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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
TAKEN BY WIRE.
The Law Claims the Life OF wife-Mnrder-
er Leppy, Who Has Been Electroouted
Mt Sing Sing.

The Law Claims the Life OF Wife-Murder-
err Leppy. Who Has Been Electroouted
at sing Sing.
SING SING, y. Y. Dec. s.-Martin n.
Loppy was killed by electricity at 1908
p. IN. Prison Chaplain Silas q. Edger-
ton was the first man To emerge
from the prison after the exc
cution. He oked very pale and
was much lated. In answer to
questions concerning the execution he
declined any details, but said il
was similar in every respect to
the four witnessed by him
in July. But there was
no suffering and no scene. Loppy died
easily and went TO the chair bravely.
giving everyone the impression that he
did not care whether he lived or not.
There were three contacts. the signals
being manipulated by DIR. Laudy.
According to Warden Brown, the
execution was carried out the same as
at the time of the killing of the four
men in the same chair in July last.
The warden refused TO give any in
formation except to say that the law
had been carried out and that the exc
eution of Loppy was a success.
Loppy was attended in his last mo-
ments by Chaplain Low, of the Tombs
prison, and Chaplain Edgerton, of Sing
Sing prison. When Loppy arrived at
Sing Sing three weeks ago he was sui
len and indifferent but he gradually
changed under the teachings of
he, ,t,,.e
head to the reading of the death war
rant, and was then led to the death
chamber, where he was promptly
placed in the chair and strapped SO
that he could not move head or foot.
While this was being done, the experts,
physicians and other persons present
were grouped about the room in a
semi-circle.
The electrodes were then applied TO
the condemned man, one covering the
forehead and temples and the other the
calf of the right leg. The electrodes
were moistened with a solution Of salt
water before the current was turned
ON and at intervals afterward. Capt.
Hilbert. who was in charge of
the death machinery, had the
dynamo running and everything
was ready for turning on the
current. As the signal was given to
the man at the switchboard to turn on
The current, Drs. Macdonald Landy
and Rockwell stood near the chair
with watches in their hands to time
the respiration and the beating of the
heart. None of the witnesses would
reveal how Loppy died
1t is understood that /, 4S5 volts were
used, the same as at the July execution,
and that current of that voltage was
continued from fifty to si.ty seconds.
As soon as Loppy was prom ounced dead
the straps which bound his body were
removed and the dead murderer was
carried into the apartment directly off
the execution room, where an autopsy
was held
lLoppy's crime was the murder of a woman
who was known as Hattie Loppy and was sup
POSED 10 have been bis wife. The deed was
committed on July 1870, in miserable little
room at 220 Chrysiie street, where the couple
lived The ASA ssin stabbed his victim to the
heart with sharppoiuted pair OF scissors
There were no Witnesses to the killing A
drunken qnarrel was the only khown cause for
the deed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN China another rebellion has
broken out, two or three important
towns have been captured and hum
dreds of natives murdered, among them
many Christian converts
FURTHER advices give the number of
deaths by the recent japanese earth
quakes as 1860, and the injured at TO-
100
In Melbourne the Standard bank,
with capital of $1,000. 900, suspended.
EXPLOITATION of tobacco from Mexico
during the last fiscal year amounted
to $3.50, 344. Sc more than the previous
year.
AT the age of GO years Dom Pedro,
ex-emperor of Brazil. DIED in Paris.
Since 1857, when Dom Pedro was forced
to leave Brazil. his health had been
failing
IN Berlin influenza was so wide
spread as to interfere with the opera
tions of railways and other large con-
Germs and with municipal and judicial
affairs Hospitals were crowded to
their utmost capacity.
FIVE HUNDRED Christians, several
native priests. Mongolian prince and
some unCOnNeELeu natives III Aulnb
were massacred and many churches
pillaged and burned in the towns of
Tsientchang and Pingsuten.
DURING an eruption of the volcano
at Colima, Mex, a heavy shower of
ashes fell upon the city, covering the
streets and roofs of buildings and
greatly terrifying the inhabitants.
IL China the imperial forces defeated
the rebels in a battle near Chooyang
Eleven hundred rebels were slaugh-
tered on the field, and those which
were overtaken and captured were inn
mediately executed.
THE total number of emigrants who
left Liverpool during the eleven
months ended November last was 199,-
5S7, of whom 163,95S came to the
United States
By an explosion of fire damp in a
mine at St Etienne, France, seventy.
three minelr lost their lives.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
MOMENTS WAISTS.


