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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-30
Where Every Body Smokes.

Every one in Siam smokes-men,
women and children. The people
have no pockets. and their fayorits
place for carrying cigas and cigarettes
is behind the ear, just a. our Amer
lean clerks carry their pens and PEN
ellis. saw a naked boy Of four. yes
terday, standing in a crowd smoking a
cigarette. He was putting away lusti-
" at the weed ia his mouth. and he
had two others yet unlit-One behind
each ear. He apparently enjoyed his
cigar. and smoked, and spit, and spit.
and smoked. as though it was an
everyday matter. as / doubt not il
was. His brown-skinned father, in a
waist-oloth, stood beside him, and
when be started away he picked up thu
still smoking youngster and set him
astride Of his hip. and thus walked on.
Babies are always carried on the hip
here. and not upon he back, as in
China. Korea and japan. This carry
ing is done b. the men as well as the
women, and only the fewest OF the
men do any work. +. g. Carpenters
Bangkok Letter.
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Growth of the Auction.

The growth of the auction in America
would be an interesting theme for a
volume The attractions offered to in
sure favorable results are multiplied of
late by free trains and substantial 0in
ners. Care is taken that both the inner
and outer man are comfortable and in
good hnmor. The auctioneer must be
a man of racy and cheering parts, and
know how to take advantage of trihing
occurrences. Good music is not sell
dom an accompaniment of a first-class
auction. The book auctions of New
York are a feature by themselves, and
require a specially-ftted class of men
to manage them. Many times an old
lot of worthless volumes brings more
than a good library. The professional
attendant on auctions is novel char
acter He can not help being there,
and generally carries home nothing
but rubbish. Auctions in the older
States of farm lands and homes are
greatly increasing of late years The
tendency to speculate in unsafe crops,
such as hops. has in the short run
brought luck. but in the long run dis
aster st Louis Globe-Democrat.
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at sullivan, No. by wreckers, and forty i've
persons were injured
A TENASTLEss cottage at I ,S52 North Ash
land avenue, Chicago, was searched on the
2ith and found 10 be smeared with blood in
many places The police thought il was
the spot 20 which DIR. Cronin was decOyed
and murdered on the night of May last
The cottage was occupied at that time by
two men who had since disappeared
OK the oath William White, an eighteen
year-old colored boy of Evansville, Ind,
was sentenced to ten years in prison for
killing Alexander Mcfarland
AT Cincinnati the police commissioners
decided on the cath TO enforce the Sunday
closing law, since the mayor had refused TO
do so.
FIFTEEN tramps, located in the southern
part of Hammond. Ind were raided on the
18th They had for some time been helping
themselves to every thing they wanted
and terrorizing property owners
MORMoNs from Utah were on the oath set
Ting in the British Northwest possessions,
the hierarchy OF the church having pur-
chased several thousand acres OF land from
the Alberta Railway & Coal Company
AT Nashville. Ind, cloud-burst on the
2ith flooded the first floors of business
houses and residences and did much dam
age.
OK the 25th Rev. J. r. Monkey and Rev.
John Moxley, father and son, OF Batcsville,
Ark. were drowned while fishing in a lake
by the upsetting of their boat
JOHN CLowDIs a farmer living near Chilli
cothe, No, was beaten out of 81, 500 by con
fidence men ON the 18th.
SKIP containing two ladies and three
men was caught in wind storm while
crossing the river near Memphis Tenn, on
the 18th and capsized, and all the occupants
were drowned.
SEVERAL arrests were made on the 18th
In connection with the murder OF DR.
CroDin, of Chicago. The funeral of the
murdered man took place on the 2Gth and
WAS largely attended,
THE percentage OF the baseball clubs in
the National League for the week ended on
the 25th was as follows Boston, ~; Phil
adelphia, .6oS; New York. .5;;S; Cleve-
land, BIS; Chicago, 500; Pittsburgh, l23;
indianapolis, 80; Washington, PSI. Amer
lean association: St Louis IA; Brook
lyn, .G33; Kansas City, ISL; Cincinnati. .5Sl
Athletic, 800; Baltimore, .4S2; Columbus,
800; louisville, 266 Western Association:
st Paul, .Si3; Omaha, Cos, Sioux City. .652;
Denver. .454; Minneapolis, .4l6; St Joseph,
1853; Des Moines, .S33, Milwaukee, go
On the 18th one highwayman robbed a
coach containing four men besides the dri-
yer near Oconto, Wis, takiag the mail
pouch as well as the purses of the passen-
gers.
