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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.

Madison.-Including lat delayed
certificates, which were received too
late to be included in the quarterly
report of the state board of health
just issued, 6,053 deaths were returned
to the state office during the months
of October, November and Deem
Der. This corresponds to an annual
death rate Of LOG per thousand esti-
mated population. Not all the deaths
are being reported, as shown by the
examination of the returns received
from each registration district. For
this condition of affairs the under
taker or other person in charge of
the funeral is in most cases entirely
responsible" says the bulletin. THE
law states that the undertaken, or per-
son acting as undertaken, must file the
certificate of death occurred and Sc
cure burial or removal permit prior
to any disposition of the body. Any
undertaken, who violates this pro-
vision of the law, is liable to fine of
from $40 to 5000 for each offense."
The important causes of death in the
state were: Pulmonary tuberculosis,
397; other tuberculosis, 70; typhoid
fever, IFS; diphtheria, 104; scarlet
fever, 30; measles, 5; whooping
cough, II; pneumonia, 5O7; diarrhea
and enteritis, 157; meningitis, 100; in
fluenza, 10; cancer, 227; violence, 1877,
and blood poisoning, %. Of the S97
deaths caused by violence, SO resulted
from suicide, IS were caused by rail
roads, 40 resulted from accidental
gunshot wounds, 81 were caused by
drowning, 80 from accidental burns,
Ia from accidental poisoning, 10 from
street cars, and by explosives. The
northern section shows a rate of Is
lower than the average for the en-
tire state; IL lower than the rate for
the central section and 2.5 lower than
the rate for the southern section.
For the months of October, November
and December 11,078 births, 1882
marriages and 2,729 accidents were
reported to the state board Of health.
The annual birth rate of 1913 per thou
sand estimated population, marriage
rate of 1879 per thousand and acct
dent rate of 4.76 per thousand shows
a decline in the rates as compared
with 1905 and 1906 returns with the
exception of births, where there is a
gain of nearly one per cent. The
total estimated population of the state
of 1926, 900 was obtained by adding to
the state census returns Of 1905, the
annual average yearly increase per
thousand from the federal census OF
1900 to the state census of 1905.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Boom Development Association.

The indications now are that the
new organization called the North
Wisconsin Development association
will be in the field with it's stereopti.
con lecture before the end of the pres.
ent month, and that before spring fair
ly opens there will be a substantial
array of counties behind the move.
ment. The first counties to pay over
their money and authorize the pur.
chase of the equipment for the lee.
ture tour were Ashland. Price, Taylor,
Rusk, Lincoln, and Oneida Then
Marathon and Wood determined to
enter the association, and subscrip.
ton paper was circulated in each
county to raise money to pay the
membership fee. Now there are the
best Of reasons for believing that
Clark and Chippewa will become
members Of the association.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Superstitious Pickpockets.

The pickpocket is superstitious. He
will rarely rob person who sQuints.
this being considered a certain sign
of diaster, and if it happens that the
purse he steals contains foreign
money, it is believed to augur that he
will travel a good deal in the future,
but whether in the company OF a
couple of police officers or not there ia
nothing to show
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Mack Lectures on Rates.

Edwin S. Mack, formerly lecturer
in the college of law at the University
of Wisconsin and new practicing at
torney in Milwaukee, spoke at the
university on "The Basis of Reason
able Rates." limiting his subject to
the question as it arises before rail-
way commissions and other admins.
trative boards. Mr.. Mack paid a
tribute to the state commission which
departed from the path of the inter
state commerce commission and took
up the question of absolute rates in
addition to relative rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Three Pass Rhodes Exams.

President Charles r. Van Hise of
the University of Wisconsin, chairman
of the committee of selection for Wis
consin of Rhodes scholarships, has
been notified by the secretary of the
delegates of local examinations, Ok
ford, England, that the following three
candidates who took the examination
on January 81 and %, were success
full: Wesley F. Aver, Beloit college;
Louis P. Lochner Milwaukee, Uni
versity of Wisconsin; William ].
McGucken, Marquette university. The
Rhodes scholar for Wisconsin this
year will be selected during the pres
ent month from these three successful
candidates, and those successful last
year, by the Wisconsin committee of
selection.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Mioht Be Worse.

what you swearin' about?" in
CURED the farmer.
"Oh!" growled the Disguised motor
ist, between oaths, this machines
broke down and 1 can't get it to 60"
Gosh, you're in luck. Last Teller
/ seen round here got all broke uP
cause he couldn't get his ia stop
Philadelphia Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

