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River Falls Journal
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SUMMARY OF A
WEEK'S EVENTS
most important happenings
AT HOME TOLD IN CON
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway company, and recog
nized as one of the foremost men in
the development of the southern
states, and six other persons were
killed in a rear end collision between
two fast passenger trains ten miles
south of Lynchburg, Va.
Otto Young, multimillionaire, form
er Chicago merchant prince and phil
anthropist, died at his summer home
at Lake Geneva after an illness, aris
ing from a complication of diseases, of
but two weeks. He left a fortune es
timated at from $17,000,000 to $35,000,-
000.
Three banks conducted by C. V.
Chandler at Macomb, Colchester and
Rardolph, 111., closed for lack of ready
cash. 1
Michael Cusack, who founded the
Gaelic Athletic association in 1884 for
encouraging Irish games and which
now has hundreds of branches, died
fn Whitworth hospital, Dublin, at the
age of 59. He was a famous teacher.
Congress will be asked by the bu
reau of navigation of the navy depart
ment to make an appropriation for
official entertainments on board naval
vessels when sent to foreign shores.
Two women w r ere seriously injured
in a battle on New York’s East side
over a rise of the price of meat.
William E. Tillotson, aged 64 years,
a woolen manufacturer, and one of
the wealthiest men In Pittsfield, Mass.,
died following a stroke of apoplexy.
He was unmarried and was a large
property owner in Chicago.
Col. Theodore Ewert, who was as
sistant adjutant general under Gen.
Jasper N. Reece, died in the soldiers’
home in Quincy, 111.
Sir Edward J. Reed, formerly chief
constructor of the British navy, is
dead. He was born in 1830.
A rubber combine has been formed
in Montreal, known as the Canadian
Consolidated Rubber company, with a
capital of $5,000,000.
Admiral Touchard’s French squad
ron sailed for Tangier, Morocco, to
see that order Is maintained there.
Ten of the most desperate prisoners
in the county jail at Long Island City
escaped from that institution and are
still at large.
At the Track and Field day meet of
the Olympic club, San Francisco, a
world’s record in putting the 12-pound
shot was broken by Ralph Rose, who
put it 55 feet, G% inches.
A sensation which may end in a
prison term for Cornelius P. Shea was
sprung in the trial of union teamsters
in Chicago, when Albert Young, for
mer president of the Teamsters’ In
ternational brotherhood, and three
other defendants pleaded guilty.
Thomas McCarthy, a clerk in a
Newcastle, Pa., hotel, and his brother,
Michael McCarthy, of Wampum, a
suburb, have received word that an
uncle, Timothy McCarthy, has died in
Australia, leaving them the sole heirs
to a fortune of $3,000,000.
The president has announced the
appointment of John A. Mcllhenny of
Louisville to fill the vacancy on the
civil service commission caused by
the promotion of A. W. Cooley, to be
assistant attorney general.
Receiver Wilson, of the wrecked
Aetna bank, of Butte, Mont., received
a check from Augustus Heinze for
SIOO,OOO. Mr. Heinze formerly was
president of the bank, but withdrew
in 1903.
Foiled in an attempt to hold up the
Bank of Bendena, at Bendena, Kan.,
Jesse L. Harris, a farm hand, of West
port, Mo., fired a shot into his brain
which caused instant death.
Elsie Jacobs, the 18-year-old col
lege student of Mount Pleasant, la.,
who attempted to swindle the First
National bank of Galesburg out of
SI,OOO by means of a bogus check, was
sentenced In the circuit court at Gales
burg to an indeterminate term in the
penitentiary.
An unknown man was swept over
the Horseshoe falls at Niagara in a
small boat after a daring attempt had
been made to save him.
Senator Platt denied an Interview
In which he was reported to have said
he would not resign his seat in the
senate.
Jean Daniel Debs, father of Eugene
V. Debs, former socialist candidate for
president, Is dead at Terre Haute, Ind.
Mr. Debs was a native of Alsace,
France, and was a friend and neigh
bor of August Bartholdi, sculptor of
the statue of liberty. He was So years
old.
Lashed to the wheel of the almost
disabled schooner Gold Hunter, buf
feted by a fierce gale for 48 hours,
Mrs. Frank McGuire, wife of the cap
tain of the vessel, clung to her post,
and to her heroic struggle Is due the
case entry of the ship into port, eleven
dais overdue from Portland, Me.
