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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
1yooDFoRD AT MADRID.
The Minister'S Arrival There Gre
sttes 81 Sensation.

The Minister'S Arrival There Gro
sltes 81 Sensation.
Madrid, Sept. 2S - The arrival of
United States Minister Woodford
from San Sebastian has made a SEN
saticn The programme of the United
States has been ascertained.
This does not contemplate ,leclara-
ton of war if Spain rejects mediation.
but. according to report, in ''ostenta
tious' proclamation to the world Of
disapproval of the Cuban regime by
suspending diplomatic relations with
Spain by withdrawing the United
States minister Gen. Woodford has
declined to be interviewed on the sub
iect further than to say that his con-
ference with the duke of Tetuan, the
foreign minister, was of the most sat
isfactOry character. The unexpected
bitterness of the press and OF public
opinion has painfully impressed him,
but he hopes this will soon be allayed,
as he believes his mission favorable to
Spanish interests and cannot cOmpre-
bend that Spain could reject media
ton designed to end an impoverishing
war. He has not named time at
which the war must be terminated,
but he hopes, as Il result VI ms leHu"
ers that it will be ended quickly. He
believes the war is infiicting incalcula
bic loss upon the United States and
that it is impossible to prevent the or
ganization of filibustering expeditions.
Unusual measures were taken to pro-
feet Minister Woodford on his journey
from San Sebastian to this city, but
the tip was quite uneventful. A party
of gendarmes, commanded by sub
lieutenant guarded the Southern ex-
press on which he was a passenger.
The secret police were posted at the
station and the project of police was
in waiting to escort him to his hotel.
The drive through the streets was
marked by no special incident, though
several people salGted him, receiving
bow in return.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Washington Talk.

The president has appointed T. T..
Dickerson postmaster at Detroit, Mich.
The president has committed to inn
prisonment for life the death sentence
imposed upon C. T.. Arlington Of
Western Texas, for murder.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roose-
welt has made public a letter from
Capt. Henry Taylor of the battleship
Madison, in which a denial is made of
the report that the vessel was serious
ly damaged while being locked at
Halifax. A slight buckling occurred,
but repairs are not necessary at pres
ent.
The florists of Washington have adj
dressed q letter to the superintendent
of public buildings and grounds, in
which they claim that the government
greenhouses are seriously interfering
with their business, owing to the fact
that senators and representatives are
not only directly supplied with cut
flowers, but they give orders by the
wholesale to their relatives and friends
at all times of the year.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
MARY BADLY RATIFIED.
Luetgert's Servant On the Witness
Stand

Chicago, Sept. %. = The strongest
witness for the defense who has yet
appeared in the Luetgert trial was
Mary Siemmering, the domestic III tlie
Luetgert household, for love OF WhOIh
it is charged by the state that the
prisoner murdered his wife. There
was no mistaking the feeling OF lhe
girl toward Luetgert. She was Iheie
to do him all the good in her power
and she stood by him stOutly one
had made statements before the grdllu
jury and to the states attorney oe-
fore the trial began, and when her as
SertionS on the stand differed from 'he
statements she is said to have mace at
that time, she had not the sllghteSI
hesitation in repudiating anything
that she might have said when hoC
under oath. The states attorney SUI
jected her to a rigid rOss-eXamlnatlon,
and succeeded at times in conTuslls
her, but she was game and full VI
nerve to the last. She cOntfadlcteu
herself several times, but was quick ~
catch herself, and the last statements
that she made in any part OF hef teotr
mOny was always in favor OF the ptIo
Oner. She denied in the most poslt'f0
manner. that she had been a dlstuiD
ing element between Luetgeft anu Hl@
wife, and said that neither by nlgnt VI
by day, alone or in company, Hau 'il~
ever visited Luetgert in his Factory -
elsewhere in an improper manner oI1
insisted that the prisoner had aiWay@
been good to his wife, and that, III n ,n
opinion, the latter was out OIL no
mind, and had been SO for some tlLio
prior to her disappearance. Her Cross
examination was not concluded
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Significant Demonstration.

