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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-27

George Hart, who was to have been ex.
ecuted foI murder at Grand Island, Neb.,
has been repEieved for thirty days. 1t is
claimed that new evidence in his case has
been discovered and it will be looked into.
John r. Polin, who was to have been hanged
at Plattsmouth. Neb has been given stay
of execution by the supreme court, until
Jan. 25 His case was reviewed by the sus
preme court and the judgment OF the cour
below was affirmed
At Atlanta, Ga, Judge Mccoy refused q
new trial ia the Banks county kuklux case.
Five of the prisoners, Jasper Marlborough,
James Yarbrough, Bold Emory, State Lem
ons and Lorick Street, stated in open court
that they were guilty. but that E. II. CIR en-
and Dilmus Yarbrough were innocent. The
men pleading guilty were sentenced 10 two
years. Imprisonment and to paw $500 fine
each. Neal Marlborough Is sick IN jail and
was not sentenced.
Thomas Buford, who in 1879 killed Judge
Elliott of the court of appeals, and was sent
to a lunauc asylum, from which he escaped
| to Indiana, has retur ed to Henry county,
XIV, and is said to have threatened ether
members of the court. He is in desperate
condition, and asserts that the judges who
decided the case against him have some OF
his money. The judges are uneasy.
Asa Baker who was sentenced for life for
murderisg his wife, has made confession.
He arranged q meeting with his wife at the
| spot where the body was found, and fred five
sho int , her body. She revived and asked
him for drink of water. He told hsr the
shooting was accidental, seized stone and
smashed her skull, killing her.
Matthew Zimmerman, who murdered
Sheriff Woods and two deputy sheriffs III
the fall of 1888 at Minden. Neb. has been
sentenced to be hanged on Feb. IL John
r. Polin, who murdered F. ]. Meter on
Oct. 7. 1882, at Portsmouth, and Hart, the
Grand Island murderer are to suffer tie
same fate on Dec. 81.
Georgia Sinclair, keeping house of pros
titution in Omaha, has been arrested for in
ducing two girls, sged fourteen and fifteen,
to have criminal intercourse with men. The
GIRLS are said to be OF resp ctable pareptage.
The yoman's bail was fixed at $1,000 which
she was unable to furnish.
DR.. DuPuy, charged at Jamestown, OAK,
with ravishing Miss Robinson was dis
charged on preliminary examination. A
rev complaint charging rape on or about
the LIST of July last was made out and tie
doctor was rearrested.
Dr. William E. Reynolds, medical exam
liner of the Metropolitan Life, Insurance
company, and a prscticing physician for
thirty wear committed suicid Chicago.
Dependency was the cause.
]. Clark, drummer for New York jew
elry house, was robbed at Waterbury, Conn,
OF a tray containing iewelry of the value OF
| 81 900 to 5000, while exhibiting goods in a
store.
W. ]. Pearson, postmaster of Batesville,
Ark, was found dead at the hotel Barnum,
st. Louis. He was defaulter.
At Lawrence, Kan, slugger Slade fell
into the hands of the police while trying to
paint the town red.
Fraudulent entries are discovered for So
600 acres Of land in Urano county, Tex.
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Household Recipes.

ANcAKEs.-Oatmeal pancakes are
good for breakfast, and may occasionally
take the place of the oatmeal and milk
SO universally served at that meal. Make
them with sour milk, with s0da 10 sweet
EN- it. The batter should be stiff. The
oatmeal unless it is ground very fine,
should be soaked in water all night.
CHICKEN PIR.-Boil chicken tender.
take out all the bones you can; lay it in
dish; sprinkle with pepper and salt
and add little butter. Make a batter
of pint Of flour, pint of milk and four
eggs; pour over the chicken. Bake IN
til the batter is done; make gravy OF
the water the chicken was boiled in; stir
flour and butter together for thickening
serve gravy separately.
STEAMED TuRKEY.-Rub pepper and
salt inside the turkey alter it has been
well dressed and washed. Then fill the
body with oysters. Sew it up carefully,
lay the turkey in large dish, and set
into a steamer placed over boiling water.
Cover closely and steam from two to
three hours. Then take it up, strain
the gravy which will be found in the
dish; have an oyster sauce ready. pre-
pared like stewed oysters; pour this
gravy, thickened Nth little flour and
water, into the oyster sauce. Let il
just boil up and whiten with little
boiled cream. Pour the sance over the
steamed turkey, and send to the table
hot.
DELICATE PUDDING.-Half cup of rice
boiled in one half pint milk and cook
till rice is soft. Add the yolks of four
eggs beaten whites of two eggs. Pour
in dish. Beat the whites of the two
eggs with one-half cup Of sugar; spread
over the top and brown in the oven.
To be eaten cold.
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General News Items.

