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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-15
Bankrupts in London.

London is covered with houses which
have been huddled together any how
by the speculative builder. on borrowed
money. and without much, if any. re-
gard for the comfort or convenience OF
the persons who are doomed to inhabit
them. How the thing is worked was
briefly explained the other day in the
Bankruptcy Court. a receiving order
was made against builder who began
business thirty years ago, admittedly
without any capital. In due time he
became a bankrupt. That, we may as
sumo, did not hurt him very much. AT
any rate, we shortly afterward find
him carrying on his business again, and
then in the course OF another nine
wears he once more found his way into
the Bankruptcy Court On that occa-
sion there was the cheerful payment of
one shilling in the pound-an unusually
large dividend under the circumstances.
On he went again, more gayly than be
fore. Then he worked several build.
ing estates with firm of solicitors. but
somehow or other that did not answer,
and consequently the enterprising gen
tleman made his third appearance in
the court. Thus do the gods sometimes
prosecute those whom they loved.-LOn-
don Herald.
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WEST AND souTH.


THE log schoOl-house near GAINESVILLE,
o.. in which President Garfield taught
in 1851. has been purchased for exhibit
ton at the worlds fair.
THE Missouri. Michigan, Washington
and Illinois Legislatures convened on
the 18th.
II. WEBSTER CROwI.. ex-city council
man, prominent real-estate operator
and leader in social circles at Balti-
more. was said to have victimized his
friends and the Baltimore banks out of
more than $500. 900.
On the Richmond & Danville railroad
a train ran off the track on passing
over a trestle near Gaffney City. 5. c.,
killing the engineer. fireman and two
brakemen and seriously injuring three
others.
NINETEEN of the leading manufact-
I,rcrs Of glass tableware in Ohio, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia formed a
combine. The number of men en-
ployed by the nineteen factories is over
5000 and the aggregate weekly payroll
is S2O0. 900.
IN Texas a cyclone wrecked several
houses near sherman and killed four
persons Household goods We're scat
tered about for miles and the loss was
great Near Ioakum houses were also
blow down.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of McComb, O.
WHITE CARS took David Davidson
from his home in indianapolis. Ind,
and terribly whipped him for abusing
his family xVbi1,. DRINK
JACOB CLAYPOoL. Is years old, and
twenty-five horses We're burned to
death by fire in a livery stable at
Modesto, Cal.
NEAR Bay City, H.. Charles NJ. Roe,
young man. shot and fatally wounded
his sweetheart and then shot himself
dead. He had been forbidden to call by
the lady's parents and took this terrible
revenge.
TIE Laredo KAN Land Improve
ment Company failed with assets of
$685.. 600 and liabilities of SS55.OO0.
0WHILE insane f. Y. yrnes, farmer
p years of age living near Mexico. Mo-,
cut his young vife's throat aud then
killed himself
II Chicago one man lost his life and
three others were fatally injured by an
Illinois Central train at a crossing.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. GLADSTONE, it was said, had
written a letter to an eminent social
reformer in which he declared that
practically his end had come so far
as public life and politics were con-
cerned.
IN Jamaica a company has been or
ganized for the purpose of cultivating
fruits and vegetables on a very large
scale for the United States market.
THE Canada cotton mill combine con-
trolls all the mills in the Dominion and
an output of 81. 25O, 600.
THE statement of failures in Canada
for the year 1890 shows a total of H.
600, with liabilities amounting to $751;
900. 0GO
AT the age of 10 years the monk
known as Father Pasquale died in the
Casertini monastery at Naples.
THE floods at Carlsbad, Germany
caused loss of 1875 lives and 800, 900, 00
forms worth of property.
FIRE destroyed the Royal Hotel in
Moscow and nine persons were fatally
burned. Among the victims was Rus
sian General
THROUGHOUT all Europe cold weather
prevailed and many persons Were
frozen to death.
FLAMES in pianoforte warehouse in
Paris caused loss of 1000, 900 francs.
OK the Persian frontier five Russian
smugglers broke through the ice while
crossing a lake and were drowned.
IL New Guinea hunting tribe at.
tackled village and killed forty of the
inhabitants and looted many dwellings
CoUBTANZ Germany advices say
that while a large crowd was skating
on the frozen Boden sea the ice gave
way end forty people were drowned.
THE representatives of over 100 fam
lilies living in the Cloyne district of Ire
land waited upon the board of guardians
at Cork and stated that for some time
past they have been starving and had
been living almost entirely upon tur-
nips.
SENEGALA advices say that in bat
tie between natives and French troops
400 Of the former were killed or
wounded.
In the Firth of Forth, Scotland, the
steamers Bear and Britannia collided,
and the Bear went to the bottom,
twelve of the crew being drowned.
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OUR SOCIAL RELATIONS.
Hospitality of the Present as Compars
with That of the Past.