Chief of Police Dinan was indicted
and a new bill was returned against
Abe Rues in San Francisco’s vice graft
investigation.
Seventy-three persons were killed
and 70 injured during the hunting
season, Wisconsin and Michigan lead
ing in fatalities.
Orville K. Sherman, nged 17, grand
nephew of Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman, was arrested at St. Louis
with Esther Benson, 16 years old, his
betrothed, as they stepped from the
Chicago & Alton train, having eloped
from Maquon, 111., the home of the
girl.
American residents In London,
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Mexico City
and other foreign cities, celebrated
Thanksgiving day with banquets and
receptions.
George F. Pollock, of the depart
ment of the interior, says the charges
made against him by Special Agent
Myendorff in the Utah coal land fraud
case, are false.
Senor Moret y Prendergast formed
a new cabinet for Spain with Perez
Caballero as minister of foreign
affairs.
It is rumored that the Australian
government will prosecute the Aus
tralian representatives of the Ameri
can oil combine under the anti-trust
act.
Charles H. Chamberlin, senior coun
cillor of the Wisconsin grand council
of the United Commercial Travelers,
died suddenly of paralysis at La
Crosse, Wis.
The members-eleet of the Hawaiian
legislature will ask the United States
to raise their pay to SI,OOO a session.
Vincent Spilner and wife and two
children, of Eastern Wells county,
North Dakota, lost their way while
driving home from a neighbor’s, and
Mr. Spilner and one child were frozen
to death.
Jennie Yeamans, popular as a singer
and actress a decade ago, died after
a long illness in New York from
tuberculosis.
William Fisher, an inventor of
steam contrivances in use in every
civilized country on the globe, is
dead at Marshalltown, la.
Ten thousand dollars’ worth of jew
elry wras stolen from two boarders in
a fashionable hoarding house at 33
Twenty-second street, New York.
Brig. Gen. George W. Baird, U. S.
A., retired, is dead at Asheville, N. C.
Gen. Baird was horn in Connecticut
in December, 1839. He served in the
civil war and on the western frontier,
participating with gallantry in several
Indian campaigns.
Eugene Motz, Chilian consul to
Mexico City, has received an official
notice from his government to the
effect that the report circulated last
August at the time of the disastrous
earthquake saying that Juan Fernan
dez island had sunk into the ocean
was untrue.
So far as can be ascertained, 24
persons were killed, 96 were seriously
wounded and several hundred were
slightly injured as a result of the ex
plosion of the Roburit factory near
Annen, Germany.
The cathedral of the Sacred Heart,
the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, was dedicated at Richmond, Va.
The interstate commerce commis
sion recommends to President Roose
velt that the public coal lands be with
drawn permanently from entry and
developed under government control,
thereby breaking up the coal monop
oly and producing a revenue which
it is estimated, would pay the ex
penses of the government.
Ethel Smith, 15 years old, defended
her home against a man who broke
into the house at Thornton, R. 1.,
shooting and killing him. She was
arrested, but the chief of police kept
her in his own home, giving her a
Thanksgiving dinner.
Sweet Marie, noted trotting mai*e,
was bought for $14,000 by a Philadel
phia banker at auction sale in New
York.
Engineer O’Brien was found dead by
the fireman in the cab of a west
bound Rock Island passenger train
which was running 50 miles an hour.
O’Brien’s skull was crushed, supposed
ly by some projecting timber.
Billy Mellody won welter-weight
boxing title in a 12-round fight with
Joe Walcott at Chelsea, Mass.
Secretary Wilson’s annual report
shows the value of farm crops is in
creasing enormously with the progress
in the science of agriculture.
Mayor Elisha Dyer, of Providence,
R. 1., former governor of Rhode Island,
died of heart disease.
Seven soldiers were killed and an
officer and six men were wounded in
an encounter in New Dutch Guinea
between a detachment of Dutch troops
and a strong band of Alfours.
One man was killed, two seriously
injured and a score of wedding guests,
including women, slightly hurt early
yesterday morning in a riot following
a Polish feast in Chicago.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
was put under arrest at Truckee, Cal.,
on a charge of extortion found by the
grand jury.
