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Among thesespec tatorswas the pope's chamberlain, „$|Biagio de Cesaria. on whom Angelo ^%fcook a-tinique revenge by painting bis ^portrait on one of the figures in! the .^inferno. BYagLo begged Paul III, the deigning pontiff to~have 'the* portrait terrified, but the latter wittily replied: %I can releasefron*Purgatory but not Irom hell. AROUND THE GLOBE. A Record of the Week's Happenings That are Now Part ofthe World's History. V" 'H, The More Important Foreign and Domestic Events Arranged for Rapid Reading. W A S I N O N E treasury department this month has paid out $7,000,000 on account oi pensions. E national executive silver committee will meet at Washington Tuesday, Jan. 5, LS92. E Republican membership of the senate committees is arranged. Davis re tains the chairmanship of pensions, and Washburn is chairman of the committee on improvement ol the Mississippi river. W E N the house is in a condition to pro ceed to business, Representative Ryan, of Nebraska, will propose a constitutional amendment that will, if adopted, permit any state to elect its United States senators by the yote of the people. E president and Secretary Tracy on the recommendation of Col. Haywood, com niandmant of the United States marine 3orps, have granted permission to Mr. Sou sa,conductor of/the celebrated marine band of Washington, to make another tour the oming spring. E S O N A E N I O N W I I A GOEMAN W I S the well known Sramatist, is dead in London. Rt. Rev. Edward Harold Browne, D. D., bishop of Winchester, England, is dead. MADAME JANATTSCHEK, the aotress, is lying seriously ill in Baltimore. A I N E 'S condition is unchanged. He is still confined to his room, unable to -ee callers. E Virginia legislature has re-elected lohrTW. Daniel United States senator with out opposition. Miss Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mit chell of Oregon says that her marriage to he Duke.de la Rochefoucald will probably .ake place in February. Daniel Parent, who died at Haverhill, Mass irom grip, was supposed to be a de scendant of Daniel O'Connell. was an ictor. O N. M. S. QUAY said to a Pittsburg re aorter that he was not a candidate now for •e-election to the United States senate, but lid not know what he would do in the iu ,ure. Miss St. Joh has been granted a judicial separation from her husband, Mr. Marius. The court ordered that Miss St. Joh and Mr Marius each pay their own costs in the iction and counteraction brought by them or divorce. A I O A I N S E Chicago & Northwestern railway auys the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western. SENATOR CASEY introduced a bill granting •ight of way to the Duluth & Winnipeg icross the Pembina India reservation in \Torth Dakota. G. Smith, who has filled the position if train dispatcher for the Northern Pacific it Staples, has been trans'erred to Minnea polis where he fills a like position. E interstate commerce commission an opinon by Commissioner Monison, nuended its decision in the case of Lehman. Higgmgs & Co., of Humboldt, Kan., igam&t the Texas & Pacific and the Mis iouri & Kansas. S O I N I E S I N a fight in Chicago for the welter veight championship my Ryan de eats Pran Howson of England in four een rounds. ERNEST M. BESCHER of Galveston, Tex., ias challenged Tomm Warren. Bescher vas whipped once by Warren and on an ther occasion fought to a draw. A KE I A IN has refused a proposition meet the winner of the Woods-Choynski Ight, which soon takes place in San Fran :isco. Jake says his business takes up all us time and he does not believe that he anil ever don the mittens again. O E I N N E S MICHAEL DAVITT has recovered from the njury he sustained in a melee in Dublin. TfeE Independence Beige states Sweden Norway are preparing to enter the Serman anti-protection league. I N the reichstag Herr Mirbach proposed amend the new commercial treaties by facing a tariff ot 20 marks upon all kinds )f wines. A a meeting of bondholders in London motion to accept the agreement between he Virginia state debt commission and the Dlcott committee was adopted. E French institute has granted the 3uveir prize of $300 to the United States eological survey for the excellence of its irork. EMPEROR W I I A accompanied by Prince Henry, of Prussia, attended the aunching ot a new ironclad at the Vulcan hipyards at Stettin. INFLUENZA is epidemic in many parts of Surope, Amon ^h many prominent sut lers irom .the disease was the Archduke Siegmund, who died in Vienna. A SVNDICVTE of British capitalists have nade an application to the government of Argentine Republic for the privilege of ex