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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

WM. MoLEsKY, aged a years, was
burned to death in an oil well near Brad
ford. He was former resident of New
castle, Pa.
Miss LAURA BRADwAY, of Milwaukee,
Wis, who was taking care of her sick sis
ter, Mrs John Duties, took by mistake
some poison prepared to kill bed-bugs, and
will die.
A FIRE on the wharf at Charleston, S.
G., on the 18th inst, destroyed two or three
cotton warehouses and one steamship, be-
sides damaging good deal of other proper
". The total loss is about 100000; in
sured in foreign companies.
ALBERT JACKSON, a young man of Char
lotte Mich, got drunk, attempted to walk
a plank leading to the second floor of an
unfinished warehouse, fell off, and into
the basement, where he was found in a
very mutilated condition.
A Transfer by the name of John Talbot
was horribly crushed beneath a heavy log
at Rugh's saw-mill, Urbana, Ill. He was
unloading logs and slipped, when the log
passed over his body. He leaves a wife
and several children il poor circum-
stances.
THE Chicago Trjblmes Quincy, Ill spe-
cial says the large livery stable on Fourth
street burned, together with a large num-
Der of hacks and carriages and forty-two
horses, including the stallion Amboy,
owned by Wash. Ca rbin, and valued at
$4,000; also some small buildings adjOin-
ing. Total loss, $4,000; mostly insured.
ELDRIDGE KINGMAN died from the effect
of a shotgun wound received while duck
shooting. kingman and friend were in
a canoe. Both fired one barrel of their
guns at flight ofducks. The rec0il ofthe
guns caused the canoe to rock, and both
men fell. The second barrel of the friends
gun then discharged, with the fatal effect
stated The body will be sent to Chicago,
where the parents reside, for interment
THE Union steamboat company's pro-
pcller Avon. while in Milwaukee ran into
the Anchor line barge T. A. Scott, lying at
anchor, cutting her down so she sunk al
most Immediately, in fifty feet of water
The Scott was loaded with 1900 bushels
of corn for Chicago. The crew escaped.
Foreign
\ A Dublin dispatch to the Times says the
land league has received check in its
agitation, the magistrate of Ulster having
forbidden meeting and league at Dunn
cannon, because the anniversary of Will
liam III. and the gunpowder plot come in
the first week in November, and the cele-
bration OF these events, on the one hand,
and the meeting of the league on the 9TH
er. would be certain to Influence party
spirit The report that arrests are to be
made in Dublin and Kilkenny is untrue.
A SAD and fatal shooting accident &C.
Cured in the town of Aztalan, near john
sons Creek, Wis, last Friday evening, by
which 12-year old son of II. Sanders, lost
his life The little fellow was holding a
gun loaded with shot, for an older brother,
who was trying to force a woodchuck out
Of a hollow log, when by'some means the
weapon was discharged and the contents
entered his head tearing away one side of
his face and blowing the top Of his skull
off
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO October 30.-Flour-N ominally
unchanged. Wheat-D Demand fair; market firm;
No. Chicago spring, 99l4 Q994; for seller cash;
1.00]s for seller November; I.0l2{ for seller
December No. 3 Chicago spring, 9la9fIk;
rejected 72d17. Corn Easier; at 80 for sell
Ter cash; 394a G39ss for seller November; 40l4
Q407a for seller December; IA a i47s for seller
May. Oats Easier; for seller cash; 2sl4 for
seller November; 295s bid for seller December.
Rye-Easier; at 50. Barley Firmer; at IS
Pork Unsettled and generally lower at Is.75G
1900 for seller cash; Ills for seller Noyein-
Der; i2.2O for seller January. Lard-Fairly ac-
tive; shade higher 7.9j for seller cash; 7.521a
for seller November; 40 for seller January;
Bulk meats-Fahly active; shade higher; snoul-
ders $50; short rib, $780, do clear, 100. Whisky
Steady and unchanged at / leo. The " Dro-
vers' Journal . reports: Hogs-Receipts, $4,000.
shipments 3 200; active and DC higher quality
inferior; mixed packing 4.15a4.40; selected
heavy; 4.5Od4.G5 Cattle-R Receipts $500;
shipments 400; slow; exports 5l0d $50; good to
choice dull 4.j0G 800 common to medium weak
and l0c lower 3.S0d l,30; mixed butchers steady
at 24Od32O stocke,s 2.60a 3.25; stock calves Sd
IL per head; western, weak; half breeds 3.20G
$50; Texans, 2.95G3.20; through Texans, 2.6o
d3l5. Sheep-Receipts 900: steady and in
fair demand; common to medium 3.45G 81 D
gnrd t. chance 90 n as
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A Rap at the Wonders of KNOCK.

