River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-18
CURRENT NEWS.
GRIMES A 10 CASUALTIES.

with an insurance of $4,000
--Ex-Judge Hubbel, U. S. District
Attorney at Milwaukee, has been sus-
pended. No successor yet appointed.
"A fire at Minatlean, Mexico, We'd
1esday, destroyed property to the value
of 100000, and rendering many families
homeless.
j. j. Voorhees,, a highly respected mer-
chant Of Toledo, Ohio, has been missing
more than a week. Fears are entertained
that he has been foully dealt with.
The property Of Thomas Comon and
j. j. Welch, cx.court house commissions
ers of New York, was attached Saturday
in the ring suits to recover $462,248.
"A disease known as the "black
tooth" has broken out among the swine
on the upper Ottawa river, Ont, and
proved fatal to large number Of herds.
A fire at Buffalo, Friday night, de-.
stroyed S. w. Deake & Co.'s slaughter
house and packing building, and Alex.
Crocker's fertilizing factory, Loss $70,.
600; insurance $4,000.
The Gordon Black Hills party recently
captured by the military, have com.
menced legal proceedings at Omaha
against the officer making the capture
laying damages at SO, 900.
Ellis, Robinson and Brown, notorious
counterfeiters, were on Wednesday, at
Madison, Wis, sentenced to the State
prison Ellis for seven years, and Brown
and Robinson five years each.
BY boiler explosion at Lee, Mass,
Tuesday, in the Smith paper manufactur.
ing company, two persons were killed and
IA wounded The mill and surrounding
buildings were damaged $4,000.
The Chorpenning claim, which is again
revived, amounts to 100000. Jerry
Black is the managing council and VIM.
NJ. Eyarts attorney, while John Cessna,
ex-Member Of Congress, represents the
claimants
p. Wintermuto's second trial for the
murder Of General McC0ok will probably
be had in an other than Yankton county,
his counsel having moved for a change OF
venue. His answer to the second indict.
ment is plea Of acquittal under the first.
George johnson, machinist employed
In the mandatory of James l.. Haven,
Cincinnati, was crushed to death Thursday
while endeavoring to get on an elevator
which was ascending to the upper stories
= of the mandatory.
Charles @. Fuller, president and j. I.
Mowrey, treasurer, Of the Chaplin paper
company, Norwich, Ct, have abscondeJ,
leaving outstanding obligations estimated
at $4,000, the greater part Of which is
believed to be forged notes.
U. S. District Attorney Bliss Of New
York says the evidence against II. B.
Claain & CO., charged with dealing in
Struggled silks, is very strong, leaving
little doubt that the house purchased the
silks with full knowledge Of their charac.
ter.
Crosby, the negro sheriff Of Yicks-
burg, shot Monday, is in a critical condi-
ton. Gilman, the deputy sheriff, who
was with Crosby at the time, has had his
trial and been discharged, no evidence
being adduced to implicate him in the
deed
Full grown locusts upwards Of an inch
in length, have made their appearance in
Manitoba from the west and south. So
far only few have appeared, but fears
are entertained that these are an advance
guard. and that another invasion is inn
minent.
W. p. Bailey, recently a mail agent on
the Milwaukee & La Crosse division, hav-
ing confessed in the U. 5. Court at Mad
isOn that he had opened mail letter and
took therefrom 25 cents in postal cur
rency, has been sentenced to one years
hard labor in prison.
The direct ocean cable, from Rye
Beach, n. H., TO Balling, on Skillego Bay,
Ireland, is now in working order, the
final connection, which has been delayed
for weeks by heavy iogs, having been
made on the 9th, and properly celebrated
at the company's headquarters in New
York.
Two men named Kilgore and John
Leary were shotat Forestville, Pa, Sat
urday afternoon, while returning home
from work. Ono is literally ridded, hav.
ing seven rifle balls in his body, and the
recovery Of the other is very doubtful.
The deed was the work Of striking
miners.
ii. b. Clahln, and other members OF
the firm Of IL. b. ClaAin & Co., and the
members Of the auction firm Of Field,
Morris, Fenner & Co, indicted for com.
plieity in the silk smuggling frauds, now
being investigated in New York, have
given bail for their individual appearance
for trial, in the sum Of $4,000 each
Joseph Calvert, alias Butler Joe, was
arrested in Philadelphia Friday, on the
charge Of being interested in the negotia.
ton Of United States bonds in the West.
The bonds were for $4,000 and $4,000,
and are supposed TO be the fruits Of a
robbery committed in Ohio, and were
originally in the name Of Mrs. Scott.
Twenty thousand dollars worth Of
railroad tickets, stolen last January from
the Chicago depot Of the Michigan
Southern and Rock Island roads,
have been recovered. They were found
in possession Of Edward Rupert, stage
manager for variety or ean.can troupe
Of that city. The discovery resulted
from Rupert's trying to sell some Of the
gickets.
A decree Of divorce has been granted
drs. Julia A. Perkins. Of Cincinnati, who
aeaeVVnne her ,,,a don t,.t,,, 80 T,tt.. CT