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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
CRIME.

JOHN McDADE, ex-chief of police at
Quincy, H.. has died from wounds in
flicted by Thomas Jackson.
In quarrel at Louisville over loan of
% cents Henry Bassett was fatally stabbed
ly killed W it'll revolver.
Jonas ZINDLE, hotel-keeper at Lock-
haven, Pa, was assassinated Saturday
night, and Samuel Blair has been arrested
on suspicion.
OBADIAH HUsE, formerly treasurer of
the Woman's Educational Association of
Evar ston, has been brought into the cir
cult court on charges of fraud and hypoc-
risy.
JOHN ARNOLD, a well-known stock deal
er at Breno, Ind, was murdered by Basil
McLane, and the latter was shot dead
while resisting arrest.
DETECTIVE BAUER, Of the secret service,
captured on a train near Guthrie, KY,
three members of daring gang of eoun-
terfeiters. All were armed to the teeth,
and one was loaded down with spurious
silver dollars,
EARLY Tuesday evening the farmhouse
of Ezekiel Perrin, near Girard, H., was
invaded by three masked men, who tied
and gagged the family and rode away
with $4,000 in gold.
WALTER +. VREELAND, of Chicago, suf-
fering from delirium tremens, made two
fforts to kill himself while sitting in the
depot at Nicksburg, Mich. He has re-
turned to Chicago and exhibits no serious
injury.
TUE schooner Triumph, in tow of the
ting Success, wilfully crashed into the
bridge at Chicago avenue, on the 18th
init, tearing away one hundred feet of
railing.
A wRLL-ExECUrED counterfeit of an un-
limited ticket from Buffalo to Toledo over
the Lake Shore road has been found in
the hands of Boston scalpers.
Two detectives of New Orleans, Thomas
Devereaux and Michael Hennessy, ex-
changed several shots in the streets, in
which both are said 10 have beer mortally
wounded.
A STEWARD and clerk on the Cuban
steamer Saratoga have been arrested at
New York for secreting seven hundred
pounds of gunpowder and board, with the
intention of smuggling it into the port of
Havana.
DETECTIVE BAUER, of the secret service,
made second raid on the counterfeiting
gang near Waverly, Tenn, and secured
seven influential persons on large
quantity of bogus coin. He hopes to cap
ture Dow Crockett, the chief.
DR.. J. G. HOLLAND, well known in the
literary world by the title of Timothy
Titcomb," died suddenly in New York on
the 18th inst. He was born in Belcher-
| town, Mass, in 1919, and graduated from
the Brooklin Medical college in 1874.
AMAsKED burglar at Wheeling, enraged
at being discovered by lady, forced her
to rise from bed without disturbing her
husband and submit to the clipping of her
luxuriant head of hair, when he took his
departure.
IT appears that the Arkansas train rob-
bers reside at San Augustine, Tex, where
the raid was planned. Cox and Monroe
are printers. All three of the lads were
in love. and the ventures of the James
boys prompted the Texans TO make a rich
strike with which TO marry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
At the Restaurant.

