Clinton Mirror, The (Newspaper) - January 2, 1897, Clinton, Iowa V WML THE excess of exports over imports in November was larger by than for nny previous November The exports mouth were 529.296 more than for the same month in while Uie imports were less THE death of Nicola brother of Adelina reduces tho immediate family of the stress to a Alfredo who lives in Ga lie is a young and has won success as a teacher and director of music Last year he visited Mine at in THE cleric of an village re- cently committed suicide lie had posted all his books up to nnd even registered his own evidently the time the poison was to take to operate In lie was not cor- as he entered his death at 7 p whereas his body was found at OLD time necklaces and brooches of amethyst that have been cast aside as out of fashion are coming more to the fore The exquisite of the stone is quoted and is al ways admitted to have a peculiar ty for out the whiteness of the skin A deal is about the soft comforts of its purple depths Epitome of the Week COMPILATION CONGRESS of At St the of one of the oldest of and considered the closed with heavy and u result the bank was forced to close 4 The A Weiss Malting WARNED FATAL COLLISION company in Cameron presented the report ami Angus cl the committee on foreign relations ur favorable to his resolution the of Cuba and it went at over until after the holidays A willi barrels of the loss be- liou was also that the power to recognize the independence Near I Alien and people to and of Owens a government is vested in were drowned in river by the cap- f 1 A and not in the president In the house sizing or a boat tlie senate to the tiou in and a The doors of the bank of West capital and conference agreed to The were closed because of tho lion of tho executive and j of the National Bank of Illinois in judicial appropriation was com- Chicago J opened his lecture A dozen private pension bills were tour at his subject being Europe with In of Ooe Times a dispatch from saving that the United States hus been Friday was by a Trolley Car by Hurt Uec trolley car coming to this city from Bethlehem Central passenger train on a grade ly informed in the most friendly terms tbat the powers could not re- crossing in Bust Allentown i in the event of the ley cur conductor ran ahead and United Slates abandoning the attitude to the motorman to proceed He of President Cleveland and his changed the signal upon seeing un the United States presume to ex- preaching but it was too pressure on Spain by Lawrence J stopped Cuban insurgents or encouraging the car with the front platform on the in their it has been in- track The train was running ut t he formed that might rate of 25 miles an and when the become at the idea of such un locomotive struck the car it broke the extension of international action by the platform it 150 feet United inasmuch as it might at was dragged almost as far I i A 4 I It fill a given moment threaten almost all the powers whose possessions are in and killed almost instantly car was broken to splinters Conductor proximity to the United States and George had his face y passed in the United States senate on the one of them fur the he Ancient In Sioux the of u j letier Ory Goods company failed for On the Chicago Alton road a train The urgent deficiency was also and u resolution was adopted asking the secretary of stale held up by robbers near for relative to ilm killing ence und the express car looted of Charles an American Fire wiped out n large portion of the by the Spanish forces iii Cuba Ad- business section of Ind to January 5 In the house At the ago of 03 years William Henry executive and judicial and author of might tempt the spirit of enterprise I bruised and four passengers from Beth- is inspiring I lehem were senate committee on foreign relations the am cor- SLAVERY ABOLISHED which carries a total appropriation oi and provides for was passed Adjourned to uary 5 A Hindoo woman wears but one piece of this is six or eight yards in and a yard and a quarter wide Jt is wrapped in graceful folds about her shoulders and it to loosely in some and tucked in here and there to keep it iu place She is neatly and becomingly dressed without using buttons or strings THE most serious problem which i to shortly confront the authorities of Greater Kew York is that of an quate water The watershed from which the inhabitants of hattan island receive their supply is not a third extensive enough in area f while the chain of ponds from which Brooklyn receives its supply can ly be enlarged the greatest cit in the western hemisphere have to go to Lake Ontario or Lake for an adequate S A who recently picked his way through the mountains in found a great river diagonally from an CJ mj most perpendicular feet where the water divides into half a dozen which divide and sub- spread out into expansions to reach the canyon below He says that the region is entirely