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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
ADMIRAL NJ GALA
DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Santa Barbara, Cal, May Rear
Admiral B. H. McCalIa (retired), U.
S n. died at o'clock yesterday
morning of apoplexy.
Rear Admiral McCalla was born at
Camden in 1874, entering the navy in
1861. His services during the almost
thirty-nine years of active duty in
all parts of the world were noted with
conspicuous acts. The most brilliant
achievements of the dead officer were
in connection with the war with
Spain and the Picking relief column,
for which he received signal recogni-
ton in the shape of a congressional
medal for distinguished service in
battle and also international acknowI-
edgement OF his labor through tne be-
stowal upon him of the Order of the
Req Eagle by the German emperor
and the Chinese war medal by the
king of England. All of this was on
top of the excellent record in the
civil war.
McCalla was made member of the
Loyal Legion and decorated in other
respects and advanced in rank in the
navy. His last active service in the
navy was as comln7andant of the ma
val training station at Mare Islano,
California. and of the navy yard
there. and he retired June 10, 1906.
For some time he had been living
quietly in southern California with
his family.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
WHOLE FAMILY
BURNS TO DEATH

Nashville, H., May MIR. and
Mrs. Harry Douglas and their three
sons, two, four and six years old re-
spectively. were burned to death
early this morning in the destruction
of their home, two miles from Coul-
derville The fire originated in the
explosion of the lamp in an incubator
in the basement.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
BUCKETSHOPS MUST Go,
SAYS WlCKERSHAM

Washington, d. c.. May THE
complete suppression of the bucket
shop business throughout the United
States is sought by the department
OF justice. Prosecutions already
started are to be continued with un-
RENTING vigilance.
I'VE have plan to put all the buck
bishops out of business, and that.
too, without additional legislation by
congress-" said an official of the de-
partment yesterday.
Just what are the plans of the gov
eminent to accomplish this end was
not stated but officials declared the
statement was not thoughtlessly
made
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
WISCONSIN FAILS IN
ORATORICAL CONTEST

Minneapolis, May THE Univer-
sity of Iowa, represented by Paul S.
Collier, won first place in the North
ern Oratorical league contest last
night. Irma Voight of the University
of Illinois, was second. Seven col
leges were represented Golfers
subject was The American Navy and
the Worlds Peace.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
CHILD HAD MATCHES,
THE OLD. OLD STORY

Marquette, Mich, May Fire,
caused by an older child playing with
matches. .esulted in the loss of two
lives at Deimling. The nome of Matt
Servis was destroyed and 3-year-old
Girl and an infant were burned to
death. The parents were absent.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
WOMAN AND clGARET.
Combination Creates a Sensation
Even IN Frisco.

San Francisco, May 7.-Wearing a
black lace evening gown and gorge
Gus blue and gold mandarin coat,
Mrs. James rockingham Hunnewell
of Boston attracted much attention
by putting at cigaret as she prone
naded Powell street with her husband
and another escort Mrs. Hunnewell
had on her famous pearls. which are
said TO be the envy of the women of
the smart set of the Hub" and as
the smoke from her cigaret played in
wreaths around her uncovered head
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
Experts testify in hyde Case

Kansas City, May 7.--Dr y. ID.
Smith. chief of DR.. Hyre's stan of
medical experts, testified in the trial
yesterday, attacking the analysis of
the viscera of Thomas II Swopa by
the state experts. Several other exs
rerts were put on to controyert the
states expert testimony
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
BOY MURDERER HANGED.

Irvinq Hanchett, Aged IS Years, Pays
Penalty for Killing Girl.
De Land, Fla, May Irving Han
chett, the 15-year-old Connecticut boy
who was convicted of the brutal muir
der of Clevie Tedder, 13-year-old
girl. near here on the evening OF
February y last was hanged here yes
terday
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
More Than Year Aoo.

New York, May THE total bank
clearings compiled by Bradstreets for
the principal cities of the United
states for the past week were So, 762,-
100000 against sS.S5S, SsS. 600 in the
corresponding week last year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11

she presented one of the most daz-
zling figures that have been seen IN
the cafe district of San Francisco in
a long time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
klMBALL QUITS ROAD.
Oldest Railroad Official in Country to
Retire.

