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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
PERISH BY FLAMES.
Eleven Girls Lose Their Lives mt "a
Christmas Rehearsal at
Quincy, Ill.

Quincy, H., Dec. 23.-While the
school children of st. Francis parochi-
al school, Seventeenth and Vine
streets, were rehearsing Friday after
noon for an entertainment to be given
next Tuesday evening one of their
dresses caught fire from a gas jet
and ten minutes later four of them
were burned to death, two died an
hour later and five others died before
midnight. Half a dozen Others were
burned more or less severely.
The dead are:
Irena Freiburg, May Mavering. Mary
Althoff, Bernadina Freund, Colletta
Middendorf, Mary Hickey, Wilhelmina
Guttendorf, Olivia Timpe, Addie Fut-
terer, Josephine Bohme, Margaret
Warner.
All these girls are between nine and
eleven years of age. Helen Soebbing
and several other teachers, Father
Nicholas and Prof. Frank Mushold
were painfully burned in trying to
save the children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
GREAT BANK
Three New York Institutions, II IL
Said, VIII ConsoIidate-Secretnry
Gnge 10 lie at the Head.

New York, Dec. 26.-The New York
Journal prints the following; A great
financial institution, to be known as
the National bank of the United States
or the United States National bank, is
forming. The bank is to be the result
of the consolidation of the National
City bank and the Hanover national
bank of New York, both controlled by
the Rockefeller money trust, and a
smaller local concern. This CONSOLE
dated institution is TO be, according to
present plans, the central money power
of the United States, just as the Bank
of England, the Bank of France, and the
Imperial Bank of Berlin are in their
respective countries. Secretary of the
Treasury Lyman J.. Gage, after his re-
tirement from the cabinet, is to be-
come the head of the bank. Talks with
officials of the institutions cast doubt
upon the report.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
A Quiet Christmas.

Washington, Dec. 26, Christmas
day, always quiet at the nations cap
itol, was unusually so this year. All of
the executive departments were closed,
and practically all the members of
both branches of congress are out of
the city. Services were held in many
churches, and, as the dinner hour APP
preached, the streets were deserted.
At the white house a quiet day was
spent. About ten o'clock the presi-
dent took a walk alone through the
grounds at the south of the mansion,
and then joined Mrs. Mckinley in the
family living rooms. There were no
callers and no gueets. Neither attend
ed church, and at the usual hour they
dined alone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
THE WALL STREET FURRY
streets Presentation of the
Trade situation.

New York. Dec. Pr. G. Dun & Co IS
weekly review OF trade says: THE worst
day in Wall street for years was in part
the legitimate result of the best year In
business ever known. Because the coun-
try had ~prospered so greatly and had sc
expanded its business. 1t could no Longer
afford 10 have many millions locked up in
carrying stocks representing imaginary
values. The question was not one OF
monetary supply. When the country found
ample use for its capital in regular trade
and productive industry, a contraction OF
loans became necessary which would only
have been more painful IL the volume OF
stocks carried had been larger. Reckoning
from the highest general average last
spring, Industrial stocks had fallen at the
close on Monday 23.T per cent: street
railroad stocks 1890 per cent, and other
railroad and telegraph stocks only GO pei
cent.
The business of the country close to tbs
holidays is necessarily smaller than It has
been, and yet larger than at the same
date in any other year. Exchanges through
principal clearing houses for the week have
been 1871 per cent. larger than last year
and 5o.4 per cent larger than in 1892. In
| GLIDING S2.1 per cent. gain in payments out
side New York. There is not even a sus-
picion of ~unsoundness In any considerable
branch OF industry or trade, the extraor-
binary expansion in some being as well
warranted as the material gain In others.
Failures for the week have been 2o IN
the United States, against 25S last year
and 26 in Canada. against 81 last year.
Bradstreet's says; Holiday trade &C
tivity, of course, reaches its highest de-
velopment during the week now drawing
to a close, and Ii is significant of the pros
porous conditions underlying the genera
business situation that reports almost
without exception point to a volume Of
business having few, If any, parallels IN
previous years. Another significant fea-
ture developed also is that the demand foi
such goods embraces a higher class anc
a more expensive grade of materials, 8
conclusion among trade reporters being
that a larger buying capacity exists now
than in any previous year in the country's
history.
Wholesale trade at this season usually
shows a quoting tendency, but IL Is ques'
tionable whether this tendency is a:
marked this year as i'm former periods. TC
the advanced stage of the season chiefly
and perhaps also to the sentimental effecI
growing out of stringent money condition;
in speculative lines may be charged somt
Of the quietness noted. AS above init.
mated. however. this is less marked thar
in preceding years.
Just how much influence upon current
bank clearings has been exercised by
none market developments, and what ef-
feet anticipations of interest payments
on January /, estimated TO aggregate $100,
100000, have had upon bank clearings Il
would be hard TO state accurately"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
State HistoricaI society

