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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

1t is stated that Senator Edmunds re-
Fuseyi passes from railroads during his
recent journey to the Pacific coast and
return, via the Northern Pacific. Wheth
.er this statement is absolutely truthful,
no one is authorized to saw, but it is GER
tain that on his departure eastward from
St PaBl the ticket agents were surprised
TO SEQ him pay for his tickets like other
people instead of putting pass on them
for his whole party, as many other dis
tinguished statesmen are in the habit of
doing-and occasionally judges of the
highest state and federal courts. II is
claimed and in many cases, truthfully,
that the acceptance of passes by such
persons cannot bias their judgments in
the least, but the people would be better
satisfied if they would, in all cases,
"ayOid the appearance of evil"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

their looks plainly told that if they were
permitted 10 give expression to their
feelings they would say:
"You poor creatures, why do you
waste your days in this busy and bust
ling world? Come and live with us, in
perfect bliss and retirement. and end
your days among real friends IN peace
and happiness
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
TIMES REVENGE.
Walter Learned in The Century.

Walter Learned in The Century.
When / was ten and she fifteen
All, me! how fair | thought her:
She treated me with disdainful mien
The homage that brought her,
And, in patrsniEing way,
Would of my shy advances say:
''Its really quite absurd, you see; :,
He's very much tho young for me.
I'm twenty now, she's twenty FIVE
Well, WE'LL how old she's growing.
1 fancy that my suit might thrive
II pressed again; but, owing
To great discrepancy in age,
Her marked attentions don't engage
Ny young affections, for, you see,
She's really quite too old for me.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

The estimate for the cotton crop Of
1sS2'83 places the yield at 100000
bales, which is ], 500, 900 more bales than
was produced the preceding year.
This estimate is made in spite of the
fact that the acreage of this years plant
ss I.55 less than that of the year before.
This comes in a great measure from
breaking up the plantation system, di-
viding the large tracts into small farms,
where they are much better cultivated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
A Clergyman Knocked Down and
Ribbed

On Thursday night Rev. DIR. E. Thomas
rector of st. Pauls church, ST. Paul, was
going to his residence, Eighth and jackson,
aSout 10 o'clock, when he was knocked
down and robbed by two highwaymen
He had been visiting at Samuel Mayalfs,
on Dayton's Bluff. When he reached John
street. between Eighth and Ninth, two men
jumped on him and rob
ned him of a gold watch and chain, So
and some railroad tickets. The thieves
choked him very severely. and also kic ed
him. He Furnished the police description
of the men Immediately. Capt. Bressett
and Roundsman Hsnft a once settled on
John Koran and Peter Brown, alias Pe-
ter Hansen, as the thieves, and they were
arrested and identified, When Dr. Thomas
identified the man Koran was in the city
hall, standing with group OF men. DR..
Thomas entered and looked at him two or
three times, ard thenpwithodt Knowing any
one present, called ouS That is the man
who robbed ME" Hansen had been out
side and then entered, and Chief Clarke
asked DR.. Thomas if he bad ever seen him,
He said yes. The man denied it, and then
DR. Thomas said, "Yes, saw you last night
when you knocked me down and ehoked
mo -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
Grand Army Of the Republic.

MILwAUKER, Special Telegram, July 81
Special to the Sentinel from Denver, Colo; Al
a business meeting of the Grand Army of tie
Republic this afternoon, it was decided to hold
the next encampment and reunion, IL
1884, at Minneapolis MINI. II is a
victory for The railways leading tc
the Northwest, especially the Chicago, Nil
waukee & st Paul and Northwestern, mas
much as the various railway systems of the
country have been working to have the place
at some terminal poilt on their respective
lines. the business to be derived therefrou
being well worthy of a contest In the
present encampment the Union Pacific
railway has compelled Eastern roads to pay
such tribute as it saw fitio name, there being
no necessity of its cutting rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

OMAHA, Neb., Special Telegram, July 20, r.
at Sidney this morning shooting ARRAY oc
CURED between Henry Raynor and II. Ricketts,,
The trouble arose over the olopement OF
Ricketts, daughter with Haynor some weeks
ago, who married the girl ricketts, this morn
ing determined to separate them and sue
ceeded in getting his daughter away from
Raynor and Was about to put hcr on tiar
aud send her to Cheyenne. Raynor, however
learned of it, rau to the depot and tried to res
cue his wife, and then the two men began
shooting the result being that Raynor had one
finger shot OFF and ricketts, was killed haynol
was arrested
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
Eyangelist Ihllllns, uIeide.

