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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-02
LATER NEWS.

THE residence of Geo. Denniston, on
Maple Lake, Mimi, was burned to the
ground the 18th and the aged parents
of Mr.. Denniston lost their lives. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it
originated in the second story and oc-
CURED at a. m. The old couple were
sleeping upstairs. Mrs. Denniston,
senior. came down and woke the fam
lily, who escaped from the building.
She then went sack to assist her hus-
band, who was totally blind. The roof
fell in, burying both in the ruins. The
bodies were completely crema'ed.
THE C. a. II. hall at Elyria, o., was
almost demolished the 29th by a gas ex-
plosion. A gas jet was IN some way
opened without being lighted and the
janitor struck a match.
Martin THRUsH, of Ashland, Wis,
while in a somnaU hulistic state the
night of the 2sth. procured a revolver
and blew the top of his head off. He
lived five hours after.
THE army worm is devastating vege-
tation about Danville, Ky.
A STRANGER walked into the Iowa
Trust and Savings bank at Dubuque,
To-, the Goth, and grabbed handful of
bills. The teller took "A revolver and
shot the man in the head. The wound
was not serious and the man was
locked up.
The Calimina volcano in New Mexico
is again in state of eruption and the
people in the valley have been COM
PEELED to abandon their homes. Much
property has been destroyed.
NEARLY an inch of rain fell at Pierre,
;. H., the cath, in less than 80 minutes,
completely flooding the city.
The five-story building in New York
occupied by Mohlman & Co. fcll in the
morning of the sOth. Fire at once
broke ont. The catastrophe is mys-
FERROUS and the loss over 100000.
1T was announced the Goth that Great
Britain had consented to withdraw her
troops from Corinto and give Nicaragua
Is DAYS in which to pay the SIS, 900. if
such n proposition would be accepted
by Nicaragua
A RIOT took place in Richardson's
coal yards, Chicago. the s9th. in which
a number of coal shovelers were badly
beaten and police officer painfully in
jured.
THE sixth negro was lynched for the
murder of young Watts Murphy in But
Ter county, Ca His body was found
hanging IN a tree the cath by Sheriff
Bargaines-
THERE was serious riotIng at Mar
quette, Mich, the e9th, among dock Ia
borers. The militia was called out
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ENDED IN DEATH.
weii-Known Railroad Man Commits Sui
eide at Tacoma, Wash.

weii-Known Railroad Man Commits Sui
eide at Tacoma, Wash.
TACOMA, Wash. April 26.-The ex-
perts who are examining the books of
Paul Schulze, late general land agent
of the Northern Pacific railway,
have found that his defalcation
amounts to over 100000. instead
of few thousand, as was at first sup
posed. The shortage, it is said, may
even reach the enormous sum of $780,,
900. The embezzler, who was one of
the best known railroad men in the
country and an influential resident of
Tacoma, committed suicide few days
ago.
Disappointment in love is supposed
to have had quite as much to do with
Schulze's suicide as fear of disgrace.
On his person was found farewell
letter to Marie Wainwright, the dis,
tinguished actress.
1t will be recalled that when. two
years ago, she announced her intention
of retiring from the stage, Miss Vain
wright was reported to be engaged to
marry a prominent man in the west.
rhe disastrous termination of her di-
vorce proceedings put an end to this
plan and she continued in her theatric-
al career.
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WANTS A MIXED DOLLAR.
Plan to settle the Silver Question by Put
ting Both Metals In the Same Coin.

Plan to settle the silver Question by Put
ting Both Metals In the Same Coin.
DETROIT, Mich, April so The Trib-
une (rep) publishes an editorial leader
which declares in favor of the solution
of the present money question by
the creation of new dollar, to
be composed of proportionate parts
of gold and silver. The article quotes
the declarations of the republican ma
tional platforms of 1858 and 1892 in
favor of bimetallism, and points
out the dangers of a practical
silver recommendation through the
throwing open of the mines to
unlimited coinage. 1t calls attention
to the difficulties and delays which
would attend the negotiation of an
international compact and questions
the successful maintenance of a
parity of gold and silver by
that means in any event. 1t calls
upon the republican party to full
fill its platform pledges by formulating
without delay practicable scheme for
bimetallism. especially in view of the
threatened disintegration of parties
and the drawing of new party lines.
with gold recommendation on one side
and silver recommendation on the other.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by lore promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable aud pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will me-
accept any substitute if offered.
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a FAITHLESS WIFE.
Her Conduct Makes Her Husband n Muir
derer and a EugitiXe.