Correct Measurements Tor a ETeIl-Devel-
oped Figure.
While 10 or 20-inch waist is de.
ormlty in an adult woman. IL NAV
Justly be doubted whether The 2s-inch
waist of the Venus de N.edici i not
somewhat too large TO be in proportion
with the figure Of the average Ameri.
IAN woman. 1t IS characteristic of
women of the highest types of the Indo-
European RACES 70 have wide hips and
narrow waists IN other races the hips
are narrower and the waists larger. The
American woman appears. in conse-
auence OF her large hip measurement.
20 have a smaller waist than she really
has. To the unslilled masculine eye a
girl with waist Of 90 or 22iS inches
nav seem 10 have wasp-lise figure,
when IN reality her measurement is
very nearly what It should be TO satisfy
he critical eve Of an artist or her fam.
ly physician.
The Venus de Mediciis feet inches
n height, % inches about the waist, 81
about the bust, and a about the hips
The women employed as cloak mod
els by most OF the great dry goods es-
II UALSlulEIAS III &NEN III NANF az VI
about the same height The measure
nents required of a model 5 feet 3
inches in height in one bishment
are the following:
Waist, 2SIS 10 p inches; bust, 81 to IS;
hips - to ~; base Of skull to waist, 10.
biceps. 111s to l..
A prominent physician recently gave
the following as the correct meas
urements for well-formed. well-de-
veloped and healthy woman of feet 5
inches:
Waist. - inches; bust. S3jS TO SAL;
biceps. IL to Is; wrist, 81 or So; hips,
a or IS, calf. 10 70 il; and ankle,
to ~
The doctors model woman" has
smaller hips and smaller bust end
about the same waist as the cloak
nodel ". Y. Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Disastrous Train Wreck.

WEST PLAINS, Mo, Dec. s.-A ter
rifle wreck, disastrous in its effects
both upon life and property, occurred
here on the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis railway Monday afternoon.
Four men were killed. A construction
train with thirty-eight men in the
caboose was backing into this place
when it collided with special freight
train. The caboose was smashed into
splinters and four of the worlSmen in
it were killed outright of the other
thirty -four men occupying the caboose
twenty were seriously injured, it is
feared some of them fatally.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

w a. Hammond, salooniseeper at
Nelson. attempted 10 elope with the
i5-yelr-old daughter of his neighbour
]. i. Butler, but the girls mother
.hw5srted the plans of the runaway
couple by taking the girl home with
Ter. Hammond is a married man aud
he father of three children. his wife
being the daughter of a respectable
amily. Mr.. Butler. the father of the
girl, was absent from home. aud Ham
nond took advantage of this fact
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Anarchist Appeals Postponed.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. Attorney
General Hunt received word that the
hearing of the cases of the anarchists,
Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab,
taken to the United States supreme
court, the former on writ of error
to the Illinois supreme court and
the latter on an appeal from the
United States circuit court fer the
northern district of Illinois. had
been postponed by the United States
supreme court from to-day to De-
cember 81 on account of the ill.,
ness of Gen. Butler, counsel for the
anarahiSts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

CINCINNATI. Dec. THE physicians
of this city very generally agree that
the influenza. or ia grippe" of two
years ago has returned to the city, and
nearly all of them report a consider
able number of cases in their practice.
They unite in saying the dis
ease is due TO atmospheric infiu-
ences. and that its symptoms appear
more in the head than in the lungs,
though in some cases pneumonia
follows. Other cities in the state,
notably Dayton and Columbus, appear
to have many more cases according to
population than Cincinnati.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

TORN BY AN EXPLOSION.

