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WHAT 1897 HAS SEEN.
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Grreco-Tnrkish War and the Cuban
Insurrection The Great Strike in
the Coal Fields Political Changes of
Twelve Months.
A Chronological Table.
The year 1897 has been, it might be said
almost a commonplace one, since its com
mencement, that is, no events of over
whelming moment have taken place, but
there has been no dearth of important
occurrences. The- war between Turkey
and Greece, the struggle for freedom in
Cuba, the costly and long-drawn-out
strike in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal
fields, the change of national administra
tion, the enactment of the Dingley tariff
law, the disastrous spring floods in the
Mississippi valley and autumn fires In the
West and Northwest, and the epidemic of
yellow fever in the Southern States are
clearly not matters of small importance
In the history of the world. The year has
been an unusual one from the fact that
but few men of really great reputation
have passed from the stage of their earth
ly labors; their number can be computed
upon the fingers of the two hands.
The most important events of the year
are recorded below in the order of, their
occurrence:
JANUARY.
1 Thirteen miners perish at Pachuca.
Meileo. .. .Extremely high temperature and
heavy rains In Northwest Plngree Inaug
urated Governor of Michigan.
2 W. A. Hammond, wrecker of Illinois
National Bank, commits suicide. .. .Fatal
storm In Southwest. .. .Nashville, Tenn.,, hns
$400,000 fie West and Northwest del
uged by rains.
3 Snow and frost succeed rain.
4 Furious blizzard In- the West Gov.
Scofleld Inaugurated at Madison, Wis
Three St. Paul banks fall.
5 Gov. Altgeld pardons 10 criminals. .. .St.
Stanislaus parsonage at Bay City, Mich.,
sacked by warrlug church factions. ... Four
chl.dren die by fire near Westneld, Wis.;
three near Babcock. Wis.
6 Illinois Legislature meets. .. .Seven Cr
sullne nuns perish by fire at Convent of Our
Lady of Lake St. Johns, Boberval, Quebec. .
11 Tanner luaugnratedr Gojtfruor of Illi
nois with much pomp and ceremony....
Mount Inaugurated GSWrrfor of Indiana
with very simple style. .. .House kills Pa
cific funding bill American-British Arbi
tration treaty signed.
12 Five children drown, skaflcg. at St.
Louis. .. .Four die In powder explosion at
Shamokln, Pa.
13 Five tilled in a Pottsvllle, Pa., coal
shaft:
14 News of capture of Santa Clara by
Cuban Insurgents. .. .Bombay, India, a city
of death and terror because of ravages of
bubonic plague (black death) and famine;
thousands dying, and city being depopulated;
dead lie an buried, and vultures hover over
the town and country; sky ablaze by night
with funeral pyres; Europe greatly alarmed.
19 Wm. E. Mason chosen Senator from
Illinois. .. .Three negroes lynched In Louis
iana 21 Nine salloro drown off Long Island.
22 Mercury falls 30 degrees to zero at
Chicago. .. .Death of Sir Isaac Pitman at
London.
24 Widespread cold wave; Chicago tem
perature 17 below zero. .. .$600,000 Arc loss
at Northwestern stove repair works and C
J. Barnes' residence in Chicago.
25 Twenty below zero at Chicago.
26 Fourteen below zero at Chicago; 700
poor families aided; relief measures adopted
over entire city ... .$2,500,000 fire at Phila
delphia $350,000 fire at Chicago.
27 Continued cold weather in Northwest.
28 Lyman J. Gage of Chicago accepts
treasury portfolio.
31 Family of seven die by fire In Hbo
ken, N. J Cruiser Brooklyn on the rocks
FEBRUARY. -"
2 Pennsylvania State capltbl burned; loss
$1.500,000 Venezuelan treaty signed.
8 Admiral Bunce's squadron In a storm off
Hampton Roads; three seamen swept awav,
" several Injured. .. .$200,000 railroad shop
lire at Prli jeon, Iud.
10 Bradley-Martin ball at New York costs
$500,000. .. .Phenomenal drop In price of
steel rails.
13 Aid. O'Malley acquitted of murder at
Chicago. .. .Death of J. Randolph Tucker at
Lexington, Va.. and Gen. J. O. Shelby at
Adrian, Mo.; both noted Confederates.
14 Greeks bqmbard Canea, Island of
Crete, under Turkish rule.
15 Appeal of Jos. R. Dunlop, convicted of
ipr-r use or mans at unicago, to Supreme
falls.
Millionaire fv.estrow hanged at t'nlbn.
wire murder; Feter Schmidt and
ter hanged at Clayton. Mo
ptu.- Turkish fort at Crete. t
Pers of.F.uroDe protest ji2instT ac
tion oTVtreece. ' -
IS Tt0 thousand Moslems slain In Opt.
by Greeks. .. .Big shortage of State officials
discovered in Nebraska. -
21 Canea bombarded by the powers .
Baby girl at the Harrisons'.
22 General observation of Washington's
birthday Floods In Ohio Valley.
25 Powers decide Greece.., must evacuate
Crete. ' -
, ... . MARCH. . Vtf
4 McKlnley Inaugurated Six killed at
Boston by gas explosion.
5 Extensive floods In Mississippi Valley,
and In Ohio, Kentucky attd Indiana
Greece defies the powers.
9 Tremendous jajnfajl Jn central States
10-Slx klllei're a 'wreck neaif Prlaceton
Ind
12 -Blizzard sweeps the Northwest $400,
000 wholesale grocery fire at Chicago
15 $1,500,(ki trie at St. Louis. ... Floods In
Mississippi Valley make thousands of ne
groes homeless.
17 FItzsimnif.ns whips Corbett at Carson
City, Nev 78 lives lost by foundering of
French steamer off Carolina.
21 Powers blockade Cretan ports to Greek
ships. i
22 Cyclone kills eight and Injures 23 school
children at Arlington, Ga. ; family of five
billed in Henry County, Ala.
23 Heavy fall of slushy snow In North
west. 30 Forty-five killed iy a cyclone at Chand
ler. O. T.
