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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
SHORT SPECIALS,

Shamrock III. easily defeated Sham
rock l. in an eleyen-mile beat to wind
ward.
Fire at Wheatland, CAL, swept
through the town and caused loss of
100000.
John Crowley, aged 16, cried himself
to death in New York upon hearing of
the death by accident of his uncle.
Over 1000 school-teachers are already
in Boston to attend the convention of
the National Educational association.
The army and navy, with many high
government officials, participated in
independence day ceremonies at Wash
ington.
The bodies of A. H. Delan, an archi-
tect, and his wife were found at Byber-
ry, suburb of Philadelphia. Murder
and suicide are suspected
J. E. Berry, marine cook, whose
home is on Sixty-third street, Chicago,
was drowned while bathing at Toledo,
o. The body was recovered.
Edward Monzel, of Milwaukee. was
drowned at Pewaukee Lake, Wis, by
the overturning of a rowboat. Edward
Mueller, his companion, was rescued.
Theodore Bergquist, telephone line
man of Rock Island, was killed in at
tempting high dive from barge into
the river before a crowd at Grand Isle,
resort.
President Roosevelt, in his address at
the anniversary celebration of Hunt
ington, l.. l., urged his hearers not to
rest on the greatness achieved by their
forefathers.
The accident roll of the Fourth in the
United States shows 4S persons dead
and 3,431 injured as result of patriotic
celebrations. The list is sure to grow
with later reports.
Edward V. Sewall, supposed to be a
commercial traveller for Chicago wire
and steel firm, committed suicide by
shooting himself at the Hotel Belvi-
dere, Portland, Ore. He was despond-
emit
The London correspondent of the
New York Sun cables that the moment
is approaching when some power, or
combination of powers, must call halt
to Russian aggression in the east. There
is much discussion as to the cars real
Intentions
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
The News Condensed.

The corner stone of the Fond du Lac
public library has been laid. The
building is to cost $4,000, of which
$4,000 is given by Andrew Carnegie
Deputy Game Warden Henry Grass
who has been doing clerical work in
the state game warden's office, at Madi
son, for the last year, has resigned tc
practice law at Sturgeon Bay.
The annual reunion and picnic OF
the old settlers of Fond du Lac and
Green Lake counties was held on the
Spring Grove shore of Green lake.
The formal consolidation of the
Marinette and Menominee street rail
way lines has been effected
A horse owned by Ernst Smith, La
Crosse farmer, died from the effects OF
rattlesnake's rite.
A movement is on foot among Osh
kosh officials to enact legislation that
shall prevent fortune tellers and palm
lists from prosecuting their vocation
The Farnsworth memorial library
at Oconto, has been dedicated. George
Farnsworth, of Chicago, presented the
SIS 900 library to the city
The annual meeting of the Press asso-
citation of northern Wisconsin will be
held in West Superior July Is, Is and
II.
The dentists of Wisconsin will hole
their annual convention in West SUI
perior July 81, % and %.
The Wisconsin Central station al
Phillips was almost totally consumed by
fire.
The Elks' lodge voted $4,000 for q
weeks carnival in Ashland during
July The Potter and Rice company
has been engaged.
l.. M. Fay, aged So years, president
of the Wisconsin Life Insurance com
pany and of the Madison Democrat
Printing company, died suddenly OF
neuralgia of the heart at his home in
Madison.
A heavy storm caused havoc at many
of the lake summer resorts in the yicini-
ty of Pewaukee, capsizing boats, wreck
ing pavilions and doing serious damage
to crops.
Lucius Manly Fay, aged SO, one of the
wealthiest and most prominent resi-
dents of Madison, died suddenly of neu-
ralgia of the heart at his handsome home
on Lake Mendoza.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
J. @. Emery has appointed Bjarne
Lovdal, Of Madison as assistant state
chemist The DoSition was created by
an act passed at the recent session of
the legislature and carries sarlary of
$500 a year.
Harvey Mosher, aged Is years, acct
dentally shot Tom Morrissey, aged II,
at Chippewa Falls, inficting fatal
wound
The tipping of seat in wagon
which he was driving caused the in
slant death of John Martinez at La
Crosse. Mr. Martinez fell out, break.
ing his neck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09