Two Men Killed and Sawmill Demol-
ished at ColIinsviiIe. Tenn.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Dec. S.-The boiler
of j. w. Houston's sawmill at Collins
vile exploded Monday. killing two
persons and destroying the entire plant.
John Smith, the engineer. had his leg
cut off below the hip and the rest of his
body landed in the forks of a tree $50
feet away. Ed Downes was sitting on
/ log eating his breakfast. His clothing
was torn into shreds and his naked body
was found lying so yards away. An iron
pipe ~ feet long was hurled against a
tree with so much force that it pierced it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
ROBBED AN OHIO BANK.
Cracks men Use Dynamite and Secure Sew
eraI Thousand Dollars.


BELLE CENTER, o., Dec. :. EARLY
Saturday morning as several railroad
hands were walking in the rear of the
local bank they were startled to see
the heavy back door shattered and
they gave the alarm at once and
large crowds of people hurried to
the scene, including the bank officials.
The latter at once opened the front
door. On entering they found that the
safe had been blown open and the
bank completely Quilted. The rob
bers drilled several holes in the
iron safe, which was supposed to be
burglar proof, and blew it open
with dynamite. The inside of the
bank was not shattered and the job
was done with artistic skill. The
burglars took all the money there was
in the safe and also mum Der of valua-
BILE papers and negotiable securities.
The total amount stolen is supposed to
be about Sl2 600.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
a nesfrnctire Rlare.

MILWAUKEE. Dec. THE most
disastrous fire in years visited Amigo,
Wis. early Sunday morning, causing q
loss of about $40, 900. The Amigo Re-
publican, L. Strasser's merchandise
store, Lee Woole's stationery store, in
which were the city records, and the
masonic hall were totally destroyed
Strasser's loss is $4,000, insured for
$50 600
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Crushed in sawdust Cave.

Little Gus Swanson and Elmer Glover
we're found at West Superior clasped IN
sach others arms with their bodies
horribly crushed under tons of frozen
sawdust by a searching party. The
children were gong home from school
md stopped to play in a cave formed
lust near Murray & Co 5 sawmill. The
iop of the cave was frozen. but the re-
,ent warm weather thawed it ont, and
he entire mass dropped on the chill
ireu before they could escape.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Pcrished i'm the Blizzard

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. s.-Stepher
Olson. a farmer, accompanied by his
daughter, young lady about % years OF
age, left Hallock, Mimi, Friday to drive
to their home, about 6 miles northeast
of Drayton, n. ID. Sunday their bodies
were found, both having been frozen &c
death in the blizzard. The bodies were
found about 50 rods from the cutter,
which was overturned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
win Leave the stage.

New YORK, Dec. S.-Mrs. William J..
Florence has arrived in this city from
London. She is stopping at the
Williams. Mrs. Florence is ill and will
not stir from the house for several
days. Her condition is due to nervous
prostration and grief at the death of
Mr. Florence. She announces her de-
termination to act no more.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Storm. cause Heavy Damages.

New YORK, Dec. THE electric
light companies suffered heavy loss
through the falling of poles and wires
on First avenue during the storm Fri
day night The loss to the Manhat-
tan, the Brush, the East River and
United States electric light companies,
it was said. would aggregate $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
Eaile,I fnr sann nnn-

New YORK, Dec. "A special from
Bellefonte, Pa, says the Bellefonte
Nail and Iron Company, limited. has
suspended, with liabilities of 500. 600.
The president, ex-Gov. Beaver, assumes
all indebtedness and will place the
plant in the hands of a trustee for the
benefit of the creditors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

Mr. PHHIP II STERNBERGH OF Read
ing, Pa, has married the sister Of his
fathers y lie, and there is a great deal
Of specula tion as t. the curious compli-
cations Of relationship that will arise
Young Mr.. stern bergh. in the first
place, is his wife's nephew; by mar
riage he is his fathers brother in law.
his own unc IL, as well a. an uncle 10
his brothers and sisters, and his IA
theirs nephew. lie viii be uncle and
great uncle 10 his own children, and is
brother insaw 10 his wife
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
shot Their step-Father.

