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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-06-20
Safe And Sane Fourth

independence day is coming.
Shall II be day of death. mutilation,
lockjaw. powder-poisoning and de-
VISITATION by fire, or shall il be safe
and sane, educational, with health
full games and amusemennts7 1t is
up to each city, town and village to
decide.
All intelligent citizens must
realize that the insane manner
of celebrating the Fourth does not
teach patriotism, and has nothing
to recommend it.
The revolt against the insane
manner of celebrating this historic
holiday has brought excellent
results. The deaths and accidents
last year were fewer than previous
years on record. Still the toll was
81 dead and 1903 MANNED or blinded
for life.
July 4th. 1908, when fireworks
were allowed in the city of
Washington, 104 people, mostly
children, were taken to various
hospitals of the city for treatment;
the following Fourth, with fire.
works strictly prohibited, not one
single person. You can help to
make a like commendable record
for your city
Two years ago this department
sent out an ordinance regulating
fireworks, This was adopted in
many cities, and should be strictly
enforced. The possible demand of
greedy merchants for revenue
should not weigh in the balance
az ainst the lives and the safety of
children or the safety of property.
Even apart from ordinance or
state law, under the general police
powers, each city can regulate this
dangerous nuisance, and should do
so. The least any city can do is to
limit the use of fireworks to parks,
away from buildings, whose frame
construction and single roofs are
especially liable to fire.
Fire Chiefs and Fire Wardens
should see that all infiammable
rubbish in yards and alleys is
cleaned up before the Fourth.
Municipalities or civic bodies
should provide suitable amuse-
ments and exercises for the young,
calculated both entertain and to
instil valuable lesson of patriotism.
Police officers should be familiar
with and strictly enforce the
ordinances and the state law relat-
ting to fireworks.
Attention is called to Chapter 313
Laws of 1911 which reads as follows:
mo person shall sell or keep for
sale or manufacture, or bring into
the state for use therein, any sky
rockets, fire works or firecrackers,
containing pieric acid, pierates,
chlorate of potash compound
dynamite, mixture of dynamite or
other high explosive mixture, pellets
or tablets compounded of any of the
foregoing or other high explosive
mixtures, explosive canes using
blank cartridges or explosive paper
caps, blank cartridge pistols, or any
firecrackers more than three inches
in length and one-half of an inch in
diameter.
A penalty of $50 to $500 fine, or
one to six months imprisonment Or
both fine and Imprisonment is fixed.
Attention is also called to Section
4397A of the Revised Statutes,
which section prohibits the use,
sale and possession of toy pistols,
toy revolvers or toy firearms, under
heavy penalty.
Let the day bring joy, but not
loss, grief, sorrow and suffering.
T. M. PURTELL,
State Fire Marshal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-06-20

Julius Everson, who lives on the
Fortune farm, in Kinnickinnic, was
in the city Tuesday and reported
tnat thieves had stole 20 fieeces of
wool from the granery in which he
had it stored since shearing two
weeks ago. He estim ates his loss
at about $4,000.
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
Capture Giant Sea-Cow

great SEQ monsters frequently weigh.
ing as much as $500 pounds each. One
OF them when harpooned has been
known TO drag 20 boats, hitched tan
dem, each carrying two men.
Such an experience came two or
three years ago at Arkansas Pass to a
party of fishermen, among whom were
John w. Robbis, then state treasurer;
w. G. Sterrett, present state game
fish and oyster commissioner, and J.
w. Maxwell of Austin, noted big
game hunter and fisherman. They
were fishing just off the little town Of
TaTpon when a sea devil of extraordi
nary size came to the surface near
one Of the boats. A boatman sank a
harpoon deep into its body, the har-
pooh being secured to the boat by 8
line. The sea devil made off at light
ming speed. AS the boat to which 1t
was attached passed the boats each
threw line, and 20 other boats, carry
ing 40 men, were tor-ed by the giant
animal. They had stuck to 1t for six
hours, when it headed out toward the
ocean. Then the men raised the sig
nal Of distress and a life-saving crew
on Harbor island rowed out and shot
the monster.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12