years imprisonment in the Leaven-
worth prison.
Carriers name was brought to
Washington a short time ago by Ward
en- McClaughrey, of the Leavenworth
prison. The warden reports Carter
as being a model prisoner, who has
honestly earned every day of the ten
months good conduct time, which
let's him out of the prison about
the first of next December.
During his stay behind the barred
doors at Leavenworth, Carter has
been on duty in the hospital, where
he is now acting as assistant phar-
macist and nurse. He is reported to
take an interest in his work, and
adds much to the comfort of the pa
ticnts by his careful ministrations.
OF the 1000 prisoners at Leaven-
worth large number are deserters
from the enlisted ranks of the army.
AS an army officer Carter was noted
as a harsh disciplinarian who never
permitted an enlisted man to FORGET
the Difference due his superior Off
GERS, but in the prison Carter has
never, for a moment, forgotten that
he is now on the same plane with
these enlisted men.
Warden McClaughry says, so far as
he knows, Carter intends embarking
with his uncle in 4 number of mining
ventures in New anG Old Mexico
after he is released.
Carriers eX-comrades of the army
do not believe that he will be poor
man when his term of Imprisonment
is completed.
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upon him, perhaps.
The appointment of the general
staff of the army has not been clear
sailing for the president and secre-
tary of war There were too many
claimants for the three places for
general officers upon it. The law
does not say that the lieutenant gen
eral of the army shall be the chief of
staff. In fact it is so left that the
president may assign the lieutenant
general of the army to the command
of some little department if he
wishes to.
The three general officers of the
new staff will be Young, Corbin and
Carter. Enemies of Gen. Corbin
tried to prevent his assignment to
this desirable berth, but the presi-
dent believed him entitled to the
place because of his work in connec-
ton with the Spanish-American war.
The assignment of Gen. COrbin to
this position places him in line of
promotion for chief of staff in time,
and it was to this that his enemies
objected.
Neither Young or Carter will serve
very long in their new positions.
Young will retire next January, and
will be succeeded as lieutenant gen
eral and on the staff by Gen. A. r.
Chaffee, while Carter will be assigned
to duty in the Philippines in the near
future and will be succeeded on the
staff by Gen. Bliss. 1t is stated that
Gen. Corbin WILL not succeed Young
as chief of staff, that place being re-
served for Gen. Chaffee, but as Chat
fee will retire before COrbin it may
be that the present adiutant general
of the army may yet be the chief of
staff before he retires, though it can
only be for a very limited time.
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Some of the unions seem to have
but a small sphere of influence" like
the Secondhand Building Material
Handkerchief get three dollarsa day,
by. the way, for unloading old lumber.
But really, in a city where so much
tearing down and rebuilding is going
forward, these men have plenty of
work
All these unions have the eight-haur
day. But there are mitigations. The
unions discourage overtime, but do
not prohibit it. They merely make it
pay double. There is no rule against
paying more than schedule price,
either. l have within the past week
heard of a carpenter who was making
500 week in the near suburbs, and left
to take a place on one of the great
city buildings, where he could make
SIS by working IL hours day. On
these giant structures time is every
thing. In eight months, one of the
new hustling construction companies
which deal direct with their laborers
and have no delay with subcontractors
will put up a 20-story building 8nd
have it filed with tenants. Under such
circumstances, overtime of good men
is prodigally employed - unless the
walking delegate objects. And one at
least of the big comprehensive Fuller
concern, that put up the famous "Flat-
iron" - has always boosted that 1t
kept on good terms with the delegates
and was never battered by strikes.
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street, with that of William Il. Dodge
adjoining it on the north. The death
of Mrs. Dodge few weeks ago, leav-
ing no one to occupy her old home,
throws it into Mr.. Morgan's hands as
the natural purchaser. He has now a
plot of about an acre altogether, which
is a good deal of land for one man to
own on Murray hill; it is believed that
the houses of A. Cass Garfield and An
son Phelps Stokes on the same block
will go the same way, leaving Mr.. Nor
gan free to build a mansion rivaling
those of Messrs. Carnegie and Schwab.
The great library which Mr. Morgan
is already preparing to build to shelter
his rare pictures, art objects and
books, will be behind the new house,
and in architectural accord with it.
Jay Gould once said that he wanted
his house to look just like all the rest
on Fifth avenue, so that If mob came
up that way they wouldn't know which
it was-a typical saying of a physical
ly timid but mentally bold man. Miss
Helen Gould, who still occupies the
same large, plain, unimpressive brown
stone box which Jay Gould built, need
have nothing worse than beggars TO
fear there, as she is possibly the best
beloved woman in the city.
Other men of wealth do not share
Mr.. Gould's desire for a modestIy con-
cealed home. John ID. Rockefeller, the
richest of them all, lives in quiet
house on a side street, which is most
remarkable because in winter he has
enough land behind it, and within a
stones throw of Fifth avenue, for a
private skating rink. But most of the
men of great wealth are doing their
utmost to make New York museum
of architectural styles. Every Wander
bilt and nearly every son-in-law of a
Vanderbilt has palace. w. c. Whit
ney has one as big as it is brown and
ugly. Mr.. Carnegie's, big enough to
hold 40 small cottages and surrounded
by good-sized trees transplanted there
bodily. is famous the world over. Sen
ator Clark, of Montana, has an ornate
palace in process of erection, made of
stone so white that it hurts the eyes
to look at it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
ENGINE OVERTURNS.
John McGOwan, Who Gained Fame
as a Hero During IA Forest
Fire, Is Killed.

