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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

house and senate, the ballots are
opened one by one by the president of
the senate, who presides at the joint
session, and handed to the four tellers,
previously designated, two from the
senate and two from e house, These
tellers announce the ballots and make
a list of such votes until all have been
disposed of. All the votes having been
ascertained and counted, the result is
delivered into the hands of the presi-
dent of the senate, who thereupon an
nounces the state of the vote, which
announcement shall be deemed suffi-
cient declaration Of the persons, if
any, elected president and vice presi-
dent Of the United States
Should there be tie vote, as has
occurred twice in the history Of the
nation, the contest is thrown into the
house, and that body is intrusted with
the duty of electing a president and
vice president. 1t must make its Sc
lection from the three highest on the
list of those voted for as president The
vote must be taken by states, each
state having one vote. A quorum for
Der or members from majority Of
the states, and a majority vote Of all
the states is necessary to choice
Jefferson was elected to his first term
in this way and Adams election was
also decided in the house. Lhe singu-
lar feature of that national campaign
was the election of Calhoun for vice
president by large majority, while
there was no choice for president
The Hayes-Tilden contest in 1876.
while it did not throw the election into
the house, was one Of the most sensa-
tional and critical episodes in the po-
litical history of our country. The final
result hinged upon the returns from
Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina.
On the morning after the election the
newspapers of all parties announced
the election of Tilden, but a murmur
of the coming storm came at the same
time when the national committee OF
the republican party announced the
election of Hayes.
An electoral commission was ap-
pointed by special act of congress as
a tribunal of last resort, to determine
the disputed elecClOns 1HLS was HHoAAy
done in favor of the Hayes electors.
and he was declared elected. The very
close battle between Garfield and Han
cock four years later, and the Cleve-
Blaine struggle of 1884 that
turned upon LOO majority in vote OF
nearly 100000 in New York state,
demonstrated the necessity Of having
some definite statute providing for the
determination of disputed electoral
votes in the states, by which such dis
putes would be practically eliminated
from the powers of congress. This
necessity bore fruit in the law which
was enacted in 1887, and which Is
known as the electoral count law"
It provides that tribunal appointed IN
and by each state shall determine what
electoral votes from the state are legal,
and if the state has appointed no such
tribunal, the two houses of congress
shall determine which votes Tin case OF
double returns) are legal.
WILLIS $. EDISON.
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VICTIMS OF ASSASSIN.
Unknown Murderer Kills Four Mem
bers OF Family and Burns
Their Home.

Auburn, Cal Nov. LIT is now
known that julius Weber, his wife, their
19-year-old daughter Bertha, and their
son Paul, aged IA years, were murdered
Thursday night by an unknown assassin.
who set fire to the home in an effort to
cover his crime. Before the fire had
made any great Roadway the bodies OF
the murdered woman and her two chill
dren were rescued from the burning
house.
An examination OF the bodies showed
that Mrs. Weber and the children had
been murdered before the fire had been
started. The daughter had been killed
by pistol wound, as had been Mrs.
Weber, On the boys head were several
deep cuts. He had also been shot. All
efforts to reach Julius Weber, the father,
who was not thought to be in the burning
house, was abandoned until Friday when
a search was made in the burning tim
bers and his body was found in the bath
room of the dwelling. He, too, had been
shot down before being left to be con-
sumed by the flames.
Auburn, Cal, Nov. 14.-Adolph Web
er has been placed under arrest
charged with the murder of his par
ents, sister and young brother last
Thursday night, and with having set
the family residence on fire afterward
to conceal the crime.
The district attorney intimated that
before the murder Adolph Weber had
told Ardian Wills, his closest friend,
that he expected to leave Auburn
crime is found in the fact that by the
death of julius Weber, the father, the
son came into full possession of the
$4,000 which made up the elder Web
er's estate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
The News Condensed.

