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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

A New York hotel, one of the promi-
nent ones of that city, has a scheme
which it has just put in operation by
which it hopes to solve the tipping
question. The management has de-
cided to make reduction of 10 per
cent. on all checks of more than so
cents, reduction supposedly equiva-
lent to the average tip. This act will
relieve guests of the necessity of pay
ing twice for service. This probably
is the best scheme yet presented as
solution to the tipping evil. 1t is
Hane, and while assuming that a ma
Jority Of guests would resent a request
not to tip walters and recognizing that
IT would be an impossibility to en-
force an order to prevent walters
from accepting tips. the management
has taken the dignified way out of the
difficulty
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
KILL AMERICAN TARS
TWO MEMBERS OF CRUISER CAL.
IFoRNIA DIE IN STREET FIGHT
AT MEXICAN PORT.
THREE OTHERS ARE INJURED
Several Native Policemen Wounded
While Attempting to Arrest Two
Y. S. Sailors, According to Reports
Received at Guaymas.

Guaymas, Sonora, April 14.-ID a
street fight at Mazatlan, a Pacific
coast port below this point, two sail
ors of the United States cruiser Cali
fornia were killed and three others
wounded
Two or three Mexican policemen
were wounded in attempting to ar
rest the American sailors.
Admiral Cowles, under orders from
Washington. is investigating the
tragedy.
Washington, April a. William
Wallace Corrie, seaman, and John
Chase Klestow, first-class master at
arms, were the two men killed in the
fight at Mazatlan, Rear Admiral
Cowles reported to the navy depart
ment by wireless via the San Diego
station Friday.
Core had served in the navy two
years and Klestwo eleven years.
Both men enlisted from California
and had excellent records. Admiral
Cow1es reports they were not likely
to be aggressors in street fight.
There have been repeated displays
of anti-American feeling at some of
the Pacific ports of Mexico of late.
Ae few weeks ago, when talk of inter-
vention was at it's height, two off,
GERS of the cruiser Denver were as
saulted while ashore at Guaymas, and
on another occasion, when the navy
had ordered the Denver to another
port, anti-American feeling was run
ming so strong that her orders were
countermanded and she remained to
protect American and other foreign
ers.
FL Paso Tex, April 14.-Paiche
Villa, who has taken the field in
Chihuahua state against the Huerta
government, held up passenger train
east of Chihuahua City Friday and
obtained $50 bars of silver bullion val
ued at $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
M'ADOO WANTS NEW BLOOD
Secretary of Treasury Asks Resiena-
ton of High Customs officials
in Philadelphia.

Washington, April 10.-Reorganiza-
ton of the personnel of the customs
service by the Democratic administra-
ton was begun when Secretary Nc
Adoo of the treasury department took
steps to displace all the high customs
officials at the port of Philadelphia.
In announcing the action the secre-
tary said:
"It is considered vital in the inter-
ests of the people that new blood shall
be brought into the service
Mr.. McAdoo asked for the reeigna-
tions of Collector Chester w. Hill,
Surveyor Perry M. Lyttle, Appraiser
Fred P. Vincent and Naval officer
Walter T. Merrick, all of Philadel-
phia.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

1t ia natural that a people as scrup-
ulously regardful of their attire as the
Parisians should be the first to set
themselves seriously to the solution
of the problem of preventing the be-
scattering of pedestrians by automo-
biles. Flying mud mixed with motor
oil makes a stain that never comes
off A series of experiments has been
held at Versailles to determine the
comparative value of different devices
intended to act as mudguards for the
protection Of people walking in the
streets as well as of the occupants
Of the automobiles to which they are
attached. The world at large is con-
cerned in the result of these expert
ments. for undoubtedly when the most
effective mudguard is discovered and
demonstrated it will come into use
throughout the world at large.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
DANGER OF ANOTHER WAR
Bulgaria and Greece Are Drifting Into
Armed Conflict Over Scutari-
Troops Are Massed.

