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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-10-08
OUR BANKS.
Investigation by Comptroller Ec'Eels Pi e.
SCENTS Interesting Statistics

Investigation by Comptroller Ec'vels Pr e.
SCENTS Interesting Statistics.
Washington, Oct. 5.-Comptroller of
the Currency Eckels has issued a state
ment of ar investigation made by HIM
of the amount of money held by The
banks of the country. From the state
ment the following extracts are taken:
The number OF banking houses and trust
companies inquired OF were 1882 and n
clearing houses. covering all in the coun-
try. Replies were received from 5,723 banks
and trust companies and &C clearing house
associations. The information, however,
is of such a character as to enable fair
and correct result from all to be approx
mated. OF the 5.723 reports received 3,5iS
were of national banks. 1.494 state banks;
457 savings banks: go of private banks and
"a of loan and trust companies
The total amount of cash in the 5.723 in
stitutions reporting was S4l3. ia. SAG 1t Is
divided as follows: Gold coin. sl34, on, 0O3;
gold certificates. s55.4Sl. 329; silver dollars.
S.2o4,6l2; fractional silver. 81. 3S9 073: silver
certificates, $39. 66S, 596: treasury notes, 1890.
Sl3l26,0iS; United States notes, sll0. 400, 375:
currency certificates. so. 600; national
bank notes. 1923. 795. s3i: of this total cash the
SASS national banks reporting held $685.
1856 and the 2,265 state, etc, 81 $50, 233.
The amount of gold coin and lold certifi-
Gates held by these national banks was
:l55. 073 6o4. BY these state, etc, $34, 4S4 49,
In this connection 1t may be stated that the
total number of national banks. viz: 3,6S9
held on July "a. the date of the last official
CALL $3.6ll, 65S, ass cash, of which amount
there was in gold coin and gold cerIincates.
Sl6l. 1858. go.
The returns from &C. of the rs clearing
house associations of the country show
that on July the total clearings amounted
to 1921. 1885, AGA. The balances of these total
clearings settled In cash or cash exchanges
was but $40, l52, S34, or but little more than
5 per cent. of the whole.
The total number of depositors I'm the
national banks reporting on July were
2,3l5. 1888, with individual deposits aggregat-
ing s1.5s6,0S5. 1873. On July II. the total in
dividual deposits of all the national banks
were Sl,G6S. Alb, Sos and the estimated num-
Der of depositors. 2,43J ,625. The total num-
Der of depositors In reporting banks, other
than national banks. were S.614.630. with
deposits agyregating 81. SOS. 352.67S In 1894.
an investigation showed the number of
bank depositors to be about 100000. A con-
sentative estimate, in view of the fact
that the number of depositors in national
banks shows an increase of about half a
million would make the total number now
at between 100000 and ll.0Oo.OO0, with
total deposits aggregating over S5.0OO,0oO.-
600
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WEST AID souTH.

