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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-06

AT this writing Blair and Bray,
Guy and Northway and Finch and
Klein are running very close, but
when the Decker vote arrives it will
doubtless be found that the Democratic
aspirants for representative, sheriff
and coroner are also elected, for the
Democrats have every reason to believe
that that precinct will give them (, suf-
ficient majority.
The defeated party will endeavor of
course, to explain how it all hap.
pened, but such rea sons as are USUALLY
discovered are only superficial at best
as the causes for sudden reversion
of public sentiment, especially of a
political or partisan nature, are to be
largely accounted for, as stated, in the
natural trend of the human mind from
one extreme to another. Occasionally
an election strikes the public pendulum
at it's center of suspension, then the
result is liable to be so close as to
leave ground for subsequent vexatious
contest. 1t is fair and satisfactory to
say, however, that last Tuesdays
election was not one of that kind II
was veritable landslide for the
Democrats of Rosebud county.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNTO,
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
F1FrY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.

A joint resolution introduced in the
United States senate on the 10th by
Senator Wetmore was adopted appro-
priating $4,000 for the purchase of
bronze bust of the late President Nc
Kinley. Debate on statehood bill dis
continued until January 5. The Ven
ezuelan situation discussed in execu-
tive session. In the house the bill to
transfer from the treasury depart
ment to the secretary of agriculture
the power to make regulations to sup
press and extirpate dangerous con-
tagious diseases among live stock was
passed without division. The leg1sla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill further considered in COM
mittee of the whole.
The pension appropriation bill was
passed by the senate on the 18th. 1t
carries $139,847, 900. An urgent def
cheney bill also was passed. The
amount carried by this bill is $1,148,-
400 1t includes an item of $50O,0o0
to enable the secretary of agricui-
ture to stamp out the foot ana
mouth disease, which has become cpl
demic in the New England states. In
the house the legislative appropria-
ton bill was passed practically with
out amendment, except the insertion
of a provision appropriating $5oO,oo9
to enforce the Sherman antitrust
law and directing the attorney gen
eral to proceed to the prosecution OF
all Yiolators of the law.
There was no session of the senate
Thursday. The house passed bill to
reduce the duties on the products OF
the Philippine islands coming into the
United States from Is per cent. OF the
Dingley rates (the present duties) to
25 per cent. of those rates. The Nc
Call resolution, calling for the CORE
spondence in the Venezuelan imbrog-
Ito, was adopted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
SHOT HIM TO DEATH.
Iowa Posse Brings Life of IA ID Desperate
Man to u CIOse-He Had Shot
Two officials.

Keokuk, Ia, Dec. 20.-City Marshal
r. w. Coulter and Justice A. E. Mus
grave were fatally wounded Friday
night at Pennington, Ia, by George
Stillwell, deputy fish commissioner.
who was afterwards shot to death by
a posse. Coulter attempted to arrest
Stillwell on a warrant charging him
with disturbing the peace. StillweH
shot Coulter in the stomach and in the
shoulder. Stillwell then ran up the
street and shot Musgrave in the head,
because, it is said, the justice had re-
Gently sent him to Jail for Is days on
a charge Of disorderly conduct. Still
well then went home, reloaded his re-
volver, took a rife and started across
the country, with posse of armed
citizens in pursuit. When the posse
overlook the fugitive he took a posi-
ton behind tree and held the citizens
at bay for nearly an hour. Stillw eli
was wounded several times, and
dropped to his knee, but continued to
shoot until a bullet stuck in the barrel
of his rife. The posse closed in on
Stillwell, Kidding him with bullets.
None of the posse were hit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

