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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Forces of Japan were reported to have
crossed the Yalu and advanced into Man
churia, capturing Fenhuancheng and
having a big army 20 miles east OF
Newchang. The Russians were in
trenched at Lia-Yang and Hai-Chen,
where a battle was imminent. Small en-
gagements had been fought. in which the
Russians were repulsed with loss.
Off the coast of Cochin-Ch the
French steamer Cambodge was wrecked
and hundred persons were said to fave
persisted.
A Japanese squadron attacked Pert
Arthur twice, following an onslaught
in the night with a bombardment by
IA warships during the day. The Rus
slams replied. Admiral Kamimura, re-
porting on the bombardment of Vladi-
vostok on March 6, intimates that the
Russian squadron is still inside.
China has been warned by Russia that
the presence of Chinese troops north OF
the great wall vii: t'e held breach 81
neutrality.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Goes to Protect Americans.
ACADEMY BURNED.
Institution Near Bay City, Mich, De-
stroyed by Fire. Nun
Badly Injured.

Bay City, Mich, March 14.-Holy
Rosary academy, maintained by the Do
minican sisters in Esseville, a suburb,
was destroyed by fire at midnight Sat
urday, entailing loss of $25 900; insur-
ance, $4,000. The fire was of mysteri-
Gus origin, apparently starting outside
the building. Thirteen sisters and IS
children were in the institution Sister
Alexia was caught in the second story
and forced to jump from window, sus-
tanning a fracture of the right leg and
other injuries that may result fatally.
Dena Schultz, ten years old, whose home
is in Gladwin, Mich, was missed during
the excitement, being i'll in her room
on the third floor. Arnott Parker and
Antony Scymanshi went to her rescue.
They carried her to front window to
which a ladder had been raised and were
in the act of lowering her when the lad
der slipped, throwing all three to the
ground. The girl had her right arm
broken and was internally injured;
Parker was badly hurt about the back
and legs. Scymanski had the flesh torn
from his left arm and was otherwise
bruised.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

bandits victims also were there. The
verdict as to Van Dine was read first
The bandit turned pale, his eyes opened
in wild stare, and he gripped the handle
of his chair convulsively. Terror was
written on his face. Mrs. Van Dine paled
but gave no other outward show Of emo
ton. Neidermeier heard his fate with
his usual nonchalance. Not so his aged
mother; she seemed to shrink back into
the seat, then rose and leaned over the
back of chair, her head bowed. During
20 minutes she stood there, as though in
a stupor Finally she was aroused, but
protested against being taken away.
A belief that Marx might receive Glenn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
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
FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Summary of Daily Proceedings in the
Senate and House.

Almost the entire time in the senate
on the 9Th was spent in discussing COM
mittee amendments to the army Dill
concerning provisional troops IN tse
Philippines and the consolidation OF the
adiutant generals Office with the rec
ord and pension office. The fortihca-
tons appropriation bill ($7 ,632, 1917 was
reported. In the house 80 claims DIS
were passed.
The senate passed the army appro-
priation bill on the 9th and CONNER
cial treaty with Abyssinia was favora-
bly, reported. In the house members IN
dicted by the Bristow postal report
hurled epithets of liar" coward" anu
''scoundrel' at the author A blu was
passed to extend the exemptions from
head tax to citizens of Newfoundland en-
tering the United States.
A number of bills relating to Alaska
were passed in the senate on the lOth'
but it failed to act on the measure
authorizing the election OF a delegate
in congress from that territory. A Dill
was passed increasing to 500 the pen
sions of ex-soldiers and sailors who nave
become totally blind on account OF sell
vice. In the house Mr.. Finley Is. % an
nounced the death of his colleague,
George William Croft, and resolutions
of sympathy and regret were adopted
and adjournment was taken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
LITERARY LITTER.

Mr.. Rudyard Kipling speaks Hindu
stani as fiuently as he does English.
According to some interesting Stats
tics of the library of the British muse
UNI, the number of books which it con-
tains is 1,750,000, not counting single
sheets or parts of works that are ac-
cumulating. The shelving Of the library
exceeds SO miles in length.
Mark Twain does not let his New York
friends forget him. He recently wrote
from Florence to one of them: MY
house is the Villa Quarto. So shall
get up my autobiography for a quarto
edition. Don't say anything to the fell
lows who are writing their lives in oc-
tavo"
The duke of Roxburghe's surname OF
Ker, which was such puzzle to Ameri-
cans, would seem to be hopelessly I'M
poetical. Even Sir Walter Scott, who
had a special talent for effectively intro
ducing proper names in his verse, ap-
pears to have thought Ker fit only for
prose On the few occasions on which
(as the bard of the borders'') he neces-
sarily used it in his verse, he nearly al
ways writes it Carr as While Cessfor5
owns the sway of Carr"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

