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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
He Oonldn,t Have the Bod,

The Sheriff at Wyoming, was IN readi
ness TO serve a writ OF habeas corpus on
Detective Norris when he reached tia
city with his notorious prisoner Lou
'iank, but the detective had been war;
ed in time to cIrcumyent the sheriff, and
instead of passing through Cheyenne on
the western express he hired a special
train consisting Of a locomotive and one
car and rushed through the city at the
rate of sixty miles on hour Tie sheriff
discovered the plan just too late to
switch the SPECIAL on a side track, but
Just III time to see it whiz past. lie has
since received the following exaspeTa-
ling dispatch from Detective Norris:
please accept my thanks for your prof
fered assistance at CHEYENNE. Having
urgent business at Omaha, which would
not permit the delay. ! was compelled TO
hurry through and give you tie go-by.
should You ever come TO Ohio, ] am at
your service, and our latch-string hangs
ont
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
EPITOME OF THE NEWS.
Washington Gossip.

The secretary of the treasury has decided
10 stop the issue of the New York series OF
gold certificates. Chicago has been clamor-
ing for distinctive issue, which the secre-
tsry has Berslstently refused, and this has
been no small factor in causing the with
drawal of the New York issue with the sig
nature Of Mr. Acton. As fist as those al
ready put into circulation from New YORK
come to hand in the regular process OF re-
demption they will se destroyed, ana ger.
tifcates OF the Washington series issued ia
their stead.
The cid facts put in new scheme OF
relations by the annual report OF John Jay
Knox, contro Ter Of TIE currency, afford
food for oongra i alton in MINNESOTA.
With the organization OF new banks IN the
frontier States, Iowa has outnumoered
other States by starting twenty-one- Dakota
comes next with twelve, and Minnesota Is
third with eight. But the eight OF mime
sofa have total capital of 81, 9l1, 900, whlls
IOWa's twenty-one have 81, $50, 600, ana
Dssota's twelve bat 5000, 600.
The attorney general decides that post
master, in order 10 be entitled to receive
ompensation provided by the revised stat
utes, for issuing and paying money orders,
must perform services required in the mon
ey order business al rs office, in the sense
that if the WORK is not physically executed
hy his hands, F. muse be executed under his
| imm edie e su Hervision, b clerk employed
By e postoffise department proper, or paid
from postal funds ss distinguished from
money funds.
1t is understood that no successor to Gen.
Mckenzie will be appointed for the present.
The war department viii probably wait IN
til it becomes necessary to retire Gen. Mac
| Ker z;e before making such appointment. II
| is said that one of the senior colonies oil the
| deps. .ment OF Texas will be placed in com
mand until Gen. Mackenzie is sufficiently
recovered to resume duties or his successor
| is appointed.
The December debt statement makes q
fair statement in the way of reduction,
| though the amount is no. so large as that
| of the same month last year. The total de
| crease during the mouth YVES 5 743 347,
and for the frst halt o. the fiscal year tht
aggregate is 3 049 433, against $8l, 470, rs;
| for the first g x months OF 1882.
One of the big things of the session vii
be the land grant of the Texas Pacific, tC
which the Southern Pacific lays claim. in
v~lving from $1,000 600 to $25, 0)0, 600
| dr. Huntington pitched his tent early and
is prepared for siege.
Representative Holmes of Iowa viii in
troduce in the house a bill appropriatiDg
funds for the education OF Kate Shelley
| the girl who saved a North western train
from destruction at Moingona.
President Arthur n christmas Day me Il
Alexander Powell, his faithful body servant
| q present of q gold watch nd chain, as
token of appreciation for his services.
| Thara are 4 OOO casqs of measles in Wash
| ington.
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A Blaze ar breckenridge, Mimi.

at Breckenridge. Mimi, Tuesday, the
lsr., the north side of Minnesota avenue, be
tween Fifth and Sixth streets, was totally
destroyed by fire, except the corner build
ing, belonging to 2. Hanson, and occupied
by him as general store ID postotfics.
The losses are as follows:
A. w. Goats, two stores, SIS 900.
f. Sherman, saloon and dwelling, loss
81, 500.
Hartford & Harff Bros, 9ss 81, 500.
A. w. Col IS dwelling.
Fansom Phelps, four stores; loss, So, 300.
r. l. Snitb, general store; loss, 81, 200 to
314 001.
A. B, Matthews. lawyer, loss 81, 300.
Comfy offices, Ransom Phelps office;
a. w. Coats, drugs and stationery, Loss
So 20.
sherman house, owned by D. Wilmoi
Smith 'oss 81. SEQ.
Mr. HaEsons loss from damage to stock
by removal is considerable; covered by IN
surance in several Ompanies
The most seriods matter is the loss oil TN
county records. Toe Insurance in some
cases reaIly covered the losses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
The Luck Of Friday.

