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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-10
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DIPLOMATIC and other Changes.

A recent Washington Special Telegram Says:
There has been considerable shifting around
in the diplomatic service. Congressman
Kasson of Iowa goes to Germany TO see if he
can get along with the great chancellor, and
takes with him a natural aptitude and long
experience in diplomacy. Ex-Attorney Gen
eral Taft is transferred from Austria to
Russia, and John NJ Francis, of the Troy
Times, Ia promoted from Portugal to Austria.
MIR. Francis would have been sent to st.
Petersburg but for the fact that New
York already has one frst-class
mission Lewis Richmond of Rhode
Island goes to Portugal in the place of
Mr.. Francis The appointments for Alaska
were also made to day, and Andrew I. Lewis
of Cannon's district Illinois, is make clerk
of the court Frank Sperry, who is private
secretary to the secretary of the treasury. is
appointed one of the justices for Dakota and
Leonard Smith of Iowa is the other This is
great disappointment to Delegate Ray
mond, who earnestly urged George p. Flan-
merry and George II Hand, who were well en-
dorsed by the bars of their respective dis
tricts George Turner of Alabama is made
associate justice of Washington Territory.
He was the chairman of the Alabama dele
cation to the Chicago convention.
In the long list of the appointments sent
to the senate to-day there is one which Gre
ates considerable amusement that of Frank
Sperry, to be associate Justice of Dakoka
Sperry is a young man of about twenty-five
years, but his youthful face and diminutive
stature make him appear as a mere boy. He
has delicate little mutton chop side whiskers,
which look as though they were the first at
tempts at sprouting a beard He is alto
gether a very insignificant looking youth.
He was admitted to practice at the New
York bar two or three years ago, but through
the influence of George Bliss was appointed
private secretary TO Secretary Folger. Con-
sequently he has had no experience in the
practice of the law. 1t is said that he has
been very faithful to the wishes of George
Bliss, and that he has regularly reported to
Bliss the private movements of Folger.
There does not appear to be any objection TO
the young gentleman aside from his youth
and inexperience The appointments of
Kasson, Kent and Francis are gener-
ally commended. Seward Smith,
who has been appointed as
sociate Justice of Dakota. is lawyer of Des-
Moines, with practice of twenty years. He
is said to be man of ability and high stand
ing at the bar. Mr.. Byers, who has been APP
pointed consul general at Rome, has been
for several years consul at Zurich, Switzer-
land and his nomination is a deserved pro-
motion Byers is the author of the song
sSherman's March to the Sea-" The
president has appointed John Jarrett
of Pittsburg, president of the Amalgamated
association, as the head of the labor bureau
OF the interior department, recently created
by congress John A. Rear register of the
land office at Bismarck, has been reap
pointed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-10
Cost of Our Diplomatic Service.
Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
A study of the consular and diplo-
matte bill just passed by the House
shows that some of them got what seem
to be very handsome salaries. For in
stance the salaries of the ministers to
Great Britain, Germany and Russia
are SIT 800. Those to Japan, China,
Spain, Austria, Italy and Mexico
get $4,000 year each. Those to
the United States of Columbia and
Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Swed-
en- and Norway, Venzuela, Argentine
Republic and Hawaiian Island, 81, 500
each. The ministers to the several
Central American states, Guatemala,
Costo Rica, Honduras, Salvador and
Nicaragua, who has to reside at such
place in any of the states as the
President may direct, gets $4,000
per annum. The ministers resident
and consuls- general in Switzer-
land, Denmark, Portugal, Liberia, Bo-
livia Hayti, Persia and Paraguay and
Uruguay and Corea get S., 900 apiece.
Secretaries OF legation at London, Paris,
Berlin and st. Petersburg, get 50, 625
each per annum The secretary of
legation at China gets $4,000. Inter
prefers in China and Turkey get So, 600
each and in Japan So, 500. The secre-
tary of legation in Constantinople also
acts as consul general and gets $500
year. Consul generals at London
Paris, Havana, Rio Janeiro receive So
500 a year each Those at Calcutta and
Shanghai 1000 each; those at Berlin,
Panama, Montreal and Kanagawa 81
900 each. From that figure the prices
paid for consuls RIM down as low as 81, :
coo a year, those at some thirty five
places in Great Britain, Germany, Bel
gium France and Italy, South America
and elsewhere being allowed salary OF
but 81 900 per AMMAN each.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-10
CONGREGATIONS in Maine.

