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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14
Postal Growth in New York.

The postoffice of New York City has
thirty-two stations and 159 substations.
In it is handled daily forty-five tons of
mail matter. Fourteen stamp cancel
ing machines each handle $4,000 letters
an hour.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Before the latest fighting French
deputy was subdued he had succeeded
in hitting his adversary real hard
with a wad Of crumpled paper! The
lawmaking unpleasantnesses Of sunny
France is rising to the perilous level of
the Partisan duel.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14
Uncle Reuben Says:

at amt dat de world am any mo-
wicked dan it was 1900 years ago, but
1t is dat dar am mo- ways of injoyin'
yo'rself fur yor money. "-Detroit Free
Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

A New York composer has received
a gold medal for writing acceptable
music for America" and we will go
on singing the ancient tune just the
same.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

A woman in Delaware refused to
marry a thief He shot her, and was
thus converted into murderer. What
further proof is needed Of the degrad-
ing influence of women?
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ALI Communications for this paper shculd be acconA
panied by of the author not necessarily fcs
publication but evidence of good faith the part
Of the writer Write only side of the paper Be
particularly careful in giving and dates to have
the letters and figures plain and distinct
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

When a young man attempts to kiss
a girl she usually threatens to call for
help, but the young man doesn't need
any help.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Some wives consider marriage sue
cessful failure if the alimony is sat
isfactory.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

King Peter is getting SO used to 1t
that they don't have to revive him
with cold water any more when door
slams
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Breathitt County, Kentucky, was
named after a former governor Of that
state. 1t would no doubt make him
proud if he could be here to see how
his name is kept from being forgotten.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

What q wonderful old world this
would be if the men who think they
know 1t all could only prove 1t!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Pittsburg uses over $1,0O0,O00 worth
Of water each year. You would not
think it, to look at her face.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14
RELIC OF GENE FIELDS GRANDFATHER

An interesting relic OF the family Of
the late Eugene Field may be brought
to Chicago If the present intentions of
Mrs. Eugene Field are carried out The
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Another promoter out of business.
General Uribe-Uribe promises not to
promote any more revolutions in Pan
anna.
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HERO OF THE TYROLEANS.
Andreas Hofer, One of History's Most
Unique Figures.

Unique among the figures Of history
Is that Of Andreas Hofer, the hero of
the Tyroleans, whose interesting per
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

The right kind Of girl doesn't find it
necessary to give the right kind Of
young man any encouragement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14
The Usual Course.

He's failed as dramatist; l Won
der what he'll do now"
"Oh, turn critic, suppose Detroit
Free Pres@
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

No woman would care to be an In
valid If she couldn't talk of her all
ments.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Moral suasion is all right IL It has
the proper backing.
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THIRST FOR REVENGE.

Actuated Col. Maschin, the Leader of
the Serviau Revolution.
It was thirst for revenge that actu-
ated Col Maschin, the leader of the
revolution in Servia, in which King
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

A bIockhead Is a man who La unable
to 1T his opinions to your channel.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

A cablegram that travels around the
earth is liable to have its dates mixed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

Usually\the man who knows but lit
tie tells moSe.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-14

IVORY is a good friend Of the under.
takegA 44-
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
LATEST MOVE
BY COLOMBIA
Preparations Made for the Subjuga-
tion Of Panama.
HER ARMY TO BE INCREASED
Should Mission of Gen. Reyes in
Washington Prove Fruitless, Gov
cember Unless Upper Branch
to 100000 Men.

