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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20
JuRIsDICTION WAIVED.

The waters of Havana harbor are
of course, Spanish territory, and some
confusion had been aroused by the ldea
that this Jurisdiction over the waters
attached also to the wreck in its pres
ent helpless condition at the bottom OF
the bay. It appears, however, that there
is no disposition to extend this jurisdic-
ton TO the ship, and that the Spanish
authorities give free consent 10 the
Maine being regarded as extra terri
torial, and under the immediate direc-
ton of Captain Sigsbee. as the repre-
sentative of the United States. Accord
ing to the view taken by the Spanish
authorities there can be no trouble at
tending the work of the divers. Cap
tain Sigsbee will be recognized as the
one to direct operations, and to send
down the government divers for such
inspection as he sees proper to make
Senior du Bose feels assured, however,
that Captain Sigsbee Will extend equal
facilities to the Spanish divers, so that
the inspections may proceed together
AS to what divers Captain Sigsbee will
employ. the feeling among the Span
ish officials here is that this will be
wholly matter of discretion with Cap
tain Sigsbee, as the one in charge of a
piece of property having the attributes
of American soil, but at the same time
the feeling is expressed that this dis
erection will lead to the choice of au-
thorized divers of the navy department
rather than those representing news
nanerS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20
L1EuTENANT JENKINs.

1t is known that Lieutenant Jenkins.
who is among those missing. was alive
after the explosion. A colored mess at
tendant now at Key West met jenkins
running forward. He evidently thought
in the confusion that the Maine had
been fired on, and he was rushing to
the forecastle, where was located the
six-inch gun. of which he was in
charna
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

ana submitted, Dr1el1y. some ODSerVa-
tons defining his position. He was as
anxious, he said, as any member of the
house TO see an equitable bankruptcy
law placed upon the statute books. But
his anxiety would not lead him to vote
for a measure which would injure the
solvent more than it would benefit the
insolvent.
Mr.. Cannon Rep.. Ills.) created some
enthusiasm on the Democratic side by
announcing that he would refuse to
support the bill.
TWO-YEAR LIMIT.
Mr.. Mahaney (Rep.. N. W offered an
amendment, limiting the operation of
the act to two years from the date of
its passage. Mr.. Mahaney said he
would be glad to vote for the bill if
this amendment were adopted, but he
was opposed to putting in operation
indefinitely law of this character.
The vote on the motion was taken by
tellers, and the announcement that it
had carried was greeted with loud ap-
plause.
Mr.. Henderson Immediately moved to
reconsider the vote. and Mr.. Bailey
moved to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table Mr..
Henderson's motion to reconsider was
lost-146 to 156. When this vote was
announced, the hour set for a vote a
o'clock had passed. The motion to re-
consider was put and carried without
division, and the vote was about TO be
taken again on the Mahaney amend
ment when Mr.. Dalzell made the point
OF order that the order under which
the house was operating precluded any
further action except upon the Under
wood amendments, which, under the
arrangement, were to be voted upon
at o'clock.
AMENDMENT EXCLUDED.
This point of order the speaker sus-
tanned. An interesting parliamentary
struggle followed, in which Mr. Bailey,
Mr.. Williams Dem., Miss) and the
speaker took part, which finally re-
suited in the speakers deciding that
the house had re-conSidered its action
in regard to the Mahaney amendment
and that a vote upon il was now ex-
cluded by the house.
The Underwood amendment, which
struck out the involuntary features of
the BILL was then presented and voted
on under the order of the house The
amendments were defeated-129 to 49,
The vote then came on substituting
the Henderson bill for the senate Cor
Nedson) bill, and the motion prevailed
-133 to IA.
Mr.. Terry (Dem., Ark, the senior
member of the judiciary committee.
then moved to re-commit the bill, with
instructions to strike out all the in
voluntary features, except those for
actual frauds. The motion to RECON-
NIT was lost. Mr.. Terry insisted upon
an aye and nay vote for the final pas
sage of the bill. The bill was passed
159 to 135.
Mr.. Henderson (Rep., la, Mr.. Ray
CRep-, N. W and Terry Dem. Ark
We're appointed conferees on the bill.
joUrned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20
SUBMARINE MINE DID IT.
Continued from page u

