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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-14
WEST ann SOtITg

ON the 18th rive men lost their lives and
eighty mules and twenty three street-cars
were destroyed by a fire in Kansas City which
ruined the stables 81 the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company
w McYuGH and Harlan Turner, two
ghiy respected citizens OF Butler. No,
fought a duel on the 9Th with pistols. the
latter being fatally wounded
While making a public epht,..,ion OF the
6th OF a self acting ire escape at $ l'aul,
Mimi J II Baker tell from "A window OF
the RYAN Hotel and was fatally injured
NEAR Aspen. Col. "A remarkable rich vein
OF silver orr was struck on the 9Th
AUGUsT ZIsSA sixty years old killed him
self on the 9TH az Clinton. Ia. because his
daughter hsd bought an expensive dress
O> the 9Th three farmers living near Knox,
Ind were arrested for systematically rob
hing freight cars They haG been carrying
on their operations for some time
uuEE IcIACHIAN. aged twenty two years,
and Cora Canadian. the thirteen year-old
daughter 81 the proprietor % the Detamore
House 10 Paw Paw. H., eloped on the Sd,
and NJ farm house in Earlville on the 9Th
NrIachian shot the gir- dead and then
biiled himself
Nr.r Van Vert o.. Charles Binkley. a
farmer. shot his brother in the face on the
9th and tore out both his eyes with a shot
gun which hc didn't know was loaded
THE failure OF the Mahoning National Life
Association Of Columbus. O.. doing an in
surauce business ON the mutual assessment
plan. occurred on the 9Th. with assets Of
s0.uo0 cash and 81. go in notes and ac-
counts The risks outstanding amounted
t. sI0.ooo.Ooo
Ms. ANN DRIsCoLL, aged ffty- hve years,
while insane decapitated her sleeping hus-
band with an axe on the 9th near Delafield,
Wis
LEE WATSON and Jutlson Bell, noted des-
ns,radoes. were m0rtallv wounded on the
9Th while making an attack on the camp Of
some railroad contractors near Cumberland
Gan. Nv.
J0sEPH SERwERsHEIsI was taken from bis
house at Ireland. Ind. on the 7th and given
thirty IaShes by White Caps for refusing a
warning 10 20 to work
Ok the 1th Michael PEBBLES and his wife
aud two children were found murdered in
bed in their home on Duck creek, near
atiucah, Ky Robbery was the cause OF
/ he crime
i TRAIN ran into ditch on The tn near
{ Coshocton. o. 4 dozen persons being hurt
but none faeally
All the employees Of the Metropolitan
+ street-car stables at Kansas CAV escaped
+ frola the recent IRE. and 10 lives lseas lost
Is at mrs reg orte1L
Perry EESNrrr. aged eighty years. fatally
wounded his wife. agcd seventy years. with
4 hatchet aad then attempted % kiA his
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LATER.

