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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Cuba.

Few of the ruined plantations have
been restored.
Owners Of plantations in Cuba refuse
to employ Spanish laborers.
Only one plantation in the entire prov
ince Of Havana is in operation.
There is talk of erecting an Office build.
ing in Havana on American lines.
The more intelligent residents are anx,
dous for annexation to the United States,
Natives near Santiago do land-of1ca
business selling relics from the battle.
fields.
Skilled labor is scarce. Cuban carpen'
tiers, plumbers and masons are not skill
ed.
Not one out of ten natives can read
and write, and they have no ambition
beyond mere existence.
Bill posting is a new industry, and Hal
vana is now well plastered with unsight'
ly advertisements.
Life and property in Havana and San.
tiago are now said to be as safe as in
any city in the world.
Brigandage is scattered and the ban,
dts are renegade Spanish soldiers for
the most part-not Cubans.
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THREE TOWNS IN RUINS.
Widespread Destruction by the storn
in Florida,

Widespread Destruction by the Storm
in Florida.
First reports sent out Of the ter1iSle
destruction wrought by the terrific hurri-
cane that swept up from thu Gulf of
Mexico and ragged along the coast OF
Florida appear to have been very con-
sentative. Three towns were entirely de-
stroyed and others partially wrecked.
Carrabelle, Ashmore and Mcintyre were
the towns practically annihilated. The
towns partially wrecked were Lanark,
St. Teresa and Panacea Springs.
A passenger train on the Carrabelle,
Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad thirty
five miles below Tallahassee was badly
wrecked, but no one is reported killed or;
injured. The turpentine interests of the
section are greatly damaged and much
injury has been done to crops. 1t is,
generally believed that fifteen persons
were drowned at st. Marks.
1t was more than twelve hours after
the storm had swept the coast before thel
news of it's devastation reached the OUT
side world. Only one railroad extends
to the coast south of Tallahassee, and
only one telegraph line. The wires were
blown down, and the railroad could not
be traversed, because the track was COW
cred with fallen trees and washed out in
many places. The bridges along the road
have been blown from the abdtments or
washed away by the floods that followed
the storm.
A storm unequalled in terrific energy
by any tornado remembered by the old
est inhabitants swept over Elizabeth, N.
j., in path 1000 feet wide. In so far
as is known no one was injured. All
manner of mischief was done to houses,
churches, theaters and church yards.
The total amount of damage is estimat-
ed at $15O,O00. Three church steeples
were knocked down and two theater
roofs lifted Graves were exhumed by
the uprooting of trees above them and
the bones of the dead were left uncov-
cred
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A Matter of Wares.

The efforts which importers of choco-
late are now making to get a lower
appraisement on imported chocolate
recalls the report which was made to
the Ways and Means Committee in
1897, when the provisions of the Ding
ley law were being considered. 1t was
stated in that report that sin the
United States in our Ghe chocolate)
industry men are paid for ten hours
work from $40 to $40 per week; women
are paid for ten hours work from Sc
to $12 per week. In Europe, in the
largest factories, their rates for men
for twelve hours work are from 81 to
SIS per week and for women for twelve
hours work from $3.50 to So per week"
1t will be seen from these figures that
wages in this country are from $50 to
400 per cent. higher than wages in
Europe. The slightest investigation
will show, Furthermore. that what is
true in respect to the wages Of the en-
ployes in chocolate manufactures is
true, in a greater or lesser degree, of
workers in all branches of industry
In the face of such facts arguments
in favor Of protective tariff would
seem to be superfuous, and conscien-
uous efforts to collect the rightful Gus
toms duties should be appreciated by
every American workman as well as
by every American manufacturer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
State Items of Interest.

