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RIVER FALLS, - WISCONSIN.
New York aidermen gave away tlie
franchise of the Broadway surface rail
road for no consideration whatever to
the city, though it is suspected that the
aidermen were benefitted to the sun:
of $500,000, and it is stated that parties
were anxious to pay the city over a mil
lion. Of course, there is great indig
nation, but the horse is stolen.
Now York has added 10,000,000 gal
lons of water a day to the Croton sup
ply of 98,000,0000. This extra supply
comes from a lake that is fed exclusively
by springs, and is turned into the Cro
ton pipes after it reaches the city. Over
fifty gallons a day to each inhabitant
would seem to be more than ample, as
it is, but the largest portion is used for
public purposes, and waste, which is
immense.
The late Senator Anthony of.Rhodt
Island, took his seat in the Senate of
the United States on the sth of Decem
ber 1859. Of the men who sat in the
Senate with Mr, Anthony that day not
one is a member of that body now, and
very few are still living. Public life
in this country is camparatively short.
A seat in the senate, the summit with
few exceptions, of political ambition, is
rarely held more than twelve years, the
limit of two terms.
United States Consul Picxatto, at
Lyons, France, has forwarded report to
the department of state relative to crops
this year in France. He says: “The
wheat crop will amount to about 316,-
000,000 bushels, which will surpass the
harvest of 1883 by over 30,000,000
bushels. The quality is excellent. The
rye crop will equal 70,000,000 bushels
and quality very superior. Indian corn
will amount to 33,000,000 bushels and
the potato crop 412,000,000 bushels.”
Re]>orts from England's continental
countries also report a fine wheat crop.
The English crop in particular has rare
ly been so fine.
Because a » ery large number of vo
ters ai i not shouting themselves hoarse
in this campaign, it ought not to be in
ferred that popular interest in politics
is less intense than usual. Apathy is a
term ften misapplied. Men who stay
away from political demonstrations, and
even those who have little to say about
politics in private conversation, may net
be indifferent, bnt, entertaining views of
their own, prefer to enlist in the great
army of silent voters. The apparent
apathy at present indicates, perhaps,
that people are doing some vigorous
thinking or that they are too busv in
harvesting and fall ploughing to spend
much time in what is called political
work.
Of the $300,000 appropriated by con
gress for the New Orleans Exposition,
$75,000 was apportioned to the Smith
sonian Institution. That institution
has begun the preparation of its ex
hibit. A number of agents have been
sent to different sections of the country
to collect specimens, so that a complete
exhibit of the various branches of the
can be made. These ex
hibits will consist of as complete anil
exhaustive collections as can be obtained
of mammals, birds, building straw tex
tiles, animal products, fishes, shells,
and gems and minerals. The gems to be
exhibited are valued at about SIO,OOO,
and consists of specimens from all over
the world
Pennsylvanians are celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the striking
of the first oil well, near Titusville.
That has grown to 38,000 wells, 20,000
of which are still producing, and the ten
barrels a day with which the infant en
terprise began has grown to a daily pro
duction varying during the past four or
five years, between 65,000 and 100,000
barrels. The little oil field bounded
by the encircling bluffs which hem in
the Oil Creek valley has been extended
over portions of eight or ten counties,
and the little hamlet of a few hundred
inhabitants has grown to a city of ten
thousand people, and is only one of a
half dozen or more flourishing towns of
like size, while the smaller towns
which the industry has given rise to are
almost countless.
Business begins to feel the usual fall
impetus to trade given by the farmers
who have harvested and sold their crops
and now come into the streets with
pockets full of cash, which they wish
to exchange for commodities or deposit
it against a rainy day. The crops have
1 ecu abundant, and were prices better
the farmers would feel rich and liberal.
As it is, they will find compensation for
their own reduced receipts in the lower
prices which rule in almost all lines of
goods. If they are getting less for their
cereals than they have done in the past,
they will find clothing, furniture, ma
chinery and everything else, both use
ful and ornamental, reduced somewhat
in price, so that the puachasing value
of their hard-earned dollars will not be
very much less than in the best times of
the past.
France has already obtained a foot
hold in China, and the indications are
favorable to its definite extension, and
with the tacit acquiescence of other
great powers, most of whom are en
gaged in the same business of territorial
extension in various parts of the world.
Germany, especially as well as England,
seems determined to carry out her colo
nization scheme and will probably fol
low up the advantages w hich she has
already obtained in Africa. It is now
well understood that there are vast
regions north of Cape Colony and the
Transvaal and south of the Egyptian
Soudan in which white men can live
and flourish. In these regions are vast
deposits of iron, copper and coal, be
sides gold snd silver. The crops of
southern Europe can be grown there,
and the temperature is nearly the same
all the year round. This inviting terri
tory is about six times larger than
France. It is the opinion of recent
travelers that great tracts of land in
this country can be made salubrious
and productive at no great expense.
Of course the pioneers will have many
hardships to contend with, but organ
ized European colonies, well equipped
with all the constructive and destruc
tive agencies of civilization, will grad
ually exterminate the native races and
turn a large area of the dark continent
into a white man’s country.
! TIE PITH OF THE NEWS.
Washington Mews.
The preaident has not decided whom to make
secretary of the treasury, but the probabilities
are that his choice will fall either upon Judge
Gresham or Assistant Secretary Coon.
I Daily postal bulletin: Postoffices established
■ —Dakota, Roop, Emmons county. Minnesota,
’ Lindsay, Polk county. Postoffice Name chang
ed —Minnesota—Mantee, Hubbard county, to
Hubbard. Postoffices Discontinued—Wiscon
sin, Lakeville, Chippewa county, mail to Cart-
i wnght
By direction of the president, a general court
' martial has been appointed to meet at San An
. tonio, Tex., Oct 9, for the trial of Capt Hen
nessy, of the Eighth cavalry, on a charge of
i conduct unbecoming an officer, and gentleman.
: The charges have not been promulgated. It is
, understood that the court was ordered on
: charges made by the officer’s wife, and is an
' outcome of recent divorce proceedings insti
tuted by himself.
At the examination of candidates for the na
val academy Thomas Kierulff, lowa, was re
jected because he lacked one and one-eighth
[ inches of the required height—five feet Mr.
Hamilton of New Jersey was rejected because
lof color blindness. Another candidate was
. rejected because one leg was an inch longer
. than the other. The latter candidate never
I knew his legs were odds until the naval board
measured them.
The acting commissioner of pensions has ad
dressed a letter to the officers of the Associa
tion of the Army of the Cumberland, asking
that they furnish to the pension office the
names and postoffice address of every officer
and enlisted man attending the annual reunion
this year who is not a member of the G. A. R
This is in accordance with the plan adopted by
the pension office, to complete as far as may
be a roster of surviving soldiers of the Rebell
ion, which will aid applicants in obtaining
proof to sustain their demands for pensions.
The office has already a roster of over three
hundred thousand ex-officers and soldiers and
expects to increase the list two hundred
thousand more.
Ballroad and Biver News.
The Wisconsin Minnesota 4 Pacific filed a
first mortgage of 91,320,000, the money to be
used for an extension from Waterville to Gay
lord.
David Swan, who until recently, was the
cashier of the Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany, in its office in St Paul, is charged with
having embezzeled 921,246.03. The company
has begun in the supreme court ia New York,
a suit against Swan to recover the money, and
its attorney, Mr. Gray, has obtained from
Judge Donohue an attachment against what
ever property he mav be found to have in this
state. Robert !. Belknap, the treasurer of the
company, made the affidavit upon which the
attachment was granted. He charges that on
Feb. 23 last Swan appropriated 95,000 belong
ing to the company to his own use; that on
Feb. 2t> he appropriated 93,000; on Feb. 27 92,-
000; Feb. 10, 90,740.03, andonjune2l, 91,500.
Record of Casualties.
Perry Valiev, lowa, had a little taste of cy
clone Tuesday night
E. J. Salt & Co.’s woolen mill at Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned. Loss 9:10,000; fully insured.
The factory of the Eagle Furniture Works,
Baltimore, was burned recently. Loss, 9200,-
000.
A block of stores at Midland, Ont, extending
from Queen’s hotel to Dominion avenue was
burned. Loss, 930,000; partly insured.
A son of Rev. Clinton Locke, of Chicago,
dropped a lighted cigar into a keg of gunpow
der, and almost wrecked the rectory, but him
self escaped with eyebrows somewhat scorched.
At Fast Liverpool, Ohio, Walker & Co. ’s fire
brick works, together with several small out
houses, six Cleveland A Pittaburg railroad
freight cars and numerous telegraph poles
were destroyed by tire. Loss, 925,000.
