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River Fails Journal.
C. R. Morse, Publisher
RIVER FALLS. - - * wia
It is worthy of remark that during
the recent earthquake in Guam no
Americans were injured, a circum
stance which may be used to prove
that their natural agility has not
been affected unfavorably by the cli
mate.
Who says that our Porto Rican fel
low citizens are not ripe for enjoy
ment of all the rights and privileges
accorded to native Americans? Three
of them were killed and a dozen or so
miscellaneously shot in an election row
at Guayama.
Ohio leads the states in the number
of pensioners, 104,060, but Pennsyl
vania is a close second, with 103,697
New York follows with 88,026, Illinois
with 72,026, while Indiana is fifth in the
list with 66,586. One might not think
it, but Missouri comes next with 52,813
on the roll.
Harvard having cut its collegiate
course to three years, Columbia now
goes to two years as a sufficient
preparation for professional studies.
The college world is excited over
these changes and is wondering what
a bachelor degree is going to stand
for after awhile.
We find the statement in the col
umns of an eastern contemporary
that a Brooklyn firm has been experi
menting with rosewood and ma
hogany as fuel, finding it nearly as
satisfactory as hard coal and consid
erably cheaper. Don’t trade your
pianos for soft coal. Burn them.
The inventive genius of the country
should not fail to produce an economi
cal substitute for hard coal in the
heating of modern dwellings. The
present crisis has opened every house
holder’s mind to the desirability of a
new kind of fuel which would be with
out the ashes nuisance and the great
heat waste that always accompanies
coal-burning in furnaces.
Prof. Clemente Figueras, of the Ca
nary islands, claims to have succeeded
in inventing a generator which can
collect the electric fluid from the at
mosphere, store it and apply it to an
indefinite number of purposes. It is
reported that he has constructed a
rough apparatus by which be obtains
a current of 550 volts, which he util
izes in lighting his house and driv
ing a 20-horse power motor.
There is only -me woman chaplain in
the United States, and it Is doubtful if
there is a woman filling a similar posi
tion in any other part of the world. The
penitentiary in Laramie, Wyo., has
this unique distinction. Its chaplain
is Mrs. May Preston Slosson, wife of
the vice president of the faculty of the
University of Wyoming, and for over
ivvo years she has presided over the
spiritual welfare of the convicts.
Dr. W. T. Harris, United States
commissioner of education, firmly be
lieves that success comes to —or at
least is deserved by —those who are
“early to bed and early to rise.” For
years it has been his custom to re
tire about the time chickens seek
their roost, and he is always up by
three o’clock. Most of bis best work
is done between that hour and the
time when his clerks arrive at the
bureau.
The present high price of coal has
started investigations of tlie fuel ques
tion that may lead to interesting dis
coveries. With the rapidly-increasing
output of petroleum it will be sur
prising if some person or company
does not soon begin t>.e manufacture
of solid petroleum or, as it is called
in France, briquettes. These are said
to possess all the desirable qualities
of coal and ordinary petroleum with
out any of the objectionable character
istics of either.
Researches in modern sciences con
tinue to hold out the most flattening
promises. Human beings are to live
longer, the ills that flesh is heir to
are to disappear and perhaps even
death may have no terrors. These are
only a few of the hopes held out. by
modern science, but. there is still op
portunity for other wonders. The
most helpless invalid and the most
aged have reason to cheer up. Expect
perfect restoration of health and the
joys of new life.
After lying buried for over a cen
tury. the famous English prison ship
Jersey, in which several hundred
Americans were martyred while the
British held New York, in the days
of the revolution, has been acci
dentally discovered by the workmen
who are putting up the launching
stays for the battleship Connecticut.
Historical associations have been
searching for the Jersey for 50
years. The half-burned hull of the
ship is lying under 12 or 14 feet of
dirt and Water and is in perfect con
dition.
Prof. K. W. Hedges, of the British
Lightning Research committee, who
is at present carrying on a scientific
inquiry in this country into the
means of protection adopted here
against loss of life and property from
thunderbolts, will doubtless he inter
ested in a recent discovery by Prof.
John Trowbridge, of Harvard univer
sity. Prof. Trowbridge finds that,
contrary to the almost universal be
lief, lightning will not strike water.
By means of a battery of 20,000 cells
he obtained a voltage of 6.000.000.
comparable to lightning.
