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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02
BECOMES A MURDERER.
Postmaster Pace. of Weldon, Ill, Kills a
Legislator.

Weldon, ILL.,, Dec. 30.-Postmaster
John A. Pace shot and killed DIR. w. III.
TAYLOR, member of the Illinois legisla-
tuIe, in the post office here at eight
p. m. Sturday because of family
troubles. People who were on the street
at that hour in the vicinity of the post
office heard the shots. Then they saw
Postmaster Pace dash out of the door
and run down the street, revolver in
hand. CHANGING 70 meet the town mar
shall he stopped and said that he had
shot DIR. Taylor. The marshal rushed
to the post office and found Taylor lying
in the back room of the office with his
own revolver clutched in his right hand.
Postmaster Pace explained that he
was working at his desk, when he heard
the back door open and saw DR.. Taylor
standing at, or near the inner door. lead
ing to the main Office. He demanded of
Pace a letter written by PAGES wife to
Pace; and, the postmaster declares. also
offered to give him $500 to withdraw a
suit now pending for damages for
breaking up his camily. Pace ordered
him out of the Office, saying he wanted
nothing to do with him.
Taylor then drew revolver and said
he would blow PAGES brains out if he
did not give up the paper. He went on
TO say that he had come there to talk
with him and was going to stay. Pace
went to the desk apparently to get his
papers, and, reaching into his drawer,
got his revolver. 1t is self-cocker.
He began at once to fire and Taylor fell
dead near the back door of the Office.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland rendered places
on the Venezuela high commission to
Edward j. Phelps. Of Vermont. and
Rober- L. Lincoln. of Illinois. both ex-
ministers to England.
In the United States railv ay build
ing reached this year a lower point
than in any of the last 20 years, the
record showing only l.7S2miles of trach
laid.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses i'm the United States during the
week ended on the 27th aggregated 81,
l44.92S, 2O2, against s1,ls5, 267.e2o the
previous week. The increase. com
pared with the corresponding week III
1891. was 800.
In the United States tie total number
of failures in 1895, as reported to Brad
streets. is 1903. contrasted with IL
52i in 1894. The total amount of liza
biIities amounted to S15s, S42,4 45. NOR,
than $4,000, 600 in excess of the total IL
1891
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WEST AND souTH.

The covered bridge over thu ScotIo
river at Chiliicothe. o., was burned
by mcendiaries, Ell failing a loss of
10000.
Lena Thomas and Ella Scott fought
at Puerta Gorda, Fla, with pistol and
IA dagger over Henry Cassidy. whom
both loved, and both were fatally
wounded.
The home of William Jones vas
washed away by high waters at Edo
RADIO Springs, Mo, and he and his wife
and three children were drowned.
Ina many cities, towns and hamlets
in Utah the Goth anniversary of the
birthday of the Mormon prophet,
Joseph Smith, was celebrated.
At UTeenshurg, Ind. Mrs. Margaret
King celebrated her 10th birthday am
ni,ersary Christmas day by giving
dinner to 100 OF her descendants.
The doors OF the Exchange bank at
Even. Mich. were closed.
In cit of jealousy John Winningcr,
labOrer, shot his wife probably ia
tally a; 0ttumwa, Ia. and then blew
out his own brains.
At Des Moines. la. the Lewis Invest
ment company made an assignme &,
with liabilities of 100000
In the Usage river in Missouri a rise
of IS feet made the entire Usage valley
for 400 miles a scene of desolation and
ruin. hundreds of families losing every
thing.
At Akron, o., Frank Mitchell (col-
oredl celebrated his i92d birthday.
Fire destroyed the Lawrence reduc-
ton works at Victor. Col; loss, S125,000.
4. Il. Stricklands livery harm with
40 head of horses and 200 vehicles was
burned at Burlington. Ia
From the effects of coal gas John
IL Baulsbaugh and his wife, who re-
side near Swatara, Ia. were found dead
in their room.
Fire destroyed the building in Balti-
more occupied by the firm of Oehm &
Co. as clothing store, the loss beng
+ $500. OOO-
l In a freshet near Sterling City, Tex,
seven persons were drowned.
The remains of Harry t. Hayward.
! who was executed december IL at
Minneapolis for the murder of Catherine
Cling. were shipped 10 Chicago for ere
nation.
Nearly all the business portion AMI
many residences at Ryan, l. T., were
destroyed 10y fire.
In Denver John IL. Hustled. worth
/ $500. 900. committed suicide through au
I insane fear that Le was about to lose his
Z fortune.
Z Lille Baptiste and Mable Harris wer ;
drowned at Sturgeon Bay, Wis, While
I skating.
At Youngstown, o.. Charles Dunn
confessed TO robbing and burning four
schoolhouses.
In san Francisco the Porter Bros. com
pany. the largest. dealers in dried fruits
on the Pacific coast, failed for over ST.
| 100000.
William and John Noonan and Ed
ward Mulcahy lost their lives in plan.
/ ing-miIl fire at Ashland. Wis.
For "a hours tine entire Ohio valley
WIS swept by storms of rain and slec'
and the telegraph service to the east
south ami southeastwas badly crippled
The downfall extended from Vicksburg
Miss. to Montreal. Can. and as fas easl
Is Washington and New York.
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THE EAST.

