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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
CRIME

JoshpH PARISH, one of the most dam
gerous confidence men in the west has
been captured in Indianapolis.
john BLACK, well-known merchant OF
Pekin, H.. is said to be defaulter FOR $l5,-
600, and to have sailed for Germany two
weeks ago.
FRANK JAMES does not bear up well in
confinement, and is looking pale and ill.
Three indictments are standing against
him. but it is uncertain when he will be
tried.
CITIzEns of Texas, having walked into
the nets set by swindling marriage in
surance associations, are holding indig-
nation meetings to denounce those who
have profted by the frauds.
Four thousand decks of Mexican monte
cards were seized at Laredo by customs Of
hcers. These cards were being struggled
through to Galveston, where they were
worth 800 pack.
THE grand jury Of Madison equity, Illi-
nois, has returned an indictment against
George White (oolored) for the murder
of his house-koeper, Mrs. Annie Garrett,
in January last.
AN alleged swindling concern doing
business at Montreal under the name OF
the Empire Implement company has
come to grief. The farmer was the par
ticular object of the cempany's atten-
tons.
A HOMEMADE shell of lead, filed with
powder and scraps of iron and glass, was
thrown into the tailor-shop Of August
Goekel, in Philadelphia, and exploded as
the proprietor sat at work. but without
injury to him. His wife's step-father is
under arrest for the crime.
In a public school at Leavenworth,
Kan, W. g. Ross, acting as monitor, y
tried to report a boy of Il years, by
the name of Winters, for whispering. Be-
fore his intention could be fathomed the
latter rushed upon the smaller boy an d
plunged knife into his side, inficting a
mortal wound.
ROBERT FORD, who was tried at Platts-
burg, Missouri. for the murder of Wood
Hite was aequitt ed by the jury after for
ty-one hours balloting. He walked over
to the telegraph Office and sent the news
to Governor Crittenden and the chief OF
police of Kansas City.
THE appearance of eight men, alleged
to have been masked, on the track of the
Chicago and Alton railroad near the scene
of the Blue Cut train-robbery is supposed
to indicate that plan had been concoct-
ed to perpetuate another robbery; but,
as the men took to the woods on the APP
proach of the train, the railroad men be-
lieyed they were local tyros in train-rob-
bling, whose courage failed them at the
critical moment.
DR.. d. +. COLLINS, of Minneapolis
brother of Jerome ]. Collins. who perish.
ed with Lieutenant De Long and others
of the Jeanette expedition in the delta of
the river Lena makes specific charges
against Engineer Melville, who. he says,
could have reached the De Long party,
had he made proper exertions in time to
rescue them. MELVILLE" says DIR. Col
Inns, 'sleft De Long and his companions to
to die, and is responsible for their death. y
He promises to prove his assertions by
witnesses and documentary evidence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09

the roof of this building by means of
ladder on the outside, going from
one roof to another. The roofs may be
reached by means of ladders from the
ground from the exterior or by enter
ing a door and ascending by the same
means on the inside, each roof having
a place OF exit. i saw only one flight
OF steps. 1t was very short, consisting
of about half q dozen made of mud,
and was on the outside of house. The
living rooms are generally of pretty
fair size, some Of them being as much
as 90 10 forty feet. Floors are Of adobe
or fiat stone, while the ceilings over the
first floor are supported by heavy pine
beams and are about eight feet high.
A close layer of sticks of sufficient
strength is laid across the beams as sup
port for the floor above. In
the first room entered n
woman was painting pottery previous
to putting it into the kiln for burning.
Their pottery designs Sre chiefly imita-
tons, and they have no pieces contain
ing any mark denoting antiquity that l
could learn Of / watched them pre-
pairing small kiln Of pottery for burn
ing. Their fuel for this consisted en-
tirely of dried cakes of sheep manure.
They rest piece of pottery on three
Jumps of the manure, fill it with small
bits of the fuel, then take another
piece OF pottery and so on, until they
get it all arranged, building in circle
and after completely covering the en-
tire pile with layer Of manure they
ignite it. It takes from one to two
hours to burn it thoroughly, In one
room young squaw was engaged in
combing the hair of an older woman.
l am told they spend much time
in this occupation, being very
proud of their hair, which is long,
black and glossy. In this operation
the girl used small stick about the
size of match to part the hair, and
splitting on it occasionally she brushed
it with rude brush made of yucca, or
Spanish bayonet. In nearly every
house is a trough, in one end of the
living room, and in it are arranged
from three TO five stones for grinding
meal. In one place / saw woman
grinding at the mill' in Oriental fash
ion.
The gardens are beyond the corrsls
and in one common Enclosure, with
each fanily's patch Of few rods par
titioned off by low mud wall. There
is one we'll for the community, it be-
ing about fifteen feet in diameter.
walled up and covered at the top, and
is approached by deep cut or excava-
ton TO the waters edge. From this they
get all their water for household pur-
poses, and much of that they use for
irrigating their gardens, carrying it in
ollas or pots. An old church, built by
the Spaniards some 800 years ago,
still stands, though it is now in the tot
tering stages of decay. 1t is of adobe,
is about 125 feet long by 40 wide, has
a gallery, and in the rear of the altar
there is still carved woodwork surmount-
ed by . figure of the Pope in relief.
The building has outlived its day of
usefulness, and islands there monu-
ment of the zeal of the body that
founded it, while the people it was to
aid in lifting up are. after more than
three centuries, still votaries of the
false gods of their fathers.--NeaO York
Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
Properties Of Nitro-Glycerlne.

