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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
Crimes and Criminals.

At Mount Vernon, H., q young girl
of fourteen years, committed suicide by
hanging.
Hon. s. D. Race, editor of the Cur
It's (Neb.) Courier was shot and fatally
injured by j. J. Carney, q farmer with
whom he had a dispute over q trivial
matter.
W. E. Eyeter, a capitalist of Cham
bersburg, Pa, was mysteriOuSly muir
dered at Lincoln, Neb., where he was
en- route to Cripple Creek to invest in
mines.
Mrs. Minick, wife of a farmer resid-
ing four miles west of Pena, attempted
suicide by drinking a quantity of poi
SON. DR.. Miller was summoned from
Pana and succeeded in rescuing her.
Overwrought from religious reading,
Annie Rutledge, the thirteen-year-old
daughter of John L. Rutledge, a farmer
living near Crawford, Ala, committed
suicide.
Frank Biles, a half-breed Indian from
the Nez Perces reservation, was taken
from the Asotn Qdaho) jail and
hanged by mob of indignant citizens.
His crime was the outrage CT Miss
Mary Richardson.
J. G. Williams, visitor from Mon
tana, stabbed himself in the breast
four times with knife at Hot Springs,
Ark. Failing to end his life in that
manner he jumped head first into
deep we'll and broke his neck.
An autopsy was performed on the
body of the Chambersburg man found
murdered at Lincoln, Neb., and the doc
tors have decided that there was NOR
phine poisoning, although the blows on
the scalp might have caused death:
William Mazick Miles, welI-known
club and society man at Seattle, Wash,
committed suicide at his rooms at the
Rainier club. Miles came of a promi-
nent South Carolina family and his
father was for two terms attorney gen
eral of the state. Dependency over
his ill health is believed to have
prompted his suicide.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
People in Print.

1t is said that Aubrey Beardsley now
has an incon OF $4,000
Ii Hung Chang announces that the
most beautiful and most attractive
women in the world, in his opinion,
are the A nerican women.
Mrs. G.. A. Washington, whose death
is reported from MoWequa, ILL.,, was the
widow of a second cousin Of the Father
Of his Country.
William Brown, general freight agent
of the Canadian-Australian line at
Portland, Ore, is dead. He was well
known railroad man.
Col w. M. Hooper died at Cape May,
n. j., aged eighty years. He was pro
prietor of the Old Mansion House in
1917. and entertained Henry Clay and
other distinguished men.
Disraeli cnce said that to be young,
to be in love and to be in Paris was to
reach the height of human felicity;
and that to be in Paris without the
other two adiuncts was an unsurpassa-
BILE pleasure in itself.
Ex-Premier Crispi is undergoing a
course of mud baths near Padua. Be
sides suffering from govt he is aff11ct-
ed with weakness of the spine, and is
likewise almost entirely blind, being
unable to make w. his nina to undergo
an operation for cataract, Which alone
can restore his sight.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
Washington Talk.

The postmaster general has issued
fraud order against the Creditors Ben
eficiaI association at Rockford, LII.
The battleship Indiana will be pre-
scented magnificent silver service,
contributed by citizens of Indiana at
Tompkinsyille, Staten Island, on Sept
ri.
Judge Bethene Of Tucson, Ariz., as
sociate judge of the supreme court OF
Arizona, has received notice from the
department of justice Of request for
the appointment of his successor, on
the grounds of his inability to perform
the duties of the court.
The president Of Argentina has is
sued decree, a copy of which has
been forwarded to the state depart
ment, RENTING all duties on articles
sent from the United States for the
purpose of showing the manufacturing
and commercial industries OF this
country.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
A PRISONER STABBED
For Getting Il Fellow Prisoner Fill
ed With Shot.

