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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-08
LATER NEWS.

THE famous Krupp pavilion at the
worlds fair was opened to the public
the 5th. The guests of the occasion
which was an informal one, were treat
cd to the novel spectacle of a drill will
the huge guns. All the big coast de,
Tense pieces and the smaller rapid-firinp
guns were moved from right to left.
and the reverse, as gracefully and pre-
cisely as if they were rifles in the hands
of soldiers. The motive power was by.
draulic.
The president. the 5th. appointed
Chas. w. Dayton TO be postmaster of
New York City.
THE Sandusky Savings bank. of San.
duslky, o., failed to open its doors the
9Th. 1t was considered one of the
strongest institutions in that part of the
country.
The national antitrust convention
probably the most unique gathering a
states representatives ever assembled
began its first session at Central Music
Han. Chicago, the 5th. Delegates from
30 states and territories were present.
pursuant to the call of Gov. knute Mel
son, of Minnesota. who received his au-
thority by legislative enactment. The
convention has for its object the forma-
ton of an organization To fglH ALI
trusts, although originally its combative
purpose was directed against the an
thracite coal combination solely. Gov.
Nelson was unanimously elected chair
man of the convention.
THE postoffice at Lyons, To-, was
robbed the night of the 5th. The safe
was blown open and all the stamps,
money and valuables taken.
THE president said the evening of the
5th, in reply To a direct question by a
representative of the Assoc lated Press,
..at he intended To call an extra ses-
sion of congress not earlier than the
list nor later than the 18th of Septem-
Der, unless unexpected contingencies
should neeessitate a meeting at an
earlier date.
THE trial of Lizzie Borden, for the
murder of her father and mother, began
At New Bedford. Mass, the 5th.
THE Peoples bank at Bentonville,
Ark. was robbed the afternoon of the
18th by six men. The robbery was COM
nitted about 2:30. while the president
and assistant cashier were in the bank.
and the robbers secured from $40, 900 to
$4,000. Before the robbers escaped
With their booty, which was carried
away in meal sack. two of them were
wounded. The assistant cashier was
also wounded. as was also one citizen
and the president of the bank and one
:itizen We're killed.
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SEM 10 The RoTToM.
Collision on Lake Huron Between the
steamer Corsica and an Unknown Yes
seI-The Latter Sinks Instantly and Her
Crew Perish.

Collision on Lake Huron Between the
steamer Corsica and an Unknown Yes
seI-The Latter Sinks Instantly and Her
Crew Perish.
ALPENA, Mich. June S.-The steel
steamer Corsica collided with an IN
known schooner Is miles off Thunder
Bay island on Lake Huron at daybreak
Friday morning in fog. The schooner
was cut in two and went to the
bottom instantly Her entire crew
wao lost. The Corsica had no
time to wait for the rescue
of any survivors who might be floating
around in the mass of wreckage, as her
bow was stove in and water was pour
ing into her hold. She was run on the
shore in Thunder bay just below Ossi-
neke. The bows are all crushed in for
a considerable distance and twenty
four big steel plates are loOsened.
Capt Cumming was asleep at the
time of the collision. His mate states
that the Corsica was bound down Lake
Huron with a cargo of iron ore and
had run all night through the fog.
He claims that the Corsica did not run
into the schooner. but that the
schooner ran into the steamer. The
moment they struck he states that
the engines were reversed, and that the
schooner disappeared from view in a
second. Her disappearance was so sud
den that not even her name, color or
size could be made out by those on
board the steamer. He is certain that
the schooner's cr9W were all lost. On
the steamer more attention was paid
to her condition than to the fate OF
those on the schooner, for it was feared
at first that she was going down.
That the unknown schooner was lost
is made certain by the fish tug Angler
which has just arrived here. She re-
ports having passed the cabin of the
schooner and large amount of wreck
age off Thunder bay There was
no name ON any article seen.
The cabin was about IS feet
long and was about one-third cut
through, which clearly indicates that
the steamer ran into the schooner In
coat which was picked up among the
wreclxage was a letter signed by Joe
Davy, 2l3 Cherry street, Green Bay,
Wis, March So 1898. There was no en-
veIope on the letter nor any other way
of telling to whom it was addressed.
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STILL AT WORK.
The Deadly Cyclone Continues Its Awful
Destruction = EIdorado. Ark. Swept
Away and Many Lives Lost-Ruin and

