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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON.

Receipts of the so largest post Of
fees of the United States for Deem
Der as compared with December, 1901
show net increase Of $734,235.
In Washington three persons were
drowned by the breaking up of ice III
a park basin.
The president signed the anthracite
coal repeal bill, and it became effective
Immediately.
1t is said that friction between the at
torney general and house committee
over the antitrust bill may delay leg,
islation at the present session.
The new charge d'affaires of Ger
many at Washington, Baron Won Stern.
berg, predicts friendlier relations be
tween Germany and the United States
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
LATER NE WIS.

The belated steamer st. Louis, from
off Nantucket.
E. j. Conlin, lying in wait for his
sweetheart, Jennie Dwyer, who had
gone to a party with another sutton,
shot and killed her upon her return
home, in Chicago. He also shot Frank
| f. Merritt, of whom he was jealous,
and then turned the weapon upon him
self A bullet entered his head and he
will die.
At the session of the district coal
miners convention at Pittsburg, reso-
| lutiOns were adopted to the effect that
the prevailing coal shortage through
out the country is not due to the re-
cent anthracite strike, but is the fault
of the railroads being unable to get
the products of the mines to the mar
! ketS.
The coal merchants of London have
received with Indifference the news
that congress had passed a bill for a
I rebate on all coal.
Near Sargent, Colo, a passenger
train was derailed and thirty passen-
gers injured.
War between rival labor organiza-
tions in Chicago resulted in a lockout
of 1000 clothing workers, including
! 1000 women.
The lower house of congress passed
the bill to establish a department of
commerce and labor.
A natural gas explosion in Seigerts
barber shop at Joliet, ILL.,, wrecked
the building and injured two of the
BARRIERS.
President John Mitchell, of the
mine workers union, asserts that
miners are idle because railroads are
holding cars back.
Five men were killed and four
wounded by an explosion in the turret
of the battleship Massachusetts, while
at gun practice off Porto Rico.
Caracas, Venezuela, is threatened
with a flour famine.
Manufacturers of Egyptian cigarets
have formed a combination. There
are LAG makers of these goods IN the
country.
At Toledo, O., a mob, including over
200 women, men, boys and girls,
seized five cars of coal that had just ar
rived. No attempt was made to stop
the raid.
Ernest Otberg, the 14-year-old son of
Knute Osberg, who resides near Bran
don was shot and almost instantly
killed while playing with a gun.
Abram S. Hewett, former mayor of
New York died the 18th.
A passenger tram on the Greai West
ern railroad was wrecked near Syca-
more, Ill. One person was killed and
several injured.
Forty men high in the business and
social world of Chicago have been in
dicted for conspiring to control the
coal supply.
Daniel E. George, a citizen of Enid,
! Okla, who committed suicide, an
nounced on himself to be John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of President Lin
! colin
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The Wisconsin legislature convened
in Madison. j. j. McGillivray was
chosen president pro tenn. of the sem
ate and 1. L. Lenroot speaker of the
house.
For no cause known, Mrs. Rella Glib
son, wife of Alexander Gibson, near Ja-
sonville, Ind, drowned herself and
baby in a well.
In Chicago five policemen are ac-
cused of accepting brides from junk
dealers charged with buying stolen
property, and then refusing to prose-
cute.
The ten-year-old daughter of the late
Hugh Tevis and heiress of several mil
lions, died at San Francisco.
At the National Live Stock associa-
tion convention in Kansas City Presi-
dent Roosevelt's proposed commission
to investigate grazing problems was
indorsed.
With factories in Detroit, cigar
company with $1,O00000 capital has
been organized to fight the national
trust.
In his message to the Wisconsin leg
islature Gov. La Toilette arraigns rail-
roads for alleged failure to pay their
share of taxes, condemns paid lobby
lists and asks for an effective primary
election law.
Lieut.. Gov. J. II. Tillman, of South
Carolina, nephew of the United States
senator, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded Narcisso Gener Gonzales, ed
itor of the Columbia Is. c. State, over
an old political feud
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
TELLS TALE OF HORROR.
Witness I'm Glenn Trial mt Manila Says
He Saw American Prisoner Roasted
to Death by FiIipinOs.

