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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Racine Wants Compensation.

The Racine papers have for months
been unremitting in their efforts to
cast obloquy upon Kenosha and to
pinion it on shafts of alleged sarcasm
because the citizens of this city have
desired to see wherein they were to get
some sort of adequate returns for the
privilege sought by the Milwaukee,
Racine & Kenosha> Electric Street Rail-
way company of running its line
through the city. Now those papers
may keep their hands full in making
the saae efforts at home, since Mayor
Graham of that city has announced
that he would veto the ordinance
granting the City Street railway right
of-way through streets over which the
Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Elec-
trio line intended passing out of Racine
to Kenosha.
We especially commend to the at
tention of those papers the reason the
mayor gives for his determination so to
act. The reason he gives has a strong
| Kenosha flavor to it, a live, vitalizing
reason, and is all the more surprising,
coming up as it does from an official OF
a city so dead it should have been bur-
led years ago. Here is the mayors
reason:
g The mayor believes that the new
company should do something for the
franchise. Aid. Tiedemann, who rep
resents Mayor Graham on the floor of
the council chamber, offered an amend
ment to the ordinance granting the
franchise which provided that all
bridges over which cars pass must be
kept in repair at the company's ex-
pense. This was voted down at the
last meeting of the council, but still the
mayor believes that the railway COM
pany should meet the city half way. y
Lay into that, brethren. In Racine
very naturally such an innovation as
that is little short of crime.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
BIG CARGO LOST.
The Big Barge Load of Tan Bark SO Long
Expected at Aliens Will not Arrive.

The Big Barge Load of Tan Bark SO Long
Expected at Aliens Will not Arrive
The scow A. r. Kellogg in tow of the
barge steamer Sachem became water
logged when off Fox point early Tues
day morning, and lost her entire deck
load of hemlock bark, which lies strewn
on the lake from the point to White6sh
bay. The Sachem, towing the Kellogg,
left Alpena last week with about 800
cords of bark consigned to n. r.
Aliens Sons tannery. The Sachem
carried cedar and telegraph poles. 1t
appears that the scow did not receive
proper attention regarding repairs,
and leaked a little when she left
Alpena. Everything went smoothly,
however, until the heavy norther set in
Monday. The strong and heavy winds
made the small leak somewhat danger
Gus when the boats were off Sheboygan.
Shortly after Sheboygan was passed
the captain of the Sachem saw the con-
dition of the Kellogg and attempted to
reach Milwaukee before the craft could
fill with water. When Mequon was
reached the scow must have sprung
butt, as she suddenly settled and
careened until nearly one-half her
deckload, twenty feet high, slid over
board and carried the rail and stan
chions on that side of the vessel with
it. She then careened on the other
side and lost all but two tiers of her
deck load of bark.
The captain of the Sachem then
ordered the tow line cast off, and turned
around to rescue the crew. Three
men were taken off easily, but the
fourth was obliged to tie rope around
his body, jump into the lake and then
be hauled out by the crew of the
Sachem. After the crew was rescued
the Sachem headed for Milwaukee,
and early in the morning, in company
with the tug Starke, went after the
Kellogg. She was brought into the
bay about 9 o'clock in the morning.
The Kellogg was one of the scOws
built for the Ward estate in 1882, and
is owned by the Edward E. Aver, of
Chicago, who also owns the steamer
Sachem. The loss of the Kellogg's
cargo will probably amount to $4,000,
and the loss will fall on the owner of
the boat as it is said he contracted its
sale delivered. No estimate Of the
damage to the boat can be made until
she is placed in drydock
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

