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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-04-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A PROCLAMATION issued by Gen. Cam
pos asks the support of the various
political parties in Cuba and promises
to implant reforms at the conclusion of
the rebellion, which he hoped would
be speedily terminated.
AN ex-naval officer, r. II Mclean,
army "a nav ,tIt, with the rank, pay
and allowances of colonel in the
United States army.
A PROCLAMATION was issued by Gen.
de Campos offering pardon to all insur-
gents i'm Cuba, with the exception of
the leaders, who will lay down their
arms and surrender.
POLICE in Paris claimed 20 have in
formation of plot by anarchists to as
sassinate President Faure during a
visit to Havre.
EARTHQUAKES damaged 9s per cent.
of the houses at Laibach. Austria, and
10000 persons were homeless.
NICARAGUA's proposition to arbitrate
has been rejected by Great Britain and
the conditions of the original ultima
tum will be strictly enforced.
IL letter to the Canadian bishops,
lHt pope tOhtltuluS All AdbuOiACS WHO
attend the Protestant or nonsectarian
schools of Manitoba.
OK one of the Philippine islands, the
town of Tayti was destroyed by fire.
Two Thousand houses were consumed
aud one life was lost
ADvIcEs from Havana informed the
government at Madrid that the rebel.
lion in Cuba was spreading.
RUSSIA unanimously approved a de-
cree authorizing commercial transac-
tions of any kind to be concluded on a
gold basis.
FLAMES in the school of arts and i'm
dustries In Paris destroyed models and
machinery valued at over 1000, 900
francs.
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HIGHER PRICES.
They Appear in All the Speculative Mar
ket

NEW YORK, April %. - Bradstreet
says:
Tho volume Of general trade has MAIN
tanned the previous weeks proportions. and at
some points shows noteworthy increases as
compared with the total year ago. The re-
action In petroleum prices appears to have
been overcome. and the tendency is again up
ward. based on a drop In stocks from about H.
600 COO barrels OF Pennsylvania oil in January,
1894. to less than 3.000,o00 barrels
of merchandise oil. SO marked and
rapid has been the appreciation in price OF
petroleum that speculation in IL has been ex-
cited. Further advances In quotations are
noted also for wheat on improved demand
for export; cotton. on a widened consumption
present and prospective: print cloths and
other cotton goods because OF higher
raw cotton; Bessemer pig iron. on
the increase of the cost Of ore,
coke and labor. and shoes aud leather, on the
further stifening OF values OF hides. The up
ward turn of prices for dressed beef and live
cattle has been maint lined. Coffee is lower
as are lard and oats but Indian corn and pork
remains steady at last weeks closing quota
tions. " DOL is barely steady. as consumers
are waiting the new crop before buying.
Relatively most Improvement in trade ts in
the region west OF Chicago and north OF St
Louis and Kansas City. The rush OF the
spring demand for millinery. dry goods,
clothing. groceries and hardware is over.
but a fair volume OF conservative trad
ing continues. Mild weather and needed
rains have greatly improved the agricultural
and commercial outlook in the northwest
Trade between Seattle and Alaska is growing
The movement of merchandise throughout the
central and northwestern states shows al in
crease in activity in the great spring wheat
states. General trade conditions at the soIth
are no better. and, in some respects, less salts
factory. Improvement in demand is not an
nounced at any point"
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SEEKS MORE LIGHT.
Ex-Congressman Bryaa Wants Defius-
ton OF ..sound Money"


