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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-10
WHAT 1T COST The "a"
The Strike Made Hole of About 50. O0O.-
600 in Its ENehequ-r.

The Strike Made Hole of About 50. 00O.-
600 in Its ENehequ-r.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.--The engineers strike
has been costly one 10 the Chicago, Bur
lingtOn 4 Quincy Railroad Company, ana
although il has achieved a complete vic
tory and gained all the points for
which it contended, yet II Is doubtful
whether the company would not have
been better of in the end had il
made some concessions at the be-
ginning of the conflict and avert
ed the strike. The trouble came at
time when tho company could not we'll af-
ford TO stand the heavy losses the strike
entailed upon it. Business was exceeding
" dull and rates low, and its earnings from
January l TO the commencement Of the
strike had decreased over q, VJo. 00l 1t
was no doubt for this reason that the
company accepted the strike rather than
to grant the increase In sal8ries demanded
by its men.
To make correct showing Of what the
strike has cost one company Il impossible.
The only way by which IN approximate
estimate can be made ia 10 take the de-
crease i'll not earnings this year as com
pared with last and then MAZE due al
lowsSce for what the decrease from
natural causes would have been had
there Docu no stElhc. AS SLaNc4
above. the decrease in net earn
iugs from January /. 1888, % tue he
ginning of the strike amounted to % oJ1,-
600. As there was no perceptible Improve
nent in business or rates up TO the end Of
Au ust it is fair TO presume that the addi-
tioual decrease in the earnings Of the CON-
pany would have been about u 800 coo,
making total decrease of - so, 900 had
there been no strike. The records
OF the company show that from
January /, 1855 TO October l. 1883 the de-
crease in net earnings was about S. 500,
90. Therefore, deducting the So 10000
which, it is estimated, the company would
have lost hal there been no strike from
the above amount, there remains a loss
of about ID 00O, 600 that can be attributed
directly to the strike The com
pany's officials estimate their loss on
account of the strike at about s. 600 go
but this is no doubt mistake, as the loss
dur ng the fr,t month of the strike alone
exceeded 81, 900 and the losses for the
SUI ceeding three months averaged about
{70J,000 each. Consequently the estimate
that the strike cost the company about
81 OD0 O0O ia not fop hiOh
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-10
MUSIC IN BATTLE.
The Secret of Iconidss' Famous Victor
at Thermopyiae.

The Secret of LeonIdss' Famous Victory
at ThermoPylse.
The favorite problem of thinkers
and teachers, since thought began, has
been to find some engine of education
which should reach the character as
effectually as the ordinary means OF
training touch the understanding; and
in the opinion of many, not men alone
but nations, music was such an engine.
ut is music said the Spartans.
(which distinguishes the brave man
from the coward. " a mans music
is the source Of his courage IL was
their music which enabled Leonidas
and his three hundred to conquer at
ThermOpylR. IL was music which
taught the the Spartan youths how to
die in the wrestling ring or on the
field Of battle. These claims ars
audacious surely Yet, when we con-
slider how the rhythmical tread OF
the brave man differs from the
agitated shamble OF the coward.
how music Is the art OF human JOY.
and how Joy and repOse Of mind are
the main elements OF manly fortitude.
we shall at any rate admit that there
is a strong affinity somewhere; our
only difficulty will be 20 acknowledge
that music. deliberately applied could
ever De the direct cause Of these
reputed results. To achieve the end
desised Spartan boys passed their
youth in learning tunes, hymns and
songs-this was their sole mental
culture. They were taught 20 dance
and keep step TO the measure Of the
songs as they sang them. And. grown
20 manhood, now perfect warriors,
marched into battle with smiling faces.
crowned with flowers, calm, joyful,
and serene, and, intOniBg their songs.
moved steadily THIS into the thickest
of the fight undis,urbcd and irresist-
ible. The band that leads our armies
TO the field OF battle nowadays is a
scant survival OF Spartan practice;
yet even IN this music by proxy there
arc many elements Of Indictment 20
courage. National RcrieW.
