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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
THE EAST.

THE first of the police officials con-
victel as a result of the LeXow inves
tigatiOn, EX-Capt Stephenson, of New
York, was sentenced to three years
and nine months imprisonment and
fined $1,000.
BECAUSE of domestic troubles Will
liam ). VII tman, of Winooski. VT,
shot and killed his wife and two boys
and then committed suicide.
IL New York Edward r. Carter for
twenty-nine years a clerk in the Ma
tional bank of commerce, confessed to
embezzling $50 GOO
a Pouch destined for Hartford and
contain. ng 600 letters was stolen from
the depot platform at New I lven,
Conn.
THE steamer Majestic arrived in
New York with the largest single
matt ever brought across the Atlantic.
Ii was in 1,672 bags.
Tue most severe blizzard in years
swept over the eastern states. Along
the Massachusetts, coast many ships
were wrecked, causing great loss of
life, and in the cities of Boston and
New York much damage was done by
the storm.
Ar New Castle, Pa, August Per-
month"; shot and fatally wounded Miss
Meister, the daughter of his landlady,
and Robert Charles, another boarder.
and then blew out his own brains. He
was insane.
IL New York the dry goods and mill
linerv firm of J. Lichtenstein & Sons
g 81 - FOR : "a 0nO
FIRE swept away business block
in Buffalo. y. Y, the loss being $780,
90.
II New York Superintendent Byrnes
and Inspector Mclaughlin were ex-
amined at the closing session of the
Lex0w committee. The former said
he had sent his resignation to the
mayor-elcct
FIRE started by lighted cigar
stump destroyed The city hall. post of
fee, public library and opera house at
Biddeford. Ne.
Il Albany, y. Y, the Delavan house,
one of the most famous hotels in the
United States, was burned, the loss be-
ing $500, 600.
FLAMES swept away Van Aliens nail
mill at Northumberland, Pa. the loss
being 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED.
The LexOw Committee Secures a Great
and substantiaI victory.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S. The Lexow
committee, scorned, laughed at and
considered huge joke when it first
began its work, has secured its first
great victory in the criminal courts.
Ex-Police Capt. John l.. Stephenson has
been sentenced to three years and nine
months in the penitentiary at Sing
Sing and to pay fine of $1,000.
The laughter that first greeted the
Lexow committee ceased long ago, but
Wednesday marked an epoch in the
history of its labors, nevertheless. 1t
was the consummation of its first
great case. and now no one can
doubt that an almost endless num-
Der of convictions, with their ac-
com panying sentences, will follow.
The jury found Capt. Stephenson
guilty after trial ending December
II. The crime charged against him
was accepting brides from street mer-
chants and peddlers. although the
only case conclusively proved was
that he had accepted four bas-
kets Of peaches from a fruit
merchant named Martin U. Edwards.
II was of this that he was convicted.
but there were so many other matters
that looked suspicious that the con-
viction was generally regarded as one
for general "boodling" and bribe-tak
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
AFTER ANTHONY.
Witness Causes a Great Sensa-
ton in the Lexow Inquiry.
Louis S. Streets Startling Testimony-says
he Paid Comstock Thousand Dollars
TO Have Indictments Dismissed
Green Goods MeD --otec.ed.

