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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-17
FOREIGN


Queen CAROLINE, widow of Christian
Will, died at Copenhagen, on tn, llth
inst.
TWENTY warrants have been issued for
arrests in the county of Westmeath, Ire
and.
THE order for the withdrawal of the
British troops from Candahar has been
given.
A GIG belonging to the Cerebus, lying
at Melbourne, was blown up by torpedo.
Five of the crew were killed.
SECRETARY FORSTER has left Dublin, after
causing the issue of forty warrants The
course to be taken in billions case is still
puzzle.
THE British cabinet is said to have
agreed upon terms of peace TO be offered
to the Beers and sent the result to General
Wood
TIKI United States of Colombia has
made a contract for a cable north and
south fro the Isthmus of Panama, TO
connect with the international lines.
FIVE HUNDRED Irishmen sailed from
Key West about three weeks ago to go
to assist the Beers. They were all well
armed.
THE recent action of parliament is bear
ing fruit. Forty-three arrests have been
made in Ireland under the coercion law
Boyton's case will be brought to the at
tention of Minister Lowell.
THE British are preparing TO evacuate
Candahar, and il is beloved that Abdur-
rahman Khan will make an effort to oc-
cupy the country.
THE crown prince of Germany has paid
to Count Schoenbon, of Vienna, two hum
dred thousand marks for Reubens' "Nept
une and Amplitude"
THE Papal Nuncio at MadLid has for
mally protested against the return of the
Republican and Nationalist professors to
their chairs at the university, but the gov
eminent will not tolerate any interferen-
ces by the church with royal or constitu-
tiOnal prerOgative.
IT is rumored that Gladstone, retaining
the Office of First Lord of the treasury,
will soon resign the chancellorship to
Hugh G. Childers, who will be succeeded
by the Marquis of Harrington as secretary
of state for war, while Lord Derby will
succeed the latter as Indian secretary and
president of the council for India.
TWENTY persons were arrested in Ire
land under the new Coercion act. The
first person arrested was Mr.. Joseph b,
Walsh, an extensive merchant in the
town Of Castelar,, in the west part of the
island. Walsh is a relative Of Michael
Davitt. Cornelius Keogh, farmer liv-
ing at Cahirconlish, in the county of
Limerick was also arrested, and Michael
B. Boyton. The latter is a brother to
Paul Boyton the swimmer. He claims to
be an American citizen, having lived sew
eral years in Baltimore. Walsh, Keogh,
and Boyton are confined in kilmainham
Jail, near Dublin.
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, March Flour.--Quiet and un-
changed Wheat-Actiye, firm and higher No
Chicago Spring 99l4 for seller cash; 1.OO%
for seller April; l.04h@L04as for seller May;
LOIS a1.04A for seller June; No. Chicago
Spring, S7a9l1a; rejected 761a@sO. Corn
Fairly active and shade higher; 81 q for seller
cash. 3si4 for seller April 331a for seller Nav.
Rye-Firmer at 95h@9Sh. Barey--Easier at
los. Pork-Strong and higher; l5.6OG l562h
for seller cash 15.57Al a 1850 for seller April;
15.72k@15.75 for seller May. Lard Excited
and higher; lO.6OG1O.625 for seller cash;
1865 for seller April I0.75@ I0.77H for seller
May. -Wheat-Active, firm and higher
advanced &c. 0ats-Stronger; advanced q a &c.
Pork-Declined "a. Lard-Deelined 2%c. Re
ceipts-Flour $4,000; wheat $4,000; corn, 49,,
OC0; oats, $4,000; rye, none; barley, $500.
so 900; oats, 10000; rye, $50; barley, $500.
The Growers Journal" reports: Hogs-Re-
ceipts, IA 900; shipments, 6 500: active, strong
and unchanged; all sold light, 5.40G $50; chiefly
$40; poor to choice mixed packing 5 .30Qj.70;
good to choice heavy; 5.S0G640; extra fine,
6.5O06.S5; Cattle-Rceipts, 5000; shipments
5000; active and firmer not quotably higher
exports 60d570: good to choice shipping
4.75a 525; common to fair, 4.2j94.6O; butch
ers' and canning, steady; common, 2.0oG4.50;
bulls, 2.30a 400; calves, 50096.j0; stockers and
feeders, demand active, 3.2094.25; calves per
head, 9Ql2c. Sheep--Receipts, $500; ship
ments, 1900, EASIER not quotably lower; sales
3S0a6.0O
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Daring Burglary

