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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Mrs. E. J. Freeman. of Audubon
was visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. d. Harm, at West Town, a
part of this week
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Will Houston, who now resides at
Toledo, Ohio, was here and ate his
thanksgiving dinnea with his par
ents, Judge A. B. Houston and wife.
Will notes with surprise the
rapid improvements Extra has
made since he was here, three years
ago.
The new Danish Lutheran church
which is located in northwest Oak
field township, about three miles
west of Extra, was dedicated with
due ceremony last Sunday. Over
three hundred Danish people were
in attendance to witness the ser
vices, which were conducted by five
very able clergymen, among Others
Rev. Kirkeberg, noted Lutheran
divine. The new edi6ce is very
neatly finished both inside and out
and the honest, industrious, God
fearing citizens who compose the
membership of the church are, in
deed, to be complimented on their
new place of worship. Rey. Craven
gard, of Oak Hill, will offciate as
pastor of the church.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Miss Mamie, daughter of William
Hensley, of Greeley, is assisting al
Gault Brothers store during the
holiday rush of trade.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Any one in need of monumental
work should call or write to S. g..
Grant, Atlantic, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24
Attorney Walter Copeland was an
Audubon visitor, Tuesday.

Insure with the Continental Insur-
ance Company, Theo. Patty Agent Xa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Ten Poland-China boars for sale
G. HARDMAN,
Brayton, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

Fine Fresh Fish kept at the City
Meat Market all the time.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-11-24

K7YF Mems and Boys Clothing and
- Furnishing Goods being sold
daily at the Closing Out Sale.
Every article bright, fresh and new
and plenty to choose from. Over
coats, Suits, NeckWear, Hats, Caps,
Work Clothes, Underwear, Shirts,
Socks, Stockings, Gloves, Mittens,
Duck Coats, Overalls, Night Shirts,
Mackintoshes, Trunks and Valises,
and every single article cut so low
in price so as to move them at once
You will never have another such
an opportunity in your life time.
Supply your winter wants here.
A Full Line of Fur Coats to be
closed out
j. FRIEND s. SON
P. L. HANSEN, ranager
EXTRA iowa..
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

wounded by accident in Germany
have been paid in the last eleven
years over and above their wages
nearly $1O,00O,OO0.
Arrangements are being made in
England for celebrating the bicen-
tenary of the Society for Promoting
Christian knowledge on Tuesday,
March 8, the anniversary of the day
on which the society was founded in
1898
Women in France have just secured
a slight addition to their legal rights.
They may henceforth be valid wit
nesses to registrations of births,
marriages and deaths, and to the
signatures in legal documents.
During 1897 the sum total OF losses
paid in Kansas by all the life in
there was $413,90O. During the same
time $539,26 was paid by one fra
ternal society, the A. % u. w.
The Delaware and Hudson railroad
has adopted competitive system in
dealing with employees, with the view
OF enhancing emciency, eliminating
favoritism and making merit the
reason for promotion.
shoe dealer in New York says
that on account of the newspaper rid
1cule women have almost entirely dis
continued the practice of sending
slippers to their pastors at Christmas.
Five is the sacred number of the
Chinese who have five n1oDo+c fx1a
cardinal points, five virtues, five
tastes, five musical tones, five ranks
of nobility and five colors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

Pink Pills for Pale People. He coaxed
his granddaughter to get him box OF
the pills. After that box had been used
he secured another. In three weeks he
began to feel little life in his arm; at
the end of four he could move his fingers;
at the end of two months he could walk,
and in three months he could shave him
self with the injured hand.
AS he told his story in the Herald office,
he looked the perfect picture of health.
He carries box of the pills in his pocket,
and whenever he does not feel just right
he takes them They cured him after doc
tors had given him up, and his death was
daily expected.
All the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves are contained, in con-
densed form in DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. They are an unfailing
specific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, st. Vitus' dance,
sciatia, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects of la grips,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
compilations, all forms of weakness either
in male or female.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

