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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

Goodwin and myself were running
the Walnut Street theater in Phila-
delphia, the stage carpenter, who was
working at Ford's theater the night
of the assassination, put in an APP
pearance at the Walnut Street the
alter. He informed Mr.. Goodwin (they
had been friends for many years. in
confidential manner that he had in
his possession something that had
caused him great anxiety The car
penter. whose name l do not recall,
told Mr.. Goodwin in my presence that
he had the Derringer that Booth had
used to murder Lincoln.
The reason he had not said any
thing about it prior to that time, he
said, was because he was afraid of
being arrested The carpenter said
he picked it up on the stage of Ford's
theater after Booth had fed to Vir-
GINA. He pocketed the weapon and
kept it a secret. He drew up a state
ment of the occurrence and signed it
in our presence. Then he gave the
Derringer to Mr. Goodwin. When Mr..
Goodwin died his widow made me a
present of the weapon. together with
the stage carpenters signed state
ment."
Mr.. Plowman prizes the weapon
very highly, says the Philadelphia In
quirer. and no amount of money could
purchase it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
A SCHOLAR OF NOTE.
DR.. Edward Asahel Birge, Acting
President of the University
of wisconsin.

DR.. Edward Asahel Birge, who will
temporarily fill the office of president
of the University of Wisconsin, at
Madison, pending the selection of a
successor to DR.. Charles Kendall Adj
ans, is one of the most capable and
most popular of the teaching staff
of the university and, moreover, has
been connected with the faculty for
upwards of 25 years. When he came
to Madison in 1875 it was in the ca
pacity of instructor in natural his
tory, and his early work led to his
promotion within a year to the chair
of zoology. About ten years ago he
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
STANDARD OIL PLOT.
Chicago Authoress to Make Attack
on Trust Methods.
Gertrude Potter Daniels Claims That
the Arguments of Her New story
Are Based ON Facts Verified
by Records.

Mrs. Gertrude Potter Daniels is
about to follow THE Warmers" with
another novel, says the Chicago Trib-
une. Not daunted by the criticism the
first book provoked by its attitude to-
ward certain industrial conditions,
she says that the second book may
meet still more opposition, for it will
be a direct attack upon some of the
methods of the Standard Oil company.
The book is to be finished by Janu-
airy, and there is considerable detail
yet to be written. In outline Mrs.
Daniels says she will begin with an
episode in the operations of the trust
which she has verified by records, but
transferring her characters to the
west from the east, where the thing oc-
Cured. A man discovers an oil well
and associates with himself a COM
pany of three or four, pooling their
means, to develop it. An Eastern man,
experienced, refined and intelligent,
with a weakness for drink, is en-
ployed as superintendent. Then the
trust steps in. The offer to purchase
is refused, and the superintendent is
approached. At first he is incorrupti-
Bile, but the bride is a greater sum
than he can ever hope to lay by from
his salary, and he has the promise of
protection afterwards. The new build
ings are completed, the machinery in
stalled, and on the morning when that
which promised immediate wealth to
the little company was to be set in mo-
ton there was a terrible explosion,
never explained, and the new plant
was hopelessly wrecked. The super
intendent turns up afterward in Bos-
ton. He has plenty of money and lives
without work. 1t is three years before
conscience, deadened by drink, awakes,
and remorse drives him to seek the lit
tie company of men whose fortunes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

Rich deposits of copper have been
discovered in Gilmore's Valley, near
La Crosse.
Cory Willard. the son Of Milwau-
kee clergyman, was convicted of
crime in Chicago for the tenth time,
the charge being burglary.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Cephas
Buttles and her five-year-old son were
found in the Milwaukee river, several
miles north of Milwaukee. They had
been missing several days.
1t is announced that the smallpox
conditions in the northern Indian
camps are greatly improved and that
the health authorities expect to have
the disease thoroughly in hand be-
fore the winter sets in.
The Indications are that the state
will receive over $4,000 for resident
hunting licenses this year, most of
that sum being from the northern
counties
benjamin NJ. Wiel died in Milwau-
Bee. He was one of the best known
real estate and insurance men in the
northwest.
The Milwaukee health department
has commenced an active fight
against consumption. Kissing by a
consumptive is prohibited
DIR. Henry Herzog. Of Racine, died
at Atlanta, Ga, of consumption, aged
SO years.
William Gross, Of Clinton. fatally
shot his brother while rabbit hunt
ing. The shot tore the top of the
boys head off and he died instantly.
Mrs. Emil Paul, while trying TO sit
down in a rocking chair in MariDette,
fell over backward and injured her
spine 50 that she cannot recover. She
is a well-known resident.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
PISTOL USED BY BOOTH.
Shot Is In Possession of a Phil
aaelphin Man.