jloring the Patagonian coast for mineral. A REVOLT in Sao Taulo, Brazil, by which was sought to depose the governor of .he state, has been suppressed by the pov "rnment troops and quiet now prevails liroughout the state. E Russian minister of war has sum moned all the chiefs of the general staff to tttend a council which will be held for the aurpose ot making a new disposition of the Russian iorces. HE thirteenth anniversary of the death the prince consort, memorial services were held at Windsor castle, and attended sy Queen Victoria and other members of .he royal family. W E N Signor Imbriani's interpellation Italy's relation to 'the United States :ame up in the Italian chamber of deputies -he chamber* on the demand of Premier Rubini declined to discuss the matter. YOGUERON, in Brazil, has started the rebel ion afresh. The cause for the new out sreak is alleged to be refusal to accept the srders of President Peixetto. The national guard has been commanded to suppress the revolt. O N E of the last acts passed by the Brazil .an congress before its dissolution grants a pension of $60,000 per year to Do Pedro de Alcantara ex-emperor of Brazil, with arrears from Nov. 15, 1889. Tb money will be paid in monthly installments. \.C UNFORTUNATE" EVENTS. Ht A FATAL railroad wreck occurs in Iowa. Fire in Porter, Donaldson & Co.'s whole /ale millinery establishment in Pittsburg jaused a loss of about $150,009 insurance, B81.50Q. A New Orleans a fireman named Han non was instantly killed by coming in oon-^ t»ct with an electric light wire while work ing at a fire. "4 E S O HN UNCHRICH, chief of the Sandusky"* (Ohio) fire department, was killed by fall ing through the hatchway of the propeller B. E Schuck, while making an inspection for fire. A N old man named Bronson, living near Wichita, Kan., persuadedhis grand-daugh ter to let hini bleed her to cure the grip. The knife the old man was using slipped, an artery was cut, and the young lady died before the blood could be stopped. The official report of General Superin tendent Walts, of the Pennsylvania com pany, on the wreck of the Columbian ex press at Lima, Ohio, recently, gives three killed and nineteen injured, two of whom are dangerous. A. Eappen of Milwau kee is suffering irom serious scalp wounds and injuries about the back, and Mrs. Ed ward Dun of Seattle is also badly injured. She is attended by her husband, who is slightly hurt. E Inma Line steamer City of Chicago arrived at New York from Liverpool. She brought, in addition to her regular passenger list, 15 cattlemen who bad embarked at Liverpool, on the British steamer Kansas, for Boston. The Kansas broke her shaft and was about in mid-ocean when she signaled the I an steamer. After transferring the passengers the Kansas was taken in tow by the German steamer Wandraluui, bound from Boston to Hamburg. S I N S A N S I N N E S CYRUS FIELD' S son is arrested on the charge of embezzlement. TIMOTHY E BYRNES is arrainged in Minneapolis on a charge of forgery. E perpetrators of the quadruple mur der in Florida are being tracked by blood hounds. E trial of Joh Mazue on the charge of murdering Annie Brander is begun at Buffalo, Minn. MRS. MARY MILLER, on trial at St. Peter for the murder of herhusba|id, is acquitted on the ground of insanity. A Mattoon, III., Judge Horace S. Clark, commander of the Grand Arm ot Illinois, was shot by a crank and severely wounded. E Paris wiie of a Sioux City million aire's son gives birth to an illegitimate child, and is sent back to Paris by her parents-in-law. I E highwaymen, at the points of revol vers, rob a United States mail wagon of several mail pouches in the streets of Chi go. CHARLES LOMAX (colored) resisted arrest at Washington and fired upon Police Offi cer Mellen, who returned -the^fire killing Loma instantly. EDWARD ALBERTSON and Fred N. Chant ler, who robbed the Fidelity Trust Com pany of Tacoma of over a million, are sen tenced to the penitentiary for ten and five years respectively. At Roaring Springs, Ky., Ben Davis shot James Dunn dead and fatally wounded George Dunn, a brother to the murdered man The killing was the outcome ot an ancient feud. A BOLD attempt to burglarize tbe parson age of SI. Michael's Roman Catholi Chuch and murder the priest, Father Joh Heine, was made early one morning recently, in Holidaysburg, Pa., by two men. DR. ALLEN, a young physician, was brut ally murdered by Matt Dunlavey on tb streets of Richmond, Tex. Dunlavey, who is one of the wealthiest stock raisers and Elanters in Texas, claimed that Dr. Allen ad made disparaging remarks about Dun lavey's daughter. A Hannibal, Mo as a result of frequent drunks