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cock, of Wisconsin. They went to the
elevator and followed Speaker Hender-
son. The visitor saw no significance
in this, but the news instinct evolved
an idea. Mr.. Carnegie was stopping
over night at the same hotel. Senator
Mcmillan and Representative Bah
cock are chairmen of the two congress-
ional committees on the District OF
Columbia, and they are working to-
gether to build up the capital city
along the lines of the original plans of
Mai. L'Enfant. AS the city expands
with the expansion of the republic,
these far-sighted gentlemen are bend
ING their energies and influences in the
right directions: and it was afterward
ascertained that they had seen Mr.. Car
negie and secured from him n prom
Use of substantial aid in the develop
ment of the city, as it reaches out its
hands and gathers to its bosom the
suburbs surrounding us even across
into Virginia; for Senator Mcmillan
has pending bill to take in lands of
Virginia which comprised the orig
inal ten mile square OF this seat of
government.
Then there entered man of mill
tary mien who strobe over the lobby
area with hasty tread. The visitor
asked the name of the soldier. He was
more than six feet tall. athletic, with
iron gray hair and mustache, and with
shoulders squared ike commanding
officer on dress parade. And yet, he is
not I, man who is ever on dress parade;
pla n man of the plain people. 1t
was Senator Dubois, of Idaho, who,
as young man in 1895, turned against
the political party in which he had
been born and nurt-red, because he
honestly believed that this nation
needed change in its monetary sys-
tenn.
There were other men of prominence.
the mention OF whose names alone
would fill this column, but there came
into the hotel a government clerk who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Arbor Day.

Following the custom which has
been observed for a number of years,
the governor has issued proclama-
ton asking all the schools of the state
to observe Friday, May 9, 1902, as Ar
Dor and Bird day and an Arbor and
Bird day annual has been compiled
by State Superintendent L. d. Harvey
and will be sent to all the schools of
the state to suggest to parents, teach
ers and pupils some of the lines of
work which may be attempted in the
proper observances of the day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10

Several hundred men and boys
snowballed fire at Georgetown, Pa,
the other morning, and managed to
confine it to three buildings, although
for a time the whole village was
threatened. There is no water serv-
ice and no fire department in the
township, and there was nothing to
stop the flames until some one sug-
pested snowballing, and o rain of
snowba1ls was then hurled upon the
burning houses, while other persons
plastercd adjoining houses with snow
to prevent them catching fire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
Had Narrow Escape.

