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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-20
The News Condensed.

Fully 5000 Poles from all parts of
Wisconsin were present to witness
the laying of the corner stone of the
church in Kenosha.
While working on the new John
street bridge in Appleton, Daniel
Featherstone fell into the river bed,
striking his head and sustaining in
iuries from which he died a few
minutes later. He was so years old
and leaves a family.
Fred and Carl Laft, two farmers,
were killed in a grade crossing in
Milwaukee by Northwestern train.
Nearly 1000 men are roaming the
prairies of Martinette county looking
for deer.
A 100000 hotel is to be built at Mad
ison. A conditional option has been
secured on the site of the Park hotel
and it is intended to issue $1,000,000 in
stock.
The county supervisors are consider
ing the erection of a new 100000
courthouse for Manitowoc county.
Charles Curtis died at Auburndale
from wounds said to have been re-
ceived at the hands of John Kennedy,
Curtis was unconscious for two nights
before he died. He leaves a wife and
nine children at Waldo.
While visiting friends near Gales
vile Mrs. Morris Christopherson of
La Crosse died.
Francis Borchers, one of the Oldest
members of the Jesuit order in the
Mississippi province, died at Marquette
college in Milwaukee after two weeks
illness, aged SO years.
Joseph w. Hammond, a pioneer
resident and real estate dealer in APP
pleton, died as the result of falling
from a bicycle.
John Kennedy, of Auburndale, has
been cleared by coroner's jury of
any crime in the killing of Charles
Curtis, tramp, who died here from
the effects of a beating administered
by Kennedy. The jury decided that
Kennedy had acted in self-defense.
Mrs. Wesley King. aged 60 years,
died suddenly while visiting friend
in Galesyille. She was the wife of a
well known farmer, who lives near
Ga1esville.
Charles W. King, engineer on the
Chicago & Northwestern road, was
instantly killed at Kendall by being
run over by a car.
Jacob and Christian Petersen, of
Oconomowoc, two brothers, were
married to Misses Caroline and Ida
NJ. jacobson, sisters, at Stone Bank.
Orlo NJ Mitchell, the first black
smith of Madison, died at Soldiers
Grove at the age of SO years.
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bring over two carloads of Connells-
Vile coal to be cooked as a test by the
German process. The complete success
of that experiment decided the intro
duction of the standard German type OF
cooking oven into the United States.
Something similar, it would seem,
might proftably be done with the
materials which Americans have not
vet succeeded in converting into salts
factory briquettes. There are expert
enced engineers and a dozen manutac-
turers of briquette-making machinery
who would gladly cooperate in these
tests and would furnish machinery
adapted to working the material thus
technically defined. Upon a basis o.
such tests, plans and estimates couIG
be obtained for the erection Of plants
in the United States with specified daily
capacity. Among the builders of bri-
matchmaking machinery in Germany
the following may be cited as OF stand
ard reputation, the first two named be-
ing more specially concerned with ap-
paratus for making briquettes from
coal dust and slack, while the latter
build machinery for matchmaking
from brown coal and peat: The Dussel-
dorfer Eisenwerke, A. g., IS Bruch
strasse, Dusseldorf; Schichtemann &
Kraemer, Dortmund; Tigler, Maschin-
enbau Gesellschaft, Meiderich-on-
Rhine; Rohrig & Koenig, Magdeburg-
Ludenburg; Maschinenfabrik Buckau,
50 Schonebecker strasse, Magdeburg;
Zeitzer Maschinenbau Gesellschaft,
Zeitz, Saxony, and E. Fietsch & Co.,
Thurm strasse, Halle A. S.
Robert Grimshaw, an American en-
gineer of large experience on the sub
iect. whose address is at 9 Warm
bucber strasse, Hanover, may be con-
suited personally or by correspondence
by those who may desire technical in
forma ton as to machinery or methods,
the cost of plants, etc.
1.-THE Stauber process for drying most
substances was first brought into
prominent notice in connection with
neat coal manufacture in 1901, when
the imperial testing station at Chariot
tenhurg announced as the result of ex-
periments made with peat briquettes
made by the Stauber system that they
contained 45.14 per cent. of fixed car
bon, asa per cent. hydrogen, 1884 per
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lHE anthracite coal strike, al
rs M though settled temporarily, is
- certain to give rise to the crea-
tion of an important new industry
the making of heat from agencies
little employed in the United
States heretofore. Canada is al
ready experimenting with the manu-
facture of peat briquettes; in Cali
fornia briquettes are made of coal
dust and refuse, and in Pennsylvania
investors and inventors are engaged in
devising means for the production of
condensed fuel which may be had at all
times, whether coal mines are operated
or not.
Users of fuel-and that means every
body-wiIl be very deeply interested in
a late report sent to the state depart
ment by Frank Fl. Mason, consul gem
eral to Berlin, which deals with the
use of briquettes, made from brown
coal, carbonized peat, coal dust and so
forth, used as domestic and steam fuel
in Berlin and other German cities, and
the wholesome effect of such fuel, to-
gether with coke and fuel gas, in pre-
serving towns and cities from the
smoke nuisance and at the same time
affording a fuel cheaper than the hard
coal.
Mr.. Mason says there are in opera
ton in Germany SO manufactures of
fuel briquettes and he goes on to say:
eff Americans are really interested in
the subject there is no need that they
should risk any large sums Of money
in uncertain experiments. They have
only to study the machinery and meth
DDS employed in European countries,
compare their crude materials with
those found and used here, and they
can thus start at the point of technical
knowledge which Europeans have
reached after many years of expert
ence. When, some ten years ago, the
attention of American ironmakers
was called to the German system of
making blast furnace coke ink retort
ovens, which saves the valuable volatile
elements of the coal, it was thought
worth while by certain of them to
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roots, stones. etc. then liquefiel by
water and pumped through a pipe
several miles to the works, where, as
claimed by the inventor, it is leached
and converted by heat and pressure
into briquettes at net cost Of So ton,
or into artificial coal having a thermal
value of $3.50 calories at a cost or
So so per ton. 1t is understood that a
large plant is in process of erection on
the northern coast of Germany for the
utilization of this method, but as to
or the practical value of the process
on an industrial scale, no exact infor-
nation is at hand.
"The Schoening-Fritz process for
making artificial coal and briquettes
by carbonizing dried peat is an elab-
grafton by a German engineer of the
system invented by Schoening and
used with more or less success at
Stamsund, in Norway. The German
patent is owned by a corporation
known as the Deutsche Torfkohlen
Gesellschaft, which has it's office in
Berlin and a small plant at the subur-
ban town of Halensee, where two ma
chimes of small capacity-one worked
by hand, the other by power-have
been set up for experimental purposes.
"Of the processes actually employed,
the value of which has been fully es-
tablished by experience, one of the
most interesting is that invented by
c. Schlickeysen, of Rixdorf- Berlin,
and practically operated there, at Mu-
mich and other places. The peculiar
feature of this system is that by it
black, dense briquettes of high caloric
value are made from peat without the
application of heat-simply through
the action of kneading and drying.
Turf briquettes ordinarily contain
about 66 per cent. of infammable ele-
ments, the remainder being made up
of inorganic ash and water. They are
thus inferior as fuel to briquettes
made from brown coal, which average
70 per cent. or more of infamma BILE
matter. Both represent in their
present form the utmost that science
has been able to do in utilizing inferior
and otherwise almost worthless ma
terials to supplement and exc out the
insufficient coal supply of European
countries"
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The Railway Beautiful.

