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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18

told the miners they, too, could secure
the advance if they would but insist on it
and suspend work until the union officials
and operators could get together and set
tie en- Il uniform scale Before Mr.. katch-
ford had finished the men were wildly en-
thusiastic, and when the vote was taken
every man voted to resume the strike.
From Braceyille Mr.. Ratchford and his
brother officials drove across country to
Coal City, where 400 miners were gath
cred. Speechmaking took up the entire
afternoon. There was no dissenting voice
on the vote to resume the strike for ten
DAYS or until the operators would agree to
arbitrate.
President Ratchford and several miners
officials held a conference at Streator
with several operators Saturday morning.
A. l.. Sweet CT Chicago talked for the
opera tors. He declared he for one would
never arbitrate. He said he did not know
a man in the State whom he would trust
to arbitrate a difference between work
men and employers. He believed the men
always got the best of it.
The indications are that the entire
northern Illinois mining district will be
tied up again. A letter from the district
chairman at Springfield contained the in
formation that a committee of miners had
had a conference with Gov. Tanner ON
the Chinese proposition, and that the
Governor had not only said that he would
not permit the importation Of Cinnamon,
but that there should be no Calling guns
to coerce the men back into the mines.
The Governor said that if he found that
the operators were building stockades
about the mines he would see that they
were torn down. The Governor referred
to the Chicago ex-policemen, who, it was
said, were to be sent there to protect nom
union men, and said that he would
promptly send them back to their homes.
To all outward appearance the importa-
ton Of Cinnamon has ceased to be bug
aboo with the miners, and there is scarce
~ one who cam be found now who be-
lieves that the companies will ever make
such an attempt. They rest their cause
on public opinion and say the operators
will not dare to do that which they know
would precipitate riot and bloodshed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
I 9Lo|9g5fF r.
The News ~

A Colorado husband has sued for di-
gorce because his wife has cold feet. Why
not compromise on hot brick?
When the hands were played out in
New York it was discovered that the
Tammany tiger had captured high, Low
and the game.
DR.. Parkhurst cables over from Paris
to say that New York is lost. Why not
give it up, then, end try to save the I'M
regenerate French capital?
A cheerful imbecile in Oshkosh tried to
drink three pints of whisky at one sit
ting to win a bet, and died within a few
minutes. Loss, Is cents; no insurance.
A few years ago Grover Cleveland
wrote to friend that married life is one
glad, sweet song" Since then, however,
Mr.. Cleveland has changed it to a chorus.
It is announced authoritatively that
Spain doesn't want Uncle Sans good Of
fees. That is all right; most Of the good
offices already have been disposed Of any
way.
It is reported that the Ute Indians have
recently violated the Colorado game laws
by shooting settlers out of season. Per-
foration is the only sure cure for that
trouble.
A ST. Louis grocer advertises "anarch-
istic cider" and now the public wonders
whether that means cider which will
make a man an anarchist or merely cider
which hasn't worked
Nothing which Miss Cisneros has OBJ
served in this country probably has struck
her more forcibly than the celebrity with
which dime museum attraction is drop
ped by the common people.
That Detroit girl who has sued for $299
damages for breach ofspromise to marry
evidently has been critically examining
her affections and decided to order bar.
gain sale marked down from $500.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
STRIKE Is ON AGAIN.
COAL MINES OF NORTHERN H.
LIMOS TIED UP.
D;ggcrs Gather Under Ratchford's
Banner and Demand the springfield
Schedule Operators Are Angry and
Say Crisis Is at Hand.
Miners Vote to Ouit.

The miners mass meeting at Coal City,
H., voted unanimously to resume the
strike throughout the Wilmington Braid
wood district. The decision affects the
mines at Carbon Hill, Diamond and Coal
City, and postpones pending settlement in
other towns except where the full scale is
paid. The miners will contend for the
gross-weight scale as adopted at Spring
field. They will ignore the propositions
offered by the operators based on screen
scale. 1t is the purpose to abolish the
whole system as speedily as possible, even
at sacrifice in the price per ton if nee
essary.
The miners at Braceville, who were the
first to return to work at the 771a-cent
rate, were all busy in the mine when Pres
ident Ratchford and a small army Of
strike leaders reached the town. After
some delay $50 English-speaking miners
met in Malcolm's Hall, where Mr.. Ratch.
ford addressed them. He told them they
had lost 2112 cents a ton by returning to
W k before the Streator convention. He
said the operators at Streator had off cred
practically to settle at figure equivalent
to so cents in the Wilmington field. He
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
THE BADGER STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONClSELY
CONDENSED.
FOUGHT for Life on His Own Lawn-The
Strike at West Superior Not Yet
Settled Large Fires keieton Found
in the Woods.
Desperate Fight with a Deer.

