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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28

A PUBLISHED statement of the passen-
ger earnings per mile of the principal
railway systems Of the country shows
the average to be below one and half
cents, including mail, baggage and ex-
press earnings. The Northern Pacific
heads the list at S1.73 which is more
than double that of some of the other
lines quoted. The figures are somewhat
startling for it is evident that the profits
of rail carrying must come out of the
freight haul
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28
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Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgertoas Whconsin-
FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1903.

SENATOR CHRISTIAN SARAH of Winnie
bago county was run down and killed by
an electric Car at Oshkosh Monday while
leading parade of Knights of Pythias
AS member of the legislature he was a
man who made friends readily and was
considered the wit of the body. Being a
hold-over senator his untmely death will
necessitate the election of a senator next
wear
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28
American or European-Which?

1t remains with you. We have them
rooms we mean-on either plan, and are
satisfied you will be pleased with either
Our location and facilities are unsur-
passed.; our rates lower than any other
tirst-class house in the city. Single
meals SOC The st. Charles Hotel, Mil
waukee, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28

An interesting attraction at State
Fair, Wednesday, Sept. 9th, will be the
automobile races. Fast racing machines
have been assured, and the contest will
be novel!and exciting. $1,000 in prizes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28
Farm For Sale4A Snap

Anyone wishing an A No. l farm of
14O acres, 80 acres under cultivation, IS
acres fine growing timber, balance mead
oW and pasture, with running water in
pasture, first-class house, tobacco shed,
etc, Address X. NJ, 3 East St.,
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28
Notice.

All bills against the city of Edgertor
should be in the hands of the city clerk
by Monday, August 31st, 1908.
HENRY JOHNSON, City Clerk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28

"A 6-year-old bay mare weighing 1850
pounds strayed or was stolen from camp
ers five miles west of town Tuesday
night. Report any information to this
office
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28

The national meet of the Amateur
Athletic Union will be held at the State
Fair, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 10 and
II. This meeting will bring together
the best athletes of the country, and
give better exhibition than has yet
been held in the state 81 800 is to be
given in prizes.
WANTED borrow $1,000 on gilt
edge security at 5 per cent. Address
z. NJ Opera House Box Office.
GAINESVILLE. Wis
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-08-28

--"Strength and vigor come Of good
food, duly digested. Force, readyto-
serve wheat and barley food, adds no
burden, bit sustains, nourishes, invig-
crates
"A second hand top buggy for sale
cheap. Enquire at this office.
"A horse power gasoline engine
for sale cheap. Just the thing for
pumping, running a cream separator or
other light power. Enquire at this office.
The Wisconsin State Fair will be
held in Milwaukee, September 7th to
11th. Half fare on all railroads.
Heller Bros. have bought Marsden
& Watson's wood saving outfit and will
be ready for saving September LIST.
Orders may be left at Marsden 4 Wat
sons.
Anyone DESTROYS of studying piano
with a strictly frst-class teacher, who is
an Oberlin graduate and pupil of VIM.
Sherwood, kindly address
MISS K. [. MYERS, 3 East ST..
GAINESVILLE, Wis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
FROM WASHINGTON.

Before the United States supre me
court arguments in the Northern Securi-
ties case were completed. A decision is
not expected until February.
A settlement has been reached by Gov.
Taft with the friars, by which the Unit
ed States is to pay $7,250,0 900 for the
lands of the order in the Philippines.
A full report of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow IN the post
office scandal has been made public in
Washington. 1t charges many new ir-
Irregularities on the part of high officials
in the department.
The secretary of war assumed all re-
sponsibility for Gen. Leonard Wood
acts while governor general of Cuba in
testimony before the senate committee
on military affairs.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
dinner in honor of the cabinet which
marked the opening of the social sea-
son at the white house.
The president signed the Cuban reci-
procity bill and issued proclamation
declaring it effective On December q.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
FINDS ERROR IN VOTE.
A Mistake Makes Recent Action of the
House of Representatives
Null and Void.

