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VYOII. 1. NO 383
TWIN CITY NEWS.
MINNEAPOLIS.
An all day's basket meeting at St
Peter's next Sunday. Mrs. Lena Ma
son will speak at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Mrs. Lucy Thurman, of Michigan, will
speak at 3 p. m.
Rev. W. A. Bruce and family left last
week to take charge of a congregation
in Pittsfield, IIL
Mrs. Lena Mason has had large
crowds the whole week. Meetings will
continue during next week.
The East Side Four Leaf Sewing
Circle gave an entertainment at the
residence of Mrs. E. M. Williamson,
1305 Fourth St. S, Tuesday evening.
Oct. 3. Refreshments were served and
every one had an enjoyable time.
Mr. McLeavit Steward is in the em
ploy of the Great Northern R. R. Co.
ISicd at the residence of his daughter
Celia Falls, 820 gth St. S. E., Abraham
Thornton. Funeral occurred at Be
thesda Baptist church on Sunday after
noon at 4 o'clock. The remains were
taken to Reedsburg, Wis.,, for inter
ment.
The Weir recital was hard to beat.
Not in the history of Bethesda has
there ever been a better program ren
dered than was rendered at the Weir
recital last Friday night. All who have
ever heard Miss Weir in her reading
knew what to expect; and all who had
not heard her before raved over her
ability as a reader. She recited "Jack
the Fireman"” with much grace and
ease and with much pathos that moved
her audience to tears, and too much
cannot be said of the participating ar
tist. Mrs. Wm . Smuth rendered a
beautifal solo. Mrs. Benj. Pier is reach
ing the keynote of success in her sing
ing; never was she heard to sing so
sweetly as Friday night. Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Francis were at their best in a
vocal duet. Mrs, Frank Williams and
Mr. Morris sang a duet with blending
voices far beyond criticism.
Mrs. Jenny Napier Kemp is prepar
ing for an examination for a position in
Washington, which is to take place
Nov. 22 We wish Mrs. Kemp success.
Look out for the grand juvenile en
tertainment to be given by the coming
talent of the Flour City for Bethesda
Baptist church. Watch the advertise
ment for program and date. Hurrah,
for the little folks!
PREPARE FOR NEXT CENSUS.
Director W. R. Merriam Talks of
Appointments of 50,000
Enumerators,
In an interview W. R. Merriman, di
rector of the census, said in reference
to the appointment of enumerators:
“Our next great undertaking—and any
branch of a work which must reach
every nook and corner, farm and cabin
in the United States, is great—is that
of selecting about 50,000 enumerators
for taking the twelfth census. We are
strenuously trying to prepare for a
eomplete. and reasonably perfect cen
sus. The burden of the work of gath
ering the materials for it, however, will
fall on the enumerators.
“In any important line of private
business, preliminary training is re
quired of those charged with conduct
ing its details. Lawyers and doctors
study before they practice their pro
fessions, and mechanics are required to
serve thorough apprenticeships before
asking for journeymen's work or
wages. 80, in my view, those who de
sire to act as census enumerators should
take up the study of census laws, sched
ules and statistics, thus familiarizing
themselves as far as possible with the
actual details of the work. In this way
they will be prepared on the first of
June next, like a great and well-drilled
army, to begin their labors understand
ingly and harmoniously from ocean to
ocean, without, after that day, requir
ing further orders or instructions.
“While I shall not undertake to se-
Tect enumerators without consulting
with the proper census supervisor as to
the qualifications and experience of ap
plicants, I would like to suggest that all
candidates adopt the course I have in
dicated, and thus help to insure at the
threshold of the twentieth century the
most perfect census in the history of
the republie.”
INDIANS WANT TO SERVE.
American Redmen Anxious to Gs te
the Philippines te Do
Duty as Scouts.
It has been seriously proposed to the
war department to enlist a company of
Indian scouts for service in the Phil
ippines. The proposition comes from
a nephew of Senator Tillman, but the
first lieutenant is to be no less a per
sonage than “Hole-in-the-Day,” as he is
known in Minnesota, or Chief Wood
bury, as he calls himself in English. He
was at the white house with Col. Till
man, and said as he was leaving:
“l can raise a magnificent eompany
of Chippewas in 24 hours, and they
would make the finest scouts on the
face of the earth. We think the govern
ment ought to give us this chance. It
would be the greatest treaty with the
Indians 1 know of. The Chippewas are
z‘::‘:'nnl fighters and can hide behind a
“I prediet that in & month’s time in
the Philippines they could steal upon
the insurgents with the sase of snakes.
