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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-14
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A FLOOD entirely destroyed Kaslo, n
iown of 1900 population In British
Columbia.
HAwAH's first constitutional conven-
ton was formally opened in the legis-
lative chamber in the old government
building in Honolulu.
A HURRICANE swept the Cape Breton
coast. resulting in heavy loss to ship
ping, but no lives were reported lost.
RoBBERs opened the safe in a pri-
vate bank at Bridge. Ont, and stole
"a. 600.
IL the Frazer river valley in Column
hia the flood left over $4,000 persons
homeless.
IL China a plague had caused the
deaths of over 10000 persons in Can
ton and thousands had died at Hong
kong, Paklios and other places.
AT his home in Berlin ID. l.. Hank
ness. dairy and food commissioner of
Wisconsin, died of notwithstanding.
The sultan of Morocco, Muley Has
san. died suddenly at Tadla and it was
believed lac was poisoned. his son had
succeeded him.
WHILE visiting his native country s.
L. Frank, Pole, who had been resi-.
dent of Buffalo, \. V. for twenty-five
years, was seized and sent to Siberia.
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PRINTED FABRICS.
Directions for the Making of Gowns 70


Directions for the Making of Gowns fos
summer.
A matron of forty wishing a nretty
best gown for summer will have blacl
ground with velvet or green figures
small in effect: or she takes one of dark
green or navy having black dots as
stripes, small figures or single specls.
In either case tire skirt is made -four
yards wide, with godet back Of three
or four narrow plaits that taper wider
toward the bottom, though not caught
exco.)t at the belt. The front may be
plain or slightly draped at one side, OF
have the apron effect. Trim the skirt
with two narrow ruflles headed with ?
band of spangled jet, or have tH~ec
rows of lace insertion. Auother neat
garniture is three rows of No
black ribbon, each hea'cd with q
gimp of a single row of it spangles.
The sleeves viii be very large leg-of
mutton designs. with se-eral rows OF
the skirt trimming betw en- the elbows
and wrists. The coIs; &c may be 9
pointed one. short and round. finished
with circular basque p ece or cut with
the godet effect or fullness in cach
seam. so as to make a full or frill APP
pearanCc With a round waist crust
belt is worn. fin ,hing with two tiny
frills at the back, or a roscttc and two
pointed ends turned upward The in
sertion is also used as belt. but makes
the waist-line look larger, while sim
pie belt of black ribbon No. takes
from the size A crush collar. one oi
insertion or jet bands, win accord with
the rest of the costume. \ belt and
collar of black MORE are very fashion
able as are cpaulette rufiles of lace
Ladies Home Journal.
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LAT ER NEWS,

Two passengers trains on the New
York & New England came into col
lision near Providence, r. l., tie 12th.
Both engines were smashc and four
passenger cars deraIlcd. Both engi-
neers and firemen sprang from their
engines and escaped death, but the men
in the mail cars were badly hurt. In
all ~ people were injured.
TIE A. r. L. convention was called
to order at Chicago the 12th, $50 dele.
gates being present
THERB were five cases of sunstrol1e
reported in New York City and Brook
lyn the 12th.
THE Missouri river at Omaha, Neb.,
rose one foot the night of the 18th.
Tue residence of Ole Thompson, at
ChippeNa Falls, Wis, was burned early
the morning of he 18th. The loss on
building and contents is about g, 600;
insured. The inmates were driven into
the street in their night clothes.
LIGHrSINa struck Theo. Lanos'
house, three miles north of Long Prai-
rie, Mimi. the night of the 18th.
wrecking the house and seriously in
juring Mrs. Lanos and son George.
IL the house the 18th a bin was
passed setting aside 500, 900 from the
fund belonging to the estates of de-
ceased colored soldiers of the civil war
for the purpose of erecting in the Dis
trict of Columbia a national home for
aged and iHtirm eolored people.
Il. VI. HOLMES, a lumbermau who
operates mills at Ogemaw, Mich, made
an assignment the 18th II Henry Fink
Mr. Fink bond was fixed at 500, 600.
ISAAC HANKS, an aged miser, charged
with having caused the death of his
wife by denying her sufficient food. has
been found guilty by the jury in Salem.
y. Y. lie is 20 years old. and was fined
81. 600 and costs.
\ RANCHMAN named George II. Bryan
vas found dead on the road near lele-
ma. Mont. the 18th his team having
run away and dragged him TO death.
Ar Chicago the morning of tie 18th
Archibald Mekiilip, conductor for the
Chicago City Railway company. was
murdered at 1915 o'clock this morning
at the corner of Fifteenth street and
Wabash avenue
The grand jury at Washington, ID. C.,
has decided to return a true bill against
Jc' n ;. Shriver. Washington eorrespon-
.ent oft New York Mail and Express.
and f. ]. Edwards. New York CORES
pondent Of the Philadelphia Press. for
refusing TO give the source of their in
formation TO the senatorial investigat-
ing committee about the sugar trust
and democratic senators.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