Budapest, Sept. 28.-An unprecedent-
ed demonstration in favor of Austrian
rule occurred here. Emperor Francis
Joseph, of the Austro-Hungarian en-
pire, bestowed titles upon the premier
and ordered the erection of monu-
ments to ten Hungarian heroes, in
Guiding Booskay and Bethlen, Protes-
tant leaders of the seventeenth CEN
fury; various generals, writer's and
bishops The expense is to be de-
frayed from the royal purse. Thou
sands of citizens, headed by thou
sand students carrying torches, parad-
ed in front of the royal castle singing
material anthems and cheering the en-
percr.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Criminal.

The bank at Rice, Col, has suspend
ed No statement of assets and liabili-
ties has been made.
The San Francisco grand jury has
indicted Charles S. Bartlett, the wit
ness for Mrs. Craven in the Angus
Craven case. on the charge of perjury.
The city council of Macon, Mo-, sus-
pended Marshal Troester until Novem-
Der i for assaulting and wounding
John e. Eldridge.
DR.. David r. Taggart, dentist of
Bakersfield, Cal, committed suicide by
shooting himself at the Lick house,
San Francisco.
Sheriff Hymer and deputies of Lib
erty, Mo-, returned from an unSuccess-
full search for Walk Wade, the fugi-
tive murderer, who was thought to
have been located east of Lawson.
Frank Garrison. charged with MUIR
der, and three other prisoners forced
two locks with. caseknife and es-
capped from the county jail at Placer
City, Mo.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
RATHER HIGH HANDED.
Spanish Officials Take an InsurGent
FROM an American steamer.

SDanish Officials Take an InsurGent
from an American Steamer.
Havana, Sept 2S.-Just as the Amer
lean steamer Concho was leaving Ha-
yana harbor the police inspector of
vessels, under orders from the chief Of
police of Havana, boarded the boat
and placed under arrest a former i'll
surgent captain known by the name Of
Jancinto, Gonzales and Gutierrez, who
recently surrendered to the Spanish
authorities. The insurgent leader was
accompanied by his wife.
The officials of the steamer say the
claim was made that the insurgent
was really Col Boldomero AcOsta,
who is said to have entered Havana in
disguise last week, suffering from a
serious Illness The captain and his
wife were evidently trying to reach
the Mexican short. He was placed I'M
der arrest on account of documents
captured by the police which it is
claimed a Spanish deserter carried to
the Cuban camp.
Misses Adella and DOrOleS la Peyre,
daughters CT a respectable family,
have also been placed under arrest. Id
is claimed that their father is men,
Der of the insurgent government.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Foreign Gossip.

The London county council has I'M
dertaken to reform or abate the noises
in the streets, so far as the shouting
of newspaper boys is concerned.
Tine French people are calling upon
the government to Immediately send
punitive expedition against Chief Sa-
mory, the West African pOtentate.
The ministerial organs assert that
the Spanish foreign minister, the duke
of Tetuan, will soon be gazetted as
Spanish ambassador to France.
When the mayor of Boost in the
Pyrennes, was officially greeting the
project of the department. he was ar
rested, together with his predecessor
in office, for arson.
The Norwegian steamer Eugene,
which went ashore on Grut island, has
broken into pieces and will be total
wreck. The crew escaped but saved
nothing.
Sidi Ali, Bey of Tunis, now eighty
years of age, is about to abdlcate III
favor of his son, and to go to Nice TO
live. according to lie Figaro. lie mas
ruled under French protection for flf-
teen years.
At Cassel, Germany, laborer, 10.
hanneS Muster, has been convicted OF
uttering five different so-called treas
enable remarks. Although they were
all uttered years ago, Muster was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment.
Among the new plays in verse prom
Used by the Coincide Franchise for
next season are lie Martyre," by
Jean Richepin; Christian ct Yseult,
by Armand Silvestre, and "Struensee,
by Paul Meurice. A five-act prose play
called Catherine" by Henri Layed an,
is also announced.
There was curious tumble OF
trades in the Seine in Paris recently.
A clerk. trying to commit suicide,
Jumped into the river from the Font
au Change, when there leaped into the
river to save him in succession,
printer, mechanic, a peddler, day
laborer, an infantry soldier and po-
liceman. Between them they got nm
ashore undrowned.
Fears are expressed in well-informed
Spanish circles that a cabinet crisis
NAV result from the cOntumacy OF the
bishop of Majorica, Baleric Islands,
who, in defiance of the order OF the
archbishop, has persisted in the eX-
communication of Signor J. Reyertef.
the Spanish minister of finance, Tor
taking possession of the church IN his
diocese.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Casualties.

