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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21
R6VAcED BY A CYCLONE.
Many Lives Lost and Much Property De.
stroyed in Parts of Georgia and Ala

Many Lives Lost and Much Property De.
stroyed in Parts of Georgia and ala
bama.
ATLANTA. Ga. Feb. 19.-The southeastern
part of Banks County was visited by a terrific
cyclone before daybreak Monday morning.
The house Of Thomas Stevenson was blown
TO pieces and the whole family were lifted
up and carried high into the air Steven
son and one of his sons We're blown into
4 tree and killed The rest of the family
were seriously If not fatally injured
W. NJ MeadOrs' house was similarly
torn to pieces. and both Meadors and his
wife were killed by falling timbers. Twelve
other persons were hurt 10y flying timbers
and by being blown against trees and
houses. The storm passed On 10 Nicholson,
place on the Gainesville 4 Jefferson rail-
road, where about dozen houses were torn
from their bases and scattered In all direc-
tons
COLERA. Ala. Feb. IA cyclone passed
over Clinton County, five miles south OF
here. Monday morning Much damage was
done 70 property and two persons are re-
ported fatally injured
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. IA cyclone
passed through Bibb County, fifty miles
south of here Sunday night, doing great
damage 70 property and causing the death
Of several people and injury 10 many
others
big rain storm in Shelby C ounty Sunday
/ night ended with a tornado. The track of
I the storm is some distance from any rail-
road, and the particulars received are
meager The path of the tornado was
twenty miles in length, and crossed a
rather thicl1ly settled country. A large
number of houses were unroofed or blown
down, cattle and horses killed and number
of people badly injured. II is reported that
five or six persons were killed outright.
! The damage is estimated at 100000
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ERoM WAaLiINGroN.


VISITORS thTOnged the -..ieries of the
National House Of Re resentati-as at noon
on the 18th to witne IS the proceedings at
tendant upon the official count of the cleo
tOral vote for President and Vice President
Senator Ingalls, presided After the certd-
Gates from each State had been announced
the presiding officer declared benjamin
Harrison. OF Indiana, tie next President
and Levi 2. Morton of New York the next
Vice President of the United States.
TIE discovery was made on the 18th that
barbed-wire was patented in France, April
10. 1850, which under a ruling of the United
States Supreme Court would invalidate the
Glidden and other patents
DURING the seven days ended on the Eth
there were 2s9 business failures in the
United States against 20 the previous seven
DAYS
Al twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated 81 co.
Isg. ~, against 81, l2l, 571. SO the previous
week As compared with the corresponding
week Of 1855 the increase amounted to 2S.5.
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EXCHANGE EXTRACTS.

An English Joker took down the calendar in
a business office and hung up one two years
Did Dates for important papers were taken
from It, aad a loss Of 5000 was the result.
Mrs. ANNE MCCULLoUGH, of Pittsburgh,
died recently. and by the improper use in
her win of the word thereof" $4,000 Will
be diverted from the object for which she in
tended it.
A LEWISTON (Me.) man has invented de.
vice for stopping runaway horses. II blinds
the animal by clapping something over his
eyes. The mechanism operates from the
drivers seat.
THE Reinsurance agent who got General
Harrison 10 insure his life for $1,000 the
other day says that he arranged the whole
matter with the PresIdent-elect in just
three minutes.
A BOOK published in 1892 describes the
devil fish as fish from ten TO thirty feet
long, with a single horn on either side Of the
head. The real monster had not been seen
up 20 that date
MRs HELEN EDITH LUTHER died in San
Francisco seven years ago, and her remains
were recently discovered in an undertaker's
establishment, where they been enbalmed
and left 70 await the orders Of friends.
A PIEDMONT IS. c. clergyman married a
couple and published notice 70 that effect
b fore he learned that the contracting
parties were men. They wanted to have a
little fun at the minis ter's expense.
ANOTHER courtshIp, conducted exciu-
sively through the mails recently ended in
ma age. The groom resides in California,
whittier the bride, an Eastern girl, jOurneyed
TO have the knot tied The couple met On
the wedding day for the first time.
TESTIMONY was lately given before the
grand jury at RusselIville, Ky, that farmer
recently had an old OK he was driving stick
fast in the mud, whereupon be skinned the
animal alive, and, taking the hide, left the
poor brute TO die In lingering agony.
A coRoxER's jury in New Rochelle, y Y,
after an investigation into the death OF an
infant, reached the conclusion that "the
child came TO its death ia uary q, 1889,
through the ignorance Of its mother and
her husband, from causes unknown 70 the
Jury"
WHEN a young English lord, heir TO an
EarldOm, was taken seriously III with ty-
phoid fever, a. Victoria, Z. c., his physician
consulted Sir Andrew Clarke in London, a.
a distance Of GOO miles, BY telegram ana
cabiegram. The twophysicians thus talked
over the case for three hours.
A NORWICH Comm correspondent says
that longevity is far more prevalent in thaL
State now than it was half a century age.
Within the past eighteen months, ne says,
not less than sixty old ladies, ranging IN
ages from ninety-fiye 70 one hundred, have
passed away Besides these there have
died during the past four years four per
sons between one hundred and two and one
hundred and six years Ole
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THE DROUGHT IN BRAZIL.
The Distress Widespread, Hundreds o
Thousands Being Reported Destitute
Ravaoes of NeIION Fever.

