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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-11-28
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Burglars broke into the post Office ~
Summit. y. J.. blew open the safe and
secured over 5000 worth of stamps
and $500 in cash.
The Silk Association of America at a
meeting IN New York advanced the
price of twisted silk five per &C
David j. Hill. president of the Uni
versity of Rochester. y. ", resigned TO
take effect a; the close of the present
college year.
The Edna NJ. Champion, schooner
which sailed from Philadelphia October
II for Port Tampa, Fla. was given up
as lost with her crew of nine men.
At Auburn, y. Y, Mrs. Mary r. Me
MILAN was found guilty of making
counterfeit twO-cent postage stamps
ard was sentenced to- the Erie county
pcnitentiary for Is months.
At the National Hardware associa-
TONS convention in Pittsburgh resolu-
tions were adopted asking the repub-
lican and democratic national commit
tees TO make the presidential campaign
one of three instead of six months
at Troy, y. Y, the Morning Tele-
gram, established in 1853 as the Troy
Morning Wing, has suspended publica-
ton.
One hundred Armenians employed at
the Whiting machine works at Whithls-
vile. Mass. refused to work beca use
the firm would not discharge four
Turks.
In Philadelphia Christ church celc-
brated it's 2OOth anniversary. distin-
guished preIates from all over the coun-
try being present.
At Charlestown, Mass, Mrs. Phoebe
Woodward celebrated her lO2d birthday
anniversary.
In session at Pittsburgh, Pa. the Ma
tional Hardware association elected w.
W. Supplee. of Philadelphia, as presi-
dent.
a new comet was discovered by Prof.
Brooks, director of Smiths observatory
at Geneva, y. Y. This is The Goth comet
discovered by Prof. Brooks.
At Crystal Springs, Mass. Jack Var
borough. convicted of the murder -of
Josie Davis and sentenced TO the peni-
Tertiary for life, was taken from officers
by a mob and hanged.
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PLAN TO GET GOLD.
Secretary Carlisle Adopts an Unusual E1

Secretary Carlisle Adopts an Unusual tx
pedient.
Washington, Nov. 25.-An important
order was on Saturday issued by the
treasury department. with the purpose
of giving the banks and people through
out the country an opportunity to re-
plenish the gold reserve. The order re-
9Hires subtreasurers to pay the express
charges both ways on deposits of gold
in exchange for notes, and also modi-
fics the existing regulations concern
ing under-weight and mutilated coins
Heretofore depositors of such coins
have been compelled to pay express
charges on the money, which was
treated as bullion, and TO wait until
the mints had ascertaIned the exact
value thereof before they could get
their payment. Now the subtreasur-
ers will Immediately weigh such coins,
deduct four cents for each troy grain
of shortage and promptly pay the de-
positors the full value thus ascertained.
1t is the belief of the treasury officials
that the result of this order will be an
immediate and cordial addition II the
governments store of gold by means
of deposits from banks and individuals.
Secretary Carlisle, while in New York
last week was advised by prominent
bankers TO remove all obstacles and eX-
pcnse which have prevented the ex-
change of gold for legal tender notes.
It was the belief of these bankers that
many banking institutions and very
large number of individuals would.
10 a
posits of gold. These bankers and also
many business men told the secretary
the people were interested in mainten-
ance of the gold reserve; that the in
tegrity of the reserve was of great inn
portance TO the business and banking
community, and that if given an OPP
poItunity, without cost 10 themselves
or veXations delays, the people would
gladly come TO the rescue of the treas
airy in it's hour of need.
Secretary Carlisle was much i'm
pressed by this argument, and on his
return 10 Washington satisfied himself
that he had authority under the laws,
and then laid the matter before the
president. Mr.. Cleveland at once recog-
nized the Importance of the plan and is
said to have expressed great confidence
in the willingness of the banks and of
private citizens in all parts of the coun-
try to come to the assistance of the gov
eminent i'm its efforts to maintain the
golt reserve at the traditional minimum
of 500. OOO. coo, which has the rccogni-
ton of the statutes in the act of July
IL, 1852. The order was decided on at
Fridays cabinet meeting and was is
s1ed Saturday afternoon.
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COST FIVE LIVES.
Big Building in Chicago Burns-Firemen
Buried by Failing Walls.

Big Building in Chicago Burns-Firemen
Buried by Failing Walls.
