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it the of north the is the is to by the Tite is THE GREEN BAY GAZETTE. THIRD YEAR. THE GREEN BAY GAZETTE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 27, 1904. PRICE TWO It's Star Ge o. B.

Guaranteed Hess Co. to be Patent as Good as GREEN BAY the Best. Flour The New Year's Arrival Finds us better prepared than ever before to supply men of critical tastes with outer garments made to fit their form and their ideas of the correctness of things. Put your resolution to be well dressed into force here and be atisfied. KRIPPNER KAYE, Fashionable West Side Tallore.

MORE TROOPS TO AID OYAMA Japanese Army in Manchuria Will be Swelled to Half Million by Spring. Scenes of Activity In Japan Rival Those at Opening of War -Russia Prepares More Fleets to Follow Rojestvenski's Squadron to Far East. Tokio, Dec. is again a great military camp, and the scenes of last spring when the first armies were mobilized and dispatched are being duplicated. Thousands of recruits and reservists are assembled, drilling and equipping preparatory to taking the field.

The permanent and temporary barracks are filled and it is necessary to billet the soldiers brought to the city. Oyama Field is the center of activity, where infantry, cavalry and artillery are constantly drilling. The batteries fire blank charges for the purpose of breaking in the new horses. Preparations Are Enormous. The general military, preparations are enormous.

It is planned to give Field Marshal Oyama a rough total of 500,000 men, with a heavily increased artillery arm, besides providing a defense for Formosa and the southern islands in anticipation of the Russian second Pacific squadron's attempt to seize a base. The port of Kelung, in Formosa, has been declared in a state of siege and other positions in Formosa and the Pescadores are progressing. Japs Disregard Winter. Winter is not interfering with the Japanese transport service. The railway between Dalny and Yentai is working well, and the running time between Tokio and LiaoYang is six days.

Will Keep Japs Busy. St. Dec. Birileff dis quoted in an interview as saying that all the ship yards in the Baltic are working day and night and that the third squadron will gO out in two sections. The admiral pledges himself to have the first section, which will include the Seniavin, Apraxin, Ushatyoff, Nicholas I.

and Korniloff ready by February, and the second, consisting of the Slava, Alexander and Pamait Azova a little later. Fight Will Be Bitter. Those who will persist in closing their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troubles, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what T.

R. Beall of Beall, has to say: "Last fall my wife had every symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything. else had failed.

Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her." Guaranteed by John Robinson, Druggist. Price 50c, and $1.00. Trial bottles free. Cheap Fuel. 00000000000000000000000000 Looking Forward to 1905 Resolve that your daily toil shall count for something by laying aside a portion of your weekly earnings and depositing same in our Savings Department.

The beginning of a new year is a fitting time to open a bank account. The McCARTNEY 1882 NATIONAL BANK 1904 00000000000000000000000000 OUR ATHLETIC LIBRARY 10c Per Copy. How to Play Handball How to Become Skater College Athletics Official Sporting Rules Official Y. M. C.

A. Handbook Wrestling The Care of the Body How to Become a Boxer The Art of Fencing How to Swing Indian Clubs How to Become a Bowler How to Punch the Bag Indoor Baseball Dumb Bells Ice Hockey and Ice Polo How to Play Football Official Football Guide Oflicial Basketball Gulde LUCIA CYCLE Leading Sporting Goods Dealers." NOTICE ED. GAROT, PLUMBING AND HEATING Corner Pine and Adams Stay Phone 615 A. A. WARREN Fire Insurance MONEY TO LOAN On Either City or Farm Property.

Room 3, Wolter's Building. 116 N. Washington street. COKE is the cheapest and best fuel for the coming winter. You can buy it at $5.00 A TON delivered.

There are as many heat units in one ton of coke as in a ton of coal, which costs over one and a half times as much. Green Bay Light Power Company. NORTHWEST IS STORM SWEPT Northwest in the Grasp of a Fierce Gale and Blinding Snow Storm. COMMUNICATION BY RAIL AND WIRE ALMOST CUT OFF Temperature Is Falling and Storm Threatens to Become Worst Ever Experienced in North.west -Cold Wave Follows in Wake of Storm. Chicago, Dec.

the northwest a blizzard is raging, the storm of snow and sleet threatening to completely shut off rail and telegraph connection the territory covered by the storm. Telephone and telegraph wires to the west and northwest are down and all railway trains are several hours late. A gale of wind is blowing accompanied by what was this morning rain, but which during the day turned to sleet and snow. The storm comes from the west and is accompanied by falling temperature, as low as 20 to 30 degrees below zero being reported this morning from far northwestern points. The storm promises to continue all night and if SO will be the worst experienced in this section of the country for years.

EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE INJURIES THIRTY PERSONS Charges Fail to Explode Until Clearing Away of Debris Beginsdent on Drainage Canal. Chicago, Dec. persons were injured, three perhaps fatally, in an explosion in the new section of the drainage canal between Lockport and Joliet. Immense charges of dynamite that had failed to explode in a general blast a short time before, let go while the great steam derrick and shovel was at work clearing away the debris of the blast, exploding directly under the shovel and hurling men and apparatus in all directions. Thirty men were working in that gang and every one of them was more or less injured, while three others were crushed and maimed and picked up in dying condition.

AGED WOMAN WALKS TO MASS Poughkeepsie Woman Celebrates Her 104th Birthday by Walking to 5 O'clock Mass Christmas. Poughkeepsie, N. Dec. Mary Shepard, of this city, celebrated her one hundred and fourth birthday Sunday, having been born in Ireland, December 25, 1800. Mrs.

Shepard sat up all night in order to be in time for the 5 o'clock mass at St. Peter church in the morning. She walked several blocks to the church. Laid in Supply of Watches. "Once there was a long, slim, lantern-jawed customer that used to come to my place once a day to get a 5 or 10-cent lunch," the retired restaurant man was saying, "and after he had paid for it he always toole a match, put it in his pocket, and went out.

I used to wonder what he did it for, as they were of no account to him. They wouldn't light anywhere but on the box. Safety matches, you know. One day, after he'd been doing it for about six months, I thought I'd surprise him. Just before he'd finished his feed I took all the matches out of the box and slipped them in a drawer.

A minute later he came around to the cashier's desk, handed over his dime, and reached for a match, as usual. There wasn't any. His face lighted up quicker'n you could say scat! "'Hello! he said. You don't need this empty box, do "'No, I guess I said. says he, I'll just take it, if you don't 'Take it I says.

I reckon you've earned "Think of it, gentlemen. The durned old tightwad had about 200 safety matches laid away somewhere, waiting for a chance to get a box he could light 'em on. Now he'd got the box, and the outfit had'nt cost him a cent. Some men are too mean to live!" Its wonderful power goes to the seat of your trouble, vitalizes, strengthens every part of your body. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does.

35 cents, Tea or Tab-, lets. Gus. Cauwenbergh. Germany exported 34,717 tons of valued at $14,000,000, in 1903. MODERN WILLIAM TELL HAD AN UNSTEADY ARM Chicago Man Who Essayed Part of Tell's Son Instantly Killed by Bullet Through Forehead.

Chicago, Dec. Hunt, 19 years old, was shot to death in Christmas play. Standing as motionless as the son of William Tell did in the supreme test of his father's marksmanship, Hunt, a porter in Waseman's saloon at Archer avenue and Thirty fifth street, posed with a bottle on his head as a mark for his friend's weapon and paid with his life for the bad marksmanship of that friend. Police of the Deering and Central police stations are searching for William Dougherty, one of the men in the saloon, who is said to have fired the fatal bullet, and who fled from the saloon when at the second shot, Hunt fell bleeding to the floor with a bullet hole squarely between his eyes. REFUSES TO GIVE DR.

CHADWICK UP New York Authorities Claim Extradition Papers Are Insufficient. Ohio Sheriff Who Is to Make Arrest When Chadwick Lands from Ocean Steamer Meets Setback- Mrs. Chadwick Fears Shock to Husband. New York, Dec. Barry of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, who is in this city to arrest Dr.

Leroy S. Chadwick of Cleveland, husband of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, on his arrival here from Europe on Wednesday on a charge of being concerned in the forgery of the Carnegie signatures to notes on which Mrs. Chadwick raised large sums of money, had a serious setback when Judge John T.

Joyce, Odell's pardon and requisition clerk, refused to grant an extradition warrant on the ground that the state of Ohio had failed to prove that Dr. Chadwick was in that state on March 5, 1903, the time of the forgeries. Worries Over Husband's Arrest. Cleveland, Dec. Chadwick is worried over the impending arrest of her husband.

She sent for the sheriff, with the statement that she wanted to talk over the trip to New York and the arrest of her 1113- band. The sheriff spent almost an hour with the woman in her cell, during which she wept convulsively. "I know you will treat my husband as kindly as possible under the eircumstances, but please remember that he is innocent of any wrong-do ing." said Mrs. Chadwick, as the sheriff entered her jail quarters. During the hour that the sheriff was talking with her Mrs.

Chadwick repeatedly asked him to be kind to Mr. Chadwick. To the sheriff the woman deplored the indictment against her husband, and said it was all an awful mistake. Husband an Honest Man. "This is the worst thing that has happened during all the trouble of the last few weeks," said Mrs.

Chadwick. "I never thought my husband would be dragged into this affair. It is 50 unjust, for if ever an honest man lived, it is my husband." FORMER CONGRESSMAN OF WISCONSIN IS DEAD Hugh H. Price of Black River Falls Passes Away at Denver, Colorado, Aged 45 Years. Denver, Dec.