It is reported that the federal grand
jury at Salt Lake City has voted sev
eral indictments in the coal land
fraud case.
A syndicate of capitalists proposed
to a committee of congress to take
over the postal service, promising
penny postage and a better service
than is provided by the government.
Two children, a boy of three and a
girl a year and a half old, perished in
a fire which the older child started in
their home at 491 Milwaukee avenue,
Chicago.
Capt. Hugh H. Henry, past national
commander of the Army and Navy
union U. S. A., and chief of staff of
the present National Commander
Crowne, died after an operation for
cancer of the stomach.
For accepting from the New York
Central and Hudson River Railway
company some $26,000 rebates on
payment made on shipments of sugar
from Brooklyn to Cleveland, a fine of
SIB,OOO was imposed by Judge Holt In
the United States circuit court, crimi
nal bench, upon the American Sugar
Refining company, of New Jersey.
Stirred to action by the death of a
girl on the Metropolitan elevated, the
Chicago city council adopted resolu
tions ordering Chief of Police Collins
to take action toward ending the in
tolerable overcrowding of both elevat
ed and surface cars.
Many persons were killed by the
blowing up of a Roburit factory near
Witten, Westphalia.
The grand jury at St. Louis re
turned two indictments against the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, said to be
a branch of the Standard, for receiv
ing rebates from railroads.
Six men were killed and 35 injured
In a fire in a Salvation Army hotel at
St. Louis.
Greeks and Bulgarians had a des
perate battle near Saloniki, Turkey,
and 25 men were killed.
The war department has called on
Maj. Penrose, of the Twenty-fifth reg
iment at Fort Reno, for an explanation
of the statement alleged to have been
made by him in a newspaper inter
view to the effect that the dismissed
battalion of that regiment was the
best battalion in the United States.
Mrs. Rose Handfield entered the of
fice of John D. Rockefeller’s secre
tary in New York and threatened to
kill Mr. Rockefeller unless she were
paid $1,000,000. A check was given
her on which payment was stopped
and she was then arrested and held
for examination as to her sanity.
Sylvester Bautsch, the 12-year-old
son of A. J. Bautsch, of Whitehall,
Wis., prominent in state politics, gave
his life Wednesday to save two boy
companions from drowning.
One fireman was killed and a dozen
were severely beaten in a desperate
row between firemen In the stoke hole
of the Mallory line steamer San Ja
cinto as the vessel was rounding Cape
Hatteras en route from Galveston.
A desperate but unsuccessful effort
was made to blow open the safe and
vault of the Mendon, 0., bank, In
which more than $75,000 was depos
ited. The detonation aroused the cit
izens and the three masked men fled,
followed by posses.
La Patrie. Le Baudy’s dirigible war
balloon, which has been formally ac
cepted by the French government,
made its first ascension under the au
spices of the Aerostatic division of the
army. The flight lasted an hour and a
half.
A fire in the heart of the business
district of Peoria, 111., did $84,000 dam
age, covered by $120,000 insurance.
The Victoria, Australia, legislative
council has again rejected the wom
an’s suffrage bill.
Capt Amundsen, the arctic explorer,
who recently went through the north
west passage, was presented with the
gold medal of the Norwegian Geo
graphical society.
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of
South Carolina, in a Chicago address,
predicted a race war and told hfs au
dience the negro question is the most
serious and dangerous issue of the day.
A record of 132 persons killed and
2,271 others injured by elevated and
surface traction lines in Chicago since
January 1 gave impetus to the crusade
against the overcrowding of cars in
augurated by the city council.
Philadelphia police charged Bridget
Carey with poisoning her husband, her
two children and two tenants, all with
in a few months, for their insurance.
Nat Goodwin, who is said to have
won $40,000 recently -cutting cards, was
invited by the New York district attor
ney to tell the grand jury where he
got it.
The steamship J. H. Jones went
down. in the storm on the Georgian
bay and the crew of 13 and at least 16
passengers are believed to have been
drowned. Bodies and wreckage wash
ed ashore confirm the belief that the
vessel was lost.
The government’s grip tightened
about the men who are said to have
stolen public lands worth millions. In
quiry opened in Salt Lake City by the
interstate commerce commission In
volved high officials and the land de
partment at Washington.