In session IN Milwaukee the prison re-
form congress passed resolution call
ING on all clergymen in the United
sta, IS and Canada to observe Prison
Sunday" October Is, by preaching SER
mons in the interest of prison reform
and the prevention of crime.
A hurricane which entered Florida
at Cedar Keys and swept through the
southern na-t of the state in a north
castcrly direction destroyed many
towns. causing L loss OF al least 30
lives and s2.O10.OOO worth of prop
eTty.
In storm Or. II. c. Sherman. cousin
of Senator John Sherman. of Ohio. died
OF fright 1T his county residence at
Olney. Md.
Republicans of Colorado met at Col
orado Springs and nominated Judge
George ~. Allen. OF Arapahoe county,
for governor.
ON the sea islands in Georgia a
tornado caused the loss Of 100 lives and
the destruction of 100000 worth of
property.
The national prison congress at the
annual meeting in Milwaukee elected
RoeIif Brinkerhcff, Of Mansfield, o.
president
At Atlantic. Ia. F. T.. Whitney. the
senior member of the banking firm of
Whitney & Son. Known as the Bank Of
Atlantic. made a personal assignment
with assets of SJS0.OOO; liabilities $780,
600.
10 an explosion in Schmidt's brew
ery in indianapolis two mea were
fatally injured and ten others seriously
hurt.
a tornado at Alexandria. Va, killed
four persons. three churches were de-
stroyed and nearly every business block
was more ~ less damaged and hun
drcds Of private houses lost their roofs.
Near Harrison. Mich, George Bar
mum. the OEly brother of the late Z.
r. Baruuui. was nun iered for his
money
Fart CT the village Of BENSON. \. T..
was destroyed by a cloIdburst aud Will
la, Seek. a barber. his wife and two
children. and Oscar Ashburn. a cattle
man. were drow ned.
on the govern meut pier in Milwaukee
the barge Su,lafra foundered and four
sailors were drowned
The reviewing standing collapsed al
the Opening in Burlington of the semi
ceutenu al celebration of ioyva's state
hood and II persons were injured,
among them being Gov. Drake n Vice
President Stevenson
II Nebraska the state convention OF
sound money" democrats at Omaha
nom mated Robert 5. Bibb. OF Gage
county. Tor governor.
Near Atlantic, Ia. Mrs. Mary Funk
was killed and her daughter. Mrs. o.
Metz. and an adopted child four years of
age were fatally injured by runaway
team.
Nathan F. Spellman fatally wounded
Anna Kicker. aged Il years, near Hol-
gate. O.. while drunk, and then killed
himself.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Dispatches from Turkey say that a
committee CT representatives OF France,
Germany, Austria and England has
been appointed by the sultan to inquire
into the cause of the late massacre in
ConstantinOple.
At Aberdeen. Scotland, the Palace Of
Varieties, a playhouse, was burned at
the beginning of performance and 40
persons were injured. 10 fatally.
The government has decided TO send
10000 more troops from Spain to Cuba
10 reinforce the Spanish army in the
island.
Fire destroyed the Jewish quarter Of
Fee. the principal city of the empire Of
Morocco, aud several persons persisted
and many were fatally injured.
For the past two months a malignant
fever has rayaged Turl estan, causing
the death of 10000 persons.
Dispatches from Vienna say that the
powers have agreed upon a specific set
Element of the eastern question hon
crable to all parties and amply guardn-
teeing the security IF the Armenians.
Throughout Canada the total bust
ness failures amount to 1861 for the
past nine months, an increase of 315.
compared with the corresponding peri
cd of last year. Total liabilities amount
ed to $i2.219.OO0 against 80, 769. 900 last
year
a report from Vienna that the pow
ors had agreed upon a pacific settle
ment of the eastern question, honor
able to all parties, and amply guaran-
teeing the security of the Armenians,
is denied.
Antonio Maceo in recent attack on
the trocha in Cuba inflicted terrible
losses on the Spaniards. more than 900
being killed and wounded.
The poet. author and designer. Will
liam Norris, died in London, aged g.
years.
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The News Of the Week.
pY TELEoRAPH - -.
ERoM MAsHlNnrnn

Receipts aud eXpendit Tres of the gov
eminent for the month of Septem.eI
show the total receipts 10 have been
S24. 5s4,244 and the expenditures S2e,.
579,535, leaving a deficit for the month
of Sl,995.2s1. The deficit for the three
months Of the present fiscal year is S25.-
I94. I29, against deficit of 50, IS i.65s or
the corresponding months ,ast year.
A monthly statement of the comp
tTOller of the currency shows the
amount of national bank notes ia cir
cula;Ion September 80 was e73. 552. $50,
an increase for she month Of s O25. 5Si.
and for the u months of $50, 7ss, 7l3.
In a collision of two freights at Phil
son, IA, on the Baltimore q Ohio, six
men were killed outright aud as many
more badly injured.
During September the public debt
statement shows 4 net increase in the
public debt. less cash in the treasury.
of SI,s06,034. Total cash in the treas
ury. Ss49.6i2.773.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the I'd aggregated
Ss0f .e7I. 4l9. against SS07, ,264 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895 is
2I.4
Throughout the United States the
total number of business failures from
January / to September 80. 1896. is
1880. the largest aggregate reported
for a like period since records OF this
character have Leen compiled.
The total coinage 1t the CEited States
minis during the month of September,
1896, was s5,915.3i3.50, divided as fol-
lows: Gold. $3,I4e. 922. so; silver, S2.754.-
les; minor coins, S2O,226.
At the national cemeteries IN the Vi
entity Of Washington the recent storms
did great damage. hundreds of trees be
ing uprooted and some graves de-
stroyed.
The assistant attorney general for
the interior department, William \.
Little. of Georgia, has sent his resigna-
ton 10 President Cleveland.
On June so last the merchant marine
of the United States. according to the
completed tabuiation of the bureau OF
navigation. comprised 22.g0s vessels. OF
4.7O3. $50 gross tons, an increase of 6s.-
coo tons over the previous year.
The commissioner of the general land
office in MS annual report for the past
fiscal wear says the total land selections
during the year were 13,2O0. 600 acres. an
increase over the previous year Of $500
G53 acres. The cash receipts were
s.. 6.3Cf. an increase of So, 9O7. Tho
total vacant public land in the Unit,d
States Is 600.Oi0,67I acres.
The pope has depCsed Bi hop Keane
as rector of the Catholic university in
Washington. one of the greatest educa-
tional institutions under the manage
ment of the church.
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SLAIN BY CUBANS.
Spanish Forces Lose 1000 Men-Maceo
Captures the Trocha.