'"This is the porterhouse, is it?'' asked
the sad passenger, sitting at the corner
table in the restaurant Eyes, sir,
said the waiter, with the weary air Of
a man who was tired of having to tell
"porterhouse steak, sir, same as you or
dered." do you cut porterhouse
steak from between the horns this
Year," asked the sad man, with the I'M
tonation of a man who wanted to know.
"Slr?' said the waiter ut seemed TO
be trifle tenderer last year," the sad
passenger went on, with the air of a
tired man indulging in pleasant remin-
iscences of the past, "but | remember
now; it was cut trifie lower down
then. Last year you cut your porter
house steaks from the curl in the fore
head, and the sirloins from the shin,
but I think this come from between
the horns. used TO live in a boarding
house where they cut the porterhouse
between the horns, and this one re-
minds me of them. Animal dead this
steak came FRONT" Dead" echoed
the astonished waiter; "course, sir. He
was butchered, sir" "Butchered to
make a Roman holiday" sighed the
sad passenger. "He would be more
likely to make Roman swear. Well,
it was time he was killed. lie hadn't
many more years to live on this earth.
All, here is the brass tip from one Of
his horns. Dropped into the steak, no
doubt, while you were slicing it off.
What do you do with these steaks when
the guests are through with them ?"
The waiter looked puzzled. "Why,
sir" he said, "there amt nothing left
of 'en when customers gets through
with 'em sir?" "Possible?" said the
sad passenger; "what becomes of
them ?" The waiter looked nervous.
"WhatY he said; "the customers eat
them up" The sad passenger looked
up with an air of interest. "Incredi-
bic !" he exclaimed; "cannot accept
your statement without proof. They
may hide them under their chairs, or
secrete them in their napkins, or they
may carry them away in their pockets
to throw at burglars, but cannot be-
lieve they eat them. Here, let me see
one of them eat this and / will believe
you. Trust me, good waiter, /"
But the waiter pointed to placard
inscribed Positively no trust" and
went to the cashiers desk to tell the
boss to look out for that man at the
corner table, as he didn't seem to be
satisfied with his steak and had asked
for fri1sf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

stand A republicans to democrats and
2 greenbackers, and the house II re-
publicans to IL democrats ane green
hackers. The official count will not
vary these figures more than three or
four either way.
DIS MONIES, Ia, Oct 1.-THE re-
publicans elected their entire county
ticket. The city of Des Moines gives
ali the republican candidates a majori-
ty.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct 12.-Polk
county complete gives Sherm an, 3,41S;
Kline, ,655; Clark, 4S5; or a total poll
of 2, 500 less than last year Sherman's
majority over the democrats is 1853;
over all, 1878. The city of Des Moines,
complete and official, gives the repub-
icans majority of 1903. The whole
republican county ticket is elected
Every ward and precinct in the city of
Des Moines and every township in the
county of Polk, went republican for the
first time in the history of the city and
county.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

| to be dropped from a greater height
than small sized, and while in some
cases 100 feet is sufficient, in others an
elevation of $50 feet is hardly enough.
After the shot have reached the bot
tom of the well, they are at once lifted
out by an elevator and thrown upon an
inclined drying table, over which they
slide falling ultimately into wire gauze
rotating cy Under. Here they are roll
ed and ground together, and in this
way the minute burrs upon them are
removed. From the cylinder another
elevator lifts the shot upon a screening
table. This consists of series of planes
arranged at gradually decreasing
! heights. Between each there is an in
| terval The shot being started ut the
end of the highest plane will, if perfect,
roll from one plane to another. jump
/ ing over the intermediate spaces; if inn
, perfect, however. the latter becomes
| pitfalls into which, sooner or later, il
| tumbles and is carried off into a recep-
tacle, the contents of which go back to
4 he melting kettle. The good shot, af-
| er passing this ordeal, reach the sepa-
rators This is for convenience in fu-
ture separating. The shot are next
elevated to the top cylinder of series
arranged on an incline. They are
conical in form and inclined, and are
covered with perforated sheet brass.
Each cylinder serves as a sieve for a
particular size of shot, retaining that
and allowing all smaller sizes to escape
The shot, as the cylinder revolves, ira
verse its entire length and then the
small ones run out into the next cylin-
der below, and ,hus the sitting goes on
until each cylinder has picked out the
particular class of shot to which it is
adapted.
The sizes of shot are standard. The
smallest is known as ''dust," and then
comes No. u, which is 005 inch in
diameter, 1926 shot going to the ounce.
The sizes then increase by one-hun-
dredths of an inch to up to twenty
three hundredths, of which there are
twenty-four shot to the ounce.
The shot being now assorted, polish
ing alone remains to be done, This is
accomplish by placing the shot to-
gether with plumbago in box, which
is rapidly rotated. This imparts the
glossy black smocthness demanded by
sportsmen. The shot are then weighed,
bagged and are ready for commerce.
Buckshot, which range in size from
twenty-five to thirty-two hundredths of
an inch, are moulded. The moulds
consist of series of pivoted bars, the
outer pair of which have handles. The
upper edges of these bars are followed
to form the moulds, so that when they
are closed together, the opposite halves
of each cavity urite and it is only nee
essary to pour the lead into the aper-
lures. The shot are thus at once
moulded to the proper size, so that
rumbling and polishing only are subse.
quently required.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
A yiper's Venom.
From the Madison Courier.

