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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
GIRL GANG LEADER
DEFIANT IN COURT
Fifteen-Year-Oid Bride CoIonna
Tells Judge She Carried
a Gun.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. = Undaunted
and with defiant CLEAN in her keen
little eyes, Bride" sColonna, the fifteen
year-o girl charged by the police with
leading the rival East side gangs in
some of their outbreaks, faced Justice
Olmsted in the children's court yester-
day.
In the rear benches of the court room
sat many young toughs, members of
the Monk Eastman, the Kelley the
Yakey Wakes and other gangs that
every once in a while inaugurate a
reign of terror in the streets they DOM
mate.
The presence of the young roughs in
spired the girl to make no show of
weakness. They keenly watched her
behavior during the proceedings and
listened intently to everything she said.
That her conduct was up to the pc
culiar standard the gangs believe in
was made evident after she had been
committed to the House of Refuge. In
leaving the court room one of the
Yakey Wakes said:
Some of the good people will steal
her from the Ref before snow time
She's worth taking chance for"
Policemen Ray and Maher of the
Oak street station, who arrested the
girl several days ago, when a police
dragnet was run through the lower
East side for members of the various
gangs, were in court and told Justice
Olmsted Of her waywardness.
The girls mother, Mrs. Marie Co
lonna, of No. SO James street, was also
in court and made the formal COM
plant In this document the girls
name was stated to be Bridget, though
all through the lower East side she is
known as Bride"
There was nothing threatening in
the appearance of the child herself,
who has been known to carry a re-
volver, mix in the revelries of the worst
toughs in the .'The Gap" and who has
been described as girl Dick Turpin.
She was dressed plainly and poorly,
like any other fifteen-year- girl on
the East side. She is more maturely
formed than most girls of her age, and
has the assurance and Self-reliance Of
one who has lived the rough and tum-
BILE life of the pavements in the old
Fourth ward.
Mrs Colonna, in her complaint,
stated that the girl had deserted her
home and remained out nights in the
company of dissolute and vicious per-
sons The mother asked that the girl
be sent to an institution and kept I'M
der legal restraint until she promised
to mend her ways.
The policeman told the justice that
the girl was exceedingly wild; that
her boon companions were the leaders
of the toughest gangs, and that she
used disgraceful language.
She cA-ries gun, judge, said one
of the policemen, land orders East
man, Kelly and others of their gangs
about
That's not true,s broke in the girl,
who had been cycling the policeman
sharply. Il don't know the Monk
They are giving you a fake record
| about me. They call me a girl Dick
Turpin. I don't know anything about
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
5000 AMERICANS
SEE BULL FIGHTS
Great Crowd From Ell Paso at
Opening of Plaza de Toros
at JuareZ.

