River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-14


A Halifax telegram says four men
were drowned on Sunday, the 10th inst, at |
White Haven, by the upsetting of a boat
A.. T. STEWARDS BODY STOLEN.
The vault containing the body of A. T. |
Stewart, the late New York, merchant mill
ionaire, has been robbed of the remains Of the
deceased.
A fire on Eastern Avenue, in Cincin-
natl destroyed two tenements containing
eight families. The building and contents
were totally destroyed.
MURDER.
Daniel Sullivan, an Irishman, 60 years
of age has been arrested for the murder of
Miss Barry, near Lone Mountain, California
The evidence against him is almost concur
sive.
THE INSANE.
Gross irregularities and inhuman cruel
ties are charged upon the assistants who have
in charge the female patients in the Ohio In
sane Asylum, at Columbus. The charges
are very grave and will be investigated.
SUICIDE.
Washington Thomas. of New York
city formerly wealthy shoe dealer and an
active partisan of Tammany Hall, hange d
himself after ascertainIng the fate of his party.
He had been promised an appointment If the
Tammany ticket was elected.
LARGE SALARY.
Col. VIM. Roberts, engineer in chief o
the Northern Pacific railroad, has, upon rec.
concentration of Capt. Fades, been appointed
to the service of Dom Pedro, in Brazil, at
salary Of $4,000 year, under contract for
three years.
Little Falls, Mimi, telegram: a. j.
Clark, county attorney of Morrison county,
Minnesota, shot and MORALLY wounded G.
Kimble, of Two Rivers. The quarrel arose
from newspaper article published by Clark
in the Morrison County Banner.
BURNED.
The Pearl Touring mill at Oswego, N.
Y,has been destroyed by fire. Five two story
brick tenements in st. Louis have been burn
ed. Chris Muller V sry badly, and Mrs.
Hitting fatally burned, and little boy belong
ing to the latter nearly sufIoeated.
ACCIDENT TO GOV. HAMPTON.
While Gov. Hampton of South Carroll
ma was hunting, few days ago, his mule be-
Governor leaped from the saddle. By the fall
the Governors right leg was broken in two
places, the bone protruding, and his ankle
was badly hurt.
STARVING REFUGEES.
Vast numbers of starving Mahomme-
dan refugees from the Rhodope mountains.
seeking 10 return to Roumelia have been
stopped at Gunuldui. 1t is stated $50 Greek
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commissioner, were exiled from the Balkans
BY the Russians.
ILLICIT DISTTLLERS.
A Charleston. W. Virginia, dispatch
SAYS the United States court, in session there
has ISL indictments against Illicit distllers
before it, and there is likely to be three or four
hundred indictments before the close of the
session. The Illicit dstillers said to be
terribly demorahzed.
THANKSGIVING.
The Governors of Minnesota, WiscOn-
sin and Ohio have by proclamation set apart
Thursday, November %, as q day of thanks
giving 1t is probable that most Of the Gov
ernors Of the States will issue proclamations
urging the people to observe that day, it be-
ing also recommended by the President of the
United States.
RESUMPTION.
It is stated unofficlally that after the
LIST Of January next, as an aid to resumption
of specie payments, it is very likely the treas
ury department will send to parties desiring
it, the standard silver dollar in quantities of
$1,000 and upward free of transportation in
exchange for like sums of greenbacks depos
tied with depository banks.
SEIZURES DECISION.
Secretary Schurz has decided that
no portion of the money appropriated by Con-
gress for public surveys during the present
year can be used for the purpose of tracing
former surveys in the fed, to aid in the in
vestigation of d, predations upon public tim
Der lands. etc. He holds there is no warrant
to add to the amount granted by Congress for
the prosecution of that investigation, the ap-
preparation for it haYing been specific and
definite.
col. sCoTT's HEALTH
A Pittsburgh, Pa. dispatch says, the
private secretary of J. n. McCulloch, of the
Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad company, re-
ports Col. SCOTS health to be very much |
shattered by Over-work, and that his physi- |
clan recommends absolute relaxation, declar- |
ing that If lie persists in attending to his
railroad duties death or insanity must soon !
ensue Col. Scott, with his family have EN-
barked for Europe, for an absence OF some
three months.
CONFESSION OF MURDER.
A Marshalltown, Iowa. telegram says,
curious case has arisen in the criminal court, |
which promises to produce some interesting |
complications in law. A jury found a man
named Dalin, guilty of the murder of John /
penitentiary for life. Frank Ross, an Italian,
who formerly worked for Dakin, after the close
of the trial made affidavit that he, Ross, killed
Slough. 1t is not yet decided what the course
of the States attorney will be.
A SPURIOUS HEIR.
In tie Marlborough police court, Lon
don, summons was sent down for a hearing
against Lady Annie Louise Gooch, and an
other, charging them with conspiracy to palm
off a spurious child on Sir Francis GoOch as
his heir Lady Gooch's counsel presented
certificate of her physician that she was I'M
able to attend The magistrate declared the
certificate unsatisfactory, and adjourned the
case for week, declaring that if Lady GoOch
was not present then, he would issue a war
rent for her immediate apprehension.
YELLOW FEVER RAvAGEs.
In response 10 circular OF the new
Orleans board of health physicians have re.
ported 5000 cases of yellow fever treated by
them during .he epidemic, and not heretofore
reported. Mayor II. W. Bunham, of the
Howard association, who is now assisting in
making q report Of the work OF the Towards
during the epidemic of 1878, expresses the
opinion that there have been during the past
four months 1000 cases of fever in New Or
leans and vicinity the Howard association ply
sicians did not report to the board of health.
APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE.
1t is expected there will be full at
tendance in Washington of the members Of
the House committee on appropriations at
their meeting the Goth INST. They will hold
continuous sessions until thu resssembling
of Congress. The clerk of the committee has
already procured date and estimates of ap
preparations which will enable the committee
to prepare by that time, The fertilization,
the pension, the Indian and military aead. |
envy bills which are not likely to occasion
any considerable controversy in the commit
tee.
NEW PATENT RULE.
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