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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

THREE men were injured fatally by
the giving way of the inside work of a
cotton mill i'm process of erection at At
lanta. Ga
Is Arizona apache Kid" aud band
of renegade Apaches had fight with
Indians on the reservation, killed one
squaw, injured several others and car
ried one away.
AT the annual eneamppent in Bloom
ington, Gen. W. ii. Powell, of Belle
vile, was elected commander of the
Illinois G.. A. Il.
FRANK HILL and George Myers col
lided at Loveland, O., while going at
full speed on their bicycles, fracturlng
each others skulls. Both were not ex-
pected to live.
Mrs. KATE REED killed her 3-year-
old child and Then took her own life at
Pine Bluff, Ark. She was recently de-
serted by her husband.
A SPECIAL agent of the United States
bureau of labor says there is more
child labor in proportion to manufac-
turing institutions in Wisconsin than
anv other state
THE safe in the bank at Anderson.
W. Va, was robbed by burglars of S.
con
A MOB lynched John Howerton
iwhite) at Marion. Ky, for assaulting
Anna Pierce. the l6-year-Old daughter
of prominent farmer.
IL good health Mrs. Adam Carl, of
Richmondville, Mich, celebrated her
/ 10th birthday. There was no doubt of
& 4
evidence to prove it
BEN RUSSELL, ex-mayor of Lexing-
ton. Mo-. committed suicide hy shoot
ing himself because of financial trou-
bles. He was the oldest native born
citizen of Lexington.
Gov. Rich received the resignation
of Lieut. Gov. Mines. of Michigan, to
take effect Nav 81. Mr.. Mines is the
successor to Julius c. Burrows in con-
gress-
A CALL was issued for an extra ses-
sion of the Tennessee legislature to
meet May %.
AT Redwood Falls. Mimi, the Citi-
zens' bank closed it's doors with as
sets of sl5O,OOO and liabilities of $780,
COO.
IN NstlltOFnla the odn Juan anu Mugs
rivers overlooked an immense area and
did great damage
CHICAGO has deficit of S7,Oo0,O00 and
To money TO pay it with.
FRANK WALLER, Frank Dill and Rob
l-ert Moreland were struck by lightning
and killed near Montgomery. Ala.
IL southeastern Iowa the grape crop
was almost completely ruined by the
recent frOsts-
AT Helenwood. Tenn. Ike King was
hanged for numbering w. A. Beck. II
was the first legal hanging in the his
tory of Scott county.
AT Trinidad, Col, IL inches of snow
/ fell
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THE EAST-

