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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-14
HONOR TO OUR FLAG.
An Impressive Ceremony, as 1t Is PracticeC
in Our ARMY.

An Impressive Ceremony, as 1t Is Practiced
in Our Army.
The ceremony of making evening
colors' is conducted at army posts, as
we'll as in the navy. have seen it only
at West Point. There it is done at
dress-parade. which takes place at $50
p. m. Perhaps some of my readers
have never seen a dress-parade. The
battalion of cadets is drawn up in line
of two ranks. facing the west side of
the plain. Each company in succession
is brought to an order arms. and then
to parade rest. Next the band marches
from its position at the right of the line
to the left, passing in front of tie men
and back again. On returning to the
right of the line the band stops and the
buglers play Retreat" or Evening
Colors." The same call is used in both
army and navy. At the end of the call
a gun is fired and the flag is hauled
down. After that the adjutant forms
the battalion in open order and turns
it over to the officer in charge, who
puts the men through a short drill in
the manual of arms. When this has
been done, the adjutant orders the first
sergeants to the front and center,
where they make their report of fall
present or accounted for" When they
return to their places, the adjutant
says: Parade dismissed, and all the
commissioned officers sheathe their
swords They then form in a rank in
the center and march forward together.
They halt in front of the officer in
charge, salute and move away. The
first sergeants then march the com
panies to their quarters at double-time.
1t is a very pretty ceremony, and is
one of the most picturesque sights that
we can see but it never impressed me
so deeply as the simple reverence to
the colors shown at sunset abroad the
men-of-war.
7 have told you about the ceremony
to show you how much Importance pro-
fessional soldiers attach to the out
ward demonstration of respect for their
country's flag, because l think every
one of us ought to emulate their ex-
ample. As ii. c. Bunner says, il his
poem to THE Old Flag"
of with your hat as the flag goes by!
And let the heart have its say;
You re man enough for tear in your eye
That you will not wipe away.
w. j. Henderson, in St. Nicholas
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One of the Deadliest Poisons Known Gath
ers In the Bowl

Death IN terrible form turks in
every tobacco-pipe, says a weltknown
Philadelphia physician. One of the
deadliest poisons known to science
gathers in its bowl and stem, and it is
no exaggeration of fact TO say that any
pipe that has been smoked for some
time carries enough nicotintsn it to kill
almost instantly any child.
There are two well-authenticated
cases of suicide, one of murder and
many of accidental death from nicotine.
A habitual smoker unwittingly swal-
lowed "a quantity of oil from his pipe.
He fell down unconscious almost on the
spot, and but for prompt and very en-
ergetic medical aid would have died
Many other illustrations / could give
you of the deadly nature of the poison
found in the tobacco leaf.
knew case of three children suf-
fering with skin disease on the head.
who had oil of tobacco taken from a
pipe rubbed on. They lay at deaths
door in commissions for twenty-four
hours, but ultimately recovered.
1t is recorded that in the war of 1912
army surgeons who did not wish to go
on duty tied moist tobacco leaves under
their arms and become so sick as to be
unfit for duty.
Nicotine is, with the possible excep-
ton of hydrocyanic or prussic acid and
carbolic acid, the most violent poison
known. IN its chemically pure state a
drop has been known to kill dog al
most like flash of lightning.
delphia Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-14
THE EAST.

Il. S. KENDIG * Co, tobacco dealers
at Lancaster, Pa, failed for 500, 600.
The Connecticut supreme court has
decided that Morgan G. Bulkeley is
governor of the state.
The well-known antiquarian, w.
Elliott Woodward, died in Roxbury,
Mass lie was the best known coin
dealer in the country.
IN railway collision which was fol-
lowed by an explosion at Smyrna, y.
Y. two engineers and a fireman were
killed.
PAPER in New York took a poll of
the Legislature on presidential prefer
ences with the following result: Hill,
%; Blaine, 50; Cleveland, 4; Harrison,
6; non-committal democrats, "a, repub-
licaus. l..
The death of Mrs. Mary O'Donnell,
of Bush Mountain, Pa. occurred at the
age of 100 years. For 100 years she
never missed early mass Christmas.
Last Christmas she was sick with the
grip. but went to church, and had re-
lapse with fatal results
The American Bell Telephone Com
pahy has. it Is said. perfected a tele-
phone upon which whispers can be
transmitted 500 miles with perfect dis
tinctnesS.
MAY and Jennie Howard. twin sis
tiers aged so years, died at their home
in Wilkesbarre, Pa. almost at the
same time. They lived together all
their lives.
FOR no known cause Charles s.
Quacken bush. wealthy broker, shot
his wife fatally at Newark, y. J., and
then killed himself
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-14