Colon, Nov. pa telegram from Bo-
gotta, dated November 21, says that the
government has issued orders to raise
the army footing to 100000 men in the
even that Gen. Reyes mission to Wash
ington should prove fruitless. The sub
jugation of Panama is given as the rea-
son for the governments action.
To Rush the Treaty.
Colon, Nov. 26.-It is proposed, when
the messenger bearing the Panama
canal treaty reaches Colon, December /,
to have a special train ready to trans
port him quickly across the isthmus to
Panama, where the treaty will be imme-
diately signed by the members of the
junta. The train, meantime, will be
kept waiting, and when the treaty has
been signed, it's bearer will be promptly
brought back to Colon. The steamer
Yucatan, due to sail December 1 for New
York, will be delayed until the mes
senger arrives, when he will embark on
the Yucatan, thus starting for New
York on the same date that he arrives.
This proposal is meeting with some
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Mayor-elect LIGHT, a democrat, of
Geneva, N. Y, was elected by one vote.
Delucena Lothrop Bingham, the old
est librarian in Massachusetts,, is 80
years of age.
The potato crop of Germany this year
is nearly ten times as greet as that of
the United States.
DR.. J. Wilson Swan, inventor of the
incandescent electric light, has just en-
tered his seventy-sixth year.
Rev. DR.. Luther +. Beecher, cousin of
the late Henry Ward Beecher, died at
Boston recently.
A cut of eight dollars in sheet steel
has been made at Cleveland, making the
present price the lowest in years.
Nine. Patti, after her tour of the Unit
ed States, will sell her castle Craig-y-
Nos and buy house near London.
At public auction in New York walk
ing cane Of the late President Abraham
Lincoln was sold for $145 to H. H. VII
brit of that city.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, in recent
lecture in Boston, said that women
must shoulder the musket in order to
achieve equal suffrage.
The cost of the pension roll is S1.75
year for every man, woman and child
in the United States.s
Nearly half the immigrants arriving
in America come under the fostering
care of the Roman Catholic church.
The time and place Of the next re-
publican national convention will be
decided at national committee meet
ing on December IL.
Efforts are being made to procure a
home for Fanny Crosby, a blind poetess
and sacred song writer. She lives at
Corona, L. I.
w. S. Cockrell. son of Senator Frances
NJ. Cockrell, of Missouri, is reported to
have forsworn allegiance to the United
States and become citizen of Mexico.
DR.. Carlos ]. Findlay, of Havana,
well known for his,work on yellow fever,
has been chosen president of the Ameri-
can Public Health association.
-Four hundred shingle mills in the
Puget Sound country, cutting half the
American supply, have completed their
combine, and will dictate prices to the
east.
J. NJ. Barrie, English author and
dramatist. has an incomS of $4,000
year from royalties on his plays, all OF
which have been successful.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
FOREIGN.

Gen. Reyes, military head of the Co.
lombian forces, warned Admiral Coghlan
that unless the United States makes sat
isfactory arrangements regarding the
Isthmus of Panama the Colombians will
precipitate second Boer war.
The Columbia, the sailing boat in
which Capt Eisenbraun left Boston
August II alone for Marseilles, has ar
rived at her destination.
The White Star line steamer Baltic.
the largest steamer in the world, was
launched at Belfast.
Troops under Gen. Leonard Wood
slew 800 Moros and wounded many
others in battle lasting five days. the
Americans having been led into am
bush by treacherous natives.
Prof. Won Behring. noted German
bacteriologist, declares consumption is
practically always acquired in childhood
and can be prevented.
President Maroquin, of Colombia, has
issued an appeal to the American people
to reject the Administrations action Ia
recognizing Panama.
Gov. Carter took the oath of Office at
Honolulu and was formally inaugurated
governor of Hawaii.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
STREET CAR STRIKE ENDED
Chicago City Railway Employees Ae-
cept Peace Agreement.
Terms by Which Men Return to work
Facts and Figures Regard
ing the Trouble.

Chicago. Nov. 26.-The great Chicago
street car strike was settled at noon on
Wednesday, when the strikers at mass
meeting voted to accept the agreement
made Tuesday night and return to work
at once.
Secretary Barnes, of the union, is
sued orders to the men to report IN the
afternoon at the different barns ready to
take out cars.
Stripped of verbiage the terms of the
agreement are:
Wages-Company and men agree TO
arbitrate, present scale to be set aslde
and the actual worth Of labor to be es-
timated without regard to wages paid
at present. (This may raise some wages
and lower others.)
Routing of Cars-Two propositions
made: men may take choice. One is d
minimum of eight hours and maximum
of eleven, all within limit OF htteen
hours. Other alternative is an oppor-
tunity to earn ten hours pay in fifteen
hours.
Closed Shop Company retains the
right to discharge, discipline and hire
it's men without interference OF the
union in any way. Shop to be open to
union and non-union men alike.
Employment Company will take
back all of it's striking employees except
those who have been found guilty OF
violence since November /. This in
cludes those who went on sympathetic
strikes
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Celebration in New York.

