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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-21
a SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
john Mcbride Accused and FIX onerated OF
Giving "A Bribe.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. l6.-The sensa-
ton of the miners convention was
sprung Thursday morning when Mark
Wild, of this city. district organizer of
the A. II. L.. made the statement that
four days after the settlement of the
A. r. Z. Hooking valley strike Nc
Bride urged him Mr.. Wild to keep his
mouth shut i'm regard To the manner
the strike was settled. Mcbride hand
ed him package. which Mcbride said
a certain operator requested be given
Wild as a present. Wild thought the
name of the operator was Ryan. The
package contained $500 in bills, and
this Wild concluded to keep to use it
in aiding President Adams in obtain
ing evidence to convict Mcbride of
corruption.
Mr.. Mcbride said: "The operators
told me to give Wild the money. be-
cause he would need it. and had stepped
out of the way to allow the railroad
company to haul the coal which va :
then being mined" In closing Mr..
Mcbride repeated, with emphasis. that
the money had no bearing whatever on
the railroad strike. as il had been
settled.
COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 19.-The miners
convention at it's session Saturday
morning declared ex-President John
Mcbride to be an honest ma, =
nounced Mark Wild, who made the
charges of bribery. as demagogue, and
unfit to enter convention of honest
men. and as climax resolution was
adopted expelling Mr.. Wild from the
convention.
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QUAINT NEWSPAPER NOTICES.

"IF New and True. Not Otherwise"
louisville (Ky.l Post.
"Ir Is Better TO BE Right Than to- Re
Left. Bound Brock N. j. Democrat
"A PAPER Devoted to the Interest of
Our Home. Montgomery N. " Re-
porter.
THE Union, the Whole Union and
Nothing But the Union. Oneida Mad
ison county, n. " Union.
WHEN tho Press Compromises Truth,
1t Ceases to he the Guardian of Lib
."-Painesvillc co. Telegraph.
DEVOTED to the business. Social,
Religious and Political Interests of the
City and County. Hudson ~. T. Reg
ister
DEVOTED to Politics. Local Intc'li-
gence, Literature and the Public Wei
fare. Ithaca N. " Democrat, estab-
lishcd 1870.
"TnE Democratic Party; When Right.
We Will Stand I;y 1t; When Wrong,
We viii Help TO Right It."-Cape Vim
cent y. " Eagle.
THE Industrial and Educational In
tercsts of Our People Paramount to All
Other Considerations of State Policy"
Raleigh Y. c. Progressive Farmer.
ORGAN of the Great Middle Class of
This Section of the Valley. Not Taken
ty the Very Rich or the Very Poor" =
Burlington Qa.J Saturday Evening
Post
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Maggie wachtler on the stand.

