Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 19, 1904, Page 7

See re SR 5 SOHNSON IS NEXT GOVERNOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WILL HAVE A PLURALITY OF OVER TEN THOUSAND. - ROOSEVELT GETS BIG VOTE SCARCELY A COUNTY IN THE STATE THAT HE DID NOT CARRY. ELECT BALANCE OF TICKET REPUBLICANS ELECT ALL OTHER STATE OFFICERS BY GOOD MARGIN. Governor—John A. Johnson, Nicol- let. Lieutenant Governor — Jones, Hennepin. Secretary of State—Peter Hansen, Meeker. Treasurer — Julius H. Block, Nicol- let. Attorney Swift. Justices of the Supreme Court — Charles B. Elliott, Hennepin; Calvin L. Brown evens; Charles L. Lewis, Ray W. General — E. T. Young, St. Louis; Edwin A. Jaggard, Ramsey. Railroad and Warehouse Commis- sioners — Ira B. Mills, Clay; W. E. Young, Blue Earth. John A. Johnson of St. Peter, the Democratic candidate for governor, was elected over Robert C. Dunn by a plurality of more than 10,000. The re- turns from several of the counties are still incomplete, and until the official eanvass is made Johnson’s exact plu- tality will not be known. President Roosevelt carried the state by about 125,000. There is scarce- ly a county in the state that he did mot carry, and in several precincts Judge Parker did not.get a vote. The balance of the Republican state ticket was elected by good ma- joriti State Treasurer Block and P. E. Hanson, secretary of state, are having a close race for the largest plu- rality on the state ticket. From the incomplete returns it is impossible to tell who is ahead. The state legislature will contain only twelve Democratic members at the session which will open in Jan- uary. As a result of the election last Tuesday 107 Republicans have been returned to the house, and the twelve Democratic members will make up the total membership of 119. The results of this year’s election shows a Democratic loss of three members. With fifteen Democratic members in the house at the last ses- sion, the contests this year showed Democratic losses in five districts, and Democratic gains in two districts. The fourteenth, twenty-seventh, thir- tieth, thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh districts were lost to the Democrats this year, while in the tenth and thir- ty-eighth the Democrats won over former Republican incumbents. 4 bi ae etl dattally incomplete, but the figures given below will not be materially changed by the final count: Counties— Johnson. itkin 440 noka Al Al ed 350, 448 Big Stone 862 Blue Earth 2,775 Brown ... at Carlton Carver Clay ... Clearwater Cook .. .... Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota” Dodge . Douglas » Faribault Fillmore . Freeborn Goodhue . Grant .. Hennepin Houston . rd Lake .. Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon . McLeod Marshall Martin . Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pine . Pipestone Poik .. Winona Wright Yellow Majority. The Republicans elected all of the nine Minnesota congressmen by in- creased majorities. There was really no contest except in the Fifth district, but Loren Fletcher was chosen by a majority of about 5,000. J. Adam Bede in the eighth district will have prob- ably the largest plurality of any Min- nesota congressman. His plural estimated at between 12,000 and 000. congressional delegation is as The follo First district, James A. Tawney, Wi- nona. Second district, J. T. McCleary, Man- kato. Third district, C. R. Davis, St. Peter. Fourth district, F. C. Stevens, St. Paul. Fifth district, Loren Fletcher, Min- neapolis. Sixth district, C. B. Buckman, Little Falls. Seventh district, Andrew J. Volstad, Granite Falls. Eighth district, J. Adam Bede, Pine City. Ninth district, Halvor Steenerson, Crookston. E RRR RRR eee O00 0000 0202.02 02 2 r~ornrw* BLOWS UP THE MAYOR'S HOME. The Cause Is Said to Be the Enforce- ment of the Law. Dulith, Nov. 15. — An attempt to blow up the dwelling of Capt. Marcus L. Fay, mayor of Virginia, with dyna- mite, was made at 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The family were all in bed and asleep. The rear part of the dwelling was wrecked, but none of the inmates was injured. Mayor Fay has made himself disliked by his strict en- forcement of the laws governing the sale of liquor and gambling. The socitl evil has also been handled very strict- ly. The home of Mayor Fay is one of the finest on the Mesaba range, and was completed a year ago. It is said that Mayor Fay has been unusually strict with the saloon element of Vir- ginia since the death of his son Charles last summer. He was a very bright and enterprising young man, and his father was much affected by his death. TWO BURNED TO DEATH. Many Fatalities Expected at a Result of Fire in Washington Residences. Washington, Nov. 15.—Fire yester- day morning in a row of houses at ‘Twelfth and C streets burned one man to death, caused another to jump from a second-story window and break both legs, while two women who jumped each broke aleg. The fire spread with great rapidity, several occupants of the buildings barely escaping with their lives. The property loss was small. It is thought several dead bodies may be in the ruins, all thé in- mates not having been accounted for. WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH. Her Clothes, Ignited While Trying to Put Out Flames on Neighbor’s Farm. Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 15. — While fighting prairie fires with her husband on a neighbor's farm Mrs. R. Olson of Woodside got too near the Dlazing hay stack. Her clothes ignited and she was horribly burned, death result- ing shortly after. W. Glenn was badly burned in endeavoring to save the woman. HOME FOR ROOSEVELT. Country Home in Virginia May Be Bought by President. Washington, Noy. 15. — President Roosevelt has been contemplating for some time the purchase of a country house in Virginia about three miles south of Washington. It is on the line of a trolley road now under construc- tion and near the estate of Surgeon General Rixey of the navy. At the White House it was said that while efforts had been made by the presi- dent to buy the estate, Mr. Roosevelt had not reached any conclusion. The owner of the land wants more than $100,000 for his property. Since the report got abroad in the neighborhood that the president would purchase a home there property has doubled in price. EIGHT ROB BANK OF $2,000. After Blowing Open Till Skip on Hand Car. Chicago, Noy. 15.—The Chicago po- lice were notified early yesterday of the robbery of the Bank of Rio at Rio, Burglars | Il, by eight men, who secured $2,000 in cash and escaped. Rio is a small town on the Burlington railway about ten miles north of Galesburg. After blowing open the safe with dyna- mite and securing the money the rob- bers boarded a hand car.and rode rap- idly away toward the south. _ The sheriff pursued them to a point near Galesburg, where all trace of the men was lost. The pofice of the surround- ing towns have been notified. ENGINEER IS ELECTROCUTED. Lifeless Body Falls When Current Is Turned On. Winnipeg, Man., Noy. 15.—Engineer Garnet of the electric light station at Prince Albert was electrocuted last night soon after turning on the lights for the evening. He was found stand- ing upright, holding the connections behind the switchboard. The flesh was burned from his hands. The switch was thrown open and the lifeless body dropped to the floor. He had gone be hind the switchboard to make repairs. Set ni 1876 ~ SS\ Mis thitha Bl PRINS PHL From the beginning, with but few exceptions, Thanksgivings have been kept in the late autumn, owing to the quently toward the end of November. No one knows how the custom of appointing Thprsday originated, but some light is doubtless thrown on the | \subject by a controversy over a pro- posal to change the day of the week, about 1690, when the dissenters ar- gued that Thursday was preferable, because of the Thursday lectures, or midweek religious services, that took place every week in communities of considerable size, a joint observance of the two days rendering it unneces- sary, of course, for many to sacrifice a day’s labor, especially for Thanks- giving. Although the pilgrims were the first to observe Thanksgiving on this con- tinent,sthe Salem colonists, on their voyage over here in 1629, observed Thanksgiving on shipboard, in which everybocy, passengers, captain and crew, took part, as an acknowledg- ment of a favorable breeze that had followed a preceding day of fasting and prayer. Winthrop colony, in 1630, also ob- served a Thanksgiving, apparently en- tirely without any inspiration from the pilgrims, but in accordance with their former custom in England, the motive in this case having been grat- itude for the safe arrival of their fleet at Charlestown, where purely relig- ious services were held beneath a tree, for it was in hot weather, July 8. The Winthrop’ colony’s second Thanksgiving here, which is common- ly spoken of by historians as their first, was about eight months later, Feb. 22, when having moved over to. the peninsula of Shawmut and taken up their abode in log houses, huts, hovels and even holes in the side of Beacon hill, their number sadly de- pleted by diseases caused by putrified food, and even absolute starvation, the arrival of their fellow townsman, Capt. William Peirce, with a shipload of provisions from Ireland, and, best of all, “good store of lemon juice” to arrest the ravages of the scurvy, fur- nished them with good cause for de- vout thanksgiving and gastronomic dissipation as well. The colony probably comprised 200 or less, no church had yet been built, and it is doubtful if there was any public religious observance of the day. Neither can the bill of fare of any of the households have been sumptuous, according to our ideas, judged by the record of the ship's car- go, which shows that the best the Boston cuisine could have then af- forded was corned beef or boiled salt park, oatmeal or wheatmeal mush, without milk or sirup, and ship’s bis- cuit with cheese. Yet who shall say it was not deem; ed a rich feast, when we learn from one who participated in it that a re- past consisting