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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-21
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.


JUDGE DUvAL, of the Texas supreme
court, has just died in Omaha, of abdo-
minal abscess.
LOUISVILLE was treated on the llth inst,
to a twenty-mile race two thoroughbreds
ridden by young ladies.
THE supreme court of Dakota has af
frmed the verdict and sentence in the case
Of Adams, the defaulting Deadwood post
master.
TmE war ON passenger rates between
Chicago. St. Louis. and Kansas City has
become furious one. Tickets may be
had at ST. Louis for almost any price.
THE Seattle and Walawalla railroad, of
California, has been purchased by Henry
Wizard, Of New York. Formal possession
has been taken of the property by Gen. I.
A. Tannatt.
RAIN has fallen in the province Of Que
bee every day for three weeks. There
had been public prayers for rain, and now
that the thing has been overdone, the
people are praying for fair weather.
LEOPOLD MORSE, candidate for con-
press in the Fourth Massachusetts, district,
will pay poll taxes to the amount of 81
OO0 this year This is a genteel method of
buying votes in the Bay state, largely
praeticed by both parties
SECRETARY SCHURz decides that no claim
will be recognized by any miner or settler
to any mineral or other land upon the
Ute reservation, which is based upon set
tlement or occupation previous to the for
mai opening of that reservation.
SAN MONROE, the negro, who married
Miss Chase, white, at Galesburg, and was
promptly arrested on a trumped-up charge
of larceny, has brought suit against Rev.
q. H. Higgins, the girls brother-in-law,
and }. II. Calkins, a Justice of the peace,
for false imprisonment.
TIE Methodist conference of Minnesota,
in session at Minneapolis, has adopted a
resolution declaring the obligation of the
state to pay the $5,000,000 of repudiated
railroad bonds, and promising that each
minister would do all in his power to ere
ate right public sentiment on the ques-
ton.
SPOTTED TAILS Indians have raised
1913 50 with which to retain lawyer for
the defense of the six young men belong
ing to the tribe who were some time ago
sent to Omaha to be tried for misdemean-
ors 'Old Spot" writes to Secretary
Schurz inclosing this sum and urging that
the youths be speedily punished if guilty,
or liberated, if innocent.
Az extraordinary instance Of cruelty to
animals has just come to light in Chicago,
on the 10Th inst. Several days ago the
cattle-sheds at Sterling, ILL.,, were destroy
ed hy fire, and many of the animals were
horribly burned and multilated. Five car
loads of the dead dying, roasted, and
bleeding cattle passed through Chicago,
to the rendering establishment at Globe
station, while fifteen other carloads were
switched off at point outside the city,
and sent to their destination Officers Of
the humane society stopped the cars and
would have killed the poor beasts had not
their owner promised to put them out of
their misery at once. The motive for
transporting them alive was a selfish and
inhuman one
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Oct. .-Flour-Denand fair, mar
ket firm. Wheat-Actiye, firm and higher;
unsettled; No. 2 red winter, 1919 for seller
cash; L027. for seller November 1O43s for
seller December; sales. LOIS a1.022s for celler
November; I.02al a l.04sa for seller December;
No 3 Chicago spring 93Q94; rejected, 72G77.
Corn-Active, frl..r and higher irregular and
unsettled, 40 bid for seller cash; 401s for seller
October; 4lG4IA4 for seller November; IL "a
al q for seller December; 451s 946 for seller
May; rejected 39A4; Az for seller November;
4lts9 4l& for seller December; 457s Q4G for sell
err May; rejected 1914. Oats Excited and
higher for cash; options irrner; 49, for seller
cash; }07s for seller November; 81 for seller
December; rejected, 36l6 .Rye-Firmer at 81.
BarleyIn fair demand, II. Flax Seed Higher;
I.26Q 1861. Pork-Firmer; 1900 for seller
cash; l257}s for seller Novem Der; l2.3OG
1929 for seller December, l2.95HI2.97 for
seller January. Lard-Moderately, and high
err; except cash; S38L @S.40 for seller cash.