A late dispatch from Bangor says: Almost
all of Northeast Maine is in flames A dispatch
from Patten says the air is full of cinders and
ashes The sun is obscured and the horizon is
limited by day, and night is made grand and
terrible by the distant of the great con-
flagration and the glare of great seas of flames.
One great fire has for weeks been sweeping
the country between the st John and Alegosh
rivers Another big blaze between Greenville
and the west branch of the Penobscot has been
burning for ten days Last Sunday third
fire started on the Wassattaquoik, and is sweep
ing the timber land north between townships 4
and s The damage can hardly be reckoned.
The fires are fed by the great tracts of timber
blown down by the terrible gales of last fall.
Hundreds Of millions of feet of valuable lum-
Der then Frustrated have dried in the sun and
are now at the mercy of the flames. Unless rain
soon comes Names chief source of wealth
will be very seriously affected
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-10
Grimes and Criminals.

During row at q picnic at Hutton, Pa,
John tyuoh WAS shot and instantly killed by
James Graham
Alex Bunting Of Ottawa, Ont, director OF
The defunct Exchange bank, millionaire, has
oeen committed for tiiaI on a charge of giving
fraudulent preferences to himself as creditor
Of the bank
Richard Heller of Amsterdam and Miss Lou
sc Scandorf of Fonda were married Tuesday,
The ist, at Fonda, the groom surrendering
SIPS 900 left by his first wife on condition that
he should not marry again.
4 sneak thief entered the Albany City Nation
al bank at Albany, n Y, and stole Spencer d.
Patterns bank book from shelf on the teller's
window while patten turned to make memo
randun The book contained $500 No trace
Of the theft
J. j Cole, a discharged employee of the Man
haitian Elevated railroad, New York. ticket
agent, WilIanm Pinder, Of that road, and Aug
ust G. Speth n photographer, We're arrested for
conspiring - defraud the Elevated company
ont of 500, 200 worth Of tickets.
\ man named T. w Wampler was arrested
at Pratt station, near Ashland, Wis He was
wanted in Texas for forgery in land frauds.
&c was acting as foreman on a steam shovel OF
The Omaha railroad company Capt McMur-
raw. of the Texas Rangers, assisted by police
nah of Ashland and the sheriff of Ravfeld
county. ~ de the arrest McMurray was armed
with a warrant from Texas and requisi-
lion from Gov. Kusk.
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Rail and River News.

Work will begin at once on the jamestown
: Northern branch of the Northern Pacific.
Ill the grading is finished to Minnewaukan,
ld the iron is laid to within twenty-five miles
that point
Tho management of y Milwaukee 4 St
gaul have made an appointment to fill the
lsce made vacant by the death of H. c. Atkins.
4 J. Earring, long known as one of the most
opnlar as we'll as one of the ablest officials of
lie road, received the appointment. Earring
istle VIII be assistant general superintendent,
sld he will have charge ST the following: Chi
ago & Milwaukee division, Chicago & Colncil
oiuffs division, La Crosse division, Prairie du
hien division, Wisconsin Valley division, and
and Mineral Point division. Beside this Rp-
pointmcnt the following others were made: s
). Callen to be superintendent Of the Prairie
Gu Chen Il Mineral Point division, with Office
- Milwaukee. The Chicago and Council Bluffs
divisions in Illinois and Iowa will hereafter be
operated as one division, and Il. H. Campbell
Las been appointed superintendent of the
fame, with Office at Marion, Iowa. The jur-
'sCf ctiOn of l. B. Beardsley, assistant super
ipt Rient OF the Chicago 4 Council Bluffs di-
vision, Is extended over the entire division
W. f. Beecham, formerly car service agent Of
the road, has been appointed assistant super
lntendent of the Hastings ii Dakota division
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General " ews Items.

The Liabilities of the Marsh Binder Manufac-
nrius company assigned at Sycamore Ill, will
amount 20 s3uU.O0u
H. C., SHACK, son of Vice Admiral Shack of
the navy. has been arrested in Philadelphia for
DESERVING his youmg wife
Maria $ Markham, after fourteen years of
waiting has obtained divorce from Arthur II,
Markham. known as the actor Frank MOrdaunt
Mrs Markham's maiden nsme was Evans. She
married the actor IN Chicago in 1862. She had
Just LEFT school
The failures for six months ended July L,
1884. are reported 10y II. G.. Dun & Co to mum
Der 5.5iO compare with 1861 for the first six
months of 1SS} The liabilities of the first
half fupt up to the enormous sum of l2i, Geo.
0Ou compared with sol, 000,oO0 for the same
period, or nearly double.
Under a new invention of Paul La Cour of
Copenhagen, seventy two messages have been
sent over one wire. at one Time between Bos-
ton and Providence. Speed of transmission
varies with the number of operators SlX men
can Use the wire, and each send thirty five
words a minute but If twelve should Use 1t the
speed would he reduced 10 twenty words IL
seventy two operators should use IT, the speed
would tc reduced 10 even below that of very
slow Morse operator.
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of DAYS.


