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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21
BANDIT HOLZHAY.
He Is Now one of the Most Trusted
COnvicts I'm Marquette Prison.


r. Holzhay, the once dreaded
bandit, has become one of the most
trusted convicts in the Marquette
prison. The Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin says that a picture of the
Marquette prison has been received
by young man of that city. On
the back of the picture are written
the following words:
"The photographer of this picture
is convict in the Marquette
branch. He was at one time one of
the incorrigibles. but, at present, is
the best behaved convict in the
prison. He is the librarian and
professor of the school. On the
front side of the card, under the
picture, are the words: "Adminis-
tration building, Marquette prison,
r. Holzhay, photographer. "
The reader will be surprised to
learn that this Holzhay, "photog-
rapher, librarian and professor, is
none other than the daring despera-
do, "Holzhay," who, seven or eight
years ago, held up the driver of a
stage coach 'on the Gogebic range,
killing one of the passengers who
showed fight. He afterwards held
up several trains, one of them being
a train on the Milwaukee & st. Paul
road. His modus operandi was to
go through the coaches single. hand
ed, relieve the passengers OF their
money and valuables, pull the bell
rope, and, after the train had come
to stand-still, quietly step off. He
was arrested in Republic, Mich,
tried, convicted and sent to the
Marquette prison for life. One day
he overpowered the guard, taking
him by the throat with his left hand,
while in the right he brandished a
knife, which he had concealed about
his person. Another guard stood
near, but he could not fire at Holz-
hay for fear of hitting the guard
with whom he was struggling, the
prisoner managing to keep him
covered with his body and threaten
ing to stab guard No. ! if No. 2
fired at him. Finally the prisoner S
face being turned for a moment,
guard No. 9 managed to draw bead
on the hand in which Holzhay held a
knife. He fired and hit his mark,
carrying away three of the prison
er's fingers. After this episode,
Holzhay became insane and was
sent to an asylum. He recovered
his reason and was again committed
to prison. AS stated above. he is
now an exemplary convict. He is a
great student and reads everything
that comes into his hands. In NOV
ing about he always carries his
right hand under his vest in such a
way that the casual observer is I'd
to believe that the missing fingers
are simply hidden from view.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21

When in Marquette stop at the
Hotel Clifton. Best in the city,
$500 per day. Single, meals, 30
cents. [6-l0tf]
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21

A kind of paper is made from
seaweed which is so transparent
that it may be used instead OF glass
for windows.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21

give Drops" the great rheu-
matte cure, $l.0O per. bottle of 300
doses. Mail orders promptly filed.
!. FRED LUNDBERG, Agent,
10.14t4 Skanee, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21
Lost
an hour.

A black broncho horse with sad
die; also had rope around his neck.
Finder will confer great favor by
reporting at this office, or to Rich
ard Thebodeau, L'Anse, and will
also be paid charges. Q0-2ltD
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21
LOCAL ITEMS.

At the NJ. f. church tomorrow
evening Rev. j. NJ. Shank will take
for the subject of his sermon: eyes
That See. " Preceding the sermon
a five minutes talk will be given to
boys and girls, the subject being,
"Veils as an Object Lesson.
DR.. j. @. Zellen will remove his
stock of drugs and sundries to the
vacant store in the Brennan build
ing, next week. The store has been
put in excellent condition, including
the putting in of a new hardwood
floor, and presents a very neat APP
pearance.
The supreme court has decided
that woman cannot hold the
Office OF prosecuting attorney in
this state. This decision is the out
come of the action brought to test
the right of Mrs. Merrie Hoover
Abbott to hold that Office in Oge-
nav county. She was elected to
the Office last fall, and when she en-
tered on the discharge of her duties
quo warranto proceedings were in
stituted with the result stated. The
court holds that a woman is not
eligible to the office, hence that the
election of Mrs. Abbott was invalid.
An English statistician declares
that crime, considered in decennial
periods, bears constant relation to
population.
Western Australia has an act in
force prohibiting the landing Of any
one who cannot write out given
passage in English.
Public story-tellers still earn a
good livelihood in japan. In Toxic
600 of them ply their trade, provided
with smallstable, a fan and paper
wrapper to illustrate and emphasize
the points Of their tales.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

