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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-28
The News Of the Week.
FiFTYTHIR0 CONGRESS.
By TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

"a AAC ,tAOtsu EtSHtths
TUESDAY. Feb. 10. In the senate
an effort to secure a final vote on
the Jones silver hill was defeated.
Senator Villas defended the bond con-
tract in a four-hour speech. In the
house bills were passed to retire Don
Carlos Buell., L. :. A.. as a brigadier
general; to authorize the Wisconsin Sc
Duluth Bridge company to construct
bridge across the 81. LoGis river be-
tween the states OF Minnesota and
Wisconsin. Resolutions were intro
duced for amendments to the constitu-
ton prohi biting the liquor traffic in
the United States and prohibiting the
states from q anting the right of fran
chise 20 any person not a citizen of the
United States. The naval appropria-
tion bill was further considered.
WEDNESDAY,, Feb. 20. Senator Vol
colts amendment TO the silver bill
was discussed in the senate and
the Indian appropriation bill was con-
sidered The house bill was passed
authorizing bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Sioux City, Ia. In the
house the time was occupied in dis
cussing the naval appropriation bill
and it was finally passed.
THURSDAY. Feb. Elm the senate
tSa conference report on the pen
sion appropriation bill was agreed to.
1t retains the provision making six dol
lars tive minimum for pensions. 1t
also re aims the repeal of the present
law susDending the pension, of persons
living outside o. the country. The In
dian appropriation bill was further
discussed. Adjourned to the Odd In
the house the Hawaiian cable appro-
priation was defeated by a vote Of ~, i52
was considered.
FRIDAY. Feb. 22.-In the senate the
time was occupied in discussing
the Indian appropriation bill Senator
Mills gave notice of an amendment 10
the sundry civil appropriation bill
which provides that all laws which
authorize the secretary of the treasury
10 sell bonds If the United States for
any purpose shall be repealed. In the
house bill vas introduced To extend
the provisions of The interstate com
ulerce act 70 include express companies
acting as common carriers. An amend
mont was offc~cd =. the sundrv civil
appropriation bill appropriating $500
ool for the purchase of seed for the in
habitauts II tho dr0ught-stricllen dis
tricts. The general deficiency bill was
considered. The night session was de
voted to private pension bills.
SATURDAY, Feb % I'm effort in
the senate TO take up the railway pool
fr,rr hin r.-rc ,loFcasaI I,,- a ,-,t, 90 40 -
u. The Indian appropriation bill was
further considered and the nomination
Of Matt ". Ransom, senator from North
Carolina, for minister to Mexico to
succeed the late Isaac T.. Gray. was
confirmed. In the house proposition
To pay an extra monthly salary to all
the employees of the house and senate
was carried. The reading of the de-
ficiency bill was completed with the
exception of few amendments.
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brother had told him that he had
mania for doing criminal acts, and that
1t was he who had tried to reason with
Adry. Harry explained very glibly
why he was asking people how their
consciences were He had been SO
shocked at his brothers depravity that
he resolved tosound many other people
to see if they had such wonderful con-
sciences. Thus it was that he had
questioned Waterman, and the hack
man, and even l.. NJ. Stewart, and he
dared the state to put Stewart on tho
stand.
There was scene in the morning
which was enjoyed by the audience.
Mr.. Erwin at last managed To get in
the evidence in connection with the
alleged hold-up on the road near the
lakes, where Pc states that Adry held
him up while he was driving with Miss
Cling and Miss Vedder. Mr.. Nyc spoke
up when the question was asked, and
stated that he' had no objection to that
evidence going in, if the state would be
allowed to show its side of the case.
He wanted to be allowed to show that
it was Harry himself who had planned
that whole affair.
In the cross-examination the states
attorney made him admit that he had
been Il gambler by habit and profession
for years, since he was IL years of age,
in fact. Their he took him to his rela-
tions with Miss Cling, and made him
again say thai he was suspicious that
she was gambling with other men, He
made him say that he had no other
security for that $1,000 loan aside from
the life insurance and promise that
she would gointo business with it. and
give him mortgage on the stock; that
! the money was all he had, and he had
realized it from property his father had
given him and some gambling.
From this Point Mr.. Nye had the wit
aess repeat his wanderngs the night of
the murder. In speaking of where he
went after leaving the fiat the witness
stated that he went direct up IIennepin
to Laurel avenue. On direct he had
stated that he went down IIennepin
first, intending TO go to look for Miss
Cling at her place of business.
| Hayward took the pointer and showed
on the map where he had gone until he
reached Mr.. Rartleson's residence. The
states attorney, in the mind of the audi
encc, was not making any Roadway.
The wtnessi was apparently making
clear answers, and was not getting con-
fused, but the audience did not know
that in his quiet way Mr.. Nye was lay
ing the found alton for Impeachment.
One Of the most important points vas
when he asked the witness il he was
not in the habit of meeting Miss Cling
at the corner of First avenue north and
Fifth street. and if he did not drive by
that point with her some time during
the latter part of November. The wit.
ness denied st fatty. The states at
torney asked, him il he did not know
the old gentleman who keeps the cigar
stand at h t point. He said he did
not, yet it is by this gentleman that the
state hopes to impcach his testimony
by having him swear positively that he
saw the two often at that point.
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DEATH ovERTAKEs HIM.
The sudden and Unexpected End of Fred
erick Douglass Life.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Fredericl<
Douglass dropped dead in the hallway
of his residence on Anacostia Heights
Wednesday evening at o'clock. He
had beer II the highest spirits and APP
parently in the best of health despite
his IS years, when death overlook him.
Frederick Douglas. who has been for half
century assuredly in the foremost ranks OF the
orators OF his race. had Just completed his 18th
year. and after his many vieiSsitu3es died
seemingly in excellent health not many miles
distant from the county on the eastern shore
of Maryland, where he was born a slave in
February, 1917 His early mastering OF tho
ship carpenters trade In which he worked for
the benefit OF his owner, Col. Lloyd, whose
name the slave originally bore. his escape
from slavery in 1855 assisted therein hy Will
liam Lloyd Garrison and other noted abolition
lists OF that day, together with his stall
wart crusade against slavery and his
later lecturing tours IN Europe and
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OHIO MINERS.
Reports show Distressing Condition of
Affairs.

