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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
NEWS OF WISCONSIN
OF INTEREST IN
THE VARIOUS TOWNS.
STOP REMOVAL OF BODY
Enraged PopuIace Gathers About the
Grave of Their Dead Priest and
Prevent Scheme to Take Re-
mains to Milwaukee.

Manitowoc.-One hundred enraged
farmers armed with clubs and some,
1t is said, with pistols, gathered about
the grave of their dead priest, Rev. Ig-
natz Paulach, at Northern, in this
county, to prevent the body from be.
ing exhumed by a Milwaukee firm of
undertakers. This is the third at
tempt made to take the body to Mil
waukee. The priest had officiated for
a Catholic congregation at Northern
for Ii years and was beloved, and
when he died they buried him with
great honor in the Northern cemetery.
For some reason not apparent, his old
housekeeper seeks to have the body
taken to Milwaukee, much to the OPP
position of the congregation. She
came with him from Rome when the
priest took charge of the congrega-
ton. He was popular, but she was
not, and her action now has enraged
the farmers further
A caSket and a rough box were on
the way to the cemetery when the
whole village population and farmers
appeared and had the undertakers' en-
ployes insisted they would have been
severely dealt with. The housekeeper
promises to give the church $4,000 if
they will permit the removal of the
body
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
SQUIRREL EATS CLOTH SIGN.
Devours Canvas Advertising Sign with
Evident Relish.

Beloit.-During the last three days
persons have watched the strange ac-
tons of bushy tailed, rotund squirrel
that has made it's home in the new
Hulburt block now in course of con-
struction in East Grand avenue, and
the watchers are preparing to notify
DR.. Long, who has been classed as a
nature faker by President Roosevelt.
Across the front of this building at the
second story is stretched a huge cloth
banner giving the date upon which
the store will be occupied. The squir-
rel which has attracted so much at
tention has actually begun to eat up
this banner, and has consumed a
large piece of the cloth, SO much of it,
in fact, that it was found necessary
to tack the frayed ends to a pole. At
first the watchers thought the little
fellow was tearing the cloth to secure
som ething warm for his winters nest.
Close watching however, has revealed
the fact that he chews up the cloth
and swallows it with evident relish.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.

Madison.-Dr. Thomas Elmer Will,
secretary Of the American Forestry
association, of Washington, d. c.,
in addressing the Merchants and
Manufacturers association, of Milwau-
kee, said that there were two things
TO be done in Wisconsin, the conserv-
ing of the forests in northern Wisccn-
sin and the using of the numerous
lakes in Wisconsin as reservoirs for
water supply. Mr.. Wills lecture made
decided impression upon the audi
ence. "You still have some forests
left in northern Wisconsin," said Mr.
Will. I'm the northern part of this
state you have also many lakes and
sources of several rivers. The lakes
are natural reservoirs and should be
preserved as such. However, there
are two things that should be done in
Wisconsin, first the forests should be
conserved, which would mean the
holding back of the waters from the
rivers, prevent floods and would keep
steady flow of waters that will sup
ply the power for the industries of the
state. Second, the lakes should be
used as reservoirs, for the storing up
Of the surplus waters and for letting
out from time to time water supply
for the rivers. l am glad to see that
there is movement on foot in Wis
cOnsin for the conserving of the for
ests-and for the keeping up of the
water supply" 1--WE Americans have
impressions which sometimes prove
to be decisions, that the supply OF
everything in this country is inexhaus,
tible," said President w. N. Fitzgerald
in introducing the speaker. Most OF
us had the idea that the supply of
currency was so great that there
never would be time when we could
not get all that was coming to U.S.
The experience of the last few
weeks, however, has changed many
peoples minds. So it will be with
our forests. Men have gone through
without a thought as to the conse'
quences. We cannot escape the con
viction that aggressive measures must
be taken to cope with this big prob
lem. The people of our nation may
some day have rude awakening as
to what the word, inexhaustible' real
ly means" The merchants and manu-
facturers announced their intention Of
using their influence with the con
gressmen from this state to support
all measures for the preservation Of
the forests.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