SHAwNEETowN, ILL.,, Dec. IA mes
sage received from the sheriff of Can
non county, Tenn, states that Caroline
and Belle Forester have been arrested
at Wydbury, that state. These are the
girls who November "a assaulted their
step-father, John Morris, near this
city for marrying their mother. shoot
ing him four times in the head and
then after pounding him leaving him
for dead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

MURDEROuS FIRE-DAMP.

It Explodes IN n-Poiand Mine.
Causing Loss of $50 Lives.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. s,-A most
terrible catastrophe has occurred in
colliery, located at Nifka, in Russian
Poland. No details of the affair have as
yet been received here, but it is conjec-
tured that the accident was the result
of an explosion of fire-damp. Further
intelligence is anxiously awaited and
hopes are expressed that the loss of
life, which the first dispatch places at
$50, is overestimated. In addition to
these $50 men who are said to have lost
their lives. forty horses were Killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

GEORGE ". ALLEN, better known a.
'Land Bin Allen. died in an Obi,
poorhouse. He spent a handsome for
tune in getting his homestead law be
fore the people. and many thousands
owe their beautiful homes TO lis untir
ing lahors Ills original bill of 1ssS has
been many times amended. but It's
principles have been preserved. Now
that he IS dead there is a movement l.
raise a monument 20 his memory
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rive. lost on the Great Lakes.

CHICAGO. Dec. 7.-Fifty-seven sailors
lost their lives on the lakes during the
season just closed. This is the largest
numb Der of deaths of any year since the
lakes were navigated. Most of the
number were drowned during Novem-
Der Not passenger, however, was lost
during the entire season and not pas
senger steamer was in serious trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

JERRY WALLACE. a farmer Of River
dale. Ca. while carrying a sack Of ap-
pies from liz wagon 70 the store. over
balanced himself and broke his neck
The moral Of this j. that the honest
farmer should always let his wife car
~ the apnf~S
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asheadeh hr q rrnin-

LIMA, o.. Dec. william Meadlowe
and Harry Knipe were killed at a raii-
road crossing a. Ottawa, north of this
city, Saturday evening about s o'clock.
They attempted to drive across the
track ahead of the train, when the en-
CINE struck them. Both their heads
rvara cnt off
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

GEORGE JAYNr-s. who lives near
Gainesville. Mo-, raises rattlesnalSes
for their oil. which y. sells at about
one dollar pint L. who csaJc druggists
for Iniments. smoky George" has
about ten thousand Of the reptiles on
his place, and kills two thousand a year
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


William Harris. of Wauceaah. Mich.
was arrested in Milwaukee in com
pany with his sister-in-law, Gertie
Platt, girl of Is. with whom he had
been living as man and wife. and was
sent to the house of correction for six
months. Harris admitted his erimi-
nalitv. He said his wife was but 10
years of age. and he had married her
when she was but IA. He gaze tho
girl he had betrayed 80. with which
return ticket was bought for her. and
the police saw her safely aboard o
train for Crystal Falls. Alich.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

ership battles in the
last twenty years
the Georgian has
triumphed. r e e d
won his speakership
fight on the third
ballot and Carlisle
won his on the sec
ond, but it took
thirty ballots. cover
ing two days, to
raise judge Crisp TO
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

yERgoyr is not much Of n manu-
featuring state II produces Marble.
horses. maple sugar. wool and other
farm products. II has manufactures
only where the mountain streams fur
nish water-power. Yet its PEOPLE, only
ss4.02o in number, have SIS SOP, 001 OF
deposit in savings banks. aud the in
crease in these deposits last year was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

PARIS. Dec. THE Journal Official
publishes a decree authorizing the i'm
port of American pork into France.
The ports of entry, however, are linn
tied and importations can be made only
at Dunkirk, Havre. Bordeaux and Mar
saillac
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

A NEW YORK lawyer asked 70 have a
verdict set aside for the reason that
'.thc jury had taken only two minutes
e agree upon it," The judge i'm
formed The lawyer 'lhe verdict would
haze had complete binding force had
the jury rendered it without leaving
their seats .
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

