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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
THE STATE MILITIA.
Annual Report of Adiutant General
Burchard Some Figures.

Annual Report of Adjutant General
Burchard some Figures.
Acknowledgement George w. Burchard
in his annual report says there are
grave reasons connected with the
preservation of public order and the
protection of life and property calling
for the organization and maintenance
of an efficient company of the National
Guard in the Northwestern part of the
State. During the two fiscal years past
the expenses of maintaining the Ma
tional Guard were $l37, 691. %, an average
per capita expense of SIS. Regarding
the annual encampments Mr. Burchard
says that he is persuaded that much
more good might be accomplished by
them than has been.
Mr.. Burchard heartily approves the
recommendation of Colonel Charles
King that an appropriation be made for
new uniforms TO replace the ragged
suits now worn by many OF the com
panies. Regarding the war record di-
vision he says that he had hoped to com
plete the work, but is unable to make
such a report. In the pension division
there have been 1902 claims filed. 260
cases allowed and 90 cases disallowed.
In the course of the report General
Burchard says that no practicable eff
fort to advance small arms practice has
been omitted, and he considers the re-
suit very encouraging. During the past
year there were twcnty-eight sharp
shooters favorably passed upon, and
thirty marlIsmen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
SHOWED IN.
A Place where snow shoveIs Were at a
Discount.


A Place where snow shoveIs Were at a
Discount.
Talking of snow" said the man with
the tan-eolored goatee, you ought To
see it snow in the Winnipeg country.
We don't know what snow IS down
here"
Lots of it up there. eh?' asked the
man with the eyeglasses.
Lots doesn't express it. Why. ger
tlemen, two winters ago snow fell where
was to the depth of nine feet before
Christmas, and on the nth of January
it was fourteen feet deep around my
factory.
$50 you had factory"
"Yes, sir
"What sort2''
"a snow shovel factory"
ssGosh, You located in the right place
to strike it richl How many thousands
did you sell?''
Never seld even one single shovel,
sir"
'.You didn't? What was the matter?'
ssWhy, the people up there have moth
ing to do but wait for snow to go off,
and that happened to be an early seq
son, and thaw came on about the mid
die of May Yes, sir, lost six months
time and y. 900 up there. IN. I. sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
The News Condensed.
Important InteIIigence FrOm AI PaIts.
FlFTYFIRsT CONGRESS.


TUESDAY. Jan. 20.-A petition was
presented in the Senate asking that
General Banks be placed on the re-
tired list of the army. A discussion
of the elections bill occupied the re-
mainder of the session In the House
favorable report was made on the
bill imposing a special tax upon all teas
imported from countries east of the
Cape of Good Hope. During the session
Mr.. Mills TEX charged the Speaker
with Intentionally practicing fraud
upon the House, and for a few minutes
the House was in great confusion.
Throughout the scene the Speaker was
calm. but il took the services of the
sergeant-at-arms to quell the tumult
which at one time threatened to cul-
inmate in personal violence.
WEDNESDAY. Jan 21.-The time of
the Senate was taken up in roll calls.
in obtaining the attendance of absent
Senators and in the delivery of speeches
against the elections bill. and at mhi-
night the Senate adjourned, leaving the
subject of the approval of Tuesday S
journal to come up again In the House
no business was done, the time being
occupied in a wrangle over the approval
of the journal.
THURSDAY. Jan 22.-In the Senate
the debate on the journal came to
an end and the cloture rule was dis
cusSed, but no action was taken. In
the House the journal was approved,
the district of Columbia appropriation
bill was passed and the appropriation
bill was considered. A bill was report
ed favorably amending the interstate
commerce law 50 as to allow railroad
companies to make reduced rates of
transportation and to permit them to
carry their own employees free. A bill
was introduced appropriating 100000
for a public building at Ionia, Mich.
FRIDAY. Jan. %. - The time was
passed in the Senate in discussing
the cloture resolution. In the House
the time was occupied in considering
the charges made against the Commits
sioner of Pensions. and in discussing
the naval appropriation bill. A bill
for the relief of the heirs of Richard
w Meade. of Pennsylvania, was favor
ably reported. The claim has been
pending since the Sixteenth Congress,
and is for SS75.S79.
SATURDAY. Jan. 24.-In the Senate
the cloture resolution and the cleo
tiOns bill were considered. In the
House, after the reading of the journal,
the naval appropriation bill was further
discussed. but no action was taken. A
bill was favOrably reported to appro-
pirate SO, 600, 600 TO repair and build the
levees on the Mississippi from the head
of the passes to Cairo.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

