River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
GENERAL NOTES

6EN GhA1 NOIES.
DURING the month of May ,2S7 persons
died in Chicago.
THE shore end of the latest Atlantic
cable has been landed at Penzance
THE hull of the wrecked steamer Vic
toria was towed down to London, Ont,
for inspection by experts.
A HEAVY frost at WATERFOWL, n Y,
damaged the crops and gladdened the
heart Of Nennor.
THE first car-load of new wheat reached
St. Louis from Fort Worth. 1t Graded
No. 3 red winter, and brought $3.50 per
bushel at auction.
THERE are nine cases of smallpox at
Hull, Pike county, ILL.,, and DIR. Rauch
and others are taking precautions to pre-
vent the spread of the disease.
A FIvE-MrLE race for $1,000, in eighteen
foot lapstreak boats, has been arranged
between Hanlan and Ross, and will proba-
bly, take place near Toronto.
THE International Typographical Con
vention is in session in Toronto, Canada.
Delegates from all parts of the United
States and Cansdas ale present.
The Chicago board of trade contributed
s., 494 10 the Dakota sufferers which was
handed over to General Sheridan, who
promptly seht it to its destination.
THE duke of Athol, the head of the
most prominent family in Scotland, is in
specting the public institutions of Chicago
in the quietest possible manner.
LoRILLARD has purchased Aranza,
noted thoroughbred of Bonnie Scotland
stock. for $4,000. Her owners were
Nashville parties who bought her for $3.50.
rope, where she intends to remain for sew
eral years and educate her daughter
STATISTICS in preparation bv the census
bureau show that skilled labor in the
United States is better paid and more
steadily employed than in any country of
the world.
GENERAL WIcKHAM, of Virginia, APP
peals to the republicans of that state to
stand sguarely by their colors. A meeting
of the state central committee is called for
June 80. to decide the question OF calling
a convention.
The steamer Glenlogan, from New York
for Para, Pernambuco, and Bahia, took
fire at sea, and had to be abandoned. The
crew aud passengers were rescued and
landed at Fortaliza, Brazil.
The Texas Pacific has been completed
into Tom Green county, about three hun
bred miles east of Ell Paso, which point
will be reached by the end of the year, as
two miles of track are being laid each day.
AT the end of last week there were 124
cases of smallpox and sixty-three cases of
typhus-fever in the New York hospitals.
Fifty-three new cases of smallpox and
thirty-two of typhus-fever developed dur
ing the week
PROF. S. b. EVANS, of the scientific
party from Chicago in Mexico, in exca-
waiting among the ruins of Tezcoco, has
discovered the largest representation of the
human figure ever found among Mexican
antiquities.
New YORK blacksmiths and wheel
wrights are aboNt to strike for ten per
cent. higher wages and tifty-nine hours
work per week, a reasonable demand.
Some cigar makers waEt from so cents to
81 per 600 higher wages and have struck
therefor
THE republicans of the Second district
of South Carolina refrained from voting
at the special congressional election to fill
the vacant seat OF Mr.. O'Connor, claiming
that Mackey wrs really elected last fall.
In consequence, Samuel Dilable was
chosen without opposition.
A Boston paper tells the incredible
story about an absent minded man from
Salem, Mass, who left his infant son in the
Eastern Railroad depot in Boston, Mon
day evening, and did not miss him until
he reached home, and was asked what he
"had done with that precious darling"
Hetook the train back.
TIE president of Mexico has signed
contracts for two roads from the Rio
Grande to the capital, both schemes being
backed by American capital. One line is
to follow the gulf the other will be built
between the Central and National tracks.
WILLIAM MAY and other ranchmen of
the Uncompahgre valley, to the number
of one hundred, had battle with Utes,
driving them off with loss of two. and
then resolved to maintain their settle
ments. This may embarass the Ute COM
missioners, who are engaged in selecting
a new reservation. A general outbreak
Of the Indians is deemed liable at an early
pate.
A TURK who was imprisoned for life at
! Chios, for the crime of translatlng the
| Bible into Turkish. found himself sud
de.ly released by the earthquake, which
knocked over his prison walls without
| hurting him. He scampered away to the
bay boarded an English steamer, and is
now in London.
! The Grove diStiliery at Peoria, ILL.,,
| owned by A & S. Woolner, was totally
destroyed by fire An employe, Henry
! Bronneck, was killed by falling wall,
and another employee, Pat Keely, was
very seriously injured. The loss is esti-
mated at $l50,000. The insurance amounts
to $87, 200.
In the ballot for senators at Albany,
pairs reduced the total vote TO 112. For
the short term Conkling has so votes, Cor
nell IS, and Jacobs 80 For the long term
Plat received 26 votes. Depew %, and
Herman 81. Judge Robertson continues
to vote for William A. Wheeler. The
| deadlock is said to have actually strength
ened by five days of balloting.
THE Virginia Readjuster convention
nominated William E. Cameron, the pres
ent mayor of Petersburg. for governor;
ex- United States Senator John T. Lewis
for leutenant-g governor, Notwithstanding
the protests of Riddleburger; and Capt.
Frank S. Blair for attorney general. The
nomination of Mr.. Cameron was made
unanimous on motion of Mr.. Massey, his
most formible competitor. Mr.. Cameron
made a speech of acceptance in the even
| ing