Inspector general of the disturbed
provinces.
The moment Hilmi Pasha arrived at
Salonica to assume his herculean task
the late Count Lamsdorff, the Russian
minister for foreign affairs, set out
for visit to the capitals of the Balkan
peninsula. He visited Sofia and Bel
grade, and advised the Servians as
well as the Bulgarians to cultivate
the more peaceful and above all more
lawabiding methods In their Mace
DOMAIN propaganda.
Count Lamsdorff then proceeded to
Vienna, where he had many confer
ences with Count Goluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affairs. Together they drew up an
was, of course, Immediately accepted
by the porte in February, 1903 The
details of the proposed reforms are
unimportant here and now. They
never passed beyond the paper stage.
The integrity of the sultan's domin-
4OA1o anu HIS uu1l1JdllCO
were safeguarded by them, and in
their proposals the powers remained
well within the limits of policy de-
fined by that important article % of
the treaty of Berlin.
A Bloody Instruction.
The result of the application of
these paper reforms did not remain in
doubt for more than week. Instead
Of the pacification and a peace ap-
preaching that Of paradise, which the
bureaucratic Russian count prophe-
sled would descend upon the blood
drenched land, came the most bloody
and formidable instruction that the
rebellion-ridden country had ever
seen. 1t required 100000 of the best
troops of the Ottoman forces to up
hold Turkish authority, and even with
this tremendous display of force, the
Turks made but little Roadway against
the instruction until the fall, when
many of the Bulgarian bands, yielding
rather before the onset of winter than
of the Turks, withdrew across the
frontier.
To bolster up their shattered pres
tige in the Balkans, in consequence
of the summers bloody work, the
car of Russia and the emperor of
Austria met at Muerzsteg in October.
AS result of this imperial conference
the intervention of Europe in Mace
DOMAIN affairs became for the first
time direct, but the results of the
new course fell far short of expecta-
tons, in the first place because of the
wonderful ability of Hilmi Pasha to
checkmate every move made by the
agents of the powers, and in the sec
ond because of the well-nigh insupera-
BILE difficulty that was experienced in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Candidate Files Papers.

Florian Lampert of Oshkosh called
at the office of the secretary of state
and filed his nominating petition ds
candidate for election as delegate
from the Eighth congressional district
of Wisconsin to the national Repub.
lican convention. He is the first can
didate for delegate to file his papers.
He wanted to file petitions containing
1900 names, but after finding that it
was entirely unnecessary to file sc
large a number he left only 891 names.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
JUDGE Bashford a Candidate.

Justice Robert M. Bashford has for
mally accepted his nomination as a
candidate for the office of justice of
the supreme court. He says that lie
heartily appreciates the Endorsement
signified by the nominating petitions,
and that it would be highly gratifying
to him to complete the term to which
he has been appointed. He declares.
however, that he will not engage in a
personal contest for election, but will
leave his case to the voluntary action
of the voters of the state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Old Officers Are Reelected.

The state board of agriculture re-
elected all of it's old officers, and with
one exception reelected its old board
of managers and superintendent. The
officers are: President, George Nc
Kerrow of Pewaukee; vice-president,
J. ]. Nelson of Amherst; secretary,
John M. True of Baraboo. On the
board of managers George Cox of
Mineral Point takes the place of C.
G. Wilcox of Depere. The other
members of the board are the officers
and George Wylie of Morrisonville
and Grant q. Fisher of GAINESVILLE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
A Nations Greatness

The eminence, the nobleness Of a
people, depends on its capability of
being stirred by memories, and of
striving for what we call spiritual
ends-ends which consist not in i'm
mediate material possession, but in
the satisfaction of a great feeling that
animates the collective body as with
one soul.-George Eliot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Case Means Much to STATE.

Attorney General Frank l.. Gilbert
is in Milwaukee conducting the prose.
cution for the state in the Pabst in.
heritance case. Should this case be
decided in favor of the state it will
mean a large sum of money will come
into the state treasury. The case is
being contested on the grounds that
when Mr.. Pabst made transfers OF
some of his property, it was in con.
temptation of death, and therefore
the legacy should be taxed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Hatton Club at Madison.

Petitions are being circulated
among the students of the University
of Wisconsin for membership in a
Hatton club to be organized in the
institution. The petitions set forth
that the signers believe that Senator
w. H. Hatton of New London is a
constructive and conservative states.
man, and should be elected to the
United States senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Plan First Regiment Reunion.

An effort is to be made to have a
reunion of all officers and enlisted
men who served in the First Wiscon-
sin regiment in the Spanish-American
war. If the plans are carried out, the
reunion will be held in Milwaukee
and will be an annual event. In the
First regiment in 1898, there were
four companies from Milwaukee and
one each from Fort Atkinson, Racine,
Madison, Beloit, GAINESVILLE, White
water, Darlington and Monroe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Teachers Association to Meet.

