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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Bailey
Gatzert entertained a. luncheon at her
Lake Washington cottage Mrs. II. @.
Bond, Mrs. Del. Harbaugh, Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs Hyde. Mrs. Farth and Mrs. j. r.
Hayden
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

Mrs. E. C. Neufeider entertained most
delightfully."- at lnnch on Wednesday after
noon Mrs NJ. j. Carkeek. Mrs. David
kellogg, Mrs. W. r. Preston. Mrs. John
I.eary, Mrs r. C. washburn. Mrs. A. E.
McCulsky. Mrs. z. A. Strout, Mrs. David
Baxter. The house and table decorations
we're elegant and the menu delicious.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

Mr.. Fred Baxter gave a launch party on
Lake Washington last Wednesday even
ing in honor OF Miss Kate Mcfraw, at
which the following were present: Miss
NcGraw. Miss Waldron, Miss Helen Nc
Naught, Miss Eta Nugent. Mrs. Fred
Ssimson. Mr.. Sidney Hansard, Mr.. Rob
Brinker. Mr.. Jess r. BrInker. Mr.. Frank
Frederick. Mr.. OTrin Ranke. Mr. Walter
Fulton and Mr.. TSsll kellogg.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

Mr. and Mrs s. c. Yerkes, Mrs. Caus-
ten. Miss Munger, Mr.. Al Cookingham,
Mr.. Broadbent and Mr.. Fred Tlorndyke
made up a congenial picnic party at Ma
dr0na park on Thursday afternoon and
evening. delicious dinner was served
in one OF the picturesque arhors that
sdorn the park. followed by a beat ride
and singing and dancing a. the Yerkes
home on Suffer street.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16

Mrs. Thomas ". Gordon and her guests.
Mrs. NJ p. Van der Horek snd Mrs. ]. G..
Rohs. OF Minneapolis. are camping n
Paradise valley. at the foot OF Mount
Rainier. They viii remain out several
days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
ENGLAND AND UNITED STATES.

The American confines himself to his
continent. He takes no part in the
scramble for Africa. He does not want
Constantinople or Egypt. He has no
designs on India or on railways to the
back door of China His Monroe doc
trine, though often extensively an
nounced, only means that he wants to
be let alone. This, to those who recog-
nize his tremendous power, must ap-
pear on the whole an amiable and for
tunate frame of mind. We believe We
may trust the good sense Of Britain to
let him alone and we hope that in spite
of some loud hobbledehoy talk he will
have the good sense to let Britain
alone. Disputes there will be, but the
existence of a competent court to set
tie them will call forth the law-abiding
instincts Of the Anglo-Saxon mind.
These two nations, that parted in
wrath and blood, may find the path of
perpetual peace and, dropping their
olive leaves may leave trail that less
happy peoples may ultimately find and
follow.-New Zealand Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

vice. His earlier experiences were
gained at political centers OF such
varied character as Berlin, The
Hague, Madrid, Washington, Brazil
and Paris. For two years he was
secretary Of the legation at Pekin,
and held the same position in Wash
ington. He was British agent and
consul-general in Bulgaria during the
five eventful years succeeding Prince
Ferdinands accession to the throne
in 1887. He was later British minis
ter to Pekin, and did good work dur
ing the recent Chinese-Japanese war
Germany's ambassador to England,
Won -Wildenburg, is des-
tined to be another of Europe's great
statesmen. It is said of him that
during a stay in Russia he completely
won the confidence Of Lobanof-Rostof
sky, and that the recent diplo-
matte union between Russia and Ger
many was the work of his intellect.
Costaki Pasha is Turkeys ambas
sador to England, and is in constant
communication with Lord Salisbury.
England's master stroke was the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