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GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY.

ssmoans Resent AggressIOn-Fights In
Which "a Number of The Foreigners Are
Killed by MItaafa's Forces, Led By an
American.
BERLIN, Jan. 7-Ofieial advices from
Apia confirm the announcement of an en-
counter between Mataafa's followers and
the Germans. On December IS the Ger
man gun-boat Adler, with the German
consul on board, proceeded to Lanty,
Mataafa's chief position, with tho
intention OF negotiating for the disaruling
of the insurgents in consequence of the
destruction Of German property and
insults TO German sailors A party
OF men was landed, and while on
their way TO the Vaiele plantation
they were suddenly attacked by party
of rebels led by an American named Klein.
The Olga, Adler and Eber landed more
men, who succeeiei in repelling tho
natives and destroying some of their viii
lagos. Lieutenant Sieger and fifteen men
were killed, and Lieutenants Speugler and
Burchard and thirty-six men We're wound
ed. The latter are doing well.
Other accounts say that the Germans re-
tired to Vallejo and held il against the
greatest odds until reinforced Mataafa's
loss was ten killed and thirty
wounded. The Germans bombarded
Vailele. Letoga, Lanty, Matafage aud
Mataafas Mataafa now holds strongly
intrenched position near Apia. where
great excitement prevails.
The European women and children
have been placed upon the men-of-war.
Business is at a standstill- Expecting
further German action, Mataafa has OBJ
tanned a supply Of ammunition. He declares
himself ready to appear before the COM
manders Of the British and American men
Of-war.
NV YoRR, Jan. Klein, meut oued in
a Berlin dispatch as leading Ssmoans
against Germans, is John c. Klein, of San
Francisco, once Of Chicago. lie Is well
known as a newspaper man in So. Louis,
and is the CORES pOndeut in Samoa for the
San Francisco Examiner AMI the New
Y erik World.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A FARMER named Brown, near Ballinas-
loe. ireland, who had taken pl.ce from
which the tenants bad been evicted, was
set upon by the evicted men on the I'd and
murdered.
RUSSIAN advices Of the 81 say that at
Sabunstschi a train became blocked in an
immense snowdrift, and before al could
be sent fourteen passengers persisted from
the cold. A relief party which started
out TO rescue the imperiled passengers
lost Their way and died in the snow.
IT was announced on the 81 that many
persons had been killed and a large num-
Der of buildings destroyed b. an earth
quake In Russian Turkestsn, extending
from Khojend to KastakOs.
A FIRE destroyed the British steamer
Stephen ID. Horton at Pernarnbuco on the
81. Loss, 5000 600. Two lives were lost
AN explosion on the Sd in the Oller col
liery, province of Austriss, France, killed
twenty-seven men.
In Southern France floods had on the Sd
done immense damage TO property, and
thousands Of people were homeless and
destitute.
THE election of Hippolyte as prov sionsl
President Of Hayti was announced on the
4th.
EMIGRATION from Germany dur ng the
year lSSS numbered 20 0o1, aga nst "a. 600 in
1885, The bulk of the EN-. grafton was to
America.
SEVEN persons were drowned In the
canal at Neurimburg. Bavaria, by tue
breaking Of the ice upon which they were
skating on the 4th
ADvICgs of the 4th from China say that
a terrible famine and drouth were prevail
ing in the interior. In the province OF
Shatung the crops hGd been entirely de
stroyed By the overflow of the Yellow
river
IT was believed IN Cairo on the 4th that
the mysterious white Pasha is Henry NJ.
Stanley and not Emin Pssna.
Cochin, on the Mslabar coast in British
Ind a. was recently almost entirely
Destroyed by fire. Loss, 81, SG0, 90
FIRE swept away the greater part Of
the viii rye Of Brancou, Switzerland. on
the 9Th, aud many cattle were burned TO
death. The fire was igBited by mailman.
