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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-06-30
DOINGS OF 4 WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE pPECS DTSp ATCyHES
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS.


Senator Pettigrew, OF South Dakota,
occupied the time in the United States
senate on the 23d in a speech opposing
Hawaiian annexation. In the house
further agreements upon the sundry
civil bill were reported from the com
mittee on conference and adopted and
GO pension and relief measures were
disposed of. \ bill was introduced au-
thorizing the construction Of the Mic
aragua canal. Adjourned TO the 27th.
The conference report or the bank
ruptcy bill was disposed of by the
United States senate on the Gath with
out debate, and the Hawaiian annexa-
tion resolutions were further discussed
\ vote on the question is expected on
July .. The general deficiency appro-
priation bill (S226, 40,246) was reported.
The house was not in session.
A bin authorizing the president to
appoint additional cadets-at-large at
the United States military academy and
another authorizing the appointment
of military secretary of war were
passed III the United States senate on
the 25th aud the Hawaiian annexation
resolution was further discussed. The
house was not in session.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Masonic Grand Lodge.

At the annual meeting in Milwaukee
of the Wisconsin masonic grand lodge
the installation of the following newly
elected officers tcCk place:
Grand master, James G. Monahan. Oar
llngton; deputy grand master, ID. Mel.
Miller, Oconomowoc: grand senior warden,
c. Z. Whelan Madison; grand julio war
den, Frank f. Noyes, Marinette; grand
treasurer, jonathan H. Evans, Platteville.
grand secretary, John w. Latin, MlwaU-
kee; grand trustee for three years Hiram
w. Sawyer Hartford; grand chaplain, 7.
J. Brown. Lancaster; grand lecturer, NJ.
l.. Youngs, Milwaukee; grand senior dea-
con, w. c. Miner West Superior, grand
Junior deacon, +. II. Thompson, Green
wood grand stewards, q. c. Lasher.
Omro, and ]. u. Steffeu. Amigo; grand
marshal. w. \. Wyse. Reedsburg; grand
sword bearer, Frank Johnson. Black River
Falls grand pursuivant. II. A Hampton,
AVoca; granu tIer. Leonard Bartt x, NIL
waukee; committee on foreign correspond
ence, Aldro jerks, Dodgeville,
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4 mob hanged a farmer named How
lett at HillsyiIle, Va, for killing neigh
Dor named Allen.
At the Omaha exposition the Iowa
building was dedicated.
Perry Elliott shot and killed Miss
Ellie Kelly at Trenton, Ia, in a fit of
jealousy, and then took his own life.
In Oshkosh, Wis, the strike of the
woodworkers resulted in riot in which
James Morris, striker, was killed, and
others were injured.
Fire destroyed Smead & Co.'S iron
foundry at Louisville, Ky, the loss be-
ing $250,00O.
Populists, democrats and silverrepub-
leans Of South Dakota nominated flu
sion ticket at Aberdeen headed by An
drew Lee, of Clay county, for governor.
In Oshkosh, Wis, inc riotous wood
workers were held in check by the state
militia.
Fire destroyed the Great Western
distillery, the second largest in the
world, at Peoria, H., the loss being
S350,0Oo
Charles Handley, hotelkeeper at
Edgley, y. D., shot and killed his wife
and then shot himself fatally
1t is estimated that the Klondike dis
trict and Indian river output of gold
this year will be 500, 000,0 600.
An attempt was made TO hold up an
express train on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad near Whitehall,
Mo, and Engineer Fred Dempsey was
shot and killed. by the bandit.
While bathing Harvey Francisco and
his son Thomas and Sidney easier were
drowned at Mount Pleasant, Mich.
A mob at Russellville, Ky, hanged
George Scott, negro 81 years old,
charged with attempting to outrage
Mrs. William Scroggins.
In Chicago 10000 persons witnessed
the American Derby at Washington
park. The winner was Pink Coat; War
renton, second; Isabey, third; time,
2: 1924
BY the capsizing Of boat Louis
Jacobs, St. Louis druggist, and his son
Joseph were drowned.
Four soldiers from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
were killed and others were injured in
a collision between trains at Tupelo,
Miss.
\ tornado swept over portions
of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and North
Dakota, killing several persons and do
ing great damage 10 property.
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HAS LITTLE EFFECT.
The War Has Neither Helped Nor
Hindered business to ANY
Great Extent.

