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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
INTELLIGENT BUNKER.
He Behaves Nobly When Returned (
His Usual Environments.

He Behaves NobIy When Returned ia
His Usual Environments.
Dog Fancier Ito Customer)-I'v got
some other daSgs I'd ruther show you.
i don't thinF you want this one. I can't
warrant him.
Customer-Why not, Fladger? What's
the matter with him?
(Reluctantly)-''H don't seem &c
catch on to any thing you say to him. He
looks smart, but he don't know any
thing. When you call him he acts kind
O. scared and goes off and lays down.
His names Bunker. Here, Bnnkerl
Come here. Come along, old fellow
That's good dawg. You see it ain'tnc
use, sir He don't know what ! mean
observing the animal thoughtfully)
What will you take for him?"
''You may have him at your OWE
price. How'll half dollar do?"
.sWhere did you pick him up?'
bought him of gentleman from
Boston"
..Here's your half dollar, Fladger.
Bunker, my canine chattel, oblige me
by arising from your recumbent posture
assume an erect attitude, approximate
hitherward, and accompany me to the
domiciliary abode, where ! viii recon
pense your obedience by providing re
past appropriate to the requirements Of
your carnivorous nature.
Bunker accompanies him with every
demonstration of lively JOY. Chicago
Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
The Health of Children.

A leading st. Louis physician, in an
interview few days ago, said: Some
stat.sticians say that the most delicate
age is from sixteen to twenty-three, but
i have a different opinion, based on Tny
practical experience. l think that
children from one to ten years Of age
are the N ost delicate, and yet the most
neglected members of a community.
People oft.n say that child is strong
and healthy. requiring no attention,
but this = mistake. Because parents
confide so implicitly in the health and
strength of their children. great por-
ton of the deaths occurring annually
are Young children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
MEsT AND sourH

TIE marriage of Theodore Thomas,
of New York, the well-known musician.
took place in Chicago on the evening of
the 9Th 20 Miss Rose Fay. of that city.
IN the Ohio river at Wheeling, w.
Va, yacht containing twenty people
capsized on the 9Th and only ten OF
them were rescued
II the Fifth district of Ohio on the
9Th the Democrats nominated Fernando
C. Layton. of Wapakonetta, for Con-
gresham.
c. f. RICH. a man who has been stir
ring up strife among laborers at Lau-
rens. 5. C., was given twenty-five lashes
on the eth by a crowd OF men, white and
black. and driven from the town
ARKANSAS Republicans will meet in
State convention at Little Rock on July
2.
SAMUEL. ELKINs. who had served
twenty-four years in the penitentiary
on charge of ehild-murder, was par
doned BY Governor F CT. Of Illinois, on
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
The Price of AIIigators.

So many aliigators are shot for the
mere sport of shooting in the Southern
States that they are becoming scarce,
and it is only in unfrequented streams
ana inapenetrable swamps that they are
now numerous. The demand for full
grown alliga.ors for Northern museums
and aquariams begins with the warm
days of spring, and many an alligator's
retreat has been carefully marked by
the alligator catcher, who, when the
signs are ripe. will dig the saurians out
and sell thesn at from 81 to 81 per foot
according to the length Of the animals.
Savannah (Ga.) News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
THE KAISER is ANGRY.

lie Threatens bismarck with Punishment
If He Reveals State Secrets.
BERLIN. May 12.-Emperor William
has SEPT personal letter reminding
Prince Bismarck that he is liable to Sc
we're punishment under an amendment
20 the penal code of his own making, If
ne makes public or causes to be pub
lished any knowledge regarding State
matters gained by him during his official
life. The Emperor refers to the an
nouncement that Bismarck is about to
make public the complete story of his
dismissal from the Chancellorship, to-
gether with the events which led to It
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

Rev. JoHS PRINCE. a Methodist min
lister eighty years Of age, and Mrs.
Cynthia Wood. eighty-four years OF age,
and mother Of a member of Parliament.
were married recently in Montreal
They were lovers when the century
was young, but their parents forbade
their match and they parted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

