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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

The Republican State convention IN
Portland, Ore, on the 10th renominated
Binger Hermann for Congressman at
large and ID. A. Thompson, of Portland,
was named for Governor.
OK the 10th Martin Futrell (colored)
was hanged at fernando, Miss, for the
murder of his wife.
THE charge that Oscar Neebe and Sam
uel Fielden, the Chicago Anarchists,
were treated with great cruelty by the
prison guards at Joliet was denied by
the prisoners on the 18th.
FRANCIS MURPHY said at Creston, Ia,
on the 18th that since he commenced
his campaign in Iowa last winter over
10000 persons had signed the pledge
DAVID VANEsT's barn, near New
Sharon. Ia, was burned on the nth,
and sixteen valuable horses were
cremated.
A DEMOCRATIC convention on the 18th
at Shoals, Ind, nominated John Il. Britt
for Congress from the Second district on
the 3S7th ballot
OREGON Democrats in State conven-
ton on the 18th at Independence nomi-
mated for Congressman n. l. Butler and
George Myers.
THE execution of Ben Elsey (colored)
took place on the 18th at Birmingham,
Ala, for killing ]. W. Meadows, a rail-
road contractor. last January. He had
murdered four other persons at various
stages OF his career.
Ar Cygnet o., wagon load of nitro
glycerine shells exploded on the 18th,
and two men were blown hundreds of
yards and nothing left of them but a
few strings of their clothing. The
horses were also killed.
1T was said on the 18th that gold had
been discovered on the farm of c. Ii.
Fisher. zen miles south of Aurora, Ill.
BEFORE James Dennis died at Wayne
town, Ind, on the 18th, he confessed
that he was the murderer of Mr. and
Mrs H. L. McMullin, for which act John
f. Coffee was hanged in 1885.
On the 18th twenty-one imported
breeding mares on the farm of n. p.
Clark at Brockway, Mimi, were burned
in their barn. Loss, So, 900.
On the 18th the wife and two children
of H. l.. Tells (colored) at Berlamont,
Mich, were burned to death in their
home.
AT Mishawaka, Ind, Mrs. Kempfer
while embracing her sister on the 18th
who had just arrived from Germany fell
dead from heart failure.
TENNESSEE Prohibitionists will meet
in State convention at Nashville June 4.
OVER TO- 900 colored people from Ala
bama would, it is said on the 10th,
settle in Oklahoma before July 1.
THREE miners. Jacob Williamson,
John Eustice and Nelson Akerson, were
suffocated on the goth by gas in mine
near La Sale, Ill.
THREE brothers at Pigeon Creek, w.
Va, Smith Baisden, John Baisden and
William Baisden, noted desperadoes,
were killed on the 10th while resisting
arrest.
FIFTY persons were injured, five
probably fatally, by the falling of a
bridge on the Goth at Springfield, o.
A MOB lynched Steve Jacobs (colored)
on the goth near Fayetteville, Tenn,
for incendiarism.
FLAMES swept away nearly the entire
town of St Elmo. Col, on the 10th.
A TORNADO swept over a portion of
Geneva County, Ala, on the 10Th, and
houses, barns and fences were torn to
pieces and nine persons were fatally in
iured.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
THE HELIOGRAPH.
How Military Signals Are Transmitted by
Means of Sunlight.