ST. Paul, Mimi, July 6.-John E. Nc
Gowan, one of the oldest and most IA
nous engineers on the Duluth division
of the Northern Pacific, was killed
Sunday through the overturning of his
engine, which jumped the track at DELL
wood. His fireman was only slightly
hurt. MCGOWAN gained great renown
during the Hinckley forest fire. He was
fireman on the train that Engineer
James Root pulled through the blazing
Root stood at the lever, MCGOWAN
stood on the tender, constantly dash
ing water over the burning locomotive
and it's engineer. The road handsomely
rewarded him for his bravery on th.S
occasion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
ECHOES FROM EUROPE.

In Italy the price of salt has been
reduced so per cent. by the government,
whose monopoly it is.
1t is estimated that about 3, 900 wom-
en- and girls are employed in flower
selling in the streets of London.
Unless stricter game laws are intro
duced, the channels is in serious danger
Of being exterminated in Switzerland.
Over 1000 dwellings in Cologne have
just been condemned by the police as
bad, either for the health or morals Of
the occupants.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
Convention Called.

Cincinnati, O., July 6.-National
Secretary Anthony Matre, of the Amer
lean Federation of Catholic societies,
sent out the official call for the third
national convention at Atlantic City
August l. The call says the federation
is carrying out the mission laid down in
the encyclieals of Pope Leo XIII,
whose blessing has been bestowed upon
this Catholic movement. The call also
announces that the federation now has
the appreciation of the papal delegate,
eight archbishops and As bishops.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
Tried to Kill Negress.

Peoria, ILL.,, July ga mob composed
of 300 white people sought the life Of
Minnie Pearl, colored, who beat Percy
Coombs, white boy, aged II years, with
a club Sunday afternoon until his body
was covered with deep cuts and welts.
The woman was arrested and taken to
the police station before the mob could
reach the house. When the mob dis
covered that she had fled they tore down
her house and threw the household fur
niture into the river. The attack on the
boy was made because he led mule
across the woman's lot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09

