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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04

but we must teach them also that in
order to succeed in that purpose they
must assist one another like true broth
ers, reaching out the helping hand to
those in need Of sympathy and assist
ance. No organization can or will
prosper whose members only seek to
further their own selfish interests. No
organization can prosper in which the
helping hand is not offered to brother
in distress and where jealousy and
envy exist" Mr.. Miller urged the ne
cessity Of a general and active agita-
ton throughout the land for the licens-
ing Of BARRIERS, setting forth that the
realization Of this object would do
away with a class Of incompetent work
men who are now enabled to conduct
unclean and unhealthy holes under the
misnomer of barber shops.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Cornoration Sues It's Men.

A moral that it is bad for Welsh
miners to strike against Welsh mine
owners can be drawn from a lawsuit
conducted in Swansea, Wales, few
days ago. 1t was the peculiar spectacle
Of a mining corporation suing for and
obtaining damages from their paid en-
ployes. The Webb, Shakespeare & Will
Jams Company, limited, had flfty-three
of their striking Workmen into the
Swansea police court and sued them
before Justices Walters and Owens for
damages for striking
The pathetic plea of the mine own
ers touched the justices. The claim
was made that they had been "hurt,
aggrieved, and injured in pocket, mind
and conscience by the action Of the
defendants in quitting work at the
Glamorgan Tin Plate Works, Pontar-
dulais" It was further averred that
the fety-three derelicts, 'being work
men, having entered into contract
with the plaintiffs, terminable by
twenty-eight days notice in writing,
did wrongfully break the said contract
without having given or received such
notice." There was great interest
taken in the trial. The court was
crowded and a big display of legal
talent was made. The prosecutor was
instructed by firm Of disciples of
Blackstone and the defendants law
yer had the benefit Of advice from a
galaxy Of followers Of Greenleaf.
Justice triumphed The court was
impelled to decide for the prosecution
as much from principles Of humanity
as from the bare law. The justices
deliberated long and loud. So careful
were they that, after hearing the case
on the bench, they retired and on re-
turning to court said that the action
Of the defendants was bad and they
had decided to grant damages of $40
against each defendant, with $1.90 costs
each and $26 advocates fees.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04

ton Circular No. u of the division of
statistics, giving the acreage, produc-
ton and value of principal farm crops
in the United States, 1866 to lS9o," is
followed, the prices from 1866 to 1873
being reduced to a gold basis by applying
the average gold premiums stated i'll the
introduction. and the three leading crops
being weighted according to Importance,
as gagged by amount of product, thus
furnishing an adopted average.
Three Important Crops.
The total product and total value of
the country's six leading staples for the
average Of eight years, ending with 1899,
are approximately as follows:
co bns1as FEo do@ oo $3.50 600
Hay, tons ........ 51200,000 451,00000O
Wheat, bushels 100000, 900 800, 100000
Cotton pounds 206 GOO GOO
Potatoes, bushels I97, 100000 9o,Oo0ooo
Tobacco, which probably comes next in
order. has a total value less than half
that of potatoes.
Fluctuations in Prices.
A table is given showing the gold
value of different farm crops for period
Of thirty years and the report says:
1t will be observed that the years IN
which violent oscillations of the agrlcul-
tural price line show themselves are usually
years when the price of some one OF the
three crops is especially affected, and in
most cases there is little difficulty In dis
covering the reason For example, the ef-
feet of especially short corn crops in 1867,
1874, 1881. 1887, 1890 and 1894 in increasing
the price, and that of especially abundant
crops Of the same cereal in 1884, 1880, 1889
and 1895 in cheapening it, are plainly
shown in the table, not only in the corn
price, but in that of the sum. Shcrt hay
crops and high prices affect the whole com
bination in the years 1871, 1880 and 1881,
while good craps and low prices produce
the reverse erect in 1873 and 1884. Low
prices for wheat conceded with abundant
wheat crops in 1873, 1884 and 1886; high
prices with deficient crops in 1886 and 1871.
These exceptional crops in large measure
account for the violent disturbances OF the
price line.
In some Of these an abundant yield OF
one crop is offset by deficient yield OF
another and in other years, such as 1867
and 1891 prices in this country were up
held by exceptionally strong demand i'll Eu--
rope. The prices in the years last noted
are relatively higher for wheat than for
other crops. as the table proves.
Besides the fluctuations depending on VI
ciSstudes of season. affecting the price FOR
single year, there will be noted a few others
extending over several years Of varying sea.
sons These are explained by commercial
conditions. The period Of low prices from
1875 to 1873. followed by sudden revival
in 1879; the fall from 1884 to 1886. and the
similar one beginning in 1893 are all re-
Elections of business depressionS ana recoV-
cries.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Sewing Girls in Paris.

