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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-16
MINNESOTA.

g. +. Boyd, general passenger and ticket
agent of the Mime polls 4 St Louis road,
has resigned 10 accept a similar position
with the Dulutl, South Shore & Atlantic. L
A. Whitaker, The st Paul city ticket agent
of the Minneapolis St Louis, succeeds Mr..
Boyd
William Mcfarland. prominent actor in
his halcyon days, having supported NJ C.
ready in his American tour, the elder Booth,
Edwin Forrest and other old-timers, died
suddenly at Minneapolis the other morning
He had been living in that city for ,he last
two years
William Burns, of Galena, Ill, was burned
to death in hotel fire near Duluth few
days ago.
Charles Hoag, the man who named Mime
apolis, died there the other dry of dropsy
of the heart, aged eighty years
Tom Cody, known as the cowboy plan
ist," who exhibited his skill in dime muse
urns, eloped the other night from Minneap-
oils with Nellie Saunders, colored girl,
aged fifteen years Cody, as alleged, left
his wife in destitute circumstances
The winter carnival at St Paul closed the
other night in blaze Of fireworks which
showed TO fine effect in the clear, sn ppy
atmosphere The cascade of fire pouring
down around the great central tower of the
ice palace, while showers OF colored lights
mounted skyward from lis battlements, was
a sight long TO be remembered
The Photographers Association of Amer
lea has arranged to hold its next meeting
IN the Exposition building at Minneapolis
July 10 to Il inclusive
The State Republican League at its recent
session in Minneapolis elected as president
f. +, Searls, of ST. Cloud Candidates and
platforms were not discussed, the league
voting to support the r publican candidate
for President
Articles of incorporation of a new rail-
road to be called the Winona & Southwest
eTn, have been filed ut Des Moines, Ia The
line will run from Winona TO Omaha, Neb.
A deaf and dumb Indian was struck by a
train near Morris the other night and a
deer which lie was carrying on his head was
thrown twenty feet, but the Indian was not
much hurt
Tie Empire Coffee and Spice Company of
Minneapolis failed recently Liabilities
about S13, 900; nominal assets, $40, 600
James Funk oas onvicted of murder in
the first q gree sc Wilmar the other after
noon The crime Tor which Funk must
hang b, deliberate shoe ing of his wife,
Sarah Funk, az thu Log an House in Wilmar.
on the evening OF December ..
Rev. DR.. Woodbury.. of the Second Con-
gregational Church at Rockford, H., has
accepted a call to Minneapolis
The Wabasha Ferry Company has decided
to build a swing ferry to connect that ci V
with the W sconsin shore, p divided the City
Council viii extend aid in the sum OF
81, 600 from the bond fund voted 10y spe-
cial election last October
A farmer living in the woods several
miles from Duluth recently reported the
discovery in the woods several miles from
his dwelling and away from the travelled
paths, of a stranded balloon He also dis
covered in the limbs of a tree he body of a
man about thirty years of age. L. was sup
posed he balloon was the one which went
up last spring from a Southern point and
was never heard of
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.

