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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

| JOHN G. CARLISLE, was renominate1 for
congress by reclamation, at Covington Ky,
\ on the 18th
| SAMUEL p. SNYDER. was nominated for
congress by the Republic ms of the 4th
Minnesota district, on the 18Th at Anoka
The race horse owners at Chicago pre-
/ sented Mayor Roche with 81 .06S on the
18th for the benefit of the yellow fever
| sufferers
JOIN DILLON YVES released from the Dun
| dalk, Ireland. jail on the 18Th He is to
/ appear as a witness before the Parnell
/ commission.
THE Democratic congressman in caucus
at Washington on the 18th refused to sup
pors Congressman Oates resol ution TO ad
| iourn on October 1st
A. b. Smith, the mayor of Jacksonville,
! Fla, arrived in Cleveland, o, on the 18th.
and has opened an office for the relief of
the yellow fever sufferers
| JOHN MURPHY, deputy postmaster at
Artesian City. Kans., was arrested on the
18th, on the charge of robbing the United
states Express Co, of $40. 900, year ago
The Union Pacific fast passenger train
known as the Overland Flyer was badly
wrecked near Gardner. Neh. on the 18th
/ The disaster WIS cIused by a rail being cut
I During a quarrel in a saloon early on the
I 18th at Chicago Conrad Waldscmidt seized
Z an ak and struck Peter Bowler, cutting a
| earful cash in his back and fracturing his
skull
KILOGRAMS from London dated the 5 b,
give the information that plot TO kill the
Bulgarian ministry has been unearthed.
The charge is made that Russian agents
are at the bottom OF the conspiracy.
Az explosion occurred in the strawboard
mill 81 BelOit Wis on the 18th The mill
] had been still for two weeks undergoing
repairs and work had Just resumed when
one Of the large rotsries exploded. tearing
on the top of the building and iniur.ng D.
F. Whilston, an employe.
SEPTEMBER 18th was the worst day of the
yellow fev>r at Jacksonville Fla The day
was bright and warm and the hot sunshine
on the wet earth was extremely favorable
Tor the development Of the disease
For the day there were I53 new cases with
20 Deaths Total cases ], 2O3; total deaths
l53
SPOKANE rails. ". l., was again visited
ly fire on the lssh Two fires occarre1
/ ins de of an hour. with every indication
/ that they were the work Of fire-bugs The
/ loss was $4,000 saloons and gambling
! houses have been ordered closed ~ the
mayor. and a committee Of citizens organ
| lied 70 patrol the street,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
FOREIGN INrEiI.tcFNcE.

IN a speech at Montreal on the 18th Sec.
rotary of State Chapleau said the actor
of President Cleveland on the retaliation
question was dishonorable and would leave
an everlasting stain on the American es.
cutcheon. Canada's attitude would be
one of dignity and self respect
ADvICEs of the 18th from Havana say
that during the recent hurricane entire
fishing villages along the coast were swept
away, eight hu2dred persons lost their
lives, and hundreds of cattle were
drowned The loss at Vuelta Abajo alone
was placed at s., 500 900.
GREAT suffering and many deaths from
starvation was reported among the Indt
ans of the Canadian Northwest Territorie
on the 18th.
WHEN entering the port of Luz, In the
Canary Islands, on the 18th the steamer
Laurance ran into the Italian steamer I.ud
America, and the latter vessel was sunk,
forty persons being drowned.
DISPATCHES of the 14th say that Major
Bartlellott, leader Of the expedition in
search of Henry NJ. Stanley. was betrayed
and shot by his African followers, and il
was feared that Stanley had met like
fate.
On the 14th William Redmond, member
of Parliament for the county of Fermanagh,
ireland, was convicted under the Crimes
act and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment.
CALVERT BROTHERS, of Halifax, Eng,
extensive wooden factors, failed on the
18th for 5000, 900
On the 18th the French Government or
dered three gunboats to proceed to the
west coast of Africa for the purpose of
pursuing vessels engaged in the slave
trade.
ADvIcEs Of the 10th from London say
that twenty eight persons had been
drowned by floods in the Tyrol and many
others were missing.
OK the 18th Albert Reiss, proprietor of a
large cotton printing mill at Lesigg, Aus
tria, failed for 2, 900, 900 forms.
OVER five hundred persons lost their
lives in the recent cyclone in Cuba, and
the property loss was several million dol
lars.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, the Canadian
Prime Minister, in an interview on the 18th
relating to the fishery treaty. said the pol
icy of the Canadian Government would be
TO await developments in the United
States
LABRADOR reports on the 18th pictured
great misery and want among the fisher
men of the coast who were reduced TO
restitution and gradual starvation by the
total failure CT the seasons fisheries
MERCHANTS in Canada were preparing on
the 18th for the enforcement OF the retalia-
tion measures by ordering winter ship
ments via St John and Halifax.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