Three firemen had a narrow escape
in fire that Quilted the engine-room
of the Paine Lumber company's SASH
and door factory in Oshkosh. The roof
gave way and they were precipitated
into the engine-room. All were IN
iured, but not fatally. The fire caused
a damage of about $4,000. The build
ing was injured for $4,000. The COM
pany carries a blanket policy of $4l3,-
900 ON the entire plant
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rthoWns hS "6os' w q W o III .
"or 70'"'s grandfather was
n general in the union armies; his
father is member of congress. 1T
is WadswOrth tradition not TO
shirk public duties.
The family home is in Genesee, in
lhe midst Of the many tenant farms
into which the great Wadsworth
property is divided. it is beautiful,
comfortable, not magnificent nor
wholly modern. 1t doesn't have to
be. The great amusement of the
neighborhood is fox hunting to
hounds, in which the neigbboring
farmers come to take part in the old
English manner. The Genesec Valley
hunt was the first organized in the
northern states; it is the original
from which David Gray drew his pic
ture of the parish of 'St. Thomas
Equinus" in ''Gallops." The hunt is
so old that there is about it no at
fectation or posing; it is quite the
leading one in this respect.
The Wadsworths do not have a
country home in North Carolina, and
another in LenOx and another on
Long Island They don't have to.
They are Wadsworths of Genesee.
No other family in the state is SO in
timately welded to the soil of par
ticular locality except the Lion Gar
diners, Of Gardeners Island, at the
eastern end of Long Island. The
GARDENERS have about 1900 salt-sea-
surrounded acres, with village all
their own in the most patriarchial
manner. Opposite their island home
is n smooth bit of beach on the main
land, called "Fireplace." Here in the
old days visitors built a fire on the
beach and sat down to wait while q
boat from the house answered the
signal.
rho Wadsworth acres may be less
picturesque, but they are more nu-
merous. There are families III New
York who would give up Il generous
slice of their millions to have the un'
questioned place in the older society
Of either Of these two great rural
families. All over the world a landed
fortune seems n little more solid
than any other kind.
Wadsworth is tall, athletic, slen-
der, well bred. He is said to have
cut out "a foreign count in race
for Miss Hays favor. The lady is
smaller, slighter and less dashing
than her elder sister, now Mrs.
Payne Whitney. The two young peo-
PIE are alike in dignity, in quiet man
ner, in native AmericOnism.
"AIbert GnIlntin, of Switzerland"
Ways used to say that the two
..rcatest citizens of Philadelphia
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two. You may have read how the
success of young Mrs. Vanderbilt in
capturing the German prince for the
only private dinner he attended in
New York was seized upon as a vic
tory for this faction. 1t really
spoiled them. Some Of the ladies of
the clique at the moment ruling have
taken to the absurd habit of riding
down Fifth avenue bowling to every
body they meet, as reigning prin-
cess. bows to her subjects. 1t is
laughable-or something else!
For the present New York laughs.
Young Mrs. Cornelius is popular with
the people who. know nothing about
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lineage. A distant relative Of the
main line married Ernest Seton
Thompson, or Thompson-Seton, or
Seton or Thompson-or whatever
may be the name of the writer about
animals. Mrs. Grace Gallatin Thomp-
son or Seton is charming artist,
and has SO arranged and illustrated
her husbands books as to add to
their attractiveness.
The Galatians run to girls as
other families do to boys. Miss May
GallatiH is one OF the bellies of New
York's quieter circles; on Easter
Monday she is to become Mrs. Will
liam Warner Hoppin. This is the
most important wedding since that
of Miss Mason, of Boston, with young
II. L. Wilson. Society is waiting for
the announcement of the engage
lnent OF Reginald Vanderbilt to kath-
teen Nelson, sister of the Baby
Belle" Nelson who is now the beau
tiful Mrs. Kemp. Beauty is as much
a factor in the Nelson family as
wealth in the Vanderbilts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10