WITH the prospective Improvement
in manufacturing, through the opera
tons of the new protective tariff meas
ure, comes i'm proved conditions among
the farmers by an increase in prices of
their products and prospectively large
demands abroad. Bradstreet's, in
its issue of July 10, publishes table
showing an advance in prices during
the month of June of corn, oats, bar
ley, wheat, milk, lard, bacon, eggs,
cotton, tobacco and wool. The table
includes ninety eight staple articles,
and while all of these farm products
above named are shown to have in
creased in price, very few farm prod
ucts in the list have decreased in price.
Another article in the same issue OF
" Bradstreet's" also calls attention to
the fact that there are prospects OF
very heavy demands upon the United
States for more grain to supply the
world during the coming year. The
worlds stock of wheat, it says, is at
present one of the smallest of any time
at corresponding date for many years,
while reports from Russia, Germany,
France and Hungary point to de-
creased wheat harvests, and India will
supply hardly enough for her own con-
sumption, while the crops of Australia
and Argentine Republic are also light.
"This," adds Bradstreet's, brings
the United States to the front as a
prominent wheat exporter under some
what similar conditions~~to those of
1879, period of revival from the pre-
ceding great panic"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE donation of $500 made by Ed
ward Balm to the Kenosha public Ii
brarY calls to public attention again
the needs of that institution. 1t is one
of the very worthiest that has ever
been established in the city and yet it
is sadly lacking in funds and the public
has been allowing it to go almost en-
tirely without attention in this respect.
This il not as it should be. 1t may be
possible that some Of this neglect is
attributable to the fact that the matter
has not been sufficiently kept before
the public's eye. The public should
take a greater interest in it. During
the new fiscal year in which the men,
berships have become due there have
been scarcely more than $50 paid in.
Those who signed the membership roll
should look after this matter and make
their contributions to the maintenance
of one of the best educational influences
the city has The library needs more
new books. 1t costs money to conduct
it and the management is under the
obligation to wait upon the public's
favor for the cash. Let the public look
after this matter as soon as possible.
No one should think that because Mr..
Balm and Mr.. Yule have each given
$500 that therefore he is absolved from
further thought OF the matter. Neither
of these gentlemen expects to hold up
the library out of his private purse. 1t
is public institution, for the public's
use and benefit, and all who feel able
should contribute, if possible, toward its
support. More money is needed Now.
If you have not paid your membership
fee please do so at once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
THE ECLIPSE THURSDAY
We Will Get a Brief Experience of Such
Weather as Mars Has.

The eclipse Of the sun which will
take place tomorrow Thursday morn
ing, will have more than a passing
interest to those who have noted the
recent observations and speculations
of astronomers with reference to the
Availability of our sister planet, Mars
The eclipse will begin at 1885 and
end at 9:45 nearly. During the fifteen
minutes from $50 to $50 the eclipse
will be at its greatest, at which time
the face of the sun not obscured by the
body of the moon, will give to this
vicinity precisely the same amount of
light and heat that the planet Mars
receives in the full blaze of a mid
summer sun. So that whether the sky
be clear or cloudy the lights and shad-
ows here will be seen by us just as they
are ordinarily seen by the inhabitants
of Mars under like atmospheric condi-
tions.
The interval of eclipse is so brief
that no perceptible cooling effect will
be noticed; but were it continued for a
month, all of the rivers and small
lakes would be frozen to the bottom,
and the earth would be covered with a
deep mantle of snow. Now, it is known
that in Mars just the same as here,
heavy snow falls occur only in the
polar regions, and there is evidence
that her tropical heat is equal to that
experienced on the earth. This goes
to show that the atmosphere there is
differently constituted from ours, prob
ably containing more carbonic acid gas
or some other substance or modifica-
ton which serves like the glass of a
hot house to catch and retain the suns
heat. At any rate, tomorrow morning
at the time indicated above, you can
| look about you and see things in the
same light and with the same shadow
effects that our neighboring Marian
friends experience in their every day
struggle for existence.
HOSEA BARNS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
WITH the largest gold production in

WITH the largest gold production in
the history of the world promised for
the present year, the discovery of the
richest mines in the world in our own
territory Of Alaska, and the high prices
promised abroad for our splendid
grain product and the flow of gold in
this direction which must ensue, the
prospects are not cheerful for the
people who have been insisting that
the free and unlimited coinage of-silver
at ratio far from the commercial
value of that article, is the only path
to prosperity in the United States.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE news from London about the
prospect as to an international bime-
tallic conference is extremely cheering
to the friends of true bimetallism. The
press dispatches state that the British
government has indicated a willingness
to cooperate with the United States
and France in the holding of an inter
national conference, and it is probable
that it will be called to meet in the
United States. These are two great
points gained. First, the holding of a
conference under the auspices of these
three great nations will probably insure
the cooperation of practically all the
leading nations of the earth, and, Sec
ond, the holding of the conference in
the United States will give to the peo-
pie of this country the detailed infor-
nation which is developed, in way
which will be of great value.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Waukesha.

A strictly first class, personally con-
Quoted excursion to this famous resort,
Saturday, August 7. Round trip only
one dollar. Leave North Chicago STA
a. M, Waukegan 8:25 a. m, Benton
S:32 a. M. Spring Bluff $40 a. NJ,
Kenosha 8:55 a. m. arrive at Waukesha
1870 a. m. Returning, leave Wauke
sha $40 p. m. For tickets and infor-
nation apply to agents G. & N. W.
Ry. or to c. 81. Tinkham, excursion
agent, room l, p Fifth avenue Chi
caoo. dWa7
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE calamity shriekers will have to
hurry if they expect to get in their
shrieks about farm mortgages. Dis
patches to that sterling democratic
paper, the New York Sun, say that
farmers in all parts of the country are
rapidly paying off their mortgaged in
debtedness under the advances in prices
of wool, grain and farm prices general
ly. and that with the probability of
good prices of the farm crops now be-
ing harvested the Indebtedness of the
farmers of the country will be greatly
reduced during the coming year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