At the coroner’s office, Tuesday morning
between 8 and 13, there were reported twenty
five sudden deaths, many of which were di
rectly or indirectly due to the heat. The total
number of cases of prostration Thursday was
eighteen, and in Brooklyn fourteen, three be
ing fatal.
The terrible sufferings of Capt Murphy and
the crow of the bark Anita Owen from yellow
fever have seldom been equaled. Capt Mur
phy sailed from Santiago de Cuba for New York
with a crew of five men. Of the captain and
two mates and his wife, and a man named Con
way, who was sick with the fever when the ves
sel started, but begged to be taken on board,
Conway is the only man of the crew alive the
rest having died of the fever on the passage.
The captain and mate suffered terribly from
the disease, but managed to navigate the ves
sel, and reach New Y’ork on Wednesday last.
Additional reports from Wisconsin cyclone
territory show that while not conveying an ex
tended area, the storm was decidely thorough
as icgaide d"“tni<:t>”“r"ws. Cleat La v e suf
fered to the extent of 93’ >O,OOO. From Marine
to Clear lake the track of the storm was from
eight to fifteen miles wide and the loss very
heavy. The damage to timber alone in that
section is placed at 91,000,000, and to farm
buildings, machinery and the like at 9600,000.
Some estimates place the total lose as high as
94,000,000. Considering the violence of the
storm, the loss of life was surprisingly small.
Mitchell, Dak., Special: Fire last night,
by which several of the best business build
ings of the citv wore laid in ruins, is a serious
blow to Mitchell. The work of rebuilding will
commence at once. Letcher & Co.’s loss is
935,000, insurance 925,000; M. H. Rowley,
who owned the building occupied by L. S.
Shauer A- Co., lost 96.000; insured for 93,000;
the stock was valued at 913,000 and was in
sured for about one-third; L O. Gale andP. T.
McGovern lost about 925,000 each, and were
insured for about half: a photograph gallery
and a law office on the second floor of the
Rowley building were a total loss. It was
only by the utmost exertions on the part of
thefiremen and citizens that the fire was pre
vented from spreading to other buildings.
The Criminal Calendar.
Bankrupt Banker Squier of Washington cut
his throat.
Rev. T. J. Powell, a Baptist minister of
Orangeville, Ohio, has lost his pastoral connec
tion by drunkenness and lying.
Tate Mahaney, proprietor of the Three States
boardinghouse, Cairo, 111., after locking him
self in his room, shot himself. He had a large
family. Cause unknown.
At Cincinnati, Benjamin Johnson, (colored)
was hanged for complicity with Allen Ingalls
in the murder of Beverly Taylor and wife and
child near Avondale last February.
Cymon D. Miner of Bridgewater, Conn, and
dealer in elastic goods in New York, killed
himself in the United States hotel, in the latter
city. Cause business embarrassment
Burglars entered the drug store of Dr. Edwin
Ellis of Ashland. Wis,. and succeeded in blow
ing open his safe. They obtained for their
trouble 915, all of the money in the safe.
John Wassner, a prominent banker of Corpus
Christi, Tex., suicided by shooting through the
forehead Cause, financial difficulties, al
though he was reputed one of the wealthiest
men of Texas.
D. F. Ashton was arrested at Boone, lowa,
for shoving counterfeit silver dollars, and 920
of bogus money and the dies for making more
were found on him. He was transferred to the
United States authorities at Des Moines.
Alonzo Muckier of Toledo found his wife re
cently in a bagnio in Cleveland, and threw in
her face about an ounce of vitriol It was at
first thought both her eyes were destroyed,
bnt her phvsician now hopes to save them.
Her face was badly burned. Muchler was ar
rested
Miscellaneous News Notes.
The Nebraska wheat crop will be about 920,-
000,000 bushels.
The total receipts of the state fair at Des
Moines were over 940,000.
•‘Black Tat” Meehan was arrested in Penn
sylvania in companv with Mrs. Harriet Curtis,
said to l>e the daughter of a St Paul divine.
Accounts published by the government of
Canada state that there are at the present time
105,000 Indians still living within the dominion.
President Ogden, of the Cincinnati trades as
semble, says of 24,000 members of trades
unions in that city, 8,000 are idle, not including
women and children who support themselves.
Eugene V. B. Thayer of Boston drove six-in
hand from Glen house to the summit of Mount
Washington in one hour and ten minutes, beat
ing the record made last year by W. H. Van
derbilt by seven minutes.’
Henry Hoffman recently eloped from New
castle, Del, with a daughter of Mr. Westfall
The girl was captured and taken home Hoff
’ man escaped arrest, and subsequently induced
Mia. Westfall, mother of the girl, to run away
■ with him. He is now locked up, as is the
I woman.
' Concerning the alleged discovery of gold in
the Little Rockies, Mont,, Benton papers con
tain the usual enthusiastic reports. The Press
' has received a letter from one of the “lucky”
prospectors, saying the writer and his partner
w -*re then making sluice boxes, and that the in
dications were they would get from 975 to 9100
a day to the man. The gulch is an extensive
one and for miles above and below Discovery
goo 1 prospects are found The quartz finds,
now "ver, are as wonderful as the placer. In
one dav, he says, his partner pounded and
washed ©nt 940 in dust from rock found in that
i vicinity, which must have been tremendously
rich quartz.
Conservator Patterson has filed his answer
to the motion for an investigation of his
management of the Chicago Times
He is entirely willing, he says, to
have his accounts and acts examined by
good and impartial men, but he objects de
' cidedly to Messrs. Vater and Smith. To the
former, because he is a stranger whom Mr.
Patterson believes was brought to Chica
go for the express purpose of sup
planting him in the management of
the paper; and to the latter, because
he has too much personal interest in the rival
Inter-Ocean, and might use the knowledge ob
tained for the benefit of that paper.
Personal Points.
Miss Mamie W. Hime of Fargo and Charles
Baker of St Louis were maried in Fargo re
cently, and started east on a bridal tour.
John 0. Vaughan, a once famous editor, law
yer and politician, was discovered in the coun
ty poorhonse at Cleveland, recently. He be
came famous as an abolitionist
William Sherman, ex-United States sub-treas
urer of San Francisco, died recently. He was
possessed of large wealth, was a relative of
Gen. W. T. Sherman, and tor thirty years acted
as agent of the Sherman property.
Gov. Proctor Knott addresses a long letter te
the people of Kentucky touching the penitenti
ary, the convict labor question and the con
tract system, and giving his reasons for de,
dining to call an extra session of the legislature.
Nuggets of Foreign News.
F. W. O. Grant, lately en assistant bailiff at
Omararu, New Zealand, has succeeded to the
earldom of Seafield, with an annual income of
£70,000.
According to ofii"’al statements the total
number of forces under the French flag in Ton
quin is 19,000. Of these 14,000 are Europeans,
and the remainder native auxiliary troops.
Mervyn Smith, a wealthy citizen of Montreal,
who married a handsome American girl, named
Kate Wheeler, ten years ago, has become
jealous of an English coachman, and has
entered suit for a separation.
In consequence of the British government’s
refusal to institute fresh inquiry into the
Maamtrasna murder case, in the light of the
confessions of Casey and Philbins, the Irish
party in parliament have resolved to act with
the ’Conservatives on the franchise bill when
the measure comes up again at the autumn
session.
Great indignation is expressed in Munich
over the intention of King Louis, the music
mad monarch of Bavaria, to erect a colossal
equestrian statue of King Louis XIV. of Francs
in one of the squares of the Bavarian capital
The objectors say that the man whom it is thus
proposed to honor was always the arch-enemy
of Germany.
Arrangements have been made for the three
emperors to meet at Count Henckel’s castle,
near Kattewitz, in Prussian Silesia. Emperor
William started for the meeting place on Sun
day evening. Prince Bismarck, Count Her
bert Bismarck and Gen. Alldyle will accom
pany him. M. De Giers, Russian pri me min
ister, starts for Poland to be present at the
meeting.
Great Heat at the East.
A Special from New Y’ork of the 10th says:
The continued hot spell in New York has caused
the most intense suffering here recently and re
sulted in about fifty cases of sunstroke, while
nine deaths occurred at Bellevue hospital It
was in the tenement house districts in the lower
wards that people suffered most Hardly a
a breath of air stirring among the big build
ings with their forty or fifty families close
ly packed together in ’each, and the
sun beat down mercilessly. Toward even
ing, however, the thermometer began tq
drop, and is now cooler than it ha,
been since last Friday. The horses in
the street cars were suddenly overcome and
dropped down everywhere along the lines)
The horse car companies resorted to every
possible means to save their horses. Water
ing troughs were placed at close intervals along
the routes, and every facility provided for
bathing their horses with sponges. This was
the fifth day that the themometer indicated
over 90 deg., the highest points reached being
97 and 95. Similar reports come from all
eastern cities.
