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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-04-16
WESI AND sOuIh.

A bill has become q law in Ohio provid.
ing that the heirs ofeny person Suffering
death at the hands of mob may secure
damages of $1,000 against the county
where the lynching occurs.
Fire ruined the cotton mills at Doug
lassville. Ca. the loss being SIPS, 00o.
The First district republican conven-
ton in Canton, Mo-, nominated Maj. T.
n. Clark for congress.
The republicans of the First district
of Oregon nominated Thomas ii.
Tongue for congress.
At the aye of So years Gustayus Koer-
uer, who was lieutenant governor OF
Illinois in 1852. died at Belleville.
Flames destroyed the business center
of Lyons. D.
Illinois prohibitionists in convention
at Springfield nominated a state ticket
with Hale johnson, of Newton, for gov
ernor. The platform favors woman
suffrage, free silver. civil service re
form. and reaffirms the position of the
party on the liquor question.
Ohio on and after July / next will in
fict capital punishment by electricity.
BY the capsizing of a beat near Cape
Henry. Va. Capt. John Faunce and his
son. Percy, of Washington, were
drowned with their crew of seven col.
ored men.
A new st. Louis directory gives that
city an estimated population of Gil PCS,
an increase of 145.059 since 1890.
Republicans of the Fifth Nebraska
district renominated E. J. Hainer for
congress.
at the age of Sc years Gov. John Z.
Jones, of Nevada, who has been Ill in
San Francisco for several months from
cancer of the stomach. died in that
city.
The republicans in the Ninth Illinois
district renominated x. r. Hit for con-
gress by reclamation.
The Oregon republicans in session at
Portland selected delegates to the st.
Louis convention for Mckinley. The
platform declares for both gold and sill
yer and the maintenance of values OF
the two metals.
The Ohio demo will meet in Co
lumllus on june % to select delegates to
the national convention
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a FATAL PLUNGE.
Terrible Disaster TO Freight Train Near
Bedford, Ind.

Terrible Disaster TO a Freight Train Near
Bedford, Ind.
Bedford, Ind April 14.-Five killed,
three wounded and one miraculous es-
cape from death was the result of an
accident on the Belt road near here Mon
day morning. The dead are: Charles
Ogden, conductor; James Shere, fire.
man; NJ. j. Nasterson, bridge carpen-
ter; Ed. Biyens, bridge carpenter;
Warren S. Lermond. bridge carpenter.
The injured: George Meinzer, engineer;
James Davis, bridge carpenter: Henry
Devault, brakeman. A freight train
composed of a road engine and fat cars
was coming to the city from the quar-
ries, near here. Just west of the MonoD
railroad tracks, about a mile distant,
is trestle, about 20 feet high. This
trestle is said to have been defective.
As the train ran onto the structure
there was an ominous creak. then great
crash, and in an instant the engine and
first car had toppled over and gone
crashing to the ground, from where,
with the sound of escaping steam, came
the cries of the men who were being
scalded to death or were having their
lives crushed out by the heavy debris.
Henry Devault, a brakeman, saw the
engine totter, and leaped from the car
Just in time to avoid being carried down
with his less fortunate companions. De
vault, though injured, gave the alarm,
and wreclxing train with physicians
was at once sent to the scene and the
work of rescue begun. The five dead
bodies were taken from the twisted and
distorted mass of wood and iron, some
of them being almost unacceptable.
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THE EAST.