Active construction work on the eX-
tension projected by the Northwestern
road from Manitowoc to Gillett, by way
of Green Bay, is to begin.
Miss Addie Williams, daughter of Dr.
w. T. Williams, of Racine, through her
attorneys, began suit for $4,000 against
John St0effel, a wealthy cigar manu-
facturer. alleging SANDER.
Beset by petty annoyances al d threat
ened with lawsuit, Mrs. A. d. Love, q
wealthy resident of Palmyra, commit
ted suicide with strychnine, after order
ing her coffin.
The I. Case Threshing Machine COM
pany, of Racine, has been awarded gold
medal for the best display of threshing
machines at the ST. Louis fair.
While returning from a Ianitowoc
school, Emma, the eight-year-old
daughter of George VaIenta, Tisch
Mills, was shot and instantly killed by
the discharge Of a shotgun in the hands
of 14-year-old Wence1 Ecleis
Prof. C. K Leith, of Madison, has
been granted permission by the univer-
sity executive committee to accept the
position of nonresident lecturer in the
University of Chicago, formerly occu-
pied by President Van Hise.
The body of Miss Ellen Bosworth, a
young teacher, was found in her room
in the Wilmarth block, in Ashland,
death having been caused by asphyx-
iation.
John Stuessy, 12-year-old Monroe
boy, committed suicide by hanging
himself with a chain in his fathers
barn.
At an early hour the other morning
the Brown-Corliss Engine company's
foundry, located at Corliss, was de-
strOyed by fire, involving loss of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The GAINESVILLE humane society has
started a movement to prevent prop
erty owners from putting salt on icy
sidewalks claiming that it brings I'M
told suffering on dogs by freezing their
feet.
The deer season has opened and al
ready IA deaths are charged to hunters
in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Fred Puehler, employed at a Mil
waukee headquarters to send out cam
paign literature, hopelessly complicat-
ed the situation by going insane. The
fact was not suspected until it was
discovered that he had been sending
Italian literature to German voters.
Albert Boehm, an aged naturalist of
La Crosse, is the premier taxidermist of
the world, having been awarded the gold
medal at st. Louis for the finest exhibit
of stuffed birds and animals at the LOU
isiana Purchase exposition.
William Norton, awaiting trial for
killing his young wife, attempted suicide
In Milwaukee Jail by taking carbolic
acid and by hanging.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bleck. aged
rs and II years respectively, and liv-
ing in Milwaukee, died from inhaling
fuel gas which escaped from a stove.
All GAINESVILLE celebrated the open.
ing of the largest beet sugar factory
In the west. The factory cost. com.
plete, 100000.
Farmers in the western part of Ra-
cine county are to organize protective
association against hunters, who are
playing havoc with their cattle.
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ELEVEN KILLED.
Collision Between Union Pacific Trains
in Wyoming Is Very
Disastrous.

Salt Lake City, Nov 14.-Eleven
persons were killed and ten or fifteen
injured in head-on collision early
Saturday between Union Pacific west
bound passenger train No. 3 and an
east-bound extra freight train, one and
a half miles west of Azeusa, Wyo., on
the Oregon Short line.
The wreck was due 10 an error of the
telegraph operator at Green River, in
taking train order from the dis
patcher at that point. BY releasing the
freight train, instead of holding it at
a siding near the scene of the accident,
he made the discovery that his blum
der must inevitably result in horrible
loss of life. 1t was impossible after the
departure Of the train to warn the con-
ductor of the danger that threatened.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

In August and September the rocks
abound with great patches of rasp-
berries, blackberries, dewberries and
blueberries, while the autumn season
brings with it such vast quantities of
cranberries as no cultivated marshes
have ever known. Around three sides
Of Mud lake are marshes that are fair
y burdened with cranberries, the lus-
cious red fruit in it's setting of Pc
culiar green leaves being worthy the
brush of master painter And
through these marshes the deer run
ways lead to- the water. Here the ami
mails find both food and drink, and to
them also come the sportsmen to add
death to the list How often have
sat in a canoe in the small coves,
screened behind the dense tangles of
arushwood, and watched the majestic
animals come down to drink. How
often have | seen them swim from
mainland to island and back again.
Moore told me when in the woods
this summer that not less than $500
deer had fallen victims of the wolves
last winter when the snow was so
deep that they could not escape the
ravages of the pirates of the forests.
But truthful as I know Moore to be,
I could scarcely believe the statement
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~ quently heard during these
KdW " days of the national politi-
AWWX cal campaign are "the cleo
- toral college" and ''the pop
ular vote" Just how much
they mean to the average citizen and
voter it would be hard to determine,
but it is reasonably certain that there
are great many who have not clear
understanding of just what the cleo
toral college is, and do not appreciate
the relation of the popular vote to the
electoral college and the successful and
the defeated candidates. Certain it is
that if the plans and purposes of the
organizers of our government had been
realized, and freedom and independence
from party domination had been pre-
served to the electoral college in the
discharge of its duty of electing the
president and vice president, the voter
to-day would have had clearer under
standing of the functions of this body.
The early patriots of this country,
whose province it was to frame the
laws governing the selection of the
men who should serve the nation as
president and vice president, never
dreamed that the electoral college, the
machine which they devised for the
work of filling the highest offices in the
gift of the nation, would become
mere fgurehead, a mere cog in the
machinery, instead of being the ma
chine itself The fact is that govern
ment by means Of popular franchise
was an experiment at that stage of
the history of the country, and it was
not deemed safe or wise to commit
the selection of the chief executive Of
the nation and his assistant into the
hands of the people.
For this reason the electoral college
was provided and it was expected that
the wisest, and most trustworthy lead
ers of the various states would be Sc
lected as members of the electoral col
lege, and that unhampered by pledge
or other prearranged scheme, they
would assemble and cast their ballots
for the men who, in their mature judg-
ment, they deemed best qualified and
able to fill the high and responsible
offices
sight of the fact that the electoral col
lege is a factor in the national presi-
Dental election. 1t is safe to say that
a majority of the voters who cast their
ballots for president and vice president,
do not realize that they are not, strict
~ speaking, voting for such candidates
at all, but for the long string of names
which are indicated as electors. There
is no law, except the unwritten law of
custom, to prevent the electors chosen
from selecting a candidate other than
the one named on the ticket. Such vio-
lation of party pledge has never been
known and undoubtedly never will be.
1t is fact, however, that the voter
never has the privilege of voting di-
rectly for president or vice president.
He votes only for electors who are
pledged to support the candidates
which the party has named at its con-
vention prior to the election. The
term, popular VOTE" therefore, in
some measure is a misnomer. If there
is no vote cast directly for president
or vice president, there can be no pop
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

