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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
THE EAST

THE death of Katie Kennedy. the sixty
third victim Of the recent Mud Run railway
disaster, occurred at Scranton, Pa, on the
31st ult.
Is Pittsburgh Pa, while testing a fire.
escape on the 3sst nit three boys were
killed By the breaking of a rope which
caused them TO fall a distance Of seventy
feet
AK explosion on the lst at the Sable
iron-works Of Zug & Co. in Pittsburgh,
Pa, killed one man and fatally injured two
others.
On the evening of the 1st Amanda Mont
gomery and Gus Williams, lovers, were
walking on the railroad track at Green's
burg, Pa, and in stepping of one track TO
avoid a train they were run down by an
other train and both were killed.
OK the lst l. Berman, New York bank
er, disappeared with $4,000 belonging to
depOsitOrs.
On the I'd five men were killed and a
number OF others were seriously injured
by an explosion Of the boiler Of a thresh-
ing machine near Reading, Pa.
Ok the % Ms Frank \ De GrOOt, Of
Worcester, Mass, gave birth to four girl
babies, all living.
GEORGE H VANDEKBILT, of New York,
purchased one thousand acres OF mountain
lands near ASheVIlle. y. Z. where II was
said on the ID he would build a large in
dustrial institute for the free education of
poor white children, who would be taught
how TO work in wood aud metals and thus
become skilled mechanics
HERHERT l. CRICHETT, OF Boston, finan-
cial clerk for real-estate firm, disap-
peared on the ID. taking with him SIS 600
belonging TO his employers.
SEVERAL miners when riding on a hand
car near HOpewel, Pa, on the I'd were
thrown from the car by ? runaway team.
Sam Hastings was instantly killed, Martin
Maher had his skull crushed and seven
others were seriously injured
Henry BOwES, a leading merchant of
WiIkesbarre. Pa, while out riding on the
81 was fatally shot by a highwayman.
Az explosion on the 81 in the Kettle
Creek coal mines near Lock Haven, Pa,
killed 6fteen persons aud four others were
injured
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A FIRE destroyed Higginbotham's spin
ming and weaving mills at Glasgow, Scot
land, on the 3lst ult. Loss, $3.50, 900.
a BREAK occurred in the River St Pierre
at Cote ct Paul. Can, on the 3lst ult,
and the neighboring country was flooded.
ADyIcEs of the 3Ist ult say that the
large number of Chinese who we're arriv-
ing at British Columbia ports from China
were not destined to remain in Canada,
but were taking this means Of smuggling
themselves into the United States.
on the 1st fore gn Jews engaged in farm
ing were ordered 10 quit Poland within a
month.
A COLLISION at sea recently between the
steamers Carl Neymss and Ardencaple
resulted IN the loss of sixteen lives from
the Weymss
The death Of Rev. William C. Van
Meter, a we'll known evangelist and mis-
sionary. occurred on the list at Rome,
Italy, at the age of sixty-eight years. Bs
was one Of the founders Of the Howard
Mission in New York, and carried on for
twenty years the work of rescuing chill
dren from the slums and finding Christian
homes for them throughout the country.
DISPATCHES of the LIST from India say that
a cyclone, accompanied by heavy rains,
had swept over Madras, doing great dam
age.
IL a speech at a banquet in Shertroolk,
Can, on the LIST Sir John Macdonald said
it would be TuinOus for Canada TO sever
her relations with Great Britain and unite
with the United States
THE Canadian Department of Agri-
culture was informed on the ID that over
two hundred Mormons emigrated from
Utah to the Canadian Northwest during
the past season.
A FIRE destroyed twelve large ice-houses
at Toledo, o., owned by the Elevator Coal
& Ice Company
ADvIcEs of the I'd say that the thirteen
whaling vessels that had been stuck in the
ice in the Arctic sea for several weeks had
been freed and were out of danger.
CoURIERs brought news to Zanzibar on
the ID Of Stanley, whom they met late in
November, 1887. Many of the escort had
died and the explorer had been i'll with
fever.
o. the 4th the steamer Sax Murdham
was sunk in collision with the Norwegian
bark Nor of Cowes, and twenty-five per-
sons were drowned.
IL Hofo China, an unknown disease was
prevailing on the 81, and the people were
dying at the rate of thirty or forty persons
a day.
PIRATES recently attacked post con-
ssting of forty men of the Foreign Lee
giOn and seven pagodas in Tonqui2 and
killed all but one man.
THE three children of DIR. S. F. B. Reid,
of Gait, Ont, were playing on the banks
of the Grand river on the Sd, when they
fell into the water, and two Of them, girls,
were drowned.
EiGHTT miners We're killed by a terrific
explosion on the Sd in the Champagne
coal pit in the Department of Aveyron,
France.
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What a Child Did.

