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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
FACE DEATH ON SINKING FERRY
Inc staten Island Transfer Northfield
Rammed and Goes Down.


Within ten minutes OF the time the
Staten Island ferryboat Mortified left
her Whitehall street slip in New York
she was lying a battered wreck ut the
bottom OF the East river, just off pier 10.
During that ten minutes 800 men, wom-
en- and children on her decks engaged in
n battle for life that was viewed with
horror by the spectators that lined the
shore as the sinking craft slowly drifted
up the river with the tide.
The cause of the sinking was col.
lision with the Central Railroad ferry
boat Mauch Chunk The latter rammed
the Mortified just off the Whitehall
street slips. 1t happened almost in the
twinkling of an eye. The passengers ON
the decks of the Mortified were cheer
ing one minute and fighting for life pre-
servers and trampling over one another
the next.
How many lives were stamped out in
the struggle or how many drowned with
the sinking boat may never be accurate
~ known. The police and the crew of
the Mortified are firm in the conviction
that none were lost Eye witnesses.
however, tell of men and women sinking
almost within reach of the piers. Men
on the deck of the sinking boat. They
crowded and pushed their way regardless
of the women.
The Mauch Chunk had but dozen
passengers on board. She was bound to
New York from Communipaw. Captain
Griffin was at the wheel. The damage
to the boat was all above decks, and not
person on board was hurt No effort
~ ado hv thD Ao,,l (Nbr,,l-Fs, ~,
to follow the boat he had wrecked and
save her passengers. Instead, the Mauch
Chunk safely landed her passengers aud
then crawled back to Communipaw,
where she was laid up. The NorthfeId-
had barely emerged from her slip when
the crash came. Both her decks were
filled with from 700 to 500 One-half
were women.
The boat gave one long whistle as she
moved out of the slip. The tide was
flooding and the bow swung up the river.
just passing the end Of the westernmost
track of the slip was the Mauch Chunk.
She was bearing to the slip just north
OF the one from which the Northfeld
emerged. She was coming with the tide,
and this will be Captain Gritfin's defense,
The Northfeld's whistle shrieked
warning blast. Instantly came the
crash. The Mauch Chunk smashed the
forward starboard deck works of the
Mortified, cutting her overhang almost
to the wathers edge. The Mortified,
disabled, drifted out into the stream. and
then slowly up the river on the flood tide
The Northheld's pilot steered for the
Wall street ferry slip, hoping to land his
passengers but the boat was taking wat
err fast, and before she could reach tho
slip sank between piers and 10.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

The Wood Split Pulley Works at
Menasha. burned. Loss, $4,000.
Joseph Buda. aged 40, of Gibson. was
instantly killed by being struck by heavy
timbers while working on a barn.
The 7-year-old son of John Krom-
menakker of Rudolph. was drowned In n
cistern while visiting in Wrightstown.
The dedicatory services for the new
and beautiful Neenah Presbyterian
Church were held recently. The church
is one of white stone and cost between
$50, 900 and $4,000
A little son of Joseph Schicoski, at Two
Rivers, fell from picket fence. while
playing with his companions, and frac-
tured his leg.
Otto LEM, Is years old. was instantly
killed by lightning at Pound. He was
peeling bark at the time. His brother
saw him fall over and ran to his assist
ance and found him lifeless.
One thousand three hundred and forty
eight rattlesnakes have been killed in
Crawford County in the past five weeks
Of which 800 were killed in the village of
Bell Center The bounty amounts to
$6T4.
Fred Schubring. an old and trusted en-
ploye Of the Kaukauna Lumber Com
pany, was struck by rebounding plank
while helping TO unload them as the
Kaukauna Machine works and so badly
injured internally that his death resulted
in few hours.
lightning caused panic at the La
Crosse county JAIL The fiery fluid stguck
n big tree near the structure, blowing
great burrows from its base in every di-
rection, then darling in at n window. 1t
entered cell and played havoc with the
iron and steel work. Many of the pris-
oners were felled to the floor, but zone
seriously injured.
A little son of ]. Z. Van Hoosies of
Pine Grove was badly injured in an ex-
plosion. He had picked up a large tor
nedo along the Wisconsin Central rail-
road track. which had probably been lost
by the trainmen. The boy supposed 1t
was a silver half-dollar aud in rubbing
It briskIy it exploded, blowing his hands
to pieces and injuring him otherwise.
An inheritance tax OF SLIGO was paid
AT Baraboo by the estate OF the late Mrs.
Ann Jones of Spring Green. The estate
is valued ut $4,000.
The body of Charles Evenson, a lubor-
Ing man from Saltwater, was found
hanging from the raftcr in the kitchen Of
n vacant farmhouse on the Hudson-Still-
water road.
Three prizes were distributed by the
Jacob Harson fund of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia,
New York. this year, The first prize
was won by Charles Hendee Smith of
Aartland, a graduate of Cornell.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
Dates for Enca ma pment.