Mr.. Peck, of Trimble county, KY, ar
rived in this city this afternoon and
gave the particulars of most horrible
story of snake-b biting. A young man
named Edward Green was working In
a tobacco field this forenoon aud was
bitten on the index finger of the, right
hand by a spreading viper. He resent
ed the snakes attack, killed it anu car
ried it to his home, not far distant. As
he made his way to the house he suck
ed the wound with his mouth, but soon
after reaching the house began to act
strangely and went to bed. Neighbors
were called in and a doctor sent for
As soon as whisky could be obtained
they forced a small quantity into his
stomach, but it was too late. The poi
son bad already entered his system.
The doctor could do nothing for him,
but sent at once for hypodermic syr-
inge to inject morphine into his veins.
The doctor attributed the poisoning to
the fact that young Green had false
teeth and removed them when he suck
ed the wound. Tie gums were tender
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

THE Home for Friendless Boys re-
Gently opened in New York cost $780,
600, and the entire amount was secured
through the efforts of Catholic priest
named Drumgoole, who began the
work ten years ago, and has devoted to
it all his time and energy. A large
proportion of the money was contrib
uted in 25-cent subscriptions, and the
absence of large amounts in the list OF
donors is noticeable. As a rule, too
little attention is paid TO the homeless
and friendless boys to be found in every
large city. With proper surroundings
nearly all of them may be made repu-
table citizens, but in the absence OF
these surroundings the descent to crime
is easy and rapid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
FOREIGN.

FRENcH troops have entered the city OF
Tunis and occupied two forts.
A NEW conspiracy against the life of
the emperor of Russia is said TO have been
discovered.
MooDY and Sankey had a very large
audience in the Congregational chapel at
Newcsstle-on-Tyne.
THE first Irish landlord to ask the land
commission to increase rents was the
Marquis of Waterford.
THE Land league of ounty Meath has
resolved not to permit hunting this season,
thus barring out the empress of Austria.
A FoRCg of 5000 French troops left Susa
on a reconnaissance, and were driven back
to the gates of the city by large party OF
Arabs.
IL reply to an address from the chamber
of commerce at Leeds, Mr.. Gladstone said
they might as we'll attempt to with
draw trial by jury, as to restore protective
duties
UNDER French and English advice the
khediye's ministers will give the Turkish
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
GENERAL NOTES.

