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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

The discovery was made that Gar
land Stemler and Louis Mureno. who
were lynehed by mob at Yreka, CAL.
for murder. were innocent.
Vast gold fields were discovered at
Mercur. about 65 miles south of Salt
Lake City.
David Rose and John Williams. two
prominent and wealthy stock traders
CT Hazel Green, Ky. fought over a trade
and both were killed.
At Decatur. ILL.,. Charles y. Smith.
widely known in the baseball world as
PAGER" Smith, was hanged for the
murder of his daughter Louise, aged
years. and Miss Edna Buchert. aged IS.
his sister-in-law, on September 2s last.
In a wreck on the Norfolk q Western
railroad at Canterberg, w. Va, three
men were fatally hurt and several seri-
ously injured.
John s. johnson lowered the one
mile flying start bicycle record at
Nashville. Tenn. from 2:16 to 2:IO Is.
The two-mile flying start record was
lowered by A. F. Sem. of Ilion. Ky.
from 4:49 2-5 to 4:4s 3-5.
The largest woman in Indiana. Mrs.
David Lamb. was buried at her home i'm
New Middleton. She weighed 500
pounds.
The doors of the Chattahooehie ma
tional bank mt Columbus, Ca. were
closed.
Ozias McGahey and Joseph Robinson.
both negroes. were taken from the Jail
at Fayetteville. Tenn. and hanged by
n mob. The colored men were charged
with an attempted assault upon a white
girl.
In Detroit Prof. Enoth. an aquatic
performer, accomplished the feat of
staying under water four minutes and
eight seconds. breaking all previous roc
ords in that line.
Official returns of the election of 1895
in Iowa show 40i .292 votes TO have heen
cast, of which Drake, republican NOM
inct for governor, received 2OS.GS9:
Bahb tGem.). 149.433. Crane (pop.). g.
lis. and Bacon (pro.). 1i.052.
In Baltimore 4. w. Wayman. senior
bishop of the African Methodist church
in the United States. dropped dead from
paralysis at his home.
At Air Line Junction, O.. Joseph
Reimean and his daughter and Ernst
Newer were killed by the cars.
The death of Col. Smith a. Whit
field. first assistant postmaster-genera
during the latter part of President Har-
rison's term, occurred i'm Chicago, aged
10 years.
At ST. Martins reef, Florida. the
schooner Shamrock capsized and six
negroes who were below the matches
were drowned.
II was announced by President Col
lier that the Atlanta exposition wo nd
close finally and forever on December
81.
At the age of 96 William Bennett, a
hero of the Crimean war and of the
Sepoy mutiny in India, died at his home
in Chicago
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
THE EAST.

Earth and rock fell at a mine near
Carmel. y. Y, killing IA men.
a train ran into an open switch at
PrebIe. \. Y, killing the engineer and
fatally injuring the fireman.
Judge Arnold refused II. ii. Holmes,
who was convicted i'm Philade' DhiE of
the murder of II. T. Pi'zel, new trial
and sentenced him TO death. Gov. Hast
ings would fix the day of execution.
by the upsetting of skiff in the
Monongahela river between Browns
vile ard California, Pa. Joseph Mcln-
tosh and wife, John Pickernup. William
Ashton and Mrs. James stevens were
drowned.
In Pennsylvania ISIS persons were
killed on the steam railroads and TO-
6O5 injured during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1895.
On the New York Central road the
Empire State express train made the
trip from New York TO Buffalo. a dis
tance of 44O miles. in 49f minutes,
breaking all previous records.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
FALLING ROCK.
Ii Causes the Death of Eleven Miners In
New York.

