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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16
TO BE UNITED.
Combination of Three Big Manufacturing
Concerns in Chicago.

concerns an Chicago.
CHICAGO. Aug. IL Arrangements
have been completed that will make
Cicero one of the most important man
ufacturing towns in this country. In
two weeks time it will become the
seat of the Siemens & IIalske
company of America, the Wells
French Car company and the revive4
Grant locomotive works. all to be com
bined under a new corporation TO be
known as the Siemens company, with
a capital of $1,000, 900. The stock
holders of the old Grant company.
which failed in June, 1898. will
receive so per cent of the par value of
their stock in the shares of the new
concern. Operations will be begun at
once in the old Grant locomotive
works plant. Locomotives. railway
cars and all kinds of electrical de-
vices will be manufactured. Every
separate product of each of three
old companies will be turned
out by the new company and
the concern will develop into
one of the largest manufacturing cor
pOrations in the world. II is probable
that the new company will engage be-
tween 1000 and 1000 men to opera tie
the entire plant Over six hundred
will be put to work Immediately. The
company will make an investment of
several hundred thousand dollars in
enlarging the Grant works.
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THREE YOUNG BOYS DROWNED.
Shocking Fate of Youthful Bsthers i'm a
Cincinnati Stream.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 14-Fred Schmutte
a laborer of Norwood. was walking to
his home along Bloody Run, near this
city, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
when he saw three piles of clothing ly
ing on the bank of the stream. No own
ers being visible, Schmutte waited in
curiosity, when he was Mortified
by seeing a human limb rise above the
surface of the water and then disap-
pear. Schmutte, with a pole, waded
into the stream and soon found the
bodies of three boys who had been
drowned. lie carried the bodies to
the bank, and, hailing a passerby, sent
word to the authorities. The corpses
were brought to the morgue in this
city. There they were identified
as Matt and Will Slatterly, aged
II and 13 respectively, and Frank
Burns, aged 10, all residing on Symms
street. Their parents belong to the
laboring classes. The three boys with
two others, Fred McGrann and John
Burns, had gone swimming. The two
last named came home with scared
faces, but said nothing of the terrible
tragedy until after the finding of the
bodies. The scene at the morgue
when the parents arrived was heart
rendinp.
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IT'S CHARTER IN PERIL,
Quo Warranto Proceedings Begun Agsils
Pullman Company.

Pullman Company.
CHICAGO. Aug. 14.-Saturday after
noon Attorney General Maloney APP
peared in the Office of the circuit clerk
Of Cook county and filed a petition
covering sixty pagnS of typewrit-
ten legal cap ~. a bill in
equity against the Pullman Pal
ace Car company, calling upon
il to show cause why il should not be
prohibited from further doing business
under the laws ot the state. The petit
ton sets forth that il has violated the
franchises conferred upon il by the
state i'm numerous particulars and lays
stress upon tho fact that il is conduct
ing hotel business and a real estate
business at Pullman without warrant
of law.
The Pullman company is charged
with illegally owning a controll
ing interest in the Allen Paper
Car Wheel company, and with
wrOngfully exercising the pow
ers of a municipal corpora ton
in furnishing DIV ellings, light,
water. heat and provisions to the resi-
dents Of Pullman. The petition also
charges that in the possession of the
real estate and buildings in Pullman
and Chicago outside its manufacturing
plant. and for other purposes than the
transaction of its lawful chartered
business. it is violating its corporate
rights The holding of a ma jority of
stock in the Union Foundry and Pull
man Car Wheel company. is made a
parallel charge TO that in reference to
the Allen Paper Car Wheel company.
The court Is informed that the com
pany has not regarded the limitations
as to its holding of real estate. but has
usurped the right To buy and own
large tracts in and about Chicago. and
has erected churches. schoolhouses,
theaters. hotels and dwelling houses
and a business block. This prop
erty i being rented for large
sums. the petition recited. and
il IS averred that such holdings and
rentals are violations of the conditions
of the charter. not being necessary for
the prosecution Of its business.
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DrsTILLeRIes CLOSED.
Whisky Trust Leaves But Five in Opera
tion-Wheat Used I'm Place OF Corn.

