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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19
THE EAST.

on the 18th A. f. WarburtOn, the first
court stenographer ever appointed in this
country, died at New York, aged sixty
years
The Vermont Merino Sheep-Breeding As
ISOLATION in session at Middlebury on the
18th. adopted resolutions denOuncing Presi-
dent Cieveland's message as illogical and
insulting
The steamer Viola. thirty-three days out
from Elba for Philadelphia was on the
11th reported lost with her crew Of thirty
eight men
The strike OF the Reading Railway Com
pany's coal miners still continued on the
18th, with no signs of a compromise No
coal was being mined
The Meriden Conn Horse-Railroad Com
pany's barns were burned on the 18th, and
eighty horses persisted in the flames
TIE cotton mill of Rumpf Bros. at
Philadelphia. was burned on the 18th
Loss, 100000
The death of Rev. Dr. A. s Patton, editor
and owner of the Baptist Ueeklg, occurred
n Brooklyn, y Y. on the 18th, at the age
of sixty-three years.
OS the 18th two persons wounded IN the
recent railway accident near Haverhill,
Mass, died. making twelve victims Two
other sufferers were not expected to re-
cover
THE fishing schooners William Parsons
and Peter ID. Smith, of Gloucester, Mass.
each carrying crews of twelve men, were
on the 18th given up as .ost Five widows
and nineteen children are left
CHARLES BOURBON. the swindler who sold
tickets to the extent of $50, 600 in Mexico
| a year ago for Patti season of concerts,
was caught in New York on the 18Th
The New York City Knights of Labor met
on the I4th and denounced POwderly':
management. also his Executive Board
The Pittsburgh Window Glass Workers
| Association reported on the 18th that the
| industry had increased seventy-tiye pei
/ cent in eight years
| SAMUEL. BOYER and his brother StepheT
/ and Joseph Kollep. young married men
while ont driving at Sharon. Pa, on the
/ 18th were struck by train of cars anC
| killed
AT Oswego y Y, bob-sled holding ter
persons dashe into \ farmers team on tht
| l6.h. and three men were killed and sever
| others badly injured
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FROM WASHINGTON.

THERE were 3l2 business faLures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 256 tie previous seven
days
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 14th aggregated 1913,
1853. 1872. against 1868, $50. 4O3 the pre-
viOus week As compared with the cor
responding week of 1857 the increase
amounted to o. 3 per cent
THR conference in Washington of leading
wool raisers ended on the 14th with the
adoption of resolutions advocating return
To the tariff of 1867, and a corresponding
readiustment of the wool and worsted
rates
THE House Committee ON Elections de-
cided on the I4th not to reopen the con-
tested election case of ThOetS VS. Carlisle
and Mr.. Carl sle's sea-, both as member
and Speaker of the HOUSE, will not be dis
turbed
THE Secretary of the Treasury transmit
ted To Congress on the 10Th an estimate of
$50 572 to cover the deficiency in appro-
priatiOns for the next fiscal year
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The team of ponies that the late Dean
Hoyt, of Yankton, drove for twenty-fiv
years while making his circuits TO the diff
ferent parishes in South Dakota. are still in
the service, and Rev. Frederic Gardiner re-
Gently drove them. They are now twenty
nine years old
Two elevators owned by the Northern
Pacific and Christian Co, respectively.
burned at New Rockford the other night
with eighty thousand bushels of wheat
Thomas Murray, Sioux City Qa) saloon
keeper found his wife in a house of ilI-fame
at Sioux Falls a few evenings ago, and
after shooting her dead put bullet in his
own brain
B. S Helland of Bachelors Grove was
frozen to dea in the recent great storm
He had gone TO Larimore TO procure medi-
oine for his sick wife, and when returning
on foot he was lost in the snow and died
Judd Robinson froze to death near May
vile the other evening
The Law-and- Order League and the sa-
keepers of Sioux Falls have made ar
rangements for testing the constitutionality
of the Local-0ptiOu law. and if the constitu-
tionality of the law is established the saloon
men viii Immediately close up and assist
in enforcing the law II not the city will Is
sue license as heretofore
1t is said $3.50. 600 will be spent prospect
ing for coal in Southeastern Dakota this
year.
A gasoline famine Is being experienced at
watertown. 1t is said that great number
of well-to-do families use gasoline for cook
ing purposes The poorer classes are the
most affected by the famine
Ex-Governor Pierce has taken up his resi-
dence at Jamestown
Pierre is ready with 800. 900 when the
passage by Congress OF the sioux Reserva-
ton bill permits the Illinois Central to break
into the coveted land
Rapids City parties have sent of for a lot
Of quail for the purpose of planting them
In the country. They believe they viii
withstand the rigors of the winter
John d. LAWYER assumed the duties OF
Territorial Treasurer the other day tx
Treasurer Raymond turned over the funds
of the treasury, amounting 10 nearly $780,
600. Twenty years ago Treasurer J. T.
Gore turned over TO his successor sos, the
amount of the funds in the treasury at thai
time. This is thought to be a good show
ing for Dakota in twenty years
Lackawanna is the name given to the
new coal fields in the Black Hills They are
ten miles southwest Of Hot Springs, and
cover an area of twelve square miles The
coal is Of bituninous character, but there
are thin stratas OF hard, bright and ex-
tremely black coal which Is believed 70 be
anthracite II struck with a Ia INNER ii
breaks up into cubes and is remarkably
clean
The snow at jamestown was twenty
inches deep on the level a few days ago and
the drifts We're enormous
At Yankton a few days ago Chief Justice
Trpp decided the asylum case against the
plaintiffs. the old board, holding that the
Government had the right to remove them
and to I'LL the vacancie&
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A coNreMprlRLE POLICY.
Our State Department Run in the Interest
OF Great Britain.

