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The Bowbells Tribune

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Thos- B. Hurley, Publisher.

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BOWBELLS, Ward Co., N. D

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Money talks, but it … only the few.

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Clam chowder is often productive of the deepest melancholy.

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The sleeping infant should always be placed on the retired list.

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It sometimes happens that a man's opportunity is his misfortune.

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Good fortune seldom travels around in an automobile looking for you.

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A man's mind sometimes runs to the contrary—a woman's always does.

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It is considered a deadly insult to tell a Bostonian that he doesn't know beans.

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Some people go through life looking as if they were sorry they had ever started.

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It is easy enough to be economical when you have plenty with which to economize.

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A married man would have more money if his pockets were as hard to find as are those of his wife.

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An actress may be wedded to her art, but she usually acquires more than one husband during her career.

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The average man would be satisfied if he could only get the earth, but Alexander the Great wanted to get up a collection.

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"Tod" Sloan has now distinguished himself "by thrashing two French jockeys with his walking stick. At any rate this is more reputable than French pugilism.

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The Boston Globe says that Laureate Alfred Austin is struggling hard to earn his salary. It might be added that the public is struggling hard to resign itself to Mr. Austin's method of struggling.

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A recent expose of the brutal treatment of privates in the army of France by their officers gives new emphasis to the danger of arbitrary power. It is also reported that in Austria the custom of boxing the ears of soldiers and recruits has been so common and so violent that thousands of them have suffered such impairment of their hearing as partly to unfit them for service. The minister of war has recently issued a prohibitory order.

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A newspaper correspondent at Indianapolis telegraphs: Secretary Hurty of the state health board predicts that Indiana will have an epidemic of smallpox. "I do not see how it can be averted," said Dr. Hurty, "and it will cost Indiana thousands of dollars as well as many deaths. There is smallpox in the state, and it will spread from the small country towns. The people do not know how to handle suspected cases in these small places. There should be no delay in handling a suspicious case, and if it turns out not to be smallpox no harm is done. This whole state could be vaccinated for less than $30,000, and that would save it from a scourge that is otherwise sure to come."

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International arbitration is not so new an idea as some suppose. On six different occasions between 1831 and 1858 congress has entertained petitions and memorials on the subject from peace societies and bodies of citizens in New England, New York and Virginia. Even the czar's proposal for a congress of nations in the interest of peace was anticipated by resolutions adopted by the legislature of Massachusetts, in 1844, and similar action was taken by the legislature of Vermont in 1853. Dr. Franklin's ardent wish that the nations of the earth might find "some more reasonable method of settling disputes than by cutting each other's throats" must have been cherished by many friends of humanity long before his day.

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A short time ago two yaks were imported to Gothenburg, and were later sent to Stockholm, Sweden. The secretary of the Gothenburg Touring club recommends that yaks be imported into northern Sweden for use by the pioneer farmers, the long and cold winters being rather severe for ordinary cattle. It is declared that it would not be necessary to stall-feed the yak during winter; that the farmers would get a strong, hardy and tractable beast of burden, which also would supply milk of good quality, and which could find its way even through deep snow. It remains yet to be seen whether or not any one is willing to act upon the suggestion. Dr. Sven Hedin, who during his expeditions in central Asia has bad opportunities for studying the yak in its native land, thinks the experiment worth trying.

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One of our good friends in Kansas takes exception to our recent statement that bachelors in that state are '"rated at the common valuation and two hundred dollars more," for purposes of taxation. It is a technical matter. The law exempts from taxation two hundred dollars of the property of the head of a family. None of the property of a bachelor is exempt. The error was simply in the form of statement—the bachelor understands it, and according to our correspondent laughs at the low penalty inflicted on single blessedness.—Ex

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THE NEWS RESUME

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… ST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

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Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Called From the Telegraph Reports — The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention.

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Accidental Happenings.

John Danner and wife were killed by a train near Meridan, La.

The crews of two trains on the Baltimore & Ohio were killed in a collision.

The steamer Natchez sunk near Natchez, Miss. The boat probably can be saved.

