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ing Buckw] Buckwhq^ WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1898, I6T" General Blanco cabled a week ago to Senor Sagaeta for 50,000 more men to begin operations on the Canto river. "Not a eiDgle man more can be sent to Cuba" was the reply. This is considered As the first stept toward Spanish evacu­ ation of Cuba. West McHenry, III, In order to closo out our Winter Stock in the ljast possible time we wi.l make the following the same as^^pS little bit of honesty" I®* Butter sold at two prices on the Elgin Board of Trade Monday. Forty-six tubs brought 20 cents per pound and 188 tubs were sold at 19 cents. The offerings were 414 tubs. The quotation committee declared the market to be firm at 19 cents. The ag- ,te of reported sales for the past week by members of the board was 5,724 tuba. , 8®" A jury in New' York recently awarded Anthony Comstock six cents damages for defamation of character, and a wicked exchange remarksfthat if just about what Comstock's reputation is worth, The alleged defamer said that Comstock was a blackmailer who had never earned a honest dollar in his life, and he reiterated the story on the*'wit­ ness stand. IfifThe report of Special agent Ayer to the Secretary of the Treasury on the production of tin and terne plates in the United States shows that the production was more than four-fifths of the entire consumption in this country. --The annual capacity of mills completed and in process of construction is said to be about 650,000,000 pounds, and the amount produced is said to be as good aa the foreign article. Who saythat protection does not protect ? Word comes from the suear sec­ tions of Louisiana that the year 1897 has been a profitable and satisfactory one. The crop has been larger than in the year previous, and has almost equal­ ed that of 1894, which was the banner year in the history of the state. Although the tonage of the cane was be­ low the average yield of sugar increased, and the grade is better than 3896. The crop has brought an increased price, in­ suring a ejood profit to growers, with the result that sugar lands have ad­ vanced considerably in value. TELLER'S TELLING WORDS We believe that a large majority of the people of this country indorse the words of Senator Teller, This is especially true of the west and south. "Is it not time that this great country shall do what its sympathies dictate and its interests demand? Is it not time that we should say to a little fifth-rate country like Spain. "Take your hands off that beautiful island of Cuba. You have already killed one-third of its popu­ lation. You must stop it now. Oh, Mr.j President, salvation of dividends, the prices of bopds and stocks, and the fear of war, prevent our doing that. I am one of those who did not vote for the arbitration treaty, and I have heard my­ self branded in a public sermon aa a man in favor of war. I voted against the treaty not because I wanted war, but be­ cause that treaty was an indecent at­ tempt on the part of the British govern­ ment to bind the hands of this body and of the American people, i voted against it because I realized that there are in- definteiy worse things than war; been se I knew (as a student of history) that , no nation that lost its warlike spirit ever maintained its independence. He who skulks, hides when there is a threat of war is not a free man aud never will be. I do not believe there will be war if we. put our hands on Cuba. But if war did come from it, let war come,, Mason on Cuba. This is the way Senator Mason figures out the Cuban situation. "None of the provisions go to the insurgents. If they did, the people would respond with an open hand. They go to the Spanish soldiers. Of course the American consul promises to distribute to the starving and the deserving. These are the con- centrados. The army lives on the con- centrados. If they have less the army has less; if they have anything they are forced to share it. "I say it should be independence or death. Let them die rather than submit. It is not so much to die. Let them be snuffed out; let them go down with their standard. Intervention? Good officers of the