31 House passes Dingley tariff bill
Powers bombard Cretans.
APRIL.
Carter II . Harrison elected Mayor of
Chicago by 75,000 plurality Alarming
floods In Mississippi Valley.
8 $1,000,000 fire at Knoxvllle, Tenn; 17
people killed.
9 Snow storm in Central States.
10 Daniel W. Voorhees, former U. S. Sen
ator from Indiana, dies at Washington.
15 Riots In Indianapolis over 3-cent car
fare: .. .$500,000 fire at New Orleans.
17 War between Turkey and Greece.
18 Fierce windstorm in Chicago; $150,000
fire.
20 Desperate flghtlrg In the Levant '
First execution bvejttrlclty to Ohio.
3 Osrna" "wsnHbimra command nt
pops, which hive met severe re-
erses.
24 Turks cap rt:- r.ara .i'.Vast floods
In Missouri and tlsSlssSppJ VaU.-".
26 Hundreds jf families ' at OttiTiv. a,
Iowa, andjQulncy, Hi., homeless by floods.
27 Dedicatior of Grant's tomb at New
York $2,000,000 fire at Newp4flHews, Va
2S Greeks at Athens riotouBfljecsSise of
army reverses. .. .Flood at South Guthrie,
O. T.. kills over 70. ' t - -
29 Ralll heads new cabinet of Greece. ..;
Wild gale with loss of life an'd vessels on
Lake Michigan.
30 Greeks win a big battle Seven ne
groes lynched by a mob of negroes In Texas.
MAT.
1 Snow at Chicago.
2 $4,000,000 tire at Pittsburg, Pa.
4 One hundred die by fire In a Parisian
bazar. .
7 Brutal murder of the Harris family,
near Waukesha, Wis., by Wm. Pouch.
9 Sixteen die by fire on Mallory . Line
steanishlLeona, off Sandy Hook Greece
asks Intventlonof powers. '
14 Snow at Chicago.
18 Czar intervenes to stop "war in the
Levant. v m W
31 Severe eartbqilafe fshock 6 Cincin
nati and southeast. . .JFtre of jjjpjcnlc par
ly aiueii on i.ong lsiana.
.... JUNK.
2 Spanish cabinet resigns.
8 Two of a mou of lynche!.killed at
Urbana, Ohio, and nine wounded, !y militia
under command of Sheriff McLeaJi.
7 Six killed In a wrek near iifllson. Wis
9 $200,000 fire at Carlinvllle, III Death
cf Alvan Clark, famous lens-maker, at Cam
bridge, Mass.
11 Wife murderer. French hanged at
Rockford. III.
12 Mayor Richards killed at Bunker Hill,
ill., by Editor Hedlef.
13 Attempt to kill President Faure by a
Paris bomb-thrower.
14 Suicide of Barney Barnato.at sea.
15 Temperature of 98 in Chicago; 40 pros
trations. ii -
16 17 Northwest suffers from awful heat.
18 Storm, kyis four children at Lincoln,
III. .. r'yCT0ii.es7h jnanyTVestern localities.
21 Vletuiri.n "towfef-- lebrtkibn t'om
menees at Londdb,. . - '9
24 Cyclone .In .Kansaj! .kills three: hall
bombards Tflpeka '
25 Lynching aiTJrrstal Spfings.'ljfiss
Race war at Key West over attempted lynch
ing. . .'.Cornell defeats Yale and Harvard in
college boat race. ...Four legal" Executions
at 'lkJoseph. Mo., Fayetteville, W. Va.,
AtlainK Ga.. and Houston. Texas.
26 Seven killed in a wreck at Missouri
City, Mo.
29 Three billed In wreck of a Christian
Rndeavor train at West Chicago; 15 hurt
men drowned at umcj lyuicuatning ,
to get relief from terrific heat. .. .Northwest
scorched.
30 All districts report many fatalities
rrom neat.
JULY,
1 Continuance of fearful heat. .. .Close of
Victorian Jubilee.
2 One dead and 16 prostrated by. heat at
Chicago, in a temperature or its degrees.
Cornell Boat Club defeats Columbia and
Pennsylvania.
3 Awful beat in Chicago kills six and
prostrates 40: 13 die at Cincinnati. . : .Snow
storm in Colorado. .. .Deluge at Duluth does
si.uuu.uuo damago.
4 Heat and fatalities continue east of Mis
slaslppl Valley; thunderstorm at midnight
relieves Chicago, after eight have died.
0 Twenty die at Chicago from previous
exhaustion by heat, though temperature did
not exceed 78 degrees. .. .Celebration claims
five deaths there, and scores of Injured vie
tlms H. B. Stone of Chicago killed at
-vonquitt, Mass.
6 Ten killed bv cvclone at Lowrv. Minn.
. .. .Nine billed by boiler explosion at Harts
vllle, Tenn.... Coal miners' strike becomes
general In the East.
7 Continuance of extreme heat and con
sequent fatalities Senate passes tariff bill
Six killed at Bay City. Mich., by street
car plunalna into an onen draw.
8 Chicago and Alton freight house burns
at cuicago; loss $250,000 Heat and death
roll Increases. .. .Death of Senator Harris
oj, Tennessee.
fO Drop of 35 degrees In temperature at
cmcago; change general.
12 Death of Millionaire Columbus R. Cum
mlngs of Chicago.
15 Negro lynched for assault and murder
at West Folnt, Tenn. .. .Illinois and Indiana
coa! miners go out.
17 News of fabulous cold finds in Alaska.
19 Tariff bill passes the House. .. .Snow
storm in Chicago.
22 Logan monument unveiled at Chicago.
23 Four killed by explosion of naphtha on
steamer at Bridgeport, Conn $1,000,000
grape sugar factory fire at Peoria, 111.
24-New tariff law enacted; Congress ad
journs. .. .Cloudburst at Boston.
30 Seven killed by cyclone at San Jose,
111.
AUGUST.
6 Elevator fire at Chicago kills four fire
men, hurts 20 more, and does $500,000 dam
age. 8 Assassination of Premier Canovas of
Spain',
15 Orleanlst Prince Henri seriously
wounded by Italian Count of Turin in a duel
at Paris.
