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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
washington Gossip.

The amendment to the sundry civil bill was
reported to the senate, providing $4,000 for
the exploration of Alaska
MIR. Corcoran, the millionaire Washington
banker. treasures among his choicest posses
sions the shoemaker's sign Of his father
The Argentine ministers will give grand
reception Monday evening next In honor or the
seventy fourth anniversary Of the national in
dependence Of the Argentine republic.
The house committee on public health re-
port it would be unwise to confer upon the
national board of health the management of
quarantine and epidemics, but be best to have
it where ii now restc, under charge OF Dr.
Hamilton.
Judge Poland of Vermont, who has always
worn blue swallow tailed coat with brass
buttons, during the twenty years or so that he
has been in public life, and has been known as
'sBrassmounted Poland" has created a SEN
sation in Washington by appearing IN Prince
Albert coat of the latest and most fashionable
cut
Secretary Folger has issued the 12Sth cell for
the redemption OF bonds, s10,oOOO0O per
cents, Maturing June 80 Following are the or
iginal numbers $50, No 345 to 403, both inclu-
sive; s10v, No. 2, 796 to 1857, and No. 9,4!9 to
1888 to q, s12; $1,000, No 21,1T1 to 22,075.
Total, sl0,000,000
W. W. Corcoran has asked congress to erect
monument to Pierre LEnfant. the French
engineer who laid out the city of Washington.
Although congress appropriated money to pay
him for his services and gave him piece OF
real estate within the city limits, this patriotic
Frenchman refused to accept it and the work
of beauty was to him work of love-
Mr. Nelson presented to the president the
name of W. W. Griswold of Morris, Mimi, to
be governor of Alaska In addition to his own
recommendation, Mr. Nelson also presented
letters of Senator'S Sabin and Mcmillan and
Representatives Washburn and White earnest
ly endorsing the nomination 1t is understood
that there is q large number Of applicants for
the position, some Of whom are very prominent
men. Mr. Griswold was a colonel of an In
diana regiment during the war. He was pros
ecuting attorney at Morris, also county attor-
ney and county auditor of Stevens county, and
is very prominent Republican in Western
Minnesota. He is highly educated man, with
liberal attainments.
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miscellaneous news Notes.

Charleston, W. Va, has secret lynchine
society.
Maine fishermen will pack s2,ooo,ooo worth
of sardines this year.
There are 4,O00, 600 farms in the United States
valued at $4,000, 100000
Gen. Grant has mortgaged his property Al
Hillsboro, Tex, to W. H. Vanderbilt
Adam Nave, rich St Louisian, got a di
vorce by paying $500 monthly alimony and
$50, 900 down.
Amos S Emo of New York has mortgaged the
Fifth Avenue hotel property to the Mutual Life
Insurance company for s., 25o,OOo
The directors of the Planters bank of Peters
burg. W. Va, have decided their property Il
Mcnvane & Gillian Their liabilities are $500,
600 and assets unknown.
A tax relationship in Chicago is worth some
thing now. The supreme court rules they ars
entitled TO per cent of their collections, which
makes their work worth from SIS, 600 70 81, Oot
year
Donnell, lawson & Simpson, New York, have
received dispatches from creditors to the eff
feet that any compromise proposed by then
will be accepted. on receipt of necessary
papers 1t looks as if the firms creditors viii
accept the terms offered
J. L Brownell & Co, of New York, failed
recently. The firm consists of J. L. Browneil
P, W. Walker, and /. W Murray The firm
was formerly Brownell & Walker. 1t is said
that the failure was caused by customer
frsudulently obtaining securities. The habih
tes are small
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important relegrapn Decision.

Des Moines, Iowa Special: An important and
interesting decision was rendered in the United
States circuit court in this city, involving the
liability of the telegraph companies for dam
ages for failure to deliver messages promptly
Nov. 9, 1882, George +. Hall at Des Moines, at
8a m, gave the following message to the tele-
graph company:
''Charles II Hall, Exchange, Oil City, Pa. !:
Buy me 10000. If you think it safe wire me y
Meaning for his brother to buy 10000
barrels of oil for him. The company ommit-
ted the address-"Charles T. Hall"-and the
message was received at Oil City directed sim
ply to Exchange" which is the name of the
building where the board of trade met The
company after carrying the message to
the building, and on the refusal of the officers
of the board of trade to receive it, procured the
correct address and delivered the message to
Charles T. Hall at 6 p. M, too late to make the
purchase directed. The price of oil at the time
the message ought to have been received 1l:30
a. m and when the oil would have been pur-
chased, if received, was Sl.17 per barrel The
price at the opening of the market, the
next day at 10 a. IN. was S1.35 The platinum
gets Judgment for the difference on 10000
barrels being 81 800, and the court certify a
division ofopinion on certain legal questions
to the supreme court of the United States, in
case the defendants desire to carry the case
there.
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Calamity at nnbnnus. Iowa.