COLUMBUS. O., Feb. 25.-The commits
sion appointed at the instance of Gov.
Mckinley by the boards of trade and
chambers of commerce of Cincinnati.
Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo, to
make ON official investigation of
the restitution of the miners
in the Hooking and Sunday
Creek valleys, have discovered some
startling facts. In the localities so far
visited the commission has discovered
that each miner last year earned only
from So TO S125, largely because of the
great national strike, and that by
working regularly they could have
earned from 81 to 50 every day.
1t was also stated that of the 10. 900
or 1000 miners in the two valleys,
fully one-third. representing, with
their families, nearly 5000 persons
are in greater or less distress
With reference to future prospects,
all the miners declare they are not
encouraging. They are almost unit
in declaring that there arc at least so
per cent. too many miners in the two
valleys for the amount of work that
can be supplied, and many of them are
making preparations to locate on farms
or seek other employment
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The EAST.


IN both London and New York the
new issue of United States bonds was
heavily oversubscrihed.
u the woods ~ miles from New
York four hunters were found frozen
To- death.
FLAMES in ArbucBle Bros coffee
mills in New York did damage to the
extent Of s30o,OOn Several of the en-
ploycs were injured by jumping.
THE act 10 prohibit the display of
foreign flags upon public buildings in
the state Of New York was signed 10y
Gov. Morton.
AT the session in New York c. W.
Knapp. OF the II. Louis Republic. was
elected president Of the American
Newspaper Publishers association.
Is New York Brig. Gen. John IT.
Broach. who had Squandcred a fortune
uf S3po.epo, was sent To Jail for drunk
cnness.
TIM prohibitionists of Rhode Island
in state convention at Providence nom
mated Smith Quimhy. of Warren. as
their candidate FOR governor.
FIRE destroyed the college at Beaver
Falls. Pa ard the fifty students lost
their effects.
At the sixty-frst annual meeting IF
the Congressional Temperance society
Nelson nin@iey. Jr., Of Maine, was
elected president.
AFTER an acquaintance III only TWEEN
- minutes George Mcclellan Whitney.
a commercial trrveler for a Boston She
house. and Miss Grace Seavening Grant.
of indianapolis. Ind. were married at
Providence. Il. '.
Miss GLADYS BROOKS, who had been
working as waitress for the las; three
wear in various northwestern cities,
has come into the possession of for
tune amounting to $4,000 in Phila-
dClphia.
At the age of G6 years Gen. Joseph b.
Carr. war veteran. and three times
elected secretary of state of New York.
died at his home in Troy.
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MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Feb. 22.-On
Thursday Harry Hayward was upon
the stand in his own behalf in the
Miss Cling murder case. In answer to
questions he declared the testimony of
Blixt and his brother Adry to have
been almost wholly false. He said that
he had played roulette and faro in al
most every city of any size in the coun-
try. He further said that Miss Cling
had often insisted upon his taking her
money with which to gamble. lie ac-
cusci Adry of being the one who held
up the buggy in which he was riding
with Miss Cling and Miss Nedder. He
then attempted to account for his use
of all the time between Gas and 5:l5
o'clock on the evening of the murder.
The prisoners evidence was hardly be
gun when court adjourned.
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SANDY HOOK, y. j.. Feb. ol.-Fre-
mont i. Peck, first lieutcn mt of the
ordnance corps. was almost instantly
killed on the proving grounds here
Tuesday afternoon Ivy the burst
ing of the breech of a Hotchkiss
gun. The test of a { 7-1O-inch
Hotchkiss rapid-iring gun was under
way, and two rounds, with fixed