Spanish Forces Lose 1000 Men-Maceo
Captures the Trocha.
New Orleans. Oct. 3.--The Times
Democrats Key West special says: Adj
vices received here from Havana state
that Antonio Maceo in a recent attack
on the trocha inflicted terrible losses
on the Spaniards, more than 1000 being
killed and wounded. The attack was
made at night and was carefully
planned. The fighting was general all
along the line, but was fercest near
Artemisa, where Antonio Maceo led a
picked force of insurgents against the
Spanish column commanded by Gen.
Aralas. The Spaniards were taken com
pletely by surprise. They were aroused
from sleep to End a hail of insurgent
bullets falling upon them. Gen. Aralas
and his staff, half clad. rushed from
their headquarters and tried TO rally
the Spanish troops, who were panic
stricken by the insurgents attack. 1t
was half an hour before even a sem
blance of order could be restored to the
Spanish column, and during that time
the troops remained huddled together,
an easy mark for the bullets of the
Cubans. 1t was during this period of
the panic that So many of the Spanish
troops were killed.
1t is said many Spanish officers were
killed and that Gen. Aralas himself was
slightly injured. After Gen. Aralas sue
ceeded in rallying his men he made a re-
treat and the Spaniards fell back four
miles or more, leaving the trocha in
the hands of the insurgents. Antonio
Maceo did not pursue the Spaniards, but
held possession of Artemisa until morn
ing. when he retreated to his strong
hold. Before the insurgents retreated
they demolished the section of the
trocha near Artemisa, blowing up the
fortifcations with dynamite.
The attack ragged from Bahia Honda
on the north TO Makauda on the south,
and at all points the strong line was de-
molished. Maceo could easily have
crossed with his entire force, but it
seems that he had not such purpose in
view. His object was simply to de-
molish the troeha so that it could not
impede his eastward march when he
desires to advance TO meet Gomez.
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AN ILL-FATEp TRAIN.
Locomotive Boiler Expiodes Seven Per-
sons are Killed.

Locomotive Boiler Expiodes Seven Per-
sons Are Killed.
Usage City, Kan, Oct. 5.-A frightful
railroad wreck, attended by serious less
of life, and made mere terrible by the
self-murder of one of the passenge IS,
occurred at five o'clock Sunday morning
on the Santa Fe road, two miles north
of this station. Seven bodies have been
recovered from the wreck, and il is
feared other victims are buried beneath
the debris. The wrecked train was the
cast-bound passenger No. 2, the SINE
that had such thrilling experience
with bandits in New Mexico on Friday
night last. The wreck was causei by
the explosion of the boiler of the loco
motive. The engineer should have
stopped for water at Usage City, but, be-
ing behind time, he endeavored to iun
20 the next tank. Though it is not posi-
lively known, the engineer and fireman
having both met death in the wreck, it
is surmised that heir neglect was the
cause of the disaster. The train Lad
proceeded but two miles beyond this
place, about TO the Peterson coal chutcs,
when two terrific explosions were
heard, one following close upon the
other.
The locomotive was completely shat
tered. The express, baggage and las
senger cars came crashing upon the
wrecked engine and the coaches that
were ahead were piled up in one heap of
wreckage. Those in the rear were all
derailed. but the passengei riding in
.
The wreck was marked by scenes of
the widest confusion among the ter
rified passengers. The nerves of many
were at high pitch as result of their
experience with the road-agents of New
Mexico, and when the crash came the
first impression of nearly every one was
that the train had been attacked again
by robbers. One passenger, William
Becker, of Los Angeles, en- route to
Chicago. lost his reason entirely. When
the crash came he drew a single-barreled
pistol from his pocket, and, in the
presence of a car full of terrified passen
gers, took his own life, sending a bullet
into his brain. Becker had been drink
ing heavily. He was about SIS years of
age. Owing to the excitement and con-
fusion little could be done to rescue the
injured and remove the dead bodies until
the sun appeared. Seven bodies were
finally recovered. The dead are: Will
liam Becker, Los Angeles, CAL; En-
gineer Strump, Topeka, Kan; Fireman
Harry Hollister, Topeka; William Me-
Adams, tramp, riding on baggage car
and supposed to be from Chilicothe, Ia;
three tramps, names unknown, all of
whom were riding on the baggage car.
Three persons were injured.
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FUNNY THINGS.

