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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-11
E OF CHICAGO GAMRI FRS

church will be is unknown, but some
of its members do not hesitate to say
it will probably be disbanded. 1t has
always been foun ded entirely on Prof.
Swings personality. 1t had no mo-
tive but to keep him in the pulpit and
to preserve his preaching and iniiu-
ence to the city and to the world while
he lived With his removal, it is
thought by some members of the con-
gregatioh, there will be no object in
continuing such an independent move
ment
CHICAGO, Oct. S.-Funeral services
over the remains of Prof. David Swing
were held at Central Music hall Sun
day afternoon The hall. which for so
many years was the scene of
the celebrated divine's labors, was
crowded with friends of the dead man
and members of his church. Admission
was by card and many hundreds We're
turned away. Rev. II. w. Thomas and
Rev. Il. c. Hall conducted the intro
ductory services. DR.. John ii. Bar
rows, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. preached the funeral sermon,
wsich was pronounced eulogy on the
dead mans life and work. The in
terment was at Rose Hill.
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LATER MEMS

Paul. BARGER, said to be the oldest
negro minstrel in the country, died in
Philadelphia the sth. lie was 20 years
old.
WM SLOAN died at Chicago the 9TH
after fasting so days.
Two men were killed the sth in the
Illinois Steel works at Chicago by a
bursting steam pipe. The dead are
VIM. Miller and A. y. Sparrow. Five
others were injured so their recovery is
doubtful.
The 2-year-old-daughter of Philip
Knopf, a mounted policeman of New
York, procured her fathers revolver
while he was asleep and accidentally
discharged it. The ball entered his
left side, intiicting n wound which
proved fatal in few hours.
TRAIN wreekers sawed the supporting
timbers of the 500 railway bridge at
TOmahawS junction, Wis, the sth and
the vest bound passenger train was
wrecked. The engine plunged into the
Tomal1awk river. The body of the fire.
man was buried under the engine. The
engineer had both legs broken. No pas
sengers were injured.
4 SHANGHAI dispatch via London the
sth says: Uuited States Minister DENLY
warned the American residents of Pekin
that the city is certain To be attacked
By the japanese, and he advises that
all the women and children be sent at
at once to places of safety. Already
many of the Weather natives are de-
parting. aud many other are making
preparations to follow their example.
The democrats of Massachusetts, have
nominated Ex-Cfov. VIM. +. Russell for
governor.
o. d. WRAY, deputy United States
marshal, was fatally shot at Abba. To-,
the Sth. where he had arrested Gabe
Johnson. boot-legger. The shot was
fired by some of Johnson's friends.
Johnson escaped.
THE supreme court of South Carolina
the sth decided that the state liquor
law is constitutional. This reverses a
former decision given by the sane
court.
JOHN RAvELI, living near Ironwood,
Mich, the sth, put some giant powder
in the stove oven to thaw out An ex-
plosion followed which killed Ravell
and his 5-year old son. Mrs. Ravell
and a 6-year-old daughter were seri-
ouSly hurt
The cloak makers of New York to
the number of nine thousand decided
the sth to strike for a time system of
wages. a general demand is made for
SIS weekly wages aud nine-hour
work day.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Fort Worth. Tex, Martin Irons,
once a famous labor leader, was in
Jail. charged with assaulting a little
girl
Is a freight train wreck at Mans
field, O.. six persons were badly in
jured and twenty cars were demol-
ished
PROPERTY worth 81 .0O0, coo was de-
stroyed and nine persons were killed
by cyclone at Little Rock, Ark The
main portion of the business center Of
the city was practically in ruins.
REFUBLICASS Of South Carolina will
not nominate a state ticket, but candi-
dates viii run in each congressional
district
Ar Belvidere, H., Mrs. N. c. Giles
went 10 bed with good eyes and woke
up in the morning totally blind. The
physicians were bahied.
VETERANS at Petersburg. Ill. dedi-
Gated a monument 10 Maj. Il. f..
Stephenson. founder of the Grand
Army Of the Republic.
THE trotting queen Alix. 2:oSs{, and
trotting king Directum, 2:e5L, have
been matched 10 race for s. 500 a side.
CANDIDATES for congress were Sc
Ieeted as follows: Illinois Twelfth
district. T. :. Donovan ldem.l. Wis
consin. Seventh district. Michael Grit
TN rep. }. Nebraska. Fifth district, W
4. MckeiChan-
THE Army of the Tennessee con-
vened at Council Bluffs, 81, in twenty
ninth annual reunion.
AT Lamont Ia. Emma Jacobs, aged
wears. saved a Chicago Great West
err train from being wrecked on q
burned bridge
A CYCLONE near Pawnee, Neb.. killed
John Nelson's o-year-old girl and seri-
ously injured tive other members of the
family.
THE eminent preacher and theo-
logiar.. Prof. David Swing. died Of
chol mia az his home in Chicago, aged
"a years
EEsoLUrIoNs were adopted at the
En- nerS' national congress al Parkers-
In z. W Va. favoring protection to
wool AMI cotton.
/. q. LypDoN dem was elected
Justice o. the supreme court ithout
opposition at the state eiectior IN
Florida.
ALARGE tract of land in tine Black
Brook country near CirantSbs4rg, Wis.
WA swept owe bV prairie eces.
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EnRElGN INTELLIGENCE.

