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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
IN THE POLITICAL WORLD.

Joseph G.. Cannon opened republl-
odn campaign at Richmond, Ind.
Speaker Joseph G.. Cannon will
speak in Milwaukee, Oct. 6, and at
Waukesha on the same day.
Vice Presidential Candidate Fair
banks opened the campaign for Mis-
souri, republicans at Kansas City.
August Belmont is said to aspire
to the highest place in the national
committee and to plan to send Taggart
west.
Senators Spooner, Allison, Foraker
and Burrows and Secretaries Shaw
and Taft will be heard in Indiana dur
ing the campaign.
John j. Kempf began suit to recover
the Office of state treasurer of Wiscon-
sin, from which he was removed by
Governor La Toilette.
Thomas E. Watson, peoples party
candidate for president, aSsailed Park
er and the democratic party in an ad-
dress at the Georgia state convention.
Congressman John Lind of Minneap-
oils has declined for business reasons
the democratic nomination for justice
of the minnesota state supreme court.
Congressional campaign in Iowa
expected to center in Second district,
where Martin ]. Vale, democratic
nominee, seeks to run as nOnpartisan.
1t is asserted in Nebraska that Mr..
Bryan forced Hill to retire.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
HIGH-sPEED LOCOMOTIVE.
Novel Machine Exhibited at the
Worlds Fair

Worlds Fair
ST. Louis, Sept. S.-Germany's pro-
gress in locomotive building is shown
in a gigantic and novel engine on ex-
hibition in the palace of transportation
at the worlds fair. 1t is wholly of an
original type and has a great speed
record. Before being shipped to the
United States it was tested on one of
the government roads near Gottingen,
Germany, where it made 1914 miles
an hour, drawing a train of six cars,
and IS miles an hour with three cars,
The most striking peculiarities are
in it's construction, it being so built
that the engineer stands in front with
in glazed cab, like the motorman
of an electric car. Both engine and
tender are covered with sheathing
of sheet iron, with glass windows so
arranged as to provide covered pass
age from front to rear.
The engine is carried on twelve
wheels, four-wbeel boyle in front
and rear, between which are two pairs
of drivers, coupled in the usual man
ner This arrangement is for the pur-
pose of securing a smooth steadiness
of motion despite curves or irregulari-
ties of track surface. The engine is
of the compound type, the high
pressure cylinder being located mid
way between the side frames where
it's piston connects with an inside
crank on the forward driving shaft.
The two low-pressure cylinders drive
two outside parallel cranks in such
way as to secure an even balance be-
tween reciprocating parts, giving i'm
portant results.
The boiler weighs AZ toms and car
ries seven tons of coal and 400 gal
Ions of water 1t has coal consump-
tion of 211a pounds of coal per horse
power, per hour, and will develop
1,775 horsepower.
Germany has an outside railway ex-
hibit also, containing a model rail
way station with block system of
switching and railway track with
ties Of steel and prepared wood. In
both kinds of ties the rails are bolted
to the ties instead of being spiked to-
them, as the American rails. are, to
their wooden ties. The entire exhibit
is novel as we'll as interesting and in
|structive, and is attracting the atten-
ton of many fair visitors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The daughter of Don Carlos will ask
the pope to annul her marriage.
No trace is found of Princess Louise
of Coburg, thought to have eloped with
her lover.
Kaiser William announced the be-
trothai of the crown prince and
Duchess Cecilia.
Editor Spahr Of Current Literature
disappeared like F. Kent LOOMS from
the deck of a vessel near Dover.
Italy hesitates in demanding the re-
turn of the stolen cope because of the
American citizenship of j. P. Morgan.
Charles Hickins, an American, has
been murdered in lumber camp near
Tenosique, in the state of Tapisco,
Mex.
The sultan if Turkey is said to have
been struck by a. bulaetzSfred by a
guard during a bloody ARRAY at the
palace gate.
British Columbia, isolated from the
remainder of the dominion by physical
and commercial barriers, looks to
America for a trade alliance.
Mount Vesuvius is again in activity
Flames, ashes, and stones are rising
from it to a considerable height and
a wide stream of lava is issuing from
the crater.
Prince George Of Greece, commits
sioner general Of the powers in Crete,
expressed the opinion that it was i'm
possible further to delay the union OF
Crete to Greece.
At laramie, Italy, Montenegran
telegraph operator has been arrested
accused of the abstraction of docu
ments regarding the defense Of the
country, which were to be sold to
foreign power.
At North Sydney, G. B., the Amer1
can fishing schooner Samosa was
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
BIG HARVEST OF HOPS.
Oregon Crop Worth $4,ooo,o oo-In
crease in Washington

