River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-03-12
THE NEWS.

forbidding the expectation of horses.
The less by the burning Of the muse.
um building at Albany, N. Y, last night,
is 100000.
The Detroit diocese Of Michigan re.
fuses its consent to DR.. De Koven's nomi-
nation for Bishop Of Illinois.
The building occupied by the West.
ern Union telegraph company in New
York city was burned Friday night.
The chemical works owned by Hodge,
Cillidge, Peckham l. Co., of Boston, burn.
ed last night. Loss $4,000; insurance
not known.
The Pennsylvania ard the Baltimore
/ Ohio railroads have reduced their pas
senger fares from Chicago to Baltimore
and Washington to 81.
Gen. Cotton, President Of the 0cci-
dent & Oriental Steamship Co., has de-
clined the position Of director in the Pa
cifc Mail Steamship Co.
james NJ. Tyner, the new second as.
sistant Postmaster General took the oath
of office Friday, and will enter upon the
duties Of his Office Monday.
Archbishop Manning Of London, has
received summons from the Pope TO
come to Rome. 1t is authoritatively sta
ted that he is to be made Cardinal.
The comptroller Of the currency has
called upon the national banks for re.
port Of their condition at the close Of
business on Monday. the first of March.
The President has nominated Jacob
Frankenfeld, present State Senator from
Sibley and Mcleod counties, to be collec.
tor Of customs for the district Of Mime
sofa, vice j. G. Stoever.
I'm consequence Of the last encyclical
of the Pope the German government has
bill Withdrawing the state endorsements
from the Catholic clergy.
"A dispatch from Berlin says it is re.
ported that the German government has
demanded the dismissal Of the Papal Nun
clio at Munich and the cessation Of rela-
tions between the Vatican and Bavaria.
Hugh Hunt, a resident of Cincinnati,
but temporarily employed at the central
lunatic asylum, on Friday fell from the
roof Of the building to the ground, dis
lance OF IS feet, aud was instantly killed.
Two colored men who demanded ad.
mission to the dress circle of Memphis
theatre Thursday were admitted without
protest, the manager having abandoned
the idea Of testing their right to do SO in
the courts.
Brown. to be executed at Pottsville,
Pa, March oath, for the murder of an
old couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Kramer, has
made full confession Of guilt, stating
that he committed the murder and had
no accomplish.
Gen. Ord responds to the Sioux City
advertisement of Black Hills transpor-
tation company by announcing his pur-
pose to bring back the Sioux City party
now in the Black Hills and to prevent
any others from going into that country.
The Episcopal diocese Of Wisconsin
has voted to confirm Bishops DeKoven
and Jaggar. The vote now stands, ILL
Rois, Missouri, Alabama and Wisconsin
in favor If confirmation, and Minnesota,
Indiana, Kentucky and Central New York
against.
The payment of prizes in the Louis
vile public library scheme has com
menced. The managers advise ticket
holders not to sell their tickets at dis
count, rs the library will paJ in full
every ticket and approximate entitled
TO prize.
Both branches Of the Wisconsin Leg
islsture have passed the Quimby rail-
road bill. The bill provides for consid-
cradle advance in certain classes Of
frsights over that allowed by the Potter
law, but in other respects contains the
same general feature.
The manager Of the Public Library
Hal at Louisville, Ky, Friday night re-
fused admission 20 a negro barber, who
applied for ticket 10 the first circle
among the white people. A gallery is
set apart for the eolored people, and no
white men are allowed there. A trial un.
der the civil rights bill will follow.
In the Virginia Legislature it is pro-
posed to relieve landlords, theatrical
managers, etc, from the troubles with
which they are threatened by the civil
rights bill, by prescribing severe penal
ties for those who create disturbances
because Of being told that hotel is full
OF that the seats of theatre are engag.
sd.
e. j. 0vington, who testified last
week for the defence in the Tilton Beecher
suit, has been subpenaed by the prosecu.
ton, and in consequence could not sail
for Europe, as he intended. IL is said
Hlton's counsel have knowledge of seye.
raj letters which 0vington wrote, and
which they want identified and put in
evidence.
Ida Jones, colored girl. died at st
Louis, Wednesday, under circumstances
which led to the arrest Of Hannah Owens,
midwife, on charge Of having procured
an abortion, causing the death. The in.
struments and medicines used in such
practices were found at Mrs. Owens
house, leaving but little doubt that she is
an abortionist, aud that Ida Jones died
from the effects Of the treatment at her
hands.
The Nebraska aid society announce
Al a l.