A CALL was issued by advocates of
political reform for a national confer
ence to talk over the situation at Pro-
hibition park, Staten Island, y. Y,
June % to July 4.
HoRNPIPE won by a length in the
great Brooklyn N. " handicap race,
with Lazarone second and Sir Walter
third. Time, 2:Il4.
FLAMES in the west end of Coney
Island. \. Y, destroyed about 100
buildings, causing loss of s25O. 1000.
In Pittsburgh the 1O7th general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church con-
vened.
The legislature of New York ad-
jOurned sine die.
AT the fiftieth anniversary in New
ark of the New Jersey Historical so
ciety. ex-President Harrison was pres
ent and was presented with a gold
medal.
The window-glass manufacturers
throughout the country decided not to
form a trust.
IL the Pittsburgh Pa.) district the
minc strike. affecting 10000 men, came
to an end, The miners returning to
work at the old prices
AT the age of IS years Arthur NJ.
Wellington. editor of the Engineering
News, died in New York.
AT Providence. K. l., a tenement
house collapsed and Asa Aldrich, Mrs.
Mabel Guerlin and a child of Louis Lee
moline were killed and eleven other
persons were injured.
A MAJORITY of stock of the Philadel-
phia & Reading railroad was purchased
by the Vanderbilts.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in
the National league for the week ended
on the 18th were: Pittsburgh, .6s2; Gin
cinnati. .667; Boston, .632; Chicago,
.6I5; Cleveland, .545; Philadelphia. 526;
New Io.k, 500; Baltimore, 40; St.
Louis. 400; Brooklyn, $50; Washing
ton, 300; Louisville, $50.
FLAMES swept st. Adams, Vt, de-
stroying dwellings, business blocks,
public buildings and large amount of
other properly. The loss was $3.50, 900.
The firm of Stevens & Co, New
York commission brokers, failed for
500. 900.
IL Babylon, L. L.. an order was is
sued for the arrest of all persons who
ride BICYCLES on Sunday.
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not believe the peop'e of the United States
want Deprecated dollar. whether IL be gold.
silver or paper, and denies that those who are
opposing free coinage az the ratio OF 10 to
| propose any change In the present stand
ard of value or to discontinue the use OF sill
yer as money. He holds that the only way 10
secure the use OF both gold and silver at the
sane time is TO make one of them the stand
ard OF value, and so limit the coinage of the
other that the government which issues them
and receives them for public dues may at all
times be able to maintain their exchanges
bilfty. What the free silverites demand would
result in practical silver monouetallfsm.
The speaker showed how this would con-
tract the currency by the immediate with
drawal OF sc25 coo 900 OF gold from circula-
ton. that this contraction would reduce prices.
destroy credit aud produce the most serious
financial disturbance the country ever has
witnessed; that the men who give employ
ment TO labor would be bankrupted once.
and nobody be benefited except the owners Of
silver, the brokers and SPECTATORS. whilS IL
would require more than fifteen years to put
silver dollars in place OF the gold we now have
and give back to the country the same amount
Of metallic money now existing The effect
on domestic trade would be dep.orable and the
farmers must be among lie worst sufferers.
He said IL is not trne HAT our people owe any
debts contracted as fer back as 1873, and IL
some Of the great corporations do their bonds
lssueu DelOTe that Oate nave al Dceu EeIu1ucu
at low rates Of interest
MT Carlisle said it was folly 10 suppose that
the purchasing power of a dime would be In
creased by calling IL dollar, or that the
workingman would be benefited by reducing
the buying power OF the dollars paid him for
his toll. He said his opposition to free coin
age is not dictated by ennity to silver. and IL
silver were our standard to-day, with gold de-
preciated, he would oppose a change to the
gold standard. The preservation of the ex-
listing monetary unit and measure OF value
upon which the contracts OF the people and
the wages of labor have been adjusted is the
vital thing involved In this controversy" As
long as there appeared TO be reasonable
ground for the hope that silver could be raised
TO a parity with gold at the ratio Of 10 to 1
by the separate action of the United States
he willing to make the experiment. but
never was willing TO make IL by legislation
providing for the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver at that or any other ratio. When he
made his speech in congress on that subject
seventeen years ago silver was only at about
: per cent. discount but fifteen years expert
ence has demonstrated that those OF us who
believed In 1873 that a larger use of silver by
the United States would enhance it's price or
value were mistaken
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foor T.sea

The most curious document on lie
among the court records Of America Is Q
lease of 1900 years, which may be found
Transcribed in the Hebron Conn Land
Records, vol. tx, page 264. On May Is,
1875, according to the above record, the
trustees Of the Society for the rropa-
CATION of the Gospel in Foreign Parts"
leased 80 acres of land near the above
named place to one S. w. Chase and his
heirs during the full term therein
stated, viz. 5000 years" The tenure
Is held on condition that the said
Chase, or his legal heirs, shall pay to
John Sutton and John T. Peters. church
wardeus of said society, or their suces-
sors IN Office, one grain of pure silver or
other silver, gold equivalent df de-
manded). on st. Johns day of each en-
suing year" There are many curious
aud whimsical tenures held in Great
Britain, France and Germany, but it is
doubtful IL the records of America can
preface anything equal to this long
lived land lease, which viii not termi-
nate until the lapse of 1899 years from
the 25th of this month.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WAsHINGToN.

