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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-09
LATER NEWS.

II the United States senate on the 9th
bill was reported to facilitate the en-
forcement of the present immigration
and contract labor laws. The consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill was
also reported. In the house bills were
passed to admit New Mexico and Ari-
IONA to statehood; appropriating $780,
BOO for a pedestal for a monument to
Gen. w. I. Sherman; the legislative APP
preparation bill and Mr.. Hatch's anti
| option bill. concurrent resolution
for the final adjournment of congress
on Monday, July 4, at 2 o'clock, was re-
ferred.
DANIEL ID. MOORE, once the editor
and proprietor of the Rural New Yorker,
died in New York
THE levee protecting the Hunt drain
age district below Warsaw, ILL.,. broke,
| flooding thousands of acres of rich
farming lands and causing great de-
struction to property.
JOSIAH LAwToN sailed from Boston in
his I2-fOot canvas boat for trip across
the ocean.
A cLoUDBUsT between Harold and
Blunt, 5. D., flooded large section of
the country, doing great damage, and
Mrs. X. NJ. Foote and three children
were drowned.
THE bodies of five dead babies were
found under a sidewalk at Twenty
second street and Armour avenue,
Chicago.
JOHN C. BROWN, of Saginaw, Mich,
one of the most extensive logging con-
tractors in the northwest, failed for
/ Sis, 600 and nominal assets of 500, 900.
| A COMPANY with a capital of $4,000
BOO was organized in New York to build
fleet of whaleback vessels to compete
for ocean carrying freight.
By carelessness in turning water into
an empty boiler at a tile works south
Of Idaville, Ind, four men were blown
to pieces.
| CHAUNCEY DEPEw made a speech at
the dedication of the republican ma
tional convention hall in Minneapolis.
FURTHER advices state that by the
catastrophe in the oil regions of Penn
sylvania over 200 persons We're burned
to death or drowned and two or three
millions of property were consumed in
/ Oil City and Titusville, besides great
damage to property in other localities
near by owing to inundation. The to-
tai property loss will reach probably
about SIS. 900, 600. Thousands have lost
their homes and large manufacturing
interests have been wiped out. Sixty
,ven bodies have thus far been recov.
red at Oil City and fifty-sIx at Titus.
vile. Eighteen miles of death and des-
| olation is the story in brief.
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MEST AND SOuTH.

IL Chicago the weather bureau man
reported twenty-one rainy days for the
month of MAY. breaking the record.
JOSEPH III. CULTIVATE, of the Ninth
Ohio district. was renominated for con-
gress by the democrats.
THE death of John Wilson Tisdale.
the oldest turfman in America, occurred
at Crab Orchard Springs, KY, aged 81
years
GRAIN sent from Iowa for the relief
of the famine sufferers in Russia has
been unlOaded and dispatched to the
distressed provinces II filed SO cars.
A MOB hanged Beck Willis (colored)
at Campbellville, Ky, for attempted
criminal assault.
WISCONSIN prohibitionists in conven-
ton at Madison nominated a ticket as
follows: For governor, L. Richmond,
of Madison; lieutenant governor. G.. A.
Shepard. of La Crosse; secretary of
state, f. f. Russell. of Column bia; state
treasurer. J. c. Martin. of Marquette;
attorney general. +. A. Watkins, of
Douglas; superintendent public instruc-
ton, c. w. Underwood, of outagamie;
railroad commissioner, J. E. Clayton,
of Milwaukee; insurance commissioner,
Ole Ritan. of Barron. congressman:
First district, j. ;. Murdoch. of Green
county: Second. G. 5. Martin. of Mad
ison; Third, J. Thomas. of Hazel Green;
Eighth. J. p. Zonne, of Appleton.
THE Iowa prohibitionists IN conven-
ton at Des Moines nominated the fol-
lowing state ticket: Secretary Of state,
;. II. Taft. Humboldt; auditor. A. b.
Whitmore; treasurer. K. NJ. DiehL
Delegates to the national convention
were chosen and a platform adopted
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OVER THE RAILS,