and quarrels with his wife, Edward Brown, colored, shot his wife in th6 abdo men. She prematurely gave birth to a child, which was dead, the bullet having passed through its head. Th mother died shortly %fterw ard. A asocial dance in Boston, Pa., Jo Law and his friend, J. W McCracken, quarreled over who should dance with a young lady. They renewed the quarrel on the street and Law crushed McCracken's skull with a cobble stone. Both men are well connected. A Sheboygan, Mich., blood was discov ered on the deck of a small boat lying in the river and also on a pile near by, which led to an investigation. Th river was dragged and the body of James Kemp, who has been missing for several days, was found. was a laborer and was well known. has since been learned that he was murdered and that arrests of two par* ties suspected of the crime will iollow. O E W I S E E Missouri river improvement conven ti on opens at Kansas City. Two Democratic state conventions are held in Louisiana as A result of the lottery fight. There is so great a rush to pay taxes at the county treasurer's office in Cincinnati that a panic, almost a riot, ensues. The waterways convention at Detroit ad journs after preparing a memorial to con gress. Two important amendments to the inter state commerce law are introduced by Sen ator Cullom. A N English syndicate buys the property of the Montana Sapphire and Ruby com pany for $20,000,000. N E W O RK merchants, at amass meeting, adopted resolutions asking the legislature to appropriate $500,000 for the world's fair. PRIEST, chief dispensary physician c* the city, estimates the number of cases of la grippe in St. Louis at 20,000. E conference committee of the St.Paul council recommends a 1-mill tax levy to raise money to build an auditorium. E United States revenue cutter Bear arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic. The cutter Rush is expected in a few days. E sales of Montana cattle this year wiU bring $10,000,0C0. The" highest figures ever beiore reached were $6,000,C0.0 E North Dakota railroad commission ers are charged with having prevented the freight rates on coal from being lower ed. E condition of Fran A. Lappen, of Milwaukee, one of the victims of the recent disaster at Lima, O., is about the same. Physicians say his injuries are not necess arily fatal. The appointment of several Roman Cath olic bishops in the United States is announ ced. Father Mesmer, appointed bishop oi Green Bay, Wis., declares he will not ac cept. E National Citizens' Industrial Alli ance of Kansas has iss ued a call for a gen eral convention to be held at St. Louis Feb. 20, two days before ..the industrial council convenes. «*\. se E retail grocers of St. Louis have sub scribed $12,000 to a fund to erect an inde pendent cracker factory to fight tne cracker trust, composed of the New York, Ameri can and United States Biscuit companies, A MOVEMENT is under way in Chicago that has for its object th»- construction of an elevated road over the tracks of the Illinois? Central, to extend as far south as the world's fair grounds, at Jackson park. THE NORTHWESTS A. Summary of the Important Events of the Week in the Northwest- *-. era States. v" Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota News in a Nutshell, I N N E S O A Joh Meski, of Alberta, was instantly killed by a falling tree. The graphic-Sentinel, ol Lake City, been sold to Mr. Myers, of Mazeppa. has A old lady, known as mother Timm, was struck by a train and killed at Revere. The Imperial mill of Duluth will contri bute a carload of flour to be sent to the suffering people in Russia. Bertha Hanke, a 13-year-old girl, was burned to death at St. Paul in a fire ^caused by a kerosene lamp explosion. Woodburn & Co.. dry goods dealers at Anoka, assigned with liabilities of $1,500 assets in excess of that sum. George Lutz of Union, a pioneer settler of Houston County, iell while driving cat tle, and sustained iatai injuries. Ernst Nebel. of Richmond, left for parts unknown with $1,000 belonging to other parties, which he secured in a hotel pur chase. Dr. S. V. Groesbeck, a prominent physi cian ot Watertown, S. D., shot and killed Joh Sherman, a Spanish-Mexican farm hand, in self-defense. August Johnson, living with his brother in-law, Joh Lindberg of Hector, cut his wind pipe with an old jack knife. may recover. Is probably insane. Mrs. C. Lang, milliner of Faribault, assigned to Thomas J. Conlin recently. Liabilities are believed to exceed $4,000, while the assets are estimated to be about $1,500. The county commissioners decided to es tablish a county hospital at Crookston, and purchased a building which