there is, and for many years has been,
lot of corruption in the Indian of
fee. This palpable fact ought to be
known to the commissioner; or it
ought to be discovered by the auditor.
But, as matter of fact, neither one of
these officials seems to go beyond the
routine duty of compelling the clerks
to be at their desks on time; and any
amount of corruption might be car
ried on under their honest noses, with
out their august knowledge"
Another clerk came in whom the
writer has long known as a leading and
enthusiastic worker for the perpetual
ton of the glories of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and he also had some
thing of unusual interest to narrate
He said: II was with Sherman, and
marched from Atlanta to the sea and
then up through the Carolinas to the
national capital. On the afternoon
of the grand review in May,
when 'Sherman's Bummers' marched
Town the hill south of the capitol,
we saw canvas banner stretched
that big building on which we
read the words: The nation will never
forget, and can never repay, it's debt of
gratitude to the soldiers of the union
We all felt proud then. This afternoon
one of my old comrades, who lost leg
in battle, was insulted and degraded by
a man who never did a thing for his
country except draw salary from it's
treasury. My old comrade works in a
bookkeeping division where clerks
must stand all day long. Because my
comrade was unable to stand all day,
on one leg, and took chair to his work,
he was insulted and browbeaten by the
chief of his division, and this in one
generation from the time when the
nation was so grateful to the boys in
blue"
While this old soldier was talking,
in came Representative Wadsworth, of
New York, chairman of the committee
of agriculture. AS he went to the desk
of the hotel clerk, one of the en-
ployes of the. department of agricul-
ture said to the writer: "There goes
an enemy of agriculture. He is not in
harmony with the secretary of agri-
culture Instead of using his position
to help along our department, he ham
pers us in every way. He even went so
far as to go to the president, who is
from his state, and make verbal charges
against the secretary. Of course the
president informed the secretary and
asked him what he had to say, and he
demolished the SANDERS very quickly.
Then, when Mr.. Wadsworth came to
the department to talk about more
seeds and documents for his district,
what the secretary said to him would
make interesting reading for the
public at large.
Every night there are gatherings of
this sort, and there is limitless cauI-
dron of department gossip seething in
the hotel Hobbies. Probably it might
prove to be interesting, with the APP
proyal of the editor to tell some of the
stories of department life, in the flu
ture, as they are told by the talented
gentlemen and ladies and gentlemen
who do the actual work of performing
the details of procedure in the govern.
ment, for which the cabinet ministers
receive credit and appreciation. That
would be a way of seeing the govern
lment from away inside near the heart
OF the machinery. SMITH D. FRY.
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in England. oh
dragged before The animals are not
.slow-going hackneys, but regular
trotting stock, though usually with
rather more weight than is seen on
the track: they are paired to make
in harness a two-thirty clip or there
abouts. Four horses viii carry his
coach four miles in as close to ten
minutes as he can get them; the
change will be made as quickly as a
fire engine team is hitched to its
machine; and if the English on-look-
ers are not astonished it will not be
for any fault in layishness of eN-
penditures. Not since Col. De Lancey
Kane put his famous Virginia water
coach on English roads have such
preparations been made.
Meanwhile the English hackney is
the fashionable horse to New York
harnesses. It's the case of the Lon
don and New York clothes over
again. OWEN LANGDoN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
The Things Of Which Neu
York Society IS 0ossiplng
Social LEADERS With handed Fortunes Hre Com
sfdercd Fortunate "A Prince Henry Incident

her except that she vast he cause OF
the split in the Vanderbilt family. She
IS several years older than her hus-
band, young Cornelius, who has most
of the brains in the present genera
ton of Vanderbilts. The elder Cor
ne1ills forbade his son to marry the
girl, who was then Miss Wilson, and
when disobeyed cut his son off with
a million, making the second son, Al
fred, his chief heir. Alfred, TO avoid
a lawsuit, gave up about five millions
more to his brother, and keeps the
empty honor of a nominal headship,
which no one respects except the yell
low journalists. Mrs. Cornelius has
money on her own account and the
young couple viii not suffer for
bread or social triumphs. Brother
Alfred did not attend the Prince Hen
ry dinner, nor is there any love lost
between the two branches of the
family. The Alfreds have the most
money, the Corneliuses the most
brain.
just for the moment the younger
leaders in New York-those who are
in training for Mrs. Astor's scepter
when she abdicates-train with the
Cornelius branch. And queer enough
they look rolling down Fifth avenue,
dressed all in white like the queen of
Italy, distributing bows and smiles
impartially to right and left. L
think it makes people better repub-
leans ON the whole, so that the dis
play does some good. In power, in
effect upon the world, these lead
ers'' are like butterflies that fly u
little while in the sunlight.
I fancy that the future will hear
about the Carnegies, the Rockcfell-
ers, the Morgans, the men who do
things; it certainly will of the Edi-
sons, the Marconis, the men who
think. Who knows the names of the
society leaders of 1850?
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Fire Follows Wreck.

A disastrous wreck and fire occurred
at Turtle Lake junction, IS miles south
of Cumberland. An east-bound freight
train on the 500 line crashed into the
south-bound Omaha twilight limited
at the crossing, telescoping the mail,
baggage and day coaches and crashing
into the Union depot, setting the build
ing on fire, and the structure and ears
were consumed. Baggageman Morgan,
of Minneapolis, was the only one IN
iured, and he but slightly.
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efS. SCantOruS ana
Haywards are all
OF old American
stock; only the
Floods, Mackays
and O'Briens are
of few years in
the country.
And Il Mackay
is one of the tri-
umvirate at the
head OF the odd
new circle within
a circle essaying
to rule the 400. +"
Mrs. Ogden Mills
an,! Mrs. Cornei-
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Killed by Lightning.

