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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
The Portraits Of Our Presidents
With Biographical Sketches
BY
General Charles H. 0rosvenor
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This Inaugural year, whom the pubic mind
IL aroused over Presidential questions, y dt-
ting time to issue General Grosvenor's book.
Its sale II already tremendous, and Will per-
haps exceed that Of General Grants Personal
Every patriotic American desires to read
what General Grosvenor has 10 say OF George
Washipgtop, Thomas ysHesson, Andrew Jack
son, Abraham Lincoln. President Mckinley
and the Other Chief Hsecutivss Of the Nation.
Everybody desiies 10 read what General 0ros-
yenor, the stsunch Republican leader in Con-
gfe6A VIII ~ Of Mat Steunch old Democrat,
Andrew JackaOus the ratho9 Of the Democratic
party. Genersl 0rosyenog has thrown into his
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
OUARTERMASTER STRONG.
He Announces His Resignation
From the Army For Personal
and Financial Reasons.

San Francisco, July 13.-I'utnam
Bradley Strong, quartermaster in the
department, U. S. A., announces that
he has resigned from the army fol-
personal and financial reasons and
that his resignation has been accept
ed by Secretary Root.
The resignation was the result OF
the. publication of an escapade in this
city
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Tien-Tsin, July i3.-James w. Rags
dale, American consul here, has SEN
fenced three American looters. caught
In the Chinese quarter of this city. to
four years imprisonment in the Amer.
lean Jail at Shanghai. Mr.. Ragsdsle
has turned over two Europeans
caught looting to the consuls Of Great
Britain and Denmark respectively.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18

Buffalo, n. Y. July 12.-Thursday
was Commercial Travellers day at the
Pan-American exposition. There was
a parade Thursday morning, and.
notwithstanding the threatening as
pect of the weather. several thousand
were in line. I'm ss@ ii1ss tfei
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wan Retvrp NJ re ola scale

Newport News, Va, July l2.-The
strike of the Newport News Ship
building Co., machinists came sud.
denly to an end Thursday night at
Q meeting when by unanimous con-
sent the men decided to return to
work Monday az the old scale.
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fiSst sss,naa sinos shot

New York. July b.-For the first
time since he was shot by Thomas
G.. Barksr. g ArIington.l NIL. Rev,
John Keller preached q sermon sun
day morning His theme was the
beauty and meaning Of the ,colors
of the American flag, although he
himself can see those colors but dim
ly now. - slie. 9HsE Rtf
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Dayton, o., July 15.-Spot, gray
gelding, the property of Ell. Rowe,
who was prevented from taking part
in sl5OO match race Friday with
Banner Bell. of the Simms stock farm.
owing to an attack of Inflammation
of the bowels, ia dead. -
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18

Havana, July l2.-According to an
official report posted in the Palace
Thursday afternoon Gen. Wood shows
decided improvement. Thursday aft
ernoon the general said he felt bet
ter than at any time during the past
month.
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Candidate For Governor Parely.ed.

Bucyrus, O.. July BE. j. Pinney,
prohibition candidate for governor
of Ohio, who was to have addressed
a mass meeting at the courthouse in
this city suffered a stroke of paraly-
sis. His right side was affected, and
he has lost entirely the power of
speech. ss.st.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
The sixtee.th Gusher.

Beaumont, Tex, July la.-The 18th
gusher came in here. The flow does
not seem to be, at all diminished by
reason of the many wells. The new
well is in the proved oil territory.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
Russia Recr0iting.

London. July 15.-EMperor Nichn
las, according to a dispatch trom st.
Petersburg, has issued an order tha.
s0s,5o0 men shall be recruited ( r the
Russian army and navy during the
present wear. h'l ~
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MRS. Jefferson Davi. Very III.

Portland, Me-. July 12.--Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis, widow of the former pres
dent of the confederacy, is quite i'll
at the Willard hotel, in this city,
where she came a few days ago to
spend the summer.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
DON'r BE DUPEO

There hnve been placed uppn the market
several cheap reprints of an obsolete editor
Of " Websters Dictionary" They are being
offered under various names at low price
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Long Since Obsolete

Illustrated pamphletfr free. Address
@. & C. MERRIAM CO.. Sprlnsiield. Mas
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
Treops3 IaviteA J te SIsisgael1.

Springfield. o.. July lb.-Maj. T.,J.
Kirkpatrick has limited four com
pspies Of the Sd battalion. Sd regi,
ment, o. N. g.. 70 come 70 this city
August 9, which will be military day
at the csatSapssi celebration Of
SprineheId'S insoeporat as q city.
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A Female Dankrupt,

st. Paul, Mimi, July 12.-Msris A.
Curtis, wife Of Samuel E. Curtis. an
actor better known as samuel of
Posen." filed a petition In bankrupt.
cy Thursday. Her liabilities amount
to $175,12l. Her assets are clothing
valued at s27s. exempt under the
lay. - o5Oo. i5iH tnszfS
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
a.eI sS oii CietH Trust.

