River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-08-06
THE NEWS.
A REVIEW OF THE WEEK
At HOME AND ABROAD.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


the principal chief Of the Cherokee In
dams, is denied. His reelection is con.
sidered certain.
1t is reported that the election troubles
in the Cherokee Nation, led to the assas.
sination Of Col. W X. Ross, the princi.
pal chief, on the 9th.
Advices from central Indiana report
continuous rains for several DAYS past,
doing great damage to crops. Farmers
are greatly discouraged.
The packing house of F. E. Higgins
Co., corner of Lake street and Artesian
avenue, Chicago, was partially burned
on the 18th. Loss $4,000; insurance
$1,000.
That terrible scourge. the yellow fever,
10 still raging with deadly effect at Bar.
rancas, Fla. Five deaths were reported
the 28th. No cases are reported al
other points on the coast.
A freight train going north on the
Louisville, New Orleans & Chicago, near
Terre Haute, Ind, the 2Sth, went through
Az foot trestle, killing the conductor
engineer and head brakeman.
At Baltimore, Saturday morning last
Daniel Brown, colored, was shot dead in
ball room, during a disturbance, by
Phillip Mcdonald, a policeman. The
officer was committed to Jail to await the
action OF the grand jury.
Van Pelt, the saloon keeper who sur
rendered to the Ohio crusaders and made
money as well as notoriety out of his
TEMPORARY adhesion to the temperance
cause, when last heard from was under
arrest at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, charged
with stealing a wagon and harness.
In the lower or Butler oil district OF
Pennsylvania plot is said to have been
discovered among the unemployed work.
men to set fire to all the tanked petro.
leum. Their object, of course. is to COM
pei the oil companies to resume opera.
tions giving them employment again.
The jury in the Waddy Thomson case
at Memphis, were, Saturday evening, the
3lst, unable to agree, standing nine for
conviction and three for acQuittal. Should
they fail to agree and be discharged Wad.
dy Thompson will have to be in Jail until
the next term of court, as horse stealing,
with which he stands chargedsis, in Ten.
nesSee, capital otfense.
A young lawyer of Clyde, New York,
named Adam V. Forbes, has been ar.
rested for printing his own tickets for
travel on the New York Central railway.
lie had small press and type at his own
house where he printed his tickets. He
says he printed only fifty, used but five,
and never gave any away, but he is likely.
nevertheless, to have long term in
PRISON.
A dispatch received from Commodore
Cooper, commanding the navy yards at
Pensacola, says: "The yellow fever
epidemic at Barraneas is fearful. Keep
all strangers away We are doing dav
aud night TO care Tor the SICK there. ii
we are spared hope there will be thor
ough and close investigation oc the cause.
1t is feared there is some local cause for
this disease.
A cyclone Of great severity and extent
passed through Harveysburg, Fountain
county. Ind. on the 18th ultimo, tearing
houses to pieces, uprocting trees. and
sweeping things generally before it.
Five women were killed. Among the
names OF the killed thus far ascertained
are Mrs. Sewers, Mrs. Savage and Mrs.
Patterson. A hired girl and little child
OF Mrs. Sewers are also among the VIC
tins.
A New Orleans dispatch states that
most serious riots are apprehended
at East Fellclana, where the negroes
have assumed the offensive and are coll
lecting and arming. through the parish,
for the supposed purpose of capturing the
town Of Clarion. Great excitement pre-.
walls throughout the parish, and a nun
Der of whites, armed, are congregated to
patrol the town. Bad feeling has existed
between the people IN that parish for
some months.
The coroner jury in the 5th of July
Southside railroad murder, have found
the following verdict: "We hereby Sc.
verely censure the railway company in
not employing good and competent per.
sons, or sufficient number, to operate
the road safely; also in not having APP.
proved brakes attached to their cars, and
in altering their time table on public
holiday also putting as general manager
over the road an inexperienced man, with
power TO direct and control Supt. Barton
and Trainmaster Barr and we exonerate
Supt. Barton and Traimaster Barr from
all blame"
Information reached the police Of New
York late on Wednesday night. the Dist,
that five men, on the tug.boat Michael
Morton which lay at the wharf IN the
East river. kidnapped in the street Mrs.
Louisa Merritt. wife Of Col. Merritt, Of
the United States army, and taking her
aboard the boat, all outraged her. Two
OF the iniscreants have been arrested, but
the others are at large. The lady is re.
spectacle aud moves in the best society,
and her husband has long been hoporably
connected with the army. II is feared
that Mrs. Merritt will die. She is in the
Park hospital.