The assassination of President Nc
kinley recalled to George Plowman,
theatrical architect of Philadelphia,
the murder of President Lincoln by
John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater,
Washington, d. c., on April IA, 1865.
Mr.. Plowman is the possessor of the
Derringer. small vest-pocket re-
volver, from which Booth fred the
fatal shot.
Several times it has been doubted
that the Derringer which l have is
the one with which Lincoln was muir
dered," said Mr. Plowman, but there
is absolutely no doubt that it is the
same weapon. Three or four years
after the shooting, while George K.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
.s7l5,570 SS21, SO SOS, 900


The state tax commission has is
sued circular to the county boards
of the various counties of the state
calling attention to the law which
makes it obligatory for the county
board to elect supervisor of assess
ment. The law requires that the
county assessor be chosen by the SUI
pervisor in November and each of
ficer holds office for three years.
The state board urges that the high
est rate per diem allowed by law
(S4.05 and expenses) be paid, so as to
secure thoroughly capable and CON
scientious men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
TIE OLDEST PEERLESS.
EnviabIe Position Occupied by Lady
Burdett-Coutts, Wife OF Ash
mead Bartlett.

When the great coronation day of
King Edward VII. of Great Britain
arrives and the many notable people
who have the right to attend the
magnificent ceremony assemble to do
honor TO the king and queen, certain
~ two of the most interesting ladies
present viii be Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. the oldest peeress in her own
right. and sweet-faced little Lady
Betty Blgh, Baroness Clifton of
Leighton Bromswold, the youngest
peerless. who will be barely two and
half when the king is crowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

Yale and took advantage of an oppor-
tunity to study and to travel abroad.
He was rendered his present post in
the University of Chicago in 1892, and
has collaborated with Prof. Small in
the production of text books, upon the
science of which he is special stu
dent and an able teacher. He is not
yet 40 years old, and hence may be
said to belong to the ever-growing
group of young men who are gradual
ly filling up the big places in Amer
lean, institutions of higher education.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

was elected head of the department
of letters and science, and in that
capacity has demonstrated his entire
usefulness to the university and his
general ability as man of science.
In his earlier days DR.. Birge was
student of histology in Leipsig, and
he has developed an international rep
utation in his chosen line. The acting
head of Wisconsin is not yet so years
old, and is in the prime of strong
Npd intellectual manhood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

eoronets, which are to be ''silver gilt,
the caps, of crimson velvet, turned up
with ermine, with gold tassels on top.
No jewels or precious stones are to be
set or used in coronets, nor counter
feits of pearls instead of silver balls. "
The number of the latter permitted
revives a nice sense of distinction. A
baron's coronet bears six silver balls.
a viscount's 16, an earl's eight, with
gold strawberry leaves between; a
marquis four balls and four leaves al
ternately. A dukes coronet has no
balls and has only eight gold straw
berry leaves.
The earl marshal next prescribes the
robes, nantes and coronets to be
worn by the peeresses. These are of
the same materials as the mems, with
similar graduations in the numbers Of
bars of ermine and balls.
The length of the trains marks the
difference in rank. A baroness is only
allowed a train of three feet, Wis
countess has ~ yards, countesses
have 1la yards, a marchioness has IA
yards and a duchess two yards.
Then follows a curt notification as
to who shall be excluded, Peeresses
in their own right and widows of peers
are allowed to come, but widows who
have remarked beneath their rank in
the peerage are mot entitled to sum.
mons to attend the coronation"
Some dryasdust has fished up an old
drawing by Sir George Nayler, at that
time garter king at arms, showing
George ". as he appeared in his coro-
nation robes, and this, it is said, has
been approved by King Edward VII
as correctly illustrating the garments
he will wear when he is formally
crowned in Westminster Abbey next
summer.
This is supposed to show that Ed
ward VII. will emulate the splendor
which attended the coronation of
George ~. rather than the modest dis
plays made by William ". and Queen
Victoria. The browning of the fourth
George cost 100000 his mantle of
crimson velvet and ermine alone cost
ing $4,000, while the coronation of
Queen Victoria only entailed an ex-
penditure of S1,50O,0O0.
First in Importance among the gar
ments the king will wear is the impe-
rial or dalmatic robe. 1t is three
cornered mantle, fashioned like cope.
One side isabout 31a yards in length, to
cover the shoulders and hang down in
front; the other sides slope into train
reaching about a foot upon the ground.
The dalmatica was anciently worn
by persons Of the highest rank; it also
signifies part of the attire of an arch
bishop, and Is shaped like 'Y'' and
decorated with small crosses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