katchewan. Their crop of 1891 has sur
passed the figures given even by the
boomsters. Manitoba is sought ont by
the eastern Canadians as the Israelitcs
sought for the promised land. but with
more expedition and better spirit. and
they are spreading into and taking pos
session of the equally fertile prairies
and park lands of the territories be
yOnd, which, with great enterprise,
they have gridironed with railways.
The New York Sun, in an article on the
Canadian provinces west of the Red
river, said that people from those
parts smiled At the stunted grain in the
more eastern districts of the continent.
Said the sun: Men who have seen
many seasons of Minnesota wheat-rais-
ing said in Manitoba last week that
they had never looked upon such wheat
fields before" and the st. Paul Journal
speaks of that country as The future
granary of the world. which. with
reckoning fingers. invites the home
hungering people of the congested east
to its hospitable and rich domain"
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On a canal on the Dutch frontier a
sleigh went through the ice and eight
persons were drowned.
\ FARMER named Desjardins, his
daughter and boy named Roy, aged
Is years, broke through the ice at
L'Assumption, Que, and were drowned.
FIRE destroyed the factory of the
Wauzer Sewing Machine Company at
Hamilton, Ont, causing a loss of $780,
O9O
THE Russian Methodists were leav-
ing the famine stricken districts and
were emigrating to America.
GOVERNMENT troops and revolution
lists had fight at Santos, Brazil, and a
dozen citizens were killed and twice as
many seriously wounded.
ROBBERS forced an entrance into the
house of wealthy jew named Feibel
at Obszanka, Poland, and murdered
the whole family, consisting of eight
persons.
IL Berlin blizzard did great dam
age in the environs of the city, and
many persons were injured by falling
de bris.
TEwFIx PASTA, the khedive of Egypt,
died of influenza at Cairo, aged 40
years.
DURING a conflict in Mexico between
a mob and the supporters of Diaz at
Ascension, in the state of Chihuahua,
five men, including Gov. Anchela, were
killed. The impression prevailed that
this was a movement in support of
CARA
CANADA's public debt amounts to
$500 O36. 2l3.
BY the capsizing of boat in the har-
Dor of st. Valery, France, five persons
were drowned.
Mrs. CAMPBELL, aged As, and her g.
year old daughter persisted in the flames
that destroyed their home at Fort Law
renee Dock, y. ).
Is the United States of Colombia the
Indians belonging to the Rio Diablo
tribe at the gulf of San Bias burned
two insane girls at the stake.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

Is a message to congress touching
the efforts in this country to relieve
the distress of the famine sufferers in
Russia President Harrison recommend
ed that everything possible be done to
alleviate their terrible condition.
MINISTER MONTT has informed Secre-
tary Blaine that Chilli is exceedingly
sorry for the Baltimore affair. Min
lister Montt hopes that within a week
every cause of irritation will be re-
moved.
II the United States the products of
corn, wheat and oats in 1891 were the
largest ever known The aggregates
were; Corn, area, 56,294.515 acres:
product, 1880, Isl, 900 bushels: value,
$3.50. 439, 220. Wheat, area, so. GIG. s9T
acres; pro9u,t, GIL. $50, 900 bushels;
value. S5lJ. 43T. I'll. Oats, area, 25.5sl.-
sci acres; product. 1856, $1,000 bushels;
value, 1882. 3l2. 467.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Sth numbered ass, against 329 the
previous week and 4O3 for the CORE
spending we Elk last wear.
IL his report Carroll ID. Wright, COM
missioner of labor, shows that his de-
partment was operated during the last
fiscal year within the appropriation.
The amount allowed him was Sl53. $40
and he turned back into the treas Jury
1888.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