The Great Wisconsin Flood.
The Chippewa and other Wisconsin rivers
were on a great rampage last week. A dis
patch from Chippewa Falls says: Wednesday
night was one of horror here in the city, the
water raising rapidly nptoti o’clock this morn
ing. The water stood four feet deep in Spring
street, and many of the firms removed their
goods. There was two feet of water in ths
Sostoffice. The Little Falls and Paint Creek
ams are out. There were about two hundred
million feet of logs in theLtttle Falls dam, ami
from twentv to fifty million in Paint creek.
The rise is over’ thirty feet—the biggest
flood ever known on’ the river. The
two Wisconsin railroad bridges went
out a little after midnight carrying
the wagon bridge with them. All tho
bridges at Eau Claire are gone except theOmaj
lia railroad bridge. The bank on the south
side, opposite the central depot, is cut into
150 feet, carrying away the Omaha roadbed.
The iron was removed from the track in anti
cipation of the break.
Fifteen buildings were carried down from
the city side and upward of twenty from the
South ’side. The loss is not less than 91,000,.
000. The Omaha bridge is the only one left
standing. Over fifty business places are inun
dated. The bridges throughout the country
have almost without an exception been carried
away, which will have a tendency to depress
trade for some time to come.
A special from Eau Claire says: At daylight
Thursday morning the Chippewa showed at the
water gauge twentv-one feet, covering an im
mense territory. The night was one of wild
excitement throughoutthecity, dark with pros
pects of additional rain. About four o’clock
the west half of the Madison street bridge gave
away, the monster timbers floating down the
river. When the new docking just placed at
the month of the Chippewa suddenly gave way
this with the force of the structure carried away
the railway, as well as the Kelsev street bridge.
The crash" could be heard for miles. As soon
as this occurred the liell from the engine
houses gave a general alarm, and soon more
than half the population was astir. On the
two structures rushed in their maddened
course till they came in contact with the rail
way bridge, which was demolished by the col
lision. The flood is the worst that has ever
occurred in this section, not only in the quan
tity of water, but the loss sustained. At mid
night the river is declining rapidly. The citi
zens are feeling better, but exceedingly regret
the loss of the three bridges. The entire loss
to the city by the flood is placed at 9560,600.
The loss to the Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
company bv washouts and loss of bridge ie
9400,(XX), and the loss by tho destruction of
private and public properly in the Chippewa
valley is 9150,000.
About this time last month there
was a decided feeling of uneasiness in
the financial world because of the de
crease of the government gold reserve,
and fears were actually entertained that
the United States Treasury might, by a
dread possibility, lie reduced to the
shocking necessity of paying out pale
pieces of silver instead of shining gold
en eagles. What objection there need
be to the Treasury’s paying silver was
not made altogether plain to ordinary,
comprehension, as the fearful alterna
tive could not lie contemplated with
composure enough to permit its fell ef
fects to be fully explained. Whatever
the danger was, it has now happily
passed away. More gold has come in
from Europe and elsewhere and the
Treasury surplus is once more on the
increase. During the month of August
the gold coin and bullion owned by the
government .increased i’ >m $119,000,-
000, the low ebb at which the financial
wiseacres began to take alarm, to $122,-
000,000. This gain of $3,000,000 in a
month is not very important in itself,
but the indications are that the increase
is going on and will continue during
the autumn months. Uncle Sam has
gold galore, and there is no longer any
danger that he will be compelled to pay
out silver dollars, so we are not likely to
learn what calamity would have ensued
had he been forced to that sad resort.
The Chicago Markets.
Wheat, Chicago spring, 76qi)76Vc; No. 3,
Chicago spring, 60c; No. 2 red, 79c; Na 3 red,
65c.
Corn, cash, 56@56J£a
Oats, cash, 25(a>25>ga
Rve, 53Vc-
Barley, 67}Za
Fork,’ cash, 918.00.
Lard, cash. 97.10@97.15.
Milwaukee Markets.
Wheat, No. 2, 74% c.
Corn, Na 2,56 c.
Oats, No. 2 white, 28} 3 a
Rve. No. 1,53 c; No. 2,51 c.
Barlev, No. 2, 61%c; extra No. 3,47 c.
Messl’ork, 917 cash.
Lard—Prime steam, 97.17 W.
Butter, choice creamery, 20@22c; fair to good,
17@19c; best dairy, 15@lfic.
Minneapolis Markets.
Wheat, Na 1 hard, 79%c; Na 2 hard, 73c;
No. 1,70 c.
Com. No. 2 53c; rejected, 48@50c; con
de&atSd: white, 25(326c; Na 2, new,
25%c; rejected, 22(®24c; condemned, 22@23c.
Barlev. No. 2. 58<<?60a
Mixed Feed, No. I, 917.50@918; No. 2, 916.56
(317. __
Corn Meal, unbolted, 917@918; bolted, 921
@923.
Hav, timothy, 99(39.50; wild, choice, 98@
&50;Na 2 wild, 95.5©@6 ,a
St. Paul Markets.
Wheat —No. 1 hard, new, 80c; Na 2 hard,
75c; No. 2,65 c.
Corn. Na 2,49 c; Na 3, 47 a
Oats, Na 2 mixed, 23c; No. 2 white, 25c; Na
3 extra, 50a
Rve, Na 2,49 a
Ground Feed, 91850.
Baled Hav, 98; timothy hay, 99.56.
Flax Seed, 91.15.
Potatoes, 20a
Eggs, 13Wa
Butter, dairy fair, choice, 15c; cream,
ery, 18c
ODDFELLOWSHIP.
Address of the Grand Sire of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge.—Satisfactory Growth of
the Order.
The following is an abstract of the address
of Grand Sire Leech, of the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows, delivered at the
eesaion in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 15th inst:
“To the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows—Represent
atives: Once more I greet you, as you gather
in these seats, to enter upon the work of an
other annual session. Let us reverently thank
our Almighty Father for the great privilege
granted to so many of us, as we assemble
here this morning. X congratulate you that
your are holding the sixteenth annual
communication in this great North Star
state, and one of the eight states in that sec
tion of our land which contains nearly one
quarter of the membership of the order. Let
ns see the roll—lndiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Dakota. It is a proud day for the 124,000
Odd Fellows of the vast region of our beloved
country. In their name and In their behalf
I greet you all. As required by the
constitution, I have the honor and take great
pleasure in submitting to you my report of
the official acts and decisions, and the gen
eral condition of the order for the year.
During the year there have been instituted
four grand lodges, two grand encampments,
189 subordinate lodges and forty-two sub
ordinate encampments. New territory has
been invaded and occupied, and our field
of labor largely increased. While we
have not initiated so large a number of
members as in the previous year, yet our
growth is a healthy one. We now number
nearly 506,000, and taking all things into
consideration the prospects of the order were
never more flattering than at the present
time. Returns show the following figures,
the increase being given in the last figures:
Increase
Grand lodges 54 4
Subordinate lodges 7,703 189
Grand encampments 43 2
Subordinate encamp’ts.. 1,906 43
Lodge members 505,871 11,875
Encamp’nt initiations... 10,620 576
Encampment members.. 90,852 5,742
Total relief 92,015,832 52 9133,388 64
Total revenue 6,350,041 47 104. 395 47
Lodge initiations 43,774 *3,775
’Decrease.
Following this are decisions of points of
special interest to the order, with a review
of the status of affairs ia Australia, Chili,
Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Nether
lands, Peru, Sandwich Islands, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and Trinidad, showing
a generally flattering condition, with a
healthy growth anticipated.
THE PRESS ORGANS.
Regarding the press of the order, ho says:
“The discussion of the Internal affairs of the
order by and through several of our fraternal
journals, styling themselves ‘organs,’ will, I
greatly fear, be seriously detrimental to the
best interests of Odd Fellowship. While I
cheerfully accord to the brothers who have
so earnestly labored to extend and build up
the order in its various fields of occupation
the purest motives, and willingly acknow
ledge the great good they have accom
plished, yet I am reluctantly impelled
by a sense of duty to say that many erro
neous constructions of law and usage, many
erroneous impressions of the effect and bear
ing of those lav. s have been, by means of the
press, scattered broadcast throughout our
wide domain. The constitution of the
supreme head of the order, as well as many
laws of the sovereign grand lodge,have been
subject of bitter and unfavorable com
ment and controversy, and in the
columns of some of these journals
it is strenuously argued that the
soverign grand lodge is not the source of
true and legitimate Odd Fellowship, etc.