ammunition, had been successfully
fired by Lieut.. Peck When the third
round was fired the breech of the gun
bursted and fragments from it struck
Lieut. Peck on the face and back, caus-
ing injuries which resulted in his
death in few minutes,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-28
SLAIN BY TURKS SWORDS.
a Total of Over 5000 Lives Taken in the
sassoon District.

ST. Louis. Feb. 2l.-Thc first de-
scription by an eyewitness of Mooshir
Pasha's march of blood" as it
has come to bc known, has
just been received by the repu bic
from Moosh Asia Minor. The ac-
count is written by native Of the
Sassoon district and had been sent by
a secret messenger through the terri
tory of the sultan To insure its safe ar
rival. Mooshir Fasha. the military gov
ernor of the city of Eizenan. started,
by order of the sultan. into
thr Sassoon district last september.
Innumerable burned villages and 1893
lives constituted the price of this off
cial visit. The European commission
now investigating has just reached the
city of Moosh, the town from which
the republic received its dispatches.
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HOPE REVIVED.
Comments by Dun's Agency the Bust
ness situation.

ness situation.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-R. G.. Dun &
Co. S weekly review OF trade says:
THE surprising success of the new loan. and
the great confidence it has given to investors
on both sides Of the water, and to business
men here. encourage many to hope that it
may be the beginning Of a real recovery.
In twenty-five minutes here subscriptions are
supposed to have been at least five times the
amount OF bonds offered, and in two hours a
London they we're twenty times the amount
there offered. Considering the power
which the control OF these bonds gives
to regulate foreign exchanges and to
prevent exports of gold the transact
tion has indeed greatly changed the financial
situation. in spite OF the fact that government
revenues are still deficient, and that domestic
trade shows scarcely any gain as yet The in
duStries are not enlarging production. nor
have prices Of farm products Improved But
very important source of apprehension and
hindrance has, for the time at least, been re-
moved
wheat fell to So cents Saturday last, and
has recovered 81. only a quarter below the
price week ago, while. cotton and pork are
unchanged, and hogs and lard are shade
lower.
THE volume OF domestic trade represented
by exchanges is but little larger than las;
year, with allowance fos difference of working
days, and g.. per cent. smaller than two years
ago Inc more aCtuIdtt tt>t the tdllA aver
age for the month is 63 per cent larger than
last year. but "a per cent smaller than in
1898
Dealings in iron and it's products are mod
crate in volume, with some discouragement in
most branches. though structural works at
Pittsburgh are very busy, and the demand for
wire nails and ba:hed wire has never been sur
passed. But nothing Is doing in rails, plates
are quiet. an. bar is as low as ever, though in
rather better demand for car works
The exports of domestic products from New
York are smaller for the week and since Jan
uary about 81 600000 smaller than last year.
while the imports have been s.. 100000 larger.
The government customs receipts for the
month thus far have Teen only 9,43l los, and
internal revenue s62S6 eO5 and the total
ceipts being s521S.347 less than expenditures.
The failures for the first half of February
show liabilities of s55509S6 against $S53l,O91;
of manufacturing concerns. 81 532,3l9 against
50 749 s45 last year, and OF trading concerns.
g. 35S0I9. against S4.503.7i9 last year The
failures for this week have been 313 in the
United States against cSS last year, and in
Canada Sc. against 81 last year
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THE REPORT DENIED.
Story ri the Hawaiian TnquIsition Said to
BE Wholly False.