They love excitement and danger, and
would be loyal to their oaths. 1 believe
they would do invaleable serviee in the
’Nflpfim. :
"1 am willing to take second place in
the company. I think noncommissioned
officers of experience could be secured
in the tribe. Many of the Chippewas
::nd in the United States army when
re were Indian companies in some of
the regiments” 00
CLOTH CARRIES PERFUME.
Novelty That Omne Dressmaker 13,
Dividing Among Her Favorite
Customers, .
A dressmaker, recently returned
from Paris, brought a small but very
valuable piece of red material, which
she is going to divide sparingly
among her most favored customers,
After awhile, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, it will be accessible to a larger
circle, as the material will ultimately
be put upon the market. Just now the
manufacturers have not been able to
complete the material in the way they
desire. Now the only color in which
this material can be made is light red,
of the hue that the farmer wears when
he has rheumatism, or did wear untila
short time ago. Later it will be possi
ble to impart the merits of this inven
<ion to other colors, although it would
probably become just as popular in the
present red monotony. For this cloth
can retain in the most wonderful way
the odors of perfume. It is expected
to solve, in the best fashion, the prob
lem as to the best way in which to per
fume dresses.
Many other expedients have been
tried, such as small sachets sewed in
the. draperies, but none of them is so
simple as this cloth, which is laid in
the lining or otherwise coneealed about
the waists. It diffuses a delicate odor,
which is never exhausted, however long
the time of a gown's use may be. Vari
ous scents may be given to the cloth,
and the number will be inereased ns the
makers complete the details of the
work.
When the material goes on the mar
ket there is little danger that this new
invention will ever become common.
The price is prohibitive to any but
women who are willing to pay for what
they want, whatever it may cost.
RAISING CATTLE IN THE EAST.
Editor John Bannon, of the Organ of
Retnil Butchers' Association, Says
It Can Be Made Profitable,
Those who are opposed, secretly or
openly, to the effort being made by re
tail butchers of New York city to fight
the beef trust by building an independ
ent abattoir of large proportions and
operating it on a cooperative plan have
argued time and again that the move
ment of the beef slaughtering trade to
the west has been a material one and
that all efforts to bring it east again
must be abortive, because artificial and
unnatural.
John Bannon, editor of the national
organ of the Retail Butchers' associa
tion, scouts this theory and declares
that the construction of a large abattoir
in New York city would be a great in
centive to the raising of cattle in the
east. The western movement of the
cattle slaughtering business, he asserts,
is the work of the Big Five alone. There
are hundreds of thousands of acres of
fine grazing land in the east on which
no cattle are now raised solely because
there is a poor home market for them,
Many of the cattle that are raised in
the east, Mr. Dannon declares, are
shipped to Chicago, then slaughtered
and shipped east again for consumption,
two freight charges being paid on them,
when only one is necessary,
A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION.
Many Floral Specimens Brought
Back from Alaska by California
University Professors,
An expedition of four University of
California professors, consisting of Dr.,
W. B. Setchell, Dr. William Lynn Jep
son, Dr. A. A. Lawson and L. E. Hunt,
has just returned from Alaska. The ex
pedition was undertaken to explore the
coast of Behring sea, with a view to
studying the botany of these regions.
The field is one which has previously
been untouched by scientists, so that
the results obtained by the party of
Berkeley men are likely to prove of con
siderable importance to the scientific
world. A very large number of speci
mens were secured and will soon be ex
amined and classified.
Lutherans Strong in leeland.
The Lutheran church in Iceland num
bers about 72,000 baptized members,
which is about the total population.
Buddhists,
The number of Buddhists in the
world is computed to be 453,000,000,
Vietorian Antographs.
The duchess of Bt. Albans owns what
is probably the most interesting col
lection of Victorian autographs in the
world. Besides the royal family and
the nobility represented, there are
words especially contributed by Ten
nyson, Browning, Gladstone, John
Bright and Chamberlain, and verse
written exclusively for the duchess by
the best-known verse-makers of the
Nearly one-third of the paper made
in the United States is for newspaper
pointing.
A Royal Preaent.