At Dubuque Iowa, on Sunday afternoon, a
dire calamity occurred at Carr, Ryder & Wheel
ers planning mill The engine room exploded
with terrible loss of life and great damage to
surrounding property. The report was heard
all over the city, and buildings surrounding the
mill were shaken by the violent eoncussion.
The air for blocks around the mill was filled
with debris, consisting of heavy rock, timbers
and portions of the boilers AT the same time,
the debris etc, caught fire, adding manifold
terror to the situation.
After the smoke and flames had somewhat
subsidized through the efforts of the tremen
the search for the missing parties began The
first found was the body of the engineer, Milo
NJ Mellen, which was discovered about seven
teen feet from the boiler His body was terri
bly, mangled almost beyond recognition. At
half-past O'clock the second fireman, Michael
Mclaughlin was found He was horribly man
gled. Several physicians were on the ground
rendering assistance wherever needed. The
first freman's name was Fritz Villdanger, and
his mangled body was found inthe door leading
from the main portion of the engine room.
His arms and legs were shattered.
The remains of all three We're
speedily removed to their residences Prob
ably the saddest sight of all was the discovery
of the bodies of two little children of Charles
May, adjoining the engine room. Adjoining
this house was yard in which were playing
three little children named May. They were
killed outright and terribly scalded Several
others received slight bruises, which are not
supposed to be serious. The loss to property
is $1,000; fully insured in the Hartford Insur-
anee company. The firm employed 200 men.
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Town site HOVER collapsea.

The Belknap, Montana town and Improve
ment company failed and the bank closed up,
but ali depositors paid The citizens held a
meeting there Wednesday the 21st, and were
informed by Fl. G. Chaplin that c. G. Howell,
the president of the company, was in st Paul,
ON his way east, and would not return to Belk-
nap. Matters look dubious there, as 1t is re-
ported that Howell has forged notes to the
amount of $50 600, cashed them at the First
National bank of Helena, and fled the country.
This information is received from H. g. Snap
in, the present manager of the Belknap
Town and Improvement company.
Gen Howell first came to the front and
achieved prominence in the West bold spec
ulator and sehemer during his residence in Col
orado. He went to Leadville at the time of the
mining excitement in 1872 and took the lead as
a man of pluck and business activity. he be-
came interested in number of mining prop
critics and was very-busv in booming town lots
at all times and under all circumstances. He
acquired interests of considerable value In the
carbonate camp; built fine residence; or
ganized the City National bank and became its
president; was appointed brigadier general OF
the state militia (from whence comes his mills
itary title, and to all appearances wa
a well-to-do man of the world. When
Chaffee returned to Colorado in 1881,
and forced the nomination of Campbell as the
Republican candidate for governor. Howell
although a republican HIMSELF fought Camp
bell at the polls; carried Lake county against
him, and contributed as much as any one
man in the state to the election of Grant, the
first and only democratic governor Colorado
has ever had. Campbell was financially wrecked
by this canvass, and removed to California,
where he is now engaged in farming. When
the Cnur d Alene excitement broke out, Howell
sent his wife to her relatives in Ohio and went
10 the reported gold fields. He perfected an
arrangement with the Northern Pacific Rail
road company and secured an interest in the
town site of Belknap.
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The Criminal Calendar.

