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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A WILD train on the East st. Louis road
plunged off an embankment, killing two
persons and iniuring seven.
THERE were twenty.three deaths from
yellow fever and fifteen from smallpox
in Havana, last week.
MARY RIaA, aged about 81 wears, fell
dead while dancing in Carlton, Wis.
Heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause.
joan SHEA. assistant yardmaster Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road,
was killed by an engine in the last-named
city.
\ SERIOUS confagration broke out a
Bradford, Pa. Ten business buildings and
the Riddell House Were in flames, and the
loss will certainly reach $lOO,OOO
DANIEL RoYsE, clerk of the supreme
court of Indiana, who served during the
war in the 10th regiment, was stricken by
the heat, and died in half an hour.
The shops of the Dodge Manufacturing
company at Mishawaka, Ind, valued at
$4,000, were struck by lightning and
burned.
An accident on the International road
twenty-six miles west of Galveston, caused
by TIE splitting of wheel, injured twenty
four persons.
A CYCLONE swept over the vicinity Of
Fairfield, Mimi, killing four persons and
wrecking all the houses and bridges in its
path.
WILLIAM BEAL, a drunken citizen of
indianapolis. shot himself severely while
illustrating the manner in which Guiteau
fired at Garfield
A PASSENGER coach on a New jersey
Southern train jumped the track at a
bridge and went into the water. Andrew
Robbins, the conductor, was fatally in
jured, and three others were badly hurt.
THy saw-mill of the Sherman Lumber
Company, at Potsdam, \. Y, with two
million feet of lumber, and eighteen
houses. were destroyed by fire, causing q
loss of 100000.
4 FIRE in the works of the Excelsior
Manufacturing Company, of St. Louis, on
which sixteen engines were kept busy, de-
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Fortunes Picked In.

Up on the ledge, last week, three men
in one day pounded out twenty-nine
pounds of gold. For many days the
yield has been about the same, and
there seems to be no sign of their Civ
ing out-D00aieuiHe Cali Messenger.
At / O'Clock this afternoon, John
Robar and Eli Worthington uncovered
a three and one-half foot vein of rich
mineral, six feet from the surface, in
the northern outskirts of the city. An
assay shows the ore TO contain sixty per
cent. of lead and forty-fve ounces in
silver. From o'clock until o'clock,
the hour of writing, between six and
eight tons of this rich mineral was put
on the dump. The lead is solid
and in place. The city is wild with ex-
element, and hundreds of people have
visited the wonderful discovery-Bo-
nanza (Cok9 Enterprise.
Sr. H. Diaz Pena who arrived in
Tucson, Arizona, from Mexico, recently
brought with him probably the most
splendid specimen of silver ore that
has been seen in that section. In weight
there are about twenty-eight ounces of
pure silver and half ounce of quartz
The mine from which this is taken is
located in the state of Sinaloa, about
one hundred miles southeast from
Alamos, in Sonor. 1t was recently dis
covered by mere accident A van
quero was riding over the mountain in
search of stray cattle, when his atten-
ton was attracted by large boulder,
which appeared unusually rich in
metal. Upon examination it proved
to contain several thousand dollars in
silver. 1t was taken to the mint at
Hermosillo and sold for upward of
5000. Three brothers named Berrey-
essa purchased the mine, and in one
week they extracted more than SOS, 900
worth of the same kind of quartz
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Shot ThrOu II the Liver.

Aurora, ILL.,, boasts of one of the best
cases on record of man having been
shot in the region of the liver and after
ward restored to perfect health. John
A. Kinley, clerk in the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy freight Office, was
wounded at the battle of Monacacy
junction. bullet entering his left side
and passing near the liver and through
a portion of the lungs He was taken
to hospital at Baltimore, and the
same DIR. Bliss who is attending the
president attended him, and told him
that he must die. Kinley didn't see it
in that light, refused to die, and finally
got we'll. The bullet worked up into
the muscles of his arm, where it nov is
and can plainly9be felt. He has insist
ed from the first that the president
would live, and don't take any great
amount of stock in the opinions of the
attending surgeons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

