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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

The weather bureaus weekly summary
of crop conditions says the lower Mis-
souri, and upper Mississippi Valleys and
lake region have continued to suffer from
Excessive rains, which also have inter
rupted farm work in the Ohio Valley and
an portions of the Middle Atlantic States
and New England. Much injury to crops
and other property has resulted from
overfows in Iowa and portions of Hi
nOis, Missouri and Michigan. Drouth
has been largely relieved in the Southern
States, but extensive areas in that sec
ton are still much in need Of rain, espe-
cially the northern portions, extending
from Oklahoma eastward to the Caro-
linas. The temperature conditions as
whole have been favorable, although
rather low in the northern Rocky Noun
tain districts. The north Pacific coast
States sustained considerable damage
from high winds and the Dakotas and
Minnesota from haiIstorms in scattered
localities.
The corn crop has made splendid prog
ress in the States of the central valleys,
except in Iowa and limited portions of
Missouri and Illinois, the condition of the
crop 10 Iowa being fairly good on we'll
stilled uplands, but great damage has re-
xsulted Prom floods on the river bottoms
of the southern and eastern portions Of
that State and in Northern Illinois. High
I ly favorable reports are received from
/ Nebraska, Kansas and the greater part
of Missouri and Illinois, and a decided
Improvement in the condition of the crop
in Ohio Valley is Indicated
Rains have interfered with the har-
vestng of winter wheat where unfinished
sin the extreme northern districts and
@also have been unfavorabe for thrashing
BIN the central valleys, while consider
cable wheat i'll shock in the lower Mis-
ssouri Valley has been damaged. Har-
vcsting continues i'll California and has
begun in Oregon, where wheat is filling
nicely. The crop in both Oregon and
Washington has, however, sustained con-
siderable damage from recent high
winds.
@ Spring wheat has advanced favorably
in the principal spring wheat States, but
mas sustained injury in scattered locali-
sties from hailStorms.
Dat harvest is finished in the Southern
States and is in progress in the central
valleys, and while lodging is extensively
reported from Ohio, upper Mississippi
and Missouri Valleys and lake region,
tine general condition of the crop con-
tnueS satisfactory
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
RUSSIA STRIKES AT TRUSTS.
Suggests an International Conference
to Deal with Com bines.

Suggests an international Conference
to Deal with Com bines.
Russia has suggested an international
conference to deal with trusts. Baron de
Staal, Russian ambassador in London,
about ten days ago presented to the Brit
ish government a note from M. de White,
the Russian minister of finance, which
note was sent also to all the powers that
signed the Brussels sugar convention,
proposing that these powers should con-
slider, in common, means to protect in
ternational commerce against the artif-
cial depression of prices, not only by gov
eminent measures, such as export boun-
ties or the control of production, but also
by the much more dangerous processes
adopted by trusts, private undertakings
or cartels, which tend artifcialy to in
fuence the international market.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

Of the House of Commons. The early
deaths of his father and mother led him
to associate much with his uncle, Lord
Salisbury, and through him the love of
and insight into a political life was gain
ed. An idea of his real power was OBJ
tanned when the parliamentary struggle
between the British government and the
Irish Nationalist party was at its height.
One Irish secretary after another had
abandoned the post in despair, and, final
ly, Mr.. Balfour was rendered the office.
The success of his efforts, in the face Of
the fiercest opposition, Is known and un'
der him Ireland entered on an era of
pacifcation to which she had long been
a stranger. Mr.. Balfour is one Of the
best-liked men in British politics and his
advancement to the premiership seems
satisfactory to all.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
AGRICULTURAL NEWS.