utNCh % US
SIDNEY, o., April CA terrible
tragedy occurred in the jail here Fri
day morning, and John Perkpile is
now hunted wife-slayer, while the
body of his victim lies in the morgue
awaiting burial, unattended by
the affeetionate demonstration due
from a husband to an honored
wife. The Perkpiles were young
married people and enjoyed the best
of regulations. The husband is a sue
cessful young business man and the
wife was woman of rare beauty.
Their little home was costly appointed,
and it was supposed that fidelity and
love reigned supreme within it.
Last Tuesday Mr. Perlpile left home
on business errand and Thursday
night he was the Mortified recipient
of a telegram announcing that his wife
had been arrested and was locked up in
Jail awaiting his assistance. Hasten
ing back to Sidney, where he arrived at
O'Clock Friday morning, Mr.. Perkpile
was crushed 10 learn the cause of his
wife's arrest. On Thursday night the
police made a raid on a disreputa BILE
house, captur ing a number of men and
women. among whom was Mrs. Perk-
pile. She had gone to the house in
company with lover and the arrest
...,.sls exposure invvita tile. wnen uolu
of his wife's infidelity PerlSpile closed
his jaws firmly together and started
for the Jail When he arrived there he
asked for an interview with his erring
wife, and was conducted to her cell.
As he approached it his wife caught
sight of him and began to weep hys-
terically.
"0h, John! /" began the poor wom-
an as her husband came to standstill
before the grated cell door.
A flash and the loud report of "A
caliber revolver cut short her ex-
clamation. A woman's scream, the
heavy fall of her dead body on the
stone floor, the amazement of
the officers, the hasty flight of
Perkpile ended the episode so far as
activity was concerned. No one saw
the murderer escape. No one noticed
in what direction he went and his es-
cape was completely effected Inn
mediately several posses were or
ganized and began to hunt
for the wife killer but up to
midnight no trace of him had been Sc
cured Perkpile's bullet entered
squarely into the center of his wife's
heart and she was dead before her
BODY struck the floor.
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a PASTORS PERIL.
Strong Effort to Prove Him Guilty OF the
SAN Francisco Murders.

san francisco MurOers.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 27.-About the
only tangible evidence 30 far obtained
against Durrant, the medical student
accused of having killed Minnie
Williams, is that the prisoner
was better acquainted with the dead
glrl than he viii acknowledge AS II
the matter of the positive identifca-
ton of Durrant as having been seen
about the church where the murders
occurred during the evening when the
deed was committed, that has not so
far been done.
The defense believes that ii has a
case against Rev. Gibson. and win, it
is said. try to show that he and not
Durrant killed both Miss Williams and
Miss Lamont. II was in support of
this theorv that Gibson was asked to
give Durrant's counsel specimens of his
writing. George Monteith, we'll
known attorney. discovered what led
to this line Of investigation. On the
morning after the finding of Minnie
Williams body the Call published
statement from Gibson, attached to
which was fac smile of his
signature. @ the same morning the
Examiner abolished fac SMILES of
names written on the margin of the
paper sent around the rings returned
to the dead girls aunt, Mrs. Noble.
MOnteith is an expert on handwriting,
and says he discovered peculiarities in
the writing which showed that both
We're by the same hand. He reported his
| discovery to Durrant's counsel. and il is
said their Investigations have satisfied
them that Durrant's case has received
great deal of strength from it. Mon
/ teith was in court when Gibson sub
mitted his specimens of writing and
says that the additional specimens
make the correspondence between the
preachers writing and that on the
| paper Wrapper more remarkable.
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FOREIGN INrEIIIoENcE.