Washington, Dec. 21.-The house,
after being in session for half an hour
Saturday, adjourned for the holiday re-
cess. A resolution was agreed to by
which the postmaster general was re-
quested to forward to the house papers
in connection with the post Office inves-
tigation. The action Friday authorizing
the committee on expenditures in the
post office department, of which Mr..
Wanger is chairman, to request the pa
pers was vacated, the speaker having an
nounced that a careful recount of the
vote on which the previous question was
ordered Friday on the motion of Mr.
Wanger, to agree to the resolution au-
thorizing his committee to request the
papers, showed that with the speakers
own vote the final vote was tie-1O7 tC
107-and the previous question had not
been ordered. According to the vote as
announced Friday after the speaker had
voted it stood 108 to LOT, but when the
mistake was announced Saturday all
action taken Friday subsequent to that
vote was vacated. Mr. Williams. the
minority leader, then offered a substi-
tute resolution providing that the papers
come direct to the house instead of to a
committee, which was agreed to without
opposition, Mr.. Payne (rep.), of New
York, suggested after Mr. Williams had
spoken that the resolution would re-
ceive the unanimous vote Of the house
without further discussion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
PRESIDENT IS A BUSY MAN
Several Important Conferences Are
Held by Chief Executive.
Panama Matter Discussed with Sec
rotary Moody-SeyeraI Senator's
Call at White House.

Washington, Dec. FL. = President
Roosevelt had important conferences
Saturday with several members of his
cabinet. Secretary Moody had an early
interview during which the latest ad-
vices from the naval forces along the
Isthmus of Panama were considered. No
specific information regarding them was
made public. Secretary Cortelyou took
up with the president departmental
matter, which he said was of no pub
lie significance. He was followed by
Secretary Root, who remained with the
president considerable time. The
nature of the conference was not dis
closed. Later Secretary Hitchcock and
Attorney General Knox had an extend
ed talk with the president to discuss the
land frauds in the west, in which one
arrest already has been made, and 9TH
ers are likely to follow. The matter is
now in the hands of the department OF
justice. Both Secretary Hitchcock and
Attorney General Knox stated that
nothing could be said at this time.
Senators Lodge, of Massachusetts,
Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Kean and
Dryden, of New Jersey, also had inter-
views with the president, but little in
formation concerning their visits could
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In the reichstag Count Won Limburg-
Stirum declared civil war would rend
Germany unless the government took
vigorous measures against the social
lists.
United States warships will be sent
to Cartagena, Colombia, to bring Min
lister Beaupre to this country and to i'm
press upon Colombia the strength OF
Panama's protector.
The news of the passage by the Unit
ed States senate of the bill for reci-
procity between the United States and
Cuba caused rejoicing in Havana.
From Manila the transport Sherman
arrived in San Francisco, bringing The
men of the Tb;rtieth infantry.
The cruiser Atlanta discovered the
Colombian army on the Gulf of Darier
and reported that the troops were en-.
gagged in building military road to ia
cilitate invasion.
1t is said that Japan has rejected Rus.
sia's reply to her demands and will moi
recede from her original position.
A dispatch says that M. Contesse, z
member of the bundesrath from Neucha.
tel, has been elected president of Switzer.
land
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

