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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

An independent Republican state convention
assembled at Providence, R. L, with
delegates representing half the state. Hon.
George W. Corliss, was nominated for COVER
nor.
The Republican conventions Of Huntingdon
and Cameron counties, Pa. instructed the dele
gates TO the state convention 20 favor Blaine
representatives to the national convention
The Connecticut Republican state committee
has called a state convention to be held at Hart
ford, April %, to elect delegates to the Chicago
convention
A Republican county convention recently at
York, Pa, earnestly pronounced for Blaine.
The democrats of Delaware county, Pa, In
structed for Randall for president
The lively contest in Philadelphia between
Quay and MacManes, over the selection OF dele
gates to the state convention, resulted in TWEEN
ty-two Quay representatives who will favor
Arthur, and twenty -four Blaine men nia rshaled
by MacManes. Twenty counties in pennsyl-
vania have elected delegates, of which all but
the Mexican county delegation, are pronounced
Blaine men, with iron-clad instructions, al
though nearly all the conventions adopted res
olutions endorsing Arthur's administration
Rhode Island Republicans renominated the
present state officers.
At meeting of the second Minnesota con-
BEessional CohhlIutpee ~ was ueciueu, ~ IeSoia-
ton, that the representation by counties in the
district convention be based on the Republican
gubernatorial vote for 1888, one representative
being allowed for each 200 votes or major
fraction thereof 1t was decided that the dis
trict convention, to elect delegates to Chicago,
be held at Mankato, and that the chairman be
authorized TO fix the date of the meeting to be
determined by the time of the meeting of the
state convention.
Virginia Democrats viii hold their convention
at Richmond May IA.
The democrats of Rhode Island have nenlin-
ated, Thomas W. Ledger governor; Amasa
Sprague, lieutenant governor, Jonathan NJ
Wheeler, secretary of state; Charles E. Cor
man, attorney general; George P Leonard, gem
eral treasurer, Delegates to the national De-
nlocratic convention were chosen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

Secretary Chandler has addressed letter to
Representative S. s Cox, chairman of the COM
mittee on naval affairs, in reference to the res
olution of the house of March providing foI
the investigation of the facts of the Jeanette
arctic expedition, and the alleged unofficial-lke
and inhnman conduct therein The secretary
submits copy of the proceedings of the court
of inquiry and calls attention TO the various
papers bearing on the subject on file in the ma
w department which viii be submitted If de
sired. The secretary SAYS:
In view of certain reckless statements in the
petition of DIR. Daniel T. Collins printed in the
Congressional Record of March 4, 1884, upon
which the resolution of the house was based, /
deem it nv duty to state that every facility
was rendered by this department to enable
the relations of Mr. Jerome J. Collins 10 at
tend the sittings of the court of inquiry; that
both the petitioner and Mr.. Bernard A. Collins,
as a brother and legal representative of the
deceased were informed of their right 10 be
present in person or by council, and only re-
quested that they might be represented before
the court by The Judge advocate. Their re-
they were accordingly represented by that
officer. Occasion Is also taken by
me to assert that all aspirations
contained in the petition Of DIR. Collins upon the
heroic Lieut. Com. De Long; the untiring and
intrepid chief engineer, George w. Melville;
the faithful members of the court of inquiry,
and the navy department are untrue and unjust
and that Is, IN my opinion, highly inexpedient
as second pitiless sacreiige to again tear open
the graves of the dead for the purpose OF in
deeently calling public attention to what the
court of inquiry correctly termed trivial diff
fieulties, such as occur on shipboard even un-
der the most favorable circumstances, and
which had no influence in bringing about the
disasters Of the expedition and no pernicious
effect upon his general conduct
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.