Youngstown, o., July SIT is relia-
bly, stated heee that the presidency
Of the new oiicloth combine, known
ss the Staadstd Table OH Cloth Co.,
wtll 'bei tsnesesd to Henry N. Gar
lick, ol thls dtR.e sar, a. 4,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
state Items of Interest.

The Wood Split Pulley Works at
Menasha, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Joseph Buda, aged As. OF Gibson, was
instantly killed by being struck by heavy
timbers while working on barn.
The 7-year-old son Of John Krom-
menakker of Rudolph, was drowned in a
cistern while visiting in Wrightstown.
The de4:c-.cry 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 a picket fence, while
playing with his companions. aud frac-
tured his leg.
Otto LEM, 1G 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 lifeiess.
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
S6T4.
Fred Schubring, an old and trusted en-
pIoye Of the Kaukauna Lumber Com
pany, was struck by "A rebounding plank
while helping to unload them at the
Kaukauna Machine works and so badly
injured internally that his death resulted
in few hours.
Lightning caused a panic at the La
Crosse county Jail. The fry fluid struck
| a big tree near the structure, blowing
great burrows from its base in every d.
rection. then darling in at a window, it
entered a cell and played havoc with the
| iron and steel work. Many of the pris-
oners were felled 10 the floor but none
seriously injured.
4 little son Of ]. +. Van Hoosier Of
Pine Grove was badly injured in an ex-
plosion. He had picked up a large tor
pedo along the Wisconsin Central rail
road traSl. which had probably been lost
by the trainmen. The boy supposed il
was q silver half-loIlar and in rubbing
il briskly il exploded, blowing his hands
10 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. Ihc estate
is valued at $4,000.
The body of Charles Evenson. labor
ing man from Saltwater, was found
hanging from the rafter in the kitchen Of
a 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
Hartland. graduate Of Cornell.
The social event u the summer season
in Kenosha was the marriage Of Miss
Margaret +. Avery 10 Andrew VI. Mac
caughey, which was celebrated at the
home Of the bride.
Jacob Lutz, one NJ the pioneer settlers
Of Grand Rapids and who erected the
first brewery in that section Of the State.
died in Oshkosh from the effects Of a
surgical operation.
The 5-year-old child Of Anton Rutzow.
| a farmer residing near Two Rivers. vas
accidentally drowned in a shallow mud
puddle 1t is supposed that the child was
playing near the water when he fell face
downward and sufocated before help ar
rived.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Chief White Boy Gains Wealth in Ne
braska--Most of Money Stolen at Min
erni Poiut Is Fonud-Dates for Ma
tionai Guard Eneampments.

White Boy, the Indian chief who so
mysteriously disappeared from view at
La Crosse some days ago and who was
feared to have been foully dealt with, has
turned up in Nebraska, where he has
fallen heir to large ranch. making him
wealthy redskin There is bitter feud
between Chief White Boy and the Wau-
kon brothers of the same tribe, enlivened
recently by love somance, 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 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.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
Stolen Cold Is 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 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, $780, is in currency
and the detectives hope to recover it
l0far
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
SERMONETTES
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Beyond Human Conceptiol.-There
are thousands of good Christians who
believe with me that the character of
Christ, the man as pictured in the New
Testament, is beyond human concep-
tion.-Rabbi Isador Philo, Hebrew,
Akron, Ohio.
Conquerors Through Grace.-In all
our several callings and conditions,
God is able, if we open our lives TO re-
ceive him. to hold us UP and guard us
from stumbling and make us conquer
ors through his grace.-Rev. DR.. Hall,
Presbyterian, New York City.
The Saving of Our Souls.-The only
means for saving our souls are those
pointed out by our Lord. We must be
members of his church. If we are not
we are not pleasing to him. Being
members of the church. we must live
| up to it's holy obligations. To do this
God helps us; gives us his grace, splr
itual food and by means of the spiritual
food we are able to do all that is re-
quired. In the society in which we
Archbishop Riordan, X. c., San Fran
| cisco, Cal.
The Ideal Church.-The individual
! Christian is All epitome of the ideal
church and the church i'll turn becomes
a divine opportunity and TO a degree
the equivalent 10 Jesus Christ. We
should grasp the great idea Of God in
his church Man-made creeds may need
revision and some theology may re-
qnire reconstruction, bat we shall find
that truth, eternal truth, will remain
| the same yesterday, to-day and for
ever. Then we should have fe.er de-
nominations, but small men will cease
TO hide beneath their small ideas that
erlGorbed character may touch the
ideas of God. lien shall the church
not spend her strength in taking care
of herself. but in taking care of those
| outside the fold-Rev J.. O. Dyott,
| Congregationalist, Brooklyn, y. Y.
Faith.-I doubt if there is any one
Bible fact whose treatment has done
more to ALLEVIATE intelligence than the
| fact attempted to De expressed by that
unhappy little word, faith" Faith Is
not form of intellectual quiescence;
1t is a mode Of mental and moral ac-
| tivity of the intpnsest kind 80 far from
| being more dormant and listleSs than
| reason. faith is the advance courier
! of reason. like the morning twilight
/ running on ahead of the sun. Faith is
! that genius for tie unreached which
arouses man to the level Of a vast pos
sihility. The tendency is TO humanize
the divine Instead Of deifying the hu-
1 man. to reduce the miraculous To the
grade Of what is happening every day.
/ That IS what pure intellectualism does
/ A mans Christian life begins in being
{ born Of God in becoming a divine man
as really and literally 50 as Christ was
a divine man.-Rev. Dr. Parkhurst,
( Presbyterian. New York City.
Poverty is the test Of cfYility and the
! tombstone OF riendship.-Hazlitt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
Dates for EncaInnment.

