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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-26
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Pryer-What is the point at issue IN
the case of Jaggs VS.. Henderson. which
has been dragging through the courts
so long?
Lawyer-The trouble began over the
ownership of a valuable coon dog. The
litigation has been going on for about
six years and has cost the contestants
nearly $50, 600 So far.
Pryer-Who will win the dog eventu-
ally. do you think?
Lawyer-The dog? Oh, he died early
in the second year.-Munsey's Weekly.
He Bore disappointing Friend.
81 have terrible news for You,
Scrimpsi Try to bear up under it! Last
night lightning set your barn afire, and
" Farmer Shrimps.-(who habitu-
ally uses a wart for a collar button. y
My heavensl My sorl marei KANT
bear it, Jim, KANT bear it'' Friend
The mare is safe, but your wife, in try
ing TO save her, was burned TO death. I"
Schrimps.-(with twelve cents worth
of emotion)-It's a hard blow. but I'll
try to bear it. Say, Sor'l paced a mile
in 500 last week How much boot'll
you give between her an your roan?''-
Spirit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-26
THE FAST.

FIRE destroyed the new power-house
of the Duquesne Traction Company at
Pittsburgh, Pa Loss, 500, 00N no in
surance-
AT Pittsburgh the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers were both near the
high-water mark on the 18th and still
rising Reports from different points
in Western Pennsylvania showed very
high water and much damage from the
flood The loss at Pittsburgh and Allie
gheny alone was placed at $3.50. 900.
Thousands of persons have been driven
fro n their homes.
IL a collision of trains at Railway, n.
j.. three men were fatally injured.
The doors of the American Loan and
Trust Company of New York were
closed. DepositOrs would be paid in
full.
THE death of Mrs. Rose Mccormick
occurred on the 18th, at Green Point, n.
", aged IO4 years Her father died al
the age of 1O2 years and her mother
lived to be 1O4 years old
IN burning building in Brooklyn, n.
V, Mrs. John Henry and her four chill
dren and Jacob Enrich were suffocated.
THE Mckinley tariff law was de-
clared constitutional in test case in
the United States Circuit Court in New
York.
GENERAL SHERMAN's remains were
on the 18th borne from the family resi-
dence in New York to the depot and
embarked on train for st. Louis. The
ceremonies were attended by Presi-
dent Harrison and his Cabinet and
many other distinguished persons, and
thousands of old soldiers were in the
line of march.
BY a collision of railway trains on the
New Haven railroad in New York City
six trainmen we're killed and seven in
jured
In Green County. Pa. the STANDARD
Oil COmpany has purchased 20, 600 acres
of oil lands. This corporation now
owns nearly all of five counties in Penn
sylvania-
AT Johnstow1. Pa, the bodies of two
victims of the 1889 flood were found in
the COnemaugh river. They were sup.
posed to he the bodies of females.
THE death of Willis Clark, aged 10l
wears and "a days, occurred at Sparta
Ny.
BY a fire in a tenement house in New
York city the wife and two children o.
John L. Dorney, Jacob Benedict, Ed
ward Benedict and Julia Griffin wer,
burned To death.
AT Johnstown, Pa, the body of a
boy was taken out of the river on the
2Ist, making the fifth flood victim thai
was washed up by the recent higl
water
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MESH AND SOuTH.

THE late flood at Pittsburgh and vicin-
ity did damage estimated at -, 600, 900.
On the 18th General III. III. Sibley, the
first Governor of Minnesota, died in St.
Paul. aged so years.
4 MOB took white man and a negro
from the county Jail in Gainesville.
Fla, and hanged them for completely
in numerous assaults.
AT Kansas City the Union Invest
ment Company assigned, with liabili-
ties and assets each s1,OOO,OOO.
Tom KENDALL Billy Kohler and
William Kerns were killed by snow
slide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado.
FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific
round-house at Kansas City, Kan, with
eighteen engines, causing a loss of
SIS. 600
THE firm of John n. Knox & Co. pri-
vate bankers at Topeka, Kan, assigned,
with liabilities of $40, 900 and assets of
about $50. 600.
a FIRE at Hoosierville, mining viii
lage in Clay County. Ind, almost en-
tirely destroyed the town
Ex-TREAsURER WOODRUFF paid into
the State Treasury of Arkansas S5S, 74O.-
so. the full amount of his shortage.
\ FLOOD swept away Riverside, a
suburb of Parkersburg, w. Va No
lives We're lost
MARTHA MOORE and Sarah Mules
(cOlOredl We're killed at Lake Station,
Nd. by train.
An explosion of natural gas in the
house of William Kuntz at Martin 5
Ferry, o., burned aine persons, two Of
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