Photographer Wallis, of Glenwood, Iowa,
killed John Clingersmith in self-defense.
Henry Hayes, farmer of Davis county, Ky,
was found dead near his residence with three
pistol shots In his body.
A glove fight has been arranged between
Charles LANCE, the heavy weight champion OF
Ohio and Capt James DAILY of New York fol
June 4th.
Joseph Frazier, who brutally murdered Wes-
ley Hupp last week, hanged himself with a
pocket handkerchief in jail at Anderson, Ind.
Monday night
In Boston barroom Samuel Allen shot
D. Hansell dead The deceased was sup
posed to be member of the firm of Biggs d
Hansell of RocklandL
Mrs Annie Mass attempted to kill William
Bettleton in his bedroom at her house in St
Louis, by shooting him over the right ear The
wound is not serious
1t is believed the human remains found IN a
soap box in the depot at Chattanooga, Tenn
are those of Herman Krause, murdered at St
Adams, VT, by Oscar Myer.
Rev R. Williams of Chillicothe, Mo-, having
been warned by his deacons that he would be
prosecuted for bigamy by wife living in the
East. poisoned himself in field with bottle
of prussic acid.
AGlendive, Mont, dispatch reports great ex-
element up the line. Four horse thieves are
at Terry, forty miles west of Glendiye, and
twenty head of stolen stock at Forsyth. Sheriff
Johnson of Custer county has six men on the
trails.
Gerald Thomas Tully, sub-manager of the
Preston Banking company of Preston, Ian
cashire, England, who disappeared from his
place of occupation and home in October, 1888,
being short in his accounts $4,000, has been
arrested in New York.
Experienced burglars effected an entrance
on Tuesday night, the 10th, into the branch
postal station for the northwestern district of
Milwaukee and broke open the safe. 1t is said
they obtained about $500 in money and stamps.
They were scared off the premises by woman
who lives IN the upper part of the building,
The detectives think they know their men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

Chris Herek, saloonkeeper Of Higbee, No
was successfully gulled out Of $1,000 recent,
by gold brick swindler
John Cummings, a clerk for the Standard Oh
company at Long Island City. is missing since
Saturday, the 18th, with 1900, which he drew
TO pay employees
Ferdinand Ward gave 81, 600 to the Presby.
terrain church at Stamford, Conn. /; 81, 600 to III,
soldiers, monument; 81 600 to the Young Men,
Christian association, and 500 to the Stamford
cornet band.
An ardent bicycle rider advocates the use o.
that machine in the army, aud publishes al
article in local paper to show that it wouIt
be measure of economy and add to the eff
ficiency Of the service if it were to replace ths
hungry and weary cavalry horse.
There is excellent reason for saying that Tbs
directors q the Metropolitan bank, N. Y, viii
consider at an early day the ACCESSIBILITY Of
winding up the banks affairs, the present fail
ure having been fatal to its business prospects
Deposits before the failure were between Sl1,
100000 and sl2, 100000 and have fallen tt
about 100000
A deed was fled in the registers Office a
New York, Wednesday, the 2lst, by which Mrs
Julia d. Grant transferred to William H Van
derbilt the houses No 1918 o street and 150
Vermont avenue, which are surrendered b,
the general toward making good the $50, o0
which he borrowed to aid Ward & Fisk, tbs
New York bankers.
The Pennsylvania bank Of Pittsburg closed it
doors on the 2lst aud posted the follow
ing on its doors Owing to the continued run
for several days, we have considered it wis
for our depositors and all concerned TO sus
pend payment for the present There wal
great excitement around the bank, and officers
were placed at the doors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

Ex-president Grant gives it as his
opirion that, by the end of the present
century. only sixteen years hence, the
population of the United States will be
round 100, 900, 900 and he states this
as an evidence of its growing prospect
ty. The estimate is not extravagant,
when we consider the increase from 81, :
400. 900 in 1860 and SO 100000 in 1876
to 81 900, 900 in 1880, and reflect that
the tide of immigration is still setting
strongly to our shores. If large popu-
lation is what we want we have nothing
TO complain Of in this regard; and il
the prosperity of a country is measured
by the number of its people, our pros
perity is all that we could ask. But
it is dawning upon the popular
mind that numbers do not constitute
greatness, much less do they signify
comfort and happiness. India and
China swarm with population, but the
condition of India and China is not hello
up as thing to be reproduced in this
country, and our people would surely
recoil from the idea that amy
considerable part of this land
should be infested with human
beings as these Oriental countries are.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
what is KNOWN Al out insanity!

