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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
BOER WAR.

An unconfrmed report kills and
wounds 500 British in battle in south
Africa.
President Steyn of the Orange Free
State is said to have committed
suicide
President Kruger denies the rumor
that he intends to surrender to the
British.
A legal technicality enabled Nicely,
charged with Cuban postal frauds, TO
secure another delay.
A plot is reported at Pretoria to
shoot all the British officers and make
Lord Roberts prisoner.
The boer army has again escaped
Lord Roberts, evacuating their posi-
lions and moving off northeast.
The call for the Cuban constitutional
convention declares that that body
will agree upon the islands relations
with the United States.
A. G. Hales, London Daily News war
correspondent, attacks the red tape OF
the British war office, as causing great
suffering in south African army.
Judge Lacombe, of the United States
circuit court in New York, has decided
that Charles F. w. Nicely, charged with
embezzling public funds in Cuba, mist
be returned to that island for trial.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
reached, and a great number of mer

reached, and a great number of men
refused to work.
At Brandenburg, KY, the horrlDly
mutilated body Of Mrs Annie Brunton,
a widow, 35 years old, was found.
Bloodstains on the fingers of Mrs.
Burton's nephew, Jesse Durham,
caused his arrest, and he later con-
fessed the murder He was hurried to
Louisville by Sheriff Hagan, as a
lynching seemed certain.
Judge Hook Of the United States
district court has ruled against the
claimants to $50 acres of land, com
prising the principal business portion
and 200 home sites, besides valuable
railway yards, in the city of Argentine
Kan, suburb of Kansas City. Suit
to reclaim the property was brought
in 1895 in the name of William j.
Isaacs, an Indian.
The Union Pacific east-bound pass
enger train No. 4, was held up by two
men near Denver. The passengers in
the Pullman sleepers were robbed OF
their money and valuables An old
man named Fay refused to surrer ieI
his valuables and fired shot at one
Of the robbers, but missed. Thereupon
the robbers fired, killing Fay. The
robbers stopped the train and escaped
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20

One day Leland Stanford saw the
mule team starting on its journey, and
going into Mr.. Huntington's Office he
made proposition that the two should
build a railroad from Sacramento to
the Nevada mines.
A consultation that evening decided
the question. After repeated diplo-
matte parleying with the national gov
eminent and even with the withdrawal
Of the southern capitalists who had
been taken into the project; after a
preliminary survey at their own ex-
pense, and, after organizing the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad company, with a
capital stock of $8,50G,O00, Mr.. Hunt
ington announced his successful nego-
tiations in the following telegram to
his colleagues:
I'VE have drawn the elephant; now
let us see if we can harness him up
In the meantime the Union Pacific
had been organized and the race across
the continent between these two rival
lines was of historical interest. Hunt
ington won. His associates at that
time were Leland Stanford, Charles
Croker; his partner, Mark Hopkins;
James Bailey, L. A. Booth, and T. ].
Judah
Mr.. Huntington's most notable enter
prise, the organization of the Southern
Pacific railroad, begun in 1884, operat-
ing rs railroad lines and systems AS
in his former enterprise, Mr.. Hunting
ton found himself opposed by a rival
company, and after an exciting race
beat out the Texas Pacific, which was
also bent on constructing transconti-
mental road.
The success of these enterprises
made him many times a millionaire.
! Not content, however, with former
successes, he successfully organized
and managed the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company. He also built up a
magnificent shipbuilding industry at
Newport News, Va.
By this time Mr.. Huntingtons name
was known all over the world. He
had 100000 men in his employ, and
maintained free schools for children
of men who were in his service. He
served a term in the United States
senate, where he was bitter in his OPP
position to the Nicaraguan project.
He had a genial disposition, was fond
Of travel, was lover of the game OF
whist, and was fond of practical jokes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
SPANISH-AAERICAN ISLANDS.