O"r state Department Run in the Interest
OF Great Britain.
AT a meeting of the Republican Ma.
tional League held in Washington,
Senator Teller, of Colorado. said that
whenever the people learned how
the State Department had been run,
it would be enough to change the Ad-
ministration. A British officer went
aboard one of our ships and pulled
down our flag. and mild protest was
entered by that department They
said that they didn't think it was
quite the proper thing to pull down
our flag. but that was the end of the
whole affair"
The Senator declared that he re-
membered a time when the outrage
would have stirred the whole coun-
try from one end to the other;' when
there would have been mass-meetings
held and the people would have de-
clared for war against Britain. He
commented severely upon the action
of the State Department in bringing
the Chamberlain Fish Commission
over here lin the face of protest from
the United States Senate" and con-
tinued: LET us have il understood
that we have got money enough to
build ships and TO buy cannon, and
that we are able to resent an insult
offered to our flag just as our fathers
did when there We're but few millions
people here. We were not afraid
to go to war with Britain many years
ago, but we had different class of men
conducting the Government then.
don't want war if it can be avoided.
but don't care if the American flag
was floating over only decayed mack
erel. when any one pulled it down
there would be fight" And he add
ed that the party proceeding upon that
principle between now and the next
election would win, and that the mass
Of our citizens believed this nation was
big enough to take care of itself againss
the whole world, if necessary.
Those expressions voice the senti-
ment of the American people as dis
tinguished from that of the Cleveland
Administration. Our citizens feel that
they are not only able tom tain their
independence but to asser. neir rights
on land and sea in any quarter of the
world. They are not to be cowed 10y
the apparent strength of England's
navy or cajoled into an alliance with
that Power on any pretext or by any
special pleading. and the efforts of the
State Department to bring about that
result will only arouse popular distrust
and indignation against those who at
present control its affairs and lead to
the overthrow at the next opportunity
of an Administration whose main eff
forts have been directed to secure the
adoption of a policy which would re-
duce this Republic again to the condi-
ton of dependency of England.
Irish World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19
WISCONSIN.