W.. H. BARGER, LINCOLN, ADJUTANT
GENERAL.
his eye; his fist is perpetuaiiy pounding;
among agitators he is the fiercest. Director
OF the 'Ligue Anti-Semitique.' editor of its
organ, the 'Anti-Juif,' he has to interest
and entertain the Sc, 1000 members of the first
and the $4,000 readers of the second; he
does all this s%turdily, and glories in it."
Post Wheeler, New Yorker, poet, Prince
ton man, author of cynical Reflections of
a Bachelor" has been missing from New
York for two years. His departure followed
close upon the report Of the breaking of
an engagement between him and Halle
Erminie Rives, cousin Of Amelia Rives, the
Princess Troubetskoy, who is herself an
author, and not long ago startled the read
ing public by the novel, Smoking Flax
Mr.. Wheeler is living in a remote Indian
village in a spur OF the Rockies, close on
the Arctic circle, in the great Northwest
Territory, on the edge OF the barren lands.
hundreds OF miles from civilization, where
an occasional half-breed or trader is the
only visitor and a white man is almost I'M
known. He has joined a tribe Of the
Tukudh Indians, has been adopted as Si-Chi
(only brothers child by the head chief, has
taken on their customs and dress, speaks
their tongue, and ranks as an under chief.
Mr.. Wheeler was recently visited by a cor
respondent, who says that the poet is reti-
cent as to reasons for becoming an exile.
The language, he says, was his greatest
difficulty. What do you Think" said Mr..
Wheeler, "of a language b~oasting five sub
%junctive moods and two first persons plural?
Max Muller was right when he pronounced
the Eskimo of the northwest more intricate
than Greek, but the Tukudh is far more
complex even than Hebrew"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

copyrighted. 1899. by the S. S. Mcclure COZ
The America Cup" or, to speak more
accurately, the Hundred Guinea Cup Is at
Tiffany's, in New York. Millions Il dlaa
will be spent during the autumn in the con-
test for its possession, and this fact furnishes
"a strange anomaly, for the Gun is not in
trinsically valuable. If it could tell its "
story it would have something like the fol-
lowing to say:
"When Sir Thomas Upton, the tea man,
tries to win me away from the United
States 1t will be the tenth time an effort OF
that kind has been made in forty-eight years.
1t seems that l am as desirable to sportsmen
as the Golden Fleece was to the Argonauts.
Eleven times two nations have been wildly
excited over these contests, which have cost
enough to build a decent navy for each one
of them.
"And what is it all about? l am only a
little old misshapen silver mug, of no par
ticular design, and so out-of-date and COM
monplace that a first-class jeweler in these
days would be ashamed to confess me as
his workmanship. The bottom is out OF me,
my covering is inferior, and II melted down
1 would be worth, according to the present
quotations for silver, just SIS. A junk dealer
would think hard before Offering that.
What in the world I'm l that you
should make 50 much fuss over me? Really,
| feel quite bored over all this attention,
for, in confidence, l am of no value at all,
and my career has been quiet. l was made
by r.. & R. Gerard on Panton street, Lon
don, on a hurry order when the yacht
America came over in 1851 and beat our
English regatta at Cowes. st was not a
celebrated firm, and the workmen only or
binary. One of them said he thought !
ought to be fashioned in the style of Henry
III and another thought a Henry III de-
sign more suitable, so | am a SORT of mix
ture. l had no idea that l should become
an international prize then. nor did the
men who ordered me dream of my com
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
September 10, 1899
Story of the Americas Cup

detract from the interest of a national com
petition"
Mr.. Schuyler therefore inserted this clause
in the deed:
vessels intending to compete for this cup
must proceed under sail on their own bot
toms to the port where the contest Is to
take place"
The English owners have also been to a
considerable expense usually in bringing
along an advisory committee, as Dunraven,
the first time, brought over Watson, designer
of the Valkyrie II, and Lapthorn, sail
maker.
The Cups Inscriptions.
The only things about the cup itself, how-
ever, that tell of these millions spent on ac-
count of it are the inscriptions. carved in
different styles and type. In looking back
fifty years these brief legends inspire awe
in the heart of the veteran yachtsman. They
tell him of one struggle after another when
the country was all in a FILTER over the
approach Of a challenger, and when it
seemed sure that Yankee supremacy on the
water would be snatched away by the Brit
Usher. On each occasion the result of the
contests has been the same. The nearest
that the game challengers have ever been
to the cup is to look at it in Tiffany's win
dow, or nerchance view it on the banquet
tables at the New York Yacht club house.
Tiffany is now concerned as to where he
will carve these inscriptions. There is only
one small panel below the six large shields
about the body Of the cup that is not filled.
On these shields is told the story of the
trophy. And the narrative has taken all the
space available there for inscriptions, also
on the panels underneath, with the excep-
tion of one, leaving just enough room to
contain the account of this years races
should there be more than two. That num-
Der can be crowded in and still leave space
for another contest. More than that will
fill the cup.
AT first the silversmiths were quite lavish
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
DEADWOOD,