Manila, Jan. 17.--At the continuation
Friday of the trial of Maj. Edwin +.
Glenn of the Fifth infantry, who is
charged with unlawfully killing seven
prisoners of war in Samar. Spaniard
who was at one time held prisoner by
the insurgents testified that while he
was confined at the headquarters Oi
Cen Lukban, in Samar, in May Of 1900,
he saw an American prisoner roasted
to death The Spaniard said sticks
were driven into the mans body and
he was slowly burned over the fire IN
til dead The body was then left to be
devoured by hogs. He did not know
the mans name but thought he was
an officer. Several American officers
and men were captured or reported
missing in Samar in 1900 and the vic
tim is believed to have been one Of
these.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
CONGRESS REMOVES
THE DUTY ON COAL.
Measure Providing for Rebate on Foreign Coal
Passed by Almost Unanimous Vote
President Signs Bill,

| mittee amendment was adopted
by the senate adding a section to
prevent the imposition of duty
on anthracite coal after the eX-
piration of the time provided for in
the bill, granting a rebate on all coal.
Move to Seize Coal Mines.
Washington, Jan. 15.-The chair
man of the judiciary committee of
the house Wednesday introduced the
following resolution:
"Resolyed, That the committee on
the judiciary be and is hereby direct
ed to investigate and report to the
house, with all convenient speed, the
opinion of that committee as to the
power of congress to declare that a
necessity has arisen for taking pos
session of all coal, coal beds and coal
mines in the United States and all
lines of transportation, agencies, IN
struments and vehicles of commerce
necessary for the transportation of
coal, and that if in the opinion of
that committee the power exists and
a necessity for the exercise of such
power has arisen, that the commit
tee forthwith report to the house
bill declaring the necessity, pro-
viding fully and in detail the occa-
sion, modes, conditions and agencies
for said appropriation that will fully
and completely exhaust the power CT
congress in that regard"
Signed by the President.
Washington, Jan. 16.-Shortly aft
er one o'clock Thursday afternoon
Representative Wachter, of Maryland,
chairman of the house committee on
enrolled bills, accompanied by Repre-
sentative Allen, Of Maine, reached the
executive offices with the engrossed
and enrolled copy of the free coal bill
passed by congress Wednesday. Pres
ident Roosevelt received the commit
tee at once and signed the measure
Immediately, expressing, at the same
time, his pleasure that congress had
acted so promptly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
Skaters Drowned.

Washington, Jan. 15.-While a
large crowd was skating on the bath
ing basin near the Washington mon
ument Wednesday evening the ice
suddenly gave way and precipitated
20 or more persons in the water.
Three persons are known to have
lost their lives. They are Arthur
Wasserbach, of this city, an employe
of the bureau Of engraving; Henry
C. Hamill, of Michigan, a clerk in
the war department, and Miss Jessie
C. Thomas, of Maryland, clerk in
the bureau of ethnology. Eight 9th
er persons were treated at the emer-
pency hospital, and recovered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Terrible Result of Explosion in
British Columbia Powder
Factory.

Nanaimo, B. c., Jan. ia terrific
explosion occurred at the Hamilton
Powder company's works, Departure
Bay, Wednesday morning. George
Simonetta, James Fulforte and ten
Cinnamon were killed. Only one
body, that of a Chinaman, was re-
covered. Others were absolutely
blown to fragments. The guncotton
storage house exploded first, the con-
cussion exploding the geligmite in
the drying house 400 feet away,
where the great loss of life is sup
posed to have occurred. The ground
was excavated to a depth of six feet
where the buildings stood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Washington, Jan. 16. - President
Roosevelt was assured Friday by SEN
ators AIdrich, Lodge and Spooner of
their belief that the Cuban reciprocity
treaty would be ratified by the senate.
The three senators had a conference
with the president prior to the cabinet
meeting and went over the situation
with him carefully. 1t was stated that
the treaty as amended by the foreign
relations committee was practically
satisfactory to every republican SEN
ator and that the opposition now was
confned to the democratic side.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
PUT TO DEATH.
Two Negroes Killed in Jail at Angel
ton, Tex, by "a Posse
of Men.

Angleton, Texas, Jan. 15.-Late
Tuesday night several men entered a
cell of the county Jail in which Ran
som O'Neal and Charles TunstalI were
confined, with a number of negroes,
and shot the two men to death. The
other prisoners were warned to cover
their heads with blankets, which they
did. The bed clothing of the cots oc-
cupied by the negroes caught fire and
O'Neal had an arm and a leg burned
off. The negroes were charged with
the murder of County Attorney Ed c.
Smith, at Columbia, several weeks
ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
Senate Adopts the Bill.
SANITARIUM BURNED.
Institution at Pensacola, Fla, Total
Iy Destroyed and Helpless In
mate Burned to Death.

