River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-11
GEN ERAL NOTES.

SEVENTEEN new cases of small pox were
reported at San Francisco, on the 9th inst
THE Citizens National bank has been
opened in Cincinnati. with Sl000,00C
capital,
EDMuNDs AND DEvENs will doubtless
| have seats on the bench of the supreme
court.
REV. THos BEEcHrR was beaten in the
| Elmira district for congress by 1900 ma
jority.
TRIcKET has made match with Ross for
goo side, to take place within month
after the match with Hanlan.
A SUIT by George NJ. Pullman against
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company,
involving the VALIDITY of the sleeping car
patent, is on trial at Baltimore.
A SPECIAL from Durant, Iowa, says that
Lizzie Schnecklob, aged II years, com
mitted suicide there by hanging herself
ULYSSES s. GRANT, JR., was married in
New York on the 4th inst, to the only
child of ex-senator Chaffee, of Colorado
THE issue of silver dollars for October
exceeded the coinage by nearly 81 $780, 900.
Nearly $20,000,000 in silver certificates is
afoat.
LONG ISLAND farmers are making large
shipments of Newtown pippins to England,
where they realize 50 per barrel.
BILLINGS WRIGHT, of Aurora, ILL.,, who
was shot about two weeks ago by William
Kimball, was taken to the polls on cleo
ton day to vote, and then died at $50
p. m.
THE contest for Garfeld's senatorial
seat will at once be commenced by Foster,
Matthews, and Taft Secretary Sherman
is also a candidate.
CAPTAIN PARDEE, of the 33d infantry is
at Wichita, Kan. He has a force of fifty
two soldiers and twenty-five Indian scouts
with which TO repel Payne's next invasion
of Oklahoma.
A PFC won on an election bet at South
Bend, Ind, was turned over to the repub-
lean central committee, and sold at auc-
ton for the benefit of the poor, realizing
1916.
THE telegraph operator at Ozark, Ark,
dispatches that on the top of White Oak
mountains. two miles north of Ozark,
stones weighing two pounds or less have
been rising from the earth and falling like
hail, driving persons out of the fields, and
that great excitement prevails.
JoHN SHEPHERD, a farmer near Peoria
has faithfully kept an oath made in 1860
not to cut his hair or shave until the cleo
ton of democratic president. His whis-
kers reach nearly to his waist and his hair
is kept in braidS He evidently accepted
the finding of the electoral commission as
cheerfully as did Hayes.
DEVELOPMENTS prove that Fred. w.
Faut, a park commission man, fled from
Indianapolis the day after the state cleo
ton to avoid prosecution for forgeries
n a thnnGa nd dol
lars. The principal known sufferers are
County Treasurer Loftin and County Clerk
Randall who lose 81 $50 and $500 re-
spectively. Nhe bank is said TO be caught
for 800, but that cannot be established.
Ritzinger's bank held note for $500, on
which $3.50 was unpaid, and bringing
suits to collect precipitated the crisis.
Faut used the names of his brothers,
Ernest and Charles, weI-to-do residents of
Hancock county, William Buschmann,
and Conrad Beck, merchants of
this city. Faut has been in business
here since the war. in which
he took an honorable part and has been
generally recognized as upright and indus
trious. Until this exposure he was never
suspected of crookedness, although it is
now stated that his brother Ernest paid
81 800 about a year ago to screen him from
punishment for a similar otfense, and
which led to unpleasant feelings between
them. To his devotion to politics IS laid
the cause of his troubles. A w. Ritzinger
says that Faut told him Gov. Hendricks
had promised him good office after cleo
ton, and on this he hid held out against
the fast-rushing time o. disaster until the
returns showed the defeat of the democ-
racy Some of the money raised on the
for ged Endorsements is believed to have
gone into the campaign fund