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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11

Receiver G. Z. Roe reported on the
Dane County Bank of Stoughton and
the court declared a first dividend OF
30 per cent.
DIR. s. s. Bowers, formerly mayor of
Fond du Lac, died of paralysis, aged Ga
years. He had beer practicing ply
stefan in Fond du Lac 81 years. He is
survived by a widow and five children.
Wallace w. Bradley, a pioneer mer-
chant, died in Delavan after an illness
of several months. He anne to Delavan
from the east in 1S4S.
Capt. Michael j. Kelly, one of the old
est marine men on the great lakes, died
at his home in Racine, aged 81 years.
Capt. Kelly served during the civil war
as an ensign under Admiral Farragut.
GAINESVILLE is the most important to-
bacco market in the northwest, with
20 warehouses handling thousands of
cases daily.
The receipts of the state insurance
commissioners office for 1899 amount
ed to $3ss, 44S.19, or nearly two-thirds
more than in the year 1898.
Judge William S. Evans died of par
alysis at his home in Hudson, aged II
years. He was for neN-ly 90 years po-
lice Judge of the city.
John Lafaver, of Hurley, has been
sentenced to two years in Waupun for
forgery.
Twenty girls employed by the Isabel
Manufacturing company in GAINESVILLE
received notice of discharge because
they talked too much.
NJ. p. Rindlaub, of Platteville. was
held up and robbed in Chicago by three
men.
Undersheriff Pierce found a man in a
cave in the woods -four miles east of
Barron. He gives his name as Owen
O'Sullivan and claimed to hail from
Ishpeming, Mich. He vas nearly
starved.
Fire totally burned the gymnasium
of the Green Bay Athletic club.
Frederick l.. Darling, a well-known
pioneer, fell dead at his residence in
Hudson. His wife died two days before,
and both funerals were held at the
same time.
The Whitewater Poultry association
will hold a poultry, pigeon and pet
stock exhibit in Whitewater January 9
to Is.
Charles E. Pike, who died of paralysis
at ST. Paul. Mimi. was once a we'll
known resident of Oshkosh. He was
known as a lawyer, newspaper man and
litterateur.
Dennis Murphy, of Eau Claire, was
sentenced to one year in states prison
for stealing two watches in Chippewa
Falls.
A Milwaukee florist thinks he has
succeeded in producing green carna-
tions by the use of chemicals while the
plants are growing.
Alderman George Hill, of the First
ward, Milwaukee, committed suicide by
shooting himself. Censure of his action
on franchise extensions is supposed to
have beer the cause.
The principal business block in North
Milwaukee was wiped out by fire, the
loss being $4,000.
Seneca f. Tr~uesdell, aged 50, one Of
the oldest newspaper men in the north
west died in La Crosse. For many years
he was connected in various capacities
with the Pioneer Press in St. Paul.
Previous TO that time be worked in st.
Iouis and San Francisco.
Rev. and Mrs. David b. Cheney, who
were shot by a burglar in Racine on De
cember G, have beer presented with a
purse of 5000 in gold by members of
their congregation and others.
The post Office at Deansyille has been
discontinued. and the people will have
the benefit 81 the free rural delivery
from Marshall,
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WEST AND SOUTH.