Paper lias warned against paper, each, as a
matter of course, having the support of a
portion of the order, and thus already discord
is being fostered and a loosening
of respect for the mandates of the supreme
law-making power is growing where peace,
harmony and obedience to our laws
formerly prevailed. Certain parties
during the year some of promin
ence in the order—referring to the
source of all true and legitimate Odd Fellow
ship, seem to contend that the sovereign
grand lodge is not the source of all true and
leglmate Odd Fellowship in the United
States, etc. Against such doctrine I
desire, here and now, t-o enter my
solemn protest It sustains and perpetuates
not only itself, but the order of which it is
the great supreme head by engrafting into
its constitution such provisions and amend
ments as may be deemed wise. It was hoped
that the legislation had at the last session on
the question of the
SUPREME TEMPLE AND PATRIARCHAL CIRCLE
would have been a finality. From all I can
learn, no attention is paid by the cir
cle adherents to ♦he act of the su
preme temple, and they are still con
tinuing to form circles and take in
members as they did at the beginning. The
supreme oracle of the circle organization has
boldly declared that he will accept a charter
unless all the charter members are of the
royal purple degree thus, virtually nullifying
and setting aside the order made by the su
preme temple in the interest of peace. It is
true that no very great progress has been
made by the circle during the year, only
eight subordinate temples having been
instituted during that period, to wit: four in
Wisconsin, three in Minnesota, and one only
in Illinois: whilst two have surrendered
their charters, one of them being in Ohio and
one in Maine, showing quite a falling off
from the preqious year, and being a gain
of only six temples. They do not seem to
get a foot hold in more than eight or nine
jurisdictions, yet with a stubborness worthy
of a better cause, they seem to be determined
to try and force the sovereign
grand lodge to yield to them
illigltimate demand. Some further action
seems to be demanded from the grand body
to finally settle this annoying diffi
culty, and I leave the whole sub
ject to the wisdom of the repre
sentatives, who, I have no doubt, will
do what is proper in the premises. Docu
ments and proclamations accompany
the grand sire’s report. Grand Sec
retary Theodore A. Ross presents
a voluminous annual report of
seventv-nine pages containing carefully
compiled statistics with a tabulated exhibit
of the financial transactions of his office.
Grand Treasurer Alexander L Spear’s an
nual report shows an aggregate debit ac
count of .$59,647.60; aggregate disburse
ments. $38,862.85; balance on hand, $20,-
784.75.
He Blew a Bullet From His Nose,
The Jersey City Evening Journal
published lately an interesting story
about one of its carriers. Bushrod
Vaughn, now living in Greenville. At
the outbreak of »the rebellion Mr.
Vaughn belonged to Company D, 71st
N. Y. S. Mo. In the first battle of
Bull Run he received a bullet wound
below the left eye, and was left sense
less on the field. He was taken prison
er and was confined in Libby Prison at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., the whole period of
imprisonment being twonty-two months.
The bullet still remained in his head.
No effortjwas ever made to remove it.
A few days ago, while at work on his
hands and knees in his coal-bin, his
right nasal cavity became obstructed,
as he supposed, by a particle of coal.
He closed the left nostril and blowing
hard several times was delighted to
find in his handkerchief the bullet which
he had carried in his head for more
than twenty-three years. A collector
of curiosities offered him $250 for it,
but he refused the offer.
Setting apart differences of masculine
capacity and adaptation, a man, says
Mr. Richard A. Proctor, in order to fly
would need wings bearing the same
proportion to his body as we observe in
the wings of the sparrow or the pigeon.
In fact, the wings commonly assigned
to angels by sculptors and painters
would not be so disproportioned Io
the requirements of flight as has been
commonly supposed, if only the muscu
lar power of the human frame were well
adapted to act upon wings so pla< el and
shaped, and there was no actual inferi
ority in the power as human muscles
(cross section for cross section) os com
pared with those of birds.
The medical authorities at Washing
ton have concluded that neither yellow
fever nor cholera is likely to visit us
this year. This is good news for the
present, but such has been the hold se
cured in Europe by the cholera that it
is almost certain we shall see that un
welcome visitor here by next spring.
Meantime there is time to prepare. All
cities will be cleaned up, and it behooves
people in the country to look out for
privies, cesspools, drains, and every
thing else that may pollute the atmos
phere. Study and experience demon
strate the necessity of jood sanitation
for the prevention of epidemics and
for the general health, both in city and
country.
WRECKED BY THE FLOODS.
The Causes and Effects of the Inundation at
Eau Claire Fairly Con
sidered.
No Business Firms Are Seriously Affected by
the Disaster—Additional List
of Losses.
Relief Work at Home and Abroad—Drowning
of Mr. David Cover of Stillwater-
Minor Mishaps.
Causes and Effects nt the Flood.
From tho St Paul Pioneer Press, Sept 15.
Eau Claire is recovering from the dismay
which overwhelmed her last week; and her
people on looking over the situation, find
that their loss, great as it is, is not irretriev
able, and are taking heart of grace to repair
the damage done by the flood. It taught
them some lessons—dearly, it is true; but the
cost of which will be well covered if they are
heeded. Mr. E. P. Putnam, cashier of the
Chippewa Valley bank, interested in many
large commercial establishments in the city,
says to-day, the reason of the great damage
is that the people made the mistake of build
ing on low ground next to the river. They
might have gone to the bluff to build just as
well, and escaped the disaster. If the city
had spent one-tenth of the money in making
streets on the bluff that it has in fixing roads
near the river, the population would have
stretched farther back.
"What will lie the permanent effect of the
flood on the interests of the city?” was asked.
"A good one. We have learned lessons as to
where and how to build bridges, and how to
make foundations. Private citizens have not
paid so much attention as they ought to the
city’s public affairs, and as a result these numer
ous low and flimsy bridges have been built and
swept away. They will probably now take hold
and advise the council to see to it that bridges
shall „e fewer, higher, and of better construc
tion, and the people encouraged to build farther
away from the river. One good result of the
freshet is that It bus demonstrated the strength
of the dam and reservoir of Dells Improvement
company, of which we feel very proud. It has
been shown that they can hold all the logs that
come down, the only place on the river where
thay can be held, in fact, since the Chippewa
Falls dam fell out. This will give lumbermen
and manufacturers confidence in the eligibility
of Eau Claire as a location for their business.”
LOSSES TO LUMBERMEN,
while they are heavy are pretty evenly distrib
uted, and none of them are crippled, as I am in
a position to know, for our bank carries a num
ber of them. It is the same way with the gen
eral business of the city. While there is no In
surance ou damages, the loss in almost every case
is not total, and the stability of the houses will
not be affected."
"Do you expect much suffering among the
poor this winter on account of the calamity?”
"No. The present necessities of those made
houseless are being provided for. The repairs
which the flood makes necessary will furnish
work for everybody. The mills, too, will start
up in a couple of weeks.”
THE CAUSE OF TILE DISASTER.
Speaking of the cause of the disaster, Mr.
Putuam said:
I understand that the men lu charge of the
dams up the river were not at their posts when
the flood came, and neglected to open the gates,
so the water, instead of being let out easily and
gently, was penned up until it burst the bounds
and came down as a destructive flood. If this
charge is true, it shows very serious dereliction
on their part.
Losses at Eau Claire.
That part of the North side which was in
undated is a low flat along the river, occu
pied principally by one-story frame dwellings
of poor people. The scene has already been
described in general in these dispatches, and
a more careful survey only emphasizes the
seriousness of the disaster. The bank of the
river rises quite abruptly for a few few
feet to an elevation of about one hundred or
so feet wide back to Forest street, on which
is the track of the Milwaukee road, and
which is depressed three or four feet below
the lots on either side. The strip between
this and the river was well tilled with popu
lous shanties, and when the big rise occurred
Wednesday night the people at first refused
to leave. When the logs came down, how
ever, and battered at their doors, nothing was
left for them but to flee. They found
that Forest street, which they must cross,
was a rushing river, whose depth was more
than the stature of a man, and full of crash
ing logs. The crossing was made success
fully, however, and as far as can be learned
not a life was lost, nor was any serious
injury incurred. The flood made great havoc
with these little houses. They were floated
away in every imaginable shape. The topog
raphy of the land is entirely changed. The
drive along the river front is gone, and with
it Is annihilated fifteen or twenty feet of the
rear of the lots. What were fertile gardens
are now beds of quicksand and sa >vdust, or
ponds and creeks, the whole covered with
logs on which one may walk over the whole
district without ‘packing the ground. Forest
street and its railway track is piled with logs
three feet deep. A smart lawyer could no
doubt involve these poor people in some
interesting legal complications. For in
stance, one man’s wood pile floats off
to the premises of his third or fourth neigh
bor; whose will be the wood, and what out
sider can decide as to its identity? A man’s
house floats a block or so and finds an
anchorage in some one else’s back yard If
the building is worthless and its owner don’t
take it away, can he be sued for trespass?