tfon of 'Sound Money"
OMAHA. Neb., April 20. -Ex-Congress-
man w. j. Bryan, who was BANDS
lieutenant in the last house in the fight
for silver, has sent President Cleveland
yety cart letttsr n regard ID t. q the
ton to speak in Chicago in the in
terests of sound money. Mr.. Bryan
says that since Mr.. Cleveland secured
the repeal of the sherman law he (Mr.
Clevelandl is now the acknowledged
leader of the gold standard advocates,
both democratic and republican, and
that, therefore, the people naturally
look to Mr.. Cleveland for plain sim
pie presentation of the arguments n
favor of sound money, according to
his understanding Of sound money, or
at least an intelligent definition of it.
Mr.. Bryan says that Mr. Cleveland
makes frequent use of the phrase
''sound money" and kindred express
sions, but nowhere explains what he
means by it. Everybody, Mr.. Bryan
says, fav1rs "sound money" A plain
statement by the president of what he
means by those enphonious phrases
might dispel the war clouds and make
a Zine of battle" unnecessary.
The letter goes ON TO outline the
various positions that might be taken
by those who favor sound money, and
then declares: "Your opponents can
didly avow their purpose and clearly
outline the legislation which they de-
sire. Il it not fair 4, ask that you de-
fine your policy Win as much frank
ness?' lis the failure, asks
Mr.. Bryan, "of the gold standard adj
vocates TO define thelf purpose and de-
fend their financial system due to lack
of knowledge of the subject or TO an
unwillingness to let the people know
what they intend?'
III the propreties IN your 'oficial place
oblige' you 20 forego the enjoyment which
you would derive from the writing OF another
letter explaining your last letter and defining
your position on the financial question please
designate some one who has authority to speak
for you so that tho peopts may he afforded an
Intelligent opportunity as yon suggest TO
study and decide this now paramount pub
lie question. Yours verY truly.
NV. y. BRYAN
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THE EAST.

Hen water was still doing grea dam
age in New England. At Concord, \.
H., fifty families were homeless, and
at Haverhill, Mass, the shoe shops
were all shut down, the business part
of the city being practically under wa
ter. At Bellows Falls, Vt, three per-
sons were drowned. The loss of prop
erty will be enormous.
FLAMES in John Dobson's carpet fac
tory in Philadelphia caused a loss of
$780, 900 and threw 100 persons out of
work.
THE capture was reported of Oliver
c. Perry, the train robber who escaped
with four others from the Matteawan
N. j. asylum. aud the 1--WE are now all
in custody again.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt at
Burlington. Vt. and Moodus. Conn.
BURGLARS secured only SOB from the
home of Mrs Hanlihan, aged 81, near
Cory, Pa. after burning her fatally
with lamp.
Is New York Robert Center. wealthy,
and one of the best-known sportsmen
IL America, was knocked off his bicycle
and crushed to death under the wheels
of a coal wagon.
IL the Pittsburgh market petroleum
ran up to s.. per barrel and then fell
to s2.I7.
AT the age OF ZOE years Daniel Nc
Cam, who served in the war of 1912,
the Mexican war and the civil war,
died at West Middleton, Pa.
The firm of Seville, Schofield & Co.
of the Economy wooden mills at Mana
yunk, Pa, failed for S35O.OOO.
IN session at Philadelphia the Uni
versal Peace union adopted resolutions
that the 18th day of April be regarded
as an annual Peace day for Americans.
AT the age of 81 years Charles Knox.
the founder of the hat manufacturing
concern which bears his name, died in
New York of pneumonia.
FLAMES in the building in Philadel-
ph.a occupied by the New York Biscuit
company caused loss of s3OO,OO0
The firm of Baldwin Bros. & Co.,
brokers at Boston, with branch offices
ge Eyer 6f Six sASsY E2Rdr With liabilities
of over 100000.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth were: Boston, 1000;
Cincinnati. LOCO; Pittsburgh, .667; Chi
cago, .667; New York. 500; Brooklyn,
500; Baltimore. 500; Philadelphia,
500; St Louis. 1913; Louisville, 1873;
Washington, 900; Cleveland, 200.
OK the Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road train struck a wagon containing
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Frank, aged 60 and
/ 65 respectively, near Richland, Pa, and
both were instantly killed.
At Glassbrcoke. y. J.. Mrs Hannah
/ Chard celebrated her forth birthday
Her eldest daughter, aged -, and two
other children aged IL and 90, were
among those present.
AT the age of 66 years John ~.
/ Stearns, who, next to Neal Dow, was
the most prominent figure in the tenn
perance movement in the United
States. died in New York.
ERNST and Julius haefelin and John
Miller were drowned in the Delaware
river at Philadelphia by the upsetting
of boat
PERSONS using profane or vulgar
language on the streets of Mckeesport,
Pa, viii be arrested by order of the
mayor.
Rev. WILLIAM II. FURNEss. the oldest
living graduate of Harvard university,
celebrated his Odd birthday at Phila-
delphia.
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he had seen a couple answering the de-
scription of Durrant and the dead girl
standing near the church about $50 on
the night of the murder and who after
wards entered the churchyard.
Doubt as to the guilt of w. II. t.
Durrant, the young medical student
who is accused formally of killing
Miss Williams and suspected of
having slain Miss Lamont, is free
ly expressed by many, and this doubt,
fostered by the friends of the prisoner
and those who mistrust circumstantial
evidence, is spreading. There has
been an undercurrent of opinion
among these which was expressed
in statement TO the newspapers
by the mother of the accused man and
which has also been boldly stated in
anonymous letters 70 the coroner.
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THE HARDWARE TRADE.