Thousands and thousands Of men and women
have theiroff days-they are not sick enough to
giveup, relinqush their duties and go to bed, but
as one describes it,
'1feel SO drowsy and weary-my head aches.
81 never had meaner feeling in my life.
s'My stomach does not feel right"
Don't know what is the matter with me, but
do not feel well
81 have half feeling of nausea"
ssToo cold one minute and too warm the
s'To use a slang phrase, Pm all broke cup"
The above and hundreds Of similar express
sions are hearddaily, v it'll some there is known
cause, others cannot recount for the feeling. Il
may originate from d fferent reasons, but from
whatever cause, nature requires assistance and
you can Immediately render the assistance and
dispel all these unpleasant symptoms BY us
ing Burdock Blood Bitters take them immedi-
ately on the appearance Of the unpleasant feel
ing.
You will feel better in half-an-hour.
Take it any tine before or after meals.
If before you will enjoy your meal better
1t after it will aid digestion.
1t is a medicine YOU can take at any time with
good results, can be taken by the pratt ng child
or the feeble and lettering old man or woma n.
Composed of roots and herbs there is nothing
in its composition that will injHre the most de-
heate constitution, pleasant in taste and effect
will do you good
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Foreign Flashes.

In the house If commons Labouchere gave
notice ;lit le iatonded, in view Of the pros
rc.ts that the lords would reject the franchise
till tn ask whether Gladstone would create a
number Of radical peers 10 overcome the sd-
verse majority.
II = ruuored that 2,oOo Arabs attacked and
cspturc.i nebl,eh Ky assault 1t is said that
three thousand Of the garrison and inhabitants
were killed The mudir OF pongols and a
number of officers have gone in the direction
of e5beh. with what object is not known
London Truth says that Nine de kslomine,
Countess Won Romrodl is 10 receive her annui-
tv Of ~ .UlO wear from ths grand duke of
HeSse. even if she contracts another marriage,
The Grand duke contsmpistes ahdicating in ia
yer Of his son, Prince Ernest, who Is not yet
sixteen.
Il is reported that negotiations are on foot
between England and France regarding the
Dutch succession. Granville fsvors Holland
and Erlsium being united under the rule of
King IeOpolds successor. each country how
ever. having q separate parliament and sep
arste administration, and allowing Germany to
annex the grand duohy OF Luxembourg.
France Is not disposed to sanction thus scheme.
In the house of commons Lord Edmund
FItznaurice. the under foreign secretary, an
,oupc.a that the whereabouts of sheldon, the
Tnslisl.rnan reported captured by outlaws II
Kansas apd held for ransom had not been dis
covered The fall Of Debhah and Berher, he
eaid had not been confirmed. The govern
mend had protested Against English vessels
arriving at spanish ports being quarantlned
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A Man with Eleven Wives.