OS the 5th an ATTEMPT was made % blow
up the build ny occupied BY the Ministry
of the Interior at Madrid.
DURING a storm passenger train was
blown from the rails on the 18th near
Fiumi. Hungary and three persons were
killed and many injured.
ZANzIBAR dispatches ~ the 9TH say that
Mr. Mackenzie. the agent of the British
East African Company. on New Years
Day presented hundreds of slaves with
papers giving them the free ION.
A FIRE destroyed the mansion Of Hon
Percy Seawcn Wyndhsm in London on
the 9TH The pictures and plate were saved.
Loss, $500 900.
ADvICEs of the 9Th from odessa say that
the recent 8 orms which swept the Black
Sea caused a great NUMBER of wrecks, and
that over a hundred persons had been
drowned.
A LANDSLIDE occurred near Berthier -en.
Haul Que, on the 9TH. and what was
high bank along the river disappeared,
leaving in It's place an enormous cavity
some FIVE or six acres In extent Several
cows and horses were killed and many
barns were SMASHED 10 pieces.
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nEsr ANo soIIru

Ok the 81 Maurice Thompson, State
Geolceist Of IndiGaa, rendered his resig-
nation.
CS the III lionel John Ashford, Of
Clinton, y. c.. was fatally injured and
his two sons and negro Instantly KILLED
by the explOsi n Of a boiler in a hoop
fac. 7ry OF which he was proprietor.
Ar Lincoln On the 81 John NJ Thayer
was inaugurated as Governor of Nebraska
urged legislation to guard more carefully
the ballot box and recommended registry
law
OS the 81 Governor Luce was reinaugu-
rated Governor OF Michigan, his address
being largely devoted 10 the needs Of
81. te inst buttons. He spoke OF the neces-
sIty Of legislation TO protect the ballot
aud recO nmended the passage Of a local
option law II one could be uevised free
from ccnstitut oual objections.
TEE Indiana Mine Inspector f.cd his re.
port with the Governor on the 81, showing
that tn output II coal IN the State IN lSSS
was 3 i40919 tons which was decrease
from the previous year OF ii. 80 tons.
GEoRGE a BAKER, one Of the original
stockholders Of the Standard Oil Company,
and at cue time a millionaire. killed him
self with morphine at C.evel nd. q, on
the - Dissipation VS. the cause
2 PEtlTtoN was adopted at a Statehood
convention in kl.eusburs. " T., on the
81 praying Congress 70 admit WasniuStsn
with tue Idaho panhandle annexed
IHE total output Of the gold, silver. lead
ard copper mines OF Montana for the year
ISIS were between So 0.O 90 aud $50 90,
6g0 an increase OF slO o,o.o90 over ISs5.
a cONFrRBScE in Chicago between the
Geocssi Grievance Comm ttee Of the
Brvtherfcoi Of Engineers and represents
tives Of the Brotherhood Of iremen and Of
ficials Of the Chicsgo Burlington & Quin-
cy railway, resulted on the ar n tie set
Element q the strike on that road.
OK the 4th James J. West pr ucinai ell
ter Of the Chicago Times and Joseph T.
Dunlop. city editor. were arrested for
publishing accusations Of crookednsss
against prominent police officials Of Chi
cago. Both we're lNcked up bat after
ward released IN bonds Of 5000 each.
OK the 4th Miss Stella Sim. Of Hannibal.
Mo. killed herself because her parents op-
posed her marrying the mar NJ Her choice.
a FfRE on the 4th destroyed tae- barn of
John Craig. 3 wealthy rmsr living near
Schuyler. Neb. together with forty-three
horses. seventy cat.le. twenty hogs, q
large amount q farm machinery. cats snd
hay
n the Michigan woods lack OF snow had
CT ths 81 thrown h1n refs q reen ont q
EMPLOY rert. arr many q ne lumber
camps hsd shus cogrr
DIsrsTCaE- % sc 50 > r that forty-t,To
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-10
THE CRAZY QUILT.