he wrecked and confess the plot
against them. They enter a suit
against the trust, and the develop
ments of this litigation Mrs. Daniels
will make the basis for her argument
against the Standard Oil company.
So much for the trusts, but the book
will have the lighter touches of a love
story, although the hero does not
make an auspicious advent. He is born
in New York city, grows up an honest,
intelligent youth, but handicapped by
poverty. His ambition is to get out to
the great west where fortunes can be
made, and, frenzied with the desire,
he resolves to steal the money that
will take him there. He mingles with
the throng on Broadway, and at the
opportune moment steals a woman's
purse. The act is noted by an older
thief He follows the boy out to a
lonely street where he stops in an open
lot to count the money, demands the
purse or threatens exposure. The boy
kills him, he thinks, in self-defense.
He starts for the west, and his money
carries him as far as the desert lands,
where he falls in with family of con-
sumptives trying to reach Colorado.
The man dies with the disease, and
then the wife, leaving to the boys care
little daughter. He does not go on to
San Francisco, but taking the child
with him makes his way to the Texas
oil region. He cares for the child as
his sister, and afterwards their love
story Classics the book as romance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
cold ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

The people living at Knapp have at
different times found gold while ex-
cavating on their land. Recently Sam
Tufts sent a painful of dirt to Mime
apolis which assayed three dollars,
and also contained silver and copper.
Mr. Tufts thinks there is gold in pay
ing quantities around the village, and
has purchased four 40-acre farms, for
which he says he would not take a
million dollars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
biggest Tree in the world.

The largest tree in the world is to
be seen at Mascali, near the foot OF
Mount Etna. Its trunk is BOA feet in
circumference. The largest tree in
the United States is said to be the
gigantic tree near Bear creek, on the
north fork of the Tule river, in Cali.
fornia. 1t measures 140 feet in cir
conference. The famous giant red.
wood tree in Nevada is 119 feet in cir.
conference.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
Nnw Ynrk a. IA
i've stock.

chicago, Oct. q.
HoGS-Choice to fancy strong-weight
shipping So. 2Oa6 Az common to good
heavy packing 5.e0aGO0; plain to choice
heavy mixed, $5S5Q6l5; assorted light, s. 80
06.i0; common to fancy light mixed $40
g6.6; thin TO choice Pigs s4.50n560
CATTLE-Good 10 prime Beeves IS 900
6.S5falr to good export shipping Steers,
$53Om5.S0; plain to medium beef Steers, $3.50
ass; common to rough. $3.750ii 40; Stock
ers and Feeders, S2.ll44i ~; Bulls, plain 10
fancy, S2.0gN450. corn-fed Western steers,
A6oa6.40; grass and Western range Steers,
A0045.50; fed Texas Steers, s. s0a5. %:
Texas Cows, Bulls and grass Steers. S2.59D
$50
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
Tho Cathedral of Cologne.

One would think that the identity
of the architect of such superbly de-
signed building as the Cologne cathe-
dral could not possibly be lost to the
world. But it is. The cathedral took
centuries to build. and many archi-
tects have modelled parts of it accord
ing to their own ideas. The result is
the most beautiful cathedral in the
world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
AntomobiIes for Tourist..