New York, Nov. 26.-Various patri-
otic organizations observed Wednes-
day, the one hundred and twen-
tieth anniversary of the evacu-
alton of New York city by the British.
AS customary, a detail of the veteran
corps of artillery hoisted the American
flag at sunrise over the ancient block
house in Central park. Knickerbocker
chapter, D. A. R., unveiled tablet of
Mary Lindley Murray at Park avenue
and Thirty-seventh street, on the site
of the mansion in which Mrs. Murray
entertained Lord Howe, Lord Cornwall
lis and other British officers and thus
permitted the escape of Gen. Putnam
and his army, who were then in retreat
toward Harlem.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Meets to Consider Reciprocity FOL
Cuba and Other Affairs.

Meets to Consider Reciprocity for
Cuba and Other Affairs.
The bill passed py the house to carry
into effect the Cuban reciprocity treaty
was laid before the United States SEN
ate on the goth and referred to the
committee on foreign relations. Sena-
tor Newlands (Nev.) introduced Joint
resolution inviting Cuba to become
state Of the United States upon terms
of equality with the states of the union.
Adjourned to the 23d. In the house no
business was transacted and adjourn
ment was taken until the oath.
Panama and Cuba engaged the atten-
tion Of the United States senate on the
23d to the exclusion Of all other ques-
tons. It was agreed that vote on the
Cuban bill should be taken December 16.
This defers action until the regular ses-
sion Of congress. The house was not in
session.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Following are the facts and figures re-

Following are the facts and figures re-
garding the strike:
Strike of trainmen began at a. N.
November IL.
Loss in fares to company, $3.50, 900;
loss to company in advertising,
etc.; $4,000; loss to men III
wages, 100000; number of men out
of employment, 1927; cost to the
city in wages of 1000 policemen, $40, 900;
cost of meals for policemen, So 900; cost
to company of cots, foodstuffs, cooks,
walters, ETC., $4,000; damage to cars
and other property, $4,000; estimated
cost to company in fighting to break
strike, $4,000.
Strike ended November 25.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
A food in the Palar river destroyed

half of the town of Vanizambadi, India,
and 200 persons were drowned.
Princess Alice, wife of Prince Freder-
ick Ernst of Schoenburg-W -WaldenCurg, is
said to have eloped with her coachman.
A decree was issued at Cartage1a set
ting forth that no steamers shall be al
lowed to clear from Cartagena for Colon
or enter Cartagena coming from Colon.
Emperor William has directed the
German authorities to officially recognize
the Republic of Panama.
1t is said that Japanese Warships have
been sent to intercept the two Russian
battleships bound for Port Arthur.
The Norwegian steamer Victoria was
stranded during storm off the port Of
Stavanger, Norway. Eighteen persons
were drowned.
Dispatches from Puerto Plata say that
the city of San Domingo has surrendered
to the revolutionists and that President
Wos Gil and his ministers took refuge
on board a German warship.
The Chinese emperor has been in
formed by the governor of Chi Ii that he
is prepared to declare war on Russians
in Manchuria
LATER.
A nitro-glycerine tank at Miller,
Ind, exploded, killing Albert Hoen-
shes and fatally injuring Charles L.
Potter and A. Fisher.
Mrs. Silas Brockin was burned to
death in her home in Murfreesboro,
Tenn.
The official majority of Gov. Cum
Minis of Iowa is 59,614.
The strike of the employees of the
Chicago street railway has been settled
and the men returned to work
Charles Long, well-to-do farmer at
Litchfeld, Mimi, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the neck with
a shotgun.
The combination to control the price
of turkeys in Chicago was broken.
Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son
of the president, is convalescing from
a severe attack of malaria, coupled
with bad cold. The lad is now quite
out of danger.
Bob Fitzsimmons proved that he was
not a "dead one," when he outboxed
and outgeneraled George Gardner for
twenty full rounds at San Francisco.
Fitzsimmons was as awkward and as
cunning as of yore, and apparently
realizing that he must foster his
strength there was not a moment
when he was not carefulness persons
fed.
While sitting alone in one of the
offices of the Boston Note Brokerage
company in Boston, Miss Lillian Golf,
23 years Of age, a stenographer, was
brutally assaulted by man who en-
tered the apartment and struck her re-
peatedly on the head and arms with
heavy iron drill The woman was re-
moved to 4 hospital and is in a serious
condition.
BY decision reached by attorney
General Knox, Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter
was released from the Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, prison.
After occupying the presidential
chair of Mexico for rs years Poririo
Diaz will retire.
| John L. Sullivan's famous $4,000
diamond belt was sold at auction in
New York for $4,000
The supreme court of Alabama de-
eides that negro federal soldiers can
vote.
Forest fires are spreading rapidly in
Mississippi.
Probably the largest organization OF
athletes in any city in the world is to
be formed in New York. About 100,
900 boys in the public schools will be
banded together.
MlNOp MEnlc lrcAc
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04

