River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-27

Hanlon and Courtney, took place as adj
vertised, Hanlon being declared the win.
ner. Courtney left the course before
finishing
THE national. board of health has de-
cided that immigrants must be properly
vaccinated upon landing in this country.
1t will take fearful amount of virus TO
effect that proposition in this year of ex-
ceptionally large immigration.
PERMISSION has been obtained TO run
the Dakota extension of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St Paul railroad through
the Sisseton and Wapeton reservations
in Dakota.
THE whites are fleeing from the San
Pedro region, New Mexico, on account
of the incursions of the Indians. Nine
prospectors are known TO have been kill
ed, and it is supposed that five others
| have been hilled.
| Iowa teetotalers will meet at Clear
| Lake, Iowa, from July 30 TO August 1, to
| consider the question of so amending
the constitution as to prohibit the max
Ing and selling of alcohol.
| A NEW YORK, dispatch of May nth,
says the number of Immigrants who ar
rived to day. / ,432 total number this far
in May, 1,346. The largest number that
ever arrived during the entire month OF
May, except in 1852 when SO 1916 landed.
A BLAZING steamboat was turned
loose the other day, in the river at Troy,
N. y, and dritted down stream for some
distance, setting fire to property on both
sides. The fire engines followed, extin-
| gushing the flames without unhitching
the horses, and, after a very exciting con-
| a a
ton was checked
A DEADwooD special says party of
| twenty men started out to recover
| stock stolen from John De Mack, who
was murdered in the Zankaria noun
tains, and 10 avenge his death, they
came up to the Indians, II in number,
on Little Powder river on Thursday last,
and killed four of them and captured II
horses. Jas. Rhodes, one of the party,
was killed by the Indians.
LIGHTED candles appeared on the al
tar of the Episcopal church, at Spring.
field. Ill, Sunday morning last. The
rector, Rev. Mr.. Larrabee, referred to
the fact al some length IN his sermon, de-
| Tending the use of eucharistic lights
| denying that it was step toward Rome,
and asserting that the custom was as old
as the church, and that it was entirely
proper 20 revive it
The annual conference of the German
Baptists, known as "Tunkers," will
meet in Lanark, June /, and continue
several DAYS. Representatives will be
present from all the middle states. A
tent, with seating capacity of 1000 will
| be erected, in which the people will be
fed. In addition to this lunchroom
! 100 feet long will be erected. The coun.
Gil will be held in large tabernacle
The estimated attendance is 1900. The
preparations for this great conference,
and the extension of the Chicago, Mil.
wBukee, & st. Paul road from Byron
here, causes the people to feel happy.
On the 18th inst, in the Investigation
of the Whitaker case, evidence exceed
ingly damaging to the colored cadet was
forthcoming. The experts all agreed
that the note of warning was in the
handwriting of Whitaker. 1t was
| further proved that it was written on
part of sheet of paper on which Whit
taker commenced letter to his mother
On the stand Whitaker admitted writ
! ing romances solely for amusement, and
it was shown that his accounts to Lieut.
| Flipper and to his mother of the trea.
mcat he had received were not in har