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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The City OF Paris, a steamship which left
New York on the 7th, arrived at Queens
town. Ireland, on the 18th. She made the
trip in five days, twenty-three hours, forty
minutes, beating the best previous time
made by forty -nine minutes
GERMAN troops were reviewed by the
Austrian Emperor on the 18th At a ban
quet which followed mutual expressions of
good will between the two countries were
exchanged
A PETITION being circulated in the En-
glish House of Commons for the pardon of
Mrs Maybrick, the convicted murderess,
was abandoned on the 18th, some members
of that body deeming it unseemly that
pressure should be brought upon the execu-
tive branch of the Government by the leg
islative Home Secretary Matthews, it was
stated fully concurred in the finding of the
jury.
WASHINGTON dispatches from Russia on
the 18th announced the death of Nine. De
Struve wife of the Russian Minister to the
United States under President Arthur's adj
ministration
IT was stated on the 18th that the war in
Hayti would be discontinued during the
summer. A decisive and bloody battle was
fought there a few days ago. The loss was
heavy on both sides, but it was believed
lndI hippoAg &c amy was athAoSS NOhioA-
allied.
PETITION was signed by fifty-two mem
bers of the English House of Commons ON
the 14th urging clemency for Mrs. Maybrick,
who was to be hanged on the 26th inst The
official executioner, Berry, declared he
would not carry out the sentence.
ENGLAND advices state that in the House
of Commons on the 18th Home Secretary
Matthews denied emphatically having adj
vised the opening of letters addressed to
Parnell from America, and tampering with
a letter addressed to Mr. Sexton, mayor of
Dublin, by President Harrison.
AT a conference held in London, Eng,
on the 10th between Home Secretary Mat
thews, Lord Salisbury, Justice Stephen and
a number of medical experts with re-
gard to Mrs Maybrick's case the American
woman to be hanged on the Goth inst, it
was reported that recommendation TO the
Queen be made for a Communication of her
sentence to imprisonment for life.
SARA BERNHARDI's husband, Jacques
Damala, died suddenly on the 18th at a no.
tel in Paris.
i RECENT earthquake at Kummoto, Japan.
killed forty persons and injured one hun
dred others.
The death of William Thaw, vice-presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany. occurred in Paris on the 18th, aged
seventy-one years He was a prominent
railroader and philanthropist whose
wealth was computed at s9O,0OO,0OO
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COULDN'T AGREE.
Northern Illinois Coal Operators and Thei
Miners Fail to Settle Their Differences.

