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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
FIFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.


WEDNESDAY,, July 80. = An amend
ment was offered in the Senate TO
the deficiency appropriation bill to APP
prOpriate $50, So for the relocation of
the frontier line between the United
States and Mexico. A favorable report
was made on the bill 10 incorporate the
Society of the Red Cross. The tariff
was further discussed. In the House
the conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was agreed
10. The Speaker announced the fol-
lowing as committee to investigate the
charges against Commissioner Raum:
Messrs Morrill,. Sawyer, Smyser. Good
night and Martin.
THURSDAY. July 31.-In the Senate
four pages OF the tariff bill were dis
posed of. The conference report on the
District of Columbia appropriation bill
was agreed TO. In the House the day
was devoted TO discussing the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
FRIDAY, Aug L. Consideration of
the tariff bill occupied the time of the
Senate. The House devoted the entire
day 70 the discussion of the Senate
amendments to the sundry civil appro-
priatiOn bill At the evening session
two private pension bills we're passed.
SATURDAY, Aug. 2.-Senator Plumb
offered a resolution in the Senate for
the removal of General Grants body
to Arlington National Cemetery at
Washington The credentials of Ed
ward ID. White as Senator from the
State of Louisiana for full term be-
ginning March 4. 1saJ ito succeed Sena-
tor Eustis), were presented. The tariff
bill was furtherdiscussed. In the House
the consideration of the Senate amend
ment TO the sundry civil appropriation
bill was resumed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
TAE FAST

AT s o'clock on the .1orning of the
SOth ult fire originating in the Pew
building at Seneca Falls, n. v. burned
over an area of nearly three acres. and
many Of the best business buildings in
that village were wiped out including
the three newspaper Offices. Loss,
500, OOO
A NEWSPAPER at Johnstown, Pa.
on the SIst ult. printed what il claimed
to be the first correct list of the victims
of the great food, giving the number of
the dead at 2,1ST, which leaves over 200
bodies not vet recovered.
JEREMIAH MILLER, living near Me-
chanicsburg, Pa. shot and killed his
wife on the Slst ult. and then took his
own life. Nine children were left or
phans. Jealousy caused the crime.
The death of Mrs Sally Brown, aged
los years, occurred at Colchester, y. H.,
on thu 3lst ult She was the oldest per-
son in the State.
REPUBLICAN, League clubs of New
York viii hold their State convention
at Saratoga on the attn of September.
NEARLY two acres of closely packed
buildings at Braddock, Pa, occupied
chiefly by Hungarian laborers, were
burned on the 3lst ult.
Is a storm on the LIST at Warwick, r.
l., house was blown out to sea and a
child killed.
On lie LIST Mrs. Reesar and her sister.
Miss Anderson. were drowned while
bathing in the Niag CARA river at Youngs-
town, n. V
NEAR Magnolia, y. J., on the 1st Mr..
and Mrs. Charles II. Tongue were struck
by freight train and instantly killed.
They were from England and we're
spending the season at hotel in Mag
nOlia.
A. THE friends of Martha Davis, OF
brooklyn. n. v, were preparing her
body for burial on the I'd she showed
signs OF life and in few hours after
was in a fair way to recovery.
WHILE shooting snakes on the Sd at
Lancaster. Pa, Henry Frybarger acct
dental shot and killed his sister, aged s
years -
STARVATION and pride caused the
death of s F. Pritchard, author and
actor, at New York on the I'd.
THE champion bridge jumper OF Can
ada, Charles McCafTery, essayed to jump
from the Atlantic Company's derrick at
Boston on the Sd, distance of 100 feet
and was drowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
The News Condensed.