8.l5qS.l7]s for seller November; $40 for
seller January. Drovers Journal" reports:
Hogs Receipts % 0O0 shipments, 10000; slow
and lower mixed packing 4.456lfj; Michigan
and Indiana hogs, 4.25G4.4O; selected heavy,
1909 800; light bacon 4.6O94.so. fully 10000
left. Cattle-R Receipts A. 900; shipments, 1000;
slow. weaker: Toe lower; Sood to choice shipping,
4.60G5.l21&; common to medium, 3.9564 80;
national butchers mixed, 200G30 veal 4.00@-
$50; stockers' 24OG3.OO; feeders, 3lO:Q350
calves per head, Gals: westerns steady natives
and half breeds g. ljU3.350
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PRIMEVAL MAN.
His Habits and Appearance Deserib-
ed by Professor Boyd Dawkins.

At II recent meeting of the British
Association, Professor Boyd Dawkins
lectured upon "Primeval Man" Pro-
fessor Dawkins, generalizing from the
distributions of the animal remains
found in the early tertiary periods, con
cluded that Europe was then joined
to Africa The evidence found in the
middlioceae period of the existence of
the river-drift hunter in France, Italy,
Spain, Greece, North Africa, and also
i'll India, brought us, in his opinion,
face to face in that period with the
primitive condition of human culture.
ON which all probability, all progress
had been based. The absence of geo
graphical limitations already referred
to would account for the freedom with
which the hunter passed to and fro. Sub
sequently, in the caye-men he found
the successors of the river-drift hunter
men of much higher type. He gave
their habits the following hypothetical
description: They dressed themselves
in skins and wore gloves not unlike
those worn at the present time. 1ney
were necklaces and armlets, and prob
ably pierced their ears for the recep-
ton ofear-rings for ornamentation. They
used red raddle, and indeed some Of
the practices of the present time might
be looked upon distinctly us being sur
vivals. The skins with which they
clothed themselves they sewcd togeth-
er with bone needles, and from the
sketches they had left behind on bones
and pieces of skin and the like, it APP
pearcd that they were able to form a
distinct idea of the creatures which
they hunted, the representations thus
left probably being the trophies of the
chase. They were fowlers and fisher
men, and it was evident from the fig
ures Of animals which had been dis
covered that the hunters of these,
times had great facilities in represent
ing forms of animals ON bone, but their
attempts at representing the human
form were rude They bad also left
behind them evidence Of the art Of
sculpture They were ignorant of
metals. They had no domestic ani-
mals Apparently they were not in
the habit Of burying their dead. We
were not aware of what sort of phys
ique they had, but there was reason tcs
believe they were most closely related
TO the Esquimaux. They were wholly
different from the river-drift men The
riyer-drift man was in state os pritne-
val savagery; the cave man WAS al
higher type, but in his turn was wholly
inferior to the farmer, hegsfsman and
merchant who followed aim. We had
this proofofthe development Of the hui
man race in times before history began,
and it occurred to him they had no
reason for fixing any limit as TO where
progress would end, his opinion being
that man would 90 on increasing in
knowledge and improving in the arts of
civilization until IN perhaps not very
remote future he would be superior
to the men Of 1880 as we were superior
to the early hunters and cave men.
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The Celestial View From Rochester.

The growth of American science,
within the past fifty years, has been so
rapid that We are forced to believe il is
fully equal to the other grand develop
ments of this nation. The numerous
scientific institutions that are springing
up in all parts of the country and the
amount of money which is being be-
slowed upon them proves this, and are
causes for great satisfaction. 1t was
only few years ago when the United
States was wholly destitute OF n respcc-
table telescope; now it has the largest
refractor in the world, while its contri-
buttons to the department of discovery
are enumerated by thousands.
American astronomers were the first
to detect the separation of BielIa's
comet into two parts and give the facts
to the world. Prof. Bond discovered
the eighth satellite of Saturn in 1913.
Prof. Hall, Of the Washington observa-
tory, found the ten moons which ac-
company Mars. In 1850 Prof. Bond
revealed the fact that Saturn had a
transparent ring.
In addition, however, to these grand
discoveries, American research into the
heavens has resulted in finding more
than a thousand double and triple stars
(many of them the finest orbs in this
class, over fifty asteroids and fifteen
new comets. A record such as this is
something over which every American
can justly be proud.
The new Warner observatory at Ro-
chester, N. Y, is great step toward
still farther increasing the record. 1t is
the finest private observatory in the
world, and its telescope is third in size
to any in the country Being private
institution, works III it will he that Of
discovery rather than record, and much
may reasonably be expected from IT,
The observatory is named after Mr.. II.
H. Warner, proprietor of the Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure and other rene.
dies, by whom it has been most libcr-
ally endowed. and its location is one of
the pleasantest and most commanding
in Rochester.
