davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

the main picture Of the Exposition. The
great central dome of the government
building Is visible from the very center
of the Fair, looking across the pictur-
esque sunken garden that lies between
the Palaces of Mines and Metallurgy and
Liberal Arts. This government building
is the largest structure ever provided at
an exposition by the Federal government.
In this building are installed the exhibits
Of all the executive departments Of the
government, and space is also devoted to
the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian
Institute and the Bureau Of American
Republics. The building is vast store
house of an endless variety Of treasures
dear to the heart of every true Ameri-
can.
Passing out at an end Of the govern
ment building one sees the Government
Fisheries edifice, which Is devoted ex-
clusively to the display and exploitation
Of the United States Fish Commissions
enterprises and the exhibition Of food
fishes and shell6sh. Specimens OF fishes
from river and sea, lake and brook, from
far and near, are displayed here, swim
ming in huge tanks which are supplies
with fresh or salt water to suit the hab-
it's of the species which they contain.
Matching apparatus of various kinds is
on exhibition. JOHN c. SMALL.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

is the primitive appliances of a hundred
years ago. A central exhibit is an Inn
mense locomotive upon turntable, which
slowly reyolves. The wheels of this
giant turn at a rate which, were the To-
connective on a level track would give it
a speed of eighty miles an hour. Ma
rine and aerial navigation are features.
The largest Of all the exhibit palaces
is the home of agriculture, which covers
over twenty-three acres. This building
is in the western portion Of the grounds
and forms the center of a second picture,
being surrounded by immense beds of
flowers, one of which, devoted to roses
lures are the crops of the United States,
which have never before been demon
strated at any exposition. In the Palace
Of Horticulture the rivalry among States
is so keen that the horticultural display
has been made the finest ever witnessed
in the worlds history. An extensive out
door display supplements that within the
walls.
The Mines and Metallurgy Palace COW
ers about nine acres and is the largest
structure provided for mines and mining
by any exposition. Like other buildings
it teens with life. Methods of delving
beneath the surface are exhibited as we'll
as the ores and metals that are found.
\ supplemental exhibit, out of doors
shows the manner in which oil derricks
are operated, how machines are used for
crushing ore and an underground mine in
opera ton.
The United States government building
occupies an elevated site just south Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
SIGHTS AT THE FAIR.
LEADING FEATURES OF THE BIG
ST. LOUIS SHOW
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Is a
SouI Awakening Spectacle and a
Monument to Human Progress =

St Louis correspondence:
What the world has been looking for
ward to for half dozen years and what
all civilization will be talking about for
generations to come is the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, now seen in all it's
glory. at St. Louis. 1t is a soul-awaken-
ing spectacle, Il monument to human pro-
gress. an epoch in industrial history and
an achievement, par excellence. of art.
over seven million persons visited the
Worlds Fair in the first half of its ex-
istcuce, and not one visitor went away
but who proclaimed the wonders of the
sights beheld. Those who come later
and again will have more to see for the
grandeur of the enterprise grows as it's
age natures.
Late summer, autumn and fall are the
seasons that will bring many millions
more Of visitors and when the gates of
the exposition close on Dec. 1 the world
will have gotten its full share of the
benefits accruing from the expenditure of
the enormous sum of $50,O0o.O00 and the
employment of the best artists and arti-
sans IN the entire world.
Covering 1910 acres, nearly a third
Of which is woodland, the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition extends from the west
ern limits of st. Louis city into st. Louis
county, occupying site which is one
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
Twenty Years AGO.

Charges of cannibalism in connection
with the Greedy Arctic expedition We're
given semi official credence in Wash
ington.
Nine. Patti in Paris sued for divorce
from the Marquis de Caux.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, at Paris outlined his plan for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Congo Free
State as a federation Of native chiefs,
under control Of an American and Eu-
ropean commission.
Presidential nominee James G..
Blaine, Emery A. Storrs and others adj
dressed a monster meeting at Mariana
cook, Me, the formal opening of the
active Republican campaign.
Lieut.. Greedy, returned Arctic ex-
plorer, told story of court martial and
execution Of Private Charles B. Henry
for stealing food.
The Wall Street Bank Of New York
closed its doors.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
Fifty Years Ago.

