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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

In one of it's latest decisions the Su-
preme Court declares that negligence
as q cause of action against a rail
road company must be proven, and
that the finding of the body of man
on the tracks does not create a pre-
sumption that be came there by reason
of the company's negligence. This
ruling will have far-reaching effect
upon damage suits brought against
railroad companies for injuries re-
ceived on their property. The assump-
ton will be made that the tracks were
amply guarded, and the plaintiff will
be compelled to prove his point and
show by evidence that they We're not
1t is notorious that the law regarding
protection at railroad crossings is con-
stantly and flagrantly violated. When,
however, the victim to this negligence
has been killed it becomes almost i'm
possible to bring witnesses to the fact
OF violation at the particular time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

gress from the Territory Of Michigan
and delegate from Wisconsin from 1895
to 1880, commanded the militia of Wis
consin for time, and for three years
was itschief justice. To George Wallace
Jones belongs the distinction Of man,
ing the Territories of Wisconsin AMI
Iowa. .
Gen. Jones has known intimately
most of the prominent men Of the coun-
try. He was a Chesterfield in polite
ness and very popular. He was class
mate ut college of Jefferson Davis and
Zachary Taylor; in Congress he was a
friend Of John Quincy Adams, Andrew
Jackson, John c.. Fremont, Martin Van
Buren, and Franklin Pierce; he was the
partner in business enterprises of Dan
Tel Webster; the colleague in the House
Of James x. Polk, John Bell, Abraham
Lincoln, and in the Senate of Thomas
H. Benton, Charles Sumner, Stephen
A. Douglas, William Fl. Seward and
James Buchanan.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Home, he began to write for local pa
pers and his-first appearance in print
was made in the Kokomo Tribune,
where a number of his dialect poems
were published under the name of John
G. Walker. 1T was not until the ap-
pearance of Leonainie, which he gave
to the world as newly discovered
poem of Edgar Allan Poe's, that Riley's
work began to obtain recognition in
literary circles. Then came a little vol
ume Of dialect poems, which were pro-
fessedly by B. F. Johnson of Boon, and
following it. there appeared The Boss
Girl, Afterwhiles, Pipes O. Pan and a
handful Of the sweetest poems under
the taking title Old-fashioned Roses.
Mr.. Riley is hard worker and pre-
fers the unreasonable hours of night for
his labor. He is a warm-hearted,
genial, companionable man and in his
versatility and mastery of the faulty
everyday language of his countrymen,
he never had an equal. His thoughts
are chaste and the human sympathy
and pure purpose that runs through
his song is the true index of the man
and will be his best and most lasting
eulogy, 80,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Bravo, Baudelon! So long as there
are ships and machinery, cylinders,
cranks, piston rods, shafts or rudders
will give out at some time; and If this
time happens to coincide with the oc-
currence of hurricane, then are gath
cred together the conditions of a great
calamity. Out of the night, the storm,
the awful sea, the crippled ship, have
come all those chronicles Of calamity
that freeze the blood in the old ship
wreck stories. In such a case the one
hope is a hero. All depends upon a
man. If the right man is there all will
go well, though the way be through
gloom, danger and doubt. If the right
man is not there, if one of the feeble
brethren is in his place, that is the end
of the story of that ship. The man
must be one of stout heart and cool
head; undismayed by danger and un-
shaken by the sense of his enormous
responsibility; skilled in trouble and in
the ways to meet it. For such man
great critical occasions are after all
only opportunities. Baudelon was the
man for the occasion in the Gascogne's
great battle, and so we say, Well done,
Baudelon! Lucky fellow to have such
chance; lucky company to have such
an officer, and lucky passengers to be
in the hands of a captain who knew
what to do and how to do it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