OS the 18th Sheriff Lopez, ~ San Miguel
County Y NJ, arrested six horse thieves
who lately drove away five hundred horses
from the ranches of that county.
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THE FIRST GRENADIER.


How lie Singly Held the Fort Against an
Army of Austrians.
Doubtless the larger portion of read
ers have read or heard of the story of
the First Grenadier of France - but
for the benefit of those who are ignor-
ant as TO it, ! will relate the story as
heard it. Many years ago, in the reign
of Napoleon BOnaparte, there was "a
veteran grenadier in his army who was
noted for his courage and many brave
acts. AT one time during the war be-
tween France and Austria This man was
on leave of absence. having 10 go
close TO a certain pass near the
boundary line, he stopped at the fort
commanding the pass. To his amaze
ment he found it deserted, due TO the
approach OF the Austrians. Going
within, he found large supply OF fire
arms and ammunition left there in the
evacuation.
He knew that every hour was pre-
cious and that if the Austrians could
be prevented passing but for twenty
four hours it would be certain victory
for the French. Collecting all the am
munitiOu and firearms he loaded each
one and placed it at the loophOle, after
arranging the triggers so with cords
that they might all be fired at once.
Then he barred the door and made all
secure as possible. Now came the
weary watching and waiting through
the long, long night. just after mid
night he heard the roll Of drums in the
distance. The Austrians having come
up to the pass, were deferred from en-
tering by rafting volley. They were
effectually stopped from forcible entry
by the narrowness Of the pass.
After a short parley the garrison
was ordered TO surrender. bat a firm
refusal was given by the grenadicr.
just when he was almost ready TO
drop with fatigue the Auslrians
offered capitulatiOn. This was accept
ed under condIeInu that all firearms
might be taken. and just after noon the
fortress door was open and out marched
one man, literally loaded down with
muskets. lie walked to the command
ing officer, and depOsiting his burden,
saluted and waited in silence. The
Austrian asked in wonder where the
remainder Of the garrison was. Judge
of the amazement when the grenadier
proudly said: II. by myself. have sue
ceeded in holding you" The Austrian
gave him a note TO Napoleon, and he
was escorted under a flag of truce.
back to the French. On NapOleon's
learning the case b +, offered the highest
rewards TO the grenadier, but they
were all refused.
Yet ever after at roll-call, even at
his death, his name was called first.
and one OF the soldiers stepping forth
and saIuting. would answer: Died on
the field OF battle" Thus was his
brave deed commemoratel more effect
ualILy than If he had been made one Of
the highest officers. Daisy Senoj, ir
phiiadelnhia Press
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who own tha property. Il adjoins the barn
of Icculaa T. @ Sullivan The house is in
the rear o. e narrow lot and is small
structure Occupying the front part OF the
lot is a large frame house OF one story and
half and a high basement.
Il is almost positively established that in
the front room Of this large house Dr.. p II.
Cronin met his death after a desperate
struggle with two or probably three hired
murderers This important discovery and
the bloody evidences accompanying il were
kept secret in the breasts OF States Attor-
ney Longenecker, Lieutenant Herman
Schuttler and Captain Wing until three re
porters forced an entrance into the house
after discovering blood on the steps lead
ing 10 the front door. There was a
large pool of blood ON the floor of the
front room near the door leading into the
next room. Near the center of the floor of
the second room was another pool of blood.
Both OF these stains had been painted over
with yellow ochre. The paint was daubed
on in a hurried and clumsy manner
The police were convinced that the floor
was stained with the blood of Dr. Cronin.
They were startled shortly afterwIrd by a
remarkable confederation of this impress
sion. when a detective found in one of the
rooms a new key. II proved on trial to ex-
actlE NJ the lock OF the Trunk IOunu on
Evanston avenue the morning after Gro
nin's disappearance.
