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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-04-14

even deeper JOY and more sacred re
mem brance than Christmas, and he
always celebrated it"
II understand, said the young lady +,
''but how is the child to be found?
Poor deserving boys are not always
found when wanted.
THE choice is left to your wisdom,
and in this large town you can hardly
fail to find some one who would merit
the gift"
And meantime it is growing dark,
and / must not detain you further If
you hear of an interesting protege let
me know. ! confess to being puzzled
and Helpless in the matter. Easter is
close at hand. And Miss Wraye
stepped lightly out and into the wait
ing carriage.
1T was Just like Uncle john" she
said to herself, as the swift horses bore
her homeward, ''to appoint me one of
the executors, because | need to know
business details, then to appoint Dr.
Barre another, because of his exceed
ing confidence in his wisdom, faith and
integrity. And now we must go
searching for poor boys to whom we
can hand over hundred or more dol
lars What can they know about
Easter. and what would they do with
such a sum? | fear it will be utterly
thrown away.
Even the frosty air, the rapid motion
and the greeting of friends failed To
bring back her usual sweet expression.
Not till she entered the library where
her invalid mother lay, was smile
brought to Miss Wraye's lips.
"Wen. little mother. has it been a
long afternoon" she asked, with a
kiss
1T is always long when you are
away" was the answer, as the invalid
smiled back into the winsome face
above her Ibid you see the judge,
and what does DIR. Barre say?'
Eyes, / saw Judge Oldham and am
in a greater quandary than ever. And
Dr Barre is evidently determined to
let me do everything. As he is one
of the executors think he might do
the execution. He knows / dislike
business details of this sort But let
me ring for tea, then we can talk more
comfortably.
In her own home among her especial
friends. Edith Wraye was bright and
sociable to a degree not realized by
those who knew her only as the heir
ess of her uncle's great wealth, and
who found her a trifie distant and re-
served. None called her proud. She
was too sweet-tempered for that, but
mere acquaintance had no conception
of the sunny nature which filed her
mothers life with gladness- Only one,
perhaps. and he did not reveal his
thoughts. The recent death OF Judge
Farley, Mrs. Wraye's brother, and the
Quiet winter which followed, left
Edith free TO devote her time to her
mother until the approach OF Easter
brought new perplexities
That evening the afternoon story
was rehearsed
why did uncle choose to have me
take charge of this matter, mother? L
don't in the least know how to set
about it Am l to go eanvassing the
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

IN a powder factory at st. Peters
burg an explosion killed nine men.
The members of the French expedi-
have been massacred on the Upper
Niger in Africa.
IL a Roumanian military academy
five cadets have committed suicide by
shooting themselves with revolvers.
They belonged to a suicide club.
In Mexico Diaz has been reelected
president by a practically unanimous
vote.
FIRE at FL Porvenir, Cuba. destroyed
1s,6Is. 900 pounds of sugar cane.
By the sinking of the British ship
Erato at Hamburg fifteen persons were
drowned.
AT San Pedro, Mex. five bandits were
shot.
THE total exports from Germany to
the United States have largely de-
creased during the past year.
IL Newfoundland licenses have been
granted to United States fishing vessels,
but Canadians have been refused.
WHILE insane the wife of Customs
Inspector Weinherdt, of Bremerhaven,
Germany, drowned herself and her five
children.
THE exodus of French Canadians from
Quebec is ten times great .r this year
than it ever was before.
IL Russia the famine has caused a
loss to the imperial treasury of 800, 600,
600 roubles.
THE government of Austria has de-
cided to adopt severe measures to check
the emigration of young men to Amer
lea.
AT Yokohama, Japan, Lieut.. Hether-
ington, of the United States navy, who
killed Banker Robinson, has been ac-
quilted.
OXFORD won by two and a half
lengths in the annual boat race on the
Thames between the Oxford and Cam
bridge crews.
In Paris Louis Anastay, who muir
dered Baroness Dellard, was guillo-
a:-ed
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FROM WASHINGTON.

