River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-08-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

secure oelter quarters Is 10 take better
half
Mr.. Schoez, an American, won the
silver cup in the rife shooting at Stuff
gard, the 18th.
Grasshoppers have again appeared at
points along the Union Pacific in Nebras-
ko, and are destroying the crops.
A dispatch from Gartrean, Ottawa.
says three children, while i'll the woods
picking berries, were eaten by bear
George Porter, of Jersey Landing. ILL.,,
is in Jail at Jerseyville for attempting to
commit a rape on his cousin, Miss Emma
Porter.
Nj. Hogan, a shoemaker Of Cheyenne,
W. T., while standing in his doorway,
Saturday, the 7th, was struck by light
ming and killed.
John Garrell, a railroad laborer at
Grand Haven, Mich, has fallen heir 10
$4,000 by the death Of a brother in
Pennsylvania.
The cholera is raging in the principal
towns of Asia Minor with terribly fatal
result, the deaths at Damascus being re.
ported at 400 daily.
At Red Jacket, Mich, on the 9th, a
Finlander outraged and murdered girl
named Anna Switzer, only eight years
old. If he can be found the people will
hang him.
John NJ. Holden was arrested at Bos.
ton on the 9th for embezzling $4,000 Of
property Of the Oneida Community, and
1t is charged he has, altogether, embez-
zled $4,000.
DR.. Davis and wife have been commit.
ted for trial at Montreal on charge of
abortion and murder, the police having
all they could do to protect them from
being lynched.
At Peoria, ILL.,, a young man named
Henry Hoiiner is under arrest for at
tempting on the 9th to outrage a six year
old girl named Annie FugeI. He was
caught in the act.
The jury in the case of John d. Lee,
charged with being the leader of the
fountain Meadow Massacre, reported
Saturday that they could not agree and
were discharge.
EX-Congressman Isaac c.. Parker, OF the
st. Joseph, Mo-. district, is accused of
selling an appointment at the naval acad.
envy for $50 and having sold promotion
in the railway postal service for 5000.
About 1000 Chinese, under the direc.
rcction Of the San Francisco Christian
mission, held picnic near that city re-
Gently. The principal amusements of the
picknickerS were kite-fying and gym.
nastics.
Isaac Allen of jacksonville, H., was
shot and dangerously wounded on the 9th
by his son Ben, boy of Is. The father
was drunk and assaulting his wife with
carving knife. when the boy shot him to
save his mother.
The body of Anna Pendia, woman
missing from Troy, Kansas, fer several
weeks, has en- recovered from the Mis-
souri,. oppos Kansas City,and furnishes
evidence Il she was outraged and then
thrown in the river.
Owen McKeyver, a laborer at Provi.
dence, r. l., in an attack Of insanity on
the night of the 5th, fatally shot clerk
named Edward Hudson and seriously
wounded one of party of men who ar.
rested him.
Z. b wilkinson, revenue collector and
editor of the II raid at st, Joseph, Mo-.
ana his partner, revenue gauger, have
been held for trial on charge of defrauding
the government by drawing pay for der.
uties not employed.
In the race at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
Saturday, the It'll, between Goldsmith
Maid, American Girl and Huntress, the
Maid won, American Girl getting the
first heat. and the Maid the next three
Time 2;27 "a, 2:l8, 2.lq - and 900.
Three men, Theodore W. Brown, com.
monty known as Peleg Brown, William
Hartman and Ben. b. Halleck, have been
arrested for being concerned in the rob-
berry Of the United States treasury of the
package Of $4,000. Halleck is a
treasury clerk.
1t is reported that Francis d. Moulton
and Ben. Butler have had consultation,
az which plan was partly perfected for
bringing a suit against Mr.. Beecher in
Nuuo touitgs ~. H., NntFe MT. BeeCnef is
now stopping, for perjury in swearing to
his reply to the Tilton suit last year.
At Athens, Tenn, on the night of the
9TH, a negro named lack Gordon, who
was in Jail for an assault upon Mrs. How
ard, white woman, was taken out by
mob of thirty men. Next morning his
body was found, rddled with bullets, a
short distance ont from the village.
A tornado, The track of which was from
20 TO so rods wide, ragged through parts
of Knox, Oglc, Henry and Whiteside
counties, in Illinois, on the evening Of the
5th inst. IL destroyed number of
houses and standing crops in its line. Sew.
eral persons were killed by It aud large
number wounded.
p H. Britain, young and talented
minister of the Methodist denomination,
has been expelled from conference and
has He'd from Titusyille, Pa, whore he
was stationed, to avoid punishment for
criminal intimacy with two young women
Of his church. The criminality appears
10 be iudi,puthble, and Brittan's wife,
beautiful and accomplished lady, has ap.
piled for divorce.
Edward Morris commercial traveller.