There are IS, 0OO sewing girls in Paris
Of these 5000 receive a living wage.
Of the remaining 10000 a large number
live with parents or friends, whose
combined efforts prolong an honest ex-
istence that is never far removed from
starvation, says a writer in the New
York Sun. AS many more, latter sur
fering all that can be suffered in this
world give up the unequal contest
and by slow stages enter that female
throng which patrols every Paris street
by night, not as maidens and not as
wives. A few of them find their way
into the Seine.
Suppose (Which is rarely the case)
that the young girl earns francs, or 80
cents, a day while work is on. Count
ing out the Sundays and legal holidays
she has a little less than $50 a month.
OF this she will be able to lay aside 81
a month during the eight months while
work holds on, against the dead season.
This suppOseS that she buys nothing
new for her dress, although even the
costumes Of sewing girls wear out
sooner or later. At best these sewing
girls reach the dead season with So
saved up to meet it. AS it lasts four
months and their necessary expenses
go on at the rate Of $16 month, they
have very pretty problem in economy
before them. 1t, as happens to many,
they have been earning only 70 cents
a day, or, as with beginners, only 60, the
reimbursement Of their mode of living
presents yet nicer difficulties. There
are various ways of solving them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
CRIMINALS PARDONED.
The President Exercises His Au-
thority to Set Couple Of Of
tenders at Liberty.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 2S.-The
President has pardoned William Jack
son, sentenced October Z, 1895, in Texas
to eighteen months imprisonment at
hard labor for making counterfeit coin.
He has also pardoned James Burwell,
alias Charles Sherwood, convicted in
July last in Michigan for bringing coun.
terfeit bills into the United States. Bur-
we'll was sentenced in Canada more than
twenty years ago to seven years impris-
onment for counterfeiting. The de-
tectives since his return to the United
States suspected him of a further offense
of this kind that could not be proven. 50
he was arrested, tried and convicted last
July on the same old evidence and for
pra ctically the same offense for which he
had been punished in CANADA. The
President i'll his endorsement says that
whatever the technical rules of law may
be, he does not think it is fair or just to
punish this convict again for an offense
so nearly involved in his previous con-
yictiOn.
The sentence of three years and six
mouths imprisonment, and So fine i'm
posed upon Washington Claypole. Jr., in
Western Pennsylvania in May, 1894, for
passing counterfeit money, has been com
muted to three years actual imprison-
ment. A pardon has been denied to W..
in 1893 to six years imprisonment for
sending obscene letters through the
mails, the President holding that 'this
convicts crime is of such nature and
the circumstances related to it are SO
detestable as to deserve Il severe SEN
tence."
A pardon has also been denied in the
case of w. T. Morrison, sentenced in
Southern Mississippi, to $50 fine for
forgery.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
The Spiders Web.