1t will be in charge of Prof. Swift,
who has become so famous by reason
of his discoveries of comets and two
inter mercurial planets, and who will
give his entire time to the work of the
institution. The lens Of the new telc
scope is sixteen inches in diameter, and
the tube is twenty-five feet in length.
While the locality of Rochester is
not well adapted to the observations Of
the heavens, still the new telescope and
the well known perseverance of Prof.
Swift will do much to overcome the
obstacles, and the public will doubtless
have cause to appreciate, us they have
to expect much from the new Warner
Observatory at Rochester
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Accidents.

TIE old residence OF John c. Calhoun,
in Pickens county, South Carolina, has
been destroyed by fire.
TEy stock cars on the Union Pacific rail-
road we're thrown from the track Just east
of Clark's station, killing one hundred
cattle.
BENJAMIx WATKINS, a farmer living
near North Harmony, n Y, was kicked
in the stomach by his horse Oct. 18th, and
lived but few minutes.
ANNE HOLMAN, aged is, was found
dreamed in Laurel Pond, \. j., on the 10th
inst 1t is supposed she accidentally slip
ped of the footbridge and was drowned.
WILLIE H. HorDDREN, aged -, living
near >Stumptown, Mclean county, Ill, the
other day had his leg broken, and received
probably fatal injuries by a tree falling
upon him He is in very critical ccndl-
tion.
4 PASSENGER TRAIN on the indianapolis
nd St. Louis railroad struck an oil-car at
NoLosnis, demolishing the latter and
throwing lis contents in all directions
The petroleum took fire and me entire
pas<enger-train was reduced TO ashes. Nj
the passengers escaped without injury
GEORGE TAYLOR, of Logansport, Ind,
= .n-Handle brakeman, fell from tram
at Ain1ka Junction on the l4th inst, and
botk legs were horribly crushed and
marg!ed clear up - the body. He died
within two hours. He leaves a wife and
child. who reside on the corner Of Seventh
and Wright strsSts The deceased had run
~, the Pan-H Handle road for ten years past,
and vas an exemplary and popular man.
4 FIRE at Stanton, Mich, on 10Th inst,
DESTROYED $4,000 worth of property. The
principal losers were: Herald newspaper
office, 5000; insurance, $1,000. q =.
Allen = 900: insurance, 5000. Webber
4 Cbapin. $500; w. H. Paine, 8. 500; J,
W. :. Pierson, hardware store, $4,000:
one.hith saved: insured $1,000. ID. NJ.
Gardeners store, part OF his stock, house,
etc. $4,000; insured $1,000 The fire IS I
severe blow TO the village.
4 TERRIBLE accident occurred At Pitts
burg on the llth inst, on the Pennsylvania
railroad Walls accommodation, which
left here al 1881, collided with the special
traia from Greanbure at the 20th street,
where the riots occurred few years ago.
Botl trains were filled with passengers,
espesially Walls. which contained several
marching clubs which participated IN tsq
democratic demonstration here tonight
The Nstrs places the number 81 twelve
killed and between thirty and forty wound
ed. r,le.t of whom were terribly scalded.
Some wears 50 badly sealded that their
flesh peeled off their bones Dead bodies
are moved in every direction and it Is inn
possible TO learn how many are killed.
Among the killed are pr Elliott Bririton,
OF Pennsylvania, f d. Butler and sister,
Jas. Bard, Lizzie Bard. Jones Lawrence
and Mr-. Boyd.
As Mrs John McCune, her sister-in-
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CablegranS.

AGREAT instruction OF Mohamuedans
against the Chinese prevails in kashgar.
TIE German parliament will meet Nov.
28th to consider Bismark's economic
scheme.
IT meeting of the land league, Dillon
Sexton and Sullivan strongly protested
against the pastoral letter of Archbishop
McGabe, of Dublin.
KING THEEBAw, the Burmese sot, APP
pears to be drunk again, for it is announc-
ed from Thvetmyo that he is marching
with two or three thousand troops toward
the British frontier, with the intention of
making war.
THG Chilians are devastating large sec
tions of Peru with fire and sword, and
threaten to move on Lima this week. As
they have burned one United States CON
sulate. Minister Christiancy will go to
Santiago in a man-of-war to demand salts
faction.
