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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
VEST AND SOUTH.

THE failure of Schniedewend & Lee,
printing press firm of twenty years
standing in Chicago, for 100000 was
reported.
THIRTY-EIGHT years ago Lee Barton,
young negro, was sold from his home
and wife and children in Virginia and
carried away by the slave traders and
resold in Mississippi He has just been
reunited with his family at Houston,
Miss.
FIRE destroyed the shops of the
American Wheel Company at Sidney,
O., causing a loss of 100000.
THE Iowa republicans will hold their
state convention at Cedar Rapids July l.
by order of Secretary Blaine the
United States marshal at San Diego,
Cal. seized the steamer italia which was
receiving contraband of war for the
use of Chllian insurgents.
AT Port Townsend, Wash, John
Turnbull a. attorney, was arrested on
the charge of helping to smuggle
Cinnamon into the United States
A LARGE portion of Ell PasO, Tex,
= as flooded by rise in the Rio Grande
river. and over fifty families were
driven from their homes.
Is Nebraska John NJ. Thayer has re-
sumed the office of governor and has
reappOinted all the republican office
holders deposed by Mr.. Boyd.
4 BREAK in the levee in COncordia
parish, La, flooded the country for
mile around.
II Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan
and parts of Ohio frost was said to have
greatly damaged fruit of all kinds.
C. PARDEE's four children who left
East Tawas. Mich, in an open boat
and who were supposed to be drowned
reached Port Austin in safety.
An explosion of gas in the Ocean
mine at Clarkesburg, w. Va. killed four
miners and several others were badly
hurt.
PASSENGER trains on the Pan Handle
collided at Tuscarawas. o.. and ID.
Longenecker was killed and C. ID.
Rogers. &. +. Marvin and Otto Miller
We're fatally injured
WILLIAM WRIGHTMAN, while remov-
ing wheat from his barn for market
near Middletowu. Ind, found in the
grain an old pocketbook containing
SlI,5OO in gold coin and paper curren-
cy. How the money came there was
mystery.
W {. WOoDFORD went I5S hours and
- minutes without closing his eyss in
a sleep-fasting contest in san Francis
CO. breaking the previous record of IA
hours and 20 minutes.
At Marinette. Wis, the safe of the
iron works was broken open 10y burg
lars and robbed of s. 200.
AN Indian woman living in Door
county. Wis. Mrs Angelica Bear, is
said tn be 1a4 years old.
The Gillian insurgents vessel Itata
when she sailed from san Diego Cal
harbor carried away Deputy Marshal
Spaulding. who was put off at Ballast
point and returned To that city. He re-
ported that the vessel was a well-armed
privateer.
FLAMES destroyed the planning mills.
warehouses and lumber yard of
Schroth * Ahrens at Winona- Mimi.
Loss, 500. 900.
METEOR passed over the Victor
Tex region. finally exploding with a
noise like the report of big cannon.
OK the Sth six persons committed sui
eide in Chicago and six others were
killed in accidents.
By the burning of August HAUNT
mans barn at Manson. Ia, twenty val
liable horses were cremated
IL Chicago a fire made thirteen fam
lilies homeless.
F. \. WALSH & Co. : tinware manu-
factory in Milwaukee WAS burned, the
loss being $50. 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
A Fool and His Money.

FREEPoRT, Ill, May H. = James
Crouch, of Stockton, ILL.,, young rail
road man, was injured in a wreck on
the Kansas City road last April. He
sued the road for damages and few
days ago received verdict for $4,000 in
his favor. He secured the money, paid
his lawyer 81 900 and came to Freeport
with the balance in his pocket. While
here he fell in with number of gam
blers and the result of their short ae-
quaintance was game of draw poker.
just one hour after the railroad man
had bought his first chip he was skinned
out of 81 700.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Murdered and Robbed.

Henry Schley, a Waul1esha saloon
keeper, was found dead on the side
walk near his home at o'clock the
other morning, his skull fractured by a
blow from a heavy club. His gold
watch and 5000 known to be on his
person were gone. John Bernhard, a
former employee of Mr.. Schley. was ar
rested and confessed that he committed
the crime in order to secure his victims
money. Bernhard is but 10 years of
age and the son of a farmer living at
New Berlin
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
A Bergh Statne.

A fountain and statue to the memory
of Henry Bergh, founder of the Ameri-
can society for prevention of cruelty to
animals, was unveiled in Milwaukee in
the presence of several thousand peo-
pie. The statue cost $4,000 and is To-
Gated in city hall square. Addresses
were made by Gov. Peek. Henry Bergh,
of New York; Edwin Lee Brown, pres
ident of the American humane society,
and others. This is the only Bergh
statue in the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
THREE MEN KILLED.