death recently while answering an
alarm from the quarters of enigma
company No. II.
Rex was only dog and he was no
pretty dog, either. ~, was a bull. with
heavy jowls and legs which spoke
strength and rot beauty, but for four
years he had guarded the frehous
night and day when he was not On
duty at some blaze or shifting about
in search Of fire.
There is a new horse on duty In No
II house. He is a big roam. fractions
and difficult to handle. The alarm
sounded. The roam took his place BY
his mate and dashed out Of the house
The driver managed him with diff.
Guilty, but Rex ran along beside him,
barking when time came to turn cor
ners and endeavoring to show the new
horse the way to answer an alarm.
Suddenly there came a corner 10
turn. The roam was slow in answer
ing to the reins. Thin he hurled bio
body to one side. dragging the engine
after him, and tn wheels of the
heavy vehicle passed over the body Of
the faithful dog.
The fremen buried Rex with all The
honors due a hero.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
Robert Bacon and J. P. Morgan, Jr.,
Pry Way Out Of Room
With Knives.

New York;. P. Morgan, Jr., and
Robert Bacon, former ambassador to
France, were prisoners for 20 min
utes in the new quarters of ]. Pier
pont Morgan. in the Bankers Trust
building.
The two went up to inspect the new
quarters which are on the thirty-first
floor, Just before noon. A single door
leads from the main corridor into the
Morgan private suite, and Mr.. Morgan
slammed 1t without noticing that there
was no knob on the inside.
When an inspection was completed
the two men found themselves locked
in. No telephones have as yet been
installed. Mr.. Morgan went to work
with his pocket knife to turn the
screws that hold the lock on the door.
When he had unloosened two of the
screws he had broken all Of the blades.
Then the former ambassador to
France set to work and unloosened
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
Correspondent Says End of Trou-
bic in Europe Is Far Away.
Declares II Is impossible for Anyone
to Predict That 1912 viii End in
Peace-Russia Attempted to
End Present Conflict.

Berlin, Germany.-That Europe has
passed through the two first months
OF spring without a catastrophe of any
kind in the diplomatic field must not
be taken to mean that the sky is now
cloudless and the horizon clear. On
the contrary, omjnous rumblings are
heard everywhere, and no one dares
prophesy that 1912 will end in peace.
During the last two weeks a CORE
spondent of a Washington paper
writes events have happened which
have puzzled the diplomats of all the
great countries-eTents which seem
to predict the imminency OF material
changes in the delicate balance of old
Europe. Our poor old world, in spite
OF all its enlightenment, still possesses
its political sphinx, situated within the
confines of Russia.
What Russias plans really are no
one ever knows, least of all, probably
the gentle and peace-loving car him
self. Russia gave the first impulse to
the new grouping of the powers when
under Alexander Ill, a strong and
virile ruler of extraordinary gifts as
statesman, she concluded the ALI
ance with France, which became the
mistaken corner stone of the Euro
pean position. Now, at least, it seems
as if this corner stone is less firm than
before France and Russia are no
longer in perfect harmony, and Russia
blamed the French ambassador to St
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
THE PROGRESS|VES
CALL CONVENTION
Committee Chooses Chicago as
the Place.
NAMES AUGUST 9Th AS TIME
Declaration Opens With An Attack
On Crooked Bosses In Old
Party Oreaniza-
tons.

New York-A call to the people of
the United States who are in sympathy
with the National Progressive Move
ment" to send delegates to National
August 5, was given out here by Unit
ed States Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon,
OF Montana, Theodore Roosevelts
campaign manager. The call is sign
ed by members of the committee
chosen at a meeting held in Chicago,
and also includes signatures Of Roose-
welt followers in 40 States.
The text of the call is:
ITO the people of the United States,
without regard to past political differ
ences, who, through repeated betray-
ais, realize that today the power of
the crooked political bosses and of
the privileged classes behind them is
so strong in the two old party organ
izations that no helpful movement in
the real interests OF our country can
come out of either;
who believe that the time has
come for national progressive move
ment-a nationwide moyement-on
non-sectional lines, so that the people
may be served in sincerity and truth
by an organization unfettered by obi
cation to conflicting interests;
who believe in the right and
capacity of the people to rule them
the agencies of their government, and
who hold that only through social and
industrial justice, thus secured, can
honest property find permanent pro
lection;
"Who believe that government by
the few tends to become, and has in
fact become, government by the
sordid influences that control the few;
"Who believe that only through the
movement proposed can We obtain in
legislation demanded by the modern
industrial evolution; legislation which
shall favor honest business and yet
control the great agencies of modern
business so as to insure their being
used in the interest of the whole peo-
pie; legislation which shall promote
prosperity and at the same time
secure the better and more equitable
diffusion of prosperity; legislation
which shall promote the economic
well-being of the honest farmer, wage
worker, professional man and bust
ness man alike, but which shall at the
same time strike in efficient fashion
and not merely pretend to strike
at the roots of privilege in the world
of industry no less than in the world
of politics;
"To all in accord with these views
call is hereby issued by the pro-
visional committee under the resolu-
ton of the massmeeting held in Chi
cago on June % last to send from
each State a number of delegates
whose votes in the convention shall
count for as many votes as the State
shall have Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress to meet in conven-
ton at Chicago on August 8, 1912, for
the purpose of nominating candidates
to be supported for the positions of
President and Vice-President of the
United States"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
PLAQUE Reports Alarm.

