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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-03
WEST AND sOuTH.

IL his annual report to the secretary
of the interior Arthur l.. Thomas, the
governor of Utah. says that polygamy
in the territory is on the decline,
RULES have been adopted by the ma.
tional commission of the worlds fair
that the exposition shall be open for
the admission of visitors during the six
months commencing May | and ending
October 80, 1898, on each day of the
week except Sunday, and that the
gates shall be opened to the public at
o'clock a m. and close at p. m.
NEAR Keokuk, Ia. Mrs. Christina
Bordner celebrated her iO3d anniverz
sary. She was in good health.
a FAT woman named Susie Conrad.
who had been on exhibition in most
museums in America, died in Chicago.
The body when inclosed in the casllet
weighed SOS pounds
PROHIBITIoNIsTs of the Fourth dis.
trict of Wisconsin have nominated +.
L. Eaton for congress.
THREE unknown men were smoth-
cred to death while working in the air
chamber of steel caissOn near Alton,
III.
CURTIS GODDARD and John +. Glas.
nier and A. Il. COLLEEN and his wife were
asphyXiated by gas in Chicago.
IL fire ut Cleveland. o.. John Shan
non and his wife and two children were
burned to death.
FLAMES which destroyed the stable
Cal, burned TO death the stallion Dun
can Wilkes. valued at $4,000.
ENGINFER HARRY MONROE and Fire.
man William Church were instantly
killed in a railway wreck at Palos,
Ala.
JOSEPH kocNTZ and Henry Bowers,
who were trying To eNtinguish flames
At Lima, O.. fell into a limekiln and
were roasted to death.
AT Houston. Tex, Henry Irving, a
desperate burglar. was sentenced to
seventy-four years Imprisonment.
II one day seven couples eloped from
Kentucky and were married by Justice
keigyyin at JeffersonviiIe. Ind.
II the Croker block at Cleveland. O.,
fire caused the Koblitz Bros, rag ware
housemen, a loss of SlO0, 600. Two
girls persisted in the flames.
STANBoUI trotted mile at Stockton,
Cal, in 2:OS s.. beating Palo Altos rec
ord cne-quarter second and securing
the worlds record.
The Valley bank at Hot Springs,
Ark, a private corporation, has closed
its doors with liabilities of $4,000.
II Ohio the wheat yield this sea-
son is placed at 40, 900. 600 bushels,
being short of last wears crop about
5000. 600 bushels. Ii is estimated that
about 4. O00. OC0 bushels IF the crop of
last year is still in the producers
hands
The barn OF Mrs. Elizabeth Stenger
near Naperville, Ill. was burned. and
twentv-three cattle and seven horses
persisted in the flames
AT Chestertown. Md. eight negl oes
on trial for the murder Of Or. Hill were
declared guilty
FLAMES at Clarl1sville. Mo-. caused a
loss Of SS9. 600. and Thomas Crowley and
William Schubert were crushed to death
by falling wall while fighting the
flames.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

A COUNTERFEIT has been discovered
of the new issue of the two-dollar silver
certificate. 1856. check letter B2226. W.
treasurer.
Mrs. HAERIsON's death is the thir-
teenth in President IIarrisOn's private
and official household since the begin
ming OF his administration.
AT the post offices throughout the
United States the new return postal
cards have been placed on sale.
4 PORTRAIT of Mrs. Harrison, to be
painted by an artist not yet selected,
has been provided for bv the Daughters
of the American Revolution in Wash
ington, and will be sent to adorn the
gallery in the white house.
THERE Is abroad one of the incest
twO-dollar counterfeits ever executed.
The bill Is Hancock certificate of the
issue Of 1SS2. check letter ID.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 2sth aggre-
gated 81. ~. l59. l23 against 81, Isl, 662, :
7sS the previous week. The decrease as
compared with the corresponding week
of 1891 was Is.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended
on the 2Sth numbered Isl. against
22O the preceding week and 255 for the
corresponding time last year.
DURING the past year the number of
trials by general court-martial in the
army. as shown in the report of the
acting judge advocate general. was
1000, of which number I.SI7 resulted
in conviction.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

