River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-27
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premiums, which caused such a cOmmotion in
insurance circles.
RoBT. AND STEPHEN DOUGLAS, sons Of the
late Senator Douglas, have prepared claim
for $3.50 600 tor then private cotton and other
property taken, used and appropriated in
March, 1868, in Mississippi, by portion Of
the army OF the United States.
~ THE pewholdcrs Of the Old South Church
have voted, 2s 10 in favor of leasing the
building for post-oftice.
COMMODORE Vanderbilt has abandoned for
the present his underground railway through
New York City.
GENERAL SIoEL has been elected president
of the Society Of United Nationalities
Hon. w. W. SELLERS, prominent Illinois
Republicans, died at PelSin, Sunday, of typhoid
fever
THOMAS SNDERsoS, deputy Marshal Of
Springfield, Ohio, charged with robbing money
order letters Of $4,000, waived an examination
before the United States Commissioner, and
was held to answer in $1,000.
WIN. GARDNER, who has been on trial at
Cleveland, charged with poisoning J. Waters,
of Bedford, last March, was acquitted Satur-
day.
"A NEW organization called the Tammany
Central Association has just started in New
York, having among its members John Kel-
ley, Abraham II. Lawrence and other notable
citizens.
THos. DUSHAM was arrested in New York on
Saturday Tor attempting to negotiate bond
OF the state OF Missouri, which was raised from
So to $500. Durham had on his person bonds
representing $4,000, all OF which he admitted
were raised.
john L. KESsETT, President of the Artists
Fund Society, and member of the National
Academy, distinguished landscape painter,
died suddenly at his studio in New York, Sat
urday afternoon.
The United States steamships Supply ana
Guard have been detained by the Government
90 carry the goods OF American exhibitors to
the Vienna International Exposition.
A New YORK Sunday paper states that the
murder Of Maud Merrill by her uncle, Robert
+. Blcakley, was caused by her refusal to con-
tinue TO pay him share Of her earnings, and
that he was her real seducer.
FIVE men were buried by the caying in Of
trench on the grounds of the Missouri Insane
Asylum, only one Of whom was rescued alive.
BOILER explosion in mill in Wayne
county, Missouri, demolished the building,
killed four men and wounded three others.
A YOUNG son OF F. b. Machhold upset coal
oil lamp at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday night,
and was SO seriously burned by the fluid that
he died.
ALL the lists Of Electoral Colleges Of the
several states for President and Vice President.
excepting three, have been sent to the Presi.
dent Of the Senate by mail, though not more
than one-third Of the entire lists required by
law to be delivered TO him by messenger have
yet been received. Louisiana sends lists from
two different Electoral Colleges. The two
Houses of Congress, in joint convention, will
determine which list shall be counted on the
second Wednesday OF February, the time Of
counting all the electoral votes.
EDWIN FoRREsT the tragedian, fell dead at
his residence in Philadelphia, on Thursday
while dressing.
The ship Franklin, en- route from Hamburg
to San Francisco with large number of emf
grants stranded on the coast Of Ylieand, Is
pieces. Eighty persons persisted.
DATER a NAsH's sash and blind factory,
Troy, n. Y, was burned Sunday morning
Loss $40 600 insured $4,000. Fifty employees
lose situations and their tools.
AT Peoria, Ill.,, on Wednesday, Henry Nc
Nulty was found guilty Of numbering his wife
and sentenced 10 he hung
Fr A. r,rovYge.l o., .-,,4 -. 49,. - 1.
to Horace Greeley in Paramount Park, Phia-
delphia.
GREAT damage was done by hurricane in
Parie and Versailles on Sunday. Several per-
sons lost their lives IN both cities.
MARY Ann FA0AN, a victim of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel firc, died in great agony at Belle.
yue Hospital on Wednesday.
joins c. MOORE was thrown from horse al
Lincoln. H., aud instantly killed. lie was q
stranger IN the town, being engaged by War
rem, Higgins & Bean, Of Chicago, in getting NJ
map Of Logan county.
THE brush factory OF the Lansingburg tN
- Manufacturing Company, with al its con
tents, WAS destroyed by an incendary fire sun
day morning. About two hundred men. wo
men aud children are thrown out Of employ
ment, and the loss is yariously estimated al
$4,000 90 SIS, 600
THIRTEEN houses were destroyed bv fire al
st. hary's, Kansas, last SATURDAY. Los.
heavy.
DESPERATE in Chattanooga, Tenn. on
saturday, knocked down Mr.. Colwell. a NOR.
chant and sitting upon bis body. stabbed him
terribly with a bows knife killing him. Then
when his arrest was attempted, he shot and
Killed two policemen, andwoundod third A.
forwards escaping across tho river In i cann,
THt war vessels Guerrero and Albany No..
sold at auction at the BROOKLYN navy yard 81,
Thursday the former bringing s5l. 600 am,
the latter SIS 600.
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