River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-15
LATEST EVENTS.

Two deaths from yellow fever have oc-
Cured at New York quarantine station
Panoramic weather prevails in Ireland,
and the potato crop promises to be enor-
NOUS.
SOME members of the cabinet incline 10
the belief that the vessel which has been
oyerhauGng American ships in Cuban
waters Is a pirate.
IT is estimated that the loss to farmers
by the breaking of the Sny levee was
100000 on corn, 100000 on wheat, and
100000 on buildings, fences, etc.
The new board of managers of the Ma
tional Soldiers home met al Boston, and
elected Gen W. b. Franklin, of Connect
cut, president.
RAILROAD earnings continue to he very
large The gross receipts of thirty-three
roads for june show an increase of S4,OS5, :
364 over those for the corresponding month
last year.
THE Ravens Den Spring property in
Lawrence county, Arkansas, has been sold
to eastern capitalists for 100000. The
new proprietors viii Immediately com
ence valuable improN ements.
TIM census returns give Toledo n popula-
ton Of 81, $50, being gain Of -, 800 inten
years And vet the Toledo people are not
happy They claim that there are 1000
more Of them in the city.
4 ST. PAUL negro fell of building, a
distance Of thirty feet, to the pavement,
striking squarely on his head. He viii he
around all right in a day or two.
CAPT. BoGARDUs defeated George
Rimeu, Of England, in the pigeon shooting
match at Brighton beach, killing ninety
nine ont of possible one hundred, at
thirty yards rise.
In is stated quite generally that Gen.
Hancock will resign his position as
Maior-General before he publishes his let
ter Of acceptance.
PAU A. CHADBoURNE, on account OF
private business interests, has tandered his
resignation Of the presidency Of Williams
college, To take effect al the end ofthe next
college year
4 CENSUS ennmerator IA North Carolins,
was attacked by an illiterate family, and
half killed before he could make his es-
cape. The United States marshal viii
move on the guilty parties with posse.
4 CONVENTION of delegates from the va
rious trade and labor organizations Of the
United States will be held in New York on
Sept. l, to declare in favor of either the re-
publican or democratic nominee for preSi-
dent
TIE wife Of DE La Matyr, the Green
back Congressman. has been visiting
among old friends Of Elgin, III. recently.
Her first husband, Jas. Sylla, Esq, was
formerly principal of the Elgin Academy.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs holds that
the action Of the president in reappoint-
ing John F. Hartranft collector OF the port
of Philadelphia. notwithstanding the ad-
iournment Of the senste without acting on
his previous nomination, was in all re
spects regular and lawful.
Two South Carolins colOnels-Cash of
Chesterfield, and Shannon of Camden,
fought duel, the latter receiving fatal
wound. Camden is the place in which an
anti-dueling association was formed few
weeks ago, many Of the best citizens TAX
ing part in the movement
GREAT BRITAIN is apparently deter
mined to suppress by all means in its
power the slave traffic in the Turkish
dominions On the 9th inst, fugitive
slave who fled to the british embassy at
Constantinople was received and accorded
protection there.