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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
FROM WASHINGTON.

Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court and David j. Brew
er, associate justice, have been nominal
ed as commissioners to serve on the ar
bitration tribunal to determine the
boundary line between Venezuela and
British Guiana.
During the last quarter OF the year
1896 there was a net decrease of So, $40
in the postal receipts throughout the
country. The total receipts were
s., 679, 800; the total for the correspond
ing quarter of 1895. ss.712.699.
II the United States there were 331
business failures in the seven days end
ed on the Goth. against 400 the week
period of 1896.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
SOC. 245, 22s. against Si,042, 4I2, $50 the
nreyious week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was rs.
Papers have been signed by Secretary
OIney and the British ambassador call
ing LOT a treaty W uehifc tno -his'Snin
boundary
Government receipts during January
we're S24.316. 994.05; expenditures, $780,
90. rs; deficit. S5.922, 1895.
In special bulletin the weather bu
reau at Washington says the recent cold
wave was remarkable in its intensity
duration and wide distribution, cover
49, he
Rocky mountains.
In Hoboken. y. J.. a tenement house
was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Nellie
Schroeder and her five children and
Mabel Mangles persisted in the flames.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
THE EAST.

At their annual meeting in Phila-
delphia the National Association of
Manufacturers reelected as president
Theodore e. Search. Pennsylvania.
At Little Falls. y. ". Morris Jackson
shot Fred Mcintosh and Miss Ella NJ.
Ausman and then shot himself. Miss
Ausman's wounds were probably fatal.
jealousy was the cause.
At Springfield Mass..James r. Hawk
ms. proprietor of the iron works. failed
Cor 100000.
The cars killed Michael McDermott,
an attendant. and Joseph Hall. a patient,
Mt the state hospital for the insane in
Morrisiown. ia.
In wreck rear Leroy. \. Y, Henry
SNYDER, a conductor. and George Cras-
ton. brakeman. were killed.
President Cleveland was the princi-
pal speaker at the celebration of the
semieentennial of the New York Acad.
cmy of Music az Carnegie hall.
Dynamite exploded at the Crystal
EiGre colliery near Hazelton. Pa, kill
ing Watchman Rickert and Engineer
NuH@rr.
At the age OF g. years George b. Rob
erts. president of the Pennsylvania Rail
road company. died at his home neal
Philadelphia of heart failure.
New York business men are forming
a syndicate for the purpose of creating
| a gigantic fish trust.
In the Delaware river above Marcus
/ Hook. Pa. the United States -uisel
/ Brooklyn ran upon a rock and stove {
/ hole in her hull.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
WEST AND SOUTH.

Over 100 head Of horses and cattle per-
ished in Lyman county, s. d.. in the re-
cent blizzard.
er near Wayne, Neb., Drained his wife
and three children with an AK and then
hacked the bodies % pieces.
In their home near Mt. Ida. Ark. a
family named Norton. consisting of
father. mother and three children, were
frozen TO death.
By an explosion in a coal mine at Fos-
ter. Ia, Il men were injured, one. Louis
Folger, fatally.
IN Chicago Thomas Jackson (col-
ored). found guilty in Judge Ewing's
court OF five burglaries. was sentenced
TO 100 years in the penitentiary.
In a quarrel in Cleveland, o.. Will
liam Cotton. a travelling salesman,
killed his wife and then took his own
life.
Russell \. Alger. of Detroit. Mich,
was rendered and has accepted the
war portfolio in President-elect Nc
Kinley's cabinet.
&. F. Turner (pop.) has been elected
United States senator from the state
of Washington.
Fire destroyed the business portion
az Caledonia. o.
Tor no cause known Bartholomew
Race. OF Goshen. Utah, shot and killed
his wife and then put Il bullet through
his own head.
\ train was held up at Shady Point,
One. by three men, and the express
car was robbed.
The governor of Nevada has signed
the glove contest bill. thus insuring the
Fitksimmons-Corbett fight for that
state.
y DILL was introduced in the Texas
house prohibiting the manufacture or
sale Of pistols in the state, and provid-
ing a tine of $1,000.
The annual meeting II the National
Woman's Suffrage association closed in
Des Moincs. Ia, after adopting resolu-
tions urging congress to submit a
proposition for a suffrage amendment
10 the constitution; urging legislatures
20 submit the matter TO their states,
and declaring in favor of international
arbitration in all disputes.
Matte anu 1CAkAG - AACAs A-NA - aAA4
Il years. the daughters of a farmer.
we4e struck and killed By a train at q
crossing at Eastwood. Ind.
In Florida the recent cold snap will
cost the truck and vegetable growers
sl0c 600
The Rotbschilds. Of London. have
purchased the "Tomboy" mine in Col
orado Cor $500. 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On the River Carinac Is Spanish row.
boats We're sunk by insurgents and 100
persons were drowned.
1t is said that the condition of the
car of Russia's health is critical and
that a regency is probable.
In an interview President Kruger
said he desired nothing but 10 maintain
peace in the whole of South Africa and
afford aliens every protection.
Advices from Hsraklion, island of
Crete. saw that ten Christians were muir
dered while outside the gates of the
city, and that armed bands of Mussul-
mans leave the town daily for the pur-
pose of plundering and burning the vii
lagos of the Christians.
In Denver. Col, Fred C. Riebe, aged
As years. a fugitive from justice, shot
and mortally wounded his wife and then
killed himself.
The wife of Prince Philip of Saxe-Co-
burg, the oldest daughter of King Leo
pold of Belgium, has eloped with an
Austrian officer.
On the railroad near Cieze one of Gen.
Weyler's supply trains was dynamited,
IS Spanish soldiers were killed and the
train was looted by the insurgents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
Bradstreet's saws:
Maniacss AMfnI Crime.

