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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-05
LATER.

ANoNG the petitions presented to the
Seusts on the 81 was ore to seId United
States troops t. Chicago to protect the
ives and property o c.tizans against tn
soc alists Of Illinois and Iowa. In the
Hous tie comm ttse on commerce agreed
to Mr.. Anderson's res button prov ding for
an investigation of the Burlington strike by
a special committee of five, to be appointed
by the Speaser.
Ar Chicago on thu Sd the engin ers, fire.
men and switchmen employed at the Michi-
gan Central yards struck at seven a. m.
and rem aiaed out until two p. m. when they
agreed to handle all freight offered after a
conference tn the officers Of the road end
a delegation OF motherhood from Jackson,
Mich.
AT Indianapolis on the Sd during q
drunken debauch among Bohemians one
man was pounded to death and another
probably fatally wounded with a Ratchet.
AT Norway, Mich, on the I'd, Mrs. Peter
Burke, a widow, was shot md instantly
killed by Pat Wade, who sought to prevent
her marriage TO another man.
AT New York city on the 81, Mrs. Tillie
SiEh in a fit of insanity, threw her twelve
year-old son cut Of a third-story window
and tn n jumped after him. Both were
probably fata ly injured.
THE trial Of NJ f. Billings for the muir
der of County Attorney Kingsley of Brei-
III T county, Iowa, common ed at Waverly
on the Sd.
ACCORDING to a advices received a. Rome
on the 81 the Abyssinian troops had cap
tured the yilllge of Malentot the inhab
{ nts Of which were friendly TO the Italians,
an 4 massacred al the men, women and
childr. n in the place.
Ar Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the I'd. Adam
vOlkovith was hung for the murder, in
August last. o. STAINS aus Bioski.
PITcH sR CLARKsOS. OF e Chicago cub,
was on tees released to Boston, the price
paid being $4,000
/ Thu jail at FriErs Point Miss, was de
stroyed by fire on the Sd and hive prisoners
persisted in ths flames.
HE Secretary of the Treasury on the Sd
addI esssi letter 20 the Sp aksr Of the
House explaini & the ne 'es.ity fo- sup
Elemental appropriation OF $50 900 to de-
fray the expense OF collecting customs
revenues for the en- re It issa' year.
ADVANCED she Is from ths report Of the
grand seere. airy OF the Order Of Railway
Condactors. published at Chicago on the Sd,
. denounce Il b o;herhood Of locomotive :
ginesrs in strong terms. and al conductors
are urged % do all in their power 70 Al the
! ralwaTe msaniss during the present striks
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-05
DAKOTA.

At Huron recently the trial of the old
Board of County Commissioners for de-
frauding the county of money ended in
verdict of acquittaL
The only dentist in Mitchell is a hand
some young woman IL is said beauty
draws by single hair, but this one uses
forceps
There are living in the Vicinity of Dead
wood three children that are remarkable
euro 't es Instead OF hair the have re-
markal l. growth of fine thick wool. that
looks and feels as though il were fine
quality of merno
Huronites are thinking of sinking an ar
tesian well in a natural basin some three
miles out of town, Iuilding a dam across
one end of the basin and flooding IL with
water from the well, thus converting the
basin into lake Tire project, if success
ful, VIII result in lake some three miles
long, fifteen rods wide and forty feet deep
DR.. Pearman, a dentist formerly Of Pal
myra and Waukesha. Wis, died a few days
ago in Highmore.
The Pierre Bridge Company has organ
lied with capital of $50, 900 The object
is TO construct maintain and operate a
pontoon bridge between Pierre and Fort
Pierre for the crossing of teams and foot
passengers
1t was learned at Spokane Falls the other
day that Pelkey. Pendeton and Pipkins.
three men who left the Falls last fail to
prospect, had been murdered at Priest
Lake. Idaho, by Indians
There are now ninese IN inmates in the
United States penitentiary at Sioux Falls
Thomas H b. Jones, who was recently
nominated by the President as indian
agent at Fort Bsrthold, is a resident or
Ste Gle. Kidder County
DIR. IL D. Valin, of Fargo became insane
on the street in Chicago few days ago
Eddy County viii have female candi-
date for Superintendent Of Schools Foster
County also has a lady's name suggested
for the position
While crossing the Missouri river few
miles from Bismarck the other day, Eagle
Head" well-known Indian scout, and
John Warren, a white hunter, were
drowned They ran into an air-hole and
were carried beneath the ice.
s d. Bates. the man who killed Jessie
Powell with a pitchfork at Armour. was ac-
quilted the other day on the ground OF self
defense He at once went home and taking
his team, left the country. saying that he
should never return Powelfs friends We're
dissatisfied with the verdict. and twas fear
Of injury at their hands that prompted
Bates to leave.
The recent death of Hon George W.
Cass. OF New York, will be regretted BY
many residents Of Eastern Dakota Ihs
General had large interests in the Red rive
valley. and it was for him Cass County was
named
The contract for the asylum buildings at
Yankion has been awarded 10 J. Patee,
of Canton, for SSI. 600
The Minnehaha and the Citizens Nation
al banks Of Sioux Pals have consolidated
The capitaI stock will be $4,000 and
viii be raised - $500. 600 or $3.50, 900 this
season
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THE EAST.