David Perdue and Daniel Pope, Confederate veterans blew out the gas at Savannah, Ga., and were asphyxiated.

Fire at Glyndon destroyed three soft drink establishments owned by Shea, Anderson and Syverson.

The boom across the Kettle river, near Grand Forks, Wash., containing 2,000,000 saw logs, broke and the logs tore out several bridges.

The bones of a man and woman were found in the ruins of the St. Charles hotel, Wagoner, I. T. The hotel was destroyed by lire on Saturday night.

The schooners Josephine, Pet, Minnehaha, Emmeline and Clara Belle are ashore at different points along the Newfoundland coast, and the schooner Marianne is now known to have foundered with six men.

The steamship Lokania arrived at Baltimore with the crew of the British steamship Manchester Enterprise, which foundered on Nov. 15, 480 miles southeast of Cape Race. The rescued number is fifty-three.

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Foreign.

The Yaqui Indians in Mexico offer to surrender.

Wreckers at work on the Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo find a chest of gold.

President Loubet unveiled in the Place de la Nation a statue symbolizing the triumph of the republic.

Branch offices of the American League for Social Service have been opened in London and Edinburg.

A quarrel between Austria and Hungary as to a share of the state expenses involves only $22,000 a year.

German ministry, though defeated on the anti-strike bill, fears dissolution would cause greater defeat at the polls.

Deroulede, the French political agitator, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for insulting the president.

Sixty-six mining companies at Johannesburg, South Africa, have suspended operations on account of the war, and as a result many families are destitute.

Railway men at Birmingham, Eng., have begun a struggle for the shortening of the present twelve-hour day and seven days a week term of service.

The sultan has addressed notes to the powers reiterating the demand for the suppression of foreign postoffices in Turkey. It is not believed the demand will be acceded to.

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From Washington.

Secretary Long says he has no intention of resigning.

Secretary Root will suggest several plans for improving the army staff.

Secretary Hitchcock extends Chippewa Commissioner Hall's official tenure to Jan. 1.

Baltimore contractors at work for the federal government were fined for violating the eight-hour law.

Indian Commissioner Jones, in his annual report, anticipates the abolition of reservations and the advance of all Indians to full citizenship.

The United States government has officially recognized the de facto government in Venezuela, headed by Gen. Cipriano Castro, the victorious revolutionary leader.

The postmaster general has ordered that private mailing cards addressed in the domestic mails or to the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico and Canada need not hereafter bear the words "postal card" or “carte postel."

Gen. Wheeler says it is the sacred duty of congress, on the first day of the session, to adopt a resolution declaring that the sovereignty of the United States in the Philippines will be maintained. Bengaet is said to be the present rebel capital.

The president has appointed H. W. Hart of Alliance, Ohio, to be United States consul at Dusseldorf, Germany, to succeed Pettit, deceased. Mr. Hart is a young lawyer and his appointment is credited to the personal interest In him entertained by the president.

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Personal.

Edgar Straus, violoncellist, is dead at Pasadena, Cal.

Miss Eliza Works died at Henrietta, N. Y., aged 105 years.

Mgr. Donata Sbaretti has been appointed bishop of Havana.

Ex-Capt. Carter will ask congressional investigation of the case.

W. K. Vanderbilt and wife rode from Nice to Paris in their automobile.

Henry Munch, a member of the Aurora Zouaves, died at Sandwich, Ill.

Weston N. Milliken, collector of customs at Portland, Me., died, aged seventy years.

A movement has been inaugurated present Generals Lee and Wheeler with swords.

Hugh McLennan, president of the Montreal Transportation company, died suddenly at Toronto.

Sir William Dawson, the well known educator and geologist, late principal of McGill college, at Montreal, is dead.

Rev. Dr. Richard Storrs, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, has resigned because of failing health.

Clarence P. Greathouse, whose death Is announced in the orient, was a Kentuckian. In 1800 he resigned the American consulate at Yokohama to accept the post of prime minister under the Korean government.

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Criminal Record.