Northern Illinois Coal Operators and Their
Miners Fail to Settle Their Differences.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 The conference be-
tween the mine-Owners and their late en-
ployes came TO am end at > o'clock Satur-
day afternoon, when a motion to adjourn
was carried after a formal refusal of the
miners to accept the offer OF 7215 cents
made by the operators for a longer time
than October /. The operators had reject
ed the mems proposition of seventvfive
cents a ton after October ], and there was
no hope of an agreement being reached.
A mass-meeting in the interest of the
miners was held at the Madison Street
Theater Sunday night and large crowd
was present Addresses were made by
Hon. Frank Lawler John Mclaughlin,
William Scaife and Mr.. Mcbride, president
of the National Miners Association Mr..
Mcbride read an address prepared by a
committee, a synopsis of which follows:
1t rectes the location of the mines which
come into competition in this market and the
basis of the recognition of wages. II then
shows that the operators of Northern Illinois
voted for the Columbus scale OF prices, and
says that in 1887 the Ohio, Indiana and Penn
sylvania operators advanced the rates to Their
miners ten cents ton, but no increase came
to the Illinois men. In May OF this year
the miners of Indiana and Ohio accepted a re-
d-Uti0n of two and one-half cents. while the
operator of the Northern Illinois mines de-
man ted cut of ten cents. The address, re-
vewil, the recent negotiations which so sig
nally failed to accomplish any thing, says the
wages offered by the operators is not sufficient
to maintain life, express gratitude for the aid
afforded the miners and asks continuance of it
until the men are granted proper pay.
Mr. Mcbride said that the miners were
willing to arbitrate, but the operators
would not consent to that-the miners
would even permit Mr.. Gage alone to de-
eide the issue, confident that with the evil
dence which could be produced before him
he would award the miners eighty cents In
stead of 7215 cents IN the whole northern
Illinois distric.
Resolutions were adopted declaring it to
be the sense of the meeting, in view of the
statement from the miners committee, that
the miners of the Northern Illinois district
should have the sympathy and material
support of the people to such an extent as
will remove hunger and starvation from
their families until an agreement is reached
between them and their employers
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A HoIocaust in New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 19-Early this morn
ing fire broke out in the kitchen of the
restaurant on the store floor OF the big
fve-s story tenement at 305 Seventh avenue.
Nine of the sixty odd occupants of the
house lost their lives and it is a great
wonder that many more did not perish.
Two were injured.
The building was occupied by thirteen
families, who have been made temporarily
homeless by the fire The flames did not
do very much damage in the various
apartments. but burned out their strength
in the Railways. The pecuniary loss VIII
not amcun to more than $4,000 The fire
originated in the rear of John Snider's
restaurant at an hour when all the people
in the house were sleeping soundly. just
how the fire started is as yet a mystery,
but as the restaurant cook is missing, it
is fair to presume that an accident oc-
CURED while he was making the fire IN
the big range.
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TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Escaping Gas Causes Havoc i'm a New
York Crockery store-One Man Killed
and About Thirty Persons wounded.
NEW YORK, Aug. Ian explosion of gas
In acrockery store on the corner of Grand
anu clinton streets at O'Clock Friday
night drove the contents of the store
through the plate-giass windows into the
street and shook the neighborhood One
man was killed, another probably fatally
injured, and about thirty other persons
were wounded
The neighborhooh is densely populated
and many people were upon the streets
The store was closed at o'clock, one
light being left burning Just before
the explosion a policeman, attracted by
the smell OF gas, attempted to To-
the collection of small crowd
of curious people, and it was thus that the
injured became TO numerous The officer
reached up with Lis club, pushed open the
fanlfght and stopped in He had Just got
out OF range when the gas ignited and the
air was filled with death-dealing fragments
of glass and crockery.
Immediately after the explosion a vol
ume of flames poured out into the street,
through which men, women and children
ran screaming with blood gushing from
cuts and gashes Morris Jacobs, aged Ia,
bled to death almost instantly. He was
passing the place, when large pieces of
plate-glass, flying before the terrible force
behind them, tore his right side
and back so that the and clothing
hung from him in chunks Two men dragged
his body away from the flames and ran for
an ambulance.
Jacob Seigel, covered with blood, rushed
frantieally about. he had been made in
sane and fought a policeman desperately
until he became exhausted He was taken
TO Bellevue with fractured skull
People poured out of the adjoining tene-
ments and added their wailing to the
shrieks of the wounded and the roar
OF the flames The arrival of fire.
engines and ambulances added to the con-
fusion for a time. A crowd of Hebrews
assaulted an ambulance surgeon who
was about to care for a wounded woman,
but were driven away After much per
sistent work on the part of the police and
the surgeons, the injured were sent home
or removed to hospitals and tie firemen
extinguished the flames which were CON
fined to the lower part of the building. The
loss of Thomas J. McCabe, the crockery
dealer, is $4,000 The loss on the building
is 81, U00
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
THE EAST.