MINNEAPoIIs, Feb. 19-There was
very little testimony taken Saturday,
the court adiourning when the ques-
ton of admitting the testimony of Mag
gle Wachtler, the stenographer for
Blixt's attorney, was raised. The point
was whether the confession made by
Blixt before the stenographer of his
attorney was confidential matter be-
tween client and counsel, and therefore
not admissible.
When court convened Monday, BliXt,
his attorney Mr.. OdelD, and the state
waived all objection, and Miss Yacht
Ter was placed ON the stand.
She was voluble, positive and could
not b. shaken 10y cross-cxamination.
She called BliNt liar, Odcll a schcmer
to make money out of the county, and
Assistant County Attorney Hall bull
doZer and intimidstor of women.
Miss Wachtler stated positively that
at about the middle of the statement,
while she was taking down BliXt's
statement in shorthand, he stated that
two weeks before the murder he and
Adry put up the job to kill Miss Cling.
Adry told him 70 take the iron and go
10 the place they had picked ont, and if
he had any trouble Frank" would
assist him. Then she said Mr.. Odell
had stopped iiliXt and told him he was
not To mention Adrv in it, and BliXt
had said he thought Odell wanted him
to tell the truth She stated that her
conscience had troubled her, and she
had told f. J. Mcmahon about it, and
finally had gone 10 the defense. She
had spoken of it to Odell. and after
that she and Odell had quarrelled, and
he had discharged her.
Her statements regarding Adry are
fatty controdicted by Mr.. OdclL
X. c. Fisher and others testified that
Harry was at his supper about O'Clock
the evening of Dee. 3.
Edward Goodsell, a cousin OF Harry
Hayward. testified that they met in
Chicago last fall and at that time Harry
had at least s., 900 in currency.
Thomas II. Waterman, clIum of
Hayward's was the next witness.
Waterman stated that he was not
down town in the morning, and there
fore, Dec 3, could not have been in the
Oneida Block, as Adry testified. He
was with Harry from abont 1870 in the
afternoon until Gas. and he accounted
for the time very fucntly. Harry had
sent him that day to see Miss Cling, and
find out if she really was going into
business with his money. Harry told
Waterman to find out where she kept
her money. Harry was going to get
out an attachment for it. as he was
getting scared. There was considcra-
BILE drinking during the afternoon, and
visiting of wine rooms. II was ramb-
ling story. Along toward night they
rounded up at Fishers cigar store, and,
accompanied by Mr.. Fisher, had left
there about $50 o'clock. Mr.. Nye
cross-examined bin closely. but did not
shake the young man. The most inn
portant piece of evidence Mr.. Nye
brought ont was to the effect that Har-
nv once asked witness how his con-
science was. and if he would burn a
lumber yard for 81 900, mentioning Bas-
sett's.
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LYNN. lass, Feb. a.. AT o'clock
Wednesday night fire was discov-
cred in the basement of the hard
ware store of William Henry Hutchin-
son, on Monroe street. The building
was wooden structure, four stories
high. After fighting the fire for three
quarters of an hour the flames sud
denly appeared through the roof and
almost simultaneously the building
collapsed like an egg she'll The front
wall on Monroe street fell into the
street and a side wall into an alleyway
toward the adjoining building. Eleven
men were buried in the ruins. Capt.
Skinner, Thomas Murray and John Do
Ian were taken out dead. Fight others
are badly hurt. The loss is estimated
at 100000
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A BAD SMASHUP.
Disastrous Wreck In Ok;ahoma.-T Mer
Kilied-aIany Persons Hurt.


GUTHRIE, o. T., Feb. l9.-Just be-
fore midnight Saturday the Galveston
express on the Santa Fe road, loaded
with Texas excursionists, collided with
a stock train at a curve miles south
Of this city. Passenger Engineer Frey
and his fireman saw the danger
in time to jump. and escaped
serious injury. The trains we rum
ming at high rate of speed when thew
came together. The two engines were
bu led into each other one-third their
lie yths. A dozen freight cars piled
into one great heap and the baggage.
express and the mails of the passenger
train completely telescoped and de-
molished all in an instant. Engineer
Charles L ,ppleby, of Topeka, Kan. ami
fireman Coldron were killed. A dozen
other trainmen were injured badly.
Many passengers were badly bruised
and cut by broken glass. but none
fatally inquired. Justice II. w. Scott.
of the supreme court, was badly
bruised, as was Senator Scott and
Representatives Brown, Willing and
Sutton. None of the through pas
sengers were injured. Seventy head
of cattle were killed and many in
jured.
The loss to the railroad company will
exceed $4,000. The stock train had
been ordered to stop at Sc ward. 3
miles south of the wreck, to pass the
passenger. Why it did not will never
he known, as Engineer Uppleby, who
received the orders and had them in
his pocket. was instantly killed.
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THE GING MURDER.
The Defense Places Its Witnesses
on the Stand.
The Trend of the Testimony is Toward the
Establishment of an Alibi-Msggie
WachtIer duplicates Adry
Hayward.