Galveston, Tex, Special Telegram, Dec.
22.-Wbat purports to be the true inward
less of the movement to recover pay for
Texas slaves owned by Union men is said
to be conversation between two gentle
man, in which one of them said that the
late George Hancock had caused an inven-
tory of bis slaves set free to be made. Out
of this the sensational story was started.
The manufacturing interests report an in
creased dullness IN several sections of Con-
necticut. The Pratt & Whitney company,
machinery manufacturers at Hartford, have
reduced their force from 700 to 500. A re-
duction in time will probably be necessary.
The time reduction is already made at the
large factories.
The Enterprise Machine company of Gen.
eva, Ohio, has assigned to P. w. futile.
Liabilities about $4,000; assets unstated.
Seventy-five men are out OF work. 1t is
thought all liabilities may be met if time Is
given.
Frank HELM, who figured in the double
lover sensation at Baltimore, marrying
Fanny Zimmerman away from young Ham
mond was cousin of Dukes, who killed
Capt. Mutt, at Uniontown, Pa.
An attachment in favor of II. B. Claain,
" TO-, NEW OIhi las bCCh SAohtSN va @
claim of S207, 600 against Donald Gordon, the
failed Rochester IN. Y.,) dry goods mer-
chant.
The governor of Massachusetts has par
doued George H. Richardson, sentenced in
1882 for the murder of his father. The kill
ing YVES found to have been accidental.
Geidenbacb, Schwab & Co., clothing mer-
| chants. New York, state their liabilities at
1919. 1913; actual assets, $2S3, 1885, contingen
liabilities, 1865 377;
The rolling mills of McLanahan, Smith
& Co., and the Holidaysburg Iron and Nail
company have shut down on account OF
| lac K of orders.
Whitelaw Ried says the Tribune, will
| make SI25O00 this year. and would have
| made $4,000 bat for tho reduction IL
| price.
Lockport Il streight, dry goods, New Al
bany. Iud., have failed. Liabilities, $10,-
| 600 to @12, 900, assets, 81 500.
The New Englanders of st. Paul and
Minneapolis celebrated Forefather's Day,
Dec. 2lst in the usual way.
OF 273 members in the Connecticut legisla-
ture, which meets next week, there are but
| twelve lawyers.
The valuation OF the real and personal
property IN Massachusetts is 81, 73l .Z97, 05l
Connecticut savings banks have a total
| of 500, 900 unclaimed in their vaults.
Pr. Jones' private bank at Depere, Wis
| has failed for $50 geo.
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Personal Gossip,

The following Minnesota postmasters
were confirmed by the senate on the 20th
inst: David Day, st. Paul; Wigs U. Roa-
sig, LanesSoro; Joseph II. Wagner, Roch-
ester: James H. Morris, Litchheld; Virgil
NJ. Hall. Glencoe; Wilder W. Hartley Brai-
nerd; Charles w. Dix, Detroit; Charles ii.
Howes, Luverne; Lewis p. Hunt, Mankato;
Peter Ramsdell Ada.
Mr.. William Aston will celebrate the de-
parture of the original Astor from Holland
Jan. 21st by a grand ball, at which silver,
and gold dinner service costing $l75,OO0,
and a $50, 900 wine service will be used.
Hon. William Henry, aged ffty-four, 8
leading Democratic politician OF Erie, Pa,
iron manufacturer, and formerly member
of the Pennsylvania legislature, died the
10Th, after lingering illness.
D. R. Wadely of Atlanta, had all his
money and stocks, $4,000 in oil, on bis
person when he died of heart disease the
10th.
Edward Backus, who failed in Chicago
eight years ago, returned recently all the way
from Brazil 10 pay his debts.
The pope has appointed Archbishop Glib
bons to preside over the Baltimore council
next year.
Judge Foraker succeeds Judge Boadly as
president OF Cjncinnati's University club.
Rev. G. T. Collins, a noted Cleveland
divine, is dead at Workers, n. Y.
Ex-Gov. Lowe of Iowa is got expected to
| live
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Eur and Feather trimmings