1 AA@A@tNOlS.
State superintendent Edwards has entered
upon the work of review ng the school laws
OF the State. as instructed by the last Gen
eral Assembly
A. Furlong. Of Chicago, who was detained
recently at San Antonio, Tex, for lunacy,
was allow ed to go on his way. The author
tiles mistook religious zeal for insanity.
The grand jury in Chicago recently re-
turned mo bill" in the case of Mrs. Ida
NJ Macaulley, who fatally shot her husband
some time Lgo
The cholera is epidemic among The hogs
near Lena. Stephenson County, and large
numbers were dying. One farmer had lost
hfty-two hogs
The remains of DR. Frank Wetzel, of Chi
cago. were cremated the other day at Pitts
burgh, Pa
Henry Tierney, a seyenty-yesr-o old miser
living at Lincoln, was found dead in his bed
the other morning. leaving $25, 600 worth
OF property behind him
Benjamin Tinkham, for tifty-two years a
prominent residentof Warren County and
for seventy years a member OF the Metho-
DIT Episcopal church, died suddenly few
days ago
Frank Flowers was arrested at Princeton
recently for fatally shooting Spring Valley
saloonkeeper in a quarrel over game of
billiards
All hopes of a good yield of peaches next
year in Central Illinois are said to be at
an end Fruit men who have carefully ex-
amined the buds declare that they are all
winter killed, and that the crop the coming
Season will be extremely light
Allen Thurman, OF Atwood Kan, and
Miss Amanda Hunt, of Columbus, O., were
married at Galesburg the other day Tue
couple had never before met, and had mere
ly correspondent and changed photographs
W. Z Wrstbrook. who murdered Joseph
Gross, at Blue Mound, has been sentenced
to be hanged on March 30,
The twenty-third annual meeting of the
Illinois Press Association was held recently
at Bloomington
Bird W Price, a well-known resident of
Laomi, hanged himself in his barn recently
Engineer William Cobb, of Taffee's wagon
shop. at Fairfi I'D, was killed recently by
boiler explosion
The St Louis Springfield Railroad Com
pany, TO construct line from Mt Olive
TO East ST LOUIS, was incorporated at
Springfield recently; capital stock, ST.
600, 600
An accommodation train on the Jackson
vile & Southwestern road was derailed
near Athens the other night and the ca
bose rolled down an embankment, all of
the eight passengers being more or less in
jured
The Tiskilwa bank burgl lrs, Fan Burnes
and Jimmie Wilson, were brought from
Clinton. Ia, to Tiskilwa the other day on a
requisiJion from Governor Oglesby.
The will of Nicholas H. Ridgely, banker,
of Springfield. provides that his estate, val
ued at over 81, O0O, 900, shall remain intact
for twenty years the revenue TO be equally
divided among the heirs meantime
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The News Condensed.
LmPOTtant InteIIigence From AII PaIts
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.


WEDNESDAY. Feb i'm the Senate bills
We're passed for the relief of importers
OF animal for breeding purposes. and to
enable the State of Colorado TO select
indemnity school lands II was decided to
vote on the Educational bill on the 18th
In the House the bill making bills of ladlng
conclusive evidence in Ger ain cases was
passed The Speaker announced the fol-
lowing special committee to investigate the
labor troubles IL Pennsylvania: Messrs
Illman g a., Slone MO }, Chapman on oh },
Anderson KAN and Parker N "
THURSDAY Feb 9-In the Senate a
joint resolution was passed providing for
the distribution OF undistr.buted copies of
the records OF tie rebellion and the reports
OF the tenth census. The Committee on In
dian Affairs reported favOrably the bill
providing FOR the opening TO settlement of
the Sioux Indian reservations in Dakota
Adjourned 70 the 18Th. In the House the
bill 20 discontinue the coinage of the three
cent piece was passed Bills were intro
duced for the adjustment of accounts OF
labOrers arising under the Eight Hour law,
and to prevent the overlooking of vessels
on the great lakes The bill requiring sub
sidized railroads 10 maintain and operate
telegraph lines was considered
FRIDAY. Feb 1O-The Senate was not
- HEo14DAL III ALE nUN.t "a AtoNAANtDh 10
inquire into the complaints of defective
mail service in the West and South was
adopted. Favorable reports were made on
a bill to create an arbitration board TO set
tie the differences between the United
States and Texas The Senate bill author
izing the appointment of Andrew D. White
as a regent OF the Smithsonian Institution
was passed
MONDAY, Feb IS. In the Senate the
Z bill for a commission on the subject OF
the liquor traffic was p'acei on the calen-
dar. A bill WAS introduced to increase the
pensions OF those who have lost limb or
two limbs or both eyes A resolution was
offered to ascertain whether Congress had
power 10 enact laws to prohibit within the
States the adulteration of food. In the
House bills were introduced authorizing
the election of a delegate from the In
dian Territory TO the Fifty-first Con-
gress; permitting farmers and producers
Of tobacco to sell leaf tobacco IN any
quantity TO any person, without restric-
ton; 70 prohibit fictitious and gambling
transactions in articles produced by the
American farming industry; proposing a
constitutional amendment limiting the
membership of the House TO $50; TO pro-
hibit the coinage of three-dollar gold
pieces; for the establishment of a postal
telegraph system A bill was passed pro-
bibiting any person in Washington or
Georgetown from making books or pools
on the result OF any races or of any game of
hnaa-baff
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A HORRIBLE CONFESSION.