A violent tornado swept along the
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad, caus-
ing great damage and delaying traffic.
The Austrian government addressed
note of negotiation to the Car.
Balize, Honduras, was destroyed by
fire.
The United States minister to Spain
declined to attend dinner which was
given in Madrid to the editors of the
liberal press.
The first American trading vessel to
enter the ports Of Japan left that coun-
try on It's homeward trip.
The fete Of st. Napoleon was cele-
brated in Paris, but Napoleon III. and
his court were not present.
The Russians blew up the fortifica-
lions at Hangho, in sight Of the allied
fleets.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
GETTING The NEWS.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRES
EMIT WAR is COSTLY.
Publications Pay at the Rate of $1O,-
100000 Per Year-The Casualty List
Is Heavy-Some of the Notable Cor
respondents.

Little does the public know of the
enormous cost of war news-of the
money that is paid out or of the hard
ships and perils of the men commission
ed to gather information in the field
From a purely commercial viewpoint,
it is estimated conservatively that the
newspapers and weeklies Of the world
are paying for news of the Russo-Jap-
anese operations in Manchuria at the
rate Of $1O,OOO,OOO a year. Most Of this
amount is borne by publications printed
In English, and by far the greatest item
in the bill is telegraph tolls, at about
so cents a word.
Nowadays the war correspondent
how the names come up, Of the dead and
living: Forbes. Crane and Ralph, who
are gone; Etzel. killed only a few weeks
ago by the Chinese; Middleton, dead Of
fever in Manchuria; Collins, who died in
Cuba; Villiers, Burleigh, Mcknight,
Brindle, Emerson, o. X. Davis, Palmer,
Marshall Creelman and Dunn and Hare,
the photographers; Stickney, who was
on the bridge of the Olympia with Dewey
at Manila bay-how the names Of these
men and scores of others come to mind
for what they did or what they are do
ing.
Now, in figuring the cost of CORE
lspondence, ommercialy-taking the
Manchuria campaign, for instance-the
average telegraph toll per word is 80
cents. The rate from Chefoo, Shanghai
and Tien=tsin to New York is A. cents
per word; from Toxic, 81 cents. Each
correspondent sends about 1000 words a
week. SO there is an outlay of about
100000 per week for messages. The
200 average $50 week salary, making
$4,000. Their interpreters, servants
mess and forage require about $4,000.
1ncidentals bring the total outlay up to
$4,000 week for the 200. In addi-
ton, several newspapers employ dispatch
boats. for which they pay something like
$1,000 a week each for charter and main
tenance.
Though this expenditure for the Russo
japanese war may strike the ordinary
reader as eXtravagantly high, it isn't ex-
trayagant at all when compared with the
actual outlay of $4,000 a week by one
newspaper during the Spanish war.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
Origin of Tip"

Apropos Of the question whether 1t
were better ito tip or not to tip"
word, which SO greatly influences the
treatment of man in public dining
houses, goes back couple Of centuries
to the coffee houses Of England
At the doors of the eating rooms a
bound box with lock and key
was hung up, and into the slit at the
top customers were expected to drop a
coin for the waiter ITO Insure Prompt
ness" according to the phrase en-
grayed upon it. Hence the word ''Tip"
spelled from the initial letters Of the
three words on the box, and ever since
used to express the fee Of walters.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
WHEAT GOES SOARING.
Cereal Reaches Highest Price Since
the Famous Letter Deal.