New York. June PR. G. Dun & Co, in
their weekly review Of trade. say: Very
little Of the new business seen, in proper
ton to the aggregate has been caused by
the war. Not any, discOverable by or
binary tests, has been prevented by war
Neither has the collapse of the wheat spec
ulation caused the expected decrease of
shipments, for exports continue remark
ably largely. Gold comes or does not come,
as we want e. the worlds markets being
evidently a our command. An Offering of
bonds by the government brings out at the
start bids for more than three times the
amount offered. while the popular sub
scripton already for three-quarters Of the
amount exhibits in strong light the con-
ndence of the people
Wheat ceased to fall, and begins to rise
in price, because foreign needs are not
yet satisfied After falling to 80 cents for
cash and 77$4 cents for July, wheat rose to
SIS cents for cash and r. cents for July, with
foreign demand Corn was steady, with
out much nuctuation. OF other grain, eX-
ports have been unusually heavy.
THE industries, at the season when
stoppages are to be expected. maintain
production surp risingly, There are very
few Interruptions on account of labor, and
wage scales for the coming year have
nearly all been amicably settled. The iron
industry is very dun at the east, with com
plant that prices do not rise, but at Pitts
burgh and the west the works are getting
more business constantly. The enormous
demand from agricultural regions for i'm
plements, fencing. cars railway equip
ments and all sorts of building is the note
worthy feature of this remarkable year.
Failures for the week have been 2S5 In
the United States, against PIG last year
and II I'm Canada against "a last year
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A BAPTISM OF FIRE.
Rough Riders and Cavalrymen
Make Good Showing.
Latest Information Places the Amer
lean Losses at - Killed and 20
wounded or Missing-Spanish
Losses Heavier.

Jaragua, Cuba, June %, per Dispatch
Boat Dandy, via Kingston, Jamaica,
June 27.-nhe initial fight of Col.
Woods rough riders and the troopers
Of the First and Tenth regular cavalry
Will be known in history as the battle
Of La)Quasina. That il did not end in
the complete slaughter of the Amer
leans was not due to any miscalculation
in the plans of the Spaniards, for as per-
feet an ambuscade as was ever formed
in the brain of an Apache Indian was
prepared and Lieut. Col. Roosevelt and
his men walked squarely into it. For
an hour and half they held their
ground under perfect storm of bullets
from the front and sides, and then Col.
Wood on the right and Lieut.. Col. Roose-
reIt at the left led a charge which
turned the tide of battle and sent the
enemy flying over the hills toward San
tiago.
Says Twenty-Five Were Killed.
Gen. Wheeler, in his official report,
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planted on the brow Of hill over
looking the basin in which Santiago de
Cuba lies.
Not shot was fired from the Amer
lean side, though the front of the Amer
lean line was not $500 yards from the
entertainments where the Spaniards
propose TO combat the advance on San
tiago de Cuba.
The top of every hill and mountain
north and east is occupied by block
houses, from whence the Spaniards can
view the movements of the American
army as it advances beyond Sabanilla,
while to the eastward of the city, CASH
ing every knoll and bit Of high ground,
are Spanish entertainments.
The correspondent from an elevation
to the RICH of the American line count
ed "a Of these entertainments, com
pletely fencing every approach 10 the
city. The trenches have been dug as
the conformation of the ground admit
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ADVANCING ON SANTIAGO.
Portion of American Army Encamps
Within Sight of the
Doomed City.