Eleven wives is the number of women
that Peter Tatro claims he was married
to, and of these five have been found
living and we'll, each mourning the loss
of the husband The other half-doze
will, no doubt be found within a short
time. Tatro was sentenced in the
United States district court, on Monday,
under the name of John A. Moore, and
sent to the Eastern Penitentiary for two
years and fined $500 He was charged
with having personated pension agent
and forging a pensioners name to a
voucher The man is fifty-three years
of age, and native of Franklin county,
N. Y. He is agreeable in manners and
his ways were so enhancing that within
ten years five women had consented
to become his wife after
brief courtships. The gay deceiver
appeared at Brockport, N. Y, in 1873,
and after a brief wooing made Miss
Ella Webb his wife, giving his name as
j. Stone. The honeymoon was not over
before the man began adesperate ffirta-
ton with a widow named Parsons of
Candor, n T., and in a month he de-
serted the Brockport wife and made
Mrs. Parsons Mrs. Sheldon Burleigh.
In few months he tired of this female,
and early one morning he took train
for the West. He concluded to stop off
at South Bend, Ind, and, under the
name of Fl. G. Pomerov, proclaimed
himself United States Provost Mar
shall The mans manners made him a
favorite, and, in the goodness of his
heart, he offered to prosecute q number
of doubtful pension claims always tax
ing care to obtain small fee. While
engaged in this business he married
Miss Mason. But his wi ckedestex-
plot was at Wabash, Ind. In 1878,
un der the name of j. W. jerks,
he became acquainted with Miss M. G.
Stewart. Like her pr edecessors,
she in turn became the wife of the vii
lain. He induced her to dispose of a
farm for 81 800 and HE with him to his
mansion in California. At Chicago he
obtained possession of her money, and
left her at hotel penniless. In 1879
the oily-tongued scamp made his APP
p6stIdu III AlleSheHy CouioJs aids tli
der the name of John Hoax, was con-
victed of grand larceny. He served
three years for this crime. As soon as
he was released from the work-house
he resumed his swindling career and
was found in Cumberland, Nd, acting
as special examiner of pensions, Civ
ing the name of A. G. Webb. Here he
won the heart of Mrs. J. P. Anderson,
widow. He was detected of Cumher-
land in his swindling and fed to Mari
ettea, where he was arrested. He pro-
cured sums of money varying from 81
to $50 from numerous persons and lived
in clover. Among his other names
were James Thompson, J. Thomas,
Rev. John Tiff and Col. Bates. Phila-
delphia Record.
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Casualties of the Week.

By FIRE at Pemberville, Ohio, thirteen
buildings were burned Loss, $4,000; insur-
81, 900
The pork slaughtering house of J. and L Sch
10th, In Cincinnati, was burned Loss, $685.
40; insurance, $1,000.
At Westfeld, n. Y, fire burned the West
{ield house aud three small stores. Loss, $50,
no; insurance, $500.
Capt Dewitt C. Conkling. sixty years Of age
FIRST cousin to ex Senator Conkling was
drowned of Sag Harbor, L. l.
While Patrick Connolly, a shooter for tor
ped5 company, was filling a shell with nitro
glycerine, at Clarendon, Pa, it exploded, blow
,nG Connolly into minute pieces.
William J. Healey, twenty one years Of age,
breakman on the st. Paul road, was killed
on Friday, hy being run over a few miles
west Of Milwaukee. lie lived with his parents
in that city.
The factory of the Revere Rubber company,
at Chelsea, Mass, occupying three acres, was
burned, except three stOrehouses 1t was run
ling TO lis full capacity, and employing 5Ot
hands Loss. s5iOW0; insurance, 100000.
Spontaneous combustion was the cause.
The gas house at the Joliet Gn) ponitentiary
was burned TO the ground BY the most strenu-
Gus exertioas on the part of the fire brigade at
The pcnitentiary and the city department the
9ames were aeorted from the gasoline reser-
voir The penitentiary for the present will be
lighted with candles and lamps
The whole business portion of Port Perry,
Canada, is burned The fire extended from
Akerman's saddlery shop west, including the
Ontario bank, Ross & Sons sire, Ling & Maha-
ney place the Windsor hotel, Wright's shoe
store, AIllson's drng store, I. C. Foreman 8
store, Davis drug and cabinet store, Campbell
feed store, NJ ,Caws iewelry store, Davenport,
James & 60, Brown parish hardware, w.
Brock and nearly to the POstoffice
At Butte, Mon, ON the 9Th, Miss Floyd, one
IF the twenty mile equestriennes, was thrown
from her horse near the close of tho tenth
mile, and seriously injured. But little hopes
ire entertained of her recovery. A terrible ac-
rident also occurred on the race course. About
i've hundred people were in the grand stand,
when the roof fell in and the foundation gave
away, precipitating the people to the ground,
= distance Of twenty feet from the highest point
One boy was killed and a dozen others serious
y wounded
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-10
A Dream Of Electricity.