RUFUS HENPHILL, Samuel Arthur,
Samuel Francis and an unknown man
were killed IN a railway wreck near
Asheville. y. c.
THE Wells Fargo Express Company's
Office at Houston, Tex, was robbed of
four packages of none Y to the amount
of S1O.O1
THE United States troops and land
of Garza's men had a fight at the La
JOha crossing on the Rio Grande in
Texas, in which the CARA men were
put to fight.
THE republican caucus at Columbus,
O., nominated John sherman to be his
own successor in the United States SEN
ate. The vote stood: Sherman, So;
Forake-. IS.
a PASSENGER train on the Il. & O.
was wrecked at Paramount, w Va.
and three railroad men were killed and
thirteen passengers were injured.
The grain firm of Lowenthal. Liv-
iPgston & Co. of San Francisco, failed
for $500, 900: assets. Sl6O. 600.
IN a cyclone which passed over Fay
etteSville. Ca, four persons were killed
and half dozen seriously wounded
Twenty dwellings were wrecked, some
of the timbers being carried 10 miles
through the air.
A wINDsToRM passed over Oakland,
Fla, doing great damage to property
and causing the death Of Mrs. Z. II.
Roper.
NEAL SINS and Laura and Beatrice,
daughters of Bob Sims. and two other
men, mem bers OF the Sims gang. were
lynched by a mob near Vomack Hill,
Ala.
IT was shown that John Anderson,
under arrest in Cleveland, o, for
burglary, has seven wives in various
portions Of the country.
THE death of Daniel Shepard. for
twenty-One years secretary of the llli-
nOis republican state central commit
tee. occurred at his home in Chicago.
aged - years
IT was found that L. w. Love. ex-
county treasurer of Appanoose county,
Ia, was $50. 900 short in his accounts.
CAL FOSTER and " Disharnon,
charged with the murder Of Jewish
peddler. were taken from Jail by a mot
at Rayville. La. and lynched.
II al q pt"stcn a. mint No. Il.
coal shaft operated by the Sage Coal &
Mining Company at Krebs, I. T., eco
men were entombed. and il was feared
that all had persisted
Ex-COUNrY TREASURER c. II. PAUL,
of Adams county. Neb., was said to be
short in his accounts TO the extent of
S52. 600.
The attempt Of the deputies to bring
the slayers of sheriff Dunn TO justice
has resulted in four of the outlaws be-
Ing killed rear Arkalon. Kan.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-14
a DEADLY BLAST.
Further Details of the Indian Territory
Mine Explosion over Sixty Bodies
Taken from the Fatal shaft

Further Details of the Indian Territory
Mine Explosion over Sixty Bodies
Taken from the Fatal shaft.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. IA telegram re-
ceived from superintendent Cameron,
of the Usage mine at Krebs, says that
all the bodies that have been found have
been removed from the mine. There
may be five or six more bodies under
the heavy mass of slate which was dis
lodged by the explosion. The superin-
tendent says he has six exploring
parties at work.
The death list will prove great deal
smaller than first reported. The list
now stands sixty-three dead and about
one hundred injured.
1t has been learned that the cxplo-
sion was caused by George Lowery
exploding what is known as a window
shot Fleming, the mining expert and
former superintendent of the mine,
but now general manager of the
Southwest Coal and Improvement
Company, of Colgate, l. T., says
the men who fired the shot were to
blame for the disaster, for they should
not have fired until all the men were
out of the mine. They fired the shot
at 5:O7 when they should have waited
until $50. Had they done this there
would have been only four or five men
in the shaft and not more than four or
five deaths would have resulted from
the explosion.
The funerals of most of the victims
whose bodies have been recovered
were held Sunday. There were no re-
ligious services excepting in few cases.
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RIoToUS SCENES.
Over 1000 street Car Employees Quit
Work in Indianapolis-Th Prevent the
RUNNING of Cars.