MASSACHUSETTS PrOhibitiOnists met in
State convention at Worcester on the 18th
and nominated State ticket. with VIII
lam H. Earle, OF Worcester, for Governor.
The Republicans of Massachusetts met
in Boston on the 18th and renominated
Oliver Ames for Governor The platform
insists on a protective policy, demands an
honest ballot and liberal pension law.
THE New York Democrats on the 18th
renominated Governor Hill By acclama-
tion at the State convention at Buffalo.
The platform indorses the st. Louis plat
form and candidates; cOmmends the Presi-
dents fisheries policy; favOrs excluding
foreign paupers and criminals; condemns
recent high license legislation in the State
as "hypOcritical;" advocates home rule for
cities, and favOrs the employment of con
victs without competition with free labor.
Governor Hills administration is indorsed.
The greater part OF the business district
Of Huntington, y. Y, was burned on the
18th. Loss. 100000.
The Grand Opera-House and adjoining
property at Syracuse, y. Y, were de-
stroyed BY fire on the 18th Loss, 800 600
THE official returns on the 18th from the
recent election in Maine give Burleigh
(Rep.b for Governor plurality Of Is, 495.
The Senate is unanimously Republican.
The House has l23 Republicans and 2S Dem
oCrats.
A sAIL-BoAT capsized on the 18th on the
Hudson river at Hastings, y. Y, and Eve
persons were drowned
OK the 18th J. B. Bulkely, of Millerton.
Pa, was driving with his wife and two
children when his horse became fright
ened and ran away. Mrs. Bulkely and the
children were killed and Mr.. Bulkely was
fatally IT jured
By the upsetting of a kerosene lamp
Mrs. Elizabeth Langlier and her fve-year-
old daughter, of Boston, were burned to
death on the 18th.
On the 18th five employees who entered i'm
to conspiracy and robbed the New York
wholesale house in which they worked were
sentenced to Sing Sing for five years each.
II the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania
district the Democrats nominated John
Burns TO succeed ". l. Scott.
On the 18th twenty Swedish women,
ranging in age from nineteen to twenty
five years, arrived at New York, having
come, il was said, under contracts to mar
~, and twenty of the party left at once for
their prospective husbands in the West
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PROFIT SHARING.


The Pillsbury Mills at Minneapolis Dis
tribute $4,000 Among Their En-
ployes.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Sept 1S-Monday
$40, 900 was distributed among the en-
ployes of the Pillsbury Touring mills here
through the generosity Of the pro-
prietors. Four years ago the Pillsbury
company adopted the proft-sharing
system. For two years there have been
no profits to divide, but the last year has
been profitable and the firm keeps
its promise This is believed to be the
largest amount ever divided under the
profit-sharing system. The distribution
has been on a more liberal scale this year
than before. Every man who has been in
the employ of the firm for two years has
received share. The amount individuals
received varies from sos TO 81, 500 In no
case was the amount less than a months
CalarV
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
DETAILS OF THE CUBAN STORM.
About 500 People Killed and the Sugar
Crop Damaged 60 Per Cent.

