The Weekly Wisconsin from Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Page 2

at Eecamiiieiidations Made the Oomfflission UBiSEsMVERjJMENT CONTROL. 1 to. Purchase the Timber -Lands and Establish a System of Protection. 4 Dec. State.

Forestry commission, which Was appointed under nil act of the Legis- lature iff the purpose of inquiring matter better forestry legisla- llou, has completed its report aud delivered it to the printer. The commission consists of George JJ. Burrows of Madi- ton, H. G. Putnam of Cluirc uud lirnest Bruucken of Milwaukee.

The report starts out with calling ut- tension to the misapprehension which still prevails AS to the meaning of the i'vord "forestry." That art or profession js Jiot synonymous with arboriculture, or 1 planting or of trees, which is branch of the subject. Neither p-JWS it anything to do with the growing trees In parks, for ornamental pur- jboWw. is simply the business uf utilix- JjJng forest lands for prolit. "Every owner till)her lauds who carries ou logging operations or sells firewood or railroad i two, js engaged In forestry," The im- flrovament ia prevailing forestry nieth- is Urged by tlie Commissioners, not on grounds, but us a matter nf and cents, of the greatest ccuiioin- 3 llttprest to the -Whole people of the report next calls attention to the fhat there are in the state large of land which will return better if uwi'd permanently for raising than if converted into agri- TU land. It should therefore be the of the government to promote this i rather than the clearing of these lands farming purposes.

immense ext of thi) lumber and allied industries (he state it referred tn. uud it is urged jflt If the thousands of men who now -derive theii bupport from these industries twcre thrown out of employment ou ni- jCount of the iierinauetit disappearance of their raw material it would-be nothing jghort an economic revolution in the The influence of forests on climate nnd water flow, and the growing importance of the tourist nud summer resident bllnini'HK, -which is atlrai'ted b.v onr forests, comes in for share of attcutinii. the i uumiissluucrs sny. it should Hot be fiirgotteii that "a wise legislation consider whether Wisennsiii cannot in the ftitutv- derive such revenues from its foiesls ns will help to bear the expenses of government which will ofher- lune to he met by taxing the peo- Jilc." After this introduettun, the subject is divided into three bends nf dismission: File prnteitiou, the relative advantages of and pinnte ownership of forests; mid the steps necessary practicable to attain the objeets of -reform. Far-cut Fires.

"Without- some effective system of tire Protection theie is nn hope of placing the forest industries of the state upon Stable basis is clearly us much a duty of the public authorities te. forest lir-es as to prevent and extinguish hies in cities." The reason why the of tire wardens inaugurated the l.ibt Legislature, although it has done some good, is not siiliicicnt found Ju the hu of supervision. Many of the local wardens- either do not understand their duties or neglect them. There be some supervising officer who must the local wardens from time to 'time to instruct them in their duties nnd, nhero necessary, punish neglect. The commissioners recommend that the state should pay one-half of tlie expense of the lire police.

Thp commissioners say Hint it would be i tically oil of them are capable: ofibelnif. restocked with-pine without expense ns would make the enterprioe imj)radf: cable. But.this by, public authority, which wJM not look to immediate profit. The trouble is that as long as they remain uucared for. as now, the fires prevent the natural reproduction ot trees iu most places, while the same agency together with other natural influences constantly tend to deteriorate the soil.

Without human intervention theoe immense tracts will for the most part become vast wildernesses, unlit for agriculture, yet yielding none of the valuable products of forest. Nearly all of these lands are owned by private parties, although a portion is owned by counties under tax titles. The idea that nil of these will eventually he taken up by agricultural settlers is widelv entertained, but is a mistake. A small proportion of these lands, especially along the south ern border of the forest belt, is reasonably fit for farming. On titber potatoes might be raised, tint the prosperity of community cannot be based on potatoes tilone.

Occasionally settler may be found who makes a miserable living ou even the poorest of these lands, but he must of necessity always remain poor, unambi- tious aud ignorant. It cannot be in the interest of the rtate of Wisconsin to foster the growth, in large portions of our territory, of a class of inhabitants comparable to the Georgia "cracker." The Bimplcst way to disimse of these lands and make them of use to the people would be for the stjite to purchase them. hey might he paid for by scrip, lie- coniing due after thirty or forty yearn. his is the plan pursued by number of other status. But Wisconsin is prevented from doing so by the coustitufioniil prohibition of the incurring of a state debt.

nc commissioners do not propose a plan lor handling this knotty question for the reason thnt they think it better to first establish the necessary machinery to begin a systematic- protection ami management of the fnresti) now held by the state At the Mini- time it in stated bv the commissioners tlnit several large "owners of cut-over pine lands have intimated their willingness to cede large tracts to the state if the latter will tuke steps to re- Mock them. of. popular ninsica) ed rdoyed to Chicago in 1890 and year or two later he located at Kasson, Minn. His wife was a Miss Campbell, a sister-in-law of Judge B. If; Austin.

