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Mern Wisconsin MverM. Entered at tlie Post. Ofllco in \Yabeno, Wlfc, a second-class mail matter. Fnbllahed every Tbanday at WfttmMt Fintest Connty, Wi*. CORDIAL Q. HIMLEY, lOditor and i*ropri©t<m Subscription $1 SO per year In adraaMt Ihs fie copies free. NEWS OF THE WORLD. VANISHH-AMEBICAN SITUATION. Cubans in Havana aire taking steps to organize the “new Cuban navy.” Gen. Otis has warned the war de partment that Manila is not a sate place for American women. A government expert told the beef court of inquiry that diseased carcasses were saved at the packing-houses and put on the market. Gen. Woods denies that there is any trouble at Santiago. Americans will establish banks at Manila and Honolulu. The details of the proposed $12,000,- 000 Cuban loan are announced. It Is suspected that canned horse meat was furnished to the army. Gen. brigade landed at Manila and at once went to fighting— the beginning of the forward move nt nt against the rebels. \en per cent of the volunteers in the Philippines wish to remain there per manently, provided the United States , retains the islands. ( A movement was started to 'half ( mast flags in New York city when the '(Roumanla arrives with the bodies of khosc who died at Santiago. J Col. James F. Smith, the new Amer ican governor of the island of Negros, f in the Philippines, with establish an [, autonomous government there. General Gomez says the reason there are so many officers in the Cuban ar my 18 that the insurgents had no other method of recognizing merit. Gomez will obey the decision of the Cuban assembly which removed him as commander-in-chief because he set tled with the Americans for $3,000,000. John liarrett, ex-minister to Slam, says in an interview that Filipino lead ers deeply regretted the recent sudden opening at Manila and regarded it as a blow to their cause. The total number of deaths reported to the adjutant general of the army between May 1, 1898 and Feb. 28, 1899, was 5,731. Of these only 329 died in action and 125 more of wounds. DOMESTIC. Chicago May wheat, 71%c. A tremendous storm visits the north west. Ex-Mayor E. C. Habb of Minneapo lis died. item Admiral Hlgginson declined promotion. .fudge Isaac Uergnuin of Cheyenne, W.vo., is dead, aged 52. The Americans won their chess with the English. The new coal trust has absolute con mil over price and output. Hulf a block of Dawson City, .Alaska, burned. Loss $50,000. ,% L. W. Day, superintendent of Schools at Canton, Ohio, is dead. £galn It is affirmed that Archbishop I Ireland is to be made n cardinal. J. Fount Tillman, former register of the treasury, died near Shelbyville, Senn. 4 Mrs. J. Warren Keifer, wife of Ma jtir General Keifer, died at Springfield, tilo. is rumored ilqtt Archbishop Ire jJaand will he made pupal nuncio at ris. 9M. L. Hayward, republican, was Elected United Staten Senator from Ne braska. 4 Twenty-eight English chorus girls arrived to take part In a Casino pro duction An. effort is being made to form a pipe organ combine with $50,000,000 cepftal. Cmarlee C. Kiefer, a distinguished i Freemason of Ohio, is dead at Urbana. fcaged 73. t Wisconsin and Michigan had a se- JBvere storm, with tremendous deposits £ of snow. i? itev. \V. C. Dickinson. D. D., n well- Hfenown Presbyterian minister, died 9|ttt Evanston. Tbfc Oklahoma legislature has ad journed without passing the woman suffrage bill. [ The Wilkesbarre (Pat. postmaster .was arrested, charged with, tampering with the mails. w Gen. Joseph Wheeler, it was re ported, is to marry the widow of George W. Childs. Mr. Kipling was informed of the death of his daughter Josephine, aged 6. He is improving fast. $ Politicians assert that Richard droker is neglecting Tammany hall fir the Democratic club. |lt is officially denied that Admiral Kkutz has been Instructed to depose Kmg Matanfa of Samoa. A dam was carried away at Reeds huirg. Wis.. taking buildings with It and drowning live stock. Experts of the French government will come to St. Paul to examine west ern railway locomotives. A clause In the sundry civil bill k permits Secretary Cage to use $60,- 1000,000l 000,000 of Central Pacific notes to make up this year's defltlc. Dr. J. A. Allen, a prominent Pres byterian divine of St. Ixniis. diet! at Martinsville, Ind., aged 62. Rollin M. Squire, formerly commis sioner of public works of New York, died at that cit* aged 6." years. Gea. Joseph Wheeler has decided to retain his seat in congress Instead of accepting,an army commission. Austin Bid well, who with others ' ' " ..a.. swindled the Bank of England out of $2,500,000, died in Butte, Mont. Two North Dakota colleges each re ceived SIO,OOO from the estate of the late John Quincy Adams of Chicago. At Boston, William A. Doucette was arrested on the charge of embezzling $4,000 from a church collection box. M. Andre, Belgian consul general at Manila, Is in New York to raise $lO,- 000,000 to build a railway in Luzon. The United States attitude regard ing the dismemberment of China will be one of “disinterested neutrality.” Captain Morton