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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-11-19
SHE WANTED THEM WEIGHED.
4 Woman Who Doubted the Honesty of "A
Grape I,edhler.

She was a business woman. Anybody
could see that She had square jaw,
a firIn-set mouth. and as she stepped up
to a State street fruit stand yesterday
afternoon the young man in charge felt
that he was in for it. She had been at
tracted by sign which read: Grapes.
cents per pound"
How much are those grapes WORTH
she questioned, in green persimmon
tone of voice.
Five cents pound, ma'am."
"You may give me three pounds, she
said, after pause.
The young man oponed a paper bag
and, with the assurance of long expe-
rience in the business, filled 1t and
passed it toward her.
81 want three pounds of grapes" she
observed Jelly.
"Well. here you are, ma'am," persist
ed the vender.
"You will weigh those grapes, if You
pleaser' and the mercury in the Their
momoter across the street fell four de-
grees.
Certainly. ma'am," and the boy adj
justed a small pair of scales to the
three-pound notch. When the bag was
placed in them the lever went up with
a snap. He took out one bunch anC laid
it back in his box. Still down weight.
Another and the scales righted to hair.
There you are, ma'am-" but she
snatched the bag and bolted, mad
enough 10 murder somebody Chicago
Mail.
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DEED OF A CRAZY WOMAN.

She Cuts the Threats of Her Three
Daughters and Attempts Her own
Life.
LONDON. Nov. 1.-THE wife of a
sailor named Hinton, at Southampton,
became wildly insane and seizing a
carving knife cut the throat
of her daughter, nearly sever
ing the girls head from her
body. The mad woman, reeking
with blood, then went to room where
her two stepdaughters had sought
refuge. forced open the door in spite of
their efforts, and then cut both their
throats, inflicting fearful gashes which
almost Immediately caused their depth.
The mad woman, by that time soaked in
blool from head To foot, then gashed
her own throat with the fatal knife
and sank senseless by the side of her
two last victims. When the horrible
tragedy was discovered Mrs Hinton
was still alive and it is expected that
her life will be saved.
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A IOWN DESTROYED.
Arroyo seco, In Argentine Republic,
Wiped Out by a Cyclone = Ten Lives

Arroyo seco, In Argentine Republic,
Wiped Out by a Cyclone = Ten Lives
Lost.
New YORK, Nov. l7.--Reports from
Beunos Ayres say that the great storm
of last Friday which passed over the
province of Sante Fe destroyed the
town of Arroyo Seco. The number of
deaths is reported TO be ten and
wounded seventy.
A Train Blown Over.
train of eighteen coaches was at
the station when the tornado swept
through the town. The entire
train was overturned and many
of the passengers were buried in
the wreck. The details of the dis
aster are meager. All the telegraph
wires are down in consequence of the
storm. There is much damage to crops
throughout the entire province of
Santa Fe which is situated on the left
of the Parana river and has an area of
about IS. 900 square miles and popula-
ton of about 100, 900.
other Villages Destroyed.
Besides Arroyo Seco several other
villages in the vicinity of Rosa 10 were
destroyed. Wind and hail played
havoc with the crops throughout the
province. The losses it is said, will
mount up into millions of dollars
half mile of rails between Roserio
and Buenos Ayres were torn up by the
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INTERNAL REVENUE.
Extracts from the Annual Report OF
Commissioners Mason.

Commissioner Mason.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The annual
report of John w. Mason, commission
err of internal revenue, shows that the
total receipts for the last fiscal year
from all sources were STAG, O45, 416, an
increase of S3,440,7l9 over the
receipts for the previous fiscal
year. The cost of collection for the last
fiscal year was S4,210 604. or 2 So per
cent of the receipts, against 2. 81 last
year. The estimated expenses for the
next fiscal year are 81, 522, $50. During
the year 69s stills were destroyed
and ninety-seven were removed, in
volving the arrest of 37S persons.
The aggregate amount of taxes
collected from tobacco during the
last fiscal year was $50, 796, 27O. The
decrease is 81, 1872, 20. The tax ON
cigars and cigarettes was not changed
and the collections therefrom was in
creased 81, $50, $50 during the last fiscal
year. Tables in regard to the produc-
ton OF oleomargarine show during the
year ended June 30, 1891, an increase
of production over any former year
but a decrease for expectation.
The total production was 1882, 400
pounds.
In chapter on sugar the commits
sioner details the action of the bureau
in providing for the payment of bounty
as authorized by the tariff act The
number of sugar producers who have
applied for license is 4,9O6, and their
estimated production is 6l3.97G, $50
pounds, of which 572 40S. $50 pounds is
sugar cane. The amount of bounty to
be paid for the production of the year
ending June so, 1892, will. it is esti-
mated, be as follows: On cane sugar,
s,912, 500; on beet sugar, $500, 900; sor-
ghum sugar, $40, 000; maple sugar,
Sl76, $50; total, S9,62S, 80. In the last
fiscal year we imported 3,4S3, 442, 325
pounds of sugar of the value of $780,
66l, 43l, and produced 5l2, 261, $50 pounds
The amount of sugar produced in the
United States is about one-eighth of
the amount consumed
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PHI AND PoINT.

