River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-11-18
GENERAL NrATTERs.

alties ana restrictions
GENERAL MATTERS.
The prohibition party Of New lamp
shire has nominated A. s. Kendall for Gov
erEor.
The second annual church congress Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States is in session at Philadelphia.
In test vote in the French Assembly
on ae 18th, on the electoral bill, the govern.
ment was sustained by ayote Of 357 yeas to
500 nays.
The great hatter's goods importing house OF
Haight, Halsey & Co., has Suspended payment.
rhe house has longranked A !, and had a
capital Of s25n,OOO.
The two leading Baptist papers Of Bos-
ton, the raand the Vatehm0a md Reflector,
have been consolidated, with Dr. FORMER in
editorial control.
Hartranft's majority for Governor of
Pennsylvania is ,62l, or some 1900 less than
his ma jonty in Philadelphia. The prohibit
ton vote of the State was about 1900.
Judge Moore Of Brooklyn has decided
to grant an order tor a commission to take tie
testimony Of Mr.. Richards, brother Of Mrs
Tilton, and his wife, in the Loader perjury
case.
The large cotton mills at Glasgow, be-
longing to Robertson & Co., were destroyed by
fire on the nth. Loss estimated at 81 ,5OO, 900.
Twelve hundred persons are thrown out o
employment
The President has appointed Hiram
LefIingwell United States marshal for the dis
trict Of Missouri. l.. " Bacon Of Michigan
has been appointed financial clerk of the pat
ent Office
Andy Rothfus, Charles Weihe, Mike
IIackstt and James Keele OF Decatur, H., sued
by Mrs. smelsley, for selling liquor to her hus.
hand and making him intoxicated, have set.
tied by paying o. 900 and costs.
The question being raised as to the ell.
igibility OF a Mormon to serve as a juror in a
suit Of a non. Mormon against a Mormon,
Judge Foreman overruled the challenge and
decided that the challenged party was compe-
tent TO serve.
The aggregate amount Of business done
at the New York Sub Treasury during the
last fiscal year was S7Os,O0O,0OO The amount
OF receipts of customs at the port Of New York
was slll 100000 The balance at the end of
the last fiscal year was SlI0,OOO,O00.
Returns of the Kansas election show
that there are but seven districts IN which
Democratic members are elected, and eleven
districts in which they are elassed as r%form-
ers. Most Of these, on a strict party diyis-
ion, would vote with the Republicans. There
are So members out-and-out Republicans.
The subject of the Bible in the schools
was brought before the Chicago Board OF Edu.
cation at its meeting ON Friday evening last,
on the petition ola large number OF clergymen
and other citizens. After free discussion a
motion to restore the reading of the Bible
without note or comment was rejected by a
vote OF to 10.
The Pullman palace car company is
about to commence suit against Wagner and
the Michigan Central railroad to restrain the
after from using the inventions OF Pullman
Eminent council, including Senator Conkling
Of New York, Ashley Pond Of Detroit, and d
Darwin Hughes OF Grand Rapi Is, have been
retained by the Pullman company.
Recently the Diario Espdaol Of Mad
rid gave publicity to the statement that note
had been despatched from the Vatican TO
Spain, insisting upon the execution of the
concordat, attributing the civil war to religions
tolerance, demanding that the Bishop or Ur-
gel he tried 10y ecclesiastical judges, etc. The
existence of this note is denied at Rome.
The Attorney General has decided that
the act otCongress of April 27th, 1916, con-
frmed to Hugh and John Maxwell grant
%, 500 acres at the forks OF Black river, Mo-,
made to Priest Maxwell in 1899 by the Span
ish government. THIS large tract OF land, SIT
uate ia REYNOLDS and Iron counties, Mo, is
thes fore declared to belong TO claimants rep
resented by Warwick runtsell