NOMINATIONS for congress were res
ported as follows: Indiana, Ninth dis
trict, J. +. Hanley rep; Thirteenth,
Lewis W. Boyse rep. Kansas. Sixth
district. William Baker tpop.) renom-
mated.
Is the republican convention at To-
pelxa Mai. +. y. Morrill,. of lIiawatha,
was nominated ior governor of Kansas
and W. r. johnson was nominated
for associate judge of the supreme
court.
MINERS stoned Nandalia train near
Brazil. Ind. killing the engineer, Will
liam Barr. and injuring the conductor
and a brakeman.
SEVEN lives were lost in a battle be-
tween strikers and militia at Mineral
Siding, Col.
II was said that enty members of
the Denver industrial army were
drowned by their boats capsizing in
the Platte river uear brighton, Col.
THE death of Rrodl Irwin occurred
at Battle Creek, Mich., aged ilI years.
She was born slave on the planJa-
tion OF Alexander Irwin i'm Bedford
county. Va.
The largest horse in the world. King
William. being 25ls hands high and
weighing S.025 pounds. died at Chester
ton, Ind. lie was valued at $4,000.
JUICE BAKER sentenced Theodore T..
Haughey. president Of the defunct In
dianapolis national bank, To six years
in the peniteutiarv.
WISCONSIN republicans will hold their
state convention in Milwaukee July %
THE doors OF the German national
bank at Denver, I'll, were closed with
deposits Of SS5S. 900: resources. sI,5T7.-
600
IN convention at Columbus the Ohio
prohibitiouists nominated the follow
ing ticket: Secretary of state, Mark q.
MeCaSlin; Judge of supreme court. !.
W. Rosenborough; state school com
missioner. Prof +. '. Irish; member
Of board of public works. al. T. Earles.
The platform favorS equal suffrage;
money issued by government alone;
tariff as a defense against foreign gov
ernmentS; government control OF rail-
roads and telegraphs. one days rest in
seven. pensions: revision of immigra-
tiou laws: extension Of time of natur-
alization: public schools in English
language: and opposes all forms of IL
cense local option or TAXATION of
liquor traffic.
ApvICEs from Ardmore. 7. T., state
that Bill Dalton. the outlaw. was Sille i
by deputy marshals near Elk. l. r.
DR. STONE. a British subject. was
tarred and feathered for denouneing a
Eagssing affair at Newport News, Va.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

THE colored republican clubs will
meet in national convention in Wash
ington July =.
EXCHANGES AT the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the sth aggregated
s9O4 .S53. s26. against Sill. 06o. 979 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week In
1892, was 22.2
IL the seven DAYS ended or the sth
there We're 2l6 business failures in the
United States. against 1s3 the week
previous and 322 in the corresponding
time in 1893.
THE United States has filed claims
for %. 900, 600 pesetas for customs duties
against Spain.
Brown. Coxey and Jones were re-
leased from Jail and departed for the
commonweal camp at Bladensburg.
Is the United States the visible sup
ply Of grain on the 18th was: Wheat,
5s.21l 900 bushels; corn. 5.5I4,0 BUSH
els; oats. 2.764.00O bushels; rye, 205. 900
bushels; barley. 1000 bushels.
THE immigration to the United
States has fallen between go and 20 per
cent. below normal figures, while trav-
81 to foreign countries is much larger
than ever before.
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TOSSING COINS.
Chances of Three Pennies Falling Al
Heads or All Tails.

