River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-30
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

his reward for the scalp of Victoria, the
Apache chieftain, from $1,000 to $1,000.
THE archbishop of Quebec advises all
clergymen under his charge not to inter-
fere in politics.
PEACE having been restored in Cuba the
Spanish government will recall fifteen
thousand troops.
Miss FLORENCE TILToN, daughter of
Theodore Tilton, has been married in Lon
don to Mr.. PeIton, of Louisiana.
NEARLY all of the sick horses in Boston
are much better, and it is thought few
DAYS more of fine weather will eradicate
the distemper.
A HORSE distemper resembling the epi-
zootic of 1877, but somewhat milder, has APP
peared in Boston, and is causing serious
inconvenience.
CHICAGO packers have slaughtered, since
March l,2,400.000 hogs, an increase of
$4,000 head over the corresponding time
last year.
HENRY FAwCErr, the British postmas-
ter general, will visit the United States
this fall. to study telegraphy as practiced
in this country.
THE Montreal city council has defeated
a big job by refusing to extend the char
ter Of the city passenger railway for forty
years. There is great rejoicing over the
result
FIFrY-Two citizens of Cincinnati have
subscribed 81 900 each toward the fund OF
$50, 600 necessary to meet the conditions
of Mr.. Vests donation of a like sum for
the erection of an art museum.
JESSE ID. GRANT. third son of the gen
J Z / Il tor
OF a wealthy merchant were married at
san Francisco on the Dist inst. The
young couple will start for the east.
HooPEsToN, ILL.,, now claims to have a
mastodnn, rs we'll as Chicago and Paw
Paw Fragments of the monster were I'M
earthed by laborers who were excayating
for drain One of the teeth weighs eight
pounds.
Mr.. TALMAGE preached ON the Chinese
question, last Sunday. He admitted that
Chinatown, in San Francisco, was bad in
many respects, but declared that in his
dark-lantern tour of New York he had
found worse places.
A ROMAN Catholic priest of fourteen
wears standing, named Seguin, of Mon
treal. writes a long letter to a local paper,
addressed to Bishop Fabre, announcing his
reasons therefor.
THE mother of Lille and Lavinia Grace,
two of the victims of the railroad disaster
at MAYS Landing, died on Tuesday from
the shock to her system produced by the
death of her children, and was buried to-
day.
RUMoRs of combination to reduce pro-
duction has caused a sharp advance in
crude oil at Pittsburgh and Oil City, Pa.
Since last Friday there has been a rise of
ten cents and heavy transactions have
taken place at the advanced figures.
4 NEW dinner-table and sideboard have
been manufactured for the state dining
room of the white house by an Ohio firm.
The articles are massive and costly, and,
besides numerous devices of a national
character, have a few peculiar to Ohio.
FvGLAND's gunboat the Helicon, dropp,
ed anchor in the roads of Antivart, on
the 10Th inst, and was ordered Oft by the
port official, because the yesse, had no
right there under the treaty of Berlin.
The British skipper took the hint, and
cleared out.
Oh the Z3rd instant, the remains Of
one of the men buried in the Hudson rlv-
ertunnel at Jersey City was found by la
borer excavating the caissOn, who was
overcome with horror at the discovery
The bones were nearly bare and ii was
impossible to identify them.
New York advices indicate that the
rail trade is satisfactory, but rather of the
quiet, steady order than the rushing
Mechanics and iaborers are nearly all en-
ployed at the standard of wages that has
existed since 1879 and the employment
agencies report an urgent demand from
western cities.
NoTwITHsrANDING the semi-otiicial an
nouncement that Gen. Miles is to be APP
pointed chief of the signal service, Gen.
Hazen. basing his claims mainly on the
ground that he is an Ohio man, is making
a determined effort to secure the position.
Hazen ''loafed around" the capitals of
Europe for several years while Miles was
raising scalps in the far northwest.
THE Galesburg, H. negro who married
an Episcopal clergyman's daughter and
was arrested for stealing the sachel in
which he carried her trousseau. has been
held to bail on a charge of larency. Miss
Chase, the bride, has been stopping with
friends at Kenoshia, Wis. for a few days,
but left there on the 2lst inst. for distant
state.
THE officers of the Wabash Railway
company awarded the contract on the 9th
inst, for the grading, bridging and iron
ing of the first eighteen miles of a project
cd airline railroad from Chicago to
Peoria The company has also given
orders for the immediate extension of the
Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska railroad
from Prairieville, Iowa, to the Missouri
river.
4 VICTORIA dispatch says A genuine
sea serpent, six feet in length, with an
orthodox mans head shaped like a pan
lher, and a tail Whitfield down to a sharp
uoint, was brought in by the Indians, who
caught it on the water straits of DeparO.
lis appearance created intense interest
among savants, and old fishermen cannot
place the monster. The serpent has been
photographed and the body will be pre-
served in spirits and sent to OttOwa for
classification.
4 DISPATCH from Des Moines la, says:
Levi johnson, of Norton county, Kan, ia
here soliciting aid for the people in hillips,
sherman, Decatur, Sheridan, Rawllns and
ether counties. In Norton county 500
peoDle are in absolute want Of of food.
The wheat crop in all these counties failed,
and in June was plowed up and planted
with corn, which. when it came up, was
DESTROYED by the web worm He gives a
sud story of want and suffering. One
family had no food for eleven weeks but
wheat bran. Another family had nothing
Tor three weeks but corn meal He says
the local papers OF the state suppress these
facts, as It will iniure the state. A public
meeting was called there on the 24th inst,
to procure supplies for these people.
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