Ell PASO, Tex, Oct. 10-The new
bull ring at Juarez, Mexico, the most
expensive in North America, has been
formally opened to the public, and in
the presence of 10000 people. Cervera,
the prince of matadors, led his richly
clad troop of Spaniards against six
successive bulls, which were fought to
the death. High officials of the city
and federal district presided at the
contest. Chief among them was Mayor
Montenegro, of Juarez, who sat in the
judges pavilion, surrounded by the
federal judiciary
After the people, 5000 of Whom were
Americans from Ell Paso, had assem-
bled, and as the rays of the declining
sun were beginning to start through
the yellow dust of the arena, the bugler
advanced before the mayor and sound
ed the call. AS the last notes died
away gate flew open and CerVera adj
vanced at the head of his troop. A
wild cheer rent the air as with stately
tread he advanced to a position in
front of the judges stand, and, lifting
his close fitting cap, saluted the high
dignitaries.
With wave of his hand the mayor
announced that he was ready for the
fight, and the bull fighters ranged
themselves around the arena. Once
more the bugle sounded, and a fero-
cious- looking wild and hardy mountain
bull, from the ranch of Don Luis Ter
razas, at Samalayuca, came bounding
into the arena, maddened by the thrusts
of sharp gaffs into his flesh as he pass
ed the portals.
The fight was like thousands of 9TH
ers that have been described by spec
tators at Ell Paso. Blood flowed in
prOfusion from the beginning and five
paltry horses were gored by the sharp
horns of the various bulls. Six bulls
We're put to death, and their torture
was dreadful to witness. Numbers of
American women tainted and scores Of
others clutched the arms of their es-
corts and begged to be taken away.
AS bull fight the entertainment was
huge success, and the thousands of
Mexieans, men and women, who
witnessed it were delighted.
The senoritas waved their tiny
lace handkerchiefs in enthusiasm.
The entertainment was declared to
be we'll suited to the dedication of the
handsome Plaza de Toros." 1t began
the season of bull fighting on the bor-
der, which always commences when
the first tourists and the early frosts
arrive, and lasts until the peach trees
along the Rio Grande are in full bios
som.
Inc arena IS IeSafueu Will PIiue W
it's promoters. 1t cost approximately
$4,000, and is constructed of glazed
adobe, which has the appearance OF
marble. The seating capacity is up-
wards of 10000. and the interior Is
patterned after the Roman Coliseum.
The great arena is located close to FL
Paso, just across the border, and the
Eastern tourist who boards an electric
car in the heart of the bustling Texas
city of 10000 Inhabitants reaches II
within twenty minutes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
PROF. FALB, EARTHQUAKE
PROPHET, is DEAD
Predicted TWO schocks Correctly and
Caused Great Terror.

NEW YORK Oct 10-Prof. Rudolf Fab.
of Vienna, is dead. He had remarkable
career.
He earned an enviable reputation in
the scientific world as a meteorologist.
He wrote on this subject with learning
care and authority. In his later years,
however, he was largely discredited
among scientific men because he became
possessed of the idea that he could fore
tell the occurrence of earthquakes. Some
of his guesses hit the mark, which only
added to the suffering he caused by err
roneous predictions.
In 1898 he predicted that the Island of
Zante, off the west coast of Greece was
about to be shaken by a severe earth.
quake. The prediction came true, and so
did his prophecy of an earthquake on the
mainland of Greece early in 1894,
1t was natural. therefore, that when
he said Athens would be terribly shaken
on the approaching May the people of
that city should be thrown into great
CONSERVATION.
Nobody slept i'll Athens the night before
the predicted earthquake, and thousands
, spent the hours of darkness in open places
around the city. May was q beautiful
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11

Special 10 The Globe
DULUTH, Mimi. Oct. 10.-Appar-
emily unterrified at the evidences Of
civilization all around them, bears have
been much more plentiful within the
limits of Duluth during the present
season than they have been for many
years preceding. Three have already
been killed within the city limits this
fall and many others have been sight
ed.
Just what brings bruin into the city
at this time of the year is an unex
planned mystery. but every fall they
suddenly make their appearance and
as suddenly they go away During the
berry season it is by no means uncom-
mon to find one Of the big fellows
munching the fruit ceItentedly in the
choicest patch. They do not show
fight, but make off thf6dgh the brush
as soon as they are sighted.
The first bear of the season was kill
ed this year by DR.. Craft a we'll known
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11

day, and there was nothing to mar it ex
cept the distress and discomfort caused by
the earthquake prophet
In the following year1FhIb predicted an
earthquake for a certain day in Chill, and
the people of Santiago were thrown into
great excitement. Every railroad car that
could be mustered into Seryice was busy
for day or two carry refugees away
There was no earthquake, but the mis-
cry and loss inflicted BY 5EaIb,s prediction
were conSiderabl e - 1
that time. His seems TO have been case
of a scientific man gone wrong After the
fever of earthquake prophecy seized him
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11

local physician. He was r.aing on a
Woodland car, near the normal school,
with his wife, when the beast was
sighted, a short distance from the
track. Both DR.. and Mrs. Craft aIight-
ed from the car and the plucky woman
volunteered to keep bruin in sight
while her husband returned to their
home, short distance away, and Sc
cured a rifle. He returned and brought
down his quarry at the first shot. The
bear weighed 800 pounds and was the
largest which has been killed here for
long time. Twenty-one bears were
killed within the corporate limits of
Duluth last year.
The accompanying picture was taken
in Woodland and the camera furnishes
undisputable evidence of the fallacy of
the oft-repeated theory that bears can
not climb trees. The bear in this case
is full grown and at the time the snap
shot was taken he was sixty feet from
the ground.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11