The Distress Widespread, Hundreds OF
Thousands Being Reported Destitute
Ravages of Yellow Fever.
New YORK. Feb. IA Rio Janiero dis
patch says: The drought in the Northwest
continues to increase in Ceara and to spread
out in the rear Of the adjoining provinces,
so that the number of utterly destitute can
not be less than 10000 The Government,
unwilling to undertake again the costly task
Of feeding hosts in demoralizing idleness. Of
fers free passages to other provinces,
but although thousands avail of the offer,
there are multitudes that crowd like To-
Gusts over all the interior towns, exhaust
ing the local resources, and who. having
neither the energy nor the means Of seek
ing the seaports clamor for the impracti-
cable supply of local relief works Unfort-
uuately. also. there is no present prospect
Of escape from still vaster disaster.
In this city and the neighboring provincial
capital yellow fever is making rapid march
es, the deaths now numbering about 70 a
day. over 100 patents are already In the
Maritime Hospital at Jurujuba, and the
number is fast increasing.
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LATER


The National cOhvsndbn OF tar Il reform
ers opel at Oh c lgo on the 10 ID. Presi-
dent c evel sen. greis
TEE IMPORT ng house Of Rudolph Blink
,nburg Il Co. Philadelphia, Pa, W bu ned
ut on h 10 h. Seven CIR on the fourth
floor b: q narrow csc pc for their lives
Loss so 5000
THE entire c T shops, machine Stops and
10, OmOt.ve houses of the Cincinnati,
In Tia poiis. st Louis & Oh cago iway at
Cincinnati were de rOyed by fire on the
10 h Loss $3.50 600
JOHN Sh mon. a F enchman living at
GrensUurg, Pa, was tire ,tene by alleged
White Cap. nd ne became so FIR gh ened
tnat he ent insane and CO united su eide.
The I'm ghts of Pythias throughout the
country celebrated their 25th anniversary
on the 10Th
THOMAS MONTGOMERY a woodman, living
q High Bridge Wis, was b utally muir err
d 5y Louis Burke, a tie contractor. Burke
had rspicions taat MONTGOMERY and his
wife W re in innate. and recently bad his
suspic ons confirmed On tn morning OF
n 10 he wen to Mont ON rvs cabin
and literally chopped his victim into quar-
,ers
THE foIloNing pardons were granted by
vi ted for emb-zziing pos Office money;
5 aborn Young. fo- viola in internal rev.
enue laws and Joseph E b nto de Deas for
murder on the tigh seas
The thirteenth annual bench show of the
Washington Kennel Club. opened in New
YORK q on he 18th Fourteen hundred
dogs were on exhibition
TEE United States attorney for the North
ern Wisconsin district has been directed by
the Department OF Justice 10 institute
criminal and civil proceedings against all
persons found 10 have unlawfuily cut or
removed st sndtng timber from any of the
Indian reservations
The firm of H. L Wheat & Co. st Paul,
retail crockery dealers. assigned on the
10th Assets about Sic, 600; liabilities not
known
Ok he 18th Il was rumOred that the Flat
head Indians were arm ng against the
whites on account OF one Of the Indians
being killed when caught stealing ne II
NJ ssoul, Montana.
on the I9ah q drunken boarding house
keeper II S. Paul. Nina, made a vicious
ASA ult on a female bOarder with huge
carving kn fe
AFTER many hours consultation the confer
ences on the omnis us territorial bill rssched
8 CONCLUSION on the 10th and report has
been prepared 20 return with the bill TO
botn houses. The bill fixes the names Of
the two Dakota as Norm and Sou D4-
kota, and e people OF he lat er Sre .
vote upon tie adoption OF the Sioux
Falls constitut on on May IA and the loca-
ton OF the capital is TO he Sc tied BY cleo
ton The residents OF Nor b Dakota
Washington and Mortana may, on he same
ds > vote o. the election OF delegates TO
cons tn ion conventions and for full
List OF State officers.
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NEW HAMPsHlRE's SENATOR.
General Gilman Marston 20 Hold seat
Till the Meeting of the Legislature.

