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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19
Arerr1fyinr lightning Episode.

Some forty five hundred people who were IN
Che coliseum at Minneapolis, Thursday after
noon, had an experience to be remembered
The dress circle and balcony were well filled
and the stage presented bright and cheerful
appearance. The full chorus of nearly thous
and children were seated in the great sounding
board, the girls dressed in white
Throughout the entertainment there was tho
occasional disturbance of rumbllng distant
thunder with flashes of lightning that seemed
to trace the bright wood finish One or TWO
sharp peals added to the apprehension, when
suddenly there was a loud, sharp report, APP
parently in the space between the ceiling and
roof the crash of falling glass from the centre
skyhght, and confusion worse eonfounded
People started to their feet; faces blanched,
panic was threatened among the children and
in the audience, audit was moment of intense
excitement and wonderment and questioning
in every look.
AS the thundersh0wer passed over il singled
out for an electric shock the gilt bah on the
top of the flag staff IN the center of the build
ing, the highest point that presented itself
The electric current flashed down the pole,
shattered the apex of the building, ram along q
timber, attacked bolt, followed along TO an
electric light wire, and thence made its way
without further injury TO the building and TO
an electric lamp and passed outside the build
ing and to the head OF the steps from the rail
road, which it shattered, and then buried itself
in the ground 1t was not an easy task to meet
the emergencJ- entirely among the children, and
the exciteme' tof the little ones was added 10 by
the intereession of anxious parents, one alarmed
mother mounting the stage from the orchestra
while it was PLAYING to where her child was to
be found
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19
Personal Points.

Prof NJ P Castin, of Boston university, is
dead.
Count George Foulkes de Nera, the young
Partisan who tried to kill himself with phos-
phorus from two boxes of matches in New
York is out of danger
W. H. J. Sawyer, travelling representative of
Phelps, Dodge & Palmer of Chicago died al
Wilmington, Kan, from an overdose of choral
and morphine taken to induce sleep.
Bishop George w Peterkin of West Virginia
was married near Richmond, Va, to Miss Ma
rian M. Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, one
of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens
of Virginia.
DR.. Lewis, of the Tuscarawas Medical society,
has been expelled from the Ohio Medical So
ciety for attempting to procure an insurance
policy on the life of patient who at the time
was fatally sick.
Sankey, the evangelist, and family started
from Liverpool for America on the Steamer
Britannica Beside requiring rest Sankey was
led to return home Immediately by demands of
private business.
John and Charles Kennedy, laborers, of
Louisville, Ky, have fallen heir tos2, COO coo
left them by an uncle, who suddenly left that
city thirty years ago and was not heard of I'm
til his death in Australia.
Henry G. vennor, the weather prophet, died
in Montreal Sunday, the Sth Mr. Vennor was
forty three years old. He was born in Mont
real where his father was wealthy hardware
merchant His mother was a Patterson, and
was of Scotch descent Young Vennor was ed
ucated with his brothers at the leading schools
of Montreal and subsequently was graduated
from MeGill university.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

can will display some very fine millinery. The
brides dress, made by Worth, is of white China
crepe, embroidered with seed pearls for the
front breadths and drapery, while the train and
eorsage are OF rich white satin and China crepe
combined, embroidered with pearl-worked
roses, buds and sprays.
A Dane named Hans Frederick Morck, age
about twenty-seyen, left Lemay & Southern's
camp about three miles north of the Brule river
on the 9TH or cth of May, expressing at the
time his intention of proceeding direct to Du-
lnth and having in his possession d check for
SIS May II the check was cashed at the
American Exchange bank, Duluth, but nothing
has been seen or heard of Morck since. Foul
play is suspected.
Edmond Yates, of the World, has got him
self involved in another libel suit The World
recently contained an article protesting to
give details of certain dishonest practices in
the career of Edward Legge, a well known war
correspondent of the London papers, the an
thor of '4Wayside Sketches and ssKilled at
Saarbrueken,n and the originator and former
editor of the Whitehall Review. Mr.. Legge
promptly responded with suitfor damages.
The Miner county bank at Howard, Oak, has
closed its doors. The proprietors were W. w.
White and Henry W1dner, doing business
under the firm name Of White 4 Widner 1t is
not known yet what the amount of deposits
were. The bank was opened in the spring of
1SS2 by Mr. White, formerly of Cresco, Iowa
later, DIR. II. Kendall bought an interest in the
bank, which he held for some months, finally
dissolying partnership and retiring. Mr.. Wild
ner subsequently became partner, having for
merly been in the banking business in
Alexandria, Hanson county
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