How Military Signals Are Transmitted by
Means of Sunlight.
eutenant Beall, of the local signal
Sc ice Office, has made requisition for
an instrument known as 1.-The hello
graph" and as soon as it arrives he will
begin experimenting with it with
view to establishing communication
with Fort Sheridan and various other
points from five to twenty miles distant.
The heliograph, which has long been
used by the Government, is an arrange
ment of mirrors whereby signals can be
transmitted from one point to another
on clear days by means of flashes of
sunlight.
A complete instrument consists essen
TALLY of two plane mirrors and sight
ing-rod. The mirrors are usually sup
ported on a tripod, and are fitted with
vertical and horizontal tangent screws,
by means of which the mirrors can be
turned on these supports so as to face
any desired direction toward the sky.
One of the mirrors is so mounted that a
motion OF three or four degrees about
its horizontal axis can be given il indie
pendently of the tangent screw, so that
the flash can be thrown on or off the re-
ceiving mirror quickly and at will. Both
mirrors of the instrument are used when
the signalman facing the receiving sta
ton has the sun at his back. When the
sun is in front or nearly at his right or
left, only one mirror is used.
A code of signals corresponding
to the Morse code of telegraphy is
used, combinations of long and
short flashes indicating the different
letters. The man at the sending-sta-
ton, by means of his sighting-rod, sue
ceeds in locating the mirrors at the re-
ceiving-station, and then communica-
ton is easily established.
The instrument has been used with
great success in Arizona and New Mex
leo, sometimes exchanging signals at
distance of forty miles. During the
pursuit of the blood thirsty Geronimo,
General Crooks men used it for the pur-
pose of keeping the regiments at head
quarters informed of the movements of
the Indians. The heliograph is used in
the signal-serv.ce department for the
reason that on smoky days, when it is
impossible to use the regular flags, the
instrument will throw flash through
the hazy atmosphere so as to be dis
tinctly seen at the receiving-station.
Lieutenant Beall does not expect the
instrument to work in this section of
country for distance of more than
eighteen or twenty miles.-Chicago
News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
The Great Hudson's Bay.

A Canadian surveyor who was engaged
in an official expedition to Hudson's bay
in 1855 and 1886 says few people have
any idea of the resources of tnis great
sea. Its shores are the ha Ints of the
musk OK, the moose, the reindeer, the
red deer, Che white bear and his black
brother, the otter, the beaver, saae mink,
the black fox, also the silver, gray and
white varieties, and other valuable fur.
bearing animals. Its waters are TEEN.
ing with the most valuable varieties OF
water mammals and fish. He has seen
the bay as far as the eye could reach
appear one undulaung mass of white
porpoises. Both the hides and the oil
Of these are very valuable. In SOME
parts of the bay and in the straits, the
shores of the islands are swarming with
walrus. Il has been reported by Prof.
Bell that on one island on the east coast
there was found to be thickly strewn
with the ivory tuska of the walrus. The
tusks are valuable, though the chief
value of the walrus lies in the hide,
which weighs on an average three hun
dred pounds and is worth from ten &C
twenty cents per pound.
Angler.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESS.


TUESDAY, April IA pension bill
was introduced in the Senate providing
that all persons who served in the
late war shall receive a service pen
sion of IS month and their widows Sl2
a month. The Montana election case
was further discussed. In the House
the naval appropriation bill was passed;
also a bill to define and regulate the
jurisdiction of the courts of the United
States.
WEDNESDAY. April 16.-In the Senate
Saunders and Powers tReps.) were seat
ed as Senators from Montana. House
bills were passed for public buildings at
Galesburg, Ill, Ashland, Wis, and
Grand Rapids, Mich. In the House the
Mckinley tariff bill was reported and
referred. As finally agreed upon the
bill places hides and sugar on the free
list and provides for the payment of a
bounty of two cents a pound on domes-
tic sugars. In the contested election
cases of Posey VS.. Parrett from the First
Indiana district and Bowen VS.. Buchan-
an from the Ninth district of Virginia,
Messrs- Parrett and Buchanan (Dems.)
were declared elected. The military
academy appropriation bill was passed
THURSDAY, April II. = The bill for
the retirement of John C. Fremont as a
MajOr-Gensral of the United States
army was passed in the Senate. A
joint resolution COR the appointment of
thirty medical examiners for the bureau
of pensions without reference to the
civil-service law was discussed. In the
House, after the reading of the journal.
a motion to adjourn as tribute of re-
spect 10 the memory of Samuel j.
Randall. whose funeral occurred at 10 a.
m, was adopted.
FRIDAY. April is. In the Senate
bills were introduced providing for a
monument to Commodore Perry at Put
Inlay, O.. and for the admission of
New Mexico as a State of the Union. 1t
was decided to consider the worlds fair
bill on the 21st. In the House the river
and harbor bill $50, 900. OOO) was re-
ported A bill 70 erect a public build
ing in every town in the United States
in which the postal receipts exceed
s., 900 year was favorably reported. At
the evening session fifty private pen
sion bills were considered.
SATURDAY, April 19.-The antitrust
bill and the bill appropriating 500, 600
for an equestrian statue in Washington
to General Grant were reported favor
ably to the Senate. In the House trib-
utes of respect to the memory OF 8 S.
Cox. of New York. were paid. The anti
trust bill was favorably reported.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

