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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-18
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IL his speech opening the session of
the Italian Parliament King Hum bert
said the recent elections for members
of tho Chamber of Deputies had rem
dered the state more solid than ever.
In the Black sea the steamer West
burne was hemmed in by ice and
twenty-one of the crew were frozen to
death.
MARSHALL. IT, GILLoU and his wife
were found dead in the woods near Hal
flax, n s, and beside them was an
empty laudanum bottle.
On the 10th Mr.. Parnell and his party
arrived in Dublin, md Mr.. Parnell
seized the plant of L United Ireland,
he being a director r the company own
ing the paper, and deposed Acting Ed
itor Bodkin. The anti-Parnellites So
cured assistance and returned and re-
captured he newspaper office.
OK the 18th Mr.. Parnell left Dublin
for Cork, but previous to his departure
he and his friends stormed the Office of
United Ireland, which had been recap
tured by the anti-Parnellites, and once
more took possession Ct the paper.
Is the Swiss Republic Or. Welt has
been elected President and NJ. Hauser
Vice-President for 1891.
BY the burning of a factory at
Cameilow. Poland, eight persons lost
their lives.
AT Sherbrooke, Ont, William Wall
lace Blanchard was hanged for the muir
der of Charles A. Calkins on November
IS, 1889.
OK the coast of Sardinia eleven per-
sons were killed. fifty injured and many
houses and vessels wrecked by heavy
/ storms.
IL the state of Guatemala over 10000
cases of smallpox We're reported and
1.200 deaths had occurred in the city Of
Guatemala.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

IT was said the total population of
the country, including Indians, etc,
would reach 63 O0O OO0
THE death Of Spencer Morton Clark,
who designed and printed the first
greenback. occurred at his home near
Washington, aged so years.
Ar the War Department reports were
received that the hostile Indians were
giving evidences OF submission. Gen
erll Brooke stated that the Indians near
White river had turned loose the cattle
which they stole, and were preparing to
come to the agency.
II his annual report the chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry says the
year passed without the discovery of
pleurO-pneumonIa in any new district
The expenses during the year were
SPA SIS, and 2sS $40 animals were in
spected. The report says There is no
foot and mouth disease in the United
States and has been none since 1854"
II the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered S74. againet 3l2
the preceding week End 300 the corre-
spending week last wear.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the weel, ended on the 18th aggregated
81, lsG. 74O, S9l. against S1.25a.e12.559 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1889 the increase
amounted to A.
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THE FAST

Polk WILSON was sent to jail At Cham
bersburg, Pa, for eighty days under the
''hlue laws act of 1894 for swearing
eighty profane oatns.
NENABIE * HEYMAN. Wholesale liquor
dealers in New York, failed for $500, 900.
and Henry Siebert, a tobacco dealer.
failed for $3.50 600.
THE death Of II. F. Shaw. inventor of
seamless stockings and the machine to
knit them. occurred in Lowell. Mass.
THE firm of Peck, Martin & Co., brick
manufacturers at New York, failed for
$500. OOl.
The Irish-American Parliamentary
Fund Association in New York, through
which such generous contributions have
been made to ireland, declared against
Parnell.
Ara railway crossing in Bristol Pa,
five persons were struck by an express
train and killed.
THE hig clothing establishment of the
5. T. Barnahy Company at Providence
L. l., was Quilted b. fire, causing los
of 100000 One fireman was killed.
The death Of Mary Brown occurred
in Providence, L. l.. at the age of TO-
years.
EIGHT large stores and nineteen of
I fees at Pottstown, Pa. were destroyed
10y fire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-18
THE MAN OF MUSCLE.
The Standing of the College Ath'e
Among His Fellows.