The cottage is an unassuming structure,
but there were neat curtains visible in the
front windows, although neighbors have
tor months believed it untenanted There
is a little tlower-p patch Ia FROM which has
been well kept by old Jacob Carlson and
his wife, who must have wondered at the
conduct of the two strangers to whom
they had rented their house early in the
spring.
The police are looking for the strange
tenants who rented the cottage in
March of old Dir. Carlson. They can tell
who killed Cronin and why they did
t. and can unfold the details of a
plot which probably took months to ma
cure The Carlsons can identify these two
men, who were the accomplices of the man
with the white horse who lured Cronin TO
ais death
Mr. Lindgren, son-in law of the Carl
sons gives the following version of the
renting OF the cottage to the mysterious
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TElI-TAIE STAINS.

The Place of Cronin's Butchery Discov-
e-ed-A Lonely Cottage ON the Out
skirts of Chicago the PIaee-Its Strange
enthusiastically Evidence of the Hor-
rible Crime important Arrests in Chi
cago-A Suspect from Philadelphia i'm
the ToiIs-A Detective i'm n had Fix
The Clan Na-Gael Charged with Having
Ordered the Removal" of the I'm
fortunate Physieian-Other Prominent
Men sia Led for the Same Fate-The
soeiety's Murderous Action Based ON
Charges Made by lie Caron, the Spy
The Funeral
CHICAGO, May q Promising progress
was made in the police inquiry in the
Cronin murder mystery Friday Officers
were sent out of the city during the day to
point where it was thought at least one of
the assassins would be located They
we're accompanied by man whose iden-
tity the police would not divulge, but
who is believed to be John Carl
son, OF ], S72 North Ashland avenue Carl
son lives at that number with his parents,
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TRoUT-FlsHING SECRETS.
An Ancient and Acute Angler Impart,
Some Important Information.

An Ancient and Acute Angler Imparts
Some Important Information.
Fly-fishing is supposed to be so diff
cult of mastery that many are deferred
from mourning the expense of an outfit
which is of no use in ordinary angling.
But let the veteran fisherman say his
own words:
There is a secret in fishing foI trout
with the artificial fly, but it can be
learned in half an hour by n man who
has no prejudices and keeps his eyes
open. | do not say all VIII succee ed
equally well. but any man who has
'gumption' and will take these hints
can't help catching fish, and he may
fish all day, if he goes about the bust
ness. according to his own notions, and
not get a single rise for his trouble.
First of all get the highest rod you
can. II it is well balanced and has got
the spring it is good enough. Don't
bother with lot of flies and use only
one on TIE line at time. Here are
four flies that will serve all purposes.
One is the red spinner; the second is
the black gnat; the third is the coach
man; the fourth and boss of them all
is the red Palmer or red hackle, as it
is indifferently termed.
snow for the secret Take the red
haekle as the standard and you will
understand. If you throw it out and
just drag it along the top of the water,
as most people do. what do you sup
pose a trout will take it for? Why,
lust for what it is-a bunch of hair, no
more, no less. You drag il along and
the hairs close on the shank of the
hook; it is just a dead mass, not re-
sembling a fly. or a caterpillar, or any
thing else. But suppose, instead OF
this, you work your wrist very gently
up and down, so as to let the elastic
hairs of the haekle expand and close
with the stream, what then? Why,
the thing looks alive. looks like a
drowning insect, and the trout goes
for it directly. 1t is the same with
winged flies exactly. There is no use
having wings to a fly if you simply
uTd8 II tlAtVuzA AAAC "ottSA AZ SAA~ 81 -
ton.
Just one hint more, he said to the
reporter. IF trout goes for your
fly, don't strike with your arm as il
you meant to knock mans head off
with a club or slug a ball for three
bases. just turn your wrist sharply
and on the instant, for the trout blows
out the fly directly he finds what it is.
and it doesn't take him half a second
to do it. Fish up stream, use one fly,
and that red hackle. work your fly
in the water to make it look alive, and
you will fill basket while your neigh
bors are firing their hearts and souls
out and catching nothing.
''Let me say, too, that you can't
throw a fly too lightly on the wafer.
To do this you must keep your body
still, throw with the arm, and the arm
only, letting the spring of the rod do
the last part Of the cast. In this way
the fly is made 70 fall frst-which is
every thing. Watch a novice and you
will cease to wonder why he never
raises a fish. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
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PITH AND POINT.

