COMMANDER ALGER. "Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days or I MINNESOTA CULLINGS. *rWirtGfc1jta„S§| other bill providing pensJoas for all widows, clared that he no* only courted, bat demanded, old." So through the ages shall the children of without reference to th«* cause of tfee death the republic sing of how well you maintained an investigation of his administration of their husbands, bill* for the survivors the constitution, a£§& y* of the rebel prisons and of the pension department. Ultimately for the re-enactment of the arrears law. PEESEBVED THE UNION 5p"- the substitute ot Gen Barnum was amended NEW tJtM, -%-t,- I N |pf The Sews «f the Week Througfeeut of the states established by the fathers, kept While the foregoing does not comprise all that Comprehensive and Patriotic Addresses to read as follows the flag unsullied giving to the "nation a new has been accomplished by the Grand Armv pension «sf *j the Entire State. -MANTJVACTU£ER OP -%44 birtn of freedom lour deeds shall go down committees, nor indicate by any means the That we thank the president of the United by Commander-in-Chief ri .FINE CIGARS song and story which shall be sung and told by entire amount ef their work, it is sufficiently States for the appointment of our comrade, .*•*..• **ry a grateful people to the elad coming time Warner. comorehensive, and exhibits enough accomplished James Tanner, as commissioner of pensions, "When the war dram throbs no longer, fact to justify the ongmal appointment, and that notwithstanding the assaults upon George Fleekenstein, living near And the battle flags are furled, and we recommend that the worK be vigorously him we declare oar complete confidence in his In the parliament of man. pushed for the year to come upon the line integrity and our approval of his avowed purpose Owatonna, lost crery finger on his marked out by the national encampment. to do all that is possible to be done under The federation of the world." right hand by the bursting of a gun. •Gen. Sherman Talks to the Old Veterans the laws of the land for the veterans of the war, About two hundred regimental reunions ADJUTANT GENEBAL'S BETOBT. and with him we ask for the fullest investigation were held this afternoon About twenty-five The following points are taken from the in the National Soldiers' Wilmer Eymer, of Mankato, stole of the management of his office. t&*Special brands made to order. thousand people gathered at the national annual report of Adjt. Gen. Eugene F. a trunk recently and is now behind Home. THE NAVAL BATTIJE Weigel soldiers' home for disabled veterans, where This has been the great day oi the encampment the bars. His wife has also been arrested At the time Commander Warner assumed the men passed review before Gen. Sherman as regards crowds. The day command ml88 8 the were forty departments, 'A War. FRANK. and party Gen Sherman was received as an accomplice. JOHN BENT2SN. comprising 6,360 posts, with a total membership trains brought 80.000 additional visitors, with immense enthusiasm, and made a brief good standing of 361.149. MILWAUKEE, Aujr 28 —Very unexpectedly mostly from Wisconsin and Minors, the Cottonwood Hills. "Burglars broke into the-hardware and now, after the lapse of a vear, speech, which, as he says. Is the last he will the Grand Army delegates proceeded to an great attraction being the night naval battle forty-two permanent departments, with 6,71J ever make Gen Sherman said: store of G. A. Blair & Son at Waterville, election of officers to-night. Gen .Russell A. posts, and a membership in good standing of in Milwaukee bay. Pully a quarter of a Boys My speaking days are over. I am not Alger ot Detroit had it all his own way J82,=82, being a net gain of two departments, and got away with about $50 million of people occupied the beach, and going to make any more speeches If you want 35-1 posts and 21,431 comrades good standing. Twentv men nominated him, Col. James Sexton a speech take Senator Manderson. I think he the vast amphitheater on the hillside off the worth of cutlery and revolvers. The two new departments are those of Custom grinding solicited. Wifl can make a good speech. I am always glad to ot Chicago hrst presenting his name. All Alabama and Georgia, where posts were formerly Lake Shore Park was packed with Grand see so many soldiers looking hearty and healthy the other candidates were then withdrawn, included in the department of Tennessee. The total personal property valuation grind wheat for $ (one eigth) or e*» I think we can stand on our legs yet. I like to ,-Armv men and their wives, those seats being Gained by muster 44,249 and Gen Aiger was elected by aco'amation. see that our old Uncle Sam takes pretty good reserved for them. The battle was a of St. Paul for 1889 is $19,978,068, change 84 fis. flour, 5lbs. shorts and 8 Gained by transfer 8,213 care of these old soldiers Uncle Sam cannot Col. A. Weissert of Milwaukee wan elected splendid spectacle, being participated in by Gained by reinstatement 22,599 make old men young, but he can make young an increase of $652^147 ft3. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flout senior vice commander, and John 3? Lovett Gained from delinquent reports 18,389 about sixty vessels, besides a stationary men just as good as you or I ever were I see of New Jersey junior vice It was then over that of last year. and feed sold at low rates and delivered that Milwaukee is full of them and thev are mortar fleet, and by about 3,000 mfancrju Total gain 93,450 after 11 o'clock, and the election of other coming out of the bashes everywhere. If you men and artillerymen, including seven com New Ulm free of expense. Lost by death 4.696 The son of a farmer named Wrigirt think you are the only old soldiers you are mistaken. Officers was postponed till to-moirow. Lost by honorable discharge 2,148 panics of the Fourth batalhon of Wisconsin, There were living im Warsaw township, Goodhue Lost bv transfer 10,184 It is estimated that there were 100,000 the Chicago Zouaves, Battery of FRANK &BENTZIN» OLD SOLDIEBS BEFORE VOU Lost by suspension 34,839 stransrers on the streets to-day, ana that, and there will be again. Such is the providence County,, fell from a wagon and Deceived Chicago, Milwaukee First Light Battery and Lost by di«honorable dischaige 167 of the world, just as good men were born a thousand aotwi hstanaing many are leaving for their Lost by delmquent reports, 20,012 several hundred Sons of Veterans. injuries from the affects ©I vears ago and will be bora a thousand AUG. QUEITSE, home^ Milw aukee's guests will number from cars hence All we have to do is to do our MILWAUKEE, Aug 30*i-The national encampment which he died. Totalloss aL..72,046The parts in this short period of life honorably and 100,000 to 200,000 by tne time the naval adjourned sine die at 12 3 0 loss by delinquent reports is caused honestiv. I think we can pass the grand battle begins to-morrow night The session A eoiaple- of highwaymen attempted! chiefly by the negligence of the post officers in tribunal and say "We have tried to do our The pension question wa? again taken uo at is being held at the West Side Turner hall, making their reports Had the officers best," and the sentence will be "Well done the opening of the session and debated at to hold up J. S. Wing and family HARNESS MAKER of these posts reported as required of them by She interior of which is appropriately deco"ated We have passed through one crisis of our length. Finally the following resolution the rules and regulations, the total membership while returning from Frontenac, but: country's history I don't see any chance of Gen. Sherman is in attendance and occupies good standing would have was adopted- another, but nobody knows the future. Bring Mr. Wing succeeded in driving away —and Dealer In— a seat among the Missouri delegation. been 388,653 Adding the number up your children to love and venerate the old Thit the action ofr the twenty-second national WJiips, Collars, and all other Ehe hall is well filled, the delegates aggregating lost by delinquent reports and the soldiers who fought in 1861 and 1865 andmaxe from them, encampment upon the matter of Densions is nnmber suspended (who are still members of them uncover their heads when they see that about spven hundred and hfty peilons, herebv reaffirmed, and that the pension committee articles usually kept the order) to the membership good standing, little banner that you followed in the days be and is herebv instructed to use all Samuel Burlow has been bound or about two hundred and fifty short of gives a total memoorship as borne on the rolls which tried us to the utmost. Let us venerate in a first-fdass harness possible means to secure legislation accordance She total number entitled to seats in the ensampment June 30. 1889. of 410,686. to which should also that flag and love our country and over to await the action of the grand" with the resolutions of that encampment be added nearlv 34,000 comrades out on transfer shop. The twenty-third national love each other and stand by each other jury on suspicion of being the party cards. For charity and relief the order spent as long as we have heads on our shoulders and ancampment was called to order by Commander during the year $237,637, making' the total legs on our bodies Those old soldiers who New harnesses made to order and re who robbed the Milwaukee depot at What a Wortf DM, in Chief Warner After praver oy from July 1,1&71, $1,935,935 marched against the enemy in those trying days pairing promptly attended to. Chaplain Wharton, of the