has a majority OF the votes of the
country and still goes down in defeat,
it is circumstance which is not clear
" understood by many. Here is where
the electoral college gets in it's per-
functory work.
And now what is the electoral coli
lege? This Technology is used to des-
ignate the presidential electors which
have been selected in the various states.
to elect the president and vice president.
Each state is entitled to a number of
electors equal to its representation in
congress. According to the present
law, the electors of each state are
obliged to meet on the second Mon
day in January following the election,
in such place in each state as the legis-
lature shall designate, and cast their
votes for president and vice president.
These votes properly signed and sealed
together with the credentials of the
electors, are sent to Washington.
where, on the second Wednesday in
February, at a joint session OF the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Cripple Heir to Fortune.


Miss Anna Siegfried, of Milwaukee,
for two months an inmate of the home
for the friendless and cripple nearly
all her life, has found that her mother,
whom she believed to have been dead
many years, is alive and that she is
heir to a considerable estate of her
fathers near st. Louis. During many
years the mother has been in an insane
asylum, or working as a servant in a
poorhouse. Miss Siegfried has been
with relatives in Milwaukee and in Al
gonna. Through letters written by
Mrs. A. M. Joys, recording secretary OF
the board of managers of the home for
the friendless, the claims were verified
sufficiently to engage attorneys. Miss
Siegfried was committed to the home
for the friendless after having received
a legacy of 5000 from the estate of her
grandfather, Christopher Siegfried, OF
North Milwaukee, who died three years
ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
Secretary Hay Bereaved.

Washington, Nov. 14.-Secretary of
State Hay has received dispatch an
nouncing the death of his brother, Maj.
Leonard Hay, u. S. A, retired, in the
SEVENTEEN year of his age. He died
Saturday night at the Hay homestead
in Warsaw, Ill. The late Maj. Hay was
the head of the family in this country.
A prominent official said that he was
an officer of great intelligence and eff
cheney and since his retirement had
been one of the most public-spirited
citizens of Illinois.
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Kills Fish by Dynamite.

Thomas Wood, of Baraboo, was
placed under arrest by Game Warden
Fl. H. Hubert, charged with dynamit-
ing fish in DEVILS lake. The warden
caught Wood leaving the lake early
one morning with so small fish in his
possession, which showed no marks Of
a hook, and whose possession Wood
could not satisfactorily explain. Along
one of the shores of the lake the
warden found thousands Of young bass
and pike that had eviNently been killed
by dynamite explosions. Wood was
taken before Justice Halsted and given
a hearing.
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TRAGEDY IN OHIO.
Son Slain While Defending His Mother
from His Drunken Father
Murderer Kills Himself.

Hamilton, O.. Nov. 14.-Adolph Hum
mel, aged SO, kille1 his son, Frank
Hummel, aged 80, and then killed him
self. He also shot at his wife. The
father was intoxicated and was abus-
ing his wife. Frank HummeI was at
tempting to defend his mother from
the assaults of his father when the
shooting began.
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Damaged by Heavy Snow FAN.

York, Pa, Nov. 14.-Telephone and
telegraph wires are down, trolley cars
are stalled, railway trains are greatly
delayed, and there is general suspen-
sion of traffic in this city and through
out York county as the result of what
is said to be the heaviest snow storm
York ever experienced at this time of
year. It is estimated that snow fell
to a depth of a foot on the level.
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Homer-Sanders, the grocer, is tho
most enterprising chap ever met.
Nixon-What's the answer?
Homer-He advertises to give away a
parachute with each gallon of kerosene
he sells.
Nixon-Slashem, the barber, is equal
Iy as enterprising.
Homer-What's his scheme?
He has a card in his window, Offering
a package of court plaster free with eacn
haye.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Libel Suit Involves $4,000.