An earthquake in the province Of
Kutair, Russia. wiped five villages off
the earth.
AT Bremen, Germany. Herr. Lenge a
master cooper, becoming jealous of his
sweetheart, shot and killed her ana
two other women who tried to prevent
the crime and then killed himself.
NEAR Berlin, Germany, the Heinitz
colliery caught fire, and five miners
persisted in the flames.
BY the wreck of the schooner Annie
in Tough Strangford, Ireland, six per-
sons were drowned
The deaths of Thomas Liston and
his wife, both "a years old, occurred
within few hours of each other at
Kingston, Ont.
TEy vessels were wrecked in the re-
cent gale along the Newfoundland
coast and twenty-five lives were lost
At GreenspOnd the sea unearthed the
bodies in two graveyards
FIRE destroyed the house of correc-
lion at Goeliersdorf. Austria, and twelve
inmates persisted in the flames.
In London Edouard Manners aud his
daughter committed suicide through
fear of starvation.
The steamship Trouvre, bound for
Bayonne, was wrecked at Penmarch,
Finisterre, and seventeen persons were
drowned.
BY the wrecl,ing of the British
steamer Roumania at the mouth of the
Arelho river near Peniche 113 persons
were drowned.
a FERRYBoAT upset while crossing
the River Douro near Sinfes. Portugal,
and eleven persons were drowned
THE 1atesu accounts say that lis PERI
sons were drowned by the wreck of the
steamer Roumania off the coast of Port
ugal
IL the state of Paxaca, Mexico.
thousands of acres of coffee and cane
lands were inundated by the overflow
of tie Saldo river, causing loss of
$500, 100, and over forty persons and
2, 900 head of cattle were drowned.
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THE EAST.

The empire express on the New York
Central made the run from Roch-
ester 10 Buffalo, 90 miles, in seventy
one minutes, and for ten minutes a
speed of 90 miles per hour was attained.
SToCKHo LDERs of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in session in New
York unanimously voted to increase
the cap tai stock sl3, 500. 600, making a
total OF 500. OO0. 600.
FLAMES which started from cigarettes
thrown by boys destroyed many build
ings in Hummelstown, Pa.
WRITERS representing an association
of twenty American authors met in
New York and organized a cooperative
association TO be known as The Syn
dictate of Associated Authors"
WILLIAM SwINToN. aged go, the we'll
known author of school books, dropped
dead at his home in New York city of
aPoplexv.
IL New York Clement NJ. Cumming,
n stock broker, failed for 5000, 600; as.
sets, $50, 600.
IL the vicinity of Tower City, Pa,
mountain fires were destroying thou
sands o. acres of valuable timber.
4 COURT at Albany, y. Y, holds that
a burmese cannot become citizen of
the United States because he is neither
white alien nor an alien of African
nativity, nor a person of African de-
scent.
DURING a fire in the cellar of a leath-
e. establishment at Pittsburgh, Pa.
twenty-one persons. mostly firemen,
were nearly suffocated by the smoke
At Homestead, Pa, lawlessness was
increasing. not n day passing without
assaults upon nOn-union wOrkmen. and
it was thought the town would be
placed under martial law.
THE death of Dewitt c. Little John
occurred at his home IN oswego, y. v,
aged - years. He was member of
the Thirty eighth congress and took
the One Hundred and Tenth regiment
to the front in the war of the rebellion
as its colonel.
A FIRE that started in the second
floor of the American Sugar Refinery
Company coopershop in Jersey City, n.
J., caused a loss of 100000.
A REFUSAL has been made by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. of
New York, to pay SlO0. 900 insurance on
the life of William NJ. Runk. of Phila-
delphia. who committed suicide.
AT MapletOn. Pa. a runaway car on
an incline plane ran into passengers at
the Pennsylvania railroad station, kill
lag Archie Dill, William Temple and
John Barclay.
FLAMES destroyed several business
blocks at ST. Johusbury, Vt, the loss
being $3.50. geo, and man and his wife
were Cremated.
MARGARET DONALDSON, aged 1O5
years, was buried from the home for
/ aged women at Pittsburgh, Pa.
/ RoBBERs secured 81, 900 from the
| Phoenix national bank at Phoenix. n.
/ Y.
a FIRE among shipping IN Philadel-
phia caused "a loss of nearly 5000. 900.
/ IL Boston William ID. Fuller was ar
rested FOR passing counterfeit silver
dollars. and he confessed that he had
put over $50, 900 of the spurious coin on
/ the market.
NEAR Lehigh, Pa, Edward c. Sotar
and Miss Ella Cole. of Scranton, Pa,
were killed by the cars.
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HONOR LUTHER's MEMORY.