Mrs. Joseph Fagnant presented her
husband with a pair of daughters at
tsreenville, n H., and with this Christ
mas present Fagnant is the father of
- children.
Mrs. Sarah Lovett died at Nashua.
y. H.. aged LOG years A brother died a
few years ago, aged 15, and OF l / broth
ers and sisters al but one lived TO be
over 90.
Lord Dunraven arrived in New York
to make good his allegations of fraud in
the Nalky rie-Defender races of last Sep
TENDER.
The loss was feared of the schooner
Edna NJ. Champion, which sailed from
Philadelphia on October II fO@ Por'
Tampa. Fla, with a crew of nine men.
Andrew Lawrence, Bart Tormey ano
William Girard were instantly killed by
an explosion of dynamite at the Mines
Vile Pa colliery.
Every window glass manufactury In
the United States will close down jan
uary II for four weeks.
FLAMES wiped out the large feed
stores and grain warehouses of II. ID.
Eaton at Norwich, y. y. the loss being
SiU1. 900.
4 receiver was chosen for the Sweet
Manufacturing company, the leading
steel industry in Syracuse, \. \. The
liabilities were 100000.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Near Dungarven, ireland, the Brit
ish ship Moresby was stranded and
Capt. Coomber and his wife and son
and IS sailors were drowned.
The Venezuelan government ordered
that the national militia be recruited
from all classes of citizens.
OF Cabot island, n. F., the coasting
schooner Victory toundered and 81 per-
sons persisted.
Dispatches from San Salvador say
that soldiers, who were dissatisfied
with their treatment, shot and killed q
officers.
At the entrance of the harbor at AL
giers the British steamer Bellercphon
collided with and sunk the French
steamer Emile selsise and 80 passep-
gers of the Emile Selsise were droa ned.
The government of Manitoba positive
ly refused the proposal of the Canadian
government to establish a system of
separate schools in any form.
The cruiser Kwan-Ping was wrecked
en- the Pescadore islands and nearly al
her deck officers and 90 men were miss
ing.
In Canada and Newfoundland the
total number of business failures re
ported for the calendar year just closed
is 1923, or so more than in 1894, while
the aggregate liabilities are Sl5.793..
$50. as compared with S23,9s5,2s3.
Dispatches say that the bayonet and
scimeter were still welded mercilessly
l.y the Turk and Kurd in Armenia, and
the powers were again in fever over
the situation.
At Yokohama the japanese parlia-
ntcnt was opened and IN his speech the
emperor said that order had been re-
stored in Formosa and that the rela-
tions of Japan with foreign countries
| had become more intimate.
The United States had, il was said,
demanded from the porte the payment
of a large indemnity for the losses sus-
/ tanned by American missionaries in
! Asia Minor.
Fire destroyed Hepworth's clothing
| factory at Leeds, England, entailing u
loss of 100000.
En- route from Baltimore to Antwerp
| the British steamer Morse King lost $50
sheep and six horses during gale.
At his home in London, Ms. Gladstone
celebrated his s6th birthday.
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LATER MEMS