General Gilman Marston 20 hold seat
Till the Meeting of the Legislature.
CoNcoRD. n H. Feb. 1T-General Gilman
Marston, Of Exeter, will succeed Senator
Chand er from March 4 to the meeting
of the Legislature in June The
contest between Congressman Cal
linger and Senator Chandler promises to be
a hot one, though the latter seems appar-
emily in the lead now. Governor sawyer
saw this and. wishing to show favor to
neither of the two leading aspirants, has
appointed his old friend Marston
General Mars,ou is q wears old. he IS
Dartmouth graduate and a lawyer. His politi-
cal career began in 1913. he was then chosen
TO the Legislature and was three times re-
elected. IN 1850 he was member OF the con
sti,urIonal convention In 1859 he was elected
TO Congress. serving tao terms. AT the
outbreak Of the rebellion ne was ap-
rotnted Colonel Of the Second New Hamp-
shire Reg ment Promotion 20 Brgadier-
Generalship was quickly won. In lsol be was
ssain elected 10 Congress. Since lst2 MS serV-
lse in the Legislature has been almost con-
fiuuous. and he has been the leader on ne Re
publican SIDE
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a CHINESE MILLIONAIRE.

Baron Ii Yen Pang, Worth S4O.OoO.OOO.
Arrives in Nem York on His Tour of tho
World.
NEW YORK. Feb. 19-Baron Ii Yen Pang,
who is said to be worth sj0,0O0,OO0, and one
of the richest men in China, arrived in this
city Sunday night The Baron is making a
trip around the world and came to New
York by way of British Columbia. He is
stopping at a lodging house in Pc / street,
In the Chinese quarter, preferring Chinese
food and accommodations to the beE
American hot@s.
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EoaEIcN INTEIIIeENcE

THE Indians on the Battle River reserva-
ton at Cold Lake, Manitoba, were ON the
18th suffering from a peculiar epidemic
which was fatal The muscles of the throat
and neck swelled rapidly, preventing the
swallowing of food 1t was feared that the
entire tribe would be exterminated
OK the 18th Dolores Cordones mulatto
girl at Havana Cuba, was covered with
petroleum and burned to death by a man
whose attentions she had refused
THE members of the French Ministry sent
their designations to President Carnot on
the 18th
DURING a recent earthquake not a single
house in Costa Rica escaped injury and
many were totally destroyed Whole streets
were blocked with ruins Losses in San
Jose amounted to more than 500, 600, while
all the principal edifices in Alajucla were
damaged At La Laguna the earth had as
sumed the appearance of rough sea.
AT Lake Starnberg, near Munich, another
tragedy was enacted on the l4th, when two
persons drowned themselves in its waters.
Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven
persons had drowned themselves in the
lake.
VIscoUNT ARINoRI MORE, Japanese Minis
ter of Education. was assassinated recently
at Toxic by a religious fanatic. The victim
was formerly Minister TO Washington.
Tue schooner Hippomenes, with a crew Of
FIVE men which sailed from Yarmouth De-
cember for Barbados. laden with fish and
lumber, was on the 18th given up as lost
with all on board.
ADyICEs of the 18th from Alden state tina
the Russian flag had been hoisted on terri
tory which under an AnglO-French agree
ment belonged to France.
The German Government. * was stated
on the 18th, was willing to effect a settle
ment of the Samoan question upon the
basis of the United States Governments
proposal ut the Washington conference
namely: The establishment of a joint
American German and English control over
the Samoan Government through the Con-
suls of the three countries at Apia.
IL Manchester, Eng, three blocks of
business buildings were burned on the 10th
Loss. s250,0O0
GRAIN elevator and foundry at Mont
real, Can, were burned on thu 10TH. causing
/ loss of sl500O0.
On the 18th King Otto, of Bavaria, was de-
clared to be hopelessly insane.
EXCITEMENT prevailed in Seryia on the
18th over the recent depredations of the
Arnaut brigands, who had raided and set fire
to a number OF villages. All of the young
girls in Gradatz had been kidnapped and
taken to the mountains
IL a portion of the interior of Russia a
famine was prevailing on the 18th Many
persons had died from starvation in the ter
ritory OF OrenbuTg
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sacref.s Society Secrets.

