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EAGLE RIVER REVIEW
CHAS. RICHARDS 4 SON, Pabiitber.
EAGLE RIVER. - WISCGNSIN
THE EVIL OF SIMPLICITY.
At the conference of the Eastern
Millinery association one of the prin
cipal addresses was r*n “The Evil of
Simplicity in Millinery/' The presi
dent recommended in his report,
among other things, that a press com
mittee see to it that more information
about millinery be furnished the pub
lic prints. At the banquet in the eve
ning Chief Justice Russell delivered
an address on “The Triumph of
Truth.” These three things should be
considered together. Simplicity has
many evils, whether in millinery or
without it, but few people would have
suspected that among them is the
paradox that the more simple the hat
the more expensive it is. The fact,
however, was confirmed by other
speakers. Thus, one authority speak
ing at the banquet said: "Formerly
we paid high for millinery, but now
iwe pay higher for the absence of mil
linery.” This is doubtless one of the
matters on which the president of the
association wishes more information
given to the public, says the New
York World. It is probable, however,
that most people will be better
pleased by the statement that as sim
plicity in millinery came in with the
bobble skirt, so will it go out with
that garment. Unfortunately, while
we are assured that the coming of the
pannier will bring a splurge in bats,
the intimation that there will be a de
cline in prices in proportion to the in
crease of decoration is not accompa
nied by a guarantee. That is why we
have a special interest in the atten
tion given by the banqueters to the
speech on “The Triumph of Truth.”
Courts are handy institutions. There
was a man who lost his dog—run over
by a railroad train. The owner sued
and got S2OO the judge in his
ruling saying the dog at the time of
the accident was “exercising ordinary
care and diligence.” Great dog that!
Then there is that noted tenor out
east, who left New York for Quebec,
and caught a severe cold in the Pull
man, which so disabled his voice that
he failed to fill several very big-pay
ing engagements, so he sues the rail
road company for $50,000 damages. A
Chicago dressmaker sued a woman
for making a dress. The woman re
fused to pay because the dress was
not in style, says the Ohio State Jour
nal. Especially did she object to the
V-shaped guimpe in the back, which
she said was impossible. The court;
had to adjourn the case over to learn
what it was that made a dress impos
sible. We haven’t seen one yet. So
here on one'page of a newspaper are
a dog, a tenor voice and a V-shaped
guimpe before the courts.
The young opera singer in London,
who told the queen when asked if she
were not half English, that she was
all American, had the courage and the
patriotism to prefer the honor of her
nationality to royal approval to her
supposed British blood. If all Ameri
cans abroad were to act with the
same frank and honest pride in their
Americanism, this country would be
less subject to the criticism called
forth in other countries.
A supreme court justice In New
York has laid it down that a man can
not abandon his wife "simply because
she nags him.” We’ve known It right
along, to be sure, but it’s rather dis
concerting to have it thrown at us in
the form of a legal decision.
The decision of the Harvard author
ities to replace the college elms with
red oaks is another testimony to the
fact that new pests are bringing disas
ter to some of our old and favorite
trees. Insects are threatening the elms
today as never before.
A New York judge decided that be
cause a woman went to work, the fact
did not relieve her husband from the
obligation of paying alimony. The
law, with a few exceptions, has been
remarkably polite to the lady.
According to official figures, a baby
3s born in New York every three min
utes. As a sucker is said to be
born every minute, it is apparent that
New York is not living up to Its pos
sibilities.
During the moving and house clean
ing season the average householder
needs the patience of Job combined
with the digestion of an anaconda and
the muscular development of a San
flow.
While the world stands aghast at
the terriffic battle for life in great
disasters the news comes from Phil
adelphia of a girl’s suicide because
she disliked her social duties. It is a
queer world.
New Zealand is about to abandon
wooden telegraph poles for those
made of concrete. Perhaps the day
Is at hand when a telegraph pole
will be invented that will add to the
attractiveness of the landscape.
DASHED TO DEATH
DARING WOMAN AVIATOR, MISS
JULIA CLARKE, IS KILLED
BY FALL.
WAS MAKING PRACTICE FLIGHT
One of the Three Flying Licensed Fe
male Pilots Plunges to Earth in
Springfield, 111., When Biplane's
Wing Strikes Tree Limb.
Springfiled, 111., June 19.—Only
twenty-eight years old and one of the
three flying licensed female aviation
pilots, Miss Julia Clarke of Denver
was killed at the Illinois state fair
grounds Monday when the tip of one
of the wings of a Curtiss biplane in
which she was making a flight struck
the limb of a tree and the machine
was dashed to the ground, crushing
her skull.