The death of Mrs Agnes X ssam, who
celebrated her one hundredta Dr hdav on
the Ith inst. occurred at her home in
Brooklyn, y. Y, on The 9th. of pneumO-
mia
The report of the directors of the Ameri-
can Bell Telephone Comp ny ON the 18th
shows that the receipts OF the company for
the year 1857 were - 4J5. O27; expenses.
81 PIP $50
TIERS were two distinct earthquake
shocks at Nashua, y. H., early ON the morn
ing OF the 29th. which shook houses and
awakened sleeping persons
TIE trunk lines at New York on the 2Sth
granted rates OF one fare for the round
trip to excurs onists to the Republican,
Democratic and Prohibition National con
vent.ons
ON the 2sth the barks Emigrant, Yesuvius
and Mabel StOddard. salt-laden Tor GlOuces-
ter, Mass. We're given up as lost, and for
ty-five men were supposed TO have per
ished
The report of the grand jury in New York
on the 18th showed that the elections in
the Eighth Assembly district last fall were
controlled by professional criminals, and
that voters were systemat. c1lly teIrOrized.
CoNNECTICUT Republicans Will meet in
New Raven May Il to elect delegates TO the
National convention.
CONNECTICUT Prohibitionists viii meet
in convention at Hartford August to nOm-
nate a state tic Set
long manifesto was issued by Master
Workman POwdeTly on The 2ath to the
Knights Of Labor, in which he urgently re-
quested that education lie made the future
motto OF the order and that strikes be en-
tirelv done away with lie says that the
I'm ghts OF Llbor strikes have never been
successful. and that the time 10 call halt
has an. we'd
THE failure Of the Springfield Mass
Printing Company for SlOl, IA was re-
ported on the SDth ul-
DAVID JENNINGS of Lyons, y Y. who has
spent twenty-one years and $50. 600 in ex-
periments. clsir4ed ON the S0th nit. to have
discovered a means Of perpetual motion
On the 30th ult Harry Painter and
Charles Wilkerson blew out the gas in then
room in a Reading P4l hotel and were
found dead
NEAR Reading Pa. Rev Clayton Mumma,
Of that city, and Rev John Command. OF
Denver. Pa. while walking on the tracks
Of the railroad on the LIST were struck by an
engine and both were killed
The death Of David y White. eN-editor OF
the Pittsburgh pa Gazette. and the founder
of the Republican party. occurred at his
home in Sewickley. near that city. on the
31st ult. at the age Of eignty-three years
The residence of William Walter Phelps
at Engiewood. y J.. was burned on the LIST
causing loss of over S1OO.0 GOO
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WAR ON THE oRoc-sHoP.

Arrangements Being Completed for the
National Convention OF Anti Saloon Re
PubIicans TO BE Held in New York
April Is.
New YORK, March 3I-The arrangements
for he great National convention of anti
saloon Republicans which opens in this
city on April s are progressing favOrably
The Executive Committee is in correspon-
dence with prominent Republicans in all
the States and Territories in the Union and
the responses elected indicate that very
general interest is felt in the movement
The outcome of the convention will In all
probability be the formation of a National
league which will make its influences felt
at the coming convention in Chicago in
favor of the incorporation of pronounced
ahtl-saloon plank in the. National Repub-
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WEST AND SOUTH.

OS the - n committees Of the Brother
hood engineers snd fremen visited all the
roads IN ChicsgO and obtained from the en-
gineers. firemsn. switchmen and yard
masters pledge that they would not move
burlington cars The object OF this is to
make the Burlington boycott complete IL
constitutes consp racy under the rulings
Of Judges Gresham. Dundy and JOvs-
TIE private banking hrn OF Thomas P.
Miller 4 Co. at Mobile. Ala. failed on the
2Sfh for $50. 600. with assets Of about
$50. o0O
IL Georgia and Alabama an enormous
rainfall had on the 2Sth resulted IN great
damage to property. Several persons had
been drowned
DuErSo the winter season Tia number OF
hegs packed in he West Was OF The 18th
estimated AZ . 800, Goa . decrease from
lzs1 year OK about $50 600 head
o. the 29-h tie Teuaiaes OF the late
ClieF-J Justice Waite rescued Iclelo. o.. ae-
comparsed ~ The oftseiSl escorts from
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THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention of News of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.

