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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
ABOUT lis WERE KILLED
Awful Scenes in Panic in a Negro
Baptist Church in Birm-
ingham, Ala.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 20.-Up to II 80
o'clock to-day eighty-seven dead bodies
had been identified. The death list is now
figured at lis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
HOOd'S Jarsdpdrilld

Acts with the most direct. beneficial effect
on the kidneys. It contains the best and
safest substances for correcting and toning
these organs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
BOSTON CoPPER CLosING oUoTATIoNs.

:: BOSTON COPPER CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Sept. 2o,--Adventure, q BID; Allouez, 2h@s;
bid Bingham, s0@s1: Calumet and Hecla, $3.50;
Centennial 1714@1s: Copper Range, 571a@5sH
DAILY West. 50h @51: Elm River, az @3; Frank.
lin, 1oAdl11; Isle Rayol, 1sh@l4h; Mass,
1874 gil; Mayfower;. 2@2A; Mohawk, 47@47M;
Montreal & Boston. s% gay; Old Colony. ~ @8;
Old Dominion, 17@1S; Osceola, 1914 @60; Par
rott. 2G1a do27: Quincy, 125@13o: Rhode island.
2h@3: Santa Fe, 1919 @15M: Tamarack, 1850
United Copper Co. 3O@32; United states Mining.
22@22A; Utah, N1e@22A; Victoria, SIS @8;
1M1A. ssF9 49, s. ). Sse.s- /
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20

Eczema. No Cure No Pay.
Your druggist viii refund your money
il PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure ring
worm, letter, old ulcers, sores, pitnples,
blackheads on face; all skin diseases. Soc.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
Catarrh,
Foul Breath

If You Continually K'hawk and
Spit and There Is a Constant q
Dripping From the Nose Into
the Throat, Ii You Have
Foul, Sickening Breath,
That is Catarrh.
Any person having catarrh always has
a bad breath. The sense of smell and
taste are nearly always totally destroyed
in time so that the person who has ca
tarrh does not realize how lothsome
their disease is. They continue their
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
Dragged@DosUn
Feeling

Nervousness, undressing sleep, despon-
dency. s., IL - 81. -.s..tl
It is time you were doing something.
The kidneys were ancier>tly called the
reins-in your case they are holding the
reins and driving you into serious trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
! IN The FIELD OF SPORTS

ply marking time and watching the
work of the three-year-olds and mem
tally checking off those who cannot
go the route"
&C. Bennett has named four-among
them the apple of his eye" the colt
Abe Frank, which chestnut son of Ham
over was the premier two-year-oId last
year. Arthur Featherstone and j. A.
Drake, two Chicago millionaires, have
named cots, the former nominating
three and the latter two; w. c. Whit
ney, the richest man in the east with
one possible exception, expects to start
Endurance by Right, his Inspector r.
FLY that was almost the undisputed
greatest FLY of last season; e. j.
Oucky) Baldwin, winner of four Der
bies, with his Santa Anita stable beau
ties, has named Cruzados, the Emperor
of Norfolk colt that he thinks is almost
as good as his memorable sire; the
Pacific coast millione Tres Burns & Wa
terhouse intend to try for the race with
Corrigan, popular California animal;
Clarence III. Mackay, the rich New
York club man, will start Heno, a
grand colt; Capt. S. S. Brown. another
very rich man, will pin his faith to Hy-
phen, the grand son of Himyar; j. E.
Haggin, the copper and gold king,
whose turf exploits are matters of his
tory covering many years, has named
two goods colts; j. e. Madden, "Amer-
ica's ~shrewdest judge of horsefiesh'
and a wealthy man, may start Pente-
cost; Green B. Morris, one of the most
successful of the veteran turfmen OF
the country, will start Old England;
S. c. Hildreth, the famous Memphis
owner of McChesney, the big.
slashing son of MacDuff; Baker Dc
Gentry, r. 7. Wilson, Jr., and other
millionaires will make up their minds
as the time approaches for the turf
classic to engage the best jockey talent
available to pilot their charges. So
many wealthy men are after the prize
this year that it seems very doubtful
that another poor owner" as "Vir-
ginia" Bradley. owner of Robert Wad~
dell, last years winner, is generally
called, will have a colt of class sufficient
to be a factor in the final test. But to
thousands who look forward to the
Derby, the horse. not the owner, will
be the object of all praise.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
The News Condensed.

