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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

A PET flea has been known to live six
years.
GERMANY makes 1000, 600 false eyes
annually.
IN South America there IS a race of
cats which does not know how to new.
A BUNDLE BEE has been known to dis
lance locomotive going 20 miles an
hour.
NINE ice dealers of Nashville have
been indicted for com bining to put up
the price of ice.
ENGLISH coin was first made legal
tender IN ZIG. Before this rents had
been paid in produce.
FIFTY years ago there were in India
only p ordained Christian pastors
There are now about 1000
FEMALE spiders are much larger and
more ferocious than the males, and
often devour their husbands.
WHEN the sparrowhawlS is swooping
down on its prey it cleaves space at
the speed % $50 miles an hour.
The Franks took their name from
the Francisques, or battle axes. which
they threw with deadly effect
THE value OF the house property of
London is IS, 365, 200, 600; that of Paris,
81, 4so, 900, COO; that of New York, ST.
35S, coo, OOO
THERE are already 800 horseless We
hicles in the streets of Paris. and on
July 500 automobile cabs were added
to that number.
ANOTHER attempt 10 have Tuileries
palace rebuilt is being made in France.
his time the movement is led by the
Monuments
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
FROM WASHINGTON.

The president has issued an order
suspending the operation of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland's order consolidating
the pension agencies of the country
and reducing their number to nine
from Is.
At the age of u years Gen. John f..
Farnsworth, a member OF congress for
"a years from the Second district of
Illinois. died at his home IN Washing
ton.
The excess of exports over imports
during the last fiscal year was S2s7.-
6I3. ISIS, being S23.OOOOOO over any pre-
vious year
4 counterfeit ten-dOllar silver GER
tificate of the series of 1891. check let
ter d, has been discovered in Washing
ton.
In the United States there were 253
business failures in the seven days end
ed on the 10th, against 206 the week
previous and 269 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
No credence is given at the japanese
legation in Washington to the report
that the Spanish and japanese gov
ernments have entered into an alliance
against the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

Showing Klondyke and Other Gold Fields.)


ure weighing more than ton and val
ued at not less than $1,000, 600. Capt.
Kidston said that the richness of the
Klondyke had not been exaggerated.
He predicted that many millions would
be taken from the placers during the
present seasOn-perhaps as much as
S1S,0OO,OOO
Seattle. Wash, July 2O.-One hun
dred men took passage on the steamer
Al Ri Monday, most of them starting
on what is called the overland trim 10
Klondyke. From Juneau they go 400
miles farther by water to Dyea, then
over the mountain passes, down Lakes
Linderman and Bennett TO the Yukon
river. and from that river to the new
discoveries.
Thomas Moran, an old miner, who has
just come from the klondyke after
three years sojourn, bringing with him
S25.Uco worth of gold dust. left this
morning for San Francisco. Before GO
ing he said that il was beyond the power
of ones mind TO realize the wealth that
was being taken from Mother Earth.
Pockets are being discovered" he said.
that contain large amounts of pure
virgin gold"
Mr.. Moran also gave the first account
Of what is known in the Klondyke as
"Too Much Gold Creek" Only two
white men have ever reached it, and
they had to give up and turn back be-
cause they had no provisions. This
creek of fabulous wealth is about 700
miles from the Klondyke and is known
to Indians, who refuse TO reveal its To-
cation. The Indians say there is too
much gold for white men, meaning that
if the secret is given out there will be
another rush of prospcctors.
j. W. Moore, of Seattle, who sent a
man to the Klondyke last March. has
Just received "a ounces of the precious
metal. Moore, who is in the wooden
business, will take his entire stock TO
the mines on the next steamer. Harry
Durken, a young man. who has been
in the Klondyke for three years. writes
TO his sister in Seattle that he has two
five-gallon oil cans filed with gold dust.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

ST. Louis, July 20.-Information just
received is to the effect that 450 miners
employed in the shafts of the st. Louis
Consolidated company at Collinsyille.
ILL.,. went out Monday at the request of
the marching delegation from Staunton,
Glen Carbon and Mount Olivet coal
mines. They created no disorder.
Rock Island, Ill..July 20.-The miners
at Sherrard and Cable. Mercer county.
struck Monday afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