Hospitality of the Present Compared
with That of the Past.
The falling away from the ancient
and honored traditions of hospitality is
one of the most portentous signs of the
hollowness and insincerity of our mod
ern life. 1t would seem as though in
our social relations to one another we
are daily sinking deeper and deeper into
the slough of selfishness and hypocrisy.
Woefully have we fallen from grace
since Brillat-Savarin told us that when
we received friend under our roof tree
we made ourselves, for the time he was
our guest, responsible not only for his
physical well-being, but also for his
happiness.
Who cares nowadays whether guest
is enjoying himself or not? Where is
the hostess who will take the trouble to
insure him pleasant evening? To-day,
when we invite any one to our house,
it is with the distinct idea of
getting something out of him; case
simply of What will you give me for
what l am giving you?" He may be
the most wearisome of bores, and we
may detcst the sight of him; but we ask
him TO dinner, and give him our best
because he is friend of young Lord
Noddlelins would just suit poor
Alice-and whom we intend our bore
shall introduce to us in due course.
Miss De Smythe's airs and preten-
tions are intolerable, and her manners
are dreadful; still we invite her because
she is one of the best dressed women in
London. Mrs. Dasher, that rather
rapid little widow. is not exactly de-
sirable guest; but. then. she knows the
incest men in town. and is so good
natured about introducing. And so on
down the list.
The sale and barter of what small
remnant of social virtue is left to us is
an ignoble traffic; but, alas, it is fast
becoming favorite one. We are
familiar with the advertisements which
read somewhat as follows "A lady of
rank and high social position Will ar
range with ladies wishing for instruc-
tons to good society,"
And guests are just as bad as their
hosts. They consider an invitation, and
devote as much thought to it as though
it were some important commercial en-
terprise; and if at last they accept it,
ten to one it is because they hope to
entrap some fellow guest, who would
prove desirable addition to their nom
visiting list. The fact is, the whole
ideal of hospitality has been cheapened
and lowered and its conduct reduced to
mean system of warfare in which
strategy and effrontery are the most
efIicacious responsibility Fair.
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HE IMAGINED 1T HURT.


An Illustration of the Power of the I1agi-
nation
A man who is given to thinking about
things has recently struck an illustra-
ton of the influence of the imagination
over the mind and body as well. This
illustration came about through the be-
havior of his shoe as interpreted by his
mind. or of his mind as interpreted by
his shoot would be hard to tell which.
This is the story: lie returned to the
CITY after hunting trip. When his
luggage was unpacked his valet told
him that one of his shoes was missing.
He sent back for it. In day or two it
came. The next morning the valet, in
setting ont his wardrobe, informed
the young man that the shoe re-
turned was not his own, yet it was
curiously like the other shoe in size and
shape and quality. The young man
slipped on the shoe in question. Clearly
it was not his own. 1t didn't fit any
where and hurt him cruelty. He kicked
il off. '.Send il back and get the right
one" he said. The valet picked il up
and as he did so mechanically turned
back the flap There was the name of
the London bootnaker, and not only
that, the name of the young man him
self. 1t was his own shoe and no mis-
take. So then the valet, without say
ing word, replaced the identical pair
of shoes. The young man slipped them
on. ''Are they easy, sir?" he asked,
after bit. Perfectly" answered the
young man. And it is true.-N. y. SUN
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Talking about coffee and nerves, there
is a rich Bowery restauranteur who il
said to have made himself physica
wreck through his pride in serving gooC
coffee to his customers. In big restau
rants the coffee is put in sieve or bag
inside an urn, and then steam is turned
ON TO boil it. The cooks are apt Il
serve it before the beans are wei
steamed. The restaurant keeper il
question tasted every brewing of coffee
in his place for years, and allowed none
to be served until it was rich anC
strong. OF course he always added the
usual two ounces of chicOry to eacl
pound of coffee. He nearly killed him
self He shakes like leaf IN gale
y. Y Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-15