Portland, Oregon, Sept. 8.-More
than 10000 people, men, women and
children have entered the hop fields of
Oregon and begun the harvest Of hops.
The crop is conservatively estimated
at $1,000 bales and is the most valu-
able one ever raised in this state, be-
ing worth at present prices almost
$4,4G1. 800.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 8.-The har-
vest Of the Washington hop crop has
begun. 1t is estimated that 10000
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
RUsso-JAPANESE WAR.

Kouropatkin exploded his magazines
and burned his stores.
The Japanese lost $4,000 men and
the Russians 10000 in the Liaoyang
fighting.
The Japanese set the last week of
September as the date of Port Arthur S
capltulation.
The Japanese army overwhelmingly
defeated the Russians and drove them
from Liaoyang.
General Stoessel tells the car that
all assaults on Port Arthur since Aug.
% have been repulsed.
General Stakelberg succeeded in ex-
Treating his army from the Japanese
trap and Joined Kuropatkin in the re-
treat.
St. Petersburg holds to faith in
Kouropatkn's ability to keep the
Japanese in check ana maintain his
line to Mukden.
The Japanese victory n capturing
determination, adding: And that ,
Liaoyang created the widest excite
ment in Toxic.
Inc Japanese consul a. CuduShoi
yarned the neutral powers not to take
to paroled the crews of the Russian
Warships away from Shanghai.
Attacks on Port Arthur are increas-
ing and the Japanese are not allowing
the defenders a moment OF rest. A
fierce hut fruitless assault was made
as late as Sept. 2.
Peace talk is again heard in Europ-
can capitals. The kaiser'S scheme
for a Russo-Japanese alliance, with
Germany third partner, is deemed
feasible, but is not acceptable to the
japan. Russians favor continuance
of the war.
4 report is sent out from Mukden
that the Russians are preparing to
evacuate. That city Kouropatkin's and
Oyama's armies are racing northward.
rhe Japanese are thirty miles from
the place. Russians fear an attack
from the direction of Newchwang.
The Russian rear guard is reported cut
to pieces.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12

seized by the Canadian government
cruiser Gladiator and towed into the
harbor. The captain of the cruiser
claims that the Samosa was fishing
within the three mile limit.
Sedan day was observed by a
parade of the Potsdam and Berlin gar
risons, numbering 10000 troops. Rid
ing with the emperor were Prince
Henry and twenty other members of
the royal family, a number of other
princes, and the foreign military at
tache. The empress, in a white uni
form, led the queens fusileers, of
which she is colonel.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
NOXIOUS WEED THAT is UNSAFE
TO HANDLE.
Plant Widely Distributed and Found
in Almost Every Ravine, Open
Wood and CIump of Bushes
Climbs to the Top of the Highest
Trees.

