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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-03-26
HER LoNG-LosT eRoTHeR.
United States Senator Shoup Finds Hi
sister. Separated from the Family il
War Time

United states Senator Shoup Finds His
Sister. Separated from the Family in
War Time.
PITTsBURGH. Pa, March 23.-United
States Senator Shoup. of Idaho, was
the central figure in rather romantic
incident here last week that has only
Just come to light. 1t seems that dur
ing the late war the Shoup family lived
in the south and the present senator
at the time the trouble began
Joined the union army. The other
members of the family drifted apart
and one sister came to Allegheny, the
resident part of Pittsburgh She lost
all trace of the others, and finally, be-
lieving them all to be dead, she married
Aid. Harrington, of Allegheny, who
before many years committed suicide.
Later she married Councilman Maeafee.
of Allegheny. A few months age
she saw the name of Senator
Shoup in the papers, and. thinking
he might be a relative. wrote him
and was pleasantly surprised to find he
was her brother. He had gone through
the war, been governor of Idaho ter
ritory, and later became a senator. He
has Just finished a visit to his sister
here, and not only has told her of two
other surviving brothers, but assured
her of her title to a share in the family
estate amounting to many thousand
dollars
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BURIED The RATCHET.

Peace Between the Hatfield and Mccoy
Factions Follows the Wedding of Two
Members of the Warning Families.
WHEELING, w. Va, March 23.-The
IIatfield-McCoy feud and the conse-
quent warfare between the residents of
Logan county, w. Va, and Pike coun-
ty, KY, is at an end. This feud has
been in existence stree 1873 over sow,
and has been kept up relentlessly since.
The feud has been the cause of no less
than 100 deaths among the participants,
and men have grown from childhood
with revenge instilled in them. The
following letter tells its own story:
ITO the Editor OF the Wayne News: / ask
space in your paper for few lines. general
amnesty has been declared in the famous Hat
deld.McCoy feud and ] wish to say some
thing OF the old and the new. 1 do not
wish to keep the old feud alive and suppose
like myself the public is tired of the names
Hatfield and Mccoy, and the words
border warfare in times OF peace The war
spirit in me has abated and sincerely rejoice
at the prospects OF peace l have devoted my
life to arms. We have undergone fearful loss
Of noble lives and valuable property in this
struggle. We being like Adam, not the first
transgressors, now propose to rest in a spirit
Of peace. Yours respectfully.
CAPT ANsE HATFIELD,
Logan county w. Va"
This letter from Devil Anse" will
serve to cuell all disturbance as far as
his side is concerned, and il is said a
like letter has been published in Ken
lucky. This state of affairs is the re-
suit of the marriage of one of the Hat
fields to Miss Mccoy and a truce and
peace congress held shortly after.
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ONE OF HIS OWN.
Little Conundrum That Upset the Edi-
torial Deparfmcnf.

