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River Falls Journal
C. R. Morse, Publisher.
BIVER FALLS. - - WIS
BRIEF REVIEW Oi'
ft WEEK’S EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
IZED FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.
It was admitted in lowa that Sena
tor Allison would be in control of the
state Republican convention.
The fatal wounding of Deputy Mar
shal Smith Childers by Jake McDow
ell at Providence, Ky., almost precipi
tated a race war and was the indirect
cause of t wo traveling men being shot
by negroes, who mistook them for
members of a mob that was pursuing
McDowell.
Judge William Lochren of the Uni
ted States district court at Minneapo
lis announced that he would resign
from the federal bench May 31.
The decision of the American gov
ernment to send its battleship fleet to
Australia has aroused the greatest en
thusiasm throughout the common
wealth. When the announcement was
made public by the premier, Alfred
Deakin, before a huge crowd in Syd
ney, the thousands of persons in the
audience responded by rising en masse
and giving three deafening hurrahs for
the United States.
The men who robbed the bank at
Tyro, Kan., captured three members
of a posse, broke their guns and took
away one of their horses.
Joseph Bassanell, one of the con
victs who escaped from the North Da
kota penitentiary at Bismarck, was
killed by Sheriff Beck of McLean
county in a pistol duel. A few hours
earlier Alfred Woolens, the other es
caped convict, was captured by a
posse 15 miles west of Mandan.
China yielded in the affair of the
Tatsu Marti, conceding all the Japa
nese demands.
A lone bandit in the guise of a post
office inspector obtained admittance
to the postal car on the Great North
ern Oriental limited at Bonners Ferry,
Idaho, overpowered the clerks, and
rilled the registered mail pouch.
Judge Charles D. (’lark of the Uni
ted States district circuit court died
at Chattanooga, Tenn., aged G 1 years.
Janies Johnson, capitalist and lead
ing politician of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat on an Alabama Great Southern
train.
Col. W. Q. Dallmeyer, who was state
treasurer of Missouri in 1868, died at
Jefferson City, Mo., at the age of 79
years. He was president of the Ex
change bank.
Gov. Willson of Kentucky offered
$590 reward for the arrest and convic
tion of the night riders who took part
in the Woodford and Scott county
raids.
Charles K. Ladd, one of the most
prominent Democratic politicians in
Illinois, was said to be lying at the
point of death in his home in Kewa
nee, with heart trouble.
Several persons were killed in street
fights at Port-au-Prince. Hayti, and
many prominent men were arrested.
Gracio Elgueta, a lumber hand at
San Pedro, Cal., shot and probably
fatally wounded 11-year-old Margaret
Manes, wounded seven-year-old Min
nie Shackleford twice, shot her grand
father, James Shackleford, through
both shoulders, fired at Mrs. A. Manes
and was himself killed by policemen.
Elgueta was a rejected suiter of Mrs.
.Manes.
Fire in Lyons, Fiance, destroyed
buildings covering 22 acres.
Eight persons were killed by an ex
plosion of gas that wreck? d a drug es
tablishment in Natchez, Miss.
Two powder magazines in South
Acton, Mass., belonging to the Ameri
can Powder company, wore exploded
by lightning during a severe tiiundei
storm, but no one was injured.
Benson Bidwell, brother of the no
furious Bidwells who swindled the
Bank of England, and his son Charles,
were convicted in Chicago of operat
ing a confidence game.
J. E. Kavanaugh, a wealthy lum
berman of Davenport, la., was swin
dled out of $37,500 in New Orleans by
a fake wrestling match.
Fire destroyed throe-fomths of the
town of Big Timber. Men;., the loss
exceeding $400,000.
Carrying the lar est appropriation
in all its history—s222.l9o.392—the
post office appropriation bill passed the
house of representatives, having been
under discussion 14 days.
State Senator-Elect D. S. Kemp
was shot dead in a duel at Amite. La..
by c. F. Hyde, a prominent Demo
cratic politician.