Mr.. f. p. Smith, living at the COR
ner of Wabash avenue ard Twenty
fourth street, reported last evening to
the police one ofthe most daring burg
laries which has occurred for some
time, and one which battles the detec-
tives. Mr.. Smith states that some
time during Sunday night the knights
of the jimmy entered his residence
through rear window, and then
made raid through the house. In
the course of their perambulations
they came acress Mr.. Smiths bedroom.
In order to keep him quiet, and to
save him the trouble of waking up, the
burglars applied a handkerchief heavily
charged with chloroform 10 Mr..
Smiths head, and the dose took i'm
mediate effect. 1t is supposed that
other people in the house were also
treated to taste of the drug, for they
all slept an unusually long time. When
Mr.. Smith awoke he discovered his
loss to be $1,000 in cash and diamond
ring valued at $500. As soon as he
could recover his senses properly he
repaired to the Cottage Grove Avenue
Police Station, where he made a report
of the robbery A detail of men was
at once set to work on the case, and
another detail was sent out from the
Central Station. The above particulars
form the substance of Mr.. Smiths
story. Emery P. Smith, the victim, is
a commission man and grain-dealer
The police are at loss to know why
the burglars did not take other artic-
les of value that were lying around.
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laws of the year 1866, entitled an act providing
for the abstract OF tax sales in Columbia county.
Authorizing the common council of the city of
Portage 10 construct sidewalk to Silver Lake
cemetery.
To regulate the description OF real estate of the
assessment and taxation in the city of Oconto.
To amend section 1853, chapter s., X. S., en-
titled general provisions relating to incorpora-
tons.
To authorize the school land commissioners to
convey certain lands TO the Sturgeon Bay and
Lake Michigan ship canal and harbor company.
To change the boundary lines Of certain towns
in Lincoln county and to organize two new towns
therein; also 10 change the name Of the town of
Jenny to that of Lincoln.
To amend section 33l Of chapter 20 Of the re-
vised statutes entitled Of public printing
A bill to provide for the uniformity in fire in
surance policies was passed.
dsseablg-Mr Kidd moved a consideration of
the vote BY which joint resolution No. 81, A.
the liquor resOlution-was refused a third read
ing
Mr.. keogh asked that the time foi such motion
be fixed for next Tuesday evening. Accepted.
A move to take up the female suffrage bill, de-
feated last evening failed
The senate bill appropriating 81 800 to the
northern Wisconsin fair was eoncnrred in by a
vote of 90 to IL.
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vost marshal that he was ready to ac-

vost marshal that he was ready to ac-
company him.
MIR. JOHNSON
refused to have guard or take car
riage, but elbowed his way through the
crowd upon the street and safely reach
ed the room where Mr.. Lincoln was
cying, and where Secretary Stanton
and the rest of the cabinet were. The
doors were then closed and the situa-
ton calmly discussed. To provide
for future contingencies, it was resolved
asssoon as possible after the death of
NJ Lincoln, which was foregone con-
clusl0n, Mr.. Johnson should be sworn
in as president. After looking at the
still insellsible form of Mr.. Lincoln for
q few moments. and without an ex-
preston of any kind, which reticence
he had observed from the beginning,
Mr.. Johnson signified his readiness to
return to his rooms with the provost
marshal. In going or coming but few
word were spoken. Once, the provost
marshal ventured to rem.'rk that he
hoped the policy of severe and uncom.
promising punishment would be visit
ed upon the bad men who were lead
ing in the attempt to destroy the ma
tion. To this he replied, When you
know more of me you will think better
of me- To this day the enigmatical
words have never been explained. Nr.
Johnson safely left at his hotel, the o.
vost marshal resumed his post at the
side Of Secretary Stanton, in the room
where Mr.. Lincoln was.
SECRETARY STANTON
sttid at the bedside of the dying presi-
dent all night long, and just as daylight
appeared on the morning of April 10,
and just as dawn was blending with
day sudden deep gutterai noise oc-
casioned by a last struggle for breath,
and Abraham Lincoln, the faithful and
devoted president of the United States,
was dead. Mr.. Stanton then approach
ed the bed and looked intently for n
few minutes at the features of the muir
dered one. He resumed his position
at the window, braced his chin with
the closed hand, sighed bitterly, and
almost with revengeful feelings, the
stern gaze out into the carly morning
was again resumed. The union was
for the time being without president
The first one who had met Seath by
violence while in office, and the first
Tno had lost his life by the hand of
an assassin; the first who had dared by
proclamation to liberate four millions
! Of slaves in the name of freedom had
now passed to Immortality a martyr,
though loved and respected by all, and
who had never wronged the feelings
of his fellow man. Gradually all the
witnesses of the sad scene withdrew.
Preparations were at once made for
embalming the body and its removal
to the white house. Secretary Stanton
Immediately gave orders for the neces-
sary arrangements. No one has gone
through the incidents of this awful
tragedy will ever forget that night of
horror, and few, if any, can describe it
| in all its sadness"
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THE Beers seem to have taught their
English enemies and would-be oppress-
orsa very severe lesson in the recent
battle of Spitzkop. 1t is now ascertain
ed that the English lost about S0Omen,
their commander-in-chief being among
the slain. 1t was first reported that
the English were defeated because they
got out of ammunition, bat that proves
to be incorrect. and the fact is that they
were fairly whipped by the brave and
stubborn Beers, who are proving them
selves excellent marksmen and the best
of soldiers. The victorious Beers have
sent message Of coincidence to Lady
Colley, which eharacterizes them as a
humane and civilized people, who are
forced to kill those that invade their
soil for the purpose of enforcing the
edicts Of q cruel, despotic and over
bearing government. Every lover Of
liberty and selfgovernment the world
over will rejoice whenever he hears Of
the success 1t the Beers. and the de-
feat Of the English, who are trying %
Cypress and subdue them.
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A EnnIhardY Act.

