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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-07-07
THE EAST.

IL New Haven, Conn, the ninety-sec-
ond commencement of the Yale uni
versity was held and degrees We're con
ferrcd in course upon 422 candidates.
WHILE insane, Mrs. Susan Sewall.
aged - years. threw her 9-months-old
baby out OF fourth-st,ry window in
Boston and then jumped herself and
both were killed.
DURING storm al Gloucester. y. J.,
three persons were killed by lightning
and several were severely injured.
Great damage was done to property.
THE operations in iron and steel
formerly conducted by fifteen com
panies in Pennsylvania have been con-
solidated under the name of the
Carnegie steel Company. che capital
X Ss5.O0O,OOl and the company will
have in its employ upward of 40,
men
All the glass factories at Pittsburgh.
Pa. and vicinity have shut down for
from four to eight weeks to make re-
pairs. and about $4,000 men are thus
given holiday. They will resume
work when the factories open.
Is the Pittsburgh Pa district some
30 iron and steel mills shut down
owing to a difference in regard to
wages, and nearly 10000 worllmen
were idle.
YALE defeated Harvard in a 4-mile
boat race at New London. Conn. Time:
Yale 20:iS: Harvard. 2l:42+f.
by the upsetting of boat Arthur
Hazeltine and wife and Nellie Nara
more. of COchranton, Pa, were
drowned
HANLAN beat lIosmer about 10 feet
in smile race on the Connecticut
river at Hartford. II ne: Is minutes 50
seconds.
AT Bethlehem. Pa, and vicinity a
cyclone did damage to the extent of
$3.50. goo
DURING the fiscal year just closed
there were issued 5O5. 49, pension GER
tificates of all classes. as against 80. sos
in 1921
AT kirkwOod. Del, Belle Hamlin and
Globe broke the double team record,
going mile in PIP. The best previous
double team record was 2:13.
FIRE ruined the storehouse of II. Il.
4 L. Knight at River Point. r. / the
loss being $500.
II Boston Prof G.. \. Rogers, a vet
eran aeronaut, and Thomas Fenton, his
assistant, were killed while making an
ascension.
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A FATAL PLUNGE.

Train Goes Through CuIvert Near
ke.lsr's. Ind.-Five Persons Who Were
Riding ON the Locomotive Are instantIy
Killed. Their Bodies Being Friishtfully
Mangled.
WABAsH, Ind, July 4.-From to IL
o'clock Saturday night this countT was
visited by a terrific rainstorm, the
heaviest within the memory of the old
est inhabitants. As a result of the
downpour an accident occurred on the
Wabash railroad, 3 miles west of
this city, in which five men employed
on the road lost their lives.
The catastrophe was caused by the
sudden rising of small stream known
as kentner creek, which dries up entire
ly i'm summer but becomes a raging tor
rent in the rainy season. X Is spanned
by culvert probably Is feet wide in
the clear and upon this culvert is built
an embanhment Is feet high. The little
rill was last night swollen to mad
flood by the heavy storm and the cul-
vert becoming gorged the water backed
up on the north side of the fiji until at
last it cut through the earth on the
east side of the culvert and carried
of cubic yards of soil, leaving a yawn-
ing chasm 80 feet from brink TO brink.
The rails and ties hung over the abyss
and gave the track the semblance of be-
ing safe.
This was the situation when at 1:20
Saturday morning east-bound train No.
6s rushed out of the rock cut just west
and the heavy engine, in the cab
of which We're five men, dashed
into the torrent 20 feet down at
the speed of 20 miles an hour. 1t was
raining hard ut the time and it was
not supposed that the engineer dis
covered the break until the locomotive
had taken its fearful leap. 1t struck
fairly on the drivers and truck The
tank, driven by the twenty-five loaded
cars behind. was forced against the
boiler head, destroying the cab and
killing every one of the five occupants,
and then reversing itself and turning
bottom up beside the engine. Nine
cars came into the great gap, piling up
in horrible confusion upon the engine,
which was buried out of sight beneath
the wreekage and the waters, which,
damned up, rose rapidly and poured
through the mass.
The frst bodies released were those
Of the engineer. George w. Shorey. of
Fort Wayne, whose skull was crushed;
Harvey Dunlap, superintendent of
bridges, which was not mangled;
Charles Helm, which was reduced al
most to a pulp and entirely beyond rec
ognition. Both Helm and Dunlap re-
sided at Peru. At 1870 Sunday afternoon
most of the cars had been taken out,
and the remains of TraiDmaster Charles
Wilcox were removed from under the
tender. One arm and one leg were
broken. His face was cut and his hips
were frightfully mashed. In his pocket
was found his watch, which had stopped
at 1:20. The body of the firman, f. f.
Moore, of Lafayette. was found crushed
dreadfully under the engine Sunday
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LATER NEWS

