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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
"LORD" AGAIN IN CELL.
harrington Held in St. Louis In
Connection with Mysteri-
Gus Death.

st. Louis, June 29-F. Seymour Bar
rington, the self-styled English lord, is
again prisoner at the Four Courts, this
time in connection with the mysterious
death of James p. Mccain, a we'll
known owner of race horses, who dis
appeared June Is. The nude body of
Mccain was found in quarry near
Bonhelds station Saturday and vas
Identified by Mrs. Mccain. Lord" Bar
rington, who was arrested when Nc
Cam disappeared and released because
no evidence could be found against him,
was Immediately taken into custody
again. A trunk belonging to harrington
was seized by the police at Union sta
ton, where it had been taken by Bar
rlngton preparatory to leaving the city.
In the trunk were found a watch and
rings belonging to Mccain.
harrington, under a severe examina-
ton, admitted that he went with Nc
Cam on the st. Louis. St Charles &
Western railroad on the night of June
IL, and said they left the train together,
but he did not know where. He also adj
mitted that he walked back. but said he
did SO because he did not have any
money, having given $3.50 to Mccain
four blocks from the Suburban garden
Several bruises and wounds were found
on McCann's body, but the exact cause
of death has not yet been determined.
When harrington came here in 1902
he represented himself to be a colonel
IN h. D1sIf TcSh
Southern hotel, and spent money Law
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

An Omaha real estate man named
Harrington was robbed of valise
containing 100000 worth of securities
while sleeping in the railway station
at Pueblo, Col.
Judge Speer in the United States
circuit court at Macon, Ga, imposed
a fine of $1,000 each on three young
men for holding negro in involun-
tary servitude.
Miss Ida Barber, niece of Mrs.
Mckinley, and Luther Day, son of
Justice William Day, were married at
Canton, o.
Burglars blew open the safe in
the private bank of L. E. NIintch at
Cary, Ill, and stole $4,000.
Unable to live without quarreling,
Albert Sontage and his wife took
poison in their home at Steger, ILL.,,
and died.
In convention at Alton the Illinois
Typographical union elected B. S.
Chambers, of Chicago, as president,
and declared for municipal owner
ship.
A mob 1ynched Case Jones (col-
ored), who assaulted a 12-year-old
girl at Elk Valley, Tenn.
At Montgomery, Ala, J. w. Pace,
an aged Tallapoosa county planter,
was convicted of holding negroes. in
involuntary servitude as poems, and
given five years prison sentence.
A mob again assembled at Peoria,
Ill.,, to lynch John McCray, the muir
derer of Detective Murphy, but the
prisoner had been taken to Gales
burg.
At the worlds fair show next year
in st. Louis there will be a total Of
over 10000 prizes in the classical
tions for horses, cattle, sheep, swine,
poultry, etc.
Masons laid the corner stone at
Bloomington, ILL.,, for a new home for
aged members of the order and wild
ows and orphaned children.
Blanche Boies was convicted of
smashing saloon windows in Topeka.
Kan. and sentenced to 80 days in Jail
and to pay a fine of $500
Possibility of a race war was dis
cussed at a conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Sunday School asso-
citation in Milwaukee. American civ
ilization is declared to be threatened
and the nation is urged to act.
In ST. Louis he worlds fair COM
panv has expended in actual cash S.
100000 up to the first of the present
month.
1t has been decided by the depart
ment of agriculture to locate at
Nacogdoches, Tex, the largest tobac-
co experimental station in the world.
Three tramps were killed and six
ears We're smashed in freight wreck
on the Monon ten miles west of La
fayette, Ind.
In Chicago 900 union carpenters
struck at the stockyards because
their demand for a wage increase
was refused.
In southeastern Alabama peonage
is common and an effort to correct
the worst abuses has been started by
two judges.
Street cars at Richmond, Va, were
operated with guard of armed
militiamen. under orders to shoot to
kill if necessary to protect property.
After being shut down six weeks
by strikes the wholesale bakery of
Kohlsaat & Co, in Chicago, opened
with non-union help.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

ishly. He was here for the purpose, he
said, of purchasing mules for the Brit
ish army in South Africa, and as spe-
cial representative of the English gov
eminent to the worlds fair Soon after
coming here he became acquainted with
Miss Wilhelmina Grace Cochran, of
Kansas City. January %, 1908, he was
married to Miss Cochrane, whom he sup
posed to be an heiress. She afterward
left him.
James Mccain was a member of a
well-knoWn Kentucky family with a
large estate and plenty of horses, living
near Lexington, on the Winchester
Pike
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
POLICE CALLS.

