River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-10
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ator Caldwell, that he was elected by the
bribery OF certain members of the Kansas
Legislature.
The Commission to inquire into the depre-
dations Of Mexicans on the Texas frontier ex-
pect to leave Washington on the 7th Of Jan
nary to resume their !abors. Meade, one OF
the Commissioners, has resigned.
The Secretary of the Treasury has author
lied the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
buy 81, 100000 bonds and sell 81, 900, 900 coin
each week during the month Of January.
COLLISION on the Erie railroad, near Wee
hawken, resulted in the destruction OF five
freight cars and serious injury of two locomo-
tives
TIE body Of Jane Stewart has been recover
cd from the ruins Of th' Centre street fire.
FREDERICK CAMPBELL, son Of the President
of the Pacific Bank, suicided in New York on
Friday
Doc TowNLEY, business manager of the
New York Grand Opera House and well known
as journalist, died Sunday morning.
EDWARD A. EVERETT is under arcs in Chi.
cago on a charge Of stealing one hundred
thousand dollars in bonds Of the Selma and
Gulf Railroad, which Miss Shortwell had
been entrusted to deliver to Gen. p. ID. Rhod.
dy, Of Alabama.
W. c. ROBINSON, prominent Pittsburg
manufacturer, is dead.
FIVE immense land slides have occurred in
Oregon on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. Two hundred men will be employed
two weeks to put the track in order again.
CHARLES KRAEGER merchant in San Fran
CISCO committed suicide with a razor. He had
desperate struggle with his clerk, who tried
TO prevent hn, before accomplishing the
decd
HEAVY rain storms have flooded the streams
in California. Much damage is reported
SEVERAL collisions are reported between the
miners Of the Phoebe Phoenix and Raymond and
Ely mining companies in Nevada One miner,
Thomas Ryan, was killed on Saturday evening,
and another, Jacob Swetzer, dangerously
wounded. The Raymond and Ely miners have
struck against ten-hour shifts.
TIE report that Governor Warmoth mas
abandoned the contest in Louisiana is authori-
tatively denied.
TREMENDOUS seas have prevailed on the At
lantc for the past zen days.
The new public school building, No. 5, Jer-
sey City, was partially destroyed by fire on
Monday evening. The loss on the building
and furniture is estimated at sixty thousand
dollars; insurance forty thousand dollars.
About one hundred and fifty girlsin the school
at the time escaped without accident.
THE atmospheric wave which caused such
intense cold here Monday and Tuesday, reach
ed the eastern states Tuesday night. At Con-
cord, \. ii on Wednesday, the mercury indi-
Gated 80 degrees below Lancaster, n. y,
from Is to 80 below. At Bath. Me-, 2S below.
which was the coolest with perhaps one or two
exceptions since 1857
An old lady named Potter residing in Keo-
kuk, Iowa, was burned to death Monday even
ing by her clothing taking ire from a stove at
which she was cooking.
CoPIous rains have fallen in every portion
California, from San Diego to Yreka A boun-
tiful harvest is promised nox. year.
KATE CoNNoR, the servant injured bv a
cooking range explosion in Cincinnati, on sun
day, is dead
IHE Porto Rico emancipation bill provides
that slave owners shall receive so per cont.
indemnity, the slaves 10 be free within four
months after the passage 81 the BILL
kAMEHAMEHA, King Of the Sandwich Is
lands, died at Honolulu on the 18th Of Deem.
Der. He is the last Of the royal line named.
No successor had been chosen when the
steamer left.
MOTT express train on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad ran of the track few
miles north Of Harvard, IN. All Of the cars
except the sleeper, six in number, were thrown
Oh, and the conductor, Murray Milmiue, engi.
neer stephen llottiag and brakeman named
Ben Hill, were slightly nluredl
JAMES WAY, an engineer, was caught In the
machinery Of imead's chair factory at Ian.
sing, Michigan, on Thursday, and hurled to
The hoor with such force as to fracture his
skull, causing death ia a short tune.
MRs. Fem, a widow woman residing near
Charlotte, Michigan, has been insane for some
time. On Monday night she had 20 be tied in
bed. Hot bricks and hot cloths were mt IN
with her as part Of the prescribed treatment
to quiet her. From the bricks however, some
OF the bedding caught FIRE, aud she was fatal
y burned before she could be released.
YOUNG man, named Andrew Powell, while
out hunting on Wednesday, near Pikeville.
OHIO was shot 10y the accidental discharge of
his gun.
IL Lafayette township Indiana, on wcanrs,
az, james Baker and Samuel Carpenter quar-.
eled over game OF cards when baker
struck Carpenter with an AK, fatally iuiurnr
h.m. Baker afterwards attempted 10 shoot
MS sister, Carpenters witc
prNcANsoN, the eolorcd landscape painter
Of Cincinnati, died a, the Insane Retreat. in
Detroit, IN Tuesday.
Jrnor lhArcuEogp, % New York. has deeid.
cd ibai tee Adams Expires. Company il en-.
titled O. recover nom the United States tb,
value oi $4,000 treasury notes. Of which ONE 4,