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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

France and England on the question Of har-
boring active anarchists.
The funeral of AmaIie Haizinger, the ac-
tress, occurred at Vienna Wednesday. The
crown prince and princess sent wreaths, and
the streets were thronged with people.
The London News believes the government
viii not use any public funds for the purpose
of representing England at the New Orleans
centennial, but viii refer the matter 10 the Man
chester chamber of commerce.
At the Copenhagen medical congress DR.
John S Billings, assistant surgeon general OF
the United States army, in behalf of the Ameri-
can Medical association, invited the congress
to hold its next meeting at Washington In 1881
The anarchists of the British steamer Eliza
beth, arrested at 0ttensen Saturday were
handed over to the Russian Police. Socialist
pamphlets and papers were found in their
chests. They refused to make any statements
aud treated their arrest with cynical apathy.
The result of DR. SchIiemann's excavations
at Tiryus, turns out to be very important The
buildings he has discovered consists of pal
ace and two temples. The arrangement, size
and position of these agree in the most re-
markabie manner with those of the temple and
palace of the second prehistoric city at Hissar-
ter
When Cardinal Newman left the church of
England he took with him several of his young
er Pensioners, among whom was Mr.. Arthur
Wollaston Hutton soon sfterward ordained
priest Mr.. Hutton, however, has not been
able TO remain settled in his new faith, and
has been lately grayitating more and more
toward agnosticism, until finally he has re-
nounced the church of Rome and left the
service of the oratory and has joined the flock
brought together by the Rev. honoured. Con-
way.
A Vienna correspondent Of the Telegraph
says: One subject which will occupy the at
tention of Kalnoky and Bismaek at their APP
preaching conference will be discussion of
the German colonial policy. Bismarck OPP
poses the constantly increasing tide of emgra-
ton to America. American institutions, he
says, are not in harmony with those of Ger
many, and emigration to that country adds
nothing to Germany's wealth, while it tends to
undermine the traditions of monarchy. Bis
marck hopes to open new field for colonial en-
telprise, and so prevent the ultra independent
Anglo-Saxon element from absorbing the Ger
man element
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
The Criminal Calendar.

AT Miles City, Druggist Thompson of Sar
Francisco, put an end to life Of dissipation.
Neal Murphy, the Montana stage robber, whc
escaped and was reeaptured, was taken from
the Montana jail to escape the lynchers.
David Toode Of Keokuk committed suicide
Sunday, by using a revolver, which was dis
charged with the barrel in his mouth. The ball
lodged in the brain, but death did not ensue
for two hours
Peter Foley who was arrested at Boscobel
Wis, on Wednesday, on the charge of clipping
with fourteen-year -old girl, shot himself il
the lookup at that place. There were two bull
let holes through his temple
City Councilman Henry A. Haworth of Phila-
delphia has disappeared and investigation Of
his accounts shows an embezzlement Of $50,
COZ from trust funds of friends, his mother
and brother being among his victims.
J. G. Aydelotte, one of the most highly es-
teemed citizens of Newton, Iowa, who had beer
in poor health for several months and partial
" deranged for several weeks, from the effects
of a light sunstroke, hanged himself.
Moses L. Cohn, the junior member of the
firm of Louis Cohn & Son, of Chicago has
been held to the criminal court in bonds OF
$4,000 for counterfeiting promissory notes
and for forgery. Cohn is son-in-law oil
Michael Englemann, the Saginaw millionaire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Struggle With A Wolf.