You never know how fond you are
of boy until you become engaged to
his sister.
A mans sins are his creditors, and,
like them. they are sure to find him ont.
-Elmira Gazette.
--He-"Are we going to have some
music?" She-"No. Miss Van Howl
is going to sing. N. Y. Herald.
The dentist. like the rest of us. is
in the race for wealth, but he always
appears to be pulling out-Yonkers
Statesman.
We may give man credit for his
good intentions, but he can't get cash
for them unless they are backed by
deeds Puck.
why did Miss Antique leave the
hotel?'' 'She was insulted. Somebody
asked her if Noah was a pretty baby"
brooklyn Life.
Whisky never effects my brain. .
said boastful young Gayety bar-fre-
quenter. No" assented Top. But
it goes to your head, thought
Mr.. Bumpus-'.I've heard that the
ape can not swim. Very strange, isn't
it" Mrs. Bumpus-''Nes, very. Don't
go out too far. dear. Brooklyn Citizen.
1t is well enough TO tell "A man
when he is in trouble to look on the
bright side. The rub is 10 find the
bright side 10 look at.-Atchison Globe.
1t is the b.sld-headed man who
talks SO extravagantly and recSlessiy
when he finds more hair in his butter
than he puts in his nightcap Rich
mond Recorder.
-WinkIe-"I wish I could devise
some way of hanging up my clothes. "
NodJ-'I wish / could devise some way
of getting them out after l have hung
them up. - Clothier and Furnisher.
The naughty Miss McBride-''Alas!
I fear shall develop into a confirmed
invalid-why, Mr. Basller, where are
you going?" Smiley Basl1er grabbing
his hat Tim going to study medicine. "
Epoch.
"A Spinster Disillusioned.- She
"What do you mean, sir. by asking n
young girl like me TO marry you, who
are old enough TO be my father?' lie
"Sophonisba, do l really look like 4
centenarian?'-Epo
When a young man has won the
hand and heart of rich and lovely
girl, everybody joins in calling him a
lucky dog. except, possibly, disap-
pointed rival. who is rather inclined %
think of him as a conceited puppy in
stead. Journal.
-Fangle Ito Crinl1le. Yalevard, '95l =
"By the way. l saw a man from your
college at summer resort. lie was
carrying everything before him.
Crinkle (proudly)-"Yes, sir. That IS a
distinguishing characteristic of our men.
What was lie doing?" Acting
as waiter in the dining-room. ''-IIar-
per's Bazaar.
Tin getting Disguised with every
thing and every body! "exclaimed Brown,
peevishly. Wherever l go there is
fraud" Il can't say that your do your
self an injustice. remarked Fogg; but
there is no need of your being 50 in
genuous. The utterance of a self-evi-
dent truth is only waste of words, my
boy, only waste of words"
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VETERANS TO CONTRIBUTE.

G.. A. X. Posts Called Upon to Make Do
nations 10 Help Build the Memorial
Hall at Decatur, Ill.
DECATUR, Ill, Nov 10. The Decatur
executive committee of the National
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Hall association has received a copy of
the general orders just issued by Gen.
John Palmer, commander-in-chiefo of the
order, in VIII CHI he commands every post
in the United States to proceed at once
and make substantial contributions to
the hall fund. The association is after
$500, 900 to $500, 600 to be used in the
erection of an imposing memorial hall
at Decatur, the birthplace of the order.
The work of collecting the necessary
fund is now in eXcellent shape.
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Hold the Police Responsible.