Discovery of an alleged gigantic
bribery scandal resulted in the ar
rest of the president of the Tube City
railroad and a councilman in Pitts
burg. The mayor ordered a sweeping
investigation and 72 suspected council
men, besides railroad officials, are un
der surveillance. v
The decoration of “The Commander
of the Order of Christ” was conferred
upon Dr. Alexander Hugh Ferguson,
Chicago, by King Carlos I. of Portugal,
through Count de Saint Eulalia, Port
ugal’s consul at New York.
An anarchist was sent to prison In
Switzerland for praising the assassin
of King Humbert after winning popu
lar sympathy by a strong argument of
his own case.
President Roosevelt, refreshed by
his Panama trip, resumed work on im
portant affairs, Including the canal,
Porto Rico and the Japanese complica
tions. Several special messages to
congress are expected to result from
his observations abroad.
Capt. Horatio N. Read was shot and
instantly killed by his wife at their
home, four miles southeast of Burling
ton, Kan. Mrs. Read claims that her
husband threatened to kill her with
a com knife and that she shot in. self
defense.
Fire destroyed most of the business
section of Belmont, O. The total loss
was about about $160,000.
C. G. Rutledge and J. A. Obermeyer,
both members of the board of educa
tion, were indicted on a charge of
making unlawful contracts in purchas
ing supplies for public schools.
Mrs. Rosa Eckerman, a pillar in the
Methodist church of Muskegon, Mich.,
an ardent W. C. T. U. worker and a
society woman, was found guilty of
selling liquor to minors from her drug
store.
An attempt was made Tuesday by
unknown parties to kill Burgess A. C.
Marsh, of Washington, Pa., through
the medium of an infernal ma
chine which he received by mail.
The arrangements failed to ex
plode when opened. The sending of
the infernal machine is credited to the
Black Hand society, which Burgess
Marsh has tried to break up.
A marriage has been arranged be
tween the Due de Chaultness et de
Picqulgny and Miss Theodora Shouts,
younger daughter of Theodore Shouts,
chairman of the Panama canal com
mission.
Miss Blanche Walsh has become
the wife of a member of her company
at New Orleans, and Harry B. Smith,
the author of librettos, has married
Miss Irene Bentley.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from his trip, and de
clared that he was deeply impressed
with the United States navy, Panama
and Porto Rico
FORECAST Of THE
SHORT SESSION
NOT MUCH GENERAL LEGISLA
TION IS POSSIBLE.
MAY PASS THE SHIP BILL
Its Friends Are Hopeful of Success
—Senate Must Take Up
Case of Reed
Smoot.
Washington, Dec. 3—The passage
of the appropriation bills, and as little
other general legislation as possible.
Such, in brief, is the forecast for the
short session of the fifty-ninth con
gress.
There has not yet been time for as
general an exchange of views among
members as is ordinarily desired by
leaders before expressing their views,
but all seem to regard the present sit
uation as so simple as to need com
paratively little intercourse to arrive
at an undei standing. It is evident
that for various reasons it will not be
possible to do much on the appropria
tion bills before the holidays and this
circumstance will practically have the
I effect of condensing the consideration
I of the 14 large supply measures into
tw r o months. Considering that the ag
gregate of the appropriations to be
made will approximate $1,000,000,000,
some senators and members express
the opinion that congress cannot do
better than give all of its time to
these measures.
Ship Subsidy’s Chances.
The ship subsidy bill probably will
be an exception to the rule for no gen
eral legislation. The friends of that
measure have never been more insist
j ent than now. They are extremely
hopeful, and yet very apprehensive.
The bill has passed the senate and is
in committee in the house. The com
mittee has heretofore been quite
evenly divided, but the advocates of
the bill believe that they will be able
to get it out in due season, and they
hope for its consideration when once
reported to the house. Speaker Can
non has gfven no positive assurances
as to his attitude, but the bill’s sup
porters find encouragement in his
silence.
J One incident that is very material
ly helping the subsidy is the recent
speech of Secretary Root in support of
it. The fact that the speech was de
livered at Kansas City is helpful, as
the ship bill has found its principal
opposition In the interior of the coun
try. There have been some signifi
j cant conferences on the bill among
the most influential members of the
houses.
