River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11
GLEANINGS AND TAILINGS,


81 'ir in 1875 the Governor Of Illinois
has pardoned sixty.fye convicts, of whom
seven were sentenced for life.
Pemberton, the man who murdered Mrs.
Bingham of East Boston, in the cellar of
her residence, has been convicted and will
probably suffer the death penalty.
The building of the large lock for the
Sault st. Marie canal, which will be the
largest lock in the world, has been let to
Boyle g. Roach, Of Cincinnati, for $l56,.
$50.
Postmaster General Jewell is about to
take trip through the West and North.
west for the purpose of looking into
affairs connected with the management Of
his department.
Harry Borden Of Ohio, who was clerk
in the division of seizures and distilleries
Of the internal revenue bureau, has been
discharged upon satisfactory evidence
that he has in times past furnished illicit
information to crooked" distillers.
The late Jesse d. Bright left all of his
property to his wife, with power to dis
pose Of 1t as she chooses, with the excep.
ton Of $4,000 to each Of his two daugh.
ters and his son. He is said to have
owned valuable property in Western
Maryland, Indiana and Louisville.
The Catholics Of San Francisco have
been swindled by fellow falsely pre-.
| tending TO be a priest and calling himself
the Rev. Saviour William Maria CORR.
gan, .. ). +. Q. He operated three
years ago in New York the same wav,-
collecting money as for chirch-but
was quickly exposed.
Commencing with the first Of next
month the fees for the issue of domestic
postal money-oT lers will be as fellows:
Not exceeding SIS, ten cents; over SIS.
and not exceeding $50, fifteen cents over
$50, and not exceeding $40, twenty ceats;
over $40, and not exceeding $50, twenty.
five cents.
Gen. Van Vliet, Of Fort Leavenworth
chief quartermaster Of the department OF
the Missouri, ana ane Of the guests al
Sheridan's wedding, was cleaned out OF
$3.50 by "bunko steerer" Of Chicago,
and has more fun poked at him in conSe.
quence than he can patiently endure.
John Power, the keeper at Wards Isl.
and lunatic asylum Of New York, who
killed one of the lunatics in his charge bv
repeated blows with a bludgeon. was
deemed by New York jury to have com.
mitted manslaughter in the fourth degree.
and so escaped with a sentence for only
two years Imprisonment.
1.-The internal revenue receipts for thr
fiscal year ending July LIST, SOL PAS, 600,
with yet a months returns to be heard
from. The estimates for the year were
$leI 100000. AT the way the revenues
are now coming in, the Commissioner es.
Inmates that there will be an excess of
some S9,000,000 above the estimates. To
which must be added the amounts re-
ceived from the sale Of the raided distill.
cries, which, it is believed will materially
swell the income Of the government.
Capt. Charles n. Bracket, Special
Agent Of the Treasury Department, has
captured in Washington white lace dress
valued at $4,000, white lace shawl val.
ued at S50O0,and other laces worth $4,000
at pawnshop, where they had been
pRwned for 1895. The dress and laces
formerly belonged TO the Empress Eusenie,
and were among the richest in the world.
Thew were sold at the time of the sale OF
her jewelry in England, and we're SNUG
gled into this country by Joseph Hoar-
achx, in October, 1873.
In September, 1853, Jacob Sieberd, a
drayman, killed another drayman named
Bernard Callahan, in Cincinnati. by
breaking his skull with dray pin. Leav-
ing the dray standing in the street, Sic.
berd escaped. A few days ago a man
was arrested at Dayton and brought to
Cincinnati who was said to be distinctly
recognized by several persons as Sieberd.
But at Cincinnati he is recognized Ms one
Isaac Long, former resident Of that city,
as he claimed to be when arrested. II is
apparently a case of mistaken identity.