Neutrality-suspicious. that bubonic
plague had appeared in Havana are
causing serious concern. Juan. Cutter
as, head of the Cuban Department of
Health, cabled Surgeon General Blue,
of the Public Health and Marine Hos.
pital Service, that it had not been de-
termined whether the suspected cases
were bubonic plague. The United
States will adopt protective measures
if the disease turns out to be the
plague. The plague situation in Porto
Rico is improving, no new cases hav'
ing been reported for four days.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12

Petersburg for the Earring note OF the
discord which was dimly heard by
those whose ears are always pressed
against the ground.
Russia wanted 10 put an end to the
war between Italy and Turkey, but she
wanted something herself from the
government in Constantinople in ex-
change for her friendly services, and
she hoped, naturally, to be backed up
by France. In this hope she was dis
appointed, and the closing of the OAR
danelles. which followed, caused the
greatest irritation in st. Petersburg,
because It brought home very torciDIy
to the Russian statesmen the immense
disadvantage and danger of their en-
pire not controlling the outlets from
the Black sea. Now, OF course, the
Dardanelles are once more open, but
many a statesman head will lie un-
easily until the Russian sphinx has
spoken and made known its plans def
nitely. Meanwhile it is admitted that
the continuance of the Italo-Turkish
war is not free from danger.
Italy cannot think Of an advance in
TripoI until the autumn and may not
be able TO do so even then. Nor can
Italy withdraw with honor. There is
an impasse which European diplomacy
will have TO remove. But no states
man has yet found a way, and all that
NJ. Sazanoffs attempts have so far
achieved is the diplomatic sensation in
Paris.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
RURAL SCHOOLS
AND EDUCATORS
National Council of Educators
On at Chicago.
MUST REVIVE INTEREST
Report Is Submitted Criticisins
Our Rural School System.
Country Child Is
Neglected.

Chicago.-The little red school.
house is so "unattractive' that more
than two-thirds OF the 100000 pupils
in the rural public schools fail to
reach a high standard in their
studies"
That condition was described as a
menace to educational progress and
as one of the reasons why the coun-
try child looks longingly toward the
city, in a report submitted before the
National Council OF Education here.
The conditions surrounding the tradi-
tional little red schoolhouse were de-
scribed as so deplorable that the coun-
Gil considered plan TO have the ma
tional association employ an expert
to investigate and report on rural dis
tricts.
Z. T. Fairchild, state superintendent
Of public instruction, Topeka, kas.,
and James y. Joyner, Raleigh, n. c.,
declared that the country child is
the neglected child, and the country
schoolhouse a neglected schoolhouse "
luty Sdlu INC 4ilhOl NcAANC VI va "a
education was shown in the fact that
Of the 20,00O,000 school children in
the United States 100000 attended
country schools, yet less than one
third OF the rural pupils were able to
meet their grades.
There must be a revival of inter-
est in the country school if the educa-
ton of the country is to progress"
said Mr.. Joyner We must cease
centering all our attention on the city
school. There must be aroused in
the schoolhouse in the desert. on the
mountain or on the farm a love of
rural life, and not hatred OF it,
Neglect our rural schools and they
will be deserted; make them attrac-
tive and comfortable and education
will flourish
The teaching of scientific farming
and fruit growing with special refer
ence to local conditions were recon-
mended as an incentive TO renewe
interest in rural education.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
SPEEDING TRAINS CRASH
Races On At 65 Miles An Hour, When
Man At Lever Sees Danger,
Reverses Throttle and is
Thrown From Cab.