THE death of Rear Admiral John j.
Almy United States navy. retired, oc-
CURED in Washington after a long i'll
ness. aged s0years
PROCLANATIoSs de ,laring the Yank-
ton Sioux reservation in South Dakota
and the Siletz reservation in Oregon
open TO settlement at noon May 81
were signed by the president.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggIe-
gated s1,16l, ss4, COG, against s127, 1884,
ssI the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding
week in 1894. was 3O.7.
N the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 21l business failures in
the United States, against POI the
week previous and PIG in the sorre-
spending time in 1894.
a STORY that Minister Thurston ia
vored the restors ton of the Hawaiian
monarchy was ridiculed at Washington
TOTAL collections from internal rev.
enue sources for the past ten months
of the current year foot up sl2O, 652, OIL,
an increase over 1894 of sl.5Il.724
ROBERT TYLER JONES, a grandson of
President Tyler. the only male person
over born in the white hOue, died in
Washington.
IN the week ended on the 18th fires
in the United States caused total loss
of SLABS, sos, against 5000, O55 for the
preceding week.
THE statement was made at the de-
partment of justice that nothing could
be done to keep the United States
courts going, as congress failed to make
an adequate appropriation.
IN the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the Goth was: Wheat,
So, isi. 900 bushels; corn, 1860, 900 bush
els; oats, 6.333, 600 bushels; rye, 145, ZOO
bushels: barley, Is3. 900 bushels
RICHARD W. MEADE, rear admiral, was
placed upon the retired list.
On June 3 the supreme court of the
United States will adjourn for the
term.
THE internal revenue commissioner
says that under section 3,220 of the re-
vised statutes all the moneys paid in
on account of the income tax will be
refunded to the payers by the treasury
department without delay.
TmRTY-Two years ago Stephen j.
Field was appointed by President Lin
coin an associate justice IF the supre &c
court and the anniversary was eele-
brated in Washington.
IL sixty-three of the principal cities
and towns the latter part of June
civil service examinations for clerks,
storekeepers and gaugers will be held.
AFTER being twice heard in the
United States supreme court the income
tax law was finally decided by that
court to be invalid and unconstitution-
al. The vote in the affirmative was
Harlan, White. Brown and jackson;
in the negative, Fuller, Field, Shiras,
GRAY and brewer
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THE EASTERN QUESTION.


Japan Reaches n Final and Satisfactory
Agreement with European Powers
WASHINGTON, May ls.-The Japanese
legation has received an official cable
stating in substance that final and
satisfactory agreement had been
reached by Japan with the European
powers on the east IN question. This
was to follow the recent settlement
with China. 1t is regarded as closing
the entire subject. 1t is also regarded
as negativinf the Unofficial statements
of Russian ewspapers that Russia
would claim "a protectorate over Corea.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Official adj
vices from Corea announce that the
government will open the ports of
Ching Mampo and Mopo to foreign
commerce. This is understood to be
the first step in the adoption policy to
open all seaports of the hermit king
dom to foreigners.
SHANGHAI May 21.-It is stated that
China has asked Japan for an extern
sion of time in which the former coun-
try is to surrender the island of For
mosa to the Japanese pending a con-
sideration of further proposals. japan,
it is added, has declined the PROPOSE
tinu
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LATER NEWS.