The net of the common garden spider
consist of two different kinds of silk.
The threads forming the concentric cir
cles are composed of silk much more
elastic than that which composes the
guyropes or rays. The elastic concen-
trio threads are also covered with min
ute globules of viscid gum, which is
not to be found on the rays Mr.. Black
well estimates that a net of the aver
age dimensions contains not less than
81, $50 Of these gum globules, any three
of them being sufficiently adhesive to
catch and hold an unWary fly. Large
nets twelve to fourteen inches in diam
eter) sometimes contain as many as
10000 Of these minute gum balls.
The rapidity with which these nets are
built is really surprising. One that
contains from sixty to 100 yards of silk
and which is studded with $4,000 to
100000 gum globules IS often completed
and ready for use within forty min
utes from the moment when the first
guyrope is anchored.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
MAI. M'KINLEY'S ESCORT.
Chicago Hussars and Cleveland Greys to
Share the Honor.

Chicago, H., Dec 29.-When Maj
Mckinley takes the oath Of office on
March his personal escort will be
formed of the Chicago Aussars squadron
and the Cleveland Greys, Cleveland's
considered early by President-elect Me-
Kinley. Each of these bodies offered its
services as escort. Finally the Greys
were selected The Greys deliberated
and then decided it would be the nice
thing to invite the Hussars to share the
duty with them. All the members of the
escort will be mounted on black horses
and they count on making an effective
display The Hussars will stop over on
the way home at New York for one day
and perhaps give fancy drill.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Bui1ders of Railway Cars.

The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men of America held it's fifth biennial
convention at Dallas, Tex. This organ
ization is composed Of men employed
on railway lines in the capacity of
building, inspecting, repairing, or in
any way maintaining railway cars. The
objects of this brotherhood are: ''To
promote friendship, unity and true
brotherly love among it's members" and
among workingmen in general. ITO
bring greater proficiency into their de-
partment by mutual interchange OF
ideas and the discussion of the best
and most economical methods Of per-
forming labor pertaining to this craft.
To benefit the employer by raising the
standard of the craft. To esta blish
mutual confidence and create and main
tain harmonious relations between en-
ployer and employee. To care for the
dear ones in distress or when disabled
by accident or unavoidable adversely"
The brotherhood has an insurance de-
partment in connection with the order.
which may be taken at the option Of
the members, but is not compulsory.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
ADMIRAL MILNE DEAD.
Was in Command of Great Britain'S
North American Station for
Several Years.

London, Dec. 29.-Sir Alexander Milne,
admiral of the fleet, who once was in
command of the North American sta
ton, is dead.
The admiral was born in 1906 and
while in command of the North American
station he received the Prince of Wales
at Halifax upon the occasion Of the lat
ter's visit to America in 1860.
Sir Alexander was the only admiral
on the North American station who had
ever officially visited any ports OF the
1868, at the time of the Civil war and
was subsequently cordially received at
WashingtOn
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
SUICIDE OF A BANKER.
Financial Reverses Cause Otto Vasmans-
dorf of Chicago to Kill Himself.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 2S.-Sufering from
DEPRESSION caused by financial reverses
Otto Wasmansdorff, a well-known bank
er of this city. today fired a bullet into
his brain and died almost instantly He
killed himself in front hall bedroom at
his home on Cleveland avenue at II
o'clock this morning. His sons, William
G.. and Otto. Jr., who were in the parlor
beneath their fathers bedroom. heard
the report of the revolver and rushed up
stairs. Running into the room the horri-
fled sons saw their father lying on the
bed, dying, 32-caliber revolver lying at
his side. He had shot himself in the
right temple and a tiny stream of blood
was flowing down his cheek. Every
thing in the room was in perfect order
The deed apparently had been deliberate
ly nlannad.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
An Easy Death.