ElIaIIOu OF OtCTc-
tary Cortelyou. 1t was singularly
appropriate that these old soldiers
should thus inaugurate new execu-
tive department devoted to the arts
of peace, and was so commented
upon by Commander Kimball in an
address thanking the secretary for
the favor he had bestowed upon the
grand army.
Secretary Cortelyou's department
may fttingly be called department.
of statistics. 1t is to be a verita bic
mine of figures bearing on CONNER
ciaI and industrial subjects and,
though it has just been officially in
augurated, yet it has for several
weeks been in active operation and
has already turned out volumes of
figures that are of vast Importance.
The duties of the department make
it necessary that it keep strict, tab
ulated statement of both the for
eign and domestic commerce, of man
ufactures, etc. In the past there has
been much duplication and complica-
ton because the statistical work of
the government was divided between
different departments, notably the
state and treasury departments.
Now Secretary Cortelyou has APP
pointed commission whose duty it
is to devise ways and means by
which this work may be done with
out such duplication, and by which it
may be put in the most convenient
form for the public's use.
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hidt0SiluS r1dItlSy DooSs WAL I Z U >
alone surpasses him in wealth
among the eligible bachelors of
New York On his graduation
day Mr.. Dodge and his aunt
jointly gave to Columbia the tidy sum
of 100000. He was already director
of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, serving in that capacity while
still an undergraduate.
Mr.. Dodge was voted at commence
ment the Quickest man of his class"
He is certainly one of the most mod
est. He is slender, almost shy, re-
hgious by nature and training, was for
time president of the college Y. M.
c. A, is a fair student, not at all an
athlete; just nice, likeable boy, in
short.
People who shoot things in various
parts of the world are familiar with
young Dodge's grandfather's name
that of Marcellus Hartley, of the old
Hartley & Graham firm. He was Hart
ley's favorite grandson and even while
obtaining his education almost grew
up in the shop and works, being trained
in the intricacies of the business. His
mother was in only moderate circum-
stances, and the boy has always lived
unostentatiously.
1t is one of the fairy tales of wealth
that in New York are always coming
true" that makes this comparatively
poor boy, unheard of a year ago by
the public, a greater magnate in the
financial world than any of the young
er Vanderbilts, save two, and that
puts him in a position to demonstrate
his gratitude to his alma mater by a
gift so generous-and only an install
ment, as his comrades insist the $780,
900 is destined to I've.
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."'" were in Manhat-
tan and the Bronx $1,000 owners Of
real estate, small and large. Nova
DAYS, in spite Of a considerable in@rease
in the Bronx, the total for the two
boroughs is only 10000. Great clear
ances for bridges and Yailway sta
tions, for parks and streets, for big
apartment houses and business build
ings have eliminated hosts of private
owners.
New York land is getting to be too
much of an investment for tn. aver
age man to hold by himself. In one
way ownership may soon be even more
widely extended. The stock of the big
construction trusts is on the market.
Will man who owns few 500 shares
in a "skyscraper" be held to have ga
stake in the city," to the same extent
as one who in the old days would have
frame house? There is politics as well
as finance in the query.
The case is very different in Brook
Ivn. There the number of real estate
owners, already much greater than in
old New York, is rapidly increasing.
The "two-family house." in which the
owner occupies the ground floor and
lets the upper tenement to help pay
the interest and taxes, is so common
that the new tenement law designedly
excerpts it from its rules. The man
in the two-family house is not techni-
cally a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" The man
who pays $4,000 year rent for mag
nificent apartment on the avenue is
one, according to the law.
So you see, the old prejudices in ia
vor of individual ownership do exist,
even in New York.
OWEN LANGDON.
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DeIavan Lake Assembly.

The programme for the sixth annual
session of the Delavan Lake assembly,
from July 20 to August 9, has been is
sued. The best lecturers, entertainers,
gagged and each of the II days will be
full of interest and profit. The grounds
of the assembly have been thoroughly
overhauled and are one of the finest
in the lake region. Railroads will sell
excursion tickets at one and one-third
fare for the round trip during the as
sembly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS.

