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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IL San Salvador on the cath a new
Government was formed with General
Carlos Ezeta as President.
UP to the 25th the total number of
cases of cholera in Valencia, Spain, was
1906. of which I13 proved fatal.
THE collapse of a foot-bridge on the
25th leading from asteamer to the land
ing at Brest, France, threw hundreds of
persons into the sea. Seven bodies had
been recovered and many others were
missing.
FLAMES destroyed seventy houses at
Gutenberg, Germany, on the Goth.
ADvIcEs of the eth state that the
steamer Paoching was burned on the
Tangtse river in China and her captain,
second engineer and twenty native sail
ors were lost.
NINE vessels were wrecked and
thirty-five lives lost by recent gales off
the coast of Scotland.
A FRENCH committee that went to
Panama to investigate the condition OF
the canal reported in Paris on the 27th
that il would take twenty years and
1881. 900, 900 francs (S347, 800, O0O) to
complete it,
IN England the fifty-second anniver-
sary of Queen Victoria's coronation was
celebra ted on the 2Sth ult.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
LATER
The Rescue is Abandoned.

DUNBAR, Pa, July Tonight hope
and work were abandoned at the Hill
Farm mine, and the dust or ashes of
the thirty-one imprisoned men may
rest beneath the Dunbar hill till the
last day shall come. The last explor-
ing party entered the mine at 2 p. m.
They did not come out until o'clock
tonight. Three of their number had
entered to within few hundred feet of
tAe subterranean fire and had found the
dinner buckets and blouses of two of
the men.
The explorers suffered from intense
heat and black damp and scarcely es-
,aped with their lives. The explorers
visited nine places where the men were
known 70 have been at work. Their
picks and shovels were found lying
where they had been dropped. One
mrle was found dead and purified.
Otherwise no trace of the men could
b' found. The explorers then voted to
a ',andon the work of recovery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
EIETY.EIRsr CONGRESS.

WEDNESDAY, June 25.-In the Senate
the bill to admit Wyoming TO Statehood
was reported. and a bill was passed
authorizing the erection of a hotel for
cOlored people upon the Government
reservation at Fortress Monroe. In the
House a motion to concur in the Senate
substitute to the House bill providing
for free coinage) was defeated by a vote
of i52 TO 1S5; and the House then, by
rising vote of l46 to s., non-concurred
in all the remaining amendments.
THURSDAY, June 19.-Bills were in
On the Goth the United States Senate
devoted nearly the entire session dis
cussing the bill to admit Wyoming into
the Union and an amendment TO include
Idaho. Arizona and New Mexico. In the
House. after passing a bill granting fl
teen DAYS leave TO clerks in the first
and second-class post-offices, the debate
on the National election bill was com
menced-
FRIDAY, June %. = In the Senate
the bill To admit Wyoming as a
State was passed by party vote of 90
to IS and now goes TO the President.
The bill for the admission of Idaho was
considered. In the House the time was
mostly occupied in discussing the Fed
eral elections bills. At the evening
session los private pension bills were
passed.
SATURDAY. June 2s.-In the Senate
the conference report on the post-oiiice
appropriation bill was agreed to and
the agricultural appropriation bill was
reported, also the bill granting pen
sion of $1,000 year to the widow of
Major-General George Cook. A large
number of bills of minor Importance
were passed In the House the time
was occupied in discussing the Federal
elections hill
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

We have no proof that December p
is the date of the birth of Christ. At
one time the beginning of the Christian
era was supposed % conform with the
date above mentioned, and for that rea-
son was called Christmas by all Chris
tian nations. 1t is now generally con-
coded, by the best authorities Of the
world, too. that Christ was not born on
December %, or any other time during
the winter. The date now unanimous
ly agreed upon is April ;, net April of
the year one. but April 5, Il. c. 4.
This error in our mode of reckoning
time is supposed to have arisen from
the fact that the dating Of time as "A.
ID. was not introduced, into the church
at least, until about the year 527 A. d.
St Louis Republic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
ABOUT STAGE FRIGHT.
Ridiculous Mishaps of Charles Kean, the
Famous English Actor.