The little town'of Dagua, Cuba. was
destroyed by fire and 200 lives were
lost
ORDERS were given by the Italian
government to Krupp, of Berlin. for
the coinage of 10000. 600 nickel lire
BILL was passed by the Hungarian
diet granting liberty of worship to all
creeds, despite the opposition of the
clergy.
A TERRIFIC hurricane in the north
east end of Cuba destroyed or badly
damaged all the banana plantations
and many houses were blown down.
Towns were wrecked along the Rus
sian coast by a hurricane and many
lives were lost.
IL a monster procession at Dublin in
enumeration of the death of Parnell
every county in Ireland was repre-
scented.
The ruins of prehistoric city COW
ering hundreds of acres were found
near the volcano Purace. in the Andss
fountains.
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HISTORY OF THE HUDSON.
The Work o. the Glacial Action of the Ice
Age.


The Hudson river. as we call it, along
the western shore of the island of Man
haitian, is now majestic estuary rather
than river. and is deep enough for all
the uses of great ships. But its present
bottom is formed of the rock wreclxage
of an earlier day, which has largely
filed up chasm once several hundred
feet deep, through which the old river
ran.
So colossal was the sheet of ice which
came sweeping down from the north
west over the top of the Palisades in
the ice age that this ancient chasm of
the Hudson rivera veritable canon
onee-changed its course no whit. For
the direction of the grooves and
scratches seen everywhere on the ex-
posed surface of the Palisades, and
pointing obliq uely across the rivers
course, run in the same direction as do
those on the rocks over which the city
stands.
1t not infrequently happens that
steamers and ships bound for New
York, when cot quite certain of their
whereabouts as they approach the
coast. are compelled to seek wnat help
they can by consulting the nearest
land, which, under these conditions, is
the sea-bottom. The sea-bottom along
our coast has been so often and so
carefully felt" that we know great
plateau extends out beyond the coast
line for some eighty or ninety miles.
where it suddenly falls off into the
great depths of the Atlantic. The
place on which New York stands was,
it is believed, once much higher than
it is now, and was separated from the
North Atlantic border by some eighty
or ninety miles of low sea-coast land,
now submerged, and forming this great
continental plateau. Indeed. the New
Jersey and adjacent coast is still sinking
at the rate OF d few inches IN Il century
For us to-day the Hudson river ends
southwark where it enters New York
harbor. But a channel. starting ten
miles southeast of Sandy Hook, and in
a general way continuing the line of
the Hudson. runs across the submerged
continental plateau, where finally, after
widening and deepening to form ire
mendous submarine chasm, it abruptly
ends where the plateau falls off into
the deep sea-
This chasm near the end of the sub
merged channel IS, if we may believe
the story of the plummet, twenty-five
miles long. a mile and quarter wide,
and in places two thousand feet in
yertical depth below its submerged
edges, themselves far beneath the
oceans surface.
This drowned river is pr baby
the old channel of what we call the
Hudson river, along which a part of
the melting glacier sent its flood dur
ing and at the close of the age of ice.
And so at last-rounded and smoothed
rock surfaces, where once sharp crags
lowered aloft; glacial grooves and
scratches on every hand; erratic
powders, great and small, numbering
the ground; a typical rocking-stone
delicately poised by vanishing forces
long ago; terminal moraine so great
that it forms picturesque landscape
features visible many miles away -
these are some of the records of the
great ice age which one may spell
out in holiday stroll about New York.
II. Michel Prudden, NJ. D., in Har-
per's Magazine.
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INVADED BY JAPS.
The Mikado's Troops Enter China at Sew
eral Points.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 5. The governor of
Kirin, ManchuIla, reports that the
Japanese have effected a landing in
the rear of Ian Chun. 1t is added
that the whole province is in a state
of CONSERVATION, but measures for its
defense are being adopted. Another
heavy levy has been made upon the
Chinese merchants in order to meet
