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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-05

board returns to Washington it viii
recommend that building operations
begin at once. The board controls the
appropriation of 81. 800, 900 that Congress
will make for the fair
The Government building viii cover
an area 350X450 feet. 1t win be con-
structed of iron, brick and glass. and
its style of architecture will be classic
Its leading feature viii be an octagonal
dome in the center $50 feet high. The
rotunda underneath will be 100 feet in
diameter and free from exhibits. The
upper portion of the building viii
rest on six-inch posts and from the
rotunda a view may be had of
the entire lower floor The building
will face west. The south half will
be devoted TO the Post-Office Depart
ment, Treasury Department, Depart
ment of Agriculture, and War Depart
ment. In the north half will be the
Fish Commission, Smithsonian Insti-
tute, and Interior Department. The
State Department will extend from the
rotunda to the east side of the building,
and the Department of Justice will be
on the opposite side of the rotunda and
extend westward.
The War Department will have lib
eral amount of guns and ordnance ma
chinery. Field mortars viii be dis
played, and the military telegraph and
war balloon syst IN will be illustrated.
The Post-Office Department will have a
novel display and win care for all the
exposition mail. The Treasury De-
partment will manufacture and display
money, minis and dies. In addition to
the exhibits housed in the building the
Government display will include field
hospital, life-saving station, light
house and a co. st line battle-ship.
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THE EAST.

Az explosion in the II. c. Fricke
Coke Company's mine ten miles from
Mount Pleasant, Pa, caused the death
of 10 men.
The dead of Dr. Sullivan Whitney.
the first IAN tn manufacture homeo-
pathic medicine in America. occurred at
Newton. Mass, aged So years.
CARL STEVENS, aged Is, of Buffalo,
y. v, was the man who committed
suicide by jumping over the falls at
Niagara.
THE Rhode Island Legislature de
clared Oscar Lapham (Dem.) elected TO
Congress from the First district. There
was no election in the Second district
and new election would be ordered.
ADvICEs of tine 2sth say that Isl men
lost their lives by the recent explosion
in the Mammoth mine ten miles from
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
The loss 10 the telegraph and tele-
phone companies 10y the late storm in
New York was estimated at $1,000. GOO.
AT Catasuqua. Pa. the Crane iron
works. next to the largest pig-iron pro-
Jucing establishment in Eastern Penn
syivania. were sold to an English syndi-
cate fer =. 5O0,o0)-
THE failure of the Winona Paper Com
pany of IIolyoke, Mass, for 500, 0J0
was reported.
THE death Of William A. Window.
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States. occurred shortly after 10 o'clOcts
cT. the evening of the 29ih in the ban
auet hall at DelmDnico in New York
inst a he had concluded his speech at
the Board of Trade dinner. Heart dis
case was the cause. Mr.. Window was
"a years of are. lie was a member OF
Congress twenty years. ten in the House
and ten in the Senate, and was Presi-
dent GarfielI's Secretary of the Treas
uI-y as well a. President IIarrison's.
Is the Duquesne pa steel works a
large ladle of molten steel was acct
dentaliy upset and the contents poured
out upon four men, burning them to
death,
Is their weekly review of trade a New
York commercial agency says business
continues unprecedented in volume and
satisfactory IN character Measured by
clearinghouse returns. trade exceeded
that of year ago by 2l6 per cent. in
amount and that meant volume OF
business larger than in any other year
at this season. The tone in commercial
circles throughout the country was
hopeful. and the money markets were
comparatively easy at nearly all points,
Is the Mahoning and shenandoah
valleys owners of twenty-One furnaces
and rolling-mills. representing capital
/ Of over S6.OO1.O01 and employing 10000
men. formed combination.
IL New Jersey 500 building and loan
associations formed State league.
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EoPEIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Floresta. Italy, an avalanche de-
strOyed eleven houses and killed nine
teen persons.
The Jamaica worlds fair opened at
Kingston on the 2Sth, the Governor-Gen-
eral officiating.
WOLVES, maddened by hunger. at
Winnipeg and many of the red men
were killed and devoured.
IN Greece an avalanche destroyed
eighty houses in the town of Atha-
mana, and twenty-five persons were
killed outright and many injured.
BY the burning of the steamer Shan
ghai ON the river Iangtse, in China, SOC
Chinese lost their lives.
In Australia two large new gold fields
were discovered on the Turner river.
A TERRIFIC storm caused enormous
damage on the island of Massowah, in
the Red sea, and over 100 persons were
drowned.
on the S0th ult. Charles Bradlaugh
member of Parliament for Northampton
and one of the most unique PERSONAL.
ties in English political life, died in
London, aged IS years.
ADNiCES from Java report serious
earthquakes in Batavia. The town Of
Joava was in ruins and many Chinese
were killed.
AT Shopin, Russia, hospital was de-
stroyed by fire. fourteen patents perish
| ing in the flames.
NEAR Pinas-Altos, Mex, Mexican
outlaws robbed stage of $4,000,
which was being shipped from Chihua-
hua to Pinas-Altos under the charge of
| Colonel Calihan.
THE death of Jean Louis Ernest Meis-
sonier, the famous French painter, oc-
Cured in Paris on the 31st ult, at the
| age of IS years
| In Chilli the revolutlonIsts were SAID
! to have carried every thing before them
and President Balmaeeda was suing for
peace with the rebels.
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FOR HIS LIFE.
Charles r. Vail Trial at st. Louis,
Charged With Wife Murder.