Theobald Fuchs, rural mail carrier,
was found dead in his sleigh near Sank
City. Paralysis was the cause.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished March 1 at Cleveland, Mani
towoc county, and Delavan, Walworth
county.
Mrs. r. P. Tinney, wife of the assist
in Oshkosh, has purchased the bust
ness and rights, plant and stock of the
Sanitas Water company and will man
age the business herself.
The police department in La Crosse
will ask the common council to re-
woke the license of several saloons.
This action is due to the factthat wine
rooms are being operated.
In quarrel over dog fight at the
farm of William Moody, near Arpin,
Herman Heinz, it is charged, shot and
probably fatally wounded A. r. Moody.
Mrs. D. S. DaMuth, wife of we'll
known dairyman near Fort Atkinson,
died suddenly Of pneumonia.
The election of circuit judge for the
Eighth judicial district, comprising
the counties of ST. Croix, Pierce, Dunn,
Buffalo and Pepin, takes place on the
1st day of April.
Christ Holverson, aged IS years, was
Rio.
Rev. G.. Vontoerne died at his home
near Fort Atkinson of pneumonia.
Michael O'Brien, who would have
been 100 years old had he lived until
August IA next, died in Milwaukee. He
was a former well-known lead miner.
While hunting rabbits near his home
in the town of Porter James Churchill,
Jr., II years old, son of James Church
i'll, was instantly killed by the dis
charge of a shotgun in the hands of a
companion named Charles Month.
A meeting of the Wisconsin Press
association is being arranged by Pres
ident Lucknow, to be held in Milwau-
kee the last week of February or the
first week in March
A syndicate controlled by Marinette
and Menominee capitalists has pur-
chased the Menominee and the Mari
nette street car and electric plants and
will build a line connecting the
cities.
Peshtigo business men held meet
ing and practically decided to incorpo-
rate the place into city. 1t has been
a village for 80 years.
Frank Howe, a native of Oshkosh, a
practicing lawyer and a resident of
Ponce, Porto Rico, since 1898, died
there. He leaves widow and children
in New York.
The entire plant of the Neenah Cold
Storage company was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000; insurance, S5S.000
Edward Wheeler, prominent con-
fectioner on trial for being the author
of 15-year-old Pauline Oeltjer's trou-
bles, was found guilty by the jury
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
:. iI'A[E{8NDFR GATlERON JR llEp

~ ONSIDERABLE interest attaches
to the appointment of AleXan-
- der Cameron S the new head
coach of the Yale varsity crews be-
cause of the probability that the sons
of Eli this year will have race with
the Wisconsin varsity crew. Further
more, Mr.. Cameron is a veteran oars
man of ability, having been stroke for
Yale in 1900 and 1901. That he can sue
cessfully fill the place occupied by
Bob" Cook is foregone conclusion.
Yale alumni all through the west will
watch with interest the development
of the New Haven ma terial under Cam
eron. There is heavy material at his
commandment heavier than Coach
O'Dea at Madison has in view for his
Badger oarsmen.
Yale's problem this year is in brief
the development of an efficient stroke,
and it is particularly fitting that one
of the best men the blue ever had in
this position should be the mentor.
Capt. Phil Kunzig, who pulls No. 6,
is a good athlete and weighs over 100
pounds in training. He will have to
make up four members of the crew be-
cause of graduations last year. But
as the Blue will use the same stroke
this year that was taught during the
last few seasons at New Haven, Coach
Cameron will have valuable asset in
his knowledge Of the technical and
practical work of using the oars. Be-
sides Capt. Kunzig there are Johnson,
No. She's a 210-pounder; Bogue, No.
4, and Hooker, No. 2, are in school and
will be on the crew. Sargent, Laws and
Lincoln, subs of last season, are pref
ty sure to supply at least two Of the
vacancies, I am Informed by a friend
at New Haven. The victorious fresh
men eight of last season also will be
a storehouse of material for the new
coach. Bogue and Sargent and Cross
and Adams are the most available can
didates for stroke oar.
Something may be heard from in the
direction of Weymouth, Yale's all
around athlete. Weymouth was one
of the gridiron stars last season and
recently played with the Yale basket
ball team that toured the west When
IN training ne weighs lSU POUNDS ana
he is almost certain to be seen in the
varsity shell.
Those who know Mr.. Cameron say
he is the ideal college oarsman. Filled
only with the desire to do what is best
for his alma mater and thinking less
of the financial remuneration than
anything else, the new coach may be
depended upon to produce the best re-
suits. If it should be the good fortune
of Wisconsin to row against Yale this
year. it will be no disgrace to the Mad
ison boys TO be beaten by a crew direct
ed by such an estimable fellow as Cam
eron.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13