OwING to the insufficient supply of
cereals in Russia, movement Is on foot
to prohibit the expectation of grain from
the empire. Melikoh, the dictator, is in
vestigating the situation, and will act
promptly.
TIE British government has declared
courties Galway and Mayo to be in
state Of disturbance. and to need addition
al police. The landlords are threatening
to protect themselves, if the government
cant or won't protect them. The London
IjaeS is discussing the proprlety OF sus-
pending the habeas corpus in Ireland.
THE London Times in an editorial, says:
Nv herever Parnell and his fellow agita-
tors 20. they leave the country in
famed behind them. Deeds of violence
are done, which they have not suggested
in express terms, but which are in full ac-
coriance with the spirit, though not with
the letter, of their harangues, and which
the scarcely ever pretend TO disapprove
afterwards The land league has extend
ed its organization to Great Britain
REGARDING the rumors of dissensions in
the French cabinet. the Paris correspond
ent of the London Times says: NJ. Ferry,
president of the council, thinks it Is a PAL
trv thing to direct his efforts 20 the dis
PERSON of $4,000 unrecognized monks and
nuns, where there are 900 who cannot
be disturbed, being already recognized.
Ministers of Interior COnstans, however,
regards the dispersion of these $1,000 as an
achievement which may dispense with the
necessity OF any other programme. In
view Of this conflict Of opinion, Ferry has
engaged President Cirevy to hasten his re-
turn to Paris, when il is expected great
battle between the two parties, one repre-
senting the dictates of iambetta. and the
other leaning on President Grevv, will be
decided.
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Criminal.

NJ. l.. MoRRAN's horse was stolen, with
saddles and bride at Morris. Ill. The
horse and the thief were captured at New
ark. The thief proved to be boy about
II years old, named II. j Stevenson. The
boy goes to the reform school.
VoGUs, who killed his father at Koko-
mo, Ind, some time ago, and was after
ward sent to an adjoining county to avoid
a mob, has been taken back to the scene
of his crime for trial He is well guard
ed, for it is feared that a lynehing party
may yet capture aim.
EPnRAUM b. ARMSTRONG, of Adrian
Mich, was the builder of the grand stand
which fell with such murderous conse-
quences at the county fair one year ago.
When indicted for manslaughter he fled
but secretly returned, and on 18th inst,
has been found by the police in conceal
ment at his home. He is now in JAIL and
refuses to be interviewed.
At Milledgevlle, Ind. on Saturday night,
VIM. Toney, man aged 93 years, was shot
and killed by Chas. Allen. who is the hus-
band of the daughter Of Toney's second
wife Toney, in the night, heard dogs
barking and went to his door to see what
was the matter, when shot was fired from
the street. Allen was arrested and has
confessed.
ABOUT the 10Th of last August an old
German farmer, named VIM. Rozier, liv-
ing in Furnas county, Nebraska, was
missed, and search being made, his body
was found in manure pile. An analysis
of his stomach showed that he had been
poisoned by strychnine. Frank d. White.
who had been living with him, had appro-
priated some of his personal property, and
told contradictory stories. He was ar
rested, and on trial last week at Beaver
City, it was shown that he had purchased
strychnine. The jury, after being out
twentv-four hours, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree, and
on Monday, Judge Gaslin sentenced the
prisoner to the penitentiary for life at hard
labor The general opinion is that he
should have been convicted in the first de-
gree. People talked strongly Of lynching
him, but wiser counsels prevailed.
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A Boy Whipped by His Teacher for Re
fuSlng to Kiss Girl.

Barryville, Sullivan county, n. y,
lies opposite this village. Its district
school is taught by young man
named Reuben Frazier. George Sink
aged II years, was one of his scholars
Sink is a mischievous boy, and the
other day he tripped up Il girl about
his own age as she was passing out Of
the schoolroom door. He said it was
an accident, but the girl went back and
slapped his face. He struck her, and
the teacher Gale him up and fogged
him with stick. Then he was order
ed to beg the girls pardon and shake
hands with her. This the boy did. The
schoolmaster then said that Sink 10
make full amends, must kiss the girl
but this he refused positively to do.
His refusal brought him another whip
ping. Still he said he would not kiss
the girl Then he was logged for the
third time aud sent home. Believing
that the teacher had no right to insist
up II their son kissing any OF the girls
that attended school with him, and
that he had punished the boy unjustly
the boys parents had the teacher ar
rested on charge of assault and bat
terry. He was given hearing by jus
tice ofthe Peace Stidd, who sustained
the teachers cause and ordered his
discharge.