At Battle Creek, Mich, John Bart
Iinger, or Utyler, as his name proves
to be, confessed that he murdered Mrs,
Robert Garrison, who was found shot
dead in her home in Bedford township
Mich.
The former postmaster of Ogden,
Utah, Charles Meighan, who was re-
Gently found guilty by federal jury
of embezzling government funds, was
sentenced to one year and day con-
fnement in Jail.
AS a Christmas gift J. D. Rockefeller
has given $1,000, 900 to the University of
Chicago, with an addition of $4,000
to make up a deficit in the budget.
The fleet of Admiral Dewey will be
ordered Immediately TO Trinidad is
land. near La Guayra. Other warships
will be sent to Curacao. President
Roosevelt believes the trouble will be
settled by arbitration. but close
watch against territory grabbing will
be kept.
John j. Williams fatally shot his
wife and killed himself at st. Joseph,
Mo. Jealousy.
Flames destroyed the Huron opera
house, Huron, S. d., owned by w. L.
Miner and valued at $4,000.
Gold bullion worth $1s5, 90464 has
just been shipped by the United States
assay office in Deadwood, S. D., to the
mint in Philadelphia.
1t is announced that the total assess
ment of all property in the state of
Illinois is $1,000, 127, $50, of which Cook
county gives s43O,81o.o72.
At the age of IS years Solomon
Hirsch, former United States minister
to Turkey, died in Portland, Ore.
At Mullens, S. c., bank was broken
into, the safe dynamited and about
$4,000 in cash stolen.
At Hastings, Mich, Matthias II. Utz-
Ter, alias John Brantlinger, pleaded
guilty of the murder of Mrs. Robert
Garrison in Johnstown township,
Michigan. He was sentenced to soli-
tary confinement at hard labor for life
in the state prison at Jackson
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
FROM WASHINGTON.

The president has signed the com
mission of Hon. A. B. Anderson, recent
ly appointed and confirmed as United
States district judge for Indiana.
Annual report of the interstate COM
merce commission declares that rail
road mergers practically have sup
pressed competition. Grave danger
exists unless the law is amended to fit
new conditions. Injunctions against
rate cutting react on shippers.
A bill introduced by Senator Depew
provides for emergency currency, al
lowing national banks to issue circula-
ton to the extent of so per cent. OF
their capital in time of stringency.
President Roosevelt sent to the SEN
ate the reciprocity treaty recently ne
gotiated between the United States and
Cuba.
This government will recognize the
blockade of Venezuelan ports. It's
attitude will be that of a neutral pow
er toward belligerents.
An increased number of cases of
pneumonia and severe cold among the
people of Washington is attributed to
the coal famine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
MORE STORIES OF ASSAULT.
NOnunion Miners Continue to Preseng
ChSrges of Intimidation
Against Strikers.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 20.-Nonunion
ers to the number of 80, appeared be-
fore the coal strike commission and
told their stories of alleged boycotts,
intimidations, dynamiting and vio-
lence in various forms, during the late
strike. Each witness called was
sufferer in one form or another at the
hands, they alleged, of union men.
Four witnesses said attempts were
made to blow up their houses, one
house was badly damaged, many of
the witnesses were threatened with
bodily harm; several were beaten, one
was shot in the leg, every one stoned,
boycotted or hung in ethgy. One
school teacher testified having lost his
position because his father did not
strike. One man was asked to resign
from a Catholic temperance society,
and another witness was expelled
from a local lodge of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, after membership
of 90 or % years, because they were
classed as unfair workmen.
The commission will meet at nine
o'clock this morning and adjourn at
HAS o'clock for the holidays. Most
of the commissioners will immediate
ly leave for their homes.
Scranton, Pa, Dec. 20.-Chairman
Gray, when the strike commission
opened it's session Friday, recalled the
incident of Wednesday, when the ac-
curacy of the wage statements OF two
men employed by the Pennsylvania
Coal company was questioned. The
lawyers for the miners challenged the
good faith of the general manager of
the company, and Chairman Gray
said that if the company could not
show how many men figured in the
wages handed to the commission it
might shake the faith of the commits
sion in the wage statement. Chair
man Gray said that he has since been
informed that the auditor of the COM
pany notified one of the assistant re-
corders when the figures were hand
ed in that the company was unable to
give in all cases the exact number of
men sharing in the earnings. The
chairman said he did not wish to con-
vey the impression that the commits
sion impugned the good faith of the
company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AS result of cold weather in Hur.
gary, SO persons were frozen to death
there during the last three days.
Wolves are devastating the sheepfolds
and have devoured three shepherds.
Dispatches say the town of Andijan,
Russian Turkestan, was totally de-
stroyed by an earthquake. The num-
Der of fatalities is not yet ascertained.
The population is threatened with
starvation.
A cablegram from Admiral Dewey
brings information that he has as
signed American warships to posi-
tions near the Venezuelan coast.
Through the United States legation,
President Castro formally asks for
arbitration of the disupte between
Venezuela and European countries.
It is said nearly 5000 Beers are pre-
pairing to ''trek'' to America and will
settle in Colorado, New Mexico and
Texas.
Because the French authorities have
become convinced that the death Of
Mrs. Ellen Gore was accidental it has
been decided to drop the case against
M. De Rydzewski.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued by royal commission until Feb
ruary II.
Over $50 natives, mostly children,
were killed by the earthquake which
destroyed the town of Andijan, Rue
sian Central Asia. Over 300 were in
jurea and 5000 buildings destroyed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
FOUND GUILTY.
Five Former Nj lem h ers ST. Louis HOuse
of Del gates Convicted of Brib-
ery-fuat Go to Prison.