New York.-A French journal-Le
Petit Observation-Disclosures the other day
that American girls who had married
abroad, mostly for foreign titles, had
carried with them to Europe the as
tonishing sum of $900,000,0O0. The
Paris writer did not associate this
rather startling statement with the
reports of tight money" in America,
yet on this side of the Atlantic the
gone out of the country with the title
hunters may well occasion a little
financial as well as social speculation.
Upward of 400 American girls have
married in Europe within compare
lively recent years. The New York
Sunday World prints the present
names of $50 American women who
have married titles. 1t adds a list of
% heiresses who have carried off
sums reputed to be upward of a mil
lion. This list alone foots up $160,000,-
600 Undoubtedly upward of $300,0O0,-
900 has been paid for titles alone, for
the dowries have by no means repre-
scented all that went with the brides.
In some cases the actual dover was
small in comparison with the money
that was subsequently spent by them.
It has been estimated that the Dow
ager Duchess of Marlborough, for ex-
ample, spent $1,000,000 on restoring
RIenheim castle; it is known that
many of the Huntington and Mackay
millions have been spent in paying
the debts of Princes Hatzfeldt and
Colonna. How many millions it cost
Levi p. Morton to have duke for a
son-in-law, and then to get rid of him,
probably only the former vice-pres1-
dent could tell What Count Boni de
Castellane cost Anna Gould, all told,
is known only by her brother, George.
Running over the list of rich Amer
lean girls who have married titles, 1T
is notable that there is scarcely one
famous American family which has
not contributed a share of it's fortune
to gliding some coronet. Astor,
Bryant, Bronson, Berwind, Beckwith,
Bonaparte, Burden, Butterfield, Car
roll, Caldwell, Curtis, Cutting, Carlisle,
Cary, Corbin, Colgate, Cuyler, Clayton,
Clafin, Davis, Endicott, Field, Flagler,
Grant, Goelet, Gould, Garner, Grace,
Garrison Gallatin Goddard Hunting
ton, Hecker, Haggin, Hoffman, Ham
ilton, Hale, Hyde, Jerome, Jay, King,
Lathrop, Letter, Lawrence, Lee, Liver
more, Livingston, Moulton, Motley,
Morton, Martin, Magee, Phipps,
Phelps, Parsons, Roosevelt Roberts,
Riggs, Rives, Sturgis, Slocum, Stokes,
Sibley, Schley, Singer, Sharon, Spen-
Ger. Stevens, Sumner, Schenck, Thaw,
Turnure, Van Cortlandt, Van Buren,,
Vanderbilt, Winans, Work, Withers,
Whitney, Wilson, Wadsworth, White
house, Yznaga, Zimmerman-the list
reads like a social register, the names
are synonymous with vast fortunes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Praises Food COMMISSIONS Work.

"The Wisconsin dairy and food
commission has an able corps of men
and the commission is one of the
strongest in the country. Commits
sioner Emerys staff goes among the
makers of the cheese and butter and
educateS them in a work that is most
important. This commission can well
be said to be one of the most impor-
tant departments of the state govern
ment." This is the way B. d. White,
member of the dairy division of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, ranked the Wisconsin commits
sion at a banquet of the Wisconsin
Milkmen e Dairymen's Protective as
ISOLATION. He said he was glad to see
battle against the great cream cen
tralizers, which threatens to tear down
the work of the dairy interests of the
country, so successfully builded for
years. The banquet was attended by
about 60 men from all sections of the
state, who are leaders in the dairy in
terests Commissioner J. Q. Emery
acted as POSTMASTER of the occasion.
J. G. Moore, formerly first assistant
dairy and food commissioner, who is
now the leader in the fight of WiscOn-
sin against the centralizers, explained
the real dangers which this organiza-
ton had to contend with. He said
that the cream centralizers threatened
the very vitals of the dairy business of
the state and the only way to preserve
1t intact was to fight them and com
pei the railroads to give rate which
would put both the creameries and the
centra1izers on an equal basis to COM
pete in the markets of the country. H.
A. Wright, dairy and food commits
sioner, of Des Moines, Ia, said the
centralizers are attempting to get con-
troll of the dairy business of the coun-
try, as one man has of the oil of the
nation. He declared the fight just
started by the Wisconsin dairymen
was not won yet, but that it might be
prolonged for many years. He
declared all states interested would be
lucky to hold their own in the contest
with these great corporations of cap
ital and power. H. J. Credicott, fed
eral dairy inspector on the Chicago
market, spoke for more universal
standard of scoring butter. He said
at the present time there were too
many standards and nothing that was
uniform
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sweet tooth. The traveller himself ate
many pieces. 1t was not long before
the last bit had been eaten.
AS soon as the box was empty the
official seized the traveller by the
arm. THE gentleman" he announced,
will accompany me to the bureau,
where we'll make out his bill for duty.
Come, it is at the other end of the
dock"
Never" said the American. "You
have no right to charge me duty. l
didn't bring it in. I'll see my consul
right away and he'll send a big fleet
and lombard this blooming town."
Softly" said the officer. You'll
pay duty all right. There are Is wit
nesses to prove that that candy of
yours was consumed on German SOIL
The duty was paid and the consul
has not as yet been consulted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

