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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
ronEIGN INrELI.IGENcE.

An explosion on board the English
mail packet France at Dieppe killed six
firemen.
Two shots were fired at President
Castro, of Venezuela. by an assassin,
but no harm was done.
Manila advices say that Col. Ander-
son. employing the insurgents W
tactics, ambushed the enemy near Ba-
tangas. killing "a. w%ounding 80 and cap
turing several.
Gen. Joubert was reported to be as
sembling $4,000 men at Winburg, 20
miles northeast of Bloemfontein. The
relief of Ladysmith by Gen. Buffers
troops has caused rejoicing throughout
England.
Throughout southern Mexico earth
quakes did great damage and killed
six persons.
In Rome the ninetieth birthday of
the pope was celebrated.
An expedition emf out by the Brit
ish TO punish Chinese murderers of
two E~nglishmen killed 60 natives and
burned 1900 houses.
A London dispatch says that Lord
Roberts had moved his camp six miles
to Osfontein. and the Beers seemed
about to resist his advance and fight
ing was imminent. The main body of
the Beers was reported concentrating
at Winburg. 10 miles northeast of
Bloemfontein. which would mean the
abandonment of the lower half of the
Orange Free State. The siege of MAIZE
king was reported raised.
A protest will be made by Cape
Colony against Great Britain annex
ing the Boer republics.
1t is said that Japan is increasing
its standing army to 100000 men.
The Filipinos are endeavoring to
keep alive armed opposition to the
United States in Luzon.
In Paris Robert j. Thompson, spe-
cial commissioner representing Pres
ident Mckinley. presented to Presi-
dent Loubet, of France. the first of
the La Fayette dollars.
On the Canadian Pacific road an ex-
press train jumped the track near
Pontypool, Can, and 25 persons were
injured.
Meager news received in London
from the sea of war indicated that
the Beers were again active at sew
eral points and in position to resist
desperately the further advance of the
British.
Some 4,372,00 persons in India are
receiving relief daily from the gov
eminent.
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VICTORY FOR GEN. BRABANT.
Meets with Complete Success In Cape
Colony-Gen. Gatacre Occupies
StrOmberg

Dordrecht, March 6.-Gen, Brabant
has scored IA complete victory. The
Beers are in full retreat with their
guns and wagons, and are being pur-
sued.
Sterkstroom. March 6.-Gen. Gatacre
entered Stormberg unopposed Monday.
The Beers destroyed the railway APP
proach, but the station is intact.
London, March 6.-Mafeking is to be
relieved as soon as the British force
already on the way TO Kimberley can
raise the siege. This force is described
vaguely as strong" Fresh intelli-
gence as to what Lord Roberts is do
ing has ceased again. This silence is
taken TO mean that something has hap
pened or is about to happen.
0sfontein, March 6.-Ihe Boer posi-
ton has o been fairly located as
about four miles To the British front
and extending about eight miles. The
Boer right consists of a high, long
mountain on the north side of the
river, which Gen. French shelled. APP
parently the space between the noun
tain and the river has been e~ntrenched.
South of the river the Boer lines cover
more ground. A few days ago their
left rested on the high kopjes standing
in the middle of the plain. They have
now been extended two miles further
south, while six small kopies stand in
the plain between the center and the
left and between the center n the
river and form n ridge behind which
the Beers move unseen. The weakness
of the whole position, however, is that
it can easily be turned in either direc-
ton. The country is fiat and water
abounds, the recent rains having near
~ filled all the dams.
Brussels, March 6.-The T"ransvaal
agency here confirms the statement
hat President Kruger is ready to con
clude peace with Great Britain on the
basis of the independence of the two
republics and hat otherwise the strug-
gle will continue to the bitter end.
London, March 5.-The wal Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts, dated O~sfontein,
Sunday, March A:
Gen. CronJe, on behalf of his party.
and Commandant Wolmarans. on behalf
of 1000 other prisoners. who have all now
left Modder River, asked the British OFF,
GERS to thank me for the consideration
and kindness with which they have been
treated.
Gen. Clements reports that his adj
vanced troops hold Achtcrtang and that
railway communication would be opened
to Joubert's Siding to-day. The enemy Is
still m force at Norvals Pont bridge.
Gen. Gatacre telegraphs that the num-
Der of Beers at ~Stormberg is daily dimin-
fishing.
Col. Baden-Powell reports that all was
well at Mafeking on February Is, and that
the enemy's activity was being met every
where by equal activity on the part of the
defenders.
9Th position is unchanged at Osfon-
TEN. except hat frequent heavy showers
nave materially improved grazing, to the
benefit of the horses and transport ami
-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