monious understanding between Cap
tain Sigsbee and the authorities at Ha-
vana had been reached on the matter
Of divers, and that the Spanish author
tiles viewed the Maine as extra terri
torial, that is, a part of the sovereign
territory Of the United States. the same
as a United States legation situated IN
foreign territory. With the Maine hold
ing its status as eXtra-territoriai, all
doubts as to the work on the wreck
were removed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

The new glee club. composed of the hes
talent in the institution. will make its frs
appearance at the public meeting tomor
row evening.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

A very pleasant valentine" tea was
given under the auspices of the ladies of
the Nineteenth ward, on Monday after
noon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

On the evening of Feb. p. the senior
normals will hold a public meeting and
a fine programme has been prepared for
the occasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

Trustee Newman of the board of edu-
cation, was a visitor at the Lincoln
school on Friday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

President Cuff of the B. Y. academy,
Provo, is announced as the next speaker
in the series of lectures at the university
The date is Friday evening. Feb. %.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

County Superintendent Van Colt visited
during the past week the schools of West
Jordan. districts Sc and 80. Mill Creek.
the schools at Hunter Pleasant Green
and district "a Murray, and speaks verv
appreciatively of the progress being
made
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

w. J. Dean succeeds to the position at
SANDY. which has been made vacant by
the death of Mr.. White.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

Mr.. Havenor and Misses Kendell and
Carothers of the Lincoln school visited
the Oquirrh. Sumner Lowell. Washing
ton and Franklin the past week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

The athletes are commencing to trair
for field day. A committee consisting OF
Messrs. Porter. Cannon and Reiser has
been appointed and will have charge OF
the exercises of that day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

The schools of South Bountiful are d
ing well under the principalship of T.
HoWells.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

During the temporary Illness of Miss
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
SEEING WITHOUT EYES.
\ German Professor Says These Or
gans Not Necessary to Vision.

Eyes are popularity considered to be
quite necessary to sight, but this is an
error, if we are to believe DR.. Nagel
recent German experimenter. Many
creatures without eyes can see, at
least they can distinguish between
light and darkness, and even between
different degrees of light. This is the
lowest degree Of seeing, to be sure,
but still it is really sight, and differs
scarcely more from the vision Of
some insects that possess eyes than
this does from our own clear sight.
Creatures that see without eyes see
by means of their skins. All skins,
says DIR. Nagel, are potential eyes;
that is, they are sensitive to light. In
animals that have eyes insensitive-
ness has been highly localized and
greatly increased-so that man, for
instance, has a retina very sensi-
tive to light, and an expanse of ordi-
nary skin which possesses a sensitive
ness to light, and so slight that it is
hardly conscious of it, Yet his skin
is sensitive in some degrees, as is
proved by the fact that it sunburns-
that is, light may cause a disturbance
in the pigment of the skin just as it
does in that of the eye In the eve
the disturbance is accompanied by a
nervous change, which sends telegra-
phic message along the optic nerve to
the brain. In the skin, too, there are
nerves, and there are messages also.
but their tidings imprint no image on
the mind; they simply express dis
comfort-cry out 'sunburn."
But in many eyeless creatures the
lack of eyes is in part made up by in
creased sensitiveness of the whole
skin surface to light. Darwin long
ago noticed that earth worms, al
though they have no eyes, will sud-
denly withdraw into their holes at the
approach of lighted candle. Some
creatures seem most sensitive to sud-
den increase of light; others to sud-
den elimination. If a number OF
oysters, kept in vessel together are
found to be open, they will shut all
at once if a dark object comes be-
tween them and the light. Another
bevalve, called psalmodia, has long.
Whittisb, transparent tubes which pro-
trude from the sand in which it lies
buried. It these are suddenly illum-
mated they contract and the brighter
the light the greater the contraction.
Ii number of them be carried into
dlrect sunlight, they hasten to bury
themselves in the sand; or, if there
is no sand, they move restlessly to
and fro in the water until they are
Standardization Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