william Patterson, the Murderer of Jen-
ME bowman, Said TO Have AcInowi-
edged His Crime, watch Was the Fourth
Murder He Had Committed.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Feb. l0-John Crow, a
colored prisoner in the jail here, told SEN
sensational story yesterday to the ef-
feet that william Patterson, condemned to
death for the murder OF Jennie Bowman,
had made a confession to him Before GET
ting his reprieve Of a month Patterson was
in an agony of fear, and exch 4nged
condolences with Crow. He confessed 10
the murder of Jennie Bowman and to three
other murders One was a young white
girl whom he had assaulted, and the next
was an old cOlored woman who knew Of
the frs, murder The next victim was a
gambler, whom he killed about two years
ago. and whose slayer was supposed 10 be
young white man, who was convicted
an I is now in the penitendary. Patterson
denies the story
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the garden the floor was {; ken up. and
when it was relaid the traCk was short
ened about a yard, so that 600 miles by the
track is in reality short of mat figure by six
or seven laps At $50 Saturday evening
Albert made his Goth mile, appearing as
fresh almost as be did when he began the
race last Sunday night, excepting a little
dullness about the eyes At 7:01 he I'm
ished his GOSH mila At 7:l0 Moore had
covered $50 miles, and at 7;12 Albert had
laid 600 miles behind him, and was going
In good shape, occasionally breaking into
run and making his Cloth mile at a seven
mile gait, and tied the record at
7:23 5Sla seconds, an ho1r and forty
minutes ahead of Fitzgera2fs time He
ran the 6I0th mile ike a deer.
stepping high and without apparent effort
The last mile WIS made in 1 / minutes 5Sls
seconds A surging crowd followed him
along the rails cheering him on The ex-
element was intense. Men were crowding,
pushing and clamoring TO get glimpse Of
the sturdy little Philadelph;an. At
S:I5 Albert, il completing his
6I6th mile, ran around the
track carrying two American flags,
while the band played National airs. He
laid down the flags, which were picked up
In turn by Herty. Golden and Guerrero.
and carried around nidss the widest
enthusiasm At SOB little Noremac
established his claim TO part of the
gate receipts by covering 525 miles Guer-
zero left the track at 5. % with score or
564 miles Hart stopped for good at 9:1O
with 5643s miles 10 his credit Golden re-
tired at $50 with score of 53S miles
At 9:S7 Albert completed his 62Oth mile,
ten miles ahead of the record. AT 10 o'clock.
the conclusion Of the race, the score stood:
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DAKOTA.

Miss Addie Allen, daughter of J. W. Allen,
OF Kimball, had a terrible and fatal exper-
fence in the recent great blizzard Mss Al
len attended her sisters wedding, ten miles
from KimbalI, and got her feet badly frozen.
Both feet had to be amputated, and she
die from the shock
Deadwood papers claim that real estate is
looking up wonderfully in that locality.
A man lost in the recent blizzard near
Montrose ran against barbed wire fence,
which he followed, and it brought him TO u
farm house.
The defunct jamestown Board of Trade
is to be resuscit"ted and clothed with o
new constitution and new name.
Charles Hughes and John Brown, WHO
were sentenced four years ago from Law
renee County to life terms in the penlten-
tiary in Sioux f ais for highway robbery.
have had their sentences commuted by the
Governor TO five years
Rev A. +. Brauns. of Darlington, Baptist
pastor and missionary among the Rouma-
mans of Foster and Wells counties, is in
Roumania and Russia TO secure emigrants
10 Dakota About one hundred families
have already arrived, and as many more arr
coming. They are mostly Baptisis. and
being prosecuted for their faith in Russia,
are easily induced to leave
Sioux Falls has a female Unitarian
preacher.
Two carloads of potatoes, corn and food
were sent to the Kansas sufferers the other
day from Perre
An enterprlsing photographer is abroad
| I'm the school districts Of fankton County
securing views of school houses and teach
ers for illustrations Of the great blizzard
Mrs. Rallsbach, of Sturgis. had a violent
| quarrel with her husband recently. After
retiring she arose, went into another room,
wrote a note to him, ana sact herself with
a rife She died in twenty minutes
The incandeseent electric light system has
been put in at Jamestown
Il is the purpose Of the Territorial Super
intendent Of pab ic Instruction to compile
list OF every person who persisted IN D.
kota during the fatal snow-storn OF M
| 18th of January last, for general distribu
/ ton The work OF gathering the statistics
is being performed bv county superintend-
ents Of schools The object II the publ
cation Is to comrades the & Egerated re-
ports circulated throughout the States.
The thermometer registered O2 degrees
below zero at Pembina few nights ago
the coldes. in i've years
Fredmond Newhauser, manager OF I'D
/ pinger's clothing house at Jame stown
suic:ded at the Central Hotel the other day
by taking strychnine Financial troubles
were the cause. He leaves q VIE
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HIS LIFE INSURED FOR $500, 900.
The Illness of DIR. Hostetter. of Pittsburgh,
Causes Uneasihess Among Il sk-Takers.

