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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-09-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

CATHARINE RAINAN. aged 103 years,
died at the home OF her son near
Amite CITY. La.
IL 1t. Louis Jacob Levy committed
suicide in order that his family might
be provided for by the insurance OIL
his life.
IL the South Carolina democratic
convention at Columbia Tillmanites
we're in the majority and John G..
Evans was nominated for governor.
BECAUSE of domestic trouble
Lafayette Prince, a wealthy farmer
living near Cleveland, o., killed his
wife with an ak and then cut his own
throat.
JAMES HULLEN and Robert Clemens
fought duel with knives at Black
vile. Ca, and both We're mortally
wounded.
A MOB lynched David COSBY (col-
oredl. who assaulted and killed girl
at Thomasville, Ga.
AT Galesburg. Ill, Alix dethroned
Nancy Hanks as queen of the trotting
turf by reeling off a mile in 2:OS94.
SUGAR planters in Louisiana applied
for mandamus against Secretary Car
Isle 10 compel the inspection of sugar
plantations
FARMERS near Lincoln. o. T., lynched
Perry Cook, suspected of stealing
horses.
MILTON +. JORDAN, of Barry county,
democratic nominee for lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, has declined.
The democrats of the Fifth Mis-
souri, district renominated j. c. Tars-
ney for congress.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Minnesota, Third district.
J. p. Heatwole (repl. Nebraska. First
district Mayor Weir (dem.). Tennes-
see. Fourth district, J. ii. Denton
(rep.l.
AT Fort Smith, Ark. John Poynter
was hanged for numbering William
Bolding and Ed Won der Yer on De-
cember %, 1891. in the Indian country.
For dispensing beer at 4 recent pic
ME Bishop Macs suspended the Cath
Ollie Young Mems institute of Coving
ton. Ky.
DIRECTLY paced a mile at Galesburg.
ILL.,. in 2:O7s.. reducing the 2-year-old
record from 2:09
IL session at Chattanooga the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge IF Odd Fellows
decided to admit women to the order.
BICYCLES and electric lines have re
duced the average value of horses in
the United States from p TO 50 per
I cent
AT Savannah. Ga. the Reaves Ware
house company failed for $500, 600.
AT London. o. a train struck a bug
gy and Mrs II. l.. Jewell, Of Greeley.
Col. was killed, and Mabel an Helen
Stutz were fatally injured.
For counterfeiting silver dollars
William Ledbetter, farmer, and J.
| II. Clayton, n engineer, living near
~. Clair. Mo. were arrested.
ONE of the conspirators in the Grant
4 assassination. Wilson Woodley, was
hanged at Montgomery. Ala
NORTHERN Iowa and southern Min
nesota were swept by a cyclone that
| killed two persons At Emmetsburg, Ia,
and three at Leroy. Mimi. Dodge Cen
ter and Lowther, in Minnesota, were
devastated.
Is Columbus, o. company has been
/ Incorporated to build an electric road
I from Pittsburgh TO Chicago and to
I furnish heat and light 10 towns along
I the line.
REPUBLICANs Of the First district of
/ Michigan nominated John Il. Corliss
for congress. and W. c Robin sen was
nominated by the populists in the
Third district Of Alabama.
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LATER NEWS.

SIXTY houses in Blasseki, Russia,
where the cholera has been raging SO
hard, were set on fire and destroyed.
A number of inmates of their homes,
who were too i'll to make an effort TO
save themselves, were burned to death.
TIE Brazilian government has given
notice that the reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Brazil will
bc abrogated by Brazil on Jan. next.
THE new battle ship Maine left New
York the 25th on her contractors trial
trip. She is provisioued for two
weeks trip, in ease &C is necessary TO
extend the trial for so long period.
The village of Croton Falls, y. V,
was almost totally burned up the 25th.
THE national conference of the Uui-
tartan churches began at Saratoga, n.
Y. the 25th.
THE democrats of Connecticut the
25th nominated Ernest Cady for gov
ernOr.
JAMES Il. CAvEN, general freight
agent of the Valley railroad, was shot
and killed in Cleveland. o., during the
early hours of the 25th. Five bullets
pierced his body. lie was stone dead
when picked up.
A TERRIBLE waterspout is reported in
the mountains of Durango, Mexico.
The deluge carried away a wood chop
pers' camp of ten families and all were
drowned
The republican campaign was opened
at Indianapolis, Ind, the 25th. Gov.
Mckinley and ex-President Harrison
were the speakers.
The steamer Falcon, with the Peary
relief party and members of the expe-
dition. arrived at Philadelphia. the 25th
AS soon as the Falcon was tied TO the
dock Mrs. Peary, with her baby and an
Esquimau girl whom Mrs. Peary had
brought with her, were escorted to
waiting coach and hurried to the Penn
sylvania station. where she boarded a
train for Washington. the home of her
mother.
IT has Just been learned that Mrs.
Nary J. Platt. teacher in the Indian
school on the Pichango reservation,
near Temecula, Riverside county Col,
has been murdered by the Indians. The
murdered woman lived with her niece.
Hattie Leslie, in wing of the school
building. The Indians were apparently
on the most friendly terms with her.
+. T. DAY, president of the defunct
PlankingtOn bank. of Milwaukee, Wis.
was arrested the 25th on a charge of re-
ceiving a deposit when be knew the
bank was insolvent.
The democratic state convention of
Montana nominated straight ticket,
refusing to fuse
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Used a Dirk.