At Tucson, Ariz., the republican ter
ritorial convention elected delegates to
the Chicago convention and instructed
for Roosevelt.
A rain and windstorm, the worst in Ii
years, swept over San Francisco and
along the Pacific coast, doing great dam
age.
At Murphysboro, H., mob seeking
to break into the Jail to lynch negro
prisoner was foiled by the sheriff
Rebecca Mayo, aged so, the last but
one surviving widow of revolutionary
war soldier, died at Newbern. Va.
The food damage in the Wyoming re-
gion is estimated at s2,500,000 and in the
towns between Pittsburg and Sunbury
at Sc 500 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

ency from the jury made the verdict in
his case of greater interest to the specta-
tors than had been the others. When
Clerk Cummings announced the penalty
there was a suppressed murmur of sur
prise throughout the room If Marx had
hoped for anything he did not show it,
He gave the jurors glance Of hatred and
then smiled slightly. Neidermeier was
grinning at Marx in glee and Van Dine
appeared to find some solace in the fact
that the "squealer," as the bandits call
Marx. had to suffer their own fate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
FROM WASHINGTON.

In the Smoot hearing in Washington
Mormon secrets were revealed, Apostle
Lyman amitting he had three wives and
declaring the Utah senator never pro-
tested.
Ex-Bishop Loren Harmer, of the Nor
mon church, testified before the senate
committee that he had been imprisoned
in the penitentiary for unlawful cohaDl-
tation at the instance of Reed Smoot.
President Roosevelt has directed the
transfer Of John Barrett, the present
minister to the Argentine Republic, to
be minister to Panama.
In the Smoot hearing before the senate
committee in Washington witnesses said
the Mormon church ruled Utah poll
tics.
The government estimates wheat
in farmers hands at only 20.S per
cent. of a crop of 1872 800, 900 bushels;
corn, 374 per cent. of crop OF 839,0OO,-
600 bushels, and oats 273, 100000 bush
els.
The president has requested military
and naval officials of the government to
refrain from discussion of the war be-
tween Russia and Japan.
Members of the senate have been in
formed by Attorney General Knox that
there will be no hitch in perfecting the
title of the United States to the Panama
canal
The president has fixed the salaries of
the isthmian canal commissioners at
$4,000.
George w. Croft, congressman, of
Aiken, S. c., died in Washington of
blood poisoning, which resulted from a
splinter run in his thumb six weeks ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
BRO. DICKEY'S SAYINGS.

Dey say dat Solomon wuz a wise
nan-en, yit he spent half his life
gittin' married.!
Trouble makes us take ter de woods.
But no matter fer dat-day's too much
dust in de middle ere de road. anyhow!
De ole time religion don't stan much
show wild some er de young preachers
in dis day en- time. Wen de oil fash
ion brethrin' goes to meetin' now, dey
mos inginerully hez to ak de sexton
ter show EN- de way home.-Atlanta
Constitution.
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state that the whole. of Manchuria is in
a state of utter confusion, owing to
the Russians having seized all food sup
plies and other commissariat necessities
The natives are steaming south toward
the ports and are suffering great hard
ships. The late military governor at
Klrin has committed suicide, owing to
his inability to relieve the peoples dis
tress or stop the Russian depredations.
Big Army on the Move
st. Petersburg, March IA telegram
received here from Gen. Zhilinsky. Gen.
Kuropatkin's chief of staff, says that ac-
cording to reports published in Korean
newspapers $4,000 Japanese have landed
at Chinnampo, Korea, and are marching
TO Ping-Yang. Five hundred Japanese
are said to have landed at Kieng-Sieng, on
the northeast coast of Korea, and 1000
other Japanese, who reached Kieng-
Sieng before this detachment of 500. have
started marching along the coast of
Sheng-Jin. Koreans from the points
named, however, deny emphatically that
reports of the landing at Kieng-Sieng.
Hero of the Hour in Russia.
st. Petersburg, March IA = Admiral
Makaroff's name Ia on every lip in st.
Petersburg. He is the hero of the
hour. The details of Thursdays fight
ing at Port Arthur did not becomes
public until Saturday morning, when
eager crowds, unmindful of a heavy
snowfall, gathered about Viceroy
Alexieff's bulletins, which were posted
at every corner. The sorrow over the
loss of the Russian torpedo boat de-
stroyers was swallowed up by the ad-
miration caused by the daring exploit
ct the Russian naval commander In
chief in going personally to her rescue.
Goes to Protect Americans.
Seoul March 14.-The United States
ship Cincinnati left Chemulpo Satur-
day for Chinnampo to bring away the
women and children from the Amer
lean company's mines at Unsan Tho
families of American missionaries
south of the Yalu are not considered
to be in any danger, but every precau-
ton is being taken for their safety.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