ACCOUNTS of the queer pranEs of
lighting are particularly plentiful this
year. Electricity does so many Won
derful things that it has become popu-
lar to explain mysterious phenomena
by suggesting that they are caused by
electricity. 1t once seemed strange
enough that man by his invention
should be able to make the steam that
had sung gently in the nose of his
grandmother's teapot, drive steamships
across the ocean and whirl the produce
of continent to the seaboard. But
the science of to-day undertakes to light
the world. and to drive its machinery
with an agency that has not only been
used to sccount for the existence Of
comets tails and the Pickering of the
Northern Lights, but that, in the form
of lighting, exhibits more strange freaks,
and causes, probably, more terror than
any other known force.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

THE world seems to have a passion
for tunnels. We are tired of going
around, and are fond of going through
things, even 1T an enormous cost of
money and labor. The Hoosae Tun-
mel was considered a wonderful under
taking even a year ago, but now there
are in progress three tunnels in differ
ent parts of the world that make it
look hk a trifie One is under the
Alps, another under the Hudson river,
from Jersey City to New York, while
the third is under the British Channel,
and will be as long as all the rest to-
gether BY and by some audacious
engineer viii tunnel the Atlantic for
the benefit of sea-sick people.
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stroyed the Lewis street building and the
molding-room ON Florida street.
A wATER-sPoUT at Marshaltown, Iowa,
caused the overflow of Linn creek, float
ing off about forty houses and destroying
the Ketchum wagon-works and Stod-
dard's milIs.~ The damage is placed at
100000.
THE suicide of Mrs. Sadie Stewart in
the Niagara river. at Buffalo, was fol-
lowed by that of DIR. Z. I'll. HOWE. Of
Forestville, n. j., whose name had been
linked with hers in a scandalous intrigue.
BY some it is thought they went hand in
hand to death.
JUST outside of st. Paul, freight train
of forty-three cars on the Omaha road
broke apart, the rear section starting back
down high grade, and striking another
train a. the depot at the rate of sixty
miles per hour. George Trider. veteran
engineer, was killed, and loss of $50, 900
inflicted The track was rooted up for
fifteen rods.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

Sitting tonight in my chamber
A bachelor rigid and lonely
| kiss the end of my pipe-stem-
That and that only.

Sitting tonight in my chamber
A bachelor rigid and lonely
| kiss the end of my pipe-stem-
That and that only.
Reyeries rise with the wreaths;
Memories tender surround me;
Girls that are married or buried
Gather around me.
School girls in pantalets romping;
Girls that have grown to be misses;
Girls that liked 10 be kissed and
Lake to give kisses.
Kisses | remember thenl
Those in the corner were fieetcst;
Sweet were those ION the sly" in the
Dark were the sweetest.
Carrie was tender and gentle;
To woo was almost to win her
Her bps were as good as ripe peaches
And milk for dinner.
Nell was fiirt and coquetish;
Twas catch and kiss if you can, sir!
Could / catch both-ahl wasn't /
A happy man, sir!
Carrie has gone on mission
Off to the South Sea sinners;
Nell is a widow keeps boarders and
Cooks her own dinners
Charlotte and Susan and Hattie
Mary, Jane Lucy and Maggie;
Four are married and plump, two
Maidens and soraggy.
Annie is dead, Bloom sweetly
Ye mignonets, over her rest
Her loved dearly and truly;
Last and the best.
Thus sit smoking and thinking,
A bachelor frigil and lonely;
| kiss the END Of my pipe-stem-
That and that only.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

rXCEILENT accounts are received of
the crops in the French provinces.
The farmers of the central provinces,
the great wheatgrowing region of the
beautiful country, count on good aver
age crops, and it is believed that the
vintage for this year will be the best
for fifteen years Favorable reports of
the Spanish crops have also been re
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

plexion changed to that of corpse,
and in few hours he was dead.
$50 you see," added the General,
''you can't really tell anything about
what result may follow such shot. III
the president should live two or three
days longer, with his strong constitu-
ton and absolutely correct habits, |
should expect he would eventually re-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