New YORK. Dec. Sl.-On Thursday
Louis :. Street was sworn before the
Lexow committee. He said he was in
dicted on June 90 1889, for felony in
connection with green goods" There
were two indictments against him. He
declared he had never been N the
green goods" business.
The witness then explained that a
man by the name of Edward Beck
thold rented an office from him at No.
So Beekman street. Anthony Com
stock, said he, came to my Office a
month after and asked me 10 tell
the name of the man who
rented the office. refused to
tell; was brought to the Tombs and
held in S., 900 bail for making green
goods" The witness further said
that Beckthold gave his wife 5000
as bail for him The bail was finally
reduced to $4,000 and Street was re-
leased from the Tombs.
"Beckthold told me-" said the wit
ness, "he gave 81 500 TO Anthony Com
stock to square an indictment in the
United States court"
The witness also said that he went
to Europe, and when he returned the
state court indictment was still hang
ing over him.
Il went to see Anthony Comstock,"
said he. land he said he was the only
man who could get the indictments
dismissed ! called to see Mr.. Com
stock again in August, 1890, and | paid
him $1,000 in cash to get the state
court indictments dismissed. He said
when he vas taking the money: Re
mem Der. you are not giving me this
81, 900 as bride, but as donation to
the society,""
in the court.
Now, are you sure sou paid this
money to Anthony Comstock?"
Il swear before God and man | paid
him 81 900 To have the indictments dis
missed and to secure my liberty"
Mr.. Golf offered in evidence the two
original indictments which had been
dismissed as the Endorsement showed.
Robert Street, hotelkeeper of Tux
edo and brother of the last witness,
was then called.
did you visit Anthony Comstock's
Office with your brother in August,
1892 asked Mr. Golf.
YES. SIR"
= "What did you see?"
IL saw my brother pay $1,000 to An
thony Comstock. There was an agree
ment between them to get the indict-
ments dismissed. | gave my brother
$780,"
Mr. Golf then said that they had evil
dence that the police had protected
green goods men long ago. I'VE
have now evidence" said he, ''if the
testimony is true, that Anthony Com
stock, the president of a private so
ciety, has accepted money for sub
startially the same thing as the police
officials"
That's pretty heavy indictment
against Mr.. Comstock, if it is true"
said Chairman Lexow.
The last witness .orroborated all his
brothers story as to the interview
with Mr.. Comstoek.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
A REMEDY FOB The BLUES.
Activity in Mind and Body Is a sure

Cure.
If a remedy for the blues could be
offered the public of the efficacy claim
ed for quaclS medicine to cure ali the
ills that beset mankind. a fortune
would surely await the patentec. hut
OF several receipts given fg persons OF
different sorts and conditions. IL may
be possible 10 CT DOSE one to srit ones
own case.
Il take n walk" said one voung
woman, vigorous of mad ana bod-.
If the trouble comes from indiges-
ton. as it usually does. there IS neth-
ing like ten-mile tramp to put your
internal organs to rights" The reply
of a Boston maiden may be deemed
characteristic: II sit down TO the hard
est mathematical problem that | can
find" j go into one Of the alcoyes in
the reading room" said another. the
possessor Of that Boston patent Of no.
biiity, share in the Atheneum, w tn
the new magazines or a pile IF
local histories" Il suppose the
saintly-minded would say that tae
best plan : 20 go TO see some one wh0
isworse or than yourself" said a your =
woman OF feeble constitution brt bril-
liant mental endcwments Il onlv
add this misery to mine. and the sum
total is suicidal. just think, 1t isn't
illness and ii isn't death; nothing else
matters Or I try to bring myself ~
the admirable frame of mind thas
Dollie Madison attained at eighty: 'AIv
dear, when you have reached my age
YOU Will learn that nothing matters
4 sweep my room, said an energetic
little housewife, usually to the indir-
nation of the maid, who has Just com
pleted the same task" Perhaps the
best suggestion Of al came from the
tired little bookkeeper: II try 10 do
something for somebody else" For, as
the Salvation army sister phrased it.
If YOU make other people Apply you've
a 'appiness in your art that DON'T come
in no other way"
But whether caused by a derange-
ment of the liver, by some one walking
over our future grave. or rising like an
eXhalation without known cause. = IS
safe to insist that the blues Should be
struggled against. There IS u certain
critical period in the life of every man
or woman, at or near the middle life.
when he or She becomes morally tired.
1t may be that it is. because then the
ambition of youth isstilled in its wild
pulsation, D" and that the vague sense of
the future holding beautiful some
/ thing is seen to be only a mirage
/ Harpers Bazaar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
SAFELY RETURNED.
Columbus Relics mt the Exposition Re-
stored to the Vatican.

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stored to the Vatican.
ROME, Dec. rs The pope at noon
Wednesday in the throne room of the
vatican received the officers of the
United States cruiser Detroit, which
recently arrived at Naples with the
vatican relics exhibited at the worlds
fair in Chicago. Among the officers
present at the reception We're Com
mander Newell, Lieuts. Rogers and
Marshall and Ensigns Evans and
Blakely. The American officers were
presented by Mgr. OConnell, who cx-
pressed in their name and in the
name of President Cleveland thanks
for the papal participation in
the Chicago exposition His holiness
replied in terms OF great affection, and
praised the progress, activity and lib
ertv of the United States. The audience
lasted half an hour, and at its conciu-
sion all the officers went to Car
dinal Rampolla, the papal secretary OF
state, and presented their compli-
ments to him. Later the officers
dined at the American college.
The facade of that building and its
dining-hall were decorated with the
Stars ard Stripes Among those pres
ent at the dinner were the United
States AMBASSADOR, Hon. Wayne Mac
Veagh; II. r. Whitehouse, secretary OF
Legations; the United States naval at
tache, Gen. Hardy, and Rev. DIR. Rior-
dan
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
LATER NEW
The Albany Horror.