Our readers have already been told
Of the ASPIRATIONS of the Virgin and
Child which have been seen at the
chapel OF Knock. ireland, and various
cures of disease are said to have been
effected by prayer there and by drink
ing bits Of the plaster dissolved IN wa
ter. both in ireland and this country.
The excitement still continues, and
moreover other apparitions Of the
Virgin, accompanied by Joseph and
the Apostle John, are declared 70 have
been witnessed at KnockmOre { Del,
a few miles distant. Curiouslv "a Oh,
similar visitations are said to have oc-
CURED at Llanthony Abbey in Wales,
the retreat of the ritualistic Father
Iguatius and one Of the protestant
monks was miraculously cured Of So
we're pains by the application Of a dock
leaf which the Virgin must have
touched The alleged Irish miracles
have not received formal ecclesiastical
Endorsement, but they are widely be-
lieve in. and sufferers not only from
Ireland, but from this side Of the At
lantic, have gone to Knock for relief
Many wonderful stories have been told
but there appears to be vast amount
Of lying on the subject.
The Cork Examiner publishes a long
letter from Mai, Alexander O'Gorman,
Roman Catholic Of parliament for
Waterford, who went to Knock in July,
staying there about fortnight. After
a careful examination he was convinced
that the whole excitement was based
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MADDEN, THE HACKMAN.
4 Notorious Ruflian Arrested az "a
Fugitive From Mays Landing Jail.

John Madden, known to the police as
the ''ruffian hackman" on account of
several brutal assaults upon passengers
in his might hawk" hack, was among
the fugitives in the recent Jail delivery
frOm the by no means impregnable
lookup at Mays Landing, n. j. He
was there awaiting trial on charge of
larceny. His description was sent to
this city and yesterday Special Officer
Kingston, Fourth district arrested
Madden. Madden, who gave $50 Owen
street as his abode, was before Magis-
trate Smith yesterday afternoon. Mad
den said he did not wish to go without
requisition, but the magistrate, learn
ing from Madden himself that he had
not been tried yet, said the case was
one which a requisition touched and
committed him to await the arrival of
the Sheriff of Cape May county. Mad
den, who is a small man with broken
nose, was last in trouble in 1879, on
the charge of robbing H. G. Moore, of
915 North Sixteenth street, of $500, but
was acquitted He had been arrested
several times previously for assaults up
on passengers, one, upon a Bucks
county farmer named Carr, eleven
years ago, who was decOyed to place
near Point Breeze Park and there beat
en- and robbed, having secured him
five years imprisonment. His hack
was sometimes employed to carry the
plumber from burglaries.
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"MY HUSBAND, SAVE MET"
a Wife's AgOnizing Appeal in Di-
VOrce Trial.

Judge Lindley's court furnished a
dramatic scene yesterday afternoon.
The trial of the divorce case, Ellen
Gregory vs.. Eugene b. Gregory, was in
progress and the plaintiff occupied the
witness stand Her counsel, Judge
VIM. C. Jones, had addressed the court
with reference to matter contained in
the allegations of the husbands cross
bill, to which some remarks in reply
were being made by the husbands coun-
sci, w. H. II. Russell. The cross-bill
charged conduct on the part Of the wife
construed legally rs an indignity to the
husband, tO-wit: The wife had written
letter to her husband, who had alb
scented himself for several months,
threatening that unless he returned to
her she would enter upon Il life of
shame. Although the cross-bill did not
specifically charge adultery, it set up
allegations of flirtations on the part of
the wife with various parties in st.
Louis The neighbors of Mrs. Gregory
denied in strong terms that she had
ever cultivated relations of an improper
character with members of the other
sex Evidence was offered to show
that the lady had met man, unknown
to her husband, in one of the city parks,
and that upon another occasion her
husband had seen her in company with
some stranger, and that upon his adj
vancing to deal the man blow, his
wife cried out: HE is an innocent man;
do not touch him.
Mrs. Gregory, whose examination
was interrupted by the remarks ofcoun-
sci bearing upon the matter, set up In
the cross-bill listened with great inter
est to the colloquy, and kept her eyes
steadily fixed upon her husbands coun-
sci, Mr. w. H. II. Russell, as he pro-
ceeded to speak of the allegations in
the cross-bill. Her bosom heaved heav-
lily when counsel argued upon the allie
cations of hirtations, and at length, I'M
able to stifle her emotions, she rose
from the witness-chair and throwing
up her arms with dramatic gesture
and tone exclaimed: You will drive
me crazy Would you rob me of that
YOU have ruined my character. My
God | cannot bear this. Eugene, my
husband save me save mel"
These imprisoned utterances pro-
duced a great sensation in court, which
was well filled with ladies, witnesses
and spectators The agonizing appeal
to the husband brought him to his
wife's side He bent over her and did
all in his power tosoothe and quiet her,
Judge Jones, her counsel, making the
like effort. An elderly gentleman who
had accompanied Mrs Gregory to the
court also came forward, but the hus-
band gave him to distinctly understand
that his wife having summoned him to
her side he would allow no one else to
render any service at that particular
time. The ladies in court were much
affected at the scene, and some began
to sob Mr.. Gregory gently placed her
in the witness-chair, and Judge Jones
continued his efforts to calm and COM
pose his client, but it was evident to
the court that the witness was in no
condition to continue her testimony,
and he advised her friends to remove
her from the courtroom. This was
promptly done with the assistance of
lady friends.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04