The senate has on its calendar two
important house bills, the immigration
bill and the Philippine tariff bill, but
there are snags in the pathways of
both of them. There is still intense
opposition to the Philippine bill, espe
[ daily, and it is not believed that it
can receive serious consideration dur
ing a short session.
The session bids fair to be produc
tive of many bills, and also of much
oratory.
Currency Bill Wanted.
Not a few members of both houses
are anxious to meet the demands of
the bankers and others for a more
elastic currency, and it is quite cer
tain that there will be efforts to sup
ply this want, but there are so many
plans that even the most sincere be
lievers in the necessity almost despair
of accomplishing anything in that di
rection during a short session.
The recommendation of the presi
dent In the interest of a national in
heritance tax is awaited with eager in
terest by many, and there is no doubt
that a large following could be se
cured for a measure of the character
he will outline, but, as in the matter
of currency reform, the few weeks of
the session will not suffice for ade
quate consideration. It is also recog
nized that the present plethoric con
dition of the treasury would furnish
Strong argument against the proposed
innovation. Suggestions looking to
wards amending the railroad rate laws
are not expected to bear fruit this
session. All these matters and many
others are certain to receive attention
in debate.
Among the questions slated for a
liberal share of discussion, the tariff
stands at the head of the list, but no
one has the least idea that any serious
effort will now be made to secure the
modifications which even many Repub
licans think desirable. The president,
who himself desires some changes,
has recently promised his congression
al callers that he will not ask to have
the subject taken up at this time. The
Japanese question, the discharge of
the negro soldiers, the desirability of
an income tax, the result of the late
elections and the trusts are also
slated for discussion, and it is even ex
pected that some of these questions, if
not all of them, will receive oratorical
attention from Democratic members
as soon as the first appropriation bill
is laid before the house.
Case of Reed Smoot.
The senate will give attention to
the case of Senator Reed Smoot, but
what it will do about it, not even the
senate wishes novj to contemplate.
There has from the first been a dispo
sition to put the Smoot matter aside,
but with the report of the committee
on privileges and elections on the cal
endar and Chairman Burrows quite
determined to press consideration, the
fact that the matter must be dealt
with is beginning to impress itself
upon members, and they are preparing
Naturally.
"A Topeka woman destroyed the hat
of a man who annoyed her.”
“Being a woman, she naturally be
lieves one’s hat to be one’s most pre
cious possession.”—Houston Post.
Well Managed.
Bell —Is she a good manager?
Beulah—Yes. Haven’t you ever no
ticed how quiet her husband it?—
Yonkers Statesman.
seriously for its consideration. The
Michigan senator will set the ball
rolling Monday, December 10, in a
speech in which he will review the
entire case, and he will doubtless be
followed by other members of his com
mittee for and against the Utah sen
ator. The resolution before the sen
ate merely declares Mr. Smoot to be
not entitled to his seat, and much op
position is likely to be made to its
form. It is considered equivalent to a
resolution of expulsion, but, unlike a
declaration for expulsion in explicit
language, it does not require a two
thirds vote to pass it. Mr. Smoot’s
friends will not yield this advantage
without a struggle. The question is a
privileged one and Senator Burrows
has expressed his determination to
utilize all his rights in keeping it to
the front.
Much interest attaches to the pres
ident’s forthcoming recommendations
concerning the Panama canal, espe
cially because of his recent visit to
the canal zone. It is not expected that
he will ask much legislation beyond
the necessary appropriations, and
there is a general disposition to grant
these. The increase of the navy will
receive much consideration, but there
is still opposition to the proposed ship
of the Dreadnought class.
IN MEMORY OF JOHN HAY.'
Philadelphia Jews Unveil Handsome
Window in Temple.
Philadelphia, Dec. 3.—Lauded as a
diplomat who tempered statecraft
with the Golden Rule, the.late John
Hay was honored by the Jewish peo
ple of this city Sunday when a hand
some memorial window to the dead
secretary of state was unveiled at.
Keneseth Israel temple.
Attended by Secretary of State Elihu
Root, Os<jar Strauss, recently named
by President Roosevelt as secretary
of commerce and labor, and Andrew
D. White, ex-minister to Russia and
Germany, together with six members
of the Hay family, the exercises were
among the most striking ever held in
a Jewish synagogue.
