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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
NEARLY HALF 4 MILLION LOSS.
Disastrous Blaze In the business Center
of Augusta, Ga.


AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. PA destructive
fire broke out here ut $50 this morning.
The Alexander Drug 4 Seed Company,
Fleming 4 Bowles furniture warehouse,
ID. Smiths crockery store, Harry Halls
photograph gallery, j. r. Lamar's law
office, Thomas Il Barton, wholesale
music and sewing machines; tle resi-
dence of Leroy Miller and the Chroni-
Gle Office were totally destroyed. Au-
gusta DORIS clothing house was
slightly damaged. The loss is
roughly estimated at 100000. The
entire morning edition of the
Chronicle WAS worked off. while
the building was in flames. Everything
was wiped out in the shape of type and
machinery. The files of the paper from
$500 to date and the books AMI subscrip-
ton list were saved. The insurance is
about $500, 900 very generally distribute
ed among companies represented here.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
NINE PEOPLE DROWNED,
Steam Yacht Wapiti Wrecked In Georgian
Bay.

Steam Yacht Wapiti Wrecked In Georgian
Bay.
SAGINAW, Mich, Aug. 26.-The steam
yacht Wapiti has been wrecked in
Georgian Bay and nine persons
drowned. Only the cook and one other
person were saved.
On board the yacht were II. ". Sib-
ley, millionaire OF New York, his
wife. son, daughter and two lady friends,
Miss NJ. B. Pond and Miss F. w. Dur
bin, of Rochester. n. Y. The crew was
composed of Capt. James Eidridge and
Engineer Walter A. Henry; Jerome
@ Hare, deckhand fireman, name un-
known, and the cook, George Sherman,
who shipped at Mackinaw.
The Waplti left here about ten days
ago on cruise UP the lakes. She spent
some time at MackInac Island. and
started from there for Georgian Bay on
the 2lst. She is supposed to have run
upon the rocks to-day near Colling-
wood, Ont.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
STARVING HEBREWS
Thirty Families Subsis.ing Entirely on
Green AnnIeS

Thirty Families Subsis.ins Entirely on
Green Apples.
CAMDEN, n. j., Aug. 26.-The Hebrew
families. comprising almost the entire
population of the hamlet OF Sectontown,
are on the verge of starvation. The shirt
operators are Russians. Thirty families,
comprising $50 persons, were induced
to come from New York to Secontown,
last February by Mr.. Secon, who sold
them lots at an average of SIS each, and
promised to all VINO bought the lots
steady employment in his shirt fac
tory. These people say alter
they mad bought the lots they
were refused work. Their condition is
pitiable. They have had neither bread
nor meat for many days. They have no
money and subsist almost entirely on
green apples.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
BIG FAILURE AT MARINETTE.
The Quinnesec Logging Company Forced
to the Wall.

The Quinnesec Logging Company Forced
to the Wall.
MAR1NErTE, Wis, Aug. 27.-The Quin-
nesec Logging Company, with head
quarters at Iron Mountain, has become
insolvent. The company is backed
chiefly by Marinette capital and has
been in progress on building for
over a year, active operation not as yet
being commenced. The road was re-
$s<ltly transferred to Francis A. Brown
\ Co., the senior member of which
was to act as superintendent.
The failure has created great sur
prise in logging circles and consider
able conjecture is rife as to its probable
cause as the company was supposed to
be perfectly solid and reliable. What
disposition will be made of their ex-
tensive int ;ests nothing definite can be
Harmed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
PILES OF LUMBER BURNED.
The Northern Michigan Company Loses
500, 900.

PETosKEY, Mich, Aug. 27.-Fire broke
out this morning. in the iath room Of the
Northern Michigan Lumber Companys
factory at Fandorage, near Oden, seven
miles north of Petoskev. The flames
spread with great rapidity, until the
entire immense plant was in flames.
r. &. Peters is the principal stockhold-
er in the company, which employs over
lG0 men in the manufacture of lumber
and hardwood articles. Fire engines
from Charlevoix and Petoskey were
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
GUESTS HAD TO JUMP.
Destruction of the Hotel Belmont at West
Asheville, N. G.