latitude 26,52.45 is submitted to arbi-
tration.
1t is officially announced in Paris
that Mons. P. Cambon, French am
bassador at Constantinople, has been
transferred to London, succeeding
Baron de Courcel.
The White Star Line steamer
Britannia, which sailed from Liver
pool for New York, took among her
passengers Rev. DR.. Charles H. Park
hurst of New York.
The convicts at Cayenne, French
Guiana, near the island prison of
Albert Dreyfus, are in mutiny. Drey-
fus' guards are under orders to kill
him rather than permit his escape.
Fuller reports of the recent hur-
ricane in the West Indies show that
the damage was fully as great as it
was first stated to be. On the island
of st. Vincent alone about 800 lives
were lost.
Heavy storms continue to prevail in
the Baltic sea. One hundred and
twenty fishermen have been drowned
UOCWCtu IO1duSdn d11u A4O1uJ 0OoPOA I
towns of the Province of Courland,
Russia.
Ferdinand W. Peck, United States
commissioner to the Paris expOsi-
ton of 1900, is not receiving encour-
agement in his efforts to secure in
creased space at the exposition for
American exhibits
There have been no more deaths
from yellow fever at Merida, Mexico.
There have been many cases in the
interior towns in Mexico, but mainly
of an intermittent character which at
first deceived the experienced doctors.
There are hints of a possible die
tatorship in France, in connection
with the action of General urlinden,
military governor of Paris, in him
self becoming the prosecutor of Col
onel Picquart, supporter of Drey-
fus.
A conference of delegates from
British Guiana and the sugar-pro-
ducing colonies of the West Indies
met at Bridgetown, Barbados, and
adopted resolution protesting
against the treatment of the sugar
industry by the mother country.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

M. Clifford, produced a repeating
rifle in which the propulsive force is
liQuified air, held under control in a
strong receiver.
Professor c. F. Hastings of Yale an
nounced his discovery of a method of
arranging the lenses of large tele-
scopes so as to make then more COM
pletely achromatic, and thus increase
their power.
A new aid to painless dentistry,
, called cataphoresis, was announced,
consisting in forcing cocaine into the
tooth by means of electrical action.
A locomotive to be propelled under
water by electricity, designed to
facilitate submarine work, by accom-
modating a number of divers and
hauling heavy loads, was successfully
tried at Baltimore.
| Further developments of Chardon-
nets wonderful process for making
silk fiber from wood pulp were re-
ported.
Paper gas pipes, covered with as
phaltum, were found in England to
give good results, not being subject to
| cor1osion by electrolytic action.
The fossil of new type of mon
! key a now extinct offshoot of the
original stock, that connected the le-
murs with the monkeys, was I'M
earthed in Madagascar, forming a
new collateral link in the chain of
evolutionary evidence.
The successful trial Of the steamer
| Turbina, in England, propelled by
steam turbines, gave promise of new
this means.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
DOMESTIC TIPS.

The Corbett-McCoy fight is off.
Fanny Davenport, the actress, is
dead
Nebraska's corn crop is worth $751;
100000.
President Mckinley will probably
not visit St. Paul.
Andrew Judson White, of New
York, died in London.
Eight coal miners we're killed by an
explosion near Pittsburg.
New York city deficit since CONSOLE
dation is over $7,OOO,OOO.
The Royal College of Surgeons,
London, gets the mahdi's head.
George A. Steinway, of the piano
firm, died at sea.
The funeral of the Rev. DR.. John
Hall will take place October 4 in
New York.
Special Master Carey finds that
nearly $87,OOO,OOO is still due the
Northern Pacific.
Leech Lake Indians threaten to de-
stroy Great Northern railway bridges
and other property.
position to an Independent state
ticket in New York.
w. J. Bryan, it is said, will shortly
resign as colonel of his Nebraska
regiment and re- enter politics.
Yellow fever has gained such head
way at Oxford, Miss, that the author
tiles do not believe they can check it's
spread there.
The big Drummond tobacco plant
at st. Louis has been bought by the
American Tobacco company, after
repeated efforts.
The twelve-inch rifles which will be
used on the new battleships will be
more effective than the thirteen-inch
guns now in use.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue holds that bank depositors' re-
ceipts used in place of checks must
pay the stamp tax.
DR.. w. P. Martin, an American
citizen and missionary, has been ap-
pointed president of the Imperial
University of China.
The democratic state campaign
committee chairman said it looked as
if Mayor Van Wyck will be named by
his party for governor.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, which met in Boston, elected
new officers and selected Detroit for
it's next meeting place.
Fifty-five persons were poisoned,
four of them probably fatally, from
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI

How many Americans appreciate
the grandeur OF their country's
geography? How many know that
there is no river system on earth even
Instantly compares with that of the
Mississippi and it's tributaries? The
census tells that these rivers. all flow
Ing through one channel into the
gulf OF Mexico, aggregate more than.
1OO,OOO miles in length. The ANA
zon, the Nile, the Gauges and all the
rest OF the great river systems on.
earth put together scarcely approach
this magnificent showing. Think of It'll
A steamboat leaving Pittsburg can
Visit tWenty-three state without pass
Ing through an artificial channel.
she can go up the Allegheny and
Monongahela, the Big Sandy. the
Cumberland-clea into Alabama
before reaching the mouth of the
Ohio Below Cairo she can traverse
not only the Mississippi but the St.
FRANCOIS, the Arkansas, the White.
the Red, the Yazoo, the TalIahatchee.
the Yalobusha, the Ouachita. the
great bayous and all the tributaries
OF these streams. Above Cairo lie
the Upper Mississippi, the Illinois.
the Missouri, the Yellowstone. the
Platte, the Big Horn and a score of
tributaries to all these. The suppos-
ltlous steamboat can land at 1850
towns and cities on her way. These
rivers drain an area of 1,683.3O3
square miles, occupied by a popula-
ton of 24,298,332 in 1890. The COM
merce of this great river system was
carried on in 1889 by 7,453 vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage of $685.
$40 and value of SIS, 535, 005.
And so rich is that commerce that
total of the craft engaged in it
by nearly eleven million pas
sengers and nearly thirty-three
million tons of freight per year.
And this is only one of the
great river systems of our country
one of many that include such mighty
systems as that of the Yukon, that of
the Columbia, that of the Colorado
and that of the Alabama at TOmbig-
bee. And from one end to the other
of all these rivers there is no custom
house to stop traffic or to levy one
cent of tribute upon it! 1t is worth
every Americans while to reflect
unon the greatness of our land and
to rejoice in it. 1t is worth while to
remember also that the resources of
this marvellous country abe far less
than half developed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Switzerland will not give the as
sassin Lucheni up to Austria.
Colombia concludes 20 resume dip
lomatic reIations with Italy.
The eruption of Vesuvius is in
creasing in violence.
The alarming situation in France
rivets Europes attention.
The French cabinet decided that
Dreyfus shall be retired.
An English baronet is thought to
have been murdered in the Klondike
American silk is being sold in
! Lyons, France, the silk center of Eu-
rope.
A monument to Samuel de Cham
plain, the French explorer, was un-
yelled at Quebec.
Great Britain, Russia, France and
Italy signed an agreement for the
pacifcation Of Crete.
Captain General Blanco issues an
| order for the removal of Columbus
body from Havana to Spain.
/ 1t is understood that the japanese
government has decided to negotiate
for a foreign loan of S50,000,000.
Bodies of volunteers are being or
ganized in Argentina to take the field
against Chilli in case of war.
/ Colonel Picquart has been put in
| secret Imprisonment so as to stife his
revelations about the Dreyfus case
American Presbyterian missionaries
at Media, near Hoinow, China, have
! been forced to flee from Chinese out
laws.
Concessions granted to Cavaliere
Luzzatte by the Chinese government
are regarded with great favor in
Rome.
! Native Hawaiians are making a
vigorous protest against the annexa-
ton of the islands to the United
States.
Prince Henri of Orleans, in a letter
to the Paris Figaro, says France has
claims on the Nile superior to Eng
/ lands.
Kuang-Rsu, emperor of China, has
resigned his power to his mother. II
! is reported that he is dead, but this
is not confirmed.
u0 DOISIdu COnCI ClSC LII C1S Ohlu-
Hankow railway, which is in the in
terest of Russia, has been ratified by
the Chinese government.
| Queen Wilhelmina, in an address tc
the states-general of the Netherlands
said she had received the cars peace
proposal with sympathy.
The joint high commission which
is considering points of difference be-
tween the United States and Canada
resumed it's sessions at Quebec.
Owing to the industrial crisis in
Jamaica the people there are unable
to help the hurricane victims on the
| other West Indies islands.
An agreement has been signed by
representatives of Chill and Argen-
! tina by which their boundary south Of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
SALVATION ARMY LASSIES.

