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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

exposure. that he
walked his victim
into the swamp on
some pretext and
there deliberately
shot and killed
him. So far as has
yet been made pub
lie they have no di-
rect witnesses to
prove the deed. but
they claim to be
able to show that
he was seen with
Benwcll near and
going in the direc-
lion IF the gtxaIan
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
HONORS 10 GREELEY.
Unvaiiing of the New York Tribune's
Statue of Its FOUNDED.

UnvailIng of the New York Tribune's
Statue of Its FOUNDED.
New YORK, Sept 22.-The Tribune
statue of Horace Greeley was unvailed
with simple ceremonies on Satur-
day. Cololonel John Hay represented
the Tribune as master of ceremonies;
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, an own daughter
of Horace Greeley, unvailed the statue;
G. NJ. Depew delivered an address and
Bishop Potter pronounced the benedic-
tion at the close of the ceremonies.
Many prominent persons, including city
officials, business and newspaper men
and others, were present.
The statue is a colossal one of bronze.
1t represents Mr.. Greeley seated and
looking upward to one side, as if his at
tention had just been distracted from the
copy of the Tribune which he holds in
his hands. Standing erect the statue
would be nearly eleven feet high.
A plain but handsome block of
dark. polished granite foims the
base. Its only inscription is "Hor-
ace Greeley, founder of the New York
Tribune" The weight of the statue is
about 5000 pounds, and the entire cost
was something like $40, 600. sculptor ].
Q. A. Ward spent eighteen months on
the work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Tired of welded Llfe.

Owen Ash, Eau Claire working man,
is looking for his pretty wife and 500
in money with which, he says, she has
absconded. He left home at the usual
hour for work the other day. At noon
he reached home to find the house de-
serted, the curtains down, and the fol.
lowing note on the kitchen table: II
have gone off on the train" AS they
had never quarreled Ash could not ac-
count for his wife's conduct.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

THERE is in this country the creates;
army in the wOrld-not a standing
army. but a cOnstSntly-mOving body OF
TOO,O0 men, Who march and counter
march day and night, through heat and
cold. from years end 20 years end.
Every year they have 1000 kiiled and
20. 600 wounded. One man in So lost
mis- life last year. one in every - was
wounded. and the total loss by the
operatives Of the army was 5.S2S killed
and -. 500 wounded Upon the soldiers
OF this ARA 5000 900 OF our people de-
pend for their living. This army and
its soldiers are the railroad employees OF
America
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

-Four gentlemen sit down to dine in a
summer hotel. They sit fer some time,
yet none of the walters pay any atten-
ton to their wants They are hungry.
After moments consultation, each of
the famished guests lays dollar be-
side his plate. There is a marked
change in the behavior of the walters.
The four gentlemen eat a hearty meal.
The walters become interested The
four leisurely picked their teeth and
calmly put their dollars back into their
pockets; they even smile. The walters
don't Jury.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
FOR HIS LIFE.

Young Burcheli ON Trial for the Murder
of BenwelI-An Alibi to lie III Defense
History of the Tragedy.
WOODSTOCK. Ont, Sept. 22.-The case
of Reginald Burchell for the murder of
Fred c. Benwell in February last will
be called the first thing this morning.
From all that can be learned the de-
Tense will be an alibi and that Benwell
was alive after the date on which the
murder was supposed to have been
committed. Detective Bluett who has
been unceasing in his efforts to COM
plete Burchell's defense, has secured two
men, who, it is said, will testify that
they saw Benwell alive after the 18th of
February, the supposed date Of the muir
der. Witnesses will be brought from
Brantford, who. it is said, will testify
to the same effect.
THE dead body OF young man was found
February 81 last in the tangled growth OF .
dark swamp on the edge of Mud Lake, Oxfc 4
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

IL l. FARJEON, the popular novelist
was once newspaper man in New En-
gland, where he was the proprietor of a
small newspaper. 4 friendly letter
from Dickens turned him in the direc-
tion Of Woodworking. He is married to
a daughter Of Joe jefferson. the actor.
and one Of his young boys has caught
the gait and manrerisms of Rip Van
Wrinkle from seeing his grandfather
play the character. ami is able to pre-
sent a good imitation OF the original.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Frankly stated.