INriANAPoLIs, Ind, Feb. 22.-The
story first printed in san Francisco last
week, telling of great cruelty visited
upon Capt. Davis, an American, and
others by the Hawaiian officials
in order to extort information about
the recent revolution in that country,
is vigorously denied by the Hawaiian
Gazette of February :, copy of which
paper was received in this city Thurs
day. The Gazette prints a detailed de-
NAL of the reports of cruelty, and says
editorially:
we have made personal investigation OF the
facts and although no person Of sense here
would for a moment believe such statements
as arc alluded. and their refutation is not re-
qurcd in this community. VIC wish to inform
our foreign readers that there is absolutely no
truth in any such reports, no matter from
what sourse they emanate.
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SENTENCED.
Liliuokalani May Choose Be-
tween Prison and Exile.
A Number of Hawaiian Rebels Sent to
Jail--N. v. Ashford Found Guilty of
Misprfsion of treason No Ex-
ccutions Yet.

HONOLULU. Feb. IL, per steamer Gaze
lie, via San Francisco, Cal, Feb. 90
The government has caused the arrest
of ISL persons since January o, of whom
ninety-four have been tried before the
military court. Sentences in but TWEEN
ty-four cases have been made public,
twenty-thrce natives charged with
treason and V. Y. Ashford, charged
with misprision of treason. Fifty-five
men have been released by the author
tiles; the military court acquitted two.
Three men, Cranston, johnson and
Mueller, were deported.
Ashtord's Sentence.
V. V. Ashford, charged with mis-
prison of treason, was found guilty and
sentenced to one year in Jail and fined
81, 900. Ashford has practiced law in
Honolulu since about 1881. lie was
banished several years ago for con-
spiracy against the monarchy,
Twenty three natives. convicted
of treason, have received SEN
fences varying from five to- ten
years. In one ease fine of $1,000
was RENTED by President Dole. Prince
David has been found guilty. His sen
tence has not been made public. Thir-
teen persons are at liberty with the
understanding that they leave the
country within a reasonable time and
not return without permission from
the government. British Commission
err Hayes gave the men to understand
he would not interfere in their behalf.
as they admitted their guilt
Queen May Leave Hawaii.
1t is understood that the queen SEN
tence will be five years for the part she
has taken in the trouble. Probably
she will be allowed to leave the coun-
try without serving the sentence if she
SO desires. Twenty -four natives have
been sentenced TO prison for terms
ranging from seven to eight years.
The sentences found instant favor
among the people generally. though
some thought Ripil1ane at least should
have been summarily dealt with
No Executions Yet.
In regard to the dispatch sent by
Secretary Gresham to Minister Willis
about demanding a delay of execution,
Attorney General Smith stated that
the government had no intention of exc
cutting the condemned men until
the military court concluded its
labors and every fact bearing
on the case was brought out. Mr..
Smith iutimated nothing would be
done until the United States govern
ment is in possession of the facts in
each case. According to the attorney
general the queen will not be sent out
OF the country.
Instructions to Willis.
WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. Minister VIII
lis has been instructed to insist on
postponement of the execution of
American citizens in Hawaii until the
charges and evidence can be looked
into.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-28
Hunters Perish of COLI.

