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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.
What "a Former Resident of Cascia
County, Idaho, Has to Say Re-
Enrding Western Canada

Mr. ia. Tolman. of Lacombe, Al
berta, n. w. r., former resident of
Cascia county, Idaho, who moved to
western Canada in July, 1894, write as
follows:
II brought here "a head of cattle. Is
horses, two wagons, two sets of har-
ness and $3.50 in cash. l homesteaded
the southeast quarter of section ss.
township 30. range 90, west of the
fourth meridian, also purchased a quar-
ter section of Canadian Pacific railway
land. | have been farming more or less
nearly all my life and | am convinced
that you can raise crops 40 per cent.
cheaper here than where l came from
My capital at present. counting every
thing, is about $4,000. The yield of my
grain all round in 1897 was 60 bushels
per acre. This year GS9S) yield of
wheat per acre 371s bushels, oats so
bushels, barley IS and potatoes 400 per
acre. / consider this is a much better
country for man than where l came
from, provided he is industrious. You
get free homestead here and Canadian
Pacific railway lands are cheap and the
terms easy. / have now made my
seventh paymenton the land purchased
by me and am much pleased with my
purchase, as the land has already much
more than paid for itself School law
here is decidedly ahead of where 1
came from, and there are schools wher-
ever there are settlers"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
AN ASTHMA CURE.
A Most Unexpected Result of GET
ting Mixed Up with a Cy-
clone.

did the climate out there benefit your
asthma?' asked man on the boulevard Of
his next door neighbor who had just re-
turned from new resort in the northwest.
Say, it makes me short of breath to
think about it. | was sitting out in sort of
an arbor the first afternoon after / reached
there. was in the shadow of trailing
vine through which the sunbeams sifted
in mellow light. The air was balmy and
freighted with the odor of roses"
Must have been delightfu!'
simply charming! Suddenly there was
a sort Of gigantic zip athwart the heavens,
darkness enveloped the earth like a pail,
and before | could cover three rods to the
hotel on the dead run, there were six inches
of snow on the ground. / never put in
wheeler night than the one that followed"
Mighty sudden, wasn't it?'
eyes, but that's the way things 60 out
there. One morning ! started to the near
est town, carrying a twg Of cherry bios
SONS and wearing white tennis suit. Out
on the trail it turned cold quicker than you
could wink your eye, and / would have
frozen if a native hadn't wrapped me up
in a horse blanket, big wire nail serving
as a shawl PIN
Got through all right, did your
eyes, providentially. A cyclone struck
me, turned the blanket inside out and blew
me for a mile. ] don't know what did it,
but I'm free from asthma. Detroit Free
Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Paris Albert Peugnez, a youth
who murdered a woman and boy, was
guillotined.
Advices from Buda-Pesth say a fire
in the village of Nagyprobroez de-
stroyed 800 houses and many lives were
lost.
The transport Buffalo arrived at
Manila, having made a record break
ing run from New York in "a days.
Hydrophobia caused the death of Col
vile Y. Ingate, American vice-consul at
Patras, Greece.
Complications over Samoa are almost
impossible. as Germany is prepared to
meet the United States more than half
way.
Insurgent forces attacked Manila in
the night, but were repulsed after
sharp fighting in which 20 Americans
lost their lives and 175 were wounded
The insurgentl loss was heavy. Dewey's
ships poured shells into the ranks of
the Filipinos with deadly effect. Gen.
Otis telegraphed the war department
that the city was again quiet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

In fremont temple in Boston the
eighteenth anniversary of the found
ing of the Christian Endeavor society
was celebrated.
On the Wyoming ranges thousands
Of cattle and sheep persisted in biz
zard.
In the United States there were 224
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 3D., against PA the week
previous and 335 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 3d aggregated So
036,0I3,734, against $2144,76S,474 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the sponding week in 1895
was ash
Flames which originated in the bak-
cry of the Stewart Cracker company in
Philadelphia caused loss of 100000
train struck wagon containing
five men and one woman at Rverton,
Pa. and all six were killed.
Soap manufacturers are forming a
combine which is to represent $50
100000 of capital and include every big
soap concern in the country.
At the age of 81 years Alice Anterior,
for wears a popular burlesque actress,
died in New York of pneumonia.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
WEST AND South.

