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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

The Terrace Beach hotel at Green
Lake, Wis, was burned, and S. r. jerks
and wife persisted in the flames.
President McKinley's northwestern
tour ended on the 18th at Youngstown,
o., so far as speechmaking was CON
cerned. During the day he spoke at
Cleveland, Warren and Niles, and at
Youngstown he attended the wedding
of his nephew. At ten p. m. the presi-
Dental party left for Washington.
Carl Schurz, of New York, was elect
ed chairman of the organization com
mittee at the anti-imperialist meeting
in Chicago and the committee was given
power to create national league of an
ti-imperialsts and petition was
adopted calling on congress to end the
Philippine war.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union national convention began at
Seattle, Wash.
The supreme court of Illinois has rem
dered a decision declaring the Amer
lean Glucose company of Peoria a trust
and its charter in violation of the anti
trust laws of Illinois of 1891 and 1892.
In Portland, Ore, William Grewer,
formerly a well-known caterer, killed
Mrs. Jennie lie Grow and then killed
himself
The Wisconsin tobacco crop is the
1 largest on record. More will be grown
next year,
Fires have been lighted in the fur
mace of the Duluth (lilnn.) Furnace
company, after being idle five years.
With headquarters at Omaha. Neb..
Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry has been as
I signed to the command of the depart
meut of the Missouri.
At st. AIMS, Miss, burglars robbed
the house Of j. IL. Gambrill and then
fred the building, and Mrs. Gambrill,
two grown daughters and two little
boys were burned.
James and John Faulks and young
daughter of James Sparks were killed
/ i'm fight at country dance at Drip
Rock, Ky.
Near Donnelly, Mimi, Joseph Haigh.
a farmer, shot his 21year-old son TO
\ death and then shot himself.
At St. Anne. Miss, Joseph Lefore, a
/ hCSAhs WIZ NQuitSSGu bhAt liz 81 ~ z W
1 the house in which Mrs. j II. Gambrel
and four children were burned 10 death.
| was burned at the stake by a mob.
The Pullman Palace Car company
has absorbed the Wagner Palace Car
company.
John r. Jarnett, aged 40 years, killed
Miss Eliza Perapp, at Centralia, Mo-,
because she Tilted him and then shot
himself dead.
! ira C. Hatch killed Miss Ruby Sher-
man in a lovers quarrel in Grand Rap
/ ids. Mich. and then killed himself
Under the command of Col. j. {.
Lopez the Fifty-frst regiment OF Iowa
volunteers. numbering T64 men and 46
/ officers, arrived in San Francisco from
Manila,
Fire destroyed 81 buildings in South
/ Chicago and Us persons were left home
less.
The appointment of brigadier gen
eral in the newly-formed volunteer
service has been accepted by Brig. Gen.
Funston. and be viii return to the
Philippines as soon as the Twentieth
Kansas, his former regiment. is mus
tered out
Mrs John NJ Wilson, a widow, and
Bnclner Mckee, a prominent farmer,
were found dead by the roadside near
/ Lawrenceburg, Ky.
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A MOB'S REVENGE.
Negro In Mississippi Burned Mt the
stake for Participation in an
Awful Crime.