toriRl Department.
He was a large, beefy man, with a
shaggy ulster, a eoclney accent, NUT
ton-chop whislzers, and wore creased
trowsers with the bottoms turned up
us this the conundrum Department.
he said. ''I've-aw-one of me own
you can publish in tomorrow mawn-
ing's papah if you like. When is fab
just any common eonfagwation, you
know-when is fab not a fab? Give il
mp?
when it's a-kindlingl' hazarded the
man at the exchange table.
Mao. That's good, though-doosid
good. Guess again"
when it's a-goin?" ventured the an
swers-to-queries man.
That's doosid good, too. but it isn't
the right awnsah.'
when it's alarming" suggestc the
art editor
"Ha, hal That's not it, eithah."
when it's a-spreading?" conjectured
the Worlds Fair editor.
Mao! You cawn't guess it. When is
fab not fab? Give it up?"
Yes"
when it's cut Hal ha. See? When
its
But those four men rose up as one
man. They walked him out in the ball
aud hurried him toward the stairway
There was short struggle, and then a
muffled sound as of some heavy body
falling and bumpirg down, down, down
and all was still Then those four
men came back into the room. wiped
their hands on the spotless Office nap
kin, resumed their customary places.
and nothing was heard but the scratch
ing of their pens for the next honr and
q half.-Chicago Tribune
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THIRTEEN states and territorie.
worlds fair appropriation bills have
been passed and are in force as follows:
California. $780, 200; Idaho, $4,000; In
diana. SIS, 900; Iowa. $4,000; Montana,
500. 900; New Mexico. $4,000; North
Carolina, SIS. 600; Oklahoma. $1,000,
Oregon, s10O, 600; Pennsylvania. $780,
600: Vermont, $1,000; Washington,
s1OO, 900; West Virginia, $4,000, total,
| 81 ,005, 900.
IS a wreck near Ada. o., twenty car
loads of cattle were killed or MANNED
FLAMES at St Joseph. Mo-. destroyed
the stock and the building of the Ken
nard Grocery Company, causing total
loss of $4,000.
THREE children of John Doan died at
/ Springville, Ia, while under the treat
ment of Christian scientists.
l In Chicago four car loads of valuab BILE
merchandise were destroyed by fire in
I the Baltimore & Ohio transfer house,
the loss being 100000.
AT the st. Joseph and st. Mary con-
vent in St Louis nineteen young WON
en- renowned the world and took the
veil.
NAkREN tLOI0H was released from
Jail at Stewart, Neb.. after serving
fourteen years for crime of which he
was guiltless.
IN St Louis fire destroyed st.
Georges Episcopal church. which was
built in 1878 at cost of $4,000.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, Peter Rich
mond chopped his wife's head off be-
cause she did not obey one of his com
Inands with sufficient celebrity.
/ W. l.. BARTLETT and G.. w. Freese,
/ editors of the Monmouth Qll.) Atlas,
and two daughters of a man named
Kimes. of Huron, ;. d.. reported
drowned in Puget sound. are alive.
GEORGE HARRIS, of Caldwell, o., in
fit of jealousy cut his wife's head al
most off with razor and then cut his
own throat
AN end has been declared 10 the feud
between the Hatfield and Mccoy fac
tions in West Virginia and Kentucky
which had been in existence eighteen
years and caused the loss of over 100
| lives
OFFICERS +. ]. Barnwell and 4. l..
Brine We're killed by moonshiners near
Greensboro, y. c., while attempting to
make some arrests.
An oil well yielding $50 barrels a day
was struck at Montpelier Ind.
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SHEPHERDS ON STILTS.

hey Mount Them from the Roof Of a
Cabin and Use Them All Day.
The Landes, the great savanna of
rance. which stretches from Bordeaux
o Rayonne. is a region similar to the
Sad Lands of our own country. Many
ain attempt : were made To induce trees
grow upon it. At last one VI. Bre-
lontier conceived the idea of planting,
nth the pine seeds. the seeds of the
oulInon broom. whose hardy tuft should
rotect the tiny sapling until il could
tand by itself
The result surpassed hope: pine for
sts have sprung up and endured
throughout the Landes; they have
roken forever the power of the wind
forms. and their pitch and timber are
ven a source of some riches to the de
.artnent.
There is one striking specially Of this
istrict, writes Mr.. Edwin Asa Dix.
his is the shepherd ON stills. the
<icanaue. immortalized by Rosa Bon
,eur, and mentioned by many travellers
lie is peculiar to this region. Perehed
III these wooden supports. at periious
Weight above the ground he stalks
;ravely over the landscape, enabled t.
,ehold an horizon of triple range, and
o outstride the fieetest of his vagrant
lock. When 50 inclined he is quite
bile. It is said. to execute a pas scul. 81
ven a jig. with every appropriate -four
sh of his timber limbs, and with sur
.r-isil,g grace and abandon.
His stills are strapped to the thighs,
OF the knees. for greater freedom. and
e mounts from his cabin roof in the
arlv morning. and lives in the ain
throughout the day. 4 third stiit forms
is seat. and makes of his silhoutte 3
udierous and majestic tripod.
This genius chief amusement Is
tartlingly domestic; it i knitting
toclxings. and engaged in this peace
nj art, he sits with dignity and while.
sway the hours. How he maneuveis
when he accidentally drops a needle,
ave. not been able to learn.
\ iignitary of bordeaux arranged {
etc and procession in the Landes OF
ne occasion Triumphal arches were
rected, hung with flowers and gar
ands. and the feature of the parade
-as sedate platoon Of these heron
ike shepherds dressed in skins. deelIec
With white hoods and nantes. pre-
eded by a band of music, and stalking
ov tours imposiEgly down the line 81
narch..N. Y. journal.
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THE EAST-