the expenses of the war.
IT is reported that the Japanese have
captured Kin Lien Cheng, on the east
ern side Of the Yalu river. hundred
and fifty thousand men have been
gathered at Pekin for the defense of
the city, but of this number only 1000
are effectively armed. Only $4,000
soldiers are available for the defense
of the province of Chi-Li-ku and these
are raw levies.
A japanese army has landed to the
north of the Yellow river in the south
ern part of the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, to in
tercept the transport of troops from
the south via the Grand canal to Tien
Tsin. japanese fleet of seventeen
ships is now blockading the gulf of
Pe-Chi-Li. French troops are massing
i'm ronuuin
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The News Of the Week.
By TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE money circulation of the coun-
try was placed at st.es5.0 asa per
capita Of s24.07, against 81. $50. O49. 9sS
October /. 1928.
The post office department officials
in Washington stopped contemplated
Sunday parade of letter carriers in
Chicago
SECRETARY CARLISLE appointed viii
liam fugh, of Ohio, superintendent of
income tax collections.
FIRE losses for the week ended Sep
TENDER 20 entailed loss of 5000. 600,
Of which fires doing damage of $4,000
OF more contributed S4.67O.OO0.
Is his annual report the commits
sioner Of Indian affairs says special
advancement has been made IN Indian
education. The aggregate enrolment
for the year was 2l.451. with an aver
age attendance of Il, O95, against q, III
enrolment and l6.3Os attendance for
the previous year.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggre-
gated $3.50. 555, I27, against ss25, 40I, 4s2
the previous week. The decrease. com
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was Ill.
Is the United States there were 2l9
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 5th. against 2S5 the week
previous and $50 in the correspond
ing time in 1898.
TIE general land Office commissioner
in his annual report recommends
measures of relief for the forest fire
sufferers in Wisconsin aud Minnesota
During the year the total cash receipts
of the Office we're S2.757, s24. a decrease
Of Sl,7ll.gO9 over the previous year;
total agricultural patents issued. 3d.
2J5, Z decrease OF ;. 429
The customs receipts under the new
tariff were not as large as expected
and the condition Of the treasury was
again serious.
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STOLE A BIG SUM.
Safe Blowers Rife O w. shryer's Bank
at Bloomfield Ind.

Safe Blowers Rife @ w. Shryer's Bank
at Bloomfield, Ind.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 6.-Profes-
sional safe blowers robbed O. w.
Shryer's bank at Bloomfield. Ind. OF
$500 Wednesday night. The local
police department was notified of the
job and given description of the bur
glars.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. A bloody
tight took place Thursday evening in
Greene county between possee of 100
armed men and a trio of bank robbers
who robbed the safe of the Bloomfield
bank Wednesday night, blowing the
vault to smithereens with heavy
charge of dynamite and wrecking the
bank office. The men secured
s5, 500 in cash and fed To the
hill country west of Bloomfield, where
they were overtaken Thursday even
ing by Sheriff Johnson's posse, guided
by bloodhounds. A desperate fight
was kept up, with the ROBBERS retreat
ing. Ono of the trio was so badly
wounded he fell behind and at
tempted to hide in the brush.
The bloodhounds nOsed him
out and his capture was easily
"a
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subject TO similar attacks little atten-
ton was paid To it. On Monday after
noon, however, he was taken with
another chill and grew suddenly
worse. DIR. Davis was Immediately
called. After being treated the
patient seemed to grow much better,
but on Monday there was relapse, and
DIR. Isham and DR. Fenger were called
in to hold consultation. In spite of
all they could do. however. Prof.
Swing grew steadily worse until
Wednesday night. lie was unconscious
most of the time during the last three
days of his illness, and his death was
without pain.
What the future of the Central
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THE EMPERoRs OF MOROCCO.
IntrIgues By Which They Are Placed
Upon the Throne.