Such are some of the problems which will
arise to the legal mind.
THE LOSSES.
The principal loser here is August Huyssen,
who owns and rents eight of these little
dwellings. His tenants are all poor, and
many of them lose their little all. Mr. Huys
sen’s loss, including his own premises, which
were quite ornamental, will amount to
$4,000. Other losers in this vicinity on
houses and contents are: A. Anderson, $200;
Pierre Neiisger, $2OO; C. Sclosser, $.300;
William Ulnch, $2,500; Peter Warner,
$2,000. O» the east side of Forest street
and the railway track, and on cross streets,
great damage was found The houses there
w-ere mostly two-story frames occupied by
Norwegians and Sweden The principal
losers are—
Chris Sack; residence, $600; WTlliam Schrie
ber. residence, $550; J. Ilepricht, residence, $400;
Pete Pctersoi, residence, $700; Lena Hole, resi
dence, $100; Adolph Sasska, residence, $500;
Joe Senenkngle, $200; F. White, residence,
$500; C. Falls, residence, $700: A. Huyssen,
residence, $500; Lars Nelson, residence, $175;
C. Johnson, residence, $200; P. Gordon, resi
dencs, $200; G. H. Bartle, residence, $108: W.
Klunieter, rusidence, $200; M. Johannes,
residence and factory. $10,000: Bargen,
$500; J. 0. Olson, store, $500; C.
Nelson, residence, $300: A. 8. Bostwick,
residence, $«(K>: Mrs. Garland, residence,
$100: Madison hotel, $600; R. Yunn. residence,
$1OO; Lnner & Branstcads’ store, $3,000; Run
stead block, $500; William Bachmann, resi
dence, $100; Anton Meyer, residence, $100; J.
H. Gnil, residence, $200; G. Ellison, residence,
$500; John Ohon, residence, $100; E. Solberg,
residence, $354; Ole Hanson, residence, $500;
Miss Berg, lauldry, $200; five or six residences
near Phienix mills, owned by Ole Mortimer,
Jacob Lorbe aid others damaged over SI,OOO.
These are only the principal losers, there
being a great number of little houses demol
ished, the fordgn names of whose owners it
is imjHissible to obtain correctly, much less
to send by tehgraph.
O> BARSTOW STTBEET.
On Barstow’street, going north from the
bridge and on the East side, losses are:
Ullrich & Nygardis, store, S2OO ; 8. Arnold,
saloon, $200; Nelson Bros., general store.
$1,000: Mr. Ho mes, saloon, $1,000; Farr Bros.,
store, $250; A. Halverson, store, $500; 8. Strum,
store, $5OO: Simpson<V Co., store, $300; Ide <fr
Co., store, S3OO, Nelson & Palmer, store, $200;
O. La Londe, bibber, $10O; J. Rosenbloom, tin
ware, $100; Fnwley’s block. $500; F. Kemps,
store, $250; McMahon <fc McElroy and
VaL Blum, saloons, each $200; George
Link, bakery, $1,OOO; A. H, Hol
land, dwelling $3OO; Paul Bromsted,
furniture, $500: Holm & Thompson, dry goods,
$300: Mclntire, groceries. $1,200; H. Schwan,
butcher. S2OO ; 8. C. Posick, gents’ furnishing,
$300: Larson .t Johnston, grocery, $500: ten
saloons, SIOO e»ch. Other losses on the North
side were: J. C. Olson, cigars and tobacco, $500;
H. Peterson, saloon and dwelling. $500: C. P.
Johnson, hotel ami dwelling, $1,000; Eric Skarn
sen, hotel, $500; John F. Wilson, dwell
ing. $200: Join Higgins, dwelling, $500;
Mangus Olson, dwelling, $500; Hugh Carey,
dwelling, $300: Bersang A Giman, tobacco,
$300; John Gimard, dwelling, $100; Gaston
Brothers, boiler shop. $7,000; Frank Mc-
Donough, four dwellings, $1,600: John Britton
hotel, $200; D. B. Campbell, dwelling. $500; W,
F. Rldell. dwelling, $100; Sam Regelman, dwell
ing, $200: Ols»n A Foss, saloon and livery
stable. $1,200; \. J. Anderson, dwelling, $400;
B. Storm, two dwellings. $200; Jung A Bur
chert, beer depot, $l,lOO.
These figures are obtained in a majority of
cases from owners. To the above damage
on the North side must be added the loss of
the track of the Milwaukee road, damage to
rolling stock and depot of over ,$5,000. Over
800,000 feet of logs floated into and on
most of the North side property.
IN OTHER DISTRICTS.
Madison, Hobart, Forest, Wisconsin and Gal
loway streets are badly damaged, filled with
debris and logs. Many people in this district
are destitute, and suffering is feared. Nelson
Brothers donated S2OO of tinware to the poor.
The water went no farther east than Barstow
street. The Phoenix mills are also on the North
side, and suffered most of all the mills. F. Gra
ham. treasurer of the Phoenix company, says
that their loss is dry kiln. 300,000 feet of hard
wood lumber, and minor damages to r-Uls.
Total, about SII,OOO.
THE EAST SIDS.
The East side is the principal part of Eau
eiaire.and the part which was inundated was
substantially built, so that to the eye, at
least, there is ai yet but little injury to
the buildings. Figtires as to losses to their
occupants are as yet unattainable, as the
damage to most of them was injury to goods
in basements. Most of them are yet under
water, and the goods inaccessible. Many of
such stocks will be found uninjured by the
water. The principal retail business is
saloonkeeping, and the proprietors of these
establishments can give bo estimate until
thev find out whether their spirits are still in
the'barrels. The following is. however, the
list of the losses as they could be ascertained
to-day. Only a partial list of the losses can
be given on the East side:
Gurnan A Doberman, shop, $1,000; John
Powers, residence. S4O; M. Smith, livery, $200;
A. Weisengger, residence. S 300; J. Langdon,
store, $500: Windsor bouse, $1,000; Johnson A
Murphy, livery, $250; E. A Ballard, drugs,
$3,000; 8. J. Smith, grocer, $2,000: McCumber
tCa, auction, $300; Newlin* saloon, $500;
Harrigan & Hankiln, tailors, $500; C. F. Dun
can, jeweler, $300; Mrs. Steppier, restaurant;
total loss, C. W. Chappell, Keyler & Co., Rich
ardson A Co., L. G. Moon, Bullard & Potter,
Misses Masse, W. H. Kreeland, Shute & Smith,
G. W. Robertson, wholesale liquors; $1,000; '
barn $650 Hinricks & Hartman, sigars and
tobacco; S2OO. Weil A Stcenluck, saloon; S2OO.
Young Bros., trunk manufactory; SBOO. Cle
ments A Lytle, livery: $250, E. M. Fish A Co.,
sash, doors and blinds: SBOO. Mrs. G. E. Por
ter, dwelling; SSOO. Mrs. J. 8. Owen, SSOO E.
P. Putnam, dwelling; $250. Opera ho-.ce, S3OO.
London Tea company, SSOO. 8. C Brooks,
hardware; SSOO. Williams A Willir s, furni
ture, S2OO. C. B. Walworth, prln. SBOO.
Chicago carpet store, $250. Charles a.oenburg,
dry goods; S4OO. N. 8. Stein, clothing; SSOO. |
Sam Ellis, livery stable; S4OO. Mat.-tss Kneer,
hotel; SI,OOO.
Thirty or forty residences on h ,»nth River '
street had their rear fences next to the river |
carried away and their yards tilled with
debris, which causes damages approximat
ing $l5O each. Some of the brick blocks
show signs of settling some as the water re
cedes, but it is hoped they will not be
rendered unstable. From Main to Kelsey
street, along Barstow, stocks in cellars are
damaged from SIOO to SSOO. There are no
reasons for changing estimates made in Sun
day’s Pioneer I’bess, that the total losses are
not over $1,000,000,
THE MII.WAUKEK S LOSSES.
Milwaukee, Special Telegram, Sept 14.—.
General Superintendent Clark, of the St Paul
road, has not yet returned from the scene of
the Chippewa river floods, where he went on
Friday. He is personally overseeing ths
work of repair going on there.
no damage at duband.