A Rock Island passenger train and
a Union Pacific freight cOllided at
Muncie, Kas. The two engineers were
dangerously hurt.
The file works of Mayer, Landis &
Co., at Twentieth street and Allie
gheny avenue. Philadelphia, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
At st. Louis, Goldie Herold, a four
teen-year-old girl, was perhaps fatally
injured by colliding with a barouche
while riding her bicycle.
A five-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. l.. Dullmens at Excelsior
Springs, Mo, drank by mistake a po-
ton of concentrated I've and died from
it's effects.
The Pendleton roller mills at Pendle
ton, Ore, with a capacity of 500 bar
rels, owned by w. S. Byers, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss will reach
100000.
One schoolgirl, Ida BratZ, was in
stantIy killed, and another, Hilda An
derson hurt, by train in Irving Park,
near aChicago. The girls were going
home from school, when they were
struck by the train.
Fire broke out in the general store
of ]. w. Wlldron at ImlaystOne, about
twelve miles from Trenton, N. j., and
before it was eXtinguiShed about $780,
600 damage resulted. The fire is be-
lieved to have been caused by the eX-
plosion of gunpowder in Waldron's
store.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

A stranger visited police headquar-
tiers at Nantasket Beach the other
evening and asked Chief Mitch
ell what it would cost to commit an
assault. The chief told him it would
cost about SIS or $40. The man left the
station and Chief Mitchell detailed two
policemen to follow and watch him.
He went to the Auditorium, and as Con-
ductor G. II. Thompson of the Miles
Standish Band left the band stand the
stranger struck him a fierce blow in
the face. The policemen arrested the
man and locked him up. At the sta
ton he said he was DR.. Edward NJ
Bates of Cincinnati, and said he came
al. the way from Cincinnati to chastise
Thompson for insulting friend of his,
a woman singer, who sang here last
summer He paid $40 fine.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF YELL
LOW FEVER VICTIMS.
the Big Increase I'm
New Cases Reported, the Fever
situation Is Said to Show Much
Improvement-No Deaths In new
Orleans since Friday-one Death
and No New Cases at ocean
Springs.
Springs.

New Orleans, Sept. %. = Yesterday
was the quietest Of the week III New
Orleans, and the fever sltuatlon' III
spite of the appearance or iarge
number of cases. may be SAID 70 nave
shown much Improvement. II Teen
eases were recorded on the DOCKS u
the beard of health, but there was no
death. and there have been no deaths
since Friday. The authorities re-
ceiyed reports during the evening
from Learly every patient that is now
under treatment and these were all 70
tbe OBJECT that the cases are doing Wen
and that no patient is III any lmIleul-
ate danger of dissolution. Some lofty
cases were reported as being rapluly
on the m md and NUMBER OF lnell
will be discharged during the "eeN.
One of the most dangerous cases tllat
have appeared was dlSchafSeu. II
was that on Madison street III the
Eeicfborhood of the French nlarKe',
where the conditions were considered
to be such as to warrant rear that Tue
disease would spread.
Unusual precautions, however, were
taken by the authorities to quarantine
the case and improve the sanitary con-
6itions of the neighborhood and the
fever in the vicinity seems to nave
been stamped out completely Al the
Oakland Park detention camp all the
refugees who have been given quarters
were declared to be well, no sickness
having vet appeared in the camp. The
new cases are. as usual, scattered. A
number of children are among the
new cases. Prof Metz has large
number of formaldehyde generators
now at work. He burned i'll the street
the bed clothing and other articles III
the house where the man Series dled
on Constance street. the clothing first
having been subjected to formaldeI-
hyde disinfection. Some discomfort
and loss is being suffered by the poor
er classes whose effects have to be
burned, but Prof. Metz said that he
was hopeful Of getting the city to
make an appropriation to cover just
such cases of distress
Mrs. A. McCubbage died at Ocean
Springs of yellow fever. She had been
sick for several days and her case had
already been reported. There have
been no new cases at Ocean Springs.
Reports from the detention camp say
that about ten refugees from New Or
leans have arrived there and eighteen
from Biloxi There is no sickness i'll
the camp save One>case of sciatic rheu-
matism. The patients in the hospital
a mile away from the camp are recoV-
ering.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