King Menelek, of Abyssinia, has sent
two zebras as o present to Queen Vie
toria.
- Just so.
“You b&edoéwed duffer!” eried the
star centerfielder, “did you say I was out”
“Preei:g." replied the umpire. “Yo
are just out.” And he carefuliy note
the fine in bis little book.—Philadeiphi
North American.
M. bo claims to be discreet |
Det.a ownd—Chitge Daily Mows,
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, IMINN,, SATURDAY, OCT. 7, 1899,
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
[MOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Ilome and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIO,
The naval parade in New York in
honor of Admiral Dewey was the great
est display of the kind in the history
of the nation. Warships and countless
other crafts sailed up the Hudson to
Gen. Grant’s tomb and returned, the
sight being witnessed by at least
8,000,000 people on land and 200,000 on
board vessels, The Olympia led the
parade. In the evening a magnificent
display of fireworks took place.
September was the twelfth consecu
tive month in which the volume of busi
ness throughout the country was great
er than in the same month of any pre
vious year.
The Arkansas deaf-mute institution
at Little Rock was burned, the loss be
ing $lOO,OOO.
Fire starting in the Palace hotel at
Grant's Pass, Ore., destroyed 16 busi
ness houses, eight warehouses and a
number of small residences,
W. C. Linn, first cousin of President
MeKinley, was killed in his cabin in the
galena mining district in South Dakota
by an explosion of powder,
All the Americans in southern Cuba
joined in gpirit with their countrymen
in the United States and paid a tribute
to Admiral Dewey.
The transports Nelson, Glenogle and
Sheridan left San Francisco for Manila
with over 2,500 men.
Gen. Wood, commanding the depart
ment of Santiago, in his annual report
says the water supply in Santiago de
Cuba has been doubled, the streets im
proved, modern sewerage and waste
systems introduced and the death rate
redueced one-half,
The Big Four freight depot and ware
house in Cincinnati was ruined by fire,
the loss being probably $1,000,600.
Will ¥. McGaughey, son of Sheriff R,
0. MeGaughey, died in Musecatine, la.,
from injuries sustained while playing
football.
Walter Clyatt, a plumber, killed his
wife and himself at Albina, Ore. Jeal
ousy was the cause.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week end
ing on the Ist were: DBrooklyn, .684;
Philadelphia, .622; Boston, .621; Dal
timore, .504; St. Louis, .569; Cincin
nati, .547; Chicago, .504; Pittsburgh,
.493; Louisville, .480; New York, .413;
Washington, .348; Cleveland, .135.
Alexander Wustlich, an aged and
wealthy German, was killed at Stock
dale, Pa,, and his wife fatally wounded
by burglars.
Fred Pelton, a negro who assaulted
six women, was sentenced in Little
Rock, Ark., to 115 years' imprisonment.
The Halliday Milling company’s new
elevator, containing 250,000 busels of
wheat, was burned at Cairo, 111., the loss
being $200,000.
Tke plant of the Illinois Cereal com
pany near Bloomington was burned,
ecausing a loss of $250,000, and Melvin
Peun and Burt King perished in the
flames.
Joseph Burns was killed in a football
game at Belvidere, 111
Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, of the United
States army engineers, was convicted of
malfeasance in office, discharged from
the army and sentenced to five years'
imprisonment in the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Municipal elections will be held
throughout Porto Rico on the 20th inst,
The Australian system Is to be used and
the officers elected will hold office un
til November, 1900,
S. B. Remsen, county surveyor, claims
to have witnessed the outbreak of a vol
cano 20 miles from Creede, Col,
New York wound up her official re
ception to Admiral George Dewey with
the presentation of a lving eup, valued
at $35.000, and a great Jand parade.
In the evening the crews of the Olympia
and other vessels of the fleet were en
tertained at a smoker at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel,
Thirty-two business houses and res
idences in Nebo, 111, a town of 800 in
habitants, were destroyed by fire,
A treasury statement shows that for
the three months ended SBeptember %0
the receipts of the government exceed
ed the expenditures by $3,703,801.39,
Mrs. Fanny Seott, a widow, locked
her three children in her home near At
lanta, Gz, to go to & dance, and the
house was burned and the children cre
mated.
