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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Personal Mention,

Fitzsimmons is said to be composing
a song both words and music.
Charles Compton, the actor, is dead
in London.
Secretary of State Sherman and Mrs.
Sherman will next year celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary.
Gladstones prescription for keeping
well and living long is to chew each
bite of food seventeen times.
Major Augustus w. Corliss, Seventh
infantry, has been detailed as a mem
Der of the examining board at Denver,
vice Major Henry B. OsgOod, relieved.
Dennis Ryan, the ST. Paul mining
magnate, is the latest to try his for
tune in the I<londyke district. He is
sending a representative there in the
person of John ]. Malone of Tacoma.
Madame Nordica, the celebrated
opera singer, has quite recovered from
her recent serious illness and has gone
to Kreuznach, Rheinish Prussia,
where she will take the waters.
Lieut.. Col Abraham A. Harbach,
recently promoted from major of the
Eighteenth infantry, has been as
signed to the Third infantry and or
dered to join his regiment.
Capt. Thomas Prince of Wheeling,
W. Va, well known in steamboat cir
cles in both Ohio and Mississippi, is
dead at Richmond, KY, from the re-
suit of injuries received ten days ago
at the race track there.
Cyrus w. Mason, aged eighty-two,
died at Crown Point, Ind. He was
among the first white men to locate in
Lake county, settling there in 1887.
He manufactured the first brick in In
diana.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani left Washing
ton recently with her secretary for
New York city. No information was
youchsafed TO the people at the hotel
where she stopped, and they know
nothing about her future movements.
Cardinal Gibbons recently surprised
an English officer in Baltimore by his
democracy and the hearty and cordial
way in which he spoke to acquaint-
ances in the street WELL" said the
officer, neither in London nor Paris
did l ever see anything like that"
The Iowa law college at Des Moines
has just turned out the youngest law
yer in the United States. The young
man is Homer Millsap, Californian,
Is years old. His standing was be-
tween 80 and 100 in the college exam
nations. His youth, of course, pre-
cludes his admission to practice at the
present.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Casualties.

A locomotive at the government
works at Tybee island, near Savannah,
Ga, fell through a trestle and killed
several people.
The Great Northern coats-bound
overland train was wrecked twenty
miles north of Seattle. In rounding a
curve the train ran into an earth and
boulder slide. No lives were lost, but
the engine, baggage and mail cars were
derailed, the baggage car rolling into
the sound.
Thomas Handy. engineer in the cleo
trio light station at Delevan, ILL.,, was
caught in the big fiy-wheel and in
stantly killed. In some unknown man.
ner his clothing became entangled in
the wheel, and before the machinery
could be stopped he was smashed to
pieces. Every bone was broken and
his body made a mass of pulp.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
General.

1t is said that internal quarrels vii
soon disrupt the Greater Republic of
Central America.
According to the official reports the
cereal crop prospects in the Argentine
are excellent.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn
ings for the week ending Aug. IA
were $499,000; for the same period
last year, SAT, 900; increase, $4,000.
The United States coast and geodetic
survey steamer Hassler has been sold
at Port Orchard, Wash, to H. T.. Nc
Guire of Portland, Or, for $15,5OO.
James O'Leary of Cincinnati
knocked out Peter Peterson of Boston
in two rounds before the Metropolitan
Athletic club at Wheeling, w. Va.
Gen. Bradley I. Johnston is out in
a letter opposing the movement to
have the G. A. r. meet at Richmond
Va, in 1899.
The big wagon works of the Mitch
elI-Lewis company of Racine, Wis,
has begun working twelve hours a
day.
The Clement Chair company's fac
tory at Clinton, Iowa, is burned. Loss,
1000; insurance, $4,000. The fac
tory will not be rebuilt. One hundred
persons are deprived of employment
1t is probable that the great silver
mines at Creole, Col, will be closed
down on account of the low price of sill
yer, unless railroad and smelling rates
are reduced. Several conferences have
been held.
The Burlington has resumed ten
hours time at Cedar Rapids. Iowa,
Heretofore $50 men have been work
ing fOrty-five hours per week. The in
creased time is made necessary by the
demand for freight cars.
Rev. Dwight L. Moody has denied
the report recently circulated through
out New England to the effect that he
intended to give up evangelical work.
to be succeeded by Rev. William Pat
terson of Toronto.
G. L. Miller, state game warden for
the Prairie du Chen (Wis.) district
had the orchard trees on his farm cut
down, presumably by persons having
spite against him for his rigid enforce
ment of the fishing laws.
The controller of the currency has
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent banks as fol-
lows: Marine National Bank of Du-
luth, 10 per cent; Stock Growers Ma
tional Bank of Miles City, Mont, 5 per
cent.
The city council of Helena, Mont.
ended the water fight for at least five
years by adopting an ordinance giving
tie company contract for five years,
at $4,000 a year, and settlement of
past differences on the same basis. The
fight has been in progress three years.
and has gone through all stages Of lit.
cation.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

