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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
6tELLANEOUS.

st. Louis is again talking up its South.
ern Pacific railway projects.
The Democrats have two majority in
the North Carolina constitutional con.
yention.
The San Francisco banks are stnl
drawing gold from the East preparatory to
resumption Of business.
In cricket match at Philadelphia the
18th, between Philadelphia and Cana.
dian players, the former won by 23l to
IA.
Viniman & Co., of Kansas City, Mo,
have compromised the charge Of cheating
the government in whisky revenue by
paying about $4,000.
A discovery of gold dust in sediment
brought up from the bottom of a well at
Terrc Haute, Ind, has occasioned great
excitement in that city.
DR.. Linderman, chiefin the U. S. minis,
considers the Merchants Exchange build
ing at st. Louis the best in the West for
the purposes of new mint
The department Of agriculture reports
the cotton crop improved as compared
with August in the Mississippi States and
less favorable in the Atlantic States.
Dispatches from New Orleans report
the equinoxial storm still raging along
the Gulf coast on the night OF the 18th.
Nothing had been heard from Galveston
during the day.
The English bond and share holders in
the Erie railway have proposed an add.
tional issue of shares to provide for mar
rowing the guage, completing the double
track and improving the branch lines.
Three New York detectives were, on
the 10Th, searching Monroe county, Mich,
for Charlie Ross. The detectives claimed
to have been in correspondence with par.
ties in Monroe who knew Of the child's
whereabouts.
The Constitutional Convention Of Ala.
bama has unanimously agreed TO sec.
tion reading "The people of the State
accept as a final and established fact that
from the Federal Union there can be no
secession OF any State"
The statement that the assaying and
refining works at San Francisco had been
transferred 60 Flood & O'Brien was pre-.
mature. ne hNnh OF Aalliofnia people
say that the bargain will, however. be
conSummated at an early day.
The San Francisco assaying and rein.
inc works, and also the OIL works under
the same management, heretofore con.
trolcd by Ralston and the Bank of Cali.
fornia, have boon purchased by the new
money kings Of the Pacific slope, Flood 4
O'Bricn.
The Episcopal convention Of Illinois
has adopted a resolution directing dele.
gates 60 the next general convention TO
vote against any canon comforting on
standing committees the power 20 reject
those who had been elected bishops. hc.
cause such committees might consider
them unsound in the faith.
The Papa N,ncio in Spain has issued a
circular to the Bishops outlining the de.
mands Of the Catholic Church upon Al.
fonzo's new liberal ministry, which are in
substance the suppression Of heretical
teachings and literature, following which
Il is imagined that, as the ministry will
not yield, the Pope's blessing will be trans
ferred from Alfonzo TO Don Carlos.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
sham War.

The grand autumn maneuvres of the
German army concluded on the Dist after,
three days earnest war play, which re-
sembled real war rather than play. Two
army corps commanded by Gen. Won
Kirschbach and Gen. Tumpting, each
thirty thousand strong, were pitted
against each other on the ground of
Butcher 5 victory over Macdonald in
1913.
The Emperor was watching the
maneuvres, attended by brilliantly uni
formed suit, including the foreign officers.
With the Emperor were the Crown
Prince, the King of Saxony, the Arch
duke Albrech of Austria, Prince August,
the Crown Prince of Portugal,l Princes
Frederick Charles and Carl Albrech
of Prussia, Prince August of Wurtem-
burg, and Prince Arthur of England. The
Americans present were Quartermaster
Meigs with his son ard Lieut.. Newcomb,
Coils. Dickinson, Woodruff and Delaney
Floyd Jones.
The Emperor rode an immense distance
daily, accompanied by Won Moltke, often
dashing up an eminence where the fight
was thckest criticiSing the storming and
commanding.
The foreign officers were unanimous in
praising the discipline, activity and pre-
cisiOn of the evolutions.
The troops bivouacked for the night on
the field Of battle and their camp fires ex-
tended circumference of fifteen miles.
The scene was visited by thousands and
presented magnificent spectacle. The
valley Of the Katzbach was lit up by
camp fires, and the plateau toward LEG
nitz made scene that is seldom witness
ed. The war was earnest, without any
deaths, and the Prussians entered hearth
ly into the spirit of the undertaking.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