Admirsl Dew: arrived in Washing
ton and was given a magnificent recep
tion. He was given the freedom of the
Distriet of Columbia, greeted by hisold
friends of the navy depariment and
then was presented to the president and
Mrs. McKinley. Later in the evening
he reviewed a parade that filled Penn
syivania avenve from one end to the
other.
The public debt statement issued on
the 2d shows that the debt deereased
$5.400,775 during the month of Septem
ber. The cash balance in the treasury
was $1.615.241.086, The total debt, less
the cash balance in the (treasury,
amounts to $1.148.905. 750,
The town of Straflord, Mo, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire,
The total Bge executed at the
mints of the Umted States during the
month of Septethber was $0.560 704,
E. L. Cowden, #n Eastman college stu
dent from Texas ¢icd in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., from injusdes received while play
ing football.
The town of Bellucen, Ark., was de
stroyed by fired Fifty-four buildings
were burned, emtuiling a loss of §250,-
000, £
Mrs, Kate Jnt‘h and her 11-year-old
son and John Tei t were asphyxiated
by gas in Chicako
The culmina of Admiral Dewey's
triumphal ho ming was reached in
the shadow of the (ome of the national
capitol. Here received from the
hands of the iient the magnificent
jeweled sword ed him by congress
in commemoration of the victory of
Manila bay. i
The visible ply of grain in the
United States the 3d was: Wheat,
42,132,000 bushel; corn, 12,490,000 bush
els; oats, 7,328,800 bushels; ryve, 700,-
000 bushels; barley . 1,441,000 bushels.
Fire destroyed scveral business build
ings in Des Molugs, la., causing a loss
of §500,000,
M. M. McKinney killed his wife and
Paul Norman at Stranger, Tex., and
then killed hi H. No cause for the
crime was kn .
The first racd off New York of the
series for the America’s cup between
the Columbin the Shamrock was
declared off, néither yacht finishing
the 30-mile con?f within the time al
lowed.
After a oonofif!ion with advisers in
Washington it Wus announced that
President MeKinley's policy covering
the Philippines 18 1o push the war toa
successful conclusion with all possible
vigor, and when prace comes to submit
to congress for gettlement the question
of the future offhhv islands,
The nineteenth annual eonvention of
the Farmers' National congress began
in Boston, 30 states being represented,
The immense lumber yoards of the
Wheeler & Dusenberry company at En
deavor, 'a,, were burned, the loss being
$500,000,
Albert V. Roe, u one-armed messen
ger of the Postal Telegraph company,
arrived in San kl‘nm'itwn from New
York on a bicyele, covering the 4,000
miles in 70 days,
Fire in the vitgv of Monroe City,
Ind., destroyed ten buildings.
Mrs, Frances: Prudlow and two of
her children were fatally burned in Mil
waukee by a fig? caused by an explo
sion of kerosene oil.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
Thomas I, %n, u veteran of three
wars and the persow-in - West
Virginia, died in Grafton, aged 108
years,
Gen. A.J. Vaughn died in Indinnapo
lis, Ind. He was one of the few surviv
ing major generals of the confederate
army,
Returns from the municipal elections
in Connecticut show republican vie
tories in 101 towns and democratic sue
cesses in 02,
Mrs. Maxim Martin, aged 104 years,
died at Two Rivers, Wis,
FOREIGN.
The Dominion liner Scotsman was
wrecked south of Change island and
ten of her passengers were drowned,
The little two-masted Herald of the
Morning was overwhelmed in the At
lantie off the entrance to the 8t Johns
river and Capt. Hollis and five of the
crew were drowned,
By the burning of the steamer Mon
toya on the Magdalena river in Central
America 30 lives were lost, including
that of Gen, Julio Rengrifo, minister
to the United States,
The American authorities in Manila
were arranging the details of the de
livery of the Ameriean prisoners at An
geles,
It was reported that Castro, the in
surgent leader in Venezuela, had es
tablished a provisional government at
Valencia,
The Transvaal's veply to the lust Brit
ish dispateh says the South African re
public adheres sirietly to the London
convention of 1554, Boer forces were
hurrying to the frontier from all sides,
The German government has paid into
the Spanish trensury 25,000,000 pesetas,
the price of the Caroline islands,
The schooner Fdna, of Baltimore,
was wrecked off St. Pierre, N, F., and
her erew of seven lost their lives,
A telegram recelved at the Harvard
college observatory states that a new
comet has been diseovered by Jacobind
at Nice,
Advices from South Africa say the
Boers continue to eoncentrate between
Utrecht and Volksrust, where their ar
tillery is known to have moved, and
threaten Lalng's Nek. Large commands
have nlso ussembled on the western
frontier of the Transveal near Khm
berley.
