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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-19
Silver Men Active.

With the exception of ex-senator Man
tie, every one of the silver Republican
leaders of the 1896 campaign is active
and energetcally in favor of the closest
possible utilization between all the silver
FORCES, and many of them are in favor
or an absolute merging of all parties
to the 1896 and 1900 compacts under the
name OF the greatest of the parties Yet
notwithstanding this unanimity of senti-
ment on the part of the men who led the
revolt four years ago, the four mountain
gold Republican senators are mainly re-
lying for success on the return of the
silver Republicans TO the old party
Representative Shaforth of Denver put
the position of the true silver Republicans
very strongly when he said today: How
any silver Republican who was honest in
1896 and 1898 can possibly support the Nc
Kinley Republicans Is beyond my com
prehension. The only change that has
been made in the currency situation is
that the Mckinley party has riveted and
spiked the gold standard on the country.
and relies on a Republican senate TO keep
II spiked. That. any Of the states Of the
west which exhibited such loyalty to sill
yer can be expected to retain in the SEN
ate the men who helped to do the spiking
is beyond belief. 1 do not think a Single
one of them will be returned
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
NEEDS OF THE NAVY.
Rear Admiral CrOwninshieId Says
1t Is Sadly In Need of More
Men.

Washington, Nov. l2-The startling state
ment is made in the report of Rear Admiral
Crowninshield chief of the navigation
navy would form barely one-fourth of the
total establishment necessary to fight a
tirst-class European power. 1t barely suf-
feed for the Spanish war. and no longer
can be considered. the report says as an eff
fective nucleus about which a larger estab-
lishment could be formed in case of war
This need of the navy for officers and men
is declared to be most urgent. The naval
academy is said to be suffering for want of
instructors, and the present high standard
of training cannot be maintained. Every
bureau In the department is short of Off
GERS, and the service, the report predicts
soon will fall behind in the struggle. first
for leadership. and then for equality with
the other services. The report severely
criticiseS the ineffective effort of congress
at the last session to meet immediate needs
for officers by authorizing the employment
of retired officers. and demands the i'm
mediate repeal of that act. 1t is recon-
ments to the naval academy be doubled.
the president and represe ntatives in con-
gress appointing two instead of one wher-
ever authorized now, and in addition SEN
ators being given the same privilege of ap-
pointment as representatives. Then, to
meet future needs, it is recommended that
whenever congress authorizes an increase
of vessels to the navy it also provide in the
same act, for an increase of officers and
men to man the ships.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
AGREE ON TERMS.
Conditions of the Preliminary Treaty
Decided Upon by Foreign En-
vOys mt Picking.

London. Nov. 13.-Dr. Morrison, wir-
ing to the Times from Peking Sunday,
says: Pressed by the common desire
for a speedy termination of present
conditions, the forsign ENJOYS hive
finally agreed TO the following terms,
to be presented in a conjoint note,
which, subject to the approval of the
governments. will be pressed upon
China as the basis of preliminary
treaty:
China shall erect monume mt to Baron
Won Ketteler on the site where he was MUIR
dered, and send an imperial prince to Ger
many to convey all apology. She shall in
fiict the death penalty upon II princes and
officials already named, and suspend pro-
vincial examinations for five years where
the outrages occurred. In future all Of
ficials failing to prevent anti-foreign out
RACES within their jurisdiction shall be
dismissed and punished. CThis Is a modi-
fication of Mr.. Conger's proposal)
Indemnity shall be paid to the states,
corporations and individuals. The tsung-
li-yamen shall be abolished, and its func-
tions vested in foreign minister. Rational
intercourse shall be permitted with the
emperor, as in civilized countries.
1.-The forts at Taku and the other forts on
the coast of Chi LII shall be RACED and .be
Importation of arms and war material pro-
hibited. Permanent legation guards shall
be maintained, and also guards of COM
munication between Picking and the sea
Imperial proclamations shall be posted
for two years throughout the empire sup
pressing Boxers.
THE indemnity is to include compensa-
ton for Chinese who suffered through be-
ing employed by foreigners. but not com
pensation for native Christians"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
SURPRISED THE BOERS.
man and Vermass on Their Guard
and Defeats Them.