On the Rio Guiana, June 26, via
Kingston, Jamaica, June 27.-The ad-
vance force of the American army rests
on this stream with the city of Santiago
de Cuba AZ miles westward, in plain
sight.
The outposts, consisting Of two COM
pauies of the Seventh infantry, under
Maj. Coolidge, Saturday night occupied
positions at right angles to the road,
guarding the crossing mile and half
beyond Sabinalla, where three regi-
ments of Gen. Lawton's division camped,
the First, Fourth and Seventeenth.
The Eighth, the Second and Twenty
second Massachuse Its, with the rough
riders, Tenth cavalry, and portions Of
several other regiments, are strung out
behind them toward Jaragua. About
500 Cubans, under Gen. Gonzales. were
camped around Gen. Lawton's head
quarters.
Gen. Wheeler Sunday, with the First.
Second and Tenth cavalry, and the
rough riders with dynamite guns, moved
up TO where Gen. Lawton's outposts
were Saturday night, and four bat
teries of the Third artillery and four
Calling guns, with a special detail under
Lieut.. PARKER, were brought up and
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WEST AID SOUTH

For no cause known Bert Brownell
Shot his wife (not fatality at Oe'wein,
La. and then killed himself
The democrats of the Thirteenth
Ohio district renominated J, A. Norton
fer con grtss.
Gen. John Cadwalader, Of Pennsyl-
Tania, was reelected president-gen-
eral al the biennial meeting in Balti-
more of the General Society of the War
of1ST2.
Il Cooberille, Tenn. Charles Wash
ington, q negro who assaulted Mrs. J.
t Ward was taken from Jail 10y a mob
and hanged
Fire swept away the business portion
Of Whittemore, Ia.
In the vicinity of Galesburg, H., a
cloudburst flooded the country for
miles, aud John Hubbell and Mrs. \, A.
Anderson were drowned.
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The Varied Commissions of Lieut..
MahoneS when lie Went

When Lieut. Mahoney came to Sioux
City to recruit men he was intrusted with
number Of erlauds for the members OF com
panies II and L. lie jotted them all down
on piece Of paper, and referred TO them
when he came to Sioux City. This piece of
paper viii give an idea Of what the men
wanted in Sioux City and some of the things
Lieut.. Mahoney had to do. 1t reads as fol-
lows.
Get three SScalber Colts. for officers"
Get a ruler and some black lead PEN
ellis"
Kiss Harry Hamilton's girl"
"Have that order of roses coun, ermauded
for cigars
Take Claypoole's new vest, and get his
old one out of the closet
Get Ed Browns manual for army cook
ing, his sword knot, and his French diction-
airy.
Get Harry Chapman's blanket strap and
tray for chess"
Get any old thing. Sioux City Jour.
nal
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HEROES TO BE REWARDED.
Grcss Touching the Promotion
of Hobson and others.

Washington, June 2s.-The president
Monday sent two special messages to
congress, providing recognition of the
services of Lieut.. Hobson, the hero CT
the Merrimac; Of Lieut.. Newcomb and
crew, of the revenue cutter Hudson,
which rescued the torpedo boat Wins
low at Cardenas; Capt. Hodgson, of the
dispatch boat Hugh McCulloch, which
figured in the battle of Manila, and
Naval Cadet Joseph Wright Powell,
who held the steam launch under the
bluffs at San tiago harbor, searching for
the crew of the Merrimac. Authority
is asked of the senate for the transfer
OF HoDson from the construction corps
to the line of the navy, and the presi-
dent announces that with authority
given he win by and with the advice
and consent of the senate suitably ad-
vance Hobson in the line. The Hud-
sons crew are 10 be given a vote Of
thanks and medals of commentator.
Capt Hodgson is to be suitably recog-
nized.
The president in mentioning Hobson
cites the fact that the crew with him
already have been promoted.
\ gold medal is recommended for
Lieut.. Newcomb, q silver medal to each
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----77-s-7---
The 7fonadnOcIx SaIIs.