IN Buenos Ayres a conspiracy to as
sassinate the principal officers of the
Republic was discovered
SPANISH soldiers were repulsed with
loss of 100 men in battle with ma
tives of the Caroline islands.
TERRIFIC storms prevailed on the
coast of Greece. and off the island OF
Zoo a steamer was wrecked and nine
lives lost.
GOVERNMENT officials in Cuba were
charged with encouraging four prison
ers to escape and then shooting them in
cold blood.
AT Bradford, Eng, James Wilson &
Co., builders, failed with liabilities
amounting to $500, 900.
LEPRosY was said to be spreading
rapidly among whites and Indians In
British Columbia.
In the West Indies the American bark
Topsy was wrecked and Captain Mac
kenzie, two mates, a seaman and the
cabin-boy were drowned.
THE National League at Cork, Ire
land, has adopted resolution declaring
Parnell to be the 'sole leader of the
Irish people"
BUENOs AYREs advlceS say that the
Gillian war was over, the negotiations
for settlement proving successful.
IN the central provinces of India a
district was being ravaged by pack OF
wolves which had killed forty cattle
watchers, who were chiefly youths OF
both sexes from s to is years.
THE United States is asked to pay the
widow of General Barrundia 81 ZOO, O0O
for the killing of her husband on board
the American steamer Acapulco in the
harbor of Guatemala.
PATRICK KIRwAN has been released
from a London prison after serving
forty years for wife murder.
1T was said that the attitude of the
Irish patriots toward the Parnellites
was rapidly changing into an attitude
of war.
AN explosion in the Spring Hill coal
mine in Nova Scotia killed lit per-
sons and many others were missing.
THE Egyptian troops won battle
from the forces of Osman Digma al
Tokar and 1000 soldiers lost their lives
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-26
THE BASEBALL WAR.
The National Board Outlaws the Ameri-
can Association and Proclaims Its Play
ers Free of Contract and Reservation.

The National Board Outlaws the Ameri-
can Association and Proclaims Its Play
ers Free of Contract and Reservation.
CHICAGO, Feb. 23.- More baseball his
tory was made at the Auditorium
hotel in two hours Saturday than was
ever possible in the same length of
time before. The national board
met in extraordinary session,
pursuant to Chairman Thur
mans call. AS result of
it's brief deliberations the American as
sociation was practically expelled from
enjoyment of the benefits to be de-
rived from the national agreement.
Allen w. Thurman was indicated
in his position toward the seced-
ing organization and unanimous
ly selected chairman. All asso-
citation players are declared free to
jump their contracts and sign with ma
tional agreement clubs, having been re-
leased from reservation and their. con-
tracts annulled; all members of the
league and western association
were barred from playing games
with any of the guerilla
clubs or any teams which had played
with such clubs, and, most sensational
of all, the indications at night were
that new American association, sup
planting the revolutionists, would be
granted the privileges and protection
of the national agreement.
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MINERS SLAIN.
Over 100 Killed by an Explosion i'm q
Nova Scotia Colliery.

HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 23.-Au explo-
sion of fire damp took place in the
Spring Hill coal mines Saturday after
noon. A late dispatch says that
miners who have come up say
that the levels are blocked in
the locality of the explosion with
large piles of debris consisting
mainly of timber knocked out by the
terrible force of the explosion, which
was felt above ground. To add to tGe
horror of the situation the deadly black
damp has made its appearance in the
mine. The loss of life caused by the
explosion is appalling. Many bodies
have been recovered by men
who are searching the mine. The total
number of dead is now placed at III.
To several families the affection is very
great. Reid Carter and his two sons,
Willard and Clarence. are all dead.
Three sons of the Carmichael family
are dead. Jesse Armishaw went
down No. slope and found
his three sons lying dead tOgethc The
sight unnerved him SO that he had to
return to the surface without them.
Two sons of Robert McVey are laid out
side by side. Hugh Junt loses two sons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-26

Shahbro rOsiEh. e a SuTy WIS
not unexpected. for in spite of deni-
ais and prevarications atthe White
House and other places it has been
clearly foreshadowed for several days.
lCharles Foster was born in Seneca County,
Ohio, in 1928 and was educated at the Norwalk
Academy He went into business and became
a banker. and from his youth took active in
terest In politics. He ran for the Ohio Legis-
lature and failed, but in 1870 was
elected TO Congress, and was three
times reelected In Washington he was
known as a shrewd politician, but did not cut
much figure on the floor of Congress He served
for time on the committee of ways and means.
In 1879 he was elected Governor OF Ohio and
was reelected in 1881. He was the manager of
the Sherman boom in 1884 and when he
Topped over TO Blaine Senator Sherman
charged him with bad faith, and there was
angry controversy. At the last election he was
again candidate for Congress in the Eighth
Ohio district, but was defeated. He was one OF
the commissioners appointed last year to
gotiate with the Sioux for the acquisition of
their reservation by the Government
Martin A. Knapp, of New York, who is to
succeed Augustus Schoonmaker on theI inter-
State Commerce Commission at a. 800 year, is
a well known lawyer OF Syracuse. He is about
40 years old, is a graduate Of Middetown Col
lege and has been for some time private coun
sci in the vast business affairs of Congressman
Belden. at whose request and the recon-
mendation OF both New York Senators he was
appointed1
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EN-, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves, IA

them, Mrs. Runtz and Miss Graves. IA
tally.
THE Industrial party of Michigan in
State convention at Lansing nominated
o'Brien Jameson, of Port Huron, for
Supreme Court Justice.
The population of Tennessee by
races is announced by the Census
Bureau as follows: White, 1885,, 97l;
colored, 434, 800; Indians, f7S; Chinese,
81; Japanese, 10; total, 1,767,5ls The
population of West Virginia was given
as follows: White, TO, 262; colored, 3d.
sos; Indians, s; Chinese, 10; total 1884,
794.
at Battlefield, Miss, for the mur rider of
Ben Pierce, farmer.
In the Northwest a storm of sleet
and snow did great damage to the tele-
graph service
THE worlds fair directory has aban-
doned the Lake Front. There will not
be building placed upon it and the
Worlds Columbian Exposition will be
held at jackson Park. 1t was said the
expenses of the fair would be s17,625,-
453 and the receipts were estimated at
ST.. Zoo, 900.
WILLIAM McCUBBIN, a wealthy citi-
zen of Leigh. Neb., shot and killed his
wife and his hired man and then cut his
own throat. Jealousy prompted the
crime.
In the Northwest the total production
of white pine lumber during the past
season was 4,06s, 2s5, 5s4 feet, an in
crease over the previous season of $780,
700, l46 feet.
THE death was announced of Mrs.
Elizabeth Winchester, of Floyd County,
Ind, aged 81 years, who was thought to
be the only person in Indiana drawing
a pension on account ot the revolution
airy war.
MICHAEL ZELLERs found alive in the
bottom of a forty-foot dry well at Craw-
louisville, Ind, hog which had been
there for forty-one days without food
or water.
| IN an interview in New York ex-
President Cleveland emphatically de-
MED a statement by Washington pa
per To the effect that he had decided
not to be a Presidential candidate in
| 1892.
Two negroes were lynched by mob
at FraZier's Crossing, Ga, for assault
| ing a storekeeper named Gordon.
I'll. RUSSELL and j. w. Cook, United
States marshals, were fired upon near
Ration, n. NJ, by party of Mexicans
from an ambush and instantly killed.
NEAR Las Vegas, n. NJ, trains col
lided killing two engineers, two fire.
men and brakeman.
BY an overflow of the Missouri river
Frederick Warner and his wife and
three children were drowned near Kan
sas City, Mo.
FLAMES in a business block at Kansas
City, Mo-, caused a loss of S225, 900.
THE American ship Elizabeth went
on the beach at North heads while
entering the harbor at San Francisco
and was wrecked and seventeen men
were drowned.
MARCUS HOLQUARsoN's house at Per-
nv, Wis, was burned, and his two chill
dren persisted in the flames Mrs. Hol-
quarson was made blind by rushing
into the fire for her little ones.
In the Salt and ella rivers in Arizona
floods caused s125, 900 damage, chiefly in
and near Phoenix. Five Pima Indians
were drowned.
AT st. Louis the burial of Gen. Sher-
man took place on the 21st in the pres
ence of a vast concourse of people who
had gathered to do honor to the great
soldier.
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LATER.