Senator Perkins the 30th introduced
a Nicaraguan canal bill in the senate.
II provides that the capital stock shall
consist of 100000 shares at 500 each.
Justice Brewer, of the supreme court,
has been rendered and has accepted a
place on the Venezuelan commission. The
first named wash. II. Alvery, chief justice
of the United States court of appeals
i'm the District of Columbia. He has
not accepted yet.
y report from St. Petersburg says
that Russia and France have actually
promised diplomatic support to the
United States in the Venezuela trouble,
and adds that Russia is prepared to
facilitate the United States loan with
her own gold reserve.
A cargo of 20 locomotives sailed from
Philadelphia the 30th consigned to the
Russian government.
Heavy winds did considerable damage
at Denver, Colo. and vicinity, the Both.
Two passenger trains, one of which
was an hour late, collided the night of
the 30th near Coal City, IA miles from
Cincinnati. o. Fireman Wilson and an
persons injured Both engines and ex-
press cars were totally wrecked.
Near Bainbridge. o.. the 30th. VIM.
Everhart shot and killed Arthur Jones.
Everhart said he bet Jones he conld
shoot his hat off his head without hurt.
ing him. Jones won the bet
A negro was detected carrying off two
horseblankets from the Union market
at St Louis. Mo, the 30th, and the cry
of lynch him" went up. A crowd OF
angry men seized him. bound his wrists,
put rope around his neck and strung
him up But the negro had nerve. anG
while his tongue was protruding from
from his mouth aa.d his eyes bullying
out. he freed his hands. and with big
knife he had in his pocket he cut the
rope. ran like a deer and escaped
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury the 30th was S64. 204,65l.
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Five Indians, driven to desperation
10y hunger. ambushed and killed thre :
Americans who were working in the
gold fields in the state of Sonora, y. NJ.
and cooked and ate their bodies.
The warden of the state peuiten
tiary at Frankfort, KY, discovered a
nest Of ccunterfeiters in the prison.
At East St. Louis. ILL.,. Prof. Charles
III. Thompson, principal of the colored
schools, shot his wife because she
would not live with him and then killed
himself.
In Lexington, Ky. Leslie Combs. the
largest tobacco grower in the world.
and his father-in-law. Daniel Swigert.
the most successful retired breeder of
thoroughbreds in America, failed for
100000.
Kentucky is the name Of the twin
sister of the new battleship Kearsarge.
Al Charleston, Mo-. and vicinity the
fourth earthquake shock since October
81 was felt.
In the United States court at ParE-
ersburg. W. Va, Judge Jackson held
that pension money could not be at
tached or levied on for debt.
In baltimore "a persons were smoth-
cred and trampled to death in panic
caused by a false alarm of fire IN the
Front Street theater. Two others were
fatally hurt and ten more were serious
ly injured.
In st. Joe. Ind, the last saloon was
wrecked by unknown persons.
The Usage valley was a scene of desc
lation from end to end and thousands
of people were in distress. Many were
homeless, without food and but scantily
clad. all their earthly possessions hav.
ing been swept away by the mos. dis
astrous flood ever known in Central and
southwest Missouri.
In st. Louis trust was formed that
viii unite all the zinc smelters of the
country except four under one manage
Iaent.
Near Livingston, KY. mob burned
Mrs. 4. = West alive and killed w. A.
Dever, her paramount, at Mrs. Vests
house. The killing of Mr.. West recent
~ by Dever was the cause.
Because of domestic scandal DIR. w.
II. Taylor. member of the Illinois leg
" Slto1 hAiAC0 at NfttAOlAs
H., by John a. Pace, the postmaster.
lace was acquitted by coroner's jury.
The three great silver orga nizations
of the United States-the American
Bimetallic league, National Bimetallic
union and National Silver committee
were consolidated as the American
Bimetallic union at a meeting in Chica-
go and Gen. A. j. Warner, of Ohio, was
elected president.
At Cairo, ILL.,, the plant of the Chicago
Mill & Lumber company was burned.
the loss being 100000.
Counterfeiters were found in Bond
county, north of Carlyle. ILL.,, making
good limitations of the five dollar gold
piece dated 1850.
Frank Rogers, while drunk, Ettaiiy
shot Alice McClelland at Cochransville,
w. Va, because she refused to marry
him and then killed himself.
While returning home in carriage
from party Charles Vanbuskirk. aged
-. and Maude Bond, aged 16, were IN.
stantly killed by the cars near BenlSel-
man, Neb.
In a railroad crossing wreck near
Des Moines, Ia, eight persons were in
.iured.
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HE KEPT HIS CANE.
And the Honest Bankrupt Found 1t Well
Lined with Bank Bills.


It was under some of the earlier
bankrupt laws that this exhibition of
rare shrewdness occurred, when it was
required that in case of mans in
solvency he must turn over TO the
proper officer of the law every bit of his
property for the benefit of his cred
itors. The subject of this story, says
the Syracuse Post, was yet a young
man, and wealthy, when misfort IL
overlook him and failure was IneT..-.
BILE. Some of his property VS. real
estate, some of IL was not, ne latter
consisting of securities easily converted
into currency. A nice little D.ndie of
bank bills could be more sa-ely ham
died than certificates of stocA. etc.
When the time came. being an honO.
able man, he conscientiously surren-
dered his entire effects, even a tubular
cane, from which the handle could be
disjointed, the gift of an admiring
friend. After handing the walking
stick to the official, thus satisfying the
law. he suggested its re urn. 1t was
a present from a friend, and could be
OF little value to anyone but himself as
memento.
Certainly" said the officer, take 1t.
It's of no use to u.s."
Thanks. III prize it highly"
Some time afterward, in his quiet
home, the shrewd financier disjointed
the handle and removed from his tubu-
lar depository several thousand dollars
Of well-crumpled bank bills.
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THE SENATE COMMITTEES.
List of Chairmen-Populists Well Taken
Care OF.


