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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

The sale of liquor a. the worlds fair
will. il is said, be allowed. the expo
sition company to receive for the priv
ilege of the sale a percentage of the
gross receipts.
EDWARD J. TRACY has been APP
pointed state treasurer of Florida, vice
Francis J. Pond, deceased
Ar Olive Springs, Tenn. Lem Jones
was hanged for the murder of his wife
and child on June &c. 1899.
AT Little Rock, Ark, Charles Kim
ball disrobed his refractory 3-year-old
child, placed it in a tub of ice-cold
water. and afterwards whipped it ia
tally
Is storm near Gary. $ d., George
Wightman and three other men were
frozen to death.
TmE death of Rev. William Potter,
known as the oldest Congregational
minister in the world. occurred at
Hampden, o. aged % years.
y NOR took John Sims, the last of
the outlaw gang, from the Jail at But
Ter. Ala. and hanged him.
DIR. ;. RAwsoN, aged 90 years, died
at Des MOines Ia, and his brother died
on the same day in Ohio. aged % years.
DURING n fight with moonshiners
near Gadsden. Ala, Moonshiners Kirk
and Sprouse were killed and United
states Marshal jackson mortally
wounded.
VARIOUS labor organization delegates
met al Lansing and organized the peo-
pies party of Michigan. The platform
favors free coinage of silver, abolition
Of trusts. universal suffrage and the
suppression of the liquor traffic for
beverage purposes.
FRANK PHILLIPS and Joseph Smith
killed each other in quarrel at
Ensley City. Ala.
CoAL gas caused the death of John
Brunette and his wife in their home at
Wild Rice. \. d. and nine children
were made orphans.
The bond given by jeff Davis to the
United States government TO answer
% the charge OF treason has been
stOlcn from the court records at Rich
mOnd. Va.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the
business portion of Plainfield. Ill
ALFRED Cole. aged rs years. died at
his home at Springdale, Ky. from the
effects Of Ia grippe.
IL Fentress county, Tenn, Marion
and Dave Beatty and Gwyn BOwden
were shot and killed by a young man
named Ed Harris The shooting was
caused by the Beatty brothers str; king
their sister
NEAR Chillicothe. Mo, freight trains
collided and an engineer. two firemen
and a brakeman were killed and
eleven cars containing cattle were
burned.
EIGHTEEN cars were destroyed and
three men fatally hurt in a wreck on
the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago
road near Salem. q.
FLAMES in Hepler. Kan, destroyed
eleven of the principal business houses
The death of Jonas Hinkley. in
ventor OF the Hinkley knitting machine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Russian pianist and composer,
Arson Rubinstein, has declined the
offer of $50, 900 made him for a concert
tour in America
WILLIAM t. RICE, the oldest United
States consul in the service, died at his
post at Leghorn, Italy.
By the wreck of the French steamer
Albatross off Archachon eleven men
were drowned.
In Russian Poland large number of
persons said to have been concerned in
a plot to assassinate the car have been
arrested.
WILLIAM +. GLADsroNE's SD birth
day was celebrated by his friends at
| Hawarden.
ADvICEs from the Mexican side of
the Rio Grande were TO the effect that
1 1000 Mexican government troops sta
toned at Mier had revolted. killed
their commanding officers and gone to
/ Join Garza's insurgents.
IL railroad accident in Rosova,
Russia, twenty persons were killed and
100 were injured.
IL Newry, Ireland, James Murphy
and his sister Mary were found dead in
/ their house. Ihey were wealthy mi
sers, and died of starvation.
CARA, the Mexican revOlutionist,
| captured a detachment of Mexican
| troops and shot four officers
THE Indian national congress in ses-
sion at Nagpur adopted a resolution
demanding home rule for India.
In France twelve fishing boats be-
| longing to Vinaros and san Carlos de
la Rapita were lost in a storm, forty
three persons being drowned.
OFF Antwerp the steamer Noordland
ran down the British bark Childwell
and cut her to pieces and fifteen of her
| crew were drowned.
The German empire has population
of 40, 426, 2s4, an increase in five years
of 2,57O, ESQ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
THE EAST.