The House Committee on the Re
form of the Civil Service has submitted
a unanimous report against repeating
the reform law of last year. The com
mittee consists of Messrs Mutchler, of
Pennsylvania: Cox, of New York; Glenn
ents. of Georgia: Hoblitze4, OF Mary
land. Finerty, of Illinois Barksdale, of
Mississippi; Seymour, of Connecticut;
Robertson, of Kentucky, S democrats,
and Bingham, ofPennsylvania; Phelps,
Of New Jersey; Millard, of New York /;
Lyman, of Massachusetts, aud Hit, of
Illinois, ) republicans. The report is
not only unanimous, but it is emphatic
and unqualified. 1t recognizes the evils
of "patronage;" it condemns the "spoils
system;" it attributes the maintenance
of the system to both parties, and holds
both responsible for the duty Of up
roofing it. 1t expresses the conviction
Of the committees that much good has
already been done, and that much more
can be done. And it all concludes as
follows: "Your committee, entirely
satisfied with the thorough eonscien-
tious. and non partisan work of the Civil
Service Commission, are justified in the
belief that its continuance viii aid in
large degree in eradicating the preva-
lent evils of the civil service of the gov
eminent, remove just complaint, and
restore public confidence in the work
performed by the subordinate officials,
and can see no wisdom in the proposed
repeal of the law
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Record of Casualties.

Frank Devily and wife we're killed by light
ming at Harrisburg Pa.
Lieut. Schwatka fell over San Francisco
rocking chair the other day, and broke his
arm
Mrs. Maria Fox, aged eighty three years,
living near Lagonda, Ohio, fell dead while
watching funeral
man named Orquist suddenly disappeared
from dixie which was being built at Chippewa
Falls His body was found in the Lafayette
company's boom, seven miles below the city
He leaves a wife and three childrenin poor cir
cumstances.
At Grand Park, Ill, eight business houses
and one large hotel were destroyed, as were
eight stables and two agricultural warehouses,
together with large amount of agricultural
implements. The loss is about $4,000; COW
cred by s2l, 900 insurance
The steamer Pearl mistook the lights at
White Rock, on Lake Huron, on the night of
the IL, and ran on the rocks, where she now
lies in perilous position. Her cargo has been
ietisoned, and it is feared she will prove to-
tai loss. Tugs have gone to herrelief.
The most destructive csclone, rain and wind
storm that ever visited jackson, county Ind,
passed through Salt Creek township Monday
evening The barns Of Neddie Brown,
William Browning, Levi Stockdell, William
Williams William Scott aud Elisha White
were completely unroofed and blown to
atoms.
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The Iowa Pharmacy Law.
Letter from Des Moines.

lSObtSI iIOUi Les Auliless
Last week gave you the decision of the
state board of pharmacy ~ to their construc
ton of the statute relating to the sale of liquor
by druggists, which was that under the phar-
macy law of 1880 and 1882, they were authorized
10 s8l and dispose of liquor for medicinal pur-
poses without obtaining a permit from the
county board of supervisors. Now comes the
attorney general with an elaborate opinion
addressed to the board, in which he reyerses
their decision and holds
First--Ihat the supplemental act of 1852
printed without number or chapter, and which
was not approved by the governor is invalid.
Second-That under the pha rmacy law OF
1880 as mentioned by chapter Isl, laws Of $50
druggists were not required to get permit
I'hird-rhat chapter l43, laws Of 1881, re
peals section i540 of the code, and provides
a substitute, which provides a penalty against
any person selling liquor for any purpose, un-
less he has permit: that the pharmacy law
Of 1880 and 1852 is conflict with this substitute
that chapter 1i3, laws of 1884, repeats all laws
in conflict herewith
Fourth-That after july a druggist must
get permit to sell liquor for medicinal pur
poses, and that his application Tor permit
must be signed by majority of the legal vot-
ers in the ward or township IN which he resides
or does business
Fifth-That the act of 1884 does not change
the code relative to the granting of permits,
and that the power is still in the board OF
supervisors, and is discretionary.
This settles much yexed question among
pharmacists in this state from and after Fourth
of July, and those familiar with the history Of
the legislation uron the subject will concedo
that the attorney generals opinion is In har-
mony with the object and intent of the legls-
latIire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