PEORIA, Ill. Aug. H. Vice President
Beggs, of =. Distilling and Cattle
Feeding company, who is in charge of
affairs at headquarters in this city. says
that the compa ny has closed twelve
distilleries, leaving the Great West
ern. Peoria. Shufeldt and Riverdale at
Chicago and the Consolidated at Gin
cinnati the only ones in operation. Mr..
Beggs looks for all of these except the
Riverdaie to close during the present
week. IL is necessary for the
company to run the Riverdale the
year around, regardless of prices
of material. on account of the
compressed-yeast business The Great
Western is now using wheat in the
manufacture of highwines. Wheat
can be secured cheaper than corn. thus
reducing the cost of the raw material.
As lOrg as the present nigh prices of
corn maintain " heat will be used.
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THE BUSINESS SITUATION.
Condition of Trade Throughout the Coun-
try-R. &. Dun a Co.'S Report.
NEW NnuE QD a. nnp G.


NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-R. &. Dun &
CO. weekly review of trade says:
ne advance IN corn discloses a general be-
uef that the injury to this most important
crop has been so great TO AFFECT materially
the trafic OF railroads. the demand for manu-
featured products, and the cost OF meats for
the coming years. Unless the markets de-
ceive and are entirely deceived our
country will have to face q real calamity in the
loss OF something like 600 bushels OF corn
and this loss consumers have 10 share through
the advance OF IA cents In two weeks and cents
since Friday OF last week. Neither official nor
unofficial statements as yet preclude the hope
that the loss may prove less serious, but at
current prices 500, 600 600 bushels would costa
much as 1000 cocoon bushels would have cost a
fortnight ago. Wheat has risen 3la cents in
the fortnight and pa during the week although
western receipts have been 5,23s l2s bushels,
against 3l62,G9I last year Atlantic exports
are still about half as large as a year ago,
I ,3ga. as bushels. against 273i.7Si last year.
Pork products are a little stronger. as is
natural Cotton has twice risen and again de-
clined a sixteenth, with increasing prospects
Of a very large yield, closing without change
for the week.
The Iron and Steel Manufacturer records a
great increas Of nearly 10000 tons in weekly
output in july and the production is IFS 366
tons weekly. about 1000 tons less than in
April but 5000 tons more than year ago,
hen the prostration had nearly reached
its worst. The decrease in unsold stocks
was only 6.I3s tons for the month.
showing a consumption in manufacture not
quite equal TO the present output. Prices sus-
tain this view. having changed only in the di-
rectiOn of weakness; the disappointing de-
mand for finished products is still the main
factor.
The failures for the five weeks ended August
showed liabilities II Sli.l447l3, OF which S.
c26.5e4 we're Of manufacturing and Is. 2202i5 OF
trading concerns. The failures during the last
week have been PSI in the United States,
against 1874 last year. and 81 in Canada. against
y lasf renr
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A PReTENTlous PARTY.
Democratic Incapacity for IntelIigen
Legislation.


Almost as soon as the votes cast at
the presidential and congressional
elections in 1892 had been counted the
democratic newspapers which had adj
vocated the radical tariff reform TO
which the democratic party was
pledged by the Chicago platform be-
gan urging President-eleet Cleveland
to call an extra session of congress rs
soon as he should assume Office.
Such papers as the New York Times.
Boston Herald. Chicago Herald and
Louisville Courier-Journal insisted
that the people had voted for tariff
reform, and it was the duty of the
democrats to give it to them as soon
as possible. There was and could be
no excuse for delay, they said. Moth
| ing stood in the way of the passage of
bill which would wipe out the Nc
Kinley law If Mr.. Cleveland would
only convene congress in special ses-
sion and give the democratic lavmak-
| ers a chance.
| These radical free trade organs in
sisted that the democrats knew exact
ly what they wanted. They had dis
-.
1T would not be necessary to even APP
point a ways and means committee TO
consider the bill. just as soon as
congress met the bill would be ready,
and it could be disposed of in both
b: anches inside of a month. That
was what the molders of democratic
opinion thought in the fall OF 1892
They assumed to believe that the dem
ocratic members of the Fifty-third
congress were being consumed by de-
sire 70 lift the burdens of tariff taxa
tom from the backs of the people.
Mr.. Cleveland did call a special ses-
sion of congress, but not for the pur-
pose of considering tariff bill. The
subject of tariff reform was not even
taken up at that session. The com
mittee on ways and means was APP
pointed, however, and it had sue
ceeded in formulating bill before the
regular session of congress convened
in December The work wa. done in
a cellar by the light of dark lantern.
1t was entirely the work of southern
democrats. The republicans were not
permitted to assist in its crea ton, and
Int people WHO were Interested IN Jne
subject were given but brief hearings.
The democrats had everything their
own way, and yet it required about
three months to get that bill through
the house.
Then the measure went to the sem
ate, where it was torn to pieces in the
interests of the various trusts, which
demanded consideration. Four hum
dred amendments were made to the
house bill, and it was finally passed,
after remaining in the hands of the
senate more than four months. Now
the two branches of congress are
In a deadlock over the two bills. The
president has found it necessary to in
ject himself .nto the controversy, and
1t is doubtful if the democrats will
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His Lessons.