Wisconsin department, a grateful country tries its best to assist and Faribault two weeks ago. THE. WOaiAVS BEIiIEF COOPS. A word whispered an an Alpine will, I think, fact, I am sure, give to you Commander Warner began to read his NEW MLM, MINlf Those who were fortunate enougfii to attend when -you get old all that is necessary. But Hastings has a youthful criminal. slope may precipitate am avalanche, address the convention ot the national department keep young as long as you can, and do not go His name is Charlie Philipson andlo into a soldiers' home if you can help it. of the Woman's Belief corps at Iranian aind a suggestion spofcen by a friend Comrades and Shipmates I am ht re to serve an H.FRENZEL, oel Presbyterian church to-cBay, have is 12 years old. He stole $23 65 BOSTON CHOSEN FOB 1890. -account ot my stewardship The greatest honor may start a man in an. bonorable a higher appreciation ot" the work done ?ver conferred upon me was my election as commander-in-chief This afternoon Boston was chosen as the from Mrs. Margaret Bense^ and has by that oigamization than ever before. of the Grand Army of the Republic career. Sir Williami Napiery disabled next place of meeting Saratoga, Indianapolis In takme the obligation ot the office I been sent to the reform school. The auditoriu.ni of the church wa* comfortably Manufacturer of and Washington were also nominated, *nlly realized the importance of the trust vou by an incurable wound, and living filled when the session was opened by Sad oonfided to me, and then highly resolved but Boston received an overwhelming vote. Frank Tomaael, while out hunting the president, Krs Charity Busk Craig: On SODA WATER, on halfpay, was walking eme day in neither by word nor act to do anything that Speeches in favox of Topeka, Kan., and Los the rostrum with her were MIBS Glaxa. Barton, at Bichmond^aceidentally discharged -should drive a deserving comrade from our London with Lord Langdiale. Napier Angeles, CaL, were made with a view to-future ot the Bed Cross association Mrs. Anna ranks, and to do all that in me lay to the contents'of his gun into his arm SELTZER WATER Wittenmeyer, Mrs Buseell A Alsrer and the strengthen the silver chords of comradeship results. had been dabbling- iis painting and side in getting into a wagon. His *hat I trust shall ever bind the surviving soliiers honored suest of the convention, Mrs Mary A. PENSIONS and and sailors of the Union army aud navy, Logan. The speakers were Gov Hoard, Mayor and sculpture, and had written for injuries are serious. The pension committee, composed of one to another, as brothers tried. If at the eud Brown, Bev Myron Heed ot Denver, Colo ot my term I am enabled to place in the hands George E Merrill, John J. Eountz, 3 H. The Edinburg Review am abfc" article Miss Ciara Banton and Mrs. Logan After While empl®yed at thrashing at 3f my successor the b-'iner oi our order illuminated Burst, B. W Blue and Lucius FairchildV submitted Champagne Cider. Mrs. Logan had spoken Mrs. Bobbins of oa Jomini's great work oa military with the three treat virtues, fraternity, White Rock Aw Swanson had the the following report: Michigan begged the privilege of introducing 3hanty and loyaltj, im highest ambition will operations. handle of a pitchfork forced into his The committee regrets that ow me to the-short to the convention three gentlemen, Geaerals have been gratified. session of congress and the crowded condition of Consigny, Erwim and Longstaffi, who The two friends comversedi, while Centre Street. body. He sustained injuries from New Ulm, Minn After euioarizmg the A E at length, the business following the last encampment very presented the association with agaveLmade commander continued walking, on Southey's narrative of little in the line of practical results has been the effects of whieh he will probably from the table on which. Gen. accomolished in the work for which the committee Empire Kill Co. The growth of our organization has been the-Peninsula war, them fresh from die. Grant worked a tannery when a boyw was appointed Immediately after the stead} and healthy. Strong as it is, it has never the press, and Lord Langdiale was holiday session of congress the pension committee The president's report shows that the departments been, and I trust never will be used tor partisan held a meeting in Chicago, and from Proceedings of the Rochester investigation purposes or to gratify the personal ambitions and detached corps had expended in greatly struck by Napier's- remarks of any man or set or men The greatest gain thence, by appointment, called upon the president-elect the work of relief the sum of $ 5 4 4 7 9 & 1 ROLLER MILL* concerning the events of the struggle, committee cover 196 during the year has been the department of at his home irt Indianapolis,, having