River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-30
HISCELLANEUUS.

St Louis.
Che First National bank of Granville,
o.. has suspended.
subscriptions 10 the per cent. loan,
Jau. 23d, $4O3O,6OO.l
Subscriptions to the A per cent. loan
Jaauary oath, 1876, 100.
Navigation has been resumed by local
packets from Wheeling, w. Va,
A St. Petersburg telegram says the
plague is reported in or near Moscow.
There was an incendlary fire at Wheel
ing, W. Va, and another at Quincy, Ill, Jan.
23d.
4 terrible gale with snow is reported
as raging in all parts of the provinces of New
Brunswick.
two men in Cincinnati were killed by
the falling of wall of burned building.
Bojh leave families.
At Washington, D. G. the demand for
silver dollars January Goth, amounted to
$25. 600 for the month $497, 000i
An Ottawa, Ontario telegram of Jan.
q, says large number Of counterfeit $500
Dominion notes are in circulation.
William O'Brien and two sons were
bun ned to death in their camps at Millbury
Brook, New Brunswick a few days since
Gold Bros, proprietors of the Boston
Clothing House, Milwaukee, have made an
assignment. Liabilities 1900, assets $24, 900.
4 stock panic took place in Montreal,
Jan %, caused by the reported failure of one
OF the directors of the local board of Toronto.
At HYDE Park Pa, few nights since
Mrs Davis and child one year old were
burned to death by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
at Boone, Iowa, January oath, a fire
destroyed the bowling alley of Samuel s.
Ives who in attempting to save his books
and papers was burned to death.
at Milton, Pa, a confectionery es-
taplishment was burned Jan. "a. During the
fire an explosion took place which killed one
man and injured several others.
At Par.s the manager of the Lanterpe,
news paper has been sentenced to three months
Imprisonment and to pay fine of2,000 francs
for l.belling government officers.
4 London telegram of Jan. 27th, saws
it is estimated that one seventh of the looms
and spindles in Blackburn are stopped and
that from 1000 to 5000 operatives are idle and
destitute,
A smash-up occurred between two
freight trains on the New Jersey Central rail-
road. at Tulleytown, Jan. 25th, killing the con-
ductor and fireman, and smashing four cars,
the locomotive and tender.
A destructive tornado, Sunday evening,
Jan. 26th, struck the town of Lockport, Texas,
demolishing forty houses, including churches,
court house and Masonic hall. A child was
killed aud several persons badly hurt
Ia the fear of possible riots and as
saults on the United States treasury building
in New York city, vigorous and active meas
ures are being inaugurated to strengthen the
vaults IN which S100,000,000 or more of treas
ure are always stored.
The comptroller of currency has called
for report OF the condition of national banks
at .ilc close of business, January l, 1879. The
report is called for at that date for the pur-
pose Of obtaining as nearly as possible the
condition of the banks the day of resumption
II specie payments.
4 Fort Robinson Nebraska telegram
givca an account of late skirmish between
In led States troops and the Cheyenne Indians
ard s.ys only nine Cheyennes, all of them
wounded, were captured. The balance of the
party, twenty three in number, were killed.
Seventeen are still unaccounted for 1t is
supposed some died from wounds and others
ESCAPED.
The Secretary of the treasury estimates
that it viii take Sl50OO0,O0O, to meet the re-
quirenents Of the new persion law, just pass
ed both Houses of Congress, but not yet
signed by the President and says if that
amoant should go out of the treasury, it will
create a deficit. The cabinet has had the bill
under consideration but came to no decision
as to Aow it should be dealt with.
At Toledo, o., January Gath, Day ton &
Michigan company's elevator B, with con
tents, consisting Of 100000 bushels Of grain,
mostly corn, was destroyed by fire. Esti-
mated loss SIS, 600 The building is insured
in Cincinnati for So, 900. Insurance on grain
S4O00J. The fire started in the eupola and Is
to have been caused by friction in
the machinery.
In New York city January cath,
Augustus Phillips, alias Oofty Toofty, and his
mistress, Mary Hopeley, quarreled at their
142 West Sixteenth street, and she |
hot him in the side, it is thought fatally. |
About four hours later Phillips attacked the |
woman and beat and kicked her so severely |
hat her life is said to be in danger Both
we're taken TO the hospital in an ambulance |
a Faribault, Mimi, telegram of Jan.
b. SAYS the examination Of Bryant, the /
eacher, through whose fundamentally |
sammy Crossett's il was broken has been /
'losed and from the evidence of the score of /
witnesses examined, IL would seem that it /
was an entirely uncallcd for transaction, and /
/ disSrsoeful affair all through. The most
brutal feature Of the whole affair was the |
alter lack of common humanity as displayed I
ly the teacher, who, when it wss well known
hat The enild's leg was broken, did not offer
o take him home or seem to care much about /
he case any way.
In a session of the Potter committee
Sen Butler made statement that certain
dispatches hsd come into his possession early /
asst spring. He found them upon his private /
sble, bat had no knowledge how they came. /
hese dispatches, il was said, were part Of +
hose prsnted in the Tribune. II SO he had /
nothing to do with their publication. They /
lad been furnished to the Tribune before they /
anne into his hands. During the summer
hey were missed for several weeks and sub
they were fcund again, when he
rad therl numbered ard stamped and put in
place e safety, He wss willing 70 plaee