G. A. Still, secretary of the Black
Hawk Club of Koshkonong Lake, a lead
ing sportsman of Beloit, had an expert
ence on his own lawn in that city that
equaled in excitement and danger the
most thrilling stories, for he was COM
PEELED to fight buck deer for his life. He
has had a handsome buck for pet for
a long time and at this time the deer
turned on him and would have torn nm
to pieces with it's great antlers had he not
fought it eff with pitchfork. Mr.. Still
was slightly hurt The deer was killed
q 0paQ
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
TRADING IN SPOlLS OF WAR.
Yankees Profiting Handsomely by
Wreck of Cuban Industry.

Yankees Fronting handsomely by
Wreck of Cuban Industry.
Other nations extremity is usually
Uncle Sans opportunity. With his
customary cuteness and foresight he
has awaited himself of the distracted
state Of Cuba to make money in rath-
er odd way. When the war in Cuba
had been raging for some time and the
industries of the unhappy island were
at standstill it occurred to the astute
manager of the Nassau SAeiting works
that there was money to be made by
purchasing the wrecked machinery
that lay rusting in the fields and fac
tories of Cuba while the engineers and
planters to whom the plants belonged
were fighting for freedom against the
Spanish soldiers. The idea was acted
upon at once. Six months ago there
left for Cuba an expedition which con-
sisted Of seventy five men, whose only
weapon was an unlimited credit upon
which to draw, for the purpose of buy"
inc I'D the entire machinery of the ISL
and at the cheapest prices for cash.
The Spanish authorities at first look"
ed upon the expedition with suspicious
and at one time it seemed as though
the entire contingent of peaceful trad
ers would be arrested and thrown into
MORO castle as flibusters in disguise,
They succeeded, however, in demon
strating their peaceful intentions and
forthwith proceeded to scatter over the
island. looking for the owners of the
engines. boilers, plows, tobacco raising
plants and sugar plantation implements
that the Cubans left to the care of any
one who happened to take fancy to
them. Where no owner could be dis
covered, for the reason that Spanish
bullets had left the property oWneress,
the Spanish officials were only too glad
to proclaim themselves the rightful
possessors Of the property and allow
the agents of the smelling works tc
carry off the rusting machinery at their
own price.
AS fast as it could be bought UP the
machinery was shipped to New York.
chiefly as old metal, and to-day in the
shops and yards Of the smelling works
can be seen the remnants or what were
once, in the piping times of peace, the
nlants with which the industries OF
Cuba brought wealth to the Golfers OF
the Planters and manufacturers. Ii
there is any vestige left in Cuba of its
former industries it is certainly not the
fault of the seyenty-fve men who are
engaged in buying up as old metal the
machinery Of the wartorn island.
When the war is ended-f it ever does
end---the Cubans will have to begin all
over again and buy entirely new plants
throughout the length and breadth Of
the land before the wheels Of industry
will be able to hum once moro. Then
Unc.e Sam will score again, for the
new machinery will probably be bought
from him.-NeW York Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Much Stock DESTROYED.

A barn GOx15O feet in dimensions, to-
gether with fifty tons of hay. considera-
bic feed and straw, two head of horses.
four bead of cattle and large number OF
geese and chickens, belonging to Hllmer
S.lisky, who resides one mile and half
west of Algoma, was burned. The origin
Of the fire is mystery. The loss is fully
$500; insurance about $1,000. At Bara-
boo, large barn owned by Jackson Crow
ley burned. Thirteen horses and cattle
and large amount of grain were con-
sumed. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Minor State Matters.