TOOK A KENOSHA BRIDE. llie ests. such may The Forest Department. After outlining the manner in which rational management of the state forests should proceed in the future, the report gives a general view of the com- luinsiourrs plan for a state forest department, as proposed in the bill which wil be siiliiniued to the Legislature together with the report. The public land conimisKioiicTs are to appoint a state superintendent of forests who is to appoint nn assistant und other subordinate as the cfiimms.vi.mcrs may from time to time authorize.

The sale of state liuidp shall be stopped. Tin- superintendent shall cause survey of the lands with view i ascertain the data necessary for their proper ciiltiviition as dead aud down tinilier. and other timber us the superintendent deem expedient, shall lie sold soon as, practicable. All contracts imidc tn tlie department must be approved Ini In- coniiuirtKii.iicrN. who Khali U1 all aci-omits.

T1 superintendent has aii- llmnt.i roads and make ul! sury improvements on the lands under nis core, hut doing so must nut incur un expenditure to exceed S1OO without hrst obtaining lenve the coiumis- Moners. The superintendent appoints the local fire wardens nmi flic Ktippr vision over Tin- department is estal.lwh model ur and experimcn Watiiiiis. in portions of the stale and is to bulletins, giving informa lion regard ing forestry subjects Tin siuiermteiideiit and assistant supcrintcn dent are to respond, whenever pructicu Hie. to invitations to lecture ou forcstrv subjects by svhools. colleges, farmers' institutes and similar ur as the report says, "the forest svstcm of the state cannot successful niilcsH it ciiergctic and sympathetic snp- people which its importance fa re so richly deserves." W.

H. McDocl of Chicago Wedded to Katbcrine Neff. Kenoeha. Dec. William Henry McDoel, vice-president of the Monon route, was married to Catherine Neff here yesterday afternoon, Rev.

W. C. Dcwltt of St. Andrew's church performing the ceremony. The wedding party were driven to Kemper hall, where the marriage ceremony ivas performed.

Mr. and Mrs. McDoel will their honeymoon in California. They will take up their residence in Feb- niary'in Chicago. Mr.

McDoel has been the recipient of many testimonials of esteem. He was a widower and has a married daughter. He is well known in railroad circles. Ripon. Dec.

and Mrs. A. B. Duubip issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter Mabel to Guy Fred Thursday, December 21). Mr.

Loinnis is principal of the Waupun public schools. Two Rivers, Dec. red M. Athea, formerly ixilice justice of this city nnd late corporal of Co. H.

Second Wisconsin volunteers, was married last evening to Miss Hannah Magee. the ceremony taking place at the home of the bride's parents and Hev. Davidson officiating. The newly-married couple will make their future home at Mnmtowoc. Portage.

Dec. Augusta Mathieson of this city and David Thomas nf Mllwunkee were married at the First Baptist parsonage in this city yesterdav. Hev. Adam Knweett officiating. They will reside ill Milwaukee.

Becker of Marcellon and John AV. (Granger of Springvale were married in this city yesterday. Miss Jennie Lniiig of Westfield and Cassiiis Kverhard of Montello were married iu this city James M. Bain officiating. Dodgeville.

Dec. Miss Ada Greufell and Lloyd of were married at the home of the bride's parents in this citv Snnduy by Rev. W. .1. C.

Bund of Boscobel. La Crosse, Dec. 21. I notable'wedding was celebrated iu this today. Frederick W.

Freeman aud Jiss CJnra were united b.v Hev. I. lEoss. Freeman was one of the organizers of the Wisconsin Hough liderg. When they failed to pet into the lervice.

Freeman enlisted in one of tho Crosse companies in the Third Wisconsin, and served all through the Porto Rico campaign us stenographer ou Gen. stuff. Inability of the Vermont Statesman to "Shake Off an Attack of the Grippe. PATRIARCH OF THE SENATE. promoted to two yean later.

Accuftomed to Deliver an Annual Address, the Last Being on Need of Public Buildings. CEEMA WAS SANE. Washington, D. Dec. S.

the senior Uuiteil States senator froai Vermont, died at twenty minutes past 1 o'cloct this morning in the eigiity- uinth year of his age, after an illness of less than a week. With farm when the end came were his sisteHn-law; Miss Louise Swan, his son. James, Benjamin Uurfee. for a long time 'associated with the senator in the finance committee work at the capitol. and Col.