| New York, failed utterly to compete
with the railroads, and their traffic,
despite greatly decreased freight
rates, lessened tolls, and largely di-
minished elevator charges, has con-
stantly decreased. The general use
of the canals has declined rapidly.
To find a year with as small a traffic
as 1898 for all New York canals we
must go as far back as 1857, or if we
except that panic year, as far back as
1850, while for the Erie canal we must
go back to 1860. In the case of agri-
tural products the conditions are
still worse. In 1899 there were Co.,
908 tons of agricultural produce car
ried on all New York canals Tin 1897,
789,783), smaller amount than has
been carried since 1915, when the tolls
and charges were high and there was
no railroad competition.
Up to the present time the canal
has served three purposes. First it
offered an inducement to settlers to
make new homes in the western part
of the state of New York and also in
the states bordering the great lakes.
Secondly, it, to a certain extent, gave
to the lake cities prominence they
would otherwise not have had until
too late to have competed successful
ly with the cities of the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi river valleys, and thirdly, it
has forced railroad rates down al
most to the minimum and held them
there. For the first two purposes the
canal is no longer needed, but if it is
to continue as a competitor of the
railroads of sufficient strength to in
fuence rail freight rates on western
produce bound to New York it's ca
pacity must be increased. This much
New York has practically decided
upon, but how great the increase
shall be is as yet a debated question.
Enthusiasts favor a ship canal that
would accommodate the largest of the
lake vessels, but this the practical
men of the state frown upon as be-
ing a project of too great magnitude
for the state to undertake, claiming
also that the construction of ship
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13

canal belongs more properly to the ma
tiOnal government. The commercial
bodies of New York city have been
demanding the enlargement of the
canal to depth of IL feet, and new
locks that would correspond to this
increased depth, but another faction
in state council have insisted that a
nine-foot depth in both canal and
locks would be a sufficient increase to
accomplish the desired results. These
two factions have now been practical
~ united by Gov. Odell who proposes
nine-foot canal with 12-foot locks,
thus making it possible to deepen the
canal at some future period if that
should prove advisable. The same
plan involves a slight change in the
present canal route. The new route
would utilize the bed of the Mohawk
river for a considerab BILE distance and
would strike the Hudson river at Wa
terford above Troy This change is
considered advisable as it will dc
away with IL locks in this portion OF
the waterway alone, and the complete
change in route will save % lockages
making the total number A instead
of ~ as at present.
The present canal accommodates
Darges carrying $40 tons of cargo
equal to 5000 bushels of wheat, while
the improved canal, if the improve
ments approved by Gov. Odell are car
ried out, will accommodate barges
carrying 500 tons or 10000 bushels OF
wheat. The proposed improvements
will also lessen the time required for
a trip from Buffalo to New York and
return. The time now required is 43O
hours, while it is estimated the new
time would not be over 400 hours, a
saving of day and quarter. These
two things would increase the capac-
ity of the canal from three and one
third tons per hour to nine tons per
hour.
New York has already spent more
than 65,000,000 upon it's system of
canals, and the proposed enlargement
of the Erie waterway will call for an
expenditure of some SOS, 1000, 900 more,
but when it is completed the canal
will once more be an effectual com
petition for the railroads in the mat
ter of freight rates between Buffalo
and New York, and will be of great
value to all that territory that mar
kets its products, or secures it's i'm
ports by way of the great lakes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
LA0ALZTI 1883 BUSHELS OE MHEA7