rsburg the water was within 20 inches Of
the top Of the navigation company's
wharf Thursday forenoon, and rising an
inch an hour. Grave apprehensions ex.
list in Houston OF serious disaster in Gal.
weston.
Via New Orleans the news came that
the gale at Brashar continued all Friday
night, and was still, in progress, the wind
having changed to the northwest The
water in the streets Of that city rose
foot during the night, and is now four
feet deep. The rise continues, the water
being higher than known for years. At
Lyons, eighteen miles west, the country
IS flooded to the depth Of three feet,
which is five feet higher than the food Of
1867. A boat sent from Brasher TO the
relief of the people on Shell Island re.
turned last night during lull in the
storm and brought all off. When she
left the water covered the island to
depth of three feet and was rising. Sim.
liar reports come from other points along
tho western coast, which partially con.
firm the rumors that Galveston is under
water.
The waters have now subsidized and the
damage is stated at 100000, and twelve
lives lost.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Wintermute,s Acaui,tnI.

p. p. Wintermute, who killed General
E. 5. McCook, and who was acquitted of
this charge by an alleged bribed jury at
Vermillion on SATURDAY, came back to
Yankton to enjoy his (claimed) purchased
liberty, and stopped at the Merchants
Hotel at the invitation of the proprietor.
Many of the guests Of the house left the
dining-room when he entered. During
the evening crowd Of people gathered
in the Office Of the Merchants and grew
so noisy and outspoken in their demon.
STATIONS against Wintermute that he be.
came frightened AMI hid in the hotel
laundry all night, where he was guarded
by three officers. This morning he took
the early morning train and got out Of
town, going eastward. II is probable
that Chicago will soon he honored with
his presence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
The Ward VIII Case.

The Z. b. Ward contested will case at
Detroit has gone over until next week on
the application Of the plaintiff, who asks
time for the taking Of the deposition Of
Slade, the noted New York medium, who
is too feeble to come there. The affida.
Wit filed in the matter is that Of Captain
Wards son, Milton d., who swears that
he expects to prove by Mr.. Slade that 4.
b. Ward, short time before max ~ the
will. consulted through said medium the
spirit Of Robert Lyon and Of person
called Clara, Lyon being the father
Of Mrs. Catharine l.. Ward, the Captains
second and surviving wife, and Clara rel.
ative that the spirits Of these persons
dictated substantially the provisions Of
the will in controversy; that Captain
Ward received as true what purported to
be the communication and took copies
with him from New York. and that he
afterwards stated to a witness in sub.
stance that he had made his will accord.
ne to their advice. II is also now oener-
rally understood that the plaintiffs case
will attack the Legality Of Captain Wards
second marriage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Beecher Decline. "a public Reception.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has de-
clined the proposed public reception at
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. In the
letter of declination he says: "Such a
reception would tend to keep alive feel.
ings that ought to subside; to renew dis
cussions Of painful public transactions
which should never have had an exis-
tence, and which it were well both for
public and private good, to have removed,
if not to forgetfulness, at least to OBJ.
security; too many hearts yet bleed too
much sorrow and scorching excitement
has followed upon kind, sympathizing
hearts, to make it wise to give public
demonstration which might be misiuter.
preted, and which might excite an ami.
mostly which any good citizen should
seek to heal"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
THE NEWS.
A REVIEW OF THE WEEK
At HOME AND ABROAD.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The troubles in Tallahatchee county,
Miss, ended with the arrest of johnson,
the negro leader. Fortunately no blood
was split.
g. ID. Marshal, late cashier of the Lou.
isville gas company, and delaulter for
100000, is very low from hemorrhage Of
the lungs and will not be arrested.
The residence Of G. H. Greeley on
2lst street, Cairo, was totally destroy.
ed by fire Thurday night. Loss on house
and contents $4,000 to $4,000; insur.
ance $4,000.
Detective Bligh, of Louisville, is salts
fled that the bank burglar who was
wounded and captured at Pine Hill, KY,
is Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw, in
stead of one Of the equally noted Younger
brothers.
Ben. b. Halleck, ex.cerk, accused Of
the larceny Of $4,000 from the United
States Treasury, has been committed to
Jail at Washington in default Of 100000
bail. Theodore w. Brown, his confeder
ate, called peg Leg Brown" was also
committed in default Of the same amount
Of bail.
recent letter from Attorney General
/ errepont to Governor Ames Of Missis.
sippi, concerning disturbances in the
State and the inability of the government
to protect them, is requested for publca.
tion by Republican politicians of that
State.
The bark Naiad has brought to Chica-
90 William Crossthwaite and the second
engineer Of the foundered propeller Men.
dota, both picked up on Lake Michigan.
The steward, who was on the same piece
Of wreck with the engineer for long
time, finally became crazy and died. The
first Waterman, too, was washed away
while the engineer was asleep.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Don't Mortgage Your Farms.
From the Faribault Republican

