River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-06
GENERAL NOTES.

THE authorities of Caldwell, Kan,
have given Payne's raiders provisions and
forage for thirty DAYS.
JOHN HITTsoN, cattle king Of Colorado,
was killed by a runaway team, near Deer
Trail, Dec IS.
SUPERINTENDENT WALKER has nearly
ready for publication a complete state
ment of the census.
The railroad commissioners of Massa-
chusetts have refused to permit the cree
tion of elevated roads in Boston.
THOMAS j. HEIsKELL, Of indianapolis,
has been appointed deputy secretary OF
state under the new administration.
THE Brooklyn tabernacle is in financial
straits, and the pastor, the Rev. De Witt
Ialmage, threatens a strike for cash.
INre5ponse to letter concerning the
Maine senatorship, Gen. J. l.. Chamber
lam has written a reply which indicates
that he will not refuse the contest.
AN investigation of the congressional
greenhouse develops the fact that $l4, 500
of government funds was paid last year,
for labor and incidentals.
STREET-cAR drivers in Cincinnati, in
large numbers, have given their situa-
tions, owing to the severity of the wealth
err Their pay is ten cents per hour.
IT is announced that the control of the
navy department will be retained in the
hands of Secretary Ramsey until March
t, the appointment being renewed every
twenty days.
HUGH MEHARRY, who died at Bement,
ILL.,, in his S4th year, had given $50 900 to
Christian charities. He was one of the
founders of the Nashville medical college
for freedmen.
A TRAMP at Patterson, n. j., went to
sleep on pile of cinders fresh from Z
rolling mill and was sufiocated by gas
eous exhalations. The wind 1reshened in
the night and famed the embers to a
glow, and his body was burned to a crisp.
HoUTzDALE, in Clearfeld county, Penn
sylvania, has been visited by serious floods
recently, a terrible fire swept the region a
riot resulting in the death Of some miners
occurred there few months ago, and now
the scarlet-fever is playing havoc with the
young people of the place.
AT a meeting of the Brooklyn board OF
aldermen, on Dec. q, a resolution was Of
fered providing license fee of s. for each
Chinese laundry in the city. An amend
ment offered that licenses be granted only
10 citizens was adopted.
WILLIAM ]. SEwELl, an officer of the
Philadelphia railroad company, who APP
parently had the New Jersey senatorship
within his grasp. iAnow confronted with
the candidacy Of Ge3fgc NJ. Robson. The
fight is destined to be a bitter one.
ANOTHER blizzard struck the Oklahoma
camp at Caldwell on the 24th, but the set
Al ho oil
They have adopted a resolution to remain
there until an opportunity shall arrive to
cross the border, and they propose to stick
ii out.
THE creditors of n. b. Harwood the
Minneapolis bankrupt. have refused his
offer of 50 cents on the dollar, and have
expressed their determination to drive
him out of the business world for the
moral effect on mercantile life.
HAMILTON and Griffith, two iron work
ers of Pittsburg, claim to have discovered
a process by which they can manufacture
fine grade iron, now costing about 500 per
ton, at a cost OF $50 Their process will
I've given a trial in Pittsburg mill.
SPOTTED TAIL is getting himself dis
liked He recently made bargain with
the Chicago, Milwaukee q St. Paul Rail
road granting that corporation the right
of way across the Sioux reservation, and
the other chiefs claim that he had no
authority to negotiate in the affair.
THERE being provision in the consti-
tuition of Missouri that no person who has
been defaulter can hold office, the repub-
licans of that state viii endeavor to ar
raign as ineligible NJ. X. McCirath, elect
ed secretary of state, and force the inaug
uration of ] G., Br0adwell the republican
candidate.
TIE grand jury at Salt Lake, composed
of nine Mormons and six gentiles, not
withstanding pointed charge in regard
TO palygamous marriages, has returned no
indictments. The disciples of Brigham
Young hold the balance of power in Idaho,
Wyoming, and Arizona, and are gaining a
firm foothold in Montana.
AN ordinance has been introduced IN
the Chicago council TO permit the South
Side street-car company TO put in opera
ton on It's lines the San Francisco plan OF
propelling cars by means of steam and an
endless cable. 1t is thought that the
change in motive power will cost about
| 80 600 900.
DURING the month of October this year
So. $40 500 worth o. petroleum was ex-
ported from this country, against S4,021,-
ia worth in October, 1879 For the ten
months ending Oct. of this year, the
value of the petroleum exported was US,
S20, 945, az against S30,0S7 ,089 worth ex-
ported during the corresponding period OF
1879
TIE Ponca statesmen had another long
interview with Secretary Schurz, Dec. -,
in which they expressed their desire tor
school-houses and teachers, and were told
that the Indian severalty bill would give
each farm with an lnquestioned title.
The ten chiefs have signed request that
congress grant them $l4S,000 in cOmpen-
sation for their removal from Nebraska,
and for depredations by the Sioux.
THERE were filed in the state department
Madison, Wis, Dec. IS, articles OF asso-
citation OF the Kimberly x Clark company
of Neevah, Wis. capital stock, S40O,000
The company proposes to do general
manufacturing business. The corporation
includes John A. Kimberly, Charles b.
Clark, Frank c. Shattuck and Hovelah
| Babcock
THE funeral services over the seven
bodies Of the victims at the late Biree fac
tory fire, at Buffalo, \. \, was held at st.
Joseph's Catholic cathedral. Twenty
eight boys from the factory acted as pail
bearers. The burial was at Limestone
Hill, and the bodies inferred IN one com
mon grave, lot for the purpose having
been donated by he St. Joseph cathedral,
SoUrH CARoLIsA papers contain reports
of the very stringent duellng law which
has Just been enacted by the legislature
OF that state. This Law was passed, prac-
tically, without opposition, although II =
said that two years ago it would have been
impossible to enact it. The Cash-Shan-
non duel has had a marked effect IN the
state To send or to accept challenge
shall cause the person sending TO he dis
franchised, TO be disqualified forever from
holding Office, and to Re punished with
imprisonment in the penitentlary for a
maximum period oil two years 10 xii a
person in a duel is definad TO be wIllful
murder. Legislators are required TO give
public pledges tha. they Will Giseohnte-
nance dueling.
A young lady in New York, Miss
Olivia P. Stokes, has earned the title OF
the Thirsty Horses Friend. Because
she cloves to see the horses drink, she
has had erected in Madison square, in
sight of her house, a stone fountain
and drinking trough, at an expense OF
81, 60.
New bonbon boxes resemble rolls Of
rich sash ribbons