THE Pennsy wanna legislature the 2lst
passed the bill prohibiting pool selling
and betting of any kind.
1HE powder works at Pineole. Gala,
were blown up the 2lst The shock
was felt for many miles. Five white
men and nine Chinese were allied.
IT was learned the 2lst that an old
woman named Dunbar, living at New
Richmond. Wis, had been whitccapped
by crowd of % men. They raided
her house. broke in the door, dragged
her out of bed and poured tar over her
entire naked body, and then rolled her
in chaff and sawdust. They then left
her, thinking they had perpetrated
huge joke, but public sentiment finally
turned.
A GAS explosion in the Aldershot coal
mine near Hartshorn. |. T., the 2lst,
seriously injured seven miners.
The town of Spolets, Italy. was vio-
lently shaken by earthquake. The
railway station was partly destroyed
and crevices were made in the walls of
many of the houses and in portion of
the walls of the prison.
TIE Yankton Is. d. reservation was
opened for settlement the 2lst. The
rush was very mild
FRANZ voN SUPPE. the famous opera
composer, died at Vienna, Aus tria, the
2Is;. aged IS years.
ONE of the largest counterfeit coin
gangs that has infested Chicago for
several years was broken up the 2lst
by the arrest by secret service officers
of Ed Troy, George q. Riley. Thomas
Meyers, VIM. Murphy. Canada Bill"
Con" Russell. Lulu Harris ana Lii
Boyer.
JUICE Pugh the els. in the common
pleas at Columbus, On o, held the Ohio
VIM law constitutional. Its penalty
is a fine of $3.50 for the sale of each in
toxicating drink sold in house of i'll
fame. Owners of buildings so occupied
are liable.
The marquis of Queensberry and his
younger son, Load Alfred Douglas, had
an exciting quarrel in Piccadilly Lon
don the 2lst. They were both arrest
ed, charged with breach of the peace
and were released on bail.
PAUL TUsTIN leaped into the Missis-
sippi river from the Eads bridge at st.
Louis. Mo-, the 2lst, a distance of lis
feet He was uninjured.
AN explosion IN mine No. of the
Monongahela Coal company at Fair
mont, w. Va. the 21st. killed c. L.
Bircffer, VIM. Shaver, Luke Vitka and
Andrew Danlue. An hour before the
explosion there were several hundred
men in the mine.
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IN Clay county, Ala, a rich mica
lead was discovered in the foothills of
Talladega mountain.
FIRE destroyed the Wisconsin, paper
and pulp mill at Stevens Point Wis,
the loss being 5000
IL Chicago Charles III. Einman, Sec
rotary and treasurer of the Northwest
ern Travelling Mems association, died
at the age of 80 years.
IN fifteen different states OF the west
and northwest killing frosts were re-
ported
IN Porter county, Ind. farmers
claimed that nearly half the wheat
crop had been killed by the Hessian fiy.
THREE brothers, Charles, Andrew
and Robert Smith, at work in a coal
mine in Winfield, w. Va, were caught
under fall of slate and killed.
SIM CROWLEY. Samuel Echols and
John Brooks (all colored) were lynched
by mob near Ellaville. Fla, for muir
bering Miss Mamie Armstrong, the
beautiful daughter of a prominent
farmer.
WILLIAM If. THOMPSON, president of
the Bank of Commerce in St Louis. is
sued an order forbidding any and every
employee of the bank from attending
horse races under penalty of dismissal.
NEAR Montgomery, Ala, Jeride
Shivers (colored), who assaulted a
young white girl was taken to the
river by mob and drowned.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, James C. Corbett
and George Allen were arrested at
Denver, Col, charged with counter
feiting.
A TORNADO struck near Luling, Tex,
unToOting several houses and killing
a small negro boy. Crops Ia the track
of the storm were blown out of the
ground.
AT st. Joseph. Mo-. fourteen mad
dogs were killed after they had bitten
several persons.
AT Atlanta, Ca, the Piedmont Mar
lie company, the largest in the south,
was placed in the hands of receiver
THE doors were closed of the Com
mereial bank of Kingfisher, |. T.
AT Covington, KY, John G. Carlisle,
tary of the United States treasury,
opened the discussion of the silver
question, speaking against free coin
age.
For no cause known Mrs. Warwick,
living near 0skaloosa, Ia, poisoned her
three children and then committed
suicide. Two of the children would
die
In Minneapolis Harry Hayward, con-
victed of melting and planning the
| murder of Catherine Cling, will be exc
cuted on June 81.
TUE stock brokerage firm of Craw-
ford & Valentine made an assign.
ment in Chicago with liabilities of
500, 900.
Al Grants Pass, Ore, Charles Aies-
ter, teamster. threw his wife into a
pool of water and held her head under
until she was drowned.
A RECEIVER was appointed for the
Milwaukee Street Railway company,
= lth bonded indebtedness of nearly
SO 600 600
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua May 2I.-It is
learned that Admiral Stephenson and
other officers of the British squadron
which invested COrinto, both before
and after the occupation of the town,
publicly declared to party of Ameri-
cans that the Monroe doctrine was a
myth which the United States would
not and could not enforce, and that
the British occupation of Corinto was
simply intended as a test to definitely
dispose of that question.
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CHICAGO, May 2l.-Crawfor I'd & VAL
entine, prominent brokerage firm of
this city, made an assignment Monday
afternoon for the benefit of their cred
itors. The Chicago Title & Trust COM
pany was made assignee. 1t is said
that the liabilities of the firm exceed
their assets To the amount of SIS, 900 or
more, but as yet no accurate figures can
be obtained. Failure of customers to
meet obligations is assigned as the
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

