River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-11
General News,

Doss lWeeu mas resigned ms seat ~ the
New York Senate
Two Sioux Cityites have gone to law
over basket of chips.
Two McGregor boys proposet to ''foot it,
to the Rocky Mountains.
An Evangelical Conference will be held
in La Porte City April 10th.
Cerebro spinal meningitis prevails to an
alarming extent in Kentucky.
Twenty FIVE hundred coal miners in
Bolton, Farnsworth District, England have
struck
BY q vote of nearly two TO one. tho Ohio
Senate has refused to abolish capital pun.
ishment
There is but one State in the Union and
one territory free from debt--Iowa and
Colorado.
Cincinnati has about completed public
library building nearly twice as large az
that of Boston.
II is estimated that 1900 mites Of new
railroad will be built in the United States
the.preseRt year.
Hon. W p. Spraguc of Ohio, will pay
back 10 the Government his back pay
as Congressman.
Dubuque is talking about hotel and
opera house 10 cover an entire block and
to cost $4,000
Budd Doble has left San Francisco with
his irotter Rosalind. He failed TO make
match with 0ccdent.
A man in Boousboro kicked another. and
then went and credited the man kicked
with forty cents on account
William Edwards, who has been an active
Delaware pilot ever since 1900 has Just
died at the age Of eighty-four.
Col. J. II Howe, Genelsl Manager Of the
Northwestern Railroad Company is enjoy
ing himself in New orleans.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr., saws ne viii
certainly pay the $4,000 for which he
gave notes TO Horace Greeley.
A lad, ten years old named Daniel
Spellman. was killed by the fall Of an old
building in Cincinnati, last week
ST. Louis has received 81 ,So5 bales cot
ton during the past three months, against
7,745 bales the same time last year
rumor is afoat in ST Paul that General
Averill has decided TO donate his S.. 600
for extrapay TO the Minnesota Historical
Socitv.
Pelham. n. IT,, has woman who was
not married till go years Of age, but has
had four husbands since and is now a
widow.
Neal Dow aud J. B. Cough are conduc
ting temperance revival in Nashua N n.
There had been up to Sunday 250 converts
to teetotalism.
VIM. F. Landstreet. senior member Of
the firm Of VIM. T. Landstreet & Co., com
mission merchants, suicided 10 Baltimore
on Monday last.
The bri 'ge OF the Cairo and Fulton Rail-
road over White River was completed last
week, giving Little Rock au unbroken con
nection ith ST. Louis.
Il il said that Bidwell, arrested in
Havana for completely in the Bank Of
England forgers IL an American citizen
and not & British subject.
Ex-Congressman Roosevelt says that Of
the eight hundred bills passed by Congress
last year there were not more than one
twentieth Of ID am that the members knew
anything about
The Supreme Court Of the United Statos
has Just rendered a decision to the effect
that it is competent and constitutional for
the government to tax people for the use
and benefit Of a railroad company
Two couple near Wilton eloped recently,
and this is how they did il; The wrong
chap asked the wrong girl in each case,
10 20 riding; and. once away from home.
changed partners, and were married.
Matthew Griffin, Ohio State Agent Of tho
I'm ted States Life Insurance Co.. charged
with embezzlug to amount Of $4,000. has
been rearrested in Cincinnati Two weeks
ago he was arrested and made his escape.
While refusing to abolish the death pen
atty. the Lower House &C the Kentucky
Legislature has passed law allowing
iuiies to award either imprisonment ior
life or hanging, az the punishment tr
those whom they convict Of murdet.
A recently deceased Boston man, who no
doubt considered himself little less than
Peabody, left 81 900 10 his will to
local society, to be held in trust. aud tho
income paid annually 70 six different char
tiles. Each will therefore receive Al out
$3.50 yearly,
Daniel =. Marsh 70 under srresi N
Charlestown, Mass. on ibe charge Of ha
ing murdered his own son, an infant nine
months old, In September. 1871, by throw
ing him from tho Ftcburg railroad oridg
lie has confessed The deed and The manner
IN which he committed IT,
The body Ofa brother 81 Senator York