The lassie may buy her things, ex-
cepting her bonnet, where she,
chooses, though there are dressmak-
ers and store at headquarters from
which everything necessary may be.
obtained. A frst-class bonnet, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Record,
all navy blue, with the silver letters
on the red band, sent from headuuar-
tiers, may be had for S. The SCOOP.
shape is very generally becoming, as
are the big blue strings tied under the
chm to the left. The trim red Nor
folk Jacket may be of serge or CASH
mere, while the skirt is of navy blue
serge. Though some of them wear
ordinary black jackets, the three
quarter coat of navy blue serge, like
the skirt, is the correct thing. And
these three garments may be had for
81,
AS for boots, the INTERVENE said
hers cost $3.50. Her neat linen collar
must have cost, even on a correspond
Ing scale, Is cents, and the shield
shaped silver pin at her throat. which
bore the legend, Salvation Army"
cost rs cents. This, happily, is the
only jewelry countenanced. Five
cents worth of hairpins, those pecu-
iarly feminine weapons, must not be
forgotten either. And to complete.
the list on like scale of prices, the
necessary garments of private ma
ture would amount to $525. So here
is the list, not all the garments re-
CURED, mind you, but one complete
suit what she stands in:
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

eating canned beef at a church So
cable at Plainwell, Mich.
Connecticut democrats ignored the
Chicago platform and nominated for
mer United States Treasurer Daniel
NJ. Morgan for governor.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, in an adj
dress at Danvers, Mass, said he great
ly desired to see an Anglo-Saxon fed
Grafton, and believed it was coming.
Andrew Carnegie, it is said, is tC
start at Homestead, Pa, a gun factory
which he intends shall rival the IA
nous one of the Krupps in Germany.
ArmOr plate made according to the
i Krupp process was tested at the In
dian Head proving grounds and found
to possess unusual resisting power
The 215 anniversary OF the land
America was celebrated at New Ulm
Mimi, Mayor Kiefer of St. Paul being
| the orator of the day.
Mrs. Botkin may be brought to Del
aware to be tried for murder in spite
of the refusal of Governor Budd OF
California, through a writ of habeas
corpus, under a federal law.
H. Gardner Chase, a broker of Bos-
ton, filed a voluntary petition in in
solvency. His liabilities amount to
$4,000, of which $4,000 is secured.
He has comparatively no assets.
| In a suit for damages filed in New
York against the French Steamship
company it is alleged that the captain
of the Bourgogne was of unsound
mind at the time of the disaster.
| Seventy miners were buried by an
explosion in the Empire coal mine at
Brownsville, Pa. All but eight es-
capped by an abandoned backway four
miles distant from the main shaft.
Governor Hazen S. Pingree was re-
nominated by Michigan republicans,
who also Endorsed his ideas for the
| taxation of corporations, and Secre-
| tary Ayers management of the war
| department.
| DR.. Marvin de Zarmba, who married
Miss Josephine Savin, daughter of a
New York millionaire banker, is de-
clared by his lawyer to be not a
count, as was said at the time of the
marriage.
! A society is said to have been form
| ed for the purpose of prosecuting Gen.
E. S. Otis for criminal negligence in
locating Camp Merritt at an I'M
healthy spot, and so causing the
deaths of many volunteers.
| Frank Howard Collier, a lawyer and
politician of Chicago, is to submit to
surgical operation in New York for
the restoration of his reason, which
has been clouded for years by a blow
on the head.
Friends of Governor Black tried to
secure his denomination by afidavits
which, they claim, prove that Col
| Theodore Roosevelt is not resident
of New York, but of Washington, and
was therefore ineligible for the Of
| flee.
The police arrested two young men
of SouthingtOn, Conn.,, in connec-
| ton with the murder of Emma Gill
| One of them, it is claimed, sent $15C
to DR." Nancy Guilford at various
times, and the police believe that
Miss Gill died at the Guilford home
from an operation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

