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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-18
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

France has already obtained foot
hold in China, and the indications are
favorable to its definite extension, and
with the tacit acquiescenec of other
great powers, most of whom are en-
gagged in the same business of territorial
extension in various parts of the world.
Germany, especially as well as England,
seems determined to carry out her colo
nization scheme and viii probably fol
low up the advantages which she has
already obtained il Africa. 1t is now
we'll understood that there are vast
regions north of Cape Colony and the
Transvaal and south of the Egyptian
Soudan LII which white men can live
and flourish. In these regions are vast
deposits of iron, copper and coal, be-
sides gold snd silver. The crops of
southern Europe can be grown there,
and the temperature is nearly the same
all the year round. This inviting terri
tory is about six times larger than
France. 1t is the opinion of recent
travellers that great tracts of land In
this country can be made salubrious
and productive at no great expense.
OF course the pioneers viii have many
hartlships to contend with, but organ
lied European colonies, well equipped
with all the constructive and destruc-
tive agencies of civilization, will grad
ually exterminate the native races and
turn large area of the dark continent
into a white mans country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
Record of Casualties.

Perry Valley, Iowa, had little taste of cy-
clone Tuesday night
E. J. Salt & Co s wooden mill at Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned Loss $4,000; fully insured
The factory of the Eagle Furniture Works,
Baltimore, was burned recently Loss, $780,
600
A block of stores at Midland, Ont, extending
from Queens hotel to Dominion avenue was
burned. Loss, $50 600; partly insured.
A son of Rev. Clinton Locke, OF Chicago
dropped lighted cigar into key of gunpow-
der, and almost wrecked the rectory, but him
self escaped with eyebrows somewhat scorched.
At East Liverpool Ohio, Walker & Co g fire
brick works, together with several small out
houses, six Cleveland Il Pittsburg railroad
freight cars and numerous telegraph poles
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $25, 600
At the coroner's office, Tuesday morning
between S and II, there were reported twenty
five sudden deaths many of which were di-
rectly or indirectly due to the heat. The total
number of cases of prostration Thursday was
eighteen, and in Brooklyn fourteen, three be-
ing fatal
The terrible sufferings of Capt Murphy and
the crew of the bark Anita Owen from yellow
fever have seldom been equaled Capt Muir
with crew of five men. OF the captain and
two mates andhis wife, and man named Con-
way, who was sick with the fever when the yes
sci started, but begged to be taken on board,
Conway is the only man of the crew alive the
rest having died of the fever on the passage.
The captain and mate suffered terribly from
the disease, but managed to navigate the YES
sci, and reach New York on Wednesday last
Additional reports from Wisconsin cyclone
territory show that while not conveying an ex-
tended area, the storm was decidedly thorough
as IL gar De sestructi1eness Clear Lake sur
fered to the extent of $3.50, 600. From Marine
10 Clear Lake the track of the storm was from
eight to fifteen miles wide and the loss very
heavy. The damage to timber alone in that
section is placed at 81, 600, 600, and to farm
buildings, machinery and the like at 5000, 900.
Some estimates place the total loss as high as
81, 900, coo. Considering the violence of the
storm the loss of life was surprisingly small
Mitchell, Oak, Special: Fire last night,
by which several of the best business build
ings of the city were laid in ruins, is serious
blow to Mitchell The work of rebuilding will
commence at once Letcher & Co.'s loss is
$35, 600, insurance g25, 600; NJ. H. Rowley,
who owned the building occupied by l. 5.
Shauer & Co, lost Sc, 600; insured for $1,000;
the stock was valued at $4,000 and was in
sured for about one-third; L. o. Gale andP L.
McGovern lost about S25, 900 each, and were
insured for about half; photograph gallery
and a law office on the second floor of the
Rowley building were total loss. 1t was
only by the utmost exertions on the part of
the firemen and citizens that the fire was pre-
vented from spreading to other buildings.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

