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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-06-02
AGREEMENT CONCLUDED.
ments between France and Uncle
sam Are mt Last Ended.

Washington, May 81. - The United
States and France have concluded the
first commercial agreement entered
into under Section III of the Dingley
tariff law. The negotiations have been
pending for the last eight months, and
after many vicissitides were concluded
on Saturday last when Ambassador
Cambon, in behalf of France, and Hon.
John Kasson, reciprocity commissioner
for the United States, affixed their sig
natures to the formal agreement. 1t
makes important changes in the tariff
rates on a number of articles constitut-
ing the chief trade between this coun-
try and France.
BY the terms of the agreement the
new rates go into effect on June /, or
next Wednesday. In the meantime, I'M
der the terms Of the law, the president
will issue a proclamation granting the
reciprocal reductions specified in the
agreement and at the same time the
French authorities at Paris will decree
a reduction in the French rates in ac-
cordance with the agreement.
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HONOR DEAD HEROES.
Decoration Day Services General In
Cities and Towns throughout
the Country.

Washington, May Silt is now more
than a quarter of century since the
30th OF May was designated by prai-
dental proclamation as an annual IN
mortal day in honor of the federal
troops who lost their lives in the great
struggle in the sixties. OF late years
complaint has been made by the vet
Grams, who regard the day with sacred
veneration, that Decoration day is fast
losing its original significance, and
that, instead of being devoted wholly
to its original purposes, it is each year
being given over more generally 10 BIZ
cycle races, regattas and other sport
ing events. Whatever foundation there
may have been for this complaint, the
patriotic observauces in progress Mon
day from ocean TO ocean certainly tend
ed to smooth the RULED spirits Of the
Grand Army veterans and their sympa-
thizers.
Among the cities reporting an appro-
pirate observance of the day were the
following:
Cleveland, O.. Pittsburgh, Pa, Chicago.
/ ILL.,, Cincinnati. O, Lexington, Ky, Nash
vile, 4 eNn.t lnQt0Ddp OILS Inll.s Now oIhs
Boston. St Paul, Mimi. St Louis and San
Francisco.
In this city the interest was divided
between Gettysburg, where there were
held appropriate exercises, which bore
a naliona! character by reason of the
large number of prominent government
| officials, senator's, representatives and
| other men of note who took part, and
Arlington cemetery, where are buried
many of the heroes of the late war. 1t
is estimated that fully 10000 persons
witnessed the exercises at the latter
place. The principal Grafton at Airing
ton was delivered by Senator Thurston.
Gettysburg, Pa, May 31.-The attend
ance was larger and the exercises more
interesting at the Memorial day cere-
monies held here Monday than on any
similar occasion in the past dozen years.
Chairman Benner read a letter from
President Mckinley regretting his in
ability, owing TO the condition of ma
tional affairs, to be present on this oc-
casion. He then introduced the orator
of the day, Hon. Webster Davis, assist
ant secretary of the interior. who held
his audience 10 minutes in masterful
grafton.
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Omaha, Neb, May 27.--By vote of
"a to 10 the directors Of the TRANSMITS
sissippi exposition have decided to keep
open the gates of the exposition on
Sunday from one p. m. to ten p. IN. In
Difference to the wishes of some of the
religious people in Omaha and else
where it was decided, after a long de
bate, to close during the forenoon, 1t
was suggested that the midway should
be closed, but this was considered i'm
practicable and the matter was finally
settled by the adoption of the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That the exposition grounds
and buildings be kept open on Sundays
from one p. m to ten p. m. and conducted
in the same manner as on week days OK
cept that the sale of liquors be not per-
mitted; that concerts be given. and that re-
liglous services be held in the auditorium
on Sunday afternoons"
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FROM CARCASS CAMP.
Two Officers of His STAFF Arrive at
Washington To Cooperate
with American Forces.

