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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

Prof. Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston
university comes forward to say that
twenty-five is the best age for men to
marry, says the st. Paul Dispatch.
Professors, every now and then, have
to say things like this. Similar things
have been said before and will be
said again. 1t will be safe to lay small
bet that few folks will take the ad-
vice, principally because folks seldom
do take advice in the matter of marry
ing, as a result of which we have
large number of fairly successful mar
riages in the world. Any rule is good
which works. Many men marry at
twenty-five and are happy. But also
men marry at twenty and thirty and
forty and fifty and are happy. The
proof of marriage, like the proof of
everything else, is its working out in
practice. There is no best age at
which to marry. A man who is fool
at twenty-five will be fool just the
same if he marries at that age. II
marriage depended on some one thing
1t would be possible to make rules.
But ii so happens that it doesn't de-
pend on any one thing. The one thing
that guarantees success in one case
would be the very thing to spell ruin
in another case in which the motive
was equally or more worthy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
MULHALL IS CORROBORATEl
J. (. McDERMOTT ACCUSED OF
CORRUPTION.
Former Page of House Declares Chi
cagoan Implored Him Not to
Reveal Facts.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-In q dramat
ic statement, |. H. McMichael, for
merly chief page Of the House of Rep
resentatives, presented the house lob
by investigating committee a sweep
ing charge of corruption against Rep
resentative James E. McDermott OF
Illinois, for years his sponsor. With
intense earnestness, McMichael, in
picturesque language, corroborateC
the allegations of M. M. Mulhal
against McDermott, and made charg
es at times shocking the committee
and spectators with outbursts of pro
family and slang.
The witness protested that for
years he had exerted every effort tC
support McDermott, had loaned him
money, had helped him in his cam
paigns. Now, he said, McDermott haG
thrown him down, and he felt that he
must tell the truth.
In addition to the charges already
made, McMichael swore that the Chi
cago representative told him that he
received $500 out of fund of $40,
900 raised by the pawnbrokers of
Washington to oppose a bill passed
in the last congress regulating inter
est rates in the District of Columbia
In this connection McMichael told
of a trip to New York when McDer.
mott conferred with John McDermott
of an association of brewers. and
with George H. Horning, local pawn,
broker.
Concluding his testimony, Nc.
Michael testified that McDermott
since the Mulhall expose, had endeav
ored to get him to conceal McDer
motifs part in the transaction.
II met McDermott in the hall oil
this office building" McMichael said
his voice unsteady with emotion, "and
he said My God! I'm ruined man
What am / going to do? Do you aup
pose anybody will believe this ole
guy? | said to him: I've WORKED
hard for you for six years; harder
than ever worked for any man.
tried to elevate you and help you t.
a big position. l told him ! had don't
all could for him He said You've
got nothing to lose; you don't live
with your wife. I'm a congressman
and I've got wife and children. Say
you wrote those letters, unbeknown
est to me, and that | did not know
anything about it. Even if they prove
that you committed perjury and for
gerry they can only send you down
the river to the ark for two years
and I'll pay you 500 a month while
you are there
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
GLYNN WON'T AID
SULZER MOVEMENT
REFUSES TO LET COURTS DE-
eide TITLE TO GOVERNOR
SHIP OF NJ. Y.
DECLARES HE HAS NO POWER
Claims He Could Be lmpeached II He
Consented to Such a Settlement
Mrs. Sulzer Suffers a Relapse
of Nervous Trouble.