The work done by our railroads has
been of great value because so widely
extended. Those who travel are car
ried from one spot of beauty to an
other. In some cases the whole line
of the road has been improved by
planting choice trees and ornamental
shrubs. One of our western roads is
lined for several hundred miles on both
sides with superb chestnuts and ever
greens, says the New York indie
pendent. The removal of the insight
" and the suggestion of cleanliness
about the depots has been specially
useful. Improvement becomes pas
sion. Near such depots cottages are
sure to be neat and yards clearly. This
class of improvement necessarily in
wolves the conventional, and that is
not always bad thing in village.
We can enjoy reading the name of
station in clam shells. Color and con-
trast are perhaps the main thing. A
group of handsome shrubbery, of IL
laos, or weigelias, with plenty of roses.
cheers the tired traveller and giveshim
something pleasant TO think about.
Speed OF ocean Steamers.
In the last sixty years the speed of
the ocean steamers has been increased
from S5a to % knots an hour.
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cent oxygen and 900 per cent. ash and
had a thermal value of 3,806 calories.
The Stauber system as thus applied in
cludes a process for rapidly drying the
moist peat by means of heated and
compressed air within closed cham
Der or channel communicating with
conduit pipes in such manner that heat
ed air can be forced through the drying
channel and cold air through the out
let pipe, the effect being that the cold
air quickly absorbs the hot, saturated
air out of the drying chamber and cons
denses it in the conduit pipes, thus
greatly stimulating the process of
evaporation by which the peat is dried.
Peat in it's raw state contains from 70
to IS per cent. of water and in the
humid climate of northern Europe is
usually very difficult material to dry.
1t is claimed for the Stauber method
that it reduces the moisture to IS or
90 per cent. quickly, effectively and,
what is important, without changing
the chemical composition of the peat
or in any way adding to it. The drying
HdCUlnG is LID UuC bC1AN4 AOI1l IVY Ill
dricaD and of a size to conveniently
produce five tons of dried peat per day.
In large plant this unit would be sim
ply repeated, as a number of machines
can be worked with air currents gem
Grated by the same engine. The peat
coal can be used for locomotive or
other fuel raw, or it can be cooked, and
produces coke wholly free from sui
phur and as valuable as charcoal for
certain industrial purposes.
'Estimates furnished by the COM
pany give the cost Of a plant capable of
turning out so tons Of peat hriquettes
per day as follows:
Buildings ...............'."'~sss '9I4 zoO
Machinery NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .s...>,... II, ooV
Steam engine and fixtures ........>... 1910
Means of transporting material and
product ..'''''''''...'.''''. o,oFV
Tota, ,..................... sS5, go
ga second process is that invented by
F. Schulke of Bach strasse, Hamburg,
the salient feature of which is that
the turf or peat used is cleaned of
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Hunting eason Open.

