River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-24

head being terribly burned. He and Mr..
Tyler, the Superintendent of the mill, were
blown fifteen feet down an embankment and
rendered senseleRs for some time.
The steamer Tybee brings full confrma-
ton OF the lease Of SANTANA Bay to the Ameri-
can company, and Of It's ratification by the
Dominion government.
! COMMISSIONER VAN BURES is sending to the
Governors Office Of the several states circu-
lar requesting that each state shall send to
tho Vienna Exhibition examples Of the ma
/ terials used in common education, with state
ments OF results obtained.
| MEssRs. FOLEY. McKenny and Barnes, of
CoNington, who went to 0secola, Ark, hunt
ing, and were supposed to be the three men
! found frozen 10 death in skiff near Memphis,
are alive and well at 0sceola.
AT Muscatine, Iowa, the jury in the case OF
the State against Wilmering, for killing his
father short time since, has just returned
verdict OF murder in the second degree.
! DocToR JONES, a homeopathic physician at
Toronto, died suddenly on Wednesday, after
taking dose OF chlorate hydrate, which had
been administered at his own request after q
I paluiui huIRlch4 oPtidtloH.
REv. JOSHUA LEAyIvT, d. d., associate editor
OF the New York Independent. died in Brook
! Ign on Thursday from apoplexy, while at the
residence of his son.
REV. J. ID. l.. ZEUTER, NJ. D., editor of the
| French Almanac, and Minister of the Congre
gational Church, died on Thursday, in Brook
! lyn.
| THE report Of finding bottle of strychnine
in the cell lately vacated by Stokes is erro-
neous. The drug was nur uomicd, and had
been medically prescribed.
! The levying of tonnage dues on American
steamers, running between Bremen and the
United States having been stopped by Ger
many, the same course was adopted here, at
the New York Custom House, Thursday, by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury
! RLv. W. G. CLARK has been expelled from
the New York Conference of the Methodist
Church, for carrying on lottery ostensiby
\ for the benefit of a mission house and free
reading room. Clark continues to serve a
church OF his own in Brooklyn, apparently
successful.
A BOILER explosion on Wednesday on the
Chattahooehie river, killed two persons and
wounded several.
DRsIssEsY, French Minister of War, has
written a letter to Marshal Mcmahon prohib-
iting the circulation Of Bonaparte's addresses
in the barracks of French troops, and urging
the severe punishment on persons found dis.
tributing such papers.
A sTARcH-LADEN canal boat at Glencoye.
Long Island. was sunk by ice on Thursday
night. Loss $40, 900.
An important decision was made by Judge
Boterick in the Muscatine District Court on
Monday, dissolving an injunction heretofore
granted restraining the collection of a five
per cent. tax voted to the Muscatine Western
Railroad Company, involving $4,000 The
tax will probably be paid without further op-
position, as but comparatively small share
of the taxpayers were concerned in the suit.
The brigantine Mary Z. Jones, of the Clyde
river, has been lost at sea. Her crew was
saved, but two passengers, daughters of Da-
vid Sutherland OF Clyde river, we're drowned
| in the cabin
| COOPER, REFS & Co., bankers of Baltimore,
were swindled to the amount of 81, 900, on
Saturday last, by payment OF bogus draft for
that amount, purporting to be drawn by Glib
/ Casanova Co, bankers, New York, and pay
able to the order of r. S. Knox, Baltimore.
! AMONG the amendments that passed the
House with the Appropriation bill was an inn
portant one by McCrary, OF Iowa, which pro-
yides that hereafter no money from the con-
tingent fund OF the House shall be paid to
contestant for a seat IN the House.
The committees of both Houses have agreed
to report in favor of giving the Kentucky Salt
/ Company s22, 600 for the destruction of their
works near Manchester, KY, by Gen. Buell.. to
keep them from falling into the hands of tine
rebels.
TUESDAY evening the planning mill of Messrs.
Trimble, Mcintyre a Co., in Allegheny City,
together with Ave dwellings, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The total loss Is $4,000
on which there is a small insurance
! NEWFOUNDLAND journals announce the loss
of the schooners Elizabeth and Magnolia, the
first with the loss of her entire crew, and the
second with the loss Of her captain and four
mon.
THE Senatorial contest in Kansas has mar
rowed down 20 Pomeroy, Gov. Harvey and
Judge Lowe. Seyenty-eight members are
pledged in opposition to Pomeroy. Sixty.seyen
votes are sufficient to elect.
MATILDA HERON, who arrived in New York
from SAN Francisco few days ago, is an in.
mate OF the Park Hospital, suffering from al.
coholic hysteria. Her little daughter is cared
for in the same institution.
A NORWEGIAN named Ben Anderson was in.
stanty killed IN Chicago, on Wednesday, by
falling through a stairway hole in the new
Clifton House, distance oiforty feet.
WALTER HADsEIL ana Dewitt Ellis quareled
over a game Of cards at Rock Island on
Wednesday, when Hadse shot Ellis through
the body, aud escaped.
Abroad.