GENERAL +. T. SPINNER, writing a
year ago of his school days, said: The
rod was never spared on me at home or
in schOOl-and now, with grOwn-up
Observation-Disclosures. / can truthfully
say l have never in all my long life
struck a child a single blow. ] was
licked enough To last through the whole
four generations Of self and my poster
ity. have found it safe through life
90 practice the reverse Of what was
taught me to do"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

The myriad minded Shakspere says:
''ThrOw physic to the dogs" great
MANY people have an idea that Mother Ma
ture has provided remedies for all the ills
that flesh is heir to, and that they can be
found without the Intervention of medical
colleges or rug-compounders. In support
of this they point To thousands of people
who hive regained health at the various
medicinal springs that send forth their
healing waters in various parts of the Unit
ed states. In the West the most celehrat-
ed of these natural santariums is the Hot
Springs OF Arkansas. in curative power it
outranks all others of the world. The aver
age number o. visitors Is over one hundred
thousand year, coming not only from all
states of the Union. tut Europe and South
America The best route to the Hot
Springs from the Northwest Is THE Bur
lington," which has its own track from st.
Paul and MINNEAPOLIS 10 St. Louis, making
close connections with trains for the Springs.
IL also runs every Saturday evening a
through sleeping car from the Twin cities
TO Hot Springs without change. Any agent
of The Burlington or connecting lines
can supply you with tickets or you can
write to W j. Z. Kenyon. Gen Pass Agent,
c. Is. a. n. K r, st. Paul, Mimi.
No WONDER policemen are good fighters;
they are able to stand up after a good many
neutrality-suspicious. Republican.
TIE trouble in lending our ears is that
the borrowers take such liberties with them
before returning them.-A tchison Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

THERE Is need Of a more thorough
moral enforcement of the command
ment. Thou shalt not steal" Young
men should be made 10 understand that
they have no right to take without
leave what does not belong to them
for their own uses, even though they
SERIOUSLY and con>cientiously determine
10 return IL To the owner That Is en-
bezzlemcnt. and the return of the Dor
rOwed' money or thing does not change
the name of the misdemeanor IL Il
well 10 remember that dishonesty and
crime are the same. whether one gets
caught or not. and regardless of resolu-
tons for future restitution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
WISCONSIN SCHOOLS.
Facts and Figures from the Census
Bureau on Education.


Bureau on Education.
The Census Bureau has issued a pre-
liminary bulletin on education which
shows that in Wisconsin, in 1850, there
We're 22.7s scholars to each 100 persons,
while in 1890 there were 2O.79 scholars
to each 100 persons, or decrease of s.73
per cent. There are 409,2 pupils in
the public, private and parochial schools
of the State, taught by 1880 teachers.
OF the teachers 900 per cent. were in
the public schools, 2.1 per cent. in the
private schools, and IA per cent in the
parochial schools OF the pupils $50
per cent are in the public schools, 1.3
per cent. in the private schools, and 1871
per cent. in the parochial schools The
average number of pupils to each
teacher was as follows: In public
schools, 20; in private schools, Is, and in
parochial schools, 3d.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
His sentence Is Too Long.

The case of John Graham has been
certified to the United States Supreme
Court on a writ of error. Graham was
sentenced to fourteen years in State
prison for highway robbery. The law
fixes the maximum penalty at ten years.
The circuit court of Ashland County re-
used to issue write of habeas corpus
applied for by Graham's attorney, hence
the appeal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
CHASTITY REVENGE.

