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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
wouen and Babies slain.

It is reported by way of Jacksonville
that 500 insurgents, under command of
Col. Francisco de Paulo dashed into San
Saturday night. The Spanish garrison,
consisting of 600 men, withdrew from the
town without firing a shot. The insur-
gents held possession for three hours,
looting the stores, public buildings and
many of the residences occupied by Span
ish families. They captured the Mayor
and forced him to deliver the tax money
in his possession, amounting to $4,000.
After firing the business portion of the
town and several private houses the rebels
withdrew. AS soon as the insurgents left
dren-busied themselves trying to extin-
guish the flames and saving their effects
from the burning buildings. While thus
engaged the Spanish forces returned and
savagely opened fire on the men, women
and children who were fighting the flames.
The desperate Spaniards then charged
through the streets, using the bayonets
on all whom they met, sparing neither
women nor children. The report says
forty persons were killed outright, eigh-
teen of whom were women and children.
Sixty others were wounded, some of them
fatally. Several of those wounded fell by
the side of the burning buildings and per-
ished Added to the forty killed outright
those who fed into the burning buildings
and persisted and those who died of their
wounds, nearly 100 persons fell victims to
the Spaniards.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
BIG FARMLAND POOL
CALIFORNIA MEN HAVE A COLO.
NIZATlON SCHEME.
They Control Two Hundred Thousand
Acres-Farmers from the Middle
West Will Be offered the Land at
Low Prices on Long Contracts.
Invitations to immigrants.

Invitations co
Some fifteen large land owners in the
upper Sacramento Valley are pressing to
completion big colonization scheme. 1t
is the intention to put 100000 acres of
land into a pool by organizing joint
stock company and issuing shares in pro-
portion to the appraised value Of the land
pooled. The land in question is situated
on both sides of the Sacramento river in
Glenn, Tehama, Colusa, Sacramento and
Butte Counties, California. Ten thou
sand acres are to be divided into forty,
sixty and one hundred acre tracts for
farms. On fifty or sixty of these farms
frame dwellings and barns will be erect
ed and agents will be sent East to induce
farmers in the Mississippi and Ohio val
legs, and through Kansas, Nebraska and
the Dakotas, to come out and settle.
When the people from the East take up
the farms as legitimate settlers they will
be given the land at very low prices on
long-term contracts at a reasonable rate
of interest The overland roads will be
asked to give them cheap rates. The re-
ceipts from the sale of the small farms,
principal and interest, will be applied for
dividends on the stock. The expense of
putting the company on a proper footing
will be between 100000 and $15O,OOO.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
WIDESPREAD COLC.
Low Temperature Experienced in Al
most very Section.

Low Tenn perature Experienced in Al
most very Section.
BY Monday morning the severe cold
wave extended as far east as the Ohio
Valley and southwark to Texas, where
the temperature fell from twenty to
forty degrees in twenty-four hours. 1t
was below freezing in Tennessee and Cen
trail Texas; below zero in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri, and 20 degrees be-
low zero over the Dakotas and Mime
sofa. The indications We're that the cold
wave would extend eastward and south
ward over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
The temperature fell to near zero from
Virginia northward, and freezing wealth
er extended southwark to the Gulf and
South Atlantic coasts. In twenty-five
years Chicago had experienced no such
severe cold. Sunday morning the mer-
curry was II below zero, and in the whole
day there was variation of but degrees.
Monday morning the temperature was 10
below zero. The suffering in the city was
indescribably terrible.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
TWO BIG FIRES.
Chicago Factories and a Palatia1
Residence Destroyed.