Ermine, which, for some inscrutable
reason, has been under cloud for some
time past, is gradually and st ably COM
Tag back into vogue as lining for even
ing wraps, and charming sorties for ball
or opera are made of cashmere, white,
blue or cardinal, with ermine Innings.
White cashmere, ermine lined and
edged with a wide border of white fox,
Is rich and exceedingly becoming.
Swans down is much liked as a trim
ming for cashmere in light shades for
evening dress, and comes, not only IN
tue we'll known white, but artistically
dyed in all the fashionable shades-car
dinal, blue, cream, rose color, etc, TO
match the dress material.
Another Of these feathertrimmed
dresses ia very handsome and expen-
sive. The material is black Lyons vel
vet, the skirt plain but full. The over
drapery, also of velvet forms scant pan
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-27

The extravaganza of holiday gifts in
the cities and larger towns will undoubt.
eddy he checked sometime, but it is
feared not until we have the severes t
financial stringency. No one who has
not had opportunities for observation,
can imagine the lengths to which some
people 90 in this direction. Instead of
mementoes of love and esteem to near
est relatives and friends. expressive but
not expensive. people almost beggsr
themselves for a whole year to meet the
fancied requirements of the holiday sea-
son, one OF which is, gifts to whole cir
Gle Of acquaintances. Cases are known
Of men living in rented houses, on sala-
ries Of 81. 800 a gear, who have been
compelled by this absurd custom to e1-
pend $500 in presents. There is always
an end to snch things.
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In 1873 the legislature of Massachu-
sets enacted law that if a person ac-
cused of murder or manslaughter is ac-
quilted 10y a jury because of insanity,
such person shall be sentenced to con-
finement for life in one of the lunatic
hospitals of the state. Since the passage
of that law but four cases have been
tried in which the plea of insanity was
set up as defense and accepted by
the Jury. In each of these four cases
the prisoner was sentenced in accord
ance with the law, and all four are now
confined in asyIums. The law is be-
lieved to have worked well. So far the
question has not been raised as to
whether or how the pardoning power
can he exercised in such cases. This is
a question of considerable intrieacy. A
person confined nan asylum under such
a sentence it would seem could not be par
doned Of a crime; since the jury aCquit'
ted him of The crime, and he is not SEN
fenced as convicted criminal,
but as a person pronounced insane with
q homicidal mania by the verdict of the
Jury. He could not be discharged as
cured By the asylum authorities, because
he is nv law ordered confined for life.
Ifthere is any legal way to release such
81 person it has not yet been tested.
Hence the law seems to offer complete
security to society.
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over 5000. with an insurance of 80, 00O
This lis the seventh time that Wright has
burned out-three times within the past
four years.
Commodore E. Symonds, OF Clay county,
H., has been arrested in Arkansas by q dep
uty United States MARSHALL charged with
stealing 50 600 pension due his ward. whom
he had placed N an almshouse. he Will
plead guilty.
c. F. G. Collins, past grand master OF all
Masonic bodies OF Wisconsin died at Be.
lott having ruptured blood vesse. at the
fire at the Merrill & Houston iron works
on the 18th inst., of which ne was superin-
tendent.
William Brown, an EnglishIAan living
near Fort Ridgley, nysteriously disap-
peared last August, and up TO this time no
trace can be had of his Whereabouts.
The dry goods store of Spencer T. Brun-
dage, near Muncie, Ind, was burned. Loss,
81, 900; insurance, $l1,000.
A dangerous IS gold counterfeit is circu-
lating in Chicago. 1t contains $3.50 in gold,
is full weight and rings.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Wa nInsron News Notes.