In the death of Isaac Pussy Gray the
State of Indiana and the field of Amer
lean politics lose a most familiar and
interesting figure. During lifetime
which was filed with activity and use
full work, he held and discharged &C.
ceptably number of posts from which
he often seemed prepared to step into
the coveted office of the Presidency
His public career began with the civil
war, when he assumed command of
one of the Indiana regiments. After
the war he became President of the
Indiana Senate, being elected as a Re-
publican. 1t was not until seven years
after quitting the battlefield that he
Joined the Democratic party. in which
he figured so prominently. During
his terms in the Governorship of Indi-
ana he acquired the prominence which
made him Presidential possibility"
but for some reason due either to the
man himself or the destiny which or
ders the affairs of politics lis career
never brought him higher than State
position. 1t was in recognition of good
and faithful services that President
Cleveland made him Minister to Mex
leo. but it would seem that the limita-
tons Of the man confined him to a ca
work as State leader, but could not
break out into the larger field of ma
tonal politics.
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Slack in His Geography .

A curious incident regarding strait
occurred during the Russian war;. 1t
would have been ludicrous, if anything
can be ludicrousA connected with war.
Commodore Elliott was blockading a
Russian squadron in the Gulf of Sagha-
lin, on the east coast of Siberia. Think
ing he had the Russians in a cul de sac,
he complacently waited for them to
come out, as the water was too shallow
for him to attack them. AS the enemy
did not come out, he sent in 20 investi-
gate, and found, to- his establishment,
that Russians and ships had vanished.
While he had been waiting for them in
the south they had quietly slipped cut
by the north, teaching both him and
the British Government rather Sc
we're lesson in geography, as it had
been thought that Saghalin was an
isthmus; and they were totally una
ware of narrow channel leading from
the gulf to the Sea of Okhotsk.-New
York Advertiser.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
CHAIN CENT.

the mint. The building stands at No.
% North 7th street, between Market
and Arch streets, Philadelphia, and
was completed on Friday, Sept: Z, 1892.
On the following Tuesday, Sept. II,
the first purchase of metal was made,
consisting of six pounds of old copper q t
Is Sd per pound.
In October, 1892, thSee presses were
put in and President Washington, in
his annual message to Congress of Nov.
8, 1892, says: "There has also been a
small beginning in the coinage Of half
dimes; the want of smalN coins in cir
culation calling the first. attention TO
them" This piece has, on the diverse
female bust, emblematic Of liberty,
and it is stated that Martha Washing
ton sat to the artist while he was de-
signing it. The silver from which it
was struck was furnished by Washing
ton from his private plate. Only a
small number were coined, and it has
now become one of the rare coins, of
America, but being unauthorized can
not be classed in the national series.
There appears to have been nothing
more done at the mint in 1892, and the
year 1893 was devoted to experiment.
ing on the copper coinage, The cent
and half cent made their first appear
ance this year, the former iii number
of designs, but the issue of all was very
small and all are rare. The year 1894
saw very much larger issue of copper
coins, and as the dies became worn out
or broken, new ones Were'engrayed TO
take the place of the same general de-
sign, but differing in details. Fifty-six
varieties of 1904 cents have been dis
covered, showing gradual transition
from the type of 1893 to that found on
the cent Of 1895. The year 1874 wit
messed the beginning of our regular ma
tional silver coinage, which was con-
tinued without intermission for 100
years, some one or more denominations
having been issued every year. On
July Is, the Bank Of Maryland depos-
tied in the mint lot of French silver
coins, valued at $S,715.7315, and the
nrst silver dollars were delivered ut
the treasury on Oct. Is, 1874, over 100
years ago. The number coined was
1,75S, and they are now exceedingly
valuable. They were designed by Rob
ert Scot, first engraver of the treasury,
and weighed 412h grains, nine-tenths
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

article about President Casimer-Pe rier
which so annoyed the President, whose
temperament is extremely sensitive,
that a Government prosecution was in-
stituted against him which resulted in
his being sent to prison for one year.
This only increased his Importance
among the Radicals, who elected him
to represent the Thirteenth Arrondisse-
ment.of Paris in Parliament. This fol-
lowed Immediately upon the election Of
Il. Brisson to the Presidency of the
Cha nber, an event which M. Cashier
Perier regarded as personal afront
to himself. A clamor was at once set
up by the socialists for NJ. Gerault-
Richards release, claiming that his
detention in prison after his election
was blow on universal suffrage. The
Government successfully resisted the
demand for his release. but among
those who voted for it were varions
friends of the President, notably NJ.
Bourgeois, to whom were given the
reins of power after the fall of the
Dupuy Cabinet Nj. Gerault-Richard
is styled the "enfant terrible of the
French crisis.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

