River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-15
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ge as day of Thanksgiving. IAN s
J.. c. KAY shot and killed George Cole, a
Deputy Sheriff, near Memphis, Tenn on Sat
gwf urday. aH.
THE coal miners at Pomeroy, Ohio, have
struck for an increase OF wages from three
Gee and half to four cents per bushel, and the
colored employees have demanded CORE
spending advance of pay
JUDGE THOMPSON, OF Brooklyn City Court,
denied the application Of Hubbard Hendrick-
son for an order to compel Registers to regis
ter his name. Hendrickson is clerk in the
Treasury Department at Washington who
came home TO vote. " el s. 49,.
A SUIT is now inprogress at Denver, between
the Union and Kansas Pacific Railroad COM
panies. The latter csmpany claims s1,OO0,OOO
damages from the Union Pacific for failure 10
comply with the provisions of an act of Con-
gress providing that no discrimination shall
a be made by one road against the other
A TELEGRAM from st. Louis states that Gott-
fried Gebhard young boy who was bitten in
the hand seven years ago by a dog, died on
Sunday night Of hydrophobia, after suffering
u intensely three days. This is the second death
by hydrophobia that has occurred in st. Louis
within week. e'a4Yt1 rhr.f' Aa
ga The pivot pier of the bridge over the Mis-
souri, river at st. Joseph reached the bedrock
's@V on Monday. Two more piers remain to be
43sa sunk and the contractors will have the work
completed and ready for the crossing OF cars
BY the 10th of January. 't''
$50 "A FIRE at Krnsas City,on Monday, destroyed
sae three buildings. Loss $4,000.
SEVERAL New York stage companies have
brought suit to restrain Bergh, of the Cruelty
a. to Animal Society, from stopping their horses
and arrestng their drivers.
@ehA stCoUNrERFET twenties on the First Nationa
rks Bank OF Plainfeld, New Jersey, circulating
stthe East.
sai 81 Gov BALDWIN, by proclamation, appoints
cay Thursday, November 2Sth, day of public
thanksgiving in Michigan. Ht
Et@s THOMAS ANsBRo, for libel of Edith O'Gorman,
tRsve the escaped nun, was fined 81 0Oin San Fran
cisco. -
As.ast The Philadelphia mint has commenced
4 Ii g. melting. One million one dollar gold pieces
will be converted into pieces of larger denom-
nation. Twenty millions of these pieces are
~ q to beused. n ga
..xy CHAN LAI LUN, the Chinese Imperial Com
missioner of Education, together with his wife,
E'4sa6a on Sunday Joined the South Congregational
Church, of Springfield, Mass.
The Executive Committee the grand
h musical festival, to be held in Chicago the first
53 F week of next May, has issued to the choral
u societies OF America an address inviting them,
one and all, to take part in it,
sfi3a The bankers of the oil region have held two
meetings relative to plan recently adopted
by a convention of producers to control the
81 be market of crude OIL The plan consists of the
a. formation of an agency with capital stock of
six million dollars, through which the entire
o@7sh production is to be bought and sold, with
mart ample storage and heavy capital, and restrain
ing the production when necessary 1t is be-
leved the price can be Maintained at S. per
ssRb,pss ton. The bankers offer support and willing
ness to cooperate.
~" The State of Wisconsin has filed in the
iH@ o. United States Supreme Court an application
tnG for an injunction against the Duluth and the
Northern Pacific Railroad Companies.
AT Salt Lake, Friday, in the case of Page
a AZ, VS. the Central Pacific Railroad, for $50, OOO
damages for election from the cars, the jury
$500 disagreed and were discharged.
.fE nv EARLY Tuesday morning five disguised men
q visited the cabin Of negro named Crawford
on the farm of Barney Paterson, between Nor
mandy and Tunahoma, on the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad. Crawford refused to
admit them, whereupon they broke open his
s.cG door. He then shot and killed one of them,
,,,. who proved to be young man by the name OF
~, Carr, residing near Normandy.
an ~ MUSsoN, CLARKE, & Co., proprietors of the
ell. Is Grand Central Hotel on Michigan avenue.
Chicago, have leased the new Sherman House.
corner of Clark and Randolph streets, for a
n sasterm OF ten years. They propose to open the
,ra beautiful hosterie on the 10th of March next.
A FIRE broke out on Thursday night in a
pfH five story building, corner of Lake and Jeffer-
ma sr son streets, Chicago occupied by number of
=, small manufacturers Of various kinds, and by
several commission firms. The damage was
confined to the upper stories, where it origi-
mated. b-
F~""t ~ A VERY severe snow-storm prevailed
.efyTseg throughout the easempsr Of Maine on Sun
day last. 9.
7'"' THE barn of ex-Mayor Frank Jones, of Ports
~ ed mouth. one of the finest in New Hampshire,
= oIT was burned last Friday evening. Loss, S1O,-
900. 81 aIH .n.
a.lrHE last project suggested for the Massa-
IA chusetts Legislature is to consolidate in one
t~..t municipality Cambridge somerville, Medford,
!, Maiden, Everett, Charlestown, Chelsea, Re.
e lis we're, Winthrop, and East Boston.
YedV IT is rumored that the suit which was insti-
tuted some time ago by the Government
4to ~ against the New York Central and Hudson
.hs River Railroad, in the Northern District of
New York, for the recovery Of 81, 500, 900 un.
'@@" paid taxes on script has been discontinued
I 8lsf CHARLES 0LEARy fell down the shaft Of the