BERLIN, Oct. 10.-Herr MoelIer, the
Prussian minister of commerce. during the
course of a speech delivered yesterday at
a banquet given at the iron works Of
Poyne, in the newly discovered oil dis
trict OF Luenberger Heibe, said he was
convinced that the American petroleum
monopoly would soon be at an end and
capitalists should proceed to unite with
Nthe oil land owners and erect refineries.
The Standard Oil company'S agents here
say some oil has been found at Luenberger
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
North Of EnnIand Flooded.

LONDON, Oct 1O.-The heaviest rain
fail of the year Is causing enormous dam
age in the north of England. The roads
are impossible, railroads are being inter-
rupted. bridges are down and the valleys
of the Dee and of the Tweed are like in
land seas. All kinds of animals and
wreckage are floating seward. Much out
side work has been suspended.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
Rival for standard OIL Company.

he never added anything to the work that
had given him respectable standing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11

Heibe. but they do not know the extent
of the deposits or the cost of refining the
oil
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
RussIa to Abolish splrlt DUTY.

BERLIN, Oct. 10.-Private dispatches to
the Tageblatt from st. Petersburg, confirm
the statement that Russia will abolish the
spirit duty in 1904. because of the in
crease in drunkenness among the peas
entry. 1t indirectly yields the govern
ment less revenue than formerly, but the
reason for this is notsclear.
The German spirit ring would suffer
through the unrestricted production Of
spirits in Russia, as the surplus would be
placed on the German market.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
The News Condensed.

The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. f. Han
son, residing near Union Grove, was
fatally injured by falling on the point
of a lead pencil with which he had
been playing, the point going into the
brain for some depth.
The Minneapolis Brewing company
has begun the erection of a large cold
storage plant at Frederic.
Fire in the warehouse of the Apple
ton Toy company caused damage to
building and stock of over $4,000.
The new power plant of the Oshkosh
Electric Light and Power company,
erected at cost of 100000, is practi-
cally completed.
August Zarbock was electrocuted in
Milwaukee while repairing telephone
wires. The live tight wire sagged to
the telephone wire upon which his foot
was resting at the top of telephone
pole. He fell to the ground. His wife
lives at Depere.
The new public library has been for
mally turned over to the city of Water
town.
Fire that broke out in the Michael
son shoe store in Hudson destroyed
the building and contents, together
with an adjacent vacant store. Total
loss, $4,000.
Deputy Wardens Carpenter and Waite
destroyed a number of fish lines on
Green lake, near hartford.
The Indians on the Oneida reserva-
ton will raise sugar beets for the beet
sugal factory to be erected in Brown
county.
William A. Rust, a prominent lumber
man, former state senator, former
mayor and president of the Bank of
Eau Claire, died at Roston, Mass, after
a protracted illness. He leaves large
estate
One hundred loads of tobacco en-
route for La Crosse stuck in the mud.
and were frozen when the cold wave
followed a day of warm weather.
Patrick Burgem, of Mason City, a
brakeman, was killed by a freight
train at North McGregor.
Two Sheboygan young men have
SHoIl-cIdHSeu IdI1HeTS III the Vicinity
of that city out of 500.
The little village of Erly in Kenosha
county has been quarantined on ac-
count of smallpox, the schools and even
the post office closed.
Mrs. A. Larson, the Fond du Lac
bride who shot herself through the
body not long ago. has been adjudged
insane and taken to the Northern hos
pital at Oshkosh.
A stranger, who worked at a Hud-
son hotel as Edwin f. Gaddys, of Shen-
andoah, Ia, was taken violently insane
upon the street and attempted to COM
nit suicide.
The Christian Scientists will build
$4,000 church at Green Bay.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12