Borr0well-Sir, ] am temporarily but
seriously embarrassed, and ! venture to
apply 20 you for loan Of five dollars till
next Monday.
Westerly-But why don't you apply
10 some OF your friends? don't know
you
Borrowell-That. sir, is the very rea-
son why ! came to you FOR loan. West
Shore
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

new use has been discovered for the
phOnograph. Mr.. J. Walter Fewkes, az
Zuni, has induced several Indians to re-
cite into phonOgraph. IL is easy to
get them TO recite secular songs, but
very hard to persuade them 10 give the
chants peculiar to certain festivals
They object that by singing at the
wrong season the crops will suffer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

AT Cincinnati IN agreement has been
reached for the consolidation Of the
Louisville and Cincinnati tobacco ware
houses Tho title is 70 be the Western
Tobacco Warehouse Company. and there
will be issued $1,000. 600 in bonds, 81
600, 600 II preferred stock and s.. 900, 900
common stock
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

QUEEN NICTORIA's family circle now
numbers ifty living descendants. in
GLIDING sons and daughters. grandsons
and granddaughter, ggeat-grandsans
and at-granddaughters Beside these
she has four sons-in-law, four daughters
iu-law. five grandsons-in-law. and one
grandJaughter-in-law. The Queen has
lost one son and one daughter, five
yrandsOns, one granddaughter. one
Ercat-granGson and one son-in-law. If
these were living. her family circle
would nuil. hrr sevantv-foUv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

THEEE Is prospect that the South
will find material for cotton bagging in
the fiber Of the corn stalk \ process
Of decosticatiOn has been discovered
and company organized in Augusta.
This fiber can be woven in jute ma
chinery. Heretofore the cotton stalks
have iEcumbered the CLEANED cotton
fields
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

An article is going the rounds OF
the papers headed; How to Select a
Wife" It's rules are very scien-
tific and interesting, but when young
man falls in love he doesn't ponder
over rules. He just shuts both eyes
tight and grabs franticslly in the dark.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

PEOPLE leaving the Park Theater at
New York the other night were horri-
fed at seeing Lineman Kcpp meet his
death on an electric light pole. near the
theater entrance They had just wit
messed a roaring farce. and reached the
street in time to be spectators of a
CHASTITY tragedy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

The Federal authorities at Madison
have arrested in the town of Wingville,
Grant County, Justice of the Peace j.
). Galloway. Stanislaus Swensky,
George w. Carrie and Mrs. Catherine
Longmeier for fraudulently procuring n
pension for the last named, together
with 81, 700 hack pay. They were held
for examination.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

y VERY important new industry is the
rolling Of cold steel has into wire. The
gcncrally-accepted idea has always
been that cold rolling would destroy
the fiber Of the steel and render the
wire SO brittle As TO be Of no practicable
value Il is now found. however, that
instead 81 the wire becoming weakened
by the process. its tensile strength is
nearly doubled In other words, the
tensile strength of hot-draw1 steel
wire is 81, $50 pounds to the square
inch. while that Of cOld-rolled steel is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Killed Himself.

Lemuel Doe, over thirty years resi-
dent near River Falls, was found dead
in lane about sixty rods from his sons
house, seven miles east of River Falls,
with a bullet hole in his ear and re-
volver by his side. He left note in his
room directing settlement of his af-
fairs. He was about 20 years old. De
spondency was supposed to have been
the cause of his suicide.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

DR. JUNKER who learned in Central
Africa 70 relish fried ants aud lived for
years on a ne gro bill of fare. expresses
decided views in his new hook on the way
70 get along in the Dark Continent. lie
goes 50 far Is to say that in his opinion
the white man who accustoms himself
10 native food viii keep in better health
than if he enjoyed the best Of European
cnOkarE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Drowned in "a Mount,in Torrent

FoRT SMITH. Ark, Sept %. During
fierce storm in the Boston mountains
party of ten Turks. who were travel
ing south with lot 81 dancing bears,
lodged in a creek bottom in one OF the
yulches Tne heavy storm caused a
TORE Mt "a the ravine and seven of the
men md all the bears were drowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Happy Over Hpnnepin's Prospects

Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, Sept. 22-The cit
liens turned out en- masse Saturday
night to celebrate the Presidents in
dorsement of the river and harbor bill.
in which there is section providing
$500, 600 for the Hennepin canal. En-
thusiasm which has been bottled up for
years was uncorked and spent its force
in grand illuminated street parade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

FoUErERN years ago John Clark, Of
BridgetOn. y J., became iii with cpl
lepsy and At the same time had a para
lytic stroke. Since then he has not
moved from his bed Recently he had
another stroke Of paralysis and vitality
has returned Clark can now walk
nearly IS well as be ever did.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Arthur Indorsed.

