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Placed on the Retired List.

The naval retiring board has reported
to Secretary Tracy that Lieut.. J. F..
Meigs, being afflicted with color blind
ness, should be placed on the retired
list of the navy. The case awaits final
action by the President. This is the
case in which the officer was examined
for promotion and found to be deficient
in color sight and subsequently ordered
before the retiring board for examina-
ton.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
Murder of Frances Champion Bl


M. Dubois, the champion bicyclist of
France, was murdered at Luz by a
tram workman who blocked his way
and refused to let him ride past.
Dubois alighted from his wheel and q
quarrel ensued between the two men,
which was ended by Dubois being
felled by blow with a crowbar, which
smashed his skull. The workman, who
is under arrest, claimed that he acted in
self-defense
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
A Congregational Minister Loses Hi:
Life ut Palmer, Mass.

Life ut Palmer, Mass.
PALMER, Mass, Aug. 3.-The Weeks
House on South Main Street, an old
landmark, was discovered on fire at
about , o'clock this morning. The
flames spread with great rapidity and
in short time enveloped almost the
entire structure. There were about
thirtv-five guests and boarders in the
house, and they had barely time to
escape in their night clothing.
The Rev. Mr.. Williams, y retired Con-
gregational minister, who had been
boarding about month at the house,
was burned to death. His body was
found burned beyond recognition,
nothing bet the charred trunk remain
ing. The guests lost all their effects.
The property loss will be about $50, 600;
insurance $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
The Errazuriz Gets a Grew.

LISBON, Aug. 1.-The new Balmacedan
war vessel Presidento Errazuriz sailed
for Chill to-day, having apparently
found her complement Of men by some
secret means. It is supposed that pre-
vious to leaving this port yesterday she
made arrangements to take on board
outside the harbor the additional men
and stores wantad
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
SHOT IN A SLEEPING CAR.

A Passenger on Virginia Train Slain In
His Berth by Robber.
STAUNToN, Va, Aug. Last night
when the east-bound Chesapeake 4
Ohio train, was between Waynesborc
and Basic City, man entered sleeper
and going to the berth occupied by Mr.,
Council, of Portsmouth, o., demanded
his money. Mr.. Connell refused to give
it to him and started to make defense,
when the robber shot him, inficting
dangerous wound. The assailant es-
capped. Mr.. Connell is now at Char
lottesville in critical condition.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
Cashier Missing.

Sylvester Young, cashier at Louis
vile, Ky, for the southwestern division
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, is
missing, and is alleged to be a defaulter
in the amount of $4,000. Young has
been regarded IS a man of exemplary
habits, and has been prominent In Sun
dav school and church affairs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06

for the snubbing
the Prince has re-
ceived from the
Princess Marguer-
lite, of Prussia, and
the daughters of
t h e Prince of
Wales. The young
man has a horrible
breath. 1t is said
Ito be partly because
he can not help it
and partly owing to
the prodigal use of
garlic, to which
most of his 0un-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Change Of Collectors.

The President has accepted the reslg-
nation Of Joel b. Erhardta az collector OF
the port of New York, and has deslg-
mated ]. Sloat Fassett, of Elm!ra, n. y,
as his successor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
Passenger Coaches Overturned.

At about 10 O'Clock on the morning of
the 31st passenger train No. 4, on the
Bellaire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati Narrow
Gauge Railroad, left the track three
miles south of Bellaire, O.. two cars
being overturned and dragged some
distance by the engine. There were
seventy passengers on the train.
Fourteen were injured, five of them
seriously. John Morris. baggagemaster,
was hurt internally and badly bruised,
and will probably die; Charles McElroy
had his leg broken; VIM. McElroy was
injured internally; John Irwin, of
Bethel, O., and G. P. Wilcox, of York,
Pa, were badly injured about the head.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06

it's line and pay the usual mileage
charges without the imposition of the
extra So switching rate demanded by
the Illinois Central.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
ADRlFT IN AN OPEN BOAT.