16 Great boom in wheat Cold wave at
Chicago.
17 Snowstorm In South Dakota Wheat
touches 98c at Chicago.
19 Unknown mau killed by farmers near
Chicago, for assault. .. .Four killed by glu
cose factory explosion at Davenport, Iowa.
21 Wheat reaches the dollar price In sev
eral' cities and occasions great excitement.
23 Three hundred Sepoys massacred by
Afrldls In India.
26 President of Uruguay assassinated.
29 News of a great tidal wave In Japan.
30 Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure.
31 Yellow fever breaks out at Ocean
Springs, Miss.
SEPTEMBER.
2 Crops reported greatly damaged by long
continued drought.
7 Railroad. collision near Emporia, Kan.;
several killed. .. .Lake St. Clair yacht cap
sized, drowning six.
9 Terrible bead-end collision near New
castle, Colo., kills 30 people and mangles
many others.
10 Twenty-two striking coal miners near
Latimer, Pa., shot dead by deputy sheriffs;
many others wounded.
11 MinerB' convention at Columbus set
tles the great coal strike.
13 Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty. 15 Five alleged burglars taken from Jail
by a mob at Versailles, Ind., and lynched.
16 Anarchist assaults President Diaz of
Mexico; death of the assaulter at the
hands of a mob.
20 Outbreak of yellow fever in New Or
leans. 21 President Ratchford of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended.
26 Nine men killed In a bloody riot at
Girardvllle, Pa.. ..Mrs. John Becker and
five children slaughtered near Carroll, Iowa.
...Railway hold-up at Moorhead, Minn.
29 $1,000,000 fire In Washington, D. C
Fall of Azcarraga ministry In Spain.
30 Resignation of the Rail! ministry In
Greece.
OCTOBER.
1 Five bandits held up a train In Indian
Territory ... .Thirty persons hurt In railway
accident alTMedford, Mass.
3 Death of Gen. Neal Dow.
4 Sagasta ministry assumes control In
Spain. .. .Austin, Pa., almost entirely de
stroyed by fire.
5 Connecticut votes an educational test
for voters.
6 Alton train held up near Kansas City,
Mo Thousands of lives lost and much
property destroyed by a typhoon in the Phil
ippine Islands. .. .$117,000 fire at Chicago
stock yards Large fire In Detroit. .. .Six
girls burned to death at Plaukluton, S. D. .. .
Disastrous fire at Medora, 111.
7 Two prisoners roasted in Opellka, Ala.,
Jail.
8 (leu. Weyler recalled from Cuba....
Death of ex-Senator McPuerson of New
Jersey.
12 Bandits t ; a train near Austin, Tex
as Death at i etrolt of ex-Senator Chas.
W. Jones of Florida.
14 Four people killed In a railway acci
dent at Stlttsvllle, Ont.
15 Four persons killed and many Injured
by caving In of a theater roof in Cincin
nati. 16 Steamer Triton sunk in Caribbean Sea
and 150 lives lost.
17 Windsor, N. S., fire-swept and 3,000
people left homeless. .. .Death of Chas. A.
Dana of the New York Sun.
19 Death of Geo. M. Pullman of Chicago.
21 Jury In Luetgert murder case In Chi
cago disagreed.
24 Twenty lives lost in New York Cen
tral accident at Garrisons, N. Y Bank
wrecked at Blalrsburg, Iowa.
27 Wabash Railroad offices In St. Louis
burned.
29 Henry George, single-tax advocate,
died of apoplexy at New Y'ork.
NOVEMBER.
1 Sale of the Union Pacific Railroad.
2 Thirteen firemen Injured by a gasoline
explosion at a fire in Philadelphia. ... Elec
tion day: New Yorb elected Van Wycb
(Tammany) Mayor; Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Iowa and Massachusetts went Republican;
Maryland, Nebraska, New Yorb, Kentucky
and Virginia Democratic; Colorado was car
ried by "Silver men, and in South Dabota Re
publicans and Democrats..won over Populists.
4 Chesapeabe and Ohio tralu wrecb at
Charlottesville, Va., In which four people
are billed and many injured. ... Five men
badly burned by molten iron In Milwaukee,
and two die from their Injuries.
6 Train robbery near Grants, N. M
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of the
steamer Idaho on Labe Erie.
11 Yellow fever quarantine declared off
In New Orleans. .. .Thieves steal $14,000 In
money and Jewelry from a Silver Creeb, N.
V.. bank.
12 $50,000 fire at Fostoria, Ohio.
13 Three Indians lynched by a mob at
Willlamsport, N. D.
17 Three people injured In a railway
wreck near Cleveland, Ohio Panic In a
Cincinnati school caused the Injury of four
children. .. .Ilozel, Kan., sinks Into the
prairie In a night.
19 Three miners killed In railway wreck
at Coal Bluff, Ind Great Are In London,
England; loss $25,000,000.
20 Masbed negro, attempting to hold up
a Kansas City street car, shot conductor and
motorman.
21 Fire at Melbourne. Australia. In which
J5,000,000 of mercantile pr .pertv was de
stroyed Two motormen 'diw .tr, tt-eoMs-
lr; 'n Baltimore. f " Virc nt I a r,T.r..
'Mill, -rtf-whleSi '$25,000 worth of property
was destroyed.
23-nF. A. Novab found guilty of murder
at Vinton, Iowa.
25 Capt. Loverlng found guilty by court
martial at Fort Sheridan. Chicago.
28 Resignation of the Bauei.l ministry in
Austria. .. .Three men asphyxiated In the
Grand Trunb tunnel at Port Hnro'n, Mich.
30 New cabinet formed In Austria....
Eleven persons billed In a rallwav accident
at, Warsaw, Poland Martin Thorn con
victed of the murder of Wm. Guldensuppe at
New Y'ofk.
DECEMBER.
I Thirty-seven miners billed In Homburg,
Bavaria, by explosion of fire damp. .. .Furi
ous riots at Prague, Bohemia.
4 Three men billed and several persons
injured in a collision of trollev cars near
Detroit, Mich.