The department of commerce and
labor has prepared commercial map
of the world in which the United
States is given first place. 1t is under
stood the map will be placed on view
at the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Doubtless it will attract attention and
arouse comment on the part of many
foreign visitors, and it is not at all
unlikely that it will be revelation to
a number of our own people. The
United States is put in the first place
commercially because it is entitled to
that distinction. Foreigners may dis
like this showing, but it is correct.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
YOUNG BANDITS
DOOMED TO DIE
JURY IN CHICAGO TRIAL RE.
TURNS VERDICT OF GUILTY.
PENALTY FIXED AT DEATH
Marx, Van Dine and Neidermeier
Convicted of Murder of Two
Men While Robbing Barn of
Street Railway Company.

Chicago, March 14.-The penalty of
death was decreed by the jury for Peter
Neidermeier, Gustav Marx and Harvey
Van Dine, the car barn bandits. Judge
Kersten next Saturday probably will
name the date of their execution. The
motion for new trial, made by the de-
PENDANTS attorneys, will be argued at
that time. The verdict was reached ear
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

1t is a saying among the Muscovites
that January, February and March are
three of the ablest Russian generals
the meaning being that ordinarily the
weather in those months is such as to
make it hopeless for an enemy to carry
on operations against the Russians
The saying derives new force from the
reports which show the severity of the
winter in Manchuria, Siberia and Rus
STA as a whole. The cold has been al
most phenomenally intense, ranging
SO degrees below zero in Port Arthur
and its vicinity, and being worse in
other localities.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

There is a ridiculous notion in the
minds of many people and some newspa-
pers that war is a source of prosperity.
This is the same kind of logic which de-
clares that spendthrift is good thing
for a community because he puts mon
ey in circulation" Waste is waste, and
extravaganza in one spot means terri
bic drain in another. A Chinese proyerb
SAYS that for every man who lives III
idleness and luxury another man starves
to death; and this is terse way of put
ting a great economic truth. War is
wasteful anu cannot be a source of pros
VerItv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

1t is pretty early to do any predict
ing as to the wheat harvest this year,
but the spectators are already at it.
They are circulating stories to the eff
feet that billiards. and floods have de-
stroyed the wheat crops in many west
ern localities. OF course such stories
can be taken with due allowance. They
are circulated with more regard for the
effect they will have on the wheat pit
than as correct estimates of the actual
situation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

With destructive prairie fires in Ok
lahoma, Indian Territory and Kansas,
cold waves and billiards in the north
west and thunder and lightning, rain
and floods in portions of the east,
March is supplying the country with an
experience which for picturesque va
riety rather surpasses most Of its pre-
yious and remarkable achievements.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
I Town Recaptured.

San Domingo. March 14.-After severe
fighting which lasted for two days San
Pedro de Macoris has been recaptured
by government forces. President Nor
ales returned here Saturday night from
San Pedro, leaving Luis Tejera to act as
governor of the town. The rebel lead
err Rodriguez escaped. Many men were
killed Or wounded on both sides during
the fighting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Asnhvxiatad.

Wapakoneta, o., March 14.-Mrs. j. H.
Cooke, wife of prominent attorney is
dead. the result of asphyxiation by
fumes from gas furnace, and her three
children and servant, who were over
come by the fumes. are in a critical con-
dition, but will recover. Mr.. Cooke has
been in Arkansas on a business trip, and
cannot be located
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Curfew for ithaca, NJ. Z.

Ithaca, N. Y, March 14.-An ordi-
nance has gone into effect here provid-
ing for curfew signal at eight o'clock
1t was found necessary to quadruple the
police force, and as the new law applies
to adults as we'll as children, consider
able trouble is expected, especially with
Cornell men, many of whom seek recre-
alton in town during the evening
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

1t is interesting and significant that
Admiral Uriu, the Japanese officer who
won the victory at Chemulpo, is grad
uate of the United States naval acade-
my at Annapolis He was in the class
of 1881. and is only IL years of age,
though his advancement has been won
by his merit alone. 1t is not so we'll
known that his wife is a graduate of
Vassar college. The pair furnishes a
type of culture and progress in New
Japan"
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Young Lady Killed.