The Southern Wisconsin Teachers
association will meet in Madison
March 13 and IA, and this gathering
may bring 1900 strangers to the city.
Superintendent Dudgeon has asked
the board of education to close all
Madison schools Friday, March 10, SO
that local teachers may attend the
full meetings held by the association
in the interest of advanced education.
al methods.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Gained Their Point.

The girl students in the Pennsyl
vania Academy of Fine Arts have had
a concession granted and may now
smoke cigarettes in little room es
pecially dedicated to that purpose
They had been ordered not to smoke
in the corridors, so fought it OUT
with the directors, gaining what they
call 3 moral victory"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Pass Civil Service Examination.

Secretary T. Z. DOty OF Lne SLdLe
civil service commission has an
nounced that 81 of the 81 persons who
took the recent civil service examina-
ton for appointment to stenographic
positions attained the required stand
ing. and will be placed on the eligible
list. The six highest are Miss Amy
Karras of Hudson, standing 96.8; Au-
gusta Neumer of Milwaukee, 96.8; ].
T. Gallagher of Racine, 95.25; r. M.
Hoyt of Milwaukee, 93.6; March Polk
of Kenosha, 93.4; G. H. Rondeau OF
Milwaukee. Gil.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

Diplomacy.

"Why do you make practice OK
predicting bad weather."
Its the safest plan-" answered the
professional prophet. IF the bad
weather prediction comes true, people
have to admit am right, and if the
weather is pleasant they feel too good
natured to care whether l was right
or Yrong.''
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Renominatinu Petitions.

Petitions renominating Judge George
w. Burnell of Oshkosh for judge of
the Third circuit, and Judge Eugene
w. Helms of Hudson, judge of the
Eighth circuit, as nonpartisan candi-
dates for reelection, were filed in the
office of the secretary of state. The
petition of each candidate contains
about 500 names.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Sheriff UniustIy Accused.

Sheriff Levi P. Smith of Chippewa
county claims that he has not worn a
stiff collar for 20 years. This as
sertion came out of the fact that al
irate mother, whom he had ordered to
send her truant son to school, wrote
a letter to him i'll which she said: Il
think if you fellows with stiff collars
on had to get out and pull a saw or fol
low pillow, times would be- better, in
stead Of commanding some other poor
creatures what they shall or shall
not do"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
May Proceed Against Companies.

State Insurance Commissioner
Beedle has recommended to Attorney
General Gilbert that the state insti-
tute suits against 20 life insurance
companies which have withdrawn
from Wisconsin on account of the
new insurance laws, but which have
failed to file annual reports for last
year and pay taxes on business done
in the state during that period. Some
of the companies have filod reports,
but they do not contain all Of the in.
formation required under the new
laws.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

There is more Catarr In this section OF the country
than ali other diseases put together and until the ast
few years supposed TO be incuraDle. For great
many years doctors pronounced it local disease ana
prescribed local remedies and ny constantly railing
TO cure with local treatment, pronounced tncuraDes
Science has proven Catarrh t. be constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment
IalI's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by II. j. Cheney
g. Co., Toledo Ohio, fs the only Constitutional cure or
the market. 1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonfu. 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaced Of the system They orer one
hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure 5eno
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: FL. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hairs Family pills for constipation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
Lockney Factory Inspector.

Lockney Factory Inspector.
John Lockney of Fond du Lac, one
of the three on the certified list of
the recent civil service examination
for state factory inspector, was de-
cided upon for appointment. He will
be located in Milwaukee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
PERFECTLY Plain.

With all the impartiality of the par
tisan, Prof. Price set forth the con
tentions of both political parties re-
garding the tariff.
At the close of his talk he was sur
rounded by the fair members of tho
Woman's Current Events club.
20 Prof. Price," cooed the fairest,
thank you so much for your perfectly
lovely talk! / understand all about
the tariff now. It's just like lovers
comparisons-the free-traders are the
other Sunday Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

thus accidentally encountered with
osculatory tenderness, is there then
any insuperable duty imposed on the
latter individual, or the kissee, to in.
dulge in a lachrymose exhibition OF
grief?" That's all.-Los Angeles
Times
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

If the opportunity for great deeds
should never come, the opportunity
for good deeds is renewed for you Day
by day.--Farrar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12
England Hampered.