From the Faribault Republican,
Donnelly advises farmers to mortgage
their homesteads and pay their debts
rather than sell their wheat at Sl.05 now.
A reckless policy, we should say. If a
man can get $l.05 for his wheat, and is
not able to hold it without clapping a
mortgage on his homestead, he had
better sell his wheat. There are contin.
gencies in holding, such as fire, deterora.
tion aud shrinkage and fall in prices on
the one hand, while the mortgage is eat.
ing on the other. But lf man can hold
his crop without pecuniary embarraSs.
ment, the question of policy assumes a
different aspect.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

4 statement Of the assets and liabli.
ties Of Lee & Shepard, the SUI, pended
publishers Of Boston, was submitted to
the creditors on the 10th. The assets,
independent Of stereotype plates, which
cost about $3.50, 900. amount to 800, 433
The liabilities are $5S7,206. Mr.. Shop
ard thoughts it best that the creditors
should decide upon tho present value Of
the plates, and a committee Of the cred
ltors was appointed to estimate their
yalue
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Thc MouIlon IndIctmcnt tor LibcI.
lineage Tribune, lGiI

In relation TO the criminal prosecution
which MIR. Beecher, the prosecuting wit.
ness, and Mr. Brtton, the prosecuting
attorney, now want to abandon, Mr..
Moulton has set himself before the people
in a very cre6itable light. and with a
yigor and earnestness that will gain for
him Urge amount Of public sympathy.
II the prosecution shall be actually aban.
doned after all, this course will bring
more suspicion and discredit upon the
prosecutors than the prosecuted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

kDNfc5' AtA"ilsJ ~ sAFi
jackson Hutchinson, a resident OF this
vicinity, and an estimable and promising
young mar, was recently visited with a
strange affection. Last Friday, a week
ago, about | O'Clock A. NJ, he was taken
with the bleeding at the nose, and having
tried all the usual remedies unsuccesstully,
became alarmed, and at p. NJ of that
day applied to DR.. Townley of this
place Tor assistance, coming to town for
that purpose. After two hours incessant
labor the doctor succeeded in stopping
the flow Of blood, and the Young man
went home, feeling very week of course
from the loss of the vital fluid, but other.
wise apparently al right. The following
Tuesday, however, the bleeding com.
mencet again, ard about dark the doctor
was summoned to the residence of the
sufferer. Only partial success attended
the Doctors efforts to stop the nose
bleeding, and the case became rather
strangely complicated by the blood
oozing from the eyes, first apparently
spirting up from the lower lids and run
ming out About 9 o'clock the case "a
further complicated by a hemorrhage
from the lungs, so that at one and the
same time the blood was flowing from the
nose, lungs, and eyes. The doctor did
not succeed in stopping the bleeding of
until nearly midnight,by which time
course the patient was in an al.
most totally exhausted condition. His
body was at one time covered with blood
red splotches, from the size of a pin.hcad
up to that of three-cent piece, but these
are now disappearing and the patient,
though yet quite weak, is thought to be
rapidly improving.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
An Eau Claire Lumberman swIndIed
i'm Chicago.
tChicago Times. l7th.l

As Justice Bcyden was sitting in the
law department, yesterday, his attention
was requested to the sorrcwful tale of a
lumberman named Williamson, who re-.
sides at Eau Claire Wis. Mr.. William.
son visited this city some time since to
purchase a lot of furniture for the pur-
pose Of setting his son up in the furniture
trade. lie contracted with firm on
State street to forward $4,000 worth of
furniture, in payment of which he decided
a farm which he owned in Wisconsin, and
also gave them roll Of greenbacks con-
tanning some 5000. In order to insure the
tul tillment of the contract on their part
he took a mortage on the building which
the firm occupied. lie then returned to
Eau Claire and waited patiently for the
furniture to come. When " forbearance
ceased to be virtue" he paid another Wis
IT to Chicago to ascertain what was in the
wind. lie learned to his utter discom-
future that the furniture firm in question
having pocketed the money and deposited
the dee to his farm in the bank, did not
mean to fulfill the contract, but intended
to cheat him out Of the whole. The mort
tage which their victim held on their
building was bogus, and could avail poor
Williamson nothing in his dilemma. The
names of the parties are withheld, as
last evening they had not yet been
arrested.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Washington Court Frauds.
New York Snn.1