A FoNDNEss for cats has often been
considered as a weakness peculiar to the
feminine portion of humanity; but in
fact many men have been guilty Of s
remarkable liking for puss. Richeheu $
special favorite was a splendid Angora
his furry confidant's usual resting-place
being his Eminence's table, among
state documents, books, etc. Mon
taigue used to obtain relaxation by
playing with his cat. Colbert reared
half a dozen cats in his private study,
and taught them to perform all sorts
of tricks. FontenelIe, was very fond oil
cats, and used to place a particular old
tom" in an armchair, and deliver
an Grafton before him. Moham
med had a great liking for cats; and
throughout the east tie feline tribe is
respected
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04
EMMA ABBOTT.
Her Husband. Her Piety. Her w arIp:h
and Her Appetite.
X ans,,s CITY Times

Eugene Wetherell, Miss Abbotts has
band is in the truest sense of the term,
business man. He and his wife have
both grown from poverty into riches.
Their combined property is estimated
at 1925, 600. Wetherell insists that
Abbott shall have her separate fortune.
Every week she sends the bulk of her
salary to her bankers in New York to
be deposited in her own name. Weth-
erell has warm heart under a cover
ing of adamant. He is not of a social
nature. He is hard to become acquaint-
ed with Once pierce the coat OF
adamant and his heart is as warm and
responsive as a girls. He is deeply in
love with Abbott. They were married
in London seven years ago. Abbott
thinks Wetherell is the handsomest
man in the world. She loves to talk
about him, about his manly beauty and
his goodness to her
Abbott is a very pious woman. One OF
her missions on earth, she says, is to
see her husband in the bosom Of the
church. Wetherell says she insists on
kneeling down and saying her prayers
every night before going to bed. mo
matter how much risk she runs Of taxi
ing cold. says he. "she kneels down by
her bed and spends five minutes at
her devotions. She says she never yet
took cold while saying her prayers"
Miss Abbott Is not a very great eater.
The afternoon she left here she took
supper with Mr. Wetherel, Brignoli
Castle, and several others at we'll
known oyster place The bill of fare
was elegant, including fish chowder,
broiled mackerel, duck, tenderloin,
etc. with accompanying wines, Abbott
drank half glass of claret; she will
not taste any other kind Of wine or any
kind of liquor unless for medical pur-
poses. As Abbott came out from
her supper she noticed a bar i'll the
front part Of the place. ooh, dear me"
she said, I'm afraid this isn't nice
place; but Brig told me it was." All
his associates call Brignolia by the pet
Authorization Of Brig.
Mr. Morrissey was asked Why 1t was
that Abbott was so especially popular
in the south, and he gave as a reason
that her feryid style was particularly
pleasing to the warm, glowing sentl-
mental nature Of the southerner.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04

