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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-30
ranm Na,hslINGrON

Receipts from internal revenue for
the six months If the current fiscal
year aggregate $40. SJT. 522, decrease.
rs compared wilh the corresponding
Period of IS04-G5. of s5.O4O.l9s.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland
gave their annual reception to congress
and the judiciary.
II was decided by the silver confer
ence in Washington to put national
ticket in the field this year. and with
that intent its adherents will meet in
st. Louis July % next. the same date
and place selected for the national pop
ulist convention.
In the United States there were 373
business failures i'm the seven days end
cd on the cath. against 4l2 the week
previous and 800 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
In Washington the 18th annual meet
ing of the American Forestry assCcia-
ton opened. The object Is to secure
protection for the 17.564,sO0 acres of
forests on public lands.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the cath aggregated
So79. o67.i Az, against sl,o62,!91.@24 ,hc
previous week. The increase, com
Jared with the corresponding week in
1895, was &C.
At his home i'm Washington, John
Tyler died at the age of &c years.
The result of an investigation by
treasury experts into the accounts of
,he state department in Washington
was said to show a deficiency of SOL
u1O
VI the annual meeting IN Washington
Miss Susan B. Anthony was reelected
resident of the National Woman Suf-
fraae association.
In the United States the visible sup
PLY of grain or the eth was: Wheat,
Cs.52a, GOO bushels; corn, 10. $4,000 bush
els: oats. G.253 bushels: rye, $4,000
bushels; barley. 3.126.O0h bushels.
ON April 1 free-lelivery mail service
viii !e extended to ! 5 post Offices. swell
ing the total number of frce-delivery Of
fees 10 6G3.
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HuRRAH FOR PENNSYLVANIA.

The farmers of Pennsylvania are to
be congratulated. II. NJ. Luther, East.
Troy, Pa, grew over 200 bushels Sal
zer's Silver Mine Oats On one measured
acre. Think of It'll Now there are
thirty thousand farmers going to try
and beat Mr.. Luther and win $500 in
gold! and they'll doit. Will you?
Then there is Silver King Barley,
cropped on poor soil 116 bus. per acre
IL 1895. Isn't that wonderful-and
corn 200 bus. and potatoes and grasses
and cloTers, fodder plants, etc, etc.
Freight is cheap to all points.
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
it with l0c postage to the John A. Sal
ger Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis. you will
receive their mammoth catalogue and
ten packages grains and grasses, in
GLIDING above oats, free (K.1
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DEMOCRATIC CALL.
Summons to Elect Delegates to the Ma
tional Convention.

Summons to Elect Delegates to the Ma
tloDal Convention.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25. - National
Chairman Harrity on Friday afternoon
issued the official call for the demo
cratic national cow, ntion. 1t reads as
follows:
Philadelphia. Jan. "a. 1s9s.-The demo
cratic national committee having met In
the city of Washington, d. c., January Is
1896, has appointed Tuesday, July Z. 1885, al
IL O'Clock noon, and chosen the city of Chi
cago, ILL.,, as the place for holding the demo
cratic national convention.
Each state is entitled to a representa-.
ton therein equal to double the number OF
its senator's and representatives in the con
gress of the United States. each territory
and the District OF Columbia shall have
two delegates.
''All democratic conservative citizens II
the United States, irrespective OF past DO
lItical associations and differences, VINO
can unite with US in The effort TOR pure
economical and constitutional government
are cordially invited to Join US In sending
delegates to the convention.
"W. +. HARRITY, Chairman.
IS. p. SHEERIN. Secretary"
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LATER MEMS


