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Attempted Train RObbing.

KANSAS Cry, July 22.-The report
which reached this city, late yesterday,
that a train on the Santa Fe road, had
been wrecked near Lawrence, by men
whose intention it was to rob the east
bound express; created no little excite
ment, although facts concerning the
matter were very meagre; there were
five men in the party, which removed
the rail-. The boys who saw them
were waiting about the station, and no
ticed the five men pass down the track
ON the shady side of the station,
open the tool house, which was about
200 hun red yards east of it,
and each man taking some
implement, marched down the track
until lost to sight in the woods. The
boys thought they were section men,
and therefore said nothing about it un-
til after the accident. They describe
the leader as a large man, with red
whiskers, wearing dark gray pants, a
striped or barred blue shirt, and light
colored SLOUGH hat Three of his COM
panions were medium sized young
men, heavy set and dressed in dark
clothes, but the fifth was slender and
apparently quite young. The rail was
removed about three miles east of the
station,at point where the track curves
with the river bank and where dense
copse shades the track. The train
came from Bismarck Grove, sort of
headquarters for several weeks osten-
sibly to bet on any horse race that
might be made up and to find out
what animals could do before the
trotting season began. None of these
men were seen about the grove yester
day, and although the circus ground
were watched by the authorities, none
of them could be seen there during the
day and suspicion is strong against
| them
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Notice to FOstmaster's.

WASHINGTON, July 22--The presi-
dent went to sleep early tonight. Dr..
Bliss says he is getting well as fast as
possible.
WASHINGTON, July POSTMASTER
General James to-day issued the follow
ing: Order No 81. From and after
this date it will be understood by all
postmasters that quarterly accounts
must be forwarded to the auditor of the
treasury for this department immedi-
ately after the close of every quarter,
as required by section 454, postal regu-
lations. Delays in observing the re-
quirements of this section that have
heretofore in many instances occurred,
will no longer be tolerated. Failure
in any case to carry out this
order, unless promptly and satisfactorily
explained, and to be regarded as suffi-
cient cause for the removal from tn
office. The committee inquiring into
the arrangement and efficiency of sew
eral of the bureaus of the postoffice
department win report the bureaus
thoroughly and efficient, but will sug-
gest some changes of duties, of a
number of clerks, and transfer Others
to promote even greater efficiency.
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GENERAL NOTES.