will be remod elled and ready for occupancy by January 15. A man named Schuitebein, of Duelm, was accidently shot by the discharge of a gun in the hands* of a friend while on a rabbit hunt. Th wound will not prove fatal. Albert Martinson, a farmer near Milan, was struck with paralysis on the train and taken off at Granite Falls. was on his way to a Crosse to visit relatives there. Dennis McGinty, who was indicted by the grand jury at Buffalo, for an attempt to commit arson, was arrested by Sheriff Nugent in Minneapolis and taken to Buf falo for trial. Joh Melady oi Hastings was sentenced to siate prison for four months by Judge F. M. Crosby for forgery, and W E. Yeager to six months for stealing a team of Peter Langau of St. Paul. The-Joh Win do Lumber Company, which has recently purchased the largest mill in Pine City, will commence opera tions in a few days. Th cat will exceed that of all previous years. Jordon has given a bonus of $35,000 and five acnes of land to the Wilford & North way Manufacturing Company of Minnea polis, to locate here. Work will be com menced on the building immediately. No new cases of scarlet fever have been re ported at Plainview for the past few days and the several churches were allowed to hold services Sunday, Th public school wilt"probably not be reopened until alter the holidays. 1 The trustees of Carleton College held a regular meeting at Northfield. Besides the regular routine business the board consid ered the matter ot military drill now given at the college. I was decided to abolish the drill with the close of this term. In struction in physical culture will be sub stituted at some future date. A committee apppinted by the board of trade ot Winona met and adopted resolu tions most heartily approving the plan rec ommended by the state commissioners of he world's fair, and that Winona county is ready and willing to furnish her share ot the sum required. The county Alliance met at Fergus Falls. About 800 delegates were present. Various coruruittee^ were appointed and resolutions adopted. Joh Burke of St. Paul, made an address on the inequality of taxation in this state. Joh B. Homps was elected delegate to the state convention. The grand jury for the December term of court, for Stearns county, brought in a re port recommending a new court house and jail to be built for the county. They place the cost of the site and bu'ldingat $150,000. The board of county commissioners will act on the recommendation. At the annual meeting of am A Bi Lodge No. 83, A. and A. M. of Kasson, the following officers were elected: 11. W Brown, W M. Horace Anthony, S. W. C. Gleason, J. W. Edward Fry, treasurer C. Brobeck, secretary. The installation Of officers will occur the first Wednesday in .January. 1J. Hunt, a member of the World's Fair commission, was at Northfield recent ly. is here for the purpose of raiding a portion of the $1,100 assessed Rice comity to represent Minnesota atthe World's Fair. A meeting of a few of the bu=ine=* men was held at the City Hall to confer in regard to the matter, and a resolution was adopted approving the scheme.- A. K. Hanson's hardware Ptnre and A. Hanson's grocery store at Rushford were entered by sneak thieves and pilfered of cash and goods aggregating a large amount. Madland and Emanuel Iver son, both young men residents of that city, were arrested on suspicion, confessed their guilt, and waiving examination were bound over to the district court. Bail was fixed at $500 each. Great excitement has been created at Winona by the finding of iron on the farm of Joh Condon, living among the big hills bordering on the Mississippi river a few miles from there. Specimens are now in St. Paul to De assayed. I is claimed the find will yield 50 per cent of fine iron. Other parties are still prospecting in the vicinity. Tbe vein just struck is near the surface. NORTH DAKOTA.' Ed Fallon was convicted in the district court at Fargo of shooting Charles Kurl man with intent to kill. A &,'%*$iJu.