Only a few days ago a mother and
her daughter. on their way from Phila-
delphia to Omaha, were changing
trains at one of our passenger stations.
Suddenly the girl caught sight of her
father. a San Franciscan, on his return
journey from New York. He had
parted from his wife six years ago on
account of some domestic infelicity.
The child called his name
20 papa! There's papa.'-and ran
to him. He clasped her in his arms.
But her work as peacemaker was
only begun. Now come over to NAM
ma" she continued, eagerly. do
speak to mamma. She has cried so
much. and has told me often how good
papa always was" The appeal was ir-
resistible. The husband and father
looked at the wife and mother. he
stepped quickly to her, they elasped
stands. and the Unlooked-for reconcilia-
ion was an accomplished fact. The
west-bound train bore away reunited
family.-I9Gs-i0r.
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LATER.

An incsndiary fire at Gary, Oak. on the
night OF the 4sh destroyed half of the best
business block in the city. Loss about
$4,000
FRANK DAY. young Canadian was
stabbed and killed at the corner of Clark
and Harrison at midnight of the 4th by un-
known posters.
OVER a ton of nitro glycerine exploded at
SanOpin, Pa. on the morning of the 5th
So terrific was the shock that windows
three miles away were broken, and the con-
cuss.on was felt for fifteen miles distant
A number of men were killed
JOSEPH KUGLER, a mikman was killed at
College Point, l. L on the night of the 4th,
Eugler was To- ding his wagon when seven
men mounted on horses rode him down
and tramp.ed him TO death.
The powder mills at GAMBIA, Ne. were
blown to atoms on the 9TH by an explosion
There were four buildings, one kernal mill
and three wheel mills There were TWO
men in the buildings at the time and both
were fatally hurt
An explosion of corn starch duss occurr-
ed in a sugar refinery at Chicago, on the
5,h Tho building was badly damaged
and several of the employees dangerously
burned
AN explosion of natural gas occurred in
the Stockville coal mine near Trinidad,
Colo, on the 9TH Two miners were killed
and the mine badly wrecked
A CUBAN named Rlimos ON the 9th fred
three shots at Mrs Stocks, residing at 331
Greenwich street. Philadelphia Two of
the bullets took effect In her face and the
third in one of her lungs
The residence Of John Coomler. a farmer
living near Wabash. Ind, was burned on
the 4.h and a twelve-year-old son of Sam
uel Shorty, who was visiting there, was
burned TO death
SIXTEEN siilors of the ship Hecla, which
arrived at Tacoma, Wash. Ter, on the 9TH,
began suit against Captain Straw for cruel
ty, viz: tying them up, impris and
beating them
The Buchanan Manufacturing Company's
furni ure factory at Buc lanan, Mich, was
burned on the 9th. Loss 100000.
Two passenger trains on the H1zel on &
Vest Branch railroad collided at Nescopeck,
Pa, on the oh. Both engines were de-
molished Samuel Deetrick, engineer, and
George S uelitz his fireman were fatally
injured
GEN. GoURKo,on the 5th. notified the Rus
sian government that he had discovered the
existence of revolutionary society in Po-
land with numerous branches
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PITH AND POINT.