LEXINGTON. KY, Sept 24.-in SEN
sational alteration with James Liv-
ingston. an Owens man. in the Phoenix
hotel. Desha Breckenridge attempted
to stab Livingston. Livingston, ina
moment of desperation, reached for
the glittering blade, which Breekin-
ridge had aimed at his heart The
knife went between the second and
third fingers of Livingstons' right
hand, cutting the third finger to the
bone. Desha seemed to desire no more
blood and gave Livingston two hard
kicks.
The hotel clerk and several by
ISLANDERS rushed in and seized Breckin-
ridge, and ut the same instant Matt
Lane. a strong Breckinridge man, ran
up and said he would take hand in
helping Desha. Two witnesses say
that Lane also fiourished a big knife,
but Lane denies this. Livingston was
hurried into the wash room. where his
wounds were bathed. and he was then
taken - the Office of physician,
where his hand was dressed.
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A YOUTHFUL BANDIT.
Promising Product of the Yellow Paper
Covered Iiferafure.

tofertd Literature
MONT STERLING, Ill, Sept. 90
This city was the scene of a real and
thrilling western style bank hold-up
at 1890 o'clock Monday morning.
Ralph Conklin, aged is. was the bold
desperado. He is a native Of Brown
county, his parents residing a mile
and a half northeast of Mount
Sterling. Conklin, who is given to
porting over such literature as THE
Life of Jesse James, ''Deadwood
Dicks Last Shot," etc. left home with
an old-fashioned muzzle-loading dou-
ble-barreled shotgun Monday morning
and started tor Mount Sterling. On
his way he met Mac Dunbar riding a
horse The boy bandit leveled his gun
at Dunbar and commanded him to dis
mount. Dunbar slid off his horse and
Conlxling mounted and rode into Mount
Sterling.
Going TO the rear of the Bloomfield
Skiles bank Conl1lin dismounted, and
leaving boy TO hold the horse he en-
tered the bank by the rear door, wear
ing a mask. Approaching the cashier,
J. ID. Milstead, he ordered him to put
up his hands.
Cashier Milstead took to his heels
and left the bank by the rear door.
Conklin lost no time and in moment
gathered up all the money in sight,
S4i1. Edward Allison, who was
in the bank at the time Conk-
lin entered, ran out upon the
street and gave the alarm.
After pocketing the money Conk-
lin went out of the bank through the
rear door and was just mounting his
horse when Al Snodgrass, 2 constable,
arrived upon the scene. The constable
ran up to Conklin and pulled him off
his horse. COnklin jerlxed away from
him, however, and ran down the street
in the direction of the courthouse.
Reaching the courthouse Conlxlin
tried to steal horse and cart, but was
knocked off the cart by well-directed
brickbat A few blocks north of the
courthouse the masked man was held
mp at the muzzle of gun by julie Cox
and compelled to surrender The
mask was torn from his face and il
was then found that the Jesse James
was none other than Ralph Conlxlin,
whose days and nights have been
spent in reading dime novels and yell
low covered tales of outlaws and ban
dts. The money taken was all recov-
cred when Conlllin was captured.
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FiREMEN AND THE STRIKE.
Brotherhood Denounces Those Who Went
Out Recause of sympathy.