GOVERNOR l.. A. Sheldon, of New
Mexico. was sitting in his office at San
Ia Fee when he received a dispatch say
ing that his old friend and commander.
the president, was shot. In a few mo
ments the General and Mrs. Sheldon
were ON a railway train, and have trav-
eled the 1000 miles to Washington
without stOpDinp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

JoBBERY and trickery seem to be rife
even in Switzerland. A house engaged
in the watch trade in that republic has
Just been caught in a piece Of rascality
which would put Chicago three-card-
monte man to the blush. The house
in question sent through the postoffice
to Bulgaria case of watches worth
$1,000. The case was insured for $780,
600. \ Bulgarian postoffice clerk was
bribed to steal the watches that the
consigners might recover the insurance.
The fraud was discovered, and the ship
per of the watches and the postofiice
clerk have been arrested.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

IT has been the opinion IF expert
enced physicians and surgeons that if
the president survives the ninth day of
his wound, he will stand an excellent
chance of recovery. He passed through
the ninth day favorably. The reports
of his condition continue cheering, and
the prospect of his recovery is very
GOOD.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

TIE result Of the international mon
etary conference is regarded in Paris as
of the utmost importance, and to have
accomplished as great a measure OF
success as its most interested friends
could have wished for. The Bank of
England has made conditional propo-
sition TO hold one-fifth of its coin reserve
=, ciI,-or
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

When the Southern Ocean was first
opened to British enterprise by the dis
coveries of Captain Cook, it teemed
with animal life. Fur seals and hair
seals abounded on the coasts of Austria
liza and New Zealand, and on the out
lying islands. They were at once set
upon and killed, the slaughter being
conducted without regard to sex or sea-
son. The result was the total extirpa-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

CARDINAI MANNING has received, in
London, a deputation from the Irish
farm laborers, and has made assurances
that his sympathies are with their class.
To certain extent be approves of the
operations of the Land League, but
maintains that it must confne itself to
the limits of the law, human and di-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

DIR. CARVER, the American marks
man, has arranged to shoot with Stuart
WORTHY, member of parliament for
Sheffield, England, and member of the
Hungarian Gun Club, for $500 at 100
pigeons each, and ar thirty yards rise.
The American will win in all proba-
bilitY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

The London PoH Nal Ga2ette ex-
presses the opinion that a financial
crisis is approaching in the United
States. The capitalists and financiers
Of this country will fail to ''see it,"
There are no signs or symptoms to this
effect perceptible here at present.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

MILWAUKEE,. July Flour.-Searce and firm.
Wheat-Uusettled and lower. No. hard nomi-
nal; No. /, nominal, No. 2 hard, LIZ; No. q
1.09A; l.l0l4 for seller July; l.l0A for seller
August; l.l14 for seller September; LIS for
seller October; No. 3, 100; No. 4, 50; re-
jected, nominal Corn--Scsrce and frmer. No.
2,37h. 0ats-Scarce; No. 2, 3S93SA. Rye
Nominal Barley Scarce. Provisions Higher;
meas pork 17.7O cash for seller July; 1880 for
seller August. Lard-Prime steam, l3.lc cash,
for seller july 1895 for seller August, Live
Hogs-Easier 5.O0a6.4O. Freights-Wheat to
Buffalo, &c. receipts, 1888 brls -four, % 600 Blu
wheat barley none. Shipments, IA ,2S3 brls -FOUR
5,l95 bn wheat; 45O bu barley
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

GUITEAu can't sleep nights because
he imagines he hears a mob hammer
ing and pounding en- the doors of the
Jail. The fear of lynching haunts his
guilty soul. He is evidently sane
enough to understand what fate a COW
ardlv assassin deserves.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

