River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-02-26
THE NEWS.

The House of Wisconsin has con-
t,i. red in the Senate Memorial for extern
,hn of time for completion of the st.
=, Dix and Bayfield, road.
The Dominion parliament will now
ID .lare Riel's election for member void
n, a order new election for member from
,enitoba.
The steamboat bill as now pending
j, the U. S. Senate, prohibits entirely the
lrrying of explosive and dangerous ma
ials requires life preservers capable
4 supporting twenty.four pounds each
NJ requires at least one looked safety
valve.
President Garrett, Of the Baltimore
y Ohio railroad, threatens to retaliate on
1hs Pennsylvania Central company,
which has withdrawn through Il. x. u.
tickets from its offices and prohibited the
passage Of B. & o. freight cars over its
tracks.
Tuesday the 10th hunter found in
the woods near Grenada, Miss, the body
OF an Irish peddler named Pat Latferty,
with a bullet hole through his skull, his
pocket book missing, and the body al
most eaten up by the hogs and dogs. No
cluc to the murderer.
On the night Of the 18th negro was
caught in the act Of fastening cross-tie
the IreStle worn WV on u;aLohnla
bottom, on the Mississippi & Tennessee
railway. After arrest he confessed TO
having thrown a train off near there re-
Gently. This time he expected the train
70 be dashed to pieces and then rob the
lodies Of the passengers.
1t is reported that two burglars were
illed on the night of the 18th near
bonneville, Hickory county, KY, by
ir. Moher and peddler who was stay
Ing at his house. One burglar was shet
dead and the other wounded and es-
,lped, but was tracked and discovered to
lie Moher's brother.in-law. lie died
Monday morning.
A Montreal dispatch of the Goth says
that, owing to the accumulation of ice at
The rapids the water has risen about two
;cet over the locks of the Beauharnais
,anal, flooding several houses and com.
pelling the inmates to leave. The Island
Of Aux Chevaux IS completely submerged.
Meanwhile the mills and factories at Val.
'eyfield are stopped for want of water.
The Lehigh Eastern railroad com.
Dany of Pennsylvania, has petitioned the
Legislature of Massachusetts to guarantee
live million dollars OF its first mortgage
bonds on condition that it will carry all
the coal destined for Massachusetts, at a
.a.e not over IL cents per ton per mile.
"A newspaper at Berlin which pub
l:shed the recent encyc,ical of the Pope
TO the Prussian Bishops, has been confis.
tied and its proprietor prosecuted by
the government. -
Various States of the German EN-.
pire are investigating the causes of emi.
lration, to remove it. Ii is proposed to
facilitate the requirements Of small es-
tates, and 10 oppose the action OF the EN-.
igration agents paid by transatlantic
governments.
a legislative committee Of Nebraska
reports tnat tlIv UO@s;ata 10 the State
pcnitentiary have been subjected TO ex-
tremely cruel treatment and been clothed
and fed miserably.
The House committee on appropria
, rs allows $4,000 for Ransom portrait
General Thomas and $25, 900 for Car.
lenter's painting of the signing Of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
The City Of Picking sailed on her
first trip from San Francisco TO Hong
kong Saturday the Goth.
BY recent decision of the United
>;ates Supreme Court at Washington as
u the right Of counties to tax subsidized
failrsads in Nebraska, some $4,000
ill be paid over to the various county
treasurers on Monday next.
The jury in the case Of Rufer, the
lanyard murderer Of Cincinnati, was out
last night trying to agree on a verdict.
II will be a strange incident In the uncer.
taint.es Of law il he should escape convis.
ion.