a making a total ot 84,271 60'expended in reheftand Missouri. Eight departments show a gam in verj pleasant interview and receiving from him in which he himself had a«hieved pages of legal cap paper so far as turned over to posts in the entice organization membership in good standing of 15,824. distributed the most cordial assurance of his warm interest distinction. The work, of the afternoon session ready, and the whole investigation as follows Illinois, 1,283 low a, in the great question of pensions, and his earnest 1,4=13. Nebraska, 1,709. Pennsylvania, 1,746, desire for generous legislation behalf of was routine character, consisting of "Napier, what are youi gomg to 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. will make about 6r000 folios,or 600000 .New York, 1,995, Ohio, 2,003 Wisconsin, the defenders of the Union Immediately after reports from the various national officers. doP" suddenly asked Langdale. 2,023, Missouri, 3,05Z The net gain in membership another meeting of the committee was held in words. during the year (m good .standing) was Washington, but from the circumstances above OEEIDEBS ELECTED "Do you mean where Ianugoing to We take pleasure in informing, theaublic 21,431 mentioned, and from the facts narrated in. the MnsWAUKEE, Aug. 29i—At the morning ses— Herbert Dumble-, a ten-year-old dine?*" answered Napier. last report of this committee it was found impossible that we are now ready for bu«ness. Commander Waraor referred briefly to the siomof the national encampment tne election to bring about any additional legislation son of F. G» Durable, ot Fergus Falls ''Mo, no. What are you' thanking reports of his staff oflicerfl, the decisions of of officers for the ensuing year was during tbe remaining days of the session. The best machinery and alt thelites* walked into the house and remarked: of foar an occupation? Youi ought to the judge advocate genera1, the completion Following the practically unanimous expression completed. Dr. Horace B. Porter of Kentucky improvements in the manufaeuure of opinion by the last national encampment, give yourself to literature Your article "Mammai I am going to die." In of a history of the A the census of was- chosen surgeon general, W IL your committee prepared two pension bills. of'Hour enable us to compete witb on Jomini proves thafryou can soldieis and sailors, and then took up the five minutes he was dead. Heart Childers of Kentucky, chaplain, and T. Ji The disaoihtv bill was broadened in its- provisions ihe beet mills in the country. subject of the flag and the public schools, as to include your endorsement for write- Whv not write aihistory ot Love of 2Je\v Jersey, junior vice commander trouble was the cause. We axe constantly buying fie said A PENSION TO THE WIDOWS. Gen. Alger, president of the Logan monument the-war?" of all honorably discharged veterans Thas bill, Wilbur Eymen was arrested and Wheat, I commend to each department the patriotic fund, reported *Jaat the collections to Napier went home totell Ms wife as thus enlarged, provides a pension of $12 per practice of the posls the department lodged ln-jful at Mankatoonthe complaint J&je, month to all honorably discharged soldiers and date aggregated $1J],11I9'60J A committeewas whait Lord Langdale hadi sand He of New York ot presenting on the 22d 1 sailors who are now, or may hereafter become Corn, authorized to place before congress a of Joseph Cole, charged with of Februaiy, the birthday of the Father added that he doubted whether he disabled, without requiring proof that such disability of His Country, the American flag to such Oats, proposition to set apart a portion, ofr the arose from causes actually withia the robbing Cole's trunk. Eymer and was- dever enongh to writer history public schools as are not in possession $40,000 appropriated for the site to be line of their service, and, as in all other Buckwheat, •of one Let the children receive the stars and his wife startedi down the river in a of th© war. She believed imher husband's similar bills prepared by this committee, added to the fund for the monument. Gen. stripes from the men who placed their bodies f»n without any requirements of boat, but weae intercepted at St. Ac, d?Oh talents, and was anxio«s that as a living wall between it and those Who would Wanner lett the ahair and made a strong appeal dependence in relation to such disabled veterans, tear it down. Peter. he should take up some serious oc At' the Highest Market Price** for the monument scheme. He- sug thus relieving the bill entirely from the THE MATTER OF PENSIONS objectionable taint of pauperism,: a pension for gested that the committee ba enlarged cupation, and accordingly encouraged all dependent parents from the actual time of Charles Philipson, aged twelve We sell all kinds