Mrs. Hattie B. Bemis, Nebraska
woman, says it is the farmers wives
who really do the work on their nus
bands acres, while the men reap the
credit and profit. She proposes to give
the gentler sex a chance to "go it
alone" She owns q tract of land in
Dawes and Sioux counties, Neb., which
she intends to give to cooperative
community of women on condition
that they work it themselves without
the assistance of male farm hands.
She will furnish them with money to
last until the first crop is harvested,
and will guarantee any Indebtedness
they may incur in the purchase of ma
chinery and stock while getting a
start She already has in mind twelve
women to whom she proposes to give
the land. All are farmers widows and
all are in destitute circumstances. Mrs.
Bemis thinks they deserve assistance,
and is sure they will know fully as
well how to go to work as would a like
number of men. She hopes to make
farming popular with women and de-
clares there is no reason why they
should not find it we'll suited to them.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

Welcoming the United Confederate
Veterans to Nashville for their annual
reunion, the governor of Tennessee
uttered such sentiments as these: ''The
hand of secession will never be lifted
up again" LET the veterans who wore
he gray salute, with uncovered heads,
The national flag; it is the flag of the
lnseparable Union" anarchy cannot
i've on Southern SOIL" Herein is addi-
.ional and good evidence that the Civil
War is ended, and that the South will
be loyal in the pending conflict of law
and order with the advocates of an
archy and disorder the trusts and the
combines.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Organized Against LawIessDaS.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 21-Shortly aft
er the collier willamette left Seattle for
Dyea the passengers organized for no.
lice protection, the organization heinz
named the willamette and Klondike
frotectlye society. Especial care was
taken TO prevent fire and all suspicious
characters are watched. Before the
poat reached Dyea eight suspects had
been imprisoned.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 21.-Valentine
scrip has jumped in price to SAX and
$40 an acre as the result of the r1sh
to the Klondike gold fields. LARGE
DOCKS OF the scrip have been sold in
lnls city, the Intention being to locate
property at Skaguay.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
TERRORs OF THE PASS.
Not One in Ten VIII Be Able to Cross
ChiIkOOt This Year.

Port Townsend, Wash, Aug. 21.-In
a letter received here from G. M. Wey-
mouth who left here on the last trip
of the Mexico, dated, Lake Lindemann,
Aug. Z, Weymouth says he is disguised
with the trip over the pass and would
return but for the terrors of crossing
over Chilkoot pass. Weymouth is with
w. j. Jones, the United States com
missioner for Alaska, and a well known
newspaper correspondent, which party
was the first to land at Lindemann
since the Klondlke rush began. Both
Jones and Weymouth give an opinion
that not one in ten of those who are
now at Dyea and Skaguay and en-
route will be able to cross the divide
this year.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Charged with Bfcanv

Lemars, Iowa, Aug. 81 Mr.. Deyllo
Weeks, a farmer of Sioux township
was arraigned in Lemars for bigamr
The complainant, Hester G. Evans
Weeks, says that she married Weeks
in Whitney county, Indiana, in 1884.
that Weeks deserted her after she had
borne him six children; that she came
out to Leeds to visit her sister, Mrs
Bennett, and heard that her husband
was living with another woman in
Plymouth county. She charges that he
was married to Mrs. Marcella Kellun
at VermiIlion in 1896, the woman with
whom ne is now living.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Criminal.