United States? A truce? Yes, it will stop the war and result in independence. But autonomy--no!" As a harmonizer President Mc- Kinley has few equals. He gave another instance of his ability in that line this week. There was considerable dissatis­ faction among Senators over the nomi-! nation of Charles Page Bryan, of 111., to be minister of China, not personal ground, but because ho lacked the diplo­ matic experience which those Senators thought the situation in China demand­ ed. Tho objections were overcome by nominating Mr. Bryan to be minister to Brazil, and ex-Congressman Conger, of Iowa, now minister to Brazil, to be minister to China. fey The free trade papers of the coWr ire attributing thereduction of wages >n mills of New England to of them possibly mit the fact, schedules are Wilson bill. A ihe part of these papers could do them no harm, and would lend enlightenment to their read­ ers. The conditions alone are responsi­ ble for the reductions. Time will rectify "these. The south will manufacture cot­ ton hereafter without harm to the oper­ ative, while New England will take up some other branch of industry. "HANNA'S ALL1BIGHT." It is a matter of congratulation that Mr. Hanna has succeeded in downing the Bushnell-Foraker-Kurtz gang in Ohio, and has been chosen U. S. Senator for both the short and long terms. The traitor Republicans who joined hands with the democrats to defeat Mr. Hanna should have the carefull attention of Ohio orthodox Republican. Bushnell and Fnralrfir Rnd their following have "long been trying to kill oi better Repub­ licans than themselves and it is time they were shut. off. The campaign last fall was fought and won by Mr. Hanna fairly and squarely, and there would have been no trouble in his election but for the defection of six who were elected as Republicans. Loyal Republicans everywhere have great cause for rejoic­ ing over Mr. Hanna's victory .-Marengo Republican. J, C. CHOATE. OUR GREAT JANUARY SALE! Exceeds anything in the history of our business. Our stock is larger, our prices lower--is the rc»son of our success. Our rapidly increasing business and the bright prospects before us, sanctioned us in making preparations for this sale. Call and see the bright new Tennis and Outing Flannels: usual our price per yard - - - S A new line of heavy double fold Dress Goods; regular price 15c; o ur price New Flannelettes, usual price I2%c; our price per yard . - Yard-wide Percale; usual price 12^3; our price per yard (rood Cotton Flannel* cheap at 6c, our price per yard A.pron Gingham per yard - - - Good heayy unbleached Muslin per yard - t , Full line black and colored Kid Gloves, including evening shades, pair Window Shades* made to fit auy size or shaped window. 12^c to 15c; 10c, 9c IVfl 7%ci 4c Mi 4c 69c Unprecedented Low Prices. V. S. LUMLEY, ATTORNKY, Notice of Sale of Real Estate. By virtue of an order and deerof the County Court ol M» Henry* County, Illinois, niadaon the petition of tbfl undersigned Mary A McGiashap, Administratrix of the Estate of Alexander MoGlashiin dpceaeod, tc»r leav® to:sell the Be&l Estate of aatd deceased, at the January Term A. D. 1898, of said uourt, to wit; on the 3d day of January 1898 Notice i^Jiereby given, That on Saturday tlfe 5th February next, between the houre oi Ten o'clock in the forenoon and Ave o'clock in the afternoon of said day, *t the Dairyman's State Bank, In the city of Marengo, County of McHenry and state of Illinois, the following described real estate belonging to the estate of Alexander M<-- Glashan deceased, 10 wit: The south east quarter (fc) of the south wes. quarter (X) of section twenty nine (29) and the nortn east quarter (Jf) of the north west quarter (&) of section thirty two (32) all in township for'.y four (44) north range live (5> east of third Principal Meridian, containing eighty (80) acres more or less, willbeiold to the high­ est and best bidder- TERMS OF SALE CASH. January 8, 1893. MABY A MCGl ashan , Administratrix V. 8. LUMLBT, ATTOBKBT. Executor's Notice. ESTATE of Nicholas Schaefer, deceased. The undersigned having been appointed Executor of the last Will and Testament of Nicholas Schaefer. deceased, late of the Oountv of