The members of the family who
were present were Mrs. Payne Whit
ney and Mrs. James Wadsworth, of
New York, daughters of the late sec
retary; Clarence Hay, a son; Arthur
Hay, of Washington, a nephew, and
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mather,' brother
in-law and sister of Mrs. John Hay.
The consecration address was made
by Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, rabbi of the
temple. He was assisted in the exer
cises by Rabbis Berkowitz and Land
man. Secretary Strauss made the in
troductory address and Mr. White de
livered an historical eulogy of the
dead statesman. Mr. Root.made the
chief address.
TO PROBE CAR SHORTAGE.
Commerce Commission Will Inquire
Into the Trouble.
Washington, Dec. 3.—The car short
age throughout the United States will
be investigated by the interstate com
merce commission. Commissioner
Franklin K. Lane, who has been look
ing into this subject, said Sunday that
the commission will take up the situa
tion in the northwest first. Agents
are now in that section investigating
complaints against the wheat carrying
roads. Farmers in many states have
reported that the railroads are prefer
ring other traffic, and that they are
unable to get their grain to market in
time to share in the high prices now
being paid in Minneapolis and Chi
cago.
The commission has issued a circu
lar asking the grain growers to sub
mit specific information regarding the
amount of freight offiered for ship
ment, and the reasons given for not
transporting the same.
POPE MAY LEAVE VATICAN.
Order to Rebuild His Railway Car Is
Significant.
Rome, Dec. 3. —The state railroad
department has received orders to re
construct the pope's railroad carriage
This car has not been used since 1870.
It is a special carriage with gilded
angels at the four corners. Inside,
there is a portable altar, and the un
holsterings are of white velvet. This
news is commented upon with much
interest and people are wondering if it
means that the pope is about to leave
the Vatican.
Peacemaker Kills a Man.
Linton, Ind., Dec. 3. —Charles Stew
art died Sunday from the effects of a
blow on the head with a mace deliv
ered by Frank Launders, the keeper
of a “blind tiger” saloon at Dugger, a
small town several miles west of here.
Stewart became Involved in an argu
ment with another man and the sa
loonkeeper, it Is said, to quiet the
combatants struck Stewart over the
head with a mace.
Tomb of Cicero Discovered.
Naples, Dec. 3. —What would appear
to be a most important archaeological
discovery has been made at Formiae,
near which place Cicero was assassi
nated nearly 20 centuries ago. This
discovery consists of remains which
are thought to be the tomb of the
great orator. They stand on a hill
dominating both the Appian and Her
culaneum ways.
Cron6tad Mutineers Sentenced.
Cronstad, Dec. 3. —Six hundred and
eighty-three sailors concerned in the
mutiny here last summer have been
sentenced by courtmartial to impris
onment, or service with the disciplin
ary battalions, for various periods.
One thousand seven hundred and sev
enteen sailors were acquitted.
What Did She Mean?
The Single One —I am a great lover
of dogs.
The Married One —It seems strange
if you have such a liking for dogs
that you never get married!” —Yon-
kers Statesman.
Her Right.
Chauncey—Why do you allow your
wife to pick out your clothes?
Doolittle—She pays for them.—De
troit Free Press.
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered toy Our Special Corres
pondent at Madison.
Madison. —The Wisconsin railroad
commission issued an order reducing
rates on pulpwood from points in
northern Wisconsin to Neenah and
Menasha about 12 per cent. This is
one of the most important actions
taken by the commission since its cre
ation and Is expected to prove of con
siderable benefit to paper manufac
turers and paper consumers. It is
probable that corresponding reduction
will be made in rates from all pulp
wood points to places in the state
where wood fiber paper mills are lo
cated. The order was issued on peti
tion of the Island Paper company, of
Udenasha, which complained that the
fates on pulpwood from points ill
northern Wisconsin to Neenah and
Menasha were unjustly discriminatory
and excessive. The company stated
that it used about 18,000 cords of hem
lock pulpwood from northern Wiscon
sin annually. The commission decid
ed that the rates were excessive, but
not discriminatory. The commission
specifically orders that the rates on
pulpwood between Spencer and Pren
tice to Neenah and Menasha be re
duced to 4*4 cents per 100 pounds, and
between Phillips and Marengo
and Neenah and Menasha to 5*4
cents. It also orders the Wisconsin
Central to cancel its proportional rate
on pulpwood as published in its tariff
sheet No. D, 1292, and recommends
that in substitution therefor the road
enter into a joint rate arrangement
with its connections at Neenah and
Menasha. It is estimated that the re
duction in these rates will result in a
saving of between $50,000 and SIOO,-
000 a year to the paper mills of the
state.