A line of observation automobiles"
is to be run in Washington, d. c. for
the benefit of visitors. Each vehicle
carries % passengers and will be ac-
companied by lecturer on points Of
interest at the capital The fuel Is
kerosene and the motive power steam.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
SOUTH AMERICA

SUI tNA:-
Chill is moblizing army and Argentine
fleet is preparing for war.
Germany skeptical over benefit of PAN
American congress in Mexico.
President Castro of Venezuela said to
have been defeated at Maturn by insurg-
ents, who obtained possession of city.
INTERNATIONAL
Beers captured wearing khaki uniforms
court martialed and shot
Said that Russia and China have reached
agreement as 10 Manchuria
Weekly parade of troops in Philippines
ordered by Gen Chaffee to impress and
awe native population.
FUTURES
Increased appropriation to be asked from
congress for rural free delivery
ran under way among farmers of wheat
oelt TO combine and run price of wheat up
next year.
William Mckinley National Memorial
Arch association has issued address to
american people calling for contributions.
FATALITIES
Three persons killed and one injured at
rallroad crossing at lakewood, Wis
Town Of Bobruisk, in government Of
Mlnsk, Russia, burned and many lives lost.
twenty bodies recovered from ruins of
factory fire at Philadelphia and II are still
missing.
POLTPICAL,-
Registration in Ohio largest ever record
ed In one year
United States Senator John P Jones' OF
NeVaoa' has announced his return to the
republican party
Statehood convention held at Ph oenix.
Ariz, resolutions adopted and COMMITTEES
appointed togo to Washington to lay claims
before congress.
ABOUT PEOPLE
John Harris, convict at Sing Sing, has
inherited $4,000
King Edward declared to be afflicted with
cancer In throat.
Deacon William A. Holland. churchman
and philanthropst, Is dead at Boston, aged
Rev ]. ]. Crowley. of Oregon. H., ex-
communicated from Catholic church for
charges against Chicago clergy.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
President Roosevelt celebrated his forty
third birthday Sunday
Rear Admiral Crowninshield to be given
the European station.
Cardinal Gibbons paid visit to white
house and had long interview with presi-
dent
Thomas w. Cridler. third assistant secre-
tary of state, has resigned to accept posi-
ton or European commissioner of Louis
lana Purchase exposition.
LAW AND LAWDREAKERS;-
Motion entered at New York to quash in
dictment against Roland NJ. Molineux.
Safe in hardware store at Berea o.
robbed of valuable paper and morey to
amount of 100000
Caleb Powers again convicted of COM
plieity in murder of Gov. Goebel and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment
Jim Morgan, escaped convict from Texas
penltentiary, for whom reward of So 500 was
offered, captured at Tulsa, l. 7.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
nnnk 20 OMIT business.

Omaha. Neb, Oct. 20. The Ma
tional Bank of Commerce has decid-
ed to close up its affairs and has
turned over $4,000 in cash to the
Omaha national bank to pay it's de-
positors. The reason given for the
action is insufficient working capital.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31

Another bird believed to have be-
come extinct is the California condor,
twice as large as the condor of the
Andes. It's length was feet, weight
25 pounds, and spread of wings ~ feet.
An egg of this bird is worth 1900 to
collectors, but none has been found
for II years. Eggs of the golden eagle
sell in San Francisco for 1872 each.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
Latest Sea SERPENT story,

This seasons sea serpent story
takes the form of sea of snakes. A
ship just arrived in Philadelphia re-
ports a belt of snakes Is miles wide
in the Indian ocean. The snakes, aver
aging three feet in length, were of an
unknown species and are suppo ed to
have been brought to the surface by
a volcanic disturbance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
state Tax Levy.

The state tax levy shows that the
amount to be raised in 1902 will be
$2,257 ,S54, as against S1.345.570 in 1901
The actual increase is $912,2S4, of
which $S06,2s4 is caused by the in
crease of the one mill school tax. The
apportionment by counties is given
in the following table:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
cnt. sacrlflced 10 Fnrhion.