5 Resignation of the Italian ministry.
6 Congress convenes In regular session at
Washington.
II Two men killed in railway collision at
Oakland; Cal Haytian cabinet resigned.
13 New Haytian ministry formed.
14 Resignation of Chilian cabinet
Rudini cabinet reconstituted In Italy.
16 Three men killed In C, E. & I. wreck
at Clinton, Ind.. ..Death of Alphonse Dau
det, noted French author. ... William Ter
riss. English actor, assassinated in London.
....Ratification of peace treaty between
Greece and Turkey ... .New Chilian cabinet
formed.
17 Six lives lost In fire at Ottawa, Ont. .. .
Three persons pfrlsh In an $850,000 tire at
Grand Forks, Dab.
18 Zero weather in Chicago. ... Death of
Hon. Washington Hesiug, of Chicago.
20 Five train wrecks at Castle Rock.
Colo., two persons killed; at Pontlac, 111.,
five persons Injured; near Benson. Ariz., one
man killed; near -Rlpton, Ala., four men
killed; at St. Louis, one man killed and two
Injured.
21 Suclde of Miss Leila Herbert at Wash
ington, D. C Three skaters drowned at
Tonawanda, N. Y Three skaters drowned
at Gardner. Mass.
What's this! A dispatch from Maine
states that "this season's importation of
French sardines will be light, owing to
the small catch art young herring off the
Maine coast." Can it be?
Charles Ewald, aged 65, while switch
ing cars with his team at Daggett, .Mich.,
fell across the track, the carwheeis pass
ill.; over him, killing him.
The Government 6f the United States
owns in the city of Washington 1,600,000
volumes of literature. Of these about one
half, or 787.715, are in the congressional
library. The remainder are scattered
through the various executive depart
ments. The daily number of readers in
the congressional library averages 3,320.
About 700 persons, including the mem
bers of hoth houses nnd high officials of
the Government, are entitled to draw
books and take them away from the build
ing, and the average number loaned out
in such a way is 1,446. It is a favorable
commentary upon the honesty and care of
our public men that during a period of
thirty years the .number of books lost or
not returned was onlv five in a thousand.
Large numbers of petitions, supported
by many signatures and uniform in their
phraseology, are being presented to the
House of Representatives. They ask the
passage of a series of laws to protect the
morals of the public. For example, to
prohibit gambling in stocks, produce, rac
ing pools and other forms of speculation
by telegraph, to prohibit the transmission
of stock quotations for speculative pur
poses, and the transmission in the mails
of newspapers containing pictures or de
scriptions of prize fights, to prohibit the
exhibition of kinetoscope reproductions of
prize fights and other brutalizing specta
cles, nnd to prohibit the transportation
from State to State of materials for such
exhibitions.
The ladies of the cabinet are decidedly
put out by the edict that forbade their
New Year's receptions and the dinners
that were to precede and follow. They
do not see any occasion for it. The Pres
ident did not ask or even suggest a sus
pension of social affairs. He' told the
members of his cabinet he should close the
White House for thirty days, although he
did not think it was necessary for them
to follow his example, but without con
sulting their wives, they agreed to do so.
The husbands have since had an unhappy
time, and the Washington social world
has offered them no sympathy.
The opposition to the ratification of the
Hawaiian treaty has simmered down al
most entirely to the sugar trust, the Louis
iana planters and the beet-root sugar
manufacturers. There are a few Senators
who oppose the treaty on principle, as
they believe it inexpedient for the United
States to assume the responsibility of gov
erning any detached territory, and several
on the Democratic side have joined the
opposition because they regard annexa
tion as a Republican measure.
Chairman Loud of the House Commit
tee on Postoffices has been working during
the recess on the report of the committee
on the Loud bill, and has practically com
pleted 4t. He believes that the measure
will effect a saving of at least $10,000,000
annually, and will wipe out the enormous
deficit that confronts the Potsofflce De
partment every year. Mr. Loud believes
the bill is much stronger this session than
last, and, while not absolutely confident,
thinks it will finally carry.
The agents of the Cuban junta in
Washington justify the assassination of
Col. Ruiz as necessary to intimidate the
cowardly and corrupt men in their ranks
who arc likely to be allured into making
terms with the Spanish authorities either
through fear or bribery. They say that
hereafter no Spanish agent will dare ap
proach an insurgent camp, and that it will
be dangerous for any stranger to do so.
The distressing death of Miss Leila Her
bert has caused a shock to her many
friends and acquaintances in Washing
ton. She wns a young woman of beau
tiful character, gentle, amiable and gen
erous, and was generally beloved and ad
mired. Those who knew her best believe,
that her suicide was. due to fear that she
might be a permanent cripple.
The pension certificate of the Rev. L.
J. Keith of Vinceunes, Ind., will be can
celed, because the holder has informed
the bureau that he does not consider him
self longer entitled to a pension, his dis
ability having disappeared, and has asked
that his name be dropped from the rolls.
There is ouly one other such case on rec
ord.
Secretary Wilson is greatly interested
in- Jegislation for the establishment of
postal savings banks because he believes
they are necessary' to the prosperity of
the farmers. It is sometimes an all day's
job, he says, for a farmer to go to the
town where the nearest bank is situated,
while there is a npstorhce in every village.
The convrieht department is a most im
portant branch of the Government, and
indicates an enormous increase in literary
aud musical compositions and in designs
wnicn are susceptioie to copyright, in
1870 the number of copyrights granted
was 5,021; in 1880, 20,680; in 1890, 42,-
70S; in l&au,
The recent report of the Comptroller of
the Currency shows that the savings
banks of the United States are mostly
confined to the northeastern section of the
country. Nearly 80 per cent of the num
ber of banks and amount of deposits is
represented by New York and New Eg
land. The committee aoVoiited bv the Sociefv
of the Army of the Tennessee to secure
the erection of a monument to Gen.
tieorge rj. Btxneuu i aninugion nas
held its first meeting and elected Adjt.
Gen. Ruggles chairman.