THREE British warships arrived at
Corinto. Nicaragua, to enforce the Brit
ish ultimatum.
a NOTE to Japan from the Russian
government intimated that there were
various conditions TO the treaty of
peace between Japan and China that
Russia could not allow to be put into
execution.
NINE. MoDJEsKA, the well-l1nown
actress, has been expelled from War
saw by the Russian government, owing
to violent speech she made against
Russia IN Chicago.
REPLYING to the note of the Russian
government, tntimatlus tha- a change
is necessary in various conditions in
the treaty of peace, the japanese gov
eminent says no change can be made.
In fire in w. C. McDonald's to-
bacco factory at Montreal score or
more women and girls employed were
killed or fatally hurt and $500, 900 in
property was lost.
IL mine explosion at Denny, Scot
land, thirteen men were killed.
MosNS, Kutoz, Vilova and Rudolfs-
grade, four towns in Hungary, wero
practically destroyed by foods, the
damage amounting to $1,000, 600.
FLAMES at Hartney, a prosperous
town in Manitoba, destroyed fourteen
business places. Loss, 100000.
ADvICEs from Nicaragua reported
that the British troops had landed at
Corinto and occupied the town.
THE aggressive combination of Rus
STA, France and Germany against the
carrying out of the treaty with China
amazed Japan.
A GREAT dixie at Bonzey, France,
burst and $50 persons were drowned
and the whole region over which the
thousands of tons of water swept was
strewn with every sort of wreckage.
-'iN-A4'A r--A--.- t..s~-> oil ma.
tions against the outrage which GREAT
Britain inflicts upon her by the mill
tary occupation of the port of Corinto
in order to seize from her by force a
sum of money which is not owed, In
absolute disregard OF international
laws and of the dictates of right, JUS
tlce and equity.
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The News Of the Week.
~ TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WasLINCTON-


TOTAL receipts from internal revenue
for the nine months of the present
fiscal year ended March 81 were e109.-
5,0l5, the net increase being 81, $50, 1853
over the preceding nine months.
MAY was set by the United States
Supreme court for hearing arguments
on petition for rehenring of the IL
come tax question.
The total appropriations by the Fifty
third congress We're s497, DOS, $50, and
1,773 new offices We're created
ADvICEs say that If Justice Jackson
of the supreme court is in Washington
May the court viii vacate the inco me
tax decision handed down April and
open the cnse for reargument.
Is answer % the secretary of the
navy, the attorney general has de-
cided that nominations TO the naval
academy made by the members of the
last congress after noon of March 1
last are of no effect.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 265h aggregated
s995, $40, 1877, against Seis, 1881 the
previous week he llGEtdscs GOLl
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 167.
ADyICEs received at the immigration
bureau show that during the last zen
months the number OF Italian immi-
grants arriving in this country was
10. SOS less than during the same period
last year.
Il the United States there were 23O
business failures in the seven day
ended on the goth, against PAL ne
week previous and la in the corre-
spending time in 1894.
WORLDS fair diplomas awarded TO
exhibitors whose exhibits were favor
ably mentioned by the judges are be-
ing prepared at the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing in Washington and
viii be sent out in about sixty days.
The fire losses throughout the coun-
try for the week ended on the eth
amounted to 3. l25, 425, against s., 49,
OSO for the week pre- ious.
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a DYKE suRsTs.
The Consequent Rush OF Waters Wipes
Out Many Village

