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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
SPANlSH-AMERiCAN WAR.
SDS }

Feb. 15-Battle ship Maine blown up 4
In Havana harbor. 4
April 20-President authorized by 4
Congress to Intervene in Cuba with 4
army and navy.
April 22-Bloekading proclamation )
Issued First gun of the war nred ;
by gunboat Nashville in capturing ;
the prize Buena Ventura. 3
April 23-Fresident calls for 12o,0oo 4
two-year volunteers.
April 25--War with Spain Is de-
clared.
5 April 29-Cervera's fleet sails for )
Cuba
, May Rear Admiral Dewey de-
stroys entire fleet Of Admiral Mon }
tejo in Manila Bay. 3
May 11-Ensign Bagley killed at 3
Cardenas. I
May 10-Cervera's fleet seeks refuge
In Santiago de Cuba Bay 4
3 May 25--President calls for 10000
additional volunteers.
June 3-Hobson sinks the Merrmac )
In Santiago harbor and Is taken
prisoner with seven volunteers !
who accompanied him.
June 1O-Six hundred United States Z
marines landed at Caimanera. 4
June 13-Camara'S fleet sails from 4
Spain.
June 22-Shafter's army lands at
Baiquiri and Siboney.
July 1-Lawton and Kent and rough
riders take San Juan Hlll, losing
231 men, with 1,364 wounded.
July 3-Cervera's fleet destroyed by
SIMPSONS squadron. 4
July 17-Toral surrenders Santiago 4
and eastern portion of Cuba.
July 23-Gen. Miles lands in Porto
Rico near Ponce.
July 26 - Spain proposes peace
through French Ambassador Cam
bon. Z
July 31-Battle of Malate, near }
4 Manila. 4
Aug 12-Spain and United States 1
sign peace protocol defining terms. 1
Aug 26-United States peace COM 4
mission named.
Nov. 2S-Final terms Of United
States accepted by Spain at Paris. 4
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Refuses to Indict the Son.

A month ago Michael Voelkner of Rock
port, Ohio, abused his wife. Their son
Henry, 10 years old, tried to protect his
mother and the father turned on him. He
pursued the young man into the woodshed
and raised an AK to strike, when Henry
shot him. The young man was arrested.
Noelkner was badly wounded but is re-
covering. The grand jury refused to in
diet the son, but returned a bill against
his father for assault with intent to kill.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

At New York, six men were scalded to
death III the iireroom of the steamship
Alamo of the Mallory Line by the burst
ing of an 11-ineh steam pipe. One of the
thirty passengers ON board and the chief
engineer and his first assistant were
slightly scalded.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
SUES FOR 8 CENTS AND WINS.
Telegraph Companies Must Pay War
Tax STAMPS.

At Carthage, Mo-, Judge Perkins has
rendered decision in the case of Senator
Howard Gray VS.. the Western Union Tel
egraph Company. The claim was for 3
cents for stamps charged the plaintiff at
ter the first adoption of the war tax, his
claim being that the defendants We're by
law required to bear that burden. The
decision was in favor of the plaintiff for
the amount OF the claim. \ new trial was
denied, and also motion for arrest of
judgment was overruled.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

One of the immense supply tanks Of the
Consolidated Gas Company at Baltimore
exploded during storm, and the concus-
sion caused people TO think an earthquake
had struck that city. The damage is
estimated at about $4,000
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
GRANT GlLLETT, RUN DOWN.
Kansas Cattle King Said to Have Been
Arrested.

Arrested,
Grant G. Gillett, the Kansas catteman
who, after a meteoric career. skipped out
after floating $2.O00,000 worth of value
less paper, is said by the representatives
of the creditors to be under arrest at Chi
huahua, in Old Mexico. 1t is stated that
a message received from the northern Dor
der Of Old Mexico conveyed information
of Gilletts whereabouts and asked what
proportion of the money found on him
would be given his captors if they turned
him up. An officer was sent to Mexico to
take charge of Gillett on charge of for
gerry and an application for eXtradition
papers was made.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Crops in Kansas.

