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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Or the oath Joseph Kemp aged seventy
two years, was rescued alive from the
ruins at the scene of the recent Quebec
landslide He had been imprisoned one
hundred and eight hours
CRETE dispatches of the oath say that the
Christian inhabitants of the island were
fleeing II the mountains, and that their
cattle and other property was being stolen
by the Turks Many Christians had been
cast into prison.
The death of Eliza Cook, the English po-
etess, occurred at Wimbledon on the 2jth
at the age of seyenty-One years
AT Naples a terrific storm ragged on the
25th and large part of the city was sub
merged
Is Odessa Russia, a teacher named
Sause committed suicide on the 18th His
wife was so much affected that she lost her
reason, killed her five children carried
their bodies TO a third-stOry window and
threw them to the ground She then threw
herself out. receiving fatal injuries
The steamer City of New York, which ar
rived at Queenstown on the 18th, made the
trip in six days. five hours and twenty-five
minutes
By the collapse of house in Milan, Italy.
on the Goth tive persons were killed and
twenty injured
lHE foNefnineut on the @DJn ueclaIeu
void the votes cast for General Boulanger
at Montmartre an l for Henri Rochefort at
Belleville, in the recent elections in
France. and the candidates receiving the
next highest number of votes were de-
clared elected
FIRE on the 18th destroyed the Temple
of Heaven at Pekin, China, containing the
great throne OF the Sacred Dragon.
The United states Minister to Germany,
William Walter Phelps, presented his Gre
dentials TO Emperor William on the 18th
On the .6th the body OF Richard Maybury
was recovered in the ruins of the recent
landslide at Quebec. Can Fortyfour bod
les had thus far been found
UP to the 25th the Eiffel tower IN Paris
had earned 81 ,000,0O1
/, the Rhein-PTussen colliery at Ham
burg on-the- Rhine an explosion on the 2Sth
nit killed ten men aud injured several
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Canvas and duck cloth is made water
proof by paraf1ine melted and worked IN
with hot iron.
A MACHINE has recently been perfected,
says the Industrial World, that is warrant
ed to make at half speed 1900 nails per
minute, or three tons per diem.
PAPER is being used as substitute for
cedar in the manufacture OF pencils. BY
being plunged in molten parafine wax the
texture of the paper is modified so that IL
may be cut as easily as wood.
TINS output of coal from the mines OF
Iowa for the year ending June 80, 1889, was
1916, 100 tons. The greater portion is con
sumed within the State. The number OF
miners employed is 9.74S. The amount paid
for mining during the year was $1.074,G9i.
The tin district of the Black Hills com
prises over 800 square miles, and it is esti-
mated that il contains more tin than all the
other mines Of that metal in the world. IN
quality it is equal to the pest in Europe.
This great resource Will il. time be devel-
oped
THE manufacture OF aluminium, the secret
of which was supposed to be lost, has been
resumed By the Pittsburgh Reduction Com
pany, using Halls process, reducing the
metal directly from It's oxide by eieEfr0iysis.
fifty pounds per day.
a ''FRUIT sLo'' is an excellent idea adopt
Ell from Italy INTO Orange-grOwing coun-
tries. The fruit Is cut from the tree mot
pulled and wrapped in tissue paper; il is
then buried in sand three tiers deep only,
and the wrappers not touching. This
method has fine results N the preservation
OF fresh fruit for a time Of scarcity
If we take the official value as well as the
quantities OF the salt produced IN the differ
ent leading countries in the latest year for
which the returns are available. we find the
following results-Ciernisn~, - 400 tons.
value el07 so; France, 539,s23 tons, value
$3.50. 90; Italy, 17.304 tons, value G12,3G0;
United States. $4,000 tons, value E'ssG,5o0;
United Kingdom, 2,1g3,9 5l tons, value s1322,-
80
A NEW process for burning coal without
smoke has lately been discovered. 1t con
sists in sprInk ing water containing
special preparation Of resin over the coal,
and the result is that there is no smoke and
the glow Il as intense as coke. An English
company is TO be formed TO work the new
patent An authority vouches for the fact
that II works admirably, and in its fire IS a
remarkable improvement on coke.
DURING the last cereal year there were
loaded and cleared from San Francisco 81
sailing vessels with -four and grain, ninety
three more than last yea Most Of these
were laden with wheat f Europe. Three
cargoes Of barley came TO this port; four Of
wheat went TO RIO Janeiro, three to Caliao,
and one to Valparaiso; SIX of wheat. one Of
barley and oats went 10 Australia; and one
cargo Of -four went to Hong Kong
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POINTS ABOUT PEARLS.

