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CITY SCAVENGER

A. B. BRIGGS CLEANS PRIvY VAULTS AND
cess pools; no odor. Improved pumps us'd
a. Is. briggs, Proprietor. Leave orders 100
North Main avenue, Eicke's drug store. coz:
ner Adams and Mulberry. Telephone 95i0.
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FOR SALE
WANTED-TO RENT.

WANTED TO RENT-A STORE WITH BAKERS
oven; must lie centrally located on Main
street in busy part OF city. Answer Confectioner.
care Tribune office.
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DRESSMAKING

DRESSMAKlNG FOR CHILDREN TO ORDER;
also ladies' waists Louise Shoemaker, 2l2
Adams avenue
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Pills.
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MISCELL 7H-OuS

BAJIER's oRCHESTRA-MUSIC FOR BALLS,
picnics, parties, receptions, weddings and con.
cert work furnished, For terms address X. J..
Bauer conductor, III Wyoming avenue, over
IIulbcits' music store
MEG GARGEE BROTHERS, PRINTERS SUPPLIES,
envelopes, paper bags, twine Warehouse, $50
Washington avenue, scranton, Pa,
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~~N,S>~~
THE WILKEsBARRE RECORD CAN BE HAD
. in Scranton at the news stands of Rclsinan
Bros, 4O5 Spruce and SOB Linden; NJ Norton
Spruce street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12
DECISION AGAINST TAYLOR.
Kentucky Court of Appeals Says
Action of Legislature In Seating
Reckham Was Final.

Frankfort, KY, April THE court
of appeals Friday handed down a de-
cision in the governorship case in IA
vor of the democrats. The opinion is
by six of the judges, four democrats
and two republicans.
The opinion holds that the action Of
the Legislature in seating Gov. Beck
ham was final, and that the courts
have no power to review it; that Gov.
Taylor exceeded his authority in adj
j%ourning the Legislature to London,
and that the journals of the two
houses of the legislature, being regu-
lar, cannot be ~impeached.
The republicans will now try to get
Il hearing before the United States SUI
prcmc court. Thirty days must elapse
before the mandate of the court of APP
peals, in accordance with Fridays de
cision, is issued. Meanwhile no rad
zeal change in the relative positions of
the two state governments is ex-
pected.
Frankfort, Ky, April 0.-Chief JUS
tice Hazelrigg, of the court of appeals,
Saturday afternoon granted a writ
of error from the decision of tho
court of appeals to the supreme court
of the United States in the contest
over the offices of governor and lieu
tenant governor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12

At Harrisburg the Pennsylvania
democratic convention instructed its
delegates to Kansas City to vote for
Bryan.
Fire destroyed the physical labora-
tory of the Lehigh university at Bethle-
hem, Pa. the loss being 100000.
The death of James Seely, a we'll
known maker of perfumes, occurred.at
his home in Rochester. n, Y.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
S1,941,4 ABS, PCS, against 81, 729,S $50, S97 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1899
was 81.
In the United States there were 1872
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 203 in the
week previous and 22O in the CORE
spending period of 1899.
The Quaker evangelist and cowork-
er with the late Dwight L. Moody. John
Wright Dean, died suddenly in Paw
tueket, r. l., aged 10 years.
One of the most renowned American
landscape painters, Frederic f.
Church, died in New York. aged ~
years.
The department store of Joseph
e Horne & Co. was burned at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the loss being nearly So 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12
DOINGS OR A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FIFTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.