Grimly suspicious of the machine
which was alleged to have had an
unlucky record, Miss Clarke left a
note requesting that if she were killed
that her body be taken to Denver
tor cremation at the Riverside crema
tory.
The flight was in practice prelim
inary to an exhibition to be given
here on next Friday and Saturday.
William Pickens of Chicago, one of
the Curtiss-Wright exhibition promot
ers and managers, has been here with
Lansing Callan, a French aviator, and
a number of mechanicians, preparing
for the exhibition.
Because some question had been
raised as to the safety of the machine
which was finally wrecked, Lansing
Callan made the first flight in it,
circling about for five minutes. He
descended and pronounced the ma
chine in good condition. Miss Clarke,
who was in waiting, smilingly took
charge of the machine for her flight,
made a beautiful start and circled
around the fair grounds for several
minutes. As she made a very low
sweep the few who were witnessing
the trial thought she was about to
make a landing, but instead she flew
close to the race track grand stand
and attempted to skim by a row of
tall trees. She did not clear the trees
properly. The machine struck a far
reaching bough and the airship turned
turtle, falling with a crash while mak
ing a speed of forty miles an hour.
The dying aviatrix was rushed to a
nearby hospital In an automobile, but
lived only a few minutes. Her skull
had been fractured and her body bad
ly bruised. Blood gushed from her
mouth. She never regained conscious
ness after the fall.
CURB ON RATE INJUNCTION
Senate Passes Bill Abolishing Com
merce Court and Restricting the
Issue of Writs.
• Washington, June 15. —In order to
further protect the acts of the Inter
state commerce commission, the senate
amended the legislative, executive
and judiciary appropriation bill to pro
vide that no single federal judge may
enjoin or restrain the commission’s
orders. The bill was passed by the
senate. It will now go to conference.
An amendment, offered by Senator
Cummins, and adopted, provides that
Injunctions and restraints must be
agreed upon by a majority of three
judges, who shall be the chief Jus
tice of the United States and two
other Justices.
An amendment by Senator Crawford
to extend the Cummins amendment to
injunctions against state administra
tive boards was passed.
Senator McCumber asked the senate
to assign the five Judges of the com
merce court to other United States
courts, but it refused, 25 to 23.
ASKS REPEAL OF AMENDMENT
Senator McCumber Seeks to Forestall
Taft’s Veto of Democrat Steel
Revision Bill.
Washington, June 18.—Convinced
that President Taft proposes to veto
the Democratic steel revision bill con
taining an amendment repealing the
Canadian reciprocity agreement, Sena
tor McCumber of North Dakota intro
duced a joint resolution in the senate
calling for immediate repeal of that
pact. Incidentally, the resolution pro
vides that a duty of $2 and sl, depend
ent upon the grade, be placed upon
print paper.
EDUCATOR EXPIRES ON TRAIN
Dr. H. W. Johnston of Indiana Univer
sity Drops Dead In Monon
Coach.
Bloomington, Ind., June 18.—While
en route to his home in this efty last
night from a business trip to Indian
apolis, Dr. H. W. Johnston, head of
the Latin department of Indiana uni
versity, chairman of the Western In
ter-collegiate association and president
of the National association, dropped
dead on a Monon train.
Gale Wipes Out Village.
Guthrie, Okla., June 19. —Sixty or
more houses in the village of Kaylor,
Okla., were smashed oy a terrific gale,
but every person In the town’s popula
tion of 300 escaped and only two were
hurt, according to news of Monday.
Garros Wins Grand Aviation Prize.
Angers, France. June 19.—Roland
Garros, the French aviator, won the
grand prize of aviation Monday. The
prize was given by the French Aero
club and was worth SIO,OOO. The dis
tance covered was 683 miles.
WOOD SAVED BY TAFT
PRESIDENT REFUSES' TO SIGN
BILL OUSTING GENERAL.
Returns Army Appropriation Measure
to Congress With Message Presag
ing Action on Commerce Court.
Washington, June 19. —The presi
dent vetoed the army appropriation
bill.
The president declares it repeated
ly has been pointed out by his prede
cessors that the practice of attaching
legislative riders to appropriation bills
is dangerous.
The veto leaves the army without
an appropriation for its maintenance
for the next fiscal year, unless con
gress hurries through a single appro
priation measure without the legisla
tive features. It also saves General
General Leonard Wood.