From Berlin across the Atlantic,
maybe it was by way of Suez, but if
the first is true, then across
the continent to Honolulu; then
to Japan, back again across the
Pacific, and then again across the
continent from Frisco to New York.
From Japan to the metropolis for two
cents, United States postage.
"And it's as fresh as a daisy. That
isn't all. You all know Slimithy Jim,
as we called the infinitesimal runt
that caused more trouble at Cornell
than q grasshopper under lawn shirt
waist.
well, I met the runt recently and
when he got his second wind he said
he ID met the man whose name is
written here, in Yokohama, and that
he told him he had just mailed this
card to me. 1t came over with the
runt on the French steamer. The mail
puts the runt out of the Ananias class
where 1 had 'pegged him. Garcon! Get
busy"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Tobacco Industry Shows Decline.

Tobacco Industry Shows Decline.
The tobacco industry of Wisconsin
shows very considerable falling off
this year. Outside of the $1,000 900
that the farmers deposited in the
banks at Stoughton last year as re-
suit of their tobacco transactions,
about 700 men, women and children
were given employment in the ware
houses and practically every cent of
their earnings was spent within the
gates of that city. This year the
amount of deposits for the banks and
the amount of money to be spent with
the merchants will fall short of last
year. The figures will fall as far short
as the tobacco crop this year is short
of last years crop. The same number
Of people will be employed but they
will not be given work for as long
period as last year. 1t is said that the
1907 crop will prove no better than
half as good as the crop of 1906, which
means that the deposits will be no
more than 100000, and the merchants
will receive only half as much money
from the working people. Last year
about four-fifths of the crop was con-
tracted for in the field, but this year
there has been little or no buying. The
tobacco is of an inferior character.
About 25 per cent. of the crop near
Stoughton harvested fine, but the bal
is rather large, is considered uncer-
tain. We have off years in fruit, po-
tatoes and most everything else, and
now we are to have an off year in to-
bacco. The town of Christiana holds
the record in Dane county for tobac-
co acreage, producing about 1900
acres of the popular weed. Vernon,
Crawford and Rock counties are heavy
tobacco sections. A bad crop and an
| off year means something to the farm
er who plants heavy, and those who
| get fooled this year will not spend
their money as generously as they
would if the crop reached the standard
| it did last season. The season usually
opens in January or early in Deem
| Der, and continues until April or May.
Tobacco has not played as important
part in the growth of Stoughton as
| it has in Edgerton, neither has it made
this little city as famous as beer has
made Milwaukee, but tobacco bust
ness brings whole lot of money into
| Stoughton and it gives comparatively
easy work to those who are not over
burdened with foolish pride and to
those who need the money.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
WANDERINes OF POSTAL CARD
Had Gone Through Four Countries
Before Delivery.