The winter wheat crop of Kansas is 90
GA, 100 bushels, worth $50, 431 ,772; spring
wheat, 1,116,556 bushels, worth $505, 260;
corn, 126,999, 1872 bushels, worth $50, 29S,
09S: oats, Il. 702,537 bushels, worth ST.
2GS, SCI. The combined home values of
the wheat corn and oats amount to SGT, :
GOl,OOl, or $3.50. 2t1 more than in 1897.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

A German author, G. Solomon, has
written treatise in which he recommends
that children should not be sent to school
till their seventh year; that in the first
year three hours a day should be the
maximum of brain work, and that the
bodily health should be looked after with
special care from the ninth to the twelfth
year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Men-of-War ON Great Lakes.

A Washington correspondent says that,
as a result of an agreement reached by
the subcommittee of the Anglo American
commission having the matter in charge,
the building of men-of-war on the great
lakes will hereafter be permitted by both
Great Britain and Canada.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Forger Gets Ten Years.

James III. Southall, the swindler and
Government time check forger, was SEN
fenced at st. Paul to the States prison
for ten years at hard labor. Southall
swindled various banking firms and indi
viduals in the principal cities of the coun-
try out of sums aggregating S75O,0OO. He
was convicted of grand larceny-only one
of six or more indictments.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
BANDIT GIVEN TWENTY YEARS.
Link Thaycr, the Train Robbcr, Is
Sentenced at Fergus EnIIs.

Link Thayer, who was convicted Of
train robbery at Fergus Falls, Mimi, was
taken before Judge Searle who gave him
the maximum sentence, twenty years.
Thayer took his sentence philosophically.
He stated he was well satisfied with his
defense and attributed his conviction to
the state of public feeling. The case will
he appealed to the Supreme Court, but
the prisoner will be taken to Saltwater
at once. The other alleged robbers VIII
probably not lie tried till May.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Whole Family perishes.

The home of Hiram Biggs, farmer liv-
ing seven miles southeast of Perry, O. T.,
caught fire and Biggs. his wife and three
small children were burned to death.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
COST OF WAR TO BOTH NATIONS.
United States Loses


Lost by the United States, about 253
men killed and about 1,324 wounded.
About 1900 men died in camp. These
figures do not include the 266 sailors lost
on the Maine or the men who have died of
fever after being mustered out.
Lives lost by Spain. about $500 killed
and 5000 wounded. No official statement
of Spains losses has been made.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Novelty Works DESTROYED,

The Bloomsbury novelty works were
destroyed by fire. The loss will reach
5000, insurance $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Palace to Cost a Million.

Andrew Carnegie is to build a million
dollar palace on Fifth avenue, New York
He has purchased the two block front be-
tween Ninetieth and Ninety second streets
for 5000, 700.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Great Fire in New York,

A five-Story building was destroyed and
two sky scrapers were badly damaged by
fire on Lower Broadway. New York. The
loss is over S1,0o0,0OO.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

Nearly the entire business portion of
Eufaula, l. T.. on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railway was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $150,00O.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Paris Secret Poiice.

The secret police of Paris are n
distinct from the regular force
members are generally unknown
each other and one detective IS a
employed to watch another.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Cattle King Is Arrested.

Grant c. Gillett, the cattle plunger of
Woodbine. Kan. who disappeared owing
nearly S2,o00,000, is under arrest at Chi
huahua. in Old Mexico.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Erie Buys Coal Lands.

The Erie Railroad Company has just
completed the purchase of 1000 acres of
coal land in the soft coal district of Penn
sylvania. for which the company paid
$500. 900.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
SouSA MUST PAY UP.
Decision for Mrs. David B7ake1y for a
Laree Amount,

John Philip Sousa, the march king, has
been or ,ered by the New York court to
pay Mrs. Ada p. Blakely, widow OF the
late David Blakely, his former manager
100000, which may end the litigations
of eighteen months. Mrs. Blakely claim
ed this amount due the estate from Sousa
for music compositions, management and
a percentage of the profits Of tour end
ing May %, 1897.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Acquit Ha,deman of Murder.