THE pearl was used incidentally amongst
the ancients, as it was supposed to possess
wonderfully curative properties in certain
diseases
The pearl which is in the collection Of
jewels that form the crown Of England Is
one of great purity aud beauty; it was found
IN the Conway, a river of Wales.
INDIAN mythology speaks often of the
pearl, and says that Nishnu, the Indian god,
discovered IL when he was searching the
ocean for the sacred books Of the leluge,
and carried it, with other rare and
beautiful things, to his beloved daughter
that she might make herself lovely as the
dawn.
The most celebrated pearl of modern
times is said to be the one described by
Tavt ~nicr 1t was found by an old Arab in
the saud Of the seashore, and sold TO the
King OF Persia. The pearl known in history
as the Peregrina, bought by Philip H.. King
Of Spain, was in ths form OF pear and OF
the size'of a pigeons egg.
Nor only in sacred literature IS the pearl
an emblem of purity ana ofthlngs excellent
but we also find the pearl as a figure in
many standard authors amongst the Arabs
ElOquence was represented by the pearl
Pearls were sacred 10 their dciues amongst
many nations. Greeks, Roman Persians,
Babyloniaus and Egyptians considered tue
pearl a sacred jewel
THE passion OF the Romans for pearls,
like all the passions Of this people, vas car
RED 10 great extravaganza. The pearl which
Casar presented to Servilia, the sister Of
Cato Of Utica. was Of fabulous price and
beauty The wife Of Caligtla wore set of
ornaments composed Of pear!s and emer-
aids and Caiigula himself Ornamented his
buskins and s;rewed the furniture OF has
rooms with costly pearls.
PRoBABLY no pearl-hshcries will ever
RI al The fisheries Of Ceyl0n and the Persian
gulf, bat very beautiful pearls are now
found in maAy other waters-not only in the
far Eastern word. Dat in cur own CONT
nent The pearls that are now found in
British Columbia and California are consid-
cred very beautiful. possessing, connois-
seurs say, al the requisites of perfect
pearl Pearls are also found D many coun-
tries in Europe, but arc no; considered BY
authorities in such matters IS hne as ours
ANOTHER still more famous pearl was one
brought from the Indies aud presented to
Philip ", Of Spain. This King was pas
sioEateiy f0I4d Of pearls, and often applied
The words ''my pearl 70 whatever he
thought very rare and beautiful Ihus Il IS
that one of Raphseis exquisite Madonnas IS
now known in art as Tue fearl- AFTER
the death Of the unfortunate Charles T. o.
England, TIE pictures when ne nao coilecteo
with 50 much care and judgment were scat
tered and sold. Amongst them was the
famous Madonna. At the first slght Of the
picture Philip IS said 70 have exclaimed !;
This is rv pearlrf Napoleon possessed
beautifulpeaEl which be purchased 10 Berlin
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DIDN'T GEL III ALL.
Bandits Board a Train in Alabama and
Secure s2,5oO and Some Registered
Letters. but Overlook n Package Con-
tanning About $4,000