Chicago. Nov. 23.-A lire, disastrous
TO life and property, swept through the
dry goods and WOODEN exchange Friday
morning, terrible sequel to the Canal
street confiagration thursday night,
which by curious coincidence were sep
arated only by the river and almost OPP
posite each other. Five firemen, while
in the active discharge of their duty,
under orders and totally unconscious
of danger, were carried through floor
and buried under tons of wreckage
from the five floors above. -Four of the
men lie dead and the fifth was not seri-
ously injured. One girl fell from a
window and received injuries from
which she died. A dozen other men,
women and girls were hurt or overcome
by smoke and many were rescued from
imminent death. The property loss to
the building at 2l5-2l7 NGu Buren
street and 27G-27s Franklin street and
contents is estimated at 100000.
The dead are:
Patrick J. O'Donnell Lieutenant of engine
company No. 2. 2S40 Wallace street.
Thomas j. Prencergast. pipeman, SO2;
Butler street.
Martin Sherlock. 1888 Lowe avenue. pipe
man.
John Downs pipeman, 2S5S Wallace street
kate Landgraf. S02 North Halsted street,
employed in A. Stein & Co. S garter factory
Among the injured were:
Daniel McNally, pipeman. 724 31st street,
rar uFrp a :
hospital; spfained Lex and bruises.
Olga Keller. 5l5 North Ashland avenue,
leg and arm injured
Harry O'Neill, 1929 Van Buren street. arm
broken and back injured
Nellie Turner, 209 North Center avenue
fell from fourth-story window and seriOus-
ly hurt.
John Bruenheimer, badly injured by fall
ing from fourth story while assisting girls
to escape.
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The attendance was large and the meet
ing was full of enthusiasm.
Birmingham, Ala. Nov. 23.-Eugens
v. Debs' release from the Woodstock
tIlll Jail was celebrated here Friday
night by mass-meeting in the Winnie
PAWS wigwam under the auspices of the
birmingham Trades council. Fifteen
hundred men and women attended.
Judge Woods Defed.
Terre Haute, Ind. Nov. 25.-"When
Judge Woods says the courts do not in
effect restrain men from striking, I
charge that he utters knowingly aud
willfully a falsehood. If this be con
tempt OF his contemplate court, let him
make the most of it. propose TO as.
sert my rights. to speak the truth nd
arraign iniquity in high places, if end
my career in a hangman's moose"
Eugene V. Debs made the foregoing
statement with emphasis Saturday
night at : meeting in the armory given
by his friends on his return from Wood
stock Jail. He was abiding to an al
legged interview with the federal judge.
The audience cheered the def heartily
and assured Mr.. Debs that he was not
born to stretch hemp.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The cruiser Minneapolis was ordered
TO sail for Smyrna, Asia Minor. to as
Sist i'm protecting the lives of American
missionaries and other subjects of the
United States in the districts now he
ing ravished by the Mohammedaa
fanatics.
\ boiler and magazine explosion on
the troop ship Kung Pal at Kin Chow.
China. sent 600 men TO death.
The insurgents defeated the Spanish
troops in battle near Santa Clara, 500
of the latter being killed and wounded
The insurgents loss was small.
The Chinese papers are bitter i'm their
attacks on the japanese authorities in
Corea, whom they blame for the muir
der of the queen. They say that there
were Is women of title in the court, the
queen, her mother and $50 ladies i'm
and burned.
In Canada Thanksgiving day was OBJ
served on the 2lst.
At the age of 20 years Sir Henry Pom.
sonby, formerly private secretary 10
Queen Victoria and keeper of the priv y
purse. died at Cowes.
Cornelius V. A. Nandyrl1. the trans
lator of the Bible into Arabic, and per-
haps the foremost Arabic scholar i'm
the world. died suddenly in Beyruth,
Syria, aged 60 years. lie was a native
of undertook. n. Y.
Dispatches from Turkey say that the
: kurtls destroyed 20 villages i'm the
northwestern portion of the district
of Aieppo. and the 10000 inhabitants
were masSacrcd.
The we.l-knowh ladies' tailor. John
Redfern, whose reputation is world
wide. died in London.
a sharp shock of earthquake oc-
CURED in the City of Mexico. and water
pipes were broken and few houses
were destroyed.
dead bodies of five men. two of whom
were Americans, were discovered in a
wild section of the Sierre Madre noun
tains near Mazatlan, Mexico. 1t was
supposed they died of starvation.
The Cuban insurbgents captured q
SDauiSh fart aft Santa Clara
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WITH OPEN ARMS.
Eugene v. Debs Warmly Wei
coined on His Release.