A Washington man. who suspected q
colored man in his employ Of tampering
with his private stock of whisky, allowed
the demijohn to become empty, and, in
stead of filling it again, put the liquor in
bottles in q cupboard and labeled them
poison One night, as he came home
from the theater, he caught the ooloreed
servant in the act Selling the bottle in
mock terror, the employer exclaimed:
'Great heavens! Do you know what
you are doing? Don't you see that what
that bottle contains is marked poison"'
The colored man held it off and looked
at it. Then he smelled it, and, with a
look of melancholy, replied: '.Talnt poi
son, sub. Is done been fooled az in"
Flow dared you tamper with it. whether
you knew it was poison or mott 'Bosss,
it was dis-a-way. Fun de way yoh
acted bout dat demijohn in de cellar [
done thought youh had yoh s'picions, oh
me, an it made me melancholy, fob sho'.
rs been tryin' fob mos two weeks now
ter commit suicide out II dat bottle.'
The Imperial library in Paris has
tWenty-siX books printed on white silk.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
To Oppose Convict Labor.

The Wisconsin Auticonvict Labor as
ISOLATION was formed in Milwaukee by
representatives of the interests affected
by prison labor competition. The meet
ing was attended by representative of
twenty-five firms manufacturing chairs.
Resolutions were adopted pointing out
the ''ruinous effect Of employing con-
yicts in competition with free labor of
the different penal Institutions" and
defining the object OF the association to
and county authorities to stop such
competition. F. NJ. Mann was elected
president; Carl Freschl, vice-president.
and L. C. Mayhem, secretary-treasurer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Labor Notes.


Wages of miners at Yukon, Alaska,
are $40 day and north of that place
So day.
Wages Of the employees of the Pitts
burg, Pa. Traction Company have been
reduced.
A Cleveland bicycle concern is maxi
ing 10000 wheels for shipment to Eng
land this winter.
Forty large elevators will be built in
the northwest next year, according to
recent estimate
Three thousand men will be put to
work making cars in the works at JEFF
fersonville, Ind.
China is ordering large quantities of
cotton from American mills, and the
cotton business is on a boom.
Workmen> at ship yards along the
lakes are busy on twelve big steel ships,
nearly all of them over 400 feet long.
Branch No SO of the Labor Elk
change Santa Paula, CAL, is building
a canning factory and has a member
ship of 25O.
American mines furnished 10000 tons
of pig iron for England last month.
making total shipments for the season
10000 tons.
One thousand box cars have been Or
dered by the Illinois Central and other
roads are contemplating placing orders
for rolling stock.
A number of strikes have occurred in
the cotton mills of Japan, most Of them
being for an increase of wages and for
the relaxation of factory rules.
Miners who will not accept the rate
offered by the operators are being
eyicted at Terre Haute, Ind. Men want
60 cents the operators offer So cents.
Day and night work is increasing in
Pennsylvania mills and the manufac-
turers say orders are coming in rapidly.
Many new enterprises are being es
tablished.
Travelling statesmen from the United
States do we'll in England, as they can
undersell English cloth mills. This
countrys advanced labor saving ma
chinery does it.
Three libraries for his workingmen
have been promised by Andrew Car
negie One he expects to locate at
Homestead another at Duquesne and a
third at Carnegie They will cost $780,
900 each.
On Victorian railways station mis-
tresses'' are replacing station masters
Over 200 women are now holding the
post and their average annual salary is
$500, whereas the station masters re-
ceiyed $3.50.
A number Of small coal mines will be
opened near Hawesville, Ky, for sup
plying the demands Of the town and
surrounding country, forcing the larger
companies to practically abandon the
local trade.
The 200 miners of the Royal Coal and
Coke Company at NeWcomb, Tenn, are
on strike, refusing to submit to the re-
ports Of the company's weighman. The
trouble is in the Coal Greek district and
may spread.
Suits brought against the Cummock
coal mines at Raleigh, N. c., aggregate
$4,000 for miners killed in the mines
1t is claimed that the accident that
killed the forty-two miners was caused
by a miner leaving an open lamp near
point where a new seam of coal had
been opened.
Only two Of the nine blast furnaces of
the Carnegie mills are now idle. The
mills have been busy on steel for the
Philadelphia ship yards, in addition to
other orders. When all the mills are
gathered together at Homestead they
will constitute the biggest iron and steel
plant in the world.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
TRADER STARTS A SILLY RUMoR.
To Save $3.50 He Works the Market with
a Reported Bank Failure.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dee. 29.-One mans GU
pidity led him to circulate rumors of
bank failure on the board of trade yester-
day, to cover his shortage in wheat That
his work did not result in wrecking the
Garden City Banking and Trust com
pany was due only to a financial showing
which enabled its officers to laugh at the
stream Of anxious enquirers.
The coup made wheat break a GUAR
ter" saving the Speculation $3.50. Then
with consideration rare for the bourse the
author of the story called upon Cashier
John w. Buehler at the bank and apollo
gized for any annoyance he might have
caused him. When he saw the bank Off
cial cherished hard feelings for him he
refused to give his name, but he told the
story of the ruInor in detail
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
SENTENCED A FIREBUG.
Isaac Sucker Sent to Prison for Thirty
six Years.