NORTH WEYMOUTH Mass, Special Telegram,
july 27.-kueelinS on the grass as If in
prayer, Daniel b Phillips, the we'll known
Boston evangelist, was found dead beneath a
tree in an open field Yesterday morning. The
body was nude, and was suspended from the
tree by a roDe hastily made from
night SHIRT which had been torn
into ; ribs sni knot ed tightly about the neck
The feet aud Inn : Nera tarrb,y lscefa ed bY
thorns and brambles Philips conn famed of
not feeling well during Wednesday. About
o'clock he retir d. but rh' rtls sfterwsrd came
down in his night shir and passing into the
front yard started on q Tua mp street., ID was
soon out OF sight He was forty one ans Of
age. aud had for years been actively engaged
i'm mi ssiopary work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

confessed to having entered schellerp
store five times at early hours OF the
morning and stealing change from the
money drawer; to having twice entered
the insurance Office of r. X. Ansorge; 70
setting fire to the clubhouse OF Mr.:
Resch's residence and 70 the barn OF
the American express company, all
within the past few weeks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

The income of the government for the
last fiscal year vas 1896, 1888, $50 or near
Nv S head for every inhabitant of the
United States. The expenditures
amounted to $3.50, sos ,08., an increase oil
$l5, O0o, 600 over the gulsr expenses OF
1882, making the surplus revenue S13z,-
no, 433, 1t is very clear that the reve-
nue. ought to be reduced and the expen-
SEES curtailed, bat there is not much dis
position among politicians TO grapple
with the subject with view to radical
reform. There is smoothing that inspires q
legislator with more jubilant feelings,
save, perhaps, the success of HRS OWL
party, than an overlooking treasury. He
likes to have hand I'm its depletion
whether it be for public or private ben
off
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
DYING OF A CAT BITE
The Cat Previously Bitten by Rabid
Dog-Exhausted by Paroxysms.

New York Sun.
A lad named P. ]. Byrnes, sixteen
years old, living at Fort Hamilton on the
Shore road was, playing with the
family cat about six weeks ago, when
she viciously scratched him across his
face from his right ear to his lip, infiict-
inga wound from which blood flowed. The
cats face was lacerated at the time she
bit the boy by wounds received in a
fight with dog. Her subsequent wild
actions caused her to be shot. Nothing
was thought of the boys wound until
Friday last. when Le was taken sick.
He complained OF pains in the throat
and laws, which he described as like
oothache. He rapidly grew worse, oe-
came delirious, and, water being offered
to him. his Jaws became fixed, and foam
appeared on his lips. Force was neces-
sarv to hold him. DIR. Mundy, of New
Utrecht, and Drs. Vo.lum and Spencer,
the post surgeons at the fort. all pro-
nounced it case of hydrophobia.
They gave him hypodermic injections
Of morphine, but the patient grew much
worse, going into paroxysms at the sight
of water, and WIS al times uncontroll-
sble. The wash of the waves on the
.h ore, which reached his ears from time
to time through the open door, irritated
him almost to madness. His hearing
was abnormal. He could detect distant
sounds of the water with great accuracy.
During an interval of rest on Monday
he was removed to the residence of his
brother, Robert Emmonds, in the viii
lage.
On Monday night he was able to talk,
and complained of great thirst, but at
the first sight of water the paroxyems
came on again. Once yesterday he held
glass of water in his hand for some
time. but he had to set it down. Finally
however, he conquered his aversion to
it, and drank few drops. Immediate
ly the paroxysm returned worse than
ever, and it took the combined strength
Of two persons to hold him down in his
bed. At noon he had so much inn
proved that he could swallow some beef
tea. After that he passed into an I'M
conscious state. At 4:15 O'Clock be died
from exhaustion, caused by his repeated
paroxysms. The doctors believe that
the dog that bit the cat was rabid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
CRIMES ND cRTMLN4LS