Impressive Ceremonies to attend the Re-
conservation of the Church at Witten-
berg.
BERLIN, Oct. 2G.-A grand feature of
the rededication of the Luther Me
mortal church at Wittenberg, which
takes place on October 81, viii be
the procession into the church
through the door to which Luther
nailed his celebrated theses against
the doctrine of indulgences In this
procession viii be Emperor William
and the other sovereign princes of Ger
many, and it promises To be spectacle
of great splendor. Trnmpeters VIII be
stationed in the steeple of the church,
and as the procession crosses the his
toric threshold they will play Elm
Feste Burg"
The supreme Protestant council Of
Prussia has ordered that memorial
sermons be preached in a. he pulpits
within its jurisdiction on Sunday next.
The greater part of the cost of rcstor-
ing the church has been borne by En-
peror William. At the conservation
ceremonies there VIII be present repre-
sentatives of all foreign Protestant
sovereigns, who viii take part in the
grand procession. The duke of York,
heir presumptive to the throne of
Great Britain, will represent Queen
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LIQUOR AT The FAIR.

The National Commission Does Not For
bid It-It May lie Served at Restau-
rants, But There VIII lie No Barrooms
OF saloons.
CHCAeo, Oct. 27.-Liquor will be sold
at jackson park during the worlds
fair. The board of directors some
months ago decided that stimulating
beverages should be dispensed.
and the national commission, which
has final jurisdiction on such
matters, concurred at its meet
ing Wednesday in the action of the di-
rectory. After passing upon this ques-
ton the commission adjourned sine die,
which, under the bylaws, means the
last week in April next year. The prin-
cipal business of the session has been
the adoption of rules for the administra-
tion of the exposition so far as the inn
mediate rights of exhibitors are con-
cerned. OF ahhost equal interest is the
attitude of the commission in regard
to liquor-seiling The commission APP
proved it, but an important considera-
ton in this connection is that the
sale shall be in restaurants at tables
and at meals. There will be no bar
rooms or saloons on the grounds. This
is the position of the directory and also
the national committee. Among other
rules adopted was one closing the
grounds on Sunday and one fixing the
price of admission at fifty cents.
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PRoF. sWINToN DEAD.
The Well-KnOwn school Book auth
Tonnd LYING on the FIoor of Ills Konin

The WeIl-known school Book author
Found Lying on the Floor of His Room.
New YORK, Oct. 26.-Prof. William
Swinton, the well-l1nown author of the
series of school books that bear his
name, died suddenly at the Neufville
flats Monday night. At Z a. m. Tuesday
he was found lying face downward on
the floor, where he had apparently
fallen in a fit of apoplexy. He was
bout 60 years of age aud was born in
Scotland, but came TO this country
when a child. lie was connected with
New York newspapers and later be-
came a professor in the California
State university. This professorshir
he held until his death. lie leaves five
children
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SHE is a SOCIAL ACQUISITION.
How the Woman Artist l. Regarded in
the Country Whore She Sketches

How the Woman Artist Is Regarded in
the Country Where She Sketches
An agreeable feature has, seeome a
part of the social life in almost all the
rural villages where summer folk gath
er. This is due to the women artists.
When the artist-man goes off for the
summer he goes alone. lie picks his
kit. leaves home his good clothes, lodges
with farmer or fisherman and paints
the girls and the shanty, is up before
the sun and in bed. perhaps, with the
chickens. The artist-woman goes in
couples. She has a frank with her best
clothes. In it she also puts some of her
prettiest brac. drapciics. books,
and bits of artistic odds and ends. She
ngages room ard disposes her pic
lures. studies draperies and books in
it. She creates an interior the like
# which has never been ia country
OF lowered carpets and rectangular
furniture. To this she adds the birds
and wasps' nests. the fam boyant weeds
of the field. strips of birch bark and
treasures of wood and field she can find
in her artistic forages. She has brought
also her amenities and social graces.
Under her white umbrella, before her
easel, she IS an interesting feature in
tina landscape. People come from afar
to pccpsver her shoulder. With these
she makes acquaintarccs. and. presto.
before YOU know it She is a social cen
ter. She has a day. and there are
weekly receptions and unlimited tea
drinkings. She is invaluable in tab
leaux. with her knowledge of colors.
costunil rs, and lights. There is
barn dance and she prcsides at the
decoration of the interior. In many
way she proves a social acquisition
and is correspondingly petted by the
summer people, TO whom she has
brought a new element Of interest.
Meantime she has made pleasant ac-
quaintances. who in town may become
substantially valuable. N. Y. Sun.
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Killed His Father.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Oct. SIC. M.
Baker, district passenger agent Of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
railroad, was shot and killed by his
son Francis. aged is, at his home in
the suburban town of Lonsdaie Fri
day night. The boy gave himself up to
the police and said his father was beat
ing him over the head with a heavy
stick He got hold of shotgun for
the purpose of fighting his father, who
was drinking. and shot him uninten-
tionally. He also stated that his father
was in the habit of abusing the family
when drunk
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MIGHTY WINDS.
Wonderful strength of The Blasts That
Precede \ vaianches.