The ascent of Mont Blame is always
considered Il perilous adventure, and
that it could be accomplished " u
blind man seems almost Incredible.
Yet this extraordinary feat has been
successfully achieved by Il Mr.. Camp
bell, a man without sight. In his own
account of this ascent he says, : 1t was
not sudden. reckless undertaking, but
was the result of a fixed purpose, after
long and careful preparation, - lie had
spent four weeks continuous work
among the glaciers and in various
mountain ascents before attempting
that of Mont Blanc. His desire seems
to have been to show to others afflicted
like himself what can he accomplished
10y selfpossession, perseverance and
resolution.
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Nor long ago the Rev Robert Collyel
told the story of his life to the students
Of Eastman's Business College, in
Poughkeepsie. drawing from it many
pointed morals. The STORY Is well
worth reading; and we can not forhear
giving our readers one or two brief eX
tracts from the published report Mr..
ColIver mentioned four things which,
''as he had learned his lesson, go to
make a man; good birth, good breeding,
your own good endeavor, and that good
fortune which IS but another name for
the goodness of God" lie described
the simple home in Yorkshire, paying
his mother a tender tribute for the
cleanliness and wholesome regimen
that secured perfect health and for the
training that repealed vice and fostered
selfimprovement In concluding his
talk, f." Mr.. Collycr gave the following
characteristic and sensible advice:
when YOU get through with the col
lege. and take hold Of your life's work,
do not think of making fortune as
the one grand aim Of your life. but Of
carving out home, finding n good,
true woman for your wife, and raising,
please God. a good family. / do not
cry down money. think ieis a good
servant and good friend, but tits
-. -. ,,,,,,I ., ,,,.,a+a,. ~ ,y-ar 1ISgj a
whip. \ shrewd farmer said to me
once. Never marry for money, my
lad: marry for love; but if thou finds a
nice girl that has money, try to love
her. would not say that to you, but
this: Ifyou find the nice girl, some
such match for you as my mother was
for my father, and if you love her.
marry her. if She viii have you,thougl
She has not a dollar 10 her name. This
Is a sore evil under our American sun,
that there should he such mishap ard
disaster in the welded life 1t lies in
the most momcntous thing We can do
we So often use the least Judgment
We who have our turn want the Young
men of your birth and breeding to
raise a generation ola nobler and bet
ter type. boys and q Is strong of arm
and sure Of foot, deep-ehested, sunny
hearted. fun of faculty. and wholesome
to the innermost nerve, and to do this
YOU must 10 two things; give them /
noble mothers, and don't finger shiver-
ing on the brink, and fear to launch /
away. but when you know you can |
take care Of a home IN a simple, wfoie-
some fashion. go right to work and DO |
+"
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FOREIGN

GARIBAlDI's condition is such that the
utmost care and repose are required.
TmE German federal council has CON
aluded to proclaim minor state Of siege
at Hamburg
THERE will be no relaxation in the en-
forcement of the religious DEGREES in
France.
JUSTIN McCARTHY has joined the Irish
Land League as protest against the gov
eminent prosecutions.
A DISPATCH from Meshed states that the
Shah has forbidden the sale Of corn to
Russian agents.
PERU has accepted the mediation prof
fered by Minister Christiancy, and named
its commissioners.
4 LONDON dispatch chronicles the
launch of the Furnish a, which ranks in
size next to the Great Eastern.
BIsNARK, claiming to have been Gbeled
and insulted by an article in Journal of
borsen, caused a sentence of fine or i'm
prisonment to be imposed upon the Of
fender.
PARxELL pledges the trained and organ
wed assistance of the Irish people in
America in breaking the Birth yoke in
ireland. whenever fair chance of success :
appears.
A DISPATCH from ST. Petersburg saws:
There is a well-founded rumor that in
consequence of court intrigues against
Nelikotf he will retire to the Caucasus,
and that the committee of ministers which
is antagonistic to Melikoffs policy will be
rdorganized The Russian has been sus-
pended for publishing the above.
PARNELL in speaking at 4 banquet at
Galway said: I feel convinced if ever
ydu call upon your countrymen in Ameri-
81 for aid and show them there is fair
chance Of success you will have their
trained and organized assistance for break
ing the British yoke.
Mr. PARNELL and his brethren OF the
land league are said to have decided to
abandon the policy of exherting the peo-
EIe to preserve the peace, and hereafter to
iat them take their own course, which is
pretty sure TO lead 10 trouble. Affairs in
tie south and west of Ireland are in
very critical condition. Several agrarian
ogtrages are reported and many more
may be expected from this time forward.
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VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