Enthusiastic Demonstrations at Wood
stock and Chicsgo-The Labor Leader
Delivers an Address in the
Latter City.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-Eugene V. Debs
for five minutes Friday afternoon was
literally lin the hands of his friends"
Ii was Just after the arrival of the train
load of enthusiastic admirers of the
great strike leader at the little town of
Woodstock where he again breathed
the air of freedom for the first time in
half year. They had marched from
the railroad depot to the Jail, and Dcbs
stood on the steps awaiting them.
There was a preliminary thunder of
hurrahs and then the storm of bottled
up admiration broke. and there was a
scene which has hardly ever be, du-
picated in the annals of labor affairs.
Without giving him chance TO
speak the crowd rushed upon their
hero. dragged him from the steps and in
a few moments had him high in the air.
Those who had the good fortune to
reach him first were not long allowed
the privilege of holding him, and he was
passed from hand to hand while all the
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a JOKER JAILED.
How He Was Brought tn Book for

NOW ne Was Brought tn Book for q
Mean Trics..
The sac story lately told in the Youths
Companion Of a newsboy who lost his
life as the result of practical joke. so
called, reminds correspondent of an
incident thar took place : few years
ago In a city of Tennessee.
A poor little girl was peddling apples
IN railway station. A train was about
starting, and almost at the last moment
tall. ruffianly passenger stepped OF.
the car steps and called for fifteen
cents worth oi the apples. The girl
counted them out, the man took them.
and then, as he moved toward the car.
began feeling in his pocket as if for the
money. The change was not forth
coming, he was on the steps. the train
began to move. the girl ran eagerly
after IL, and there stood the man on the
platform, laughing ct her
BY good luck. the mayor OF tho
city happened 20 be among the bvstand-
ers-a war veteran, with a tender heart
and contempt for all meanness. He
ran at once TO the superintendent Of
fee, and said:
"I'll give you hundred dollars to
stop that train and have it backed into
the station"
The offer was promptly accepted. a
telegram was dispatched, and very soon
the player OF the joke found himself
in the hands of the police. He paid the
girl her fifteen cents, of course. and of
fered 10 pay her good deal more; but
the officers were memorable. and TO the
qualification of the lool1ers-on he was
marched of TO jail
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Flames that started in the Excelsior
building in Chicago. owned by Warren
Springer. destroyed property valued at
S5OO.UOO.
Eugene V. Debs. the president of the
American Railway union. was relea sei
from the Jail at Woodstock, H., after a
confinement of six months.
a mob hanged Charles llurd. neg~o
who killed Joseph ID. Kelley at Wart-
burg. Tenn.
Fire destroyed ten business houses
anC one dwelling at Geneva. Ind. ara
Oliver Martin was in Jail charged with
having caused the fire.
Florence English and Amanda Cody
were hanged at Warrenton. Ca. for the
murder az the Cody woman's husband.
Florence is man.
Flames in the Exchange building in
Chicago caused loss of over $500. 900
and Patrick J. O'Donaell, Martin Sher-
rick, John Downs and John Prender-
CAST, all firemen, and Kitty Landgraf
wer burned TO death.
In Chicago Eugene V. Debs was given
reception upon his arrival from the
Woodstock Jail and spoke TO a large
audience in Battery ID, his subject being
Liberty"
The firm of Winebrenner Brothers,
oy ster packers in Baltimore, made an
assignment with liabilities of over
100000.
4 new census of Wisconsin shows
the total percentage of foreign-born
/ population of the state 10 be 27.O4.
In cabin al Stony Point. Ky, Nancy
and Fannie Armstrong and Mollie Whit
ney (all colored) were burned to death.
In the United States court i'm Chicago
n jury awarded $685. 900 damages IN favGr
of Wilbur +. Davidson against the llli-
nois Central railroad. Davidson was
I injured for life by freight train
I'm fire which destroyed their bran
dy distillery near Danbuiy. \. C., Thorn
+ as M.tbe, and has two sons were burned
I fatally.
/ Al his home in Lexington, KY.
1 George Harris, the original of "Uncle
/ Tom" i'm Mrs. Stoves novel. is IN desti'
tute circumstances. lie will soon be
81 years cid.
/ The smallest woman in Ohio, Miss
/ Ella Tickle. was buried at Miamisburg.
She was 33 years old. 30 inches high, and
weighed only 81 pounds.
In Chicago Rev. John Henry Barrows,
u. d.. pastor of the First Presbyterian
church for the past IA years. res yned
to become a lecturer on Christianity
! in India.
