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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
CITIES DESTROYED.
Earthquake I'm Guatemala Said. to
Have Killed Fully Five Hun
dred Persons.

Guatemala, April 2i.-The three
earthquakes Of Friday night reduced
to ruins Quesaltenango, the second
city of Guatemala, and having $4,000
inhabitants, and completely destroyed
the town of Amatitlan. Both of these
towns were capitals of the depart
ments bearing the same name. The
disaster is greater than the first re-
ports led the public here to believe.
News of the destruction, which ex-
tended 100 miles along the western
coast of the republic, is coming slowly,
because all telegraph wires are down.
1t is known that Amatitlan exists no
more as town, the seismic disturb
ance having been SO great. The in
habitants-t that is, those of the 10000
residents who escaped death in the
cataclysm-are camping in the open
air for safety, not daring to return to
the ruined confines of the town. Some
of the inha bitants are building tenn
porary mud huts. It is said 500 lives
were lost
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
A 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.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FIFTY-sEvgNTH CONGRESS-.

The time was mainly occupied In the
United States senate on the 18th by a
speech by Senator Morgan in favor of
the Nicaragua canal bill. IN the house
the opponents of the Cuban reciprocity
bill occupied most of the day, the fea-
ture being a vigorous speech by Mr..
Cushman (Wash.) against the measure,
lie attacked the rules and declared
members were being coerced by the
speaker.
Consideration was begun in the
United States senate on the 18th OF
the bill temporarily to provide form
of government for the Philippine is
lands Fifty-five private pension bills
and few other measures were passed.
In the house the Cuban reciprocity bill,
which grants a reduction of 20 per
cent from the Dingley rates on goods
coming into the United States from
Cuba until December /. 1903, was
passed by vote of PAT to So.
In the United States senate on the
10Th the conference asked for by the
house on the Chinese exclusion bill was
agreed to and Senator'S PIatt Comm
Dillingham; (Vt.) and Clay were named
as the senate conferees. Bills were
passed granting permission for the
erection of monument or statue in
Washington in honor of the late Ben
iamin Il. Stephenson, founder of the
G. A. r., and So private pension bills.
including one increasing the pension
of the widow of Gen. Ludlow to $50 a
month. The house bill providing for
reciprocal relations with Cuba was re-
ferred to the committee on relations
with Cuba. Resolutions expressive of
the sorrow of the senate at the death
of Senator Kyle Is. d. were adopted.
In the house the fortification appro-
priation bill, which carries $6,562, 455-
was passed and the conference report
on the legislative appropriation bill
was agreed to.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
LATER NEWS.

At Farland, Ind, soda fountain in
a confectioner's shop exploded, killing
w. S. Richardson, the proprietor, and
seriously injuring two children.
| A court martial has been ordered for
| the trial of General Jacob III. Smith,
who was in command of the United
States troops on the island of Samar
| The reports from Kansas indicate
| that the state cannot raise over half a
crop of wheat with the best of weather,
and the greater part of the wheat area
needs rain at once to save any of the
crop. Even in the southern counties,
where there has been plenty of rain,
wheat has made but little growth
Prof Charles s. Huey, assistant in
the department of physical training of
the Kansas State Normal school, was
stabbed in the right breast and had the
upper portion of his jawbone crushed
by young negro ruffians Both wounds
are serious.
The transport Crook sailed for the
Philippines, via Honolulu, with 500
men of the Second battalion, 11sth in
fantry, and a number of passengers.
Gerome L. Nudge, superintendent of
streets and parks in Manila, is dead
The twelfth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans began at
Dallas, Texas, the 21st.
In a fight between cattlemen west
of Collinsyille, in the Cherokee Nation,
William Phillips was killed instantly
lar iur ri >,
and Lige Johnson were mortally
wounded.
Mrs. Abraham Antoranum, of Wau-
kegan, ILL.,, saturated her clothes with
kerosene and set them on fire, caus-
ing death in few minutes.
The Vincennes apartment hotel in
Chicago was destroyed by fire. Loss
$3.50, 900.
Fire destroyed ten acres of property
at Quincy, ILL.,, including the Gem City
saw mill
A family of seven negroes were
found dead in an old house in Chicago.
They had been dead for at least week
aud it is supposed that the father poi
soned wife and children and then him
SELF
The river and harbor bill carrying
an appropriation of SO, 100000 passed
the u. S. senate.
The thermometer registered 1913 de-
grees in the shade in Nebraska, the
21st.
Rear Admiral Taylor will succeed
Admiral Crowninshield as chief of the
bureau of navigation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
NOTED AUTHOR DEAD.
Unexpected Close of the Life of Frank
X. stockton, the Well
known Novelist.