Not only did the tolls pay adequate
by the state in the construction of
the waterway, but within some three
years time had repaid to the state
the whole cost of construction. Con-
sidering the extent of western popu
latiOn at that time, a time when west
meant western New York, Ohio, a
few scattered settlements in Michi-
gan and Indiana, the traffic was enor-
NOUS But that was before the days
of railroads. 1t was not until two
wears after the canal was opened that
the first railroad in this country was
completed, and it was many years
later before railroad construction
and equipment had advanced to such
an extent that it could successfully
compete with even the small capacity
offered by the miniature barges which
the canal could carry.
The building of the Erie canal with
out doubt eXerted wonderful infiu-
ence in the development of the cen
trail states, and the location of the
great cities of these states. Previous
to it's construction the settlers who
had pushed westward and began the
development of the territories out of
which the greatest states of the
union were to be constructed, looked
upon the navigable rivers as the only
means of practical communication
with the markets of the world. For
this reason they settled along the
banks of the Ohio and Mississippi and
tributary streams that they might
float the products of their farms
down these streams to the gulf and
ship from there to the markets of
Europe. The great lakes offered moth
ing excepting means of internal
transportation for which there was
no demand. Cincinnati, st. Louis, New
Orleans and other Mississippi and
Ohio river towns were looked upon as
the great metropolises of the terri
tory that was being so rapidly popu-
lated. The great cities of the lakes
were most of them unthought of I'M
til the Erie canal had offered a means
of communication between the lakes
and the ocean. The completion of
the canal soon deprived the MISSISSIPPI
pi of its prominence as a grain car
rier, and made the way across New
York state the natural line of COM
munication between the growing set
Elements of the central states with
the outside world.
While it was the Erie canal that ac-
complished this transformation in
the central states it has been the rail-
roads built almost along the line of
the canal that have continued it. And
as the number and capacity of the
railroads have increased the useful
ness of the canal as a carrier for CEN
trail and western commodities has de-
creased. The agricultural, like the
other traffic of the canal, as well as
of all the other canals of the state of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13

ing how to jump on skates?"
SR@ asked figure skater at one Of
the city Kinks as he glided by group
Of critics. cts quite trick" he con-
tinued, as he cut some circles in front
of his admirers, 'but there is nothing
practical about it,"
That man never lived alongside
river in the country and found himself
suddenly confronted by a crevasse
made by the current or what is to be
dreaded as much as that-an air hole
or hummock of ice. The country boy
realizes the vast difference between
skating on the perfectly smooth sur
face of a covered rink and the treach-
erous ice of river or lake and is gem
orally prepared to make sudden jump.
But a little practice in skate jumping
is good thing and often may prove Of
inestimable benefit to the skater.
Are you able to jump while going at
full speed on the skates? Hopping, of
course, can be done by almost any per-
son who is able to use skates. But
how about making jump, say of four
feet eight inches over bar, obstruc-
ton or pile of ice? Set up bar at
that height on the ground and try to
Jump over it. Yet tits within the prov
ince of every clever skater to learn to
90 over Instructions that high or to
leap cracks in the ice, if he will practice
jumping.
"Principally it's a matter of conf
dence in Yourself" said Chilly" Quinn,
who is regarded as one Of the most ex-
pert skate jumpers in the country.
"You begin with low bars and gradual
lv work up to the bar placed over four
feet high. The same method is used
in Jumping cracks. Take the narrow
ones first and in time you will be able
to clear break of several feet, land
ing on your skates on the other side in
safety. Get the hang of landing right
and YOU will be surprised how far you
can Jump after a week of practice"
William J. Smith, of Montreal, is
one Of Canada's best skate jumpers.
He recently won a competition from
Quinn, but the latter met with an acct
dent-one of his skates broke as he
Jumped and threw him off, The rivalry
between Quinn and Smith is going to
lead to other competitions this winter
and it is not unlikely that some records
NAV be made in jumping, back jumping
and leaping. One word of advice-do
not attempt to jump unless your skates
are especially strong. Tt is easy to
break a leg or twist an ankle in jump
ing if the skates prove defective.
f. G. WESTLAKE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
Mean Joke on Good Man

The maddest man in Kansas is a
gentleman named Martin, of Holton.
He is such a rabid prohibitionist that
he wouldn't use whisky to kill bedbugs.
Almost every day he receives word
that some Kansas City or st. Joseph
whisky house has sent him a jug of
l..<1,..-.or by express. He never calls at
the express office for it, but other par
ties call and sign for it, using his name,
and trot off smilingly, anticipating a
delightful jag.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
Feared Insanity.

