River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-05
GENERAL NOTES.

VIM. BREWSTER, one of the proprletors
of the Boston IraoeIer, died Jan 2Sth.
A TELEGRAM Of Jan. 9th says Ulysses
Grant, Jr, has cleared 100000 in a stock
speculation.
Mrs. ROSE MCMAHON, said to be the
Oldest woman in Iowa, died at Dubuque
Jan. Goth aged 100 years.
S. S. HAYES, former comptroller of
Chicago, and leading business man OF
that city, died Jan. 30.
AT the hospital for the incurable in
sane at Worcester, Mass, Jan. 81, Thos.
Dwyer, a lunatic, was killed by another
named Warren Rice.
CHIEF of Police Benson of Norfolk,
Va, killed himself in his private room
early on the morning Of Jan. goth.
Domestic troubles caused the deed.
JAY GOULD has been elected president
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
road company, thus bringing it into the
Wabash system, says Chicago dispatch
of Jan. 2S.
THE report that the Chicago, Burling.
ton and Quincy has obtained control of
the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska road
was denied at the office of the latter
company in Keokuk, Jan. 81.
C.M. SPITzER & Co., of Cleveland,
bankers, under the name of the German
American Bank, failed Jan %. Liabil-
tiles $25, 000 assets small. Cause, stock
operations.
CHARLES f. FREEMAN, the child muir
derer, was arranged in the supreme
court at Barnstable, Mass, Jan. Goth.
Physicians declared him insane and his
case was continued to the May term, at
which time, if he is still insane, he will
be sent to lunatic hospital.
SEVEN fusion senators and % members
of the lower house took their seats in the
republican Legislature Jan. 29th, at Au-
gusta, Maine. Everything was quiet
and the dual legislature was declared to
be at an end.
A GRAND move on Indian Territory
will be made in the spring by large
party of squatters whose headquarters
are at Coffeyville, says st. Louis dis
patch of Jan. 30. 1t is supposed that
the rumor relative 10 the Wichita raid
was started to divert attention from the
place of real danger.
Mrs. SPRAGUE, says Washington
telegram of Jan. Goth, yesterday gave a
dinner party to Mrs. Conkling, at which
several of the New York delegation and
the justices of the supreme court and
their wives were present The two
ladies have been on terms of the closest
intimacy since Mrs. Conkling has been
IN Washington.
THE boy who was believed TO have
been killed at New Hampton, Iowa, by
a fanatic father of the Adventist persua-
sion, some time since, was discovered to
be alive and we'll in an adjoining county
Jan 2Sth 1t appears that he had fled
from his father for fear of another beat
ing.
A COLUMBIA, S. c., dispatch of Jan %
saws the supreme court has decided that
the tax levy act passed at the last legis-
lature, is invalid, and refused the attorney
generals petition for mandamus against
the comptroller general to compel HIM
to proceed with the collection. There
will be an extra session in February.
THE fusion senate at Augusta did not
have quorum Jan. 9th, and conse-
quen;ly did not do any business. The
house met but transacted no business,
and adjourned The finance committee
of the republican legislature called upon
the fusion treasurer, White, for the pur-
pose of examining his books, but White
refused, saying he did not consider either
legislature legally organized. There
was talk of removing him from the office
by force
AN Omaha special OF Jan 27th reports
that a telephone test made be-
tween Omaha and st. Louis, a distance
of410 miles, was completely successful.
Conversation was carried on plainly.
"The weet-By.and-By' was sung in st.
Louis in a clear baritone, and every note
was distinctly heard ia Omaha. 1t was
repeated here for the benefit of St. Louis.
Several leading telegraph officials were
present at each end of the line, and were
deeply interested in the test. 1t is be-
lieved to be The greatest distance ever
successfully operated by telephone.
SAYS a New York telegram of Jan.
Both: The contract between the Pacific
mail company and overland railroads,
by which the steamship company re-
ceived q subsidy for agreeing not to re-
duce rates below those of the railroad
companies. expired in May last. The
Pacific mail company, after waiting in
vain for a more favorable contract, de-
termined to put the passenger and freight
rates between New York and San Fran
cisco low enough to prevent undercut-
ting by the railroads, and has made ar
rangements for additional carrying facil-
tiles between the two points.
APPLICATION was made to Comm is
sioner Hoyne, of Chicago, on Jan. 9th,
by two jew peddlers, for assistance in
securing the reissue of $500 in green
backs which had accidentally been burned