River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-09

TINES who originated the scheme to raise
a fund Of $250000 for the benefit of ex-
presidents, states that he holds subscrip-
of four-fifths of that amount.
THE city of indianapolis has been sued
for $4,000 damages, by Hannah j. Smith,
who was injured by a fall on an icy side
walk, and who seeks to establish the re-
sponsibility of the corporation for the con-
dition Of the street.
In the expectation that General Marcy
will be retired, General Miles is a candi
date for inspector general, and the presi-
dent may give him that position ard APP
point zen. Hazen 10 the signal service
chieftaincy.
ARRIVALS at Washington reveal the
forces of powerful lobby attempting to
secure a subsidy for a Brazilian steamship
line. The southern press is actively in
terested in the scheme and tive bills ofthis
character are now pending before the
house.
DUELING has become so thoroughly re-
pulsive 10 public sentiment in South Caro-
lima that a bill is before the legislature to
punish with death the Staying of an OPP
ponent in an affair of honor, and parties
leaving the state to fight will be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor
A REPUBLICAN guess of Gen. Garlield's
future cabinet saws that Ben Harrison, of
Indiana, will be in it if he does not sue
coed in his senatorial aspirations; so will
Gov. Foster, if he fails in his fight with
Sherman. Pennsylvania is to have
place, the man being furnished by the
Camerons. Conkling is to have his man,
Levi =. Morton, and New England will be
allowed to put in a man through Blaine.
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southern republican.
THE electoral vote of Georgia is proba-
bly, lost to Hancock and English for the
following reasons: The revised statutes
of the United States provide in section
135 that the electoral colleges of the sew
eral states shall meet on the first Wednes-
day in December, and cast their vote. The
Georgia code. section 13l, provides that
the governor shall notify the electors to
meet at the capital on the first Monday in
December to be ready on the following
Wednesday to cast their vote. This the
governor has done, but the electors did
not meet and it Is decided that they
now debarred.
For some time the post Office authorities
have been flooded with complaints from
the smaller merchants and many farmers
upon the California line eff the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad relative to loss
Of letters containing checks and drafts
from Chicago commission houses sent out
to pay for produce Special Agent Spur
ling, of the post Office department, was de-
tailed to hunt up the perpetrators OF the
crime, and has overhauled in Fulton, ILL.,,
one of the parties, named Sims, and on the
"a inst, several more will be taken into Gus
tody. The plan of robbery was as follows: A
a 80 l,,,,
along the line and hired out, mostly to
farmers. Noting when stock or other prod
uce was shipped, at the proper time they
would call for the mail of they employers,
go thorough the letters, take out evidence
of value, and through confederates indorse
and receive money on the drafts. The
game has been worked quite successfully,
but will stop for the present, The care
lessness of the people in the country in
sending comparative strangers for their
mail as been properly rebuked.