WinOna, Mimi, April "a peculiar
fatality is reported from Burns VAL
ley. Henry Hornberg and Anton Rye
were driving home from Winona.
when thunderstorm came up. A
stroke of lightning struck their rig,
instantly killing Hornberg and the
two horses, while Rye, who sat along
side Hornberg, escaped unhurt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
CrOn Outlook.

The monthly crop report Of the
Washington weather bureau says for
Wisconsin:
Winter wheat and rye generally in salts
factory condition except in few Localities
in northeastern counties; clover baoly
winter killed in some sections; CONSIDER,
able blowing and some seeding done; son
we'll stored with moisture in central ana
northern counties; rain needed in SOUTH
ern
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Boyne City, Mich, April 7.-Sunday
evening the frame dwelling of DR..
Boyne, and occupied by two families,
was totally destroyed and four per-
sons were burned to death. The dead
are Mrs. James Thompson, Mrs.
Frank Littlefield, six-year-old girl
and an eight-year-old boy.
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Edmund G. Weimar, a prominent res
ident of Appleton, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the heart.
The charge passed through his body
and lodged in the wall. The deed was
committed Immediately after he re-
turned home from the polls. De-
spondency was the cause.
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The law passed by the last legis-
lature imposing tax of ten cents q
ton on ice shipped out Of the state
has been declared invalid in decision
handed down by the state supreme
court at Madison
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
Fifty Years Old.

Fifty years ago the Wisconsin school
for the deaf was established in Della
van, and the superintendent and fac
ulty of the school will commemorate
the event on April 10. The jubilee eH-
ercises will continue throughout the
day and close with a banquet.
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KNOWS what to
do with is spend
ing S lie e pl e s $
nights now over
a great and not
able project.
This summer
he'll put n coach
ON a 1vell-known
English road. He
W i'll t a k G so
American horses
for the purpose
of dragging that
coach faster than
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in a fair Amer
lean landscape
and you have the
Nadsworths o f
Genesee, whose
son and heir is to
marry Secretary
Hays s e c o n d
daughter.
10 one can re-
member when the
Wadsworths were
not Wadsworths
O ( G e II e 5 e e.
Young J a m e s
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tailor. Every six
months he sends
to me for three
pairs of American
trousers of the
latest cut. We
know e x a C t l y
what he wants;
always a dark,
grayish s trip c,
rather fine and
delicate looking,
TO be worn with
frocl1 coat; the
tint may vary
from almost light
III 4 -
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NC correct Expression.

Teacher-Now, Master Kirby, you
should be more correct in your COM
position You say, i love school,
Now. school cannot be loved. Can't
you use more correct expression?
Master Kirby-'I hate school. Tit
Bits.
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we're ben Frank
lin, of Massachu-
setts, and Albert
Gallatin, of Swift
erland."
The financial
talent that made
GalIatin one of
the frs t u n d
greatest secrctar-
les of the treas
ury has descend
ed to his heirs,
society people in
New ork. There
is money in the
family &C wall &C
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
Exports and Imports.

Washington, April THE state
ment of the department of agricul-
ture shows that American farm prod
ucts to the value of 1852 100000 were
exported in 1901, while agricultural
imports amounted to 1892, 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
Many Vessels kissing.

Yokohama, April Forty vessels
have been reported missing since the
storm of April and there have un-
doubtedly been many fatalities at
sea.
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Imagine an English country fam
ny brought over seas and set down
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And American Horses.

1t is queer world. 4 young
American with more money than he
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10
The New Exclusive Circle.