Twenty-Five men from the steamer j.
w. Hawkins, supposed to be bound for
Cuba with men and arms for the insur-
gents. have been landed Vineyard, Ha-
ven, Mass, by the schooner State. The
Hawkins was wrecked off Long Island
Sunday night. The schooner Alicia Il.
Crosby, which arrived here later in the
day, brought IS more men from the
same steamer.
Judges Field, Harlan, Brewer and
Brown, of the supreme court, the 2sth
rendered their decision in the Northern
Pacific receivership case, holding all
the courts along the line of the road to
be ancillary to Judge Jenkins court at
Milwaukee. This decision gives the
Milwaukee court the jurisdiction over
Ownership.
Funeral services were held the 2sth
over the remains of Theodore Runyon,
ambassador of the United States to
Germany. at his late residence in Berlin.
Mrs. Patch, of Port Arthur, Ont,
while putting her children to bed the
ATTN, upset a lamp, which ignited he:
clothes and burned her to death.
Gov. Thurston, of New Mexico, an
nounced the 2Sth that he was power
less to stop prize fighting in that terri
tory, as there was no law making il n
felony and no money to pay for calling
out militia.
While Mrs. Jane Houston, of Well
aeet, Neb., was attending a revival
meeting the evening of the 2sth, thieves
entered her residence and stole dia-
monds valued at 5000
The Western Passengel association
the ssth refused to extend the time
limit on tickets TO the G.. A. r. encamI-
ment at st. Paul.
Express Agent Krout. at Colorado
Springs, Colo, was arrested the 2sth
on the charge of being implicated in
the theft of $50, 1000 from the Wells
Fargo Co. some months ago.
The effort to move the steamship St.
PAU the 18th was unavaiiing.
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AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.
The Convention Adopts Resolutions
Elects Officers and Adfour,s

The Convention Adopts Resolutions,
Elects Oficers and Adjourns.
Chicago. Jan. 24.-After busy ses-
sion of four hours, the National Con-
vention of American Manufacturers adj
lourned zine die Thursday afternoon.
The next convention VIII be held at
Philadelphia, al date be liked by
the executive committee. The majcri-
ty of the delegates seem to favor Nash
vile, but the nomination of that city
was withdrawn upon the representa-
ton that the prime necessity of inter-
ssting New England manufacturers
could best be met by holding the CON
sention IN the Quaker City. President
Dolan, who was confined to his hotel
by illness, sent word to the committee
on nominations that he absolutely
could not serve the association another
year, and thercupon Theodore G.
Search. pTs sident of the John II. Stet-
son company, of Philadelphia, md
founder Of the Philadelphia Te,,tile
school, was chosen president for 1856.
Robert Laidlaw and +. p. Wilson, of
Cincinnati, were reelected treasurer
and secretary, respectively.
number of resolutions were re-
ported from the COMMITTEES and
adopted, some without comment and
others after brief discussion. A sy-
nopsis follows:
They ask that the interstate CONNER ce
commission be authorized to prepare a
uniform classification of freight rates to
be put into effect on all railroads January
l. 1871. They advocate the establishment
OF an Industrial exposition In the City OF
Mexico; that department of manufac-
lures be esta blished under a secretary OF
equal rank with the secretary of agricul-
ture; that the inequality oil traffic condi-
tons in various states be Investigated and
righted II possible, and that the senate OF
the United States be earne silly requested
to pass promptly and send to the president
the revenue bill lately adopted by the
house of representatives. resolution
was also adopted insisting that congress
treat domestic sugar as II does wool and
all other agricultural products, ard de-
handing for the beet and cane sugar in
dustries fair legislation and liberal en-
couragement.
The committee on resolutions de-
clined to report upon the resolutions OF
sympathy with Cuba submitted by Del
cgate Barbour, of Detroit. on theground
that the manuscript declared ttat the
war had ended, cxtolled the insurgcnt
generals and denounced the Spaniards
in harsh terms. Members of the Mich
igan delegation denied this, and asked
consent to reopen the matter aud have
the resolution read. This request, upon
being put to vote, was rejected by a
large majority.
Richard IL. Edwards, editor of the
Manufacturers, Raoor1 Of poIt;1,oro
submitted strong argument in favor
of n new cabinet position to he desig
mated as the department of manufac
ture and commerce, ana after an adj
dress upon international banks by
Ulysses ID. Eddy, of New York. the cor
yention adjourned.
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THE CALL ISSUED.
fopulist National Committee Instruct the
Party as to the Convention.