RED CLoUD, the old Indian chief EN-
plOyed at the dime museum in Chicago,
had an alteration with negro in the
entrance to the museum the 5th. and
was struck on the head with a stick.
An ugly scalp wound was the result,
and Red Cloud was taken to the county
hospital. where the physicians attempt
ed to dress his wound, but he became
hostile and refused to receive medical
attention.
THE University of Dublin, Ireland, on
The 5th. began the celebration of the
i0Oth anniversary of the founding of
Dllege by Queen Elizabeth.
THE st. Paul City Railway company
and the Minneapolis Street Railway
companies will soon be things of the
past, and in very short time the
street railway systems of st. Paul and
Minneapolis will be owned and operat-
sd by the Twin City Rapid Transit
company, which was organized several
months ago in the East As one of the
first steps in the movement General
Manager Scott, of the city railway
company. resigned the 5th, and is no
longer in the employ of the corporation.
The new company win have its head
quarters in Minneapolis and be man
aged from that city by General Mana
ger Goodrich. and it is understood will
be run strictly in the interests of Min
neapolis.
Hon. W. j. CAMPBELL. chairman of
the Republican National Committee
rendered his resignation the 5th, as
signing as his reason that his business
engagements would not admit 81 his
anticipating in politics.
THE men employed in the mines at
Laurelton. o. celebrated the Fourth by
4 drunk and riot Forty men particl-
oated and twelve were injured. One
man had his arm badly cut. another his
shoulder dislocated. another his knee
zap knocked out. A building was de-
molished Fourteen arrests were
made
The sheriff of Pittsburg, Pa, on the
eth. sent ten deputies to guard the
property of the Carnegie Steel Co.. at
Homestead. They were met at the sta.
ion by 1000 workingmen and quietly
escorted To the river. where they were
placed upon the steam tug Edna and
ordered to return to the city.
\ DEFALcATIoN of nearly half mil.
lion Of dollars has been discovered in
the National Savings bank of Buffalo,
y y.
Al IT. Louis. Mo, the rolling mill of
the tin department of the Neidringhaus
works was burned on the morning OF
The 5th Loss about $4,000
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Norton, of Illinois, moved to make
the nomination unanimous, and Schil-
ling of Wisconsin, Wasburn Of Massa-
chusetts, and the delegates from South
Dakota, Montana and Massachusetts,
seconded the motion. 1t was carried
with a hurrah and loud cheering, end
ing with calls for Weaver" The gem
eral was not present and a committee
was appointed TO escort him TO the hall.
1t was now after a. m.
For the Office of vice president the
following were placed in nominations:
BENJAMIN Terrill, of Texas; Mann
Page, of Virginia; Ignatius Donnelly,
of Minnesota, and James G. Field, of
Virginia. Gen. Field was nominated
on the first ballot.
James b. Weaver was born in Dayton, o.
June IL, 1888, graduated at the law school
of the Ohio university at Cincinnati in 1854. en-.
listed as private at the beginning of the war
and advanced in rank with a rapidity
equalled in very few cases. He was elected
first lieutenant OF Company G OF the Second
Iowa infantry attained the rank OF major Oct
3, 1862, and as both his colonel and lieutenant
were killed at the battle of Corinth he was
made colonel Finally he was brevetted briga-
der-general for gsllantry on the field, TO date
from March IL, 1se3
In 1866 he was elected district attorney Of
the Second judicial district of Iowa, and in
1867 was appointed assessor of internal rev.
enue for the Fifth district OF the state. an
office he held for six years He then edited
the Iowa Tribune, Of Des Moines, and was
elected an independent republican 70 the
Forty-sixth congress Men OF his way OF
thinking, however, were even then organizing !
new party, and in 1850 he became the green
hackers candidate for president Excluding
doubtful and fusion tickets he received 3O7. $40
votes. He then resumed private life and pro-
fessional duties for time, but in 1881 50 was
reelected 20 congress
No man in the Fiftieth congress was better
informed parliamentary rules, as he con-
clusively proved by holding the house in dead
lock for several days on a question regarding
the Oklahoma reservation.
In 1883 he was again candidate for congress,
but was defeated by the republican aspirant
The convention adjourned sine die at
3 a m
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FIRES IN CALIFORNIA.
Woodland Suffers from Disastrous Blaze
Two Men Killed - Fields of Grain
Burned Over.