Adjt Gen. Drum has received a dispatch
announcing the death of Lieut. Col Weitzel, OF
The engineer corps
Mr. Murphy of Aurora, H., has been ap-
pointed assistant United States attorney for
Dakota, to be located at Fargo.
Postofice Established Dakota; Britton, Day
county. Wisconsin; Alstad, Burnett county;
Fountain, Walworth county Postofic Name
Changed-Dakota; Waneta, Potter count to
Forest City.
Chief Signal Officer Hazen has issued cir
cular giving notice that letters for members of
the Greedy party may be sent to them address
ed to the care of Commander W. S Schley,
Brooklyn navy yard, to reach there not later
than April 20
The house committee on agriculture has au-
thorized favorable report on the bill to allow
any person to manufacture wine or brandy out
Of apples, peaches, grapes and other perishable
fruits raised by himself or his tenants, free
from any tax or restrictions.
1t is being said in official circles that the con-
titutionality of the civil service law is seriously
doubted. 1t is alleged that the cabinet officer
have been discussing the question of late
among themselves, and the best lawyers in the
cabinet believe the law unconstitutional
The total number Of postofficeB in the United
States and territories on the LIST Of July, 1888,
was A., The total number on March 20,
1884, was IS, $685. an increase in less than nine
months of / ,135. At the present rate of in
crease, it Is expected that the number will
reach $1,000 by the end of the fiscal year.
A singular accident occurred in Washington
on the 21st A shoemaker named Pittard was
mending a boot, when bottle of cement,
which he was using, exploded, setting fire to
his clothing, burning his arms and face very
badly. He is not able to tell whore he got the
cement, nor of what substances 1t was COM
posed
Ex-senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania,
who has been spending the last few months in
the South, went through Washington Friday
on his way home. He called upon the presi-
dent and Gen. Grant and met few of his old
associates at the capitol Mr.. Cameron celebra-
ted his eighty-third birthday in Florida few
weeks ago, but Notwithstanding his advanced
age lis looking remarkably well, and says his
trip has benefited him greatly.
Two other candidates beside Mr.. Lounsbury
have been very favorably mentioned for the
Dakota governorship. One is Mr.. Deering of
Iowa, and the other Mr.. Tyner of Indiana, ex-
assistant postmaster general Mr.. Deering
may be nominated for congress in his district,
IN which case he will not be candidate for the
governorship. As his convention meets very
soon, he will know about this, and will make
his plans accordingly. If he 10 not in the race,
the chief competitors win be Mr.. Tyner and Mr.
Lounsbury, the latte- having the support of
the Minnesota delegation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

The introduction of two-cent letter
postage has had the effect of reducing
the demand for postal cards in mark
cd degree. For five years past the
sales Of postal cards have steadily in
creased at an average annual rate of
fourteen per cent. whereas, since two
cent postage was adopted, there has
been decided falling off in the con-
sumption as compared with previous
wears and the department has notified
Congress that the original estimates for
the cost of manufacturing postal cards
during the next fiscal year may safely
he reduced by one-eight. The falling
off in the demand for postal cards is
more than compensated for by the in
creased sales of postage stamps and
stamped envelopes, which have grown
in amount eighteen and twenty-five per
cent, respectively, since last July. Ex-
perience has thus indicated the claim
that reduction of letter postage would
lead to great increase in the number of
letters sent through the mails, both by
encouraging more frequent correspond
enee. and by leading to the substitution
of stamped envelopes for postal cards
and it is already evident that the de
partment will speedily reach a self-sup-
porting basis again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
Locomotive perailed and Exploded.

The New York and Chicago limited express
train on the Pittsburg, TT Wayne & Chicago
railroad met with an accident two and half
miles east of Salem, Ohio, Thursday morning.
The train, containing twenty nine passengers,
was running at high rate of speed around a
sharp curve along an embankment when the
entire train, consisting of the engine, combi-
nation car and three Pullman cars, left the
track. The boiler of the engine exploded,
either just before or just after the accident oc-
Cured, and it will probably never be determined
which. Engineer James Richards and Charles
Rhodes, the fireman, were instantly killed, and
their bodies were buried nearly four hundred
feet from the point where the accident occurred.
The engine was turned completely
around and thrown over the embankment A
Pullman sleeper, containing twelve sleeping
passengers, crashed down upon it, where il
still lies on its side The passengers in this
car were severely shaken up, but miTaculously
escaped without serious injury. The COM
bined smoking and baggage car rolled down
the bank behind the sleeping car, and was
thrown against the sleeper and engine, serious
ly, but not fatally injuring the train baggage
man, Mr.. Sneider The two remaining Pull
man cars were derailed, but suffered less in
jury the passengers in these cars escaped
with but little or no injury. Twelve passen-
gers, including H. J. Douglas of Fort Yates,
Oak, were slightly injured Engineer Rich
ards lives in Pittsburg and Fireman Rhodes at
Alliance, Ohio. The escape of the passengers
was most miraculous, as it seems almost i'm
possible that any one should have come out
alive
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
Sentence of the BOY raracide.