London, April 12.-The Chronicles
Vienna correspondent learns:
There is danger Of new war
breaking out between the allies them
selves. Bulgarians and Greece are
fast drifting into armed conflict over
Salonika. Both sides are massing
troops in that district to support their
claims.
France and Russia are said to sup
port Greeces claims to the seaport
but the other powers favor Bulgaria.
THE general situation is greatly
improved by the official Russian state
ment to King Nicholas, warning him
to cease the obstinate resistance to
the will of the powers. This has pro-
duced marked effect. In Europe it
is generally believed that the night
mare of European conflict has
passed"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
s. r. MORSE. Editor.
RIVER FALLS.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
WIS

The question OF divorce could be
solved IL the mora important Ques-
ZION of marriage were properly settled
first There would be as few divorces
in the United States as there are in
Europe If the same safeguards which
protect marriage in the older coun-
tries were thrown around marriage
ia this country. A uniform marriage
law is more needed in the United
States than a uniform divorce law.
1t is the essential preliminary to any
effective handling of the divorce prob
lem. Divorces in this country would
be reduced in number by two-thirds
IL, as is the law in England, no mar
riage could take place until the banns
have been published for three weeks
if no girl could marry without her
parents consent until she was TWEEN
ty-one years old. The causes allowed
for the granting of divorce in Illinois
are all reasonable, says the Chicago
Tribune. Incurable insanity should
be a cause for divorce. Certain dis
cases should be sufficient cause, as
well as incurable diseases concealed
before marriage. The English divorce
commission has recommended the rec
ognition of these three causes. If the
Illinois commission on uniform d.
vorce and marriage laws will take the
Divorce Beast by the horns and not by
the tail there will be much better
chance of mitigating the divorce evil.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
MORGAN IS BURIED
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE CON-
QUOTED ACCORDING TO WISH
ES OF FiNANcIER.
INTERMENT is AT HARTFORD
Body of Late Magnate Taken to Con-
necticut by Special Train and
Placed in Mauso!eum at Cedar Hill
Cemetery Beside Parents.

New York, April 11.-Bearing the
body Of j. Pierpont Morgan, who died
in Rome, italy, the steamship France
arrived at this port late Friday after
noon.
Shortly after the liner reached her
pier the body Of Mr.. Morgan was
borne to the Morgan library in East
Thirty-siXth street and remained there
until the funeral services at ST.
Georges church on Monday. There
was no lying in state and only the i'm
mediate members of family were per-
mitted to view body.
The governors of the New York
Stock exchange voted not to open the
exchange on Monday until noon out
Of respect for Mr.. Morgan.
The funeral services were conducted
according to the wish of Mr.. Morgan
who left with Rev. Earl Reiland, rec
tor of ST. Georges several years ago
a detailed memorandum of the manner
in which he wished his funeral to be
conducted. Mr. Morgan was for years
senior warden of this church.
aCCOl u1A5 W NIL NIOl ICQuC0C
Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, William
Lawrence and Chauncey B. Brewster,
bishops respectively of the Episcopal
diocese of New York, Massachusetts
and Connecticut, officiated at the fu-
neral services.
The simple ritual of the Episcopal
church was used with few minor
Emergencies suggested by Mr.. Nor
gan.
Mr. Morgan's request that the fu-
neral chant of the Episcopal service,
thirty ninth and nineteeth psalms
ginning-"Lord, let me know my
end and the number of my days.
should be intoned by the choir as a
professional chapter. Then followed
the hymn, Lead, Kindly Light" the
creed and the prayers and the sing
ing Of Calvary" by the negro soloist
ST. Georges choir The occasional
was the hymn For All Thy Saints
From Whom Their Labors Rest"
The honorary pail bearers were
George S. Bowdoin, Lewis Cass Led
yard, Robert w. De Forest, Henry
Fairfield Osborn, Joseph B. Choate,
Robert Bacon, George F. Baker, DR..
Low, Morton S. Patton and Elihu
Root.
Following the funeral services the
body was removed to the railroad sta
ton, where a special train was wait
ing to carry the remains to Hartford,
Conn. Upon arrival at Hartford a
large number of citizens met the fu-
neral party. The casket was removed
and placed in hearse that conveyed
the body to a mausoleum in Cedar Hill
cemetery, which Mr.. Morgan had con-
structed some years ago in memory
of his father and mother.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
LONG BATTLE ENDED
DIRECT ELECTION OF U. S. SEN
AToRs RATIFIED BY SO STATES.
No further Legislation Now Needed
to Adopt Seventeenth Amendment
to Constitution.