We may have to forego the comfort
that the flippant philosophy of a prov
erb fc*»s furnished. “As good fish in
the sea as ever were caught” has con
doled many a loser who has seen the
fish slip off the hook just at the criti
cal moment. Science will take all the
poetry and part of the philosophy out
of our existence. A committee on bi
ology has been appointed to determine
if there is any danger of the seas be
ing fisl cd out. If they decide that
there in. a calendar committee should
be appointed to abolish Friday, for
what would Friday be without fish?
iWIMTOi
The Important Happenings of a
Week Briefly Told.
£N ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.
The agricultural department’s sum
mary of the crops of the world shows
that owing to the remarkably cool and
wet summer experienced throughout
a considerable part of Europe, the har
vest of 1902 is one of the latest on rec
ord.
A number of representatives of mis
sionary societies have asked tlie state
department to demand of Turkey re
payment of the ransom for Ellen M.
Stone.
The secretary of the treasury accept
ed a tender of $15,000,000 government
bonds by a syndicate, putting into the
channels of trade over $20,000.
The secretary of war in his report
will recommend equipment sufficient
for an army of 250,000 men.
The report of the immigration com
missioner shows 648,743 immigrants ar
rived in the United States during the
year. Italy heads the list with 178,-
375.
At the treasury department- a new
counterfeit ten-dollar United States
note of the series of 1891 has been de
tected.
The president says he is off the hos
pital list.
In his annual report the commiseion
er of education shows a total of 17,-
299,230 pupils in public schools in the
United States.
The commissioner of immigration in
his- annual report suggests more rigid
laws for the exclusion of undesirable
aliens.
The president issued a warning to
persons in the federal service that the
law concerning political assessments
will be enforced.
THE EAST.
From tlie New York subtreasury
Secretary Shaw has transferred $20,-
050,000 cash to banks in payment for
$15,000,000 government four per cent,
bonds at market price.
Sir Thomas J. Lipton’s challenge for
a third race for America’s cup has
been accepted by the New York Yacht
club, the first race to be sailed August
20, 1903.
At West Point military academy
hazing is virtually ended, according to
the report of Col. A. L. Mills, super
intendent.
At Trenton, N. J., the United States
Packing company, which is understood
to be the beef combine, V'as incor
porated with an authorized capital of
$1,£00,000. It is understood that this
amount will be subsequently increased
to probably $50,000,000.
An old-time actor, Edmond H. Lay,
is dead at Bellevue hospital, New York,
from general debility. Lay, who was
73 years old, was born in Virginia. He
appeared in minor parts with Edwin
Booth and other prominent actors.
In tlie office of a New York law firm
William C. Turner, former president
of the Climax Bottling company, of
Pittsburg, killed Robert Hamilton, his
successor, W. J. Mallard-, the com
pany's secretary, and himself. He had
been charged with defalcation, and the
shooting occurred at a meeting to
negotiate a settlement.
In a long reply to President Roose
velt. Mr. Mitchell thanks him for hi;
course toward the miners and goes
deeply into the causes leading up to
the strike.
Most of the miners’ unions have in
structed delegates to follow Mitchell’s
advice in the settlement. Fear that all
strikers may not find employment
promises to cause trouble.
Weekly Trade Review of Dun & Co.
declares tlie coal strike settlement re
moves the only handicap on industry.
Railroads will be congested when the
crop movement begins. The October
earnings gained 3.5 per cent, over 1901.
In Boston the convention of the Na
tional United Irish,league opened with,
two great mass meetings.
WEST AND SOI TH.
Unknown thieves raided the fur
store of F. Bauke, Cleveland, 0., and
took away practically the entire stock
of goods in the place. The stolen furs
were valued at $5,000.
The colored murderer of the Hicks
family, Jim Buchanan, was tried:at Na
cogdoches. Tex. A plea of guilty was
accepted by the judge, and the negro
was legally hanged within two hours
after sentence had been passed, hav
ing waived the 30 days allowed him by
law.
At Youngstown, 0., Mrs. Mary Jo
seph. aged 53, an Arabian, died after
drinking poisoned coffee. Three other
members of the family are in a serious
condition. Nicholas Joseph, who is no
relation of the family, has been arrest
ed. charged with the crime.
At its recent session Mississippi Val
ley Medical association elected Edwin
Walker, of Evansville, president, and
selected Memphis as the place of meet
ing in October, 1903.