In was shown by the annual cloth
statement published at Fall River,
Mass, that during the past year the
production was 9.9S5. 600 pieces. against
1857. 600 pieces the preceding year.
AT a crossing in Brooklyn of the
Long Island railroad coach contain
ing four persons was penned in on the
track by an error of a gateman and all
the occupants were struck by a train
and fatally injured.
The destruction of the dies used for
making coins during 1891 was begun at
the United States mint in Philadelphia
A COMPANY in Philadelphia has COM
pleted arrangements in that city for
the erection of the largest tin-plate fac
tory in the United States.
by the will of W. l.. Scott, of Erie,
Pa. who died last September, property
valued at sI5,OOO,OOO was left to the
family.
A BUILDING in the course of erection
at Brooklyn. y. Y, fell, injuring nine
teen workmen, three fatally.
II Milton, Pa, William Marsh, a
young man. committed suicide because
his parents repr owed him for having
married girl who worked out"
Mrs. NORMAN THOMAS, aged 81, was
fatally shot at Stamford. Conn, by her
husband. aged %. who then killed him
self Domestic trouble was the cause.
THERE were coined at the Philadel-
phia mint during the year 1891 over
o.. 600. 600 pieces, with n valuation of
over SI3. 600, 600.
The firm of NOVEL; & Presby. dry
goods dealers in New York, failed for
S150. 600: assets, $50, 900.
FoR the murder of his wife stephen
Bell was hanged at Fairfax, Vt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
AN ENTERPRIsING DUTcHMAN.
He Took Advantage of the Plague to
Gain "a Dollar For Himself.

GAIN DOliar or himself
Here is a story which sounds almost
like an out-west fairy tale, but ! am
told that it is strictly true: During the
first days of Pixies peak, when that
country was being occupied by mining
prospectors, their cabins were overrun
with rats-not your domesticated
house-mice and rats of an old civil
Ized community, but rats-large, raw
enous rats-with teeth and digestive
apparatus capable of managing any
thing from tough old boot to dainty
piece of breakfast bacon.
This state of affairs came to the
Knowlege of a thrifty Dutchman, poor,
but willing to earn a bright dollar if
the way was only pointed out, and
reused his dormant ideas to take adj
vantage of the rat nuisance and profit
thereby. The Dutchman secured a
yoke of oxen, rugged prairie-schooner
with three stories, and filed the same
with good cats which his neighbors
we're glad to be rid of. With this outfit
he started across the plain for Pixies
peak, tedious journey of some six hun
dred miles. This, with scant supplies
of game, prepared the cats for any en-
counter with their victims.
Their arrival spread JOY among the
householders, and everything was set
aside to purchase cats. When the stock
of our worthy Dutchman had been
speedily converted into gold-dust, he
sold his team, returned on foot across
the desert plainssto Omaha with over
fifteen hundred dollars, and bought a
farm near by. But the climax of this
venture was attained when his faith
full oxen strayed back to himr'-St.
Nicholas.
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WRITER'S AND WRITINGS.

WHITTIER is two years older than
Holmes and Tennyson. He was born in
1907, they in 1909.
COPIES of the IceiaEdic Bible printed
in 1854 are still in existence. y banker
of Lexington, Mo. has one.
THE queen of Roumania has COM
pleted a new novel, which is to be
published serially in an English maya
zine.
EsoP's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the fourteen centu-
ry, when they were collected and pub
lished by a monk.
THE new edition Of the Bible which
Prof. Paul IIaupt, of Johns Hopkins,
has undertaken vii. have among its ed
itors several Jewish scholars, two of
them Talmudists, said to be of the first
rank.
OSCAR WILDE is writing a new story,
one which is intended to be a study of
Christianity from the point of view of a
man who regards it as a great world
force and independently of any doc
trinal bias"
ELwEII. AP BARNARD, n Welsh bard.
has written a one hundred and ten
verse ode to his cow. The English POI
et-laureate, being now in the milk bust
ness. may yet dash off some light and
dairy thing of this kind.
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SCATTERED BY RANGERS.
Texas Troops Attack Garza's Followers.
Forcing Them to Flee.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 4-There is
much excitement in military depart
ment headquarters and among the peo-
pie of this city over the serious
situation on the border. II. j. Mac
Neil. of this city, Saturday evening
received a telegram from his father,
Capt j. 5. MacNeil, of the
Texas rangers, which states that he
had just had a desperate encounter
with the Cara men. His command
numbered only few men. They were
scouting through a chaparral in Starr
county when they met a detachment
of about thirty CARA revolutionists.
The rangers at once opened fire on
the revolutionists and number of the
latter were severely wounded Nearly
/, 1000 shots were exchanged. but none OF
the rangers were wounded. The tele-
gram states that the revolu-
tionists were all well armed
and well mounted They were closely
pursed by the rangers for a consider
able distance. but finally scattered and
all escaped capture except few of
those severely wounded
IL is reported from Laredo that five
Texas rangers were killed Friday in a
fight with the revolutionists
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan A dis
patch to government headquarters re-
ports that on Saturday Second Lieut..
Langhorne of the Third cavalry, with
thirty regulars and a posse of deputy
marshals, struck one of the Cara bands
and an engagement followed. The ban
dts were found 5 miles above Rio
Grande City and many shots were in
terchanged and some Mexicans wound
ed and some of the United States
soldiers were hurt Col. Pablo
Munoz was captured. Two gross
of cartridges and many revolu-
tionary badges were taken.
The Mexican government has offered
reward of $500, 900 for Garza's head.
but they will hardly get him. So far
the Mexicans have killed over a hun
dred men on suspicion of being revolu-
tionists, and this has tended to drive
other poor ranchers to join the revolt.
At Pueblo the populace revolted and
every priest hes been placed in Jail
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
THE OFFICE BOY.
His Development Exhibited by Remarks
of the Senior Partner.