When Spain declared war against
the United States by diminishing our
minister there was one among the
statesmen of Europe of whose fervid
appreciation of America there cannot
be the least doubt from the very nature
of his utterance That was Signor
'Crispi, the man who has checked those
conditions IN italy that have caused
the decay and degeneracy of Spain.
Crispi said: "The present war is an
epoch-making event in the march of
human freedom; that the prophecy OF
De Toqueville is being realized and the
Institutions of Amrica are revolution
izing those of Europe" OF course to
Americans there cannot be anything
essentially new in this statement
which is nevertheless gratifying. We
know it is true in the present in
stance, but the purb1ind tory Of Eu
rope hardly cares yet to admit it. The
agrarian noble of Germany who feels
the scepter of power passing from him
to the masses of the German people,
wants to shut out our American pro-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
COLONEL GRUMPY.

He was darling little boy,
With sunny eyes of blue,
And happy as the day was long
Unless he had to do
Some task that did not please him
much,
| And then he was so cross,
His mother thought her boy was gone
And grieved so for his loss,
And said, 1T was dreadful case.
That here in her own dear boys place
Was surly Colonel Grumpy"
Her boy, she said, was good and
The pearl of little boys!
But Clonel Grumpy was most rude,
And broke up all his toys;
He tore his picture books to bits,
Cracked his slate, lost his hat,
Pulled his little sisters hair,
And leased the pussy cat
She wished he'd go away, and then
Shed have her own sweet boy again
Instead of Colonel Grumpy.
THAT Colonel Grumpy's not my boy
I'm sure is very plain,
And so I'd better send him off
Today in all the rain.
So, Colonel Grumpy, go away
In spite of wind and wet!
want my boy who does not sulk,
Nor does he scold OF fret!"
A little sob, two pleading eyes,
Then clasped tight in her arms, he
cries:
! "Goodby, cross Colonel Grumpy"
Jane Campbell, in the St. Nicholas.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
=
E Crispi's g
E Pr0phesy &
Observation-Disclosures llGllAllIIUS
7IIINNIIIII!II IIlI$glItlIl WV IlIIlllV

was ruling at Naples, when Mazzini
was a political pamphleteer starving
on Fulham road in London and Carl
baldi was a guerrilla chief at Caprera,
and when al that was rich and right
eous and respectable in the world
frowned upon the Italian patriots and
their cause, this man who today pre-
diets the proud destiny of America,
then also forecasted a new and united
Italy. He lived to place the capstone
on g, noble idea through Italy taking
her place as an integer in the triple
alliance.
He has driven out the banditti and
foiled every pest against the unity OF
his native country nursed by
princes at their leisure. When others
were blind Crispi was wide awake and
far-seeing. He saw that union was i'm
possible without a national spirit to
sustain it. He therefore set about Gre
ating the national spirit by going from
town to town as a tramp editor turn
ing up with paper in Milan, or in
Malta, or Palermo; making most
scanty living as writer or delivering
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
BOSTON'S TRANSITIONS.

Boston is no longer literary CEN
tire, says the rejected author The
Atlantic monthly is too cautious, pub
fishing firms too conscientious, and
salons, at which one can talk, where
are they, save Mrs Moulton's and
Mrs. Fields? Ticknor, Prescott, Mot
ley, among historians; Winthrop,
Everett, Sumner, among orators, are
dead. Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell
and Whittier only visited in Boston,
and Howells, as still living (and now
in New York;, does not count All
these grievances are true, yet Boston
is only an epitome of what occurs in
even in literature, HES to new centers.
But in regard to Boston alone the
transitions are amusing, for the place
is still provincial. It's aristocracy
began in theology, which was curbed
by the democracy of congregational
ism. Then it was but natural that
transcendentalism, Brook Farm and
the Radical club should supersede the
exclusiveness Of the predestined per-
severance of the saints, and that lib
eralism, through a brilliant line of
preachers, led by DR.. Charming,
should have dominated the city
Then came wave of social reform in
the anti-slavery movement, which
never totally submerged the upper
classes until the war broke out, when
the sanitary commission and the
freedmen's bureau mixed up people
delightfully."-. Since that dangerous
episode Boston society has separated
into longitudinal crystals of ancestral
descent and right-angled ones of con-
scious virtue, until to-day it is the
least cosmopolitan and the most pat
ronizing city in the country
Gannett Wells in the Illustrated
American
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