Let Us he Grateful That the Ugly Thing
Has Had Its Day.

Has Had Its Day.
II will perhaps be gratifying TO many
persons 10 learn that the crazy quilt is
q thing Of tho past, The legion of in
sane bed-quilts that have been the aim
in life of sewing societies and invalid
women. and have figured in church
fairs, missionary donations and cOun-
try eXpositiOns for n lew years back.
have at last joined the silent throng of
sweet memories. and along with their
clog cabin" predecessors, the alabas-
ter vases and cone baskets OF our child
hood, will soon be numbered with the
semi-antique; they will be relegated
to the garnet with the macreme table
lambrequin. the tidy and the worsted
motto and countless other questiona-
BILE indications of perverted feminine
taste.
The intentions of the inventor of
this affair were good; in her bosom
blossomed the flower of economy aud
thrift: stray bits of silk-stray bits of
thread-stray bits of time-the whole
a fascinating diagram, monument to
memory. a memorial sacred TO the
past-tO gowns and dear ones long
since laid peacefully TO rest in the
ashes of the past.
When, To- Fashion winked at Folly,
who grasped it in her bill and flew,
sowing it broadcast.
What is the result?
90, za.r.I AZ ss,a,I
at the shrine OF the crazy quilt.
Tapestries, furniture fabrics. altar
cloths; aye, honor, truth. principle.
cravats. all have gone the way of this
fell destroyer OF masculine comfort and
human happiness.
Table spreads. tides, scarfs. ban
ners, pin cushions, sofa pillows, chair
seats. shopping bags, all fearfully and
wonderfully designed and executed;
terror-strikers to the uncultivated
taste Of the unappreciative, have been
Haunted in the face of man regardless.
But now the silk counter is no long
err besieged for samples; stern-hearted
man has taken the paddock of his
cravats and his hat-lining, a woman
pines for something that viii produce
headache and hysteria with greater
speed than the loved crazy patchwork.
In cOuatry fairs they still hold good;
missionaries and cannibals are receiv-
ing them in foreign lands; and on the
books OF the Recording Angel they are
registered;
To the memory of women who sold
their souls for bits OF satin; women
who expended the last penny in the
domestic treasury for storks in ap-
plique; women who made fancy stitches
the study Of lifetime; who begged,
bought, stole, or otherwise surreptt
tiously acquired silks to cut up and
sew together again. to embroider,
hand-paint. applique and otherwise
deface in the service OF the crazy quilts
nerves. brains. health. happiness-all
offered at the shrine of this horrible
and malignant affair.
May kindly fate consign i 70 that
bourne whence crazy quilts never 70
turn.
o eulcinus insanus! Rsquicscat Il
pacet PaIei- Haryot Holt, IN
Puck.
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persons wer> lost instead of fourteen by
the recent burning Of the steamer Kate
A ans near Memphis. Tenn.
The death Of David Irwin, who was &C.
qua nte W tn Pres dent Washington, and
served In the war Of ISl2 occurred on the
sth at Waseca, Mimi, at the age Of one
hundred and fifteen years
A HORSE belonging 70 Edward Tucker, a
farmer living near Columbus. lad, was
bitten by mad dog few days ago, and
the horse died on the 4th OF hydrophooia-
TBE British ste amer Montana sailed
from y ltimore for London On the 9th With
an assorted Cargo and ga head of cattle,
and collided with the steamer Main on
North Point and sunk. Nearly all the cat
tie were drowned. The Montana was val
ued az 1900 900 and the cargo at $3.50 600.
OS the 5th the steamer Paris G.. Brown
sunk near Bayou s IRA, La, and five of the
cabin crew, tw firemen and one passen-
ger were drowned
A PROCLAMATION was issued by Governor
Martin. of Kansas. on the 5th organizing
Wallace County. This made one hundred
and counties in the State and the
twenty-fourth organized under Governor
Martins administration.