An Officer in the ROumanian Army Be
headed by Two of His Ordcrles Whom
He Had Mistreated.
BUCHAREST. Jan. 26.-Dispatches re-
ceived from Kustenii Friday stated that
a headless corpse had been found IN the
bathroom of the Hotel Carol at that
place. The bathroom, it appears is stu
ated in the basement of the hotel, and a
Major belonging to the Roumanian
army, who resided in the building, was
in the habit of using it. Suddenly the
Majors disappearance was noted. and
upon the hotel being searched his head
less body was found in the bath. Two
orderlies who were detailed as the Ma
iors body servants have been arrested
on suspicion of having murdered
the officer. Shortly after being taken
into custody the orderlies confessed
and said that they had buried the dead
mans head in the sand not far from the
hotel Revenge for ill-treatment re-
ceived by the orderlies at the Majors
hands is supposed to be the cause of the
murder
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

GEORGE BANCRoFT's library is re-
puted to be one of the best private col
lections of books in the country. It
contains about twelve thousand vol
umeS, among which are many works in
foreign languages, and every book in
the collection has a value apart from
its selling price. The books were close
" packed in the four rooms that COM
prised Nr. Bancroft's literary work
shop. and there never was any attempt
made 70 display them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
LATER.
Reciprocity.

MADRID, Jan. 26.-Spain has accepted
the proposal of the United States gov
eminent for the negotiation at Wash
ington of reciprocity treaty relating
TO American trade with Cuba. In po-
litical circles it is said that the only Sc
rious difficulty in the way of formulat-
ing and adopting such treaty appears
to be the American infiexibility on the
tobacco question.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

MADAME BARRIOs. widow of the Gel
ebrated President of Guatemala. and a
woman of surprising beauty, is now
staying in Washington She was mar
ried at the age of fourteen, and is the
mother of six children, vet she looks as
fresh and as radiant as a young girl.
She is very accomplished, speaking five
languages with fluency. Her fortune
is said, on good authority, to aggregate
c. 00O Onn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Ecn seven stnrlcs.

DIR. Henry Palmer, of GAINESVILLE, had
an unpleasant experience in Chicago
recently. He was on the seventh floor
of a building there. and stepped into an
elevator to descend, when the cable
broke and the car shot downward. The
heavy air cushions at the bottom of the
shaft sent the car up To the third floor
again, and after a severe shaking up.
finally stopped, and the much right
ened passengers alighted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Hundreds of settlers After Lands Restored
10 the Public Domain.

Hundreds of settlers are pouring into
Ashland to look up the lands restored
to the public domain from the Central
and Omaha land. About 800, 600 acres
will be thrown open to settlement in
ninety days. Receiver Hydelauff re-
ceived instructions to open about 200,-
900 acres of the Central land grant of
1864, where it overlaps the Omaha.
Squatters are not given prior rights,
and this has created intense excitement
among several hundred squatters who
located on the lands about year age
near Iron river.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Prevention

Il better than cure, and people who are subjeci
to rheumatism. can prevent attacks by keeping the
blood pure and free from the acid which causes
the disease. This suggests the use of Hoods
Sarsaparilla. unquestionably the best blood purt
Ter. and which has been used with great success
for this very purpose by many people,
Hoods SarsaDarilla has also cured innumerable
cases Of rheumatism Of the severest sort, by It's
powerful effect in neatralizing acldity of the
blood, and in mailing the kidneys and liver 10
properly remove the waste OF the system. Try IT,
NIB II you decide to take Hoods Sarsaparilla
do not be induced TO buy any substitute.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

In the United States Court at Mil
waukee Judge Jenkins sentenced Rev.
a. VI. Deford, of Hortonville and APP
pleton, to five years in Waupun and to
pay fine of $500. Deford is the
Methodist clergyman who was arrested
in Milwaukee several months ago
charged with passing bank bills after
raising the figures. He was then on
his way TO attend the annual church
conference
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
a FOOLISH LOVER.

