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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-28
A GAME OF CRoQuET.
The Kind All of IL Have Played at One
Time or Another.

The Kind All 81 - Have HlaNeu AT one
Time or Another.
Whose tgrn is it,
"Maude's."
mo Il isn't"
Yes It is-Janic played last"
Il thought red came after the blue,
and
That was a splendid hit Maude"
NOV play for Fred's ball. and knock
him away frola re. ssi1--"
NO. don't. Play FOR the side wicket;
yoa can 20 right through it"
IF were you, Maude, Td-ha, Ia,
you missed it."
Isn't il pruyoking?"
"Ha, ma. ha! See where Charlie has
sent Fred's ball,''
Good for you, Charlie! Now send
JAMES ball far as you cam
''Oh, You mean old thing, you!''
Now go through those two wickets-
there, that's splendid.
Whose turn IS il now?''
JAMES"
'-No-yours.
''oh. so it is! What am ] thinking
about? Pshaw! Isn't It provoking 70
Just miss wicket ike that?''
Isn't il lhough?"
Now, Fred, don't you fail to hit the
post, for the world.
Ella. ha, la, He missed if.''
''Goody. GoOdy, Wen beat 'em yet,
Maude:'
May be you viii, sir! Oh, Charley,
that MAS a lovely stroke: Now do make
both OF those wickets-bravol Now
keep right on-oh, dear. dear! I'm so
sorry you missed it,
.'Now, jamie. play for dear ife-Oh,
| that's too bad
! Good
ala. la. ha.''
We've beat. We've beat. Hurrahi
''Ha! ha, ha.'
..SpIendid,'-Drake's Magazine.
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THE livery barn OF William Lewis at
Council Bluffs, Ia. was burned on the
Goth and twenty-three horses wore
cromated.
a LoTu & Sons, wholesale furnishers,
st. Louis, failed on the Goth for S9c5, 0OO
On the Goth Mrs. Nellie Bonn, OF Den
yer, Gel, shot herself. owing to poverty.
and her husband. Il. |. Benn, on seeing
his wife's condition, stabbed himself.
CHRISTIAN KIMMICK's barn at SCOTS
burg, Ind, was burned OIL the 2lst, and
seven horses and five cows persisted.
Orr Empire City. Ore, Ave men were
drowned on the 2lst by the wrecking Of
the tug Fearless.
V. l.. WILKINS barn near Abba, Ia,
was destroyed by fire on the 2lst. and
six fine horses persisted.
LoUIs BUDENBRSDER, of Hob)ken, n
j., swOre in the Cronin murder trial in
Chicago on the 2lst that it was not
white horse that carried DR.. Cronin to
his death.
CoTroN dealers at New Orleans on the
2lst estimated this years crop at 1890
900 bales.
PEDRO LoPEZ was acquitted az Albu-
querque. \. NJ, on the 2lst of the muir
der of Frank Chase, Notwithstanding he
admitted that he killed the man and
robbed the hody.
AT her home in Charlottesville, Ind,
Mrs. Anna Probasco, aged ninety years
mother of Henry Probasco, the Cincin-
natl millionaire. fell down cellar on the
I'D and was killed.
OK the 22d Governor Taylor, of Ten
nessee, parioned two of the FIVE Bar
narls sentenced TO be hanged in Han
cock County, and the sentences of the
others were committed TO five years inn
prisonment.
AT Marion, Ind, a rabid dog was
killed on the 22d who in the past six
days had bitten ten persons.
IL the neighbOrhood of MissoUla,
Mont, a terrific snow-storm ragged on
the e2d. Railroad traffic was blocked
and four serious wrecks were reported
on the Northern Pacific.
The death of kansas Lee, colored
woman one hundred and five years old,
occurred at 81. Joseph, Mo, on the 22d
JoHN HENDEIcKsoN fatally shot his
wife and blew off his own head with a
oAol- uu OA tue --O AZ NtnttE IOlUls Ia
Domestic trouble was the cause.
AT Elkton, Ky, Joseph A. Smith,
awaiting trial Tor the murder of Town
Marshal Williams, was taken from the
Jail on the Esd by mob and hanged.
FARMERS in the vicinity Of Hiawatha,
Kan, were on the Esd burning corn for
fuel. finding it cheaper than coal.
AT Orchard Hill Farm, Kan, the stud
barn of |. 1. Webster * Co. was destroyed
b. fire on the cath and four noted stall
ions were burned to death. Loss $780,
OOO.
IL fire on the 23d in the ST. Law
renee mine at Butte, Mont, nine men
lost their lives and dozen others were
injured, four probably fatally.
OK the ed the livery stable OF Friz-
cell, Powers Il johnson at Vienna, Ill,
was burned, and twenty-one horses were
cremated.
Oh the Esd Robert Bland, who at
tempted to commit an assault on Miss
Annie Gee, aged sixteen years, was
taken from the Prince George County
(Va-) Jail By forty men and hanged.
THE Chippewa Commissioners finished
their work on the 25d, the signatures OF
every tribe on the reservations in Mime
sofa having been secured. This secures
the opening of about three million acres
Of land in Northern Minnesota.
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UNCLE SANS NAVY.
report 81 the Chief OF the Bureau OF Con.
slr0ctior.