Fopulist National Committee Instruct the
Party as to the Convention.
Terre Haute. Ind, Jan. 24.-Chairr1an
Taubeneck, of the populist national
committee, was here Thursday and weth
Treasurer Rankin prepared the call for
the national convention at st. Louis,
which they furnished as follows:
1.-THE members of the peoples party and
all others who favor it's principles are in
vited TO assemble In their various states
and territories and choose delegates and
altcrnates under the methods and upon
the basis of apportionment as hereinafter
prescribed to assemble In national ccnven-
ton at st. Louis on July p for the purpose
Of adopting a platform ard nominating a
candidate for president and vice president
and transactinG such other business as
may properly come before them. The
number of delegates apportioned TO each
state by the national committee under the
basis adopted is as follows:
Alabama, 81; Arizona, 4; Arkansas, 20;
California, 80; Colorado, IS; Connecticut,
Z; Delaware, g; Florida. s; Georgia, G1;
Idaho. q; Illinpls, 81; Indiana, &c: Iowa, 80:
Kansas 50; Kentucky %; Louisiana Is.
Maine. 3; Maryland, Q; Massachusetts, 81 !;
Michigan. 20; Minnesota, 80: Mississippi
10: Missouri, rs: Montana, IL: Nebraska
81; Nevada, Z; New Hampshire, 4; New
Jersey, u; New York, "a: North Carolina,
tOs 4NOTlH lldhOtd, I&s OIiiot 49, oregon, IL >
Pennsylvania, AZ; Rhode Island. 4: South
Carolina, II; Tennessee, p; Texas, %; Yer
mont, 4; Virginia, SO; Washington. II: West
Virginia, s; Wisconsin, %; Oklahoma, Z;
New Mexico, 4. Wyoming, 4; District of
Columbia, A.; Utah, 5.
1.-The state committee in each state and
territory is charged with the duty of pro-
mitigating this call In their respective
states and territories and determining the
method of choosing said delegates wether
by state conventions at large or In con-
gressional districts or both. The officers
OF the state and district conventions are
requested to send names of delegates as
soon as chosen to the chairman of the
national committee. All credentials 20 the
national convention shall be signed by the
chairman and the secretary of the conven-
tians which selected the delegates.
(Signed) III. TAUBENEcK, Chairman.
-. II. TURNER, Secretary.
IL. ]. McPARLIE, Secretary.
IN. G. RANKIN, Treasurer"
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MUST BE SPOT CASH.
Movement on Change I'm Chicago to
Abolish Futures"

Movement on Change I'm Chicago to
Abolish Futures"
Chicago, Jan. 27.--At meeting of
board of trade men Saturday the report
Of the subcommittee which has been
formulating the plan of Robert lind
ulom for trading IN cash wheat to the
exclusion of futures was approved, and
il the plan is approved by the directors
! will be put into operation after next
Nay. The plan is that all trading IN
wheat shall be in cash property ard
that the board of trade cash grain de-
pository shall be organized with
100000 paid-up capital to 'ake
care of the wheat and adj
iance money on 1T. Mr.. Lindblom made
4 vigorous speech in support of his plan,
which he was convinced would be
adopted by all the exchanges Of the
country in the near future. if only for
self-preservation, i'm view of the pawcr-
tul influences at work to suppress spec
ilation in agricultural products by ma
tional legislation. such as the anti OPP
lion bill. He said this bill was dc
ieatcd in the last congress only by The
exercise of the most tremendous in
iuence by the Chicago and other ex-
changes. lie added:
The strong arm of the United States
government will soon take hold of the
gambling which is going on in agricultural
products to the detriment of business.
While the grain gamblers (bucket-shop
kcepers) may bribe grand Jurors and local
officers they cannot bride Uncle Sans
marshals, and we must come down to act
ual delivery of every bushel of grain traded
in on the board of trade in order to draw
the line between speculation and gambling.
pure and simple, between boards of trade
and bucket shops"
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MANY MINERS ENTOMBED.
Fifty-Four Dead Bodies Said to Have
Been Recovered.


Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 2S.--The residents
of the town and vicinity of Tylorstown,
which is situated near here, were terri
fled by terrific reverberation Monday.
The conclusion was caused by an eX-
plosion in neighboring colliery, with
disastrous consequences to life and
property. The latest report places the
number of dead at 81, though il is
feared that the further exploration of
the wrecked mine will develop the
bodies of more. Reports of the number
of killed have been confusing, and there
is doubt as to the number of men in
the mine at the time of the catastrophe.
The first reports gave the number of
miners in the shaft at 81, but some of
them escaped to the surface, bringing
the body of one comrade with them.
The pit was found to have caught fire,
and the hindrance that this caused to
the work of the rescue parties added to
the excitement and tension of feeling.
1t was only through Drawing the utmost
peril that the living were able to prose-
cute their quest for the dead.
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THEODORE RUNYov.