5ome build rather upon the
abusing of others, and putting tricks
upon them, than upon soundness of
their own proceedings. lord Bacon.
The creed of narrow man-If a
friend changes his mind he is traitor;
If stranger does not think as you do
he Is iOOl.-N o. Picayuas
Only he who uses knowledge has a
permanent hold ON knowledge The
heart that gives out love uns Jaringly
is the heart that has most love yet to
give.
The bright genus is ready to be so
forward as often betrays him into great
errors in Judgment without continual
bride on the tongue. Il Watts.
"A man living in a Western town
lays his was the only house intact after
recent cyclone and attributes his
good luck to the fact that it had heavy
mortgage on it
Worry not about the possible
troubles of the future; for If they come,
you are but anticipating and adding to
their weight; and if they do not come,
your worry is useless.
Assume a virtue If you have it
not" says Shakespeare. But this is
not always practicable. The thor-
oughly intoxicated man can not as
sumo the virtue of sobriety. - Boston
Courier.
Whose can restrain his disposition
to blame and find fault, and can bring
himself down to a fallen brother. will
soon find a way to better feelings
within. Pity and patience are the
two keys which unlock the human
heart
"A man who dwells on failure with
discomfort condemns himself of little
ness. We can not be masters of our
selves till our sovereignty has been
challenged and proved. The salutary
shock comes on this side and that,
and the courageous sufferer is taught
the wealth of his resources.
Sympathy is both the forerunner
and the follower of knowledge, in the
study of any character which is worth
being acquainted with. Unless we
are in sympathy with such character.
we can never understand it; and only
as we understand it can we have full
ness of sympathy with it.
Many people know how to do this
and that, but they lack the capacity
for doing. They are listless. indOlent,
slow; or to call them by better name,
they are lazy. If this can not be over
come in them. they will make no prog
ress. u United Pres jyteridH.
Gain comes through outlay; Civ
ing promotes growth. Loss comes
through boarding; holding brings de-
cay. The law is the same, so far, in
the realm of spirit ana matter. Hand,
head and heart must be taxed in order
to live. He who would have must
spend. He who would hold must yield.
The more one does, the greater his
power of doing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
THE TROUBLE WITH HAYTl.
State Department omciaIs Talk Beiligor-
only About the Se.zure Of ships.

state department O1Uctdts laik
entity About the Seizure Of ships.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--The seizure of tho
American ship Haytian Republic by tho
authorities at Port au-Prince, Hayti, as
a blockade-runner, has given rise to
soma considerable talk in official cir
cles. The alleged reason for this sciz-
ure was stated that the ship contained
arms and ammunition for the revolution
lists, and the seizure of a British ship q
few DAYS later for the same reason proved
that the Haytian Government had estab-
lished blockade against all Nations
The Acting Secretary of State was seen
at the State Department and his attention
was called to the fact, and he was
asked what was the usual course
pursued in such cases He replied
that the action of the Haytian Gov
eminent was all wrong. as they
would pretty soon fad out When a
Government contemplated such a sreD
the proper thing to do is TO have the
blockade first effected and established
and then TO notify the maritime nations
OF the world that their ports are block
AIDED. This the Haytian Government did
not do. The steel cruiser Boston will ar
rive at Port au Prince to-day, and what
ever American vessels are detained will
be at once set free, or there will be some
more than diplomatic work by Captain
ramsey.
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. S-----
SIGHTS IN FINL LAND.
Where Women ans Girls Act as Postboys
and Even the Hogs Are Clean.

Where Women anS Girls Act as Postboys
and Even the Hogs Are Clean.
Our postbOys invariably carry three
or four rings of bread ana some hay in
the cart to feed their horses at the end
of their stage before going back. At
some of the stations we found no men
at home. The women would bring out
the cart, send lad to the field (or go
themselves) for the horse, and hitch
it up, and twice women We're our post
boys, but generally we had bright
little fellows from ten TO twelve years
old, ana few times little girls. The
weather was showery while we were
posting, and we thus lost considerable
time. / employed it in speering
about and writing. Travel in Fin
land is ridiculously cheap in the in
terror. A horse and cart, holding us
two and our light baggage, cost sixteen
pennies a verst, or little under five
cents mile. A run of ten miles
would take about an hour and
half. 1t really did us good to see the
real pleasure we afforded when we
gave our little post-boys and girls a
hallmark, or ten cents, at the end Of
their stage. At the farm-houses or
post-stations where we spent nights we
would have good beds, a supper on
bacon and raw fish, rye bread, and
Swedish hard bread (delicious), and as
delightful milk, cream, butter and
clabber as one ever ate: and in addf-
tion to these very good coffee and
sometimes eggs for breakfast And
the whole for two of us cost from sew
enty cents to one dollar. The travel
ers' rooms at the post-houses were de-
lightfully clean-one or two with strips
of carpet, others strewn with sweet fir
twigs
Then, too, the little tow-headed chill
dreu were so good-natured and two or
three pet hogs invariably grunted I'M
der our windows with a sort of squeal
for a crust. The hogs, by the way,
we're always clean and really not bad
pets. We had always beautifully curled
tailed sort of dogs to keep US company.
One stayed with US forty-eight miles.
II had II most Observation-Disclosures
curled tail / ever saw. / think he rec
ognized us as free-born Americans,
and wished to go home with US He
was evidently well-known at the differ
ent stations.
/ will here state that Finnish has no
affinity. / am told. with any European
language, or perhaps any Asiatic. It
has no propositions. For them a
suffix is added For example, a sign
board has on 4. "Uluum 90" This
means: TO Ulu 80 versts." While
"Ulusta'' means from Ulu." To
show the difficulty of acquiring the
language, a Finnish lady said to me
that she learned Russian quite correct
Is in year. while Russian friend,
better linguist than she, was two years
II learning Finnish as well. And yet
Russian is considered a very difficult
language TO master. - Garter II. Rarri- |
son. IN Chicago Mall
s
according TO a recently-published
Italian pamphlet there are now on
Mount Athos twenty different monas-
teries; seventeen Greek. one Russian. |
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A Parallel Case.

