River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05

tract office in the treasury department,
has been asked TO resign, and will be sue
ceeded by Henry D. Lyman, of Ohio.
ONE hundred compositors employed on
the English dailies of Milwaukee are out
on strike for an advance of FIVE cents
per thousand ems.
THE strike Of the st. Louis street rail-
way employees has degenerated into riot
Gus mob, which now bids fair to utterly
fail in its object.
ABOUT 100 Milwaukee printers are on
strike for higher wages. and the Milwau-
kee newspaper owners find it difficult to
get out their journals in good shape and
on time.
OVER two thousand dogs were on exhi-
bition by the Westminster Kennel club at
New York, April 28. Samuel J. Tilden
took the first prize for smooth st Rer-
nards.
AT the close of the spring meeting at
New Orleans. George Hakes, the owner of
Moscow. was suspended from all tracks in
the United States for disrespeetful Ian
guage.
Mr.. JNo. K. BoIEs, of Hudson, Mich,
and William McMichael, of Philadelphia,
have been appointed by the President
members of the Board of Indian Com
missioners.
THE Texas and Pacific road, having
been baked in its efforts to amalgamate,
the Iron Mountain, has. opened negotia-
tlons for the purchase of controlling in
terest,
JAY GOULD sent his check for 81, 400, 900
the other day TO Col Tom Scott in let
ter Ii this sum had been paid in lawful
silver coin it would have 1uired six full
loaded freight-csrs TO transport it.
WHITELAw REID, of the New York Tri-
bttiae, will no more be known as frolic-
some bachelor. He was married to Miss
Elizabeth Mills, at the residence of her
father, Mr.. ID, O. Mills, in New York
WIN. j. FLORENCE. the comedian, has
telegraphed a friend in New York from
London that John Mccullough made an
electric" hit as Virginius at the Drury
Lane Theatre Monday night.
GLOWING accounts come from the wheat
fields of southern Kansas and western
Missouri, The rains have been very gen
eral, the season is two weeks earlier than
usual, and the plants stand seven inches
high.
GoULp's plan in regard to the south
western roads is said to be the formation
of the Southwestern company. TO lease
and operate the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas and the International and Great
North as one line. and the Texas and
Pacific and the Iron Mountain as another.
A SPECIAL train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr,
New Mexico, ana rolled down an embank-
ment of one hundred and fifty feet. Seven
men and one woman were killed. and all
the other passengers injured. The wound
ed we're taken to Denver.
THE state census of Mississippi, which
was taken simultaneously with the Federal
census, shows nearly the same population.
The total number of voters in the state is
| 0,720, divided as follows: whites.
110,113; colored, 130.607..
THE New York Herald says that the an
| nual crusade on the part of hotel proprie-
| tors at the summer resorts against the
Jews has begun for the season. In the
announcement of the opening of the hotel
at Bath, Long Island the clause is insert
| ed-"No Hebrews need apply" Such
bigotry ought to condemn the hotel in
popular estimation.
THE Hungarian sleeper in the poor
house at Allentown, Pa, who has had but
two waking spells in seventy Gays. arose
from his bed, bolted the door of his room,
| and sprang out of the window. In falling
twenty-five feet he broke two of his ribs
and injured his spine so badly that he can
hardly recover.
THE hippopotamus which was TO have
| been placed upon exhibition in the Phila-
delphia Geological Gardens, died last
week of pulmonary disorders caused by
the unfavorable climate 1t is said that
there il now only one living hippotamus
in this country, and none for sale in the
markets of the old world Nevertheless
the Philadelphia society will immediate
ly take steps to secure another specimen.
TUE annual report of the Chicago, Mil
waukee andS st. Paul railroad has been Is
sued. Total income for $780, 81, 086, 49,
61 gross expenses, 7,742, 1858. Net
earnings, s., 343 692 SO: increased earn
ings over 1879 1908, 29S so; increased
expenses over 1879. 81. 26S, 63072; net in
creased earnings, $780,. 66S.ll; total value
of property, S97, $50, IA; balance of in
come account Dec. 81, 1880, 4,343, 2S3. is,
amount of common stock, 81 bod, POI;
amount of preferred stock, $l.204, 4S3;
mortgage bonds, including 100000 of
pre-existing mortgage debt on purchased
roads, $40, 172000