From the st. James Budget 8
Experts agree that the subject of in
sanity is still plunged in semi obscurity
The greater number of authorities are
of the opinion that the only successful
treatment is of negative kind; that the
mind must be placed, as it were, on
crutches and all irritations removed, 50
as to allow nature to right herself by q
series of efforts from within. The pa
tient usually arrives at an asylum in
frantic condition, due sometimes TO per-
sonal outrage and rough usage, to
mental irritation of temporary sort.
If irritation is kept up febrile excite
ment glides into inflammation of the
brain, and that ends in paralysis, II
taken in time, early symptoms may be
treated by soothing methods before the
tissues become inflamed. Or, if this be
impossible, then the inflammation must
run its course. watched carefully, like
fever, for crisis. If through careless.
ness the crisis be allowed to pass unob-
served, alas for the victim lmbecility
supervenes- dementia. The
patient is insane for life; or, in cases Of
extreme rarity, wakes at last after .
nightmare of years, famed and shat
tered Insanity is a prolonged sleep
walking; condition of torpor peopled
by dreams, from which the sleeper may
awake or not. If the brain can be
lulled to complete rest by science, i
may awake whole. And yet the mad
house inmate, who above all things
should find repose in his seclusion,
generally seeks for it in vain
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
rurgets Of roreien New,.

The British ship Syria was wrecked of the
Fiji Islands, and seventy passengers all cool
les, were drowned
Henry 2. Gilling, president of the American
exchange, in Paris, gave dinner in that city,
recently, TO Augusta Bartholdi the sculptor OF
Liberty Enlightening the World"
London Gable: Plunger Walton has received
anothef horsewhipping This time the drum
ming Was administered by German-American
named Letter, a veterinary surgeon
No confirmation can be heard of the reported
revolutionary outbreak at Linares, Mexico.
The ouy report that has reached Laredo is to
the effct that great confagration has pre-
vailed i Iinares.
In th commons Gladstone announced that
Lord hy was making an arrangement for the
khedives steamers with small company OF
British sailors, to patrol the Nile between As
stout arl Wady Halfa. The question of Egyp-
tain conference. The government has no inten-
ton of proposing rival dual control
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

The business of the country cannot
be depressed when forty-seyen railroads
report for April an increase of nine per
cent. upon their gross earnings OF April
1888, and an increase of ten per cent. in
their mileage. But it does not follow
that because these earnings are substan-
TALLY what they were year ago, prices
in general should be the same, the rea-
son being that many of our railroads
suffer the natural effects of over capital
ization. Boston for instance, holds
$3.50 900, 900 railroad securities, but one
of the most conservative papers in that
city says that nobody, however slightly
familiar with the origin of the securi-
ties, has any reason to believe that their
original cost was one-half the sum
named, of course, this being true, they
could stand great depreciations, and al
the same time be sources of great profit
so long as fair dividends were made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

During the existence of the National
banking system, covering more than
twenty years, the number of banks or
ganized under it has reached a total
never contemplated by the trainers OF
the law, yet out of the whole there have
been only ninety failures, with loss to
their creditors oHbnly about SO, DOC, 900
while every dollar of circulation issued
has been redeemed. The average an
nual loss to depositors in banks of this
class has been less than one per cent.
The aggregate of deposits in banks Of
all classes in the United States will fall
little, if any, short of $4,000, 900, 600, OF
about double the sum total of the pub
lie debt, and the percentage of loss tc
depositors in National banks is less than
in any other class.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
! Lloyd s. Majors, Ex-Preacher and Ex-
Lawyer, Hanged in California

Lloyd s. Majors, was hanged at Oakland, Cal,
Monday previous, the condemned man made
desperate effort to escape He possessed
immense strength, and he overpowered
the two death watches and iailer, who hap
pened at the moment 10 be in his cells.
Wrenching the keys from the jailer's grasp,
he dashed through the door across the jail
yard, out into the street But just as he thought
he had succeeded he was encountered by two
hremen who had been attracted by the noise.
They recognized Majors and another struggle
ensued, so fierce that Majors, arm was broken
and be was rendered helpless. He was conduct
ed back 10 his cell, and from that moment he
abandoned all hope In incarceration with J. b.
Renowder, brother Of one OF the murdered men,
he said. sYoum draw the life blood from my
arm and with this pen Will write my innocence
OF the crime in my own blood. ?
As he spoke he appealed 10 Heaven.
Majors mounted the seaffold without assis-
lance, and took up his position on the drop,
firmly erect He refused to say a word, main
tanning throughout a stolid silence. At1212
the bolt was pulled, Majors fell and his neck
was clearly broken Majors was forty-six
years old. born near the home of Garfield in
Ohio, graduated at Ann Arbor college in 1870,
and began the practice of law. But afterward
joined the Methodist ministry. After preach
ing several years he, went to the Pacific coast
and settled in Los Gatos, where he became the
owner of a hotel. The double murder for
which he was executed was committed year
ago. He planned it, leaving the execution,
however, to two tools, named Jewell and Show
ers. They were both tried and convicted, but
before this all the facts in the case became
known, and the agencyof Majors was revealed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