4 RENEWAL of the mOdus yivendi on
the Behring sea question was said to
have been agreed upon between Sir Jul
liam Pauncefote and Secretary Blaine
and signed by President Harrison.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended ON
the Sth numbered POS, against 21s the
preceding week and 24S for the CORE
spending week last year.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the sth aggregated 81,
24I. SOC, 2S5, against LOSS, 62s, $50 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was Us.
THE losses by fire in the United States
and Canada amounted to SO, CAS-. 600 dur
ing the month of March. against Sl2,-
$40, $50 IN March, 1891. The losses dur
ing the first three months of this year
were SIS, 1876, 900. against So, SOS, $50 in
the same time last year.
THREE vessels with their crews of
forty-eight persons and property to the
value Of about S24s,O 900 were said at
Philadelphia to have been lost.
MARX BENTZ. aged 80, Rheinheld
Pretzel. aged 35, and Lewis Lewenstein,
aged 81, were drowned n The harbor at
New Haven. Conn, while fishing.
THE city hall at Chester, Pa, which
is historic. having been erected in 100,
was fired by incendiaries and badly
damaged
FIREMAN aud brc keman We're killed
and the engineer seriously injured in a
wreck near COnnellsville. Pa.
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The News Of the Week.
FL TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FIFTY-sECoNo CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, April 3. - In the senate
an adverse report was made on Mr..
PETERS bill TO create fund for setting
our army of laborers at work on public
improvements. The Indian appropria-
ton bill was discussed. In the house a
bill was reported authorizing the state
of Wisconsin to place IN statuary hall a
statue of Pere Marquette. No vote was
reached on the free wool bill.
WEDNESDAY, April 6. - The Indian
appropriation bill was passed in the
senate. senator Wolcott Coll spoke
in favor of the free coinage of silver
In the house the debate on the free
wool bill came 10 an end, but no vote
was taken.
THURSDAY, April Tn the senate
a bill was introduced TO naturalize
cinnamon now residents of this country.
The district OF Columbia appropriation
bill was discussed. In the house the
free wool bill was passed by vote of
1872 TO 60. Favorable reports were
made on public building bills appropri-
ating for Ann Arbor, Mich, $50, OOO
and for Clinton, Ia, $50. 900; also on the
bill for an estimate cost of construction
of a ship canal from the great lakes TO
navigable waters of the Hudson river
of sufficient capacity to transport the
tonnage of the lakes to the sea
FRIDAY. April S. The bill appro-
priating 100000 for entertaining the
twenty-slxth national encampment of
the e. \. r. was passed in the senate.
Bills were also passed to establish sub
ports of entry at Ashland and Superior,
Wis. Adjourned TO the 18th. In the
house bill was introduced To authorize
the holding of an international none
tary congress in Chicago, to commence
August s, 1898. The bill to admit cot
ton bagging free of duty was discussed.
SATURDAY, April 9.-The senate was
not ic in n session. In the house the
bill putting cotton bagging and ties on
the free list was passed by vote of 100
to IS. A bill was introduced to permit
railroads TO sell to commercial travellers
.O00-mile nontransferable tickets. A
number Of eulOgies were delivered upon
the late VI. H. Ford of Michigan.
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THE EAST.

AT JOhnstOwn. Pa, hungarian was
instantly killed while trying to light his
pipe at an electric light
WHILE assisting in the funeral serv-
ices of Abraham kraus at Palm station,
Pa, Rev. Joshua Schultz. aged 81 years,
died suddenly in the pulpit.
A HURRICANE wrecked ten houses and
a church at Olean, y. Y. One woman
was killed and a number of persons
seriously injured.
REV DIR. PARKHURsT. of New York,
has received eleven letters threatening
his life if he does not desist in his cru
SADIE against crime in that city.
BY the explosion of a locomotive
boiler at Long Island City five men
were fatally injured.
THE death of Willard Salisbury,
chancellor of the state of Delaware
since 1874 and United States senator
from 1853 to 1871. occurred at his resi-
dence at Dover, of apoplexy.
THE bill ALLOWING women to vote for
school commissioners IN New York has
become a law.
COMPLETE returns from the Rhode
Island election give the following re
suits: Brown (rep.l, for governor
pOlIed 81. 4G6 votes; Wardwell dem
5,429; Gilbert (pro.), 1,1sO; Burton
(peo.l, 1S6; scattering. -. These
figures show plurality of 2.O46 fol
Brown and a majority of 1876. The
legislature is republican in both
branches.
Is Pennsylvania the prohibitionists
have nominated l.. L. Yoder for con
gress from the Twenty-second district
and J.. J. Porter from the Twenty.
third.
MASSACHUSETTS democrats in state
convention at Boston elected delegates
to the national gathering favorable &c
Cleveland. The resolutions adopted
favor tariff for revenue, approve the
free wool bill now before congress and
oppose the free coinage of silver.
But one-quarter of the average maple
sugar crop of Vermont has thus far
been produced The loss to the farmers
viii be fully 81, 600. 900. it is said.
NEAR Cedarbrook. \. J.. forest fires
destroyed several houses and hundreds
of acres of wood and
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AN AGE OF PROGRESS.