HARDwAREsiEN evidently fourished
centuries ago q ) they do now. In a
buried city that is being excavated at
Santiago, Amattan, Central America, n
large quantity of knives, swords, scis-
sors and hammers was found at a
depth OF eighteen feet.
A PARCEL. carrier for the pocket is be-
ing used in England. 1t is little arti-
Gle that can be carried in the POCKET
when not in use, and is always at hand
when wanted. 1t is nickel-plated, con-
tains lengths of nickel-plated steel
chain twenty-four inches long, and will
allow weight of twenty pounds. u
can be used Tor books, parcels, urLbrel-
las, etc.
ALUMINIUM has been intro uced into
the Austrian army, the band n tic
Third regiment of infantry having used
it in the manufacture of drums. 1t IS said
that the drums arc not only neater in
appearance than those of brass. but are
much lighter and moro melolious. It
is reported that the entire Austrian
army win soon be pom lding upon
aluminium drums. -IIardwa re.
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BRuTALLY SLAIN.
A Woman Murdered In 'Jack-the- Ripper"
Style In Kew York.


NEW YORK, April 81. - A murder
which has not been surpassed for
atrocity since ''Old Shakespeare" was
found butcLered in the East River ho-
tel three years ago was committed
in Thompson street or its immediate
vicinity early Sunday morning. The
victim of the crime was woman
known as Alice Walsh, frequenter of
the region around Thompson and
Sullivan streets, who was found
in a pool of blood in the hall
way f No. 143 Thompson street
shortly before 6 o'clock. She was
still living, but died in short time.
The body was taken to the morgue,
where an autopsy was held. The re-
suit of the doctors investigation
showed that a most brutal murder of
the type made famous by Jack the
Ripper" had been committed. The
dead woman was evidently woman of
the town and was about p years old.
The body was covered with bruises.
The weapon with which the wound
was made, the doctors said, was either
a stilletto or long knife sharpened to
a razor keenness. 1t might have been
a razor, but this was considered rather
unlikely, owing to the force which
would be required to force the razor
into the woman's body to make such a
wound as the one from which she died.
The weapon had penetrated to dis
lance of inches,
The police department Immediately
went to work on the case, and Sunday
afternoon Philip Mewley, who gave his
address as No. 1874 Thompson street
was arrested on suspicion of being con
cerned in the murder.
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The News Of the Week.
BIZ TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

On the 10th the visible supply of
grain in the United States was; Wheat.
20. 4s6, 600 bushels; corn, IL. 22l 900 bush
els; oats, 5,T25, 600 bushels; rye, 213, 900
bushels; barley. 400, 200 bushels.
THE death of Charles II. Mansur, of
Richmond, Mo-, assistant comptroller
of the treasury, occurred in Washing
ton. aged 65 years. He was a member
of the Fiftieth. Fifty-frst and Fifty
second congresses
ADvICRs received at the Office of the
commissioner of internal revenue indi-
Gated that 10000 persons had filed
income tax returns with district col
lectOrs.
SECRET SERVICE officials discovered a
new counterfeit five-dollar bank note.
II is on the blackstone canal national
bank of Providence, 4. l.. check letter
Il, series of lss2; A. w. Wyman, treas
urer; b. X. Bruce. register; treasury
No. El2O27O99; portrait of Garfield.
ALL over the country the price of
-four was advanced twenty cents a
barrel.
DURING the week ended on the 10Th
the exchanges of the leading clearing
houses IL. the United States aggregated
s9ls. PA, ISL, against 1858. al, 1873 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was Is.
II the United States there were 24i
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 207 the
week previous and 2ls in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
1T was said the government would
lose over 100000 through the under
valuation of imported goods at the
port of New York.
MAJ. GEN. ALEXANDER Mcdowell
MCCOOK retires from thae r'ny after
serving continuously in the service of
the United States for period of forty
three years. the age of "a years having
been reached.
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LYNCHeO IN ALABAMA.
Five Negroes Charged with Murder Die
by the Rope.