A hundred tons of cats tails were
recently sold in one lot in New York
for ornamenting ladies' wearing APP
parel. This means that no fewer than
1872, 900 pussies had been killed to sup
ply this one consignment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
sonlh Omaha. Neh.. a.. as

CATTLE active. stronger Ma
tive beef Steers. s4.75n6.S5 Western steers,
$3759i525; Texas Steers. $3.50m4G0: Cows
and Hefers stronger, $2.S003S0: Gamers,
81 2502I0 Stockers aud Feeders. 81 50d4 50;
Calves, $50oQ5.00; Bulls. stags, etc. 81 80
3.75.
HOGS-Market Zoe lower Heavy. S5S7fe
$40; mixed. $5.S7iza590; light, S5S0n5 ~:
Pigs, s. ig4575; bulk Of sales, S5371a95.90.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
Indu.trr Rnined by war.

The rearing of worms and manu-
facture of silk were completely bro
Ken up in America by the revolution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
EngIIshmen Return Thanks.

Londoners are just discovering the
Joy added to life by an American re-
frigerator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-31
THE MARKETS.


Chicago. Oct g
WHEAT Ruled easier. December 303s
fl7114c; May, 74AMI42c.
COMMISSIONERS December 5G9sq57sc;
May 5S3sa599sc
OATS Easy to lower. May SSha2S7sc
POTATOES-Ma Market firmer White stock.
good to choice. 62n55c; fancy rurals, &c;
red stock, 58Gl65c.
EGGS-City recandied. new cases In
Guided, 19c; at mark, cases returned, good
to choice, l5ql7c. loss off, cases returned,
l9c
BUTTER-Quiet and easier Creamerles.
extras. 2l@2lhc per pound firsts. 1SG20c;
seconds. 1idi4lzc dairies, 131ml9c
LIVE POULTRY-Marke steady Tur-
keys 7a8he; chickens 61A@81sc; ducks ~
aSc; geese, S4O0@5.75.
New York, Oct 2S.
WHEAT - December. 7G7sa77lsc. May,
70 9-15a79%c.
RYE-steady State, 57G5Sc, c. {. f. New
York car lots. Gle T. o. b. afloat
CORN-December 62A9g29sc
oATs-Quiet and steady. Track white.
4iM45c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-29
STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS.
From Hollands" New York Letter in the Phil.
adelnha Pres.

From "Holland's" New York Letter in the Phil.
sdelphia Press.
There is no doubt here u tho substantial &C.
c,irary ~ the despatch telcgranhcd from Fits.
burg to the effect that the officers Of the United
States Steel corporation do not feel justified in
entering into any negotiations involving the
making oi contracts or the signing cf agreements
with the Amagamated association az such. The
reason they give ~, they assert, one that would
appeal IN every business man and every man OF
honor Their friends say they executed con.
tract with the officers of the Amagamated aSso.
citation. that this contract was aiterward rcpudi.
ated aud that Mr. ShaHcr has been quoted a.
iustiivine tho reputation ot the contract. In
view " that experience they gay That any new
contract or agreement entered into could not he
regarded a. binding and would therefore he
worthless That Is the only reason given TOR the
refusal Of the steel corporation 90 enter into an
agreement with the Arnalgsmstcd association,
and they further say that they cannot be accused
of unfairncss in view of the fact that they ia
recognize the association and enter into contracts
with it and did not themselves break that con
tract.
II must he said that in taking this view they
do not treat the Amagamatcd association diner
emily from their treatment Of any corporation m
or any man who has broken n contract or his
individual word. There is now in this city a
man who is practically an Lhnpelite. lie can
never have any authoritative relation with any
corporation or any interest with which two az
least of the more important groups o fnanciers
and capitalists are identified. Last spring he was
chairman OF the executive board Of a very i'm
portant corporation The men who controlled
that property knowing that It was to hc attacked
by other interests came to an agreement that
they would defend IT, II was aftcrvard disvoy.
| cred that this very man who had been implicitly
trusted mad instead oi defending that property,
| weakened il. They said that he betrayed his
friends In recent reorganization his place was
| taken hv another. He il almost outlawod. ne
could not execute contract with these men
unless ne gave substantial guarantees for the
| simple reason that he Is looked upon as having
| broken what may have heen no moro than a tacit
| promise or understanding And it is with YEA.
| sonng analogy o' this kind that those who are
| ~ authority in the steel Trust Justify them.
selves Tor declining TO entertain any proposition
| involving the execution NJ contract or signing
| of an agreement with the Amalsamated associa-
| tion, at least under It's present leadership.