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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-19

The subject Of ths Improvement OF cur coun-
try roads IN one OF universal importance, and a
comprehensive plan shoaIa, X poss bic. be de
vised that viii not only promote his desirable
improvement, but sin insure uniformity and
system in the progress Of tie work.
Conclusion.
In concluding this brief and somewhat cir
cumscribed review Of state affairs have en-.
deayored TO eonfine myself TO subjects that 10
me seem 10 press most prominently for legisla-
tive attention. Tacre l. sin one topic to be
considered that OvershadoWs all Others in the
minds OF the taxpaYers-tlat Is. adherence TO
the strictest economy in all public expendi-
lures, however small, cons steat with ef-
ticient service ana wise eoaduet of state affairs.
Tue showing made by the economies Of the last
two years. though 50 large that il viii no doubt
pr &c a surprise 20 many people. Is by no means
complete, There are opportunities still left for
Il legislature - dispense with needless officials
anu to stin further restrict expenses in certain
branches of the state government, with the as
su-ance that result viii show as has in the
past that money will be saved and the service
improved al the same time No detail OF this
subject is so small as 10 be unworthy Of your
most serious attention. Extravagance ia the
conduct OF public business results in needless
burdens upon the people and, what is worse
breeds official neglect and corruption knowing
that OF the most valuable aids 10 the last leg
slatUre in the consideration OF IT'S appropriations
was Its joint committee on reirenchment and
reform, recommend that this legislature APP
point such a comm ttee. 10 which shall be re-
ferred bills for the expenditure OF money. Be
heving that the legislature in lis wisdom viii
be impressed with the high and patriotic impor-
lance OF discouraging al tendencies to loose and
lavish expenditures as "a first essential 10 good
government commend TO you these sugges-
tons regarding the public business OF the
state. GEORGE W. PECK
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN France the ministry res gned and
President Carnot Immediately charged
NJ. Ribot with the duty of forming
new cabinet which was done.
AT Penzance, England. mine was
flooded and thirty miners were
drowned.
FEDERAL cavalry attacked the rebels
at Sanotome, in the Argentine Repub-
lie. and dislodged them from their po-
sition and fifty of the rebels were
killed Oh wounded.
FIRE destroyed a spinning mill at
Osaka, Japan. with loss of 125 lives.
Most of the victims were young girls.
Two hundred and seventy houses in
the vicinity of the mill were also
burned
A TEMPLE at Kan Ii, China, which
was filled with natives who were
watching a theatrical performance
was burned by robbers. and /, 400 lives
were lost
THERE were 1929 d<zhs from chol-
era in Hamburg in 1892 and 20, 323
deaths from all causes.
BRIGANDs made a descent upon
church at Pogo, Spain, killed a priest
named Suarez and one of his assistants,
and then stole the altar service.
IN Moscow the body of a woman cut
in us pieces was found in coffee sack
in the street. Nothing had been learned
as to the identity of her murderer.
THROUGHOUT Europe the weather
was intensely cold. In Russia the
mercury fell TO 90 degrees centigrade
below zero, and in Siberia to 10 de-
grees below zero. In Hungary it was
40 below.
On the Congo railway a train collided
with a wagon loaded with dynamite
near Matadi. An explosion followed
and fifty persons were killed
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NEST AND sOuru

The paying teller of the German ma
tional bank at Denver, Col. Simon
Goldman, was missing, and his short
age was thought to be somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and $50. 600.
HENRY ALLEN and Paul Scruggs. who
murdered. robbed and then burned
Rube Atkinson. his housekeeper, and
her little daughter near Cotton Plant
Ark. were taken from Jail by mob
and hanged
Mrs. WILL CBUMP (colored). II years
old. had both hands shot of at the
wrists by her husband in a quarrel at
Evansville. Ina.
Is the western part of Frederick
county. Md, a distinct shock of earth
quake was felt Goods were thrown
from the shelves of stores in jefferson
FRANZ NELSON. merchant. and Mrs.
Webb Cross received fatal injuries IN a
runaway at Alton, Kan.
IN Kansas Gov. Lewelling has indi-
Gated that il IS his intention to enforce
the state prohibition laws.
N coal mine at King, Col, an ex-
plosion killed twenty-One Italians. one
ScOtchman and two Americans
JACOB RTNGGER's wife and daughter.
near Alma. Wis, died from eating
diseased pork.
THKEE are two houses of representa-
tives in session in the same hall in
Kansas. the republicans and the popu-
lists having organized independently of
each other.
FLAMES destroyed John York's dry
goods. clothing and furniture store in
Chicago, causing loss of s2s5. 600.
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LIVED LIKE a LORD.