EPINAI, France. Aprii J0.-The great
dixie at Bonzey, in the Epinal district
IN the department of the Vosges, burst
at o'clock Saturday morning. The
cubic volume % the dixie is 5000. 600
meters ts,745.oo0 yards. The great
rush of waters completely oblit-
Grated several hamlets and caused
frightful loss of life. II is at pres
ent impossible TO get anything like
an approximation of the number of
lives lost, but il is thought il will
reach over 200. The village of Bonzey.
with its extensive pisciculture estab-
lishment, has disappeared. Other vii
lagos wiped out or devasted by the
flood are Bonsent. Uxegeny. Nomexy,
Budegney, Demevres, Darnieuelles and
Aux Iorges.
Enormous damage has been done in
the surrounding country. The rail-
ways in all directions are interrupted
and large number Of villages are en-
tirely flooded. In some places the force
of the torrent let loose by the break in
the dyke was SO great that entire
houses We're swept away and large
trees were torn up by the roots.
The reservoir was situated close to
the village of Bousey and was con-
nected with the Canal de rEst. The
breach caused by the rush of water is
over 300 feet broad.
The authorities are doing rything
possible to rescue imperiled persons.
Many families are still in danger. The
authorities are also aking steps to
provide relief for d, homeless. As
sistance and supplies viii be sent from
the nearest point.
In a single commune. that of IKE
geny, kilometo "a miles, from the
scene of the di ster proper, twenty
three persons were drowned. At
Nomexy eight bodies have been found.
Wherever the water flowed it destroyed
everything in its path. The steep,
vertical banks of the Canal de FEST
burst Mt Bonzey and emptied reach
of water IL kilometers Is As miles,
long into the Aviere valley, through
which the flood followed to Nomexy,
where it flowed into the River Moselle.
At Darnieuilles all the houses were
destroyed and few were spared at Aux
Iorges. Hundreds of families have
been rendered homeless and many who
were asleep at the time lost even their
clothes.
At Demevre twenty-five of the inhab-
itants were drowned. At Oncourt one
person was drowned. Seventeen per-
sons are still missing ut Uxegeny,
where sixteen houses are in ruins 1t
is now believed a total of over 2OO
lives were lost. The damage done by
the flood it is believed Will amount to
10000, 600.
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McCreary's Views.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 26.-Congress-
man McCreary in an interview said he
was unalterably opposed to the free
coinage of silver. His declaration was
evoked by the free silver stand
taken by Senator blackburn The
congressman says in the cO-r7e of
a long prepared statement of his
position and vote in congress: Il favor
an international agreement, consistent
with sound business methods, but to
throw open the mints of this country
10 the world is simply preposterous. 8
The senatorial race Is given a new in
terest by the views of the aspirants for
and against silver. The fight will be
made on those lines.
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THE funeral Of ex-United States Sem
ator James +. Wilson took place at
Fairfield. la.
GOVERNORS OF all the states and ter
ritories viii be asked to aid in secur-
ing money to erect a suitable monu-
ment over the grave of Francis Scott
Key, the author of the ''Star Spangled
Banner" whose remains are buried in
Frederick, Md.
LIGHTNING killed F. G. Anderson at
Valley Springs, 5. d., and Jacob How.
ard met a like fate at Luverne, MINI.
c. w. ROWE DISAPPEARED from Monte
yuma. Ia, taking with him, it was al
legged, about $4,000 of the funds of
Powesheik county.
A NOR hanged George Rag, a dis
reputable negro. near Jensonton, Ky.
THE midwinter fair broke john
Rigoulot and he started to walk from
san Francisco to New Orleans, his
home.
THs village of Curryville In Pike
county, Mo-, was almost destroyed by
FIRE.
C. ID. WILDER, consul general of
Hawaii. and United States Secret Serv-
ice Agent Harris were warned of con-
spiracy on foot in San Francisco to
overthrow the Hawaiian government
by means of another revolution.
IL a jealous rage Charles Stanley
shot and fatally wounded his wife at
Los Angeles, Cal, and then killed him
self. The couple had been married
only three months.
Ds.I.x u. ~ Aavx.,,l,s-
Tenn, gold was discovered. 1t was
plentifully mixed with platinum.
IN storm on the Rappahannock in
Virginia ten men two white and eight
Jlored) were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of canoe at Burnham's wharf.
THF relief commission of Nebraska
announced that calls for aid had closed,
ana that further contributions were
not needed.
AT Abbeville. S. G., Sloan Hurst (col-
oredl, who shot and killed Lemly Rap
" December 3, 1894, was hanged.
A the age of % years DIR. Frederic
Andres. vino was the first practicing
physician to locate west of the Missis-
siPS. river, died in Minneapolis.
JAMES CoSYERs and William Wilson,
farmers near Carlisle, KY, engaged in
a fight with revolvers and both were
fatally wounded.
IN Rockford, Ill, George Jacob
Schweinfurth, the alleged Christ, was
found guilty of adultery by the grand
jury and in default of 81, 600 bond was
confined IA the county Jail.
AT Port Tampa, Fla, Edward Tucker,
a merchant, was taken from his house
and Numerically whipped by fem
mime white caps for abusing his wife.
NEAR Autrain, Mich, Mrs. Mary
Post, her daughter. Mrs. Pat Finley.
and little Ethel Finley were drowned
in the river.
On May rs Ohio republicans will hold
their state convention at GAINESVILLE.
DISPATCHES from st. Johns, n. D.,
say that / 800 Indians and half-breeds
were on the warpath, and that 700
women and children were In tents on
the prairie.
IN Milwaukee Robert Luscombe, ex-
! assistant city attorney, and one of the
best-known lawyers, shot and killed
his brother-in-law. Emil A. Sanger, be-
cause Sanger abused his wife.
THE 18th anniversary of Gen. Grant
was celebrated in Chicago, Mrs. Grant
and her daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, being
present at the ceremonies.
AT Rome, Ga, the Merchants ma
tional bank closed its doors. The bank
had capital of Sl00,0OO
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Can't act In Russia.