At Cincinnati, the jury acquitted w. J.
Haldeman of the murder of exState SEN
ator j. c. Richardson Sept. % last. The
men were business associates, and the
killing was in the office of their mills at
l.oCkland. Ohio.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

Minister Strauss is making it lively fos
the Sultan. Giving him, so to speak, :
regular Strauss waltz.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

An incendiary is supposed to have set
fire to the stables Of the J. d. Bouse milk
dairy, near Dug Hill, Mo-, at which nine
teen valuable cows persisted and most Of
the buildings we're destroyed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
WHAT WE GET.
S.S92.769

This does not include Cuba, area 49,
24O square miles, population 1851 ,619, Of
which the United States has possession
pending the establishment of a stable gov
eminent there.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
Barnes Compton Is Dead.
Death in n Burstinp Pin.

Barnes Compton, formerly member Of
Congress, died at Laurel, Nd
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08
WILL BE THE BASIS.
COMPARISONS WILL BE MADE
WITH 1898.

The Volume of Business During the
Year Reaches It's Top Mark, Brea
ing All Records-Three Coal Barges
Go to the Bottom of the Atlantic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
You will see me roll in splendor
When l return again.
THE FIsH's COLOR.


Able In Marvellous Degree to Adapt
Itself to Its Surroundings.
It is a familiar fact that fishes can
change their colors at will Many fishes
make remarkable changes. Free swim
ming fishes most commonly preserve
their normal colors, though these fishes
can change. The fishes that change most
are the bottom feeders For their own
projection from other fishes that would
prey upon them and the better to enable
them themselves to capture food these
change their colors to match the bottom
they are on so as to make themselves
invisible They do this often to degree
that seems extraordinary
In one Of the smaller salt water tanks
at the New York aquarium there are a
number of small flatfish. The bottom of
the tank is covered with coarse gravel.
The great bulk of the gravel is com
posed of pebbles of a brownish white, a
sort of pale iron rust color. Scattered
in this are pebbles Of deeper tinge,
with now and then one Of brownish
gray or brown black.
The fatfish lying on the gravel at the
bottom of this tank initiate its colors in
their own backs in manner that is
marvellous. They are of notified brown,
like the colors of the gravel, and the
smallest of the flatfsh is the most
wonderful. They are all thin and lie
close to the bottom. The edge of the lit
tie one blends with it, and its back is a
wonderful mosaic of browns SO like the
gravel of the surrounding bottom that
it appears to be part of it. Even in
this clear water at little distance the
fish is scarcely distinguishable.- New
York SIM.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

Marchesi, the great singing teacher,
says that when she found in any of hel
pupils symptoms of Incidence or want
of enthusiasm she at once attempted to
dissuade them from an artistic career.
One such case was very absurd in the
manner in which her advice was taken.
This was Fraulein T., who was remark
ably handsome, but very lazy.
One day Marchesi lost patience with
her.
sect married, my dear child" said
she, 'and become a good wife You
will never do anything on the stage. J"
The girl laughingly replied that she
believed it was easier to get good en-
gagement than good husband, but
shortly afterward, on coming for her
lesson, she whispered:
81 am following your advice. l am
going to be married. -
"Ah, that is good And who is the
happy mann"
81 do not know" was the girls Ia
comic reply.
"Whatl You are going to marry some
one you do not know"
Eyes; my fance saw me before he
went to India, when l was ~ years old.
l have been shown his photograph, and
as his noble expression inspires me with
confidence 1 have decided upon marry
ing him..
"When will your fianoe come to fetch
your
Unfortunately be cannot come for
the wedding" she answered, with a
slight blush. "His business prevents
him from doing SO. 1 am to be married
in my native town to friend of the
family by proxy, and he will take me to
Bombay to my future husband. "
A few weeks later the curious cere-
mony did take place, and the marriage
apparently turned out very happy. -
Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
The Society Of one Reieoted.