ALBANY, y. Y, Jan. 1.-The horrors
Of the Delavan house fire increase as
the hours go by, and where yesterday
morning nine persons were reported
missing, the list tonight has increased
to Il. The full Inst of missing is as fol
lows:
Mrs. Francis Hill of Chicago.
Nora sullivan. chambermaid.
Mary sullivan, chambermaid. sister
of Nora.
Mary Carr, of Saratoga, chamber
maid.
Annie Daley. employed in cleaning
department.
Bridget Fitzgibbons, employed in
pantry.
Amelia Tomasenia, chambermaid.
Simon Myers, coffee man.
Rosanta Storney, chambermaid.
Ellen Dillon. laundress.
Agnes Wilson, of Buffalo, cham Der.
maid
Rae Young, of Buffalo, employed in
linen department.
Kate Crowley, chambermaid.
Tom Cannon. hall man.
Fernandino Belletti. fireman.
Ricardo Telesfoni. worked in kitchen
An unknown Italian, worked in kitch-
en-.
About 20 girls were sleeping in the
attic, which was on the Steuben street
side of the house, and the only exit
was a narrow stairway leading TO the
third floor hallway from which there
were three stairs b. which TO escape.
THE residence of Mike O'Connell, in
Pierce county. Wis, was burned the
morning of the 3Oth. Mrs 0'Connell
and five children w re burned to death.
Mr.. 0Conneu was seriously burned.
Two children were saved.
ABOUT o'clock the morning of the
1st a mob of % men went to the county
Jail at Mt Sterling. Ky, overpowered
the TAILOR and took the prisoner Tom
Blair ont and hung him To a railway
bridge.
FIVE prisoners sawed their way out
of the Jail at St. Joseph, Mo-, the night
Of the 3lst.
By an explosion of sewer gas in the
basement of Edward Keeley's salon
in Chicago the 1st. eight men were IN
jured, several of them seriously.
ALL the ore wheelers at the blast
furnaces of Edgar Thompson, Brad
ford, Pa. struck the night of the LIST
against the reduction of wages.
The republicans of the Nebraska leg
islature the 1st decided to support John
NJ. Thurston for senator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Recom.s an INDIAN chief.

Mayor Powell of La Crosse white
Beaver was invited by a delegation
of Winnebago Indians. who offered
him the position of chief of their tribe.
They had a petition with them signed
by 200 leading Winnebagos. Powell
was the populist candidate for gov
ernor and received over $4,000 votes.
He is a physician and stands high in
the community in which he lives He
has Indian blood il his veins.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Noted Hotel Burned.

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 1.-The Della
van house proper was Quilted by fire
Sunday night There were 100
guests in the house. All escaped, al
though two women and two men were
badly injured They are: Mrs. ii. f.
Fookes. wife of the agent of the Ma
tional Cash Register company, of this
city, formerly of Dayton, o.; Benja-
min Heilman, and his wife, of Brook
lyn, who were on their wedding tour;
Edmund Walsh, a porter, badly
burned
The loss on the building is estimated
at S115,0 fully insured. Messrs.
Herty 81 Moore, proprietors OF the
hotel. place their loss at $4,000; their
insurance is S5O. 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

WELLINGTON, Kan, Dec. 31-Ander-
son Gray has been given the death
sentence by Judge Burnett, according
to the verdict of the jury finding him
guilty of murder in the first degree for
the killing of Thomas Patton. Thomas
Mcdonald, while under the hypnotic
influence of Gray did the killing, but
was discharged after trial. Gray is
well-to-do farmer. Patton had in
Cured his enmity and Gray hypnotized
Mcdonald, a farm hand, and while the
latter was in that condition compelled
him To commit the murder.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Shn. nv RnrrInr

CLEVELAND, o.. Jan. burglars
visited the house Of Luther Battles at
Collinwood, a suburb of this city, and
being discovered snot Battles in the
neck with rev, iver, fatally wound
ing him. Mrs. Battles was then COM
PEELED TO give up $40 and gold watch,
when the burglars set tire TO the house,
but the flames sSere extinguished be-
fore they did much damage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
FEARS FOR HER LIFE.
One of Americas Richest Women THINKS
She 4. in Peril.