San Francisco, June q, - The coast
defense monitor Monadnock sailed for
Manila, via Honolulu, Thursday after
noon. The collier Nero which vii! ac-
company the Monadnock went ous first.
The warship followed in a few minutes.
Men on the Monadnock think that the
ship will make the trip to Manila in
about g DAYS.
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Tupelo, Miss, June GA railway
accident occurred at this place at 3:4O
Sunday afternoon, in which four sol
diers lost their lives ard others re-
ceived fatal injuries Sunday afternoon,
Col. Torrey's regiment of rough riders
from Cheyenne, Wyo., reached this place
Via Kansas City, Memphis & Birming-
ham railroad. The first section had
stopped to take water and had whistled
to start on when the second rounded
the sharp curve in the track just before
the town is reached and dashed into it.
The killed are: Willie y. Wallace,
troop c; Sam johnson, troop c; -
Gordon, colorcd porter; Cornelius Len
Than, troop c. Fatally injured: Henry
S. Mapes, troop c, both legs cut off,
puncture in abdomen. Thirteen others
were in iured
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OFF Noumea, N. S. W., one of the boats
Of the Russian ship Bay of Naples cap
sized and Il sailors We're deyoured by
sharks.
In a typhoon at Port Arthur a
Chinese torpedo boat destroyer was
driven ashore and $50 men were
drowned.
The expedition of Capt. Sverdrup,
bound for the arctic region, sailed from
Christiania, Norway, on the steamer
Fran.
Fire destroyed the Clifton house, one
of the largest hotels at Niagara falls,
located on the Canadian side, the loss
being 100000.
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TURNER'S Daughter Murdered.

Robbers entered the house of Thomas
Seldom, farmer living two miles north
of Pepin, and murdered Mary Seldom,
the 17-year-old daughter, who was the
only member of the family at home.
Then, searching he house, they found
$40O The murderers then dragged the
body of the girl to the cellar, poured oil
over it, set fire TO The clothing, and the
house ard its contents were burned. \
peddler was arrested on suspicion.
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LATER NEWS.

Spauiards and Germans at Manila
are said to have had falling out.
Aguinaldo has called ubon Gen. Au-
gusti to surrender, but the latter re-
fuses.
The marines at Camp McCalla are
healthful and in good spirits.
Mail advices from the Philippines
say all are doing we'll.
Gillian advices say the Spaniards
have not purchased the O'IIIggins.
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Hong-Koug, June 2s.-Gen. Aguin-
aldo, according to letters brought here
from Cayite by a German steamer, oc-
cupies the mansion Of the late governor
of Cayite, but he viii shortly move to
linus TO make room for the American
troops. The insurgents now have 5000
prisoners. The Spanish brigadier Mo
ret was killed at San Fernando in an at
tcmpt 10 force the rebel limos.
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ted. The ends Of the trenches overlap
where breaks in the line occur, thus Sc
curing mparatively safe retreat from
rifle fire in case parts Of the trenches
are captured. Upon one Of these works
modern guns have been mounted. They
can be plainly seen by the naked eye,
Spies report that inside the entrench-
ments are four parallel lines of rifle pits
shoulder deep, and in front Of them
are marked ranges and several rows Of
barbed wire fences
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RebuI1es His Tired Auditors.

A clergyman preached a rather long SER
mon from the text: "Thou art weighed in
the balance and found wanting" After the
congregation had listened about an hour
some one began to get weary and went out;
others soon followed, greatly to the annoy
ance of the minister. Another person start
mon and said THAT is right. gentlemen;
as fastas you are weighed pass Quit" lie con
tinued his sermon some time after that, but
no one disturbed him by leaving.-Chicago
Chronicle
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of his officers, and bronze medal of
honor to every member Of his crew.
Capt. Hodgson is slated for perma-
nent waiting orders on the retired list
of the revenue cutter service on the full
duty pay Of his grade.
Naval Cadet Powell is recommended
for Advancement two numbers to be
ensign in the navy
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Take advantage Of tins special offer and
send your name ard address, together with
the names and addresses of ten of your
friends who ride bicycles, with twenty five
cents to pay express charges, to the Friction
less Bearing Company, IS Liberty Street,
New York City. and we viii forward you
a set Of our new bearings for bicycles which
require no OIL and certainly make your
wheel run twice as easy They fit any wheel,
and you can put them on in twenty minutes.
Send size OF balls in front and rear wheel
and crank hanger The regular price for
equipping a bicycle is $3.50, but in order to
get them in use all over the country quickly
we make you the above proposition. After
trying them. if you would like TO act as
agent send for terms
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More Help for Dewey.