of to iaclude one- representative him to try. He did try. Day was reserved by the commander for the conclusion dependence, whether occurring at or subsequent years, was- taken to the reform of his address Preceding this, he to the sou's enlistment increase of pensions from each. department with in alter day he labored atrthe desk. His SJLOVIt, to minor children from. $2: to $5 pei school from Hastings by Deputy alluded gracefully in turn to topics connected structions to push the- work until the wifer though burdened with the cares month, and a pension for all widows, SHORTS, with the Grant college at Mount Mc^fceg^r. monument was finally erected at Washington! Sheriff J. E. Hyland, having been whether the deceased husband was or was of a large family, was his counselor Memorial day observance, deaths not in receipt of a pension. The committee also Comrade Pferkm&-of Kansas introduced committed, by Justice Johnson upon and amanuensis. She deciphered the prepared a bill granting a pension to. each honorably AT LOW BATES. the organization, charity, Woman's Belief resolutions by whieh theeucampment heartily a charge of stealing $23.65 from Mrs. discharged veteran at the monthly rate whole of Joseph BonaparWs sacret corps, bons of Teteians and military telesraraphers. thanked th& administration of President of one cent for each day's service^ with a minimum correspondence, writtem ima cipher Margaret Bense. The conclusion of the address limitation of $8 per month. Bills containing Harrison for the honor it had conferred Special Attention given to all of these provisions were then in variousforms which had baffled all the experts was as follows upon the Grand Army appointing Corporal The delegates appointed by Gov. Oi£L3-torxa. "Worlc before the committees of congress, Tanner as commissioner of pensions, endorsing who had undertaken! to read it. The committee on pensions have been unable but it was found, on consultation with Memam to* represent the state at to make any piogress in securing favorable consideration his management oft the bureau that: had members entirely impossible in the "I would have given twemty thousand by congress of the pension bill recommended the national charities conventionSan then state of public affiairs to secure been created few the benefit 8t the soldiers Aitiex&ra stone for giinding feed* pounds," saidi Wellington, on by the Columbus encampment The any favorable action thereon Should the encampment Franciscoj pay their own expenses. and sailors of the war, and denouncing- the reason tor this failure will be given by ihe committee, reaffirm its opinions of one year agoi hearing of her succe&S) '*tr» any person Steam Cornsheller. and I know that its members are in nowav these bills are ready tor early presentation to titter and malignant criticisms of apportion It is expected that the honor who could havedone-txhiat forme to blame The question of pension legislation both branches of congress at the opening of the Wood taken for. cash or in exchange- ot the piess upon his official conduct Applause of representing the state ot Minnesota will come befoie ou again tor discussion session, and from interviews-with leading memoers in the Peninsula a and recommendation The number of comrades greeted the resolution, but Gen. Barnum of both houses, and the cordially friendly is sufficient for the outlay they Efapir'e W1 (5a Five years after the conversation entitled to seats this encampment reaches attitude of the administration and the liberal of New York was quickly upon hi&feet 1,000, the largest representation ever accredited incur. views oi the secretary oi the interior and the with lord Langdale the fiarst volume with a substitute, declaring that notwiLhstanamg to »n encampment— a deliberative body so large, commissioner of pensions, the latter being appointed C^SE PURCHASES of the "History ot the Peninsula its members coming fiom all parts of the Union, the assainlts of an unfriendly press after Captt Joseph: Osborne of St. Paul, representing all shades of opinion, it is but natural the encamptnea.li declared its beliet the War" was published- It made it5* and CHEAP SALES*. has been appointed clerk in the public that all will not agree in rhe discussion, but EIGHT TEABS* FAITHFUL SEBVICE on this committee oi the next session of congress, integrity of the commissioner, and author famous. The puiblic were delighted when the discussion has closed and the encampment legislation may be had which shall go far examinees, ©fhee, the position filled has acted, its action should receive the EXPBESSED- EDS APPBOVAL to read the book of one ho mm & SHAPEKAHffi, toward the completion of the fall measure of .earnest support of every comrade "Without by the late The©. Norehus. The of his efforts to do all for the soldiers- and