Ink erasers are not allowed in either the
War or the Navy Department except un
der the direction of a chief of bureau, and
uo one is allowed to erase an entry in any
offlcial record book without explanations
and express permission.
Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the Alaska ex
pert, says that there is so much gold in
Alaska that persons who go there ten
years hence will have as good a chance ns
those who go next spring.
Postmaster General Gary and Secre
tary Gage have promised to assist in lay
ing the corner stone oi tne new postomce
building in inicago on tue stn or next
July. '
m m m
There is a very favorable outlook for
the passage of the bankruptcy bill, and
even tne opponents oi tne measure con
cede their conviction that it will pass both
booses.
The sale of postage stamps for the last
quarter of the year 1897 was the largest
in the history of the country.
Telegraphic Brevities.
The town council of Mankato, Kan., in
tends to atop by ordinance the singing,
humming or whistling of the song, "Hot
Time in the Old Town To-niglft."
The destructive cigarette may be .sold in
packages of ten m Tennessee. Judge
Clark of the United States Court in Chat
tanooga held that the term "Original
package" could be applied to the smaller
boxes.
A serious freight wreck occurred on the
New York Central Railroad near Pough
keepsie, N. Y. Several hundred pounds
of rock had fallen upon the track from
the wall of a cut. The engine and sixteen
cars were derailed.
CLAItVlS TO BE 140 YEARS OLD.
Georgia Negro Who Says He Remem
bers tlie Revolution.
Satpuel Andrew Gibbons is an old
negro, who, if his claims are true,
is the oldest living native of Chatham
County. Gibbons says that he Is 140
years old and that he was 17 years
old when the revolutionary war be
gan. A reporter met Gibsons on Bay
street yesterday and had quite a little
chat with him. He does not begin. to
look as old as he claims to be, but
he gives circumstantial details which
go to prove him a very old man. A
peculiar feature of his story is that
he says that up to a month ago, when
he returned here, he had not been in
Savannah for seventy years. The old
man is not in his dotage by any means,
and uses pretty good English.
"I was bora on a Fairlawn planta
tion, over that way (west of the city),"
he said, "and I belonged to William
Gibbons. The Gibbonses owned a
whole lot of property here then. I
s'pose they own some of it yet. I used
to run a barber-shop right over on that
comer," pointing to the corner of Bay
arnd Montgomery streets.
"I don't know the names of the
streets now, 'cept one or two. They
didn't have all these streets when I
left here. That street they called
South Broad used to be the common
where the soldiers mustered. They
had a market here then.- but it was a
wooden building. I don't know wheth
er it was the same square the market
Is now on or not.
"Yes, sir, I was here when the first
revolution in the United States of
America took place. I was 17 years old
then."
"You saw General Washington, of
course?"
"Yes sir; I saw him. All the peo
ple turn out to see him, and they fired
guns."
"Did you see Lafayette?"
"Yes, sir. He was the man they put
down carpets in the streets for him
to walk on. They had a big gather
in' in Monument Square and a whole
lot of soldiers. They don't treat Presi
dents now like they used to."
The old man was evidently under
the impression that Lafayette was a
President.
"I wns sold away from here seventy
years ago," he said, "and brought $000.
I have been living all about in Florida
and Alabama ever since. I remember
the falling stars. That was seventy
years ago."
The old man was positive in all" his
statements, and could not admit that
he might be mistaken in any of his
facts.
"I left a daughter in Florida when I
went to Alabama," he said. "She was
just big enough to tie in a napkin. I
went back there the other day anu
found her, and her hair was whiter
than mine."
Tliis statement, if true, would appear
to be pretty good evidence of very old
age. If the old man was, as he says,
17 years old when the revolution be
gan, he would be 139 years old to-day.
sr that his statement that he Is 140
would not be much out of the way.
His statement that the "falling stars"
occurred seventy years ago is not far
wrong. The great meteoric shower
occurred in 1833; that is, sixty-four
years ago. He gives a circumstantial
account of this event, which Is not re
markable, however, as, according to
his own account, he must have been
an old' man then. Savannah News.
The Mysterious Assassin.
One night, shortly after tne cele
brated battle of Fontenoy, its hero,
Marshal De Saxe, arrived at a little
village in which was an inn with a
peculiar reputation. It was said that
in this inn there were ghosts who
stabbed or strangled all. who attempted
to pass the night in a certain room.
The conqueror of Fontenoy was far
from being susceptible to superstitious
terrors, and was ready to face an army
of ghosts. He dismounted, ate his sup
per, aird went up to the fatal room, tak
ing with him his arms and his body ser
vant. His arrangements completed, ' the
Marshal went to bed, and was soon in
a profound slumber, with his sentinel
ensconced in an arm chair by the fire.
About 1 o'clock in the morning the
watcher by the fire, wanting to get
some sleep himself, approached his
master to awaken him, but to his call
he received no response. Thinking the
Marshal soundly asleep he called again.
Startled at the continued silence, the
man shook him; the Marshal did uot
stir.
As he lifted his hands from the form
in the bed, the frightened servant saw
that they were red. The Marshal was
lying in a pool of blood! Drawing down
the cover the soldier saw a strange
thing. An enormous insect was fas
tened to the side of e Saxe, and was
sucking at a wound from which the
blood flowed freely.
The man sprang to the fireplace,
grasped the tongs, and ran back to the
bed. Seizing the monster, he cast It j
into the flames, where it was Instantly j
consumed.
Help was called, and the Marshal i
was soon out of danger; but the great i
Generf!, who had escaped i2ire ana fteel
for years, had barely escaped dying of
the bite of an insect. He had found
the ghost.
An Ingenious Boy.
A little boy dropped his drumstick
into a well, says the London Telegraph.
In vain he entreated his. parents, the
footman, the gardener, the coachman,
the cook, the housemaids, to go down
into the well to recover his drumstick.
In his distress a brilliant experiment ,
occurre to Master Tommy he secretly j
carried off all the plate from the side
board and threw it Into the well.