Michael Kroeger, the oldest man in Wis
consin who has seen III years, was in Mil
waukee few days ago, coming from Man
chester to visit his sop Martin The old
gentleman is still able to read without
spec5acles
los Mr.. Palmerlee's little children were
coming across the Trempealeau river at
Dodge a few days ago five large wolves at
tackled them, tore their clothes and hurt
them quite badly before they were fright
ened away
The Wisconsin Shoe Company's factory at
Janesville was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of IS. 900 the other day.
C. F. Crosby. of wausau, has been ap-
pointed municipal Judge of Marathon Coun-
ty, vice S II Alban, resigned
Robert Wallace, a machine tender in the
Badger Paper Mil at Kaukauna, was
caught In the gearing the other night and
killed.
RA Odell. of whitehall, has been ap-
pointed county Judge Of Trempeauleau
County, vice NJ Muiligan, resigned
A Council Bluffs check forger, named
Harry VIM, was recently captured in
Nebraska and brought back for trial
The GAINESVILLE Hospital Association has
been incorporated, with capital stock of
5000, 600
In the woods north of Thorp few days
ago T. J. Shipman ran across two large
deer with their horns locked together, in
which position they had evidently been for
several days One was dead and the other
nearly so.
William Kurns, Of purand. aged twenty
one, attempted to walk from Bayfield, TO a
logging camp on Cranberry river He gave
out after walking thirty miles and died
All the houses of il-fame in Florence
County have been ordezed closed, and the
inmates Of the dens in the woods are TO be
driven out of the county.
DR. J. NJ Babcock, of the New York State
Experimental Station, has been elected
professor OF agricultural chemistry in Wis
consin University.
Wolves are having things rretty much
their own way in swamp two miles north
Of Burlington They kill more or less sheep
every day.
TryIand and the saloons Of swanson and
O. E Nelson were burned at 0geman early
the other morning.
New Jersey capitalist offers to start a
National bsnk az Bayfield,. putting in $780,
600 if citizens VIII subscribe an equal
amount
By order of the Treasury Department the
ON e Of Deputy Surveyor Of Customs at La
Crosse has been discontinued
FY Griffin. of Durand, has contracted to
get out million baseball clubs for a Chi
cago firm
r n Bibbs. stone-cutter. was frosen to
death al Madison the other night
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CLEVELAND ARaAleNEo.

Senator Hale Makes a Vigorous Attac-
on the Administration and Tears or IN 1.
Mask OF Hypocrisy and Deceit Worn bv
spoils Democrats Clothed Ia Civn-Serv-
ice Reform Garb.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ~ In the Senate yes
yesterday the resolution offered by Mr.
Hale December IL for select COMMITTEES
TO examine fully into the present condition
OF the civil service was taken up, and Mr..
Hale addressed tue Senate in explana-
ton and advocacy of it. He declared that
his object in offering il was to Sc
cure an investigation with a sincere pur-
pose OF bringing before Congress the pres
ent actual condition of the civil service OF
the country and also the performances OF
certain high and low officials of the Govern
ment The Forty-seYenth Congress IRE
publican) had enacted the civil-seryice
statute, and President Arthur had. with sin
cere good faith, appointed the Civil-Service
Commissioners ami gave support and en-
eouragement TO them
Both the great parties in 1884 declared
themselves in their platforms i'm favor ~
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THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention of News of General
interest
ILLINOIS.

ILLINOIS.
James NJ. LARSON, aged seventy-five
years, well known pioneer, who came to
Illinois in 1928, and was at one time sheriff
OF Logan County, died at Lincoln a few
days ago
Horace and Arthur Calef, well-to-do
farmers and dealers in fine imported horses,
failed at Monticello recently for 1856
The next State fair will be held at olney
the last week in September
William Moore, nged sixty-five years.
living near Patoka, committed suicide by
hanging recently. III health and reduced
circumstances were the causes
The Illinois Soldiers Home is very much
crowded at present. but relief is looked for
In few days, when several of the new cot
tages will be finished
The post-offices at Gray Willow and Win
tiers have been discontinued
The Touring mill of Moenning Bros. at
Qu ncy was destroyed by fire recently at q
loss of $50, 900; insurance, $4,000
The office of Deputy Surveyor Of Customs
at Galena has been abolished by command
OF the Treasury Department
Rockford had sos, 900 blaze recently.
when the cooper tive furniture factory
was burned to the ground.
John Blackmore, one of the Oldest set
tiers in Northern Illinois, aged eighty three
years. died the other night in Warren. 10
viess County. of paralysis, and Thomas
Rutledge died at Heyworth, Mclean Coun-
ty, aged eighty-two years
Jamie Gassoway, eleven years old, son of
DR. James NJ Gassoway, of the United
States Marine Hospital Serv. ce, stationed at
Cairo, was blown from a Lake Shore train
in Western New York the other dav. while
passing between two oars, and instantly
killed.
The total amount OF money paid for cat
tie received at the Union Stock Yards in
Chicago during 1887 was about 800. OOO.-
600. This for cattle alone, saying nothing
of sheep, hogs and horses
The body of Mrs Sarah Huffman was
found the other morning In an old hut on
the Wilkin farm, two miles north Of Mar
shall She had starved to death
The First Baptist Church OF Bloomington
celebrated its fiftieth anniversary the other
day
corn binder agent succeeded in
swindlng Mr. Lshness, of Graymont, out
OF $500 a few days ago
The total disbursements from the Chi
cago Pension Office during the past year
were So 1888, 507. 81 The number Of PEN
Sioners on the roll was SO, 500
Post-offices have been established at Nor
tonville, viii County, and Temple Hill, Pope
County, Ill
Mrs Mary Swords slipped and fell on
sidewalk in Nokomis the other night, caus-
ing conclusion of the brain, which resulted
in death in few minutes
company with 81. 600. 900 capital has
been licensed to establish an aquarium and
fish market in Chicago
The annual election of officers for the
Chicago Board of Trade was held recently.
and resulted in the choice of Charles L
Hutchinson for president
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N lieu of death by electricity as a
substitute for hanging Frenchman has
written TO Governor Hill. of New York.
proffering chair in which the con-
demned man is to sit and have his
spinal column instantly broken. 1t is
claimed that a hundred persons per
day can be executed in this manner.
and the inventor describes the process
as beautiful. "
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