Beloit College passed its semi-centennial
last week.
Josiah L. Pettingill has been appointed
postmaster at La Crosse.
Six men were arrested at Sand lake
for hunting ducks after shutdown, and
fined $25 each.
NJ. Koch, one of the leading dealers in
general merchandise in Seymour, made an
assignment to E. r. Dittmer.
Mrs. Mary Cunningham, aged 60, fell
dead in her home at Beloit. She was
supposed to have been in excellent health.
Fire destroyed a barn owned by G. [.
Follett of Spencer, whose home burned
about two weeks ago. The family mar
rowly escaped DEATH
Members of Forward Council, Royal
League, Of Racine, have decided to dis
band Increase in assessments has re-
suited in 81 continual dropping off Of mem
bers.
A horse belonging to Edward Griffin
of Beloit ran into buggy coming in an
opposite direction and one of the thills
struck it in the neck, severing a vein,
from which it bled to death.
Sheboygan policemen and other officers
have been forbidden to receive fees for
making arrests and taking prisoners to
the county Jail. One bill Of this kind
against the county amounted to 1,40O
A stated salary will be paid all officers
after this.
After being out seventeen hours, the
jury in the case of Capt. c. J. ROLLS of
Stoughton, charged with assault and
pointing a loaded revolver at ex-Mayor
A. F. Sheldrup at the time of the armory
trouble in Stoughton, Oct. 8, returned a
verdict of not guilty.
Work has been commenced ON the Mar
inette Chautauqua grounds. Swain &
Nelson, the landscape architects of Chi
cago, have twenty-five men at work grad
ing the grounds.
Steps Will be taken for a union of the
fishermen of Wisconsin and of Michigan
for a general attack ON the laws of the
two States making a close season on Lake
Michigan for fishing.
Some envious individual entered hall
at Alma Center in which local talent was
billed to give play, and plastered the
entire stage with thick red paint few
hours before the curtain was to rise.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Negotiations Off at Present.

The Wisconsin State Board of Arbi-
tration has not succeeded in effecting a
settlement of the American Steel Barge
Companys strike at West Superior, and
the members have gone to their homes,
after three days of negotiations. They
have not made an official report yet, but
give out a statement that they hope for
AN adjustment of the difficulty through
their efforts in the near future.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Found a Skeleton.

Two boys while hunting south Of Hur-
ley found the skeleton of a man which
must have lain in the woods several years
1t is supposed to be the body of man
named Rowe, who disappeared from Mas
terson's lumber camp two years ago. NO
means of identified ton are possible.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Rl1ine1auder Brewery Burns.

Fire was discovered in the basement OF
the Rhinelander Brewing Company S
plant, owned principally by A. .. Hlger-
mann. The brewery was completely de
stroyed, together with large quantities or
barley, malt and hops and 700 kegs OF
beer. The fire originated from boiling
pitch which was being used by an en-
ploye to coat the W ts The loss was about
$4,000. 1t was insured for $4,000, and
will probably be rebuilt.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Turned TN in Chicago.

Edward \. Gardner, who left Fond du
Isc on his wheel Sept. 5 for Hartford,
and whose unexplained absence had been
the cause of much anxiety and conjecture
ON the part of his friends, has been heard
from. Mr.. Gardner is in Chicago and IS
living with his parents. He states III his
letter that since leaving Fond du Lac he
has made bicycle trip of 100 miles
through Southern Wisconsin, Iowa and
Illinois,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Teacher Not Guilty.

Miss Caroline coleman, the Eau Claire
school tea cher who was tried for assault
and battery for whipping 1O-year-old>
Gunder Thompson in school, was acquit-
ted by jury, which was out but few
minutes
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Loses His Arm.

Charles Kei of Hustisford had his arm
taken off while feeding a corn shredder
and husker. He is the second person i'll
that vicinity to lose an arm in that way
during one week, J. e. Carew, town clerk
of Westford, being the other victim. kei
is Il poor man with large family.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-18
Blew Open the safe.

Burglars blew open the safe in the
Northwestern Railway Company's office
at Eau Claire. Watchmen discovered it.
The safe was an old one containing moth
ing but books. The damage was small.
The record-union., 1897-08-05

Those too previous souls who chat
ter about the Americans in the Klon-
dyke region rebelling against Canadian
regulation and taxation, raising the
stars and stripes and carrying the
country over to the United States, are
silly and bring reproach upon the
American citizenship. In defense of
this outrageous proposition the action
of the Uitlanders in the South African
Republic is cited with the statement
that most of them were English, and
that if like procedure was followed in
the Yukon section, it would be play
All that is foolish. The Uitlanders
We're sOundly whipped and so the
Klondykers would be, and deservedly.
The American and British nations are
at peace and bound by treaties of I'M
questioned justice, TO recognize and
maintain each the rights of the other
on his own soil. If the KIondykers
should rebel, be resisted, flee and be
pursued. they would find no refuge I'M
der the stars and stripes on our side
Of the line for the United States would
be bound by its treaty with the
British Government to refuse them aid
or succor, and to turn them back from
the border, precisely as we should ex-
pect the Canadian Government to aid
us if the standard of insurTection were
raised on our soil by subjects of the
British Empire.
The record-union., 1897-08-05

when the twenty-six years wear and
tear, the storms and the use are con-
sidered the request is very modest. The
people viii not relish it to learn that if
the repairs needed are further post
poned the subsequent cost and the dam
age will be very much greater. There
is in the life of all public buildings
ton when prevention of decay and
injury is the highest virtue of care.
Surfaces and walls that take dam
age and are allowed to remain uncor-
rected presently have to be restored
wholly. and become the subjects of
patch work. No man permits his house
to suffer irreparable damage by ex-
posture, when a stitch in time will pre-
serve it in it's original streng tn for gen
erations
The record-union., 1897-08-05
THE NEwTowN sHoAL MATTER