La Vie Moderne amuses its readers
with one of those visions of the future
which have been in vogue ever since
science began to astonish the present
age with its marvellous performances.
This time il is electricity which fur
nishes the substance of the dream. The
coal mines were giving out and their use
was almost discontinued except for
manufacturers gas had become extra
ordinarily dear. To take its place in
Paris an American it is always the
Americans now who do wonderful as
we'll as eccentric things in France
had conceived the project of erecting a
tower $50 metres high on the open space
in front of Noire Dame, from whose
summit an enormous nickel-plated re-
fiector 1877 metres IN circumference
should shed down a food Of light over
all Paris that would simply abolish night.
On the column a dynamo was re-
quired merely to keep the gigantic car
bons at due distance from one an
other; at the base in great cellars were
1000 elements, each couple OF which
was to absorb daily four tons of water
and l 200 Kilograms of acid. In six
months it was done, and Paris awaited
the first lighting with an interest
frightened by the news that three men,
who, during one of the experiments,
hap been in the focus, had been melted
and evaporated, and the American chief
engineer, Mr.. Allison, who was taking
spectroscopic observation had been
fortunate enough to note the lines of
Al.
expectations were not disappointed. A
flood of light poured over the city, and
unlike, we must say, any electric light
which we Americans have succeeded IN
producing in our country it turned
round corners, entered the houses,
went p-stairs, and lighted not merely
the parlors but the passage ways. But
now came a difficulty. Paris always
keeps late hours, but it ends by going
to bed; those who amuse themselves
moderately seek home at midni ght !;
those who try hard to enjoy life leave
off at three or four at the latest. But
why leave off at all in broad daylight,
or perhaps we should say, in broad
nightIight? And how could one sleep
without darkness? For few days
afI5 WIS peEpleAeu. IL loob It's rem
oning of time entirely, and at last it
was found necessary to fire a morning
and evening gun in every arrondisse-
ment to let the people know when the
change was made from artificial to nat
ural, and from natural to artificial.
The light cost for the city less than half
as much as all the private lights which
it displaced OF course, gas stock went
down, down. lower than Union Pacific
has been going down here the last two
weeks. Madame Mackey, unwilling to
have anything so cheap in her house,
threw all her shares into the fire.
Many persons We're ruined; but more
gained by being relieved from the cost
of lighting, "and the Lutetian race,
constantly bathed in living light, ac-
quired a force, beauty, an energy
80 - ITo,,a ~
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The Penalty of smuggling in Manitoba

Winnipeg, Man, Special: S. G. Ephenstein
Bros, wholesale jewellers of Chicago, were ar
rested at st Vincent recently for smuggling
thirteen gold watches across the line. He
chose Dominion day to cross the line as the
customs department had announced recently
that its officers would not attend trains after
hours and on holidays When the train reached
ST Boniface, opposite Winnipeg, Ephenstein
jumped from the train and made dash for
liberty He was pursued by Detective Hayden,
who had him in charge After long race
HAYDEN captured his man, who got stuck be-
tween two gravel cars. Ephenstein was safe
ly Gagged in the police station, and was this
morning fined 800 and costs. His goods, val
ned at 81 OOO were confiscated
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Tempest and Death in Nebraska.

A severe windstorm approaching hurricane
visited the eastern part of Nebraska last We'd
nesday night 1t was severely felt here, and
was the third storm of the kind within a week
Two soldiers. Henry Gardner and Private
Wanstoff, Company f, Fourth infantry, on their
way from the city to Fort Omaha, were struck
bv falling tree, Waustoff had both legs
broken, and Gardner was so badly in
iured that he soon afterwards died. Numer-
nus fences, trees. etc, We're blown down. At
Fremont, forty miles west the storm was moro
severe. The streets and sidewalks were blocked
with broken trees. The park was nearly des-
iroyed Enos hotel was unroofed, a. was also
the court house kittle's large warehouse was
entirely demolished
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.

The president has appointed Henry Plum
5aer, colored man, chaplain of the Ninth cav
Cry, one of the four regiments in the service
Composed of colored men. Mr.. Plummer was
he time Of the emancipation, and could neither
read nor write; but he got some schooling over
iaere, and then came 10 Washington as stu
sent in Howard university. Postmaster Gen
;al CreHswell, gave him place in the postof
g department as ianitor, and he earned
means 10 carry him through college.
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Some time since Miss Lizzie Newman

Some time since Miss Lizzie Newman
stopped in doorway on Second street,
Louisville, during a shower. A pleas
ant-voiced lady noticed her standing
there and invited her up stairs. Miss
Newman took advantage of the offer.
Up stairs she met William Crittenden,
a man who had lost both eyes while
herding cattle on the plains of Texas.
Crittenden thought it would be pleasant
to court the girl. and make love to her
desperately. What he said iokingly
she understood in hard earnest. Be-
fore they separated Crittenden had
changed his mind, and asked the girl
seriously to marry him. She accepted
the offer, and on the next night at
o'clock the two we're united by Justice
John Gosnel.