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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Labor Notes.

Under the homestead act 16S,00O,O00
acres has been taken up already.
Arizona convicts have been recently
leased at 70 cents per head day.
Steel mills in Pennsylvania are ex-
pected to be kept busy for time on
ders from railroads.
A Richmond, Maine, woman has
worked twenty-five years in Lewiston
mill, the most of the time at one loom.i
The lady manager Of a California in
surances company is credited with the
largest salary paid to any woman
$4,000 a year
MOST of the silk and wooden goods
manufactured in France and Germany
for importation to this country is said
to be adulterated.
Out of the ninety steamboats, plying
between this country and others only.
five belong to the people of the United
States and employ American labor.
Boys are being employed at Moor
bank, y. S. W., picking caterpillars off
vines and are being paid at the rate of
6 pence per quart, honest measure.
Railroad builders say the building
this year will be mainly. for the pur-
pose of developing lumber tracts, coal
mines and other freight making dis
tricts.
The long continuance of the strike in
the glass factories has left the ware.
houses empty and created a great de-
mand. The men expect to have busy
season.
4 dozen new coal mines have been
opened in Virginia and Tennessee, and
thereis a revival there of the coal and
coke business, as well as an active de-
mand for miners.
The mayor of San Francisco has no
titled the trades assembly Of that city
that organized labor will be represent
ed on the committee to be appointed to :
prepare q new city charter.
Mexican women are never employed
as bookkeepers, cashiers, stenogra-
piers, typewriters or saleswomen, or in
any branches of industry wherein
woman can earn her own living.
There are twelve cotton factories in
Atlanta, Ga, that are now running at
full capacity. They were never COM
pletely idle during the panic and have
paid uniform wages all the time.
The proposition to form combina-
ton among the national and local I'M
ions that intend to make an effort for
shorter hours next year is making
Roadway and some action may be taken
very soon.
Probably the monastery of La Grande
Chartreuse, which lies fourteen miles
from GrenobIe, among the French
mountains, is the Oldest industrial firm
in the world. This monastery was
founded about 1880.
Laborers are focking to Siberia to
work on the great Siberian railway.
This is the route that will play havoc
with the Eastern question, destroy the
usefulness of Constantinople as the
key to Europe. and enable Americars.
to go to the Japan sea in seventeen
days. a,z
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Eugene Webs Plea.

All over this broad land there is q
demand for an eight-hour workday.
The theory is that a day OF twenty
four hours should be divided into three
equal parts-eight hours for work,
eight hours for sleep and eight hours
for recreation, writes Eugene V. Debs.
The demand for the eight-hour day,
whether discussed from a physical,
educational, moral or economic stand
point, is defensible upon principles
which all thoughtful men will approve.
If it is desirable that the people should
not degenerate toward drafishness,
to Illiputian stature, then physical
conditions should excite public con-
Germ and it will not be denied that ex-
cessiye hours of toll, especially in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
FUNDY'S TIDE IN HARNESS.
How they Draw Out Under Water Piling
in the Maritime Provinces.

A curious use of the great rise of tide
in the Bay of Fundy is now being made
at the port Of st. John, n. 3. The mu-
nicipality has been building a large
wharf there for use by the Canadian
Pacific railway, which has selected St.
John as one of its winter termini. The
wharf proved defective, and it has been
found necessary to replace a portion of
it with ar entirely new structure. 70 do
this the piling that had been driven
many feet into the ground under water
had to be drawn UP.
All kinds of devices to effect this were
tried and rejected in favor of the plan of
flashing schooners to the piles at low tide.
As the tide rises so does. the schooner,
and with it the pile. This process is
ROW working most successfully, the St.
John Globe says, the piles being drawn
at the rate of eight tide.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Minnesota Railroads.

