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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
The News Condensed.

The First national bank of La Crosse
has taken over all the business of the
German-American bank and the two
will form one institution hereafter. The
combination gives capital of $500, 900
and total deposits of 100000, the
largest in any bank in the state outside
Of Milwaukee.
Two riots, in one of which two men
were wounded and which almost re-
suited in a lynching, came as the eli
max of the paper mill strike at Nee
nah
A storm which struck La Crosse did
great damage to the crops and farm
property in that vicinity. The front
of the Star building, on Main street,
was torn out by the wind.
James Campbell, president of the
village of Steuben, is dead as result
of injuries inflicted by John Hart, far
mer, who split his head open with
sharp hoe The affair was the result
of quarrel as to the grading of the
streets.
Forty-five cases of typhoid fever are
sane asylum across Lake Mendoza, and
seven inmates are dead from the dis
ease.
Fire at Green Bay destroyed the
plant of the Green Bay Woodenware
company, on the west side OF the riv-
er, with loss of about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance. The fire spread
through the dry lumber SO rapidly
that before it could be checked the
homes of two fishermen nearby were
destroyed.
The fifty-seventb commencement OF
Beloit college closed with the gradua-
ton exercises, the class numbering Az
Among those present at the exercises
was David Merrill, who has attended
every one of the 81 commandments Of
the college.
Charles Wist, a barber of BeayeY
Dam, lost his money the other night
In game of poker. The next morning
his body was found in the lake about
20 feet from shore. He evidently had
waded out and deliberately drowned
himself.
Mrs. Barbara Benoit, of Little Chute.
and Mrs. Agnes Schaefer, of Appleton,
who claim to be the Oldest twins in
wisconsin, recently celebrated the
eightieth anniversary of their birth.
Nearly 100 of the relatives of the two
women assembled at the Schaefer
home in Appleton to assist in the cele-
bration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

National convention Of the repub-
lican party was called to order in the
Coliseum, Chicago, by National Chair
man Payne, after which Elihu Root,
as temporary chairman, in speech
sounded the convention keynote. Rou-
tine business was disposed of and the
convention adjourned for the day.
The fremont house at Quincy, ILL.,,
caught fire, and Miss Elizabeth WEIGH,
principal of the Jefferson school, met
death by suffocation, and her sister,
Miss Mary WEIGH, principal Of the
Jackson school, was probably fatally
burned. Two others received severe
injuries.
Gasoline exploded in grocery store
of the w. E. Reid company, at St.
Louis, Mo, and caused the collapse of
the two-story brick building and in
jured IL persons, none seriously.
Reimer Smith, aged "a, shot and in
stantly killed his young wife, his ten
months-old baby and committed sui
eide at Ludington, Mich. The muir
derer's wife, who had separated from
him, refused to return and live with
him.
Delegates to the national conven-
ton elected by the Texas democratic
convention were instructed to vote for
Judge Parker.
Many bankers in nearly 100 cities of
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wis
consin report encouraging business
and crop conditions.
In ST. Paul the shop of the North
western Cooperage company, two
story frame structure, occupying half
a block, was entirely destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss estimated at
$50, 900.
Proceedings on the second day Of the
republican national convention were
enlivened by stirring address by Per-
manent Chairman Joseph G. Cannon,
of Illinois. The platform of the
party was adopted, and various COM
mittee reports were received. The COM
mittee on credentials reported in IA
vor of seating the ''stalwart" delega-
ton from Wisconsin, and the report
was adopted.
AT Eagle Ndll0y, N6V., Two Indian
children murdered their three-year-old
brother. The oldest of the fratricides
is seven years, girl, and the other is
but four, boy.
A miner named Johnson, who was
deported from Cripple Greek by the
military, committed suicide at Denver,
Col. He was respondent because his
wife and two small children were left
destitute in Cripple Creek.
Eleven buildings were destroyed by
fire in the business portion of Shaw
neetown, ILL.,. including four dwellings
and seven stores. Loss, $4,000.
A Western Ohio special suburban car
and street car came together at Lima,
o., while both were entering switch.
Twelve or more passengers were hurt
A decision by the Illinois supreme
court sustains the law requiring the
assessment of the capital stock of all
corporations except those organized
for certain purposes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
A 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.
N ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

