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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
AMERICANS FLEE
FIRE IN LONDON
Flames Drive Many Guests From
Fashionable Hotel.
ROYAL THEATER IN DANGER
James r. keene Carried by Valet
From Burning Buildng-Jameson
Lee Finney, American Actor,
Burned to Death.

London - Fire and water ruined
the beautiful Hotel Carlton. one
of London's show places and the re-
sort of the most fashionable English
and American society. James R.
Keene, the New York broker, and Gov
ernor and Mrs. Frank Brown of Mary
land, together with nearly 100 other
Americans narrowly escaped death in
the blaze
One guest, Jameson Lee Finney an
American actor, persisted. His charred
remains, burned almost beyond recog-
Aktion, were found on the top floor
utter the fire was extinguished.
The rescue of James R. Keene was
one of many thrilling incidents. The
smoke quickly filed his apartment on
the third floor and he was soon over
come. His valet wrapped him in a
blanket and carried him through
window out on a ledge, whence fire
men carried him down a ladder to
the street Mr.. Keene was bundled
into a taxicab and driven to another
hotel The rescue was applauded by
thousands.
Winston Churchill, the home secre-
tary, was. one of the interested spec
tators.
Governor Brown and Mrs. Brown
were dressing on the fourth floor, on
the side nearest His Majesty's the
alter, when great volumes of smoke
filed their rooms. Governor Brown,
half dressed, rushed to the stairs with
his wife, who managed to slip into
house gown, and escaped to the street.
Billie Burke, the actress, was dress
ing when the fire started. Her aged
mother was with her. Hastily slip
ping on a peignoir, Miss Burke
dragged her mother down tho stair
way and out to the street.
Among the other American guests
rescued were Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Pratt of New York, Mrs Schipphan-
son and Miss Jessie Gardner of Chi
cage, ]. P. McFadden, Jr., E. T. Coyne,
w. G. Breed, H. Helm and wife, E. G.
Jackson of New York, F. D. Harvey
and Barton French of Baltimore and
A. w. Preston of Boston.
There were two invalid guests in
the hotel, but both were gotten out
safely
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
FAMINE is FEARED IN LONDON
Strike of Carriers Holds Up Delivery
of Food Supplies.

London - Increasing disorder
marked the dock strike. The men of
docklard who are already feeling the
pinch Of deprivation, have adopted
drastic measures to prevent any at
tempt by non-unionists or clerical
staffs to move a wheel, and collisions
with the police were frequent and
sharp.
The Combined Millers' Association
of London has telegraphed the home
secretary asking for military protec
ton against the striking dock hands.
A bread famine within the next
three days is certain if present condi-
tons prevail.
The fish porters have joined the
strike movement, and there was no
one to unload the fish trawlers that
arrived in the Thames The whole
sale prices of chilled beef have adj
vanced seven to ten cents a pound
within the last seven days.
At a meeting of strikers at Tower
Hill Benjamin Tillett, secretary of the
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General
Workers Union of Great Britain, an
nounced that orders had been issued
calling out every man of the port of
London The new order will increase
the total of strikers to 100000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
TAFT MAKES APPEAL
FOR PEACE TREATIES
Asks That Moral influence Be Used
on Senators-Fcars Foes
OF Treaties.

Mountain Lake Park, Md-Presi-
dent Taft travelled 400 miles through
Maryland and West Virginia by
special train to appeal to the people
of the United States to use their moral
influence to have the senate ratify the
British and French arbitration trea-
ties and the treaties with Nicaragua
and Honduras.
His appeal was made direct to the
Mountain Lake Park Chautauqua of
the Methodist Episcopal church, but
in it the president included the rest
of the nation as well.
81 observe" said the president, that
there is some suggestion that by rati-
flying this treaty, the senate may in
some way abdicate its function of
treaty making. | confess myself to
being unable to perceive the logic in
any such a point.
ITO have these treaties not ratified
by the senate of the United States or
to have any hesitation and discussion
of a serious character in respect to
them would halt the movement toward
general peace, which has made sub
stantial advance in the last ten years.
To secure the ratification of the treat
les therefore, appeal must be made to
the moral sense of the nation and
while that is not entirely in the keep
ing of the churches, certainly they
may exert a powerful influence in the
promotion Of any effective instru-
mentality to secure permanent peace. !"
Leaving the arbitration treaties be-
hind, the president asked for the same
sort Of popular support of the treaties
with Honduras and Nicaragua.
There is no issue before the senate
so acute in respect to the cause of
peace as the confirmation Of these
Central American treaties" said the
president while admit the greater
Importance OF universal treaties of ar
bitration, in the long run and as affect
ing the world at large, yet in respect
Of American interests, in respect of
peace IN this hemisphere, they are
not equal in importance to the con-
firmation of these Central American
treaties
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
IONS of Water.