The testing of Newtown Shoal in Sac
borings made establish the truth. The
shoal is simply fine sand, which a dredg
er can remove. Then the theory is, and
we believe it is correct, that the fall
viii be so much increased, or rather the
flow will be so little INSTRUCTED, that
the securing capacity of the stream for
a considerable extent of mileage will be
greatly augmented, and the work of
clearance and Improvement of naviga-
ton correspondingly advanced.
AS we understand it, engineers have
been divided in opinion as to whether
the shoal was a moveab BILE one or not (;
whether it was underlaid by hard pan;
whether, indeed, there was not a sort
of rocky ledge beneath it. Army engi-
neers, we believe, have held that it was
a rolling shoal, and washed out in win
ter and filled in after the flood waters
passed. This has been proved to be a
mistake by careful measurements taken,
and now the is rings prove just what
the shoal is imposed of, and that it
can be cleared out by dredging.
That is the thing that should be done,
and as soon as is possible. 1t is what
was contemplated by the Legislature
when it passed the Act authorizing the
purchase OF the new style of rapid
dredger. That intention should be
carried out.
1t has been rumored that it would be
baked by the Executive, pledges being
secured not to use enough of the APP
preparation in any one year, TO enable
the dredger to be purchased. Those
who wish the navigability of the river
to be improved, and they ought to be
all people who have the good of the
State at heart, are indisposed to be-
lieve the rumor. It would be crafty
ing to have it officially denied
The record-union., 1897-08-05

One by one the iconoclasts are de-
stroying our cherished and romantic
legends and beliefs. For a century the
lofty mesa or enchanted table uplift of
New Mexico has been regarded with ro-
mantle curiosity. We have been pleased
to believe that upon this apparently in
accessible fiat-topped cliff were the ruins
Of an ancient city, wherein once dwelt
people rich, refined and highly skilled
in the building art, and that the mesa
was the scene of rOmances more poetic
and heroic than any others related to
this continent. But Professor Libby
and his enterprising crew CT scientific
aids have managed to Chamber to the
top of this lofty table, and find there
nothing but a few scampering lizards
and terrified field mice Not a vestige
of habitation is to be found. No sign
that any structures We're ever on the
rock are to be discovered 1t is prob
able that not until Libby was dumped
from his rope, cast over the table by
a cunning device and a mule, was the
foot of man before pressed upon the
mesa soil.
The record-union., 1897-08-05

Thousands of women are cast-up dead
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The management of the City Art
is granted pretty soon some one will
break his neck at that public institu-
ton The broad flights of steps leading
to the gallery are on the point of total
collapse. They are of wood, have stood
the summers heat and winters wet for
twenty six years. and are now in con-
dition of the one-horse shay. 1t is a
long life for a flight of redwood stairs,
over which it is shown by the register
200.000 pairs of feet have trod in the
last decade alone. With granite so
plentiful and cheap. the steps and land
ings should be restored in stone. 1t
would be in keeping with the building
and city, and their character. The
management says that they have asked
the city nothing for interior repairs ne
cessitated by wear and tear of twenty
six years, during twelve years and the
three months of which the city has had
the gallery; that it has been cared for
and administered economically and
well, and every shift made to save ex-
pense, but that now certain repairs to
prevent decay and correct damage done
by leakage and natural use are abso-
lutely necessary. They have said to the
Mayor that they pointed out this ne
cessity in "a, and were told to wait a
year. Again in 90 they warned the
authorities that wear and tear must be
looked TO, and they were told to wait
another year" In 90, they say, they
again appealed and were told to get
along another year" and now they in
sist that the limit has been reached
and their petition should be granted at
once as some of the valuable paintings
are taking damage, some of the walls
damaged by water are SO unsightly as
to occasion uncomplimenIary remark
by our own citizens, to say nothing of
comments by visitors, and the APP
proaches are in such a condition that
they are simply beyond repair. They
ask for about a thousand dollars to
prevent this splendid edifce and its no
BILE contents taking harm, which they
will If repairs are longer neglected. They
contend that this is very reasonable, for