One OF Americas RtGnesJ oonch
She IL in Peril.
New YORK, Dec 2S.-0ne of the most
remarl<a bic cases ever brought into the
American courts promises to be that OF
Mrs. Hetty Green. one of the richest
women in America, against the execu-
tors and trustees of her fathers estate
involving millions of dollars.
According to the story told by her
lawyer, William II. Stayton, Mrs
Green is In fear OF her life. A belief
firmly fixed, that band OF consplr-
ators took the life of her father, Ed
ward NJ. Robinson, and of her aunt,
Sylvia j. Rowland. of New bedford
years ago, and are noyg seeking her lie
and the life of her children continually
haunts her. Glass, she declares has
been placed in her food not six months
ago; blocks of wood and stones have
been hurled at her from windows as
she was passing GA the sidewalks, and
on numerous occasions her lie has
been threatened.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

THE city of Hartford, Conn. claims
TO have had closer connection with
American literature than any other
city of its size IN the country. II bases
its cLgiln ois lie fact that il has been
the home OF Mr. Sigourney, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher
Hooker, Mark Twain, William Gillette.
the playwright; Noah Webster, the
photographer. and host of others of
greater or less fame.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

The City of Mexico authorities who
were looking after counter. eiters
made some startling discoveries. 1t
was evident there was an organized
colony of several hundred people seat
tered about the city making and circu-
lating the spurious coin Thousands
OF dollars had been Successful. Is
showed" within the last few Weess-
Arrests of members of the band bad
been made almost daily until there
were 80 Of them in prison awaiting
trial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
MRS. BLOOMER IS DEAD.
Famous Advocate of Dress Reform
PASSED. Away.

PASSED. Away.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. Mrs. Amelia
j. Bloomer, wife of ID. c. BlooIner,
died at Council Bluffs, Ia, at noon Sun
day. She was one of the earliest adj
vocates of national dress for women,
and her public use of the new cos
tune caused it to be called
the Rloomer costume. She was II
wears old and native of Homer, n. Y.
She was married in 1S40 and issued the
The Lily, a wonan's suffrage paper,
from lS49 to 1853. She came to Council
Bluffs about twenty-five years ago.
She attained national reputation as
lecturer and advocate of woman suf-
frage and temperance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Dr,ven "a suicide by Remor.e.

Henry Shultz, of Milwaukee, con-
fessed himself an incendiary and said
he was driven by remorse to attempt
suicide. He set fire two years ago TO
the barn of a man named Brennecke
in which fourteen cows and a large
amount of farm machinery We're de-
stroyed. He brooded over the deed
until he determined on suicide. He cut
his throat, but the wound did not
nrOve fatal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

APBoPOs of industrial schools, Den
mark has maintained one for several
years for instruction in butter making.
about 2.OOO.OO3 inhabitants exports
100. 600 900 pounds of butter per year.
an AVERAGE Of fifty pounds per inha b.
liant Dairy products are almost the
only articles the supply Of which has
never yet run ahead of the demand.
There is always a market for good
butter. and Denmark has discovered
the fact
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

The Portuguese are now setting up
the claim that they discovered America
forty-four years before Columbus did.
1t IS alleged that their ships reached
the coast of Brazil in l+45. while Co
lumbus did not sight the West Indies
until 1892. This view il sustained by
Prof. H. Nule Oldham. lecturer on
geography in the University of Cam
bridge. but the other gcographers Do
not consider his points fnlly proven.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

THERE may be as much in hypnotism
scientifically as there is in chloroform
but it is as difficult 10 hypnotic per
sons, male or female. against their
will as it is to chloroform them against
their viii Let foolish Young females
remember that Then let them be-
ware Of hypnotism and al other forms
Of foolishnesS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Green BAYS Big Fish Trade.