The Minnesota railroad commissions
ers,in their report to the Governor, say
that the total number of officers and
employees Of all the railroads operating
in Minnesota for 1896 was SO, o67, and
that the annual compensation was $49,-
8O1, S76, OF an ayera ge, including ''off-
GERS Of 1858 per year. 1t appears that
1852 more men were employed dur
ing 1896 by the railroads than in 1895,
owing to increase of business" but
the average wages Of 1895 were reduc-
ed $31 per year during 1896. The total
number Of persons killed in 1896 was
125, and of injured 608. Last year the
number killed was 1912. and the mum,
Der injured was 513.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Rule of Paganini's Violin.

A leader of the social world of her
day and generation invited Paganini
to q dinner at which other men and
women, distinguished in art, were to
be present. She had expected that he
would play before them during the
evening, and when the great musician
arrived, to her chagrin she discovered
that he had not brought his instru-
ment.
"Cn, Signor.'' she exclaimed, re-
proachfully, you have not brought
your VIOLIN
"No, madame" Paganini answered.
"lny violin never dimes out"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Not Snnerstitious.

''It's glad OF om,' said Mr.. Rafferty,,
shot Dim not shuperstitious.
"Phwy?'' inquired Mr.. Dolan.
cord be unaisy about the year thot's
comm. Mobile we've noticed it yerself.
''Noticed phWat?"
''That the frsht av January comes an
a Froiday."
BE the powers. thot's dishquietin.
But let's be thankful it don't fall an the
t'irteent aV the month. washing
Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Susan Simmons, the child who had pass

Susan Simmons, the child who had pass
ed through all these privations under the
care of her mother, grew to womanhood
in Ohio. There she met Moses Winans,
whom she afterward married. In 1853
they removed to Springville, Iowa, and
there in 1857 her mother died. Soon
afterward husband and wife removed to
California, and in the home Of one of her
six surviving children she is spending the
evening of her eventful life
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Most Idle Nation.

The palm would probably go to the
Transvaal Republic as regards it's orig
inal burgher population. The Boer
does just as little work as will keep
himself and family alive, and the most
Of that he gets done by kaffir serv-
ants, who, in the more out-of-theW way
districts, at any rate, are practically
slaves. In and about the gold fields
and industrial centers he just lets his
land on mining and other leases to
the Outlander, and does hardly any
thing at all. OF European countries it
would be hard to choose between Spain
and Turkey. In Spain constitutional
Incidence, fertile soil and a magnifi-
cent climate combine to make life one
long dawdle In Turkey the natural
thrift and industry Of the real Turkish
population are paralyzed into idleness
and apathy by the hopelessness of
winning anything worth having which
will not at once be stolen by official
corruption.
Cumso-Well, Johnny, how do you
like your new teacher? Johnny-Not
much. She don't know anything. To-
day she asked me who discovered
America Philadelphia Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18

youth, sap the foundations Of physical
development and in ripper years eX-
haust physical energies to a degree
which, as science demonstrates, is a
national calamity. If ignorance is the
prolific parent of crime, as is univer
sally conceded, then there should be
ample time afforded Workingmen for
self-education, time to read, to think,
to mediate and thus develop intellect
ual power.
It is held that the intellect of the
people is the most valuable portion of
the, state In proof of this it is held
that state, however boundless its re-
sources in mineral forests, lakes and
rivers, is poor, indeed, if it's people
are so ignorant as to be unable to util-
ize such stores of wealth for their COM
fort, and since it is the. muscle and
skill Of labor that develop such natural
resources, the first care should be to
reduce the hours of work that more
time for educational purposes may be
secured, and as the eight-hour day is
advocated upon this line as we'll as
upon other lines of scientific thought,
the demand for a shorter Workday be-
comes more and more a national neces-
sity.
In the seventies of logic, based upon
physical, economic, educational and
moral axioms, the Inauguration Of
universal eight-hour day would be a
victory for. humanity. If all the peo-
pie could have work and all the work
could be done in eight hours day. hui
mainly would realize at once that
new and better era had dawned, since,
as the burdens which labor impose are
removed toilers might gain one, two,
three or four hours in twenty-four for
leisure, for study, for recreation, for
home pleasures and the world would
take on brighter color and life be-
come worth the living.
/ have not the time to pursue the in
tereSting theme and discuss it's elevat-
ing possibilities, but content myself
with the inquiry, why is it that the
eight-hOur day has not been inaugur-
ated in the industrial centers Of the
country? and answer the inquiry by
saying it is because wage earners will
not unity to secure for themselves a
boon of such priceless value
assume that in amy city Of the great
republic the eight-hour day could be
established in a day if wage earners
would unite and make the demand.
How? By unification. Let the propo-
sition be: Eight hours day OF. every.
industry stand still;' that this just
concession must. be made to labor, not
only for its own good, but for the vel
fare of society, or a silence shall come
profound as reigns in buried Pompeii
No mobs, no riot, no Injunction, no
soldiers, simply silence, and from the
hour of dawn before the sun has climb
ed to his meridian throne the eight
hour day would be inaugurated.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
For En pioymc It of Negroes

