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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
The News Of the Week.
HFTY-sEcoNO CONGRESS.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAN.

Second Session.
TUESDAY, Feb. :. - In the senate
the bin for the relief of the as
signees or legal representatives of
John Roach. deceased, to pay the bal
ance due on the United States ship
Dolphin. SOS. i65. was taken from the
calendar and passed The substitute
bill for automatic couplers and con-
tinuOus brakes was taken up and de-
bated- No vote was reached and the
senate adjourned In the house the
entire time was taken up in the dis
cussiOn OF the legislative appropriation
bill.
WEDNESDAY, Feb Sin the senate
the following bills were taken from the
calendar aud passed: For the relief of
certain settlers on public land in the
Tucson district, Arizona; to amend the
act establishing a court OF private land
clair IS; for the examination and allow
ance of certain awards made by the
board of claims TO certain citizens of
jefferson county, Ky; to exempt vet
Grams from competitive examination in
the classified service of the Unitod
States The senate then went TO the
count the presidential vote, after which
it resumed consideration of the car
coupler bill In the house. after joint
count of the electoral vote with the
senate, consideration of the legislative
appropriation bill was taken up and
discussed
THURSDAY Feb. 9.-The whole ses-
sion of the senate was devoted to a
discussion of the railway automatic
csr-cOupler bill. BY vote of I52 to
I43 the house decided that it would not
take up and pass bill for the repeal
of the Sherman silver law. The legis-
lative appropriation bill was favorably
reported with an amendment providing
that hereafter no public building shall
be draped in mourning; that executive
departments shall not be closed out of
respect TO deceased officials. and pro-
hibiting the use of public funds for
funeral expenses of government OIL
Gals or employees
FRIDAY, Feb. 10. - In the senate
the house bill to provide for sundry
lighthouses and other aids to naviga-
ton was passed, as was also a bill
prohibiting the transportation of mer-
chandise from one American port to
another American port through a for
eign port In the house the pension
appropriation bill was discussed, bit
no action was taken. At the evening
session several private pension bills
we're passed
SATURDAY. FEB. 1.-THE fortifca-
tiOns bill and the bill TO promote the
safety of employees and travellers upon
railroads by compelling railroad com
panies to equip q cir cars with auto
matte couplers and continuous brakes
We're passed in the senate. In the hou e
a resolution to limit the time for debate
on the pension appropriation bill was
defeated.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

INFORMATION received at Memphis,
Tenn. to the effect hat nearly 1000
people in Catahoula and ConcOrdia
parishes. in Louisiana. in the northern
part of that state were on the verge of
starvation. Failure of crops last sum
mer was said TO be the cause.
A LOGGER named McGii!vary was in
stantly killed in the woods near Wsu-
cedah. Mich. by falling limb.
DEPUTY MARsHALs BRUNER- Rusk and
knight were shot and killed near
Tahlequah. l. T.. BY Bill Pigeon, an
Indian desperate. whom they were at
tempting TO arrest
The malleable iron works at Moline,
Ill. were destroyed by fire, throwing
500 men out of employment
EIsHr men were badly injured and
four OF them will die by a rear-end col
lision of stock trains near Brush sta
ton. la
FIRE at the Eddyville (ky.) peniten-
tia-y destroyed the main portion of the
hospital building.
The contract for the selling of beer
on the worlds fair grounds has been
awarded to the Papst Brewing com
pany 9f Milwaukee. The firm expects
to sell about 5000 barrels daily. The
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LATER MEMS.

Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced the much
expected Irish home rule bill in the
English parliament the 18th. Every
liberal and Irish nationalist in the
house stood up and greeted him with
prolonged and enthusiastic cheers.
When Mr.. Gladstone arose to introduce
the bill there was a demonstration so
earnest, so enthusiastic and irrepressi-
BILE that it was several minutes before
he could be heard.
In the face of the heavy shipments of
gold for two weeks past, the treasury
department, within the past 10 days,
has increased its net gold by 50, $50, 600,
making the total gold in the vaults, the
18th, Sill, 927 org, or Sill. ,679 free"
gold.
JEFF WITHERs, the colored man who
was shot by Bill Lane at West Superior,
Wis, died at the hospital the 18th.
Those present when the shooting oc-
Cured have been arrested.
THE will of the late j. G.. Blaine was
filed for probate at Augusta, Me-, the
18th. 1t was executed in Washington,
ID. C, Jan. Z, 1898, and gives practically
MS tnIlFc estate 10 HIS WIG al ltc SIN
pie. Mr.. Blaine's children are be-
queathed $50 each and his grandchildren
SIS each. Mrs. Blaine is named as exc
cutrix and is not required to give any
security. The name of Jas. G.. Blaine,
the third. is not mentioned in the will.
1T is stated on the authority of a
prominent director of the Western
Union Telegraph company that Gen.
Thomas L. Eckert, first vice president
and general manager, will succeed DIR.
Green as president.
THE owner of the trotting horse
Temple Bar has begun suit against the
Cleveland Driving Park association for
expelling the horse. owner and driver
from the track. lie claims s110, 00C
damages.
THE Salisbury iron mine at Ishpe.
ming. Mich, will reduce time to eight
hours per day. without reduction of pay.
DURING an entertainment at Iowa
City. Ia, the 18th, given by the literary
societies of the Iowa State University
in the new $40. 900 Y. NJ. c. A. building.
when the auditorium was filed with
1000 people. the floor fell distance OF
two feet. A panic at once ensued. The
people made a rush for the doors and
several We're injured. The members OF
the college faculty made a desperate
effort to keep the crowd quiet, but il
was impossible. II the floor had faller
the full distance to the pit many lives
would have been lost.
The congressional committee to in
yestigate Panama matters net the lsth,
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THE EAST.

THE legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed a bill to prohibit the manu-
facture and sale of cigarettes within
the commonwealth.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the leg
islature of Maine requesting the gov
ernor to communicate with Mrs Blaine,
as to the reinterment of the remains of
her husband in that state.
SIX business firms were burned out
in the shoe district at Boston, entailing
a loss of $500. 600.
Hon water was causing a great
amount of damage along the Monon-
gahela river in Pennsylvania, and
many towns were under water and
much property destroyed
JACK CLIFFORD, the Homestead strike
leader charged with the unlawful kill
ing of +. J. ConnOrs during the barge
battle on July 8, was acquitted at
Pittsburgh
The death of Samuel l. White &C.
Cured at the Everett house, New
York, aged ~ years. lie enjoyed the
distinction of having been in the hotel
business longer than any man in this
country.
HENRY BAUER ami Carl Mold. charged
with being accessories to Bergman, the
anarchist. in the attempted killing of
Ii. {. Prick last July. were found guilty
at Pittsburgh, Pa.
FLAMES destroyed the county farm
insane asylum 4 miles from Dover. n.
H.. and forty-four of the inmates per-
ished in the flames.
THE firm of Cooling. Weed & Co..
lumber manufacturers and dealers at
Honesdale, Pa, failed for 100000.
A LARGE mass of stone fell into a
marble quarry at West Rutland. VT,
and seven men were instantly killed
and a number of others injured.
AT West PittstOn, Pa, Fifty Italian
laborers were arrested for working in
streets on Sunday.
The fire loss in Boston during the
first FIVE weeks of the present year
was over g. 900. 600.
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WANTS HER SHARE.

The widow of the Author of "The Sweet
by aud BY" and Other Songs, Seeks to
Recover a Portion OF the Profits from
Their sale.
CHICAGO, Feb. s-The "Sweet BY
and Bv" and a dozen other Sunday
school songs are involved in q case on
hearing before Judge Horton. The bill
is one for accounting. brought by Jo-
hanna ii. Webster against Oliver ii. Dit
son, of Boston. and Lyon & Healy, of
Chicago. The late Joseph J.. Webster
wrote the songs and ). Fillmore Ben
nett set them to music. A contract
was entered into by which the
defendants were to publish the
songs in small book form. IL is
alleged in the bill that they have ex-
ceeded the terms of the contract by
publishing the Sweet by and BY" in
every form possible. BY doing so. it
is said. the defendants have realized q
large profit on this song alone. Ben
nett. it IS said, has been settled with,
aud the widow of Webster now seeks
70 enjoy her share of the profits.
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FROM WASHINGTON