NEW YORK. Sept 22.-At convention
of delegates of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, representing divis-
ions from Maine to California, and from
Canada to Panama. held in this city
Sunday, a resolution was unanimously
adopted approving the attitude of Chief
Arthur in the recent strike on the New
York Central road, and expressing the
fullest confidence in his integrity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

The German Emperor is a voraciOus
newspaper Reader. Fifty of the leading
journals Of Europe are laid on his table
every morning, and Immediately after
breakfast he plunges through them.
shears in hand, nipping any item that
strikes his fancy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

TEE Japanese books begin where ours
end. the word finis coming where we
put the title page; the foot notes are
printed at the top Of the page and the
reader puts in his marker at the bot
tom In Japan men make themselves
merry with wine before dinner, not
after; the sweets precede the roasts
Boats are hauled upon the beaches
stern first The JspHreSe saw and
plane toward them instead of away
from them. Keys turn in instead Of
out The best rooms Of a Japanese
house are siSavs at the back, and
architects, VIII buil-ng. begin with
the root
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

a DIFFICULTY experienced in the use
Of oil in a storm at sea is that the wind
blows it To leeWard and the effect is lost
This difficulty i now overcome by a
new device, consisting Of a mortar and
bomb. The latter Is a glObular she'll Of
cast-iron filed with oil. On the side is
an aperture closed by hinged cover.
The she'll is 80 weighted that as it
sinks the aperture l. Uppermost and the
cover is lifted by the pressure of the
oil upon it Thus the oil is released
beneath the surface and rises through
the waves, producing effcctual results.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Found Hanging by a Rope.

John Dornhkcr, a well-to-do and re-
spected farmer living near West Bond.
was found hanging by a rope in the
granery by his relatives. Dornhker
had been suffering from melancholia for
some time. and as his relatives knew
be had suicidal intentions they had
watched him closely, but he managed
to elude their vigilance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Two Hundred Lives were Lost.

LONDON. Sept ga Sophia dis
patch says: Railway communication
with Constantinople, which was inter
rupted by the flood, has been reopened.
The overflow of the Martha river was
attended by great loss of life. Fully
100 peasants we're drowned. and at Mus
taph. military post on the Bulgarian
frontier. 100 Turkish soldiers persisted
in the flood"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

The ejectment suits brought by the
Wisconsin Central Company against
squatters on land near Ashland have
been decided against the railroad COM
pany by Justice Harlan of the United
States Supreme Court The suit in
volved a title to 90. 900 acres.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Az Old Mason Dead.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Sept. % - A
special from Bowling Creek, Ky, says
that Samuel Murrell. the oldest Mason
in Kentucky, died at the residence of his
grandson, Samuel Young. Friday after
noon. aged 9S years. Mr.. Murrell was
born in Lincoln County, KY, in 1892.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
IT, n,. hv Ic,.c,ric,tx

GLEN FALLS. y. Y, Sept 22.-Cal
Wood, convicted OF murder, has been
sentenced to death by electricity in
Dannemora prison, New York, during
the week commencing November next.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

ROME. Sept. 22.-King Humbert I'M
vailed an equestrian statue of his
father, the late Victor Emmanuel, at
Florence Saturday. An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony. A number of
bands were present aud played National
a.rs. AT night the city was illuminated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
A Foreign Bank rails

NEW YORK, Sept eat is officially
announced that the Bank of the Cape of
Good Hope has failed. he liabilities
are Is, 900. 000;capital stock, e7O0, 00O;de-
posits, 81, so, 900. The bank is located
at Cape Town. the chief point for South
African trade
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

The largest fruit farm in West Vir-
ginia is the Becker farm near Harper's
Ferry IL contains 5000 apricot trees.
$1,000 peach trees, 5000 plum trees.
500 miscellaneous fruit trees and S.
900 grape vines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

GLADSTONE has written to friends in
Canada- who invited him 70 this coun-
try, that his age and engagements ut
terly disable him from crossing the At
lantic, and that he can not hope to see
this great territory, in which he has al
ways taken so much interest
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
An Awful Mine Disaster.

WHKEsBARIE, Pa, Sept 22-An ex-
plosion of gas in the Murray shaft of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany's mine at noon Saturday set the
mine on fire. Edward Batson has been
taken out fatally burned. The bodies
of four others who were burned to
death. have been recovered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

y 80 - y ~ y
had sought TO get
money from Ben
well and his father
but without avail,
the old gentleman
declaring that when
his son reported to
him fro NJ Canada
that the business
was satisfactory he
ould pay tn Q
money agreed upon
$500. w il h Ben
we'll sailed Burchell
and his wife Flor
ence, and a young
man named Pclly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
suIc de of Lawyer Frederick II. Swift.

NEW YORK, Sept 22.-Lawyer Fred
erick Il. Swift, who for several years
had been the victim of incorporate hab-
its, az piled Friday night for lodgings
at the Church Street police sta
tion. He was allowed to sleep
there, and Saturday morning was found
dead. A bottle of morphine was found
on his person, together with some legal
papers. Mr.. Swift was graduated at
Yale College with Chauncey NJ. Depew.
and at one time, as general counsel for
the Adams Express Company, he had ar
income of $50, 900 a year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Death of Gov rnor Stevenson.

