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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-08
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN Paris Marquis de Mores. who
killed Capt. Mayer, Jewish officer in
the French army, in duel with swords,
was found not guilty by jury, which
also acquitted the seconds on each
side.
FIRE swept away the town of Soeven-
haha, near Roab. Hungary, and several
children and much live stock persisted
IN the flames.
The total number of deaths from
cholera, up to the 31st ult. through
out the Russian empire was l07, 647.
The disease was on the increase in
Hamburg, Germany. and in London
several cases and some deaths were re-
ported.
ADvIcEs from Mons, Belgium. say
that twenty-five miners We're killed by
an explosion in the Agnatie colliery.
THE schooner Nett Woodward went
down near southampton, Ont, during
a heavy gale. and three of the crew
were drowned.
Mrs. MARGARET RIVERA died at
Monterey, Mexico, at the age of 1872
years.
THE German authorities announce
that Russian emigrauts wi. not be per-
mitted to pass through Germany.
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VICTIMS OF THE PEST.
Three More Cholera Patients Die the
Guaranteed Ships and Fresh Cases


New YORK, Sept. 6.-The Normannia
had three new cases of cholera Mon
day, one of which was fatal. The vic
tim was Otto Engel, aged 20. one of the
crew. The Rugia had three new eases.
of which one died, Johanna Buss, aged
"a. On the Moravia there were no new
developments. Among the Normannia's
passengers on Hoffman island one new
case was transferred to the hospital on
Swiuburne island. There one child
died Monday. aged months. At the
present time there are eight sick per-
sons on Swinburne island, the doctor
says.
Boarders are leaving the hotels along
the shore near quarantine in large
mum bers, owing to the presence of the
pest ships. They fear that the cholera
may spread to Staten Island and the
island will be quarantined. There is
apparently no conflict between the
state and federal authorities in the
matter of OBTAINING vessels. DIR. Jen-
kins declares that he will hold ships
from infected ports for not only twenty
days, as directed in the presidents
proclamation, but thirty or forty days
if necessary. The board of health has
issued an official bulletin declaring that
no cases of cholera have occurred in
this city and that the city is now more
exempt from contagious diseases than
at any time in several years. The
death rate last week was 90 IS in 1000,
being the lowest death rate in this city
in any week since November, 1891.
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Poison I'm Candy.

Don't give the wee ones all the candy
they desire, through mistaken idea OF
kindness Poisonous materials are
used in the compositions of all confeo
tions- GamDoge, powerful poison, il
used for coloring them yellow; Bruins
wick green, emerald green or the ar
semitic of copper are used for colorinG
green; Prussian blue, smaits and ultra
marine are used for the different shades
of blue; red lead for the red, and burni
lumber, an earth containing oxide o;
iron, forms the coloring matter of tbs
innocent brown candies; while daft
chalk. marble. plaster of Paris aud
white clay are extensively employed in
the adulteration of the sugar of which
all candies are made. In view of al
these facts, il is no wonder that tha
constant use of such poisons produces
arrangements and disease, particularly
of the stomach and alimentary canal
Hence my text: Don't allow the childreI
r. sat much eandy.-Farm and Preside
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ans his danrhter and Six mem were