A grass plant will, in the course of
a hot day, exhale its own weight of
water, and a young leaf of wheat or
rye exposed to the sun may even ex-
hale its own weight in an hour, is a
surprising statement to be found in
the Agricultural Year Book. Expert
ments summarized by Storer indicate
that more than 800 pounds of water
pass through a plant. and are trans
PRED from its leaves for every pound
of dry matter fixed or assimilated by
the plant" In Wisconsin, King found
the mean amount of water used by
barley, oats, corn, clover, peas and
potatoes in producing ton of dry
matter ranged from 270 tons for corn
to SIC tons for clover, ''the average
for the six crops being nearly $50
tons. or four acre-inches, for each ton
of dry matter"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Birds of Montana.

"I can remember" said an old resi-
dent of Miles city, when there were
only a scattering few of song birds in
this section of Montana. Today there
are American birds of every descrip
ton, the robin, the meadow lark, the
yellow hammer, blackbird, the wren
the dove, catbird, kingfsher and in
fact every kind except the English
sparrow There are more of these
birds every year.
THE English sparrows, so. common
in eastern cities, have not as yet
gained place in Montana and taking
IN consideration the trouble they
cause, they are not to be encouraged.
OF course there has always been the
cowbird in this state, but the real
Olackbird has only been coming in re-
cent years."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
APPLES HAVE RECORD YIELD
Thousands of Bushels Rotting on the
Ground-52, 500 Bushels of Straw
berries Shipped from Wisconsin.

Madison.-Reports received by
Secretary Cranfield of the State Hor-
ticultural society show that over IT'S
carloads OF Wisconsin strawberries,
averaging 500 bushels, were shipped
out of the state this year Most Of
the sixty-fve carloads shipped out
of Sparta went to Minnesota and the
Dakotas. Berries from Bayfield, go
as far south as st. Louis. Sturgeon
Bay shipped forty-six carloads.
The Wisconsin apple crop is esti-
mated at 100000 barrels. Between
$4,000 and 100000 will reach the
large markets. 1t is also estimated
that 5000 barrels will be shipped
from Baraboo this summer.
A report from Baraboo is to the eff
feet that the apple crop in Sank
county is the largest ever known. The
market is glutted and thousands of
bushels are rotting on the ground.
Choice apples are worth only % cents
bushel
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
PLAN WIDE PROBE
IN FIRE RISK FIELD
INQUIRY BY SPECIAL LEGlSLA"
TIVE COMMITTEE WILL BE
BROAD in SCOPE.
ASK COMPANIES FOR DATA
Suggestions for Changes viii Also
Be ested-Senator Geo. Scott
Chosen Chairman of COMMITTEES
and /. L. johnson Secretary.

Madison.-To develop wides
searching inquiry into the whole
field of fire insurance is the purpose
of the legislative committee appoint
ed by the last legislature to make an
investigation of that subject which
met in the Office of Insurance Com
missioner Ekern and organized for
the work in hand
Senator George Scott was chosen
chairman and Assemblyman l.. l..
Johnson secretary, and a general dis
cussion was had of plans of work.
Some clerical help for the prelimin-
airy work of gathering data will be
required and this will be arranged
for at once.
Insurance companies are to be
asked to furnish information regard
ing agents, the qualification required,
contracts, commissions, etc. A cir
cular will be issued asking the pub
lie to provide whatever information
is thought pertinent and to make
complaints of whatever nature may
be deemed just in the case.
The whole question will be given
study by the committee before a.
fully determined plan of procedure
is accepted The committee will
meet again in December, if not soon
er, subject to the chairman's call
Meanwhile the members will attend
the national convention of insurance
commissioners in Milwaukee the lat
ter part of August.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Indian Rule for Orators.

