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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

Baxter, who has al along taken such a
deep interest in the coming of the conven-
tion, already offers the suggestion that
within a very short time the Union Signal
devote a page or perhaps two pages. 10 \
general presentation of Seattle as the seat
OF the next convention, including a men
ton OF its various resources and industries.
with illustrations Of some of the chief points
OF Interest in and about the city.
Most readers will readily concele that
ali this is not only advertising OF the most
valuable kind. but q species OF advertising
which could not be purchased for money.
New National Omcers.
The officers recently chosen at 81. Paul
are all women who have been long and
lively connected with the work of the asso-
CATION. The new president, Mrs. l.. NJ n.
Stevens. lives at Portland. Me. and has
been for eighteen years president of the
Maine state union. She was also vice pres
ident-at-large of the national union under
the presidency Of Miss Willard. whom she
succeeds She has a clear. bright mind, good
executive ability. and makes an excellent
presiding officer.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker. who is reelected
uatioiidi ATtdSuEtI, Is WHAT the tA
the union call stalwart She is the wife
OF Baptist minister. She Is a careful
reasoner and possesses just those thorough
business qualities needed 10 ht her for her
position Her office VIII be. as II has been
heretofore. in the Temple az Chicago.
The recording secretary. Mrs Clara c.
Hoffman, makes her home at Kansas City.
Mo, where she was al one time principal
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
JOINT COMMISSION
DISCUSSES FISHERIES
Taken Up for the First Time
in the Session Yesterday.
PRESENT MANY PROBLEMS
Some Progress Also Made in the
Consideration of Reciprocity.

The American Representatives. WIN
Insist as n Preliminary That the
Canadians Agree to Abolition of
the. Present Preferential Duties
i'm Favor of Great Hrltnin-OycP
the Fisheries Proposition There
Is Likely to he Considerable De-
bate, and In Some Respects Ii IL
the Most Important Considered.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
1HE PUGET SOUND
NAVAL STATION.
Very Small Appropriations
Asked for It.
CHIEF ENDiCOTT'S REPORT
Sees No Necessity for Increasing
the Facilities at That Point.
CHIEF ENDiCOTT'S REPORT

He Argues That . First-Class Naval
Station Is Needed ON the sound,
but Thinks 1t Should He Situated
in Closer Proximity to some OF
the Larger Cities, Where the
Nearby Population Can Furnish
the Skilled Labor Nec~ssary. nnd
Where Supplies Are Abundant
and With Direct Rail Connection.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

Hundreds of White Rbnrs Including Famous Women VIII Cross the
Metropolis of Puget Sound Lady Somerset May Among
Untold Advantages Accrue City and State From the Distinction
SeattesS sSuccesfl Efforts % Bring the Delegates to the
Pacific Coast for the First n
tory of the Organization
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

Seattle has won a signal and far-reachins
victory in the decision of the executive
committee OF the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union 10 hold the next national
convention in this city That decision was
reached yesterday and was announced in
the following Associated Press dispatch:
"St Paul, Nov. Il. 1898.
What is known as the executive COM
mittee OF the W. c. T. T., by which vari-
Gus matters of business referred 10 the
board by the convention are TO be acted
on. met in this city today.
Seattle was decided upon as the next
place for holding the national convention.
The time is to be about the middle OF Oc-
tober. the exact date being fxed later.
AT the afternoon session the resolutions
by Mrs A. S. Benjamin against indorsing
any affiliated interests We're laid over until
the next convention.
THE committee refused to grant the re-
quest of the Willard Temperance hospital
trustees for call for donation of 10 cents
a member for the use of the hospital In
view of the action against the temple, the
committee did not think II should attempt
TO raise money for any other affiliated in
terest.
The appointment Of Mrs. Frances Gra-
ham. OF Ohio, as railroad superintendent,
to success Mrs. c. II. Woodward. OF Ne
brsska. was confirmed.
''The committee completed its work, and
all the officers and delegates left on even
Ing trains for their homes"
Chosen Over Strong Competitors.
Seattle was not alone In the race for the
honor OF entertaining the great convention.
Other cities. whose people have watched
with observant eyes the practical benefits
arising from the entertainment OF so large
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
Advantages 10 the City.