appointment of its Russian ambassa-
dor, Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles,
to the Berlin embassy, giving the first
evidence to Europe that it was
thoroughly enrapport with the Rus
sian-German entente.
Sis Edmund Monson, England's
new representative in France, is an
other of the great men of the last
decade of the century. In 1892 he
was sent as ambassador to Vienna,
and made a privy counsellor. As
an arbitrator Sir Edmund has had
some valuable experience, such as it
may be said that no ambassador now
adays should lack. This was when,
in 1888, he acted as arbitrator under
convention between the United States
and Denmark on the Butterfeld
claim, a task which occupied his atten-
ton for the best part Of year.
Of the generals of the coming war
Germany would have as it's Moltke,
Count Waldersee. He was recently
made field marshal, and at present
commands the Schleswig-H olsteln
Army Corps. His age is ffty-six, al
though he looks younger; he is hand
some, active, ambitious and married to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
6R 3 EIEA
HRhOTNA%

which all the affairs of southeastern
Europe were overhauled and read
justed, and the car was cheated out
of his just reward. After war last
ing 322 days, the loss of over 100000
men. the only territory gained by
Russia was a slice of Armenia. Ser
via was made Independent in name as
we'll as in fact, Bulgaria was erected
into a principality tributary to the
sultan, and Bosnia was coolly handed
over to Austria in payment for the
emperor's compliance with the Eng
lish demands, on Russia. The treaty
satisfied nobody, for Austria wanted
more, Germany was not in a position
to get anything and Great Britain
wanted to establish a protectorate
ever Syria, but got only Cyprus.
The Balkan states and Greece de-
manded the whole of European Tur-
key and had to be spoken to very
sharply before relinQuishing their
demands, while even Italy, jealous Of
English supremacy in the Mediter
ranean, made a good deal of trouble
before final pacifcation was effected.
So it is that England stands today
without friends in continental
Europe. and while Russia, France
and Germany have been building up
Davies to confront those of Great
Britain, the latter has not been idle.
Its warships are today equal to those
of the three nations mentioned above
put together, its estimates for 1896
alone allowing for the building Of ad-
ditions to its navy equal to the entire
tonnage of GermanyIs warships.
Yet the best evidence that Europe
is on the verge OF its greatest war lies
in the armed camps that now fairly
cover its domains. Here is a table
giving comparative figures:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
Prospective
Siren
Cost.
30,629,233 $671.726,825


Estimates of war ministers.
The table shows that over three
millions of men are constantly under
arms. twenty-five millions have
had military training, and the pros
pective strength, when the most re
cent laws shall have been in opera
ton a few years more, reaches the
amazing figure of thirty millions.
These figures are a little misleading
on account of the enormous strength
given to Russia. 1t is not probable
that she could utilize, in any way,
more than One-fOurth of the strength
attributed to her, and she would not
care to attempt that for considerable
time. The expense column reaches
the grand total of $671 100000.
At present the situation is in the
hands Of Europe's statesmen. Soon it
will be turned over to it's generals,
and both classes are developing a
series of new historical characters.
Among the statesmen is the British
ambassador to Russia, Sir Nicholas
Roderick O'Conner. Sir Nicholas
has deserved we'll of his country in
several important appointments since
he first entered the diplomatic SER
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
Totals .125, 696
A Calculation.

Election experts in Maine figure that
the republican gain. in the cities was
10 $40 per cent, and the democratic
loss was 35 IL per cent. In the
smaller towns the republican gain was
- per CGCt. and the democratic loss was
Il per cent. In some purely agricul-
,Gfal districts the republican gain was
90 per cent Taking the whole state
over the republican gain was about 80
per cent. over the presidential vote of
1892 and the democratic loss about %
per cent.
Neither Maine nor Vermont is a safe
political barometer for the whole coun-
try, but it is an interesting mathemat-
zeal calculation to figure what the re
suit would be in other states in NOvem-
Der if exactly the same political change
occurred in them that has occurred in
Maine as a consequence of the cam
paign for free silver If the demo-
cratic vote in the other states should
decline % per cent. and the republican
vote gain 80 per cent, as both did in
Maine, this would be the result next
November:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Massacres go on apace. Gladstone
thunders from his retreat for action
America joins in the cry for succor.
And yet Lord Salisbury looks on in
silence. He knows that his overtures
to Turkey for a joint occupation of
Turkey have been met by an almost
brutal refusal. He is aware that
Germany, Austria and Italy, standing
together automatically, favor Russia
in the politics that are to end in the
wreck of Turkey. He knows that
France will concede all of Turkey to
Russia in return for aid in it's pros
pectiye contest for the recapture of
Alsacc and Lorraine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
MR.. NAS8Y ON SILVER.