The Deadly Cyclone Continues Its Awful
Destruction = EIdorado. Ark. Swept
Away and Many Lives Lost-Ruin and
Death in Tennessee.
LrrTLE Rock. Ark, June 3.-Thc town
of Eldorado. Union county. Ark, was
swept by one of the most destructive
cyclones about o'clock Friday after
noon that has passed over this section
of the southwest for years past.
Eldorado has Il population of ] LOO
and the death and destruction to
people and property in the town were
frightful. A dispatch received here
while the storm was raging says from
fifteen to twenty-five persons were
killed and injured in Elderado, while
the destruction OF property and loss of
life in the vicinity was terrible.
Almost every house in the town was
unroofed or blown down, while three
sawmills short distance ont were en-
tirely blown away. The roof of the
Baptist church was CARED away, and the
sexton, who was in the building prepsr-
ing for school commencement which
was to have taken place Friday
night was instantly killed. Eldorado
is one of the oldest inland towns in
south Arkansas, and was before the
days of railroads in the state the prin-
cipal cotton market for that section.
Many of the richest men in Arkansas
are still citizens of Union county. The
cyclone struck the town from a south
westerly direction and its coming was
heard for fifteen minutes before il
struck Eldorado. The telegraph wires
are all down and nothing has been re-
ceived here since 1870 p. IN. Friday.
Specials from the surrounding coun-
try tell of much damage and loss of
life. James Bates was killed by light
ming at Huntingdon, Tenn, at which
place terrible storm of wind and rain
ragged, doing large amount of damage.
William Prather, of Falcon. Tenn,
was killed by cyclone and
ten houses in that neightor-
hood were blown down. Prathc,.'s
neck was broken by piece OF flying
timber The Obion river at Trimble.
Tenn, is out of its banks and is ~
miles wide. Mrs. Manning. of Poplar
Grove, Ark. was fatally injured by q
cyclone; houses were destroyed
and several people hurt Camden,
Tenn, was visited by the cy-
clone and the crops throughout
Benton county were badly damaged.
The rains have checked the fau of the
Mississippi and appeals for aid are
coming in from the overlooked districts,
while fears are heightened that the
levees cannot stand the strain.
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The EAsT.

Is the sixty-ninth annual meeting in
Saratoga Springs, y. Y. the Home
Missionary Society of the United States
elected Gen. O. o. Howard, United
States army, as president.
AT the age of 73 Prof. Moses G. Farm,
er. of Boston, one of the pioneers OF
modern application of electricity to in
dustrial uses. died in Chicago of pneu.
monia.
The iron foundry works of J. L. & J.
VI. Cornell in New York were burned,
the loss being $500. O0O
The National Union bank OF New
York has begun business with paid
in capital stock of 81. 200. 900.
4 FARMHOUSE at Van Buren Point, y.
Y, was burned and four of the five lar
mates persisted in the flames.
The following were the percentages
of the baseball clubs in the National
league for the week ended on the Sd:
Pittsburgh, 200; Boston. .625; Brooklyn,
.56I: Philadelphia, .567: Cleveland. .542;
Baltimore. $40; New York. .4S4: Wash
ington, 49,; Cincinnati, 452; st. Louis,
AS; Chicago, IA; Louisville. .143.
IL New York William Bente and his
wife and Elsie Bente, Helen w. DietZ
and Charles Pugsley lost their lives by
the burning of building.
JOHN OCONNoR, John McQuaid and
Jane Mooney committed suicide in Phil
adelphia in one day.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FRoM WASHINGTON.


