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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

AT a factory near Turin, Switzerland
quantity of balistite, the new ex
plosive, exploded on the 18th, and four
teen persons were instantly killed and
many others were injured.
IRIsH-CANADIANs formed an associa
ton on the 14th at Montreal with the
primary object of securing the annexa
ton of Canada to the United States.
THE scull race between Kemp and
Mclean for 81. 900 a side and the cham,
pionship of the world took place on the
18th at Sydney, n. S. w, and was wor
by Kemp.
DAVID CATHAM, who died at Ham
burg. Germany, at the age OF 101 years
was buried on the 18th.
On the 10th the city of Tomsk in West
ern Siberia was almost completely de
stroyed by food and fire and many lives
were lost.
FIRE destroyed the cartridge factory
connected with the Government works
at Arigliano, Italy, on the 10Th, and
sixteen persons persisted in the flames
BY the upsetting of ferryboat OF
the river Oder at Ratibor, Silesia, OF
the 10Th thirty-six of the passenger:
were drowned. All we're children re
turning from confirmation.
AT Ottawa the Dominion Parliament
adjourned sine die on the 10th.
On the 18th the steamer Harold
bound from Bilbao to Glasgow, found
cred off the Irish coast, and six persons
were drowned.
On Lake Ontario the schooner Jessi,
Brock was wrecked off Nine Mil,
Point on the nth, and the captain and
six of the crew were drowned.
IN building at Havana, Cuba, powdel
exploded on the 18th, killing thirty
four persons and injuring over a hun
dred others.
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sar. nroudlr. whenever the bows capa-

say, proudly, whenever the boys capa-
bilities were called in question.
When the news of the fall of Fort
Sumter was flashed over the North that
Sad April day in 1851. Farmer Gibbons
could scarcely be persuaded that he was
too old man To shoulder musket and
march to the defense of his country, and
when it was told him that his oldest
boy had headed the list of volunteers.
he said, with tears streaming down his
sunburnt cheeks: God bless you, Dan.
You would be no son of mine If you
tried to skirk from duty now"
The next day letter from George.
the student, came. telling that he, too,
had donned the blue. II could not help
it, father. All the students are volun-
teering," he wrote.
Never mind, mother" said the farm
er, at sight of his wife's wet eyes. I've
gave them to God when they were
babes, and if lie chooses to use them in
helping TO save the country, His will be
done"
Jacks patriotic heart would have
tempted him to follow the example of
Dan and George, but Mr.. Gibbons said:
wait a bit and see how times go. Old
men like me and slips of boys like you
are not worth much on long marches, so
for the present we had better stay at
home and raise something upon which
to feed our soldiers"
Jack listened quietly, and then with
out word went back to the pillow he had
left standing in the furrow.
A year passed away, and with it
poor Jacks bright hopes of the future.
A hundred dollars that Mr.. Gibbons
had placed in the desk in the room adj
joining his disappeared mysteriously,
and circumstances pointed suspieiously
towards him as the thief. Though obe-
dent and tractable, the boy was high
spirited, and resented, as base, any in
situations that called his honesty in
question. His indignant denial would
have had much weight with the consci-
entious farmer had not Ben, the Glib
bons' baby, asserted boldly that he had
seen Jack ''fooling round the desk more
than once"
In the eyes of the parents this proof
was conclusive, besides il accounted for
the many petty thefts that, in the last
few months, had sorely puzzled the
worthy couple. The soul of honor him
self, Mr.. Gibbons would not tolerate
any departure from rectitude, especially
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GARFIELD'S BODY MOVED.
he Remains of the Martyred President
Transferred to the New Monument.