The Rose bud. Standing Rock. Pine
Ridge, Cheyenne River and Tongue
River Indian reservations have been
temporarily placed under military con-
troll and General Miles has been given
full authority to act.
AT Cordele, Ga, Mrs. Peters and her
daughter were robbed and burned to
death.
FRANK CHATHAM and John Morris,
two well-known ranchmen of Carbon
dale, Col, met in Leadville and re-
newed an old quarrel, and both were
fatally shot.
AT Pueblo, Col, Billy Davis (colored)
shot and killed his foster-mother and
+ foster-brOther in a quarrel about some
property.
THE Indiana Legislature opened on
the Sth and both branches were organ
! lied by the Democrats.
Two SHOCKS of earthquake were felt
/ at RuslS, Tex. and several chimneys
We're leveled with the earth and sleep
ers in various portions of town were
awakened.
/ THE Hatfield-McCoy vendetta in Lo-
gan County, w. Va, which had been
I quiet for some months, has been re-
newed. and in fight on Hart creek six
men were killed.
TIRE at Mount Vernon, Mo, de-
stroyed two newspaper Offices, bank
and fifteen dwellings.
AT Caldwell, Tex, Jacob Murphy, a
colored wife murderer. was hanged.
DURING the season of navigation in
1890 the copper shipped from the mines
in the Lake Superior region amounted
to "a, $50. 414 pounds.
FLAMES swept away almost the entire
business portion of Armour, 5. ID.
HERMAN PUNTLEEFF, a wood-chopper
near Clintonville, Wis, who had cut his
foot, was devoured by wolves while his
companion was seeking assistance.
THE harvesting-machine trust, known
as the American Harvesting Company,
with its enormous capital of $4,000
coo. has been dissolved.
TWENTY-FIVE miles south of Toledo,
o., nitro-glycerine magazine exploded,
the conclusion being SO great that the
people of Toledo mistool it for an Garth
quake shock.
OFFICIALS at Detroit captured the
members of Canadian family named
otAHSon WHO uttu bctu ciiSd,t CT III AhdAi-
ufacturing bogus dollars.
Ar Columbus, Ind, 400 citizens sue
ceeded in surrounding forty foxes in an
open field and killed twenty-eigilt of
them. The others escaped.
In was said that syndicate had been
formed for the purpose Of consol dating
the western part of Kansas into one
vast cattle range.
THE Western Traffic Association has,
been formed by the representatives of
the Western railroad systems controlling
the trafli between Chicago and the Mis-
sissippi river valley in the east, the
Pacific ocean on the west and the
boundary lines of the Nation on the
north and south. The combine repre-
sents more than 65, 600 miles of railway,
with a capitalization of over $4,000, 000,-
OOO
THE infant child of Henry Carver
was killed by wolves at Liberal, Kan.
IN the Mahoning and Shenango val
leys of Ohio twenty-three blast furnaces
were closed, leaving 10000 men idle.
The owners want to force a reduction
in the price of coke and freight rates.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has de-
cided that colored children could not be
Disseminated against in the public
schools of the State.
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august
Flower

The Hon. J. w. Fennimore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del, and lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap
ital of the State. The sheriff is
gentleman fifty-nine years of age,
and this is what he says Il have
used your August Flower for sew
"eral years in my family and for my
own use, and found it does me
more good than any other remedy.
have been troubled with what I
call Sick Headache. A pain comes
=" in the back part of my head first,
" and then soon a general headache
until | become sick and vomit.
" At times, too, have a fullness
" after eating, a pressure after eating
" at the pit of the stomach, and
=" sourness, when food seemed to rise
up in my throat and mouth. Wien
:" feel this coming OH if / take a
+" little August Flower it relieves
me, and is the best remedy / have
fever taken for it. For this reason
81 take it and recommend it to
others as a great remedy for Dys-
"pepsia, &c" a
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury. New Jersey, u. S. A.
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STORM AND FLOOD.
1t Causes a Great Amount of Damage In
Eastern States.