A few days ago Philadelphia paper
in discoursing on the weather said: lit
is the tremendous drain thus made up
ON the human system by the violent
changes of our climate which renders
our men unfit to bear study or long
continued work Call it od, or cleo
tricity, or simple heat, as you please
there is subtle influence in the air at
certain seasons which is the very elixir
of life. 1t is conspicuously absent in
such weather as that of last week, and
its absence produces the decay of vital
force, disease for the middleaged and
death for the old. The only remedies
suggested, other than flight to more gem
ial regions is "to keep up our vital force
so thoroughly that We may be able to
stand these murderous assaults of our
invisible foe. This is to be done by our
readers by wholesome, nutritious food
and by rest" This is all very good, but
many will be surprised to know q
necessity for such precautions II
Philadelphia, which is generally sup
posed to possess mild climate.
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Market Reports.

ST. PAuIA-Wheat No. / hard, 9SGsl. Oh;
No. /. soc: No hard, 93(096c; No 2, S0C1S5c.
Corn. No 2, 55c; No. 8, 53c; rejected, sic.
Oats, No 2 mixed, Sic; No. mixed, 3Oc;
No 2 white, 3215c.
Barle,, No 2. 65c; No. 3 extra, SIC; No.
s, Soc
Rye, No. ., Soc.
Baled Hay. wild, $40; timothy, sl1.oo
Potatoes, 2S6ds0c.
Eggs, Re
MILWAUKEE Wheat, No. 2, 9li4c.
Com. No 2, 5415(I55c.
Oats. No. 2, 33(d35e; white, 36(d3615c
Rye, No. /, 66c.
Barley. No 2, 65izc
Mess Pork, SIS 1561S1S30
Lard. SIS. zoos 3255.
Bmtter. choice creamery, 20a22c; fair to
good 19ld20c; best dairy, 1T(Glec
Eggs, 13CalS77c-
cHroAeo.-wheat. No. 2Chicago spring, $50
0S95sc.
Corn, 54054Ssc
Oats, 315zc.
Rye, Gle.
Barley. 69c.
Flax Seed, s1.69
Pork. s1s.371Sas1ST1
Lard, sS12555fasS q -
Butter, creamery, 2oGs2Sc; dairy, 1S91eo
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1t is evident that many people believe
in So called faith cures. In Boston, there
is regular faith cure" establishment
where patients are taken as in hospital /;
and there is another at Corning, New
York. of the same sort and also a
similar house in st. Paul, where the sick
and we'll meet and pray. The noun
tain evangelist" Mr.. Barnes, has made
extensive use of faith cures in his minis
try, and his followers believe devoutly
in his power, by the laying on of hands
and amounting, to heal diseases of per-
sons who have implicit faith. A rector
of the Episcopal church at Stamford,
Conn, has recently excited much COM
ment by performing, or pretending to
perform, the same sort of cures.
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An Old Relict.

The widow of Marshal Suchet, Duke
of Albufera, died in Paris the other day
at the age Of 30 odd years. She was
married when Joseph Bonaparte was
King of Spain, and received from him
as a wedding gift one Of the splendid
hotels next TO the British Embassy
Paris In the military correspondence
of Napoleon J. we find the following
letter dated Paris, December 3, 1911,
and addressed to BerthieT: my Cou-
sin Write to Marshal Suchet TO com
plain that his wife carries ON cores
pondenee with Mime. dc Saligny, in
which she speaks of what happens in
the army-tliat these details should not
occur in letter of lady, who ought
to be acquainted neither with the num-
Der of troops non their movements, who
should speak merely Of her health, and
that is ALL" 1t is curious 60 think of
the Duchess d'Albufera surviving this
for 70 years.