JAMES WEIGH. of Middletown. Conn,
having been told that the force of dyn-
amite explosion was downward, made a
practical test OF this principle a few
days ago by boring a big hole into a
monstrous gnarled log. into which he
put lot of dynamite. ignited a short
time fuse and carelessly sat down astride
one end of the log. Soon WEIGH and
the log assembled in curve about thirty
feet. In the descent the position of the
couple was reversed. WEIGH ar
rived at earth first. the log fol-
lowed, and Welch says it thumped
him several times after he was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
The snaiI's Tenacity of Life.

The snail is blessed with very great
powers of vitality. A case is recorded
of an Egyptian desert snail which came
to life upon being immersed in warm
water, after il had passed four years
glued to card in the British Museum.
Some specimens in the collection of a
naturalist revived after they had APP
parently been dead for fifteen years, and
snails frozen for weeks together in solid
blocks of ice have recovered on being
thawed out The eggs Of this creature
are as hard to destroy as himself. They
seem perfectly Indifferent to freezing,
and have been known to prove pro-
ductive after having been shriveled up
in an oven 70 the seInblance of grains of
sand. Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

JAMES HINES took up squat claim
in Arkansas. He was warned of, but
decided not to 60. and he held out for
three years During that time he was
shot at thirty-three times. wounded
four times, had his cabin set on fire
twice, his wife was driven TO suicide
and his boy ran away. and at last the
man grew weary and hanged himself
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

THE name Of a Cingalese gentleman
who has been appointed By Queen Vic
tOria TO a seat in the Legislative Coun-
Gil OF the Island of Ceylon is Panabokke
Samastawikrama Karumatilaka Abhay-
swar,lnan Bhuwanasekara Jayasundara
MudIyanselaye Tikiri Banda Ratema-
hatmeya, and Oriental courtesy demands
that the full patronymic should be used
WI enever there is occasion to address a
naive dignitary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

MO0ERN science. though still rather
too speculative, has now arrived at the
more rational conclusion that 70 take
blood from a sick man gives him but
temporary relief, while it renders him
less able TO battle with the disease. In
cases where it is necessary to lower the
hearts action las when there is an in
ternal wound with hemorrhage) this
may be proper; but it is now admitted
that venesectiOn las it is called is a
remedy often worse than the disease
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

BENJAMIN DARLING. who died N the
city asylum at WOonsocket, K. l., re-
Gently at the age of eighty-twO years,
invented the revolver type of pistol
half century ago. He manufactured
the arms at WoOnsOcket, but they failed
as business venture in his hands 1t
is the same principle which made
samuel Colt. of Hartford. a rich man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
THE sMlTnERs' BABY.
A Record of the Bright Sayings of
Infant Phenomenon.

A Record of the Bright Sayings of an
Infant Phenomenon.
Here are the latest bright sayings of
Smithers' boy:
"Willie," said Smithers at the break
fast table, ..aren't you going to school
to-day?"
''of Torso not. To-day's Satiddy."
For once Smithers had to acknowledge
the boy had the best Of him, for it soas
Saturday.
When Willie got down on his knees
the other night to say his prayers, for
some reason or another he would not re-
peat snow / Lay Me-"
''Come, Willie" said Mamma, ''say
Now / Lay Me-
"No, Mamma" returned the little
one, II tan't tell lie. I'll say: Now
Kneel Me-"
Mamma was so convulsed that she
had to hide her head under the pillow
to keep from laughing.
Ill
Papa" said Willie the other morn
ing as his eye caught sight Of his IA
Tiers bald head, why don't you wear a
mat on your roof? ?" 1t was said so cum
ningly that Papa had not the heart to
beat the child for the impudence of it.
"
Willie's little cousin, Sarah, visited
him lasl week but he would not play
with her.
Don't you like Sallie, Willie?"
asked Grandma.
"No." said Willie. with a scornful
glance at little Sarah's dress. ''She
looks like spider-legged pen wiper"
Poor little Sallie cried heart-broken
at this, but Grandma was so amused she
swallowed one of her teeth.
The pastor of our church dined with
us on Sunday. and Willie electrified US
all by asking him for a button.
"Why, Willie, | haven't any button"
''Yes you have" said Willie, II put
one in the plate this morning, and Pop
says he knows you pocket the church
collections"
The effect on Pop" may be readily
imagined.
Willie has a great way about him of
making people who ask him silly ques-
tions see how silly they are. The other
day friend of the family while calling
noticed the little fellow standing in the
door way of the parlor.
why" she said, lis this Willie?"
Now, as Willie is an only child there
was but one answer, but Willie seeing
the absurdity of the question promptly
replied;
mo; I'm John Wanamaker."
1t is not often that such quickness at
repartee is found in child of Willie's
age.
These are all Mr.. Smithers has sent
us lately. Others will be printed as
they come along.-Jury.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
A Pinary Den Rurned.