Men who taste food products for a
living are obliged to sharpen their pai-
ates every now and then in order to
keep taste acute. The busiest butter
faster in New York City does this by
eating an immense apple. mealy. if he
can find one Of that sort, every morn
ing before ne eats his breakfast. He
says that restores all the sensitiveness
of his taste.
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HahcocS,s Grandson 100 Years Old.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 12-Micager Han
cock. living near Monop, Ind, celebrated
the tooth anniversary of his birth on Mon
day. Mr. Hancock is a grandson of John
Il .4ncock, signer of the Declaration Of indie
pendence, and was born in Delav are He
came to this State in 1874, settling in Wa
bash County. In 1850 he moved to Pulaski
County. where he now lives tie has six
children living, their ages ranging from 80
to II years He can read without specta-
cles, has a good memory and excellent
health. and walked to town, distance of
six miles, within year
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

FRANCIS MURPHY has some good
ideas on other subjects as well as on
temperance. In a late lecture he said:
"There is one great trouble among the
Young men of the present day-they are
ashamed to take off their coats and
get down to hard work. They want to
be genteel; they want to get rich right
away. The browning glory Of man
hood is labor"
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A scnra In neirnit-

DETROIT, Mich, Jan 17-Among the Of
fees in the old Arcade building. on Larned
street, partially burned Saturday morn
ing. was that of the Adyancs and La
Dor Leaf, an organ of working-men
In plain wooden closet in this office relic
hunters found six Winchester repeating
rifies and lot of ammunition 1t is thought
that the find indicates the existence OF a
secret military company, composed of
Knights of Labor. This company is
believed to have been organized three
years ago. and the purpose is stated as be
ing the instruction Of working-men in the
use of the rife. to enable them more easily
70 gain their rights It is denied that there
are any Anarchists in the company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

THERE is girl in the Treasury De
partment at Washington who can pick
a counterfeit bill out Of pile contain
ing S2O,OOO.O 600 There is a prize for
some man. Think of being able
To sleep o nights without the haunting
fear hanging like a sword of Bunker
Hill over your head that there may be
a counterfeit bill in your $40. 900. 900.
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IOWA.