Wood from being ousted from his of
fice as chief of staff after March 4,
1913, and prevents reorganization of
the army as provided in the bill.
In his measure sent to congress with
his veto the president criticized the
appended legislation in the bill reor
ganizing the army and causing
changes which he held should be
done by independent legislation and
not included in the bill appropriating
for the army.
DELEGATES HURT IN CRASH
m
Trains in Head-On Collision Near
Union Station in Chicago Bring
Panic to Passengers.
Chicago, June 19. —More than a
score of men and women, among
whom are members of the Georgia
Taft delegation to the Repnbiican na
tional convention, were injured here
Monday, some of the delegates suffer
ing internal injuries and broken bones
in a head-on collision between a pas
senger train on the Pennsylvania rail
road and a train of empty coaches a
few yards south of West Harrison
street. The locomotives were partly
wrecked and windows in several of
the coaches were shattered, flying
glass being showered on the delegates.
All the delegates are colored.
i
TAFT DENOUNCED IN HOUSE
Charged With Using Presidential
Appropriation for “Political
Jaunts*”
Washington, June 15.—President
Taft was denounced on the floor of the
house Thursday for spending money
appropriated for traveling expenses on
“political jaunts during which he con
demned all persons not thinking like
himself.” The denunciation was deliv
ered by Representative Fitzgerald of
the appropriations committee during
the debate on the sundry civil bill,
which contained an item of $25,000 for
the traveling expenses of the presi
dent. The house finally, by a vote of
78 to 51, decided to retain the item.
BEEF COMBINE TO DISSOLVE
Wickersham la Notified That National
Packing Company Will Voluntarily
Quit on August 1.
Washington, June 18. —District At
torney Wilkerson of Chicago notified
the attorney general that representa
tives of Armour, Swift and Morris in
terests, owning the National Packing
company, will voluntarily distribute
their interests and dissolve on Au
gust 1.
Under these circumstances the gov
ernment, the attorney general says,
will hold in abeyance the suit which it
proposed to bring against the National
Packing company to compel its disso
lution until the date mentioned.
Impeach Archbald, Is Vote.
Washington, June 18.—The house
committee on the judiciary will vote
unanimously to impeach Judge Robert
W. Archbald of the United States Su
preme court. The committee b»s thor
oughly digested the evidence taken
during the public hearings and will re
port to the house that the charges
filed through the department of justice
have been substantiated in every par
ticular and prove that Judge Archbald
is not a fit incumbent of a federal
bench.
Big Strike Is Settled.
Perth Amboy, N. J., June 18. —The
strike of 1,100 employes of the Amer
ican Smelting and Refining company,
which has cost three lives and a prop
erty loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, was settled Sunday.
Aerial Tour of England On.
London, June 18.—Aviator Slack
started on his aerial tour of England
Sunday, flying from the Henderson
aerodrome. He quickly took to an alti
tude of one thousand feeL Bradford
was his first stop.
TWO LEADING CONSERVATIONISTS
j • % ** ’v'--' Hug:
THE large and handsome gentleman on the left In this photograph is
Alexander Moore of Pittsburg, who left his journalistic duties and
his bride, known to the world as Lillian Russell, to go to Chicago and
help the cause of Colonel RoosevelL With him is R. R. Quay of Philadel
phia.
MANY DIE 111 STORM
THIRTY ARE KILLED AND 107 IN
JURED DURING DEVASTAT
ING TORNADO.
CYCLONE HITS MANY STATES
Women and Children the Greatest Suf
ferers From Terrific Wind—Church
Steeple Blown Down in Ohio With
Tragic Results.
Kansas City, Mo., June 18.—A tor
nado in Bates county, Missouri,
mowed down giant trees and destroyed
all homes in its path of death Sun
day morning. Twenty are known to •
be dead. The twister dipped to earth
near Lacygne, Kan. Its fury increased
as it sped northeast into Missouri,
blotting out whole families, venting
its rage mostly on women and babies,
ending five miles northeast of Drexel,
Mo.
Warrensburg, Mo., June 18.—A tor
nado one-half mile wide swept north
ern Johnson county and northern Hen
ry county, Sunday morning.
The home of Don Carlos, one and
a half miles southeast of Leeton, was
crushed and Carlos and his wife were
killed in their beds. The home of T the
Misses Milmer was destroyed and the
two women were carried into a plowed
field, but were not hurt. Near Suther
land, the home of Guy Booth was de
stroyed. Booth was killed and his
wife and two daughters, Blanche and
Ethel, were fatally injured.