Adjt. Gen. @. II. Boardman has decid
ed the dates for the annual encampment
of the different divisions of the Wiscon-
sin National Guard. The first division to
go to Camp Douglas will be the Second
Regiment, which will arrive there Aug
and remain until Aug. 10. The First
Regiment, Troop A, and battery, will fol-
low, remaining in camp from Aug. 10 to
II. The Third Regiment and Tenth sep
arate battalion will be the last division to
go into camp and will be there from Aug.
il to "a. The following have been com
missioned captains and commissaries:
First Lieut.. Hiram Manvile of Milwau-
kee, First Regiment: James McCulley, Of
Ashland Second Regiment; w. III. Beck
err, of Menomonie, Third Regiment
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Nhief White Boy Gains Wealth in Ne.
braska--Most of Money Stolen mt Min
eral Point Is Found-Dates for Ma
ional Guard Encampments.

White Boy, the Indian chief who so
mysteriously disappeared from view at
la crosse some days ago and who was
reared to have been foully dealt with, has
turned up in Nebraska, where he has
Iailen heir to n large ranch, making him
a wealthy redskin There Is n bitter feud
between Chief White Boy and the Wau-
kon brothers of the same tribe, enlvened
recently by love romance, eliminating
IN the abduction of the chiefs pretty
daughter by one of The Waukons, who
wanted to take her to Chicago. The
chief caught the pair in La Crosse and
took the girl away from her lover by
force and the latter swore vengeance.
Years ago. when the United States set
tied with some of the Indians in Nebras-
ka, White Boys parents took a large
tract Of land in Nebraska, where they
grew wealthy. Both died recently and
White Boy wished to acquire his new
riches unknown to his enemies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
Stolen Gold Ia Recovered.

OF the gold coin stolen from the First
National Bank of Mineral Point on the
morning of May "A, $4,000 more has
been recovered. 1t was found in the
earth vault of Il common clubhouse of the
city hotel, about a block from the looted
bank. at which the prisoner, Steward
Jellef, boarded. With the hope of light
ening his sentence the prisoner gave out
where the coin was hidden. The gold
when found was in FIVE bags, one con-
tanning $4,000 and others $1,000 each.
This find and the $4,000 before recovered
comprises all the gold missing from the
bank. The balance, $500, is in currency
and the detectives hope to recover it
later
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

SCORE SINK WITH SHIP.
Transport Ingalls, Slips, from Dock in
Brooklyn and CapRizes.

Transport Ingalls, Slips, from Dock i'm
Brooklyn and CapRizes.
Over n score Of lives are believed to
have been lost and more than fifty men
were injured in an accident to the United
States transport Ingalls,. The vessel was
in the balance dry dock at the Erie basin,
South Brooklyn, y. Y, where she was
about to undergo extensive repairs. She
suddenly slipped from the blocks and
capsized. There were about 24O carpen-
tiers, machihists and other laborers at
work on the vessel and dock at the time
1t Is supposed that the vessel was
thrown from an even keel by ballast inn
properly placed, or by the shifting of the
blocks on which she rested, causing her
to list to starboard, driving the snoring
beams through the rotten walls of the
old floating dry dock in which she was
Graded.
Besides the mechanics and other work
men who crowded the vessel and dock,
preparing her for voyage to Manila,
there were supposed to have been about
thirty Itaiian laborers in the hold OF tho
ship, employed In shifting the pig iron
ballast
While the workmen were trying to es-
cape the dock itself, overbalanced by the
weight of the ship, turned on its side
and sank in fifty feet of water. A num-
Der of men were borne down into the
water and damned under the wreckage,
which rose to the surface.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
odds and Ends.