MISNEAroIIs, Feb. Is. The defense
of Harry Hayward was begun yestcr-
day by John Day Smith, who i'm
speech of an hour and a half assaulted
the ease put up by the state. Mr..
Smith said the defense mad no theory
but maintained the state had failed To
fully substantiate any connection of
Hayward with Blixt in the crime That
Blixt did the killing is not denied. The
defense claims that it can clearly es-
tablish an aliDi for Hayward during
the hours of to the evening of Dec.
8, and show exclusively that he was
not on the Kenwood boulevard whore
BliXt claimed he met him and Miss
Cling.
John L. Walsh, keeper of the morgue
testified to the appearance of the body
when received by him.
Terrence Connolly, brought in the
clothes worn by Miss Cling the night
she was killed.
Officer Getchell testified to the point
ed shoe tracks in the road near whore
the body was found.
Then came the alibi, when Merrill
Bartlett, head usher at the Grand Opera
Aouse, stated that he saw Harry and
Miss Rartleson come 20 the theater at
about Sis o'clock. The defense wasted
over a half hour i'm asking him ques-
tions. until the court stated that it
might be proper To go on with the ex-
animation. Mr.. Nye did not crosse
anime to any extent.
Edward w. Murphy stated that he
was at the Grand Opera House the
night of Dec. 5, and saw Mr.. Hayward
there with Miss Bartlesou. lie saw
them go out when the play was over.
There was a little blow for the defense
in cross-examination, for Mr.. Murphy
stated that while he only knew Hay
ward slightly, Hayward appeared TO
take the most exquisite pains TO have
himself seen and recognized, and made
a most exaggerated bow to the witness.
ole Thorson was quite fluent in an
swering questions for the defense, but
when Mr.. Nye took him he was obtuse.
He said that he lived at the house in
South Minneapolis where Blixt said he
called the night of the murder, and
stated that there was a light burning
there all night, and no one called or
knocked that night Police officers had
come to see him afterward, and he told
them the same story. Mr.. Nye tried
to get something out of him, but was
compelled to state finally that he
would let the witness think the ques-
ton over all night and ask him in this
morning.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. ga bombshell
was thrown into the camp of the de
Tense in the Hayward trial yesterday
afternC on by one of its own witnesses.
A witness called 10y the defense stated
positively that he saw Harry Hayward
and Catherine Cling in carriage to-
gethcr at the foot of Lowry hill at
about 7:l5 the night of the murder.
NJ. ID. Wilson, the livery man from
whom this unexpected piece of testi-
mony came 50 quickly that il fairly
took the breath of the attorneys away.
Harry HAYWARD reeled under the shock
as though he had been struck full in
the chest by some terrible blow. 1t
was only for a moment, however. In
a second he had recovered himself en-
tircly.
Mr. Wilson was the last witness called
yesterday. The very first question
asked him showed that there was some
thing peculiar about his testimony. He
gruffly stated that MIR Swectser had
been out to see him last Sunday, but
that he had learned nothing from him.
However, matters proceeded satisfac-
torily enough for the defense until Mr..
Nye asked the witness if he knew who
the people in the carriage were. The
answer came quickly back that the
woman was Catherine Cling.
"Do you know the MANI was the
next question.
Il did not then, but do now" came
the answer.
"Who is it?'
THAT gentleman sitting there behind
Mr. Erwin was the reply with singu-
lar emphasis. Harry Hayward shud-
dered convulsively. The attorneys for
the defense looked a9hast. Even Mr..
Nve was dumfounded.
Mr.. Erwin soon rallied, and endeav-
ored To make the witne IS state that his
Identification was nothing more than
an impression. The witness. however,
persisted that there could be no mis-
take about it. lie stated that he had
identified Harry Hayward the day
after the murder as the man whom he
saw riding with Miss Cling.
At the request of Mr.. Erwin the
court adjourned for the day.
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HUMOROUS.

ATTORNEY Cbadgering witness) -
Now, sir, would you like 20 swear"
Witness-"Yes, l would. Spare Mo
ments.
Miss CiiARMASTE-''Do you believe in
hypnotism. Mr.. De Softie?" Mr.. De
Softie-"Whenever you look at me 1
do. "5Somery lille Journal.
OLD BoARIiER-''What do you mean,
sir, by asking me TO loan you money?
/ don't know you. sir" New Boarder-
That's why ask yen. "-Detroit Free
Press.
JISKs-'Why are you forever bother
ing me about that bin / owe yoy?"
MinLs-'I need the money" Jinks-
''Then you ought to be able TO synpa-
thize with ne. need money, too. N.
Y. Weekly.
ARTIE-"Now, vonan-ah-has heen
mo- less befoh tn public-donshno-foh
a generation. Can ye-ah-see what
she's done fob tn wuld?' Modern Wom-
an (studying him closelyl-'Lord for
give herl Yes."-Cleveland Plaindealer.
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TRADE REVIEW.
situation In Busiress Circles as Viewed by
Dun and Brsdstreet.