Eastern States.
NEW YORK, Jan. Is. - Tidings of
storm on the New England coast and
inland have been received from many
points. AT Birmingham, Conn, fresh
eft in the Housatonic river broke up the
ice and swept it over meadows and un-
der and through bridges. Three hum
dred feet of piling of the Derby rail-
road We're snapped off like pipe
stems. The pier of one of the rail-
road-bridge spans has been taken and
the iron span is topping. Over 1000
tons of ice must be removed before
travel can be resumed. lighthouses
and barns have been foated away in
the Naugatuck valley. The Derby
Driving Park buildings are submerged
and battered by ice. The meadows are
six feet under water and losses will be
considerable
At Fall River, Mass, gales from the
south piled in the waters and the
wharves are flooded Large quantities
of goods have been washed away and
the harbor is dotted thickly with cot
ton bales, casks and dry-goods boxes.
Large quantities of coal fell into
the river from pockets whose sides
were burst by the water.
A large pile of lumber was swept into
the river and is floating about. Two
schooners were blown upon Anthony's
wharf. The American Print Company's
works and the Metacomet mill have
been compelled to shut down, the fires
having been extinguished by the in
coming tide.
Heavy gales and extremely high tides
are reported along the Maine coast. At
Camden all the wharves were flooded
and the water reached higher point
than ever before known.
At Eastport the wind reached a veloci-
ty of forty-five miles an hour, the
barometer dropped lower than for many
years and the tide was the highest since
1869. Wharves were covered with
water and damage was done in the lum-
Der yards near by.
In Machias the water was the highest
ever known, and much damage was
done to wharf property and bridges.
At Allentown, Pa, rain has fallen
heavily. There is a wash-out at
Steuben's, on the Lehigh 81 Wilkes
barre railroad. At Slatington the water
is in a number of houses. caused by an
ice gorge at the Franklin dam. The
Parryville wire-rod mill, Johnston 81
Swartz's furniture factory and the
Adelaide silk mill are idle. Three hun
bred people are not working.
FoRT MONROE, Va, Jan. 13.-The
steamer City of Washington, New York
for Havana, has arrived here. She en-
countered a cyclone off Hatteras Sun
day night and had her forecastle and
quarterback washed away. One of the
crew was killed and another is missing.
One of her passengers was lady in
jured.
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DAN'L'S DEAF DAD.
How He Was Hoodwinked by His Untruth-
FuT

How He Was Hoodwinked by His Untruth-
full SON.
Dan1 was the biggest liar in town and
Dan' always appealed to his father to
verify his fearful yarns Danrs father
was old. little deaf, and belonged TO
the Methodist church. TWAS not to be
supposed that the old gentleman would
indorse lies, and thus the neighbors con-
cluded. But here is how Dan1 got
around his poor old dad. went down
ter t brook yesterday" Dan1 would
relate Caught tew hundred and -four
pick'ril. say, didn't l, dad?'' And
the old man, bensgnantly listening,
would hear -four, and meelsly reply
''Yes. Dan1" Then the able liar would
edge around back to- his father. and
with the edge of his hand measure OF
the length of his arm before the eyes OF
his astonished guest. Caught one
pick il. whDpper, longen that, say
warn't he, da ~" The old man woulo
gaze upon the six inches of scrawny
wrist and forearm as willy Danl whirled
and easIred for his benefit, and hum
bly,. but firmly, assert: ''Yis, my son,
slI say as how he was summat longer.
j fewiston Me- journal.
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LAT Err.

BILLS were introduced in the United
force and fraud in Federal elections,
and to insure the lawful and peaceful
conduct thereof; to provide for an ex-
tension of the Executive Mansion in
the city of Washington. The bill for
the relief of Nathan Kimball, postmas-
ter at Ogden, u. T., allowing him 81. 329
for postal funds stolen or embeZzled
was passed, as was also the bill to
amend the law as to the visitation and
inspection of the military prison and
the examination of its accounts and
government. In the House no business
of Importance was transacted beyond
the adoption of resolution providing
for a special committee of five members
to investigate the alleged connection of
members of Congress in silver pools
and to inquire into the ownership of
the IL. GOO, 600 ounces of silver bullion
which the United States is asked to
purchase.
FRANK f. MITCHELL, a gambler of
st. Louis, shot and killed his mistress,
Dollie Mayo. and then took his own life.
THE Oregon Legislature began its
session at Portland on the 18th.
SENATOR VANCE was renominated by
reclamation by the upper House of the
North Carolina Legislature to succeed
himself in the United States Senate.
THE visible supply of grain in store
in the United States on the 18th was:
Wheat. 25.519,20 bushels; corn, ASIA
9l6 bushels
MAJOR WOODRUFF, State Treasurer
of Arkansas. was reported S97. 900 short
in his accounts.
SEyEST--FIvE women of Peru. Ind,
whose husbands frequent gambling
dens, notified the gamblers that. they
must close their places and leave the
city or their furniture would be burned
in the streets.
The Twenty-eighth General Assem-
bly, of Arkansas convened on the 18th.
NINE persons were drowned while
crossing the Seine river in France by
breaking through the ice.
The Minister of Finance in Prussia's
Lower House stated that the DIR. Koch
medical secret would soon be published
70 the world.
The Governor and other State officers
of Kansas elected last November were
installed into Office ON the 18th.
THE will of the late Emma Abbott
was admitted to probate at New York,
ana disposes of property worth about
SI.00l. 600. The document directs that
the body of the testator shall be
cremated. after being tested with an
electric current to ascertain whether
or not life IS extinct
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EMMA ARRoII.S WILL
She Directs That Her Body Be Cremate
and Makes Many Charitable Beaaests