Double Collision at Shepherd, Mich
Log Cars Run Away Down a Grade.
DETROIT, Mich, May IA special
from Shepherd, Mich, says: Sunday
night an extra freight from the north
approaching the yard here ran into
fourteen loaded log cars, wrecking the
engine and caboose. The men on this
train jumped and escaped injury.
The force of the collision started
thirteen log cars down the grade through
the Shepherd yard to a mile south
of Shepherd. where the rest of the train
was being loaded with logs. In the
collision which followed three men
were killed and thirteen wounded.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

IT is little things of life that tax
ones nerves most, as a stalwart youth
of Leavenworth. Kan, found when he
accepted wager that he could not
stand a quart of water dropped into his
open hand drop by drop from a height
of three feet Before five hundred drops
had fallen into his hand he almost cried
with pain and said he had enough.
After a little water had fallen each
drop seemed to crush his hand. and a
blister in the center Of II was the re-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

KELLEY, the motor man, explains the
latest cause Of delay. as follows: u
am making a sympathetic harness for
the polar terrestrial furce-first, by
exciting the sympathetic concordant
force that exists in the corpuscular
intersutial domain, which is concord
ant To it; and. second. after the con-
cordance is established, by mega izing
the thirds, sixths and ninths of this
concordance, thereby inducing high
velOcities with great power by inter
mittent negation, as associated with
the dominant thir,ls.-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

The city council of West Superior at
a recent meeting considered and dis
posed of 100 liquor licenses; 1O3 were
granted, and a number rejected and
some laid over. The total number of
licenses granted when all are con-
sidered will reach l25 The license is
raised this year from $500 to $500, but
there will be an increase of 10 in the
number of saloons
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

Mrs. AIMIRA LOCKE, mother of David
T. Locke petroleum Y. NaSby). who
has been living in poverty and misery
in a small house in Wheeling, W. Va.
has been granted pension on account
of be- late husband. Nathaniel Locke,
having served in the war Of 1872
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Carried Out His Threat.

and aristocratic German fanily, hanged
himself in the attic of his home in Mill
waulSee. Won kass reached home in
an intoxicated condition and asked his
son for lamp, saying he wanted to
find rope with which to hang himself.
The father had made the threat so
many times that the son was not
alarmed. Ills body was found hanging
in the attic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

The 5-year-old son of James Powers,
Of West Superior, is a remarkably
sturdy youngster. He got in front of
dray, was knocked down and stepped
on by one of the horses, one of the
wheels passing fairly over him. The
dray was loaded with 2,7OO pounds of
sample trunks, but the youngster was
apparently unhurt. He was so flattened
out that the driver did not feel jolt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Expelled from the Chamber.

$. Warren Chase, member of the
Milwaukee chamber of commerce, was
expelled on recommendation of the
board of directors. This was the first
case of the kind in ten years. Chase
was commission man who failed re-
Gently. 1t was charged that, knowing
his insolvency, he purchased a carload
of hay from L. Lewiles & Co., dis
posed of it, and failed to pay the firm
from which it was purchased.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
suicide at 40.

HAZLEToS, Pa, May 1i.-Mrs. DON
nelly, aged 10 years, committed sui
eide Saturday by setting fire to her
bed. She had of late been infirm, and
the neighbors, who have kept her for
the past twenty years, decided 20 send
her to the almshouse where she would
receive good care. She suspected this,
and rather than suffer what she con-
sidered an indignity, burned herself TO
death
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Arbor Day in wisconsin.

Arbor day was becomingIy observed
by most of the public schools in Mil
waukee. Trees were planted in the
schoolhouse yards and literary pro-
grammes were gone through with by
the pupils. At the high school class
dav and arbor day were celebrated
jointly. Dispatches received denoted a
general observance of the day through
ont the state
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Dropped Dead.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, May IL. John
Roche. city comptroller since 1864,
dropped dead on cable car in this city
as he was en- route to the depot to meet
his wife. He was go years Did ano
came here in 1852 from New York city.
His widow, son at Northfeld, Mimi,
and two daughters in New York sur
vive him
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

\ WYosuNG man has settled the ques-
tiOn of how the prairie dogs obtain the
water they drink. He says they dig
their wells, each village having one
with a concealed opening. He says he
knows of several of these wells from
fifty 10 two hundred feet deep, each
having circular stairway leading down
To the wafer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

II "a house in Lawrence, Mass. are a
number OF interesting relics of an old
time Bostonian. with several years
records of the Boston post office The
latter date back to 1sO2, and show tine
curious fact that then ten letters re-
ceived in a single day was a good mail.
while on some days but one incoming
letter was recorded
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