Intolerance most intolerantly de-
nounces Intolerance
All passions are good when one
masters them; all are bad when one is
a slave to them.
Some of the most powerful shots
made fail to hit the targets ceuier.-
n. O. Picayune.
The family with a sixteen-year-old
boy in the house has no use whatever
for a twenty-four volume encyclopaedia
-Somerville Journal.
No young man with brains will
ever expect TO find a good wife in a
young woman who is not first a good
daughter.
"A man gets his Lost" advertise
ments free of all charge when it is his
reputation tliat is involved. Merchant
Travt Ter.
Curiosity must be awakened ere it
can be satisfied. Aud once awakened
Il never fails in the end to satisfy it
self-Hugh Miller.
1t is good for rs if the contrary
winds occasionally blow on Us, for
after all it is they that make Us strong
as we sail the voyage of life.
There is nothing more universally
commended than fine day; the rea-
son is that the people can commend it
without envy.
knowledge must be gained by our
selves. Mankind may supply Us with
facts; but the results. even if they do
agree with previous ones. must be the
work of our own minds Earl of Bea-
eonsfeld.
If you have great talents, industry
will improve them; if moderate abili-
ties, industry will supply their def
cheney. Nothing is denied 10 well-di-
rected labor. Nothing is ever 10 be
obtained without it.-Sir J. Reynolds
Young people should never forget
Nat they have in their brains, and
hands, while the power of brains and
hands remains. actual mOney-yielding
capital more satisfying than bonds
Once a Week.
AAI NNAltttit WIZ tACatto ~ iANt
work and smiles a happy home. and
raises a family of children to worthy
manhood and womanhood is the noblest
work of God, and is more entitled to
the honor and praises OF mankind than
the butterfly of fashion in the political
or fashionable world
Happy are they who, when sorely
( wounded in life. can turn 10 the natural
world and find in every tree, shrub and
flower a comforting friend that will not
turn from them. Such are not far from
God and peace. Only mind, imagina-
ton and retirement can embrOider the
homely details of life.
Especially do we owe consider
ate manner TO those less favored than
ourselves; for with sweet flowers of
courtesy we may do something to
brighten an otherwise barren life.
Even the degraded are quick to catch
j the gentle tone. None can withstand
/ the power of this true fairy wand.
whose spell we love best to invoke for
"Our own. Elizabeth Eddy Norris
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MEN OF; INTEGRITY.
rhe Kind of a Reputation which Helps
One Over Many Hard Places.

One over MANY nara Places.
''Why is it that 1t is the good men
who go wrongP" asks an exchange.
This question is of much of the same
stamp as one that was formerly cur
rent: ''Why is it that ministers sons
are SO often scapegraces?" The latter
mas been shown to be grossly unfair in
its implication that ministers sons
are. as a whole, unworthy of their fa-
theirs and of their training. The re-
verse is the case. There are excep-
tions, but these are rare in comparison
with the number of sons of ministers
who are useful and honored citizens,
many of them pursuing the noble call
ing of their fathers.
So when we are asked: ''Why is it
that it is the good men who go wrong?"
the answer is that the inquiry is mis-
leading. Men who are reputed to be
good do go wrong in many cases, but
these are few in comparison to the
number of reputed good men
who do not go wrong. 1t is
no surprise when it IN learned
that a man who does not boar good
name has done something dishonest or
unworthy, because in this case the ex.
pected happens, and there is not a Ego
ing wrong but further pursuit of it.
The good man by repute-and the bet.
ter he is reputed to be the more sur
prise and shock if he does not bear out
his reputation-is the one who is trust
ed, and when we hear OF one who has
proved faithless, it shows that his rep
utation was not deserved, Or that hi:
moral fiber has not been tested. The
man who is upright and honest-hon
est with himself as well as toward
others-does not go far wrong in hi:
dealings.
A reputation for integrity is one
which no man can afford to be with
out But the reputation is not the
main thing. This is to deserve it. II
is won by right doing, and is kept il
the same way. Once established it i.
the best letter of credit young mar
can have. Without it he can not hope
TO succeed.