The Illness of DIR. HOstetter. of l'ittsburghs
Causes Uneasihess Among Il sk-Takers.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. Is The "trip of DIR.
David Hostetter. vice-president of the
projected South Penn railroad, to Cali
fornia, in a desperate effort to regain lost
health, is being anxiously watched by
the life insurance companies all over the
country. He is the most heavily insured
man in the United States and his death
would be big financial loss to them The
aggregate OF the policies held by DR..
Hostetter is $500, 0O0 He had intended
TO add S20O. 600 more to this to make the
sum 81 600 600 but his prolonged illness
has prevented any further steps in that
direction This vast amount of insurance
is divided among the principal com
panles of the world some being given
sums as low as $4,000 The Pittsburgh
gentlemen. who ranks next 10 DR. Hostel
ter in this peculiar line of wealth, is Rob
ert J. Anderson, the steel manufacturer
His life insurance is $24O. 600 The three
other most heavily insured men in the
United States are Hamilton Disston, Of
Philadelphia. $500, 600; George X Ander-
son, of Chicago. $500. 600 and p. LoriAard,
OF New jersey. $50 600
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HIS THROAT PIERCED.
Tracheotony Successfully Performed Upon
the Crown Princc-The Result.


SAN RENO. Feb. 10-The operation of
tracheotomy was successfully performed
upon the Crown Princes throat at 1 90 p
m. yesterday by DR. Bergman. Drs
Mackenzie, Howell, Schroeder and Krause
were present DR. Mackenzie sent cheer
full report to the Emperor OF the result
The Crown Princess of Germany sent a
telegram to Queen Victoria declaring the
opera ion a success
The operation was performed in the large
sitting room at Villa ZiriO, which has been
converted into bedroom Not tea
81 oonful of blood was lost. At II o'clock
last night the Prince appeared quite easy.
He was not allowed to talk, although there
is no symptom of laryngitis He will keep
his bed for some days DR. Mackenzie will
remain here until his patient is out of dan
GER The principal thing 70 guard against
is bronchitis. The Princess was not present
at the operation. She seemed anxious the
whole day, but is calmer now
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rRINcEToN's PRESIDENT.
Prof Francis l.. Patton, OF Chicago
Elected 20 Succeed President McCosh.

Prof. Francis l.. Patton, OF Chicago,
Elected 60 Succeed President McCosh.
PRINCETON, n. j., Feb 10 AT the regular
February meeting Of the Board Of Trustees
of Princeton College, held yesterday. tie
resignation of President McCosh was ac-
cepted, TO take effect at the end Of
the present school year. A minute was
adopted making provis ons for his future
relations with the college. He viii remain
at the head of the School OF Philosophy,
and an honorarium was established for
his benefit OF 81, 500 a year The
board then received the report Of its
committee on TIE election Of a sue
cessor to Dr. McCosh The committee
unanimously nominated Prof Francis L
Patton, D. D, IL D. for president The
board elected him unanimously on the
first ballot. there being no other nomlna.
ton mada
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INDIANA WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

Government Authorizes Telegraphing
Them Daily 10 One hundred Points.
INDIANAPoIIs Ind, Feb 1.-THE Indiana
Farmer has oJ.-.i1ed authority from the
Signal Service Department. to send out
kilograms to 100 points in Indi-
ana daily containing the weather
predictions for twenty-four hours
from O'Clock a. m. Signal weather flags
are to be displayed from 100 elevated
pc nts, flag-staffs and poles for the benefit
of agric llture, and the telephone system is
to he used TO transmit the messages to
many other points throughout the State
from the several telegraph stations receiv-
ing the messages. This important service
goes into effect early next week
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The PulIm ans sued.