Carl Herren, thirteen years old, residing
AT Pekin, confessed few days ago that he
turned the switch or the Ohio Indiana &
Western railroad at Hope Mines ana came
near wreckng passenger tram
From the annual report OF the Illinois
Central Railroad Company il appears that
the gross earnings for 1857 were $l3. O33.-
3S3, an increase of 1903. 500 over 1856,
waiie the increase in net earnings was
$3.50. 4ST
At the twentieth commencement exer-
cses Of the Bennett. Medical College in Chi
ego a few days ago forty doctors received
diplomas
NJ Merry, On old resident at Nauvoo,
hanged himself recently on account OF
fami. Y troubles
Marshal Marsh recently soil the Central
Iowa illinois division) railroad at public
auction to James Munson, of New York, for
100000
In many parts of Illinois the outlook for
winter wheat is unfavorab.e.
Joseph Phillips wife, residing in small
house boat at Mound City, was horribly as
saulted by a negro the other afternoon.
Governor Oglesby has appointed f C.
Roster, OF Kewanee, member of the state
Board of Education. vice Prof A. s Atwood,
resigned
Having divided his time between two
wives. neither of whom knew of the Others
ex stence, William Neugrass, of Chicago,
was few days ago sen to pr son for eight
cen months for bigamy The old Lotharlo
is himself fifty-three years of age, and his
two wives are aged fifty and fifty-two years
respectively.
At the meeting of the Brewers Associa-
ton of Chicago recently it was resolved
after May l next to deliver no beer to Gus
toners on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Nelson Mont emery, of Al
ton. celebrated their golden wedding few
days ago.
Despondent over the serious illness of a
daughter 10 whom he was deeply attached,
William J. Gogg.n, one OF the lravest Off
GERS of the Chicago police force, shot and
killed himself recently.
Eastman & Loper's Touring mill at Car
linyille was burned the other night. Insur-
ance, $4,000
The donations for the relief of Mount
Vernon thus far, from all sources aggre-
gate $50, 600
Lyman w. Belts. an old resident of
Bioominton. died suddenly the othe night
from erysipelas, resulting from a wound on
the nose, c1used by twig striking him
In a quarrel at Latham few days ago
over a debt of fifty cents W. b. Brown shot
and killed Thomas Tasaway thirty-tive
years of gge, farmer and man of family
Joel Lathrop, young farmer near Ches-
tervilie, committed suicide recently by
poison on account of financial troubles
At Carlinyille recently the thirteen-year-
old adopted son of John De;z shot and
MORALLY wounded William Wineland The
latter killed the boys father last fall, the
victim ON his death-bed making the boy
promise TO take Wineland's life. The boy
kept his word. and is now in Jail
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Denial comes from Sioux City Of the re-
port that Mr. Armour of Chicago, intended
establishing a stock-yard and packing
house on $40 acres recently purchased for
him near that city.
Rev. T. s Jane, pastor of the Congrega.
tional church at Charles City, die l sudden
" the other day of peritontis He was a
man of robust health, and his illness was
not generally known.
Trother Philips, one of the founders of
the Trappiss Monas:ry at Vernon township,
Dubuque County, died the other night,
aged seventy-iive years
The Presiding Elders of the Methodist
Church Of Iowa at their STATE meeting in
Des Moines a few days ago decided to up
point a committee of three 10 reeve prop
Ositions for the establishment of Il Method
list State University. said committee 10
meet not later than June 20
Waldo Parkhurst, a well-knowu farmer
who had lived near Davenport for fifty
years, died recently.
George Miller, a swItchman in the Chi
cagO q Northwestern yards at Boone, was
crushed to death by the cars few nights
ago
Julius Toefpke and wife were arrested at
DlvenporS recently charged with causing
the violent death OF "a child left in their
care The child was one year old The
right arm was broken near the shoulder,
the lett arm broken near the wrist the
right side OF the thorax broken in and the
ribs from the fourth to the eighth all
fractured
Mrs Abrams, of Sheffield, committed
suicide by drowning few days ago while
temporarily insane
At the annual school election at Iowa
Falls recently il was found that the ballot
box had been stuffed, containing eleven
ballots more than there were names on the
poll list new election was ordered
The Franz Brewery at Sioux City man.
aged by John Arensdorf at the time of the
Haddock murder, was leased few days
ago to be used as a butter and egg depot
Adam Hart has begun suit for five thou
sand dollars damages against William
Lerch, ex-saloon keeper at Sioux City. for
an assault
POstville man let span of horses
starve to death. HIS excuse was that he
was too poor 10 buy feed for them
Thirty-six girls at the Iowa Wesleyan
University have adopted a uniform consist
ing of caps and loose-ftting garments-a
cross between blouse and Mother Hub
bard
William Wilkerson, a wealthy farmer
near Kelsey, Ia, was worked recently TO
the tune of $iOO by couple of confidence
men.
j. Il Christians elevator and the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy freight depot at Ham,
bWg were consu ned by fire The other night,
involving a loss of $4,000
A. ". Allysworth, of Council Bluffs shot
and kilIel George Hin at Waterloo. Neh. a
few days ago and was subsequently fatally
shot by the city marshal
Twenty-Five or thirty deaths have oc-
Cured within n short time at Clariud1 from
diphtheria
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Indiana's Governor Finds Favor, Al
legged, in the Eyes of President Glove