Mrs. Edward Russell, the 19-year-old
wife of a Seneca farmer, committed
suicide by taking rough on rats and
strychnine. Her husband was work
ing in the woods near by and when he
returned late in the afternoon found
the door of his house locked. Forcing
his way through the doorway he found
his wife on the bed dead, with a long
letter lying on a table close by ex-
planning that she knew she was going
insane and rather than be sent to an
asylum killed herself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
Good Roads Commission.

The good roads commission recently
appointed by Gov. La Toilette in ac-
cordance with joint resolution
adopted by the Legislature last winter
met in Madison and organized. Sen
ator ]. j. McGillivray, of Black River
Falls, was made chairman, and Assem-
blyman William J. Middleton, of Ber-
lin, secretary. 1t was decided to divide
the work, each member taking part.
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y
ID @ going to capture it, said the
eastern millionaire turfman.
1.-The Pacific coast has taken that
classic four times and it looks if the
west had another good chance to win
it." remarked the Westerner.
Huh! Yoh all kin talk right pert,
friends" remarked the southern horse
man, "but the colts that generally
take down the smart stakes are raised
down our way. It's 9 powerful sight
bettah tub raise the Dercy winner than
it is tub buy up lot of possibilities,
race 'em and then see poh mans boss
take down the glory"
Judging from the personnel Of the
equine celebrity list in the Derby the
stake this year is to be contest be-
tween the east, west and south, with
the probabilities in favor of the south
ern breeder getting the glory of breed
inc the winner of the classic. IT is not
the purse Of $20, 900 that attracts these
rich men so much as it is the prestige.
both social and in turf way, that
the Derby winner is bound to get.
Some of the best Known turfmen in the
land have named their choice colts and
FLIES for the 11s-mile event, which
comes as near to being ike the blue
riband event Of EPSON Downs as any
race this country can boast. Without
pretending to pick even the small
group of colts from which the public
fayorite will come, the critics are sim
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13
To Make the Experiment.

The state board of control has let a
contract to Nicholas Meyer, of Green
Bay, for the manufacture of broOms at
the intermediate reformatory in Green
Bay. The contract is in the nature of
an experiment, and is for period of
three months. Meyer is to furnish all
material, tools and machinery needed
and the state the labor, room, power,
light and heating.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13

wal EMILE the isthmian canal
MS7ESsN project is agitating the
MGAM nation New York state is
WY having a little canal pro-
W " iect of it's own that is of
no little importance to the
entire nation, and especially to the
central and northwestern states.
The question the people of the EN-
pire state are debating at the present
time is: "What shall we do with the
Erie canal"
1t is by no means new question,
but one that has been before the peo-
pie of New York for many years, and
one for which there are but two an
swers to choose from; it must either
be enlarged so that it may again be-
come a competitor with the railroads
or must be abandoned in the near
future as the business done by the
canal must soon reach the vanishing
point unless something is done to re-
Vive it,
New York state is in no mood to
abandon the project upon which she
mas al NAbJ oPNIC 81 11ioA
not alone because of these millions,
but because of the sentiment that
fingers about the old canal as well.
No other element contributed so
much to the rapid settlement and de-
velOpment, not only of New York, but
of all the great northwest, as did the
Erie canal. To it's first construction
there was much opposition and Gov.
Dewitt c. Clinton was ridiculed for
his efforts in behalf of what was
called 'CIinton's Big Ditch But the
original canal was pushed to COM
pletion, and in 1925 was opened to
commerce with elaborate ceremonies.
1t quickly attained a success far be-
yond that which even such ardent
friends as Gov. Clinton had looked
for. The wilderness of central and
western New York were soon trans
formed into thriving villages and
towns built along the CANAL banks,
and these were surrounded by Guilt
waited farms whose produce the canal
offered a means of marketing.