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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-30
LISTENED TO REASON.
Through President IIarrison's Interfer-
enee the Car Relaxes His Persecution
of the jews.

Through President Harrison's Interfer-
ence the Gar Relaxes His Persecution
of the Jews.
WASHINGTON, July 25-Cablegrams
received at the state department Fri
day brought the important official news
tsat the ear had temporarily relaxed
the Jewish expulsion measures. They
also brought the gratifying intoIli-
gence that he had done this in compli-
ment To the United States and at the
instance of this country. While the
relaxation was described as tempo
rary and intended by the car as a
respite until he could consult with his
political advisers. there is no doubt that
II viii lead TO a permanent mOdihca-
ton of the oppressive orders of expul-
sion. The matter has been very deli
cately managed in its diplomatic bear
ings- Strictly speaking the action of the
CT IN expelling the Jews was IL after
OF purely domestic concern with which
neither the United States nor any
country had anything to do. A diplo-
M, tic remonstrance would have been
resented, but means were found for
putting the matter in its proper
llSHt utlOIt the car. PRESIDENT
Harrison interested himself per-
sonally. Some time ago a delega-
ton of leading Jewish citizens headed
by Jesse Seligman, the New York
banker, and Oscar Straus, ex-minister to
Turkey. waited on him and he assured
them that the best efforts of the adj
ministration would be used to soften
the rigorS which the Russian Jews
were enduring. Minister Smith sue
ceeded in bringing the subject to the
cars attention in favorable light in
a personal message from President
Harrison. After the minister's de-
parture renewed representations
We're made by Consul GEN
eral Crawford. lie has rep
resented the United States for
many years at ST. Peters burg and Is a
great favorite with the Russians To
his tact in great measure is due the
willingness of the ear TO suspend the
anti-Jewish policy of the empire.
Worldwide interest has been taken in
the sufferings of the Russian jews and
it is a tribute to the United States that
this influence has been able to ac-
complish what all the rest of the world
could not do.
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FARMERS WHEAT CORNER.
Alliance scheme to Squeeze Spectators
and Traders i'm Grain.

and Traders in Grain.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 24-St.
Paul has been made the headquaf
tiers of a national movement by
the United States Farmers ALI
ance to corner the entire wheat
crop of the United States. At 317 Waba-
sha street for several days large force
of employees has been engaged in sending
out circulars with a view not only of
having the alliance men of the United
States but all classes of farmers keep
back their wheat crop until the
bears have all been killed off
and prices have been advanced TO high
point In other words. the alliance
press bureau and state press bureau
are working together. endeavoring to
unite the farmers of the United States
in gigantic wheat trust in which the
and by which the spectators and
wheat buyers viii be squeezed to the
wall.
At the head of the movement is
George NJ. Muller, editor of the State
and prominent alliance man. The
circular, which recites the benefits of
combination and urges the formation
of the trust" estimates the wheat
crop of 81 in the United States at
500, 600, 900 bushels. The promoters
of the farmers wheat trust be-
lieve that four-fifths of this
wheat can be held back Nv the
farmers for four to eight weeks by
which time it is thought that prices
will have gone sllyward. Lists bear
ing the names of secretaries of every
alliance in the United States are now
in the hands of Mr.. Muller, and the cir
cular has been sent to the alliances of
all the eastern wheat growing states.
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MONEY MOVING WESTWARD.
1t VIII Take S5O.OOO,OOO to Move the
Crop This Year.

New YORK, July 25-The deposits Of
tine sub-treasury Thursday against
shipments to be made from Washing
ton to the west amounted TO $3.50, 900,
making total of Sl.4l5,001 since Fri
day. The movement has now set in in
earnest and its influence is felt all
around. Bankers anticipate consider
able advance in the rate for call money,
as the shipments to the west continue
to absorb the surplus at this center.
Fortunately the surplus reserve of
the New York banks is large,
amounting, according to last Satur-
days bank statement, to SIS. $50, 425
Estimates of the total amount of money
to be shipped to the interior by sum
mer and fail range from so, 900. 001 to
$50. 600 900 This will draw all the
surplus reserves from the city banks
and will drain the country banks and
the trust companies as well. Last year
something over SIS, 600, 900 was shipped.
More would have been but for the fact
that the supply of small notes gave out.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON

THE number of post offices in the
country June 80. 1871, was 81, 39l, as
follows: First class. 1I6: second class,
$50: third class. 2216; fourth class. 6I,-
449. This Is an increase of 1000 offices
during the year.
IL the United States the output of
pig iron for the first half of 1891 was
3.3sl.O25 gross tons, against $500, SIS
gross tons in the first half of 1880
Is Washington the National Society
Of the Daughters Of the Revolution
was Incorporated with Mrs Benjamin
Harrison as president general.
THE business failures IN the United
States during the seven DAYS ended on
the oath numbered 354. against PA the
preceding week and 1879 for the CORE
spending week last year
a BULLETIN from the census Office
shows the United States to be the larg-
est producer % copper in the world, its
product for the year 1889 being 226, O5I,-
g62 pounds
Is the United States the total inter
nal revenue collections from all
sources during the year ended June so
last We're SIG loss, $40. an increase of
3. 4iO, $50 over the preceding fiscal year.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
Sg03. lis. sal. against Sl.O04. O79. $50 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to &c.
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IT was said that evidence had come
10 light showing the innocence of Tom
Williamson un Ter sentence to be
hanged August 81 for wife murder at
Sedalia, Mo-
The horse Wyandotte, owned by John
Z. Madden, of Lexington, Ky, and
valued at $4,000, fell dead at the De-
troit races.
BY collision ON the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad near Carlisle, Col, four
persons were killed and nine badly in
jured.
OFFICIALS at Des Moines, la. emp
tied 400 kegs of captured beer into the
river.
IL the National league the per-
centages of the base ball clubs for the
week ended on the 25th were: Chi
cago, $50; New York, 1888; Boston,
.565; Cleveland. 5l3; Philadelphia,
$50; Brooklyn, 400: Cincinnati,
.42S; Pittsburgh, 400. The percentages
in clubs of the American association
were: Boston, .69l: ST Louis, .65l;
Baltimore, $50; Athletic, SOC; Column
bus, .494; Cincinnati. .42s; Louisville,
.S25: Washington, 800.
SEVENTEEN business houses and resi-
dences in South Haven. Mich, were de-
stroyed by fire.
At Kansas City, Frank Lindenstine
broke the worlds high diving record
by diving from platform 50 feet high
into the lake at that place.
MASKED men took John Brown.
young negro desperado. from Jail at
Jackson. Tenn, and hanged him to a
tree.
a NOR lynched John Granger. a
FRANKLIN (Ky) negro, for making
threats against his white neighbors.
Ar Woodsdale Park, an excursion
train returning to Dayton. o., from
Cincinnati was run into by a freight
train and four of the excursionists
were killed and fifty injured, some IA
tally.
II Ashe county, y. C., Stephen Os-
borne and wife celebrated the seventy
second anniversary of their marriage.
Mr.. Osborne is 1Ol years old and his
wife %. They have twelve children,
sixty-nine grandchildren, more than
200 REORGANIZATION and nine great
REORGANIZATION.
a CLOUDBURsT swept away the town
of Genoa, Mo.
FLAMES at Newport News, Va, de-
stroyed over twenty buildings, stores
and dwellings
FIVE persons were killed in a rear
end collision near Gallon, O.
FIRE destroyed Frazer & Co.'S
grocery warehouse and Quine's car
riage factory at Montreal, Can. Loss,
500, 600.
WHILE in the act of making counter
felt dollars William A. Teal was ar
rested at indianapolis.
A COLoRED tramp named Craig went
to the house of Nathan Conway near
Paris, KY, and killed Conway and his
wife and their two sons. Neighbors
captured the murderer and shot him to
death.
AT Cedar Falls, Ia, Mary and Bertha,
aged II and 10 years respectively,
daughters of G. Thompson, were
drowned while bathing in the river.
AT Evansville, Ind, an earthquake
shock caused a great fright but no dam
are
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-30
EARTHQUAKE AT EVANSVILLE
A Series of Shocks Cause Panic, but
Little Damage in the Indiana city.