and his daughter and six men were
drowned
THE following nominations for con-
gress were reported: Mississippi, Fifth
district, w. p. Ratcliff (people's); Sew
enth. c. Z. Hooker (oem.). South Caro-
lima. First district, w. ii. Brawley
(dem }; Third, A. C. Latimer (allianee);
Fourth. G. w. Shell (alliancel; Fifth,
Il. j. Strait (alliance); Sixth, J. +. Me
Lauren (alliance); Seventh, T. w.
Morse (dem.); Indiana, Seventh dis
trict. Charles l.. Henry (rep,); Mary
land. Second district. G. A. Baker
(rep.): Third, Charles Herzog (rep.) j;
Fourth. A. W. Spatts (rep.).
AT Bremen, Ind, John w. Hopkins
passed away, aged l04 years. lie fought
in the war of 1912 and had lived in In
diana about fifty years
THE South Dakota democrats. in con-
vention at Chamberlain, nominated
Peter Couehman for governor.
FLAMES destroyed the old state house
at Des Moines. Ia 1t was built in 1855
and fifteen assemblies were held in it.
HENRY i. ORN. a faro dealer, shot
and instantly killed his mistress, Dolly
Reed. at Denver, Col, during a quarrel.
and then took his own life.
JOHN SKINNER, a farm hand near
Steubenville, o., shot his employer,
George Feetner, and the latter's wife
and mother and then committed sui
eide. A quarrel over money matters
was the cause.
THE mining town of Rocky Bar in
Idaho was destroyed by fire. causing a
loss of SlO0.O 900. One hundred and fifty
persons were homeless.
OFF Sable banks, near Deer Park,
Mich, the freight steamer Western Re-
serve was lost, and of the twenty-seven
persons on board only one was saved.
Among the lost were Capt. Minch and
his wife and two children.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Illinois. Eleventh dis
trict. Truman Plautz (dem.); Missouri.
Eleventh district, j. J. O'Nenl (dem. j;
Minnesota, Third district. o. VI. Hall
(dem.). Seventh. Henry Feig (rep. j;
Michigan, Twelfth district, j. NJ. Finn
(dem. }; Ohio. Fifth district, G. l.. Crit
fifth (rep.).
AT Edmonton, XIV, a mob broke into
the Jail and killed John Wileoxsen, a
negro, who murdered james Coffee, 4
white man.
AT Wise Court House. Va. Talton
Hall, the noted desperate and outlaw,
was hanged for the murder of Enos Il.
Hylton on July %, 1891. During Halls
career of crime he had killed nineteen
men.
CHARLES LEAsnNe's family at Spring
field, o.. were poisoned by eating
ing canned corn beef End Mrs. Leaning
and her sister would not recover.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Nebraska, Fifth dis
trict, y a. McKeighan (dem.); Ken
lucky, Tenth district, NJ C. Lisle
(dem.); Mississippi, Fourth district, II.
d. Moneg (dem); Alabama, Fourth
district. ID. Il. Craig (rep.); Texas, Sew
enth district, G. C. Pendleton (dem.)
on the l,5l6th ballot.
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with contrary winds, high seas and ter.
rife storms, he reluctantly consented to
give up his efforts after a struggle of
sixty-two days. and returned to Ameri-
ca on a bark which kindly consented 10
take him and his sea beaten boat back
to New York.
The captain is very Interesting char
acter. He is man OF fixed purposes.
very hard to turn from the object which
he has in view. He has made the SUBJ
jet of small boat sailing such study
that he is prepared IL meet every argu-
ment against the risks which spring tn
the minds of his critics, yet the New
York Herald put the case in a nutshell
when it said: The fact that Capt. An
drews can cross the ocean in cookie
shell merely proves that small boats are
safe when a Capt. Andrews sails them.
Amateurs should remember this when
the wind begins to sing
The captain himself says that ''half
the people who are drowned lose their
lives because they do not realize that
boat cannot sink. An iron vessel might,
or ship loaded with a heavy cargo,
but a row boat. sail boat or ordinary
wooden vessel may capsize, but viii,
nevertheless, float. The passengers on
the great ocean steamers run some risk
when they go to sea, but all around the
deck they see wooden boats hung up on
which they are taught TO depend for
their lives if the big steamer goes down.
I These boats are often crushed against
the great vessel or are capsized in
lowering. l am alone in a wooden boat
entirely under my own control, and, in
my opinion, far safer than Others" An
ingenious theory but hardly fair one.
Capt. Andrews is by trade a piano
maker. He built the ''Sapolio' at At
lantic City in the presence of hundreds
of people, and exhibited it on the Long
Pier for several weeks. 1t is a canvas
folding boat lined with half inch ceda
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and decked over with the same. In
order To fold it there must be three long
canvas hinges from stem to stern, and
the daring Captain writes by an in
coming ship (when he is hundreds of
miles from shore) that he finds the
'Sapolio' in sea-way is a scrubbar
but very leal1y." No better proof of his
GOODNESS and pluck could be given.
The start was made at 4:3O Wednes-
day, July Goth. the destination being
Palos, Spain. Capt. Andrews has in
structions to scour the seas until he
discovers that port and the starting
point of Columbus. 1t is believed that,
sailing in fourteen foot boat without
so much as hot cup of coffee to vary
his diet of biscuits and canned goods, he
will, single-handed, eclipse the record
of that Spanish-Italian adventurer who
almost failed to cross the great ocean
with three ships, $50 men, after secur-
ing the Queens jewels to pawn and
having the blessing of the Church
thrown in. Tbs Columbus is sailing in
a boat which had never been in water
until the hour when he started on his
1000 mile trip. He has been spoken
assistance and confident of ultimate
success. His effort should interest all
Americans as test of pluck, endurance
and good seamanship. That it is not
foolhardy affair is proved by his for
mer success and by the notable trip in
which he battled for sixty-twO days
without reaching the other side. Thou
sands of people saw the start, his pres
ence at different points ON the ocean
has been noted by large numbers of
vessels, and his landing on the other
side viii no doubt be made matter of
public demonstration and rejoicing. As
he sailed from the pier he said, "In
sixty days will be in SPAIN" and up
to the last reports he had made better
time than he anticipated Every day
during the voyage a bottle viii be
thrown overheard noting the location
and other information about the trip.
II Capt. Andrews succeeds in reach
ing Spain and joining in the October
celebrations which win be held in
honor of the discovery of America, he
will then return in one of the great
steamers and arrange to exhibit his
boat and the log which he writes up
day by day, at the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago. where he viii be one of the fea-
lures of the magnificent display which
the manufacturers of Sapolio are now
perfecting. The assurance, we might
almost say the impudence. of these ag-
gressive manufacturers in securing a
Columbus of their own is probably with
out precedent in advertising.
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Oddities Abou. the River Nile.