boy. is that woman calling to you?''
queried Fifth street pedestrian of a
lad of ten who sat on the curb.
Probably"
is she your mother?n
''She says she is.
why don't you go in when she
calls?n
Did you ever have the toothache?"
''Oh, yes.
Ever go to the dentist until you
had top
No"
"Well. this is a parallel case"
Il don't understand.
'.3ut | do. She's waiting to tan me,
and I'm putting it off in hopes she'll
forget il. -D.sr3:. FREE Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
AN EXPRESS CAR ROBBED.
4 Daring Thief Secures Between $4,000
and $500 Near New Orleans.

New ORLEANS, Nov. Sat ; a. m. Satur-
lay between Lacey and Derry stations,
fifty miles from here, robber entered the
express car of the Northwestern railway
rain arriving here at a m. and COM
PEELED Baggagemaster Henry McElroy at
The muzzle of pistol to hold up his hands
and quickly threw sack over his head.
Charles Lowrey, the United States express
messenger, who was checking freight in the
other end of the car, was then compelled at
the pistols mouth to open the safe. A
sack was then thrown over his head, and
the robber, after ritiing the safe OF its
contents, stopped the train by pulling the
oell-rope and departed The conductor on
going forward TO investigate found the
car next to the express car locked On
reaching the express car he found McEl-
roy ami Lowrey standing in the sacks still
holding up their hands. 1t IS said that the
amount of the loss is between $40 600 and
$4,000, but the express officials decline to
state the amount
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON, the bachelor
and Quaker many-times millionaire Of
Philadelphia, is to be credited with one
of the grandest benevolent enterprises
of modern times. He has determined
richly to endOw great Industrial
training-school for boys, where every
boy can be taught some trade free of
expense His plans are not yet com
pleted. but it Is understood that the
new school will be as extensive in its
aims aud proportions as Girard Col
lego. and that the limit Mr.. William
son will place on his gift will be Sl2,
OOO coo
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on the I'd at Fresno, Cal, Robert Seconce
was shot dead by a man named Hardwick,
and Seconceis brother in return shot Hard
wick dead.
NEAR New Orleans on the Sd an express
train was robbed of about $4,000 by a
highwayman. The messenger and bag
gage-master were compelled to throw up
their hands at the point of revolver
A FREIGHT train was wrecked on the 4th
near Vicksburg, Mss, and three men were
lr5ffad
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

The Vancouver Register gives this
description OF a forest fire: Tuesday
night the people of Yacolt prairie and
on the mountains became aware of IA
terrific forest fire creeping down upon
them from out of the mountains on the
wings OF strong wind When dis
covered the fire was coming down the
Rock Greek country. Huge stubs were
falling in all directions, and soon Bell
Mountain was a roaring mass of flames.
The flying brands went across Lewis
River and caught in the timber, the
flames making a noise that seemed
like a hundred EARTHQUAKES
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
A Narrnm Escanc.

A CALDWELL, who lives some distance
from GAINESVILLE, was awakened the other
night by the sound of something falling,
and found the entire side of the building
in flames. He barely had time TO awaken
his family and get them out when the
walls gave way. The fire was believed to
have been caused by sparks from the hired
mans pipe dropping upon his pillow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

FROM present weather reports the
following advice in the New York Her-
aid Is seasonabIe: = Don't worry, keep
your lead cool. your feet warm. look
out for east winds. the rheumatism
and dyspepsia, and DO your level best
10 die Of old age.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

THE butter color used by nearly all
farmers and creameries in increasing
the yellow tint of their product is
annatto boiled in cottOn-seed oil, and
although the amount OF oil in the
mixture is extremely small, it comes
within the letter Of the statute defining
OleOmarga zine, according to a decision
Of the Commissioner of Internal Rev
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
KILLED BY THE TOWN MARSHAL.
Two Drunken Young Rowdies Attack an
officer and re Fatally Shot.