WOODEN sleepers on railways last
about fifteen years.
The railroad companies of America
get 500, 100000 for carrying the mail
bags of the nation.
THERE is distinct movement toward
uniformity in the gauge of the steam
railroads in this country, for in ten
years the increase has been from Sill
per cent. of the whole to o3.3 per cent.
THE completion of the Savannah.
Americas & Montgomery railway, a
Georgia enterprise, adds another to the
interesting list of railroad nicknames.
The line is already known as the Sam"
road.
THE magnitude of the railroad bust
ness may be imagined from the fact
that it gives employment TO one in every
twenty-four men in the United States,
and whose prosperity is one-sixth of
the national wealth.
A GERMAN engineer concludes that If
the speed instead of the load of freight
trains be increased from fourteen to
twenty-eight miles per hour, the ex
penses per car mile at the higher speed
WOuiu OG onc-iONilh iCoS AOi iCPaAiSs
and only one-fifth more for fuel
AFTER the locomotive department of
the Argentine Great Western railway
had mastered the question of using pc
troleum as fuel and most excellent re-
suits had been attained, the supply of
oil gave out. owing to the borings not
going deep enough. and wood and coal
are again being used.
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The EAST.

New YORK anti-Hill democrats met
in state convention at Syracuse and
elected delegates to Chicago who will
contest the seventy-two seats claimed
by the Hill delegates and who were
instructed to vote for Cleveland The
platform declares for tariff reform and
against the free coinage of silver.
LILLIAN NORFOLK, one of the hand
soonest and wealthiest young women in
Brooklyn. \. Y, committed suicide by
strangling herself with her own hair.
A MONUMENT was unveiled at Johns
town, Pa, to the unknown victims of the
great flood which almost destroyed that
city three years ago.
REPrBLIcASs of the Twenty-second
and Twenty-third Pennsylvania dis
trlcts have renominated John Dalzell
and W. 4. Stone for congress.
Miss MIDDLE MORGAN, the foremost
writer on horses and cattle in the
j.. aged O. years.
IL convention at Worcester, Walcott
Hamlin. of Amherst, was nominated
for governor by the Massachusetts, pro-
hibitionists. The platform holds the
liquor traffic TO be the prime issue be-
fore the American people.
a MOE lynched Bob jackson, a negro
at Port Jervis, y. ", because of a
brutal assault on Miss Lena Mcmahon.
On the Allegheny Valley railroad a
train was wrecked near Oil City, Pa,
and Engineer Alex Reed was killed and
twenty passengers injured.
The Reformed Presbyterians have
been pledged bv their synod not to visit
the worlds fair If the gates are opened
on sunday OF If liquor is sold on the
grounds.
A TORNADO swept over Reading, Pa,
killing several persons and destroying a
vast amount of property.
PRANK q. LEM started from New
York on a trip around the world on a
bicycle. He expects to reach New
York again by June {, 1898. The dis
lance he will cover is 1000 miles.
II New York the firm of Farmer,
Little * Co, the celebrated type
founders. was dissolved. The new
firm viii be known as A. ID. Farmer &
Son.
on. CITY. Pa, and the surrounding
country were flooded by a cloudburst
and leaking oil tanks covered the mum
dalton with oil aud benzine, which took
fire, and soon everything was a sea of
flames. The loss of life in Oil City and
/ Titusville was estimated at $50, and the
property loss was placed as follows:
Titusville. sl.5OO. 600; Oil City, $780,
600; Cory, $50, ZOO; Meadville, $3.50, 600,
and surrounding country probably a
million more.
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CHURCH WRECKED.

A Cyclone Demolishes a House of Worship
in McCook, Neb., and Many Persons Are
Hurt.
MCCooK, Neb., June GA cyclone
visited this city Saturday afternoon
and during its brief stay did a vast
amount of damage and caused many
injuries. The most serious work il
performed was the wrecking of the
Congregational church, in which the
little folks of the city were rehearsing
FOR children's day. Those dangerously
injured there were:
Rev. w. G.. Stevenson, seriously in.
jured ON the head and hip; Ruth Cres-
well, bruised about the spine; May
Creswell, leg and jaw broken; Danny
McAlpine, bruised about the head and
face; Harry Campbell. injured on the
head and hip; Maud Mcmillan, shoulder
injured; Mabel Berry, arm and leg in
jured.
Only two minutes before the cyclone
struck the building about 200 of the
smaller children had finished their ex-
ercises and gone home. The church
was lifted from its foundation as light
ly as if it were an eggshell and then
crashed down a mass of ruins with a
noise like the booming of cannon, bury
ing about sixty children, the pastor
and several teachers. The children
who had first left the building ran
screaming with terror to their
homes. Many were hurt by flying tim
bers, but so far as known none serious
ly. In was thought that few would be
got out alive, but the timbers in falling
had formed an arch over the heads OF
those who were in the building and
some were uninjured. None of the in
jured has died. Seven of the children
are seriously injured
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PERSONAL FACTS.