An ancillary bill was filed at Hous
ton. Tex., in the federal court asking
a receivership for the International
& Great Northern railroad.
Discharged section hands are
thought to have been responsible for
an attempt to wreck a Pennsylvania
suburban train in Chicago.
The farmhouse of John Denthitt,
near Westboro, Wis., was destroyed
by fire and three small children were
burned to death.
Warran McKay, a native of Canada,
killed his wife and three children at
his Tenino (Wash.) home and then
committed suicide.
Representative Jesse Overstreet of
Indianapolis was selected for tem
porary chairman of the state Repub
lican convention.
Mme. Anna Gould, accompanied by
her three children, sailed from Cher
bourg for New York.
Harry K. Thaw’ was served with di
vorce summons in the proceedings
brought by his wife, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw’, to annul their marriage. Mrs
W. C. Thaw was also served.
Rear Admiral Theodore F. Kane,
retired, died in New York city. He
was born in Washington, D. C., in
1840.
Fire in the business section of
Bahia, Brazil, caused a loss of over
$1,000,000 and resulted in several
fatalities.
Alfred Peats, once prominent in
Chicago business life and known
across the country as the “wallpaper
king,” died in a sanitarium at White
Plains, N. Y.
Admiral Evans’ battleship fleet,
after leaving San Francisco, will visit
Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and
Sydney, Australia, the Philippines and
return to New York by way of the
Suez canal.
The entire business section of the
city of Big Timber, Mont., was wiped
out by fire. The loss was $400,000.
Three bandits held up and robbed
a bank at Tyro, Kan., securing $2,500,
after which they fled towards the Okla
homa line.
Denying the charge of insanity and
praying for dismissal of the suit,
Harry K. Thaw, through his counsel
at New’ York, made answer to Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw’s divorce suit.
Executive encroachment upon legis
lative power was the subject of a stir
ring speech in the senate by Senator
Bacon of Georgia.
A socialist demonstration in favor
of universal suffrage developed at
Budapest. There w’ere three hours of
serious rioting, the socialists using re
volvers.
Banker John R. Walsh was denied a
new trial by Judge A. B. Anderson in
the federal court at Chicago and was
sentenced to five years in the govern
ment prison at Fort Leavenworth on
the charge of misapplying funds.
The naval militia bill was reported
favorably to the house by Chairman
Foss of the naval affairs committee.
Edward Kelleher of St. Louis was
found guilty for the second time of
murder in the first degree for killing
“St. Louis Tommy” Sullivan, a pugilist,
three years ago.
Carrying the largest appropriation
in all its hi5t0ry—5222,190,392—the
post office appropriation bill passed
the house, having been under discus
sion 14 days.
Fire in the plant of the Columbia
Conserve company at Indianapolis,
Ind., caused a loss of $125,000.
A Springfield. 111., jury Friday ac
quitted James Roberts. 73 years old,
of the charge of murdering his em
ployer, Franklin Larkin.
Rev. J. T. Orr, for 50 years a
preacher in Illinois, was found dead
in bed in Sidell, 111.
Existence of an organized campaign
in Chicago to clear the name of Laz
arus Averbuch from the taint of assas
sin was revealed. It became known
that a secret fund of SIOO,OOO had
been raised.
David Fratt of Billings, Mont., for
mer president of the state board of
stock commissioners, and a wealthy
cattle man, pleaded guilty to the ille
gal fencing of 7,960 acres of public
land.
The German torpedo boat “S 12”
was run into and sunk by an unknown
steamer at the mouth of the River
Elbe.
A report widely circulated that the
school attached to St. Peter’s church
at McKeesport, Pa., would be blown
up caused 75 per cent, of the pupils to
remain away.
Hugh Hollis, a treasury department
clerk, w'ho came to Washington from
Louisville, Ky., shot and killed his
wife.
An attempt made by five criminals
under sentence of death to escape
from the Orel (Russia) jail resulted in
seven men losing their lives.
Tribute to the business ability of
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay has been
paid by the board of trade of Roslyn,
L. 1., in unanimously electing her to
membership.