THE secretary of the treasury esti
mated the probable amount required
for the sugar bounties during the com
ing year at SIS. 900, 900. The amount
paid so far this year was So, 800, 600.
The number of militiamen la :he
United States, according to the latest
returns, is 122, 500. Every state and ter
ritory, with the exception of Utah, has
an organized militia force.
FORMAL ceremonies incident to the
official counting of the electoral vote
took place in the house of represent
ativeS in the presence of the senate and
densely packed galleries and GRO wded
door.
Ia was said on good authority that
Judge Walter q Gresham would be the
secretary of state in Mr.. Cleveiand's
cabinet.
The president, assisted by the Inem-
bers of his cabinet and other dis
tinguished persons, will on February
% raise American flags upon the Inman
line steamers City of New York aud
City of Paris.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent the SEN
ate the following nominations to be
United states cOnsuis: Henry u. kresS,
of Wisconsin, at Cork; Josiah f. Stone.
of Massachusetts. at Nogales.
DURING the seven da, s ended on the
10th the business failures in the United
States numbered 266. against 3OI the
previous week and 256 for the corre-
spending time last year.
In the United States exchanges
amounting to Sl,247. 500. 572 were re-
ported by the leading clearing houses
during the seven days ended on the 10th,
against 81. 800, SIS. 7ss the previous sew
en- days AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1892 the decrease was
10
Ok the 18th the eighty-fourth ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin was observed in many cities and
towns throughout the country.
The president has ace pied the res
ignation of Gen. L. ]. Morgan, COM
missioner of Indian affairs.
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THE MAKERS OF BOOKS.

GLADSTONE has decided to appoint no
successor to the late poet-laureate-
PARKMAN, the historian, is said to be
the handsomest literary man in Boston
MARX TwAIS's funny stories have
only recently begun to be appreciated
in Italy.
Mr. SwINBURNE has written long
poem on Grace Darling. His early life
was passed in the locality which was
the scene of her heroism. and he knew
her father.
MARION CRAWFORD. the novelist, is
being urged to prolong his stay in this
country. and it is among the possioili-
ties that he may be one of the Chautau-
qua lecturers next summer.
The officials who look after the
morals of the people Of Koeslin, Prus-
STA. have given notice that the works OF
Alexander Dumas. Alphonse Daudet,
Eugene Sue, Count Tolstoi and Paul de
Koch are subject to confiscation.
THERE is an elderly resident of Brook
lyn, who in his youth saw much of the
Scotch and English writers, through
his intimacy with the head of large
publishing house. lie affirms the truth
of the story that IL was the habit OF
Thomas De Quincy TO draw a little
brush from his pocket, and tenderiy
dust his roll of manuscript before sub
hitting IL to a publisher.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Two MEN were killed and three seri-
ously injured by falling walls at the
ruins of fire at Montreal. Can.
Four passengers aud thirty-seven Of
the crew were lost in the wreck of the
British steamship Trinacria off Cape
Villano.
GAUDAUR and Hanlan signed articles
to row for the championship of Amer
lea and $1,000 side at Toronto on
July -.
NJ. FERDINAND DE LEssEPs was SEN
fenced in Paris to be imprisoned for
FIVE years and to pay fine OF 5000
francs, his son Charles must go to
prison for five years and pay a fine OF
8, $50 francs, NJ. Marius Fontaine and
Al. Cottu two years each and paw fine
of $3.50 francs each, and NJ. Eiffel two
years and to pay fine of 20. 900 francs.
The defendants were found guilty OF
swindling and breach of trust in the
Panama canal case.
IT was estimated that the total dam
age done by the recent flood in Queens
land would reach $3.50 900.
HONOLULU advices state that United
States Minister Stevens has established
a protectorate over Hawaii pending
and subject to the negotiations at
Washington.
PATRICK SULLIvAN's home was
burned at Chapel Cove, n. f., and he
and four of his children persisted in the
flames.
A MosLEM mob burned the American
Girls college in Marsovan, Turkey.
AFTER tour of inspection DIR. Kemp
ster. a special health officer of the
United States. stated in Berlin that he
was convinced that the present year
would witness fierce outburst of chol.
era and that the plague would sweep
the whole of Europe.
AFTER losing twelve of her crew and
passengers in a heavy storm the Allan
line steamer Pomeranian, from Glas-
gov January 81 for New York, re-
turned to Greenock.
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DOWN ON THE VERDICT.

