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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
Domestic.
Chicago February wheat. 737ac.
Leonard Matheis of Springfield, Ill

Chicago February wheat, 737ac.
Leonard Matheis of Springfield, ILL.,,
was gored by three COWS.
The prospect for repeal of the
war tax is diminishing.
A fight in the dominion parliament
against J. j. Hill is expected.
Justice Brewer tells Yale students
that the present jury is barbaric.
The dam at Thompsonville, Mich.
broke and two men were drowned.
Maurice Thompson, essayist and
author, died at Charlottesville, Ind.
Ice foes in New York harbor broke
and navigator was generally resumed
The immense trade balance in favor
Of America is increasing at a great
rate
The present congress has passed
appropriations amounting to 1884,
1885.
Ethelbert Nevin. musician and com
poser, is dead at New Haven. Con,
aged SO.
A farmer at Arcalo, ILL.,, ate "a sand
wiches in forty-eight minutes and won
SIS wager.
James Stewart. a retired lumber
man of Minneapolis, was killed by
a folding bed
Charles M. Schwab was formally
chosen as head of the new billion-dol-
lar steel trust.
All the schools at New Castle, Ind,
have been closed because of an
epidemic of measles.
At Springfield, Mass. Ex-Lieut. Gov.
William H. Halle died Of Bright's dis
ease and heart trouble.
Albert Nelson, II years old, enter
ed tigers cage in the zoo at In
dianpolis and was killed.
P. G. Knox of Pittsburg, who may
succeed Attorney General Griggs was
summoned to Washington.
Hall Frampton, colored. of Ne
braska City. Neb., shot and killed his
15-year-old stepdaughter.
Admiral Biggs sustained a broken
arm in the battle of the warning ice
companies at Milwaukee.
1t is conceded that the ship subsidy
bill has no chance of becoming law
Susan B. Anthony says the ballot,
not the Ratchet. is the proper weapon
to use against the liquor traffic
Coroner Mershon Of Brazil. Ind,
renderd a verdict that Patrick Gatin3
killed John Friel in self-defense.
Colonel w. G. L. Taylor, veteran
of the civil war and judge of the cir
cult court at Lafayette, Ind, died.
Andrew Carnegie gave $4,000 to
Galesburg, Ill. and $4,000 to Ct.
Cloud, Mimi. for public Libraries.
Thomas Jackson, colored. was
lynched at ST. Peter. La. for the
murder of a family of four persons.
William H. Mellor, long a promi-
nent democrat of Henry county, I'LL
nois, died in Kewaunee, aged 20 years.
The congress of the Daughters Of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

which he was entitled to obtain in
formation if possible. So he in
CURED Of the queen, as neatly as he
could, whether there was any individ-
ual for whom she entertained prefer
ence. Her majesty was little taken
aback and inquired whether he put
the question as matter of state
policy. If so she would endeavor to
give him an answer. Lord Melbourne
replied that he did, and that under no
other circumstances would he have
yentured to intrude in so delicate a
matter.
"Then,' said the queen, there is
one person for whom entertain de-
cided preference"
"Yes?'' said Lord. Melbourne, ex-
pecting to hear a great secret.
''And that is-that is" said the
queen, ''the duke Of Wellington
The venerable hero of Waterloo was
past his. SEVENTEEN year and the story
used to be retailed by Lord Melbourne
at his own expense.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
snanish-American Islands.

Native Porto Rican troops will take
part in the inaugural parade.
The first American provincial gov
eminent in Luzon has been organized
in Pampanga province.
The federal court in Porto Rico de-
cided that the executive council can
not be enjoined from granting fran
chises.
A military court in LuZon was re-
buked by General Bates for acquitting
soldiers who abandoned government
property when attacked.
The president sent to congress a
message recommending the promotion
of Rear-Admiral Sampson one number
above Rear-Admiral Schley.
The supreme court is not likely to
decide the Porto Rican tariff case
for many weeks, it being the custom
of the tribunal to deliberate Ions
over the questions Of national inl-
portance.
The war department published The
executive order turning over the
Office of treasurer of Cuba to the de
partment of finance, te be filled by the
appointment of a civilian by the mill
tary governor.
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China.

1t is reported at Tientsin that seven
nations have declared war on China.
Several of the boxer leaders have
declined to commit suicide. as re
quested by the Chinese emperor.
The allies plan for another demon
stration in China to compel an ac-
ceptance Of the demands of the
powers.
The United States will adhere to its
policy Of peaceful measures in China
and intends using every means Ct
averting the proposed hostile action
A military commission at Pekin is
planning Notifications to defend the
legations. The ENJOYS are unable 70
agree on methods Of collecting in.
demnity.
Count Won Waldersee. commander
of the allied troops in China. notified
the generals that on account of the
unsatisfactory progress in the peace
negotiations it will probably be neccs
sary to resume military operations
on a large scale.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
A cINcH.
Control of the Machines by Which
Postage Stamps are Cancelled.