HONOLULU duVlceS declared tnaU
change of administration would soon
take place there, and that the mon
archy would be restored.
AT Managua a check for el5,000 was
drawn payable to the order of the
Nicaraguan minister in London, to set
tie the British claim of $4,000 for the
expulsion of Consular Agent Hatch.
A REPORT of the Canadian superin-
tendent of immigration shows the total
immigration for 1894 to have been
27.91l, against 90, 447 in 1898. OF these
$50 were from the United States.
The insurgents lost 300 killed and
Guantanamo. On the Spanish side Lieut..
Col Bosch was killed and several sol
diers were wounded.
WAREHOUSES; and factories IN Lon
don, covering over an acre of ground,
were burned, the loss being $1,000, 900.
OFF Capones the Spanish steamer
Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lis
bon, was lost during typhoon and only
two of those on board were saved.
IN Russian Poland the town of Brest-
Litewski, with 40, 600 inhabitants, was
completely destroyed by fire and thirty
persons were burned to death.
ADvICEs from Shanghai says that
complete anarchy prevailed in the
island of Formosa. The Chinese sol
diers had chosen king and would re-
sist japanese occupation.
THROUGHOUT England unusually cold
weather for this time of the year pre-
walls with snowstorms on the seacoast.
The Chinese national debt at the
present time aggregates about $40, 0OO,
600
FIRE at Halifax, n. S, caused loss
of $500, 900 and there was not cents
worth of insurance on the property de-
stroyed.
IN Florence, Italy, an earthquake
shock destroyed over 5000 residences
and did great damage in the surround
ing country. Many lives were lost.
THE building occupied by congress
at Santiago de Chilli was totally de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
THE school question in Manitoba,
which at one time threatened open dis
ruption between the Catholics and
Protestants, was virtually settled by
both sides.
FLAMES destroyed the tobacco and
cigar factory in Havana known as
the Flor de Fumar, the loss being $780,
900. Eighteen firemen were injured,
| two of them fatally.
NEAR Dover. England, the Norwegian
bark Ceylon, Capt. Olsen, was wrecked
and six OF her crew were drowned.
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Earthquake in Italy.

FLORENCE. May 21.-The population
of this city was thrown into state of
panic Saturday by series of earth
quakes that did much damage here
and in other places An investigation
was made by the authorities in Flor
ence, and it was estimated that 5000
houses had been damaged. At Baris
four persons were instantly killed, and
many others mortally injured. The
earthq uake was also felt in Moravia,
southern Hungary and Dalmatia, and
also at Laibach. Serious earthquakes
have also been felt in the Ionian islands.
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CHICAGO, May 21--Crawfo I'd & VAL
entine, prominent brokerage firm of
this city, made an assignment Monday
afternoon for the benefit of their cred
itors. The Chicago Title & Trust COM
pany was made assignee. 1t is said
that the liabilities of the firm exceed
their assets to the amount of SIS, 900 or
more, but as yet no accurate figures can
be obtained Failure of customers to
meet obligations is assigned as tho
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TRACED, at North vlncennes. Ind.

VINCENNEs, Ind, May 21.-Mose Lat
ia, young farmer of excellent bust
ness and social standing, whose home
was just across the river in Illinois,
was assassinated Saturday night in the
street in North Vincennes. Mr.. Latta
had just left the home of Miss Agnes
Conlin, a beautiful girl to whom he
was engaged to be married. The muir
der was premeditated and wholly I'M
provoked. The hatred of the assassins,
of whom it is believed there were sew
eral, had been aroused because Miss
Conlin had looked with more favor
upon the attentions of young Latta
than upon those of his rivals.
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Mr. BALFoUR in recent address be
fore the English Newspaper society
among other things said: The news
paper in its capacity as an advertising
agent is after all of the first impOr-
tance to any civilized society, mas
much as it brings together those who
have something to sell and those who
have something to buy" This comes
not from a newspaper r1an. nor from
anyone interested in newspapers, but
from one of the leading statesmen OF
England. who has had a 1undaut OppOr-
tunity to study the power OF cOmmuni-
cation by advertisement.
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Rich
Red Blood

Is the Foundation Of the Wonderful Cure.
b. Hoods Sarsaparilla.
That is Why the cures bv Hoods Sarsa'
parilla are CURES.
That is Why Hoods Sarsaparilia cures
the severest cases of Scrotula, Salt Rheum
and other blood diseases.
That is Why il ovcrcomes That Tired
Feeling, strengthens the nerves, gives
energy in place of exhaustion.
That Is Why the sales of Hoods Sarsa-
parilla have increased year after year, until
i. now requires the largest Laboratory in
t1.s v-1rT I for the production of
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JUDO e LYNCH.
Punishment Inflicted Upcn Human Brutes
by Mob Law.

ELLAvILLE, Fla, May 2l.-Three
negroes were lynched Saturday night
in dense swamp on the Suanee river
by white men for assaulting a white
girl. 1t is reported that they were
fiayed alive and then burned. after
being subjected to frightful tortur es.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 21.-About
a month ago Jeride Shivers and two
other negro men enticed three young
daughters of a white farmer away
from home in Coffee county and de-
tanned them in the woods for a week.
The girls finally made their way
home again, but the rascals who led
them off could not be found, in
spite of diligent search being made
for them. Saturday, however, it
was learned that Shivers was in
certain house near Tabernacle,
that county, and a posse quietly
captured him, and, taking him to the
river, placed a rope around his neck,
threw him into the water and drowned
him