Series of shocks Cause Panic. but
Little Damage in the Indiana city.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 27.--At $50
Sunday evening Evansville expert
enced a severe earthquake shock. The
entire city was thrown into panic,
congregations in all the churches
rose to their feet in the midst
of the service and ran pell
children screaming and fainting.
At the hotels the greatest ex-
element prevailed. Guests rushed
from their rooms into the corridors,
then into the Office and finally on TO
the streets. The duration of the shocks
was scarcely more than three seconds,
bat it was long enough to unhouse near
" every man, woman and child in Ev-
ansville.
The noise accompanying the disturb
anee was really the most paniclSy part
of the whole performance. 1t was loud
and indeseribable. 1t was not report
like a cannon, but rather like crashing
of big tree in heavy wind.
At the First Baptist church DR.
Heagle had just given out his text when
th'~AN Ndo a AAAiAbA1f u ShbNN anu AAlt
building groaned. The congregation
was thoroughly terrified and the
church was empty before one could
count five.
James Seiffert and wife and two
ladies were driving along Cherry street
in a carriage when the shock came.
The people pouring out of Mcfarland
chapel frightened the horse and a run
away resulted. All the occupants OF
the vehicle We're more or less injured,
but none fatally At first nobody
appeared to be certain of just what was
the matter. On Sycamore street, near
the chamber of commerce, some one of
the excited throng there cried: The
courthouse" Immediately there was
headlong rush in the direction of that
structure. Its foundation had been
said to be weak and every body seemed
to conclude that the massive pile had
collapsed.
The shock was felt more severely in
the southwest end of the city. Part of
the side wall of the Stock Yard hotel
was shaken off and the window lights
in several houses in the western see
ton of the town were broken. This is
the first shock felt in this vicinity for
several years 1t was much more pro-
nounced than the last.
The distinct report accompanying the
shock led many To suppose that "A pow
der magazine ON the outskirts of the
city had let go. The vibration at Hen
derson, 10 miles below here, was very
violent. Chairs were overturned and
several buildings are said 60 have
been wrecked Reports from other
outlying cities tell of no Sc
rious damage. Mount Vernon, New
burg and other southern Indiana points
and places in northern Kentucky ex-
perienced stronger earthquake shocks
than those felt in Evansville.
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THE CLERKS WE'RE AMUSED.
The Message of the Assistant Book Keeper
Was Funny but Disastrous.

The Message of the Assistant Book Keeper
Was Funny but Disastrous.
of course it was good joke. Hadn't
the boss said that he didn't want every
body in the Office running III to see him
on every little pretext? Hadn'. he told
one of the clerks that if the latter
wanted anything brought to his atten-
ton he should speak To his Immediate
superior and have the matter come to
him through the proper channels?
Naturally, in view Of this, everyone
was ticl1led when the assistant book
keeper said to the boolS-keeper.
Mr. Smith, will you please ask Mr..
Brown to ask Mr.. wilkins to ask Mr..
johnson TO ask the boss If | can get off
Friday at four oclocl1?"
The booll-lSceper saw the humor of
the thing at once, and promptly deliv-
cred the message to Mr.. Brown, and SO
il went up step 10y step to the boss, who
smiled siclzly sort Of smile when the
request was repeated to him
''Ah, yes" he said. THE assistant
book-lseeper seems to he great stick
Ter for Office etiquette.
Yes sir" returned Mr. Johnson;
she was anxious that the request
should reach you through the proper
channels"
Quite right said the boss. Now,
might call him in and give him my an
swer in person. but that would hardly
be in conformity with his idea of pro-
priety. would it,"
'.Wel, sir, | suppose it is only a little
joke
Yes yes, Of course. Very amusing,
this step-ladder business. Now, Mr..
johnson, win you please tell Mr. Will
kins to tell Mr.. Brown TO tell Mr..
Smith 10 tell the assistant book-keeper
that his services are dispensed with.
And while You are passing the message
down You might add that If we have
any more Of this stcp-ladder business
I'll kick the whole ladder over an
throw it out Of the office. ~ Chicago
tribune
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AWFUL BuTCHERY.
A Black Desperate Chops Three Mem
beers of Kentucky Family to Death =
lie Is KILLED by "a Neighbor.