"lth their space, not conceiving how valu-
able it would be in later years. On each
successive race they economized, as will be
seen by the following list of inscriptions
which the cup bears:
Hundred Guinea cup won August %, 1851,
at Cowes, England, by yacht America at
the Royal Yacht squadron regatta, "open
to all nations" beating the cutters Volanle,
AZ tons; Arrow, "a tons; Alarm, 1913 tons;
Mona, 81 tons; Bacchante, so tons; Freak,
60 tons; Eclipse, so tons; schooners Beatrice.
16l tons; Wyoern, POS tons; lone, 70 tons;
Constance, 21S tons; Gipsey Queen, 100
tons; Brilliant, 1872 tons.
Schooner America. 40 tons. Commodore
John c.. Stevens. Built by George Steers of
New York. 1851.
Presented to the New York Yacht cluty
as a challenge cup, open to all foreign
clubs, by the owners, John c. Stevens.
Hamilton Wilkes, George l.. Schuyler, J..
Beekman Finlay, Edwin A. Stevens.
Challenged to be sailed over New York
Yacht club course, August s, 1870, by Mr..
James Ashbury, with schooner yacht Cam
bria, representing Royal Thames Yacht
club. Cambria beaten in the following
order, by schooner yachts Magic, IdIer, Sill.
vie, America, Dauntless, Madgie, Phantom,
Alice, HalcyCn.
october 16, 1S7l-Schooner Livonia against
Schooner Columbia, James Ashbury, ESQ.,,
owner Franklin Osgood, esq, owner. Cam
bria winner by 81 minutes 4 seconds. New
York Yacht club course.
October Is, 1S71-Schooner Livcnia against
Schooner Columbia. Columbia winner nv
10 minutes 80 seconds. Outside course.
October 10, 1S71-Schooner Livonia against
Schooner Columbia. Livonia winner by Is
minutes 10 seconds. New York Yacht cIub
course.
October q, 1S71-Schooner Livonia against
schooner sappho. Sappho winner by 30
minutes Il seconds. William p. Douglas,
ESQ., owner. Outside course.
October 2S, 1S71-Schooner Livonia agains.
Schooner sappho. sappho winner by 25
minutes u seconds. New York Yacht club
course.
August II, 1S76-Schooner Countess of DUFF
lerln against Schooner Madeleine; Charles
Glnord' esq, owner. John S. Dickerson, esq.
Continued on Third Page.)
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

ing Importance. AS a matter of fact the
firm received just $525 for me, and now
l could be duplicated for $3.50.
Il weigh 1874 ounces, am twenty-seyen
inches tall, measure thirty-six inches
around the waist and twenty four at the
base. The decorative work on me is very
simple, but | pride myself that my lines
have an aristocratic appearance, my lip is
certainly curved gracefully, and my neck
beautiful. Just one thing more. Many
call me the queens cup because I was
bought by the ommitte Of the Royal Yacht
squadron, but this is wrong, for when the
men took me off the shelf in Gerard's
office ! distinctly heard them say: This Is
to be known as the Hundred Guinea cup
and that's what I used to be called on both
Sides
Enormous Expenditures.
Nevertheless, thousands of persons from
all over America will come to New York
shortly, and, standing before the Tiffany
window on Boradway, gaze at this mug long
and deferentially, for. after all, 1t is the
most historic trophy Of it's kline in existence
and has cost so much money that 1t gives
your ordinary American a thrill to think of
1t. Such enormous sums have certainly
never been spent before on a like object.
n member OF the New YORK Yacht club,
in looking over the inscriptions on the cup
the other day to refresh his "reminiscences
of the bygone contests. figured roughly that
the Englishmen had spent in the neighbor-
hood OF 81, 900, 900 in behalf of this trophy.
and the Americans probably a little more,
owing to the expenses incident to the trial
races. This, of course, includes only the
money spent In striving for and defending
the cup. When you figure on the expenses
OF the public In witnessing and betting On
the races an approximate estimate is impcs-
sible.
The challengers find a heavy expense in
rigging their vessels for sea travel. This is
essential owing to the conditions laid down
by George l.. Schuyler. who re-deeded the
cup to the New York Yacht club in 1882.
Owing to the present and increasing size
OF ocean steamers" said Mr.. Schuyler. sit
would be quite feasible for an American,
English or French club to transport on their
decks yachts OF large tonnage. This might
be availed OF In such a way that the match
would not be a test OF sea going qualities,
as we'll as OF speed. which would essentially
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