SCALPERs in New York are selling tick
cts to Chicago at from $7.75 to 50.
THE army-worm is rapidly extending
over the state of Illinois, and in many
places many farmers are cutting their
crops in advance of their ripening. A
field of forty acres of oats at Sycamore,
H.. was ravaged in forty-eight hours.
MORMON missionaries have established
a branch of the Latter-Day Saints in the
Quaker city.
THs railway building since January has
brought the tracks of the United States to
an aggregate Of 100000 miles.
CHIEF JUSTICE SHANNON, of Dakota, has
organized at Pierre the first court ever
held in that part of the territory.
SENATOR Ben HUI underwent a sur
gical operation at Philadelphia for an af-
fiction of the tongue.
ANOTHER case of Asiatic cholera is re-
ported from Camden. n. j., the victim
being an aged clergyman.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT has offered
to bear two-thirss the cost of suitable
buildings for a female college at Nashville.
HENRY WILLARD and party have return
ed TO st. Paul from trip to the end OF the
Northern Pacific track.
A FARMER near Albany, Ind, named
Frederick Stoner, having been sued for
5000 for libel, hanged himself in his
barn.
A RETRoGRADE movement in prices has
begun in Wall street, s.. Paul common
selling down to 100. The bull interest is
slowly liquidating.
THE New York legislature has elected
Warner Miller senator for the long term,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Thomas q. Plat.
CALIFORNIA has on hand the largest
amount of wheat ever carried over, it be-
ing place! by the San Francisco produce
exchange in excess of twelve million CEN
tails.
SITTING Bull and two hundred follow
ers surrendered at Fort Buford and were
placed in compartments at the post. The
famous chieftain is sullen and insolent.
In declining to appoint day of thanks
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of Duluth. The passengers escaped. but
four employees are missing.
The Touring mill of Badger & Son, at
East Amboy. H., valued at $4,000. was
fred by lightning and totally consumed.
AT stone-quarry at Slatington, Pa.
two men were crushed to jelly by the
fall of a mass of rock weighing hundreds
of tons.
HENRY NICKHAMMER. an employe of
the St. Louis shot-tower, was precipitated
$50 feet by the breaking of the elevator
rope.
Two buildings of the Paquet cotton
mills at Philadelphia. owned by William
Wood q Son, and valued at 100000, have
been burned.
A FIRE at saginaw, Mich, last
evening, buri. 81 Iearson's saw-mill, a salt
block, and OTTER property, the whole val
ued at $4,000,
Mis-. KEoUeH and her young son, of
Bloomington H., we've horribly mangled
by switch-engine. Her husband is the
engineer at the union mills.
Col r. L. Mort. of Columbus, Ga, 81
years of age, one of the wealthiest men in
that state, was killed by a train in the
Union depot at Atlanta.
IN Dixon Bros wire works. at Hamil-
ton, Ont, an explosion lifted the roof,
which tell upon and injured two men.
Flames then consumed the establishment.
ONE of the shops in the penitentiary at
Columbus, o.. was damaged 81, 900 by fire.
One of the guards was Frustrated by heat,
and lies in dangerous condition.
FLAMES swept away nine buildings at
Red Bank. N, j., valued at $50 600; the
oilworks of Bush q Denslow, in South
Brooklyn, worth $4,000; Rings lard re-
fnery. in ST. Louis, the loss being $50, 600;
block of buildings in East Oakland, Cal,
valued at $40, 900, and the Hackett block
at Ionia, Mich.
CLAUDE SLYTER. editor of weekly pa
per at Greentown, Ind, while standing at
a desk. had every vestige of clothing torn
from his body by lightning, and was so
paralyzed that he could not move mus
Gle. He has completely recovered from
the stroke.
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, 600
| lnDlcted. Inc track was rooted up lOr
| fifteen rods
THE pecuniary loss by the cyclone at
New UIm, Mimi, is placed at $4,000.
The rebuilding of the city will commence
at once Property is being protected by
the Governors guards, and excursion
trains took thousands to the scene N Sun
day.
| AT Chatham Four Corners n. Y. re
| tired officer of the army, Col. Henry w,
Jones, attempted to shoot himself and to
cut his throat with fragments of looking
glass. For some time he has had spells Of
lunacy, and he will now be sent to an
asylum.
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Daring Train Robbery.

KANSAS CRY, July 16.-- Information
has been received here by an incoming
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
train, of a daringly planned and success
full train robbery, which occurred at
Winslow, station on the Rock Island
road short distance east of Cameron.
The robbers were six in number. and
supposed to be under the leadership of
of Jesse James. The men boarded the
train which leaves the city at ESQ p.
NJ, at Cameron. At Winslow where
the train stopped, they stood up in the
aisle of the car with drawn revolyers;
one of bandits, man with
heavy black whiskers, advanced
with revolver in each hand
toward Mr. Westfold, the conductor,
and ordered him to hold up his hands
The conduct was slow in complying
with his demands, and was shot through
the heart by the desperate. One of
the other men then shot John McCul-
Tough, a stone cutter of Wilton juno
ton, Iowa, who turned outward in his
seat, through the head. The men then
went through the train to the express
car and oyerpowered the U. S. express
messenger, bidIte5 murray Vi lills Guy,
who was inundated into opening
the safe from which FIVE thousand dol
lars were taken. The desperadoes then
went to the engine and told the en-
gineer to start his train. This he could
not do on account of the automatic
brakes, and he was at once utilized as
target by the robbers. The engineer
put out the lights in the cab, and
crawled along the foot board to the
pilot, extinguished the head light and
lay down on the pilot. The robbers
made no search for him, but departed.
No attempt was made to rob the pas
sengers The populace about Wins
low rose up en- masse, and armed men
are now industriously seeking the des-
peradoes.
ST. LOUIS, July 16.-The generally
accepted theory out on the road is that
the robbers were professionals. One
of them, the tallest one, was seen in
Cameron all day yesterday, and could
be identified by several people. The
men who had been in search for the
robbers, to-day found where they had
their horses tied in the woods, and
say that in their hurry TO get away,
they did not unite them.
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LONGINGS.
IfIwere a raiIroad brakeman