1t has a sweet aromatic, pnngent
taste, and possesses the very peculiar
property of curing an extremely vic.
lent headache when placed upon the
tongue, or any other portion of the
skin particularly upon the wrist. 1t
has long been employed by home
opathic practitioners as remedy in
certain kinds of headaches. In those
who work much with it the tendency
to headache is generally overcome,
though not always. 1t freezes at about
40 degrees, Fahrenheit, becoming
white, halfcrystalizsd mass, which
must be melted by the application of
water at temperature of about 100
degrees Fahrenheit. If perfectly pure,
that is, if the washing has been 80
complete as to remove all traces of the
acid--it can be kept for an indefinite
period of time; and, while many cases
Of spontaneous decomposition have oc-
CURED in impure specimens, there has
never been known such an instance
where the proper care has been given
to all the details of the manufacture.
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The Great Hammer Maker.

David Maydole, the we'll known ham,
mer manufacturer, died at Norwich,
Oct. IA, aged rs. His mandatory is
one of the most extensive and his ham
mers Rave world wide celebrity.
Mr.. Maydolo was one of the most re-
markable selfmade men Of New York
State. Years ago he commenced the
manufacture of hammers, in an hum
BILE way, by hand, at Norwich. He
proceeded on the slow but sure system,
and was careful not to allow one speci-
men of his handwork to leave mis- shop
that was not absolutely perfect. The
reputation and demand for his tools
increased rapidly, aud he was soon
obliged to add to his facilities. Wealth
came as reward for his labor and
care in his business, and his goods be-
came 10 demand from all parts OF the
world.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES

FIRE at Hull, Ont, opposite Ottawa,
destroyed property valued at $500,0 900.
A HURRICANE has aim st completely
destroyed the village of Grindelwald,
Switzerland.
L. M. VANCE, a prominent farmer
franklin county, Ark, was accidentally
killed by a runaway team Thursday.
WIN. PoRcUTEAU, superintendent OF the
Gunnell Mine at Central City. Col, was
attacked by huge bear and frightfully
mangled.
AFIRR in the stock-yards Tuesday at
Lexington. Kentucky, destroyed twenty
five short-horn cattle.
JOSEPH BUM, young Detroit man,
got drunk while out hunting and acct
dentally discharged his gun, the load en-
tering his breast. He lived an hour.
Two little children of Curtis Lamp
man, living near Troupsburgh, N. Y,
were burned to death during the a bsence
of their parents from the house, early
Tuesday morning.
THE storm in Scott county, Iowa, Mon
day afternoon, was more destructive than
first reports indicated, the damage being
variously estimated from $60, 900 to $780,
900. On Lake Michigan some loss was
inflicted upon shipping,
By loaded coal-car breaking loose and
running with great speed down an in
clined plane at mine near Williamsport,
Pa, three men who were on the car were
killed and two seriously injured.
THE Park thea in New York, where
Mrs. Lsngtry was to have made her
American debut, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The loss is $3.50, GOO.
Mrs. Langtry's costumes tor The Unequal
Match were burned. Three attaches OF
the theater were severely injured. The
fire is supposed to have been caused by an
explosion of gas.
The Maquoketa 1owa) wooden mills
burned Saturday night. involving loss OF
$4,000. The building at Winnipeg in
which the branch of the Bank of Mon
treal is located also took fire, and 500, 900
damage was done, the bank being the
principal sufferer. w. P. Hays & Sons
sash, door. and blind factory at Dover, N.
H., burned; loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
How a Patag0nian Got Away With
Hermann,
Pail Mall Gazette.