Chicago Factories and Palat1al
Residence Destroyed.
John Williams, day Waterman in the
big factory building of Greenlee Bros. u
Co., 225 to 235 West 10Th street, Chicago,
found two pipes frozen Sunday morning in
a small room at the rear of the first floor.
Late in the afternoon he and his assist
ant the day fireman. started to thaw out
the pipes. They probably succeeded in
doing so, but the fire that followed their
efforts laid the entire block in ruins. The
fire started shortly after o'clock in the
room the two men had left an hour or so
before, and between the slippery streets
and the frozen fire hydrants in the neigh
borhood the fire department was SO de-
layed in getting water on the blaze that
the flames spread through the five floors
of the building, and by 10 o'clock had
completely Quilted the structure. A loss
of between 100000 and 100000 was
sustained by the Greenlee Bros. Company
and the Northwestern Stove Repair
Works, two concerns owned by Robert
l.. and Ralph S. Greenlee. David B.
Carse, general manager of the Greenlee
Bros. Company, thought that the amount
of insurance carried would cover the loss.
The residence of Charles J. Barnes, 223S
Calumet avenue, Chicago, was totally de-
stroyed by fire at 2 o'clock Monday morn
ing. His private library, one of the finest
in the United States, and collection of
bric-a-brac, on which a high value is set,
were destroyed, and with the damage to
the building and furnishings will make
the loss fully 100000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
BUSINESS INCREASING.
Prices, However, Are Lower Where
Any Change Is Made.

Prices, However, Are Lower Where
Any Change Is Made.
II. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade says: "There is more business,
though not at better prices. 1t is inter
esting that almost all prices which change
at all are lower, and yet business is I'M
questionably larger. There is larger pro-
duction, but as yet not as much increase
in consumption, and there is larger buy
ing of materials, but at present only be-
cause better prices are expected in the
future. A few conspicuous failures have
had no material influence. The market
for securities is slightly stronger, and yet
there is very little doing. The number
of hands employed, all industries consid-
cred, is slightly larger than week ago,
without adverse change in the rate Of
wages. All apprehension of foreign dis
turbances of money markets has passed
away, but there is still great caution in
making loans 1t is a mistake to reckon
these as symptoms of depression. On the
contrary, in spite of the lower range of
prices in important industries, the condi-
tons all Indicate larger production and
consumption increasing, not as yet
largely, but steadily"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
THREE MEN PUT TO DEATH.
Terrible Vengeance Wreaked on the
Murderers of the Cotton Family.

Terrible Vengeance Wreaked ON the
Murderers of the Cotton Family.
John johnson and Arch Joiner, who
murdered the Cotton family, were talen
from jail and lynched by mob at Amite
City, La. The crowd at first decided to
burn Johnson at the stake, but finally COLI
cluded to hang him. Both negroes were
therefore hanged and shots fired into their
bodies. The same mob also lynclled Gus
Williams, who was accused of murder
ing his wife. All three Of the men exccnt-
ed by the mob were colored. johnson and
Joiner, according to the confession OF the
former, were guilty of the murder of the
five members of the Cotton family some
time ago. The trio of mlllderers were
taken from the Jail at Amite City togeth-
er by the mob. Shortly afterward re-
port was received that Williams Lad been
hanged to a big oak tree i'll front Of Little
Zion Church, not far from Amite City, and
that the mob was on its way to IickfaW
with johnson and Joiner, no would no
doubt meet horrible fate. Johnson made
confession during the day. Lis story
of the slaughter of the family was pecu-
liarly brutal He said that he had always
liked the Cotton family, and would not
have harmed them had it not been Tor the
fact that he was bullied into what he had
done. He armed himself with an AK, not
with the intention Of hurting any of the
people in the house, but to prevent their
escaping, as he had been told to watch IL
door. The murder, Johnson said, was
planned by Bud Mcknight, who was
sutton of the girl, Maude Miller, whose
mother, Mrs. Cotton, whipped her for
allowing Meningitis attentions. This was
the only motive he knew for the crime.
He said Arch Joiner shot Cotton, the head
of the household, with gun and then
struck Merven Stevens, the son of Mrs.
Agnes Stevens, with an ak on the fore
head, knocking him back on the bed and
killing him. Joiner finished the men and
then went into the room which was occu-
pied by Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Cotton and
Lizzie Miller, with Maude and several
children, and killed the three women.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
CABLE TO HONOLULU
A NEW YORK COMPANY MEETS
A HOUSE COMMITTEE.
Is1auds, Future Is Invo1ved-At no
Distant Day, Mr.. Scrimser Declares
This Government Will Have to Con-
+es+ With Tanan for Control There.
T,ran Plans a Cable.