TINS story shows what Barnum
thought Of children; Three years ago,
says the New York Times. when the
show was about To open at the garden.
a most pathetic letter, addressed t.
Mr.. Baruum. came from little nine
year-old hoy, and Is given here verba-
tim; ''Dere Mr.. Barnurn: / am a little
boy an am very sic in bed hav ben
waiting long time for yure circus to
come an now its come can not go the
dOctur sails Dere Mr.. Barnum please
let the peraid go by my hous-" Mr.
Barnum at once ordered the parade to
conform its route to that sick boys
wish
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

IN little log house near Wsasners-
vile, Pa. live four wealthy and aged
bachelor brothers who are veritable
women-haters They are benjamin.
Michael Nathan and samuel Kunkel.
respectively eighty. seyeaty-one, seven
" and siNty-one years Old They own a
valuable farm and have S40,OOO out at
interest, but still they do all their own
farmwork and homework unaided. and
viii not consent "a employ a woman in
any capacity OF have any association
whatever with the gen;ier sex. Two sis
tiers formerly lived with them, but are
now dead. They Stunned men As their
brothers do women, and never married.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Lynchers TO BE Prosecuted.

WALLA WALLA. Wash, May l2.-The
military authorities of Fort Walla
Walla have arrested eight enlisted men
charged with being accessory to the
lynching of Gambler Hunt April "a.
When it became known that the arrests
had been made six other men deserted
Sunday night The provost guard Is
now in search of the deserters- 1t Is
rumored that a numbe of other arrests
of soldiers suspected of completely IN
the lynching will be made soon. The
state grand jury is still in session
and it is stated that number OF sol.
diers will be indicted for murder.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Effects of Smoking.

The sudden death of two young boys
at Prairie du Chen, occurring simulta-
neously after excessive smoking, led
to post norton examination. The
symptoms indicated death by poison
Gus substance combined with nicotine.
and the arsenical solution used in pre-
pairing papers and wrappers for the ordi-
nary cigarette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

THE entire production of the precious,
semi-preciOus stones and ornamental
minerals in the United States during
the year 1889 was SISS.SI7. Of this
amount s5S, I55 was agatized and Jas
perized wood, Sa3.675 turquois stones,
and $4,000 quartz Diamonds to the
value of SI.O06,5I6 were cut during the
year in the lapidary works in New York
and Massachusetts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

4 CORE saw, intended for boring out
barrels from solid logs, was recently
completed at Taunton. Mass, for a
company in Lacrosse. La The saw is
made of wrought iron, cylindrical in
shape, and steel cutter teeth are dis
tributed about its edge 1t was expected
that the saw would cut barrel per
minute, and during "A trial of the first
machine a core iOi4 inches in diameter
and q p inches long was bored out in
thirty seconds. \ mill for the manu-
facture Of barrels by these machines is
To be built in Louisiana.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

GERNANT has something a great deal
worse than American pork. II is the
fact that at least two million of her
husbands and fathers are working for
wages which average less than $50
per year, and wages are going down in
stead Of M
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

GRATIFIED with the success of the
London-P Paris telephone, the London
electrical papers are talking of a tele-
phone between the United States and
Great Britain. II is believed that the
mechanical difficulties may be over
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

NEW pedagogical industry has
arisen In San Francisco, according to
the Alta, there are a number of teach
ers Of American who command good
prices Foreigners who have been
taught English in the schools OF their
native land find themselves completely
At sea on their arrival here. and many
Of them who can afford il employ teach
erS 20 instruct them in learning the
peculiar idioms employed by the Amer
leans The localisms, especially, they
the teacher must be well mp gu all the
mannerisms and slang expressions OF
the lar
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

An int"-e>tjng incident in connection
with President Harrisou's visit TO At
lanta was his meeting with Mr.. George
cook, an elderly gentleman and a we'll
known piano manufacturer Of Boston.
The grandfather Of Mr. Cook was the
Capt Cook who saved the life of Gen.
William Henry Harrison from the In
dians AZ the battle Of TippecanOe. Mr..
Cook and Mrs Cook had been spending
a few days with Gov. Bullock. and on
invitation II Mayor Hemphil went up
the road to meet the president The
meeting Of the two gray-haired grand
sons was very cordial, and they en-
loved a pleasant chat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
CONSUL coRTe RECALLED.
Rudini Wants Full Particulars of the New
Orleans Affair.

ROME, May 12-The Italian consul at
New Orleans, Sig. Corte, has been no
titled to return home in order to fur
nish the Italian government with an
exact account of the events which have
taken place since the murder of Chief
of Police Hennessy. Vice Consul Pomo,
of the Italian consulate of New York,
will act for Consul Corte in the interim.
1t is believed here that Italy is seeking
to obtain the moral support of its allies
in the triple alliance in the position il
has taken against the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

IL the society of the Red Cross a spe-
eial archaeological department is form
ing, the mission Of which viii be to
prevent the vandalistic destruction of
old monuments and works of art in
time Of war
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
ConjugaI Taunts.