New York. Dec. 29.-Isaac Sucker,
convicted last night of arson in the first
degree, was today sentenced to thirty-six
years in prison. The maximum penalty
is forty years.
It was claimed by the prosecution that
Sucker was the chief of the gang Of fire
years ago startled the insurance world,
and Morris Schoennolz. serving. a forty
year term in Sing Sing for his connection
with this gang was brought from prison
to testify against Sucker.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
FUNERAL OF KATE FIELD.
The Body Cremated and the Ashes Sent
to- II. H. kOhlsaat.

San Francisco, Cal, Dec 2S.-The
final obscquies over the remains of the
late Kate Field were held in Trinity
church yesterday afternoon. The large
edifice was crowded to the doors with
the best-known people of the city. The
chancel, in front of which the casket
rested, was a mass of plants and beauti-
full floral pieces sent by people from all
represented by his staff in full uniform
and number of foreign consuls, federal
officials and the heads of all state and
municipal departments were present.
The services were conducted by the Rev.
George j.. Wolf and were according to
the ritual of the Episcopal church. The
body was cremated and the ashes will
be sent to II. IL. Kohlsaat of Chicago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
..yyool fling" is DYING.

Upper Sandusky, O., Dee. 29-Word
comes from Harpster, south Of here, that
David Harpster. known far and wide as
the "wool king" sustained Il stroke of
paralysis. and is in a critical condition.
He is the weaIthiest man in this part
of the state and has been one of the most
extensive wool growers in the United
Sta ties.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
MILITIA IN READINESS.
Gov. Bradley will Not Have Mob Rule in
Kentucky.

lexington Ky, Dec. 29.-Gov. Brad
lev had ordered several companies of the
state militia to be in readiness to march
at an hours notice to Paris, to repel a
mob expected there from Cynthiana to
lynch johnson Howe who shot and killed
Charles Lacey Of the latter place, but no
under heavy guard and the county au-
tllorities say that they can keep any mob
Lnr
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
yroons in Readiness

louisville. Ky, Dec. 2S.-Gov. Brad
lev has had several companies Of the
Second regiment of the state militia
practically under arms for forty-eight
hours. owing to the fear that an attempt
would be made to lynch Johnson Howe,
the negro being held at Paris for the
murder of Policeman Charles Lacey at
CvOfhiana
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Plain Talk TO BARRIERS.

In his address delivered on the open
ing of the convention at Evansville
President H. p. Miller Of the Journey
men BARRIERS International Union says:
1--WE must teach our members that it is
right and just that they should aim to
better their own individual condition,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
Texas Train Robbers Caught.

Houston, Tex, Dec Information
was received by the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press officials here that the state rangers
had captured the robbers who held up
the Southern Pacific passenger train at
Comstock, Tex. week ago tonight
They are in Jail at Rel Rio, where their
examination viii take place Wednesday,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04

Providence, r. T., Dec. 2S,-Gregory
Kirchbaum and his wife were burned to
death in their home at Johnston today.
The building was partially consumed by
the fire, which resulted from the ex-
plosion Of lamp.