River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-11-20
GENERAL NOTES.

RICHARD SCHELL, 3 prominent New
Yorker, died on the 10th inst.
THE venerable Lovisk Pierce, father of
Methodism in Georgia, died al Sparta, in
that state, on the 10th of November.
THE wife of Hon. David Davis, United
States senator from Illinois, died at
Stockbridge, Mass, on the 10Th inst.
GOVERNOR CRosswELL, of Michigan,
appointed Fernando G. Beaman, U. S.
senator to fill the unexpired term of the
late Senator Chandler, on the 18th inst.
THE election returns of New York
were still being received on the 18th inst.
The Albany EUentng Journal then claim
ed that Hoskins, rep, for governor, had
$50 majority.
The New York produce exchange met
on the 10th inst. ana resolved to rescind
the rules referring to the Genital system.
The exchange will doub less continue to
use the old system.
ARRANGEMENTS were consummlted
in New York on the 18th inst, whereby
the Omaha 81 North Nebraska railway
was consolidated with the st. Paul d
Sioux City railway.
ISAAC LTvERMoRE, of Cambridge
Mass, for twenty-five years past presi-
dent of the Michigan Central Railway,
died on the 10th inst. He was presi-
Dental elector in 1913.
TwENTY-NINE counties out of SO in
Wisconsin, gave Smith, republican, for
governor, 2l,743 majority. 1t is esti-
mated that the majority in the whole
state will not materially alter these fig
ures.
A SPECIAL from Ell Paso, Texas, receiv-
ed on the 18th inst. says desperate fight
took place Sunday fifty miles south of
that place in chihuahua, Mexico, be-
tween a band of 200 Indians and so cit
liens from Cariza, New Mexico. Only
IS citizens survived.
A PETERSBURG, Va, dispatch of the
18th says it is being generally conceded
that the readiusters have carried the
state by a small majority. The leaders
of that party are preparing for grand
celebration in honor of their victory.
A HARRIsBURG dispatch of the 18th
inst. says the returns from every county
in the state give a total vote for state
treasurer as follows: Butler, republican.
2S9 1853; Barr, democaat, 221 ,815; Sutton,
greenback, 27,207; Richardson, prohibi-
ZIONIST, 1919.
Mrs. MATTE PORTS, who recently
completed the walk from Philadelphia
to New Orleans and return, tried to COM
nit suicide by placing her head on the
railroad track in Philadelphia on the
18th inst. Poverty and a failure 10 find
employment led to the act.
GEN. GRANT will leave Chicago on the
Goth and return To Galena where he will
rest about three weeks. He then returns
to Chicago, thence to Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Columbus, Pittsburg, Philadelphia
and New York. He will winter in the
south, possibly in Havana. So says a
dispatch of the 14th.
A VIOLENT storm of wind and rain
prevailed in the region of Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 18th inst A few miles
south of the city, U. Blackson's barn
was demolished, a horse and mule killed,
and two valuable carriages crushed. The
slate roof on his house was blown off.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 18th
lust. says the court of appeals has
ordered a new trial in the case of the
New York Guaranty and Indemnity
company, ct al, against Andrew L
Roberts, Valentine Gleason, and others
confined in Ludlow street Jail, since
June 5. 1875, pending the action of the
courts in civil suit to recover $4,000
for money obtained by forging railroad
bonds on which 100000 was procured.
When the CRIME V as detected, in 1878, it
created sensation in Wall street. Nearly
a million dollars worth of forged bonds
of Buffalo, n. Y, and Erie 81 New York
Genital were thrown upon the market,
and many firms defrauded.
THE army of the Tennessee concluded
their annual meeting In Chicago on the
18th inst with grand banquet in honor
of Gen Grant. All the old officers of the
society were reelected including Gen.
Sherman as president. The report of
the treasurer show $1,000 on hand. Col.
Ozro j. Dodd was selected orator for the
ensuing year A resolution was adopted
authorizing the president of the society
TO appoint committee of five members
to examine into the effect Of invalid pen
sion laws upon the different classes of
pensioners and report at the next annual
meeting, ST ggesting such alteration and
amendment as will eliminate fraud.
Generals Ben. Sherman, Field, Rusk,
Stack, and Col Fletcher were named as
such committee.
OFFICIAL returns from sixty out of
seventy-two counties In Minnesota SAID
a dispatch of Nov 18th, will give the
following majorities for the republican
state ticket: Pllsbury, republican for
governor, over Rice, democrat, 10000;
Gilman, for lieutenant governor, 1926;
Van Baumbach, for secretary of state,
$1,000; Kettleson, for treasurer, 1905;
Start for attorney general, 1000;
Mrrshall, for railroad commissioner,
1865. Meighen, greenback, for gov
ernor, has 1924 votes, and Satterlee, pro-
hibtionists, 2,S71. 1t is thought she re-
manning twelve counties will add 4,200 TO
Pillsbury's majority and 4,400 to the rest
Of the ticket, making the former $4,000
and the latter 10000 The constitutional
amendment, limiting the issue of bonds
by cities and towns to 8 per cent. of tax
able property, was adopted by a large
majority.