The worm has turned. The bitter has
been bitten. Let the unusual fact be
duly recorded. A few days ago Farmer
John Sheffield, Of Manchester Cross
Roads, N. Y, received mysterious cir
cular letter inviting him to go to New
York City and buy "green goods" He
went. He was taken in tow by green
goods" operator as soon as he reached
the town and Was steered into den in
an obscure hotel, where he met two
other men who had money to sell at
cut rates. These gentlemen showed
him 81, 600 in crisp new bank notes, and
assured him that he could have the
bundle for 5000 spot cash: Whereupon
Farmer Sheffield, while examining the
alleged counterfeits, hastily gathered in
the pile, planked down $500 in pay
ment and pocketed his purchase. The
three swindlers made" a united rush
upon him, and in just ten seconds he
had pummeled all of his assailants into
insensibility and sauntered out of the
place humming, "This is the way l
long have sought and mourned because
1 found it not Farmer Sheffield re-
ported the occurrence to the New York
police, and is held to await the appear
ance Of some one to lodge complaint
against him. Let him go-and give him
medal for being the only man who
ever beat gang of New York sharpers
at their own game. The Sheffield cur
rency game is daisy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
They Are Curses to the Country

Too much cannot be said against the
men of wealth who sacrifice everything
to getting wealth. There is not in the
world more ignoble. character than
the mere money-getting American, in
sensible to every duty, regardless of
every: principle, bent only on amassiny
fortune, and putting his fortune only
to the basest uses-whether these be to
speculate in stocks and wreck railroads
himself, or to allow his son to lead a
life of foolish and expensive idleness
and gross debauchery, or to purchase
come scoundrel of high social position.
foreign or native, for his daughter.
Such a man is only. the more dangerous
if he occasionally does some deed like
founding a college or endowing a
church, which makes those good PEG
pie who are foolish forget his real
iniquity. These men are equally care
less of the workingmen, whom they OBJ
press, and Of the State, whose exist
ence they imperil There are not very
many Of them, but there is a very great
number Of men who approach more
or less closely to the type, and, Just in
SO far as they do SO approach, they are
curses to the country.-Forum.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

GEN. JON Els. 1TOH us Id w uC-
oartment. He practiced law in Lon
don, and coming to America located in
Philadelphia, upon the invitation OF
Benjamin Franklin, who was a close
friend. He removed to Louisville, Ky,
thence to Vincennes, where he was the
first lawyer to practice.
Here his son, George Wallace, was
born. He entered Pennsylvania Uni
=ersity, Lexington, Ky, in 1921, and
while there served as sergeant Of Gen.
,:ackson's body guard on that hero S
march from Tennessee to Washington
in 1923, and did similar service for the
Marquis de Lafayette the next year.
He served during the Black Hawk. war
as a soldier, was made a general, and,
in 1913. elected United States Senator.
When his term expired President Bu-
chanan appointed him Minister to Co
lombia, from which lie was recalled
for alleged reasonable correspondence
with jefferson Davis at the outbreak
of the civil war.
Gen. Jones has figured as principal
or second in seven duels, the most in
teresting of which was the affair of
honor between Jonathan Cilley, of
Maine, and William j. Graves, of Ken
lucky. in 1888, which arose from polit-
ical differences Jones was Cilley's
second. The weapons were rifles, and
each man fired three times. At the
last Cilley fell wounded to death. The
General was the last delegate to Con-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
PERFECT FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.

