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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-08
wEST ANN South

ROBBERS stopped train on the Doth ult
on TIE s.. Lou :, Arkansas & Texas railway
near Pine Bluffs. Ark. and forced the ex-
press messeng r 10 op n his safe, securing
between 5000 ami $4,000
IHE recent announcement Of the death OF
Colonel Cash in Georgia was premature.
Although feeble he was still alive on the
18th uit.
AT Columbus. o., on the goth ult John
A. Beal. 10y thirteen years old, began 4
life sentence for the brutal murder of his
mother eight months aga
THE date has been changed for the Iii
nos Site Prohibition convention. which Is
70 eet in Spr nghe!d, from May 3 and 10
70 Nay % and n
1HE erg neers' strike on the Chicago
Bur ingtOn & Quincy road still prevailed on
the 29-h ut and only few passenger trains
were running
The Legislature Of Ohio on the LIST passed
and m1de a law a township local-Option
bi 2 ana bi fo- scientific temperance in
strCrt-On in the schools passed the lower
br nch
The salt and Lumber Company at Man
istee, Mich. failed on the LIST for 81 .OO0.-
200 The assets were sad 10 be over that
amount
Oh the Southern Pacific road a train went
a q
and three men were killed
o. the Is. Judge Gresham refused a writ
of error N the In Annapolis tInil tally
sheey frauds. for which IN Coy was SEN
tencei 10 be imprisoned for eight en-
months ami pay fine OF 500 snd ". f.
Bernhamer for one year and 10 pay fine
Of 81. 600
JoHN W, DAWSON. aged seventy-six years,
: farGe- living near indianapolis, Ind
mar ell kis seventh wife on the Isl
The entire business portion OF suffers
Greek. Ca. WIS burned out on the LIST
TIE Ctah Lcgisl tHre on the Iss adopted
memorial protesting against Colorado
UJes being transferred to UtaA
DEMOCRATS of Iowa viii hold Their State
convention a. Dubuque on the I'd OF Nay TO
elect q legates 70 the National convent on.
LAURA LASEL and Alice Pearce. aged re-
spgc Iye-y about eghteen yesrs. were ar
rested on he - for forgery at Marion. Ind
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The Grand Lodge. L O. O. F. at fits recent
session in Lans ng elected the following
officers: Grand Master. George NJ d wey,
OF owosso; Deputy Gr nd Master. George
W. Crouter, Charlevo X; Grand Secretary,
F. IL Whitney, Lansing. Grand Treasurer
b. d. Pritchard, Allegan; Grand Warden
Charles ii Haskins The secretary's report
showed gain OF /, 100 members, making u
totd of Is 404.
Mrs Frost. of Muskegon, who mysteri-
ous,y disappeared from a Milwaukee hotel,
was found few days ago at Mequon, Wis,
in the home OF re'a ives
A few days ago the book-keeper Of the
Jackson Iron Company, at Escanaba, drew
$500 from the bank 70 pay off the en-
p.oyes Af.er getting into the sleigh with
the money and starting for the office his
team ran away. scattering $l3. 900 in gold
through the stree Fortunately, after an
hours search, all but SO OF tie money was
found
At Iron Mountain recently a detective
arrested Mr. ana Mrs C H. Wolhaupter for
a murder committed two years ago near
Janesville, Wis, Mr. and Mrs Search were
found murderei in their bed July 10
1856. Warren wolhaupter, a son of the
couple arrested in Iron Mountain, was in
the employ of Search, and discovered the
bodies The murderers secured $4,000
II is said that New York and Minnesota
capitalists propose to construct a ship
canal, connecting Likes Superior and
Michig n. Tue canal is to be forty miles in
length, cost about $5,000,O00 and viii
save one days time between the two lakes
4 curious phase of the bitter cold win
ter has been the freezing to death of hun
dreds of mice in the wheat elevators and
barns of Rochester and vicinity.
A silk factory, employing three hundred
men, Will 60 to Jackson if the people Of
the town will take 100000 worth of
stock.
Miss Johnson. daughter of a wealthy
farmer of Aguustl, was killed at Indian
Station a few dsysag She was struck by
a passenger train, knocked under the
wheels and her head cut entirely off
Wergeit d Reese, Detroit auctioneers, as
signed recently Liabilities, $17, 600; as
sets, $4,000
Hattie Olney, a young woman in jail at
Lapeer await ing trial for dropping her ille-
gitimate baby from a train and killing it.
has become insane.