Harrigan Il Rankin, tailors $500. Q. +. Dun-
can, Jeweler. $500; Mrs. Steppler, restaurant;
total loss. g w. Chappell. Keyler a Co., Rich-
Misses Masse, w. Il. Kreeland, shute & Smith.
q. w. Robertson, wholesale liquors. $1,000:
barn $500. Hinricks & Hartman, Sugars and
Young Bros, trunk mandatory; $500. Gle
ments 81 Lytle, livery: $3.50. +. NJ Fish a. Co.i
sash, doors and blinds; $500. Mrs g. Z. Por-
ter, dwelling; $500. Mrs. ]. S. Owen, $500. Il.
p Putnam, dwelling: $3.50. Opera house, $500.
London Tea company, $500. ,. BROOKS,
hardware: $500. Williams & Villa s, furn1-
Chicago carpet store, $3.50. Charles A4Denburgs
dry goods; 800 N. S. Stein, clothing; $500.
Sam Ellis, livery stable; S4o0. Matthias Kneer,
Thirty or forty residences on Sonth River
street had their rear fences next to the river
carried away and their yards filled with
debris, which causes damages approximate
ing $3.50 each Some of the brick blocks
show signs of settling some as the water re-
cedes, but it is hoped they Will not be
rendered unstable, From Main to Kelsey
street. along Barstow, stocks in cellars are
damaged from 800 to $500 There are no
reasons for changing estimates made in sun
days PIONEER PRESS, that the total losses are
not over 81 600, 900,
THE MII.wAUKEE's LOSSES.
MILWAUKEE, Special Telegram, Sept Id =
General Superintendent Clark, OF the ST Pau
road, has not vet returned from the scene OF
the Chippewa river floods. where he went on
Friday. He is personally overseeing the
work of repair going on there
NO DAMAGE AT DURAND.
DURAND, Wis, Special, Sept. IA. - This
place is all right this evening. The water
reached point two feet above the high
water of 1880, but there was no damage ex-
cept to cellars The bridge across the
Chippewa is all right. Beef Slough boom
and the mills below will round up all logs
that come down.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
The Criminal Calendar.

Bankrupt Banker squier of Washington cut
his throat
Rev. T. J. Powell, a Baptist minister of
Orangeville, Ohio, has lost his pastoral connec-
ton by drunkenness and lying.
Tate Mahaney, proprietor of the Three States
Boarding house, Cairo, Ill, after locking him
self in his room, shot himself. He had large
family. Cause unknown
At Cincinnati, Benjamin Johnson, (colore6
was hanged for completely with Allen ingalls,
in the murder of Beverly Taylor and wife and
child near Avondale last February
Cymon d. Miner of Bridgewater, Conn, and
dealer in elastic goods in New York, killed
himself in the United States hotel, IN the latter
city Cause business embarrassment
Burglars entered the drug store of DR.. Edwin
Ellis of Ashland, Wis, and succeeded in blow
ing open his safe. They obtained for their
trouble s15, all of the money in the safe.
John Washer, prominent banker of Corpus
Christi. Tex, suicided by shooting through the
forehead Cause, financial difficulties, al
though he was reputed one of the wealthiest
men of Texas.
d. T. Ashtonswas arrested at Boone, Iowa,
for showing counterfeit silver dollars, and $50
of bogus money and the dies for making more
were found on him. He was transferred to the
United States authorities at Des Moines.
Alonzo Muchler of Toledo found his wife re-
Gently in a bagnio in Cleveland, and threw in
her face about an ounce of vitrioL 1t was at
first thought both her eyes were destroyed,
but her physician now hopes to save them
Her face was badly burned Mueller was ar
rested
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
washington views.