A bulletin has been issued by the
agricultural department saying expert
ments with Prof. Wiley's poison eat
ers" proved borax and boric acid
harmful as preservatives.
President Roosevelt will be formally
notified of his nomination July II at
Oyster Bay. Speaker Cannon will be
chairman of the notification commit
tee.
Hon. Elihu Root will be chairman OF
the committee to notify Charles w.
Fairbanks of his nomination as vice
president. The formal notification will
be given probably at indianapolis,
August 8.
His resignation was rendered by
George B. Cortelyou as secretary of
commerce and labor Immediately upon
being elected chairman of the national
republican committee, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor,
which will be about July 1.
The president received word Of his
nomination while chatting VITA his
family at the white house. BIS wife
was the first to congratulate him.
The closing session of the republic
an national convention nominated
Theodore Roosevelt. of New York, for
president, and Charles w. Fairbanks,
Of Indiana, for vice president. Both
nominations were by reclamation.
Bursts of eloquence from the party
leaders who made the nominating
speeches set the delegates wild. After
the nominations were made and other
routine matters were disposed of, the
convention took final adjournment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Cheap Rate for Wisconsin.

Railroad men at st. Louis announce
that a one cent per mile round trip rate
to st. Louis from every point in Wis
consin will be in effect before Wiscon-
sin day, June 20. A $3.50 round-trip rate
from Milwaukee already has been made
for June q, and the Wisconsin worlds
fair commission has been assured by the
railroads that the cheap rate will be
made from every point in the state, The
Wisconsin commission is making prep
aration to entertain 5000 people from
The state. The governor and his entire
staff will be present to dedicate the Wis
consin building.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Imprisonment for life, which was the
sentence imposed in a Michigan court
upon burglar convicted of stealing
two hats and three dollars in cash,
seems a severe penalty for the crime,
and doubtless will strike some critics
as cruel and unusual punishment.
And it would be if it were for a single
case of robbery, but in this case the
convict had spent the greater part of
his life in crime, had twice before been
convicted of burglary. and the Michi-
gan statute permits life sentence up
on third conviction for felony. The law
was framed to rid society of such men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Desperate Kills Sheriff.

Sheriff Henry Harris, of St. Croix
county, was shot three times and in
stantly killed in the smoking car of
the eastbound night train near Fall
Creek, IS miles east of Eau Claire, by
an unidentified desperate whom he
was attempting to arrest. The murder
erer pulled the bell cord Immediately
after the sheriff fell to the floor and
before any of the train crew or the
stupefied passengers could stop him
had disappeared in the darkness. He
picked up horse in his flight through
Fall Creek, and all trace of him has
been lost to the searchers who secured
the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
"old Maids in Convention.

What was advertised as a conven-
don of "old maids of the world was
held at Salem and 20 of the old maids.
ranging in age from q to 65 years, oc-
cupied seats on one platform The
convention, after a long wrangle,
adopted resolutions, copy of which
has been forwarded 10 the national re-
publican convention in Chicago. The
resolutions demanded that the state
legislature of Wisconsin pass law
DISTINGUISHING all men not married at
the age of 90.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
THE SLOCUM VICTIMS.
After Thorough Investigation Police
of New York Give the Total
Number as 1,O31.

New York, June 27.-Just 1 ,031 wom-
en-, children and men persisted in the
wreck of the General Slocum. This is
the report made to Commissioner Nc
Adoo by Inspector Schmittberger, after
a thorough canvass made by 40 police
men. In a 81 page typewriter report, in
which names, addresses and ages are
given, LAG persons are accounted for,
and it is believed that so far as ever will
be known, these are all the persons who
were on the ship. Only Ais of all the gay
throng that started on the excursion
lived through the day, and of these 179
are injured, some Of them so badly that
they will die.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
New Road for Wisconsin.

1t has been definitely decided to build
the proposed railroad between Melrose
md Sparta, which will tap a portion of
the territory through which the La
Crosse & Block River Falls railroad will
run, although it is not anticipated that
the competition between the two lines
will be very sharp, there being plenty
of business for both roads. Eastern cap
talists have agreed to finance the prof.
ect. President Cheney, of the road, says
that steam will be the motive power.
From this it is believed that the road
will be directly connected with either
the Milwaukee or Northwestern roads
at Sparta and will be feeder for the
main lines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
THE CAPTIVES ARE FREED.
Perdicaris and Marley Arrive at Tan
gier and Are Welcomed
by Friends.