The Standing of the College Athlete
Among His Fellows
The athlete in a recitation is very
amusing When he enters some admirer
usually whispers TO his confidant:
Look at him, isn't he dandy?" The
athlete always looks too large for His
chair in the classroom. You wonder
why it does not break down. The book,
too, seems all out of place in his big
hands, and a pencil looks positively
funny as he handles it. He wears an
air of patronage, as if intellectual pur-
suits were well in their way, and
thing to be encouraged, even interest
ing on occasions, but just little I'M
worthy a man of muscle.
lie likes to stretch out his big limbs
and watch them in repose, knowing
how much they can do when occasion
requires. The professor even defers
to him little unable to refuse his
instructive homage to power, even
though it be physical. When he strolls
across the yard men look out OF their
windows after him. He is pointed out
to the young lady visitors, and the fair
creatures look with awe upon the god
like being whom they have seen bat
thing in mud and gore for the honor of
Harvard in superhuman fashion.
The athlete during his season of
activity does not study much. He has
to reserve his energies for physical eff
fort He can neither smoke nor drink.
About all that is left him is to talk
athletics, and for this purpose he can
get plenty Of listeners, but when four
o'clock in the afternoon comes he is in
his element. And from four to six he
tolls away like young giant Boston
Traveller
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HIS QUEER PATIENT.
Physician Relates Ills Singular Expe
rienee with a Momln of Eashlon.

Physician Relates Ills singular Expe
rienee with "A woman of Fashion.
MY funniest patient?' said the doe
tor. well, that question is something
of facer. You newspaper fellows do
ask the aueerest questions"
Tell ne, Doc" urged the scribe,
about TIE most singular patient you
have or ever had, as the case may be-"
II see," said the doctor, thoughtfully,
''you are bound to stick TO me like a
vampire until l tell you something,
so here goes. A certain woman who
lives on West Fifty-seventh street has a
mania for every thing extraordinary.
She is what you would call beautiful
woman, but don't believe she has even
an apology for a soul Whether her
husband realizes the latter fact do not
pretend to say, and if he does he has too
much pride TO confess it to the world.
Well, this woman came to me one morn
ing with a little vial and requested mo
to inject some of its contents in both OF
her arms and neck. OF course | in
quired what the liquid might be. She
answered.
That's all right; will give you fifty
dollars if you will do it,
"'But, madam. protested; 4 am not
in the habit of injecting unknown fluids
into the human system
Oh, / know what it is she an
swered and, moreover. / don't want it
ply want it administered under tho
skin
II looked at her moment and won
dered, though she did not look like one,
If she was morphine fend. She
seemed to divine my semi-suspicion and
said: No, it is no kind of morphine.
Smell of it,
"She held the little vial in her own
hand to my nostrils, which inhaled a
potent fragrance in which rose oil was
represented. You see, she explained,
Il have friend who has just returned
from Paris whore She has seen this
thing successfully done. Come, here
is fifty -dollar note. Do you refuse?'
Now, you as a newspaper man
know the value Of fifty dollars and so
do |. 1t seemed wise for me to say No.
but | secured the necessary instrument
and told her | would comply with her
request at her own peril All right
she answered, and in five minutes /
had completed my novel task. She had
an idea, you know, that her arms and
neck would exhale delicious perfume
and she went away as happy as two
days'-old butterfly
I'm about a week she came back and
wanted me to inject some more of the
potent essence in her arms and neck.
On her RIGHT arm | noticed an in
famed spot just where the previous
injection had been made. and told her
that it looked as if an abscess was form
ing there.
"'Never mind, she said, I want to
find out if there is any thing in it,
''Then | firmly declined to pursue the
experiment She departed in state of
wrath, and | have not seen her from
thatday to this. She was my fun niest
patient"-N. V Press.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
FlFTTFIRST CONGRESS.


WEDNESDAY,, Dec. 10.-Bills were in
trodueed in the Senate to provide for
coinage at the branch mint at Den
yer, Col; TO amend the silver act of last
session. and 10 define the line of the
army and TO increase its efficiency, the
number Of enlisted NJ not to exceed
80 600. The House bill 70 authorize the
payment OF drawback or rebate on to-
baccO was passed In the House a bill
was introduced 70 restore the law in re-
lation 20 importations OF tin-plate as it
was before the Mckinley bill was
passed A bill for tie relief Of the
mission Indians in California was
passed }. W. Hathaway, Of Montana.
was elected postmaster Of the House.
THURSDAY. Dec. II. In the Senate
a bill was reported favorably APP
prOpriating $500, 90 for the education
OF children in Alaska A resolution
was presented TO inquire into the prac-
ticability and the adyisability OF estab-
fishing postal savings banks The
elections bill was again discussed In
the House bills were passed TO prevent
the manufacture OF counterfeit dies and
mods; providing penalty for any per-
son who shall violate the election laws
Of States, and the Notifications bill.
Bills were introduced to pay to the
widow of Chief-Justice Waite the bal
ance Of the salary for the year in which
he died. and 70 readiust the salaries of
pOstmasters-
FRIDAY. Dec. I2.-The resolution to
ascertain whether the right to vote at
any election was denied to any legal
voter in the country was discussed in
the Senate. as was also the election
bill. The House bills for public
buildings at Dave nport, Ia. and Bloom
ington. H., were reported favor
ably. In the House the reapportion-
ment bill. based on a representation of
356 members OF the House. was favora-
bly, reported. Bills were introduc i to
revive the grade of Northumberland
Of the army: 10 establish a limited post
and telegraph service. and providing that
applications for citizenship shall be al
vertised 80 that persons wishing to OPP
pose the granting Of naturalization pa
pers may be notified when to appear,
and that applicants for naturalization
shall pass a satisfactory examination
on the history Of the United States. the
Federal constitution and the constitu-
tion Of the State where the applicant
resides.
SATURDAY, Dec. 13.-Bills were in
trlduced in the Senate To establish
record and pension Office in the War De
partm and to establish a marine
board for the advancement of the inter
ct of the merchant marine The cleo
tions bill was further discussed. In the
House the bill to provide for the inspec
ton of live cattle and beef products in
tended for export TO foreign countries
was defeated.
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LATER
KIIIed by the Police.