An entire command of Filipinos
surrendered and gave up its arms.
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever, Is
being among Americans, are reported
in Havana.
The Cuban press is unanimous in ue-
nouncing the corrupt condition Of the
Cuban judiciary system.
General Alejandrino, Filipino COM
mamder, is negotiating for surrender
under the amnesty proclamation.
FiIipinos in the island Of Mindanao
are active and have checked the adj
vance of American detachments.
Aguinaldo, it is said, does not take
advantage of the amnesty proclama-
ton because he gave orders to his fol-
lowers to break up into guerrilla
band1.
According to the Bristow report
Neely's stealings in Cuba amounted 70
more than $2OO,OOO Rathbone is ac-
cused of obtaining $1,365 in per diems
to which he was not entitled and Of
getting $1,000 in warrants for which he
never accounted.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
NEW CONSERVATIVE CURE.
Applications From Powerful Electric.
Machines Of Tesla.

New York, Aug. Electrical os
Citation as new treatment Of tuber
culosis was demonstrated and the i'm
mediate benefits derived from it by
men in the last stage of the disease
were testified to at an interesting clinic
yesterday in the offices of DR.. Craft c..
Carroll, 81 East Twenty-fourtn street.
DIR. Carroll declares that by the ap-
plication Of a new principle evolved by
Nikola Tesla he can cure the worst
cases of acute tuberculosis.
DR.. E. P. Cliff of Newark, a specialist
in lung disease, who three weeks ago
was declared to ne dying of consump-
ton by his brother physicians, re-
ceived his third treatment of "electri-
cal oscillation" recently at the clinic,
and then ran to catch a car for home.
Rev S. w. Switzer, pastor of the
Baptist Tabernacle, in Harrison, N. J.,
who had been sent to Dr. Carroll in
the last stages of consumption, told of
his remarkable cure.
DR.. John B. Rich, president of the
American AIicroscopicaI Society, de-
clared that it was the most wonderful
demonstration of positive beneficial
results that the had ever seen in the
treatment of germ diseases.
Nikola Tesle worked for two years
on the apparatus which Dr.. Carroll
used. BY applying the electrode of the
Tesla machine DR.. Carroll drives
through the affected part a quantity Of
electricity which, if applied in any
other way would cause instant death.
With the Tesla ''oscillator" he handles
between two and three thousand volts
Of electricity with impunity. The
current kills the germs without harm
ing the patient.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20

ton. This operation, however, result.
ed in his death.
The courts generally suspended bust I,
ness and the judges and other distin-~
guished lawyers eulogized the deceased
chief justice. Lord Salisbury will Sc
lect the successor of Lord Russell, with
the queens approval Lord Alver-
stone (Sir Richard Webster), the at
torney general, and now master of the
rolls, will, it is generally thought, be-
appointed lord chief justice of Eng
land.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
KILLED BY TRAIN.
Child Fell Asleep On Track Near
Oregon.

A three-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
James Parr Of Oregon was killed on
the Northwestern track Saturday near
that place. The child had fallen asleep
On the track at a point where there
was curve so that the engineer could
not see the boy until nearly upon him.
The Parr home is about quarter of
a mile from the railroad track, and the
boy had wandered away from the
house. His mother went in search of
him, and reached the scene too late TO
save him, but just in time to see the
engine strike ner boy. The train was
stopped and the trainmen picked up
the mangled remains and took them
home, doing all they could to allay the
grief of the mother.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
FOREIGN.