A deputation of lumbermen from
northern Ontario asked the Ontario
government io remove the embargo
against the export of tan bark to the
United States.
John Brown’s antiquated wagon in
which he made many pilgrimages dur
ing his crusade against slavery was
destroyed by fire at lowa City, la.
Notices were posted In the mills of
the Amoskeag Manufacturing com
pany, Manchester, N. IL, announcing
;• wage reduction averaging ten per
cent.
Prompt and determined action on
the Fall River line steamer Provi
dence prevented a catastrophe when
lire broke out while the vessel was
in Lung Island sound.
Eighteen persons have been killed
by an avalanche in the Dukhtarminsk,
Siberia, district.
Five hundred people were poisoned
at a social given by the women of the
English Lutheran church. Upper San
dusky, 0.. by eating chicken and waf
fles.
Shareholders petitioned directors of
the Union Pacific to make Harriman
give up $40,000,000 alleged to have
been lost through his stock specula
tions.
In the Lilley probe Congressman
Hobson testified that he was ap
proached by a lobbyist of the subma
rine boat interests who claimed influ
ence with Speaker Cannon.
\ partial itinerary for the battleship
fleet after finishing target practice at
Magdalena bay was announced by the
naw department at Washington.
Harry Orchard, before Judge Fre
mont Wood in the Caldwell. Idaho,
district court, was allowed to with
draw his former plea of not guilty.
The khedive of Egypt, accompanied
by the duke and duchess of Connaught,
were present at Heliopolis at the first
automobile races held in Egypt.
A Swede, apparently insane, fusil
laded the royal castle at Christiania
with a Remington rifle. King Haakon
was away.
Senator Clarke of Arkensas de
nounced pending currency bills in a
speech in the senate, declaring that
no currency legislation should be en
acted until an investigation is held as
to the causes of the panic.
Miss Sarah Chamberlin Weed of
Philadelphia shot and killed Miss
Elizabeth Baily Hardee of East Sa
vannah, Ga„ and then committed sui
cide at a fashionable Boston school.
Joseph Genetti, an Italian miner,
pleaded guilty at Belleville, 111., to
murders by an infernal machine and
was sentenced to a term of 45 years
in the penitentiary.
Rev. Conrad Jaeger, aged 62 years,
pastor of the First Evangelical Luther
an church of Racine, Wis., and one of
the foremost Lutherans in Wisconsin,
is dead.
Thoron Illick, aged 23, son of J. T.
Illick, prominent Burlington, la., attor
ney, was drowned by the overturning
of a sail boat.
In Indianapolis, Ind., the national
convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America wept into session to
agree upon a course of action for a
wage scale.
John G. Jenkins, the Brooklyn, N.
Y., banker who with three sons was
indicted as a result of the banking in
vestigation, died of parlysis.
The candidacy of William H. Taft
for president of the United States was
indorsed by the Republican state con
vention of Nebraska at Omaha, Neb.
The steamer Mauretania established
a new trans-Atlantic record by beating
her own best previous eastward.
A Denver, Col., jury sentenced Gui
seppe Alla to death for the murder of
Father Leo Heinrichs.
An important conference was held
at the White House in Washington re
specting amendments to the Sherman
anti-trust law.
While hunting ducks on Reservation
lake, a few miles southwest of Sioux
City, la., Luther E. Peterson was in
stantly killed by the explosion of his
own gun.
Mme. Anna Gould, who sailed for
New York from Paris, booked her pas
sage under the name of Miller.
John Burry, a well-known electrical
engineer and inventor of the Burry
printing telegraph system, died at his
home on Staten Island.
The American battleship fleet under
command of Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans steamed into Magdalena bay
and dropped anchor.
The cruiser Yankton, that went to
Indefatigable island in search of Fred
Jeffs, an American seaman, said to be
marooned there, returned to Acapulco.
It failed to find Jeffs.
Mayor Markbreit of Cincinnati, who
said women were not capable of run
ning autos and that “the only ma
chines women ought to run are sew
ing machines,” is now sorry he said it.