SrANDING Rock AGENCY, y. D., Dec.
16.-The particulars Of the death OF Sit
ting Bull are now fully known There
was, cruel as it may seem, complete
understanding from commanding ofli-
Ger to the In0ian police that the slight
est attempt 10 rescue Sitting Bull
should DC a signal to seud the old med
icine man to the happy hunting ground,
Sitting Bull after he was captured and
as soon as ne saw the Indians moving
towards him. made despesate attempt
TO join them, but the police, obeying
their instructions to the letter. made a
good Indian q him without delay. The
police then ran to cover. and the caval-
ry began firing at the reds with a
Hotchkiss and Calling gun, the savages
having retreated out of reach of the
small arms
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WEST AND SOUTH.

THE Legislature passed over the veto
OF Governor Steele the bill locating the
capital Of Oklahoma at Kingfisher.
MIR AND Mrs. T. T. ToDp of Sioux
City. la. and their daughter. Mrs. Stay
ten, were run over and killed by train
at Minneapolis. MIMI
FIRE Destroyed Kittle & Co.'S linseed
o I Orks at san Francisco, causing a
loss Of $500. GOO.
IL session at New Orleans the Ma
tional Board Of Trade passed resOlu-
lions in favor Of reciprocal trade regula-
tions; of revision Of the National bank
ing laws; OF a postal telegraph and
penny postage on local delivery letters.
and in favor Of a unification of the mon
etary systems of the leading CONNER
Cial nations
AT GAINESVILLE, Tenn. the Franklin
Bank failed for $500, OOO; assets, $780,
GOO
q. +. ARCHEE's three sons. aged 10,
Is and 3 years respectively, were
drowned in the Delaware river at VAL
ley Falls. Kan, while crossing on the
ice.
Is the jail yard at Meridian, Miss,
Crouch. was executed
Louis SCOTT shot his wife and killed
himself az Kalamazoo, Mich. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
FLAMES at SaniuslSy, O. destroyed a
gram elevator and 8, OJ0. 0J0 feet of lum-
Der. Total loss. 500. 90.
Az unknown man at Tennyson. Ind.
Just before his death made the state
ment that be vas the murderer of John
r Bildcrbach' near Fort Branch. Ind.
twenty years ago, for which crime
Thomas Camp was hanged. Camp as
serted his i~uocC nee on the sCafTold.
CHARLEY JoPIIN shot and killed at
Jenny Lind Ark. John Miller, Miller's
wife and grown daughter, DR.. Stewart
ami a man whose name was not learned.
FIVE persons in all Afterward he killed
himself.
JouN L. NJ IRsY. tIe Farmers Al
lance candidate. was elected United
States senator by tn South Carolina
Legislature. This retires senator Wade
Hampton. VINO has represented the
State in the National senate for three
terms.
AT Pine Ridge Agency. :. d, reports
we're received on the nth that the hos
tile Indians hal been fighting among
themselves in the Bal Lands. The
fight was for the leadership between
I Two Strike and Short Bull. and the re-
suit was from twenty 70 Fifty dead In
dams.
A FIGHT took place on the 18th four
miles north Of Pine Ridge agency in
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STEAM QUOTED THEM.
A Ter ibIe Brute Battle on Board of n
Ohio River Steamboat.