The Nile has fall of but six inches
to the thousand miles. The overflow
commences in June every year and CON
tinues until August, attaining an eleva,
ton of from twenty-four to twenty-si,
feet above low water mark, and flowing
through the valley of Egypt" in
turbulent body twelve miles wide
During the last thousand years theirs
has been but one sudden rise of the
Nile. that of 1929. when 10000 people
were drowned. After the waters recede
each year the exhalations from the mud
are simply intolerable to all except
natives This mud deposit adds about
eight inches to the soil every century
and throws a muddy embankment from
twelve to sixteen feet into the sea every
rear. This being the case it is plain
that the mouth of the river is thous
ands of feet further north than it wal
in the time of the Ptolemies. and 1t il
only question of time when the sedi
ment viii make dam entirely across
the Mediterranean sea--St. Louis Re
nublic-
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fall. Hall spent sleepless night, and
appeared very nervous and broken. He
refused to eat anything at breakfast,
but called for whisky. Father Luckie,
his spiritual adviser, remained with
him from o'clock till the sheriff was
ready to take him to the gallows.
There were 5000 people in and around
the village, but they Were very orderly.
1t was expected that Halls friends,
who had exhausted every legal means
to secure Halls release or mitigation
of his sentence, would resort to vic
lence, and guards were on duty around
the Jail and in the vicinity of the court
house all night. Outposts of three
men were stationed ON each road
leading into the town, and every
man who came in was searched, and if
found TO carry rifle or pistol such
weapons were contiscated. The same
plan was followed all morning, and be-
fore IL o'clock the guards were in pos
session of a sufficient number of weap-
ons TO equip regiment A picket was
stationed in the tower of the court
house, with instructions if the out
posts got into trouble to notify the
regular guards. Strenuous attempt
was made during the night to keep
moonshine whisky out of town, but
despite the vigilance some of it was
distributed, and every drunken man
was promptly arrested. BY 10 o'clock
Friday morning there were from 5, 600
to 1000 people in the village. But
there was no attempt to release Hall.
When on the scaffold Hall called for
his sister, Mrs. Bates, and said to her:
Don't take this to heart / may have
killed the policeman, but did not vio-
late the law, so let he thing drop and
don't have anyone killed"
To this she replied: Il can't stand
this without revenge. There are men
right here who deserve hanging more
than you do"
After springing the trap Sheriff Hol-
brook left the scaffold crying like a
child.
Sensational correspondents here have
credited Hall with ninety-nine muir
ders, but of course this is an exaggera-
ton. His record is bloody enough,
however. He himself admits that the
mum Der will reach five, not counting the
men he killed during the war. lie was
in the confederate army and once said
that he killed six or seven men while in
the service Two of these. he admitted,
were messmates who had disagreed
with him over game of seven-up. A
number of the crimes laid at Halls
door he is probably innocent of.
Little Talt Hail." of Kentucky-no re-
lation of the man hanged-committed
many crimes in that state and is
probably responsible for a share of the
offenses credited to the Virginia des-
perado.
The particular crime for which Hall
was sentenced was the shooting of
Special Policeman Enos Il. Hylton, at
Norton, Va. Hylton was taking pris-
oner to Jail, when Hall demanded that
he release the man, and upon the
officers refusal shot him in cold
blood. Hall had eloped with Hylton's
sister after numbering her husband,
and Hylton is said to have sworn to kill
the man who murdered his brother-in-
law, and it is pretty certain that Hall
heard of it and took advantage of the
fact of Hyltou having prisoner under
arrest to pick quarrel with him and
kill him.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
ERoM WASHINGTON.