BY mine explosion near Ashland.
Pa, two men were blown to atoms and
one was fatally and others seriously
hurt
FLAMES among business buildings in
New YORK caused loss of 81, 900, 600.
The flames started on Bleecker street
in the building occupied by Alfred Ben
jamin & Co. the largest manufacturing
house in this country in mems fine
ready made clothing.
IT is requested by Commander in
Chief Veazey of the Grand Army of the
Republic that the various posts of the
country celebrate the silver anniversary
of the order April 6.
Mrs. Core, of Pittsburgh. Pa, after
searching for ten years, found her hus-
band in Chicago.
DAVID KUPPERMAN, his wife and
three children. of Lawrenceville, Pa.
were fatally burned.
AT the Crescent steel works in Pitts
burgh. Pa. an explosion killed Fred
erick BOnnhunt. Hans Whitman and
John GustavisOn.
IL burning tenement house in New
York three persons lost their lives.
FoR wrecIxing the Sixth national bank
of New York Peter A. Classen was SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment.
THE steamer Cacheca, from Naples,
arrived IN New York with 1858 Italian
immigrants on board.
4 MAN aged about - years and well
dressed jumped over Niagara falls -
Prospect point. He came from the west
and had a ticket for New York.
JUDGE YERKEs rendered a decision
at DoylestOn, Pa, in which it is held
and laid down as law that the ord
tissue in a will includes inegitinate
children.
FIRE destroyed the steam cordage
works at Eliza beth, y. j., the loss be-
ing sTOOOOO
IN fire in New York tenement
house Peter Cryan. aged so, and his sis
ter Mary. aged IS, We're burned to death.
4 NUMBER of children died at Mad
ison. y. j.. from drinking water from
badly polluted well at the school
house.
Miss MARY +. INLAY and Benjamin
Farabee. of Old Concord. Pa, eloped to
Pittsburgh and were married. The
groom is a wealthy farmer 80 years of
age and the bride is only 20.
AT Pittsburgh. Pa. James VI. Nolan,
wealthy resident, died after eating
prepared meat obtained at a grocery.
His wife was taken violently i'll, but
would probably recover.
THE keystone national bank of Phil
adelphia closed its doors. IL was said
that the banks deposits amounted to
81. 400, 600.
THE firm of A. De Reisthal & Co.,
china and glassware importers at New
York. failed for Si5O.OOO, due princi-
pally to European houses.
+. Il. HARDING, of II Adams, Vt,
aged -, husband of dissolute woman,
shot her dead and then killed himself
with the same weapon.
AFTER an illness of three days Law
renee Barrett. the great tragedian, died
in New York city of pneumonia, aged
5S wears
I'VE death of Rev. Frederic Upton,
said to be the oldest Methodist clergy
man in America, occurred at Fairhaven,
Mass. aged 81 years.
FIRE destroyed eleven greenhouses
belonging to William X. Vanderbilt at
Islip. L. l.. causing loss of 500. 900.
The six days walking match in New
York was won by Hughes, he making
SIS miles. Bennett made 90 miles,
Moore, $50: Hegelman. 52G: Iierty. 525;
Norel1ac. 525, and Peach, 800.
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MEsI AND souTH