Congressman Hugh H. Price of Black River who served in congress from Wisconsin in 1887 and 1888, died in this city, agetd 45 years. He was a son W. T. Price, for many years congressman from the Eighth Wisconsin district.

0 Those who cough at night may secure rest by taking Piso's Cure. All druggists. Got It at Bull Run. Among the many good stories told by Senator Daniels of West Virginia, is the following: A gentleman in the south was one day in conversation with a Yankee who had brought letters of introduetion from a friend in the when transpired that the northerner was a veteran of the Civil "Yes," said Yankee. I was a participant in the late unpleasantness.

You see this, he added, pointing to a scar in his got that at the second battle of Bull Run." "How in the world did you get hit in the face at the battle of Bull Run?" the mischievously atked southerner. "Oh." responded the Yankee, with the ntmost noncha ance, suppose I got. careless and looked back." Weekly, PLAN TO FIGHT WISCONSIN LAW North- and Milwaukee Lines to Attack Ad Valorem Plan of Taxation. FAMOUS REFORM MEASURE MAY BE TESTED IN COURT Assessment in Wisconsin Said to be Higher Than Capitalization of the Roads -Also Claim Law Is Unconstitutional. Chicago, Dec.

is reported in railroad circles that President A. J. Earling and General Solicitor Burton Hanson of the Milwaukee road, and Lloyd W. Bowers, general counsel of the North-Western road, held a conference at which measures were discussed to contest the assessment of the property of these two roads in Wisconsin, as fixed by the tax commission of that state under the "ad valorem" law. It is reported that as the result of this conference, not only will proceedings soon be begun to attack the assessments as they stand, but to test the constitutionality of the law as well.

The officials of the roads declare that the assessment in each case is 40 per cent higher than the capitalization of this portion of their systems amounts to on an average mileage capitalization, based on the total par value of the stocks and bonds of each road. In the case of the Milwaukee road the figures cited by the officials show a total capitalization of $229,662,800, making an average capitalization per mile of $33,253.23, or a total for the 1,723.87 miles in Wisconsin of 724,245.60, while the assessment of the tax commission is $70,200,000, or $15,475,754.40 more than officials' figures. The total capitalization of the North-Western road is given at 817,930.53, and its average capitalization per mile $30,250.99. This system has 1,758.91 miles in Wisconsin, giving a mileage capitalization of $53,210,768.82. The tax commission has assessed this at $71,500,000, an alleged excess of $18,289,231.18.

The officials are reported as declar ing that the excess is a franchise tax, and is illegal. OPERATOR CRAZED BY HIS MISTAKE Man Whose Mistake Causes Train Wreck Wanders Through Woods. Raves About Train Orders and Claims He Hears Cries of Dying--Partly Responsible for Collision in Which Twelve Were Killed. Cheyenne, Dec. unknown man who is believed to be Operator James Miller, whose error in copying a train order had much to do with causing the awful head-on collision at Azusa last month, as a result of which twelve people lost their lives, has been seen in the vicinity of Opal, in Western Wyoming.

He is insane and wanders over the hills, appearing at ranches occasionally for food. The fellow has been heard raving about train orders, depots, trains and wrecks, and says that he can hear the cries of the dying. All efforts to capture the insane man have failed. The authorities of Unita county will send out a posse to effect his capture. Ranchmen who have seen the lunatic say he answers description of Operator Miller.

He disappeared from Granger on the night of the awful wreck and has not been heard from since. Seat Sale Now Open. The seat sale is now open for those who subscribed for the engagement of Jessie Bartlett Davis, who will appear at the Green Bay theater Jan. 2. Jessie Bartlett Davis, probably the most popular contralto that America has ever given to the world, has recently decided to make a concert tour this season, and this city is one of the fortunate towns to secure her.

She will be supported by an all star company, and will give a popular program, including all of her old time favoritets that she has made, famous. had a running, itching sore on FLy leg. Suffered tortures. Doan's Ointment took away the burning and itching instantly, and quickly effected permanent cure." W. Lenhart, Bowling Green, 0.

TO PUT BRYAN AT HEAD OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY Secret Meeting of Nebraska Democrats at Lincoln Plans Method for Restoring the Leadership to W. J. Bryan. Lincoln, Dee. William Jennings Bryan and two dozen democratic politicians of state renown held a secret meeting in the office of Judge Tibbitts, the meeting being called, according to announcement, for the purpose of re-Bryanizing the democratic party.

Those attending have always worked under the Bryan banner and Bryan presided. Although nothing was given out, it is said a new scheme was formulated which will have as its object the recapture of the party by Bryan. SULTAN OF MOROCCO LIKES AMERICANS Wants Closer Business Relations Between His Country and United States. Realizes Americans Will Treat Them Fairly and Not Seize TerritoryMoroccoan Representative at the World's Fair Gives Interview. New York, Dec.