CHICAGO Feb 13-Andrew J. Carberry,
The Pullman car cOndutor, who was tried
in the criminal court last week and ac-
quilted on d charge Of stealing the COM
g1.nv's fares on his run between
New Orleans and Chicago, brought suit for
$50, coo damages yesterday in the circuit
court against the Pullman Car Company
stnd the American surety Company, his
prosecutors
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The Toledo Blade publishes a state
nient that a syndicate Of New York.
Toledo. Chicago and Detroit capital
lists. representing SO. 600. coo. held a
meeting a few evenings ago at Detroit
and organized a company TO build a
pipe line from the Northwestern Ohio
oil fields t. Toledo aud 10 erect re-
fineries so as to compete with the
Standard Oil Company. They claim
10 own patents on new process OF
refining. and say they can place the
product on the market at a cheaper
rate. The capital stock Of the new
company is said 10 be $40, 600
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CHICAGO. Feb 1.-The subcommittee Of
the Republican National Committee met
Yesterday morning and selected General
Charles Fitz-Sinons as scrgeant-at-arms OF
the coming National Convention The
seatsng capacity Of the convention hall in
the Auditorium building has been defin tesy
ascertaIned t. he :, 500, and that number
Of tickets of admission viii be issued
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MURDERED By ROBBERS.
A Marissa lIII.) Tragedy Which Resembles
- A.,..II II l...-..,

the Killing OF Mr.. smell at Chicago.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 13-At Marissa, H.. yes
terd1y, when the family OF Mr. George w.
Guthrie, one of the wealthiest
and best-known citizens of Souf hern Illi-
nois. returned from church, a daughter went
to his room, where she found her
father lying dead on the floor, with
bullet wound through the heart,
and the carpet and his clothing saturated
with blood Suicide was at first suspected,
as Mr Guthrie's revolver lay on the floor
near the BODY. but an examination showed
that the beet was robbery. 1t is believed
that the murderers saw the family when
they started for church, and, suppOsing that
the house was deserted, entered and went to
work on the safe with their drills Mr..
Guthrie, it is supposed, heard them and
went into the room with his pistol drawn
and was oveTpOwered and murdered, after
which his pockets were rlfled and the muir
derers fed The appearance of the room
shows that there was astruggle. But little
of value was taken
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-16

CAPTAIN BALDRY, of the steam
whaler Orea, has just returned to San
Francisco from a voyage in which he
killed thirty-iive whales. the largest
catch on record. Twenty-eight Of
these-all the ship could carry-were
slowed. and yielded $500 barrels Of
oil and $4,000 pounds Of bone. The
catch was valued at SEQ. 500.
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PROBABLY the most remarkable rail-
road in the world is that running from
Gloggintz to LOunering. near Vienna
IT Is only twenty-five miles in length,
and cost 1900. 600. 1t begins at the
little station Of Gloggintz. at an eleya-
ton Of !. 400 feet. and from there the
train. hauled hy two powerful locomo-
tives. winds round and round oversoms
fifteen double yiaducts and through as
many tunnels. 1t creeps along preci-
pieces aflording Slimpses Of some of the
widest scenery in Europe. It's ter
minus. Lounering, is at an elevation Of
$500 feet.
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In,Iiana,s Insnne-

NEW YORK, Feb I3-An indianapolis
special TO the Herald says that there are
5000 insane persons confined in the county
pOor-LOuses or in the homes OF relatives
throughout Indiana The last Legislature
failed to appropriate money to complete
the three insane asylums in course of cree
lion, and the disgraceful state of affairs
noted is the result
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NEW YORK. Feb. IS The suit against the
National benefit Society TO recover
$40 900, the amount of a life insur-
ance policy held by the late John
Tyler was decided Saturday in Judge
Cullen's court at Brooklyn. the jury
ending that the society was not liable, as it
was proved that Tyler had committed sui
c.de This establishes the tact of tie exist
enceof great conspiracy to defraud the in
suranca companies out of $500, 900, for
which Tyler had his life insured
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An estimate of the gate moneys 10 be re-
ceived by the men who covered 525 miles
and over is as follows Albert, 81. 500. with
81. 600 extra for beating the record; Herty,
-. coo; Guerrero, 81 600; Hart $500;
Golden, 500, Moore. $3.50; Strokel, $500.
and Noremac. 500; total, Sll, 500
The of1ic al report shows thnt Albert Gov
cred 62I miles and 1920 yards in 40
hours, and that be rested 10 hours and %
Minutes
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THERE IS hotel in Arkansas where
the rooms are designated by the names
Of cities and States. Here, Front,
show this gentleman to New Orleans,
take q pitcher of ice-water to Mime
sofa, see what that man in Boston
wants. and make a fire in Chicago" is
sample of what one hears in the
nflirn