Fourteen American prisoners, all en
listed soldiers, were delivered up by
the Filipinos at Ampgeles. The insur
gent commissioners ealled upon Gen.
Otis with fresh proposals from Aguin
aldo. (Gien. Garcia, leader of the insur
gents in the eastern part of the island
of Mindanao, has offered to surrender
the arms of his followers and hasasked
the American anthorities to send a gor
rison to take full control of the country.
Tke steamer White Cloud while pro
ceeding from Hong-Kong to Manila un
der an American ebarter foundered
and seven men wepe drowned,
The insurgents slong the Dacoor-
Imus road attacked the Ameriean
troops under Brig, Gen. Fred D. Grant
and were repulsed with heavy loss. Ove
American was killed and four wounded
The Filipino commissioners spent sev
eral hours with Gen, Otls o Manils and
8t the conclusion of the conference it
was sunounesd that nothing had been
aceomplished,
A London dispateh says it is reported
that the Boers have eommenced fight
ing. sed bave captured Dundee.
By the decision in Paris of the Anglo-
Venezuelan hvmtrfllnuu- eom
wission Great sin gaius a vast re
gion in Venezuela,
A buoy marked “Andree Pouir Expe
dition” which, with an anchor attuched
was found September ¥ an the north
coust of Ring Charles isinnd, s the
buoy waich Andree arranged to drop
if he succeeded in passing the pole.
It is pow estimated that 1,300 persons
perished in the earthquakes in Asi
Minor. around Aidin,
The Canadian government telegrapl
line bus been completed to Pawsor
from Skaguav, Alaskn.
It is estimated that the Indian gov
ernment must spend 3300000 ropees to
relieve famine in the central provinees
There are no new developmenta in
the Transvaal situntion. Arrangements
for the dispateh of war stores and men
continne in Loodon,
The Warren Jline steamship Bay
State, valued at ETOOOOO, from Liv erpool
for Boston, went ashare near Benews,
north of Cape Race, and went to pieces
No lives were lost,
A dispateh from Marila savs that
Gen. Lawton has organized o genernt
movement to clear up the conntry be
tween Imus and Bocoor, taking the per
sonal command.
LATER,
At Montgomery, Mo, Frank Wallker
and his bride were murderod by
Charles Rankin, a disappointed lover,
who immediately killed himself. A
child was serionsly weoannded Ly the
shots. All were prominert residerts
of Montgomery county,
All the machinists and fitters on the
Canadinn Pacitie railroad from Fort
Willinw to Vanconver strack beenuse
the company failed to recognize the
union,
The Thirteenth Minnesotn was mus
tered out ot Camp Presideo, San Fran
eisco, the 4th,
The Philippine commission will meet
in Washington in November.
Admiral Watson reports that the
“tinelad” Urdaneta has been raiscd
and will be refitted.
The second attempt of tht yachis
Shamrock and Colambia to prove su.
periority resulted in a failure, there
being no wind. The race was deelared
off.
The Mallory line steamer Leonn was
burned and sunk at her wharef in East
river, New York, Her eargo, consist
ing of tobaceo and 8,000 balesof cotton,
valued at §300,000, is a total loss, and
the boat is little better than a wreck,
Ex-United States Sepntor James Hap
lan died at his home in Mt Pleasant,
10., the bth, aged 70 years. He was
Unitgd States senator from lowa from
1863 to 1863, was secretary of the in
terior in Linecoln’s second eabinet,
1505-60, and was again United States
senator from lowa from 1860 to 1878,
Judge Allen, of the United Biates
district econrt at Springfield, 111, holds
that under the bankruptey law mo t
grages do not hold,
The Carnegie Steel company will
build two new blast furnsces at an
kin, Pa. The proposed furnaces will
have a daily capacity of 1,400 tons of
iron,
The Ameriean board of foreign mis
slons has voted to meet in St Louis
next year, :
The Archbishop of Manilla notified
General Otis that there was a plot on
foot to burn the residence of the gover
nor genernl and the archbishop, to
gether with several government bulld-
Ings and banks, but the plot failed to
materialize, possibly because of a dis
play of force,
Gien, Otis has informed the war des
partment of the arrival of the trans.
port Athenian with a detachment of
the Third cavalry and horses. There
were no easunltios on the voyage.
