River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-02-07

ton by crane, falling on him.
The old market house in Davenport, Iowa,
was burned ON Thursday night. Loss s4,700.
FROM Bordcntown, n. j.. wa learn that
three boys, Morris l.. Stradling, Robert b.
Grimshaw ,and James Mullen, who resided
there, were drowned at Horner's bridge.
Their bodies were soon after recovered. Their
ages were eight years each.
G. j. AcKLEY, the local express agent at
Fairfield, on the Hastings and Dakota Rail
road, in attempting to get on th > train before
il came TO stop at the citation, missed his
footing and fell, tho cars passing over him,
sevoring ono leg from his body and otherwise
iniuring him. He lived but short time after
the accident.
BUCKINGHAM Palace has been placed at the
disposal OF the Shah of Persia for his resi-
denco during his visit to England.
JOHN COSTELLO was convicted at Peoria,
ILL.,, OF tho murder of John keenan,, and sem
fenced by tho jury to imprisonment for one
year.
The steamer Edgar Stewart proceeded to
sea from Key West on Thursday night.
FRANCE and Italy threaten to withdraw
their representatives from Athens if Greece
refuses to submit the Larium mines question
to arbitration.
A WASHINGTON telegram states that DIR. W.
C. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry in Howard
University, was accidentally shot in the Ma
tional Hotel on ThursdaysnighE, bv ball from
pistol, which fell from the pocket OF G. G.
Wall. The ball entered the abdomen, making
a very serious wound.
A. d. WILLIAMS & Co., New York bankers,
report the loss of 800 shares of W. U. Tele-
graph stock, in tho name of T.. b. Wesley, and
valued at s25, $50 The transfer OF the stock
has been stopped.
THEODORE MIcARs was hanged in Denver,
Col, on Friday, tor the murder of Geo. NJ.
Bonacina, near Denver, in August, 1871.
FoUR locomotives, attached to freight
train going east on the indianapolis, Bloom
Ilngton and Western Railroad, jumped the
track at Champaign, H., on Thursday night,
and ran into train of freight cars standing
on the side-track. The engines wera all bad
ly damaged, and three of the freight cars are
a total wreck
Tue trial OF Eugene Wahrer and Max Wah-
rer for the murder Of their mother at West
Point, Leo county, Iowa, on Sunday, June
3Oth, 1872, was concluded on Friday in the
District Court cf Des Moines county, Iowa. at
Burlington. The jury returned a verdict of
mausaughter.
The Treasury Department has prepared
bill, which will BIO sent to Congress, making
Sioux City, Iowa, on the Missouri river, port
Of entry.
lr is stated that Hon. Schuyler Colfax has
decided TO institute a criminal proceeding
against Ames for perjury. He swears posi-
lively that Ames lies, and that the check is
forgery.
THERE is far prospect that the Presiden
will veto the Rock Island and Pacific land
grant bill, which passel Congress on Friday,
but whether h vetoes or signs it there is
movement CONTEMPLATED or an investigation.
Charges continue to be openly made that the
lobby were paid to push the bill through.
/ OWEN NORTON, wo kman at the St. Louis
lead and oil works, while oiling the presses,
was caught in the machinery and had his head
sut of.
Two NOTED burglars were arrested in Buf-
falo on Wednesday evening, with large
amount ofiewelry in their possession. Among
the articles are valuable gold hunting-case
chronometer watch, No. % 1872 large gold
hunting-case watch, with the name partly
erased, but supposed to be Annie or Alice
Funk, and heavy gold cross set with pearls.
marked Il. VI. Burton.
AT Evansville, Ind, on Wednesday evening.
six men attempted to cross the river in skiff.
coming, apparently, from Green River. When
opposite this city the skiff fell into the open
ice and was overturned. They were heard to
shout for help, crying that they were freezing
to death, but none Of the steamers at the
wharf could get out to them, and their cries
ceased after a few minutes.
On Friday family of nine persons were res.
cned from Kenns' Island, opposite Havre de
Grace, Nd, where they had been driven from
thor homo by the food. They were nearly
dead from exposure.
Abroad.
President THEIRS has signed the new treaty
Of commerce between France and Great
Britain.
Tue amount remaining on hand Of the fund
= raised Tor the relief Of operatives in Manches-
ter, during the cotton famine, five hundred
and twenty Thousand dollars, is to be applied
to the foundation Of hospital for GONZALES
cents in London.
DISPATCH from Bordeaux says vessel.
supposed to be British, went ashore Sunday
night on the coast near that city; all on board
probably lost.
, THE steamer which ran down the emigrant
! ship Northiiect, IN the English channel, proves
TO be the Pelayo, bound from Antwerp for
Havana.
THE committee on the arbitration Of slavery
IN Porto Rico has declared in favor OF grant
, ms owners an average indemnity of $3.50 per
lave