Oklahoma City, Okla., June 18.—Be
tween thirty and forty persons were
fatally injured Sunday in a cyclone
which swept over the Osage Indian
nation.
Columbus, 0., June 18.—An inter
mittent series of tornadic storms Sun
day played havoc in Ohio, devastating
several villages, killing three persons
bo far as meager reports show, injur
ing between fifty and seventy-five and
doing property damage which will to
tal high into the millions. Columbus
was visited by the storm and, despite
the fact that it was not in its direct
path, two persons were injured and
much property was demolished.
At Delaware houses were blown
down, but there were no fatalities.
When the storm struck the church in
Zanesville, Rev. Father Roach, who
was celebrating mass, faced a panic.
Calling upon his congregation to be
calm, he made his way to the rear of
the church, where the steeple had
fallen, and administered the last rites
to the two dying men. Many of the
parishioners were pinned under the
debris and others were fighting madly
to get out of the windows. Holding
above his head a crucifix he called
u pon his people in the name of God to
have courage to spe£e the weak and
to follow him.
Skinnion was dead when removed
from beneath the stone and debris.
Dinan died two hours later in a hos-.
pltal. Organized rescue w'ork result
ed in saving the lives of others, though
many of them were seriously hurt.
Orville Wright Will Continue Flying.
New York, June 19. —in spite of the
wishes of his multi-millionaire friends
on the directorate of the Wright com
pany, Orville Wright will continue to
fly whenever his own sweet will dic
tates.
Frlant Wins French Derby.
Paris, June 19. —The Prix <|u Jockey
club—the French derby—at the Chan
tilly course was won by a rank out
sider, Prince Murat’s Friant 11., at 32
to 1. It was worth this year $37,-
200.
DEPUTIES SHOOT MEN
FOUR STRIKERS ARE SLAIN AT
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.
Mob of Thousand Sought to Burn
Buildings of American Smelting
Company.
Perth Amboy, N. J., June 17. —Four
men were killed and two others
wounded in a battle on Friday be
tween strikers and deputy sheriffs at
the plant of the American Smelting
and Refining company. The dead men
were strikers. They were shot by the
deputies who fired to prevent the men
from setting fire to the $10,000,000
plant of the smelting company.
One hundred shots were exchanged
at the works of the Barber Asphalt
company and the American Smelting
and Refining company, when a mob of
1,000 strike sympathizers attacked the
plants. The assault took place shortly
after three o’clock, the assailants try
ing to take the plants by surprise.
Pickets called to the approaching men
to halt. Their answer was a volley of
shots.
Local officials are in constant com
munication with Governor Wilson and
a call for the militia is momentarily
expected.
Three men were seen lying in the
street after the rioters, 1,000 in num
ber, fled.
NEWS FROM FAR
AND NEAR
New York, June 15. —George B. Cox,
former political boss in Republican
politics of Cincinnati, was named
Thursday as a defendant in an action
brought in supreme court by National
Reserve bank to recover $30,000.
Lexington, Ky., June 15.r—Wesley
Edwards, one of the Hillsville (Va.)
courthouse assassins, was captured
Thursday at Clay City, Powell county,
according to a special received here.
Washington, June 15. —Supporting
his resolution for a constitutional
amendment giving women the right of
franchise, Representative Berger in
the house presented a petition with
more than 116,000 signers.
Cleveland, 0., June 15.—River and
lake traffic here was seriously crip
pled as the result of a strike of tug
firemen employed by the Great Lakes
Towing company.
Elgin, 111., June 15.—Melvin C. Joce
lyn, former assistant cashier of the
Elgin National bank in this city, was
arrested at his home on charges of
misapplication of funds and embezzle
ment.
American Pastor Is Killed.
London, June 18. —Rev. E. O. Weld
an American clergyman, was run over
4ind killed by a motor bus in Cockspur
street. He had just left his hotel for
a stroll. Mrs. Weld, who had gone to
her bankers, learned of the tragedy
only on her return to the hotel. Her
husband was connected with Grace
Episcopal church, Brooklyn.
Five Drowned In Destructive Flood.
Winnipeg, Man., June 19.—President
John Corcoran of the Camp Corcoran
Construction company and four labor
ers were drowned in a flood which
swept over the camp west of High
River, Alberta, Monday night.
Will Dissolve National Packing Co.