WAsHIXGToN. Not. g5:-Theodore
Wilson, chief of tho Naval Bureau OF
Construction, In his annual report gives
the following statement of the condition
of the navy: The United States has at
present four steel cruisers and steel
dispatch vessel il commission. The
Baltimore, Vesuvius, Petrol and
Charleston have had their trial
trips and may I've expected soon
to take their places in the cruiss
ing fleet There ase twenty-one wood
and seven iron steamers till useful and
eerviceable With the )mpletion of
the vessels now building aud appro-
priated for the United States will pos
sess ten srmOred vessels. thirteen
Single turreted monitors. twenty.
one steel cruisers or grn-boats, tive
dynamite cruisers, n practice cruiser
for cadets, an armored ram, one first
class torpedo boat and seven iron steam
ers. The work of rebuilding the navy
is progressing very satisfactorily ard
the results accomplished during the last
six months are sufficient guaranty of the
purpose of the department to advance the
work with the utmost rapidly and of its
energy and success in the perform.
ance Of the task. the vessels &lreaAr
under contract and building at navy
yards are progressing favorablv and
some are rapidly nearing completion.
The expenditures of the bureau during
the last fiscal year were b, 227.7l2 and
the estimates for the next year amount
to 1921 492, including the S4,O00.O0O for
hulls and outfits of new vessels hereto
fore authorized by Congress-.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Pats.
FROM WASHINGTON,

Ok the 18th a committee from the
National Convention OF Commercial
Bodies visited President Harrison apd
urged him 70 recommend 70 Congress the
passage of a bankrupt law embodying
the Torrey bill The President promised
that he would give the subject careful
consideration
THE Register OF the Treasury in his
annual report on the 2Ist shows that
during the year 81. 500 bonds, amounting
to SlO3, S94.35O. were issued. and S5,l49
bonds, representing S2Sl, $50, were
cancelled. The total amount Of bonds
outstanding was 500, 42s. sIe. OF which
amount only SO. S62, $50, or l. SO per cent.
were held abroad.
The Treasury Department refused on
the 2lst the request of f. Ward Ford,
preside ut Of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company, that that concern I've allowed
70 import fifty skilled labCrers.
COLONEL W. W, DUDLEY and James
W. Tanner, both ex-CommissioneRs of
Pensions, on the 2lst formed co-part-
nership In Washington in the pensions
and claims business.
THERE were 2sI business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 22d, against SG7 the pre-
vious week. For the corresponding
week in 1855 the number was 295 The
total Of failures in the United States
from January TO date is 10, lO7, agains;
s.9O2 in 1855.
THE exports from the United States
for the year ended October. 1889 were
S1QS 3cS 559 against ci1s a9S S44 in 1888.
and imports S165, 4lS, IA, against s522,
959, 245 in 1855.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the ed aggregated
Sl,s2a, Cos. 259, against sI,2lO.6ss, 4O4 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week OF 1883 tho increase
amounted 70 1866.
THE annual report on the esd of First
Assistant Postmaster-General J. ).
GARRISON showed that 2,57G fourth-class
poSt-offices were established during the
last fiscal year and I,141 post-olfices
we're discontinued, making the total
number of post-otiices July l, 1859. S.
599, 0f which number a.GSS were Presi-
Dental offices. The mum Der of pi, Of
mail matter handled BIZ carriers during
the year was S.oS5. s05.J40. an increase
II nearly 455. O00. 900 pieces. The amount
received for local postage was over
$500 900. an increase for the year Of
nearly - 100000.
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sad Accident.