II is still true that bodily exercise of
some kinds is not highly profitable.
But things otherwise Improbable may
be mildly amusing.
{ al am trying to learn to ride a BIZ
cycle" remarked an elderly bachelor
who walked somewhat stiffly, to friend
whom he encountered on the street.
I'm just going home from my lesson
now. I've had more tumbles than usual
this afternoon, and that's saying good
deal"
''How long are your lessons?" in
quired the friend.
Half an hour" responded the BIZ
cyclist with a rueful countenance;
twenty-five minutes on the floor and
five in the air is my usual proportion!"
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MONEY AND PLENTY OF IT.

AsroR women own 100000 in jew
els.
THE Rothschilds own over sl,6O0. OOO,-
900 in gold.
The governor general of Canada re-
ceives a salary of $4,000 year.
THE fortune of the new French pres
ident is variously estimated at from
SIS, 600, 900 to So, 100000.
TIE most heavily insured woman in
the United States is the widow of Sem
ator Hearst, of California. The policies
oD her life aggregate S5O0,0O0 Mrs f.
b. Croker, of Flmira, n. Y, probably
comes next wit $4,000,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16

DESvEE, Col. Aug 14.-The relay
rider reached the city at I0:S5 a m.
sunday The time consumed in car
ryiug the message from Washington
t. this city. distance Of 2.Oas miles.
was days. To hours and 81 minutes
q gain of 81 hours and - minutes
over scheduled time. breaking all
records. A u. Black took the bag
from the last relay rider at the court
house steps and delivered TO GOV.
Waite message from President Cleve-
land. and 70 ten NcCOok one from
Greeley Both recipients immediately
telegraphed acknowledging receipt of
the message.
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Seven Rail- Players Meet : FrIghtful Death
at he kalb. Tex

DF kALB. Tex. Aug. lt.-About 3
o'clock friday afternoon crowd of
boys and men met in a small prairie .
miles south o. town and began to play
baseball. A shower came mp and they
all ran 10 a large oak Lightning
struck the tree and the following were
killed outright: John Jacobs. Walter
Atchlev. Thomas blanchard. William
HENLEY. John Jackson. Chris Petty
and William Walse About a dozen
others were hurt and II Is thought some
of them will dIe.
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Gov. AItgeId Has Kind Words for Illinois
Miiitfamen.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Aug. 49, Gov.
Altgeld has issued an order officially
thanking the officers an6 men of
the Illinois national gua-d for
their efficient services during the late
strike. lie says that no standing army
ever acted with more celebrity in any
country. You have again demon
strated." SAYS the governor. las was
done in the eos. that a citizen sol
diery coming from an intelligent and
free people and imbued with a high
sense of the duty Of citizenship is the
best IN the world
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16
CHOLERA is GAINING.
GsIIcia. East Prussia and Holland Being
RavaSed by the Plague.

BERLIN. Aug. I4-Cholera is slowly
but steadily spreading westward. The
disease has obtained foothold in
nineteen Russian provinces, where
deaths by hundreds are recorded
daily. Cholera exists in seventeen
districts of Galicia and scores of
deaths from the disease take
place every day in that sec
ton. I'm East Prussia. especially
in Dantzic, the situation grows
worse in spite of the closing of he
frontier at Gollub on the river Dire
wenz, opposite Dobrzyn, Poland. Ac-
cording TO official report cholera bac-
I'LL have been found floating in the
river Nistula, and a number of fatal
cases are also privately reported from
Holm and Gollub. The rest of Ger
many appears TO be free from cholera.
although I few spasmOdic cases have
occurred here and there
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TO BE EvICTED.