PaiI MAIL Gazette.
The famous coniurer Hermann has
arrived in Paris from Vienna after a
sojourn Of six months in South Ameri-
ca. During performance at the
house of the Governor of Montevideo,
Hermann determined to mystify three
half-savage Patagonians who were pres
ent, and whom no one dared to ap-
proach. He supplied the first by tax
ing an orange from his nose; he aston
ished the second by producing seresi
of plaster from his hair, but the third
seemed overpowered with terror as he
extracted from his nose living rat.
Uttering cry of fright, the Patagoni-
ans withdrew, and the company con-
graduated Hermann upon his success.
While receiving the congratulations
he suddenly discovered that his watch
was gone, and that his chain had gone
with it. His purse to had disappeared,
and the thief had also appropriated his
eye-glass and his pocket handkerchief.
Half an hour afterward the chief of the
Patagonians returned, bringing with
him the missing articles. The savage
from whose nose Hermann had ex-
tracted the rat had emptied the conjur-
er's pocket at the moment when he
was pretending to be overcome with
terror at the apparation of the rat from
the tip of his nose.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09

THE United States ranks first of the
nations of the earth in the number of
postoffices, having 1898 offices, the
next highest being IA $40 in Great Brit
ain. Switzerland leads in respect to
number of offices for each inhabitant,
with one office for every 1913 inhabit-
ants, the United States having one office
for every 1,167 inhabitants. France
and Germany have by far the largest
number of letter-boxes for the recep-
ton Of correspondence. Great Britain
conveyed the largest number of letters
last year, 176, 423, 900, the United
States ranking second, with SAT ,820,O29
letters. The United States appears,
however, to have conveyed nearly
double as many posta! cards and news
papers as were sent in any foreign
country. The United States has the
largest number of miles of railway
transportation, 95, 999, 491 miles. With
respect to gross postal revenues, those
of Germany aggregated 00,229,S19
francs, the United States 176 ,453,627
francs, and Great Britain / 68, 335, 765
francs,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
FOREIGN.

THE Beyof Tunis is very i'll and not
expected to live.
THE victorious duke of Connaught has
embarked at Alexandra for England.
THE emperor of Germany is shortly
going on hunting excursion to the Hartz
mountains.
AN ordinance is before the German
bundesrath prohibiting the importation of
American pork or sausage.
THE Mexican government is consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting leading
features of the q nited States postal sys-
tenn.
AN English officer will command the
expedition against the False Prophet in
the Soudan.
CoocAPILLER, the agitator elected to
the Italian chamber of deputies, was uu-
til recently circus rider, and bears bad
character.
THE neglect of the car of Russia TO
officially congratulate the king of Servia
upon his recent escape from assassination
indicates lack of cordiality between the
two governments.
Arab PAsaA has requested that De
Lesseps be summoned as a witness on his
trial.
ARAB PASTA asserts that since the IN
PREVENTION of the British consul his treat
ment has been materially changed for the
better.
By the collapse Of the floor at Harley,
Eng, on which was eongregated the Sal
walton Army, many members were seri-
ously injured.
Coal owners of West Lancashire ad-
vance0 miners wages 10 per cent. Thi
action practically ends the dispu te in
shire offer GOLFERS an advance of per
cent. TO avert strike.
TRooPs occupy all the strategic points
in Lyons, prepared to act at the first APP
pearance of trouble. If any more explo-
martial law. A quantity of dynamite has
been seized by the police.
PATRICK EGAS, treasurer of the Irish
land league, enters specific denial of the
charge made by the IRISH Times, of Dublin,
that funds of the league had been wrong
fully paid to members of the Irish parlis-
mentary party.
THE newspaper ryan of the socialists
in France publishes the programme of
the party, which falls little short of the
scheme promulgated by Jack Csde. II
aims at the destruction of property rights
and the redistribution of wealth.
In the debate on the rules of procedure
in the British parliament, the premier
denied that the cloture was intended to
interfere with the right of free speech.
Mr.. Gladstone said that the procedure
rules would net be made the subject of
an appeal 20 the constituencies. A diyi-
sion win be taken upon the question of
the cloture.
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Popping the Question by Puming. III