For many years the trapper Cheney
was Feature" of the northern New
York wilderness. Every tourist
through the woods reckoned his ac-
quaintance as one of the necessary adj
ventures andall who returned from Lake
Golden and Mt. Tahawus brought home
choice collections-or collections-of
forest stories related to them by DAN
iel Boone of the Adirondacks. Cheney
was man who knew how to face wild
beast and never feared to do so-wheth-
er his antagonist was an angry moose,
or wildcat, panther, wolf, or bear.
One of the many close encounters out
of which he narrowly escaped was a
winter fight with a she-wolf which his
first shot failed to kill.
AS he came upon the animal, raven
Gus with hunger, and houndering
through the snow, he raised his rifle
and fired; but the wolf made a spring
as he pulled the trigger, and the ball
did not hit vital part. She then
rushed at HIM furiously.
He had now nothing but an empty
rife to defend himself with, and instant
ly clubbing it, he struck the wolf on
the head So desperately did the
creature fight that he broke the stock
into fragments without disabling her.
He then seized the barrel, which, max
ing better bludgeon, told with more
effect. The enraged animal seized the
hard iron with her teeth and endeavored
to wrench it from his grasp-but it was
matter of life and death with Cheney,
and he fought savagely. In the mean
time the wolf, by stepping on his snow
shoes as she closed with him, threw him
over.
He then thought the wolf would con-
quer, unless he could make his dogs,
which were securing the forest, hear
him. He called loud and sharp after
them, and soon one-a young hound
sprang into view; but no sooner did he
see the condition of his master than he
turned in alright, and fed into the
woods.
But at this critical moment, the other
hound burst in with shrill, savage cry
and wild bound upon the struggling
group. Selling the wolf by the neck,
he tore her fercely from his master
Turning to grapple with this new foe,
she gave Cheney opportunity to gather
himself up, and fight to better advan-
tage; and soon. by well directed blow,
he finished one of the severest battles
he had ever had with wild beast.
After that lesson Cheney bought a
pistol and took good care not to go
hunting again with single fre-arm
barrel, and so run the risk of making
himself defenceless by missing shot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

The gold reserve in the United States
treasury is drained down very near to
the legal limit of the reserve; and when
that is reached the Treasurer must make
his payments in other funds, which
means silver If the Sub-Treasury
here has to pay its balance at the clear
ing house in silver the banks must take
it; but it has been said that thirty days
thereafter they would suspend gold pay
ments. The fear of this has already
given rise to speculative contracts to
call" gold at given figure for the
rest of the year. As soon as the banks
suspend gold payments, gold commands
a premium, and deprecated silver be-
comes the common standard currency,
A "bank president, name not given,
is quoted as saying: There is more
danger from discussion of the falling
off of the gold in the hands of the Treas
urer, as it is likely to cause panic, than
from the operation of any law of finance
it may set in motion. He referred
to the propensity for boarding, which
inevitably follows the appreciation OF
metals over paper or one metal over an
other used as calculating mediums,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
The Awfu, Taste of Human rlesh.

One of the junior officers ofIthe Thetis, talk
ing to-day on board the ship of the charges
against the Greedy party, said; "Here, ON this
very spot, one of the survivors held us through
all one night, telling, if words can tell, of his
first taste of human flesh. He would give
years from his life to forget it; but he said
that the first taste, the sensation of having
between his teeth the flesh of one who
had once been his friend, was with him
always. Waking or sleeping, he seemed
to feel his lips pressing the smooth fiabby
meat that must be choked down somehow
if he would live. And then the inhuman, saw
age way of getting it, Each feeder upon such
food must cut off his own shred5 of flesh;
no friend could be found to perform this
horrible office Every man, if he would eat
must of necessity be his own butcher, and
these cannibalistic orgies, these midnight
feasts were secret The little beaten paths,
worn smooth, between the graveyard and
the wretches' tent. told its tale. But every
dweller in that tent shut his eyes and
refused to see. Body after body was stripped
of flesh, but none of those that trod that little
path dared speak of this. No man asked
question at the too common sight of starving
wretch creeping up to the only fire at midnight,
carrying in his hand strip of flesh. As he.
thrust it into the flames on the end Of a
pointed stick, no one OF his companions says
a word, and when tearing the smoking flesh
with his teeth, he lies down, and another of
the would-be sleepers rises up and goes silent
ly down that mysterious path, knife
in hand, it is easy to guess his horr1-
BILE purpose. The after effects of
these chastity feasts was as awful as the de-
scent upon the mangled corpses. The mere
thought of what they had eaten brought on
nausea, and in their weak state the stomach re-
fused to retain this human flesh Is it won
derful that these men will carry that sensation
of chewing human flesh forever? i hope and
pray may forget it when die was the only
prayer the wretehed cannibal could truly utter.
1t was his heaven of heavens TO forgetthat aw-
full sickening taste. =
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Another Greeley Story.