Wonderful Strength of the Blasts That
Precede Avaianches.
Switzerland is land of avalanches.
An official report If the damage done
by them in single canton in the win
ter Of 1ss7-SS makes the total peeuniary
loss about seventy thousand dollars.
Twenty men We're overwhelmed. OF
whom thirteen persisted, and seven were
extricated alive
The buildings destroyed were as fol.
lows: Four chapels. fifteen dwelling
houses. one hundred and seventeen
large sta bles, eighteen hav-barns, thir-
teen huts upon the Alpine pastures,
vo fiour-mills, two saw-miils, one dis
illery, and ten wooden bridges.
A surprising feature Of avalanches is
the blast or wind-the ''Lawiner-
Dunst" precedes the snow mass
like a messenger Of death.
Mr. J. A. Symonds. from whose book,
''Our Life in tn. Swiss Highlands. = the
foregoing facts are taken, says that in
rider to understand the force Of this
blast we must bear in mind that hum
dreds of thousands Of tons Of snow are
suddenly set in motion in contracted
chasms The air displaced before these
solid masses acts upon objects in their
way like breath blown into a pea
shooter
A few well-authentieatcd instances.
collected by Mr.. Symonds, viii show
the mighty energy Of such blasts.
A woman was going to church. fol-
lowing a valley path which some Of her
neighbors had taken quarter Of an
hour before. IN avalanche-it must
have beena very small one came down
the mountain. Tho blast which rushed
before IL lifted her into the air, swept
her from the road and landed her ia the
top OF lofty pine. to which she chung
with all the energy 81 desperation The
snow rushed under her and left the pine
standing YOUTHS Companion.
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SHOT DEAD IN HIS CHAIR.
W. &. Vial, Once Minister in the South
Killed ny n Doctor.

Killed ny Doctor.
DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 26.-Dr. III. Jones.
a prominent physician, on Tuesday
shot and killed w G. Vial at ex-con.
federate headquarters. Tuesday was
confederate day of the Texas
fair. \ great crowd. including
Gems. Reagan, Ross, Harrel and Mrs.
Hayes, daughter of jefferson Davis,
were present. Capt. Vial was in the
room of the confederate headquarters
writing at a table at $50 o'clock, when
DIR. Jones appeared and without word
of warning Slot Vial in the right tenn
pie, killing him instantly. Walls head
fell over on the table and presented a
sad sight to his fellow ex -confederates.
Jones was arrested and placed in jail.
Two years ago Vial was prominent
Methodist preacher at Waxahatchle
and was afterward expelled from the
church and ministry and also from the
masonic order for adultery and efforts
to seduce young lady whom he had
Just baptized. Since then he has been
in real estate and railroad booming at
Fort Worth and Dallas. Jones is az
Albanian lie said he killed Vial be-
cause of his wife
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Killed by His grandmother.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 81 "A double
tragedy was enacted Saturday night at
the home Of Mrs. Fred Seiger in
Kansas City, Kan. At @ o'clock Mrs.
Seiger shot and killed her 4-year-
old grandson, Frank Volckens, and
then killed herself. Mrs. Seig'
err was G5 years Of age and was totally
blind She believed that her little
grandson was a victim of bad habits
and killed him to free him from his
troubles. The boy was the son OF
Frank Volckens, Of Brooklyn, who
four years ago shot his wife in fit OF
jealousy, and. thinking he had killed
her, committed suicide.
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CHICAGO, Oct 31.-A fire which
caused loss of 100000 broke out at
II o'clock Saturday night in the great
three-story and basement brick build
ing at Stewart avenue and Twenty
seventh street that is used for manu-
featuring purposes. The fire was pre-
eeded by loud explosion, which is be-
lieved to have been the boiler in the
basement Of the structure. The build
ihg was occupied by the Tudor Buggy
Company, the Astesticon Company,
makers of freproof plestering, and the
Quincy & Crandall Company, manufac-
turars of ,.ai,1vav st1pplaS
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Two kIIIed. Twentr Hnrt.