DIR. T. NJ. Gay, a prominent dentist at
Adairsville, KY, shot and killed Ed
ward 0. Gritty, a well-known business
man, and then killed himself. A quar-
rel was the cause.
In Cuba Gen. Wood released 40 per-
sons wrongfully imprisoned in jails.
At Rome, Ca, Bud Harris was
hanged for the urder of David r.
win, another negro.
Another German vessel has been
seized by the British and the entire
empire is aroused at what is termed
a continuance of outrages and in
suits.
At the age of "a years Gen. 0. E.
Drentzen, United States consul to
Norway during President Grants adj
ministration, died at Frankfort, Tenn.
At San Juan, Puerto Rico, a naval
station is to be established.
Nelson and Mat McGinnis (broth-
ers) and John Adams were scalded to
death by a boiler explosion at a saw
mill neal Anna. III.
Fire swept away nearly the entire
business portion of the village of
Mears. Mich.
Because Of a quarrel, Charles Root,
a farmer, aged 40. killed his wife and
himself in Texas. Mich.
w. w. Watt. a white man, was shot
to death by a mob at Newport News,
Va. for criminally a~ssaulting Mrs. T.
NJ. Simpson.
John Lynch and 81 horses were
cremated in n livery stable fire in
West Lafayette, Ind.
lack Singleton and Charles Wilson,
negroes, were hanged at Charleston,
s. c., for murder.
Norman b. Ream and Robert 4. Lin
coin, executors of the Pullman estate
in Chicago. receive a $425,000 fee. The
estate is worth $14,000,000.
At the age of lo3 years Mrs. Johen
MA Reese died at Gelena, I'll.
The extra session of the Michigan
legislature adjourned without passing
tax bills.
On the Tennessee railroad eight
miles from lockwood four men were
killed by a dynamite explosion.
antonio torres anu UefRDlu1O faTId.
Mexicans. were hanged at Ell Paso,
lex, for murder.
Matthew Wewa in a drunken quar-
rel at a Piute Indian camp near Pine
Vile. Ore, killed his wife, his brother
and two squaws and killed himself.
In San Francisco Go See, a Chinese
murdered. convicted of killing a our
tryman, was hanged.
At Otter Greek, KY. a murder trial
was interrupted by a free fight and two
men were killed.
The four children of Michael Kerriek.
a farmer at Little Falls. Mimi. were
burned 10 death in a fire that destroyed
the house.
The safe 10 Judge f. A. Hackenkamp's
Office in Quincy. H.. was blown oprn
and notes TO the amount CT $4,000
taken.
report that Rev. John q. Fee. found
err of Eerea college in Richmond, BY.
was dead. was not correct.
In a Respondent fit j. f. Sutton, edit
or and proprietor of the Loganspou
und.l Daily Reporter. committed sur
eide in 81. Paul, MINI,
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PRONE TO E~XAGGERATE.
This Tendency of Americans Affords
Amusement to an Eng
ush Writer.

Americans are not notable for their strict
adherence to the truth, but their exaggera-
tons are so manifest that they cannot be
fairly accused Of lying. William Archer, an
English author, has recently written a book
in which he gives some characteristic exam
pies of this trait. He very properly classes it
as American humor."
"On board one of the Florida steamboats,,
which have to be built with exceedingly light
draught to get over the frequent shadows of
the rivers" he relates, IAN Englishman ac-
costed the captain with the remark: i I'M
derstand, captain, that you think nothing of
steaming across a meadow where there's
been a heavy fall of dew Well, i don't
know about that replied the captain, but
it's true we sometimes have to send a man
ahead with a watering pot Again, a south
ern colonel was conducted to the theater to
see Salvinis 'Othello.' He witnessed the
performance gravely, and remarked at the
close: That was a mighty coed show, and
Ldon't see but the coon did as well as any
of EN- A third aneedote that charmed
me was that of the man who, being invited
to take a drink, replied: No, no, l solemnly
promised my dear, dead mother never to
touch a llrop; besides, boys, it's too early in
the morning; besides, I've just had one.'"-
Chicago Chronicle.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
wIsconsIn Edncntors.

Over 700 school-teachers from all
parts of the state attended the TWEEN
t~y-seventh annual convention of the
Wisconsin Teachers association in Mil
waukee. President w. ii. Elson, of SUI
perior, in his annual address advocated
the necessity for stimulating and utiliz-
ing individual purpose in school work.
Charles X. Adams, president of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. advocated more
study rather than more learning; push
forward the bright pupils ahead of the
dull ones; substitute linguistic studies
for the frills of the common school
course, but do not shorten the course
The following officers were elected:
President, w. N. Parker. Madison; first
vice president, II. A. Whipple, Baraboo:
second vice president, Mae e. Schreitzer,
Madison; third vice president. NJ. H.. jack
son, Hudson; secretary, J. w Boyne, Mil
waukee; treasurer. ]. b. Bordent. Marsh
field: executive committee, W. H.. Elson.
Superior; w. II. Schultz, Sh~eboygan; W. II.
Grif1th. Wilmot.
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a Terrible Deed.

Kalamazoo, Mich, Jan. 5.-While in
a fit of rage Charles Root, a farmer liv-
ing in Texas townshir, Thursday after
noon cut his wife's throat and then
his own in the presence of their two
children, who notified the neighbors of
the killing. The eldest is only eight
years old and can give no ineligible ac-
count of the tragedy, except that his
parents had been quarreling. The
clothing of the children was spat-
tered with their parents blood. The
couple had had frequent troubles be-
fore
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Florida.