IN session in Washington the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
declared DIR. Charles 4. Briggs guilty
of heresy by vote of SsS TO Il6.
GOLD was being rapidly withdrawn
from the treasury, more than 81, 900, 900
having gone cut during the past seven
days.
IN the Fifty-third congress there will
be ten contested seats
Is the first FIVE months of 1898 there
were twenty failures of national banks,
the capital involved being 81, l50. 900,
against seven failures for "a correspon-
ding period of 1892, when the capital
aggregated S625. 200.
DURING the eleven months of the cur
rent fiscal year the government receipts
We're $3.50. 49,, 90, against 1926. ia. ls4
the preceding eleven months. The ex-
penditures were 1888, 25O,O55, against
1892. 4Os, OS5 during the eleven preceding
months.
IL session in Washington the Presby-
terrain general assembly suspended
Prot. Charles A. Briggs from the min
istry.
WILLIAM II. PUGH took the oath of
Office as commissioner of customs and
ID. y Morgan was sworn in as United
States treasurer.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the I'd showed that the debt
decreased S539, 435 during the month of
May. The cash in the treasury was
S754, 122, 9s4 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
TO $50, 1s5. 1873.
II the United States, there were 23s
business failures reported during the
seven days ended on the 2d. In the
week preceding there were 256, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
the number was rs.
y LARGE group of spots is now
clearly visible on the sun, which can be
seen with the naked eye by the use of
smoked glass.
The leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges
amounting TO $500. l42. 352, during the
week ended on the 2d, against sI.O43,-
0l4.447 the previous week. As com
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 the decrease was I2.O.
A RULING by Justice Bradley SAYS that
courts have the right to inquire as to
sufiieiency of the cause of removal of
government employees under the civil
service act.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DURING a cyclone the British ship
Germania was wrecked in the Bay OF
Bengal and seventy-four lives were lost.
NEAR Kingston, Ont, robbers secured
~ Give registered letters in which were
about 5000.
FLAMES destroyed the new Palace of
Industry at Rome, Italy, and four fire
men persisted.
On the Corean coast the Russian cor
vette Nitia1 went ashore and was to-
tally wrecked and nine lives We're lost.
Ar Quito, Ecuador, hundreds of In
dams were dying OF peculiar disease.
The body turns to a sky blue color,
swells to three times its ordinary size
and then death follows.
NEAR Manipur, India. the rivers over
flowed their banks and submerged viii
lagos and many persons were drowned.
At one pc int on a small stream twenty
bodies were recovered.
BARGRAM and Mustapah, Caucasian
princes, fatally wounded each other in
d Iel at Daghestan, Russia.
A CYCLONE destroyed the village of
Eldorado, Ark. and fifteen persons
were said to have been killed.
A TORNADO swept over Huntington,
Falcon, Camden and Trumble, in Ten
nessee, destroying a vast amount of
property and killing several persons.
EXTENSIVE floods in eastern Galicia
did great damage and eighteen persons
were drowned.
Is London the international billiard
match between Frank Ives, of America.
and John Roberts, of England, resulted
in victory for Ives, the score standing:
Ives, 5.99T; Roberts. 1881.
A FIRE in the Fuente coal mines in
Mexico caused the death of twenty-six
men.
FIRE ruined the office of the Western
Mail newspaper in Cardiff, Wales, the
loss being $500, 900.
THREE thieves killed Mr. Ely, a
wealthy Canadian farmer, and his wife
and daughter after looting the house at
Beachridge
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BRAVE MEN KILLED.
I've Firemen Lose Their Lives and Sew
eral Are Injured by the Collapse of the
Walls of Burning Building in Omaha,
Neh.