Patented by e. p. McCaslin, of Tu11a-
holna, Tenn.
The Illustration represents q fire
alarm whose operation is not dependent
upon electrical circuits, but which ope-
rates positively in case of fire to sound
the alarm in all parts of the building
with which the apparatus is connected.
The improvement has been patented
by Eugene P. McCaslin, of Tullahoma,
Tenn. A combustible cord, preferably
silk, is run around the ceiling from a
peg, passing over guide pulleys, a
weight at the end of the cord holding
it taht. To the weight is also attached
a non-combustible cord, whose other
end is secured to tripping lever, pull
upon which disconnects two sections Of
taut wire, one section of which is
connected to extend through openings
into all the adjacent rooms and to all
parts of the building, having connec-
ton with an alarm at all desirable
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
THE EAGLE vANQu,shEn
And IT Was Done by a Brave r;&.,
Pussy Cat.

And 1t Was Done by Brave r;+.,.
Pussy Cat.
Charles Wiswell, of Carbonate NJ.
has cat that is king of it's kind D.
sides being good mouser, this remor.
able feline is death to mountain rat.
night hawks and other small pan,o
But the most remarkable incidan+ g.
the cats history happened day or two
ago. 1t was an encounter with q fuu
grown bird of freedom, and pussy was
the victor. The cat was sitting on .
pile of quartz patiently awaiting tho
temperance Of chipmunk, which Int
q moment before it had chased into
hole, when suddenly the sky above tho
cat became darkened, and an omnious
swish as if from rapidly moving BODY
fell upon pussys ear. The cat sprano
aside and in the place it had occupied
but moment before stood fuli-grown
bald eagle, it's plumage ruffed and
thirsting for blood. Pussy had sand
and accepted the gage of battle.
1t was a desperate struggle and. al.
though pussy was pretty badly scratch.
ed by the eagles talons, it finally Sc
cured a decided advantage, having
landed on the eagles back. For few
moments the air was filed with fur and
feathers, and the ground was all torn
up, but pussy held on, and in a short
time succeeded in biting through the
neck of its antagonist. The struggles
of the eagle grew weaker and weaker
and soon ceased altogether, and pussy.
exhausted by the violent exertions and
sore from wounds inflicted by the
eagles talons, rested for moment.
then, as calm as though sitting on
rug before the kitchen hearth, went
carefully over the ruffied fur, made its
toilet, and, selling the body of the van.
quished antagonist, drew it with much
difficulty to the home of it's master,
Laying it at the masters feet, the cat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

While the pungent photographers are
inveighing against the ten-acre theate.
hat, they should aim a few shafts Of
sarcasm at the thirsty members of the
male persuasion who slide out between
acts to "see man." and return with n
breath that causes those sitting near
them to imagine that the opera house
has suddenly been metamorphosed into
distillery or gin fizz factory. There
is also the sweet scented masher who
is always nudging any attractive young
lady who happens to occupy the next
seat. There are just as disagreeable
things in theaters as the overgrown hat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

The Elbe disaster has found its way
into the German reichstag, where the
government representatives in debate
warmly defended the steamship COM
pany while the Socialists bitterly at
tackled it, saying that the discipline on
the ship was bad and the water-tight
compartments anything but water
tight Most unreasonable fellows, those
Socialists. They don't seem to under
stand that the primary purpose of a
steamship company is to make money
and they really cling to the idea that
such a corporation owes some duty to
the people who travel in it's iron collins.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Production and Cost of Aluminium.
Concerning the amount produced and
the cost of producing aluminium, the
London Grocers' Review says:
'"The production Of aluminium in
creased from SO tons in 1890 to.2,OOO
:. tons in 1892, and the price has dimin-:
ished in proportion. 1t was Cos per
pound in 1856, 2ds in 1889, and now it
is about Is I'd. When it is considered
that a pound of aluminium is so much
bigger than a pound of other metals
bulk for bulk, it weighs about one-third
of ordinary metals-this price cannot
be called high.s No aluminium is pro-
duced in England now. Two compan-
les were started in 1SS6-S7, but the
chemical process they employed is now
obsolete. All aluminium sold in the
market is now made by the aid of
electricity. The largest factory is at
Neuhausen, in Switzerland. 1t is capa-
BILE of turning out 1000 tons year.
The second largest is in the south of
France. It turns OUT about GOO tons.
But company has now been formed in
England, and as the soldering difficult
ty seems to be overcome, the metal will
SELL
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

is burned, the weight is dropped and
the tripping lever operated to cause the
separation of the taut wire sections,
thus sounding the several alarms. The
other section of the taut wire is con-
nected at it's other end to a swinging
weight 'fulcrumed on the wall of the
room. Any suitable spring alarm may
be used with this improvement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
IlI.Chosen Place.