H1A 0O"11H0H SP0"U 1Hre6 DHyB III I""'
on Behring Sea.
SAN Francisco, CAL, Aug. 1.-The
Chronicles Ounalaska correspondent,
under date Of July 20, writes that Oh
July IL, on Behring Sea, the United
States steamer Rush picked up boat
containing SIX men from the whaling
bark HERMAN. They lost their ship
in a fog three days before, and were
nearly dead from hunger and exposure
when found
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
BISHOP FLASCH DEAD.
He Succumbs to the Grim Warrior Alter
n Long Fight.

La CROSSE, Wis, Aug. 3.-Blshop
Flascb died at 6:15 this morning of cam
Ger of the stomach, after long illness
and great suffering. He had Seen
at the point of death many
times. but rallied, and 1T
was thought possible up to late hour
Sunday night he might again pass the
critical point and linger along as before.
The Bishop was conscious up to the last
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
EATS TOO MUCH GARLIC.

Why Princess Maud Rejected the Heir to
the Italian Throne.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The secret is out as
to Victor Emanuel, the Prince of Naples,
and the upper set are agog about. 1t is
Il dnlicnte subject but il fully accounts
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
Railroad Facilities at the Fair.

The Worlds Fair directors have
leased right of way that will enable
every railroad in Chicago to enter the
exposition grounds. This kills the Illi-
no:s Central's monopoly of exposition
traffic and outs the directors on
footing where they can dictate terms
for traffic. The right of way is strip
fifty feet wide running in an irregular
course from the exposition entrance at
Sixty seventh Street to the Baltimore &
Ohio tracks at Seventy-first Street,
where that road leaves the Illinois Cen
trail. Four tracks will be built to make
connections with the Baltimore & Ohio.
That road will give the use of its tracks
to such roads as may care to enter over
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-06
And the Circus Went BY.

A travelling circus arrived in Sag Har-
Dor, l.. l., on the Goth, and there was the
usual procession. While this was pass
ing through the streets at about IL
o'clock people crowded on the side
walk to see it, and among the
spectators were the clerks Of the
Peonic Bank. One clerk was left in
charge of the banking room, but he was
looking out of the window, and cool
thief, who sauntered into the bank by
back door, succeeded in seizing pack
age of money said to contain S., 800.
He made his escape in the crowd. AS
soon as the theft became known search
was made for the robber, but he has not
been c3ntured
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
attack the Democracy for its eumity or It's
friendship to silver.
PUNIsHING HABITUAL CRIMINALS

A very queer bill is before the Wisconsin
Senate. 1t says that every person who shall
be for the third time convicted of crime,
whether in the State or elsewhere in tine
United States, shall be deemed to be an
habitual criminal; and that at the expira-
ton of his third term of imprisonment he
shall not be released, but shall be detained
for the balance of his life. The proviso is
made thit the State Board having control of
the prison may allow him to 60 on parole
after the expiration of the time for which he
was last sentenced, if in the judgment OF the
board his conduct was such as to warrant
the favor.
This is only one of many similar attempts
to legislate against confirmed criminals, and
will likely never get beyond the committee
to which it was referred. There are more
reasons than one for such a belief. In the
first place, it discriminates against Amer
lean felony in favor of the foreign by
mentioning conviction in the State of Wis
consin or elsewhere in the United States,
leaving the assumption that Grim
inals who come to Wisconsin from other
countries are not to have their convictions
in foreign lands counted against them. This
is unjust, because it practically means that
a man is not to be considered an habitual
criminal until he has been convicted three
times in the United States 1t has always
been the belief that the penal laws of this
country, and OF the various States, do not
discriminate against the felonies of any ma
tionality, but here we have proposed law
that will overthrow such belief. 1t makes
a felony in the United States worse and
liable to greater punishment than if it were
committed in Europe, for instance. We
are not proud of the national product in the
way of crime, but we cannot rest under the
imputation that it is always the most
heinous in the world.
1t is not certain where the frame of the
bill got its authority for making habitual
Grim inals, and for practically sentencing
them to life Imprisonment, and should the
bill become law it is by no means certain
that any man could be kept in prison after
the expiration of his term. No twisting of
any existing law can give a judge the
right to send man to prison for longer
period than the term fixed as the maximum
punishment for his crime; and making
the third conviction itself crime is non
sense
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
BUT WOMEN WILL TALK.
Mrs. b. Gets Little Credit for a Kind and |
Charitable Act.