A SHOE factory At New Canaan, Conn.
has just made pair Of shoes for Char
lOtte ~. c. man. They are the big
gest ones ever made. The size is No.
- Each shoe is 20 inches long and :
inches wide. The man who is 10 wear
them is a clergyman. 6 feet 10 inches
tall, and weighs 40 pounds, and the
county in which he dwells is a roomy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

A NAN named Fields, who died re-
Gently near Danville, KY, never, it is
said. though sixtv-seven years old,
slept single night out of the house in
which he was born. and never ate but
one meal away from home. lie was out
side af his native county but twice, and
then only FOR an hour each time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

ANNA G. BEACRETT, who seems TO
know says that the side-saddIe was in
troduced in England BY Anna. Of Bo-
hernia, who was deformed and who mar
ried Richard ii. The divided skirt,
then. must not be the novelty which its
inventors claim il TO be.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
LATER.


In the United States Senate on the
18th the greater part of the day was de-
voted to the consideration of the bill
authorizing the issue of Treasury notes
on deposits of silver bullion. Mr..
Pluub (Kan.) introduced bill ito de-
clare the unit of value in the United
States and to provide free coinage for
the standard silver dollar" In the
House the tariff bin was further dis
cussed. the debate being limited to five
minutes each.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Senegal say
that the Senegalese King had been MUIR
dered by his subjects.
REUBEN X. THRALI, the oldest prac-
ticing attorney in the United States,
having been in active work since 1919,
died on the 18th at Rutland, VT
FIVE farmers were killed on the 18th
in fight with a number of Chickasaw
cowboys on the South Canadian river,
near Ok lahoma City, Ind. T.
A HURRICANE on the 18th destroyed
many houses at jefferson City. Mo-, I'M
rooted the State-House and penitentiary
hospital. and in the immediate vicinity
many barns were leveled.
AN engineer. two firemen and two
brakemen were killed on the 18th in a
collision between freight trains near
Chattanooga, Tenn.
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that the
schooner Eliza Mary was driven on the
reefs at Mallicaio in the New Iebridcs
and ffty-one of the seventy-fve persons
on the schooner were killed by saw
ages.
IT was said on the 18th that at least
thirty persons persisted in the recent
burning Of the Chenango County poor
house at Preston, y. Y.
THE Republicans of the Sixth Kansas
distric: on the 18th nominated Webb
McNuli TO succeed Z. J. Turner in Con.
gress.
A TRAIN on the Kansas City & Col
orado road was wrecked on the 18th
near Clayton, Mo. and Richard Jones,
engineer. Richard Shellcraft, conductor.
and Arnold Garfield, fireman, were
killed.
IN the Third Pennsylvania district
on the I2th the Democrats nominated
Richard Vaux for Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr.. Randall's death.
E. l. CRIswELL was lynched by mob
on the 18th at Santa Maria. Cal, for
the murder of Constable Southland.
]. w. BROWN. wealthy farmer OF
Green township. Ind. was murdered
April %, 1879 His wife. on her death
bed on the 18th, confessed that she and
her two sons committed the murder in
order TO obtain the land and money
/ Brown was known 70 have
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

THE seventh annual report Of the Blu
reu OF Statistics of New York shows
that the total number Of strikes FOR FIVE
rs-ISs5-1Ss9-was asst OF this
number 4, 433 we're successful. 1.434 part
" successful, 5. SIS unsuccessful. and SO
pending. The number OF persons IN
gagged n these strikes was 81, O19.
The amount lost in wages was s.. 042,
QI5 80. The cost To labor organiza-
tions By reason Or strike benefits
and conduct Of strikes was sI.aI0.-
go. S. The estimated gain in wages
was SIS. 62S. O6O. -. The loss TO en-
ployers from all causes was s.. 49,
Qaa *
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

THE supply Of fire-crackers in the
United States is said 70 be more shan
half million boxes short Of the aver
age, owing 70 strike in the fa.tories
in China If there is any way of COM
municating with the strikers let them
be encouraged to hold out for about six
weeks vet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Fatal Accident at a Fort.

