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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-05
A Sf4 Hat

Crown made of blue straw, in Renals-
sance, Lace Brim, Gator Wings and
Ribbons, Pearl Ornaments-reduced
to :. :. :. :. :. :. :. :. -. =. $500
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-05

June End, 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-05
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Mayor Powell yesterday fined Kemp
Plummer, negro, s4.25 for disorderly
conduct.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-05

The children of the Garfield graded
school, colored, will not give concert
this year. but instead take an outing to
W:lder's Grove today.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
They Did Not Dive.

When it was noised around the little
town on the cape that the schooner
sunk offshore was to be visited by
divers with a view to raising her, peo-
pie got into their boats and roWed out
to see the unusual sight. Among 9th
ers, says the New York Evening Post,
were an old farmer and his wife,
whose home was farther inland.
A diver in his suit is curious-look-
ing object out of water, a cross be-
tween a knight in medieval armor and
torpedo destroyer, and he is put
overheard in the same manner as a
ships anchor. The farmer, however,
had his own idea of how diver should
look, and seeing no figure that fitted
his fancy, he hailed the man in charge
Of the work.
Say" he asked, where's your
divers?'
'tWhy, you've just seen two OF them
go down." was the reply.
The farmer turned his boats PROV
toward the shore. Mandy" he said
to his wife, ''he's fooling us. Them
amt divers they're sinkers.'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
BIG BRIDGE IN FLAMES.
New Structure Over the East River
Damaged 100000.

New Structure Over the East River
Damaged 100000.
Fire which caused an estimated dam
age of 100000 attacked the new East
river bridge between New York City and
Brooklyn at dusk Monday night and
burned over three hours in a spectacular
manner.
The fire was at the top of skeleton
steel structure 1873 feet in the air. 1t
was fed by twenty or more barrels of lu-
bricating oil, thousands of feet of lum-
Der and lot of infammable material for
wrapping the big cables. The tirenen
faced almost insurmountable difficulties
i'll attempting to stop it.
A torrent of sparks, blazing oil and
timbers and of white hot iron and steel
fell for an hour or more down through
the structure. What made a spectacle
of imposing grandeur for everybody in
sight of the great structure in Brooklyn
and Manhattan along the East river wat
er front was a constant menace of horrl-
BILE death to the men who were trying to
save the bridge from total destruction.
Every bolt and iron beam and sirder
that fell from the top of the tower drop
ped through the network of steel below
with reverberating thunder like that Of
batteries of artillery. When the fire was
at its worst these noises were so loud and
so constant that men a block away could
not hear each other.
The falling missiles struck girders at
every angle and glanced off in all direc-
tions, landing in the streets near by, ON
the piers, and far out in the river.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
CAR FAMINE SEEMS NEAR.
Roads Unable to Cope with Demanda
for Freight Transportation.

for Freight Transportation.
The railroads to-day are face to face
with the greatest car and power, or en-
CINE, shortage in their history 1t is cs-
timated by conservative and expert traffic
men that the demand for cars to move
the traffic of the country which is now
being offered for transportation is fully
$4,000 in excess of the supply. AS the
weeks go by the shortage will undoubted-
ly increase rather than decrease until
it reaches a point where every freight
yard and every freight house in the coun-
try is blockaded with traffic awaiting
transportation facilities.
So bad has the situation become that
sudden period of cold weather would
almost paralyze the transportation facili-
ties Of the entire country. Realizing the
danger of this, traffic and operating men
are using almost superhuman efforts to
relieve the situation and are hoping
against hope The facts with respect to
the transportation facilities of the coun-
try and the amount of traffic of every de-
scription and class that is being offered
to public carriers are startling in their
significance, for in the traffic of the coun-
try is mirrored prosperity that Is I'M
precedented.
The statistics regarding the movement
of freight during the last two years are
almost inconceivable and show as does
nothing else the increasing prosperity in
every branch Of industry commercial,
industrial and manufacturing activity
that is becoming the wonder of all ma
tons. When the average man Is told
that during 1901 the railroads Of the
country transported or moved total Of
over 1,000,O00,OO0 tons of freight, for
which they received over $1,000,000,O
and that they carried over 6O0,000,000
passengers, for which they received over
$3.50, 100000, his mental faculties are
stunned at the magnitude of these trans
actions and he begins to realize that the
United States is now the most prosper
Gus country in the world. These figures,
large as they are, will be greatly exceed
ed for 1902, and those whose business it
is to keep finger on the commercial and
industrial pulse of the country do not
hesitate to say that the increases in traffic
of the last three years will be surpassed
for several years to come, provided ma
ture does her part and there are conse-
quently no crop failures.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
MANlLA's FIRE FIGHTERS.
excellent Department Under Famous
New York Chief.