The president has not decided whom to make
secretary of the treasury, but the probabilities
are that his choice viii fall either upon Judge
Gresham or Assistant Secretary Coon.
Daily postal bulletin: Postofices established
Dakota, Roop, Emmons county. Minnesota,
Lindsay, Polk county. Postofice Name chang
-Minnesota. -Mantee, Hubbard county, to
Hubbard. Postoffices Discontinued-W iscon-
sin, Iakeville, Chippewa county, mail to Cart
wright
By direction of the president general court
martial has been appointed to meet at San An
TONIC Tex, Oct o, for the trial Of Capt Hen
messy, of the Eighth cavalry, on a charge of
conduct unbecoming an officer, and gentleman
The charges have not been promulgated 1t is
understood that the court was ordered on
charges made by the officers wife, and is an
outcome of recent divorce proceedings insti-
tuted by himself
At the examination of candidates for the ma
val academy Thomas Kierulf, Iowa, was re-
jeeted because he lacked one and one-eighth
inches of the required height-five feet Mr..
Hamilton of New Jersey was rejected because
of color blindness. Another candidate was
rejected because one leg was an inch longer
than the other. The latter candidate never
knew his legs were odds until the naval board
measured them.
The acting commissioner of pensions has ad-
dressed letter to the officers Of the Assoca-
ton of the Army Of the Cumberland, asking
that they furnish to the pension Office the
names and postofice address of every officer
and enlisted man attending the annual reunion
this year who is not member of the G. A. r.
This Is IN accordance with the plan adopted by
the pension Office, to complete as far as may
be roster of surviving soldiers of the REBEL
ion, which will aid applicants in obtaining
proof to sustain their demands for pensions
The Office has already roster of over three
hundred thousand ex-officers and soldiers and
expects to increase the list two hundred
thousand more.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
rugeets Of roretgn Uews.

F. W. o. Grant lately en- assistant bailiff at
omararu, New Zealand, has succeeded to the
earldom of Seafield, with IN annual income OF
970,0 600
According to official statements the total
number of forces under the French flag in Ton.
quin is 10000 OF these Il, 600 are Europeans,
and the remainder native auxiliary troops.
Mervyn Smith, awealthy citizen of Montreal,
who married handsome American girl named
Kate Wheeler, ten years ago, has become
jealous of an English coachman, and has
entered suit for separation.
In consequence of the British governments
refusal to institute fresh inquiry into the
Maamtrasna murder case, in the light of the
confessions of Casey and Philbins, the Irish
party in parliament have resolved to act with
the Conservatives on the franchise bill when
the measure comes up again at tho autumn
session.
Great indignation is expressed in Munich
over the intention OF King Louis, the music
mad monarch of Bavaria, to erect colossal
equestrian statue of King Louis XIV. of France
in one of the squares of the Bayarian capital
The DIRECTORS say that the man whom it is thus
proposed to honor was always the arch-enemy
OF Germany
Arrangements have been made for the three
emperors to meet at Count Henckel's castle,
near Kattewitz, in Prussian Silesia Emperor
William started for the meeting place on Sun
day evening. Prince Bismarck, Count Her
bert Bismarck and Gen. Alldyle will accom-
pany him. NJ De Giers, Russian pr me min
lister, starts for Poland to be present at the
meeting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

About this time last month there
was decided feeling of uneasiness in
the financial world because of the de-
crease of the government gold reserve,
and fears were actually entertained that
the United States Treasury might, by a
dread possibility, be reduced to the
shocking necessity of paying out pale
pieces of silver instead of shining gold
en- eagles. What objection there need
be to the Treasury's paying silver was
not made altogether plain to ordinary,
comprehension, as the fearful alterna-
tive could not be contemplated with
composure enough to permit its fell eff
fects to be fully explained. Whatever
the danger was, it has now happily
passed away. More gold has come in
from Europe and elsewhere and the
Treasury surplus is once more on the
increase. During the month of August
the gold coin and bullion owned by the
government increased from $119, 000,
600, the low ebb at which the financial
wiseacres began to take alarm, to Sl22,-
000, 900. This gain of $4,000, 900 in a
month is not very important in itself,
but the indications are that the increase
is going on and will continue during
the autumn months. Uncle Sam has
gold galore, and there is no longer any
danger that he will be compelled to pay
out silver dollars, so we are not likely to
learn what calamity would have ensued
had he been forced to that sad resort.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