John Green was arrested few days
ago in Baltimore on the charge Of hav.
ing falsely personated Mr.. David Edes, of
Georgetown, in the matter Of becoming
security for one Snyder, who had been
indicted by the Grand Jury of the Dis
trict for committing burglary in ard
robbing the store Of Perry Bros. The
testimony against Green was so strong
that the United States Commissioner held
him for trial in the District of Columbia.
Two witnesses swore positively that they
saw him leave Baltimore on the day Sny-
der was released, in company with Sny.
der's wife. and one of them Swallowed the
pair to this city. Another witness idea-
titled him as the same man whom
he had seen in company with Assistant
District Attorney Fisher and VIM. NJ
Evans, the attorney Of Snyder. An at.
tempt was made to prove an alibi, but
the Commissioner said he would leave
that to be decided by jury of twelve
men. lie then spoke Of what he alleged
to be the corrupt District courts, and
said here was a case where burglar is
set at liberty on the mere say of an lndi-
vidual that he was man of property
The whole thing was disgrace, not only
to the District of Columbia but to the
whole United States and the American
people. They should have taken the
trouble to find out if the man who went
bail was man of property. He said that
persons in judicial capacity should be
above reproach, and then we would have
justice in this country, but not until then.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

Sir Wilrrid Lawsonan English baronet,
in a recent public speech repeated sto.
ny which he once heard told by an Irish
gentleman, who was teetotaler. and
who had an uncle who was very fond Of a
drop Of whisky punch. TIE Irish gentle.
man wishes TO convert his uncle. and he
wrote to him, Dear uncle, do give up
drinks; am sure il will lengthen your
days In about a week he got an answer
TO his letter to this ciIcct--'Dear nephew,
| am much obliged to you for your advice;
| have taken il. You were quite right
when you told me il would lengthen my
days, FOR the day gave up drink vas
the longest day ! ever spent in my life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Fatal Collision with Kerosene
Lamp.

In Otoe county, Nebraska. recently.
Mrs. Black, n farmers wife, going up.
stairs in the evening, carvings lamp and
small child, was run into By boy
coming rapidly down stairs. The lamp
was knocked from her grasp and explod.
ed, setting fire TO both mother and boy.
The husband ran up, seized his wife, car.
ried her out doors, and threw her in a
mud puddle, then ran back, seized the
child, attempted TO carry it down stairs.
but could not hold it with his burned
hands. Another boy who carried the
child out, had his own clothes set on fire.
and he was badly burned. Also the bow
who ran into the lamp. causing the acct.
dent. The chila died before morning
The mother and one boy were 50 badly
burned that life is almost despaited Of
The other boy will probably be crippled
for life. MIR. Blacks hands were 50 had.
ly burned that he can never use them
again. The house caught fire, but. by
tbs exertionS Of the ue,ghbors. was ,ayed
IN damaged condition. The five persons
composed the entire family.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Condition OF the Foreign Markets.

The London Times Of the 18th says of
the foreign harvest and the condition Of
crops:
The harvest is nearly at an end. The
reports as to the quality Of new wheat
are generally good. The markets in
Mincing Lane continue quiet. Sugar is
depressed, and prices favor buyers. James
Baird. whom the Times considers high
authority, writes that journal as follows ::
"The publication Of the returns of acre.
age exhibits the smallest breadth Of
wheat We have had since the returns hav
been taken, and halia million acres less
than the average extent previous to 1850,
when We had four millions fewer people
The decrease in Ireland has been Ia per
cent. from 1874. and in Great Britain the
decrease has been nearly per cent. 3"
lie estimates the amount Of wheat re-
quired from abroad at eleven million
quarters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

DR.. A. j. Lapham, late geologist Of
Wisconsin, and man Of worldwide note
in science, died at oconomowoe on the
night Of the 18th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24
Hot chase o, bank Robbers.