A erribIe Brute Battle Board of an
Ohio River Steamboat.
An old sailor, who gave the following
description of a terrible brute battle
which he witnessed fifteen years ago,
said that it made him trembie as no
storm at sea had ever done. The scene
of the fight was the main deck of
steamboat on the Ohio river during the
transportation of John Robinson's
Great Worlds Exposition" of animals
The combatants were the huge war ele-
phant Emperor" and a monster two
horned rhinoceros, and their encounter
made strong men pale.
Dead, wounded and dying horses and
ponies strewed the deck in every direc-
ton; cages destroyed and literally
smashed into fragments were scattered
among the dead, wounded and dying, and
the terrible shrieks, grunts and groans
plainly told that the battle was fiercely
ranging. It seemed as if every cage on
the boat would be totally destroyed.
At this juncture loud crash was
heard, and the two cages containing the
sea-lions and the Labrador seals were
pushed overheard. Mr.. Robinson seem
ed to be very cool for man who was
witnessing the wholesale destruction of
his property, but when he saw his sea
lions and seals dashed overheard he
decided that patience was no longer a
virtue, md ordered the combatants fired
upon.
A heavy volley was discharged, which
had no other effect on the monsters,
now thoroughly aroused. than to make
fher,, FrrE4 oil tho ,,,,-a III.
situation was getting every moment
more dangerous for all on board, and the
propr etors had almost despaired of ever
separating the animals, when it occurred
to some one to open the steam pipes and
deluge them with steam.
The engineer was instructed 10 turn
on the steam. and as il suddenly escaped
from the boilers with terrific roar the
elephant was heard to give a shrill,
trumpeting screech, such as elephants
always utter in crying for mercy when
conquered in their native wilds.
Whether the animal had received its
deathblow from the rhinoceros. or was
frightened into submission by the steam,
could not be ascertained until il had
cleared away. Then there was disclosed
70 the astonished gaze of the showmen
CURIOUS and gratifying sight
There lay the huge elephant on tho
deck. covering and trembling. uttering
means of pain and fright, while little
beyond was the quaking rhinOceros
snugly ensconced in his cage, whittier
he had retreated utterly cowed, the in
slant the steam was opened on him.
The attendants sprang quickly for
ward, and closed and bolted the door of
his cage, thus securing themselves from
further molestatiOn from i'm. The
horses, ponies and smaller animals that
had been killed in the battle we're east
overheard the deck was washed and
quiet once moro restored, after one of
the hardest battles ever witnessed. -
Youths Companion.
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a HARDY OLD WHALE.
Carried "a Harpoon "a Its Body for Sixty


Carried Harpoon "a its Body for sixty
Years.
The steam whaler, Beluga, arri ed
from Behring sea, in San Francisco.
says the Chicago Herald, bringing the
remarkable news of the recovery of a
harpoon which had been thrown into
whale sixty years before in the South
seas. Every whaling vessel has its maine
stamped on the harpoons it uses. Last
August, in Behring sea, the Belugas
crew killed big whale in which was
found an old harpoon bearing the name
Moctezuma on 1t. The head Of the bar
pooh was perfectly preserved. but the
shank had been rotted away close to the
skin of the whale by the salt water.
The records show that the Moctezuma
quit whaling in the South seas sixty
years ago. She was New Bedford
craft. and while lying idle at the port
during the war she was bought by the
Government aud sent with other old
hulks down to Charleston barbor and
sunk at the entrance of the bay to break
up blockade running. The whale that
carried the harpoon for more than half
century proved formidable fighter.
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FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.

Two Men Killed and Two Seriously Hurt
in a Michigan Mine by Careless Hand
ling of Giant Powder.
ASHLAND, Wis. Dec. 16.-A box of
giant powder exploded in the Sunday
Lake mine at Wakefield, Mich. Mon
day. Two men were engaged in
opening a can of powder with
a chisel and a spark got into the
can. George Sage and John Fogel
were instantly killed and two others
were fatally injured. \. r. Roberts, of
Hurley, who was repairing telephone
wires in the vicinity, was thrown from
a pole and had two ribs broken.
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To0 large

" IttISS
the old-fashioned pill. Too
reckless in its way of doing
business, too. 1t cleans you
out, but it uses you up, and
your outraged system rises up
against it. DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets have a better way.
They do just what is needed
no more. Nothing can be
more thorough-nothing is as
mild and gentle. They're the
smallest, cheapest, the easiest
to take. One tiny, sugar
coated granule's a gentle lax
ative-three to four are ca
thartic. Sick Headache,
Constipation, Indigestion, Bill
ious Attacks, and all derange-
ments of the Liver, Stomach
and Bowels are promptly re-
lieved and permanently cured.
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A Valuable Man.