L. Phillips, com mander of the revenue cutter Boutwell, is dead at Newberne, •N. C., aged 61. Charles H. Skidmore, prominent produce merchant of New York, died at his home in Montclair, N. J., aged 59. The will of Herbert Stewart, a wealthy New York engineer, bequeaths $50,000 to establish a scientific fund at Yale. Countess di Cesnola of New York has received a cameo brooch from the pope in recognition of her charitable deeds. The New York board qf trade started a movement to secure for the metrop olis the great political conventions of 1900. The Utah legislature, which had a large democrtaic majority, adjourned without electing a United State3 sen ator. Pugilist Erne won over Hawkins in the San Francisco fight, the finisn being administrated in the seventh round. T. Dewitt Talmage resigns his Washington pastorship, to devote all his time to religious journalism and lecturing. It was stated by an S. P. C. A. agent that hcises were being sold in New Yoik for 5 cents each to be made into sausage. The National Association of Master Plumbers, which is in session at New Orleans, decided to meet next year in Baltimore. Bare-legged Scots of Paterson, de spite opositlon by the M. C. A., ob tained a hall in which to give a con cert In kilts. At the Methodist church in Wichita, Governor Stanley took charge of the finances and raised SI,OOO, which clear ed up all debts. It is said that Mr. James Brown Potter will apply for a divorce from uis wife, the well known actress, whe is now In London. Calvary Protestant church of New York is about to open a dry goods store to sell articles in common use at reasonable rates. The New York city authorities have decided to root out Chinatown by widening Mott and Pell streets to 100- feet boulevards. At New Albany, Ind., twin girls born prematurely, owing to accident to the mother, Mrs. Frank Miller, will be reared in an incubator. Eight cases of smallpox were discov ered In a house occupied by colored people at No. 1425 Eleventh street northwest, Washington . Rev. Dr. Byron Sutherland has been appointed pastor of the First Presby terian church, Washington, to succeed Rev. Dr. Talmadge, resigned. Bishop Potter has aroused much criticism by a letter calling prohibi tionists the "Pharisees of our day” and otherwise severely scoring them. Sentence was suspended at Albany in the case of Mrs. Margaret E. Cody, w'ho was convicted of attempting to blackmail the heirs of Jay Gould. Sir Julian Pauneefote, the British ambassador at Washington, will be one of the British delegates to the czar's disarmament conference. An act passed by the Michigan legis lature, which was advocated by Gover nor Pingreo, provides for higher tax ation of corporations than formely. At Lewiston. Maine, Miss Edith Dingley, daughter of the late Con gressman Nelson Dingley. was married to Colonel James Hooc of Washington. Hev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke has prac tically decided to accept a professor ship at Princeton if he is not obliged to leave his New' York church at once. Johnny Griffin, once one of the world's greatest featherweights, is dead. Unless claimed by friends, his body will bo burled In the New York Potters’ field. Officers of the Montana Ore Pur chasing company were lined for con tempt of court -an indictment grow ing out of the Boston & Montana com pany trouble. The state department has been in formed that the Chinese government may. make San Man a free port. This is the port which Italy has demanded from China. The navy department has Issued or ders re-establishing the South Atlantic station. Rear-Admiral Howison will be in charge and the cruiser Chicago will be his flagship. Senator Frye says there is nothing In the recent Niearauguan canal law requiring any payment for any con cession. The president may expend money nt his discretion. While there Is sbmo opposition to the election of Mr. Reed as speaker of. the next house of representatives, it Is not thought any combination can Ik* formed to defeat him. Dr. Charles F. Murray, a young physician of Sewlckley, Pa., shot and killed his father’s colored butler, John Jennings, and is now in jail. He refused to assign a reason. Albert H. Pol ham us. road foreman of eugines of the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne Chicago Railroad, died at Fort Wayne of pneumonia. He had been with the company A years. The war department has issued an order embodying the plans for tba In crease and reorganization of the army. Alt recruiting stations will *js opened at once and men enlisted as fast as possible. Ranchmen have carried provisions ( to and crew of the Railway train that- /Wi in at Iron Mountain, Wyo.