Charles f. Vail on Trial at st. Louis,
Charged With Wife Murder.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 3.-The services of
four deputy sheriffs were required to
keep in order the crowd which assem-
bled in the criminal courtroom to
hear the beginning of the trial
against Charles +. Vail, charged
with wife murder special panel
of 500 jurors has been summoned.
[Charles F. Vail is charged with the murder
Of his wife, Fanny, at Old Orchard small
place a short distance from this city. early last
summer Vail was a book keeper in a we'll
known business house here II s wife was one
Of three daughters of a widow named Slatterly.
She was a very handsome woman, came of
good family and was well liked by all
who knew her. Vail had her life
heavily insured and the day of the tragedy, be-
fore joining her az Old Orchard, where she was
visiting relatives he took out policy which
was TO expire twenty-fcIr hours from the time
of issue. On the lay of his arrival at
the little suburb he was assisting his
wife into a wagon in the presence OF a
number of persons when a revolver In lis
overcoat pocket was discharged, the bullet
lodging in the wOman's abdomen. She was
carried into the house and died soon after
ward Vail claimed that the hammer Of the
revolver accidentally struck the wheel Of the
wagon. THE body was Inferred without an in
quest This led TO an investigation, the re-
mains were vVhumed and an aUtopsy and
inquest held. The result was that Vail was
charged with numbering Lis wife and was ar
rested. Many subsequent sensational features
ia the case developed, and IL was considered
second only to the famous Maxwell case in
point of interest. The case against Vail has
twice been called and twice postponed, but IL
is believed that il will nov be allowed 10 rro-
coed. Able legal talent the ablest in the State,
viii appear at the trial
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LATER.

SENATOR TURPIE Qnd.) introduced a
| Joint resolution in the United States
Senate on the I'd proposing an amend
ment to the constitution for the cleo
ton of United States Senators by the
direct vote of the people. The fortifica-
ton bin was discussed. In the House
a bill was passed extending the time of
filling vacancies caused by death or res
lignation to thirty days (the time was
ten days.. The Senate bill providing
for the erection of public building at
1t. Paul, Mimi, at a cost of SS00,O00,
was passed.
a FIRE at Rockville, Mo, destroyed
thirteen business houses.
TUE western part of Clay County,
Miss. was swept by cyclone, and sew
leral lives were lost and thousands of
dollars worth of property destroyed.
| FIFTEEN men engaged in reopening
communication with snow-bloeked viii
lagos between Dimitzana and Tripo-
litza. in Greece, were frozen to death.
JoHN Tyson. grain commission mer-
chant at st. Louis. suspended, with liza
bilities of 100000.
| WOMAN and her three children were
burned to death in a fire which broke
ont in carpenters shop at Nancy,
France.
| BARTHoLo SULLIVAN. a farmer,
was hanged at Tralee ireland. for
lcomplicity in tine murder of Patrick
Flahive.
JoHN 4. MARKHAM. aged 20 years. a
livery-stahle keeper at iIolyoke, Mass,
while drunk shot and killed his young
wife.
GEORGE VI. BRAnLEY, the first con-
sumptive in this country inOculated
with DIR. Koch's lymph, died at New
Haven. Conn.
The Jail at Friar's Point, Miss. was
destroyed by fire and three negro pris-
oners were burned to death The
negroes started the fire in hopes of
making their escape.
SARA BEBSHARDT, the French ac-
Itress. arrived az New York.
In the Northwest generally the Their
mometer on the ID ranged from s. be-
low at Minncdosa to below at st.
Paul. At Winnipeg it was p below. at
1t. Vincent Is below. at Fort Custer
p below. at Huron IL below and at Bis
marclS % below.
CANADA has decided to establish dairy
schools throughout the Dominion.
THE funeral OF Secretary Window
took place on the 2d at Washington, the
services being held in the Presbyterian
lChurch of the Covenant. private re-
iligious services having previously been
held IN the home of the deceased. The
intormcnt was in Rock Greek Cemetery.
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THINGS THAT ARE TRUE.