vIcE-PREsTDENT JAMES BLANCHARD. of
New York. presided at a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the National League
Of Republican Clubs at Saratoga, n. Y, on
the 18th
TIE remains of two women and two chill
dren were unearthed at JOhnstown, Pa, on
the l4th IL was expected that more
CHASTITY finds would be made during the
next few days, until all the excavations
were made
On the morning of the 14th a fire at No.
y Warren street, New York City, caused a
loss of $4,000
THE demise of Judge John Irwin, one of
the oldest iron masters of Bellefonte. Pa,
was reported in that city on the 18th of
paralysis, aged eighty-one years.
The trustees of T. and A. H. Bachelor
& Co, Boston's bankrupt leather firm
which failed recently. on the 14th issued a
statement placing the liabilities at 81 800, :
COO The assets were sufficient to pay fifty
cents on the dollar
The death of Elias Loomis, LII D.,
Munson professor of natural philosophy
and astronomy at Yale, took place on the
18th at New Haven, Conn. He was seventy
eight years of age.
OWING TO prospective advance in coke
and freight rates Bessener pig-iron ad-
vanced one dollar per ton in Pittsburgh,
Pa. on the 18th.
The Republican State Committee at New
York on the 18th decided to hold the State
convention in Saratoga, September p
IL the vicinity of Greensburg, Pa, snow
fell on the 18th.
AN explosion of gas in the basement of a
three-stOry building in New York City on
the 10th caused the injury of some twenty
persons, and one boy who was passing the
building at the time was killed
The defaulting ex-president of the Forty
second and Grant Street Ferry railroad,
New York City, Eben S Allen, who pleaded
guilty to two indictments charging him
with the Over-issus of $4,000 of the stock
Of the company, was sentenced on the 10th
in that city 20 fourteen years inprison-
ment with hard labor.
THREE persons were reported killed and
thirty-five injured on the 10th at Sarver's
Station on the West Pennsylvania railroad
by the wrecking of a train.
The Legislature of New Hampshire adj
iournei sine die on the 18th.
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The Straight Line the shortest Distance
Between Two Points.

4 prominent Grand Army man was in
tsrviewed yesterday regarding the alleged
OF St. Paul and Minneapolis
posts 10 patronize a roundabout route to
Milwaukee to the exclusion of the
direct lines He said: History re-
peats itself. and the old boys
seem to learn nothing by experience
Those who patron.zed the inferior lines To
ST Louis and Columbus have been cursing
since to think how they let self-eonstitutet
committees en- transportation" WORK
them over said lines. in order that the
committee might ride free. the rank aud
file paying the same price for their
tickets that was charged by the first-class
lines ANY ind rect line can run a spec al
train TO a point without change Of cars, If
there is a sufficient number Of passengers
to warrant, without much Inconvenience
TO the party. beyond the less of time; but
il is on the return trip that the hardship
cones in, when one is obliged 10 return by
REGULAR trains with no close connection,
long midnight lay overs at desolate june
tions. ami no through sleeping car service.
Let those cut of their nose - spite their
face who viii. but a direct route Is
good enough for me, and / am not going
around Robin Hoodis barn 10 help pay
for some fellows free ticket"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
PENSION srArls4Ics
Glasses of Pensioners and the Amount
They Have Received.

GLASSES of Pensioners and I'll Amounfs
They Have Received.
Pension Agent Judd has completed his
annual report OF the business at the Mil
waukee pension Office. The report shows
that during the year which ended June 80.
lSS9, the SIMS of 81, $50 92S o. was dis
bursed at the Milwaukee agency The
cost per 81 900 of disbursing the money
was IS 1919 which includes rent, salary
an al other items The number of
pensioners on the roll June 50. ISIS. was
2aSS5 The number Of pensioners June
80 lSS9, was p, Isl, an increase of 2, 549.
The pensioners are divided Dy classes as
follows: Invalids. q ~; widows, 253S;
minors, 22i; mothers, 1,,fl fathers, 3tS;
daughters, 3 The amount annually due 70
pensioners on the Milwauk e roll amounts
to IS, 42i, o55 The total gain IN the num-
Der OF pensioners during the year was
S,t'29 and the total loss 80, making the net
gain given above. The loss consists of IS
deaths: MARRIAGES OF widows, 4: expiratio ON
of pensions O minors, Il; failure to claim
pensions, Q; transfer to other agencies, IA,
other causes, 81. Sixty-two different rates.
ranging from 81 TO 500 pei month are paid
at the Milwaukee offices The SIS per
month rate has the largest membership. tins
81 rate ranking next
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
RoBBEo THE FAST MAIL.
Unknown Thieves Steal a Mail Pouch Near
ferre Haute, Ind. and Secure Its Con-
tents, Valued at &IO.OOO