Dora Cushn an, aged fifteen, of Bris-
toll, VT, died from taking medicine de-
signed to produce an abortion. Smith
Davis, her betrayer, has fed.
The territory about Ottumwa, Iowa,
is overrun with thieves and burglars.
four men are in jail at Oskaloosa,
two at Centerville, and a number at
Abba, Red Oak and this city under
suspicion of having committed some
of the crimes.
After being three years a fugitive
from justice, James Hollars, aged
twenty-eight, who is wanted at Tate
vile. Pulaski county, Kentucky, for
murder, was arrested at Terre Haute
by two Kentuckians, S. A. Flynn and
j. M. Gibson.
There was great surprise at st. Clair,
Mich, when Charles E. BREEDER, former
cashier of the National Bank of New
Bethlehem, Pa, was arrested at St.
Clair by Deputy United States Marshal
Large, on a charge of embezZling the
funds of the bank to the amount Of
$4,000.
Eightyyear-old James A. Speaker, a
farmer living near Kansas City, Mo-.
went to Chicago to meet pretty wild
ow who had promised to be his wife;
but, because she found out that he had
no money, and failed to keep her ap-
pointment, he is supposed to have COM
mitted suicide.
Vincent Syzika was fatally shot in
the head by Joseph Beodzyk, bis I'M
successful rival for the hand of four
teen-year-old BronisIarza KuZarek,
while the two young men and other
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
KilIed by a boiler Exn1osion.

Hastings, Neb., Aug. 21.-Will Lipm
of this place, James Mccullough and a
10-year-old boy were fatally injured by
the explosion of a threshing engine
boiler. An attempt was made to run
the engine without a water gauge and
the explosion followed. All tire of the
victims were terribly scalded and died
instantly. The accident occurred on
the Spring Greek ranch.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

The president of the American Asso-
citation of Librarians said, in the recent
general conference of that body, that
the number of volumes in the libraries
Of this country had more than trebled
since 1876. The chief cause of this
great increase, he said, is a wholesome
growth of public perception of the
value Of good books. This fact, even
more than the willingness of the rich
TO found and endow libraries, is a mat
:er for national satisfaction. Unused
libraries do not speak we'll for their
posseSsor.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

To give money for votes is univer-
sally conceded to be politically immor-
al, but to give office for votes is vastly
worse, says DR.. G. K Adams. 1t has
led to the RELOCATION of the Golden Rule
to the rubbish heap of obsolete non
sense. In the place of the maxim, do
unto others as you would have others
do unto you," it raises aloft the shame
less substitute, ''Do up your political
opponent before he has chance to do
you up"
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

Columbus. Ohio, Aug. 21.-Ihe ia.
+ionaI executive board of the Unlted
Mire Workers adjourned after having
issued the call for the conference Oh
oroaniZed labor to be held in st. L( us
Aug. 30. The board rejected the prop
ositicn of the PittSburg operators loi
a conference to arbitrate the wage as
plte in that district, claiming that Sucn
action would be prejudiclal TO the III
terests of the miners at large. Inc
board is ready to consider oVerldIes
for the arbitration OF the issues OF the
great strike only when these over
t1res come from all the operators ID
the competitive district, which includes
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania.
The board has decided not to deVlate
from the established policy until the
result of the st. Louis conference IS
known. The aggressive work III the
field will be continued, and the EFFORTS
to spread the strike i'll the West Nlr-
ginia district will be renewed. Inc
success or failure of the strike hangs
upon the ST. Louis conference, the call
for which has been indOrSed by Sam
ueJ Gompers, president of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor, and }. >.
Sovereign, general master WORKMAN oi
the Knights Of Labor. maintain that
the fight now being waged by the min
erS is one of common interests 10 or
ganized labor throughout the country.
At the st. Louis conference all ldDOf
organizations will be asked to join is
sues with the miners. The failure to
secure a general suspension in West
Virginia has greatly interfered with
the prospects of success, as the coal
supplied from there and the few iso-
lated districts is meeting the limited
demand The only hope of cutting off
this supply appears to lie in the refusal
of organized labor in the ordinary
channels of traffic and business to
handle or use this coal. If the objects
of the ST. Louis conference is accom-
plished the strike will be extended to
nearly every branch of labor in the
country.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
-~------s----------------
BOUNDARY TREATY.

