River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-25

4 pieltd lI0m Tue Jlore out 70 point V02 foct
distant. and from the crib inward distance
Of sos feet, leaving only $40 feet more to BE
excayated. At the rate digging is going on,
the work Of excavation will be completed in
three months.
MIS-. MARY KNAPP died at Aurora, ILL.,, on
Monday, aged 1Oi years. Aurora has another
centcnarian left-Dayid Lance, aged 1903.
The survivors OF the steamship Atlantic, to
the number Of 3O5, reached New York on San
day. The majority Of the men speak discour-
agingy of the captain and crew and COM
plain that after being two or three days at
sea their food was cut short.
TnE residence OF Chas. +. soule, in Spring
Lake, Mich, was burned on Monday. Loss
So, 600.
Ex.PosTDfAsTER LOWELL, Of New Orleans,
recently removed, is found to be in arrear.
to the Government in the sum Of about s25,-
COO.
WILLIAM RILEY and Julia spanger, who have
been living on terms Of improper intimacy for
some time past, was arrested at Nashua, Iowa,
| charged with numbering their infant, child
Of six months, by drowning it IN Cedar River,
at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where the body was
found on Saturday afternoon.
HENRY MACK, while intoxicated was run
over by locomotive at the corner Of Kinzic
and May streets, Chicago, on Monday night,
and lost both legs. He cannot live.
MRS, MCCRENY was burned to death at
Joliet, III, on Saturday evening, by the explo-
sion Of kerosene lamp. child was also
dangerously injured.
The steamer rropic recently p cked up at
sea a boat containing two men and woman
the sole survivors of the ship J. w. Elwell
from Liverpool for Valparaiso, with coal,
which took fire and blew up. The people had
been two and half months in the boat
MUNICIPAL elections were held in various
cities on Monday. The Democratic and peo-
ple's ticket was successful in Detroit, Du.
buque, Cleveland, Colu nbus, Dayton and
Cincinnati the Republicans Annapolis.
VIM. MERRIAM, aged nineteen, and another
man, killed each other in an alteration, Sat
urday night, at Dryas Greek station, on the
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad.
A DISPATCH from Laredo, Texas, says the
United States Frontier Commission were at
New London. The Mexican Commission had
held joint session with the American Com
mission on the subject Of the disturbances.
ELLIOT, the colored Congressman OF South
Carolina, in letter correcting the report that
n had declined to accept his extra pay, says
he has no intention of assuming pretentious
garb Of immaculate virtue or of laying claim
to a degree Of very cheap patriotism. He
adds "Were my election to the next Con-
gress then pending, should still have voted
precisely as l did, instead Of attempting to
make capital of this sort IN order to achieve
success
A RUFFIAN named James Bennett Helm
stabbed five persons in Galveston, Texas, on
Sunday night. Several of the injured parties
are dead. Helm will probably be lynched.
He is a cousin Of the notorious Jack Helm, OF
Texas.
MISS LAURA KEENE, the actress, has brought
suit against c. NJ. Breasted, of the American
Literary Bureau, to recover $4,000 damages
for alleged libel.
CAPTAIN GENERAL SABELLAs has telegraphed
to Madrid that large body of troops is i'm
peratively wanted in Havana. as a revolution
may break out among the Spaniards at any
moment. The slaves are also reported to be
meditating revolt.
Abroad.
THERH is a revolution at Panama in favor of
ex-President Corruoso.
A MANUFAcroRY in Rome was destroyed BIZ
lightning Thursday, five persons being killeG
and sixteen injured. Fo,ty persons were buried
in the ruins.
LETTER from Newfoundland says the
House Of Assembly has agreed, by an over
whelming majority. to accept the provisions
Of the Treaty OF Washington which have ref
erencc to Newfoundland.
ADyIcEs from Cuba state that the sugar
cane on fifteen plantations ia tno Ui.ipn iuris-
dction have been DESTROYED By fire.
Two letters from Cespedes we're found en-
the n. Y. Herald's correspondent in Cuba,
O'Eelly, and he win be treated as a spy.
THREE socialist leaders charged with being
officials OF the international Society, have
been tried at Copenhagen, and sentenced TO
sarms Of six, five and four years imprison-
ment respectively.
IT is announced that the new Turkish loan
fifty million pounds is meant 30 cover all
payments tor the construction Of railways and
the large deficit in the budget Of this year,
now expected to amount to eight million
pounds.
THE Pope is sulEring from rheumasc Svtr
and liberation. His illness is extremely
serious.
A DISPATCH from Puycerda, Spain, says:
After the failure OF their final attack last
night, the entire Carlist force withdrew before
daylight leaving 800 dead and wounded on the
field. We lost eighty killed, and have many
wounded.
SPAIN has just sent four hundred more
troops . Cuba.
GREAr distress for want Of food is reported