James A. Scrimser and Edmund Il.
Bayliss were before the House committees
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce III
the interest of the Pacific Cable Company
of New York. They both argued upon
the merits of the Scrimser bill over the
Spalding bill of the New Jersey company.
Mr.. Scrimser stated that his company
would want eighteen months after the
passage of the bill to complete the capie
to Hawaii and one year more to compete
If TO japan. He said that in case OF war
with England cable communication with
E1rope would be cut off. Mr.. Patterson
of Tennessee said it had been charged
that the Scrimser company was in sym
pathy with or had connection with Eng
land and English interests. Mr.. Scrimser
said that, of course, his company would
expect to do English business and MT.
Patterson said there should be inserted IN
the bill provision that the cable COM
pany should not come under British lnhu-
ence Mr.. Scrimser referred to the state-
ment that Japan wanted no, other cable
connection as ridiculous. He said the as
sertion of Mr.. Swayne before the COM
mittee to that effect was absurd. lie also
said that China and Japan telegraph ilnes
were dependent upon and controlled py
the Russian lines. The Spalding COM
pany would build to Hawaii and stop. his
line to Japan would save the people OF
that country more than million dollars
in tolls and it was ridiculous to say that
the Japanese wanted no cable. line
Japanese" he said, ''are focking into
Hawaii now. This country is going to
have a contest with the japanese or some
other power to control Hawaii. 1t is nee
essary to have cable there as soon as
possible" The discussion among mem
bers of the committee developed that there
is yet wide difference of opinion on the
subject of the cable
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$3.50 to 1913; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to 1910; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $400; wheat, No. red, TIC to roc;
corn, No. 2, pc to 23c; oats, No. 2, 15c
to Ice; rye, No. 2, 36c to Csc; butter,
choice creamery, 19c to zoe; eggs, fresh,
he to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, zoe to
soc; broom corn, common green to fine
brush, 2l4c to SIC.
indianapolis shipping, $500 to
S5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to $3.75;
sheep, good to choice, $500 to 1915;
wheat, No. 2, Sic to SOC; corn, No.
white, Zoe to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, Zoe
to &c.
st. Louis Cattle, $500 to $5.25; hogs,
$500 to 1910; wheat, No. 2, soc to Ole;
corn, No. 2 yellow, zoe to 21c; oats, No.
2 white, 16c to 1Sc; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to 1915; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 2
mixed, 23c to 24c; oats, No. mixed, 1Sc
to zoe; rye, No. 2, 35c to Bic.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs,
$500 to 1910; sheep, $500 to 1915;
wheat, No. red, 9Oc to 92c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c
to 21c; rye, 3Sc to 4Oc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c;
corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; oats, No.
2 white, tic to 19c; rye, No. 2, BIC to 3Sc;
clover seed, 1928 to $3.50.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. spring, Tee
to 7Sc; corn, No. 3, 19c to 21c; oats, No.
2 white, 1Sc to zoe; barley, No. 2, 25c to
34c; rye, No. 1, 3Sc to SOC; pork, mess,
$3.50 to $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No.
2 yellow, 25c to &c; oats, No. 2 white,
PIC to 23c.
New Cattle, $500 to $5.25; hogs,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. red, SOC to 90c; corn, No. 2,
CSC to 29c; oats, No. white, 22c to 23c;
butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West
ern, 12c to 16c.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
Woodman's Fine Plan.

A Washington correspondent says:
esquire Woodman, of Chicago, has left
the Cuban cause long enough to present
an argument before the House Committee
on Banking and Currency favoring the
creation of peoples emergency reserve
fund for use in panicky times when mon
ey cannot be had through usual channels
for love or diamonds. His plan is for the
Government to issue 500, 900, 900 in low
interest bonds of popular denominations,
redeemable at the treasury, at the option
of the holder. This, he thinks, would be
safeguard for the intimidation of indi-
vidual bankruptcy in periods of currency
construction and business depression. 1t
would be a species of Federal savings
bank, preparations for which should be
made in good or normal times"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
KISSED THE HIGH HAT.
Indignant Audience at Chicago The.
ater Exercise the Nuisance.