Louisville dispatches OF the 18th report
hot chase Of the four men who recently
robbed the Barre Bank, at Huntington,
w. Va, Of $4,000, in daylight. They
fled into Kentucky, the news of their
flight being teIegraphed ahead of them
every day. Friday morning, the 10th.
eighty shots were fired at them in Own.
ley county, but they escaped, and on ar
irving in Clay county, stole fresh horses
and continued their fight. They we're
again overtaken Sunday, in jackson
county, but took to the bushes and
escaped. Tuesday word was received at
Pine Hill that the four robbers were
near that place. Two men named Dillon
armed themselves and sat up all night on
the look out for the outlaws. At twelve
O'Clock men were seen by the billions
coming toward their home. They opened
the door and asked what was wanted.
Only two men were seen, and without
answering they fired on the billions. The
shots were returned, and one of them
fell. At this juncture two other outlaws
appeared in the rear, the billions firing
as they approached but without injury.
The billions then retreated to their house,
firing fast as they did so. A dozen shots
were fired, and when all was over, three
men had fled, leaving their companion,
whose appearance answers to the descrip.
ton Of Cole Younger, the Missouri out
law. The people of Pine Hill and Living.
stone are very much excited over the
affair, and are securing the country
round to the number of sixty.
The wounded man refused to reveal
his name or anything concerning his
companions. He was shot through the
right breast, and though told he was dy.
ing would not disclose anything to lead
to the Identification Of himself OF friends.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

Suit has been begun on the part Of the
government 70 recover S32.009 from An.
scion Arnold. agent for the Shawnee and
Wyaueotte Indians.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-24

THREE bears were lately seen within
wo miles Of Fergus Falls, MINI.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1875-05-13

vrazdy. Jednalo Sc jen o spalek. Sku-
tecn6 byl nebozak popraven; pod velkcu
lipou Il M stadtu byl stat. Milostivy hi q
be ale, pametliv syate pfisahy sve, port
Gil popraytimu, ably pytakovy stahl cis-
totn6 a obezfetn6 XIII dodal il do E.*
na zamek. Stalo SO TAX; kozcluh M.
vyd6lal kizi ve vsi tichosti a E#sky pan
obdrzel par krasnych, pevnych kalhot,
jakym Sc nevyrovnaly zddne iine po cel6
svate fisi fimsk6. Nechodilo SC mu v
Mich n6jak dobfe; kalhoty mn pfilis biz
ce ptiporinaly neboheho pytlaka, proto
dal pozdeji kalhot shotovit pochvy ma
tesaky svych mysivcI. N6ktere pochvy
ty ndrzely Sc tam6jsi kraiin6 pry az pc
dnesni den. Jel historic ia ve vsem a
celkovit6 pravdiva, o tom - nemluvi Ia
dna historic. Tolik jen ie jisto, ze lid 50
be il live vypravuie.
Lidskou kozi byl pry potazen take tax
zvany ,,cerny pdnbdh" kfizovem chra-
me drazdanskem. SkonGme choulostive
sve vypravovani krucifxem tlmto. Po-
vest vypravuie, ze roku 1870 povodni te
hdejsi byl krucifiix Czech odplaven a V
Drazdanech ma bfeh wren. Slavne iei
donesli do kaple kfizov6. Behem casu,
ponevadz phi slavnostech kolem krucifixu
nnoho svetel plalo, byl dYmem zaGad6n
a proto obdrzel nazev ,,Gerneho panabo-
ha". Papez dial poutniktim kfizove kaple
velke odpustky a pontnikd kfichazelo
mnoho. Il kaple vyrostl chram kdyz
tento byl roku 149I pozarem schvacen,
byl by take ,,6erny panbdh" brzy uhofel.
V cas- jei vynesli roku 1499 dali mu no
We roucho, kter6 15 grosh stale. Luther
hflmal prot ,,terne modle" te, rovn6z phi
tel leho Mathesius. Po roce 1888, kdy
vevoda Jindfch do Drazdan byl zavedl
retormaci, leze krucifix tax zvane ,,ko
more modIafske,' ma p6d6 hfizoveho
chramu. Kdyz ale 19. cervence 1860
chram Sc pruskymi pumami rozsypal a
ohen vse nem stravil, take krucifix byl
zmafen iiz pro vzdy. Byl velky a Wy
pravovalo SO, ze dfev6ne ttlo kristovo ma
nem potazeno bylo kozi lidskou. Pou-
tnikd do Drazdan po ce(6 v6ky pfivabil
mnoho mnoho tim pfispel k rozkvetu
saskeho hlavniho mesta.
n. l..