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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
WOULD DECLINE
A NOMINATION
Senator Hanna Don't Want to Be
Vice President.
HE is NOT A CANDIDATE
emphasizes His Recent Statement.
and Says His Ambition Does Not
Lie in Direction of the
White House.

Cleveland, O., June 22.-ln an inter-
view Senator NJ. A. Hanna reiterated
his recent statement that he was not
and would not be a candidate for the
vice presidency, and if his nominal
ton was made that he would decline
to accept it. He said further that his
ambition did not lie in the direction
of the white house and that nothing
could induce him to alter his deci-
sion in the matter. When the re-
fusal of the vice presidential nomi-
nation by President Roosevelt was
cited as an illustration of how public
men sometimes change their views in
such matters, and when it was init
mated to him that the convention
might force the nomination for the
vice presidency upon him, Senator
Hanna said that men in public life
who know him know very well that
nothing can be forced upon him.
Col. Myron L. Herrick, whose name
also has been mentioned in connec-
ton with the vice presidency, said
that his sole political ambition was
to be elected governor of Ohio. Col.
Herrick thinks that the present dis
cussion relative to vice presidential
nomination is inOppOrtune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
SERIOUS FREIGHT WRECK.
Twelve Cars Leave the Track Near
Richmond, Wis, and Plunge
Through 81 Bridge.

ST. Paul, Mimi, June ga New
Richmond CWis.) special to the Dis
patch says: A westbound extra freight
Friday night was running at high
speed around a curve two miles east
of here when IL cars left the track,
breaking through an iron bridge and
plunging into Willow river. While
Lineman Thomas Carroll and his as
sistants were at work trying to
straighten out the tangled mass of
telegraph wires his lantern slipped
from his hand and fell into the wa
ter below. Instantly there was tire
mendous explosion, the wreck and
even the surface of the water becom-
ing a mass of flames. The contents of
tank of naphtha in the wreck had
ignited. Louis Anderson, a farmer
who was in the boat with Carroll, was
terribly burned. Several others were
burned, but all will recover. About
half an hour after the first explosion
another car of naphtha exploded,
sending the flames hundreds of feet
into the air The report was heard
for miles. The 10 cars that went
through the bridge and their contents,
lumber, farm implements, binding
Irvine, railroad supplies, etc, were de-
stroyed by fire. The bridge is a total
wreck and will have to be rebuilt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The reichstag elections in Germany
resulted in great gains by socialists,
who are expected to have so seats in
the new body.
Jewish work1ngmen were attacked
by police and cossacks at LODI, Rus
sian Poland, and ten Jews were killed
and hundreds wounded.
The ship Gjoa, with Capt. Ammund-
sens magnetic north pole expedition
on board, sailed from Christiania, Nor
way.
King Peter, assured of the good will
and support of the car of Russia, the
emperor of Austria and his brother
in-law, the king of Italy, has pro-
claimed his acceptance of the Servian
throne under the motto: For the
sacred cross and cherished liberty"
Removal of counterveiling duties
on German sugar imported into the
United States is sought by the former
government.
Advices from London confirm the
report of earthquakes in the vilayet
of Van and the loss of 7S5 lives.
Peter, the new king of Servia, has
been warned by Russia that he
must punish the murderers of his
predecessor.
BY an explosion in the lyddite fac
tory at the Woolwich arsenal, in
London, IA men were killed and 10
injured.
Russia has relaxed the restrictions
against the Jews prohibiting them
from living in villages and within SO
miles of the frontier.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Trenton, n, j., June 22.-Application
was made in the court of chancery
Saturday by Andrew H. McNeal, of
Burlington, n. j., for the appointment
of a receiver for the United States
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company,
which has IA plants at different points
throughout the United States, one of
which is located at Burlington. Other
plants are located at Buffalo, Cleve-
land. Columbus, o.; Scottdale, Pa, and
in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio and Ala
bama. The company was incorporat-
ed about three years ago with an au-
thorized capital of 100000, 900 to make
cast iron pipe and foundry work. Nc
Neal, in his bill of complaint, charges
extravaganza and mismanagement in
the operation of the business of the
company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
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
EROM WASHINGTON.