A mining company's store In Idaho was robbed by daylight.

At Boston the hearing in the Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy case was postponed till Monday.

George Thompson, a Montana ranchman, mysteriously disappeared. Foul play is suspected. Silas Powers, a jail prisoner, received a bullet wound at Charlotte, Mich., while resisting the sheriff.

Two women in the garb of Sisters of Charity were arrested as imposters while soliciting alms at Peoria, Ill.

Samuel Morgan, private of the Tenth infantry, was shot and killed while attempting to desert from Fort Cook.

At Lyons, Iowa, George Mealey tried to stop a quarrel on the street and was probably fa tally shot by Frank Strohm.

Joseph F. McMahon, Taunton, Mass., was shot and probably, fatally wounded, while asleep, by John Gallagher, his brother-in-law.

The president of a failed national bank at Kansas City has been sentenced to the penitentiary for misapplying the bank's funds.

Col. Metcalf, of the Twentieth Kansas, has been charged with having shot an unarmed and supplicating Filipino prisoner. He denies the charge.

Ten thousand smuggled pearls of all sizes, some imitation and some genuine gems, were taken by custom officials at New York from Francis Bock, a Providence, R. I., jeweler, who arrived on the Bretagne, and attempted to avoid the duty on the gems.

At Wilkesbarre, Pa., a special policeman fired a revolver at women strike rioters and wounded a boy. Policeman A. A. Ente and Supt. John Tonkin were stoned and beaten with clubs, and Fireman Tonkin was blinded by pepper.

A masked mob of about seventy-live men attacked the jail at Covington, Ga., in an effort to secure William Collins, a white man under arrest for attempte assault on a young girl. The sheriff's guard tired into the mob and dispersed it. One man was carried off wounded.

Elijah Moore, seventeen years of age, who has been held under suspicion of the assassination of his father, Rev. Jesse Moore, at Dexter, Mo., made a full confession, in which he implicated his fifteen-year-old sister. Later he amended his confession by exonerating the girl. He has been indicted.

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Otherwise.

Methodist appropriations for Indian and Chinese missions increased. New York Life Insurance company bought 20,000,000 rubles of Russian railway bonds.

The defunct Citizens' National Bank of Niles, Mich., has declared a dividend of 50 per cent.

At Cleveland, Ohio, the Wheeling & Lake Erie railway agreed to raise about 10 per cent on Dec. 1.

The National Hardwood Lumber association has decided to make no exhibit at Paris, as an organization.

The president has issued his proclamation extending the benefit of the copyright law to the Netherlands.

The paper trade is threatened with a famine on account of the scarcity of water in streams that supply the mills.

Brewers at Chicago, are to take the initiative in a protest to congress against the tax of $2 a barrel on beer.

The 400 men employed at the Illinois Sugar Refining company's works at Pekin, Ill., have struck against a reduction of wages.

The transports Duke of Fife and St. Paul, with the Forty-fifth and Thirty-eighth regiments on board, sailed from San Francisco for Manila.

The British transport ship Manchester City has sailed from New Orleans for Cape Town with 2,000 mules to be used in the North African campaign.

The record for a round trip between San Francisco and Manila is held by the transport George W. Elder, having made the round trip in sixty-one days, many of them struck. Cheaper men were employed in their stead and a new master mechanic secured and then there was a strike of the whole force.

The German government acknowledged the excellent system of the American official trichinae inspection, as carried out in Chicago and elsewhere.

It is now expected that the new Minneapolis & St. Louis service from Minneapolis to Omaha will be put in operation by the first of the year, or soon thereafter.

The Union stock yards of Chicago and allied interests have on foot a plan to hold in Chicago about next November an international live stock exposition.

President Burt, of the Union Pacific Railroad company, says the laying of a double track will begin on that road next year, probably on the Omaha & Denver line.

The Chicago orchestra, under the leadership of Theodore Thomas, has decided to decline the invitation of the directors of the Paris exposition to attend that show in 1900.

President Springer, of the Denver National Live Stock association, has been Informed that special rates will be granted for the convention at Fort Worth, Tex., in January.