CHICAGO. Nov. 1G-Mary Grief, the
daughter of Thomas Grief. proprietor
of the hall at 81 West Lake street
made notorious as a gathering place
for anarchists, died Sunday after
noon. Anarchists charge that the
girls death resulted from the
shock received by her when the police
raiGcG the place on Thursday night.
She was lying i'll in one of the rooms
at the time. Greif says that although
notified of the presence of the sick
girl tie police forced themselves
into her room several times during the
raid
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A FATAL ERROR.
white Horses Were Plentiful When the
STATION Was Reached.


They were talking about the red
headed Observation-Disclosures fad at the
Kimball house the other night. when
some one told a good one on Sam Hard
wick, whom everybody knows as gen
eral passenger agent of the Georgia
| Pacific.
Sam was with a party of Birming-
ham friends not long ago-gay, young
/ society people they were, and all well
known to everybody in the Magic city
when somebody started the white
horse story.
one young lady in the party had
ideal Titan hair, and the joke was, of
course. at her expense. There were
white horses everywhere. Every little
station brought another white horse to
add to the fair ones discomfort, and
correspondiugly to the happiness of the
man who persisted in pointing them
out II was a white-horse day.
Glimpses Of them met the gaze of the
party everywhere until the victim of
all began to think that every horse and
every mule in Alabama was OF that, to
her, detestible color.
A bright idea struck Sam-hit him
hard. in fact.
Now, I'll hot two hundred dollars,
he said to the white-horse man of the
party, that there won't be white
horse at the depot in Admission when we
get there"
The bet was promptly taken, and the
coming to Admission was eagerly looked
forward 10.
In a few minutes Hardwicl1 looked at
his watch, and, murmuring something
about wanting to see the engineer"
went forward.
A minute later the train stopped at a
little station. So intent was the party
upon looking at some white mules in
the distance that they didn't notice the
brakeman. who hurried into the tele
graph office and hurried out again. Had
they seen the message he bore they
would have read:
ITO Blank. agent, Admissions: Ten
dollars to you if you have no white
horses or mules at depot when train ar
rives'
But they didn't see it.
sam went back To the party chuck
ling to himself and admiring his own
cleverness. 1t was but a few minutes
when the conductor called admission
Tie young ladies looked ont and
laughed Sans face wore benign
smile as he pushed one of the men
aside, and pressing his face to the pane,
lie saw
White horses everywhere. In all
that concourse of dray 5 and hacks every
mule and every horse was white. a
| tap on the shoulder aroused him.
''Nr Hardwicl1. I'm sorry it was
I the agent who spolle-''Im sorry, but /
could only get %
Sam jcrlsed the telegram from his
hand, but for minute was speechless.
Then without word he handed a roll
of bills to the man with whom he had
bet.
The telegraph operator had made the
''no- read 80. Atlanta Constitution.
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PRESIDENT DwIGHr. Of Yale college.
while not favoring the admission of
women - study in the classes with
men. does wish Yale had woman's
annex, and the only objection he finds
To its establishment j. that the uniyel-
sity hasn't the money to put into it
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a FRlGHTFUL FALL.

A Workman Drops from the Nineteenth
Story of the Masonic Temple in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-James Charles
ton, a terra Gotta worker, fell nineteen
stories from the top of the masonic
temple building, at State and Randolph
streets, Saturday morning. and was
crushed into an unacceptable mass of
flesh. Charleston was working on the
inside of the building with man named
Wilson, handing up pieces of terra
Gotta. lie was protected from falling
by light timber, but heavy and con-
slant pressure caused this to break, pre-
cipitating him to the ground far below.
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\ PANTY IN New York were sitting
down 20 dinner the other evening when
. messenger arrived in haste with
note for the mistress Of the house. It
was from a woman friend, and ran i
am unexpectedly invited out 70 dine
this evening. and want TO make an i'm
precision. Do send me all your diamond
rings To wear and III return them in
the morning. I shall be 50 obliged and
will do As much for You II ever have
the opportunity The rings were sent
and promptly returned next day. And
the man of the house said the ways Of
women We're beyond comprehension,
but his yife laughed aud said aothing.
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AYorNG girl in 4 toilet supply com
pany in Cincinnati was upbraided fire.
quentiy hv her empl yer because she
dbl NOT atsract the male pa ronage that
other gyr1s did. She protested she was
getting bIt - per week and couldn't
dress as wei As some of her successful
associates The proprietor pooh pOohed
such an explanation. and said other
girls were making from $50 to SO in
other IF his laundry receiving offices.
This girl. who came AZ ESQ in the morn
ing and stayed until eight nj night, and
kept her self-respect at 81 a week was
requested 70 find work somewhere else.
She would not ..ruaSh
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CAN'T MOVE THE GRAIN.
Thousands of Cars Awaiting Handling q
Roads West of Chicago.