The untutored mind of the Indian or
the savage often appears strange to
us, but there is sometimes reason IN
what at first sight seems eccentric.
A South African tribe has an eff
fectual method of dealing with bores
which might be adopted by wester2,
peoples. This simple tribe considers
long speeches injurious both to the
orator and his hearers, so to protect
both there is an unwritten law that
every public orator must stand on one
leg only when he is addressing an
audience AS soon as he has to place
the other leg on the ground his ora
ton is brought to a close.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
NEW YORK FLYER is WRECKED
Engine of Ejghteen-Hour Special
Leaps Rails.

Chicago.-Passenge on the 49,
hour Pennsylvania flyer for New
York narrowly escaped death or injury
when the engine, tender and baggage
car jumped the tracks after leaving
Indiana Harbor and toppled over in a
ditch. None of the passengers was
hurt beyond slight bruises received
when the engineer threw on the
brakes, bringing the train to stop
within few feet. The fireman of the
engine was badly injured when he
jumped from the cab.
The accident occurred when the en-.
CINE, tender and baggage car jumped
the tracks The reason so far has
not been explained The engine rolled
down an embankment and overturned.
When it left the track the engineer
and fireman jumped from the cab,
the latter seriously injuring himself.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
SPORT ON ISLAND OF sULU
Uncle Sam Owns 1t Now-The Old
Sultan Seems to Have Been
Some Fancy in His Day.

The common sport of the old sultan
of Sulu was boar hunting, carried on
with fine breed of native ponies. An
English traveller at one of these hunts
thus described the sultana, typical
Sulu woman: "She wore full Turkish
trousers of blue silk richly embroid-
cred, and a blue vest fitting very
tight and ornamented with gold but
tons, lace in front, using the universal
sarong as a covering for her shout
ders; around her head clear buff
kerchief was tied turban fashion;
white cotton stockings and pair of
Chinese slippers completed her out
ward visibilities. Nearly all the Sulu
women wear deal of yellow, which
contrasts wildly with their luxuriant
black hair, and like the men they ride
well and also in the same style"
Capt Edward L. King of Bridge
water, in whose arms the famous Gen.
Henry Ware Lawton fell dying when
picked off by sharpshooters at San
Mateo, the Philippines, December IS,
1899, has recently been appointed
governor of the Sulu archipelago, the
most southern Of Uncle Sans terri
tOrial possessions.
Deer are plentiful on the islands.
There is an enormous day flying bat
which is said to present most weird
and supernatural appearance. There is
no elephant or tiger hunting on these
islands as on their near neighbors.
The two highest mountain peaks on
Sulu proper are still covered with
the primeval forest. The highest is
known as Bu'aat Timantangis or Hill
of Tears"
AS a reason for this name the ma
tives assign the fact that it is the last
bit of their native land which is Wis
ible when they go away on their
trading excursions.
Men and women ride ponies, buffa-
loes and even COWS to the markets.
There are displayed for sale sweet
potatoes, mangoes, bananas, vans and
corn cobs, the universal receptacle is
a neatly woven basket of cocoanut
leaves. Nuts for the betel chewers
are on sale together with little pack
cts of the leaves of the piper betel.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
TOGO MAKES INITIAL TALK.
Thanks Country for Hospitality in Ad-
dress Before Press Club.