Owing to the presence in the neigh
borhood of the city of large quanti-
ties of poisonous ivy the following
method of detection of this vine is
printed with the idea that it may be
OF benefit to the many persons who
are going into the woods this autumn
10 pick wild grapes, hazel nuts or
gather hickory nuts.
Poison ivy is one of the most
widely distributed plants in the
United States today. 1t is found
in almost every ravine, open wood
and clump of bushes. 1t is such a
common plant and so generally rec
ognized as a poison plant that it is
not often that anyone is injured by it.
1t is common in Wisconsin, and the
woods and ravines in the vicinity of
Madison are filed with it. 1t is
known by the various names of poi
son ivy, poison oak and sumach.
There are practically only two varie
lies. The characteristic feature OF
each is that it has compound leaf
with three leaflets.
Generally it is climbing vine,
and will run to the top of the high.
est tree, holding on by the tendrils,
similar to the Boston ivy. If no sup
port is at hand the ivy remains
short, shrubby plant. Any wild plant
hat has a leaf with three leaflets
should be looked upon with suspicion.
1t is easy to distinguish this ivy
from the harmless American ivy, also
known as Woodbine and Virginia
creeper, which has five leaflets in
stead of three. In other respects they
look just alike. All persons are not
affected in the same way Some can
handle the plant with impunity,
while with others the least contact
of leaves and stem will cause the
skin to be red and swollen, with in
tense itching and an occasional
breaking out into blisters. When the
leaves are bruised, causing the juice
to flow, the effect is greater, as the
oil in them is said to be the vital
principle, and all parts of the plant
cause the same general effect.
The probable reason that more
persons are not injured by it is be-
cause nearly every one is acquainted
with it and avoids it. Though no SER
ious harm comes from it, yet the
plant is a nuisance, and it is import
ant that ali children should be taught
early to recognize poison ivy, for it is
found everywhere. 1t would be al
most an endless task to eradicate it
entirely, as it propagates itself easily
by seeds which the birds carry. The
broken off roots and stems usually
take root again. In case of ivy
poisoning the best remedy is to rub
the affected parts with pure alcohol, or
what is still better, lead acetate,
simply sugar of lead dissolved in
alcohol This milky fluid should be
we'll rubbed into the affected skin, re-
peating the operation several times for
few days. This relieves the itching
Immediately and stops the action of
the poison. This is the time of the
year that people should be careful
about the plant.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
MORTUARY.

Charles F1nn0y CIdfh, pr0S1u0uC anu
principal owner of the Bradstreet mer
camille agency is dead in London.
D. l.. Chestnut of Chicago, assistant
to the president of the Western Steel
Car and Foundry company, died at
Plymouth, England, Sept. 1.
Probate Judge Carl Nippert died in
Cincinnati. He was lieutenant gov
ernor of Ohio two years ago. He was
born at Frankfort Main in 1852
Daniel Magone, ex-collector of the
port of New York, died at Ogdensburg
N. Y. Mr.. Magone held office during
the first administration of President
Cleveland.
Word was received in Chicago OF
the death of Charles Stowell, pioneer
Chicago live stock and grain dealer, in
Kansas City. Mr.. Stowell was sc
years old.
Edward Toby, president of the
Canal Banking and Trust company OF
New Orleans, is dead, aged rs. He
served four years with the confeder.
acy on the stats of Generals Maury
and Slaughter,
Alexander G. Shields died at his
home in Lanse, Mich, aged "a years
He was a pioneer of Baraga county
and prominent in business and politi-
cal circles. He leaves widow and
three married daughters.
Mr.. Clark was more than 70 years
old. Beside being head of the Brad
street company, he was vice president
of the Washington Trust company of
New York City and director in many
financial and philanthropic institutions.
Joseph Woodbury. (Hole-in-the-Day)
son of the distinguished Chippewa
nation of Minnesota, is dead, aged 40
years. His eldest son Clarence Wood
berry, who lives in San Francisco, will
ultimately succeed to the title and
chieftainship.
Rev. DR.. Sylvester Clarke, first rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church and
the Oldest clergyman in Bridgeport,
Conn, is dead at the age of II. He
was for some years professor OF church
history at the University of the South
at Sewanee, Tenn, and in 1885 was
elected to the same professorship at
the Seabury Divinity school at Fari-
bault. MINI. He returned to Bridge
port in 1888.
William McCa1lin died at his home
in Pittsburg after suffering about a
year from asthma. All but three OF Mr..
McCallin's sixty-two years OF life had
been spent in Pittsburg and from early
manhood he had been prominent IN
both business and politics. He serv-
ed successfully as coroner, treasurer
and sheriff of Allegheny county and as
mayor, police magistrate and chief
assessor Of PittSburg.
James Archer, the celebrated Eng
| lish portrait painter, died in London
He was born in Edinburg, Scotland
June 10, 1924 He first attracted at
tention il London by pictures shown IL
1852 and after that year was ranked
as one of England's leading artists. He
visited America in 1884 and from 1885,
until 1889 lived in India. Since his
return to England in 1889 he had made
his home at Has1emere, Surrey.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12

pickers will be required Reports
show the condition of the crop gen.
orally to be good, though there has
been a shrinkage in some localities.
Estimates put the prospective crop at
41,50G bales, an increase of 5000 over
last year. Prices are high, instances
being known where growers have re-
fused 261a cents pound.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
JAPs CLOSE BIG CONTRACT.
order 7,5co Tons of Nickel Steel
Plates for Battleships.

