River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-07-16
THE NEWS.
A CAREFULLY PREPARED SUMMARY
OF CURRENT EVENTS.
Condensed From Daily kilograms and from
the Newspapers.

Ninety thousand young shad, furnished
by the national fish commission, were
placed lat week in the Des Moines river
of Iowa.
The Holly water works just completed
at Kansas City, Mo-, were tested the
other day by throwing twelve streams,
averaging 100 feet in height.
The Chicago Times of Saturday pub
iished special kilograms from seventy diff
ferent places, and it was not, after all, an
uncommon day for specials.
A MIR. Nick Thomas, Of Chicago,
claims to have discovered the same
source of power which is said to be the
secret Of the Keely motor.
About one hundred Brule Sioux at.
tackled the Ponca Agency in Nebraska,
on the 9th inst and were repulsed with
the loss Of three or four various killed.
Edward Kelly, bridge Waterman at OF.
sego, n. y, wife and child, were run over
by railway train, Saturday, the 10th,
and Kelly ant wife Killed, the child escap.
ing.
The physicians in attendance upon
Robert Dale Owen, at New Harmony.
Ind, have pronounced him hopelessly
insane, and think that he cannot live
longer than two weeks.
Daniel G. Lobdell, the Oldest special
treasury agent in the service. author Of
the bonded warehouse system, died in
Washington Friday last, after a life time
OF continuous official service.
Mrs. Algernon Sartoris, daughter Of
the President, gave birth, Sunday morn
ing. to fine boy, weighing ten and
half pounds.
Abraham jackson, the defaulting Jaw
yer Of Boston, has been indicted on four
counts for forging and altering notes
his bail being fixed at $4,000.
An immense water spout descended on
the track Of tie Kansas Pacific railroad
near Kit Carson, on the 10th, and carried
away two hundred feet Of track.
The lower Missouri valley is largely
under water, and il is eight days since it
was possible to run a train through on
the Missouri and Hannibal railway.
b. NJ. We're alias F. NJ. Lindley has
been arrested at Milwaukee for swindling
a lot OF lab0rers, from whom he obtained
81 each by pretending to hire them for
work in Chicago.
1t is stated from Washington that
charges have been made against chief clerk
Holt of the internal revenue bureau, in
connection with the whisky fra uds lately
brought to light.
The result Of the count of the cash in
the vaults of the national treasury, is a
shortage in the neighborhood Of $4,000,
including the $4,000 which so myster-
iously disappeared short time since.
Edward Curtis and James Bross, two
colored brothers Of Chicago, quarreled
about woman, Monday evening, the
fray ending IN the latter being fatally cut
with razor in the hands Of the former
O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian is to
try again to walk $50 miles in 80 Consec.
utiye hours, early next month and. If ne
succeeds, will shortly after try to walk
from Portland, Me-, to Chicago, in about
% days.
George W. Fishback, formerly Of the
st. Louis Democrat. publishes card in
the Chicago Tribune of the 18th, in
which he denies the truth Of the pub
lished reports duplicating him in the
whisky frauds at St. Louis.
Senator Carl Schurz has gone to Swift.
erland, where he will spend the summer
months, returning to London about the
lst Of September. A month later he
will be in America, ready to begin his lee.
ture engagements.
One pilfering dry goods clerk Of Gin.
clnnati being arrested the other day, has
informed upon a number Of other clerks
in two or three other houses, some Of
whom have been arrested and confessed,
while others have fled from the city.
Part Of the money said to have been
robbed from an Iowa City wool.buyer by
inmates Of house Of ill.fame, and by
"bmks steerers," belonged 70 his neigh.
bors, who suspect The old fellows pitiful
story was partly invented to pull wool
over their eyes.
A passionate debate-not an nircquent
occurrence, by the ways expected soon
in the French Assembly, when NJ.
Rouher will insist upon the legitimacy Of
the hopes entertained by Bonapartists Of
the restoration OF the empire, and pre-.
diet their ultimate realization.
Joseph Donahue Of South Bend. Ind.
was last seen alive on the 9th inst, when
he was very drunk. His body was found
on the 10th in the pcn.Stock Of Reedy's
Touring mill, partly lying on the turbine.
Too much whisky for so much water.
About three miles from Tawas. Mich.
on Monday oflast week, Mrs VIM. Schad
was assisting her husband in cleaning up
then farm, quite recently purchased,
when burning tree suddenly fell and
struck her upon the back Of the head,
breaking IN the skull and crushing her
and amost burying her in the ground
The trial Of JOIN d. Lee for connection
with the Mountain Meadow massacre of
1851 IN southern Utah. at which time
lao emigrantS, men, women and children
from Arkansas and Missouri were mur.
dered' will probably come up at Beaver,
Utah, ON the 10Th. 4 large number of
witnesses are already in attendance.