Washington, April 10.-By Connec-
ticutis ratification of the amendment
to that effect, Tuesday, direct election
of United States senators became one
of the provisions of the Constitution.
Thirty-six states, the requisite three
fourths of all in the Union, have ap-
proved the change. 1t remains only
for the governors of all states which
have acted favorably to formally noti-
fly Secretary Bryan and for him to is
sue a proclamation announcing the
change The amendment to the Con-
stitution is the second within the last
few months. The vote of the Connec-
ticut senate was unanimous; that of
the house $50 to n.
The amendment primarily trans
fers the power Of electing senators
from the legislatures to the people at
the polls. To effect this change it was
necessary to alter the machinery for
the filling of vacancies in the senate.
For more than sixty years proposals
had been made to change the COnstitu-
ton so as to provide for the direct
election of senators. 1t was not, how
ever, until June "a, 1911, that the
senate was induced for the first time
in its history to give it's consent to the
change.
No legislation by congress will be
necessary to put the change into eff
feet 1t will be incumbent upon the
various states to see that proper pro-
vision is made by the names of SEN
ators going on the regular ballots.
The first senators to be elected by
the new method will be those who
take their seats for the term begin
ming March 4, 1915.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
POPE. Plus LEAVES BED
DISAPPOINTED OVER NOT BEING
ABLE TO SEE PILGRIMS.
Rumor That Pontiff Had Passed
Away Caused Rush of Inquiries
at the Vatican.

Rome, Italy, April 14.-Pope Plus
rose and sat in an arm chair while
his bed was being made Friday. The
pope was little changed when Profess
sor Marchiafava and Doctor Amici ex-
amined him. His temperature had in
creased slightly, registering nearly 80.
No new symptoms developed during
the night.
The pope was feeling stronger and
expressed disappointme over not
being able to see the pilgrims from
Venice He asked Cardinal Merry del
Val to receive them for him and hand
each Of them commemorative
medal.
A sister and niece of the pope
visited him and remained several
hours in his room, while Mgr.
Bressen. private secretary to his holt
ness, celebrated mass. The pope
prayed, sitting up in bed.
A rumor spread through the city in
the morning that the pope was dead
and this caused a rush of inquiries to
the Vatican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
RODELL FLOORED 8 TIMES
Boer Boxer Shows Gameness in Bout
With Gunboat Smiths Badly
Punished.

New York, April 12-Gunboat
Smith, the California heavyweight,
who has been winning his bouts by
knockouts recently, outfought George
Rodell, the Boer pugilist, in a ten
round contest here Friday.
The foreign fighter put up a game
battle, going to the floor eight times
from Smiths hard punches, but re-
Stunning the fight each time. Twice he
was apparently knocked out.
Rodell outpointed the westerner in
the first three rounds and drew blood
from Smiths nose and mouth IN the
opening round. Rodell forced the pace
in the ninth and tenth, but in the lat
ter round he took a count of nine
from right swing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
5000 FAMILIES IN NEED
Steamer Leaves Cairo for Wabash RiV-
err Bottoms With Rations for 49,
600 Flood Victims.

Cairo, ILL.,, April 10.-The steamer
Illinois, with Adjutant General Dick,
son on board, and carrying supplies OF
provisions and clothing, left for the
Wabash river bottoms, where 3,OOO
families are destitute.
The boat carried rations for ten
thousand people for a week.
There has been no change at Cairo.
The river still marks 81 feet and a
scant sixteenth 1t is feared that if
the rains continue Cairo will not be
relieved from her present dangerous
high stage of water for several days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Mariner Weather Predicted

Washington, April Is. Slightly
warmer temperatures, less rainfall and
fair weather generally east of the
Rockies during the fore part of the
week are the probabilities offered by
Chief Willis L. Moore of the weather
bureau in his weekly bulletin. The
next disturbance of Importance to
cross the country will appear over
the Far West, cross the Rocky mount
aims about Wednesday, the great CEN
trail valleys Thursday or Friday, and
the eastern states near the close of
tie week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
SEEKS RELIEF FOR HEIRS
Senator Sherman of Illinois Introduces
His First Bill In Upper House
Of Congress.