The open season for hunting deer
in Wisconsin has begun and will con-
tinue until midnight of Nov. 80, period
of twenty days. While the season
opens and closes at midnight it is I'M
lawful to hunt deer during the night
if artificial light is used. Conse-
quently the official season really be-
gan at sunrise and closes at shutdown
Nov. 80.
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sufficient to cover the expenses Of a
three days. convention. When the
treasurer of the committee reported
that the contributions from the coun-
try amounted to enough for the pur-
pose in hand, the committee issued a
call, beginning thus: "A delegate con-
vention of Spiritualists of the United
States will be held in Chica go, Septem-
Der 27, % and 20, next, for the purpose
of organizing national association of
a permanent character and the selec-
ton of national committee with sub
committees on all subjects vital TO our
welfare
The call went on to give specific di-
rections for the selection of delegates
from each society, and the records
show that responses were numerous
and prompt, many writer's offering
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Secret Reveal ed.

Harry Bausfeld, drug clerk, p
years of age, who died in Oshkosh OF
typhoid fever, informed his parents
on his deathbed THAI he was the hus-
band of Miss Clara Yoos, OF Osh-
kosh, whom he had secretly married
last June. The widow is employed
in a store and the couple had decided
to keep their wedding secret until
they felt able to commence keeping
house.
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One Hundred Years Old.

Michael Clifford, Of Baraboo, is 100
years old. He is still hale and hearty
and expects to live for years. He was
born in Ireland and came to this coun-
try in 1894, living first in Milwaukee
and then in Woodland, Sank county,
where he conducted a farm. He mar
ried Miss Mary Sims, who lived to be
almost 100 years old. He has used
stimulants and is fond of tobacco, but
he thinks that a strong constitution
and moderation in all things contain
the secret of long life.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Historic House Burned.