the nation indebtedness to the men who defended had nobly shared* mi aaaiking the history mutual concessions there would be no legislation her flag Down to the time of the appointment sailors of the-country that the laws allowed captain's father was one of the first The voice of the encampment repievents he so eloquently narrated. His of this committee in 1881, little or a it susgested, however, that a committee the best thought and judgment of the majority, Swedish ministers in this country, nothing had been done by the veterans as a class descriptions of battles sieges and and should become a law unto the minority should be appointed to investigate the workings toward systematic work in relation to the who emigrated here when his son The Grand Aimy of the Republic has never exercised marches stirred,the hearts of readers, of the pension office. An animated discussion liberalization of pension laws Immediately Builders and Contractors*. its full influence in pension legislation, was only 5 years old. afterward it was found that the work of the and school boys- declaimed his most ofc three hours' duration, ensued. because of division in its ranks I pension department was seriously hindered, and Comrade Campbell of Kansas voiced the- general brilliant passages Itoait the simple THE MEASUBES BECOMMENDED the adjudication of hundreds of thousands of Henry Scheffier, from Anoka, attempted! NhW ULM, MINN. sentiment as expressed by- atscore o£ "by the national encampment should not be antagonized cases delayed, from the lack of a sufficient clerical word of a friend had started the historian to rob a stranger at More by conflicting measures urged by departments force in that department, as well as in the delegates in the following language.. to his, woirk*--Youth's Com Designs and plans made to order audi or posts Unity of action will secuie offices of the adjutant general and of the surgeon head. He drew a knife and demanded For fifteen vears we have been declaring,, and satisfactory results a divided council will contribute general, from which latter much panion. estimates oa all work furnished andi others have been uttering a sentiment that the money. When about accomplishing to defeat Our demands should be necessary information in regard to country can never pay the debt due to the old contracts faithfully executed. reasonable and consistent The last encampment, pension cases must be secured. soldiers, but Corporal Tanner is the first officer his- purpose a team came up and, after much discussion, by a practically Upon consultation with the then commissioner that has made that sentiment upon a practical Made His Fortune ea a Single Cargo. unanimous vote recommended to of pensions the committee asked of congress an the highwaymiari fled. He was caught reality 1 believe it is the high duty- of this encampment HANSCHEN, •congress a service pension bill and increase in the force attached to these various to sustain him in working uut that Many a Maine fortune was made in by officers) hvub resisted arrest and what is known as the disability pension offices for the purpose of expediting the business sentiment. If the Grand Army of the Republic •bill, the latter having received the repeated approval By the then session of congress the clerical the West India trade- in olden timesbut Anally escaped. He is said to be the ever had a dntv to perform, looking neither to of previous encampments. This action force in the pension office was increased Contractor and Builder*. the right nor to the left, to the committee that few im the way told of a Portland same man who robbed a party in was the result of compromise, and in my judgment from 742 to l,58l) To the adjutant general's is Investigating the workings-of the pension was as wise as ic was just and conservative. office was added 167 clerks, to the surgeon's 166 captain. Toward the close of the Fango the*night before. bureau or to the commissioner himself, it is now, My experience congiess leads me to believe and fifty-two to other departments connected and we ought to pass this resolution. The substitute last centary this captain sailed from that you will greatly strengthen the hands will this work—at total of 1,210 additional The Madelia roller mill, owned by differs with it in onlv one particular. It of oar friends in that body bv demanding at Special attention given, to. mason clerks, at an expense of nearly $2,000,000 annually. Portland with a cargo of lumber for expresses belief in the integrity ot Comrade Milwaukee the pension legislation asked lor at Mitchell Bros. & Cone, was discovered Following this the committee asked of Tanner, and would not influence the action ot "Columbus. Let the committee on pensions San Domingo. Arriving at his destination, congress and secured a law giving