The first jury case that will come up
for trial in the United States district
court in this term is that of Roland
Molineaux against the Milwaukee Free
Press. Suit was brought by Molineaux,
of New York, against the Free Press for
$50, 900 damages for libel, and arose out
of notice regarding the book written
by Molineaux while he was in prison
charged with murder.
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Beat and Rob Saloon-Keeper.

Two masked men entered the saloon OF
Louis Gilmaster in Ashland and COM
manded Gilmaster and his son to throw
up their hands. They attacked the rob-
bers, who, after firing Intellectual shots,
beat Gilmaster into insensibility with
big club, overpowered his son and
robbed the till. Gilmaster has not re-
robbers escaped
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
TALL STORIES OF THE KAW

there is one SANDER about the Kaw that
ought to be nailed"
whats that?"
"Why, the one about all the cattle
grazing on the banks of the Kaw having
their mouths fitted up with filtration
plants"
st isn't true?"
sit most positively is not" said Mr..
Cameron, solemnly.
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Injunction Against Wedding Fails.

Injunction Against Wedding Fails.
Clara Horn, of Milwaukee, whose sis
ters have tried to prevent her mar
rage, calling legal processes and Incl
dentalIy an injunction into their SER
vice and making application to have
her mental condition examined, is now
Mrs. Walter Durham. Mrs. Durham
was found by the police and DR.. Harry
E. Bradley, one of the physicians ap-
pointed by the county board to exam
inc into her sanity. She was so i'll
that DR.. Bradley had her removed to
the county hospital. 1t is said that a
colored minister performed the cere-
mony After finding out that the sis
tiers had tried to prevent her marriage
with Durham, his wife fed from her
relatives sight and could not be To-
Gated until recently
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Uncomfortable Candor.

cit cannot bel am not worthy of
you"
NONSENSE"
"It is true-too true"
Impossible! You are an angel"
mo, po-you are wrong! I am an
idle, silly girl, utterly unfit to be-
come your companion through life"
''This is madness. What sort of
wife do you think ought to have?"
ga careful, calculating, practical
woman who can live on your small
alary!"-Tit-Bits
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Dropped Dead in Church.

GAINESVILLE, O., Nov. 14.-Jacob Daniel
Hutson, aged 81, for 20 years foreman
of the Baltimore & Ohio railway shops
of Chicago, and later of Newark, O.,
dropped dead while attending deyo-
tional services in st. Thomas Catho-
lie church here.
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T NO time in

A 7 NO time in IS
HzA that little cabin, far back
KNNN in the Ontario forests, more
&WlM welcome than during deer
80 hunting days in the fall.
At no time in the year is
it populated by a more enthusiastic,
more hilarious crowd of sportsmen.
On summers fishing expedition
you will find in Moore, our guide, a
congenial gentleman, pleasant asso-
Ciate, but never an ardent fisherman.
True, he catches fish when all others
fail but catching fish comes so easy
OF Moore, armed with his long bam-
BOO rod and heavy line equipped with
a float that tells when the fish is
ready to be hauled in, he goes about
fishing purely as a means to an end.
lie fishes for fish, never for fun.
But Moore in the woods at deer
hunting time is a different Moore. You
forget the guide and see only the keen
sportsman; every sense alert for the
detection Of the game; ready to tramp
ali day for the very pleasure of the
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when so many deer and so many signs
of them are lett.
But the sport hunting sportsman
need not confine his efforts to exter-
minatiOn of deer. The black bear and
the moose of these forests will afford
him many an hours entertainment.
Two years ago this fall when in the
Muskoka district seven majestic moose
stalked through the little village of
Rosseau, on Lake Rosseau, much to
the chagrin of the sportsmen of the
place, for the animals at that time
we're under the protection of the On
tario laws.
Moore's home is at Foote's Bay, on
Lake Joseph, but from now until the
hunting season is over would never
look for him at that place. Dense and
extensive as are the forests, l feel
sure that could find my woods friend
within a few hours, for l know the
deer runways that he knows; I know
the camps he loves; know the trails
he follows, and it is on these that
he will be found until the law again
says: mo more deer for this year"
WRIGHT a. PATTERSON.
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The Only Way.

She-How dare you put your arm
about my waist?
He-Love is blind, you know, so
that I must rely upon the sense Of
touch.-Detroit Free Press.
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Eminent Jurist Dead.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 14.-Judge E.
II. East, one of the most eminent jurists
in the south, died Saturday, aged "A
years
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Poor Opinion of Harry.

Weren't you surprised, uncle, to
hear that poor Harry had left me
widow"
'sThat's about all / expected he
would leave ou."-Stray Stories.
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After the Proposal.
Belle-Did you have to help him out
when he proposed?
May-No; papa did.-Town Topics.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

WO phrases which are fire.
quently heard during these
days of the national politi-
cal campaign are "the cleo
toral college" and "the pop