Out because of sympathy.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 22.-The
brotherhood of Fire,nen at its session
on Thursday adoptad a series of resO-
lutions denouncing the action of those
members who struck through sympa-
thy with Pullman strikers: pledging the
brothe rhood hereafter to abide by all
its agreements and to await the action
of the grand lodge officers before going
out on IA strike; protesting against the
other labor organizations on strike at
tempting to induce the members of
the brotherhood to join them through
sympathy. declaring against the po-
sition of Vice Grand Master lIannahan
in the Pullman strike in advis-
ing members not to work with the
non-union men. and approving that of
Grand Master Sargent and other grand
lodge officers. The convention gave
Hannahan another slap by reducing
his salary from $3.50 yearly to $500
and leaving those of other grand lodge
officers undisturbed. Twelve thousand
dollars was voted for the relief of fire
men who went out during the Lehigh
Valley strikes who are still Idle.
Grand Master Sargent and Grand
Secretary and Treasurer Arnold were
directed by the convention to remove
the headquarters from Terre Haute to
a place selected by them. After listen
ing To a speech from Eugene V. Debs
the convention adjourned finally, TO
meet two years hence at Galveston,
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SPAIN READY TO ACT.
II Is willing to Make New Reciprocity
Treaty with Uncle sam.

WASHINGTON, Sept 29.-Senor Muir
uaga, the Spanish minister, authorizes
the following statement as TO recent
cable reports that Spain had instructed
him to open negotiations for new
commercial arrangement or treaty;
-Since the reciprocity arrangements brisk
trade has been carried on between the United
tates and Cuba and Porto Rico, composed
principally of farm products, which runs up
into the millions. say an average OF S22O0DoOO
yearly for American ports II is as much in
the interest OF the United States as OF spain
that the exchange of mutual commodities
should not collapse. The American SUI
gar producers do not raise thS tents
part of the home consumption, and
struggle, besides under disadvantages OF
climate. soil and price OF labor Americans.
therefore. need our sugar and their refining
Industries are largely benefited by 1t as well as
the farming products. which find ready mar
ket for their surplus in Cuba and Porto Rico
Everything points. therefore. TO the necessity
of fair ana equitable understanding. even If
it should not assume the formalities OF a
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THE EAST.

THE democrats in Pennsylvania
made the following congressional
nominations: First district, ID. }.
Gale han (dem.). Second. Max Herr
burg (dem-); Third, J. p. McCullen
ldem.); Fourth, e. Muller (dem. D;
Fifth. David Moffet dem. }; Twentieth,
I. J. Burke dem.
AT a meeting of the board of di-
rectors in New York L. c. Weir, of
Cincinnati. was elected president of
the Adams Express company.
u New York the industrious ham
mering by bears forced December
wheat options TO 5Ss4 cents, a new low
record.
IL Boston the ready-made clothing
industry was paralyzed by strike of
$500 employees.
LOCOMOTIVE firemen in convention
at Harrisburg, Pa, agreed not to
strike as long as contracts were not
violated.
AT the United States veterinary con-
vention in Philadelphia the docking
on horses tails was condemned.
IL the Jail at Pittsburgh. Pa. George
wife and two children.
PHYSICIANS in New York were puz-
zled over the case of woman weigh
ing ninety-eight pounds, but who
could not be lifted against her will.
The noted opera singer, Nine. Amy
Fursch- Madi, died in Warrenville, n.
J. She was about 80 years old
An injunction 10 prevent the sugar
trust doing business in the state was
refused in the supreme court at Boston.
The constitutional convention Of
New York adopted a civil service
amendment recommending old soldiers
Tor office
The famous Chicago caterer. Herbert
NJ. Kinsley, died in New York from the
effects of surgical operatio l. lie was
63 years old.
FIRE destroyed the Grand View hotel
at Atlantic Highlands, y. j., the loss
being slOO, 600.
\ CLAUSE adopted by the New York
constitutional convention prohibits
boOk-making in the state.
For the week ended on the 23d
the percentages of the baseball clubs
III 'llr hdlloLdA AtdE ut were. dlttluoTe.
.699; New York, $50; Boston. .6S5;
Philadelphia, $40; brooklyn, .544;
Cleveland, $50; Pittsburgh, .492; Chi
cago. $50; Cincinnati, .415; St Louis,
.4O4. Washington. 1852; Louisville, .2s2.
Is New York Sandow failed to lift
Mrs. Abbott. the ninety-eight-pound
woman who has astonished physicians
with her peculiar power.
AT Duryea, Pa, five acres of ground
sunk and twenty-six dwelling houses
were wrecked.
JUICE MCPHERSON ruled at Harris
burg, Pa, that ratfies were gambling
and illegal.
CAR works at Erie, Pa. covering six
teen acres and valued at $500, 900, were
burned by incendiaries.
The charters of seven lodges of EllSs
were suspended by William II. Fri
day. grand exalted ruler. for holding
sessions on SUNDAY.
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mo News Condensed.