Adjt. Gen. C. Il. Boardman has decid-
ed the dates for the annual encampment
OF the different divisions of the Wiscon-
sin Nationa. Guard. The first division to
go TO Camp Douglas will be the Second
Regiment, which will arrive there Aug,
3 and remain until Aug. TO- The First
Regiment, Troop A, and battery, " Il fol-
low, remaining in camp from Aug. 10 10
II. The Third Regiment and Tenth sep
arate battalion will be the last division TO
go into camp and will be there from Aug.
II to "A. The following have been com
missioned captains and commissaries:
First Lieut. Hiram Manville, of Milwau-
kee. First Regiment; james McCulley, Of
Ashland. Second Regiment; w. III. Beck
er, Of Menomonie. Third Regiment.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
Often Is Seriously Hurt.

Congressman Theobald Often and his
private secretary, Nathaniel Green, We're
run down by an electric car Of the Mil
waukee and Racine line while driving
in a buggy. Both men were seriously In
jared. The car was going at a rapid gait
when Mr.. Often made the attempt to
cross the tracks. The buggy was smash
ed ana the .. -upants hurled distance Of
forty or fifty feet.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19

J. 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. H.. Aug. q to so.
LIbertyvile, ILL.,, Sept :, TO 8.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. to 13.
E,khorn. Wis, Sept. II to 20.
Berlin, Wis, Oct. 7 90 ..
Mr.. True announces that $4,000 will
be hung up in stakes and pusses.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
[omelal puhIicatIon.1

STATEMENT of the condition OF the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LEGION,
of Waverly, in the State of New York,
for the year ending December 3ist, 1900,
made to the Commissioner Of insurance
of the State Of Wisconsin, pursuant to
the laws of SAID State.
First--Balance sheet.
Amount Of net ledger assets De-
cember 3lst OF previous year. sos. sos %
Second-Income.
Gross amount OF membership
Checks returned by mem bers... Is so
Assessments: Mortnary, expense
Medical examiners fees paid by " -
Income s from all other other sources. ~ "
including supplies sold. as77 IL
Total income. ............. 500. $50 81
Sum of both amounts..... s4Ol. Az 50
Third Disbursements.
Death claims raid !, .;........, SO. s7s 81
dividend benefits $50. :. als. 81: CO
Advanced payments returned TO
applicants Or members ..,..... II 90
Total paid to members 49,. s2s4. sli .
Commissions, fees and salai les
allowed 70 agents .......... =. G.oas so
OF Officers and once etnpio .ees 10. AT 81
printing :, ...s..e.... -. 80. 5.o4l 40
publication. etc. 8. a32 "a
All other expenses. ........",... 3. 5BI n
Total disbursements. ,..... s2sS, scr OF
Balance ...... ............. sl35. els 70
FOURTH Ledger Assets.
Loans on bond or mortgage or
other marketable secuf ity -. $50 800 o.
owned ...........,.......e,... 81. 80 81
Cash in Office and depc sited in
banks. ..............s... 70. 47S as
Total net ledger ass sts...... slss, ei5 70
Non-icds :. Assets.
Assessments actually collected
by subordinate bodies not yet
turned over to supre ne body. s3l, 49, -
Total admitted a,,sets...... slG7. ll3 "a
Fifth-I.iabilities.
Losses adjusted dun and I'M
paid ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S,ol5 ID
Total liabilities 49,. ....... sl.ols IS
Sixth-W .~oynsin Business.
Policies or certificates In force,
Losses orclaims incurred, No. 8. 10 %
Loses or claims paid, No. o.. $50 %
lected during the year -. $40 30
Insurance Department, Madison, Wis.
hereby certify that the foregoing Is an ah-
stract of the sworn statement Of the National
Protective Legion OF Wayerly, New York, fled
with the Insurance Department of Wisr nsin.
this 25th day of February, 1871,
EMF. GtfsJoHANN.
Commissioner OF Insurance,
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Poverty is the test Of ciYility and the
touchstone OF friendshiD.-Hazlitt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-15

