River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-25

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Ionderous judgement ofSir Alex. Cockburn,
dissenting from the award Of the the Geneva
arbitrators has had the effect to create a be-
lief that the award was hagrantly unjust TO
England.
The extensive new furnace Of the Nine
l.amott Mission Lead Company, at Frederick
town, was burned on Thursday. Loss a quar-
ter Of million dollars Five hundred men
are thrown out Of employment
A RESCoNTRE occurred in st. Louis on We'd
nesday between j. NJ. Turner and Geo. b.
Wedley, eolored politicians, in which Wedley
stabbed Turner with pen knife, inaicting a
serious if not fatal wound.
FURTHER trouble between whites and blacks
in Oseola, Arkansas, are reported. In fight
on Wednesday, one negro was killed and sew
.ral wounded. The negroes we're driven out,
hut threatened to return and burn the town.
Abroad.
The North German Gazette gives an author
alive denial to the current report that Bis
rnarck's health is 30 bad that his leave of
obsence has been extended three months.
The Gazette states that the physicians of the
Prince do not regard his illness at all serious.
or as likely to render the proloEgation OF his
absence abroad above the appointed time
necessary
The Nautical Magazine Of Liverpool announ-
ces an ocean race from that port to Calais, be-
tween the White Star steamer Republic aud
the Pacific Company's steamer Lacora. The
latter vessel was to sail from Liverpool on the
9Th inst, aud the former the following day
The distance is 1000 miles.
Tue Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has ar
nved at Constantinople. The Sultan has con-
terred the Order of 0smane on him. The
C2arowltch Alexander has gone TO Vienna at
the invitation of the Emperor Francis Joseph
BIZ the accidental flooding Of coal mine
near Wrexham, Wales, five hundred miners
ave been thrown out of employment
The workmen in the Havana cigar manu-
factories have inaugerated a strike for higher
wages.
FIVE gambling saloons in well known Ger
man watering places have been closed.
THE race for the Czarowitch stakes Ia free
handicap, one Of the greatest events of the
English Newmarket Autumn meeting, was
run Tuesday, and won by Salyanos. sylvia
was second and Enfield third. Twenty-four
Horses ran. The betting just before the star
was II to against Salyanos, 3 to against
sylvia, and IL to against Enfield. W. Arnull
was the jockey OF the winner.
RIcHAgD WAGNER, the famous composer.
who is now on visit to Bologna, has been Of
tered the freedom oft at city, where his opera
8 Lohengrin, recently had such great sue
cess
THE Havana newspapers, IN commenting on
the report that Spain intended to claim DANA
res from the United States for the rayages Of
the, American flibuster st amers, think that
Spain is justified in doing so, and that the
case against the United States is on an equal
footing with shat of the Alabama claims
against England.
STRAsBoURG telegram saws that an official
statement has been made of the result of the
option. it shows that Of the natives of the
now German provinces OF Alsace and Ior-
raine, l6i,663 have declared in favor of retain
ing French citizenship. or this number &c.
8o0 declarations have become valid through
emigration to France, and in addition to 1t
1900 domiciled Frenchmen have left the
provinces.
FHE steamers Congress, Brooklyn, and Ply
mouth, of the United States fleet, have arrived
IA the Tagus, Portugal.
FHE teegraphic dispatches forwarded and
received at the expense of the British govern
ment on the subject ofIndirect Claims amount
% $500, GOO
1T is reported that Prince de Joinvi'le and
Duke d'Aumale viii resign their seats in the
Assembly.
A WASHINGTON dispatch states that the an
naunccmeut OF the death of Mr.. Seward is re-
coiyed with regret in all quarters. The State
Department building will, as mark ofrespect
10 his momory, be drapcd in mourning.