Frankfort, KY, March 14.-Miss Kate
Barbour, aged IS, and prominent, was
killed on the Chesapeake & Ohio railway
bridge here Saturday. Other girls who
were crossing the bridge with her es-
capped, but she was so frightened that
she could not move, and the train cut
her body into many parts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

Boris Sorafoff has broken loose
again. He is the Macedonian leader
who gets up an insurrection every few
weeks, on which occasion he generally
dies exclaiming: 81 die for freedom
cause!" or words to that effect This
is his grand farewell martyrdom tour.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
CHARGED with Murder.

ottawa, Ont, March 14.-William S.
Hamilton, an ex-policeman who runs a
restaurant here, has been arrested on a
charge of killing John Fitzgerald, %
years of age, an ex-sergeant of an Irish
regiment 1t is alleged that Hamilton
threw Fitzgerald out of his restaurant
Friday night and kicked him. Fitzgerald
died in the hospital Saturday night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

The present Mrs. Leroy, of Owen coun-
~, KY, was once a belle of the blue
grass region, and it was question
whether or not she would ever retire to a
purely domestic life. She married a
stock breeder This was early in 1893.
Since then she has become the mother of
five sons, the dates of whose births are
as follows: January Is, 1900; January
Is, 1901; January Is, 1902; January Is,
1903; January Is, 1904.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

One of the interesting developments
of the day is the increasing favor with
which cremation of the dead is re-
garded. Statistics are not available to
show the total number of cremations
in the United States, but it is fact
beyond dispute that they are increas-
ing and that the original feeling of re-
pulsion against the method is quite
rapidly wearing away.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

A University Of Missouri student re-
Gently sawed IL cords Of wood in three
days, thus establishing record. This
form of sport does not, however, prom
Use to become popular in our colleges. 1t
has already been ruined by professional
ism
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

The statue of Frederick the Great,
presented by Emperor William to the
United States, is to be unveiled at
Washington no later than next Octo-
Der. The reason for the delay has
been that the site could not be made
ready any sooner.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

Scientists announce the discovery that
certain fish change their color like
chameleons to harmonic with their en-
vironment. Careful thought will show
that this is true. Take sucker; in his
native haunts he is green, but when he
realizes that he has been taken in his hue
changes to a deep cerulean. Holsters,
too, are green at first, red in the salad
and dark brown the morning after. How
wonderful is science!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

Scientists have discovered that the
more muscle man has the more N
rays" he emits. Probably that is the rea-
son that when pugilists quit the ring
they become stars"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

ly Saturday morning and reported into
court at 10 o'clock. The specific offense
for which the trio have been sentenced
to death is the murder of Francis w.
Stewart. a clerk at the Chicago City rail-
way car barns at State and Sixty-irst
streets, who was shot by Neidermeier
in the robbery of the barns on the morn
ing of August 30.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
MINNEAPOLIS, March

-tA4AIIO<t k'VA4Ss -udl OK IL
Wheat-No. l northern, Csc; No.
northern. CSC; May, e7Hc. Oats-No.
white, 4oc Corn-No 8, 45c Rye
No. ., roc Barley-No. 2, 40c.
Flax-Sl Is. Butter-Creamery, ex-
tras, 23@24c; creamery, frsts, 21@22c;
dairy, fancy, 1s@l9c. Poultry-Tur-
keys, 9@1oc; chickens, 7@sc- Hay
Uplands. fancy, $500.
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Roeski to Be Tried This Week.

Emil Roeski, the fourth of the bandit
gang, will be brought to trial during the
week. He is charged with the murder of
Otto Bauder, who was shot during the
robbery of the saloon of August Stein,
1920 West North avenue, on the night Of
July 9. Implicated with Roeski in this
murder are Marx and Van Dine. Whether
Roeski will be tried alone or with his
codefendants has not been determined.
Positive identifcations of the three can
be made in this case, and it is believed
that its result will send Roeski to the gal
lows with his companions.
How the Verdict Was Received.
TIE mothers and other relatives of
the defendants were in court when the
verdict was read by Clerk John Cum
mings. Several of the relatives of the
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st. Paul, March

Cattle-Steers, So. 4o@3. 90; COWS, 81. IS
$500. Hogs - 81 s0@5.25. Sheep
muttons. So. 90: lambs. $500
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Damaged Russian Ships.

"Our fire greatly damaged the Russian
ships, one of which was badly crippled by
a shot through the boilers, and another
was observed to be on fire. So close were
the two flotillas to each other that our
destroyers, the Asashio, Kasumi and
Akatsuki nearly touched the enemy's
ships and our crews could even hear the
cries of agony of their injured men on
them. We sustained some damage and
loss. The Akatsuki had steam pipe
broken and four stokers were killed
thereby Our loss was seven killed and
eight wounded Among the latter is
Chief Engineer Minamisawa, of the
KoC11rpi