Agreement Between Mexico and
Britain us to the Belize.
Washington, Aug. 21.-The text of
the new treaty between Great Britain
and Mexico, relating to the Mexican
use of the waters of Belize, the British
colony of Central America, has been re-
ceived here. 1t was concluded by Sir
Henry Neville Deering and Senior Par
iscal on Aug. 3, and grants in perpetui-
ty all merchant vessels of Mexico alb
solute liberty of navigation of the wa
ters of the British possessions in that
locality. It also sets forth the boun-
Diary between Yucatan and Belize, and
to that extent gives Mexico's adher-
ence to the existing boundary.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Foreign Gossip.

Charles Compton, the actor, is dead
in London.
A potato blight is ravaging the coun-
ties of Clare and Limerick, ireland.
Prices have quadrupled and there IS
only supply for two months.
Collegio Beda is the name given to
the new English college at Rome by
Pope Leo, in honor of st. Bede the
Venerable He rejected the names Plo
and Leonino.
Proceedings at an inquest held upon
the body of a girl who died day or
two ago in Bethnal Green, London,
pointed to symptoms of Asiatic chol-
era. Special precautions have been
taken.
A Birmingham workingman used the
parcel post recently to send his three
year-old boy home by mail. The post
Office, under the rule regulating the
conveyance of live animals, was
obliged to accept the child, and
charged ninepence for the service.
Konakry, on the west coast Of Afri-
ca, has been reached by French eX-
petition in three weeks from the Niger
for the second time. This establishes
the advantage of the route by way OF
Fula-DjalOn, and surveys for the road
are being fastened.
The tactics of Germany in the nego-
tiations and the continual delays of
TeWfiz PaSha are provoking a good
deal of agitation at Athens in favor
of an appeal by the government to the
nation to continue the war with Tur-
key by means of an obligatory loan.
The trouble between the British
warships and the lobster packers on
the French shore of Newfoundland
continues. The British commodore
charges illicit packing and threatens
to close the factories. Great excite
ment exists.
According to a dispatch to the Lon
don Mail from Paris, it is rumOred that
the death at Teheran, Persia, of DR..
Tholzan, physician of the late shah,
was caused by poison administered at
the instigation Of the reigning shah, be-
cause Tholzan knew too many state Sc
cretS.
1t is stated from an excellent source
that Mrs. Langtry will shortly marry
Prince ESterhazy de Galantha. He is
about sixty years of age and has been
married before, both his wives being
dead. He is great sportsman and the
purchaser of horses for the Austrian
government. Prince Esterhazy is re-
lated to the earl of Jersey, and his at
tentions to Mrs. Langtry are reported
to be most ardent.
Flowers placed on Heines grave in
the Montmarte cemetery in Paris by
the Frankfurter Zeitung, which has
raised fund to keep the grave in or
der were removed by the superintend
ent, on the ground that the poets rel
atives had not authorized the decora-
ton. The needed permission has been
obtained from the poets only surviv-
ing sister, Frau Charlotte van Emden
of Hamburg, who is now ninety-six
years of age.
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sTUNG TO DEATH
Two Horses Wal<en the Ire os
of Bees HlVel


Shawano, Wis, Aug. Plan nn
and tragic accident occurred I on
farm Of William Barfknecht now COW u. Ile
place. NJ. r. Barfknechts Son us
blowing near an orchard, when S Sn,o was
bees stung the horses, which b ooeIal
unmanageable and started for 'o h
barn. In their flight they turned ou ue
five hives and became entangInd Gj.T
tree. Thousands of bees began an ~ q
full torture Of the animls, and 1 NV
Barfknecht made an effort to rnlooa
them, but he was driven back nv N+ +S
little creatures. Securing more clo sle
ing the farmer succeeded in reInaSinr
the horses, but was himself temi6S
stung and fell unconscious on tps
ground. One of the horses died in th ie
yard and the other died shortly aft Ic
reaching the barn. Mr.. Barfknecbt w
NAMED unconscious several hours, ht
he will recover.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