As to why Ponce de Leon gave the
name of Florida to the territory now
known by that name, an old book
published in 1868 says: Gave it the
name of Florida because it was first
seer on Easter, called Pasqua de flores
in the language of his e~ountrymen. or.
as Herrera alleges. because it was COW
cred with flowers and the most beau
tiful blossoms" And the Farmer
adds: ''Those who have seen the Eas-
ter season in Florida and the wealth
of flowers which still commemorate
and adorn its return can well believe
that both these reasons influenced the
giving of its name."-Florida Farmer.
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soldiers, RELIEF min Passed.

Lansing, Mich, Jan. 6.-Gov. Pin
gree sent a special message to the
house. recommending the passage of
a bill for the relief of the sick and
INDECENT soldiers of the Spanish
American war, the $1s4,0o0 which had
been appropriated for this purpose
having been exhausted. A bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the purpose was
Immediately passed. The bill lacked
enc cote of the two-thirds necessary
to give il immediate effect.
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Matrimopy on Small CAPITAL.

A Wilmington clergyman tells Of a Phila-
delphia couple who came to him to be mar
ried one day. When they left the boat at the
five dollars between them. Nevertheless, the
groom called a cab and ordered to be driven
to the city hall and then to the nearest min
lister. At the city hall he paid $500 for a
marriage license, which left $l.40 to pay the
eabman and to fee the minister. AT the lat
ter's house the cabby demanded $3.50. The
groom replied that he did not nave it, and
the driver compromised on a dollar, leaving
30 cents for the minister. The groom, how
ever, was not done buying, for he stepped in
to a nearby store and bought an envelope
for a cent. In this he put the remaining 80
cents, and after the ceremony handed it to
the minister. How the newly-married
PHILADELPHIA Record.
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The Prohibitionists.

At a meeting of the prohibition state
central committee in Milwaukee Mad
ison was chosen as the place and An
gust % as the time for holding the
state convention. Delegates at large to
the national prohibition convention at
Chicago, June 81. were chosen as fol-
lows: Samuel d. Hastings, of Green
Bay; L. W. Chafin, of Waukesha; j. b.
Smith. of Madison, and Ole B. Olson, of
Eau Claire.
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Blow at Time Checks.

The recent ruling that persons deal
ing in time checks and other similar
securities must obtain a brokers' license
has struck a heavy blow at business in
Chippewa Falls. The city has long done
a big business in eashing time checks
for the lumbermen who come there in
great numbers from the logging camps.
The practice of buying the checks at a
small discount must now be discon-
tinued.
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Knew 1t was in LehIgh.

A certain Pennsylvania Sunday school
teacher was questioning her class. Where
was Christ born ?" she asked of Willie. Will
"Mauch Chunk 'Mauch Chunk!"
screamed the teacher. ''You ought to know
better than that. Why, little George
knows where Christ was born. Where was
Christ born, Georgie?" And the treble Of
the four-year-old answered: Bethlehem.
''That's right" said the teacher. "Well, =
said Willie, pouting: Il knew twas some
where on the Lehigh Valley railway,"-Chi
capo Chronicle,
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Nash Inaugurated.

Columbus, O., Jan. .. = AT noon in
the rotunda of the state capitol Hon.
George X. Nash was inaugurated gov
ernor of Ohio, succeeding Asa S. Bush
nell. The oath of Office was admins
tered by Chief Justice Shauck, of the
supreme court. following which Gov.
Bushnell presented the new governor
with his commission. Gov. Nash then
delivered his inaugural address.
Lieut.. Gov. John A. Caldwell, of Gin
%cinnati, was inaugurated in the senate
chamber during the afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11
Ennnd IN the Like.