The 81 chigan societies Of Christian En-
deavor VIII hold a State convention in
Lansing April "a,
Governor Lue has appointed Mrs Jane
NJ Kinney, of Port Huron. member of the
Board of Control of the State Industrial
School for Gir.s, vice Mrs Stebbins de-
ceased
Wsnzsll Matzka, cook in a lumber camp
near Newaygo, STABBED and xii ed John
Put the other night. Matzka was in al
An elm Tree one hundred and sixty years
old was cut down near Three Rivers the
other day. A scar, app rently made wit
hatehct, was found twenty feet from the
ground and loot from the inside of the
tree.
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rISCilNSIN

Mira Jacob Ganse, aged sixty-five years.
and Mr. }. Miller, aged eighty-two years,
were united in marriage at the residence
OF tie bride in Palmyra the other evening.
According to the reports of the Mlwau-
kce reweTs TO the collector their employees
crank on the premises in 1887 1902 bar
rels OF beer, representing 6,500.OO0
glasses. and, at SIS barrel, cash value OF
S104, los
In a collision between a sleigh loaded
with coasters and a farmers wagon nj
Janesville recently, Roy Lee. aged eight
years. was fatally hurt
The estimated log cut on the Wolf river
th season is twenty mill on teet against
thirty-thrce million feeJ lasS WINTER. The
sbortag1 is due TO the inf vor bic weather
W scons paper says: There are thir y
towns OF nine hundred population and I'M
r in Nor hern Wisconsin where no rellg-
ious serve S are held
John Woods. OF Poynett, who had no
money to pay his fare. was put of Nil
W ukee & Nor hern train near Green Bay
a few days ago, and ia ling I'm Ter the car
his leg was tax n of at the ankle.
Abel Willard. of Neenlh, at the age o.
eighty-eight years, is just cutting third
SCI of teeth.
An Illinois man recently left his pocket
book containing one thousand dollars under
his pillow in a Janesville hotel 1t WIS
found by a chambermaid VINO returned it 10
its owner
About two hundred men who took up
lands in Ashland County covered by the
Omaha grant have been elected from their
holdings
Gustav Dorsch. a clerk in the Milwaukee
fra.rs,
the Secon warI, dropped dead the other
morning while at breakfast IN restaurant
TIE law enacted by the last Legislature
permitting druakaris TO be sentenced to
the Inetrlate Asylum was recently declared
invalid by the sac Supreme Court on the
ground that ths Statute virtually makes
drunkenness crime
ida Herman, convicted Of enhcing a
young girl into an immoral Place in Nil & al
kee, was denied a new triai few VI go
and sentenced to a year in the br deweIl
This WIS tie first sentence under the Jaw
passe last win er making il penal ofsnss
10 allow girl unler wenty-one years OF
age TO remain n a house Of evil resort
we her willingly or not
John Stemdei. farmer at Rozell vile,
NJ rathon County, wts instantly kill ed the
otter day by q run way team. he being
thrown from his sleigh. He WIS aboni
th.rty-fve years old, and leavss large
family
DR. Andrew Munros died recently al
Green Bay. He WAS bora in Glasgow in
1881, AMI removed 70 Greer Bay in 1864
RI ert Lndw I'm, of Milwaukee, SAT
down on q railway rack recently, having q
VIII sky bot for company he had taken
tic pledge and broken il, bus viii nsvei
lEeak il again
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FOREIGN INTELLIoEucR.

IN Northern ltaly on the 20 "A u { great
fall of snow was causing much suff ring.
At Turin thea ers, schools and markets had
l. cen closed A number of villages in the
Alps had been destroyed by avalancaes and
many lives lost At SterpOne thirty people
were killed
ON the 20 ult Mr. Pyne, NJ p, WIS con-
vic;ed a. CIOnmel, Ireland, rnder the
Grimes act, and sentenced TO SIX weeks i'm
prisonnent
II Rome unemployed men engaged In a
rios on the LIST Bake-shops We're broken
into and pillaged, and the police who at-
ten pied to arrest the rioters We're driven
away with stones Finally the mob was dis
persed by troops
AT racoa, Cuba a mother killed Ter
four children on the lss She said when
arrested, that the devil tempted her to the
crime
Il Parls on the Isl NJ. Wilson, the son-in-
law of ex-President Grevy OF France was
convicted of completely in the Legion OF
Honor decoration scandals and sentenced
to two years imprisonment, TO pay a fine of
5000 francs and TO be deprived OF his civil
rights for five years
The BRAZILIAN Government proposes to
introduce in the Lagislatur N xt May a bill
to abolish slavery in that country.