Indiaaa's Governor Finds Favor, Al
legged, in the Eyes of President Glove
land.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 31-A Wash
ingtOn special TO the journal says:
That President Cleveland has expressed a
preference for Governor Gray to be on the tick
Ell with him there can be no doubt / have the
information from two sources verbally, and q
third source in the Presidents own hand writ
ing. The President has been informed that some
thing must be done 10 placate Mr.. Mcdonald,
Colonel Dick Bright and others, and the price
of their recon eiliati0ni is the appointment OF ex
Senator Mcdonald to the vacancy on the Su-
preme bench caused by the death OF ChiefJusss
tice Waite. That the friends OF ex-senator Nc
Donald do not ask that he be appointed to the
Chief Justiceship, but that ne be given place
on the bench in one capacity " another.
The President does not take kindly 10 the sug-
gestiOn. He regards ex-senator Mcdonald,
personally, very highly, but he considers him
TOO old for the POSITION
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MINNEAPOLIS. MINI. March 81. - The
NorfhWestesH Rdiiroadsr publishes a sum-
airy of the entire cost of the Western rate
ar now ending to the companies involved.
here have been just nifty working
Iys since the first cut was made, and the
Il S., the paper viii show, has been Tl0,-
o. 70 600 in that time The loss on business
in and out of the two cities of St. Paul and
Minneapolis alone has been nearly $500,
nnn
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WISCONSIN.


Mrs Jackson. the oldest resident of Fort
Atkinson, is dead, at the age of ninety
six years She was a pcnsioner of the wal
of 1872
Frank Fass. head book keeper for f. l.
Kelly & Co, of Milwaukee. committed sui
eide with arsenic a few days ago. Debts
contracted by gambling were the cause.
Rev NJ G. Todd, Unversalist pastor of
Lodi. died suddenly in the junction rail-
road eating house at Mason City Ia the
other night
TIE summer school Of pedagogy and
science inauguratsd at the Wisconsin State
University last year will be continued this
SUNNI r and probably made permanent
The faculty has voted the first honors OF the
class which graduates next June, to Miss
Louise NJ McMynn, of Racine.
Harry NJ Adams, a clerk at Beloit. threw
some celluloid cuffs into a smouldering
fire. and stood over the Goals to see if the
cuffs would ignite, when there was an ex-
plosion and he was frightfully burned
about the face and neck.
At Western Junction few days ago
child OF Mrs Henry Baker accidentally hit
his little brother ON the head with an axe
The mother tainted at the sight and died
few hours later, but the injured boy would
recover
The recent wet snow and rainfall has
forced an abandonment of all logging op-
erations in Northern Wisconsin, and many
contractors who have nos finished their
promised cut win lose heavily.
number of residents of Southern Wis
consin are said to be preparing to build
summer cottages on the shores of Chequa-
megon bay.
Commissioner Atkins order that logg ng
must stop on the Superior reservation
throws thousand men out of work
The National Driving Club has issued a
programme OF races of the spring meeting
to be held az re National Park track in
Milwaukee June ), g and :. The purses
aggregate 81. 300
An Ashland docsor has made a rubber
palate for a palateless man which works all
right.
Midison few days ago the will OF the
late Nelson l. Browniey, by which he be-
quetled all III property. amounting to
$50 0O0 to a spiritualistic medium. Mrs
Emily d. II. Arndt was declared void
Emmef Graham. who was rearsd by BroEa-
ley. and who was cut of without cent,
contested the will
J. Bagiey. Milwaukee & St Paul station
agent at Por;erviile. was attacked at tie
depot ct midnight recently by three masked
men. robbed OF 500 anc a watch and
chain worth $3.50. and left gagged and
bound
W. L. Ravens store and contents at
Maz0manie were burned recently Loss
$4,000. partially insured
John johnson. who lives near Baldwin.
and who was recently found frozen, has
been compelled 70 submit 20 asnputatiou ~
both o. bis hands aud live foes % szve his
life
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