Gen. Sheridan tells this story on
Horace Greeley: II was stationed al
New Orleans when Mr.. Greeley came
there on his tour when a candidate for
the presidency. The old creole resi-
dents gave him dinner, and to make
it as fine an affair as possible each Of
the hosts was laid under contribution
for some of the rarest wines In his eel
lar. When dinner was announced and
the halfshell oysters had disappeared
the waiter appeared at Mr.. Greeley's
seat with plate Of beautiful shrimp
"You can take them away" he said to
the waiter, and then he added apologet-
ically to the horrifed old French creole
gentleman WHO presided, 81 never eat
insects Of any kind !" Later on soup
was served, and at the same time glass
of delicious white wine was placed at
Mr. Greeley's right hand. He pushed
it aside quietly, but not unobseryed by
the chief host. ado you not drink
wine?" he asked mo, answered Mr..
Greeley. Il never drink any liquors.
"Is there any thing you would like TIC
drink with your soup?" the host then
asked, a little disappointed IL you've
got it, answered Mr.. Greeley, and il
isn't any trouble, I'd like to have glass
of fresh buttermilk." "Mon DieuW
said the host afterwards in his broken
English, NE idea of electing to re pres
idency man yot drink buttermilk vis
his soup"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

An interesting series Of maps show
ing the cholera routes in the different
epidemics beginning in 1917 is printed
in the Chicago Tribune. The epidemic
of 1917 did not reach this country, but,
beginning near Calcutta, it travelled
about the Eastern hemisphere for six
years, disappearing in 1923. The epi-
demic of 1926 started in India, and
eventually reached this country, APP
pearing almost simultaneously in New
York and Quebec; followed the water
routes westward to Buffalo, Detroit
and Chicago; went down the Missis-
sippi, and did not disappear until 1882.
The epidemic of 1912 reached this coun-
try by New Orleans, and did not dis
appear until iS49. The epidemies of
1865 and 1871 we,eof shorter duration.
Both reached this country, the former
appearing in New York and the latter
in New Orleans. There has seldom
been visitation of cholera in any city
that did not leave large number OF
victims. Many citizens do not record
the deaths, and statements Of the num-
Der cannot be made DIR John G..
Peters, of New York makes this state
ment: In 1882 there were 1886 deaths
from cholera in New York, $50 Ii Al
bany and 5000 in New Orleans. In
Is49 67S persons died of cholera in
Chicago, 953 in st. Louis, 1,400 IN
Cincinnati. In 1866 /, 200 died in New
York, 800 in Chicago, $500 in ST. Louis,
400 in Cincinnati, 600 in Nashville.
These figures are small, however, when
compared to the ravages of the disease
in India In Calcutta, during one sea-
son Of cholera. the lowest number Of
deaths per day was ., SOB, and the high
est number 6, All.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

Florence Mitchell, the seyenteen-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Mitchell of
Maytield township, three miles west of Svra-
cuse, Ill, was found about $50 o'clock We'd
nesday by young lady neighbor, lying in the
cellar in pool OF blood, her clothes on ire and
a bulet in her brain The murderer was Lou
is Taylor, hired hand twenty EIGHT years of
age. He had lived there ON and off for couple
of years, and there had never been the slight
est attachment between the murderer and his
victim A posse of nearly two hundred men
were soon in search of the murderer and found
him in the creek, mile away, with bullet in
his heart. The only theory for the killing is
that he made improper advances, and being re-
pulsed, threatened to kill her; that in her
flight she went through the cellar and was shot
before reaching the outside door. Then, to
cover his crime, he set fire to her clothing and
fed The theory of the suicide is that he
feared the vengeance of the mob which he felt
sure would soon overtake him
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