S. E. Chamberiin, an ultimate friend. Senator Proctor was Hi the house at the time, as were also several other friends. The senator SENATOR has Hint port of the for the public we euipliiiauc the following points.

of state f.ilesls Is a necessity, nut oni.v for I he toetluii of the and wati-rlHiw of I l.ll I 11 Uf I (JJ too much to hope-for mi entire lur proi-Iiliu su r- UBce ofdeshiKtive-fiiresi In nuv niun-rial UBce ofdesti IK five forest tires iu the near future Tlmt goal could not be reut-lud niitn entire forest area shall have been brought into a condition of cultivation Kiiih as the forests of Tnisiiitt or bnxony. But with the introduction of the measures of police recommended by th- commissiouers, nnd the growth of a-public opinion will look upon careless handling of fires in the woods ns an infamous crime, there is reason to exneei that hereafter forest IIIVH shall be a rare the mature timber, and shad be the exception, not as now the rule, in areas ot new growth. Private Forest Manaeemcnt. The roiwrt discusses in some detail the fluosliim likely that un precmble amount of private capital will in tne neur be invested iu timber lands foi permanent nmnagemeut, instead ai, now simply for thu removal of the timber grown thereon. The result is negatiu'.

Capital will be so invested pnly if there ib a prolit to be derived with- Jn a reasuimble tiino. 00 But on the denuded pine lands the could not be eighty years nt a to tllt stocked with ripe timber, if a sustained annual prolit on the investment is expected, the enterprise would to he conducted on so large a bcnle that it, is iuipraetieii- Sloreover. AVis.Cousin lumber nl viirUiu; Wimrt Ihe this einl'cmi- I'iilille wei'fi're Bl w1 wlfl 'ty to the The eslnlillHhment of Klir-h svslein feasible. There are "l.si.u le" of economic or flnniic-lal nature wlileh i-aiinui with nioderaie etfurts he oven-nine. le euuris be It will take sprlM of nnrt snmp outlay lo fairly estuhllsh siieb a K-Viilcui.

However, the nmnev Intn'Ti i lf wawMjahle lime return Into the state treasnrv, nnd the oaee fairly will animal Ineouie that will tn extent ilu away nltli svstnn of 4. TTio Ulea of managing forests tho state so as obtain an aimunl revenue nuil 1 1 8 themselves is nnt the projert" of a dreaming lent n-lileh may or niny not suc- prti nn experlmi f-enl. hui bus lone been an inet In nearly every highly civilised iniinlty ontslUe of the I'nlted States Includ- IIIB countries of BU tlniiH as Geruiany. India. BEDS FOR UNCLE SAM.

Racine Concern Receives an Order for 42.5OO Beds. Uaeiue, Dec. Ooid -Medal Camp Furniture company has received another order from tne I'uited States, government for 42.500 of gold medal camp beds. With the on hand and beds that have alriMiiv been shipped, the total orders receive.) lu.un MTI to beds. Their factory is night and day and also two other lt are kept busy night and filling these orders.

The Luiug Maiiufaeturing company furnishes the iron for the lied.s and I'M tons of the best sheet steel is required aud more machinery will be ordered to handle the work. STRIKERS' SHOT OUT. Brass Works at Kenosha Resume Without Becoenizinc Union. Kenoshu, Dec. strike which has been on at the Badger Brass works is off, but it would be incorrect tu say that it has beeu settled.

The men who Went out last week are still out ami the polishing and buffing departments of the factory arc being operated bv men brought iu from other places. So fnr noue of the strikers have beeu taken back nud they are busy hunting jobs in other shops in the city. Wisconsin Washington, D. Dec. C1 Wit 1 granted lodur: Orlgfnal-Fuilander K.

Tucker. Ocoiionio- woe. Edward U. Herrocks, Natioual home Milwaukee, 1 m-rwuie-ilareus Suilth, Kllboum. to widows- Minors o( I'ourad Manker, Elkbart $14 Orlgluul-Gcorge llaltes (dead), su.

Stable Her- se.v. JN; minor of liufus X. Mouroe. $10. Tate.

Viola, Henrv 'yman. National home. Mlln-uukee SB Andrew J. llurtholomew Bos- nucl, $11 to $12. Vrye Monroe.

to $12; William Halsbt Uttle Wolf. to $12; Henry J'ope, WeyiiaJrega tn $12. A. ilazo- nanie. $12: Annie Larson.

La Oosse Washington. D. Dec. widow's pension of $12 IKT mouth has been granted Mary Garvin. Horieon, Wis.

recovered from the unconscious state into which he had lapsed early iu the day and his death was calm and peaceful. The senator has been for some years the patriarch of the Senate and has held a warm place in the affections of his associates. He likewise has enjoyed the fullest coiiHdence of his constituents, who, notwithstanding bis years, re-elected him in for fifth consecutive term, which will not expire until March 3, llKfl. It has been annual custom for several years past to make formal address ou some topic of live interest to the Semite, and this has been listened to with intention by his colleagues, who have re- Kanleil these speeches us remarkable iu view of the age of their author. The last address was delivered a week or mini- before the Christinas hnliUav adjournment, the subject the need of a building for the use of the United States Supreme court f.nd other courts.