If were railroad brakeman
Tdholler the stations So plain
That the man who was going TO Texas
Would go clear through to Maine.
I'd open the door of the smoking car
And Id give such mighty roar
That the passengers back in the sleepe
Would all fall out on the floor;
For couldn't afford tenor voice
And couldn't afford to speak
In the sweet soft tones of the Eolian harp
Fer eleven dollars a week.
If / were a baggage
I'd rattle the trunks about;
I'd stand them up in corner
And I'd tear their bowels out.
I'd pull the handles out by the roots,
] would kick the corners in,
And strew their stuffing all around the car
And make them lank and thin.
For couldn't afford TO wear kid gloves
Nor put soft pads on my feet,
Nor to handle things gently, when all my pay
Just Kept me in bread and meat.
If were a railroad conductor
As through the train I'd go,
I'd have for every question they asked
This answer all ready: Don't know"
l d miss connections for lots of men,
I'd run lone passengers past:
I'd tell them twas eight when | knew twas ten
And I'd swear their watches were fast
For | couldn't afford to be civil
When knew eyey man in the load
Would look at my watch and ring and say:
"He stole them things from the road"'
- Etar}ingtou HdrE Ege
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THE affairs of that brilliant, but de-
cidedly erratic institution, the Ladies'
Deposit Bank, of Boston, are gradually
being wound up. At meeting of the
creditors, few days ago, special re-
port was made by the assignee, from
which it appears that there have been
presented, up to date, 937 claims, with
an aggregate face value of $3.50, oOo,
and demands for interest on ninety
seven claims, amounting to 81, 121.49,
making Il grand total of 1886, 1919.
There will be a rebate of S43, 43O.3O,
leaving the net liabilities to date. 1922
So. %, but there are still many more
CLAIMS to be presented. An order has
been issued for the payment of divi-
dend of five per cent. on all approved
claims, but beyond that the creditors
hopes of realization are not particularly
inspiring.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

ASDovER bridge, crossing the Merrimae
river at Lawrence, Mass, which cost $50,
600, was swept away by fire. The struc-
ture was originally built in 1898, the char
ter bearing the bold signature of John
Hancock.
J.. II. DEAN. a son OF banker at Mime
apolis. killed himself with laudanum.
4 HAIL-sToRM inflicted great damage on
property in the vicinity of Brockton,
Mass.
THIRTEEN business places at Hastings.
Neb., were burned, causing loss of 500
600.
FLAMES swept away the Irving house. at
Long Branch, many guests losing all their
effects.
HUNDREDS of windows were broken by
a hail-storm at Brockville, Ont and trees
and fences were toppled over.
A FIRE in RYAN K Cumminsky's tobacco
factory at ST. Louis destroyed the building
and contents, which were valued "a; S20.-
GOO.
THE propeller Winnipeg caught fire and
burned to the waters edge in the harbor
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THE NEW ULM DISASTER.
A Thriving Town in Minnesota Laid
Waste by Cyclone.