Money never was so cheap in London
as at present. 1t was loaned a week or
two ago at one per cent. per annum,
and the bank of England reduced It's
rate to per cent. per annum. No other
State bank, except the bank of France,
has ever lowered its rate to 2 per cent.
and the bank of Trance has only done
so on two occasions, in 1877 and fin 1879.
But the present is the tenth occasion on
which the bank of England has reduced
its rate to per cent. level. -Four
times in the ten, the two per cent. rate
lasted from 37S to 4S3 days, but gener-
ally, only from 30 to 60 days. Two per
cent. not only means that the demand
for money is small, that the prices are
low, and that speculation is at Il stand
still; it means also that there are many
securities which bankers have for the
time closed their doors against, as, for
instance, they have now done against
American and Canadian railways.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Market Reports.

ST. PAuIA-Wheat, No hard, IS; No. 9, roc
Corn. No ,. SIC. No. 3, 4Sc
Oats, No. 2 mixed. 2Sc; No. s white, &c
Barley. No 2. soc No. extra, 45c. No 8,
ace
Rive. No. ?, sic.
Baied Hay, wild, $500; timothy sl2,Od
Eggs, 12(dlSc
MILWAUKEE, Wheat, No. 2, 7sc
Corn. No =. rejected, 49t05oc
Oats. No. 2. white, new, 34c; old, SIC
Rye No. Lee
Barley. No. 2 old, 55c.
Mess Pork, s155Q
Lard. $40
Butter, choice creamery, 20G22c; fair to
good, 17(d19c: best DAIRY, l4dl5c.
Eggs. 135Stdl4c.
CH1oAeo-wheat, No. 2 Chicago spring.
7S(d7SLe
Corn sos <ta5lslc
Oats, 24ss4 Csc
RIVE SIC.
Barley. Csc
Flax Seed. s1.S5.
Pork. s1S50CGsIa00
Lard. s7.40{asT45
Butter, creamery, II7@ls dairy. l4sla11c
Eggs, 13t9l4c
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Recnnt fnnroa shnur thot .

Recent figures show that the con-
sumption of liquor in the United States
has far outstripped the growth of pop
ulaion. The number of gallons OF
liquor consumed yearly has increased
as follows: 1910, 71,000,0O0; 1850,
$4,000, 900; 1860, 2O2, 900, 900; 1870,
293, 900, 900; 1880, 5000, 900; 1888,
655, 100000. While the population has
only trebled in the last forty years the
consumption Of liquor is nearly ten
times greater than it was in 1910, and
the amount of money expended in its
purchase shows a still greater proper
tional increase. The annual expendi-
ture for liquor now exceeds $500, 900,
600.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
Washington News.

A number of bank presidents throughout
the country have written the postmaster gen
eral asking him to exclude Thompson's Bank
Note and commercial Reporter from the mails
He declined
The treasury department has informed the
British minister through the department Of
state the Patrick Carney, now detained or
Wards island, n Y, as pauper, viii be sent
back to the port from which he sailed Car
ney is the person concerning whom the Brit
ish minister wrote the state department few
days ago.
A report has been received at the treasury
department from the assistant treasurer al
New York showing that the total receipts at his
office during the fiscal year ended June 30
1884, we're s697, S13 167, and the total disburse-
ments during the same time period s699 52J.
1877 The balance on hand July !, including
s125, 800, 902 left over from the previous fiscal
year, was s129, 679, 713.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

Life at the fashionable watering
places is said to be more demoralizing
tochildren than to many parents. There
are many ridiculous accounts of their
society pretensions. Little ones of eight
or ten, or even younger, are dressed in
foolish fiimsy costumes to crafty their
mothers vanity, and are allowed to join
evening parties and share all festivities
with their elders. It's not strange that
they lose the brightness and freshness
OF childhood and become self-conscious,
assertive and prematurely developed.
The same may be said in degree, OF
hotel life generally where children are
often petted to death"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Personal Points.