BRUSSELS, May 12. = The Allsises
Fort near Namur, where rebuilding
operations are being carried on, was the
scene of fatal accident Sunday. A
portion of the work collapsed and TWEEN
ty persons were buried in the debris.
Five corpses have been recovered from
the ruins Twelve other persons were
Injured
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
An Historic stove.

In an old mill at Springville, Vernon
County, is a stove of historic renown.
1t was formerly in old Fort Crawford,
now Prairie du CHEN. Around this
stove JEFF Davis used to tell stories to
his comrades. The stove weighs 1,265
pounds, and looks like an ordinary box
stove except its enormous size and
thickness. 1t has been in the mill for
upwards of twenty years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

PRIVATE RICHARDSON. the only Man
chester MAJ now surviving of the Gal
liant Six Hundred. served twelve years.
has no pension. is nearly blind, and
drifts from 7yOrk-hOuse to work-house.
A dozen otter survivors OF Balaklava
are paupers either in or out Of work
k.rnra-r.-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Rnrned to Death.

The farmhouse of John Mills, on the
outskirts of Shawano, was burned the
other afternoon. In it was his bed
ridden mother, aged so years, and a
young man named Harvey Harvey. The
latter was asleep, hut awoke in time to
make his escape. The old lady perish ed
in the flames. 1t was supposed the fire
originated from the old lady's pipe, as
she was an habitual smoker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Gnnd Mamie Trees

n. @. Grant, of East Wrightstown,
Brown County, tapped $40 maple trees
this year and made about $50 pounds of
sugar, or two and a half pounds to the
tree, a harvest the equal of which is
only secured about once in twenty years.
In comparison Mr.. Grant relates that
about fourteen years ago he tapped 300
trees and secured only AS pounds of
sugar from the lot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

JUsT now people who don't know
what Is the matter would do well.
saws the Chicago Inter Ocean, TO read
MP on patent medicines, and every
man his own doctor" The census
man will soon be along. and he will ask
you what diseases have yOu?" and
other pleasant questions regarding yoCr
corporal and mental complications,
Be sure You have your ''levator cabii
superior alignis nasi muscles" in order
So that ycu can tell the story in way
that will look well in print
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
The Loyal Legion.

The Loyal Legion of the State held
its annual meeting in Milwaukee re-
Gently and the officers chosen were:
Commander, Major C. ii. Arson, Mil
waukee; Senior Vice-Commander, Lieu
tenant w III. Upham, Marshfield; Junior
Vice-Commander, Captain g. f. Suther-
land, Milwaukee,; Recorder, Captain A.
Ross Houston, Milwaukee; Registrar
General, C. p. Chapman. Madison;
Treasurer, Captain Ed Ferguson, Mil
waukee; Chancellor A. S. Ludlow, Wau-
kesha; Chaplain, Rev. j. NJ. Williams,
Milwaukee,; Council. II. Il. Dregg,
George Allanson, w. II. Layton, +. ii.
Magdeburg and A. II. Hollister.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
To laval = statue of Grant.

CIScIsSATI, May 12.-General Sher-
man, president of the Society OF the
Army of the Tennessee, has issued
circular announcing that the twenty
third reunion OF the organization VIII
be held in Chicago during the latter
part of September or early in octeoer
next The occasion will be made mem
orable by the unwilling of the eques-
TRAN statue OF General Grant in Lin
coin Park, in the exercises OF when the
society has been invited to particlpae
The Iron Car Company OF Hunting
don, Pa. has failed. with iiapliltles o.
$l5o, 600
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

A RAILROAD train OF fifteen cars
would be required toconvey the food and
nOurishment which man blessed with
a moderate appetite consumes from the
time OF his birth TO the day when he
attaius the age of three-score years and
ten. Such at least is the calculation
which has just been made public by
Or. kuhneman, one Of the principal
professors Of the University of Berlin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Failure Of a ing Publishing House.