Governments weekly crop report
shows vegetation east of the Rockies
hindered by cold, but cultivation rap
idly progressing; New England
drought relieved; corn unusually late;
winter wheat harvest under way.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
have arranged to leave the white house
for Oyster Bay on June q, where they
will spend the summer
The postmaster general has decided
to prosecute ex-Congressman Edmund
III. briggs, of New York, on charge
of bribery.
Rev. J. r. Chadwick, chaplain in the
United States army, has rendered his
resignation to President Roosevelt.
For alleged Irregularities James T.
Metcalf, chief of the money order di-
vision of the post Office department,
has been summarily dismissed.
In Washington the flag has been
raised on the building of the new de-
partment of commerce and labor.
At the age of 20 years Maj. Gen.
Frank Wheaton, U. S. A., retired, died
in Washington.
The president, replying to criti-
cisms of his interference in the an
thracite coal strike, says the best an
swer is the peace now prevailing in
the region.
The establishment of rural free de-
livery routes has been resumed by
the post office department.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
LATER NEWS.

The government executed a prac-
teal bond to satisfy creditors and re-
lease the cruiser Galveston, now
building at Richmond.
Politicians at Washington declare
that Grover Cleveland is a receptive
candidate for the presidency, in spite
of his published denials.
Canada is willing to wait for prefer
entail tariff with Great Britain and is
not disposed to become excited over
the agitation in England.
The French ministry is threatened
with disruption over the religious
question, in which both Jews and the
Roman Catholic association figure.
President Stuyvesant Fish, of the
Illinois Central, just returned from a
tour of the lines, says farmers can by
hard work surpass crop records.
T. b. GerOw, director of the Kansas
state free employment bureau, has re-
ceived final estimates as to the num-
Der of outside harvest hands to be
needed in that state this year. The
total number foots up to %, 100.
Clark Howell. of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, discussing the race question,
says the south is competent to handle
the question, and that all that is nee
essary is to find occupation for the
negro. He also declares the black man
has ceased to vote.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Crime Is SuSnecteI.

St. Louis, June 22.-Mrs. August
Bailey. who. with her young son and
daughter. was found lying uncon-
scious along the Big Four railroad
track near East Alton, Ill, with
wounds in their heads early Friday.
died Friday night without regaining
consciousness. The children have re-
vived, but have not, been able to give
an account of the assault or tell who
committed it. The girl, it is believed,
will die, but the boy has chance for
recovery. An unknown negro was ar
rested some miles from the scene of
the crime, but beyond suspicion there
is nothing to connect him with the
assault. He is being held pending in
vestigation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
DYNAMITE EXPLODES.
large Amount Struck by Lightning
in OhiO-A Number of Lives
Are Lost.

Cambridge, o., June 22.-Lightning
Saturday afternoon struck 1900
pounds of dynamite stored at the
Sommers coal shaft at SenecavilIe, 16
miles south of here. Hiram Wilson,
Sam Hartup, Russell Hartup, Hays
Hushinson, Albert Watson and "Will''
Mahoney were instantly killed, Is
others were fatally injured and a
large number seriously injured. Four
have died since the accident. The
shaft is located half a mile south Of
the village. Every window was
broken, the Odd Fellows hall and
Kellar building are badly wrecked.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
PICKET WINS DERBY.
Middleton and JunGbIuth's Colt Cam
lures Rich Event at Chicago-A
Large Crowd Witnesses Race.

