River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-08

and another through the wrist. Several
students were arrt sted.
DURING Grants reception at Houston,
on the night of the Both ult, the gas was
turned off from the streets, and lamps
and candles had to be used Sunday
night, the guns of the artillery, to be
used to fire salute on Grants arrival,
were spiked, but the spikes were remov-
ed in time for use. $1,000 reward is of
fered for the miscreant who spiked the
guns.
WHEN the court convened at Harris
burg, Pa, on the goth ult, to sentence the
legislative bribers, Kemble, Salter, Pc
troff, Crawford and Rumberger failed TO
put in appearance and their bail was for
feited Writs were issued at once for
their arrest T. will detain them
wherever found ain the United States,
provided the i sees fit to so ordain it.
The Court H was densely crowded.
ANDREW L. Brown and SAM
uel Boiler, all oes, were hanged at
Macon, Mis- pril End. Macon and
Brown were lurderers of Carlton Ma
con, father o. Macon, and father-in.law
of Brown. Boiler killed Frank Reed, a
white man, in 1876 Brown and Macon
COIlCboCN, 1901 WHISKY 90 WI S0A9N.
Boiler claimed he was justified. About
| 5000 were present All asserted on the
| galows their assurance of heaven.
| SAYS a Santa Fc dispatch of the end
| inst: A few days since a small raiding
party Of Apaches, captured and killed a
soldier of the 9th cavalry who was car
rying dispatches from Fl. Craig to Capt.
! Hooker's battalion on the San Mateo
mountains. They were attacked at San
| Jose, a small village about seventeen
miles from the Rio Grande, but two sol
| diers of the ninth cavalry and several
Mexicans went out and fought them
| driving them of, one soldier and one
Mexican being killed in the fight.
THE particulars of a horrible murder
in the Allegheny, city, Pa, alms-house,
were unearthed on the Both ult., during
the coroners' inquest over the body of
an inmate named Goehering. 1t ap.
pears that Goehering was insane and
during a temporary fit he rebelled
against the management. One of the
overseers named Crawford called in the
assistance of a weak-minded inmate
| named Covehoff and between these two
men they managed to beat Goehering to
death. The murderers were arrested.
| ONE of the thousand and one schemes
of smugglers was detected by custom
house officials on the arrival of the steam
ship Rotterdam, says New York spe.
ciai of the 3lst ult Among the 1876 pas
sengers were German woman and her
husband. She appeared to be quite i'll,
and the ships doctor informed the ply
stefan at Castle Garden that she momen-
tariiy expected to become mother. Be
| tween the two, and escorted by police
man, the woman was being escorted to
the hospital. On the way the party
passed custom house inspector, and he
ordered the woman sent 10 the search
room The doctors were indignant at
his heartessness, and vigorously protest
ed, but he was intiexlble. The woman
was turned over to Mrs. Ferris, and in a
short time the cause of her trouble was
made apparent. 1t was forty
! yards of fine broadcloth, which had been
skilfully wrapped around her person.
| The woman had recovered from her i'll
ness, and was very indignant when as hin
! 'onfronted by the inspector. He was
20 undismayed and thinks he has got
q good thing on the doctors.