River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-04-16
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

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Official Dispatches at Madrid report
defeat Of the Carlists at Tolosa, with
hundred killed
The Paris Moniteur semi-officially de.
olares France to be unanimous for the
peace Of Europe.
"A fire at New Lexington, Ohio, Sat-
urday, destroyed the hotel owned by
John Savage. Loss $4,000.
--Algernon Sartoris, the Presidents
son.in.aw, sailed for England on the 10th.
Mrs Sartoris, it appears, remains in this
country.
A fire at Monmouth, Ills, has burn.
ed half block oe buildings, including the
Monmouth cooperative building. Loss
$4,000
AT st. Catharines, Ont, Mathes
Corblc has been sentenced to be hanged
for outraging little girl, at Beemsville,
in November.
AT Augusta, Ca, on the 10th, Fred
Maxwell and Miss c. Dunwoody were
drowned in Burche's mill.pond by the
capsizing ofe boat.
The BesScmer steamer constructed to
overcome the motion Of the sea has made
satisfactory trial trip from Gravesend,
Eng, to Calais, France.
"A Shanp haze dispatch says two steam
ers engaged in the local trade came in
collision suddenly. and the sinking OF one
caused great loss Of life.
1t may be Of interest in spelling match
es to know that the dictionaries authorize
no less than fourteen different spellings
Of the word mosquito"
AT the annual conference of the
Church Of Latter Day Saints,at Salt Lake
City on the 10th, Brigham Young was re-
elected prophet, seer and president.
The French Government has seized
number Of Courbct's pictures under a
decree conh,cating his property to defray
the expense Of restoring the Vendome
column,
The people of Hazelton, Pa, are not
united in the desire that the militia be
withdrawn and the protection Of work.
ing miners from strikers be left to a citi.
zen's guard.
The steamer Rietz arrived at Chicago
at midnight Of the 9th, being the first ar
rival Of the season. She came from the
Michigan shore aud passed large fields Of
Ice on the lake.
A Fire at Millerstown, Pa, at half past
three o'clock Sunday morning, burned the
confectionery and faro bank of a man
named Blueshire The entire building
was bu. ned. Loss 100000.
The North German Gazette, a semi
official journal, contradcts the late war
article Of the Berlin Post, saying the rela.
tons with other nations are by no means
as uniayorable as REPRESENTED.
A dispatch from Harrisburg states
that in accordance with Gen. Lotta's re.
port Gov. Hartranft has decided not to
recall the military until the danger Of vi.
olence in the LuZerne county region has
disappeared.
The amended liquor law which passed
the Legislature Of Ohio, at its late scs.
sion, forbids the local governments to
prohibit the sale Of wine, cider or beer.
They may prohibit the sale of spirituous
liquors and cannot license it.
WIN. Morgan, an old man. who muir
dered his wife on July 81, 1874, and was
convicted at the last term Of the criminal
court, was brought before Judge Jones of
st. Louis on the 10th and sentenced TO be
hanged Friday the 2Sth OF May.
A farmer named Mckenzie, living five
miles from Greenville, Mo-, was murdered
in his bed on the night Of the 9Th, and
then dragged to the stable and placed
under the feet Of his mules. His wife and
son were arrested on suspicion Of having
committed the decd.
A fire occurred at South Bend, Ind.
on the morning Of the 10th, by which th'
greater part Of block Of wooden buildings
were destroyed. Among other losers /!
the Studebaker firm, who have already
lost extensively by fires this year. h,
total loss is $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Paul Boynton, who started from
Dover, England, soon after o'clock Sat
urday morning the 10th, to 20 to Franc
in his life saving apparatus, arrived a
Boulogne az eight o'clock that evening
BE was in excellent health and spirits
A great crowd was present 10 receive him
and gave him an enthusiastic welcome.
Grain Inspector Harper of Chicago
refuses to recognize the authority Of the
government TO suspend him. lie says h,
may be removed, but not suspended. Oh
the other hand the warehouse commission
srs claim that new Inspector has beer
virtually appointed in the pro tenn ap
pontment Of the chief deputy, whom
they recognize as the present grain in
spector.
George Reynolds, RNormon, convict
ed st Salt Lake City recently of pol yga
my, and the iniormality in whose tria
had been waived by his attorneys, appear
ed before Judge Emerson on the l0tl
and was sentenced TO one year in IN,
penit ntiary ana $500 fine; upon which
the case was APPEALED TO the Territorial
Supreme Court and a bond Of $1,000
given for his appearance.
Ladies who wear bustles should fas
ten the thing down, and not meander tn,
streets with huge bundle bobbing III
and down and wrigglng from side to sidt
behind. IL looks ridiculous and. besides
with SO many beads and bugles on IL /,