The four hundred men employed at the Illinois Sugar Refining company's works at Pekin, Ill., have struck. The manager has been reducing the scale of wages on the skilled mechanics [sic] and

At Muncle, Ind., Ben C. Bowman was appointed receiver for the Ontadio Silverware company, a step made necessary in the settlement of the estate of Dr. Clark of Buffalo, a large stockholder. Hereafter the general office of the

Knights of Labor will have full power in dealing with strikes instead of being controlled by the local assembly.

The supreme court has decided that the United States could not be held responsible for moneys deposited in a bank which is a national depository except in case when the money is for public purposes.

At East Tawas, Mich., a petition is being circulated asking that a grand jury be called to investigate charges against officers of a defunct state savings bank, officers of a building loan association and a county official.

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ASK FEDERAL HELP

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PRESIDENT HAY DECLARE MARTIAL LAW IN KENTUCKY.

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In the Event That Goebel Is Given a Certificate of Election by the Throwing Out of the Votes of Several Counties, President McKinley May Be Appealed to To Declare Martial Law and Recognize and Support Taylor as Governor—Rumor That Warden Millard Is Arming Convicts to Support Goebel Is Unfounded.

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Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 29. — Senator Deboe left for Washington at 8 o’clock yesterday, and after his departure a story, emanating from Republican circles, was put abroad that in the event Goebel is given a certificate of election next Saturday by throwing out Jefferson, Knox and Johnson counties, Senator Deboe. Senator Lindsay, Gov. Bradley, Gen. Taylor and other Republican leaders will unite in an appeal to President McKinley to declare martial law in Kentucky, recognizing Taylor as governor and supporting his administration. Senator Deboe stated to the Associated Press that he felt confident no emergency would arise requiring the assistance of the federal authorities, but intimated he had assurance that federal aid could be had if it became necessary. There was no change in the situation here yesterday on either side. The expected move of Goebel leaders to take the gubernatorial controversy into the courts prior to its handling by the. state election board has not materialized to far, and many believe it has been abandoned. The story from Louisville that Jefferson and Elliott county returns had been mysteriously lost or tampered with is not credited here, as should this occur, duplicate certificates could be easily obtained and the theft of them would not effect the result.

The hotels of the city are slowly filling up with visiting Republicans and Democrats from many parts of the state. The report that Warden Millard, under direction of Goebel leaders, is arming convicts and preparing to take the Goebel side in the event Bradley calls out troops Saturday is absolutely unfounded. It is probable the sitting of the state election board will extend over several days, and it is stated that the Democratic commissioners will refuse to begin canvassing the returns in the event Bradley places a military guard over them.

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SAMOAN DIVISION DECLINED.

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New Proposition Submitted by United States to Germany and Britain.

Washington, Nov. 29. — The United States has declined to accept the agreement as to the disposition of the Samoan islands reached by Great Britain and Germany. The reasons which have influenced the state department here in rejecting the British-German arrangement related entirely to minor matters and touched rather upon the form than the substance of the arrangement. Having rejected the tentative treaty submitted by the other two powers our government has, in turn, and at the instance of the other parties, prepared and submitted the draft of a treaty which it is hoped will be acceptable to all three powers.

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Winter Crnise for Faraubar.

Washington, Nov. 28.—Rear Admiral Farquhar, commandant of the North Atlantic squadron, had a talk with Secretary Long yesterday concerning a winter's cruise of the squadron to West Indian waters. The admiral favored such a cruise, pointing out that the plani had been inaugurated two years ago with good results. Mr. Long approved the plan and arrangements were made for the issuance of formal orders later. No time has been fixed for the start to the West Indies, but it probably will be made early in the new year.

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Banker Is Convicted.

Montreal, Que., Nov. 29. — W. O. Weir, president of the defunct Bank of Ville Marc, was found guilty yesterday of sending a false and deceptive statement to the governor of financial affairs at the bank. The trial lasted eight days. The jury required only fifteen minutes to find a verdict. The penalty is five years' imprisonment. Counsel for the defense immediately asked for a review of the case, arguments for which will be heard to-day.