brewster. ". Il. NOV. 3O.-Nlneteen
years ago so tons of rock fell into the
open pit at the lilly Foster mine, kill
ing six miners and mailuing three
others foi life. The six who met death
were SO horribly crushed that Their
bodies were taken up in shoSels, thrown
into canvas sacks and hoisted to the
surface. From that time until Friday
the hanging walls, which Use 400 feet
above the working level of the PIT, have
undergone daily inspection. If this in
spection revealed any erevice or other
sign of danger work below was aban
doned until the threatening overhans
had been dislodged. The extreme eau
tion exercised prevented many acct
dents.
Friday afternoon about 70 men were
at work on the 4OO-foot level breaking
ere and loading the cars sent down by
the cable. About $3.50 O'Clock the en-
tire northwest wall, apparently con
tanning ever 100 tons of rock, fell into
the pit, killing not less than IL men
and infiicting serious injuries upon nine
others. William Aspel! and four Others
ran. thes- iSne,v not whittier. and cs
capped. Five Italians also get out alive
The bile and it's car was not injured
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Yellow fever caused the death of
James C. Fox, the United States con-
sui at Antigua. Colombia.
The death of Alexandra Dumas. now
elist and playwright, occurred in Paris.
at the age of IL years.
The Hawaiian government would. il
was said. make strong effort to bring
the annexation question before the
next United States congress.
The Strathnevis. Northern Pacific
steamship en- route from Victoria. Il. c.,
10 Yokohama with about 125 Chinese
passengers. crew of 90 and 5000 tors
of general cargo. was given up as lost.
Insurgents wrecked a train carrying
Spanish soldiers near Glen Rolah. Cuba,
and the engineer, fireman and 81 sol
diers were killed and 50 others were in
jured. some fatally.
The knights of Labor i'm Montreal,
Ontario and Quebec decided to secede
from the general assembly and form a
purely Canadian order.
At the secret consistory in Rome the
pope presided and created nine car
dinals, among them being Mgr. Satolli,
the papal delegate to the Roman Catho-
lie church in the United States.
In severe storms in the vicinity of
Odessa, Russia, 500 persons were either
drowned or frozen TO death.
In Milwaukee Margaret MatherPabst
consented to divorce from her hus-
band, Gustav Iabst. and she will re-
turn 10 the stage. For her consent she
received 100000.
1. t., l.
Frank Lately were both shot and fatal
IN wounded by Frank Fuller.
At Browningsville, Ky, Orvlle Falls
killed his wife and her paramour, John
Fields. and was himself killed by
posse who attempted to arrest him.
1t has been found since the recent
earthquake that cisterns in different
parts of the Ohio valley no longer hold
water.
The Peruvian congress was called in
extra session on account of the crisis
caused by the resignation of the cab
met.
Earthquakes had occurred daily for
some time ia the state Of Oaiavsi. Afr7S
leo. j he mountains rocked and the
whole region was a mass of seismic
activity.
The government of Germany Us taxi
ing steps to prevent the growing en-
igration of the younger generation to
America.
In Havana Gen. Julio Sanguilly, an
American citizen, was sentenced to inn
prisonment for life for having COM
mitted Illegal acts against the Spanish
govern ment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

Mr. Cannon rep, ILL.,. who had offered
the resolution. that they would here
after be referred 10 the committee on
rules, and that the house would have an
opportunity to discuss the report of the
committee. That assurance seemed TO
satisfy Mr.. Crisp (dem.. Ga.), who had
raised the question. and the matter went
through without further contention.
At noon the seats con the senate floor
we're pretty generally occupied. The
visitors galleries were oserflowing.
Vice President Stevenson made his APP
pearance and declared the 54th con
grcss i'll session.
On motion of Mr.. Cockrell (dem.,
MOI the hour of meeting of the senate
was fixed at ~ o'clock.
Mr.. 'herinan trep.. o. offered res
olution to inform the house that the
senate was organized and ready for
business. which was adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Villas (dem., Wis.,
n committee of two was appointed to
Join a similar committee on the part of
the house to wait upon the president,
the vice president naming as such COM
mittee Mr.. Villas and Mr.. Allison.
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- -
TIE CAvEI FALLS.
tifty-Fourt Cong ress In session-Reed Is
Speaker.


Washington, Dec. Both houses
of the 54a congress were called TO
order at non Monday. the house by
Clerk ker. and the senate by Vice
President Stevenson.
The resdt of the vote for speaker
of the hose was: Reed. 234; Crisp.
?5; Bell. 6SCulberson (dem.), /; total,
1886. The announcement of Mr.. Reeds
election WIS greeted with great APP
plause.
Mr.. Reed arrayed in long frock coat
and wearing dark four-in-hand tie,
stood calmly and serenely, with his
hands clased in characteristic fashion
behind his back. until the house was
quiet.
The organization of the house was
completed by the adoption of resolu-
tion offered by Mr.. Grosvenor. of Ohio,
electing the following officers: Alex
snder Mcdowell. of Pennsylvania.
clerk: MIR. Russell. of Missouri. SER
geant-at-arms; MIR. Glenn. of New York,
postmaster. and Rev. Mr.. Couden. of
Michigan, chaplain.
Messrs. Payne. of Ohio (rep.), Can
ron. of Illinois (rep.). and Crisp, of
Georgia (dem.) were appointed as such
committee on the part of the house.
Tie rules of the 5lst congress-popu-
larly known as the Reed rules-were
adopted for the government of the house
in the present, after an assurance from
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
OFFER OF AID WITHDRAWN.