For Getting II EcIioW FfKSOAef Viii
ed With Shot.
I,r1yerne. Mimi, Aug. 21.-J. w. Bar
DER. a prisoner in the Rock county Jail,
was stabbed last night by one Walter
Smith, another prisoner, and at TINS
writing is in a critical condltlon.
Rarper has been confined in the jail
for several months awaiting the con-
yening of the grand jury. lie Is
charged with incest with MS lWelVe-
year-oId daughter He is a fehSlous
crank and is one of the Oldest settlerS
in Rock county. For years he has Deen
a leader in the presbyterian chufch Ut
Beaver Greek. He has had more or
less trouble in his family, but no sefl-
GUS charge has ever been made against
him until last fall. Smith is q tough
character, who was arrested in Mag
nolia III June for rioting. Shortly Of
ter his Incarceration, with his brother,
also prisoner, they planned a schc ne
to break jail Barger kept Sheriff
Black informed of what was going ON,
and on the afternoon they were to
make their escape the sheriff stationed
himself in the engine room with
shotgun. When Smith came through
the hole he came feet first and the
sheriff gave him a charge of shot i'll
the legs of his pants. The prisoner i'm
mediately went back III the jail the
way he came out.
Smith has always had it in for Bar
ger since that date To-day quantity
of liquor was smuggled into the Jail
to the Smiths by tramp and the boys
got gIoriously drunk. During the spree
Barger was stabbed by Smith. Dr.
Gilbertson, county physician, is attend
ing Barger, and reports that his lung
uas pierced by the knife. The tramp
who furnished the liquor was captured
soon after the stabbing, and is also an
inmate Of the jail.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
STATE EaUALIzERs

st. Paul, Aug. 21.-Gov. Clough las
reappointed all the old members of the
state board of equalization who are
living, and the vacancy in the Ninth
district, caused by the death of Edwin
Paulson, has been filed by the appoint
ment Of Gudmond Anderson of Lin
coin county. The board is now COM
posed of: First district, r. /. John
son, White Rock, Goodhue county.
Third, J. G. Lawrence, Wabasha:
Fifth, +. S. Peck, Kasson; Seventh
Knute Bondy, Battle Lake: Ninth
Gudmond Anderson, Linden. Brown
county; Eleventh, J. e. Cooley. On
luth; Thirteenth, Alex Fiddes. lack
son; Fifteenth, Warren Potter. Aitlin.
Aitkin county.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
LINE TO LAKE SUPERIOR.
Plan of the Company Which Asks
for "a Franchise.

Plan of the Company Which Asks
for "a Franchise.
ST. Paul. Aug. 21.-It is not the in
tention of the promoters OF the new
line of street railway, q franchise for
which has been asked of the city coun-
Gil, to confine themselves to the opera
ton of street cars within the city linn
it's. The franchise within the city linn
it's is desired more for terminals than
for local traffic, the plan being to
build IN electric line to the head of
the lakes. The ordinance introduced
at the meeting of the board of alder
men Tuesday evening names p. e.
Mcdonald, Frank Spies, Charles A.
Forbes and Albert Allen as the per-
sons to whom the franchise is to be
granted Mr.. Mcdonald, when inter-
viewed by a reporter last night regard
ing the natter said:
The route has already been sur
veyed, and in a few days we shall be
able to make public the profile. All
can say now is that we shall run
through Anola county, passing within
two blocks Of Como Park and touching
at the state fair grounds and Lake JO-
hanna We also run through ISanta
and JXanabec counties and touch Mile
Laos lake. Further than this | cannot
at present make public the route,
though you may say that the northern
terminus will be at the head of Lake
Superior, the entire length of the line
being 169 miles,
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
Accidental Happenings.