Exceltent Department Under Famous
New York Chief.
Hugh Bonner, once New Yorks most
famous fire chief, has done wonders
with the Manila department, and has an
eHectiye and very strong fire-fghting
corps in that city. Chief Bonner was
appointed to the important position
nearly year ago, and in that time has
worked wonders with the material he
had on hand as a foundation.
Hugh Bonner has been in the fire de-
partment since 1858, and when but lad
he ran with the Lady Washington en-
CINE company, No. 40, in New York. In
1861 he was made a foreman In the
company and served with it until 1865,
when the paid department was organ
lied and Bonner was at once appointed
foreman and attached to engine COM
pany No. 90 While acting in this ca
pacity he operated the first self-propel-
ling fire engine and chemical engine
ever used in the department.
In May, 1873, he was made chief Of
the battalion and assigned to the second
district, in which were located many Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
CHEAPER THAN HARE coal.
Germany Uses Briquettes, Which Give
Perfect Satisfaction.

0ermany Uses Briquettes, Which Give
Perfect Satisfaction.
FRANK ii. Mason, consul general to
Berlin, sends in a report concerning the
use Of briquettes, made from brown
coal, carbonized peat, coal dust and so
forth, used as domestic and steam fuel
III Berlin and other German cities, and
the Wholesome effect of such fuel, to-
sether with coke and fuel gas, in pre-
serving towns and cities from the
smoke nuisance and at the same time
aHordlng a fuel cheaper than the hard
coal.
Mr.. Mason says there are in opera
ton in Germany eighty-nine ranufac-
tories of fuel briquettes and he goes
on to say:
If Americans are really interested in
the subject there is no need that they
should risk any large sums of money
IN uncertain experiments. They have
only to study the machinery and meth
DDS employed in European countries,
compare their crude materials with
those found and used here, and they
can thus start at the point of technical
knowledge which Europeans have
reached after many years of expert
ence. When, some ten years ago, the
attention Of American iron-makers was
called to the German system of making
blast furnace coke in retort ovens,
which saves the valuable volatile ele-
ments Of the coal, it was thought worth
while by certain Of them to bring over
two carloads Of Connellsville coal to be
cooked as test by the German process.
The complete success Of that expert
ment decided the Introduction of the
standard German type Of coking oven
into the United States.
Something similar, it would seem,
might proftably be done with the ma
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
SEES CANADA ANNEXED.
Archbishop Ireland Predicts Dom i'm
ions Union with States.

Arch bishop Ireland Pred1ctS Dom IN
ions Union with States.
In speaking at the banquet of the Min
nesota Society in New York City Arch
bishop Ireland expressed the belief that
Canada eventually will be under the do
main of the United States. The transit
ton, he said, would come without con-
quest, without war. After telling of the
growth of America in comparison with
other great nations the archbishop said:
"Within q few years the commerce of
the States on the Pacific coast will equal
that of those on the Atlantic. The devel-
opment of the lands to the east, the west,
the north and the south is going on mere
rapidly and safely than ever before and
we are reaping and will continue to reap
benefits. From the east the movement
will be westward to that section and from
the west eastward to the same destina-
ton.
Il do not want to be bellicoSe, bGt
say this for myself: AS sure as fate, Fl
though you and [ may not see it, the
starry banner will wave mistress over al
the territory from the gulf to the bay.
There will DE no conquest, no war. The
hearts across the border are already beat
ing with love for us, and commerce and
agriculture are calling for espousals."
Reason for the increase of the power
of the United States the archbishop
found in the universal liberty enjoyed by
the citizens. He Said that he had the
greatest confidence in the perpetuity of
America as the home of human liberty
and that what every American needs to
insure this is consciousness of ones own
rights, which should be demanded and
sustained, and, secondly, a respect for
the rights of others and an inclination
to help them to widen every opportunity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
BIG GAIN IN EXPORTS.
Compared with 1892, Increase Is AL
most 200 Per Cent.

