River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-26
| Wis. who shot himself few days ago,

Wis, who shot himself a few days ago, /
died on the nth inst.
A New YORK special of the 18th, says |
Bessie Turner has married, abandoned |
the stage and gone quietly to housekeep- |
ing.
A CALL for national starch manufac- |
turers convention was Issued on the goth, |
to meet at Cincinnati March Sd.
IT was stated on the Goth that Bishop
Feehan, of Nashville, had been appoint
ed Bishop of Chicago.
The Parnell Irish relief committee
of Omaha sent another installment OF
81 900 on the 20th This makes $4,000
contributed by Omaha.
THE Philadelphia election returns, on
the 18th, bowed that 10 republicans, 7
regular democrats, and ! independent
had been elected TO the common council.
In the Canadian house of commons,
to vote 100000 for therelief of the Irish
sufferers.
THE law abolishing slavery in Cuba
was promulgated in the 0ficidI Gazette at
Madrid, says a dispatch OF the Goth.
| ALL the Maine fusion senators but one,
who were really elected, have taken their
/ ktdlS, hHIiG SCNGu vi luC luoiOA
] of the house still hold out, and refuse to
occupy their seats to which they were
elected, says a dispatch of the 18th.
THE wife of Adam Murray, living
near New Glasgow, n. S., gave birth to
! five children, three boys and two girls,
all of whom were finely developed are
doing well, says dispatch of the 18th.
TIE governor of Maine sent commu:
nication to the legislature, on the l1th,
stating that the states expenses caused
by the double-headed legislature will
reach 100000.
THE banking house of j. Il. Hogue d
Co, at Peoria, H., closed business on
the Goth. They request all depositors to
present their claims, saying they VIII be
paid in full. This action was made nee
essary by the failure OF Thomas Neil,
who owed the bank a large amount oil
money.
.THE IQgqers in Wisconsin have had
me winter Tor business. Last inter the
cut on the Wisconsin river was sixty mil
lion. Up to the 10th inst, seventy five
million had been banked on the Wolf and
its tributaries Last winter the cut was
seventy five million, and this winter the
yield will be at least hundred million.
THE Chicago Journal of the 18th says:
During the year 1879 the losses by fire
in this country aggregated SIT ,703, 700, of
| which $44, Asa, 700 was covered by insur
ance. Defective construction of build
ings, carelessness of occupants and in
cendiarism were the principal causes of
fires.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th announce the
death of James Seenox, of New York, a
celebrated philanthropist and mil
lionaire, aged t0years, after an illness
of two months. The land covered by a
farm left to him by his father in 1880
situated on Fourth and Fifth avenues
near Scventy-Second street, then costing
5000, is now worth ten millions of dol
lars.
THE Illinois Press Association met
Feb. 1920 in Chicago. A large number
of editors were present. A resolution
was adopted in favor of repeating the
duty on print paper and upon the stock
which enters into its manufacture, and
a committee appointed to secure the CO.
operation of the press of the entire state
in working up plans to force this matter
upon the attention OF congress.
A ST. PAUL dispatch of the 18th inst
| says that the rumor of the amalgamation
OF the st. Paul e Sioux City, Chicago u
st. Paul, and Minneapolis & North Wis
consin railroads is confirmed on author
ity of one of the directors of the former
roads The consolidated road is to be
controlled by New York & Chicago cap
italists, chief of whom are David Davis
and Ii III. Porter. Messrs. Drake and
Wilder, president and directors of the
Sioux City will remain in the directory.
The president will be an eastern man !;
headquarters and shops will remain in
ST. Paul
THE following telegram was tele-
graphed from Los Pinos agency via
Lake City, Feb. IS: Promptly at the
expiration of the ten days, as promised,
Jack rode up to the agency with three of
the twelve prisoners demanded by the
government, viz, Chief Douglass, Tim
johnson, and Thomas. Jack is very re-
ticent, and declines to state how or in
what manner the capture was effected.
Sowawick returned several hours later,
but brought no prisoners. Jack assured
Gen. Adams that owing to the depth of
snow on the mountains and the
scattered location of the camps,
it would take ut least three
weeks to capture the remaining nine
prisoners. Chief Johnson, one of the
prisoners demanded by the commission,
sent his regrets at being unable to ac-
company the party to Washington, Civ
ing as his reason that he was medicine
man and had very sick patient whom
he could not leave. Jack insists that
the women were mistaken in the name
of several Indians who they testified
were present at the time of the outbreak.
Douglass is i'll at ease, extremely ner
vous, and says but little. Military prep
arations for the protection of the pris-
oners are complete. The Indians are
e Il IF
existing difficulties. All is quiet here.
Gen. Adams leaves tomorrow with his
prisoners for Washington, via. Fortress
Monroe. Pending negotiations at
Washington require his presence, and
will not admit any further delay.
THE st. Paul Pioneer Press published
The following dispatch from Chicago on
the Goth inst: The report that the st.
Paul & Sioux City, Chicago, St. Paul Il
Minneapolis, and North Wisconsin have
been consolidated has been fully con-
tirmed by private advices, received by
your correspondent from New York to-
day. A gentlemen, a leading railroad
man, who has just arrived from New
York, and who has been fully
cognizant of the negotiations dur
ing their progress, informs your cores
pondent that the agreement was signed
last Saturday. The terms of the consoli-
dation in detail are not fully disclosed
by him, but the general result is to give
Messrs. Porter, Dows, Flower, Sawyer,
and Cable of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Minneapolis and North Wisconsin
controlling interest in the stock of the
st. Paul and Sioux City. In
the new board of directors of
the consolidated company there will be
two of the present directors of the ST.
Paul & Sioux City. Messrs. E. F. Drake
and A. II. Wilder, and possibly a third,
Col. Merriam. There will also be sever
al eastern directors Of the old board in the
new. The president of the consolidated
company is to be a leading railroad off,
cial from the east WHO'S to take up his res
idence at st. Paul. His name was not
disclosed. Under the agreement, st.
Paul is to be the permanent headquarters
of the consolidated company, and it is
expressly stipulated that the st. Paul
81 Sioux City railroad repair and car
shops at ST. Paul are to be completed &C
cording to the original plan.
/ BUSINESS just now is unusually brisk at
New Orleans, and the city is said 10 be
! crowded with visitors almost beyond
precedent--a majority of whom are
merchants and traders. This, too, not
withstanding the severity of the wealth