Control of the Machines by Which
Postage Stamps are Cancelled.
Since 1885 all the machines by
which postage stamps are Cancelled
and envelopes marked with the name
of the postoffice, the date, ETC., have
been made by one family In the year
named the postmaster-general entered
into a contract with Benjamin Cham
bers, a citizen of Washington, to fur
nish device by which postage stamps
might be Cancelled so that they could
not be used again, and although
there have been a multitude of COM
petitors on several occasions, that con-
tract has been renewed year after
year for 65 years with Mr. Chambers
his son and his grandson, who have
| a secret process by which the dies are
made of malleable iron and carbon
lied into steel at a cost of from so
cents to $2.75 each. It is certainly
the only government contract, and
probably the only contract in the
United States, that has been renewed
so often and continued SO long. The
Q0pdI CIu0uI UuyO dDOuC 2A0,VVO WO1 I'll
of new cancelers every year. Bids are
adertised for annually, and every now
and then some ambitious manufactu"-
er who thinks he has a good thing Of
fers a proposal. but the Chambers
family are invincible. They have i'm
proved the device until it is now al
most perfect.
Until 1880 Captain Chambers manu-
featured the cancelers in Washington,
and he is still required to maintain a
repair shop in the neighborhood of the
postoff1ce department, but he moved
his factory to Northumberland county,
Virginia, on a leg of land at the mouth
of the Potomac. where he has little
village composed exclusively of his
employees and their families. No one
can enter his grounds without permits
sion, and those who have been there
say it is quite an ideal little village,
safe from the spies of competitors
who would like to get the contract
away from him.-Washingto Core
spondence of New York Tribune.
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Her Malestx,s nYouna Man"

Great amusement was caused by
the recital of an incident which oc-
Cured soon after her majesty's ac-
cession to the throne. A grand din
ner party was being given at the Buck
ingham palace. The probable hus-
band the queen might select was then
matter of much interest and specula-
ton. Lord Melbourne, as prime min
lister, felt the matter to be one in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
RusslA's INTERNAL WATERWAYS:
Great Results From Few Miles Of
Canals.

NHHdISs
For more than one hundred years
after the commencement of Peter the
greats life work the waterways were
the only pracJlcaI means of cheaply
transporting the products of Russian
soil and industry from one part of the
vast domain to another. No other
country is so prodigally endowed with
navigable rivers. In European Rus
STA alone fully $4,000 miles of inland
waterway were nayigable to the sim
pie barges of those days The rivers
of Russia have their sources within
a comparatively few miles of each
other, all of the great streams rising
within the area of the broad plateau
of the north, SO that it was no difficult
feat to connect the headWaters of the
numerous rivers. The construction
OF less than 1000 miles of canals and
canaHzed rivers, Of less than 900 miles
Of actual canals, made it possible to.
travel by barge from Archangel, on
the Arctic, to Astrakan on the Cas-
plan, a distance of more than 5000
miles, from st. Petersburg to the foot
of the Urals. and from the Baltic to
the Black sea by three distinct routes.
to say nothing of Moscow and numer-
GUS other inland cities which were
brought into direct water communica.
ton with all parts of the empire.-A
H. Ford in Engineering Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
Boer War.

Dewet and Steyn were driven out OF
Cape Colony.
Gen. Dewet lost by capture practl-
cally all of his supplies.
President Kruger, in an interview,
appeals for arbitration of the south
African trouble.
General Dewet is fighting British
troops under General Plumer in
northern Cape Colony.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

University of Michigan has lust
added ten courses in the engineering
department. Seven of these are in
naval architecture and three in
marine engineering.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
Foreign.