Fire ruined the Woodruff block at
Rockford ILL.,, causing a loss of over
100000.
Engineers Fred Rumpf and William
Johnson and Fireman Huffman were
killed in a head-end collision on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, near
Torch Hill, Ohio.
According to private advices received
in Philadelphia, ten men of the crew
of twenty-one men of the British bark
Flora Stafford. which was burned at
sea several weeks ago, persisted.
A skiff in which were three men was
capsized in the Ohio river, near Pitts
burg, by the waves of a passing steam
er, and two Of the men drowned. Their
names were William Hickman and
Thomas Shaughnessy.
Fire, which originated in the second
floor of the wholesale wine and liquor
house of John Emmons, 103 West
street, New York, caused damage to
the extent of $4,000 on the building,
and about as much on the stock.
Fire destroyed the magnificent resi-
dence of Millionaire Frederick Faux
ner in Belvidere, Mass. The loss is
S100,000; insurance, about $4,000. Ii
is believed incendiaries are responsible,
as the family is absent.
During a terrific electric storm at
Champaign, ILL.,, lightning struck the
chemical laboratory building, one of
the six main buildings of the Universe
ty of Illinois, and caused a loss to the
state of $4,000.
A disturbance described as an cleo
tric cloudburst, struck a church where
a meeting was being held at Bera,
Ark. totally demolishing the building.
Rev. w. w. Cochran was instantly
killed. and Rev. J. w. Van Trease and
Rev ]. J. Colson fatally injured.
Pete Ryan, foreman of the st. Law
renee mine, the property of the Ano-
conda company, and Jack Campbell
and John Manning, two miners, were
killed by a fall of the cage from the
top of the mine to the bottom of the
shaft, 1920 feet below.
A fire at the Montpelier Industrial
exhibition destroyed the most valuable
pictures and some of the most import
| tant papers in the archives. Montpe-
| lier university was also burned. the
| damage being estimated at 100000.
Anarchists are supposed to have start
ed the confiagration.
Spreading rails, caused by the in
| tense heat, wrecked the second section
| of the California express Oh the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad, eight miles
west of Pueblo, Col. The dead are G.
E. Yanport, engineer; w. T. Reppert,
| fireman.
Frank Jacobs, an areOnaut travelling
with a circus met with terrible death
ia Quincy, ILL.,, in the presence OF his
wife and young child, and an assem-
bled throng. He was having balloon
race at Baldwin Park with Prof. Dud-
| ley. and his balloon burst 200 feet from
! the ground. His parachute failed to
open, and he was dashed to the earth.
Fire Truck No. 6. with crew con-
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
FORT RIDGLE MONUMENT.
1t Is to Be Dedicated by the Survi-
vOrs of the. Fight


vOrs of the Fight.
ST. Paul, Aug. 2I-Thirty-fo years
ago Fort Ridgley, located on the wat
ers of the upper Minnesota river, was
undergoing a siege. The borders of
ADMINISTRATIVE extending from Alex
andria On the north, through Glencoe
and New Ulm to the Iowa line on the
south, were af1ame with savage war
fare, and red with the blood Of hum
dreds Of innocents slaughtered by the
SluuX Indians.
To-day the monument erected at old
Fort Ridgley by the state, commem-
Grating the gallant defense of thirty
four years ago, was turned over to
the state and properly dedicated. Col
Sheehan, who was the commander at
the siege, was present, and SO were
Judge Charles e. Flandrau, the hero
of New Ulm and other pioneers who
participated in those stirring scenes of
long ago. Gov Clough was detained
from participating by business affairs,
and the monument was received on
behalf of the state by Adjt. Gen.
Muhlenbehg. The orator of the day
was Capt. McGraw OF Duluth, one Of
the survivors of the gallant defense,
and Judge Flandrau also spoke.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
To the Scene OF the Crime


81. Paul, Aug. 21.-Cingmars, who.
with Norman Musgrove, is charged
WITH the murder of Sheriff Rogers Of
Glencoe, was taken from the county
Jan last night to Glencoe in charge Of
beputy Sheriff Fondman. The latter
stated that the feeling against cling
mars mad modified good deal since
Tue murder and that the disposition
now was to give him fair trial. cling
lIdIs, however, did not like the idea
o. o. oelng transferred to the scene Of
;ef, murder, Notwithstanding the sher-
~ assurance. Cingmars is reported
70 nave SAID to the officers that he did
not want to die with his boots on. II
~ salo that a change of Venue will be
; q pl ana that the trial may be had
IL Ramsey county. 80
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Ysaye, the yiolinist, who plays like
an angel and looks like a butcher, IS
simple in his tastes. Cali ask" said
lie. SIS a fishline and some water. The
less fish 4he better. / con sit for hours
with line in the water in perfect hap
piness. When nibble comes my
dream is over. 1 also confess a weak
ness for the bicycle, but care nothing
for politics.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Thomas 4. Edison believes that IN
the next three or four years there VIII
be radical and immense changes in the
manner Of heating and lighting. He
says there will be a decrease III the
cost Of electric lighting. Electricity
will be made. so cheaply that gas Will
be entirely out of the race. Gas will
tnen be pnt through a cheapening pro-
cess and used entirely for heating.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