New ORLEANS. Feb. 22.-Among the
sad casualties of the storm was the
death of hunting party in the woods
of the Alliance plantation, about Is
miles below New Orleans. -Four men
set out for days hunt i'm the woods.
As they did not return next day a
searching party went out and found
the unfortunate men frozen to death
in the woods
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VICTIMS OF FIRE.
Six Persons Perish in CoDfiaGration at
Hot Springs, Ark.

six Persons Perish in CoDfiaGration at
Hot Springs, ARK.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 25.-At 4:15
o'clock Friday morning fire broke out
in the Ledgerwood bakery on Ouachita
avenue, in the southern part of the
city, where boarding houses abound,
and in an hour four women and two men
had been burned to death, six boarding
houses, several storchouses and fifteen
cottages, all worth 81, 1000 had been
swept away.
There was a strong wind from the
north which famed the flames, but
prevented them from moving in the di-
rection of the principal business part
of the -ity where the big hotels and
bath ouses are located The streets
covered by the fire are Ouachita, where
it origina ed, Sealcy, Malvern, Wood
bine and Orange.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2l.-James II.
Gentry, the actor. who shot and killed
Madge Yorke, the actress, in this
city, Sunday evening. was arrested 10y
policeman Tuesday night at Thirty
third and Columbia avenue. He was
suffering from a fractured skull and
was c-t oy,r the heart. where he had
tried To commit suicide by cutting him
self with penanife. lie was taken Ia
the German hospital, and is now con
fined TO that Institution.
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PARIS, Feb. 26.-At the cabinet meet
ing " Gadaud. minister of agricul-
ture. made an order in council
forbidding the importation of Amer
lean cattle into France on nc
count of the Texas fever and pleuro-
pneumonia. with which they are al
legged to he infected. This order is I'M
doubtedly the outcome of the persisten;
protectionist agitation in the rural
districts of the north Of France. Ever
since the new cabinet entered Office NJ.
Gadaud has been besieged 10y agrarian
populations and petitioners.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-28
A RASCAL Fooled.
Wisconsin TeIress Saved from Marriage
with n WouId- BE Iifgamist

MENoMINBF, Wis, Feb. THE mar
riage of Miss Matilda IIilbY, heiress to
100000, and Peter Erpelding was TO
have been celebrated Thursday in st.
Mary's Catholic church. Wednesday
night Rev. PAUL IIalbmaier, pastor of
the church. received telegram from
Waterloo, L., informing him that Err
pelding deserted wife and two children
there a year ago. Erpelding when con-
fronted With the charge confessed his
guilt. lie has since fled to parts I'M
known. A few days ago he obtained
$1,000 from Miss IIilby topay on farm
which he had purchased and on which
they intended 10 live.
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EIGHTEEN years ago Peter T. Brig
ham. a native Of Vermont, gave 81. O09.-
oOJ for free public hospital for Boston.
the request should remain untouched
and draw interest for twenty-five years.
When il becomes available. seven years
hence, the trustees viii have nearly
3. O00. 600 in their hands.
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Flames Drive Passengers into the water

Flames Drive Passengers into the Water.
NEW YORK. Feb. 2l-Report comes
from Rio Janeiro that flames broke on
the ferry boat Terceira, in the bay of
Rio Janeiro. II is estimated that there
were from 100 to $50 persons on
board at the time The fire burned
with such rapidity that the passen-
gers were soon driven overheard. and
il is Thought that but few escaped.
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The Boston Globe thinks 81. Valcn-
tine. George Washington and abraham
Lincoln VERY distinguished triunrvi-
rate for 80 short n month a. February
10 furnish. They are. And let II mot
he forgotten that in February also the
humble hut not altog, Their insiguif-
rant grnunIhnr hns hi day.
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NO FLAG BuT "oLO GLORY"
New York Now Has ~ Law Prohibiting
the Use OF Foreign Banners.

ALBANY. n. Y. Feb. a5-Gov Nor
ton thought Washington birthday a
most excellent day to sign the flag bill
and make it law. lie said il con
tanned nothing hut patriotic senti-
ments and was truly American. 1t
provides:
1t shall not be lawful to display the flag or
emblem Of any foreign country upon any state.
county or municipal building provided, how
ever. that whenever any foreigner snail be-
come the guest Of the United States the state.
or any city. upon public proclaSz Ition by the
governor or the mayor Of an7 such city, the
flag Of the country Of which such public
guest shall be citizen may he displayed upon
such public buildings
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Is Great Britain many electors are
still allowed to vote more than once.
the number OF votes being based ON in
come. but hill has been introduced
in parliament To abolish plural voting
and establish complete manhood SUI
fragc. So that the vote of the farm
laborcr will count FOX as much as that
az his landlord