From tie New York Mail and Express.
1t is fact not to be disputed that n
vast multitude of people, even in this
land OF boosted intelligence, are under
the influence of the Friday superstition.
The statistics Of railway travel infallibly
indicate the dread which the day IN
spires. 1t is well known TO all railway
men that~the amount of travel on Fri.
day is less than any other day Of the
week. Many travellers carefully calcu-
late so as TO reach their destination be-
fore Friday, and still more refuse to be-
gin journey on that day 1t IS useless
to attempt to convince the victims OF
Friday superstition that no day of the
week differs from another in the amount
Of misfortune il brings; they
are seemingly deaf and blind 10 all that
happens on Friday which is not melan-
choly, or at least they have no memory
for other events of that day. If told that
George Washington, Daniel Webster.
President Van Buren,, President Taylor,
Pres dent Pierce, President Hayes, Ed
Sard Everett, George Bancroft, Long
fellow. Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle
and other notable men were born on
Friday, they are likely 20 reply that JEFF
ferson Davis was also born on Friday,
that the Southern COnfederary was
firm ed on that day, that Col. Ellsworth
was shut and that President Polk, Pres
dent Tyler, President Lincoln, Presi
dens Pierce and Horace Greeley all died
on Friday. There IS no reason 10 believe
that the Friday superstition is declining
on the contrary, il is By many thought
to be increasing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

ing little girl whose home was near Potts.
dem, was II, zsn 10 death while on her way
to school.
The weather review fer December 1888, at
st. Paul shows a slight departure in the
mean temperature for the past eleven De
eembers. be mean temperature last
month was 1913 d gees, and The verage for
the past eleven months was 10 degrees.
Warmer months OF December were had in
1TT5, 1877. and 1881. The Defenders oil
1873. 1874, 1878 and 1882 were slightly cool
er, while those OF 1916, 1879 and 1850 we're
decidedly colder. Toe average rainfall
during the past eleven DEFENDERS was /. 26
iEch. while the precipitation OF last month
amounted TO l.56 inches.
It has been developed that Peter Click OF
Moorhead is in default to the city in the
sum OF between ten Thousand dollars and
twelve thousand dollars, the amount being
said 10 have been secured in small sums.
The city is ami " secured by his bondSmen,
and the probability IS they will IT once
make good the defalcatlon pro rata among
themselves.
Sunday, the 9Th, at the House OF Hope
church ST. Paul DR.. D. L Breed, the pastor
after his sermon announced that, as preYi
,us9y stated, the congregation was five
| TT 1usaud dollars in arrears ia payment ioi
the extensive additions to the building
completed in 1888. He was of opinion thai
| the time was ripe for clearing the debt ant
called Hon. Alexander Ramsey to the chair
Mr.. c. H. Bigelow acting as secretary. TIT
chairman felicitously set forth the sma |.
ness Of the debt compared with the abil-
| ity for payment and headed the sub Grip
| ti0n with two huldred aud fhy dollars
Others followed TO gratifying extent az
more than two thirds of the S. 00l
was pledged in few moments and the bal
snce afterwards.
The death of L4sker ELECTED general ex
pressions OF regret in Berlin. Liberal jour
mails r fer to the great services he rendered
the state by cooperating in The enactmen
| ofimpersl laws affecting justice and trade
| And 10 exposing the corrupt practices Of
| Joint stock com Dabies. Preparations srs
making for an imposing funeral to the deac
| statesman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

away from Hollis purple cravat, looked
up suddenly in his face, and sighed. 81
must go in at ten; is it ten YETI" "No,
DEAR said he, no ing at his watch,
"it is only ten minutes Of ten." A soft,
restful expression spread over Rosalie's
face at these words, and she said: "Then
We may stay here ten minutes more;
ten precious minutes here together in
the beautiful moonlight" ana her head
again return ed to point not a thousand
miles istant from Hollis purple cravat.
Then poor Hollis, just as If the whole
affair was a purely business transac-
ton, blurted out. "But my watch is ten
minutes slow" Poor, prosasc Hollis lost
by slip of the tongue the sweetest girl
this side of Cambridgport.-Haryard
Iamnoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