Chicago, June %. - The Picket.
owned by Middleton & Jungbluth,
Won the great American Derby at
Washington park track Saturday aft
ernoon. Claude was second and Ber-
nays finished third. The time was
1888.
The crowd which saw the American
Derby was the largest in the history
of the race. 1t numbered between TO-
600 and $4,000 people. 1t was Chicago's
greatest gathering of any year and
carried with it an astounding display
of fashion. a chilly damp morning
was followed by a warm afternoon,
with the sun shining occasionally.
What promised to be a dismal day for
Derby display turned out to be the
ideal in weather. The grand stand was
packed before one o'clock The
crowds started as early as IL o'clock,
and there was continual rush of peo-
pie up to the time the bugle sounded
the call for the Derby.
The value of the purse to the own
ers of The Picket is $27,O25. Claude,
the second horse, gets $4,000 of the
Derby stakes, and Bernays. which
ran third, receives $4,000. The re-
ceipts of the Washington Park club
for the day are figured at $1500O0.
The total amount wagered on the
Derby is estimated at $1.50OOO0, far
exceeding the plunging on any other
American Derby. The biggest Win
ner of the day was Joseph Yeager.
He is said to have gathered in $40
900. John w. Gates and John A.
Drake had $4,000 up on Savable,
while Drake had $4,000 on Savable
in the Ivinter hooEc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
WEST AND SOUTH,

Gifts to the University of Chica go
aggregating $621,155 were announced
at the convocation.
Along the line of the Santa Fe rail-
road from Nogales to Mojave, in Cali
fornia, 100000 acres of government
land have been thrown open to settle
ment.
The president in an address at the
University of Virginia at Charlottes-
vile declared that all who receive uni
versity education are debtors to the
state and can make recompense only
by service to their fellowmen.
At a grading camp near Cheyenne,
Wyo.. four men were killed by the fall
of trestle.
In the Eighteenth ward, Chicago,
three election judges were found
guilty of permitting illegal voting and
sentenced to three months each in Jail.
Henry T. Greene, of Duluth, has been
appointed as civil service commission
err, to succeed James r. Garfield.
Clyde Wilson, Chauncey Dewey and
w. J. Mcbride were held without bail
at ST. Francis, Kan, for the murder of
the Berry family.
In an address at the University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, declared that ma
TONS fate depends on the individual
character of its citizens.
In Alexander county, ILL.,, 1000 flood
victims are homeless and short of food.
Supplies have been ordered by Acting
Gov. Mckenzie.
Advices from Heppner, Ore, indicate
that the number of lives lost in the
food will not exceed 200.
The restaurant and hotel strike in
Chicago has come to an end.
At Ponce Miss Jean Ankrom, for
merly of Waynesboro, Pa, the only
woman school supervisor in Porto
Rico, was thrown from a carriage in
a runaway accident and killed.
In Richmond an injunction has been
issued restraining the launching of
the cruiser Galveston, but the navy
department officials say they will ig-
more the action.
The hotel and restaurant strike
settlement in Chicago has been aban-
doned, and the struggle will be re-
sumed.
Senator Quarles, of Wisconsin, in
an address to the University of
Michigan graduates at Ann Arbor de-
clared the trust question was old
as trade.
1t is announced that the post Of
flee investigation is to be extended
to Chicago, Kansas City and other
large western and southern cities.
At indianapolis Lieut. Gov. North
colt, of Illinois, was robbed by ho-
tel thief of his gold watch, valued at
$500 and S35 in money.
Flames in Aurora, ILL.,, destroyed
property worth $4,000, and killed
Clyde Allen.
At Cleveland, O., the Adams & Sar-
Der Oil company failed, with liabil-
tiles OF $685., ZOO.
Gen. u. S. Grant is said to be a
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for vice president next year.
In Alabama authentic cases of
slavery have been found in the coun-
ties of Tallapoosa, Coosa and
Lcwndes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
STRIKE ENDED.
Trouble i'm the Lowell, Mass, Mills
Declared OH-The Strikers
Are Defeated.

Lowell, Mass, June 22-The tex
tile council Sunday afternoon de-
clared the great strike in the Lowell
mills at an end. The strike began on
March 30 and involved about 1900
operatives. The mills were shut down
until June 1, when the agents opened
the gates and the majority of the OPP
eratives went back to work. The
strike has cost in wages about ST.
100000. 1t is understood that the
agents will take back all the old
help they have room for and will
make no discrimination against the
leaders of the strike movement. The
high price of cotton precluded any
hope of the success OF the strikers
campaign for Il 10 per cent. increase.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
ROYALTY to visit Fair.