Woodland Suffers from Disastrous Blaze
Two Men Killed - Fields of Grain
Burned over.
WOODLAND, Cal, July 2.-Fire broke
out in barn here Friday morning and
the high wind caused the flames to
spread rapidly. Jackson block and
Exchange block, containing the
opera house, Exchange hotel and
number of stores and Of
fees, were destroyed. A relief en-
CINE arrived from Sacramento. but
there was a scarcity of water and the
flames were not entirely under control
till late in the afternoon. The losses
will reach $500, 600. w. W. Porter and
an unknown man lost their lives by
falling walls.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 2. = Fire
broke out in the Haggin grant, mile
south of Antelope, Friday morning.
The fire seemed to start in two
places and, famed by the high
north wind, spread rapidly. Fields
of grass and growing grain and
stacks of hay were swept away.
The fire swept over a territory of 6.00o
acres and the loss will probably aggre-
gate 500, 900. A field fire is raging be-
tween Meyhews and Reuters and
fields OF wheat and barley are being
oopcnpna1
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FATAL TRIP IN a BALLOON.
Two Men Killed and Another Seriously
Injured Near Boston.

BosToN, July 5.-The balloon ascetl-
sion from the common Monday after
noon, one of the features in the cele-
bration of the Fourth prepared
by the city government, had
sad ending, the aeronaut, Prof.
George Augustus Rogers. of NAL
den, Me-, meeting his death almost in
stantly; his assistant, Thomas Fenton.
dying later, and the third occupant of
the balloon being now in the hospital
suffering from the shock and inhalation
of gas An immense crowd gathered
on the common in the afternoon to wit
ness the ascension. and soon after 4
o'clock Prof. Rogers. his assistant and
Delos l.. Goldsmith, a represen-
tative of the City Press associa-
ton. stepped into the huge airship
Gov. Russell and began the ascent
amid the cheers of the vast crowd. The
balloon rose but few hundred feet,
then sailed away to the south, and
when over South Boston rose to a con-
siderably higher altitude, continuing
its journey directly out to sea. When
about miles down the harbor,
and off Thompsons island. Prof.
Rogers, who did not relish the
thought of an ocean voyage, at
tempted to open the valve and attempt
a landing on the island, but IN his eff
forts to do SO he made rent in the
side of the balloon. The immense bag
began to descend at a terrible rate and
as it struck the water seemed en-
'tirely to collapse. Rogers sunk
at once and his body has not
yet been recovered. Fenton and
Goldsmith struggled manfqlly and sue
ceeded in catching hold of the basket
and held on for their lives Their pre-
Gcament was seen By some labOrers
IN Thompson's island, who immediate
put out to the spot IN a rowboat and
managed TO drag the two men into
their boat Both were in a
greatly exhausted condition. Fenton's
condition was the most precarious.
ne having inhaled quantities OF gas and
water. BY this time the tug Nathaniel
+. Doane, which mad been in use by the
Judges of the city sailing regatta and
was on her way ur.She harbor, saw the
.rouble and went to the rest e,
the two men being transferred there
to to be brouglA to this city.
FentOn slowly sank and
died before the tug reached the city.
Goldsmith was brought TO the city hos
pital, where it was stated that he would
recover, although he is a sufferer from
the shock and from the quantities of
gas that he inhaled.
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DEATH IN a WHlRL POOL.
Canoeing Party Upset in the Rapids and
SIX Are Drowned.

