River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-29
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary of Events During the
Past Week.
FROM THE CAPITAL.

THE president and Gen. Sherman are
making arrangements to attend the sol
diers reunion at Columbus, O., on Aug
/ and H. The war department is TO fur
nish tents, cannon and flags.
THE president has appointed the follow
ing postmasters: Ole Selwig, at Wilman
MINI. Fl. j. Northrup, at Saginaw, Mich. !;
Oscar Cation. at Bryan, Ohio.
Ar the cabinet meeting, on the Dist in st.
Secretary Ramsey was the only cabinet
officer present. The assistants who were
on duty as subs were entertained by the
president about twenty minutes.
GEN. TERRY has been detailed as mem
Der of the army board to examine and re.
poet upon the codifcation of the army
laws and regulations, in place of Gen. Nc
Dowell, who was relieved at his own re-
quest.
ATTORNEY ;ENEpAL DEvENs has taken
charge of the case against Payne, arrested
for invasion of Indian Territory. He will
at once direct a swift prosecution, and as
this is Payne's second violation of the law
the full penalty viii be enforced.
ONE II. c. Nicholson, of Kentucky,
claims that he is the inventor of the vital
principle in the construction of the qua
druplex, and asks the Patent Office 20 set
aside Edison's patent. The petition is
under consideration.
The secretary of war, Ramsey says no
action will be taken in the case of Whit
taker for ten DAYS or two weeks. The
question of granting Whitaker a court
mar al trial is under consideration.
TIE national board of health has receiv-
ed a telegram announcing that for the
week ending July Is there were seventy
four deaths from yellow fever in the city
ofIIavana. There were probably two hun
bred cases of yellow fever in the city and
suburbs.
4 SCIENTIFIC expedition left the Smith
sonian Institute on the Goth inst, on the
United States steam yacht Lookout, for
the lower waters of the Potomac and north
ern shore of Chesapeake Bay. The object
of the expedition is to study the position
of the recently discovered Spanish mack
eral fisheries.
FIRST LIEUTENANT ii. T. REID, first in
fautry, has been detailed as professor of
military science and tactics at the southern
Illinois Normal University, Carbonate,
Ill. vice Capt Thomas j. Spencer. Tenth
Cavalry, relieved. Capt. Spencer has been
ordered to join his company.
The officials of the treasury department
are watching with great interest the course
of sterling exchange. From the develop
mcnts of the past few weeks in the financi-
al relations between the United States and
the money centers of Europe they express
the opinion that there will continue to be
large importations of gold.
Ir is intimated that the government will
consent to the Egyptian debt litigation
commission since the changes in its organl-
cation and plan of work was recently
made This commission was first organized
after the abdicatiOn of the khedive. Unit
ed States citizens have considerable interest
in Egyptian financial management, this
government withheld its approval OF the
commission until such changes were made
as would insure ample protection to those
interests.
CONGRESS last session authorized Com
missioner lie Due to sink two artesian
wells, at $4,000 apiece, in the arid coun-
try, east of the Rocky Mountains. 1t also
appropriated 5000 to enable him to OBJ
tain data relative to the aridity of agricul-
tural lands in the United States, lie in
tends taking a trip to San Francisco short
ly to secure by observation and commune
cation the information necessary to the Sc
lection of the well sites and the prepare
ton Of the report on fertility.
COLONEL HATcH sends the following dis
patch from Santa Fe, \. NJ: 1.-The latest
news is that the hostiles have taken many
horses from the ranches near Chihuahua,
swinging around that city IN circuit OF
about thirty miles. Arrada, an old Indian
fighter, who has fifty men with him, says
most of the hostiles are forty miles south
west of Galiios the same distance north of
Chihuahua. They go into GaIiios to trade.
They are not killing people. ! think they
will cross below Quitmann. Five Indians
crossed July t. Captain Brinkerhof is
looking for them from III Paso."