Its deliverance showed few signs of lessened vitality and at its conclusion the honor was done the senator of uu unanimous passage of the resolution on which be sjioke. Senator Morrill was born in Stratford A April 14. 1810; in early life was a merchant nnd later an agriculturist He was to the House of Kepresenta- iivcr the Thirty-fourth Congress and for four succeeding terms. Then he was transferred to the Senate as a Pmon Republican, taking his seat March 4. 1807 Since that time his service has been continuous and be has the record of the longest unbroken term of service in the history of the Senate.

He has taken an im- liortant part in the legislation of the last thirty years, especially ou commercial and financial questions, his position as chairman of the finance committee giving him a leading part in nil measures relating to the tariff, banking or the currency. Chicago, 111., Dec. old Mr. Jiorrill came to Washington forty-four years ago when the country was young und has seen it during a longer period than any other public man now living, says W. E.

Curtis, the veteran Washington correspondent of the Hecord. He was a member of the House of Keprpsen- tatives before the war and helped to A Jury So Declares and the Italian Goes to Prison for Twen- I ty Years. Milwaukee, December 24, A jury in the municipal court yesterday afternoon, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict declaring Anton Crema sane at the time he assaulted and fatally stabbed John Balbi. Immediately after the jury returned this verdict Artornevs Stover and Morton, for tbe defense, after consultation, announced to the conrt that their client would plead guilty to (he charge and requested the court to consider his advanced age and the provocation; existing. The defendant than took the stand ami dedared that- he bad inflicted the wounds- Which cost Johu Balbi his life and asked for the eltmcncy of the co'urt us he reiterated that he had great provocation for attacking the man.

Judge Wallber pronounced sentence of twenty at hard labor Waupun. and the defendant took bis sentence with a stoicism worthy of an Indian. This means for Crenia practically life imprisonment. He is now 59 years of age, and even with good time allowance he will have passed the threescore years and ten allotted to man. To a man of his constitution, used to hardship and outdoor work, the prison labor and fare will scarcely contribute to longevity.

The crime for which Crema was sentenced was committed early one morning last summer. Balbi kept a small fruit stand at the southeast corner of West Water- and Michigan streets. Crema came upon him unawares and stabbed him once in Ihe back, the stiletto penetrating the Balbi lived but a short time. Ctv- ron vast on Michigan street, und iu parsing over the bridge threw the knife with which he had committed the deed into the river. He was traced to his house and arrested there by Patrolman Buckley.

The murder was the result of a feud existing fcc'tween the two men for some four years back, when thcr had become involved in a row. COKE FACTORYlBUfiNS. Statements Made by Spanidi Ere- i mier Before fie -by PEACE NEGOTIATION, Says the Americans X)ught to Hive Been More tors lo Vanquished pallbearer at the funeral of President Lincoln and A $5OOO Fire at Madison. bin. PIONEER WOMAN'S DEMISE.

Mrs. Wm. Jack Pusses Away at Bel- olt, Aged 74. DeC aged 74, died toduv inei Jj will be $5000. Little furuifure The flames started in the home of Mr.

Kastnian and the family barely Mrs. Eastman was overcome 'by smoke and was carried from the building. The family lost a piano which had cost $500 aud which was Christmas present from the father. The insurance is $1000 "8 had resided iu and near Beloit liftv- fl) years. wins would not compete with those stntet.

if they were to conduct their business on different principle than Dodgeville. Dec. Ituit non of cutting at once all 1 hn Ln Bounty, a fanner residing near the merchantable timber on their hold- Ium mar wu ineir llOiU- ings. Men iu those countries where lum- it, done with due regard owners succumb to the temnta- twn of convening crowing forests into fore the pojicj of such countries, notablv Geriuanv and to gradually acquire nil large private forests for the atnte so as to insure permanence. Some consideratiou is then given to the management of timber Jots on farms, nnd the report insitts that It is the duty of the state to assist farmers, b.v proper in- 1 to prevent tlie constant de- suffer ai 8e 8maU forests now Btate Forest Management.

pp0r comes "to the conclusion that the state must either allow ils lumber, wood and allied Indus tries to decay or take the supply of ti, raw material in ito own ham 4 Ural ad lo TOnsider existing i According to the report oi wllolc nlnoUBt th laud remaining unsold CM Jthe 30t of September, wu not well fitted for ftp- cultnro. But lands ii, discussed, ns -far ns 'iieceosary for nn understanding of tho 'ffVT? a 'Called td the cou- stajit deterioration of frowiuc timber ou them by reason of firesT and The report tnc I'WSwnf tho enle of those Muds be altogether, and the grou-liuj jDierclMutaUe timber there- "ticnble. A fcumW of objections which JlUf-llt bo mlsoil to the tierinnnent tlon of Janus by tt S2E a to The Suites gov- authorities to have ttu Timber Of. forest this city, died Monday of consumption aged 80 years. L.

M. Hatton died Sunday at Hol- laudale. Menatiba, Dec. Engi- mn-r Emmet Alva Little is dead. He was born June 2.

in Chautauqua county York, and with his parents moved to county in 1843. He wag appointed postmaster in 1870. The following year he was elected to the position of county superintendent of schools of Miehnygan county. He took up the studv of law with John A. Thomas, editor of the Sheboysau County News, was admitted to the bar uud opened an office in Plymouth.