SIX Are Drowned
MONTREAL, Can, July six mem
bers of the Grand Trunk Boating club
were drowned Saturday night during a
canoeing trip. The Grand Trunk is
one of the most prominent of the
canoeing clubs here, it's men,
bers comprising the highest social
grades. Saturday afternoon party of
seventeen left in the war canoe Wan
derer for trip down the river Every
thing passed off well until on the up
trip from LongwenL. The pad
dlers, in Indian fashion, front
face, entered whirlpool OPP
posite st. Lambert. suburb on the
south shore, near Victoria bridge,
the result being that the boat was
whirled around the pool "A number of
times in quick succession and soon cap
sized. All the occupants were thrown
into the river, and then one of the most
heartrending scenes possible to imagine
occurred.
Twelve Of the capsized men managed
to catch into the upturned canoe, but
the others were whirled away in the boil
ing waters, and although rescuers see
lbH INC pun Ouo oobh
shores in boats, they could not save
single one that was caught in the whirl-
pool. One after another sank from sight
in full view of those who were risking
their lives to save them, as well as the
terrified men clinging to the canoe, all
of whom were rescued with one excep-
ton, youth named Thomas O'Brien,
prominent in athletic circles and well
known in New York and Chicago
as Splinter. who exclaimed as
he was going down: God save
the rest" The other five drowned were:
Edward Sleet, Howard Ransome,
Charles Millegan, Thomas Lee and an
unknown man. All of these
are prominent members of amateur
athletic clubs and well known in
Montreal, and the accident has cast
gloom over this city. Six more lives
would have been lost only for the fact
that a fishing couple, Henry Ryan and
Charles Root, pulled that number out
of the river into their boat. Two of the
rescued, so strong was the rivers pull,
had their hair torn out in handfuls.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FIRE destroyed three tenements at
Beray, France, and a number of the oc-
cupants were burned 10 death and many
were injured while trying to escape.
The loss was 1900. 600 francs.
IN Russia hundreds of persons were
dying daily from the cholera and the
scOurge was spreading.
Is ireland great excitement has been
caused by an attack on Parnell's MEM
DRY by priest
Ar Cologne, Germany, a rowboat
sprang leak and sank and five girls
and one man were drowned.
News was received of the seizure of
twenty-five Victoria sealers. as well as
the supply steamer Coquitlam, by the
United States cutter Corwin. Six thou
sand skins were seized
OFF Yarmouth, n. y, the ship Peter
Stuart, of Liverpool, was wrecked and
fourteen lives were lost.
THE French army lost sixteen killed
and seventeen wounded in a battle with
Tonquinese pirates.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
HFY-sEcONo CONGRESS.


WEDNESDAY. June 29.-The legisla-
tive. diplomatic. pension and post Office
appropriation bills were passed in the
senate, as was also a bill for the re-
lief of settlers upon certain lands in the
states of South and North Dakota. In
the house the conference reports on the
Indian and agricultural appropriation
bills were rejected and new confer
ence was ordered.
THURSDAY. June 30.-A Joint reso-
luton To continue the appropriations
for the expenses of the government
for fifteen days of the new fiscal year
was passed in the senate. a favor
able report was mace on the bill appro-
priating 5000, 900 toad the Worlds
Columbian exposition. providing il is
closed on Sunday. Conference reports
on the naval. the district and the ag-
ricultural appropriation bills were
agreed to. In the house bill to equal
lie the pay Of letter carriers was fla
vorably reported, and a joint resolution
10 continue the appropriations for the
expenses of the government for fifteen
days Of the new fiscal year was passed.
FRIDAY. July L. The Stewart bill
for the free coinage of silver passed
the senate by a vote OF % TO p. The
majority consisted Of seventeen demo
Gratis and twelve republicans: the mi
nOrity of eighteen republicans and sew
en- democrats. Adjourned to the 5th
In the house a bill was introduced to
pay pension at the rate of one cent a
month to ninety-day soldiers in the late
war The report of the conference
committee on the agricultural appro-
priation bill was adopted. The bill to
enforce the provisions of the eight-hour
law was passed.
SATURDAY. July = ~ The senate
was not in session. In the house the
conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was object
cd 10 and "A new conference was or
dered Eulogies were delivered in re-
spect to the memory of L. X. Wilson,
late 4 senator from Maryland. Adj
iourned to the 5th.
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WIDESPREAD RUIN.
Tornado Devastates whole Settle
ment in Henry County, Ill-One Life

A Tornado Devastates "A whole Settle
ment in Henry County, Ill.-one Life
Lost
GENEsEo, ILL.,, July 5.-The tornado Of
Saturday night was the worst that has
visited Henry county in twenty years.
1t did not reach this city, but in
the Pink prairie settlement, about
0 miles north of this city every
thing is in ruins for a distance of
about miles in length by so rods in
width. Trees from a foot To 3 feet
in diameter were uprooted and fences
were hurled in all directions. Orchard
after orchard was destroyed and hun-
dreds of acres of young timber land
were laid waste. Growing crops were
cut down in all directions One life
was lost, Mrs. John Crosier being
killed. Frank Cherry was cut and
bruised badly, Oscar Cherry was badly
bruised and cut, and William Cherry
was cut and bruised. Many marvellous
escapes from death are reported.
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WORLDS FAIR GATHERINGS.