The latest foolhardy act at Niagara
is the work of three employees of the
Eiie railway. There is log in the
rapids in the middle of the river, forty
rods above Goat Island bridge, which
has been there four years or so, and in
that time no one has been within reach
ing distance of it. These men crept
out to it on the ice and spiked up a
twelve foot sign on it, reading, " Go
East via Erie Railway" Crowds Of
people stood on shore and looked at
them, and the usual number of cold
blooded bets were made, thai they
wouldn't get back alive In putting on
the sign they moved the log; this shook
the ice little, and it began to break
up in all directions. They had lively
time padding back TO shore again, and
say they wouldn't try it again for one
thousand dollars apiece.
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TEIEGRAPHTC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON paper says that Presi-
dent Garfeld's private secretary is very
pleasant young man. This is CRAFTY ing,
because a private secretary is generally
a self-ma9e ass.
EX-CoNGREssMAN HURLBUT. of Illinois.
who is said TO be an applicant for the
has no such ambition; but would like TO
go to California. which. in his opinion, is
as foreign country as he would care to
live ill.,
Tue president nominated David d. Nc
Chung TO be Surveyor of Customs at Gin
cinnati, John w. Green to be Collector Of
Internal Revenue for the Second district OF
Iowa, and George Pheger to be postmast or
at South Bend, Ind.
THE war department goes TO Mr. Lin
coin, the only surviving son of the veneer
ated liberator. An appointment of this
kind might be expected from the poetic
mind Of the president, and it will please
the imagination of the country Mr.. Lin
coin Is man of ability and character.
His nomination will crafty Senator Lo-
gan, with whom Mr.. Lincoln acted in the
famous combination of the 500.
The senate confirmed the nomination OF
ex-secretary Golf as distrct-attorney OF
| Wcst-Nirginia; Lewis Richmond, OF
/ Rhode Island, as consul-general at Rome
and John l.. Frisbie of Michigan. as con
sui al Rheims. Among the nominations
sent in by the president were Albert
| Rhodes. of Washington, ID. c., as consul
| at Ruuen Edward Backus, of Chicago
as consul at Pera, Brazil John A. Held
/ erman, of Kansas, consul at Bangkok.
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arrested at Contocock, N. H., for the muir
der of Maria l.. Crue, at Groion. Mass.
RoBBERs secured 81 500 and silver
watch from a passenger in a sleeping-car
on the Alton road, near Lexington, ILL.,,
on Saturday night.
a LIyERYMAN of Cincinnati mas caused
the arrest of his former mistress for throw
ing the contents of bottle of vitrol at
his face.
THE cowhiding case at St. Joseph, Mo-,
ended in +. NJ. Yates and Dr. w. B. Craig
paying $500 each and costs for an assault
on Herman Garlichs.
THOMAS KING and Robert Smith, both
of Brooklyn, were killed in New York
City by the breaking of swinging ladder
upon which they were standing while
painting house.
THE police of Chicago have secured
party of eight young thieves who for
freight cars on the lake front of valuable
goods.
Four more political prisoners have been
Jailed at kilmainham, Ireland. Boyton
has telegraphed statement of his arrest
the British authorities for the charges
against him.
THE theft Of s., 745 from the Adams ex-
press company at its Louisville office is
confessed by Frank Brewer and Frank
Rose, two employees, and the money has
been restored. A dispatch had found cir
culation that four masked men had gagg-
ed the Waterman and gobbled the cash.
A DELIBERATE plot to burn the insane
asylum at Topeka, Kansas, was frustrated
on Saturday hight. Candlewick and pow
der we're found in the building. A wan
dering lunatic has been arrested for the
crime.
THE Derance brothers, of New Orleans,
who shot 4 man in that city some months
ago because he was too attentive to their
sister, have been found guilty of man
| slaughter. The jury recommended them
| TO mercy.
| A COMPANY has been organized in New
| York to be known as the United States
| Cremation Company Qimited), to cremate
| human dead in the quickest, best, and most
economical manner. The capital of the
company is $4,000, divided into 200
| shares.
| OK the capture of horse thief, at FL
! Paso, ILL.,. cannon was fired twenty times,
| and every farmer within five miles drove
! In. AT one tlfne tnere were TWO Thousand
people assembled to see the culprit. The
anti-horse-thief society had spent 5000 on
| this case.
THE colored people of Nashville, Tenn,
| are wild with excitement over the finding
of the body of Mrs. Annanias White in a
rude grave near the northern suburbs.
| The murderer was her husband, who was
quickly transported from the Jail to the
penitentiary before the crowd could lynch
! him.
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AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
= French Canadian said 10 he Living
with His Neck DislOcated.