In the United States senate on the
I'D the conference report on the bill
for the allotment of lands in severalty
to Indians was agreed to and the bill
for the establishment of bureau in the
agricultural department for the promo
ton of the silk culture industry was
favorably reported. The sundry civil
appropriation bill was discussed. In
the house the post Office appropriation
bill was passed and the deficiency ap-
preparation bill was considered. Mr.
Wike Qll.) introduced resolutions ask
ing for the impeachment of Speaker
Reed.
THE loss by floods at Parkersburg,
w. Va, and vicinity was estimated at
"a. OOO, 900.
Miss ANNIE QUINN and John Hughes
were killed by the cars at Braddock,
Pa.
FIVE of the men who were intombed
in the mine at GAINESVILLE, Pa, for
eighteen days were found alive. How
they lived was miracle.
Two SCHOOLGIRLS aged and 10 years
were drowned while playing on the ice
at Grand Rapids, Mich.
AT Beaver Crossing, Neb., fire de
stroyed the post office, the town hall
and four business houses All the
mail and the post Office records were
burned.
TON ROWLAND (colored) was lynched
by a mob near Douglas, Tex, for rob
berry.
! Mrs. MARGARET TINMoNDs was buried
at Hartford City, Ind. She was born
in Ireland in 1889 and was 1O2 years old
at the time of her death.
| The Peoples opera house and the
Journal printing Office at Evansville,
Ind, were burned.
FLOODS at Yuma, A. T., had done
$4,000 damage and threatened to
sweep the town away. Gus Lee was
drowned in bed.
EIGHT of the principal business
houses at Meredosia, ILL.,, were burned
The first triennial national council
| of the women of the United States
convened at Washington.
THE work of recovering the bodies of
the victims of the mine explosion at
Spring Hill, n. s., shows the number
of dead to be 1I9. OF these 81 were
married men. 40 single men and 25 boys.
1T was estimated that 10000 settlers
were occupying land in the Cherokee
strip in Indian territory.
w. J. ELLIOTT and A. c. Osborn. two
newspaper writers. had battle with
pistols on public street in Columbus,
O. Osborn was fatally shot, a Mr..
Hughes, a 6ystander. was killed and
several innocent persons We're injured.
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VARIOUS ITEMS.

THE Eskimo call seals to them by ly-
ing down on the ice and whistling.
REASON can not show itself more rea-
souable than to cease reasoning on
things above reason
A TAILOR died in New York the other
day from poisoning, because of the
habit ne had of biting off the ends of
threa Is.
The SHoPKEEPER-"My landlord has
raised the rent on me-" His Friend
Have him arrested for shoplifting. -
st. Joseph News.
HE-"I'm afraid wasn't myself at
the reception yesterday" She = Il
thought not; you were so entertaining
st. Joseph News.
THE great show piece of the recent
fruit fair held at Marysville, Cal, was
an exact copy of Suffers famous fort,
built entirely of oranges
IT is reported that farmer in Holt
County, Kan. has twenty-six living
children, all of whom are unmarried
and live at the homestead.
As Atchison kan woman got up in
her sleep. lit lamp and went to sew
ing. After working quite awhile she
ran the needle in her finger and awoke.
''IIE is good man" people viii say
of you the day they hear you are very
sick sBut he might be better" they
add, when they hear you are getting
well.
SOMEHOW when you see man who is
an adept at paying compliments to
women you can't help wondering what
has become of the women he praetieed
them on.
In the present progressive age the
man who waits to be sure he's right
and then goes ahead usually finds that
he has been anticipated by somebody
who was willing to take few chances
Washington Post
TEHAMA COUNTY, Cal, paid out S795
for ssalps in December. The lot in
clrded five lions, one hundred and eight
coyotes, sixty-three wildcats, nineteen
hundred and fifty-two rabbits, fifty
three crows, ten bears and two eagles.
CONSTANTLY accommodating interest on
debt which he found himself unable
to pay proved too much for a Russian
peasant He hated the creditor. and to
hurt him he hung himself to the
usurer's door. with this inscription on
his body: This pays off my indebted
ness TO YOU"
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WRECKED HIS OFFICE.
Enemies of a Coldwater (kan.) Editor
Carry or His Type and Press.