Reports prepared by the State Fish
Dealers association, which met in an
nual convention at Green Bay. show
that Green Bay is now the largest fish
marketed this season was in the neigh
borhood of 5000, OO0 pounds. represent
ing a business exceeding $500, 900. All
this is the growth of about five years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

TAXING the earth as the center of
the universe and the polar star "a the
limit of our vision the visible Uni
verse embraces an aerial space with a
diameter of $50, OOU. 900. coo miles and
a circumference of 1929, a., 900, 900
miles
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

A. Schandein and Mrs. Emma Mayer,
who are twins, have been informed by
the court of Hauptstuhl Palatinate
that an inheritance of $4,000 is ready
for delivery to them. The heirs are
the brother and the sister of the late
Emil Schandein and the testator was
his brother. Adolph Schahnein is the
bookkeeper of the bottling works of
the Pabst Brewing company in Mil
vyar,1yaa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Emieration FROM Great britain.

LoNpox. Jan. 1.-The emi grafton re-
turns inst issued by the board of trade
show that during the eleven months
ending November 30 2l1.5l2 persons
left the United Kingdom for places
out of Europe. as compared with 29s-
27s in the corresponding period OF last
year OF the total the United States
received 152 gs7.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

ST PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 1.-CharleS
Hochstaedter, manager of the United
States clothing house of ST. Paul and
part owner of the Hub clothing house
of Milwaukee, both of which failed
December "a, has disappeared with from
$40 600 to $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Eirn Men Drnwnnli.

GIBRALTAR. Jan. 1.-The British
steamer Yoxford. from Palermo for
New York, has arrived here with some
of ner plates damaged. She reports
having been in collision with the
French bark Marie Louise. The bark
was SO badly damaged that she sunk
Eve of her crew We're drowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

IT is announced that horSetlesh is
soor to b. placed on sale in New York
as an article of food. Ii has been used
a. food in Paris for good many years.
and although 1t does not seem To be
esteemed as a luxury, it doubtless
serves q useful purpose in relieving
the hunger Of ;Ne .npecunious, for IL
must b. sold at lower pr.ce than
beef or mutton TO secure customers.
We believe the medical testimony is
TO the effect that horse flesh i not IN
healthful if tae animal isnoJ diseased,
and the health department viii prob
ably look after this, in ease il comes
into use as food.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
New Among Land Decisions.

Secretary Smith has made reversal
of all decisions beneath him and gives
certain timber land to Bruce Owen, of
Ashland, who has been repeatedly
beaten by Peter McCreash in previous
decisions. The case is one of the last
to come up from the oil Wisconsin
Central railroad lands and the secre
tarys decision is thrust at the ques-
tionable entry of public lands for the
usage of lumbermen, who only want
the timber on il.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

A GOOD many sins have been laid at
the door of the deadly cigarette. and
now a brooklyn dentist AYERS that it
kills the nerves Of the teeth Throw
away the cigarette. and if You must
smoke buy a pipe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Found Guilty.

At Darlington Mark Richardson was
found guilty of killing his brother
George last August and was sentenced
to serve four years in the penitentiary.
They quarreled over a property di-
vision and Mark shot George after
their bitter feud had been running
along for years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

LONDON, Jan. A Central News
dispatch from Peking says that Liu
Kun-Yi, viceroy OF LANG Dian, has
been appointed To the chief command
of all the Chinese forces, ousting Ii
HING Chaup
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
Father and Son Perish in their Blazing
Home in Michigan.

NEwAYGo, Mich. Jan. l.-Charles
White was awakened by fire at IL
o'clock Sunday morning and ran up
stairs. where four children were sleep
ing. Three made their escape, but be-
fore he could find the fourth the stair
way of his residence was in hames
lie knocked the boards off the end of
the house, but could not get out before
he was overcome by the heat and
smoke. Iii wife realized danger and
called him repeatedly, but he would
not sacrifice his son 10 save MS own
life
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03

Col. w. ]. Boyle. of Milwaukee, re-
ceived a formal report from Capt. Ira
Harris, of the forest fire relief commit
tee at Superior. The number of fam
lilies aided is 2S9. and the number of
individuals 993. Capt. Harris reported
a consid cradle quantity of supplies on
hand except grass seed.