DURING "A quarrel over the massacre
of Italians in New Orleans Frank
Waters, a newspaper man, was shot
dead by Arthur Dunn, and the latter
was fatally wounded by Waters before
he died.
THE death of Mrs Harriet Leturno
occurred at Mexico. Mo-, aged 100
wears. She was half-breed Indian, a
granddaughter of Blackhawk-
The oldest postmaster in the United
States. Celestine Kaltenbach, died at
POtosi. Wis. aged rs years
AT the age of - years William III.
Herndon. the former law partner of
Abraham Lincoln. died of the grip at
his home near Springfield, Ill.
ANDY MOORE, aged 81, and Miss Allie
Cox. aged Is. were drowned at Birming-
ham. Ala. Moore could have saved his
own life by swimming out alone.
THE cotton receipts at Savannah for
this season have reached 100000
bales. the largest receipts for one sea-
son in the history of Savannah as a cot
ton port
MARY f. DEWEY. of Goshen, Ind. in
applying for pension brings to light
the fact that she served through the
war in the Twenty-siXth Ohio volun-
teers as a man. passing as Charles
Dewey.
JAMES BOYLE and Peter Herbert.
members of a white cap gang, were
killed by Ralph Stinson, a young farm
er living near West Plains. Mo, while
defending his home from attack
Three consumptives were reported as
completely cured by Prof Koch's rem
edy at San Antonio. Tex.
IN fire at Baltimore, Md, three col
ored children were burned to death.
The firm of j. Il A. Simpkinson, boot
and shoe manufacturers at Cincinnati,
have failed for S40O. 900.
At Louisville. Ky, Theodore
Schwartz 4 Co., private bankers, failed
for about $500. 600. the crash carry ing
down the Union tobacco works.
THE doors of the United States saw
+ ings bank of Topeka, Kan, were
closed. with liabilities of sS5o.OOO.
GOLD was said TO have been found
near Boston. Mo.
/ Az English syndicate has purchased
/ the famous Laguna de Tache ranch in
/ Tulare county. Cal. for 81 200, 600.
AL the country about New Orleans
was under water owing to the breaking
of levees-
IL session at Lansing. Mich, the SUI
preme association of Patrons of Indus
( try elected y. II. Lake. of Rose, Mich.
as president. The report of the secre
+ tary showed a total of li3. 900 member:
I in the country.
N the recent heavy storm in Montant
seven men were found frozen to death
and il was said that many persisted o.
whom no traces hail been found, anC
+ whose bodies had made food for wolves
and coyotes
THE failure was announced of d. j
I Spaulding. wagon manufacturer al
Black River Fails. Wis, with liabilities
I of S2I0. 600 and assets OF 500, 600.
The California Legislature elected
I Charles y. FELTON, rep United state:
I senator 10 succeed the late Senator
{ Hearst
1T was reported that W. L. Bartleti
and G. W Freese. respectively city ed
itor and managing editor OF the Mon
mouth III Atlas. together with two
daughters Of "a man named Hines. o
Huron. :. D.. were drowned in Puge
sound
The closing OF many Montana mines
threw l,5oo men out Of employment
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The favorite mode of torment seems TO
q TO make a man 90 out and sell some
hing or perform some manual labor in
he streets Not long ago a student
Tho was very much in love with a pref
" Cam bridge girl was compelled to 60
o the home of the parents with a lew
,eddlers pack and sell al! the members
If the family the cheap handkerchiefs
md atrocious brass jewelry with which
ne was loaded down. The match was
Tot broken off. but there was fIigid
,oolness i'm that house until the real oh
sect of the visit was afterward ex-
blamed. Another rich and immac-
ilate young swell was ordered into a
itch where some Italians We're digging
n the main street of Cambridge. and
into it he went with pick and shovel,
clad in "A dress suit. which was made
part Of the command. Rubber boots,
an ulster aud fur cap are frequently
ordered on a victim IN the hottest dags
IF term time. and they must be seeli on
him whenever he appears outside his
room. Cambridge like other college
towns. has become partly accustomed "a
these college vagaries, and whenever
anyone is seen upon the streets acting
particularly like lunatic people class
him az .nce as a candidate in q college
societv.-N. Y. Star.
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The News Condensed.
lnp0rtan. lnteIIigenee Flom AI Palts.
ERoM Washington

Il was decided by Assistant Secretary
Bussey that there Is no provision in the
dependent pension act of June %. 1890,
nor in any other act. whereby a minors
pension that has lapsed for years by
reason of age may be revived and start
ed afresh. even though the claimant be
a dependent
I'VE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 2s5 against 25S the
preceding week.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 2ist aggregated
81. 0S2, 49,. 60. against S995. s5l.944 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 2.5.
The death of Gen. Joseph +. John
ston occurred on the 2lst at his resi-
dence in Washington. aged 81 years.
DURING February the exports of beef.
hog and dairy products from the United
States amounted to sll. 1921. los. an in
crease of S2O9, AS as compared with the
corresponding month of last year.
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plTH AND POINT.

--'ePatienee~ should be taken OF
monutl,at and put az the end of a teie
phone. Washington Post.
Beds that are music boxes are made
in Switzerland. They play sheet mu-
sic, suppOse.-Texas Siftings-
The Average man would rather be-
leve he is right aud suffer than he con-
WINGED he is wrong.-Atchison Globe.
A Partisan wit once defined eNpe-
rience as a comb that one became pos
sessed of after having lost ones hair.
Speed Needed. The man who exc
poets 10 ont ran a lie had better start
with something faster than bicycle
Rams Horn
1t takes smart boy to tell lie
successfully. If he tells it unsuccessful
ly his father is apt to make him smart
-Somerviile Journal
Theirs was a case of love at first
sight" ''why didn't they marry?'
''They changed their minds at second
sight. ~. s Herald
-Sanso-W Women are welded to fash
ion. = Blood-.Yes: and they love,
honor and obey il cheerfully. y. \.
Herald.
Love makes tie world go round.
but it finds it impossible on occasions
to induce the girls father 10 come
round.-St. Joseph Gazette.
II rather like q, break a J.li-
I'n generous, You see.
But oh, ! take il very al
I Wiener IA bill breaks the.
/ There is no solitude so miserable as
that Of the man alone in a noisy city
unless it he that of a man alone with a
noisy baby Elmira Gazette.
His Heart is safe Mrs A.-'-Your
husband employs typewriter girl. |
understand Mrs. B.-Yes. but she's
1omely as can be- Yankee Blade
OF the making of books there is no
md. and there never will be So long a
publishers can persuade hopeful authors
o pay the cost of the first edition.
SomervilIe Journal.
aywright-"Then You think my
play is good once" Criticize, l
.hink it is about as bad as it can pos
/ siblv he. What | said was that il
/ would draw big houses. Boston Trans
/ cript
I've had a good deal to do with the
/ ury-box in my day, exclaimed a sher-
4 fl after a recent murder trial, but
never before saw a jury-boX like those
fellows did in their scrimmage about
4 he verdict. boston Courier.
/ After the Last Act.-Sig. Ham
Did you see how long ! paralyzed the
audience in that death scene? by
ieorgc, they We're crying all over the
louse,'' Stage Manager-''ies- They
xnew you weren't really dead
lie Was MistalIen.-C Ito n
hicago Merchant Let me have aran
If electricity. please. Merchant
What Are you crazy?" Customer r
/ Not at all. Does not electricity come
N canned essence. '--Inter-Oeean.
A Dream to be stopped. He
| philosophy teaches us mar ellous
/ .hings." She-"Indeed?" lIe-''Yes.
Cor instance, it teaches that | am
merely dream existing in your mind
-er-, but why are you pinching your
;elf?" She-''Im trying to awake
rom the dream. ~. Y. sun.
Far Too Enterprising .-Office Boy
rushing Lreathlessly into sick
.oUm) MIR Lovmood, is it true that
you've got genuine carbuncle?' Mr..
4owmood - Alas, too true Office
3oy-''Wen, Mr.. Goldsnoot sent me
ver to tell you he'll pay the highest
market price for it if it amt off color. y
Jewellers Weekly.
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seat His stepson to Death.