Green Bay, Wis, May IN ).
Kimball, district master mechanic tor
the Milwaukee road here and who
has been an official longer than any
man on any railroad in the United
States. is to retire He has held an
office of responsibility for hfty-one
years with that railroad and has
reached the age of 70 years.
With the retirement OF MI klmpali
the road will abolish the office of dis
trict master mechanic, and his sue
cessor, Edward z. Hermansader, will
be an assistant district master me-
chanic.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
MOTHER is A HEROINE.
Farmer Is Dragged on Plough Blade
Until She Stops Team.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, May FIRED
Nehls. aged %, farmer, while hitch
ing four horses to a plow, was
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16
RE4RRANGEMENT OF DISTRICTS.
South Carolina May Lose One Con-
gresham, if Congress Increases
Basis of Representation.

Columbia, Dec. 14-While the gen.
eral assembly at its 1911 session will,
in accordance with the State constitu-
tion, reapportion the membership of
the house Of representatives, along
the lines recently set forth on the
basis of the 1910 census, it depends
upon whether congress at the pres
ent session passes a ortionment
bill as to when the rearrangement of
the ongressional districts will be
made. But the State will necessarily
be redistricted before the election of
1912-either at the 1911 or tn 1912 ses-
sion, and preferably at the 1911 SEES
sion, if the basis of representation in
the national house is then known.
The present basis is one representa-
tive to every $4,000 inhabitants, in
round numbers. end on this basis
South Carolina has seven representa-
tives for a population of 1,340,316 in
1900. The State will possibly lose a
congressman, since the basis of rep
resentation is certain to be increased,
it is said in Washington, and if the
basis is increased to more than 216,-
900 South Carolina will be entitled to
not more than six representatives.
This would necessitate an entirely new
distribution of the counties in congress
sional districts. There are only three
Of the present seven districts which
now have more than 21S,000 inhabi-
tants, the three being the 4th, 9Th and
TIN districts. These three, it happens,
also have more than 100000 each, and
this figure, 10000 is more likely to
be adopted as the basis of representa-
ton. In that case South Carolina
will have only six representatives in
congress and the State will be entire
ly redistricted, as tated above.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16
NEWS OF UTOPIA.
Christmas Exercises at New Chapel.
Birthday Party-H0liday fisi-
t0rS-Liye News Letter.

Utopia, Dec. 15.-The crops in this
community are gathered and most OF
the farmers are through sowing gram.
The health of the community is very
good now.
Messrs. A. J. Foy and Hayne Ham
are in Augusta for a few days on
business.
Mrs. J. B. Halfacre and children, of
the Johnstone neighborhood, spent
Sunday night and Monday with Mr..
J. J. Schumpert's family.
Quite a crowd of the young folks of
this section took in the dance at Sill
vecstreet Friday night. They report
q grand time.
Mr.. Frank Schumpert, who has been
cutie sick, went to his home in New
berry Sunday. It is hoped he will
soon be we'll enough to return, and
continue his farm work.
The school at this place is moving
along nicely under the management
of Miss Mary T. Wyatt, of Easley,
S. G.
Mr.. Edwards Foy, Of Saluda, spent
several days last week with relatives
in this community.
Messrs. ". R. Schumpert and ]. N.
Alewine spent last Friday night with
Mi. A. P. Campbell at Silverstreet.
Mrs. Charles Gillian, Of Abbeville,
has come to her fathers, Mr.. ". l.
Herbert's to spend the holiday season.
Mr.. Gillian will come few days lat
or.
Mrs. I. P. Cannon and little daugh-
ter, Mary, spent Monday night and
Tuesday in the city.
On Sunday, December 25, there will
be all-day exercises at New Chapel
church. Exercises will be by the chill
dren in the morning, dinner on the
grounds, and a sermon by Rev. }. NJ
Fridy in the afternoon.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of New Chapel church Will give
a birthday party at Mr.. ". I. Her.
bert's residence Tuesday evening, De-
cember 27, 1910.
Wishing to all a merry Christmas
and happy New Year. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16
NUGGETS OF GOLD.
Some of the Largest Ever Struck were
Found by Chance.