The forty-seventh annual meeting Of
the State Horticultural Society Of Wis
eonsin was held at the society's rooms
in Madison. Secretary Thwaites in his
report said the society has had a sue
cessful year, though always in need of
money, and has received large gifts of
valuable books. Seventeen new curators
were elected to fill vacancies and Ellis
b. Usher, Of La Crosse, was elected vice
president of the society, to succeed DIR.
j. d. Butler, resigned. The reports Of
the treasurer and finance committee
showed that the society's private funds
out at interest amount only to about
$4,000 and are growing slowly. The in.
come is carefully spent in eking out the
small annual state appropriation OF
$4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
HIS LIFE WORK DONE.
Death of the Noted Evangelist,
Dwight L. Moody.
Passes Away at His Home Mt East
N~OrthfeId, Mass.-His Demise
Brought on by
Overwork.

East Mortified, Mass, Dec. a.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist
whose fame was worldwide, died
at his home here at noon Friday
His family were gathered at his bed,
side and the dying mans last mo
ments were spent in comforting them
Early in the day Mr.. Moody realized
that the end was not far off and
talked with his family at intervals,
being conscious to the last except foi
a few fainting spells.
AS the MONDAY hour drew near the
watchers at the bedside noted the APP.
proach of death. Several times his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

In the person of George MeCarroll
now in the county Jail in Jefferson on
the charge Of having assaulted and
robbed the Thoson family at Concord
Sheriff Jaehnke has a man who may
prove TO be a veritabl gold mine TO him
The young fellow has confessed that he
and William Bennett, his partner, are
guilty of the assault on the Thosons
and in addition to that has admitted
that he is well acquainted with the gang
who held up the Northwestern rail
way train near De Kalb, ILL.,, about two
months ago, and for whose arrest a
princely reward has been offered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
onhnn Cnhinet Resigns.

Havana, Dec. 22.-Maj. Gen. Wood,
governor of Cuba, has accepted the res
ionation Of the members of the insular
cabinet, on the understanding that they
were offered in earnest. The members
will remain in charge of their offices,
however, until their successors have
been named, which will probably be by
January l.. The cabinet organized b.
Gen. Brooke has been the subject OF
much criticism by the Cubans and
Americans, and a new set of members
is expected to straighten out many
tangles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

The will of the late Banker John C
Wells, of Fond du Lac, disposes of $50,
900 in money and lands. The widow is
bequeathed the homestead and $4,000
in money; an only son, w. FL. Wells, is
given $22, 900; NJ. T. Simmons, who has
been the manager and cashier in the
Wells banking house for years, is given
the bank building and its fixtures; II. o.
Lewis, assistant cashier, is given $4,000,
and $4,000 is left in trust for his daugh-
ter, Miss Fannie Wells.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

When a soldier enlists in the Eng
fish army he has given him a little vol
ume, containing among other things
three blank forms for a will. These are
usually found properly made out on
the body of the soldiers killed on the
battlefield, but often Wills are left in
other ways. 1t is related that an Eng
Iish soldier, found dead on the battle
field, had scratched on the inside of
his helmet: "All to my wife" using the
end of a bullet to write with. The war
department held the will to be valid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Positively Identified.