Corning. y. Y.-Westbound Lacka-
wanna passenger train, No. 8, from
New York, due to arrive at Corning at
447 A. NJ, composed of two engines,
baggage car, three PulImans and two
day coaches in the order named, were
demolished at Gibson three miles east
of Corning, at 5.25 o'clock Thursday
morning by express train, No, II, due
at Corning at $40 A. NJ. Forty-one
persons We're killed and between 80
and 90 injured. Many Of the victims
were holiday excursionists bound to
Niagara Falls, who had boarded the
train at points along the line, The
wreck was the worst in the history OF
the road. Its cause, according to Engl-
neer Schroeder of the express, was his
failure to see signals set against his
train The morning was foggy and he
said he could not make them out. The
wrecked train stood on the main track,
blocked by a crippled freight train.
There was no flag out according to
Engineer Schroeder. The signals, En-
gineer Schroeder declared, it was too
foggy 10 see, were just around a curve.
The flying express plunged past
them and crashed into the rear Of No.
8, bringing death to more than two
score of its passengers.
Schroeder had taken No. II at Ell
mira Is minutes before 1t was few
minutes late. The stretch of track
from Elmira TO Corning is fitted for
fast running, and he was sending his
train along at IS miles an hour No
9 was supposed to be half an hour
ahead of him. He had no warning
until he made out the outline Of the
rear coach of No. 8 through the fog
Then he threw on the reverse without
shutting off steam. The jerk threw
the train off the track and the locomo-
tive plunged on to splinter the two
day coaches filled with the excursion
lists and tear through the last Of the
Pullmans Schroeder said the impact
threw him from the cab and landed
him on his shoulder on the roadbed,
practically unhurt.
The 10O-ton monster continued its
plunge through the middle of the train,
grinding everything in its path. When
finally blocked by the debris, it re-
NAMED on the roadbed in the midst
Of the desolation it had caused, while
hundreds of persons rushed in every
kind of vehicle to the scene to lift
and pry the dead and injured from
the tangled mass of wreckage.
Most of the bodies found were badly
mangled The wrecked cars were one
heaped-up mass of wreckage, tanning
into each other in telescope fashion.
The last two cars on train No. II re-
NAMED on the track and later were
used as temporary hospitals.
Those who visited the scene of the
wreck before the hospital forces had
time to finish the work of removal,
Witnessed many scenes of horror.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
TOO SHY FOR LONELY BRIDE
Man Imagined His Wife Wanted to
"Boss" Him and Remained
at Office.

Oakland, Cal-Georgetta Burnham
ard Allen P. Burnham were married
at San Rafael in September of last
year, but he became churlish in few
hours after their marriage, according
to her complaint for divorce filed.
Mrs. Burnham said that he was mum
for several evenings and ignored her.
Burnham is an engraver and embosser.
His wife said that he staid at his office
at night. and when she begged him to
come home he told her he would allow
no woman to boss" him. Afterward,
she said, he deserted her.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
Bird Causes Auto Accident.

Greenwich, Ct-When bird few in
her face while driving her automobile,
Mrs. Nelson Macy, OF New York, a
summer resident here, was slightly in.
jured. The bird caused her to let 60
of the steering wheel and the car ran
into a tree, smashing the windshield
and wrecking the front of the car.
Mrs. Macy was taken into the house
of William G. Rockefeller, where DR.
Parker cared for her. Her lower lip
was cut in two She received a few
other bruises.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
KILLS SNAKE IN PULPIT
"Tenderfoot" Pastor Shows Nerve
While Preaching at
Greeley, Colo.

