River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-17
GEN ERAL NOTES

The revised New Testament will be pub
lished in May.
6 THE vote for senator in the Wisconsin
legislature stood: Cameron, 81; Villas, q.
THOMAS CARLYLE bequeathed his Dunn
lriesshire estate to the university of Edin-
burg.
THE Canada Pacific syndicate has com
menced TO run its supplies for the season
across the Red river at Winnipeg.
GOVERNOR PORTER has Issued procla
nation calling an extra session of the In
diana legislature.
An order has been given for the with
drawal of the British troops from Canda-
har.
THE Tennessee house rejected a bill pre-
scented by colored member, containing
all the features of the civil-rights act.
In the kalloch murder trial, at San
Francisco, the mother of the defendant
testified that he was not himself since the
shooting of his father.
IT is rumored that Judge J. c. Bancroft
Davis has accepted the position of assist
ant secretary of state.
FROM an oak tree felled in Livingston
county. Illinois, there fell out bunch of
white lead can with $il5 in coin.
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM p. FRYE is the
unanimous choice of the Maine republic
can legislative caucus for successor to
Secretary Blaine in the senate.
President HAYES last requst was that
w. X. Rogers, his private secretary,
should have Judge HAnt's seat on the
bench of the court of claims.
AN appalling loss of life followed the
earthquake on the island of lschia. more
than one hundred bodies having beex
found at one village.
THE remains of Albert Strybos, of Pitts
burg, were cremated in the lie Moyne
furnace at Washington, Penn, on the 18th
inst. A large audience witnessed the
affair.
Chicago city election will take place
April 9TH The republicans will nominate
their candidate two weeks from to-day.
The question of republican cadidate for
mayor is still in doubt
EDWARD MCPHERSON, of Pennsylvania,
will be first assistant postmaster general,
and Clinton Wheeler of New Y ork, second
assistant. Thomas NJ. Nichol will be In
dian commissioner.
1T is officially announced that Whitelaw
Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, will
be married in March to Miss Fannie Mills.
daughter of O o. Mills, of the Bank of
California.
CHARLES IBACH, of indianapolis, is I'M
dergolng terrible suffering from trichinia-
sis. Being employed in packing house,
he was in the habit of lunching on bits of
pork but partially cooked.
FEDERAL detectives have tracked band
of counterfeiters from Pennsylvania to
Texas, and assert that these notorious
dealers are operating in the vicinity OF
Dallas, having $4,000 of spurious notes
in their possession.
THE Canadians are becoming alarmed
at the continued emigration from their
country to this country. During the month
of February eighty-four families, rep
resenting 400 persons, left Montreal for
the United States.
ANOTHER Mexican railway scheme has
been granted to a company with S30,000,-
600 of stock Among the incorporators
are Mavor Prince, Ben Butler. U. 5.
Grant, Jr., and two Mexicans. The main
line to run from Piedras Negras, on the
Rio Grande. to the Bay If Topalo Bumpo,
on the Gulf of California.
THE Franklin Life Insurance Company,
of indianapolis, has been sued by Olive F.
Woods for 81, 900 on the life OF her father,
who committed suicide forty eight honrs
after taking ont the policy. The compa-
nv will contest the claim on the ground
that deceased was insare when he made
the contract.