In most cases men of strict integrity
have had it impressed upon them il
their youth that honesty can not be
disposed with. Too great stress car
not be laid upon this truth by all whC
have dealings with the young. Temp
tations to be dishonest should be as fal
as possible removed from the path o.
those whose characters are not fully
formed, and those who are older anC
wiser should by friendly counsel aid il
firmly fixing right ideas in the youth
full minds.
Parental laxity is to blame il 1
young woman begins work with ;
vague notions of what honesty means
Too many parents sadly neglect theil
duties in this particular. They do no
oversee their children as they should
or hold them to strict accountability
but faults are CLOSED over or are no
seen. Parents should not be harsl
and exacting. but they should train VI
children in the very way they should
go. The honest boy is father to the
honest man.-Detroit Free Press.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
From WASHINGTON.


THE accountants on the 2lst completed
an estimate of the cash value of the cur
rency. coin and securities turned over TO
Treasurer Huston bv ex-Treasurer Hyatt,
and found the total amount to be s722, 600, :
eco
OS the 21st the Secretary OF the Treasury
received q conscience contribution from a
resident OF Washington in the form of four
teen tyo-cent stamps
THE President on the Path appointed j. f.
GilkersOn. OF Pennsylvania, 20 be Second
Comptroller OF the Treasury.
DURING the seven DAYS ended on the 3ith
there were 10 business failures in the
United States, against 100 the previous seven
days Total failures in the United States
from January I 70 date is 1. so, against 1, Us
in ISIS
The President on the 18th appointed
Roger c. Spooner, OF Wise pnsin. to be Con-
sui OF the United States az Prague.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated l COS
590.GJo. against 81 ,05l. 637 81 the previous
week As compared with the correspond
ing week Of 1875 the increase amounted to
"a
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more than two exceptions, the principals
and accessories are Chicago people.
The police have been put in possession Of
startling facts concerning DIR. Cron1n 5 MUIR
der. II has been clearly shown by the dead
mans friends that his removal was ordered
by a committee representing the Clan
na-Gael society. Charges of traitorous
conduct were preferred agains. him at a
meeting of the Clan-na-Gael camp. He
was found guilty and his death was or
dered The charge was based on the state
ment of the British spy lie Caron that there
were four more spies in America
When lie Caron made that statement
on the stand before the Parnell commits
sion he was ordered TO give the
names of the spies lie said he
dared not do it because if they were
known they would be murdered Presid-
ing Justice Hammer then took him into
an ante-room and in the presence of Sir
Richard Webster, the Attorney General
who is conducting the prosecution, and Sir
Charles Russell, Parnell's attorney, lie Caron
gave the names
Within forty eight hours after this news
was cabled from London nearly every Clam
na-Gael camp in America had met aud
passed resolutions declaring in favor of a
a rigid hunt for the four spies. Suspicion,
Justly or uniustly, was pointed at DR..
CrOnin.
committee was appointed TO try him
He was convicted without having a ehaAee
to make defense and his assassins We're
brought here from other cities to
carry out the mandate of the committee
The latter were chosen by secret
ballot Positively nothing is known
of the evidence that was produced
TO bring about the conviction, but il
is said that it was furnished by
men who We're unfriendly To DIR.
Cronin. 1t seemed almost overwhelming
and Cronin was declared n traitor.
His death was ordered under the clause in
the Clan-na-Gael bylaws which says that a
man can be removed" for traitorous con-
duct
Cronin, his friends say, vas not aware of
his trial and conviction. He had expected
for years that his enemies would one day
attempt to kill him. but when the trial
finally took place he had no intimation of it.
For nearly nine months previous TO the
time his death sentence was signed he has
been followed night and day by a detective
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LONDON Aay p Mrs gladstone was on
Wednesday presented by the Momen's LIB
eral Federation with q diamond brooch
containing a miniature az Mr.. Gladstone
copied frop Miliais' poTtrais VI farncu
and large nninisr Of the members Of the
House ~ Commons were present Ar.
Gladstone IN reply - the presentation
speech referred 10 his ail-s ss rho greatest
gift he i,sisi rssceis c. at titc hands 81 presi-
tlence Words faiicd him 10 express the
gratitude OF his wife aud himself for she
affcctionate kindness OF their friends.