His Development as Exhibited by Remarks
of the Senior Partner.
These are the remarks of Mr.. Scuff,
senior partner of the firm of Scuff &
Bumper. showing his opinion of the
new office boy:
Monday-The new Office boy is per
feet treasure. The first thing he did
when he had moment of leisure was
to wash out my inkstand. 1t hadn't
been cleaned for year, and il was a
real pleasure TO write when nice, fresh
ink was put in. While l was at lunch
Johnnie busted off my desk and put
everything in its place. He's the best
Office boy ever had, polite and oblig
ing. and very neat IN appearance.
Tuesday-Yes, ! think Johnnie is a
model office boy. lie was here this
morning bright and early. aud bad my
desk as neat as new pin, and every
thing in its place when I arrived. He
said: Good morning, Mr.. Scuff," in
such a gentlemanly manner. too. His
appearance was hardly as neat as on
yesterday. but ! can overlook that il he
continues punctual and does his duty
satisfactorily
dnesday-Johnnie was half an
hour late this morning. He said his
mother neglected TO call him as early
as usual hope it will not occur
again. As a consequence my desk
wasn't busted. for / hadn't time to
leave it while Johnnie put things to
rights
Thursday-Johnnie was here when
arrived this morning, but / noticed
that my desk wasn't busted. lie was
reading the morning paper when l
came in, and didn't offer to get up.
Friday-Johnnie takes an uncon-
scionably long time to go of an errand.
He managed to put in whole hour
this morning going not more than five
blocks.
aturday-Johnnie is making great
nuisance of himself as whistler. At
first he was nice and quiet, but he
seems TO have outgrown that.
Monday-Oh. yes; / had to discharge
Johnnie He wasted his time awfully.
Why, on Saturday he consumed three
quarters of an hour going half square
to the post office. And then, he never
pretended TO mind anything I said. and
] couldn't get to see the morning paper
until after he had read it. Then he
whistlcd all day long when he was in
the Office, and regularly distracted me.
lie was no good. and had to discharge
him. You don't know where / could
get a good, reliable boy, do your
Judge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07