The property of JBmes Douglas. the
Milwaukee architect, valued at SID,
600, is by his will distributed equally
among his five children.
Theodore Larson. 14-year-old boy.
while oiling windmill on farm near
Baldwin accidentally fell to the
ground, a distance of 40 feet, and was
killed.
DR. c. II. Marquardt. of La Crosse, a
member of the state board of health,
contracted smallpox while inspecting
the hospital at Milwaukee.
Caroline Ellsworth, the hayward
daughter of wealthy Milwaukee
business man, is under arrest in Chi
cago for cashing a forged check.
James Reddy, an old engineer on
the Omaha road, died at Spooner of
consumption. The remains were taken
to GAINESVILLE.
Capt Philip OConnor, owner of a
line of pleasure steamers in Milwau-
kee river, died at his home in Mil
waukee.
Mrs. John Wilson was killed just
east of Rice Lake by being thrown
from carriage while riding home with
her husband
Louis Neubaurs grist mill at Oconto
was burned, the loss being about
s12, 600
Douglas Ralston's creamery at Sparta
was burned, the loss being 81. 500
The Wisconsin German Pythiaa
lodges at meeting in Milwaukee de-
cided not to secede from the order.
-Four men fell 50 feet with an eleva-
tor in a Milwaukee building and three
of them were badly hurt.
John Nelson, WHO five years ago
murdered Ncls Carlson, an old IN ser.
at West Superior, was arrested in Chi
cago.
Mayor FAIR. of Kenosha. is declared
TO be ineligible because he is not a
property owner and proceedings have
been begun for his removal.
Otto Robertson. aged 2i years, com
mitted suicide at Grantsburg, by shoot
ing himself in the temple.
Henry L. Palmer, OF Milwaukee, was
elected sovereign grand commander by
the supreme council of Scottish Rite
Masons in session at Boston.
DR.. David c. Hathaway. of Wanwa-
tosa. has been appointed superinten-
dent of the northern hospital for the
insane at Oshkosh, to succeed DIR. w.
+. Wegge, resigned.
BY majority Of lOZ GAINESVILLE es
tabiished a $500 saloon license fee for
the next three years. The total vote
was 2,237.
Bishop Messmer is planning a tenn
perance league at Green Bay.
The Flemish Evangelical Lutheran
church of America has purchased a
square at Superior as the site of an
academy that will cost about $4,000.
The body OF TiIlmau Grcsspusch,
aged 40. was fished out of the river at
Manitowoc. IL was not known wheth-
err it was a case of accidental drown
ing or suicide.
Milwaukee's Industrial exposition
for 1894 has formally opened.
James Mccarthy fell from the steamer
Ira II. Owen while the boat was in
port at Ashland and was drowned.
The North Wisconsin academy at
Ashland has purchased the old bell
used by the Protestant mission located
at La Pointe Madeline island early in
this century.
O. p. Pritchard resident of Racine
for fifty years, died at the age of 81
yeGrs.
Bernard Friedman. ar old residen.
of Milwaukee, committed suicide by
hanging.
DIR. Charles Palmer, the Racine ply
stefan whose arrest and conviction on
the charge of burglary two years age
created. sensation. was recently de
clared to be insane. Palmer is vic
tim of the morphine habit
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GEN. WILLIAM BooTB founder of the
Salvation Army. arrived at st. Johns,
y. +. He viii visit all large cities ia
Canada and the United States during
the next six months.
IN a battle in Yalu bay nineteen
Japanese and fourteen Chinese war
ships took part and 2, 500 men were
killed or drowned.
The death OF DIR. Rafael Nunez,
president of the republic of Colombia,
occurred at Colon of gastric fever.
ON the Midland division of the
Grand Trunk railway a train was de-
rallied between Port Hope and Lind
say, Ont, and Engineer Johnston,
Fireman Malone and brakeman Green
bury were killed.
AT the Antwerp exposition American
exhibitors were awarded seven grand
prizes, ten diplomas and ninety-One
gold, silver and bronze medals.
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BOSTON TAILORS STRIKE.
Garmentmakers Refuse to Work for the
.Sweat-Shop" Contractors.