he Remains of the Msrtyred President
Transferred to the New Monument.
CLEVELAND, o., May 20.-The re-
mains of the late President James A..
Garfield were quietly removed from the
public vault in Lake View Cemetery to
the crypt in the Garfield monu-
ment shortly after midnight Tho
secret removal of the remains was
in accordance with the wishes of
Mrs. Garfield, who was opposed to any
demonstration or show. 1t was after IL
o'clock midnight when party of gen.
tlemen, consisting of Hon. Amos
Townsend. chairman of the
committee on arrangements for
the dedication on May 30,
General James Barnett and Harry
A. Garfield, son OF the late President,
took carriage from downtown hotel
and drove along the famed Euclid av-
enue to the cemetery. As they entered
the habitation of the dead the feeling of
awe at the death stiffness that reigned
was common to all. The party drove
direct to the public vault, and the heavy
doors were thrown open and the bronze
casket containing the remains of the
late President could be seen in the
Pickering light shed by the lanterns.
1t had remained undisturbed In the
vault since 1881. Four stalwart men
carried the remains to hearse
outside, which was in readiness,
and the casket was conveyed to the
monument and deposited in the crypt
The new sepulchre of the martyred
President is accessible to all A strong
railing will be erected around the casket
to prevent any one approaching nearer
to it than ten feet.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

II the BraZOs river at Richmond and
Columbia, Tex. the water was on the
18th higher than ever known before, Snd
railway tracks were five feet under
water.
on the 18th Ed Van Metere. an edu-
Gated Sioux Indian, was admitted to
practice law in the circuit court al
Pierre. :. ID.
AT Halloek, Argyle and other Mime
sofa towns snow fell on the 18th to the
depth of four inches, and at Neche, \.
D.. fall of eight inches was reported.
MINNESOTA Republicans will meet in
State convention at 1T. Paul on July "a.
The 7-year-oId daughter of Mrs. Eltz'
abeth Mitchell, of Richmond, Mo-,
while playing with a pistol on the lath
shot and killed her mother.
AT Button, Ind, John SHERRY shot
and killed his young wife on the i4.h.
The couple had parted.
Ar jackson. Tenn, a Frenchmar
named Manley was tied up on the 18th
and j. II. Carson. well-known citizen,
gave him 900 Iashes with a horsewhiE
for an attempted assault on his 9-year
old daughter.
THE Burlington road on the 14th re
duced the passenger rate from Chicago
to 1t. Paul 70 81
AT Waverly, Ia, the trunks of J. w
Robinson. who travels for b. 4. Norris
4 Co. wholesale jewellers of Chicago
were robbed by burglars on the 14th o.
goods valued at $4,000.
A cAISsoN overturned on the 18th al
the new bridge being constructed in
Louisville. KY, and C. p. Mitchell
Charles Sanders and Joseph Waldror
were killed.
TIKI Governor OF Iowa on the I4th de
cided TO recommend 70 President Har
rison for appointment as commissioners;
70 The worlds fair Prof King. OF Lynz
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THE NATloN.s DEAD.