Senator Gallinger IN. H. presented
an argument in the United States SEN
ate on the 5th against the seating of
Nj. S. Quay as a senator from Pennsyl-
vania. Most of the Gay was spent in
executive session on the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty. In the house the Ha-
waiian bill was amended so as TO multi
fy labor contracts and prohibit sa-
looms. The naval appropriation bill
(S61,2l9, 946) was reported.
Senator Deboe (Ky.) gave notice in
the United States senate on the 6th
that he would nov TO refer the Gre
dentials of former Senator j. c. 5.
Blackburn as q senator from Ken
lucky to the committee on privileges
and elections. Ihe Indian %appropria-
ton bill was discussed. In the house
the substitute for the senate bill, pro-
viding for a territorial form of govern
ment for Hawaii, was passed by a
vote of 100 to 2S. The bill now goes
10 conference. Mr.. Jenkins On. c.
introduced a bill looking TO the con-
troll of trusts.
The United States senate OF the 18th
occupied the time in discussing the In
dian appropriation bill. In the house
the agricultural appropriation bill ($4,-
10000 was reported and eulogies
were pronounced upon the life, services
and character of the late Richard z.
Bland, of Missouri.
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Not in Need of Advice.

"Oh, you needn't caution me to look
out for swindlers,' replied the limo
cent-looking man, when spoken to by
a depot policeman in Buffalo. Il got
taken in once and that will last me
to the end of my days"
so you did get confidenced?' asked
the officer.
81 did, for a fact, and it was right
in this depot. too. A Teller borrowed
two dollars of me and gave me the
check for his trunk as security"
"And there was no trunk"
ooh, yes. there was. Yes. there was
a humping big trunk, and it was full
of boots and shoes, and | sold $40
worth to my neighbors and had a lot
left
But how do you make nj that you
were confdenced?"
why, the Teller led me TO believe
that the trunk was chock full of gold
bricks and each one worth $20.0 and
there wasn't a blamed one in it. You
needn't worry about Gilbert G.
Schemerhon. He's been right there
and had his eye teeth cut, and he
knows a swindler from a barn door
with one eye shet."-Chicago Evening
Nous
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FROM A CAR WINDOW
One Travelling Man who Will Not
Throw Cigar stubs Out
Any More.

The drummer sitting next to the
window was about to throw his cigar
stub out when the drummer opposite
put up a restraining hand.
Don't throw it out Of the win
dow" he said, quietly, but with firm
ness.
"Why not? What's the difference? ~
asked the other, somewhat annoyed
by the ont of reproof IN the other
mans voice.
Listen, and | will tell you a story
said the old drummer, smiling in a
kindly way that smoothed the others
ruffled feelings. when | was about
your age, which, L should say, was
25 years ago, l was accustomed TO
throw my cigar stubs out of the car
window, but | had an experience one
time that made me change my GUS
tom. We were flying along through
Ohio one day, and | had the last seat
in the last a of a day train between
Columbus and Pittsburgh. The car
was crowded with men going to some
kind of a big political meeting at Steu-
benville, and everybody was smoking.
l was putting away with the others,
and when my cigar was smoked up |
gave it one final draw and tossed it
far out of the window. As it left my
hand | noticed beside the track be-
low us a dozen men grouped around
something or other, / could not tell
what. An instant later, and when
we were 200 or 300 yards away, there
was a flash and a muffled report, and
the group of workmen was scattered
in every direction. The train was
stopped and backed up, when we found
that a key of powder for blasting pur-
poses, which they had opened and
were distributing to each man, had
mysteriously exploded, blowing them
in every direction. As it happened,
nobody was killed, but all were more
or less burned and shocked, and 1
knew too well to say anything about
it, innocent though / was, that it
was my cigar stub that had by the
merest chance dropped into the key
and set the powder off. said moth
ing then or for years afterward about
it, but two days later, to satisfy my
suspicious, / visited the place, and in
the branches of a tree almost over
hanging the spot / found the rem
nants of the cigar stub, torn and pow
%der-burnt, and l doubted no longer"
Washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12

