River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-01-08
THE NEWS.

OOAAAi ObAiiSNOh iAoo ONNli oNnNNil1-d
at Cleveland, Ohio, to be hanged April
2s, 1875.
George Randall. young man Of
Cleveland, o., has been sent to the pen.
itentiary for four years for rape.
Eight persons were killed few
days ago by an explosion in coal mine
at Evanston, Wyoming Ter.
Sam Sharpley, the well.known ne
gro minstrel, died at Providence, X. l.,
last Friday night.
Hampton Post of the G. A. r. at
Cleveland, Ohio, has disbanded on &C.
count Of an accumulation of debts.
Saturday subpenas were served on
the witnesses in the Tilton. Beechcr
case, and panel of five hundred jurors
was called.
Two fires occurred at Cory, Pa,
Wednesday the 30th, by which three
hotels and several other buildings were
burned.
Small pox Of most malignant
type is prevailing among the Indians at
Peckmunck on the Gatineau river, On.
tario,
Daniel Baker is to DO appointed
chief of the land division of the treas.
ury department. Nt Washington rice
Bigelow resigned.
King Kalakaua was given a recep.
ton Wednesday night by the Free Ma
sons of New York. Tho fraternity Was
out in full force.
Secretary Of the Treasury Bris.
tow made a short speech to the Cincin.
natl Chamber Of Commerce Tuesday
the 10Th, fayoring return to specie
payments.
Three desperadoes were killed on
Pricer's creek in the Indian Territory
the other day by a sherit's posse. The
desperadoes we're at the time trying to
smuggle whisky into the Territory.
AT Portland, Me-, about 6 o'clock
Wednesday evening, Thos. Pencil.
treasurer Of Cumberland county, was
Knocked down in his office and the safe
robbed Of between $4,000 and $4,000.
Since June last s4l9,s78.O5 of
mutiated currency has been redeemed
by the treasury department, its place
being supplied by new national bank
notes.
The spinners and weayers Of Fall
River, Mass, have accepted reduction
OF wages under protest, declaring their
determination to make preparation for
strike in the spring.
--Ex-Gov. Yarmouth Of Louisiana
was examined yesterday on the charge
of having murdered MIR. Byerly, AID
the evidence mainly agreeing with War.
mouths version of the recontre, he was
discharged from arrest.
A Missouri officer, having no clue
to the identity eta burglar but hat,
took it to a public school, and holding
It up, asked the boys whose il was, and
several Of them told him m twinkling.
The two men recently captured in
Pulaski county, Ark, after shooting
and wounding the sheriff. have been
sentenced to the Peniteutiary for five
years. They are believed to be two of
the four Gad's Hill robbers.
Gen. Campos Of the Spanish ma.
tIonal army, has pronounced in favor Of
Prince Alphonso, son Of Queen Isabella.
lie is supported By two battalons, and
a portion Of the national army is
marching to give him battle in Valencia.
"A pamphlet called 'Crime in High
Places, which is being circulated in
New York, is mostly made up from the
documents already published in the
Brooklyn scandal, and IS unfavorable t.
the Beecher side.
Elections for the Manitoba legisla.
ture, so far as heard from, give the
government five majority. Mr. Davis,
the government leader, was elected for
Winnipeg by Is majority. Mr.. Luxton
editor Of the opposition Free Press,
was elected for lockwood by sixty ma
jority.
Serious trouble is anticipated at
he Bender coal mines in Ohio county,
Kentucky, on account Of the company
having employed new men in place Of
their old ones, who lately struck. The
latter threaten to attack the new men
and the company has applied to the
Governor for aid.
The chairman Of Massachusetts,
legislative committee accounts for the
breaking Of the new dam at Haydens.
willie by faulty engineering, faulty ma
terial and faulty building, and that the
dam was not wide enough, the stone
not suitable and the grading not good
enough.
The ship Thos Brooks left Santi.
ago de Cuba the 9th ult., and struck
on rock on point called Moriello,
about Is miles from Guanterma, at three
o'clock the same night. The steamer
backed of and sunk in ten minutes in
deep water, taking down with her IS
people. About as many more escaped
10 the shore.
e. 5. Jewell, the proprietor Of the
New Orleans Bulletin, who was about
TO fight duel with ex.Goy. Yarmouth.
has been arrested and made to give
$4,000 bonds TO keep the peace. But
this, il is said, would not prevent the
duel If Yarmouth could get away
which is not probable, as the coroner
charges him with the murder Of Byerly.
"A meeting Of the colored men at
Oberlin, o., has sent a memorial IN