Samuel Gompers has been chosen
president of the American Federation OF
Labor for the twenty-first consecutive
time.
Carmine Gaimari was electrocuted in
Sing Sing prison for the murder of Mrs.
Josephine Lanta Patro in New York
city October 6, 1902.
Private schedules of James S. Watson,
former president of Porter Brothers
Company in Chicago, show his liabilities
to be 81 ,295,000. ~
Seventeen persons have been killed in
football games during the present sea-
son, with the hardest contests yet to be
played. A dozen are in the hospitals.
American Federation of Labor at It's
closing session in Boston adopted res
olution asking all working people to
purchase goods bearing the union label.
The two hundred and twentieth ami
versary of the landing of the first Ger
man colonists in North America was
celebrated in Washington.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Jones says that 257 In
dian schools are in operation with an
attendance of 24,357. A total Of $757 ,173
has been paid to the Indians for their in
herited lands under the act of May II,
1902.
Strikers attempted to wreck a coal
mine in the Cripple Creek district in Col
orado and troops were sent to keep or
der.
The entire cotton belt region of west
Mississippi and Arkansas is enveloped
in dense smoke as result of serious for
est fires which have been raging for
three days.
Thirteen miners were killed and great
damage was done by an accidental ex-
plosion of gas in coal mine No. 20 at
Bonanza, Ark.
At Savannah, Ca, Edward J. McRee,
Frank McRee and William McRee, of
Valdosta, entered plea of guilty to IL
indictments charging them with peon-
age and were sentenced to pay fine OF
81 900 in two of the cases.
Burglars broke into the post Office at
Nanticoke, Pa, blew open the safe and
secured $4,000 in money and stamps
The white house is in mourning on &C
count Of the death Of the presidents S
uncle, James X. Oracle. There will be
no social entertainments until the cab
met dinner.
August Is has been fixed as the date
for holding the annual G. A. r. encamp-
ment in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith, 60 years
of age, were burned to death in a fire
which entirely consumed their home in
the outskirts of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The car barn and six other murders
and robberies in Chicago were confessed
by Gustave Marx murderer of Detective
Quinn, who duplicates three others.
Secretary Hay notified Great Britain
and Holland that America will not guar
antee any part Of the Colombian bonds,
but says Panama ought to.
President Roosevelt entertained rep
resentative Montana Workingmen at
dinner at the white house and promised
them Square deal" in all labor mat
ters.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Report Of Fighting Confirmed.