Cheese was made on over 10000 farms
IN the United States in 1901. The Amer
lean Agriculturist advises farmers to use
surplus milk in this way.
A peach orchard near Alpin, Pa, has
been protected from locusts by a covering
of mosquito netting. AS a consequence
a large yield of peaches Is assured.
The report comes from Kansas that the
wheat crop is over-ripe and falling to the
ground for lack of farm laborers to har-
vest it. Ten thousand were needed and
only 500 responded.
The value of the 224.248 farms Of
Pennsylvania, as shown in the latest ag-
ricultural report, is $S9S.272, $50, 81 per
cent being value of land and improve
ments other than buildings. The value
of farm implements and machinery is
$50, 917 ,240, and of live stock $1O2, 49,
1873, making total value Of the States
farm property $1,051, 629,173.
The census bureau has issued a report
on the tobacco industry in this country
for the year 1900 which shows a capital
investment of $124,OS9,871 and goods
sold to the amount of $3.50, 075, 546. The
production of cigars and cigarettes aD
proximated 9,5O0,OOO,OO0, using lis, oO0,.
600 pounds of tobacco. The total growth
for 1900 was S68, 1853, 265 pounds, an in
crease of IT'S per cent over the crop OF
$780,
Automobiles with a speed of from one
to eight miles an hour and capable Of
drawing four or five plows are now used
in France for blowing and drawing loads,
The machines consume petroleum and
cost $2,2SO.
The leasing Of several large tracts Of
land in northern Michigan and Wiscen-
sin, now denuded Of forests, to be used
as cattle ranches, and the purchase last
week of large herd In Chicago for the
Thunder River region, have drawn atten-
ton to the fact that cattle raising Is close
in the wake Of the lumber industry Of
these States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
GALE ROCKS CHICAGO.
Terrifying Wind, Rain and Electrical
Storm Sweeps the City.

Terrifying Wind, Rain and Electrical
Storm Sweeps the City.
Almost rivaling in its fierceness the
gale which followed the Galveston hur-
ricane and accompanied by downpour
Of rain such as the city has not witness
ed in years and an incessant play Of
lightning of the flash, chain and forked
kind, storm swooped down upon Chi
cago from out of the southwest Thurs
day night at S:45 o'clock that carried
with it injury to persons and damage to
property.
For one minute, according to the
weather forecaster, the wind reached a
velocity Of ninety miles an hour. In ten
minutes, according to the records Of the
weather office, half an inch Of rain fell
and the fluctuations Of the barometer
were such as to startle even the weather
men.
The storm came after q day of the
most freakish kind Of weather, in which
the thermometer reached 80 along to-
ward ! p. m. and In two hours following
dropped nearly Is degrees. During the
afternoon and early evening the showers
showed all manner Of oddities. Raining
heavily all over the city, at Rogers Park
it was dry, while in Evanston it rained
and up at Highland Park it was rain
less. Then came the heavy thunder
showers that started in shortly after Z
p. m.
So quick did the gale come up out of
the already raging storm that 1t nearly
blew the lookouts and officers off the
bridges Of the City Of Chicago and the
Christopher Columbus. The passengers
were huddled in the cabins and during
the life Of the blow experienced all the
terrors occasioned by storm, seasickness
and fear. On the lake the blow lasted
fully half an hour, but, having clear sea
room, the boats reached their docks safe.
ly, although with badly scared lot Of
.DasSenCerS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
Short News Notes.

Jesse Rule, a retired merchant, was
stabbed to death ut Catlettsburg. Ky, by
Fred Burchett, timberman.
Mrs Plumb widow of the late Senator
Riumb, has given site worth $1,000 for
the Carnegie library at Emporia, Kan.
The Frisco road has purchased ground
Ait Fort Scott, Kan, and will soon rebuild
and enlarge its car shops there.
New York city officials have been en-
Joined from carrying out a contract for
paving with Il rival of the asphalt trust,
at the instance of the latter
The Odd Fellows Orphans Home at
Checotah, l. T., will be ready for oceu-
pancy abour Sept. 20. Checotah secured
the home by donating 100 acres of land.
The japanese government has virtually
decided to participate in the Louisiana
EuEchaSe Exposition and has commenced
to prepare estimates for that proposition.
The appropriation viii amount to about
10000 yen and the japanese delegates
have already been decided upon.
s. A. Sweet, trainmaster at Las We
nas. n. NJ, was appointed TO succeed d.
Il. Gain as assistant general manager of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
Way system.
Neal Salina Cruz. on the Pacific side
81 the iSthmuS of Tehuantepec. a giant
Kerser has broken ont as the result of
heayy earthquakes occurring in that sec
tIan since April Is last. The column of
Ter rises to height of about fifty feet,
K04rs and Kisses from among the rocks
AnH is an object of great interest TO the
pa0ple and to passing vessels, being plain
Is Visible from the sea.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

