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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

memories for the remainder of their
task, for on only two or three looms is
the design of the carpet to be seen af-
fixed, and then only in plain penciled
drawing. When nearing complicated
parts or medallions, boy u or IA years
old, the foreman Of the loom, who has
the design seemingly imprinted on his
mind, walks up and down, calling out in
a quaint. sing-song manner, the num-
Der of stitches and the colors of the
threads to be used
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
The News Condensed.

Because her husband cOmmltCed SUI
eide by jumping into the river at La
Crosse, Mrs. Emylie Sousel, wife of Gus
tav Sousel, became insane, and has been
taken to the state hospital at Mendoza.
Charles F. Randall, a brother of Gen.
George M. Randall, U. S. A., and Mrs.
Charles T. McKenney, of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide at GAINESVILLE while de-
spondent. He was very wealthy.
According to A G. Wright, the pub
Usher of the city directory, Milwaukee
has population of $4,000. The annual
percentage of gain is about five per cent.
William O'Rourke, of Rantout, died
from the effects of fight he had with
Knute Halverson at Potter. Halverson
has left for parts unknown.
Herman o. Frank, who died in Mil
waukee, aged Al, was a democrat of
prominence. He was for eight years
president of the state board of phar-
macy.
Heavy rains caused all rivers and
creeks to overflow their banks in the vi
entity of La Crosse, and great damage
was done to crops.
A young son of M. Marti a well to do
farmer, was crushed to death beneath a
buggy which tipped over in turning
around at Marshfield.
Joe Renal, of Gordon, spent six hours
buried in quicksand up to his neck. He
was released after four teams and 80
men had succeeded in scooping away
the treacherous mire.
At a meeting of the creditors Of the
Remington Watch company of Apple
ton, now in the hands of a receiver, it
was agreed to start up the factory under
the management of the referees.
The annual camp meeting of the
State Spiritualist association of Wis
consin is in progress in Griffin's grove,
Waupaca, and will continue one month.
Gov. La Toilette has pardoned Will
liam Walton, who is serving long
term in the state prison for burglary,
and who has consumption and can live
only a short time.
Harry Sales, arrested for horse
stealing, was arraigned before Judge
Fruit of La Crosse, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to Waupun for three
years.
Herman o. Frank, well-known
cigar manufacturer and prominent
business man of Milwaukee, died at
his home, aged Il years.
The Survivors association of the
Thirteenth wisconsin volunteer infan-
try will meet at GAINESVILLE on Wednes-
day, August 10.
Harry E. Wilson, superintendent OF
the Oshkosh Gaslight company, has in
vented a valuable apparatus for con-
verting an alternating current of cleo
tricity into a direct one.
A jury at Mount Carroll found Clark
and Estelle, who were charged with the
sensational robbery of the Burlington
limited passenger train at Marcus last
September, guilty.
According to the new Baraboo city
directory the population is $500.
Burglars gained an entrance into tle
jewelry store of Postmaster H. ]. Smith
at Racine and got away with, $1,000
worth of silyerware, opera glasses and
jewelry.
The residence of John Kiser was
partly demolished by two explosions in
Ashland. Dynamite had been put in
the stove and chimney by unknown par
ties.
Carl Rosberg, a pioneer manufactur-
er of La Crosse, is dead He was IS
years old.
After quarrel Charles W. Carleton
shot and killed lIrs. Ida Draeger in
Milwaukee, and then killed himself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
MAJ and womon Honred

South McAlester, I. T., July 18.-Dora
Wright was hanged here Friday for the
murder of Annie Williams, a seven
year-old girl. She mounted the scaffold
without a tremor Charles Barrett was
also hanged for the murder of John Hen
messy, an aged man whom he shot
from ambush. Robbery was the mo-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Two Banks Closed.

Owing to a series of misfortunes the
West Salem Exchange bank and the
Farmers and Merchants bank Of Ban
gor are both practically in the hands
of Bank Examiner Berg. The former
will be reorganized; the latter will be
sold or a receiver will be appointed.
The trouble is attributed to mismap-
agement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Another Indictment Found

Washington, July ia special to the
Star from Brooklyn says that George
w. Beavers, formerly chief of the sal
ary and allowance division of the post
Office department, has been indicted
by the federal grand jury probably on
two counts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Norway becoming Anxious.

The American fever" is spreading
so fast in Norway that the authorities
are becoming alarmed The country
is very sparsely settled. having only
about 100000 Inhabitants Of these
$4,000 emigrated last year, mostly to
America, and the indications are that
that figure will be nearly doubled this
year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Kalamazoo, Mich, July 18.-Andrew
J. Shakespeare, SO years old, pioneer
newspaper man of Michigan, died Fri
day. He was editor and publisher OF
the Kalamazoo Gazette, the Oldest
paper in Michigan, for more than 35
years. He was delegate to national
democratic conventions several times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
CrOn Outlook.