Bandits Board Train ia Alabama and
Secure s2,70O and Some Registered
Letters, but Overlook n Package Con-
tanning About $4,000.
MOBILE Ala, sept 26-The Mobile &
ohio south-boUnd mail and passenger train
vas boarded by thieves at Buckalunna,
aiss, seventeen miles north of this city
Kedne >day morning. AS the train was
eaviug that station two men mounted be-
lind the tender aud crawled over into the
lab of the locomotive. There they
covered Engineer Jack Sherell and
Fireman Hust with their revolvers The
.obbers, who were well masked, then
ordered the engineer 10 stop the train at
.he bridge, two miles south OF BUckatunna-
This order was given at the point OF a re-
folver, and the engineer was compelled 10
obey it Arriving at the bridge, the en-
yineer and fireman were to deUach the mail
and express cars from the balance Of
he train and To pull these two ears across
he bridge away from the other cars AT
hat point two other men joined the rob
oers. The express messenger VAS then
.orced to dump the contents of q safe into
4 canvas bag. The amount thus obtained
gas about 81, 100 The robbers overlooked
go 600 of Government money en- route for
Florida The mail car was then raided and
4 pouch filed with registered mail matter
secured This pouch was made up at
Meridian and the value OF the contents are
unknown The robbers then fired several
shots at the train men and disappeared in
the underground The train then pro
ceeded TO Citconelle. where posse was
made up and started in search of the rob
bers
The leader of the train-rob5ers Is te-
Heved to be Rube BRrrows, a noted des-
perado tn man whom a search for created
so much excitement in the northern part
of the state a few months ago
special to the Mobile Register from
Buckatunna says the suspected parties were
seen camping near the bridge about .
o'clock making their way east ON foot.
They were armed aud were avoiding the
houses by going around them. They are be-
lieved to be the train robbers \ posse
was in pursuit up to last accounts and con-
fdent OF oyertaking the men The Mobile
& Ohio railroad offers 81 600 reward tor the
arrest and conviction of the robbers.
THAT TEXAS ROBBERY.
AUSTIN. Tex, Sept III The Governor
has received no particulars of the big ex-
D ess robbery on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe, near Fort Worth, Tuesday night It is
IumOred here, however, that the robbers
succeeded in getting away with at least
s30OOO
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03
LATER.

DURING the week ended on the 18th Ult
no Jurors were obtained in the CrOnin muir
der case in Chicago Four jurors only have
been secured since the commencement OF
the trial
Albert NELSON and Harry Walton, aged
ten and twelve years respectively, were
killed on the 18th ult at Elkhorn, n. Y, by
an explosion of giant powder.
ENGINEER SETH TwoMBIY and Fireman
Henry Ia CIoche were on the 2Sth ult
charged by the coroner's Jury with being
responsible fer the death o. the seven per
sons killed IN the recent Rock Island disas-
ter al Eighty-seventh street. Chicago.
JtuGE JoHN L. NIXON. OF the United
States District Court of New Jersey, died
on the 18th ult at Stockbridge. Mass
IL Waterloo Ia, on the 29th ult NJ T.
Bi lings was declared guilty OF the murder
OF County Attorney Kingsley at Waveriy,
Ia. in September, 1854 This was the
second trial
An explosion occurred on the 2Sth nit
in the Rhe;n-Prusseu eollie:y at Hamburg
Rhine, and ten men were killed and
several injured
Al inceudiary fire on the Goth ult at
Butte n. r. DESTROYED the finest block in
the business district entailing a loss of
over $4,000 Three fremen were fatally
injured while figadng the flames.
A BOILER exploded on the 18th ult in
quarry NJ Wrightsville Pa, killing Lemuel
Barnes and his wife
II was announced on the 2Sth ult that
four persons were 81 led outright and
dozen injured by the recent accident on
the express train on the New York Central
road at Palatine Bridge. y. Y.
The exchanges a. the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the week
{ q nj ffsm g
T I26. rs. against sl.O4+. So. IS the previous
week As compared with the correspond
ing week OF 1885 the the increase amouted
tod
ALLEN CHALKER. a farmer. and his daugA-
ter while CROSSING the Erie railway track in
a buggy at Garrettsviile o. on the 18th
ult were struck by fast train and killed
The cruise around the world of the United
States dispatch steamer Dolphin, which
commenced two years ago, came to an end
on the 2Sth ait, when the steamer arrived
in New York.
FMMoNs WRIGHT. a farmer living near
Indianapolis. Ind, shot and killed tramp
on the 2Sth NJ. who had camped on his
farm.
THE percentages OF the baseball clubs in
the National League Tor the week ended
on the 2Sth ult was as follows New York,
.6sS; Boston ca: Chicago. .4ssj; Phil
adelphIa. 49S, Cleveland .47s Pittsburgh,
S64. INDIANAPOLIS gS4; Washington. $50
American Association: Brooklyn, go;
81 Louis. .63t: Athlete, 81: Baltimore.
{ $40; Cincinnati, 523, Columbus. .s2l. KAN
I sas CITY. 40: Louisville. ID Western
Association. Omaha. .697. Il Paul .6l9;
Minneapolis. So; Sioux City. so: Nilwau-
kee. SIS; Denver. t2l; 81 Joseph, SSii Des
Moines S47.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03
SUNK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
DIR. Pierce a Heavy Loser by the Collapse
of a ChImericnI Mimi. scheme.