Pullman Strikers Must Leave the Compa-
ny's demonstrating at Omaha Other
Strike News.
OMAHA, Neb.. Aug I0.-Riots were in
full vO.sue at South Omaha "Wednesday
night between the strikers and the
men who have taken their places.
When the men, no quit work at 5
o'clock. passed ont of the works, the
majority organized themselves in
squads for mutual protection. With
one hand in their pockets, hold
ing revolver ready for action,
they passed up the street and past
crowds of strikers. but were allowed
to pass without being molested. Later,
however, when a few single men left
the works they were assaulted and in
many instances seriously injured.
OMAHA. Neb., Aug. 1.-two com
panies of the state militia, the Thurs
ton rifles and the Omaha guards, the
crack" troops of the Nebraska ma
tional guard, were sent to South
Omaha at a. IN. Friday and stationed
as a guard around the packing houses.
The strikers are in an ugly mood, but
no violence has been attempted. The
SUBMITS SOON WllnuTtW 10 a ulStdHct
and awaiting the coming of the new
men on their way to work.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Steam was let into
the cylinders of the big Corliss engine
at Pullman and the immense fy-wheel
revolved for the first time since the
great strike was inaugurated. At Z
a. m. Thursday 1.l97 men reported for
work. Six hundred of these were as
signed TO the repair department. The
others were distributed throughout
the various shops, and all departments
were open for business except the
freight and street car shops.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-Nice President
Wiekes. of the Pullman Palace Car
company. has stated that tenants oc-
cupying the company's houses and not
emplo-ed in the works will be turned
out, claiming that the houses are need
ed for the new employees. This move
is the very last in the big strike and
means volumes to the strikers and
their families, who are in a starving
condition.
CHICAGO. Aug. 13.-Pullman strikers
met Sunday and refused TO declare off
the strike, Notwithstanding eviction is
starininr them the face
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MANY KILLED.
FrightfuI Record Made by the
Railroads.
Wrecks on the Rock Island and Santa
Re Roads Result in the Death OF
Twenty-Six Persons
WORK OF TRAIN wREckERs.


LINCOLN, Neb.. Aug. I3.-Train No.
:, an accommodation tram on the Rock
Island road, called the Port Worth
accommodation" was wrecked Thurs
day night mil -osn this city by be-
ing thrown from a high trestle that
crosses salt creek to the ravine below.
IL i due 10 arrive here at $40 p. n
Thursday night 1t was about ten
minutes late and was making up
time. when IL struck the trestle
the rails immediately spread and the
engine. drawing the two ears after il,
went humping along over the cross
ties for about 50 feet and then with
crash IL fell 40 feet to the bed of the
creek below. The engine burst and
glowing Goals i2nited the wooden sup
ports and the coaches behind it. and in
a few moments the bridge. dry as tin
der from its long exposure to the sun,
was one mass OF flames.
The coaches piled one on top of the
other were soon seething mass of
flames and many imprisoned amid the
broken timbers of the cars were ere
mated Twenty-four bodies were re-
covered from the wreck. The list of
injured i large.
The police have arrested a colored
man named t,eorge Davis. who is sus-
pected of vrecling the train Shortly
after the wreck he applied TO a hack
man and asked To be driven uptown.
saying he had been on the train and
lost his coat lie was seen with
crOwbar near the place where the
L. - q
police say they have evidence sufficient
20 convict. His motive j not known
Fatal Wreck.
FORT MADISON. la. Aug. "a Express
end mail trains Nos. and ON the
AtchisOn. Topeka 4 Santa Re road
collided at o'clock Sunday morning
near Gibbs. No. Two were killed and
several hurt. Both trains were rum
ming az high speed. The baggage,
mail and express ears were demolished.
The killed are George Coplinger. of
Chicago, express messenger on train
No. >. and T. r. Humphreys. of Kansas
City. engineer of train No. !. The ia
jured are:
Daniel DAILY. Fort Madison Ia. engineer No.
5. shoulder badly hurt. T. p Derrick. Chicago
bas Eagemau No. 5 CIT and bruised. may die.
r. r. butcher. Chicago mail clerk Walter
uurbin. Milwaukee ankle cut e. y Elliott.
Chicago. mail clerk. Martin FoEarty. Fort
Madison. nremru No ;. badly burned; --
Holmes. Fort Madison. brakeman No 5 head
smashed Justin Mccarthy Chicago. badly
bruised. Dan AIiIlsbauga. EngIew0od Ill. bag
gagcman No. 4. hurt internally. mas die. T. p.
Styles fireman No 4. slightly hurt
Conductor Clegern was in charge of
No. ;, west bound. lie handed his
order To the Associated Press reporter.
which clearly showed that the two
trains were 10 meet at Gibbs. The
officials Of the santa lie here say the
conductor and engineer of train No. !
We're responsible for the accident, hav-
ing disobcyei Geographic orders to
meet train M at Gibbs station. The
conductor of NJ says he entirely
overlooked the orders The damage
10 property will not exceed $4,000.
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TRAIN WRECKED IN LONDON.