The movement for the industrial edu-
cation of the Southern negroes is about
to be. advanced by the building Of a
cotton mill at Concord, n c.. for the
special employment and instruction of
negroes in this line Of work. 1t is be-
ing. built by w. C. Coleman, a wealthy
colored man. and will be the first cot
ton mill in the country to employ col
ored operatives, although there is q
spinning mill at Columbia, s. c., where
they are employed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
ONE STILL SURVIVES.
WOMAN PRESENT AT CHICAGO
MASSACRE is ALIVE.

Susan Winaus Her Name - Chicago
Historical Society Authenticates
Her Story-Narrative of Her Escape
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18
Peculiar Leg station.

One of the interesting and elaborate
pieces of labor legislation Of the age
is the factories act of Australia, which
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18

It is as hard for some men to stop
fishing as it is for others to stop drink
ing.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-07

said that during the debate Republican
senator's had let It be understood that
'hey would nike to be scared" when
this beet-sugar amendment was proposed.
and that the intimatIon had been con-
veyed that II some one would get on his
feet and threaten that Congress would
be held In session II the amendment was
pressed, then our Republican friends
would be able to slide down the back
stairs and get OUT
And so the Senator from Arkansas"
tMr Jones), Mr.. Allen went on. arose
ana expressed the utmost establishment
that this proposition should be brought
here. Allow me to say that think the
senator was speaking in a Plckwclxian
sense, for IL was well known for weeks
mat such an amendment would be
brought here"
JONES. OF ARKANSAS. DEM ES.
Mr. Jones entered the chamber at this
point and interrupted TO say that II there
was any such intimation as Mr.. Allen
had referred TO It never came to him
Jones). He was amazed when the
amendment was brought in.
Mr.. Allen accepted the statement. and
said he withdrew the remark that Mr..
Jones had spoken I'm a Pickwickian sense.
Is true yet" declared Mr.. Jones.
Mr.. Allen reverted TO the sugar inquiry
OF last year, saying it had disclosed that
senators speculated In sugar stock. and
that one senator declared he had the
right 10 speculate, thus In effect defying
Congress. as there was no rule. save that
OF modesty, TO operate in such cases. lie
also referred to the trial of Messrs. Have
meyer, Searles, Chapman, and others In
the District of Columbia courts. severely
commenting on the fact that Judges Cole
and Cox had been set aside and "a man
by the name of Bradley put on the
bench"
Every protected trust in the country
had hand in this Congress, he declared
Every industry had been remembered,
save this beet-sugar industry. and 1t
was put off with the delusive promise OF
action next December. when there was
no purpose ever to resurrect 1t.
THURSTON REPLIES TO ALLEN.
Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska, replied
briefly 10 his colleague. He lent en-
phasis TO his remarks by turning to Mr..
Allen. and addressing him personally. He
said he had introduced the bounty
amendment in good faith. and had ear
nestly urged II until a threat OF pro-
the prosperity Of the country over and
above the interests OF his State, and
believing that widespread benefit was 10
come with the passing Of this tariff bill,
he had withdrawn the bounty amend
ment.
Mr.. Allen. in turn, justified his course,
saying he had entered the Senate at
time when the government was bank
rupt. and when some course was I'M
perative to reduce government expenses,
avoid bond issues. and Tut more money
in the Treasury.
Mr.. Allison then moved, as means
of testing the sense of the Senate, that
the Allen amendment, providing sugar
! bounty. be laid upon the table. the
motion prevailed-yeas. 81; nays, 3. The
Republicans and Democrats voted to Ia
BILE. while the negative vote was cast
by Messrs. Allen. Butler Harris of Kan
sas. Heitfeld. Kyle. Pettigrew, Stuart,
Teller. and Mantle Populists and Silver
Republicans.
After agreeing TO vote on the bill to-
morrow, the Senate, at 10 p. NJ, ad-
/ iourned
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-07
RALEIGn'S BUDGET.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED At NORTH
CAROLLNNs CAPITAL.
Convicts Granted-Wanted to Lynch
Hin,-MiIitary to Go Into Camp
In n Had Wny-PersonaI Notes of
Interest.
Interest.