Mrs. b. Gets Little Credit for a Kind and
Charitable Act.
Detroit Free Press.l
The sweet, motherly face Of Mrs. B.. who al
ways wore decorous black, appeared on the
promenade lately in Rubens hat-black, to be
sure-but oh
Twenty years too young for her," calculated
one friend behind her back. To her face she
said:
You dear thingI How becoming that hat is
to YOU Never wear bonnet againr'
'Did you see Mrs. B. at church to-day 2"
asked another lady of her husband.
"Yes, she never misses morning service" he
replied.
"And did you notice her hat?'
"Why, no. 1 suppose it was the same one
she always wears"
at was round hat" announced the lady In
much the same tone she might have used if
the headgear in question had been a washtub
That woman will wear a crown some day."
answered her husband. "I do not know her
equal in good works."
II am talking about earthly millinery now,"
answered his wife, as she picked up the dis
cussion again.
Meanwhile Mrs. B. had returned home and
taken of the offending hat, which she handed
to her daughter.
"Thank you. Ruby" she said. 81 suppose
my bonnet has come back"
"Yes dear" answered her daughter; land
Mrs. : was SO grateful because You lent it to
her. She said she could not afford to buy
mourning for her boy"
ut was small favor to do for one in
trouble" answered the mother gently
And the wagging tongues never reached her.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

DIR. AUGUSTUS T. MURRY has been ten
dered the Colorado College Greek professor
| ship.
LOUIS BARRETT, brother of the dead
tragedian, is member of the Margaret Mather
| Company.
FRED DOUGLAS mourns that he cannot
celebrate his birthday. He does not know
when he was born.
Ex-Governor P. B. S. PINcHBACK, of
Louisiana, is about to become a permanent
resident in Washington.
JOSE DE NAVARRO, father-in-law of
Mary Anderson though in bad financial straits
at present. is expected soon to come out all
right.
NINE. BERNKARDT gave some recita-
tions in Philadelphia last Tuesday to illustrate
a lecture by Prof. Wisner on the actress,
Rachel
DIR. SEELYE, the well-known college
President, declares that at the present rate of
progress the women of the country will, at the
end of the present century, be better educated
than the men.
Hon. JOHN NJ. LANGSToN is lecturing
upon THE Demands of the Colored People"
He says the colored man has had too many
spokesmen who knew little about him and less
dDOuG MS UeSlTeS.
PROF. JOHN F1sKE is again upon the
lecture platform. in such illustrious company
as Alexander Hamilton" Thomas Jeffe--
son." ANDREW Jackson and the Democracy of
Sixty Years Ago"
JUDGE HAMMOND, Of The Superior
Court, Boston, said at a dinner last week that
he did not believe there was ever Judge who
felt himself fully competent to perform the
duties of his Office.
PROF. ROBERTSON SMITH, of Carlisle,
who edited the last edition of 'The Encyclo-
pedia Britannica" in conjunction with the late
Prof. Baynes, has undertaken the edItorshlp of
the new Bible Dictionary.
GILBERT A. PIERCE, ex-senator from
North Dakota, who has recently been talked
about as possible Minister to Japan, has be-
come the editor of the Minneapolis Tribune,
winch Mr.. Blethen recently sold.
Miss HELEN P. CLARK, an Indian girl
who was educated at Carlisle, has been sent to
Montana as a special agent of the Government.
Her mission will be to superintend the allot-
ment of lands to the Indians.
SIGNoR CRIsPI has decided to 90 to
Karlsbad for treatment this summer. Bis
marck has also chosen Kissengen for his resi-
dence during a part of the warm season. 1t is
believed in official circles of Italy and Ger
many that the two ex-Premlers will meet at
that time,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
THE SPANISH SWINDLERS.