Destruction of the Hotel Belmont at West
Asheville, N. G.
AsHEvILLE, N. c., Aug. 25.-Fire de-
stroyed the Hotel Belmont in West
Asheville last night. With the excep-
ton of perhaps half dozen the It's
guests got out safely. The remaining
few jumped from the third floor to
the top of the veranda and then to the
ground, sustaining severe injuries.
Mrs. Crane, of Charleston, lost
$1,000 worth of diamonds; and another
guest $4,000 in cash. A great number
of guests escaped with only their night
clothing. The hotel cost 100000 and
was insured for 5000. 1t was the
property of the West Asheville I'm.
provement Company. The furniture
lessee of the hotel, and was insured for
So 00O
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
DANCING THE MESSIAH DANCE.
Whites Afraid of AN Indian Outbreak in
Oklahoma.

GUTHRIE, Ok, Aug. 23.-Deputy Mar
shall Lilly came in this morning from
Otoe, near Ponca, bringing in
nearly score of Indians. Lilly
states that the entire Otoe tribe
Is at their camp dancing the Mes
slab dance, and that recently they
were joined by the lowas, Poncas .Osages
and other small neighborng tribes; tuat
the dance was on in earnest, and that
considerable anxiety WAS mani ested bv
the whites III the neichborhood.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
SEVEN MINERS KILLED,
Fall of II Portion of the Roof In u Pit at
SWMnssa, Wales.

LONDON, Aug. pa fatal accident,
resulting in the death of seven miners,
occurred to-day in a coal pit at Swan
sea. Ten of the men employed in the
pit were descending III the cage
to their work this morning when
part of the pit roof tell in.
The men were caught under the fall
ing earth and rock, and seven of them
were crushed to death. The other
three were rescued, but it is hardly
thought probable that they will live.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
PLAGUE OF BLACK FLIES.
1flford, Mass, Infested by Peculiar
Species of Insect.

species OF Insect.
MILFORD, Mass, Aug. 24.-Milford has
plague of black flies which rivals the.
famous plague of Egypt. For number
Of days past the lower part of the town
has been infested by a peculiar species
of an insect of the nature of t1y, pus
not SO large. People have been forceu
to vacate houses. Not alone is 1t on az,
count Of their number that the trouO.er
arises from them, but on account. %
their sting as we'll. A number OF Ino
Main Street stores are suffering 10 q
great extent, while housewives al Owe. e
the town are wondering where 'heit
came from and how they will get ria -
them
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
VILLAGE BANkRUPTED.

UeplOrhDIe Result OF the Failure OF n
Michigan Company.
ROGERS CRY, Mich, Aug. 2G.-The
0cqueoc Improvement Company, an
eighteen-months-o old enterprise. has
been forced to the wall. The village OF
Hammond's Bay, built principally by
men employed by the company, j.
practically bankrupt. Over 100 mill
hands and teamsters have received 10
pay for some time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
DANIEL DOUGHERTY DYING
The Silver-tongued Orator May Pass
Away at Any Moment.

HW"y "1
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 81. - Daniel
Dougherty, the eminent barrister, is at
deaths door at his home, 202l Spruce
Street, this city. His attending physi-
clans say that he may pass away at any
time He was born in Philadelphia,
December Is, 1926. He has been i'll for
sew eral months
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01

Chief Engineer OF the p. Dea"'
Col. E. C. Smeed, of Omaha Nh e;f,,
chief engineer of the Union !!, a(l
Railway Company, died at fni'"''
phia on the 24th.
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17
FROM COMMERCIAL STREET STATION.
MAINE CENTRAL r.. r.
For Bangor, Bar Harbor, st. John, the
White Mountains. Quebec, Montreal
and the West.

