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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26
TIE EAST.

Is Pittsburgh the Peoples Mutual
Accident association was declared to be
hopelessly insolvent
TIRE Pennsylvania legislature re-
elected MATHEW 5 Quay as United
States senator.
The report of the general secretary
at the eighth annual meeting in New
York of the American Protective Tariff
league showed that during the past
year the general operations of the
league had been more extensive than
ever before in its history.
On the Pennsylvania road trains col.
lided near Jersey City, y. j. aud fif-
teen persons were injured, three ia
tally.
Tue late Horace Smith. of SPRING
field, Mass. left In Lis will. with the
exception of $40, 900. the entire estate,
valued at about IS, 900, 600, to benev-
Olent and charitable institutions
The death of Jules Eichberg. aged
90, the famous composer and musical
director, who for a generation had
been 4 notable personality IN Boston.
was caused by pneumonia.
THE death of Joseph Winsor, APRON
inent inventor. occurred at Providence,
r. l.. aged 81 years. He was married
seven times and secured judicial separ-
alton from six of his wives. The seven
wives survive him
a FIRE destroyed Story & Co.'S ware
house in New York and fifteen fire
men were buried under falling walls
and four were probably fatally in
jured- The property loss was $500. 900.
HUGH DEMPSEY, district master work
man of the Knights of Labor. was
found guilty in Pittsburgh of admins
tering poison with intent TO commit
murder in the Homestead poisoning
cases. The extreme penalty for the
crime is fine OF $500 and ten years
imprisonment
CATHERINE SHARP, widow of John
G. Sharp, a hero of the war of 1912.
died in Philadelphia, aged lis years.
She was said to be the oldest pensioner
on the rolls of the United States gov
eminent.
GEOaGE 70 LER, aged 8 years. and
his aurt. Mrs. Kate Roster, were burned
to death in fire which destroyed their
house in Pittsburgh. Pa
FLAMES destroyed a building occu-
pied by manufacturing firms in Roches-
ter. n. Y, causing a loss of $3.50. 900
and the death of 5. w. Burns, fire.
man.
A BLOCK of business and dwelling
houses were destroyed by fire at Ty-
rome, Pa, the loss being estimated at
$3.50. 600.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26
EcaE;cM INTELLIGENCE

TRROUGaoUr Sweden intense cold
prevailed and all harbors were ice.
bound. In Russia the wild animals,
made desperate by hunger and cold.
invaded the villages and devoured both
human beings and domestic animals.
IL the Rome tltalyl branch of the
Bank Napolli "A deficit of 5000, O0c
francs was discovered
FLAME destroyed tneater in Ke.
vaulssi China. aud over 200 persons
persisted in the flames.
Nor within the memory of man has
Canada suffered so continuously from
intense cold weather. The suffering
among the poor in all parts of the
country Is great, and numbers of peo-
pie have been frozeI 20 death, some iu
their beds
Ar Canton, China, a man was exc
cuied by the slicing process for patri.
eide. The prisoner was bound to
cross. then sliced to death.
CANADIAN customs officers at Windsor
have begun wholesale raids on respect.
able smugglers who have been buying
their clothing in Detroit, Mich.
FLAMES swept away the Ilkeston lace
factory at Ilkeston, England. the loss
being 500, 900.
THE passengers and crew of the
wrecked Spanish sloop Juane arrived
in Colon after living twenty-seven days
without food and water. Nine on
board the sloop died of starvation.
a WATCH has been completed by Cas-
imir Livau. a matchmaker at Geneva.
Switzerland, which, instead of striking
the hours and quarters, announces
theu. by speaking like the monograph.
r. & l.. TEssTER, one of the most
prominent mercantile houses at st.
Johns, n. f.. which had been in ex.
lstence for for y years, failed for over
$500. 600.
AT Termini. Italy, a battle between
GOO peasants nd body of gendarmes
occurred and eight of the peasants
were Silled and twenty were severely
wounded.
IN France the one hundredth ami.
versary of the execution of Louis XVI
was appropriately observed by the
royalists Masses of requiem were
cele brated in many churches.
is the Neitleben asylum in Halle,
Germany. an outbreak OF chOler acausec
great anxiety. In twenty-four hour:
seventeen new cases and nine death,
were reported.
A FIELD of ice 30 miles wide and 20t
miles long extended from the mouth o,
the Danube TO the northeastern coasi
of Crimea-
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LATER NEWS.
Justice Lamar Dead.