The British parliament has been pro-
rogued.
At Belgrade, King Alexander wed
ded Nine Draga Maschin, the cere-
mony being performed with great
pomp.
Victor Emmanuel received Italy's
legislators.
Sailors strike at Havre was ended
by the French naval squadron.
Americans are well represented at
the Zionist congress in London
Italy's king personally directed the
rescuing of railroad wreck victims.
King Victor Emmanuel III. and
Queen Helena returned to Rome.
London papers classify New York as
the worlds greatest money market.
Lord Salisbury is i'll and has gone
to the Alsatian mountains for a rest.
sumed, 200 being killed in one village.
Count Lamsdorff has been appointed
permanent foreign minister Of Russia.
India's crop prospects improve and
relief for the starving seems in sight.
The amount of the British war loan
allotted to the United States is $28 ,000,-
900.
lServia is seeking to be friendly
with all nations, including Montene-
gro
Fifteen persons were killed and
forty injured i'll railroad wreck near
Rome.
An attempt was made to poison the
Chinese minister at Paris by means of
poisoned flowers.
The duchess of Manchester denied
her sons betrothai to Miss thinner
man of Cincinnati
Lord Chief-Justice Russell of Eng
land died after an operation for a
long-standing stomach trouble
Great Britain is said to have re-
fused to agree to the Russian army
transports passing the Bosphorus.
Jean de Reszke and Seleza, the
tenor, are expected to fight duel to
settle a quarrel of long standing
King Humbert's death is said to
have been the outcome of bread riots.
Women helped plot the assassination.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse arrived
at Cherbourg, breaking all records
from Sandy Hooks days, 10 hours, "A
minutes.
The ameer of Afghanistan is said to
contemplate an advance on the Rus
sian frontier and has modified his
infantry and artillery.
The battleship Brennus and the
torpedo boat destroyer France collided
at the French naval maneuvers near
Cape ST. Vincent Nearly an entire
crew of so persisted.
The kaiser forbade the annual COM
memoration of the German victory of
1870. The friendship between German
and French troops is growing.
Traffic on the Seine is blocked by the
strike of sailors and others, and the
strikers protest against the govern
ment's action in using the army and
navy to replace the Workmen.
Lloyd Griscom, charge d'affaires, has
renewed his demands upon the otto
man government for compensation
for the losses of American citizens
during the Armenia massacres He
insisted upon a prompt decision.
Archbishop Ireland visited Cardinal
Rampolla and the other cardinals,
afterwards obtaining an audience with
the pope. He was greeted everywhere
with evidences of the warmest af-
lection. 1t was said that his work in
France is highly appreciated, as was
shown by Pope Leo presenting hin,
with solid gold medal in token of
his esteem and affection.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
ENGLISH CHIEF JUSTICE DIES.

London, Aug. 11.-Baron Russell OF
Killowen, lord chief justice of England,
died yesterday. He had been i'll for
some time. An operation was per-
formed, which the patient is reported
to have passed through in good condi-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
HUNTINGTON DEAD
SUDDENLY AT SUMMER HOME
CHOKING SPELL

Man Who Spawned the Continent-In-
teresting and Eventful Career of
Builder Of First Pacific Railroad
His Vast Fortune Story of His
Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20

Kansas poulists and democrats are
combining to make the Bryan populist
notification at Topeka, Aug. %, one Of
the biggest political events ever held
in the state.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16
THE WAY TO KEEP THE FAITH