Washington, May 81. - Secretary
Alger and Gen. Miles conferred Thurs
day with two officers from the staff of
Gen. Garcia, Gen. Enrique Collazo and
Lieut. Col. Charles Hernandez, who
come direct from Garcia's headquarters
bearing credentials from him to effect
a plan of cooperation with the Amer
lean forces. They accompanied Lieut..
Rowan, of the United States army, on
his return from Garcia's camp. Gen.
Collazo and Col. Hernandez gave an in
teresting account Of Gen. Garcia's forces
ana surroundings, and the general
equipment of the Cuban army.
Col Hernandez says Garcia has his
headquarters al Bayamo, one Of the
large towns in the central part of the
island. About 1900 men are quartered
inside the city. They are well armed with
Remingtons and Mausers captured from
the Spaniards. Most of them have
machetes, but only the officers carry
other small arms.
Col. Hernandez says communication
is maintained with Gen. Gomez and
with points along the coast. From these
he has general idea of the Cuban
forces, outside of those with Gen. Gar
ella at Bayamo. lie estimates that there
are -, 0OD men, all of them well armed,
east of La Trocha, and constituting the
forces in the eastern division of the
island, under Gen. Garcia. He estimates
Gen. Gomez immediate command at
about 5000 men, with G,G00 men scat
tered at various points. In all, there are,
according to the estimates of Gen. Col
larzo and Col Hernandez, about 10000
to $4,000 troops actually in the field.
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THE ATTACK BY LAND.
Commodore SchIey-Four separate
Expeditions to BE Landed.

Washington, May 31.-The military
invasion of Cuba has begun. Unless
the orders of the war department mis-
carried at an early hour the troops that
have been gathered at the Gulf ports
began TO break camp and march aboard
transports waiting to carry them to the
enemy's territory. About p of these
ships, the biggest and fastest thatcould
be obtained for the purpose, had been
gathered ready to receive the troops.
They will accommodate about 10000
men.
The movement, in all probability, is
intended to cooperate with Commodore
Schley in dislodging or destroying the
Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba. The
purpose of the war department. is said
to be to effect a landing in the inn
mediate vicinity of Santiago and to
capture the hills commanding the har-
Dor by land operations, while Schley
prevents the Spanish fotilla from es-
Gaping by sea.
1t is probable that there will be no
less than four separate military eXpe-
ditions, and that these will be landed
at four different points. Before the en-
tire force which it is proposed to use
in Cuba can be landed the transports
must make four separate voyages
| across the straits. Arrangements have
been made to utilize the services of the
insurgents to the utmost possible eX-
tent. The government already has sent
expeditions to large number of points
on the island and landed arms for the
insurgents, most of the parties sue
ceeding perfectly in their object, and it
is said at the war department that a
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MONETARY CONGRESS.
begin in Omaha, Neb., sep
tenber 10.

Omaha, Neb., May 30.-The dates for
the great monetary congress have been
fixed. The convention will be convened
September 10 and will continue through
three days. Hon. J. Sterling Morton
has accepted the position of chairman.
The first day Will be devoted to the adj
vocates Of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, and Hon. w. J. Bryan,
Congressman Towue and other prom
incnt adherents Of the faith will speak.
The second day those favorable to the
gold standard will be given a c.aauce to
air their views. Hon. John q. Carlisle,
Grover Cleveland and several others
prominent in the ranks Of the gold men
will be present. Hon. James Weaver
and other equally prominent advocates
of the paper currency will be given half
of the last day and the balance will be
devoted to certain prominent bankers
who are opposed to the unlimited issue
of paper currency. The convention viii
be held at the auditorium of the Trans
Mississippi exposition, and large at
tendance from all parts of the country
is expected.
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Chinook, Mont, May 25-Thc business
outlook in Montana has not been brighter
for years. Tho past winter was not a Sc
we're one, and stock losses on the ranges
were exceptionally light. Sheep men arc
IN high spirit over tho prospects Of good
prices for wool and mutton, hut no more so
than the cattle men, for whom values aver
age higher than for twelve years. The
spring rains have been abundant and stock
is reyelug in the high grass sheep are
being rounded up preparatory to shearing
time Itl, expected thut this station will
ship at least a million pounds, taking Sec
ond place on the Great Northern in this
state as wool shipper. Our farmers are
sowing a larger acreage Of barley this
spring than ever before Montana barley
is a mating variety ana IN high favor in tho
East, ANA even in Europe New settlers
are coming in ana Milk River Valley ex'
poets 1898 TO be a banner year iults history
The people Of the valley feel under obliga'
tons to the railway company for sending
bulletins Of the most important war news
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