Over 1000 street Car Employees Quit
Work in Indianapolis They Prevent the
Running of Cars.
INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE
indianapolis street car system, owned
by Chicago capitalists, is tied up by
strike which every employe has joined.
The strike was declared sunday morn
ing at o'clock Between 900 and 1000
are out
The trouble is over an order issued
by President Frenzel that employees
should no longer ride on the badges
worn by them. The men have been
riding on these badges for years and
claim that to be required TO pay fare is
an injustice they will not tolerate.
The strike took an ugly phase from
the start Organized labor. which is
very strong in this city, sympathizes
with the strikers, and early in the
forenoon the various stable houses of
the company were surrounded by the
strikers and their friends In the after
noon the company undertook to run
out some cars with road officers and
office employees.
The result was mob scenes such as
have not been witnessed in this city
since the great railway strike of 1876.
The mob. composed Of strikers and or
ganized labor friends, gathered at the
corner of Illinois Ind Washington
streets, and as fast as car would come
down from the uptown stables it was
taken possession of, the electric cur
rent cut off and the car pushed by
hand into the Maryland street stable
near the Union railway station.
Four cars were run out during the
afternoon and each was captured by
the mob.
Superintendent of Police Colbert
called on all the available policemen,
but they We're unable to do anything.
At one time during the afternoon
fully 5000 men were on Illi-
nois street to see that no cars
were run. There was no blood
shed, but Some very rough handling
was done. Rocks were hurled through
the glass windows of the cars at the
road officers After the four cars had
been captured and dismantled the
company decided not to attempt to
run any more.
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a GRID IN TROUBLE.
A Partridge seeks the Help of Man In
Protecting Her Eggs.

A Partridge seeks the Help of Man In
Protecting Her Eggs.
As PENNSYLVANIA farmer was pass
Ing TIN ough patch of woods, last sum
mer. a hen partridge fiuttered up and
ran between his feet 1t was such
strange thing for 50 wild bird TO do
that the farmer thought the partridge
was blind. So he stopped over to pick
her up, and then he found that she
wasn't blind at all; for. just as he was
about to grasp her. she darted toward
the brush-heap from which he had seen
her emerge. stopped at the edge of it
and looked back Presently she ran
at the man again. with her wings
down, clucking constantly. and ap-
pearing to be in great distress about
something. The farmer walked to the
edge of the copse, and the partridge
flew ahead. and alighted on the ground
two or three rods beyond. winging her
way back again when she saw he was
not moving. She repeated these ma
neuvers until she led him to hemlOck
tree. and there. in a little curve made
by the roots, he saw a nest full of eggs.
At the same time ne saw blacksnake
in the act of swallowing one of the
eggs. and understood the reason for the
partridge's actions He hunted up q
club and killed the snake. As soon as
the partridge saw that the snake was
motionless, she ceased her noise and
hid in the bushes The man went
away. and IL half an hour crept near
enough TO the tree to see the partridge
sitting on her nest as though nothing
had happened Days
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MONOGRAM TOAST.
A Culinary Curiosity Produced by n Clever
Young Woman.

Culinary Curiosity Produced by Clever
Young Woman.
A certain young woman. who her
family says, sits up nights to think up
clever things, thought up specially
clever one a month ago. The family
knew as soon as she came down in the
morning from her air of supreme self
satisfaction that she had an idea work
ing somewhere back in her brain. But
for a week or more she kept her own
counsel; then, one morning, when they
came into breakfast. they knew. For
at each place was a small plate of hot
buttered toast, and on every slice APP
peared the monogram of some one
member of the family, in creamy
yellow against golden-brown
background And when everybody
had wondered enough to sat
isfy the vanity even of this
exacting young woman, she was
induced to go down into the kitchen
and display the continuance by which
she had brought it all about. 1t was
made like an ordinary toaster only that
the center was composed of mono
gram, which was held in the frame by
a single wire attached to each side.
When the bread was put in and held
over the fire the metal of the monogram
kept its outline from browning. and
when the rest of the surface was crisp
and brown the letter device was just
touched with creamy yellow. The rack
was made of ordinary wire. and the let
tiers were of tin. There was "A toaster
&
the self-esteem of all might be equally
administered TO. and the coasters were
capable of holding but one slice at a
time.
"The beauty of this toaster," ex-
planned the clever young woman, us
that they could be made in silver and
used for dinner favOrs."
But her father shook his head rueful-
" and said Il don't see the beauty Of
that N. Y. sun.
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Time Is Money.

Very few people have an idea of the
slowness of the average New York sur
face car. A few days ago a sarcastic
looking woman with baby got on a
car at Sixtieth street.
She paid her fare and asked what W as
the charge for the infant.
mo charge. madame We only
charge adults" said the conductor.
Then | might as well pay. This
baby will lee grown mp before we get
to where am going 70 get on. im GO
ipg i've blocks. Texas Slftings
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
EETY-SECOND CONGRESS.