The women bombarded him with pro
tests until he took it back.
It is reported in London that the
regalia stolen from Dublin castle has
been found in a pawnshop and re
covered.
The yachts of George Gould, Wil
liam Leeds and three of the Vander
bilts were offered for sale in New
York.
Nat C. Goodwin writes that after his
three weeks’ engagement in Chicago
he will quit the stage and go into the
mining business in Nevada.
An investigation by the department
of commerce and labor into the whole
system of grain dealing on boards of
trade is expected as the result of a
resolution to that effect introduced in
congress.
An unidentified man was found at
Imlay, Nev., entangled in a barbed
wire fence. He was still alive, al
though naked, and with his head part
ly severed from his body. Mystery
surrounds the affair.
Oscar E. Gaustad of Colburn, Wis.,
found his lost son, apparently dead,
under a tree. After carrying the lad
several miles home and working over
him warmth came to the body and the
lad revived. He had fallen from the
tree and become unconscious.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of
corporations to investigate the meth
ods of stock trading with a view to
furnishing the basis of possible future
legislation regulating such practices.
Details of alleged frauds in the
Louisiana Democratic primary elec
tion were placed before the Demo
cratic state central committee.
John B. Lindsey, at McArthur, 0.,
was acquitted of the charge of having
attempted to bribe Prosecuting At
torney Miller.
Methods of meeting competition and
gaining the oil trade of a locality were
testified to in the Standard Oil ouster
suit at Cleveland, O.
Coroner Burke rendered his de
cision in the Collinwood (O.) school
fire. Conditions existing are blamed,
but no fault is charged to any one.
The Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Topeka,
Kan., exonerated Dr. J. T. McFarland
of heretical charges.
A Pittsburg judge has decided that
a leacher may chastise an unruly
pupil w’ith a barrel stave.
Gov. Guild of Massachusetts has re
ceived official notification that the
king of Italy had nominated him a
grand officer of the Crown of Italy.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shoot Attorney S. R.
Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind., was com
mitted to a hospital for the insane.
Butter makers from nearly every
state in the union assembled at St.
Paul, Minn., for a three days’ conven
tion.
Reports to the New York and New
Jersey Metal Trades association show
that 6,000 of its 12,000 members are
out of work.
Anthony J. Drexel. Jr., and two oth
ers were injured in Philadelphia w’hen
their automobile was hit by a trolley
car.
One of the buildings of the San
Francisco and county almshouse was
burned and three patients lost their
lives.
Ambassador Takahira addressed the
Japan society in New’ York.
The Porto Rico house of delegates
by a large majority passed a bill au
thorizing the insular government to
operate a lottery under the super
vision of the insular treasurer.
Charles W. Morse and Alfred H.
Curtis pleaded not guilty in the
United States circuit court at New
York to a joint indictment of 29
counts.
China, fearing that Japan was seek
ing a pretext for trouble, apologized
for hauling dow r n the Japanese flag
and proposes to release the Tatsu
Maru, only recognizing “force ma
jeure.”
That there are serious defects in
the construction of American battle
ships was charged by Capt. C. McR.
Winslow and Commander A. L. Key
before the senate committee.
Napoleon’s Union school, Toledo
0., the largest building of the kind in
the state, was destroyed by fire. A
repetition of the Collinwood horror
was averted.
RSILROfIOS UNO
packers guilty
BURLINGTON MUST PAY $15,000
FINE FOR GIVING CONCES
SIONS IN RATES.
Four Meat Companies Convicted of
Receiving Rebates at Kansas City.
Supreme Court Holds Elkins Law
Appicable to all Transportation
Washington, March 17.—8 y a div*
ision of five to three the supreme
court of the United States affirmed
the decision of the United States dis
trict court of appeals for the eighth
circuit imposing fines on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad for
granting and the packers of Kansas
City, Kan., for accepting rebates on
shipments of packer’s products in
tended for export.