MANKATo, July 18.-The people of
New Ulm are organizing for the work
that is before them, and commenced
the rebuilding of their city to-day.
Workmen from st. Paul, st. Peter and
Mankato are on hand, and things are
beginning to assume some system.
The governors guard are on duty pro-
tecting property. Large crowds visited
The scene of disaster yesterday and q
special train from Redwood run.
The following is a partial list of the
killed and wounded, and also the esti-
mated losses of the principal losers !:
The killed in New Ulm: Laura Reitz,
Anna Warner, Anna Leisch and NJ.
Eggart. The wounded Mrs. Warner,
struck by lightning. She was lying on
the floor, with q small babe, which was
killed. The bolt struck her on the
breast and extended to her feet, leaving
the body as black as coal. She cannot
rem ember any event in hcI life anteri7
or to the time she was struck, and
will probably die. Mrs. Reitz, left
arm broken twice; Ida Ieisch, left leg
broken; Swede boy, name unknown,
badly wounded in the neck and head !;
MIS-. Leisch, skull fractured and in
ternal injuries, probably fatal, Jacob
Miller, left leg broken and internal in
iuries, probably fatal; Mr.. Pliffer's
wife and child, hurt in the head; two
children in the same house, internal in
juries, possibly fatal; Mr.. Hoffman's
two suns, injured in the head and back;
Henry Fidler, compound fracture of
the left thigh and arm; Charles
Spooner, hole in the jaw; Mrs. Kate
Wessen, throat cut, laying bare the
jugular vein.
At Cairo (RenviTle county,, four and
one-half miles northwest, John Hol-
land and wife and two boys and one
girl were killed. One boy escaped by
running away from the house. The
two bows when found were eighty rods
from the house, completely denuded.
At West Newton, five bodies had been
found up to the time of this writing,
and many were injured, the names of
whom could not be learned.
The principal property owners
LOSS IN NEW uLM,
as near as can be found cut is as fol-
flows: Catholic cathedral and nunnery,
complete wreck, loss $4,000; Hunts
mann's brewery, completely demol-
ished, loss $4,000 to $4,000; Epple's
block, complete wreck, loss $4,000;
NJ. Mullen's store, badly wrecked, loss
$1,000, house demolished, loss $1,000;
Dr. Weschke. loss on building, IS 600:
stock of drugs, 1900; residence $1,000;
Deusman's brick block. badly damaged,
loss $4,000 Schullacher's brewery, bad
ly damaged, loss 5000 to $1,000,
Esuke's brick store, completely de-
stroyed, loss 5000; public school
building, roof off and part of the north
wall gone, loss $4,000. The Methodist,
Lutheran and Congregational churches
are entirely demolished; the loss rang
ing from $1,000 to $4,000. These are
the largest losses sustained. There is
not building but what is more or less
damaged. In the majority OF cases,
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TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