Business begins to feel the usual fall
impetus to trade given by the farmers
who have harvested and sold their crops
and now come into the streets with
pockets full of cash, which they wish
to exchange for commodities or deposit
it against rainy day. The crops have
heen abundant, and were prices better
the farmers would feel rich and liberal.
As it is, they will find compensation for
their own reduced receipts in the lower
prices which rule in almost all lines of
goods. If they are getting less for their
cereals than they have done in the past,
they will find clothing, furniture, ma
chinery and everything else, both use
full aud ornamental, reduced somewhat
in price, so that the purchasing value
of their hard earned dollars will not be
very much less than in the best times of
the past.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

Because Z very large number of vo-
tiers ara not shouting themselves hoarse
in this campaign, it ought not to be in
ferred that popular interest in politics
is less intense than usual. Apathy is a
term often misapplied Men who stay
away from political demonstrations, and
even those who have little to say about
politics in private conversation, may net
be indifferent, but, entertaining views of
their own, prefer to enlist in the great
army of silent voters. The apparent
apathy at present indicates, perhaps,
that people are doing some vigorous
thinking or that they are too busy in
harvesting and fall pIoughing to spend
much time in what is called political
work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
Great Heat at the East.

Special from New York of the 10th says;
The continued hot spell in New York has caused
the most intense suffering here recently and re-
suited in about fifty cases of sunstroke while
nine deaths occurred at Bellevue hospital 1t
was in tho tenement house districts in the lower
wards that people suffered most Hardly a
breath of air stirring among the big build
ings with their forty or fifty families close
ly packed together in each, and the
sun beat down mercilessly. Toward even
ing, however, the thermometer began to
drop, and is now cooler than it has
been since last Friday The horses in
the street cars were suddenly overcome and
dropped down everywhere along the lines.
The horse car companies resorted to every
possible means to save their horses. Water
ing troughs were placed at close intervals along
the routes, and every facility provided for
bathing their horses with sponges This was
the fifth day that the thermometer indicated
over 80 deg, the highest points reached being
81 and 95. Similar reports come from all
eastern cities
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18

Pennsylyanians are celebrating the
twenty fifth anniversary of the striking
of the first oil well, near Titusville.
That has grown to $4,000 wells, 10000
of which are still producing, and the ten
barrels a day with which the infant en-
terprise began has grown to daily pro-
duction varying during the past four or
five years, between 5000 and 100, 900
barrels. The little oil field bounded
by the eneircling bluffs which hem in
the Oil Greek valley has been extended
over portions of eight or ten counties,
and the little hamlet of few hundred
inhabitants has grown to city of ten
thousand people, and is only one of a
half dozen or more fourishing towns of
like size, while the smaller towns
which the industry has given rise to are
almost countless.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
MISCELLANEOUS News Notes.

The Nebraska wheat crop viii be about $780,
600 600 bushels
The total receipts of the state fair at Des
Moines were over $4,000
''Black Pat Meehan was arrested in Penn
sylvania in company with Mrs. Harriet Curtis,
said TO be the daughter of St Paul divine.
Accounts published by the government of
Canada state that there are at the present time
los, 600 Indians still living within the dominion
President Ogden, of the Cincinnati trades as
sembly, says of 1900 members of trades
unions in that city. 5000 are idle, not including
women and children who support themselves.
Eugene YB Thayer of Boston drove skin
hand from Glen house to the summit of Mount
Washington in one hour and ten minutes, beat
ing the record made last year by w. II. Van
derbilt by seven minutes.
Henry Hoffman recently eloped from New
castle, Del, with a daughter of Mr. WestfalL
The girl was captured and taken home Hoff-
man escaped arrest, and subsequently induced
Mrs. Westfall, mother of the girl, to run away
with him. He Is now locked mp, as Is the
woman
Concerning the alleged discovery of gold in
the LATHE Rockies, Mont, Benton papers con-
tain the usual enthusiastic reports. ThePress
has received letter from one of the Hlucky1
prospectors, saying the writer and his partner
we're then making sluiee boxes, and that the in
dications were they would get from SO to sluV
a day 10 the man. The gulch is an extensive
one and for miles above and below Discovery
COOL prospects are found The quartz finds,
how syer, are as wonderful as the placer. In
one day. he SAYS, his partner pounded and
washed ont $40 in dust from rock found in that
vicinity, which must have been tremendously
rich quartz.
Conservator Patterson has fled his answer
10 the motion for an investigation Of his
management of the Chicago Times
He is entirely willing, he says, to
have his accounts and acts examined by
good and impartial men, but he objects de-
cldedly to Messrs. Water and Smith. To the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
Railroad and River News.