CINCINNATI. Nov. 25.-Two young girls
were killed by a Chesapeake & Ohio
freight engine at the Park street cross
ing about 10 o'clock Saturday night
Annie McDowall and Mary Mullarkey,
both 16 years Of age, attempted to cross
the track with Anthony Ryan, aged 20.
1t was dark, and there being no watch
man at the crossing they could not see
the approaching freight engine. Miss
Mullarkey was instantly killed. while
the McDowall girl had both legs broken
and sustained internal injuries, dying
at the hospital. Ryan escaped with q
severe shaking up.
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MORMON TREASON.
dow the National Flag Was Traiied in
the Dust In salt Lake City In 1879.

dow the National Flag Was Traiied in
the Dust In salt Lake City In 1879.
SAIL LAKE CRY, z. T., Nov. as.-The
investigation being held to determine
whether alien Mormons are eligible for
naturalization was resumed before
Judge Anderson Friday morning.
Henry W. Lawrence, who was on the
stand whom court adjourned Thursday
evening, was recalled for cross-exam-
nation, and the church attorneys failed
10 shake his evidence. Mr.. Lawrence
stated that he believed the Mormon
people would become loyal if their lead
ers did lot teach disloyal doctrines
A number OF witnesses testified that
In May, 1879, there was n big demon
stration in this city in honor of the re-
lease of Daniel ii. Wells from the peni-
Tertiary, where lac had been committed
for contempt OF court in refusing TO an
swer questions regarding the endowment
house ceremonies. They testified that
procession Of many thousand Nor
mons went up the main street trailing
the American flag in the dust, and in
passing the Federal courthouse they
saw Judge Emerson, who had committed
Wells, standing on the balcony and
yelled and hOoted at him.
The defense called Joseph Toilet 10
refute the testimony given by Witness
Wardell in regard TO the killing OF
Green for apostaey in 1852. Witness
testified that he had never heard OF the
affair before.
The prosecution then offered in evil
dence paper served on member Of the
Mormon church by Bishop Hisward
citing him to appear in the Bishops
court TO be tried for obtaining a judg-
ment in the United States Court against
another member Of the church for fail
ure to perform ontract. This course
fully demonstrates the charge made that
the church does dictate and control tenn
poral affairs.
Attorneys for the church denied that
polygamus marriages were now being
solemGized, but when questioned admit
ted no record OF such marriages were
kept, and that they had no means of
knowing il they were being solemnized
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TIE EAST.

4 FIRE destroyed the Seneca Hotel at
Baldwinsville, y. y. on the Goth and
the buildings adjoining. Loss about
S25O,OO The guests at the hotel had q
narrow escape.
PITTSBURGH advices of the Goth say
hat a syndicate had been formed TO
control the MOnOngahela valley coal
region, including the carrying trade. The
district named employs eighteen thou
sand miners
On the 2lst David +. Day, of Bsffalo,
Y. Y, was elected General Grand High
Priest O. the general grand chapter of
Royal Arch MasOns in session at Allan
"a. ia.
4 SQUARE FIGGED vessel was wrecked
near New Bedford, Mass, on the 2lst
aud all on board persisted. one body was
washed ashore.
Lose & Co, Of Pittsburgh, Pa, iron
manufacturers, failed on the 9lst for
SEQ 100.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the Lawrence
Bank, an institution incorporated under
the State laws, suspended ON the 2ist
with liabilities of 500. 900.
LArGE sales of so-called Jamaica gin
Eer in York County. Me-, aroused the
suspicious of the Prohibitionists, and
the discovery was made on the 2lst that
the stuf contained large amount o. al
sohOL Sellers of the compound would
be prosecuted.
OS the eist John r Williams, thirty
three years old. of Marblehead, Mass,
was taken i'll with hydrophobia and died
after suffering terrible agony.
JAMES SMITH. letter-carrier in New
York, driven desperate by his wife's de-
;ertion. shot his two little children IA
tally on the ed and then shot himself,
but he was not seriously hurt
Or the 29d Alexander Z. Lanier. Of
New York, married MrsaStella Seeming,
ais old sweetheart, in Indianapolis, Ind,
after waiting forty years until she was
free TO wed him.
Oh the I'D Thomas Morgan. Patrick
McDermott, o. Katerba and Ella Nc
Namara committed suicide for various
causes in New York City.
TIE schooner G. Il. Ckar,A, which left
Baltimore October - for Boston. was on
he 22a given mp for lost. Captain J. T.
Gallagher was accompanied by his wife
and child.
IL Fulton street, New York, stephen
Pettus, prominent business man, was
shot and killed on the ed by Hannah
Southwor;h. woman about thirty years
II age. She claimed pettus nad wronged
her.
on the ED skin IN which were three
unknown men capsized in the Ohio river
near the Point bridge az Pittsburgh and
the men were-drOwned.
4 FIFE on the 22d IN Fairbanks &
COS general store and stock at St
IOhnsbUry, Vt, caused a less of $780,
10.
OS the 2@l Walter +. Prey, a haif-
IDIOT. KILLED the three-year-old son of
Philip Fisher 81 Weymouth, Mass, by
!,ugy!ns him alive in = yard.
CH .ELAs H. TURNER, a Tammanyite,
,as nominated for Congress- on the odd
= the Sixth New Iori. district
WILLIAM Boon and Frank Burger
s.e9e killed on the I'D by premature
explosion Of blast in n stone quarry
near Catasauqua, ia.
SHAErLEss Rios. dry-goOds dealers
N Philadelphia. lost si65. 600 on the Esd
10y the burning of a storehouse.
FLAMES on the cath IN the wholesale
grocery house OF Janney & Andrews, at
Philadelphia, caused a loss Of $50, zoe
one fireman was killed.
OK the 93d Sanger & Wells. New York
coffee dealers. failed for $500 600.
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August Grams, a well-to-do farmer
living near Eau Claire, recently brought
suit against his whilom friend, Theodore
Voight, for $1,000 damages, claimed
because Voight said Grams hadn't got a
1ollar in the world, and thereby so
prejudiced widow against Grams that
she would not marry him. The damage
was estimated on the basis of the wild
0w's wealth, which Grams expected to
get, but Voight settled the case by pay
ing Grams 5000.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A wIEE.eEATER.
Romance beginning In an Inebriate Asy-
Ium Ends in Domestic Woe