Camille Farcy, editor of La France, is dead at
Paris.
Eli Kinney, one of the Oldest Cincinnati
bankers, died at Newport Ky.
Senator Sherman is almost always sure of
the odd trick in whist, if not in politics
Ben Buffers income is 500, 900 per annum
Newburyport gave Greedy rousing welcome
home.
D. F. Sullivan, who died recently in Pensa-
cola, left s70O, 600 in government bonds to his
two daughters.
Mary Heeyburne Of Shantytown, New York,
a seventeen year-old girl, has rescued seven
persons from drowning.
William E. LefingweIl died at Lyons, Iowa,
aged sixty-three. He very prominent in
the history OF Iowa; was president of the sem
ate in 1858, and afterward judge of this dis
trict He was widely celebrated as a criminal
lawyer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

Rev. Samuel W. Dixie, an able writer
and cautious thinker, has an article in
the August Andover Review, in which
he discusses the decay of religion in the
country towns of New England. 1t
may be news to people generally that
religious decay has occurred in those To-
ealities, but we have the word of this
popular divine as guaranty Of the
fact. In a note on one of the pages of
his essay ne makes the statement that
the non-church-goi class in the rural
places of New England exceeds the
same class in the great cities. Proba-
bly, Mr. Dixie thinks that church going
and religion are the same thing. Mr..
bikes explanation does not explain as
fully as could be desired the cause of
the backward revolution 1t is, in brief,
the growth of the manufacturing Will
cages, the departure of country youth
to cities and large towns, and the
multipIieitv of sects,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Record of Casualties.

At New York, the Adler veneer works and
Harris perforated chair seat factory burned.
Loss. $4,000.
Milten J. Rowe, brakeman on freight train
running between Mitchell and Chamberlain,
Oak, died at Mitchell from injuries received
on the side track at Yorktown.
Mrs. Andrew sminehart and Mrs. Frank
Shaeffer, while out pleasure riding, were run
into by a passenger train on the Lake Shore
railway, two miles east of Elkhart Ind, and
were killed. The horse was all cut up and
the buggy smashed to pieces.
A Houston special says: An incendiary fire
at Lampass destroyed the business portion of
the town; loss not estimated ]. T. Malone,
banker, and s. d. Chittenden, merchant, were
the heaviest losers. The town experienced a
fifty thousand dollar blaze couple of weeks
ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21

The canvass in Maine does not con-
Germ simply the State and Federal tick
cts. The question of an amendment to
the constitution absolutely prohibiting
the manufacture or sale of intoxicating
liquors is also to be voted on in Sep
TENDER. A prohibitory law has been
on the statute book for a generation,
but the principle has never been for
mally Incorporated in the constitution.
The prohibitionists attach great impor-
tance to the insertion of such formula
IN the organic law of the state, and the
amendment will undoubtedly be adopt
oil
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Murder at clendenin. Mont.

Fort Benton, Mont, Special, 18th; A terri
BILE murder was committed at Clendenin, Barker
Murane was suspected by Pete McDermott Of
being too attentive to his wife. McDermot
accused him of il, and the result Of a confer
enee on the subject seemed to be amicable tC
both parties. This was on Friday morning
In the evening McDermott sentfor Murane and
his sister to come to his house Directly upon
their arrival McDefmott fred four shots into
Murane's body, killing him instantly The
deed was committed in the presence of McDer-
motifs wife and the sister of the deceased. The
murdered man only said. 'tHe gave me q
poor show for my life" The murderer has
fed, and up to this time has not been cap
fttra