Floyd County has had six murders in
twenty years Three of the murderers
were imprisoned, one acquitted, one COM
mitted suicide and one was hanged
Sixty nine soldiers have been admitted TO
the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown
Dubuque's arIesian well continues to flow
at the rate of three thousand gallons day.
Ten counties in Iowa have female SUPER
lntendentG
teamster in Sioux City incautiously
swore in court in a suit for wages recently
that s employers used bogus weights in
shoveling out coal and now he has a suit
for libel and So. 900 damages on his hands
Fifteen hundred head of cattle have been
dehorned in the southern part of Osceola
County during the present winter.
The infant son of William j. Walker of
Sioux City, drank large quantity of con-
centrated I've recently and died soon after
wards
About eleven acres of the leading coal
mine at Altoona. on the eastern edge of
Polk County, were flooded with four feet of
water recently, throwing one hundred men
out of work.
Daniel Nauman & Co. IS block at Waterloo
was burned the other night causing loss
of 50, 500
For many years an old lady over ninety
years of age, known as Aunt Kitty" Fender
CAST, lived all alone in little shanty in an
isolated portion of Dubuque few nights
ago her home was burned and she persisted
in the flames
Sioux City's annual 'possumsupper given
by colored lady named Auntie Wooden,
took place a few evenings ago
Governor Larrabee has reappointed Prof
NJ Stalker as State Veterinarian with the
following deputies: W. b. Miles, State Cen
ter; ]. A, Campbell, Des MOines; r NJ.
Nicholson, Sac City; Charles H. Flynn, De-
corah; M. Z Johnson, Red Oak; c. A. Gary,
Keokuk; John Title, Ames
The Dubuque cooperative grocery store
ass gned recently. The concern did fair
business but the profits were not large
enough to keep it aflolt
A singular instance of long and faithful
public service was that of the late A d.
NJ loney of Denison, who held the office of
auditor of Crawford County from 1860
until his death few days ago, period of
twenty-s seven years, or since the county
was organized,
1t was discovered a few DAYS ago that
p. Hill, recently treasurer of Harrison Coun-
ty, was behind in his accounts to the ex-
tent of $4,000
The Board of Commissioners of Woodbury.
County has refused permits to three whole
sale liquor houses of Sioux City, but made a
sort of compromise which viii enable them
TO run until May After that drug stores
will be the only place where liquor can be
legitimately obtained
An unsuccessful attempt was made near
Ottumwa the other night to rob the ex-
press-car of the west-bound train on the
Chicago, Burlington q Quincy railroad
An incendiary fire at Colesbxrg the other
day destroyed Thomas Coles general store
and the Walker Hotel Loss, $13, 900; in
surance, s.. 900,
General James Wilson died at his home in
Newton the other night aged eighty-five
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

By the operation of the statute
which bars prosecution for murder or
mauslaughter unless death occurs
within one year and one day of the as
sault. Mrs. McGeever. says the Chicago
Times escapes the consequences of
having caused the death of Patrick
Duvanncy. On the night of January
10. 1856. she pushed him over a stair
railing. and in the fall he broke his
back He lived until January IL,
1883. and Mrs. McGeevcr goes free.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

The New York City elevated aud
surface railroads carried last year
3jS. 53S. l9S passengers. for which they
received in Scent fares upward of s17.-
100000 The profits. after paying all
expenses. were about s.. 900, 600.
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NEW YORK, Jan 12-An OF the rights
franchises and corporate property OF the
New York & Manhattan Elevated railway
were mortgaged yesterday TO the Union
Trust Company for the purpose of securing
bonds axgregating $4,000 600, which II
was rrsolved to issue At yesterdays meet
irlr under nrnnsitinn
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BBkrERD. MINI, Jan 1z-Lumbermen
from Little FAILS. who have crossed To-
country from Princeton, confirm the report
that a Swede has murdered his wife and
seven children The swede was farmer
named Henry Ostrum, and the scene OF the
crime is a Swedish settlement about twenty
miles from Princeton 0strum gave as
reason for the crime that he feared his wife
and children would freeze TO death
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80 ~ Va Va
Civil Service reform,
but as the campaign
progressed it was
seen that a consider
able body of men
who had before that
affiliated with the
Republican party had
determined to OPP
pose its candidate,
and IL soon became
clear that not only
was that body of men
bent on opposing the
Republican candi-
late, but was look
ing about for reasons
-. - -
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Ell PAso, Tex. Jan. 1.-THE Mexican
Central passenger train was held up Tues
day night about three hundred miles south
of El Paso BY band of eight robbers A
considerable sum in gold and bills was
taken. but a quantity of silver was left
behind. None of the passengers was NAL
treated
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-19

The GeOrgians marry and give in
marriage. but seem to have little idea
of the eternal fitness of things. A
clergyman of that State has united Ill
couples and has received in fees but
s.. and that came from one man. The
other 10 bridegrooms failed to liqui-
date