COMMODORE HENRY BRUCE, of Massa-
chrsetts, who entered the United States
navy in 1916, has been unemployed
for fifty years
Mr. FRANK L. CooMBs. who has just
been appointed minister to Japan, is a
lawyer at Napa, Cal. and is now but
thirty-six years old.
TERENCE V. PowDERLY, the head of
the Knights of Labor, says in the last
number of his Journal that he is now
''wrinkled. bald and gray"
Miss KATE WHISTLER. sister of the
artist, is member of the profession Of
trained nurses She has been in the
naval nursing force at Plymouth. and
leaves her appointment to be married
NATHANIEL Brown. a negro of Berke-
ley. Va, has started religious creed.
calling itself the mo Meat Eaters. ="
lie tells his followers that if they will
not eat any meat they will live for three
hundred wears
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Gov. Foraker of Ohio was chosen
chairman of the committee on resolu-
lions, and after looking over the list OF
members when he reached his hotel,
made the appointments of the sub-com.
mittees as follows:
Tariff-H. w. Oliver, Pennsylvania;
J. G. Gear, Iowa; J. Bourne, Jr., Oregon;
David X. Pierce, New Hampshire:
George Denny, Jr., Kentucky.
Silver-Lucius Fairchild, Wisconsin;
John p. Jones, Nevada; Joseph G. Can
non, Illinois; J. Q. A. Bracket, Mass.
achusetts; Henry NJ. Teller, Colorado.
Elections-Newton Hacker, Tennes.
see; James p. Platt, Connecticut; Ed.
mund Waddill, Virginia; A. 5. Fowler,
Arkansas; Charles Austin, Michigan.
Foreign Relations-George A. Knight
California c. f. Libby, Maine; John A.
Hutchinson, West Virginia; Edmund
O'Connor, New York; w. b. Hepburn.
Idaho.
Miscellaneous Matters-O. E. Learn
ed, Kansas; James ii. wilson, Delaware;
c. L. Griffin, Indiana; Frank j. Harris,
Rhode Island; Edward c. Ericsson,
South Dakota
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and there was not delegate standing
session would be opened with prayer
by the Rev. DIR. Brush, chancellor OF
the University of South Dakota.
At the close of the prayer, Nj. III. De.
Young of California, stepped forward
and read the call for the convention.
At this time there was not dozen OF
the delegates seats untitled, but the
galleries were very empty.
At 1899 the reading of the call was
concluded, and Chairman Clarkson arose
and announced that he was instructed by
.he committee to present to the conven.
ton, for its temporary chairman, Hon.
J. Sloat Fassett, of New York. There
was a round of applause at this an
1ouncement, led by the New Workers.
The following officers were then an
aounced as having been selected by the
national committee:
Secretaries - Charles w. Johnson,
Minnesota; Carson Lake, New York:
George Lee, California; Joseph l..
Brown, Pennsylvania; w. T. Brown
ow, Tennessee; II. NJ, Allhuhret, Ohio;
Albert Clark, Mass.
Assistant Standardization. f.. Sim
mons. Colorado; Phillip Q. Churchman,
Delaware; Aaron Bradshaw, District
If Columbia; Charles Hopkins, Ohio;
A. w. Monroe, Maryland; Charles ).
Norris, Kentucky; j. W. Demmick,
Alabama; James Blaine Walker, Mon
ANA; L. V. McAllister, Mississippi;
/ tito Gramm, Wyoming.
Reading Clerks-Charles L. Haney,
Minnesota; James ii. Stone, Michigan;
| Il. s. Oliver, North Dakota; Charles
! curtis, Kansas; Charles Partridge, Illi-
lois; Thomas b. Miles; w. E. Riley,
Kentucky.
These temporary officers were select
ID by reclamation, and it was ordered
that, until the permanent organization
should be effected, the convention
should be governed by the rules of last
preceding republican convention.
Ex-senator w. j. Sewell of New Jer-
;ey, presented the following:
Resolved that the roll of states and
territories be called, and that the chair
nan of each delegation announce the
names of the persons selected to serve
IN the committees as follows: Perma-
lent organization, rules and order of
business. credentials and resolutions.
The resolution was adopted and the
oil call of states began.
AS soon as the call was finished the
convention adjourned until IL a. m. to-
lay.
At a meeting of the committee on
permanent organization. Gov. Me Kir-
ey of Ohio was selected as permaI en-
chairman.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
1ETy.sECOND CONGRESS