Admiral Cervera predicts breaking up
Of Spain into small states.
Il is said that Aguinaldo has deteriain-
Ell TO visit the United States next fall
D. L Robinson. Chicago, former presi-
dent O., the Santa Re Railroad, is dead.
In the schedule Of New York bank
Eagt reveu,ly filed in court it appears that
Se owes $50 for beer and $40 pew rent.
Coloved man and woman registered as
ndua Holmes and wife ct Norfolk,
Va" hotel He kAOt the woman dead, then
4 escaped.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

Congressman Theobald Often and his
private secretary, Nathaniel Green, were
run down by an electric car of the Mil
yankee and Racine line while driving
in buggy. Both men were seriously In
jured The car was going ut rapid gait
when Mr.. Often made the attempt to
cross the tracks. The buggy was smash
ed and the occupants hurled distance of
forty or fifty feet.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

In order to determine the practical
value of the bicycle for military pur-
poses the French minister of war has
decided to organize companies of mount
ed" infantry and to establish a definite
program for their drills He has charged
Gen. de I.acroix, an under secretary Of
the ministry. to prepare Il report, submit
ting plans for the trials Of the bicycle
corps in connection with the gran ma
neuYerS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
IHCAGO WOMAN SAYS
THAT ALL MEN ARE LIARS.

Inc woman most talked about in Chi
aEo Just now is Mrs. Nancy II. Irving,
'ao offers $1,000 in cash to the first
"S'or~N or professional man who can
"or0Nvc,y prove that he has carried
w his work for one month without tell
aS he. The conditions are simple.
A@. Irving will name two men, the man
wac thinks he holds title to $1,000 may
@me two, and fifth will be named
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

G. II. KEN OF Salt Lake City-Eastcrn
business men have come to think much
more Of Western interests than they did
wears ago. Eastern commercial centers
recognize that the far West Is growing.
and growing fast, AMI that there IS
money to be made out here. So 1t now
frequently happens that Western mer-
chants and buyers are given more ready
accommodation than even Eastern men.
Western railroad escurties-in fact,
Western securities generally--are sought
afttr.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

by these four. They will act us judges
upon the business record of the claim
ant, trusting him to tell his own story
aad give all the evidence Mrs. Irving
thinks she will not lose the $1,000. Ii
she does she is quite certain the honesty
Of The man who gets it will have re-
tuted him to such poverty that he will
need IT,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
Iuterstate Fair Circuit Dates.

]. NJ. True, president Of the Wisconsin
and Illinois interstate fair circuit, an,
nounces the fair dates for the summer as
follows:
Beloit, Wis Aug 20 to %
Woodstock, ILL.,, Aug. - to 80.
Libertyville, ILL.,, Sept. 3 to g.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. o to ID.
Elkhorn. Wis, Sept. II to 20.
Berlin, Wis, Oct. l to 4.
Mr.. True announces that $4,000 will
be hung up in stakes and purses.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

Carter II. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago
In Chicago, as in every other commu-
nifty, l suppose, there are two classes Oh
clergymen. One class breaches the COS
pei. That kind Of men are content 10
stick to their profession. The other class
seeks advertisement. They are men VINO
like to see their names in the newspa-
pers. They mix in politics or almost any
thing else that will give them public no
tice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
Ho~pital- for Contnriou4 Diseases.

The Connecticut Board OF Health ar
CUES that every town should have hos
pital where contagious disease patients
can be isolated ana receive proper atten-
ton. In co. hospital eases OF typhoid
fever, for instance, there were less than
Z per cent of deaths, while in 1.l63 cases
under private treatment there was a
mortality of 20 per cent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

John Hayes OF Limerick, lreland-lts
all bosh, the talk of revolution In Ire
land. | know Mayor DAILY has been in
this country stirring up agitation, but
he is fiery man. Yes, Maude Come
has been over here, too. She is surely
very beautiful. but, after all. she is more
of a theatrical person. We have no poi
tiles now in Ireland. save among the
working classes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

Col James G.. Miner, an assistant sec
rotary of the Confederate navy du:tl Is
the Civil War. died in poverty at Mil
ford, Ohio. lie was 81 years of aye.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
|, Few-Line Interviews.