Survivors of the Army of the Potomac
and the Army of Northern Virginia TO
Clasp Hands at Gettysburg a. July.
NEW YORK, March 31.-The arrangements
for the reunion of the survivors of the
Army of the Potomac with the survivors
OF the Army OF Northern Virginia
are progressing satisfactorily. Hon.
George William Curtis will deliver the
Grafton, George Parsons Lathrop the poem,
and Bishop Horatio Potter, of New York,
the address of welcome. Some distinguished
Confederate VIII be selected to make the
reply TO the address OF welcome The re-
union will be on the 1st, 81 and Sd of
July next. at Gettysburg. and will conclude
with a grand bannuet
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The Chief of the knights of Labor Wants
Halt Called.

PHILADELPHIA, March 3O-Mr Powderly.
the chief of the Knights OF Labor, has is
sued manifesto TO the order setting forth
the failure of strikes, making plain
the losses they entail and sug-
costing that it is time that halt
be called. He thinks that education
and legislation are the prime neces-
stiles Of the hour, and propOunds ques-
tiOns to the local assemblies as to whether
they believe in an educational campaign;
whether competent brothers should be sent
ont 10 teach the principles of the order, and
whether he shall levy an assessment TO pay
the expenses Of the lecturers
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IAN FRANCISCO, March 30 In the cases
in the Uni ed States Circuit Court against
Ferdinand Cpdco and + A Mclean, ex-
customs inspectors, indicted FOR fraud and
conspiracy IA dealing in Chinese return
certificates. ex-InspectOr ". a. Boyd. also
under Indictment for the same CfTense.
turned States evidence against mis- fellow
consp rators. tesdfving that hey aaJ
issued about 900 frauaulent certificates
an sold them in China Boyd was thel
discharged
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EAU CLAIRE. Wis. April Planners in
this part of Wisconsin express fears that
the inter wheat crop will be completely
ruined by being smothered by the heavy
accumulation of snow. The snow is still
fully three feet deep on a level in the fields,
and is disappearing very slowly The
spr ng work viii be full thee weeks later
than usuai. and the farming community are
much discouraged over future prospects
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HENRY BERGH left behind him a
monument Of mercy and humanity in
the shape Of thirty-three organized So
cieties for the prevention of cruelty to
animals. in different cities Of this
country. He leaves son VINO in
herits the fathers humane and philan-
thrOpic spirit. and who will continue
10 carry on his merciful work.
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SAN Francisco. April 2-Chinese advlces
received Saturday by the steamer Rio de
JaneirO state that the British steamer Swal-
low was wrecked February % OF Namoa
Island The vessel struck on some rocks
and sunk. The captain and a number OF
the crew and passengers saved themselves
by clinging TO the rigging, but thirty-one
persons put of from the wreck in a small
boat and all are supposed to be lost The
body of the engineer who was one of tue
occupants of the boat. was recovered.
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IL an interview between Henry NJ.
Stanley. the famous explorer and
traveller, and newspaper correspond
emit TIC -Srmer said: -. have been in
Africa seventeen years. and l have
never met 4 man who would kill me if
j folded nv hands"
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GrPSEY, an elephant with abnOr
mally developed ears and a morbid
appetite for old boots. wooden stock
ings, liquid paint aud silk handker-
chiefs. died in Chicago the other day.
None of these edibles. however. was
the cause of death. She is believed
20 have pinned away because of her
separation from a Rocky Mountain
elk to which she was devotedly at
tachcd
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READING. Pa. March 3I-Two strangers
registered at the keystone House Thursday
night as Harry Printer. OF Monoeacy. this
county, and Charles Wilkinson. of Sullivan,
Ne, and were assigned a room together.
Yesterday morning they f1ilel 70 respond
TO the pOrter's call, and On breaking open
the door 10th were found dead, they having
blown ort the gas