He was married in 18T2 to Alum Hattie Gardiner of Sheboygan. He IheU he to Meuasha, where he became a member of the firm of James Little machinists, until the firm changed hands. He was offered the chair in mathematics at Lawrence universitv, declined. He has acted us city eng'i- neer of Neeuab for several terms Neenah, Dec. Seven deaths from diphtheria have oc- in the town of Winchester and cue or two cusw.

jiave been reported in Oils city. The city physician, decree McUermott, has taken uctive steps to prevent a spread of the disease. Milwaukee, December 27 Alexander Stetenson wag found dead in nls bed at 11 o'clock yesterday morning at his Iwardiug place, Seeo'nd and Sycamore streets The body was taken to tlie morgue and a coroner's jury pronounced the cause of death heart failure. The old man had been employed fortoma tune at the boarding house as janitor His wily relative a sou, James Steven- sou, lit Seventh street. The deceased was.

40 years of age. Milwaukee, December 27, Jacob Knnl. aged 55 years, died at his home, 3403 Clybonrn street, Saturdav iSS-r' 1 hai1 in th citT since 1847 and wan a member of the Old Settlers club, and several other societies. He had been in the insurance business for the past seven years. Milwaukee, December 28, Hempstcd, a niTS tn Milwaukee, where he resided yean, died yesterday nt his home in To Operate Montello Quarries.

Montello, Dec. A new corporation has beeu formed in Montello for the purpose of operating the llon- tello granite quarries. State News in Brief. in the state: John Taylor Beloit; Mrs. Ferdinand PrOehnow, aged 31 Jackson.

Scribner, who was serving thirty days in the county jail at Racine on charge of carrying weapons and who is wanted at Waufcegan. 111., for burglary. made his escape Christmas eve 11 I orri son senenl manager of the E. ilcr logging interests in Wisconsin aud Minnesota, purchased of Mrs Laura A- Day and J. Robinson and wife of Minneapolis 25,000.000 feet nf timber for $45.000 at Ashland in the state: Miss M.ir Main of Arlington to William Hodden of Johnstown, at Janosville; Miss Mel Laughlin of Coloma to Hoy L.

Thomnson of Hancock at Plainfield; Miss Anna era to John Krager. both of Kenosha Miss Rosa Schnuekei of Kenosha to Michael Monaghnnof Milwaukee; Miss Mary E. Borland of WatrouBville, MJch to L. Casterton of Racine. BIO THREAD COMBINE.

Three Great Mannfactarlne panies to Consolidate. Com- great manufacturing companies which practically control the businen of the country, about to combine. These concerns are George A. Clark Newark, N. the Clark Mile-End Spool Cotton company, with factory in.

Newark, and the Coates Thread company with factory at Pawtncket, H. he bore a close although he was a little taller and not quite as portly. Mr. Morrill has probably occupied less space in the Congressional Record than any of his colleagues. He has always made one speech early in the session upon some public topic in which he pointed out the policy he believed the representatives of the Itenublican party should follow in their legislation.

It was a sort of message to Congress from the father of the Senate. He printed it in handsome form and sent a copy bonnd in Hussia leather to each of his colleagues and a paper-covered copy to every voter Vermont. He would have nothing more to say during the rest of the session unless some one died, when he would perhaps pronounce a eulogy. He never took part in running debate. He never attempted to engage in a discussion of any public question.

He had his "say" and that was the end of it. He entertained in the same methodical way. On April 14 'every year he gave a. birthdaj- party, to whieh the senators and their wives, his personal acquaintances in the House of Representatives, the cabinet, the Supreme and other public men were invited, and of late years the President has always, been his guest. It was an old-fashioned reception, the real thing, and the old gentleman would feel quite hurt if any of bis colleagues or any old friends failed to appear on these occasions and offer their congratulations.

He was a rich man, having made his money iu the mercantile business early in life, aud had a beautiful place at Stafford, Vt, the town in which he was born eighty- nine years ago. Mr. Morrill was opposed to expansion, as he -was opposed to all innovations, and it was expected that his annual speech would be on that subject He has been reading up what Mr. Sumner said against the annexation of Santo Domingo and St. Thomas, and would have used the very same arguments; bat when the vote was taken, as a party man, he would have supported the President's policy.

He was an old-fashioned sort of a statesman. He believed party obUffattong were more solemn thau personal convictions. In other words, be always to the will of the majority. He would assert in the caucus, and even in the Senate, and endeavor to convir.ce his political associates that he was right; but if they outvoted him. If lie found himself in'the minority on any Question, be always yielded gracefully.