St. Louis, Dec 2o.-The joint trial
of five former members of the house
of delegates, which began Tuesday,
ended Friday night in a verdict of five
years for each man in the peniten-
tiary. The defendants, John A. Sheri-
dan, Charles j. Denny, Charles Gutke,
Edmund Bersch and L. e. Albright,
were convicted on charges of bribery
in connection with the passage of the
suburban street car bill, to accom-
plish which, it was charged, $4,000
had been placed in deposit, to be used
as required. The five defendants, after
hearing the verdict, filed motions for
a new trial, and each was released on
bOnd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
THE EAST.

An acetylene gas tank exploded in
the residence of John Puglughi, at Fort
Lee, n. j., and the building was de-
molished, his five children instantly
killed and his wife seriously injured.
Judge Gray, chairman of the coal
strike commission, suggests that steps
be taken to secure law in Pennsyl-
vania forbidding the employment of
children at night.
It has been decided to place the re-
mains of Mrs. Grant in the tomb with
the body of her husband at Riverside
park.
A midget, 'Gen. Peanuts" who for
a number of years was one of the best
known clowns connected with Bar
NUNS and Forepaugh & Sells cir
cuses, was found dead in bed at New
York.
Fire destroyed the terminal station
of the Long Island City railroad, at
Long Island City; loss, 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
TRADE REVIEW.
Conditions Throughout the Country
Are IesOme-HOIldRy Trade
Great in Volume.

New York, Dec. 2G..-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Holiday trade has exceeded even
the most sanguine expectations AMI
retail dealings in all staple lines of
merchandise are well maintained,
with the better grades of goods in
brisk demand. Wholesome condi-
tions prevail in most sections of the
country, although in parts of the
southwest the season has fallen be-
hind the average. Even in these
cases, reports are encouraging for
the future. Industrial plants are
we'll employed, orders running far
into the future, and labor contro
versies are rare. The only adverse
feature of the situation is the fact
that supplies of fuel are utterly in
adequate, both for household and
manufacturing uses, snow increasing
the delay of deliveries. Two events
of Importance have occurred in rela-
ton to the leading manufacturing IN
dustry. The United States Steel Cor
poration has greatly extended its
scope by absorbing many outside
plants and certain desirable railway
connections. The other was the am
nouncement of advanced freight
rates to take effect January 1, show
ing an average increase of about ten
per cent. on products of iron and
steel. Otherwise the situation is
practically unchanged.
No fn7 INoY, a6
267 in the United States, against 265
last year, and IS in Canada, compared
with % year ago"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
CAR RUNS AWAY.
Crashes Into Double-Hea Freight
and Kills Two and Injuries
Three Men.