The historic Kimball homestead,
one of the oldest in southern Wis
consin, was destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of $4,000 on the building
alone. With the burning of the
famous house many priceless pieces
of furniture, paintings, silver and
china, together with the Kimbal Ii
brary, were damaged. The house
was built by Julius Kimball in 1886.
The collection of relics was next in
Importance in the state to that of
the State Historical society.
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Death of a Pioneer.

Joseph Trumbell Isham, aged 81
years, died at his home in Elkhorn, of
paralysis. He was pioneer farmer
of Sugar Creek township and went
from Chenango county, New York,
to Wisconsin in 1847. He leaves two
sons and three daughters, his eldest
son being Fred w. Isham, cashier of
the First National bank of Elk
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WHY 1t Worked.

Rolls-What did you do when you
were in danger from the bear?
Bowles--Well, as had NO weapons
tried sitting down and staring at it,
and, do you know, the bear didn't offer
to touch me.
Rolls-That's strange. How do you
account for it?
Bowles-Well, sometimes I think 1t
was because I sat on a limb of very
tall tree.-Chicago American.
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Causedby Accident.

Sheriff White, of Walworth county,
saws he is convinced that the deaths
of the members of the Wiclingson fam
ilv. who were found in their own home
near Palmyra, over two weeks ago,
was the result of accident. Mr.. White
says he has run down every clue, but
has so far been unable to secure an'
evidence of crime.
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Valuable REGIME.

''I want to see the cook right after
dinner"
"You are not going to discharge her,
George?"
discharge her? No, indeed. Iwant
to get the recipe from her for this
pudding sauce. 1t ought to make the
best kind of office mucilage. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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The body of Nathan ]. Pereles, who
disappeared from his home in Mil
waukee under mysterious circum-
stances a month ago, was taken
from the lake. There were no marks
on the body and the theory of suicide
is advanced. The young man had an
interest left him by his father in a
lucrative banking business and the
only motive suggested for suicide
was an unfortunate love affair.
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''Men is sho' ficl1le,'' said Miss Miami
Brown. "Dey goes back on you on de
slightes' provocation.'
whats been happening" asked Mss
Dina Jefferson Tompkins.
''Mr. Rastus Pinkley come aroun'
tryin' to kiss me, an so as not to seem
too willin' an audacious, l smashed
i'm wifi fat iron, an jes' fob dat he
Tilted me" -Washington Star.
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The Limit Reached.

The Newsboy-EXtry! Extry! All
about de latest autermobe smash!
Cholly-What isit, Algy?
Algy with paper) Heavens!
Percy Sappington's "Black Cyclone
wan into a telegraph pole and Percy is
sewiously injuhed
Cholly-Now, twust, those soulless
cawpawations will be fohced to place
their dangerous distinctions undeh
gwound!-puck.
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c;rxo,. in United state.

The Chinese believe that ginseng
is a cure-all, and is specific in rheu-
matism. Large quantities of it are
raised in this country and shipped to
China. r. E. Barnard, of Houston,
Mo-, is said to be the largest grower
of ginseng in the United States.
From two acres of the valuable root
Mr.. Barnard says his sales last year
Melted him $4,000.
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wooden Leg Always Moving.

A Brooklyn topper has Il wooden leg
which travels considerably. He walks
it off to the pawnshop, pledges it, and
invests the proceeds ia drink. Then
his wife redeems it, walks i back
home, and straps it 20 her lord, that
he may toddle off TO work Thus the
wooden leg is almost constantly on
the move.
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Sha Came EaSy

"He never seemed to really appre-
ciate his WIFE"
''It was the same old story. Men
value things in proportion to the diff
culties encountered in securing them.
He got her through a matrimonial
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Character Told by Tonnue.

Tongue-reading IS a recent fad in
Paris. Everybody is studying the
tongue-marks. It is asserted that a
big tongue indicates frankness; a short
tongue, assimilation; a long and
broad tongue, garrulity and generosi-
ty; a narrow tongue, concentration
and talent; a short, broad tongue, gar
rulity and untruth. The man with a
very short and narrow tongue is a
liar of true artistic merit.
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Mrs. Bizzy-I am SO sorry to hear
that your wife has been throwing the
crockery at you again, Casey. Where
did she hit you?
Caaey-Faith, ma-am! That's what
Oh do be afther complainin' av. Twas
whole set av dishes broke to pieces
an she niver hit me wanst.-Brooklyn
Tifp
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A Perfect Stranger.

