River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-08

| IN Iowa tnlS year. "A numDer OF houses ana
large amount of grain, fences and other prop
erty have been destroyed in Pattowattomie,
Mills. Clay, O'Brien, Woodbury. and Cass DUR
ing the last few days. Two children were
burned to death on the prairie between Cor
rectionville ana Cherokee, on Saturday.
GREAT trotting match on the Prospect
Park ground for purse Of n, GOO between
Gazella, Judge Fullerton. Rosalind and Geo.
Palmer commenced on Monday. and was con-
cluded Oh Tuesday. Gazelle winning. Time
2:23k, 221, 1924, 2:23A, 2:23k. Fullerton
took second money.
AT colt show in Lexington, KY. John
Stout, exhibited a chestnut FLY one year old
by Mambeino Patchen, dam by the thorough
bred horse Mark Time. She was given two
mile trial. She trotted the first mile in 3:05,
and the second in 3:O2. making the two miles
in GOT. This is the most wonderful perfor-
nance ever witnessed in the Blue grass region,
if not in America.
The circumstances of the cadet troubles at
the Naval academy, at Annapolis, as reported
to the Department, are briefly that Robert ID.
Diggs, of Maryland, cadet midshipman, met
colored cadet midshipman Coneyers on the
grounds of the Naval Academy, and, afteI
some words between them, fight ensued
Diggs getting the better Of Coneyers. The
representation being that Diggs was In fault,
an order was issued dismissing Diggs from the
Academy.
The new corn field crop of Michigan is very
heavy and farmers are very blue over the
prospect Of fifteen cents per bushel this win
| ter.
BARNUM's & Co.'S jewely case, on exhibition
at the exposition at Memphis, was robbed Of
IS, 1000 worth OF diamonds, Monday, while the
clerks back was turned. No clue to the rob-
bers.
| AT a special meeting of the trustees of the
| Northwestern University, at Evanston, Rev.
Charles H. Fowler, d. D., pastor of the Meth
odst Centenary church of Chicago, was elect
ed President of that institution, to succeed
Rev. E. o. Haven.
The Peoples Savings Bank, ofSyracuse, has
failed.
JULES D. STERY, German, formerly clerk
in the Meridian National Bank, in Indianapolis,
forged an order on the Indiana Banking Com
pany for $4,000, and escased with the money
The Turf House and stables, at Rye Beach,
N. H., burned Tuesday morning. The con-
tents were mostly saved:
A YOUNG man named Holmes was instantly
killed, Tuesday evening, ybeing run into by
locomotive, while crossing the railroad track
on South Water street, Cleveland, in wagon.
MRS ELwooD, OF Holly, Michigan, commit
ed suicide by strychnne. Cause, domestic
trouble.
A GERMAN on the steamer Dubuque, Satur-
day night was swindled out of $500 by con-
fidence operator, who used the well-known
tobacco-box me. The man escaped kom
the boat Sunday morning, and has not since
been found.
The giving out of the retort of the gas
works, in Davenport, Monday night, left the
city in darkness about ten O'Clock. Type
settlers, telegraph operators and others used
candies. The new gas-works will be COM
pleted the middle of next month, with ample
capacity to supply the city.
WOMAN about sixty years of age, named
Mrs. E. Dersh, fell or jumped from the Central
railroad bridge at Rochester, N. Y, into the
river, Tuesday, and was carried over the high
Genesee falls.
THE widow of Rev. DR.. Francis Wayland, of
Brown University died on Tuesday.
As passing train on the Atlantic & Pacific
railroad was leaving Marshfeld, Mo-, between
nine and ten O'Clock Monday night, and as
conductor Porch was entering car he was
shot by an unknown man and killed. 1t is
supposed the deed was committed by man
whom he had put off the train for refusing to
pay his fare.
VIM. CLUcK, the indianapolis wife-murder
er, has been sentenced to be hung on the Goth
OF December.
CAPTAIN RICHARD M. GORDON, of st. Joseph,
Mich, committed suicide on Monday night by
taking morphine. Cause business troubles.
HENRY d. ]. PRATT, Chief of the First Diplo-
matte Bureau of the Department of State, has
resigned.
Mrs. GREELEY was very low Tuesday even
ing. Her physician says her death is hourly
expected, though her present condition is no
worse than on two previous occasions.
JOHN MoKEoN is said to have determined to
Withdraw as senior counsel for Stokes. A
witness has been found who heard the hotel
boy Hart tell different stories concerning the
shooting.
The New York Board of Health has ordered
an investigation into the death of Nicholas
Seabrook, said to have been caused by ill
treatment on the steamship Oceanic, on the
voyage from Liverpool.
Mrs. ELIZABETH COOPER, widow of Commo-
dore Cooper, of the United States Navy, died
in Brooklyn Tuesday, aged 10.
THERE we're 21O deaths from small pox in
st. Louis last week.
| Abroad.