re - hhitu ~ N'iShbor"
LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 27.-Five miles
from Paris, KY, lived Nathan Conway,
81 years old, his wife. about the same
age, their sons. Charley and William,
30 and 2s respectively, Williams wife
and three children and two
nieces, Miss Florence and Lucy
Leager. As they were all
sitting on the veranda Sunday morn
ing a negro named Craig, who had no
fixed home, came up and asked for a
drink of water. 1t was given him. He
thereupon lifted rusty scythe blade
and asked if it was not COED knife.
Charley Conway nodded assent and the
negro throwing down the cup of water
struck him with the knife, split
ting his skull The rest of the
family ran into the house. Craig con-
tinued to hack the young man till
he thought him dead He then attacked
the father, who had returned, and
killed him. Then the mother coming
up had her head split open and Instant
ly died. After the negro had insanely
hacked her body in a dozen places he
attacked William Conway, cutting
him in the head and on the body as he
ran. lie had just struck Conway To the
ground when 6. w. Bailey. a neighhor,
attracted by the screams. came NJ and
shot Craig twice with buckshot. This
seemed to have no effect, but other
neighbors had come up and a
young man shot Craig with a pistol.
Craig ran, and falling beside hay
stack, died in few minutes from the
effects of the buckshot wounds. I he
pistol ball had glanced around his head.
The Conways were from Maysville
originally, but came to Bourbon
eighteen months ago from 7. c. Meg
gins farm. near Cyathiana. They
were orderly citizens and were
held in the highest esteem. Craig
said he had killed seven per-
sons and intended to kill that whole
family. lie is known to have killed
his mother-in-law. He has always been
known as desperate fellow, and was
a brother of Charlie Craig, now unde'
sentence of death in Cincinnati.
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THE EAsI

FRANK HANCOCK and four of his chill
dren were found dead in his yard at
Kettle Creek. Pa, in April. 1889, and
it was supposed that Hancock had muir
dered the children and hanged himself.
His wife died recently, and at the last
moment confessed that she and two OF
her paramours had committed the muir
ders. The names OF the men were with
held.
The Easton PA national bank was
robbed hy three men Of $4,000 in broad
daylight who escaped.
HERMAN u. SMITH, young physician
of New Haven. Conn, died from ex-
cessive cigarette smoking
At Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Mary
McCaffrey and Mrs. Farris gave their
la bles carbolic acid. thinking it cough
mixture and both children died.
MASSACHUSETTS, republicans will
hold their state convention in Boston
on September Is.
The home for widows and orphans of
odd fellows was dedicated at Laurel
Station. Ia.
II EdwardSville. Pa. the earth caved
in at many places, causing houses to
topple over and rendering the land in
the vicinity useless for further building.
LARRY BOYD struck John Myford a
blow which caused his death in a prize
fight near MonOngahela City. Pa.
Az indictment was found against
Charles Hennessy. city editor of the
New York Daily News. for publishing
an account of the recent Sing Sing ex-
ecutions 10y electricity.
On the charge of having eight living
wives Augustus Lewis was placed in
Jail at ROndOut. " Y.
FLAMES destroyed the cotton and
wooden mill of Campbell & Elliott in
Philadelphia. the loss being 500. 600.
WILLIAM y. WEEDEN, the inventor of
the Waterbury watch. died at New
Bedford. Mass, at the age of 50 years.
TWIN babies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Egbert. of Taylorsville. Pa, died from
the effects of wrong dose Of medicine
given them by their mother.
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Death OF Hermann Raster.

Chicago. July p. News was re
ccived here Friday night that Hermann
Raster, editor in chief of the illinois
Stats Zcitung. died in Cudowa. in the
German province of Silcsia. whittier he
had gone in search of health, at 6:iJ
o'clock p. IN He was g. years old.
Hermann Raster was for twenty-four
years the life of the Stats /eitung,
whose leading position in German
American journalism i due to his abil-
ity He was resident of this country
for forty-one years Ills death robs
German American journalism of it,
leading eXponent.
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A CRUISERS BLuNDER.