un- and there is not the est sign to show that the falls have ever been visited by white men before man started a lunch counter for and as it became fashionable it still exists and is lar Here the women come in to sit on stools the marble-topped where they help themselves to the and order their tea or coffee When the time for reckoning comes o the white-aproned waiter accepts the of the customer and never turns an even though he may Have seen her a cream i that she has forgotten to pay for WASHINGTON In the United Stares the visible ply of on the rye OUO bushels In his report on the state of the Secretary Carlisle shows the revenues of the government fiom all sources to have been ami the expenditures which leaves a deficit for the year ended of During only miles of lines the famous or died at his home near Mo He was a member of congress from to At the wife of Noah Scott gave birth to four and all were well Near Ind nn explosion of killed George rind Harry Wood ami greatly damaged the property of the Empire Glycerin company It is said that W II county treasurer of Barry county for the past four is short in his accounts A steam pipe exploded in the city hall in Baltimore and James and Charles Robertson were fatally scalded Flumes destroyed the Huffman house the United States has been concurrently informed many is already quite prepared to side with Spain in event of the United States showing that she is disposed of- side with the rebels academic conversations are in certain foreign anent the Hie powers should to form a syndicate against tire invasion of socialism which Is now menacing all Reforms About by French Iu Dec the earliest reforms of the French ment in Madagascar is a decree ing a copy of which has reached the state department from Consul ter at Tamatave It declares all the inhabitants forbids in man nullities contract for the sale of persons and UB f I J 1 t- t imposes penalties for violation of tne political It was during A e O these pour parlers that the friendly to the United States Senator Cameron's resolutions for the recognition of the Cuban t in some v ters as WINTER IN THE built in the United the smallest mileage in any year since j block in the total loss being In Washington J D a Fire wiped cut the known wife and then killed the old theater building at self i Anderson the Joss The president has approved the eral pension and deficiency propriation bills In the United States there were At Blue Island the Calumet state bank closed its doors with liabilities of Karl Campbell and Jay Van business failures in the seven days j two young men of were ended on the the ended on the against 307 the previous and 322 in the corresponding period of Anna Hanson Dorsey the pioneer of Catholic literature in this died in 93 years During the five months of the present year the decrease in the general collection of internal revenue lias beer THE EAST In Xew York the New England ciety celebrated the of organization and the two drowned while on a lake John and Levis II James of were frozen to death Because of an old feud John Adams and Charles Simpson killed each other near Xew Mo United States custom authorities have unearthed another gigantic nese certificate fraud by which of Chinese have gained admission to Wash FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE A motion was introduced in the hundred and seventy-sixth of the ian chamber of deputies expressing the in- of the pilgrims of the chamber with tho Fire damaged Juban and furnishing ment in N to the extent of about The late Henry L of left by will in public be- quests and over to relatives snd friends The Annapolis was launched from Nixon's shipyard at Elizabeth N J Flames destroyed two at the state reformatory in N a loss of O Miss Tyrrell and Mrs Henfy living at were j Dispatches say that the dan rebellion in the northern part of China is at an end In a river at sixteen men were drowned by the of a boat At an irade has been issued amnesty to all Ar- menian prisoners except those to murder In north Greece floods caused an overflow of the river and enormous damage was villages inundated and a number of 1 are the newest at fashionable weddings With v attached beneath i I set as the the altar The vrith F tain an announcement of the wedding and the birds are dispatched to the friends of the newly couple This can only be of in cases where the came ly from the houses of the friends i selves This novelty has been fully introduced at several fashionable killed bv the cars at a Flames in the fashionable residence Starting May 5 Mrs II Estby and her j part of caused a Joss of daughter 39 rears in j York from g walked the ein on weddings nent in seven months The doors of the American and Trust company of Auburn were with liabilities of Anna the French who ia at the opera house in Pittsburgh on the streets of the city for the benefit of a institution and over poured into her carriage ir