The secretary of war han issued an
order discontinuing the military de
partment of the galf and merging it
into the department of the cast, under
command of Major General Wesley
Merritt, headquarters at New York,
AWAIT THE THIRTEENTH.
The Visitors to the Twin Clties will be Cared
for by the Reception Committes,
The president’s visit to to Minneapo
lis to welcome home and review the
15th Regiment Minnesota Volunteers,
and the low exeursion rates offered by
the railronds will bring Immense
erowds to Minneapolis, and in view of
the great concourse of people who will
witness the historienl spectacle, the
executive commitiee has organized a
department to be known s the Twin
City Aceommodation eommittee, whone
work will be to assign all expectant
visitors to mnieely furnished rooms
through correspondence, before their
arrival in Minneapolis, thereby avoid
ing any practice of extortion and the
many inconveniences which so often
oecur in large gatherings
It is a great task on the committes,
and all expectant visitors should write
them at once, enclosing self-addressed
envelope for eircular, which will ex-~
plain in detail the committee's work
and how and where you can best be
eared for.
This will be n great advantage to all
strangers who intend to visit Minne
apolis during the eeiebration, snd s
work which s deserving of & hearty
support, and reflects great credit on
the commitiee,
To avoid the rush at the eleventh
hour. write them at onee. All avail
able rooms have been booked by them.
Address Twin City Accommodation
Committee, Board of Trade Roons,
Lumber Exehange, Minuveapolis, and
don't fail to enclose seif-addressed
stamped envelope.
MARKETS,
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 5
Wheat—No. 1 worthern, s9@7oe;
Ko. 2 northern, sT@6%e; Dec. 6050,
Oats— No. 3, white sie,
Corn—No. &, 50e.
Cattle - Steers, $4.00@ 4.5, cows, 85.00
@8.75.
Sheep—Muttons, 8450, lambs, #.75.
Hogs -84 004 1,39,
Butter- Crevmery, extras, 19@%09¢
creanmery, firsts, 15@ 1% dairy, fancy,
1748 18
FPouitry - Turkeys, s@loe; spring
chickens, 13¢
Y A 1 v
GIFT OF A NATION.
Admiral Dewey Presented with a
Fine Sword at Washington.
Prestdent Presents the Sword-
Dewey's Reply—The Admirai's
Journey to Washington One
Continuous Ovation,
Washington, Oet. 4.=The magunifl
cent sword awarded by act of congress
to the nation's hero was ‘Tuesday be
stowed upon Admiral Dewey in the
presence of the president, the mem
bers of the cabinet and the judiciary
the highest oflicers of the army and
navy and a vast crowd of the plain
people.
~ Reeelved with Cheers,
When the admiral appearcd from the
MeLean vesidence, resplendent in heavy
epaulettes and gold lace, the great
throng that had assembled in the ad-
Jacent streets and.in Farragut square
broke out into a long and loud burst
of applause,
Aecompanied by an escort of police
and committeemen and headed by the
Marine band, the admiral was driven
to the white house through cheering
erowds. His progress was slow and
he repeatedly bowed and smiled his
acknowledgments of the greetings
griven i, He entered the white house
grounds by the west gate and was
shown into the white room, where hLe
was riet by the presldent end mewm
bers of the enbinet. :
Hides wiih Prestdent,
Only a few minutes clapred before
the adrtiral reappeared with the presi
dent and took seats in the white house
carriage. The members of the eabinet
oceupied the next three ecurrviages,
They were then driven to the eapitol,
where the presentation was made,
In reply to the president’s speech of
presentation, Admival Dewey said:
“I thank you, Mr. President, for this
great honor you have conferred upon me.
1 thark the congreas for what it has dore.
1 thark the socretary of the pavy for bhis
gracious words, 1 thank my countrymen
for this beautiful gift, which shall be an
heirloom in my famlily forever as an evi
dence that republics are not ungrateful,
and | thank you, Mr. Chalrman and gentie
mon of the committes, for the gracious,
cordial and kindly weleome which you have
glven me to my home.”