MACON, Ga, Jan. 23.-Justice Lucius
Quintus CincinnatuS Lamar died here
at $50 o'clock this evening.
IL is terrible shock 20 the commune
ty. The death was sudden in the ex-
treme, for. although he had been ailing
for some time, Justice Lamar appeared
TO be gradually gaining in health. He
came from Washington To Macon about
a month ago and had been visiting at
the residence of w. ii. Virgin, in Vine
vile, a suburb of this city. This after
noon about o'clock Justice Lamar took
his overcoat, intending to go to the
city, but was met at the door by
friend, D.. Llewellyu. with whom he
returned to the sitting room. At that
time, and during all the afternoon, he
was in good spirits. and at dinner, at
$50 this evening. he seemed to have q
lgood appetite. DIR. Llewellyn left the
house about o'clock. and few min
utes late: the justice was seized with
violent pains in the heart, and died at
the hour mentioned.
Bright's disease, with angina pee
toris. was the direct cause of Lamar's
death, and Is given by the physicians
as being the chief complication in the
case
Mr.. Lamar was appointed to the SUI
preme bench by President Cleveland ir
1885.
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INTERESTING FOREIGN GOSSIP

A RESIDENT of Leominster, England,
has won renown as collector of hui
man skulls.
A scHooL-TEACaER in England has
lately been voted pension of two shli-
Eggs a week She is sevcnty-five years
old and has taught an infant school,
for forty years lat wage of four shil-
lings a week.
THE London II legraph says that eff
forts are being made TO preserve histor-
ic Malmaison. once the residence OF
Empress Josephine, from falling into
the hands of some nineteenth century
vandal
A SMALL seal bearing the efigy Of the
duke of Cumberland has been picked
np between Fontenoy and Ramecrois.
on the scene of a battle in which the
British troops were engaged in l149'
and it has been presented To Queen VIC
toria.
TIE sea water originally put in the
great aquariums at the Crystal Palace.
Svdenham. in 1851. is said to be still
used there. having been used over and
over since that time. record without
parallel in the history of similar instr
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wIIH DOG AND SUE.

a PARTY of six guns shot over $500
rabbits on Lord Ancestors estate IN
England this season
A FARMER of Norden, Neb.. heard
sounds fror2 his hog pen one night
which Indicated great agitation among
the pigs. lie went to the pen armed
with an AK and drove away twelve
wolves
A TRAIN on the Great Northern rail-
road ran into a large herd OF an
telope near Blackfoot, Mont Seven
were killed and the engine was disabled
so that another had TO be obtained to
take the train on its journey.
WILD hogs in Velasco. Tex. pursued
a young hunter named James Weems.
and he sought refuge in tree. where
he was compelled TO remain all night
Two sportsmen discovered him. and
they had to shoot all the hogs before
Weems could descend.
SouTRREI.s are very plentiful and
destructive in some parts of the state
Of Washington Lincoln county paid
ont $4,000 in bounties on squirrel
scalps last year. yet but little
good effect was produced IL is
proposed 10 tax all the lands in the
county to raise funds 70 fight the rest.
and so make railroads and non-res ie.e-.t
owners help il the work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

STEPHEN VI. WHITE (dem.l has been
elected United States senator from Cal
ifornia. T. NJ. Cockrell, (dem) from
Missouri. Cushman X. Davis (rep.)
from Minnesota. and David Turpie
(dem.l from Indiana
JUDGE REED during the trial at
Wichita, Kan, of a divorce case in the
district court qnelled a small-sized riot
by whipping the defendant, Oscar san
ders.
The death of Mary Ann Nelson. a
colored woman who claimed to be $50
years old, occurred at her home near
Orland. IL.
II Maryland several men were
frozen to death in small canoes that
were caught out and frozen up a few
miles from Nantico,Se. and three tramps
were frozen TO death near Princess
Anne.
IN Cleveland a motor car ran into a
sleigh load of persons and five were
badly injured.
Ar Dtnton. Md. Mrs. Samuel X.
Langreli and her three children were
buried in one grave. all having died of
the measles in one day.
hiAsE III an tpiiePliS n 24tS 5ohu
Bradford. of White Plains. Mo. fell
into an open CRATE and was burned to
death.
DETECTIVE DANIEL COUemIS. the
Only survivor of the three men sem
fenced TO life Imprisonment for the
murder of DR.. Patrick Henry Cronin in
Chicago Nav 4, 1859, has been given a
new trial by the supreme court.
ABOUT Great Falls, Mont, farmers
have been blowing for the last three
weeks
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26