the Famous Letter Deal.
May wheat broke all records for the
last six years in Chicago Friday when
it touched $1.353s and the excitement
on the Board of Trade, which has been
increasing daily since adverse crop re-
ports began pouring in from the North
west, reached its height. Not since the
famous Letter "deaP' of 1898, when
wheat sold for $1.S5, has Fridays figure
been reached.
Closing Thursday at $1.O92s. there
were hundreds of orders in from the big
houses before the Board of Trade gong
struck for the opening Friday morning,
and the first quotation for the day was
Sill, enough of a jump to set the pit
and galleries wild. On frantic buying
orders from the outsiders, as we'll as the
professionals, the price went up by leaps
and bounds until 1865 was reached.
The big advance was due to the heavy
rains in the Northwest, which will doubt
less create more rust" and cause even
greater damage than has been reported.
Thomas Shevln, a Minneapolis expert
who returned from that city with party
OF millers who have made tour of in
spection through the Northwest wheat
country. estimates that three States
North Dakota, South Dakota and Mime
sota-will not have a combined yield Of
over 1O0,0OO,00O bushels. This is about
one-half of what was estimated six
weeks ago and had decided effect upon
the market. The buying of outsiders
and smaller shipments from Argentine
to European ports were also strong fac
tors in the bull movement. Corn, on
the other hand, benefited by the weather
conditions that damaged wheat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26


The trusts. the tariff and prosperity
are discussed at length in the Republican
campaign text book.
Representative William 2. Hepburn of
Iowa will make a number of speeches
during the campaign.
The Democratic State convention at
ParkeJsbure, W. Va, nominated John j.
Cornwell for Governor.
Eugene Parker brother of the Demo
cratic nominee for President. is gro
Gerry clerk in Astoria, Wash.
The Nebraska Prohibition State con-
yention nominated Clarence T. Swander
for Governor. Woman suffrage is de-
manded.
Henry Gassaway Davis. in his speech
accepting the Democratic nomination for
Vice President. after the formal Motif
cation at White Sulphur Springs. W.
Va, criticises the Roosevelt administra-
ton, saying it is extravagant. He praises
Alton b. Parker and expresses confidence
in the success of the ticket.
Senator Deliver of Iowa, owing to the
,, death of his father-in-law, viii not make
campaign speeches in Maine for Senator
Hale.
A delegation of Louisiana Republicans
called on the President. They say they
are seeking a settlement of the fractional
differences among the Republicans OF
Louisiana.
Thomas E. Watson, in accepting the
Populist nomination for the presidency
in New York, delivered scathing ar
raignment OF both the old political par
ties, charging Wall street rule and the
hetrayal of the interests of the people.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
forty Years Ago.

The residents of southern Illinois
were thrown into panic by the op-
erations of small band Of Confed-
crate raiders, which had captured the
steamer Kate Robinson and crossed
the Ohio river near Cairo.
Secretary Stanton reported the death
OF G3 men and the wounding of 109
others in the blowing up of an Ameri-
can barge in the James river.
Twelve men were killed by the ex
plosion Of the boilers Of the steamer
Racine, bound from Chicago to Buffalo.
The accident occurred off Rondeau
Point, Lake Erie.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

total vote in 1900 was only few thou
sand larger than the vote in 1896, the fig-
ures having been respectively 13,9o9,6o3
and 1928, 102. The last election Svas
very tame one, of course, while +fhe one
four years earlier had been the most hot
" fought since the war. Between 1884
and 1892 there was an increase of just
about 100000 votes, and between 1892
and 1900 there was practically the same
increase. At the rate of million votes
normal increase every four years We
could expect a vote OF approximately
$4,000. 600 this fall. providing that the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
Seventy-five Years Ago.

The militia, which the Governor OF
Missouri ordered to the frontier of that
State, returned to camp, having met
with no trouble with the Indians
A slave ship from Africa arrived at
Havana and unloaded it's cargo of 90
sick slaves after having lost 600 slaves
on the voyage.
The Delaware and Pawnee Indians
became hostile In Kansas. Owing to
the fear Fort Leayenworth would be
attacked help was summoned from
Jefferson barrac
A riot occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Baltimore.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
o~
One Hundred Years AGO.