Here is postal card with story, :
said a young New Yorker to bunch
of chums in one of the cobweb eat
ing houses over in old Greenwich.
about the middle of last summer
said good-by to the chap whose Chi
Biography is on this card.
THE imprint on one end of this
card shows that it was made in Ger
many. To this information you will
see is added the words, in print, Sold
in Honolulu On the other side of the
card is a colored picture of the Bay of
Honolulu.
Here in the proper place is a
United States postage stamp. The
postmark is Yokohama. And here, just
over the superscription, is the stamp
of the steamer which brought it
across the Pacific.
1.-THE name of the steamer shows
that she carries the French flag. There
it is. If you know anything about
French you know what say is so.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
COULD NOT ESCAPE THE DUTY.
American Traveller Unable to Circum-
vent German Officials.

Germany is jealous of the foreign
candymaker and eXacts a rigorous toll
upon anything in the shape of confec-
tionery that comes across its borders.
Ignorant of this, one of Uncle Sans
sons in the course of the summer just
past disembarked from a liner at a
German port carrying in his hand a
five-pound box of candy bearing a
New York trademark At sight of the
box the Teutonic customs official ex-
hibited marked activity and prepared
to seize upon it, declaring that it
must be weighed and examined for
the purpose of computing duty pay
ment
''Not for NINE" said the American.
ST won't give up a sou. I'd rather eat
the stuff here and now" He opened
the box and commenced to dispose of
its contents without delay. Everybody
in sight was offered handful. Nobody
declined except the customs officer,
who said blandly that he had not q
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
BY HENRY CLEWs.

~ think that the statement that
$9oo,o0o,0o0 Of wealth has been
taken out of this country-or, at
least, that the ownership of this
vast amount of assets has been
transferred to aIiens-by the mar
rage of American girls with for
eigners is conservative. Undoubt-
eddy the withdrawal of such an
enormous sum has an appreciabIe
effect upon the money market.
1.-THE folly of Americans who
have Europamania is extremely
costly to this country. Our tour
lists spend at least $15o,o0o,ooo of
good American money abroad
every year-most of it foolishly.
81 am glad to say that Ameri-
can girls are beginning to realize
that nothing but unhappiness
comes from the majority of these
international marriages-though,
Of course, there are exceptions.
They are beginning to prefer
American sovereigns to European
princeIings."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Man Clones with His Niece?

Oshkosh.-Mrs. Theodore Schlaich
has applied to District Attorney
Foulkes for a warrant for the arrest
of Alois A. Schlaich and her daughter,
Rose. The pair, uncle and niece, are
believed to have eloped. The mother
received a letter from Schlaich, dated
Chicago, in which he stated that he
and his niece were together. The dis
trict attorney refused warrant on the
ground that if the couple got married
the case would be one for the authori-
ties in the place where the marriage
was soIemniZed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Food Commissioner Anury.

Dairy and Food Commissioner J. @.
Emery takes issue with the editor of
what to Eat" attacking Mr.. EN-
cry in the position he has taken in de-
handing if there is to be a uniform
food law, that the strongest features,
not the weakest, should be incorpor-
ated into such a measure. Mr.. Emery
calls the editorial tissue of disin-
genuous and erroneous statements"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
DR.. Bascom Leaves College.

Wisconsin people who may not al
ready know will be interested to learn
that DR.. John Bascom, long president
of the University of Wisconsin, later
of Williams college, has retired, and
that Harry Augustus Garfield, eldest
son of President James A. Garfield
has succeeded to the presidency OF
Williams. James A. Garfield and two
of his sons graduated from Williams.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Zinc Trust Is Formed.

A new industrial trust, which is in
tended ultimately to control the zinc
milling and manufacturing business
of the country, has just been organ
lied in Chicago by the consolidation
of the leading mining interests of the
Wisconsin and Missouri districts. The
holding company, which is capitalized
at $20,000,000, will be known as the
Consolidated Zinc company. It is or.
ganized to regulate the output. Frank
Nicholson, the largest individual OPP
orator in the Joplin district, is to be
president and controlling spirit of the
corporation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