For Bangor, Bar Harbor, st. John, the
White Mountains. Quebec. Montreal
and the West.
On and after June 26, 1892, passenger
trains leave Portland as follows
For Danvi1le Junction. Auburn and Lewis
ton, $50, and a. M, Lilo, 5.1o p. M,
and on Sundays at GAO p. m.
Lewiston via Brunswick, GAO a. m, *1.O0,
sos and 11.20p p. m.
Rockland and Knox and Lincoln Stations,
$40 a. M, 1.20 and +11.20 p. M
Brunswick, Bath, Gardiner HalIowen and
Augusta, $40 a. m. *1.oo, 1.20, 800, and
+11.2Op. M, and for Brunswick, Gardiner
and Augusta at II 20 am:
Pennington, Phillips, and Rangeley via
Lewiston, $50 M, 1.15p m; via Bruns-
wick, GAO a. M, 100 p. IN.
Monmouth, Winthrop, Readheld ana OAK
land, $50 a. M, 1.15 and BIO p. M, and for
Waserville via Lewiston. $50, lilo a. M,
lib, 5. 10 p M; via Augusta. $40 a. M,
s1.O0, j.2O, t11.20 p. M, and IL. 20 a. m.
Skowhegan via Lewiston, 1.15 p. m; via
Augusta, $40 a. M. 1.2o, t11.2o p. m.
Belfast, 1.20 and l. LOOP. m
Bower and Foxcroft, via Dexter, 11.2O a. M,
LOO, 1.2O, 11.20 p. m.
Bangor via Lewiston. IL. 10 a. M, .15 p. m. !;
via Augusta, II 90, 100 and +11.2O p. ~,
T1.2O m, and Sundays only at 7.2o a. IN.
Eangor & Piscataquis r. r. via Dexter. at
lilo a, M, LOO and 11.20p. m; via Old
town at lilo a. M, 20 p m.
Ellsworth and Bar Harbor, LILO a. M, LOO
and 411.20 p. m. and Il. 20 a. m.
vanceboro, st. John, Halifax and Provinces
lilo a. M, NJ. 90, 1.20 and +11.20 p. m.
Houlton, Woodstock, st. Stephen and North
Aroostook, 1.2O and 11.20p. m; St. An
IN. train Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
comments at ROcklaQd with
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17
Portland & Worcester Line.
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, R. R.
STATION FOOT OF PREBLE STREET.

On and after Monday, June27. 1892, Passen-
ger trains will Leave Portland:
For Worcester, Clinton, Aver Junction,
Nashua, Windham and Epping at 7.30 D..
m. ami 1880 p. m.
For Manchester, Concord, and points North
at 80 a. M. and 1890 p. m.
For Rochester, Springvale, Alfred, Water
boro and Saco River at Z 80 a. NJ, 1890 and
$40 o. M
Far Gorhan at 7.3o and 1890 a. M. IL 80,
$780, $780, $50 and 11.16 p. m.
For West brock, Cumberland Mills, West
brook junction and Woodford's at 7.3o,
$40 and 1890 a. m, 1890, 200, $50, $50,
$50, 900 and 11.15 p. m.
For Forest Avenue Deering), $40 p. m.
The 1890 p. m. train from Portland connects
at Aver Junction with "Hoosac Tunnel
Route for the West and at Union Station,
Worcester, for Providence and New York,
via providence Line" for Norwich and
New York, via Norwich Line" with Boston
g. Albany r.. r. for the West, and with the
New York All Rail via "Springfield.'
Trains arrive at Portland from Worcester
at 100 p. M. from Rochester at $50 a. M,
100 and 5.50p. m.; from Gorham at $40,
$50 and IL. As a. M, 1.3o, 4.45, $50 and 7.35
p. M
South, apply to S. E. CORDWELL, Ticket
Agent, Portland, Me.
j. w. PETERS, Supt.
CD. WIGGIN. Genl Ticket Agent.
oct5 diff.
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17