OFF the Island OF Cayenne the French
schooner Fieur de Ia Mer founde, cd on the
I'd and sixty passengers were drowned
FIRE destroyed two fleece NILS at Kegh-
ley, Eng. on the 81 Loss $32J. 600
A HURRICANE devastated Tamah4ve on the
81, and eleven ssls were wrecked and
twenty persons killed
LARGE force of rel els attacked Suakim
ON the Ash, and after four hours fighting
the rebels retired. leaving sever i hundred
killed AMI wOunde on the e d On The
British side Colonel Tapand five Egyptians
were killed and fourteen wounded
Up 20 the 4th Ihe bodies of TWO hundred
victims OF the recent avalanche in the
Italian AIRS hsd been recovered
RAILWAY tr; ffic in Sweden and Dem
mark WAS stopped on the 9TH by heavy
snow-falls Tr fiic on lines in Northeast
Il rmauy was interrupted
A BAND of twenty bandits recently at
tackled Sleya de Cana.es and p cache
Ranche, in Mexico. killing a dozen people,
wonnding many others and sacking the
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NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
ILLINOIS.

lLt4lNOIS.
Near Topeka few days sgo John W.
Hummel, wealthy farmer, fell into tank
used by HIM for watering his cattle. and
was drowned
in family quarrel recently in Chicago
Marshall Kinsley, 10y eighteen years old.
fatal y shot his father, NJ chael Kinsley.
William Rowland. farmer resi- ing near
Mount Morris, hanged himself in his stable
the other nighs on account OF domes tao
trouble.
Abraham Funk and wife, of Cerro Gordo,
&c ebrated their golden wedding a few
evenings ago
Abraham Lincoln's sster-in-iaw, Mrs
izabeth Edwards. eyed seventy-four
years. of springfield. tine wife of Hon.
Ninian b. Edwards. ami daughter of Robers
Todd, OF Lexing on, by, died of apoplexy
recently as she was starring for a walk.
An eight-foot ven of coal of excellent
quality was struck the other day at Eiin-
burg, Christian County.
The II 1rning mill cooper-shops in Pekin
were burned few days ego
Harold Gray, a seyen-year-old hoy, was
drowned the other afternoon at Rockford,
by falling through the ice
August Shultz Young man Of Rush, was
run over and killed recently while ate npt-
ing to board an Illinois Central freight
train.
Joseph Grogan. who lived alone in a little
hut in Auburn, was found ying dead ON the
floor few days ago by one of the neigh
boris children. He was one or the earliest
settlers in that county.
The National Live Stock Bank of Chicago,
with capital of 5000 600 has been
authorized by the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency TO begin business
Mrs. DR. Apperson, a well-known lady.
over eighty years OF age, died at her home
In Windsor the her evening
The commissioners of Christian County
recently accepted 81 900 from the bonds
men Of mes d, White, who died in Au-
gus, 1886 rs q compromise settlement for
shortage of SO, 400.
It is said that Sl5 900 900 worth Of tile
has been laid in linoi' and that tne tile, II
pl ced in q continuous line, would reach
around the globe three times
The main business places of Wellington.
In the southern part of Iroquois County,
were burned few days ago. The fire was
caused by lamp explosion.
Thomas Costelo's house and contents,
near Decatur, Were burned the other night
Costello and his wife wv kened just in tine
TO jump ont of a window before the floor
fell
brutal murder was discovered the
other Afternoon in the leather remnant
sore in Chicago OF Green Bros Magg
Gaughan, aged fife years. was found
dead, and bearing all the marks Of on rage
on her person. The murderer, Zsph DAVIS.
colored man, was arrested and confessed
the crime At the coroners inquest the
jury returned n verd ct of gully agains
Davis, and strong condemned the habit
of putting colored ioremen in chprge OF
white g.r.s, denouncing it as pernicious
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G. S. Sinclair "a farmer of BurleiGh Coun-
ty, walked from train in motion while
asleep the other morning : mile east of
Royaiton, Mimi, and was instantly killed.
sinclair was returning to his farm from
Ashland, Ill, with his family. His wife,
suppos ng he was in another coach. did not
e IN of his death unit, she reached Sterling.
Rev. D. lowell, pastor of the Baptist
Church at Warren, IL, has accepted cali
10 Sioux Falls
The Yankton ladies give weight socials.
at which each gentleman has the privilege
of selecting his lady, causing her To be
weighed, paying at the rate of one-quarter
cent per pound, and then going VITA her
20 supper
The latest figures Of the loss Of life by the
storm of January II are as follows: Aurora
County. 5 deaths; Brown, l; Bon Homme,
10; BruIe, J; Be die, o; Clark, 4; David
son 1; Day, L; Douglas, p; Faux. ,; Han
son, /; Hyde. ?; HIND g; Hutchinson. 81;
Jersuld . Kingsbury. /; Lake, 1; Lincoln.
q: McCoOk. / Mnn shana. z; Sphinx, g.
