River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-03


hung, There is some doubt as TO his guilt.
ROBBERS.
While Walter Freeman and family, of
Providence, h. J., were at the opera house.
their residence was entered by burglars and
robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued at
$4,000
BAD ACCIDENT.
At soldiers reunion at Monmouth,
H., where Gen. John A. Logan delivered an
address, Emmer Green, firing salute, by
premature discharge of the cannon had both
hands blown off.
THE QUAKERs.
A Richmond, Ind, dispatch says thirty
thousand people attended divine service OF
the Indiana yearly meeting of the orthodox
society of Friends. Several prominent En-
glish ministers were present
GEN. SHERMAN.
A San Francisco telegram, ofSept 26th,
says: Gen. Sherman hadarriyed there and was
busy arranging plans Ia the harbor for fortif
cations He will leave Sunday morning next
and proceed direct overland to Washing ten.
SHOT.
Two of the Mexicans who were recog-
nized as the murderers of ex-sheriff Williams
ana ex-Clerk Finley, of Santa Clara county,
near Tueyon, Arizoea. were captured IN
Sonora, and shot by order Of Gov. Marescal.
TO BE HUNG.
In the superior court of Fairfield
county on tho Both inst, Edward Hoyt, for
the murder of his father in Sherman June
%, was sentenced to be hanged Oct. "a, 1879.
This is the first time the sentence of deagh has
been passed in that county for nearly sixty
years
WRECKS OF THE SEA.
Bv way of san Francisco it is reported
that the bark Florence Hawaein and brig W.
H. Allen had been stove by ice off Point Bar.
row. The bark Sea Breeze, when last seen,
was leaking badly. The two first are a total
loss. Crews all rescued. The fleet had gone
eastward.
DISAPPEARED.
II. J. Appleby, a prominent citizen Of
Meadville, Pa, has disappeared very mysteri-
Ously. lois a knight Templer and Odd Fell
low in good about 40 years of age.
He had been bitten on the hand by a dog ron the
morning he left, which seemed to prey ON his
mind to a great extent.
MONUMENT UvEILED.
A cable dispatch says a statue in honor
of the late Father DeSmet, the Jusuit mis-
siOnary to the North American Indians, was
unveiled on the oath inst, in his native place.
Dendermoude, Belgium. A great crowd as
sisted at the ceremony and a cantata com
posed for the occasion was sung by 500 voices.
KILLED.
At the Long Island railroad crossing
t Atlantic and Brooklyn Avenue, n. Y. on
he 20th a locomotive ran into a carriage in Il
uneral procession, instantly killing two fe.
males and the driver, aud seriously inJuring
three children. The engineer, conductor and
iiagman Of the train have all been arrested
FATAL EXPLOSION.
The Norwalk Conn. and New York
steamer Adelphi burst her boiler when a mile
from her dock, on her way to New York She
was Immediately lowed to Gregory Point Six
were killed aud some twenty scalded. The
boiler blew outthe starboard side of the roof
The hull and machinery are but little injured
RETURN or THE PREsrnENT.
The President has reached Washington
from his Western trip. He expresses himself
much pleased with the receptions, public and
private, and is particularly gratifed with the
evidences OF restoration of prosperity and of
the feelings Of The people in favor of sound
currency such as the administration is seeking
TO establish.
BATTLE WITH INDIANS
A Camp Chalk Creek dispatch gives an
account Of battle with Indians in the com
mand Of the Famished Woman's Fork. Lieut.
Col. w. Ii. Lewis was MORALLY wounded, and
died en- route for Fort Wallace. Three men
were also wounded. Col. Lewis graduated at
West Point in 1s49, was an native of Albany,
n. Y, and was about 80 years Of age,
MAI. ROBBERY.
The mail from New Fort McKenny,
Clear Creek, Wyoming Territory. carried by
ambulance, was robbed, on the 24th inst, by
two men, about eight miles south of Clear
Creek A. Snider, Of San Francisco, and E.
Tnlottson, Of Fort Fetterman, passengers,
lost about $500 in moneyand clothing. The
mail carrier was not molested. No shots fired
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Revs. John Hall and j. H. Vincent, of
New York; Richard Newton, Of Philadelphia;
John A. Broodus, of Louisville; Benjaman
Jacobs, OF Chicago, and others of the Inter
national Sunday school, met at the Gibson
house, Cincinnati, on the 25th of September,
for the purpose of providing the International
Sunday school lessons for seven years. begin
ing with 1850.
TRANSFER OF THE INDIAN BUREAU.
Five of the eight members OF the Con
gressional committee appointed to examine
Indian affairs and report on the advisability
OF transferring the Indian bureau to the war
department met at the Lindell hotel,St Louis,
Mo, on the 25th of Sept, and had secret
session There were present Senators Saun-
ders, chairman and MeCrary, and Represent
atiyes Boone and Secretary Flanagan.
REUNION.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the Army Of the Tennessee, at Indian
apolis, October 30th and 3lst. Generals
Sherman Sheridan, Hancock, Pope, Burnside,
Logan, Buell. and JEFF {. Davis will certainly
attend, aud other distinguished Off, ers are
expected to be present The indications
promise large attendance from other States,
and preparations are being made accordingly.
WOLF.
The standing committee of the Ohio
IL. f. conference in [session at Columbus,
Ohio, after considering the case of Rev. +. a.
Spencer one oc their number and E. I. mission
airy of India and Italy, who is charged with
immoral conduct while at a farmers house in
Athens county, some time ago, decided to
expel Spencer from the church and deprive
him Of his ministerial Office.
POISONED.
During an evening religious service at
the Reform school in Washington City
number of the boys were simultaneously at
tackled with violent vomiting. They were
removed to their apartments, where they
suffered from vomiting and purging. Late
at night all had recovered except two, and
they were still very sick. Il IS thought that
vegetables or the meat they ate at dinner was
poisoned. The superinted was also similarly
affected.
FIRE.
The Ohio 4 Mississippi round house
and the Missouri Car and Foundry WORKS in
East St Louis, Mo, were destroyed by fire on
the 27ta. The loss is upwards Of $4,000
Twelve other buildings were destroyed. ST.
Louis engines telegraphed for at a late hour
went over, but there was no water and the
tiremen aud citizens had 10 stand idly by and
see the property burn. \ large lot Of valu-
able humber, one locomotive and tender and
several new freight cara were also destroyed.
The origin Of the fire is not known.