No punishment that can be inflicted
by civilized society upon such creatures
as the slayer of Canovas will bear out
the principle, "An eye for an eye and
a tooth for a TOOTH The life of the
assassin does not compensate for the
life of the man slain. The question of
adequate punishment is puzzling one,
but it seems clearly that there is one
method of procedure that would have a
deterrent effect. If the assassin could
know beforehand that he would have
no opportunity of enjoying the world
wide notoriety that seems to be so
much priced by persons Of his class
during the brief period between the
commission of the crime and it's ex-
piation, the incentive would be less.
Perhaps there would be fewer assassi-
mations of men in high places if the
only announcement permitted were
that the guilty person, name not men
stoned, had been caught, tried and
sentenced to death, and that the SEN
tence would be duly executed
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

Washington, Sept. 28.-The gravity
OF the existing insurrection in Guate-
mala is exhibited in the following tel
egram to the state department from s.
L. Lord, acting United States consular
agent, dated at Quesaltenango: Il left
Champerico and am in Quesaltenango,
Obliged to protect American interests.
Communication with the Gutemalian
capital is interrupted. The above city
mas been under fire and bombarded
Tor tWenty-four hours and is now in
the hands of the opposing general.
Great American interests are threat
ened.',
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

Lynching is murder, neither more
or less, and the State of Texas has set
other states, both north and south, a
good example by making it so upon the
statute books. The same law also pro-
vides that lynchers when put on trial
shall be tried out of the county where
the crime was committed, and that
sheriffs who fail to protect prisoners
from lynching parties shall be removed
from office The southern states are
taking the lead in giving practical eff
feet to the disapprobation which all
law-abiding citizens feel for lynch law
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Gene raj.

The Northwestern's refu1dlng
scheme has been approved by the
stockholders.
Fifty more prospectors have re-
turned from Alaska to wait for spring.
,rhere is four feet of snow in the
passes.
The charter of branch of the Social
Democracy of America at Chicago mas
been revoked by the national eXecu-
tive board for violent utterances.
The Farmers National Bank of Vim
ton, Iowa. has been authorized to be-
gin business with a capital of $780,
600.
Martin FIaherty of Lowell got the
decision on points over George Sid
dons of New Orleans in twenty rounds
at London, Conn.
At Dubuque, Iowa, a trust deed was
given by the Excelsior Brass works
to secure mortgages on it's property.
The assets are placed at 100000; lia~
bilities, $4,000.
Capt. e. P Mahoney, with creden-
tails from the Cuban government, is
in Spokane, Wash, raising funds for
Cuba. Citizens are responding liDer
ally Several public meetings have
been called.
The American wire nail works of
Anderson, Ind, employing 1000 men,
the Lippencott Lamp Chimney plant,
which works 400, and the Macbeth
Lamp Chimney works, with a like
number of men, have resumed in full
blast.
In his weekly report to the marine
hospital service bureau, Sanitary In
spector Drummer at Havana, says that
for the week ending Sept. 8. there
were 1926 deaths, of which 10 were
from yellow fever, % from enteric and
bernicious fevers, 81 from dysentery
and 80 from enteritis.
The Cascade county, Mont, labor
organizations have passed strong res
olutions condemning their treatment
by the Great Northern railway on
Labor day in delaying the starting of
the train for Sand COulee and for the
dirty coal cars furnished. The resolu-
ticn pledges the laboring men to here
after withhold their patronage from
the road and to labor for the govern
ment ownership of railroads.
Joseph Bloomfield Jackson, who is
said to be a crank from Meriden
Conn, was arrested at the door of the
White House after an unsuccessful
effort to enter the executive mansion.
jackson was heavily armed. He has
been in the city several days, and at
the Raleigh house, where he stopped,
has made mysterious boasts as to
what he was going to do to a high Of
fetal of the government.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