Tangier, June 25.-Bandit Raisuli's
victims, Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell
Varley, who were kidnapped last May
and for whom a ransom of $4,000 was
demanded, arrived here soon after mid
night.
Perdicaris suffered many hardships
while in the hands of Raisuli. al
though he says he does not think that
these were the fault of the bandit chief,
and that he had every comfort possible
under the circumstances. Varley ap-
pears to be as cheerful and bright as if
he had just returned from a picnic.
Both Perdicaris and Varley are much
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

In every great national emergency
there has always appeared great rising
tide of national enthusiasm that has
swept the republic onward and upward
to a place of safety. In the face of the
tremendous immigration from abroad,
the efforts of good citizens and good cit
izenship organizations to keep alive and
promote this spirit of patriotism, should
be encouraged on all hands. Flag day
is one of the days set apart to help along
this good work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Marconi's achievement on the Gu
nard liner Campania in publishing a
daily paper during the trip from Liv-
erpool to New York marks new stage
in the practical employment of wire
less telegraphy. Though the paper had
its defects, it is fair to anticipate SUCH
rapid improvements in the service that
before long every large lines will be
able to keep in continuous contact with
one shore or the other during the en-
tire time of its voyages.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Orange county IN. " farmers are
promising to give an object lesson in
the making of good roads for 500 a
mile. If they can do this they should be
hired as demonstrators" to go about
the country. Nobody would like good
roads better than farmers, but the es-
timated price for such improvements is
usually so high as to be prohibitory. No
advance information has come as to the
character of the Orange county expert
ment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

The business men of Argentine, Mo-,
have come to the conclusion that there is
only one way to have good roads. That
is by building them. They have decided
to give up day to the business of re-
pairing the road between their town and
Kansas City. All stores, banks, hotels.
newspaper offices and business houses
are to be closed for an entire day in or
der that every man may get out andwork
on the road. The citizens think there
will be something to show when they
get through for the sacrifice of their
time and the exercising of their
muscles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

The admittance of undesirable imnni-
grants into the United States is not de-
termined by the rival steamship COM
panies which are transporting them at
$40 per head. but is entirely in the hands
of United States officials acting under
federal immigration laws If undesir-
able immigrants are admitted the fault
is not with the steamship companies
but with the federal officials.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

After the accident on the battleship
Missouri, in which so many lives were
lost, many tales were told Of the
bravery and devotion to duty mani
tested by members of the crew. 1t is
pleasant to find now that not Gully
were these tales not exaggerated, but
that they did not do justice to the
heroism of the men. President Roose-
welt has written a letter to the navy
department expressing his feeling OF
pride that every man performed his
duty with cool self-possession and
courage which gives us a right to feel
proud of them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
New Electric Road.

Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Madison for a new electric
railway between Chicago and Milwau-
kee. The name of the company is the
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Rail-
road company, and the capital stock
is 100000, divided into 5000 shares of
500 each. The proposed line is to be
built from a point on the state line be-
tween Illinois and Wisconsin, in the
town of Pleasant Springs, Kenosha
county, and will run to Milwaukee
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Venezuela overlooked a point If 1t
did not make revolutions unconstitu-
tional in it's new constitution. Revolu-
tions may be all right for children.
but they are unworthy of a grown-uD
nation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
To Tour World in Boat.

Capt. Rounds, Of Milwaukee, master
Of the Thistle, the steam yacht owned
by Commodore e. P. Villas, will start
on trip around the world, at the end
of the present season on the lakes, in
a yawl-rigged Mackinaw boat which is
only 38 feet in length. The craft Is
supplied with spacious cabin which
will afford the skipper, who will be
unaccompanied on his perilous voyage
in circumnavigating the globe, with
every convenience he will require.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Chloroforpr Ends Life.

DR.. John J. Quinn committed suicide
at Superior, the body being found in
his room where he boarded. He had
apparently saturated his clothing with
chloroform. The reason assigned is
that he has had trouble with his fam
lily, his wife and three children having
gone to Detroit to live, it is claimed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Aged Couple Killed.

Cleveland, o., June 27.-Christopher
Frese, an ex-city councilman, and his
wife Louisa, both over 80 years old,
were struck by a Lake Shore electric
car Sunday afternoon while crossing
the tracks on the Clifton boulevard
and killed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Despite the vogue of the health food.
the number of beasts slain for food
has never been so great as now. Vege-
tarianism has thus languished. The
old and often-used examples that the
Greeks who fought at Thermopylae
and the athlete who won the Marathon
race ate only lentils have lost their
potency through too great familiarity
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

II Lieut. Raymond Stone, who re-
Gently compelled the food trust" to
reduce prices on necessaries Of life in
the Island of Guam, is looking for a
larger field of activity in this direction
he would have to travel no further than
the United States to find employment
for some time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Judge Elmer B. Adams, in the United
States circuit court at st. Louis, de-
cided that woman illegally married
can become the legal beneficiary of an
insurance policy on her husbands life,
provided she is more dependent upon
him for support than the mans legal
wife
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Wheat Crop Damaged.