SECRETAY OF WAR Tracey, on the 18th
appointed Frank A. Oernette mechanical
superintendent Of the qua foundry at
Washington.
Gen. GEoEGE S. BACHELDTR of Saratoga,
n Y, was appointed assistant secretary
OF tie treasury on the 18th.
a PEW days ago two chjnlmen were ar
rested in Milwaukee upon the charge Of
iEvcigIing young girls into their dens for
immoral purI oses. They came near being
nobbed but were protected b. police.
On the 18th their pralim nary examina-
,i0n was held. The crowd that was hang
ing about the court room left suddenly
and went 70 the west side where they pro-
seeded 70 demolish the Chinese laundries
sntn stopred by the polics
PREsIpESr HARRISON on the nth, sent
the following nominations 10 the Senate:
a. w. Palmer OF Michigan. minister 10
Spain. }. y Sw II. Of California, minister
10 Japan; George e Tichenor Of Illinois,
assistant secretary Of the treasury; John
d Washburue Of Massachusetts, minister
to Switzerland.
THE Clifton hotel, Lakewood, n. J., was
destroyed by fire on the morning Of the
18th. S xty guests and twenty serv-
ants ESCAPED, the majority in their
Oight robes.
THE interior department on the 18th sus.
pended the order Of February 2Ist cen
solidating various land Offices in the
West
TELEGRANs from Chippewa Falls, Wis .
dated the ltth. state that almost every
logging camp on the northern and eastern
tributaries Il the Chippewa river have
broken up leaving millions Of skidded logs
Unbanked.
W n LowERY, a Northern Pacific
freight brakeman, was killed in Mullsn
tunnel Montana on the 18th In climb
ing 10 the top of box car his head came
in contact with the top Of the tunnel
QrEEN VICTORIA has approved ths ap.
pointment Of Sir Julian Pauncefoote as
Britt a minister 70 the United States.
CHARLES PuELPs post office clerk al
Norwood. y y, went into the bank al
that place on the 9th an 1 asked the cash
Ter for some stamps. When the cashier
went into the vault to get the stamp;
Phelps locked the vault doors upon am
and proceeded TO rob the bank. he took
s,sgS and left A customer entered the
bank seon after and released the cashier
VINO notified the ofioers and Phelps was
caught the same dag near Canada.
a THIKTE-FooT boiler in the Cleveland.
O.. rolling mill exploded the nth with
terrible force One niece crashed entirely
throgh Hugh Graham's house 500 feet dis
tant Graham who was in led was slight
u hurt The other piece OF the boiler
was carried 100 feet demoiishiag an cut
house IN which was Mary Nargo four
years old Her left arm was broken
There were thirty msn in the mill wher
the explosion occurred. Two we're killec
out right aud nine injured.
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TRANSATLANTIC TOPICS.