Charlie-YOu never cared for me.
Jenny Why did l marry you. then?
Charlie-From motives OF gratitude.
Jenny Gratitude! Gratitude for
what?
Charlie Gratitude for having made
you your only proposal of marriage
Judge
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Must Die hy ELECTRICITY.

WASHINGTON, May 12.-The supreme
court of the United States has affirmed
the order of the New York circuit court
denying writs of habeas corpus in the
cases of the prisoners Woods and Jugiro
now in Sing Sing prison under sentence
of death by electrocution
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Snroca,.,I Inv Firedalnp

FORT WAYNE. Ind, May 12.-Eman-
uel Ullery, while digging a well al
Naples. in this county. was suffocateo
by firedamp and died before he could
be rescued.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

PENSACOLA, Fla, May 12.-Johr
Penton. who, next to Rube Burrows,
was the greatest desperate and outlaw
Alabama ever produced. was shot anc
killed at Milton. Fla, Saturday night
while RESISTING arrest
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Fatal Explosion.

LONDON. May IA terrific explosion
occurred on the British steamer Tan
carville. which was undergoing repairs
in the drydock at Newport. Five men
at work on the steamer were killed and
thirteen injured. The steamer was
badly damaged
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
Fourteen Persons Burned to Death

BERLIN, May l2.-Seventeen houses
were destroyed by fire in the hamlet o.
Hollow on the island of Wallin, of
Stettin, Sunday night, and fourteen
persons were burned to death. The
fire spread so rapidly that the sleeping
people were not aroused until too late
for escape
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

IT is rather funny that the govern
ments of Europe have spent so much
money preparing for war, that not one
Of them is now able financially TO enter
upon active hostilities.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

GREAT BRTAIv's national debt
amounts at present to s., 492. 600, 900. It
more than four times as large as the
debt Of the United States
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

The aggregate wealth of the United
States Is nearly sixty times what it was
sixty years ago, when the figures were
$1,000, OOO,OUO Now they are SIS, 2OO,-
lln nnn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

Il Atlanta Mary Jane Cheney Julia
Ann Adelia Frances Fedora Eliza Maria
Quit Tude Dant Morrison is the abbrevi-
sted apPellatiOn of one of the colored
naIles
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

DELAWARE estimates her peach crop
AZ 1000, 600 baskets The late frosts
may decrease the size Of the baskets,
out the number viii remain the same.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

USCLE SAM, who reports $500, OOO, 600
invested in electrical machinery.
should neither sit in darkness nor haze
rheumatism.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

DURING last year 100000 miles ot
postal service were added to the general
svsten in this country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

sentenced to the penitentiary at Gem
terville, Nd. for 81 years for assault
ing white woman, was taken from
the Jail on the 18th by mob and
lynched. He was hung from limb Of
. tree in the Jail yard.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

Michigan fruit-growers have ascer-
tanned that the recent frosts did not
damage the peach crop to any great ex-
tent
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

u Germany more than 10000 mar
led women work in shops and factories
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14

Eighteen Men Wounded in a Riot at Den
ver-ItaIiaps Start Fatal Row in Bel
mont, q.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-18
PROBLEM NO. 1.
(CONTlNUED.l

l do not call this problem No. |, because
it will be the first solved, but because it is
the most important Neither do | claim
to criticise the general public from the
standpoint OF "a man up a tree" but as
"one OF the people, who is more or less
responsible as an individual for the mis-
takes of the public. But let me show an
advantage of plain talk, when dealing with
the masses. Did you ever see man, who
would admit that he was drunkard, unless
it was one who was on the eve of reforma>
ton ? | know there are plenty of men
who admit they occasionally take little
too much" but if there is one man in the
community who takes little more, or
whose acts are more Objectionable, he is
the one you mean when you condemn
drunkards. The man who gets drunk five
times a month, thinks you mean the one
who gets drunk six times. Bat when you
come down to plain talk, go into the details
OF drunkenness as it were, when you say a
man in that condition will commit this sin
or that sin, &C., &C., and man is present
who has been all along there" he realizes
that you mean him, and thus is reached.
AS a rule the man who thinks that every
one knows he is the one the plain talk is
meant for, does not condemn it. But the
man who knows that he is guilty, but who
thinks no one knows it, is the most out.
ragged. Now the good people rule this
country. The standard Of goodness is just
where they keep it. This point is some
where between what they profess is right
and what they do, as professors of right.
1t is above wha: our own actions would
indicate, for we are willing to believe that
the standard of the good people in general,
is above our own as an individual. Now
the whole trouble is right here, the line
between the good people and the bad is
not close enough, and nothing short of a
revolution of public opinion will make it
so JAS l.. SIBLEY,
Market Gardener.