Burglars blew open the safe of the
Citizens savings bank at Quimby, Ia,
and secured $4,000 in cash. Two of the
robbers were captured.
In st. Louis Mrs. Daniel Manning, of
Albany, N. Y, was elected president of
the board of lady managers of the ex-
position.
A brakeman was burned to death and
two others fatally hurt in collision be-
tween freight trains near Pawnee, Kan
In fire three children of August Bat
teen, farmer of Allamakee county, Ia,
were burned to death.
Judge Tuthill selected % citizens to
plan a crusade against crime in Chi
cago.
When being arrested at Berkeley w.
A. McKowen, secretary of the Universe
ty of California regents, confessed to
embezzling $4,000.
On June 80 the national convention of
the prohibition party will be held in
Kansas City.
James Dunlap, known as the most
desperate of craftsmen, was secretly
paroled from the Joliet (Ill.) peniten-
tiary, where he has served only three
years of a 20-years' sentence for bank
robbery.
Jonas Hutchinson, judge of the Cook
county superior court, died suddenly at
his home in Chicago of heart failure.
aged 63 years.
An anarchist plot to dynamite the
white house is said to have been dis
covered through the arrest at Galveston,
Tex, of Charles Pierzon, socialistic la
Dor agitator.
The lady managers of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition VIII ask congress
for 100000.
President Roosevelt has rendered the
position of civil service commissioner,
made vacant by the death o. John r.
Proctor, to Gen. Black, of Chicago.
AT Ashland, KY, Benjamin Benedict,
his wife and their three-year-ol daugh-
ter were burned to death in fire which
DESTROYED their home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
THE EAST.

w. l. Buchanan, of Buffalo, N. Y, the
first United States minister to the re-
public of Panama, sailed for Panama.
For the murder of his wife Jesse
Green (colored) was hanged at Chester,
Pa.
Mayor Patrick Collins (dem) was re-
elected in Boston by $1,000 plurality.
A. G. Bushnell, New Haven Conn
bank cashier, committed suicide because
his accounts were $4,000 short
The last voyage of Capt. Dutton to
New York on the steamer Umbria ended
the worst trip of his career. The craft
was three days late and seven persons
were injured by heavy seas.
A court in New York has been asked
to decree that Charles M Schwab owes
$18,00O,000 to the shipbuilding trust.
BY fire at Millvale, Pa, 100 persons
were made homeless.
In speech in New York city Andrew
Carnegie declared that the negroes were
blessing to this country and make it
impregnable.
In the Myersdale Pa.) coal region
1 800 miners quit work owing to the pro-
posed reduction of ten cents per ton for
mining soft coal.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rookie
Teller are said to have reached an agree
ment to GUST ]. Pierpont Morgan and his
friends from the steel trust
At Oklane, Pa, Mrs. Harry l..
Smith and her two young children were
burned to death by a fire which de-
stroyed their home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
ALI 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
Congress Meets to Consider Cuban
Reciprocity and Other Matters.

Congress Meets to Consider Cuban
Reciprocity and Other Matters.
The senate on the 18th continued the
debate on the Cuban bill, Senator Per-
kins (Cal.) speaking for the measure,
as did Senator Simmons IN. CO., and
Senator McCumber IN. d. opposed it.
In the house rural free delivery, recl-
procity with Canada and the new re-
public of Panama were topics under dis
cussion.
BY a vote of 81 to Is the senate on
the 10th passed the bill carrying into
effect the reciprocity treaty with Cuba.
The house resolution providing for a
holiday recess from December 10 to
January was agreed to. In the house
Central American affairs were discussed
and also pensions, Industrial and agri-
cultural conditions and labor.
The senate on the 18th was the scene
of spirited debate on the isthmian
canal question. Senators Hoar and Cor
man criticised the presidents action in
recognizing the independence of the re-
public of Panama, while Senator For
aker defended the executives action. In
the house the pension appropriation bill,
carrying S138, $50, 100, was passed. There
was a general discussion on Panama,
rural free delivery and tariff. Speaker
Cannon signed the bill carrying into eff
feet the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
REPORT DISCREDITED.
Story That Japan Has Sent UIti-
matum to Russia Not Be-
Iieyed in Peking.