Washington, June 19—Attorney
General Wickersham was advised that
the National Packing company would
be voluntarily dissolved by the beef
packers by August 1. In view of this
action suits will be abolished.
ALUMNI GATHER AT VARSITY
Six Hundred Former Students Meet
at Madison for Class Re
unions on Alumni Day.
Madison. —Madison was invaded
by 600 old grads on alumni day, who
were back at the Alma Mater for the
fifty-ninth annual commencement ex
ercises, class reunions and annual
sessions of the Wisconsin Alumni as
sociation.
One of the oldest graduates to ar
rive was George B. Cross, the only
surviving rrember of the class, of
1867, one of the classes scheduVtd
for a regular reunion this spring.
Without others of his class to greet,
Mr. Cross is a lonely reunionist; but
he is being cordially received by oth
er sons and daughters of Wisconsin.
The oldest class which has a regu
lar reunion this year was graduated
in 1862. Members of that class were:
Gideon Winan Allen, Sturgeon Bay;
Michael A. Leahy, Marshfield; Isaac
Newton Stewart, Appleton, Wis. At
the time the directory of giaduates
was issued in 1907, all members of
this class were living.
THOMPSON FOR GOVERNOR
Wisconsin Socialists Nominate Former
City Clerk of Milwaukee to Lead
Party in State Campaign.
Milwaukee. —The social democrats,
i In state convention here, nominated
the following state ticket, all candi
dates being nominated by acclama
tion. save the candidate for fovernor:
Governor —Carl D. Thompson of
Milwaukee.
Lieutenant governor—H. M. Park 3
of Superior.
Secretary of state —Ray Weaver of
Beaver Dam.
State treasurer —J. H. Ammon of
Kiel.
Attorney general—L. D. Jaseph of
Green Bay.
Chairman, state central committee
—Winfield R. Gaylord of Milwau
kee.
Secretary, state central committee
—Miss E. H. Thomas of Milwau
kee.
Two names were placed before the
convention for nomination for gov
ernor, those of Carl D. Thompson
and W. A. Jacobs, formerly of Ra
cine and now of Milwaukee and the
candidate of the party for the honor
two years ago. The vote stood 66
for Thompson and 32 for Jacobs.
Sixty-four delegates from Milwau
kee county and fifty-seven from oth
er points in the state sat in the con
vention.
MACCABEES NAME OFFICERS
J. W. Brown, Stevens Point, Chosen
Great Commander at Madi
son Encampment.
Madison. —At a meeting of dele
gates of the Knights of the Macca
bees in great camp here, officers were
elected as follows:
Great commander, J. W. Brown,
Stevens Point; executive committee,
P. N. Schuengel, Milwaukee; Bert
Horton, Oshkosh; J. C. MacKenzie,
Madison; auditors, A. D. Crandall,
Milwaukee; S. W. Swanson, Marin
ette; August Flug, Chippewa Falls.
The board, of auditors passed upon
the accounts of the great camp and
reported that the order is in a flour
ishing condition, the increase ir,
membership in the past three months
was more than double that of the
preceding quarter year. The mem
bership is now more than 7,000 in
the state.
SCRUB STOCK PROFITLESS
Dairy Cow Competition at State Uni*
varsity Shows Average Animal
Pays for Feed Only.
Madison.—That the average cow
in Wisconsin just pays for her feed
is shown by the results of the Wis
consin dairy cow competition, which
have been published in a bul
letin of the college of agriculture of
the university.
By proper feeding and manage
ment big profits can be secured from
good cow r s, the bulletin states, but
nothing can be expected from
“scrub” stock.
The cows in the first prize herd en
tered in the competition produced
16,044 pounds of milk and their
average yield of butter fat was near
ly 600 pounds. Two-thirds of all the
cows entered produced over 400
pounds of butter fat in one year.
Veteran Postal Employe De^
Milwaukee.—Daniel W. Fowler
aged 73 years, more than fifty-sis
years employed in the Milwaukee
postoffice, is dead.
Two Drown While Fishing.
Medford. —While fishing on Sacket
lake, A 1 Zemmer and John Anderson
were drowned as the result of the
capsizing of their boat.
Look for Bumper Oat Crop*
Eau Claire.- I —A bumper oat crop
will be raised in this section this
Beason, and there is also going to be
a lot of hay. It is feared that the
frost has damaged the rye crop con
siderably. Corn is getting a good
start.
Install Water Gas Plant*
Oshkosh.—The Oshkosh Gas com
pany is installing a water-gas plant
including a holder of 500,000 cubi«
feet capacity.