of the city. He vas appointed IN 1856 COM
missioner to revise and codify the militia
laws of New Jersey. and in 1851 was made
brigad der general and subsequently major
general of the New Jersey national guard.
At the outbreak of the civil war he was
placed in command of the New Jersey
brigade of volunteers. In 1865 he was DEM
ocfatic candidate tor governor of his state
but was not elected. From 1873 to 1887 he
was chancellor of New Jersey. In March,
1893, he was appointed by President Glove
land American minister to Germany and
shortly afterwards was made ambassa-
dor The degree of LID. was conferred
upon him by Yale. Rutgers and Wesleyan
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MEsT and sourR

The Iowa legislature in joint session
elected W 3. Allison to the Office of
United States senator for the fifth
term.
Because of n quarrel over a fence
boundary Daniel ). Core shot John
Dillon tleac in the courtroom in Wau-
kesan, III.
Edward L. Burton. one OF lowa's
most prominent lawyers and ab!ost
artists. died al his home in Ottumwa at
the age .. 65 years.
The death of ex-Congressman Oscar
Turner occurred at his home in Louis
Vile. NJ, eyed SO yeats.
Augusta Chaplin. ID. d., pastor of the
First Uniyersalist church in Omaha,
and the oaly woman 1octor Ct divinity
in the world. resigned her pastorate.
At the age of - years George Hycr-
son. who was governor OF Lower Cali
fornia from 1857 TO 1855, died at San
Diego.
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A NEW SCHEME.
Leading Senators Discuss q Novel Finan
cial Proposition.

cial Proposition.
Washington, Jan. 2S.--During the
session of the senate Monday there were
numerous conferences between silver
and anti-silver democrats aud repub-
licans and democrats. There was every
evidence of desire 20 get together
ON the financial question. Should there
be any compromise, 1T can only come
after the silver men have put the sem
etc on record by yea and nay vote on
the free silver substitute now under
debate. The compromise can only be
effected in the conference committee.
As means for arriving at some So
luton of the problem. through the in
strumentality of that committee, the
situation is being canvassed in the SEN
ate. The proposition discussed Mon.
day came from one of the most prom
fnent silver democrats in the senate,
and its character. unfolded by the au-
thor himself to prominent republican
senator's, is such as has occasioned con-
siderable surprise among those who
have been taken into the conference.
This proposition contemplates the re-
tirement of the greenbacks and the
treasury notes by the issuance of $780,,
100000 of gold bonds. a declaration that
all outstanding bonds of the govern
ment shall be paid in gold regardless
OF the language used, and the opening
of the United States mints to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.
This scheme, which apparently gives
the gold men ali they ask and the sill
yer men all they have been demanding,is
meeting with opposition, especially
among the ranks of the sound money
men on the democratic side of the
chamber and the silver republicans.
or course, ii is a tentative proposition,
as are many others that are being
preached. The belief is strong, how
ever, that no common ground can be
reached wherein the contending ele-
ments can stand. The proposition out
lined above comes from senator of
such prominence, however, that is is
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Conyent.on for silver.

Washington. Jan. 24.-Thc silver
conference Thursday decijed TO put
nationa, ticket in the held for the APP
preaching presidential campaign. The
conference agreed to a declaration of
principles and calls upon others ire
specify of previous party affiliations
who are willing to support these prin-
ciples and the nominees OF the silver
party to organize in the usual manner
for thai purpose. The national conven-
ton of the silver men is to be held at
st. Lo'as July %, the same day as the
meeting of the populist -atioral con-
Nenfion
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The News Of the Week.
By TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FIFTNFouRTH CONGRESS.