The Paris Press Unanimous In Expressions
Denouncing tho Sentence of de Lesseps
rs Too Severe-CIamor for His Pardon.
PARIS, Feb. 1l-Public opinion is
substantially unanimous to the effect
that the ignominious judgment passed
upon Count Ferdinand de Lesseps
went beyond the requirements of
justice. The newspapers consider
the sentences very severe
and especially that of Ferdinand de
Lesseps. The clamor for his uncondi-
tional pardon is heard on ell sides and
the Judges are condemned by many for
having done something which they i'm
agined would be received as an act of
great bravery.
The Figaro demands, in flaming
headlines the pardon of the old man
who has been one of the glorIes of
France. The journal DIES Debats says
that to imagine striking down the
creator of the Suez canal in his
declining days 10 salve the pub
lie conscience shows great mis-
conception of the opinion of the
nation. La Lauterne says the country
has sustained blow from the SEN
tence which is useless in fact and ex-
cessive in law. The Marin declares
that the decree marks a day of ingrati-
tude in the lives of the historical per-
sonages concerned in the trial. Their
sufferings will leave no appreciable
stain. All the other papers contain
like expressions.
The Radical La Justice, NJ. Clemen-
ceau's Daper regards the Judgment
passed upon NJ. Ferdinand de Lesseps
as severe. As to the other sentences.
La Justice points ont that the other
contractors were exactly in the same
position with NJ Eiffel, and the official
liquidator of the Panama Canal com
pany ought to proceed against the
all for the recovery of the sums they
unlawfully claimed and appropriated.
NJ. Henri Cottu and Charles de Les
seps give notice of an appeal from
Thursdays judgment. The elder Dc
Lesseps has not yet been made ae-
quainted with the decision against
him, as it is feared knowledge of the
fact might end in his death. His wife
is Frustrated.
BERLIN, Feb. 11.-All papers have
long articles on the Panama convic-
tions. A summary of opinion is that
De Lesseps should be pardoned, while
Eiffel has been leniently treated in
view of the vast profits he made out
of the company.
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AGAINST plNksRIoNs.