Unknown Thieves Steal Mail Pouch Near
ferre Haute, Ind. and Secure Its Con-
tents, Valued at $4,000,
81. LOUIS, Aug. 19.-When the fast-mail
train from New York arrived about o'clock
Sunday morning over the Vandalia road
the head mail clerk, Charles Desnields noti-
ned Thomas Culkn, superintendent of
mails at the post-office, of A robbery of his
car at Terre Haute, Ind The first in
tmation he had of the robbery was when
the train reached Efingham, sixty miles
this side of Terre Haute He there re-
ceived a telegam from the station agent at
Terre Haute, asking him if he had not lost
mail-pouch. He made an examination
and found his Albany pouch missing, anc.
when the train reached Vandalia. Ill, he
so telegraphed the agent at Terre Haute.
The postal authorities here are extremely
reticent about the affair and very little def-
mite information has been obtained from
Terre Haute. IL is known positively, how
ever, that during the FIVE minutes
stop OF the train at Terre Haute
Saturday night a through registered
mali pouch an route from Albany
to St Louis, was taken from its hook in one
end of the can, and that the man who took
it either left the can with it or threw it out
to an accomplice. After the train had left
1eTIe haute tne Dag as tounu IN the depot
yards short distance from where the train
had been standing.
The pouch had beef cut open and rified,
all the registered letters having been Sc
cured by the thieves. The pouch con-
tanned principally checks and money for
cattle dealers of this city, but the amount
is known only in Albany. 1t is known,
however that the amount will reach sl0,-
600 and possibly a much larger figure The
Government detectives are hard at work
on the case.
Postmaster Hyde said that the packages
possibly might contain large sums of money.
Many OF them probably had remittances
covering several carloads of cattle and this
would swell the total amount up to a consid-
cradle figure. Checks were doubtless sent
on some and in these cases no loss would
be sustained aside from the inconvenience
and DELAY
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THE PEARL HUNTERS.
They Are Lining Their Pockets i'm Illinois
and Wisconsin.

GALENA, Ill, Aug. lathe craze for
pearl hunting has reached this section and
bids fair TO be as general as it has been
in Southern Wisconsin during the past ten
days or more At the present time investi-
cations are confined to the smaller tribu-
taries of the Galena river, which abound
in the shells in which gems are
found, and many farmers and their
families, excited by the stories of sud
denly acquired wealth, have left their
fields and are industriously searching for
pearls, not a few being rewarded by really
valuable discoveries Galena river, which
Is very low, is said to be a prolific field for
pearl hunters, and large party are ar
ranging to invade that stream few miles
above the city. News reached here to the
effect that at Darlington and vicinity the
total value of pearls found will aggregate
s10,O 600
PRAIBIEDU CHEN, Wis. Aug. 49, The pearl
hunting craze has struck here, and the
largest number of pearls yet reported in
the State have been gathered during the
last day or two. More than 1000 pearls
were sent from here Saturday by two or
three parties
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

NED is the only survivor of the
four famous Bradford brothers of At
lantic City, n. J. These men formed
what was known as the Bradford Life
Guards, and TO their efforts hundreds
of bathers at Atlantic City owe their
lives. Michael. the oldest brother,
was the most heroic of the four. He
died at Philadelphia in 1877. He and
the others who have passed away died
DIematuFely from exposure and hard
ships in their noble calling.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

NJ. CoURTO>NE, q French Savant.
has just deposited with the Paris
Academy of Science a sealed commu-
nicatiOn containing a description of a
machine Of his invention for the trans
mission OF luminous vibrations. to
which he has given the name of tel
ePhote." and by means OF which il
will be possible. he claims. to see OBJ
jects hundreds and thousands OF miles
distant in spite of any number Of in
tervening obstacles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

MADRID, Aug 10 Il terrific hurricane
swept over the southern part of Spain sat
urG ~ causing immense damag to prop
erty number of houses and churches il
Granada were wrecked and part of the
dome of the famous church Of San Felipe
was blown down The Alhambra was also
damaged
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LATER.
Poisoned by Ice Cream.