It Dashes ovCr Buffer Stops ~ IT. Pan
crss >tatiOn- Nineteen Hurt.
LoNUoN. Aug. lt-An accident that
caused much excitement occurred Sun
day morning at the IT. Pahcras station
in this city The Scotch express train
arrived in the station at $3.50
a. m. Instead of slowing up
the train dashed ahead aad over
shot the buffet stops at the end
of the train The forward portion of
the train. including a Pullshan car,
was wrecked and nineteen passengers
Xyprt. injured
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Santo to Die Friday.

PARIS. Aug. l5.--The board of par
dons maintains the sentence of death
imposed upon Cesario Santo Geronimo,
the assassin Of President Carnot, con
demned u die Es.idaY next.
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Iron Mills Again in Operation.

PTTTSBURGH. Pa. Aug. 10.-The Ma
honing valley iron mills are resuming
after long period of idleness. Cole
man & Shields have been idle a year;
the tiirard co. rolling mill has been
closed for six months. Brown x Eon-
nells plant. of Youngstown; o. has
been of in part for a year. All are
running in fuII
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II is no hotter in Tennessee, Alabama,
or Georgia than here, and IL is posit-
lively delightful on the Gulf Coast OF Mis-
sissippi and West Florida. It you are look
ing for location in the South go down now
and see for yourself. The Louisville &
Nashville Railroad and connections viii sell
tickets TO all points South for trains of Au-
gust eth at one fare round trip. Ask your
ticket agert about it, and if he cannot sell
YOU excursion tickets write TO G. L. Atmore,
General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky.
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A BAD YEAR FOR UNCLE SAM.
What the Democrats Have to Show for
Their Labors.

What the Democrats nave TO Snow Tor
Their Labors.
The change in the condition of the
nations finances during the first fiscal
year of the Cleveland administration
at Washington is not calculated to in
spire patriotic emotions. The fiscal
wear of the government ends on June
80.
The salient features of the years OPP
erations Just concluded is a big in
crease in the national debt of 500, S43,-
905, the net debt being 500, 1888 on
June so. 1894, compared with sS3S, $685.
416 on June 80, 1898
The national debt consists of $685.
041, 500 in the form of Understanding
bonds and S264, 271, 491 bears no in
terest.
The increase in the government debt
is of course due to falling off in the
revenues of the government, which
was only partially met during the past
year by a red of expenses. The
total falling off of revenue from that
of 1893 amounted to SIS, $50, 292, of
which S71 ,060. 773 was from the tariff,
Sl4.03i, $40 from internal taxes aud So
716,673 from miscellaneous sources.
The decrease in expenditures was Sl6,-
ss4. sos. the entire reduction being due
to the falling off in pension payments,
which amounted TO SIG. ss4.595.
The gold reserve at the close of the
1898 fiscal year was S95, ass, 4l3. at the
close of the 1894 year, S64,sT3. OLA
loss of $50, 1912. 3s9. This loss occurred,
Notwithstanding the issue of s5O,OO0.-
600 of 5 per cent. bonds which sent the
gold reserve up from less than S65, 000,-
600 to above s106.0o0,00O. Constant
Withdrawals of the yellow metal, how
ever, brought the reserve down again
to the low point of 1928.
During the year 1898, there was a
surplus in the revenue of ss,34l, ga;
during the 1894 year deficit of s69,-
6S3 OPS.
The operations of the government
during the past year, therefore. may
be summarized:
An increase in the national debt.
A big falling off in the revenue.
A small reduction in the expendi-
lures
A large deficit.
A bond issue to meet the deficit and
the drain of gold.
A heavy reduction in the gold re-
serve.
On the whole, Uncle Sam may ne
said, like many other citizens, 20 have
experienced a bad year.-Albauy Jour
nal
sF-The biggest boycott Of All IS that