TIE women of Chelsea. Mass, will
contribute fine stained glass window
TO the woman's building at the worlds
fair.
AN exhibit from Syrian women, con.
sisting chiefly of beautiful and costly
el-lbroideries, has been received by the
board of lady managers at Chicago.
THE women of Belgium win be repre-
sented at the exposition by an exhibit
A womap's committee, with the queer
as patroness. has been selected to have
charge of the matter.
THE eighth and greatest wonder o.
the world is what the worlds fan
buildings and grounds, even in then
present incomplete condition, are pro
nounced by Maj. Woods, executive com
missioner of the Connecticut worldi
fair board.
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KATE FOX JENcKEN DEAD.
She was one of the OriginatOrs of Modern
Spiritualism.

NEW YORK, July Mrs. Kate Fox
Jencken. one of the Fox sisters, who
were famous as spiritualists years ago,
died in this city Saturday. She was
born in this state and at an early age
she and her sisters became known all
over the country as mediums. Such men
as Horace Greeley in this country, and
the ear, in Europe were very much in
terested in their manifestations, and il
is said that the latter fixed the day of
his coronation on their advice. Mrs.
Jencken's husband was an English bar
rister, while her other sister was the
widow of DIR. Kane, the famous Arctic
explorer.
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PERISHED AT SEA.
a Vessel Wrecked on the Harbor of Var
mouth, y. -, and Fourteen Lives Lost.

4 Vessel Wrecked on the Harbor of Var
mouth, \. =. and Fourteen Lives Lost.
YARMOUTH, n. s., July 5.--A sad ship
wreck, involving the loss of fourteen
lives, occurred in Yarmouth harbor sun
day night. At 0 o'clock Monday morn
ing great quantity of deals drifted
ashore north of Chebogne point and
then damaged lifeboat with thirteen
exhausted sailors was washed ashore in
the surf and the men were helped up To
the houses and cared for They proved
to be Capt. Henry Hughes his first mate
and eleven of the crew of the Liverpool
ship Peter Stuart, bound from St John
for Liverpool with deals. The second
mate and thirteen others, including the
captains wife and child, were drowned.
At S o'clock Sunday evening the ship
struck on some rocks off Che bogne
point, supposed to be Cannot rock
ledge. The ship broke up and all the
boats but the lifeboat were smashed.
In cutting away the lifeboat she cap
sized and the captains wife and child
were never seen again. Some of the
crew who were thrown on the floating
deals from the broken-up vessel man
aged to right the boat and found the
captain still alive underneath. All who
could be seen were picked up and the
boat stood by until daylight, when the
first mate and some of the others were
picked up. Eighteen out of twenty
seven people aboard started away
from the scene of the wreck,
not vestige of the vessel
remaining The boat had been dam
aged, and filing, was again capsized,
but they got her righted and steered
toward land. Four more had, however,
been lost, and before they got to land
il was found that the dead
body of Alexander Troop was
washing about in the almost sub
merged boat and the corpse was pushed
off This body drifted ashore and SO
far has been the only one recovered.
The captain, mate and several of the
crew were badly bruised and the sail
rnalxer had his leo broken
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CYCLONE IN NEBRASKA.
The Tow. of Mason Visited and Much
Property Destroyed.

MASON. Neb., July AT 7:SO Friday
evening this town was visited by cy-
clone The wind blew from the south
west and the people, who had been
watching the threatening clouds, were
warned in time to seek places of
safety. The residences of J. II. Melville,
X. J. A. Payne and J. NJ. Amber were
almost completely destroyed. The Meth
odist and Baptist churches and the new
brick schoolhouse were torn to pieces,
and Paynes meat-marl1et building,
Jardoff & Elliott's hardware store,
CASTELAR, & Hurleys blacksmith shop,
Dryfus' livery barn and two unoccupied
houses, all on Main street, were de-
stroyed. The damage is about $685.
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FOURTEEN Cinnamon who we're ar
rested at san Diego, Cal. for attempt
ing TO enter the country in violation of
the exclusion law have been examined
by United States Commissioner Ward,
who ordered their Imprisonment at the
Folsom state prison for twenty days,
after which they were to be returned
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some Novel Eeatnres.

Quincy, H., July 5.-The feature of
the celebration here Monday was a
leap from a 150-foot tower into a net
ting by Ivy Baldwin and the marriage
in the presence of 1900
people of August Lightner and
Miss Nettie Eddy. As soon
as the ceremony was performed the
bride and groom stepped into the
basket of a big balloon and, accom-
panied by Prof. Baldwin, started on a
bridal tour to the clouds. The balloon
rose to an altitude of 1000 feet and
landed safely about miles south of
the city.