London, Nov. 13.-The war office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
Johannesburg, Saturday, Nov. l0-Me-
theun surprised Commandments Snyman
and Vermass, near Lichtenburg, yesterday.
Three dead Beers were found and 80 pris-
oners and several wagons were captured.
There were no casualties among the Brit
ish.
"Kelly-Kenny reports that Maj Mackin-
Josh. of the Seaforth highlanders, occupied
Philippolis November s. The Beers fled
in all directions. Three wounded were
brought to our hospital. Surgeon Hartley
and seven men were wounded.
"Lyttleton reports that Kitchener sue
cessfully surprised the Beers during the
night of November :. A mounted party of
the Nineteenth Hussars and the Manches-
ter mounted infantry, under Capt. Chef
wode. managed TO pass the Boer outpost.
and while the latter engaged the enemy's
picket the hussars charged the Beers in the
several on-commlssioned officers behaved
with great gallantry, but the hussars would
probably have suffered severely as they
got into bad ground. had not they been
supported by the mounted infantry. In the
morning artillery and infantry Joined Chef
wode's force and completed the Boer rout.
who are said to have lost heavily.
Smith Dorrien's wounded, who re-
turned from the Boer camp, report that
Commandant Prinsloo and Gen. Fourie
were killed and that Gen. Grobelar was
wounded in the recent fighting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15

Loren Wolcott, aged 100 years, 6
months and IS days, died at his home
at Sparta. He lived long enough TO
hear election returns, which was his
ambition.
AL Haviland, unmarried, was shot
and instantly killed by the accidental
discharge of rifle at Rhinelander.
John Burg, the well-known society
man, who was arrested in Kenosha last
August on a charge of rifiiDg the mails,
has been sentenced to 30 days in Jail
and fined 800.
Mike DAILY, a young man at North
La Crosse, was sentenced TO two years
in the penitentiary for the theft of
$3.50 from the person of sawmiIl en-
ploye.
Mrs. Mary Carpenter, OF Bristol, has
employed lawyer and will attempt TO
collect 100000 from the British gov
eminent. According to her claim the
money is due from the unsettled estate
of her brother
Bernard O'Shaugnessey, of Steller-
ales, who was hurt in New Richmond in
football game, died of peritonitis.
The last vestige of the mound build
ers in the roadway between Osceola
and ST. Croix Falls has been demol-
ished
Bishop Grafton. assisted by bishops
and priests. consecrated RI Rev. Reg
inald Heber Weller, of Stevens Point,
as coadjutor bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Fond du Lac.
A snowstorm extended over the
northern part of the state. Three
inches fell in Brillion, Langlade, Villas,
Ashland and Douglas counties, making
fine weather for deer hunting.
Prof. David S. Gibbon. principal of
the schools of Oshkosh, died while WIS.,
iting friends at Kenosha.
In trying TO fix an electric light in
front of his home in Milwaukee George
J. Pinter was instantly killed. He
lowered the lamp and took hold of
live wire. He was "a years of age.
Fred Oxholm, while engaged in re-
pairing leak in gas main in Ste
vens Point, was asphyxiated and was
found dead in the trench.
a. y. naiNeTSon, president OF lne
Sunshine orphans industrial school
at Auburndale, was killed by being
run over by Wisconsin Central pas
senger train.
John NJ. Kohler, aged So. president
of the Kohler, Hayssen & Stein Man
ufacturing company, died suddenly OF
heart failure in Sheboygan.
Conductor Morris Gee was killed by
a freight train at Juda. He was get
ting off the train and fell under the
wheels. He leaves a wife and child
in GAINESVILLE.
Several suspicious circumstances
point to the belief that Harry Nor
rison, of Niroqua, did not commit sui
eide, but was murdered for the $240
in his possession. Morrison died at
Black River Falls on October Is.
A patent metal boat, buoyed with
air chambers, sank in Pewaukee lake
and carried down with ii Herman 4.
Wittig, a plumber of Milwaukee.
Fred Grant, a well-to-do farmer near
Palmyra. lost his left hand at the
wrist in corn husking machine.
August Gonsky, a farmer 60 years
old. residing in the town of York
Vile, was gored tt drath by bull
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
R. G. DUN IS DEAD.
The Head of the Famous Mercantile
Agency Expires in New York
His Career.