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 21.-A special
to the Scimitar from Canton, Miss,
saws: The little town of st. Anne, 20
miles east of Canton, in Leake county,
was Thursday night the scene of hor-
rible tragedy-a sequel to the burning
of the Gambrel family the night be
fore. Joe Lefore, negro, who was
captured by posse, confessed that he,
in company with other negroes, had
tied Mrs. Gambrel and her four chill
dren to the floor of the house, saturated
the surroundings with kerosene, and
burned the unfortunate people alive.
The negro, after the confession of the
awful crime, was promptly roped to a
stake and burned TO crisp, while the
citizens looked on in grim silence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Poetzl were re-
married in Appleton by Justice Len
non. a divorce was granted them about
a month ago.
While hunting near Kellogg's Cor
ners, James Dooley, of Racine, shot a
large gray eagle measuring nine feet
from tip to tip.
Capt. Andrew fainter, of Menominee.
vice president of the firm of Knapp.
Stout & Co., and millionaire lumber,
man, died at Rice Lake of pneumonia.
He was 20 years old.
John G. Walsh, of Richland Center.
has received a sack of gold nuggets
from his brother, who has been in the
Klondike two years.
James McBrien, while hunting near
Lancaster, shot away nearly all of his
right hand. Mr.. McBrien is registrar in
probate.
The yacht Glad Tidings, which was
sailed in Washburn BY Capt. Bundy the
Lake Missionary" five years ago, went
ashore on the rocks in the bay and was
pounded to pieces. No lives were lost.
Oneida post, No. 27S, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has been organ
lied at Depere. This il, the first Indian
grand army post in Wisconsin and pos
sibly in the United States.
Wisconsin has cleared $40 ,SS8.01 from
interest ON deposits in banks during the
first nine months of this year.
Harry Brown, aged so, was instantly
killed by a freight train at Brooklyn.
Peter Peterson, a well-known farmer at
Porterfeld, committed suicide by hang
ing. Dependency over lawsuit which
went against him was the cause. He
was 60 years old and worth $4,000.
A civil service examination for postal
clerks and carriers will be held in La
Crosse November Is.
George Thurston, aged 10 years,
brother of Eugene Thurston, of Neenah,
was killed in football game in Delphos,
Kan.
DR.. L. j. Oliver had desperate strug-
gle in his office at Eden with Thomas
Flaherty, lunatic, and but for the
Nmely assistance of neighbors would
undoubtedly have been killed.
A cablegram received at Eau Claire
from Capt. McGrath at Manila says that
he expects a speedy recovery from his
wound.
G. La Vigne, a well-known raftsman
in Stevens Point, has been committed
to the northern hospital for the insane.
Ike Millen, an old freight conductor
on the Duluth & Iron Range, was i'm
stantly killed at Cloquet River. Hia
home was at Two Harbors. He leaves
a large family.
The police and firemen whose salaries
were reduced three years ago are pre-
pairing TO sue West Superior for the bal
ance alleged to be due them on ae-
count.
Fire destroyed the depot, the opera
house, the Elsen hotel and numerous
business houses in Bangor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
SHE STOOD HIGH.
Her Name Had Appeared in the So
cicty Column and She
Was Arrogant.

A family living in a North side flat lately
welcomed a new housemaid. The girl had
Just come from Michigan and her appear
ance was prepossessing. Soon after her ad-
vent it was discovered that she was inclined
to treat the family with patronizing air.
MARY, you must do better, or shall have
10 find some one TO take your place, the
mistress remarked the other morning,
Il don't allow anyone to speak to me that
way, replied Mary, with toss OF her head.
Pm just as good as you are, and ] want
YOU to know it.
Mary houneed cut of the room and re-
turned in two minutes with the weekly pa
per from her town. Among the social items
was the following:
Miss Mary Hansen has gone to Chicago
to spend the winter. Miss Hansen is an ae-
l5nowledged belle in the leading circles Of
Sawdust Creek
Mary waited until her employer had had
time to read the personal and then she
said, with whitening scorn:
CAS- | have always been accustomed to GO
ing with the very best in my town, and as |
don't believe you ever have your name on
the society page Of the Sunday papers, |
guess cant afford TO stay with you.
The North side woman declared the do
nestle incident closed. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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FoREIGN TNTELLIGENCE.