In response TO a call, very large audi
ence assembled at Ford's Opera house or
the evening of the 18th inst, to alve ex-
preston to public sentiment in regard to tbs
trial and execution of Patrick 0'Donrell
The feeling of the meeting was very violent
against England, and one might imagine
that the entire audience was ready to shout
der muskets and march en- masse to the
field of battle. They seemed 10 be thirst
ing or blood. There was no politics in
The meeting, the honors being easy so tai
as the speakers were concerned. They
were ell members of the house-Calkins
and Belford republicans, and Robinson
and Finerty democrats.
The judge advocate general has received
the papers in the cass of Capt. Chambers
McKibbeD, of the Fifth infantry, tried fol
duplicating his pay accounts. The case has
been reviewed, and is now before the sscre
tary of war.
The department OF justice at Washington
is investigating the case of Frank Young
sentenced to be hanged at Bozemen or
the 27th His friends appealed the case.
Ex-senator Yulee who is now building 6
fine residence in Washington, is said to b'
the richest citizen of Florida. His fortune
is estimated al about S3000,O 600.
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bin has been introduced in the house
for the admission of Washington terri
tory as state. This bill may not pass
this session. but there will be a state of
Washington in the near future. The
population Of that territory is growing
with great RAJ dity; and the completion
Of the Northern Pacific railway will
greatly increase the influx of population
next year. 1t is territory rich in pros
pective agricultural, mineral, and forest
wealth, and possessing fisheries of al
most unprecedented value. Puget sound
furnishes the best harbors on the Pacific
coast. The future metropolis of that
coast will probably be located on Puget
sound, whose shores will long be the
seat of the greatest ship building and
lumb r manufacturing industry of that
side of the continent. As a center OF
yust prospective manufacturing interests
it possesses advantages greatly superior
to those which have made San Francisco
3 great city.
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"yyHAT MUS lido 'BOUTIT?''
The Chairman ofthe Committee on
Culture" Offers a Resolution.

The Chairman OF the Committee on
Culture" Offers Resolution.
There was one colored member of the
Florida assembly who was the most lu-
dicrously pompous specimen l have
ever seen. He was short and very chick
set, large, gross features, lips like the
bumpers Of railway car and had the
measured walk of o militia veteran.
Withal he was 50 densely black that the
attorney general, speaking Of him once,
said he believed "the cuss would sweat
ink" This fellow was profoundly I'M
pressed with the belief tn I he was
natural born statesman and political
economist and used TO talk very dlspar-
agingly of Congressman w. D. Kelley, OF
Pennsylvania, considering him, he said,
a very much over-rated man. lie had
an overweening ambition to be chair
man of something or other and became
such a Nuisance with importantly that to
get rid of him he was ut
once made chairman of the committee
on Agriculture. This at once gratiied
his vanity and his ambition, and he
erected an extra spine in his back OF
honor of the occasion, But he was lgno-
rant OF the duties pertaining to his new
n
white friend in whom he had confidence,
aud asked bis advice. Said he; Boss,
Use been 'pinted Cheerman of de Com
mittee on Culture; what mus do bout
il?' "Who," said his friend, who was
we'll known practical joker, you must
offer a resolution to the Legislature.
Culture means gentlemau'y conduct and
clearly habits, and as chairman; OF this
committee it is your place and duty 10
instruct the others i'll these highly inn
portant points"
well, boss said he, 'you git me up
one Jest about right and I'll present 1t to
the Assembly tomorrow" So the day
following, when the Legislature had du.
ly come to arder our sable statesman
rose solemnly to his feet, fixing his
eagle eye glaringy on the presiding oii-
| Ger, with "Mistar Speaker, | has reso-
| luton, as Cheerman of de Committee on
Culture, to offer 10 dis honorable body
of my friends and fellow citizens
Amid expectant silence the Clerk, 20
whom the paper had been handed, read
IS follows:
Resolved, That the practice of mem
bers of the Legislature only washing
their feet once in three months is
rank offence against good morals and n
standing menace TO the purity of the eff
ective franchise.
Resolved, That the Chairman Of the
| Committee on Culture be authorized to
employ an inspector OF feet, at & salary
OF 81 per diem, whose duty 1t shall be to
see that the pedal extremities of the
members of the Legislature are kept in
a condition soothing to the peace and
dignity of the state of Florida.
After the laughter had subsidized our
dusky legislator was informed that there
was no such committee as the Commit
| tee on Culture, but that the Committee
| on Agriculture was the one of which he
| was Chairman, and its duties were strict
| IN confined to the farming interests of
| his state. -Correspondent Philadelphia
| Times
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Sale of a Noted Estate.