REESE, BROKEN BOW.
tween fifty and sixty engagements during
the war and lost by death 4O3 men; of this
number Company l. lost forty-nine.
General Wilson's cavalry corps, of which
the First Wisconsin formed a part. reached
Macon, Ga, on April 20, 1865, where they
first learned OF the surrender OF General
Lee.
Colonel Henry Harnden, with one battal-
ion of the First Wisconsin cavalry and a por-
ton OF the Fourth Michigan, had the dis
t~inction and shared in the reward of the
capture OF JEFF. Davis. The regiment
marched from Macon, Ga, to Edgfeld, Tenn,
where they were mustered out. In the
spring OF 1866 Commander Evans came to
Nebraska, going by wagon to Montana, and
after two years of exploring and prospecting
returned to Nebraska, homesteading the
present townslte OF Memphis In Saunders
county. In 1871 he moved to North Platte
and, like most OF the energetic and sue
cessful young men that came to Nebraska
In an early day, engaged In contracting and
stock raising, not overlooking the impor-
lance OF securing a fine half-section OF land
near the county seat. lu 1884 Mr.. Evans
was, without opposition, appointed post
master at North Platte, served four years
as county clerk and clerk of the district
court and two years as deputy secretary OF
state.
Commander Evans has been an active and
liberal member of the Grand Army from the
organization OF a post in his town, serving
In every capacity from guard to the posi-
ton he now holds. Few men have a more
extended acquaintance throughout the state.
He is respected for his honesty, intelligence
and loyalty. His love for the old flag which
he helped to maintain has never waned. but
grows stronger with years.
The other department officers are well
known in Grand Army circres-Senior Vice
Commander John Reese, living at Broken
Bow, Junior Vice Commander Robert S. Will
cox at Omaha, and Adjutant General w. ii,
Barger at Lincoln. Peculiarly enough Com
rades Evans and Barger both belonged to
Company l. OF the First Wisconsin cavalry
and did service In the Wilson raid through
Alabama and Georgia in 1865, which wound
up with the capture OF jefferson Davis. Com
rades Evans and Barger, too. have both lived
in Nebraska since 1871, working siie by side
In the Grand Army OF the Republic organiza-
ton.
The return OF prosperity to Nebraska is
nowhere better evidenced than in the con-
struction OF new school buildings and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
About Noted People

A movement has been set on foot to have
either Massachusetts or New Hampshire
buy the Daniel Webster estate In Marsh
field, Mass, including the tomb In which he
is buried; or, this failing, to have a sum Of
money raised by private subscription suf-
fcient to purchase the burial place of the
great expounder," and provide for its be-
ing held in trust.
After General Shafter had made an
address to some school children in Grand
Rapids not long ago, he disappeared and
the searching party finally found him
in a schoofroUm, signing his autograph
for about 100 clamorous children. AS he
followed the committee out he called back:
You that didn't get the autograph send
your names to me and I'll see that you get
It," 1t Is said that he kept his wvro.
Colonel Jack" Hayes, one of the most
noted of our Indian fighters, spent a few
days in Washington last week while en-
route for the Philippines, where he will
nina a cavalry regiment. He has been
serving under Generar Fitzhugh Lee in
Cuba, the two being old friends and
comrades, having both been wounded in the
same Indian battle away back in the SOS,
when they were young lieutenants. Colonel
ffayes salu OF MS contemplated Pnlllpplne
campaign: II think that when the cavalry
gets after the Aguinaldo outfit the rebels
won't last long"
Jules Guerin, the Reconstructed prisoner
of the Anti-Semite club, Is a retired tripe
seller of La Vilette, which explains why he
has a lot of butchers with him. He Is a
"gaillard" of 35 or so, solldly built, a great
crony of NJ. Drumont's, and received his
political education with the Marquis de
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