The friends Of silver are still strug-
Cling to find an excuse for the action
of Japan in going to the gold standard.
Some of them say that it is not mat
ter of much consequence anyhow, since
Japan reduced the value of the gold
yen in re- establishing the relations OF
gold and silver, though the fact that
this action reduced the ratio to 81 to l
instead of 16 to l destroys the argu-
ment completely of the 16-to-1 advo-
Gates. Others, Senator Pettigrew, for
instance, claim that the action was
taken to prevent a further decline OF
the credits Of the japanese govern
ment, though the fact that the speech
OF the Japanese minister of finance does
not make this point shows that this
claim is not we'll founded. The third
and handiest explanation" is the one
adopted by Senator Stewart, that
" Japan was bought by the gold pow
er." The recent publication Of the
speech of the Japaneses premier upon
the subject, however, shows that the
same cold logic by which 100000 OF
the voters of the United States decided
against the adoption of free silver by
the United States led Japan's wisest
men to abandon the silver standard in
their country after practical test of a
quarter of a century.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Down With Substitution

There is war going on all over the
country in the newspapers and among
mercantile manufacturers on what
they are pleased to term substitu-
tion." The meaning of the term is
found in the common habit which has
obtained IN the commercial world of
merchants putting off onto a customer,
when he asks for particular brand of
goods, something just as good.0 AS
the thing is practiced it IS not only a
fraud upon the manufacturer whose
goods the customer calls for, but it
strongly encourages the manufacture
of fraudulent substitutes.
From the standpoint of the mer
chant the thing is no more defensable
than it is from that of the manufac-
turer There are doubtless cases where
the makers of cheap substitutes go up
on the market with the very purpose of
furnishing the articles which they
OlCtllA oil JuoU do SOOO, w AOoH uhS
benefit as far as possible of the enor-
nous amount of advertising which the
original and principal article has, rely
ing upon the trifing extra profit which
he will allow the merchant to finish the
undetermined work he is engaged in.
And it seems strange indeed that rep
utable merchants will sometimes lend
themselves to such nefarious schemes.
The selling of such articles is little
short of flching, not directly perhaps,
but in its indirect way steal from the
pockets of the owner of the article
sought by the customer.
The movement to frown down such
business should be encouraged every
where. 1t is not right nor honest mer
chandisng. Customers should assist
the merchants to get out of it by in
sisting upon the kind of goods wanted,
and merchants should cease their eff
forts in palming off goods said to be
"iust as good" as work unworthy of
honest men.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE denial by Bryan, ct al. of the
statement of Populist Committeeman
Bateman that Bryan's contribution to
the populist fund was made upon the
understanding that no action with ref
erence TO fusion should be taken prior
to the next campaign is met by a new
statement from Mr.. Bateman in which
he insists that his original statement
was accurate, and that he has proof Of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Try Grain-O! Try Grain %!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you
package of Graln-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink it without
injury as we'll as the adult. All Who
try it, like it, Grain-O has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives it without
distress. One-fourth the price of
coffee. 15c. and % cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

FL. P. LILLIBRIDGE, ex-consul gen.
sTal to Hawaii, has written to Senator
Mamma asserting his positive knowledge
5hat Japan is after Hawaii, notwith-
standing the official denials That
Japan was after Hawaii is doubtless
gne, but if the japanese are still in
2nlging hopes in that direction they
have less sense than they have been
credited with. Uncle Sam makes no
Bluffs at annexation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
1T WILL BE FOUGHT OUT.
The Wholesale Liquor Dealers Are Going
to Fight


There is going to be strong fight
on for the city in the matter of the
wholesale liquor dealers paying for
their licenses. A week or so ago the
city council instructed Chief Stemm to
enforce the excise law. The reason
for such instruction was the fact that
hiding behind the state law of 1895 IN
which the distinction between whole
sale and retail dealers was obliterated,
the wholesalers here have refused to
take out separate licenses and at
tempted to carry on their business in
private saloons under the licenses
granted those saloons
When the instruction reached Chief
Stemm he looked up the authorities
and decided that he would have to ar
rest the wholesale dealers under the
opinion filed with the council by City
Attorney Bohmrich.
He had decided to serve the war
rants today, but upon the advice
of District Attorney Buckmaster,
who acted upon request made
by the dealers, the arrest was deferred
for two or three days to give them
time in which to consult attorneys.
They may yet decide to pay up their
licenses instead of fighting, but the
probability is strong one that the
city and county will have to stand a
legal fight of big proportions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Buffalo and Return, 5000.