Reports of great gold discoveries
in Alaska have caused intense excite
ment at Seattle. Wash. and hundreds
of persons were leaving for the new
gold fields.
Buffalo. y. Y. was selected ss the
place of meeting next year at the an
nual meeting in Chattanooga. Tenn.
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of
America.
Judge Falconer acquitted Jacob S.
Harris for killing Thomas IT. Merritt,
his wife's lover. at Lexington. KY,
holding that the act was justifiable.
Fire destroyed the sawmill, pulpmill
and 100000 feet of lumber belonging to
the Royal Paper Mill company at East
Argus, o.. the loss being $15O,OO0.
At Goldfield, 4. T., John Stevens,
who was entombed in the Mammoth
mine on July 4. has been rescued alive.
During his IS days underground he was
without food.
In a mile race at Cincinnati for time
Harry Sidwell. of Covington, Ky, made
the distance in 1916 3-5. breaking the
worlds former amateur bicycle record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
The News OF the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND iFAIL.
EIEIY.EIFIH CONGRESS.
Proceeding. of the specIa, session.

Proceedings Of the Special Session
A resolution was reported in the
United States senate 90 the 14th for
the ratification of the Hawaiian annex
alton treaty and another asking the
president to interfere in the case OF
the schooner Competitor prisoners who
are imprisoned in Cuba. a resolution
10 prevent the disposal Of the govern
ment lien on the Union Pacific railway
under the terms of an alleged agree
ment caused long discussion. In the
house Mr.. Simpson (Kan.) introduced
a resolution directing the speaker to
appoint a committee Of five TO investi-
gate the sugar trust.
Pacific railway aff.tirs occupied the
attention Of the United States senate on
the 18th. 4 joint resolution was passed
accepting the invitation of France to
participate in the Paris exposition Of
100. In the house Mr.. Lorimer Qll)
introduced a bill TO appropriate $780,
OO0 for a monument 10 Lincoln in the
city of Washington.
The session of the United States SEN
ate on the 10th was brief and unevent-
full. 4 bill was passed to give the con
sent of congress to a compact entered
into between South Dakota and Ne
braska respect ing the boundary be-
tween said states. The house agreed to
the partial conference report on the
general deficiency bill and concurred
in the senate amendment fixing the
limit Of cost for armor plate at $500 per
ton.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) occupied most
of the time IN the United States senate
on the 18th in support Of resolution
relating to the Union Pacific railway.
In executive session a number of nom
nations were confirmed and the nom
nation of Terrence V. Powderly. OF
Pennsylvania. to be commissi oner-gen-
eral of immigration was received from
the president. In the house no business
was transacted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