Sanborn, 4; Turner. o; Yankton, 3. Total,
100
There are ninety-seven artesian wells in
Dakota. extending III line from Y inktOn
to CIR fton. They have cost from So. 600 to
81, 900 each, and range in depth from 52S
10 ]. 552
Corn in large quantities is being marketed
at Yankton, the reigning price being TWEEN
ty cents per bushel
NJ O. Poulson. OF Wstertown, was harness
ing his horse recently when the animal
caught BIN by his p and nearly tore 4 of.
A surg cal operation was necessary TO save
even a part of it
Il is said that Belle Cora Fellows. of
Pierre, viii soon marry Chaska, a full
bIooded Indian
Ad m Gsrdsr's place at Pierre was raided
The other dav by prohibitionists A search
warrant was issued and Gerder's whisky
was seized.
Deputy Uaited States Marshal Charles A
Gray s taken to Fargo a few days ago
from Minot and lodged in jliL He VS.
charged with rec siving money from parties
for whom he had warrants OF arrest and al
lowing them 70 escape.
At the hotel in Central City there died re
cent Edw rd Lift e. ons OF the p oneers
OF the Black Hills II was among The FIRST
20 loc 4te IL DssdwooI IN 1876. and his life
has teen passed in prospecting and mining
Hs W one of the or ginal loclters Of the
Iron Hill nina No possessing sufficient
m .ans 10 develop the prop y, the Iron
Hill company was formed. l. tile retain g
block Of the ock When the pr.ce weni
TO seven dc IS a share he refused to part
with his four thous nd shares. and tn.
stock was found upon ais person after bis
death Tee m3rAes value is now fifty
,nts
ACIay Coznty farmer has fve-year-old
COW which is sixteen IA One-half hands
high ami weigas /, SIS poun IA
Fire bro out The other alien CON in tn
grocery store Of n Z Pollard. at Del Il y
ds. caused by lamp explosion There wa
no water and the FIRE was put out with
chunks OF snow.
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known as the "similtude" clause of the
tariff IS fe-enaeted with UGH worcing as
TO make clear when IN enumerated arti-
cles can be classified as ass m lat
ing 10 enumerated articles. Importers
declHrat ons are substituted for Importers
affidavts in all this custom matters, and i'm
por ers are authorized 10 make declarations
before notar es instead OF at the custom house.
Ali leaf tobacco manufactured Is fixed ct
thirJy-nve cents a pound. and the present dis
uneiion between Sumatra and ordinary wrap
ping tobacco Is abolished
Tue recommendations made as TO protests,
appeals and suits b. Secretary Manning ia
special report 10 Congress Two years ago are
all adopted TIE penalties are made more
stringent for bribery or feeling inspect
ors Of customs or for any irreguiari-
ties in Inspection of bag gage. The CIV
ernment 10 author led 10 bring suit for
the value OF merchandise fraudulently
imported, after such merchandise has passed
into the hands OF the importer. The other pro-
visions are all OF q minor character. The bill
as submitted contains no provisions as to in
ternal revenue, II beng understood that the
Democratic members are prepared to submit
an internal revenue bill at an early day.
The latest estimates made by the Com
mittee on Ways and Means OF the prob
able reductions IN revenue that would be
effected by the passage OF the bill are
as follows: Chemicals Gs0000; china
and glass, tl,61J,000; oottons, S.77,00;
provisions, s50O,00O approx mated; wooden
goods. az, 100000; suudries, sl,00l0O0; paper,
$500; sugars, ell, 000,OO0; hemp, fax and iute,
$500 o; metals, S1,5010oJ approximately
free list, S2s.2300O. This would make the
total reduction about s5s.00O0o0.