For the occasion of the G.. A. R. en-
campment at Buffalo, the Wabash road
will sell tickets from Chicago August
81, % and %, at $1,000 for the round
trip; good to return from August % to
81, inclusive, with the privilege of ex-
tension to Sept. 20. Wabash trains,
consisting of sleepers, coaches and free
reclining chair cars, run solid through
from Chicago to Buffalo. Write for
particulars. Ticket Office, 81 Adams
st. Wl3
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

TIE wool producers of the United
Statcs are happy and the sugar trust is
aesaessed as result of the agreement
Of the house and senate conferees on
She tariff bill. The house rates on
wool were restored and the sugar
schedule brought within slight frac-
ton of the house bill, thus depriving
INA trust of any advantage it seemed
likely to obtain under the senate rates
and giving to the wool producers the
rates which they were promised when
che, bill was first framed for the house.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
The Nickel Plate Road

will sell excursion tickets to Chaut-
auqua Lake and return on Augusta.
Tickets good on any of our through
express trains. Unexcelled dining car
service. Day coaches in charge of
colored porters. Try trip over this
line and be convinced of the superior
service. For full information call on or
address J. Y. Callahan, Gent Agent,
Ill Adams St., Chicago, I'll. Depot
18th and Clark SITS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

SECRETARY SHERMAN's ringing let
Cor of instructions to Ambassador Hay
on the fur-seal question falls like wet
blanket over the penny-a-liners who
have been trying to make it appear
that Secretary Sherman has passed the
stage of his career which fits him for so
important a position as the head of the
state department. The vigorous
AInericanism of that document touches
q responsive chord in every American
heart except those of the men who
have been attacking the Mckinley ad-
ministration through their unfounded
and unwarranted assertions as to the
Ealing powers of Secretary Sherman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE ranks of the silver leaders are
being decimated by the activity aRd
vigorous work of the gold democrats in
all the states where there are cam
paigns. The leaders of the gold de-
mocracy report that many democrats
who last fall supported the Chicago
platform and Bryan are this year
working with the gold democrats.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
GENTS LIST
LADIES LIST
There Is a Class of PeonIe

Who are injured by the use of coffee
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores new preparation
called Grain-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it with
out distress, and but few can tell 1T
from coffee. 1t does not cost over one
fourth as much. Children may drink
it with great benefit. 15 cents and 20
cents per package. Try it. Ask for
Grain-O. WI
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

HERR ANDREE's north pole balloon
started all right, but owing to the
instability of terminal facilities, nobody
Knows where it will stop, nor how long
e will take to get there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
Apv1CEs from abroad confirm tn

ADvICEs from abroad confirm the
reports that the great grain producing
sections of the world outside of the
United States are having light crops
8his year, while the prospects of an
unusual yield in the United States
makes it now certain that the farmers
will find the year 1897 an unusually
prosperous one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

WHEN a man gets goldstruck moth
nag but privation and hardship will
give him any relief, and only death or
success can cure him. Much trouble
will be avoided by having this in mind
when dealing with those whose eyes
are turned AlaskaWards by the current
stories of fabulous gold discoveries.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

TIE farmers in the west are receiv-
ng another evidence of the improve
ment in the business condition, by the
Freedom at which loans on farm prop
eFty are offered at rates of interest
lower than year or two ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

EVIDENTLY Kenosha wants credit
for the meanest man in Wisconsin.
He's the party who imbedded blade
of scythe in roadway, so as to cut
the tires of bicycles as they passed over
it.-Fond Gu Lac Reporter.
We have evidently got credit for
him, but that we don't want it will be
amply proven if the villain is ever
caught.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

EVIDENCE is accommodating that the
British government sees the seal fish
cries question in an entirely new light
as q result of Secretary Sherman's
vigorous instructions to Ambassador
Hay.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE fellow who has nothing except
q yoracious appetite is always an easy
convert to socialism. He is more than
willing to divide with anybody who
8as anything.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

SOME democrats are almighty afraid
5hat the efforts to secure the coopera-
CiOn of European nations for the estab-
Ishment of international bimetallism
will succeed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE report that Horace Boies, Mary
Ellen Lease, Tom Watson and Dave
Eill has formed combination upon
which a new party is to be built, lacks
ratification.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

CURRENCY reform is to be the next
undertaking of the republican admin
stration. now that the tariff reform is
an accomplished fact.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

TIE Virginia cat that is raising
Brood of motherless young CHECKERS
aeminds one of the Ohio democrats who
are trying to coddle the few silver re-
Dpbieans Of the state
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29
THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1897.

JOHN BULL doesn't have the truth
sDld him in an official way often; that's
Why he is believing about Secretary
3herman2s talk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

THE scorcher must CO." shouts the
Chicago Journal. His going quality is
what brought him to public notice, but
we did not know that he was compelled
to go.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-29

MARY ELLEN LEASE is modest in
I8er aspirations. She only wants to be
governor of Kansas, when she might
INST as well aspire to be president.