New York, June 22.-Saturday's
court circular says, cables the London
correspondent of the Times, that
Prince Henry of Prussia when he Wis
worlds fair at St. Louis will not go
in an official capacity, but will travel
incognito. The prince will tour the
United States, including the Pacific
coast. The crown prince of Germany
also will be visitor to the worlds
fair, and may be accompanied by one
of his brothers
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

Coral reefs grow very slowly He'll
prin, the German scientist, says at the
rate of one foot in 100000 years.
There are 52,157 varieties of fungi
now catalogued. Of these 1900 have
been added in the past three years.
One hundred and sixteen different
varieties of tulip are under cultivation
In Lincolnshire bulb growers garden.
Fish have no eyelids. They do not
require them. as their eyes are con-
stantly washed by the water in which
they swim.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Plattsburg, n. Y, June 22.-By a
head-on collision of light engine
and a freight train early Saturday on
the Delaware & Hudson railroad near
Whitehall, brakeman named Fred
Ryan and Fred Bellegarde. a
fireman, were killed. Engineer OAR
mody and Brakeman William Cheney
were injured, the latter probably
fatally. Failure on the part of the
freight engineer to see or obey sig
nails is given as the cause of the ac-
cident. The damage to the railroad
property is heavy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Immediately upon the close of the
Boer war there was talk of large num-
bers of the South African, burghers
emigrating TO this country. Until
now, however, there has been little
but talk, and it was believed no con-
siderable number of the Beers would
leave South Africa. 1t comes some
what in the nature of a surprise,
therefore, that arrangements have
been perfected by which large col
only of Beers will soon settle in Mex
leo and grow up with the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
AUTHORS AND BOOKS.

Wireless telegraphy has already
been made the subject of a book of 525
pages. with 259 woodcuts, by two Ital-
ians named Right and Dessau.
John L. Grifiths is at work on the
life of the late President Harrison.
All the private papers of the presi-
dent, including some unfinished manu-
scripts, have been turned over to him.
Mr.. Griffiths was closely associated
with Mr.. Harrison for many years. He
is at present at Indianapolis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Attemntx Murder and Suicide.

New York, June 22.-Made desper-
ate by the repeated refusals of Olive
Foster. a. concert hall singer, to mar
ry him. Edward Teets, p years old, of
this city. shot and probably fatally
wounded the girl as she sat in the
crowded balcony of a music hall in
Coney Island. Teets fired two shots
at the girl and then turned the weapon
upon himself. but it missed fire and
he was disarmed before he could pull
the trigger again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Portsmouth, o.. June 22.-In a
fight at picnic at Knuckle Tree, IS
mics from here, John Brown was
shot and instantly killed and his
father, Frank Brown, was fatally
wounded. The elder Brown and John
Short got into an alteration and
Browns son attacked Short with a
Ratchet. Short whipped out a revol-
YER and shot Brown through the
heart, killing him instantly. He then
stabbed the elder Brown. Short was
arrested
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
DEADLY REVENGE.
Young Girl Breaks BetrOthnI on
Learning That Her Lover Wasa
Thtef-He Kills Her.

Laurel, Del, June 22.-Miss Katie
Atkins was shot and instantly killed
at her home in Salisbury, Md, Satur-
day night by Elmer Heath, her lover.
After killing the young woman, Heath
fired three bullets into his own head
and fell unconscious. He was hurried
in an ambulance to jail to prevent
a lynching. He may recover. The
dead girl and her lover are under 81,
and were to have been married last
Thursday, but Miss Atkins broke the
engagement when she learned that
Heath had stolen money from his en-
ployer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
SCHOOL INTERESTS.

Eighty-five per cert. of the children
of Japan are now in school.
Berlin has $4,000 school children,
but only eight public Fairgrounds for
them.
DR.. Conrad, of the University of
Leipsic, who has accepted professor
ship at the Chinese Imperial university
of Picking, is the first foreign scholar
invited to teach Asiatic languages at
Chinese institution. He is 80 years
old.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Brlckmnkers, Strike Settled.