Swinderen, Countess Gyula de Szilassy,
Baroness Stumm, Baroness de Stoeckl,
Princess Won Salm Salm, Hon. Mrs.
Edmund Sandys, Baroness Won Schwein-
itz, Baroness Max Won Schwartzenburg,
Countess Franken Sierstorpf, Comtesse
de Suzannet, Vicomtesse Alain de SuZan-
net, Countess of Suffolk, Baronne de Sell
liere, Baroness Speck Won Sternburg,
Mime. Won Schutzbar, Comtesse de Sores,
Marquise A. Dusmet de Smours, Com
tesse de ST. Roman, Countess Sodozini,
Mrs. Staurt- Wortley, Baronne Jacques
de Saint Marc, Countess Charles Seilern,
Baroness Won Schilling.
T-Countess Won Trachenberg, Marchese
di Teodoli, Countess Gioacchino Toreg-
gf Baroness julius Won Takacs, Duchesse
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p-Countess Constantine Bodisco, Nine.
Bakmeteff, Lady Booker, Comtesse
Jules de Bonvouloir, Sonora G. de la
Barca, Princess Brancaccio, Marquise de
Breuteuil, Vicomtesse CASTOR de Bre-
teuil, Lady William Beresford, Com
Jesse G. de Balincourt, Lady Bateman,
Mrs. w. G. Cavendish-B entinck, Countess
F. Bleucher Lady Bagot, Lady Burnett,
Baronesse BiIdt, Nine. Adolph Won Breun-
ing, Lady Beaumont, Countess di Braz-
"a, Lady Arthur Butler, Countess A. Ber-
oldingen, Baroness Blanc, Baroness de
Baigne, Lady Burrell, Baroness Bodisco,
Comtesse de Boullemont, Countess A.
Won Buelow, Princess Belosselsky, Lady
Barrymore, Baroness de Bush, Comtesse
A. de Gontaut-Biron, Princess r. de
Broglie.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
SINGLE BLESSING,

Pearl-"They say blessings never
come singly." Ruby-"Yes, but bless
ings come single sometimes" Pearl
Single? What do you mean?"
Ruby-"Why, Belle captured an old
bachelor worth a cool million. He
was a single blessing. wasn't he?"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Democratic Chairman to Retire.

Chairman H. H. Manson, of the
Democratic state central committee,
has confirmed the report that he in.
tends to retire from the committee.
It appears that Mr.. Manson has had
this plan under consideration for
some time. He says he will remain
head of the committee until after the
Democratic state convention and will
probably leave some time in February
so that his successor will have plenty
of time to familiarize himself with the
duties of the Office before the national
campaign is fairly under way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Chimes Are Out of Tune.

Janesville.-Two Of the costly
chimes recently installed in the belfry
of the Congregational church are not
satisfactory and will soon be replaced
with two new bells which will be
shipped here from Baltimore. The
two bells are out of tune, being a half
tome foo fiat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Jealous Bulldog Attacks Master.

Janesville.-Rex, a fighting bull
dog, with a record, attacked his mas
ter, Joe Kanauch, and severely bit
him in the cheek. The dog was jeal-
Gus of the attention paid to another
canine his master recently purchased.
The animal recently won a fight in
Minneapolis, and is matched for other
contests in the near future, one with
a Milwaukee dog.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

Kenosha.-J. E. Hall, aged 40
years, a well-known Kenosha con-
tractor, was killed here by being
struck by a south-bound passenger
train on the Chicago & Northwestern
road. Hall was walking along the
track when he was hit by the train.
He was still alive when picked up by
the crew Of the train, but died short
ly after reaching the hospital.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Family Overcome by Coal Gas.

Kenosha.-The entire family OF
Louis Robsel, well-known liquor
dealer of Kenosha was found over
come by coal gas at the residence at
an early hour. One of the boarders
came home late and found the house
filed with gas. Five people were
found to be unconscious in the house,
but the prompt work Of physicians
saved their lives.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
Drv Rot in Men.

The first strong external revela.
ton of the dry rot in men is ten.
dency to Turk and lounge; to be at
street corners without ineligible
reason; to be going anywhere when
met; to be about many places rather
than at any; to do nothing tangible,
but to have an intention of perform
ing a variety of intangible duties to-
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Would UpIift Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Federation of
Churches held convention at Ripon,
at which President Hughes, of Ripon,
addressed the delegation on the prog
ress of the Anti-Saloon league in the
south. There was a large attendance
from all parts of the state. G. S. Lane,
Of Milwaukee, presided. The fedora
ton is specially working for greater
activity of churches in the state.