The weekly crop report of the Wash
ington weather bureau says for Wis
consin: Weather favorable to all
growing crops; corn making rapid
progress and early varieties tasseling;
winter wheat and rye rapidly ap-
preaching maturity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
young 10 succeed Miles.

washington, July 18.-The president
has directed the preparation of COM
mission for Gen. Young, who will sue
coed Lieut.. Gen. Miles August 5, and for
Brig. Gen. Leonard S. Wood, who is
nrnmnfed to be major general
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

VI d udllOu watch
ing by the bedside
If a dying presi-
dent, is once more
a familiar figure
in the white house
where he lived for
a few troubled
months.
Young Garfield
whom President
Roosevelt first
asked to Washing
ton as a civil
service commits
= -. -.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

tional institution
of the national
capital, is about to
expand into the
true proportions
of a university.
Hitherto it has
had only lecture
halls and class
rooms in a few I'M
pretentious build
ings set down in
the very heart of
the city, and it has
known nothing of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Oakland, Cal, July 14.-Miss Lavinia
Wheeler is dead in this city at the age
of 102 years. She was in full possession
of her faculties almost up to the time of
her death. She died, according to her
physicians, simply Of old age. The de-
ceased was born in New York in 1901.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Young Girl Drowned.

Marie Gibbons, the 16-year-old daugh-
ter of Judge w. j. Gibbons, of Chicago,
was drowned at Camp Lake, near Ke-
nosha, while bathing. Two young broth
ers of the unfortunate girl attempted to
rescue her, but failed, and narrowly es-
capped themselves.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Bubonfc Plague Increasing.

New York, July 18.-Reports from
Iquique say the bubonic plague is again
increasing, says a dispatch from the
Herald correspondent at Valparaiso,
Chill. Five cases appeared on Wednes-
day. Thirty three persons are i'll with
SMALLPOX in Antofagasta.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
ITO Girls Drowned.

Davenport, Ia, July 16.-Clara LIGHT
and Elsie Morey were drowned Wednes-
day night by the capsizing of a launch
in the Mississippi river. Four young
men who were thrown into the river
from the overturned boat saved them
selves
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Midget Passes Away.

New York, July 15.-Miss Mary J.
Piercey, said to have been one of the
smallest women in the world, is dead
at her home in Bayonne, N ]. She
was 81 inches tall, weighed so pounds
and was 40 years of age. The recent
hot weather caused her fatal illness
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Mrs. Magun-I came across one of
your old letters to-day, George, where
you said that you would rather be in
endless torment with me than be in
bliss by yourself.
Mr.. Magun- Well, my dear, got my
wish.-Stray Stories
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
The Acme of MeeNness.

NcJigger-C hicken-hearted? Well,
I should say; he's the limit.
Thingunbob- that so?
Nothing can make him fight. Why,
I've even seen him let man cheat him
out of his turn in the barber shop, and
he never said word. "-Cle' Gland
Loader
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
BerIin,s Drinking water.

Since 1891, when a sand filter had
been installed, and all the old wells
banished in Berlin, its death rate from
typhoid has dropped to one in every
$4,000. In 1853 the death rate was one
in 900.-N. Y. Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Retired Banker Hangs himself.

Clifton Springs, N. Y, July 18-Al-
bert Finch, retired banker, of New
York, whose country home is at Green
vile, Orange county, has committed
suicide by hanging. He had suffered for
some time from melancholia and was
being treated in sanitarium here.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
NEGRO kills Postmaster.

Columbia, S. c., July 16.-George Ed
wards, a negro, shot and killed Will
Hall, postmaster at Chinquepin, S. O.,
and attempted to shoot younger
brother of his victim, but was prevented
by other negroes. Edwards escaped and
is being hunted by citizens with blood
hounds. and a lynching is probable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

by the Wyoming
cowboys, to which
he promptly gave
the name "Wyom-
ing" He declares
it is the finest ami
NAL he ever be-
strobe, and the
Wyoming people
agree with him.
Wyoming was
a discovery of SEN
ator w a r r e n,
through whom the
horse was given to
thn president Th q
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
Aged Newspaper Man Dead.

Colorado Springs, Col, July 49,
James A. Boyd, aged 73, is dead at the
printers home. He was well known as
a newspaper man Of Milwaukee, st.
T ,o11is and Chicago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

society, dlueS al
the most exclusive
tables, is a well
come addition to
any company, and
whose attendance
at white house
functions is taken
as a matter Of
course e. People
who grew purple
in the face about
Booker Washing
toms dinner at
the white house
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

widow of Republican Leader Passes
Away at Her Home in Au-
Gusta, Me.