^3k* The United States court petit jury has Been dismissed. There were no civil cases. If any indictments are found by the grand jory the ca-e will be tried next term. E G. Spillman, ex-register of the United States land office at Devil's Lake, left for his future me in West Virginia the other day. Hi successor's commission has ar rived. A Fargo, Judge McConnel sentenced Olaf Knudson, a young Norwegian about twenty years old, to five years in the peni tentiary for attempted rape on a seven year-old girl. Grafton will send a ear load of flour to the destitute of Russia, W. C. Lerstikow, the miller, donating 25 140-pound sacks, and putting in the rest at cost. A car load will also be shipped from Minto. A St. Thomas special says threshing still continues notwithstanding that nearly halt* the crop will be left until spring. The re cent blizzard has left the roads in a terrible condition and transportation overland is al most impossible. Louis Wilsom, formerly porter at the Griggs House at Grand Forks has skipped for parts unknown, after having secured goods and money from various traders on worthless checks. His parents are said to be residents of Minneapolis. The report that E. Rea, station agent of the Northern Pacific road at Gilly, had been found short in his accounts and placed under arrest by the company proves to be unfounded. Mr. Rea's accounts are aU right and he is still in the employ of the company. A covered ice rink has been built at Fargo this winter and has been ready tor opening for more than a week, but the weather is so mild that water will not freeze. The Fargo Curling club will use it five afternoons and four evenings each week. The rest of the time it will be used as a skating rink. Judge Ronard, of McLean county, said recently: "W are through threshing haven't missed a day in December. Th weather is fine and no snow." W Fallon, chief of the weather bureau, issued a special bulletin, showing the depth of snow in the state. There is not four inches on the level, and in many places none at all. In the district court at Bismarck thirteen hours were consumed in the work of secur ing jurors in the Healy bribery case. Th prosecution is being conducted by John M. Cochran, the noted criminal lawyer of Grand Forks. I is admitted that Saloon keeper Swenson, who is under bonds on the same charge, wrill be a witness against Healy. Joseph Schmitt, the liquor dealer at Wahpeton for contempt of court, was found guilty and sentenced to 90 days in jail and a fine of $200. The judge stated that he believed that someone had held out false hope to the defendant by repre senting that the officers would not enforce the law, and that liquor sellers would not be molested, hence the sentence was made light as possible. Th other cases will be heard Jan, 10. S O A O A The Commercial club of Watertown have taken steps to send a carload of flour to the Russian sufferers. W stokes will ship half a carload, and the Commercial club will fill the car. George W. Skinner, a farmer living north of Parker, commenced plowing, and kept his team going from sunrise to sunset. A pretty good commentary on South Dakota winter weather. The Parker roller mills resumed work for the first time since their former proprie tor, Joh Norton, absconded. A large amount of new and improved machinery has been put in. The first special stock train ever taken from Mitchell to Chicago pulled out of the station the other night. The stock was all bought in this county the past month and was purchased by a local buyer. James Stronik, a young Bohemian living in Hamlin county, is charged with stealing a horse from Henry Buck, near Grover. was captured. A the preliminary ex amination h'e was bound over to the grand jury without bail. Irving Bath, publisher of the Pierre Democrat, lias leased his newspaper plant to Fran Foster. Foster formerly ran the Express at Eagan. Col. Jefferson will edit the paper, and it will continue to advocate Democratic principles. As the north bound freight was pulling out of Trent the other night, Billy Mills, a brakeman, fell between a couple of cars, had one of his legs run over and sustained injuries about the head from the effects of which he died. The Commercial Club of Mitchell held an important meeting looking toward the establishment of a beet sugar factory at that point. A experimental Migar beet farm conducted this summer shows that beets of superior quality can be raised in this section. A case of love and marriage rather late in life occurred at Onida,Snlly county, recent ly when Capt. B. A. Southerland. aged seventy year*, and Mrs,. C. C. Bennett, six ty-two years of age. weie joined in wed lock. The groom v\as a veteran in the late war, being one of the first to organize a company ol \olunteersfrom Kankakee, III. is a pioneer ol Su'sy county and has been a widower for twenty eais. George Robinson wa- commuted to jail at Huron in default of $l,i)u0ba'l, for agist ing Hair I IU in roblj.ng J.evj's. jewelry store a month agi. llobir.son came from Minneapolis. -aid he would disclose the names and whereabouts of persons con nected with other robberies it his bail is made nominal. and Pratt, also in jail, are belie\cd to belong to a gang that has infMed these parts for several months. W I S O N S I N R. Cole, of