at o'clock Thursday morning, demol-
1shing two houses belonging to Rich
ard McLish and badly damaging the
Wilmington hotel. S. H. Perkins, his
wife and three children were injured,
one Of the latter probably fatally. At
Dougherty, Frank Melton was killed.
The tornado seems to have been gen
eral over this section
Pennington Wiped Out.
Minneapolis, May Passengers
reaching this city from points in Wis
consin describe the situation IS ter
rible. Pennington is literally wiped
off the face Of the earth and the 500
railroad company suffered heavy loss
by the destruction of its Individual
terminal buildings. The station build
ing, ound-house which contained five
engines, two-story hotel and several
other buildings were entirely demol-
ished Charles S. Roberg section
foreman, was killed outright, as was
Roadmaster Charles Beckmone, En-
gineer C. S. Kirkman, fireman oi
one of the engines in the round
house, was fatally injured. A number
Of others were more or less injured
The pine forest about the town was
laid low, covering the railroad tracks
with timber and requiring derrlcks tt
remove it.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

Stoughton, Wis, May 25.-One o
the most disastrous fires in the histor
Of stoughton broke out in the Slough
ton Wagon company's plant at
o'clock this morning and before it wa
extinguished consumed about $4,000
worth of property. The insurance on
the plant is s15O,OOO. The origin
the fire is a mystery.
The buildings destroyed covere
about half block. They were two
paint shops, a shipping yard, three
store houses, trimming shop and
store room combined, and two barns
There were many finished vehicles
some Of these buildings which wer
also destroyed.
The fire was a stubborn one. /
broke out in one Of the paint shop
at 1850 o'clock and burned fercel
until after o'clock in spite of TIL
most desperate efforts of the Slough
ton fire department which is one
the best for it's size in the state. A
one time it looked as though the en-
tire town was doomed, for the flame
spread with remarkable rapidity
jumping from building to building an
Selling upon the highly indammabl
material like some great, half-fam-
ished monster. The paint and other
supplies in the paint shops furnished
a ready fuel for the devouring flames.
The Workmen left the plant at o.
m. If there had been a strong wind
nothing within human means could
have saved the city.
This is indeed heavy blow to the
wagon company which has been do
ing nice business this spring. The
blow falls heaviest perhaps on the
Workmen employed who may now be
compelled to lie idle for awhile. The
Stoughton wagon company was form
erly T. G.. Mandt & Co. Martin John
son is president of the company as
now organized.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

duce. He thus pays unconscious
tribute to Ameica III this effort to keep
a roof upon the Schloss. The stolid
reader of the ponderous articles in the
London Times may sheer at the pecu-
liar journalism of America, but under
the very shadow of st. Paul's this
feature of America is making head
way and is gradually converting into
back numbers the once leading jour-
nails of London Even the sacred pre-
cincts of the peerage are being in
vaded Crispi is right, we are for
better or worse revolutionizing Europe,
and no power on earth can stop the
process. America has only to be
true to herself and to the precepts of
the fathers of the republic in order to
bring thrones and crowns and musty
constitutions crumbling to her feet. 1t
is greatly to Crispi's credit that he
has conceded to us so manifest des-
tiny. And on the occasion of the first
foreign war that the United States has
had in Sc years, any such forecast
cannot but be regarded as highly fiat
tering to all Americans. It is particu-
larly so from a man like Crispi.
AS prophet Crispi has not only the
rare distinction of being honored in
his own country and in his own time,
but his prophetic forecasts have in
variably been realized. Many years
ago when Italy was under the joint
tutelage of Austria and France, when
her internal divisions We're a series of
petty duchies like Parma, Modena and
Tuscany, when the notorious Bomba
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
HERE AND THERE.