Louisville Banks Think Generosity to
Uncle sam Unappreciated.
Louisville, Ky, Dec. 1.-The banks #
Louisville had gathered together $780,,
900 in gold which they offered to the
United States government to keep up
the surplus. They received reply Sat
urday through National Bank Exam
liner Escot that the treasury would not
return light weight coin, but would de
duct at the rate of four cents a grain.
The Bank of Kentucky and the Amer
lean national contributed S150,000 each.
the Union national $4,000, the others
from SIS, 1000 to $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
DENVER is MINING MAD.
Men Giving Up Good Positions - Open
Brokers' Ohices.

Denver, Col, Dec. 2.-Speculation in
Cripple Greek mining stock remains
The chief topic of conversation. You
hear il on the streets at public re-
sorts and in private places. Sums from
SO to several hundred are being con-
tributed to the rapidly increasing fund
that is absorbing the great supply of
lid stocks offered on the markets of
lnis state. Gle rks are resigning regu-
lar salaried positions to open brokers
Offices; investment bankers, real estate
dealers, gamblers, men of income and
leisure are buying seats on exchanges
now selling at 200 and 800 per cent.
above the original cost. 1t is general
prediction that nothing can prevent a
rise in Cripple Creek stocks during the
coming week.
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Tuprr wears 400 Prof. III.

THREE years ago Prof. ]. J. McCook.
writer on social questions. estimated.
after a careful study of statistics, that
there were 45.545 tramps in the United
States, and that their direct annual
cost to tie country was 100000. He
now states that in January. 1s95. the
number of tramps had increased to S.
76s. and their annual cost 20 the coun-
try S17.OoO.OOo. not counting the loss
sustained by their failure to produce
,rwthfp1
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

EARTHQUAKES in Mexico.

Pueblo, Mexico, Dec. 3. = Travellers
arriving from Pinotepec and Jamilepec,
in the state of ga jaca, report that earth
quakes continue To be almost daily oc-
currences. The people are filled with
superstitious fears and fishermen have
almost abandoned that part of the Pa
cific coast. The ocean is strongly agi-
tated and terrifying roarings are heard
from beneath the waves. No scientific
inquiry has been made, though these
phenomena have continued for several
months. The mountains are rocked
and the whole region is a mass of seis-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

RETURNS from the internal revenue
Office show a rather astonishing state
of affairs with regard to the popularity
of playing cards and cigarettes in the
United States. Last year cards pro-
liuced a revenue of $3.50, 4O2.5O. which
was derived from the sale of s.24O. 25O
packs. or pack apiece for more than
half the men. women and babies in the
country. The tax on cigarettes Melted
81 ,666.923 during the year, an increase
of S74.5Il over last year. The total
number of cigarettes taxed was 3,32S.-
477.677, OF over half hundred for every
man, woman and child in the coun-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
LATER NEWS.


The Sultan of Turkey has been given
until Saturday, the 9Th, TO issue a fir
man allowing the British gunboat to
pass through the straits of the Dar-
danelles.
A resolution was introduced in con-
gross the 3D., by Call of Flo da, direct
ing that the insurgents of 'uha be ac-
corded belligerent rights, also one by
Lodge of Massachusetts,, approving the
Monroe doctrine.
Seven mercantile establishments in
indianapolis, Ind, were burned ont
the Sd, causing loss of nearly half a
million dollars. Several flremen were
carried down by falling walls, two of
them probably fatally injured.
Two persons were frozen To death at
st. Louis, Mo-, the night of the 2sl
Both were aged men aud were found
in unoceupied buildings.
At negro cake walk at oseborough
Texas, the negroes ate at their ban
quet supper portions of a hog that had
been fed strychnine by it's owner.
Twelve have died and many more are
sick.
-As AhA A0AtAA&. CfdiEAndn OF the
Democratic Central committee, of Chi
cago, made the charge the Sd that S75O,-
600 of Democratic campaign fund had
been stolen or misappropriated.
The president the Sd nominated Rufus
w. Peckham of New York, to be asso-
eiate justice of the United States.
supreme court. to succeed the late
Howell f. jackson, of Tennessee. lie
also nominated Richard Olney to be
secretary of state and Judson Harmon
as attorney general Rufus w. Peck
ham is a resident of Albany aud judge
of the court of appeals of New York.
The Brazilian couciI of ministers has
decided to refuse to submit either the
Trinidad dispute with England or the
Amapa dispute with France to arbitra-
ton. The Trinidad dispute relates II
the sovereignty of the little island #
Trinidad and the Amapa dispute to the
boundary line of French Guiana.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
wEsr AND soiIrH