Mobile, Ala, Jan. ia special
from Pensacola, Fla, says: Fire
early Wednesday morning totally de-
stroyed the large three-story Bryan's
infirmary on the corner of Baylen
and Darden streets. One of the pa
tients, a man named Bracken, was
burned to death in his room. The
fire was not discovered until the en-
tire building was in flames, and then
25 patients in the building had mar
row escapes.
Philip Bracken, who lost his life,
was a resident of ST. Andrews, Fla. DR..
Bryan says the loss will amount to
many thousands of dollars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Washington, Jan. 15.-The bill re-
ported from the ways and means COM
mittee Tuesday to provide for re-
bate of the duties on foreign coal for
a period of one year was passed In
short order by the house Wednesday
by practically unanimous vote, 1855,
those voting against it being Messrs.
Cushman and Jones, of Washington;
Gaines, of West Virginia; Mondell, OF
Wyoming, and Patterson of Pennsyl-
vania, all republicans. The bill was
considered under the operation OF
rule which cut off opportunity to
amend. The only opposition to the
measure came from some OF the mem
bers representing coal states, who ex-
pressed the fear that the admission
of Chinese mined coal in Canada
would injure the coal industry of their
states. Both Mr.. Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Mr.. Payne, Of New York,
the republican leaders, expressed the
opinion on the floor that the bill would
not relieve the existing distress. They
said it would satisfy, however, pubic
demand for action, and show the dis
position of congress to do what it
could. The democrats, although they
supported the bill, took the view that
it did not go far enough, saying that
coal should go on the free list, and
when the bill came back from the sem
ate with proviso which virtually
placed anthracite coal on the free list,
they applauded vigorously, Mr.. Dali
zell, in the course of his remarks, said
that there was practically no anthra-
cite coal in the world except that in
the United States and little in China.
The senate amendment was adopted
without division.
Senate Adopts the Bill.
Washington, Jan. 15.-The senate
acted promptly on the house bill pro-
viding rebates of duty on coal and
passed it unanimously, without de-
bate, few minutes after it was
brought from the house. A com
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
The Rhodes schoIarship.

St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 17.-Goy. Van
SAINT has received from Secretary Of
State Hay circular with regard to
two scholarships at Oxford, to which
Minnesota is entitled, under the will Of
the late Cecil Rhodes. 1t is desired by
the state department that uniform
system of regulations be adopted, IN
der which candidates fo~ these scholar
ships shall qualify. T.lIs m1st be done
at once so that the scholars may en-
ter Oxford at the October term.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The completion of the new Pacific
marks another long step in the on
ward march of American interests.
Hawaii, once the isolated abode of
savages, is territory Of the United
States and in easy and speedy com
munication with Washington. And It
is way station on the route to the
Philippines, now the Asiatic outpost
Of American civilization and soon to
be the terminus of the same cable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The first Christian Endeavor So
ciety was organized February ., 1881.
In 1891 there were 1924 societies.
with nearly 100000 members, and in
1901 there were 61,427 societies, with
n membership of 100000. There are
now 62,194 societies, with nearly
100000 members. The strength of
the organization is in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain and
Australia. The fundamental idea of
the Christian Endeavor movement is
the doing of what Christ would like
TO have done, inside the local church
of each particular society.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Treasury officials fear the ex-
termination of the seals in Behring
sea. Many American and Canadian
eealers, temporarily thrown out OF
employment by the British-American
prohibitiye agreement, are sailing I'M
der the Japanese flag and making
large catches. Unless this govern
ment insists on the complete cessa-
ton of hunting within the 6O-mile
zone the Pribilof island herd will be
practically wiped out.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The death of Senior Sagasta, ex-
prime minister of Spain, removes a
man whose name became familiar to
us during the war with Spain. I'm
der his direction the war was con-
Quoted and his was the ministry
which negotiated peace. Sagasta, in
his youth, assisted in expelling Queen
Isabella, the present kings grand
mother, from the throne, and was a
strong republican. In later years.
however, he was a steady supporter
of the dynasty. He grew to be Il
close friend of the queen regent.
Peace to his ashes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

the joint senatorial caucus Wednes-
day night. This action insures the re-
election of Senator Spooner. The
candidate will be voted for in each
house on January 81, and upon that
day the legislature will meet in joint
session and officially ratify the caucus
action.
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 15.-The two
houses of the legislature met
Wednesday in joint session, and after
canvassing the vote for United States
senator cast Tuesday, w. p. Hepburn
was officially declared elected to sue
coed Henry Heitfeld for the term of
six years beginning March 4, 1908.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 15-Apostle
Reed Smoot was nominated for Uni
ted States senator by the republican
caucus Wednesday night.
Mr.. Smoot was born In Salt Lake
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Jealous of the mortuary honors
that are being acquired by the troll
ley car and the arctic temperature,
the gasoline can has taken to blow
ing up and distributing citizens over
the wintry landscape, says the Chi
cago Chronicle. In the long run it is
quite certain the coroner and the I'M
dertaIer owe more to gasoline than
to any other lcthal agent classed as
''accidentar'-a designation which is
absolutely false when applied to
casualties due to the murderous ex-
plosivc named.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Everybody knows that a toy is a
thing with which children play, but
everybody does not know that TOYS
have a long history, and that nearly
every one, from the iumpirg-ia jack to
the Christmas tree, has a very honor
able ancestry. One day all these
playthings were taken just as serious
~ as the tools and weapons of man.
Nay, they were often his most cher
ished possessions; they were symbols
of his religious aspirations. some
times the very images of the gods
themselves. Little by little their old
uses have been forgotten.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
a Mothers Deed.