Pittsburg, Sept. 8-Agents of the
japanese government yesterday
closed a contract with the Carnegie
Steel company for an order of 1900
tons of the finest grade of nickel
steel plates. The plates are for use
on the Japanese battleships. The
order will beep the eighty-foUr and
184-inch mills of the Homestead plant
busy for three months.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
CHEERS FOR DAVIS.
Candidate Makes Non-PoIitical Ad-
dress at State Fair

Wheeling w. Va, Sept. 8.-An i'm
mense crowd attended the West Vir-
GINA state fair at Morgan's Grove yes
terday afternoon, the occasion being
the presence of ex-senator Henry G..
Davis, democratic vice presidential
nominee, who was scheduled to make
a non-political address. The senator
was enthusiastically received when
he entered the grounds and when he
arose to speak was heartily cheered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
DOMESTIC.

Fire destroyed the Arnold hotel at
Wellsville, Mo.
Storm in Iowa wrecked the Barnum
& Bailey circus tent.
Rich gold finds near Fairbanks, in
Alaska. cause O. stampede.
William Harrington of Morris, ILL.,,
was killed by Rock Island train.
Five women were killed in wreck
Oh the Canadian Pacific railway.
Nearly 1000 militiamen detrained
at two camps on Bull Run battlefield.
Five persons were killed by the ex-
plosion Of thrasher engine boiler at
Bricelyn, MINI.
A Philadelphia youth, crazed by
cigarettes, slashed father and mother
with razor.
In fire in her boarding house in ST.
Paul, Mrs. Ada M. Updegraft was prob
ally fatally burned.
Five men were drowned by the cap
sizing of a naphtha launch in Lake
Erie near Cleveland.
A supposed crank was arrested at
Oyster Fay. He was curious about
the presidents nome.
The navy department is planning
10 strengthen the United States
north Atlantic squadron.
Six were killed and nineteen injured
at st. Louis when a Wabash train
crashed into a street car.
American ships may be sent to the
scene of the fighting between Turkish
troops and Armenian rebels.
B. C. Faurot of Lima, O., formerly
"a millionaire railroad man, is dying at
,Sandusky, o., of paralysis.
J. F. Bivins, head master OF the
Trinity Park high school at Durham
N. c., was killed by train.
The remains of Sam Houston's In
dian wife were reburied with military
houors in national cemetery.
The premature explosion Of nitro
glycerin in an Upper Sandusky, O., OF
we'll resulted in death of five.
John Allbeski, 9 years old, gave hi:
life to save younger brother, both be
ing drowned in the Chicago river.
Eight persons were hurt in a tor
nado at La Crosse, and the heavy rail-
following caused railroad washouts.
A. J. Gladstone Dowie, son of thu
founder of Zion City, made formal ap
plication for admission to the bar.
Mrs. Emma Coffin of Texas advises
milliners to get all they can from ricl
women and ''let the poor off easy"
John A. Regain, superintendent o
the w. H. Berritt elevator, Chicago
committed suicide by shooting himself
A negro who attempted to assault
two white girls was taken from thu
Jail Sunday and 1ynched at Crossett
Ark.
At Bucyrus, O., William Long, whil'
returning from hunting, was struck b.
a train on the Big Four railway and in
stantly killed.
John H. Diggle and Miss Mamie
Johnson of Stuttgart, Ark, Mrs. Let;
Vasgein of Mullen, Idaho, were drown
ed in White river.
Mrs. Mary Streeter, 60 years old
was killed in Lincoln park, Chicago, b.
a bicycle "scorcher," who fed, leaving
her unconscious.
Winnipeg is divided over the ques
ton of trade reciprocity with thu
United States, manufacturers opposin:
freer business, while farmers favor it
Three suspensions of city employs
and the trial of another on a graf
mark the developments in the waite
pipe extension bureau scandal in Chi
cagO
Henry Luiken Of Steamboat Rock
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
COTTON COMPANY GOES TO WALL.
Petition States That indebtedness Is
1897 900.