San Francisco, June 2S.-The trans
ports City Of Paris, Ohio, Morgan City
and Indiana (hagship) sailed at $3.50
p. m. Monday with 4,oGo troops, bound
for Manila. The steamer Valencia was
not ready for sea Monday and viii prob
ably sail with the steamer Newport on
Wednesday. Gen. Merritt and his stan
viii proceed to the islands in the New
port, which has been especially pre-
nared fnr the serHice
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The highest price ever reached by
wheat was $500 per bushel in 1912. The
extraordinary price was due to the fail
urc of the English crop, and a very high
tariff ON cereals. In November of 1866
wheat sold ut S2.o3 in Chicago, and dur
ing the following spring 'corner''
sent the price to $50 by May !. In1sss
wheat went to 81 as the result Of cor
uer," but such instances are rare.
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shot His wife.

Edward Scherbarth, residing in the
outskirts of Portage, shot and instantly
killed his wife. lie says he was indulg-
ing in little target practice with his
revolver, when his wife appeared and
twitted him on his poor craftsmanship,
when he turned the weapon on her. lie
had been drinking heavily at the time.
After being taken to Jail he wept bit
terly and said the killing was acct
dental
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Admiral Dewey appears to be some
ching Of a linguist. Whether he is stop
ping German seaman from landing
supplies at Manila or putting Spanish
ships out Of commission he has no
trouble in making foreigners of any
sort understand what he is driving at.
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Washington, June %. The president
has issued a proclamation extending
the blockade of Cuba to the southern
coast from Cape Francis to Cape Cruz
inclusive and also blockading San Juan
Porto Rico.
Thirty days time is given foreign YES
sells to clear with cargOes,
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Egyptian government Acts.

New York, June %. - A dispatch to
the Tribune from Cairo, Egypt says;
The Egyptian government has in
structed its authorities at Port Said to
prevent the $50 ztokers engaged there
by Admiral Camara for his fleet from
embarlling on Spanish ships, and has
courteously informed Admiral Camara
that so doing would be an infringement
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Cornell an Easy winner.

New London, Conn, June -. = Cor
nell won the tri-uniyersity boat race on
the Thames river course Thursday
the four miles being rowed in 24:4s
Yale crossed the finish line three and
one-half boat lengths behind the win
ner and IL lengths ahead of Harvard
Last year at Poughkeepsie Cornell won
in 20:34; Yale, second, 20:44, and Har-
ward last, 81 minutes.
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Life and the Liver.

Success in life depends upon the liver"
is the way Chas. Lamb the poet and punster,
put it. Medical science has proven, that
nine-tenths Of the ailments of living have
their origin in the liver, and in constipation
caused by its arrangements. Keep the liver
lively and all viii be well. Modern science
points out Cascarets as the only perfect,
gentle, positive liver regulator fit TO be used
in the delicate human organism. All drug
gists sell Cascarets Zoe, Doc, soc and we rec
ommend them most heartily
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Church struck by Lightning.

Grand Forks, y. D., June ga new
Lutheran church near Minnewaukan
was struck by lightning Friday while
dedication ceremonies were in progress.
One end was torn out of the building.
About 800 persons were present and
two were instantly killed. In the panic
a number Of Others were injured, but
none fatally.
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There are old. familiar and well loved
names On the new army list. Fred d.
Grant, son Of the great commander, is a
brigadier general. So is Michael Y.
Sheridan. brother Of the dauutless Lit
tie Phil" And Rev. Thomas Sherman,
son Of the hero IF the march to the sea,
is an armK chanlain.