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 1S.-Martin H.
Glynn has checkmated the movement
of William Sulzer to invoke the ar
bitrament of the courts on the ques-
ton as to which of the two is the
present lawful chief executive of the
state of New York.
Replying to a formal proposal by
the impeached executive to submit the
issue to adjudication on an agreed
was beyond his power to barter
away any of the functions attached
to the office in which / am placed by
your impeachment Any attempt on
Eny part to do so or to stipulate a
method by which it might be done,
would properly place me in the po-
sition you are now in-that of being
impeached for malfeasance in office. "
Will Act as Governor.
Glynn added that he purposes per-
forming every function of the office
of government, except insofar as
am restrained by your illegal action
or by physical force"
The announcement of the lieutenant
governors policy followed negotia-
tons between the respective counsel
of the two men in which it had result
ed in a virtual agreement to take the
case to the court Of appeals.
Glynn's letter, addressed to THE
Hon. William Suffer-" was signed as
acting governor" The letter was
delivered to Mr.. Sulzer at the execu-
tive mansion.
Mr.. Glynn motored to his country
house after a consultation with his
counsel.
Governor Sulzer left the executive
chamber early, and after a short spin
in an automobile, returned to the
mansion. The doors of the executive
suite at the capitol were securely
locked, while guards paced up and
down both within and without the
corridor throughout the night.
The serious condition of Mrs. Sui
ger necessitated the recall of DR.. r OBJ
ert Abrahams from New York. No of
fetal bulletin was forthcoming from
the executive mansion concerning
Mrs. Sulzer, but a bulletin, dictated
by DR.. Abrahams after he had learned
of the patients condition over the tel
ephone, stated that she was still lin
precarious condition" with tenn
| perature of 102 and pulse of 118.
She is delirious at times and an in
creasing temperature and fiuctuating
rulses last night so alarmed those at
the bedside that DR.. Abrahams was
hurriedly summoned from New York.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
SEDUCTION STORY REPEATED
SECOND GIRL WITNESS ADDS
TO FlRST'S EVIDENCE.
Digqs-Caminetti White Slave Case
Develops Some Minor Surprises
During Day.

San Francisco, Aug. 16.-Lola Nor
ris followed Marsha Warrington on
the witness stand and repeated vir-
er terms, the story of seduction, in
timidation and elopement from Sacra-
mento to Reno, on which the govern
ment bases it's prosecution of Maury
[. Diggs and Drew Caminetti, under
the Mann act. The trial of Caminetti
will follow that of Diggs, now in prog
ress.
The day was punctuated by a series
Of sharp minor surprises. Juror Bliss
showed a disposition to question the
good faith of the government in hold
ing from evidence the transcript of
story told by Marsha Warrington
to the assistant district attorney of
Sacramento county ons the way home
from Reno, after the arrests.
He was instructed by the court that
the jury would take cognizance of
nothing except what came regularly
before it.
Curiosity as to his state of mind in
creased when, after the noon adjourn
ment, he was Is minutes late, but
Judge Van Flest accepted suaveiy his
statement that he had misunderstood
the instructions as when to return.
In dismissing the jury the court re-
peated the usual caution and at the
same time explained the particularly
emphatic admonitions he gave
Wednesday,
81 don't want to be understood"
said the Judge, "as having implied
Wednesday that there was any well
founded suspicion as to the integrity
Of the jury. The suggestions / had in
mind came from one of my own at
tendants, but it did not mean that
anyone knew anythir g of a sinister
nature of anyone on this jury. 1t was
suggested that one looking like mem
Der Of this jury had been seen talking
with some one connected with the de-
tense of this case"
During the ten-minute recess in the
afternoon session, photographers and
moving picture men invaded the court
room, and there was furry among
the principals in the case and the
women spectators, all of whom COW
cred their faces. One photographer
was arrested and fined $50.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

The position of poet laureate is
something of a joke, although taken
seriously enough by the British peo-
pie. The idea of an official poet is
humorous enough in itself, and as the
choice of the poet depends not so
much on the character of his poetry
as on political influences, the humor
becomes intensified. The American
mind cannot appreciate the situation.
but the post carries an amount of
prestige evidently to the British mind
or men of literary reputation would
not accept it with the amount of
drudgery it involves in inspired"
poems of laudation on public and do
nestle events in the lives of the emf
nently respectable, says the Baltimore
American, but also eminently common
place persons who comprise the royal
family of England.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
S. r. MORSE. Editor.
RIVER FALLS.
WIS
INFLUENCE oF HABIT.