George Grossman, a New York travel
ing man, was struck by runaway team
at Eau Claire the other day and proba-
bly, fatally injured.
John Roach. living near Appleton,
had six sheep injured the other night
by dog.
The strike of the lumber mill hands
came to an end recently. Two thou
sand men at Ashland and Washburn re-
turned to work at the owners terms,
ten hours work at ten hours pay.
DIR. Thomas Hatchard, ~ years of age,
aud his wife, aged 80, who were found
guilty of manslaughter, were sentenced
to four years each in the State peniten-
tiary few days ago.
John Froolich, of Marshall, was few
days ago sent to prison for eight years
for abusing his two daughters, aged IA
and II years, respectively.
A poor family in Shawton named
Kingberg, consisting of father mother
and seven children, were poisoned by
eating canned meat for dinner the
other day and were in precarious con-
dition.
ne DdfhtT DidJt db Tau RihAAc was
raided recently and Maggie West, from
Milwaukee, very pretty and youthful
girl, as she came TO court broke down
utterly. A gentleman from Milwaukee
identified her as his sister and took her
home with him.
A horse at Chippewa Falls died re-
Gently of fright at locomotives. He
trembled violently and suddenly
dropped dead.
A young swindler giving the name of
Louis Borman, who had in his pos
session six forged filed-out checks of
SIS each on the Merchants National
Bank of St Paul was arrested at Mill
waukee the other day.
At Lynn the other night A. L. Owen,
a 'saw-mill owner, was killed In an al
tercation with Joseph Mccain. rail-
road laborer. Mccain knocked Owen
down and, jumping on him, broke his
neck. Mccain escaped.
j. b. Doe died at Evansville the other
evening, aged ~ years. lie went to
GAINESVILLE in 1912. m 1882 he opened
the first bank there. He was mayor Of
the city in 1854, 1861. 1852 and 1870.
Miss Maggie burst who mysteriously
disappeared from her home on Bear
creek, near Richland Center. June "a,
vas recently found in Dakota She
Sould not return home.
A hard character giving his name as
George Brown, claiming to be from La
Crosse, was placed in Jail az Eau Claire
recently on suspicion of being one Of
the burglars who stole $40, 900 worth OF
,ewelry from a store at Waverly. Ia
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


o. the 3Oth ult- ukase was issued at
St Petersburg forbidding further work
by Protestant missionaries, especially
in Western Russia.
The Government of Russia on the
sOth ult. ordered the application of
edicts against the Jews which would
drive 1000, 900 of that race from the
country
ADvIcEs of the 3Oth ult from Buenos
Ayres stated that quiet was restored
there and that the leaders of the revo-
luton had accepted the Governments
terms.
In London an American named Har-
gan shot and killed three persons on
the 31st ult and was afterward fatally
injured by an excited mob.
BUENos AYREs dispatches of the Slst
ult indicated that peace had been re-
established in the Argentine Republic.
During the insurrection the fleet bonn
barded the city. One thousand men
we're said to have been killed and 5, 900
injured during the progress of the hos
tilities.
DISPATCHES of the first say that peo-
pie were dying of starvation in the Sou
dan at the rate of 100 daily.
THE revolt in San Salvador had been
crushed on the 1st by the Government
troops under General Ezeta, and GEN
eral Rivas, the leader of the revolt had
been captured and publicly shot
PATRICK DowNEY and two boys named
Mclaughlin and Mcneil were killed by
train on the LIST at crossing in To
ronto, Ont.
IN the province of Gerbieh, Egypt
1900 acres of rice and cotton were COW
cred with an inflow of salt water on the
1st and the growing crops thereon were
destroyed.
A PLOT against the life of the Gar of
Russia was unearthed at St. Petersburg
on the I'd. Many arrests were made,
and two officers of high rank in the
Russian army who were implicated COM
mitted suicide rather than face the con-
sequences OF discovery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
An Unpopular Parsonage.

For six years Greece has been search
ing for an executioner. The Office IS
looked upon with peculiar adherence
in that country, and the present diff
Guilty is no new development The last
capital execution occurred in 1881, also
after long wait for an individual who
was willing to perform it A man
named MESSENGER, who had killed his
wife, offered to serve the state as exc
cutioner for a pardon. and he guillo-
tined seventeen murderers, the aecu-
mutation of five years dearth of an ex-
ecutioner. There are row five murder
ers awaiting the penalty in Athens and
eleven others in the rest of Greece,
They all will before long suffer death
at the hands of pardoned assassin
named Roukis, the Athenian convicts
being attended to first, and then the
executioner embarking on a man-of-
war for a voyage along the coast, stop
ping here and there for journey into
any interior town needing his services.
So incorporating is the national de-
testation of an executioner that even on
the man -of-war Roukis will be protect
ed from furtive assaults by the crew by
being housed in an iron cage.-N. \.
sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

