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Show Energetic American Sailor. Capt. Relter of tho battleship Wis-conBin Wis-conBin wnH In Puget Sound when ho received ordcra to start for Ponnmn. Tho sound a thick with smoke, but Capt. Relter plunged through It, speeded to San Francisco, entered tho harlKir through a thick fot without a pilot, and In twenty-four hours was ready to ball. Ab he put to sea ho fouled tho troopihlp Meade, and for n tlmo It looked na though tho btttlo-ship btttlo-ship would crush tho transport, hut no sorlouh Injury resulted, and In a Bhort time tho Wisconsin waa thrauh-Ing thrauh-Ing southward. ii i |