Where all the jewellers are dumb,
Nor hear the sound OF the bugle-blast
Nor call OF the rolling drum.
So stin they lie in their dreaming,
The hearts that were wont to beat,
Ready 10 rise and answer
To hurry on eager feet,
BY day or nighttime, in rain or sun,
Through valley, or field, or street;
Ready to meet the summons,
Ready TO come or so:
To march in the scorching heat and dust
Or halt in the binding snow:
To spring half awake, from dreams Of home.
To the sabre-thrust OF the foe;
esdy to yield. not strength alone,
And the hands keen. willing art
But all of the sweet full life God gave
Not only 1.-THE or part,
But all to their duty.
Asking body, and brain, and heart.
What memories throng as we pause and stand
Where flowers on these graves are thrown,
While all about us the sunlight streams
And the breath OF the May is blown
From warm, green valleys whose ripened grass
In drtfted swaths is mown.
What dreams come tous. All! far away
Is the martial clang and tread
Far, far, is the sound of the clashing steel,
OF the charge, in mad triumph led;
The PAIN the passion, the tumult wild
For these are the peaceful dead
Their flags are folded, or idly float
To the sweet caress OF the wind
The flags that pressed through the bullet
storm,
While million OF souls behind
Followed steadfast and faltered not,
Like the thought OF one mighty mind
What dreams comes to us. What heart
deep prayers;
Yet the tender tears we shed
BY these grassy mounds where the heroes sleep
With the blue sky overhead
Are so bright with blessing so touched with
light,
They might answer for smiles instead
We dream Of the soldier brave. But We
dream
OF the men, who were loved and dear;
OF the unkissed KISSES the VOWS unkept,
The passionate, homesick tear;
The human yearning, the whispered prayer
That no one but God could hear;
OF tired sleepers, with boyish brows,
Dew drenched in the starlit air.
OF blotted letters, and true-love rings.
And the pictures OF women fair
Hidden close in those stalwart breasts
With lovers jealous care.
Our hearts beat fast with the beating drum,
Swell high with the musie's strain,
For love, that is ever life's theme of song,
The sweeter through loss and pain
For love, that lasts over strife and war,
While the years and the ages wane.
Bring fowers-for the world is ablOom,
Like garden grown anes;
There are willing hands at the tender toll,
There are hearts long tried and true,
And flowers enough for the boys IT. gray
AS well as the boys in blue.
The task is ended-the twilight falls,
The sounds of the day decrease;
Yet not with the silence of shout and song
Can the palms of our glory cease;
We have strewn the breasts OF our noble dead
With the blossoms OF lasting peace.
Madeline S. Bridges, in Leslies Illustrated
Weekly.
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EVOLUTION OF GALLONS.
How the Regicides of the Seventeent
Century Were Executed.

How the Regicides of the Seventeenth
Century Were Executed.
Evidently the strong arm of tree
served as the primitive gallows, and
such was in use at very early period
in mans history. In the book of Esther
we read that Haman was hanged on the
tree that had been prepared for Nor
decai. In more recent times, in ancient
ballads and accounts of the gallows,
references are made to the fatal tree, "
the '.gallows tree" the triple tree, "
"Tyburn tree" etc. A tree was not.
however, always found conveniently
placed to convert it into gallows, and
thus the introduction of the simple con-
struction, consisting of two upright
posts and transverse beam, the prin-
ciple of which mas not been materially
altered from its first introduction.
The gallows at times differed in
height, which was increased in accord
ance with the Nervousness of the crime
of the culprit. These elevated erections
were made use of at the executions of
the regicides in the seventeenth cent
ury, and thus it was that long ladders
were required in carrying out the last
extremities of the law. When ladders
were USED the executioner mounted one,
and the culprit the other. The rope
having been adjusted to the cross beam,
the executioner would descend and re-
move his ladder, leaving the condemned
wretch on the other, engaged in his last
appeals for mercy. Those prayers were
at times exceedingly prolonged, after
finishing which the miserable wretch
was expected to throw himself of the
ladder, and thus to some extent become
his own executioner.
Courage, however, would often fail al
the last moment, and his prayers
would be continued for long time.
When it was evident that the culprit
was praying against time, the execu-
toner would stealthily reach the ladder
on which he stood and overthrow it, and
the body would, consequently, then be
swinging in the throbs and agonies OF
death. At one period it was customary
to carry out the execution of criminal
as near as possible to the spot where the
crime for which he suffered was COM
mitted All the Year Round.
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LATER.

