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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
MEST AND SOuTH.

A TABLET in memory of the late c. 3.
Fisk, prohibition candidate for presi-
dent in lsSS. was presented by his
widow and family to the Methodist
Episcopal church in Coldwater, Mich.
ALISON OWENS killed his wife with
an ak in a fit of insanity near Dan
vile. XIV. and then cut his own throat
with a razor. but would live.
HIGHwAYNES held up the stage be-
tween San Francisco and Sierra City
and secured the express box.
DIRECT lowered his pacing record
from goo to 2:O5ls on the race track at
Nashville, Tenn.
IN her home at Greencastle, Ind,
Mrs Mary Murphy, an aged widow,
was murdered by parties unknown.
IN Cincinnati sam Holloway, n coll
ored man of IS years, was arrested for
wife-beatiug and sent to the work
house, but was released through the in-
fiueuce of his mother. Jane Holloway,
los years old, who called in person on
the police board and pleaded for her
boy.
G.. T. ROsE. one of the best-known
dry goods merchants in Indiana. died
at his home in South Bend of softening
of the brain For some time past he
had been laborinC under the hallucina-
ton that he hadn't a cent in the world.
He leaves over 500, O00-
The failure of the Porter Boiler
Manufacturing Company of South Chi
cagO for 500 600 was announced.
FLAMES in Lew Brothers Autograph
ing establishment IN indianapolis
caused loss of 500. 600.
DURING a battle in BledsOe county.
Tenn, between the Toilets and Spaf-
fords \. Spafford. his son James and
Moses Toilet were killed and two
other Toilets were badly wohnded.
II mail pouch on the east-bound
Chicago & Alton train near Marshall,
No. dynamite cartridge measuring )
inches in length and inches in diam
eter was found by Route Agent Smith.
II hotel at Dubuque, Ia, Il. Weller.
Of New York, a member of Gilmore's
band, was found dead. Excessive use
of liquor was the cause.
Mis- ANN SCALLY, of Fort Kinney
precinct. johnson county, is the first
woman elected TO the Office of Justice
OF the peace in Wyoming.
ST.NPoUL broke the worlds stallion
record in Stockton. Cal. by clipping
half second off his own and Krem-
Inns recent record, making a mile in
2:OS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17

AT Hampden Plains, Conn. the house
of John Leete, milkman, was burned
and $1,000 which Leete had in the
house was consumed by the flames.
FLAMES in the New York Steel and
Copper Plate Company's building in
Williamsburg. y. V, caused a loss of
$3.50. 900.
II New York Peter Schultz, the 10
year old boy who was convicted of the
murder of 3~mOnths-old child, Mary
Wentheimer. has been sentenced to
death in the electric chair.
Mrs. MARLEY's non-union boarding
house in Sharpsburg. Pa, was blown
up with dynamite, but no one was in
jured.
THE remains of Thomas Borland, of
Pittsburgh. Pa, who disappeared JAN
uary 81. 1881, were found swinging from
a post in an abandoned coal mine at
Braddock.
THE ocean steamers arriving in New
York report great storms at sea and
that submerged and Capsized wrecks
We're drifting about in mid-ocean.
FIRE destroyed the business part of
Camden, Me.
HE county almSnOuSe at sugar
Creek, Pa, was burned, the loss being
5000. 600. The 100 inmates were res
cued without serious injury.
An Allentown, Pa, William Z.
Eeck, who was to have been hanged
for murder. died in his cell of nervous
prostration-
FIRE swept away Henry Fulmer's
school slate factory at Slatington, Pa,
the loss being 500. OOO
THE village of Federal, near Pitts
burgh, Pa, was entirely destroyed by
an incendiary fire.
AT Duxbury. Mass, three cannon
- FOUNDERS. weighing 300 pounds
each-have been placed in position to
mark Capt Miles Standish's grave.
ANOTHER comet has been seen by DR..
Lewis Swift, of Rochester, y. Y, maxi
ing six now visible in the heavens.
THE total valuation of Pennsylvania
is 1891. iO1. SIS 81 an increase OF over
sis, 600. 900 as compared with 1891.
FIGHT took place at Homestead,
Pa. between non-union colored work
men and strikers and many persons
were seriously injured.
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HIS DESEAT.
Reported Interview with President Har-
rison Regarding the Causes Which
Brought Ahaut the Result at fha paIfs