Romance Beginning In an Inebriate Asy-
linn Ends in Domestic Woe.
CORTLAND p. Larkin, a resident Of
Merrill, while intoxicated the other
night dragged his wife by the hair from
her bed, and pummeled a neighbor I'M
nercifully who came to the rescue. He
was finally arrested and jailed. From
the story of the woman it seems that
there was quite romance connected
with the marriage OF the couple. Larkin
was in the inebriate department of the
county asylum at Milwaukee when he
met the young woman, who was an at
tendant there. They became engaged
and were finally married-the court
ship having been carried on in the insane
asylum.
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In a Bad rredlcament.

Edward NJ Mendall, of Milwaukee,
4 Harvard freshman, was arrested at
Cambridge, Mass, recently for stealing
signs. lie was greatly grieved at his
unfortunate predicament, but stated to
the police that the sophomores told him
that he could never get out Ia college
society and clubs unless he had d stock
Of stolen signs to show. They dis
played their captures and so he started
out to secure himself a supply.
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Horrible TragetIH.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Nov. 23.-At Gem
ter Point Friday morning Johr Hem
erickson, grocer, shot his wife three
times at the farm residence of win Tay-
lor four miles south of that place. Each
shot took effect, one in the forehead, one
in the mouth and the other in the back
OF the neck. Hendrickson then went to
Goldsberry Mounces' place, near by, and
shot himself with 4 shotgun, blowing
of his entire head. The cause is at
tributed to domestic trouble of long
standing. The woman is yet alive, but
will die.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

WHILE insane on the 2Jth Mrs Ma
thsniel Straney, of Pulaski, Mich, took
poison and forced her eighteen-yesr-old
daughter TO do the same. and both died.
Mr. POwDEEIY, in q speech closing
the session of the Knights OF Labor at
Atlanta, Ca. on the 2Oth, said the or
ganization was in better shape than
ever before and the outlook was the
brightest possible
a BUTIING match between two power
fUl negroes occurred at Kansas City on
the 10th. The fight was TO finish and
both contestants were terribly battered
about the head when the combat ended.
TESTIMONY offered by the defense in
the Cronin trial in Chicago on the Goth
VAS directed mainly 10 strengthening
the alibi for 0'Sullivan, the iceman
The chief witnesses were Mrs Thomas
Whalen and her sister. Miss Kate Nc
Cormick, both Of whom testified that
OSullivan was at home on the night of
Mays. Mat Danahy and William Cough
Nm also testified that Martin Burke was
in the formers saloon from ESQ to mid
night on the night Of May 4.
IL ~ ssouri the new Election law will
AnN AiRlOu
Labor parties from nominating candi-
dates at the next election, because they
did not poll three per cent Of all the
votes cast at the last election
RUTHERFORD Il HAYES was reelected
president at the close of the Prison
Reform convention on the goth at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Ex-GovERNoR GILBERT A. PIERCE was
elected United States senator in the
North Dakota Legislature at bismarck
on the Goth. and by a unanimous vote
given the long term.
II the Buffalo mine at Negaunee.
Mich, three miners were killed and
four others badly injured on the Goth by
a fall OF ground.
The safe OF Brown & Hargeman. at
Clinton, Ala, was robbed by burglars
on the goth OF over -. 600 in cash.
Two FARMERS. J. II. Koontz and Julius
KlsFy, living near Psols, Kan, were
finishing work on cyclone cellar on
the Goth when the roof fell in, crushing
both to death,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-28