Picking, Dec. 21.-The report cabled
from Tientsin to London Saturday to
the effect that japan had sent an ulti-
matum to Russia is discredited here and
no information of a corroborative nature
Is in the possession of the foreign lesa-
tions. While the knowledge of the lega-
tons on the situation leads to the be-
lief that the sending Of an ultimatum is
improbable, the prospects OF war are
evidently increasing. The British lega-
ton some days ago received telegram
indicating that war was possible, and the
japanese legation is officially informed
that Russia's recent reply to the Jap
anese proposals was unsatisfactory.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
Previous Rank of Little COnsequs
Nprnuin11c rn MY - continues Tho


Worcester, Mass, Dec. 21.-Mrs. Hon
oretta Marshall, of Webster, is dead in
the Worster hospital for the insane, at
the age of los years, four months and
12 days. She was believed to be the old
est woman in Massachusetts,, and was a
remarkable character. Born in Poland,
August 8, 1898, she enjoyed as a young
woman both wealth and high position.
Left a widow nearly 60 years ago with
great wealth at her command, she de-
voted herself to distributing her entire
fortune to the poor. Six years ago she
developed a mania for walking by night
and by day, and eventually had to be
put in the Worcester hospital under re-
ctraint
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
THE |STHMUS is
WELL GUARDED
Formidable Array of American War
Vessels on the Scene.
AFFAIRS CLOSELY WATCHED
Secretary Moody's Instructions to
Commanders Are to ssLet the
CoIombians Take the
Initiative."

Washington, Dec. 21.-The navy de-
partment on Sunday received a ca.,e-
gram from Rear Admiral Glass, COM
handing the naval forces on the 18TH
mus, giving a general summary OF the
conditions that prevail there and of the
various steps that have been taken by
the navy. The cablegram stated that
everything was quiet. The text of the
dispatch was not made public.
Naval officials say that so far as the
reports at hand show no Colombian
troops have been discovered on the
southern part of the isthmus, while on
the other side the only ones seen have
been those on the shore bordering on the
Gulf of Darien
Many Vessels on Duty.
The navy department has now very
formidable array of vessels on duty at
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

the Isthmus of Panama. To the south
of the isthmus are the Concord, the Bos-
ton, the Wyoming and the Marblehead,
| to be augmented by the New York, Adj
miral Glass regular flagship. To the
east of the isthmus are the Maynower,
the Prairie, the Atlanta, the Nashville
and the Bancroft Proceeding south
ward to join the other vessels under i'm
mediate command of Rear Admiral
Coghlan, is the Olympia, his regular
| flagship.
Secretary Moody's Instructions.
LET Colombians take the initiative"
| is the restraining keynote of special in
structions which Secretary Moody has
| cabled to the American naval command
ers in isthmian waters. The secretary
has taken active hold in the shaping of
the naval policy on the isthmus, and
from now on the instructions, whether
to naval or marine officers, will as far
as possible be prepared at his personal
direction It is announced that while
| the situation on the isthmus is in no way
alarming to the Washington govern
L,
state the most careful and diplomatic
handling, and for this reason secrecy has
been enjoined upon officials of the de-
partment regarding the operations of
the ships and marines. The only official
| information on the subject will be given
out at the direction Of the secretary.
Ready to Sail.
At a conference held between Secre-
tary Moody and Brig. Gen. George F.
| Elliott, commander of the marine corps,
the latter reported that upon "a hours
notice he could get under way to Colon
with the new Caribbean sea battalion,
which is under orders to assemble at
Philadelphia. This battalion, which it
! is intended shall go south on the cruiser
Dixie, now on her way to Philadelphia
erom Colon, will probably sail between
December 25 and January /, the exact
| time depending upon the condition of
| the Dixie on arrival and the repairs she
may need.
Gen. Elliott has been informed that
unless the isthmian situation enters up
on decidedly more peaceful phase in the
1eantime, he will command this bat
talon, and upon his arrival will organ
ize the three battalions of marines on
the isthmus into brigade, of which he
shall assume supreme command. AL
| though Gen. Elliott will have confer
ance with the president before leaving,
and will be in daily conference with Sec
rotary Moody, from both of whom he will
receive instructions regarding his con-
| duct of operations on the isthmus, he
will be given wide latitude, much being
| left to his own discretion.
VIII Help Pay Debt.
Washington, Dec. Pin official cir
! cles it is stated that Panama, while dis
claiming any obligation to Colombia
for the payment of portion of her debt
will voluntarily and as an act of comfy
assume such share of it as in her judg-
ment may be deemed proper 1t is UNI
derstood that the formal expression of
that government on the subject only is
| delayed pending the completion Of the
statement of Gen. Reyes, the desire being
to note just what demands Colombia
makes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