1t may be supposed by some that
the soul is just as big, and as warm
and as sympathetic as it's Divine Giver
made 1t, and that nothing the indi-
will expand or enlarge it. That Is a
mistake. 1t is just as much mistake
as it would be so say that nothing one
may or can do will have influence in
making the physical body healthful,
normal and strong. Every one knows
that the habits of a man or a woman
have much to do with bodily comfort
and strength. Many a man who is
endowed with strong physique, has
made of himself a weakling, often a
physical and mental wreck, by his
habits Of intemperance. When the
term intemperance is used in this con-
nection, 1t means intemperance in eat
ing or intemperance in drinking, in
temperance in the qualification of the
lusts of the flesh, intemperance in any
thing. One in yielding to the slavery
of habit may deceive himself and pre-
sumo that he is having a good time.
But he will not have to live very many
years to find out that his good time
is lacking in the quality of logevity.
1t will be short lived. says the Knox
vile Journal and Tribune. And when
his capacity for enjoyment has been
pinched, shriveled and robbed of the
essence of life by the frosts and the
storms of time, he is likely to become
of all men the most miserable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Jerome offers no Comment.

Lakeyille, Conn, Aug. 1S.-News of
the escape of Harry Thaw broke in
upon the quietude of the weekend
visit of William Trayers Jerome, for
mer district attorney of New York, at
his summer home here. Mr.. Jerome
conducted the states case against
Thaw and since retirement from Of
fee had been retained on different oc-
casions to oppose Thaw's efforts to
secure release from the institution.
Regarding the escape, Mr.. Jerome
said: s'I have no statement to make
mr. comment to offer.''
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

A member of the English aristoc-
racy who has adopted the stage as a
dancer, says she has done so because
she needs the money. This is refresh
ing. She might have said that she
did it in the cause of the uplift of
art, or because she wearied of the
empty life of the leisure class and
wanted a career, or that she desired
to blazon the way for her suffering
sisters. But to work because she
needs the money is an explanation of
such genuine heart interest as to be
popular at once.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
MAGAZINE Suit Is Dropped.

New York, Aug. 18.-The federal
government has dropped it's antitrust
suit against the periodical clearing
house, an organization that embraces
some important magazines. The suit
began here about two years ago by
United States District Attorney Henry
A. Wise, attracted widespread atten-
ton because the government sought
to prove that magazine makers, some
of them active in undertaking" the
great industrial and commercial com
binations, we're themselves guilty OF
violation of the Sherman law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
5000 Chinese Are Killed.

Hong Kong, Aug. 18.-Five thou
sand persons are reported to have
been killed in the fighting that is
going on in Canton and it's environs
between government forces and rob
els. Looting continues and there has
been a wholesale destruction of prop
erty. Prisoners are being led through
the streets of Canton by wires run
ming through holes drilled in their
noses. This and other methods of tor
turing prisoners are common.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
FORCED TO EAT PET DOG
Dangers and Hardships Encountered
in Crossing Greenland by Dan
ish Explorers.

Copenhagen, Aug. 16.-The story
told by Captain Koch, the Danish ex-
plorer, of the crossing of Greenland in
company with three hardy compan-
ions, shows that the dangers and
hardships to be encountered on the
great ice field have not decreased
since Rear Admiral Peary and Dr.
Nansen made their journeys over a
portion of the same deserted wastes.
The Danish leader and his three COM
panions, DR.. Wagner, a German, Lar
sen, sailor, and Sigurdson, a native
of Iceland, were reduced to eating a
net dog, the only animal left.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
ts.d Miners, Strike Called.

Flat Riyer, Mo-, Aug. ia strike
of the miners employed in the lead
mines in st. Francis county has been
called. About 5000 men will be af-
fected. The local executive commit
tee of the Western Federation of
Miners refused to compromise on a
wage increase of L. cents day. The
companies affected are the st. Joe and
Doe Run Lead companies, Desoldge
Consolidated, st. Louis Smelling and
Refining, and the Federal company.
The men are demanding wage in
crease of so cents a day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
suffranists Are Given HEARING.

washington, Aug. Unsupported II
their arguments by several members
of the house, delegates to the Ma
tional Council of Women Voters ap
peared before the house rules com
mittee to urge the creation of WON
an suffrage committee in the lower
branch of the congress. The Womer
were lead by Mrs. Emma Smith De
voc, president of the council. Rep
resentatives Raker of California
Heating of Colorado and Faiconer OF
Washington were on hand to cham
pion their cause.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
VIII Arrest ThaW on SIGHT.