Worthington, Mimi, Special: On Friday
morning last the boy, William Riley, was
brought up before Judge Severance for SEN
tence, he having pleaded guilty to murder in
the first degree in having killed his father Mar
tin Riley in February last. The boy is quite
slight, understood, just turned sixteen years
of age, and presented a very much better APP
pearance than when he was brought over from
Adrian in charge of sheriff Miller, to be put in
Jail to await Indictment and trial After some
feeling words from his attorney, L. NJ LANCE,
putting forth some of the many facts in the
home-life of the boy, Judge Severance ad-
dressed him, showing the enormity of the
crime revealing from both words and manner
a strong sympathy, and saying plainly that
owing to the great doubt in his mind as to the
impelling motive to the deed, the whole cir
cumstances around the case showing and
tending to stkl further show very unnatural
condition of affairs between the father and
the children he should take it upon himself to
make the sentence the hghtest that the law
allows. The sentence was then pro-
nounced, that he be committed
to the penitentiary at Saltwater for the term
of his natural life During the talk of the
Judge, previous to sentence, the boy exhibited
publicly the first emotion he has shown since
the commission of the crime. This ends the
second act in one of the most singular tragedies
in the history of crime. The boys sister, Mary,
of thirteen years, is now on trial for being &C
cessOry after the fact
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

1t is estimated that sixty thousand
northerners wintered in Florida the
past season. and most of them are now
coming northward by easy stages, )"
according to the condition of the cath
er. New Orleans received visits from
many of the Floridian guests, and an
unusually large number of others,
while the Hot Springs, various points
on the gulf, the Southern Atlantic cit
les, and the interior of the Carolinas,
received their usual quotas. Califor-
MIA. Colorado and other places farther
north had n fair show of winter tour
lists and persons in search of health.
The winter hegira from the north has
become more marked than ever before,
and will continue to increase, as trans
portation becomes more favorable and
southern living and accommodations be-
come cheaper and better. Nothing but
hard times will check these birds of
passage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
Death of Gen. weitzel,

Gen Godfrey Weiztel, lieutenant colonel of
engineers, who died On Wednesday, was born
Ohio. His first rank in the regular army
was that of brevet second lieutenant engineer,
to which he was appointed July 1, 1855. He
had risen to the rank of first lieutenant when
the war broke out He was made brigadier
general of volunteers Aug. 20, 1852, and for
gallant and meritorious service at the battle
of Thibodeaux, Louisiana, he was appointed
brevet major in the regular service. Al
the capture of Port Hudson, La, his gallant
conduct secured him an other promotion
to the rank of brevet major.
Aug %, 1864 he was made brevet
major general of volunteers for ''meritorious
and distinguished service during the war" and
in September of the same year, for bis success
full efforts in the capture of Fort Harrison,
Virginia, he was made brevet colonel in the
regular army. Nov. II, 1864, he became ma
jor general of volunteers and March Il, 1865,
brevet brigadier general in the regular army.
For his general services and gallant conduct
during the war he was created brevet major
general He was mustered out of volunteer
service March l. 1866, and shortly after was
made major of engineers in the regular army.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

Herbert Spencer has written an ar
ticle for The Popular Science Monthly
on "The Coming Slavery" the opposite
of liberty and the essence of slavery
Spencer holds to be compulsion, and he
points out very impressively that ten
dency to coercion of conduct in modern
legislation which threatens to leave very
little at last of real individual freedom.
1t is the old and ever living question re-
vived, whether liberty, or what degree
of liberty, must be yielded in popular
governments to what the majority may
de 4 necessary for the public welfare,
Her BERT Spencer's paper will suggest
further discussions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
General News Items.