RALEIGH, n. c., July 6.-(Special)-
President Petty. Of the Carthage railway.
to-day met in conference with the Super
intendent OF the Penitentiary regarding
the use of convicts I'm grading the extern
sion OF that road. Convicts were secured.
The two guards who permitted seven
OF the convicts at the Castle Hayne phos-
phate mine to escape have been DIS
charged.
The negro Luke Richardson, who at
tempted TO assault young lady al
Greensboro. was last evening taken 10
Winston for safe-keeping. Late last
night a number OF country people rode
quietly into Greensboro, in order to iynch
him. but found he had been removed.
The reason why the twenty criminal
insane from the hospital at Morgahton
have not yet been transferred to the penn
Tertiary Is that there has been dispute
whether the hospital or the penitentiary
should pay the cost. State-Treasurer
worth to-day decided that the expense
must be paid out of the general lunu'
as the act says the transfer is to be "a
state cHdTSt. i i4c NiiiHii'9''
arrive in day or two.
The Adiutant-Ge General is notified that
the two military companies at Reidsviile
go into battalion encampment at Ileu-
mont Strings this month; that the COM
pany at Lumberton goes into camp at
Wriphtsyille. and that the Governors
Guar6, will leave for Nashville, Tenn, on
the 18th.
TheNreports of Inspector-General u. ,.
Royster. of the inspection OF the lhlru
Regiment. are in hand, and are very grau-
fving. All the companies are in good
shape and completely equipped, ana all
are getting the State appropriation
Robert White. young negro who IS
charged with having been the accom-
Mice of Berry Cook, who strangled Rosa
Morgan his mistress. 10 death In TINS
county. was brought here and jailed To-
day.
Denuty-Sheriff Cakes, who In an at
tenpt 10 arrest Jake Jones, a negro des-
nerado here. was struck by the latter
ie I'm n had condition. 1t turns out that
ne was struck in the groin with the nan
die of a heavy knife. Jones, who was
then shot by Cakes, is not expected TO
live twenty-four hours. This was the
statement of Sheriff Jones this morn
ing. A.,
Captain John c. Gresham, of the Agrl-
cultural and Mechanical College, leaves
i'm a day or two for months tour III
the eastern part of the State. in the inter
est of the college, while Professor ID. IL.
Hill will 20 to the Piedmont section on
the same business. 1t is the purpose 10
make the college better known and great
w increase the attendance, which Is not
half as large as it should be.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-07
VIRGINIA FIREMEN.
Programme of the Celebration mt
Ninchester-AF Fine House.