OF the 10000 citizens of the United
States now in Germany 1000 are matric-
ulated students.
Timely rains give assurance of a
wheat crop in the state Of Washington
in excess of 10000, 900 bushels.
The Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin boat regatta will take
place on Saratoga lake June 30.
Charles Allen. pugilist, was given at
ST. Joseph, Mo, a 13-years' sentence in
the pententiary for highway robbery.
The oldest living railroad conductor
is Edward Miller, who is still in active
service on the Westchester division of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
A monument is to be erected to the
memory of Ensign Worth Bagley, the
first officer in the American navy to
fall in the war with Spain.
Mrs. Mercy Maria Gray. who has just
died al Oakland, Cal, aged 50 years,
during her life gave over $l,0o0,oo0 to
the advancement of the Baptist church.
The captain of the gunboat Callao,
which was captured by Admiral
Dewcy's feet, has been shot for not
returning the fire of the American
ships.
y. w Taylor. president of the Cleve-
land Paper company and one of the
promincns paper manufacturers of the
United States. died in Cleveland, aged
IS years.
The church bells rang merrily and
flags flew over England, Scotland and
Wales. and in the loyal sections of Ire
land in honor of the queens seventy
ninth birthday.
The 1S-year-old lad who is heir to the
throne of Japan is said to be the last
male descendant in the order of pri-
mogeniture of a dynasty which has
reigned 1900 years.
The state department has formally
notified the Austrian government that
it will not pay indemnity for the Hun
garian miners killed in the riots at
Hazleton, Pa, last fall.
Robert Taylor. the postmaster of
Scarva, county Down, ireland, who has
just reached the age of ia years, has
received from Queen Victoria beauti-
fully framed portrait of herself.
The first instance of the settlement of
a native-born American in London
Congrega pulpit is that of DR..
Isaac C. Meserye, for nearly quarter
Of a century the pastor of Dayenport
church. New Haven.
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A MODS VENGEANCE.
Capture and Lynch Two Negroes sus-
pected of "A Dastardly Crime
Claim They Were Innocent.

Charlotte, y. c., May 30.-Miss Emma
Hartzell, daughter Of Mr.. Samuel Hart
zelf who lives four miles from Concord,
was found dead in her fathers home
Sunday afternoon. She had been out
ragged and her 1hroat was cut from ear
to ear. The young woman was of n re-
spectacle family and the news Of the
affair spread rapidly. In a short time
large bodies of both town and country
people had gathered, and in the course
of an hour or two two suspects, Joe
Kiser, aged 25, and Tom Johnson, aged
90, both colored, were arrested. The
sheriff managed to get them safely to
Jail.
The prisoners were placed in the cage,
the stronghold of the Jail, and the sher-
if and other officers stood guard at the
foot of the stairs. 1t was 20 minutes to
ten o'clock when the mob, unable any
longer to restrain its fury, broke down
the Jail door. The sheriff and deputies
were overpowered and the crowd
rushed up the stairs toward the cell Of
the doomed men. The lock was broken,
the door opened and, the prisoners
hauled forth. The sheriff saw that re-
sistance was useless, so he made no CT
fort TO Illustrate the work of ven
geance. When the place selected for
the lynching was reached, halt was
made. The men were asked if they had
any parting word TO speak They said
they We're not guilty, and tina; was all.
A tree was found on which were two
limbs about three feet apart Over
these the ropes were thrown. The men
were mounted on two boxes about two
feet high. The moose was adjusted
around each mans neck, the box re-
moved and the bodies dropped. A few
minutes after the drop 100 shots were
fired at the dangling bodies, Kidding
them with bullets. The doctors who
were present pronounced them dead in
Is minutes. Their bodies were left
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New York, May 80. - The United
States protected cruiser Columbia came
into port Sunday with a great hole in
its starboard quarter, through which
horse and wagon might have been
driven. The gallant vessel had also a
heavy list to port. The warship had
been in collision with the British steam
ship Foscolia on Saturday evening
during a thick fog while cruising off
Fire island. The Foscolia was sunk,
but the officers and crew, numbering
81, were saved and brought to port by
the Columbia Not a life was lost and
nobody was injured. The exact amount
of damage to the Columbia will not be
known until the cruiser has been
placed in dry dock
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\ spy captured on the steamship
Panama has been identified as Lieut.
Sobral, formerly Spanish naval attache
at Washington.
N San Diego harbor Lieut.. Meyler, Z.
s. a., completed planting the mines and
the entire channel is now protected.
People arriving at Kingston. Jamaica.
from Havana declare that Cuba is able
to resist only one month longer owing
to scarcity OF provisions.
Transport ships sailed from San
Francisco for the Philippines with 2,5oG
men and ammunition and supplies for
one year.
Official advices from Madrid say that
Cervera and his fleet are at Santiago de
Cuba, and that an American (Schley's)
squadron is patroling the entrance tc
the bay.
An immediate military invasion OF
Puerto Rico and Cuba has been de-
cided upon by the administration.
Admiral Sampson fleet Of ironclads
was of Havana in a position to bonn
bard the city, and had received detailed
Instructions and was prepared to pave
the way for the landing of the military
expedition for the invasion Of Cuba.
The president issued a proclamation
calling for $4,000 more volunteers. This
Will make the total army strength,
regular and volunteer, 100000.
y note sent by Spain inviting the pow.
crs to protest jointly against the block
adc Of Cuba received no replies.
The battleship Oregon reached Key
Yves, and is rapidly getting into shape
for active work.
The ENJOYS from Gen. Garcia sent to
Washington 10 arrange plans for coop
Grafton with the American forces say
there are between 10000 and $4,000 Gu
bans now in the field.
The fleet OF Admiral Sampson re
turned to point near Havana after
siN days Of scouting for hostile ships
a.org the Cuban coast
In san Francisco arrangements vera
beng made toSend the second and third
detaehmellts Of troops 70 ald Admiral
Dewey at Manila without delay
b. &. Colson, congressman of the
Eleventh Kentucky district. has been
commissioned TO raise two regiments Of
volunteers from his state.
States are readily responding to the
second call for volunteers.
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snlIcd to Join schIpy.
schIey's Instructions.
Tx PInn Killed.