LONDON, April ga dispatch from
Vienna says that the Russian govern
ment has expelled Nine. Modjeska. the
well-known actress, from Warsaw.
February % an order was issued by
the Russian government forbidding
Nine. Modjeska TO fill an engagement
at the Warsaw theater Il consequence
of a speech Of severe criticism she
she had delivered in Chicago during
the worlds fair She had said t..at it
was she. the Polish woman, "wGO had
preserved patriotism and honor L.
spite of Siberia. AMI. what is worse.
the lash. TO the everlasting disgrace Of
the Russian government"
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TRAGEDY IN CHICAGO.
a Missing Mans Body Pound In the Rive

A Missing Mans Body Found In the River
-ssu-ptSrOus Out Play.
CHICAGO, April 20. The horribly dis
figured and partially decomposed body
of George W. Ebersol, who disappeared
election night, April 2, was found
Sunday in the Chicago river at
the foot of Dearborn street.
The last time ELersol was seen alive
was II o'clock that evening, when he
parted with his brothers. Charles and
John, at Dearborn and Randolph streets.
after having taken the first masonic
degree in the Masonic temple. The
police will not say whether the mutt
lations were caused by ting boats or an
assassin's knife. The police are divided
between the theory of robbery and re-
venge. Some time ago Ebersol dis
charged several employees from the
George NJ. Clark stove works, of which
he was foreman.
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KILLED HIS eRoTHsR-IN-LAw.
Ex-City Attorney Luscomb. of Milwaukee
shoots Emil sanger.

MILw AUKEE, April %. Emil Sanger
brother of Walter Sanger, the bicy-
clist, was shot and killed by Robert
Lusconlb, ex-city attorney, at a
late hour Saturday night and
Luscomb is in jail. Sanger and
Luscomb are brothers-in-law and
there has been bad blood in the
family ior a number of years. Sanger's
wife is sister of Luscomb. Saturday
night she sought shelter in Luscombs
house. claiming her husband was ill
treating her. Sanger went to LUIS
combs house. sought admission, and
Luscomb thereupon shos him through
plate-glass door with a double-bar-
relied shotgun. The charge entered his
head, killing him instantly.
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NOTED MEN TO TALK.
Southern Leaders Soon to BE Heard at
Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 2s.-The cur
rency and banking conference to be
held in Memphis May % promises to
be one of the greatest economical
conventions ever held in the south.
Present indications are that every city
of Importance in the southern states
will send delegates and that the dis
cussion of finance and banking will
be participated in by many popular
leaders. Three hundred invitations
have been sent TO commercial bodies
and 500 personal invitations have been
extended. The responses have been
general. John g. Carlisle. secretary
of the treasury, has accepted the invi-
tation to address the convention.
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Tnnnruned.

MADRID, April 29.-The report that
the Alliance affair mas been settled r.
Spain's conceding the American claims,
is confirmed officially. The Spanish
government win give honorable salts
faction for the mistake and admits that
the Alliance was outside her territorial
waters when the Condo de Venadite
fred upon her commanders of war
ships in Cuban caters have been in
structed preciseIyf not to fire on yes
sells outside the lie limit.