Henry r. Corbett, the Milwaukee pic
ture agent, has been positively identi-
fled by Rev. David b. Cheney and Mrs.
Cheney as the man who entered their
home in Racine December 6 and shot
them. Corbett was taken before the
minister and his wife separately, and
both stated that there was not the
slightest doubt that he was the man
who entered their home for the purpose
of robbery and when discovered shot
Rev. Mr.. Cheney and his wife.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

For one year /. d. Merrar and his
wife, of Milwaukee, have mourned as
dead their 13-year-old son Abraham.
The boy left his home one day a little
over a year ago, and was not seen or
heard of until the other day when a let
ter from Manila came which brought
joy to the hearts of the parents, foe it
told them that the youth was alive and
well and serving his country in the Phil
ippine islands. He is orderly for Lieut..
Coleman, of the Thirteenth infantry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
E,n.nc,,I AHatrs IN Boeton.

Boston, Dec. 23.-Another day of TN
rest in Boston's financial circles went
bv without incidents of u startling
nature. The receiyership for the
Globe national bank took nearly every
banker and broker by surprise, and
before business in the money market
began forebodings were dire. BIT
propilesying and fears were not real
lied, for the situation Friday night
was conservatively considered as good,
if not slightly better, than at any time
for a fortnight. Not a failure was an
nounced when the stock exchange was
closed. and money seemed easy.
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killed Himself.

Washington, Dec. 22.-James Duane
Taylor, one of the important officers
in New York city of the Wagner Palace
Car company and a s~on-in-law of the
founder of the company, committed sui
eide Thursday shortly after noon at
the Grafton hotel in this city by cutting
his throat with a razor. Mr.. Taylor was
suffering from some nervous affection
caused by illness, and the fatal act was
committed apparently on the impulse
of The moment. Death was almost in
Simultaneous. The suicide was 63 years
OF age.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Icchousc burned.

Grand Haven, Mich, Dec. 25.-The
mammoth icehouse of the Spring Lake
Ice company, located on Spring lake,
two miles northeast Of this city, was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday morn
ing, entailing a loss of upwards of
100000. 1t was built one year ago by
Chicago capitalists, headed by Barry
Bros, Of the Chicago Independent tug
line. About 10000 tons of ice of last
years cut still remained in the build
ing. 1t is believed to be fully insured.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Prosperity for 1900.

Indications everywhere point to great pros
perity for the coming year. This is an in
variable sign of a healthy nature. The sue
cess Of a country, as well as the success of
an individual, depends upon health. There
can be no health if the stomach is weak. If
you have any stomach trouble try Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters which cures dyspep-
STA, indigestion and biliousness. 1t makes
strong, vigorous men and women.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Woman In FINANCE.

A Detroit man, whose wife was coming to
San Francisco ON a visit, accompanied her
as far as Chicago and put her on the overland
train. Before leaving her he gave the porter
two, telling the man that his wife had the
other half and would give it to him at the
end of the journey if she were properly
looked after. When he got home he found
half of the torn bill, and a few days later he
received a letter from his wife reminding
him Of the fact, and saying she had torn n
dollar bill in two and given half of it to the
porter. Somewhere along the line there
must be a wild-eyed darby with the halves
of two worthless bills in his possession and
a firm conviction that he has been worked
by some sort Of a new fimflam game. Mean
while, the Detroit man is anxious to find out
what sort of reasoning his wife used when
she gave that porter a half instead of the
whole Of that one dollar bill,--San Francisco
ArQonaut.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
DISASTER.
over Forty school Children Playing
on the Ice Are Drowned
In Belgium.

