River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-01-01
THE NEWS.

Two new suits growing out Of old
ring operations have been begun 10 re.
cover $525,000 from VIM. NJ. Tweed for
the city of New York.
In a quarrel at Chelsea stock yards,
Memphis, last Friday night, Matt. Rice
shot and fatally wounded Danna Scott.
Both are colored.
An English capitalist offers to take
the $3.50, 900 loan Of Winnipeg at ten per
cent, conditioned on slight amend
ment Of the city charter.
The Congress committees to in.
qure into affairs at Vicksburg and New
Orleans have started from Washington
for those places.
John Green and James Murphy
have been arrested in St. Louis for
stealing bulk grain from cars. A mum.
Der OF well.flled grain bins were found
in Murphy's house.
"A convention was held in Hen.
nepin, ILL.,, on the Goth, which adopted
a memorial to Congress asking the con-
struotion Of the Ilcnnepin and Rock
Island canal.
The executive committee Of the
Nebraska ala society declare that nu.
nerous impostors are travelling about
the country soliciting contributions for
the grasshoppcr sufferers. Such solici.
tation is not authorized and the contri.
buttons thus collected are stolen.
On the island Just above Memphis,
last Saturday, two colorcd men, Fred
Jones and William Ship, had an alter
cation which resulted in the former
shooting the latter, inaicting wound
which will prove fatal.
Tho police of Cincinnati made
descent on cockpit Saturday night
and arrested the proprietor and five
spectators. The arrests were made on
complaint from the society for proven.
ton Of cruelty TO animals.
A Brooklyn dentist has made him
self famous by suing Henry Ward
Beecher for 5000, claimed to be due for
four sets Of teeth supplied to Mrs.
Beecher. The debt is denied.
The two German girls, elder sis.
tiers of the children some time ago res
cued from the CheyenneS, are with
Stone Calls band of two hundred
lodges on the Staked Plains. A de.
mand for their immediate surrender
has been sent to Stone Calf.
1t is said that Messrs. Poland and
Ward Of the Arkansas investigating
committee will favor the Brooks claims
while the majority Of the committee
sGstain GOV. Garland and the new con.
stitutiOn.
Irwin, a Washington dispatch Of
the 23d says. SIS i'll this evening with
nervous prostration, and is confined to
his bed. Orders have been given by
his physicians to admit no person ex.
cvpt his private secretary
On motion Of Beecher's counsel,
Judge Mcclure Of Brooklyn granted an
order on Titon TO show cause why the
order requiring bill of particulars
should not be enforced, and Saturday
next was appointed for argument of the
counsel.
The Didrro of Havana, reports that
efforts are being made TO revive the
Cuban rebellion and TO obtain fIom the
United States a recognition from the
rebels as belligcrants, with the view.
however, only to Wall street specua-
tion in Cuban bonds.
New York, Dee. 24.--The suit of 10.
sephine Mansfield against the estate
of the late JAS. Fisk, Jr., to recover
the value Of two prom nisSory notes
with interest, amounting to $4,000, re.
suited in verdict in favor of the
plaintiff,
Near the town Of Woodstock, Ok
iordshire, England, Thursday, an ex-
press train on the Great Western
railway was thrown from the track and
preciptated down canal embankment.
Several cars fell into the canal and six
teen persons were drowned. Thirty in
all were killed and wounded.
A Washington correspondent tele.
graphed Thursday: This morning 5
Chronicle has an editorial advocating
the retertion of Mullett, and the in.
crease of his pay to $4,000 per wear.
Assistant Secretary Conant tells me
that probably no change will be made.
Mmllett says there reno differences be.
tween him and the Secretary. SO il is
probable no change will I've made.
Alta consultation of the Spanish
commissioners to the Philadelphia cen.
tennial, held in Madrid Thursday,
Senior CASTILLO eloquently sketehcd the
rise and progress Of the United States,
and the ideas OF liberty and labor which
prevailed there. Tie found in American
civilization, language and arts, traces
OF Spanish origin which time and in.
gratitude were unable to eradicate.
Secretary Dclauo has written a
letter to the Secretary Of War, in which
he says the Black Hills country is So.
cured by treaty 10 the Sioux Indians.
and respectfully requests that the most
effective measures within the power of
the War Department may be adopted
towards all persons making cncroaeh.
ments upon said territory, and that all
intruders be pursued, oyortaksn and
expelled from il.
Tom Garmy, saloon keeper NJ
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