of n Chimerical Mining scheme.
BUFFALO. n. Y. Sept g. The Big Bend
Mining and Tunnel Company. founded some
time ago with capital stock OF so. 0J0, 0J0
has collapsed DR.. r. v Pierce, OF this city,
was chief stakeholder, and has lost nearly
Il 10000 in the venture Ii was intended to
alter the course of the Feather river in Cali
fornia so as to get at the gold and silver be-
lieved TO be in its bed. The enormous
powders which lie so plenufully around
the river made operations too costly, and
last year the output amounted to only
sl1, So This did not pay, and the work
has been abandoned The stock of the
concern has never been listed, and until
recently could not be bought for less than
four times its par value About 2 900 coo
Of the capital stock had been paid up,
The proposition was to bore tunnel two
mi es through mountain and through it
drain fourteen miles OF the bed of the
Feather river. Mr. Mclaughlin of Butte
County, who devised the scheme claimed
the company could clean up millions in
gold dust which had lodged at Big Bend
Placer miners in the early days took fort
unes out OF the river a little further up
and samples az sand from the river bed
we're very rich Mclaughlin succeeded in
snthusing DR. Pierce and work was begun.
-Four years We're spent in boring tunnel
through rock for II, 600 feet When finished
Il proved too small and was enlarged from
line by sixteen feet to twelve by sixteen
'eet Then about a year ago the water
was turned into the tunnel and
The river bed drained But fortune
wasn't found, as 1t proved very ex-
pensive to get gold from under the big
powders in the river bed, aud the mine
soon became in the cond ton of nine tenths
ot those on the Comstock lode it could not
De run without assessments Then Pierce,
who had sunk over 81 0OO, 900, became dis
gusted, and the whole undertaking. which
has cost about $1,000, COO, will be dropped.
IL is reported that a large number of news
paper men in New York have lost heavily
ia the enterprise.
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LIE BANKERS.
rhey Conclude Their Annual Convention
at Kansas City-.Tuesday's Proceedings

rhey Conclude Their Annual Convention
at Kansas City-Tuesday's Proceedings
KANSAS CITY, No, Sept 2I-The bankeis'
convention concluded its work Tuesday.
President Parsons and Vice President Me-
Michael were reelected and a new
executive council chosen. The council
,e-elected Secretary Baker and Treas
lrer Green Resolutions asking Con-
gress to take action and revive the Amer
can marine and indorsing the deep-water
larbor scheme were referred to the coun-
Ill A resolution asking Congress to pro-
ride for at least one more regular state
ment yearly of the condition of the Ma
5ional banks was adopted Reports of Off
GERS were read and special committee re-
ported in favor of amending the law IN re-
gard to usury so that usurious bank shall
Forfeit only the amount of interest taken in
excess of the legal amount ltwas decided
20 consider Nh. st Johns plan for the re-
irement of legal-tender notes and vote
anon il by mail
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Death In Charlotte. y. e., Of DAME
Harvey nm.

RALEIGH. y. G., Sept 20 Maior-Genera
Daniel Harvey Hill C. S A., died Wodnes
day at his home in Charlotte aged o years
He was a native OF South Carolina va,
graduated from West Point in 1882, servec
with great distinct on IN the Mexican war
became professor OF mathematics u
Washington college. Y rg MIA, and David
son College North Carolina, and 81
perintendent OF The North Carolin;
Military Institute; joined the Confederate
army at the outbreak OF the war and took
prom neht part IN the battles Of Antietam
FREDERICKSBURG. Chickamauga ana elsewhere
After the war he engaged ia the publication o
F ED and Farm II Charlotte. y. CT
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03

Young Man Who Ruined His Em-
ployes Sent to Prison for Three Years.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 21-Dennis Kelle-
her pleaded guilty to embezzlement Of
money belonging to Captain George r.
Beck, tug boat owner, and was sentenced
to Imprisonment for three years. Kelleher,
who is about % years of age, had been
taken into Captain Beck's employ when a
boy, and had full charge of his affairs. 1t
was claimed that he had appr opriated be-
tween 10000 and SO, 900, completely ruin
ing his EMPLOYER
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Making Rapid Progress.