Wayne, Neb., Jan. 29.-Thursday
morning, on farm ten miles southeast
of this city, C.. X. Rash, in fit of mad
ness, Drained his wife and three chill
dren with an ak and then hacked the
bodies to pieces. The deed was discov-
cred by boy who had been sent from a
neighbours house to engage Mr.. Rash to
help shell corn. Approaching the house
he was startled by cries, and, suppos-
ing that there was a struggle going on
inside, burst open the door. The furni-
ture of the room was in bad disorder
and the walls and ceiling spattered with
blood. On the bed was II body of Mrs.
Rash, the head so badly battered that
IL was scarcely recognizable. In an adj
joining room lay the bodies of the chill
dren. Upstairs in a loft lay the hus-
band of the family. His vacant stare
and wandering tai. showed clearly that
reason had left him. The family was in
moderate circumstances and esteemed
highly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
May Claim BIG Taxes.

Washington, Feb. Estates have the
constitutional right to tax the entire
capital stock of interstate corporations
doing business within their limits. I ais
was the startling decision of the SUI
preme court Monday in what is known
as the Ohio and Indiana tax cases.
There were three dissenting justices
Field, Harlan and White. 1t is one of
the most important decisions rendered
by the court in many years, as it not
only involves grave constitutional ques-
tons, but will place interstate corpora
tons at the mercy of state legislatures
everywhere. Ten of these cases were
brought by the officers of the Adams,
American and United States Express
companies. They were suits in equity
to enjoin the assessment and collection
of taxes under the acts of the general
assembly of the state of Ohio, passed
April %. 1898, and May 10, 1894, for the
taxation of express, telegraph and tele-
phone companies, on the ground that
the acts were in contravention of the
constitutions of the state of Ohio and
of the United States.
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TURNED OVER TO THE LADIES.
sunragists Take Charge of Session OF
the Iowa Lcgislature.


Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 30.-The event
OF Fridays session of the woman suf-
frage convention was the acceptance
od an Invitation TO visit the state senate
in SESSION. The session was turned
over to the ladies, Miss Anthony taking
the gavel, and addresses were made by
Miss Anthony. Mrs. Bradford, OF Col
orado; Mrs. Gait, of New York; Mrs.
Colby, of Nebraska; Mrs. Shaw, of
pennsylvania; Miss Blackwell, of
Massachusetts, and others. They will
urge the legislature to submit the is
sue of woman suffrage to vote.
In the afternoon resolutions were
adopted expressing satisfaction with
the progress of the cause, the recent
victory in Idaho, the splendid showing
in CALIFORNIA;; urging congress to sub
nit a proposition for the suffrage
amendmcnt to the constitution; urging
legislatures to submit the matter TO
their states; declaring in favor of inter-
evening session was devoted to the cell
ebration of the victory !, quail suf-
frage in Idaho.
The election of officers on Thursday
resulted in returning the old ones with
practically no opposition. Susan p.
Anthony, president; Rachel Foster
Avery, corresponding secretary; Alice
Stone Blackwell, recording secretary;
Alice Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer;
Laura Clay, auditor; Clara Lane Chap
man Gait. chairman on organization,
were elected
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-
The Public Debt.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The debt state
ment issued Monday afternoon shows a
net increase in the public debt, less
cash in treasury during January of
S15,07S, 1922 The interest-bearing
debt increased $2,120,916. The non in
terest-bearing debt decreased $40, and
cash in the treasury decreased $t2,957.-
95922. The balances of the several
classes of debt January 81 were: In
terest-bearing debt, Ss47, 364.750. Debt
on which interest has ceased since ma
turity. S1,3s2 ,93O.26. Debt bearing no
interest, $374,633,057.14. Total, 81 ,223,-
3T0,737.40. The certificates and treas
ury notes offset by an equal amount of
cash in the treasury outstanding at the
end of the month were $685., ,o75,-
573, an increase of SIS, 100000. The
total cash in the treasury was sS5s, $685.
910.21. The gold reserve was 100000
coo. Net cash balance, $115, 362, 420.73.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


OF the S33.670.l 100 given away by
benevolent persons last year about one
half went to colleges and nearly Sl0,-
100000 to charities.
The business of farming in Spain is
so much depressed that the govern
ment is about to devote 81, 2CO. 600 to the
relief of that industry.
The Delaware constitutional conven-
ton, by an almost unanimous vote. has
recommended that the power of grant
ing divorces be taken from the legisla-
ture.
Kansas is Sc years old. 1t was Janu-
ary 20 in the troublesome days of '6i
that President buchanan signed the
measure that added another star to
the flag.
The Russian government is about TO
establish, for the purpose of encourage
ing trade, commercial agencies in all
Of the European capitals, as well as in
a number of the largest cities of the
United States.
Free-thinking societies throughout
the country observed with appropriate
exercises the one hundred and sixtieth
anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Paine, the worlds greatest agnostic.
The chief proof reader of the Londoa
Times is Cambridge graduate, who has
a salary of $1,000; but then he is great
scholar not only in the English Ian
guage, but in all ancient and other
tongues, not excepting Asiatic ones. He
is permitted to query and suggest ex-
cisions or additions to the work Of
writer's and editors.
A correspondent claims that baked
bananas are the ideal food for nervous
persons and brain workers. He also
saws that this food viii unfailingly
build up and strengthen lean, blood
poor persons. The banana should be
baked in its skin in an oven for Is or
90 minutes until il is quite soft and
| bursts open.
The brewing companies of Cincinnati,
Newport and Covington have organized
the Cincinnati, Covington 6 Newport
Brewers exchange. Those Joining
agreed not to sell beer for less than a
certain price, fixed by the exchange;
not to advertise except in daily news
/ papers or monthly and weekly publica-
/ tons; not to purchase tickets for balls,
I picnics, ETC.; not to give ice to saloons;
not to pay any gifts; not to pay rent,
state tax or other saloonkeepers' ex-
penses. The agreement becomes ef-
fective February /.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
Cabinet Nearly Complet..

Canton, o., Feb. 2.-The announce
ment made by Hon. James S. Wilson, of
Iowa, that he had been rendered the
portfolio of agriculture by Maj. Nc
Kinley and had accepted. fills the cab
met with reasonable certainty, except
ing the Offices of encouragement and
postmaster-general The Mckinley
cabinet to date, therefore, may be given
as follows:
Secretary of the Treasury-Gage. of Ill
inois
Secretary of War-Alger, of Michigan.
Secretary of the Navy-Long, of Massa-
chusetts.
Secretary OF the observation-disclosures. of
California.
Secretary of Agriculture-Wilson. of
Iowa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04

