota Town Scorched. Hunter, N. D., Jan. 1—Almost an entire block was destroyed by fire here. — The loss will be about $50,000. The ‘Tribune printing office was ene of the > > v . - + | as | Z_z==s a