Hans Allen, a wealthy Norwegian
farmer near McGregor, Ia, killed Will
+ liam Cross. seriously shot a girl and
/ then committed suicide in fit of jeal.
! ousy.
/ David Callum, Thomas Davis and
I Mis- Nora Work were drowned while
crossing the Cumberland river near
/ Nashville, Tenn.
( Burglars entered the State bank at
/ Alpha, H., and secured S4,70O.
At Alley. Ga, Prof. Perdue, white
school teacher 60 years old, charged
with assaulting Miss Willie Grady, was
/ lynched by mob.
| Thomas Watts and John Richards,
negroes who robbed, murdered and
then burned the body of Miss Bagwell,
near Greenwood, S. g., were hanged by
/ a mob.
/ At Richmond, Va, the Gaithright-
/ Benton company. furniture dealers, as
/ signed, with liabilities of $1,000.
The firm Of Buyer & Reich, wholesale
dealers in fancy goods in San Francis
90, failed for 100000.
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LATER NEMa.


WIN. p. Boyce, arraigned at Sioux
City, To-, the 25th, for the murder OF
Constant Rousch, entered a plea of in,
sanity on account of cigarette habit.
The eighth annual convention of the
trans Mississippi Commercial congress
convened at Omaha, Neb., the 25th.
An earthquake shock, lasting Is sec
onds, was felt at Greeley, Colo, the
25th.
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury the 25th was $50, O73. 7s2.
Street car traffic had to be abandoned
at Madison, Wis, the night of the 25th
on account of a blizzard.
A negro tramp was caught trying to
wreck a train near Calvert City, KY.
the 25th. He was pursued into the
woods, where he was overtaken, rid
lied with bullets aud hanged to'a tree.
At the fair grounds at Macarthur, o.,
the night of the 25th, c. II. Bogers was
! ridden on a rail and afterward tarred
and feathered. Rogers offense was
speaking unexpectedly of a lady
school teacher.
A leper, in whom the disease was
well advanced, was found in New York.
The Populists of Indiana talk of run
ming f. V. Debs for governor.
In view of the statement from the
| deputy collector of customs at Lewis,
| Del. to the effect that a through search
had failed to discover arms. ammuni-
ton or men on board the Joseph W.
Foster, the secretary of the treasury
! the 25th ordered the vessels release.
The police raided the houses of the
Socialistic members of the German
reichstag and other leaders of the Sos
,ialistic party the 25th. A thorough
search wasSmade of their domiciles,
and all their letters and papers were
impounded and taken to the office of
The chief of police.
1t has been decided To remove he
body of Maj-Gen. Winfield : Hancock
to Arlington cemetery from Norris
town. Pa, where it has rested since
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-11-28
STATE FAIRS.
An Association Formed and "a Schedule of
Dates Fixed.

An Association Formed and Schedule of
Dates Fixed.
Columbus, o., Nov. 22.-Assistant
Secretary Fleming, of the state board
of agriculture, has returned from Chi
cago, where he went to attend meet
ing of representatives of the state fairs
OF the eastern and western circuits TO
arrange schedule of the fairs. The
representatives formed an association,
with X. L. Fnrnas, of Nebraska. presi-
dent, and j. 4. Fleming, OF Wisconsin,
secretary; j. W. Fleming, of Ohio; w.
G. Gerard. of Illinois, and j. Il. Fleming,
of Wisconsin, were made committee
To- prepare constitution. The follow
ing schedule was agreed upon: New
York, August 1924: Ohio, August 81 TO
September 5; Nebraska, same dates;
Iowa, September ZIP; Michigan, same
dates; Minnesota, September 14-l9;
Indiana. same dates; Wisconsin, Sep
TENDER 2l-2o; Illinois, September %
TO October }; St. Louis, October $40
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ACCORDING 10 Prof. a Ii. Sayce the
researches of the last few years con-
hIm a previously entertained idea that
Syria aud Palestine were under Baby
lOuian domination long before the days
of Abraham, aud certainly a century
before the exodus. Excavations car
ried on three years ago 10y Prof. Film
ders Fetrie have unearthed fragments
Of the dictionaries used by the seribes
in the Egyptian foreign office Among
the tablets recently discovered are
fragments of Baby lOnian stories which
had served as reading lessons to the
Egyptian or Canasnite student in the
EpNnfian lanuuare.