How an Impecunious dividual Managed
to Exist In Paris During the Exposition.
He was well bred and when he com
menced To chat of sights in foreign
lands one did not feel like doubling his
word 70 talked of the execution of
pirates in LAina, described the diamond
for few minutes on the great exposi-
ton in Paris it was an easy step to Chi
cago and the worlds fair.
Il wish. said he meditatively, that
Nav was a few months nearer than it
really is Expositions are a snap for
fellows who are broke, and I'm awful
ly near it"
''So?" qucried an interested listener
''Yes," he continued: For six months
when the Parisian show was on lived
like a lord, and it didn cost me a sou
either. Had a course dinner every day,
too, frcm soup TO cognac and cigarettes.
! guess that the graft ought to be just
rs good in Chicago and so yearn for
the opening of the gates"
''How did You do it?" eagerly ques-
toned his companion, whose outward
appearance did not betoken unbounded
wealth.
Samples, samples" responded the
man of the world. you see, the man
ufacturers of all kinds of prepared
food always have samples of their stuff
on exhibition. The soup man, the
maker of beef tea, the preservers of
game, the Gamers of beef and other
meats, the people who put up all kinds
OF fruit are each and every one repre-
sented So are the men whose brands
of coffee are known all over the world.
In Paris they all had miniature kitch-
ems where they prepared their goods,
and all you had to do was TO walk up
to the exhibitors booth, look interest
eG, and you would be politely request
ed to test the goods. OF course it was
impossible to refuse the invitation, and
if you made few eulogistic remarks
it was nearly sure thing that you
would get a second helping"
II should have thought they would
have got onto you in week or So
well, | had to be somewhat diplo-
matte, but by skipping the soup booth
every other day, only calling on the
beef tea man twice week. and other
wise judiciously distributing my pat
rouage ! managed to avoid any un-
pleasantness. Before Id been at it
for week had a system, or route, call
it which you will, which worked like
charm"
After moments silence the diner on
samples held up one hand and counted
off on his fingers "Decem Der, January,
February, March. April, May.
well, / guess | can worry along un-
til then" he unused. but six months is
a long time to fast"
''Say," queried his interested friend,
''you said YOU were broke. Where did
you sleep?'
"Sleep? Why, in sample bed, to be
sure. Chicago Tribune.
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LATER NEWS.

A PARTY of body-snatchers was sur
prised at work in the potter's field at
Washington, ID. c., during the early
morning hours of the 10th.
A WOOD train on the Portland & Will
lamette Valley railway was deraiied
near Oswego the 10th by tree which
had fallen across the track. The en-
CINE, seven fat cars and a caboose went
into the ditch and sixteen people in the
caboose were severely injured. Fire
man John Hobenleiter and Raphael
Sowtze, labOrer. were fatally injured.
MAY wheat sold for 81 cents in Chi
cago the 10th. the highest mark since
Nov. 10.
THERE is danger of coal famine in
Chicago.
TIE death of Frances Anne Kemble,
the well known actress, occurred at
London, Eng, the 10th.
THE pope created fourteen cardinals
the 10th. The list does not include any
Americans
THE funeral of General Il. f. Butler
was held at Lowell. Mass, the 18th.
Fully 80. 600 people thronged about as
the remains were moved to the church
HORACE SMITH, aged 81, one of the in
ventors of the original writing machine,
inventor of the metallic cartridge and
part inventor of the Smith & Wesson
revolver, died at Springfield, Mass, the
10th.
FIRE destroyed the Kenwood insti-
tute, a young ladies' boarding school in
Chicago, the morning of the 10th. Fifty
young ladies had narrow escape. Be
coming panic stricken, they rushed out
in their night clothes and some of them
were severely frost bitten.
TIE evening of the 10th a four
story brick building in Philadelphia
collapsed. Seven men were in the
building at the time. Three were bur
badly hurt aud three escaped unIn-
jured-
KoRSEL LoTH, the murderer of Mrs.
Demacsek. met death by electricity at
Clinton prison. NY, the morning of the
18th.
THE Cunard steamer BOthnia, which
arrived at Liverpool the 10th, reports
that fire broke out in the steamer the
18th. but was subdued.
ARTHUR ALLEN, at Montreal, the
10th. fell asleep in his chair with
lighted cigar in his mouth. The cigar
dropped into a waste paper basket and
the smoke suffocated the young man
before he was discovered.
TIPS Mississippi river is full of float
inc ice from Cairo to Vicksbur0.
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THE EAST.