Crop Damaged go Per Cent.
HAVANA, Sept. lin some localities
along the coast during the recent hurricane
entire fishing villages were swept away.
At Sagua 100 cOrpses have been discOv-
cred, which were washed from the
graves, and it is believed that as
many more are in the mangrOve
bushes. Between Carapachos and
Carahats sixteen coasting schoon-
ers are high and dry in the woods, dam
aged to such an extent that they will be a
total loss, Fish were killed in vast num-
bers. Hundreds of caltle were drowned
IN the river and their carcasses
now endanger the health Of the city
at Santo Domingo City the dead ex-
iced fifty and the injured over seventy
Eve. At Cayo Francis the lighthouse was
drowned, and two large unknown
six natives known to have persisted at
Caribarien the bodies of but five have
been recovered. In the Vuelta Arriba
and Vuelta Abajo district the ruin is COM
plete. The cane-fields were laid fiat. 1t
is estimated that the sugar crop will fall
short of last years yield over 60 per cent
In Vuelta Abajo the number of
dwellings, huts and outhOuses blown
down in the district is estimated at
$500 and the loss at 81, 500, 900. The entire
fruit and vegetable crop is entirely lost
The total number of deaths throughout the
island is stated at 500. The bodies of seven
Of the crew, including that of the com
mander, lost in the gun boat Lealtad at
Batabano, have been received.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

A NEW ENGLAND woman with
brains, who had a little money. but
not enough, hit upon a novel and sue
,essful scheme for making more. At
a small price she bought a very old
house that was in disuse. She re-
stored the old house. carefully pre-
serving the original style, laid out the
grounds suitably and attractively. and
advertised the place for sale. She
made handsomely by the transaction.
and repeated IT, After she had sold
her third house she had enough money
and retired from business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
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MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

President Diaz, Am ong Other Things in
His Message to Congress, Recommends ~
New Extradition Treaty with the United
States.
CITY OF MEXICO Sept. 1S-President
Diaz, in message to Congress, refers to
relations with the United States, to the
treaty on July II regarding the grazing of
cattle. to the punishment of the officers
who crossed to Eagle Pass and Nogales vi
olating United States territory. and the
fact that the United States Congress had
again taken up the Wiel Abra claims. He
says the Mexican Government has taken
precautions against an iucursion of the In
dams who fed from the San Carlos reser
walton. He recommends the Senate TO ar
range a new extradition treaty with the
United States. as the present one is too
limited, crimes on the frontier requiring a
more ample eXtradition treaty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

THE cabalistic sign %. k had its
origin when the Indian Chief. .Old
keOkuk," used to aifix The initial let
ters of his name to Government treat
les at the time when Black Hawk. his
formidable rival, was kicking over the
traces and trying to create a muss by
seeking 20 nullify every thing that he
did The %. X" was too much,
however, for Black Hawk, and even
at that early day it quickly came TO
mean literally what il is accepted az
meaning to-day it was proper
and in good form.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


At meeting of the Labor State Com
mittee at Appleton the other night the
State ticket was reconstructed, owing TO
designations and otherwise Emil Kracko-
wizer, for Superintendent of Public In
struction, resigned, and j. E. Thomas, for
Railroad Commissioner, was struck OF be-
cause he failed to send in letter of ac-
ceptance. Timothy f. Ryan's name was
taken of for Attorney General and K
Shawvan, OF Milwaukee, substituted, be
cause Ryan was indorsed by the Dem
ocrats aud accepted the Endorsement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

REAh ADMIRAL CHANDLER. com
handing the Asiatic squadron, report.
ed recently to the Navy Department al
Washington the arrival at Kobe, Ja-
pan. Of the Brooklyn and Marion. The
Admiral outlined the course Of a con-
templated cruise on the Marion. his flag
ship. along the coast Of China and Rus
sian Tartary. He reported the health
Uf the squadron excellent. and was glad
to say that cholera had not appeared in
Japan this year. except in some eXcep-
tionally rare sporadic eases among the
natives, due To poor diet and hard life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

SIX years ago work was begun on a
new palace for the Mikado Of Japan.
and now it Is about finished 1t has
four hundred rooms; the dining-room
will scat one hundred and twenty
seven persons; the furniture for the
State Department all came from Ger
many, and in one OF the reception
rooms is an American piano.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
Under WAFER.