The news that swindlers tried to make a
victim of President Harrison will strike the
reader as very odd. Hedged around by the
proper respect paid to his Office, the Presi-
dent would seem to be safe from people who
make their living by hoodwink1ng the un-
wary. He is not, however, any safer than
any other person. Men whose brains are
teeming with schemes for getting something
for nothing do not allow themselves to be-
come abashed in the presence of the Chief
Executive of the nation. Not they
He is but man who happens
to have some money which they want.
Therefore, according to their peculiar
logic they have right to try and get it. If
they succeed, they feel not bit more exul-
tation than if they had robbed Farmers
Alliance official.
The existence OF an organized gang of
Spanish swindlers working various schemes
among the prominent people of this country
has been suspected for some time. There is
every indication that the gang has been
successful in a number of cases, but that
fear of ridicule has kept their victims silent.
Now that the suspicion has become GER
tainty, every effort will be made to capture
and punish the members, and Harrison will
not say nav.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
CURIOUS CEREMONIES
Performed When the Crown Prince Of Slam
Became of Age.

Became of Age.
New York Recorder.l
The Crown Prince Of Siam came of age the
other day, and in accordance with the custom
of the country he had his hai- cut with great
ceremony The hair in question was in the
shape of a topknot, which had been sedulously
cultivated since he was baby. Every Siamese
boy or girl is subjected to this process, the boy
when he is supposed TO be old enough to be
withdrawn from the control Of the women Of
the harem. and the girl when the manageable
age draws near. 1t is time of great rejoicing
even with the humblest, and in the case of a
scion of royalty there is as much preparation
almost as there is for a coronation. The heir
apparent is IA years DID, and for three days pre-
ceding the great event there were professions
to and from and invocatlons at the principal
temples of the capital
The principal feature of these professions
consisted of battalions of young nen and wo-
men in the costumes of the different provinces
of the Kingdom. Five hundred girls, keeping
exact time in their marching, formed the van,
the officers armed with baby swords and the
rank and file with toy rifles. AT the sides of
the procession writes a correspondent" went
lictors clad in green and blue, soothsayers OF
all ages and sizes wearing their tall pink and
white conical caps, pages in gaudy apparel,
aDDaritors clothed from head to foot in
Mephlstophelian scarlet. Tnen, in the male
contingent. were dark-skinned Highlanders in
kits and plaids, dminutive sheiks and stumpy
grenadiers, Goorkhas and Sepoys, and
score of other mimic Warriors. John
Chinaman was there in azure pantaloons, well
pigtailed, well hated, well umbrellaed and
well famed; nor was Japan nor any part of In
da left without representatives IN the march.
Behind the royal paanquin came white-clad
angels crowned with the ringed and pointed
crown, and bearing sort of thyrsus meant for
gold and silver flowers. Countless drummers,
pipers and trumpeters encouraged the process
siOnistS on their way. and brass bands thun-
dered forth European airs at the seasonable
moment"
The cutting of the top knot took place in the
palace yard with consecrated scissors, and then
the boy was taken up to the summit of a
mountain that had been constructed specially
for the occasion. Here. in an artificial lake,
he underwent the ordeal of a bath and then
was invested with the five insignia of royalty
the crown, the sword, the fan, the slippers and
the five-storied umbrella.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, MAR. 80, 1891
DON'T TAKE CHANCES.

The bright and clear weather of the past
few days creates the hope that the grip cpl
demIc, which assumed such serious magni-
rude last week, Will rapidly disappear under
the sunshine and warmth that was the
promise of Easter. There is every reason to
hope that the promise may be fulfilled.
While the theories as to the cause Of the
grip are far from decisive experience permits
US TO expect that it will disappear with the
advent Of spring weather. But there should
be care against being deceived by the bright
ness of the sunshine into undue exposure.
Especially should those who have been at
all subject to the inroads of influenza or
pneumonia exercise great care against going
out with a change of clothing, The past
season has afforded abundant proof OF the
folly of taking any chances that may affect
health or strength.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
FUNNY FRAGMENTS