A SYNDICATE has been formed by
three of the largest silk mills in the
United States with a capital of $1,000
900 to control tire production of fine
grades of silk in this country.
THE coal magnates of PENNSYLVANIA,
acting with the Canadian Pacific rail-
which almost the entire coal fields of
Nova Scotia are to pass under their
control.
A FIRE at Chateaugay, n. Y, de-
strOyed almost the entire business por-
ton of the town. Loss. SIS. 900.
AT his home in Poughkeepsie. n. Y,
Lewis Baker died suddenly in the 1Olst
year of his age. lie leaves three sons
Alexander, aged 90; Nicholas, aged az,
and Cyrus, aged 20.
FLAMES destroyed Cushing academy
at Ashburnham, Mass, a noted educa-
tional institution and preparatory
school. the loss being SI6O, OCO.
A GIGANTIC lumber com bine has been
formed by Maine and Massachusetts
parties which would practically con-
troll the lumber business of the United
States.
II Philadelphia the National Bicycle
Association of America was formed.
Il is allied with baseball and its pur-
pose is to give regular bicycle meetings
with cash prizes.
A BRIDGE of frozen foam was formed
at Niagara falls so solid that a number
of persons crossed it. This was the
first time in 100 years that these boil
inc waters had frozen over
HUGH DEMPSEY, district master work
man of the knights of Labor, NJ
Davidson and Robert Beatty, cha ged
with poisoning nonunion workmen in
the Homestead steel mill, were placed
on trial at Pittsburgh.
THOMAS KILDAY fatally shot his
father, mother and sister in Philadel-
phia because told that he must go to
work.
The residence of w. C. Harrison near
Philadel phia was burned with its con-
tents. the loss being SI25. 900.
Al the age of 20 Gen. Rufus ingalls,,
United States army. retired, died in
New York city.
HORACE SMITH, of the celebrated firm
of Smith & Nesson, revolver manufac-
turers. died suddenly of heart failure
at his home in Springfield. Mass.
CONTINUED cold weather has in
creased the suffering at Homestead.
Pa. and it was stated that nearly 500
people were on the verge of starvation.
FUNERAL services over the remains of
the late Gen. t. f. Butler were held at
Lowell, Mass.
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FROM WASHINGTON.


THE death of John r.. Kenna. United
States senator from West Virginia, oc-
curred in Washington. aged A. years.
His term of service would have expired
March 3. 1895.
THE expert counterfeiter and
swiader. DIR" w. ii. Hale. alias
John Murray, alias DIR. Gordon Smyth,
wanted on nearly 100 charges in this
country, has been sentenced in Liver
pool, England, TO eighteen months at
hard labor.
The advocates of a canal to unite the
great lakes anu the ocean met in Wash
ington- Between seventy-five and 100
gentlemen were present, representing
the commercial bodies and the lake in
terests of the country.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregat-
ed 81, SOS, ISL, against 81 ,O66, $40, 4S6
the previous week. The decrease as
compared with the corresponding week
OF 1892 was 81.
BURIEG the seven days ended on
the 18th the business failures in the
United States mum bered SOC. against
$40 the previous week aud $50 Tor the
corresponding time last year.
AFTER effecting permanent organi-
cation the national deep waterway
convention in Washington adjourned.
IT has been decided by the pope to
establish permanent apostolic dele
CATION in the United States. and he has
nomina ted Mgr. SatOlH to be the first
delegate.
BITTER cold weather was reported
from all portions of the country. the
thermometer ranging from 20 degrees
below zero in the r-rth to 10 below in
the south. At Knoxville, Tenn. and
vicinity over a dozen persons froze to
deaf h.
The exports from the United States
% South American countries in 1892
amounted to SCI, SOS. 0l3. an increase of
81, log. $50 over the previous year.
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PHILOSOPHICAL SMITH.
Revenge of a Lover Who Happened {
Be Superintendent of the Gas Works.