The monument constructed Of stone
taken from the grave of President Lin
coin at Springfield, H., to mark the last
resting place of his devoted mother,
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is now complet-
ed and ready for dedication. Mrs. Lin
coins memorial is in lincoln City, Ind.
1t will be formally dedicated October 5,
the date selected by the Nancy Hanks
Memorial Association, under whose
auspices the monument was built.
The dedication Of the monument will
probably be a great event for southern
Indiana, as Gov. Durbin and staff and
all State officials will be invited to take
part in the ceremonies, and an invita-
tion will also be extended to President
Roosevelt,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

Lord Miner, who has been the British
high commissioner in South Africa dur
ing the war, has assumed office at Pre-
toria as governor of the TransvaaI.
Gov. Gen, Curzon of India reports that
there have been heavy rains in many of
the famine districts and a decrease in
the number of persons receiving govern
ment aid.
An American missionary in China re-
ports that Methodist chapel has been
destroyed and ten Chinese Converts kill
ed by Boxers in Sze-Chuen, the middle
province of the western frontier of China.
The Boxer movement in that region is
reported to be spreading rapidly.
Charles NJ. Pepper, st. Louis Worlds
Fair commissioner to Cuba, who has re-
turned to this country, after four
months stay in the island, reports that
the industrial conditions in Cuba are bad
and growing worse. He says the sugar
plantations are, doing almost nothing to-
wards next years crop and many people
are out Of work.
The Russian government has with
drawn from further participation in the
foreign government of Tien-tsin, the chief
city u L e-CuA-1L pLONAnSC, mus
ing the onus for the new conditions for
resumption of Chinese control of that city
upon other nations.
A government statement recently issued
gives the total number of deaths from the
plague in India from 1896 to March,
1902, as $4,000. With deaths not re-
ported it is estimated that the number
would reach 100000. In the frst
months Of 1902 the deaths have increas-
ed enormously.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

spacious in Washington. When Mrs.
Townsend purchased the property, the
house was enlarged and improved, but
was deserted by her upon the completion
Of her present spacious dwelling, situated
in more strictly residence section of the
city than is Jackson square. The rented
building will probably not be used to
any great extent by the Roosevelts, as
the President has joined his family at
Oyster Bay, and he will not be in Wash
ington again permanently until the White
House improvements are completed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
! last man sent shudders through the

the last man sent shudders through the
snectators.
Not far from the spot where the mimic
exercises were held is the national ceme-
terry where rest the ashes of those who
feE with Custer twenty-siX years ago.
0riginally the bodies of the dead We're
buried as they lay on the battlefield, little
headstones subsequently being erected to
marx the graves. Later the remains of
the troopers We're removed to the sum-
init of the hill and a large granite shaft
was erected by the national government.
Casters body was reinforced in the mill
tary cemetery at West Point, n. Y.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
FIGURES STRIKE COST.
President Mitchell Makes the Total
$5OO,OOO.


President Mitchell has made the fol-
lowing estimate Of the number Of strik-
ers and dependents in each district and
weekly revenues to be derived from each
district under the decision Of the mine
workers convention, together with
amounts Of weekly assessments by dis
tricts:
District No. 1, Observation-Disclosures cite
miners on strike, 79,500; number of depend
ents, 397, 900.
District No. 7, Observation-Disclosures
miners on strike, $4,000; number of depend
ents, 10000.
District No. 9, Observation-Disclosures cite
miners on strike, $500; number of depend
ents 262, 500.
Total number strikers In anthracite field,
10000.
Total number dependents in anthracite
field, 75O, 900.
Estimated weekly expense in anthracite
field, $500 900.
District No. IT, West Virginia, bituminous
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
PICNIC FOR RELIC-HUNTERs.
White House Repairs Give Them a
Golden ODportunitys