Topeka, Kan, June 25.-Heavy rain,
wind and hail Friday seriously damaged
the wheat crop in the central portion of
the state. Lindsborg and Junction City
report that large fields of wheat have
been fattened out by the storm. The
harvest was about to begin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

The "old maids" of Wisconsin demand
that all men who are not married at rs
be disfranchised. Well may mere man
tremble at the prospect of universal
woman suffrage, for if they ever hold
the balance of power it is among the
possibilities that they would retaliate
by DISTINGUISHING man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Deported Man Kills Himself.

Denver, June 25-Emil l.. Johnson,
a miner who was deported from Grip
pie Creek by the military, committed
suicide here Thursday. He was des-
pendent because his wife and two
small children were left destitute II
Cripple Creek
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Sheriff Ts Defiant.

Chicago, June 25.-Sheriff Barrett,
who continues to wink at race track
gambling, is warned that his attitude
may be made a matter of grand jury
inquiry. The Citizens association sent
letter of protest to the sheriff and
another reform organization obtained
evidence at the Hawthorne track.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Switch Engine Kills Children

Ainsworth, Neb., June 21.-Two chill
dren of Worley Ellis, Herald, aged
three, and Maud, 16 months, were
killed, and third, Violet, aged five
years, fatally injured by switch en-
CINE in the Burlington yards.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

San Juan, P. r., June 27.-The trans
port Fitzpatrick having on board 400
Porto Ricans, sailed for Boston, and
the Sumner, with 200 teachers, sailed
for New York. The teachers will
spend two months in educational in
situations in the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

On his farm near Waynesville, o.,
Seth Ellis, at one time the union re-
form candidate for president, and mas
ter of the National and Ohio oranges.
fell from cherry tree and died of his
injuries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Woman Found Guilty.

Freeport, ILL.,, June 25.-Mary Jane
Sked, indicted last March for causing the
leath of her four-year-old nephew, James
Dayton Remington, was found guilty Of
manslaughter Friday after a trial tha:
has been in progress two weeks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Fire in wisconsin Town.

Racine, Wis, June 25.-Almost the
entire business portion of the village
of Union Grove, on the St. Paul road.
Is miles from here, was destroyed by
fire Friday. The total loss is estimated
at between $4,000 and $4,000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Jumped from BROOKLYN Bridge

New York, June 21.-Philip Krantz, an
engineer, jumped from Brooklyn bridge
Monday and escaped unframed. Krantz
Is under arrest charged with attempted
suicide, but denies that he had any inten-
ton of taking his life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Helen Keller Breaks Down

Boston, June 27.-Miss Helen Keller,
the gifted deaf, dumb and blind student
at Radcliffe college, has broken down
and Unsupported to be on the verge of nerV-
Gus prostration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

After all is said, Russia was drawn
into this conflict by the expansive no
lions Of the Alexieffs who desired to
make their country world power. The
price for the "strenuosity" is now being
maid
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
KilIad Himself.

Houston, Tex, June 25.-F. R. Chat
fee, who claimed to be relative of Lieut..
Gen. Chaffee, shot himself through the
head Friday, dying instantly. The cause
of the act is not clear.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Cleveland Lumber Yards Burn,

Cleveland o., June 27.-Fire, sup
posed to have been of incendiary origin,
caused losses aggregating 100000 in
the lumber district lying along the river
front.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Disaster in Russia.

st. Petersburg, June 25.-The Roso-
tofu ferry boat, while crossing the Khop-
er river "a tributary Of the DOM sank
with all on board. Sixty bodies have
been recovered and 160 persons are MISS
ing
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

The American quail is said to be a
blessing to the fields, as he destroys bugs
and pests. Now watch the restaurants
raise the price of quail on toast.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

But how will those Guatemalan ants
that are to be imported for the purpose
of killing the boil weevil evade the
alien labor law?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

What has become of the straw-vote
man? Is he short this year, like the
peach crop?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
Minneanolis June

Wheat-No. 1 northern, csc; No. 2
northern, 92c; July, 944c. Oats-No.
3 white, 42c. Corn-No. 3, 4Sc. Rye
No. 2, Tie Barley-No. 2, 4oc.
Flax-S1.o5. Butter-Creamery, ex-
tras, 16@17c; creamery, frsts, 14@15c;
dairy, fancy, 13@l4c Poultry-Tur-
keys, 9@1oc; chickens. 1850 Hay
Uplands, fancy, So. so.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Some American desires to secure ban
dit Raisuli for the worlds fair. But
would he shine in that environment?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
ION PERDICARIS.

thinner, especially the former, who
has aged considerably. Perdicaris was
received at his town house by the
authorities, the admirals Of the fleets
and numerous personal friends. His
Moorish servants made a great demon
stration of joy, kissing their masters
hands and clothes.