a bill was passed by the Cherokee
Indian legislature making il impos-
sible hereafter for any white man TO OBJ
tain property rights by marrying Indian
women
In Chicago football games resulted as
follows: University of Michigan, II;
University of Chicago, o; Boston and
Chicago Athletic association tie, 4 to 4.
At Kansas City-University of Mis-
souri,. 10: University of Kansas. 6.
\ report that Harry Hayward had
confessed in Minneapolis to the murder
of Catherine Cling was said 10 be un-
true.
Advices from all over the United
States noted a general observance of
Thanksgiving day in the usual mar
ner.
At Arcola. Ind, Roman Bchrer add
Sadie Hensehen. who were soon to o.,
married. were both killed by the cars
while going to dance.
In Cleveland over 1900 members of
Christian Endeavor societies prayed a.
noon on Thanksgiving day for the sal
walton of the soul of Col. Ingersoll.
The loss to the oil interests in Ohio
and Indiana by the recent blizzard will
amount to over 81. 100000.
In Cleveland the first case on rec
ord of perfect cure of broken neck
was perfected by DIR. Z. r. Humiston
and DIR. ). +. Kaestlin. Erwin keidel,
aged "a. was L G patient.
The ossified man. S. c. Martin. who
had lain on his back for seven years I'M
able to move joint. died near Bryan.
Tex.
A mob shot TO death Tony Sutton,
negro. at Montezuma, Ca, for killing
". i. SanCster.
At Platte City, Neb-, Rev. A. Heinrich
and wife were asphyxiated by gas from
their conl stove
Philip Slayman and Sadie Jorman
and Harry Poormau and Flo snce Shay
man were married at Canton. o. The
brides and groolns of both weddings
we're brothers ard sisters, and twins
81 tnat-
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Set "A BrnIsen Neck.

Cleveland, o., Nov. 2g.-Two Cleve-
land surgeons, of national repute,
Charles Ii. Humiston and Samuel L.
Kalstlin, have succeeded in triumph
of surgery which will astoutd the
medical world They have brought to
a complete recovery Erwin keidel, a
14-year-old boy, who sustained a conn
plete fracture of the third cervical YER
tebrae. There is no case on record
throughout the world where this mas
ever been accomplished before.
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Sir .e. -. Drowned.

Tampa, Ia, De-. IA part of the
crew of ehe sponging schooner Sham
rock reports last Wednesday while at
Saint Martins Reef, 20 miles north Of
here, heavy non thwester capsized the
schooner. Six negroes who were be-
low the matches were drowned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

The whaling season now closed has
been the worst ever experienced by the
arctic feet. The Il al catch was 20
whales, the smallest in number OF
years. and compared with the numLer
of vessels in the feet the smallest ever
known The steam whaler Orca caught
only one whale, and was out the whole
season. Only 10000 pounds of whale
bone was secured. and the price of the
article is expected TO double before the
sale of this years product begins. AT
present il sells for S2.75 pound.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

A FOREIGN nobleman who advertises
in a New York paper makes an an
nouncement which should afford much
satisfaction to those American citizens
who have a hankering for title. The
advertiser assures the American public
that owing TO his intimate relations
with several foreign courts he will be
able TO secure, for a money consIdera-
ton, titles for all who have wealth
enough to pay for them. How this Will
simplify mattersl Titles can now be
bought without having to purchase an
expensive son-in-law at the same time.
This news should be spread far and
xxide
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
Death of an Ex-ChsmpIon.