Augusta, Me-, July 16.-Mrs James
c. Blaine died at the Blaine homestead
here Wednesday. She was rs years of
age.
From Washington, short time ago
she came to the old family residence on
State street. She was in an enfeebled
condition and had been under almost
constant medical attention since. Dur
ing the past week she failed rapidly.
Her condition was due to a general
breakdown of the system. Mrs. Blaine's
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Topeka, Kan, July 14.-Chauncey
Dewey. Clyde Wilson and w. F. Nc
Bride left the Shawnee county Jail
Monday, free men, though under bond
of $4,000 each to appear for trial later
for the murder of the Berry family.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

S~III0" N N~N~4E4N1-' o4OAAO4t anu WHO
was afterwards named as the first chief
of the newly created bureau of corpora
tions, is one of those whom the presi-
dent has chosen as a personal compan-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

gagged by the de-
partment of JUS
tice to help pros
ecute the grafters
in the post office
department., is a
granddaughter Of
the great Napo-
leon. His great
grandfather w a S
Napoleon's father.
His own GRANDPA
Their was Jerome
Bonaparte, Napo-
Icons you n g e r
hrnfhnr xxyhn oanao
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
A Growing University.

Columbian university, which for
many years has been the leading educa-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
who is one of the special counsel en-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
THE MEN OF
WASHINGTON
Public Officials Who Are Talked
About at the Capital.
4 Negro who Is Prominent In Official
Sociefy-James r.. Garfield, the
Son of a President-Other
Items.

Washington.-There is a negro in
Washington who moves in the very best
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
HWyOminR,"

President Roosevelt is immensely
proud of the horse presented to him
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

Jimmie" Garfield, whose name as a
boy just % years ago was on the lips
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23
SATISFACTORILY SETTLED.

in the celebration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-08
An ILLIMOIs LYNcHINe.

THE LYNCHING Of the negro school
teacher, Hyatt. for shooting and IA
tally wOunding the county superintend-
ent under whom he worked, by a mob
composed Of citizens Of BeHeviIIe, Ill,
was, according to the dispatches pub
ished yesterday, a peculiarly cruel and
coId-blOOded affair, even for a lynching-
The county superintendent had refused
to renew Hyatts license to teach and
the ARRAY resulted.
It was a very ordinary sort Of diff
Guilty, just the kind that men engage in
with more or less serious results every
day at some point in this big country.
Hyatt had gone 70 see the superintend-
ent in regard to the certificate. The
men had an argument about II, growing
the negro drew a revolver and began
firing Very few men are Iynched for
offenses of this character.
It is almost unnecessary to say that
Hyatt would not have been the victim
of a mob murder If his skin had been
white instead Of black. He was so I'M
fortunate as to be a negro, and, with
out further question as to his side of
the dispute-for it is quite possible that
he was in the right-he was hanged by
a gathering Of prominent citizens" in
the approved southern style
Before the breath of life had left his
body he was cut down from the pole to
which he was hanging and thrown into
fire The kilograms say that he
sroaned in anguish as the flames
touched him, but the mob had no pity
on him. Its desire for vengeance was
not satisfied until his corpse had been
reduced to ashes.
There is absolutely no excuse for a
crime Of this character. BY a wild
stretch of the Imagination it is possible
to justify mob law under certain con
ditions, but this is not one Of them. It
is comparatively easy to understand
how the father of a child that has been
ravished and murdered by a negro or
by white beast can summon his neigh
bors and deal out justice as cruel as the
deed done to the innocent one. But how
il is possible for a mob to lynch a negro
for crime committed almost daily by
white men the world over. remains for
the people Of Belleville, III, TO explain.
In Missouri a short time ago a man
who led mob was sentenced to serve
ten years in the penitentiary. VIII
Belleville rise TIC its responsibility to at
least as full an extent? Nothing short
of the severest possible punishment of
the members of~this mob will serve the
ends Of justice. The action taken
S6OuId he urru7r,r-a7,d ,7ac7vsv-a To ~.
same crime had been committed south
of the Ohio river all of US would be ris-
ing to demand action.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-08
VIZ e eUorEs FRoM BELL.
Champ Clark, Tells of the Beauties
of the Book
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.)


Congressman Champ Clark, one of
the most brilliant orators Missouri has
ever sent to Washington, makes the
Bible quotation his piece de resistance
in debate. This has been characteristic
of Mr.. Clark for so long a time, and it
has given him such fame as q student
and lover of the Scriptures that he has
been requested to relate how he became
interested in the Bible, what are his
favOrite portions of it, and why, and
how a knowledge of it can serve a
statesman. The following letter from
Bowling Green, No, is in response to
this request:
The beginning of my study of the
Bible was purely accidental Ny father
wanted me to study it when 1 was
boy and I wouldn't do it. He wouldn't
let me read novels until I was large
enough to do as I pleased. He was an
itinerant dentist, rode around over five
or six counties in Kentucky and was al
ways borrowing biographies and his
tories for me TO read Finally he ran
across one of the widest rOmances ever
written. but published in the guise of
a biography, entitled William Wirt's
Life of Patrick Henry After I had
read il he asked me how I liked it.
told him first-rate. He asked me what
part liked best. ! told him the por-
ton which struck me as being the best
was Henry's great speech, beginning
with the passage, 1t is natural for man
to indulge IN the illusions of Hope; we
are apt to shut our eyes against a pain
ful truth and listen to the song of that
siren until she transforms US into
beasts but that, in my judgment, the
best sentence in that speech was The
race is not always to the swift, nor the
battle to the strong. My father took
my breath away by saying. Patrick
Henry didn't write that sentence; King
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-08