The English humanitarians are ham
pered in their work by the undeniable
fact that through the action of the
earl of Beaconsfield and Lord Sails
bury at the Berlin congress, when they
thwarted Ignatieff's plan of a greater
Bulgaria, including a free Macedonia,
England is primarily responsible for
the present status of affairs. They
are further hampered by the presence
in Constantinople of an incompetent
ambassador, who has given undeniable
proofs of his want of capacity in such
important posts as he has occupied in
Sofia, in Pekin and in ST. Petersburg.
The first whisper of reform-in
what we call Macedonia-came in vir-
tue of the accord of 1879 between Aus
tria and Russia, and their recognition
by other European states as the pow
ers most directly concerned. The ad-
vice of the powers was accepted
gracefully-it always is-by the sui
tan, and with the purpose of forestall-
ing any possible drastic action the
sultan himself drew up a program of
reforms, and appointed that adroit
diplomatist and profound student of
human nature, Hussein Hilmi Pasha,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look fer
the signature of Il. w. GROVE Used tho World
over TO Cure Cold In One Day. 25c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

The story Of the so-called reforms
in Macedonia is a sad and a sordid
one. Officially, at least, all Christen-
dom with a long pull and pull alto
gether," has been unequal to the task
of making the sick man of Europe" sit
up, or of bringing the "unspeakable
Turk" to book. In England alone of
all the great powers interested, and,
indeed, morally responsible for the
horrors of daily and hourly occurrence
in the luckless vilayets, is there any
appreciation of the dreadful situation.
Almost weekly the Macedonian COM
mittee, of which Lord Newton and Mr..
Quincy are the most active members,
publish statistics setting forth as
plainly as cold figures can make them,
that the present laissez faire policy
of the powers has only served to repro
duce tableau of what in the iron age
the world must have been.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-04
SHOWS NO DISAPPOINTMENT
BRYAN GREETS CALLERS WITH
sMILE-MAKEs NO COMMENT.

"FAIRVIEW," LINCOLN, Neb.. No
vember 4.-Although it was after mid
night when he actually went to bed, W.
]. Bryan was up and doing early this
So far as appearance went
there was nothing about his manner to
indicate the disappointment which he
must have felt over the result of the
election. He greeted his callers with a
smile and scanned the morning papers
for news from states from which no
definite returns had been received. BE
fore making any statement" he said, II
want to get the actual results in Ohio,
Indiana and Kansas"
For some time this morning Mr.. Bryan
talked the situation over with Rev.
Father John Nugent Of Des Moines, Iowa,
one of his stanchest friends. who was a
house guest over night. The two men
took a brisk walk to the trolley station,
where Father Nugent boarded a car to
take him down town.
Father slept like baby said Mrs
Leavitt, the Nebraskan's eldest daughter,
who still was clinging to the hope that
some report would come which would
change the situation. She was
in a cheerful mood however, as were all
the other members of the family. There
were no absentees from the breakfast
table when Mr.. Bryan, with bowed head,
offered up thanks for the blessings which
had been bestowed upon him and his
family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-04
HARMON FOR GOVERNOR
Democrats Also Gain Two or More
Seats in Congress.
NO FIGURES ON LEGISLATURE
Enormous Ballot and Additional
Voting on Amendments Retards
Work Of Inspectors.

CINCINNATI. November 4-Not until
tonight can 1t be known with any degree
OF exactness by what figure Judge Taft
carried his native state, but the early
figures today continued the indications
Of the night that his plurality would run
from $4,000 to 10000 and might be about
midway between those figures. The enor-
nous ballot and the additional voting for
constitutional amendments made slow
voting yesterday and even slower count
ing during the night.
Many counties reported that the count
had not been completed at daylight, and
the figures will not be available until late
in the day. The overnight reports also
continued the indication of defeat for
Gov. Harris, Harmon, democrat, having a
plurality ranging from ten to twenty
thousand.
Absolutely no word has been received
regarding the remainder Of the state
ticket. Equal ignorance must be ad-
mitted about the complexion of the legis-
lature, by which a new United States
senator is to be elected.
In the congressional delegation the
democrats have gained at least two and
possibly three or four members.
Democrats Win Third District.
The democrats gained in the congress
sional delegation, securing one of the Gin
cinnati congressman, although Nicholas
Longworth (republican) won in his dis
trict In the third district a factional
fight among the republicans aided in the
election of democratic candidates. The
thirteenth and fifteenth remained in doubt
overnight.
CLEVELAND, November 4.-One hun
dred and fifty precincts out Of 316 in
Cuyahoga county give Taft 23,O25, Bryan
19,SO2 Harris (republican) for governor.
1906; Harmon, ~ ,333.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. November 4-One
thousand four hundred and seventy-two
precincts out of 4,43O in the state of Ohio
give Harris republican) for governor,
152, $50: Harmon (democraD for governor,
169 TO3.