The bill in the New York legislature
for the suppression of indecent publ
cations has now become law by the gov
errors action. This makes the sale or
circulation in any manner of any obscene
magazine, pamphlet or newspaper mis-
demeanor; and makes any one guilty OF
the same offence who SELLS, lends, gives
away, or has in his possession with in
tent to sell, or give away, or to show, or
advertise, or otherwise offers for loan,
Gift, SALE or distribution to any minor
child, any book, pamphlet, magazine,
newspaper, or other printed paper, de-
voted to the publication or principally
made up of criminal news, police re-
ports, or accounts of criminal deeds; or
exhibits upon any street or highway, or
in any other place within the view, or
which may be within the view, of any
minor child, any book, magazine, PAM
phlet, newspaper, writing paper, pic
ture, drawing, photograph or other ar
ticle ar articles coming within the de
scriptions of articles mentioned in the
first and second sub divisions of this sec
ton or any of them.
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NUGGETS of Foreign News.

The Tichborne claimant is to be released OF.
ticket-of- leave.
The workshops of S Chld& Co., Flushing,
England were burned. Loss, 100000
Theebaw, king of Buunah, poisoned the
queen and her mother, andmarried the queen s
sister.
Fresh electoral riots have occurred in Hun
gary. Three persons were killed and many
wounded
Bavaria will vote on the German federal
council against the bill for the taxation of the
bourse operations.
The London banking houses Of Barring Bros
and Glyn, Mills Currie 4 Co., have issued 95,
600, 600 of the new Canadian So per cent loan;
minimum price, 81.
The abdication of the duke of Hesse is ex-
pected as result of his marriage with and sub
se1uent divorce from Nine Kalomine, which
created such widespread comment.
Prince Hohenlohe, the German ambassador
to Paris, declares that public feeling in Ger
many il envenomed against France by the con-
slant provocation OF the French press.
The project of erecting monument to Victor
Emanuel in the Pantheon at Rome has been
abandoned tablet will take the place of the
monument A conflict with the Vatican is thus
avoided, though anti-clericals denounce this
as weak concession to the church.
In the house of commons Woodall's amend
ment to the franchise bill in favor of female
suffrage was rejected by vote Of 81 to 135,
Gladstone stated during the course of the de-
bate that if the amendment was adopted the
government would be answerable for the pas
sage of this bill
Col. Nelson Plato, collector of customs for
the Corpus Christi Texas district has been ar
rested A United States marshal has executed
the warrant, but finding Col Plate too i'll to
leave his room, placed guards over him. Pla-
to is charged with being a defaulter to the gov
eminent S1,10O
The Mahdi's famous Lieutenant, Osman Dig
ma, is described by one of his soldiers to be of
a tall and slender build, with pale complexion,
large open eyes and fine moustaehe. His
countenance express courage and energy. He
is almost always on horseback, and wears over
his left shoulder veil such as the Mohamme-
dams of old wore. He generally carries very
long musket, and under his mantle a long
sword He has one wife and three children
London Cable: Prince Bismarck has dis
covered another leak of the fighting material of
Germany, and is vigorously protesting against
it, The government of Holland, in the prose-
cution of its interminable war with Sumatra
for the possession of Aoheen, has been actively
recruiting its colonial army and, it is said, has
induced many able-bodied Germans to enlist
for this purpose Prince Bismarck is very in
dignant over this loss of fighting men, and has
addressed an angry note on the subject to JON
kheer Van Der Haevon, the Dutch ambassador
at Berlin
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The Criminal Calendar.