Golden Opportunity.
The relic hunters are having picnic IN
Washington. The work Of renovating
and repairing the White House has fur
nished the opportunity for those who
place great value on relics and souvenirs.
The Workmen have torn out many OF
the old timbers that were part of the
original building, and these are seized
upon by the relic hunters as fast as they
are carried out and thrown into the heaps
Of old lumber. Men and women wait in
front of the White House for an oppor-
tunity to seize on a board or big splinter
from a heavy timber that shows age.
Already they have named the various
boards taken from the floors after the
Presidents who have lived in the White
House. and canes have been made from
the boards on which Lincoln stood when
he read the emancipation proclamation to
his cabinet, and the board on which JEFF
ferson stood when he received the treaty
by which the United States acquired the
territory of Louisiana, and that on which
Monroe stood when he announced the
Monroe doctrine.
The relic hunters are not very particu-
lar about the historic occasions which
their pieces of timber commemorate, just
so long as they can say that they were
once a part Of the White House, and
were in some way associated with one
or more of the great Presidents
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

charged with the murder of Mrs. Castle,
at her home in Eldorado, Kan, in June,
1900, returned a verdict Of guilty of muir
der in the second degree. The jury
reached its conclusion speedily. This
was the third trial Of Miss Morrison, the
case being twice appealed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

public life. Ad-
vancing years and
illness are respon7
sible for the retire
ment. Lord Sails
bury has been sue
ceeded by his
nephew, Rt. Hon.
A. J. Balfour, lead
err of the British
House Of Commons
and an able states
man.
The lew premier,
Arthur James Bal
four, was born in
1S48, and began his
political career in
1914 ~ how
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
THE TOWNSEND HOUSE.
It Ys Being Used Temporarily as the
Executive Mansion.

The Townsend house, in Jackson place,
Washington, which has been taken by
Secretary Cortelyou for President Roose-
welt as a temporary executive mansion,
Is within a stones throw of the new Ro-
chambeau statue. 1t is a four-story
building and contains twenty rooms. The
first floor will be occupied by the Presi-
dent as his Office, while the upper floors
will be fitted up for the Presidents house
hold. The dining room is one Of the most
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
WHERE CUSTER FELL.
Unique Fourth of July Celebration on
an Historic Battlefield.

an Historic Battlefield.
At Sheridan, Wyo., near the battlefield
of the Little Big Horn, where the gallant
Custcr and his command of 277 troopers
were butchered by the confederated Sioux
indians on June %, 1876, a mimic but
fearfully hfclike imitation of that blood
enrolling event was enacted on the Fourth
Of July this year. Soldiers from Fort
Mckenzie represented Clusters slaugh-
Tered command. while a force of 1900
Grows and Chcyennes carried on the part
played in the tragedy by the bloodthirsty
Sioux. The sham battle was one of the
most thrilling affairs of the kind ever
held on the American continent, and the
make-bclieve scalping by the Indians af
ter the troopers had been shot down to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
ENGLAND'S NEW PREMIER.

Rt. Hon. A. J. Ba1four, Who Succeeds
Lord Salisbury.
The retirement of Lord Salisbury, pre-
mier of England, marks the close Of the
Victorian era in British politics and re-
moves q strong figure from the empires
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
Told in a Few Lines.

The President named Albert Houston
Blair for register of the land office at
Wakeeney, Kan.
Andrew Carnegie has donated 1880
for the completion of the Lambeth library
system in London.
Cholera is spreading among the Chinese
at Pekin, but it is impossible to estimate
the number of victims.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
agreed to an advance in wages of its tele-
graphic operators from $3.50 to $40 per
month, according to position.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

Number of strikers, $4,000; number of de-
pendents, estimated, $4,000.
Estimated contributions from districts,
100000; estimated contributions from sub
districts, 100000; estimated contributions
from locals, $780, 00-totals, 100000.
Estimated revenue from weekly assess
mentS by districts:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
JESSIE MORRISON IN PRISON.
Convicted Mnrderess Begins Sentence

NUHNANtCU 0AHTUGECsS D08IHs OGuICuC6
in Kansas Penitentiary.
Miss Jessie Morrison, convicted Of the
murder Of Mrs. Oin Castle at Eldorado,
Kan, has entered upon her twenty-five
years sentence in the State penitentiary.
After being out twelve hours the jury
in the case against Jessie Morrison,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