In Havana the members of the mill
tary administration declare that the
Cuban demands should be checked and
that the Cuban army should not be
paid the vast sums demanded.
The result Of conference which
Robert r. Porter. the special commits
sioner of President Mckinley, had with
Gen. Gomez is that the latter has
placed himself squarcly in position as
an active ally Of the Uuited States gov
eminent in the work Of the restoration
of Cuba.
The Chicago publisher, Joseph II.
Dunlop. sentenced to prison nearly two
years ago for misuse Of the mails, has
completed his term ut Joliet.
Fire swept away the new Bucling-
ham theater in Louisville. Ky, the loss
being $4,000,
In their home at Lafayette, Ind"
Patrick Flynn and his wife and son
were sufTocated by gas.
At Bowman, Ark, Esquire Gwyun
his son Charles. his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mobiles
and Mrs Dot Carpenter. another daugh-
ter, all died Of pneumonia in two days.
With her crew of p men the ship
Princess Edward, that left Baltimore
nearly nine months ago for honolulu,
has been given up as lost.
The village of Dale, Ala, was wrecked
by a cyclone and three persons were
killed and 20 injured.
For a criminal assault on Mrs. Ger
trude Leet September l last William
Miller (colored), aged II, was hanged
at La Grange, Ky.
Four Indians were killed and several
wounded in fight with the United
States marshal ard a posse in Alaska.
At Mobile. Ala, Issac Davis (eoIoredl
was hanged for the murder of Thomas
Jones.
In CaSenovia. H., William Beeeher. s.
years of age died of grippe. and tiss
hours later his wife, 20 years of age
died from the same disease.
A cyclone nearly wiped out the towi
Of Stile shore. Ga.
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1t was voted unanimously in he A.a
flag hoi ted over every schoolhouse in
the state every day in the year
The death OF James Edwards (col-
ored) occurred at Mascoutah, H., aged
liz years.
At Rapid City. S. D., Porter Warner
the oldest and best-known newspaper
man in the Black Hills, died suddenly
Near Cambridge, Nd, Ruth E. Moock,
the 11-year-old daughter of Caleb Mo
lock, was struck by lightning and
killed.
All central China is involved in one
big anti-foreign rebellion and Chris
tians are being massacred.
In a fit of jealousy Frank Blair, a
young law student, shot and instantly
killed Edward Brovard and Mary An
derson, and then killed himself at
Westminster, o.
Fire nearly wiped out the town of
Shiloh, o.
A worlds fair in 1901 to be known as
the Pacific Ocean and International ex-
position will be held in San Francisco
Mrs. Matte Whitney, Miss Helen Rose
and James C. Hall lost their lives in
fire in a boarding house in Springfield,
III.
In San Francisco Mrs. Cordelia Bot
kin was sentenced to life Imprisonment
for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dun
ming, of Dover, Del, whom she killed
by means of a box of poisoned candy
sent through the mails.
At Fort Monroe. Va, the remains of
Gen. Calixto Garcia, late of the Cuban
army, were transferred TO an Ameri-
can man-of-war for transportation to
Cuba for burial.
In Chicago Ernest Hayward killed his
wife because she threatened to bring
divorce proceedings and then killed
himself. Two children are left orphans
Charles Hall and Fred Bartfeld were
fatally shot and five other men were
seriously wounded in a fight in court
room at Drew, Ia.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. Carl Peters, the German explorer,
has started on another tour in Africa.
Queen Victoria goes to France the
first week in March for a six weeks
stay.
The German reichstag passed the
third reading of the motion to repeal
the anti-Jesuit law.
Joel Chandler Harris is said to be
the wealthiest newspaper writer in the
United States. lie is as devout and
charitable as he is wealthy.
Five boys, the youngest IL years Of
age and the oldest 16, were arrested in
San Francisco on the charge Of at
tempting TO wreck train.
Lewis A. Trexlera, a farmer, dropped
dead in Wichita, Kan, just as be was
about to place his signature TO a mort
gage covering his homestead.
Dr. Hit, physician from India, Wis
iting in Battle Creek, Mich, said that
there are 532 cases of leprosy in the
United States, ten Of which are in Chi
cago.
The steamship Empress of Japan
sailed from Vancouver, B. c., for Yoko-
hama and HongKong 1t carried over
1000 900 bottles Of beer for Americans
in the Philippines.
The new treasury regulation provid-
ing that American tourists returning
home shall make detailed declaration
of all things purchased abroad went
into effect in New York.
Fred Hess, Jr., who sued the San
Francisco Typographical union to re
cover $4,000 damages for having been
forced out of employment by the union,
has been awarded 81 200.
Judge Ross, the new senator from
Vermont, paid his way through Dart
mouth college by teaching for several
years previous in the roadside schools
among the Green mountains.
DR.. James r. Cooke, Of Boston, who
stands in the front rank of the med
ical profession there, has been blind
since childhood. Strange as it may
seem, he is an expert surgeon.
Mrs. John Krebs, of Junction City.
convicted of numbering Mrs. Lizzie
Craig December 16, was sentenced by
Judge o. L. Moore to hard labor in the
Kansas penitentiary for ten years.
A parrot that had more accomplish
ments than a vaudeville star and
market value of $4,000 died in New
York. It's name was Mynah, and 1T
had been for many years the pet of Miss
Emma Thursby, the singer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
Two Chicago Attorneys, One quite
Prominent, Indicted for Com
pIicity In Bold Robbery.