Kenosha, Wis, Jan. 9.-The disap-
aranc of Sister Augusta, of the Or
der of St. Mary. from Kemper hall in
this city, on last Tuesday evening is no
longer a mystery. Shortly after noon
Monday the body was found floating in
Lake Michigan near the southern
boundary of Kemper hall grounds.
Chaplain Maryon stated that there was
no doubt that Sister Augusta had taken
her own life, and assigned as the cause
a fiji of temporary insanity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11
An Arnly far AIn.ko,

Washineep, Jan. 0. = The president
has creatcd a military department,
consistinglof the territory of Alaska,
and assigned CO... George II. Randall,
Eighth United States infantry, TO com
mand. Co. Rainfall is on duty with his
regiment 10 Cuba, but will report here
en- route To Alaska on January Is.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11

The gondola has had its day of use
fulness in Venice. A corporation has
been at work for some time supplying
the city's historic waterways with
steam launches. 1t is only a question
of time now when the palace of the
Doges will have to make way for a
skyscraper office building.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11

Raleigh, \. ~, while crossing The Ice.
y. Ii. Bowen, of Waukon, was chosen
as speaker of the house in the Iowa
Legislature at the republican caucus.
FOREIGN INTELLIGESCE.
MN. Deroulede, Buffet and Saluces,
leaders in a conspiracy, were SEN
fenced in Paris TO ten years Danish
ment, and NJ. Guerin was sentenced TO
ten years Imprisonment.
~Aguinaldo's wife is in Manila.
Troops were concentrated at Calamba,
San Pedro, Macati aud Bacoor. Gen.
Otisis now in command of an effective
force of about $4,000 men.
Prof. Leopold Schenk, who claimed
to be able to influence sex by moth
er's diet, has been expelled from the
Vienna university.
Natives and French troops fought
near Wang Chaun, China. and the
latter were routed with heavy loss.
A dispatch says Italy has agreed to
the open door policy in China, COM
pleting the list Of powers who have
approved Secretary Hays proposal.
Gen. Butler is said to have started
fighting on the Tugela river, but some
doubt is expressed as to his forcing a
serious battle before he has been re-
enforced. The British made a sortie
from Mafeking with an armored
train, but found the Boer position
im~pregnable and retreated after a
hard battle with heavy loss.
Manila advices say that Col. Luther
II. Hare of the Thirty-third infantry.
and all the American prisoners, in
GLIDING Lieut.. Gilmore, have arrived at
Vigan. Admiral Watson has hoisted
the American flag over Sibutu island.
Denmark has, it is said, decided to
accept Americas informal offer of
$4,000, 900 for the Danish West Indies
islands.
In London Sir Thomas Upton has
issued a challenge for the Americas
cup in 1901.
London advices say the Beers have
begun an attack on Ladysmith. and the
latest definite news from Gen. White
shows the British forces there in a
very critical condition. Gen. French's
attempt to take Colesberg proved a fail
ure, and 20 of the British, including
seven officers, were taken prisoners.
Kuruman, in British B~echuanaland, has
been captured by the Beers.
A British warship seized the German
ship Herzog. of the East African line,
and it was taken TO Durham.
A dispatch from Manila says that
reconnoissances out of linus resulted in
the loss of three Americans killed and
20 wounded. The enemy's loss is esti-
mated at 60 killed and so wounded.
Gen. Schwan's column, advancing to
the south, occupied Binan. Lieut.. Gil
more, of the cruiser Yorktown, who
was captured by the insurgents neal
Baler many months ago, arrived in
Manila.
The death of NJ. A. San Clemente,
president of Colombia, is announced.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11

Among the men who have come TO
congress this session for their first
term is Delegate Pedro Perea, of Ber-
~nalillo, N. NJ, who is one of the
wealthiest ranchers of the southwest.
He is a man of middle stature, has
sparkling black eyes and in many re-
sPects looks like a Spaniard. His fam
lily is one of the oldest in New Mexico.
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Exn,osion Kills Tbree Men.

Anna, H., Jan. 5.-Nelson McGinnis,
Mat McGinnis and John Adams, the en-
gineer. were scalded to death Thursday
afternoon by a boiler explosion at the
sawmill of Oscar Stout, eight miles east
of here. Mr.. Stout's skull was crushed
and he will probably die. The boiler
was a secondhand affair and the en-
pineer was inexperienced.
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The Pullman Estate.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Robert L. Lincoln
and Norman Is. Ream, executors of the
estate Of George Nj. Pullman, were al
lotted as compensation for services
$425,O0 This is said to be the largest
amount in fees ever allowed the exec
utors of any estate handled by the pro-
bate court here. 1t is said the estate.
which listed about SIS, 100000 when the
will was %probated, now figures up near
ly S14.OOu,000.
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Trngedy in Chicago.