In the United States Senate on the
10Th the annual naval appropriation bill
vas reported and the silver bill was
further discussed. letter was re
ceived from the Secretary of State sub
Uniting the plan for a preliminary Sur
vey for railway line to connect the
principal cities of the American hemis-
phere in accordance with the recon-
mendations of the pan-American con-
ference In tho House the time was
occupied in considering the tariff bill.
SIR ALFRED kirby, of the Deptford
(Eng.l distillery works, failed on the
beth for 81, 100, 900.
| WAYNE Ashland. Richland and
Shelby counties in Ohio we're visited on
the 10Th by terrific wind, rain and
lhail-storm which did damage TO the ex-
tent of 500, 900.
THE annual session of the National
Baptist Anniversaries commenced in
Chicago on the 10Th.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the 10Th was.
respectively, 22,974,974 and 11,O26, PAS
bushels.
AT midnight on the 18th the remains
of President James A. Garfield were re-
moved from the public vault in the
cleveland Cemetery to the crypt in the
new memorial monument at the same
place.
Rev. JAMES LAMB, pastor of the Pres
lbyterian church at Cadillac, Mich,
dropped dead on the 10Th at Utica, n.
Y. while on his way as a delegate to
the General Assembly at Saratoga
THE Public Grain and Stock Exchange
| Qimited) of New York, the largest
bucket-shop in the United States, failed
on the 10th.
AT the Methodist Episcopal General
conference in St. Louis on the 10th
Rev. DIR. Atticus q. Haygood, of Shelf
field, Ala. and Rev. DIR. Oscar Z. Fitz-
gerald. of Nashville, Tenn, were elect
ed Bishops.
AT Detroit. Mich, on the 18th ex-
lSenator Charles w. Jones. of Florida,
was adjuged insane and committed to
St Joseph's retreat.
JEAN PAUL SoQUEr. convicted at 0sh-
lkosh. Wis. on the 10Th of wife murder,
was charged with having committed six
murders during his life time.
SEVERAL houses and many outbuild-
lings were wrecked by tornado on the
l19th near Charleston, w. Va
ADvIcEs of the 10Th say that in bat
tile between the French forces and
natives at onosebongon. Africa. the
Halter were completely routed. with a
loss of 1850, all killed, while but
fifteen Frenchmen were killed and
seventy-two wounded.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
HFTY-FiRsT CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, May I3-The Senate nom
concurred in the House substitute for
the Senate dependent pension bill. and
conference was asked. The silver
bill was taken up and Mr.. Jones New
concluded his speech in favor of free
coinage. In the House the bill author
izing company to begin work of con-
structing the tunnel under the Detroit
river for the use of railroads was favor
ably reported. The tariff measure was
further discussed.
WEDNESDAY. May IA bill was re-
ported favorably in the Senate to sub
ject imported liquors to the provisions
of the laws of the several STATE A bill
was introduced to establish University
of the United States at Washington.
The nomination of George w. Steele,
of Indiana, to be Governor of Oklahoma,
was confirmed. In the House the tariff
bill was discussed, sixteen of the l56
pages having thus far been considered.
THURSDAY. May 15.-In the Senate
the bill for the sale of timber on the
Menomonee Indian reservation was
passed and the silver bill was further
discussed. In the House the tariff bill
was again considered, and a resolution
to take vote on the measure on the
21st was adopted. A bill was intro
duced to amend the contract labor law
so that violations shall be punishab
by fine of not less than $500 and by
imprisonment for not less than six
months. At the evening session 139
pension bills were passed.
FRIDAY, May 16.-The Senate further
discussed the silver bill, and the
House amendment to the antitrust bill
was reported. In the House the Senate
bill was passed authorizing the regis
tration of census mail matter. The
tariff bill was discussed. At the even
ing session eighty-one private pension
bills were passed
SATURDAY, May l.. Bills were
passed in the Senate % pay the as
signees of John Roach S3s.s4 for ex-
ira work on the monitor Puritan and
$50. PA for the care of the monitor Ro-
anOke; to provide for the return of sec
ond-class mail matter. and appropriate
ing $500, 600 for bronze statue of L. ).
Grant in the city of Washington. In
the House the tariff bill was discussed,
during which warm words passed be-
tween Mr.. Bayne. of Pennsylvania, and
Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana, the latter being
called before the bar of the House and
censured for unparlimentary language.
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was given up to the wayfarers and
Mother Gibbons brought out her most
dainty knick-knacks 70 tempt the appe-
tite of the sick man. That they were
no ordinary tramps their scrupulously-
clean, well-mended though threadbare
garments testified. The man told sad
story of an old home in Pennsylvania
which had been forsaken for the rolling
prairies of the great West; of the mis-
fortunes that had robbed him of his
small estate and swept his wife and
children into the grave. After five
years of helpless struggling in the new
country he was going back to die among
his own kindred and leave his little
Jack in the care of his own people.
In the morning the family was aroused
by the cries of the child who understood
enough to know that the white, stiff
form by his side was lifeless.
poor papa is dead" he sobbed, as
Mr.. Gibbons and his wife came hurry
ing downstairs. The boy was right
the stranger had died alone and unat-
tended while they slept
A coffin was provided at the expense
of the township, and the next morning
few of the neighbors followed the hum
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PITH AND POINT.