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An Australian Tragedy.

The latest papers received from Mel
bourne give an account of shocking
affair which occurred at the opera
house of that city on the evening of the
oath of July. Mr. j j. Macgregor
Greer shot his wife and VI. A. J.. Soudry
one Of the members of the French Com
mission, appointed in connection with
the Melbourne exhibition, and after
ward attic lpted to take his own life.
Mr. and Mrs. Greer and NJ. Soudry were
fellow-p passengers to Australia by the
steamer Garonne, which left Plymouth
on the 29th Of May last during the voy
age an intimacy sprang up between II.
Soudry and Mrs. Greer. On arriving at
Melbourne, Mr. Geeer consulted n
solicitor on the subject Of obtaining a
divorce from his wife, but was advised
to send his wife home again TO England.
TO this the lady objected, and ayowed
her love for NJ Soudry. subsequently
Mrs. Greer induced her husband to take
her to the opera, and they were seated
in the drees circle when NJ Soudry
came up and spoke to them. Mr.
Greer without uttering a word, drew a
revolver and shot him in the head. He
then fred at his wife and wounded her
in the head, and fired the third shot at
the friend of NJ. SOudry, which missed
its mark. Mr.. Greer then put the pis-
tol to his own head and fired, the bullet
penetrating to the base Of the brain
When the mail left Mr. Greer was dead,
Mrs. Greer in a dangerous condition.
but NJ Soudry was likely to recover
He has resigned his appointment. Mr..
Greer was, it is stated, born near Coler-
aine, County Derry, his father being
Rev. Greer, II the Presbyterian Church.
The wife who is believed to be Of
French extraction was married to Mr..
Greer at an early age, ard it is said
against the wishes of her family. Mr.
Soudry, who is about % years Of age,
was formerly accredited to the Phila-
delphia Exhibition of 1876, and then to
that held at Sydney last year
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law, Mrs. Belle McCune. and others were
returning from Fond du Lac, Wis, on
14th inst, where they had been to trade,
Mrs. John McCune, who was driving,
turned the horses down into Rock river,
about five miles from the city, 10 water
them. As they passed down the wagon
inclined, tipping the seat and throwing
Mrs. Belle Mcclure out under the wheels,
which passed across her abdomen and
knee. The horses became frightened, and
Mrs. John McCune was thrown in front of
the wagon behind the horses and down into
the river, still clinging to the reins, and
in this manner was dragged through the
river and out on the other side, bruising
her quite seriously, but not dangerously.
The others jumped and escaped injury
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may be brought on, sure to result in the loss of
hundreds Of lives and many millions in money
and great disaster to the industries of Colorado.
The military well as the civil officers on the
reservation have been instructed to use every pos
sible effort to restrain the excitement of the Indi
ans and TO prevent collision Everything is being
done on our part to avert from Colorado the ca
lamities of an Indian war Permit me to express
the hope that the state authorities Of Colorado
will join their earnest efforts to ours by depressing
whatever lawless spirit that according to current
rumor in the newspapers, may be existing among
the population on the borders of the Ute reserve.
SEIZURE Secret ary
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TIE engines Of the Kattywar railway
in western India, are worshiped by
some of the natives A potter at Limri
having for long time suffered from
fever, and having failed to get relief
from any Of his gods, at last contracted
to place certain offerings before the
engine god if that medium would
bring him relief And sure enough the
fever abated. So the potter has offered
a cocoanut to the god, to the aston
ishment Of the conductor and engineer
of the train.
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AT the recent election in Spain only
sixty seats were contested out of the
nine hundred, and the number Of votes
polled did not represent more than
thirty per cent of those entitled to
take part in them Madrid contains
constituency of $1,000, and the num-
Der of votes recorded was only 5000.
When this is the case in the capital,
where for many reasons political &C
tivity would be supposed to he greatest,
the stagnation Of public spirit in the
other parts of the country can be
more sasily imagined than described.
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A CURIOUS misprint in the Paris
Rappel has led to the announcement
far and wide that NJ Victor Hugo is
about to publish a new poem entitled
"LAne" (The ASS. The great poet
has not, however, selected this humble
quadruped as the subject for his verse.
He has chosen loftier and more i'm
mortal theme, and the true title Of his
latest contribution is 'L'ame" THE
SaI1l