CHmLICoTHE, Mo-, March 2S.-Infor
nation has been received here from
Dawn. this county, of most
fiendish murder. Charles +. Smith.
who. short time ago. married
Mrs. Green, took a great dislike
to his wife's 5-year-old son, Hen
ny. Last Wednesday in a fit of rage
ne beat the child so severely that he
died Thursday evening. An examina
ton of the body showed it to be GOV.
cred with bruises and one side of his
head was crushed. A lynching was
threatened and Smith lied.
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In Prison Again,

Out of states prison just six days Will
liam Van Zandt, of GAINESVILLE, has again
been placed under arrest. This time
it is for bigamy. Van Zandt was sent
to Waupun from Rock county on q
charge of larceny and served three
years He was released recently and
was arrested six days aftervard on a
charge of bigamy, having, it is said,
married Rabella Stevens in September,
1856, while he had another wife living.
lie is about 65 years old. Van Zandt's
son is now serving a term for bigamy
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OF various efforts to induce Mrs.
Garfield to undertake literary work
none have been successful Recently
she said To a publisher: Il am very
busy in my family. and that is the end
of my ambition la no way am / per
sOually famous The name / bear is
honorable and hOnCred. but my own
life has been only that of an ordinary
woman devoted To husband and chill
dren- / have no desire to write. and
always prefer that nothing be written
concerning me-
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A COLLISION occurred on the North
western between freight and passen-
ger train near Milwaukee on the night
of the 25th. Nearly all the cars were
derailed and they caught fire. One
sleeper and several cars burned. Will
lis Andrews, fireman of the freight
train. was buried under the wreckage
and his body is not vet eXtricated; j.
I. DE Silva. express messenger. was
seriously burned and injured. About a
dozen passengers were more or less in
jured, one or two il is feared.beyond re-
covery.
Gov NICHOLS of Louisiana. on the
cath, made formal report to Secretary
Blaine regarding the killing of the
eleven Italians in New Orleans. The
Governor SAYS the whole affair was di-
reeted against certain men because of
their criminality and not because they
were Italians. The Governor further
says he is satisfied that all killed We're
American citizens.
AT Dekalb. Texas. ON the gath VIM.
Watts told his wife to say her prayers
as he was going to kill her. The wom-
an TO save her own life grsObed AL AK
and split her husbands head open. kill
/ ing him instantly.
THE executive commission completed
the assessments of Iowa railroad prop
erty on the cath. The total is raised
from so. SIS. $50 last year TO S44, $50, 517.
The increase as made will be generally
satisfactory.
On the a4th. Mrs. Shakespeare, the
wife of the Mayor of New Orleans, re-
tceived letter threatening her life.
The letter purpnrred 70 come from tho
Italian society,
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THE oldest man in Tennessee is an
inmate Of the county 'vorkhouse at
Chattanooga His name i lobe Lewis
and he claims Ia be one hundred and
thirty-seven years of age. He has doc
umentary evidence to show that he Is
considerably over one hundred lie has
been married nine times and Is the
father of more than forty children. lie
remembers the revolutionary war. and.
as he Is in good health. will probably
live several wears more