McHenry and State of Illinois, hereby gives notice that he will appear be­ fore the County Court of McHenry County, at the Ciurt House in Woodstock, at the March Term, on tho first Monday in March next, at which time- all persons having claims against said estate are notified and re­ quested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, Dated the 3d,day of Jan,, A. D., 1898, John Hcemann , Executor. !6r"The Seminole Indiana eeem to be on the war path again. They have murder­ ed twenty-five whites in Oklahoma. This particular tribe of Indians has given the government much trouble since Jackson's day. The famous Semi­ nole war interested the public at that time. So the question of the adaptabili­ ty of the Indian to civilization receives another blow. That wild spirit of the Indiai; that longing for the prai­ rie and the woods; that return of the innate savage in him, is something which the Indian will not outlive, we fear, in generations. The best a liberal govern­ ment can do is to turn his mind toward aogricultural and civilized pursuits by means of the government Bchools. ft?" We seldom now hear of "pirates on the high seas." They are all, perhaps, too busy robbing trains on the low lands, in the canyons, and around water tanks. Fashions have changed in these latter years. The statistics show that in the past eight years 218 trains have been "held-up," seventy-eight persons killed, and sixty-seven wounded by our train robbers, while the record for 1897 alone is thirty attacks, with four persons killed and eight wounded. What is more wonderful is that so few cutthroats have met with punishment. One, of these days a United States law will make death the punishment for the train-wrecker and murder of this class, and the technicalities and money of the miscreants will not save them, as it often has. t^"Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, Indiana, who was Secretary of the Navy during the Hayes admini stration, enjoys the proud distinction of having personally known as a child, youth and man, all the Presidents of the United States, save Washington.and the elder Adams. As a child he saw Thomas Jefferson, as a boy he was patted on the head by Monroe, as a youth in his teens he visited Jackson with his father, and as a man he served in Congress with Lincoln , and knew Grant, Garfield and McKinley well. Mr. Thompson is 88 years of age, enjoys good health, is bright and'possessed ol all his mental fac ulties, and is now engaged in writing the third volume of his "Recollections of Presidents" which he says he will finish if he lives until spring. l&"There is wide missapprehension of the~b^)ject of the republicans in the House ^ opposed to the civil service law and £ules as now interpreted; con­ sequently there is a disposition to regard them as having been defeated because the Legislative, Executive and Judicial appropriation bill, upon which there was a week of spirited ciyil service debate, was passed without an attempt being made to strike out the appropriation for the Civil Service Commission. No such attempt was ever seriously contemplated. It was suggested as .an alternative, if there was no chance to get the bill pro­ viding for a modification of the civil service law voted on, but was rejected. It is almost certain that the modified civil service bill will get a hearing in the House latter in the session. There has been no defeat yet, 1@"A bartender in a small Dakota town discovered in the cash drawer of the bar a silver dollar of peculiar ap­ pearance. He replaced it with an ordi nary dollar and upon showing it to some friends learned that it was of a very rare issue, of which only a few are in existence. By collectors it is valued at a figure up in the thousands. When the proprietor of the bar heard this he claimed the coin as his, saying that the bartender had no right to anything out­ side of his regular pay. There next ap­ peared On the scene the man who had passed the coin, who swore that he had always known its true value and had passed it by mistake. Now,to which one of these three men does that coin really belong. V. S. LUMLET, ATTORNEY. Administrator's Notice of Fjling Final Settlement. [ STATE OF ILLINOIS, l McHenry County, 1 Estate of Seorge Fillweber deceased. To whom it may "oneern and to the heirs and distributes of said estate, you are hereby notified that on the 25th day of October. 