Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-18

It is now proposed to send Sampson IA q
Europe in command of a fleet instead NJ h
Watson. The idea originated with Secra,
tary Long, who thinks that the glory Of
the navy and the estimate in which it
now held by foreigners may be still fur
Their enhanced and emphasized if the com.
mander of the Cuban feet should makes
cruise around the harbors Of Europe with
a few Of the ships and men whose names
were unknown to fame few months ago
but are now familiar to the military au
thorities of every nation. Secretary Long
wants to send the Oregon as a sample Of
our battleships and the Minneapolis as
type Of our cruisers, because both of them
were not cAlly constructed but designed in
the United States, and they are undoubt.
eddy superior in every respect to anything
of their tonnage afoat.
Secretary Wilson of the Department Of
Agriculture expects great things from the
Paris exhibition. Congress appropriated
$4,000 for an agricultural exhibit~nt the
exposition: Secretary Wilson has had
his departmental force at work on the ex-
hibit for the last six months, and it will
labor for eighteen months longer. If an
Independent force of men had to be hired
to do the work which Secretary Wilson
has mapped out an additional appropria-
ton Of 100000 would be required. As
it is, the $4,000 will be enough. Secre.
tary Wilson has the theory that the for
eign demand for American products could
be enormously increased if we went about
the building up Of the European markets
with trained intelligence instead of going
at it haphaZard.
It appears that Lieut. Blandin Of the
navy, who died Of cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts at q hospital in Baltimore the other
day, has had suicidal mania ever since
the destruction of the Maine. He was
officer of the deck at the time of the ex-
plosion and was hit in the head and
knocked senseless by some missile hurled
through the air. He recovered conscious
ness after few moments and was able
to leave the vessel with the other officers
His skull was not fractured and there
were no symptoms of conclusion OF the
brain, but he had ever since complained
of violent headaches and had been vic
tim Of melancholia, which the surgeons
attributed to the nervous shock caused by
the disaster and the wound.
It is an open secret that Secretarie
Algen Day and Bliss will resign from
the cabinet as soon as the war is over ant
the country is enjoying state of peac
again. The three refuse to discuss tn
report, even in the slightest degree. 1t il
known that there have been some heated
discussions among the cabinet member
concerning the policy of the Governmen
as it relates to Spain, and the suppositol
is that these discussions have led to a rup
ture among the members.
Some of the cases which have beer
brought to the naval hospital at Norfolk
are desperate, particularly those of the
Spaniards Of Cervera's feet, some Of
whom are literally torn to pieces. The
wounded prisoners receive the same atten-
ton and treatment that is given our own
men, and they were given the most COM
Portable places on the ship.
From New York word comes that the
railroads are getting ready to bear down
on Congress next winter in greater force
than ever and make a supreme effort to
secure certain legislation amending the
interstate commerce law. Whether they
will attempt to force through a pooling
bill is somewhat doubtful, but they will
endeavor to obtain advantageous legisla-
ton as close to pooling as they can get