The decision was announced by
Justice Day and his announcement
was concurred in by Justices Harlan,
White, McKenna and Holmes. The
chief justice and Justices Brewer and
Peckman dissented in an opinion an
nounced by Justice Brewer which
pungently criticised the controlling
of food. Justice Moody took no part
in the disposition of the case.
Justice Brewer dissented from the
view of the court on the ground the
decision would work a violation of
the contract which he said “shocks
his sense of justice.”
The proceedings by the government
were against the following packers:
Armour Packing company, Swift &
Co., Morris & Co., and the Cudahay
Packing company, all of them operat
ing in Kansas City, Kan.
The companies were each fined
$15,000 by the United States circuit
court for the western district of Mis
souri on the charge of receiving re
bates contrary to the provisions of
the Elkins act.
NORTHWEST FLOODED.
Many Cities Suffering from High Wa
ter and Landslides.
Portland, Or., March 17. —Not in
many a year have so many points in
the Pacific northwest faced such se
rious damage from flood as they do
to-day. From last Friday until now
heavy rains have fallen over all of
the northwest and every rivulet is a
roaring torrent and every river is a
lake. Bridges have been washed out
or dynamited, railroad tracks are un
der water and when railroad traffic is
nuspended.
The Touchet and Patit rivers have
washed out the city dyke at Dayton,
Wash.
In western Washington the rivers
around Seattle and Tacoma are still
rising but little damage has resulted
so far.
WILL RETIRE.
Judge Lochren After Long Service
Will Resign.
Minneapolis, March 17. Judge
William Lochren, who has reached
the age of 76 and has begun to feel
the weight of his advancing years,
has decided to resign the position on
the bench of the United States dis
trict court which he has held for
twelve years.
This he announced for the first
time, and he has set March 31 as the
date for his resignation to become
effective, although he is willing to
serve until his successor is ready to
relieve him. He will submit his re
signation to President Roosevelt be
fore the close of the present month.
HAYTI IN TROUBLE.
Several Persons Reported Killed in
Street Fights.
London, March 17.—A dispatch has
been received from Port au Prince,
Hayti to the effect that serious dis
turbances have occurred at that
place. Several persons are reported
killed in street fights, and many ar
rests of prominent men have been
made. Rumors of several execu
tions the dispatch says are in circu
lation but at the hour of filing the
dispatch these have not been con
tinued.
Burglarized Four Times.
Deadwood, S. D.—For the fourth
time in a few months the premises of
J. W. Fargo in the lower part of town
was entered by burglars and robbed.
On the other occasions the thieves
broke into Fargo’s grocery store, but
this time they chose the house.
While the family slept quitely up
stairs the marauders ransacked the
lower floor and secured about $l5O
worth of loot. A purse containing
$64 in gold and a gold watch and
other jewelry were among the things
taken.
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
Minneapolis, March 16.
Wheat —No. 1 northern, $1.07;N0. 2
northern, $1,05. May $1.05%. Oats—
No. 3 white, 51c; Corn—No. 3,61 c
Barley —No. 4,84 e. Rye —No. 3,77 c
Flax seed—No. 1, $1.16. Butter —
Creamery, extras, 30c; firsts, 28c.
dairy, fancy, 22c. seconds 20c;
Poultry —Turkeys, 12c, chickens 10c;
South St. Paul, March 16.
Cattle—Steers, $4.75 and $5,503
eows $3.25 and $4.25. Hogs —$4.35
and $4.50 Sheep—Muttons, $5.75:
lambs $6,50.
North Dakota Team Wins.
Grand Forks, N. D.—North Dakota
university won the debate w’ith South
Dakota university by the unanimous
decision of the judges. The question
was. “Resolved, That the Des Moines-
Galveston plan of city government is
the most feasible solution of modern
city government.” North Dakota had
he affirmative and Scott Cameron, O.
rlegerstad and S. Johnson w’ere her
representatives. For the negative
South Dakota had F. A. Denholm, H.
P. Ilsby and Benjamin D. Mintus. It
was a spirited contest.