No case of smallpox has been found
in a revaccinated person for years in
Chicago, says the commissioner of
health.
Lithium is metal used only in med
icine. its salts being valuable in rheu-
matte affections. 1t costs LOO a
pound.
Citric acid added to sea water pre-
cipitates the salt, making a harmless
mineral water. Seven ounces of citric
acid viii supply a shipwrecked man
with water for week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09

The Star route scandals passed into
history in 1SS1-'2-'3, and in 1884 came
another scandal in the department
Among those involved in this later
unsavory episode was J. o. P. Burn
side. He was the custodian of the
money received from the sale of
worn-out furniture, waste paper, etc,
and it was charged that he had
spent all the money received from
this source for number of years.
He was never either convicted or ac-
quilted of the charge as when he was
brought to trial he pleaded insanity.
and was sent to the st. Elizabeth asy-
lum. a government institution just
across the Potomac.
So far as the records go he is still
an inmate of that place, though it is
safe to say he has not spent night
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
Two Costly Fires.

Fire in Milwaukee destroyed four
big elevators owned by the American
Mating company, entailing loss es-
timated at 100000. Another fire gut
ted a building occupied by Work
Brothers, Chicago clothing company,
and afterwards extended to the David
son hotel and to the Boston store. The
total loss is estimated at about $780,
600, partially covered by insurance.
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Forest Commissioners.

Gov. La Toilette has appointed At
torney John M. Olin, of Madison. and
former Secretary of State Thomas ].
Cunningham, of Chippewa Falls, as
members of the board of state forest
commissioners created by a bill passed
at the recent session of the legislature.
These two men, together with the sec
rotary of state, state treasurer and at
torney general are to compose the
board
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Shot His Brother.

Great alarm was felt among the
members of the Case family in Racine
because of the disappearance of Roy
Case, aged 13 years. son of the late
Jackson |. Case. until he was found
IN stack of pilings by the lake shore.
The parents feared the boy had COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
lake. He had quarreled with his
brother Jerome, and drawing re-
volTer, had shot him through the leg.
Not knowing how serious the shot
was he ran away
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09

Fort Dodge, Ia, July Clara Fox, Of
Omaha, was instantly killed while max
ing ''slide for life" on wire stretched
from the courthouse tower to a tele-
phone pole half a block away. The har-
ness in which she hung became I'M
buckled just after starting. She fell
into crowd 100 feet below, striking w.
H. Wheeler, of Fort Dodge, and fatally
injuring him.
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within the walls of the buildings for
number of months at least. These
he spends at his home in Washing
ton, but each day returns to the
asylum where he employs his time
in making musical instruments, and
these he sells in Washington and
other cities. It is from the sale of
these that he is supposed to support
himself and family.
Officially he is still insane, and will
probably remain SO as long as he
lives.
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Declared Insane.

n. j. Gunderson, aged 50, attempted
to kill his aged father and mother in
La Crosse by shooting them with a
rife. Neighbors rushed into the home
and grasped the weapon in time to
prevent the tragedy. The attempt was
the result of a trivial misunderstand-
ing. The police were called to arrest
Gunderson, who fought fiercely, and
three men were required to oyerpower
him. He was examined and declared
insane
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ing trades strikes
and lockoutS. Ask
a labor union man
why there must be
this constant tur-
MOL, he will reply:
well, look at
the wages, and
then think back"
We will for a
moment look at
the wages" and
let each reader
think back f or
himself. Ia the
first place work
is INFINITELY uhdi-
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Even Then Not Satisfied.

Mrs. Minks-I don't want to make a
scene. but that man over there is star
ing at me very Extensively.
Mr.. Minks-He is, Ell? I'll speak to
him.
"a few moments later)-"Did he
apologize"
Mr.. Alinks-Y-e-s: he said he was
looking for his mother, and thought
at first that you were she. STRAY
Stories.
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StOns Child Labor.

The Chicago-Rockford hosiery works
at Kenosha has taken the lead in en-
forcing the new law in regard to child
labor in Wisconsin factories, and the
38 children under IA years of age who
had been working in the factory have
been discharged. Their places will be
filed
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CrOn Outlook

The weekly crop report of the gov
eminent weather bureau says for6Wis-
consin: Corn improved, but still back
ward; rye seriously injured in Wiscon-
sin valley by late frost, elsewhere head
ing well; winter wheat good; oats, bar
ley, spring wheat and rye satisfactory.