Ridiculous Mishaps of Charles Kean, the
Famous English Actor.
During an engagement at Liverpool,
Charles Kean acted in the Lady OF
Lyons three or four times. For the
first three representations, the prompter
was at his post regularly, and all went
smoothly; on the last night, however,
he was unfortunately called away.
claude commenced his description as
,ual, with the words:
Nay, dearest, nay,
Ifthou wouldst have me paint thee
At this moment he fixed his eye on
the spot were the prompter should
have been, but found him not.
The Prince of Como paused and cried
back, saying:
If thou wouldst have me paint
say--if thou vouldst have me paint thee
Then he collapsed utterly, exclaim-
ing audibly to Mrs. Kean, who had in
vain attempted to prompt him:
Its no use, Ellen; I'm iummuxedr
His most ludicrous mishap. however,
occurred in Belfast, when he was acting
Othello. He had just heard bogus re-
port of the alleged death of his intimate
friend Murray, the Edinburgh manager,
which somewhatunhinged him. He got
through his first scene without diff
GUILTY but when he came to the apology,
he had barely uttered the first line:
Most potent, grave and reverend
signors," when his memory left him al
together. He inquired anxiously of me
Il was the Cassio):
sWhat is it?''
In the innocence of my heart l re-
spondod:
What is what?"
1.-The word! the word!' he replied.
(Which word?" / ingenuously asked.
''Why, the word | wantr
But" said ]. Il don't know which
word you do WANT Mrs. Kean and the
prompter both Saw something was
wrong and they each tried to prompt
him from the wings, but in vain. At
last a | minous idea occurred to me. /
whispered him the last line of the
apology; he accepted the suggestion
and boldly cutting out hundred lines
or more lin one fell swoop," he ex-
claimed:
Here comes the lady-let her witness i'll
Whereupon the entrance of the gentle
Desdemona got us out of our difficulty.
Years afterward when he played VOL
sey in his magnificent revival of Henry
Will" at the Princess, ne suffered more
from nervousness than he bad everdone,
and it was alleged Though l can not
vouch for it from my own personal
knowledge that two young girls who
followed as pages in his train were care
fully taught the words of Wolsey, so
that in the event of his breaking down
they might prompt im.-Temple Bar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

miles, at which several of the ponies
were always kept. The run for each
animal was ten miles without a rest
And it was a run, too. Not a step Of the
way was walked or trotted. For ten
miles the driver urged his carrier and
the horse fairly few over he familiar
ground, whether it vas mountain or
prairie, plain or desert. Each rider
rode three horses ithout resting, and
there was one follow loose. easy-go-
Ing daredevil Who always rode sixty
miles at that breakneck speed without
resting. At the post-heuse, the man in
charge stood in front of the door hold
ing the charging pony that was to carry
the approaching rider With rush the
sxpressman came. There was cloud
IF dust a jump. an instantaneous
change of the small, light saddle-bags
carried and in ten seconds from the mo-
nent of his arrival the rider was on the
-earing little animal that was so anx-
lons TO be of. Away they went with a
plunge and shout, to be lost moment
later in cloud of flying dust The
ponies entered into the spirit Of their
work quite as fully as the men bestride
them. They never faltered, whether
tha night was dark or the road uncer-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
ReckIessness of Drunlards.

"What is the largest amount that you
have ever found upon a drunken mani"
was asked of Captain Branham at the
police station last night sixteen
thousand dollars was the largest sum
that ! remember seeing. We found it
upon man asleep in the streets. 1t is
no uncommon occurrence for us TO pick
up persons with 1000 or si2 900 in
their pockets. When any of the Off
GERS see any person flourishing a large
amount of money and unable to take
care of themselves they are brought to
the station and locked up to sleep off
the results of the spree, while their
money is locked up in the safe and
turned over to them when the courts
are through with their cases.-kansas
City Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
A GIGANTIC BOWLDER.
An Evidence of Glacial Action in Sou
eastern Connecticut.