t-ES0NA " SCtronGoos
The Proceedings of the First Session.
Washington. Jan. 23.-In the senate
yesterday resolutions were introduced
relative to the Armenian troubles. 10
enable the president to veto items in
appropriation bills, and to enable cen
gress 20 pass bills over the veto by a
majority vote, and TO create a national
reserve. Senator Wolcott Coli spoke
against che Davis Monroe doctrine res
olutiOn. declaring that the doctrine had
been misapplied and that the admiris-
tratiOn foreign policy was i'll advised.
In the house no business of Importance
was transacted.
Washington, Jan. e4.-rhe three sub
iects ms st prominently before the pub
Itch. Monroe doctrine. finance and
tariff ach came in for consideration
an the enatc yesterday. a bill, was in
froductJ TO repeal the refuDdiEg act of
so and the specie payment Tesump-
tion at: of 1878. A favorable report
was maae on the bill authorizing con-
structi"n of bridges over the Missouri,
iiissis ,ippi, Minnesota and Illinois
FiveTs. In the house the rules of the
sist congress were adopted.
Washington. Jan. 2j.--After & brief
but stirring debate the senate yester-
day agreed to concurrent resolution
urging decisive action by the European
powers against Turkey, and pledginG
20 the president the support of con-
gress in the most vigorous action he
may take for tive protection of Ameri-
cans in Turkey and the redress for in
iuries TO American persons and prop
Crty. The free coinage bill was dis
cussed Adjourned to the 2Tth. In the
house u pension bills were passed. Ad-
;ourned to the 2Tth.
Washineton.Ja Jan. Senator's Frank
7. Cannon and Arthur Brown, of the
new state of Utah, took the oath of Of
flee in the senate yesterday, the for
mer drawing the term e. ling March 3.
1889. and the latter the term ending
March ,. 1897. Aside from this event
the session was given TO further
speeches on the silver bond bill. In the
house the resolutions passed by the
senate calling on the powers signatory
to the treaty of Berlin to enforce the re-
forms in Turkey guaranteed To the
Christian Armcnians were adopted
after debate, in which Mr.. Hepburn
la.) advocated giving the Turkish min
isteI his passports and severing all dip
lcmatic relations with Turkey.
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The Wisconsin semi-centenial confer
ence in Milwaukee voted emphatically
In favor of celebrating in 1895 the 50th
anniversary of the admission of the
state into the union. The scope of the
celebration will be determined by a
committee of 101, 10 be appointed be-
fore March / by Gen. Lucius Fairchild,
of Madison, the chairman of the confer
cnce, and five delegates whom he will
select to assist him.
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MosT of the miEIng machinery in
the gold belt Of south Africa is made
in tie Unitrd States. 4 Pennsylvania
firm has big agricultural machinery
warehouse at Kimberley and Chicago
machine works are represented in tat
region, and American mining engi-
neers are in demand there. American
locomotives are sold all over the world
and American machinery OF every kind
Is in demau-l because IL is the best
John Hayes Hammond, under arrest at
Pretoria, is IN accomplished AmeTi-
can mining engineer. Within % years
American mechanical skill will capture
she worlds trade
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NAV Aid Armenians.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Secretary OIL.
ney has received from Mr.. Terrell, the
United States minister at Constants
nople, a cabiegram saying that while
the porte refused permission TO the Red
Cross, or to members of the Red Cross
as such, to distribute relief in Armenia
and thereby declined to officially rec
ognize that society, 1t will permit any
persons whom Mr.. Terrell names and
approves to distribute relief in the in
terror of Turkey, provided the Turk
ish authorities are kept informed OF
what they are doing.
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The expert electrician who was
charged with investigation Of the pan
for the electric propulsion OF canal
boats in New York anil to watch she
experiments with the towing system
has mad. his report. In summing up
his work he says that the electric tow
ing system appears 20 present so many
meritorious features that | have no
hesitation in ind. rising it as the system
deserving preference over any ether
hitherto cxperiIi ented upon"
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Crofton Asked to Resign.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-Col. II. Il. A. Crof
ton. commanding the post at Fort Sher-
idan, received an autograph letter from
Secretary OF War lamont asking him
to resign on account of the numerous
scandals connected with the post and
stating that he had conferred with
President Cleveland, who would be very
much gratified if he would resign. Col
Crofton refused to resign stating that
his relative, Mr.. Dupont. of Delaware
claims an election 10 the senate and
that he counts on his influence TO re
tain him in the service.
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Wisconsin Ranks.

Comptroller Eckels gave out a state
ment of the condition of the76 national
banks in Wisconsin, outside of Milwau-
kee, at the close of business December
10. The loans and discounts aggregated
s21, ,72o against S21 ,S9O,e5s as shown
by the statements of September sS.
Compared with the reports maze by
the same banks one year ago there was
decrease III loans and discounts of
s553. 5O4