Duband, Wia, Special, Sept. 14.—This
place is all right this evening. The water
reached a point two feet above the higt
water of 1880, but there was no damage ex
cept to cellars. The bridge across the
Chippewa is all right Beef Slough boom
and the mills below will round up all logs
that come down.
Earlier Accounts.
From the St Paul Pioneer Press, Sept 14.
South of the Omaha railway bridge, in
West Eau Claire, from the Pioneer Lum
ber company’s mills to Westville, two miles
away, and at the extreme end of West Eau
Claire and at Westville, the damage wrought
by Thursday’s flood is tremendous. Along ]
this section the banks of the Chippewa are
low; but notwithstanding this and the
fact that the soil is sand, the people had con
structed their dwellings close to the water's
edge, apparently fearing no overflow. The
west side of Shaivtown, a division of
West Eau Claire, is where chaos reigns.
The streets are tilled with lumber, houses
turned and twisted in all ways, the whole
place covered with a layer of black mud,
left by the flood, from one to three feet in
depth; bedding, household furniture, roofs,
shingles, logs, lifteen-foot piles of wood;
houses with logs driven through them; the
depot inclined at an angle of forty-five de
grees, and telegraph, telephone and electric
light wires down. The Milwaukee railroad
track and bridge are completely uprooted;
the street car tracks are buried under the
blackest, nastiest mud that ever was formed.
The city bridges are literally distributed in
out-of-the-way places one indescribable
mass of everything that could float The
rise of water at Shawtown was twenty- 1
two feet six inches, the most of the flood oc
curring Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning. No lives were lost
there. The main damage is to the Milwau
kee railway, its loss certainly being over
SIO,OOO in that locality, while the streets
of Shawtown are swept out of existence.
The estimated damage from Westville to the
Half Moon Lake canal, which is the northern
boundary of Shawtown, is over $25,000.
Of deaths on the West side there
are not many, as near as they can be
traced now. It seems that a Mr. Lilly, who
lives near the Madison street bridge, was
trying to save his wife from the flood. His
body was found Friday morning. Friday
evening a float passed down the Chippewa
with two men on it According to the story
of the bystanders it disappeared just opposite
the Babey house and the men were not seen
again.ilGrossly exaggerated stories are fly
ing around about other deaths in the vicini
ty, but their truth is doubtful. Of the logs
that have broken loose, lumbermen say nos
one will reach Durand, and they
can easily be recovered when the
water goes down. Between Eau Claire and
Rumsey’s landing, down the river, many
farmers were found by the relief party
Serched upon knolls with their families;
omes gone, fields under water, and no pro
visions There are fears of great suffering
between here and Durand. A careful esti
mate made by parties resident there approx
imates the West Eau Claire losses about as
follows, and the figures given cannot be far
from correct:
Milwaukee road $25,000
Lumberfirms, foundry, etc 25,000
Municipal loss, bridges, etc 300,000
Residents 150,000
No outside aid will be needed. A public
subscription is being taken up in the
city for aid to' sufferers. It is
believed that the total loss in all Eau
Claire will not exceed $1.000,000. A house
passed the city Thursday half submerged,
a woman with a child in her arms standing
at the upper-story window and a man on the
roof. They are supposed to have been
drowned. The river has fallen rapidly to
day, at the time of writing having gone down
from fifteen to seventeen feet. It is stated
that over 400.000.000 feet of logs have
drifted into the Dells reservoir from north
ern points. The Phoenix Lumber company
estimates its damage at SIO,OOO. The
bridges across the Eau Claire in the city
are jammed into all possible shapes,
the damage to them being heavy. Reports
of a house having floated into the Dells
pond with five dead persons in it have just
come in. .Summarizing all the damage
resulting to this town up to date,
from Chippewa Falls to Eau Claire the main
damage is to the mill and lumbering inter
ests, though private property in that section
has suffered considerably. At Eau Claire the
city and railroads suffer; the mills are less
damaged. It is stated that over 5.000 peo
ple have been directly Injured by this flood,
overtwenty-five corporate firms damaged.one
of the principal divisions of a great railroad
almost entirely swept away, one-fifth
of a large city submerged, a dozen and over
smaller places more or less damaged and a
great agricultural region turned into a sea
The flood is directly traceable to the cyclone
that swept St Croix and Polk counties. The
great bulk of rain did not fall though till
after the blow' of last Tuesday night, when
all the small streams in Chippewa and Bar
ron counties north of here were turned into
rivers and lakes that discharged themselves
into the Chippewa and came down its course.
No such rainfall has ever occurred in Wis
consin before since early pioneer days, and
the destruction from wind and rain is unpar
alleled. Nearly four millions damage from
wind and over three millions from water is a
terrible record.
THE LUMBER INTERESTS.
Chippewa Falls, Wis., Special Telegram,
Sept. 13.—Fred Weyerhauser, president ol
the Mississippi Lumber and Logging com
pany, was here again to-day looking after
the interests of the company. He states that
there was in the Chippewa 525,000,000 feet
of logs belonging to his company, and above
75,000,000 belonging to other parties. Ad
vices received from Mr. Irvine, at Beef
Slough, are to the effect that all the logs run
in there thus far are safely cared for. Mr.
Weyerhauser thinks there is more than 100,-
000,000 there, an equal number at the Dells
reservoir, and 150,000,000 in the Paint
creek dam, and, as far as is known, even
more above Little Falls, filling the mouth of
Jump creek and the main river for some
distance up to the stream. No advices have
been received from Little Falls, but Mr.
Weverhauser believes that everything is safe
there. The ends of the Paint Creek.dam are
washed out, as is the east end of that on the
falls here. Mr. Weyerhauser says that his
companv owned improvements worth $400,-
000 on the river, and he estimates that it
will cost at least SIOO,OOO to make the re
pairs. From $25,000 to $40,000 will be
necessary to build the Point Creek dam. The
smaller dams above he thinks are pretty
generally gone, but has no positive informa
mation. The storm he believes to have been
MOST SEVEBE ON THE EASTERN TRIBUTARIES
of the river. He has heard from the West
fork and the Court d’Onrelle, and everything
is all right in that direction, but the storm
seems to have been along the East fork and
the Flambeau, where the water must have
fallen in torrents. A telegram from Hay
ward states that no damage is done there.
A large proportion of the logs now in the
four great reservoirs will be high and dry
when the water falls. Of the 600,000,000
on the river, Mr. Weverhauser estimates that
fully 300,1X10,000 are so high up on the
banks that they will have to be
hauled into the river again. little, if any.
more lumber will be cut on the Chippewa
this year, and there are enough logs from
Little Falls down to start the mills waiting
their supply from the Chippewa next year.
He believes that the winter will have to be
occupied in hauling the stranded logs into
the river, again, and that the lumbermen
will probably have to do their logging before
securing the’ stock for next year. He urges
that this work should be done before going
into the woods to get another start for next
winter. With the water fallen no more than
at the present time,
LOGS ARK SCATTERED ON THE BANKS
two and three hundred feet out of the water,
and high and drv. He does not estimate
the damage to the Chippewa Lumbering
company’s r lill and buildings here at more
than SIO,OOO, although the yard and sur
roundings present the sorriest sort of a sight.
The work of repair of boiler and of yard has
been commenced, but will occupy several
weeks The partially demolished buildings
will be repaired Some of the improvements
swept awav were made on the basis of the
flood of " 1880, and above the high
water mark then. Mr. Weyerhauser says
that the most serious part of the whole
affair is that it is almost impossible to pre
pare against the recurrence of similar disas
ters. The flood will limit the lumber pro
duction of the Chippewa to about 125.000.-
000 feet on this year’s stock, and accomplish
what it was honed to do bv the combination
to shut down. The mills are all more or less
injured, but the most serious loss will be to
the logging company in the damage to its
improvements along the river. A new dam
recently built at Pike lake, it is believed, is all
right The estimate of a damage of SIOO,-
000 isonly approximate, and the actual loss,
it is not at all unlikely, will far exceed that
amount An enumeration of the losses in
Chippewa Falls gives an aggregate of about
SIOO,OOO. A large number of stores and res
idences were either swept away or damaged.
The county board are receiving bids for the
reconstruction of the river bridges, which
will be completed in a short time. The bod
ies of an old couple named Rogers, who lived
about three miles below the city, were found
inside their house, which was washed away.
WISOOM IVEWS NOTES.
Waupaca county will nave but half a
crop of hops.
Ernest W. Maas has been commis
sioned postmaster of Richfield.