A SEAMLESS boat, made from fiat
pieces of steel and shaped by hydraulic
pressure, is described in the English
papers.
BURGLAR-PRooF glass has been IN
vented by Dresden manufacturer 1t
is made by pouring molten glass over a
network of steel wire. 1t is especially
adapted for sllylights and jewelers.
windows.
A CHURCH built of compressed paper
has been erected in Bergen, Norway.
1t affords seating capacity for one thou
sand persons The paper walls are rem
dered waterproof by solution of white
of eggs and auiclxlime in curdled milk.
Mr.. A. +. WARD, of Detroit, Mich,
has devised a mark buoy for wrecks
which is automatic. IL is fixed to the
deck of the vessel by a joint of soluble
glue, which on dissolving in the sea
water allows the captive buoy to rise
to the surface.
A UTICA On. W church has placed in
its Sunday-sehool room what is known
as Sunday-schcol thermometer. 1t is
a novel device for registering the at
tendance of the Sunday-school every
Sunday as announced by the secretary.
1t runs from zero to $50, and changes
every Sunday.
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IL six cities carpenters will on May
demand an eight-hour day, and in sew
enty-one cities they will demand a nine
hour day.
GRADUALLY but persistently the
large express companies are discharg-
ing all employees belonging TO the
brotherhood.
IN the vicinity of West Point, Miss,
a waterspout destroyed miles of rail-
way track, many houses were washed
away and four colored families were
drowned.
MATT WILLIAMS house at st. Louis
was burned, three of his children, Isaac,
aged II, Margaret, ., and Nettie, S, per-
ishing in the flames.
IN fire at Blissfeld, Mich, seven
horses were burned to death.
MANY negroes were said to have
been drowned in Mississippi by the
overflow of rivers. A great number of
horses, cows and other stock have also
been lost.
II the northwestern part of Faulkner
county, Ark, one man was killed,
many other persons were injured and a
large amount of property destroyed by
a cyclone.
THE Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic is a new organization effected
at Springfield, III. 1t differs from the
WOman's Relief Corps in admitting only
the mothers, sisters and daughters of
veterans.
The Arkansas republicans in state
convention at Little Rock instructed
delegates to the national convention at
Minneapolis to vote for Harrison.
IN the Eighteenth Illinois district the
democrats have renominated w. S. For
man for congressman.
BETWEEN New Orleans and Washing
ton a sealed package of $4,000 was
I lost while in the hands of the United
States Express Company.
JOHN MCCURDY shot and killed L. T..
Waltenbaugh at Canton, o., shot his
wife, but not fatally, and then took his
own life. Jealousy was the cause.
The directors of the Worlds Column
/ bian exposition in session in Chicago
{ elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, w. I. Baker;
rotary, IL. o. Edmonds; attorney, w. X.
Carlisle; treasurer, A. f. Seeberger;
auditor, w. X. Alderman.
! In the Second district of Tennessee
John C. Houck (rep.) has been renomi-
/ mated for congress.
A BATTLE was reported in the south
ern part of Montana, near Dillon, be-
tween the ranchmen and cattle thieves
in which the ranchmen were repulsed,
losing eight killed and many wounded.
The thieves also lost heavily.
The labor party of Wisconsin viii
hold their state convention in Milwau-
l1ee May "A.
IL a railroad collision near Mount
jured through negligence on the part Of
a flagman.
A. FRAZER was hanged at Toronto,
Ark, for assaulting his 13-year-old step
] daughter in October.
AT Atlanta, ILL.,, Mrs. Mary A. Wikel
celebrated her Tooth anniversary.
TWENTY persons have been drowned
/ in the floods in Mississippi and hun
dreds Of others have been made home-
| less.
! IN the First district of Iowa, the pro-
| hibitionists have nominated $. Il. Glas-
\ Cow for congress.
/ a MOB took Isaac Brandon, negro
charged with attempted assault on a
white woman, from the Jail at Charles
I City, Va, and hanged him.
NEAR Topeka, Kan, Mrs. Ross, wife
of farmer, was killed by the acciden-
tai discharge of gun in the hands of
/ her 12-year-old son.
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RI fetched the bread and brought Dot
along"
While Mrs. Wraye kept Donald talk
ing, Edith and Dot and Timothy Titus
were having a grand frolic on the rug.
and presently crisp sugar jumbles and
glasses of milk were brought in, so
that the children Toasted to their salts
faction.
After they had gone Edith gazed into
the open fire.
''wellP' queried her mother.
"Wellt'' she replied.
ASK DR. Barre about them Dom
aid told me he was trying to keep mp
his studies in school and help his
mother. too. ] believe he is the one
you want"
Miss Wraye lost no time. That very
dav after the doctors call she laid
the case before him, and so eager
and sparkling was she in her recital OF
Donald's bravery and Dots charms
that the young mans reserve melted
and he showed himself as interested
and sympathetic as she could desire
Judge Oldham was consulted and Dom
aid was fonnd to be just the one TO de
serve the bequest, while Dot was daily
sent for to amuse Mrs. Wraye with her
quaint chatter and bonny face.
u am so glad" said Edith to her
mother when the matter was settled
Donald will have his Easter gift, We
can help that darling Dot, and you are
so much better, too. / really feel
young again. Then" she added, after
pause. DIR Barre has been verg
nice about looking up Donald's inter-
ests, and he does so much good work
there among those poor people. ] lik9
him now"
Easter morning dawned in wonder
full beauty, as if the sun of righteous
ness were shining upon the world Ia
the children's home was unexpected
happiness, and in the great house on
the hill the air was fragrant with flow
ers.
These lilies are DR. Barrels Easter
gift 10 YOU, little mother, said Edith,
as she kissed her mother good morn
| ing.
and have an Easter gift for you,
daughter" was the reply. The doc
tor says / shall be quite strong again
by June, and am really much better. -
''Oh, my precious little mother, that
is the best gift of all How can / be
glad enough
The Easter music fell upon grateful
hearts that night, but none were more
grateful than Edith Wraye.
II cannot thank you, DR.. Barre,
she said, as he joined her after service,
''for saving my mother to me My gift
is far greater than Donald's
"You can thank me, he answered,
after pause, you only can THANK me
if you will, Edith. l have always
loved you. Your uncle knew it, but
dared not speak. Now ! want. my
Easter gift. Nothing else than your
self. Edith. May l have it?'
They had reached her home, and as
the door was opened the light shone
full upon Edith's lovely face. The odor
of lilies wrapped her. She paused.
turned and whispered shyly: will you
come inP"-Elinor Endrich, in n.
Observer.
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LATER.
Nine We're Drowned.