Trenton, N. j., Sept. 8.-Chancellor
Magic yesterday appointed receivers
for the American Cotton company. rne.
petition for the receivers states that
the company's Indebtedness, exclusive
of the bonded Indebtedness of $4,000,
900, is S1,327, 900. The company was,
organized in 1896 with capital stock
of $1,000
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
Bicycle Road Record Lowered.

Chicago, Sept. 6--The annual 100
mile bicycle road race of the Cen
fury Road club, over the Chicago
MISUNDERSTANDING course yester-
day, was won by Fred Schlewitt of
Chicago in hours and II minutes,
lowering the record 6 minutes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
Connect La Crosse With Northwest

La Crosse, Wis, Sept. S.-The crew
OF the Tri-State Telephone Co. has
reached La Crescent, on the opposite
side of the river, in the construction
of the long distance line from st.
Paul and Minneapolis to La Crosse.
This line will give La Crosse connec-
ton with the entire northwest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
Major DeImar Ties Worlds Record.

Syracuse, N. H, Sept. S.-Major
Delmar Oily. succeeded in tieing the
worlds trotting .'ecord of 2:0214
without wind shield in his attempt
yesterday afternoon. The Major,
accompanied by runner, trotted the
first quarter in 80 seconds, the half
in 100, three quarters in f::SnA,.
and the mile in 2:02A.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
MANY MICHIGAN MEN
TRY FOR SUPREME BENCH

Saginaw, Mich. Sept. THE repub-
lican state judicial convention will be
held here today to nominate three
candidates for justices of the supreme
court. There are nine candidates.
The state committee elected Homer
Warren of Detroit, treasurer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
Man Under Indictment for Murder
Commits Double TRAGEDY.

Louisville, KY, Sept. S.-William E.
Neal, under Indictment for the murder
last winter of the assistant common
wealth attorney, James K. Spreader,
yesterday shot and killed his wife, and
then ended his own life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
MEET IN ST. LOUIS.
Regular Summer Session Being Held
in Worlds Fair City.

ST. Louis, Sept 8.-The regular
summer meeting of the National Assoc
citation lumber, sash and door statesmen
met here yesterday. John F. Bruce OF
Kansas City, Mo-, delivered the ad-
dress of welcome. Responses were
made by Robert Blackburn of Milwau-
kee; Harry E. Page of Springfield
Ill; H. L. Hart of La Porte, Ind, and
G. D. Roarke of Petersburg, Ill.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12

Iowa and Mrs. Anna Johnson of Chi
cago, who plighted their troth forty
years ago, but later separated, were
married in Chicago.
Statistics compiled by the Journal
of the American Medical Association
show that deaths from lockjaw follow
ing fourth of July celebrations in 1904
were los, against AIS in 1908.
The mysterious train robber killed
the night of Oct. 3, 1900, by Express
Messenger Baxter has been identified
by his wife as Harvey Van Loan, a
junk dealer of Council Bluffs, Ia. Van
Loan was shot as he was holding
gun on the engineer of a Burlington
express.
At Winona, Mimi, Egbert Mead, a
young business man, is dead as the re-
suit of a shotgun accident while hunt
ing ducks on the Wisconsin side of the
Mississippi river. Mead had stepped
into his canoe when one barrel ex-
ploded not three inches from his body,
inficting CHASTITY wound in his side.
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THE KIND SHE LIKED.

Won BIumer-Write a love letter to
my wife and I'll sign it.
Clerk-What amount?
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-12
STATE FAIR RACES.

Ethel Nc. and Thomas Palmer Win
Big Purses.
Milwaukee, Sept. 6.-The state fair
races opened yesterday The 2:16
pace, $4,000, was won by Ethel Nc. in
straight heats, time 2:0S1A. In the
$3.50 trot, $4,000, Thomas Palmer, who
finished fifth in the first heat won the
second, third and fourth heats and the
race, time 2:17M.