Cleveland, o., June 22.-The brick
makers strike, which has been on for
nine weeks, was settled Friday night,
the men returning to work at the
terms offered by the employers. The
strikers say nonsupport by craftsmen
in other lines is the cause of their fail
ure. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of building has been tied
up and thousands of all kinds of work
men were idle in consequence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Defended His Family.

jackson. Mich, June 22.-While de-
Tending his wife and child from
threats of murder at Munith, small
place near here, Sunday, August
Sraun, the village hotel keeper,
struck William McCrow, his former
barkeeper, on the head with an iron
bar, from the effects of which the
latter died in few minutes. 1t is
said McCrow had been drinking and
was seeking revenge for dismissal
some time ago. No action has been
taken by the sheriff, although Braun
says he is willing to give himself up
AT once.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
FROM THE NEW BOOKS.

When prudence and reticence are off
guard the man himself, past. present
and future, comes into view.-Kent
Fort Manor.
You never could bet on that woman.
If there was one or two things she'd
be likely to do she wouldn't do either
of them.-Tioba.
Things always run in streaks; don't
matter whether it's politics, love,
farmin' or war. They don't travel
alone.-Before the Dawn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

The sea serpent of 1908 has at last
put in its appearance. 1t was the
other day observed by truthful Capt.
Bartlett, of the good steamer Tresco,
when his vessel was 90 miles south of
Cape Hatteras. The sea serpent has
been an unaonscionable time in max
ing its appearance, but better late
than never. For what should we do in
these days of strikes, and floods, and
cyclones, and cloudbursts, and
droughts, and fires, and, barbarie regi-
cides had we not had our old friend
the sea serpent for pleasureable en-
tertainment?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Anniversary Observed.

Lafayette, Ind, June %. The
ninety-second anniversary of the
battle of Tippecanoe was observed
Sunday. Memorial services were held
on the battle ground and the soldiers
graves were decorated. An address
was made by Gen. John C. Black, of
Chicago. Battery escorted Gen.
Black to, the battlefield and fired a
salute over the graves of the soldier
dead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25
Return Verdict of Guilty.

ST. Paul, Mimi, June can Owa-
tonna (Minn.) special to the Dispatc
says: The jury in the Krier murder
case, after being out all night, re-
turned verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. Charles and Henry
Nelson were on trial for killing Harry
III. Krier on April 10. William A. SUIT
ton, their accomplice, turned states
evidence. The murder was committed
for the sake of robbery and the boys
were arrested later in Minneapolis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Livingston, Mont, June 22.-Con-
sternation prevails among ranchers of
the Bridger Creek country over
threatened grasshopper plague. At
the rate these pests are multiplying,
it bids fair to be without precedent in
Montana. Unless the efforts of scien-
lists from the state agricultural col
lege at Boiseman in their war of ex-
termination are successful a large
area of ranching and range country
will be stripped bare of all vegetation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

In delivering the diplomas to the
graduatingelas at West Point the sec
rotary of war said: Before you leave
the army, young men, according to all
presidents in our history, you will be
engaged in another war. 1t is bound
TO come, and will come" The secre-
tary spoke from history, which shows
that we have had a war about every
25 years. What will cause it, from
what quarter it wall come, or who our
antagonist will be are matters for con-
lecture, but the secretary was doubt
less right when he said sit is bound
TO COME
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Found Guilty.

Omaha, Neb.. June 22.--The jury in
the case of Line Linnier, company j,
Twenty-ffth infantry, charged with
the murder of Sergt. Robert Yours, of
the same company, brought in YER
dict of murder in the first degree, but
eliminating the sentence of capital
punishment. The verdict, under Unit
ed States laws, carried with it impris-
onment for life. The killing occurred
at Fort Niobrara. Neb.. April II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-25

Washington, June "a treaty
with Cuba, continuing the present
postal arrangements between that re-
public and the United States, was
laid before the president Saturday
by Postmaster General Payne. 1t
was signed by the president and Mr..
Pavne and then transmitted to the
state department for the signature
of Secretary HaY.