River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-08-27
THE NEWS.
4 REVIEW OF THE WEEK
At HOME AND ABROAD.
CRDrES 4ND c4YUaLTTES.

covered
The 'Molly Magazines Of 6lrardsyillc,
Shenandoah and Mahonoy City, Pa,
killed four working miners, burned four
dwellings and got up several riots sunday
last
James $. Giles postmaster at Prescott,
Arizona, absconded the night Of the l4th.
The safe has not been opened, but money
orders to the amount 81 $500 are. unoc-
counted for,
W. J. Martin and j. w. White have
been arrested ut indianapolis for passing
counterfeit money. Six hundred dollars
in $40 notes on the Richmond, In, ma.
tional bank were found IN Whites pos.
session.
a steam yacht carrying tho Queen Of
England and party, on the 10th, colided
and run down a schooner yacht, carrying
a pleasure party Of ladies and gentIemen,
several of whom were drowned, aud fatal
~ injming others.
The English Ship Brennan arrived At
San Francis 20 on the 18th, having been
l27 days in making the passage. Thr-
teen Of the crew died Of scurvey during
the passage, ami all the re nainder were
helplcs, from It,
N. j. Rice, postollice clerk at Battle
Creek, Mich, is under arrest for mail
ROBBERY and confessed the crime Ills
depredatlons have been continuous for
months past during which las led fast
life that dire Ted suspicion towards him,
The sec 1t trial Of Wintermute for the
killing Gen. McCook began az Verml.
ION ON ne 10Th inst, having been taken
from iankton on change Of venue. The
Hon. j. y. Brown pfBdiana, is 70 assist
DlstrIct.Attorgey Gamble itho prosecu.
ton. ..t
4 CORES pondcnt Of the Toledo Blade.
named Eagan, is believed 90 have been
drowned u the Missouri lie left Fort
Randall about week ago in skiH,s am
sWering the description Of one since found
upset. and has not since been seen or
heard from.
Frederick stouder,a man Of well es-
tab,lshei good character, of Trhana. H.
is under trial for incest on charge pre-.
terrcd hy his daughter, now 81 years old.
whose story is that be has co emitted the
crime ever since she was 10, and that She
feared 10 expose him.
VIM. Van Buren,, q farmer of Mclean
county Illinois, a st0op.shouldered man,
50 years DID, left Weston Aug "a with
his own team and 300 belonging to
Dr.. j. G. Green Of Wyoming. II he has
not been murdered the Doctor would be
glad TO have him arrested
The bodies fail three Of the victims
Of the late Passaic Falls accident have
been recovered. Grogan's was lassoed
and hauled up from between the log-
where it hung under the cataract, and
Martin and Horizons came to tho sur.
face in eddieS below the falls.
Near Goshen, Ind. Saturday the l4th.
a farmer named Anthony Ralf,nyder
while aiine threshng machine. slippc
into the feed box IIsright foot being
instantly drawn into the rapidly revov
ing cylinder ms LEG was torn III inch by
inch to within six inches Of his body lie
lived six hours after.
Two men named Green Contrerl and 4.
Neil supposed to belong to the Franklin
county ill., ku klux were arrested on
the 10Th. Contrel was found TO be bad
" injured, supposed to have been re
cciyed in the light with the sheriff posse
on the Eth The ,hcrif is in pursuit Of
the remainder % thc ua0d.
Four scoundrels endavored TO cut
the Mississippi levee &C Beulah, near M.
poleou, Ark, on the night of the 9th.
Had they succeeded large property
would have been destroyed and possibly
number Of people been drowned. But
the levec patrol discovered the Williams.
killed one, wounded two and captured
the other.
On the evening of the 18th, the wife of
Capt. Phil Bessmgor. of Rcadinr, Pa. ac-
companiel by her three chidren--two
girls and boy-aged respectively 3. g
and 3, walked up the towpath Of the
Union canal. and when three miles north
of the city, threw the children into the
water and then walked in herself All
were drowned.
Eighty arrests Of negroes alleged 10
contemplate an insurrectioa and murder
Of the whites of the counties of Wash
ingtou aud Jefferson, Georgia, were
made ON the 18th. The prisoners
were lodged in jail without resistance.
The massacre was to take place, it is al.
legged, on the 10Th. No further trouble
is antiCiuatcd.
The London Times speaking of the
Turkish rebellion, SAYS: "Whle we
think the success ofthe rebellion would
be a calamity % he present time. be.
cause IL might preciptato the disruption
of the ottoman Empire, and plunge Eu-
rope into q mirhty war, we cannot blame
the people Tor seeking 10 throw of an
intolcrah'e yoke"
james 4 Williamson, clerk IN the
Interior Department, specially assigned
20 duty 10 tho attorney Generals Office
because &C his .tuowlcdrc Of the
accounts in the celebrated Judge
Wright Indian frauds. lost Ms right eve
hvp shot 1t ll1rperN Ferry depot, prob.
atly from on lir tn Circumstances iu.
direio thtt an attempt was made % as.
assinate him.
Ahou. six mi'r- from Iudmcton. ON
Lake NJ h.au. Saturday pieht the 18th
FROM me Ie1wer John sherman. ia
body ofh man vi'h lile prc,,rycr or
wa .oer which p suppressed ~ have hsCr
Dopni14ll'.. The efp4rnr- beirr boIifH