ALARMING reports about cholera hav-
ing reached this country caused Presi-
dent Harrison to abandon his trip
through New York state and, instead.
he went at once to Washington to dis
cuss the advisa bility of calling an ex-
ira session of congress to take the
necessary action to shut out all immi-
grafton.
OK the lst the public debt statement
showed the total debt to b. 81. 5S2, 6Sl, :
go: cash in the treasury, S242 543. 800:
debt less cash in the treasury. $685.
074,075. Decrease during August, 3, 254.-
5s3.
The president has issued a proclG-
nation prescribing a twenty-days'
quarantine for all vessels carrying
immigrants coming TO this country
from any foreign port. Immigration
is stopped not because of the persons
being immigrants, but because they
come from the cholera-breeding dis
tricts.
GOVERNMENT receipts during August
aggregated sS4 032. 92S. against S2s. So, =
s5l in August. 1891. Customs receipts
aggregated sIs.27l. GGs, aga INST SIS. 1884,
GA in August a year ago. Internal rev.
enue receipts amounted to Sl4,0 459,
against ST.. sol. $40 in August. 1891.
THs exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2d aggregated
S965, $50, 621, against SI,OOs. 6IO, Ss7 the
previous week. The decrease as com
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 2l.7.
Tue monthly circulation statement
of the treasury department shows a
net decrease in the circula alton during
August amounting to S2.602, al. The
total circulation on the LIST was placed
at 81. 5gg, 256. 5S4, or per capita
of S2432. against Sl,506, ISL, 1S3 on
September l. 1891.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered 176, against I65 the
preceding week and PIT for the CORE
spending week last year.
TIE presidents proclamation regard
ing the retaliation canal bill of twenty
cents a ton has gone into effect. the
first Canadian steamer to comply being
the propeller United Empire. which
paid STA into the custom house at
Sault Ste. Marie
1T was stated by Secretary Foster
that vessels carrying no immigrants
will not necessarily be subject to quar-
antine restrictions for the period of
twenty days as provided by the presi-
dents circular.
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Killed by n RattIesnake.

Mrs. A. Berney WAS killed near Bos
cobel in a singular manner She was
picking blacllberries when large rat.
tlesnalSe jumped at her. She caught il
around the BODY, but not close enough
TO the head, ana She was bitten on the
wrist and arm several times. When
found she was dead, holding the ser
pent tightly, her body being swollen
beyond recognition.
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STRUCK nv a Train.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.-A sad acct
dent took place Thursday night on the
Reading railroad at Laurel Station, on
the outskirts of the city. Four little
boys named James Powers, II years
ord his brother, Thomas Powers, 10
years; John Duffy, II years. and Gar
ret Dollard, / years, we're sitting on the
track of the railroad talking when an
express train suddenly shot around a
curve, and before the children could
gain their feet the engine was upon
them. The two Powers boys were
killed and the other two lads were bad
ly injured.
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PROF. ". J. MCGEE tells his fellow
members Of the American Association
for the Advancement Of Science that
he believes the entire duration of life
on earth has been fifteen million years.
This looks like an exaggeratiOn of a
nOught or two, but the professor ad-
mits that his figures may be enc hun
dred or even one thousand times too
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===
IN ONE GREAT FIRM.