A ship-load of fiue horses was con-
signed from Calcutta to Bombay, under
the charge of a very honest but some
what dull agent in the employ of an
East India company. While the horses
were being landed at the slip. they
managed to break away from the men
in charge and ran like wild animals
through the city. The agent caught one
of them, and, mounting him, gave chase.
After several hours of exciting work.
with the help of his men, he had cap
tured all but one of the horses, as he
counted them Finally ne made his
reluctant way TO the superintendent
Office TO give an account of the matter.
The superintendent came to the door
and listened to the story:
''And you say there were one hundred
and twenty-four horses in, and you
have eighty of them in the company's
stables and forty-three back in the
steamer temporarily"
'Yes, sir; all safe but one, and we
cannot find him anywhere.
what is that horse you are riding?
Have you counted him?' asked the su-
perintendent
"Well. am an ass! OF course this IS
one of EN- And the agent rode OF IN
disgust, while the superintendent
reared with laughter-London It'd
Bits.
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sewing machine and carpet sweeper,
occurred at Norwalk, o., aged "A years.
FIRE destroyed the village of Aurora,
Iowa.
IN Indian territory the messiah craze
has broken out afresh among the Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes. and no little
anxiety was felt
THE 101st birthday of Uncle Bald
near Marshal. Mo.
IL wreck on the Union Pacific road
at La Grande, Ore, an engineer, fire
man and two tramps were killed.
THE Kentucky house of representa-
tives elected w NJ. Moore. farmer.
as speaker.
ALBERT WALTER and his brother VIII
liam were killed and John Rogalsky ia
tally injured by an explosion of dyna-
mite near Milwaukee, Wis
WISCONSIN prohibitionists will hold
their state convention at Madison May
80 next.
AT Ovid, Mich, Martin Briggs. an
ex-slave, died at the age of 100 years.
Bishop w. PERKINS was named by
Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, as
United States senator to succeed the
late Senator Plumb
AT Hardin, Mo, fire destroyed twenty
two business houses and dwellings.
IN Doniphan county, Kan, John De-
laney, a wealthy farmer. and his wife
and two sons all died within n short
time of each other from disease
caused by sleeping in the rooms of
new house.
WILSON WILLIAMS, an aged man, was
burned to death in his own house in
Kanawha county, w Va, and the
shock caused the death of his aged
wife.
AT South Bend, Ind, Edward Spohn
and Miss Louise Seig. a betrothed
couple, were killed by brick wall
falling upon them.
IL Cincinnati John Dietel, on exhibi.
ton at a museum as n fat giant, died
| from an attack of the grip. He weighed
76S pounds.
A CYCLONE wrecked many farm build
/ ings and did much other damage near
Texarkana, Ark.
PAUL WooD and John Meredith were
suffocated during a fire in the Waverly
hotel in Chicago
/ REV. +. NJ. WEsTHAFEB wac stricken
| dumb in the midst of a revival sermon
at Westport, Ind.
A STAGE near the Idaho line in Mon
tana was held up by highwaymen who
secured So, 600 worth of jewelry and
| 500 in cash.
IL Nashville, Tenn. flames among
/ business houses caused a loss of $780,,
600, and Stokes. Allen, Harvey Ewing
and C. C. Cloudy, colored firemen, were
| killing by falling wall.
ROBERT PARKER and John J. Carlo,
ex-county Judge of Taylor county, were
| killed and Thomas Walters fatally in
! jured in a street fight in Perry, Fla.
UNITED STATES troops on the Rio
| Graude in Texas routed a band of
Mexican revolutionists and captured
| Col Pablo Munez, one of Garzas lead
ers.
AT Port Townsend, Wash, ten Chi
nese and two women who started in a
smuggling sloop to cross the straits
were drowned by the wrecking of their
/ boat.
FIRE in lodging house at Hanford,
| Cal, caused the death of Elmer T.
| Spofford, f. Il. Tucker, f. w. Foster
and T. c. Hammond.
OwISG to family trouble Edwin Fair.
child, of She boygan, Wis, shot his
stepdaughter, Arlisle Johnson, and
| then killed himself.
! NEAR Texarkana, Ark, car con-
tanning ten non-union operators to take
the place of strikers was broken into
| by a mob and three of the men were
| killed.
/ AT Chattanooga. Tenn, Jesse Frier-
son was hanged for the murder of
Officer Musgrove in Janury, 1890.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
AT PEACE WITH ITALY.