Very Unkind of Him.-Cumso-"Th hat
parrot is male" Mrs. Cumso (greatly
Interested) - How do you known"
Cumso-"It doesn't talk" - Harlem
Life.
There iy something strange about
these seismic disturbances" said the
thoughtful man; 1.-The earth yawns, you
know. when it is most active. on
Transcript.
One lady said to another: Have you
been TO church to-day? We had most
beautiful sermon on training children. !"
NO. | was at home doing it," was be
reply.-Tit-Bits.
A Valid Reason. - Magistrate-"l If
YOU were innocent. why did you run
away the moment the policeman APP
peaFed?" Pat-"Because, yer honor,
thin cops do be always arristin' the
wrong -IIarper's Razar.
Il have just thought of another diff
ference between a baby and a cow
remarked Mr. Bloomfield. as he carried
his youngest. thickly dressed in cold
weather clothes. from the house 10 the
street car. IL suppose ! must listen
10 H." replied Mrs. Bloomfield. res igI. ed
". "It's this: cow weighs less when
il is dressed. ard a baby weighs more"
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Teleg.aph
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WHEEL TALK.


Tahiti. until within a few years a
cannibaI island. has advanced 10 the
point of patronizing bicycle races.
Skating and cycling seem to have a
special affinity as athletic pursuits, and
proficient at one is usually good
performer at the other. The exhilara-
ton attaching to the sense of speed and
the ease of motion pertaining TO both
is no doubt the source of attraction
A California woman is reported to
have ridden over Mount st. Helena on
her wheel. The distance is IA miles,
and the road steep and dusty. No men
ton is made of how many times she
got off and walked. and only time can
tell what damage she has done to her
system by such a toilsome and fool
hardy trip.
Eight soldiers of the Twenty-ffth in
fantry, United States army. with four
davs' rations and accoutrements. have
made the distance from Fort Missoula,
Mont. TO Harrison. 132 miles. in 81
hours. on bicycles. The trip included
the passage of the Rocky range. The
average weight of wheels. with riders
and baggage, was 24o pounds.
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LAND OFFICE REPORT.


Commissioner Lamoreaux Presents Fig
ures Relating to the Public Domain.
Washing on. Oct. 5.-Commissioner
Lamoreaux. of the general land office,
has made his annual report TO the sec
rotary of the interior for the past fiscal
year. a synopsis OF the report is as fol-
lows:
The total land selections during the year
were l3.200,0J0 acres. of which 4,SS0.9l5 were
homestead entries and 6.7S9,591 railroad Sc
lections. The increase in selections over
the previous year was 4.s02,6 73 acres. The
cash receipts we're 81 io6. 361. an Increase of
S72 907.
Lands patented to railroads in satisfac-
ton of grants, l5.527, S44 acres. an Increase of
7343, sos acres over last year; agricultural
patents 5.47O.400. an increase of 2.62S.iS0
acres. The total number of acres patented
was 22669.gS9. The total vacant public
land in the United States is .s7l acres,
of which SCI ale surveyed and 2S3.-
2SS, $40 unsurVeytd TIE amount of land
surveyed during the year was 9.90e.S0S
acres.
Considerable attention has been given
during the year to correct surveying and
in nearly every public land state resur-
veys have been ordered upon reports OF the
examiners.
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IATER MEMS.

At barn raising near West Canaan,
o., the 5th. the frame work broke, let
ting heavy mass OF oak timbers fall
upon twenty men. Six limbs were
broken and one man had his jaw
broken.
The car and czarina of Russia land
ed in France he 5th.
The Everett mills at Lawrence, Mass,
started up the 5th in all departments,
after shutdown of over two months.
These changes affect more than 1000
operatives.
The Chinese government has granted
permission for Russia 30 build branch
of the Siberian railway across North
ern Manchuria. with a presumption
clause giving China the right to pur-
chase the bra IN after 80 years.
An important engagement in which
General Serafin Sanchez, the we'll
known insnrgent leader was killed,
has been fought at the Reservl planta-
ton. province OF Matanzas. Seratin
Sanchez was one of the most widely
known of the Cuban leaders.
The town elections held throughout
Connecticut the 5th showed a general
gain in republican strength.
1t was announced the 5th that Mr..
Bryan, would reach Minneapolis the
evening o. the 10th, arriving from
Fargo. \. ID.
Prof w. A. johnson, principal of the
Lockland colored public school at
Cleveland. o., the 5th. shot and fatally
wounded Miss Mamie Carter. teacher
in the schools. The trouble arose out
Of school m Itters.
The Indian Office has requested the
the war department by the use Of
troops to p. went bloodshed in the
Indian territory as the result Of the
row ove- the Chcetaw presidential
election.
The Canadian Pacific officials believe
the telegraphers' strike is ne arly at an
end, the CHIEF difficulty in the way OF
filing the vacant places with new men
is the hostility of outsiders to the men
reDIacinr the strikers
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A REMARKABLE TOOTH.
Wonderful Relic In the Temple at yaka'
dana. Japan.