BosToS. April 12.-Last evening an
instructor and ten boys connected with
the Boston farm school at Thompson's
island were capsized in a sail boat, and
the instructor and eight of the boys
drowned. The victims were +. A.
Nordberg, instructor, Frank L. Hitch
cock, Homer f. Thatcher, George +.
Ellis, Thomas Phillips, William w.
Curran, c. III. Graves, Harry L. Loud,
A. II. Packard.
The party had been to the city to at
tend church and they We're on their
return trip. At point between Spec
tacle island and Thompson's island the
boat was struck by squat and cap
sized. The eleven occupants were
thrown into the water, but managed to
cling to the overturned craft. Some of
them endured the unequal contest for
nearly four hours, but one by one they
lost their hold and sank. It was IL
o'clock when the boat, with two survi-
vors still clinging to il, but exhausted,
fled in shore. They were immedi-
ately cared for, and are.recovering from
the exhaustion of their experience.
turned at Chicago the 18th, in the work
of erecting the Democratic national
convention wigwam on the lake front.
| According to contract the structure is
to be completed before June 5.
THE first boat of the season arrived
at St Paul the evening of the 18th. 1t
was the Jennie Hayes from Lansing,
Iowa. commanded by Capt. Allen. She
is rather smaller than the usual river
craft and came up to tow a log raft to
Red Wing.
The Standard Oil Co increased its
capital to 81, 600 600
Az encounter occurred near Fallx-
with. Ala, the 18th, between four
black train robbers and a posse of Off
GERS. Tom Wright, one of the robbers.
was killed. Tom Head, Tom Randall
and Henry Williams, the others, were
arrested and put in jail.
THE plant of Winters Art Litho-
graphing Co, at Springfield, o., was
burned the 18th. The plant was
large one and was engaged in getting
out all of the Autographs of the Worlds
; fair.
AT public charitable performance
in London, Eng, the 18th, Countess
Russell appeared and gave skirt
dance.
AT Fort Dodge. Ia, the 18th, Burt
Wilcox nearly killed Oscar Robson
with club, for refusing a chew Of
tobacco.
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AN INSTRUCTIVE FABLE.
The Joyous Tale of the Dervish and the
Walking Delegate.