Reported Interview with President Har-
rison Regarding tile Causes Which
Brought About the Result at the Polls.
New YORK, Nov. IL PRESIDENT Har-
rison talked freely Friday about tho
recent defeat of his party and the
causes which brought it about,
says dispatch from Washing
ton to the Herald Friday after
noon he discussed not only the recent
election, but The gravity of the sit
uation which now confronts the repub-
liean party The overwhelming defeat
of the republican party, the president
said, was due mainly to the position of
the party on the tariff question. The
republicans had forced this issue TO an
extreme which did not meet with the
approval of the people.
There was another important ele-
ment. the president said, which had
much TO do with the defeat of the re-
publicans last Tuesday and its force
was felt at the north as well as at the
south. There was popular belief that
the force bill issue kept the solid south
within the old lines, but in the presi-
dents estimation it did more than that,
for it brought TO the support of the
democratic ticket many votes in the
north.
The verdict of last Tuesday, the
president continued, could be con-
strued IN but one way. 1t meant a
condemnation of the extreme high
tariff policy of the republicans. The
inevitable result if the party was 20
hope for renewal of power, was
modification of this position, but not
remuneration altogether of the protec-
tive-tariff policy, which had been the
keynote of every republican campaign
for many years past.
President Harrison has very decided
views as TO the conduct of the cam
paign. lie does not think very much
of Chairman Carter, of the republican
national committee. lie consented to
Carriers appointment only when il be-
came evident that no more accepta BILE
man could be secured. He said the
campaign had been mismanaged and
that much better results would have
been secured but for the rainbow
chasing" schemes to which Mr.. Carter
gave countenance and assistance.
The president is particularly cha
grined at the result in his native state,
and believes it was largely due To the
lack of good generalship What he
wanted to do, he said. and what he en-
deavored to impress upon them, was
the absolute necessity of keeping the
republican states in line and carrying
New York.
The president said that he had real
lied for some time past that the drift
of public sentiment was against him
and his party and it was this that led
him to force this advice upon the party
leaders. The disregard of this advice
had much to do with the re-
suit of last Tuesday. The president
realized before any of the election
returns came in Tuesday that he was a
defeated man. He hoped for success
until the last hour, but admitted he
had not expected it. One of the rea-
sons for the presidents doubt as to his
election was the well-l1nown dissaffec-
ton of a number of the prominent
leaders of his marty.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE arrival in London of Capt. An.
drews, the American who sailed from
Atlantic City, n. j., to Huelva in a
dory, was reported.
The steamer William A. Campbell.
sailing from Tacoma &c Queenstown,
was lost in terrific hurricane in the
South seas and Capt. Havener. wife
and child and eight men were lost.
IN the south of France floods were
again causing much damage.
A sURFBoAT upset while taking pas.
sengers ashore from an Austrian
Lloyd steamer at Jaffa and twelve OF
its occupants were drowned.
IN Paris syndicate has been formed
to finish the Panama canal, begun
years ago by De Lesseps.
IL the recent gale on the coast OF
Newfoundland ten vessels and twenty
five lives were lost.
ADvICEs from Shanghai, China, an
nounces that the two American college
students who set out some months ago
to cross Asia on bicycles have arrived
safely.
In Ornu, Moravia, a mill collapsed
and forty persons were killed.
THE imperial statistical Office in Ber,
lin says that in the last ten months
1920 persons have gone to America
from German ports, against 1913, 041 the
previous ten months.
ALONE the Rio Grande border large
numbers of Cinnamon were said 10 be
crossing the river from Mexico into the
United States each week.
CHOLERA was said to be sprea aiding in
the north of France and in southern
Hungary.
THE net debt of the dominion of Can.
ada is S237, 7S4. 090.
A CENSUS of the population of Japan
shows the total population to be IL,
OOO, 900. an increase of 500, 900.
On the Irish sea the STERN tug Secret
was wrecked hear Lytham and three
passengers and the crew of six mer
were drowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
Objectionable Phrase.