Washington.-A brief speech, the
first he has made since his stay
in this country, was made by Admiral
Count Togo before the National Press
club of Washington at the close of a
strenuous days program.
The admiral spoke in japanese, his
remarks being interpreted by Lieuten-
ant Commander Taniguchi, his naval
aid. He said:
Since my arrival in this country
the president of this great republic
has received me with the greatest hon.
or and hospitality, your government
has extended to me innumerable cour-
tesies and your fellow citizens have
given me the most hearty welcome.
All these, 1 dare say, are more than
l am entitled to, and l take them as
meant toward my august sovereign
and for his subjects"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
sTIMsoN ARRIVES AT HAVANA.
Absence of Intervention Talk Ends
Promised Disorders.

Havana-The arrival of Secretary
of War Stimson was marked by
Gomez. In view of the predic-
He came in by rail from Santiago and
was met by an imposing array of
Cuban officials. Secretary Stimson and
his party were the guests of President
Gomez. In view of the predictions
that the secretary was to advise
Intervention his aloofness made a deep
impression. The Gomez administra-
ton was plainly gratifed and the agf
tators as plainly discouraged.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
COL. CODY FINDS HIS cradle.
Ends Long Search for Bed in Which
He First Slept.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Col w. F.
Cody, former scout and plainsman,
located through Des Moines man
the cradle in which he and his sisters
and elder brother were rocked to
sleep in their infancy.
The relic is in the possession OF
Walter D. Olney, a former resident OF
Scott county, where Colonel Cody
lived before his parents took him to
Kansas. Cody's father made the piece
of furniture himself.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
VIII Not AngIic;za Town

west Salem. Practicability won
over beauty at a meeting here when
citizens turned down the plan of a
ohlcago architect to rebuild this
town. which was. recently almost de-
stroyed by fire. along the lines of old
English architecture, which would
make the city resemble an English
village.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
SEE PLOT TO POISON CHILDREN.
TWO Men and Woman Are Arrested at
Concord, Mo.

Fulton, Mo-Prosecuting Attorney
Baker of Galloway county thinks
he has unearthed wholesale
attempt to murder children at Con-
cord, by the placing of packages of
chewing gum where the little ones
would get hold of it. AS a result of
his Investigations he ordered the ar
rest of Jefferson Woods and Lee Boyd
and his wife of Concord. They were
brought to Fulton by Deputy Sheriff
Cole.
The children endangered belong to
families whose members testified in
the SANDER suit of Mrs. Boyd against
Dr. w. B. Ellis of Concord, which
was tried in June and resulted in a
verdict for the defendant.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
MRS. ELIZABETH ALLEN DIES
Author of "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
Succumbs in New York.

New York.-Mrs. Elizabeth Akers
Allen died at her home in Tuck
ahoe N. Y She was seventy
nine years cid and was born in Maine
Mrs. Allen, whose maiden name was
Chase, began to write at the age OF
fifteen years under the pen name
Florence Percy" In 1858 she be
came contributor to the Atlantic
Monthly, and a year later wrote her
most famous poem, Rock Me to
Sleep, Mother"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
&C sistent.

"Jaggs prides himself on his con.
sistency, doesn't he?"
TO such an extent that when he
went on a spree while he was in
mourning, he declares he saw only
black snakes"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Where Property Is coino lin

prospective Tenant like the
house, but don't like that huge build.
ing in front. It's such a dreary out.
look.
Agent-Oh, but that's only gun
powder factory. 1t might explode any
day.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Berry Pickers Fiqht Price Cut.

Marquette, Mich.-A unique strike
is in progress in the Dead river
country, north of Ishpeming, where
the BURBERRY pickers have rebelled
against a reduction from $3.50 to 81
in the price of the fruit.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Would Bar Liquor Sales.

Nashington-A bill prohibiting the
issuance of federal permits or special
license tax stamps for the sale Of
liquor in dry" states or communities
has been introduced by Representa-
tive Goodwin of Arkansas.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Blast Kills one; Hunts Seven.

Toledo, O.-John Pell was killed and
seven other men were injured by an
explosion of dynamite at the White
Rock plant of the Kelley Island Lime
and Transport company. near Clay
Center.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Ger. G. w. Gordon Dies

Memphis, Tenn.-Gen. George w.
Gordon, ommander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, and rep
resentative in congress from the Tenth
Tennessee district. is dead here,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Chile PAYS Indemnify.