Mr. Mallock, an advanced conserya-
tive of England, has written an article
in the National Review, in which he
says that the socialists who are now up
rising throughout Europe are inspired
by genuine sympathy with human SUI.
fering which is found among them, and
of which they have a better opportunity
of Judging than the classes from which
the legislatures are drawn. Mr.. 1lallOck
thinks there may be troubles not to be
controlled by the police or lancers, but
which will invade homes and drawing
rooms. lie concludes very temporarily
by saying that the proofs of the growing
power Of socialism are mostly Of seriou:
consideration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
D'Arcy m'Gee's Assassination.

At last, according to adyices from Can
ada, the mystery surrounding the muir
der Of Hon. Thomas darcy Niece, in
Ottawa is about to be dispelled. Nc
Gee, formerly a prominent Irish patriot
and a man Of brilliant genius, had been
elected speaker Of the Canadian Parlia-
ment and was holding that high Office
when be was shot down in one Of the
streets of the Canadian capital. The C.
tuaI assassin was captured at the time.
tried and executed. 1t now seems that
propositions have been made to the
minister of justice by several persons
that they would come forward and re-
veal the names of the men who PLANNED
the murder if they were guaranteed inn
rnunitv themselves No action has yet
been taken by the government, and the
Ottawa News vigorously calls for an in
quiry to be made at the next session OF
the Canadian parliament. This seems to
show that McGee's murder was MANNED
By Canadian political enemies and not
by Irish antagonists whose hate he had
sneendered since 1S4s,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
Law Versus <iospaI.

Law versus gospel At the Chester.
Eng, police court, la5orcr named
Thomas Moran was summoned for neg
lecting to contribute % the support Of
his children in he workhouse. The re-
ieving officer said the defendants six
children were admitted to the poorhouse
in September. Moran agreeing to pay
ten shiIlings weekly to their support
Up to the present time lie had only paid
fourteen shiiiings His wife was in an
asylum. Moran said that fortnight
after the children entered the house he
was laid up ten weeks from an accident.
When he got better, frost set in, and he
got no work for thirteen weeks. After
that, he got five days work weekly. and
when in full work his wages were but a
pound a week. The long illness made a
debt that had 10 be paid and he had
paid the guardians all he could. An en-
try in the police book showed that
Moran was carried to the inffmary or
a stretcher in September. Nptwith-
standing this, the magi@tZates sentenced
the prisoner" to q months hard labor.
The defendant burst out crying, exclaim-
ing: For Gods sake, gentleman, give
me chance I was never in prison. If
YOU send me III lnse my work. II you
give me time, I'll pay all. He was re-
moved, still appealing for mercy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

weuld have told the whole
story of the kilt &. 0'Donnell was not ac-
qusintei with Carey on the voyage from
England TO the Cape of Good Hope. he
was not q member of any society He rec
ognized Carey by woodcut which he saw
at Cape Town and resolved TO kill him.
He attended to go with him to.a farm at
Pert Elizabeth, which Carey had told him
he was going to take, and thus show there
was no spot where Carey could be safe.
Finding himself, however slone with Carey,
ne could not resist the desire - sill him.
Carey perceived bis danger, and said: s'Do
YOU know me, O'9onnell?n O'Donnell re-
plied: You are Carey the informer. To
he'll with your A bullet sped with the
words aud the deed was done. Carey
eentched his own revolver, but too late.
0'Donnell fired two more shots and Carey
rolled to the deck Nobody saw the en-
couater except ODonneil's companion,
who threw her arms around him ana Il led
the shi,, with her cries. He told her that
morning he meant to kill Carey aaa would
hang for it. When Mrs. Carey reached the
scene o'Donnell said to her: 81 had to do
-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
Foreign Ttpms of News,