* arid dAnger of their starvation is averted. The 2,000 employes in all of the fac tories of the company at Toronto, manufacturers of agricul ture machinery, have been notified that their wages will be increased 10 per cent. t he, census bureau, of which ex-Gov erncr Merriam 4s director, will have a vast amount of patronage to dispose .of. It is said most of the appoint ments will be made subject to political considerations. Harry Hutchinson, 18, has been ar rested at Corinth, Ky., charged with wrecking an express train on the Cin cinnati Southern railway. He was held in $2,000 bail. Other arrests will be made. In Chicago a fire wall of the eight story structure at 207-211 Jackson boulevard which was partially burned, fell, demolishing the adjoining build ing and setting the ruins on fire. Loss $125,000, fully insured. John Rex Guelph Norman, the “Asiatic Healer” who came to New York to try to cure millionaire Charles Broadway Rouss of blindness, has been expelled from the English Theosophieal Brotherhood. There 4s danger of a collision be tween American and Canadian miners. It is alleged that Canadians are en croaching upon American territory, and Secretary of State Hay has sent a protest to the British government. At the last session of congress the pension law was amended so as to pre vent young women from marrying aged pens4oners, deserting them and setting up claims for widows’ pensions after the death of the pensioners. Edward S. Taber, president and treasurer of the Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company, president of uie First National Bank of New Bedford, Mass., and one of the leading business men of that city, is dead from pneu monia. The New York Verdict prints a let ter written in 1897 by Wm. J. Bryan to a Chicago editor, in which he fa vored the initiative and referendum as a state issue, but believed old issues should be settled first in national politics. George Young, founder of the well known hotel in Boston which ..ears his name, is dead at his home in that city as the result of a stioke of par alysis. He was 81 years of age. He had retired from business some twenty years ago. Dr. Wales, secretary of the state board of health, says small pox is steadily increasing in North Carouna. He reports the disease prevalent in seventeen counties and a letter from Burlington, forty miles from here, states that there are eleven cases there. At Fresno, Cal., the differences be tween the raisin growers associa tion and the packers have been finally adjusted. The association will make the sales and the packers will receive a liberal commission. The packers will form anew organization with a capital of $500,000, of which SIOO,OOO is to be in cash. Samuel Hudnut of Philadelphia, con ductor of the Blue Line express from Philadelphia for Conununicapaw. was beheaded at Bayonne. The conduc tor was on the platform of the first car and as the train approached Leon ard street railroad bridge, Hudnut leaned outside to look at a hotbox. He was struck by a bridge support. A train of three cars belonging to the New York Susquehanna Western railroad ran into three unoccupied cars of the Pennsylvania railroad in Jersey City. No one was hurt. The Susquehanna cars caught fire and were burned, and one Pensylvania car was destroyed. The loss was $15,000. An pen switch caused the wreck. l’he deposition of Edmond Rostand in the plagiarism suit of S. E. Gross against A. M. Palmer and Richard Mansfield was opened by the clerk of the United States circuit court. Chi cago. In it are set forth the replies of the author of Cyrano de Bergerac to the questions put him in Paris by the American commissioners, O. E. Bod ington and H. A. Alexander. FOREIGN. Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium is fast recovering. Queen Victoria has started for the south of France. Russia backs down in the contro versy over China. England and Germany now seem to be on the best of terras. Princess Kalulanl was reported dy ing of rheumatism of the heart. Swedish-Norwegian relations are more severely strained than ever. China is likely to frustrate Italy's plans by making San Mun a free port. A translation of the pope’s poem to nuns, written just before his illness, is out. The conference for the limitation of armaments will meet at The Hague May 18. Premier I-aurier has refused to offer a prohibition measure in the dominion parliament. It is announced Ernpeu.. Will iam will go to Cowes July 29 for the yachting week. est baloon trip on record. They cov ered 423 miles In three hours and Any minutes —better than 100 miles an hour. Great Britain repeats that he will defend China against the aggression of other powers. The duchess of Marlborough Is buy ing in Paris rich raiment for herself and her children. The Midland Railway Company of England has ordered ten more Ameri can locomotives. l'he first meeting of the Society of American Women .In Loncj/n had an attendance of 76. Russia is about to territory in tjie Pamir, and England will be heard fjom promptly. *rhe United States troops on the transport Sheridan disembarked at Malta and gave a parade. The countess of Durham’s reason was restored after she had lived in a madhouse for seventeen years. Mme. Bianchini w r as sentenced in Paris to five years’ penal servitude for trying to poison her husband. Madeline Bouton was married to Baron Nimptsch nearly two years ago, but the fact has just become pub lic. Ambassador Choate favorably im pressed the queen and is flooded with