Superior, had his leg broken while skidding near that place. Fire broke out in the marsh near La Crosseand dastroyed hundreds of tons of hay. The damage ib estimated at $3,000. The building', of the K. 13. Garton Man ufacturing Company, of Sheboygan,'which burned a lew days ago, will be rebuilt. The annual fairofihe Kocfc County Ag ricultural Society will be held at Jancaville September G, 7, 8 and 9, iilJ2. The drug store of G. W Bartiett, at Al bany, was damaged $1,800 by rlie. The loss is covered by insurance. Thomas KelJey, of Kacsne, charged with selling liquor to a drunken man, was ac quitted by the City Council. The store of Thomas Cbattle, oi Glen beulah, was closed by the sheriff. Th lia bilities are about $4,000. I is expected that the telephone line be tween Shnllsburg and Laadmine will be completed by January 1. he residents of Appleton are urging the city fathers to appoint a day policeman at that place. Th deatli is announced of Mrs. Jennie Dodd, of Oshkosh, aged 30 years. She wa- a-member of numerous charitable institu tions. The Mills block »t Portage was damaged $1,000 by fire. I is thought to be the work of an incendiary. The loss is covered by insurance. B. Inman, of West Superior, has made a proposition to the Common Council at that place to furnish the city with two fire tugs at a cost of $800 a year. Capt. McDouglall, T. Mills and W Street, at the head ot fifteen other delegates ot West, Superior, left for Detroit to attend the waterways convention. A girl, commonly known as Mami Swenson, attempted suicide at West Super ior by swallowing a heavy dose of mor phine. She was resuscitated. Fred Duchine, aged 19, employed to tend the at the Iron Belt mine, near Ash land, was found dead at the bottom of the shaft. Th cause of the accident is un known. Grank Clemarts, -of Spooner, was arrest ed charged with criminal assault on the 12 year-old daughter of Floyd Gay, of Bash awa. Bail was fixed at $'2,noo, and was not furnished. The case of Mrs. Frances Hall against the city of Racine is being argued before the supreme court at Madison. Mrs. Hall sued for $5,000 damages to her property on account of some street grading. The investigation by a council committee Into the police department at West Su perior has been concluded. Th commit tee sustained the charges against Detectives Earnshaw and Evans and they will be re moved. I O W A Stephen Rowe, of Deerfield, Chickasaw county, was killed by the bursting of a cir cular saw recently. At the meeting of the Sabbath Union at Des Moines, the constitution was revised and districts rearranged. By the change, an additional field secretary will be elected. Frank Stantz, an oiler at the T. M. Sin clair Packing House, Cedar Rapid*, was caught in the belting, wound around the ma shaft of one of the big engines and in stantly killed. The tiial of Lester Treat for shooting Will Noble, at Nashua, last summer is com pleted, the jury finding Treat guilty of as sault with intent to do great bodily injury. Judge Hatch will pass sentence. The Steamer Ward Keepers, employed in towing, sunk in the ice harbor at Dubuque. She had sprung a leak. The river is com ing up fa-t it raised seven inches in 24 hours water four leec one inch. A bad wreck occurred on the at Dud ley, a section of a freight crashing into the rear end of the first section, demolishing 17 cars and killing Engineer Win, Welsh and Firemau Thos McGovern, of Ottumwa. The Iowa Land Title Guaranty and Ab stract Com pan y, of Cedar Rapids, tiled arti cles of incorporation with the county aud itor at Maiion. The capital stock is $50,000, and Geo. T. Hedge i» piesident and C. C. Wood secretary. Wolves are now running Hancock county. 111 across the river trom Burling ton, in gangs of seven or eight and are do ing much damage. The board of supervis ors have re-established the bounty on wolf scalps on petition of the farmers. Judge Weaver, in the district court at Ft Dodge, appointed P. T. Meservey receiver of the Oxford Drug store, in that city, at the request of M. Griftun, who sold the stock to A. B. Smith one year ago and holds a mortgage on it. The store is val ued at about $15,000. Thomas M. K. Booge, a prominent con tractor and nephew of James E. Booge the veteran pork packer, has been an ested at Sioux City, on a charge of embezzlement. M. J. Kearney, the complainant, claims that -Booge wrongfully appropriated $691 in city bonds which had been delivered to Kearney in payment for city work. Two petitions for foreclosure were filed in the clerk's office at Dubuque against the Dubuque Electric Light and Power Company. 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