An Evidence of Glacial Action in south
eastern Connecticut.
But it is in the region to the east and
west of the line of the Thames river,
and which it has been suggested may
have been the axis of the ancient gla-
cier, and not very far removed from this
line, that powders of extraordinary size
occur most numerously; and among them
is rock which until very recently has
been regarded as one of the largest, if
not the very largest, bowlder that has
thus far been recognized in this or any
other country. This rock-of coarse
crystalline granite-is situated in the
town of Montville, New London County,
about six miles south of Norwich, and
about a mile west of the Moqtville sta
ton on the New London & Northern
Railroads and, under the Indian name
of 'Sheegan," has almost from the first
settlement of the country been recog-
nized as great natural curiosity. Its
position is on the edge of a gentle
mound or knoll, on the northeast slope
of little valley; and its Dimensions,
according to recent measurements by
Prof. Crosby, of the Boston Society of
Natural History, are as follows; north
west side, forty-six feet; northeast, fifty
eight; southeast, forty-fve; southwest,
seventy. Maximum height reckoning
from the lower or down-hill side to the
highest point on the upper side, approx
imately, sixty feet; approximate cubic
contents, seventy thousand cubic feet;
approximate weight, about six thou
sand tons. The cavity or recess be-
meath the rock, which is said to have
been occupied, at the time of the first
settlement of the country, by Mohegan
Indian from whom the rock undoubted-
ly derived it's name) as dwelling place,
is sufficiently capacious to admit OF
being used as place of shelter for the
sleds and other farm implements of the
farmer proprietor. A rude ladder Oh
the southern side of the rock affords
facilities for reaching its top and OBJ
tanning a somewhat extensive view OF
the surrounding country.-Hon. David
A Wells in DoOular Science Month lV.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
Up AND DOWN.

We're up today on fortunes hill
And free from every sorrow,
But in the wheel of good and i'll
All may be changed tomorrow.
We're up and down as time flies on
Now ease. now hardest labor
No millionaire can safely frown
Upon his lowly neighbor
Riches take wings-the man of wealth
May meet with sudden losses,
While he whose only store is health
May ride behind his horses.
Then do not slight the toiling poor,
For labor ne'er disgraces,
And though your fortune seems secure
Some day sou may change places.
God help us aIl-we're poor at best
Dependent on each other
Though crowned with ease or sore distressed
Weak man is still mans brother.
Then when on fortunes top We stand,
No III our state attending,
Let us extend helping hand
To those about descending
Francis s Smith, in y. Y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

1T Is not often that a congregation
''strilzes 10 rich 80 suddenly as the For
est GrOvc Presbyterian Church at Chari-
ties. Pa \ few days ago the church
was modest little affair. with debt
and a light attendance Some of the
elders conceived the idea 90 boring for
oil on the church grounds. obtained per
mission and sunk a sell. with the re-
suit that petroleum in abundance was
secured. and the property has been sold
to the Standard oil Company for S92. 600.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

THE Emperor Of Russia's suite at
present consists of las persons. Of whom
IS are general and 20 extra aides-de-
camp. To the suite belong Is mem
beers Of the imperial family, l. Princes
Of not imperial birth. II Counts. Bar
ons and III other noblemen. Their ma
tionalities are: rs Russians. 30 Ger
mans. Firms, l Pole. Circassians, ,
Greeks and . Roumanians-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

Miss Fannie-Miss Jennie, il you'll
not breathe it, Iii tell you something.
Miss Jennie--I promise.
Miss Fannie-I gave myself away last
,vening.
Miss Jennie-What, Didn't giving
yourself away make you feel cheap?
Miss Fannie-Yes. but be called me
dear West Shore
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

Fthel-See. | am making smoking
car for Charlie Sands. I'm going to
present it to him when he comes home
from college.
Maud-What size are you making it?
Ethel-No. 7. / looked in his hat be-
fore he went away and that was marked
n il.
Maud-Make it two sizes larger.
Ethel-Why?
Maud-He graduates this year
Munsy's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
RETURNED HOME.