OK the 10Th John w. Mason, Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, reported TO
the Secre tary Of the Treasury that the
total collections from all sources during
the fiscal year ended June 80 were sl42,-
594.6 95, against $3.50. s94, 4S4 for 1889. or
an increase % S11, 700. 262 for 1889.
THE President sent a message to Con-
gress on the Goth calling attention to
the lottery evil and the necessity for
legislation TO prevent the use of the
United States mails.
ON the 1st it was reported that an En-
glish syndicate had purchased for S..
100000 thirty-three tableware glass
factories in this country.
THE public-debt statement issued on
the LIST showed the total debt to be ST.
5S4. 5S2, COS; cash in the Treasury, S10s.
l45. $50: debt less cash in Treasury, SS76,-
$50, I13. Decrease during July, $685.
257. Decrease since June 80, 1889, S21,-
O7S, S22.
DURING the seven days ended on the
1st, there were Is9 business failures in
the United States, against 1879 the pre-
yious seven DAYS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
THE STORM-KING.
He Gets in His Work in the Northwest
Much Damage Caused by Wind and
u.n

He Gets in His Work in the Northwest
Much Damage Caused by Wind and
Hail.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Several localities
in the Northwest were visited by vio-
yesterday, the greatest damage being
reported from New Richland,
Mimi, where the loss is estimated at
from SIS, 600 to $3.50, 000 A section
of country forty miles long and ten
miles wide was devastated. All tho
uncut grain was destroyed by hail. The
windows on the west and north sides of
every building in the village were
shattered. Hogs and hundreds OF
chickens were killed. In some in
stances the pieces of ice were driven
with such force as to pierce the roofs OF
buildings.
At Sioux Falls, S. d., the wind at
tanned velocity of sixty-five miles an
hour, and hail-stones eight inches in
circumference weighing two pounds fell
with tremendous force. Thousands of
panes of glass we're destroyed and many
buildings were otherwise injured. Trees
and shrubbery suffered severely. A
son of Banker Avery was struck by a
hailstone and rendered unconscious,
but he was not dangerously hurt The
loss in Sioux Falls is estimated at $50, :
900. The storm in this region was con-
fined to a small area, and the damage
to crops is inconsiderable.
At Hammond, Ind, the damage was
great Huge trees were torn up by the
roots and carried away, fences were
swept out of existence, orchards oblit-
Grated and every thing in the path OF
the tempest destroyed. The rotary We
locity of the wind was terrific and it
progressed forward at the rate Of
sixty miles an hour. The west wing of
the building leased by the Chicago Axe
Company was blown over and is COM
pletely destroyed. The roof of the Luth-
eran church was badly damaged
by a falling chimney. The ice
house at Wolf Lake, owned by
the G. II. Hammond Company
two miles from here, was lifted
from its foundation and destroyed, and
it is reported that several people who
sought shelter there were killed and in
iured. A man named Fisher was struck
by the flying timber and had his leg
broken and is internally injured.
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SHOOTING WATER SNAKES.
Novel Methods to Rid the Government
Ponds of These Pests.

PONDS OF Ihese rests
Water snakes have become such
nuisance to Dr. Hessel, curator of the
carp ponds and superintendent of shad
propagation, that he has declared awar
of determination against them. They
are voracious devourers of young fish,
living in wait for them in the shallow
water near the bank and gliding stealth
lily up behind each tinny victim, which
finds itself swallowed before it has had
time to fairly realize the nature of the
tragic occurrence. One snake will con-
sumo, on an average, at least six little
carp or shad per diem, and at this rate
it will be seen that few of them, with
ordinary appetites are likely to shock
ingly deplete the stock in a preserve
within comparatively brief period.
How plentiful these destructive reptiles
are in DIR. Hessel's watery domain may
be judged by the fact that during the
past twelvemonth he has himself killed
/, 900 of them.
The doctors method of killing snakes
is peculiar; he Stays them with parlor
rifle, which is just like an ordinary
rifle, save that the bore is very small,
and the bullet and charge of powder
corresponding. With this formidable
weapon in hand, it is the favorite pas
time of his leisure hours to patrol the
shores of the ponds with cautious foot
steps, gazing ahead wistfully until now
and then perchance he sees a reptile
head protruding from the water. 1t is
small mark to hit, but the
distinguished curator's aim is I'M
failing, and it is his particular
pride always to break the snakes
neck between the base of the skull ana
the first vertebra. This accomplished.
the prey invariably gives up the ghost,
and the sportsman looks out for the
next
Sometimes he invites friends 10 join
him in this manly exercise, but it is
understood that none of them approach
the doctor in accuracy of marksman-
ship. His success may be estimated in
a measure by the fact that he has al
ready cleared the ophidians out Of all
the ponds but one or two toward the
west that are appropriated to carp lie
says that people thereabout call thos
s'water moccasins." but that they are
not, in his opinion, actually such. lie
knows positively, however, that they
have destroyed millions of his young
fish, Which would otherwise have ar
rived at adult age III all probability,
and lived careers of usefulness in the
world. Washington Letter.
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q COMBINE.