The emperors of Morocco do not sue
coed TO the crown by right of Inherit
ance Theoretically they are chosen
by the people from among the descend
ants of the Mohammedan prophet;
practically they are placed upon the
throne BY some palace intrigue, or by
the influence of some man or body of
men powerful and energetic enough on
the death of sultan to seize the reins
of power, to bride the soldiery in the
vicinity of the palace. TO destroy, ban
ish, or outwit the other claimants to
power, and to effect the proclamation
in due form Of the sultan Of his or their
choice.
The late emperor became sovereign
in no different manner from that of his
predecessors. 1t need hardly he said
that the man who interferes in the
election of tie monarch Of Morocco
risks all upon the east of the die. If
he fails and the rival claimant be suc-
cessful. the would-be kiag-malSer, and
all of his kith and kin, may consider
themselves fortunate if by precipi-
tate flight, leaving al their worldly
Goods behind them, hey are able 70
escape from death and possibly from
torture The man, therefore, who sue
ceeds in placing a sovereign on the
throne of Morocco has the strongest
possible claim on the gratitude Of the
autocrat WI IN he has successfully in
stalled in 20 yeE.
How did the late sultan reward the
subject who risked for him his life and
possessions? Some time after his ac-
cession, when he began to feel himself
secure upon his throne, and without
even the pretense Of a quarrel or of an
accusation, the late emperor cast this
man into one of his dungeons, and
there he remained until few months
ago, when he was at length released
after an imprisonment of fourteen
years. The motive for this crime was
probably fear lest the chief who had
been powerful enough to raise him to
the throne might some day use his in
fiuence in favor of another.-Earl of
Meath. in Nineteenth Century.
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REVIEW OF TRADE.
wheat and Cotton at Bedrock Prices
The Industries Picking IN.

Ahe INDUSTRIES ithtuk tp
New YORK, Oct. s-Duns weekly re-
view of trade says;
With the chief money crops of She west
and south sinking In value il is not strange
that purchases Of manufactured products are
smaller than was expe. ted. Wheat has touched
the lowest point ever known for options
and cotton the lowest ever known in any form
with the present classification. and the
accumulation OF stocks in both products Is
discouraging TO purchasers for advance.
Producers are compelled TO sell at prices be-
low the ordinary cost Of raising crops. and in
some western states there Is also lamenta-
bic failure Of the corn crop. Under the cir
cumstanees il would be very strange II the de-
mand for manufactured products should be
quite as large as IN other years.
w heat suffers most from the accumulation
OF stocks in sight, which are far beyond what
Is usually expected for the season. and the ex-
ports for September we're unusually small.
The price for cash wheat is a small fraction
higher for the week. Corn receipts at
the west have been only third as
large as they we're last year, with exports
amounting to nothing, but the price has not
further declined after the heavy fail during
the previous fortnight Pork products are
weak In tone, though only lara is Quotably
lower. Cotton is one-eighth lower, the case
price being the lowest known for forty-five
years, and considering the difference in elias
In 1879 AMI estimates that the crop is more
than l0OOOOO bales are more commonly cred
TIED now than estimates of s.500O1o were two
months ago. With favorable weather the
yield seems likely to be the largest ever known.
The condition OF the industri is in some
respects more satisfactory Evidently there
is larger demand for iron products than
there was month ago, though the increase in
output has been somewhat greater than the
increase In the demand, so that prices steadily
tend downward. The structural market is
fairly active in the west. without change at
the east, and while the coke output has become
the heaviest ever known. 1878 tons for the
week, the price is declining, and steps are be-
ing Iken TO limit the supply.
The boot and shoe trade continues TO de-
liver more goods than In any previous year as
II did IN September, and most Of the works
still have orders for one or two months ahead.
although mainly for low and medium priced
goods. There is a little better demand this
week for goods OF higher quality, however, and
the demand for leather Is still reducing the re-
serve
1.-The failures FOR the last week have been PIG
in the United States, against 800 last year, and
SO in Canada against As last year"
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ON TO PEKIN.
Cautious Advance of Japanes Sc
Troops Against the Capital.
no Piundering VIII BE Allowed IL Taken
--Moukden Evacuated by the Chinese
RebeIiions Subjects Add to the
Terrors of War.
STEADILY ADvAScINa.


