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THE LABOR WORLD. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Office: 3I5 Woodbrldge Bid ., Duluth. Telephone, 380. Printing Plant: i9"5 w- Supirior St. Telephone, 376. SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance, $1.00 31x Months, .50 Thwe months, -2r' Single copies, 5 cents. Advertising rates made known on application. TRADES liffini COUNCIL Sabrie G. Akin, Editor and Publisher. Letters and articles relating to the social problem are solicited. Entered at the postoffice at Dnluth, Minn., as second class matter. Has the wheat market slumped again? Let the farm ers pray to Mr. Dingley. Per haps he is sleeping, or gone on a joiirney. Cry aloud. Nudity is in danger at the Omaha exposition. A Salva tionist lassie noticing there a group of cupids and other nude characters in art, armed herself with an axe and smashed one of the pieces of statuary. It would be interesting to know if she also kills her children, who undoubtedly enter this world in a nude state. The main business of the next legislature will not be to fix the tariff but to see that the railroad, iron and pine land owners pay their share of the taxes. Candidates should be advised to make their attitude clear on that point and we don't care what they may be lieve about custom house de tails. Stock brokers are giving a tip that Minnesota Iron is a good investment. These must be some mistake about that. The company has announced through' its attorneys that it could not possibly reduce rates. To be sure, that was the Iron Range railroad company, but that makes it all the. more un accountable, for everybody knows that the railroad is more profitable than the ore com pany Win1. R. Hearst, proprietor of the |"Iew York Journal and San Francisco Examiner, has turned over to the government his splendid yacht, the "Buc caneer," fully armed, manned and equipped—all at his own cost—and promises to defray all the.expenses, for men, pro visions, ammunition, coaling, etc., during the, conduct of the war. He did more: he offered his own services, in any capac ity whatever to which he might be assigned by the navy de partment. All this is a display of patriotism to be admired, and is in happy contrast to the rest of our millionaires. There is an editorial in Puck saying that war is only worth while when it is fought for peace—peace with liberty to trade freely and keep the pro ceeds without interference. That is perfectly right. But it is something miserable when it is translated into Puck's meaning of liberty. That is the liberty which concerns itself with the rights of property and forget the rights of man. It is the spirit of commercialism. The best thing about this war is where the spirit of commercialism is laid aside and people remem ber only that there are ques tions of far more importance than the traffic on commodi ties. DULUTH HAS N0 EQUAL FOR PRODUCING THE BEST BREAD. NEWS RROM WASHINGTON. The house has sent the war revenue bill to conference. The senate defeated the corporation tax amendment to the war revenue bill. The house has passed a bill to remove ill political disabilities on account of the Civil War. President McKinley urges the annex ation of Hawaii and thinks congress will authorize it. An agreement has been reached to take up the Hawaiian annexation reso lution in the house. The senate has passed the war rev enue bill with a pure flour amendment, similar to the present oleo law. The committee on public lands in the senate has reported favorably a bill ex tending the time to two years for final proof in desert land entries. Eighty-two clerks will be added to the navy and war departments, under a recent act of congress, and will. be selected under civil service rules. The Republican members of the ways and means committee prefer Tawney's pure flour bill to the Mason amend ment to the war revenue measure, and will push it. The senate voted to restore the bond provision of the war revenue bill, ex punging the greenback feature, and to coin some of the seigniorage in the treasury. THB DEATH RECORD. Paul Grottkau, the noted socialistic agitator, is dead at Milwaukee. Hi? home is in San Francisco. Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, is dead. He was 68 years old. Appendi citis, for which he underwent an oper ation, was the cause of his death. Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, known as the "sailor's friend" and originator of the famous "Plimsoll mark," to prevent the overloading of ships, is dead at London. Charles Baird, a well known writer on sporting subjects and an authority on cycling, died at Chicago from in juries received in a bicycle accident two weeks ago. Adolph Weiss, secretary of the North western Sangerbund and highly popu lar and esteemed in German society and singing circles, died of appen dicitis at Davenport, la., aged 42 years. Captain Charles V. Gridley, com mander of Admiral Dewey's flagship at Manila, who was invalided home ow ing to injuries received in the engage ment, died on board the Coptic en route home. FINANCE AND TRADE. United States exports show an amaz ing increase. North Dakota wheat conditions are reported as unsurpassed. Bank clearings! for! May-, exceeded those of the same month ik previous years with one exception.. .. The estate of CyrusH. McCormick, the 1 reaper manufacturer, has pur-' chased from the Peck heirs the Chi bagq Stock Exchange building for 12,600,000. ... V, -,v The Iowa iron works of .Dubuque has secured a contract to build five boats for the-government. These ve'sseU are Wanted for ser^ce in* river and harbor improvement work and will cost $300,-. 000. 