She Directs That Her Body Be cremated
and Makes Many Charitable Iseqaests.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The will of
Emma Abbott Wetherell was on Mon
day admitted to probate. 1t was ex-
ecuted May %, 1890, at the Marl-
borough Hotel in this city. Miss Abb
bott begins her will with directions as
TO the disposal of her body. II direct
that my body" are her instructions,
Having been first tested by electrici-
ty to ascertain if life is extinct.
shall be cremated and the ashes re-
sulting therefrom be deposited beside
the remains of my beloved husband. -
She directs The executors to place on
deposit 500 900 in the Farmers Loan
& Trust Company and from the income
to pay $500 monthly to her father, Sc !,
Abbott. A like sum is also to be place.
in the United States Trust Compa nv
with directions to pay from that like
monthly income of $500 to her mother,
Mrs. Almira NJ. Abbott. To Leon II.
Abbott, George III. Abbott and Frank
Abbott, brothers, she leaves S25, 900
each; to Mrs. Lizzie Abbott Clark s25,-
900, and to the children of Leon and
George H., and Mrs. Clark $1,000 each.
Closing her will Miss Abbott remem-
bers various churches and charitable
institutions. Her legacies to the
churches she prefaces by stating that
they are made to churches that have
attended from time to time and where
/ have particularly enjoyed the
music" These legacies are $1,000
each and to the following churches:
Plymouth Church, the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. Madison Avenue Baptist
Church, Fourth Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Church of the Divine Paternity,
Citadel Square Baptist Church, Charles
ton. S. c.; Rose Hill Methodist Episco-
pal Church, New York; and st. LulSe's
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The residue of her estate is TO be di-
vided share and share alike among the
following; Founding asylum of the
Sisters of Charity, Children's Aid So
ciety for the support of the news
boys lodging house; III ne of the
Friendless of Newark. j.; Chaplin
Home for the Aged and .nfirm; House
of Mercy, in East Forty ighth street;
st. Johns Guild for Excl ,sions for
Mothers and Children in Summer; He
brew Benevolent Society; Sanitarium
for Hebrew Children; Mrs. S. V. White,
of Brooklyn, and Mrs Sarah Bird,
friend of Mrs. White. She
hopes these ladies will use their
shares in charity. All of Miss
Abbot's music, operate scores and
private papers are bequeathed to Alice
Cafferty, of Jersey City, who also re-
ceives $1,000. Her diamonds and jewelry
are given to the executors with the di-
rection that they be sold and the pro-
ceeds to form part of the estate. The
will contains forfeiture clause against
contestants
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PUSHING a FIGHT.
England Carries the Behring Sea Contro-
versy Into the United States Court.

England Carries the Behring Sea Contro-
versy Into the United States Court.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ia motion has
been made in the Supreme Court by
James III. Choate, of New York,
representing the Canadian govern
ment, for writ of prohibition
declaring that the District Court of
Alaska had no jurisdiction in the case
of the sealing schooner Laymond
seized by United States authorities in
Alaska, the vessel having been taken
outside of the customary three marine
leagues.
This motion creates quite surprise
in Congressional and diplomatic circles,
as it is considered to be a coup d'etat on
the part of Great Britain for
the purpose of bringing the entire
question of the jurisdiction of the
United States in the Behring sea before
the highest legal tribunal in the United
States, and thus force that court to de-
fine the position of the country on this
important subject.