Brussels, Dec. 23.-Upwards of 40
school children were drowned Friday
in an ice accident at ~Frelinghem, near
the French frontier. The children Of
the district had been given a holiday
with permission to play on the frozen
river Lys. When the merriment was
at full height the ice broke suddenly
and the children disappeared. A few
were rescued half dead, but the ma
iority were drowned. Thirty-six bod
have been recovered, but others are
still missing. The catastrophe spread
CONSERVATION throughout the town,
where nearly every family suffered
loss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Victim of Heard Trouble

Milwaukee, Dec. 22.-An Evening
Wisconsin special from Fort Atkin-
son, Wis, says a telegram from Santa
Barbara, Cal, announces the death of
DR.. Edward II. Williams, senior part
ner of the Baldwin locomotive works
of Pennsylvania. Death was due to
heart trouble. DR.. Williams was prom
inently connected with early railroads
in Wisconsin. He was knighted by the
king of Norway and Sweden.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Coal for Italy.

Philadelphia, Dec. 26.-The Italian
steamship Venus, Capt. Trapani, has
arrived from Ancona in ballast to
load upward of 5000 tons of coal for
Genoa. This will be the third shipment
of this kind within the period of a
month. 1t is stated that $4,000 tons
of coal will be shipped from here to
Italy for use on the railroads. Ameri-
can coal is also being exported to
French Mediterranean points, and the
British steamship Inca viii soon be-
gin loading 1000 tons at Newport News
for Marseilles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Sol smtth Russell to Retire.

Chicago, Dec. 22.-Sol Smith Russell
will retire from the stage for a year or
more at the conclusion of his inter
rupted engagement at the Grand Opera
house. He has already recovered sufii-
GENTLY from the attack that compelled
him to discontinue his performance last
Monday evening, and there is nc doubt
he will be able TO resume next Monday
afternoon, as previously announced;
but he will not tax his weakened o n
stitution beyond what will be neces-
sary to fulfill his contract at the Grand
opera house for the next two weeks.
All his engagements thereafter for the
entire season will be cancelled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

The governor of Oklahoma in his an
nual report, filed in Washington, says
that the time is not ripe for the state
hood of Oklahoma, and he recommends
that it would be best to wait awhile. He
believes that the best plan is to join
Oklahoma and the Indian territory and
make one state of them. Such a state,
he says, would be a pride and gratifica-
ton to its people and to the people of
the nation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

Prof. Tieman, who died in Germany
recently, was an eminent chemist. He
made two noted discoveries, one an ex-
tract used largely in place of vanilla, and
the other the production of IN odor of
violetthatis so near perfection that flor
lists now use it to spray odorless v%iolets,
thereby giving them hat matchless per-
fume that makes the violet the most
popular flower of the day. His vanilla
substitute is said t be an exact copy of
The true vanilla extract and impossible
Of detection save by analysis, and not al
ways then. Nature is being beaten at
her own game.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Halls Family Pills are the best.
UnnbIe 10 Pronounce II.

The neighbors of a certain well-known
Memphis Irish family say that the good
housewife and her lord never know what
domestic discord is except when the old man
goes home slightly in his cups. Then there
is trouble. and plenty Of 1t, for the old lady
sistently tried for a score of years to get
"Moike to quit it." The storms, according
to the story, nave grown less violent of late
years, and for that matter the tipsy periods
of "Moike" are not of such frequent recur-
renee as formerly. Not long ago, so the
well tanked, and his wife met him.
"Yis,' she said, "ye're a-comin' home
agin, an t-that drunk. My, my, o, my,
Moike, an why is it yez won't call fur sarsa-
parilla whin We git enuf?"
''Bekase," replied Mike, "whin Oh gifts
enuf Oh can't say 'sar-sas-as-aprilla,' ~
now yez hav it."-Memphis Scimitar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

Marshall, Mich, Dec. 23.-The case
of Mrs. Sanderson, charged with at
tempting to murder her aged husband
by feeding him ground glass in his
oatmeal, went to the jury Friday
evening. Mrs. Sanderson's trial has
been in progress for the past two
weeks.
Just at the stroke of IL the jury
entered the courtroom and returned
a verdict of not guilty.
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VIII hives tigate.