Chicago, Feb. 4.-As a result of in
dictments returned secretly Thursday
by the grand jury, W. c, Hoyer, law
yer, and Peter Casey, street foreman,
were arrested Friday charged with
1896, of $4,000 in bonds of Christopher
Schrage, miser. Allen c. Story, a
prominent attorney, is also under in
dictment on the same charge, and a
warrant is out for his arrest. All three
men are charged with having nego-
tiated number of the stolen bonds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
Car Companies Combine.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. Tt is positively
known that eight big car companies
scattered over the United States have
been combined under the name of the
American Car & Foundry company.
The new company is incorporated I'M
der the laws of New Jersey with a CAPT.
tai of $60,000,000 The companies be-
side the Michigan-Peninsular of this
city entering the consolidation are as
follows: Jackson & Woodin Manufac-
turing company, Berwick, Pa; Mis-
souri, Car & Foundry company, St.
Louis; Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing
company, Jacksonville, Ind; Union
Car company, Buffalo; St. Charles Car
company, ST. Charles, Mo-; Wells &
French company, Chicago; Terre Haute
Car & Manufacturing company, Terre
Iaute Ind
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

ence Itrelieves the condition that pro-
duces so much discomfort and robs mem
situation of its terrors. Here is proof:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-How can L
thank you enough for what you have
done for me ? When l wrote to you /
was suffering untold pain at time of
mcnstruation; was nervous, had head
ache all the time, no appetite, that tired
feeling, and did not care for anything.
! have taken three bottles of Lydia T..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one
of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Liver
Pills, and to-day am a well person. l
would like to have those who suffer
know that l am one of the many who
have been cured of female complaints
byyour wonderful medicine and advice.
MISS JENNIE r. MILES, Leon, Wis.
If you are suffering in this way, write
as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass, for the advice which she
offers free of charge to all women.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

The recent protest Of J. Sterling Nor
ton, of Nebraska. against the cutting of
Christmas trees is warmly commended
in the west, In his protest he said:
THE trees selected for slaughter on this
anniversary are always the straightest
and most symmetrical There were last
year more than 20,000,000 of Christmas
trees cut down and put on the market.
The ahsurdity of celebrating The birth
Of the Saviour of the world by Awanton
waste and extravaganza which jeopar-
dies the welfare of millions Of human
beings yet unborn is obvious 10 every
thinking man
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
TOLD OF HER FATE.
Mrs. Place Informed That She Must
Die in the Electric Chair
Breaks Down.