On the Goth president-elect Mckin-
ley vas 81 years old.
The doors of the Wautauga bank of
Johnson City, Tenn, were closed with
liabilities IF $4,000.
Joseph J. Luis and Gen. Roloff. of the
Cuban junta, We're indicted by the fed
eral grand jury in Baltimore on the
charge of filibustering.
The doors of the Dime savings bank
in Chicago were closed with liabilities
of 100000.
In San Francisco Mrs. Marie Sprinz-
mix. the wife of Franz Sprinznik. was
shot and killed by Franz Wolf, who also
killed himself.
Fire nearly wiped out the business
portion of Stryker, o.
A mail pouch containing a large
number of registered letters was stolen
from the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton depot in Lima, o.
The death of Tony Livingston (col-
ored), who has an authenticated age of
1O4 years. occurred at Denison, Tex.
For no cause known DIR. III. II. Hol-
brook, leading physician at Defiance,
o.. cut his throat.
George Taylor. the noted Missouri
outlaw and murderer. was captured on
ranch near Hanford. Cal.
Michigan produced 2,166,252,9s2 feet
OF lumber last year, decrease of $685.
600, 900 feet over the year 1895.
In ST. Louis the Standard Eagle Box
and Lumber company failed for $780,
600.
In the recent blizzard on the Chey-
enne agency several Indians froze TO
death in their tents and thousands of
head of cattle persisted.
Edward w. Perry, murderer of the
Sawyer family-father. mother and
son-was hanged at Alva, Mo-, and
James b. Inks, the murderer of John
Patterson, was executed at Oregon, Mo.
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arh,tr.,io, treaty rnao,.ea.

Washington, Feb. /. The senate
committee on foreign relations Satur-
day voted to 4 TO order favorable
report on the arbitration treaty with
two amendments. The most important
was that which added at the end of ar
ticle 1 the following words: "But no
question which affects the foreign or
domestic policy of either of the high con-
tracing parties or the relations of either
with any other state or power by treaty
or otherwise, shall be subject to arbi-
tration under this treaty. except by n
special agreement" The second amend
ment strikes out all refereOce to his
majesty, the king of Sweden and Nor
way. as the umpire in case the court
fails to agree upon an umpire in ac-
cordance with the provisions of article
and article 5.
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WIT AND wIsooM.

Self Evident. is older than
she looks" How dc you know" Be
cause she tries to look youngerf'-Chi-
cago Record.
She: To-day is my seventeenth
birthday" He: "How strangel Then
this photograph must be older than
you. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
"A New Man.-'Sah. Mistah John
sing. Use done turned ODER new leaf"
NO! Den pay me dat half dollah you
borrowed las yeah. ''Sh-h! 1
hain't de same man l wuzi'-H arper's
Weekly.
"A Comprehensive Word.
his profession?" said the man with n
wide range of taste. Hes an artist"
Eyes, but what kind? Does he dance.
paint pictures or walk the tight roper"
Washington Star.
Old Gent Ito begger. to whom he
has given a halfpenny): ''Now. my
man, what shall you do with that
COMP "Well, i hardly know, guv'nor.
whether to purchase an annuity or in
vest in railway stock. Which do you
e?'-Tid- Bits.
r.
of that picture is? The youth and the
maiden are in tender attitude" She:
'Oh, don't you see? He has just asked
her to marry him, and she is accepting
him. How sweet! What does the art
ist call the picture?" He Cooking
about: ''oh, l see! It's written on a
card at the bottom, Sold. House
| hold Words.
dot rev bolicemans NIT him
gets myselluf even" said Mr.. oggle-
/ spoggle. ''He comes py my saloon Som
day und he says to me: '0gglespoggle.
see a man come out nit dot side door,
ain'd it?' 'Vcll,' | says. 'yot you here
for? To SEQ things? No, you pay adj
denshuns to your pizness, not to some
/ side issues ! said, like dot. Putty
schmardt SARCASM. ain'd dot? / guess
/ dose humorists vas not de only path
houses on der pebbles, may be!'-Cin-
| einnati Commercial Tribune.
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Charged with Rilihnsterinr.