Confederate x Roads (Which is in
the state Of Kentucky, Jan. p, 1878.
I amt so cert'in that l want the sill
yer bill to pass ez I was. The fact is,
the thing don't work as I supposed
it wood, and l amt clear onto it,
Their is suttle principles in these
f1nanshe1 questions witch requires a
great deel Nv thought, and there is I'M
DERIVING principles witch man has
got to understand afore he is compe-
tent to set hisself up as authority.
One thing I'm cert'in Nv. Bascom
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

a lady who was originally an Ameri-
can.
England's great soldiers would be
Lord Wolseley and Lord Roberts.
For Russia the present chief of
staff, General Obrutcheff, probably the
best strategist and tactician in the Rus
sian army, would retain his position
in war as in peace.
Turkeys great soldier would be
Osman Pasha, the defender of
Plevna.
France would have its General
Saussier, General Zurlinden and Gen
eral lamont.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Paris, Sept. 2O.-Europe is drifting
warwards. The death Of Lobanoff-
Rostofsky may have broken some tiny
wheel in the gigantic mechanism Of
European politics, but the repairs
were quickly made, and the work of
combining, of plotting and counter
plotting goes bravely on.
One fact settled beyond all doubt is
the prospective disnemberment Of
Turkey, and the nineteenth century
will have as it's contribution to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
AFFAIRS ABROAD.

Italy and Abyssinia have concluded
peace and Russia has accepted the con-
ditions
There is no truth in the report that
Alexander Sullivan of Chicago, the
Irish leader, is arrested in Paris.
The failure of the Labrador fishery
is now said to be complete. This is
the worst disaster that can befall the
colony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Fire destroyed the Mcguire manu-
featuring company's plant in Chica-
go. The loss is $4,000. The company
constructs car and railroad supplies.
Mrs. Callahan want to Eet a pair
of shoes for the little boy.
Shopman-French kid?
Mrs. G. Indignantly mott
He's my own son-born and bred
New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

DISMEMBERMENT OF TURKEY
NEAR AT HAND.
PLOTTING FOR THE SPOlLS

Failure On the Part Of the Statesmen
to Solve the Problem Will be the
Signal-Continenta Europe Com
bined Against England-Soldiers
Who Will be in the Fray.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Il demand to be recognizedr' scream
ed the memberess from the Umpty-
Eighth district. Impossible said
the speakeress, looking freeziny:y
through her lorgnette, "the lady is not
in our set."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
Arkansas.

Dem. Rep. Pop. PIuT.
1892 Gov. .9O,1T5 53,64i 81, III Sc, 471
1892 Pres) ST 1874 1884 Il 1881 4O,95O
1896 (Gov).. 71645 26,41O II, 1928 As ,2S5
While the total vote cast on Monday
in Maine was not quite equal to the
aggregate vote for governor four years
ago. the great change in the result is
due to the swarm of sound money dem
OCrats who voted fer the republican
candidate, apparently to emphasize
their disapDroval Of free silver as a
democratic issue. The change is strfk-
ingly shown by this conn arison:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

history of the ages the wiping out OF
two nations--PCland and the Porte.
Just how the sick man will be dis
posed of is the question of the hour
The bone is in the center, and the
nations are grouping about it, all
ready to jump on the one who jumps
first. The plan outlined by Russia's
statesmen seems now to be public
property, and the visit of the car to
the nations of the dreibund and %
France emphasizes its correctness.
This is nothing more nor less than a
combination Of continental Europe
to bring about a division of Turkey
without the intervention of and with
out concessions to England.
And hence it is that today England,
the most liberal of the Christian ma
lions of Europe, stands in the role of
protector to the sultan of Turkey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