The new directory gives La Crosses
Population as trif1e over $4,000, an In
crease of over 500 over two years ago.
The John Schroeder Lumber Company
Of Milwaukee has purchased 35,0OO,OOC
Keet of standing pine near Ludington
Mich This is one of the largest lumber
deals of the year.
@ The State board of control contracted
With James Quirck Il Co. of Minneapo
lis for 5000 barrels of second patent
wheat -four, to be delivered at the various
institutions. The price is So.
1t has been discovered that 100000
bonds. issued by Ashland County and
sold to Trowbridge, Macdonald Il Nive1
bf Chicago, were illegally issued, and the
company refuses to take them.
81 A valuable race horse was stolen from
4he farm of David Dwyer near the vii
&iage of Newport. The police have nc
clue as to the identity of the person OF
persons committing the crime.
Judge ]. NJ Morrow of Sparta drop
bed dead on his way from his home tC
his office He was one of the best-knowl
aawyers in that section of the State.
Heart failure was the cause of his death
Burglars entered the home of O. G.
#Sanborn at Elroy and secured $40 and
Sfwo gold watches. A saloon was also
entered. the visitors helping themselves
Ito wines. cigars and all the change in the
till.
Frank G. Austin, superintendent of the
LA Crosse Gas Company, while assist
ling in disjointing gas pipe in trench
had his face and arms burned so that he
had to be carried home and placed under
the influence of narcotics.
The executive committee of the Wis
consin State Cranberry Growers Asso
sciation has set Aug. % as the date of the
next annual convention, to be held al
experimental stations 1 and 2 of Gaynol
Bros marsh at Cranmoor.
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette has solo
the remainder of his 1899 cut of lumber
amounting to 100000 feet, to the Hines
Lumber Company.
Captain Charles Troy of Racine, one OF
the best -known Frenchmen in southern
Wisconsin. shot and killed himself. FL
nancial reverses are attributed as the
cause. He was SO years old.
August Kujavsky, who conducts a sa
loon near the Manitowoc city limits, was
attacked by five tramps in his place OF
business and terribly beaten. One of his
assailants used a knife and cut Kujavsky
quite severely on the left side and arm.
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that the name of Jefferson will be a
name to conjure with and to draw to
him the support Of many not now num-
bered among his followers. 1t would
pay better If Mr.. Bryan would adopt
Jefferson's principles. At present he
lacks one very serious quality for be-
ing a follower of Jefferson. Jefferson
believed in all things American. He
believed in encouraging American in
dustries, and in using American made
goods. Mr.. Bryan has put himself on
record times without number as being
opposed to any system of protective
tariff, declaring on one occasion that
tariff Of 10 per cent. was as unjustifia-
BILE as tariff Of 1000 per cent. JEFF
ferson said:
my idea is that we should encour-
age home manufacturers to the extent
Of our own consumption Of everything
of which we raise the raw material. I
do not think it fair in ship owners to
say we ought not to make our axes,
nails, etc., here, that they may have
the benefit Of carrying the iron to
Europe and bringing back the axes,
nails, etc."
The followers and believers in JEFF
ferson do not belong with Mr.. Bryan
and his friends, but with the sup
porters of the American policy Of
protective tariff
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Porto Rico.

Baseball is popular.
Roads are being built.
Engineers are in demand.
I Hammocks are the usual beds.
Coffee sells for five cents a pound.
: Ten oranges can be bought for one
cent.
There are no venomous reptiles on the
island.
The hotels are distinctly bad, the stores
the same.
Every traveller says the islands great
est need is schools.
Spain was the islands market. That
has been taken away.
The coffee crop is three times as VAL
liable as the sugar crop.
There is general satisfaction with the
American administration Of affairs.
With plenty of native hardwood not a
stick Of furniture is made in the country.
The thermometer rarely reaches above
S5 degrees, even in summer. The nights
are always comfortable.
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Minneapolis Journal.
PROSPERITY IN THE WEST.