IL the Jail yard at Helena, Ark,
for numbering Prince Mallory. negro
neighbor, on January IS, 1892.
IN the large warehouse of the Ameri-
can Phosphate and Chemical company
at baltimore flames destroyed property
valued at S200. 900.
CHARLES l. Pool celebrated his l0Tth
birthday at New AIbine. la. He has
seventy living descendants
ONE steamer aud several barges were
sunk by the breaking of an ice gor.e
at Belmont, Ky, and three negroes
were drowned.
FUNERAL services over the remains
eff President Hayes took place at
Fremont, o.. on the GOTH Many ma
military veterans aud thousands of
citizens followed the remains to Oak
wood cemetery, where the body was
placed by the side of the ex-president's
wife. Public buildings, churches,
stores and many private residences
were draped and bound with black.
and on every hand the emblems of
mourning bespoke the deep regard and
sorrow of the community.
AN explosion of giant powder at
Richmond, Utah. killed Lewis and
James Kerr, and Thomas Exeter. Fred
Rainey and Chandler Peart were fatally
injured.
An audience assembled at the Office
of the lo1--distancc telephone in Chi
cago and listened TO a concert given in
New York.
NEAR Peru, Ind, a passenger train
dashed from bridge into the Wabash
river, and George c. Dorland. of La
Porte. was killed and sixteen other per.
sons were injured, some fatally.
On the Big Four road a train ran
into an oil train near Alton, III. A
large number of persons gathered at
the scene of the wreck when an ex.
plosion occurred, killing sixteen per
sons and iniuriug over fifty others, sew.
enteen fatally.
IN Denver, Col. all places of amuse.
ment were closed Sunday night by or
der of the police board, and the pro-
pr;etors and employees were arrested
aud placed in Jail.
The national bank examiner closed
the Capitol national bank of Lincoln,
Neb The deposits amounted to $685..
600. of which the state had $780, 900.
AT Elwood. Ind. the McBeth lamp
fiue works. the largest of the kind il
the world, were burnel /, the loss being
500. 900.
LAKE ERIE has not been frozen as is
now in the history OF the present gen.
GRAFTON. There is an unbrol1en field OF
ice from Detroit river TO Put-in-Bay.
FIRE swept away the Carondolet ele.
vator 1T South st. Lonis. containing
1850 coo bushels of wheat, ausing 3
loss of 81, SOC, 900.
RoBERT LANDRY and Pick George
(negroes) were taken from the Jail at
Convent, La, and hanged by a mob.
One was charged with murder and the
other with robbery.
IN Johnson county. Wyo., twenty.
three men under arrest on charges OF
murder in the rustlers' war have been
acquitted for lack of money to carry
on the prosecution.
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SOON TO BE TRIED.

Dan Coughlan's Case Reinstated. and a
Hearing viii Probably BE Had In Feb
ruary-rhe Convict Transferred from
Joliet Prison to Jail In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2l.-The Cronin case
is again on the docket of the criminal
court, and Dan Conghlin is lodged in
the county jail to await a second trial
for murder. The order reinstat-
ing the case was issued by
Judge Dunno upon the motion of
Attorney William ) Forrest, who sub
mitted to the court copy of the SUI
preme courts Judgment Upon re-
ceiving the capiases Sheriff Gilbert
promptly dispatched three of his
deputies to the Joliet penitentiary.
and they brought the prisoner back
to this city on the 5 o'clock train
over the Alton road. The case was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE following United States sen
ators were elected: Michigan, Francis
t. StOckbridge trep1; Indiana, David
Turpie (dem.l; Tennessee. w. u. Bate
tdem.l; New York. Edward Murphy
(dem.i; Massachusetts. Henry Cabot
Lodge trepl; Connecticut, Joseph Il
Hawley trep.); Maine, Eugene Hale
(rep-l; Delaware, George tray ldem. J..
IC was resolved at the convention of
the National League of Good Roads in
Washington that the colleges OF agri-
culture and mechanical arts In the sew
eral states should make a speciality of
thorough instruction, scientific and
practical, in the construction and main
tenance of good roads.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven day ended on
the Goth numbered 332. against SOC the
previous week and S2S for the CORE
spending time last year.
DURING the seven days ended on the
Goth the exchanges at the leading
clearing houses in the United States
aggregated l.464, 626. $40, against ST.
$40, s0s,9Si the previous week. As
compared with the corresponding week
of 1892 the increase was Is. L
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The News Of the Week.
By TEL GRAPH AND NAIL.
FlFTYsEcONO CONGRESS.
san.....I Aas.I....