Three prisoners of note confined in Jail at
Dubuque. Iowa, succeeded in making their
escape. One of them Ed. Williams is an &C
cemplished burglar, who was awaiting tria |
on charge of breaking into a residence in
Peru township and abstra6ting s. 600.
Another, Ed. Beach, was Jailed on a charge
eff counterfeiting at West Union The third
D. Erin. was awaiting tris, for using the
United States mails for fraudulent purposes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

The Financial Chronicle prints some
fgures about railroad earnings during
She first six months of the year which,
so far as they 60, Indicate general pros
perity. In a long list, including nearly
all the principal roads of the country,
there appears, with only twelve excep-
tons, an increase of gross earnings as
compared with the same period last
year. Part of the gain is, Of cour Sc, due
to new mileage, but most oft must be
credited to the absence of railroad wars
and the fnllness of last wears crops.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
CApT. wFBB.s FATE.

HOW THE ADVENTUROUS SWIMMER persisted.
NIAGARA FALLS, Special Telegram, July 20.
When Capt Matthew Webb announced yes
lerday that he would swim the rapids IN the
afternoon, no one believed him. but at few
minutes before 4 o'clock Webb appeared st
tie foot Of the bsnk on the Canadian side,
where a skiff was In waiting with tho veteran
guide. Jack Conway, at the CARA The captain
was entirely nude save for small
breech cloiit Conway pulled as far down as
the Maid Of the Mist Isnding, but did not dare
proceed further After a few words Capt
Webb stood mp in the bow Of the boat and Owed
head first into the water. Then began the
great struggle for life A few vigorous strokes
and he was fairy in the rapids going breast
on, his form mere speck as seen from the
| great bluff above. He went like an arrow shot
| fiom bow The first great wave he struck he
| went under, hut in secund appeared way be-
word Hi forts TO strike out IN swimming
| form were walker than an infants against the
| seething wsEers. The great waves seethed
| over him occasionally, but he always seemed
| r. adv to meet them His great chest was
boldly pushed forward and occasionally half Of
| the magnificent physidue of the reckless adj
venturer vas lifted from the water, but he
BRAvELY KEPT HIS POSITION
| through tall, and seemed perfectly collected
and at lone. In a second more the voyaSer
/ was lost 10 view behind projecting bank, 20
| the mad purney went on safely through the
upper rapids He passed then through the
| ow ones There the waves dash higher,
| aud the trip is IN every way more
perilous How far he went alive no
one will ever knew He Was s5en by
many while passing through tie awful sea,
but ere then he may have been dead His
ody was bbrne onward now rising above,
now sinking beneath the white capped waves.
| 1t was seen to enter he whirlpool. The life
Of the captain was gone, and not even his
body has yet been found. search was
continued until dark, but no trace Of Capt
Webbs body was found The mallstrom some
times gives mp its dead in day; sometimes il
holds in its embrace week until all semblance
of human body is crushed out in the revolv-
ing waters. Capt Webb looked upon it as q
pleasant undertaking. Those who saw him
start looked upon it as certain death.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
One of the Big Rascals Convicted.

In the trial of NJ. T. Polk, late treasurer
of Tennessee, at Nashville the Jury, having
been out forty-eght hours, brought
in verdict of guilty fixing the SEN
lence at twenty years in the penitentiary-
he full extent of the law-snd assessing a
fine or 1886, 540.10. The verdict was un-
animous on the first ballot Counsel for
the defense entered a motion for a
new trial on the ground of the iacompetency
of the jury. The affidavts of two witnesses
were submitted to the effect
that Taylor Afford, one of the
Jury, stated to them or the day he was SUM-
moned thai, If selected as Juror, he was
il favor OF hanging the prisoner; but the
affidavit also stated that this wss said in a
testing way. Polk, was state treasurer of
tennessee for two terms. His defal cation
anne to light on the 5ih of January last,
ard caused cons derable Of sensation. his
pecula atoms had been going on for year or
more; but so s5roitly did he doctor the
hook of bis office that the committee of
he legislature which examined the affairs
IF the treasury early in 1882 was dece we'd,
aod reported everything N proper shape.
Tee legislative investigating committee
found that the shortage amounted to $270
ono. Polk immediately fed to Texas, but
was shortly captured and taken back to Ten
nessee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