Lady friene" and gentleman
friend are phrases than which there
are few more grating, and few more
strictly tabooed by well-spolen people.
If you want to express the facts it must
be done in separate phrases. as: Il
have friend, a gentleman" or "a
triend of mine, LADY," of course. IN
less You feel that it is necessary to state
that your friend is lady or gentleman,
you can use man" or woman" In
fact. it has become the practice to use
these titles in preference to the former
almost entirely. The most perfect lady
does not object to being called WON
an-she glories in it rather. As for
the men-well they are just called men.
How ridiculous il would be if they in
sisted on being called gentlemen when
ever one spoke of them 1t would be
like Thaclxeray's wet in 'Pendennis.'
who was a ''gentleman's gentleman. -
Detroit Free Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
OHIO.
The Democrats sure of One Electoral
Vote, the Head of the Ticket Receiving
Majority.

The Democrats sure of One Electoral
Vote, the Head of the Ticket Receiving
Majority.
COLUMBUS. o., Nov. 14.-When the
republican quarters closed Saturday
night they had received official in
formation from all the counties, Ham,
ilton county being the last, which
showed plurality in the state
for Taylor (rep.l of 1,O54, and Dam
ford, the head of the electoral
ticket, SIPS. Danford runs several
thousand ahead of the other republican
electors, and Seward, the head of the
democratic electors, runs four to five
thousand ahead of his colleagues
the ticket. The general opinion
is that Seward will be elected
by defeating the elector who
receives the smallest number of
votes on the republican ticket. The
figures received up to date undoubtedly
show that the republicans will save
their state ticket, elect twenty-five of
the twenty-three electors and ten of
the twenty-one congressman. The dem
ocratic committee is doing nothing, but
claim the official count will show who
is elected or defeated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
A Powder House mt Niagara Falls De-
moiished by an Explosion - Ore Man
Killed and several Hurt.

A Powder House mt Niagara Falls De-
moiished by an Explosion - One Man
Killed and several Hurt.
NIAGARA FALLS. n. Y, Nov IA. "A
fearful explosion startled this city
shortly before 10 a m. Saturday. Houses.
business blocks and hotels were swayed
and windows shattered. The powder
house of Douglas & johnson, the
canal and tunnel contractors, had
exploded, killing John Hoban, master
mechanic of all the immense works
of the contractors. William Weir, an
engineer, and Sherman Dismuth (col-
ored), fireman, were badly cut about
the face, head and body. Search was
made in the ruins for the bodies, which
it was feared were to be found there,
bat none was discovered, and il was be-
lieved that all of the other men at work
escaped
Hoban was found lifeless at the foot
of a large pile of rocks with fearful
cash in his throat He had started to
run from the boiler house when the ex-
plosion occurred and was picked up
and hurled some so feet 1t is
thought his throat was torn by sharp
piece of rock. The other men, Weir
and Dismuth, were fleeing for their
lives when struck by flying pieces of
timber and rock. Their condition is
serious, but not necessarily fatal.
How the accident happened no one
knows. Weir, the engineer, hap
pened to look out of the engine
house window and saw smoke
issuincr from the east side of the
powder house. He turned to Hob
an and excitedly exclaimed:
''The powder house is on fire. :"
The men made a dash for the open air,
giving the alarm as they ran. The ex-
plOsion took place as they fled, those
who were in the various buildings on
the canal escaping injury except from
the terrible shock.
For the distance of l mile around
windows, sashes and all, were blown
out. Dishes on shelves were scattered,
and in one house a baby was rendered
unconscious from the shock. The en-
ployes in and about the canal
and tunnel works had many
narrow escapes. We. Johnson, one
of the contractors, says that
there was only 100 pounds of blasting
powder in the house. This was 40 per
cent. dynamite The damage to build
ings and houses is extensive and will
foot up into thousands. All the win
dows on the west side of the Niagara
Falls Paper Company's plant were torn
out. The fronts of stores and houses
on Buffalo street were badly shattered
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
a COLLECTION OF ALL KINDS.

PARROTS cost but 10 cents each to the
dealers in South America.
THE discovery has been made that
india-rubber trees grow wild in Lee
county, Florida.
A LITTLE girl in Buckley. Wash, aged
fourteen. committed suicide rather than
attend school.
THE staff of life is the staple produc-
ton of firm named Death & Clutch,
in Franklin, o. They run flour mill.
THE Western Michigan diocese has
decided that hereafter, at all vestry
meetings. women may vote for vestry-
men.
HAIR dye is considered so detrimental
to long life that Paris insurance COM
pany refuses to insure tho lives of per-
sons who use IL
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
CALLING HIM DOWN.
The Man with the Little Boxes Ms
Mistake This Time.