In one of the western cities lot of
men have formed an organization, the
only condition to membership to which
being the fact that the candidates mat
rimonial advances have been rejected
by a woman. From all that can be
learned regarding the inside proceedings
it is believed that the members do not
indulge in sighs and tears and all the
old time evidences of heartbreak. On
the contrary, it is understood that they
have what may be termed riproaring
good time. Their ritual, if it may be so
designated, prescribes frequent mutual
congratulations and hearty assurances
of future happiness and fond wishes for
continued freedom. This doesn't seem
quite the right thing under the depress-
ing circumstances, but it is fact that
the club appears TO enjoy it. 1t is even
said that they get good deal of pleasure
out of following, as it were, the exist
ence of the individual women who have
rejected one or more Of them. They
eagerly watch for gains i'll avoirdupois
and for wrinkles and for rumors of bad
temper. One of the choicest possessions
of the society is photograph Of one
time naughty sylph who now weighs
283 pounds and has nine red haired
children. -Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

to watch every incoming tram until sne
arrived. Molly, too, somehow managed
to be at the depot at train time and
watched Meyer.
81 am SO curious to get first glimpse
at IIenken, she said to herself ~
have wondered SO long what she looks
like and have heard her praised SO much
by Meyer that the curiosity is almost
killing me. "
One evening when the train came in
she saw Meyer rush forward and knew
that Lenken had come at last She
peeped around the corner and saw wo-
man looking around bewildered. That
woman had beautiful eyes. Molly looked
straight into them for a moment, and
everything else in the woman's appear
ance was forgotten.
Come, Lenken, Meyer Whispered,
touching her hand. Zach, du Heb
chenp' he murmured as their eyes met.
Then both turned, holding each other
by the hand like children, and started
to walk away.
AS Molly looked after them there was
sort moisture IN her eyes. Then she
reused herself and, smiling, murmured,
"Why, she must weigh at the veryle
200 poundsP'
The bell Of the locomotive rang out a
warning. There were putting and Wheel
ing, and the train was in motion. Then
there came piercing scream, and the
train stopped suddenly.
When Molly looked through the crowd
that gathered in moment to see what
had happened, she saw Meyer lying on
the ground, and Lenken was bending
above him.
Molly pressed up closer. Meyer looked
up and saw her. ''It vas for Lenken, y
he said, his eyes twinkling merrily.
Then he added, "But 1 thinks it vas only
de wooden leg dis time. And it was.
John P. Sjolander in St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Felt Aeouaintad.

A Boston lady of the most reserved
and exclusive type was waiting for her
change at the glove counter in one of
the large stores when she was ap-
preached by very large gaudily dressed
and loud looking woman, who held out
pudgy hand in bright green kid
glove and said:
why, how do you do, Mrs Blank?"
Mrs. Blank ignored the proffered
hand and, drawing herself up stifiy,
said frigidly:
Il do not think that know you,
madam"
ono. s'pose not, y replied the wom-
an, in nowise embarrassed by the cold
ness of her reception, "but I've knowed
you by sight for long time, and now
I've got hired girl who worked at your
house once year or two ago, and she's
told me SO much about you that l feel
real we'll acquainted with you. Pleas
ant day, amt it? Well, if she amt po-
lite to sail off without SO much as a
word Shows her raisin, anyhowP'-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Settled the Case.

81 was called upon in 1878 to defend
a man who was charged with the most
unusual misdemeanor l ever heard of
any clerk entering on court calendar, :"
said a lawyer friend from the noun
tains, "A young farm hand came to me
at the hotel where l was stopping, my
home being in another town, but my
practice extending to the county seat l
was then in. The swain told me he had
been charged by girl, to whom he had
been paying attention, with giving her
measles, she claiming that the disease,
which had been epidemic in the neigh
borhood, had been communicated to her
by kissing her repeatedly while the de-
PENDANT was recovering from measles.
The girls surly father sued the badly
alarmed defendant for $50 damages,
claiming he had expended that sum in
Doctors bills for the afflicted daughter.
My client pleaded guilty to kissing the
plaintiff, but said he couldn t "a helped
it eff he'd ben a-mind ter and insisted
that he had never had measles. l tried
the case before kind hearted old
squire, and after the court had heard
the testimony he delivered long opin-
ion in which he held that girl as pref
ty as the plaintiff would make boy
risk measles and even dumb chills' to
sip the sweets Of her corallike lips. The
judges jolly put both sides in good
humor, and the defendant two weeks
later married the plaintiff and settled
the costs of the suit to appease the wrath
of her father. louisville Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Trying a Dead Man.

