River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-01
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A.WAsHINGToN dispatch says that the coal
famine in England is creating demand for
the bituminious coal of the Maryland dis
tricts.
IT is rumored that Colonel Forney has dis
posed of the Philadelphia Press to combina.
ton of politicians. The piece paid, although
not given, is SAID to be very large, and that
Cameron furnishes good share oft.
For some time past money letters have been
missed from the mails between Winona and
Owatonna. Suspicion finally Tell upon Henry
L. Kutler, delivery clerk in the Winona office,
who was arrested. He has made full con-
fession. from which it appears he commenced
his robberies about the first of August, having
since that time taken some $500. Kutler is
the son of an evangelical minister, now locat-
ed in Wisconsin, and has heretofore born an
excellent character.
THE hands employed in the rolling mill
the Springfield Ql.) Iron Company are on
strike for an advance in wages.
S. N. GooDALL has sued the st. Louis Globe
for publishing Geographic item duplicating
him in murder at Dorchester, Mass +; dam
ages 100000.
The epidemic among horses has now extend
ed throughout the Canadian dominion, seri-
ously interrupting the buHiness of the coun-
v. The street cars in Montreal have stop
ped running. In their stables more than three
hundred horses are sick. Farmers are unable
to bring their grain to the market. The dis
ease is very seldom fatal but the recovery is
slow.
COMMANDER Lull has been ordered to the
command of the Nicaragua surveying expedi-
ton, in place or Commander Hatfield.
NEWPORT (R. ~, special dispatch says
that the officers Of the revenue cutter Moccasin
have caused the seizure of large lot Of cigars
struggled IN the country from Havana on the
schooner Pioneer, of New London, Conn.
Systematic smuggling is going on. Cigars
have been invoiced as other articles Alto
gether one hundred thousand cigars have
been traced by the detectives.
Jas. KILLoUGH was shot dead Wednesday
night near Gallatia City, Montana, by Jno.
Linsley, in quarrel about farm.
The stage going south was stopped Wednes-
day night three miles north of Pleasant VAL
ley, Montana by two road agents, and seven
Thousand dollars taken from the passengers.
There were no express treasure on board.
A SAN FRANCISCO telegram says that the
British iron ship Aculeo, 1879 days from Liver
pool went ashore twenty miles south of the
Heads in a log Thursday evening, and is a
total loss.
A NUMBER of cigar manufacturers in New
York have acceded to the demand OF the work.
men for an increase from 81 to IS on every
1000. Several houses have suspended opera
tions because of the demand.
Rev. GEORGE I. CHAPMAN, d. D., died on
Friday, at his residence in Newburyport
aged "a years. He graduated at Dartmouth
in 1904, and commencing theological studies,
entered the Episcopal Ministry and formed a
parish at Lexington, KY, remaining there I'M
til 1880. Henry Clay was one of his parish
oners.
NELSON and Curdy, two boys, were found
guilty OF manslaughter in the second degree,
at Ogden, Utah, for rape and murder OF little
girl in Hooper City, last summer, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
THos. e. THOMAS, while coming from the
Arkansas fair grounds Friday, was thrown
from his horse and killed.
M. ENos & Co.'s iron foundry, South Carver,
Mass, was burned Thursday night. Loss
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
AT horse fair in Lexington, Kentucky, on
Friday, purse was trotted for by yearlings,
and won by Membrino Patchen in two straight
heats. Time, 3:14A, 3:13%-nine and three
quarters seconds faster than has ever before
been recorded.
POLITICAL RIOT occurred at Darlington,
Ohio, on Saturday night, in which pistols were
fired, stones thrown, and bludgeons used.
Several persons were injured.
The strike of the journeymen tailors al
Philadelphia ended Thursday the employers
having acceded to the demand.
MARY ELLA LUNIE, three years of age, was
killed at Boston, on Tuesday, by her brother
Patrick, five years Of age, an idiot He struck
her on the head with his fist, crushing her
skull.
Mrs. CHAPMAN and Mrs. Chasseette, widows
OF the engineer and fireman who were killed
on the Erie Road by the negligence of train
dispatcher IN telegraphing, have recovered
damages to the amount of over 5000 each
against the Erie Railway.
AN East Saginaw special reports the burning
Of the single mill of Pryor SWEET, on Grow
Island, in Saginaw River. Loss over $4,000
and covered by insurance.
In the throwing match which followed the
tournament game of base ball in Brooklyn, on
Tuesday, Hatfield and Boyd, of the Mutuals,
Geo. Wright and Leonard, of the Bostons,
and Arson and Faher, of the Athletics, were
the contestants. Hatfield won the first prize,
Leonard the second, and Wright the third.
Hatfield threw 1873 yards, one foot, seven aud a
half inches; Leonard, 119 yards, one foot ten
inches; Wright, 1T yards, one foot one inch.
HAVANA journals report the discovery OF a