Woman-Sor, I've lost me way; me
lady said to turn to the right from the
square.
Man-But, my good woman, you've
turned to the left.
Woman-How should Oh know? Dim
a stranger out here.-Harvard Lam
noon.
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Offer $1,000 Reward.

Samuel and Herbert Wickingson,
whose brothers, William and Albert,
and sister, Julia, were murdered and
burned in their home near Palmyra
the night of October 90, have offered
a reward of ST 900 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderers. A spe-
cial detective has been engaged by
the brothers to run down the assas-
sins.
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Returned Traveller never saw such
devoted couple as Mr.. and Mrs. Lake
side. Met them on the street to-day,
and they hadn't eyes or ears for any
one else.
Mr.. Statestreet-They were divorced
Last month, and he is counting her
again.-N. Y. Weekly.
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The Gnnd Parent.

"What have you gone to smoking for,
at your age?"
81 want to show my boys how easy it
is to break off bad habit"
"Then you are going toquit it?"
"Yes-as soon as get the habit lit
tie more firmly fxed."-Chicago Trib-
une.
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When He is weak.

80 that is the wild animal tanner
who travels with your show?"
"Yes; he's the fellow you see go in
to the cages and make the wild
beasts stand around"
Il noticed he must have been
handled roughly lately by the
scratches on his face
Eyes; but the animals had nothing
to do with that. His wife is respon-
sible for those. He can't seem to
tame her."-Yonkers Statesman.
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Uncle Eben,s PhiIaSonhx

''Nebber ak a man to lend you 2;
cents" said Uncle Eben. AK i'm fob
five dollars jes' 20 make i'm think dat
you Regards i'm as capitalist, an
mebbe he'll be ashamed to back down.
Washington Star.
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A Good Man Gone.

Stranger-Quite a large funeral,
see.
Mr.. Rural-Yaas, sir; but faint as
big as it would "a beenif all of US could
have left our work. / just tell you,
CROSSROADS has lost a mighty good
citizen. Wen never see his equal.
"That's very sad
"Yaas, sir. The good old deacon is
gone. He always kept his fences tight,
and ischickens' wings clipped. Y.
Weekly.
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A Crusher.

Mrs. Richmond-What do you do
when your husband talks about his
mothers cooking
Mrs. Bronxborough-I merely
ask him to explain why so many of
his family are dyspeptic.-Chicago
American.
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Putz-Keep away, hat got the KEEP
tomania.
Polnade-Vat, vat are you daking for
it?
Putz-Eberydng | can lay mein
Aants on.-Penn. Punch Bowl.
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MRnxUreIHH emf

eft is impossible for man to mes.
ure the influences which single indi'
vidual can exert in this world"
"That's right" answered Senator
Sorghum; give known man to get as
much as hundred dollars for a vote
when it wasn't worth ten" Washing
ton Star.
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A Mind-R eader.

Mistress (discharging servant)-
Bridget, I'm sorry can't keep you any
longer!
Bridget-Faith, mum! How did yez
guess thot Oh wuz jist after leavin' yez?
-Pvooklyn Life
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Another Wrong RiEhted

"And So" said the kind-}ooking
judge, "you married him under du-
ress?"
eyes," replied the beautiful one; she
threatened if I did not consent to be
his wife to buy three packages of
cigarettes and smoke every one of
them without stopping"
Heavens! You poor child. Here's
your decree. Chicago RecordHerald.
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Too Amb billions.

Convict-Yes, mum, if it hadn't been
for me great ambition ter make money
Wouldn't be here to-day.
Philanthropist-W What was your bust
ness, my good man?
Convict was counterfeiter, mum.
N. Y. Journal.
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A DipIoIn

Gladys-If she doesn't love him why
does she encourage him?
Edith-Well, she's hoping her father
will suspect she loves him and send her
on trip to Europe to overcome her
infatuation!-Puck