mtttee OF the Seuate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l1.-Mr Gallinger
from the select committee appointed
by the senate to investigate aud report
the facts in relation 10 the employment
for private purposes of armed bodies
of men or detectives in connec-
ton with differences between workmen
and employers submitted the report of
the committee Friday. The committee
found that ev, n the proprietors of the
detect agenci admitted that the
presence of tn so-called Pinkertons at
strike served unduly to in
flame the passions of the strikers.
and the employment of detectives in
the guise of mechanics impressed the
committee with the belief that it was
an utterly viciou system. responsible
for much of the ill-fes ing and bad
blood displayed by the working
classes. The committee declares that
the employment of a private armed
guard at Homestead was unnecessary.
There was no evidence. they say, to
show that the sli :. test damage was
done or attempted to be done to prop
erty on the part of the strikers. AT
the same time there seems To be no ex-
cuse for the strikers; lab ring men
should learn the lie son that they can
not better their condition by violating
the law or resisting lawful authority.
The committee reached these conclu-
sions:
l. Rights of employers and workmen are
equal
Employers have undoubted right, pro
vided they fulfll their agreements, 10 employ
and dismiss men at pleasure.
workmen can legally organize for mutual
protection and improvement
When dissatisfied with wages or hours
they should attempt 10 arbitrdte.
8. Failing in this they have q right 70 discon-
tinue work either singly or in body
@ Having discontinued work they have no
light, legal or moral, by force or intimidation.
keep others from taking their places or TO
tempt 10 occupy iniure or destroy the prop
rty Of their employers.
T. In all controversies. arbitration having
failed. reliance should be placed upon the power
and adequacy OF the law.
q Employment OF armed bodies of men for
private purposes either by employers or en-
ployes should not be resorted 70, and such act is
an assumption Of the states authority by pri-
vate citizens
O. States have undoubted authority TO legis-
late against the employment OF armed bodies
of men for private purposes: but the power OF
congress TO so legislate is not clear. although il
would seem that congress ought not 10 be
powerless 70 prevent the movement Of such
bodies from one state TO another
In conclusion the committee says
that its investigations have led 1t to
conclude that the fault is not wholly
on one side; that middle ground seems
to be In the direction of arbitration.
Without making any recommendations,
the committee closes with a plea for
arbitration,
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contract was said to be the largest
ever closed in this country.
IL snow slide on the Virginius road
near ouray. Col. four men were killed.
IN Clinton, Tenn. eighty -one men
were convicted of aiding and abetting
in the riots of Coal Creek and divers
last August and sent to prison for
terms ranging from ten days to two
years
JOHN Il. RoYsTER (colored). who muir
dered John p Eppes July 90, 1921, was
executed at Norfolk. Va
FIRE destroyed the Continental hotel
at Centerville, la. and Samuel Lewis.
a merchant. and Mrs Mckee, the land
lady. were burned to death
IL Cincinnati Heider's hotel was
destroyed by fire. and four persons.
employees of the hotel, were burned TO
death.
DURIxs a fractional fight in Greene
county, Tenn. +. X. Johnson and his
wife and Thomas Hixon were shot
dead
WILLIE FIELDER and Frank Harrel.
members of a gang of negro incendi.
aries who have been a terror to the
people of Dickery. Miss, were lynched
by mob.
CHARLES BROWN shot and killed his
wife and Dick sly at jackson. Mich.
jealousy was the cause
THE Minnesota legislature passed
bill making the smoking and use OF
cigarettes in the state a misdemeanor
punishable by fine OF from SIS to $50
or by imprisonment for thirty days
THE discovery was made by William
Condor, an experienced prospector of
an old Aztec city 25 miles northwest Of
Phoenix, A. T., different from any be.
fore discovered. The indications showed
that there were at least so. 900 inhab-
itants.
ALMOST the entire town of Belcher-
vile, Tex. was swept away by an in-
cendiary fire.
IN the western part of Fremont conn
ty. Col, a heavy earthquake shock oc-
CURED.
A RICH vein of silver has beer. found
near Brazil, Ind
A JURY at Peru, Ind. gave Fred
Snyder a sentence of seven years for
beating his wife in bratal manner.
IN a rear-end collision near Manton.
Mich. on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
road two men were killed and one was
fatally injured.
Thus far the total expenditures of tho
worlds fair amount 20 SIS, 029. $50; total
receipts. Sis, 6OS.4l9.
FLAMES at Nashville, Tenn, de-
stroyed the stocks of goods belonging
to Sol Farmland & Co.. dry goods, and
]. III. Fall & Co., hardware. the total
loss being $500. 900
A MOE lynched g negro named Pick
near Plant City, Fla, for dangerously
wounding night Waterman.
The village of Lykens, o., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
IN the vicinity of Dscatur, H., farm
ers have lost fifty horses aud cattle by
reason of their slipping on i:e
SEVERAL counterfeiters were arrest
ed in Chicago while busy making spuri-
Gus ten-cent pieces.
At their home in Nation. ILL.,, John
Ballinger and Matilda Ballinger cele-
brated the seventy-sixth anniversary
of their wedding. The husband is l0l
years of age and the wife 81.
THE death of DIR. Norvin Green.
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, occurred at his home
il Louisville, KY, at the age of rs
years.
4 ROCK slide on one of the tunnels at
the Orient mines near Villa Grove, Col,
killed six men and six others were in
| jured.
THE legislature of Tennessee has ad.
| journed for thirty days on account o!
| the illness of Gov. Turney.
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Mrs. PEARY, who shares the fame of
her husband, Lieut. Peary, the famous
explorer of Greenland, said in CONVEX
sat;on a few days ago that she thought
she felt the cold more here during our
recent siege of severe weather than she
did last year mp where zero tempera-
tnre Is considered moderate. She at
tributed her discomfort To the fact that
In Greenland she was perfectly pro-
tected from The weather by her dress.
a fur case that had no gaps to let the
body heat escape The outside tenn
perature Is not OF so much account if
the problem of preserving the inside
heat is solved
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AMERICAS FAIR DAUGHTERS.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX says that "
the walters want to continue wearing
dress coats they will have to change to
some other color than black.
Mrs. GEORGE HEARST. widow OF SEN
ator Hearst, of California; is the most
heavily insured woman in the world
Her policies aggregate 100000.
Mrs. CUSTER attended her husband
In his camp life for twenty years. NOV
ing from fort to fort, but she says he
never confded his military plans to
her.
MISS HELEN GOULD IS, in her own
right. the richest unmarried woman IN
the world, yet she is very simple in her
tastes and unaffected in her manners.
and is benevolent, domestic and retir-
ing.
Mrs. PEARY, who shares in the fame
of her husband, Lieut- Peary, the IA
mons explorer of Greenland, said in
conversation few days ago that she
thought she felt the cold more here dur
ing our recent siege of severe weather
than she did last year up where zero
temperature is considered moderate
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Ch.r..a -,,b EmbezzIement.

Sioux CITY, Ia. Feb 1s-Charles j.
Clarke, a Denver stock broker, former
ly In the real-estate business here, was
arrested in Denver few days ago and
has been brought here. He is charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the
Colonial & United States Investment
company, of which he was agent here.
lie gave o.. 500 bond and will be tried
at the current term of count.