Representative Grout of Vermont is placed in an embarrassing predicament owing to Mr, Jtforrfll's £ta expects to succeed Mr. Morrill in the Cremlcal Works at Ensley City, Are Completely Destroyed. Birmingham, Dec. 1 and 2 o'clock this morning the night watchman at the Setuet-Soliay company's by-product plant at Ensley City, six miles from Birmingham, discovered fire raging in the oilhouse. An alarm was sounded, but the spread very rapidly and soon the main building and chemical works of the plant were iu Barnes, and burned down quickly.

One' hundred and twenty-five coke ovens escaped destruction, but the principal buildings of the plant were destroyed, causing a loss estimated at between $150,000 nud with uo insurance. Otto Anst. one of the workmen, who had gone up on a high trestle between the coke ovens and the main plant to connect a water hose, lost his life. The trestle burned down behind him mid he fell into the flames. Clarence Kust, another employe, was badly burued.

The plant cost $500.000 and began operations last summer. Its owners reside in Syra- N. Y. The cause of the fire is unknown. It is understood that the burned buildings will be replaced at an early date.

SIX DUELS SCHEDULED. Member of the Lower House Has Sundry Scores to Settle. Budapest, Dec. first of the six duels arranged between M. Horan- szky, a member of the lower house of the Hungarian Diet, and his seconds, and the seconds of Baron Banffy, the Hungarian premier, growing out of the dispute, still unsettled, between the two.

took place today between Barun Fejer- very, minister of nationrl defense, aud Count Karolya. Pistols were the weapons uued, but the encounter was bloodless. Baron Pejervery missed his opponent nnd the pistol of Count Karolya missed fire. Later Baron Banffy's second, M. Gajari, and M.

Poransky's second, M. Sze- more, fought a duel with swords. In the first encounter M. Szemore was cut on the head. After his wound had been bound up the duel was resumed, and M.

Szemore was again severely wounded in the head. The seconds then stopped the fighting and a reconciliation followed. CLOCKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. New York, Dec. dispatch to tho World quotes the London Mail's Madrid correspondent as saying: Intimate friemjs of Senor Sagasta have supplied the fol-, lowing statements made by him.

a few' days before his illness became serious; "The time when the peace negotiations were In progress was a time of the greatest bitterness to me. "Many a night I could not sleep, and many a day 1 could not eat. so great was my anxiety, so deep my fears that what has happened would happen. "I know the Americans and I guessed; they were going to do. "Some of the Snauish commissioners itt funs had, in the beginuiug.

some expectations in. which 1 never participated, though I sometimes hoped myself that our opponents would not be so cruel to Spam as they have since proved to be, a rule victorious nations make- generous concessions to the vanquished people in order to make their victory more humane and honor their foe. In this, way they avoid leaving a sediment hate which is apt to remain through ages and to expose victors to retaliation of the most cruel kind. "From the United States we have met with no generosity, hut only with levity and carried to the extreme of interpreting capriciously an Important wonl in the text of the protocol, in order to the priiiciiile they had already agreed to. "We have had to suffer all this to prevent greater evils.

"In Cuba, our army, always brave, refused to accept peace. They wanted to continue fighting against the invaders as well as against the rebels. "The general in command had hard work to persuatie soldiers and officers, who thought themselves dishonored by accepting peace without having fought against their foe. "Here in Spain the danger was that the people, agitated by so many might reject a which did not respond to their ambitions. "l-Jnd only knows how earnestly and how hard I labored to restore calm to the- pojmlar mind and to quell the movements whii-li would have disturbed the country more, endangering not only the PhlJ- ipiiiiifs, but our possessions in thfr Atlantic and Mediterranean, and perhaps tx-rtiims of our own peninsula.

"XuUxIy remembers this except those can measure the sacrifices I then made. all is ended and we must loot to the future. "Elements are not wanting far our re- say More of than are battle. Cot tiOn than rattlesnake men run from the invite consumption. The time to cure consumptionis A "little cough" isi easy wcalc lungs may oe before disease gets in.

1 DR. PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY Is the one medicine that, is successful above all others in the treatnient throat, bronchial and Inn? diseases. 19 a general cleanser and fpp weak stomach and fqr tlie whole bnt it also acts specifically on the 3 and lungs. It makes rich, red bli builds-up flesh and strength and the vigor of the whole body. Sold everywhere by dealers, in one.

Be sure you get the geattftift: Don't take a substitute. M. Hartrlck, of Dcmster, Oswego It writes: have lost two daughters in less than five years with consumption and scrof- ula. eldest con was taken, two or three; years ago. with hemorrhage from the troubled him for over a year.

He took Pience's Golden Medical Discovery and has not had a bleeding from the lungs in over Your medicine certainly saveifhis life." over a Timepiece Presented by Gen. La Fayette Still Sans Accurately. The clocks ia the white house," remarked Jin official clock winder to a Star reporter, "are by no means the most un- interesting things about the house, though I little has ever appeared about them in the newspapers. Strange as it may ap- I pear, but one of the eld clocks there is of American manufacture, though all that have been purchased of late years are. The one clock referred to was made in New York and was purchased when James Monroe was President It is one of the permanent fixtures in the greenroom and has been ever since it was purchased.