Great Land Parnde,
New York, Oct, 2, Baturday brought
1o n close the celebrations in honor of
Admiral Dewey. The presentation of
the loving eup, the gift of the city of
New York, took place early in the fore
noon, ‘The great event of the day, the
Tand parade, was witnessed by s mulith
tude of pereons, who thronged every
available place, In the evening the
erews of the Olympia and other vexsels
of the fleet were entertained at o
smoker at the Waldorf-Astorin, Ad
miral Dewey was very tived at the end
of the parade, He was driven ot once
to the residence of Mapager Doldt, of
the Waldorf- Astoria, excorted by squad
ron A and accompanied by Mayor Van
Wyck. He dined with his lieutenants,
HBrumby and Caldwell. Admiral Dewey
did not sttend the “smoker,” e wan
feeling too fatigued to leave his apart
ments, and retived at 10215 o'cloek,
A Cantinuous Ovation,
Washington, Oet. 4 —Admiral Dewey's
Journey here from New York was one
continuous ovation, limited in its in
tensity only by the density of popula
tion, The special was given & clear
track and the run to Washington was
made without a stop except at Gray's
Verry, on the outskirts of Philudelphia,
where engines were chunged nnd o new
train erew came nhourd, The train ar
vived on time a few minutes before 7
p. m., Monday.
It was said by the rallrond officials
and truinmen that the ovation during
the run from New York to Washington
was the most remarkable demonstra
tion that has ever tuken place along the
jine,
A hearty reception awalted the ad
miral upon his arrival in the eity, He
was driven quickly to the white house
where he was greeted by the president,
the eabipet and mwany of his old asso
cintes in the navy depurtment, Later
on he reviewed the great civie parade
given in his honor,
Mueh Vatigoed,
It was 9:10 o'clock when the fatigued
recipient of the day's demonstrations
reached the rexidence of Mrs, Washing
ton McLean, mother of the democratic
candidate for governor of Ohlo, on K
street, where he will stay while in
Washington. The admiral wus met ot
the head of the staircaxe by Mrs, Moo
Lean and her daughters. Mrs, MeLean
welcomed the admiral and turned over
the house to him, for his use during
his stay in Washington, Mrs. Mclean
and the members of her family then
left, going 1o her country residence in
the suburbs of Washington,
Fire Losses in Minunenpoils,
Minnespolis, Minn., Oct, 2.~ The large
warehouse of the Minneapolis Rash &
Door compuny was destroyed by fire
Hunday, entailing u loss 1o this firm of
50,600, The adjoining warchouse of
the Woodwurd-Holmes company, man
ufacturers of wooden and excelsior
eave gutters, nlso burped, enusing »
lons of §12.000, ‘Three adjacent dwell
ings and & store were nlso destroyed.
Fires in other parts of the city eaused
much other damage, swelling the total
loss 1o at least $llO,OOO,
A Valuable Carge,
Desdwoud, 8. D, Ot 5 OttoGranptz,
the owner of the great gold mine south
west of this eity, shipped a car load of
ore to Denver Wednesday which will
give a return of about $23.9049, the rieh
eut eay load ever shipped from the Blaek
bills, Two armed guards sceotopanied
the car 10 jis destiration,
Burned t 6 Denth,
Toledo, ~ Oet, 5.~ Louis Westerman
fighted bis own funersl pyre at the
eounty Infirmary Wednesday morning
by starting a blaze in a haystack with
Lis pipe. As soon as the flames spread
he jumped in. He was burned to death.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CAPT. CARTER'S DISGRACE.
Dismissed from the Army, Fined 8§35,
000 and Sentenced ton Prison
Term of Five Years,
Washington, Oet. 2. President Me-
Rinley has approved the findings of the
court-martial in the case of Capt. Ober
lin M. Carter, of the englneer corps.
This nction was kept seeret almost 24
hours to permit of the prompt arrest
of the convicted officer. His sentence
is dismigsal from the army, a fine of
$3,000 and imprisonment for five years,
Assistant Adjt. Gen. Simpson went
to New York with the order of arrest
and Capt, Carter was tuken into eustody
Saturday and transferred to a cell at
CAI'T. OBERLIN M. CALRTER.