The ambassadors of the powers, il
was said, had arranged plan of CO.
ercion by which Russia would blockade
the Bosphorus and England the Darda-
nelles, while Austria would seize the
railway at Salonica.
In the southern part of Quebec floods
caused by a heavy rain aid great dam
age and many people were homeless.
Flames in Berlin, Germany. in the
center of the dress and mantle trade
caused loss of 100000 marks.
At Laibach, Austria, an earthquake
shock did great damage to many
buildings and the people were panic
stricken.
Great discoveries of gold were re-
ported just across the Alaskan bound
airy in British territory.
The governments of Spain and ia
pan have arranged. il is said. an often
sive alliance against the United States
for the mutual protection of Cuba and
Hawaii.
The letter of Secretary Sherman to
Lord Salisbury on the Behring sea
regulations has raised a storm of indig-
nation in the London newspapers.
On the Thames at Henley. England,
f. II. Ten Eyck. the American oarsman,
won the finals in the great diamond
scull races.
The Australian bush murderer, Frank
Butler, who was captured in San Fran
cisco. was executed in Sidney, n. S.
w. He confessed to having committed
four murders.
The sultan of Turkey is said to have
agreed in the principle of the demands
of the powers and was prepared TO
accept their views on the peace condi-
lions.
The Epworth league at the annual
meeting in Toronto, Ont, selected In
dianapolis. Ind, as the place of meeting
next year.
At Spit5oergen Herr Andree. the
aeronaut, assembled in his balloon for
his proposed trip to the north pole.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
BAPTISTS MEET.
Young Peoples Convention Opened
at Chattanooga, Tenn.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 10. = The
seventh International convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of Amer
lea began in this city Thursday morn
ing, with about 1000 delegates and
some of the most prominent Baptist
leaders in the county present.
The convention was opened with
short song service, led by DR.. L. L. Hen
son. of Fort Wayne, Ind, formerly sec
rotary of the board of managers. At
the close of the song service DR.. Hen
son read the Forty-sixth Psalm and de-
livered a fervent Invocation. after which
President Chapman arose to deliver the
opening address.
AS President Chapman walked to the
front of the platform he was greeted
by great volume of applause.
The afternoon session was presided
over by f. L. Fowke, of Ossawa, Ont.
vice president of the b. Y. p. U. A.
After 15-minute praise service the re-
ports OF officers were read and num-
Der of addresses were delivered. At the
evening session President Chapman de-
livered his annual address, which COW
cred the work of the past year in very
complete manner.
Chattanooga, Tenn, July i. = The
principal business transacted at the
meeting of the Baptist Young Peo-
pie Friday morning was the election of
officers. The head officers remain the
same, while the remaining ones are
changed to a certain extent. The Off
GERS elected are:
President-John III. Chapman, Chicago.
Vice presidents-Rev. Curtis Lee Laws.
Baltimore; Rev. George r.. Nosburg, Den
rea, Cal; Rev. J. H. Macdonald. Amhurst.
N.
Recording secretary-Rev. H. ". Reed.
La Crosse. Wis
Tressurer-Frank Moody. Milwaukee.
Wis.
Chatta nooga, Tenn, July 10. = The
Baptist Young Peoples Union of Amer
lea closed it's successful convention
here Sunday night with most impress
sive conservation service. Buffalo has
been conditionally chosen as the con-
vention city in 1898.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
PEARY is OFF.
Arctic Explorer Leaves to Prepare
for His Journey Ia the Pole.

Boston, July 2O.-The steamer seal
ing bark Hope, with Lieut.. r. f. Peary
and party on board, bound for northern
Greenland, left this port at nine a. m. on
Monday, fully equipped for the voy-
age. The work of provisioning the
vessel was completed only short time
before she sailed.
The Object of the voyage is to estab-
fish a settlement at remote northern
point in Greenland. which shall be used
as base of supplies for an expedition
in search of the north pole under Lieut..
Peary in 1898. To this end party of
Esquimaux will be established at the
new settlement and will. during the
next year, Zoe engaged in making prep
arations for Lieut.. Peary's expedition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
LOOKS BRIGHT.
Dun Says Every Feature of business
Outlook Is ENCOURAGING.

New York, July 17.-R. G. Dun & Co.
in their weekly review of trade say:
Excepting the great coal miners strike,
which may terminate a. any time, there
is scarcely feature Of the business out
look which is not encouraging. the sea-
son considered. Crop prospects have been
improved by needed rain in some regions
and foreign advices continue to promise
large demand. In many home industries.
particularly in building, there is more ac-
tivty than in any year since 1892 and the
week has brought better demand in boots
and shoes and in woolens. while the move
ment of freight, mainly iron ore. through
the Sault Ste. Marie canal is the largest in
it's history. With money markets IN
clouded, there is l0thing in sight TO h.nde.
ra pid Improvement when uncertainty a bout
legislation has been removed.
1.-THE advance In wheat TO Sis cents was
not due to the government estimate, which
was followed by a decline. but to foreign
advices and considerable buying for eX-
port. Demand is already felt from Aus
tralia Brazil and even Argentina. while
the promise for European crops is not con-
sidered bright The disposition of farmers
to keep back wheat for higher prices may
effect the outward movement"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
HoNoRs FATHER MARQUETTE
Ills Namesake city Unveils a statue
In His Memory.

Marquette, Mich, July I6. = Father
Marquette's namesake city held great
celebration at the unveilng of the
bronze monument of the explorer and
priest whose name il bears. feature
OF the great parade was band of 30
Indians on horseback, dressed in
feathers and war paint. The band
was augmented by as many more men
and boys painted to represent Indians.
The exercises were held on platform
built at the foot of the statue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
EXPORT RECORDS BROKEN.
High Mark In Trade Is Reached Dur
ing the Year.

