River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-11
GENERAL NOTES.

L. H. ROGERS, United States consul at
Vera Cruz, is dead.
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON, of New York,
is pestered by applicants for appoint
ments. :.
BISHOP L. o. HAVEN, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, is lying at the point Of
death at Portland, Ore.
THE wife of Gen. Alexander Med. Nc
Cook died at a hotel in Salt Lake from
grief at the death of her mother.
A NEW granite monument, costing s., 900
has been placed over the grave of Will
liam NJ Tweed, in Greenwood cemetery,
New York.
Mrs. f. g. HARTsHoRNE has rendered
the free use of her Newport villa for Sep
TENDER and October to the president and
Mrs Garfield.
REV. w. J. RUTLEDGE, Of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, who was chaplain of the 18th Illinois
infantry during the late war, has been az
pointed chaplain of the Joliet peniten-
tiary.
ONE HUNDRED counties in the region
adjacent to Kansas City report a largely
increased acreage in corn, but figure out a
smaller supply Of hogs than last year.
AN extensive bed of bituminous coal
has been discovered at a point twelve
miles southwest of Marshall, Tex. The
deposit lies but eight feet below the sur
face.
ROBERT FRYER, of New York, has made
a model for an ocean steamer which will
be marine velocipede on three wheels,
with which he expects to gain two days in
crossing the Atlantic.
IT will require 81 800 to help the Provi-
dence baseball club through The season.
This statement was made at meeting of
the stockholders, and the ensuing debate
prompted four designations from the
board, bu. they were finally withdrawn.
THE city engineer of Montreal has
| found a woman who Tor sixteen months
| has been engineer in boot-heel factory,
has perfect knowledge of her business,
| and never had an accident.
| AT the general election in Utah, the
| lack of interest was shown by the fact
| that the county in which Salt Lake is sit
uated, which includes three mining
camps, cast only 1877 votes, of which the
Cientiles had III.
THE reported arrest OF Patrick Grove,
! of Peoria. on the order OF Attorney Gen
eral Mac eagh, for constructing internal
machines to be shipped to Europe, is now
| admitted TO be hoax. Grove is serving
the city as lamp-lighter.
NATHAN CLIFFORD, one Of the justices
| of the United States supreme court, died
| at Cornish, Me-, aged 70. He had twice
| been member of congress, was attorney
general in the cabinet of President Polk,
and subsequently minister to Mexico.
| OTTo MEARs is en- route to the new Ute
reservation in Utah, and will be joined at
| Salt Lake by Commissioner Russell. The
| Utes will next month be escorted to their
| new home by six hundred soldiers. Major
Berry will continue as agent.
| THE postal authorities of Canada and
| the United States have resolved to have
| all mail pouches sorted over at some point
| in the Dominion and returned to their
| proper place, after which international
| pouches are to be used.
| JosEPH MCKAY, the late millionaire
| dry goods merchant of Montreal, be-
| queathed large amounts to religious and
| charitable institutions. among them being
| $45. 600 to the Presbvterians. The family
is TO receive $4,000. and two faithful
servants a pittance of 800 each.
| THE executive committee of the nation
| al soldiers reunion is in session at Gin
cinnati, arranging details for September.
| Private Dalzell sent in letter asking
that special invitation be extended to
Boston Corbett, the slayer of Wilkes
Booth, and transportation be furnished
him, as he is living in poverty in Phila-
delphia.
ANTHONY C. HEsING has fled in the SUI
perior court of Chicago, bill in chancery
attacking the validity of the ordinance to
vacate La Sale street The document il
directed against W. L. Scott and the Off
GERS of the board of trade and of the city,
and boldly declares that Scott bribed ten
aldermen with $25, 900 to vote for the ordi-
nance. The court is asked to declare the
ordinance null and void, and to enjoin the
erection of building on the vacated
thoroughfare.
AsYNDICATE OF American, French, and
| German bankers has resolved TO construct
a canal from Baltimore to the Atlantic,
across the peninsula of Maryland and
Delaware. at an estimated cost of $S,000,-
| 900. The Sassafras route is the one Sc
lected, and the cut will be 120 feet wide
26 feet deep. and require eighteen months
to complete. Baltimore commerce will
thus gain 225 miles of sailing.