River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-09
GENERAL NOTES.

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from Australia have reached San Fran
cisco.
A CORPS of engineers will at once start
out from Duluth 10 survey for an airline
road TO Chicago.
TIE immigration to the United States
for May was rs Sl2. exceeding anything
ever known at Castle Garden.
A MEETING of Chicago Jews will be held
TO devise means for the relief of their CO.
religionists in Russia.
A SEAM of coal thirty inches thick has
been discovered at Downs, Ill.,, only few
feet below the surface.
THE first crate of Georgia peaches has
gone forward to New York. A yield of
sixty thousand baskets is expected.
CASTLE GARDEN proves insufficient to
accommodate the crowds of immigrants
walking off the gang-plahks at its doors
The slaughter at London. Ont, has
brought rigid inspection of the ferry
boats and excursion steamers at Montreal.
THE Pioneer Mail company, Of st.
Louis, which has had postal contracts for
nearly half century, has been compelled
to suspend.
GALE SHERMAN, of Lima. O., travelled
thence to Boston on his bicycle, to par
ticipate in the meet. About $50 men and
machines are on hand.
Mrs CATHERINE COFFIN who died at
Avondale, o.. was widely known as an
active agent of the underground railway
in the days of slavery.
THE members of the Ute commission
have arrived at Los Pinos agency. The
reds who ride in to draw rations are
abundantly supplied with the best arms.
WILLIAM MALONE. Jr., was married at
Petersburg, Va, to Miss Mary A. Tanner.
Mrs. Senator Malone will sson go TO Eu-
rope, where she intends to remain for sew
eral years and educate her daughter
TORONTO has the strike fever. 1t has so
far, attacked the Brotherhood of Grand
Trunk Railroad) Engineers, who want %
per cent. more wages. The shoemakers
struck for 10 per cent. and the bosses have
yielded
JOHN w. WHITE, of st. Louis, has been
financially mired by operations in wheat
and stocks. Out of liabilities or $4,000,
Chicago and Toledo grain merchants are
to suffer somewhat.
The American Bible Society will, for the
present, adhere to the old version, or
many thousand copies on hand, out of
l,042, 600 manufactured last year.
THE court of claims has decided that the
Union Pacific read is subject to the limited
rates for postal-cars prescribed by the re-
vised statutes, and cannot be allowed extra
compensation.
In removing two bodies from contiguous
graves in the cemetery at Idaville, Ind, it
was found that nothing was left of one but
bones, while the other had turned to flint
and weighed three hundred pounds.
THE Boston nine beat the Clevelands,
s to 1, by which figures the Worcesters
vanquished the Detroit club. The Chica-
goes won a game with Troy, 4 to 3, and
Buffalo beat Providence, to ,.
RAILWAY ticket war is liable to break
out at Kansas CITY the agreement as to
rates having been broken bv the agent of
the Rock Island road, who sold two I'M
limited tickets to Buffalo for $25 each, and
refuses to redeem them
THE greenbackers of Iowa nominated
Hon. d. M. Clark. of Wayne county, for
governor, and Hon. James NJ. Holland. of
Henry county, for lieutenant governor.
Mrs. Mary r. Nash, of Des Moines, was
selected for superintendent of public in
strgction.
AT the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Northwestern railway, held in Chi
cago. the old officers were reelected, but
the Vanderbilt interest caused the substi-
tuition of Arson Stager and Frederick w.
Vanderbilt on the board of directors for
d. P. Morgan and Frank Work.
THE Illinois legislature has reached an
adjournment. In the senate chamber
George Terwilliger, the assistant secretary,
was presented with a handsome gold
watch bill to make decoration dav a
legal holiday passed without dissent. The
house put through the senate bill provid-
ing for immediate settlements between
county and town collectors.
ORRIN HlCKoK had arranged TO trot st.
Julien on the Detroit track against the
time of Maud S, In trial. the flyer went
TO the half-mile pole in Loo, and was com
ing home at a 2:10 gait when he stepped
la hole and nearly iell over on the track.
The injury will prevent his starting this
week.
THE New Y ork Legislature has passed a
bill providing that steamship companies
shall be taxed 81 for each steerage passen-
ger landed in New York. The object of
this tax is to provide for the expenses at
tGndant on the Inspection OF emlgrant-
carrying vessels. and other expenses.
The bill now awaits the Governors sigma
ture.
HANLAN, the Canadian oarsman, refuses
to row on any other waters than those OF
Toronto Bay. He says that il Ross con-
sents to row there he viii put up $1,000,
and will get another person who with
Ross shall put up s., 900, making purse
OF s.. 900 for the winner. This is in an
swer to the challenge of Mr.. Kennedy, of
Portland, Me-, who offers to put up 81 500
if HARLAN and third person unknown
will row in New England.