TUESDAY, MAY SIN the senate
the time was occupied by Senator
Sherman in a speech against the free
coinage of silver bill. In the house
the post Office appropriation bill was
considered A resolution was adopted
revoking all leaves of absence except
those granted on account of sickness
WEDNESDAY, June LIT was agreed
in the senate that no vote should be
taken on the free coinage bill until
after the l4th of June. The new SEN
ator from Virginia. Gen Eppa Hunton,
took the oath of Office. In the house a
bill was reported limiting the amount
of wearing apparel and personal effects
that may be admitted free of duty. The
post Office appropriation bill was fur
Their considered.
THURSDAY, June .. - In the senate
bills We're passed to hold terms of court
in the district of Montana, providing
for two additional associate justices of
the supreme court for the territory of
Oklahoma, and creating two additional
land districts in Montana. Adjourned
to the 9th Mr.. Hatch reported the
agricultural appropriation bill to the
house. In committee of the whole the
post Office appropriation bill was further
considered.
FRIDAY. June 8. = The senate was
not in session. The house further con.
sidered the pcst Office appropriation
bill and an an endment was adopted
prohibiting tie postmaster general
from making contracts hereafter under
the provisions of the act to provide for
ocean mail service between the United
States and foreign ports.
SATURDA-, June 4.-There was nc
session of lie senate. The house passed
the post Office appropriation bill
Among the items inserted was one APP
propriating So, 600 for branch office
on the grounds of the Columbian ex
position.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 3lst ult. was; Wheat,
%. AS, 900 bushels; corn, 1906, 600 bush
els; oats. 3,l15. 900 bushels; rye, GIL, 900
bushels: barley, STl. 600 bushels.
THROUGHOUT the country colored
Christians observed the 3lst ult. a. a
day of general supplication for Di-
vine Interpolation in behalf of the out
ragged negroes of the southern states. "
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST showed the total debt
to be 1868 $50. 2j3; cash in the treasury,
S126. COS. So: debt less cash in the treas
ury. Ss43. i5:i, 1866. Increase during May,
81. 623.374
GOVERNMENT receipts from all sources
in Nav aggregated $40, 49s, 79S, against
ST., AZ, 425 in May, 1891.
DURING May the coinage of the minis
aggregated 5.3ss, 900 pieces, valued at
S5,O79,27O. OF this amount SAILS, 600
were in gold pieces, s916,17O in silver
and S47 200 in minor coins.
The internal revenue commissioner
reports the payment TO date of 2,S16
claims for sugar bounty, amounting to
S7,271, O95, leaving unsettled SIS claims,
involving S54.OSl.
THE money circulation of the coun-
try is placed at Sl.62O, OI0, 229-a per
capita circulation of S24.77, or Sis. 27s,-
500 more than June |. 1891.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Sd aggregated
Sl,OI9, 465, SAB. against 81, 146, sos, Sos the
,,ra,-ios,s rx-aaIr Tho ipcraaca aS oor,,-
pared with the corresponding week OF
1897 was Gil
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered 2O7, against I9S the
preceding week and 224 for the CORE
spending week last year.
JAMES G.. Blame has resigned the
secretaryship of state and the resigna.
ton has been accepted by President
III rrisOn.
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JIMTOWN IN ASHES.
Flames Cause a Loss of SI.OOO,OOO in n
Colorado Mining Camp.

DENVER, Col, June 6.-The busting
camp of Jimtown, which is separated
from the famous mining town of8reede
by IL miles, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire which started at $50
o'clock Saturday morning. The flames
were started by an explosion of coal oil
with which a family living IN the
Kinneavey block were starting a fire to
prepare breakfast As there was no
fire department the flames were I'M
checked and in a short time they burned
through the rows of frame buildings
for distance of a mile in the
narrow gulch in which the town
is situated. Many houses were
blown up with giant powder in
an attempt to stop the fire, but this
had no effect, for the flames leaped
across vacant spaces and only stopped
for want of materials upon which to
feed. Little if any of the contents of
houses were saved and there are hun
dreds of families homeless, but they
will be provided for by the people of
Creole. The total loss is estimated at
81 600 600.
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FOUR MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.
Rinzie & CougIIis Boiler EKplodes-Seri-
Gus Damage to Property Also.