-As a timepiece it compares favorably with any of the foreign-made clocks, though it was made at a time when America was not aa famous for its timepieces as it is now. "The most interesting clock there, of course, from its history. Is the clock in the blue parlor, which was once the property of Napoleon Bonaparte, who presented it to Gen La Fayette, and theJatter presented Jt to Gen. Washington. The frame of it is made of alabaster and French gilt bronze.

It haa to be wound but once in a month. It keeps time today as accurately as when first made. What is known as the Lincoln clock, purchased when President Lincoln was in the white house, is an object 'of interest in the red room, and is of ebony and gold. strikes the quarters, halves and hours. In Mrs.

room is a clock which has been running without the slightest intermission for nearly thirty years. The clock at the'foot of the stairs leading up to the President's ogee is the one that the public generally sees. It ia rather modern hi construction, of the 'regulator' pattern, and Is very reliable. The clock in Private: Secretary -Porter 5 room is admired for its cathedral gong rather than anything else, bnt It is a good clock and has so proven Itself for the ten or fifteen generation and our work will be seen in time. "The lesson inflicted upon ns has beea hard, but it will be fruitful." BEEF MEN STIRBED UP.

PUcrnntled Over the Charges Hade by Gen. Miles. Chicago, 111.. Dec. beef men of the country are all stirred np over the charges made by Gen.

Miles that the supplies furnished the army in Cuba and Porto Rico were "embalmed" with chemicals whieh poisoned the soldiers, and are seudiug representatives to Washington- cud writing to members of both houses of Congress to demaud an investigation and a vindication, says W. E. Curtis, staff correspondent of the Record. They declare the refrigerator beef famished the commissary department is exactly thfr same that is supplied to the public every day from to California, the same that is eaten in nearly every hotel and in; in a majority of the households of the United States. It in served at the white- house, and Gen.

Miles eats it himself. They deny absolutely that any chemicals are ever used to prevent decomposition: declare that as soon as a steer is killed the beef is placed in cooling chambers and transferred from them refrigerator 1 cars and shipped in an entirely natural state, and they insist that the attack of Gen. Miles upon this great industry cannot be allowed to remain.unanswered. The greatest number of protests have been re-, ceived from Chicago. Kansas City and Omaha, and the secretary of war -has promised every opportunity will be allowed for the contractors to vindicate themselves and their products.

Gen. Eagan has not yet received a reply to his formal demand upon Gen. Miles for the retraction of his statements to the war-inquiry commission and the Cincinnati newspapers, and there the matter stands. He will give the general two or three days more time to reply, and if he DEATH OF W. K.

WILSON. Was Prominent In Politics In the Earljt-Days of Wisconsin's Statehood. Milwaukee, December 27, W. K. Wilson, an old resident of Mil- died last evening at his home in, Wauwatosa, at the age of 81 His death was very sudden, as Mr.

Wil-: soa seemed to be iu his usual health up to a few' hours before the end came. died between 11 and 1'2 o'clock, although iiS it was not until 11 o'clock that he com-' plained ot feeling ill. Mr. Wilson, who was one of "the settlers iu this county, was for many years engaged in the hnrness-mannfae-- turmg business. He served one terra In: the state Assembly and one iu the Sefl-W ate, and was conspicuous as the who led the prosecution of Judge Lev! HnKlmll -ii'.

"P-i In January. 1853, Mr. Wilson peared before llie Assembly at and preferred articles of impeachment against Judge Hubbell, whom be S'fV of grave irregularities, among other thinga of having disclosed the nature ofKff? his decisions before they were renderedi- 1 In June of that year the Legislature i in special session, and after a trial that' i'7 lasted a week. Judge Hubbell ouitted. The late Chief Justice then a practicing attorney, was thfr jer engaged to take actual charge of prosecution, and although he was unsue-'3'f cessful, he made a refutation by the and ability with which he conducted tfie It is an interesting circumstance; that Judge Hyan, who at this time peared jn the role of prosecutor, had been a strong supporter of Judge iffi Hnbbell, then a candidate for tie Jonathan E.

Arnold defended Jadge Hubbell. does not hear from him by the last of the week will demand a court of inquiry. SEED GBAIN LOAN ACT VOID. Minnesota Supreme Court Gives a Decision Affecting Farmers. St.

Paul. Dec. Supreme court, by Judge Canty, has filed a decision declaring that the acts of the- Legislature appropriating state funds for seed-grain loans are unconstitutional, be- years it has been Star. AGED MAN INHERITS FORTUNE An Old Stage Driver Valla Heir to In England. Jacksonville, I1L, Dec.