A glimpse of Ruslin's whimsicality
is to be found in friends reminin-
iscences. Zone morning." he notes, .as
we were coming out of chapel, he said
to us, I ought not to have come ia
chapel this morning. We asked him.
in some establishment, why. I am 60
ing to write critique on IS picture
in the Academy he replied, and want
to be in a perfectly diabolical tenn.
per-"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Bride, and she was bred by Clement
Stephenson, of Sandyford villa, New
castle-on-Tyne. The heifer has won,
besides the champion plate at the Lon
don cattle show, the special challenge
cup conferred by Queen Victoria, the
presidents prize at the Birmingham
fat stock show, and the Thorley and
ELLINGTON cups, as we'll as many other
minor prizes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

A certain merchant is cackling in
Chicago over his corner of the egg mar
ket. He cleaims to have driven the
price of the hen product to 35 cents per
dozen in New York. A sudden thaw
may spoil his profits and afford handy
missiles against cold blooded calcula-
tors. '..i. T.. ., tu.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
M. GERAULT-RlCHARD.

He IL Said to Have Been the Imme-
date Case of Perier's Resignation.
The immediate cause in bringing
about the resignation Of NJ. Cashier
rerier is said to have been NJ. Gerauit-
Richard, who until recently was an
obscure socialist journalist. He was
tlNs author of an extremely insulting
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

From the length Of time which the
Sultan's commission is demanding for
the investigation Of the Armenian
periencing considerable difficulties in
deciding the indemnity the Armenians
ought to pay for being butchered.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Judge Roger A. Pryor, one Of the
Democratic Judges in New York City,
refused to naturaliZe two men last week
because they could not speak English,
and announced that no foreigner who
had not learned something of that Ian
guage during his five years residence
in this country need apply to him for
naturalization.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

celebratedh his Goth
birthday. He was
born in Vincennes,
Ind, April II,
1904. His. father,
John Rice Jones,
was born in Meri-
onethshire, Wales,
in 1865, took three
diplomas from Ok
ford University,
a n d graduated
SA~ 1o- a.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

According to the report of Chicago
society there are 10000 people in that
city who are confirmed victims of
opium. These are evidently the ones
who took Chicago's last census, says
the New York Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Georgia and South Carolina are quar-
reling about which raised the largest
hog. Why doesn't Congress tackle
some question of real interest like this
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Connecticut has horse that eats pie.
This is somewhat remarkable, although
It has long been known that an inti-
mate relation existed between pies and
nightmares.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

SIN some places people are chopping
up snakes for fuel" remarks the Pitts
burg Press. In others they are mixing
them up with their drinks.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

purred it's satisfaction, and in this way
boosted Of the victory. The combat
was witnessed by q number of people.
The eagle measured six feet four inches
from the tip of one wing to that Of the
other.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

Mammoth coalers built to take car
goes around Cape Horn to Pacific ports
are being built, and one is already
afoat. Enterprise cannot afford to
wait too long for interocean canals.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
GEORGE WALLACE JONES.

Resides at Dubuque and Is the Oldest
Living Ex-United States Senator.
Gen. George Wallace Jones, of Du-
buque, Iowa, is the Oldest living ex-
United States Senator. Recently ne
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

pure silver. Half dollars and half
dimes were also coined this year. The
quarter dollar and the dime did not
appear till 1796.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

We must have money.-New Portage
Gazette. :.
A motion to make the matter unani-
nous will be entertained.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07
FIRST UNITED STATES COINS.

a Brief illustrated Sketch Of the ORR
gin of Our National Specie.
The United States mint was estab-
lished and the money of account and a
national coinage authorized by act of
Congress of April 2, 1892. On July 81,
1892, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the
Foundation stone'' was laid for the
first United States mint building by
David Ritterhouse, the first director Of