Ok the 5th James Robinson, a young
farmer living near Columbus, Ind, killed
himself with poison on account Of unre-
Quilted love
Is a grist-miu at Newhope, W. Va,
boiler exploded on the 5th, killing Joseph
Z. French, Eli Shields, Thomas Carver,
Levi Shields and John Winner Three
men were also fatally injured.
The death of Matthew W. Burchard oc-
CURED at his home in Detroit on the 5th at
the age of one hundred and nine years and
six months.
In a battle between cattlemen and sheep
men on the 5th over grazing grounds at
Bonita. A T., five Of the latter were X He'd.
Oh the 9TH two Cinnamon arrived at
| Spring Valley. Ill. intending to locate q
laundry, but they were literally stoned
ut of town by a mob of miners
5'HE Inauguration Of W. d. Hoard as
Governor Of Wisconsin took place on the
9Th AZ Madison.
TnE author Of the famous Murchison
letter, which caused the removal of the
/ British Minister. was on the eth said to be
George Osgoodby, of Pomona, Cal. He is
native of New York, thirty-four years old,
and is of English parentage.
An Italian who blew up the house OF
George BOdayals at Gilman, w. T., with
dyn amite was taken from jail and lynched
/ on the 9TH.
The failure Of the Keefer Company, Of
! Lexington, KY, for $3.50 900, was reported
/ on the 9TH.
OS the 9Th Jacob Bird, serving life SEN
/ teuce at Saltwater, Mimi, was released
1 after an imprisonment of ten years, his
/ brother hav .ng confessed on his death bed
that he was the guilty man.
| The Legislature Of California convened
4 at Sacramento on the 9TH.
/ The death of Benjsmin'E Hopkins, tue
recently pardoned assistant cashier of the
late F.. ''y Bank of Cincinnati, occurred
| at his hol.ie in that city on the 9TH.
FURTHER adv ces of the 9TH say that
eleven persons were drowned by the re-
cent sink ng of the steamer Paris C.
Brown, near Hermitage Landing, La.
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THE EAST.

AT Springfield. Mas, Ediphtheria was
eridem on the %, and the schools had
been closed.
AN explosion Of dvnam't to on the I'd
near Sumneyto wn. Pa, blew two young
men named Erb AMI Schecker TO pieces
Ok tue % the competition Of artists in
designs for the Grant monument closed at
New York The fund for the monument
amounted 10 $50 co..
The Soldiers II ,me at Albany, n. Y,
had / O6l inmates on the %.
HENRI WERNER. wholesale dealer In
hides at New York. failed on the 81 for
$500 600; assets. S25O.O01
The ste mer Burgundia arrived in New
York from Marseilles on the 81 with sixty
passengers Is no were ad judged to De
paurers, and they would be cent back.
tDwIS c. BURLEIGH was on the 2 in
augu ated Governor Of NJ inc. and Gov
ern Oliver Ames, Of Massachusetts. was
insugurated for seem term
ELEVEN vessels belonging 10 Philadel-
phia were wrecked on the ocean during
1855, causing loss Of one hundred and
eighteen lives nj SS50.O00 in money
RoBERT LDER. aVed twenty eight years,
was hanged on the 81 at Mays Landing,
\. J., for the murder of his father.
THE Electro Sugar Refinin, Company
at New York had been. it was said on the
9Th. swindle cut Of 81. 900. COO through the
alleged secret IT cess" OF Henry c.
Friend, deceas 4, and his wife, the proc
es," proving TO be a hGmbug OF the most
barefaccd kind
r G. DUS & Co, Of New York, in their
annual statement on the 4th of failures
showed that 10 679 firms. or trifie more
than IN 100 went into bankruptcy n 1855
The average Of iiabil ties was Sll,5e5 for
the year.
The death Of Nellie Reynolds. four years
old. occurred in New York on the Ith from
alcoholism
Az elevator fell on the 5th in q coal
mine near Uniontown, Pa, killing three
men.