Chances of Three Pennies Falling All
Heads or All Tails.
Surprising "a man to toss three pen
mics in the air, what are the chances
OF their coming down all heads or
tails? This is a question discussed
in recent number of Nature by Fran
els Gallon OF the Royal society. lie
upsets popular delusion regarding
the laws of chance. 1t is obvious that
at least two of the coins thrown in
the air must turn up alike. for when
the coins are on the ground there must
always be either two heads or tails
showing. The question then is as to
the chance of the third coin turning
mp head or tail. 1t is of course an
even chance whether third coin turns
one side or the other.
Is it, therefore, an even chance that
all three coins will be alike? Mr. Gal
ton says it is not an even chance, and
that the man who bets his money on
such theory would lose in the end.
He says the relative chance of all
thrc. coins turning up alike is two to
eight, and he figures il out in this way:
There are two different and equally
probable ways in which coin may
turn up, there are four ways in which
two coins may turn up, and there are
eight ways in which three coins may
do SO. OF these eight ways one is all
heads and another all tails. While il
/ is an even chance whe Their third coin
is heads or tails ii is not an even
chance that the third coin will urn
/ the same as the other two.
In order to test the matter Ir. Cal
ton tossed three coins eight times
Only twice did they come UP all alike,
while the third coin was equally divid-
/ ed between hcaas aud tails. Mr.. Gal
I ton then made 20 throws of lice, with
. three dice in each throw. the odd num-
) bers counting as heads and the even
numbers as tails. The 12G throws were
divided into three groups of forty in
each, and gave the result of all alike
s, Il, S, total, rs, as against not all
alike-S2, %, 81; total 81. This
seemed To settle the matter. and indi-
Gated that the most probable expecta-
ton in the case of the dice was 80 to
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TAUGHT eY a CHILD.
a Learned Man finds Something New !
Natural Philosophy.


Natural Philosophy.
As a change from the story of Column
bus and the egg. which may now very
properly be laid aside until 1892. draws
near, an incident related 10y a French
man of science and vouched for by
him may be told. This gentleman re-
lates that he was at his work before a
glowing coal fire when some one
tapped at the door and young girl
belonging to a family who lived in the
fiat" above him came in.
''Sir." she said, would you kindly
lend me a live coal or two to start our
fire with? It's gone out"
Certainly, my dear" said the
savant. but you have brought moth
ing to carry it in. Take my shovel"
''Oh. no, sir. answered the child. II
will carry the Goals in my hand
I'm your hand? What do you mean?
You'll be burned
Oh. no. sir. I'll show you how"
The child dipped UP some ashes frora
the CRATE and placed them in the hol-
lowed palm of her left hand Then
with the tongs she laid two burning
Goals on top of the little heap of ashes.
Then she bowed. amiled and went out,
bearing the Goals unframed.
well. WELL said the man of science
to himself. Here I've been studying
natural philosophy forty years, and
never had the wit to do THAR
Whether he ever repeated the expert
ment on his own account we are not
told. but If young readers are tempted
20 do so we should advise caution.
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The News Of the Week.
FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS.
Regular Session.
BY TELEGRAPH ANp NAIL.

WEDNESDAY, June Ga resolution
was adopted il the senate for the
appointment Of a special committee of
i've senators on the existing public dis
tress. The tariff bin was further con-
preserve the purity of national legisla-
tion. In the house the bill to repeal
the tax on state bank circulation was
defeated by vote of IL TO 102.
THURSDAY. June THE action of
the attorney general in claiming
$4,000. 600 IF the Stanford estate was
discussed in the senate. after which
the tariff bill was further considered.
In the house a bill for new public
building at Elgin, H.. was favorably
reported, as was also one for the sur
vey of ship canal route from the Ohio
river TO Lake Erie.
FRIDAY. June SIN the senate the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill 81. $40. 1881 and the army APP
preparation bill tS2s, 6O0.14S) were :
ported. The tariff bill was further
discussed. A resolution TO set at rest
the claim of the United States against
the estate of Leila Stanford was la id
on the table. In the house the Indian
appropriation bill was considered. II
was decided by the committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce to report
a bill for the requirement of the Mic
aragua canal by the government AID
for carrying on the work to compile
tion.
SATJ RDAY, June "a bin was
passed in the senate dividing the
salaries of railway postal clerks into
seven grades varying from $500 to
sI,sa0 per year. Several schedules in
the tariff bin were disposed Of In the
house the session was brief, and prac-
tieally no business was transacted. A
bill was introduced to limit the rates
of sleeping ears to one-half of enc c, MT
a mile for lower berths and one-third
of one cent a mile for upper berths.
MONDAY. June 1.-THE senate en-
tered on the eleventh week of the
tariff debate and nineteen pages of the
measure We're disposed Of In the
house no business was transacted be-
cause of the lack of quorum.
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AsToNlsHeo THE NATIVES.
The Camera and PbonograpS Used will
Eneet to Induce Kanaka EmicratIon.