News of Wisconsin
Interesting Happenings in the Various
Cities and Towns of the State.
POLICE CAN PROVE NOTHING.
Unable to Implicate Otto Wallin in
Janesville Murders.
Janesville. —Whether Otto Wallin is
insane or whether he knows anything
of the mysterious deaths of and at
tacks on women in this city will prob
ably remain a mystery. The closest
kind of questioning has failed to
bring forth any information from the
prisoner, who acts as though stupid
and not insane. Dr. St. John does
not believe him insane, while Dr. J.
F. Pember does. His commitment
papers are at the county court for sig
nature when properly executed, and
the district attorney and police are
at sea how to proceed. None of the
pocketbooks or ladies’ handbags has
been identified, and no one has
claimed the two pounds of steak or
bottle of milk found on his person. It
is known that he has been in the
city late at night, but he has not been
identified by any of the women at
tacked.
ACCUSED OF HORRIBLE CRIME.
Father Alleged to Have Deliberately
Scalded His Children.
Kenosha. —One of the most brutal
crimes known in this section was
brought to light by the arrest of Chris
Rasmussen, a well-to-do farmer of the
town of Pleasant Prairie in this coun
ty, who is charged with attempting to
kill his wife, his son Christian, aged
four years, and daughter Rose, aged
nine years, by scalding them. He
was taken into custody by Sheriff
Pfennig. The little boy was uncon
scious when found, and may not re
cover.
Sat and Waited for Death.
La Crosse. —Deliberately sitting on
the track in front of a fast mail train
on the Milwaukee road, an unknc »vn
man, evidently a tramp, committed
suicide at West Salem. A previous at
tempt in front of an incoming freight
train was made earlier in the day, but
was frustrated by the stopping of the
train. There was nothing about his
person to reveal his identity. He was
about 40 years of age. Three cents
were found in his clothes.
Sues for Loss of Wife’s Love.
Madison. —L. A. Fiebiger of Sun
Prairie filed a suit in the circuit
court against Peter Gross of the same
place for SIO,OOO for the alienation of
his wife’s affections. Gross is a
wealthy farmer. Fiebiger alleges that
he and his wife lived happily together
until October, 1904, when she became
acquainted with Gross and he soon
won her affections.
New Plan for Tax Collection.
Chippewa Falls. —The town treasur
ers of Chippewa county have joined to
collect all personal property taxes
and do away with turning over these
taxes to the county treasurer. This
year every person who refuses to pay
his personal property tax will be
served with a summons to appear be
fore a magistrate.
Three Children Burned to Death.
Medford. —The farmhouse of John
Donthitt, near Westboro, was de
stroyed by fire while the mother
was outside. The stove exploded and
her three small children, four years
old, two years old, and a baby were
burned to death. The father was
away working in a lumber camp.
Bridge to Be Opened in June.
Superior.—ln getting the assess
ment on the Duluth side of the inter
state bridge reduced, Attorney John
A. Murphy stated that the big struc
ture would be ready for use by June.
Mr. Murphy appeared before the
county board of St. Louis county and
the assessment was cut from $65,000
to $30,000.
May Get Sauerkraut Factory.
Racine. —A $40,000 sauerkraut fac
tory has been offered Corliss if
the farmers will guarantee to raise
200 acres of cabbage per season at
four dollars per ton.
Seyd Railroad Depot Burned.
Chippewa Falls. —The Wisconsin
Central depot at Boyd has been com
pletely destroyed by fire. The origin
is a mystery. The depot was valued
at about SI,OOO.
Canoe Upsets; Girl Drowned.
Beloit. —By the overturning of a
canoe in the Rock river Miss Bessie
Griswold, 20 years old, was drowned.
Her brother Ben, 18 years old, may
die.
Wreck Narrowly Averted.
La Crosse. —An axle on the engine
of a fast train just about to leave
broke while the train was standing in
the yards. Had the accident happened
a few moments later a wreck with loss
of life would probably have occurred.
Will Not Fix Scale of Prices.