A good old mo her received dread
full shock the other day through tel
egram from her boy, who is in New
York city enjoying himself. AS en-
joying ones self sometimes costs
money it is not strange that the young
man sent the following somewhat
slangy dispatch for more funds to his
father, Had my leg pulled. Broke.
Send me $50 by wire" When the moth
er read this appeal she was plunged in
grief. my poor boy!" she moaned.
"He must have been in one of those
cable car things. Send him 500, faith
er, and tell him to get the best doctor
in the city,
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

Japan has dug up and resuscitated an
old law which declares the departure
from the country of any citizen with
out permission of the government a
criminal offense and punishable by
heavy penalties. This is lovely, old,
autocratic tyranny la Russo, and is a
nice indication Of the degree of pub
lie liberty striven for by this little
toadstool nation which has heard some
where the pretty fiction that If baby
fungus grows with all it's might it can
pry up a paving stone.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

Rainmakers in this country have
been apparently inactive this season,
but drouth would have revived inter
est in their plans and theories. In
Europe their experiments have at
tracted more attention. Germany Of
fers a reward of $4,000 to anyone who
can produce a downpour of rain at
moderate expense. 1t is suggested that
inventors in this line should discover
how to stop excessive rains, with re-
Sulting floods.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
The Record at Edwards.

Edwards, Miss, Sept. 28.-There has
been one Death from yellow fever in
the past twenty-four hours-that of S.
S. Noblin. The new cases number %;
total cases to date, 176; deaths for the
day. /; total deaths to date, Z. Among
those taken with the disease was G.
r. Barber, merchant, railroad agent
and representative of the Associated
Press. and one Of the wealthiest men
of Edwards. Some days ago Mr.. Bar
Der advised the Jackson office of the
Associated Press that he feared he
was taking the disease, but that it was
his Intention to send tie news as long
as pos sible. Fred Johnson of Tallulah
has been sent to take the place of Mr..
Barber.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
COMBINE AGAINST ENGLAND.
Several Countries Want j. Bull to
Get Out of IE.rYnf.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-The PolitIque Co
loniale publishes dispatch from st.
Petersburg saying that as result of
an exchange of views between the
chancellories of st. Petersburg, Paris,
Berlin, Vienna, Rome and CONSTANT
nople, the sultan of Turkey will adj
dress the powers shortly on the sub
ject of Great BritaiE's evacuation Of
Egypt, and Russia, supporting the
sultan, will invite a conference at
Constantinople or st. Petersburg, with
the object Of settling the question on
the basis of the autonomy of Egypt
under the suZerainty of the sultan.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
A Cuban Leader Captured.

Havana, Sept. 2S.- Col. Boldomero
Acosta, one of the most active insur'
gent leaders operating in the neighbor-
hood of Havana City, was captured by
the Spanish authorities on board the
steamship Concho as he was about to
sail for Mexico. Col. Acosa was i'll
and came into Havana a couple Of
days ago. He got aboard in disguise;
but just before the departure of the
steamer the police got wind of his
identity ard arrested him. He was
the leader who, only short time ago.
raided the city of Mariana, carrying
off a large quantity of arms and am
munitiOn.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

There are now at sea, bound from
Baltimore to European ports, forty
eight vessels laden with full or part
cargoes of grain, each one carrying co.
900 to 100000 bushels. This is said TO
be the largest number of vessels ever
bound from an American port at one
time.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

People may, after all, have some
choice between falling into vat or
into the hands of Chicago coroner
and the undertakers.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

Mr.. Croker having pulled himself
down and out, Tammany may be said
to have fooled it's first drive for the
mayorality bunker in the New York
threeSome.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
PITH OF THE NEWS
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.

A General Resume of the Most Inn
pOrtant News of the Week From
All Parts of the Globe, Boiled
Down and Arranged I'm Com
By Busy People.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28

1t has finally been settled that Jay
Gould had but one wife. jays mind
ran in other channels.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-28
Recsptpred by Spanish.

Madrid, Sept. 2S.-The declaration IS
r de here, and is being generally cir
culated, that the Spanish troops in
Cuba Lave recaptured Victoria de las
TUnas, " hich was taken by the in
suleents on Sept. 5.