An accident occurred on Monday at
Ramey, Clarion County, which proved
to be one of the most extraordinary
cases ever recorded in the history of
surgery or medical jurisprudence,
James Gaupell, a French Canadian
employed at Ramey's mills, fell from
trestle about twelve feet to the ground.
After recovering from the shock result
ting from the fall he was unable to
move his head, and DIR. Edwards, at
tending physician, discovered that the
neck was dislocated and some of the
bones broken; butt was evident that
the spinal column had not been sever
ed. The doctor reset and put the
fractured neck in position. and set
about devising means to put it in place
until the broken bones and confused
ligaments attain their normal condi-
ton. To this Ell 4 muslin bandage
three inches wide Was wrapped tightly
around the neck, and TO it were attached
two Tugs, one on either side. To these
a rope was fastened and run over
pulley fixed to the ceiling of the room.
A bucket was suspended on the other
end of the rope, and in it were placed
various weights, so that the patient
can adjust the continuance rs occasion
may require by simply reaching 10 the
bucket and removing or adding one
or two weights. He remains in sit
ting posture, and should any slight
change of position occur the tension
of the pope will still support the weight
ofthe head. With these appliances
for his support, the unfortunate man
will have to remain practically in the
some position until the injured parts
become united or death ends the case.
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Detroit Free Press.

His honor had before him the case
Of a young farmer who was arrested
for disturbing the peace and being
drunk, and when asked for his defense
he said:
:"Well, / 1--we out here about twelve
miles. Yesterday morning, as | was
splitting rails, Bill Adams he came
along and dared me TO come to town
with him. And ! dared"
"You hadn't any errandy
"None at all. After we got here Bill
Adams he says to me he'd dare me TO
take a drink. And / dared. Purity
soon, after we had been to harness
shop, he dared me to take another.
And | dared"
This was two drinks.
ayes, sir; and after Bill had bought
four pounds of nails he dared me TO
get sWizzled. And / dared
"Wcat is swizzled?"
Just drunk enough to think you can
lift a barrel of salt, but you can't lift
one end of hat full Of bricks
"Well, go on"
"Well, when we got swizzled, Bill he
dared me to upset a man carrying a
step-ladder. And dared.
That's when you got that black eye,
eh?'
eyes, sir. upset the man, but he
got up and knocked me pizzen west"
YES"
well, then, we saw a policeman
marching along, and Bill Adams he
dared me to pitch him into snow
bank And / dared"
"Was it much Of pitchY''
''No. sir.-not for the officer, He
gave me two cracks on the head and
brought me down"
well, now | dare you to go 10 the
work4house foHthirty days." concluded
his Honor as he settled back.
And he dared.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
snmnath, with ireland.