Indignant Audience at a Chicago The
ater Exercise the Nuisance.
Hundreds of excited and indignant the
ater-goers took the high hat question into
their own hands Sunday night at the
Columbia Theater, in Chicago, by misses
and wells that amounted to a tumult. Iney
compelled every woman who was present
at the first night of Sousas "El Captain
to sit bareheaded through the perform
ance-all but those in the boxes and one
woman in the parquet, who, in spite OF
the yells and catcalls that came down at
her from the balcony and gallery, KEEP.
her wide-brimmed headgear on all
through the opera. The noisy demonstra-
ton began before the curtain went up TOE
the first act, and continued TIL after the
opera had begun, drowning out the music
and for a few minutes threatening u
break up the performance altogether. NO
body knows who started the demonstra-
ton. From the suddenness OF the out
burst it might have suggested ltseiI 10
hundred persons at the same instant. II
began with yells of Hats off, that were
interspersed with Kisses and groans as
some of the women showed dlsposltioH
not to obey. When the Kisses came the
hats in the parquet and dress circle Went
off as if they had been caught by gaze
from behind. Every woman who entered
the theater with her hat on MADE ner-
vous grab at the hat pins as soon as she
OWNED the import of the demonstration.
Never did hats come off so quickly from
feminine heads as they did for the nve
minutes before the performance began.
Women came down the aisle with mar
disordered from the quick withdrawal or
hat pins, and with faces more red than
the plush upholstery of the seats.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
Sparks from the Wires.

Cardinal Richard of Paris has forbid.
den the priests of his diocese 70 attend
dramatic performances.
/, Inc russian Academy has elected 90
Sonorary members Lord Kelvin and DR.
simon Newcomb of Washington.
The Marquis de Montcalm III -
male representative of the family ~ ~
defender OF Quebec, died recently at Mo ,ne
peiier. lie transmitted the name and t;4,.,
~ legal process to an adopted SON. '''
The Argentine Republic SENATE -.
adopted scheme providing for tho mas nas
ance of $1O,00O,0OO of cedulas fe issu-
purpose of advancing loans and nro ,ur tns
agriculture. piolloting
Rev. DR.. Kirkpatrick, pastor -
second Universalist Church of Roob me
n. T., who was arrested charged VIII :
personating an officer, has been - ln.'
mously acquitted by jury trial unanl'
An autopsy on the body of w;u;.
sinclair, the railway promoter md q.
tractor Of New York and Galyestnn con
oled suddenly at Rochester, n. Y sh WHO
mat his death was caused BY apon, sroWS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
FAIL TO OPEN DOORS.
Three More Banks Unable to Weather
Financial Storms.

Three More Banks Unable to Weather
Financial Storms.
National Bank Examiner Escott Mon
day morning closed the doors of the Ger
man National Bank at Louisville, KY,
]. NJ. Mcknight, president. The capital
stock of the institution is $251 500, with
q surplus of $31 900. The bank is an old
one, but for some time past it has been
regarded as unsafe. The First National
Bank of Newport, Ky, closed it's doors
Monday morning. Heavy investments III
real estate in that city are said to be the
cause. The failure was a great surprise
to the business men of the city. The
bank had capital of 100000, and Dec.
II, the date of it's last report, it had sur
plus and undivided profits amounting to
$40, 453, owed depositors $419,9o5 and
owed other banks about $4,000. The
Minnesota State Savings Bank at st.
Paul, Mimi, closed it's doors Mo-lday
morning and filed a deed of assignment,
naming William Bickel as assignee. An
affidavit was filed stating that the assets
would amount to about $25O,OOO while
the liabilities are in the neighborhood Of
$3.50. OOO
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
WILL SELL THE ROAD
UNION PACIFIC MUST COME TO
TIME.
Government to Realize $46,OOO,OOO-
Half Million Fire Loss at Chicago
Most Bitter Cold in Central States
known in Twenty-Five Years.
Agreement Signed.

The Attorney General has entered into
an agreement with the reorganization
committee of the Union and Kansas Pa
cific railroads by which the Government
Is to Join the committee in foreclosure pro-
ceedings. The committee guarantees to
the Government that at the foreclosure
sale it shall receive a bid of at least the
original amount of the bond, less pay
ments made by the company to the Gov
eminent, with interest at the rate of 31a
per cent per annum. The agreement has
been signed, and active steps will be
taken in few days. The Government
will receive $460OO,0OO.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
BALANCE OF TRADE IN 1895.