New York, Dec. ga special to the
rotary of State Hay will have a thor
ough investigation made OF the re-
ported seizure by British cruisers of
several cargoes of American flour off
Delagoa bay, South Africa. Instruc-
tions have been sen to the American
consul at Lourenzo Marques, Portu-
guese South Africa, directing him to
make a thorough inquiry and TO DO
everything in his power to prevent il
legal interference with American com
MERGE by either b~elligerent.
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-snnrenir

Washington, Dec. 23.-The post Of
fee department has decided upon an
issue of stamps commemorative of the
Pan-American exhibition at Buffalo
next year. The stamps viii be of the
same size as those now issued and will
be in the denominations of one, two,
four. five, eight and ten cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

Six five-grain capsules of sand after
every meal are now prescribed by a
Chicago doctor as a cure for dyspepsia,
appendicitis and all stomach troubles
by furnishing the digestive apparatus
with the grit which man alone of all
animals has not the sense to pick up
with his food" This is as good a way to
bite the dust as any other.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
Town In Ashes.

Hastings, Mimi, Dec. 26.-Nearly
three blocks of buildings in the bust
ness portion of the town, principally
fronting on Vermillion street, were
burned early Monday with a loss of
about 100000. The fire broke out IN
r. c. Libby & Co.'S sawmill, evidently
the work of an i~ncendiary. and the
entire plant. with planning mill, store
houses, lumber, Office, sheds. etc., was
consumed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28
car. yo,lonaI Convention.

Washington. Dec. 22.-The Ameri-
can Political league has issued a call
for a national convention for the
nomination of candidates for presi-
dent and vice president of the United
States, to be held in Boston July 4,
1900. The councils of each state are
directed to appoint two delegates at
large.
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Charitable work OF salvation Army

New York. Dec. 26.-The Salvation
Army furnished Christmas dinners 10
almost $4,000 persons Monday. They
made the great Madison Square gar
den their headquarters for the day,
and from here in the morning they
gave away over 5000 large baskets of
food, each containing enough for a
family of five persons. In the evening
they took care of over 5000 people of
the poor class and Toasted them to an
excellent turkey dinner and provided
entertainment for them while they
ofa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

A miner in Colorado, disheartened by
hard luck, dug a grave for himself with
the intention of getting into it and then
blowing his brains out. Three feet I'M
der the surface of the ground he struck
a pay streak" and sold it the next day
for $4,000. If you are thinking of self
destruction, try digging your own
Urava
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Gov. Poynter Berenved.

Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 26.-Willian
Chapman Poynter. father of Gov. Poyn.
ter, died Monday at his home al Albion
aged 10. He was born in Kentucky
lived many years at Eureka, ILL.,, and
has been a resident of Nebraska Il
years. Gov. Poynter was with his faith.
or when he died.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton in New York city are making a
strong effort to save the famous Hamil-
ton trees of ST. Nicholas n at One
Hundred and Forty-second street. The
trees are the ones left of the original I3
planted by Alexander Hamilton to com
memorate the 1S original states. 1t is
likely that the society will buy the lot
and have it neatly fenced in. If they
cannot raise enough money to buy the
place the trees win be cut down and a
block will be built thereon. We Ameri-
cans co not pay enough attention 10 the
preservation ofsuch Observation-Disclosures
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Chargea with Parricide

Clinton. H., Dee. 25.-Arthur Pryor,
a vandalia youth. was arrested here
late Saturday on a charge of murder
ing his father. whose mysterious death
occurred a week ago. The young man
protests his innocence. 1t is thought
he viii be taken to Vandalia for trial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-12-28

Masons from nearly every jurisdic-
tion in the United States participated
in the centennial memorial services at
Mount Vernon. Washington was buried
with masonic honors, and the members
of the lodge at Alexandria constituted
the main part of the little procession
which followed his remains from the
residence to the vault at Mount Yer
nor. The han at Alexandria where the
masons met in W~ashington's time is
much the same hat it was in his day,
and the apron worn by him is still
rhnrNn