River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-11


VIM wsttach & Sons, tanners, liabilities
100000; and James B. McEdden, jewelry.
liabilities $4,000.
JOSEPH ORDIsH, of California, was robbed on
a train OF the Pan Handle railroad of a pocket.
book containing $4,000 in Treasury notes
He discovered his loss at Newark, Ohio, and
thinks that he was robbed at Pittsburg.
JAMES FRANCE was shot, and as is supposed,
fatally injured, near the corner of Blake street
and Indiana avenue, indianapolis, Saturday
night, by Albert Oberman. 1t appeared that
Oberman had been improperly intimate with
the wife of Francis.
CHARLES r. HENDERSON was arrested Satur-
day night, by the police authorities OF Balti-
more, charged with the murder of DR.. Merri-
man Cole on the night of January s, 1872.
Henderson was tenant of DR.. Cole up to
within a few days of the murder. 1t is stated
that there is evidence very strong against
him.
SAMUEL STERNETT was carried over the State
dam at Cohoes, N. Y, in skiff, near Green
Island, Saturday night, and drowned.
ABNER HAYWOOD, Secretary of the New York
Firemans Insurance Company, is defaulter
TO the amount of $4,000.
PATTON ANDERSON, Major General in the
late Confederate Army, died at his residence,
near Memphis, Friday morning. He was
graduate of West Point.
The War Department has issued an order
announcing the death. of Gen. Thayer and
directing the usual salutes to be fired and the
observance of other ceremonies.
EARTHQUAKES, accompanied by underground
explosions, have occurred in Owen County
Valley, California.
THERE is considerable excitement at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. over the absconding Of Alex
McClelland, wholesale and retail grocer, whose
liabilities are some $4,000. About ten per
cent is expected to be realized from the stock,
store and fixtures.
The warehouse of VIM. S. Long g. Co., in
st. Louis, with its contents of coal, oil, flour,
hemp, hay, salt, sugar, ETC.. burned Friday
night. Loss between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Union school building at Moline, Iowa,
was burned Thursday night. Loss, $40, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
owned and operated by Charles Morey, were
destroyed by fire Thursday morning. Loss
s14, 900 insurance, $40 900. The capacity
the mill was $50 barrels per day.
A FIRE at Green Bay, Thursday night, de-
stroyed the Aston Lumber Company's mill
Loss, 500, 000-insurance. $500.
The Acting Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue. has directed the suspension of the work
of gauging beer packages, which was being
done under special order 100, until further Or
ders.
In sinking a shaft for coal at Chaplin Nor
gan county, ILL.,, when depth of $50 feet was
reached, vein of lead was reached.
AT Bellevue, Iowa, William Hawkins, an old
man of SO years, while laboring under fit of
insanity, brought on by long illness, commit
ted suicide by drowning in a mill pond.
A LARGE dry goods firm in West Broadway
New York, having numerous Western connec-
tons, is reported one of the suspended. It's
liabilities are represented as very large and its
assets disproportionately small.
DURING the past two weeks there have beer
in and around New York, about fifty suicides,
actual and attempted, more than have been
known in the same time for many years. This
destructive epidemic continues.
Abroad.
The Pope, on Monday, wentbeyond the pre-
cincts of the Vatican for the first time since
the occupation of Rome by the italian Govern
ment. He proceeded to Portadella Zecea, and
walked in the gardens.
GRAND volcanic eruption has burst forth
on the summit of Maunatoa. A column Of fire
200 feet high is constantly playing in the air.
TIDAL wave was noticed on the 23d of Au-
gust, on Oahu and Kauai, Sandwich Islands.
at Shanghai, China.
The remains of the late King Charles XIV.
were brought to Stockholm on Tuesday, and
taken in solemn procession through the
streets, receiving every mark of respect and
sorrow from the inhabitants.
WRITER for the London News having pub
lished graphic description of the horrors of
a Storage passage across the Atlantic, scores
of correspondents are adding testimony to the
abuses and sufferings to which steerage pas
sengers are subject, urging reform.
The Government of Brazil has granted
Baron Wana a concession for telegraphc
cable between Brazil and the Portuguese
coast.
The Havana Gaceta publishes new and
stringent law compelling the Cinnamon now
there to again make contract for their labor,
for terms not less than six years nor more
than eight years, or leave the Island.
A coAL-PIT near Herplal, Belgium, on the
Mense, was accidentally flooded recently while
the men were at work. The inundation was
so sudden that Twenty-Five miners were drown.
ed in the pit.