Washington, May 30.-After a discus
sion which lasted almost two weeks.
the senate Saturday afternoon reached
the first decisive vote on any feature of
the pending war revenue measure. The
bill had been under consideration four
hours and a half when Senator Aldrich
OR. ~, one of the republican members
of the finance committee. entered a mo-
ton to lay the corporation tax amend
ment, proposed by the democratic ma
iority of the committee, on the table.
1t was realized that this was the first
test of strength of the opposing ele-
ments in the senate, and the roll call
was followed with deep interest. The
result was decisive. The amendment
was laid on the table, Al TO q.
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Jealousy and drink caused Alfred
Lamble to kin his wife and then COM
nit suicide at San Diego, Cal.
The Indiana prohibitionists in con-
yention in indianapolis nominated a
state ticket headed by Aaron Worth, of
Jay county, for secretary of state.
In Minnesota the Fifth district repub-
leans nominated Loren Fletcher for
congress for the fourth time by accla-
nation.
IN the First district of Indiana the re-
publicans have renominated James NJ.
Hemcnway for congress.
A mob lyrched Dick Oliver, young
negro, for attempted assault upon a
white woman.
John G. Ferguson, a prominent dem
fist, and William NJ. Smith, a railway
switchman, killed each other in ST..
Louis in a duel over a girl.
During a fight at the camp of two
bandits who held up the Santa Fe ex-
press near Albuquerque, N. NJ, three
officers were shot dead and the robbers
escaped.
On the Midland Terminal railroad a
train ran into hand car near Gillette,
Col, and four men on the hand car were
killed.
On June IA the Illinois republican
league will hold It's convention in
Springfield.
In the Twelfth Indiana district the
republicans have nominated DR.. Chris
tian b. Stemen for congress.
BY the breaking of the ice 10 Frazier
lake in Alaska seven men from Nashua,
~ H., and Hayerhll, Mass, were
drowned.
"A mob took Garfield King (colored),
charged with shooting white boy,
from Jail a. Salisbury, Md, and hanged
him.
Fire destroyed the residence of a.
Richter at Iron Mountain, Mich, and
two children were burned TO crisp and
two others were fatally burned.
In a freight collision near Dayton,
Tenn, Engineer Hudson and two brake
men, Seyarson and Matthews, were
killed.
Att Upper Sandusky, o., two sons of
Abner Boughman, aged 10 and II, and
son of Joseph Deitrck, aged IS years,
were drowned.
At Austin, Tex, Eugene Burt was
hanged for the murder of his wife and
two children in July, 1896.
At San Quentin, Cal, Joseph +.
Ebanls was hanged for the murder of
Mrs. Harriet Stiles and her father,
John Borden, in San Diego county.
Temporary insanity caused Edward
Hammerstrom, Of Knoxville, ILL.,, to
drown his little girl in a tub of water
and shoot himself.
Flames among business houses in
Dallas, Tex, caused loss of $35o,0OO,
an1J, w. Cowan was burned to death.
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sufficient number of the insurgents
have been armed to constitute a very
effective support for the troops as they
land.
1t was said at the war department
that chief reliance would be placed at
the outset on the United States regu-
lars, most of which are concentrated in
Florida, and in such volunteer regi-
ments as were thoroughly equipped
and reasonably well seasoned for
service
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Hutchinson, Kan, May 31.-W. c..
Boyd, a retail butcher, was mysterious
Iy murdered here week ago. His body
was found in a ditch not far from a res
taurant kept by Mrs. Postlewaite and
her two sons. Monday, before coro-
ner's jury, Mrs. Postlcwaite created a
sensation by stating that She killed
Boyd. She stated that Boyd came 10 her
room at night, armed with a piece Of
iron pipe and threatened 10 kin her I'M
less she would promise to marry him.
She refused and he struck her. Mrs.
Postlewaite, according to her story,
then seized the pipe and beat her assail-
ant to death, after which she dragged
his body out Of the house.
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London, May 2s.-The Md. 1 CORE
spondent of the Times, commenting on
the feeling of sadness prevailing in
Spain" says:
1T is less on account Of ministerial dis
senslons. which are not really serious, than
on account of fuller apprehension of the
difficulties of the situation, namely, that
it is hopeless to expect any assistance from
Europe, even France and Russia being
since Mr.. Chamberain's speech, averse
from doing anything to prccipitate COM
plications. Spain now sees that she must
trust to herself alone IN an unequal strug-
gle that can have only one end"
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Paris, May 31.-With a view to shock
the blatant pro-Spanish feeling here
and enlist the sympathies of French
men on the side of America special
effort was made by the American colony
Monday to do honor to the memory Of
Lafayette. A big gathering proceeded
to his tomb, in the Picpus cemetery,
which was decorated with wreaths and
national flags. The United States am
bassador, Gen. Horace Porter, deposited
the American wreaths and in an elo-
quent speech referred to America s
debt to Lafayette and the "unbreaka-
bic ties between the two peoples" He
was warmly applauded.
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Gen. Merritt Arrives Mt tho coast.

