River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-29
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of Election who received the ballots OF Susan
B. Anthony and her friends in Rochester, N.
Y. The examination in the case OF Miss An
thony is postponed by agreement to the 29th.
She says she is pleased to have her case
brought promptly before the Courts
BosToN had another fire scare on Monday
night. large warehouse on State street, oc-
cupied by Carter, Mann & Co., wholesale gro
GERS, J. Il W. Bird paints and oils, d. Web
ster. King & Co., manufacturers; and the Bos-
ton Dye-Wool Company was consumed. The
preservation of twenty or thirty warehouses
adjoining was due the fact that the roof OF the
building was practically fire proof Total loss
was between 100000 and 100000.
In New Orleans, on Monday, three fires
burned the buildings 231 and 233 Custom
House street, 81, 33 and IS IRENE, 159 Poy-
drass, 116 Orange street, and the adjacent
buildings were damaged. Total loss $4,000.
PRIVATE letter from New Mexico from the
Salt Lake diamond expedition reports that the
party were driven from the diamond grounds
by the Indians. A fight was imminent. The
party claim to have made valuable locations
They call for machinery to work the grounds.
TIE Washington Fire Insurance Co., of
New York, has suspended, owing to their
losses by the Boston fire. The President says
they cannot pay more than fifty cents on the
dollar.
The President, on Monday, suspended Nath-
anel Pope, Superintendent of Indian Affairs,
for the Territory of New Mexico, and appoint
ed Levi d. Dudley, under the civil tenure
act
The large grain storehouse of Woodruff &
Robinson, at the foot of Amity street, Brook
lyn, was burned on Monday afternoon. Loss
on grain 100000, on machinery $4,000, and
on building S15O,0O The building covered
an area of one hundred and forty by two hun
bred feet, and was five stories in height. II
had grain ELEVATOR seven stories high.
The horse disease has broken out in st.
Paul. The epidemic is rapidly spreading
through the South.
Two men sought shelter in the boiler house
of blast furnace at Columbus, Monday
morning. One, named Thomas, was shortly
afterward found dead, having been suffocated
by gas, and the other insensible from the same
cause. Thomas started down the river from
Pittsburg working on a boat sprained his
arm. and was discharged at Cincinnati.
NAVIGATION has closed on the Upper Mis-
sissippi.
PATRICK KENNEDY was crushed to death in
Chicago, on Monday evening, by cart loaded
with coal.
The Illinois State Auditor has received no.
tice that the Republic Insurance Company of
Chicago has been adjudged bankrupt by con-
fession in the United States Circuit Court.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made at Quincy,
Mass, to give pnblc welcome to Charles
Francis Adams, who is expected home on Mon
day.
DURING the recent gale at Duluth, Mime
sofa Point was entirely submerged. 1t was
largely occupied by private dwellings,. The
damage here alone is estimated at 100000.
AT 8 o'clock Friday evening, fire was dis
covered in the woodwork department of the
Michigan Central car shops at Detroit, which
burned down in half an hour. The building
and contents were worth $4,000, and are in
sured, it is said, for nearly their full value.
WOMAN named Fish shot and killed ira
peze performer named Harry Minard, in
Cleveland on Friday. The shooting is claimed
to have been accidental.
WILLIAM YoKEN. of Pike county, ILL.,, had ten
head of fine horses poisoned to death on We'd
nesday night. The lot was valued at nearly
$500.
A MAN named c. W. Alien, mail agent on
the Illinois Central railroad, was robbed and
thu own into the river at Sioux City, Iowa, on
Friday night, but succeeded in getting out of
the water and was picked up and cared for by
people living near by.
ALONG the line Of the Hudson River terri
BILE disease has broken out among the poultry.
Chickens are dying by hundreds. Turkeys,
geese and ducks in the New York market show
signs of the malady. The disease appears to
be assuming the form of destructive pesti-
lence among domestic fowls.
DRoPsY, the new horse disease, has made it's
appearance IN all the car stables in New York
city. Fifty per cent. of all the horses attacked
are said to die, and the horses affected are
mainly those worked while suffering from the
epizootic.
DISPATCH from Phillipsburg, Pa, states
that there is great excitement in the mining
regions consequent upon a general strike of
miners upon an advance of ten cents per ton.
The operators refuse to give the advance.
Sixteen mines are now idle, all of the miners
in them have quit work.
On Saturday night Wilson Sons silver and
plated ware manufacturers, corner of Fifth
and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, were robbed
of $4,000 worth of property.
New York Insurance circles are excited over
rumors that Judges In an adjoining county
are ready to appoint receivers upon er.porte
statement, with the view Of making money out
OF the misfcrtunes Of companies.
The new coal shaft, penetrating the bluffbe