TUESDAY. Jan IA bill to rereal
the silver-bullion purchase provision
of the Sherman bill was reported in
the senate and the MeGarraghan bill
was defeated by a vote of - t. Is.
The joint resolution 10 amend the con-
sti:ution so as to limit the presidential
Office to one term was discussed. In
the house a bill was introduced to re-
fund the pr cent bonds to increase
the circulation of the national banks
and to discontinue the purchase of
silver bullion. resolution was
agreed to making provision for the
joint meeting of the two houses of con-
gress on Wednesday. February s. to
count the electoral vote.
WEDNESDAY,. Jan. is. As soon as
the senate met Senator Sherman an
nounced the death of ex-President
Hayes, and. after paying a trihnte of
respect tn the deceased. he moved that
the senate adjourn in honor of the
dead and an adjournment was at
once taken. In the house the sundry
civil bill $40, 900, 000l was reported
Representatives Haynes of Ohio. an
nounced the death of ex-President
HAYES and made a speech eulogistic os
the deceased and the house adjourned
in respect To his memory.
THURSDAY. Jan. 10 he anti-option
bill anu the measure for a constitu-
tiOnal amendment TO limit the presi-
Dental Office to one term were dis
eussed in the senate. The nomination
of Elijah w. Halford, of Indiana. to
be paymaster with the rank OF major
was received. In the house the bill
providing that no person shalt be ex-
cused from attending or testifying be-
fore the interstate cOmmerce commits
sion ON the ground that the testimony
or evidence may tend to eriminate him
was passed. The bill for the establish
ment OF a national quar- utine was
called up, but no action was ta,sen.
FRIDAY. Jan. 90. - The senate met
and imme diately adjourned ont of re-
spect to the memory Of ex-President
HAYES In the house the general de-
fieiency appropriation bill $50, 956. 6lO)
for the next fiscal year was reported.
An adjournment was taken out of re-
spect TO tine memory of ex-President
Hayes.
SATURDAY. Jan. 21.-Tthe new Co
lumbar postage stamp was vigorously
attacked IN the senate by Mr.. Wol-
colt. of Colorado, who called M his
joint resolution directing the discou-
tinuance of these stamps. The anti
option bill was also discussed. The fea-
Jure Of the session of the house was
the consideration of the national quar-
antiue bill. A bill was reported To es-
tablish buoys on the Michigan lake
front at Chicago.
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.Found Dead M Bed.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.-Mrs. John j.
Mitchell was found dead in bed at a.
m. by her attendants. Mrs. Mitchell
was a well known and wealthy mem
Der of society, although advanced
IN years, and was a very char
table woman. Only a month ago
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell celebrated the
fotty-fifth anniversary of their we'd
ding. Mr.. Mitchell has been for years
president of the Chicago & Alton rail-
road, and is one of it's principal stock
holders He is also president of the
st. Louis, Kansas City & Chicago road.
Mrs. Mitchell leaves five children, all
daughters, two of whom are married.
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MRS. MASON GIVEN FOUR YEARS
She Tells of the Murder OF Cole in Court
Her Attorneys strong Plea.