Charles Barker's place, near Eau
Claire, one of the most notorious pinery
lens in that section, was burned at 4
o'clock the other morning. 1t was sup
posed it was set on fire by the inhabit-
ants of the neighborhood. The occu-
pants. ten women, barely escaped. The
place had been nuisance this spring.
and scene of continual fighting and
robbery. Bankers wife owned the
place since his narrow escape from
State prison as keeper of the place a
year apO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

Az English photographer claims to
have obtained a photograph in which
the natural cOlOrs were reproduced when
the exposure was made BY accident, just
az the moment when there came a
binding fash of lightning lie says
that friend Of his once got a cOlored
plate under similar circumstances, and
believes that electricity has to do with
phOtographing colors-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
Death of DIR. j. T.. Brenton.

DIR. j. L. Brenton, aged 20 years. one
Of Beloit's oldest and most widely-known
physicians, died at noon the other day
from pneumonia. He was member of
the pension examining board of that
district and served as surgeon in the
army during the war, being surgeon-in-
chief of the Second division under Gen
eral Gibbon when mustered out of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
AN HISTORIC TOMB.



It's Ruins Can BE Seen About One Mile
from Prairie du CHEN.
As one passes along the main trav-
sled road leading to the upper end OF
the Drairie, about a mile distant from
Prairie du CHEN. he can see bit of
ground inclosed within a pile of rock
and debris on the right hand side OF the
way. II ones curiosity should lead him
TO investigate this lonesome spot, he
would find the ruins of the tomb Of a
once prominent and influential charac-
ter in the great Northwest, and aleader
Of the British troops under Colonel Nc
Kay, who captured the American fort
and forces at Prairie du CHEN in 1912.
The tomb is that of Jean Joseph Rou-
iette. heavy marble slab, overrun
with weeds and underbrush and half OBJ
liberated, marks the spot where sleeps
she hero of many hard-fought ba tile.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

Lottie Morgan, who had been living
with Johnny Sullivan, Hurley poll
tician, for the past three years, was
murdered at Ashland the other night
Her body was found the next morning
in Sullivan's saloon, her head having
been split with an axe. The diamonds
in her ears, and on one of her fingers
were undisturbed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

THE New York Association of Work
Ing Girls is composed of eighteen clubs.
with total membership of 2,635. The
association has rented Is whole houses
and Is rooms It has Isl classes in
dress-making, sewing, cooking, etc, %
libraries, music clubs. IL p-ovident and
benefit schemes and u resolve clubs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

DE-. GATLING, the inventor OF the
famous gun that bears his name, is an
old man of about eighty years, with a
wealth OF snowy hair and a smooth
shaven face. His creation made him rich
and celebrated and almost revolution
lied modern warfare So great factor
It was in military science that the mo-
ment il was introduced it was copied
wholesale. The mitrailleuse, Maxim.
NOrdenfeldt, IIotehkiss Krupp and
Armstrong patterns are mere limitations
of his original idea His home is in
Hartford, Conn, and he is everywhere
well-known as a wealthy relic of the
war DAYS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
THE SIGHT OF DEATH.
A Cruel Blow Thrust Upon Too Many Sem
sitive Children.