Washington, April 21.-Mr. Frank Il.
Stockton, the well-known novelist,
died suddenly Sunday morning. The
cause of Mr.. Stockton's death was
paralysis Immediately resulting from
a hemorrhage in the brain. He was
guest at the banquet held Wednesday
night of the National Academy of
Sciences, when he was taken suddenly
and mysteriously i'll. The ailment did
not at that time appear to be serious,
ana Tor awhile the sufferer seemed to
be improving, but change for the
| worse came Sunday morning and death
occurred at IL o'clock. BY his bedside
| when the end came were his wife, who
was Miss futile. of Virginia, and her
sister. He was 6S years of age. The
body will be taken to Philadelphia for
interment. No further funeral ar
| engagements have been made as vet.
! LMr. Stockton was born in Philadelphia
| - years ago. He took up journalism in
| 1867. After being connected with the Post
| in Philadelphia and the Hearth and Home
in New York he joined the editorial STAFF
of Scribners Monthly, where he had an OPP
portunity to develop the literary talent
which already had manifested itself. Upon
the establishment of st. Nicholas in 1873
he became its assistant editor. His earliest
writings were fantastic stories for chill
dren. Later he attained a wide reputation
through his short stories for older people.
among them being the "Rudder Grange"
sketches. "A Transferred Ghost" The
Spectral Mortgage" ~ Tale of Negative
Gravity and 1.-THE Remarkable Wreck
of the Thomas Hyke." But it was that
little conundrum of three magazine pages,
| THE Lady or the Tiger" which made the
author famous. This story attracted wide
attention because of its novel and unsatis-
tying ending. 1t was for a long time sup
posed that Mr.. Stockton did clever If not
artistic thing in deserving his hero in his
predicament. and that his doing so was
purely matter of choice with himself
He said, however that the question both
cred him more than it troubled his read
ers At last he gave the matter up and
determined to let his readers choose for
| I
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Venezuela has ratified the protocol
for the renewal of diplomatic rela-
tiors with France.
John Quincy Adams Butts has just
completed his half century of service
as town clerk of Canaan, Me.
A. shower of mud lasting two min
ntes darkened the sky and spattered
windows at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
A double tunnel under the st. Law
renee river is planned at Montreal by
Quebec Southern railroad interests.
A Hebrew ceremony $500 years old
was used at the corner stone laying
of home for orthodox Jews in Chi
cago.
The Texas civil court of appeals re-
tracted its former opinion that the
antitrust law of 1889 is unconstitu-
tionai.
New York Central stockholders at
meeting in Albany authorized cap
ital increase from 100000 to $780,
100000
The government has decided that
from and after next July / the issue
of rations to the Apache Indians
shall cease.
Tt is stated on good authority that
the Bank of Montreal contemplates
opening branch in Havana and other
cities in Cuba.
The Standard Oil company has
gained supremacy in West Virginia by
paying S750,0O0 for the Benedum COM
panies' holdings.
W. X. Vanderbilt, dr.. completed q
fast auto trip from Monte Carlo TO
Paris, covering the distance of 1880
kilometers in IL hours.
Teeck s. Yen, of Philadelphia, q
high-caste young Chinaman, is believed
to be the first Of his race to be re-
ceived into the Masonic order in this
country.
The ship subsidy bill recently passed
by the senate will be shelved. A re-
publican conference of both houses de-
cided the bill could not be passed if
reported back.
4 bill in equity has been filed at
Boston against Miss Ellen NJ. Stone
by lecture company asking for an in
junction to prevent her filing con
tract with James 3. Pond.
Helen German Gould, of Baltimore,
is engaged to marry Prince Eugene
of Sweden. but because she is Roman
Catholic the prince has to resign his
rights to the throne in order to marry
her.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
AGAINST INJUNCTION LAWS.
American Federation Calls ON Unions
All Over Country to Bring Pres
sure to Bear Upon Congress-.