Iron is king in Pennsylvania and ev-
erything is made subsidiary to that in
terest. During 1882 Pennsylvania pro-
duced ., 4i9, 256 tons of pig iron, /, l23,-
$50 tons Of rolled iron and S50,90S tons
of iron and steel rails, which was little
mere than half of the product of the en-
tire country. The rise and growth of
the iron business i'll that state is a mat
ter of general interest. The first iron
works were established in 17I6, but at
che outbreak of the revolution there
were only about sixty blast furnaces and
FORCES in that state. After the war for
independence the growth was more rap
id, but water-power was the only motive
agent until about fifty years ago, when
steam-power was introduced into gener-
al use. Not many years after another
great change in the industry was effect
Ell by the substitution of anthracite and
bituminous coal for charcoal, the btu
minous being now generally preferred
for blast furnaces.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

The country is full of weather cranks.
Scarcely neighborhood is exempt from
the iniicticn. They are disturbere of
the pesce. On the other hand there
are some careful weather observers and
students of meterolcsy, who, by the aid
of barometer and other instruments,
are enabled TO he of service to the pub
io. Meteorological studies are interest
.ugapS should be encouraged.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

Exact returns of the nationality of all
the Union soldiers in the late war show
that the native Americans numbered
1923 800 or 74.48 per cent. of the whole.
or three-Quarters as nearly as may be
the Germans 1866, or SIC per cent;
tho Irish IA, 200, or PA per cent; Brit
ish Americans S. 800, or 2.65 per cent.
English 45,J000, or 2.26 per cent, all
other foreigners Sc. 800, or S.7i per cent
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

The tendency to exaggeration in re-
ports of storms, cyclones, and kindred
occurrences, is almost universal, espec
tally when these reports are written or
conveyed by witnesses to those who did
not see what IL described. The &C
counts OF terrifying scenes may he strict
sy true. but when it comes
10 actual damages they may be mon
strous exaggerations as WAS the case in
the cyclone of Il week ago. Under a
clear sky and bright sunshine careful
enumeration of personal casualties and
loss of property, showed a wonderful
shrinkage from estimates made amidst
the lerr0rs of the scene or Immediately
thereafter and this is almost univer-
sally the case. OF course the actual loss
of life, and injuries to person and prop
erty are to be deplored but exaggeration
does nothing but harm to all concerned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
suicide of a Congressman's Son.

Washington Special: Information was
received here the 18th that A. W Lord. Jr,
son of sv-Conertssmen Lord, of Michigan,
had committed suicide by jumping from a
steamer eighty miles below Washington, on
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

horse shoe; A. r.. spaulding, Lake City,
Mimi, railway he Jessie Walrath, Racine,
Wis, steam engine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
Pertaining to postotfices

The following postinasters have been com
missioned:
Iowa William w. Lewis, Glare; Martin
Olsen, Dayton; Lorenzo d. Woodmonsee,
| Wheeler.
Minnesota--E w. Newell, Garter; w. w.
| Woodruff, Merriam Park II. NJ. RAmstad,
| Ramslad; William Conraby, DanvIle.
WisConsin-John Chalvin, Hart.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mcclellan, Round
| up.
Dakota-M. b. Brown, Hannafor1; Rob-
ert Timmias, Mittsburg; Anna l.. Garfield,
| Kandiotta.
Postoffices Observation-Disclosures; Butte
county; Glare, Brockings county; Clifton,
Sully county; haywood, Hanson county;
Roselyn. Day county, Hannaiord, Benson
county.
Postoffices discontinued - Minnesota;
Green Lake, Kandiyohi county; Thaten,
Goodhue county
Postoflice name changed-fowa: Dale
City, Guthrie county to Dale Wisconsin:
Caldwell Prairie, Racir county to Canweli;
Toland Prairie, Washington county to To
land; Minnesota: Slate Elbow Lake, Gran t
county to Ramsted
Special service disc )ntinued- Wisconsin ::
Dallas, Barron county.
A Desperate Encounter With Bur
glars
A special from Wisconsin Junction, Wis,
says: Lorenso Crandall, keeper of the farm
ers' cooperative store and postmaster of
the village, was attacked at
his home on the % inst,
by three masked men, who rushed into the
sitting room while he was lying on the sofa
talking to bis wife. The men carried
cooked revolvers. and ordered him to throw
up his hands Crandall was lying on his
back with his hands in his pockets, in one
of which he carried revolver Throwing
throwing himself upon the floor he
whipped out his pistol aud fired at the lead
er, shooting him through the right breast.
One of the assailants fired ia re-
turn, the ball passing thr. ugh the finger of
Crandslls left band. The light was put
out by the robbers, who fired half q dozen
shots one ball Embedding itself in CrandalPs
right wrist They fed, but Crandall followed,
and being Joined by friends he ran down
the leader of the gang, who died as he
seized bin from the effects of the wound
he received in the house. The others es
capped. Crandsll was presented with
purse of money by the citizens and res
olutions applaudng his bravery were
passed to-day at a mass meeting. Gram
dali had only $50 in his possession
when attacked. The burglar shot is I'M
known
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