Told by His 15Year-Old Sweetheart That
She Is Too Young to Marry He Kills
Her and Himself.
GLENwooD, Mimi. Jan. 27.-Sunday
evening in Ben Wade township Miss
Annie Simonson, girl of Is years met
Christ A brahamson at the gate of her
fathers yard and told him She could not
marry him because she was too young
Abrahamson, who himself is but Is,
pleaded with her a few minutes and
then drew a revolver and shot her
through the heart Walking away a few
yards he placed the weapon to his tenn
pie and fired. diving almost instantly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

WHILE we are having just an enjoya-
bic winter. Europe is experiencing the
toughest kind of weather The bliz-
gard. supposed to be an exclusive pos
session of our own wild West, is raging
about Austria and Germany with a Sc
verify rarely surpassed in the region of
the Rockies
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

THE vigor with which the criminal
law is administered in England was IL
lustrated in ease at London. Henry
Atwell was on trial for shooting at
Robert Burn. his employer, the shot
going wide of its mark. Justice Smith
in summing up denounced the practice
of carrying abominable pistols which
are absolutely useless to any one and
dangerous to all The prisoner was
found guilty and sentenced to FIVE
years penal servitude-quite as severe
a punishment "a he would have been
likely to receive in this country if he
had succeeded in killing the man he
was after
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

THE Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided that the act extending the
limits of Kansas City year ago, so as
10 take in twenty-five miles of new
territory, was Illegal and invalid. The
five aldermen elected from the new
territory will lose their seats. and all
ordinances passed since annexation are
iuvali1ated
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
a WISCONSIN BOY.

Lieutenant Robinson, of the Seventh
Cavalry, U. 5. A., Chippewa Falls
boy, has been promoted to the Captaincy
of Troop X, of that regiment, in place
of Captain Wallace, killed in the recent
fight on Wounded Knee creek. His fa-
Their, General Robinson. ofs Chippewa
Falls. is an ex-commander of the IA
nous Iron Brigade, and after the war
was for some time United States Con-
sui at Madagascar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

BY her contract for a tour of America
Sara Bernharit is 70 get 5000 day for
hotel expenses. 5000 for each perform
anee, and one-third Of the gross receipts.
Sara may have deteriorated in her act
ing, but she has lost none of her nerve.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

ALTOGETHER. it Is evident that news
paper influence upon literature is TO be
an important one. As magazines have
come To fill in part the place of books,
50 newspapers have come to fill TO some
extent the place of the magazines.
What the final result of development in
this direction will be is an extremely
interesting question
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Recovered from a Trance.

Mrs. Melvin White, of Wheaton, who
lay in trance twenty-five days, receiv-
ing no nourishment but small quanti-
ties of milk, has revived. She still lay
motionless with her eyes closed, but she
opened them when told to do so and re-
sponded feebly to questions. She said
she had been conscious all the time.
The physician said the ailment was an
obscure brain lesion. 1t was thought
that the patient would recover.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

ONE result Of the censUs inquiry in
the South has been the disclosure of the
fact that the ratio Of increase among
the blacks has been much Overestimat-
ed While the white population dur
ing the last decade has increased TWEEN
ty-six per cent. it is shown that the
negroes have not increased more than
ten
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

Vt speaks well for the thrift of the
black men of old Virginia that in six
teen cities of the State the blacks are
said by the census to own property
worth -. 32i, 50. mostly real estate. In
Richmond their wealth is placed at
cs9O rgS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

A COMPANY has been Incorporated in
San Francisco for the manufacture of a
new explosive, said to be five times the
strength OF dynamite and the inven-
ton of Dmitri Mindlif, a Russian
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

An old man named Prebe. of Bloom
field. Waushara County, was found dead
in his hut Prebe was 65 years old and
had number of grown-up children, who
found it impossible to live with their
father owing to his cruelties to them,
and he, therefore. lived all alone. lie
was quite well-to-do, but lived like a
pauper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
rourteen Years for wife Murder.