headfesarzags into the area before the
ssana ana hng] themselves violently
frona side to side till ribbons, bows,
copans ans: sawsisy were scattered in
all dirss4iSMs.
Yeuns zasgs who went forward to re-
move sistsra or swsesAsaFts from the
"raoy,raars' bench we're efren seized,
and nascy INSTANCES eoassmed were such
fellows swsxe at every jerk, bat could
not stop it. This strange afnioticn ended
suddenly, and from 1880 forward the
phenomena most noted were frances
and rigidity "under the power" as it
was called. In 1851 saw very stxeng
man fall in that state and was afterward
told that he lay rigid for fourteen hours.
At that meeting, which was in Parke
county, Ind, heard Richard Hargrave
preach a sermon that for vivid word
painting excelled anything reported of
Starr King, Wendell Phillips or Bob
Ingersoll, and immediately after it came
description of hell by another revival
list which set dozen women to scream
ing as if in mortal agony.
Hargrave was long contemporary
OF Cartwright, and like him was con-
verified in boyhood and preached all the
rest of his life, but outlived the other
several years. Partly contemporary
with them, but attaining prominence
after them, was Aaron Wood, d. D., who
was licensed to exhort at eighteen and
served in the regular ministry fifty-fve
years. He was scholar and writer as
well as a preacher, and such to some ex-
tent was Richard Hargrave. These two
We're the prominent figures at camp
meetings of my boyhood days.
1t is idle to argue the merits of the
old time camp meeting of the west and
south-it was necessity. If the pio-
neer preacher, rude and untaught as he
often was, had not followed up the pio-
neer settlers of Indiana, Kentucky and
adjacent states; if he had not reused
their hopes and fears with his rude elo-
ce-metaphorically shaking them
right over the white hot caverns of
hell" as the phrase then was-there
would have been widespread moral
chaos. Tt did not lack much Of it as it
was, and if the Cartwrights, the Har-
graves and their sort had not believed
every word Of their fiery theology they
could have done nothing. Such men as
Professor Briggs and DR.. Patton would
have put the pioneers to sleep. In the
expressive slang of the west, they
might as we'll have sung psalms to a
dead horse"
But the camp meeting preachers of
1920-55 believed every word of the New
Testament in its literal sense, and it
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17
An I,npersineas Question.

II a man ventures much into what
passes for cultured society he is hardly
seated before some well-equipped indi-
vidual inquiries: ''Have you read this
or that bool5?" says the Boston Globe.
TIE ilnpertinence of this kind Of ques-
ton as a matter Of civility is evident,
since it either calls upon the person
questioned to confess ignorance or else
lie. Speaking of this species of cultured
incivility a writer in Blackwood's Maya
zine remarks that there are published
every year twenty thousand standard
volumes, all of which are worth read
ing. In order to be well up in books a
man ought, then, to read at least fifty
books daX.
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17
STEAMERS.
Portland & DOOthbay Steamboat Co.

Summer Arrangements. On and after Mon.
Bootnaay every Monday at 7.15 a. m. for Port
land touching at SO. Bristol, nHeron Island,
Boothbay Harbor and squirrel Island. Every
a. M for Round Pond, touching at squirrel
Island Boothbay Harbor and sHeron Island.
Every Wednesday leave Round Pond at $50 a.
IN. for Portland, touching at *Heron Island,
Thursday leave Portland at s a. m. for Pema-
qud touching at squirrel Island, Boothbay
IIarh0r, sHeron Island So Bristol and East
Iioo5ahay. Every Friday leave Penaquid at s
a. M. tor Portland touching at So Bristol, East
Roothbay, *heron Island, Boothbay Rarbor
and squirrel Island. Every Saturday leave
Portland at S a. III. for East Beothbay, touching
at squirrel Island, Boothbay Harbor sHerol
Island and SO. Bristol, *Steame touches from
June Is to sept. Ii. No freight received after
745 a. m. on day of sailing.
my1odtf ALFRED RACE. Manager.
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17