invitations to social and public gather ings. The explosion and attempted blowing up of powder magazines in France is believed to be the work of a foreign enemy. Russia has decided to withdraw her protest against the Niu-Chwanw rail road contract, thus yielding to Great Britain. Mrs. Cordelia Poirier and Samuel Parslow were hanged at St. Scholas tlque, Quebec, for the murder of Mrs. Poirier’s husband. The British Minister threatened China with punishment if she re pudiates the railway contract w'hich Russia protests against. Vice-Admiral Colomb said in a lec ture in London that Admiral Dewey took full advantage of the superiority of his guns and gunners. Dr. Lapponi, one of the pope’s phy sicians, is again sleeping at the Vati can. and this has led to alarming rumors as to the pope’s health. German Army officers made the fast- It is reported from Yarkand, Chinese Turkestan, that a large force of Russian troops is preparing to seize Sir-I-Kel, a hundred-mile stretch of disputed territory in the Pamir basin. Sir Julius Vogel, the colonial states man and writer, is dead. He was three times the head of the govern ment in New' Zealand and held the of fices of colonial treasurer and post master general. Official dispatches from Samoa re ceived in Berlin state that Herr Rose, the German consul at Apia, re frained from summoning a force from the German warship Falke because he wanted to avert an armed conflict with the British. In introducing the naval estimates in the house of commons Mr. George J. Goschen, first lord of the admi ralty. said that Great Britain was pre pared to reduce her estimates if other powers wouui do the same. At Nanaimo, B. C., Dave Evans shot Libbie White and committed suicide. Both were public entertain ers. Evans being a professional w i estler and Libbie White a singer. Unrequited love was the cause. At Hartlepool, Eng., a large steam ship owner has received overtures from American agents to carry Ameri can coal to Europe at from It to 12 shillings freight per ton. Nort.. of England coal merchants are alarmed. The conservative government of England is in financial straits. The national expenditure totals up £4,4d,- 200, an increase of £4,471,200 over the estimates. The deficit will probably be met by a reimposition of the for mer tobacco duty and an increase of the income tax to 9 pence. ANDREW JACKSON S FIRST DUEL. Non© of Gen. Jackson's biographers give the details of his first duel, and he himself never cared to speak of the matter in later years, but some years ago a granddaughter of Col. Wai'tstill Avery told me the full story. Waits till Avery was a Massachusetts man who who went to North Carolina, carrying with him a letter of recommendation from no less a personage than Jona than Edwards. He soon acquired rep utation and influence, and in time be came attorney-general of the state. It was his custom to take students of law into his family, who became tutors of his children. In 1874, when Andrew Jackson was bui 17 years old, and ambitious to be come a lawyer, ne applied for this sit uation. The tradition is that he was refused because a daughter of Avery's took a dislike to his appearance. Young Jackson next applied to Spruce McCay, a lawyer in Salisbury, N. C., in whose office he was fitted for the bar.' and shortly made his appearance in the courts. When Jackson was 21 years of age he and Avery met in the trial of a case at Jonesboro, Tenn. It was Jackson's habit to carry in his saddle-bags a copy of "Bacon's Abridgement.” and to make frequent appeals to it in his cases. This pre cious book was always carefully done up in coarse brown paper, such as grocers used before the neat paper bags of the present day warere invented. Tne unwrapping of this much-prized volume before a court was a very solemn function as performed by Jack son. Avery had by this time dropped whatever of Puritan sedate ness had commended him to Jonathan Edwards, and was uncommoniy fond of a Joke. He procured a piece of ba con just the size of the book, sad while Jackson was addressing the court he slipped out the volume from its wrappings and substituted the ba con. At length Jackson had occasion to appeal to Lord Bacon. It was an important case and he would not tru3t to his memory. He would confound his opponent by reading from the boon itself. While still talking he raised the bearskin flap of his saddle-bag-s, drew out the brown paper package, carefully untied the string, unfolded the paper with the decorous gravity of a priest handling the holy things of the altar and then, without looking at what lie held in his hand, exclaimed triumphantly, “We wUlttiOTv see what Bacon says!” The court, bar, jury and spectators were convulsed with laughter before Jackson saw the trick that had been played on hi*n. Of course he was fu rious. He snatched a pen and on th“| blank leaf of a law book wrote a einptory challenge, which he delivered then and there. He asked for no apol ogy-nothing but blood would do. He commanded Avery to select a friend and arrange for the meeting at once. Avery made no answer to this per emptory