River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-02-28

unread iudlWactufef or Newark, N. j., dleu
suddenly on Thursday last, OF heart disease.
His estate is yalu I'd at So COO, 900.
CONVICT at the penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,,
hung himself with his suspenders Thursday
evening.
AT Morristown, New Jersey. David Moore
charged with the murder of his wife, was
found guilty Of murder in the second degree
MICHAEL ALBANIA pledges himself to give
toward the cause to free Cuba an amount equal
to that contributed By the rest Of his country
men in the United States. II is expected
$500, 900 will DO collected within few weeks.
OFFICERS of the Pan Handle Road have dis
covered swindle practiced by conductors
and ticket agents, and several desirable
situations will DO vacant in a few DAYS.
The Inauguration ceremonies on the Attn Of
March will prob lby be the grandest display
ever witnessed in Washington.
THg Pension aud Indlan appropriate on bills
have received the approval Of the President.
The American Register, printed IN Paris, is
informed that the French Government pro-
hibited NJ. pardonnet, Kansas Emigration
Agent from lecturing in Belfort.
IT is reported that from the wreck of the
Atlantic Mail Company a new line ofAmerican
steamers will be organized, to run between
New York aud Havana.
JosEPH SAW, JR., has been reelected State
Treasurer and Charles Wilson elected Super
intent OF the State Prison, by the Legislature
of New Jersey.
CHAs. YANNEss, Train Master on the Jack
son, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad, wa
crushed to death on Thursday at East Sag
NAV, between two cars, while directing the
shunting OF cars.
An unknown man, name supposed from his
papers to be ]. b. Giller, was run over and
killed at Birch Station, on the Flint and Pero
Marquette Railroad, while endeayoring to get
on the train while in motion.
DISPATCHES from Montgomery, Alabama,
state that great excitement prevails in legisla-
tive circles in that state, owing to the attempt
ed assassination, ON Wednesday, Of N. S.
McAfee by J. W. Mayberry. The proyocation
IS al eyed to have been a speech made by
McAiee in the House Of Representatives We'd
nesday. Mayberry Is said to be one of the
bogus Senators from Barber county. who was
ousted from his seat by the late compromise
between the conflicting legislatures. McAiee's
wounds are represented to be fatal.
President GRANT recently pardoned VIM.
II. Carrick, who vas convicted Of robbing the
mails while Route Agent on the Iowa Central
railroad, some two years ago, and received
sentence for ten years at hard labor.
The officers of the Cleveland Society for
Savings publish a card stating that a clerk in
their employ has embezzed funds to the
amount OF twenty thousand dollars. The
amount has been made up to the Society.
The name Of the guilty party is not men
toned.
Tue town Of San Vincente, in Salvador, has
been destroyed by an earthquake. The houses
being chiefly Of adobes, are easily shaken to
pieces. No lives are reported lost
A FIRE broke out on Tuesday morning in
the married soldiers quarters at Fort Schuy-
leT, and destroyed the row of buildings, con-
sisting Of fifteen tenements.
A YOUNG man named Winslow Simonds. COM
mtted suicide on Tuesday, in Chelsea, Mass,
y throwing himself from the ndow.
THE retort and friedrich factory of Geo. c.
Hicks, at Locust point, Baltimore, burned
Thursday evening. Loss $4,000.
BERLIN dispatch says that the Prussian
Ministry have required of Councillor Wagner,
the prote9e of Bismarck, an explanation OF
his conduct in permitting concessions of tho
tultllments OF state railway contracts by which
rauds were committed on the government.
Several designations have already occurred
john GAFFNEY was hung in Buffalo on Fri
day, for the murder Of Patrick Fancy.
lHE freight depot Of the New Haven and
Harlem Railroad, in New York city, was burn
ed on Friday togethtr with adjoining build.
ings. Total los sl0O COO.
THE wooden ware factory ot VIM. Brown, in
St. Louls, VS. burned on Friday. Total loss
$780, GOO.