The insurs ents were defeated in an
engagement at San Isidro between the
forces of Gen. Young and the Filipinos
under Gen. Pho del Pillar. The Amer
lean loss was one killed and three
wounded. Gen. Lawton will hold San
Isidro as a base of northern operations.
Advices from Cape Town say the
Beers attacked Mafeking and the Brit
ish made a feigned retreat. The burgh-
ers followed them almost into the town
and were drawn over lyddite mines laid
for defense. The mines exploded, kill
ing 1900 Beers. Four thousand Brit
ish troops between Glencoe and Dun
dee were cut off from Ladysnith and
trapped by Joubert's forces.
The American proposition for the
temporary adjustment Of the Alaskan
boundary dispute has been formally ac-
cepted by Great Britain.
In .the republic of Colombia martial
law has been proclaimed as result of a
liberal revolution.
In San Domingo Juan Isidro Jimines
has been elected president.
In the Transvaal the first really de-
cisive battle was fought and won by
the British in the immediate vicinity
of Glencoe. Gems. Symons and Hunter
led the British, Gen. Joubert the Beers.
The losses were serious on both sides.
The British have $50 killed and wound
ed, while the Boer loss is estimated at
500 killed and wounded. Gen. Symons
was mortally wounded,
A Manila dispatch says that Ameri-
can troops have cleared the road of
rebels from San Fernando to Arayat
Insurgents made an attack on
Oceania, between Arayat and Cabiao,
and Maj, Guy Howard, division quarter
master, and son of Gen. o. o. Howard,
of Burlington, VT. was killed The
rebels were repulsed. Gen. Otis has re-
fused to receive the latest Filipino com
mission.
Dispatches from Cape Town say that
the Beers have been driven from
Elandslaagte, an important strategical
position between Ladysmith and Glen
coe. In the battle the Beers had 400
men killed and the British $50. Among
the killed is Gen. Jan Kock, of the
Transyaal army.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
Postal Money Orders.

Washington, Oct. 24.-The annual re-
port of the money order system of the
post office department shows total
issue during the year amounting to
1924, 95S, 1868, an increase of $20,364,49
over last year. The total earnings of
the system aggregating Sl,59l,63S,
show an increase of $395,004. On these
orders a war revenue tax Of $579,sS6 was
collected. There were 1896 new money
order offices added and 29,007,S70 do
nestle and s,501 international money
orders issued.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
A Disastrous wreck.

Wabash, Ind, Oct. pa frightful
wreck occurred on the Wabash road
about four miles from here about 1880
o'clock Monday evening, by which one
man was killed, seven box cars and a
new engine were completely wrecked.
Thirteen loaded cars broke loose from
freight train No. 70 and ran down a
grade to point where there is sharp
curve in the track. Train No. 81, COM
ing west at a lively rate of speed, struck
the cars with terrible force. The en-
CINE was thrown 20 feet from the track
and the cars were smashed into splin-
+arc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

The largest sale of lumber ever made
on Chequamegon bay has been closed
by the Keystone Lumber company, OF
Ashland. ii consists of the entire cut
of the keystone mill for the season OF
1899 to the Edward Hines Lumber com
pany, of Chicago. This will include not
only the merchantable lumber, but
will also include all of the short lum-
Der. The sale will approximate 5o,0oo,-
600 feet and in value will represent
something over 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

So soon as nature sees an improvement,
there is a change TIE candle gave way to
electricity. Thespinningw to machinery,
the horse 10 the automobile The fact that
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been sold
for over half a century, proves its value.
There is nothing to equal it for stomach or
liver trouble 1t Nature own remedy, and
the only one to cure dyspepsia or weak
etonac h
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
Perish in a Blizzard.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. IA spe-
cial to the Times from Great Falls, Mont,
says: Nine men persisted in the recent
blizzard. Five bodies have been recov-
cred and it is probable this is not half
the list. The last body found was that
of II, Herald, a sheep herder. The sheep
had eaten off his beard, clothing and
part of his boots. Several bands OF
sheep without herders have been wan
dering in that country and point 10 I'M
l,nnVvn dea tbs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

The American army mule is tough
proposition, but he cannot stand every
thing. The steamer Siam, which had
over $50 mules on board, bound for
Manila. encountered a typhoon on the
way, and the chief kicking done by
NEST of the animals was kicking the
bucl-at
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

New York city is excited over an
other terrible murder case. The dis
membered body of beautifully formed
woman was found scattered all over
the city, the torso being found in the
river by boy, the arms in another place
a mile away, and other members and
pi 'es Of the body in different places
a wi the city. All parts of the body
have now been found except the head.
The police have been unable to disclose
the identity Of the murdered woman,
nor have they anything more than
"clews" as to the murderer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
THEIR SUMMER VACATIONS.