CARSON, New, Sept. %. - Charles
Clark Stevenson, Governor of Nevada,
lied of typhoid fever at his residence
in this city Sunday. lie was Ga years
of age and was born in Ontario County,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

COLUMBUS. o., Sept - Secretary
Probst. of the State Board of Health,
who went to Bergholz, jefferson Coun-
ty, to investigate supposed cases OF
cholera, telegraphs the disease is not
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Unearthed "a Meteor.

GAL:sBURG. Ill, Sept ga meteor
which Captain ID. 5. Harris, of this city.
saw fall over thirty years ago was found
Saturday by workmen who were excavat-
ing for the Kohlsaat statue of General
Grant 1t is oval in SHAPE, of a peculiar
color and weighs 100 pounds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

County. II h c T Q
W ere two bullet
holes in his head
and h is clothing
was covered with
blood. So careful
had been the muir
derer to cover up
all clews TIL a I
would lead to the
identity of the muir
dered man that he
cut of all pieces
of clothing that
bore his victims
name. BY one OF
those ov ers ghts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

who also mad made arrangements with Bu:cheII
TO engage in farm work in Canada. The party
after short stay at New York went on
to Buffalo thence almost Immediately to
Niagara Falls, whence Burchell aud Ben
well started February Il to investigate the al
legged farm and they got of at Eastwood sta
tion and started 10 walk. Burchell was recog-
nized on the road, having been well known in
that section OF country. He had lived at Wood
stock for a time. wherc he made himself known
as Lord Somerset.
The Crown will seek to establish that Burch-
ellis farm being pure myth the man dreaded
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
Robbed and turned by Thieves.

The post-ofiice, store and general stock
of j. L. Weaver at Glen Bulah was
burned at early hour the other morning
The fire was thought to have been OF
an incendiary origin and the work of
burglars who previously rifled the safe,
which contained quito sum of money.
The loss was fully So. ZOO with but small
insurance. No part of the stock was
saved, and determined effort alone pre-
vented the burning of the Odd-Fellows'
Hall
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
T,,. Grenter IncIuae. the Less.

Pedestrian-will you kindly tell me,
sir, what place this is?
Native-This is Chicago
Pedestrian-Ab, yesl Thank you;
and now could you tell me if / am
anywhere near the State of Illinois?-
Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

OFFICIAL figures published at Ottawa
show that while Canada in 1855 i'm
Ported 2,l34 564 tons of hard coal. the
imports during 1889 fell to 1875. OS5
TINS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

Illinois coal miners have decided to
make a demand for an increase of ~
sents a ton. II this is not granted by
November / there will probably be a
general strike
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
nIr FIRE at NIeuoninee.

MENoMINEE, Mich, Sept 22.-The
entire plant of the Menominee River
Single Company has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $50, 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
The hear Girls

Flossie-I made a large collection of
beautiful stones while l was at the sea-
side.
Maud-So did I; but mine were all set
in engagement rings when got them.
-Munsey's Weekly
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
stopped the y ght.

LONDON, Sept. 23.-The much talked
Of prize fight between Slavin and McAu-
life Of California received set back
last night. Both have been arrested.
McAuliffe was arrested at his lodgings
in this city, and Slavin was arrested on
his arrival from his training quarters at
Dover. They were arraigned in court
this afternoon on the charge of conspir-
ing 10 commit breach of the peace,
and bound over in f2,OOO each TO appear
before the court tomorrow. In court
the police inspector, justifying the ar
rests, said the match was not to be a
mere boxing contest, but a genuine
prize fight.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Dangerous Trip In a Canoe.

The other night Thomas Viii ehead
arrived in port ut Racine from Milwau-
kee in canoe twelve feet long, con-
structed Of barrel hoops and canvas. He
left Chicago ten days before and made
the voyage TO Milwaukee and return BY
water fhe next day be started in his
frail craft for Chicago, but when outside
of the pie 5 squall upset his canoe,
dumping its occupant into the water.
He chung to the canoe until rescued by
the life-saving crew.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa. Sept. %. An
east-bound freight train on the Balti
more & Ohio road, twelve miles from
here, was dashed into from the rear end
by fast freight. The engine of the
wrecked train was sent for assistance
and while returning. through flag
mans carelessness, was run into by the
wrecking train near the scene of the
first collision. James Shields, the en-
gineer, was killed. and his fireman,
Harry Cuphert, badly injured inter
nally