contest for the honor of carrying canes
during the college year. 1t is spirited
and exciting spectacle, and is invaria-
bly, Witnessed by a large concourse of
spectators who crowd the campus
which surrounds the college buildings
and stretches to the beach of Lake
Michigan. A large central arena is re-
served for the contestants. A single
stout cane is selected and placed in
trusty hands. AT signal from the
umpire of the occasion the contesting
elasses-or rather the masculine mem
bers thereof-make a wild rush for the
prize. AS 'sall is fair IN love and war;"
so all is fair in the cane rush, and the
peaceful campus at once becomes the
scene of furious bedlam, the center of
which is the cane and those who are
struggling to wrench it from the hands
which hold it in temporary possession,
while the circumference of this contest;
ing mass is made up of those who ars
LtrHinG>te -break.from those who hold
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17
PRESIDENT HENRY WADE ROGERS.

oughly typical western school, full OF
snap, independence and American push.
Here we have young men and women,
toiling togetherffor learning, on an abb
solutely equal footing, untrammeled in
strictions which make the government
of many nominally co-educational in
situations so irksome to the thoroughly
American spirits of the students. The
proportion of wealthy pupils is very
small compared with those of other
universities. A considerable number
of the pupils, of both sexes, earn their
maintenance each year ''as they go
along,'' and a larger number earn a por-
ton of their expenses. AS result
there is broad spirit of manly and wom-
anly independence among the pupils
which leaves room for very little of the
aristocratic nonsense which vents itself
In the disgraceful ''hazings" and ''col-
lege scrapes.' The majority of these
self-dependent pupils are too busily en-
gagged in caring for mo. 1" to find
either time or inclination for the by
play which the idle sons of wealthy
parents too frequently seem to think a
necessary establishment of college
course.
But it is not to be inferred that these
busy students are at all lacking in spirit
or love of fun and sport. On the con-
trary, they are enthusiastic in all leglt-.
innate manly sports, and are the three
year champions of the college league of
baseball teams, comprising the leading
teams of the colleges and universities
of the northwest.
No better idea of the rolliclzing enthu-
siasm with which they enter upon all
athletic matters can be given than by
quoting the following circular now in
active circulation:
l. who write my name below, am a student OF
the Northwestern university. Ilove her; Hove
myself; I love my fellows; l don't hate "the
eirls;' / value brains; value bodies; J. think
athletics helps both, and that looking on is
wholesome.
Such being my creed, and the university hav-
ing generously opened wide and handsome
grounds facing Lake Michigan and the Sheri-
idan road in Evanston, with baseball, football,
tennis and running fields, will OF course pay to
Mr.. Blank, treasurer, the popular, universal
sum Of the almighty one dollar toward thirty
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. grand stand upon the
grounds.
College pride, use, ornament and satisfaction
forever, all for dollar.
To hesitate is to be lost
Here goes! JOHN JONES DASH.
Who could resist SO snappy an appeal
as this? The business sense and lit
erary style which dictated such docu-
ment could find prompt and profitable
employment with almost any great adj
vertising enterprise.
A unique and interesting feature of
college athletics, which has recently
been abolished, is the annual ''cane
rush." in which the juniors andsseniors
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17