of “meal, water and a little salt, boiled together, was so good that none could ask for a better meal.” Digestion was facilitated by co- pious drafts of ale, if it could be had, from a single large pewter or wooden “FIRST THANK SGIVING OBSERVED ON SHIPBOARD SF THANKS CLYING WN pea I CHARLESTON from one to another at the table, af- ter the fashion of the modern loving | cup. harvest time, of course, and more fre- | The household environment of | those early Boston martyrs who had come 3,000 miles into the savage wil- derness, to escape persecution, was as rude and as simple as their bill of fare. Household furniture there was practically none, save a table of rough boards or planks, and enough tnree- legged stools to accommodate the members of the family. There were tablecloths of very coarse linen, but neither table knives nor forks, the fingers and spoons of either wood or iron meeting all the requirements of the then prevailing table etiquette; china was unknown, and as tea and coffee had never been heard of, ne cream pitcher and the sugar bowl were not needed. Trenchers, usea .or plates or platters, were made by scooping out a hollow in a piece of plank, about 10 or 12 inches square. For sixty or seventy years, if not longer, the religious phase of Thanks- giving differed in no appreciable way Held et Charleston Fane the roth, 167 6. oly God Bartag by along and ContivuedSeries of bis “hor, a rape Weck ben Natives of tus Lcaud written and! 10 paft things agalnft his onmlrvenant people in this wildernsft, ip Aer et midivof bis ju pale . eving remembred Wit Fost haa the dey of bs fred : relay toll athe a peeks: aah my Giga bape lation $ Ty he rns fem aiely of late nitb cur Canfederater mary re wast inft then without, poor si bam i pat ther meare not canfiaved, i ‘Think folzef?, roben cur Enemies are in Y printedor fearing he takenotice ‘Th COUNCIL) tre sok nett Sirtmayheheduome ey rratonirtly geriying bes Tec ores, See eee i, ora cena a reugew total taza Nemg Bythe Couperl, Edward Remfto Sea Facuimin, reduced sreof the cin, in possesion of to ‘Maaachownes Hirer Secry, ‘ THE FIRGT PRINTED THANKS! "VING PROCLAMATION. from Sunday, from six to seven hours having been spent in church, divided between forenoon and afternoon. It is evident that in those days the din- ner must have been decidedly a min- or affair. It was not till 1721 that the afternoon service was abolished, against vigorous protests from some of the church members, although the change was brought about by fear of the smallpox, then prevalent in the town. A third Thanksgiving was observed in the Massachusetts colony Nov. 11, 1631, to express the popular joy at the arrival of Gov. Winthrop’s wife and, another shipload of provisions tankard. which was passed around ' from the old country. Whatever may IN YEAR 1629 have been the bill of fare of the av- erage Boston family on that day, one family, at least, must have enjoyed a bountiful and variegated dinner, for the country people who poured into Boston on the arrival of the ship, a few days before Thanksgiving, over- whelmed the governor and his wife with gifts of fat hogs, kids, poultry, venison and other kinds of game. During the succeeding fifty years there appear to have ‘been Thanksgiv- ings averaging about once in two years, and appointed to mark some specific and remarkable event, as a victory in the Indian wars, or a hap- py solution of some troublesome prob- lem, either religious or political. Dur- ing all those years, and for many af- terward, fast days were even more numerous than Thanksgivings, be- cause the trials of the Puritans far exceeded their blessings. In some instances there were ser- ious differences between the general court, which then appointed Thanks- givings, the magistrates and the min- isters—for the latter always advised in the matter—as to which was prop- er for the occasion, a thanksgiving or a fast. It is to be noted that the custom of appointing a Thanksgiving simply as an annual custom, and with- out regard to any specific or impor- tant occasion was almost unknown until well into the last century and was never habitual till within the last thirty years. Indeed, the theory was advanced more than 200 years ago that a too frequent observance of Thanksgiving, and for insufficient cause, tended to make men “too carnal-minded.” A printed proclamation of that Thanksgiving, the earliest broadside of its kind known to be in existence now, is in the library of the Massa- chusetts historical society, and a re- duced facsimile is given with this ar- ticle. The general tone of the compo- sition reminds one of another Thanks- giving, some years later, which was observed only in Boston, for the pur- pose of thanking heaven for sparing Boston, while Charlestown, across the, river, was threatened with depopula- tion by the yellow fever. A Boston menu of this period, which - | is in striking contrast with the early dinner of corned beef and mush, enumerates roast beef, turkey pie, boiled pork, fowls and tarts. Plymouth, which was not yet united to the Massachusetts colony, had its Thanksgiving that year Aug. 17, five days after the killing of King Philip in Rhode Island, and it so happened that Major Church and his little band of heroes arrived in Plymouth just at the close of the Thanksgiving fore- noon service, bringing the great chief’s head, which was borne by the major’s Indian guide, who had him- self shot Philip. Not Always in November. In the early history of the Massa- chusetts colony Thanksgiving was usually appointed each year. Usual- ly, the day came in the autumn—not always in November, but sometimes in October, and sometimes December. ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. vk Sa a Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Md., wife of G. W. Fooks, Sheriff of Wico- mico County, says: “I suf- fered with kid- ney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradually. I felt tired and weak, wags short of breath and was trou- bled with bloating after i eating, and my limbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Bright’s disease. I was laid up at one time for three weeks. I had not taken Doan’s Kidney Pills more than three days when the distressing ach- ing across my back disappeared, and I was soon entirely cured.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,N.Y, Straw Is Called In. There once was a fellow who 8 All his food through a hole in his p8. There’s naught strange in that, For he talked through his hat, But he made his words felt anyr8. —Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. FOR SALE. Horses, Mules, Harness; One and Two-Horse Baggage Wagons; Lan- daus, Berlins, Hansom and Four-Wheel Cabs, Victorias, Ten-Seated Passenger Coaches, at reasonable prices for cash. This is surplus equipment pur- chased on account of the World's Fair. Address D. Jamison, Superintendent Passenger and Baggage Department, St. Louis Transfer Company, Broad- way and Spruce street, St. Louis, Mo. Luck. Mrs. Casey—So poor Mary Flan- nery’s man was kilt at the quarry? Mrs. Cassidy—Ay! Shure she never was as lucky as her cousin, Mag Gal- lagher. Mrs. Casey—What are ye sayin’? Gallagher was blowed up in a quarry, too. Mrs. Cassidy—Thrue for ye! But he was blown into such small bits his wife was spared the ixpinse of a funeral. At the Booking Office. “When does‘the next train that stops at Mudley Station leave here?” asked the crusty-looking gentleman at the booking office window. “You'll have to wait four hours.” “T think not.” “Well, perhaps you know better than I do, sir.” “Yes, sir; and perhaps you know better than I do whether I am expect- ing to travel by that train myself, or whether I am inquiring for a relative that’s staying at my house and wanted me to call here and ask about it and save her the trouble, because she's packing up her things and expects to take that train herself and not me; and ‘perhaps you think it’s your busi- ness to stand behind there and try to instruct people about things they know as well as you do, if not better; and perhaps you'll learn some day to give people civil answers when they ask civil questions. Young man, my opinion is you won't!” And he bounced away. TILL NOON. The Simple Dish That Keeps One Vig- orous and Well Fed. When the doctor takes his own med- icine and the grocer eats the food he recommends, some confidence comes to the observer. A grocer of Ossian, Ind. had a practical experience with food worth any one’s attention. He says: “Six years ago I became so weak from stomach and bowel trouble that I was finally compelled to give up all work in my store, and in fact all sorts of work, for about four years. The last year I was confined to the bed nearly all of the time, and much of the time unable to retain food of any sort on my stomach. My bowels were badly constipated con- tinually, and I lost in weight from 165 pounds down to 88 pounds. “When at the bottom of the ladder I changed treatment entirely and started in on Grape-Nuts and cream for nourishment. I used absolutely nothing but this for about three months. I slowly improved until I got out of bed and began to move about. “{ have been improving regularly and now in the past two years have peen working about fifteen hours a day in the store and never felt better in my life. “During these two years I have never missed a breakfast of Grape- Nuts and cream, and often have it two meals a day, but the entire break- fast is‘always made of Grape-Nuts and cream alone. “Since commencing the use of Grape-Nuts I have never used any- thing to stimulate the action of the powels, a thing I had to do for years, but this food keeps me regular and in fine shape, and I am growing stronger and heavier every day. “My customers, naturally, have been interested and I am compelled to an- swer a great many questions about Grape-Nuts. “Some people would think that a simple dish of Grape-Nuts and cream would not carry one through to the noonday meal, but it will, and in the most vigorous fashion.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Greek., Mick. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville.”