At East St. Louis tlieTllinois F’edera
tion of Labor adopted resolutions prac
tically forbidding union men being
members of the state militia.
On Matagordo island, near Roekport,
Tex., mosquitoes caused the death of
6.000 head of sheep belonging to George
A. Brundells.
The famous bandit, James Younger,
paroled from the Minnesota peniten
tiary, committed suicide at St. Paul.
Minn., because of his inability to secure
a complete pardon.
Statistics of the chamber
of commerce show that wages in Eng
land decreased $7,670,000 in 1901.
Ohio’s new municipal code provides
board rule for cities and gives the gov
ernor power to remove mayors.
Eight negroes and three white men
were killed in a race riot at Littleton.
Ala., caused by an attack on a white
woman.
At a negro festival in Blossom. Tex..
City Marshal Benjamin Hill was killed
while trying to quell a riot, and three
negroes were also shot.
E. L.. Clark, secretary and treasurer
of the Mishawaka (Ind.) national bank,
was assaulted by four men and robbed
of a SIO,OOO letter of credit in Chi
cago.
Gen. Grant says the effect of Amer
ican reforms must be felt in the Phil
ippines before fortunes oan be made
there.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In Rome the pope bade farewell to
Archbishop Guidi, the apostolic dele
gate to the Philippines, urging him
to secure speedy action on the friars'
dispute in the islands.
Reopening of the British parliament
was marked by scenes of great disor
der, resulting in the suspension of
John O’Donnell, Irish nationalist, and
a closure of debate.
St. Vincent island residents accuse
Gov. Llewellyn of holding back supplies
from volcanic sufferers to force emi
gration to Jamaica. American dona
tions are rotting in warehouses.
Off St. John’s, N. F., the schooner
Pretoria, with a crew of seven men, was
lost.
The British commander in chief, Earl
Roberts, has practically decided to visit
the United States in December, 1903.
The report that Gen. Fernandez has
declared himself dictator of Colombia
at Bogota is said to be without any
foundation in fact.
In Hayti the revolution is declared
to be at an end.
In Havana Consul General Bragg ex
posed a fraudulent land scheme in Cuba
whereby an American company seeks
to sell swamps for farm lands.
A dispatch says that the British Af
rican expedition against the Mad Mul
lah was surprised and two British of
ficers and 50 native soldiers were killed.
LATER NEWS,
Charles Young, a negro, cnarged with
assaulting and afterwards murdering
Mrs. Ed Lewis, white, was burned by
a mob of infuriated citizens at Forest
City, Ark.
A pitched battle was fought near
Grosbeck, Texas, between two Ruther
ford’s and tw-o Thomasons. The
trouble grew out of a matter of rent.
D. Thomason and both Rutherfords
were killed. Wallace Thomason es
caped without a scratch.
Two persons were killed and fifteen
injured in a wreck at Lewis, Texas.
The International & Great Northern
branch passenger train was crossing
the main line when a freight train ran
into the chair car, cutting it in twain.
Four British gunboats have been or
dered to ascend the Yangtse Kiang to
Hankow because of the failure of the
Chinese authorities to deal with the
murderers of Bruce and Lewis, the
English missionaries, who were killed
in the Ho-Nan province.
Marion Nolan, a young woman who
became famous on the Pacific coas* in
1883 as the “California Venus,” was
shot and killed at San Francisco by
Edward Marschutz, who then sent a
bullet through his own brain.
The states of Louisiana and Missis
sippi have gone into court to decide
the location of boundary lines.
The tenth annual convention of the
National Creamery Buttermakers’ as
sociation convened at Milwaukee, the
21st.
The Union Labor men of Chicagc
will endeavor to elect a mayor of their
own and control the city council.
A wagon containing Michael Gettings
and Tymothy ltyrick was struck by a
locomotive in Chicago and both men in
stantly killed.
John T. Stanley, a well known ath
lete of Springfield, 111., was fatally in
jured by two intoxicated men as he
was walking along the streets.
Eleven members of the London
chamber of commerce will attend the
opening of the new chamber of com
merce building in New Y’ork, Nov. 11.
Two trains were wrecked by collision
near Flint, O.
The Cuban cabinet has d-ecided the
commercial treaty with the United
States. The Cuban constitution pro
vides that the treaty needs only the
approval of the senate.
John Johnson, a miner at Arasa,
Mich., was found dead in his own door
yard, murdered by strangulation.