In the Pennsylvania house of repre-
senatives the following were adopted
by q vote of 9S yeas to 20 nays:
WaEREAs, The people of Ireland are now en-
gagged in noble struggle to secure their natural
and political rights and to abolish most unjust
and inequitable system of land laws by which
they are cruelty oppressed; and,
WHEREAS, The people of the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania under just and equitable laws are
prosperous and happy, and it is eninently fitting
that they should express their sympathy for the
oppressed and give their moral support TO those
who struggling for civil liberty; therefore, be It
Resoiced. That we hereby express our sympa-
thS for the people of Ireland, misgoverned and
oppressed and our admiration for their bravery
under great proyocation in pursuing peaceahle
and lawful course and, as in the past the people
of Pennsylvania have been foremost in aiding
suffering humanity, we now request them To asr
sist by lawful and peaceful means, by counsel,
and by peeuniary assistance, the people of Ire
land until the evils of landlordism are abolished,
antsthey secure TO themselves their natural and
political rights,
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SENATOR JONES TOUCHED.
How He Assisted Poor and Help
less Girl.
A
'eIma ala. J Argus.
nr.


A scrawny girl of fifteen winters en-
tiers, half-nourished creature, whose
thin ankles are lost in the bulky shoe
tops, her red hands are hid in the cor
ners of dingy, white crocheted shawl,
and the hal she wears seems the up
heaval of plethoric rag-bag, decorat-
ed with a wearv-looking feather that
hangs at half-mast like flag of distress,
and the girls face is unused to smiles.
She seeks to see Senator Jones, of
Nevada, and having no card, the door
keeper jerks one out of his pocket and
gives it to her.
"Will you please write my name"
the girl asks.
What is it?'' he inquiries.
Mary Jones"
''Do you know the SENATOR asks the
door-keeper
"No, sir"
81 fear he won't see you, as he rarely
leaves the chamber" He takes the
card in, all the same, and gives 1t to a
page.
The girl stands in the center Of the
room, the very approximation OF
friendlessness and loneliness, with a
face as expressionless as stone. A page
comes out and whispers to the door
keeper. and they return to the senate
In a few minutes the door-keeper
comes back with Senator Jones, who
goes up to the girl and says kindly:
any child, what do you want of me?"
A flush of crimson came into her
pale face, and her lips twitehed nery-
ously as she replied. As he listened a
man touched him on the arm. He
looked around. and recognizing a
friend, said: Excuse me moment,
and gave his attention to the girl.
When she had finished he put some
thing in her hand with quick move
ment, and taking his friend by the arm
walked rapidly away.
The girl went out of the reception
room wiping her eyes with her shabby
shawl, and gazing through her tears at
the untold wealth of greenback
marked with an X.
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Queer Fish.


There is now on exhibition at No.
191 fremont street fish which has at
tracted considerable attention. 1t was
caught about twelve miles from the
Isle of Shoals by Wallace Wright, of
the fishing schooner Jennie p Phillips,
from Swampscott. At the time Of its
capture it was fifteen feet long and
weighed {, 430 pounds, and in its stom-
ach we're found Goldfish weighing fifty
pounds, two smaller Gods and two
coots. 1t mas large mouth contain
ing seven rows of sharp teeth and in
general appearance is somewhat like a
shark, but what is most singular is the
fact of its being so well supplied with
respiratory organs. 1t has not only
mouth, but gills, nostrils and blow
holes. While on exhibition at Lynn
the fish was examined by several scien-
tifc gentlemen, but no one has yet been
able to classify it.
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THE special train over the Baltimore
and PotomOc railroad, on which ex-
President Hayes and party left Wash
ington. collided with two locomotives
when rounding curve near Severn
Station. about fifteen miles from Balti-
more. All three engines were going at
the rate of forty miles an hour, and the
shock was terrible. Two Pullman
coaches were telescoped, and several
others thrown from the track. Mr.. j..
Wayne Young, of Shamokin, Pa, who
had chartered the first car, and Ionn
Oliver, baggage-master, were killed,
aud sixteen persons were injured. Mr..
Hayes and his party were thrownfrom
their seats. but received no injuries.