Compared with 1892, Increase Is AL
most 200 Per Cent.
Exports from the United States in the
nine months ending with September are
larger than for any corresponding period
in the history of the country, with the
single exception of 1900. The total for
1902 is $311 1902, Al, against $295, $780,
551 for the corresponding period last
year, and $33S, 67S, 243 in the correspond
ing months of 1900 Comparing 1902
with 1892 the increase is nearly 200 per
cent, the figures of 1892 being $780,
O24; while comparing 1902 with 1888 the
growth in nine months expectations of
manufactures is from $99,S40,014 to
1911, 1902, Al.
The temporary reduction in exports of
manufactures which occurred last year,
due in part to the maintenance in the
United States of extraordinary high
prices on copper, and to the unusual de-
mand for iron and steel manufactures,
has in large degree disappeared, cop
per exports having increased $ll,OOO,-
900 in the nine months ending with Sep
tember, 1902 as compared with the cor
responding months of 1901, while the re-
duction in exports of iron and steel man
ufactures in the nine months of 1907,
compared with the corresponding period
of 1901 is but $3,00OOO0, though the in
creased home demand is shown in the
fact that importations of iron and steel
manufactures have meantime increased
over $13,OO0,O0O, the total for nine
months of this year being practically dcu-
BILE that for the same months of 1901.
Cotton manufactures also showed a,
marked growth in expectations the in
crease being nearly $7,000,000 in the
nine months of 1902, as compared with
the corresnondino neriod of last year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
{CHG2e1A 8
COLLEGES

Hamilton College, Clinton, n. Y, has
decided to expel students found using
English translations Of the classics in
the curriculum.
A feature Of the curriculum Of the
Carthage, Mo, high school for the pres
ent year is the study Of the Bible as the
basis Ct all our moral life, and as "a fine
work of literature"
United States Labor Commissioner
Carroll D. Wright was formally installed
as president of the collegiate department
Of Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
Senator Hoar made the chief address.
Prof. G. Stanley Hall of Clark Univer-
sity has expressed himself as in favor
of the free use of effective slang by
school children. He says it helps them
to acquire tiuency and keeps them from
becoming tongue bound.
Harvard University has just establish
ed a bureau through which students who
are working their way through college
may secure employment room in
Lawrence Hall and clerk employed by
the university are given to the work.
Columbia University began it's 10th
wear with 5000 students enrolled and
a staff of nearly 500 teachers. In his
annual report, President Butler recon-
mended two-year course, with the de-
gree of bachelor of arts. He says tn
university needs S10,000000 for the "or.
it has undertaken.
During the meetings of the German coz
,nial congress at Berlin, Prof. Prand1
\ Fought forward the proposition to nave
S125, 900 spent by the government yearly
to maintain German schools in other
countries, and thus strengthen the lays
terious, powerful bond of language. An
other speaker advocated the cooperation
of Germany with America and Great
Britain His idea is to promote an hon
erable understanding with the English
;peaking nations in the race for the
worlds business.
Simmons College, New England's first
professional fitting school for women,
was opened at Boston under the prcsl-
dency of Henry Lefavour. In his address
DR.. Lefavour referred to the fact that the
founder of the college, John Simmons,
had been dead for thirty years. The col
lege is non-sectarian and starts with 20
students. Of these SO are studying house
hold economics, ~ have registered for
sec-etarial work and % for library work.
Other professions are also represented.
The street car company of Chicago has
agreed to carry school children between
the ages of and II for half fare.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

made from peat without the applica-
ton of heat-simply through the action
OF kneading and drying.
Turf briquettes ordinarily contain
ABOUT 66 per cent Of infiammable ele-
ments, the remainder being made up of
inorganic ash and water. They are
thus far inferior as fuel to briquettes
made from brown coal, which average
~ per cent or more of infammable
matter. Both represent in their pres
ent form the utmost that science has
been able to do in utilizing inferior and
otherwise almost worthless materials
TO supplement and exc out the INSULT
clent coal supply Of European count
tries"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

the large dry goods and other mercan-
tile houses. Here again he was fore
most and operated the first water tower
ever used in fighting fires. He was ap-
pointed second assistant chief in 1888,
and it was while he was in that position
that he organized the first school of in
struction. A year later Mr.. Bonner was
appointed first assistant chief, and in
1889 he reached the highest rung in the
ladder he had been climbing for so
many years and was appointed chief of
the department.
The aim of Chief Bonner's life was
the perfecting Of the New York depart
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
TeIerraphic RreYitiea.