More than this. Each one of the many
delegates is required by the rules OF the
association to render on her return 10 her
constituents both an oral and written
report of the convention. One can well
imagine the effect Of this thousand-voiced
report. as It shall speak alike in the crowd
ed metropolis and IN the country hamlet.
10 the remotest quarters Of the United
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

conclusion that Seattle was the best place
for the convention. Apart from the moral
benefit which may be expected 10 arise
from the presence OF such an assembly.
there are certain utiiitarian advantages
which at once suggest themselves. Before
the present year has ended the national
headquarters OF the association will be
established here, and from this central
bureau the vast amount Of work connected
with organizing the next convention will
be carried on. At the same time the local
headquarters Will be busy with the thou
sand and one details looking to the housing
of the convention, the carrying out of its
programmes and the entertainment of its
delegates. The amount of advertising
which Seattle win get incidentally from
this work is beyond all calculation.
Nor will the advertising stop at that.
More than u thousand women, picked
women. brainy, influential. Will come to-
gether here TO deliberate and to take action
on some OF the great questions of the day.
The Associated Press VIII send out n fun
report of their proceedings. as it has Just
been doing from St. Paul The great East
ern dailies will TEEN with specials All
these dispatches will bear Seattle date
liua
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
SEATTLE CHOSEN AS THE convention
CITY Of THE NATIONAL V,C,T, /,
Selected by the Executive Committee as the Mex
Meeting Place of the Union.


Los Angeles Detroit Portland Me- Niagara Falls Cincinnati and
the State Of Texas Contest for the Honor
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
FUNDS FOR THE NAVAL MILITIA.
Congress Asked for an Annual Appro-
priation OF $2OO,OOO.

Congress Asked for an Annual Appro-
priation OF 100000.
Lieut.. w. II. Switzerland of the United
States navy, who was in general charge
of the naval militia during the late war,
asks Congress for an annual appropria-
ton of 100000 to foster this branch of
our reserve force.
In his report, submitted to the Secretary
Of the Navy, Lieut.. Switzerland gives a
comprehensive history Of the work per-
formed by the naval militia in the opera
tons against Spain. OF the total force of
"a, 1913 enlisted men employed in the navy,
4,216 were mustered in from the na<Al
militia organizations, Of which number
about 1900 served in the regular navy,
the remainder in the auxiliary naval force
and coast signal service.
The lieutenant praises the troops more
for their zeal than efficiency. The war
clearly demonstrated, he believes, the inn
perative necessity for the maintenance
Of national naval reserve in the organ
ization of which too much reliance must
not be placed upon the merchant marine
alone.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
v,RoEN JURY REPORTS.
Indictments Returned Against Botn
Gov. Tanner and Manager Lukens.

Gov Tanner and Manager Lukcns.
The grand jury called in special session
at Carlinville to inquire into the cause OF
the yirden coal miners riot, which TOOK
place in the city of Virden Oct. Il, finish
ed its labors Thursday and made report
to Judge II. B. Shirley, who came down
from Springfield. The jury indicted nifty
four persons. among whom were Manager
Lukens of the Chicago Virden Coal Com
pany and John II. Tanner, Governor OF
the State of Illinois. There are three
counts against Mr.. Lukens for alleged
murder and manslaughter, and those
against Gov. Tanner are "for palpable
neglect of duty as an officer, and mai
feasance in office" This latter Indictment
rectes the whole trouble at Virden, how
the sheriff called for troops, the appeal
the manager of the Chicago-Virden Coal
Company made to the Governor to send
troops, the riot that followed, and the
killing Of the fourteen men. +. c. Lukens,
superintendent of the Chicag Virden
Coal Company, is indicted on two counts
on a charge of "willfully killing and muir
dering Ellis Smith" and with manslaugh-
ter, in the case of Joseph Gitterlie, Frank
Wilder, j. u. Sickles and J. II. Smith.
One hundred and seventy-five witnesses
were examined by the grand jury. Nearly
1000 pages of the coroner's jury evidence
was read and reread, and many prominent
men were examined many of them con-
fiicting in their statements. The grand
jury was in session twenty days and the
coroners jury fourteen days. The vote
on indicting the Governor stood thirteen
to ten in favor Of the indictment. The
vote on the indictment of #. w. Lukens
stood the same in number as that of Gov.
Tanner. Judge Shirley fixed the bond of
Gov Tanner at $500 and that of Mr.. Lu-
kens ut 81 900 in each case. In the minor
cases the bonds were made merely romi-
nal in amount.
The closing scenes in the grand jury
room were full of dramatic interest, and
the jurymen were glad that the work was
at an end. During all the time the jury
was in session each witness was rigidly
examined and crosse examined, and every
word uttered was infinitely sifted.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
NOW IN THE WATER.
Batt1eship Wisconsin Floating in San
Francisco Bay.