Smith, one of the old residents of this received official notification that yimrinj he inherited an estate in England ate. His ambition has been well As proofs are eer- among the politicians of the state, and 1 talu, George Wheeler, a son-in-law of the honor has been generally conceded to Smith, Will start for England today to him, the senior member of the I take possession of the property. Smith. ona 6 1 Lepsla- who now 80 old, was for thirty years o. stage drirer, and began that work on-the old Ohio Kne.

liter he came to Illinois and hai many times the trip from Jacksonville to St. Louis orerland, cause they appropriate public money for a private purpose. But the conrt also declares that the people who have borrowed money for the purchase of seed grain under these acts cannot escape payment on account of this fact, because, having token advantage of the acts and derived tho benefits from them, they are now estopped from pleading their nneonstitntionality aft a defense. The plea of nneonstitntionality -was made on several grounds, but the appropriation of public funds for private purposes Is the only one allowed. The test case was made In a dispute over 142 bushels of wheat held by August Peterson In Marshall county.

In recent years a good many thousand dollars hare been loaned by the state In this manner in cases where storm or drouth prevented the saving of seed grain in the usual, way. WATTEBSON ON FREE TRADE. Editor Onr Are Both Beady and Willing-. LouisviUe. Ky Dec.

Wat- tersou In a Courier-Journal editorial this morning, headed: "Everybody a Free- trader Mow," makes a significant admission of the beneficent results of the protective tariff system. He asserts that the American manufacturer "baring perfect- djill proc- PAPER MILLS IN MEXICO. Complete Plant of American-lnade Machinery is Being Installed. City of Mexico, Dec. complete plant of American-made machinery San Eafael paper mills has just a'r- rited.

The outfit consists of 100 forty- inch -four-drainer machines and the tire plant cost $50.000 in gold. ilackleu and Louis McKenny, manufac- 'sa tnrersf experts, have arrived to set up machinery. The- factory, which is the largest in republic, is" near Tlalmanalco, ou the In--JrSffl teroceanie railway, thirty miles from this? city. The buildings, which were strncted ten years ago, are of size, built of solid stone at a cost ofc $500,000. The plant will he operated fcjrXS water power secured by tapping- the- taccihnatl canal at its highest water being conveyed through two rnflesiiSj of twenty-fonr-ineh steel pirle-from 1 canal'to the factory.

Fifteen nun horsepower will be developed at the The electric plant working order, having recently been, per- fected. Two dynamos, each of 600 hone power, are employed. The factory have a daily capacity of seventy to alt kinds of paper. It will take days to install the new machinery. Herbert Taylor of Fall River, MiufeiCj who recently arrived, will have charge of manufacture of paper, under the i rection of Albert Wern.

the. Swiss cialist who built the factory. The-pi dent'of the company. Thomas Branit. an American, and the vice-president.

Sanchez ttamos, is a Spaniard. The two are old friends, and together they, helping Mexico to realize industrial pendence. DEWEY KNOWS ed his plants and cheapenexl esses," ready andwmjnff for free trade. order to have better a kets of the world. this he the.mar- Kasson, after a proloBged Illness of cancer of tbe atm tluL -Ula tare will not meet for two yean yet, un- called in extra and Mr, Grout's brother ia governor.

It would not look weD for man -to appoint brother to the Senate of the United States, sad thus tt is probable that'GOT. GromVwill waive Us authority the tare to ertra ataatan. Capt. lomde J)md. 0.

Dee. DEATH OF JUDGE flEEDER. am. ot Gavcrvor of KMMU Who Dnrixuc ct-rtl Baaton, Pa, Dec. hU collar button to a locomotive" there" a Native Captain Thrown.

board for Impertlnen'i Condtutr San CaU Lombard, a.San Francisco has just returned from concerning Admiral fie says; "In Cavite there are no dockage ties. Vessels lie at anchor and juitive freight boats called cascoea carry thtagsi to-and from the One ol thana-g tjve. officials contracted with carry stuff to the flagship. After forming his duty be dressed hii the latest European fashion to hat, wolte ahfat, cuffs, eta, When, he-presented Dewey remarked that-there were which, be could The freighter captain protejited-thi admiral'-was wrong.amt oerecd 'to, the piled that he would pay nothing more. Mistaking AS- Uemanry manner of the admiral admission -that the admiral might 4k 1 mature, a trifle embonpoint, beautiful, te bonnd to admit.that from a onr- Howard ng proTesslon: nothing now produced today In America which is not produced cheaper and better than its counterpart iu Europe.

So much goes to the credit of the protective system." Dreamed He was Going to Die, Toledo, Dec. 1 aged abont 18 years, died SuiJday u. home near Oibsonbnrg of coasmaptlon. His funeral occurred last evening from the German Lutheran, church. About two ago the young man' dreaul that he was going to I With, movement of the admiral remarked to the watch? that man- overboard!" Aid la a 1'" the pine in Carte? I the insolent native gpurtms ter and to hfr -vessel? maa.

He said he wanted under -the Christmas daring neral service. request with, by parentgtL' i Oom Afar. to die on Christ.