dana. Japan.
The temple at Yakadama. Japa a, con-
tains a wonderful relic in the shape of a
tooth which. tradition says, ore of the
gods pulled from his jaw in order TO
have weapon with y hich to dispatch
an immense cobra, says the ST. Louis
Republic. Years ago, according 20 he
tradition. after the tooth had Feer
worshiped by heather deroiees for
centuries. n chang OF sentin ent took
place in regard to the relic. IL ras
declared to be n fraud and was. ac-
coTdingly. ground 20 a powder ana then
thrown into the river. But the particles
came together. - the PRIESTS say, and
again formed themselves into a per
feet tooth. which was found as per-
feet as before the ordeal. quietly repos-
ing in the bed of the river. After this
miracle, the Temple Of the Sacred
TOOTH" which had also been destroyed
by the unbelievers. was rebuilt and the
tooth again enshrined as an object OF
alteration. At present it is kept in a
gold box wrapped In films from the
sacred white spiders web.
Non-believers in the power OF the Sa-
cred Indestrdctible Tooth say that il is
simply molar of some extinct species
Of gigantic animal.
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Th,, uappened IN England.

The church, In the person of the wife
of the bishop OF Winchester, has taken
to cycling. says the Lady's Pictorial.
Rev. f. Husband, by the way. the we'll
known licar Of st. Miehael's. Folkstone,
preached a special sermon to cyclists
recently. in which he not only followed
some of the old divines by seeing no
harm in taking punning text-'They
toll not. neither do they spini'-but
further remarked he firmly believed
that. had velocipedes been in existence
in ancient days. the sacred writings
would have contained approving refer
ences 10 them. IL may interest the ex-
cellent vicar to know that in a country
church of which | have heard a cyelist
figures in a stained glass window.
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Washington, Oct. 5.-Bishop Keane.
rector of the Catholic university of
America, has issued a statement con-
corning his withdrawal from the head
OF that institution, in which he gives
copies of correspondence between him
self and the pope, in which Leo XIII.
proposed TO relieve Bishop Keane of his
rectorate and to give him the option of
an archhishopric in America or of an
eminent position abroad. Bishop Keane
replied. thanking the pope for his good
intentions and asking to be allowed 10
retire without the imposition of further
official duties and honors.
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re WON HIS CLIENTS CASE.
Successful Venture of n Broker as Crim-
InaI Aaxncat.. n The Rar-

Successful Venture of a Broker as a Grim
inaI Advocate at the Bar.
A Jacksonville broker, while travelir 2
In the Alabama mountains, was invi' e,
by a friend, a LEGAL judge, TO attend ths
trial of a cracker" for shooting mi,
ger" and the prisoner having no money
to hire lawyer. the judge appointed
the broker to defend him. alleging that
ifthe brokerwas not a lawyer The was an
idiot because he wasn't one"-a judg-
ment amply supported by his conduct
of the case. The broker. says the San
Francisco Argonaut, cross-examined
the witnesses briefly, sending in now
and then a discomfiting trajectory.
When he came to make q speech he id:
Gentlemen of the jury. have taken
great pains to show you that my client
was a respectable citizen. Ten wit
nesses have Rsserted-on oath, mind
you-that he stands high in his com.
munity." The defendant was six feet
three inches tall. and the jury smiled.
''He stood high IN the community, and
that is sufficient. Now for the law. We
find that the 30tb verse OF The 10th chap.
ter of Gritty on Pleadings'-Chitty
gentlemen, was one of the bravest gen.
erals in the confederate army-this we'll
established principle of law" Here the
broker adjusts his glasses. holds the
book far off. elevates his chin and reads:
"'No respectable white man can I've
guilty of crime That. gentlemen, is
enough. leave the case in your hands"
Each juror changed his quid. looked at
his neighbor, nodded, and. without leav-
ing their seats, rendered loud and en-
phatic verdict of mot guilty" and then
Joined in three cheers for the defendant
and his LAWYER