1t was England that cheated Russia
of the fruit of victory in 1877, and
''the Cossack never forgets.' After
that war Great Britain was unwilling
to see Russia get anything, while
Germany was also extre mely jealous
Of the growth of Russian power in
southeastern Europe, and Austria was
placed in deadly peril. So, after long
negotiations, the conference Of Berlin
was called and met June 10, 1873, at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
LESSON OF THE BALLOTS.

Tables Showing Approximately the
Total Vote in Four State Elections.
New York World:-Gubernato
elections have been held this year in
four states since the nominations by
the national conventions-Ma and
Vermont at the north and Alabama
and Arkansas at the south. The re-
suits are given in the following tables.
with comparisons of the vote cast in
1892 and 1896:
NORTH AND EAST.
Maine.
Dem. Rep. Pop. PIur.
1892 (Gov.)... 55,07S 81 500 3.005 1851
1892 Pres.) 1904 g., 1928 1881 1879
1896 Cow ...3434O IS $50 $500 4S,S2O
The vote in Maine is estimated from
latest returns.
Vermont
Dem. Rep. Pop. Plur.
1892 Cow .-19,216 3S,91S - 1902
1892 Pres.) 1926 1892 - 21,667
1896 Cow ..14,616 So, 469 263 3S,S53
The official returns from Vermont for
1896 have not been completed. In the
result as given in the foregoing table
three small towns are missing.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Alabama
Dem. Rep. Pop. Plur
1892 Cow. .126,959 - 1852 II, 437
1892 Pres) .133.13S 9197 S5,1S1 52,937
1896 Cow .128, $40 5000 1880
In 1892, 1894 and 1896 there was re-
pubIican-populist fusion ON the state
ticket. This year both candidates were
free silverites, and the sound money
democrats voted for the party candi-
dates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Tables Showing Approximately the
Total Vote in Four State Elections.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

1892, 1896.
Tariff reform Free silver
VS. ES
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

The La Crosse Chronicle: H H.
Hoard. the silver nominee for lieutenant
governor, was a Republican, then a
Greenbacker, then a PopuIist, but counts
il the combine as a Republican, He
lives at Waupun and is a storekeeper.
His claim to a place on the ticket was
that he had three political elements in
him and 50 contributed more to the
mixture than some others. But Powell
could have beaten him at that. He's
been everything.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Judge George w. Cate was nominated
by the silver Democrats of the Eighth
district for Congress, III face of a tclp-
gram saying that he could not accept.
The congressional committee was en-
powered to select another candidate in
case he insists upon declining the nom
nation He bases his dcclination upon
tn" ground of his age and poverty. AS
he has always had silver leanings his
declination was probably not due to that
cause, but possibly to lack of confidence
in its success
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

William f. GIHcuwHld Of Oshkosh WIS
nominated for Congo psS in the Sixth dis
trIct by the silver Democratic convention
winch met IN Oshkosh on the 9th inst
Chairman Kerstcn of the congressional
committee, in calling the convention to
order, threw Il bombsheIl into it by an
nounclng. i'll vigorous terms. that the
time had come when every true Demo
crdt must act independently for himself
IN the crisis which confromts the country.
Subsequently he declared that he should
vote against Bryan and the whole free
silver organization.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

Ex-Congressman Haugen of the Tenth
district, in letter to y. NJ. Anderson of
Grantsburg, makes this conclusive con-
fessiOn regarding silver, in response to a
rumor that he was not sound on that
question:
after voting twenty times or more
against the free coinage of silver by this
country alone, while in Congress, my
record ought to be reasonably satisfac-
tory to my friends who believe with me,
and there ought not to be any necessity
for any article in the press to satisfy
them as to how l stand on the ques-
ton"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-07
BROKE THE TROCHA.