Wife Q1:30 p. m. Whats that hor-
rid odor? Smells like. alcohol.
Husband Yes. my dear. we used
alcohol at the dodge for limitations.
Take some alcohol, light it, put salt in
the flames, and il gives a CHASTITY. yell
low light; makes folks look like ghosts,
you know.
But that odor comes from your
breath"
Yes. m dear; in the thirty-seventh
degree personate the chief demon with
flames coming from his mouth. l take
a mouthful Of alcohol and a swallow Of
salt and then set fire to it. But, m
dear. you mustn't tell these things. Sc
cret-s'ciety secrets very sacred, you
know. Philadelphia Record.
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GONE TO HIS REWARD.

Rev. III. y. MoTyeire. senior Bishop Of the
Methodist Church south, and Chancellor
of the Vanderbilt University at Nash
Vile. Tenn. Passes Away.
NASHVILLE. Tenn. Feb i5.-Bishop Il. j.
McTveire. Chancellor Of the Vanderbilt Uni.
versity died at his home in the university
grounds Friday morning. He was senior
Bishop Of the Methodist Church South al
the time Of his death. He was the author
Of tn. History Of Methodism" and several
Other similar works.
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TOOK HER OWN LIFE.

Young Texan Lady, Long Sufferer
from Disease, browns Herself ian the Gulf
of Mexico Rather than Continue a Bur
den to Her Friends.
GALVESTON, Tex, Feb 19.-Miss G. Horton,
a passenger on the steamship Nueces which
arrived from New York Sunday, committed
suicide by jumping into the Gulf of this
city. Miss Horton who was about . years
of age, had for the last two years
b, en- a patient in several New York
hOsL itals where she was being treated for an
il jury to her spine. Physicians finally pro
nOunced her case hopeless, and she was adj
vised to ret I'm TO her Texas home. As the
vessel neared this port she told the captain
that she hated to return TO her good friends
to be burden upon them. No suspicion
that she intel-led suicide v As had, however.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

ARcHDUKE RUDoLPH. Of Austria,
who has Just died. was a much ADLER
man than the ordinary continental
Crown Prince. Although barely
thirty years old. he was considered "a
student 81 great promise by the learned
mer or Germany and Austria His
opinions are often cited in the lectures
Of the great German and Austrian pro-
fesso - OF the natural sciences He
was particula Is fond Of ORTHODOXY.
ana was m intimate friend Of such
men Is Brehm and Homeyer. He
wrote severa. books OF scientific and
popular value.
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WILL REMAIN A MYSTERY.

Frank SiIvers, Who Killed His Family al
Tecumseh, Mich, Dies without Reveal
ing the Cause of His Awful Deed.
TECUMsEH, Mich, Feb 14-Frank silvers,
who murdered his wife and two daughters
and then shot himself Saturday night, died
at l O'Clock Monday morning, not having
uttered a word since the shooting.
In a letter, which was found Mon
day, Silvers directed the city marshal
TO dispose of his property and to erect a
monument to himself and his family, but
gave no reason for his horrible crime further
than that it was a mystery that would re
main r1uSOlved
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WHAT THE BOOKS SHOW.

The Liabilities of the Wrecked Farmers
and Merchants Bank. of Pittsburgh,
Placed at S22O,OOO.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 19.-The experts
who have been working on the books
of the defunct Farmers and Mechanics
bank of the South side have made a
statement of the condition of that
Institution. which shows that the liabilities
are s23U. 600 and the assets $4,000 It is
thought that the depOsitors VIII get from y
to - per cent OF their deposits The
cashier, H. F. Yoight. who is charged with
embezzling the funds of the bank, is in Jail
under $50 600 bail
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ASSASSINATED.