W. S. Langerman, formerly United States Vice Consul General at Tangier, Morocco, is in New York on his way to report to the Sultan of Morocco, whose personal representative he was at the St. Louis exposition. Speaking of Morocco and its desire for American trade, Mr.

Langerman said: "Never before was such an opportunity presented to American industries to secure a foothold in Morocco, It seems strange, but is is a fact, nev ertheless, that in this country, where about 16,000,000 people live, there is but one big American industry doing business, and that is the Standard Oil company. "The sultan, and in fact, all his subjects, want to trade with Americans. They realize that the American people in business will treat them fairly, and will not try to seize the country." PLAN FOR UNION OF ALL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES Outline of Basis for Co-operation of Large Religious Demonstrations Is to be Announced Soon. New York, Dec. announcement is expected this week of the details of a plan whereby it is hoped to bring all the religious bodies of the United States having a Presbyterian form of government into one organization, which, while not providing organic union, shall afford a basis for co-operative work that has not before existed.

The plan provides for the organization of a federal council of the "reformed churches in the United States of America holding the Presbyterian system." The plan of federation, if carried out, would bring into one organization the 2,000,000 or more members of Presbyterian and Reformed churches. WAS A LIVELY CHRISTMAS Natural Gas Explosions Make Things Lively for Residents of Wheeling, West Virginia. Wheeling, W. Dec. natural gas explosions and as many general fire alarms within an hour this morning, with six persons injured, formed an exciting chapter in Wheeling's observance of Christmas Half the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion.

Burdock Sunday. Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach; makes indigestion im- There scarcely anything a girl enjoys more than making a fool of an old man unless it to be made a fool of by a young one. Accidents come with distressing frequency on the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings, sprains. Dr.

Thomas' Electric Oil relieves pain instantly. Nev- er safe without it. OLIVER LIBBEY DIES IN MAINE Old Resident of Green Bay, Dies in State of His Birth. IN INSURANCE BUSINESS HERE FOR FORTY YEARS Deceased Was Thirty- Third Degree Mason and One of Foremost bers of Fraternity in WisconsinWas College Mate of Late "Czar' Reed. Oliver Libbey, for nearly 40 years actively engaged in the insurance business in Green Bay and a foremost member of the Masonic fraternity in Wisconsin, died at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning at Portland, Me.

The announcement of his death was contained in a private telegram received in this city last evening. The message gave only the brief announcement of Mr. Libbey's demise and contained no particulars as to his last days or the funeral. It is known here, however, that the burial will be held in Maine. Stroke of Paralysis Last Summer Mr.

Libbey's death resulted from a stroke of parlysis affecting his left side which he suffered in Green Bay on September last. The first manifestation of the attack appeared while Mr. Libbey was seated at the breakfast table that morning. He went down town with assistance and tried to transact business at his office. Later in the day he was obliged to take to his bed in his apartments in the Sale building, at Pine and Adams street.

Although he showed signs of improvement at times it was the opinion of his atending physician that the paralytic stroke was but the beginning of the end in Mr. Libbey'9 career. Taken to Former Home. In compliance with Mr. Libbey's earnest wish to die in Maine, the state of his birth and school days, he was taken to Portland in a special coach starting from this city over the Milwaukee road on September 10.

Accompanying him on the trip were his sister, Mrs. A. L. Goodwin, who was called here from Maine by the serious state of his health, Dr. H.

M. Beck, E. L. Tyrell and Miss Finnerty of Green Bay. Miss Finnerty, a nurse, was with Mr.

Libbey until the time of his death. The latest reports received here concerning Mr. Libbey before the telegram announcing his death was that he was slowly sinking. College Mate of Late Speaker Reed. Mr.

Libbey was born in Parsonsfield, in 1836. He graduated from Bowdoin college at Brunswick, as the valedictorian of the class of '59. He was a college- of the late Thomas Reed, former speaker of the house of representatives, who was a member of the class of '60. Mr. Libbey was admitted to the bar in Milwaukee in May, 1864, and in December of the same year located in Green Bay, engaging in the insuranco business.

He was a 334 degree Mason and was one of the most prominent ous in Wisconsin. having served a number of terms in grand lodge offices. He was never married. THOUSAND DOLLARS AN ACRE Big Purchase of Coal Land in Pennsylvania by Steel Trust Interest Million Dollar Deal. Greensburg, Dec.

27. purchase the H. C. Frick Coke company of 1,000 acres of Connellsville coking coal land has just been confirmed. The Frick company is subsidiary to the United States Steel possible.

corporation and the property said be to the last piece of coal land held by private individuals in Connellsville region. The price paid is said be $1,000,000. It's the little colds that grow into big colds; the big colds that end in consumption and death. Watch the little colds. Dr.

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