Washington, April 21.The eXecu-
tive council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has issued the following
address to the wage workers Of Amer
lea:
THE constant struggle in which the
wage earners of our country are con-
tinually engaged for the attainment OF
their rights, and the mitigation of the
wrongs they daily endure, renders it es-
sential that they organize, unite and
federate irrespective of trade calling,
nationality, locality, sex, politics, color
or religion.
There are few contests in which the
toilers are engaged for Improvement or
for the prevention Of a deterioration In
their condition, unless injunctions are
issued by the courts of the most far
reaching character
"Injunctions of a fragrant, unjustifiabe
and outrageous character are continually
issued, and honest, law-abiding and faith
full citizen workmen are thrust into prison
for periods of from one to nine months.
1--WE recommend to all organized work
ers that at their public celebration on
May l. July and September l Labor
day., 1902 they concentrate their atten-
ton to a discussion of the abolition of
injunctions In labor disputes and the
passage of resolutions, demanding at the
hands of congress and the legislatures
Of their respective states. the enact
ment of laws conforming to that pur-
nose
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
MORE SURRENDERS.
Small Bands of Filipino Insurgents
Lay Down Their Arms-Gen.
Smith Talks.

Manila, april 21.-Surrenders to the
American authorities of small parties
of insurgents are reported daily, and
these have increased since the surren-
der of the insurgent Gen. Malvar.
Gen. Rufino, with 90 officers and 375
soldiers, has surrendered to the native
constabulary in the province of Misa-
mis-, In Mindanao, where the constab-
ulary are cooperating with the mill
tary.
The United States army transport
cisco, after having been detained in
quarantine for five days. Gen. Jacob
H. Smith, who was in command of the
American forces in the island of Samar
at the time Maj. L. w. L. Waller, of the
marine corps, is said to have executed
natives of that island without trial.
was to have gone home on the Buford,
but has disembarked here.
Orders have been received here from
Washington to hold court of inquiry
into the general conduct of affairs in
Samar. Gen. Smith claims that, to the
best of his belief. the officers and men
of his command in Samar had to face
insurmountable difficulties, that the
hardships they encountered were al
most unbearable and that the treach-
cry of the natives of the island is UNI
equaled in the history of warfare. He
says that the American soldiers acted,
in the circumstances, with the great
est forbearance shown in the war in
the Philippines. Campaigning in Sa-
mar is not a pleasure trip, but stern
reality, said Gen. Smith He also ex-
pressed his doubt if the troops of any
nation in the world would or could
have acted in the circumstances in Sa-
mar as well as did the Americans.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
FOREIGN INTE.LIGENcE.


A protest has been made by the Chi
nese government against the exclusion
of the Chinese from the Philippine is
lands.
In Ireland national league leaders
look for reign of terror to follow the
working of the coercion act.
A Colombian canal protocol, just
made public, asks S2.000O00 rental for
IA years, paid to Colombia in advance.
In South Africa British military OPP
erations will go on in spite of peace
proposals. Peace is expected by
June i.
The fighting Beers of the Transvaal
and Free State will be given chance
to vote on peace terms by Kitchener.
The illness of Queen Wilhelmina is
declared to be typhoid fever and re-
gency may be necessary.
The belief is growing in London that
the prince of Wales will visit the Unit
ed States in September.
A dispatch says the strikes In Bel
GUM have been declared off.
Bocas del Toro was captured by Co
lomDlan reDels d1IeT an dll-hlSHV ny II
in which so men were killed.
At Managua, Nicaragua, the mill
tary barracks We're wrecked by an ex-
plosion and over 100 soldiers are re-
ported killed.
Shocks of earthquake in Guatemala
reduced Quesaltcnango to. ruins and
destroyed Amatitlan. There is an IN
confirmed report that 500 persons
were killed at the latter place. The
damage by earthquake at Tapachula,
Mexico, is estimated at $1,oO0,0OO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Missouri q court decision permits
teachers to whip pupils whenever it is
deemed necessary.
Dispatches say the outlook is en-
couraging for large yield of winter
wheat.
In Nebraska and South Dakota AGO..
600 acres of Rosebud Indian agency
will be opened TO settlement this sum
mer.
The governor of Iowa has offered a
reward of $1,000 for the murderers of
the Peterson children at Des Moines.
In Chicago interview NJ. L. ingalls,.
president of the Big Four railroad
said that the safety limit of railway
mergers had been reached.
In a fire that destroyed the building
occupied by the Depot Carriage and
Baggage company in Kansas City, Mo-,
46 horses were cremated.
Philip Wallace and Ellis Washington
(colored) We're hanged at Donaldsville,
La, for killing Lee Geismar, 5ner-
chant at Geismar, on January II.
Sultry weather extended over the
west. and the Kansas wheat crop is
threatened unless rain comes in two
days. The mercury reached 95 degrees
at Omaha and % at st. Joseph
Services in memory of John II. Alt
geld were held at the Auditorium, Chi
cago, 5000 persons attending. Ciar-
ence barrow, Bishop Spalding and ex-
Congressman Lentz delivered adj
dresses.
From so to IS lives were lost in the
burning near Cairo, H., of the steam
er City of Pittsburg. bound from Gin
cinnati to Memphis, with 80 persons
on board.
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BIG BARRACKS WRECKED.
Explosion Destroys Buildings and
Kills Between 100 and 200
at Managua.