Charles Hoyt, the playwright, was at
Lake George.
VIII Carleton took his family to his
mountain home at Bethlehem, \. II.
Laurence Hutton went to England,
renting Max Muller's house at Oxford.
John Kendrick Bangs spent his brief
rest from work at Thousand Islands.
Franklin Fyles, the playwright, his
wife and daughter were at Narragan-
sett for the summer.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson has a
summer htne, Glimpsewood, Dub
lin, n. II.
Mrs. Alden, better known as ''Pansy,'
spent her summer up and down the
Massachusetts, coast.
Prof. John I. Trowbridge, whose boys
stories are famous, was at Spouting
Rock, Kenfiebunkport, Me.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

If they only had revolutions and rebel
lions and wars on the South American
plan in other parts of the world it would
be possible to have more of them and
thus add 10 the excitement and gayety
all the plans are made for another upris-
ing, and so perfect is the stage manage
ment of the spectacle that there is every
assurance that there will be no fighting
when the government is overturned
The present ruler will simply bide his
time and watch for an opportunity tc
sneak into the state house again when
o one is looking.
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~ puiId nc steel Nils.

Cleveland, O., Oct. 20.-Steel mills
which will rival in size the big johnson
plant at Lorain, o., will soon be estab-
lshed at Fairport Harbor, few miles
east of this city. The cost is said TO be
IS 900, goo. Cleveland capitalists are
back of the enterprise. The name will
be the Holly Steel company. One thou
sand acres of land have been secured,
with frontage of 1850 feet on the
river
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

The sultan Of Turkey has ordered the
repairing ard rebuilding, with govern
ment assistance, of all Armenian
churches, schools ant monasteries de-
stroyed in the riots of 1896 and 1897.
This is a heavy contract, as some of the
oldest monastefies in Asia Minor were
destroyed and hundreds of churches
and schools The same order removes
restrictions imposed upon Armcnians
and in general way complies with the
demands of the European powers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
Heavy Failure.

New York, Oct. 23.-F. Tennyson
Nelly, book publisher. who has been
in business at ia Fifth avenue for a
number of years, filed a voluntary pc
tition in bankruptcy Saturday after
noon in the United States district court.
The total liabilities are placed at $780,
sal. The assets are placed at S414, 739.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

Chicago, Oct ga business block
in South Chicago, embracing IA build
ings, was burned Sunday, causing loss
of 100000, and painfully iniuring II
persons. The fire originated in the rear
of Peter Hanson's saloon. All the prop
erfy was insured.
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secretnrx Long commented

Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct, "a. Resolutions
were adopted atMonday's session of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal church, COM
mending Secretary Long for his recent
official decision forbidding the sale OF
strong drink in the navy and request
ing President Mckinley to give his
sanction to the enforcement of the anti
canteen law. Mrs. Clinton b. Fisk, of
New York, was reelected president.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

Gen. Miles and party are on an ex-
tended tour of inspection of the army
posts of the west.
The death of John X. Pollard, United
States consul general at Monterey,
Mexico, occurred at Carthage, O.
1t is said that George Bullock, con-
Wet in the Minnesota penitentiary,
converted, has confessed to three MUIR
ders in Illinois and one in Missouri.
At Naco, Ariz., war between Amer
leans and Mexicans broke out and four
Mexicans and one American were
killed.
At Sagua la Grande, Cuba, tornado
killed ten persons and destroyed sew
eral buildings, among them being the
American hospital.
A mob hanged John Gray (colored),
implicated in the murder of the Gam
brell family at st. Anne, Miss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

Sometimes a stream of cold water is
more effective than a cannon shot.
When the Dewey naval parade was
forming the excursion boats crowded in
so that they were directly in the path of
the parade. The guard line of torpedo
boats ordered them back but some re-
fused to move. One of the torpedo boats
fred n blank shot across the bows of a
number of offending vessels, and stiil
they refused TO move. just then the
freboat New York started one Of her
piant streams of water, and, swinging
around toward the excursion boats,
made them hurry back into their places.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
In,rn Trnnns Lnndel.