Sing Sing, y. Y, Feb. 6. = Warden
Sage notified Mrs. Martha Place, the
Brooklyn murderess, that the court of
appeals had refused to grant her new
trial and that she would have to meet
death in the electric chair during the
week beginning March 20. When Mrs.
Place heard the news she cried bitter
ly. She will beg her lawyers to urge
the governor to exercise executive
clemency If her sentence is not COM
muted she will be the first woman in
this state to die in the electric chair,
and the first woman since 1857 TO pay
the Denalty of death
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
COL. SEXTON IS DEAD.
Commander in Chief of the G. A. II.
Expires I'm Washington, After an
Illness of Many Days.

Washington, Feb, Cool. James A.
Sexton, commander in chief of the G..
a. r., ex-postmaster of Chicago, and
member of President McKinley's war
investigating committee, died at 3:15
o'clock Sunday morning. His death oc-
CURED at Garfield hospital, where he
has been sick several days. Col. James
\. Sexton, soldier and successful bust
ness man, has been a lifelong resident
of Chicago. He has held high govern
ment positions and was always prom
inent in the Grand Army of the Re
public, being elected commander in
chief o. that organization last year.
Chicago, Feb. THE body of the
late COL James A. Sexton arrived in
Chicago Monday night from Washing
ton. 1t was accompanied by Mrs. Sex
ton and her son, William Sexton. The
body was met at the depot by large
number of grand army men, who es-
corted the remains to the Sexton home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
The MIX Trust.

Chicago, Feb. ARTICLES of incor-
poration of the Chicago milk trust, of
which Joseph Letter is the prime
mover, are now on their way TO New
Jersey, and in day or two the con
solidation will be an accomplished fact.
The capital stock will be $10,000,000
Very little of this will be in the hands
of the milk dealers, the organization
having in most cases bought the milk
routes outright. The trust, it is said,
will not alter the price of milk at pres
emf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 3.-An entire
family, consisting of five persons, has
been entirely wiped out in the little
town of Bowman within the last two
days, every member dying within few
hours of each other with pneumonia.
Esquire Gwynn, his son Charles, his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Mobiles, and Mrs. Dot Carpenter,
another daughter, were all buried at
the same time in the same plot of
Ground
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

Washington, Feb. 6.-The house com
mittee on invalid pensions reported ia
vorably the senate bill pensioning Gen.
John NJ. Palmer, of Illinois, the amount
being reduced from 500 to $50. The
report refers o Mr.. Palmer's service at
the head of the senate pension commit
tee, his liberal treatment of the old sol
diers and yet his opposition to large
sentimental pensions based on social
positions and political pull" Under
such circumstances, the report states,
$50 per month is all that Gen. Palmer
himself will annrove
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

In the rejoicing over the records
broken in 1895 by the country's foreign
trade, bank cleariugs, railway earnings.
etc, the fact that the peanut crop was
the largest ever known escaped atten-
tion. The WELD is placed at 1000 600
bushels, and it is estimated that of the
3,G25o37 bushels consumed in 1s9s all
bat the odd 81 met their fate within the
confines Of circus tents. In view of the
large stock the commissioners Of Sum
ter county. Ella. viii have peanuts free
nj meetings Of the board. This is a hint
for otlicc-holders elsewhere, should the
taste for nlums pail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

The famine now raging in Russia af-
fects 10 provinces with a total popuIa-
ton of 10000. 600, or over half the popu-
lation of the United States, and foreign
ers cannot appreciate the awful suffer
ing of the subjects Of the car The
poor are not the only ones who are suf-
fering, for many landed gentry and ter
ritorial nobility are seeking govern
ment and even private relief II IS
stated that the present famine is even
worse than was that Of is9l-ls92 when
the whole world was finally appealed TO
for aid. To add TO the suffering an
other visit from ;he cholera is expected.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

The University of Pennsylvania will
erect a handsome memorial tower at
cost Of 100000, in memory of the under
graduates and alumni who took part in
the Spanish-American war. The world
never before saw an army containing
50 many college graduates; il was an
army IMPLYING education as well as
ability to fght.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
SCENES OF HORROR.
Awful Sights During burning of q
Hungarian ViIIaEe-Men Literally
AbIaze Run About the Streets.