The Wisconsin Minnesota & Pacific filed a
first mortgage of 81, 800, 0OO the money to be
used for an extension from Waterville to Gay
lord
David Swan, who until recently, was the
cashier of the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany, in its Office in st Paul, is charged with
having embezzeled s21, 246.03 The company
has begun in the supreme court ia New York,
suit against Swan to recover the money, and
its attorney, Mr. Gray, has obtained from
Judge Donohue an attachment against what
ever property he may be found to have in this
state. Robert l. Belknap, the treasurer of the
company, made the affidavit upon which the
attachment was granted. He charges that on
Feb. % last Swan appropriated 5000 belong
ing to tho company to his own use; that on
Feb. 26 he appropriated 81, 600; on Feb 81 81,
600; Feb. 10, 50, 7460 3, and ON June2l, s., 500.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
The Great wisconsin Flood.

The Chippewa and other Wisconsin rivers
were on great rampage last week A dis
patch from Chippewa Falls says: Wednesday
night was one of horror here in the city, the
water raising rapidly up too o'clock this morn
ing The water stood four feet deep IN Spring
street and many of the firms removed their
goods. There was two feet of water in the
postoffice The Little Falls and Paint Greek
dams are out There were about two hundred
million feet of logs in the Little Falls dam, ana
from twenty to fifty million in Paint creek.
The rise is over thirty feet-the biggest
flood ever known on the river. The
two Wisconsin railroad bridges went
out a little after midnight carrying
the wagon bridge with them. All the
bridges at Eau Claire are gone except the Oma;
ha railroad bridge. The bank on the south
side, opposite the central depot, is cut into
$50 feet, carrying away the Omaha roadbed.
The iron was removed from the track IN anti
eipation of the break.
Fifteen buildings were carried down from
the city side and upward of twenty from the
600 The Omaha bridge is the only one left
standing. Over fifty business places are inun-
dated. The bridges throughout the country
have almost without an exception been carried
away, which will have tendency to depress
trade for some time TO come.
A special from Eau Claire SAYS: At daylight
Thursday morning the Chippewa showed at the
water gauge twenty-one feet, covering an I'M
mense territory. The night was one of wild
excitement throughoutthe city, dark with pros
poets of additional rain. About four O'Clock
the west half of the Madison street bridge gave
away, the monster timbers floating down the
river. When the new docking just placed at
the mouth of the Chippewa suddenly gave way
this with the force of the structure carried away
the railway, as well as the Kelsey street bridge.
The crash could be heard for miles As soon
as this occurred the bell from the engine
houses gave a general alarm, and soon more
than half the population was astir. On the
two structures rushed in their maddened
course till they came in contact with the rail
way bridge, which was demolished by the col
lision. The food is the worst that has ever
occurred in this section, not only in the guam
tity of water, but the loss sustained At mid
night the river is declining rapidly. The citi-
zens are feeling better, but exceedingly regret
the loss of the three bridges. The entire loss
to the city by the flood is placed at $500, 600
The loss to the Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
company by washouts and loss of bridge is
100000, and the loss by the destruction Of
private and public property in the Chippewa
valley is $4,000.