by the Rope.
GREENvILLE, Ala, April %. Infor-
nation has been received from Butler
Springs of the brutal murder off Watts
Murphy. He was a nephew of ex-
Gov. Watts, of Alabama. He was
murdered last Wednesday by five
negroes, who placed his body in
brush and set fire to the entire heap,
the body being consumed. The young
man having been missed from home,
search was began to find out his where
abouts, when one of the murderers
confessed, duplicating four other
negroes, all of whom were arrested and
heavily guarded.
MONTGOMERY. Ala. April a5.-A gen.
tleman who arrived at 9 o'clock Sunday
night from Greenville, Ala, 10 miles
south of here. reports that five negroes
were lynched near there Saturday
night.
The five dead negroes are supposed
to be the murderers OF Watts, who was
killed and his body burned at Butler
Springs last Wednesday. Three ne
groes were arrested for this crime,
and one confessed, duplicating two
other negro men and two negro
women.
Greenville dispatch received at
midnight confirms the lynching of the
five negroes mentioned above. 1t says,
however, that the victims of the mob
were three women and two men. whose
names were Mary Deane. Martha and
Alice Greene, John Rather and Zeb
Galley. A posse of men who had charge
of the five prisoners left Butler Springs
about II. o'clock Saturday night to
bring them to the Jail at Green
vile for safe keeping. The route
was lonely one and the trip
was necessarily slow. At about ,
o'clock Sunday morning, at a turn of
the road. the party was suddenly sur
rounded by armed men, who seemed to
spring from both sides of the road.
The posse was covered with Winches-
ters, and under pain of instant death
was halted. Reports say that there
were about 100 men in the attacking
party, all heavily armed. They made
short work of it. Taking the five ne
g-roes, they tied their hands and then
the shuddering wretches were taken
one at time and were hanged to the
limbs of the trees that lined the read.
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WEST AND sOuTH.

A SHORTAGE of 500. 900 was shown by
the balance sheet of the whisky trust
filed in Chicago.
HAYWOOD WILLIAMS shot and killed
Grace White, woman of the town,
at Telluride, Col, and then shot hiB-
self.
AT Midslesboro. Ky, William Hem
drick. wanted in Ohio, North Carolina.
Tennessee and Kentucky for bigamy.
was arrested. Seven deserted wives
were on his track.
NEAR Charleston. :. c.. a blizzard
did damage to truck farm interests to
the extentof 100000.
TBE death of Lucy Skies Coland.
who was servant in the household of
Thomas jefferson. occurred at Ottum-
wa. Ia. aged lO3 years.
Is Texas less than , inches of rain
have fallen since January / and de-
plorable accounts of the condition of
crops were received from all parts of
the state.
II Cleveland. O.. Alexander Turk. %
years of age, shot and killed his sw ct
heart. Miss Julia Fallon, and then
killed himself jealousy was the cause.
ADoLPH ScHENERIcK shot and killed
Matte Francisco at Morgan City, La,
and then killed himself. He leaves a
wife and four children.
AT its annual meeting in Peoria, ILL.,,
Joseph r. Greenhut was retired from
the presidency of the whisky trust.
4 TORNADO passed across Washington
county. Ala. and all the houses and
=. n. 4.
TIE death of Robert c. Wyckliffe,
ex-governor of Louisiana, occurred at
shelbyville, Ky.
AT the age of IO4 years Mrs. Bette
Wamack died at Viczsburg. Miss She
was born near Charles n, ). C., in 1921.
JONI 2. TAII- of Tampa. Fla. a
physician of national reputation. while
reading a paper before the Florida
State Medical association ~ Gaines
vile sudd. lly gasped and fell dead.
IN Chica 0 the entire plant used in
manufacturing the counterfeit two
cent stamps which were discovered in
circulation was found.
Ar Carson City. New. le govern
ment mint ha, been abant Oned.
THE buriaI.Of the remains of James
" cCotN. tate PtpPHtctoi VI INC NsAhT 70
Times-Herald. took place in Graceis nd
cemetery
BECAUSE of domestic trouble. A.
Schleiter. owner of a large general
merchandise store ut Ida Grove, Ia.
shot and killed his wife and then killed
himself
MANY farr.ers will lose everything
they have by the failure OF tie Eureka
Land company = Selma, Ind.
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lATER MEMS