I've Firemen Lose Their Lives and Sew
eral Are Injured by the Collapse of the
Walls of Burning Building in Omaha,
Neb.
OMAHA, Neb., June 5.-The large
furniture house of Charles Shiverick e.
Co, on Farham street, burned TO the
ground Saturday night, and the fire
was attended withthe death of Capt.
c. ID. Cox and Robert ouray. of the fire
department, and the fatal injury of
Firemen Ben Morris, Charles Ellington,
George Coulter, c. ii. Pringle and James
ConleY, of Scranton, Pa, a bystander.
The loss on the building is $4,000 and
the stock sl50,OO0. Ed Maurers res
taurant next door was damaged S25,-
OO0
During the progress of the fire the
west wall fell, burying the fremen in
the ruins. The fire was caused by
lightning in the worst storm ever ex
rain descended in torrents and the
lightning never ceased. Telephone and
telegraph wires are burned out, cellars
flooded in almost every part of the city,
and il is roughly estimated that $780,
600 worth of damage has been done to
property.
Heavy rains earlier in the ia. had
pretty well filled the lowlands of 0m, ha
and shortly after appeals began TO
come in to the police station for help
from the rising waters in the northern
part of the city. The fire alarm was
sounded and several companies sent 40
II. -
was assigned to the southern districts
of the city. where a like situation pre-.
vailed. The firemen found many fam
lilies in the second stories of their dwell
lings with current as swift as the
Missouri threatening to start their
homes down the river. In many places
the flood was feet deep and rising
with alarming rapidity.
Firemen went to the rescue of the
Imprisoned people with everything
that would float two persons Shed
doors were in demand, and in some
instances prominent citizens came
sailing down the middle of the
avenues between the street car
tracks on their parlor doors, hastily
detached for the purpose of going
for assistance for their families.
Those residing in cottages in flooded
districts were in the greatest danger,
and many were forced to the highest
point of any single story houses to avoid
the rushing torrents.
Hundreds of people lined the high
grounds surrounding the inundated
places TO render what assistance was
possible to those seeking shelter after
being driven from their homes The
districts from which families were re-
moved from their hosnes were in the
vicinity of Grace, Clark, Twenty
fourth and Nineteenth streets on the
north, and along Costello and adjacent
avenues on the south
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AN OLD BANK ASSIGNS.

Hermann Scharner a. Co., OF ChIca go
Forced to suspend-The senior Partner
Missing.
CHICAGO, June 5.-lIerman Schaffner
& CO., the oldest and largest
private bankers in the west, did
not open their doors in the Title and
Trust building Saturday and the news
that the institution was insolvent was
soon the talk of the town. 10 add to
.he excitement came the report that
Mr.. Schaffner. one of the best known
men in Chicago and one of the
most popular of the Jewish race,
could not be found, the result of
the report being the rumor that
the banker had become insane over his
troubles or had taken his own life. The
banking firm made an assignment in
the county court at 1910 a. m. In the
absence of statement by the as
signes it is given out, but not
authoritatively, by those concerned
that the liabilities of the concern will
not exceed $500, 600 and that the assets
more than cover the amount.
Mr.. Schaffuer's family have offered
a reward of 5000 for information as to
the missing mans whereabouts. The
bank had been in business since 1878.
Herman Schaffner and A. &. Becker
composed the firm. The bank trans
acted but little deposit business. Its
speciality was the handling of CONNER
cial pa per. In this way the firm is
reported TO have handled in the last
year $50, 000,O 600 worth of paper. The
assignment was made, it is said, from
the fear that when the fact of Schaff-
ner's disappearance became public there
would be a run on the bank
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Failure in Joliet. Ill.

JOLIET, H., June 5.-The old veteran
stone company of Sanger. Moody Il
Steel made an assignment in favor OF
their creditors, with assets aggregating
Sl77, 700 and liabilities only $4,000.
The bulk of the liabilities are with
the bank, which are more than
secured by trust deeds. The firm
was compelled TO assign because
they could not get money to go ahead
with their business and could not sell
their stone. The government owes
them sS5, 900. which they cannot get,
and with the banks pressing them for
money they were forced to surrender.
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August.
Flower

" For two years l suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that l would have TO
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of a friend I procured
a bottle of August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. 1 gained
strength and flesh rapidly. feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me. !"
Jas. f. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.@
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SUICIDES are very frequent just now
and incrca sing. Perhaps 1t might be
we'll 10 adopt the German method. A
few years ago when the suicide mania
was strong it was enacted that the
body of suicide should be treated like
that of murderer and hanged and
then be handed over 10 medical schools
for dissection. This was a stopper to a
very appreciable extent.
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THE density of population to the
square mile varies greatly in different
countries, being greatest in Belgium.
The number of persons To the square
mile Is. in Europe. %; Asia, -: Africa,
IA; Belgium. 5S5; England. $50; in the
Netherlands. 81; Great Britain and Ire
land, Sl3; Italy. 272; German empire,
80; Japan. 2sl; China, 2aO. India, Isl;
Switzerland. 1sG; France. is; Austro-
Huugsry. 10; Denmark, l46: Portugal,
134; Spain. 50; European Russia, -;
lien, -; United States, L; Mexico,
Is; Canada, . The entire population
Of the world could stand on an area of
about 80 square miles.
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The OId-tIme ballads old Folks at
Home, The Suwauce River and MAS
sa's in the Cold, Cold Ground. were com
posed by Stephen c. Foster. many of
whose best songs We're written on pieces
OF wrapping paper in the back room of
a grocery in Pittsburgh, Pa There are
scores of these old-time popular songs.
They were worn threadbare 10y their
legions of admirers and are laid aside
until succeeding generations shall re-
call them, though the war songs can
never quicken again the blood of the
singers a. they did that of the genera
tons 10 which they came as inspiration
and a call tn arms
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IT was shown at the recent meeting
of the fire underwriters in New York
that since 1873 rewards for Incendiaries
have been offered aggregating S1,O55,-
OT3, while 23T convictions for incendiar-
ism have been obtained at a total ex-
pensc of S57,5s1.9+ a resolution was
passed providing for a reward of g, 900
for each conviction IN arson cases.
This is movement in the right direc-
ffnn
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Temnernnce Women.