Thousands of Cars Awaiting Handling on
Roads West of Chicago.
BURLINGTON. Ia, Nov. 1.-THE grain
blockade in Chicago has caused a Sc
rious condition of things in Iowa and
the west. The worst blockade ever ex-
perienced by railroads west of Chicago
is now on hand West sof the Missis-
sippi river there are 1000 ears of oats
and wheat side-tracked on the lines of
the Burlington system for lack of
storage capacity in Chicago and motor
power to haul them. OF this 1900 ears
stand on Iowa side-tracks alone
Local railroad men think the Chi
cago blockade will be raised by the
middle of the week, but say that the
rush of delayed grain will make
things just as bad next week. Tho
freight-car famine is also lending It's
aid - complicate matters The roads
west of the Mississippi have a shortage
of thousands of ears and the amount
is increasing daily. What will be done
when the great corn crop begins to
move is a question that is greatly wor-
rying railroad men.
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OUR PORK AGAIN WINS.

Aust ria Hungary Raises the Embargo,
Following Germany's Example.
WASHINGTON, Nov. i7.-Austria- Hun
gary has followed the example of Ger
many and raised the embargo on
American pork. Advices from Min
lister Grant in Vienna are that the
official proclamation will be issued
soon. probably before the end of the
month, revolling the decree which
has been in force for several years past
and American salt meats will then be
admitted subject TO the duty which
prevails. This is S2.ss per 100 kilo-
grams, or a trife less than l Il cents
per Mound
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PUSHED OVER a CLIFF.
One hoy Murders Another and Claims He
Was Ordered TO DO SO by Ills OtIieers.

One hoy Murders Another and Claims He
Was Ordered to DO SO by His Oficers.
LONDON, Nov. IA boy named
Wise. II years old, an apprentice on
the training ship Boscowen, stationed
at Weymouth, went ashore Sunday
with a number of boys belonging to
the same ship. Wise and a com
panion went for walk along the
cliff facing the sea and when
they reached spot about 70
feet above the level of the water Wise
suddenly pushed his companion over
the edge of the cliff. The unfortunate
lad was killed Wise, when questioned
as to his motive for such a crime, sui
lenly said that two officers of the ship
told him to kill the boy in the manner
referred to. He is believed to be in
sane
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THERE have been many centennial
celebrations, but one of the most novel
Is u take place in Terryville. Conn, in
1895. Ia commemorate the beginning of
American elot'S making and honor the
memory II Eli Terry. its founder. 3lr.
Terry was the first man To make the
old-fas hioned wooden clocks. 50 IA
nous in tie last century and the early
part Of the present one. lie would
make the clocks and then travel about
the state and eastern New York selling
of his stoc.-- Prom this beginning has
grown one uf the greatest industries Of
the country. and Connecticut does well
tn rruemher him
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LATER.
Big Fires.