Ratt1e.hip Wisconsin Floating in San
Francisco Bay.
The battleship Wisconsin was launched
at San Francisco Saturday morning.
Thousands of spectators witnessed the
ceremony. Long before the hour appoint
ed for the launching the visitors crowded
the yards of the Union iron works, the
adjoining housetops, and the hills Many
took places of vantage hours before the
vessel slid from the ways, and they pa
tiently stood in the cold morning air until
the ship entered the brine. Even then
they were loath to depart, many remain
ing for hours to watch the giant hull as 1t
noated at anchor in the bay.
The launching party, which included
prominent visitors from Wisconsin, was
given a place upon the large platform
which had been built around the Prov or
the vessel. Miss Elizabeth Stephenson OF
Wisconsin, to whom had been given the
honor Of christening the battleship, and
little Miss Lucille Gage, daughter OF Gov
ernor-elect Gage Of California, who had
been chosen to touch the button that start
ed the vessel on the ways, took positions
within a few feet Of the ships Prov.
Irving NJ. Scott of the Union iron works
chose workmen to knock away the sup
ports that held the vessel on the ways.
Almost simultaneously Mayor Phelan
stepped forward upon the platform above
and introduced Margaret Duff Of the Irv-
ing M. Scott grammar school, who, on be-
half of the school, presented to the battle
ship large flag made by the pupils of the
school. Commodore Watson, command
ant at Mare Island, accepted the colors
on behalf of the Secretary Of the Navy.
MAY it's folds" he said, never float
above oppression, but be ever the signal
Of liberty and freedom. Let oil join with
me in the hope that it may be given to the
care Of men as brave as Clark and Mill
gan, and the gallant crew Of the Oregon
We can wish no better" Following the
unfurling Of the flag Mayor Phelan read
an ode to Wisconsin, written by Clara liza
Price.
Hardly had the Mayor ceased reading
than little Miss Gage, at the bidding Of
Mr.. Scott, touched the button that freed
the giant ship. The massive structure re-
| sponded to the touch of the button like q
thing of life, and without the slightest jar
started down the ways. AS it trembled
on the move Miss Stephenson broke the
bottle Of wine upon the Prov and in
clear, full voice said: 81 christen thee Wis
consin."
| The dimensions of the Wisconsin:
Length on load water line, 36S feet; beam,
extreme, Y feet 211a inches; draught dis
placement Of II ,525 tons, % feet inches;
maximum displacement all ammunition
and stores on board, 1926 tons; maxi
mum indicated horse power (estimated),
10000; probable speed, 161a knots; normal
coal supply, 800 tons; coal supply, loose
storage, 200 tons; full bunker capacity,
1,4Oo to 1900 tons; complement Of Off
GERS, 40; seamen, marines, ETC., 449
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

Among the items in the campaign ex-
pense bill Of Hon. 2. S. White, New York
State Senator, is $3.50 for renewing old
acquaintance and $40 in making new
ones"
u. s. Grant, son of the dead general, is
a Republican candidate for United States
Senator from California. His candidacy
is opposed by Some of the Republicans of
that State.
Georgia is wrestling with a deficit Of
81 100000 in the State treasury and the
tax rate is the second highest in the
South. The trouble is the State is long
on government and short on revenue.
According to their sworn statements
Col. Roosevelts election expenses were
$1,000, while Judge Van Wyck's were
little more than $500, but the latter gave
up $4,000 position to run for the office.
Rev. Stanley l.. Krebs of Reading, Pa,
was prohibition candidate for the Legis-
lature at the recent election. He had writ
ten pledges from. 4 800 men that they
would vote for him and yet the official
count shows that he received but 1882
votes.
DIR, Swallow, the Pennsylvania prohibi-
tloUlSt WHO ran lot 1o'eiHor, is not ap-
parently discouraged by his defeat A
friend asked him if he was now out of
politics and the doctor replied: NO Amer
lean citizen has any right to go out of
politics"
James Gray, the newly elected Mayor of
Minneapolis, started life as a newsboy.
earned money sufficient to keep him while
going to the common schools, graduated
from the State University and became re-
porter on and then managing editor of the
Minneapolis Times.
Mayor Edward Hoos of Jersey City ex-
poets to be a candidate for reelection next
spring on platform favoring Sunday the
aterS.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
COAL BARGES; LOST AT SEA.