Garmentmakers Refuse to Work for the
"sweat-Shop" Contractors.
RosToN, Sept 22.-Acting upon the
instructions of the Clothing Trades
council No. ?, the garmentmakers of
this city to the number of 1000 struck
Thursday morning. Promptly at
o'clock the committee having charge
of the strike started on their
rounds and called the men out
Systematically, not a contractor being
overlooked. This action is the result
of the refusal of a number of con-
tractors to concede to the demands of
the union for the adjustment
of the Jumping" and sweating"
systems and the introduction of
the weekly wage system. The oper-
atives are also DESTROYS of establish
ing a working day of nine hours
with fixed wages. Every man, woman
and child responded to the call to stop
work. Many of the contractors have
"a large amount of work half finished
and heavy orders ahead, and num-
Der have already made application to
sign the new agreement. by the
close of the day fully $500 clothing
workers had Joined the strike
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ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept 25.-The cy-
clone of Friday night that swept
through Minnesota and Iowa was one
of the worst that ever visited this sec
tion. At least seventy persons were
killed ard many others were fatally
injured. In addition several towns
were wrecked, some of them being
totally demolished.
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GIVEN a NEW NAME.
Appomattox Post Office to BE Called Sur
render In the Future.

WASHINGTON, sept. 25.-The name of
the post Office at Appomattox, Va,
where Lee surrendered to Grant, has
been changed by the post office de-
partment to Surrender. Two years ago
the courthouse building at Appomattox
was buried and The county seat was
removed to the town of Nebraska,
miles away on the line of the Norfolk
& Western railroad. The new county
seat was named Appomattox. Thus
there were two Appomattoxes III the
field. This occasioEed annoyance to
the post office department because
complaints were constantly being re
ceived of the miscarriage and delay of
mail matter.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 25.-The action
of the post Office department in chang
ing the name of Appomattox Court
House to Surrender" has excited the
Indignation of Virginians. Gov. O'Fer-
rail- and other public men are out in
interviews strongly condemning the
change, and the matter promises to at
tract much attention.
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China,s Minerals.

China possesses immense wealth,
gold, silver, copper, lead and many
precious stones. Its supply of iron and
coal are almost inexhaustible. Its coal
fields are twenty times more extensive
than all the coal fields of Europe, be-
ing four hundred and nineteen thou
sand square miles. Side by side with
the coal are found iron ores OF first rate
quality There is sufficient coal in one
province alone to supply the whole
world for more than two thousand
years.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
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The Bakers Bill

Tells Of greatly increased appetites in my fam
lily as result of taking Hoods SarsaparIlla
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The islet % Massowa. in the Red sea.
where Italy IS sending its anarchists.
IS one of the hottest places in the
world, and escape from it in that
sterile region would be very difficult.
The plan OF sending the anarchists
som'',. here to practice their cult upon
each other Is meeting with favor.
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Labor and Capital Combine.

Portland ship ealkers voluntarily re-
duced their wages 20 per cent in order
that their employers might take con-
tracts and thus keep them at work. IT
Is easy TO see in this action the secret
Of Names freedom from labor troubles
Maine laborers can see beyond the
length Of their noses, which can h r-1ly
be said of many of the western broth
rem. Rockland, Maine, Daily Star.
July 20. 1894.
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A WOMAN in Australia who had not
seen her husband fOf some time be-
came impatient and mad the following
advertisement inserted in a news
paper: IF William Fulton does not
turn up in three months. or else give
some support To his family, his wife,
Charlotte Fulton, intends II marry
auafu p
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a WOMAN raised an umbrella in an
Ohio town the other day and several
horses ran away. and fifteen people
were either killed or seriously injured.
All Of which but redemOnstrates the
fact that a woman and an umbrella
form about the most deadly combina
tion known to modern science.
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TOPEKA. Kan, Sept. 23.-About 100
Of the suffrage women of Topeka will
come out in reformed dress. They
have entered into an agreement which
Or. Eva Harding and DIR. Agnes Hav-
iland say is to be reduced To writing.
The costume is to consist of Turkish
trousers. covered by skirt reaching to
the fold, close or loose waist, as the
wearer may prefer, and cloth Ieggins
70 match the trousers.
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ST. Louis. Sept. "a. - Seven pris-
oners escaped from their cells in the
city Jail at 10 a. IN. Saturday. They
assembled to the roof, and, jumping to
adjoining roofs ran in every direction.
some reached the street and were
chasedfor several blocks by guards
and policemen, who fired number OF
shots at the fleeing prisoners. -Four
were speedily recaptured. but three
others are still at liberty.
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Found CuiI,v Of Murder.

A jury at Black River Falls in the
case of Lena Mattson for murder
brought in verdict finding the de-
PENDANT guilty of murder in the fourth
degree Lena Mattson was tried for
infanticide three years ago. the jury
finding her not guilty. Last spring
She was arrested charged with the
murder of another babe, and her trial
just concluded has attracted much at
tentiou.