Count Mort. One of the Most Progressive
Statesmen of Japan, and Ex-Minister to
the United States, Killed by Religious
Fanatic.
SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. TO- A private cable
has been received from Toxic announcing
the assassination there Of Niscount Ar1nci
Mort. Minister of Education He was known
In this country, having been Minister from
Janan at Washington about 1881. Count
Mort was one of the most enlightened of
Japanese statesmen, and has death
Is considered a loss to the Pro-
gressive party in Japan The cable
Fives only meager details of the crime He
was stabbed on the llth inst, the day of the
PRONUNCIATION of the new constitution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

Az extraordinary freak Of nature
took place the other day near Belle
Earde. France. A large hill Just be
hind the village suddenly split open.
Just as il an earthquake had taken
place. The crack in the hill reached
from the summit right down to the
base. The crack was $50 meters long
and averaged seven meters in width
\ bed Of mari was found Inside the
hill Unlike the famous mountain
that gave birth 10 the ridiculous
mouse. this mountain gave forth no
prcmonitory rumbling. The split was
said to have been caused By the rain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

TIE assertion is made BY various
wcll-kuown ocuists that opera-glasses
used indiscrimnately are sure To
spread contagious diseases OF the eyes.
II this is 50 another slot will be re
quircl in fheater chairs An extra
nickel could be used 20 bring forth a
disinfectant with which the public
opcra-glass could be wiped before be-
ing pus iu use. Another slot might
serve 10 produce some standard work
uu diseases Of the eye 10 be perused be-
tween the acts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

IRISH emigration has taken a new
direction. During the month Of Jan
nary silty-eight British steamers took
25.t0) emigrants. mostly Irish. TO
Bucuos Ayres \ small propo tiOn Of
these. rs might be expected. are skilled
workinS-meu. ley are principally
the sons Of small farmers Not more
than a tifth OF the entire number were
females The A Argentine Republic is
bidding high for those emigrants.
They are given each about 200 acres Of
Government land for settlement and
are guaranteed employment when they
arrive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

II a recent lecture on the advance
Of women Mrs AntOInette Blackwell
called attention to the fact that while
forty years ago none but a few wom-
en- thought Of having any non-domes-
tic work, now 100000 women are
classified in such work There are
$4,000 accountants, clerks and sales
women. 275 clergymen and 70 lawyers
in this number.
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A PENNSYLVANIA paper says; The
Shakers are among our longest lived
citizens = An instance strikingly cor
roboiative of this assertion is fur
nished in tie case Of native Missis-
sippian, WHO boasts that he has had
the ague twenty-seven consecutive
years and still weighs one hundred
and fifty pounds
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THE FLOORS GAVE WAY.
A Fourteen story Structure i'm Chicago
Partially wrecked.

a Fourteen STORY structure III
Partially Wrecked
CHICAGO, Feb. 1S-The "Owings Block, ="
new fourteen story structure at the cor
ner of Dearborn and Adams streets,
this city, was partially wrecked Sunday
morning. The accident was probably
caused by overwhelming the twelfth
story with one Of the huge water tanks in
tended to furnish hydraulic pressure
for the elevators. Under the heavy
weight the floor tiling gave way,
falling through from floor to floor
until the combined mass had gathered such
an impetus and tremendous weight that
every floor down to the basement was
crushed through, causing the ruin of
most of the interior partition walls.
few workmen employed in
the basement heard the crashing
timbers and effected their escape,
but had the accident occurred on a week
day. when large numbers Of men are at
work in the building, great oss Of life
would have resu ted. The loss is estimated
at about $1,000
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1T WAS A GREAT FAILURE.
The Liabilities of the Grand Lake Coal
Company May Reach 100000.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 16-Later reports
concerning the failure of the Grand Lake
Coal Company indicate that the in
debtedness of the firm will reach
from $4,000 60 $4,000. The company
Is one of the largest in Pittsburgh IL
has been in business for twenty five years
and was considered most reliable. The
failure is attributed largely to bad luck By
the storm last summer at New Orleans the
company lost 40 loaded boats and CaFgoes,
and lately it became involved in an uIhortu-
uate railroad investment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-21

THE greatest national deJt among
tire nations Of the globe is borne by
France. It is So, 2j0. 600. 600. Rus
sia comes next with s.. 600. 600. 0OO
then England. with s. 500 600. OOC !;
AastrO- Hungary. with S2.4S5. 600. 90;
Italy. with s.. 225. 100000; United
States. with 81. $50. OOJ. 900; Spain.
with 81. 2O7. 800. 900. and Prussia, with
SlUJg. coo. 600
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4 STATISTICAL genius has figured
out That last years corn crop, 2.e0J.-
0OL0)0 bushels, will load a string Of
wagons stretching $4,000 miles. or
enough 20 make eleven rows Of wag-
ons. loaded " tn corn, clear round the
earth and have 5000 miles Of teams
not in line.