She came here from the middle West.
And yet she had. be it confessed.
A Boston air around her;
A figure slight, forehead high,
An earn ST look. clear gray eye;
And so FOR her / came 10 sigh,
And wiss and charming found her.
But as to pres my suit came.
Full oft she smothered all my flame
By asking curious questions.
The wrongs of woman. the state and land,
What social changes Ibsen planned,
She'd ask me TO discuss o.fhand
And give her my suggestions.
Did agree with Henry Georgef
Would selfish capital disgorge
The share that toll demanded
How could the INDECENT be fed?
Should criminals be allowed to wedt
Did tariffs raise the price OF breads
She begged me 10 be candid
And when the race at last had gained
The highest point TO be attained
BY growth or revolution,
What would the last great victory be,
The final goal that men should sees
What did Utopia mean for me:
The end of evolutions
And as heard grew more more dazed.
Until al last my courage raised
To utter desperation;
utopia means for me, " / said.
THE social contract when we wed.
Wen form trust She shook her head
Call it cooperation"
Charles 5. Greene, in Overland Monthly.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
ROBBED THE BURLINGTON.
An Organized Band of Thieving Railway
Employees Run Down.

IN organized Band OF Thtevtng Railway
Employees Run Down.
For several months reports have been
received from merchants along the line
Of the Chicago, Burlington & Northern
railway that merchandise shipped to
them from intermediate stations be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul had been
tampered with in transit and claims
we're made upon the company for dam
ages. In many cases such claims had
been settled and the shrinkage attribu-
Ted TO the presence of tramps, who in
Test the line in large numbers. OH
,ials of the road finally reached the con-
slusion that some party was carry
ing on the stealings who was familiar
with the rules of the company. The
other day way car going north from
La Crosse was entered and a case
Of coffee in pound packages broken open
and twenty-four pounds distracted. A
detective was put on the case and sue
ceeded in tracing the property 70 the
custody of Conductor G. w. Goodwin
and his brakemen, Charles Hawley and
C. A. Tolbert The caboose was
searched and four packages found; the
residence of Hawley revealed eleven
packages more, while locker in the
house occupied by Tolbert brought TO
light the other nine packages. The
crew were Immediately placed under
arrest at the orders of Superintendent
HASTINGS
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The CHILD CRUSADE.
One of the Most Remarkable Happenings
in the Dark Ages.