There is just enough of the wild and
woody west remaining in the booming
state of Washington to warrant the
lone settlers retiring to rest with Il
rifle under his pillow and a bowie in his
belt. But there are things in that coun-
try that firearms and steel do not trot
in the same class with. A young
Scotchman who recently took up a
claim in Whatcom county sends back a
rather amusing story in that connec-
ton.
81 got to my tent dead tired the other
night and threw myself down any old
way; and l had just gotten into a nice
doze when something gave an awful
jerk and landed me on the GROUND
about four feet from my cot. In {
minute / found myself outside the door
trying to ram cartridges wrong enc
foremost down into the magazine OF
my rifle. At first | felt as though | was
having a bad ague, and could see the
shadow of the tent wagging back and
forth behind me.
"When / really woke up and listened
/ could near a great rumbting and hiss
ing way over to the east and north
Then | knew l had started out to
shoot an earthquake with a Winches.
er."-Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12

Miss Hester d. jenkins, daughter of
j. II. Jenkins. president of the Ger
man national bank in Oshkosh. has
been appointed professor of English
in the American college at CONSTANT
nople, Turkey, and will sail for Eu-
rope in August.
The ten-year-old son of A. A. Hardy
had both arms a%mputated, the result
of jumping from a moving freight
train in Watertown.
The South Side Lumber company's
barns burned at Butternut. and IS
horses were cremated.
Gov. Scofield has approved the cree
ton of two additional buildings at the
home for the feeble-minded in Chip
pewa Falls.
The brick block in Menominee
owned by c. A. Spies and occupied by
stores and offices, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $4,000.
Peter Fletcher Spencer died in Ev-
ansville at the age of 93 years. He
was the oldest man in Rock county.
A. G. futile and his wife celebrated
their sixty-second wedding ami
versary in Baraboo. Mr.. futile is SIS
and his wife is SO years of age. They
have four sons.
The Diamond Match company's mill
started up in Green Bay for the sea-
sons run.
Levi j. Billings, of Rhinelander, has
been appointed by Gov. Scofeld to be
county judge of Oneida county, to sue
coed J.. NJ. Harrigan. resigned.
The Ladies' Benevolent society will
fit up the residence in Oshkosh pre-
Sc ted by Philetus Sawyer, and will
Ii it as a home for the aged.
The post office at Dewey was burned
and the pos master injured.
Mrs. Bozzard, aged Sc years, n of
the oldest settlers of Sank county, and
widow of John Bozzard. died in Bara-
boo. She was born in Germany and
came to Wisconsin before il was adj
mitted into the union.
The gross receipts of the post office
at Portage for the past year were $i0,-
| lS7.02. which entities the city to a free
delivery system.
The Spanish cannon obtained for La
Crosse arrived without notice to any
body. 1t is ten feet long and ten inches
in diameter at the breech. 1t is dated
| Seville, 10th October. 1877.
John Arquette. who was recently ac-
quilted in GAINESVILLE of the charge of
| arson. has brought suit against Rock
county for 100000.
The Spanish cannon allotted to Mad
lson by the war department has arrived
and il will shortly be placed in position
in the capital park.
Henry Schmedeman. former assist
ant postmaster. died in Madison. lie
was 81 years old and unmarried.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12
MARSH U GUILTY.
The Jury Returns n Verdict Against
the Michigan Ex-Omcial-Sen-
tence Not Passed.

Lansing. Mich, April G.-Arthur f..
Marsh, of Allegan, late inspector gen
eral of the Michigan National guard,
and until recently chairman of the re-
publican state central committee, was
convicted Thursday of having felo
niously conspired with certain OF his
official associates to defraud the state.
The statutory penalty is IA years i'm
prisonment or less. Marsh was indict-
ed by the county grand jury on the
showing made duplicating him in the
sensational deal wherein state mill
tary clothing and equipment inven
tories at some SOS goo was alleged to
have beer sold for $10,5 500, shipped to
Chicago, thence without breaking bulk
to a military supply concern in kala-
mazoo, and then repurchased by the
state military board for about $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