establish a protectorate over their
! internal affairs.
| Gen. Dodge was elected chairman OF
| the war inquiry commission. The
president instructed the commission
ers to do their work thoroughly and
without fear or favor.
| The department has been in
formed of the deaths of James F.
Gamble, Co. F, 3rd Wisconsin, and
John E. Riley, Co. F, 9th Massachu-
sets, at Porto Rico.
1t is expected that the United States
forces, after the volunteers desig-
mated for the purpose are mustered
out, will consist of about 100000 vol
unteers and G1,000 regulars.
General Augustin, in an interview
| is quoted as saying that the fleet
which Dewey destroyed at Manila
was composed of old wooden ships,
whose guns were practically useless.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion that the retirement OF Of
ficers of the regular army who have
been promoted in the volunteer SER
vice does not affect their volunteer
commissions.
An order has been issued by the
war department to different COM
handing generals stating that fur
Laughed men are not entitled to
transportation to their homes at gov
eminent expense.
The French minister of foreign af-
fairs, NJ. Delcasse, has offered the
Spanish peace commission
ers, now in Paris, the use of the Paris
foreign office for their meetings,
which are to begin October 1.
A rumor that the Rothschilds are
to lend Spain large sum of money
when the treaty of peace is signed
is denied in Madrid. Officials of the
Spanish government say that the
Bank of Spain is able to supply the
immediate demands of the govern
ment.
The steamship Australia sailed for
Honolulu with a large number of
passengers and full cargo. Import
ant dispatches for the commander of
the American garrison at Honolulu
were placed in charge of the purser
half an hour before the steamer
sailed.
Captain Leonard A. Lowering, now
stationed at Fort Sheridan, has been
ordered to Fort Wayne, Mich, to re-
Iieve Captain Samuel A. Smoke, as
~ o@+o Of mi Stot
Volunteers, in charge of the post
there. Captain Smoke has been given
a furlough.
The postoffice department has in
formation that the Cuban South Coast
Steamship company has resumed
weekly trips from Santiago to Bata-
bano, touching at Manzanillo, Santa
Cruz, Jucaro, Tunas, Trinidad and
Cienfuegos. At Batabano there is
connection by rail with Havana.
President Mckinley has extended
the jurisdiction of Military Governor
Wood so that it now embraces the
whole province of Santiago de cuba
and has appointed Lieut-Col. A. S.
Wiley of the 9Th immunes, lieutenant
| governor, with the duties of reorgan-
izing the civil courts and the admin
istration of all civil affairs in eastern
Cuba.
The most beautiful Of all of the
souvenirs of the great naval battle
of July 3, off Santiago, reached the
navy department from Capt. Con-
verse, commanding the Montgomery
at Guantanamo. It is a bronze bust
of Christopher Columbus taken from
the flagship Cristobal Colon, which
lies below the surface of the ocean 20
miles from Santiago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD.

From the Herald. Watertown. ~ Y,
John Young, of lie Roy, N. Y, is Y
years old, and is we'll known in that and
neighboring towns. While putting some
weather boards on barn, standing Oh a
scaffold twenty-five feet from the ground,
he felt dizzy, lost his balance and fell to
the ground The side of, his face, arm
and one entire side of his body, on which
he struck, were badly bruised. Picked up
and carried to the house, he was under
a doctors care for several weeks. The
doctor finally came to the conclusion that
his patient had received stroke of par
<- a ysis and
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

q l y s ] 5; ana
w Il 5 beyond
medical aid.
He could not
use one arm,
or turn over
in bed.
/ 0 II e d a y,
| W h i | e lying
on the bed,
he read of a
c a S e some
thing like his
having been
c II e d with
DIR WillianS'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

twenty-five business men who acted
as the coroner's jury in the investiga-
ton of the recent great fire in London
and served for fourteen working
days received 4 pence Is cents) each
as compensation.