WILLIAM DgaAS, the proprietor OF bar
Der sbOp az Delaware, Pa. and Bernhard
Gehun were arrested on the 5th for mauE.
featuring counterfeit money. Beneath the
floor Of the barber shop there was found a
cOunterfe ter's outfit and a large quantity
Of spurious 5 liver dollars.
AT Newark, y J.. an organization to be
known as tho Edison General Electric
Company was incorporated on the 5th with
a capital Of si2,O000O0
WILLIAM Mann. an art 1t in New York,
during a gu rrel on the 9th shot and
killed his niece. Carrie Jones, and then
committe suicide
CHFMIsT reported on the 9Th that he
had made assays Of liver bearing rock in
the V ainitY Of Glen's Falls. ". Y. and that
in every instance he foun beads Of silver
and gold. There were thousands Of tons
Of ore in plain sight
DIR H J. DYER, OF Haz eton. Pa. a
dentist, shot his wife aud then killed him
self on the 9TH both dying instant neous-
Is As the woman had bsen suffer ng
from an incursble malsdy, { was allege
that tie murler and suicide aad been
agreed to by the couple, and Dyer left q
Z note TO that effect
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a BIG SWiNDLE-

An Alleged New Process OF Refining
sugar Proves to lie n Fraud-The Con-
coctors of the Scheme Find Themselves
Richer by 81, OoO.0O wrung from the
Pockets of Wealthy American and En-
gIish Dupes.
New YORK, Jan. bit has just been dis
covered that confid ny capitalists here and
In Europe have been swindled out Of over
81. 600, 900 by Henry G. Friend. now dead,
and Others through an alleged method of
refining sugar By electricity.
About four years ago Friend exhibited
samples Of wonderfully pure sugar and
claimed that it had been refined By an
electro process discovered by him. About
a year ago he induced American and
English capitalists TO organize
company for the refining Of sugar by
bis process" and erect a factory. He re-
fused to reveal his secret, saying that it
was not patentable, and carried on his
work behind locked doors. Only he and
his wife and few ignorant workmen
were allowed inside.
In the meant me the stock OF the COM
pany was ''boomed" to $780, three times
its par value Friend then began TO un-
load. Suddenly he died. The officers
OF the company suspected nothing
" rong until few days ago, when II
was found that Mrs Friend and all
who had been connected with the factory
had disappeared, Mrs. Friend leaving
word that she had gone TO the West
President CottrelL Treasurer Robertson
and number Of ockholders proceeded
to the factory and invaded the secret
rooms. Nothing was found but several
machines for crushing cubes Of sugar.
An investigation was at once set on foot
aud IL was discovered that not pound of
raw sugar had been refined in the factory.
Quantities of refined sugar, chiefly cubes,
had been purchased by Friend and pre-
pared in some secret spot with chemical
liquid which eliminated the ordinary
impurities found in all sugars The
'doctored" sugar was then carted TO the
factory in bags purporting TO nta raw
sugar. The chemical used had crystalized
the cubes to a large extent, and when they
were broken they had a finer appearances
and quality than sugar was ever known 70
possess.
Mrs. Friend and those connected with
her received large sum of money in cash
from the company for the process and
heavy block Of the stock, which
was disposed Of, partly in England
and partly here, at price away
beyond its par value Just how
many persons were interested In the
scheme does not seem clear, nor will the
Ulcers of the company tell just how much
money was pail TO them, although they
admit that, adding the cash and the pro-
ceeds from the stock together, they must
have realized sum approximating $3.50,
600
President Cottrell has left the city for
the purpose of procuring the arrest Of
Mrs. Olive Friend and William f. How
ard.
LONDON, Jan. 6-The sensation in Biz.
mingham over the revelations regarding
the Electric Sugar Refining Company has
been increased by alarming cablegrams
The legal holding of stock is said TO be
go 900. One of tie principal stockholders
has departed for America to inquire per.
sonally into the matter. The stock fell
greatly In Birmingham ana Liverpool Fri
day