Washington, July 16.-The monthly
statement of the exports and imports
of the United States, issued by the bu-
reau of statistics, makes the remark
able showing That never before in the
history of the country have the exports
of merchandise, which include prac-
tically all the exports except gold and
silver, reached so high a figure as dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80, 1897,
nor has the excess of exports over inn
ports ever been so large. The only time
these figures were approached was in
1892, when the United States was max
ing heavy shipments of grain to feed
Europe after series of deficient har-
vests. The statement of 1897, with com
PARSONS, is as follows:
Exports of domestic merchandise, 81 032.-
99S. $50: increase over 1896. about Sl70,0000e0;
total exports of domestic and foreign mer-
chandise. 81, 051 9S7-9l, as compared with
merchandise during the fiscal year Just
closed amounted TO SG4.373.905. OF which
$3S1, 932, sos was free Of duty The total i'm
ports were about 600 less than last
year. and the excess Of exports over i'm
ports for the year was $2S7. 6l3 1S6. This is
an excess of about $lS50O0.000 over last
year and an excess Of a bout S23, 600, 600 over
any previous year
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
Silver for the Iowa.

New York, July 20.-Ihe presenta-
ton of a silver service to the battle
ship Iowa, which was to have been
made by Gov. Francis NJ. Drake, of
Iowa, occurred Monday afternoon. Gov.
Drake was not present on account of i'll
ness. A delegation headed by State
Auditor c. ID. Mccarthy, of Des Moines,
was present and the gift was bestowed
by him with an appropriate speech.
The service was gracefully accepted by
Capt. w. T. Sampson, commanding Of
ficer of the Iowa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

Secretary Long recently refused TO
accept the resi- snatiOus Of two gradu-
ates from Annapolis who had come of
with splendid recOris i'm their classes.
but vho had concluded 20 resign for the
purpose Of accepting more favorable
positions IN the commercial world. The
act of the secretary was quite proper.
1t has become a common practice for
the graduates OF both the government
schools 10 resign from the service al
most as soon as they have been gradu-
ated in order 10 better themselves. In
other words. they get a iirst-class free
education At the VPense of the govern
Tlanf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
LOOKS LIKE A BLUFF.
Startling BIt of News Photographed
from Paris.

London, July ia dispatch from
Paris to a news agency here says that
inquiry at an American embassy there
has elected a confirmation of the rumor
that the governments of Spain and
Japan have arranged an offensive alli-
ance against the United States. The
understanding is for the mutual protec-
ton of Cuba and Hawaii.
Washington, July 16.-Little credence
is placed in official circles here in the
statement that the Spanish and the
japanese governments have entered in
10 an offensive alliance against the
United States for the mutual prOtec-
ton of Cuba and Hawaii Indeed, so
far as could be learned no intimation Of
such an agreement has reached the
sfsf~ 6pp1rfmpnt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
TO MOVE NEW WHEAT.
Thousands of Empty Grain Cars Sent
10 CnrrN the CrOp.

Kansas City, Mo, July 10. = Long
trains of empty freight cars have rolled
out of Kansas City for two weeks and
dropped off in twos and threes and
fives on side tracks along the lines
of the railroads in Missouri, Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. These
empty cars, of which there are thou
sands, will be filled with new 81 wheat
inside os four or five weeks. \ tremen-
dous grain rush is expected, and the
best of management by railroad officials
will be needed to prevent huge grain
blockade, or a grain-car famine. Con
servative estimates of crop statistieians
place the yield of wheat for this year
in Kansas alone at GO,000,000 bushels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

In the last year - persons credited as
New Workers disappeared, dropped out
Of sight more completely than if the
ocean had swallowed them up; and this
- does not include the real number OF
people swallowed up by the sea Of mys-
terry. Only the humble seek police aid
To search for lost ones. The jewellers
behind the brownstOne, as a rule. swal-
low their grief in silence, and seldom
seek the aid of the police.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

Telephone wires seem TO have an i'm
portant influence i'm preventing light
ming from striking, according TO & . in
vestigatiOns of the German telephone
department. Three hundred and forty
towns with telephone systems and 500
towns without them were under doser-
walton. In the former the lightning
struck three times for every hour OF
the storm: in the later five times. More
over the violence Of the lightning was
much less in the former ease.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
NEW ELpORApO.
Wonderful Stories from the Alaskan
Gold Fields.