tothe executive mansion since the days
of pretty and popular Dolly Madison,
accepted the situation, for they saw
workmen were busy with improve
ments" on each side of the stately OLD
mansion.
Those who had kept up with the APP
preparation bills knew that large sum
of money had been paid swell New
York architect to design improve
ments, and that much larger sum
had been allotted for the work in
volved in their execution.
The improvements" progressed so
slowly that the executive mansion was
not ready for occupancy at the open
ing of the last session of the Fifty
seventh congress. However, matters
were patched up, some improvements
were curtailed and the official recep-
tions, concerts, dinners, etc, have been
held without let or hindrance. Diplo-
mats, congressman, the Judiciary, the
army and navy, and citizens have seen
the president, his wife and the sim
provements" officially and otherwise,
but nothing has been able to silence
the undercurrent of criticism rampant
in Washington, all on account OF the
money wasted on the white house lot!
The upshot of it will be that future
congress will be asked to appropriate
a large sum to improve the Improve
ments"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

The Illinois Central railway has
paid to the state in taxes under its
charter, which calls for seven per
cent. of gross receipts, $20,589, 166
since completion of the road in 1855.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany has ordered 5000 tons of nickel
steel rails. These will cost about
STA a ton, while ordinary or standard
rails cost S2S ton. There rails are
to be used on some of the heavy
curves in the Allegheny mountains,
Pittsburg division and the middle
divisions.
P. A. B. Widener, the Philadelphia
traction magnate, controls thousands
of miles of steel railroad in America,
but he cannot ride in a trolley car
without suffering from an exact imi-
tation of seasickness. Once he made
a desperate effort to overcome this
weakness. Accompanied by w. L.
Elkins. his partner, he went for a
12-mile ride and stuck at it until the
trip was ended. By that time he was
in a state of complete collapse. He
came back on the steam railroad and
has not ventured on trolley car
since.
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mental, and must have been built to
balance the conservatory and office on
the opposite side.
When, as you traverse this corridor,
you get nearly in sight of the double
stairway which leads to the east room,
some of the paintings that used to
hang in the suite of parlors become Wis
ible. Portraits of Mrs. Polk and Mrs.
Tyler face each other in the costumes
of their respective eras. Next, is the
fine full length portrait of Mrs. Har-
rison. Opposite is the new portrait
of Mrs. Roosevelt, painted by French
artist whose name is in big letters on
the massive gold frame. The portrait
does not fiatter the present First Lady,
but is fairly good. The pose is easy and
graceful. She is seated on bench in
the rear of the white house, and the
beautiful Ionic columns which support
the portico at the back of the house
form an effective background.
Then you mount the steps, enter the
improved" east room, and especially
miss the full length portraits of George
Washington, Martha Washington and
Abraham Lincoln that most appropri-
ately hung there for the public to see.
The old room is done up in white and
old gold. The elegant cut-glass chan
deliers bought for Nellie Grants we'd
ding, are the only things that look
natural about it. Some large gilt can
delabra have been added and a gilded
grand piano.
Congress and all artistic Washing
ton are scandalized. Alice Roosevelt
is reported to have said that the colors
and combinations in her room gave her
the nightmare!
The entrances that admitted the
public to the great park at the rear
of the white house were closed during
Cleveland's administration at the re-
quest of Mrs. Cleveland, because some
of the newspaper reporters manufac-
tured such absurd stories about Ruth
when she was baby. A fine view of
this park is visible from the windows
of the east room.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
Aid for Famine Victims.