sisting of Lieut.. Hedden and seven
liremen, while responding TO an alarm
at Buffalo, collided with a trolley car.
The truck was crossing the street car
tracks when the trolley, which was
running at full speed, struck it. Every
fireman on the truck was injured. j.
f. Clark was pinned under the wreck
and crushed to death.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Two West Point cadets who were
convicted by court-martial of brutally
tormenting and harrassing ''plebe,
have been denied executive clemency
by the president, who took occasion TO
denounce the brutal practice in the fol
lowing terms: 1.-The offense OF NAL
treating and abusing new cadets by
upper class men is so mean and cow
ardly. and so opposed to every trait
that should characterize a gentleman
and u true soldier, that severe punish
ment should not be necessary to its
prevention. If, however, punishment
n,,st be .resorted to, to effect discon-
tipranee of this disgraceful practice |
can do no less than to resist all appeals
for clemency."
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

If we could only bear our own dis
appointments with a small fraction OF
the equanimity with which we bear
the disappointment of others, what a
sweet and delightful world this would
be to live in
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
pITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN 4
CONDENSED FORM.

A General ltcsume of the Most Inn
portant News of the Week, From
all Parts of the Globe, boiled
Down and Arranged in Con-
vcnicnt Form for Rapid Per
usaI by busy People.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

The recent sunfest visited all parts
Of the country with equal yigor. There
is reason to believe that it is now at
an end for the present year. At least
the meterologists justify us in hoping
This much
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

A Frenchman has discovered new
treatment for sea-sickness, which he
says is preventive, curative and hy-
gienic. If this treatment proves to lie
a specific against sea-sickness this
Frenchman will be q mighty popular
man among ocean voyagers.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Miss Antoinette Saumowski and Mr..
J. AdamoWski, both prominent musl-
clans. the former a pupil of Mr.. lgnace
Paderewisli, are engaged to be mar
ried The happy event is delayed only
by the inability of the high contract
inc parties to find a minister willing to
risk a dislocation of his inferior max
Hilary in tying their names into Knot
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Golf players are to have special priv
ileges on some of the English railway
lines. They will receive certificates
emitting them to return ticket for
single fare when the distance is over
thirty miles, and for a fare and quar-
ter when it is less.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Mexico ought to make up her nina
to one thing. SO long as those bandits
run things along the border to suit
themselves the number of tourists who
visit the land of the Montezumas won't
be too large to be accommodated.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Let us all put on our Sunday clothes
and endeayor to make it pleasant for
Ii Hung Chang when he calls ca US.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Electric motors are now being used
quite extensively in the East for
switching purposes, and electricians
predict that the time is near when the
steam locomotive will be out of date.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

The steamer st. Paul now holds the
record for the trip between southamp-
ton and New York. 1t took just six
days and thirty-one minutes to make
the run.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

A safe composed largely of cement,
having wire netting imbedded IN 1t,
was tested recently in Germany, in or
der to ascertain whether it is feasible
to build safety vaults of such material.
The safe was placed on blazing logs'
which had been soaked in kerosene,
and kept exposed for half an hour to
a temperature of 800 degrees Fahren-
beit. When the safe was opened the
contents were entirely uninjured.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

An insect has made its appearance
in the east whose mission seems to be
the destruction of the watermelon.
Great loss is reported from the depre-
dations of this insect.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
Otherwise.

The City National Bank OF San An
tonic Texas has failed. 1t was capl-
talized for 100000
While in the midst of service at Man
ITO Ill. Rev. B. e. O'Mahony, pastor
of the Catholic church in that city, pc
came suddenly insane and created the
utmost CONSERVATION among the con-
gregation.
The Elgin CID Sewing machine and
Ricvcle factory has closed indefinitely,
because it could not borrow money on
good security with which to pay It's
hands. One hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment.
Judge Caldwell, of the United States
circuit court, has made an order, upon
apnlication of the Midland Terminal
Railroad company, whose line IS the
connecting link between the Colorado
Midland and Cripple Creek, directing
Receiver Ristina, of the Colorado Mid
land. to resume traffic relations with
the Terminal at once.
f.. M. Petit, a well known business
man of Hicksville, Ohio, and a stock
holder in the wholesale drug house of
Lewis & Co., Defiance, Ohio, as well as
the Defiance Grocery company, has
been taken to the Toledo insane asy-
Inn Mr.. Petit left Hicksviile more
than week ago on his bicycle for
Rrookston, Ind, on a visit to his moth
or. 1t was one of the hottest days OF
The season, and he was overcome with
heat. the result of which was conges-
ton of the brain.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25