Augusta. Ca. Experiencing the Worst
flood Ever known The Water in the
Streets Five Feet Deep in the shall
lowest Parts - No business Possible
I3oats the Only Means of Navigation
Citizens seek Refuge In the Tree-Tops-
The Loss viii Reach 81 100000.
AUGUSTA, Ga. Sept 12-Augusta is
submerged under five feet of water in the
: shallo vest parts. The river began to rise
SUNDAY wight and when Monday morning
dawned the water was already in the city
The water has reached height OF thirty
nine feet one inch, the highest ever known
Broad street is nayigable for almost any
kind of river craft and battcaus are
moored in the door OF the Western Union
Office while the chairs Of the operators are
surrounded by water The damage TO
merchandise wiH reach probably 81 co.,
Op0 The store floors are flooded TO
depth Of two feet No business was trans
acted yesterday, and many people IN
boats and on horseback made the Tounds-
There Is considerable suffering among the
poor who were driver from their homes
Monday night there were no lights except
candles This is the highest aud most sud-
den rise ever known here. 4 white man
was drowned by the capsizing Of boat
and his body was swept away. His cCm-
panlOuS escaped Dg CAuEtHG 70 tine updt-
Some twenty or twenty five peo-
pie were picked out Of the tree tops
yesterday morning. They had spent
the night there. Lee & Botwell's whole
sale grocery brick warehouse collapsed
and every vestige Of it is gone. Part Of
the bridge to Hamburg IS gone, and it ia
rumored here that the Port Royal rail road
bridge is gone No trains aud no mails
have arrived since Saturday. Several
residences have been swept away Navi-
cation has been the only means Of c0mmu-
nication for the past forty-eight hours,
and this is so dangerous that few dare to
risk the contrary currents.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. J Continuous
heavy rains for the last 10. might have
swollen the streams tremendously and
great damage has been done to crops in
the lowlands At this point the Congarce
is fourteen feet above the ordinary low
water mark and trains have stopped run
ming over the new iron bridge Of the Char
lotte, Columbia q Augusta railroad il IS
the heaviest freshet since 1865, and the
pecuniary loss is great. The water is now
Gubsi15up
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
MANY LIVES LOST.

Great Destruction to Property and Crops
by Floods i'm Mexico.
CITY OF MEXICO, Sept 14-Advices from
Orizaba show that the loss of life by the
foods numbers forty-four persons and that
the damage to property amounts TO more
than $780, 600 Many cattle have been lost.
In the City of Mexico rains have been con-
slant since Saturday. In the State Of Vera
Cruz dead bodies are being found. The corn,
rice and bean crops are complete failures,
and much of the land formerly fertile and
fenced is now sandy waste. Rains con
kinue falling throughout the State. and
there are no signs of the floods abating.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

NEW YoRx. Sept. IS-Over 1909 people
attended the great horse sale in the Cen
trail Park Riding Academy, among them
some Of the most noted horsemen and
sportsmen Of the country. One hundred
head of horses from the stables OF William
l. Scott, j. ID. Morrissey and william
Astor, among them the 2-year-old French
Park, who has never been beaten, were
dispos Z IT. Good prices were brought
ranging all the way from sou to $1,000
The latter sum was paid for French Park
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
A Curious Accident.

A very uncommon incident occurred at
the lower packet mill at La Crosse the
other afternoon. A small log was rolled
on the carriage for one Of the rotary saws,
and in some way the dogs were loosened
Just as the saw caught il, which shot it
through the air like an arrow 1t passed
over the men and out at the end of the mill
near the roof, landing in the alley Just
back of the office. Fortunately no one
happened TO be in its way and no damage
was done worth speaking of.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

NEW York, Sept 15-R. &. Dun & Co. g
weekly review Of trade says: The week
has been one of further Improvement in
business, notwithstanding some disturb
ances in speculative markets. The pass
ing Of a dividend by the ST. Paul caused
fan in stocks, and the Government crop
report a fall in wheat, while the export
trade. though improving, continues small.
But the volume Of Legitimate business IS
large and increasing, and there is improve
ment in the productive industries
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

WAsHrSGToN, Sept l2-- Rear Admiral
Chandler commanding the As attic squad
ron, reports 20 the Navy Department
under date Of Kobe, japan, August II, the
gIfs iraI sbere ~ sa4a Brou- i.rra ard Ae~'an-
The Admiral outlines the course OF a con-
templated cruise on the M.riou, his flag
ship. along the coast Of China and Russian
Tartary He reports the health Of the
squadron excellent, ans is glad to say that
cholera had not appeared in Japan IS
summer, except in some exceptionally re
sporadic cases among the natives, due TO
poor diet and hard life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