WINCHESTER, VA, July 6.-(Special)
This town is now in complete gala attire
for the Firemen's Convention, which
meets here tomorrow. Several COM
NAMES have already arrived and many
strangers are present, and by tomorrow
the opening day Of the convention, every
delegate VIII be present. The following
Is the programme:
Wednesday, July 7th--Reception Of dele
gates guests, and visiting companies by
the Reception Committee and escort;
1890 A. NJ. to 4 T. NJ, grand banquet TO
all visiting firemen, delegates, ana
guests; p. NJ, baseball game at Heser-
voir Park between the Cumberland (Md)
and winchester teams; p. NJ. eleventh
annual convention of the Virginia State
Firemen's Association TO be held in City
Hall. to which all visiting firemen and
the public are cordially invited.
Thursday, July sth-l0 A. NJ, baseball
game at Reservoir Park between the
Cumberland CMd) and Winchester teams;
p. NJ, grand firemen's parade; p. NJ,
grand band concerts; Q p. NJ, grand
pyrotechnc display.
Friday, July 9th--10 A. NJ, steam fire.
engine contests; II A NJ. prize drill; u
NJ hook and ladder contest; 1 u. NJ,
reel race contest, for association teams
only, E.ov NJ, Itti ldNo NOhNVoht Opth
to the world; 8 P. NJ, presentation Of
prizes at City Hall.
The new Rouss Engine House Of the
Union Steam Fire Company, No. 2, was
formally opened last night with appro-
pirate ceremonies. The exercises were
inaugurated by talk by the chaplain,
Rev. n. +. Dame, who said that the hall
should be dedicated to God SO far as
conduct was concerned, and that no
thing should be said or done that any
member would be ashamed Of in the
Divine presence. His remarks were eo-
quent and were well received. He was
followed by talks from various senior
members of the company, and by the
officers Of the other local companies pre-
sent.
The Union Steam Fire Engine Company
Hall is undoubtedly the finest in the
State and ranks among the first in the
United States in point OF cost and archi-
tecturai beauty. The company appointed
a building committee in 1894 consisting
of the captain. George II. Kinzel; the
four vice-presidents-M. T. Reed, f. III.
Krebs, II. l.. Wood. and A. S. Worth
ington--and the secretary, Joseph e.
Kiger. This committee started without
a cent and now have q building worth
over $1,000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-07
WELDON.
observation-disclosures Necessary
A singular Explosion.

WELDON. n. c., July 6.-(Special)-
The new Board of Education organized
Yesterday by electing Captain j. NJ. Griz-
gard chairman. The first business trans
acted was the election of County Super
visor of the Public Schools. The names Oh
Colonel A. Prescott and Professor IL. w.
Bagley were presented. Prescott re-
ceived three votes and Bagby one. Pres
colt was declared elected. To-day the
board appointed committeeman for the
various school districts in the county.
The County Commissioners granted IL
ouor licenses to thirty barkeepers.
Amount paid in, SIS for six months.
Captain w. T. Gay, while coupling cars
of his train on the Seaboard Airline,
had his thumb so badly mashed that am
putatdon was found TO be necessary.
The operation was very skilfully per-
formed by surgeons here.
A barrel Of molasses exploded In car
which was being unloaded by Captain
burlington. of the Seaboard Airline,
few days ago, knocking the conductor
down and covering him with sweetness.
He was a curiosity when he reached We'll
don. His pockets were even full Of mo-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-07
HAMPTON.
The POst-Omce-HnndIc Large
Crowd-Personal.

The observation-disclosures Large
Crowd-PersonaI.
HAMPTON, VA, July 6.-(Special.)-
The post office robbery continues to be the
chief topic Of interest here, and opinions
seem TO differ as to the burglars Some
are satisfied that they were professionals
in their business, while others think that
they did the work too clumsily, but all
agree that the job must have been well
planned. and that the men must have in
some way, acquainted themselves with
the position of things in the office. and
performed their work at the very time
when there was the least chance Of being
detected. Up to date no reliable clue
has been obtained, but the superstition is
that the burglars went TO Washington
by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, as
il is said two suspicious characters left
this section by that route. In the money
drawer found in the vacant lot on a
back street was Sl.40 which the men LETT
In their haste to get away.
There was a large crowd Of strangers
I'm and about our town on yesterday.
and our street-car line handled probably
the largest number OF passengers in Its
history. old Point the Soldiers Home.
and Buckroe Beach were all centres or
attraction. The fireworks AT the two
last-named places were very fine. and
drew crowds. No accident has been re-
ported for the day.
The local fire company left on yesterday
for Winchester
There "a a movement on foot TO build
a eommodious and convenient public hall
near the centre Of the town.