A good many persons evincing a serious
lack OF logic in their melancholy utterances con-
cerning the political situation and their own at
titude. They declare with sufficient emphasis
and much apparent warmth of feeling that the
Kansas City Convention was the voice and did
the work not of the Democratic party to which
they belonged, still belong and expect to belong
hereafter, but of Organism, which they detest
and for which they not responsible Democ-
racy they say, is not represented by the plat
form which a despotic usurper forced upon the
mob which has the audacity to call itself the
Democracy, or by the candidate for President
who stands upon that platform 1t might be
supposed. therefore, that all who so talk and
feel would discern their first duty and find
their greatest pleasure in doing their utmost to
exterminate the monster they profess to loathe
But instead of that we see not few Of them
hesitating, solicitousIy debating the question of
consistency and at the best shiverng on the
brink of an action to which they acknowledge
that not only every consideration of patriotism
and political morality, but every true Demo
cratic instinct, impels them.
Why don't such Democrats take themselves
at their own word. join with zeal and joy in
the work OF smashing the conglomeration OF
fanatics and demagogues which is masquerading
the National Democracy, and thus put them
selves in position to revive, recruit and direct
the party Of their faith and love when this
eclipse Of reason and decency has passed? It is
in evidence that many have already announced
this sane view of the matter, and that they find
it difficult to understand respect the attitude
of others who blind when they have no ex-
cuse, on their own confession, for not seeing,
and timorOus when bOldness is their only saliva
ton The only complete and practical repudia-
ton Of Organism, they perceive and assert is
a vote for Mckinley and their advice is that all
who agree with them to that extent should go
further and organize to proclaim and support
the only rational plan Of rebuilding the Demo
cratic party on a fair and firm foundation.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16
aeu91ork Oailp Gribn,te
MONDAY, JULY 16, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Sir Robert Hart sent a telegram
10 his wife, the message being received on July
.. advising her to prepare to hear the worst
THE Italian Consul at Shanghal Sent d
dispatch to Rome saying that the Italian mis-
sions in Hoo-Nan had been destroyed
Two reports from the Governor OF shan,Iulls I.-aL
were made public; said that many 6OAets
at Peking were killed in q sorte, and another
that all the foreigners had been massacred;--
on July the allies attacked the Chinese at the
same city and captured four guns; many BoXers
were killed by the cavalry, which followed the
assault ~ a determined attack was MADE
July II by Chinese troops on the railway std-
ton at Tien-Tsin; the native troops were driven
back though the allies lost 100 men. - In
the Sunday contests at the international games
az Paris a number of American athletes re-
fused to compete; those who took part. how
ever won eight frsts, five seconds and four
thirds in ten contests. - The parents OF
Professor c. D. Tenney, president of the I'm
perial University at Tien-Tsin, received cable
dispatch from him announcing his safety.
DOMFSTIC-Secretary Long still entertains
hope for the safety Of foreigners in Peking
based the fact that naval commanders have
made mention Of maSsacres in their dis
patches. - The Government has taken meas
ures TO suppress sternly and promptly any anti
Chinese outbreaks that may occur in this coun-
the extravaganza of z. G. Rathbone, formerly
Director-General Of Posts in Cuba. "A loss
estimated at S1000000 was caused by fire at
Prescott. Ariz. &C. n. Eskridge, former
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, committed sui
eide Emporia- - General Curtis Guild, jr.,
Of Boston who has been asked to take the place
of Perry S. Heath as First Assistant Postmas-
ter-General. has not decided what he will do
CITY.-The thermometer registered "a degrees
p. m. making the day the hottest Of the
year. - The mysterious lOdger in the Brook
lyn house in which young woman sand
bagged on Thursday night was said to be son
of Senator Coggeshall. - The excursion
steamer Glen Island struck a rock on her last
trip TO the city from Glen Island, and her pas
sengers were taken off ~ The international
bowling tournament began at Schuetzen Park,
Union HILL n. J.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day:
Showery and cooler. The temperature yester-
day: Highest, 50 degrees; lowest, n; aver
age, so.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16

after year men have seen one sort of crop fore
shadowed and a different and generally much
larger crop distributed, and have found that
enough for all wants, including nearly 2OOOOO-
900 bushels for export, has come forward In
each of the last three years and has In some
fashion been moved from the farms. whether
supplies there had been reckoned large or small.
This year too, the Government report has
promised an enormous yield OF corn. and the
exports Of that grain have so much increased.
taking the place of increased supplies of wheat
wanted abroad, that anxiety to the sufficiency
of either grain has been materially reduced
The preliminary statement of exports in June
now shows that 16,079,459 bushels. flour in
cluded went abroad, against 13,SSS,60j in the
same month last year, which, with the official
statement for eleven months of the year, would
make 1851. .374 bushels for the year, and in
Guiding corn over 39SO00OO0 bushels of both
grains
The volume of business in progress though
smaller, as Is usual than in earlier months
of the year, continues to compare remarkably
we'll with returns in other years. Thus in July
the latest exchanges through clearing houses
outside New York were only 81 per cent smaller
than last year much more than the difference
appearing at Boston alone, while in comparison
with 1898 the gain was 37.2 per cent. For the
week, contrary to usual custom, some decrease
also appears at Phlladelphla ana Baltimore, Dul
a rule in recent months all the principal cities
outside New-York and Boston have shown gains,
and it may still be said that throughout the
territory west of the Allegheny Mountains and
south Of the Potomac the volume of business
is larger than it ever has been In the
month of any previous year. Evidence of the
same character Is given week by week in the
returns Of railroad earnings. which within the
United States amounted in June to SAT 295 244
an increase Of per cent over last year and
p per cent over 1898. Although the returns
are divided into classes representing sections
and different forms of predomnating traffic
there appears in each section a substantial gain
in comparison with both of the previous years.
Nevertheless, the stock market has not been
remarkably hopeful, the average for railroad
stocks rising a little 81 per share, but
losing about half of it during the week, while
the industrial stocks closed about as they
opened for the week. notwithstanding the
heavy earnings of many Industrial companies
the prices of securities are naturally affected
by the recent closing of works and reduction of
force at many esta blishments.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16
PERSONAL.