TOPEKA. Kan. May 12.-George w.
Crane & Co, of this city, the largest
printing and publishing house in the
West, has failed for 100000. Judge A.
y. Quinlan has been named as assignee.
Assets are claimed at s240, coo, but the
mercantile agencies say the amount will
not exceed so per cent. of liabilities.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
nine miles from Montreal, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th, and of the
1900 lunatics in the building fifty were
burned to death.
FURTHER advices of the 18th say that
$50 persons persisted in the recent fire
that destroyed the lunatic asylum at
Tongue Pointe, Can.
On the 9TH frauds involving the sum
of about SO, 900, 900 annually were said
to have been discovered in the customs
department at Buenos Ayres.
THE death of James Nasmyth, the
celebrated mechanical engineer and
inventor of the steam hammer, occurred
in London on the eth, aged 50 years.
Ar Havana. Cuba, severe drought
prevailed on the sth. and many cattle
were dying and fires were doing great
damage.
IN Paris on the 9th the Eiffel tower
was struck by lightning six times dur
ing a storm, but no damage was done.
IN the Italian Parliament the ques-
ton of taking the control of charitable
institutions from the priests and placing
it in the hands of the civil power was
arousing bitter controversy on the 9th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

THE Baptist Missionary Union in
Boston was surprised the other day BY a
lady and gentleman who walked into
the Office and left $. 900 which they said
their brother had intended to bequeath
the Union, but death overlook him be
fore he made his will What a whole
some lesson that is to lot Of heirs who
are every year invoking the aid of the
law 10 prevent the viii Of theirdead bene-
factor from being respected and obeyed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Guilty of Pension Frauds.

In the United States Court at Mil
waukee the other afternoon James ii.
Tourtillot and Joseph Gautier were
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud
the Government by persuading an In
dian woman named Frances Otter to
impersonate her dead mother and OBJ
tain pension. The case had been stub
bornly fought, and on former trial the
Jury disagreed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

THE site Of prehistoric village has
been discovered on the banks of the
Ohio river near Parkersburg. W Va II
covers about four acres, and the earth is
thickiy intermixed with fragments Of
pottery, streaks of ashes and fragments
Of bones Of animals and human beings
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

TuE Oldest man in the British navy is
now in his one hundre3th year Sir
Provo William Parry Wallis, e. c. b.
the senior Admiral Of the feet Is the
only survivor Of the famous naval
combat between her Majesty's ship
shannon and the American frigate
Chesapeake. of Boston harbOr. on June
/. 1878 He was the actual captor OF the
Chesapeake. the First Lieutenant OF the
shannon having been killed and the
Captain dangerously wounded. SO that
the American Captain surrendered 10
Wallis as the senior officer IN com
mand. The aged Admiral was born
n Halifax. \, :, on April -, 1871.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
SOUTH AMERICAS CHICAGO.
The Phenomenal Growth and Progress of
the CITY of Buenos Ayres.