demand, thinking his peppery antagonist would laugh rather than fight, as he grew cooler. Jackson grew hotter instead of cooler. Next morning he sent this note, which was full of bad spelling. My North Caro lina friend had seen the original and in copying it had corrected the orthog raphy; but these are the exact words: "August 12, 1788. Sir:—When a man’s feelings and character are in jured he ought to seek a speedy re dress. You received a few lines from me yesterday, and undoubtedly you understand me. My character you have injured, and further, you have insulted me in the presence of the court and a large audience. I there fore call upon you, as a gentleman, to give me satisfaction for the same. And I further call upon you to give me an answer immediately without equiv ocation, and I hope you can do without dinner until the business is done, for it is consistent with the character of of a gentleman when he injures an other to make a speedy reparation. Therefore, I hope you will not fail in meeting me this day. From your obt. st., “Andrew Jackson. P. S.—This evening after court ad journs.” Avery concluded to accept this chal lenge, and so in the dusk of the sum mer evening the duel came off in the hollow north of Jonesboro, in the pres ence >of the same crowd that had laughed at Jackson's predicament. When the word was given Jackson fired quickly and his ball flicked Avery’s ear, scratching it slightly. Now was Avery’s chance to change the later history of the country, but his Puritan blood asserted itself. He fired in the air, then advanced and offered Jackson his hand, which was accepted. —Youth’s Companion. COUNTRIES DEVOID OF TREES. Something About Barren Districts Sit uated Around the Mediterranean. Anyone who has traveled through the comparatively treeless countries around the Mediterranean, such as Spain, Sicily, Greece, northern Africa and large portions of Italy, must fervently pray that our own country may be preserved from so dismal a fate, says President Charles W. Eliot. It is not the loss of the forests only that is to be dreaded, but the loss of agricultural regions now fertile and populous, which may be desolated by the floods that rush dow-n from the M. J. DICKINSOtf Wabeno, Forest County, Wis., DEALER IN 1 Dry Goods, I U Groceries, I I Clothing*, | I If Footwear, I ■ ww J l§- Hardware, 1 SUPPLIES. HAY, FLOUR AND FEED. RUSCH BROS MANUFACTURERS OF Lumber Lath Shingles Etc. * WABENO, WISCON bare hills and inountains^Mttftp|yE with them vast quantities gravel to be spread over rhevHJßffl| raveling a few years lumsie I oame Budd Roman bridge of stone L bare, dry Fiver bed. kill! tv above the t, f i had (.nee served th ■ ■ o' !>c j. : 'i >n. I (if tie- ' H around. 1 a: . ed the master if the river ever rose an-hrs which carried the roadway HH the bridge. His answer testified H| the flooding rapacity of the river to the strength of the br'dge. He “I have been here four years, ancH three times I have seen the river runfl niug over the parapets of that That country was once one of richest granaries of 'he Roman enflK pire. It now yields a scanty suppmCfl for a sparse and semibarbarous popiMl iation.” The whole- region roufio | about is treeless. The care of the na tional forests is a provision for fu ture generations, for the ’ permanence ,e over vast areas of our country for the ■ J great industries of agriculture awl , mining upon which the prosperity of 5 the country ultimately depends. JjH good forest administration would soo|4i”J support itself. RU??IA AND THE FRENCH ARMY.*] A French officer. Lieutenant Ferrari of the fifty-ninth regiment of the liye, A has just completed at Odessa a couirse vj of instruction in all the Russian words of command, and in Russian regi- * mental drill and evolutions. Lieuten- J ant Ferral’s tuition was confined to-' infantry matters, but a number of ; French officers, including represent ? tives of all branches of the swvlc% and probably an officer from every ? line regiment in France, will, it is 1 stated, be sent to Russia for Mi double purpose of acquiring a cqUcHE , quial knowledge of Russian anflofl making tnemselves au courant with 1 Russian military tactics.—British I Army and Navy Gazette. j Fair Olga Bartlett has been awacdedJ a pension of sl2 a month which algta will enjoy so long as she remains’ thifl widow of Sumner P. Bartlett' TbJp latter enlisted in the Eau Claire coral , pany and went to Porto Rico. He wflj taken sick with typhoid fever his remains being buried there, but,?, they are now on their way from the island to his former home. The mar riage took place at Milwaukee just be fore the regiment left Camp Harvey, and though their engagement had been known, the anouncement of their wedding came as a surprise after the news of the death of the young man had been received. As Mrs. Bart’.ett is young and pretty, the chances are that the government will not long have to continue the pension. In Chicago the republican city Con vention nominated S. R. Carteri fear ; mayor. DEALERS II A Dry Groceries,■!( Shoes, Hardware, AND Lumbermen’&| Supplies. flfl