1897, the Administrator of said estate will present to the Countyjiourt of Mcuenrv cduniy, ni. ihv (Jouri. Hoiiio in Woodstock, 111., his final report of his acts and doings as such Administrator »nd ask the Court to be discharged from any and all fur ther duties and responsibilities connected wiih^aid «etate«wi his adminis tration there­ of, at which time and place you may be present and resist such application if you choose to to do. V. S. T.umle i ', Administrator, V. 8. LUMLEY, A t to tnJ jy . Executrix Notice of Filing Final Settlement. STATE OF ILLINOIS, I McHenby County . ( Estate of Thomas W. Iiilley deceased. To the H#irs distributees »hd creditors of paid estate: You are hereby notified that on Monday the 7th day of February. 1898, the executrix of the last Will and Testament of said deceased will present to tue County Court of McHenry Count^^at the C'urt House in Woodstock, jMTinois. her final report of her acts and doings as suoh executrix, and ask the Court to be discharged from any and all farther duties and respon sibilities connected with said estate and her administration thereof, at which time and place you may be present and resist such ap­ plication if you clioose so to do. 26w4 Lottie Killey, Executrix. NEW w C STORE MiLO L. HOWE, Having leased the East Store in Stoffel'a Block, WEST McHENRYi II I , . H«s opened therein a first class Music Store, where at all times can be found PIANOS, ORGANS, VIOLINS, Mandol ins Gui tars . Banjos . Zithers, Autokrps, Music Boxes, SALEJOF FINE CATTLE. In the St. Paul, Nob., Republican, a copy of which was sent us by a former townsman, D. S. Smith, we find the fol­ lowing extraordinary sale of shorthorn cattle, which took place at South Omaha recently: One of the most successful public sales of shorthorn cattle ever held in the state occurred at South Omaha on the 11th. The cattle were owned, bred and fed in western Nebraska, 250 miles wept of the Missouri river, by Thomas Andrews, of Cambridge, Furnas county. The out­ come of this sale demonstrates Nebras­ ka's possibilities iu producing fine cattle on blue stem grass and alfalfa, with ordinary care and without being stabled, say 4 the Omaha Bee. The well-known fine stock Auctioneer, Col. F. M. Woods, of Lincoln' cried the sale and sold thirty- four head for $5,035, an average of S L48. Nine bulls averaged $146.20 and twenty- five cows and heifers averaged $148.80. It was the first public sale ever made by Mr. Andrews and was good enough to attract buyers from Iowa, Missouri, Illi­ nois, Kansas and the Dakotas. Only seven head sold for less than $100 each, and some of these were but from 4 to 8 months Old. KiT" The division headquarters of the Chicago & Northwestern, which were re­ moved from Belle Plaine, Iowa, last February, have been reestablished in that city. It is stated that the North­ ern Iowa line, a branch of the North­ western Sioux City line, will extended to Belle Plaine a# s.ion as the double track is completed. This means a big increase |n busineBr at Belle Plaine. ° jase in ] i And in short all kinds of mus­ ical instrumaents, Sheet Music, etc. Our Pianos and Organs are the best made, and will be sold as low as any lirst-class Instrument can be bought anywhere. The public are cordially invited to call and look over my stock whether they want to purchase or not. Pianos and Organs Tuned, On short notice and satisfac­ tion guaianteed. MILO L HOWE. NEW STILE IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Portrats Like Old Paintngs. The leading photographers of the country are now lighting the faces of their sitters in the style followed by the great­ est portrait painters the woild ever saw. It Jgives a perfect likeness and preserves all the character in the face. It is highly artistic and needs only to be seen to be ap­ preciated. WE ARE RIGHT OP TO DATE AND CAN DO IT. COME. 8EE AND BE CONVINCED. JL<» E. BENNETT. PHOTOGRAPHER* tfmrwwTvmwv Badger L L. Muslin, I yard wido, Heavy Fine Muslin, 1 yard wide, Bleached