solomon wrote IT. and If you win read
the Bible you viii find plenty more OF
them Just as good
4 began reading the Bible TO see if
that statement was true, and the more
read it the better I liked il.
II never had any particular time or
system for reading the Bible I read it
when I feel like il, as long as I please
and on any subject that attracts my
attention. 1 have, perhaps. a dozen
copies of the Bible of one kind or an
other. one in Greek, and when 1 don't
ike the English rendering of passage
I look it up in the Greek and make my
own rendering Ny favOrite versions are
the King James and the DCuay, and
Sometimes read the two in conjunction
AT first I read the Bible exclusively
for its literary value; after a while 1
began reading it for its religious value
as well.
My favorite books are Job. Ecclesi-
astes SolomOn's Proverbs. the Psalms
of David and the speeches and epistles
of St Paul i regard the rhapsody on
charity in the thirteenth chapter of the
First Corinthians as the finest passage
in the English language His speech
before King Agrippa was the greatest
plea in defense ever uttered. and his
speech on Mars hill was the most skill
full performance Of any orator in any
time There is no better mental exer-
else than studying the writings of St.
Paul for he was the profoundest meta
physician that ever lived.
You ask: How would you recon-
mend Bible study for a layman? Ny
answer is, that depends on the lay
mans object In studying it. If for its
/ literary excellence only, he might just
as we'll read it as Old Harper of Ken
| lucky said he ran his horses. From
/ eend 10 eeHd, because he can scarcely
open il without finding some literary
gem As to studying it fer religious
purposes, speak with a great deal Of
/ difhdence, but my opinion is that 1t
should be studied tOpically.
1T is the best book in existence to
quote in any sort Of speech. A fitting
quotation from the Bible goes like a
/ bullet to the mark. As fine an illUstra-
/ ton of the effectiveness Of a. Bible quo
! tatiOn as I ever witnessed occurred in
/ congress four or five years ago. Those
rare and radiant statesmen Lemuel
Quigg of New York, a Republican, and
/ James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, then
of the state of Washington. now of
/ Chicago, were debating the trust ques-
/ ton, Lewis assailing and Quigg defend
/ ing. It was redhot from start to finish.
/ Finally Quigg made a very vicious
/ lunge at Lewis, and Lewis, bowling in
/ a manner that would have aroused the
/ envy of Lord Chesterfield, utterly
/ hoored Quigg by saying: I don't Won
der that the gentleman from New York
/ defends the trusts, for it is written in
( a very old book. THE OK knOweth his
! owner and the ass his masters crib
That was the last of the debate"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-08
ABOUT CUTTING IN"

TTTHT IS IT that the newspapers and
W other publications, outside Of
strictly church and Sunday school
works. are so fond of playing up
stories in which the good little boy
comes out at the diminuuve end of the
trumpet? Does the good little boy get
away unscathed so rarely? Or is it be
cause the coed little boy gets away so
often that there IS no news in cOnnec-
ton with his doings unless he does.
metaphOrically speaking, stub his toe?
A New York paper tells with great
Elee about the case Of little Willie John
son. OF course, his name had to be
Willie. Most Of the good little boys
have that name thrust upon them with
out being given an opportunity to pro-
test. Willie was out walking the other
afternoon when he saw a group Of
naughty boys tormenting a poor little
1edgeling bird that had fallen out of
its nest. Straightway he took the bird
away from them and started to climb
up the tree to restore it to its nest.
alas. for his good Intentions When
Willie reached a point half way to the
nest a limb broke and he was precipi-
tated to the ground with sufficient vio-
fence to fracture one Of his arms. Then
the wicked little boys assisted him to a
doctors Office and saw to it that his in
jury was treated. Boys could do no
more than that Now, did Willie have
any business Quitting in" on their game
in the first place? True. they were tor
mentilg the bird without warrant or
authority. but did he have the right to
interfere2
We rather think he did. There is a
good deal Of talk all the time about the
Yellow who butts in and he is often
cid up to ri6ieule and contempt; but
Ia you ever consider the fact that If
bbody ever butted in this would be a
lightly uncomfortable sort of world?
LeIl, it certainly would. There are