The twentieth annual convention of
the Womans Christian Temperance
union Of Wisconsin was held al Eau
Claire. and elected the following officers:
President. Mrs v II Campbell. 81 Evans
vile, vice president. Mrs. Fannie x. East, Of
Lake Mills; treasurer. Mrs Ames, Of Mad
ison; corresponding Secretary, Mrs Maria r.
Hauehett; recording secretary. Mrs strong. Of
Baraboo, secretary OF young woacn's branches,
Mrs. Maud Barkey, OF Superior.
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IRRIG ALTON has reclaimed 1851, 81
acres of arid land at cost x S39.61i,-
200. There are estimated 10 be 542,-
900. 900 acres Of arid and worthless land
IN the country capable of reclamation
by irrigation The value of irrigated
land ranges from ssh in Wyoming 10
$3.50 per acre in California The an
nual value Of the irrigated product
varies from $ - in Wyoming 10 $40 in
California. The average first cost Of
bringing the water 10 the arid land i
s. y. and the subsequent cost Is SI-o5 a
wear, the water right thus created be-
ing valued at SO per acre. Irrigation
in this country has large future.
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Nor al land Is realty. recent land
Slip in Sweden deposited twelve farms
into lake. and an island Is miles long
Oft the northwest coast of Australia
was swallowed up by the ocean. Farm
ard town lots along the Missouri river
during the recent spring floods like
wise have turned out to be movable
personality
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UNDER the provisions of recent a C
Of the dominion parliament the cities
and towns of Canada have revived tibet
custom of ringing a curfew bell, the
hour for which is . =. m People found
on the street after that hour, If under
seventeen years Of age, viii be locked
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THROUGH ORIENTAL LANDS.

CHINA has many stone bridges 5000
years old.
THERE are at present about -, 600
Hebrews in Jerusalem.
a CENSUS taken in 1891 places the
population of India at 2s7, 900, 600.
THE farmer in Japan who has ten
acres of land is looked upon as a
monopolist-
TIE palace of the kings of Babylon
may still be easily traced. 1t Is vast
mound, 200 yards square. The walls
were eight feet thick and strength
ened with buttresses.
a DISTINCT race of Hebrews, called
the white Jews" dwell in Cochin.
southwest India.I They comprise about
geo persons. They have dwelt there
for hundreds of years, and have fair
skin and light hair.
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INTERN ATIoNAL marriages have been
expensive luxuries for the United States.
The balance of trade always sets strong
" against this country in such alliances.
American girls may be beautiful, accom-
plished. and pos>esS every attribute cal
culated to attract and fascinate. vet in
% per cent. of the eases where they
have married the pOssessors OF titles
abroad all their grace and beauty has
been supplemented by a liberal cash
bonus. Within the past fifteen years il
i not an exaggeratiOn to say that $780,
900. 600 have been carried by tOrty-nine
American girls To foreign husbands
Dukes. counts and barons come high.
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senator sawNer setlIe..

Ex-senator Sawyer stated in an inter
view at Milwaukee that he had given
his check for 5000 TO pay the amount
due the state from him in interest As
bondsman for State Treasurer IIarshaw.
Mr.. Sawyer was bondsInan also for
Richard Guenther when Guenther was
treasurer, and it r. estimated that he
viii be obliged to pay nearly 100000
for Guenther.