One of the facts that have discour-
aging effect on the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party Is the great increase IN
industrial activity in the West. Every
body, Democrat as well as Republican,
who tells anything nowadays about
the social conditions in the Western
States mentions the prosperity which
is diffused through all of them. Bust
ness is more active in all Of them than
was ever known before. The reports of
the bank clearances from all quarters
Of the West show an immense increase
in transactions since last year at this
time. The earnings of the Western
railroads are at the highest figures
ever touched.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Vanderlip, who has just returned from
tour through several States in the
Mississippi Valley, is eloquent about
the evidences of industrial activity and
prosperity which he saw on every hand.
He remarks that this is killing the sill
yer issue as Democratic dogma. Dem
ocratic leaders in the West are saying
the same thing. There is strong dis
position among the shrewder Demo
cratic magnates Of the Western States
to take up some other issue, and let
silver drop out altogether, or put 1t so
far in the background that it will not
figure with any prominence in the can
vass. The Stones, Bryans, Joneses
and Altgelds are apparently still anx-
70 CT 0ly To ND ar
to carry the convention with them, but
the wiser men Of their party, both poll
ticians and editors, are urging their
side to give up that issue and talk Of
something else.
The detection of the West is seri-
GUS thing for the Democracy. 1t was
on the West that the Democratic bosses
looked for great part of their cleo
toral votes next year. They knew that
the number of States which they can
carry in the South will not furnish
them with more than half the number
of votes which their party will need to
give it the victory. The South has long
since ceased to be solid for the Democ-
racy. Many votes will have to come
from the West to that party if it Is to
have any chance to win. The Demo
cratic leaders know that they can get
very few votes from the West under
present conditions. 1t was the business
depression resulting from the Demo
cratic panic of 1893 which created the
conditions in the West which gave the
Democracy several States in the Mis-
sissippi Valley and on the Pacific slope
in 1896. Republican prosperity has en-
sued since then, and the entire situa-
ton is changed. This is why the re-
ports of business activity and general
prosperity throughout the West, which
come from Democrats and Republicans
alike, have a disheartening effect on
the Democratic leaders. 1t means a
sweeping victory for the Republican
party in 19OO.-St Louis Globe-Demo-
craf
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Evanston, ILL.,, the
other day. While
thus engaged her
companions in the
Office were startled
to see her leap
from her seat,
whistle and dance.
The cause for this
demonstration APP
peared in a mes
sage which she had
just received for
her father and
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Hawaii.

There are no labor unions.
Royalty sentiment has died out COM
pletely.
Taxation is on a basis of 1 per cent of
cash value.
1t is estimated that $50, 5000 is in-
vested in sugar.
Land worth SIS an acre three years ago
now sells for $50.
Native markets are poor, and nearly
everything eatable has to be imported.
Many new plantations are being CAPT.
talized for amounts varying from 81, OOO,-
900 to 100000.
The natives still feast on taro, raw fish,
and poi, and are still the careless, lazy
people they have always been.
Skilled labor is in good demand, but
unskilled labor is a drug, the supply or
japanese and Chinese being large.
At the time Of it's discovery by Captain
Cook, the population of the islands was
about twice as great as it is to-day.
There are just as many physicians,
dentists and lawyers in Honolulu as
there are in any city Of the same size in
the United States.
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Morphine Ends His Life.

red B. Dunn of Chicago was found
ne in bed dead at the fremont Hotel
Dshkosh. Two letters were on the
esser, one directed to his wife in Chi
I'd Lawn and one to his father, John
Dunn Of Chicago. Beside them was
empty box that had contained NOR
ne. One of the letters was opened. In
The writer said he had 'lost heart,
arage and everything and had quit the
5rld;" that he had taken six grains or
orphine and had gone to bed to die.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
THE NOTORIOUS eENDERs.

Recalled by the Finding of an Old
Knife.
A large knife, which is supposed to
have been the one used by the noted
Benders in disposing of their victims, has
been found in an old tree on the old
Bender place, east of Cherryvale, Kan.
The tree, which was large elm, was
cut down for wood, and the knife was
found in hollow inside the tree. It is
supposed that it was hidden there, and
that after the Benders left the opening
Ia the tree grew together.
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which said that the courts of England
had decided that her father was the le-
gal heir to $5O,0O0,OOO left by his aunt,
who died in London a few years ago.
Before she went home that night Miss
Wright resigned her position as telegraph
operator and will devote herself to study
and pleasure as becomes the heiress to
her fathers immense and easily acquired
fortune.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
IsCONSIN'S RECORD.
HFuLLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
~ Fire Loss at La Crosse-Found
I'd in an Oshkosh Hote1-Youth
"a Through the Head-Gir1 At
- pts to Poison a Family.