REPUBLICANS NOT SATISFIED
WASHINGTON, March 9. = The Republican
members OF the Ways and Means Committee
have not formally decided upon q course OF
action in regard 10 the consideration of the bill,
but IL is understood that they viii insist on hav
ing called before the committee manufactus ers
and others who will be affected by IL, that
they may learn from them what the effect OF
the changes Will be. They viii not seek oral
Testimony, but will ask that those who apply
for the opportunity to appear shall be heard
Next they VIII demand that the bill shall be
considered in the regular way by paragraphs
with an opportunity for discussion aud amend
menL II these demands be denied
the Republicans viii content themselves W tn
putting the Democratic members on record as
oppos ng their demands for u fun ard IA con
siderat,on OF the bill and transfer the fight TO
the loor Of the House. Mr. Randall will have
his bill prepared Few days and viii per-
haps offer 1t on Monday on the call OF the
SAFES. The Republicans W Il not depend on
Mr.. Randall FOR bill, but will bring forward u
measure OF their own
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PITH AND POINT.


Talk is cheap-unless a lawyer
does the talking.
Wise men hesitate; only fools are
certain. - Whitehall Times.
We expect other people to change
their opinions. yet cling tenaciously to
our own.
There is not much color to gin.
vet it can scarcely be called a sober
tint.-EPoca.
Which is the best of the four sea-
sons for arithmetic? The summer. =
Golden Days.
Pillow shams are going out of
fashion; but other shams still hold
their own.-PHck.
That sort Of self-denial which is
the least praeticed. is the denying our
selves lawful things for the good of
others.
-Orler is the sanity of the mind.
the health of the body. the peace of
the city. the security of the Sale
SOHthsW
An ounce of keep-your-mouth-
shut is better than pound of ex-
PLANTATION after you've said it. -PhiIa-
delphia Cal.
1t is as dangerous to interfere be-
tween a philan,hropist and mis- phi
lanthropy rs between a dog and its
bone. London Times
The best mechanic in the world
can't make 4 pair of boots that arc
all right o of them is bound to be
left.-DaHsviIle Breeze.
% e of the most Il ficult things in
the world is to tell whether a man is
in love or whether he has been drink
ing. Merchant TraUe'er
DO not fret. 1t only adds TO your
burden. TO work hard is very well;
but to work hard and worry, too, is
more than human nature can bear
He that giveth TO the poor lendeth
to the Lord; but the trouble with most
people in this world is that they never
make any loans except on collateral
baltimore ABlericaH.
"A Texas paper tells the story that
while a Waxahachie man was driving
n yoke # oxen one of them died from
over heat. and that while he was TAX
ing off its skin the blizzard came
along and froze the other one to death
They must "a been pretty
drunk" remarked Mrs Snrigglns,
reading of dinner TO the Pence of
Wales. 'l' says here: The health of
Her Majesty was proposed aud the
toast was drunk with enthusiasm
Who ever heard of drinkin,,. toast I'd
like to know"
The motives and purposes of au-
thurs are not always so pure and
high as in the enthusiasm Of youth we
sometimes imagine. To many the
rumpet of + anne is nothing but a tin
horn 10 call Them home. like lahorcrs
from the fell ut dinner line; and they
think themselves lucky to get the din
ner. -LOngfeklol0.
Are all arrangements for the
banquet made?' Very nearly; but
we haven't selected man t. respond
TO the third toast vet" "Suipeworthy
would be a COOL man." .SnipeworthyP
Why. he can make speech. When
ever he tries it he breaks down in the
first sentence and subsidies" We'll,
!ghat is the ason why ] suggested his
name. He's the kind of speaker to
have at banquet "-Nejraska State
journal
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REruBIIcANs NOT SATISFIED.
MRS. l.ANoTRY's TROUBLES.

On tho Heels of the News OF the Death
of Her Father, the Jersey Lily Is Made
Defendant in Several Suits at Law.
CHICAGO March All of Mrs L,ngtry'3
scenery, costumes. and furniture aJ Nc
Nicker's Theater were attached at noon
v sterday upon Miss Nadage Doree's $40
suit for salary due on contract Papers are
also out awaiting service in suit by Jarles
Creighton, a ] weller in Edinburg, Scot
l. nd, for $24l 63 worth of jewelry sup
piled TO Mira LangTy when she was playing
IN the shadow of Hoyrood Castle bu5 never
paid for
CHICAGO March 2-Mrs Langtry, the
noted English beauCy and actr,s1 was
pros rated Wednesday by the receipt OF a
eablegran announcing the death of her
father, Mr. lie Breton, de N of Jersey The
dean was gre lily respected. not only in
Jersey but in Engl nj where he was well
nown He WIS ~ years of age, ana his
dea h was fastened by a severe operat on
performed upon him 10 relieve lingering
illness Mrs Lsngtry, on receiving the sad
news a. once ncelled her eng cement at
McVicker's heater
Mrs Llugtry IS in trouble with J. II. Nc
Vcker, WAC has sued her for $4,000 Tor
breach of contract