| REV. DR.. THOMAS has taken an appeal
| to the judicial conference, to be held in
| December.
THE total taxes levied upon the city of
New York for the year are $3l Oh $40, the
rate being 262 per cent.
THE Garfield monument committee esti-
mate the cost of the marble at 100000, Of
which Cleveland will be asked TO contrib
ute $4,000.
SINCE the surrender of Sitting Bull
whose camp lay directly on the route of
the annual migration, buffalo have return
ed to the northern plains.
Two THOUSAND mill laborers at Muske-
gon, Mick, struck Oct. IL, for ten hours
per day, and paraded the streets with a
band.
THE newest trouble among the Indians
in Arizona arose from the murder of a
White Mountain scout by the hostiles
Chiricahuas, and massacre is feared.
G. w. HoTCHRIss, secretary Of the lum-
Germans exchange, reports contributions
of about $4,000 by citizens of Chicago for
the relief of the Michigan unfortunates.
THE attendance at the semi-annual con-
ference of the Mormon church at Salt
Lake nun bered fifteen thousand, includ-
oming. and Nevada.
ALL the railways centering at Cleveland
run special trains each day to accommo-
date the thousands of visitors to the tomb
of President Garfield.
PAYMAsTER ARTHUR has returned to
Helena, Montana, from a trip of eight
hundred miles in an ambulance. While
at Fort Benton he learned that his brother
had qualified as president of the United
States.
After three DAYS of delay Professor
King sailed away from Chicago with his
monster balloon and a signal service at
tache, Oct. 10. The air ship rose to the
height of mile and then moved off to-
ward St. Louis at speed of about twenty
miles per hour
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON il inclined to
discontinue political assessments in the
New York custom house, where more than
three hundred officials have pledged them
selves not TO contribute to the republican
campaign fund. Postmaster Pearson will
not permit any assessment of his en-
ployes.
THE democrats Of New York assembled
in state convention at Albany, on the 18th
inst The county democracy OF New York
was recognized, and both the Iammany
and Irving Hall organizations were ex-
cluded. The following ticket was placed
in nomination:
For Secretary OF Slate-William Pur-
CELL
For Comptroller George III. Lapham.
For Attorney General-Roswell A.
Palmenter.
For Treasurer-Robert A. Maxwell.
For State Engineer Ey
shed.
For Judge of the Court of App eals-Ex
Ats. Shoemaker.
TUX attorney general OF Illinois has
been directed by the railroad commits
sioners to bring suit against the Wabash
consolidation for freight Determinations
against shippers at Gilman. Ill. As a
portion of the track is outside this estate,
the question involved will be new TO our
courts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
IT was Parnelrs turn last week. In

IT was Parnells turn last week. In
speech at Wexford he de-
voted his attention to Mr.. Gladstone,
characterizing him as the greatest CO.
ercionist and the most unrivalled slam
derer Of Ireland-one who had ma
ligned the Irish people, and for whom
no misrepresentation was too low or too
mean to stoop to. He referred to him
with fine irony as "this masquerading
knight-errant, this pretended champion
of all nations except the Irish, who
was obliged to throw off his mask and
"stand revealed as prepared to
carry fire and the sword into Irish
homesteads unless the people humbled
and abased themselves before him and
the landlords" In answer to Glad
stones charge that Parnell preached
the gospel of plumber, the Irish leader
said that the land had been contiscated
three times over by men whose descen-
dants Gladstone is now supporting In
the enjoyment of their plumber by bay
cnots and buckshot From the brief
report given in the cable dispatches it
would appear that Handicapped was
one of his best and strongest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
How Shot is Made.

Lead shot, though sometimes made
of lead alone, are almost always formed
Of an alloy of arsenic and lead, the ar
senic being introduced in the form of
arsenious acid or the sulphuret (orpi-
ment). The object of the arsenic is 10
render the hard, brittle qualities Of the
lead, which is contaminated by iron
and anthony, softer and more ductile
and of the proper conscience, when
melted, for taking the globular form.
Up in the lofty apartment, from
which descends the stream of lead,
stand two men, their hands encased in
thick bags, and grasping neavy iron la
dies with which they dip out the molten
metal from the kettle and pour 1t into
the collenders. Blistering as the mott
en- lead is, the men dash their ladies
into it as if it were water. This is hard
labor, and rapid besides, for the lead
runs through the collender almost like
quicksilver; while If it is allowed to be-
come little chilled in the bottom Of
the vessel, then the holes are stopped,
and the careless workmen have no
easy Job in cleaning them. Five tons
Of lead are often thrown down in half
an hour in the establishment visited
The collender is simply a PIPER pan,
the bottom of which is perforated, and
which rests in an iron ring. In falling
to the base of the tower the particles Of
semi-fuid lead, acted upon alike over
their whole surface by current of air,
are made to assume the globular form,
and by the time they reach the bottom
they are sufficiently hardened by cool
ing to bear the shock of striking the
water in the well below.
The size Of the shot is only approx
mately fixed by the sizes of the holes in
the collenders. The mass is always
larger than the hole from which it ex-
udes. and as the period of dropping is
not always uniform, perha ts half doz-
en- sizes are produced from the same
sieve. Again, large sized shot require
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