Bradford, Pa, Dec. 20.-A car heav-
ily loaded with lumber on Mays Sid
ing, near Wetmore, on the Philadel-
phia & Erie railroad, ran away early
in the morning down steep grade
and rushed into a double header
freight going east. The lumber on
the car showed forward and pinned
both engineers in the wreck, killing
them instantly and injuring three
others.
The killed: Engineers James Muir
ply, Kane, Pa, and Charles Dieffen-
bach, Erie, Pa.
Injured: Fireman Graw, Kane;
Brakeman Davis, Erie, seriously; c..
Chiesel Erie. slightly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

The first building to be erected in
New England by q manufacturing
company for the benefit of it's men
will be erected next year by the Yer
mont Marble company, in which Sen
ator Proctor is the chief owner. 1t
will be Of marble, so by so feet, and
will be built at Proctor for the bene-
fit of the 1900 employees of that COM
pany. Tt will be committed to the
Y. M. C. A. fl,r operation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

Alaska has been so commonly re-
garded as cold and forbidding coun-
try whose only claim to recognition
was its earlier seal fisheries and its
later mineral wealth that the agri-
cultural development now going on
there is a genuine surprise to most
persons. Yet it presents remark
able possibilities in this line. Gen.
Greedy, head of the United States sig
nal service, and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson are good authorities, and
they have pointed out in recent re-
ports the great agricultural oppor-
tunities which Alaska presents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

Kissing will have to be done sur
reptitiously in Virginia, or those who
kiss may be guilty of misdemeanor
and punished by a fine of five dollars
for each smack-that is, if bill re-
Gently introduced in the Virginia leg
islature becomes a law. The author
of the unique measure in question is
DIR. r. B, Ware, physician in good
standing, who, like many other doc
tors, is firmly convinced that oscula-
ton spreads disease. Briefly, the
provisions of the bill require that
persons who insist upon kissing shall
obtain physicians certificate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

1t has been decided by Maine jus
tice that since a man and his wife are
legally one the wife cannot be accused
of theft when she abstracts money
from his pocket in the silence of the
night; that is, a person cannot steal
from himself. This decision opens
vast possibilities in Maine househo lds,
but the situation will vary according to
individual cases and be dependent upon
whether the husband or the wife is
the cone"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

The formal opening of the great
dam across the Nile at Assouan
marks the completion of enc of the
most remarkable engineering achieve
ments of this age, or of any other
age, for that matter. The magnitude
of the enterprise and the advantage
which it will give to industrial Egypt
nre likely to make this wonderful
structure lasting monument to skill
and thoroughness. The dam, reser-
voir and necessary works for irriga-
ton represent an outlay of about
$25,Oo0,O0O. The dam will store ST.
612, 179, 900 cubic feet of water.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

Commander Peary certainly is not
a ''quitter" He has but just reached
home after long sojourn in the arc
tic regions, and already he is plan
ming for another north pole expedi-
ton. lie says he will go prepared to
spend two years up there if neces-
sary. No doubt his past experience
will be very valuable to him, and if
the pole ever is reached it will be by
some such indomitable spirit as his.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

The report that a company has
been organized in Middletown, O., to
manufacture paper from cornstalks
and that it has contracted for a plant
which will cost $250,0O0 is a matter
of no little Importance, since the
proposition to make paper of that
material is quite as reasonable as
was that made years ago that print
paper could be made of wood pulp
1t took long time to learn to make
paper of wood, and the learning cost
those who embarked in the enter
prise hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. 1t, however, proved success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

Probably the greatest work ever
achieved by any railway in the world
in "a hours was that accomplished by
the Pennsylvania company at Pitts
burg, recently, when over 900 trains,
consisting Of 46,225 cars, were moved,
mainly by the Pennsylvania, in the
effort to relieve the congestion of
freight traffic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

The governor Of Alaska in his
Thanksgiving proclamation said:
Though we have not many husband
men, those who have had faith to SOW
have had the pleasure of reaping." The
governor expresses the hope that in
the near future many thousands will
be added to the number of those who
sow and reap in Alaska.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
Rice I'm South Texas.