Baltimore, Nd, Feb. 1.-The United
States grand jury found indictments
against Gen. Carlos Roloff, secretary
of war OF the Cuban provisional govern
ment. and his compatriot, DR.. Joseph
J. Luis, on the charge of beginning,
setting on foot and providing, within
the district of Maryland, means for a
military expedition against the terri
tory of foreign prince with whom
the United States is at peace; to-wit,
against the island of Cuba" July 3,
1895, Capt. Hudson purchased the
steamer James Woodall in this port,
and fitted her up as a filibuster. On
July Q she sailed ostensibly for Yucca
tan; but it is alleged that Roloff and
Luis caused the vessel TO put in at
Arbor Key, Fla, where men and NUM-
tons of war were taken aboard and sub
sequently landed on the Cuban coast.
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For an International Conference.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The bill for
the representation of the United States
on any international monetary con-
ference that may be called occupied and
was passed in the senate by the trium-
plant majority of 16 to 4. 1t authorizes
the president to appoint five or more
commissioners to any international
conference, with a view to securing a
fixity of relative value between gold and
silver as money, by means of common
ratio between the metals, with free
mintagc at such rates; and it also au-
thorizes the president to call. in his dis
erection, such conference to assemble at
such point as may be agreed upon. SEN
ators Allen (pop., Neb.), Pettigrew ,sil-
yer, S. D., Roach (dem.. n. d. and
Villas (dem., Wis., voted in the negative.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04

Germany has decided to pend 1850
600 upon the German exhibit at the
coming Paris exposition in 1900. II may
seem strange that the traditional enc
INV of the French should thus assist IN
making the big French national fair a
success. but in this instance the thrifty
Germans are actuated solely 10y coed
business motives. IL would not he bad
idea IL the United States government
took steps 10 insure proper presenta-
ton of American arts. Industries and
natural resources at the exposition. \
little more an three years remains for
preparation. but the time is none TO
long
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
A Bold Train Robbery.

San Francisco, Jan. 30.-Train No. IS,
north-bound Ogden express. was held
up at Shady Point. two miles south of
l'oseburg, by two or three men. The
express car was detached from the train
by the robbers and the door blown open
with dynamite. Two small safes in the
car were blown open and looted. The
express ear then took fire. The conduc-
ter and trainmen worked hard to save
the car after the robbers had gone, but
the car and contents were destroyed.
The messenger thought the robbers did
not understand getting into the big
safe and consequently they could not
have secured much over $50. The mail
car was also visited by the robbers and
registered letters taken.
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New 1ork, Jan. 3U.--Tresident CIeye-
land arrived in this city Friday and at
tended the annual dinner of the New
York Academy of Medicine at Carnegie
hall. The president delivered an inter-
esting address, full of praise for the
modern physician and the advantages
TO society of the researches of medical
scientists. lie urged the profession, in
it's devotion TO its professional duties,
not TO disregard the claims which the
body polite had upon it, but TO be ever
alive to the civic duties which devolved
upon all patriotic citizens. In opening
his remarks the president paid an elo-
quent tribute TO the "old village doc
torn
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Seven Perish at Hoboken, n. j.

Hoboken, n. j., Feb. This city was
visited by two disastrous fires between
1880 Saturday night and three o'clock
Sunday morning. Seven persons were
burned to death and 80 families were
made homeless. The Saturday night
fire started in the three-story frame
building at 4l0 Newark street. Here
Mrs. Schroeder and her five children
lost their lives while the husband and
father was playing cards in nearby
saloon. Mabel Mangles. eight years old,
was the only victim claimed by death in
the other fire which occurred about q
mile from the scene of the first.
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SLAUGHTER OF WILD ANIMALS.
Heavy Bountles Have Been Paid IN
Wisconsin.


Grantsburg, Wis.,, Feb. 1.-DuriDg the
past year there have been killed in this
county 50 wolves, ~ wildcats and one
lynx, for which there has been paid in
bounty S725, oGe-half of the amount be-
ing paid by the state and the other by
the county. The total paid the past
two years for bounties on wild animals
killed In this county is $i,5S4, for 105
wolves, ZIG wildcats and one lynx. In
addition to these, so black bears ton
which there is no bounty have been
killed. The latter are hunted like deer
or trapped, but wolves and wildcats are
mostly the victims of strychnine or
prussic acid. About 1000 deer have
been killed in the last two years, and
unless stringent laws are made to pro-
tect these animals they will soon be-
come extinct, Bounties or gophers and
ground squirrels or crows are more
needed than on wolves or wildcats. as
the latter are not known in the past
score of years to have done any damage,
" lille the crows and ground squirrels
destroy a large amount of property
yearly,