Strawber-That was a pretty good
trick that was played on a gas company
in Chicago. A fellow out there discon-
nected meter, put a rubber tube
around it. and for months they didn't
discover that he had been robbing
them.
singerly WHAT did they do with him
then?
Strawber-They made him one of the
directors of the company.
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O,E Of the most interesting items in
the annual report Of the Interstate
commerce commission Is that relating
a. railway accidents Prom this it APP
pear that during tac past year in the
I uited states 1879 employees were
killed and ao-oeS injured ont If 100000
persons i'm the service. Ai.out 500 IF the
American lines furnished responses To
questions touching the use of intoNi-
eating drinks. and So have regulations
prohibiting their use Il Is but a few
years since any road placed restrictions
ON the drinking habits Of theiremployeS.
hut such rules are now growing rapidly
IN favor
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A Hi~ neaIin Pine

A St Paul syndicate Of lumbermen
was negotiating for the purchase of
250, 600, 600 feet of stumplge near Ash
land. The price per thousand to be
paid was said TO have been agreed upon,
and the deal would be consummated as
soon as the estimates on amount Of
stumpage were accepted. The deal
would involve about 81, % o, coo.
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THE Philadelphia Record gives figures
showing how the dark continent has
been carved up by the rritory-rra bling
powers France comes first with ?, $780,
O1O square miles, Great Britain next
with 1903. O0O miles. then Germany
with 1,CS). 600 miles, and lastly Portgu-
ga, which gained only $4,000 miles by
the division Not even a professional
statistican can figure out where the
natives Of Africa come IN.
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THE T-ireet Hot springs inc.

Beginning Saturday, J'ec. 22ih. and ev-
cry Saturday thereafter, The Burling ton
Wi ran Pullman Sleeper from St. Paul
and Minn apoiis 10 hot Springs, ARK.
Everybody no wants TO go TO Hot Springs
81 uld lie ollect that .Ihe Burlington is
tie onl road by which you IAN reach the
= rings from the Northwest without change
q cars For Tickets, reservation IN Hot
Spin 5 Sleeper. ard further information
apply 10 the al agent, OF write 70 ". j.
g. Kenyon, Cenl Pass. Ascent, {. b. & n.
+. R. st. Paul, MINI.
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THE New York Herald is ..agin'' the
long-legged dOuble-cylin1erel panta-
loon It says. The best way to begin
a reform is with knee breeches. knick-
erbOckers a. something OF the sort
Ordinary trousers are an abOminatiOn,
a nightmare. They represent the dis
tressing dclirium of dress; are ungain-
". awkward. uncomfortable and alto
gether arrociouS1
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WAsuISeToN, Dee. i6.-The resolu-
tions adopted by the bar of the SUI
preme Court on the death OF Justice
Miller were on Monday presented to
the court by Attorney-tiencral Miller
and brief eulogies were uttered by
Chfef-.Tustice Fuller and others The
resolutions were ordered spread upon
the minutes.
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Will preaching at Nv Brunswick.
n J., Rev. DR. Strong said: "A man
might fall as easily a. star from
Heaven. The next instant be turned
pale, clutched at the pulpit and fell TO
the floor in "a Of apOplexy. lie died
the next morning.
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Ills Mind ma.Gonc-

Mrs. A.-So you say your landlord has
been put in the lunatic asylum?
Mrs. B.-Yes, poor man. As l told
you, for some time past we have had our
suspicious that he was little out of his
head. Last month he had some repairs
done to our fats, and he actually re-
duced the rent of one of the tenants five
dollars year. Next day the doctors
came and took him away to the asylum.
-Texas Siffip~rs
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VIcE President PRoCrOR OF the
Singer Sewing Machine Comp ny is
reported 70 be worth SIS, 900. COZ He
Shaved the inventors poverty with him
aud afterwards married his daughter.
Singers original capital was SD, which
f-rew 10 be so 900 con