Nowhere does fortune indulge her
love of the dramatic and the sensa-
tional more fully than in the gold
fields.
Take, fer instance, the story OF the
discovery of the world famous
blanche Barkley" nugget in the early
days of Australian gold mining, which
sent a thrill around the world. Sam
uel Napier, a sailor, with his brother
Charles and one Robert Ambrose, their
cook and general handy man, had been
digging for gold for six months at
Kingower, about forty miles from Ben
digo, without discovering as much OF
the precious metal as would pay their
living expenses, when one August day,
to tell the story in Napier's own
words: eve had dug down about IA
feet to the pipe clay stratum and were
shutting around in the bottom of tha
shaft more dead than alive for the
heat Old Ambrose lit his pipe and
leaned against the side of the hole to
rest. Just then I struck something
with my pick. I turned it up so the
light could strike it, and, by Jimmy, it
was z chunk Of gold as big as hub
bard squash!" The nugget sold for
$4,000.
Among the thousands who fiocked to
the Victorian gold fields in the early
ffties were two Cornish miners, John
Deason and Richard Oates, who stalk
ed a claim near the village of Molia-
que. They set to work with vigor,
confident that in few months they
would be able t. retire to their native
Cornwall rich men, but their expecta-
tions we're doomed to cruel disappoint-
ment. Not only months, but many
years, passed and found them still as
far removed from fortune as at the
beginning, and by 1867 fifteen years
after they began their search Of gold,
they we're reduced to the last straits.
Starvation stared them in the face.
n desnair the miner seized his pick
and wandered away TO the outskirts Of
the gold field, and as he wandered,
downcast and heavy hearted, be no
ticed a gleam Of yellow in a rut made
by a peddler's cart. Lifting his pick
with a few frantic blows he brought
to light an enormous nugget, which
with all his strength, he could bare
ly raise an inch from the ground. The
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16

court Of the State, 0Iu remained CT
the bench until the adoption Of the
new constitution which vacated all
State offices in 1879.
Judge White managed the State
campaign of 1887, which resulted in
the election of Nichols to another
term as governor, and this feat, with
his association with the reform ele-
ment of the Louisiana Democracy,
brought him to the front in the con-
test over the senatorship in the fol-
lowing year, and he was nominated
in the legislative caucus, after a spir-
tied struggle, to succeed James B.
Eustis in the term beginning March
4. 1891, nearly three years after the
time the caucus nomination and eiac-
ton were held. He had for his op-
ponents in the causus Mr.. Esutis, the
retiring senator, ex-senator B. F.
Jonas, and Representative Newton C.
Blanchard The contest was finally
decided by Jonas followers going ov-
er to White In the senate the latter
took an active but not very promi-
nent part, and among the committees
on which he has served are those Oh
commerce, interstate commerce and
Pacific railroads.
Shortly after his appointment JUS
tice White, who was a bachelor, was
married in New York, to Mrs. Virginia
Montgomery Kent. widow of a Wash
ington lawyer. The wedding was SOL
emnized in the Church of st. Francis
Xavier, in West Sixteenth street, by
the Rev. Robert Fulton, pastor Of St.
Lawrenca's Catholic church, Park
avenue and Eighty-fourth street. The
nuptial mass was said by the Rev.
Thomas E. Murphy, president Of st.
Francis Xavier college, assisted by
the Rev. Alphonse Dufour, an old
friend of Justice White. 1t was a few
minutes before II a. m. when Justice
White and Mrs. Kent, accompanied by
a. few relatives, walked up the steps
leading into the college. Without any
formalities they passed through the
college into the church, where the,
ceremony was performed.
Present beside the officiating cler-
gymen we're A. R. Brousseau, a half
brother of the bridegroom, and Miss
Susie White, the justices sister; En-
lie Montgomery, brother of the bride;
CAPTAIN Hill, and two brothers by the
name of Whitney, old friends Of the
bride and bridegroom. The affair was
managed so quietly and unostenta-
tiously that practically no one outside
of St. Xavier's walls knew anything
of it.
Justice White has high reputation
for his legal requirements. He brought
to the supreme court a valuable
knowledge of the intricacies OF prac-
tice under the civil code, or Code Ma
poleon, as it prevails in the louisiana
courts, which was of great service in
disposing of cases arising in the
courts of that State.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16