The Heroine of AN Elopement Repenta
and Leaves H.. Paramour.
Mrs. Grace Rowley Camp, daughter
of Nj. S. Rowley, well-known merchant
of Madison, who figured in a sensation
al elopement case some months ago. has
returned to her parents On February
Is last she was married TO Henry Camp,
a young banker of Oxford, Neb. Three
weeks afterwards she eloped with
commercial traveller whom she had
known before her marriage. A few days
ago she became conscience-stricken and
leaving the Southern home of her para
mour she went to Chicago, where she
was met by her father, whom she had
notified by telegraph of her coming, and
was brought home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

A BILL passed the last Legislature of
the State OF New York making it I'M
lawful TO transfer any insane person
from state asylum to county house.
IL also provides for the erection of in
expensive buildings % which are to be
removed all Of the insane now in
cnuntr nnusns
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

EDWARD g LOEiNG, who figured as
judge in the celebrated refugee Anthony
Burns case in Boston in 1854. which
resulted in Burns being returned TO
slavery. died At his home in Winthrop,
Mss. TIE other dav.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

THE original bakers dozen was the
devils dozen. thirteen. being the num-
Der Of witches supposed 10 sit down to-
gether at their great meeting. Hence
the superstition about sitting thirteen
at table The baker was an unpOpu-
lar character, and became a substitute
for the devil in the devils dozen
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
ORIGINAL PACKAGE CASE.
The First One Tried I'm Wisconsin-T
Defendant Fined.

The First One Tried I'm Wisconsin-The
Defendant Fined.
An original package" case was heard
in Justice Curriers' court at Stoughton
recently. The local agent for the
Hausmann brewery of Madison received
an order from customer for a keg Of
beer. A tag upon which was written
the name of the purchaser was placed
upon a key of the amber fluid which
Chidester, the agent had on the prem
Uses at the time the order was taken.
The deception was discovered and
Chidester was arrested. After hearing
the case the court fined the defendant
$50 and costs An appeal would be
taken TO the circuit court.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
Guilty Of the Hurley Bank Robbery.

After being out one hour the jury at
Ashley in the Hurley Iron Exchange
Bank robbery trial returned a verdict
recently of guilty against Edward A.
Baker, one of the principals. The sec
ond trial of Phelps Perrin, the other
principal, will occur in September. The
case went to the jury on about the same
evidence as that presented in the Per-
~, 81
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Thought He Was Only Resting

Deputy Tailor John Burns, of Ash
land, formerly one of the wealthiest
lumbermen in that section, dropped
dead in chair the other evening just as
be opened the Jail doors to take out a
squad of prisoners The prisoners,
many of them held for serious offenses,
thought Burns was resting and made no
effort tn eScane
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

LOUISIANA Eas issued an edict for
bidding the killing of alligators or rha
Mississippi between Baton Rouge and
New Orleans II IS not that she loves
alligaJors more. but rats less. Since the
iudiscriminate shooting of alligatOrs be-
gan for the sake of their hides. the rats.
which infest the bottom lands and do
great injury To the crops. have increased
vastly in numbers and have become a
real terror to the planters, at whose in
stance the scaly monsters are 10 re-
ceive official protection. II never oc-
Cured TO anybody that live alligators
were of any use until they began TO
ErnW srarce.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

JORDAN r. NOBLE, known throughout
the South as The Drummer Boy of
Chalmette- died the other day al New
Orleans. He was born in 1896 Of slave
parents, and served as a drummer under
jackson at the battle of New Orleans
He also served in the Florida and Mex
lean wars. and organized a colored com
snand under General Butler in the war
of the rebellion
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

Miss ELSIE HALL. aged twelve years.
Is the latest prodigy in a musical way.
She is an Australian production. and
plays any thing and every thing at
sight a graphic writer in an Austral-
ian exchange says she would find no
difficulty in playing the hindsights of
OF Otto Herner.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

THE pugilist Jackson seems capable
Of transmitting his color with great ef-
feet The dozen men who assaulted him
near Oakland, Cal, the other day all
went away with black ewes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
1T Makes Every Body sick.