II is for most persons more easy to
fattor than 20 praise
THE moral value of life is not fancy.
Faith, purity and endurance arc not
mere names.
NEVER give way to repining. No
haiti is worse than that of useless
grumbling Action and work viii mend
the worst fortune.
To BELIEVE that there is no place like
home is wholesome Partially; but TO
laugh another mau'> home 70 scorn be
cause it is not fac-simile of ones own
is illibcrai and unmanfy.
Coon manners declare that their pos
SCISSOR is "A person of superior quality, no
matter what his garb, or however slen-
der his purse. They prove his respect
for himself, and they also prove his re-
spcct for those whom he addresses.
Too MUCH love, or too much express
sion Of it, never yet spoiled child; it IS
undue indulgence that does that, and it
is what the mother should guard against.
She must have yvell-CIcfined idea of
what is j lst t. expect of her child, and
work to chat rs the builder does to his
plan, II she would develop a respectful
self -esT Getting character.
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SHORT AND PITHY.

WINTER slippers-The boys who slide
on the ice.
Now, DcS'r borrow trouble Molly.
''No need TO. You keep me well sup
Piled Silas."
GLOW ARR the mighty fallen, .
chuckled the icy sidewalk as the fat
man sat down with dull thud.
Where's your father?' Ur-
chin-..Hc's shinglin." Caller-''The
barn?" Urchin-'.No. Tommy"
Mss VAN DASH - '1Iave you met
Count Eusterbee?" DIR. Blank-"oh.
yes, he was my butler for some time"
1T is hardly necessary to state that ?
change from natural gas to soft coal
would east a gloom over the entire COM
munity.
THE man who sighed for the lost
dreams of his boyhood could likely bring
them back by eating one of his boyhood
suppers-
40 you think it win rain to-day
81 don't know" Say, you ought to
join the signal service-they need just
such men as you"
Az Irish witness excused his running
from an opponent by saying: 1t IS bet
ter to be coward for five minutes than
dead all the rest of your lifetime
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WEST AND sOuTH.

THE Kansas Legislature on the 2Sth
in Joint session elected w. A. PETER to
succeed United States Senator Ingalls,.
( The vote was: PETER Farmers ALI
ance), I0l; Ingalls,. IS: scattering, 6.
IT was decided at the session of the
National Farmers Alliance in Omaha
t. nominate candidates for President
and Vice. esident of the United States
+ in 1892.
THE death Of Mrs. Eunice Beers oc-
F currcd at Omaha. Neb., aged 1O1 years
+ In the early history OF the Territory OF
F Nebraska she was influential in pre-
venting a number Of Indian massacrcs
WHILE insane Surgeon William ID
DeiJz. Of the Fifth Artillery. stationed
az Alratraz island. Cal. shot ami killed
I his wife and then killed himself.
IL a fire at the Louisville tKy.l iron
works Joe Hume. Joe Weaver and BuC
Adams tfircmenl were fatally injured
by falling walls
Is the Reed * Henry saw-mill a
0verton. Tex. the boiler exploded, kill
ing Gill Henry, Dan TuelSe and JohI
Austin.
IL Chicago the body Of BENJAMIN ii
Campbell. millionaire. who had beer
missing since November 20. was dis
covered floating in TIE river.
AT Atchison. Kan. the State National
Bank went into voluntary liquidation.
+ 1t was organized in January, 1885,, witt
+ a capital Of S.50.000
II joint session on the 2sth the Wis
cousin Legislature formally declared
William F. Villas elected United State:
Senator from March 1. 1891.
SPT-RIoUs niclSels were in circulation
at Brownsburg, Ind, supposed 10 have
been made in the town
+ ANEs destroyed the six-story build
ing of the Western Refrigerating Com
pany in Chicago. causing loss of $500,
Goo
Tex Italian laborers We're fatally in
jured in a collision on the Utah North
ern road near Honeyville, L. 4.
IN the office Of the State Treasurer o.
Arkansas a shortage of s94,5oO was ais
covered.
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A GRIM VISITOR.
Death Intrudes His Presence at q
Now York Feast.
Secretary of the Treasury Window Sud-
denly Expires at the Close of His
Address at the Board of Trade
Banquet.
HEART nIsEAsE THE CAUSE.