New York, Nov. 12.-R. G.. Dun, head
of the mercantile agency firm of Il.
G. Dun & Co., died in this city Sat
urday of cirrhosis of the liver.
Robert Graham Dun was born in Chilli
sothe o., in 1926. He began his business
career at the age of 16 in a country store.
Early in life he came to New York, where
he secured employment in the mercantile
agency then conducted by Tappan q Doug
lass. In 1854, six years after he first en-
tered the employ of the firm, he became
partner of Mr.. Douglass, under the firm
name of B. Douglass & Co. Later the firm
was known under the name of Dun,
LYMAN & Co. In 1859 Mr. Dun purchased
the interest in the business held by his
partner. and was senior partner In the firm
of r. G. Dun & Co. up to the time OF his
death.
The decedent was prominent figure In
the business world for nearly half CEN
fury. The wonderful development and
growth of the firm was due largely to his
individual effort and untiring application
to the ever-increasing details of manage
ment. Under Mr.. Duns management the
scope of the agency has steadily enlarged.
Every year has seen an Increase in the
number of branch offices and the volume
of business done, until in the present year
there is total of $50 offices located in as
many different cities throughout the world.
The reference book published by the firm
contains the names of more than 100000
traders In America The work of revision
each year involves the expenditure of about
0na nO0
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
The Dominion Elections.

Ottawa. Ont, Nov. 10.-Almost COM
plete returns from the Dominion cleo
tions show the following results: Lib
erals elected. 1873; conservatives. rs; in
dependents, 3. There are five elections
to be held At present the government
majority over the conservatives is So
and over conservatives and independ-
ents 40. As the independents are likely
to go with the government the ma or-
ity will be So over the conservatives.
The five constituencies in which cleo
tions are to BE- held are also likely to go
liberal. four of them being represent
ed by the liberals in the last parlia-
ment giving the liberals majority OF
60 in full house.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
DOINGS OF A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

Further returns show that the plu-
rality of the popular vote secured by
William Mckinley for president viii be
over $4,000, the largest ever gwen
a candidate for the Office.
At cabinet meeting in Washington
aggressive prosecution of the cam
paign in the Philippines was decided
upon.
In his annual report Rear Admiral y
5. Kenny, paymaster of the navy, says
that during the last fiscal year he
handled 1929, 249.O5O. and has balance
on hand of SAG, 135,059.
For the murder of William Brooks
on June %. 1898, Frank W. Funk was
hanged in Washington, ID. c.
During the last ten months the ex-
ports Of domestic products amounted
to 1865. 91s.s73, an increase over the
same period in 1899 of Ss2.055,000
In his annual report Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Jones says the red
men are as numerous now as in the
time of Columbus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15

