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

An Ola Man Fatally Assaulted by frAxaFs
Near MAEEsaa, WSs--Saceessfni HAM 81
Ceuagssfssters-- Destructive Prairie Fires
in nAkssA--Los, sf PAeiEc Mail Steam
saaIp--M isoellAns sens MashAPs-
A1EzHD AxD mA1Ezn&zzn III ElaAnrns-
MAn4sox. Kss-. Oct IA ga Norwegian
fnrue3 O. Lee, IN tire suwn a. SpEangaAae-
about s. re1rs cid. firing entirely alone, vas
hr8tszly knockea down. shot and stabbed fg
4Arex Norwegian ftznps last Friday night
Lee had last gore 70 haa mhzn he heard a
noise II lie kitchen. and goizg ira tAAs Ea'asn
10 leA-z tbs czEAss Of the nnlss- WAS oolfrnntsa
81 the men. enc Ssabhlug him Eg1oe II 1he
seek ahe ether hIf4Ing hlzn avtr the he2d with
a CLUB, rendering ham lnsensihlE- The Tohse-s
9hen fred two pSstal shots IN Mss eeaY, ard
rBhhGnz she house Of sarre eco and other vaaHs-
bles departed Lee recovered sufficiently
8nrlaE the night Ia crawl to > ne3ghboTs s. " here
AID VAS rendered h5rr and officers dispatched
fcr tbe villains xnd snrrenoes IN a-resfsng
them in the sawn If EIfohbnrg tAis morning.
TneT were br0aEhz 70 Madison and placed IN
iasl Their names sre Ode Havrnsons Nels and
john Anaeusoz. and are hard essazens- They
confessed the crime. The old naam i in a
preear5oas condition and he can barely re-
cover.
scULA FRACTURED
CIxczNSAT1. Oct Prank Reilly, news
agent or tie MAr5e:te & Cincinnati road, going
east this morning, swung himself cat Of the
door Of baggage car as the train Wss crossing
Bridge street CaiiliootAe, and Was struck by a
telegraph pole which knocked him to the
ground and fractured his skull.
CRIMINAL LzBEI-
CncrxxAr1, oct Henry Haaeke. editor
Of the FoIkxfrgzsssd, was to-day arrested On a
charge Of criminal libel by Benz. Butterworth,
Republican candidate for Congress The
charge grew ont Of pnblica1ion n the Feass-
frsGFsd charging 2-ee3 fraud upon tie gov
eminent BY Mr.. ButserwoTth-
PACIFIC MAIL sTTAERR LOST.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Intelligenee has been re
oeiyed in this city of the loss of the Pacific
Nail steamer Georgia. She strnck on q rock
of the harbor Of Panta Arenas. Passengers
and crew saved. The Georgia was coming oai
If the harbor PGnta Arenas, about forty-eigh'
hours sail from Panama, when she struck a
reef and went aground. The steamer was go
ing TO San Francisco and had on board the pas
sengers Of the steamer Colon, Of the same line
The Georgia had 1--WE cabin passengers and
forty steerage passengers, besides large csrgt
f merchandise. She was a large iron screw
steamer, built four years ago, cost 100000
and at the time of her loss fully insured.
Ii il not known at the Pacific Hail office
whether the cargo was insured or not, but thS
general opinion is il
1t is believed the vessel viii be got Of ant
cargo saved
DEArH ON TEE R4IL.
TOKYO. Oct. This afternoon willis
work train on the Toledo 4 Ann Arbor railroad
loaded with sand, was backing mp near Milan
| IL struck cow throwing seven cars from tn
track and instantly killing Richard Nash, con
e n -.
| Deerhe i, Mich. brakeman, and more or les
| infuring sixty of the workmen on the train
| The cars were badly wrecked. and the road fo
I a time blocked, but at P. NJ. trains are run
ming as usual.
HOSPITAL BURNED.
! SAN Francisco, Oct. THE Sacrameut
county hospital was burned Saturday night
loss. 100000 The inmates were saved with
ont accident to any. Insurance, $4,000. Ac
| cidental.
| PRAIRIE FIREs-REwARD.
| YAxEroN j. T., Oct. IA destructive prairi
| fre has traversed from Is to 90 counties be
| tween Jill Rurr and the Missouri river. TIL
| destruction OF property is large, but no detail
| received Gov. H0wa has offered 81 900 re
wt-d for the arrest of the parties who robbed
/ the CHEYENNE treasure coach two weeks ago
| PENNSYLVANIA ooUSTERFErTERs ARRESTED.
the secret service bureau announces the ares
of Theodore Camp, Joel Patcher, J. W. Good
| John Havner and Albert Wickmore, at Towanda
| Pa. to-day, On the charge of counterfeiting
| Several sets of Inoulds and lot of counterfeit
coins were captured.
SHOT DEAD.
C1NoINNATI, o., Oct. IA negro nance
Wade, living near Greenviile, o., who bore
bad character, was on two occasions notified t,
leave the country. These warnings he disre
| garded. Last night he was attacked by al
armed mob and he, endeavoring to escape from
his house, was shot dead.
VESSELS WRECKED.
New York, Oct. THE steamship City o
New York, from Havana, reports schoone
ashore at Santa Anna, Mexico, during a gal,
Sept. 10. and became a total loss; crew saved
| The schooner Santa Rose was wrecked at Santa
| Anna at the same time; crew saved. AT same
! time the British bark Crimea was wrecked; the
| captain his wife and second officer drowned
| The British bark Iightcliff. total loss; crew
saved. Also two others at Tinalak, names uu
known.
TRUE BILLS FOUND.
MONTREAL, Oct. THE grand jury brought
| true bills against David Grant, Fred Hamilton
Ingram Tilburn and other Orangemen, charged
with unlawfully assembling on the 18th o
July.
FIGHT WITH ILLICIT DIsTH.LERs.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Oct. deputy UniteC
States Revenue Collector Phillips has returned
from his raid in Overton, Jackson, Fentrer
and Putnam counties. Several Illicit distilleriei
we're destroyed, ranking in value from 300 t.
$500. On the 81 inst, the party reached
| Crawford's mill, few miles from Livingston
When the party was about to cross ford
several armed men were noticed on top of tht
bluff on the opposite side. evidently rneani 1G
fight detachment.of the revenue force were
sent higher mp the river, crossed and approach
ed the enemy from the rear They found &
force estimated at fifty men armed with lons
range rifles waiting for them. Firing imlnedi
ately began and continued until the ammu'
milton of the revenue force was nearly exhausted
compelling them TO retreat. 1t is reported foul
distillers were killed and several wounded.
PIANO FIRE.
NEW York, Oct IA fire on the upper floors
of Steek's piano factory tonight damaged
stock as, 600 and building $1,000. Insurance,
SO, coo.