River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-10

appropriation OF SJOVyUUU was asked Tor last
year, and for whom a further appropriation Of
100000 is provided for in the Indian Appro-
priation bill, which has inst passed the House.
These parties propose to file atiidayits with
the Senate Appropriation Committee showing
that the disbursement Of the moneys to the
so-called tribe, especially under the agency of
superintendent Wall, were made on fraudu-
lent vouchers"
coNFLAGRATIoS in Elmira, n Y, on Tues
day, destroyed number of buildings be-
tween Railroad Avenue and Main street, in
Guiding the Pennsylvania House. Loss, S5O.-
| 600.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. between two families
named Wilson and Broughton, living near
Marion, Ohio led 10 the deliberate murder of
Henry Wilson by William Broughton. The
tragedy occurred on Monday. The murderer
has been arrested.
! ABOUT loo feet Of the roof Of Whitney's rail-
road car wheel factory, Oh 18th street, Phia-
delphs, fell in by the weight Of the snow on
Thursday. Five wOrkmen were buried in the
ruins, but rescued with slight injuries.
Two serious fires occurred in Chicago on
Sunday. One destroyed a row of wooden
buildings on West Lake street, damage sl4,-
600. The second destroy ed three brick dwell
ings on Cottage Grove Avenue. Loss $780,
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/ lT is stated, upon the authority of Whitelaw
Reid, that the reason why Mr.. Colfax declined
to edit the Tribune was because Mr.. orion
wished the paper to be run in the interest OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
| DURING the cold snap of Saturday night wa
ter froze in the pipes in many buildings in
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Harrisburg. In
the first named place four explosions of cook
ing ranges occurred, fatally injuring one per-
son. girl named Kate Conner. In Harris
| burg Mrs. Samuel Knox was killed by the ex-
1 plosion of range. In Cleveland a range ex-
ploded, demolishing fixtures, but injuring no
one.
The daily returns from internal revenue are
reaching toward the close of the year, quite
six hundred thousand dollars per day, and
show in the aggregate an increase so far
above the estimate as to fully Justify Congress
in further reducing taxation by aboshing the
stamp tax on checks and matches.
SEVERAL towns west of Boone Iowa, are re-
ported suffering from want of coal, and have
to burn furniture to keep from. freezing. This
is especially the case in Carroll, Iowa.
GEORGE CATLIS, the celebrated American
Indian painter aud traveller, died on Monday
in Jersey City, \. j., aged IS,
A YOUNG man named Charles Kendall was
found murdered in some woods near New JEFF
ferson, Iowa, on Monday. 1t seems to have
been done by shotgun in some unknown
persons hands. The deed is shrouded in
mystery, and nothing definite can be learned |
The model of the Franklin School Building |
in Washington, and one of the finest in the |
East, is being prepared for the Vienna Expo |
sition. Tn, model viii be made in sections 80
that it can be taken apart. The building will |
be representative as it is, and the system of
heating and ventilation will be fully demon |
strated. One of the rooms will contain all the 1
school furniture in miniature.
Abroad.
The Paris Gazette says Prussia is treating /
with Portugal for accession TO the former |
power of Delazoa Bay. an island of the Indian |
Ocean, in Southeastern Africa.
A PARIS trsdesman has been sent to prison |
for two years for displaying in his shop pla-
cards containing remarks insulting to the |
National Assembly.
President THEIRS visited the English En- |
bassy in Paris on Saturday. On leaving the /
building he fell and suffered a slight confusion
OF the hip and elbow
NJ. BouBGoNe, French Minister to the Papal !
Court, has resigned because some French |
laval officers in Rome at the beginning Of the 4
holidays called on the King and Pope on the /
same day, and rendered the compliments of .
the season.
VERY REv. EDWARD BANNERMAN BARNsEY,
Dean OF ~. Johns Cathedral, Edinburgh, is
dead.
GEoRaE KING, who confessed he murdered
Pook, at Greenwich, England, has been dis
charged from custody, having been found in
sane. /
THE North German Gazette denies the /
statement that Germany has consented to CO.
operate with Austria in an effort to effect a l
settlement of the Laurium silver mines dis. /
pute
THR spenerschc zeitung strongly opposes
the decree OF the Brunswick Council Of Minis |
ters, issued on the 9th Of December, providing
that os the demise Of the present sovereign,
who is unmarried, Duke William First, the /
ex.king Of Hanover, or his ~, shall succeed |
20 the throne:
The volcano of Santa, in the northern part
OF San Salvador, is eruptng, and it is feared |
many valuable coffee plantations will be de- !
stroyed.
I BoGorA has been seriously inundated, many
| people being drowned, and much property de- /.
stroyed.
TuE election for municipal officers st Tam.
4 pico, Mexico. is reported rs disorderly. Dur
I ing the counting Of the votes a disturbance
arose, aud eight persons were killed and
wounded. Great excitement prevailed. Both
parties, called Tampicanoes and Tametipecos