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
One million dollars were found in
New York gambler’s safes captured
by police raid.
Gen. Fernandez has captured Presi
dent Marroquin, of Colombia, and lias
proclaimed himself dictator.
Prussia is resolved: to acquire six
of the remaining private railways in
the country and to inaugurate a new
economic era.
London coal prices have advanced
24 cents to consumers and 12 cents to
dealers on strong foreign and> do
mestic demand.
Cuba is afraid, of reciprocity with
the United States. England might
retaliate with a countervailing duty
on the island’s sugar.
The army medical officers say there
is little danger of the bringing of
cholera this country by tlie army
transports from Manila.
The executive committee of the Na
tional education association has an
nounced the selection of Boston as the
place of the next convention, July 6
to 10. 1903. z
At the centennial celebration of
Washington and .Jeffeyson college at
Washington, Pa., the commemorative
address was delivered by Rev. David
Crega, of Brooklyn.
It is said unofficially that the Brit
ish government will ask parliament
to authorize a Transvaal loan of $150,-
000,000 or more to be guaranteed by
the imperial government.
English anthracite coal supplies are
practically used 1 up, 5,000 tons only
being available for shipment in No
vember. Welsh coal is little better
than American bituminous.
England is on the eve of a bitter
religious conflict over the education
bill, which has divided the nation into
factions, with small hope of peaceful
conciliation or agreement.
After witnessing a bullfight at El
Paso, Tex., in which two horses were
disemboweled and gored to death, M.
Murnane, a Chicago lawyer, died of
hemorrhage of the lungs. He was in
El Paso for his health.
Germany is the greatest competitor
of the United States in the field of elec
trical engineering, according to a re
port made public at the state depart
ment in Washington from United
States Consular Agent Harris at
Elbenstock
• JIM” YOUNGER’S END
Noted Bandit Commits Suicide by
Shooting.
Find* He Cannot Marry the Woman
He Loves, and In HU Despond
ency Takes HU Own Life.
—His Career.
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 20.—James
Y’ounger, formerly a member of the
notorious James band of outlaws,
which infested the w-estern country
a quarter of a century ago, commit
ted suicide Sunday by shooting. He
left a letter in which he gave as the
reason for his act despondency over
continued ill health and separation
from friends.
Body Found.
The suicide is supposed to have oc
curred about eight o'clock Sunday
morning. Younger occupied a room
in a downtown block and when he
did not make his appearance as usual
search was made for him. About
five o’clock in the afternoon the door
of his room was broken in and his
dead body found stretched on the
floor beside the bed, a revolver
clutched in his right hand. He shot
himself through the head and evi
dently had been dead for several
hours.
The body- w-as viewed by the cor
oner, who decided that an inquest
was not necessary. It is not yet
known what disposition will be made
of the remains, some doubt arising
under the terms of the parole as to
whether the body can be removed
from the state.
A CAREER OF CRIME.
Story of the Depredations of a Noted
Ganjg of Rubber!.
James Younger was the youngest
of three brothers, Robert, Coleman
and James Younger, who between
the y-ears 1866 and 1873 gained great
notoriety through their association
w-ith Jesse and F'rank James. The
band headed by Jesse James w-as
charged with innumerable robberies
of banks and railroad trains, in the
execution of which many- desperate
encounters took place, and a num
ber of men were killed. The mem
bers of the band had served through
the civil w-ar, fighting on the side of
the confederacy- with Quantrell and
his guerrilles. The scene of the
most of their alleged post helium
depredations was the state of Mis
souri and those adjacent thereto,
but, in September, 1876, the band en
tered Minnesota, traversing the state
as far as the little town of North
field, in Rice county.
The Nortlilield Affair.
There, on September 7, after ter
rorizing the people on the street, an
attempt was made to loot the First
National bank. Cashier J. L. Hey
wood, who was in charge of the
bank, made a plucky- fight to pre
serve the funds of the institution
from the robbers, and during the en
counter w-as shot and killed, not,
however, until he had wounded one
or more of the raiders
All of the three Younger brothers
had been wounded in the series of
battles-' that had marked their re
treat, and to this day carry the bul
lets fired at them by the plucky
citizens. The prisoners were brought
speedily to trial and on November
21, 1876, pleaded guilty to the charge
of murder in the first degree, this
plea, it is said, having been entered
in order to escape conviction by a
jury, which would have involved the
infliction of the death penalty. The
brothers were sentenced to the Still
water penitentiary to serve a life
sentence.