New York, Aug. 1S.-New York's
10000 policemen have orders to ar
rest Harry X. Thaw on sight. A gen.
eral alarm for his apprehension was
sent out to every precinct in the city.
The police acted on request of the Mat
teawan asylum authorities. Here is
the description of Thaw sent out by
the police: Height, feet, liz
inc-es; weight, 166 pounds; brown
hair and eyes; dark complexion" The
clothing worn by Thaw at the time
of his escape was not described.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Holds Thaw Dangerously Crazy.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Alienists who
figured in the trials of Harry K. Thaw
and his subsequent attempts to prove
his sanity and be set free from Mattee-
wan, with the exception of those who
testified in behalf of Thaw, were unan-
imous in the opinion that he still is
insane, and dangerous individual to
any community. Harry K. Thaw is
crazy. and consequently a dangerous
man." DR.. Austin Flint, the eminent
alienist, told a reporter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Currency Bill is Amended.

Washington, Aug. 16.-An amend
ment designed to make it clear that
commercial paper based on warehouse
receipts for staple commodities would
be accepted for rediscount by fed
eral reserve banks, proposed in the
administration currency bill, has been
practically agreed upon in the House
Democratic caucus. The amendment
to which Chairman Glass said the
banking and currency committee
would not object was offered by tho
majority leader, Mr.. Underwood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Chronicle BUYS Frisco Call.

San Francisco, Aug. 16.-The Sar
Francisco Call, morning paper own
ed by John d. Spreckels, has been
bought by M. H. De Young, proprietor
of the San Francisco Chronicle, and
will go out of existence on Sept. /
Announcement to this effect was made
by Mr.. De Young in the Chronicle
The Call was founded in 1856.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Lead Miners out On Strike.

Flat River, Mo-, Aug. ia three
hour conference between the execu
tive board of the Western Federation
of Labor and officers of the lead min
ing companies CT St Francois county
failed to avert the strike OF 5000
miners. The union men agreed tt
withdraw their strike order if the
companies would advance wages Sc
cents day and agree to arbitrate
recognition of the union. The mine
officials refused to consider the
union.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

Leipsic, Germany, Aug. 1S.-Herl
Ruetger, a passenger in an aeroplant
driven by Aviator Roempler was killed
here when a sudden gust of wind caus
ed the machine to turn over. Roemp
Ter was seriously injured. The aero
plane was flying at height of 80 feet
when he accident occurred.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Violate 9-Hour Law.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. Is. = The
eight-hour law was disregarded by the
international Typographical Union
convention when the delegates remain
ed in continuous session from $3.50
a. m. to 6:15 p. m, eight hours and
Is minutes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
: Rrother-in-Law of Gar Here.

New York, Aug. 18.-Grand Duke
Alexander Michaelovitch, brother-in
law of Emperor Nicholas of Russia
arrived here on the steamship France
His vheit of several weeks to the
United States will include stay az
Newport.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
u,,sband Offers 500 Reward.

Ironwood, Mich, Aug. 1S.-A re-
ward of 500 was offered to the per
son who finds Mrs. Anna Kosut II,
who left her home in the North Pabst
location last Saturday TO go berry
picking, according to her husband.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Woman Acquitted; Town Celebrates

WoHIdH HCquIIteu, OWL LeIeDfates,
Steamboat Springs, Col, Aug. IS.
Anna Bernard, known in Colorado
as the Cattle Queen" was acquitted
by jury of the charge of cattling
stealing. Immediately upon report Of
the jury's verdict, Queen Anne" and
her friends leased all the motion pic
ture houses in the town for the night
and all business houses and saloons
closed, while the people of the city
celebrated her acquittal with her.
Bonfires were built and men, women
and children marched through the
streets
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
e,okan clasa Causes Death.