Three Vessels Go Down OFF Barnegat,
III owning Ten of the Crew.
Three coal bargcs were lost at sea off
Earnegat, n. j., the other night and ten
members of their crews were drowned
The lost barges were the Corsica, the Hell
icon and the Quinnebaug, bound from
Norfolk for Boston and Providence, X. l.
Captain Nelson and one of the crew Of
the Helicon were saved. Another barge,
the Anna III. Smith, managed to ride out
the gale and was picked up by an ocean
tug. The financial loss is heavy. The
barges We're owned by the Luckenback
Towing and Transportation Company and
were valued at $4,000 each. The barges
were insured for nearly their full value.
Over 1890 tons of coal was lost. 1t was
insured for about two-thirds of its value.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
ENGULFED BY THE SEA.
Passenger Steamer Portland Is Lost
with All on Board.

with All on Board.
The steamer Portland Of the Boston and
Portland Steamship Company, plying be-
tween Boston and Portland, was wrecked
at 10 o'clock Sunday morning off High
land light, and the entire crew and pas
sengers, fifty-seven persons, persisted
within short distance Of land A large
quantity of wreckage, including trunks,
was washed ashore, and at dark Monday
night thirtyfour bodies had been recoy-
cred from the surf by the life-saving crew
at High Head station. One body was
that of woman. The vessel had mis-
cellaneous cargo aboard, valued at about
$4,000.
From reports that have come from New
England points it Is difficult to estimate
the total loss of life and damage to ship
ping along the coast as the result Of the
recent storm. The list Of disasters seems
to grow, and from dispatches received It
appears that at least thirty schooners
have been wrecked at different points
from Eastport, Me-, to New Haven.
Conn.,, eighty-six schooners have been
driven ashore and fourteen barges, loaded
or empty, are aground. In Boston harbor
alone over forty lives and thirteen vessels
were lost. Twenty-four craft went
aground and fifteen We're sent adrift or
damaged by fouling. The loss to shipping
was at least 100000. The damage to
railroad and telegraph companies in Bos-
ton City will foot up another $50O,OOO.
Shipping seems to be favored most on
the Massachusetts coast. Near Cape Cod
that graveyard of many ship and
sailor-twelve vessels were lost. Life-sav-
ers were vigilant and only five lives were
lost. AT Salem nine vessels were lost and
twelve damaged. Three men went to wat
cry graves. At Gloucester thirty vessels
went ashore and were sunk. At Quincy
four vessels were wrecked. At Vineyard
Haven, twenty-five vessels went ashore
and seven We're damaged Four lives were
lost. On the Maine coast forty-seven yes
sells went ashore at Portland, Rockland
and Belfast.
The loss Of life is hard to determine. It
is known that nearly fifty persons perish
ed in and about Boston harbor. Reports
from other places in some cases state that
the crew OF this or that vessel escaped.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