Martin Steinhauser, son Of Theresa
steinhauser, who is serving a life sen
tenee in prison for the murder of her
husband in Palmyra three years ago,
has been taken from the industrial
school at Waukesha and adopted by a
well-to-do business man in Palmyra
who has set him TO learning a trade
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10
LOSS OF MANY LIVES.

ships sink In Fierce storm Abroad
One Wreck Costs Twenty-Four Lives.
LONDON, Dec. s.-A terrible storm is
raging all along the French coast The
herring smacks at Fieldcamp are in ex-
treme danger. One has already found
cred and her crew of twenty-four per-
sons were drowned. A barge has gone
down at the mouth of the Thames and
her crew persisted. A vessel has been
stranded at Shoreham, but her crew
are safe. Thousands of acres of land
are under water in Dorsetshire. In the
Fenmoy district trees have been up
rooted and houses unroofed.
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Big Pine Land Deal.

One Of the largest deals in pine lands
N the history Of the state has beer
.losed. The bids for the Huntzinger
tracts Of timber N township p, range
vest, were opened, and the Upham
Manufacturing Company Of Marshfield
Mas the successful bidder, the price
being $50, 600. The tract will cut 10
800, 600 feet of pine, y Inch viii he man
lfactured at the company's mills in
Marshfield.
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IIadI.eft Her Hnsl,an.i.

Mrs. Munski, of Menomiuec. widow
Of the butcher of that place who blew
out his brains the evening of Thanks
giving day, left her husband and eight
children a few days before She was
found at the residence of Mayor VIE,
in Eau Claire, where she had hired ont
As a domestic She had given another
name there and had not heard Of the
tragedy. She was taken home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

THE postage stamp viii celebrate its
fifty-second anniversary on May 8 Of
next year Its invention is due to a
printer. James Chalmers. Of Dundee.
Scotland. who died in ls53. England.
fifty-two years ago introduced the new
system IF preparing letter postage and
according 70 decree 81 December 81.
1859. issued the first stamps. which were
- be put before the public on May Of
the following year. n noted above. \
year later they were introduced into
the Tinted States and Switzerland and
within three years they had become
common in Bavaria, Belgium and
Eranea
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SFEtKGNs Of the decision annulliug
the charitable provisions Of the Ogden
VIII aud the Tilteu viii. the New York
Herald says: 1t would seem that If a
man wishes to trust his chosen friends
with the spending of his money after
his death he should have . legal right
20 do 50. but by the law Of New 1ork
that privilege Is denied TIE theory
Of the law Is that the trustees may
abuse the trust confide. To them.
That, however is the business Of the
testator, not the courts If he is will
Ing 10 contidc in his trustees no one
else has any right to complain" Still.
such is the law.
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hers nearly two thousand members.
though this number tluctuates with the
changing seasons Among the Ameri-
cans 'FhD have become permanent resi-
dents OF the Eternal City are Story. the
seulntnr. aml the hanLar Hno.sar
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TIE carl OF Dudley holds the largest
life insurance ever effected. the amount
being for s6.03g.0lo Second in tht
list il Is said, comes Mr.. Wanamaker
whose policies Of $3.50, 000 exceed
that Of the car Of all the Bussias by
Se5o.O00. Fourth comes the prince ..
Wales, whose life is insured for s.
faz nQ0
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New YORK. Dec. All but two OF
those reported to have been drowned
in the collision of the barges at Haver-
straw Friday night had been rescued
by daylight In the collision Capt.
Alexander Albertson. of the schooner
Alice Snedelxer. was killed, so that the
death roll mum bers three.
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WAsHINGTo TON. Dec s-The United
States supreme court has postponed
until the second Monday in January
the hearing of the cases of Fielden and
Sehwab. the Chicago anarchists now
imprisoned at Joliet III. for completely
In the Haymarket riots.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

A MOST remarkable alliance between
Two families Is reported from the
parish Of II Marie Beauce, Can Two
respectable farmers named Rheaume
amt NORM had each eight children.
four sons and four daughters.
Iheaume's four sons married Morin's
four daughters, and the four sons OF
the latter joined their fortunes 70 the
four daughters of the former. The of
spring Of the first four unions up 10
date number thirty-ninc and Of the lat
ter thirtx-nve chilaren