Seattle, Wash, July 19.-The reports
of great gold discoveries in Alaska
have caused intense excitement here.
Policemen are resigning from the
force; every street car man that can
raise stake has given notice to his
company. In fact. all classes of So
cicty are represented in the feyerish
rush TO get north. Men neglect their
business and eongregate in groups on
the streets in excited discussions. Peo-
pie are telegraphing friends and rela-
tives in the east 20 come and join them
in the new Eldorado.
The steamer Portland ia here from
the Klondyke and has brought in treas
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

II is becoming evident that the car
Of Russia has among his subjects some
of the most depraNed and ignorant
wretches in the world. Recently IL was
announced that the practice Of burial
alive was common among certain re-
ligious fanatics. and now comes the
news that beggars in southern Russia
make it a practice TO kidnap and mutt
late children so that their condition
would excite public sympathy and en-
able them To obtain aims. The Siberian
penal s. stem has been criticised as inhu-
name. but apparently it is only the APP
plication Of this system which should bc
criticised.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

There is no country in the world that
Is so bountiful in its products or that
gives such rich rewards to legitiu ate
industry as our own green land, says the
Philadelphia Times. Here there should
be plenty at all times for those who in
any degree merit IL. and IL would be 50,
regardless of the mutations in business
and trade. if the people were not di-
verted from legitimate channels Of eff
fort TO - rainbow chasing for ease and
fortunes which tempt all TO destruc-
asnr,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

At last we know exactly how old the
earth is, for Lord Kelvin. the eminent
British savant. has. after the calcula-
ton Of years. reached the defininte con-
clusion that this terrestrial sphere has
been such for 3O.oO0OOO years This is
not the chimericaI assertion of the
orist. but the result of long and labOri-
Gus study by perhaps the man best quail
flied Of all to make an authoritative
statement 10 humanity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

There IS no need of flag laws 10 en-
force respect for the national emblem
in this country. Statistics Of flag man
-ifacturers and the use of tho national
colors are proof of the fact. More than
50.OO0,000 flags of all kinds are bought
for the Fourth Of July season each year
\ vast number are 81 cheap descrig-
ton, and wear out or are destroyed
after the temporary use which they
serve. This keeps the industry Of flag
manufacture cons Intly active. The
times are never so hard that the people
are without money 70 buy the Amer
lean cOlors for purposes Of display on
independence day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

It is gravely asserted that when it
was found that the sailing date of a
popular ocean steamer Fl, m Boston was
set for Friday many persons who had
wished to 20 TO Europe in her refused
TO hook passage for that particular trip,
and the date was changed to Saturday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

Mrs Mary &. Rouse, a Missouri wOm-
an. has applied for divorce from her
husband, alleging that he is subject to
yagaries and. among other things. in
sisted upon naming his son NiNcom
Rouse. The court should have no hest
tation in granting the decree IL the law
viii permit it. \ humorist who would
handicap his own flesh and blood with
such a name is not entitled to possess
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

It is possible TO go around the world
and touch on British territory all the
1vay-viz.: From England to Halifax,
\. s.; across Canada TO Vancouver;
across the Pacific to IIongkong; thence
to Singapore. Penang. Nautilus, Cape
Town. ST. Helena. and England, or
from Penang to Ceylon, Bombay, Alden,
Perrin. MaIta. Gibraltar. and home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

The appeal made 10y the remnants of
the once powerful and warlike Sioux
tribe for permission 20 erect a battle
monument over the graves of the war
riors who fell at Wounded Knee seven
years ago Is not only pathetic. but gives
evidence Of the turning Of these Indians
from the paths of savagery. The cree
ton Of monuments has never been a
characteristic of nomadic races, and TIE
appeal shows a desire upon the part Of
the Indians 20 set lie down 10 the pur-
suits of civilization. But STORED urn
or animated Dust" erected 10 the mem
ory OF red men is certainly some hIug
new in mortuary art.