Frank Mckinley was killed at Eliza
leth, n. j., by railway train in the pres
ence of his wife, to whom he had been
married less than an hour before.
At the age of O. years Robert Litteil,
the publisher of Littell's Living Age,
died at his home in BrookIine. Mass.
In western New York potatoes were
selling at two cents a bushel, and in
some places the farmers were giving
them away to get rid of them.
The death of Phillip G. KiIlian, the
union soldier who cut down the confed-
crate flag at Fort Sumter, occurred at
his home in Pittsburgh. Pa, aged Sc
years.
Rhode Island republicans in conven-
ton at Providence selected Reed dele
gates to the national convention and
adopted a platform in favor of GOLD a
a monetary standard, in favor of n ma
tional board of arbitration, and against
the free coinage of silver.
The firm OF Hall d Garrison, manufac-
turers of picture frames in Philadel-
phia, failed for $250,OO0.
More than 1900 Italian immigrants,
600 of whome were penniless, arrived at
Ellis Island, y. Y.
Edison will give to the physicians of
the country in a few days a combined
perpetual vacuum pump. y ray lamp
and operating table.
At the age of so years William Il.
Everson, known as the father of the
sheet iron industry, died in Pittsburgh.
Pa.
In Philadelphia the 18th anniversary
of the Incorporation of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railway company was celebrated
in an elaborate manner
Mayor Wurster. of Brooklyn, ard
Mayor Strong. of New York. vetoed the
Greater New York bill passed by the
state legislature
AdoIph S. Ochs,o of Chattanooga, Tenn.
purchased the New York Times.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Throughout the country the volume
of business has not increased nor have
prices appreciably advanced since April
], when the range for ali commodities
was the lowest ever known in this coun-
try.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggrega ted
SS26, 22O,255, against S951,976,7ss the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was o..
In tine United States there we're 20g
business failures in the seven days end
ed on the 10th, against 259 the week pre-
yious and 2O7 in the corresponding pc
riod of 1895.
A dispatch that the president had
sent a communication to Madrid on the
Cuban question urging Spain to submit
to mediation, and offering the good OIL
ces of our government TO aid in restor-
ing peace. was said to be false.
in the United States the visible supply
Of grain on the 18th was: Wheat, So
go, 900 bushels; corn, 16. ,OG0 bush
els; oats, 9,341, 900 bushels; rye, 1,509,-
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
The United States supreme court re-
convened after ten days recess.
The bureau of statistics says that the
exports of breadstuffs during Mdrcn
were S1O,O96,557, against SS,716,411 in
March year ago; of cotton, S19,OO6,5 $40
against s15,2zl,926 year ago; of mir-
eral oils, S4,359,244, against S3,O36,7 66 Z
year ago. and of provisions, SIP, s23,749
as compared with S13,25s,7s0 in March
1895.
On April % the national conference
will meet at Washington in the Interest
of permanent arbitration between tEs
United States and Great Britain.
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SALVATION ARMY sPLlT.
Baliington and Mrs. Booth Tell More of
Its Causes.

Its Causes.
New York, April 13.-Commander
and Mrs. Ballington Booth gave out
five-column statement Sunday night
giving officially some of the reasons for
having foresworn allegiance to foreign
headquarters. The vital points in the
statementare that at international head
quarters there had come TO be positive
hatred Of everything American. 90
Jections were urged by Gen. Rooth
against the display of the national flag
upon badges and in halls and homes.
He said the time had arrived to cease
carrying the stars and stripes at the
head of parades. lie objected to the
use of the eagle upon crests. and con-
stantly spoke dcprecatingly of the
country and of its people end its insti-
buttons.
The statement says that the attempt
was made to annex the army in the
United States TO that of Canada, and
that in spite of the protestations of
the writers, they were forced to make
a partial annexation, and at the present
time the army work in Dakota, North
Montana and North Washington is
governed from Toronto, and IL
is said that the officers hardly
dare to let the citizens of these states
know that their money goes to Ca
madam headquarters.
Apart from the above reasons" the
statement continues, 'the unjust man
ifestos and un-Christian assertions
made by the leaders of the army and
their representatives in this country,
particularly their comparison of our
movement with the Moore scandal
their statement that we fell beneath
the art of fiattery and temptation the
unrebuked and excused assertion by
one of their trusted stats that (Ball-
ington Booth) am insane, and the most
abominable reflections upon the private
character of Mrs. Booth, which have
proceeded from another staff officer,
have been sufficient reason for refusing
to entertain any suggestions of return
ing the ranks of the old movement.
There will undo ibtedly be denials
and counter-statements made to the
above, but we can Only add that we be-
lieve that our lives be- fore the American
public will at least exonerate us from
insincerity of motive and unworthiness
of purpose. We wish the army no evil,
and would not have thus written had
they taken our advice and remained
silent"
Commissioner Booth-Tucker says he
has 20 fears on account of the giving up
of these records. He hardly credits the
intention 20 publish them. but says the
Salvation Army has nothing it is
ashamed to make public.
''Expediency and such reasons as
might argue with the merchant to keep
his business private" said the conmis-
sioner, make US wish to keep the con-
fidential letters, and, indeed, al further
consideration of this unfortunate
sc hism, out of the public mind. Al
ready it threatens to lead attention
away from our true cause, the rescue
of souls, but there has been nothing in
the struggle we wish to hide. Truth
can only help the Salvation Army"
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WANT IT OUT OF POLITICS.
Convention of Merchants and Manufac-
turers Called Mt Detroit.