For an old man without a chick or
child, Mr.. Tilden takes a great deal OF
thought for the future. He has just
purchased the house adjoining the one
in which he lives in Grammercy Park
for 1926, 900, and is expanding $4,000
more to make the front of the two APP
pear like one, and is making both fire
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

clergyman uttered his prayer-"very,
very good" and l was saying it again
when sat with my wife in old Simon's
parlor, and he, coming in, lit the gas,
and stood twinkling his eyes at us ma
iciously.
80 it's over" he said, with his fiend-
ish chuckle. ''Shes yours now for the
$4,000. Pm going to hand it over to-
night. shall sleep better
/ blushed with shame. ''Not yet" |
said. "don't talk of money yet"
mo" said Simon. "But | viii,
though; I've got it here" And he I'M
locked sideboard which stood in the
room, and brought our small roll done
up oddly in brown paper. There it
is" he said. ''there it is. Look at it,;
count it. Five thousand, plum. Count
it."
He fairly grinned as he spoke She
smiled. / saw something in his laugh
that mode me shudder, Without a
word more | walked to the table, open
ed the parcel and spread out the notes.
There was f5, 900 worth of them, read
ing the value on their faces; but they
were the notes of theDiddleton & Blk
EN- Bank, which had failed years agol |
had been deceived. The girl l had mar
ried was penniless!
'Impostor!" I yelled Old Simon
answered with roar of laughter.
Good joke" he said. II have done
what have promised. You've got the
5000; didn't tell you what ii was ill.,
OF course such money is of no use to
you; but / can't help that. Ha, hat"
/ think l should have given him a
blow, but just then l heard Margaret
scream. | looked at her. | saw, as |
had known before, that she had no
hand in the deception. saw an awful
look in her eye, doubt of my love
trembling on my lip. | saw her rise
and falter on her poor feet and stretch
her arms toward me. heard her cry,
Thomas, | did not know~ and then
oh, thank God for it!-the love | had
never felt before rushed into my heart
"a great all-conquering love.
ran to her. l took her in my arms.
| gave her the first kiss of passionate
and newborn love, and | said: "Mar-
garet, try and bear poverty with me,
for / love you better than my soul"
And all Margarets money-the mon
ey that faded before me like fairy gold
could never have given me half the
Joy that the wealth of love given to and
received from her gave me upon our
bridal day, gave me in all the first
struggling years of welded life, and will
give me, God grant it, until the end.
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to know W

MoR,ioNIsN is still recruiting its ranks
with large accessions from Europe.
We are glad to note that the bestial sys-
tenn cannot gain converts in America,
or among intelligent people anywhere,
for that matter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, said to a
newspaper reporter that the opinions
of the cabinet officers, of the attending
physicians, and of all those who have
access to the president, are that he will
recover, and that the crisis is past.
The favorable symptoms confirm these
opinions, and it can now be asserted
with some authority that the chances
in favor of recovery are excellent.
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The Prevention of Sunstroke.

The following hints for the proven
ton of sunstroke are given by DIR. Ed
win G. Mann, of New York city, in an
article upon this subject in one of the
medical Journals: To avoid sunstroke,
exercise, in excessively hot weather,
should be very moderate; the clothing
should be thin and loose, and an album
dance of cold water should be drank.
Workmen and soldiers should under
stand that as soon as they cease to
perspire, while working or marching in
the hot sun, they are in danger of sun
stroke, and they should Immediately
drink water freely and copiously to af-
ford matter for cutaneOus transplra-
ton, and also keep the skin and cloth
ing wet with water. Impending sun
stroke may often be warded off by
these simple measures. Besides the
cessation of perspiration, the pupils
are apt to be contracted, and there is a
frequency of micturition. If there is
marked exhaustion, with weak pulse,
resulting from the cold water applica-
ton, we should administer stimulants.
| The free use of water, however, both
externally and internally, by those ex-
posed to the direct rays of the sun, is
the best prophylactic against sunstroke,
and laborers or soldiers, and others
who adopt this measure, washing their
hands and faces, as well as drinking
copiously of water every time they
come within reach of it, will generally
enjoy perfect immunity from sun
stroke. Straw hats should be worn,
ventilated at the top, and the crown of
the hat filled with green leaves or wet
sponge. 1t is better to wear thin han
mel shirts in order not to check perspi-
ration. We may expose ourselves for
long time in the hot sun and work or
sleep in a heated room and enjoy per
feet immunity from sunstroke If we
keep our skin and clothing wet with
water
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No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bitters patients, nor large-salaried tai
ented buffers to tell what Hop Bitters
will do or cure, as they tell their own
story by their certain and absolute
cures at honey. T. Independent.
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NEWS NOTES.

