River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-04-09
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

The Mississippi is supposed to be
free of ice from Lacrosse down, the ice
having gone out from Lacrosse Saturday,
the Sd.
deputy Marshal Edgerly has been
lodged in Jail at Bismarck to await the
action of the next grand jury on com.
plant of murder.
The trial Of John ID. Lee and others
at Beaver, Utah, for their participation in
the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been
again postponed.
The Trieste monument to Max
imilian, Emperor Of Mexico, was un.
yelled Saturday the Sd, in presence Of the
Emperor and other Official leaders Of
Austria.
In Cleveland, O., on the Sd, young
woman named Ann Grimes was thrown
from carriage and killed by her skull
being fractured. She was resident Of
Msadville, Pa.
The Senatorial excursion party for
Mexico, left New Orleans on the 4th in
the naval steamer Despatch for Vera
Cruz. There are twenty men and five
women in the party.
Boiling Republicans have nominated
a fourth State ticket in Rhode Island,
which it is thought will be adopted by
the prohibitionists in place Of the one
they recently nominated.
Merchants in the disturbed mining
regions of Pennsylvania, refuse to assist
the Sheriffs, proferring TO pay the legal
Uano1tx- Of Fafuaol fhas4 thou H.,
ill-will OF the riotous miners.
Delegate CPnDon, OF Utah, having
been released from prosecution in the
lower court under the statute of lInita-
tons, the prosecution have appealed to
the Territorial Supreme Court.
"A subscription entertainment at the
Academy Of Music, New York, on the
night of the 3D., for benefit Of the fund to
meet the expenses Of the American rife
team in visiting ireland next summer,
Melted $4,000.
Officers of the secret service depart
ment of the Y. 5. Treasury Department
have found and arrested in Virginia
gang Of nine counterleiters. Joe Mullins,
the leader Of the gang, made a desperate
resistance.
Two prisoners, W. Bookey and Jas
Parker, who were being taken from To
ledo to the Ohio pententiary, for burg
larry, jumped from the train, March 3lst,
while going at the rate Of thirty miles an
hour, and escaped.
-Goyernor Cooke of Texas has appeal.
ed to the national government for protec.
ton Of Texas against Mexican raiders,
and Secretary Belknap has replied that
military forces will be Immediately
moved to the Texas-Mexican frontier.
Judges Emmon and Bellard, in the
United States Circuit Court at Memphis.
have oyerruled motion of the Attorney
General Of Tennessee to dismiss the Glib
son County ku-klux cases, for want OF
jurisdiction, and will proceed with the
trial.
George Drury, a member Of the Lou.
lslana House of Assumption Parish, has
been indicted for forging the general APP
preparation bill recently signed and pro-
mulgated by Gov. Kellogg. Charges that
others participated in the forgery are to
be investigated.
John +. Bassiena, president, and 4.
;. Armstead. cashier of the Dollar Saw
ings Bank, Of Richmond, Va, which col
lapsed during the panic in 1873, were ar.
rested on the Sd, charged with embezzling
$4,000 of funds Of the bank, and with
making fraudulent entries, and were com.
mitted to Jail, bail being refused.
On the Sd inst. the Colt block. corn.
ner of West Union and Pearl streets.
Buffalo. n. Y, was destroyed by fire.
White q Bailey, photographers and print
ers, lost Sl45,000; insurance $4,000.
Total loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
L. j. Cheter, foreman of the Liberty
Hose while on the third floor, was killed
by the falling u the fourth floor.
Jonathan L. Jones, a well.known
inventor and bridge builder, died at st.
Louis me 3lst, Of congestion Of the BRAIN
resulting from hard drinking. Remotely
his death was the result Of disappoint.
tnent in Congress failing to pass upon his
claim for 100000 for work done under
Commodore during the war.