Convention of Merchants and Manufac-
turers Called ut Detroit.
Detroit, Mich, april 11.-R. Ii. Archer,
secretary of the Tari~ Commission
league, has sent out call for conveE-
ton of the commercial, manufacturing,
labor and agricultural organizations
os the United States. to be held in De-
troit, opening Tuesday. May &c. This
call will first be indorsed by Is repre-
sentative commercial bodies of the coun-
try, two of its signers to be national
labor organizations. AS soon as the in
dorsements have been received invita-
tons will be sent out to 1000 local and
national organizations to participate in
the convention, and $4,000 personal in
vitations will also be extended. More
than zoe commercial bodies, several of
which ere n'tional in their character,
nave already signified their intention
of sending delegates TO the convention.
The subjects TO be acted upon at the
convention are:
The discussion of ways and means for
taking the tarilI question out OF partisan
politics and making Il business question
instead of . political football"
Improvement of the consular service of the
United States and the employment OF such
service for the increasing OF our foreign
trade especially with the Central and
South American republics.
The advisability of recommending = con-
rress the creation OF department OF COM
merce, manufactures ard labor ard of
making the chief of such department u
member of the presidents cabinet.
The ACCESSIBILITY of forming a permn-
nent organization for the purr ose of hold
ing annual conventions for the considera-
tIon of national questions and of recon-
mendins TO congress each year such
changes In our laws or IN their administra-
ton as may be deemed for the best interest
of our country.
The convention viii be nonpolitical
and nonsectional. and all questions will
be discussed from purely commercial
standpoint. The plans adopted by this
convention will be put in proper shape
and committee appointed to present
them to the two great political conven-
tions to be held in June and July, re-
spectively. and urge on them their en-
bodiment in their respec i've platforms.
Any citizen who may be interested in
the subjects to be DISGUISE ed is eligible
as delegate.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BY an explosion of fort at Kiany
Gin two regiments of Chinese soldiers
were blown TO pieces.
The well-known- N. wspaper CORE,
spondent, Col. John A. Cockerill, died
of apoplexy in Cairo. Egypt, aged 81
years.
In the Olympian games at Athens,
Greece, the Americans were the win
ners i'm the final contests.
At st. Johns, n. F., it was reported
that the sealing steamer Ranger was
lost with over 200 men.
Gen. Weyler asked Spain for the inn
mediate dispatch of 5000 cavalry to
Cuba, and the minister of war was ar
ranging to send them.
At Gwelo, South Africa, by an explos
ion of dynamite 200 Matabeles were
killed.
At the town of Juquela, Mexico, rebel
Indians made a raid and killed all the
town councillors, scheol-teachers, local
priests, chief of police aud the telegraph
operator, and burned several buildings.
Dispatches say that the sultan had re-
pealed the contemplating the Protestant
and Catholic missionaries from Asia
Minor.
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LION FARMING.
Little Cubs Given tO Dog for . Fests-
afofher

Little Cubs Given to Dog for Fests-
Mother.
~he greater part of the lions exhib-
tied to the public have, according to
showmen, been born and reared in trav-
cling menageries or caravans. Nova
days the breeding. training and rear
ing of wild beasts constitute regular
business, and is carried on systemat-
ically.
AS soon as a lioness has a litter OF
cubs they are taken away from her
and given to a collie, Newfoundland or
other canine foster-mother. AS rule,
woman looks after both nurse and
cubs. the task usually falling TO the
lot of the mistress of the caravan.
When born the lions are like young
cats The little family is usually ac-
commodated in q corner of the caravan,
or in the trainers private apartment
In their infancy the young lions arc
treated just like kittens.
When they are able to walk they
have the run of thu place. play about,
and seem TO look for and enjoy the
caresses that are bestowed upon them.
They recognize for q long time the au-
thority, 50 to speak. of tho foster
mother. and are obedient TO her wi shea.
even after they have considerably out
grown her in size.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
HFTYFoURTH CONGRESS.
The Proceedings of the First Session.