The British consul general in Japan,
in a recently issued report, states that
lowing to the financial depression in
America, that country has made it's ap-
pearance as a serious competitor with
Europe in the supply Of machinery,
rails, nails and pig iron. 1t has been
stated that American nails have BEEN
sold largely in Japan about the end of
1896 at so per cent. lower than prices
current in the United States, and these
goods altogether defied the competi-
ton of German makers, who have hith-
erto held the trade. About $4,000 tons
of American rails were sold to Japan
at lower prices than British makers
were willing to accept" Another mat
ter OF some Importance, and one which
may have considerable bearing on the
future of the American iron and steel
trade. is discussed in Mr.. Sanderson's
report. 1t is, that the United States,
not content with its enormous railway
mileage, is providing means for i'm
proving it's water carriage. The ex-
listing canals, such as the Erie, the
Champlain, the Oswego, the Black
River. the Cayuga and Seneca, are to
be widened and deepened Besides
this. commission of inquiry as to
deep-water canals has recently made a
report.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
FOREST RESERVES,

Commissioner General Hermann ON
Mission to California;
San francisco, Aug. 21.-Binger Her
mann, commissioner general of the
United States land Office, arrived here
for the purpose of comforting with
Frof. Hilgard and other members Of
the state forestry commission upon the
subject of the recent action of CON
gress in setting apart some forty mil
lions OF acres of land as forest re-
serves, of which about six millions of
acres are located in this state.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Tbe south Dakota Rop1-s

Washington, Aug. 21.-Acting Con.
troller Coffin gave out an abstract Of
reports of the condition on July 90 Of
the twenty-seven national banks in
South Dakota. 1t shows total re.
sources of $6.65S, 264; loans and dis.
counts aggregating $2,S98,362; and re.
serve, $1,371, 46S, of which $322, 62S was
gold. The deposits amounted to So.
838,1S1 and the average reserve held
was 1868 per cent.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Avoided the Court.

Faribault, Mimi, Aug. II. - Otto
Tatge, rich farmer Of East Prairie,
and a man of 70 years old, was arrest
ed a few days ago for an attempt on
the life of his daughter, and was to
have been tried before Justice DOnohO
To avoid the hearing Tatge ATTEMPTED
to kill himself by cutting his throat
He may die.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
washington Talk.

Acting on the request of Acting Sec
rotary of the Interior Ryan, the de-
partment of justice has authorized the
United States marshal for Wyoming to
offer a reward of $3.50 for the capture
Of the highwaymen who held up the
stages and robbed passengers in the
Yellowstone Park last Saturday.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
KILLED whi1e SteaIinc a Ride.

Milwaukee, Aug. 21.-Charles Titel
a poor old man in search Of work, re-
ceived word from Chicago that he was
left a legacy of $4,000. Being without
money to purchase a ticket to Chicago,
he attempted to steal a ride on train.
In doing SO he was drawn under the
wheels and almost ground to pieces,
dying a short time after.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24

Flymouth, Eng, Aug. 21.-The twin
screw torpedo boat Destroyer and
tlie cruiser Pheaton, which started for
lhe racine station, have returned here.
rotn being badly damaged through the
rough weather. Tue Destroyer got
a .' tne BOWS of the Pheaton and
ole coxsWaln OF the former was knock
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Buried in a Pit.

lie Roy, Mimi, Aug. q. - While
Thomas Williams was digging with
crew in a pit, laying mains for the wa
ter works, he was seriously injured by
the bank caving in an dburying him
completely. His right collar bone was
broken, besides being injured internal
ly. He came here from Sedalia, Mo.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Fine Hatchery for spearfsh.

Spearfsh, S. D., Aug. 21.-The gov.
eminent has practically closed a deal
for the purchase of property here for
the soon-to-be-buiIt fish hatchery. 1t
will take six or seven months to build
the plant and put it in running order;
Work will doubtless be commenced
this fall.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
.TeweIry Gone.

Waterloo, Iowa, Aug. 21.-While lnS 5
.Althouse family were absent 1rom
home here burglars entered and appIC
priated gold watches, chains, Ilnss,
etc., to the value of between SOU anu
$500. The officers have but slight clues
to work upon.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
Getting Ready for Business.

Breckenridge, Mimi, Aug. 21.-Men
are at work extending the GreatNortn
ern yards here When completed they
will have double their present capac,
ity, A dump coal shed will also pe
erected, and the sidetracks all along
the line will be enlarged in anticlpa'
ton of big fall business.