TUESDAY, Jan 5.-President Harri-
son sent a long list of nominations to
the senate, among others being
James w. McDill. of Iowa; William NJ.
Lindsey, of Kentucky, and William Il.
Morrison. OF Illinois, for interstate
commerce commissioners, and A bra
ham J. Seay. Of Oklahoma. to be gov
eruOr of that territory. a resolution
for 4 ship to carry -four 10 Russian suf-
ferers was adopted. b. " Perkins
was sworn in as senator from Kansas
and Mr.. Vance from North Carolina
In the house Mr. McMillin pre-.
sided Bills were introduced to
regulate immigration; to absolutely
prohibit the coming of Chinese into
the United States; to tax trusts; for
the election of postmasters by vote of
the people; to repeal the sugar bounty
law; 10 prohibit usury; placing salt,
coal and iron ore on the free list; TO
prevent aliens from holding certain
positions and doing certain manual Ia
Dor in the United States; to reduce let
ter postage to one cent per half ounce,
and 10 prevent the Dissertation of the
United States flag.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6-In the senate
the bill to provide for the free coinage
of silver was discussed. \ bill was
introduced granting pensions to the
soldiers OF the Seminole and other In
dian wars In the house the time was
occupied in discussing the resolution
appropriating 100000 to carry contri.
buttons TO Russian sufferers. and the
resolution was defeated
THURSDAY. Jan bills were in
trOdueed in the senate for the loan of
500. O00. 600 to the farmers of Indiana
10 regulate commerce carried on by
telegraph, and to revive the grade of
lieutenant general of the army. Sena-
atOr Hill, of New York, was sworc in.
Adjourned to the 18th. In the house
hills were introduced granting PEN
sions TO Indian war soldiers: to reduce
the postage on fourth-class mat
ter; for a constitutional amend
ment providing for a uniform law for
marriage and divorce; fixing the
minimum rate of pension at six dollars
per month; for the free coinage of sill
yer; for the imposition of an income
tax; for the prevention of trusts; fix
ing the presidential term at six years;
to establish uniform system of bank
ruptcy; for the admission of New
Mexico as a state, and to prevent per-
sons from being forced to labor on
Sunday. Adjourned TO the 18th.
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ROCKS IN LONDON.
Noted Bird That Is Now Scarcely Ev,
Seen in the Great CITY.

A Noted Bird That Is Now Scarcely Ever
seen in the Great City.
One of the most interesting birds
which still figure in London bird life is.
beyond doubt. the rock. His connec-
tion with London IS historic The rock
has long since forsalen the precincts of
the temple, and even living memory
can not connect him with the place.
But it may surprise many TO hear that
we have still a roolkery in the very cen
ter of London, a sight which certainly
constitutes one of the greatest curiosi-
ties connected with the city.
Almost within stone's-throw of the
heart of London, little to the east of
where Chancery lane debouches into
High Holborn, one may notice on the
opposite side of the way low arch
way. Through it a passage leads he
tween nigh buildings to an open space
nearly surrounded on all sides by legal
offices. The place is know as Bray's
Inn gardens. and is well kept and little
frequented. The sooty stretch of grass.
which looks as green and fresh as il is
possible to look in the center of Lon
don. is studded with large number of
tall plane trees in good con .ition. which
give the place a charming rural aspect
quite unexpected in such a quarter. u
1t is here, separated by some miles on
every side from the open country, that
there still exists in dwindling numbers
one of the most ancient colonies of
rocks. The nests still hang in the
branches of the plane trees, and up to
the present the birds have always re-
turned in the spring to put them in re-
pair and hatch out their young
At one time this roolxery was far
more extensive than it is now. Even in
1878 there were twenty-eight full nests
in the breeding season. This year I
count eighteen nests only. An inter
esting feature of the place and the one
which doubtless tends to attach them
TO it is the care which is taken of tho
birds They are fed regularly. the food
given being dog-biscuit stepped in
water. 1t is spread by the gardener on
an inclosed mound in the center of tho
gardens. and it proves very attractive
to a host of sparrows as well as the
rocks,
The rock. most conservative of all
birds as he is. is now almost driven ont
of London. illustrated Eng -ish Maya
zinc