River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-07-29
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the western terminus OF the Northern Pacific.
IT is hoped the cholera has entirely disap-
peared from Elizabethtown aud Paducab,
Kentucky.
TrE first cargo of wheat was shipped from
San Francisco last week.
JAMES CANNON killed his wife in LOUSY, lille
on Saturday. She had refused to live with him
on account Of cruel treatment.
The system OF cooperative stores Is being
abandoned by the Changers IN Iowa.
TIE caterpillar is devastating orchards IN
Sac county, Iowa.
A SERIOUS fatality is carrying off the horses
in Page county, Iowa.
Two GIRLS, Lizzie Esrhardt and Mary Shaw,
aged fourteen and eleven respectively, daugh-
tiers Of prominent citizens, were drowned at
Elkader, Iowa, while bathing in a miIl-race on
Thursday evening
julius CARL, formerly Sheriff of Hart coun-
ty, Kentucky, engaged in a quarrel with a
Mr.. Smith, a respected citizen of the same
county, few days since, which c@ded in Carl
shooting Smith in the breast with a double
bareed shotgun, killing HIM instantly.
There was an old grudge between the parties
An extensive robbery was perpetratcd on
board the steamer Red Wing, on Thursday
night, while on her northward tnp between
Dubuque and Davenport, from which the
thieves realized several hundred dollars.
MANY Of the passengers who slept with their
pantaoons on had their pockets cut open and
the money distracted.
Two deaths from cholera occurred in Gin
cinnatI last Saturday, and three on sunday
forenoon
TBE mortality N New York last week show.
cd an increase Of % per cent. over the week
before.
The wheat crop in Kansas II mostly secnr.
ed, and the yield is better than anticipated
FIRE in Henry, H., on Sunday morning,
destroyed the house and barn Of Jno RIM.
the house and barn Of c. $. Woodward and
the barn Of J. Gallagher Woodward's loss
is $4,000; insured Tor 81 500 m the Home. OF
Columbus, OHIO RIMS loss IL $4,000 in.
sured for 81 200 III the Phoenix, of Hartford.
FIRE IN Montreal on Saturday, DESTROYED
the entire block bounded by Strauterue Roma
ventura, Margaret and Inspector streets.
Altogether twenty buildings we're DESTROYED
among which were Lariverre's carril ee factory
and planning mlll and Fits bakery. Eighteen
families were rendered homeless The total
loss is estimated at sl5O,OOO, Lariverre's loss
is about $50 zoo, on which there IL no ipsnr-
ance. Fits bakery was partially insured
and is dwellings destroyed we're insured To
probably the sum Of the value.
New HAVEN went wild Friday. over Yale's
victory in the college race.
The Industrial Congress, at Cleveland.
adopted labor rotorm platform aud adjourn
cd, on Friday,
VALUE Of iour and wheat exports from Cal
tornia to Atlantic aud foreign ports the last
year, $40 2G2 900
CHoLERA IS reported as prevalent in several
kentucky towns
GEORGE eTsNISoroN, Of Bloomington, H.,
was drowned at Joliet, Wednesday. while
bathing
MICHAEL BUCKLEY, sub-eontractor of the
Bucksport and Bangor Railroad. in Maine
has absconded with the funds entrusted 10
him to pay employees.
The elder Of two boys, at Matteson. Iii by
the name OF Wedel, while he was PLAYING with
an old pistol, shot the younger through the
brain, injuring him fatally.
DIR. THOMAS DUDLEY, First Assistant In the
Eastern LunatIc ASYLUM at Lexington. XIV
committed suicide, on Friday, by taking three
grams OF morphine He was about 40 wear,
old, and had been with the institution n,arly
twenty years. He has been valuable officer
During the past year or two he has shown
some evidences OF insanity, OWING, II is sup
posed, TO bis intimate relations with the in
sane and intense application 10 his duties
os'tkAL members Ot Congress, who have
eonVersed with the President az Long Branch
IN regard to the salary grab, say that ne ex-
presses himself ~ iayorlng The total repeat Of
ne provision IN question. Should Congress
az the next session comply with the desires a
the President, aud repeal the law the c,,sc,
would be to place quite number or mem.
bers and eN-memhcis IA an cmlarras.t,,,, ~,
ntion, nom the fact that the rcpeal win NJ.
cessitate the return Of the a. coo ba,k ,a,
the money having been spent by many -,
them IN payment OF old hab,l,t,,s eopt,,ct,d
in Washington and elsewhere.
pVhN"S Aihhs correspondent nArrates thu
particulars Of the discovery, in the province.
Of the Argentine Republic. Of a wonderful
gold mine, said 10 b, the richest in the vorl1
One-half of the site Of the mime has be- n .,la
according to the narrator, for tl0O goo OOO.
IhE cholera - raging fearful, AT Monnt
Vernon. Indiana, causing an almost total sus.
pension OF business.
THE New Yoik Board Of Underwriters adopt
cd resolution To levy an additional premtnp
OF one per cent. on Mansard roofs after lam
airy 1.
Prisons implicated IN the recent duel I've
tween Wall stree, parties have been tndiet,,
by the Grand jury.
Henry RorBE and Henry Fox, while labor
ing in an excavation IN the extreme low,
part Of st. Louis. Thursday evening. wer
killed by an emhankmont falling ON then
Philip Moaser and Daniel Rock we're ais
badly injured.
THE recent attacks OF Lieut.. Babecck on IN
Ionto Apaches has produced a good effect
Two hundred saysges have surrendered a
the reservation. Chief shelter Pan saws d
wants peace. Gen. Crook made him sergcan
Of the Indian scouts al Verdi.
No PEAcHEs, few cherries and grapes. and a.
entire failure Of blackberrlcs il the latest FIRM