Mass1llon, o., has the tallest chief OF
police in the country in the person OF
Edward Ertle, who stands six feet two
inches in his stockings and weighs 247
pounds. He is exceedingly active and
something of an athlete.
The four tallest policemen on th9
Philadelphia force will accompany the
old liberty bell on its coming trip to the
Bunker hill day celebration in Boston.
Each of them is over six feet tall and
their average weight is 200 pounds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

In Hollond, Belgium, Italy, and
Switzerland passenger can carry no
luggage free.
For the comfort of it's employees in
the outlying districts one of the Rus
sian railways is instituting travelling
baths.
Heretofore fourth-class cars were
carried only on the railways of
northern Germany; now some south
German lines have adopted them. The
fare is half cent per kilometer, or
nearly cent per mile.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

The Beloit (Wis.) college has been
given $4,000 by Andrew Carnegie for
a library building.
The doors of the Citizens bank at
Milton, Ind, were closed with liabil-
tiles of $4,000.
The semi-centennial of Plano, H..
tune dance and basket picnic, which
1000 persons attended.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Chicago, June 29.-The body of an
unidentified man was found Sunday
night by a crowd of children playing
in Warren Grove, South Park avenue
and Harrison street, Austin. There
was bullet wound in the forehead
and the body was badly decomposed
Beside the corpse lay a revolver and
in his pocket was box of cartridges
which cause the police to advance the
suicide theory.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Did Not Intend Murder.

Belgrade, June 29.-The official ac-
count of the recent assassinations,
based ON an investigation made by the
war minister, is expected to be pub
lished shortly. 1t is understood that it
will say that the conspirators did not
intend to kill their majesties, but only
to deport them, but they were melted
to the murder by the attack of Lieut..
Petrovics, the kings secretary, who
fired the first shot
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Richard c. Morse, for 33 years gen.
eral secretary of the international
committee of the Young Mems Chris
tian association, one of the first, mem
bers of the worlds central committee
and member of the committee of the
Worlds Student federation, has COM
pleted tour around the world in
which he has visited the associations
which have grown up under his eye
and care until they now number $500
organizations, with 100000 members.
In the 1S2 days Mr.. Morse travelled 49,
600 miles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
New Illinois Laws.

Springfield, ILL.,, June 29.-Many new
statutes go into effect next Wednesday,
including the Mueller city ownership
law and laws governing child labor,
compulsory education park extension,
local improvements, drainage, game,
speed of automobiles, voting machines,
tax sales, teachers fund and convict la
bor
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Stamford, Conn, June 29.-David L.
Vanderheyden, 70 years of age, who
claimed to have been a personal friend
of Roscoe Conkling, died at the town
farm Sunday of heart disease. A num-
Der of years ago Vanderheyden was a
prominent citizen of Utica, N. Y, and
was considered quite wealthy. He
came here four years ago and his for
tune was disposed of so rapidly that
he has been living on the town farm
for some time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
storm Causes Damage.

Huntington, w. Va, June 29.-Great
damages are reported from the storm
over the southern portion of West Vir-
ginia. The wires are down and it is i'm
possible to get details. A number of
buildings were struck by lightning here,
one being the city hall. The telephone
service was damaged and the fire alarm
system is down. An inch and half of
rain fell here in an hour and 20 min
M
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Even looking at the Delaware negro
burning from the mob standpoint, it
is hard to see how the lynching of the
negro evened up matters, since it re-
suited in the death of two other peo-
pie who were shot in the scrimmage
at the jail. That is to say, the negro
killed but one person and would IN
doubtedly have been hanged for the
murder in the regular course of justice.
The mob is responsible for the death
of three people besides setting the law
at defiance. Nobobdy but lyncher
can figure even a deterrent result out
of that sort of a campaign.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

A conservative estimate is that the
wheat crop of 1908 will reach a total
of 740,0O0,000 bushels, as compared
with 670.o00.oOO in 1902. 74S, OO0, 900 in
1901 and 522 900, 600 in 1900. This is a
very happy condition and will please
the country. With such heavy wheat
yield as 740,000,000 bushels the country
would be assured of cheap bread, but,
of course, a great deal will depend on
the corn crop. This is two or three
months too early to figure on the corn
yield with any confidence. Indications,
however, were favorable, despite cold
weather and the rayages of floods.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Prof. Thatcher, of the Chicago uni
versity, has been looking up the
records of Pope Adrian ". and de-
clares that he never signed the bull au
thorizing Henry II. to seize Ireland,
and that therefore the British crown
has no legal right to Ireland. It is to
be hoped that the professor will not
hurry right over and snatch Ireland
away from King Edward.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

St. Louis, June 27.-Crazed by inc
tense pain resulting from cancer on
his face Capt. George E. Townsend,
a former steamboat pilot, 20 years old,
hanged himself Friday. Capt. Town
send was a friend of Gen. Grant and
during the civil war served on river
f,.nr
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Hotel i'm Ashes.