San Francisco, Oct. 24.-The Fifty
first regiment of Iowa volunteers, NUM-
boring 764 men and 46 officers, under
the command of Col. j. c. Lopez, ar
rived here from Manila on the trans
port Senator. Adjt. Gen. Byers, of
Iowa, representing Gov. Shaw, and 800
citizens of Iowa met the Senator at
the Golden Gate in a number of tugs.
They received royal reception from
Tho yolIlptaprs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
To Chnnge the Name.

A movement has been started TO
change the name of Sturgeon Bay to
Otumba, and if the required number of
signatures is secured bill viii be in
troduced at the next session of the
legislature. Originally the place was
named Otumba. The village 'of Stur-
geon Bay was incorporated in 1874, and
it has been the county seat Of Door coun-
ty since 1857.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

Ella Ewing, the giantess, has com
pleted her residence near CORN, Mo.
The house was built on a scale proper
Tomato with Miss Ewing's needs. The
doors are ten feet high and the ceilings
and windows look like those of tabled
giants castles. She is still growing, and
is now eight feet and four inches tall.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
Night Waterman killed.

William j. Tulis, night Waterman at
the brewery of the Finke-Uhen Brewing
company, in Burlington, was shot and
killed by robbers. His body was found
by employees as they were coming TO
work. The robbers were evidently
frightened after the murder, as they
left without securing any booty. Tulis
leaves a wife and three children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

That was a happy conception and
based on historic presidents of an
nouncing Admiral Dewey's arrival in
Vermont by bonfres on the mountain
tops. 1t was the primitive way of tel
egraphing and has told many patri-
otto message.
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some Other plan Necessary.

"The trusts" exclaimed the excited in
dividual, who, so to speak, was at the ora
torical bat, must be frozen QUIT
The trust microbe in the audience slapped
the typhoid fever microbe on the back anc
laughed derisively.
He isn't up with the latest discoveries il
science, it said. "IIe doesn't know that We
can stand temperature of 3l2 degrees be
low zero!' Chicago Tribune.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


The state board of control has finished
auditing the annual accounts Of the
county asylums for the fiscal year ended
September 80. The total amount to be
paid to the counties of the state for the
maintenance of the insane for this time
will be 1854, 479.29. Of this amount the
state pays 65,065.99. The board also
audited the annual accounts of the three
state institutions which receive $3.50 a
week for each patient from the counties
from which the patients came. These
institutions Will receive altogether from
various counties the following amounts:
State hospital for the insane at Mem
dota, $33,961.49; northern hospital for
insane at Oshkosh, S51, 1850; industrial
school for boys at Waukesha, SIS, 726.03.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

The good Indian" is soon to have his
first monument. The Minnesota Val
ley Historical society is about to build
a granite shaft so feet high to the mem
ory of the good Indians who befriended
white settlers during the Sioux rebel
lion of 1869. The monument is to be
located on state land near the village of
Morton
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Increased Earnings.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-The earnings of
the Chicago Great Western railway,
Maple Leaf Route for the second
week in October, 1899, show an increase
of SOS. s37.22. Total increase since be-
ginning of fiscal year (July y to
date. $324,602.64. The 21a per cent.
semi-annual dividend on preferred stock
A is already earned in the first quar-
ter of the fiscal year, and surplus be-
sides of $40 231.7S
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

If there were more Spaniards like the
Duo dArcos, the Spanish minister at
Washington, his country would appear
in a better light before the world. The
duke pays great tribute TO Admiral
Dewey as a brave and noble man, who
fully deserves the honor he is receiving.
And what is still better, the duke says
there are now absolutely no differences
between the United States and Spain,
and it is the hope of ali true Spaniards
that this condition shall exist, and he
adds that it is the ambition of his life
to bring about the very utmost Of good
feeling and good will"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26

In order TO rcfute the charge that the
automobile is a menace to thessafety of
pedestrians a paper published in Paris,
where the motor carriages are extern
sively used publishes listof accidents
caused by horse and horseless vehicles,
which is greatly in favor of the latter.
Automobiles. according to this show
ing. caused one death and SO wounds,
While during the same time 67 persons
we're killed and rs injured by horses.
The moral is plain; sell your horse and
buy an automobile. At the Paris rate,
the horse is the best advertising me-
dunn the horseless carriage can have.