These Grateful Women m
Been Helped by Mrs n,

Women who have suffered ).
and been relieved of their IN se'
Pinkham's advice and ma as :! \
constantly urging publicat;oa q,
statements for the benefit az W. y
men. Here are two such le,, W.
Mrs. LIZZIE BEVERLY, % VT
St.. Lowell, Mass, writes
cit affords me great ple,s,
all suffering women of the bpnas,ss
received from taking Lvdia
hams Vegetable Compound Il.
ly find words toexpressmv c,st taSl
what she has done forme, Mra
was liberation of the womb II
der the doctors care. Upon Nv w
ton he found fifteen verv la,e.
but he failed to do me good. f H.,
eral bottles Lydia L. Pinkh,n,s
table Compound, also used tbs g. /
Wash, and am cured. Mrs. p,ts
medicine saved my life, an3G
recommend it to all SUFFERING
Mrs. AMOS TRoMBLEAY, EIls,sI
Ctr, N. Y. writes:
81 took cold at the time MD
was born, causing me to b,r
legs, and was sick in bed io, \
weeks. Doctors did me no co,I
surely thought 1 would die. | ' ~,
so troubled with falling of Tho ~
/ could not eat, had faint se,'
often as ten times q day. One%,
lady came to see me and told mad,
benefit she had derived from M
Lydia e. Pinkham's medicine avn
vised me to try it. | did 50, and
taken only half a bottle before
able to sit in q chair. After h
three bottles / could do my own,
I am now in perfect health"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

A physician who is CONNECTED
an institution in which there az
children, says: "There is nothing
irritable to a cough than cougba,
some time l had been SO fully al
of this that I determined for one
ute at least to lessen the numb
coughs heard in a certain ward
hospital Of the institution. By
Use Of rewards and puniShmeDtSl&
ceeded in inducing them simply b
their breath when tempted to %
and in q little while l was myself
prised to see how some of the child
entirely recovered from the dS|
Constant coughing is precisely Y
scratching a wound on the OUTSIDE
the body; so long as it is done
wound will not heal. Let N
when tempted to cough draw
breath and hold it until 1t waTR'
soothes every air cell, and SomeR
fit will soon be received from tASl
cess. The nitrogen which is thUS'
fined acts as an anodync to the
cuous membrane, allaying the desl
cough and giving the throat and'l
a chance to heal."-Scientitic Amen
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Eountiful and Busy Year.

Bradstreet's commercial report says:
'The business world enters on the closing
month of the year with so many favora-
BILE and so few depressing features in
sight as to leave little doubt that the year
1893, as whole, must hereafter furnish
the basis for estimate when comparisons
Of large business are to be made. Nearly
all obtainable statistics and reports as to
the volume of business point to the pres
ent year having heavily exceeded any for
mer year in the amount of business done.
Wheat Including -FOUR shipments for this
week aggregate Z 1880 bushels, against
1894, 12G bushels last week. Corn exports
for the week aggregate 4,623,9SS bushels,
against 1898 SIG bushels last week"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY.

Cession Of Porto Rico to the United
States.
Evacuation Of Cuba.
Cession Of the Island of Guam in the
Ladrones.
Cession of the Philippine archipelago to
the United States upon the payment Of
$20,000,OO0.
Remuneration of all claims for indem-
nifty.
Religious liberty in the Carolines.
Liberation Of all political prisoners.
Restoration of past treaties and COM
mercial relations.
The taking over of the Island of ku-
sale, or ITALIAN, in the Carolines for tele-
graphic and naval station.
Gable station rights at other points in
Spain's jurisdiction.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
WOMEN PRAY AT THE POLLS.
Use Their Influence for Prohibition
but Lose the Fight,

but Lose the Fight,
In Macon, Ga, 500 women threw aside
their domestic duties and assembled at
the election precincts to use their intlu-
ence for prohibition. They formed choirs
and sang hymns and prayed at the voting
places, and their presence at the polls
made a spectacle never before seen in the
South
The battle was between white women
on one side and i-prohibitionists and
negroes on the other. The women carried
church organs to the middle of the street,
the choirs sang, and dozens of exhorters
prayed to God to wipe out bar-rooms. But
the women's work was unsuccessful, as
the town voted prohibition down by 1000
majority. The women charge fraud and
they propose to contest the election.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
TROOPS STILL NEEDED.
Few Volunteers Can Be Released at
Present.

The muster-out of regiments in the vol
unteer army will be resumed soon after
the conclusion Of the treaty of peace at
Paris. The administration is unwilling
for more than one reason to order the dis
charge Of the whole volunteer army at
present, the chief reason being, Of course,
the need Of a large force to garrison points
in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
1t is probable, however, that within very
short time the President will grant few
of the many requests for the muster-out
of volunteer organizations. trusting that
Congress will soon make provision. by the
increase Of the regular army, for the
maintenance of strong garrisons in our
new territories.
In selecting the regiments for muster
out, it is the intention to designate those
organizations which were first sent to the
front.