Washington, April Ex-senator Sher-
man of Illinois introduced his first bill,
a measure for the relief Of the heirs Of
Gen. Phil Sheridan and the heirs of
many other officers. Some years ago
the Supreme court decided that the re-
tirement pay should include the four
years spent by the benefciaries at
West Point. Generals Grant and Sher-
man received back pay under the de
cision, but General Sheridan and
many others were never paid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
FIGHT TO SAVE PEACHES
Smudge Pots Are Burning in the Or
chards of Central and West
ern Kansas.

Topeka, Kan, April 12.-Hundreds
of smudge pots were burning through
out central and western Kansas in
order to protect the fruit buds which
were threatened by freezing tempera-
lures. In unprotected orchards it is
feared the peach crop was destroyed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

The building of biggest" steam
ships having passed the size where
the docks at New York are too small
for them has now reached the dimen-
sions where the Clyde is too small to
launch them The Cunarder Aquitai-
MIA has been held on the stocks until
they could deepen the river enough to
float her. Which indicates that we
are approaching the limit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
DAILY MARKET REPORT.

Minneapolis. April 14.-Wheat. Nav.
IS sc; July, SS1ac; No. 1 northern,
dnTn G sS no noBt6 Germ S Ssse Ne Ne
white oats. SIC; barley, mating. SIC:
No rye, 5S13c; No. | flax. s1.26&.
Duluth, April 14.-Wheat. May, S715 /;
durum 94c.
South St. Paul. April 14.--Cattle-
Steers, Sa75 0S25; cows, S5.U0@75O:
calves, s4.10@7.75; hogs, $S.s5Gs.0S:
sheep and lambs, S5.35
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Tea drinkers will shed few tears
when they learn that Collector Loeb
will dump 10000 packages of tea in
New York harbor, but this event is
hardly likely to be chronicled In his
tory like the famous tea party of the
early Boston days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Columbus. o.. farmers are trying to
secure a law enforcing all pedestrians
to carry lanterns on their coat tails
after dark as a revenge against au.
toists who demand the same of NOV,
ing vehicles. Making light of the sub.
ject all around.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Ladybugs are being gathered in
California to save the canteloupe crop
by devouring the Insects which prey
upon the latter. At least. this is one
instance where masculine ingenuity
has turned to advantage the feminine
instinct for destructiveness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
PASTORS Home Is pynamited.

Decatur, ILL.,, April 1.-THE PresDy
terian parsonage at Tolono, ILL.,, was
dynamited Thursday. Rev. w. H. Will
son and his wife, who were In the
house at the time, escaped without in.
iuries other than bruises.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Police Protect EnaIish JUDGE.

London, April 11.-Fear Of an attack
upon Justice Sir Charles Montague
Lush, who sentenced Mrs. Pankhust
to three years in prison, prompted
Scotland Yards to assign him body
guard Wednesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
MARRIAGE Bill Lost.

Columbus, o., April 12.-Representa-
tive Reppert's bill to prohibit mar
riage between whites and blacks and
whites and Chinese was defeated in
the house Thursday. The vote was
yeas, 80; nays, &c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Insane Patient Murders Another.

Kankakee, ILL.,, April 11-Victor H.
Hedquist, a patient admitted to the
Kankakee state hospital from Cook
county, was murdered on the institu-
ton grounds by another patient, Sey-
mour Peck, Wednesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

1t is announced that China needs
money Outside of very few the sole
oppression of whose lives is the fear
of dying rich, China but shares the
universal need.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Judoe Huches Is Fifty-one.