The city OF New York will erect
monument to the memory of heroes
of the Maine
From Boston the gunboat Vicksburg
sailed for Manila.
At national prohibition headquar-
tiers il was estimated that the total
vote in the nation would exceed 4OO,-
GOO.
In Philadelphia secret service Off
cials arrested four women engaged in
making counterfeit money.
The state of Massachusetts has
2. sO5, 346 inhabitants; increase, 25.2
per cent Maine has 694, 46S; increase,
five per cent.
At Reynoldsville, Pa, G. NJ. Harding
killed his wife and himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated
81, 553. 939, 652, against $1,673, 134,2s4
the previous week The decrease COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1899 was 81.
In the United States there were
pol business failures in the seven daye
ended on the 9Th. against 1913 the week
previous and l57 the corresponding pc
riod of 1899.
BY an explosion of gas in the Buck
Mountain colliery near MahanOy City,
Pa, one man was killed and five 9th
ers fatally injured.
Robert &. Dunn, head of the mercan-
tile agency firm of r. &. Dun d Co.,
died in New York, aged IA years.
In Vineyard sound. off Boston, the
schooner Myra II, Weaver was wrecked
and six lives were lost.
Secretary of War Root left New York
for Cuba.
At the age of Al years Lieut. Com
mander Stokeley Morgan, L. S. N. re-
tired. who fired the first gun at the
Spanish feet in the battle of Manila
bay, died at his home in Roxbury.
Mass.
The population of New Jersey is
1893. 500, an increase of 43s,726 in ten
years.
c. H. Pinkham, president and man
ager of the Lydia +. Pinkham Medicine
company, died in Lynn, Mass, aged So
wears
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
THE INDIAN SERVICE.
Commissioners Jones Makes Recon-
mendations for Their support
Indian schools.

Washington. Nov. 12-The total expendl-
ture by the government on account OF the
Indian service from March T. 1879, up to and
Including July 30, 1900, has been $36S, 1858 2l7,
according to the annual report of Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs William A. Jones.
The expenditures for the fiscal year ended
last July amounted to sl017 ,107. OF this
amount at least 1890, COO was devoted to
the cause of Indian education.
Under the head of obstacles to self-sup-
port of the Indians the report deprecates
the ration system, annuity payments and
the leasing of aliotments. The ration sys
tenn, says the report, is the corollary of the
reservation system. The InGian population
of the United States is about 267, 900 of
which IS go receive daily ration. The ra-
ton issued and its value vary according
to the tribe. Nearly two-fifths of the num-
Der receiving rations belong to the great
Sioux nation. The ration has been grad
ually reduced in the past few years in ac-
cordance with the policy of the Indian
bureau. If the Indians claim for full ra
lions as right is conceded, the commits
sioner predicts that the time when they
will be self-supporting lies in the very dis
tant future, if it comes at all. A number
of the Indians also are assisted by occa-
sional issues and at several agencies the
old and INDECENT are provided for. These
aggregate about 1850. Altogether there
are 81. $40 Indians receiving subsistence in
some degree. exclusive of Indian children in
boarding schools The commissioner urges
that the indiscrimdnate issue of ations
should stop at once. The old and helpless,
he says, should be provided for but rations
should be issued to the able-bodied only
for labor. while those who have been edu-
Gated in Indian schools should depend en-
tirely on their own resources.
Annuities distributed last year aggre-
gated $1,507,543, the per capita ranging from
S255 down to so cents. The report says that
large money payments to the Indians are
demoralizing in the extreme. They de-
grade the Indians and corrupt the whites;
they induce pauperism and scandal and
crime; they nullify all the good effects of
years of labor. INSCRIPTIONS people induce
the Indian TO go into debt, and then, when
the debt has accumulated and the Indians
credit is gone pressure is brought to bear
by the creditors upon the government to
pay the Indian so that he can pay his hon
est 90 debts. The state of affairs growing
out of this around some of the agencies is a
scandal and a disgrace.
There are $50 Indian schools of all kinds
conducted by the government, and an in
crease of lap pupils in enrolment and
1.142 in average attendance shown over the
gible school children are unprOvided for
Compulsory education of the Indian chill
dren is strongly indorsed, and congress is
urged to authorize the commissioner to
place every one of school age in some
school, the selection of the school to be left
largely to educated Indian parents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
AN UNASSoRTED LOT.