Prof. Sumner, of Yale university,
certainly stirred up a hornets nest
when he declared in a recent lecture at
that institution of learning that 90
per cent. of the marriages of the pres
ent day urn out u~nhappily. Ever
since hat unfortunate statement the
professor has been flooded with com
munications, the writer's of which are
decidedly vigorous in their contradic-
ton of Prof. Summers assertion. 1t is
evident from this that there are some
persons who take the professor seri-
ously. It's a great pity.
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THE EAST.

In New York Louis +. Prayer, a re-
tired merchant, died in his one hum
dred and first year.
Edward Mead shot Bert Wilson, his
brother-in-law, and then killed himself
in a family quarrel at Buffalo, n. Y.
In a railroad wreck near Farming
ton, Conn, fcur persons were killed
and seven injured.
The death of Charles L. Davis. pro-
prietor of the Alvin theater, Pitts
burgh, and well known on the stage in
the character of Alvin Joslyn, occurred
at Pittsburgh, aged SO years.
At the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the Cd aggre-
gated $1,715, 196,3O7, against $780,
2S5,s79 the previous week. The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 2O.1.
In the United States there were 222
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 2d. against POI the week
previous and 1S6 in the corresponding
period Of 1899.
In New England and New York bust
ness was almost at a standstill because
of deep snow and floods.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
in New York to attend the Ohio So
ciety's banquet.
The Rhode Island prohibitionists in
convention in Providence nominated a
full state ticket, headed by y. B. Met
calf, of P~awtucket, for governor.
At Port Jervis. n. Y, the National
bank, which suspended payment last
December, has r%eopened its doors.
Congressman Boutelle. Of Bangor,
Me, has nearly recovered from a sup
posed fatal illness.
In a lodging house fire in New York
city six men were burned TO death.
President Mckinley in a speech at
a banquet Of the Ohio society in New
York said there could be no imperial
ism. that the var responsibilities
would be properly met. and that the
people would settle the questions Of
the new possessions.
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BEEF KILLING IN MANILA.
Novel and Striking Scenes i'm the
Public Slaughter House of
the Filipino Capital.

A visitor from foreign parts in the
city of Manila, whose s%ensibilities are
not too acute, will find it worth his
while to drop in" at the public
slaughterhouse. in the place known as
Arroceres. This is on the river bank
to the northeast of Manila, and is a
much-frequented spot, where, besides
the slaughterhouse, are located the to-
bacco factories, the botanical garden,
a Spanish theater and the kiosko, de-
signed for public dances.
The proper time to visit the slaugh-
terhouse is about midnight. for this
is when the principal business of the
place is done. Owing to the tropical
heat, in which fresh meat becomes
putrid in an incredibly brief period, it
is necessary that the killing of ami
mails should be done at night and the
meat distributed at once for imme-
date use. All this work is done in the
wide-spreading, low building in the
square at Arroceres.
When operations are at their height
the scene is picturesque in the ex-
treme. The great majority of the ami
mails slaughtered are the large native
cattle, NEST of whom are brought
here, to tell the truth, not because of
their being in a specially fat and juicy
condition, but because they have out
lived their usefulness elsewhere and
are here to be converted into beef as
a last resort. The killing is done en-
tirely by natives trained in the bust
ness until they have become experts.
The cattle are led in from the pens at
the side of the building and are held
by stout ropes owe long troughs that
run up and down all through the
structure, and into which the blood
flows when the animals are first
struck. The fatal blow is given with a
large, sharp knife in the spinal cord,
just back of the horns. As a rule one
blow is enough. The animal drops
without a sound and scarcely a culver.
1t sometimes happens, however, that
the thrust miscarries and the beast is
only badly wounded. Then sometimes
a terrific and exciting struggle ensues
before the enraged animal is subdued
and the finishing stroke given.
A specially novel feature of the pro-
ceedings is the rush made by the ma
tive women and children, who are al
ways present in great numbers, to col
lect the blood as it flows from the
freshly killed animals. This product
of the slaughterhOuse is greatly priced
by the natives, and is served up in
various simple forms at their meals.
1t costs them nothing except the
struggle to catch it as it drips and
flows in the slaughterhouse, and this
price many of the poorer class are
willing enough to pay. The scramble
for blood is not attractive to a casual
visitor, for the stuff gets spilled and
streaked around over the hands and
clothing of the people, End the scene
Is grewsome enough. As soon as the
animals are killed the meat is cut up
and distributed at once among the
local markets in all parts of the city.
-IesliC's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