nrc~>. which &;terWard came TO be
known as the "Welcone Stranger" ac-
tually weighed two hundredweight
and was sold for nearly $4,000.
And these were but a few Of the
many similar blocks of gold discover
ed in Australia under equally drama
tic conditions. While a native shep-
herd named Kerr was tending his
sheep one day his attention was ar
rested by a yellow rock projecting a
few inches above the soil. In his eX-
citement at the discovery he ran to
fetch his master. The rock was un-
earthed and proved to be a nugget of
two hundredweight, from which 160
pounds of pure gold was extracted.
A few years later another monster
nugget made its appearance at Balla-
rat. A party of miners had worked a
claim to depth of sixty yards when
one of them struck with his pickaX
hard, irregularly shaped mass, which
on being unaarthed proved to be a
block Of almost pure gold twenty
inches long, a foot wide and seven
inches deep. It's weight vas almost
one hundredwaight and a quarter and
it's value s46,625.
It was the periodical discovery att
Ballarat Of these monster nuggets
which first fired the blood Of the en-
tire world in the faraway fftias. But
even Ballarat has no other romance to
rival that of the discovery of two huge
nuggets within few days in the same
claim. The story runs that four min
ers had worked their claim down to
about sixty feet when one of them
brought to light a nugget weighing
nearly one hundredweight and worth
s27,500. In their Joy at such a rich
treasure trove the men abandoned the
diggings and took their nugget with
them to England They had scarcely
left Ballarat when their successors in.I
the claim, with almost the first stroke
Of pick, turned over another nugget
heavier than the first and valued at
more than $4,000.
Of all the romantic stories told of
gold discoveries in California not one
is more remarkable than that of which
Oliver Martin was the hero. For
months Martin and a companion
named Flower had been prospecting
for gold to no purpose. Worn out by
hardships and half dead from starva-
tion, they we're on the point of aban-
doning the quest in despair when fate
administered her last crushing blow.
They were overtaken by a terrible
storm, in which Flower was drowned.
Martin, weak though he was, set to
work to dig his fallen comrades grave
at the foot of tree and had dug down
barely two feet when his spade struck
a hard, unyielding substance, which,
to his amaZement and delight, proved
to be an enormous nugget, the largest
ever found on the American contin-
ent. The "Oliver Martin Chunk" as if
came to be known the whole world
over, weighed Isl pounds, ounces
and was the nucleus of a fortune OF a
million dollars which Martin accumu-
lated in later years.-Cassell's Satur-
day Journal
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.

President Cleveland nominted Ed
ward D. White for the supreme court
in 1893, after the senate had turned
down the nominations of Wheeler II.
Packham and William B. HornbloWer,
both Of New York. David B. Hill was
shen in the senate and made deter
mined and bitter fight against both
these nominees who belonged to the
element in the New York Democracy
which was bitterly opposed to the
Hill machine.
It was quite evident that Hill would
fight the confirmation of such man
as Cleveland would appoint so the
president, to cut the Gordian knot, de-
cided UPON the nomination of White.
Inasrnnch as the nominee was a mem
her of the senate, that body, in ac-
eordance with it's time-honored tradl-
ditions, promptly confirmed the noml-
nation without even reference to a
committee, the course Invariably pur-
sued in other cases.
Justice White, who was appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by the deatn
If Associate Justice Samuel Batch
ford of New York, is IS years old,
having been born on November 5, lS4o,
on his fathers sugar plantation on
BAYOU La Fourche, in the Louisiana
parish of that name. His father, VINO
was Also named Edward Douglass
White, was a Tennesseean VINO emil
grated early to Louisiana, occupied
various judicial positions, and IN 1917
was elected to congress. he served
till 1884, when he was elected COVER
nor of the State, serving four years,
and, being ineligible for reelection un-
der the then constitution, was lmme-
diatelv returned'to congress, where ne
served until 1S43.
The justice received his carly eou-
cation at Mount St. Mary's, near En-
nlitsburg, Nd, and at the jesuit COL
lage in New Orleans. He was then
& mt to the Georgetown college, Dis
trict of Columbia, but was Withdrawn
from that institution on account OF the
war. Young as he was, he entered the
Confederate service, and While ar
home on furlough, came near beng
captured by the troopers of Gen. God
frey Weitsel when he made his ia
NOUS raid up Bayou La Fourche. Dur
ing the siege of Port Hudson ne
served on the staff Of Cen. Beale, anS
was captured by Gen. Banks at the
surrender Of that point July 6, 1868.
The war over, Mr.. White entered
the law Office of the Hon. Edward
Bermudez. afterwa.'s chief justice OF
Louisiana. and was admitted to the
har in 1868. In 1872 he was elected
State senator for four years. He was
2 strong supporter and one OF the
chief advisers Of Governor Nichols
during the exciting times which pre-
oeded the recognition of the Nichols
government at Washington. In 1876
he was appointed by Governor Mich
ols as associate justice Of the supreme E
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-16