Jersey Ci-y. n. j., Dec. Gal Nc
Carthy, the pugilist, who for several
Years was the featherweight champion
az the world. died with consumption in
st. Mary's hospital last Friday night
and was buried from his fathers home,
No. 249 18th street Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
An Awful Fate.

baltimore, Md. Dec. 2.-Robert
Janssen. an employe of the Monument
al chemical works at Fairfield, Anne
rundel county, met horrible death
Sunday. He was making some repairs
to machinery when he fell GO feet into
a vat filled with nitric acid. He crawled
out of the receptacle. but fell nncon-
scious beside it. His clothing and
chunks of flesh dropped from his body
when the unfortunate man was picked
up by fellow-workmen. Death fol-
lowed in d few minutes. Jansen came
here six months ago from Gustrow,
Germany.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

A MEEDES Comm man has rugged
an ingenious device TO break one of his
horses of the habit OF paving and keep
ing the men who sleep in the stable
awake at night lie has pie ed a nova
bic board on the door of the stall in such
a position that when the horse strikes
out win sis zoos he moves the board.
From this board runs a rod that passes
over the Lorse. and TO the end of I ne rod
il fastened a whip. Every time the
board - moved the rod descends upon
the horses's lack. After one or two
disturbances the animal settled down
and kett ssiiI. Those Conneeticut peo-
pie cave great heads.
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VETERAN FROZEN TO DEATH.
Caught in the Recent Storm and Perished
Miserably.

Eldora, Ia, Dec. An old man about
60 years of age was found III East Grun-
dy county frozen to death. From papers
found on his clothing it was learned
that his name was Frank Brown and
that he came from Murray, Ia, but had
later lived at Marshalltown, being an
inmate of the soldiers home. The old
man had got caught out in the recent
snow and frozen to death.
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Hur, en- q FreIRht Mreck.

Huntington. W. Va. Nov. 30. - AZ
CanterbeEg Hill. on the Norfolk q West
ern railway. a bad freight wreck oc-
CURED ate Thursday evening. En-
gineer Waiter and Brakeman Harding
are fatally and several others seriously
injured. The loss TO The company will
luu far into the thousands. Further
particulars cannot now be asce. tanned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

To ASK the legislatures of the land to
pass law closing The factories and the
shops on election day, to- make it
punishable Offense for business men to
keep their offices and places of business
open on that day. to cause the whee.s
and machinery of industry to stop on
that day. is a suggestion made by Po-
litieaI and patriotic men in Chicago.
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To Join a New County.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec 2.-Seventeen
townships of Cass county, comprising
in population more than half the coun-
ty, have seeded and will be annexed
to Grow Wing county. This is done UNI
der new law and the governor will
shortly issue the proclamation announce
ing the new deal. The seceders opposed
a bond issue which Cass county officials
had ordered. Hence the secession.
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JUDGE RINER. of the United States
circuit court at Cheyenne. has decided
that the treaty with the BannOck
Indians. giving them the right 10 hunt
on the unoccupied government lands in
Wyoming. is of full force and effect and
is superior to the game laws of the
state. Secretary of the Interior
Smith in his annual report commends
the peaceful course of the Indians n:
jackson Hole under circumstances So
extremely assraratins on tho part of
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In a recent lecture on the progress
of the telephone in GERMANY. State Sec
rotary DIR. Stephan said that the num-
Der of towns Joined BY telephone has
now reached 434. with IO9. 800 subscTib-
ers. This year telephone communica-
ton with Vienna anil Copenhagen was
opened. The former line is AIS miles
in length. the other about 500 miles.
with Is miles OF submarine cable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

SHOES are now made of lace-the
thick guipure description-very dainty
and vet strong. Good leather shoes ard
boots are ventilated in such manner
as not TO expose the foot to wet or
damp. This is an excellent move. as
thick leather is apt to heat the foot un
duly, causing discomfort to the wearer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05

The South Carolina constitutional
convention adopted drastic measures
to put ar end 10 lynchings in the state.
1t passed an amendment providing that
any officer who permits a prisoner
under his care 10 be lynehed shall be
removed from Office and be ineligible
10 holding Office in the state. The
amendment further provides that il
all cases of Iynching where death en-
sues the county where the lynching
takes place shall, without regard to the
conduct of the officer. be liable TO ex-
empIary damages Of not less than 81.
600 to the legal representative Of the
person lynched.