London.-Augustin Edward, the
Chilean minister to Great Britain. paid
over to Ambassador Reid 1874. 637
pounds, the indemnity awarded the
United States in the Alsop claim
against Chile under the arbitral jldg
ment Of King George.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Joliet Stove Maonste Dies

Redlands, Cal.-Word was received
here of the sudden death in Auckland,
n. T., of William n. Moore, a million
aire orange grower of Redlands, and
stove manufacturer of Joliet, III. Heart
disease was the cause
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
LORDS TAKE UP VETO BILL.
Debate Is Begun and Close Vote or
Measure Is Indicated.

London.-The lords veto bill, be-
reft of the frills added by the
peers when it was last before in
their hands, reappeared in the house
of lords. A counting of heads in the
different factions, the Idle hards,
the "surrenderers" and the minister.
ialists, has show the possibility of a
vote so surprisingly close that the
prophets hesitate to say whether the
government will be defeated.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Asylum Farm Profitable.

Appleton.-A statement shows that
the county insane asylum farm of 437
acres has in the past twenty-one years.
paid running expenses and cost of
construction, besides making $2O.472
for the taxpayers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
condemn 2e for ship MutIny.

Madrid, Spain.-A court-martial at
Cadiz condemned to death &c meE
who took part in the mutiny on board
the Spanish battleship Numancia
while the vessel was lying in the
roadstead at Tangier.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Veteran JurIst Near Death

Grand Rapids.-Judge Charles M
Webb OF the seventh circuit is critic
ally ILL., He has served as circuit
Judge continuously for over twenty
tVe years and is the dean of Wiscon-
sins circuit judges.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
PERSIA is GIVEN WARNING.
Russia Will Hold Teheran Government
Responsible for Damage.

st. Petersburg The Russian gov.
eminent issued notice to the Per-
sian government that it will hold
the government at Teheran RESPONSE
BILE for any damage to Russian inter
ests caused by the return of ex-Shah
Mohammed Ali Mira.
An analogous declaration was made
some time ago by Russia and Great
Britain to the Teheran government
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Commons Kills Lords Plan.

London.-By a vote of 145 to 2S9,
the house of commons rejected the
lords amendment to the veto bill
thus sustaining Premier Asquith's
governmental policy by surprisingly
large majority.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Fly Poison Kills Boy,

Dudley, Mass.-Theodore Keene,
four years old, found a saucer Of wa
ter on the table of his home and drank
it to quench his thirst. The water
was a solution from poison fly paper.
The boy died.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Railroad to Enter Mosinea.

Nausau.-The Northwestern rail-
way Will build a line into Mosinee.
thirteen miles south of here, being a
continuation of the branch line from
Kelley TO Rothschild.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Oh, So SuspleIo,s

Very suspicious man, they saw"
Very. Bought dictionary last
week, and now he's counting the
words to see If it contains as many
as the publishers claim"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
ADD AN N" TO PlTrsBuRc
Official Spelling of Pennsylvania Cit,
Is Announced at Capital.

Washington.-Th postofice de.
partment has added an III" to the
city of Pittsburg, Pa, so that it will
now read officially Pittsburgh"
In consequence President Taft sent
to the senate the nomination of viii.
liam H. Davis, postmaster at pitts.
burg" to be postmaster at pitts
burgh."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-08-23
BIG TREAT FOR
10000 CHILDREN

Practically everything Is Ia read
ness for the big treat 10 be given
the Riddles at AM Point next
Saturday by the Fairgrounds asso.
citation. Fully 10000 children are
expected to join in the fun. The
Native Sous are planning 10 give
the youngsters a clamhakc. while
the park board viii serve hot
dogs" and lemonade to the guests.
Fine prizes have been donated by
local merchants for the winners OF
the athletic contest 10 be given.
Two bands will furnish the music
at the picnic and at the beach. Ar
rangements for free transportation
OF the children 10 and from the
beach will be completed Thursday
and tickets viii be distributed from
the playfieid office and the park
board office. in the Central build
ing