HEART DISEASE THE CAUSE.
NEW YORK. Jan. 3O.-Secretary Win
dom died suddenly here Thursday night
from heart disease. just as the Secretary
concluded his speech at the Board of
Trade dinner he grew deathly pale, his
eyes shut and opened spasmodically.
and he fell inert on his chair. Thence
he slipped to the floor where he lay I'M
conscious. The most intense excitement
Immediately ensued Judge Arnoux. ex-
Secretary Bayard and Captain Snow
were the first of several who ran to
Mr.. WINDOWS aid. They found him APP
parently unconscious They lifted him
gently and carried him into an ante
room, where several physicians pro-
ceeded at once to his assistance, but it
was found that he was dead. His had
been the first toast of the evening. He
had finished his response, had seated him
self. swooned at once and died almost
instantly. Every effort to restore him
was made, but in vain. lie died of
heart disease. The great assemblare
at once dissolved Mr.. Window had
been the only speaker, and the senti-
ment to which he responded was: ''Our
Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon
Its instruments of Commerce"
Ii was to have been a night of feast
ing and flow OF soul at Delmonico's.
The New York Board of Trade and
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WISCONSIN FARMERS.
Annual Convention of the state Agricult-
uraI Societies to Convene at Madison.

Annual Convention of the State Agricult-
uraI Societies to Convene at Madison.
MADISON, Wis, Feb. 3.-The annual
farmers convention meets here to-day,
and will be a notable gathering. 1t will
include all the State societies in any way
allied to agriculture, such as the horti-
cultural, bse-keepers, sheep-breed-
ers. etc. IL viii continue IN ses-
sion the rest of the week, and
there viii be some notable adj
dresses, among others by Governor
Peck and President T. c. Chamberlin,
of the university. The executive
board of the State Agricultural Society
met this evening and determined to
hold the State fair in Milwaukee from
September IA to 10 next
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ENDED AT LAST.
After Twenty Years of Litigation the
Celebrated Jones County Ga.) Calf Case
Is Brought to Close.

After Twenty Years of Litigation the
Celebrated Jones County ia.) Calf Case
Is Brought to Close.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 30.-The Iowa
Supreme Court has finally affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the cele-
brated case of johnson VS.. Miller, ct
al, better known as the zones County
calf case" The verdict of the lower
court was for the plaintiff in the
sum of 81 900. The last jury re-
turned general verdict and
also answered number of spe-
cial interrogations, and the case
went to the Supreme Court on the
ground that the answers to the special
interrogations did not warrant the ver-
diet. The case has been in the courts
for about twenty years, has been tried
several times in the lower courts, and
has taken a number of trips to the SUI
preme Court. II has banl1rupted every
body connected with it except the at
torneys. The calves over which the
filtration has cnsued were originally
worth $40, and the total cost of the
case has grown to between $4,000 and
$4,000 in addition to the verdict of
81 OO0
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The FEBRUARY WIDE AWAKE

Is both timely and seasonable, in
Lieut.. Fremont's account of Life at
Frontier Forts, with illustrations from
photographs, and in William Zachary
Gladwin's opening 'Valentine:''
Twas an eye tor an eye and a tooth for tooth
In the old-time Scripture day;
But tell my love that q heart for a heart
Is by far the better way!
curious little article about "A Fish
Army Is a sort of military pendant -
Lieut.. Fremont's article. ''Sir Grim
bald's Ransom" is ballad, b. Mary
Bradley, of the brave Crusader an
cestor of the present British Minister of
Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote,
whose drawer lady gave her right hand
to ransom her lord from the Saracens.
The unusually clever short stories of
the number include the strange true ac-
count of '.Aunt Dollys Two Robbers"
by Sydney Quarles, Diamonds and
Toads, by Mrs. Burton Harrison TAU
thor of THE Anglomaniacs" and 9TH
ers.) "A Little Nobody Who Became
Great Somebody" is Mary Wager
Fishers account of poor French boy,
who established cotton weaving in
France and thereby became the friend
of Napoleon. Miss Runners drawing
lessons are developing most ingeniously.
Dorothy Holcomb tells of Homemade
Games" There are poems by Mrs.
Whiton-Stone, Elizabeth w. Bellamy,
Mary Z. wilkins, and others. Kirk
Munroe's railroading serial, Cab and
Caboose," becomes exciting, Margaret
Sidney's Peppers is full OF delightful
doings, and ''Marieta's Good Times" is
unique as the naive autobiography of
little Italian girl. Men and Things
sparlIles with wit and anecdote Bridg-
mans amusing pictorial slSit. Through
the Dark Continent" drops the curtain
to the laughter of the audience.
WIDE AWAKE is 81. 40 year; 20 cents
number. ID. Lothrop Company, Boston.
Fledgely-I love you, Alice! viii you
be mine?
Alice-What are your ideas regarding
rings?
Fledgely-Dianonds
Alice-Take me.-Jeweler's Circular
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The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
FiFTN-FIRsT CONGRESS.