Now, by St Paul, the work (of record
breaking gees bravely on!
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
From Foreign shores

Lieut.. Dam Godfrey, the celebrated
bandmaster of the British Grenadier
Guards, will retire under the age limit
next month.
Mr. Thompson, a son of the late
archbishop of York, has just been APP
pointed deputy governor of the Liver
pool Jail.
David n. Burke, who succeeded J.
Judson Barclay as United States con-
sui at Tangiers, Morocco, has arrived
there.
Spain is about to present a big. bill of
damages to the United States because
we allowed filibusters to go to Cuba'S
aid.
The government of the Cape Of Good
Hope and one of the recent acQuisi-
lions of the Universal Postal union, is
taking prompt steps to organize a well
equipped postal system in it's domains.
Baron de Hannis, commanding q
strong force, has taken the offensive
against the Mahdists in the upper
Congo. 1t is said the situation causes
the greStest anxiety regarding the Sc
curity of the Congo Free State.
The agitators for Sunday street cars
in Toronto have been very active dur
ing the past few days and claim that
they have 1900 names enrolled on
their petition. This will be presented
to Mayor Fleming within day OF two.
Judgment was delivered by the chief
Justice in the admiralty court at Hall
fax, N. S., in the case Of the seized
American fishing schooner Frederick
Gering, sustaining the seizure and or
dering the vessel forfeited to the Cana
dian government. The Gerlng was
seized for fishing within the three-mile
limit.
Prince Louis of Savoy and some of
the crew of the Italian steamship
Christofero ColoLlso, were attacked in
the streets of Valparaiso on July 16 by
a Gillian mob. The mob vented us
rage on the prince because OF the
italian unpopularity since Italy sold
the two secondhand cruisers to the Ar
eentine Republic during the difficulty
between the latter country and Chlh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-23
wrangIe Upon wrangIe.

The wrangles over the county tax
list matter are still on. or at least
wrangles which grew out of that mat
ter but which have run off into other
issues. The Standard has charged the
commissioners-or, at least, two of
them-with conspiring TO give the list
to the Press at the full price allowed
by laws cents per description. The
Press charges that Manager Glasmann
of the Standard tried to bully at least
one of the commissioners into giving
the tax list to the Standard for %
cents per description.
"Second.-That, according to Glas-
mann's own statement to Bishop
Wade, the list could not be printed for
less than that price.
''Third.-That two years ago. while
Mr.. Glasmann bid Ga cents for the tax
list and reported to the public and his
company that he had received that
amount for it, he actually did receive
not less than tx cents, or $93.57 more
than his bid
The Press, furthermore, suggests
that the Standard manager had ar
rangements for a rake-off, which rake
off was never allowed to enrich the
Standard stockholders.
The Standard charges that Commits
sioner Wade, who is presumed to have
the 1I6SS the
has lived off the fat of the county,
voting as commissioner snug sums to
himself for various services.
Commissioner Child has said that he
proposed to give the list to the Press.
Commissioner Wade has said that he
and Wilson said that Child might do
so. Commissioner Wilson has said
that if arrangements for letting the
list have been made, he does not know
it. The State Journal says it will print
the list at cents per description. The
Press says it will print the list and
argues that by all the laws of logic,
finance. etc, it should have % cents
per description. The Herald is TAX
ing no part in the squabble. The use
of its columns has been rendered to
each of the commissioners to make any
reply to the charges they may see fit.
If Mr. Glasmann has defrauded the
Standard stockholders, that is the bus
mess of the Standard stockholders. If,
as has been proposed, the commission
ers shall attempt TO have Collector
Hurlbut let the tax list to some paper
at a higher rate than the one offered
by some other paper, then it will be-
come the business of the taxpayers,
and incidentally of The Herald. Mean
while, the board of county commission
erS meets today.