Revenge of Lover Who Happened to
BE Superintendent of the Gas Works.
II can no longer regard you in the
light of a friend" said the fair girl to
Nj. Smith when he had proposed TO
her, thus destroying what had hither-
to been a delightful friendship. 1t is
ever thus. Cupid will not work in
double harness. Either friendship will
have to be turned out to pasture or
Cupid will have to be. Mr.. Smith had
been too impulsive. He had cinch
on being rejected but he failed to re-
gard it.
Yet Smith, in his way, was philos-
opher. He had plenty of ordinary
sense, and he had his heart in fairly
tractable condition. So. when the girl
told him this, he did not tear out his
hair, or fall on his knees, or calculate
any ordinations. or do anything
the rejected in books do.
Oh. no, Smith was different type of
man. He felt right away that the girl
had been toying with his highly emo
tional nature, and he steadied him self.
"You don't have to regard me IN any
light at ALL" he said, blithely, aid
turned off the gas.
Smith was the general superintend-
ent of the gas works.-Detroit Free
Press.
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The News Of the Wee.k.
HFTYsEcoND CONGRESS.
second Session.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

second session.
TUESDAY, Jan. 10 - The time was
occupied in the senate by Senator
Villas wis in his argument against
the anti-option bill. The quarantine
bin was discussed. In the house a
joint resolution providing that the new
congress shall take hold the January
following the November election at
whie it was chosen and changing the
time of inaugurating the president
from March TO April 30 was rejected
by vote of I2i TO 40.
WEDNESDAY,. Jan 1.-THE death Of
Senator Kenna CIV. Va was announced
after the reading of the journal in
the senate and the usual resolutions
were presented and adopted, and then.
as further mark of respect. the SEN
ate adjourned The house also ad-
jOurned without doing any business
out Of respect To the dead senator.
THURSDAY. Jan. IL. - No business
was transacted in the senate owing to
the funeral services over the remains
of the late Senator Kenna. In the
house bill was introduced increasing
from 81 TO s. per barrel the internal
revenue tax on fermented liquors. A
recess was taken to attend the funeral
of the late Senator Kenna.
FRIDAY. Jan. Is "A bill was intro
duced in the senate to extend TO the
North Pacific ocean the provisions of
the statutes for the protection of fur
seals and other fur-bearing animals. A
resolution was adopted calling on the
secretary of the treasury for a copy of
the opinion of the law officer of the de-
partment under which he is disbursing
the 100000 souvenir coins in aid of
the Colum bian exposition conditioned
on Sunday closing. In the house fill
clustering against the consideration of
the private war claims bill resulted in
nothing being accomplished.
SATURDAY, Jan. 14.-In the senate
the Nicaragua ship canal question was
discussed. In the house bill to ratify
an agreement with the Cherokee nation
of Indians occupied the time
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Judge Bardeen pronounced sen tence
at Merrill on lians Anderson, the Il
year-old boy who murdered an old man
named Marcus Homerfeldt on Deem
Der % near ogema The lad goes TO
state prison for life. The father was
requested to be present at the prelim-
mary examination. bat refused, saying
he did not care what was done with
the boy. Tie little fellow has no ade-
quate conception of the enormity of
his crime, and exhibited 70 fear when
his punishment was announced.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
MUST REFUND INTEREST.
Ex-Treasurers Required to Return to tn
state Nearly 100000.