stNDAA 'N1Stoh-
TUESDAY. Jan. Elm the Senate
the credentials of Mr.. stanford and
Mr.. Irby as Senators-elect from Cali
fornia and South Carolina for the term
beginning March !, 1891. were pre-
scented and fled. The Congressional
appOrti0nment bill was discussed. In
the House a bill was passed for rail-
way bridge over the Missouri between
Council Bluffs and Omaha. The Mill
tary Academy appropriation bill was
discussed
WEDNESDAY,. Jan 2s. = The House
apportionment bill was considered in
the Senate, and House bills were
passed for public buildings at Rock
Island H.. and Rockford. Ill. In the
House the journal was approved with
ont question. The resignation of John
:. Mccarthy. Representative from the
Eighth district of New York, was pre-
scented
THURSDAY, Jan. %. - The Senate
passed the Congressional apportion-
ment bill exactly as it came from the
House by a vote of yeas 81, nays %.
This gives the House $50 members.
The bill creating the Office of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-Generalw was also
passed In the House the time was oc.
eupied in discussing the Military Acad-
envy appropriation bill.
FRIDAY. Jan. 30.-After the reading
of the journal in the Senate Senator
Morrill, announced the sudden death
Of Secretary Window, and in re-
spect to his memory the senate
adjourned for the day. In the House,
after a few affecting words of tribute
to the worth of the deceased Secretary
of the Treasury by Mr.. Dunnell. of
Minnesota, the House, on motion of
Mr.. Mckinley. as a mark of respect to
his memory, adjourned
SATURDAY. Jan. 3I.-In the Senate
bills were passed to prohibit the sale
of tobacco to minors under 16 years
Of age in the District of Columbia;
To amend the Interstate commerce act
of 1857. so as to allow the taking of
dispositions of witnesses before notaries
public; establishing a port of delivery
at Des Moines, Ia; for the
exploration and survey of the interior
of Alaska; the army appropriation
bill and 40 pension bills. The message
of the President in relation 10 the vacan-
cy caused by the death of the Secretary
of the Treasury was read and referred.
\ bill was introduced appropriating
81. 600 for monument to Chicf-Justice
Chase in the city of Washington. In the
House the Military Academy appro-
priation bill was passed and the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill
ISL. 60l. 92J) was considered.
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A KANAkA legend exists that when q
rcd fish enter, IIcnolulu harbor the
reiEning sovereign must soon die. Such
a fish appeared On the 10Th of Novem-
ber. fifteen days before the late kim
Eallkaua sailed for san Francisco. II
was intinated. however. that certain
persons had something To do with the
appearance of the ominous member oi
tine tinnv tribe.
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PARIS, Feb. Meissonier, the fa-
nous artist, di ed here Saturday. He
was born at Lyons in 1918. He early
manifested artistic inciinations and un-
derwent many trials to satisfy them.
Four hundred and twenty-six pictures
represent the life-work of McissOnier.
Their present value is estimated at
$4,000, 900. OF this the artist received
about one-tenth.
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A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE.
Clay County (Iiss.) Visited T. Children Hur
and Buildings Demolished.

Eiay County fhlSS.) visited -thGfUren turt
and Buildings Demolished.
WEST PoINT, Miss, Feb. 3.-Sunday
evening a cyclone passed through the
western part of Clay County. 1t started
near the plantation of l.. W. Bond, lev
cling a good deal of timber on his place,
and moved in northeasterly direc-
ton, cutting swath nearly half
mile wide. All the cabins on
the west side of Quinn's plantation
were destroyed and a negro was
badly injured. Near Abbott a colored
Baptist church was demolished. On
stevens farm all the buildings except n
barn were blown down and a negro
child was fatally injured. On b. H..
Grimes and DR. w Is. Gums places all
the buildings were destroyed and a
negro child was fatally hurt. At j. w.
Walkers several cabins were demol-
ished The damage done by the cy-
clone will amount to many thousands
Of dollars