The fall term of the university at
Madison began with 130 students, of
whom sorts twenty-five take the phar
maceutical course.
Dr. N. P. Valerius is taking a car
load of horses from Fort Atkinson to
Scotland.
Fifteen night-blooming cerenses blos
somed at the same time at the residence
of Robert McMillian in Oshkosh.
At Union Center, near Wonewbc, the
large warehouse lielonging to C. C.
Eagle was burned. Loss, S2iOOO.
Cooper Bosohard of Bangor, was
killed by a train.
Stanley Bowrou estimates the wheat
yield of St. Croix county at 1,450,000
bushels for the crop of 1884.
The Congregational church at Ocon
omowoc was damaged SBOO by the ex
plosion of a gasometer to be used in
giving an exhibition of lantern views.
At La Crosse George K. Chase was
discharged as guardian of Gov. Wash
burn's widow. He w;ts allowed $15,-
000.
Judge Pulling, who has resigned
the circuit judgeship at Oshkosh, has
entered a law firm at Wausau.
At Beloit, Miss Emma Stone was
married to Mr. M. T. Hoadley, of Wi
nona, Minn.
In Mount Pleasant, Andrew Nelson,
aged about forty-five, was fonnd hang
ing by a rope which was attached to a
fence near the house of Mr. R. How
land, west of the city.
The tobacco harvest is abcut com
pleted, and the best crop ever raised in
the state is the result.
The North Wisconsin News says, the
Bayfield silver mine, four miles from
Pratt, is panning out big. A specimen
was taken a few days since that assayed
40 per cent, of copper and S4OO in sil
ver to the ton.
Thomas Cliff was killed at Boscobel,
while putting a belt on a pulley in Sil
vester Bros.’ grist mill. His arm was
drawn into the cog gearing, mangling
it in a shocking manner, death follow
ing shortly after.
During a row between two Winneba
go Indians at Morrison’s Creek, Jackson
ccunty, an old squaw was killed while
she was endeavoring to make peace.
The murderer, known among the tribe
as William Kingsley, managed to escape
arrest.
The Northern Wisconsin Iron Works
company, Marinette, filed articles of as
sociation with the Wisconsin secretary
of state, the object being to manufac
ture steam engine boilers, boiler works
and woodworking machinery. The cap
ital stock is $30,000
Necedah Lumberman: The cranberry
crop throughout the country is not
more than 25 per cent of what is
called a good crop. The Necedah mar
shes do not even make this showing,
while in the vicinity of Mather Station
Brooks’ marsh will yield but 1,000 bar
rels, where last season nearly 5,000 bar
rels were gathered; Kennedy’s 60,
Shipley’s 200, Burbank’s 100, Hamil
ton & Baker 100, Hamliton 50, which
represents but 20 or 25 per cent of the
usual good crops.
A terrible storm, accompanied by a
a wind which partook much of the
nature of a cyclone, struck Chippawa
Falls on the Bth unroofing houses, up
rooting trees, blowing down chimneys
and creating general havoc. The rain
was the most terrific of the season,
over four inches falling in two hours.
John Nagle, charged with rape, and
one Joe Seible, sent up from Glidden
for burglary, and confined in the county
jail at Ashland, made their escape.
They were both heavily ironed. They
sawed off one of the iron bars forming
the door to their cell, removed their
irons with the aid of a piece of wire,
gained the corridor and made their es
cape through a back window. One
hundred dollars reward has been of
fered for their capture.
Frederick G. Lintz, an old and
wealthy resident of Sheboygan, wa*
found dead in his bed, having died of
heart disease. He was seventy years
old.
The marriage of Miss Frances Clark,
one of the leading and most popular so
ciety ladies of Madison, to Paul H.
Wood of Duluth, took place at Grace
(Episcopal) church on the 16th.
At Delevan Albert R. Topping, aged
nineteen, son of C. H. Topping, a lead
ing dry goods merchant, and Miss Wini
fred C. Dewey, aged eighteen, a daugh
ter of Prof. E. Dewey, th* principal of
the high school, while out riding late
last evening were struck by a passenger
train and instantly killed.
Mrs. R. S. Angel of Chicago, widow
of the late R. S. Angel, of the Angel
Construction company, has entered
suit in the United States court here for
$500,000. This action grows out of the
so-called Air Line grant question in ths
northwestern part of the state. The
grant was given the Chicago, Portage
& f. icrior railway company. The
company contracted to build a portion
of the line. Later the railway company
without a settlement with the Angel
company, sold or transferred its right
to the grant to the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha railway compa
ny, and the grant was secured to the
Omaha road by an act of the legislature.
The suit was brought for an alleged
breach of contract.
The E. D. Davis Trading Company
of Milwaukee has filed articles of asso
ciation with the secretary of state at
Madison, the object being to deal in
fancy groceries. The capital stock is
SIO,OOO, and the incorporators are J.
Cohn, H. Dettenheim .of Milwaukee,
and W. G. Pittman of Madison.
Mr. Henebner of Ellington, accident
ally shot about six weeks since, died
recently.
It is estimated that s2<* 000 will be
paid out in Spirit Lake for flax this
Fall.
A State meeting of the National Re
form Association has l>een called to
meet at Indianola on the 16th and 17th.
This is the organization which seeks to
embody the name of God in the Con
stitution, stop Sunday trains, Sunday
papers, etc.
The Hon. Marshall I. Bailey, mayor
of the city of Missouri Valley, died of
paralysis of the stomach, aged thirty
eight years.
CASTORIA
for Infants and Children.
"Caatoria is so veil adapted to children that
t recommend it as superior to any prescription
laown to me.” H. A. /-arnxa, M. D-,
ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
ICentaurXinimentl
■ An absolute cure for Rheumatism, Sprains, Pain in B
■ the Back, Burns* Galls, &c. An Instantaneous Pain- Kt
B relieving and Healing Remedy*
Purely Vegetable. In Use 29 Years.
e ELIXIR OF LIFE
Cures Cough* of Ixuig Standing, au«t i* a sure for
Coughs, Cold*. Croup, Consumption. Sore Throat, n hooping
cough, and all diseased of the lhr<»at and Lungs.
READY RELIEF TO PAIN
leads the list of all Remedies for I>yspcp*la, Dysentery, Diar
rhea. Cholera Morbus, Colic, Cramps. I’aliiln too Stomach arci
Bowels, and is an excellent remedy h*r < li.hiren Teethiug. It
always leave, tbu Bowels in good coinlitoiii Iry it.
EXCELSIOR LINIMENT
Will not Blister, or Smart when applied to Fresh Cuts, Chafes,
or Burns, and is unexcelled for Blieuniatism.Sprains,Bruises.
Burns, Scalds, Corus. Warts. Chilblains, chapped hands. Neu
ralgia. Toothache, General Infliinnilfon and llea.la.he. Also
bi mi in* Llsesbcs The best on Earth lor Mun or
THE BILIOUS MANS' FBI END.
The Great Blood Purifier. Il Cures Cortlvcncsa, Indigestion. Sick Headache. Heartburn. Jaundice.
Nervous Disorder. Nightmare, Scroftila, Fcnrvcy. Fleers, Worms. Piles. Wliitea, Ineoutinauca ul
Peine, all Liver and Kidney complaints, Rheumatism and Cunsuniptmu.
CATARRH RELIEF—Cures Catarrh in head and throat
MAGIC EYE WATER—Cures Sore and Inflamed Eye.
BON’AFIDE CORN CVRE—Cures Corns. Bunions, Warts, Chilblains, Ac.
CONDITION POWDERS—For Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs.
. VEGETABLE STICKING SALVE—For terne Back, Cuts, Ac. PRICES, 25, to ami »1. per bottle.
Ask your druggist for circular, or write the proprietor THUS. E. TV BUS, River I alls, W is.
Noyes Bros. & Cut ley. Wholesale Agts., St. Paul, Minn.
•Aa to the success of your medicine, this 1 know. Mw
lx months aso I was weak. I.au and
rith ns .lrntlons, but no laward force
rhose nights wer. fowl in tewing anil ro.lica a or.
.leeplt ss bed, whose days were bannteri hr
•evpriesor bliahtad by blinding h aducne. 1
crSe the;. Now, after the oh ™
.xccllent remedy, I feel myeelf «
veiaht 175 lbs spirits bo Roo d that I wbinth-U we n. w
tod shout out of doors. In sight of all i”*
nbo insignificance. 1 wi-h 1 might
a deluded young men by reoommeoduig you: rsmeuy.