"Yes, was awfully fond of that girl,
and believed her to be perfect but
saw something about her last night that
made me sick"
"What was that?"
Another fellows arm Binghamton
Leader.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

u IS estimated that the regular in
surance companies of the United
States will disburse during 1890 the
sum of 50, O00, 900 N death, endowment
and dividend claims. l. Is an aver
age of $1,000 for every minute in the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

MoUNT SHASTA, the great Pacific
coast peak. is growing small by degrees
and beautifully less. a large section
having tumbIed of into the crater. II
is thought this NAV foreshadOw a vol
canic eruption The phenomenon will
not BE- surprising. In fact it will be in
keeping with natures remarkable dem
Onstrations of late.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

THE nerve-training school at Boston
appears to have attempted too much.
IL had class Of one hundred and twenty
young ladies whom il undertook 10 teach
the art ~ keCQIa their nerves under
perfect control, but some Of them broke
down under the training and the school
Is now in disfavOr. \ nerve-training
school for women is mistake 10 begin
with. No matter how thorough its
course Of instruction il could never cure
them Of fainting at the sight of
mouse
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

KAISER WILLIAMS order 70 the Min
lister % the Royal House on the subject
Of the new court dress for civilians %
wear NJ the royal receptions runs thus,
1T is my desire that az my court the
good manners and customs Of former
ages relating u the garments worn
should be revived White or black
breeohes- according 10 the rank-and
shoes with buckles are 10 be worn
Also, a black cloth coat Of antique
shape, with black satin facingS and
collar. long satin vest. cashmere
breecheS and silk stockings all black
and three-cornered hat without
feathers. As well as sword.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
Driven Insane by overwork.

Ernest Vliet general passenger agent
of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West,
ern road, and one of the best known
passenger agents in the Northwest, be-
came violently insane at Milwaukee
the other day. 1t required the efforts
of strong men to convey him to pri-
vate asylum at Wauwatosa. His abb
OvprWOrk
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

Little Fanny-Aunt Jenny is regu-
lar hypocrite.
Mother-What makes you say that?
Little Fanny-Because she sits at the
piano and bowls and bellows as If her
heart would break, and never sheds a
tear. I've been watching her. Texas
Siftings.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

The small grandson Of certain Uni
tartan divine has had the doctrine OF the
onnipresence of God carefully instilled
into his young mind Wandering into his
grandfather's study the other day Re APP
peared lost in thought for short time;
then, TO the CONSERVATION of his family,
he asked in an awed whisper: ''Grznpa.
is God in the waste-basket?" = Boston
GIoba.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
Burned the Infant to Death.

While Mrs. George Curren, of Oconto,
stepped out of her home to neighbor
recently 5-year-old boy lit the fire in
the stove near which was a cradle with
an infant eight weeks old. The fire
communicated with the bedding in the
cradle, burning the child so that it died
before medical aid could be summoned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

THE New York law making il a mis-
demeanor for person 10 attempt 10
take his OF her life went into effect in
September. ISL. Prior 70 that time the
average number OF suicides in New York
CITY was 100 1t is now az the rate OF
RI5 per year. but the number % unsuc-
cessful attempts has fallen of The law
was not directed against those who COM
nit suicide. but rather against those
who attempt 70 commit suicide and fail
in the endeavOr. The average rate OF
suicide is lighter in Berlin. 81 Peters
burg. Paris and Stockholm than in New
York. and smaller in London. Rome,
Dublin. Madrid, Liverpool and Naples
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
Damaged by High water.

The Southern Minnesota division OF
the Milwaukee road between La Crosse
and Houston, Mimi, was recently badly
damaged by sudden rise of water in
Root river. Several miles of track were
washed out, several bridges were gone
and telegraph wires were down. There
was great loss of property and hundreds
of head of stock were drowned.