The number of recent immigrants to
the United States who are transform
ing themselves into emigrants will sur
prise the country. One steamer recent
ly left New York with 1900 steerage
passengers for Liverpool, which is the
largest number ever carried by any
vessel from any port of the United
States. 1t is said that the number of
recent arrivals who have left New
York for their old homes in Europe
In one week is about 5000. Nothing
like this hegira was ever seen in the
past, although some emigrants leave
New York every day in the year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
Negro Kills Policeman.

Cairo ILL.,, Dec. CIV N. Watkins, a
policeman, was shot and killed Sunday
afternoon by "Texas Kidd" a negro
whom he had placed under arrest. After
shooting Watkins the negro held up a
couple in a buggy, and with the rig made
his escape, He was followed by a mob,
but abandoned his rig near Beech Ridge
and escaped in the woods. Watkins was
one of the leading colored men in Cairo,
and the colored population of this city
is greatly worked up over the affair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

be obtained. 1t is known that the op-
position in the senate is making strenu-
GUS effortssto present an unbroken front
against the treaty with Panama This
has been the subject of some talks the
president has had with the republican
senators.
The president has expressed a de-
sire to avoid even a seeming in
reference in matters pending be-
fore the senate, lest his motives may be
misconstrued, but he talks freely with
his personal and political friends in the
body about such questions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

A Boston scientist says there is
enough radium under the soil of the
state of Connecticut to make or I'M
make the United States No man is
likely to be satisfied, however, until
Connecticut has proved that it's sup
ply is the genuine article, and not a
cardboard imitation. The public re-
members the shoe peg oats, the wood
en- nutmegs, the Havana" cigars and
the turnip horseradish.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

Again Prof. Langley has launched his
ship in air, only to have it flop into the
Potomac river. He should have learned
by this time that his machine is an
aquatic bird, and will not be satisfied in
any other element. The professor is CIV
ing very good imitation of hen that
has inadvertently Matched a duck egg,
and is shocked inexpressibly when the
duckling persists in following its natural
Instincts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

A New York problem in real life
threatens to become as troublesome as
the age of Ann. A man died of de-
lirium tremens who, it was proved,
never took but two drinks a day-one
In the morning and one in the even
ing. Physicians, bartenders, whisky
men and nurses are being interviewed
as to the possibility of this phenome-
non. The answer seems easy, however.
1t all depends on the size of those two
drinks
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden speaks encouragingly of his eff
forts to check the abuses of the second
class mail privilege. In his report to the
president he gives an extended list of
books which have gone through the
mails as periodicals, thus diverting from
the department large sum of money
which should have come from third-class
matter. The greatest abuse of the sec
Dnd-class privilege, however, has been
by so-called magazines and newspapers
which contain nothing but advertising.
The congress should offer some whole
some suggestions" in the matter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24

Herbert Spencer, who died recently
at Cheltenham, England, at the age of
SO years, was the last of a group of
great Englishmen who made the Vic
torian age noteworthy in literature and
philosophy. He was contemporary of
Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall. Tennyson,
Carlyle, Ruskin, and Browning. He
was born in the same year as Tyndall,
one year after Ruskin, five years be-
fore Huxley, IL years after Darwin and
Tennyson, and one year later than
Queen Victoria. He had outlived them
all, and he will be remembered as long
as any.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
DRIBLETS.

Prof. Carl e. Meyers, of Frankfort,
who has had charge of many balloon ex-
periments for the war department, has
been requested to take charge of and SUI
pervise the department of airship exhib-
it's at the st. Louis fair.
The letters of Mrs. Stevenson, the
mother of the novelist, have lately been
published in London, and have been
highly praised. They seem to confirm
the view which has often been expressed
that Stevenson inherited much of his lit
erary talent from his mother.