The Phenomenal Growth and Progress of
the City of Buenos Ayres.
This is Chicago reduced to southern
latitude. When one goes to the Boca
and sees the shipping jammed and
wedged in the Riachuelo, he is remind
ed of the Chicago river. When he re-
turns by train along the waters edge
and goes out to Balgrano, passing two
riverside parks, he recalls again the
metropolis of the West, with its rail-
ways, pleasure grounds and palatial
residences along the lake shore. The
sun rises over river so broad that 1T is
Lake Michigan. From that river base
the city has shot out north, south and
west over broad and level plain,
doubling its population within a
decade, and developing an immense
volume of business. 1t is the most
important railway center of South
America. 1t is the outlet for the agri-
cultural produce of continental reaches
of wheat belt. 1t is thatchief saladero,
or slaughter-house, for the stock-rais-
ing pampas. 1t commands fluvial sys-
tenn exceeding in volume the water
shed of the Mississippi. Its commerce
The progress of Buenos Ayres is with
out precedent or parallel in the history
of South America. The population was
rs, 500 in 1857; III, 500 in 1869; 295, 900 in
1882, and it is at least $4,000 to-day.
Rio de Janeiro has been distanced in
the race for supremacy, and at the end
of another ten or twenty years Buenos
Ayres may be close behind Philadel-
phia and Chicago. The development of
the commerce of the city has been as
remarkable as the growth of population.
In 1850 the import and export trade of
the country, which mainly centers in
this port, amounted to S21, no, 900; in
1876 the aggregate was ISL, $50, 900; and
it is now S22s, 524, 013. The house valua-
tions from S37, 900, 600 in 1857 increased
to Ss46, 900, 900 in 1854; and in wealth
and resources the city has rapidly risen
from an inferior position to the fore
most place in South America. This
phenomenal progress has naturally had
the effect of stimulating the imagi-
nation of tho town. 1t has the largest
possible ideas of its own Importance
and its manifest destiny. The traveller
is abruptly informed that Buenos Ayres
is the biggest, handsomest and most
prosperous city in the Southern henri
sphere, Melbourne, Sydney, Rio de Ja-
metro, Montevideo and Valparaiso hav-
ing been outrivaled. As there is no city
in North America that receives proper
tionately as many immigrants, he is
warned that the position of New York
as the largest center of population on the
American continent is insecure. The
admission is reluctantly made that Mel
bourne, Sydney, and even despised Rio
have each a greater volume of com
merce than Buenos Ayres; but that fact
is explained on the theory that the Ar
gentine Republic is a country of unde-
veloped resources, and that twenty years
of additional progress and immigration
will make tie city the first in export
and import trade as it is already the
first in population of the Southern hem
isphere. Ayres Cor Y. Y.
Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
Found His Body ON the Beach.

The body of Charles Dietz, teacher
in the Lutheran school at Milwaukee
who disappeared April o, was found on
the beach two miles below St Francis
the other afternoon. Having become
somewhat dissipated of late it was be-
lieved that he committed suicide. He
leaves wife and three children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

Gold leaves, so thin that 2s2, 600 Of
them only made an inch in thickness,
wore fabricated, not long ago, by gold
baatsr of Berlin, and have since been on
exhibition. Each leaf is so perfect and
free from. holes as to be impenetrable
BIZ the strongest electric lighs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

At d recent duel between two young
men at Warsaw both fred and hit but
the bullet of one was fattened against
the eigar-case of the other, and the
bullet OF the other was turned aside By
the pocket-knife of his opponent The
seconds decided that the young men wers
not born TO kill each other, and declared
the affair OF.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A BANK FAILS.
The Cashier Has Departed and Left an
Unse.uraa Nata A~as.a nh.

The Cashier Has Departed and Left an
Unsecured Note Behind Him.
The doors OF the private bank of
Charles A. Mather & CO.. at Berlin. were
not opened at the usual hour the other
morning, and card on the middle pam
ell announced to the public that the firm
had assigned to Joseph Yates. A few
minutes later 1t became known that
Joseph NJ. Hawley, junior member of
the house. had fled the city. The assets
were placed by the assignee at $4,000
and the liabilities at 100000 A letter
had been received from Joseph NJ. Haw-
ley confessing that he misappropriated
the bank funds, that he lost the money
in deals in Chicago and Milwaukee, and
that he was en- route for Cuba.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

THERE are tri Ks in all trades and
that Of boCk-making is no exception.
Charles SoLthern. the hibliophile. says:
There IRE authorizations in my trade
against which we have 10 fight. They
will bini old books in handsome bind
and theI. age the latter with chemicals
until they look a il they had come
out OF III. last century. They repro
duce whole books By photogravure or
gelatine processes and print them
upon old paper, or upon new paper
that has been aged artificially until
a fac smile is brought forth that
will deceive any one but the ex-
merit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

JONI WARREN. who sells newspapers
on the Derby railroad between New
Haven and birmingham, Conn. and who
Is now in his eighty-second year, is cut
ting his third set Of teeth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

JONI Il. PAEsHALI- a compositOr in the
Delhi IN. " Gazette Office, recently set
up the notice OF three golden weddings.
He set up the marriage notices of the
same couples fifty years ago-a remark
able coincidence
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15

WASHINGTON, May 12.-The army APP
preparation bill was passed by the Sen
ate Saturday, with Senator Hale's tMe.)
amendment excluding the sale OF
liquors. beer or wine at army posts.