The original letter from whuh the abovo fr'
•xtract, and several hundred ollieis expo ■
flintier oplnlons.ln equally strong terms.nre rm c
ind will be shown to iiny on* calling at our <>r <
alio shows that Ids Interest la « h «
purely from a desire to guard against imposition.
HARRIS REMEDY CO. MF CCHEMIST3,
Marant and Str. Sts. •» LOUIS, MO.
Jao Mtntr > "astacßt S 3, two non*- <5. throe noitit
JL home. $5.00 outfit free.
f 1 | | I |Pay absolutely sure. No risk.
I g g Capital not required. Reader, if
w. EfiW w%y , ’ u "ant business at which ;xir-
X Si Bisons of either sex, young or old,
aal II | < '” n make great pay nil the time
I JBJ 1 "tbey work, " ith al.solute certain-
V v —» , v , write for particulars to 11.
Hallett A Co., Portland, Mai lie
h t I
Bnfants and Children
What gives our Children rosy cheeks.
What cures their fevers, makes then; sleep;
Casto ria.
When Babies fret, and cry by turns.
What cures their colic, kills their worms.
Castoria.
What quickly cures Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Colds, Indigestion :
Castor! a-
Farewell then to Morphine Syrups,
Castor Oil and Paregoric, and
Hail Castorin.
“Castorla is so well adapted to Children
that I recommend it as superior to any medi
cine known to me.”—H. A. Abchkk, M.D.,
Hl So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
[Centaurl
■ An absolute cure for Rhou- K
ffi mutism. Sprains, Pain in the 3
ra Back. Bums, Gal’s, Ac. Anfn-S
® stantaneons Pain- reliever.
sow ■ the working class. Rend
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s ’i b I I l"iU mail you free, a royal.
I 111 I Ivaluable box of sample goods
3 aS | | I Ithut will put you in the way
111 11 I lof making more money in a
1111 1 | J few days than you ever
Baa Bv thought possible in any busi
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IVe will start you. You can
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The w ork is universally adapted to both sexes,
roung and old. You can easily earn from 50
hints to Vo every evening. That all who wort
nay lest the business, we make this iinparullel
‘d oiler; to t.ll who are not wi ll satisfied we will
lend St Io pay for the trouble of writing ns.
■ill particulars, directions, etc., sent free. For
lines will lie made by those who give their
Aliolc time to the work. Great success abso
utcly sure. Don delay. Start now. Address
•tlxeton A Co.. Portland. M line.
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V•u«uiea hlrk in y««r syo
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on by pretentious alaima ol
A Kiuhfia.l Cnra other' ramMio for these
trouble. Get our free circo
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SPERMATORRHEA
Ml uktiun * v /raU a rcmc4y tfcut hM care 4
IST ZD thousands, and does not in-
ISinfiTrSIPV twfcre with attention to bnal-
ImiUiLlluYs new or cause pain ar Idcob-
Tonicnee. Founded on sei-
rr-Tosted for o«r »
years Dy use in thou- tinn. Direct application ta the
swat of diwaae makes ka epe
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* TRIAL* 9 A life which have b~a
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HARRIS REMEDY CO., M’fg Chemists.
SOfi’4 North 10th St., St. Mo.
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WE PRINT
Letter Heads,
Note Heads,
Bill Heads,
Statements,
Envelopes,
Circulars,
Pamphlets,
Legal Blanks.
Note Books,
Receipt Books,
Shipping Tags,
Grain Checks,
Postal Cards,
Business Cards,
Wedding Cai'is.
Programmes,
Bank Checks.
Deposit Checks,
Lawyers’ Briefs,
Order Books,
Price Lists,
Sale Bills,
Horse Bills,
&c., &c., &c.
tVOrders by mail promptly attend
ed to, aud satisfactiouguaranteed.
Cantoria cures Colic. Constipation,
Sour Stomach. Diarrhoea, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and pixiuiotea Ofr
p'stion.
Without mjurious medication.
Wright s Indian Vegetable Pills
FOB THB
LIVER
And all Bilious Complaints
bale to take, being purely vegetable: tiogrip
THE ROYAL ROUTE
Chicago, St. Paul,
MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA,
AND
Chicago & Northwestern R’ys.
THE SHORTEST AND BEST ROUT
East to Chicago, with Dining Cara,
Elegant Day Coaches, and palace Smok
ing Room Sleepers on all trains from Min
neapolis and St, Paul, through EnuClairo
and Madison, with choice of route via
Milwaukee. THE CHICAGO, ST.
Paul, Minneapolis*Omaha icy
also runs through trains south-west from
St. Paul and Minnea|H>)is to Sioux City
and Council Bluffs, with Sleeping ('am
through without change to St. Joseph
and Kansas t '-ily, anil is the short, quick
route from St. Paul to Des Moines. North
east from St. Paul, through trains are run
to Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield,
Lake Superior; and from Eau Claire to
Superior < 'ity, where connection is uuide
for Duluth, ’ But this route to Chicago is
what the Managers take pride in, and be
cause of the smooth steel rail track, well
ballasted road bed, the best Day Conches,
Sleepinganil Dining Cars that money can
procure, courteous and attentive employes
and with trains always on time, it is
rigidly named
“THE ROYAL ROUTE.”
TBV TC.S MITE IVIIIfI till TRIVEI..
Gko. B. Mkkiuck, Agent, River Falls'
F. B. Claiikk. T. W. Tkasdai.e,
Gcn’l Trafliu Manager. Gen’l Paaaengur Ag't
iW’ FREE!
self-cue
bmwbX A favorite prescription of one of thi
m<fst noted and .successful specialists in Ilir(T.B.
(now retired)for the curcof
TiOitt Mftnhf»od,W^akne^ttand nl
In plain scaled cnvclope/ree.DniKplstscan fill ifo
Address PB. WARD & CO. Louisiana, Mo.
Dil MX < i lltl
for postage, and rc
which Will help
you to more money
■ right away than
■ anything else tn
thia world. All.ol
< .iber aex, auceceil
from the first hour. The broad road to fortune
ope*’" before the workers, absolutely sure. Al
once address. Tuck A Co. Augusta, Maine.
Wervoxki JtixJaaustiou,
PrexnaUre Decay*
Loss of Manaoo J.
An 90-page Cloth-bound Book of Adrie* t»
Young or Middle-aged Men.with nrescrlpttonS
for Self-treatment bv a Regular Physician
SENT FREE stomp* * Addrßßt
williams co., m.iwaukee.
T ALL ODDS
I H£ bESTEpLW£g
RAILROAD IN THE WORLD.
Let it be forever remembered that the
uhicago&North-Western
RAILWAY
is the best and shortest route to and from
Chicago and Council Bluffs (Omaha), and
that it is preferred by all well i»sled
travelers when passing to or from
CALIFORNIA and COLORADO
It also oj>eratcs the best route and the
short line between
fcgo id SLPaalßMiHjaju’i:
Milwaukee, I.a Crosse, Sparta, Madison,*
Fort Howard (Green Bay), Wis., Winona,
Owatonna,Mankato, Minn.,< 'edar Rapids,
Des Moines, Webster ('ily, Algona. Clin
ton, Marshalltown, lowa, Freeport, Elgin.
Rockford, 111., are amongst its <BOO local
stations on its lines.
Among a few of the numerous |«>ints
of superiority enjoyed by the patrons of
this road, are its DAY COACHES which
are the finest that human art and inge
nuity can create; its palatlal SLEEP
ING CARS, which are models of comfort
and elegance; its PALACE DRAWING
BOOM VARS, which are iifisnrpassed by
any; and its widely celebrated.
NORTH WESTERN DINING CARS
the like of which are not run by any
other road anywhere. In short, it is as
serted that IT IS THE BEST EUUIP
PED ROAD IN THE WORLD.
All (mints of interest North, Northwest
and West of t'hicago, business centres,
summer resorts and noted hunting anil
fishing grounds are accessible by the
various branches of this road.
It owns and controls over 5800 miles of
road anil has over four hundred jiassen
ger conductors constantly caring for its
millions of patrons.
Ask your ticket agent for tickets via
this route, AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticket agents sell them. It
crista no more to travel on this route, that
gives first-class accommodations, than it
does to gp by the poorly equipped rotvis.
Foj - maps, ilescriptive cin-uhirs and
summer resort, or other informa
tion notobtainable at your local ticket
office, write to the
Gen’l Pass. Agent,G.&H.-W.Ry,
CfllCA<4O, H 1..
inrll th v o . r n to*:
selling book in
America. IminciiM
prrflts to agents. AU ait?lflz« ii: people want ft.
Anyone can become a >es,ful agent. T’enui
ftou. Uacu.ll Bcoa Uu, l or.teud, Maine.