Enemies of n COldwater (kan.) Editor
Carry or His Type and Press.
WICHITA, Kan, Feb. 1S.-At Cold
water some time before daybreak Tues
day morning the Advocate Office was
broken into and completely wrecked.
The type was dumped into sacks and
the press taken down and carried away.
The latter has not yet been found, but
the type was scattered all over The
prairie adjacent to the town. An
attempt was also made to burn down
the building occupied by the Echo
printing Office, but this failed. War has
been waged by the editors of these two
papers against some of the county Off
Gals, who are Alliance men, and their
alleged misdeeds, and it is said that the
papers have been threatened with dire
consequences. A statement is alleged
to have been made by an Alliance man
which it is said will fix the guilt where
it belongs.
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NO ALIENS NEED APPLY.
Triumph of American LabOr-World's Fal
Work Must BE Done by Citizens of tn

Triumph of American LabOr-World's Fair
Work Must he Done by Citizens of the
United states.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-The contract for
grading and preparing the land at
jackson Park was duly signed and exc
cuted Wednesday afternoon. By the
terms of the agreement the contractors
must hire their men subject to the alien
labor law of the Illinois statues, which
is to the effect that money which is
raised by taxation or appropriation
shall not be paid out, directly or indi-
rectly, for labor where such labor is
performed by persons who are not
citizens of the United States or
have not declared their intention of
becoming naturalized by taking out
first papers. The law is not quoted
in the contract, but reference is made
to it by its proper title and section.
This condition means that alien labor
of whatever nationality will not
be used in worlds fair construc-
ton, whether under contract or
direct supervision.
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WHEN the late General sherman re-
Gently visited Admiral Porter the latter
happened to be asleep and General
Sherman told the family not to wake
him He left a message of sympathy,
md remarked in sad tone of voice: II
would rather not see Porter unless
could see him as he always was when
have met him Tuning to Mrs. Logan
he said. half jokingly, but with a tinge
of pathos: Il will be the next one,
and perhaps | may go before Porter
does" Then. with a shrug of his
shoulders. he added: Anyhow. its
nothing to die as its Just as natural
as IL is 10 be horn"
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FROM WASHINGTON.

ADMIRAL PoRTER's funeral took place
at Washington on the 18th. He was
buried at Arlington Cemetery.
IT is stated in bulletin issued by the
Census Office that the center of popula-
ton in this country on June l, 1890.
was in Southern Indiana, near Green's
burg, and twenty miles east of Column
bus Ten years ago it was eight miles
west by south of Cincinnati.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 295. against 297 the
preceding week and 271 the correspond
ing week last year.
THE exchanges at the clearing houses
in the United States during the week
ended on the 2lst aggregated $3.50, 122, :
577. against 81, O47. Oss. 597 the previous
week As compared with the CORE
spending week of 1890 the increase
amounted to Pa
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 21st
nominated Ex-Ciov. Charles Foster, OF
Ohio, for secretary of the treasury.
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SOMEBODY is OVERRIDING the father-of-
his-eOuntry relic business. The sword
that Washington wore when he re-
signed his commission was simultane-
Ously offered for sale To Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania Massa-
chusetts declined it not only at $50, 900
but 2 lsO at $4,000