Tucker-I saw your son in the coun-
try to-day, Parker. lie had his camera
with him, believe
Parker-Yes, he went cut to take
some views. suppose Was be max
ing good progress?
.YoH bet he was; and dust, too.
Somebody's red bull was after him.
Time.
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HEAVY FAILURE.

Leading Petroleum Exporters Make an
Assignment - Liabilities over $780,
600
New YonK, Sept. p --Pagenstecher &
Co, until recently the larg a. exporters of
petroleum in the country, assigned Thurs
day. The direct liabilities are stated at
So, go to $4,000, and contingent liabili-
ties $50, 900, on accommodation accept
ances and Endorsements for Andrew Brown,
Of Buffalo Mr.. Browns omission to take
care OF this paper is given as the cause OF
the assignment Mr. Brown is a leading
lumber merchant PagenStecher & Co have
been thought by the :rade 70 be in difficult
ty Tor some time past
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NO VERDICT REACHED.

The jury in the Ives Case DisagTees, 81
Discharged, and the ~Oung Fina IsncieI
Sent Back io the Tombs to Await An
other Trial.
Ives case was discharged Wednesday morn
ing at II ~ o'clock, having failed to reacl
an agreement The jury stood ten Tor con.
viction and two for acquittaL Ives was re
manded to the Tombs.
Colonel Fellows says that Ives will again
be placed on trial as soon as the distric
attorneys office can perfect the arrange
ments There will probably be a motor
argued bef re Recorder Smyth to-day
which will decide the place OF abode Of the
young financier until his next trial
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pointed Commits
sioner of { h q
General J. a n Il
Office, appeared
At the Interior
Department and
was sworn in.
tie will take
charge at once,
relieving Acting
Commits sion er
) to n G, W b o,
since June, has
been filling three
nnefffnnu mama
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+ 9 BRUFFY, a reporter on the stan
Of the Atlanta Constitution. has been
sent to Jail for fifteen days by Judge
Clarke for declining 10 tell the grand
Jury whether or not ne saw a certain
policeman in the party which brutality
whipped some cOlored men at East
Point
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Found YeIlnM Ochre.

William Lochman. who lives across the
river from Spring Green. in Iowa County,
was compelled TO dig for water during the
recent dry weather. aud in one place where
be found sufficient quantity OF water, vel
low ochre was so plentiful in it that the
stock would not drink It. and lie was
obliged to dig elsewhere. He utilized the
first spring by using the Ochre to paint his
farm buildings with
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LOUISVILLE. XIV. sept q The American
Humane Society was called 70 order here
Wednesday by Edwin Lee Brown, Of Chi
cago, in the absence Of President Gerry
President Rudolph WinSor, Of the Kentucky
Humane Society. and Governor BuckneI
welcomed the delegates Aletter Of regret
from President Gerry was read, committees
were appointed and the treasurer's report
read
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03

THE new steel cruiser Baltimore.
built for the United States navy. which
has Just been tested in unusually
rough seas. Is pronounced thorough
SUGGESTIVE fastest man-Ot-war afloat
and in every way perfect in fittings
and equipment Sheshad no difficulty
whatever in making twenty knots an
DOur, and with both wind and waves
against her at that.
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The yacht nreadnaught, owned by
Captain judd, of Ashland. beat John L
Princes Packet over a twenty-four mile
course on Chequamegon bay the other
day. The wind blew straight across tho
bay and the boats had To tack cOntinu-
ally from start To finish. The Dreaduaaght's
corrected time was four hours and thirty
six minutes, the Packet arriving fifteen
minutes later The race was for $1,000 a
side and was witnessed by great crowd