CONWAY, Mo-. Oct. 26-The west
bound passenger train on the Frisco
road was wrecked by broken raid
mile east of Phillipsburg at O'Clock a.
M. The baggage ear. smoker and two
chair cars were turned over on
their sides. The engine. mail and
express cars passed over in safety.
The sleepers remained on the rails.
Baggageman Albert Dickerson, of
Springfield, and News Agent Floyd
Harwood, of Marshfield, were instant
" killed. About twenty Of the passen-
gers received cuts and bruises, but none
of their injuries is regarded as serious.
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BURNED TO DEATH.
A Family of -Four Persons Perished in a
Fire at Cleveland. q.

At tltNtiauus W.
CLEVELAND, o.. Oct 27.-Fire broke
out in the two-story frame building at
No. 1871 Central avenue at 1858 a. m,
Wednesday, and before the fire depart
ment could do any work the entire Shan
non family, husband, wife and two chill
dren, were burned to death. The build
ing is occupied as "A dwelling. with
saloon attachment in front. Nobody
knows how the fire started. but it is
supposed it started in the barroom. as
the people were sleeping above it. The
four bodies have been recovered and
are at the morgue.
The family. it is said, used the large
front room as a sleeping apartment.
They were all probably overcome by
the smoke before the situation was
realized Tie front half of the building
was completely destroyed. and the
four bodies were buried in the burned
tim bers. Shannon was IS years old
and his wife was %. The eldest boy,
James, Jr., was years old. and John,
the youngest, years. The search for
the bodies was begun by the fremen
as soon as the debris could be sufficient
~ cooled, and all were recovered in a
terribly disfigured condition.
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rrusbed by an Engine.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20. AT 7:SO o'clock a.
m Matthew Smith, a newsboy IA years
old who lived with his parents at 426
Twenty-fourth street, was run over
and instantly killed by switch engine
No. les of the Wabash road at the cor
ner of Archer ana Stewart avenues.
The body was literally cut TO pieces.
Money for the Dalton sIayers' Families
Sr. Louis, Oct. %. --George c. Smith.
assistant general manager of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Company, has
sent $40. GOO tn the families Of the men
who were killed in the affray with the
Daltons at Coffeyville, Kan.
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As THE price Of aluminium declines it
Is being used Tor n greater variety Of
purposes. In several European coun-
tries many portable articles that are
required TO be strong and which IL is
desirable 70 have light are made Of this
material. Many things which German
soldiers have 10 carry on their marches
are now made of it. An experiment is
being made in Russia in using alumni
mum shoes for cavalry horses. They
are lighter than shoes of iron and last
much longer. IL is likely that alumi-
mum will become 50 cheap that 1t will
take the place of iron and wood in the
Manufacture Of many articles.
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ROASTED IN A LIMEKILN.
Two Men Burned to Death In the Pres
ence of Hundreds OF Friends.

LIMA, o.. Oct. "Wednesday after
noon horrible accident happened at
the Western limestone quarries. Some
of the men had just finished burning a
kiln of lime and were in the act
of shutting it up when one of the
logs standing up on end and used as a
brace caught fire. Two of the men.
Joseph Koontz and Henry Bowers,
while trying to extinguish the flames
accidentally got on top of the kiln
which, owing to its being so hot,
gave way with crash. preeipitating
the men on the redhot lime. After the
top fell in it was impossible to get at
them and they were roasted alive in
the presence of hundreds of friends.
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The ear, taking the average, is a re-
liable organ The oldest man in Eng
land at the present time is supposed %
be Amos jerks, in Somerset, whose es-
tablished age IS 1O7 years. lie does not
see well, but his hearing is uninpaired.
Centenarians, as a rule, are not deaf
The eve appears to fail at a certain
age physical changes occurring in the
outline of the light-receiving parts. but
the ear is not thus affected. The sense
of taste changes naturally, as a result
of constant tests applied to il. 1t would
be interesting to have reliable statistics
OF the effect of extreme old age on the
senses of smell and touch.
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THE cholera scare in New York de-
creased the immigration from the old
world to the United States nearly one
half in September. The total number
of immigrants, as announced by the
national bureau of statistics. for Sep
tember, 1872, was only 2S, 229 persons.
against -. 200 in September, 1891. Dur
ing The nine months of the current year.
however, 476,S4S immigrants landed,
or 1872 more than during the first nine
months of last year