San Francisco, May 2s.-Gen. Merritt,
who win command the American forces
in the Philippines, and who arrived
from Washington Thursday night, has
established his headquarters in this city
at the Palace hotel. One good effect Of
Cen Merritt's advent has already been
felt. lie hans ordered that troops not
already supplied with equipment be
furnished at once with everything
necessary TO make them comfortable
and ready for active service.
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A Mob's Mistnke.

Guthrie, Q. T., May 31-The United
States marshal has under arrest a
young Seminole Indian named Kinder
II. Hargo, who has confessed to being
the murderer OF Mrs. Laird, for whose
death young Sampson and McGeisy
were burned TO death by a white mob
near Newark, l. r., last January. The
government has all along maintained
that the two Indians burned to death
were innocent, and will now prove it.
largo was captured in the Chickasaw
nation after an exciting chase of %
days. Nearly 200 men are under in
dictment for participation in the burn
ing of Sampson and McGeisy.
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MARKETS.

MinneapOIs, May 81.
Wheat--No. l northern, Sl.30 to 1.3l;
No. 2. northern. SLIP to LA; July,
S1.31.
Corn-No. 8, BIC
Oats-No. white, 30 to 3O1Ic
Cattle-Steers,S SO. IS to 400; cows,
S3.25.
Sheep-Muttons, So. 10 to 3. so; lam bs.
S425.
Butter-Creamery. extras, 1G to lie
creamery, firsts, Il to 15c; dairy fancy,
IA to 15c; dairy. choice, IS to lie.
Poultry to Sc; spring
chickens. Z to Sc.