Washington is at this time and season
a great educational center. Millions Of
documents designed to enlighten the vot-
ers of the land are being prepared and
shipped to constituents. Nearly every
member of Congress has one or more
speeches delivered by him in the House
and Senate which he desires to distrib-
ute. They may be remarks upon the
great question of the day or merely
spread upon some local subject, but the
Congressman does not think that he has
done his duty unless he plasters his dis
trict or State with speeches. If he did
not his constituents would ask him upon
his return what he had been doing in
Washington. The speeches go through
the mail free, of course, but it is quite
b task to get them ready for shipment.
They are taken from the capitol by wag-
on loads at a time, and for the next two
weeks the mail trains leaving Washing
ton will carry extra cars to accommodate
the increased traffic. In addition to the
large volume of political literature sent
out by individual Senators and Repre-
sentatives, the two campaign commit
tees will distribute this year millions of
pamphlets. In the presidential cam
paign of 1896 the Republican committee
sent out 22,000,000 documents. No such
number will be distributed this year, but
the total will probably reach several mill
ion, and the Democrats will do as WELL
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

The census bureau has issued a report
containing statistics regarding the mar
facture of bicycles in the United Sta
which shows that in 1900 there were
establishments with a capital of $50.
$50 as compared with twenttssr
adjustments with a capita ~
or in 1890 The value of e
1900 was $31, 915,908 The -
crease in the number of fs
the decade was in New II
number of establishments
to sixty-two. sg
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
BIG GAIN FOR CORN.
MAKES GOOD PROGRESS EXCEPT
WHERE FLOODED.

Rains Interfere with Winter Wheat,
but the Harvest of Oats Is Satisfac-
tory-Much Hay Spoiled by Storms
in the Various States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

The office of the supervising architect of
the Treasury has an unprecedented
amount of business on hand. No firm Of
architects, no dozen firms combined, ever
had so much to do or SO great a RESPONSE
biiity as now rests upon James *. lay
lor, the head of that office. During the
last session of Congress he was commits
stoned to erect 1S5 public buildings at
cost of So, 100000. OF these buildings
125 will be erected after competitive de-
signs, the competition being open to all
the architects of the country, but the SIX
ty smaller buildings will be designed in
the architects office, because there IS not
enough in them to justify a competitive
test. The architects office, under the di-
rection of Assistant Secretary Taylor,
has already commenced to acquire the
necessary lands for the erection Of the
new buildings, the first lot bought being
at Greenyille, Tenn. In addition to these,
the government will erect at Washington
new agricultural building, at a cost of
$2,5O0,O00, the plans for which have al
ready been adopted by competition, new
building for the national museum, of fire
proof steel and brick, to cost 81, 100000;
a municipal building for the District Of
Columbia, which will cost 81 100000;
building for the new war college, to be
erected on the arsenal grounds by Nc
Kim, Mead & White, to cost $25O,O0O,
and several other buildings of lesser i'm
portance in the district.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

Director Walcott of the Geological Sur
vey has written long letter to the Civil
Service Commission asking for permission
to employ the services of a competent
hen, that will lay one egg day for the
survey. The egg is needed for making
the albumen coating for photo-lithograph-
ic work The letter states that the sur
vey is in immediate need of an egg and
says: ''In making a requisition on the
Interior Department for an egg we al
ways experience much delay in getting
authority to purchase from the lowest
bidder, and the goods, owing to the meth
DDS of purchase, are not always in prime
condition. 1t would seem wise, there,
FORE to take some definite steps in the
matter The hen of the United StateS
Geological Survey should be capable of
steady daily output. One egg per day is
all we ask, but there should be no ques-
tion about its delivery on time" The
Civil Service Commission will give the
request careful consideration.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26

The Treasury Department has issued
the first order under the new Philippine
civil government act. That act provides
that all taxes paid upon articles subject
to internal revenue taxes shipped to the
Philippines since Nov. Is. 1901. under
the decision of the Secretary of the
Treasury of that date, shall be refunded
to the parties who paid the same under
regulations to be prescribed by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. Those regula-
tons have now been issued.