Eau Claire. —The Fruit Growers’ as
sociation of Eau Claire county has de
cided uot to fix any scale of prices,
and the acreage, it is figured, will be
about the same as last year v which is
below the average.
Declaration Was Signed Twice.
There are conflicting accounts of
the actual signing of the declaration,
and it is probable that it was signed
at least twice, once in manuscript and
again after it had been engrossed.
But whether it was signed once or a
dozen times, it was signed, and that s
the real issue.
In the second story of a house then
“on the outskirts of the city,” now
fn the heart of the downtown business
SEED COMPANY’S PLANT BURNS.
Warehouse and Office of L. L. Olds
Company Totally Destroyed.
Janesville. —The L. L. Olds Seed
company of Clinton suffered a $50,000
fire which totally destroyed their large
warehouse and office. The fire started
in the cloakroom on the second story,
evidently from a match, and fanned
by a strong east wind, soon enveloped
the entire structure in flames. At a
critical period the water works sys
tem of the village gave out, and pri
vate wells were called into use. Sev
eral adjacent buildings caught fire,
but were quickly extinguished. There
was a little insurance. The Olds
company Is the largest seed company
in the west, and employed 60 hands.
It will rebuild immediately.
INSTALLED FOR SECOND TIME.
Edward Dwight Eaton Again Presi
dent of Beloit College.
Beloit. —Edward Dwight Eaton, who
has been for the second time installed
president of Beloit college, was presi
dent of the institution from 1886 to
1905. He was prior to his first accept
ance of the presidency pastor of the
First Congregational church. Oak
Park, 111. Dr. Eaton was born at
Lancaster, Pa., January 12, 1851. He
was graduated from Beloit college.
Yale Theological Seminary, received
degrees later from Northwestern uni
versity, Yale university and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and studied at
Leipzig, Heidelberg and Berlin. In
1898 he inspected missions in China.
To Check Smallpox Epidemic.
Chippewa Falls. —In order to check
the smallpox epidemic at Chetek the
board of health has ordered that every
residence and public building there
must be disinfected. It was at first
thought to close up the schools, but
when it was learned that practically
every citizen had been exposed the
former method was agreed upon.
Pure Water for La Crosse.
La Crosse. —In order to insure a
supply of pure water for the city a
number of samples taken from dif
ferent points and depths of the Missis
sippi river have been sent to Madi
son for analysis. The common conn
cil proposed to spend $50,000 in the
construction of a new well which will
furnish the pump-house.
Lightning Strikes Creamery.
Merrillan. —During a rain and snow
storm lightning struck the creamery
at Alma Center, a small village, four
miles west of here, and burned it to
the ground. It was owned by George
Galloway, and arrangements had been
made to turn it over to the Alma Cen
ter Co-Operative Creamery company.
The plant was insured.
Witness Killing of Herd.
La Crosse. —Farmers, doctors, city
officials, business men, and others at
tended the killing of the herd of
cattle owned by John E. Hauser of
the town of Campbell, at the plant of
the Langdon & Boyd Packing com
pany, under the supervision of State
Veterinarian David Roberts.
Suit Against City Authorities.
Baraboo. —The mayor and the whole
common council of Baraboo are the
defendants in a mandamus action
brought by Rev. Louis A. Goddard,
pastor of the First Congregational
church of Baraboo, and grows out of
the refusal of the council to revoke
a saloon license.
Firebug’s Case Disposed Of.
La Crosse. —John Olson, the boy
charged with firing a number of barns,
was taken to the Waukesha Industrial
school, and the trial which was to
have come up at the May term will be
allowed to pass by default.
Bryan May Attend Meeting.
Appleton.—The annual convention
of the Wisconsin Sunday School as
sociation will be held here May 26,
27 and 28. An effort will be made to
get William Jennings Bryan to make
an address.
district, at the southwest corner of
Market and Seventh streets, at present
occupied by a bank building, young
Jefferson had written it. In the hearts
of increasing millions its sentiments
are carved anew and deeper from year
to year, and there is room for hope
that the day will come when men and
women will live up to some of its
well-nigh divine principles in the same
measure that they claim to love thesa.