Beginning in 1889 efforts w-ere
made to secure a pardon for the
brothers, it being pleaded that it had
not been proved that either of the
brothers had fired the shot that
killed Cashier Heywood and a fur
ther plea for mercy w-as based upon
the ground that “Bob” Y’ounger was
dying of consumption. In fact, short
ly after these efforts were begun
Robert Y’ounger died in prison.
Every- effort at pardon proved fruit
less.
Paroled.
A bill was introduced in the state
legislature in 1901 empowering the
state board of pardons to grant
paroles to life prisoners who had
served 25 y-ears or more. The bill
was hard fought, but finally passed
both branches of the legislature and
w-as sent to Gov. Van Sant for his
signature. The governor had three
day-s within which to sign or veto the
bill, failing which the act w-ould be
come a law without his signature.
Before the three day-s had exph*ed
the house recalled the bill and did
not return it to the governor until
the time for approval had elapsed.
The “late pardoning board, how-ever,
of which the chief justice of the
state is a member, decided that the
bill had become a law- without the
signature of the governor, and on
July- 10, 1901, upon recommendation
of the board of pardon commission
ers. a parole w-as granted to Coleman
and James Y’ounger, and on July- 14
they were released.
One Killed.
Chicago, Oct. 20. —One person was
killed and two injured when an east
bound electric car on Sixty-third
street crashed into a buggy, throw
ing the occupants out, creating a
panic among the passengers and caus
ing the horse to run away. Irime
Schauer, 15 years old, was killed.
Want! Bis: Army.
Washington, Oct. 20. —Secretary of
War Root in his report will recom
mend equipment sufficient for an army
of 250.000 men, a strong national mili
tary reserve, and the establishment
of a general staff.
RevolntLon in Hayti Ended.
Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 20. —Word
has been received here confirming the
previous reports that the provisional
government pf Hayti had crushed the
Firminist revolution and adding that
the election of Senoque Pierre to the
presidency is assured. Hundreds of
refugees are expected here during the
course of the coming week.
Cholera Report from Cairo.
YYashington, Oct. 20.—The state de
partment Saturday received the fol
lowing cable from Consul Smith at
Cairo, Egypt: “Since 12th inst. 705
eases of eholeiaj 636 deaths all Egypt. ’
VICTORY FOR CASTRO.
The President of Yeneameln Defeats
Revolutionists After a Seven
Days’ Battle.
New York, Oet. 20. —The following
dispatch was received from Dr. Tor
res, Cardenas, secretary to the presi
dent of Venezuela:
“Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 18. —Gen.
Castro communicates sweeping vic
tory after seven days’ bloody battle.
Three thousand casualties in the
rebel camp.
(Signed.) “TORRES, Cardenas.”
Three thousand dead and wounded
on one side alone—that of the insur
gents-I—marks the conclusion of the
greatest battle Venezuela has ever
known. Gen. Castro, the president
of the republic, has won the seven
days’ battle just concluded, according
to an official cable dispatch received in
this city by E. Gonzales Esteves, con
sul general of Venezuela. The forces
pitted against each other were the
armies of Gen. Castro, the recognized
ehad of the republic, and Gen. Matos,
head of the revolutionary movement.
The battle took place near La Vic
toria, on the western coast of Vene
zuela. The army of President Cas
tro numbered 4,100 men, with 15
guns. Gen. Matos, leader of the rev
olution, and Gen. Mendosa Avere not
present Avhen the fight began. The
only rebel generals engaged Avere
Gens. Guevara, Torre, Crespo and
Antonio Fernandez, who had with
them about 3,100 men, representing
the advance guard of the revolution
ists. '
Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Oct.
20.—One of the leaders of the Matos
revolution in Venezuela, who is at pres
ent in Curacao, lias furnished the fol
lowing details and explanation of the
retreat of the revolutionary army
from Victoria. He says the rebels only
abandoned the fight after being con
vinced that La Victoria aa’Ss impreg
nable, and after President Castro had
refused to coine out and attack the rev
olutionists outside of La Victoria.
Twice did the revolutionary general at
tempt to force President Castro to take
the offensive, and twice the president
refused.
When the rebel reenforcements ar
rived at La Victoria last Thursday
President Castro and his forces were
located at a point on the German rail
road. The rebels made a detour of the
city and cut off he only road of re
treat open to the government forces.