The pleasant purgatlve effect exper-
fenced by all who use Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. and the
healthy condition of the body and
mind which they create, makes one
feel joyful. Sold by W. e. Pelham &
Son
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
AYHAWKER JOTS

Hutchinson is going to make park
along it's famous Cow Creek and for
a name the Ottawa Republic respect
fully suggests: THE Milky Way
Some fellows are so constituted.
says the Jamestown Optimist, that
sulting to him and he refuses to get
out of humor they think he is afraid
of them and don't dare talk back
Commenting on the fact that Con-
gresham Murdoch has joined the
members of the Kansas colony in
the Hutchinson News says: ''Vic re-
CARDS it as superior to the political
bandwagon as a pleasure vehicle
THE fellow who asks us to sup
press the news of his misdeeds be-
cause it would just kill mother. wife,
the Pratt Union, that it is the bust
ness of a newspaper to have more re-
spect and sympathy for these relatives
than he himself possesses
Since DR.. Crumbine, secretary of
the state board of health, has made
the creamery which was selling Is "
ounces for pound put in the other
half ounce, the housewives of the state
are all for him. and from now on he
will run mighty close with F. D. Co
burn in the race for the most popular
man in the state.-Wichita Eagle.
E&-1ONoTnOT L6eQy, VINO WAS city
attorney of town in Alaska for sew
eral years, has bought farm in Can
ada, and will spend his declining
years close to natures heart. The fact
that he didn't come to Kansas to buy
a farm indicates that his faculties are
not what they were a few years ago.
-Emporia Gazette. He may be sane
but shy the price, suggests the Wichi
ia Beacon.
Elmer Peterson makes this sugges-
ton with reference to the movement
said to be on foot to transfer the
Tooth meridian from Dodge City to
Garden City: IF it is true, we suggest
that a traction engine be hitched to
each end of it, SO it will drag along the
ground, and then have gigantic
jackrabbit hunt, like they used to
have in the old days when the settlers
could drag a hundred rods of wire
over two or three sections"
You will notice that a new calen-
dar hung up in several business
places has this motto, "Smile a little,
help little, push little" Did you
ever stop to think what whole
treatise on success that little motto
happens to be? If you wear the smile
that won't come off you turn away
wrath and disarm your enemy. The
people smile back at you and call you
a good fellow; the sun shines bright
er and the birds sing sweeter and
flowers grow in your pathway. Help
a little and you carry sunshine across
the threshold where gaunt hunger is
gnawing; you clothe tender limbs
shivering under means and suffering
to childish shouts of glee. Push a
little and you make the desert bios
som as the rose; you will build new
court houses and ornament the COM
mons with fine school houses and the
corners with handsome churches; you
make hive of industry where for
merly the sluggard slept in his dirty
nest. So smile little, help a little,
and push little and you shall wear
| a crown, and the metal will not be tin
nor the jewels of colored glass-The
Village Deacon in the Osborne County
/ Farmer