Even of the California accessions
to society the Huntingtons, Crock
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"AIbert GnIlntin, Of Switzerland"
Ways used to say that the two
greatest citizens of Philadelphia
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American Clothes in England.
We've dealt with one Englishman
for seven years" said Fifth avenue
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-29

1.-The immediate business of appellee
brought 10 our attention cannot arouse
any great solicitude. 1t relates TO the
gathering and distributing of news.
not looked upon perhaps in all quar-
ters as essential TO the public welfare.
But the questions raised are of much
wider significance. They involve,
among others, that modern enterprise
one of the distinctive achievements
of our day-Which. combining the
genius and the Accommodations of men
with the forces of electricity combs
the earth's surface each day for
what the day has brought forth, that
whatever befalls the sons of man shall
come. almost instantaneously, into the
consciousness of mankind. BY such
agencies as these the world is made to
face itself increasingly in the glass and
Is put to those tests that bring in
creasing helpfulness and beauty into
the heart of our race.
rs service like this to be Outlawed?
Is the enterprise of the great news
agencies or the great telegraph and
cable lines TO be denied appeal TO the
courts against the inroads of the para
site for no other reason than that the
law fashioned hitherto 10 Mt the rela-
tions of authors and the public can
not be made 10 fit the relations OF the
public and this dissimilar class of serv-
ants? Are We TO fail our plain duty
for mere lack Of precedent? We choose
rather TO make precedent--one from
which is eliminated as immaterial the
law grown up around authOrship-and
we see no better way to start this
precedent upon a career than by af-
firming the order appealed from"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-29
IN The COURTS.

B. Hayden McElroy. a brother of DR..
McElroy, who died in Portland, Ore,
on the 2lst OF September. filed petit
ton in the district court yesterday
praying that letters of administration
of the estate Of his brother be issued 10
William Pischel. The petition states
that the deceased left no real estate.
but that he died intestate, leaving per-
sOnal property consisting OF shares Of
capital stock OF corporations. personal
effects, etc. of the probable value Of
s. 600.
Divorce proceedings were begun in
the district court yesterday by Jane
Blum against her husband. George
Blum on the grounds OF non-suDDort.
They were married at Sandy. this state.
on the 29th of March. 1879. and have
four children. The woman claims that
for years she has been compelled TO
earn a livelihood because OF her hus-
bands refusal 10 supply the necessary
wants. even though he is abundantly
able 10 do so. She prays for complete
separation and for the custody of her
minor children.
In Judge Halls court yesterday a
decree OF divorce was granted Benja-
min Judd from his wife. Ida Judd. on
the grounds Of desertion. They were
married in Thacher AriZ.. on the I'D
OF November 1897. and the woman is
said TO have deserted her husband two
years later
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-29
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
PROTECTED IN ITS NEWS GATHERING

Chicago. Oct. 2S.-An important prin-
ciple of law was established today,
when Judges Baker, Grosscup and
Bum Of the United States court of
appeals handed down an opinion to the
effect that the Western Union Tele-
graph company has a right OF prop
erty in the news which IL gathers and
that such right does not cease when
the news Is published on the tickers
rented 20 It's patrons. In laying down
this principle the court OF appeals af
firms two decisions Of the lower court
and forever enjoins the National Tel
egraph News company, the Illinois
News company and other defendants
from using the quotations in question.
The court says:
The business of appellee is that OF
a carrier Of information. The gist of
its service TO the patron is that by
such carriage the patron acquires
knowledge of the matter communi-
Gated earlier than those not thus
served. The ticker. with its printed
tape, Is an implement of means only
TO this commercial end which the
patron or the patrons patron may
utilize TO the end intended, but may
not appropriate 10 some end not in
tended, if such application result in
injury to or total destruction of the
service. In short, the law being clear
ly inadequate 10 that purpose. equity
should see to 4 that the one who is
served and the one who serves each
gets what the engagement between
them calls for, and that neither to the
injury of the other shall appropriate
more.