Great was the consternation when !
the plate was missed, and active search
for 'the robbers took place. In the ;
midst of the alarm and confusion Mas-;
ter Tommy ran with the news that he j
had found the plate. "Where?" was
the cry. "Down the well," replied j
Tommy. "I saw it quite plain shining
on the bottom spoons, ladles, bread :
baskets, salvers, aud all." The house
maid hurried to the well, at the bottom j
of which, sure enough, the plate was j
seen.
A ladder was produced, a servant de- '
scended, and the plate was brought up. 1
Just before the last article was fished
up Master Tommy whispered to hiru:
"John, please bring up my drumstick
when you go down for the soup ladle."
A Coin in tbe Hott.e.
There have been patented all kinds
of schemes devised for the purpose of
securing ajxrttle that cannot be re
filled after having once been emptied
of its contents. A great deal of fraud
Is said to be perpetrated by filling the (
bottle of some standard liquor with an j
Inferior grade, and palming it off aa
the original bottling. An ingenious
Philadelphia proposes to accomplish
this by blowing a coin in the body of
the glass bottle, and he thinks this will !
be tempting enough to induce someone
to break the bottle as soon as it has
been emptied. Philadelphia Record;
TOPICS FOR FARMERS
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Don't Attempt to Fatten Shouts in the
Pasture -Give Milk Cows Good Care
Beans Are a Profitable Crop-Fowls
Should Be Fed Slowly.
Fattening Shoats.
The shoats for butchering should be
brought in out of the clover arid woods
pasture and put in the pens for fatten
ing. It is a great waste of feed to try
and fatten them in the pasture with
the sows and pigs. Clean the pens out;
then, if possible, give them a good coat
of whitewash. Put four shoats into an
elght-by-ten pen; this will give them
plenty of room to exercise in, and also
plenty of room at the trough. If they
are lousy, pour a little' coal oil down
the back over the head and behina the
ears, and down the legs. One good
sprinkling and rubbing will answer.
Give the shoats thick millfeed slop
night and morning all they will eat
up clean, and no more. ' Then give a
few ears of soft corn to each; -m
mence with a little corn at first, but
gradually increase the- amount until
they get all they will eat. At noon give
cabbage leaves or boiled pumpkin and
small potatoes. They should "have'-a
little hard coal to eat every second day
Bed with leaves, keep the pens clean
and dry. A half peck of flaxseed meal
. . . . . , B 1 , . .-. I' T- ll .1
auueu to eacn oarrei ;sf?v3!V ""r
; meal has been well scalded, will in
j crease the fattening process. It is very
! nourishing. By four weeks of feeding
the shoats will be fat enough "to mar
ket. It is best to send them to market
j in a large covered wagon. Instead of
! driving them on foot. Exchange.;
rare of the Milk Cows.
When there is heavy frost on the
i grass, keep the milk -cows in until the
: frost is dissolved by the sun. Young
j cattle and cows that are left out at
nitrht should have a rough shed built
' for them to go under at night and when
the weather is stormy. A roor made oi
; noles and covered with two feet of
I straw will answer. If .the pasture is
abundant, the young stock may oe lert
! out until after Thanksgiving..' After
i two or more hard frosts; there is not
: much substance in the pasture; the
cows should be grain-fed night and
; morning, and at night give to eacn one
i an armful of corn fodder. An excei
i lont rnln ration for larsre.cows in milk
! is eight quarts of bran, four quarts of
corn chop and one quart of linseed
1 meal. Divide into two feeds and give
half in the morning and the remainder
at night. During mild weather mix
I this feed with cold water; when the
weather becomes cold mix with warm
water, and add one tablespoonful of
salt daily. Baltimore American.
Beans a Profitable Crop.
Beans are a profitable crop, as much
so as any raised; almost every farm has
land well adapted to bean culture. I
I have raised beans on a small scale, and
i found them very profitable. They
have not proved very difficult to grow
! than most other crops, and were read-
1 ily sold to private customers at ten
j cents per quart. In harvesting they
; will not bear much delay; a wet spell
: will spoil many. They should be treat
! ed to the fumes of carbon, as the wee
; vil is apt to destroy them. Peas, green
! or marrowfat, may also be made a spe
: cial crop, as large quantities are con-
aumed In all cities, and but very little
: produced near some. Few farmers
raise what they themselves use, pre
ferring to buy, yet retail dealers pay
$1 per bushel. This season I have been
very successful with a novelty in the
bean line; It is New Kidney Wax; beans
are pure white and firm; the stalks
hold up from the ground well while
, young; pods are of a rich golden yel
low, buttery flavor and a, novelty of de
cided merits. I also raised the. Lazy
; Wife; these are very nice. I salted a
; half barrel down. They are also white
l and firm when ripe, and-are. .equally
1 useful as a snap, shell or soup ""bean,
j For dry peas for winter, I likgthe Ear
l llest of All, a smooth pea; it Vooks
: done when dry in half an hoifr, ' and
has a pleasant flavor. I have never had
I any to sell, but could have sold- five or
six bushels at home. As a green pea,
they are profitable, as they are so very
early, bear well and ripen even. The
ground can be cleared for some other
crop. Farm and Home.
Apple Trees by Roadsides.
The owner of land through wnich a
highway runs is also the owner of the
land, and is entitled to make any use
of it that will not interfere with the
right of the public to travel on it. It Is
not generally practicable for fanners
to crop land beside the roadbed, though
sometimes a patch of corn or potatoes
beside a road not much used will give
paying crops. Perhaps the- best use
such land can be put to- is to plant it
with apple trees or other fruit trees,
protecting the young trees while small
from attacks of wandering stock. Isol
ated trees, planted where they have
plenty of room to spread and plenty of
sunlight, often yield more fruit than do
apple trees in closely planted orchards.
Feed Fowls Slowly.
One of the difllculties in feeding
fowls is that, as given by the poulterer,
th food is in a mass and can be gob
bled down far too quickly. In Its nat
ural state, the fowl hunting for food
Is obliged to eat. slowly, one grain at a
time. Usually, after each mouthful,
the hen Is obliged to scratch for more
So Ingrained is this instinct that a hen
with chickens will scrat h and cluck
when she comes to a pile oi grain. One
of the reasons why corn is a bad feed
for fowls is that the grain is large, and
If shelled and thrown out by handfuls,
the fowls eat it much too fast' for their
good. The true way to feed hens is to
mix their grain with chaff or straw, so
that they must scratchfor It. If cov
ered with mellow earth, it will be still
better, as the dust thus raised will rid
the fowls of vermin.