WILMINGToN, N c., is feeling partic-
ularly happy just now. because last
week, for the first time since 1860, a
steamer cleared from there direct for a
foreign port, and the prospects for the
establishment of line of such boats is
good. Not only Wilmington, but every
American, ought to rejoice whenever a
boat is found sailing under the flag OF
the United States. As sailors we have
not been q success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

ST. LOUIS is suffering from big
freight blockade Some 5000 cars fill
ed with merchandise fill the tracks of
eastern roads for forty miles out Of the
city, and goods shipped from eastern
points forty days ago have not arrived
yet. The difficulty seems to lie some
where between the transfer company
and the bridge c-mpany, and between
the two the merchants of st. Louis are
having a hard time of it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. Is Flour Dull and neg
lected Wheat-Strong and higher No. 2,
hard, LAB; No. 2, l35; 1.35% for seller De-
tober; 1.37 for seller November; 1.3S for sell
Ter December; 80 for seller January; lao for
seller February; l.5l for seller March; No. g.
1.2l; Nod, nominal; rejected, nominal. Corn
Quiet; No. 2, 6Oh. 0ats-D Dull; No.2 43. Rye
Lower; No. /, l.O5. Barley Quiet; No. 2, 90
for seller cash.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

and readily admitted the poison to the
blood. When our informant left three
or four men were holding the unfortu-
nate young man, who was exercising
superhuman strength. foaming at the
mouth and endeavoring to bite those
who were holding him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

ONE HUNDRED families on the north
shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in
Canada, are reported in a starving con-
dition, recent bush fires having extend
ed over an area of hundreds of miles
and swept off everything.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

THE governor OF Minnesota has ap-
pointed the Hon. Alexander Ramsey
and Congressman Washburn as the
representatives of that state at the
Yorktown centennial.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
MORSE 6 WILKINSON. PrObnetOrs.

A NEVADA paper puts forward a finan-
cial measure which has at least the
merit of originality. 1t is that the
wealthy senators from that state pay
the debt of the commonwealth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

The Louisville Courier-Joursdl says
that Collector Robertson, according to
''stalwart" rules, cannot be removed
without the consent of Senators Miller
and Lapham.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

From the Atlanta lGa.l Sunday Pho
,aograph: The editor OF the Pixies. County
Neips has been cured of rheumatism by
st. Jacobs Oil
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

Harry Garfield, the late Presidents
oldest son, will, after graduating at
Williams, go to Cleveland to practice
law. Harry and his brother james are
devoted to their feeble old grandmoth-
er: James especially watches over her
closely, and his mother says that this
has always been his way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

SKILL IN THE WoRKsHoP.-To do good work
the mechanic must have good health. If long
hours of confinement in close rooms have enfse-
bled his hand or dinmed his sight, let him at
once, and before some organic trouble appears
take plenty of Hop Bitters. His system will be
reiuvenatei his nerves strengthened, his sight
become clear, and the whole constitution be built
nm To a higher working condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20

Mr.. Feodor Carl Welsch, formerly of
Syracuse, ~ Y, and now of Rome tia
~, has been commissioned by the city
of Baden Baden to paint landscape to
be offered by that city as its wedding
present to the Princess Victoria,
daughter of the Garnd Duke of Baden,
who is to marry the Crown Prince of
Sweden this month. The commission
is high compliment to Mr.. Welsch,
especially in view Of the fact that there
are many distinguished artists belong
ing to The "Kunst Schulz" of Baden.
The subject is a view of Baden Baden,
and the picture will be somewhat SINH
lar to the one painted by Mr.. Welsch
last Winter for the Grand Duke Mich
ael. There are many landscapes by Mr..
Welscil in America.