They were then short o+ ammunition,
and had it not been for the arrival of a
train bringing them half a million car
tridges, it is believed that Castro’s
forces would hai-e been annihilated.
Preparations for their retreat had al
ready been ordered.
The revolutionists stationed near
Caracas, some 1,200 men, under the
command of Gen. Ramos, are alone re
sponsible for the retreat of Gen. Men
dosa. They permitted the train carry
ing ammunition to the government to
leave Caracas and reach La Victoria.
This train had an escort of onlj- 100
men. The men under Itamos did not at
tack it, nor did thej- destroy one of the
80 bridges between Caracas- and La
Victoria, over which the railroad runs.
An added proof that the government
suffered terribly in the La Victoria
fight from.the repeated attacks of the
rebels is found from the fact that-Pres
ident Castro does not pursue Gen.
Mendosa. The latter’s- plan in with
drawing from La Victoria is to oblige
President Castro to abandon the po
sitions- he holds there. The rebels suf
fered losses, but the government did
also. President Castro’s forces are re
duced to 3,100 men. while Gen. Matos
still lias- 9,000 men in the field. It was
not a rout, but- a methodical retreat.
In conclusion, the rebel officer said that
the revolutionists, within a feAv days,
would be found near Caracas.
UNABLE TO REGISTER.
Not with*tiindiiig' President Will Go
Home to Oyster Hay in No
vember to. Vote.
Washington, Oct. 20.—While Pres
ident Roosevelt was unable to go to
Oyster Bay to register his vote for
the November election, he will go
home to vote. The president is pro
gressing finely toward complete re
covery and now is able to move about
without crutches or even a cane, but
his physicians have advised him nor
to travel any distance for at, least
two weeks. For this reason he will
be unable to attend the inauguration
of President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton university, although he had
expressed his particular desire to be
present when President Wilson is in
stalled.
Hope* for Diplomatic Relation*.
London, Oct. 20.—1 na. dispatch
from Borne the correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that the Vati
can hopes that the negotiations in
Manila between Gov. Taft and Arch
bishop Guidi will lead to the estab
lishment of diplomatic relations be
tween the United States and the Vat
ican. If this fails, the correspondent
says, the pope is believed to enter
tain the hope that when the Guidi
negotiations are concluded tie
United States will send an envoy ex
traordinary to Borne to ratify the
arrangements.
Victim of Apoplexy.
Columbus, 0., Oct. 20.—Dr. Eugene
E. Carpenter, superintendent of the
Columbus state hospital, died Sun
day night of apoplexy. He was
stricken last Thursday night. Dr.
Carpenter was one of the best known
authorities on ihental diseases in the
country.
Fatal Explosion.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 20.—Two per
sons were killed, one seriously and
several slightly injured in an ex
plosion which destroyed the tugboat
Fred Nellis, of Cairo, 111., at Hope
field, Ark., Sunday.
Fine Summer Home Uurned.
Wellsburg, W. Va., Oct. 20.—Fire Fri
day night partially destroyed the pala
tial summer home of J. B. Vandergrift..
a prominent Pittsburger, entailing a
loss of about SIOO,OOO. The fire
started in the laundry and is believed
to have been caused by the overheat
ing of natural gas pipes.
Eight Men Scalded.
Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 20. —By the
parting of a steam pipe at the Riv
erside plant of the National tubd
works in Benwood. Sunday afternoon,
eight men were scalded and three or
four of them will die.
SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Interesting; Facts and Figure* from
Annual Report of Commis
sioner of Education.
Washington, Oct. 20.—The annual
report of the commissioner of edu
cation, just submitted to the secre
tary of the interior, shows that the
grand total of pupils in schools, ele
mentary, secondary and higher, both
public and private, in the United
States for the year ended June 30,
1901, avus 17,299,230, an increase of
278,520 pupils over the previous year.
Of this number the enrollment of pu
pils in institutions supported by gen
eral and local taxes furnished by
states and municipalities Avere 15,-
710,394. as against 13,443,462, the num
ber reported for the previous year.
Besides these there Avere certain spe
cial institutions, like city evening
schools, business schools, schools for
Indians, reform schools, schools con
nected with asyluihs, schools for
cookery, and other special trades and
vocations, all enrolled nearly 500,000
pupils. Adding the enrollment in
these special schools to that for gen
eral education, the aggregate is some
thing over 17,750,000 of our popula
tion that received education for a
longer or shorter period during the
year ending June 30, 1901.