the commissioner wc»k in the city and country. the committee charged with the investigation. to be ©n fire and in half an hour take your recommendations to concress, backed of pensions the power to appoint boards It may be better than an endorsement Bke that he fozmd Touissant, the by a united 3rand Army of the Republic and was burned to the ground. Tlie mill of examining surzeons throughout the New Ulm. Minn. offered in the orignal resolution, bat we should there will be no failure. If "Ye are true to ourselves, negro leader, ID possession of the countrv, wherever in his judgment, make our endorsement strong enough. The mm until midnight, and is supposed before the next encampment every comxade necessary to expedite the work of pension original resolution expresses.our sentiments exactly. The North Star Lang and Throat Balis island and was afraid to land. As disabled bv age, sickness or accident, and examination. The next recommendation of this to have caught from the engine If Tanner is dishonastor has done any a sure cure for coughs and colds* the widows and orphans ot veterans will be committee that became law was for the appointment he was about to put to sea again, criminal act we will find it out when the committee room. A large amount of wheat and fcorne on the pension rolls. Wo should neither of special pension examiners in the field, makes its report. The presumption of his ship was boarded by a squad ot give sleep to our eyes nor slumber to our eyelid* and 250 weie appointed to hasten the examination law is that every man is innocent until be is flour was in the mill. The» loss is till justice is done our comrades The service into pension cases about which questions proved gniltv, and as far as I am concerned I negjo troops under command of thV TH E CHICAGO AMD supposed to be $10,000 to $12,000 pension will come. The day is not far distant arise Another recommendation that became will make that presumption go to the fullest extent when an honorable discharge from renewed Christophe, and urged t&> law was for the employment of experts as to in this case. insurance unknown. the Union armv or navy shall be all the special diseases in cases demanding special examination land, as lumber was muck needed on MORTHW^TERN In the debate that followed one delegate evidence required to secure a pension to its holder Let the bondholders of the country remember A lady who lives in fin» style in* declared that he would! not dare to go back the island. Noticing that the ship's THE NEXT RECOMMENDATION that the men who rendered their securities of the committee which became a law was the to the soldiers of Minnesota after harming a Lake city and is worth ia» her owns papers bearing the avatograph of valuable—the men who have insisted that increase of-pensions to $30, $36 and $45 for tne hair of Tanner's head any more than to ride they bepaidtothe utteimost farthing, principal rig&t, several hundred tbssasand dollansv, loss ot a left, arm, foot, hand, or equivalent disabilitv the President of the Doited States, and interest of the monev advanced by them The committee next found that in the through a band of Sioux Indians with their was severely beaten by hes as was the custom in. those days, to the state—let them remember that these men practice of the pension office the claim of a soldier wai paint on. The encampment, he urged, have claims upon the state equal at least to that to a pension from disability was universally daunkest husband, who.is living oa made a great impression on Christophe, should stand by Tanner until something of the bondholder Let those who inveigh attacked upon the ground of existing disability her bounty. She sent to neighbacs against pensions remember that it was wrong nad been proven against him. Gen the captain concluded to. try at the time of his enlistment, and he was compelled to prove that he was in sound health for assistanee,but has taken no legal SAILWAY. Wagner of Philadelphia took the ground that their effect on Touiesant. Accordingly THE BOYS IN BLUE when the government accepted his services. who by their trials, suffering and death bequeathed both resolution and substitute was a club in action against the brute. As he &as OVER 7,000 MILES he landed, marched a the Pension agents had been permitted to charge to them the legacv of liberty and the hands of Tanner's enemies. The encampment pensioners whatever sums they saw fit for their abused her in a similar before* the union, insuring to them and their children the camp of the leader. This persanage-, services in connection with such pensions. In ought not to force the administration Of steel track in lttmas, Iowa, Wisconsin, blessmgs of free Institutions under which they wonder is that she does not get rid of many oases these amounts were enormous upon being told that a messenger enjov greater prosperity, larger liberty, a higher to suspend a necessary investigation. Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota Upon recommendation of the pension committee him. civilization and a purer Christianity than ever with a letter from the President of Anotner delegate, in the course, of .i lengthy and Wyoming, penetrates the Agricultural. the agents' fees were fixed and limited bsfore enjoyed by a people. Le't the people by law. Still later, the recommendation speech, said: -i the Uflited States desired an inter, Mining and Commercial Centres of the News was received at St. Cloud of remember that to preserve to them these of this committee was adopted by congress blessings I was in Washington last week, and I heard It view with him, readily accorded it WEST ANI NORTHWEST. increasing the pension of a widow two accidents, by which two of charged upon the streets and everywhere else "Four hundred thousand of the barve from $8 to $12 a month. It was upon recommendation and the result of the interview w% that men employed in the bureau were ali getting Stearns county's residents lost their Made this, our ransomed soil, their grave!" of this committee that laws have The Unrivaled Equipment of the Line •$embraces then* cases made special and taken op immediately We, the survivors of these men, we, who gave been passed very largely Increasing the pensions that the number was exchanged for lives. Frank Koehler, a farmer Sumptuous Dining Cars, New^* and rerated much higher, while the the best years of our lives to our country, w,ll for the severer disabilities. The disability bill aa equal quaatity of coffee, sugaj. Door devils of the rank and file have to stand Wagner and Pullman Sleepers, Superb yfday thirty-eight years of age, of the town present our claims to congress, and. in doing so, prepared by this committee and which passed back and wait. I told them that it was a lie. •will not approach those authority "with both houses of congress, but was vetoed by the Coaches and and other goods of the captain'a of Spring Hill, was killed by the upsetting bnt if he has done that and we pass the original bated breath and whispering humbleness," but president, provided for pensions to all disabled FAST VESTIBULED TRAINS resolution we endorse such action on his part. selection, exchanging "bulk for bulk aa free men we will demand, asking only that soldiers, without reference to cause of a load of grain which he The snbstititute is broad enough, 'fins encampment which is just. We would rather the nation help of disability to parents In all cases No ship ever sailed carrying so rich" knew nothing of the details of Taunei's was driving, and a twelve-year-old Running direct between Chicago, St Paul our comrades living than erect monuments to where they became in needy circumstances work and cannot pass judgment upon it. We a cargo obtained upon such favorable them dead. "My countrymen," said an illustrious after the death of a soldier, instead of boy named MetzgerofNew Munich, and Minneapolis, Council Bluffs and may believe it is all right, but we do not know comrade, "this is no time to the present law, refusing pensions in any such terms. The fortune of the cap it. If we pass the original resolution andtJbecomuiintee Omaha, connecting for Portland, Denver, while herding cows, was struck by use the apothecary's scale to measure the case, except where parents were dependent ot investigation should exonerate tain was made. He retired from the San Francisco and all Pacific Coast Points. rewards of the men who saved the countrv" upon the soldier at the time of enlistment This lightning and instantly killed, the aim, the opposition pre«s would say that to* administration The spirit of these noble words should govern bill also provided for the continuance of every MLY LINE TO THE BUCK HILLS dare not oppos* the A. ft, and sea and settled down to a prosperous shock boring a hole clear through his •nVthe legislative and executive branches of the soldier's pension in case of his death to his they would have good reason to say it government that the performance of the nation widow iu her own right, and increased the Kte in Portland.—Lewiston head and striping every sored of may be equal to her promise. Comrades, the pension of minor children. The committee had Corporal Tanner himself took th» floor at Journal For Titfrctt, Bates, Maps, Time Tables and fatt S, pending before tue last session of congress, an- Bomarx youth gloried in singing how well clothing from his body. this pu&t, and. in an impassioned, speech de- Information, ap«ly to any Ticket Agent or adCress the Gea'l PassengerAgent.Chicago. 111. br TOT- n^^^g^g. i^jgysSSMfe LlLWSmCAir, H.C.WICTJB, ILP.WILflOS, taeallbasgir. Titfflefeugn, Qw'lfm.Ajt.