After a lapse of 80 years Queen Vic
toria arrived in Dublin to pay Ireland
a visit.
A scheme of municipal government
prepared by a mixed board, of which
Senior AreIlano is president, has re-
ceived the approval of Gen. Otis.
In Brussels a boy with pockets full
of anarchistic literature fired two
shots in the prince of Wales car, but
no harm was done.
In Bulgaria Russian influence is SUI
preme and Ferdinand has placed the
government under a regency.
In the Veronsenevil district of
Echigo, Japan, 70 men were killed by
an avalanche.
The hero OF Plevna, Osman Nubar
Pasha, died at Constantinople, al
though the recent improvement in his
condition led to the hopes of his re-
covery.
While Gen. Plumer attacked the
Beers at Ramathlabama the MAIZE
king garrison made a sortie. but both
were repulsed, Plumer losing 20 men
killed and six prisoners. The Beers
lost three killed and ten wounded at
Korn Spruit and made $50 British pris-
oners. British maps and plans for in
vasion were seized.
Five hundred British troops were
captured not far from Bloemfontein.
Gen. Methuen's men left Kimberley to
relieve Mafeking and reached Bishof.
Near this point 6S Beers were surround
ed by British and after losing eight
killed and six wounded surrendered.
Dublin police suppressed an issue of
United ireland in which hostility was
shown to Queen Victoria.
On May l or shortly after Gen. Otis
will retire from his command in the
Philippines at his own request and will
be succeeded in chief command by
Gen. Arthur Macarthur.
Beers attacked and defeated a large
force of British cavalry at De Vets
dorp, southeast of Bloemfontein. cap
turing $50 prisoners and a large guam
tity of ammunition and'camp stores,
and inflicting heavy loss. The federal
loss was two killed and four wounded.
The Beers were moving into Natal as
if to attack Gen. Buffers forces or to
prevent any advance toward Pretoria.
Encounters between the American
troops and the insurgents are reported
from Manila. Gen. Young, in northern
Luzon, and Gen. Bell, in the south, say
their forces are insufficient to preserve
order.
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WILL BE OPEN SUNDAYS.
American Exhibits mt Paris EXPOSE
tion Must BE Displayed
on That Day.

Paris, April 10.-The French author
tiles have decided that all exhibits at
the exposition are to be open to the
public on Sundays, and the United
States exhibits are. naturally, within
this regulation. These exhibits are
under cover in buildings erected by
the French government, over which
the United States authorities have no
control. therefore they must abide by
the rules established. The United
States pavilion is not within this cat
egory, and the question of its being
opened or closed on Sunday the
French officials have left entirely TO
Commissioner Peck's desire.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Municipal Elections.

The result of the municipal! elections
throughout Wisconsin were as follows:
Republican mayors were elected In Hud-
son, Durand, Waupaca, Elroy. Elkhart,
Mauston, Sparta, New Lisbon. Marinette,
Columbus, Monroe. Darlington, Delavan,
Waukesha, Black River Falls, Wausau,
Neenah, Menominee, Green Bay, Superior,
Beloit, Rhinelander, GAINESVILLE. Ripon,
Marshfield. Hayward, EIkhorn, New Rich
mond, Viroqua. Stoughton and Portage.
Democratic mayors were elected in
Grantsburg. Hartford, Sheboygan Falls.
Plymouth, Fox Lake, Chiffon. Mineral
Point. WATERFOWL, Alma, Beaver Dam,
Edgerton, Eagle. Mazomanie. Baraboo.
Fort Atkinson, Chippewa Falls, Medford,
Cumberland, Madison, Appleton and Ra-
cine,
Citizens tickets were elected In Fenni-
more, Thorp. Cedarburg. Kilbourn, Water
loo, Lodi. Horizon. Algoma. Kewaunee.
Merrill, Rhinelander, Burlington. Hart
land, Boyd, Broadhead. Lake Geneva,
Omro, Port W~apington, Richland Center,
West Bend, Reedsburg and Evansville.
FOUR circuit Judges were elected, all with
out opposition. as follows: Fifth circuit,
George Clementson, Lancaster. Sixth cir
cult. Orvis b. -Wyman, Viroqua; Eleventh
circuit. A. J. Vino, Superior, Twelfth cir
cult, b. +. Dunwiddie, GAINESVILLE.
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BRITISH ARE BADLY BEATEN.
Reports from South Africa show Terrible
Reverses for the British Troops.

