River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-21
GEN .ERAL NOTES.

GEN ERAL NOTES.
r. H. BAKER, OF Racine, Wis, is to be
rendered government dictatorship in the
Union Pacific railway.
Miss A. L. ANDERSON, of indianapolis,
has become insane from the effects of red
precipitate applied forty years ago by her
mother 10 destroy insects in the hair.
Miss HATTIE DGUELL, the starving sui
eide, at Iowa City, Iowa finished her work
at noon on the 18th inst, after forty
DAYS of fasting.
THE barn men of the Chicago West Di-
vision railway sent in a formal request for
an advance of 20 per cent. in wages, and
it was speedily granted.
THE dread malady, known as the
cerebro-spinal meningitis, is reported TO
be alarmingly prevalent of late in some
parts OF Northern Illinois, often terminal
ing in sudden death.
RAINIER, negro who was lieutenant
governor of South Carolina, and represent
ed that state in congress, is working dill
gently on the streets of Charleston as a
laborer.
JoHN T. RAYMOND, the comedian, was
married in Philadelphia to Miss Courtney
Barnes, daughter of Rose Eytinge. The
Bey Robert Collyer, formerly of Chicago,
performed the ceremony.
THE iron and steel industries of the
United States are ,005 in mum Der, with a
capital of $3.50, 971 1854. Pennsylvania
leads off with nearly half the product of
the country. Ohio taking second rank.
PRoF. RIcHARD A. PRoCroR has sued the
Wabash road for $4,000 for injuries re-
ceiyed in the wreck at Swanwick, Mo.
The six actions already commenced on
this account cover claims of 100000.
3THE remains of the late Senator Matt
III. Carpenter were buried at Forest
Home cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. The
attending ceremonies were the most i'm
pressive ever witnessed in Wisconsin.
SITTING BULL beats DIR. Trnner all hol-
low as a food-ahstainer. For the last FIVE
wears he has been reported to be in starry
ing condition and ready TO surrender to
ably healthy for man who has been fast
ing so long.
A LADY and her grandchild, the latter
suffering from smallpox, travelled from
New York to Boston by rail, but We're
hustled off to the pest-house in the latter
city by depot policeman.
Hills estimate the loss by storms at 20 per
cent. In the Yellowstone valley the only
loss of any account was that of the Anglo
American Company who miss 80 per cent.
of their herd of 900 unacclimatized Tex
an steers.
JAMES BURNS, of Erie, Pa, has for
eighteen years been paralytic cripple,
his right arm remaining behind his head.
The other day he appeared on the streets
free from deformity, and declared that he
was cured by the prayers of Father Ma
lony.
THE funeral of Miss Deuel., who starved
herself to death at Iowa City, was a pri-
vate affair, and was attended by about
twenty personal friends. The face of the
dead was wholly devoid of repulsive fea-
lures. Her sisters have been greatly I'M
neryed by the disgusting occurrence, and
Mrs. Aylsworth will doubtless be prostra-
ted for some time.
A terrible tale of suffering for food was
brought to New York by the steamship
Nebo. She encountered the bark Tiger
with a crew of eleven men, who existed
for week on strips of leather soaked in
lamp-oil, then devoured the captains dog,
and for eight days had gone hungry and
meditated eating each other. Over the
ample stores given them they fought like
a pack of wolves.
THE trial Of the czar's assassins, at St.
Petersburgh, concluded Saturday, and the
court retired to consider the verdict. AT
6:20 Sunday morning they returned with
verdict of guilty against the prisoners,
and sentenced to death by hanging was
pronounced On account of the noble
birth of Sophie Piloffsky, her sentence will
be submitted to the car for confirmation.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN took out from
Chicago to the magic city which bears his
name two carloads of influential citizens.
to witness the starting of the Corliss en-
CINE. of twenty-five hundred horsepower,
which came from the centennial exposi-
ton and is now doing service in his mann
moth car works. Visitors to the centen-
NAL will remember this huge piece of ma
chinery that furnished the motive power
| in the machinery department.
THE Missouri river has risen over twen-
! ty-one feet above low-water mark at
| Omaha and Council Bluffs, overlooking
| the banks on both sides and doing incalcu-
liable damage Railroad communication
between the Union Pacific railroad and
the connecting lines from the east is virtu-
ally broken-"and the end is not yet"
EDWARD O'DoNNELI, now in New York,
in letter to O'Donovan Rosa, gives full
details of an attempt made by Mooney
and himselfto blow up the mansion-house
| in London. On the arrival Of the Austria
liza at New York detectives found a man
named Coleman, but he proved not to be
the person wanted for participation in
the daring plot. 1t IS positively asserted
| that the genuine Coleman came over on
the Australia and was taken byaway
| friends.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLISS and Detective
Perkins, of St. Louis, are in Pittsburgh
consulting with the federal authorities IL
regard to the Missouri land frauds. 1t is
conceded that the prosecutions in these
cases in the United States courts will fail
because of an act of congress legalizine
the issuance of land patents without evil
dence of land cultivation. No less thar
twenty-three citizens of Pittsburgh are
implicated in the issue of fraudulent
deeds, who will be arrested as soon as the
evidence can be secured to convict them