1t is probably an unusual thing in
any country for court to sit in judg-
ment on the dead but in Berlin letter
to the Chicago Record an account is
given of trial in which the accused
was a dead nan.
1t was not his first trial That had
taken place in his lifetime, and its re-
suit had been a sentence of imprison-
ment for IS months. The delinquent
was bureau chief in the tax Office OF
Schweidnitz, Silesia, and it was proved
that he had embezzled funds and forged
documents Soon after his sentence,
however, he showed signs Of unsettled
reason, and at length died a maniac.
His widow, anxious to clear his mem
DRY from the stain that rested upon it,
had the case reopened and proved by
expert testimony that her husband had
been demented at the time he commit
ted the crime
Thus occurred the peculiar circum-
stance of dead man ON trial. The trial
resulted in the reversal of the former
sentence, the court pronouncing the de-
ceased not guilty
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

Here is one of Nugent Robinson s
"reminiscences of Wilkie Collins: 81
was walking one day toward Hampstead
heath with Wilkie Collins. 1t was rain
ing Wilkie carried his white umbrella.
Presently we sighted near a hedge a
very pretty woman dressed in white and
accompanied by child. Wilkie stepped
up to her and proffered his umbrella.
She promptly accepted it, and said to
him as she disappeared, That's the last
you'll see of it. He laughed and insist
ed that it would be all right He lived
In Wampole street and had given the
young woman his address. Well, time
went by until one day we two were
again strolling, this time in Piccadilly.
Suddenly hanson was halted along
side of us SO quickly that the horse was
drawn back on his launches and that
same woman leaned out and handed
Wilkie his umbrella. Idiscreetly walked
on. That was the original of The Wo-
man In White, and she became Will
kie's housekeeper.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

81 ran across a station agent up in
the hills the other day who came as
near being jack of all trades as any
man ever struck, " said Henry Darby.
81 refer to little dried up looking fell
low, with more energy than Carter had
oats and more irons in the fire than any
blacksmith of long experience could
possibly keep his eye on. To start with,
my little friend is express, freight and
ticket agent, has 10 cent store, sends
a telegraph message when he has to, al
though his is not train order office; is
postmaster, treasurer for the local Sun
day school union and two lodges and
acts as distributor for a Bible society
Then he is examiner for an insurance
company, issues policies for fire, acct
dent and tornado insurance, is switch
tender at his place, buys fruit for one
eastern house in summer and produce
for another in fall and winter He has
long been justice Of the peace, was
twice school trustee and councilman, is
deacon in his church and a leader of
the hamlet choir. He was chairman of
the city Republican committee, has the
agency for platform scales and riding
cultivators, sells thrashers and light
vehicles and finds time to fish little
every spring. louisville Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
THE IcEFIELDs OF DEATH.
When the gparrowg build and the leaves br

When the sparrows build and the leaves break
forth,
My old sorrow wakes and cries,
For know there is q dawn in the far, far
north,
And a scarlet sun doth rise.
Like scarlet fleece the snowfleld spreads,
And the icy founts run free,
And the bergs begin to bow their heads
And plunge and sail in the sea.
Oh, my lost love and my own, own love,
And my love that loved me so,
Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from belowH
Nay, spoke once, and grieved thee sore
remember all that / said,
And now thou wilt hear me no moreno
more
TIL the sea gives up her dead.
Thou didst set thy foot on the ship and sail
To the icefelds and the snow
Thou vert sad, for thy love did not avail,
And the end could not know.
How could tell l should love thee today
Whom that day held not dearf
How could know should love thee away
When did not love thee anearP
We shall walk no more through the solder
plain
With the faded bents o'erspread;
We shall stand no more by the seething main
While the dark rack drives oerhead
We shall part no more in the wind and rain,
Where thy last farewell was said,
But perhaps shall meet thee and know thet
again
When the sea gives up her dead.
Jean Ingelow.