Popping the question at table has
made the name of modest little Mr..
Parr to fill aiche in the histories of
sentiment. He loved Miss Annie
Mari, but had not the courage to de-
clare himself. One day, as he was
dining in her company, a Parmesan
cheese sat just before his plate. She
was opposite on the other side with a
dish of marmalade in front of her
plate. Suddenly Cupid inspired him.
He fastened his eyes neaningly on
her face and said twill you have a
little Parr, Miss Annie? at the same
time handing her the cheese. Size
comprehended his meaning, and re
piled sauciiy: eyes, if you are for
Mari, my lad" holding toward him
meanwhile the dish of marmalade.
They were married soon after, and at
all recurring anniversaries Parmesan
cheese graced the feast.
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The Foes of Russia.
What the Gzsr might de for His EN-
Dire-A Battle of Giants.
i I'll.

Thus Nihilnm, scotched not kill
ed" and Panslavism still living, are the
two disturbing elements at home which
keep Russia quiet abroad. The one is
organized regicide, the other would
push the empire down the precipice of
a long and terrible war. A conflict be-
tween the German powers Iand Russia
would be war of giants. Inventors
have sometimes said that if they could
make war very deadly they could vastly
promote peace. No new device has
tended thatway, but one deterrent has
been deloped. Modern conflicts are
costly beyond all precedent. 1t was
said of old in the Peninsular that it
took the weight of an enemy fired off
in bullets before he was killed. But
the expense of destruction is the great
feature of cur own day. 1t is possible
that from first to last our army In Egypt
did not slay 1000 natives; if so, each
man killed will probably cost us two
or three thousand pounds. The war
of little more than year in France
imposed on the nation debt equal to
what We piled up in the thirteen years
contest with Napoleon. Russian finan-
ces suffered severely from the strain of
the war of 1877. What would be the
cost of a contest with two great EN-
pires, commanding in men, material
and money tenfold resources These
considerations tell al ronnd. Even
Germany has no stomach for a new
contest when she remembered that
even the ransom she wrenched from
France has melted in her Golfers as if
it were fairy gold. But we see in the
great Empire of the North duplicate
causes for caution and quiesence. She
is not rich enough to incur LIGHTLY a
new national debt, and discomfort at
home parafyzeg her policy abroad. Nj
hilism, with its uplifted dagger, hangs
over her. Panslavism would, and some
will, push her on to series of crusades
like which were carried out by the prin-
cess and people in the middle ages.
Yet it is certain that nation with SO
much to do at home has no legitimate
business abroad. Russia is huge es-
tate, undeveloped to this hour because
its rulers have always dreamed lmore
of extending than of improving it. The
dream is shared by fifty millions of a
homogeneous race, who have thirty
more Over whom they exert asupreme
control. Nevertheless, the new Gar,
crowned amid the applause of millions,
might usefully turn over new leaf,
and distinguish himself in history as a
Romanof who, unlike all his ances-
tors, gave Russia breathing time and
ress. If he can do so he will be per-
sonally more potent than his ancestors,
who only embodied the prevailing ma
tional ideas of extended southern en-
pire.
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A PSYCHOLOGICAL ODDITY.
s. Lady Who Could Not Eat In walter
MaIIeys Presence.