Kinzie & CougIIrs Boiler EKPlodes-Seri-
Gus Damage to Property Also.
LoGANsPoRT, Ind, June THE
boiler in Kinzie & Cougill's tile works,
"a miles south of Idaville, White coun.
ty, exploded at $3.50 Monday morning,
four men being killed. The dead are
James Cougill, Bers Roller, David Taylor
and George Williams James Cougilfs
feet were burned off. George Williams
had piece of iron blown through his
bowels, Davis Taylor's feet and head
were blown off, and Bert
Roller was smothered. A piece of
the boiler was blown through
Williams house, near by. The dam.
age to property is $1,000. Cougill "a nc
Taylor leave families. Roller and vii.
liams were recently married. The cause
of the explosion was turning water in
an empty boiler after the fire bad been
started.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In disaster at the Berkenhead silver
mine in Bohemia, two hundred miners
persisted
FIRE on the Dundee docks in Scot
land destroyed $500 worth of prop
erty.
FLAMES at Sloborka, Russian city
bordering on Germany, destroyed 800
houses, leaving hundreds of persons
destitute.
FIRE destroyed the museum at Stral-
sund, Prussia, famous for its collection
of antiquities.
FURTHER advices say that over 400
persisted in the Birkenberg mine disas-
ter at Przibram, Bohemia.
FLAMES in the town of Kovno, Russia,
destroyed 500 houses, depriving 1000
persons o. their homes.
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A SERIOUS CHARGE.
pector Marsh. of the Chicago Police
Orce, Alleged to Have Been Engaged

Inspector Marsh. of the Chicago Police
Force. Alleged to Have Been Engaged
in Corrupt Practices.
CHICAGO, June Frederick H..
Marsh has been relieved from his posi-
ton as inspector of the Chicago police
pending an investigation of the charge
that he has been currying favor with
the gamblers. During his administra-
ton as superintendent of police under
Mayor Cregier ne negotiated loan for
s.. 900, the note for which recently came
into the hands of Mayor Washburne
and bore the Endorsement of promi.
nent gambler. Marsh admitted having
given the note. but claimed he did not
know of its being indorsed by the gam
bier. Marsh was few years ago the
United States marshal for the Northern
district of Illinois
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The societies of Friends, better
known by some people as ''Quakers. :
are assOciating for a full representation
of their organization in the congress OF
religions To be held in connection with
the worlds fair. They have appointed
a special committee Of ten, who have
selected a list Of names OF many Friends
residing in England. Canada and the
United States TO constitute advisory
council. The specified duty of these
persons is TO prepare a concise history
in non-sectsrian spirit of the origin,
growth and labors Of the society, with
a statement of its faith and testimonies
and the effect Of its work
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TRAINS IN COLLISION.
Four Men Killed and Twenty-Six Colored
Excnrsionists Injured.

Four Men Killed and Twenty-six Colored
Excursionists Injured.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 8. - News
wis received here of a terrible accident
which occurred on the greensboro &
Nashville railway about 9 o'clock Sun.
day morning near South Carroll,
KY, in which four persons were
killed and a number injured. A colored
excursion train consisting of three
coaches and baggage car which left
Owensboro, KY, at 7:30 o'clock collided
with the regular northbound passenger
train. Twenty-six persons, mostly
colored excursionists, sustained in.
juries. As near as could be
learned the accident was caused
by Engineer Fahey disobeying orders
in going beyond Stroud station, where
the excursion was to sidetrack for the
passenger train. Both engines were
completely demolished. The negroes OF
greensboro are wild with excitement
because of exaggerated reports of the
number of the killed.
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THE matron of one 81 the largest
founding institutions in the country.
when Intercepted the other day. said:
4 am convinced il babies were left %
themselves they would form a curious
language of their own In 1t sounds
soft and simple would predominant and
gestures would form half Of the CONVEX
satiOn- Have You ever studied the faces
of these little sprites and seen their
big bright eyes twinkle and their chub-
by little fingers and dimpled hands
restlesSly move without ceasing, day
IN and day out2 Their language
would be cute enough and all mono
SvllableS~
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PROF. H. {. ADAMS. the statistician
Of the interstate commerce commits
sion. makes the statement that out of
15S. 2S5 trainmen in this country, 1859
were killed and lS.I72 were injured last
year. of these accidents S5.94 per cent
Of the deaths and +5.55 per cent. Of the
injuries were sustained by railway
employees while coupling ears or setting
brakes. Prof. Adams SAYS further
that out of total of 1,1O5.O43 cars
in the freight service there are but
81. $50 fitted with the automatic coup
lers. and but 10000 equipped with
train brakes. II would seem that man
Is cheaner than brakes.