Improve Wisconsin Horses.
The most effective method of im
proving the quality of horses raised-in
Wisconsin forms the subject of the
latest bulletin of the University of
Wisconsin agricultural experiment sta
tion* by Prof. A. S. Alexander, entitled
“The Horse Breeding Industry of Wis
consin.” The bulletin reviews the ef
fects on horse breeding in Wisconsin
of the law which went into effect last
January, regulating conditions of
breeding and providing for the regis
tration of horses and the issuance of
certificates by the department of horse
breeding of the state university. Prof.
Alexander also points out the changes
and additions necessary in the law in
order to make its operation more ef
fective. Among the proposed provi
sions for consideration at the coming
session of the legislature are an annu
al or biennial renewal of license fee;
specific authority for the department
of horse breeding to refuse licenses for
unsound horses; the institution of a
plan of expert veterinary inspection of
horses used in breeding. As a result
of the enactment of the stallion law
the department of h<srse breeding of
the state university, in scrutinizing the
pedigree certificates, has discovered a
number of instances of fraud in mat
ters pertaining to the age and breed
ing of horses. In a considerable num
ber of cases it was found that changes
had been made in the date of birth as
stated in the certificate of registry. In
each case the change had been made
by some previous owner of the animal,
and often the present owner had no
trace of the previous owner and there
fore was not a party to the fraud. The
department of horse breeding has also
discovered the issuance of fraudulent
pedigree certificates by accommodat
ing bogus registry companies which
extract money from horse breeders
who fail to have the pedigrees of their
horses accepted for registry by recog
ninzed registry associations.
New Place for Sturdevant.
Attorney General Sturdevant will
probably be appointed as federal
claim agent by Governor Davidson.
The position pays $250 a month and
was held by Judge H. S. Comstock
for two years. Following the resigna
tion of Governor La Follette, Com
stock resigned to go into newspaper
work. It was rumored that Mr. Stur
devant might be called to the office
of private secretary of the governor,
but an investigation shows that Sen
ator O. G. Munson ?an hold tho posi
tion of private secretary and senator
at the same time.
More Campaign Expenses.
According to his statement filed in
the secretary of state’s office, Charles
B. Perry, of Milwukee, spent $927.94 in
campaigning for the Republican nom
ination for congress in the Fourth dis
trict. Charles W. Swanson, of Supe
rior, Social Democratic candidate for
congress in the Eleventh district, de
clares that he did not spend anything
for campaign expenses.
State Banks Prosperous.
According to a report of State Bank
ing Commissioner Bergh at the close
of business on Nov. 12 the 406 state
and savings banks of Wisconsin had
deposits aggregating $96,534,656.27, an
increase of $3,845,550.09 over that on
Sept. 4, the date of the preceding re
port. In other words, the deposits of
these banks are increasing at the rate
of nearly $2,000,000 a month. Total
gross increase in resources and liabili
ties, Sept. 4 to Nov. 12, was $4,727,-
864.43, and the total net increase $4,-
712,268.67.
Certifies to Sums Expended.
President A. J. Eaiiing, of tne Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
company, recently filed a statement
in the office of the secretary of state
at Madison, declaring that the com
pany has issued all of the $25,000,000
of additional stock voted by the stock
holders at a meeting held October 4,
1902, and that the whole of the money
received has been spent in construct
ing new lines, extension* and side
tracks, and buyiug real estate and
eauipmenL
Record of Wisconsin Antiquities.
The Wisconsin Archeological So
ciety, which for some several years
past has been actively engaged in
encouraging the preservation and
spreading the knowledge of the au
thorship, significance and educational
value of the antiquities of the state,
is now publishing and will soon issue
“A Record of Wisconsin Antiquities.”
This valuable work will be, in fact, a
complete directory to the now known
Indian burial, effigy, linear and other
mounds, village, camp and workshop
sites, corn hills, garden beds, pro
vision caches, flint and pipestone quar
ries, lead diggings, spirit stones, pic
tographs, cemeteries, portages, trails,
fords and other associated antiquities
in nearly 70 Wisconsin counties. This
booklet, is designed to prove of inter
est alike to students of American
archeology, to educators and tourists.