presumably vastly greater than that
which WAS found that has been he OBJ
ject OF search for the past 200 years.
I<idds career terminated exactly 200
years ago. for he was hung in England
in May. 1901 but he soon had a rival in
the person OF the notorious Edward
Teach. better known TO history as
Blackboard the Pirate" and whose OPP
erations were extended from tho West
Indies 10 the Carolina coast. During
the last quarter of the seventeenth cen-
uiry and the first quarter of the eight
centh the roVcrs OF the sea were in
their glory, but of them all there was
none so famous as tho dreaded Black
beard. His headquarters We're In the
West Indies. notably in the Danish is
land OF 81 Thomas, who're his castle Is
pointed out today on one OF the three
hills upon which the town OF Charlotte
Amalia is built After making many a
GOOD man walk the plank In Car
ibbean waters and committing terrible
atrocities Blackboard came north and
made his rendezvous in Psmlico sound.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-15

depredations OF the buccaneers and 9TH
ers Spain lost many millions and with
out their aid she always reckoned the
average annual loss at Sl,00O,oOO from
hurricanes alone.
The buccaneers sacked such cities as
Santo Domingo. Carriage Msracaibo,
Colon aud Porto Bello and harried the
Spanish feet so that very few OF the
treasure ships ever made their voyages
unscathed.
The typical buccaneer is found In the
person of Henry Morgan, Welshman,
who went 10 the West Indies when
young. fell in with the buccaneers OF
Tortuga and finally became chief VIII
lain Of them all. lie committed afro
cious murders on the Spanish maih,
sackinc cities and putting their inhab-
itants TO torture and the sword. To
ward the end of his career OF crime he
landed on the isthmus and marched
overland upon the then wealthy city OF
Panama. This city he robbed OF all it's
treasures. TO the amount, II is estimat-
ed. of Sl5, O00, 900. and. compelling several
hundred prisoners to accompany him
on his return journey, marched back
across the sthmus 10 the Caribbean
side. lie capped the climax OF his
strocities by massacring his prisoners.
and. finally. after killing many Of his
own men. he made for the island OF
Santa Catalina. about hundred miles
east OF the Mosquito coast and not far
from Roncador reef where the kear-
sarge was sunk few years ago There.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-15

tons OF silver were thrown overheard
off the west coast OF Cuba; all around
the Isle of Pines are sunken wrecks OF
galleons containing at the time they
were lost from Sl0O. 900 to 81, 900, 900 eacn.
Twelve tons of silver were being car
ried as ballast from the mines OF Potosi
10 Spain when one stormy night the
galleon was captured by buccaneers,
who threw overheard the crew and also
the silver bars, which they took for
some baser metal This was in 1879,
or sixteen years before Sir William
Phpps. the New England Yankee. re-
covered thirty-tvo tons OF silver and
large fortune in gems from a sunken
galleon on the north coast of Santo Do
mingo And he found but one of a fleet
OF five or six, all of which were carried
down in hurricane.
on the south coast OF the same is
land. i'm a locality over which the writer
of this article has himself sailed. lies
the galleon in which Governor Bobadil.
Ia took passage for Spain in the year
1907 aud which sank In a hurricane
with all on board, while containing in
it's treasure tank the largest nugget OF
gold ever found in America.
III the inquiry were TO be extended IA
the Pacific coast, IL would be found
only less rich than the Caribbean 10
sunkcn treasure ships, for all the way
from Chile to Alaska, and especially Of
Mexico and California, vessels have
gone down with wealth untold.
FREDERICK A. OBER.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-15
THEY MAY BE FOUND.

bringing back the products OF Spain
and recruits for the American colonies.
Spain, however. was not 20 have this
rich traffic all 10 herself. tor the Dutch,
French and English soon began 20 In
auirt what there was in IL for them
and TO emphasize their inquiry. sent
out men-of-war and privateers TO cruise
The Caribbean waters They took many
valuable prizes. despite the protests OF
Spain. and after them came their pri-
Nateers. who soon degenerated into
freebooters and buccaneers.
on the north coast of Haiti is small
island known as Tortuga, which in the
seventeenth century was made the rem
devious OF the buccaneers, comprising
men of various nationalities, but chief
ly French and Dutch, who had been
driven from their homes in the south
ern Caribbees and had taken TO piracy
in revenge. They committed many
atrocities not only upon the crews OF
the Spanish ships. but upon the inhab-
itants of settlements in the West Indies
and on the Spanish main. Between the