The Man With the Little Boxes Made a
Mistake This Time.
He was a professional gambler. He
had two dice boxes and two clay mar
bles He called the boys around him
and proceeded to manipulate his mar
bles and boxes on the bar.
snow, gentlemen" said he, I'm no
worker of miracles; can't heal the sick
bic under this cup and bet you twenty
it amt there; or I'll bet you twenty
it's under the other cup. Come, who'll
open the ball? Speak lively"
Silence followed. Then a fiashily-
dressed confederate of the gambler ell
b wed his way to the front.
"I'll bet she's there, he said, and laid
down his money.
And there she is" exclaimed the
gambler. "Here you are-forty in the
long green. Once in awhile I'm caught
just in that way. Come, hurrah, boys
who's next? Here's the marble-you
can see II go under the cup. Now, I'll
bet you either way"
Three rough hands were raised with
three twenties, when a husky voice
shouted at the edge of the crowd:
Hold in yer bronchos. boys. I'm the
first man to bet" A burly individual
in blue shirt and broad-brimmed hat
pushed his way TO the bar ''Now, per
lesser. I'm ready fur We. Lft up yer
box. There's the ball. dead to rights
see il. fellers?"
The boys" answered affirmatively.
Here's a twenty, perfesser." went
on the huslxy-voiced man. IAN bet the
balls under that cup Cause why?
Cause I'm rational man, an were
all rational men-we believe what
we see We seen the ball under
that cup an it's got to be there
an I'm bettin' it is there. II it amt
there, they's been a hocus-pocus, and
that kind o. work don't go down with
this hyer community" The husky
voiced man produced a six-shooter
about as long as a Winchester. 'Tn
my opinion I'm bettin' on a dead-sure
thing. Lift the cup. perfesser."
The six-shooter was cooked with an
ominous ''cliclx," and the husky-voiced
man looked the ''perfesser" squarcly in
the eye.
The gambler smiled. in sicl1lv wav,
coughed, hesitated and would have said
something had not a pair of deter
mined, steeiy-gray eyes given him fair
warning.
He raised the box-the ball was there.
Il thought so" said the husky-vo ICED
man. as he poclzeted the money. 'Ii
you want to take any more bets, per-
fesser, reckon the boys'l accommodate
We"
But he didn't. He faded ont of the
saloon. and Anaconda knew him nc
more.-Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
Favors a Pro,ectorate.

WASHINGTON Nov. 12.-The announce
ment that Paul Newman, formerly at
torney general of the queens cabinet, is
en- route to Washington on a secret mis-
sion for the queen is not surprise to
the state department. The department
not only knows that he is coming but
also what he is coming for. 1t IS well
known to naval officers here, who have
personal acquaintance with Mr.. New
man, that he is strongly in favor of the
United States assuming protectorate
over the Hawaiian islands, and there
can he no doubt that the object of his
mission here at the present time is to
bring about such a result.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17
PITH AND POINT.