Managua, Nicaragua, April 2t.-A Sc
we're explosion occurred here the night
of April IS. a large two-story barrack
situated near the lake front and in the
center of the city was blown to frag-
ments. Between 100 and 200 officers
and soldiers are reported to have been
killed and many soldiers and otherper-
sons are reported to have been in iured.
A large number of houses near the bar
rack, including the National hotel, the
Central telegraph station and the Ma
tional palace, were damaged or
wrecked. President Zelaya was alb
sent at Masaya ct the time of the ex-
plosion, but he hurriedly returned to
Managua on horseback. He has pub
lished a statement in which he attrib-
utes the disaster to the work of con
spirators. He says that tons of dyna-
mite and a large quantity of powder
were stored in the barrack. The ac-
tual causes which led to the explosion
have not yet been determined. After
the first explosion the police notified
the terrified people to temporarily
leave the city, as it was thought The
burning building still contained dyna-
mite. Large numbers consequently
fed to the suburbs. The first explo-
sion was followed by several minor de-
donations, supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of packages of
gunpowder. The people who fled the
city at the time of the explosions are
returning. The fragments Of the nu-
merous dead who were not blown to
atoms are being buried. The present
lowest estimate of the damage caused
by the explosion, in houses. furniture.
cannon and war material, is 100000
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Maj. o. L. Pruden, one of the assist
ant secretaries to the the president,
died in Washington, aged 60 years.
A report made current by the inter-
state commerce commission says that
in the three months ended September
so, 1901, 725 persons were killed and
2,622 injured in train accidents in the
United States.
The novelist Frank r. Stockton died
suddenly in Washington. The cause
of Mr.. Stockton's death was paralysis
Immediately resulting from a hemor-
rhage in the brain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


An attempt to kill the mayor-elect,
Frank Mcclure, was made in Hudson
by Ed Hutfe, who lay in wait in Sc
Guided spot, and IS Mr.. Mcclure came
along opened fire on him with a re-
volver. Mr. Mcclure started to run
and was pursued by Huffe. who kept
on firing, but without effect, until the
st. Croix hotel was reached. Hutfe has
been employed as engineer on ferry
boat owned and operated by Mr.. Nc
Guire on the st. CroiN river, but was
recently discharged. The. assailant
was captured
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24

The principle of insurance against
the various risks to which men and af-
fairs are liable is rec Giving a constant
" extending application. Insurance
corporations in England have turned
their attention to smallpox risks For
the sum of IS cents person can obtain
for year an insurance policy emitting
his heirs to $500 after his death from
smallpox and emitting himself to five
dollars weekly for five weeks of non
fatal attack. There is a difference in
the rates charged as between recently
vaccinated and not recently vaccinated
persons
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24

Some one of an antiquarian turn has
dug up picture drawn in 1884 and in
tended as prophecy as to how the hui
man race would travel century later.
All sorts of airships are flying about,
but none OF them seems to be as prac-
ticahle as that navigated by Santos
Dumont. Horseless carriages are also
showninprofusion, some of the models
being surprisingly similar to the up-to-
date automobile. Even houses and
stores are on wheels, and showman's
van has this invitations: walk up,
walk up, and see live horse, supposed
to be the last of his race
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
HONOR REVOLUTIONARY HERO
Anniversary of Famous Ride of Paul
Revere Celebrated at
Boston.