Greeley, Colo.-Rev. John Bentley,
an invalid "tenderfoot," graduate of an
eastern theological college, may have
a congregation any time his health
permits him to preach here because Of
his nerve. Addressing a handful Of
people in the little adobe schoolhouse,
ten miles from here, he paused sud-
denly at sight of = rattlesnake that
had joined his congregation and
nestled at his feet. He stopped quick
ly, grabbed the reptile back Of the
neck, carried it out Of the schoolhouse
and stamped it to death. Returning, he
dropped the subject Of his sermon
and, symbolizing the snake as sin,
held his congregation for an hour. The
next night the congregation was too
large for the schoolhouse.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
Monster Taken by Fishermen Weighs
5000 Pounds anG Is Twelve
Feet Long.

Point Isabel. Tex.-Mexican fisher
men had an exciting encounter with
manatee, 8 giant sea-cow, in the shall
low water Of the Laguna Madre near
here recently. 1t was captured only
after one Of the men, Ramon Rodri-
guez, had been seriously hurt by one
Of its flippers.
The creature was IL feet long and
weighed more than 1900 pounds 1t is
being kept alive and promises to sur
vive for some time.
The sea-cow is supposed to have
come up from the more southern wa
tiers Of the gulf. 1t entered the Lagu-
ma Madre at the pass which separates
the island from the mainland and was
seen by the fishermen struggling in a
shallow part of the strip of water.
A boat with three men went out to
capture It, When they got close to it
Rodriguez climbed out of the boat and
attempted to put rope around the
manatee's Ans and was knocked un-
conscious by blow from one of its
fiippers. He would have drowned had
he not been dragged into the boat by
his companions. The rope was finally
fastened and the manatee was towed
ashore. 1t is the second of its kind
captured in the Laguna Madre in the
last few weeks.
These animals are quite numerous
along the coast $50 to 200 miles south
Of here. They are adapted to both salt
and fresh water. A strange feature of
their appearance in the waters along
the coast is that they are usually ac-
companied by school of sea devils,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
His $4,000 eobbIer Dies.

Allentown, Pa.-Councilman William
J. Morton mourns the death of the
Duke of Antwerp" the white Holland
gobbler which at the Madison Square
Garden show Christmas week, 1911,
won the sweepstake prize as the blue
ribbon turkey of America. At that
time he refused an offer of $4,000 for
the bird. A month ago the gobbler
had pneumonia, apparently recovered,
but Thursday, after strut around the
barnyard. fell over dead.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
BATTLESHIP RAMMED.
Steamer Commonwealth Crashes Into
the New Hampshire.

Newport, r. While steaming out
of the harbor at 44O o'clock Sunday
morning in a dense fog, en- route to
Fall River, the New England Naviga-
ton steamboat Commonwealth ram
med the battleship New Hampshire, at
anchor off the training station, cut a
deep cash in her bow and stove in the
stern of the battleship above the
armor plates for a distance of "a feet.
No lives were lost on either craft, and
Ensign S. S. Krakow, of the battle
ship, was the only man injured; but
both steamboat and battleship will be
out of commission for two months at
least, if not all summer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-12
PASSENGER AND
FREIGHT CRASH
Twenty-Five Persons Killed
and Many Hurt.
ENGINE FALLS ON ITS SIDE
Passengers Either Crushed Or Hurled
Into the Ar-First Fatal Acct
dent On the Ligonier Road
In 40 Years.

Latrobe, Pa-Twenty-one persons
were killed and 80 injured, a large
number fatally, when passenger
train on the Ligonier Valley Railroad
was crashed into from behind by q
double-header freight train. Only one
passenger escaped without injury.
The accident occurred at the fair
grounds at Wilpen, one and half
miles from Ligonier, a summer resort.
The passenger train had started
from Ligonier. 1t consisted of an
engine and a coach, the engine push
ing the coach. The freight train was
made up of many coal cars and was
being pulled by two heavy locomo-
tives.
The impact was terrific. The pas
senger coach was practically laid
open and the passengers either crush
ed OF hurled like shots through the
air.
1t was the first fatal accident 1t is
said, in the history of the Ligonier
Road for the past 40 years. The train
was we'll crowded, every seat in the
lone coach being occupied with per-
sons returning from a Fourth of July
holiday.
The coach was ripped to pieces All
the occupants were hurled to the road
bed. Some fell in the path of the on
rushing engine, while others were i'm
bedded, partly in the cinders and
crushed stones beside the rails.
Engineer McConnaughey was scald-
ed to death, while his fireman, George
Byers, jumped. only to fall on the
track and meet death under the
wheels.