7 .... POUTXCAL NEWS. T. 3. Caton was nominated for con gress by the Minneapolis Populists.', Mr. Harrity has beien "fired" as Pennsylvania member of the Demo cratic national committee. Page Morris of Duluth was unani-' mously renominated for congress by the Republicans of the Sixth district. Democrats of the Fifteenth Missouri district have nominated W. E. Benton to succeed himself as representative in congress. John Wanamaker withdrew from the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race in fa vor of Congressman Charles W. Stone but the convention nominated William A. Stone, Quay's man. Wanamaker may run as an independent candidate. KLONDIKE NEWS. The steamer Albion, Xrom. Copper river, reports that there has been a sec ond heavy slide on the Valdez glacier. A number of pack animals were buried in the snow, but no human lives werei lost. The San Francisco Examiner says $21,000,000 in gold will be brought down from Alaska during the next two months, most of it being the property Of the Alaska Transportation company, which has bought the dust from the NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS. Prince Henry of Prussia is reported to have apologized to Admiral Dewey for a slight to the United States. Vice President Capote of* the Cuban republic has arrived at Philadelphia. He was one of the passengers of the wrecked steamer Belvidere, picked up by the Eong Frode. The engagement of Miss Clara Sutro, youngest daughter of former Mayor Adolph Sutro of San Francisco, to William J. English, a prominent law yer of Chicago, is announced. FOREIGN NEWS. Sran 7u is to be made the Chinese capital in place of Peking. IMPERIAL MADE: IN* DULUTH FLOUR Rumor has it that'President Hereaux of San Domingo has been assassinated. It is rumored that the insurgents in Santo Domingo, have captured the town of Santiago de los Caballeros, on the Yaque river, 103 miles east of Cape Haytien. NEWS OF A LEGAL NATURE. In the second trial of Mrs. George W. Atkinson, wife of Governor Atkin son of West Virginia, on the charge of forgery she was released on a techni cality. UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. The tug Reoord was sunk at Dnlnth in collision and three of her, crew drowned. Tiirty-five gold seekers were drowned by the sinking of the schooner Lady Jane Grey off Cape Flattery. Fire at Escanaba, Mich., gutted the Fair, the largest department store in thcj upper peninsula. The loss is $55,000. A conflagration at Peshawir, which wys not mastered for 24 hours, de stroyed 4,000 houses, doing damage to the amount of about 80,000,000 rupees (about $20,000,000). This is supposed to be the record fire of India. Fire at Waterloo, la., destroyed the sash, door and blind factory of the Beck, Neumann and Watts company and the factory and foundry of the Waterloo Omnibus and Wagonette company. Loss about $50,000, insur ance about $10,000. SPORTING NEWS. The triangular field gatieft at Chica go were won by the University of Michigan. George Dixon was given the decision dyer Teddie Santry in a aO-round fight before the Lenox club, New Tork city. Wisconsin won in the annual. games of the Intercollegiate Amateur associa tion, Northwestern association second and Minnesota third. At Wheeling, W. Va., Oscar (Jard ner added jiftoj|iier tq his long string of victoriei by Eliciting out Jerry Mars^U of Australia in 13 rounds. Jack Everhardt of New Orleans 4iad Owen Zeigler of Philadelphia boxecF20. rounds at catoh weights at the Greater New York Athletic club, Coney Island, and the result was a draw. RAILROAD NEWS. It is generally understood that nego tiations are pretty far advanced for the purchase by the Great Western) of the Mason pity and Fort Dodge and the Red Wing branch of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. Stockholders of the Chicago and Great Western have voted to increase the 4 per cent debenture stock from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000. The increase is to be used in the purchase of new lines that may be secured at advanta geous- terms. .. .« CRIMINAL NEWS. William Street, a negro who -at tempted the ruin and murder of Mrs. Parish, was burned at the stake at .Doitin, La. ii-v At%he United States penitentiary,-at Fort Leavenworth,- milting 'broke *$11 among the convicts, 15 of them escape ing. Afte? ajivejy chase,. Jamef, Itfafr grove, a territory outlaw, was shot down. Th9 others escaped. Musgrove" led the., outbreak. .•/&": •. LABOR NEWS. The tanners' strike at Kenosha, Wis., is ended. An increase in wages was granted the men, but the union will not be recognized. A thousand employes of the Singe* sewing machine works of South Bend, Ind., have struck for a return to the wages paid in 1892. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS. The Omaha exposition was opened June 1. President McKinley started the machinery and sent a congratula tory message. Methodist ministers are discussing the advisability of exchanging Red Rock for camp meeting ground between St. Paul and Minneapolis. •v'' —1: NEWS .FROM.. WASHINGTON. The senate has -passed the bill pro viding lor the- taking of the twelfth census. The cabinet has approved Secretary Gage's plan for the distribution of the new bonds. Hawaiian annexation prospects have brightened. The house agreed to vote on the resolntion and the measure will be pushed in the senate. Lobbyists, itis charged, got 35 per cent of the amount voted the Method ist Book Concern South by congress on a war claim. An investigation will probably follow. Both senate and house have adopted the conference report on the war rev enue measure. As passed it provides for the coinage of $1,500,000 a month of the seigniorage and for the issue of $400,000,000 of bonds. For the first time in its history this government is about to establish a postal station in a foreign country. Santiago is to be made a substation of the New York postoffice. and Manila a substation of the San Francisco offloe. British Consular Secretary Bett is said to have been banished from Porto Rico by the Spanish governor, after be ing confined over three days in a dun geon- and grossly maltreated. The charge is that he was suspected of hav ing given the United States infohha tioa on the mining of San* Juan harbor. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Interesting Items About the War With Spain. Manila is said to have surrendered. San Juan is being reduced by starva tion. Business menHn Spain think the war will end in a month. The dread rainy season has set in in Cuba and the Gulf region. The Cadiz fleet is reported to have been found totally unseaworthy. The government has secured all the Pacific transports that are needed. Thirteen thousand troops will sail for Manila on the next two expeditions. The second Manila expedition has gone on board ships at San Francisco. A battery of six mountain howitzers is to be taken with the Philippine ex pedition. A British steamer loaded with coal for the Spaniards was captured by the St. Louis. The United States, it is rumored, will seize the Ladrone islands in the Paciflo and keep one for a coaling station. Admiral Sampson learns that every vessel of Cervera's fleet is in Santiago harbor except the Terror, reported sunk. English capitalists with investments in the Philippines unanimously desire that the United States keep the islands. Spaniards officially admit that the Reina Mercedes was sunk at Santiago, and that 34 men on board were killed. The Astor battery has started for California where it is to join General Merritt's expedition to the Philippines. General Merritt, who will leave for Manila in two weeks, insists that he have 20,000 troops—4,000 more than he has now. Five tons of food, 400 rifles and 60, 000 rounds of ammunition were landed for the Cubans at Asserado by the gun boat Vixen. Admiral Dewey's official report of his victory at Manila has been made public. He gives his officers and crew great praise. Seventeen thousand regulars and picked men constitute the army said to have sailed from Key West for San tiago de Cuba. Italian army officers express the be lief that America should not invade Cuba until its army is well seasoned -and disciplined. A story is told of an important com pact between the United States and the Philippine insurgents, made before war was deolared. The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung says confi dential interchange of opinion in re gard to mediation is taking place be tween the powers. Madrid has been officially advised, that'eleven ships, believed to be trans* portswith American troop* nav&ir rived before Santiago. r- President McKinley has ordered that the war be pressed more vigorously and tharti thfj campaign against Santia go and Porto Rico be expedited. .. The occupation of Cuba has begun, marines landing at Guantananu) Fri day and raising the Stars and Striped after putting 8,0QD Spaniards to flight. General Fitz Simons of Chicago has resigned as a brigadier general volunteer army, and General BarkUiy of Springfield is likely to Bucceed' him. Senor Romero Giron, the Spanish minister of colonies, in the course of a recent interview expressed the opinion that nothing short of a miracle can save Manila. A Key West dispatoh says that trust worthy information, smuggled out of Havana, shows that the city now has a garrison of 46,000 regulars and half as many volunteers. .• The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Nagasaki, Japan, says he has trustworthy information that Ger many is determined to prevent a bom bardment of Manila. British Consul Ramsden at Santiago de Cuba cabled to Halifax that he vis- Ited Lieutenant Hobson and his col leagues and that he found them well pared for by the authorities. General Coppinger will'probably Command the next military expedition, which will go to Puerto Rica After this, it is expected, General Lee will lead: an expedition against Havana. A The sundry civil appropriation bill provides for, the adjustment of contro versies between the Northern Pacific and settlers. The war revenue bill has been signed by the president and Secretary Gage has invited popular subscriptions for the $200,000,000 bonds. General Greely, chief signal offioer, has issued an order prohibiting publi cation of news regarding American forces. The prohibition affects both movements of naval and military foroes. According to a dispatoh from Madrid to the London Financial News three Spanish ironclads from Madagascar waters have arrived in sight of Manila and1 Admiral Dewey's ships have gone to meet them. While to secure peace, Spain may be willing to abandon Cuba and Porto Riop, desperate resisttmoe will be made to fielding the Philippines. It is said at l&adrid that Spain can continue the war for two years yet. A torpedo in the St Johns river, 18 below Jacksonville, exploded, FriU^ig two men and badly wounding Lieutenant Hart of the engineers torje, in oharge of the work of fortify |ng£he river at that point. Official announcement is made of the sailing ^rom Key West of over 15,000 American soldiers, mostly regulars, for the vCnban invasion. They will be landed at Santiago by Thursday, and a battle may soon be expected. Apprize crew off the Minneapolis has brought the Spanish barque. Maria Do lores to Charleston. She was captured 12 miles from San Juan, under the fire of the Spanish guits. The Dolores had a cargo coal for the Spaniards, Admiral Sampson asks promotion for Lieutenant HobBon and similar reward for his/followers in the daring Merri- mac.-'exploit at Santiago, the request Suits CALL ON ERICSON'S I Marines from the battleship Oregon on Friday planted an. American flag on Cuban soil for the first time, as an ear est., ot coming liberation. Following fxtmbiurdment, the landing was effeoted Friday near Guantanamo as an advance gnard' for 860 marines. The marines were attacked Saturday evening by a large force of Spanish soldiers and guerillas, who where repulsed. The Americans lost four men killed. SPRU SUITS READY!!! Eleg&pt Value?—All Wool Fiijc Good? at. THR FULTON MARKET.... 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