NEW YORK, Feb. 1s.-R. G.. Dun &
Co. S weekly review of trade says:
THE two obstac es which block the path
just now are excesdiEg cheapness OF fai m
products and restricted operations in the in
dustrtes. tn has been no gain in prices OF
farm products on the whole; corn is nominally
movement. while wheat also. with a movement
hardly half OF last years is a quarter of a cent
lower for the week Cotton. with continuing
large receipts. remains unchanged. Few words
tells the Old story: The corn crop Is
nndeniably short, though probably a much
larger supply than official reports Indicate
Wheat and cotton supplies are so far beyond
the worlds dem lnds that extreme low prices
are natural. an1 speculation for advance is
greatly Handicapped Restricted purchases
by the west and south naturally result.
The money marxet shows a tendency to
strengthen and somewhat larger offerings of
commercial paper appear, though not in pro-
portion TO the reported activity of mills
Doubtless many are working only short time,
but any Improvements is encouraging. some
what closer market. is expected as a result of
the bond transaction The volume OF domestic
business represented by clearings was b3 per
cent. larger than last year. but 81 per cent
smaller than in 1893
THE failures for the first week OF February
show liabilities Of only 5000 500 of which
s529Sis were OF manufacturing. ana 81 1884 ,S94
OF trading concerns The final report for jan
uary shows an aggregate OF SIS 637 ,eS2,
sgainst s20si30ls last year; $685., 22s
were Of manufacturing concerns this year
against sli.is1,7lb last year, while sil.s36,l0
we're of trading concerns against sl7 ,234 5s7
las. year. Failures for the week we're 270 In
the United States against Se3 last year. and 81
in Canada against SIS last wear.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IL Chilli government ownership of
railroads will he tried.
IN London 100 coroners' inquests were
held in four days, and in eighty of the
cases the intense cold was the direct
cause of death.
AT the age of CO years Isaac p. Gray,
ex-governor of Indiana and United
States minister to Mexico, died of
pneumonia in the City of Mexico
GUATEMALA accepted Mexico's con-
ditions peacefully, and their fulfill
ment is guaranteed, ending the war
talk.
CLARA X. broke the worlds smile
ice-trotting record at Hamilton, Ont,
going the distance in 12:46l2.
On the island of Java plot was dis
covered where the natives were to
massacre all the Europeans and Chi
nese there.
IL fit of jealousy Robert Newbury,
of Tottenham. Ont, shot his wife dead,
wounded his niece and then killed him
self
IN the French chamber of deputies a
motion for separation of church and
state was defeated by a vote of 305
to 2DA
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FILLED WITH LEAD.
A Wife Murderer shot Dead In His Cell
by Lynchcrs.

KINGSTON. Mo-, Feb. l9.-About .
o'clock Sunday morning a mob of
masked men, supposed To he negroes
from Hamilton surrounded the sher-
IFS house here, caught and bound Ben
Goldworthy, whose deputy was away,
took the keys from him and gained en-
trance to the Jail corridor with the
avowed purpose of taking out and
hanging George Tracy, a negro, who
shot and killed his wife at Hamilton,
in this county in January. Inside the
mob were unable to get into the steel
cell in which Tracy was confined with
two other negro prisoners. Tracy
crawled under his bed, and the mob
began shooting through the bars of
the cell door and succeeded in putting
six bullets into his body, killing him
instantly. The sheriff made all the
resistance he could, but was over
powered. The prisoners confined in
cell with Tracy escaped unhurt.
Tracy was bad character and had
lately served a Jail sentence for shoot
ing a negro. He had some years ago
lost both legs just below the knees, be-
ing run over by d train which he was
trying to board To escape some Kansas
of73naro
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FROM WASHINGTON.

II the United States the visible sup
ply of grain ON the 18th was: Wheat.
-. 81. 900 bushels; corn, I2. Ss3. 900
bushels; oats, 7,l63, 900 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
JAMES BETHUNE, widely known as the
owner and manager of blind Tom, the
musical prodigy, died iE Washington,
aged 81 years.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
Ss24, 4I6.4 against 1898. 3O5 $40 the
previous week. The increase. com
pared with the corresponding week in
1921. was 81.
IL the United States there were go
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against PSI the
week previous and 1928 i'm the CORES
ponding time in 1894.
The Republican league national com
mittee has been called to meet in
Washington March >.
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RAMSAY HAD a SHORTAGE.
Illinois Late Treasurer Left His Bonds
men to Settle Accounts.