Mrs. Georgiana Miller, widow, died while
on her knees in prayer at a Chicago mission
Gov. Crittenden says if the present state
laws are enforced the cattle plague can be
stamped ont
Rt Rev Bishop Hennessy, of the diocese Of
Dubuque, is lying dangerously ILL His condi-
ton Is critical
Mr. Dana, of the Sun, and three other New
Workers, have started on a six weeks trip
through Mexico.
Miss Nannette Leonard, sister Of Lillian Rus
SELL the actress, is a sensation as singer at New
York revival meetings.
A Windham, Me, deacon sold for SO ton of
hay last week he had been holding over twenty
years TO get that figure
The blanket and wooden mills OF John 4 James
Dobson. Falls of the Schuylkill, have stopped,
and 200 male and female operatives are now
idle.
Gen Newton, chief of engineers, viii remain
in charge of the work of improving the harbor
of New York unless it is found that his other
duties viii prevent his doing So
James H Moore's pottery st Trenton, n, J.
was seized by the sheriff on executions from
two judgments, aggregating $4,000. Work
was suspended and number of prisoners are
tue of employment The pottery stood high
II is reported worth sl25,0oo
Emigration 10 the northwest has, during the
past few days, increased very much. just at
present pretty much all new corners are
destined for points on the extreme western end
of the Northern Pacific The through trains of
that road have, during the past two weeks, been
so large that the company has been taxed TO
supply the necessary rolling stock.
There were 193 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreets during the past week,
as compared with 1S6 in the preceding week,
and with 196, us and 121, respectively, in the
corresponding weeks Of 1885, 1892 and 1881.
About 81 per cent were those of small traders.
whose capital was less than 5000 Canada
had thirty seven, decrease of one.
At Erie, Pa, sensational elopement was
frustrated. the lady being Mrs. Biffn, young
married woman of good family, and the man
an illiterate colored youth employed as hod-
carrier, The pair were discovered on the ears
as the train was leaving the depot A scene
ensued. Mrs. Martin mother Of the girl, ap-
pealed to the police TO prevent the outrage.
but Mrs Biffin fed from the officers grasp
and has not been recovered vet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

Sam Prayer was convicted of murder in the
first degree at Marysville, Kans.
George Grace, boy of eighteen years, is
charged at Cape May, n, Y, with having pois-
oned his father, mother, two sistsrs and broth
er with rat poison.
H NJ Richmond young lawyer of Mead
VILE Pa, shot and killed himself in the Metro
poltan hotel, New York, in fit of dependency
induced by dyspepsia.
Maggie Flood, twenty three years of age,
shot and killed Thomas Grady in New York, in
the presence of his wife and three children.
She alleges Grady betrayed her under promise
of marriage, telling her he was single man
George McFadden of st Louis, an accom-
plice of Tiller in the express robbery crushed
glass vial he had in his pocket by stamping up
on it. and while eating supper mixed the pow
dered glass with his food and swallowedit He
viii probably die.
E. NJ Eberhardt of Dayton, Ohio, who had
left his wife last summer, called on her and
asked her for reconciliation, and upon refusal,
he drew a knife and attempted to kill her, but
without success. He then went to the barn
and hanged himself.
Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick, brothers,
were hanged Friday, the 22d at Columbia, Ky,
a place twenty-five miles from telegraph sta
ton. for the brutal murder of Milton Brewster
The execution was public, and 5000 people
witnessedit The condemned men were re-
signed to their fate, and died game.
At Modesto, Cal, Robbins and Doane, who
were accused but acquitted of having outraged
two girls, aged eleven and thirteen years,
daughters of J. n McCrellis, were notified
some days ago by 'San Joaquin regulators,
n vigilance committee, to leave town or suffer
death Doane delayed Fifteen masked men
visited his place last night and shot him dead
On sight
William Dane, young man of Bentonville,
Fayette county, Indiana, was enamored of Ada
Swift aged thirteen years. The parents of the
girl objected to the continuance of his atten-
tons, on account of her age. On the night of
the 18th Dane purchased two ounces of laud-
anum, giving Miss Swift half and taking the re-
mainder himself. The poison failed to have a
fatal effect, being an overdose The father of
the girl had Dane arrested for giving Miss
Swift poison for the purpose of suicide Dane
shot himself, dying in a short time The girl
is seriously sick, but may recover Dane was
a school teacher, and correspondent of the New
York (Iraphic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27