Mrs Kate Mills Boyd OF Chicago-By
preventing the marriage of criminals, the
foundation for the prevention of crime
would be laid. Crime is born in people;
II is hereditary. Children are born in
its midst; they grow up in it, and is 1t n
wonder they come to be what their par
ents were2
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

A, d. Carey of Cheyenne, Wyo,-The
American frontier, III all that the term
implies. is among the things that are
vanishing. Geographically, we'll always
have frontier, but for the spirit which
has been associated with the frontier ever
since the old stage coach days we are
now dependent on history. poetry and ro-
nance, Some of the old timers are re-
luctant to see the old order of things
passing away, but 1t Is passing away,
just the same, and all the cowboy stories
and ranch verse can't bring the old days
back except for an hour or so, just in inn
aginatiou.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
r. NOT RUN AGAIN.
.,uFY WOULD DECLINE A
THIRD NOMINATION.

tent Writes IA Formal Statement
;,c lie Would Not Accept Anoth.
yominatiou If 1t We're rendered
.-Dthcr Eooms May Now Initiate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20

John V. Motlitt OF Kansas City-Repre-
sentatiyes of steamship lines are pur-
chasing Texas oil for fuel With the
use of oil labor is reduced and there Is
no waste of material. all OF the OIL max
ing pure fuel. The largest steamships
require from 200 to 500 men to keep
their furnaces burning when coal is USED.
With oil as fuel one man, by turning a
screw. can do their work. Oil is the
coming fuel.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-20
AHOOK8
OerlD COLLEGES

The appointment committee OF Column.
bia University is charged with the work
OF recommending graduates of the univer~
sIty for teaching or other educational
work, and In every way possible assists
the competent graduate TO obtain such
places. No fees are charged for any SER
vice rendered by the committee, either
to the graduates or to those seeking
teachers.
The first step toward compulsory edu-
cation in Missouri was taken when the
Simmons bill passed the House 1t pro-
vides that the parent or guardian or 9TH
or person having charge and control OF a
child between the ages Of : and II. shall
cause such child to attend regularly some
day school, public private parochial or
parish, not less than three-fourths of the
entire time the school is in session. or
shall provide such child at home or else
where with regular daily instruction dur
Ing the usual hours, as shall be in the
Judgment of the court of record having
criminal jurisdiction substantially equiv
alent at least to the instruction given tho
children Of like age at said day school
in the locality in which the child resides:
provided that every parent. guardian or
person in the State having control OF n
child between the ages OF IA and Is, who
is not actually and regularly and lawfully
engaged in some useful employment or
service, shall cause said child to attend
regularly some day school.
-
The teachers Of the Indiana State Nor
NAL have received circulars saying that
teachers are wanted to go to the Philip
pines The circular states that only those
who have the best qualifications will he
accepted. and only normal or college
graduates will be considered. 1t is said
that transportation to the islands will be
paid. and that the salaries will range
from 5000 to $1,000 a year. but that
those applicants who are accepted must
sign a three years contract. 1t is re-
ported that several members of the senior
class will make application.
Evening journal., 1901-02-09
hrs. BLOOMFIELD MOORE'S
ESTATE ADJUDICATED

Mrs. Bloomfield II. Moore's private
fortune in America, amounting 10 ST.
1876, ,977.31, was transferred TO the Eng
lish executors OF her estate by de-
cree entered by President Judge Hanna
IN Philadelphia.
Bloomfield H. Moore made a fortune
in manufacturing paper amounting to
s5,5OO,O0 near this city, and died in
Philadelphia, July 8, 1873. His en-
tire estate was left to his widow, Clara
Jessup Moore, for life, with a rever-
sion to their children at her death. The
latter were Clarence b. MOore, Of
Philadelphia; Ella, Countess Won
Rosen, whose family was a fayoTite
of the king Of Sweden, and Lillian
Baroness de Bildt. Countess Won
Rosen died in 1892. at her home, Bon
deska Palace, in Stockholm, leaving
five children, one of whom is Count
Eugene Reinhold Won Rosen.
Mrs. Moore died January 8, 1899 in
London. She made two wills, which
were prObated in Pennsylvania and
England, respectively Her husbands
estate had been left in trust, divided
into three portions, one of which was
to be given to each of the children or
their legal representatives. Mrs. Moore
was given the right to fix in her will
the proportions Of the share each child
should receive She did not exercise
this power, but left the fortune for
distribution under the intestate laws.
She directed Count Won Rosen, who
was one Of her executors, to sell all
her property in America and transfer
the proceeds to her English executors.
The count went to Philadelphia during
April, 1899, for the purpose Of settling
his grandmother's estate. He sold the
property for s1.196, ,97731, and then
filed his account, asking the court &c
authorize the transfer of Mrs. Moore
estate, in conformity with the terms Of
her will. Judge Hanna granted the
courts request in an adjudication
which he filed.
Evening journal., 1901-02-09
VICTIMS or POST
and THh PILLORY
Ten Men Suffered Punish
lnent To-day While The
Snow Fell
speelaI to the EyenIng journal