Or 26,o00 criminals arrested in Paris, 16,-
0O0 had not attained the age Of 20.
NINE. CARxoT, Of France, has set the ex-
ample among the ladies Of the Presidential
court of wearing lilies Of the valley on all
occasions, and these flowers are now re-
garded as the emblem Of the Carnot regime.
THE latest expensive within INDUCED in by
the King of Wurtemburg is the photo
graphing Of the moon TO ascertain whether
it is inhabited He had the negatives magni-
fed one hundred thousand fold, and has thus
far discovered nebulse covered with little
dots, which he believed to be lunar people.
IT has hitherto been the rule in Japan
that all persons visiting governmental
offices must alight fr m their horses or We
hicles at the outer gate, unless they were Of
certain rank. This relic Of feudal times has
now been abolished Every japanese is now
at liberty to go where he pleases on foot
THE revival Of beard wearing IN England
is said TO be due 10 two circumstances. An
impulse was given 10 1t by the example Of
the thr0ngs Of heavily-bearded Germans
and Russians who fOcked 10 the first great
exhibition, and another by the return Of the
British soldiers and officers, entirely un-
shaver. from the Crimean war.
AGRIcULTuRAL depression IN Europe - not
confined to Great Britain, butts felt even
more seriously in Russia. The high charges
for railway transit, for commission and
shipping, the hopeless inde5' cdness Of ali
classes possessing land. - the exhaustion Of
fertility by over cropping, are az given their
due share Of blame for the present state Of
things.
a NEw electric organ has been erected at
the back Of the stage Of the Burg Tncater
in Vienna. and ) connected by cable with
the orchestra, where the keyboard is stu
ated. The cable IS long enough to admit Of
altering the position Of the key board with
in a radius Of thirty feet The signals are
transmitted from the keyboard TO the re-
lay lever by five Cal.aud cells
IT IS prorosed % rig up on the top Of the
EiHeI tower an aerial orchestra consisting
Of Folian harps. immense congs and gigantic
trumpets. on which the air, beng very
keen at such a height, VIII be made % play
by an ingenious mechanism The lnstru-
ments VIII perform At certain hours Of the
dav. and even ia the dead Of u.gnt torrents
Of aerial harmony VIII Oyerspread the sleep
ing capital
* Hamburg. Germany, scientific charity
has been so successfully put into operation
that beggary has become thing Of the past,
and this, too, in a e.ty fifty years ago Ia
nous for its mendic1nts. Tie city gives
largely 70 carry on this work and imposes
a fine Of two pounds upon amy one giving at
the door. The heads many families make
annual subscriptions. and Ia these houses
there are placed boxes ia which the chill
dren and servants arop their free-Eglil oiler-
ings,
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daughters on the eth at Nashville, Ind.
Bennett was a hard character
\ RELIGIOUS revival was in progress in
Carroll County Ga, on the eth under the
preaching of Jimmie Cook ten years old.
He claims TO have been called 10 preaching
in a vision.
Mas. ELIZABETH SANDS celebrated her one
hundredth birthday ON the 7th at Baltimore.
She was in good health
At Louisville, Ky, FIRE on the Sth de-
stroyed three business buildings, causing a
loss of SIS 600
Az Ida. Mimi, Annie Roche committed
suicide by hanging on the sth She was IA
love with Lee, recently hanged FOR murder.
OK the sth Samuel Gaskins icolored was
hanged at Camden, S c., FOR the murder Of
Betsey Clark "A eolored girl.
TIE firm Of l. o. Desfarges & Co, OF New
Orleans, who lost number OF coal barges
in the storm OF August last assigned ON
the STA, with liabilities of sI4400o
GovERS2IENT officials on the eth arrested
in Conway County, Ark. Martin Thorp and
William Garner, leaders of the most ex-
tcnsiye gang of counterfeiters in the South
west. IN immense sum Of bogus money,
comprising +, 81 and S2O imitation go d
pieces was also secured
FIRE destroyed the business portion Of
Slater Mo-, ON the eth-
PLANES swept away the best part OF the
village o. Wabash, Neb. on the Sth
FAuMEEs near Still Pond Nd. We're ON
the Sth losing a great many cattle by
cerehro spinal meningitis, which was prev
alent there
The stables on the Florence stock farm
near Three Rivers Mich, were burned on
the sth, together with nine finely bred
horses.
Is a fit Of jealousy ON the sth William
Gessler of Fostoria. o.. glass worker. shot
and killed his wife and then took his own
life
TIE year-old son of Judge snead, of
Augusta Ga, on the 10th killed two colored
boys with revolver supposed to be uu-
loaded
FIRE ON the 10th did damage to the
amount Of sl0o,W0 in High street business
property at Columbus, o.
WILLIAM F. Bell, cook in J. C. Christen-
sens restaurant at Kansas City, fatally shot
the proprietor Oh the 9th and then killed
himself
EXCITEMENT over the gold fields of Lower
California had somewhat snbsided ON the
9th, and reports were freely circulated that
land companies started the boom
TIE Legislature Of Arkansas passed bill
on the 9Th prohibiting non residents from
hunting in tb state.
TIE Burlington road on the 9th estab-
lished voluntary relief fund for it's thirty
eight thousand employees.
Ok the gth Thomas Love. of Fredericks-
burg. Va. accidentally shot and instantly
killed his young wife while fixing his It
yolver.
While playing with rifle Boone Stores,
a son Of Rev 4 ) Stores. OF Little Rock
Ark. accidentally shot and killed his youua
brother on the 9th
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
wERE FALSE CHARGES.

What the Investigation on the Fond du
Lac Reformation showed.
Special Agents Alien and Roberts of the
Interior Department, arrived ut Ashland re-
cAltiy from the Fond On Lac reserve,
pnere thsy had been for several days in
yestigating the charges against contractors
OF robbing the poor nfian Of his pine
Che agents made a thorough search for evil
dence of trespass and 20 find out If pine
had b sen bought from the Fond du Lac
Indians at prices below those fixed by the
department Mr. Allen said that he had eX-
amined witnesses. but was unable to dis
cover single instance where the price paid
per hundred feet was below that of last
season Only a few cases of trespass had
been found, and prosecutions had been or
dered against the perpetrators
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RESTING ERoM HIS LARoRs.