Washington, April IA large vase
filled with flowers graced the bench
in front of Supreme Court Justice
Hughes as a reminder of his birthday
anniversary Friday. Justice Hughes is
fifty-one.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
EiIT for Recall Passed,

ST. Paul, Mimi, April lathe
house passed Senator John Moonan's
bill for a constitutional amendment
for the recall of all public officials,
elective and appointive, Friday. The
bill now goes to the senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

A woman authority on the question
says there cannot be an ideal husband
without an ideal wife. This dictum
will probably go far toward settling
the vexed question. as it makes the
argument too personal to be pleasant.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Girl pickets Sent to Jail.

Hazelton, Pa, April 10.-Twenty-two
pickets, sixteen of them girls, who at
tempted to prevent the employees of
the Duplan silk mills from going to
work. were arrested Tuesday and put
in Jail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Pastor to Hanq May 80.

Fort Smith, Ark, April 12.--Rev.
Marion Caps, a Methodist minister
convicted on the charge of burning
two of his children to death in an oil
soaked bed, was sentenced Thursday
to be hanged May 30.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Deer Destroy Property.

Utica, n Y, April 14.-Farmers in
the Adirondack section declare that
they have suffered heavy loss to their
property from the bands of deer which
roam over the farming lands in search
of green food
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Rabcock Elected suffraoan.

Boston, April 12.-Rev. Samuel G.
Babcock Of Boston, archdeacon os the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Mas
sachusetts, was elected sufragan
bishop by the diocesan convention
here Thursday
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Polo PONY nealer Dead.

Hampstead, L. l., April 11.-Henry
Tappen, forty-four years old and mar
ried, died here Wednesday from heart
disease. Tappen had just come from
San Antonio, Tex, with two carloads
Of polo ponies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Woman and Man Cut in Duel.

Ottawa, Ont, April 14.-At Fort
William Friday Mrs M. Benjamine,
eighteen, a Persian, and Sam Jacobs,
twenty-four, fought duel with knives
in the woman's home. They are both
in the hospital badly hurt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Revised Flood Death Total Is SEQ.

Columbus, O., April 14.-Revised
statistics compiled by field agents of
the Red Cross, reported Friday, de-
clare that 500 or more persons were
drowned in Ohio in the foods OF
March 25.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Steamer coIIides With BARGE.

Boston, April 1.-THE steamer Nan
tucket, bound from Baltimore for Bos-
ton with twenty-eight passengers, was
in collision with an unknown barge
near Cross Rip lightship, in Nantuck-
ct sound Wednesday
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Somebody in Boston says that it is
possible to live forever by subsistine
on vegetables. If he means onions,
many persons will refuse to consider
he proposition
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Kelly Defeats Walters.

Kenosha. Wis, April 14.-Spike KEEL
ly, the fighting Irishman from Chica-
COS North side, gave Sailor Walters
a licking in their ten-round wind-up
fight before an enthusiastic crowd in
he local arena here Friday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Plaque Epidemic Feared.

Bogota, Colombia, April 12.-Much
alarm has been caused here by reports
that bubonic plague has broken out at
the seaport of Santa Marta.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17
Pueblo Block in Ruins.

Pueblo, Colo, April 14.-F'ire de
stroyed the Swift block, one OF the
largest buildings here, Friday. Five
persons living in the upper stories
were injured and many had narrow es
capes. The loss exceeds 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

A judge in New York told a man
arraigned before him for sentence for
abduction that he was unfit to live
and Immediately sentenced him to
maximum term of seven and a half
years in prison. In matching what is
with what ought to be the law some
times makes itself something of a
farce.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

President Poincare's Mother Dies.
Paris, April 12.-Madame Poincare,
mother of the president of France.
is dead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Brainless people never are insane,
says a scientist. On the basis that
whatever happens. they don't mind.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

Marinette-Wh While he was on his
way home with a can OF beer in a
heavy electrical storm Primil Kusik,
a farmer of the town of Brazeau, Ocon'
to county, was struck by lightning. He
said the bolt struck him sideways and
threw him against a wire fence as
though he had been a paper sack. One
of his ears was badly torn and he was
bruised all over the body. He man
aged to reach home on his hands ans
knees and arrived here covered with
mud, but triumphantly carrying the
pail of beer. His condition is said II
be quite serious.