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

the removal of Watts, the present Commits
sioner Of Agriculture. A prominent western
man is a candidate for the position.
MANY complaints have been received from
merchants Of New York city that their boxes,
while in bond in Meyers & Co.'S warehouse,
have been broken open, and valuable silks
stolen. The government has ordered an in
vestigation.
John Biglin accepts the challenge recently
issued by George Brown, of Halifax, N. s., and
offers to row five or six-mie race in shell
boats on the Connecticut River at Springfield,
Mass, on or about the date which may be set
tied for the annual college regatta next July.
II Brown does not accept these terms, they
are open to any man in the country, for the
championship of America.
THE loss Of 1.-THE British steamship Peters
burgh, at Bermuda, with / ,46G, 1872 pounds of
tea, has created a stir in the market, which
wards higher rates. Most of the cargo was
owned in New York, Mr.. L. W. Corliss having
25, 600 packages. The cargo was largely in
sured in New York and Philadelphia offices.
The Delaware Mutual Company is reported to
have $4,000.
JOHN A. MoFFAT suicided at Nashville, Ind
on Wednesday, by stabbing himself in the
breast with a pair Of shears.
EMMA HATE, a waiter girl in the Fisher
Hotel, at Three Rivers, Michigan, took cold
poison and died on Monday night.
THE steamer Sioux City was sunk by ice
near Fort Sully, on Wednesday.
A DAVENPORT telegram states that while the
down train on the Western Union road was
nearing Cordova, on Tuesday afternoon, some
scoundrel in the ditch alongside the track dis
charged the contents of dodble-barreled
shotgun through the car window, number
ID the shot penetrating passengers back,
who occupied the seat. The train was stopped
and backed to the place. but the fellow had
vamoosed.
The defalcation which caused the suspen-
sion of the Bulls Head Bank, Of New York
city amounts to 5000, 600. Its deposits are
said to have been 81, 800, 900. Last year div
idcnd Of sixteen per cent. was paid to stock
holders, and its stock has lately been quoted
at los.
THE remains of man were found in ru-
ned portion Of the st. James Hotel, Montreal
on Thursday. The body has been identified
as that Of Mr.. Hyatt a travelling agent. He
was found on the fifth floor, and had evidently
been suffocated.
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS has instructed Col
lector Bailey to pursue the course he has
taken IN the New York Central Railroad case
until property enough has been seized and
sold to bring TO the Government the entire
amount of claim due.
GENERAL order has been isst ed from the
War Department thatno officer, either active
or retired, shall directly or indirectly, without
being called upon by proper authority, solicit.
aid on recommendation by members Of Con-
gress for or against military offences.
AT Lampsan's mill, in Grand Ledge, Michi-
gan, on Thursday, Frank Krupp, one Of the
owners of the mill, was standing behind the
saw with his back to it, while it was running
full speed he stopped to lift plank on the
carriage, when he was caught in the long,
hooking teeth of the saw and carried upon it,
cutting his body entirely in two lenghtwise.
MERRITT SMITH, OF Cascade, Michigan.
whose wife and son we're burned to death by
a kerosene explosion, a few days ago, has
become maniac, and his life is despared of.
IN the case OF James Druyer, boy of
twelve, tried in Chicago for the murder of
Swede named Gustav Larsen, last winter,
plea of self-defence was established and the
youthful ruffian acquitted.
Or Saturday VIM. Potter stabbed and
killed George Sheets, in dispute growing
out of a debt of twenty-five cents, at Staunton,
Va.
WEDNESDAY night the harness trimming
factory of VIM. Waldron, and neighboring
buildings on Beekman street, New York, we-e
burned. Loss about S23 600.
The failure of the Bulls Head Bank. of New
York city, is announced.
A SERIOUS riot between Englishmen and
Irishmen occurred at Northampton, near
Birmingham, Tuesday. At least 5000 persons
were engaged in the conflict.
The principal part of the town of Center
vile, OHIO, was Destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
Loss s35, 600.
THE oil excitement at Saylorville, Iowa, still
continues. Many proprietors are digging
wells.
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neck broken at Chicago, on Wednesday by a
wooden Indian placed before his fathers
cigar mandatory as a sign which some of
the little fellows playmates pushed over upon
him.
In is understood that the Consistory of the
Dutch Church in New York has voted to pull
down the oil Fulton Street Church, and cover
the site thereof with buildings for business
purposes. II is here that the celebrated daily
prayer-meotings have been held for fifteen
years withou. interruption.
Ar Rockford, ILL.,, on Tuesday, a hotel keeper
named White was horso.wAipped by Mrs. Mil
der wife of a Chicago capitalist, for an alleged