Boston, April 21.-The annual cele-
bration Of the historic achievement Of
Paul Revere in warning the farmers
from Boston to Concord of the APP
proach of the British army on April 10,
1875, and the opening fight of the
American revolution was generally OBJ
served in Massachusetts, Saturday.
Fine weather favored the multitude Of
patriotic meetings and sporting events
that had been arranged.
In this city the Daughters Of the
american Revolution gave reception
20 Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
The News Condensed.

Owing to the extreme dry weather
near Black River Falls and adjoining
localities.
Ellen Marie Youngquist, aged "
years. died in Kenosha as the result Of
vaccination.
A flock of 80 sheep mad with hydro
phohia is the result Of the visit OF a
mad dog at the farm of Arthur Brock
ensteder in the town of Bovina.
CHASER, Kohn & Co, of Chicago, will
establish pickle factory in Racine
with capital stock Of $40, 900.
John Quaford, an old settler Of Glen
Flora Chippewa county, was found
dead in bed at the West hotel in that
city.
A new sugar beet factory will be es-
tablished between Racine and Keno
sha, with a capital stock of 100000.
Collector William II. Devos has de-
cided 10 establish a customs Office in
Oshkosh and make il sub port Of
entry.
An incendiary fire at Rib Lake de-
stroyed the opera house and saloon
building and contents owned by A.
Bonneville. Loss, $4,000; mo insurance.
Gysbert Van Steenwyk, one Of the
best known millionaire bankers in Wis
consin, died in La Crosse, aged SO years.
Mrs Jones, 81 years old, was fatally
burned. She was smoking pipe, when
her dress caught fire from the ashes.
Wilson Shenadore. an Indian, was
fatally shot at the Oneida reservation
while trying to enter the house OF
neighbor.
While playing around fire in field
at Neillsville the clothing of the four
year-old child Of Albert Nehmer caught
fire and she was fatally burned.
Berth Ramsey, president of the Wis
consin Malt and Grain company, was
robbed of 500 near his home in Apple
ton by two masked men.
Because he had been discharged for
negligence in his duties, Frank RosIla,
an Italian. drew stiletto and fatally
stabbed Edward Francis, foreman at
the Belle City Malleable Iron works in
Racine.
About Is miles of country, including
some valuable farm land, was under
water near Elcho, as the result Of the
breaking Of the Post lake dam, on the
Wolf river.
The board of university regents has
reengaged the present faculty for the
ensuing year.
Rudolph Koppin, whose home is near
Wonewoc, committed suicide by TAX
ing dose Of aconite. lie was pioneer
farmer in Sank county.
As result of his recent trip TO New
York, President Hughes has announced
that he was in receipt Of a letter from
Andrew Carnegie promising $4,000
library for the city Of Ripon.
Representative business men have
decided TO establish building and loan
association in Kenosha. 1T will have
capital stock of So, 100000.
1t is announced that Mrs. Juliette
Downs Blue, wife of DR.. Rupert Blue.
of the United States navy, who is sta
toned in Milwaukee, has obtained a
divorce on charges Of cruelty and fail
ure to support
Mamie, a two-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Kline, was
burned in bonfire at Appleton until
The annual encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic OF Wiscon-
sin will oe held at Stevens Point, June
II to 10.
An unprecedented wave Of religious
revival is sweeping over Appleton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24
Hot wind Damages Crops.

Topeka, Kan. April 21.-A dry, hot
wind from the south has swept over
Kansas since early Sunday morning.
doing much damage to vegetation OF
all kinds. Those interested say the
wind has done incalculable harm to
the wheat. Unless rain comes with
in two days the wheat crop will
amount to very little. The ground is
becoming dry and hard. This is an
unusual condition for an early spring
month in Kansas.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-24

The battleship Wisconsin has
reached San Francisco after cruise
of 1888 miles, and in target prac-
tice she has broken another record, 95
per cent. of her crew of 49, men quail
flying as marksmen. In the practice
with the big guns the 13-inch battery
was turned loose on a pinnacle rock
near the entrance to Magdalena bay,
aud with a range of :, 900 yards-about
a mile and half-the first shot broke
the formation of rock in the center,
the second broke the remaining stump
and the fourth ground TO pieces the
last vestige OF the pinnacle.