River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-29
LATEST EVENTS.

THERE are 10000 Mormons and 1000
ientiles in Utah.
CAPT PAYNE, the Indian Territory squat
ter. and twenty-five of his followers, have
been arrested by United States troops.
A CENSUS enumeratOr at Decatur, ILL.,,
found a woman who had given birth to five
children in one year.
DAVID MCGRUER fell from the fourth
story of the Jackson block, Memphis,
Tenn, and was instantly killed.
ROBBERS entered the apartment of Gen.
Grant at a Manitou Col, hotel, and car
red away 800 worth of iewelry and some
money.
For the fourth time the trial of the
Protestant Indians for burning Catholic
church near Montreal has resulted in
disagreement of the jury.
THE senate committee of inquiry into
the election frauds has adjourned to meet
in Washington, at the call of the chair
man.
A MAN in Davis county, Iowa, who re-
fused to make answer to the inquiries of
census enumerator, has been found guilty
If a misdemeanor, in the United States
court at Dubuque, and will be fined.
THE report of Judge Advocate Gen.
Dunn on the Whitaker case, in which he
approves the verdict of the West Point
court of inquiry, is in the hands of the
secretary of war.
A TERRIFIC rain storm occurred at Car
Isle. Penn, water running four feet deep
in the roads Many houses were flooded,
crops much injured, and many cattle
killed by lightning.
A BOY arrested in st. Louis had in his
possession n rifle, three or four revolvers,
a long knife, six boxes of cartridges, and
$243. He claimed to hail from Chicago,
and was going west to exterminate In
dams.
FROM advance sheets of tPoor's Man
ual' it il learned that 4,72l miles of rail
road were constructed during 1879 and
that the gross earnings reached S529,0l3,
900 and the net receipts 1919, $4,000, both
showing large gains over the previous
year.
AT target practice, on the 23d inst. at
Oconomowoc, one of the commissioned Of
ficers of the LIST regiment, in camp at
Oconomowoc, managed to kill a cow which
was grazing unsuspectingly several rods to
one side of the bull's-eye. The boys
bought the carcass, and ate for penance.
A FREIGHT train on Lower Valley Il. Il.
near Hartford, Conn, was thrown from
the track by misplaced switch. Conduc-
tor Bacon was killed and Engineer Frank
Whitman, and VIM. Stanton, fireman,
severely injured.
GEORGE BABE. of Door county, Wis,
undertook to get 2 divorce from his wife
when his mothcr-ln-law appeared on the
scene threatening to inform the authorities
that he burned a school-house year ago.
He dropped the suit and left for parts un-
known.
NEAL BOWS letter accepting the prohi
bition nomination for president of the
United States IS out The general declares
that the suppression of the liquor traffic
is an object of far greater political import
ance than any other now claiming the at
tention of the country.
THE mother of Chastine Cox arrived in
New York, on the Goth inst, from Rich
mond, Va, for the purpose of attending
her sons funeral On finding that Chas
tine had been buried, she went over to
Evergreen Cemetery, in company with
several colored females, and visited the
spot W here his body had been inferred.
G. J. DRESSER friend of the late III. {.
Meeker. agent If the Utes has just return
ed from the scene of the September mas
sacre on White river He reinterred the
remains of Meeker and eight employees
including his two sons which had been
hastily buried by Merritt's command.
Dresser found chain about four feet long
around the neck of Meeker' remains, prov
ing the story true that the Utes had dragg
ed the body about the agency after the
massacre.