Washington, Nov 26.-The war de-
partment Wednesday received adispatch
from Col Simpson, acting commander
of the division of the Philippines, con-
firming the press dispatches from Ma
Mia detailing another engagement be-
tween Gen. Leonard Woods forces and
the Moros on the island of Jolo. The dis
patch stated that no more opposition is
expected and that the expedition is now
at Jolo awaiting developments.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Gen. Francis Marion Drake, former
governor of Iowa, died of diabetes after
a brief illness at Centerville, aged 73
years. He leaves large estate.
Hart P. Danks, who had national
reputation as singer and song writer,
died in Philadelphia, aged 70 years.
Gen. George H. Stuart, graduate of
West Point, Indian fighter and brigadier
general in the confederate army, died
on his estate at South River, Md.
The official vote at the recent election
in Ohio gives Myron T. Herrick (rep.)
plurality Of 1882 for governor, the
highest ever given gubernatorial can
didate in Ohio.
Mrs. Phoebe Clifford, the Oldest minis
ter in the Society of Friends in the world,
died in Providence, r. l., aged 100 years
and five months.
Rev. Jonathan S. Willis, former rep
resentative in congress from Delaware,
is dead.
The death is announced of Julian Wal
bridge Rix, the well-known painter OF
California mountain scenery.
1t is announced that Eugene f. Ware,
the commissioner of pensions, will retire
from that Office by the middle of Novem-
Der Of next year and will return immedi-
ately to the practice of law in Kansas.
AS the result of conference at the
white house, Gov. Odell, of New York,
and Senator Plat agreed to bury differ
ences which threatened serious trouble,
opd tho two will wor1, in harnonv
United States Senator Clark's daugh-
ter, Mrs. Everett Mallory Culver, has
been sued by Mrs. Elizabeth r. Vlasto
for $500,000 ON the charge of alternating
Solon Vlastos affections.
Bishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer,
of Green Bay, Wis, will be named by the
congregation of the propaganda as arch
bishop Of Milwaukee and his appoint
ment sent to Pope Plus x. for approval.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
4 .Asphyxiated.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 26.-Four per-
sons, J. w. Ray, miner of Acme, Ariz.;
Mrs. A. e. Hamilton, of Chetopa, Kan,
and her two children were overcome by
gas in their rooms in third-class hotel
in Union avenue Wednesday. One of
the children, a boy, aged four years, is
dead. The others are unconscious, but
will. it is believed, recover Mrs. Ham
ilton, who evidently is in destitute cir
cumstances, was on her way to Breck-
enridge, Mo. The doors and windows in
her room were closed tightly Ray was
in room across the hall.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
OaiciaI Vote of Mnssachusetts.

Boston, Nov. 26.-The official vote
cast at the state election, November 3,
was announced Wednesday at the state
house. The returns show that Gov.
John l.. Bates (rep.), was rejected by
plurality of Sc, 1884. Gov. Bates received
a total of 1876, ,6s4 votes and Col. William
A. CASTOR, the democratic candidate for
governor, received 1853, 700 votes.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Unable to Agree.

STATES. IL Is uoWCS "a, liAe]~ eAAAo
opposition will be overcome.
Unable to Agree.
Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. "a
Gen. Reyes cabled to the Colombian gov
ernment Sunday from Port Limon, Cos
ia Rica, that he was unable to do any
thing regarding the canal with the Pa-
mama commission, at the conference
held November 20 on board the French
steamer Canada, off Colon. He added:
"The Americans prevented us from
landing at Colon. Admiral Coghlan
informed me that he had instructions
from Washington to prevent Colombian
troops from landing on the coasts OF the
isthmus."
Colombian public opinion strongly
condemns the attitude of the govern
ment at Washington, which, it is
claimed, decidedly helps the secession
movement in Panama.
Confirms Closing OF Ports.
Colon. Nov. 26.-The Italian steamer
Venezuela, which arrived here Wednes-
day from Savanilla, confirms the prev1-
Gus statements to the effect that Carta-
gena and Savanilla are closed to steam
ers going to or coming from Colon. The
Venezuela agents at Savanilla repre-
scented that the Venezuela was not aware
of the closing of the ports and asked as
a special favor that a Colon clearance
be granted The authorities acquiesced,
but said they could not do so again.
The decree closing the ports Of Carta-
gena and Savanilla originated with the
government of the department OF Boll-
var. The protests of the foreign con-
suls and steamship agents are still un-
needed.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Neva River Oyerfiow..

St. Petersburg, Nov. 26.-Consider-
able damage has been caused by sud-
den rise of the waters of the Neva and
of the canals following the recent bad
weather. The Neva is nine feet above
normal, and the streets bordering the
river are flooded. Wheeled traffic is
suspended in many thoroughfares, and
the Inhabitants are using boats and
RATS.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Permit Issued.

Washington, Nov. 26.-The District
of Columbia authorities have issued the
building permit for the new s5,0O0.OO0
union railway station in this city. The
station will embrace nine blocks.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-04
Will Shut Down.

Shamokin, Pa, Nov. 26.-Notices
were posted at the Lehish Valley Cen
tralia colliery Wednesday that the op-
Grafton would shut down Indefinitely
after December 1. No reason is given,
but it is thought the suspension is part
of the restriction policy of the big COM
panies. Fifteen hundred employees will
be rendered idle