Inc Joy Gus Tale OF tha Dervish and the
Walking Delegate.
A Dervish journeyed forth to teach
mankind the uselessness of riches. He
was scantily clothed inethe flthiest of
rags his head was bare. and on his feet
were fragments of sandals. About his
neck hung leathern scrip with a hand
full of dates.
On the edge of the desert he met
Walking Delegate who was on his way
to Mecca 10 order a strike among the
Pilgrims non-union hadji having
been permitted to kiss the holy Kaaba
Hello. old dufferl" said the Dele
gate. Where do you buy your gar
ments? You look like a locked-out
tramp.
Il am dressed answered the Derv-
ish, las BELTS my vocation and am in
all respects equipped for any esner-
gency. No blight of fortune can cast
me down or impede my mission"
SOP" Replied the Delegate; Sup
pose were TO confiscate that bag of
grub?'
Il have been Injured to hunger from
nv youth up and seldom is the thought
of food uppermost in NV mind Be-
sides it is the Fast of R4madaIn and it
is not lawful to eat"
The stones of the desert are sharp;
what if l were to take away your
sandals?"
"Behold!' and the Dervish uncovered
foot and exhibited a sole as tough
and leathery as that of camel
But suppose / were to strip those
rags from your back?"
sun and simeon have scorched my
back for seventy years. and it matters
little whether it be covered or not. And
now" continued the Dervish. shut
your bread winner and let me talk
You think your equipment perfect, but
You are not rugged for long distance
race A little accident by the way win
rattle you. See me prove itr'
And, grasping his staff, ho executed
a flourish and with one swift, clean.
horizontal stroke he hit the Delegates
plug hat in the middle and knocked it
shapeless thing upon the sand. With
a look of anguish the Delegate picked
up the wreck. The top was gone, the
sides We're caved in and the hrim was
cut across and hung dangling from the
crown.
THERE said the Dervish. your
power is gone from you, for what is a
Walking Delegate without plug hat?
Oh, Bismillahi Oh Marshallah; oh.
Rats, Yah" and. brandishing his staff.
he drove the Delegate forth And as
the burning Syrian sun rose higher in
the sky, the vanishing forms passed
over the line of the horizon, the Dele
gate ahead, with the Dervish a good
second about two jumps behind
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German
Syrup

/ must say a word as TO the eff
ficacy of German Syrup. 1 have
used it in my family for Bronchitis,
the result of Colds, with most ex-
ce1lent success. have taken it my
self for Throat Troubles, and have
derived good results therefrom. l
therefore recommend it to my neigh
bors as an excellent remedy in such
cases. James T. Durette, Earlys-
vile, Va. Beware of dealers who
offer you Something just as good"
Always insist on having Boschee's
German Syrup. %
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Tried to Assassinate the Mayor.

BENTON HARBoR, Mich, April O.
The trial of William Vance, the colored
gambler indicted with Louis Robb for
shooting at Mayor Hobbs on the
night of January %. terminated in She
circuit court Friday. Sixty witnesses
were examined on both sides w. f..
Puterbaugh swore that he saw Vance
fire the shot through the window OF
the mayors house. Others swore to
Vapce's bad record in Anderson, Ind,
he having committed various crimes.
The jury was out twenty-five minutes
and brought in verdict of guilty.
Judge O'Hara will probably sentence
Vance to Imprisonment for life.
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THE commissioner of pensions has
reported to the secretary of the interior
that there are now on the completed
files awaiting adjudication Isl. $50 cases,
Of which number 12.749 are original in
valid claims, 29.G93 original widows and
dependents claims, and -, SIS increase
and new disabilities claims. This lot
of cases constitute about five months
work for the Office
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WAUPAcA, Wis, April 9.-Assembly-
man Alfred r. Lea, Sam Stout, Alfred
Pail and David Holmes, all of this city,
have been arrested upon indictments re-
turned by the grand jury when it fin
ished ITS investigation of the muir
der of Banker Mead. Stout is
charged with being a principal IN
the murder, and Lea. Pail and Holmes
as accessories. Tab Pryor is also under
arrest at Rhinelander charged with be-
ing a principal in the affair. 1t is
thought probably four more arrests
will take place soon. The men under
arrest win probably be tried at the
next term of court in October.
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THAT mere infants should b. carrying
pistols To school. in Chicago and else
where, and be playing with them dur
ing school hours. shows, says the Chi
eago Journal, a lack of home and school
vigilance in the highest degree censur-
able What Is the probable future of a
boy aged IL who carries pistol around
with him, even 10 his school?