The Camera and PhonograrS Used with
Eject to Induce Kanaka Emigration.
When one of the Australian SQUAD
ron was patrolling the South seas
lately, she came up with sailing YES
sci, and one of her officers boarded the
stranger, says the Sydney Mail She
nroved to be a colonial craft, engaged
in recruiting Kanalas for the Queens
land plan sations. On board the naval
officer noticed a photograph. lie was
told that before the vessel left Queens
land the captain visited some of the
sugar plantations where South Sea
islanders are employed He took a
camera and a monograph. and then he
went into the business of photograph
ing groups of natives on the planta-
tions, also taking individual pictures
of well-known natives from the New
Hebrides and others from the Solomon
group. Edison's invention was then
brought into service, the best known
of the natives, especially those who
have relatives and friends in the
islands, being asked to speak into the
photograph anything they would like
to tell their friends. Large numbers of
cured, giving accounts of what sort of
life the KanalSas were having on the
plantations and any other news that
would interest the ''old folks at home
at MallieolIo. Ambrym. San Christoval,
Malaita and other islands. After Sc
curing a good supply the ingenious
shipmaster sailed for the islands, and.
when last seen, was astonishing the
natives. Many of the photographs he
had transferred to glass for use with the
lime light, and with the photographs
and the photograph he was in posi-
tion to give such an exhibition of life
on plantation - fairly changed the
sire to emigrate Nor was this FL.
At the lime light show he would pro-
dnce a full-sized picture of an absent
friend, u native who was well known
in the is and in which the shipmas ter
happened TO be. and. to the amazemeut
of his dusky audience, would make
him speak words of greeting from his
plantation home in Bundabe rg-a
thousand miles away. If any misgiv-
ings were felt before the photograph
was produced, that bewitched machine
diSpelled them by making the lime
light fgure of their friend address the
natives in their own tongue, and in
the same voice that they knew so well
when he dwelt among them. Needless
to say. the phonograph has proved
valuable recruiting accessory.
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THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Many Wise Provisions In Hawaii's t'ro-
posed Constitution.

HONOLULU, June 3, VIA VICTORIA, Ii.
c., June 13.-The constitutional con-
vention has been occupied with its
organization for the past two days. A
strongly supported proposition was
made To give a seat in the convention
to l.. A. Thurston, without, however,
giving him voting power. This propo-
sition received only three votes.
The draft of the constitution, pre-
pared by the execr We council, was
distributed to the nemD, of the con-
vention. In il the government is
called ''The Republic of Hawaii"
There is president, no vice presi-
dent, d cabinet of four ministers, an adj
visory council of fifteen members, and
a Legislature cor sisting of a senate and
house of representatives, sitting sep
arately, and each composed of fifteen
members. All voters must be born of
naturalized citizens and must be able
to read, write and speak the English
or Hawaiian language with haeney.
Electors of senators must possess
property valued at $4,000 or yearly
income of 5000. An alien who wishes
to qualify for naturalization must come
from country with which Hawaii has
treaty concerning naturalization.
and must be able to read and write
English fluently and must possess
property valued at 5000 and must re-
flOInee all foreign allegiance.
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The chcerfulness of a room depends
not only upon the ct.lcr and form IF the
furniture. but upon the location and
the manner in which the Fight is adj
mitted Dark materials are great alb
sorbers of light. Dark heavy furni-
ture goes far toward making gloomy
and sepulchrai IA room that might be
light and cheerful When black wal
nut or rosewood furniture is used the
room hould be a sunny as possible. n
these dark woods are great absorbers
of light Pale blue, cool green shades
that harmonic 50 well with theSe
woods prevent the light from becoming
a glare and make the room pleasant
and agreeable to the senses. \ gloomy
north room, on the contrary. should be
furnished with white oak or enameled
furniture and lightened by the use Of
pale yellow or couleur dc rose in the
hangings and wallpaper. BY the ex-
ercisc of taste in these matters the
northern rooms may borrow a sunny
aspect, while the hard glare Of the sun
may be softened by the judicious use OF
coel colors and furniture that absorba
part of the light.-N. \. Tribune.
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The EAST.