Care OF.
Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Mitch
ell (Ore) will to-day present to the
senate the list of committee assign
Iaents. The chairmen are all repub-
leans with the exception of those of
the following committees:
Contingent expenses of the senate.
Jones (pop.); engrossed bills, Cockrell;
(dem); private land claims, Harris (dem };
mines and mining, Stewart (pop.); revo-
lutionary claims. Pugh tdem); expendi-
lures of executive departments. Butler
(pop); Epidemic diseases, Vest (dem.);
to examine branches OF civil service,
PETER (pop); to investigate Potomac river
front at Washington, George (dem.) Mica
ragua canal and Nicaragua claims, Nor
gan (dem.); woman suffrage, Call (dem.)
five civilized Indian tribes, Gray (dem.) (;
transp ortation and sale of meat products.
Blackburn (dem); to establish university
of the United States, Kyle pop): forest
reservations and protection of game, AL
len (pop).
Following are the republican chair
men:
Appropria lions, Allison: finance, Nor
rill; foreign relations, Sherman; judiciary.
Hoar; commerce, Frye: interstate COM
merce, Cullom military affairs, Haw-
Aldrich; privileges. and elections.
Mitchell: public buildings and grounds.
Quay; public lands. Dubois; Indian affairs.
Pettigrew: claims. Teller; coast defense.
Squire: census, Chandler; District of Co
lumbia, Mcmillan; education and labor.
Shoup; enrolled bills. Sawell; territories.
Davis Pacific railroads. Gear; patents.
Platt; pensions. Gallinger: post offices and
post roads, Wolcott; agriculture and for
estry, Proctor; printing, Hale: library,
Bansbrough; manufactures. Wetmore;
fisheries, Parkins: civil service. Pr.tchard (:
immigration, Lodge; Improvement of Mis-
sissippi river. Nelson; irrigation and re-
clamation of arid lands, Warren; rail-
roads. Clark; relations with Canada, Car
ter: revision of laws. Barrows: Indian
dopredations, Wilson; transportation,
routes to the seaboard Mcbride; inter-
national exposition; Thurston; geological
survey, Elkins; national banks. Mantle;
TO investigate trespass on Indian lands.
Baker.
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WAGES OF SIN is DEATH.
Striking Confirmation of the Old Proverb
i'm kentucky.

in Kentucky.
Lebanon, Ky, Dec. 30.--A mob IN
fiicted horrible vengeance on faithless
woman and her paramour Saturday
night when they burned Mrs. Il. j. West
alive and killed w. A. Dever, her para
mour, Fl Mrs. Vests house on Cart
wright's creek. on the Springfield pike,
three miles noi th of this city.
The mob is said to have numbered
about rs, and it was about II O'Clock
when they appeared at Mrs. Vests
house. Mrs. West. Dever and his little
daughter were the only persons in the
house, and when the mob called to
Dever TO come out Mrs. West aud the
little girl responded, but Dever re-
manned inside. just as Mrs. West
reached the door several shots were
fired at her and she ran back into the
house, but the child remained outside.
The mob then fired several shots in
the house, none of which took fleet,
and after several attem pts TO get Dever
to come out the mob fired the building.
The intense heat finally forced De-
yer out, and with pistol IN hand he start
eu 10 "a IL lew ST. - tfOih tiiS
house, where he took shelter behind a
corn shock and was shot to death. Mrs.
West persisted in the burning house.
and in the morning her remains were
found in the chimney, where she had
taken refuge. Her legs and the upper
portion of the body were almost entire
ly burned off. The little girl gave the
alarm Sunday morning, but neager in
formation can be gained from her.
The awful nights work and the hor-
rible result is simply the price 81 sun
w. A. Dever is the man who shot and
killed T. j. West, husband OF the
burned woman, at Beaver Green, on
Cartwright's creek, three weeks ago,
Dever had a preliminary hearing and
was released on the ground of @elf-de-
Tense. The killing is thought to have
been caused by intimacy on the part
of navar aud Vests wife
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The News Of the Week.
EY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
HFTNFouRTH coNoREss.