A Gillian warship Blows Up the Steam
Launch of the American Man-of- War
Pensacola Under the Impression That
1t Was an Insurgent Boat-FIve Sailors
Killed.
CALLAo, July 25.-1he famous old
man OF war Pensacola. of the United
States navy, has just arrived here
after an exciting run along the CHILEAN
coast. II brought the first news of
thrilling accident at africa, Chilli, hy
which five sailors of the Pensacola lost
their lives. The steam launch belong
ing to the man of war was blown up
in the harbor of africa by the CHILEAN
torpedo boat Condell and every man
on board. five in number, were killed.
The attack took place the evening of
June The Condell is one OF Balma-
ceda's torpedo cruisers from the port of
Santiago and was ON the lookout for
the ships of the insurgents. II stole
into the harbor of africa about o'clock
There was heavy fog and objects at
distance of 100 yards could not be
discerned with any distinctness. The
steam launch had left the Pensacola on
the regular evening trip to the shore
and was making its way slowly when
suddenly those on the man of war saw
the little boat lifted completely out of
the water. as if a subterranean
monster had risen up under
the launch and tossed it in the
air. There was the dull echo of
half-smothered explosion, and then
wreckage was scattered in every drec-
ton. Not a sound of human voice
was heard. The quiet that followed
told plainly that the FIVE men aboard
the launch had either been killed out
right or SO manned as TO be unable to
make the condition known.
The search-light of the Pensacola
was brought into play. and at the same
instantant orders were given to lower
the boats. When the broad rays of
tiash-light made specters against the
great curtain of fog the Condell was
discovered only a short distance
away. The Gillian cruiser had mis-
taken the launch for an insurgent boat
and had used a torpedo with deadly
effect. There was intense excitement
aboard both vessels the next TWEEN
ty minutes. Signal lg continued be-
tween the man f war and the
torpedo boat for some time, and
when the situation u affairs be-
came known on the COndell its
commander dipped his colors and
sent his chief officers aboard the
Pensacola. 1t then became known
that the explosion of the torpedo was
a stupid blunder on the part of the
cruiser. Such apologies as could be
offered We're made, but the feeling
among the comrades of the dead sail
ors was bitter. The bodies were not
recovered
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REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.
An East st. Louis saloon Keeper Kills
Business Rival and shoots Himself While
His Wife and Child, on Their Bonded
Knees, Beg Him to Desist.

business Rival ana shoots himself winnie
His Wife and Child, Their Blended
Knees, Beg Him to Desist.
ST.. Louis. July 25.-A murder and
suicide with some remarkable features
occurred in East st. Louis Thursday.
George Anderson. a well-known sport
and saloon keeper, shot three times
and killed Thomas Ryan, the Ree per of
an adjoining saloon. J NalouSy of
Ryan's more prosperous establish
ment led to the crime Anderson
loaded up with fifteen drinks of bad
whisky. entered Ryan's saloon drew u
44-caliber Colts revolver and began to
shoot One bullet took effect over the
heart and Ryan fell dead. The muir
derer then walked into his own saloon,
put the revolver to his head and f v,d,
but on account of nervousness the bull
let entered the cheek. ranged upward
and lodged under the right eve.
Then followed a strange specta-
Gle. With the blood flowing
from the wound Anderson, who was a
man of iron nerve. went behind the
counter, threw ont the four cd shells,
and put four new cartridges in the re-
voIver. He fired one shot into the floor
to see if the cartridges were all
right and then came from behind
the counter and sat down in chair.
His wife on Blended knees in
pool Of blood begged him not to
take his life. and while he sat
stern and resolute, asking his wife not
to interfere with him, beautiful little
girl-his daughter-also Snelt by his
side and with childish pleadings inter
mingled with sobs iinplOred her father
not to kill himself Without uttcring
a word Anderson held the revolver to
the right of the lett nipple and fired,
falling back on the floor a dead man,
shot through the heart
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Negro COLONY in Merico.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The bureau
of American republics is informed that
an association called the American Col
ored Mans Mexican Colonization Com
pany is planning to establish a colony
of negro farmers, coming chiefly from
the states of Mississippi and Tennes-
see, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, and
it has arranged for the purchase of a
tract of 1000 acres about 20 miles
south of Yuma, 4. T.. on the Southern
Pacific railroad, at a place where the
remains of the Lerdo colony, founded
by Mr. &. Andrade, of san Francisco,
Still eXis..