Chester, S. D., Aug. 1S.-Calvin
Pabst, a butcher, died as the result of
cutting an artery in his arm while
attempting to reach through broken
glass to unlock the back door of his
shop.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

A pea fowl in the Philadelphia zoe
attacked a buffalo. The combat
looked ridiculous to the spectators
and ended in the natural way, but it
is not without parallel in human rec
ords.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Possible $4,000 Hail DAMAGE.

Minot, N 'D.--From fifty to seventy
five thousand dollars hail damage to
the crops of Renville county was
done in the terrific storm that swept
this district, according to belated re-
ports just received.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
lively Caucus Discussions.

Washington, Aug. 18.-After three
hours of lively discussion between the
administration forces and the curren-
cy "insurgent," the house Democratic
caucus adjourned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

A lunatic who escaped from the
asylum at Poughkeepsie surrendered
to the New York police, declaring that
the metropolis was too dangerous a
place to be at large in. This will raise
naturally doubts as to his insanity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

A Chicago physician declares that
walking is not beneficial. OBVIOUSLY
good practice among automobiles is
something worth having.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

Lady Constance decentralization
says that corsets are brutal and stu
pid." We dare her to say that. to the
Fat Ladies league.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

Say it's not easy to get wife. Seat
tie man wrote Il want wife by 1915"
on a single He Immediately heard
from So applicants.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21
Shoe Leather Output is Cut.

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. ia ma
terial curtailment in the production OF
leather for shoe manufacture was de-
cided upon at a meeting of the Mid
die Western Upper Leather Tanners
here. f
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

the state line within half an hour.
Barnum's breathless declaration at
the asylum brought DR.. Kieb to his
feet like pistol shot.
Alarm Spread Broadcast.
Within moment he was at the tele-
phone and, as Barnum poured the story
into his ears, repeated it over the
wire to police headquarters. Mattea-
wan became the center Of a widening
ripple of telephone and telegraph
alarms as DR.. Kieb planned pursuit
He might as well have tried to chase
12-inch shell. The ten-minute start,
the high power of the car in which
Thaw made his flight, the nearness Of
the Connecticut state line toward
which Thaw was heading, and the in
ferior power of the pursuing cars mill
tated against him and made the chase
hopeless. Five minutes ride away he
met William Flanagan, liveryman.
Il saw him." Flanagan shouted
'He was near Fishkill village and 60
ing 60 miles an hour / saw him COM
ing and just had time to crowd my
horses close over to one side of the
road. Just let him keep on; he'll
break his neck"
A rigid investigation inclined DR..
Kieb to the belief that Thaw planned
flight on yacht in Long Island sound
and that if he reached the yacht it
was by relays of automobiles, station
ed along the road to throw pursuers
off the trail.
Wife Closely Guarded.
New York-Uiformed policemen
guard every entrance to the hotel
where Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is stay
ing.
Always fearful of her husband, she
showed her terror to a marked de-
gree on learning that he was at large
Her mother, Mrs. Charles ]. Holman
was frightened even more than she
and urged Mrs. Thaw 10 go into Sc
clusion until Thaw is found
Harry has threatened to kill me-"
Mrs. Thaw said, "and l believe my
presence in New York prompted him
to escape. Four years ago he told
me: 1 suppose I'll have to kill you
next
Say Flint is Worst Enemy.
MANY men will have cause for fear
now that he is free. He considers
DR.. Austin Flint his worst enemy and
undoubtedly will try to make trouble
for him.
''The state of New York has a
great deal to answer for in this case
What Harry Thaw has been allowed
to do at Matteawan is an outrage to
think of-bribery connived at and
keepers bullied by all the power of
his money. And now he is allowed
to escape. 1 suppose $4,000 or $780,
900 looked pretty good to some peo-
pie.
"One thing is certain: Harry wont
stay in hiding long. He'll be heard
from soon. A few drinks make him a
raving mailman and when that hap
pens he'll head straight for New York.
! He's crazy to get here and he won't
be able to stay away. l have made
up my mind, however, not to worry.
If anything is going to happen l can't
stop it. | am glad my baby is in
London, though, and l think he'll be
safe there