"Are you good at fgures?" said the man.
ager of the hotel.
II have systematically trained myself for hotsi
accounts, - said the applicant for position.
''How?''
Il never studied anything but addition and
multiplication. ''-WashfR1ton Post.
SPRING.
Dame Nature now, on pleasure bent,
Puts on her Rayest duds
And introduces to the world,
And cnaperones the buds.
-Nsro York San.
A corset trust is the latest scheme for
squeezing the people that is reported. Who
wouldn't be a trust?- -chatoogG Helos.
cleveland will never see Washington in
,92.',
'I'Il bet he Will; why not2''
Hes dead"
''what! Cleveland dead?''
NAV; Washington. ~ Harvard Lampoon.
Playson-You can't kindle much of FIRE
with poker chips
Ante-No; but you can create . blaze OF excite
mert with them If you have a full hand.-Ez-
Change.
BiCgs-Why did the directors Of the Bee
& Cue Railroad displace President Close? 1t was
only the other day that tney passed resolutions
conmending his management OF the road and
voted to double his salary.
Digg-1es, know: but Close refused to accept
the salary, and they decided it was unsafe 70
trust the road longer in the hands Of lunatic.-
Chicago Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
FARMERS AND PERSONAL TAX

In an article criticising the new State
revenue bill, the Philadelphia Press enters
into a rather extensive argument to i'm
press upon the agricultural element, the
idea that its provisions will increase their
taxes on personal property. The summary
of its views on that point is as follows:
We recognize that the taxation in many rural
townships is unwarrantably heavy and may
be at times oppressive, even to the point of con-
fiscation of the annual earnings of farm
land, but the farmer is not relieved by taking
half this tax of his farm and placing it on his
horses, gathered crops, and farm machinery. as
proposed in this revenue bill
1t may be taken for granted that the
farmers are fully aware of the fact that tax
ing the tax off their land and putting it all
on their personal property will not benefit
them. But in view of the fact that these
provisions have been incorporated in the
bill, by the consent of the farmers repre-
sentatives, ii is quite possible that they ex-
pect tolerably comprehensive scheme of
assessing personal property, to bring them
compensations from one source or another.
They may think that If personal property in
cities is assessed equally with their own
possessions the tax taken off land will
not fall entirely on their personal property,
but that liberal share of it will be raised
from personal property in the cities, and
from the manufacturing and corporate forms
of possessions.
Moreover, judging from the violent efforts
which some unknown interests are making
against the bill, it is legitimate conclusion
that in entertaining this idea the farmers
are entirely right
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
MORE THAN WAS MEANT.

While the decision of the United States
Circuit in Philadelphia the other day
against one of those shallow swindles which
pretend to be cooperative benefit societies
was entirely just, declaration of the judge
is quoted, which taken literally is decidedly
extreme. The Judge is reported as saying
that a beneficial organization ''has no
authority to enter into contracts without
money on hand to carry them out"
If this statement were to be taken as law,
in its full meaning, it would rule ont an
immense number OF legitimate and honestly
conducted organizations. Indeed it is hard
to see how any form of life insurance or ben
eft organization could escape the ban OF
that judicial utterance. The most reliable
OF benefit organizations, when they enter
into contracts with their members, do not
have the money on hand to carry
them all out, but rely on their ability
to raise the money as it is needed
by assessments. The greatest life insurance
companies when they make contracts of in
surance rely upon the investment of the
premiums to be received from the policy
QOlO6FS, 10 Tue VI Inc Gull
tracts under the average expectation Of
deaths, forfeitures and Withdrawals. If the
learned Judge is correctly reported, he per-
mitted his structure upon an obvious fraud
to go to the length of an assertion, which, if
taken literally, would work wholesale de-
structiOn among Legitimate organizations.
The case under consideration was that of
making contracts which there was no posi-
bility of carrying out, and which was there
fore practically obtaining money under false
pretenses. What the Judge intended to say
doubtless was that no organization has the
right TO enter upon contracts, unless by the
application of plain business rules it will be
able to earn the money to carry them out at
maturity. That is a sound principle which
will bar out the fraudulent schemes; but it is
vitality different from asserting that all Or
CARNATIONS must have the money on hand
at the inception of the contract