1t IS now the fOot-and-mouth diesase
that annoys farmers and stockmen. 1t
has effected Judgment in Kansas, and
one or two other states. and it is said
that the germs of the disease were in
troduced into this country from En-
gland. The following description of the
foot and-mouth disease Is taken from a
recent publication; The mouth of the
sick animal becomes hot and its skin
cracks: the eyes are watery and unnatur-
ally bright; the skin about one or more
Of the feet cracks, and presently the
crack extends clear around the ankle
Joint. and the foot rots and drops off.
The swelling of the feet and mouth is
very painful. The cracks generally
show first on the feet. An account
written bv visitor to the infected herds
in Kansas saws of the disease: The
right hind foot to the ankle joint was
gone. the bare bone protruding. The
leg was still swollen, with prospect
of further loss The lips were hot, dry,
and cracked, the eyes clear and bright,
with a yellow liquid running from their
corners. A heifers feet to the second
Joint we're swollen, with tender crack
around the ankle. Her muzzle was hot
and cracked, eyes bright and full
Seven calves on another farm showed
swollen feet and legs. They move re-
luctantly, preferring to lie still, A
mich COW had seabs on her teats, which
we're infiamed and tender, with her
right hind foot gone, and her left hind
foot swollen and cracked She refused
to lift it from the ground" On an
other farm yearling bull had one foot
gone and another only held on by a
bandage. One premonitory symptom
Is a SOLDERING at the mouth. From
this DESCRIPTION some idea can be
formed of the terrible nature of the
disease. It's no wonder that the alarm
over its appearance is wide spread,
especially as it is fearfully contagious.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
Muinps.

There are three glands, or rather coli
Iections of glands, on each side of the
mouth that secrete saliva-the fluid
which keeps the throat moist ard helps
to digest food. One collection is just
below the ears; the second below the
ends of the lower jaw; the third under
the tongue. Mumps is a brief fever and
one of its characteristic symptoms is
an inflammation and swelling of these
glands, generally those near the ears
whence its medical name, parotiditis-
infammations of the parotid glands.
the name mumps is from the mumbling
way in which the patient often speaks,
it being painful to move the infiamed
jaws.
Every inflammation of these glands
does not Constitute humps, but only
such AZ . caused by a peculiar kind Of
contagion wEicL probably enters the
mouth in breathing, and thence finds its
way to the glands through the main
ducts.
In all infectious diseases there is a
period of incubation "a term taken
from hatching-the time between the
exposure and the first symptom. In
humps this period varies from eight
or ten days to two or three weeks.
The swelling begins below the ear, ex-
tends back to the end of the jaw, and
thence spreads in all directions Some
times it is SO slight as to be scarcely
noticed sometimes it is so great on both
sides as to give the neck and head a
pyramidal shape. And yet very severe
symptoms are sometimes connected with
the slightest swelling.
The swelling may be confined to one
side of the neck, but most often it ex-
tends to both, the one, however, first
affected being the worst. The whole
disappears in eight or twelve days. In
rare cases the swelling extends to i'm
portant glandsin other parts of the body,
sometimes with serious results
The fever is otter so SLIGHT that the pa
tent keeps about, asId unless ii extends
TO other glands is always without dan
ger, and requires only the simplest
treatment.
The period Of greatest susceptibility to
an attact is between the ages of five and
fifteen. 1t is unknown under one year,
and not common in adults. Yet per
sons who have seemed proof against it
when young are sometimes severely at
tackled late in life. IT is one Of the
diseases which are seldom repeated.--
Youths Companion.