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, , Weekly News Summary
The Chinese emperor and the royal
family have returned to Pekin.
The Nicaragua canal hill on January
9 passed the house by a vote of 30S
to 2.
Perry Belmont was defeated for con
gress in the Seventh district of New
York by Montague Lessler.
The trial of Neeley, charged with
fraud in the postofllce service, IS pro
ceeding at Havana.
Franklin P. Ireland, a well known
. democrat, died at his home in Ne
braska City, Neb., January J).
A bill has been introduced in the
lower house seeking to create the office
of assistant postmaster general.
Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler has
been chosen president of Columbia
university to succeed Seth Low.
On the .evening of January 4 . the
people of Cleveland met in mass meet
ing for the purpose of expressing their
sympathy for the Boers. , ' . .
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nations of Messrs. Shaw and Payne, to
be, respectively, secretary of the. treas
ury arid postmastergeneral.
' The people of Omaha held a Jtoer
mass meeting on the evening of Jan
uary 6. Seven hundred dollars -was
forwarded to the Boers by the gather
ing. '.The attorney general of Minnesota
has asked the United States supreme
court to enjoin the Northern Security
company from accomplishing the pro
posed railroad consolidation.
Admiral Schley held a conference
with the president January 6, after
which it was announced that the presi
dent would consider the appeal for the
Schley court of inquiry.
I Allen Roo.t. a well known citizen of
Nebraska, and for years very active
fn the populist party, died at Omaha
January 4. Mr. Root was 76 years of
ago. He located in Omaha in 1854.
A iriessage from Buenos Ayres con
firms the rumor that a revolution is on
in the republic of Paraguay. The
president of the republic has resigned,
and the vice president has assumed
control.
Secretary of "War Root has received
a number of cablegrams from Cubans
appealing for tariff concessions. Many
of them declare that the industries of
the islands will be ruined if their ap
peal is: denied.
James B. McCreary, former governor
of Kentucky, and from 1885 to 1897
member of congress from that state,
was nominated for United States senator-
by the democratic caucus at
Frankfort, January 9.
Rev. Dr. Thomas, recently pastor of
the People's church in Chicago, accom
panied by Mrs. Thomas, will visit the
reconcentrado camps of South Africa,
' STOPS THE COUGH
"And Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinino Tablets cure a cold
In one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents.
in order to distribute relief In the
name of American sympathizers with
the Boers.
A sub-committee of the senate com
mittee on commerce, having the ship
subsidy bill under consideration, has
prepared a report recommending the
passage of the bill. It is believed by
the advocates of the measure that the
main committee will agree to the re
port. Mr. J. W. Schuckers, formerly pri
vate secretary of Salmon P. Chase
and later author of "The Bankers
Conspiracy," died recently at Buffalo.
He lived at Newark, N. J., but was in
Buffalo as secretary of the New Jersey
pan-American commission.
It is announced that J. Pierpont Mor
gan will complete the proposed railway
from Hankow to Canton in China. He
has" organized a company which will
require $3,600,000 for beginning the
work. The Chinese government has is
sued bonds against this railroad for
$42,500,000, the securities to be deliv
ered to the company.
At Minneapolis, January 9, repre
sentatives of the Minnesota university
and of the University of Chicago de
bated the question, "Resolved; Tnat
the policy of the United States in ex
tending the franchise to the negro
was hasty and ill-advised." The de
cision was in favor of the negative,
taken by Minnesota.
It is announced that the Michigan
Central railroad company will bring
suit against the state of Michigan for
damages in the sum of. $6,000,000 to re
cover for loss said to be occasioned by
the forced forfeiture of the special
charter of the railroad company. The
suit grows out of the recent law passed
by the legislature of the state fixing
the maximum charge per mile for
passenger rates at 2 cents.
The debating team of the Michi
gan university was pitted against that
of the Northwestern university at Ann
Arbor January 9. The question for de
bate was: "Resolved, That our law-3
should provide for boards of arbitra
tion with power to compel parties in
labor disputes to submit their dis
putes to arbitration and to abide by
the boards' decisions." The Michigan
team took the affirmative and won the
victory.
On January 9 members of the Ger
man relchstag made .violent attacks
upc. Joseph Chamberlain. One of
the speakers denounced the British
army as "A mob of thieves and rob
bers, unfit to be compared with the
glorious GermanB." Count von Bu.
lovr the chancellor, replied to these
words of censure, saying: "I believe
I shall be in sympathy with a very
g-eat majority of the house when I
express the liope that the custom of
abusing foreign ministers from the tri
bune of this august body will not be
come naturalized among us. That
will accord neither with the German
people nor with our policy. I must
at the same time express my deep re
gret at the way in which the last
speaker referred to tho army of a na
tion with which we live in peace and
friendship. As we ourselves are sensi
tive concerning the honor of our own
army, so wo should not abuse foreign
armies in which there are brave men
enough who know how to die." The
chancellor was heartily cheered.