ST. PAUL, Aug. 19-Cleveland Grove, No.
"a, u. A. o. ID. held family picnic yester-
day at Steifels Park, West ST. Paul, which
was largely attended. The day being
warm ice cream was eaten in large guam
titles Shortly after returning home diff
ferent persons were taken sick and this
morning it was learned that fully one
hundred had been poisoned by ice cream.
No fatal results have been reported
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

A PRESBYTERIAN church. at Erie,
Pa, extended a cali 70 Rev IT, c.
Ross, of Canada, to come and preach
% them The authorities, however.
decided that his acceptance would be
4 violation of the contract labor law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

EXPLORERS in Mexico are said to
have discovered in the forests relics of
a former great city. in the shape Of
ruined houses. monuments and so
forth Their alleged discoveries also
include spleudidly paved roads. vast
columns. carvings. etc. all of which.
together with other signs. it is said.
indicate that nation of thirty millions
once existed there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

An Oregon Judge has refused to
grant naturalization papers to a pro-
fessiOnal psgilist on the excellent
ground that it is contrary TO public
policy to confer citizenship on people
whose avOwed occupation was to
violate the law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

A JERSEY CITY widow says that she
has declined at least hundred offers
of marriage since her husband ; death,
feeling that a wife's constancy should
not end at the grave. She has had
her tombstone prepared and erected
at he spot where she expects to be
buried, and on a recent Sunday she
decorated her prospective grave with
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

A PITTSBURGH detective went out for
a days duck shooting The other morn
ing. and proceeded TO blaze away at a
flock of birds. An hour after he took
them into camp a rural constable took
hin into custody for destroying a
farmers tame ducks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

TIE cigarette habit is increasing.
The Commissioner OF Internal Rev
snue collected taxes last year upon
2.1j1. 5I5. 500. which is an increase of
2SS. 7S9. go over the preceding year
The number taxed is a pretty good in
dicatiOn of the consumption. The
number Of cigars taxed during the last
fiscal year was 1861. SS5.640. an iu-
crease Of -, 6S5, $780, showing that the
consumption Of cigarettes is increas-
ing more rapidly than that Of cigars
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

ALL the monuments erected at the
battlefield Of Gettysburg TO mark the
positions Of the Pennsylvania troops
will be dedicated on September IL and
II of the present year. and there prom
ises to be a great reunion of veterans
ON those DAYS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

A COMMERCIAL drummer, stopping at
a La Grange, Ga, hotel. dreamed that
burglar was in his room On awaken
ing he mistoOk his hat and vest hang
ing on the chair for the intruder and
opened fire. He put three bullets
through the garments before discover
inc his mistake
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

New YORK, Aug. 1T-Nutbourns, by
Belemont, out of the dam of Maud s,
full brother to Nutwood, died at Mr..
Bonner farm at Tarrytown Tuesday OF
of rupture of the intestines Nutbourne
was ~ years old and valued at $4,000 He
was never regularly trained but has
trotted a quarter of a mile in thirty-tve
seconds
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A VALUABLE horse belonging to a
farmer at TrOwley. near Faversham,
Eng, died, and a viper. about eighteen
inches in length, was found in its
stomach. Il IS supposed that the
horse must have swallowed the reptile
when drinking at a pond.
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DIR. Robinson. Of indianapolis. Dead.

IND1ANAPoL1s. Ind. Aug. ID Rev. r. d
Robinson, D. D., one Of the most prominen
Methodist ministers Of the State, droppet
dead at his home on North Jersey stree
about 10 o'clock Sunday night from apo
plexy. He was Il years OF age ana leaves
wife and four children, all grown Dr
Robinson was twice president OF the Tor
Wayne Methodist Episcopal College, lo'4 Q
1867 and 81 to ISL.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

UTICA, n Y. Aug 1z-Thursday, while
hunting near Mud lake, in the Adirondacks,
Ellis II. Roberts, son OF George L. Roberts,
of the Utica Herald. shot and killed Clar-
ence Pcll, of New York City. Roberts sup
posed he was firing at deer. Pell was 20
years old and Roberts is IL. The corOner's
Jury returned a verdict of accidental shoot
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19-COlonei John NJ
Wilson of the Engineer Corps, late super
intendent of Public Buildings and Grounds
i'm the District of Columbia, has been APP
pointe Superintendent of the United States
Military Academy at West Point to succeed
General John G. Parke, who was recently
retired
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nioh of Iii Ininrios-

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 1a-w c. Perry,
the aeronaut who sustained severe in
iuries by falling from n balloon 200 feet
high at Mount Holly fair, near Charlotte,
ten days ago. died Sunday night from in
ternal injuries Perry leaves a wife and
two children, who came here from Birming-
ham, Ala a few days ago.