The Marconi system of wireless teIeg-
Apply will be used on the mail steamers
cossing the English channel between
Dover and Calais, and also on the mail
steamers between Folkestone and Bou-
logne. The vessels will have commune
cation with either the English or the
French shore, and will never be beyond
communications with the shore. No
messages will be accepted from the pub
lie. and the service will be for the com
pany's benefit and for the protection of
lives improperly. And yettwoor three
years ago such a thing as wireless
telegraphy was unheard of.
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Wnndwnrker. Meet.

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 6.-The
Amalgamated Woodworkers' Union of
America opened here on Monday the
first convention held since 1896. Sec
rotary Kidd reported a net gain of
81 unions since the last convention.
There are now % unions in % states,
with a total membership estimated at
10000. Receipts since 1896 have been
$40, 1926, and expenditures $36,SS1, the
latter including $11,325 for the Osh-
koch strike.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

Five hundred old bronze and brass
cannon purchased in Cuba by Ameri-
can spectators and brought to this
country to supply the demand for war
relics will have to pay a duty Of As per
cent. They come under the head of
manufactures of metal. The specula-
ton, therefore, is not likely to prove a
very profitable one, but little sympa-
thy will be wasted upon the specu-
lators, for the reason that the latter
proposed to sell as relics of the Span
ish war guns that were never used in
the war. but which had been con-
demned long before as obsolete.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

The camel yields them milk-fre-
quently the only food of the natives
gives them meat and hides, facilitates
transport from one place to another,
and forms the means of exchange,
which at any moment it is possible to
barter for other articles, thus taking
the place of money. The Somalis also
accommodate their existence to the
wants of the camels; they go with the
herd wherever pasture is best, or
where lain has recently fallen; and on
this accoun one may frequently not
find the trace of a village where yes
terday a place was full of life and peo-
pie, The camels, in fact, carry away
the village on their backs miles dis
tant. = 4 = Such are the chief
events in the life of a Somali. Every
thing Is governed according to some
ancient unwritten law, not contained
in any codeX, not dictated by any
tribunal. but still sacredly observed
and carried out for centuries through
out the whole region inhabited by the
SomaIis.-"Sport in Somaliland."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
ooh, HOW Happy 1 Am,;'

Writes Mrs. Archie Young, 1917 Oaks Ave,
West Superior, Wis, that l am once more
free from that terrible Neuralgia pain | had
been suffering with over five years. ! am SO
thankful, and pleasedto say your "5DROPSp
is the best medicine | ever got in my life. /
receivedit last November, used it right away;
the first dose helped me. Many a day /
thought l would die before my husband re-
turned from his labor. Since / am free from
pain many of my friends are surprised, and
say they will sendforsome of the "5DR0PS'.
Sample bottles will be sent to anyone on re.
ceipt of 25c. Large bottles, containing 300
doses: $l.00. For information write, Swan
son Rheumatic Cure Co, l64 f. Lake St.,
Chicago, Ill.
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AcnnItfed.