The value of property used for pub
lic school purposes has risen to $376,-
963,089 from 11130,380,008 in 1870, and
the expenditures for the common
schools, including elementary and
secondary schools, but excluding all
institutions for higher education,
amounted to $226,043,236, having risen
to this sum from $63,396,666 in IS7O.
In 1870 the expenditure for schools
per capita of the population Avas
$1.64; the past year it Avas $2.93 per
capita of the population, the highest
that it has ever been. It Avas an in
crease of ten cents to each man,
woman and child over the previous
year. The average attendance of
each pupil for the entire number en
rolled was 99 days for the year, an
increase of 24 days over the previous
year.
RACE CONFLICT.
Three While* ami Eiclit Negron
Killed in a Riot nt Lit
tleton, Ain.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 20.—Three
white men and eight negroes have
been killed in race riots at Littleton,
Ala., according to reports received
here. The negroes are said to have
taken possession of the toAvn after the
light, and to have intrenched them
selves in a strong position. They have
captured a powder magazine belong
ing to a coal company, in response to
an appeal from Littleton, which is a
small town 25 miles southwest of this
city. Sheriff Andrew W. Burgin, ac
companied by ten deputies, started
for that place at 11 p. m. on a special
train. The riot is said to have been
caused by a croAvd of negroes attack
ing a white woman. As soon as the
Avhite residents of the toAvn learned
of the assault, they began a search for
the miscreants. The negroes- refused
t-o deliver the woman’s assailants, and
armed themselves to protect their
leaders. When the Avhites came up
the negroes opened fire, and the offi
cers returned the volley, the exchange
resulting in 11 fatalities-. Among the
whites reported killed are Joseph
Thompson and Ira Creel.
MEET DISASTER.
British Troops Routed by the Mod
Mullah's Force*—Fifty Killed
and 100 Wounded.
London. Oct. 20. —The British expe
dition sent into Somaliland, in east
Africa, to punish the Mad Mullah, has
met with disaster. In a fight on Octo
ber 6 with the natives, two British of
ficers and 50 men were killed and a
hundred wounded. The expedition is
retreating.
The expedition lost a large part of
its transport and supplies, and many
of its camels were killed. The British
forces- Avere made up entirely of na
tives, with English officers.
Col. Swayne, in command of the ex
pedition, has sent an urgent request
to Berbera for 600 reinforcements.
The Mullah is bringing up reinforce
ments from all sides, and it is feared
here that unless help arrives quickly
Col. SAvayne’s force will be annihi
lated.
Xew Counterfeit.
Washington, Oct. 20.—The treas
ury department has detected a new
counterfeit. $lO United States note of
the series of 1891. This counterfeit is
a lithographic production on tAvo
pieces of paper between which silk
threads have been distributed. The
portraits of Clarke and Lewis and the
picture of the buffalo are blurred and
scratched. All the lathe work is very
bad.
A How Fnri* Fatally.
Chicago, Oct. 20. —In an argument
Avhich began on the coal strike and
soon verged into politics and social
ism, one man Avas killed and two men
were injured. A general fight winch
concluded the argument and precipi
tated the killing.
Offlp«*r Killed.
Blossom, Tex., Oct. 20.-—City Mar
shal Ben Hill was killed at a negro
festival here Saturday night Avhile
trying to quell a negro riot. Three
negroes Avere also shot by the ne
groes who killed the marshal. Ihe
shooting was done by brothers, Avho
are still at large.
Cuban Conarea* Soon to Adjourn.
Washington, Oct. 20. The Cuban
treaty is in the hands ol President
Palma. The island congress adjourns
to-night, but may be called in extra
session to ratify it- after action by
the United States.
To Ship Body to Pltt*bur*.
New York, Oct. 20.- James T. Ham
ilton, the brother of Albert Hamilton,
who was murdered Friday by W. C.
Turner, arrived from Pittsburg Satur
day. He was greatly affected when he
saw the body of liis brother. He ar
ranged to ship the body to Pittsburg.
1 train Declared I'nconwtltnflonal.
Springfield, Uh, Oets 20.—The su
preme court Saturday affirmed the for
mer decision which declared unconsti
tutional the act of 1901 providing for
the election of three additional circuit
and three additional superior judges
in Cook countv.
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