River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
GENERAL NOTES.

JUSTICE CLIFFORD. of the United States
supreme court. has suffered the amputa-
ton of his foot for gangrene.
HENRY WILLARD and party have return
ed TO st. Paul from a trip to the end of the
Northern Pacific track.
CINCINNATI reports a temperature of
over 103 degrees, the highest for nine
years. Thirteen deaths from sunstroke
are chronicled.
THE winning four OF the Minnesota
BOAT club have resolved to enter for the
national regatta at Washington in Sep
TENDER, and will practice on White Bear
lake.
The directors of the De Lesseps ca IA
company have practically completed the
purcba se of the Panama railway for $17.
500 900. and the canal is to follow closely
the line of the track.
The Manitoba and the Northern Pacific
railway managers have appealed to the
courts for possession of the Pelican Val
ley in Minnesota.
THE mercury in St. Louis rose above
100 degrees. Nine policemen were forced
to give up their beats, and the morgue
was crowded with corpses of those pros
trated by the heat.
The bridge of the Santa Fe road across
the Rio Grande at Ell Paso was completed
on Saturday. One hundre,i miles of the
line has been located between Ell Paso and
chihuahua.
THE papaI bulls for the conservation of
DR.. McMullen. of Chicago, as Bishop of
Davenport, have arrived. The imposing
ceremony will take place in the Holy Name
cathedral on Monday. July %.
Mr.. VANDERBILT has telegraphed Cap
tain Stone to give Maud S. another trot
against time at the Pittsburgh track on
Saturday. The ladies of the Smoky City
gave the victor a mamouth bouquet and
two wreaths of flowers.
THE health authorities at Milwaukee
have discovered in Polish family. on
Railroad street, two cases of smallpox of
the most malignant character, and have
vigorously quarantinei the house.
POSTMASTER PEARSON. of New York has
made arrangements to receive the foreign
mails at quarantine, whence they will be
hurried to the postoffice by tugs and wa
CONS, thereby, frequently gaining ira n
on matter destined for the west,
1t il almost certain that receiver will
be appointed for the Manhattan Elevated
Railway of New York, and there is some
possibility that the Metropolitan will have
like fate, in view of its war with the
New York company.
DIR. GREMER, health officer at Erie, Pa,
seht by messenger to a Rochester opti-
clan a can of deviied ham swarming with
trichina, to be tested by the microscope
1t develnpes that the man intrusted with
the meat could not stand the temptation,
and devoured it. He has experienced no
i'll effect
The will of John Burnside, famous as
the richest man in Louisiana, was found
in New Orleans, bearing date Of 1857, and
search is being made for later document.
Alter some liberal requests to relatives,
and IS 600 each 10 several charitable in
stitutions, the bulk was willed to Oliver
Brine, of Virginia.
MEXICAN papers announce that General
Tiburcio Montiel, with four hundred
armed men, is en9eavoring to bring about
revolution in the state of Ithako. The
General claims that twenty Of his men
are engineers, and that he is going into
the interior to settle some land difficult
ties.
PASSENGER rates from the seaboard to
the western cities are wholly demoralized.
The war was commenced by the Boston
and Albany road, which made reduction
of s., and was sustained by similar rates
on Tue ERE, We" IoIh CeHtIdi' anu Ddl-
timore and Ohio until the fare from New
York to Chicago is now $16 by the Amer
lean lines and $14 by the Canadian.
TWELVE THOUSAND persons waited at
the Pittsburgh track until O'Clock in the
evening to see Maud S. trot against time,
and were rewarded by Witnessing a dimin-
ution of her record to 2:l05, the greatest
achievement of the turf She was driven
by Robert Blair, who walked away beside
her with uncovered head, amid the wild
est cheers. A purse of $1,000 was handed
over to her manager.