The Londo1 Posts Rome correspondence
telegraphs that the pope's secretary Mon
siguor Boocali, opened letter from Amer
lea addressed to Leo XII containing Fen
ian threats, should the pope continue sup
porting England against the national cause
of Ireland. The letter states that the pro-
lection which the Italian government gives
the pope, who issnow the only sovereign So e
from dynamite, will be of no avail. The
pope is warned that there are priests
whom he is bound to receive, who viii
obtain access 10 his presence to sus-
tain the cause Of the Irish against oppres-
sior.
1t is reported that the car will send the
Grand Duke Alexis his brother, to Warsaw
as vic, row. preparatory to marrying him 20
Princess z 4rtoryski. His mSjsstys Object
ia making this marriage is to ooneiliate the
Poles
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singnIar Contests orstrength

Apropos of Sullivan's claim that he
can knock bull down with one blow Of
his fist, Arthur Chambers says that
some years ago he saw Bauer. the wrest-
Ter, force bear off platform after
three hugs, and he saw two men in
Manchester, each in pen with bellig-
srent bull, each strivingto win wager
they had made OF el0 as TO who could
stay in the pen the longer. Both were
to fight the bull at the same time. II
the animal rushed at one of the men the
other man was to come to his defense.
Thus they were to continue until one OF
the men had to jump the fence. The
pen was about five feet high and thirty
feet square. The bull took corner.
When he came out the men struck him
in the neck and behind the ear and upon
the ribs. The bull could not dodge,
while the men could. He fought John
/. sullivan fight. At last the bull ran
horn through the cheek Of one OF the
men. The other fellow jumped the
fence. The injured man was repeatedly
butted down and gored, and died OF his
i juries. His widow got the el0.-New
York Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

A well-to-do tradesman committed suicide
in the bis de Boulogne Paris. He placed
around his neck flexible iron tube filed
with explosives and was liter lly blown IL
pieces. a leg and arm were thro xn grea,
distance Shreds of d SD were found hang
ing on trees. The report was heard all aveI
Neuilly.
The Gladstone government is at last COR
nered en- the Egyptian question. The real
ties shirked so long nave to be facet. The
ministry has been SO thoroughly awakened
to the emergency of the hour that the men,
bsrs OF the c-bInet were summoned To Lon.
don by telegraph, and Sir CHARLES u he,
who bad gone TO the South of France, could
not reach Downing street in time Il
is now clear that the If ahdi must be
fought, and By English troops, or Egypt
mnst be comp teiely end Immediately evsc-
uated.
Gilbert &, Sulliyans new opera, The
Princess Ide, was produced on the night of
the 9th in the savory thealer London, which
was crowded. The audience was the most
brilliant Of the season, and the performance
q triumph for the authors and management
The music Gisl0gue and scenery were rapt-
turoasly a. ple aided. Critics pronounced
the music as fine as anything that Sullivan
has composed. The principal artists and
Gilbert Sullivan and D'0yiey Carte were
called before curtain at the close o: the
performances and received an ovaIi q.
Young, seven eeth wife of the hate propL-
ct, Brigb am, died at Salt Lake OF bleod
poisoning in her fortieth year. Sixteen
mourning widows sill survive the prophet,
fourteen of whom live in Salt Lake.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

In the course of a egal trial at Santa
Rosa, Cal, some curious letters written
by G. P. Huntington, of the Central Pa
cific railro I'd, in 1871, have come to
light. They we're written to one of the
active agents of the Central Pacific COM
binatlon. who is addressed as Friend
Cotton" at the time when the Southern
Pacific and the Texas and Pacific were
coutendIng against each other in their
eff lrts to get their several schemes
through congress, aud they throw some
light on the methods employed for the
purpose, No one can read these dis
closures without a feeling of shame that
members of congress should be so cor
rupt as they are shown II be. Hunting
ton speaks of nearly all rs
having price. and mentions many by
name as being open to pecuniary COM
pensation for his votes. Those who are
named are notoriously rich, whereas,
when they entered congress. they were
poor. The lesson is obvious. no man
who is circunsDect in his conduct, who
does not use his congressional position
for private gain, in short, who does no..
use his influence or his vote, directly or
indirectly, can become millionaire or
Il very rich man, from his legitimate
compensation as a member of Congress.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

An optomistic fenian authority says;
this is no time for despondency in bus
mess circles. 1t costs nothing to take a
cheerful view Of the outlook, and cheer
fitness tends to help things. Depres-
sion in trade prevails all over the coun-
try, but not such Il depression as gives
cause for alarm. While tradesmen are
getting smaller profits than usual, and
business in many lines is dull, and the
wages of workingmen are going down,
the general condition is sound Credits
are on a good basis. The tendency is
toward q decrease in the cost of living.
There is reason to expect revival of
tr tde early in the new year, reopening
oFmills now closed, and res Grafton of
conf !ence which will have u beneficial
effect everywhere.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