Az oil well with q capacity of 900
barrels per day has been struck near
ST. Mnry's, o.
THE legislature Of Tennessee the 22d,
by vote of As TO 30, passed the resolu-
ton favoring the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 10 to ].
Az attempt was made tho 23d to blow
up the residence of Herman knupke,
In EAST st. Louis, III. OMAN I, was
used and the front of the house was
wrecked and big hole blown through
the roof. 1t is supposed il was intend
ed to injure J. +. Jones, who has been
importing men to take places of strik-
ers in the roller mills.
THE afternoon of the 22d well
dressed woman, carrying 4}8-year-old
child in her arms, deliberately walked
into the lake at Chicago, both being
drowned.
PAPERS were fled the sal with the
secretary of state of Illinois for new
daily and weekly Democratic news
paper in the city of Chicago, to be
known as the Enquirer
Ar Monterey, Mexico. ferocious
fight was had between Mexican bull
and an African lion before 5000 specta-
tors. The bull was victor.
THE Pullman Palace Car company
the 22d began serving notices upon
their tenants who are behind in their
rent that suit will be brought for eject
ment if dues are not paid at once.
The United States patent office was
for the third time visited by fire the
ED. Mr.. Flint, chief of the photo
graphic room. was pouring ether into
jugs. when the liquid exploded and
caught fire. Mr.. Flint was severely
burned and his assistants had narrow
escapes. The loss was about 81, 500.
CoLLIs Z. HUNTINGTON. president Of
the Southern Pacific railroad, was ar
rested the 22d. charged with giving a
free pass to one Frank Stone, in viola
tim of the interstate commerce law.
President Huntington was arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Shields of New York City.
A VIOLENT earthquake. accompanied
by thunder. shook Laibach Austria the
ed. Eight or ten buildings collapsed
and the few families who had returned
to their homes He'd back to the fields.
DIR II. NJ. BIES. well known jew
ish rabbi of Nicksburg. Miss. commit
ted suicide the ed by taking morphine.
ALoSzo SMITH. collector of the Sec
ond Baptist ,hurch of Chicago. has
been dropped from the church rolls for
stealing.
JAS +. WILSON. ex-senator from Iowa,
died al Fairfield. To-, the eed.
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A BIG SHORTAGE.
whisky Trust Balance sheet shows Over
sI,ooO,ooO un,.ccounted Tor.

whisky Trust Balance sheet shows Over
s1,O0O,OoO Um.ceouuted Tor.
CHfcAeo, April 1s. ,-Of the many sem
sations furnished b. the whisky trust
since Joseph b. Grecnhut first had him
self appointed receiver and was ousted
by the stockholders none approaches
in magnitude that furnished by the
filing with Judge Showalter in the
United States circuit court Tuesday
afternoon of the balance sheet of the
company as it appeared March 81, 1898
Practically the whsle period of the reign
of the Greenhut Aetion is covered
by the figures givSl therein, which
are startling even to those who had
been told in advance that disclosures
of an unusual naturS were to be made.
The enormous sum. of Sl,l39,443 is to-
tally unaccounted Tor. 10 say nothing
of other items which appear all right
at first glance and which are offset by
figures on the booksk
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EAGER FOR STATEHOOD.
The Proposal to Establish the state of
superior Grows In Favor.

superior Grows In Favor.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 22.-Senti-
ment in favor of carving the state of
Superior out of the three Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota counties at
the head of Lake Superior is growing
very strong. Friday afternoon in the
Minnesota senate Mr.. Spencer, repre-
senting the Duluth district. speaking
on the senate's adverse action on an
appropriation for normal school at
Duluth. said, with much bitterness:
This Is the first time that have explained
my vote this session. but l wish to enter my
protest against the Infamous conduct of this
senate in voting down certain measures in con-
nection with this bill. and want to serve no
tice and give due warning, that as result OF
1T, Minnesota will lose her brightest
and richest diadem. The next decade will wit
ness difference have voted for a majority
of the items in this bill. but st. Louis county
is paying more than her proportion and get
ting nothing out of il j want you to distinctly
understand that within the next ten years the
northern tier of counties will not be a part Of
this state"
Superior has already announced it
self in favor of the new state, and this
declaration by Senator Spencer indi-
Gates that st Louis county, Mimi,
also wants to become part of the
state of Superior, although it is stated
that Duluth prefers that the new state
shall be known as Vermillion or Mesaba.