Reports of fighting in Abyssinia are
confirmed.
Snow fell in the City of Mexico for
the first time in fifty years.
Sir Francis Cook, who married Ten
ny Clafin, is dead at London.
The strike of French glass workers
is spreading to other industries.
The Russian authorities are taking
drastic measures to suppress student
demonstrations.
King Edward opened the first par
lament of his reign in person. He did
not wear his crown.
Irish members of parliament have
made complete plan for obstructing
at the present session
F. B. LOOMS, United States minister
to Venezuela, has brought about a
truce in asphalt war.
Americans are said to have received
$35,000000 for the concession for the
HankoW-Cainon railway.
Members of the Canadian parlia-
ment say Russia's action on the tariff
is a good example to follow.
The st. James Gazette says the
United States will suffer in the game
of hostile tariff with Russia
No explanation is given of the ex-
plosion in the Vancouver coal mine
in which sixty-one miners persisted.
Martial law was proclaimed in
Madrid and popular demonstrations
against the wedding Of Prince Charles
and Princess Mercedes We're thus pre-
vented.
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Washington, Feb. 16.-At the con-
clusion of the morning hour in The
senate when the unfinished business
the shipping bill-was laid before
the body, Senator Spooner (rep.,
Wis., moved to proceed to the con-
sideration of the oleomargarine bill.
By practically unanimous vote.
only two senators voting in the mega
tive, the motion prevailed. Thus the
subsidy bill was displaced as unfin-
ished business and the oleomargarine
bill placed in that order. Among
the pension bills passed were those
giving pensions of $50 a month to the
widows of General Du Barry, Admiral
Crosby, Col. Liscum, Admiral Ficken
and Commissary General Penrose.
The house made little progress with
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
The major portion of the time was
spent in debating the proposition Of
fered by Mr.. Hill Conn., to strike out
the appropriation of 100000 for the
free transportation Of silver coin. 1t
was defeated 61-66.
Washington, Feb. 18.-Nearly the
whole days session of the senate was
devoted to the consideration of the
postofice appropriation bill. So far
as the committee amendments to the
measure are concerned. the bill prac-
tically was completed. although the
amendment appropriating half a mil
lion dollars for extension of the pneu>
matte tube service remains undis-
posed of. Senator Pettus Of Alabama
delivered a speech in opposition to
the ship subsidy bill.
The bill to authorize the holding
of an international exposition in cele-
! bration of the centennial anniversary
Of the Louisiana purchase at ST. Louis
in 1903, and appropriating $5,OOO,00O
therefor passed the house. Mr.. Can
non, chairman of the appropriations
committee, took occasion to make a
detailed statement of the appropria-
lions by the present congress. The
situation, he said. was quite bad
enough without exaggerating it. He
figured the appropriations would total
$694, lis, 595, exclusive of the sinking
fund requirement of $4,000, 900
against 1857, 15O,S62 for the current
year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
Getting Better

Are you recovering as fist
as you should? Has not your
old trouble left your blood full
of impurities? And isn't this
the reason you keep SO poorly?
Don't delay recovery longer,
but take
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assertion made that vote could not
be had.
Under the leadership of Mr.. Can
non, chairman of the appropriations
committee, long filibuster consumed
the time of the house.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington, Feb. 13.-During the
greater part of the day the senate
was engaged in executive session and
counting the electoral vote of president
and vice president. A consideration
of the agricultural appropriation bill
was resumed, but little progress was
made. The house counted the cleo
toral vote. Then general debate upon
the civil sundry bill was completed
but little actual progress in the bill
was made. The opposition opened a
general assault upon the extraYa-
gance of the present congress. Mr.
Bell (Col.) produced figures to show
that in a single decade the per capita
cost of carrying on the governmental
machinery had increased from $4.75
to over $40.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

Washington, Feb. 15.-That opposi-
ton to the shipping bill in the senate
will not permit vote to be taken on
the measure at the present session
was made clear during the closing
hour of today's session. For sew
eral days it has been evident it would
be difficult to gain unanimous consent
not until late today was the frank
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE senate
devoted practically the entire day to
the agricultural appropriation bill.
The measure was not completed.
Senator Hale of Maine and Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts sounded
notes Of warning against the enor-
nous appropriations being made by
the present congress. Events in con-
nection with the sale of the old New
York custom house to the National
City bank occupied the center of the
stage during the debate on the sundry
civil appropriation bill in the house.
Mr.. McRae (dem., Ark.) raised the
issue with motion to strike out the
appropriation of S371,047 for the rent
of the custom house and with this mo-
ton as basis Mr. Jones (Va.)
launched a fierce attack upon the
manner and circumstances of the
sale. Messrs. Cannon and Hopkins Of
Illinois both defend the transaction
and the latter turned the tables on the
democrats by springing upon them q
series of letters written by prominent
democrats, including Senator Jones
of Arkansas, to the secretary of the
treasury under the Cleveland ad-
ministration asking a deposit of gov
eminent funds in banks with dem
ocratis proclivities. His center shot
was a letter written by Mr.. Richard
son of Tennessee, now the democratic
leader of the house, in behalf of the
bank at Murfreesboro, Tenn. In the
end Mr. McRae's amendment WAS lost
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ment, and took an active interest in
the phenomena of spiritualism.
Elizabeth Ward Boone Vanhoenen-
berg died at her home in Kingston, n.
Y, in her Tooth year. She was
born in England, and came to Ameri-
ca in 1888. She lived in Michigan
many years, and later in Brooklyn.
She was a cousin of Daniel Boone,
the famous explorer Of Kentucky.
Major o. B. Gum, wellknown civil
engineer, died at Kansas City, Kan.
aged 73 years. In 1858 he was as
sistant engineer of the Lockport and
Niagara Falls railroad, in New York
state. He built the central branch OF
the Union Pacific railway, now the
Missouri Pacific, and later was chief
engineer of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas.
Count Cergey de Smolianioff, for
merly Of ST. Petersburg, Russia, died
in Washington, after brief illness,
aged 80 years The count invented
several high explosives, took part in a
polar expedition at the age of 20, and
made and lost several fortunes. He
was married here twelve years ago,
but his wife secured a divorce. He
had large entailed estate in Russia
William P. Hill, for over fifty years
prominent New England newspaper
editor, is dead of grip at the home OF
his son-in-law, r. R. Williams, in Den
yer, Col. Mr.. Hill was born in 1919 in
Concord, N. H., and was the son OF
Isaac Hill, at one time governor OF
New Hampshire and United States
senator during the administration Of
Andrew Jackson. He was a graduate
of the class of 1885 of Dartmouth col
lege. His last editorial position was
with the Argus of Montpelier, Vt.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
EXPOSITION GROWS MERRIeR
stirring Music In Every Hall and the
Crowds Grow Greater Each
Day.