The Proceedings OF the First Session.
Washington, Dec. 2c.-The senate on
Tuesday repealed the proscriptiye dis
abilities bill passed at the close of the
war against the services of ex-confed-
crates in the United States army and
navy a RESOLUTION Was introduced u
coin the silver in the treasury and an
other urging the Latin-American union.
ia which all the republics of the west
eIn hemisphere would make common
cause against European encroachments.
In the house bill was introduced pro-
vidng for a duty on certain grades of
sugar.
Washington, Dec. 2T.-There WIS no
session of the senate yesterday. In
the house a revenue bill was passed
the operation of which is limited -
2Js years, and which is designed -
raise S40.OOO,OO0 for the relief OF the
treasury. The vote was yeas, 2O5. nays
81. and was on strictly party lines, II,
popuiists voting with the den scrats
against tie bill.
Washington, Dec. 2S.-The tariff bill
vas received in the senate yesterday
and referred to the finance committee
after a long debate. Mr. Quay lPa.J
introduced a bill TO increase the duty
on leaf tobacco. Mr.. Hill IN. " in
trodue, d a resolution providing that
amy, bonds hereafter issued may. in the
discretion of the secretary of the treas
ury. b. made payable in UAited States
gold coin or in standard silver dollars.
at the option of the holders. Without
action the senate adjourned to the
10th. In the house Mr.. Barrett (Mass.)
introduced a joint resolution authoriz-
ing the president to arrange a confer
euce between the United States and
nations possessing territory on the
American continent for the settlement
of boundary disputes. The bond bill
was discussed. but no action was taken.
Washington. Dec. 3O.-The senate
was not IN session on Saturday. IN
the house the bond bill was passed BY a
vote of 10 to 1876. The measure per
mits the issue of three per cent. coin
bonds redeenable after five years at
the pleasure of the government and
payable in Is years, with the specific
proviso that nothing in the bill shall
he construed to repeal the act of 1878.
for the reissue of the greenbacks, and
that the bonds shall first be offered for
subscription at the subtreasuries and
Repositories of the United States. Ad-
journed to the 3lst-
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ON A SECRET MISSION.
Special Envoy from Venezuela Arrives in
Washington.

Washington.
Washington, Dee. 30.-Venezuela has
sent a special commissioner TO the
United States. Senior forge Uslar ar
rived here Sunday afternoon and went
at once to the residence of Minister
Andrade, TO whom he presented the
papers entrusted to him by his govern
ment. There was story afioat to the
effect that Venezuela is not satisfied
with the eondGct of Minister Apdrode
and had decided upon his recall, and the
presence of the special envoy gave a
tinge of truth TO this statement.
When Intercepted as to the plrport
Of his visit to this country Senior Uslar
replied that he was the bearer of Inn
portant dispatches from the Nenezue-
Ian government to the United States
and his instructions were to communi
cate with the diplomatic representa-
tive of his government as soon as Wash
ington was reached. This he had done.
but he was not at liberty to divulge the
contents of his communication, which
had an important bearing upon the
present boundary dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela.
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.Inke Prnved Fatal

Double Springs. Ala, Dee. 2c.-Archie
Fletcher and his cousin. Joseph
Wheeler, went hunting Saturday. Re
turning at dinner time to Fletcher's
house without Fletcher, Wheeler was
asked by Mrs. Fletcher where her hus-
band was. Jokingly, Wheeler pointed
to his gun and said: 1T went off ac-
cidentallv and killed Cousin Archie. :
Mrs. Fletcher screamed and fell to the
--assF- In "a moment her heart ceased 20
beat and doctor hastily Summoned
pronounce her dead. Fletcher. who had
merely tarried at a neighbor's on the
way home. returned shortly afterwards.
lie is now looking for Wheeler. who has
fled for parts unknown.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


A great stir Was caused in real es-
tate circles in Kenosha and among the
farmers of the county by a well-found-
ed report that over 1000 titles TO prop
erty in the city and county are not per-
feet. An attorney was in kenosha
from Washington, and he brought alb
straets from the patent Office 10 show
that the patents had never been issued
in over 1000 cases. In the original
preemptiug of the property the land
Office in Milwaukee issued duplicate
certificates, but not patents. The
holders of the certificates never applied
for patents and the titles still rest with
The government
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GRAND ARMY posts in Pittsburgh
have inaugurated a movement for the
preservation of war records of veterans
all over the country. 1t is intended TO
suggest the formation of a national
grand army museum at Washington
and also district museums at various
points in the United States, so that
valuable information may be preserved
Cor r,osterifv