Pa The home of Philip was burned and three little children perished in tin a quarrel a buffalo robi N Y Clovd Mevers tiers in the Yaqui river valley have been murdered and their property destroyed A decree has been issued by the French government in Madagascar hi e IT slavery 4.7 The European it is are with Spain that they will no aid to the cause of Cuban THE latest triumph in the scientific world is that of Joseph J of who in I tiou with Dr Walter E of 1 has finally succeeded in a dynamo aad other j killed Allen and cial appliances for the generation of j Harrington electric energy by the force of the j wind upon an ordinary j died at thus it possible to capture nrs the terrific power of a hurricane and partly the New to store it away for at j in New York times and in quantities to suit con re The oldest person New York state of its for anu for cooking a SCOM from and for mechanical xEs nre made out of California mines that were a icw years as not worth It said that n of the most profitable of the state to-day arc an the so-called 1 destroyed at while s the one cf n be opened out well 7 his is partly due to discoveries of new ore bv deep tint to mainly to OTV can Cali fern WEST AND SOUTH Vanv in count v Ark and because of the e be repeated in A Dn the other On i b he a in a destitute of Mrs J M iL jail by robbrd an oM K oi of 90 i HORSE'S TONGUE PULLED OUT Inhuman Treatment of a Balky Animal at 111 An nnd revolt scene witnessed by a larire of on one of of III other afternoon A farmer named T of Hancock county a horse the corner of street nnd refused to iro A crowd as the smart man FaU of Snow in New in Dec fell at in- throughout street difficult in t lie city and considerably with railway business in tho suburbs Nearly all trains were behind schedule and those from north and west report bad to the high winds which prevailed In lyn and in the upper part of the city there is sleighing for the first time this winter The street cleaning department had several thousand carts at work and the most important streets were kept com- clear The storm en used a lull in the holiday trade at the and the delivery systems and express whose facilities have been taxed to the utmost by the heavy were given an opportunity to catch up In Jersey City the police were culled upon to prevent fights between trolley car employes who ran sweepers over the car tracks and the snow up in front of stores and merchants who put gangs of men at work shoveling snow back upon the tracks The trolley com- finally to remove the snow and hostilities were averted Reports from the interior of this state and in New England state that from ten to twelve inches of snow fell and the railways are behig operated with difficulty KILLED HIS SISTER A Chicago Peddler Crushes Her Skull a Bat Dec mad by peace bonds which have been held over him since last John a peddler at 45 Lowell dered his Katherine Kvan V flay evening by her skuil wilh a baseball and intended to end his own life in Lake Michigan He was ar- as he was the scene of his and the police are of the opinion that he is insane When the officers reached the flat where Ryan and his sister lived they found the murdered woman upon the floor in a pool of blood and the room in flames the struggle the stove had been overturned and the department was called out to extinguish the blaze Evan nor his victim had ever been married Last October he with other tenants in the o and was placed under peace bonds The disgrace he has felt it is thought his mind FOUR ARE DEAD knew all altout balky honses wa- on hand offer his services His name is and on a of Minnesota Kills Three sons and Commits Suicide Dec sale murder was committed at a small town UO miles west of late Monday night John shot and killed Dennis J the latters aged and a A fourth person was badly wounded The slayer then pui a bullet through his own head Mottle was infatuated with daughter and the ther objected The murderer was 25 years old to assist him put n on the tlie two men the it from the an i- mouth just front of tho The thv with indignation am tho man but Inter In- lives The his but it homo g for an San war sels upon const are for an emergency The magazine's at Marc are bring there is a feeling of ZJ unrest the of the arc liable at any to be ordered in the of the various of the Davy for o IT 13 AI Ibt a-n with It was of and a 1 n sharp WEALTHY MISER PASSES AWAY at in the 1 in th of ihr it br for that o at e In- n Mr in v it So sV in f t-i the shot h 200 dr viu fr UK pece A lint real in in m V s -n f TV ri s a th coin TI TJ v r 1 i of the J in the v O if tia a Mi on his Iu 11 in it y n Alkn and nrr from the river in Thr i h bnt In 2 Hud in hi n this n H ten fi at his home of after a iti the t A IK 1 Jj rt o M 1 H f J bis torque to li I 11 in Jove the fathero Jennie way 10 I j T t Th View the of tr The and mills closer is a of iron 1 10 f lif a Jjf It no prospect of ilt for