River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-12-16
GENERAL MATTERS.

China has appointed ministers for the
United States, Peru and japan.
A Madrid, Spain, telegram of the 9Th,
saya tie vsse,h~s - vesy ss.l is thru ruts ,Sn,,
some soldiers have been frozen to death.
The execution Of an imperial decree re-
forming and recognizing the tribunals Of Tur-
key has been officially announced
The German Savings Bank of New
York suspended on the eth The hank had
1880 depositors. Liabilities about $3.50 200.
The guard gates Of the Sault Ste.
Marie canal have been closed for the winter,
and the work oi repair will be commenced inn
mediately
The question Of the $50 600 race at San
Francisco, is again being revived, but as some
OF the horses to contest are still suffering from
sploot, It's not certain when it twin come OF
AT Homestead, Iowa, fifty miles west OF
Davenport, on the 2sth ult, farmer who
caught the wrong man in his wife's bed room,
killed the intruder by blow with an axe,
which smashed in his skull
The Kentucky State grange, p. Of H.,
has adopted resolutions favormg government
aid 10 the Southern Pacific railroad, and also
against attacking 70 the Order the ooored or
ganization known as the Council Of Laborcrs
The body Of DIR. Charles Durham Of
New Brunswick, N. j., called on the 9th TO at
tend wounded boatman, was fshed from Il e
canal on the nth, when the head was found 70
be smashed and the pockets turned inside out,
indicating murder.
1t is said that Ed. Peters & Co., the
Oldest and most extensive lumber commission
firm in Boston, has suspended Large losses
by shrnkage in property and business de-
preston are the causes assigned A meeting
OF creditors is soon to be held.
1t is reported that the steamer Los
Angeles, which was feared to he los arrived at
Victoria yesterday in tow Of the British
gunboat Kokcet, Her engine was brok e
down IS miles south OF Columbia River, and
she was eighty days under sail. She lost one
seaman in a gale.
At a meeting Of Methodist ministers in
Salt Lake, on the 9th, resolutions were adopt
ed protesting against the action OF Bishop IIa.
ven and .he Methodist preachers OF Boston N
nominating Grant for . third term, and de-
nounoirg the course pursued by President
Grant as re- ards this territory.
II is reported that the agricultural re.
ports for November and December say that the
November returns indicate that the corn crop
Of 1875 was one Of the largest ever grown
in this country, probably oquAlling the
very large crops Of 1870 and 1872.
II rs at less, fourth greater than the crop Of
1859. Every section II the Union reports
some increase,
The potato crop Of the United States is
excellent, bo,li production and quality. The
yield in the distrits report, Is one.f fourth
greater than last year. IN the rainy sections
the sweet potato suffered in yield
and quality, caused from excessive
moisture. = ;he guilt states aud western Mis-
sissippi tie yield largely exceeds that Of last
year. The quality Is about average
The work Of recovering the bodies
from the swarthead, King, cclliery Is still pro.
crossing The number Of fatalities Is now put
down At 80. The entire district Is still greatly
excited, and Il will be some DAYS yet before
the number Of dead can he exactly asoertaincd,
\ Tall OF portion Of the root having occurred
which obstructs the work Of the explorers.
Mr.. Biddle, counsel for the Pacific Mail
steamship company, IN the district court,
Washington, the ilth stated he had hereto
tore dismissed, in entire misappvhension OF
the wishes Of the company, and without auth