—Philadelphia North American.
CLIMATE IS IDEAL
GREAT WEALTH ACQUIRED IN
GROWING GRAIN.
Writing from Saskatoon, Saskatche
wan, Canada, W. H. Ellwanger, who
was formerly a resident of Green
Mountain, lowa, says: “The climate
in summer is ideal for growing grain.
Long, clear days of sunshine, no bad
storms. We never need to guard
ag.’inst cyclones; I never saw a better
climate in my life. We made more
money during the season of 1906 than
any previous five years in central
lowa —one of the best districts in th*
state.” But Mr. Ellwanger was a resi
dent of the town, and it might be more
interesting to read what a farmer has
to say about Western Canada. From
hundreds of letters all filled with
words of praise, recounting success in
Western Canada there has been one
selected. It is as follows:
Paynton, Sask., Canada,
Dec. 10 th, 1907.
To Whom This May Concern:
I moved to this address February 3,
1907, from Montgomery, lowa, and
took a homestead 35 miles north of
Paynton. It was cold when I moved
here but it did not stay cold long; it
broke up the Bth of February, and was
not so cold after that but the spring
was late on account of the heavy snow
fall, but in spite of the late spring 1
saw better grain than I ever saw in
the states, raised this year. I helped
a man finish sowing oats the 4th of
July and they made fair oats. In a
good year oats will go 100 bushels to
the acre and wheat 25 to 50; all root
crops do well here. I saw turnips weigh
7 and 8 pounds. 1 raised potatoes this
year that measured liy 2 inches
one way and the other in cir
cumference. This is a fine stock coun
try; hay in abundance, good water,
plenty of fuel, fre'o and plenty of
building material—tlio government
gives us timber to saw into lumber
and we can get it sawed for about
$6.00 per thousand. All small fruit
grows wild here, then there are ducks,
geese, grouse, pheasants, deer, moose,
elk and fish in abundance. I was over
to Turtle Lake yesterday where there
Is lots of fishinsf being done this win
ter. I saw about a carload of white
fish in one pile. I gave 25 cents for
86 pounds of fish. What do you think
of that, Brother Yankee? I think this
is a fine place both to make money
and to live. There was an old man up
here visiting his brother-in-law. Now
this man owns land close to Des
Moines, lowa, and is in good circum
stances, but he took a homestead and
says he will be contented if he can
only put in the rest of his days in
Canada. He would get up in the morn
and look out of the door and say:
“Well, who wouldn’t live in Canada?”
Now I have been in 13 different states
in the United States, and I never saw
the chance that there is here for a
man that has a little muscle and a
little brains. Three cheers for Cana
da! (Signed.)
W. A. SPICE.”
This is the temperature through
November. I took it myself so I
know it is right, in the shade:
Morning at
Morning Morning ..
Pate at ’>ato at R ,
Sunrise Sun *"» t Sunrise B onse ’
1 27 37 16 28 35
2 36 40 17 12 20
3 26 37 18 1* 29
4 29 34 19 20 33
5 27 36 20 12 24
6 30 38 21 18 27
7 12 30 22 16 28
8 28 34 23 15 27
9 17 16 24 18 22
10 2 13 25 8 20
11 5 26 26 32 2°
12 28 20 27 20 16
13 7 11 28 8 14
14 21 18 29 18 20
15 20 31 30 18 27
The Hottentot lot.
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To tot ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottentot tot
To be taught to say “aught”
Or “naught,” or what ought to be taught
her?
Or—
If to hoot and toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by a. Hottentot footer,
Should the tootcr get hot if thn Hottentot
tot
Hoot and toot at the Hottentot tutor?
—Charles S. Putnam, in The Sunday Mag
azine.
Hen Was Above Reproach.
Lodger—This egg is stale.
Landlady—impossible, sir. Why, I
would stake my existence on that hen.
—Fliegende Blatter.
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