River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The East

murder of James Fisk, Jr., IA New YORK, o
tine 9Th Of January 1879, was brought to
close on October 29th, and resulted IN fndin
the prisoner guilty Of manslaughter m tn
third degree, and he was sentenced to tn
states Prison for four years az hard labor.
The report that 10000 men are out of EN-
ployment IN Buffalo, which has been sent on
over the country, is greatly exagg erate'
There are not 800 at the most.
4 PRIVATE wAToHMAN Tas burned to dealt
in the fire which burned J II. MouilI's furnl
ture slorehouse in New York,
In PhHadelphia, ON Tuesday, while JANE
Kngsmid was on trial for the murder Of Fran
chs Malone, two mouths since, son OF tn
murdered man made a desperate attempt t.
take the lie OF the prisoner.
JoHN I. IRvNG, who admitted in San Fran
cisco that he was criminally connected il
the murder OF Benjamin Nathan, IN Ne'
York, two years ago, is to he tried tor bur
glary.
JACOB NICHOLSON, convicted OF numbering
U. s. Deputy Marshal Stevenson in Jcrse!
City, has been sentenced to be hanged De
cember 5th.
Gov. DIX has offered reward Of $4,000 iol
Information which may lead to the conviction
Of the persons who caused the death O
Charles G. Kelsey, Of Huntington, Long Is
land.
In is currently reported IN Boston tat the
sprague Print Wo.ks Company are embar
raised, aud that a suspension Of the firm II
possible Their assets ale 100000 NOR,
than their liabilities, ana want Of current
funds is the cause.
THE trial Of W. + Udderz0ot for the muir
der Of W. S. Goes, 81 Baltimore, was begun Al
West Chester, Pa. on the 29ih Of October.
THE New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company have reduced the hours d
their mechanics from ten to eight hours pei
day making a corresponding reduction Of q
PER cent. Ola their pay. The Hartford, Provi
dence and Washkill Railroad it Is understood
viii make the same reduction.
The Atlantic Mills, at Lawrence, Mass
have commenced running iour days in week
and the mills Of the Bay State Iron Work.
lind It necessary to discharge 2OJ men.
THE Newburg, n. Y steam mills, owned by
Garner \ Co., \. T., have stopped, throwing
ace persons ont Of employment.
THE neS International bridge at Buffalo is
completed.
JuDGE FULLERTON, Comors, American Cir
aud GazeIle trotted for purse Of $500 a
the Prospect FAIR Ground Brooklyn, on Fri
day, American Girl won the f~st money
81 600 Fullerton the second. e. 600 and Co
mors the third, SOTO TiAe 22O, 222 an,
2:20A.
The West
TIE pork-packmg season has opened in Ia
danapolis HOGS are worth from $3.50 I
1916.
AGvIcEs from kidder forty miles east OF 5
Joseph, Mo, on tie Hannibal and st. Jc
Railroad, state that two strange men wcr
frozen 10 death on the prairie, near tn.
town, Monday night. They were in Kidder
the afternoon intoxicated.
The locomotive Of a freight train on the
S. 4 q. r. h, exploded at Forest, Obi
Wrecklng the looun olive aud dangerous
wounding Thomas Riggs, engineer.
john SINctAIH, a man los years OIL VI
killed al Fort WAYNE by being struck by ii
Chicago fact train, while he vas attemptin
10 cross the track
News from North Platte, Mob, says TIA
the M0doc Indians haze arrived there
charge of detachment Of troops, closel
guarded, and not yet allowed out OF the ear,
The officers say they have preserved dogge
silence during the entire tnp. The intentio
II % place them IN a stockade on an island /
the Platte river, near Fort McPherson
ALI the railroad companies ceutcring /
Chicago, 1t Is stated, agreed 70 reduce wage
OF all employees 6 70 10 per cent. and time q
men in workshops one 10 two hours per da,
On and after The first Of November
FouR inches OF suuw fen on Friday in Ne
bra-ka.
Im Chh House, a leading hotel al sal
Lake, burned recently. Loss $50 .0oO
lHE Chicago papers record the my.teriou
disappearance OF prominent railway man
name not given, Who arrived IN that citv. In,
week from Burlington, Iowa, with SIS zoo
The missing man Is fifty years of age ard
resident Of Burlington.
JERRY MIc,Rr died at lincoln, Nebraska
from the effects OF hook jaw. A few d,y- sine
he ran a nail IN his foot, which produced locl
Jaw, causing death.
4 SALT LAKE special says tie B.nrbnr
Railway, narrow gauge, has commenced pa,
seugor and freight traihc, with n,ttern
prospects for an ,tcuriye busru,ss
IHE elegant furniture If the sberma
House, Chicago. has been attached for y,
by Field, Letter \ CO. Thor claims ep,oun,
nearly $4,000.
The South
TnE yellow ever ia Memphis i on ma a,
cline. Mayor johnson, who has lust r,c,,.
ed from the disease, has issued the toloo,,,
kilograms and money received from, nor,
ern cities show az many receipts Of "A,
siantal aid az previously have been show
In blessed charity there i, no Inn, ~ dist,i
ton or separation in our whole land AS ten
citizens OF great country, having the int
ests IN common. Ncarc one people in ~
ratby, ne politically We are united"
InE colorcd aborers on the leyte and Al
coal yards VI New Orleans are on strike
"a per day. They were receiving IS.
SEVERAL persons who are supposed Ia h,
participated IN The l1'fax atiair in Louisia
some months age have been arrested.
resistance was offered.