indianapolis, Ind, Jan. ia spe-
ciaI to the News from Bloomfield
Ind, says: Mrs. Rella Gibson, wife
of Alexander Gibson, near Jasonville,
this county, threw herself and her
baby, few months old, into stock
we'll on the farm of her father,
Henry Letsinger, and both were
drowned A few weeks ago she made
an attempt at suicide by hanging.
She left a husband and two children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The report of one of the perform
ances Of the durbar at Delhi, India.
which, by the way, would seem to
come under the head of what man
ayers ordinarily call gala" says
that the flags and other emblems OF
the state Of Ouch were carried on
cameIs, etc. 1t is inferred that
"Ouch!" is the state in which the
taxpayers fnd themselves after a
blowout like this.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Prof. Koch, the noted bacteriolo-
gist, declares that typhoid fever can
be stamped out through proper treat
mcnt Of each case. He urges that
every case Of typhoid fever be as
strictly isolated as case of cholera,
and by such isolation the disease
could be wholly cxterminated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Three million men, women and
children contributed to the magniti-
cent thank-of'ering fund Of $2o,o0o,-
600 which the Methodists have raised
to promote the cause Of Christianity
by the endowment of colleges, the
endowment Of city evangelizatior,
the assistance of feeble churches and
the extension of missionary effort.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

The sultan Of Morocco did a fine
stroke of business by appointing his
brother governor Of Fee, thereby re
moving the pretenders excuse for
revolt and virtually ending the re-
bellion. He will now proceed to pun
ish tho rebels in some oriental fash
ion that will be remembered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Prof. Mason, of the Smithsonian In
stitution, says the most needed
achievement of 1903 is the discovery
OF a satisfactory method of econo-
MIXING electricity. Some day, he says,
in the not distant future the rivers
will make all the electricity we want.
We shall harness the streams and
they will heat every house, run every
wheel and light every lamp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Rev Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chi
cago, pretends not to be able to I'M
derstand why $50 women attended his
Browning lecture and only - his
lecture on Housewives" 1t may be
the women thought they knew quite
as much about housewives as the
lecturer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

In the last 30 years the population
of Germany has increased 40 per
cent, that of France two per cent,
that of the United Kingdom 30 per
cent, and that Of the United States
100 per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

Some people are never satisfied.
Marconi having given US wireless
telegraphy, the Washington Star has
now set up cry for coalless heat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
POPE SHOWS HASTE.
cesSOr of Dead C1rdinnI-WiII
Probably BE POpe's Successor.

Rome, Jan. 17.-Cardinal Serafino
Vannutelli has been appointed vice
chancellor of the Catholic church, in
succession to Cardinal Parocchi, who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
SENATORS FORMALLY ELECTED
CAUCUS NOMINATIONS MADE

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 15.-Congress-
man A. j. Hopkins was nominated
unanimously for United States senator
by the Illinois republican legislative
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

1t costs Uncle Sam $1,25O,oOo year
to run the weather bureau, notwith-
standing all the information which is
given gratis by the old inhabitants.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
coin.

IIIIILCdpOI Isi q tIII I .
Wheat-No. l northern, 75c; No. 2
northern, 76c; May 773lc. Oats-No.
white, zoe Corn-No. 3, sec. Rye
No. 2, 45c. Barley-No. ?, 42c
Flax-S1.1S. Butter-Creamery, ex-
tras, 26@27c; creamery, frsts, 25@26c;
dairy, fancy, 22@24c Poultry-Tur-
keys, s@9c; chickens, 7@sc. Hay
Upland, fancy, $3.50.
st. Paul, Jan. II.
Cattle-Steers, 81. o0@4. 25; cows, So. 90
@4.00. Hogs = S5.75@7o0. Sheep
muttons, SIS. 90: lambs. S6.0a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22

died Thursday. The haste with which
the pope filled the vacant Office is much
commented upon. Cardinal Vannutelli
is now regarded as the probable sue
cessor of Pope Leo, as vice chancellor
of the church is one of the highest posi-
tions in the papacy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-22
River Falls Journal.
c. p. MORSE, Publisher.

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