Francis II. assumed the title of EN-
peror Of Austria as Francis l.
A valuable lead mine was discovered
on Perkiomen creek, near the Schuyl
kill river, Pa.
Vice President Aaron Burr arrived
on the east coast of Florida.
The lighthouse at Old Point Comfort.
Va, at the entrance to Chesapeake
bay, was destroyed by fire.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

energy are here exhibited, the majority of
them in motion.
Fifteen and six-tenths acres are COW
cred by the Palace Of Transportation
which is 1900 feet long by 500 feet wide.
In this great structure the modern meth
DDS Of transportation that have revolu-
tionized the commercial world are shown,
and in marked contrast with the wonder
full machine used for locomoeion to-day,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

motive power, which winds in and out,
stations being placed near all points of
interest. Another form is the gondolas
and electric launches which patrol the
lagoons Jinrikshas and roller chairs
comprise the third form and miniature
railroad is fourth.
In constructing this Worlds Fair espe-
cial attention has been given to the
health Of visitors. All water is filtered
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
POPULAR VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
1t Is Expected to Reach Well Above
100000 Mark.

IO,UUU,UUU NIarks
In 1884 the popular vote of the United
States at presidential election crossed
the ten million mark for the first time.
This fall the total vote may be expected
10 reach well above 100000. Just
how much beyond that figure it will so
would be hard to say, at least until the
campaign has developed, and tne extent
OF popular interest in the election can be
better gagged.
1t is well-remembersd fact that the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
strenuous cor the sheriff.

Strenuous for the Sheriff.
what are you grinning about, Uncle
JeGT
Cant help 1t, sab. De sheriff has
seized all my belongins."
"And are you going to klck?
.eNo, but de belongin's will. All I
own L. a mule"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

interest in the outcome is at the same
pitch as it was four years ago. That
the interest will be less this year than
is was then can hardly be anticipated.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
len Years AGO.

len Tears Ago.
The Brice-G German tariff bill was
passed by Congress and sent to Presi-
dent Cleveland for his signature.
Whisky prices jumped cents gal
lon and the internal revenue collec-
lions at Peoria, ILL.,, went from nor
NAL Of $4,000 day to $164.OOO as a
result OF the passage Of the Brice- Cor
man tariff bill.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
Prunes VIII Be Cheap.

Producers and handlers of prunes are
facing a great overproduction this year
and a consequent fall in prices. The
California and Oregon crop is estimated
at 150,00O,0O0 pounds and there is 8
"carry from last year of 50,000,OOC
pounds. The crop in Bosnia. Servia and
France is estimated at 100000, 900
pounds, so that the American producers
cannot expect any export demand to re-
lieve the situation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26

OF the 10000 Catholics i'll Japan 10.-
600 live in Toxic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08
BIG ONES LOSERS
New Republican Representation
Affects Larger Counties.
Shawnee, Wyandotte and Leav-
enWOrth Lose Seven.
WEST is STRONGER.
Short Grass Counties Have
Same or More Delegates.
Cause Is Falling Off in Republic
can Vote.
WEST is STRONGER.

The Republican state convention this
year will have 123 less delegates in it
than the last one had. The most of the
counties in the state lose from one to
seven delegates each. Only four make
gains. The total number of delegates
IN the last convention was 1881. In
the next one there will be only 90e.
The cause of this big loss is that the
convention of 1902 was based upon the
vote of 1900, a presidential year, while
this years convention is based on the
vote of 1902, an off year, when the vote
was considerably smaller than that of
the presidential year. There is always
a falling off in the vote in off years.
The losses are in the large counties.
The small counties nearly all retain
the same representation, as no county
can have less than two delegates.
Three of the four counties that have
made gains are in the southwestern
part of the state. This means that the
short grass country will be more pow
erful than ever in the coming state
convention.
Allen county made a gain of one del
egate on account of the increase in
population around in lola between the
elections of 1900 and 1902. Allen hau
fourteen delegates in the last conven-
ton and will have fifteen in this one.
Ford, Hodgeman and Pawnee counties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08
$4,000 RESUME WORK.
One of the Encouraging Fea-
tures of Business Situation.