The fool never has an idea that is
too large 10 slip out of his mouth.-Gal-
weston News.
Does she share her husbands bur
dens?" YES. Jacks loads are her chief
trial Life.
One certain way to hear pin drop
is to heat it red-hot and drop it into a
keg of gunpowder.
The bunco-man is not fastidious.
He lives on the simplest thing ne can
fnd.-Elmira Gazette.
-''Well. I'll be burned. Tidy, I've
tasted beefsteaks and piCsteaEs, hut I'll
sw'ar never see sweep steaks afore. y
Truth.
A Mere Question of swell,
Willie. did you master your lesson to-
day?" Nom; / missed it.'-Philadel-
phia Record.
She speaks. he understands her not.
Although he Is no fool;
You see. the only French she's got
She learned at boarding school
Had Tried -Writer-"Have you
ever read any of my stories in manu-
script?" Friend-''No, but I've often
tried to read them in print Yankee
Blade
Was your son graduated at the
head of his clasp "No. indeed. He
was in a much more responsible posi-
tiou-at the very foundation of it,
Black and White.
-Daisy-''I wonder how ( is that
Mrs. Totterby is such good traveller.
when she looks so frail." Dashaway-
There is nothing strange in it; her
husband gets passes"
- Jingle - "Hello, Slumplxins Are
you trying to make the train?"
Slumpkins (runningl-"No; I'm only
trying to catch the one that is already
made. Inter Ocean.
Bring me punch. " said the round
err. ~ want something to make me
sleep" Eyes, sir" said the intelligent
waiter. beverage. sir. or London lit
erature?''-Washingt Star.
-Johnny-"Ma can't You tell
me new fairy story?' Mrs. Braggs-
81 don't know any Johnny. Maybe
your father will tell me some when he
comes in tonight. Boston Gazette.
-Ungrammatical. but True
Twas ever thus. from chi shood's hour"
never in a car did see
A pretty giri. but her escort
Was twice as big as me.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"A Subtle Scheme.-"Miss Wicker
static seems to be particularly popular
among the young fellows of twenty or
therea bouts Eyes: she has way of
talking to them about Won men. In
dianapolis Journal.
-Ryan-"Do you believe that Miss
Eatwcll IS really superstitious?" Har-
per-"Yes, I know she believes in
signs" Ryan-'1n signs?" Harper
Eyes; she is never willing to pass an
ice-cream or oyster-stew sign without
first going n."-Inter-Ocean-
Come up to my house tomorrow
night" said Henpecque. I'm going to
celebrate my golden wedding" Col
den wedding! why. man. you've only
been married three years" 81 know
it, but it seems like fifty. so everything
is all right. buffalo Express.
-'What / am most worried about,
said the doctor to the sick editor. SIS
your blood. l want to find out about
the circulation" Circulation, gasped
the patient Look here, doctor. it isn't
a square deal 80 work me for a death
bed confession. "-Washingtan Star
-Fogg-"C Charley, you were born to
be a writer" Charley (blusf1ing with
conscious pride)-''Ah! you have seen
some of the things ! have turned off.
Fogg-"No; I wasn't referring to what
you had written. / was thinking what
a splendid ear You had for carrying
pen. Immense, Charley; simply inn
mense boston Transcri ut.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17

DAVID c. COOK. ScnOO1 ana at the
same time in one, and much of the time
two, mission schools meeting at differ
ent hours
In 1STi, after the great fire, he left
home and wi tn three other young men,
whom he persuaded to join him, rented
rooms in one of the poorest and rough
est parts of the burnt district of North
Chicago, and gave himself to relief and
mission work. Here he started "Ev-
erybody's Mission" in a German beer
hall and theater. afterwards removed to
building of its own. This mission,
with an attendance of $50 to $50, made
up of some of the worst elements, he
sustained for five years without fnan-
cial aid from any church or society. He
has since organized and superintendent
North Avenue Miss.on. Lake View Mis-
sion, and Lake View Union Schools in
Chicago, and Grace sunday School, Ell
gin, besides several smaller enterprises.
HIS first publications We're prepared
only for his own schools; then, to
cheaper expense, he solicited orders
from others. This was the beginning
of wonderful growth and popularity.
which, in sixteen years, has made his
name 2 household word
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ROASTED ALIVE BY A TRAMP.
A Pal of Coal OH Poured on a Boy and
His Clothes Set on Fire.

BRADFORD. Pa, Nov. II. Sunday
afternoon a tramp, giving his name as
Anthony Hanton or Quinn, took shell
ter in small shanty on the bank OF
the Tuna creek, near the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad
shops, used by the small boys
in the neighborhood as a playhouse.
A number of boys were playing round
the shanty and requested the tramp to
get out. This enraged the tramp, who
seized pail of crude oil and threw it
on John Leggett, aged IA. 1t
is alleged that he then set fire
TO the boys clothes. Young Leg
gett was frightfully burned all
over the body, his face and head
being literally cooked. The villain
was captured anG handed over to the
police and is now in the lookup. Young
Leggett died after lingering four hours
in great agony.
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Only One store Left,

CAMDEN, Me-, Nov. 12.-As a result
of Thursdays fire there is but one gro
Gerry store left in town. All drug stores,
boot and shoe stores, millinery and
dry goods stores, jewelry shops and
furniture stores, the post Office and
telegraph Office were wiped out. TWEEN
ty families are rendered homeless. The
loss is estimated at from $3.50, 600 to
$500, 00O-about two-thirds covered by
insurance 1t is thought that bricl:
buildings will be erected in place of the
frames burned