DR.. WILLIAM Won GOTTscHALK died
N Providence, r. J., reeo ntly. He was
born in SaxOny in 1928. and was edu-
,ated at the Leipsic University. He
was exiled for participation in a revolt
In 1913. He came to this country in
1881
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

MADRID, Sept. 14-Information is re-
ceived that the steamer Laurance. while
entering the harbor of Port Luz Canary
Islands, came into collision with the Ital
ian steamer Sud America, from Monte
video, which way lying at anchor. The
latter. which had on board 216 passengers
and a crew of 90, sank almost Immediately.
One hundred and eighty of the passengers
and sixty-three of the crew were rescued
and safely laaded. Only nine bodies were
recovsred
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
Sentenced for Crime.

At Madison a few days ago William
Wright was sentenced to the Milwaukee
House of Correction for three months for
passing counterfeit money; S. H. Chand-
Ter schoolteacher, to one year in the
same institution for mailing prohibited
matter; Charles Dayton, seventeen years
old to the Reform School till twenty-ons
years old for burglary, and Charles Brown
10 five years in the State prison for horse
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

THE amount Of money invested in
hotel property in New York i vari-
ousIy estimated, but according 10 fair
allowance the land and buildings are
worth $l5. 600. OOO-that is. an aver
aged valuation Of each piece Of prop
erty at S241. 1850 OF course this
amount would be largely in excess Of
the value Of more than half Of the reg
ular hotels within the city limits. but
& i also away below the just assess
inent Of nearly twenty Of the big hotels
now in business. The furniture in the
hotels is estimated at 5000. 600. with
an averaged value Of So. 2j9.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

Az English physician has shown
why some people can digest milk read
lily and others can not He says: In
the digestive fluids Of the stomach
there exists a special ferment by which
the fesh-forming part Of the milk. the
cheese or caseine. especially digested.
This ferment continues in action
throughout life in some persons, but
not ia all; so that there are some who
can digest mix at all times and others
who can not digest it at any time In
those who too exclusively feed on flesh
meat and starch substances the diges-
den Of ruk ceases 20 &c = natural act
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

Mrs. Eva Klein, aged seventy-eight
years, disappeared from the residence of
her son-in-law, Joseph Dertsch, some time
ago, in the town of Eastman, Crawford
County The other day she was found
within twenty rods of the house by the
neighbors hanging to a tree in a thicket
The state of the corpse was such that the
physicians pronounced her TO have been
dead fully week. A coroner's inquest
was held, the verdict being one of suicide
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

CHICAGO, Sept. Is.-Yesterday afternoon
Henry Hiene attempted TO murder MS d
vorced vie and step-daughter, a. "a MOI
fatt street. and was shot himself, dying IN
stantly. The step-daughter Is not hurt,
but the wife received a bullet-wound in
the right temple and viii probably die,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the Liverpool
Mercury says that he heard some cor
act playing from a monograph which
had been repeated more than a thou
and times. and all the notes were as
clear and distinct as ever.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

BAY CRY, Mich, Sept. 15-The long
drought and the consequent forest fires
still continue in Arenac County, and many
of the panic-stricken inhabitants are get
ting ready to leave. Several lumber camps
have been destroyed and the damage to
timber. both standing and manufactured,
will be great The present loss is esti-
mated at 100000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
Five Men Injured.

tNAile the surface gang, consisting of
ealty-one workmen, employed by the Wis
consin Central railway, were going 70
Marshfield from work on hand cars the
other evening the handle of the front car
broke and threw one of the men on the
track before il. The two following cars
ran into the forward one and were thrown
from the track. Five men were badly in
jured, and Albert Schultz, who was hurt
about the head would probably die.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

A CURIOUS fact revealed by the
monograph is that people generally
do not know their own voices. The
husband viii recognize his wife's voice
IN a phOnOgram. and the wife will
recognize the husbands. but neither
will recognize their own sneech.