Columns, Iud, Nov. 5.-The Republic
ans of this county held rally at Hope, a
small town Twelve miles cast of here, Sat
urday Among those present were two
young rowdies named Gibson Piercetield
and Joseph Middleton, who live few
miles north of the city. They had a
grudge for some time against Jacob
Brennan, the town marshal of Hope, and
Saturday evening while drunk they began
an attack upon him. Brennan was cor
nered, and, drawing a revolver, he opened
fire on his assailaLts Middleton was NOR
tally wounded and died in short time,
while Piercefield also received dangerous
wound, which will cause his death. Bren-
nan has Eoen arrested.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

Miss FLEFsoN. Pittsburgh lady,
who is now missionary in Siam, re-
Gently had the honor Of an invitation
to dine with the King and Queen of
that country in their new summer pal
ace. The dinner was served in true
Siamese fashion, but Miss FIeesOn says
she was spared the pleasure of eating
some OF the delicacies, among them
angle-worm croquettes and chopped
chewing tobacco.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

INDIA must be the physician earth
~ paradise The Nawab Of Rampur
recently paid Sergeant-MajOr Freyer,
a surgeon in the British army, the
princeIy fee of $50. 600 for having
brought him safely through a three
months illness from malignant rheu-
matte fever
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
Dor PoIsonlng ner ChIldrcn.

Mrs Anna Shoots, now under three in
dictments for murder in the first degree
for poisoning her children. was lodged in
Jail at GAINESVILLE recently with her baby.
She had been out on $40, 900 bail FOR over
year on those charges, but the grand jury
indicted her again when an ounce of sui
phate of copper was found in the remains
of her baby that died five years ago. She
will remain in Jail until the trial ocolrs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

THE first sheet Of plate-glass manu-
featured in the United States is still
doing duty in one Of the show win
dows OF store in Albany, y. Y. The
glass was manufactured by Captain j.
b. Ford at the plate-glass works there
when that gentleman, who Is the piO-
neer Of plate-glass manufacture in this
country, was operating them.
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Patents to Wisconsin, Inventors.

The following patents were recently is
sued at Washington: J. b. Carmichael,
Milwaukee, dental tool; r Emerson, Ra
cine, water motor; G. Enger, Milwaukee,
pocket-book; a Hirschheimer and c. NJ
Mueller, La Crosse, machine for bending
slaves; p. jacobson, Milwaukee, coupling
for steam or other pipes; j. I. King, Mad
son, revolving frame; J. Pilkinton, Mil
waukee, nail plate feeding device; II. g..
RazIll, Milwaukee, combined book and
index
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08

HORACE SMITH. Of Philadelphia, is
said TO have the largest collection of
newspaper clippings in the world. He
began saving them fifty years ago, aud
has items on every conceivable sub
Ject. alphabetically arranged and prop
erIv indpxad
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UNCLE SANS DEBT.
Annual Report of General Rosecrans,
Register of the Treasury.


WASHINGTON, Nov 5.-The annual report
If General Rosecrans, the Register of the
Treasury, shows that during the fiscal
1ear there were issued 26,59S United
states bonds, amounting to $4,000, 600,
and were Cancelled -, 1855 bonds, amount
ng to SlS9,000 600 OF the regis
:ered bonds there were outstand-
ng July /, 1883, SOLO, 600 of ~ per cents,
100000. 900 of the 4 per cents, and S64, 900, 600
If Pacific railroad bonds. OF this total there
ire held by foreign owners only SO, SOC, Co.,
1891 000 600 in trust for the Nat onal
banks and by domestic owners, S624, 000,
700. Insurance companies hold, in round
numbers, $4,000. coo; savings banks in
situations, Sl9l 600 600, and individual
rustees, etc, S3S6, 00O, 600, or an average
If IS, 154 to each holder. The re-
bort shows that the interest
bearing debt of 1865 has been reduced
H.42 per cent. in the past twenty-three
years, or at the rate of 2, 81 per cent per
lnnum, while in the past three years the
decrease in the same was TO- 2S per cent,
)r at the rate of 3, 426 per cent per annum.