London, April 1.-THE Daily Mail
publishes the following, dated April
10. from Lorenzo Marques: THE Meth
erlands Railway company processes to
have received a telegram reporting a
Boer victory near Kroonstad, the Beers
capturing 900 British"
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Brandfort, dated Sunday, says: Yes
terday Gen. De Wet inflicted the third
defeat of the British within a week at
| Merkatsfontein, killing and wounding
600. He captured 900, with IL wagons,
losing five Beers killed and nine
wounded
A message from Pretoria, Monday,
April 9 SAYS: ''The British casualties
in the fight at De Vets Dorp were
100 killed and wounded and $50 cap.
captured The Transvaal Volksraad
| has been summoned to meet in ordin'
arv session May TO-"
The Daily News has the following
from Pretoria, dated Monday, by way
of Delagoa Bay; 1T is officially an.
nounced that a battle has been fought
south of frankfort, in which 0 Brit.
ish troops were killed and wounded
and 500 taken prisoners. Lord Roberts
is declared to be finding great difficult
ty, owing to scarcity of water"
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LATER NEWS.

Col Nice. Bell, a prominent citizen
of Milwaukee, is dead.
The Beers have posted a big gun on
Knights hill, north OF Elandslaagte,
and another in the vicinity of Vessels
mex station. They are also reported
strongly intrenched at ~Helpmakaar.
At a conference of coal dealers rep
resenting Milwaukee and ports at the
head of the lakes the price of soft coal
was advanced $1.05 per o
Mike Barry and his little son were
drowned at Ironwood, Mich.
A Cape Town correspondent says:
Negotiable securities to the value of
$50, 900, which were lodged by law
with the Free State government by
foreign insurance companies, have dis
appeared"
Charles Ingersoll, defauting county
treasurer, of Ithaca, n. V, under
bonds of $40, 900 to appear in court, has
fled. His bond was surrendered as
soon as his fight became.known, and
strenuous efforts are being made to re-
capture him.
United States secret service officers
from Philadelphia, arrested William
Mohire at Patterson, n. j., while he
was at work manufacturing counter
felt silver money.
The trial of William F. Miller, head
of the get-rich-quick Franklin syndi-
cate, New York, is in progress, and
many witnesses testified to the large
sums received by defendant.
The Dover Stamping company, with
a plant at Cambridge, Mass, and
offices in Boston, has assigned, due to
a lack of working capital. Liabilities,
$500, 900.
At Kansas City, plans for erecting a
new convention hall have practically
been completed, and the work of re-
moving the debris from the site is pro-
ceeding actively.
The Cunard line steamship Caran-
thia, now on her way from Boston to
Liverpool, has again been chartered
by the British admiralty, and upon
the discharge of her cargo she will
proceed Immediately to New Orleans
to load mules for South Africa.
Negotiations are in progress for a
D OF Jne BlBdutlc new CdF-
negie company and the Cramp ship
building concern.
Columbian advices that a
rebel attack is ~momentarily expected
at Savanilla.
Ninety-three cases of bubonic plague
and % deaths from the disease have
occurred at Sydney, n. S. w.
DIR. Charles Winold was arrested at
Baltimore on the charge of attempting
to poison his family at CINCINNATI.
An attempt was made to wreck a
passenger train near Taylor, Tex.
Docks and warehouses at Menomi-
nee and Marinette, Mich, were badly
damaged by the ice breaking up in the
bay.
DR.. Leyds has left Brussels for Ma
Piles to confer with the peace commits
sioners.
Rioting was renewed the 10th in
labor circles at Chicago. Two serious
ARRAYS occurred, in which five men
were injured.