Contributions for the relief of the
ADMINISTRATOR districts of northern
Sweden and Finland by the people of
Wisconsin are recommended in a pro-
elimination issued by Gov. La Toilette.
He recommends that contributions in
money be made to Halle Steensland,
Madison, vice consul of Sweden and
Norway, who is appointed to receive
and transmit the same to the proper
local authorities in Sweden and Fin
land. The governor further recon-
mends that on Sunday, March 8, con-
tributions be taken IN all the churches
of the state in aid of this fund.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


There is asked by the board of con-
troll for the nine institutions under its
care for the next two years for cur
rent expenses alone the enormous sum
of 81 ,033, 900 in a direct appropriation,
besides the sum of 1892, 500, which
comes to the various institutions as
income from the labor of inmates, fees
from counties, and other sources. All
of this money goes for charity, except
100000 at the state prison and $4,000
at the reformatory. Besides this
money which the board of control says
is absolutely needed for current eX-
penses, special appropriations are
asked for, as follows: State hospital
at Mendoza, $63 5000; Northern hos
pital, $114,650; school for the deaf,
$1,000; school for the blind, $500; Wau-
kesha school, $11, 800; state prison, &c.
900; Sparta school, $1,000; home for
feeble minded, $29, 800.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
NEW WAY TO FIND WATER.
An Electrical Device That Outdoes
the Witch-HazeI Wand in
Locating II.

Electricity has put the witch-hazel
wand and other methods of determin-
ing the presence of water under ground
out of business. Experts have patent
ed a little electrical device which tells
surely of the proximity of water, says
a Washington report. When its needle
begins to show vibrations it can be
stated positively there is water be-
meath.
Officials of the geological survey have
become so impressed with the inven-
ton that they are giving it a thorough
test. The new water detector is some
thing like the seismograph used for de-
termining earthquake disturbances.
By its vibration the presence of sub
terranean streams are not only deter
mined but the volume and direction of
the flow are also accurately recorded.
This instrument will be of great
value to the irrigator and farmer, as it
will enable him to drive his wells where
he will find water. Frequently inn
mense sums of money are expended in
drilling artesian wells, which after be-
ING bored hundreds of feet are. found
to be dry.
In tests made with the new electric
al device steel rods are 3riven short
distance into the earth and attached to
the machine. There is an attachment
something like the telephone receiver
by which the vibrations are converted
into sound waves. The device will not
work satisfactorily in regions where
there are volcanoes.
The officials of the geological survey
believe eventually the device can be
used to indicate the presence of oil, but
the vibrations caused by oil are not so
great as those set up by water.
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L
work, and some surprising figures have
been given as arguments for increased
wages.
1t is the general rule to-day for en-
ployers of labor to look for young men
in all lines, and the tendency is to force
the old men out. There is an age at
which men are supposed to grow
stale" or, in other words, to have
passed the period of greatest useful
ness, and when, if thrown out of en-
ployment, it becomes difficult for them
to secure other positions at union
wages. One trades union official has
compiled the following table to show
the ages of greatest efficiency, the last
figures giving the maximum at which
men may hope to secure new employ
ment in the respective lines, and at
the prevailing wage ratc:
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honest men Of business ability. Men
who are clean-cut, and who serve the
city in their official capacity to the
best of their ability. Into both polit-
ical parties there is infused a strong
element Of machine politics Both po-
lltical parties at times nominate and
support men who are not fitted for the
offices to which they aspire, but the
Municipal Voters league has, by per-
sistent efforts. educated the independ-
ent voter up to the point where he looks
for records rather than for party affil-
iation, and the result has been grad
ual wedding out of the oId-time element
that stood for Doodle
The report Of the league as printed
IN the newspapers for the voters Of
the city has come to be considered one
OF the literary treats of the year A
trained newspaper man, a former city
editor of one of the Chicago dailies,
prepares it. He is a pungent writer
and backed by the influence, the stand
ing, and the records compiled by he
league of every candidate for alder
manic honors and perquisites. can well
afford to be fearless, and he is. The re-
ports prepared by this man, practical
ly unknown in the political world, have
carried with them more political death
sentences than thousands of opposing
stump speeches could produce for the
reason that the league is known to be
honest and unbiased by party preju-
dices.
And so it is that the Municipal Vot-
ers' league is responsible for a COM
parativeIy clean city council in Chica-
go at the present time.