Chestnut Trees Profitable.
Those who have' chestnut grove
and keep It free from depredators may
find it a source of profit. We. know of
one or two such grov"es which are only
Datural fruit, but which yield returns
with no labor except for gathering the
nuts better than could be got for Usual
farm crops. But to secure profitable re- I
turns the public must be excluded-!
Men and boys who club the trees while
the nuts are green to brlns; them down
will disfigure and injure the frees, so
that after a few years the trees will
yield little or nothing. Chestnut trees,
If the fruit is of good quality, are valu
able property, and their fruit should
be protected. There are several im
proved varieties of chestnut, some of
which will begin- bearing when three
years old. These should be chosen if
new plantations of chestnuts are' to be
made, or scions of the" new varieties
native stock.
rSheep.
irive best on dry
rounds, or in a"wet
et treading wet grass
soft and eaaUy bruls-
ed. This, If not cared for, will develop
Into foot rot. It used to be the practice
of good shepherds to dress their sheep
two or three times during the summer,
by applying blue vitriol to those of them
whose feet were in any way sore. This
was done long before the doctors had
begun to talk learnedly about microbes
and germs. It Is known now that foot
rot is a germ disease, and blue vitriol,
which is a sulphate of copper, is one of
the best germicides known. It is a curi
ous fact that the practical cure of foot
rot was discovered through experi
ments made by farmers long before
the scientists had found out what caus
ed the disease, or could devise any the
ory whereby it might be cured.
Relative Cost of Beef and Butter.
Prof. T. L. Hacker of the Minnesota
experiment station has been testing the
comparative cost of making beef and
butter. So he fed four steers 'along
with his herd of cows, giving them,
however, a ration for making beef,
while to the cows was given the feed
appropriate for milk and butter produc
tion. After six weeks feeding he fig
ured the cost of the butter at three
cents per pound, while the beef was
3 4-10 cents per pound, as nearly as he
could estimate it from live weight. It
Is fairly to be presumed that in the
cost of butter the labor required to
make It was not estimated. It is prob
able also that the cows experimented
on were in full flow of milk, and there
fore could, for a short time, produce
butter at very, low rates. But the ani
mal has to be kept twelve mouths with
much less-product uf milk, in order to
enable it to make this low record.
Fattening Yearling Lambs.
Both sheep and lambs are much high
er than a year ago. Hence there is less
Inducement for farmers to buy sheep
and lambs to fatten. With so good
prospects for wool it is likely that
sheep and lambs will be dear for some
time to come. Still those who like
spring lamb will have it, no matter
what the-price, and the fattened lam:)
a . year-.-old is quite as good as that
dressed when only three or four
months old. It requires more careful
feeding to keep these yearling lambs
In fattening condition than It does
three or four year old sheep. But the
lamb when well fed will gain twice as
many pounds per week as the sheep,
and the gain In price per pound will be
considerably higher. Americau Culti
vator. Care of Seed Corn.
Probably no better place for the ;
braids of corn saved in the ear for next
spring's seeding can be found than to
hang them beside .the chimney, where
the heat from the stove or fireplace will
protect them from freezing until fully
dry. About as good a place as this, and
some think better, is In the smoke
house; where the hams and bacon are
cured. But in either case the braids
should be visited1 often to see that noth- I
Ing gets at them. The squirrel is the
worst enemy of sweet corn, because he
only digs out the chit or germ of t' e
very soundest and best corn. He will
leave an entire corn cob full of corn
more or less damp, and feast on that
which has been thoroughly dried for
seed. The germ of sound, dry Corn
has a flavor much like a nut, and it is
very nutritious.
Test New Varieties
Every season the farmers receive so
licitations or temptations to purchase
seeds or plants of some new variety,
and yet .If they will read the circulars
and descriptions, as well as the claims,
in favor of the new varieties of the
past, they will find wonderful claims
In. favor of some that are barely recog
nized now. This is because something
better comes every season (though
some new varieties are worthless), but
the production and quality of all kinds
of fruit have b-en improved by the in
troduction every year of new Candi
dates for favor. No farmer or fruit
grower should accept the claims in fa
vor of a new tree or vine, but should
test it himself by procuring only one or
two for that purpose.
LinBeed vs. Cottonseed Meal.
Both "flax ahd linseed meal are now
so cheap that there is no reason why
cottonseed meal should be brought
North to. feed. No young animals nor
hogs of any age should be fed cotton
seed mea,l. It Is very difficult of diges
tion, fhe loss of animals killed by cot
tonseed meal more than counterbalance
the gain from feeding it where It does
not prove injurious. Of course linseed
meal must be fed In small quantities,
but It Is not so dangerous for young
stock as cottonseed meal, which for
calves and pigs is often fatal in very
small doses.
Warm Stalls for Cows.
Take two cows and give one a warm
stall, with clean bedding, allowing the
other a stall in which there is a crack
in the wall, which lets the wind come
through. The cow that is comfortable
and warm-will give more milk than the
other, because shB5s warmth in her
favor.
Burn Field Refuse.
Wheat stubble and refuse may be the
harboring places of chinch bugs and
other enemies. As soon as it cau be
done rake up all refuse and lire the
pile. The fall of the year is a good
time to fight the enemies that do the
most damage in spring and summer.
ITses ot Porpoise Skin.
Everybody knows that porpoise skin
makes good shoe strings; good, at least,
as far as durability is concerned. It is
not so well known that porpoise leath
er also makes fxd shoes, and that
there is quite a demand for them. A
porpoise leather shoe, if made well In
the first place, always fits well; for,
while it is very stretchy material, it
can never be made to cover more sur
face, no matter how much it is stretch
ed. What it is extended in one direc
tion it loses in another. This peculiar
ity makes It very close fitting, and at
the same time soft and pliable, on the
foot. It is used chiefly for shoes by
people anxious to keep their feet dry,
as it is absolutely impermeable to
water.