Henry Hensel, of the town of Eaton,
Brown County, has been sentenced to
fourteenyears in the penitentiary for the
killing of his wife in August last. ifensel
had frequently quarreied with his wife,
and on August 30 strangled her de- tn.
lie had only been married to her three
,r,.,t
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

PROF WIGGINs IS again in an active
state of prediction He says there will
be no earthquakes around here until
about August Il, 1904. This makes our
safety from a shaking up. meanwhile,
lust a trifit. dubious
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Work of the Flames at Marquette.

IsHPEMING. Mich, Jan. %. - Fire
broke out at 5:45 p. m. Thursday in
Hager & Johnson's furniture manufac-
tory at Marquette and the building was
burned to the ground. 1t then attacked
the Mining journal office and threat
ened the whole business portion of the
city. Ishpeming and Negaunee were
asked for assistance. The hester
block was also damaged. 1t is est
mated that the loss to Hager & Johnson
will be $50, 900. to the Mining Journal
Company S30,OU0 and to the hester
block 81. 600. About one-third of the loss
is covered by insurance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
A Painful Accident.

A strange accident occurred to George
May. farmer residing a few miles
southeast of West Bend. While stoop-
ing over a feed-cutter in motion to oil
the machine his long beard was caught
in the gearing and pulled out by the
roots, considerable skin going with it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

uantities of food and clothing have
been shipped from this county TO suffer-
ing people in Kansas and Nebraska.
The reports of restitution from various
portions of these States are truly
,,itiabi
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
End Of a Long Nap.

WHEATON. Wis. Jan 2l.-Mrs. Melvin
White, of this place, who lay in trance
twenty five days, receiving no n6lu'ish-
ment but small quantities of milk re-
,-irnl an TueslnN
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

Richland Center is excited over the
developments i'm the inquiry as to the
cause Of the death of Miss Ella Malley.
The dead girls stomach was taken to
Chicago and left with Prof. Haynes for
analysis Word was received from HIM
to the effect that poison vas found.
Miss Rose Zolduslzi. the young lady on
whom suspicion rested, had been taken
in charge by the officers, awaiting fur
Their developments
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

SUCCI. the faster, defies DIR. Tanner
and all the other eranks tn self-starv-
ing match, man. money and stomach
ready al anv moment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

THE subscription by female clerks in
Washington for a monument to General
Spinner is SAID to be making good head
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

z. Il. SEARS. of Boston. has bought
the famous English St Bernard dog,
Sir Bedivero, paying for it $500
Rather a costly piece of uncOnverted
sausage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
To Paw Peters Debts.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Jan. 27.-Re-
ceiver Whitney of the r. G. Peters salt
& Lumber Company has negotiated
with Grand Rapids parties and Detroit
banks 5000, 600 of receivers certificates
The money raised will be used to pay
the claim of Loutit, of Grand Haven, un-
der instructions from the Federal Court.
This action releases about 4O,OO0,oOO
feet of good pine and win permit the re-
ceiver TO go ahead with the business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

THERE are twenty-siX monarchies
and twenty-five republics in the civil
lied world Sixteen republics are in
South America
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

Commodore" Tyson. OF theater-tick-
et fame, conceived and carried out the
idea of running news-stands in the lead
ing hotels lie is now worth half a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

TIE death of King Kalakaua removes
picturesque character who for seven
teen years ruled the little Kingdom of
Hawaii The most that could be said
of his Majesty was that he was harm
less The affairs of State never rested
heavily on him The fifty thousand
persons on the SANDY n islands are not
a difficult population TO govern being
more intent on raising sugar cane and
rice than Oudisturbances of any kind, and
the result was that Kalalzaua 5 reign was
characterized by only one revolution.
Personally Kalakaua was a good fell
low. who enjoyed first-elass dinner,
and death was fastened by high living.