River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-01-06
THE NEWS RECORD.
Incidents, Accidents, Casualties,
Grimes and Foreign News.
POLITICAL AND Personal.
CUVuES AND CRIMINALS.

Valmaseda, ex-Captain General o.
Cuba, just before his departure from the island
issued a proclamation Offering reward: for pro
ducto II Of toiies of insurgents, dead or alive
the heavies reward bring for killing project,
sub.prelect or other civil officer q the rebels.
The Chicago Times Of the 9th, has
information that District Attorney Bangs has
received instructions from Washington to al
low al parties under indictments there or de-
irauding the revenue TO plead guilty, aud to
insure them immunity from sentence 20 the
penitentiary.
Bernard J. Reilly, n real estate agent
OF 81. Louis, who was recently reputed to he
worth fortune, is in the tolls Of the court Of
criminal correction, charged with embezzle-
ment from several Of his clients, and his friends
are worried d. signing hail bonds for him,
where re he lodges IN Jail
John McGure McNulty Of New York
was arrested on the 29th for horrible cruelty
practiced upon his thlteen-year old dauyh-
ter. Wien discovered, The child presented a
shocking app arance, her clothes hanging IN
rags and atte~, and her person covered with
filth, while her face and body were discoored
from the brutal bows which her father had in
flicted upon her
The coroner's jury in the case Of the
child killed Is e. drunken father, Patrick Gal.
liepser. OF Wester y, Z l., while attempting to
strike he mother, Christmas night, returned
a ver.ict that the person from whom the faith
er purchased the liquor which made him
drunk was guilty Of the murder Of the hoy
Gilliepser was held in 8 900 to answer before
the supreme court.
Joseph Bork, city treasurer Of Buffalo,
n. Y, who has abscoudad to Canada, is ascer-
tanned 70 be a de'ault-r to the amount Of about
$4,000 The city is secured by responsible
bondsmen and by an assignment Of 81 rs
properly, estimated to be- worth $4,000 He
had been treasurer Tor four years, but was
about to he succeeded by another person who
would not undertake to conceal his use OF pub
liofunds
Albert Fredenburg was recently con.
victed Of murler at Herkmer, n. Y, on the
evidence OF his daughter who confessed 20
being an accomplice IN the affair, and was
sentenced to be- hung next Friday. Now the
daughter makes a new confession convict ng
her father aud duplicating her husband to
clear whom she had sworn away her fathers
life. A stay OF the ntence has been applied
for.
An old man named Spencer, residing
neU Smithland, Woodbury. county, Iowa, was
shot last Thursday niglt-twice by his sou
William aud once 10y his lother-iu-law J. Il.
Otis, neither wound being fatal aYoung
Spencer alleges the cause OF the hooting to be
that his father has habitualy debauched his
sister young girl If unsouud intellect and in
capable Of realizing the crime Of which she
was the victim
On the Goth the bodies Of two WE'LL
dressed men were found on the roadside near
Waveriy, n. J. One had his throat eat and
in his pocket W iound knife with which it T.
supposed he ,uicided He lore the appear
ance OF being German, aged 45. The other
was a man Of -. He had pistol wouno in
the teInple and under his body WIS an empty
revolver lie is also asupposed suicide, Meth
of the bodies was Identified