New Castle Feb. 9.-ThOse relics OF
the days OF the inqusition, as modern
prison reformers have chosen 90 charac-
terize Delaware whipping post and the
pillory. served their purpose admirably
well to-day for when in the county jail
yard here there appeared ten prisoners
for the reception of the two degrees OF
corporal punishment under Delaware
law. there incidentally came into view the
most desperate lot of criminals that ever
occupied a felon's cell. They were the
product of this weeks session of General
Sessions Court, and not one person who
was a witness to the administration of
the justice they received at the hands of
that sturdy agent Of the law, Sheriff Me-
Daniel, was of the opinion that the Grim
inals were not deserving Of their fate.
No better argument for the perpetuation
of the post ana pilory could have been
conceived that the presence Of these Grim
mals in those instruments of legal pun
ishment which many Delawareans are
loath to part with.
Perhaps the greatest interest was CEN
tered upon Joseph Riley, the desperado,
who after being detected leaving the loan
Office of NJ. Levy, in Wilmington. which
had been forcibly entered, grappled with
Sergeant Of Police Joseph Howgate and
snapped his revolver four times at the
officer before being oyerpowered.
Despite his advanced age and his SEEM
ingly careless job. he has proved himself
ono of the most dangerous characters the
Delaware authorities have ever dealt
with. The only corporal punishment he
underwent was to stand one hour in the
pillory. and that he cursed the day he
planned TO crack safe in Delaware was
evidenced by every look while he stood
there He bore the severe punishment
we'll and returned to his cell to remain
for FIVE years
With Riley in the pillory stood Reese
Roberts. the c6lOred man who was found
guilty ol burglarNing the house of Caleb
ChuFchman, at Grubb's Landing. and
against whom there are two more charges
Of burglary. After he had stood in the
pillory for one hour he was whipped with
twenty lashes, then returned to his cell
10 serve five years Imprisonment. On
these two men the severest punishment
was inflicted.
Then Sheriff Mcdaniel applied fifteen
well administered lashes on the backs OF
James Walton. John H. Murray, George
Anderson and Hall Rash, and ten each on
The backs of Henry Macy. Charles
Lewis, William Dutton and Wesley Rob
inson. The men did not appear to suffer
much pain.
Evening journal., 1901-02-09
Personally Conducted Tours via h. a
o. r. r.

wilmington to Old Point Comfort,
Va. via Washington, Richmond and
the James River, will be run on the
following dates. leaving Wilmington at
40p. m. January 26th, February 2nd,
February 23rd. march 10th, March
Goth. April 18th. April 9th and May
11th. The rate from Wilmington will
be SS1. 90, covering every expense, in
cluding accommodations at the "Eb-
bitt" or Riggs" House in Washington
the jefferson IN Richmond and the
"Hygeia" at Old Point Comfort. Tickets
will ho good for ten days with stop
over privilege. For Book of Tours and
fun particulars apply to II. A. Miller,
a.. A., Delaware Avenue Station, VIII
mington, Del.
Evening journal., 1901-02-09
For a Cold i'm tIse Head
l. axative BrOmO-Quinine Tablets.
INSTITUTION OF A RECTOR
win Take Olace in Calvary Church
on Tuesday Next

The Rev. William w. Jefferis, d. D.,
the recently-elected rector OF Calvary
Church, Third and Washington
streets, will be formally instituted into
the rectorship of the parish, and the
keys of the church property will be
publicly delivered into his hands on
the morning of Shrove Tuesday, Feb
dary 10, at 10 O'Clock.
The services will be quite elaborate,
and the sermon will be preached by
the Right Rev. Leighton Coleman, d
d., IL. D., the bishop of the diocese
Special music has been prepared fol
the occasion, with anthems by some oi
the noted singers Of this city. Clergy
men and laymen from Philadelphia
and Baltimore. as we'll as from th,
several parishes in this city, are ex
rected to be present. and a lunch will
lie provided for the visitors, inn
mediately after the service, which vii
be open to all who desire to attend.