River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-29
GENERAL NOTES.

HARRY WRIGHT has been engaged to
manage the Providence baseball club next
season, at liberal salary.
THE legislature OF Virginia elected H.
III. Riddleberger to the United States SEN
ate. He goes unpledged to either party.
A sHFRIFF in Dakota, having an execu-
tion in his memorandum book, went to
Chicago to obtain plans for scafold.
DR.. RAUCH, secretary of the Illinois
board of health, alarmed over the spread
of smallpox through immigrants, urges
the national board to carry ont quarantine
regulations in Chicago.
The steamship Anchoria brought to
New York an invoice of three hundred
tons of Scotch potatoes.
COLONEL George Hicks, of Illinois, has
obtained from the governor of Jamaica,
letters of naturalization as a British sub
iect.
ExPoslTo, the exiradited Italian bandit,
now on trial at Palermo. denies all the
charges against him except the seizure of
Rose, an English citizen.
1 AFTER the Vanderbilt wedding the other
day, the railway magnate gave the bride
his present residence on Fifth avenue,
and a cheek for $3.50 900.
HE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SOGlSileS OI DdIll-
more are taking steps to raise Maryland's
quota of the $250,000 pledged the Irish
land league by the Chicago convention.
THE Youngest daughter of William H.
Vanderbilt was married to the son of Gen.
James Watson Webb, at St. Bartholomew
church. n. York. Three rectors offieiat-
ed, and Bishop Potter delivered the beue-
diction.
THE citizens of ST. Adams, VT, met to
discuss the voluntary closings of the hotels
on account of the temperance crusade, and
resolved to put new vigor into the reform
movement.
DAVID t. WELLEs, representing the pur-
chasers of controlling interest in the
Sentinel, of Milwaukee, has commenced
suit against the present managers of the
PAPER to gain possession.
THE Virginia house of delegates almost
unanimously passed bill to relieve forty
citizens from disability incurred by duel
ing. Included in the list are the names
of H. II. Riddleberger, General Payne,
and three members of the Wise family.
THE health auts critics of Chicago re-
ported ten cases of smallpox in one day
and FIVE deaths The warden of the Jol-
let penitentiary has prohibited residents
of any of the chief cities of Illinois from
VISITING prisoners.
THE health board of Cincinnati report
ffty-six new cases of SMALLPOX for the
week. The disease has lately appeared
in the centred part of the city. The vac
einations at the health office average two
hundred per DAY.
CHRIS GIBSON, the oldest scout in the
government service, reports to Gen. Pope
that there viii be an uprising of the Utes,
Piutes, and Navaioes in New Mexico in
the spring. The reds on the Utah reser-
walton are being freely furnished with
arms by the Mormons.
PAYMAsTER King, of the navy, who
spent two years in Alaska, differs with
Professor Elliot in regard 10 the popula-
ton and resources of the purchase He
thinks there are more than a thousand
white inhabitants, and states that the set
Element called Harrisburg took out this
year $50, 900 in gold dust.
GENERAL IeNATIEFF has ordered an
active search for the second cutter from
the Jeanette. James Gordon Bennett
sent a cablegram from Paris to Secretary
Frelinghuysen stating that he had trans
ferred six thousand rubIes to General |
Ignatietf to aid Captain De long and his |
party. The distance by wagon from 81. |
to the point where the ship |
wrecked crew are stopping is four thous- |
and miles.