The Government report for 1902 shows
that Texas holds the world record for the
production Of rice. Some of the best rice
lands in the State are along the line of the
M. X. & I. Ry. An interesting book on
Texas will be sent on request. James
Barker Gen'l Pass. Agent, M, x. & L. Ry.,
SOL Wainwright Bldg, St. Louis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
Chinamen to BE Deported.

New York, Dec. 2U.-JnIted States
Commissioner Benedict has ordered
the deportation of II Cinnamon who
had not been registered under the
exclusion act and could not show that
they arrived in the United States be-
fore the passage of the act.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
PardonleG.

Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 20.-Gov. Savage
on Friday gave Daisy Lawrence, aged
ten years, of Norfolk, a Christmas
present in the shape of a pardon for
her father, who is serving three
years sentence in the state peniten-
tiary for embezzlement. The pardon
was granted in response to a pitiful
letter from the little gir;.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
River Falls Journal.

Bracing air is good to put "snap
and ginger" into people, but when it
is so cold that it makes every face
look as if a dose of quinine had just
been inserted in it, admiration
ceases.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

A little girl, aged ten, alleged to
have been turned out on the street
by her mother, was found sleeping in
garbage box in Chicago. The lit
tie sleeper was not entirely deserted,
however. She was guarded by pet
dog. And yet there are people who
can be unkind to dogs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

The United States government has
never issued postage stamp decorated
with the head of woman until now
IT is on that day the post office sending
out to postmasters a new eight-cent
stamp, on which is used the head of
Martha Washington. The design is
considered one of the most beautiful
ever put out by the post office depart
ment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
Stndent Kills Hims elf.

Ottumwa, Ia, Dec. 20.-Because he
thought he had failed to pass his OK
aminations, Everett Hartman, of Nal
com, Ia, a student at the Iowa Yves
leyan university, committed suicide
Friday by cutting his throat with "
razor. The blade went to the bone
but did not cut the jugular vein.
Hartman died five hours after he in
Aic+ed the wound
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
strike Threatened.

Chicago, Dec. 20.-Eighteen Chicago
furniture factories are threatened
with a strike of 5000 employees for
$2.1O daily pay and nine hours work,
instead of $1.7O and ten hours work.
The manufacturers are declared to
hold 100000 strike fund.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

1t is a noteworthy coincidence
that three famous men of extraordi-
nary brilliancy of mind have died
within a short time, and each named
Tom: Tom Ochiltree, Tom Reed and
Tom Mast.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 2O.-Albert
Swift. aged So years, well-known
business man and the originator of the
ssJohnstown Flood" at the PanAmer-
lean exposition, died suddenly in d
Turkish bath early Thursday of heart
failure
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
VIII raise Wages.

Chicago, Dec. 2o.-The Northwest
ern railroad has agreed to raise the
wages of 5000 engineers and fremen
$780, 900 yearly, as a result of q con-
ference with employees. The ST. Paul
will announce similar increase.
Larger engines and trains are respon-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
President Loubet's programme for

President Loubet's programme for
a visit to the worlds fair in 1904 in
cludes a journey up the Mississippi
from New Orleans. He will thus get
a glimpse of a great part Of the ter
ritory which his country sold to us
in 1903 French America of 100 years
ago has become a populous and i'm
portant part of the United States in
1902, and will be still more so in 1904.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
co1ombia to Reduce Duties.

Washington, Dec. 20.-Minister
Hart, at Bogota, has cabled the state
department that recent govern
ment decree provides for a progress
sive reduction of ten per cent. month
" in the export duties of Colon
hia. BEGINNING January I, 1903.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
FataIitie. Were Appalling.

LonGon, Dec. 20.-A special dispatch
from st. Petersburg says nearly 1000
persons were killed by the earthquake
December IS at Andijan, Russian Cen
trail Asia. They were mostly native
Turcomans.