New York, Jan. Especial kilograms
concerning business features from coz
respondents of the International Mer-
camille agency throughout the United
States and Canada are summarized as
follows:
In addition to dullness incidental to
the first week of the year, blockades to
traffic and trucking caused by snow
and extremely cold weather, have in
terfered with attention to mail orders
and full recovery from holiday stagna-
ton. War rumors have resulted in
great irregularity in the stock and cot
ton markets and have stimulated prices
for cereals, provisions and copper. In
addition, coffee is lower on it's statisti-
cal position and tin higher on improv-
ed demand.
The most encouraging feature is
found in the resumption of work at
factories, foundry, mill, and furnace of
so, 600 men who have been temporarily
idle in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Banks at larger cities are said to be
in much stronger position than in
creased loan accounts would indicate,
and that trust company reserves, nota-
bly, at New York, are exceptionally
heavy Demand for steel and coke haT
improved materially. Rail mills have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08

contracts to keep them busy until
April.
Leather shipments are active. but
Print stocks are pretty well depleted.
with only fair orders. The shoe indus
try has had a record year.
Boston bankers state they think the
industrial prospect is fair and look for
gains.
At Chicago the volume of business
for 1903 was about equal to that for
1902. Losses IN iron and steel were Off
set throughout the region tributary to
that city by gains in distribution of
shoes, clothing, groceries, coal, leather
and lumber. The spring outlook there
is for big business in shoes, iewelry.
hats and dry goods.
ST. Louis bankers say the trade out
look throughout the southwest is favor
abba.
Advance spring business at Cleveland
is unusually good. Louisville had the
most prosperous trade in 1903 of its
history. the only check of moment be-
ing in tobacco. due to weather condi-
tions West of the Mississippi snow
has helped the winter wheat.
Trade has been quiet In the Cana
dian dominion. Iron and steel makers
are extending plants to take advant-
age Of the government bounties. The
years operations in coal and copper
Banks report large gains in deposits.
Nearly 200 branch banks have been es-
tabIished within a year. Dealers in
shoes, clothing, jewelry, implements
and provisions tell of gains in 1903 over
previous years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08
RUSSELL SAGE QUITS.
Aged Financier No Longer Makes
Daily Trip to Wall Street.

New York, Jan. S.-WalI street prac-
ucally has lost one of it's most inter
esting characters. Russell Sage al
though still insisting upon visiting his
Office once or twice a week, has de-
parted from his lifelong habit of ar
irving there daily with clock-like reg
ularity. regardless of weather condi-
lions, and in fact, is now seen in Wall
street at infrequent intervals. He has
gradually withdrawn from participa-
ton in great financial affairs only at
the earnest solicitation of his friends
and Mrs. Sage. but the trusted en-
ployes who have served many years
still handle the loan business on the
stock exchange.
MIR. Sage, who is 81 years old, spends
most of his time in his new Fifth ave
nue. home and is said to be in his usual
state of health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08
BACK TO FIRST HUSBAND.
Court Changes Mrs. Morse Into Mrs.
Dodge.

New York. Jan. 8.-After a union of
two years the marriage of Mrs. Charles
F. Dodge to Charles w. Morse, banker
and former president of the American
Ice company, has been annulled by SUI
preme Court Justice Bischoff. on the
ground that when she became his wife
she had not been legally divorced from
her sirSt husband
1t appears that Mrs. Dodge was mar
ried to Charles f. Dodge. hotel pro-
prietor in Atlanta, Ga, March %, 1877.
In 1898 she obtained a decree of divorce
and in 1901 married Mr. Morse in this
city. Recently Dodge had the decree
set aside on the ground that it had
been illegally obtained in that he was
not properly served with notice of the
Suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-08
ONE MORE DEAD.
Total Number of Deaths from
Iroquois Fire Is Now 566.

Chicago, Jan. S.-Miss Harriet Har-
baugh, another victim of the Iro@2ois
fire. is dead at the Samaritan hospital
as the result of her injuries. This
brings the total of dead to 566, accord
ing to the coroner's list of names.
Agnes Hopkins, As years old, has been
declared insane by Judge Williams and
ordered to Dunning. The woman's
mind had been unbalanced, her rela-
tives said. as result of incessant read
ing of accounts of the Iroquois fire
horror.
Three more suits for a total of $50, 900
damages resulting from the fire have
been filed. A feature of the suits is
the making of Building Commissioner
Williams a party defendant