| Though Alabama has a fine old capt.
toll, set on Hill and rich in historical
associations, she has no governors
mansion. The state has begun to
consider the advisability of remedying
this condition of affairs.
Mr.. Schalkburger, who is acting as
president of the Transvaal in place
of President Kruger, is said to have
the personal appearance of an Ameri-
can Methodist preacher, but is a born
fighter. He began as an assistant field
cornet in 1861 and arose to be com
mandant.
The largest uncut diamond in the
world was the Braganza, owned by
the king of Portugal, 1850 carats. Its
cutting reduced it to 367 carats, but
even thus it retains its supremacy;
and the next largest is the Star of
the South, 254 carats.
1t has been stated that irs. Louis
Botha. the wife of the Boer general,
Is descendant of Robert Emmett,
the Irish patriot. This is a mistake.
She is a descendant of Emmet's elder
brother, Thomas Adds Emmett. who
was one Of the United IRISH directory
In 1898 and was punished by the gov
eminent merely by confinement in
Fort George for three years.
No more artistic. inexpensive mount
for black and white can be found
than that often used by artists-a
sheet Of plotting paper. A collection
Of prints on thin paper of some choice
Salon pictures are backed in this
manner and fastened with small
brass-headed nails against a plain
wall with admirable effect and in
view for constant enjoyment. a con-
siderable assortment of color may be
had in the paper, and a little care
chooses the tint that viii best set of
the picture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
Paris Exposition Ends.

Paris, Nov. 13.-The booming of a
cannon from the first story of the
Eiffel tower announced that the ex-
position of 1900 had ceased to exist.
1t ended in a blaze of illumination,
the final evening being celebrated by
a night fete. The attendance, how
ever, was small, visitors being kept
away by cold, drilling rainfall. Of
fetal statistics show that the exposi-
ton was gigantic success from the
point of view of attendance, which
was double that of the exposition of
1889. when 25.121, 975 passed the gates.
When the gates of the exposition of
1900 closed Monday evening more than
100000 persons had passed through.
The British and Belgians headed the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
Monument to Maine Heroes.

New York. Nov. 9.-Gen. James Grant
site and design of the monument to the
sailors who persisted in the Maine disas-
ter and the soldiers who died in the
Spanish-American war, announces that
the committee. after examining 43
submitted designs, selected as the best
three in the first competition those Of
the following: Austin Hays, sculptor,
associated with Dom Barber, archi-
tect; 0. Picciri.li, sculptor. associated
with II. Van Buren, Magonigle, archi-
tect. and George Julian Zolnay, scurp-
tor, associated with Joseph Henry
Ereedl ander architect
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
To BE n Notable Exhibition

Chicago, Nov. 12.-The international
live stock exposition, to be held in Chi
.cago from December to s. promises TO
be the most notable event of its kind
ever held. There will be 10000 head of
animals on exhibition, including 1900
head of royalty pedigreed cattle, 1900
sheep, 1000 hogs and 400 horses. The
remainder of the exhibit WHY be ami
mails of the fat classes. There will be
700 classes represented and about 1900
premiums, amounting in all to $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15

Flames practically wiped out the vii
lage of Wren. o.
In Logansport, Ind. Patrick Burk
celebrated his Que hundred and first
birthday.
Al Indianapolis John Gam. aged 90,
and his mother, aged Sc. were suffocat-
ed by gas.
In Alaska hundreds of Indians are
~ T Ins 81 cold and starvation.
a. me statistics for the year show 4O,-
'Vo births in Indiana and "a ,o99 deaths.
Idaho has population of l61, 772. an
increase of 1887 since 1890.
Latest returns from Nebraska show
mat all republican candidates. state
ana national. were victors.
In a fire Is valuable horses and six
STABLES We're burned at the Louisville
thyD Driving and Fair Association
grounds.
ne population of Colorado is $50. 200,
an increase of 127,5o2 in ten years.
In Toledo, o., Amos Dice shot his
wife and himself fatally. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15

George Scheuermann, travelling sales
man for a Chicago shoe house, was re-
FUSED seat at table - restaurant
owned by c. A. Sterling, in La Crosse.
STERLING said Scheuermann, who is a
Filipino could not eat at the table un-
less he paid $3.50. The regular price to
white people was 25 cents. He also said
he had counter reserved for feeding
coiored people. Scheuermann will
bring suit for damages. Scheuermann
is well-educated man and speaks sew
eral languages.