PENSsYLvANIA prohibitionists in
convention at Williamsport nominated
Charles L. IIawley. Of Scranton, for
governor; II. L. Castle, of Pittsburgh.
for lieutenant governor; Charles Palm
er. of Delaware, for auditor general,
and f. X. Kane and Rev. L. q. Jordan
for congressmen-at-larg
RoDNAN VI. PRICE. ex-governor Of
New Jersey. died at his residence in
Oakland. lie was the first person to
raise the stars and stripes on California
soil
THE Union Warehouse company, of
New York. assigned with liabilities of
more than 81. O00,0 600.
NEW political party has been formed
ia Pennsylvania with an avowed pur-
pose of unfolding the public school
system.
Is the national league the percent
ages Of the baseball clubs for the wee
ended on the 9th We're: Baltimore. -
Boston. OIL; Pittsburgh, 6S2; Clev :
land. 500; Philadelphia, .629. Brooklyn.
.5sS; New York 800; st. Louis, 462s
Cincinnati. 81: Chicago. .297; Wash
ingtor. .2s3. Louisville, .21s
81 the caliaizing of boat on lake
near Brew ster. y. Y. four members of
A boating party were drowned
THE populist, in Pennsylvania nomi-
mated :. :. Ka ms for congress In the
Invent y-secold district. J. II. Steven.
son n the Twenty-third and d w
Hutchinson N the Twenty-fourth.
STRIKl sc ~ ners and officials fought
at Lemunt, Ia, and three of the strib-
srs we've .-iileI and another fatally in
iured
TItE death Of Mrs. Lois Triton. who
WIS the asst slave sold at auction in
New Haven. Conn, Tin 1929 occurred
az the age Of -.
The chief justice of New Jersey says
that the legislature of that state can
not confer upon women the right to
vote for any public officers.
Is New York three members OF a
suicide club" died within a short time
of each other at Bellevue hospital.
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RAvAGEs CT A PLAGUE.


SHANGHAI, June 13.-No brief com
munications on the subject can convey
an adequate idea of the character and
extent Of the visitation which is raw
aging Canton, Paklios and Hong
kong. The disease has long been raging
in the two frst-named places, and il
has carried off tens of thousands
of victims in the last few weeks. Ii
reached Hongkong last week. The
plague, which is described by medical
men as similar in appearance and symp-
toms to 1.-THE great plague of London, 2
which devasted that city in 1865. was
noted first in Canton toward the
end of April. The disease is
accompanied by terrific fever, the
temperature going at bound up to
1O5 and 100 degrees Up to May at
least 10000 people have died in Cam
ton. All the immense business of the
city was at standstill, and the inhab-
itants who could do so were flying to
the country. The plague reached
Hongkong about May S, and already
forty deaths day are recorded.
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IN RoYALTY'S HOME.
Y. NJ. &. A. Delegates Inspect Windsor
Adjournment.

Castle-Adjournment.
LONDON. June at the invitation
of Queen Victoria, the delegates to the
international Y. NJ. G. A. conference
visited Windsor Castle, and were con-
Quoted through the historic building
and grounds by d number of gentle
men-in-waiting, also being served with
light refreshments in tent erected in
the great park All of the private
grounds attached to the castle were, for
the first time in its history, thrown
open for public use and inspection.
Before returning to London the
delegates held a farewell meeting at
which addresses eulogistic OF the
queens courtesy were delivered by
representatives of every country in the
delegation.
John Wanamalxer proposed that q
message be sent to President Williams.
The motion was carried with enthus.-
asm. Howard Williams thanking the
assembly on behalf of his father, said
that happily his fathers illness was
not ef q serious nature and he hoped
to meet them all again three years
hence. Rev. Dr. Cuyler pronounced a
benedietiou and the conference was
declared dissolved.
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A yaIidalia Passenger Train Wrecked Near
Pocahontas. Ill.

ST. Louis. June 12.-The New York
fast mail aud express of the Vandalia
line, was wrecked one mile east of
Pocahontas, H., Saturday morning.
The fireman, ;. A. Paulton. of Terre
Haute, Ind, was crushed under the
tender and others injured. The train
was running about As miles an hour,
when, on a curve with twelve
foot embankment, the engineer,
Thomas Menifer, felt something, sup
posed to be the forward truck on the
engine, give way. In an instant the
engine, tender. two mail ears q COM
bination ear and a coach were in the
ditch. Fireman Paulton fell Under
the tender and was crushed to
death. Mail Clerk Henry AL
baugh was dangerously crushed
in the PheSt