Baron Fava Sails for America-The
Trouble Growing Out of the Lynching
at New Orleans Ended by Granting the
Same Justice Which Is Now Dem ,nded
from Chill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Word has been
received here that Baron Fava has
sailed from Rome for Washington to re-
sumo his post as minister from
Italy to the United States. The
Marquis Imperiali is in charge
of the legation here. as he has
been since the recall of Fava- The
barons name is still borne on the rolls
of the state department as the Italian
minister The return of Fava to his old
post confirms the news that the United
States has agreed to pay a small in
demnity in money to the families of the
two Italian citizens lynched at New Or
leans. This restores the entente cor
dale between the two countries and
the diplomatic incident is closed II
will be noticed that the settlement in
this case has been made on the part of
the United States by performance of
the same acts of justice and reparation
which this country is now demanding
of Chilli and the prospects now are
that within two or three weeks the
CHILEAN incident will be closed in the
same manner.
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bay. and so far, luckily, had not struck
an anchored vessel.
Behind us / could see the distant and
disappearing lights of New York city.
In front the lighthouse on Robbins
reef, and beyord that the lights on
State n Island
If we were not carried out on the
ocean through the Narrows-if we did
not collide with a ship or strike the
reef. we probably would bring up
against some dock ON Staten Island
providing our frail and clumsy craft
lived TO get there.
As soon as we struck anything, / re-
allied too surely that in a moments
time after the crash we must founder
and die.
Our only chance, then. was to be
ready to leap, if possible. on the object
we should dash against and trust Prov
idence for the rest
The Sally had whirled around, and
was rushing stern foremost through
the laundering pillows, aud ! hoped
when we struck that emf on which
we were would hit first. IL it didn't,
no use leaping. for we never could all
of us make our way over the icy, slip
perry two foot wide deck on the boats
sides to its other end.
Passing large ship so close that
thought our end had come, barely miss
ing the lighthouse reef, we were fast
approa ching Staten Island-and the
Narrows.
For a time q looked certain that we
would be swept seaward and surely
I Il. A..hn
went before the wind straight for the
island docks. Five minutes l calcu-
lated and our fate for life or death
would be sealed
Getting a rope placed our darling
baby, laughing and Growing at the ex-
element, on its feather bed, rolled the
soft bed entirely around il, trusting il
wouldn't smother for awhile, and bound
the precious bundle firmly with the
rope. Taking it In my arms, bidding
my brave and quiet wife 10 hold me
and follow, gained the stern, over the
slippery boats deck.
Thank heaven, we were still stern
demonstrating straight on dock.
One more moment of suspense and
horrible dread-then with crash that
smashed the boat under us like an egg
she'll we hit the wharf
At the same instant, before the wreck
could rebound. / flung bed and baby on
the dock. seized my dear wife's hand
and leaped for life.
We landed safely alongside of our
child-then down under the raging
waters plunged our good boat, drown
ing the awful cries of the poor mules
/ left on board.
Cutting the ropes to give air to our
babe, blown along by the blasts be-
/ hind us, we reached land and a house
and, soon inside. found shelter and q
warm welcome
We also found the Sally after the
storm was over, raised and mended her,
| and now she is as good as ever fol-
fresh water sailing, which she means
to stick to for the balance of her days.
And this is why / am provoked when
land lubbers try to ridicule her, o. her
captain. mate and crew.-H. C. Dodge.
in Goodall's Sun.
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DEAD

Oh weary eyes that oft did weep
Closed now; rest well in dreamiess sleep.
Oh, tired hands that did their best,
Lie still-be folde into rest
Oh heart. so torn with love and pain,
Thy troubles ne'er can come again.
Oh busy brain. so full Of thought.
Thy work is ended; all Is nOught-
Oh feet. that trod life's stony road,
There's rest for you meath grassy sod
On fragile body sad and worn,
Rest thee-ah, rest thee from life's storm.
And thou, oh soul, that wing'st thy flight
From earth's dark prison into light
Great gain. oh soul be thine for aye
From earth's dark night TO endless day.
Chambers Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
TALKS WITH The JEWELERS..

FTyE-sToSE rings of ruby doublets
and sapphire doublets are very pretty.
A FINE bishops ring is an amethyst
eHcdb0cAOa set with four diamond
leurs-de-lis-
A 81 'UTIFUI seal for n man is a
chrysodoiite; the rich tint of the hya-
cinth is also desirable.
BBoKES-EDGE buttons are the latest
novelty. The centers are plain and the
edges are covered with a rococco work.
The Cleopatra hairpin is a gold ser
pent with decorative fold in his body,
an ornamental head and a waving tail.
SNAIL. cups Of pale grecnish onyx in
which are rose diamonds are the set
tings of rings. not so expensive as they
are pretty.
GOLD and silver ball hat pins are
among the best selling articles, so say
jewellers. The balls are formed of cross
bars, scrolls. or fleur-de-lis.
TIE imitation of 4 geranium leaf in
enamel is not only a clever piece of
work. hat beautiful ornament. 1t is
4 brooch, but can be transformed into a
pendant Circular.