Ex-Treasurers Required to Return to the
State Nearly 100000.
The supreme court has affirmed judg-
ment in the treasury suits Ex-treas-
urers and boudsmen are thereby re-
quired To return TO the state about
S50O.00 received rs interest on state
money deposited by treasurers in pri-
vate banks.
For many years past the state treasurers
have been in the habit OF depositing the state
funds in banks and receiving interest thereon,
claiming that in the absence OF any
plain and explicit stalute forbidding the
practice, and as they were required 70 furnish
heavy bonds, they were entitled TO the
interest Suits were brought in circuit
court over year ago against two Of the ex-
treasurers TO compel the refundiug 10 the state
Of the interest secured by them. and the aeci-
sion was against them They appealed their
cases TO the supreme court and they were ar
gued some months ago. disfingulss e legal tai
ent being employed on both SIDES an they have
again lOsti
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THE past season of lake navigation
was in two resi- ects the most disastrous
On record Never before have sOmany
lives been lost in a single season, the
total of fatalities reaching ninety-five
The losses undergone by the marine
underwriters also exceed those IN
surred in any previous season of lake
navigation; the amount reaches So
0En nno
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August
Flower

am Post Master here and keep
a Store Ihave kept August Flower
for sale for some time. / think it is
a splendid medicine. E. A. Bond,
P. NJ, Pavilion Centre, n. Y.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. 1t assures a good appetite
and a good digestion. -
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Needs of the wiscansia University.

In his report to the board of regents
President Adams. of the University of
Wisconsin, asks that the following APP
preparations may be obtained from the
Legislature:
For the engineering school. $3.50 for the
chemical department, 81 90. for horiiculflr-
oil building $4,000. yearly expenses Of univers-
ity extension. $4,000; ad iitioas to ladies hall.
$3.50 for more perfect equipment OF the
literary branches, $1,000; total sl25,950
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cnnntrrmandinr order.

During the years of the revolution
ary war, Rev. Samuel Buell. was pastor
of the Easthampton church, on Long
Island. lie had been pastor there q
great many years, and had gained wide
influence While the English occupied
the island. Sir Wilriam Erskine was in
command Between the parson and
the military authorities a good under
standing was kept mp 10 spite of the
political hostility. There is yet told a
story of the worthy parson to the effect
that Sir William once ordered a num-
Der of the farmers of Easthampton to
go over to Southampton to do certain
piece of work on the Sabbath. Before
that day came around. however, the
commander happened to meet the par
son. and told him frankly that he had
ordered out his Pensioners on Sunday.
II know it. know it." said the parson,
but, as it happens, i am myself COM
mander in chief on that day, and have
couutermanded the order" Sir William
yielded the point with a gcod-natured
laugh Youths Companion.
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You can always judge a town and
its people by its newspaper. says the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Never buy town
lots or lands where Il poor, half-starved
newspaper is published. Newspapers
these days are a necessity. not lux
ury. They are so cheap that the poor
sst man can have one-uuless he is run
ming bill at the saloon. 1t matters
not how many city papers a man may
take, he should give an honest sup
port to his home paper.
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MAY HAVE NO nAvAL REVIEW.
Secretary Tracy Thinks the Promised Gel
ebration VIII Be Failure.

w III ~ n tAauN%s
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--The naval re-
view at New York next spring, follow
ing the rendezvous at Hampton Roads,
Va, will not take place unless con-
gress makes additional provision
for it's proper celebration. THIS was
what Secretary Tracy told the commit
tee of citizens from Tidewater, Va.
who came to Washington to urge an
appropriation of $500, 900 for carrying
out the objects of the rendezvous and
review. MIR Tracy viii not be secre-
tary of the navy when the review takes
place, but he has looked into the mat
ter and he claims that the celebration
will be failure if it Is attempted on the
small sum of money already appropri-
ated for the purpose. So far only six
nations have accepted the invitation OK
the United States to participate in the
review, sDut unless the desired appro-
priation is made Secretary Tracy thinks
it would be better TO withdraw all such
invitations and declare the review of.
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SAM SANFORD, the patriarch of Amer
lean minstrelsy. Will celebrate the If
tieth anniversary of his connection
with the profession at Philadelphia
February 10. Negro minstrelsy in this
country dates from Sanford's first per
formauce. An Old-time show will be
given 10 commemorate the two events
mentioned. Fashionable Philadelphia
will turn odt and have good laugh.
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THE Boston Globe offered five dollars
a week for life to the person who made
the closest guess TO the popular vote
east for Cleveland and Harrison. Louis
" Woodbridge, bOOkkeeper, is the
winner. He made ten thousand guesses
and in one set Cieveland's vote only
sixteen higher than the official returns
give him and HarrisOn's only twenty
Eve lower than the same returns ac-
cord to him.