ST. PAUL, Nov. 1s-This city was
visited by one of the most disastrous
fires known in its history, buildings
damaged being those of Griggs, Cooper
& Co., wholesale groceries, and Far
we'll, Ozmun, Kirk & Co., wholesale
hardware. The total loss is estimated
at from $500, 900 TO $1,000, 900. The
losses are covered by insurance.
The building occupied by the two
firms is a brick and stone structure five
stories in height, and has a frontage on
Third street of 500 feet and on Broad
way of 200 feet. Griggs Cooper & Co.
occupy two-thirds of the building on
the broadway side. The flames first
made their appearance at 11:44 o'clock
in the fourth floor of Griggs, Cooper &
Co.'S building.
At a rough estimate the losses are as
follows: Farwell, Ozmun & Kirk, $780,
900. with an insurance placed by
member of the firm at S225. 900 and by
clerk at $3.50 600, of which amount
sl5,OOO was added yesterday; Griggs,
Cooper & Co. lose $3.50, 600, with $780,,
0O0 insurance; while the loss on the
buildings is placed at Sl50.0O0, proba
bly, covered by insurance. This makes
the loss nearly $1,000, 600, the largest
fire st. Paul ever had.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Nov. IL The cold
wave which reached this city last even
ing. was the cause of one of the most
disastrous fires which has visited ST.
Louis in many years. At an early hour
this morning one person was probably
killed, two badly hurt and 81, 500, 900
worth of property went up in smoke.
At about o'clock fire was discovered
in the furnace room of the large dry
goods establishment of Penny aud Gen
and broadway. All four corners were
destroyed.
PALo ALTO. the famous horse owned
by Senator Stamford. beat the stallion
record at Stockton. Cal, the 18th, by
trotting a mile in 2:0Ssi. All of the
worid trot:iag records are now held
by Palo Alto horses.
ALL of the arrangements are COM
pleted for change OF management of
the Merchants Hotel in st. Paul Col.
Well viii retire to be succeeded by ID.
7. Miller. Of Rochester, Mimi, and II.
L. Leland Of Sibley, 10.
THE latest advices from Brazil are
that that country is in a state of dis
ruption, notwithstanding all denials to
the contrary.
The farmers of Iowa complain of a
scarcity of water.
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A DEADLY ORAUGHT.

Kentucky Farmers Drink from jug OF
Poisoned Nhisky-Three of Them Have
Since Died.
MILAN, Tenn, Nov. t7.-George Gal
breath, a farmer living at Point Pleas
ant. Henderson county, invited several
of his friends TO participate in festlvi-
ties at his house last Saturday night.
During the evening a jug OF whisky
was produced and the company drank
freely. In a short time they We're taken
violently i'll. A physician was sum
moned, but three of the mems suffer
ings were ended by death. 1t is not
known how the whisky became pois-
nnaH
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AND still immigration grows At tine
present rate. this Will Toe the second
largest year Of foreign arrivals a. New
York. In 1855 the total number regis
tered was +5j.#l The number this
year up to the first OF November was
55,OeU ahead If the corresponding period
last wear. and if the ratio keeps up dur
ing this month and next the arrivals
for 1891 will be not less than 100000.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. - Secretary
Foster says that the recent bank fail
ures do not prove that the system is
defective or that Comptroller Lacey
has neglected his duties. 1t is impossi-
BILE, he says, to have banking or any
other system perfectly proof against
fraud Mr. Foster says only about ten
banks have failed during the past year
GU. Of 1000, which he considers a
small percentage.
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\. C. HoEBS. who enjoyed the dis
tinct.on IF being the only licensed
burglar in the world died recently in
bridgeport, Conn. His business was
that Of picking locks which were sup
posed u be burgiar-proof. During his
long career as a loc6-nicller he opened
more safes and vaults than any other
burglar known 10 history. lie was the
only craftsman who had performed mis-
fcats in the presence Of crowned heads.
Eritain'> queen once looked on with ap-
prevail a. he gained access toa treasure
vault in Buckingham palace by picking
many massive locks Of the most compli-
Gated construction
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Children Burn a Barn.

While two of Peter Lund's children,
aged S and 10 years, were left at home
alone at Red River Falls, they built a
fire of straw near the barn, when the
wind carried the burning straw into
grain stack. Neighbors were soon on
hand, but they were unable to save the
barn and granary, and Lund lost every
thing he had except his house, and no
insurance. The youngest child was
badly burned, but would recover.
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A Fatal Explosion.

Fire in the Office of the North Wis
consin Lumber Company's warehouse
at Hayward caused an explosion of
dynamite which wa stored in the vi
cinity. The building was destroyed,
glass in structures adjacent was shst-
tered, and freight train was blown
from the track. Fred Nelson, John
laval, d. McWilliams, Clate Beal, J.
ii. Wade and Jean Davis We're injured,
the first two fatally.
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Every Acre Taken.

Every acre of the s., 600, 900 worth Of
pine lands, the Omaha indemnity
limit, which was thrown open to set
Element at the United States land Of
flee in Ashland, has been filed upon,
and in a great many instances fled
upon several times, but the land Off
Gals would not have an opportunity of
telling how many duplicate filings had
been made for several days.
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FoRnearly three hundred years straw
plating has been a leading industry in
the hamlets 81 Bedfordshire. Eng. and
vicinity. Although the industry Is
much less extensive than It was, there
are st5u over twenty thousand persons
engaged in t. They are chiefly old
men, women and children