THE fund for Mrs Garfield has reached
$147,47
Roscoe CoNKLING's presence in Wash
ington is said to be due to legal business
connected with the HUDSON river tunnel,
in which Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
largely interested.
PENSION Commissioner Dudley urges
that Guiteau be tried for high treason, as
no court would overrule his conviction
therefor, and a healthy precedent would
be established,
HARRY FoxwELL, a saloon-keeper Of
Knightstown, Ind, who is serving a life
term for murder, seeks pardon through
the efforts of prominent citizens of Wash
ington and Baltimore. but Gov. Porter
turns deaf ear.
THE grand Jury at Washington has in
dicted George w. Ingalls,, formerly agent
Of the Piutes, for presenting false vouch-
ers. District attorney Corkhill will post
pone action in the case of Guiteau till Sep
TENDER.
THE Ute commissioners report to Secre-
tary Kirkwood that they have selected a
reservation near the junction Of the Green
and White rivers in Utah, on which they
propose TO erect temporary agency build
ings. and they ask for a military force of
ACo AhCh w tiu HI CdiI = AiiS Jul bhClA Piaho'
GUITEAU is represented as having lost
some of his foppishness and a small por
tien of his vanity, but none of his impu-
dence or his egotism, since he has been in
prison. He insists ON being treated as a
prisoner of state, and wishes for better
treatment than the other prisoners.
IN dressing the presidents wound, the
drainage-tube sank to depth of five and
| LII H.. l., -, al,
| assassin's bullet pierced the left side of
| dominal cavity. The patient was not so
| easy last night. having suffered somewhat
from the vigorous manipulations of a
barber.
Mrs DR.. SUSAN Epson, who is the
! Presidents female nurse, is Mrs Gar
| fields physician ordinarily, that lady in
patients, and also to the homeopathic
practice of medicine. The doctors do not
! like her, but she is fat and serene and
holds her way. conscious that Mrs. Gar
| field is her powerful friend
| , A SCANDAL affecting an Arctic explorer
is creating great excitement at Washing
| ton. The lady involved was discharged
| from the treasury department on his ac-
| count, whereupOn he installed her in a
| furnished house. His wife learned the
true state of affairs and made an Enan
nouced call at the residence, her indigna
| ton leading her to tear up some costly at
| tire and pull down some portraits.
/ THE president has taken to reading the
| daily journals, and listens to the kilograms
and letters of sympathy which have accu-
INFLATED since the shooting, in which he
takes the deepest interest. He is well
enough to laugh heartily at the cuts in the
| pictorial weeklIes.
SECRETARY BLAINE received a letter
| from the Austrian Minister at Washing
ton, informing him that the Emperor OF
Austria desired to express his lively sym
| pathy with President Garfield, his indig-
nation at the murderous attack on his life,
| and his sincere interest in the favorable
news of the presidents condition and the
hopeful prospects of his recovery.
| pictorial weeklies.
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Ex-senator Howe, of Wisconsin
who has returned to Washington from
Paris. where he acted as one of the
representatives, of the United States at
the Monetary Conference, says, that
while no definite result has been achiev-
ed by the Conference, it has in the
main been beneficial to the cause of BIZ
metalism. 1t has been shown by the
conference that Europe is by no means
welded to the single standard. The
representatives of Russia, Austria, TIA
". and Spain favored bimetahsm, and
while Great Britian's representatives at
the Conference were the greatest OBJ
stacles in the way of the double stand
ard, they gave indications that they
were not so uufayorable as may be sup
posed. The attitude of Germany, how
ever, was not as favorable as the anti
Conference utterances of Bismari> led
Mr.. Howe and his colleagues to expect.
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giving for the recovery of the president,
Governor Roberts, of Texas, has drawn
down upon himself whirlwind of indig-
nation.
AN heir to the vast estate of Elizabeth
Vanattoe, of Syracuse, has been discov-
cred at Milwaukee in the person of John
Green a ship-carpenteT.
LARGE crowds of people have been flock
ing into Maryyille, Mo-, to witness the
execution of Albert and Charles Z. Tai
bott for the murder of their father
A TELESCOPE comet, having a very
bright centre and family described tail,
has been discovered in the constellation
Augira. by j NJ. Schoeberle. an amateur
astronom 3, who has access to the observa-
tory at Ann Arbor, Mich.
REBUILDING has commenced at New
Ulm, MINI. Henry Willard has given
$1,000 TO the relief fund, 81 900 has been
raised at Milwaukee, and ST. Paul and
Minneapolis have pledged 5000 each.
| The number of deaths by the cyclone has
swollen to thlrty-four.
THE funeral of VIM. II. Westfall, the
conductor who was murdered by the Mis-
souri, train-robbers, took place at Platts,
burg. Two train loads of people were
present from outside points. The de-
ceased leaves a wife and three young chill.
dren.
THERE are sixteen persons in Jail at
Chicago on charge of murder The bail
of John G. Hayward, indicted for the
murder of James Mcmahon, has been re-
duced to $500 He has lain in Jail fol
three years, and was once convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
Killing people in Chicago ought not to be
regarded as a joke.
SITTING BULL, five other chiefs, and
forty lodges are really on the way to Fort
Buford, in charge of Jean Louis Legare
and were expected to arrive inside our
lines Tuesday. Major Brotherton sent out
six army wagons with supplies for the
guests.
SHERIFF. WooD. of Sycamore, H., wa:
persuaded to take prisoner named Ed
ward Hardy TO the BARRIERS. The iail-bird
made dash when the doors were opened
but was recaptured by the sherriff's young
est daughter, who thrust a revolver in hi
| face and forced him to halt
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-28

THE cities of the extreme South are
having their periodic scare over the re-
appearance of yellow fever. Two or
three cases have been reported, it is
not known with how much reason, at
Pensacola, and the heat has frightened
New Orleans people considerably, al
though there has been no outbreak.
Notwithstanding the ravages of this
plague from season to season, little pro
gress has been made in preventing it.
Sanitary science, if not balfied, is hin
dered by disregard of the ordinary laws
of health in every city where Yellow
Jack makes its home.
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THE refrigeration apparatus con-
structed in the basement of the White
House works admirably. 1t supplies
the Presidents room with $1,000 cubic
feet, per day, of pure, dry air at tenn
perature of 81 degrees. The GOODNESS
of the sick-room has an excellent eff
feet on the patient. Another and
more perfect machine will be complet-
ed soon, and will supply cool air to all
parts of the White House.
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AN express train on the Kansas City
extension of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad, eastward bound,
was boarded and taken possession of by
armed men, near Winton Station, Mo,
sixty-five miles east of Kansas City.
After killing the conductor and threat
ening to kill the express agent and 9TH
ers, the robbers broke open the safe in
the express car, plundered it of $4,000,
and decamped. The railway manage
ment offer reward of $4,000 for the
capture of the robbers. The scene OF
the robbery is in the region made no
torious by the outrages of the infamous
James brothers.