Big oil we'll, Barboursville, Ky.
Revolt in San Domingo is over, Rebels
lost.
Street car strike, Glens Falls, N. y.
is off.
The Kaiser will build a royal castle at
Posen.
Trolley car killed Mrs. Anna Wilson,
SO, Savannah, Ga.
Chicago jury said Edward Coughlan
was not guilty Of killing C. o. Harz.
S. II. Edgar, second vice-president of
the L. & n, is dead, Caldwell, n. j.
It is said that American capitalists are
trying to gobble up big British insur-
ance companies
Heavy floods in Italy caused thirty
miles of the old road, near Rome, to coll
lapse.
Whittier homestead. Hayerhill, Mass,
partially destroyed by fire, will rise from
the ashes.
John F. Livers, contractor Kansas
City, was killed by a falling cornice. w.
H. Ennis and John Taylor were injured
]. D. Rockefeller bought the holdings
of the Country Club, Lakewood, N. =,
for $3.50 The property represents a.-
outlay of $4,000.
The smallest people in the world are
said to be the natives of the Andaman
island in the bay Of Bengal. They aver
age feet II inches in height and about
70 pounds in weight.
Government bonds of the face value OF
$4,000 were stolen from William Siden-
faden, pioneer undertaken of st. Joseph,
Mo-. before his death. The fact was
discovered by John Mciiee, administrators
Of the estate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
All Over the State

'aaFd hendick, one of Gle pioneers
'l'o|oc is dead. He was a prom
merchant there for many years.
''s Aowcn, a brakeman of Hust-
Us Killed 1T Fairchild by walking
emu OF freight car and being
l''oEoc officers are in pursuit of
''aSrI. Il prisoner at the county
.' made his escape. Fensel is
= !" I'll The town Of Eaton and was
@" a few days ago to serve a
~0A,aS term for 4 brutal assault
an cd man.
winters, who was held several
,~,"A'cuon with the disappear
A''sFt Anderson of Cedar River.
s, r.- released and fully exonerated.
~ he last saw Anderson starting
.oS'o'jce ana believes he fell off
'ase and drowned.
In, "'di ana kicked Michael
rs,,, ~'S Neptather, aged "A years,
~! Wat It is not known whether
wa" u. VIII! Recover. Bagley was ar
Al :, M N not Known how the trouble
w.. rae men live on a farm two
s'st Of Nulwonago.
j J. has been made to police OH.
s,, I'd, SIesed holdup on the Rapids
,r, l. ''""ltoWoc. Henry Beas claims
~ rr r;a assaulted just outside of
,'-,..S while returning home and
m, D,''"S Of 4 struggle in which
~ De beat off his assailants.
srs t; :. to alight from a street
gf,,.5,,|y,a was IN motion in Manitowoc
Al ,SeIa PawbIitzsky fell. striking
10, .r Inc pavement. She has frac-
ais f s@I. and will probably die.
,bs S Sa.neF was killed fifteen years
.es~,r'33'e way. She jumped off the
KsDa aSler' a well-known Young
s has, r r~sS and 4 roller at the Chi.
tSiD, %oFks, met with serious, if not
s5,so r'sS While at his post. Tvier
ns1 ,rs blocking machine, and in
ass p,5t0e fell into the machine.
r2s tar-; tyei broken. and his entire
V.Nb.y hruiS,l
nd Y y,l Hing, engineer on the Chi
Alls5 o' an I2S,. road, was in
a car. >s'0a" by being run
las 70 the new city directory
a.,si al population of 1000 peo cD,s
'es5s,aa. basis of 1867 names nno,', Of
5 oIEs9sson, aged "a years. of
= md g. nan IN on the Chicago, Mil
soo fen Il Was Va. Working broke i in I tmo
9assiag o Un' the rear portion of the
O'eF his body. '~
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

ward Baycry. % years old, n fol-
Of Dowie, died at Sturgeon Bay.
bad been i'll for some time, but re-
medical attendance or medicine,
p urged to accept the services of Il
Iaan by his parents. He leaves 4
y and child, and only recently re-
d from Zion City.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