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AT a reception gwen To Mr. Peary in
New York by the American Geogra phi
cal society the explorer pointed out
that Arctic exploration must, like
everything else, be made . business and
carried OF from year TO year. prohting
from eac.i added item of experience.
lie said that his experience IA the last
two years had accentuated ms previous
belief IA small parties fOr Arctic work.
Thrown UVon the resources OI the cOun-
Try, the members of large parties would
only starse. This dangerous work -.
the direction OF the pole can never cease
TO De interesting SO long as business
methods go hama N nand with be.oism.
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EARNINGS OF RAILROADS.
Figures and Comparisons Given by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.

Figures and Comparisons Given by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Washington, Nov 25.-The Interstate
commerce commission has Just issued a
preliminary report on the income and ex-
penditures OF RAILWAYS i'll The lnItcd States
for the year ended June 30 1870 prepared
by the statistician. The report includes the
returns from 65O roads, whose reports were
Tiled on or before November 3, 1898, and COW
OF 80 per cent of the mileage in the United
States The gross earnings We're Sl.V05,-
o.. S53, of which 1923 455, 7s2 were from pas
svsger service, sos, W., $50 We're frCm freight
service, and Sc, ,595 were other earnings
from operation, covering earnings from
telegraph. car, mileage balances, switch
ing charges etc. The operating expenses
were $6isbIt,635, leaving net earnings Of
S{25, .2l6 as compared with net earnings
OF S32U. l5f.O,U Tor the same roads in 1884
Income from sources outside OF the opera
tons OF the roads was $50, O57.zi3, making
total Income available for the payment OF
fixed charges and dividends $55a. Az, SOL.
Total deductions from income. including
fixed charges, were S53G, SOL. $40, and diVi-
dends paid were S58,lS5,5 45, leaving a de-
felt from the operations of the year Of
ST. ora. 90 The dividends paid by the sd nae
ROADS tho preceding year were SCI. 5o4.7S5.
Washington. Nov. 25.-The report Of
James White, superintendent of railway
mail service shows that curing the year
igT accidents occurred to railway post
and I7s injured while on duty. 1t is shown
that the service is becoming more and
more efficient OF the 1881, $4,000 pieces
distributed and redistributed but 1856. 6S2
errors occurred. being one error fc- each
S,oy5 pieces handled
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REVENUE LAW CHANGES.
Important Amendments Proposed bJ
Commissioner Miller.

Important Amendments Proposed by
Commissioner Miller.
Washington, Nov. 22.-lnternal Reve-
nue. Commissioner Miller. in his annual
report issued late Thursday afternoon.
makes number of important recon-
mendations in the line of new laws or
changes in existing revenue laws.
Among them are the following:
He recommends the amendment OF sec
ton 1885 so as to allow the use of fruits
other than apples. peaches and grapes for
distillation. This is desired in order TO ar
ford brandy dlstiliers the privilege OF dig
filling pears, prunes. apricots, oranges ana
other fruits tit for making brandy when
they desire to do SO. Great complaint
reached his office during last season, when
tbs early frost destroyed the orange crCr
I'm Florida. and Il was made clear that Il
the people had had the privilege Of disttll-
inc this fruit they would have realized a
considerable amount upon the crop. which
was rendered useless for any other pir-
pose. There seems to be no good reason
why the law should not be modined SO as
to meet this most reasonable demand.
The commissioner reserves for the last
mis- most important paragraph. namely, an
urgent demand Tor The repeal OF section 81
vi the revenue ACT OF 1884, allowing the use
OF alcohol free OF tax By manufacturers.
Gross abuses have already grown up under
this act and the government is deprived o!
large revenues.
The total receipts for the year were S143,
245.O11, a decrease OF S5,g2Z, 81 from last year.
The receipts were DIVIDED as follows;
Spirits ...........S 7y, S6Z,bz1 dec. S0,Ss6. 624
Tobacco ....,...... z9,7Ol3Ul lie. l,0sl. OOs
Fernent'd liquors si,bt0 9li Inc zzo'S2s
Oleomargarine -. l,4IJZll dec. Sl4 ~
The total cost of collecting the revenue
during the year was Si.l2l.6Ol, percentage
as compared TO revenue OF 2.SS per cent.
against 40 for the previous year. commits
stone Miller estimates that the revenue
for the present nsvaI year VIA assregate
Sl05, 000.OO0
The preliminary work of attempting
to enforce the income tax law cost the
government $4,000, as against $l7.OOO
income tax collected and now in proc
ess OF being refunded.