Sir Samuel Wilson's purchase OF the
Osmaston estate is quite a Monte Cristo.
ike proceeding. He has not only bought
the property, but also the whole oil the
contents of the house. which were to
have been dispersed this month by 8
sale which would have lasted eight days.
The cellar of wine has long enjoyed 8
reputation in Derbyshire, and the enor.
nous house was furnished by its late
owner in the most costly manner, and
contains a very fine collection of rare
prints and old china. Osmaston lies on
the main road from Derby 10 Ashbourn,
lust ten miles from the county town
The house, which is one of the finest In
the midland counties, is in the Elizabeth
an style, and was built about 1850 by the
late Mr., Osmaston, who is sad to have
spent on it and on the gardens over
1906, 900. Among the exceptional fea
lures Of Osnaston Manor are ventila.
ting tower sixty-fve feet high and 6
smoke tower in the garden $50 feel
high, to which all the smoke of the
house is conveyed by tunnel which
passes through the cellars. The grounds
are very beautiful. The property has
been sold under the Settled Estates act,
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The Casualty Record.

A widow at Joliet, H., named Sullivan,
with her boys kept their savings, 81, 1S9, in
a stocking hid away in old dry goods
box in az upper room. A neighbor also
entrusted the widow with $500. which was
put away in the same place. On the 18th
inst, the neighbor asked for his money,
when it was found that the whole amount
had been stolen.
At12 o'clock on the night of the Isth, a
Northern Pacific east-kound freight, With
engine and ten cars, was, by broken rail,
thrown from the track at Tsnny, a station
four miles east Of Moorehead. The loss ts
the company was considerable. The pas
senger west was delayed five hours.
The loss occasioned by the burning OF
Wright's sash snd deor factory. at Stevens
Point, Wis, Thursday night, the Goth, is
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Art Embroidery.
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NutritiOn in Rlyter.

According to writer in the Times,
butter is the most nutritious article Of
food. The nutritive value of a pound
it is equal to that ofone-and-a-half pound
of flour and three-and- pounds Of
beef. And it is wholly digestible. This
is no doubt the reason why there has
been from time immemoriaP' popular
prejudice in favor of it, and why the
combination "bread and butter" has
been used to signify the chief end OF
our laborious struggles to exist. The
consumption of butter is enormous, and
equals 10000 900 annually. No other
people use as much as we do, which is
an average of more than half pound
weekly for each individual, including
infants, and much more would be used
if it could be produced more cheaply.
The average yield ofbutter is 100 pounds
per COW annually. If owners OF cows
would set to work to improve their stock
it would not be long till the average
produce could be doubled, the cost would
remain the same, very nearly, for 200
pounds as for 100, so that it could be
for fifteen cents pound and the dairy
men do az well as row. This would
enable every poor person to have his just
share and drive the bogus substitutes out
uf the market
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The Gigantic Procession OF Spots
Which Crossed the Suns Disk.

Every body who watched the sun with a
telescope last Summer must have Won
dered at the great belt of spots lying
across the southern part of the disk dur
ing the last half of July. Several of the
spots and groups were ofextraordinary
size, and their arrangement was very
singular. When the belt extended com
pletely across the sun, there was visible
at one time almost every characteristic
form that sun spots present. There was
the yawning black chasm, with sharply
defined yet ragged edges, vast enough
to swallow un the Whole earth, with
room to spare, and surrounded by a
regular penumbral border as evenly
shaded as an artist could have made IT.:
there was the double or triple spot,
whose black centers, though widely sep.
arated from one another, were tangled
as it were in one twisted and torn veil OF
penumbra, or connected by long, shad-
oWy bands: there was the monstrous
spot of grotesque form surrounded
by crowd or smaller spots of even
more fantastic shape, and enveloped in
a broad, irregular penumbra, as bizarre
and wonderful as the mighty sun -chas ms
inclosed IN it; there was the great spot,
often of singular outline. accompanied
outside its shadowy borders by one or
more swarms of minute black s2ecks
pitting the white photosphere Ia the
most extraordinary fashion; there was
the huge group, visible even to the un-
assisted eye, and consisting of a half a
dozen or more large spots intermingied
WITH smaller ones whose number seemed
to defy counting, and enveloped in an
penumbral cloak of becoming amplitude
there, near the edges of the disk, were
the crinking lines and heaped up
masses of facue, the mountainous hy-
drogen flames which marked the places
where the intenseat solar action was
going on, in short there was panorama
in which every variety of sun-spot
seemed to be passing in a gigantic pro-
cession across the disk. And what a
procession it was. Long enough, near
ly, to reach from the earth to the moon
and back again three times!-Pop-
ular Science.