Captain John Ericsson, the Famous En-
glneer, Joins the sIajority-A Brief story
of the Inventions That Made His Name
Famous.
NEW YORK, March q Captain John Erics-
ION, the famous Swedish engineer, who de-
Agned and launched the iron-clad Monitor in
% days, died at II o'clock Thursday night
he had been Ill for only one week and at last
a physician was called in. Owing TO his adj
raced age Mr.. Ericsson failed to rally.
Z was exactly twenty-seven years
ago March o 1852 that the famous battle
occurred between the Monitor and the rebel
roneiad Merrimac in which the latter,
hitherto indicated, was compelled ~
withdraw from Hampton Roads where sne
lad destroyed the wooden war ships Con-
gress and Cumberland, besides other vessels
THE great engineer aud inventor was born
Wermland, Sweden july 81, 1903, and at the
age of 10 began by inveuting the Windmill and
pumping engine, the creative work that at the
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THE EARTH VIBRATES.

shocks of Earthquake Felt i'm PennsyI-
vania, Maryland and Delaware People
Are Badly Scared, But No Damage Re-
suits.
HARRIsBURG, Pa. March O. About Gao
o'clock Friday evening violent earthquake
shock, followed by a rumbling noise lasting
a few seconds, disturbed the people of this
city Dishes ON tables were displaced
by the vibration, chimney tops tumbled
down, and windOw-panes We're broken
in number of places. Houses We're
shaken all over the city and great
CONSERVATION prevailed People went run
ming into the streets with terror depicted
on their countenances to ascertain the
cause of the strange sensation. Re
ports from the surrounding counties indi-
cate that the shock was general The earth
quake was much more distinct than that
which was felt here in August, 1884.
GErrYsBURGH Pa. ,March9 At6:40 o clock
Friday evening a slight earthquake shock
was felt on Cemetery hill Houses were
shaken until the windows ratified for ten
seconds. 1t was also felt at Hanover and
points east
YORK, Pa. March "A pronounced earth
quake shock was felt here Friday evening
at $40 O'Clock which had the effect OF
frightening nearly every body in the city
and suburbs Houses trembled for nearly
a minute and articles of furniture We're
moved Women ran shrieking from then
houses with their infants in their arms, and
for while in some sections of the city the
excitement was intense No damage result
ed here.
BALTIMORE, Nd, March 9. Reports from
the towns through the northern and west
ern portions of Maryland give account Of a
severe earthquake shock that was felt
about o'clock Friday night In Carroll,
Baltimore Hartford and Cecil counties The
effect of the shock was quite perceptible.
WuMINGToN, Del, March 9.-What is be
lieved 20 have been an earthquake shock
was noticed by some people here about Gas
p. IN. friday There was a precepuble
shake accompanied by rumbling noise.
Telephone inquiry shows that the shock
was felt in the surrounding country and in
neighboring towns The shock lasted about
three seconds and vas from west to east
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TIE sessions of the Panell commission
were resumed In London ON the 18th At
torney General Webster took up the thread
uf the Times case where it had been Gu
BY the confession, flight and suicide
pigott
The Government on the 5th forbade lare
populations To visit General BOulanger's
house in Paris and ordered officers not Il
salute or recognize him in any manner in
the Bots Boulogne.
THE sugar crop Of Cuba for this year was
on the 18th estimated at five hundred thou
sand tons. a large increase over last year
KING Milan abdicated the throne OF
Servia IN the 9th in favor of the Crown
Prince Alexander, who was proclaimed
King The new ruler is only thirteen year
old
ON the eth an retrian ship laden with
petroleum became ignited and exploded in
the harbor of the French island OF Bone
-Four OF the crew were saved and nine per
ished
\ TELEGRAM was sent to the European
governments on the 9Th by General Legit-
ime announcing that the rebellion in Hayti
had been crushed and demanding recOgui-
ton OF his government
4 SHORT session of the Parnell commits
sion was held in London on the eth. An
ex-Feman named Coleman testified that he
had received II 600 from the English Gov
eminent for acting as a spy in America
UPWARD of 81 ,UOO, eco had been subscribed
ON the 9Th by American boOdlers to defeat
the anti-boodle bill in the Canadian Parlia
ment which would keep out American
fugitiyes
SAMOA advices of the 9TH say that the Ger
man coryet olga had bombarded Mataafa S
#
tested. but seeing his protest disregarded he
opened fire ON the Olga, when the olga di-
rected a torpedo at the American ship, blow
ing her up with all hands.
THE damage done by a recent snow-stOrm
in Switzerland was enormous Thousands
of splendid frs We're destroyed and severa
old inns and bridges were ruined.
OK the Sth the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF
the entry of Count Won Moltke into the
army was celebrated at Berlin All the
royal families of the empire sent messages
of congratulations and presents to the
Count
Is the district of Winterberg. Bohemia.
famine prevailed on the 9TH to a distressing
degree Twenty-four villages in the dis
trict We're almost entirely without food.
HAYTI advices of the 9TH say that in a
recent battle the forces Of Legitime capt
I
pie and looted the town.
IMMIGRATION into Canada last year
reached ~. 1868
STATISTICS published ON the 9th showed
that ,5OO00O emigrants had left Germany
since 1871, of whom 100000 came L
America.
THE death of Mr.. Meier the founder and
manager of the North German Lloyd
Steamship line. occurred in London ON the
9Th
A TRAIN on the Transcaspian railway was
thrown from the track on the 10th in tun-
mel near St Petersburg. Russia, and fifty
persons were killed and injured
DISPATCHES of the 9th say that n party OF
five French travellers -two wonderland three
men-had been murdered in the Yellow
stone National Park by Indians.
o. the nth il was said that Montreal
Can man had patented a process for max
ing ice by which he claimed years supply
could be manufactured at a cost of sew
3 eutv FIVE cents
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William Freitag, a resident of Beaver
Dam who had been in Milwaukee since
February ., acting as agent for copying
device. committed suicide at the SaXoni0
Hotel the other night by turning on the
gas He had been drinking heavily. and re-
tired 70 his room at two clock in the aft
ernoon and asked that he be not disturbed
until morning He was found dead on his
bed The position of the body indicated
that he had turned ON the gas, then lay
down where he would quickly get the eff
feet OF the gas Freitag leaves a wife and
two children an Rnavnr Dam
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KANSAS err. No. March 9 Henry Steele.
a hostler who was rescued in fainting con-
dition from the street-car stable ire
Wednesday night. gives as his opinion that
three men who made an attempt 70 save
some OF the mules persisted IN the flames
Tho debris now being removed il twenty
feet deep and it will be some time before il
can be positively ascertained whether or
not there were amy lives lost
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
The Wife of Farmer Ieheads Him with
an Ave while lie Is A.leen.