CHICAGO, Feb i4.--Information has
just gotten out concerning the heavy
shortage of the late Rufus Ramsay,
who died suddenly three months ago
of heart disease while state treasurer of
Illinois He was Thought to have been
the richest man in southern Illinois.
Within week over $500 900 in claims
against his estate have been filed, but
the most startling Is that of the five
Chicago bankers who were his surety as
state treasurer. Now f. NJ. Blount'and
Carl Moll, cashiers of two Chicago ma
tional banks. have filed in the
county court claims for the full amount
Of the shortage In the claims filed by
Messrs. Blount and Moll il is specifical-
ly alleged that the shoi tage was
1868. $40. SO, that the bondsmen made
it good and that the claims are fled
for the reimbursement of the bonds
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Bond PLAN Killed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l6.-Anotherd days
debate in the house upon the financial
question has but served to emphasize
the fact that no legislation affecting
the financial situation is to be
expected from the Fifty-third con-
gress. A wees ago the house
refused by vote of 162 to
80 to adopt the last Springer bank
ing and currency. bill which contained
provision authorizing the issue
of longtime low-interest bonds. and
Thursday, by the still more decisive vote
of i67 TO 100. II declined to author
ize the issue of sd5. 600. 900 of per cent.
gold bonds with which to replace the
3sl per cent. bends negotiated with
the Morgan-Belmopt syndicate in pay
ment for the purchase of S,5oo,Ooo
ounces of gold coin.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS.


Proceedings of the Second Session.
Tuesday. Feb. l2. In the senate
bill was reported from the
finance committee providing for the
unrestricted coinage of silver. A reso-
luton was offered extending the time
for collecting the income tax and an
other to inquire into the legality of the
recent bond issues. In discussing the
last message of the president on the
currency question Mr.. Stewart de-
clared the administration had refused
to carry ont the laws A 'pint resolu-
ton to enlarge the Red Cliff Indian
reservation in Wisconsin was passed,
as were also twenty-eight private pen
sion bills. In the house bills were
passed returning war flags to certain
Michigan regiments; donating con-
demned cannon to Des Moines. Ia; in
cooperating the National Association
of Florists The legislative appropria-
ton bill was passed after striking out
the provision for annual clerks to con-
greSs
WEDNESDAY, Feb. IA financial
bill on the lines of thepresident's last
and another providing for bonds
at per cent. payable in gold coin, and
for the issue of gold certificates. The
house resolution was passed extending
the time for making returns on the in
come tax from the first Monday in
March to April - next. In the house
Mr.. Hudson KAN offered bill look
ing to an increase in the revenues of
the government. Consideration of bust
ness concerning the District of Column
bia occupied the remainder of the ses-
sion.
THURSDAY. Feb. IL. = The senate
voted to make no changes in the pres
ent railway mail system. The subject
has been the CHIEF point of contention
of the post Office appropriation bill. In
response to a request Secretary Car
Isle furnished figures on the treasury
gold reserve and expenditures In the
house the request Of the president for
authority to issue gold bonds was re-
fused bT a voted of 1876 To 100.
FRIDAY. Feb. 15.-Bills were report
ed favOrably in the senate to re-
peal the differential on sugar from
bounty paying countries, to establish
free American ports where foreign raw
material may be manufactured, and for
the creation of an industrial commits
sion of twenty-oue. which is intended
20 arbitrate labor difficulties. The post
Office appropriation bill was passed.
In the house the naval appropriation
bill tSSl, s07 ,073) vas discussed. The
bill for a deep waterway to connect the
ocean and great lakes was favorably
reported
SATURDAY. Feb. 16.-Senator Hills
resolution defining the financial policy
of the government caused an exciting
debate in the senate. Senator's VOL
colt Coll. Lodge Mass and Teller
Coli, made a most scathing denuncia-
tion and arraignment of the admins
tration for its recent bond contract
with the Rothschilds and other foreign
bankers Mr.. Wolcott made a direct
and personal criticism Of the president.
In the house the general debate on the
naval appropriation bill ended. The
senate bill was passed granting two
condemned cannon to the Iowa Histor-
zeal society at Des MOines. Twelve
pension bills were also passed.
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Pullman Exonerated.

CHrCAso. Feb. 16.-George NJ. full-
man Wednesday afternoon appeared
before Judge Grosscup in chambers
and was exonerated from the charge
of attempting to evade the order of
the court. lie stated he was not in
his office when the bailiff called
with the subpoena but was in
Vice President Wickes' office across the
way. Later in the afternoon he left
or train for New York. not to avoid
the order of the court. but because he
Il I'D already made all arrangements TO
60. Nobody was admitted to the
chambers but Mr.. Pullman and counsel
for the different parties interested.