Chicago, Jan. ?. - A man supposed to
be j. A. Fdrtell an actor, shot and
killed his wife II their room at the res
idence of Michasl Fewer, 143 West Mad
ison street, Monlay afternoon. He then
shot himself ard died several hours
later in the county hospital. The muir
der and suieidehre a mystery.
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Trnmns nurued in Barn

Hamilton, o.. .fau. GA barn on the
Fox farm, two miles south of Hamil-
ton, burned to the ground late at night.
Eight tramps were sleeping in the barn.
Only six have been found since the fire.
OF these Johr Burgers and Charles Gray
are fearfnIlv burned and may die.
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A Brooklyn man claims to have in
vented a boat that will cross the ocean
in three days. OF course that is better
than crossing in five days, and yet it
does not quite I'LL the BILL" What is
needed is a boat that will take one
across so quick that there will not be
time TO get seasick.
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4 Now Commnndnnt.

Lafayette, Ind. Jan. 5.-Gilbert s..
Stormont. editor of the Princeton Clar-
ion. has been elected eommandant Of
the Inoiana state soldiers home al this
place. Capt. Stormont served in the
Fifty-eighth Indiana regiment during
the civil war and is past department
commander of the Indiana q. A. r.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11

In all French official departments
the hours are now counted from ore
to tw~enty-four, beginning at one a. m.
The wee sma' hours are unchanged,
but the midnight stroke is a monitor
that seems disposed never to quit.
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Representative Roberts, of Massa-
chusetts, has introduced a bin in the
house which attaches a penalty of $50
to the desecration of the national flag
in any way. 1t prohibits the printing
Of pictures of political candidates on
a flag, OF words, figures and designs
of any kind. 1t also prohibits its use
as trademarks for advertising mer-
chandise of any sort. Nearly all of the
patriotic organizations of the country
asked for such a bill two years ago.
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Benjamin Prime, who has just cele-
brated his one hundred and tenth
birthday in New York, says he does
not remember of ever having seen
Washington. The New York World
remarks that 'he must have been born
Hid
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Residents of West Hartford, Conn.,,
have organized the Noah Webster Me
mortal association, the object of which
is to erect a library building in that
town in memory of the great lexicog-
rapher. Mr.. Webster was born in Oc-
tober, 1853, within the limits of West
Hartford, when it was a portion of the
town of Hartford, and he died there in
Nov 1912
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EditorinID

The following editors have been APP
pointed delegates to the National Edi-
torial association which meets in New
Orleans February 81: c. L. Hubbs,
Lake Mills; A. ID. Dorset, Baraboo; C.
A. Booth, Milwaukee,; f. Hurlbut,
Oconomowoc; c. S. Taylor, Barron; II.
w. Meyer, Appleton; o. F. Roessler, JEFF
ferson; FredT. Yates, Washburn; II. w.
Bolens, Port Washington.
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perished 10 Save naby.

New York, Jan. 9.-Miss Johanna
Lynch, % years old, who lived with
her brother-in-law, George Wilson, in
a three-room apartment on Madison
street, was burned to death there early
Monday, having rushed into the flames
to rescue her sisters baby, which she
feared had been left behind. The
baby, however. had been rescued.
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A soldier in New Mexico has been
married to a Kentucky girl by tele-
graph. All that is needed now is a sys-
tenn of engagements by mail, honey
moons by long-distance telephone and
divorces by thought transference to
make marriage an estate of beatitude-
for those who dou' t do it.
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1t is intimated that the census of
Cuba will show a larger population n
the island than was expected. Esti-
mates from careful authorities on the
ground put the number of inhabitants
at about 1900, 900. which is 10000
more than has beer commonly sup
posed. Another fact which will cause
general surprise is that the proportion
of negroes in the island is found to be
much smaller than has been imagined.
The ratio, il is now believed, will be
found much below that in Mississippi,
South Carolina and Louisiana. We
have already enough.
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ni Sen.

New York. Jan. s.-The British
steamer. Georgiana, which arrived
from London. rescued al sea January
6 Capt. Siango aud crew of so men.
also the captains wife. Two children
and nurse. of the German teamer Ella.
which foundered AT sea The same date
while on the voyage from Port Amboy
for Halifax.
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Debt wined Ont.

Cash contributions by r. L. McCor-
mick, of Hayward, and other prominent
citizens rave wiped out the debt of $18,-
600 which hung over the North Wiscon-
sin academy in Ashland since it was
built in 1872. The academy is run under
the auspices of the Congregational
church of Wisconsin.