e entire plant of the La Crosse Car
8 Company Qimited), one of the prin-
industries Of the city, was destroy
~ fire which originated from spon-
bus combustion. 1t was discovered
En engineer on a switch engine IN the
taukee road yards. The entire hre
zrtment was called out, but was I'M
to stay the progress of the names
adjoining factories were saved. Inc
son buildings, machinery and stock is
iderably over 100000. About $780,
Insurance was carried.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
WOULD DEPoRT NEGROES.
Southern African NJ. e. Church Will
Call Upon Congress.

At the annual conference of the pre-
siding elders of the African Methodist
Episcopal council of Georgia and Ala
bama at Birmingham, resolution was
adopted calling upon Congress to appro-
pirate 500, 100000 to deport the negroes
from this country to whatever place or
places it may be deemed best Bishop
Turner Of Georgia in supporting the res
olution declared he did not share in the
belief of some that truce could be
patched up through Christian influence,
but regards separation Of the races as
the only solution of the race problem.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
HOW HE MANAGED THE BANK.
Ex-Receiver Villa m PIankinton Ex-
amined at Milwaukee,


amined at Milwaukee.
William Plankinton, ex-receiver for the
defunct Plankinton Bank of Milwaukee,
was examined Thursday before Court
Commissioner Schneider relative to his
management of the banks affairs The
shrinkage of over 100000 from the face
value Of the banks assets could not be
accounted for by Plankinton, who claim
ed to be ignorant of many of the impor-
tant details Of the bank, rs he did not
give personal attention to the work
The ex-receiver had also credited him
self with $4,000 fees as assignee with
out notifying the court or creditors until
after he had paid himself. He could not
decipher his report made as assignee on
July 1, 1898. No attempt was made by
the assignee to realize on various securi-
ties or collect numerous accounts due the
bank
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scandinavians Elect Officers.

Ehe convention Of the grand lodge OF
j Independent Scandinavian Working
nj Association at Eau Claire chose
S4 AXE as the place of meeting next
a and elected the following officers:
dent, Nels Nelson of Washburn;
president, Henry Peterson of Supe-
secretary, Peter ]. Smith of Eau
re; treasurer, Andrew Foss of Eau
re; marshal, Edward Samdahl of
IL River; guard, Malcolm Lindquist
hell Lake; physician, DR.. A. D. ID.
ne of Eau Claire.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Fire Consumes Cord Wood.

A spark from a locomotive set IRE to
the Northwestern Lumber Company's
bile of mill wood at Stanley, resulting in
The loss of 1000 cords. Its plant was
threatened at one time and assistance
Was asked from Chippewa Falls, but the
IRE was under control when the Chippe-
MA steamer arrived.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Paris Green in the Coffee.

At Manawa, Pauline Farg attempted
to& poison the family of James Heating,
tai whom she was working, by putting
Iris green into the family coffee pot:
The peculiar taste Of the coffee aroused
siispicion before a sufficient quantity OF
ne coffee had been drunk to cause serl-
Gus injury. The girl, who is only Il
ears old, confessed and was committed
d the industrial school for girls at Mil
Waukop
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Dead on Race Track.

Eddie Richardson, aged about Is years,
Youngest son of Anthony Richardson, a
eolored barber in Evansville was found
dead on the race track with bullet hole
through his head. He was seen riding
his wheel to the track about an hour be-
fore his body was found. A verdict was
rendered of accidental death.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Young Girl Com mits suicide.

Susie Killian, 1S years Of age, commit
Ted suicide by turning on the gas. She
lived at Milwaukee and was determined
on self-destruction She took a dagger
ito her room, tied a clothes line around
her neck, but finally determined on using
the gas. She was of an hysterical ma
lure and frequently talked of self-de-
Struction.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
An Abiding Choice.