that ll W Totter for has declared of which are to be tripled in case of second offense Other features of the decree are that France promises not lo impose upon the people of Madagascar extraordinary war tax and offers the form of territorial possessions An- other decree relating lo schools its interference by teachers in political and urges instruction in the French language AN AGED LADY'S FATE Norton of BIG Norton Co v into die n receiver The of the linn it was to lv what the mid are It was I hat the assets might nnd it was stated that the liabilities were under that Norton to have been known for 40 their operation of milU They added other enterprises to their and in to their mill they and an electri he have also elevators rocer store at on the Illinois A and in a flouring establishment The company also owns a paper mill at Viagra and KS largely interested in the water and tric power scheme the falls They have done a private banking business of enormous proportions in Lock and nearly half of the lace is direct I v interested through de- posits The business integrity of tho company has never been questioned and the failure is a gloomy prise assurance is given Hint the embarrassment is only temporary The company was caught deep by tho failure of the National Bank of and themselves thus un- able to continue the operation of their extensive properties and meet the de- mands of depositors until they couM realize from other sources n receiver was applied for the most safe and equitable mode of adjusting the cial difficulties HIS TERM REDUCED Mrs 75 Years Killed by Chicago Cable Cars Dec F A 70 years and the of S a member of the board of trade firm of 1 Aah St met a horrible death Wednesday afternoon under a cable train on State street within sight of thousands of Christmas shoppers Mrs Parmelee was buying Christmas presents and had several small bundles in her arms Cable cars and vehicles were thicker than usual between Madison and ington streets Snow was and this added to the woman's inability get across State street safely When on the cable track a train knocked her down and life was quickly crushed out The Strike In Boston Dec West End street car men are sick of strikes Fully SOO striking employes of the road were locked out Friday With daybreak caine the resumption of car and the majority of strikers who plied for work at the several division headquarters were given cars in the order of application were told that their services would not be and it was noticeable that this applied to every man who had been active in the strike and who bad served en the union committees The company hired fully 800 new and were enabled to mn cars schedule time These new men as a given regular while the old men taken on later in the day were put on the ex- tra which means that they will get only occasional work by the hours pay Greater York New Dec preliminary draft of the new charter for the Greater York has been and was made public Thursday The com- mission before the charter to the legislature will hold public ing's from January 4 to 10 The pre- liminary charter divides the city into five the Richmond and Queens The central government of the will be in the hands of a municipal assembly of two houses A lower house of 104 members elected from and upper house of 37 members elected from council districts to a number of created by the charter There will be college professors and American in Given Years in Deo The reunited tri- bunal which judged the proceedings against Julio a American charged with acy against the Spanish met Saturday for the time after b an adjournment for the Christmas days The decided that fr guily was guilty of a modified of the crime of which he was accused and sentenced him to eight years and one day imprisonment Sanguily was arrested with 30 members of well-known families of and confined in Morro castle An attempt was made to try him by but through the efforts of Consul Ramon 0 liams American citizenship was established and he was given a civil which resulted in his tence to life imprisonment at hard bor in the mines of Africa The case was appealed to the supreme court at Madrid The grounds upon which i the United States government inter- vened in his behalf were that his trial by a military tribunal did not accord with the terms of the Spanish-American and he was granted a new trial by the supreme resulting ns above announced It is extremely able that another appeal will be made to the higher the defense ing the proceedings having vainly urged that the tribunal was since six judges should have pre- and not five PUNISHING STRIKERS Boston Street Officials Refuse to Take Back of the Union Dec is much in- among the street conductors and motormen who pated in the tie-up of the West End street railway over the manner in which the officials of the road have discharged the men who were requested to take out cars on Thursday According Ui union