IS Maggie Thomas, 10 years old,
.eartuIIy burned by the explosion of
0sene lamp at her home in the town
lris The woman was alone in the
and in some manner she pulled
amp from the table. 1t fell on the
and was broken, the burning oil be-
'mrpd over her clothing. She will
Z
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

nuel and Herbert Wickingson,
e brothers, William and Albert, and
!. Julia, were murdered and burned
cir home near Palmyra the night Of
%. have offered a reward of $1,000
be arrest and conviction of the muir
s. A special detective has been
gel by the brothers to run down
ESlSSiDS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
sbootin- at Mu11or Lake.

F. Wade, it is alleged, shot and
,sIv wounded George A. Gould at
y Lake. Gould was shot in the
the right side and the left shoulder.
men are brothers-in-law and the
ipg it is said, was the outcome of
tprcation over land matters. Both
pw residents. Gould has been an at
: and came from Illinois. Wade is
Missouri
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

ment and the maintaining of it at the
highest possible point Of efficiency.
The department stands to-day as proof
that he has not labored in vain. His
fame as a fireman has spread all over
this country and reaches the other side
of the ocean.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
No sympathy to Spare.

81 am going to marry your daughter,
sir" said the positive young man to the
father. "Well, you needn't come to me
for sympathy" replied the father; Il
have troubles of my own"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
Old Engineer Killed.

W. Hinge, a Northwestern engi-
was killed at Kendall. He was
+ BY train while switching. He
at baraboo and was one of the old
n'neerS on the road. His head and
|Tere taken off
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
,...1e Row Shoots Sister.


ra Dekuyser, the 6-year-old son of
md Mrs. William Dekuyser of the
'r of Preble, shot and killed his B.
"a sistpr The mother went out to
! II after wood, leaving the little boy
rirI in a bedroom tending a baby.
baar1 a shot and, returning to the
found the Iifeless body of her
btor on the floor, with the top of her
'bovn off, shotgun at her side and
Az missing. The gun was a double
he'd shotgun, which had been stand
tbp corner of the room. The boy
fornd later hiding in a neighbor's
lift. He had played with the gun,
moving it vas loaded.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15

Nelson, the Dane County
pn mas Of his lonely home south of
alsI county poor house. His faith
Pang a3ant, william Bradley, was
llsll nIaasantly with him the other
Png =, 1aner remarking on the near ap-
nI &c THANKSGIVING day, and IN the
4 u oftnr Mr.. Bradley had break
ns sdr p' went to call him as usual,
rt 5a ifonnd him dead in bed. Mr..
n Eos always resigned to his fate.
p = c cr of Mt. Horeb had Wis
2 H., y and gave him the Lutheran
l = onrmunion. He was a great
u # both English and Norwegian
., ~ . year ago, when he lost the
sO his ewes Mr.. Nelson was born
D,n 'l,' Norway, in 1910. He had
V s5#ictod with leprosy for thirty, one
an His mother was a leper and died
twenty-five years ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
Truth,s Echo.

"Good men, you know, are scarce
Eyes, / know, and even bad men have
to make themselves so at timeS!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
BADGER STATE.
8 OF THE WEEK <o ooNo'ss-S
= CONDENSED

name County Leper Are
r'D f;tt1e Girl Accidentally Slain
offered for Wickingson's
Muller Lake Shooting.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-02-04

Now that several transcontinental
railroads have been completed and an
A Prophecy of isthmian canal be-
fore many years
tainty, it is timely to recall an interest
ing prophecy. In 1852 congress au-
thorized the president to procure sur
veys for the selection of route for a
railroad to the Pacific. Under this
authorization four expeditions were
sent out and as many routes were sur
veyed, the work occupying nearly two
years. In 1855 Mr.. Edward Williams,
a writer of the period, declared that
when these gigantic plans shall be
consummated-when the shores of the
Pacific shall be reached by railways,
when the telegraph shall girdle the
earth and ocean steamships shall ply
regularly between their termini and
farther India, whose wealth the COM
mercial world has SO long coveted
the beaten track of commerce will be
changed and new and wonderful page
in the history of the world will be
opened" For look ahead nearly so
years ago, that shows pretty clear
vision; yet the writer overlooked the
acquisition of Hawaii and the Philip
pines by the United States.