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Coaling Ships at Sea.

New York, Nov. 29.—As a result of three days' trial of "coaling ship" while towing at sea, just completed by the United States battleship Massachusetts and the collier Marcellus, it may soon be possible for any warship to receive coal by the overhead wire system at the average rate of twenty tons an hour.

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Fir Stumpage Advances.

Tacoma, Wash., 29.—The purchase of large tracts of fir forests by Eastern lumbermen has caused a sharp advance in the prices of both logs and standing timber. Stumpage prices have risen withing the past thirty days from 10 to 20 cents, according to the accessibility of the timber belts.

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Bible May Be Read In School.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 29.—State Superintendent Jackson yesterday decided that the Bible may be read in public schools. The matter was laid before him in a case from Gage county where one family in a district wanted the teacher enjoined from using the book although all others favored it.

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Quarantie Raised.

Tampa, Fla., Nov. 29.—Dr. Weldon, president of the board of health at Port Tampa City, has wired the state health officer here that the yellow fever quarantine was no longer necessary. The quarantine will be raised.

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Embessler Sentenced.

Lockport, N. Y., Nov. 29. — John C. Lammerts. ex-county treasurer, who was convicted of misappropriating 2,549 of public money was sentenced to seven years at hard labor in Auburn prison.

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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Overflow From the Wires In a Condensed Form.

Victor M. L. Mason, private secretary to Secretary Root has resigned to engage in business with Gen. R. A. Alger.

Baron Paul Veitinghoff, a representative of the Russian government, is at Chicago buying horses for the czar's army.

The board of directors of the Coney Island Jockey club elected W. K. Vanderbilt president to succeed the late Col. Lawrence Kipp.

The organization known as the Spanish War Veterans has been Incorporated at Washington. This action gives it a business standing and will allow it to defend its rights in the courts.

Li Hung Chang's appointment as minister of commerce is regarded as distinctly a step in the right direction, and as likely to tend to improve foreign commercial relations with China.

Gov. Shaw of Iowa has announced the appointment of Clifford P. Smith of Mason City as district judge in the Cerro Gordo district to succeed Judge C. Sherwin, elected to the supreme bench.

Charles Coghlan, the distinguished English actor and author, died at Galveston, Tex., of gastritis, aged fifty-six years. He had been ill in Galveston since his theatrical engagement there four weeks ago. His wife was at his bedside when the end came and is prostrated with grief.

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THE MARKETS.

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Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers.

St. Paul, Nov. 29. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 651-2@66c; No. 2 Northern, 611-2 @ 64c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 30 l-2@31c; No. 3, 30@301-2c. Oats- No. 3 white, 23 l-4@23 l-2c; No. 3, 22 3-4@23c. Barley and Rye — Feed barley, 31@32 l-2c; malting grade, 33@ 35c; No. 2 rye, 47 l-2@47 3-4c; No. 3 rye, 46@461-2c.

Duluth, Nov. 29—Wheat—No. 1 hard, cash, 65 7-8c; to arrive, 65 3-8c; No. 1 Northern, 64 7-Sc; to arrive, *M 3-8c; December, 64 3-8e; May, 683-4c; No. 2 Northern, 62 3-8c; No. 3 spring, 58 7-8c; oats, 22 l-2@23c; rye, 49c; barley, 35@38c. Flax—Cash, $1.38; December, $1.33; May, $1.35 1-2; corn, 29c.

Minneapolis, Nov. 29.—Wheat — December opened at 613-4c and closed at 62c; May opened at 001-4c and closed at 66 l-2c. On track—No. 1 litrd, 66c; No. 1 Northern, 64c; No. 2 Northern, 613-4c.

Chicago. Nov. 29.—Wheat—No. 2 red, 67 l-2@68c; No. 3, 63 l-2@66c; No. 2 hard winter, 63 l-2c; No. 3, 59@62 5-8e; No. 1 Northern spring, 66 l-2@68 l-2c; No. 2 Northern spring, 64@68 l-2c; No. 3 spring, 61@68 l-2c. Corn — No. 2, 313-4c; No. 3, 30 3-4@313-4c. Oats- No. 2, 23c; No. 3, 22 l-2c.

Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 29.—Flour is steady. Wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, 66@66 l-2c; No. 2 Northern, 64@65 l-2c. Rye lower; No. 1, 54 l-2@55c. Barley lower; No. 2, 44c; sample, 35@421-2c. Oats lower at 23 3-4@25 3-4c.

Chicago, Nov. 29.—Cattle — Beeves, $4@7; cows and heifers, $3@4.60; stockers and feeders, $3@4.75; exas steers, $3.25@5; Westerns, $4@5.25. Hogs —Mixed and butchers, $3.80@3.95; good heavy, $3.85(03.95; rough heavy, $3.70 @3.80; light, $3.75@3.95; bulk, $3.85@3.90. Sheep — Natives, S3.65@4.40; lambs, $4@5.30.

Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 29.—Cattle-Beeves, $4@5; cows and bulls, mixed, $2@4; stockers and feeders, $3.50®;4.25; calves and yearlings. $3.50@4.75. Hogs, $3.65@3.75; bulk. $3.70.

South St. Paul, Nov. 29. — Hogs —$3.50@3.671-2. Cattle—Stockers, $3.25 @4.25; heifers, $2.65@3.2o; cows, $2.25 @3.50. Sheep, $3.20@3.90; lambs, $4.10 @4.25.

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PRIZE FIGHT ENDS ABRUPTLY.

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Participants Find the Ring Much Too Small.

New York, Nov. 29.—The prize fight between Bob Armstrong, the colored heavy-weight boxer of Chicago, and Jim Jeffords of California, which was slated to go twenty-five rounds before the Hercules club, ended abruptly in the third round. Both men fell from a clinch on the ropes into a box at the ringside in the second round and in the third round Jeffords took another header from the effects of a right swing on the jaw. This took all the steam out of the big fellow, and when he regained his feet he was sent sprawling from a right swinging upper cut in the vicinity of the belt. Jeffords rolled over in agony and his seconds claimed a foul on the ground that he was hit below the belt. The referee decided the blow landed fairly and gave the verdict in favor of Armstrong after Jeffords had been counted out and carried to his corner by his seconds.

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Chicago Wants the Convention.

Chicago. Nov. 29.—President George Miller, of the Hamilton club, yesterday appointed a committee of twenty-five Republicans to travel to Washington under the leadership of Sampel B. Raymond Dec. 13 and lay persistent siege to the national committee until it consents to nominate the Republican party ticket in Chicago.

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Broke a Bicycle Record.

Kansas City, Nov. 29.—Bert Repine of Nashville, Tenn., won the forty-eight hour bicycle race at Convention hall, and in winning the race established a new record for forty-eight hours. The distance covered was 9611-3 miles, 871-16 miles better than the previous record.

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President Cancels Dates.

Washington, Nov. 29. — Out of respect to the memory of the late vice president the president has cancelled all his social engagements for the present. The members of the cabinet have done likewise and the administration will observe a period of mourning.

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Soldiers Acquitted.

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 29.—Corporal J. S. Fair and Private Henry Jockens were yesterday acquitted by courtmartial of manslaughter, the specific charge being the shooting and killing of a fleeing deserter.

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Miles Returns to Washington.

Washington, Nov. 29. — Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the army, has returned to Washington after a tour of inspection which included the fortifications on the Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mexico.

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NORTH DAKOTA

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Fisher has an Infanticide sensation.

Richardson has a new hotel, the Windsor.

A new Catholic church is to be built at Enderlin.

The Minto Park has been purchased by the village.

Work is being pushed on Mayville's flax fiber mill.

Kulm's new school building is nearing completion.

Illegal hunting is reported in the Missouri river country.

The sewers are drawing the wells dry in some parts of Fargo.

One of the two Ellendale boys who went to war was killed.

Devils Lake is to have a machine shop and boiler works.