More Ancestral Heirlooms.
At the marriage of a daughter of
Carroll D. Wright to John Bruce Mc
Pherson of Gettysburg, Pa., the bride
wore a veil made by her great--great-
aunt, Miss Duncan, a beautiful pattern
of old-time lace. The bride's silver shoe
buckles were a pair worn on his wed
ding' day by her paternal great-great-grantlfather,
Colonel Jacob Wright, a
revolutionary soldier and a New Hamp
shire pioneer.
Inquiring; Willie.
Willie Ma, can people leave parts of
themselves in different places?
Ma No; don't be ridiculous.
Willie Well, Mr. Jiggs said he was
going to Arizona for his lungs. Phila
delphia Record.
Live and Let Live.
City Physician How in the world did
you happen to become such a pro
nounced vegetarian?
Country Doctor That's the way a
majority of my patients pay me.
SEVER TOO ST "UK.
Against the probability or possibility of
mischance or accident we can never be too
sure. But if we should stop to consider
how great is the chance of sudden death,
we would be made too timid and unhappy.
Caution is needed not to be foolhardy, and
precaution to know what is best to do when
an- accident happens. One dav this winter
two men were walking, and one said:
'We're too timid in treading on slippery
plares. I tread firmly and never think
about them, and so escape a fall." "Never
be too sure," said the other, "it is that that
throws you off' and makes the fall the
liarder." Just then they came upon a place
povered with thin snow, where kids had
been sliding. The first speaker slipped, and
came down with his foot turned, and badly
sprained his ankle. He was a cripple oil
crutches until a short time ago, having used
many things without benefit. Up to that
time he had not used St. Jacobs Oil, which,
when used, cured him completely, so that
he walks as usual. There is a probability
that for the rest of the season he will walk
i autiously. w ith the precaution of having
this great remedy ready for use.
Value of the British Navy.
It is interesting to note that the capi
tal value of the British navy at the
present time exceeds 94,000,000. The
first cost of the fleet which led to the
downfall of Napoleon was but 10,
000,000. The fleet then comprised be
tween 480 and 490 fighting vessels.
California claims the largest boy in
the world of his age. His name is
John Bardin. He is 15 years old, six
feet five inches tall, and weighs 220
pounds.
TREMENDOUS EXODUS
KLONDIKE.
TO THE
Despite the warnings of those who have been
on the spot, and predict suffering in the Klon
dike region, thousands of adventurous Ameri
cans are wending their wav thitherward. All
of them should be provided with that medicinal
safeguard, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
warms and nourishes the system and prevents
malaria, rheumatism, kidney trouble, besides
remedying liver complaint, dyspepsia and
constipation.
It is estimated that Australia con
tains nearly 7,000 species of plants not
found elsewhere.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.
We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word " CASTOKIA;" and
" PITCHER'S CASTORIA," as our Trade -Mark.
I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was theorigiuatorof " PITCHER'S CAS rORIA,"
the same that has borne aud does now bear the j
facsimile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original ".PITCHER'S i
CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes j
of the mothers of America for over thirty years.
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is
ihe kind you have always bought, and has the
signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The Centaur Company of which
Chaa. H. Fletcher is President.
March S, iS97. SAMUEL PITCHER, MJ.
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The laregst parish in London in point
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acres; and the
largest population is
has now 330,000 in-
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After being swindled by all others, send us stamp
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The teaching of music is
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schools of this country.
becoming
the public
Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump
tion cured me of a bad lung trouble. Mrs.
J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 26, 1895.
The distance of the earth from the
sun is about 3.000,000 miles less in
December than it is June.
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WOMEN MJARTYRS.
I 1
Lots of wbmen stirrer constantly,
and seldom utter complaint.
Our habits of life and dress tell
sadly upon women's
delicate organiza
tions.
They
ought to
be told
just where
the danger
lies, for
their
whole fu
ture may
depend
upon that
Knowl- i
edge and how A overcome the dangers
that threaten tl;m.
There is no meed of our describing
the experiences'of such women here
they are too well known by those who
have suffered; but we will impress
upon every one) that these are the
never-failing symptoms of serious
womb trouble, aid unless relieved at
once a life will by forfeited.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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State of Ohio. City oiroi.Eio, j
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Frank J. Cheney dm! es, oath that he is the
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doing business in the Citv of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, ani that ihe snid firm will
pay the sum of ONE HDNpRED DOLLARS for
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Hall's Family Pills are the best.
An international Vongress is being ar
ranged in Paris folr the discussion of
means of pieventijtig fires at theaters
and other places of Jptulic resort.
The Bible was v:if.ten by degrees
hiring a period of 1 ,V60(0 yearn, n was
: anciently called "tl'lii Books," but
for the past 700 T earls the "Bible."
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j HOME II!OIUCTS 4tiFVUK FOOD.
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Frogs subsist on insectPi an are
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Weak Kidneys, Liimtia",o, Rheumatism
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It conveys a steady, Rootling ctirrent of elec
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Power that will save you m. ney and
make you money. Hercules engines
are the cheapest power known. Burn
Gasoline or Distillate Oil; n smoke,
fire, or dirt. For pumping, running
dairy or farm machinery, the) have no
equal. Automatic in action, perfectly
safe and reliable.
Send for illustrated catalog '
Hercules Gas
Engine Works
Bay St., San Francisco, Cal. j
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Second and Stark Sts. j
PORTLAND, OREGON
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Make morn$-' t:':cestul
speculation in tf;iicago. We
buy and sell wnent on mar
Kins. Fortune! have been
made on a small beginning by traaiugm iu
tures. Write for full particulars. Xest of ret
erence given. Several years' exjieriLnce on the
Chicago Board of Trade, and a tlion iigh know
ledge of the business. Send for ma r iree refer
ence book. DOWNING, HOP'l fe Co.,
Chicago Board of Trade Broke! i Offices in
roruana, Oregon ana Seattle, m A.
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