The Proceedings of the First Session.
Washington, April l0.-After being in
retirement for some weeks the tariff
silver bill was brought forward in the
senate yesterday as text for a speech
by Mr.. Mantle (Mont.), who urged that
unseetional protection should be linked
with bmetallism. The navel appropri-
alton bill (S3l, 279. Asp was reported and
every pension bill on the calendar Us
in number) was passed. in the house
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill was passed and favorable report
was made on the bill for the admission
OF New Mexico as a state. Mr.. Hopkins
(Ill.) introduced reciprocity bill and a
resolution was adopted calling on the
state department for information re-
garding Mrs. Msybrick. imprisoned in
Ed gland.
Washington, April 1.-THE main
portion of the session of the senate
yesterday was taken up by the Indian
appropriation bill, the house PROPOSE
ton abolishing the system of contract
schools for Indian children giving rise
to a long debate. a favorable report
was made on the bill providing for a
delegate in congress fran Alaska. Sd
j0urned to the 18th. The house spent
nearly the entire day in general debate
on the filled cheese" bill. The forti-
fications bill ISL .3s4,Oo0) was report
ed, as was also the bill to prohibit the
sale of intoxicating liquors o Indians
holding lands by allotments.
Washington, April 13.-The senate
was not in session on Saturday. In the
house the filed cheese bill, requiring
the manufacturers of filled cheese to
pay a tax of $500 annually, the whole
sale dealers $3.50 and the retail dealers
S12. was passed.
Washington. April 14.-In the senate
yesterday a resolution to open the pub
iication of the Patent Office Gazette 10
general competition was adopted nd
the bill to establish a Uniform system
of bankruptcy was reported. The APP
pointment of Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee as
consul general at havana was received
from the president. The house spent
the day transacting business relating
TO the District of Columbia and several
local bills were Dassed
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DEAD, YET ALIVE.
An Interesting Enoch Asf-n Case I'm .
EprIfsn Court.

An Interesting Enoch A.f-n Case In An
English Court
A curious Encc.l arden case. in which
the lord justice of appeal had to inter-
vene in order to bring a man to life
again legally. has just been decided In,
England. Forty-two years ago a woni-
an married sailor in the British navy,
who deserted. went to the United
States and was not heard of again for
SO years. Six years after his disap-
pearance she married another man.
with whom she lived for is years, but
from whom she at last obtained Judi
cial separation and alimony in 1892.
The second husband pleaded that his
marriage was null. as her first hus-
band was alive st the time, but the jury
in the divorce court found that the man
was dead. Last year husband no. Q
discovered husband No. /, brought suit
again and produced him in court, where
he was fully identified. but the Judge
held that as jury had declared he was
dead, he could not admit that he was
alive and dismissed the suit. The appel
late judges seem TO be of his opinion,
for they refused TO allow the appeal and
annul the marriage on the ground of
the mans being alive till the secoa.d
husband had given security that he
would pay the woman an allowance.
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LATER NEWS.