A million dollars day represents
the size of the demand which the Eu-
ropean nations are making upon the
American workshop at the present
time.-Chicago Times-Herald.
This is a view of the situation which
ought to appeal and which undoubted-
ly has appealed most powerfully to
American workingmen. There can be
no doubt that they find most salts
much more to be desired than the days
of idleness and Of free soup, which the
triumph of free trade and the enact
ment of the Wilson law ushered in.
The policy of protection means that
American laboring men are called upon
to do the work for our own seventy
millions and more of good Americans,
whose demands are more extensive
than are the demands of double that
number Of people in any other coun-
try in the world. 1t means also that
American laboring men are called
upon to do the work for millions Of
people in other countries. Without our
protective tariff the foreigners would
be doing both their own work and
the larger part of ours. A choice be-
tween these two situations is not a
difficult one. That choice was taken
definitely and decidedly when Ameri-
can workingmen voted in November,
1896, to put William Mckinley in the
presidential chair, pledged, as they
knew him to be, to the restoration of
the American system. 1t is a choice
which will be an abiding one
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HER LAST MESSAGE.

1t Brought Golden News to This ILL,
nois Telegraph Operator.
Miss Adela Wright, telegraph opera
tor in the employ Of the Western Union
Company, was taking down messages at
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The scepter of Commerce.

England to-day has the greatest fleet
on the ocean, but her position as car
rier is entirely due to the fact that she
at one time possessed enormous re-
sources Of coal and iron. With the
disappearance Of these her leadership
must depart. Cheap coal and cheap
steel will transfer the scepter of COM
merce to the United States and will
deprive Great Britain of the ability to
successfully compete in manufacture
ing 1t is vain for the British to de-
lude themselves with the belief that
they possess superior qualities which
will enable them to maintain their po-
sition in the race. There was time
when such a claim might have been
made, but recent experience has dem
onstrated that Englishmen are not bet
ter fitted to be the manufacturers Of
the world than some other peoples.
Among these must be numbered the
Americans, who, with an equally de-
yeloped mechanical ingenuity. plus the
possession of enormous stores of cheap
fuel and iron, must win in the struggle
for commercial primary Fran
cisco (Cal.) Chronicle.
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Drowning of Fond du Lac Man.

John Kehl, well-known young bust
less man of Fond du Lac, drowned at
Lake Deneveu, in plain view of fifty per-
sons, none Of whom was able to lend him
assistance. He in company with five 9TH
er members of a picnic party was in
Bathing, and it is supposed he was at
lacked with cramps while in the water.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Rrxar and Jefferson.

Mr.. Bryan is most aggressive, If not
almost violent, in insisting that he be
recognized as the exponent Of Jeffer
sonian Democracy, believing probably
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Alaska.


Men working claims at Cape Nome
are said to be taking out 500 day.
All along the Koyukuk river boats are
stranded, having been overtaken by ice
before reaching the promised land.
Complaint is made that the mail con-
tractors DO not live up to the provisions
Of their agreement with the Government.
A large majority of disapl ointed pros
pectors are chopping wood for the steam
ship companies to earn their passage
home.
One Of the buildings of the Treadwell
mine is as large as was the Manufactures
Building at the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position.
The Treadwell mine earns from 3d.
100000 to 100000 a year clear profit.
Rich finds of gold have been made near
Cape Nome $50 miles north of st. Mi
chaeps.
From north to south Alaska stretches
1000 miles or 300 miles further than from
the great lakes to the Gulf Of Mexico.
It's width is greater than from Chicago to,
London.
Recent surveys of the United Statea
Fish Commission show that Alaska's cod
fish banks are thousands Of square miles
greater than all those on the Atlantic
coast put together.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10
Where Capital Combines.

The evolution of the trust is possible
anywhere that capital can combine and
control the market.-Buffalo Courier
free trade).
That is precisely what has happened
in Great Britain, a country of abso-
lutte free trade. where capital has al
ready combined and is in control of
the market to an extent unknown in
protected america. Alike in number
and n the amount of combined cap
ital. trusts in Great Britain far exceed
those of the United States.
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