London, Feb. 6.-The Daily Tele-
graph publishes the following dispatch
from Vienna: Terrible scenes were
witnessed in the confagration last
Tuesday night which destroyed the
whole village of Nagyprobroez, in the
Liptau district of Hungary. Twenty
men, literally in flames, ran about the
streets until they dropped insensible
Many were trodden down by maddened
animals. Others were frozen to death
in the open fields, Twenty charred
bodies have been recovered and 90 of
the survivors are suffering from dread
ful burns, several being blinded. The
flames destroyed 600 head of cattle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

Not long ago Secretary Long inter
ested himself in the case of sailor who
entered the navy at the beginning Of
the war and now wanted his discharge.
The secretary asked several officials 10
make out the necessary papers, but
found that the man could only be dis
charged for cause. Finally the secre-
tary said: well, make out his dis
charge because it rained yesterday"
This appears to be a sufficient reason,
for the sailor is no longer in the navy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

Another commission to investigate
the conduct of the war is advocated by
a United States senator. He is evident
~ afraid that the report of the first
commission will not be satisfactory to
him. This is manifestly wrong, and the
senator should be satisfied, at whatever
cost. If Admiral Dewey was eight miles
from shore on the LIST of May, flirting
with a school of mermaids, instead Of
looking for something easy at Manila,
let us have the painful facts at once.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

San Francisco, Feb. 6.-Mrs. Cordoba
Borkin on Saturday was sentenced to
serve the term of her natural life in the
San Quentin penitentiary for the muir
der of Mrs John P. Cunning. Of Dover,
Del. whom she killed by means Of a
box Of poisoned candy, sent through
tho mails
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

Massachusetts Will hereafter kill her
convicted murderers with electricity.
The murderer viii not know the time
at which he is to die, and no press re
ports Of the execution will be attain
able. Should there be any carelessness
or bungling the people will not learn of
it through the newspapers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

During the year 1898 Uncle Sam
printed something like $500 100000
stamps Of the two-cent denomination.
The fact that these stamps, if placed in
a line would reach around the world
and then straight through it with few
thousand miles to spare would seem
to indicate that the Americans are a
reading, thinking and writing people
TO an extent that is but wonderful.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09

\ curious attempt 10 raise 81 silver
certificate 10 Che S. denomination was
discovered the other day at a Boston
bank On the face Of the bin were %
different places where changes or OBJ
alterations had been made. and on the
reverse there were Il more. No attempt
had beer made to change anything but
the numerals and the word one"
wherever it occurred. First, the ones"
were obliterated by erasure and then
VS." were drawn in very fine tissue pa
per and pasted on. About $40 worth of
labor must have been expended in the
preparation of this clumsy 81 swinGse.
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Crclone In Georsin.

Gainesville. Ga, Feb. 6.-The town
of Stilesboro, nine miles from here, was
nearly wiped off the earth Sunday by
a cyclone. No lives were lost, but sew
eral people were injured. The Metho-
dist church, a new structure, was com
pletely demolished and about a dozen
families made homeless.
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Washington, Feb. 6.-The United
States consul at Mannho, Germany,
has reported to the department of state
that Lizette Gerwig Wiedermaier and
Marie Gerwig Wiedermaier, of New
York city, are entitled to an interest
IN the estate of Mrs. Theodore May
thaer, who recently died il his district,
and that Ernest Suffer, of Chicago;
Louise, Bertha and Felicitis Suffer, Of
New York, and Theodore Suffer, Of
Nashville, Tenn, have been left prop
erty by the widow of the late Earl
Suffer
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wiIIInm neturns Thank..

Berlin, Feb. 3.-The Reischanzeiger
publishes an imperial decree in which
the emperor thanks God for His mercy
in permitting him to complete the for
tieth year of his life and the tenth year
of his reign. His majesty also says he
esteems himself happy to have been
able, through his journey to Palestine,
to enhance German prestige abroad,
thanks the people for their manifesto
tions of love and devotion and assures
them he will continue to strive FOR the
maintenance of the peace of the father
land