Senator Nelson, representing the
commerce committee, has made a fav
orable report providing for a depart
ment of commerce. This will create
an additional cabinet office. The bP.l
also provides for the creation of a
bureau of manufactures and mines and
mining. This will not, of course, be a
cabinet place. Senator Nelson's bill
provides that the secretary of com
merce shall have jurisdiction over tho
life saving service, the marine hospi
tal service, the bureau of immigra
tion, bureau of statistics, tho commls-j
sioner of railroads, the census ofike
the patent office, the department of
labor, the commission of fish and
fisheries, the bureau of foreign com
merce, as well as a number of other
Important bureaus of the government.
A New York dispatch to the Chica
go Tribune says: In the nine months
ending December 31, tho net earnings
of the United States Steel corporation
were $84,779,298. The quarterly meet
ing of the directors was held here to
day, and besides voting the usual divi
dend of 1 3-4 per cent on preferred and
1 per cent on common stock a general
statement of the finances of the cor
poration was made public. The earn
ings by months were as follows: April,
$7,350,744; May, $9,612,349; June, $9,-
394,747; July, $9,580,151; August, $9,
810,880; September, $9,272,812; Octo
ber, $12,205,774; November, $9,795,841;
December (estimated), $7,750,000; to
tal, $84,779,298. As to December earn
ings, the statement made this explan
ation: "During the close of lake navi
gation, from December to April, inclu
sive, the earnings of mining and trans
portation companies are, of course, di
minished." The sinking fund on
Uni'.ed States Steel corporation bonds
and the bonds of subsidiary companies
consumer $2,233,292, and depreciation,
reserve, and contingent funds and 'Ap
provements $9,695,702. The sum of
$11,400,000 was paid in interest jti
bDnds for nine months, and $42,005,807
was paid out in dividends. The bal
ance available for surplus or new con
struction amounted to $19,414,497.
A Story of Jefferson.
An old publication entitled "Atkin
son's Casket," Issued in 1833, records
an incident which one Giles McQuig
gan relates of Thomas Jefferson. It
reads as follows:
While this distinguished statesman
and patriot was vice president of the
United States, it was customary for
the individual holding the said high
office to attend to business more in
person, than the refinements of mora
modern times will allow. It happened
on one occasion that some Important
matters required his attention in Phil
adelphia, and some other places dis
tant from the capital r In. those daya
a journey to Philadelphia was not to
be performed in a few hours it was
two or three days' travel, and not of
tho most pleasant sort either. On Jhis
return he stopped In Baltimore; it was
about four or five o'clock in the after-
A CURK FOR ASTHMA.
Asthma sufferers iwed no longer learo home
and business In ordor to bo cured. Nnture lias
producod n Ywrotablo rrnnedy tlmt will perma
nently cure Asthma and all diseasoir of the lira
and bronchial tubes. Hnylnjj tested its wonder
f ul curative powers In thousands of cases (witk
a record of DO -por cent pormnnetitly cured, and
doslrln to relieve hnmaa suffer!, I will amd
froo of charge to all sufferers from Asthma, Coa
sumption, Catarrh, Bronchitis and nervous dls-
riM-8,tV.Is,r,cc,p? G""ni Frnneh or Knglish
with full directions for preparing ond win.
Sent or mail. Address with stump, naming this
papor,W.A.NoyoB,847 Powers Hlk.,Hocheter,NY
noon when tho vice president roclo up,
sultless and unattended, to tho tavern.
A Scotchman by tho name of Boyden
kept tho hotel, of late so much Im
proved and now so handsomely sus
tained by our worthy townsman Beltz
hoover. Tho bucks of tho town were
assembled in tho largo hall, smoking,
strutting, cracking Jokes and other
wise Indulging in the other etceteras
of the day. Boyden was at tho bar
examining his books, and doubtless
making calculations in referonco ito
his future prospects. Jefferson had
delivered his horso into the hands of
tho hostler, and walked into tho tav
ern to make arrangements in regard
to his fare. Some one touched Boyden
upon the elbow and directed his at
tention to the stranger who was
standing with his whip in his hand,
striking it occasionally upon his
muddy leggings. Boyden turned
round and surveyed him from head to
foot, and concluding him to be an old
farmer from the country, whose com
pany would add no credit to the house,
he said abruptly "We have no room
for you, sir."
Jefferscn did not hear tho remark,
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Which the working man has fought for
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the wife has no share in. Her day be
gins before his and ends long after it,
as a rule, and many a night her rest is
broken by the baby's
fretfulncss. The
healthiest woman
mubt wear out under
such a strain. What
can be expected then
of those women
who are weaken
ed by woman
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