She Tells of the Murder OF Cole in Court
Her Attorneys strong Plea.
HASTINGS, Neb.. Jan. 2O.-Mrs. Anna
Il. Mason was suddenly arraigned at
an adjourned term of the district court
Thursday afternoon for the murder
of ID. 5. Cole August last by her
attorneys. She pleaded not guilty
to the charge of murder in the first
degree, but offered to plead guilty to
manslaughter. County Attorney Me-
Creary accepted the plea and on re-
quest of her attorney. f. E. Ferris, the
court listened 70 a lengthy statement
she made. A synopsis is as follows:
She began by recounting her life since her
marriage 10 Edward w. Mason six years ago.
il was perpetual struggle against poverty.
The husband and wife did not live together on
account OF this poverty, he living on farm
with his parents and she with her sister.
near Cole and the scene of the crime. The
murdered man professed interest himself 10
their welfare. and tried 10 induce Mrs Mason
TO yield to his wishes AT last she did so, and
Cole continually making greater promises to
her, which he failed 10 keep In some
way her husband found out Dout il, and so
she confessed all to him. He said: That man
must be killed. and If you don't do il will"
He procured a revolver for her and showed her
how to use It. For long time she tried TO
pluck up courage to kill Cole After attempting
and always failing her husband kept urging the
crime and on the evening Of the murder she made
an ca yagement 10 meet Cole between his home
ard hers at 10 O'Clock. Cole failed TO keep his
appointment. but when returning home she saw
him sitting on the door of a ruined shanty. She
went over and after salutations went into the
house with him. They began talking and Cole
asked her to move uptown and said he would
furnish rooms for her and keep her like lady
Then she raised the revolver ana shot him in
the face.
Her attorney made a strong plea for
the mercy of the court, and said that
while he believed that he could acquit
his client he considered this would save
her sanity. The strain was SO great
that, while she would escape the peniten-
tiary, 1t would be to go to an insane asy-
lum. Mrs. Mason was kept under the
effect of stimulants all day and fire.
quently broke down during her recital
Judge Beall sentenced her TO four years
in the peniteutiary.
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CHICAGO. Jan. 2l.-Eight workmen
were more or less seriously injured by
a falling scaffold upon which they were
working at No. 1885 Wabash avenue
Friday morning at l0:3O O'clock.
The building is brick structure
being built for the Su6terranean
Theater company, which proposes
to give Jules Verue's "Trip to the
Center of the Earth" The men in
jured had moved to a new part of the
scaffolding on the inside of the build
ing when AKA timber gave way I'M
der their comb. ned weight and pvecir-
itated the men in a heap on the floor 90
feet below. Eight men were hurt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26

ONE Of the most significant signs of
the times is the fact, just made public,
that young lady i to be graduated
next June from conservative old Johns
Hopkins university with the highest
degree in its gift-that of doctor of
philosophy. The recipient of this un-
preeedented honor Is Miss Florence
Baseom. daughter of Prof. John Bss-
com of Williams college. Massachusetts,
who from 1854 to 1881 WAS president OF
the university of Wisconsin From this
western instltutiOu Miss Rascom has
already received the degrees Of baehe-
Tor Of arts. bachelor Of literature. bach
eIoT Of science and master Of sTts
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A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
gives an insight into an industry not
very generally known 1t says: SAC
cOrdmg to statistics just received by
the general government of TabaScO
500, 900 lizard skins were shipped to the
United States from that state last year
This peculiar industry is carried on by
hundreds of natives who capture the
wild tropical lizard without difficulty
Thousands of skins are marketed in
Mexico, while large quantities are ex-
ported to European countries. 1t is
estimated that fully 5000. 600 lizards
were slaughtered for their skins last
year"
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A TENNESSEE judge named Spring
field. presid NJ over a court at Chatta-
nooga. announced the other day that
no person in necesSitous circumstances
will be punished in his court for steal
ing coal from the coal trust Several
men and women who had been arrested
for depredations on the ring coal
yards were discharged. Judge Spring
field has original notions of equity not
exactly in cOnformance with modern
legal methods Of Jurisprudence But,
with the thermometer at ten below zero
and coal at trust prices, the native
sense of justice makes strong appeals
20 a merciful magistrate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26

The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has decided that the old blue law, en-
acted in 1874 and relating to certain
worldly pursuits on the Sabbath day.
is still in force. The case upon which
the decision was rendered was that of
Thomas Matthews. publisher of the
Pittsburgh Sunday Leader. who was
convicted of publishing and issuing
his paper on Sunday under this act
The court in conclusion commends the
act but says that too liberal enforce
ment of It's provisions may lead to its
repeal, ana that it is in more danger
from its friends than its foes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-26

The prevalent idea that the oldest
university Is in Europe is incorrect. In
the tenth and eleventh centdries the
university at Fee, Africa, was almost
the only seat OF Arabic and Christian
learning in the world. Before univer-
stiles existed IN Paris. Oxford. Cam
bridge. Padua or Bologna students
hocked 10 Fec from Auialusia, France.
and even England, and Fee j. to-day
the principal western seat of Moham-
medan theology.
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suddenly Stricken Blind.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Jan. 3D.
George W. Thayer, a prominent and
well-known citizen, was Suddenly
stricken blind on Tuesday. The sight
of his left eye is gone beyond recovery
by a detachment of the optic nerve,
and serious fears are entertained
for the right eye. He is go years old
glasses. lie was mayor of the city for
two terms, nine years mem er of the
board of public works and five years
president of the West Michigan Fair
association. His affection did not be-
come known outside of the family I'M
til Saturday