THE assistant United States treasurer
has been instructed to purchase 81 5000, 900
in L. S. bonds for sinking und.
ACTING Postmaster General TyRer has
issued an order f0rbidding the payment of
postal money orders and delivery of reg
istered letters to X. c. Winkersmith, of
Louisville, KY, or A. w. Harris & Co,
New York, agents of the Frankfort school
fund lottery.
Col. WM r. ADAIR, assistant chief OF
the Cherokee nations, died in Washington
on the 26th inst, of typhoid pneumonia,
aged % years. He commanded a brigade
of Indians in the confederate army, and
since the close OF the war had been the
principal representative of the Cherokee
interests in Washington.
THE National Board of Health has sub
mitted its annual report to the secretary
Of the treasury for transmission to con-
gress The expenses of the board to Sep
TENDER Both were $685., $50, of which $2l0.
III was expended by the board and sll5,-
6j3 by the southern states.
TIE annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1880, shows that to date the
postal service was in operation on H. us
railroad routes aggregating $3.50 miles in
length, al an annual cost IOr tfanSpOrta-
ton alone of 80, 49S, $50; cost OF transpor-
tation on 1858 star service routes aggre-
eating 235, 256 miles for the year, was 81, )
32l. 449. This was $9,196,6l9 in excess OF
expenditures for the same branch of SER
vice in the preceding year, and was 81 ,42l,
40 greater than the estimate submitted
by the department to congress in Decem-
ber 1873.
The new state, war, and navy depart
ment building progresses slowly toward
completion. The great cost of this gigan-
tic structure is already well up in the mil
lions From Col Casey's report this season
it IS shown that the south wing, occupied
by Secretary Evarts and his forty-five
clerks, cost, exclusive of furniture, 1892, !
$685.. The east wing, where the navy
department is to be, is completed at cost
of g, 672, 2S7 .43, making total of s., DIG,
226.7S. The building is just half com
pleted to this point A round Sl2.000,00(
will have been expended when the build
ing is completed
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CRIME.

LEWIS C. RICHTER prosperous miller,
Of lincoln. ILL.,, is in Jail for an attempt 10
murder his divorced wife.
IpAHo reioices over the return to her
pt,nitentiarv of three escaped convicts who
had already killed two pursuers.
4 BURGLAR in Brooklyn made heavy
haul in bank notes, and sat deliberately on
the victims bed to count them over, in
which position be was seized and held I'M
tila policeman arrived.
JAMES BANTER. the match-stamp thief,
now fugitive from justice at Chicago, has
distinguished himself at Toronto by kid
mapping his son from his divorced wife's
attorney. and escaping to Montreal
Revenue COLLECTOR WADE, of Sayan-
nah reports the arrest Of the notorious
mt,onshiner, Wash Tarham, and the des-
traction OF his distil.ery.
SAMUEL K. PERRY, a negro who took a
leading part in arranging the exodus from
North Carolina 10 Indiana, was arrested,
Ocs. 2Sth. It the second auditors Office in
Washington. on a charge of forging school
ORB rs in North Carolina.
Two persons named Reilly and Wycotf
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"Don't know half their Value"

They cured me of Ague, Bilious
ness and Kidney Complaint, as recon-
mended. | had a half bottle left which
| used for my two little girls, who the
doctors and neighbors said could not
be cured. | would have lost both OF
them one night if had not given them
Hop Bitters. They did them so much
good | continued their use until they
were cured. That is why say you do
not know half the value of Hop Bitters,
and do not recommend them high
enough. B. Rochester, \. Y. See
other column. -4meriedn Rural Home.
Hon. Peleg Sprague died in Boston,
October 18th, aged eighty-seven. In
1921 and 1922 he was in the nineteenth
congress, and went to the senate IN
1929, serving until 1885. He was af.er-
wards judge of the United States dis
drict court for Massachusetts from 1910
to 1865
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04

TIE largest cotton mill in the United
States has just been opened at Will
mantle, Connecticut 1t Is one inn
mense single room, $50 feet by III, and
one story high, lighted at night by fifty
one electric lights.
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Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. 30 - Flour-Quiet and
unchanged. Wheat-0pened and closed fra No.
l, hard, l.O7; No. l, 1.O2}4; No. ?, 99}s; 99's
for seller October; l.O0ii for seller November;
1.O1s for seller December: No. 3, 81; No.
4 49, rejected nominal. Corl--Quet; No. 2
39ls. 0ats-Steady and in fair demand; No.
2, 2Sis, Rye-IIigher No. ! s3ls Barley
Firmer and quiet; No.2, 69}a. Provisions Weak.
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A VOLUME containing the description
Of all the presents ever given 70 a
queen is certainly an oddity, but il IS
said that Queen Victoria proposes 70
issue such a book. 1t is to be Illus
trated by photographs, and to include
not merely costsly gifts, but simple
tokens of affection which have been
given by her poor subjects at Bal