The term Dark Ages" is somewhat
vaguely applied to that period follow
ing the fall of the Roman empire, and
preceding the revival of letters in the
fourteenth century. In abiding to the
Dark Ages, however, as a general rule,
we have in mind the period of the Cru
sades to the Orient for the liberation of
the Christians and the Holy Sepulcher.
In 1918, Peter the Hermit, made a pill
grimage to Jerusalem, where the OPP
preston he witnessed caused him 10 re-
solve to free Christs people and the
relics so dear TO the Christian people.
Peter led the first host of the Crusaders
in person; other bands soon followed.
In all it has been estimated that not
less than 1000. 600 of lives were lost in
this wild attempt to keep the Pagans
out of Jerusalem. In the year 1919
children were drawn into the
movement. In the early sum
mer of the year named, two i'm
mense armies of children were gathered
in France and Germany in response to
the call of two boy prophets, neither of
whom was over twelve years of age.
These youthful leaders believed, or af-
fected to believe, themselves the chosen
of God, and that it was their duties to
lead these children through the Medi-
terranean, like Moses had led the
children of Israel through the Red
Sea. The excitement caused by the
workings of these boy preachers spread
like a plague; whole families of chill
dren joined the hosts already organized;
no amount of remonstranee on the part
of the parents could check the epidemic
in the least Children who were locked
up to keep them from going on their
tramp of death, died in commissions or
lost their minds in hopeless melancholy.
The first great host of children
left for the Holy Land under
the leadership of Nicholas of
Cologne; the second band under
the leadership of boy whose name is
unknown. The combined number of
these two armies was 80, 600, about o.
600 being girls under eight years of age.
In the same month another army left
France under the guardianship of
Stephen of Vendome; this army num-
bered not less than $4,000. The first
two legions crossed the Alps-Nicholas
at Mount Cents and the unknown leader
at ST. Gothard, and descended into
Italy. The combined armies of Nicholas
and his unknown ally lost not less than
$4,000 children by heat, hunger and
fatigue before reaching the first valley
in Italy Stephens French army suf-
fered still more terri ble-10, 900 of them
dying before the mountains were
reached and another 5000 before they
reached Italy, the entire route being
strewn with corpses. OF the 100, 600
children which the fanaticism of the
age allowed to join the Crusade, less
than 10000 returned to their native
land alive ST Lnnis Rennhlic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
A Kentucky Feud.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 5.-At Burn
side. KY, there was a fight between the
police Judge and town marshal on one
side and Ben Cassiday and his sons
John and Hiram on the other. There
was an old feud between II. Il. Smith,
the police judge, and Ben Cassiday.
Cassiday said that when Smith was
elected that he would never submit TO
arrest under warrant from him. Yes
terday John Cassiday was arrested and
gave bond. His father caused the
bondsmen TO surrender him. and then,
with his son Hiram. started to take
John away from Marshal Coomer and
Judge Smith. In the fight which fol-
lowed John Cassiday and Judge Smith
were fatally wounded, the other three
participants seriously. The three are
under arrest.
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wo MANS CURIOUS WAYS.
She Rarely Values the Things She Has AT
Her Command.

tier tofhnahu-
There is food for reflection in the cu-
rious fact that while American women
of wealth consider an English husband
the acme of all earthly possessions, the
English working-girl lends all her en-
ergies to obtaining sufficient means to
emigrate from her native land for the
purpose of acquiring not only American
dollars, but one of the American hus-
bands, who are said to be much more de-
sirable than the home article. Charlta-
BILE people institute training schools
Cor the purpose of systematically teach
ing working-women household service,
sewing and all kinds of labor most in
demand, thereby equipping them with
an amount of useful knowledge that
will cause them to be eagerly picked
up by mistresses or husbands, as the
case may be, and all this at minimum
cost within the reach of those of most
humble resources. Once the woman is
thus trained to be a treasure in the
household, she leaves the nation which
has befriended her for the independence
and plenty Of the land of the free,
where no mistress dares interfere with
the cut of her bang or fringe" as The
English woman calls it when she insists
upon a servants parting her hair
smoothly and decently bereath her
cap and never daring 10 appear with
her wavy locks falling upon her fore
head The American housewife feels
grateful if her maid consents to take the
curl paper out OF her bang before din
ner. and would no sooner make any sug
gestions To her concerning the arrange
mcnt of her locks than She would to the
Governor of the State with regard TO
the style of his mustacbe.
II is said to be common experience
among workingmen in England mat do
nestle servants as a rule maze very un-
desirable wives, having little idea Of
general Homework, and, accustomed to
the extrayagant waste and luxury OF
great houses. they are p-odigal in the
use Of materials an English writer. in
a recent article, appeals to the working
men 20 mend their ways, emulate the
example of the worthy American hus-
band who looks up a boarding house be-
fore he buys the weddin sring, and is
grateful il his wife is home when he
comes to dinner. and thus keep these
household angels trained to be efficient
heipmeets at home instead Of enric hing
other lands with this valuable product.
And in the meantime the American girl
emigrates to the other side, taking her
rich papa along to purchase a 'crepit
duke, or lord, or earl, while the Ameri-
can husband waits patiently until she
gets her divorce, and then receives her
with open arms as if nothing had hap
pened All of which goes TO prove the
theory that a woman always wants what
she hasn't got, and rarely values the
things she has in her possession or at
her command. N. Y. sun.