Excess of Our Exports Over Imports
1925, 1922, 1874.
The figures of the Bureau of Statistics,
for the calendar year 1896, show that the
excess of exports of merchandise from
this country over the imports for that Pc
Rod amounted to the sum of $$325,3322, lo4.
This breaks the record of this country )
excess of exports over imports. The year
that came nearest to it was 1913, when
the excess of exports over imports was
$3O5, 279, 800 Coming at the same time
with other conditions analogous to those
obtaining in early days at the time OF
prosperity that began in 1879, the figures
of the Bureau of Statistics cause many
persons to believe that similar era OF
good times is beginning.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
ROSS AND SHEA ExoNERATED.
Sensational Charges of Conspiracy
and Com plicity Fall Flat.


and Completely Fall Flat.
Assistant Chief of Police Ross and In
spector John D. Shea, of Chicago, have
been cleared of the ugly charges of con-
spiracy and completely in the sale of ,ne
stolen Schrage bonds. "Sleepy" Burke's
sensational accusations have fallen Hat
and the civil service investigation is end
ed, after having produced enough inside
evidence to aid the police in a criminal
prosecution of the men who are marked
as the purchasers of the Schrage plunder
Two motives led to the investigation of
the charges. The chief one was We'll at
tanned, that of clearing the police c!fi
Gals. AS to the other, only partial sue
cess met the efforts. Secretary Easley
of the Civic Federation was stamped as
indiscreet, but his true motive in giving
the charges such wide publication was not
discovered. Mr.. Easley, when on the
stand, admitted he had Numbered and
even said he had failed to fulfill promises
made to Chief Badenoch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
FOSTER IN SUNDAY SCHOOL

Ex-Secretary Is a Teacher in Wash
ington Church.
Ex-Secretary John w. Foster has start
ed a Sunday school class in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washing
ton, and he has between sixty and seventy
pupils, including several public men. Mr..
Foster conducted similar course of bib
lical study last winter and awakened
great deal of interest, but this year his
work is even more extensive, and he has
drawn into the Sunday school of the New
York avenue church members of the Fed
eral judiciary, Senators and Representa-
tives to Congress, members of the cabinet
circle and number Of other men and
some women conspicuous in Washington
life
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
Willing for Reforms.

At the close of Wednesdays cabinet
meeting in Madrid, the premier, Senior
Canovas del Castillo, declared that, al
though they had full confidence in the
success of the military operations in Cuba,
the Government was prepared to grant
reforms to that island and to submit a
decree with that object in view to the
council of state
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
To Bar Out Infection.

The great epidemic of the bubonic
plague in Bombay has impelled the au-
thorities of the Marine Hospital service
to take steps to secure the utmost pos
sible vigilance by all officials of the
United States to prevent it's introduction
into this country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
MUST READ AND WRITE.
Compromise Irnmigr alton Bill Will
Come Before 10th HOusas

Compromise Irnrnigr alton Bill Will
Come Before Toth Houses.
The compromise immigration bill which
has been agreed upon by the confecees Of
the House and Senate will come before
The two houses for acceptance within a
few days. The first section of the SEN
ate bill is retained, which excludes from
the United States all persons over l6
years of age who cannot read and write
the English language or the language of
their native country, but is amended by
the words cor resident" before Country"
in accordance with suggestion made by
Chairman Bartholdt of the House com
mittee. Instead of taking effect three
months after it's passage, the bill is
amended to take effect July /, 1857.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
sent ywo Score to- Death.

Sam Palatka has confessed at Atlanta,
Ga, that he caused the great Cahaba
(Ala.) bridge disaster, which sent thirty
five persons to death and wounded and
manned a score more. Il did it," said
Palatka. II wanted money. It's no.
body's business what | wanted it for.
There were plenty of dead folks with
money-one man had $5OO-but before
could get at it the live ones got up and
the crowds came. I skipped out then"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28
Shot by n Peacen,aker.

Frank Cornwall, son of the superintend
ent of public schools of Taylor County,
West Virginia, shot Tom Hazlipp, Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad brakeman, at
Grafton. Young Cornwall found Hazlipp
beating another railroader. Interfering,
the boy was knocked down, when, draw
ing a revolver, he placed it at Hazlipp's
right side and fred two shots, inhicting
fatal wounds. Cornwall was arrested.