River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-17
ENEIiSL NOTES.

PRINCE NAPOLEON (Plon-Plon) is report
ed to be very seriously ill.
Born houses of congress have agreed to
adjourn on the 10Th inst.
LIEUT.. ZEILEN, of the marine corps, was
killed at Norfolk, Va, by runaway horse
ALL the European powers have received
invitations to attend the Berlin conference.
NEARLY thirty thousand emigrants left
Liverpool for America during the month
of May.
CARDINAL NINA, the Pope's secretary, has
rendered his resignation, but the Pope re-
fused to accept 1t.
HIGH water is reported in the lum Der
ing districts of Wisconsin, and some dam
age has been done at Wausau and Wau-
paca.
THE Ottawa Orangemen will not parade
next 18th of July. The Ribbonmen in CON
sequence will have no occasion to create n
row.
THE conference of the representatives of
the European powers will commence at
Berlin next week. AUSTRIA Italy, France,
Russia, and England will be represented.
THE contest between Gray and Landers
for the democratic gubernatorial nomina-
ton in Indiana is said to be so close that
the issue has become question of tact and
management.
THE French government has finally re-
solved to call on the Jesuits to leave France
on the 30th Of June. Those engaged in
educational work will be permitted to re
main till the 3lst of August.
To hasten a revival in the dropping
market" the Western Nail association has
a - Init ncHp q
OF operations in all mills for period of
three weeks, beginning on next Monday.
RIsuap Il. npP ..f Montreal hos ;ss,,od a
pastoral forbidding ladies from appearing
in public without a cape or a shawl, di-
recting nuns not to shake hands with men,
and prohibiting private theatricals.
THE sultan assures Mr. Goschen, the new
British ambassador to Turkey, that he will
cooperate with him in measures calculated
to put at rest all pending questions relating
to the enforcement Of the treaty of Berlin.
THE parliamentary committee of the
Prussian diet has rejected Bismark S
church bill by a vote of 10 to 8. Another
resignation BY Bismarck may be antici-
pated-or a dissolution of the diet.
DURING the month ending the 3lst Of
Nav 236,017 immigrants arrived at the
corresponding period of last year. About
two-thirds of the whole number were. Ger
mans and Irish.
THE national greenback convention at
Chicago concluded its labors by nominating
J. b. Weaver, the Iowa greenback con-
gresham, for president, and b. j. Chamb-
ers, of Texas, for vice president.
GEN. HATCH reports fight between Ma
ior Morrow and band of Apaches on June
9th, in which the troops we're victorious,
killing three savages, one of them son
of Victoria, and driving the remainder
from the field. 1t il believed that the
main band of the hostiles has crossed into
Mexico.
A PARTY of about fifty Poles arrived in
Chicago, on the 10th inst, and were car
ried in express wagons TO the northern
part of the city, where they were found the
next day asleep under a sidewalk. There
were several sick children in the band.
Some charitable fellow-countrymen of the
emigrants took them in charge and sup
piled them with food and quarters.
TIE Lvcoming Insurance company, of
Muncie Pa, has Withdrawn all its agencies
west of PENNSYLVANIA, assigning as a reason
that the large number of fires, together
with low premiums have made the business
improbable. The company will issue
certificates of Indebtedness" to persons
whose policies have not expired
THE Illinois democratic state convention
met at Springfield on the 10th inst. s. S.
Marshal was elected temporary chairman
and IL. Harting temporary secretary. This
organization was subsequently made per-
manent, and after the choosing of district
delegates by the several districts Melville
T. Fuller, Samuel Marshall John A. Nc
Clernand and W. T. Dowdall were elected
delegates at large. The following state
ticket was then placed in nomination: For
governor. LYMAN Trumbull; for lieutenant
governor, Lewis B. Parsons; for secretary
of state, John II. Oberly; for auditor,
Louis Storke; for treasurer, Thos Butter
worth; for attorney general, l.. Harmon of
Peoria.