The dairy business of Missouri,
according to the agricultural depart
ment of that state represents an in
vestment of over 100000 and an
annual output of $1,500,000.
The statue of Liberty in New York
is to undergo a thorough scrubbing
with soap and water, after which it
at the old stand.
Negotiations extending over three
years were necessary before a Michi-
gan man could buy two islands,
comprising five acres, from the gov
eminent. The price paid was S.. so.
A loving Hackensack nephew,
charged with the duty of preparing
an epitaph for disagreeable old
uncle, just dead, suggested the fol-
lowing. Deeply regretted by all
who never knew him.
''The hotel" explained the clerk,
sis in the hands of a receiver"
Where can I find him." "Well, an
hour ago he was receiving breakfast;
shortly afterwards he received three
cocktails, and in about ten minutes
he'll be here to receive his salary.
Take a chair!'
Politically, Hungary is divided into
SO counties, containing from $4,000 to
1861 inhabitants. There are 26
cities endowed with self govern
ment; Budapest, the metropolis, con-
tains about 100000 inhabitants; the
population of Hungary is about
Is 900 900.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

a lecture or a political discourse to
all within sound Of his voice. The great
world did not then as now heed what
Crispi said, but Crispi's accuracy and
judgment and unwavering self conf
dence were manifest features of the
character Of the man who was preach
ing the political regeneration of Italy
at night and manufacturing bombs in
the daytime.
Crispi is as much of marvel among
men, as is the country he loves a phe-
nOmenOn among resurrected and
united people. Having forced a new
Italy as from the old scrap iron of
petty warning states, Crispi's forti-
tude and introspection have preserved
her from falling asunder again. The
spirit of the "black anarchy has pur-
sued Italy's grand old man SC relent-
lessly that Bismarck once jokingly OBJ
served to him: "I have always be-
lieved that I was the most hated man
in my time but perhaps I have been
presumptious in this, for your excel
lency pushes me very hard"
The pleasant prediction of man
whose prophetic observations give him
unique authority may we'll buoy up all
loyal Americans at such crisis; and
the great Italian statesman whose
genius together with the smile of
Queen Marguerite are said ''to be the
two bonds that bind Italy together
need have no doubt but his generous
and encouraging remarks are destined
to make him and his country many
warm friends in the United States.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30

EARLY MORNING BLAZE CON
sUMEs MUCH PROPERTY.
THE WAGON PLANT BURNS

Total Loss Will Be About $4,000
Which Is Fully Covered by Insur
ance-Fire Beyond Control for
Over an Hour and Whole Tow
Threatened with Destruction.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
HER AWFUL DREAM.

A little maid of tender years
Had such an awful dream!
She came to me almost in tears
II was just going to scream,
when both my eyes came open wide,
And, oh, was SO glad
To find it was a dream" she cried,
Because it was so bad!"
What could it be, poor child?'' I said.
Were you pursued by bears?
Perhaps your dolly broke her head,
Or did you fall downstairs?"
"Oh, dear! It's most too bad to tell!
You know in school our class
Are havin' Examinations now. Well
7 dreamt I didn't pass!"
Elizabeth r. Burns, in Youths
Companion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
TORNADO IN LA CROSSE.

La Crosse, Wis, May ga lorna
do demolished several buildings on the
outskirts of the town Saturday after
noon. At first it was headed for the
city but changed it's course slightly,
unroo1ng several houses. The damage
done was confined to half a mile.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
EXPLOSION IN SPAIN.

Carthagena, Spain, May 21.-An ex-
plosion occurred at Chateau San Ju-
liam. 1t is supposed to have taken
place in a projectile factory There
is report that several persons were
killed.