Governor's Island preporatory to being
sent to the military prison ot Leavens
worth, Kan., which has heen designated
ns his plaee of confinement,
Capt. Carter waas appointed military ats
tache at Lerdon in the summers of 1597 and
had hardly resched bis post of duty when
he was recalled to answer chargea pre
forred againet him as the resuit of the al
lexed discavertes of Capt €. E. Gillette,
who succecdod him o ekarge of the im=-
provement of HEavanrah harber and ad«
Jacent parta of the Georgia ceast,
A board of inquiry, compesed of army
engineers, examined the facts and heard
Capt. Carter. They uranimously reparted
“that he had falled to give watehful supers
vislon; that he had falsified vouchers and
coertificates relating to abrences and de
celved and misied the chicf of enginesrs in
official reporta”
Testimory was glven that Capt. Carter
was in leaguo with a contractor of contract
ars and In the course of a searching in
quiry made by the war department the
Judge advocnte of the courtsmurtial for the
cage maide a calculation based cn testls
mony which showed “that in one item of
brush mattresses Capt. Carter's little
group of contractors had pot from the govs
ornmpnt upward of §1,700,000 to which they
weore not entitied.”
s ARTREDESIES
s R SR T e TR RS e
Mecent Barthgunkes in Asin Minor
| Estimated to Have Cannsed Loss
of 1,000 Lives,
Constantinople, Oct, 30t Is now es
timated that 1,600 persons perished in
the earthquakes in Asia Minor, around
Abdin, The firet shiock occurred at four
in the morning of September 20 and
Inated 40 pecondn. The effeets were ap
palling. Whole villnges were comiplete
ly destroyed, The earthquake was felt
ns far ns Beio, Mitylene and Smyrna,
The latest advices from the stricken
aren show that men, women and chile
dren were bhuried In the ruing of their
dwelling places before they realized
their danger. Numbers of bodies wtill
e benenth the debrls,
Nrenks the Waorld's Recard,
Philadelphin, Oct. 6 ~ Willlam H.
Stubbs, n compositor on the Baltimore
Hun, broke the world's record for ma
chine typesetting in a contest for a
wiprer of $450 0 side with Willinm Duffy,
of the Phitadelphia Inguirer. The eon
test was held in the Philadelpbia Times
affice. Stubbs set 66,617 ems in 5 hours
and 15 minutes, or an average of 11,040
ems an bhour, Duffy set 55,0206 ems in
5 hours and 23 minutes, The previous
record wak 10,800 ems an hour, made in
the 8t Louls Post-Dispateh offiee four
Years ngo, »
Avronnnt Killed,
Des Moines, la,, Oct, 5. Marza fown
send, of Decoral, In., about 20 years old,
was killed on the carnival eireus
groumds nbout five o'clock Wednesday
evening while attempting a parachute
lenp, He was fired from o wooden eans
non while up 1,000 feet in the air. The
parachute failed to open and he fell
to the earth like a stope nud was picked
up dead and terribly mangled. A large
crowd saw the terrible aecident,
Kot & Candidote,
Milwaukee, Oct, 5. ~Gov, Edward Beo
field Wednesday night made the posi
tive declaration that he is not a candi
date for renomination and will not be
under any eircometanees, The gov.
ernor made a similar statement some
time ago, but the declaration was not
aecepted by other condidates or by
some of his friends as conelusive,
Lamber Plant Burned,
Oil City, Pa., Oet. 4. — The immense
fumber yurds of the Wheeler & Dusen
berry Co., loeated at Endeavor, Forest
county, sbout 25 miles from this eity,
were completely Lurned out Tuesday.
Over 6,000,000 feet of lumber were de
stroyed, together with three houses,
entailing & total loss of about $5060,600,
Germany Pays for the Carolines.
Madrid, Oct, 2.~ The German governs
ment has paid Into the Bpanish trens.
ury the sum of 25,000,000 pesetas, the
price of the Caroline lslands,
Lumg Trip on 8 Wheel,
Fan Frapeiseo, Oct, 4.~ Albert V, floe,
# one-armed messeoger of the Postal
Telegraph eompany, arrived in thiseity
from New York on o bieyele, covering
the 4,000 miles in 70 days
Thirty Balldings Dursed. i
Piitafieid, IL, Oct. 2—~Fire almost
totally destroyed the town of Nebo, jo
the southern part of this country, Sats
urday wight, burning over 30 bulldings
Relling Milt Berned.
Pertiand, Me., Oct, 3.~ The Portland
rolling miil, at Lagonia, was burned
Monday night, Loss, $75,000, 5