The Various Interests of the Armours TO
BE COnsOlidated-Capital of About
S5O,00O 900.
CHICAGO, Sept 3.-The Post says that
the entire packing interests of the
widely known Armour family, repre-
senting a capital of $50. 600. 0OO will be
tremendously united on the first day of
next October. Under the new order of
things many expenditures will
be saved All orders will be
filed from the house nearest to the
purchaser and money and time will
thus be saved The Post says Philip
ID. Armour, the head of the Chicago
house. was doubtless actuated to his
part in the combination by a desire for
the success and welfare of the younger
of the various Armour households that
will take up his business when he
leaves IL
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STATE HOUSE DESTROYED.
Fire Makes Quick Work of an Old Land
mark at Des Moines, la

Fire Makes Quick Work of an Old Land
mark at Des MOines, la
Dies MONIES, Ia, Sept. 3.-The old
brick state house, just south of the new
capitol, was destroyed by fire Thursday
afternoon. The flames originated in
the senate chamber, in the northeast
corner of the rickety old structure.
The statehouse was built in 1856
and first occupied in 1857. 1t was
erected by an improvement com
pany as speculation for the
purpose of getting the capital located
in Des Moines. Within its precincts
fifteen general assemblies held scs-
sions 1t witnessed the legislation of
the war time; the election of Crimes
and other distinguished senators and
the inaugurations of many famous gov
ernors, the capture of Auditor Brown
by the militia and other stirring events
OF Iowa history. 1t was vacated eight
years ago in favor of the fine new capt.
toll and was recently doomed to demol-
ition to give way to the proposed sol
diers' monument
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Bodies of the Wreck victims.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. Sept. O.
The tug Andrew j. Smith arrived here
from Deer Park Sunday morning, hav-
ing on board Philip Minch and c. f..
Palmer. with the bodies of Mr.. Minch,
Mrs. Engleby and one fireman. Con-
trary to the report received here from
the steamer City of Green Bay, no
other bodies have been found. The
body of First Mate Engleby, which the
steamer NimiclS picked up in the lake,
was found dashed to a ladder with a
life-preserver on. lie apparently had
died from exhaustion and not from
drowning.
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Despon,Ient from Love.

LA PORTE, Ind, Sept. 6.-The body
of Lizzie Uhler was found drowned IN
the Pine lake channel near this city
Sunday morning. She was well
known young lady, about &c
years of age, and an orpan, bear
ing an excellent character 1t was
noted at her home of late that she was
very respondent, and it is now
thought that she committed suicide be-
cause of love affair. For long time
she had been keeping company with a
young man here, and it is alleged that
the opposition of his parents to the en-
gagement caused It's breaking off.
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shot His Wife and Her sister.

DIS MONIES. Ia, Sept. 3.-About
midnight Thursday night L. ). Nixon,
a well-known travelling man for the
Des Moines Carriage Compan shot his
wife and sister, Mrs. Macarthur. a
widow. whose home is in Cedar Rapids,
and then surrendered himself to the
officers. The husband claimed he dis
covered proofs of his wife's infidellty,
inasmuch as he found two men occupy
ing the same apartment with her and
her sister. Both the women will re.
cover.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Mrs. A. Berney was killed at Bosco
bel in singular manner She wa:
picking blackberries when large
rattlesnake jumped at her. She caught
il around the body, but not clos,
enough TO the head. and she was bitter
on the wrist and arm several times
When found she was dead. holding the
serpent tightly. her body being swoller
beyond recognition.
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ONE of tire worlds fair interesting
exhibits viii be its Columbiana- There
will be shown seventy-nIne portraits of
Columbus, the most being original
Nine places claim to have been his birth
place. These and the alleged houses
will be represented in the photographs.
Pictures of every body associated with
Columbus will also be shown, as well
as every rel c that can be got.
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A New York state Farmer Commits Muir
der and Then Hangs Himself.

MARATHON, n. Y, Sept 6. George
Willis, farmer living on Rowland
hill, in Lisle, shot his wife fatally and
his hired man, named Oliver, seriously
Saturday. The three were on a load of
hay when dispute between husband
and wife arose. Willis fired one shot
at his wife, which glanced and
struck Oliver. He then shot her in
the temple, killing her instantly. Will
lis then went into the woods and
hanged himself. The murdered woman
was the daughter of j. 3. Rowland, ex-
supervisor of the town of Leslie. Jeal-
ousy led to the shooting