River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

lT is estimated that there is nj .present
afoat, on the way TO New York, gold to
the value of Si,0O0,O00.
The brothers Collinson of London want
t. bet s. 900 that DIR. Tanner can not fast.
Political notes
JACK ADAMS, alias Brooke George" a
notorious burglar, has died in the Penn
sylvania penitentiary.
Two hundred and fifteen speeches were
delivered in Indiana, Saturday evening,
al one hundred and two meetings.
THE Indian agent at Poplar river, who
has abandoned his post, reports that the
country is full of Indians, and that Sit
ting Bull is only twenty miles away.
4 PARTY named Charles Carver, resid-
my in Woodstock. Va, began fast of one
hundred DAYS duration on the 10th inst.
Should he succeed in his experiment he
will challenge DIR. Tanner to competitive
match
The Union Pacific railroad company
has contracted for monument to the
memory of Oliver and Cakes Ames, to be
located in Wyoming, at the highest point
Of the Rocky mountains and to cost $780,
go.
Miss ADELAIDE NELSON, the accom-
plished actress, who recently announced
her retirement from the stage, and sailed
for Europe, died suddenly, on the 18th
Inst, at the Continental hotel, in Paris.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
company has concluded arrangements
with the Sioux Indians for running its
line through their reservation, and work
on the Black Hills extension will now be
vigorously pushed.
TIE military board from Gen. Sher-
mans staff appointed to dispose of the
Fort Gratiot military reservation to the
Northwestern railway company has sent a
report to Washington which favors that
policy. Consideration, $4,000.
MAIL contractor Adams of Little Rock,
has telegraped the Washington authori-
ties for military protection on the mail
route between Fort Davis, Tex, and I'll
Paso Indians are making things hot in
that region.
THE Flint and Pere Marquette railroad
was sold at auction at East Saginaw, on
2otil inst, pursuant to the decree of the
United States court The road was bid in
by the purchasing committee of the hold
ers of the consolidated bonds for 81 ,000,-
0O0.
BESIDES reducing Peru to desperate
straights at the point Of the bayonet, the
Chilians have during the past year, ex-
ported more goods than they have I'M
ported They have an army Of forty-tive
thousand men at and near Lima, where
important movements are in progress.
CADET WHITAKER has been given an
unlimited furlough by the secretary OF
war, for the purpose of comforting with
counsel relative to the court-martial which
il is expected he will some time demand.
Action on the recommendation of the ex-
aiming board at West Point that he be
dismissed for incompetency is thus post
poned.
The engineer of one of the excursion
trains which collided with such fatal eff
feels at Mays Landing, n j.. last week,
confessed the cause of the accident to the
coroner's Jury. He said that on the day
Of the catastrophe lie undertook, for the
! frs time, TO use the automatic brakes
| He had never had any experience with
them, and as a result the brakes would not
work at the critical moment. The engi-
neer appeared to be Frustrated with grief
and gave his testimony between sobs, the
| jury listening in impressive silence.
l'ErRoIT. Mich. business circles are
wholly taken by surprise to learn of the
! assignment of Thos. McGrew, president OF
| the Globe tobacco company, and also OF
the Michigan Savings Bank, and large
real estate owner He had been for years,
| also heavy dealer in wool. A general
assignment OF all his property was made
to Albert III. Wilkinson, attorney
Just previous to this second mort
gage of $25 900 put on the Mechanics
block which he owned, and still another t.
secure the Michigan savings bank for OBJ
legations. The cause Ofthe failure is said
to BE large losses in wool transactions, and
overlooking himself with real estate,
which produced more interest and taxes
than income His assets rightly figured
$3.50 900 The liabilities represent a
much larger figure, but cannot vet be
stated
THE hitherto unsubdued Sioux Indians
who went into Canada under Sitting Bull
| are ~urrendering by the wholesale at Fort
I EeCsh, Montana, AID creating some alarm
am, ny the more timid white settlers. Then
surrender was not unexpected, and the
policy Of the government in reference
| thereto, MAS decided upon long before the
Indians began to make their appearance
Orders were sent by the department com
| mander to permit the return of all Indians
willing to surrender Internationally and
| submit themselves and their property tC
/ the disposition of the government. Sioux
and other Indians coming into Fort keogh
| came virtually as prisoners OF war they will
be promptly disarmed and dismounted
their arms and ponies will be sold and the
proceeds turned into provisions for THEN
| temporary substance. Eventually they
/ will be turned over to the interior depart
ment and transported to some point on the
west side of the Missouri river, and as fal
south as practible, where they will be
/ placed on the reservation and kept there
/ by such means of restraint as may be
4 found necessary. The general of the
army does not think Sitting Bull has ex
ercisad any important influence over In
dians coming back No danger whatever
| is anticipated from their appearance il
such large numbers at the agency. The
troops in the vicinity are fully able tC
cheek any hostile movement which nigh
| take place, and disorderly conduct report
ed is regarded by the war department "a
4 natural lawlessness and turbulence o
savagcs coming in such large numbers bu
/ without hostile intention.