Advices received the 14th from Alaska
report 500 miners showed in at the base
of the divide between Cooks inlet and
the Yukon river.
At special meeting of the house
committee on territories the 14th, the
Arizona statehood bill was ordered re-
ported to the house.
While broodIng over the idea that
his family would suffer from want,
John Lehman, of Chicago. the l4th,
shot and killed his three children.
After committing the terrible deed,
Lehman attempted to end his own life
by hanging, but failing in this, he
turned the revolver upon himself and
sent bullet through his heart, killing
himself instantly.
The three young children of Sheri.
dan Moore. of Huntington, w. Va,
were burned to death the l4th while
playing in a barn near their home. II
is supposed they were playing with
matches.
The silk importing house of c. A.
Auffmordt & Co, New York, burned
out the 14th. Loss, $500, 200.
The senate committee on agriculture
the 18th authorized Senator Warren to
make favorable report upon the ami
NAL industry bill. The bill is a recodi-
fication of the existing laws on animal
and meat inspection with numerous
important additions.
A train, consisting of combination
baggage car. two day coaches and a
sleeper. plunged through trestle at
Mile 80, three miles above Vossburg,
Miss, the 14th. Eleven passengers
were injured, one seriously.
The 4-year-old child. of J. w. Court
ney, at Springville, To-, the 14th fell
into a wash boiler full of scalding
water, burning himself so that he died
in few hours.
The 18th murder at what is called
Dead Mans Row, in Williamstown,
KY, occurred the 14th when Frank
Musselman, a farmer was shot by
Robert Tuliv
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but was persuaded to remain in Office
on account of the then threatened Sc
robustness of affairs.
Chicago, April 1.-the Posts Wash
ington special says:
1.-THE president has stolen a march or
Spain in the appointment of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee. of Virginia, as con sui general at Ha-
vana, vice Ramon o. Williams, resigned.
lie has long wanted to send special con-
missioner to Cuba to ascertain exact facts
with regard to the scope and significance
of the revolution, but from the outset he
encountered tho angry opposition of tho
Madrid government, which resented the
suggestion as insufferabla impertinence and
gratuitous intermeddlinS In a strictly fam
lily affair. He could not move Spain from
this view. but he never for a moment aban-
doned the idea. 1t suddenly occurred "a
him that he could accomplish his purpose
by appointing a consul general at Havana,
who could serve In the double capacity OF
diplomatic representative of this govern
ment and commissioner-the latter OF
course. under private Instructions.
AFTER a careful canvass of names. he
selected Gen. Lee as best fitted to perform
the delicate duty. Gen. Lee, as consul gen
cral. can so wherever he pleases without
interference from the Spanish authorities.
No obstacles will be put I'm his way by tie
insurgents. for. although a fair man, 1t Is
well known that he is IN warm sympathy
with the Insurgents and the cause of Cuban
liberty. His appointment, for the reasons
mentioned, is regarded as of the greatest
Importance. 1t is significant also in an
other respect as foreshadowing delay in
executive action In the Cuban matter until
the president can obtain results from the
Fitzhugh Lee expedition.
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Held for Murder.

The post-mortem examination at
Superior on the remains of Andrew
Carlson showed that while his death
was due to pneumonia, it was caused 10y
the injuries he received when he was
thrown from a saloon by Larson. The
breastbone and skull were fractured
and either injury would have causel
death. The coroner's jury indicted
Charles Larson, the bartender, for the
murder and he was arraigned in the
municipal court and held without bail.
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Topeka, Kan, April IA. = Tonight
Mrs. Antoinette Haskell, the new mayer
of Gaylord, will inaugurate new era
in municipal politics in Kansas. She
will appoint Mrs. NJ. j. Kline city mar
shall, and the council, composed entirely
of women, at its meeting will confirm
the appointment. All the women of
Gaylord have petitioned Mrs. Haskell
to appoint Mrs. Kline, setting forth as
n reason that they want law officer
who will drive out the joint and dive
keepers, gamblers ond rough element
and make it possible for the men to
spend their evenings at home.
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Edward Davids, a farmer, living
few miles north of Fox Lake, was shot
and Instantly killed with a rifle by
julius Zilke, a farm hand working fsr
Davids. Davids had interfered to pre-
vent Zillxe from striking a young man
in a quarrel, and Zilke waited for Daviis
TO come home, when he shot him with
scarcely a word of warning in the pres
ence of Davids' wife. He then hitched
up a horse and drove off and had MT
heen cantured
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X Raw KIN. p,.ease Germs.

Chicago, April 14.-Prof. w. p. Pratt
and Frof. Hugh NIghtman, the electro
therapeutist and the bacteriologist OF
Bennett Medical college. have practical
ly proved that the Roentgen ray is a
deadly foe to diphtheria and cholera.
They have put the germs of the most
deadly diseases through the test. A
week has elapsed. They have been fed
and nurtured with the greatest care.
They have failed topropagate or spread,
proving they are dead or have been
stunned. Cholera was the easiest, and
appears to have wiped out entirely.
Diphtheria has been treated very ten
derby and favorably, but after eight
days has failed to show the slightest
signs of life.