River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-27

er; resigned Alexander ID. button, Supervisor
of Internal Revenue, appointed during the
recess ofCongress; Alex. Knowles, Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court in Montana
Territory Nelson Rustler, United States At.
torney for Indiana.
| FIRE at Galva, H., on Thursday destroyed
Que Of the largest business houses left by the
recent confagraton. Two swedes are under
arrest ON suspicion Of having caused the fire.
CAPTAIN A. II. BoGARDUs. the celebrated
crack shot, met with a serious accident near
Elkhart, Indiana, on Monday He was riding
in wagon, when a sudden Jolt discharged his
gun, sending its contents through his thigh,
making hole six inches in length by one and
half inches wide and deep. The wound,
though serious and painful, is not necessarily
fatal.
The bridge On the Congaree River, destroyed
during the evacuation Of Columbia, s. c., in
1865, was reopened Saturday.
GEORGE G. WATKINS, of Little Rock, Ark,
died in st. Louis, Saturday He was for many
years Chief Justice and Attorney General of
Arkansas.
FRED S, wrSsLow, the defaulting President
of the Scandinavian National Bank of Chicago,
is in China.
FRED PUGGENscHE fell into a vat Of boiling
slops at Dickinson, Leach & Co.'s distilltry in
Chicago, and was literally boiled to death.
MARTHA SMITH, alias Maui Merrill, pros
titute, was shot in New York on Tuesday even
ing. The person who committed tho murder
said in passing out Of the house where she
stopped that he had shot his niece, and would
give himself up, but did not do 80, and has
not been arrested.
THREE men were precipitatod to the ground,
a distance Of forty feet, in Chicago, on Wed.
nesday, by the fall Of scaffold at the new
Turner Hail. on North Clark street. One man
received fatal injuries.
GIN. VAN BUREN, United States Commits
soner to Vienna Exposition, and Clayton Nc
Michael, of Philadelphia, assistant Commits
sioner. were before the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, to urge the
propriety Of an immediate and liberal appro-
priation by Congress to secure proper repre-
sentation of United States products at Vienna.
Secretary Robson was present at the meeting,
and stated that the Navy Department was
ready to send two vessels TO transport the
goods as recommended in the message of the
President. An appropriation win be recon-
mcnded
AT billiard tournament in Boston, We'd
nesday evening, an exhibition game of 100
points was played between Miss Bessinger and
Mr.. Tobin. The lady played with much skill,
and won the game by 81 points.
DENNIS SHEA shot and mortally wounded
James Laughlin at Louisville, late Monday
night, in saloon brawl.
The name of the man found dead at Union
City, Ind, on Monday, was e. p. Raining. The
Coroners verdict was that he was murdered
and carried out to the woods. The doctors
say be has been dead two weeks.
RETURNS from Schoolcraft county, Michigan,
complete the vote Of the state. The whole
number of votes is 227 ,579-Grant has 13S, 81
Greeley, 1860 others, Ais. The majority
for Grant is go, 16l. Grants vote exceeds his
vote in SOS by 19,261 Greeley's, 1S,419 less
Seymour's. The whole vote of the state is
1910 less than in 1868.
A YOUNG German named Heinrich Mehr
was accidentally shot and killed by pistol IN
the hands Of a companion named Henry
Smith, at Chicago, on Monday.
COMPTROLLER GREEN, of New York city.
having refused to pay Court Justice Quin
$4,000 salary, allowing the legal salary to be
$4,000, suit was brought by Justice Quin.
Judge Fancher, OF the Superior Court, decid-
ed in favor Of the plaintiff that the salary was
legally raised from 5000 to $4,000 by the
Mayor and Municipal Council.
ERBN PORTER, living near Columbiana,
Ohio, murdered his two children, aged one
and two years, with a Ratchet, on Thursday.
The steamship St. Louis sprung a leak and
sunk, on sunday last, 10 miles from South
west Bar, Florida. The passengers and crew
were rescued.
Abroad,
/ HEAVY gale Friday wrecked several vessels
! at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
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