Only two buildings remain at what was once Fort Stevenson.

The sewer contracts at Wahpeton have all been completed.

A movement is on foot to build a Catholic church at Oakes.

Fargo will have two conventions within the next few months.

A. M. Eckman of Hendrum sold his 372-acre farm for $35 per acre.

Dickinson will be lighted by electricity by the first of the year.

E. F. Whipple of Eckelson forbids people to sell goods to his wife.

Farm machinery dealers predict that prices will be higher next year.

Senator Porter of Melville is up on the Missouri enjoying a deer hunt.

Sheyenne is to have a Baptist church, which is now under course of construction.

Daniel Faul, who disappeared from Bottineau, has been located in Montana.

S. W. Ritchie, formerly a well known Grand Forks lumberman, suicided in Seattle.

The new dormitory and drill hall at the university will be opened with a reception.

Postmaster Callahan of Casselton secured three deer on the hunting trip to Williston.

John Reed of Perth will assume the duties of postmaster at Bay Center for the winter.

The shortage of Deputy Postmaster Wolters at New Salem will probably reach $6,000.

C. E. Rainey was arrested and bound over for running a drink and gambling den at Courtenay.

Three men were pulled at Fessenden for running a gambling joint. They were fined $50 each.

A blind pigger was arrested at Harvey, but was released on account of absence of prosecution.

According to reports as to the building going on in Fairmount that place must be having a boom.

Henry Stechman of Casselton. Alleged blind pigger, isn't a blind pigger at all, so the jury decided.

Near Langdon Walter Sadelmeyer raised twenty-two bushels of flax to the acre and sold it at $1.08.

That Stowers-Emmons row at Wheatland over the possession of a building promises interesting developments.

William Oliver was arrested at Sheyenne on the charge of assaulting Mrs. Syfestad with a dangerous weapon.

Mrs. Krouse was brought to the insane asylum from Oliver county. She has five children, all under fifteen years of age.

Mlnto is one of the liveliest towns in the state and that fire three months ago only stirred the hustlers up to better efforts.

Ward county's total assessed valuation is $1,662,422, while that of Cass is over $14,000,000—at that Ward is a hummer.

W. F. Manning was arrested at Devils Lake on the charge of obstructing an officer. He was bound over under $250 bonds.

Circulars are out announcing the regular winter short course at the agricultural college. It will begin Jan. 2 and close March 23.

The flax fiber mill at Mayville is nearing completion. Several hundred tons of flax straw are already stacked ready for the opening.

An injunction has been served on the Great Northern depot and Charles Turk's restaurant at Rugby to restrain them from selling booze.

Charles McVeety, a Cooperstown collector, was robbed of $25 while driving along the road. His assailant struck him with a club and was not identified.

A prairie fire burned over about 400 acres of grazing land near Bismarck recently. The fire was set by hunters and the settlers had a hard fight to get control of the flames.

Miss Kate Kern of Valley City, once of the Sheridan house at Bismarck, will assume the management of the Soo Pacific hotel at Harvey, which is at present the only hotel in that city.

Williston is at present enjoying a building boom. A new court house and public building, each costing upward of $10,000, are fast nearing completion, and a fine brick store and opera house building, 50x10, is well under way.

Government work in the line of snagging and clearing the channel of the Missouri river has closed for the season, and the government steamer Josephine has gone into winter quarters in the government harbor at Rock Haven.

According to the commissioner of general immigration North Dakota received 2,616, South Dakota 2,099 immigrants last year. Of this number the greater part were Germans and all but three of them laborers. Of the three with professions one was a clergyman, one a physician and one not designated.

North Dakota has the present year 67,375 pupils enrolled. The number of teachers engaged is given at 3,637. South Dakota has 89,001 pupils enrolled and 4,508 teachers engaged in the work.

An instance of the result of flax growing in this state is shown in the following: A man in Pierce county took up a claim last fall and broke and put in to flax ninety acres of land. As it was he didn't get the entire crop cared for, but threshed enough this fall to bring him $712, netting him a profit of at least $400.