knowledge may be power, but ii
takes coal to keep up steam just the
same.-Rome Sentinel
The strength of women lies in their
accurate knowledge of the weaknesses
of understandable Journal.
Women might not make the sturdi-
est of soldiers, but they have been
known to respond valiantly to the call
to arms
The attitudes which some people
strike after doing what it is their plain
duty to do would make dancing-mas-
ter blush.-Pnek.
1t is a settled fact that few people
can practice what they preaeh-and
most men don't dare preach what they
practice. Ashland Press.
1t is hard work to be good. After
the average man has put in about day
trying at it, he feels like laying off in
definitely. Weekly.
When, instead of asking how much
a man has, people get to asking how he
got it, the millennium will not be more
than forty rods away.-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
The good are said to be happy; but
it is probably not because they spend
their time thinking how much better
they are than the rest of humanity
Boston Transcript.
There probably never was an old
bachelor who did not think that some
woman somewhere in the world was
missing mighty good thing. -Atchison
Globe.
Something should be done to knock
some sense into the smart young men
who would resent the insinuation that
they were drunk, but don't in the least
mind owning that they have Jag"
on.-Exchange.
When you make mistake don't
look back at it long. Take the reason
of the thing into your own mind and
then look forward. Mistakes are les
sons of wisdom. The past can not be
changed. The future is yet in your
power.-May Riley Smith.
Some things we know by the direct
action of our senses; and yet tho great
mass of our knowledge must be that of
faith. We believe in vastly more things
than we can see. and more than are
matters OF Our own experience.-N Y.
Independent.
Give not thy tongue too great lib
erty, lest it take thee prisoner. Aword
unspoken is, like the sword in the scab-
bard, thine. II vented, thy sword is in
another's han1 If thou desire to be
held wise, be SO wise as to hold thy
tongue. -Quarles.
/ Almost all of US live more in the
future than in the present Those who
live mostly in the past are on the high
road to worse sorrow than they know.
To the healthy-minded the future has
always the treasure to which the pres
ent holds the keys. Once a Week.
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The lightning calculator looked out
over the crowd.
SIS there any other gentleman pres
ent," he said, who would like to know
the day of the week on which any event
took place? My friend" he continued.
addressing a middle-aged man in front
of him, IF you will give me the day of
the month and year when you were mar
ried can tell you instantly what day
of the week it was"
81 don't need to learn" replied the
middle-aged man, whose name was En-
peck. II was married Wednesday, but"
and he took off his hat and wiped his
bald head slowly and thoughtfully-"I
vas born Friday. Chicago Tribune.
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How soon We Are Forgotten.

A gentleman who lives not thou
sand miles from this city has recently
been absent from home several months
on business. Not long ago his wife re-
cieyed letter from him. which she
began TO read aloud at the breakfast
table. But she was somewhat inter-
rupted by young son and heir, who ap-
parently found other things more inter
esting than the letter.
my child" she said, in tone of ma
ternal rebuke. don't you want to hear
nice letter from papa?"
Papa, papa" was the puzzled reply.
'oh. yes; you mean the man who used
to live at our house. IN. Y. Tribune.
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FROM WASHINGTON,

N the United States there were 212
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 2O9 the pre-
vious seven DAYS.
On the 18th Sergeant-at-Arms Canady.
of the Senate, rendered his resignation,
to take effect July l.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the nth aggre-
gated 81, 437, 625. SIC, aga nst 81, 3I3, 49,
OBS, the previous week. As compared
with the corresponding week of 1889
the increase amounted to 33.2