Mores. He was one of the band who signed
themselves 1.-THE Friends of Mores." After
the death of the marquis, NJ. Guerin took
the lead of the anti-Semites, and, always
spelling for a fight. he has been In every
street demonstration which the anti-Semites
have got up in Paris for this last ten years.
M. A. p, a London publication, says OF
him: HE Is a strong man, 80 years of age,
tall and very broad, anger turks always in
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.

churches In the towns throughout the state.
A week ago the good people OF Wayne, Neb..
performed the dedication ceremonies upon a
new church Just completed, which will be
used by the First Presbyterians OF that
fourishing town. The church is a magn,-
flcent structure, practically paid To-, a neat
sum having been raised by contributions at
the dedication exercises to apply on sinking
the debt.
The Bees readers are favored with a pho
tograph taken Of the burning chlorination
works at Deadwood August 2S. This disas-
trous fire was fully chronicled in the news
OF the day. but the present picture shows
the perfection to which the photographers
art Is attaining. We have had snapshots
OF cyclones, flashes of lightning, moving
trains OF all sorts of natural phenomena and
the camera promises to preserve for us also
the ravages of the fire fiend just as they are
committed.
Great preparations are being made for the
reception of Admiral Dewey on his return
TO the United States, in which New York.
Washington, Chicago and several other
cities expect to Guido one another in the
lavishness of their entertainment There Is
no question but what the admiral will meet
Win u WelCUIle SuCn as no Otner naval hero
ever enjoyed, but the depth of the enthusi-
assn can be no greater than that which was
accorded the volunteers OF the First Ne
braska regiment on their re-entry into the
circles of their families and friends. The
Dewey celebrations will only be a reproduce
tion on a much larger scale of the small
receptions which have been seen in Ne
braska towns and villages during the last
two weeks.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
Pen and Picture Pointers

The last few weeks have belonged to the
volunteers of 1898, whose glorious home
coming from the Philippines has been cele-
brated by receptions and ~ovations and en-
thuslasm galore. The coming week will be-
long to the volunteers OF 1861. who will
gather in their annual reunion at Lincoln
and there recount their deeds in defense OF
the flag and for the preservation OF the
union. For the first time at this reunion
the veterans OF 1861 will have as their guests
veterans OF another war. as the invitation
has been extended broadly to all the mem
bers OF the Nebraska volunteer regiments
hat responded to the call in the war against
Spain to participate in the gathering, the
principal feature OF which will be a recep-
ton to those volunteers.
In presenting as the frontispiece OF this
number OF The illustrated Bee a portrait of
the department commander a few words
about him and his war record will be OF
interest.
John Il. Evans, department commander,
Grand Army OF the Republic, was born in
Tioga county, Pennsylvania, moving to Wis
consin with his parents In 1850, who settled
in Sank county on a farm. At the age of II
he enlisted. On account of his age he was
on detail duty for some time, being subse-
quently assigned to Company l., First Wis
consin cavalry. This regiment was in be-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
An Old Land Title

Robert r.. Stuyvesant OF New York has
Just sold a plot Of ground which has been
owned by the Stuyvesant family for 216
years. 1t was purchased directly from the
Indians by Peter Stuyvesant, governor CT
New Amsterdam.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10

The return OF prosperity to Nebraska is
nowhere better evidenced than in the con-
struction OF new school buildings and
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-12-19

II you don't remember the Maine
call at l.. B Kerr's and see her.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-12-19
Continues to Discuss Chamberlain's
Talk

BERLIN, December 3.-The German
Press continues TO discuss the recent
speech at Leicester, Epgland, OF the
British Secretary of State for the
Colonies. The comments, on the
whole, are not unfavorable. The
semi official Hamburgischer Core
spondepz, says: "Mr. Chamberlain
used the word alliance ss the most
appropriate to portray the general
good relationship between Germany
and Great Britain, but no secret
compact exists"
The Berliuer Tagehlatt says:
England and Germany should act
frankly, like business men, in seeking
an understanding with the United
States, and, II possible, a copartner-
ship"