Gen. Antonio Msceo Now in the Havana
District With $500 Men to Assist Gen
Garcia i'm His Advance on Havana
Maceo Tricked Gen. Munez at Cscsra.
jicaras-The Bombsrdment of Artemisa.
KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 30.-Passen.
gers by the steamer Mascotte, from
Havana, report that Gen. Antonio Ma.
Geo, with $500 troops, broke through
the trocha and is now in the Havana
district. He went over to assist Gen.
Gomez il his march to Havana. Ma.
Geo left Gen. Rios in charge
in the province of Pima del Rio.
with TO- 900 men in the insurgeni
stronghold. The report that the Span.
ish troops had captured his camp va.
true, but it was the place where.t
insurgents were awaiting a favorable
opportunity to cross the trocha, and
after Maceo had broken camp.
Gen. Munez, of the Spanish army,
with 10000 men, made an attack on
Antonio Macso on the hill known az
Cacarajicaras. Maceo in the mean.
time retreated by the rear of his camp
with his forces and attacked the town
of Artemisa.
Maceo sent orders into the town fol
the mi and children to leave be
fore the bombardment, but the Span
ish general, Arolas, refused to allow
them to leave, saying that they should
all perish together. Maceo then BON,
barded the town and passed through
the trocha to the province of Havana,
where he is now, to meet Gomez
Munez attacked the hill where he
thought Maceo was, and only found s
small detachment of insurgents on the
hill to distract the Spanish generals
attention, while Maceo attacked the
trocha. The town of Artemisa wa,
terribly wrecked, and many person,
are reported killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-07
CHICAGO EGG THROWERS
ReIeasedaFrom Custody, But to be Dis
missed from School.

ReIeasedaFrom Custody, But to be Dis
missed from School.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-On the strength
of a written plea for their release
sent by Mr.. Bryan, the police last
night released Foster and Hanchett
from custody with a warning not to
offend again, and the young men were
taken home by their fathers. Foster
admitted to the detectives that he
bought a dozen fresh eggs to throw at
the procession when the Bryan car
riage passed the Business collegs
building. Half of the eggs were
thrown before the youth took fright
and ran from the room.
Mr.. Powers, the proprietor of the
school, announced last night that he
would assemble all the instructors and
pupils to-day at noon and publicly dis.
miss the egg thruwers in disgrace from
the institution, after making a few re-
marks vigorously ~denouncing the Of
Tense and the two culprits.
Chairman Hanna, when told of the
incident last night, expressed deep re-
greet hat such an attempt had been
made to insult the democratic presi-
Dental candidate.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-07
ABOUT WON EN-.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett gave
the Londoners n glimpse of the Ameri-
can authoress in a new aspect-that OF
a witty after-dinner speaker-the LON
don journals being full of praise of her
speech at the dinner given her by the
Authors club.
L~iliuokalani, the dethroned queen OF
Hawaii, has purchased a large plot OF
ground in Austria, not far from Vienna.
Foreign papers say that she will live
in Austria permanently. A palace will
be built upon the grounds, it is an
nounced, which will be in keeping with
the occupants former rank.
The northwest possesses a story
writer of rare ability in Mrs. Carrie
Blake Morgan, whose home is in Port
land, Ore. She is the sister of the poet
and story-writer, Ella Higginson. Mrs.
Morgan has furnished some of the
brightest short stories that have been
written by any western story-writer of
late years.
1t is becoming a favorite occupation
with the widows of great men to "writs
for the press" as the contributions 70
daily newspapers of Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher, Mrs. Custer and Mrs. Logan
would indicate. Mrs. Logan is the lat
est of these to take to this form of lit
erature, and during fhe past six months
she has written some graphic letters OF
foreign travel for q Chicago journal.