each other and push iato the center of
the whirlpool, at the sacrifice Of cloth
ing, dignity aud almosteevery consider
alton excepting class pride.
Not infrequently hands,, noses, eyes
and thighs have suffered severely in
these ARRAYS, and the campus turf has
often been stained with honorable
blood. The most serious accidents Of
this kind have resulted from the break
ing of the cane in the hands of the
gladiators, the hard splinters of the
stick infiicting severe decorations. IL
was this feature of the sport which led
last year to its abolition.
And this brings me to speak of the
authority which relegated the cane
rush to the ''barbarous past, to keep
company with fencing duels and the
other bloody pastimes OF winch students
have heretofore been fond. ~
The government of the university is
thoroughly American-of the students,
for the students and by the students
with slight qualification to the last
CLAUSE. It is called the college senate, :"
and is composed of two mem bers from
each college class and representatives
from the university faculty. Each class
chooses its own representatives.
This senate, like the state and ma
tional houses of that name, is very
dignified body and transacts it's impor-
tant business with fitting elaboration.
Not only is the plan of government
found to be very wise one, but it also
gives to those who are honored by an
election to it's mem bership practical
and responsible lesson in politics.
Another unique and interesting fea-
ture of college life at the Northwestern
university is its connection with the
United States life saving service.
The life-saving station is modest
little cottage, the building standing
near the preparatory school, on the
corner of the campus, close by the Lake
beach. It is, with the exception of the
captain, manned entirely by university
boys, who room in the captains resi-
dence, opposite the station. This
"'varsity crew" makes no pretentions
to style and it's regattas are not con-
Quoted upon smooth seas and under the
inspiration of gay colors, futtering
handerchiefs and the applause of fair
ladies. A midnight gale, an angry roll
ing surf and ship in distress are the
scenes of their contests, which are af-
fairs of life and death instead of gala
day frolics. No one will envy them
medals of honor with which the govern
ment has recognized their heroic serv-
ices in rescuing three hundred lives,
and much less will they be envied the
paltry fifty dollars per month, which
each member receives for risking his
life for those of the lake mariners.
This is certainly varsity crew. Of
which any college might be proud.
The casual observer cannot fail to be
strongly impressed with the fact that
the university is most fortunate in its
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17

For the first twenty years or so of the
camp meeting age the phenomena were
such as cannot be easily believed. Hun
dreds fell under ''the power" at single
meeting, and on recovering told Of hay
ing visited heaven and convsTaed with
the Saviour er the angels. Strangest of
all was tine affection called by the peo-
pie Gin Kentucky and indiana at any
rate) the Jerks" at first it affected
only the rsexs'S--Ehcse under csn
viction of sin. Thea by "a eora Of raag-
netic sympathy it shruek ali sorts of
people. Fashicna5ts yssng ladies,
whose thoughts were ON anything bat
religion, would look on awhile at the
seekers around the altar and then,
being suddenly seized. would bou'a
The Portland daily press., 1892-09-17

location. The peaceful shades OF
Evanston, with it's broad campuses,
magnificent trees, boulevards and lake
scenery, furnish the quiet and inspira-
ton conducive to a studious life. while
a ride of thirty minutes will place stu
dent and professor in the center of the
whirl and activity of the great worlds
fair city, where the greatest libraries Of
the country are being collected and
where the ablest jurists and lawyers in
the land try cases of national inpor-
lance.
Although the university has now three
millions Of dollars of clear assets, it has,
within the past year, received good be-
quests to the amount of $3.50, 900. It has
during that period made many other
strides in progress.
The departments of law, medicine,
dentistry and pharmacy, all located in
Chicago, which have heretofore been
only nominally connected with the uni
vesity. are now it's colleges-thoroughly
consolidated and harmonious parts Of
the Northwestern university.
Under the vigorous hand of President
Henry Wade Rogers, recently called
from the law chair of the University of
Michigan, these changes have already
been wrought, and many more, equally
important, are in process of realization
A college of technology and OF civil engi-
neering are among the most immediate
additions. A series of special lectures
is now in progress by such eminent
authorities as Francis A Walker, LII.
D., president of the Boston school of
technology; Edward W. Beemis, P. 81.
D., professor of political economy in
Vanderbilt university; Hon. Carroll D.
Wright, chief of the national bureau of
labor statistics, and Albert D. Shaw,
American editor of the Review of Re
views.
Certainly Chicago need not blush for
the future of her institutions of higher
education. FORREST CRIssEY.