DR.. James NJ. Stafford who has been professor Of
geology in Vanderbilt University for many wears
has just retired at the age Of seventy For half a
century he has been State geologist of Tennessee
Professor w. B. Clark of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, has been appointed by the Governor of Marv-
land Commissioner on behalf of that State to act
the Superintendent of the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey In the re-establishment OF the old
Mason and Dixon line,
DR.. George E. Morrison. the Pekng correspondent
of THE London Times" has lived in the Celestial
in 1883 he led The Melbourne Age" explorin4 ex
pediuon into New-Guinea, when he received spear
in his side. The Spearhead was cut out Of his bodv
at Edinburgh in July, 1884. when he entered the
university a medical student. He was graduated
in 1887 Prior to his settlement in Picking DR. Nor
rison, acting special correspondent for "SThe
Times" travelled from Bangkok in Slam to Yum
years ago he published An Australian in Cybina
Mr.. Morrison spent last Christmas AT C3eelong bJs
native town, and resumed his post Peklng in the
beginning of February.
Brigadier- General Bell. the new Provost Marshal
of Manila, began his career as a soldier in 1862 as
lieutenant Of the seth Ohio Volunteers For his
courageous bearing during the battle OF the Wilder
ness he received the brevet Of captain and ne was
brevetted major for gallant and meritorious ser
vices" in the battle of Ream's Station After tn
war he became an officer in the Regular Army
General Bell performed distinguished service in the
war with Spain.
The Rev. Dr Griffith John. of the London Mis-
sionary Society is probably the most distinguished
OF the many missionaries now in China He has
labored among the Celestials for forty-hve wears
with wonderful zeal II is eighteen years since
DIR. John was home on furlough In 1SSS no w.
elected chairman of the Congregational Union az
England and Wales for 1899. but account OF the
claims of the mission field declined the honor
Colonel Richard O'Grady- Haly the new COM
mander OF the Canadian militia. was born in 1sil
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16
INDIAN PRINCESS SOPHIE IN TONY
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MAHARAIAH OF
HoRE AT THE WALDORF ON HER WAY
FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND

The Princess Sophie Banba Dhuleen s,rsb
daughter of the late Maharajah OF Lahore is srsv
ing at the Waldorf-Astora. She is passin, tbro,sb
New-York on her way from India to England She
arrived mere on saturday night Dispatches from
the West described her as being attended -, =
rettnue of servants. but she is accompanied only nv
maid The Princess was educated in England
and has lived for several years there She is n
sister or Prince Dhuleep Singh, whoss marriage 10
Lady Anne Coventry third dauchter Of me ~
OF coventry in January, 1885. marked by con
sluSIanie opposition on the part OF Lady Annes
tatner which was mainly overcome by the Inter
Nentioh OF the FRINGE OF Wales The father of the
fIlnce. the late Mahara1ah of Lahore fought
AGAINST asains1 tae British In India, but eventually
competed TO swear allegiance to Queen Victoria
for which he allowed a pension Of SsN am y
year, the revenues of Lahore being turned into the
lhutan treasury: Later the Maharatah negotiated
w n russia ana Tor time played into the hands
ol i tnal country Tor which the British stopped his
turned turned 10 his allegiance, pardoned and his
The Princess Sophie is a young woman about
twentY-six years old, tall and slender
New-York tribune., 1900-07-16

He is a son of General William OGrady-Haly. VINO
was stationed az Halifax In 1877. He joined the
army when only seventeen years old He served IN
F-gvnt In 1880 and for six years commanded the
Hezars feld force In this campaign ne won MS
Disfingushed Service Order. In 1891 ne became as
sistanf odiutant at Belfast, where he remained TOT
six years.
Speaking of Mr. Burdette-Coutts The London
Chronicle" SAYS: Although he invariably votes az
the Conservative whips direct. he consults his own
taste as to choice of seat. He is frequently seen
on the second Opposition bench below the gangway.
surrounded by Welsh md Irish members He Is
one of half dozen Tories who have got into the
habit of playing cuckoo in that quarter or the
House. Whether 1t is merely natural desire les for for
more elbow room a preference FOR the more
conviviai society Of the Irish and Welsh, or pure
Yankee tcussedness' questions TO which some
enterprsing lobbyist might possibly procure an an