Five hundred visitors at the Auditorium
Industrial exposition last night were well
coined at the first floor entrance by the
strident notes Of phonograph, and the
crowd aeemed to be the merrier for a little
music In the hitherto quietest part of the
building. There was stirring music all
through the various halls, and as a result
the receipts at the various amusement
booths and polling places were OF more
liberal dimensions than upon any previous
night. People seemed to realize the pur-
pose of the exposition and to shell out
their coin for the enrichment OF the Audi
torium fund Each evening sees the voting
contest for the 800 typewritlng machine, to
be given to the most popular young woman
stenographer. gain momentum. Last night
Miss Grace Shelley sprang to the front be-
cause someone from the Richardson Drug
company. with which she is connected,
dropped a $40 bill into the hopper and
swelled her vote an even 1000. The re-
suit of this contest was announced as fol-
lows when the polls closed: Grace Shelley,
1855; Edith Lohnes, 73O; Fay Pardunn,
$685. Estelle Beecher. $50; Bertha Davis,
3i5 Belle Finley, $50; Edith Davis. 26O;
Nora Emerson, 100; Marian Reichardt. so;
Clara Kurtz. so; Ola Warehime. 25; Rosa
lind Hull, 30; Jessie Flowers, 90; Elizabeth
Van SAINT rs; Miss Henderson, IS; Miss
Hunt, 5; Mabel Gray, 5; Miss O'Neil, 8;
Grace Campbell, 8; Anna Watt, o; Miss
Jacoby. ).
In the voting contest for the most popu-
lar young woman to receive q life scholar
ship in freehand drawing and ornamental
designing which opened last night, Miss
Louise Schaffer OF Nineteenth and Mason
street received twenty votes and Miss May
Howell of Cudahy's packing house fifteen.
The contest for the most popular teacher
to receive a valuable book case was also
inausurated with about 12o votes, but the
result was not announced last night.
Carroll S. Montgomery was voted to be
the most popular man present and was
awarded a quart bottle of whisky. e. NJ.
Andreesen's prize record at the game OF
peg pool stood unassGiled throughout the
evening.
During the afternoon, which was set
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TO ADVERTISE HIS OWN LINES
DIR. webb saves His spurts for VAN
dcrbiit system nnd Requires
Slow Schedule West

DR.. w. Seward Webbs special train. which
has been advertised to break all records
for fast time across the continent, pulled
into the Union depot promptly on time at
II 10 this morning. The Union Pacific up-
dertook to haul the train, consisting of Ave
cars, from Ogden to Omaha in twenty-five
hours, and did 1t easily. The record time
between these points is less than twenty
hours, so DR.. Webb could not have wanted
the fastest the Overland had on tap. How
ever, he thought it was pretty fair run
ming for a western road
The train left San Francisco Tuesday
night, came east over the Central and Union
Pacific and was delivered to the Chicago
& Northwestern here. At Chicago the
journey will be continued TO New York
over the Vanderbilt lines, In which Dr.
Webb is heavily interested The trip Is
generally regarded by western railroad
men as an advertisement for the Wander
bilt lines. 1t is understood that no effort
will be spared to break the records on the
eastern roads, though 1t appears that no
special effort was made on the Union
Pacific. The 15imile run from Grand ISL
and TO Omaha was made in $50 minutes.
which is not at all wonderful as IL has
been done hundreds of times
DR.. Webb is travelling in company with
his wife and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
G. Lawrence of Boston, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Bird of New York. Miss Metcalf and Miss
Dunn. The train is supplied with every
comfort and convenience. 1'A carload OF
servants is on call and ~, the deicacies
OF the season are provided for the table.
1t will not be necessary for any of the party
to leave the train once in the course Of the
entire journey across the continent.
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