LONDON. Oct. "a dispatch to the
Times from Tien rsin dated Saturday
says that the Japanese are advancing
cautiously toward Moukden and avoid
ing any dashing enterprises Their
cruisers are closely watching the
Chinese fleet in the gulf of Pc Chi LII.
The Japanese army advancing on
Pelxin is said To have many Koreans in
its ranks. The recent announcement
that American officers had entered the
Japanese army has been rectified. 1t
nov appears that Gen. Ruggles and
several other American officers were
readily permitted by the Japanese gov
ernmens 20 follow the campaign, but
solely as spectators.
VIII AIIowNo PIunderinG.
The japanese government has in
structed Field Marshal Yamaga to in
form the diplomats at Seoul that he
will not allow the Japanese army to
plumber Pekin in case that city is
taken. This assurance will probably
induce the diplomats to stay in Pekin
even should the emperor leave the
capital. They will, at any rate. at
tempt to negotiate peace by asking
Japan to be moderate in her demands.
The emperor's palace in Pekin is now
guarded by Mantchu troops only.
dispatch received at New Chwang,
gulf of Lac Ton, says that the Chinese
are in full retreat from Moukden,
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A MEXICAN POST MASTER.
An Office that Is a Good Deal of Sine


cure.
Prof. Carl Lumholtz, whose studies
of the Mexican Indians have added
much to our knowledge of ethnology,
relates this incident of an experience
he had with an official in the far-off
interior of that all but unknown dis
trict inhabited by the Tarahumaris red
men.
On my arrival in Guochochic did not
find Don Miguel at home, to whom 1
had letters of introduction. but l met
one of his sons who also lives here. Il
am the postmaster" he said proudly,
stepping forward and showing me at
the same time his credentials, which he
evidently always carried in his pocket.
The mail from the lowlands to the
mining towns passes over this place
and the mail carrier sleeps at his house,
bringing also, in the course of the year,
a fea letters to the inhabitants OF this
part of the country.
We soon entered into conversation
about postal matters, which naturally
interested me greatly, as | was anxious
to hear as often as possible from the
outside world. | afterward learned
that he had some very original ideas
about his duties as postmaster. Letters
are rare in that remote part of the
country, and, being DESTROYS of know
ing what was going on among his
neighbors, he was in the habit of salts
flying his curiosity by opening letters.
Not that he destroyed them; he always
very coolly handed them over opened,
which naturally was thought rather
high-handed on his part and not alto
gether looked upon with favor.
He said he had heard that I could
cure people. To be doctor means to
the Mexican peasantry a comprehension
of all useful knowledge in this world.
He looked at me for moment and.
with queer, hesitating expression in
his face, blurted out: ''Can yOI cut out
trousers?" For some time he had had
a piece of cloth in his house and he
would pay me well If | could help him
to have IT made into trousers. / have
frequently been asked to mend watches
or sewing machines and to make prog
nostications of the weather.
One of nv companions deeply offended
a man by saving that he did not know
how to make apple-jaek. 1T is only
because vou do not want to tell" he
said. The good people are astonished
and hurt at ones confession Of inabil-
ity to help in such matters. 1t IS the
old belief in the medicine man that
still survives in the minds of these peO-
pie. and they, therefore, also look upon
doctors with much greater respect than
upon other persons. chicago News.
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The sum total Of the information
brought back by the members IT the
Peary exploring expedition from the
arctic regions i that seal mea- tastes
like tainted mutton with coal oil
poured over it The world has been
waiting for centuries for this impor-
taut intelligence, and now Peary can
come home and WeIlnan and all the
rest Of them can quit