Springfield, ILL.,, March 5.-The Car
~tervIlle union miners who have been
on trial for the past 40 days at Wen
ma, charged with numbering five ne
gro miners, were acquitted by the
jury Sunday morning at six o'clock.
Four other charges are pending
against the white miners, and the
prosecuting attorney of Williamson
county that he will try all
of them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
To Hunt Down Assassin.

Frankfort, KY, March 5.-The
democratic senate passed the bin for
the appointment of a committee to
hunt down the person or persons
who assassinated Claimant Goebel
and appropriating 100000 to carry
on the work. The bill had previously
passed the house, and now goes to
Gov. Beckham for approval. The
republicans, sitting in the same
hall, took no part in the proceed
ings.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
e.4s4 Letters a Day.

The John A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse,
Wis, received 6,434 orders Feb. %, which IS
a monster day, but they expect to double
this number by the middle of March. The
firm is having a great trade in its speeialties,
potatoes, speltz, Bromus Inermis, Rape, Big
Four Oats, Three cared Corn and earliest
vegetables. There is a wonderful demand for
onions, cabbage, peas and bean seed this
year. Early Bird Radish and lightning Cab
bage, the earliest of this kind in the wide,
wide world, are having a tremendous sale.
The firm above mentioned is a large adver-
tiser and use weekly newspapers-that tells
tho story
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

We know but little about our own
country. \ letter from Capt. Leary, L.
S. y, now governor general of Guam
island, U. S. A.. says that all of the
houses there are built upon posts four
or five feet high. so that there will be a
thorough circulation Of air underneath
to DO away with all danger Of damp
ness. All Of the utensils used by the
people are homemade, but all Of their
thing comes from Japan. The prin-
opal articles of food are rice, cocoa
nuts and cakes made from the -four of
the nut of a palm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
WISCONSIN A NEWS.
Beer baptism.

Baptism with beer as a preventive OF
intemperance is advocated by a curious
document on file in the Office of
the registrar of deeds in Manitowoc.
The party making the certificate says
that he and his 10 children were bap-
tized as infants by being allowed to
smell a glass of pure lager beer. He
contends that this will save the child
from either becoming a drunkarJ or
voting the prohibition ticket.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
An Extraordinnry Island.

In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand,
is one OF the most extraordinary is
LANDS in the world. 1t is called White
island, and consists mainly of sulphur
mixed with gypsum and a few other
minerals. Over the island. which is
about three miles in circumference,
and which rises between 500 and 900
feet above the sea, floats continually
an immense cloud of yapor, attaining
an elevation of 10. 900 feet. In the CEN
ter is a boiling lake of acid-charged
water, covering 50 acres, and sur
rounded with blow holes, from which
steam and sulphurous fumes are emit
ted with great force and noise. With
care a boat can be navigated on the
lake. The sulphur from White island
is very pure, but little effort has yet
been made to procure it systematical-
ly.-N. Y. World.
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nncLinr HnrSns

Docking horses took its rise in the
dark days when bull and bear batting
were honored by a place in the category
of sport, rightly now relegated by law
to the catalogue of outrage. This Gus
som of docking was once applied to
English roadsters, hunters ard harness
horses. The only useful purpose it ever
served was in the Peninsular war, when
British dragons could be most easily
distinguished from French by their
cocktails. II fell into disuse with the
decline of ro~ad-coaches, and we owe
its unweIcome revival to their partial
Observation-Disclosures.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

Although the father of Miss Edith L.
Smith, of New York, who was married
in Binghamton to Frank T. Mercer
eau, has been dead for several weeks, it
was his voice that pronounced the mar
riage ceremony. Rev. Mr.. Smith was
taken suddenly i'll while the bride was
in the south and died before her return.
Before his death he recited the mar
rage service into the photograph used.
The bride and bridegroom answered
the questions that came like n spirit
voice from the machine and the specta-
tors were strangely affected. y sim
liar marriage has never occurred.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