Isaac Jennings af Pensleton county, Pa,
shot his son, thinking he was a panther
Emms hines, Baltimore, was scolded by her
father, wrote poem on ''Death, and then took
a fatal dose of laudanum- She was seventeen
and pretty. --t
William G. Morgan, general auditing agent
of the New York banking firm of Putnam &
Earl. was sentenced at Hartford, Conn, to three
years in the penitentiary for embezzlement
W. H. Abbott, on trial in Montana on the
charge of numbering a railroad boss in Rocky
Canyon in the fall of 1882, or early winter of
1855 was acquitted on proof of self-defense.
Frank L. Loring, of Flemming & Merriam
''Fund W" fame was taken into custody at
Chicago by United States marshal and conveyed
to the county jail, where he will be required to
serve the sentence of years Imprisonment
imposed upon him by Judge Blodgett, beside
paying fine of $500. His partner, John Flem-
ming, is at present in Dakota, but is expected
here in two or three days to join Loring in his
enforced retirement
Mrs. Charles Wright, young widow of Tou-
lon, Ill, retired to her bed chamber and made
an attempt to hang herself, but the rope was
broken in the attempt She then procured a
butcher knife and hacked her throat in fright
fnl manner. Then she stabbed herself with
a pair of scissors, infiicting a CHASTITY wound.
She next repaired to the medicine chest of her
late husband, who had been druggist, and
mixing together four or five poisons swallowed
the deadly Dose Shortly after this last des-
perate attempt, she was discovered in an in
sensible condition and the services of a physi-
clan secured, who succeeded i'll saving her life.
She still avows determination to die.
The body of B. f Stone, a well known man
ufacturer of coach trimmings at Baltimore
was found floating in the city reservoir at an
early hour Friday morning. The deceased
man, who was fifty years old, had been sepa-
rated from his wife for month About day
break he called at the residence of Erasmus
NATHAN, his brother-in-law, where his wife has
been staying. None of the family had been
arisen Stone went into an clubhouse in the
yard and was discovered shortly afterward
by Mttan, with his throat and wrists cut and
bleeding profusely. Instead of rendering as
sistance Mttan drove Stone into the street.
terribly injured as he was. Stone staggered to
the reservoir and threw himself into the water,
and was drowned, A letter found in his peck
ct babe farewell to his wife, and was filled
with loving words for her The letter eonclud-
ed as follows: One thing there is in my trunk
Won want--money This is all have to say,
except thatyou Will see my ghost every
night / Welcome back to haunt you all.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

Bismarck has fallen into disfavor
with the workingmen of Germany A
few days ago he stopped at Friedrichs-
ruhe on the way from his summer resi-
dence to Berlin. 1t became noised
about that he was stopping at the hotel
and very soon a great crowd collected,
workingmen composing the majority.
Pretty soon tho cry was started, Down
with Bismarck" and the mob responded
with insulting yells and epithets. The
man of iron and blood viewed the hos
tile demonstration with savage eyes,
and, boiling with rage, ordered his ser
wants to summon the police and assist
in dispensing the mob. The sight of
his liveried servants only increased the
tumult, and it required considerable
work on the part of the authorities to
quiet matters down. When once safely
out of Friedrichsruhe Bismarck deliv-
cred long homily on "the ingratitude
of the people" to those who were in at
tendance upon him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

Section 4,747 of the United States
Revised Statutes provides that "no sum
Of money due or to become due, to any
pensioner, shall be liable to attachment,
levy or seizure, by or under any legal
or equitable process whatever, whether
the sum remains with the pension Office
or any officer or agent thereof, or is in
course of transmission to the pensioner
entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly
to the benefit of such pensioner. In
the recent case of Robion VS.. Walker. in
which the Interpretation of that section
was involved, the Kentucky Court of
Appeals held that pension money re-
ceived from the United States is exempt
from seizure for debt while it is being
transmitted to the pensioner, but not
after it is actually received by him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-19

Judge Gildersleeve, of New York, in
his address to the Grand Jury, congNtu-
lated the police upon their success in
bringing into subsection the common
thief and burglar. But he was grieved
to note the existence of another class of
criminals produced by the spirit of ex-
travagance and speculation who threat
ened the ommunity with dire calamity.
while in obedience to the law" he
said, Eve are Furnishing the1ow thieves
from the sloughs and slums of the city
for stealing small sums, let us not neg
lect the guilty in high places who steal
large sums and are amenable to the
same law" Only in this way can a
cessation of the gigantic thefts and
swindles that hare been brought to
light in New York be brought about.
If the enforcement of the law against
small criminals has had salutary effect,
a similar remedy for a great criminal
ought to he equally efficacious. The
remedy is certainly worth trying.
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Husband and step-Father.