The jury of inquest which investigated
the shooting of Mclaughlin, the Callfor-
MA millionaire, by Jerome B. Cox, tbs
contractor. brought in verdict exoner
ating Cox. This jury was composed Of
some Of the best business men of San
Francisco. it is said. Cox, it viii be re-
memhered, had Eve times in the course
of17 years of litigation obtained a YER
dict against Mclaughlin for debt
which Mclaughlin owed him but each
time Mclaughlin, having plenty Of
money to employ lawyers, kept the
case dragging along, and each time got
the verdict set aside by the supreme
court on some technical error. Thus no
less than sixty jurymen composing
five juries had unanimous
" found that Mclaughlin owed Cox q
large sum Of money; yet the supreme
court set aside this verdict five times on
technicalities, plainly contrary to justice
and honesty as declared by the five ju.
ries comprising 80 jurymen. And now
the verdict of the jury of inquest adds
substantially another jury who hold that
Cox's claim was an honest one, and that
the supreme court decisions were con-
trary to justice; because the verdict Of
the inquest jury Is substantially that
Cox was excusab!e for shooting McLaugh-
lin; and the jury could not SO hold I'M
less il believed that Cox's claim was a
Just one, ard that McLaughlin's refusal
to pay was unjust and dishonest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10

The law which Congressman Hopkins,
Of Pennsylvania. proposes, restrictin 2
the quantity Of public land which may
be acquired by an alien to 900 acres,
unless he declares his intention TO be-
come a citizen, is needed. Few people
are aware how rapidly the public domain
is being taken up BY foreign landlords.
One English earl owns tract Of 1000
acres and another 100000, while an En-
glish company has bought 5000, 900
acres III Texas alone. 1t is bad thing
for the country at such vast domains
should fall into the hands of men who
never expect to become Americans, in
residents or in sympathy, and the system
ought to 90 no further.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
Casselange- Utopia in Equatorial
Africa.

II is a new discovery, made by Ger
man explorers in equatorial Africa.
Stanley approached. but did not reach
it. It was supposed to be populated by
tribes Of vicious and murderous dwarfs,
whom even the ncighboring powerful
African kings dreaded It is a vast ter
ritory, and from the now published
description Of it, appears to be yeri-
table Utopia. Two Germans, Pogge, and
Wissmann, have brought it to light from
the heart of the Dark Continent. 1t is
ruled over by an intelligent sovereign,
King katshitsh, and the people, instead
of being pigmies, are q tail, well bullt,
handsome race, who excel IN artistic
manufacture Of workmanship Of various
kinds, in wood, clay, copper and iron,
in weaving cloth out of the mabele plant,
and in discriminating. The country IS
well timbered and watered and teens
with natural produce No foreign in
fluence has vet touched them, and they
live in ArCadian tranquility and pros
perity. Dir. Pogge says that the lnhaoi-,
tants Of one village, and sometimes d
several. live as members of one family,
IL perfect friendship and peace.
They are excellent farmers, too.
Everywhere the explorers found broad
fields of fine mandioca, mi llet, maize
beans aud earth nuts. i, bacco and
hen.p are also raised bat Whence came
the tobacco which they smoke invet-
erately? Tie climate, though war n, is
salnbrious The adjacent kingdoms that
have been open to European exploration
yendealers in female Slaves. ivory,
ostrich feathers, etc but not Cassel nge.
Travellers are conducted to the borders
of the d. lectaole Utopia, but have not
been permitted to enter it for CONNER
cial purposes. Lieutenant Wissmanr
writes Of the villages rs places where IN
clean and roomy dwell ings, with gardens
neatly hedged in, forming streets a.
straight as an arrow" this interesting
people i've remote from different clyir
izatlon. Their country abounds III ba
nanas. cocoanuts and other nutritious
fruits, but they cultivate the soil. They
own cattle. goats, and fowl, which they
use, in part, for food. And this is regior
that. until the discovery.ofthe enterprls
Ing German travellers, Inns been sup
posed TO he inhabited by strange race
of dwarGs who were cannibals, and who
have thus been accounted by geogfa
nhprC