The famous Calaveras grove of big
trees in California is in danger of being
converted into lumber. Within an
area of $500 by 1000 feet are % superb
specimens of the Sequoia %gigantea, 81
of which are $50 to 325 feet in height.
1t is hoped that the state will interPose
to save this remarkable and beautiful
growth of timber, or, failing to do so,
that congress will make an apPropria-
ton which will transform the land it
covers into n national park. The whole
country is interested in preserving
one of the gran6est natural ~curiosities
Of the North American continent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

In these days but little is escaping
the eye Of the ingenious Yankee. He
has now found several ways in which
to use the pine needles of southern
Oregon. The pine needles are first
boiled and then run through wooden
rollers, thus making pine needle oil,
which is suppoS d to have valu-
able medicinal properties. What is
left Of the needle is then used for up
holstering purposes. 1t is stated that
insect pests cannot live in furniture
that has been upholstered with the
needles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

st. Paul, Mimi, March 3.-Rt. Rev
Mahlon n. Gilbert, bishop coadjutor of
the diocese of Minnesota episcopal
ian), died at TOUR a. III. Bishop Gilbert
arrived home last Saturday from a
business trip to New York, caught cold
apparently from the journey and grew
rapidly worse.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08
Wages

st. Louis, March 5.-The Liggett d
Myers branch of the Continental To-
bacco company granted 100 feeders an
increase in wages amounting to 81 per
cent. or $3.50 per week each. 1t was
also announced that the same increase
of wages will be given to the feeders
employed by the Brown Brothers
branch here, and other branches of
the Continental Tobacco company
throuobout the country.
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nj. nc,I i'm sheen

Cheyenne, Wyo.. March ). The
Geddes Sheep company, of Laramie
has sold a syndicate of Wyoming sheep
growers the famous Jack Edwards
band of sheep-30,0 900 head-for $780,
COO. This is the band o. sheep which
was driven out OF northwestern Colo
RADIO last fall by masked cattiemelt
several thousand being killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

A correspondent at Kimberley dur
ing the siege recorded in his diary that
"The mules slaughtered are pro
nounced superior to horsefesh."
Whether this is really true or stated on
the principle of saying nothing but
good concerning the dead, it is about
the first generous word ever spoken for
tho muIe
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MARKETS.
Minneapolis. Mimi, March

Minneapolis, Mimi, March g..
Wheat-No. 1 northern. 64965c,
No. 2 northern. 6a@6Sc; May, $3.50.
Oats-No. 5, white, Sic.
Corn-No. 3, soc.
Cattle-steers, S .15@4.o 90; cows, s.. IS
I@S.00.
Muttons, $3.50; lambs, So 90.
Hogs-S4 a5@4.75.
Butter-Creamery, extras, 22@23c;
creamery. firsts, ao@21c; dairy, fancy,
IIe@20c.
Poultry-Turkeys, s@1oc; spring
chickens, 12c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

At the convention in New Orleans
of the National Editorial association
w. i. Parrett. of Waterloo, Ia, was
elected president.
Charles Wenger's three children
were burned to death near Olympia.
Wash, during the absence of their
parents.
At Letohatchee, Ala, Jim Crosby
(colored) was shot dead and his wife
and daughter fatally shot by u mob.
Crosby had threatened revenge for
the lynching of a friend.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

The supreme court has handed down
a decision holding that a property
owner may secure damages from tele-
phone, telegraph and electric light
companies for placing poles in the
street in front of his property. The
court holds that such poles interfere
with the full enjoyment of the prop
erty, and, consequently, damage the
owners interests.
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mad wreck.

P~lainville, Conn. March "A passen-
ger train, south-bound, OF the North
ampton division of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railroad. due in this
city from Shelburne Falls. Mass, at 5:55
p. M. went through a washout about
two miles north of here, and four per-
sons were killed and seven more or less
Injured.
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Anti-Mob Dill Passed.

Jackson, Miss, March 6.-The upper
house of the legislature passed the
Adams anti-mob bill after somewhat
turbulent scenes. The bill provides
that a person accused of rape shall be
given an immediate trial and that the
sheriff or officer who allows a prison
err to be taken from his custody and
lynched shall be arraigned before a
circuit court.