sitive Children.
All through my childhood was docile
toward the supernatural, wondering
about it, With great signs in my little
breast, but | think i should not have
feared it SO much if man who died
next door to us had not been Laid out"
in such chilly shroud, and had not
been so repelent in death. At least,
know that the first fright my spirit got
was when my father lifted me up, a
child not five years old, and held me
quite close down to see what was inside
that coffin. / never had blow that
struck so deep as did that sight; ! never
had had a burn that scared so, nor a
pain that tingled like it. Young as
was, something in me akin TO high
dignity, resented this rude introduction
to what then seemed the King of Ter
rors." / never said it, but | always
felt | had received an injury, suf-
fered a wrong. On pleasant sum
mer days. out in the bright, sun
shiny weather, thoughts ''too deep for
tears" have come to me when | remem-
bered seeing that 1t seems to me that
we intrude upon the royal little heart lOf
childhood when we thrust upon it such
cruel blow. Always since then, in
spite OF all my faith and the fervors l
have known religiously, there is about
the thought of death the clammy hor-
ror STAMPED upon me when ! saw that
face. So / unused much why these
things were, and could but wonder. if
we had a God so kind, why He should
make us fair and sweet as children,
bright and happy in youth, serene and
strong in middle-life and then send US
away like that! | have often heard
good people say they thought it neces-
sary TO take their children early to a
funeral" but why they must do this
can not see. If the first sight of death
could be some sweet and lovely face,
such as / have sometimes beheld since
then, the inprossing of childhood's
plastic little nature would surely be far
more in keeping with what we believe
death really is.-From Frances L. Will
ards Autobiography.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

It seems that the truly-cultured BOs-
ton woman never carries any thing home
when shopping Says one of them:
''Once had a piece OF tape sent home,
and once had a tspe-needle sent 10 my
house" lit doesn't so much matter
from the dry-gOods store" said her
friend. They are sending, any way;
but. as true as You live, I saw a woman
in a market order one ounce of pepper,
and they had to get out a wagon 20 send
il to the next street TO her. IL il was in
the morning il wouldn't SO much matter;
but to order home in the afternoon one
ounce Of pepper can't forget it, She
had her muff. too"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
smoked Himself to Death.

An s-year-old son of Arad Smith, of
Ettrick, Trempealeau County, was
missed several hours recently. Diligent
search was made and he was found
in the smoke house where he had shut
the door and built a fire. 1t was sup
posed ne was unable to open the door
and was suffocated by the smoke. All
efforts TO resuscitate him were unavail-
inn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

PHILOLoGISTs estimate that the Ger
man language is now spoken by about
90. 900, 600 people, the French by -, OOO.-
600 and the English by 10. 900. 900. The
number speaking the English language
has increased much more rapidly
throughout the world in the past fifty
years than those speaking other Ian
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
Prairie Fires.

Prairie fires started recently in tn,
vicinity of Chippewa Falls, and unless
there was rain soon much damage would
be done. At Morey, eight miles dis
tant, all the farmers were fighting fire
to save the farms and houses. 1t was
learned that destructive fires were
raging at other points in the State.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

Morton reads more newspapers than any
other man in Washington, accounts in a
great measure for the intelligence neces-
sary in the accumulation of so large a
fortune. Now, would-be milliOnaires.
now, is the time to subscribe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

FRESH cold water is a powerful alb
sorbent of gases A bowl of water
placed under the bed OF the sick-rOom
and frequently changed is among the
valuable aids in purifying the air. The
room in which the London aldermen
sit is purified by open vessels of water
placed in different parts of the room.
Ii can be easily inferred from this that
water standing for any length of time
in a close room is unfit for drinking.
Experiments of this kind are not cost
ly. Ii has frequently been observed
that restless and troubled sleep has
been corrected by placing an open
vessel Of water near the head of the bed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
Missing Eta walker Found.

Eta Walker, the girl who disap-
peared the other day from Boscobel on
the eve of her marriage, was found at
o'clock the next morning, bat could
give no account of herself, as to
where she had been. being in COM
pletely dazed condition. Fred Stahel,
who was to have married her, would not
fulfill his engagement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24

THE pet names of the four baby States
are as follows: North Dakota is the
''Flickertail State" South Dakota is
the ''Swinge Cat State" Washington is
the Chinook State" and Montana is
the ..Stuhhed Toe Stater