mr jj every member of the conference every officer in the union and SOO of the rank and file have been refused and many more 7 dismissals are expected before the end is reached So great has the indigna tion become that a r has been called for in one but each of the five will have a president to care for local and there will be 22 local one for each senatorial district Nebraska's Biy Corn Crop Neb Dec thousand bushels of corn have been cribbed here during the past six weeks thousand bushels of new corn have been shipped out by the elevators during the past two weeks An extra freight train for corn from this point is required every day What is true of this city is true of every section of braska About all the corn has been husked in western Nebraska The great problem is the manner in which it can be handled arc storing their rain San Dec ords were wilh a rapidity at the Velodrome track Friday afternoon Hardy San lowered Ihr coast record for one-third of a from to -43 Dixon and the crack business men have been invited The headquarters of the union filled Sunday with a crowd of smarting under the defeat they had sustained and loss of made accusations of against the denouncing all the union for the manner in which the strike handled The men are at the mercy of President Little and his and there is slight hope of their ment Many of the men have large and out of work in mid- winter menus a great hardship BIG FAILURE AT DALLAS Security and Company Under Dec board of directors of the Security Mortgage Trust a local financial con- has application to the Fourteenth judicial one the Olympic on 1 br 37 s half ns the T Hub a an the district for the appointment of a receiver The court appointed H A for four years past the manager An When Ihc train from Cit a1 of the Trust com- as receiver The of the approximately the realize more Jhao 373 ihc The business for nine INDUSTRIAL platform with the Slw was an to thr in for sair of Slie ars SV n for mva from homr Mrs TIO of her 1 was her safe ford Her a arc from R of to Ti 171 famine is in York 38 He was bora ia County at a day tnd for this Forl will to a cotton from is -on iron for for Ihr b cars c r A of in cotton n of of the On OO are is Than cure prevention If to ward oft by blood now with u thorough of arilla Tho fact tho Ono easy ia 3 to operate CALENDAR FOR 1897 F 8 15 22 8 9 16 23 8 15 22 2 9 1C 23 10 17 24 31 8 10 17 24 11 18 12 19 13 20 14 21 11 18 12 19 13 20 14 21 6 13 20 7 14 21 8 15 9 16 10 17 11 18 12 19 8 15 22 9 1C 23 10 17 24 11 18 12 19 13 20 14 21 28 7 14 21 8 15 99 9 10 r 11 18 25 12 19 13 20 27 8 15 22 9 16 23 10 17 24 11 18 25 12 19 13 20 14 21 -4 11 18 5 12 19 A G 13 20 71 14 21 8 15 22 9 1C 23 10 17 24 8 15 22 9 16 23 30 10 17 24 11 8 12 19 13 20 14 21 8 15 22 14 21 8 15 22 9 16 23 10 17 11 18 12 19 13 20 27 9 AJ 9 16 10 17 24 11 18 12 10 13 20 H 21 4 13 20 7 14 21 8 15 22 9 1C IU 17 11 18 12 19 8 15 22 9 16 23 30 10 17 24 11 18 25 12 19 13 -20 14 21 28 HOUSEHOLD MEMORANDA A French cook says that when potatoes are to be cut into long strips to be fried in fat if the potatoes are cut a quarter of an inch in ness and they will cook ter and be more puffy If metal teapots are not used for some time they acquire a unpleasant frequently a disagreeable taste to the tea made in them It is said that this may be obviated by ping a lump of sugar into the pot it is put away When down pillows wax the inner and then the down will not be able to work through the two covers To do this iron the side of the Uck with a hot rubbed with the iron over the wax each time before it on the cloth Old black thread or French laces that have become rusty and need to be ened may be renovated by dipping them into weak green tea and pressing them between newspapers on a flat surface JMck out each little scallop or point the fingers before covering the lace with the top paper A beautiful and unusual table tion at a recent dinner was unique ver candelabra upon large mats made of heliotrope satin covered with waves of tulle Bunches of English lets nestled here and there in the tulle and the edges of the satin were hidden with a wreath of violets and their green leaves SNAKES The shell of the snake's is resembling that of the common hen when no lime or other calcareous ter has been provided There is a tradition in many parts of that when a serpent's sight grows dim with age he cats and thus regains Ins vision The venom fangs of the viper and other poisonous snakes are of a tissue covered with a thin layer of most transparent cement Yoke Fellow women loo Hard is BO tacra about I did bare Lore for a yoke fellow they conld the grind and of life Bnl bear ft ban and or to a it who is by aad physical the arc comparatively to if the earlier arc lo are liable lo develop wrth the of 31 A perfect all of 31 WAS no has ever early 30 rears chief of the and at K where in mith he cases of Xn living Iws a t-o this claw of in No DC