Muslin, 1 yard?wide, , . - . Indigo Blue Prints, Fancy Dress Prints AY* cents 5 cents 5 cents and up 4% cents 5 and (j cents Wool Underwear for .Gent'em on, foarner price 97c now, 79 cents Men's extra heavy fleece lined Underwear , 1 , 42 cents Ladiet' and Children's Underwear at greatly reduced pricts. In tact we aromaking sweeping reductions in our entire Dry Goods Department., A. AND M. BRYHN, Are now prepared to give lessons on Mandolin and Guitar. Leave orders at Heman & Schneider's, John Evanson's, or at Studios, S. Stoffel's IHtore and Mrs. Buhr's house, north of Village. Terms 12 lessons, $5. Single lessons 50 cents. ~ A. AND M. BRYHN. OJOHN PVANSON'S IMPORTANT NOTICE! f(Q3IKnrAw« LAST WEEK OF THE , Extremely profitable investments for Cash Buyers in all lines. Warm lined Shoes seventy-five cents and one dollar. JOHN EVANSON & CO. GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE, elqxit, xu^ UNIVERSAL PROVIDER, ORIGINS TOR OF LOWEST PRICES The Chance of a Season. "Opportunities," said the old darky, are sure to come to every man and woman, but its only the bright man or woman "dat knows em when dey comes." Our offerings this week in Cloaks and Suits are opportunities that it won't take a very bright woman to recognize the -extraordinarv value of. Ladies' Jackets, of black boucle Cloaking, double stitched seams, and edges, plaited back, wide box front, fastened on collar with a fly deep storm collar, U.98. Ladies' Jacket, of black boucle Cloaking box front, fastened with pearl buttons, front back and sleeves trim­ med with straps of cloth, and small tailor buttons, *5.98. Ladies' black Kersey Jackets,, box front, fastened on fly, coat back, double stitched • earns storm collar, front and back braided in black soutache the popular 26 in length, $5.98. Ladies' Beaver Cape, two box plaits in back, beautifully trimmed with black soutache braid, set in velvet collar, good length wide sweep, $2.98 Ladies' black cape, made of boucle cloaking, full silk lined, Thibet fur trimmed collar, extra length, wide sweep, $3.29. Ladie s heal Plush Capes, full silk lined, elaborately trimmed with soutache and jet, collar trimmed with Thibet fur, $3.98. 'V, THEO, »\ SWAtV, GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE ELGIN, ILL. ' ' Men's Felt Boots, extra heavy. • - 40 Boys' Felt Boots, extra heavy, Men's Mishawaka Knit Boots, ball brand ' „92 •••en's Miohawaka Knit Boots with snow excluder and Wales Goodye.ir Overs, best in the market. Men.s I buckle Arctics, best sroods, Boy's 1 buckle Arctics, best goodd Ladies' Buckle Arctics 93 Misses'Buckle Arctics, 73 And all other Winter Foot'ear at less than wholesale pr cts Gloves and Mittens, Well you must see goods to appreciate prices. cents centr cents $2.58 $1.17 cents cents cents GROCERIES. In our coffee Department we h ive the finest line we ever hnd. Try our Fancy Rio Coffee for 15 cents a pouud. If not the best coffee you ever had tor tbe price v^ur m mey retunded. We have ulso the celehrated Saa-Ceara Roasted Coffee for 25c. Nothing to equal it in this town. The Rc-d Drngron Teas we make a tpecialty of. Have them f pm 25c up Dried Fruits. Cannad Goods in fact anything vou want in the Grocery line. '•Baer's Choice Syrup" has again come to t>-wn. The finest Syrup in Northern Illinois. Try a keg and be conviaced. FLOUR! FLOUR! We will have a car of the famous old Sleepy Eye Fk ur in 1 his week, and those •wishing Flour at Jobber's Prices can have pnrr.e in 10 sack lots for Cash. Do not buy until you see me, as I will save you money. Pankako, the great health preserver can be had at the Farmers Store, 10c per package. West MeHenrj, Illinois. mm I!!11!S!1!1 illSliSiS . L.1 McOMBER. DEALEN IN- GENERAL HARDWARE. Cook and Heating Stoves. RANGES, ETC , AT THE LOWEST LIVING PRICES! A. FULL LINE OF" Just received, which will be sold at prices that will astonish you. Call and see me before you buy. F. L. McOMBER. est Side Hardware Store JOHN J . MILLER We havejust unloaded a car of the Celebrated "Jersey Lily" and "Hard to Beat" Quality the Highest, Price the Lowest GROCERIE 21 pounds Prunes, 21 pounds Raisins, Genuine Home Made Pure Pure Self-Raising Home Ground West MoHenby