Grace Greenwood Is writing biography
of Victoria.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02

About o'clock on the morning of the
PSI an attempt was made by two men to
ente the sore of Hosee Bigelow at Grove
Lake, MINI. The burglars tried both
tlred We shots from his revolver, which
caused the would. be robbers to run.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-17
TIRED OF THE STRUGGLE.

The Suicides of Day as Reported by
Northern Newspapers.
]. F. Miquet, New Orleans barkeeper,
the ceiling. Illness was the cause.
Michael Wevelling, aged 70, put an end to
his life by shooting himself over the left eye.
He lived in St. Paul, and was in bad health.
Charles Dougherty entered shooting gal
lery in New York, seized large target pistol
and blew his brains out. The cause was a
love scrape.
A. man supposed to be Samuel L. Wright, a
Southern planter, committed suicide IN New
York by shooting. He had lost fortune in
speculation.
No reason is known for George Cookron's
suicide at Evanston, Ill. He shot himself six
times and then, not having struck vital part,
hanged himself
w. Smith, prominent cotton manufacturer Of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and he justified the
statement by taking his own life.
Lane S. Dennison, ID years old, shot him
self dead at New London, Connecticut,
because not permitted to GO West and scalp
Indians. His mind had been affected by dime
novels.
Life was rendered uncomfortable for Douglass
Martin, prosperous and respected farmer
near Benton, Illinois, by two unfortunate mar
riages, followed by divorce and repeated
! separations.
81 did not care to live" whispered Annie
Lindsay when she was found on the floor of a
New York kitchen, bleeding from self
inflicted wound in her throat She was "a
years old, of comely appearance, dress
maker by vocation, and had grown Respondent
because unable since Christmas to obtain
employment.
When the two months bride of Simon B.
Paige returned from church in Davenport,
Iowa, she found her husband lying dead with
a bullet hole in his head and pistol in his
hand. He was wealthy lumberman and saw
mill proprietor. A year previous he obtained
unpleasant notoriety by refusing to pay SIS COX
reward offered by him for the rescue Of the
first Mrs. Paige from burning building
The rescuer, fireman, susd Paige and a YER
dict was rendered for the plair tit. 1t is sup
posed the matter weighed heavily on
Paige's mind that he decided it were better tc
die.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-17
Talk of an Extra Session.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
WASHINGTON, March II There is a re-
port current that pressure is being brought
on the President to have him call an extra
session Of the Senate, to consider the Mexican
treaty. 1t is said that consideration of the
treaty was postponed at the last session for
reasons other than those given to the public.
Those who are most interested in having the
treaty ratified are, it is said, urging the Presi-
dent TO call the Senate together at an early
day to consider it. 1t is also said that the
President views the matter favorably Sew
eral Senators were seen to-day about the mat
ter, and they do not think the report is well
founded. tits known that President pro TEN
Edmunds, of the Senate, has made all his ar
engagements for a lengthy trip to the Pacific
coast, and will soon start on this journey. II
there were anything in the report he would
likely know II, and would not leave the city.