Speaking of mind reading and mag
netism, a few days ago q gentleman
recently returned from a European
trip related an occurrence wherein
there surely seems to be something
more than mere whimsicality or cap
rice. A lady well known in Boston is
given as authority for the story, the
incident having happened to herself.
She, some time after the murder OF
Jennie Cramer in New Haven. was
stopping at Boston hotel, and being
among the recent arrivals was placed
at table devoted to those guests of the
hosiery. She was seated at table
directly opposite quite fine-looking
man, who seemed perfectly gentleman
ly and polite.
Upon sitting down to the table the
first day she found she could not eat
any thing, and her appetite always fail
ed her whenever she sat down to the
table with this man opposite her. For
several days in succession, when sit
ting at the table, she felt sick, weak and
oppressed with fear, and was at loss to
explain the singular coincidence. After
thinking the matter over for some time
she found that she always ate heartily
on the few occasions that the polite
gentleman did not sit at the table with
her. She spoke to the waiter, desiring
another table, and explaining confiden-
TALLY the reasons for which she asked
the change. In accordance with her
request she was placed at another table,
and ever afterward ate very heartily,
and with none of the sense of Cypress
iveness which formerly came over her
at the other table. She went away for
some time, and came back TO the same
hotel. The waiter recognized her, and
mentioned the fact connected with
the change of eating places. She had
almost forgotten the affair, and wonder
ed why the waiter called the matter up
again. He asked her if she knew the
gentleman who had exercised over he1
such peculiar influence. She stated
that she had not the faintest idea 81
the mans character, knowing only
that she instinctively shrank from him
The waiter then informed her that hel
companion at the table was none other
than the celebrated Walter Malley
who, with his brother was accused Of
the murder of Jennie Cramer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09

The case involving the title to the
Arlington estate, Washington, In which
the Arlington cemetery is located. is
now under argument in the United
States supreme court. This threatens
to become as tedious and long drawn
out a case as that of Jarndyce and
Jarndyce. Some.of the best legal opinion
is, the court will sustain the decision of
court below, which affrms the title OF
the Lee estate. One of the main points
in the case is that Secretary Stanton
declined to permit the representatives
of Gen. Lee to tender money for the
payment of the direct tax, for the fail
ure to pay which the land was sold,
and through sale the government Sc
cures its only title. 1t was maintained
by Stanton that a rebel could not be
permitted 10 tender the moKey by
proxy, and, as owners of the estate
did not appear the money could not be
received. The United States court in
Virginia has decided in favor of the
claimants. Gen. Lees heirs, it is said,
will not claim the estate, even in the
event of a favorable decision. Their
design is to use favorable judgment
as the basis of claim upon congress
for payment to them of an equitable
sum for the estate. They disclaim any
intention of interfering with the cem-
etery, in which are buried 1000 Union
cad.
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Enisode Of the Rgrptian war.

There was boy there, mere slip
of child--he could not be IL years
old-with the finely cut face and del
icate features which one sometime
sees in the Ottoman, particularly
among the women, and whose striking
effects of beauty are enhanced by
lovely eyes. He had been cut down in
the night from camel's back, on
which he was trying TO escape from
Maxahamah..' The guardsman who did II
is his best friend, for he could not know
in the night who it was that sat on the
beast urging him en-. The wound is
from the shoulder through the bones.
1t would have cut the shoulder off had
it been continued little further. The
little chap must die; but the guards
man has had him fed and attended,
giving him flowers, secured for him
ice and clean linen and all sorts OF
danties. The boy is grateful. He Is
the son of an officer Cor. Manchester
Courier.
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YANKED TO ETERNITY.
An Incident I'm the Lives of Colorado
Miners.
Lara mie IVY. IT. Boomerang,

Lara ME (Wy. IT. Boomerang,
Once when q section crew came
down the mountain on the South Park
road from Alpine Tunnel to Buena
Vista, q very singular thing occurred
which has never been given to the pub
lie. Every one who knows any thing
at all, knows that riding down that
mountain on a push car, descending at
the rate of over 200 feet to the mile,
means utter destruction unless the
brake is on. This brake is nothing
more nor less thana piece of scaniling,
which is applied between one of the
wheels and the car bed in such a way
rs to produce great friction.
The section crew referred to got on at
Hancock, with their bronzed and glow
ing hides as full of arsenic and rain
water as they could possibly hold.
Being recklesaly drunk, they enjoyed
the accumulated velocity of the car
wonderfully, until the section boss lost
the brake off the car, and then there
was q slight feeling of anxiety The
car at last acquired velocity ike that
Of young and frolicsome bob-tailed
comet turned loose in space. The boys
began to get nervous at last, and asked
each other what should be done.
There seemed to be absolutely moth