A son of ex-senator Pugh, of Ohio,
is captive in the hands of the Apache
Indians in Northern Mexico, being held
as a hostage for the exchange of In
dian prisoners In the hands of the Mex
leans.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

GUuEAUs first bullet, it now turns
out, did not even penetrate the presi-
dents skin. 1t merely struck his coat
sleeve and then lodged somewh ere in
the walls of the building one seems
In know where.
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Chicago ~ arEet.

CHIcAso,. July l8.-Wheat- Quiet but firm and
unsettled. No. Chicago spring, LIZ cash for sell
Ter July 49, for seller August 1.l234al .122s; for
seller September LIP; No. Chicago spring, SO
al o.; rejected 79aS5. Corn-427G a4S for seller
cash July 81 a677s for seller August; Az xa47H
for seller September; As for seller October reject
ed, AN. Oats Prices advanced &c; 3la3l u
bid for seller July; 29es for seller August; 294
for seller September. Rye-Firm; SO for seller
cash; 931 bid for seller July, s2h. Barley
IS for seller September. Pork-Prices a shade
higher; 1875 for seller cash; 1770kal7.75 for
seller July, August and September; II. so for sell
Ter October Bulk Shoulders $50; short rib, 9.05;
do clear, $50. Whisky-Quet and unchanged,
Lee. Call - Wheat-1.12Xfor seller August;
11IzSa1.l2 for seller September I.ll24 for seller
October; 1929 for seller the year. Corn-472 Is
bid for seller July A 4 for seller August 477 for
seller Sep TENDER; Az for seller October. Oats
4les "a for seller July; 2s2l for seller August;
272s for seller September. Pork-1770 bid for
seller August; 1866 bid for seller September.
Lard-l2 s. for seller July; l2.05al0.071a for
seller August; II. SO for seller September. The
" Drover's Journal" reports gs-Receipts, 49,
600; shipments, 400. Lower; mixed packing,
62Oa635; light 6.404 $50; choice heavy, 645a
6.75. Cattle-Recepts, $500; shipments, 1900;
slow, and lower; export 6.OOa6.S0; common to
choice shipping 70a5 80. Sheep Receipts, 600;
shipments $50; good demand for best superior
sheep 5 so; fair to medium !. 50a4.75.
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A large crowd witnessed the depart
ure of the Rodgers, the Polar relief
ship, when she sailed from San Fran
cisco in search of the Jeanette. The
vessel carries five whale boats and an
ice dingy, and has a house on deck,
forward, in which is the apothecary's
dispensary and bathroom. The Redg-
ers is provsioned, coaled, differed and
manned for long cruise. Her stores
are sufficient for four years, and could
be eked out to last five years if neces-
sary. She is heavily sheathed with
three-inch oak planks, and in addition
to her regular stationary ship pumps,
she carries two auxiliary steam pumps.
The cruise will be from San Francisco
to st. Berry, thence to Lawrence bay,
along the coast of Siberia The vessel
is ordered to go as far north as Herald
island If nothing definite is learned
by that time, different course is to be
pursued, and it will go to Wrangle
Island, along the southern shore, and
winter there. Unless information is
obtained to justify Lieutenant Berry
in remaining longer. he will return by
the end of the second year. There are
fourteen officers and crew on board. a
steward, two cooks, three firemen, and
fifteen able bodied seamen.
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A boy who was kept after school for
bad photography, excused himself to
his parents by saying that he was spell
bound.