Tucson, Ariz., June 29.-More than
$4,000 loss was caused by fire here
Sunday. The principal loss is on the
San Xavier hotel, which caught fire
from the kitchen, and in less than 80
minutes was a mass of ruins. The
hotel was owned by the Southern Pa
cific Railroad company, and its loss
is estimated at $4,000. The guests
acnanpd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

The Oldest civil building in the Unit
ed States is the quaint old adobe
palace Of the governors in Santa Fe,
n. NJ This long, low structure in the
second Oldest city in the United States
has been the seat of government under
the Spanish, Mexican and American
regimes for nearly 300 years. 1t now
contains the museum of the New Next
co Historical society.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

China is certainly progressing. An
edict has been issued sanctioning the
construction of another railroad
Negotiations are under way for per-
mission to build still another. Rail
roads are great civilizers, and China
will find itself unable to long with
stand the Entertainments of western
ideas and governmental and business
methods after the railroads open the
way for enlightenment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Cape May, N. j., June 20. = Clyde
Walker Dawson, assistant agent of the
board of children's guardians of the
District of Columbia, was drowned at
noon Sunday. He had ventured well
out where a strong ebb tide was run
ming. He tried to get ashore, but be-
came exhausted just within the edge
of the breakers. He lived at Linden,
Nd.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

The secretary of state is still fight
ing to maintain American commercial
rights in Manchuria against Russian
scheming.
The president has decided to trans
NIT to Russia the American protest
against the persecution and murder
of Jews.
July President Roosevelt will
send message formally opening the
Pacific cable to the Philippine is
lands.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Meeting Place Secured.

Los Angeles, Cal, June 29.-Hazard' S
pavilion, with a seating capacity of
5000, has been leased by the commit
tee in charge of the preliminary ar
rangements of the national general
conference of the Methodist church,
which will convene in Los Angeles in
May, 1904. The entire building will
be devoted to the needs of the confer
ence meeting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Kiel, Prussia, June 29.-The emper-
or's yacht Meteor crossed the line first
in Sundays race for cruising schooners,
class A, and kept the lead all the way
over the 30-mile course, beating the
Hamburg in a ten-knot breeze, by IL
minutes. The empress yacht Tduna was
again 20 minutes behind.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Kishineff has a new governor, the
one who was there at the time of the
massacre having been removed 1t will
be well, however, for all the Jews to
get out of the locality who can do so.
The present governor was lieutenant
governor when the murders there
were going on. That part Of the Rus
sian empire is an excellent place to
emigrate from.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Before another Flag day comes
around the Betsy Ross Memorial asso-
citation expects to be able to turn over
to the government the birthplace of
the stars and stripes in Philadelphia.
Only $500 yet remains to be paid,
which the association confidently eX-
poets to be able to meet before June
IL 1Qn4
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
trains, bringing nurses, doctors and sol
dierS from Bilbao


diers from Bilbao.
The train fell so feet from the bridge
ito the river bed, the coaches piling up
in a mass of splintered wood and iron
work. The scene is described as horri-
flying Many corpses were carried down
the stream, which was actually redeemed
with blood. 1t was found impossible to
extricate numbers of the injured who
were pinioned under the wreckage. A
railway guard was arrested in the act
of robbing the dead and narrowly es-
capped lynching.
1t is believed that the official figures
underestimate the number of the killed,
some accounts giving the number OF
dead as 100. The full extent of the ca
tastrophe will only be known when the
wreckage has been cleared away
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Calling an unmarried woman over 30
years old an "old maid" is disorderly
conduct, according to the decision Of
a New York magistrate. 1t may be all
we'll enough to give the misdemeanor
legal definition, but rybody who
knew anything always knew that it
was unsafe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Statesmen in the Latin countries are
very sensitive to criticism or opposi-
ton. The Italian cabinet was dis
pleased because the king did not agree
with it in matters of moment. and i'm
mediately resigned. TO Americans that
appears very foolish proceeding. 1t
is a habit which statesmen in this
country have never acquired. They en-
JOY nothing better than fight to a
finish
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

The supreme court of New York has
decided that a physician who obtained
anti-toxin from the city free Of charge
on the ground that it was intended for
poor patients to whom it would be
hardship to pay, and then took fee
for administering it to a person able
to pay, was guilty Of petit larceny.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

All May records in immigration
have been broken by the figures just
reported for last month, when the ar
rivals numbered 1854 with 2,836 in
transit, making 14O,350 chargeable to
May. The largest total immigration
in any year heretofore was 1925 in
1852
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Cornell wins Boat Race.