Its size is such that it ina'- be con
veniently carried in the po -et, thus
making it a handy field directory.
Each item noted is conveniently ar
ranged under the county or city and
township in which it occurs, and is
accompanied by full references to the
published literature. The information
collected in this publication repre
sents nearly 60 years of research. It
includes not only the wealth of infor
mation collected by Increase A. Lap
ham, Stephen D. Peet, Cyrus Thomas
and their associates, but also the great
amount of additional data collected
through the surface surveys and re
searches of the members of tho Wis
consin society. The edition now in
press will be limited to 1,500 copies,
the greater number of which will be
distributed among members of tho so
ciety and local educational institu
tions. The small remaining number
of copies may be purchased of the
society for $1 each. Inquiries may
be addressed to Charles E. Brown,
secretary, Milwaukee, Wis. All mon
eys thus obtained will be employed
for the extension of its surveys and
investigations.
Says McGovern Must Tell.
In response to an inquiry from
Peter J. Koehler, chairman of the
Milwaukee county Republican commit
tee, the attorney general rendered an
opinion to the effect that chairmen
of county political committees are not
required to name the donors of cam
paign contributions in their campaign
expense statements filed with county
clerks. In response to an Inquiry from
W. A. Hayes, assistant district attor
ney of Milwaukee county, the attor
ney general holds that District Attor
ney McGovern must include in his
statement of campaign expenses all
sums spent by himself or known by
him to have been spent by others In
liis interest and behalf. “The inde
pendent candidacy of Mr. McGovern,’
says the attorney general, “no doubt
presents a situation not contemplated
by the lawmakers when this act (re
quiring the filing of campaign ex
penses) was passed. It seems to me,
however, that the spirit of the law,
if not in its direct provisions, requires
candidates to make reasonable inquiry
and report all expenditures of which
they have any knowledge.”
Millionaire Ogden Convicted.
Francis A. Ogden, eccentric million
aire, bachelor, and the richest citizen
of Madison, was found guilty in the
municipal court of leasing property for
disorderly purposes. He was fined
SIOO and costs and immediately took
an appeal. It is the second time Ogden
has been convicted of a like offense.
The first Instance was several years
ago. Ogden then carried the case
through the supreme court and lost.
In each instance he was prosecuted by
the same official, the present city at
torney, Aylward. Ogden owns two
hotels in Madison. Some time ago the
colored proprietor of one was arrested
for keeping a disorderly house. On
the testimony secured at the hearing
Ogden was arrested and prosecuted.
The evidence introduced showed that
Ogden knew the character of the
places and sanctioned them. District
Attorney Gilbert will cause his arrest
under a state law. Ogden is over 70
years old. He owns property in Chi
cago.
Governor's Daughter to Wed.
At a reception in honor of Miss Alice
Rankin, of Milwaukee, Gov. and Mrs.
Lavidson announced the engagement
of their eldest daughter, Mabel, to
Frederick C. Inbusch, of Milwaukee.
The wedding will take place in the
spring. Mr. Inbusch was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in
1904, and Miss Davidson completes a
university course in February.
Stringent Rule Proposed.
A proposition to limit the amount of
flowers and bonbons which a univer
sity girl is allowed to receive is the
latest form of restraint suggested by
the dean of the women at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin. The idea is to con
fine all such remembrances from male
friends to a certain evening every
week, preferably Friday even
ing. Should some cavalier send Amer
ican beauties or a box of bittersweet.*
Sunday or Wednesday night, it will be
the duty of the “coeds” to return them
with a note of “we cannot accept.”
Dahl Says He Spent $1,846.02.
According to a statement filed by
him In the office of the secretary of
state, Andrew H. Dahl, of Westby,
state treasurer-elect, spent $1,846.02
for campaign expenses. The largest
items in the statement are: State
Chairman W. D. Connor, $500; postage,
$223; railroad transportation, $337.50;
hotel bills, cigars, etc., $418.90. Clar
ence J. Noel, of Marinette, Democratic
candidate for secretary of state, de
clares that he spent $66.65; Byron E.
Van Keuren, of Oshkosh, prohibition
candidate for attorney, $14,60.