A divorce in strange case was granted by
Judge Mann in the county court at Milwaukee.
The case was that of Martina Bussetman
against Louis Bussetman. The plaintiff al
legged that she was married to the defendant
June II, 1880, by Justice Ivers. One child a
girl about three years old, has been born to
them. The plaintiff is twenty-on years old,
and defendant tifty-fiye years of age. The
sensational feature of the cause was not con-
tanned in the pleadings, however, and quite a
commotion was caused in the courtroom when
the plaintiff herself, comely young woman
with handsome brown eyes and fsce that
wore traces of care and ill-usage, took the
stand and testified that the defendant her hus-
band, was also her stepfather Her story was
that her mother had married tho defendant
and afterwards obtained a divorce from him,
but advised and compelled the plaintiff, who
is her own daughter, and the defendants step
daughter, to marry Bussetman.
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Market Reports.

ST. PAuLs-wheat No. hard. 96(0oSc.
No i, Sic; No. , hard. 91c No. 2, Soc
Corn. No. ., sic; No. 3, 46(05Gc
Oats. No 2 mixed, 50l5c; No. 5 mixed, Soc
No white. Doe No. white, 31e.
Barles, No 2. 5Sc; No ) extra, SOC; No
3, 45c
Rye, No. :. sic
Bsled Hay, Wild, $50; timothy. $1,000
Potatoes, Pc.
Eggs, 14e
MILWAUKEE Wheat, No. 2, s15sc.
Corn. No 2, Sic.
Oats, No. ,, SIC
Rye, No. |, &c
Barley, No. ., Gle; extra, No. 8, 5S@5S1Sc
Mess Pork. sIa75
Lard, $500
good, 17Glee; best dairy, 15t0loc
Eggs l46gl45Se.
CHICAGO. Wheat, No. 2Chicago spring, s61JG
0S7e.
Corn, 54SSta54,sc.
Oats, 33l &c
Rye, 631Sc.
Barley, 62szd64c.
Flax Seed, sI.6a
Pork, sIS50t6s1Q50
Lard SIS 0o(dSs l25S
Butter, creamery, 20a2Sc; dairy. 1s<9lsc
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1t is a suggestive illustration of the
sweeping character of military conscrip-
ton in France that the chamber of depu-
ties, as the cable reports, should have re-
fused to allow young men training for
holy orders to be exempted from mill
tary service. The value of q man as a
fighting machine is, among the military
powers of Europe, of much more conse-
quence than his value as member of
civil society. In most countries prep
aration for the church is attended with
no other combative tendencies than the
conflict of creeds; but where society is
based upon the sword, it is natural that
the cassock should have to yield to it.
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Lxnching in the nlack Hills.

Alexander Fiddler, VIGOROUSLY hard char
acter, was lynched at sturgis Saturday morn
ing the 14th. He and two soldiers named Hews
and Brown assaulted and robbed an emigrant
named Schramm Of $500, near Fort Meade,
Wednesday evening In the scuffle Hews was
the hospital disclosed the names Of his confed-
crates and the particulars Of the assault The
parties were arrested. At this morning
Fiddler was taken from the officers by fifteen
masked men and conducted 10 the outskirts of
tie town where. after threats Of hanging, he
promised to show where the money was con
cealed and did 50; whereupon he was taken in
to rayine and hanged on general principles.
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End Of snanlding Land Cases.

Yanktou OAK, Special. The cases of the
United States VS.. D. J Spaulding, commonly
known as the Spaulding land cases, which have
been on trial here, have ended in the acquittal
of the defendant on all charges. Three cases
were tried, one for forgery and two for present
ing fraudulent pension papers. On the first the
Jury stood ten for acquittal and two for convic-
ton for thirty two hours before an agreement
was reached, on the two second the jury delib-
Grated but fifteen minutes. Several other sim
liar cases pending against Mr.. Spaulding were
thereupon dismissed The verdict was received
with satisfaction there being ample evidence
that Mr.. Spaulding's offense, 'if it had been
committed. was unintentional, and arose out of
some new construction of the law. He is a
wealthy Wisconsin lumberman, and brother-in-
law Of Congressman W. I. Price.