Poughkeepsie, n. Y, June 27.-Cor-
nell won the varsity four-oared race
here Friday afternoon by half
length. Pennsylvania was second by
four lengths, with Wisconsin third
and Columbia fourth. Time. 1888 Pa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Big Plant DESTROYED.

Ravenna, O., June 29.-F'ire almost
completely destroyed the massive
plants of the Riddle Coach and Hearse
company here early Sunday morning,
creating loss of $4,000 Of this
amount only $4,000 was covered by
insurance
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
WeII-Known Acfor Dead.

Denver, Col, June 27.-Joe Cook, the
well-known actor, died from the eff
fects of hemorrhage of the lungs
early Friday. The attack came upon
him while walking in the street. He
VAS taken to hospital and died with
iS "a hour.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Erlan, Houngary, June 27.-Four Vi
olent earth shocks were felt here at
six o'clock Friday morning. Several
houses in the suburbs collapsed and
nearly all the buildings in the town
were ore or less damaged. The in
habitants Were nanic-stricken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Servia's premier seems to be atwork
on a new dictionary. He calls the muir
der of king and queen in their bed
room by band of conspirators an up
heayal."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
anfet in Richmond.

Richmond, Va. June 29.-The strike
situation is quiet. Cars are running
on all the lines, and there have been
no disturbances.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Chicago, June 29.-Divin Strude, a.
girl two years old, was struck and in
stantly killed by a Robey street car
Sunday afternoon near Polk street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02

Cleveland, O., June 29.-The paint
shop of the Brooks Oil company was
burned Sunday. Loss, $4,000; fully in
cured
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Store burned.

Decatur, Ind, June 29.-Fire Sunday
destroyed Kern Beeler & Co.'S depart
ment store The stock was valued at
$40 900. and the building at $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
MINNEAPOLIS. June 81.

MlnneapoIls, June y.
Wheat-No l northern, SIC; No. 2
northern, Soc; July s411c- Oats-No.
white, ace Corn-No. 8, sac Rye
No 2, 4sc Barley-No. 2. 45c-
Flax-S1. 03. Butter-Creamery, ex-
tras, 24@25c; creamery, frsts, 21@22c;
dairy, fancy, 20@21c Poultry-Tur-
KEYS, s@ec; chickens, 7@sc. Hay
Upland, fancy, $3.50.
st. Paul, June 81.
Cattle-Steers, 81. COCA. rs; cows, So. 60
@4.00. Hogs - S5.40@5. 70 Sheep
muttous, SIS. 90; lambs So o.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
A Quiet Sunday.

President Roosevelt passed quiet
Sunday with his family at his Saga
more Hill home. During the after
noon some relatives and personal
friends called to extend their greet
The president, accompanied by Mrs.
Roosevelt and their children, at
tended divine service in the morning
at Christ church, of which Mrs. Roose-
welt is a member At the conclusion
of the services an opportunity was
taken by the members of the parish
to pay their respects to the chief
executive
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-02
Will Receive Few Callers.

It is announced by Secretary Loeb
that the president will receive few
callers at Sycamore Hill this summer,
and those who hope to see him will
be obliged to make engagements
through Mr.. Loeb in advance of their
arrival at Oyster Bay. The president
will devote his mornings to the trans
action of executive business and his
afternoons to recreation and rest.
During the afternoons, too, he will re-
ceive such callers as may have en-
gagements with him, or those whom
he may summon to Sycamore Hill.
The executive offices selected for Sec
retaries Loeb and Barnes and the cler-
zeal force this year are much more
commodious and convenient than
those occupied last year. They con-
sist of six rooms in the second story
of the Moore block, and are we'll ar
ranged and admirably adapted to the
purposes of the executive staff The
desks anG other furniture in the Offices
are chiefly those which were used in
the executive offices of the old white
house. President Roosevelt will spend
no time in the offices, his work being
done in his library at Sycamore Hill.
The offices are in direct communica-
ton by telephone with Sycamore Hill.