The Wife of IA Farmer Bcheads Him with
an Axe While lie Is Asleep.
Mrs Driscoll. wife OF a farmer living four
miles from Ocopomowoe, cut off her hus-
bands head with an axe while be was asleep
in bed the other night She had the axe, a
ra2or and butcher knife concealed under
tha hed, and waited until the family We're
a'l asleep then took the axe and raised 1t
~ the blow i've different times before she
nuf, ed herself To stake the one that caused
instant death She then went upstairs
where her boy was sleeping and was about
to cut his throat when daughter awoke
and prevented double tragedy The Dris
coils lived happily and the woman had no
cause for the crime She had been sick
and was dcubtIcssly insane
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An Imnor,nnt Dccl.ion.

decision has Just been re"lcrad relating
to the title Of valua5ie piece Of Wisconsin
land one Me;iang made a homestead
entry in Ian. Jade County in lSs}. and a Mr.
Bignall II2de a contest on ground Of
In 1SS4 the case was before
the lar d office, and the decision was against
Mentng. Menting applied % tho Commits
siorer OF the General Land Office for a re-
herring but was denied His attorneys ap-
pc lied to the Secretary of the Interior, who
has ordered a new trial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-14

IHE largest fish story lately con-
ceived is that Of a London establish
ment where "a whale is kept in a mann
moth tank, an expert mixer being
employed % milk the whale and deal
the whaloid out TO customers as a
cure for c0usumutive-
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II Saratoga, y. Y, a few evenings
ago Miss Jane ; Truman, aged fifty
eight years. was married To Warren
IL Westcott, sixty-uiue years old.
against whom his present bride,
twenty-five years ago. secured a verdict
for breach Of promise Westcott had
been a widower three years. and re-
turned 10 his first love.
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IL the Indian Appropriation bill
passed by Congress recently is an
item appropriating S1,I92. 900 To pay
the Seminole Indians for the lands in
the Indian Territory ceded 10 the
United States. The lands acquired
2.U31, 900 acres-are made open to set
Element under the Homestead law.