The growth Of the organization
known as the Christian Endeavor So
cicty is phenomenal. Three years age
last July there were 1900 members il
ew York state, and about 80, OGO in the
world; year ago there we're in all 3lO,-
900 members, OF V aOm s.. GO lived IN
New York; to-day there arc 100000
Christian Endeavorers and New Work
heads the list with SC.0J nsEoes. three
fourths of whom are church members.
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titled foreigners NAV carry OF our
heiresses by the score and swear that
they love them for themselves ha; the
Rochester u. " Post Express believes
that in nine cases cat 81 ten their love
IS founded upon tho ''rocSs." L; Ger
taiElv Is significant fact that titled
foreigners rarely fall In love with Amer
lean girls. however beautiful. good ami
accomplished. unless they have rocks :
.tad IN nine Cases cut OF ten. too, tae
foreign husband is \ mighty poor ex-
change FOR the rocks
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SUNDAY CLOSING.

Milwaukee Ministers Issue a Call for =
Convention la That City.
The Milwaukee Ministers Associa-
lion has issued a call for a Sabbath
closing convention to he held in that
,ity December 10. The call declares
hat this agitation is not from "a re-
iigious standpoint, nor is it aimed at
he saloons as such, but against Sunday
business of all kinds. A belief is de-
,lared in the need and right of day Of
'est for workers of all kinds, and the
association proposes to find out whether
The laws of Wisconsin do not guarantee
such a daY of rest
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laTER.
It As senator Caseyg

BISMARCK, \ D., Nov. 3j-At last the
deadlock Ia the election of United States
senator is brok Il. Lyman II. Ca ey, Of
James own, was tonight elected on the
trst ballot u was evident from the be-
ginning OF the roll ell that Casey vi S
gaining at a rate that wou'd elect him
at the inpietion 81 the roll call be had
forty-two votes while N. =. John on had
thirty-two. Before the vote VS. an
nouuced Judson Lahore changed hi vote
from Sprague to Casey. TIL 3. togei her
y itl The fact that Walsh Withdrew in
"a ,oy's favor, started the stampede IN
fav CT Cas- ), and wien the vote was
announced he had %. johnson holding 70,
who refused to change.
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a REMARKABLE system % cav-yinc
little children As passense-s seen, 20
have been IN practice hitLc-ty upon
the Russian railways. The Russian
Minister o. me Interior has Just
issued an ordinance - ali railway
officials prohibiting the further
packing OF small children in bas-
Eets, 20 the number Of eight
in a basket, and forwarding them
70 the founding houses in the great
sov-ns as send luggage" This abuse,
SAYS the Minister in the circular is no
longer 20 DC tolerated, since II involves
> serious injury 70 the health of the
children.
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eLoopsHEp IN pRAzlL.

Trouble Reported the PROVINCES Of
fssi;la and Maranhda Six Persons Said
T. Have Bees Killed.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. est has been
determined to call an carly session Of
the National Congress-. There is no
serious opposition to the new Govern
ment. Bahia and Maranhoa are the
only places from which reports OF blood
shed have been received. Late reports
state that six persons were killed in
fights and several were wounded. x
dissolution of the provincial assemblies
will probably take place at an early day.
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The Government has given ins.ruc-
tions that persons living in Windsor.
Tan, and pursuing their daily Occupa-
zion IN Detroit. must either give up their
Canadian residence and come - live in
the United States OF he ined s.. 900 each
under the alien contract law. This will
probably increase the population of this
country aIsout twenty-five hundred or by
compelling the Canucls 20 earn their
brad in the Queens territory furnish so
much more work for Americans
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o. Broadway, says New York Star
man, l met General Ahner Doubleday
The veteran was trudging along with
the throng, carrying his seventy odd
years with ease. Tie is stopping at the
Grand Hotel, where so many army Off
GERS dwell when in New York The
queer military hat which the old Gener-
al used 20 wear in war times is still on
his head, OF, rather, one just like il is
General Doubleday is one OF the
three surviving officers OF the BON
bardment ii Fort Sumter, and he
is very proud Of the fact. /
think he was next in rank TO Major
Anderson
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The Work of Fiends.

Three dynamite cartridges were ex-
ploded under the Alcazar Theater at
Hurley the other night Fortunately
the explosive was so placed that the
building was but slightly damaged, and
was killed. The attempted wholesale
assassination caused great excitement.
There was no clew to the perpetrators.