River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-22
GENERAL NOTES

JEFFEEsoN DAVIS has declined an invi
tation to visit the cotton exposition at At
lanta.
Fl. II. RIDDLEBERGER received the
unanimous vote of the readiuster caucus
for senator from IrgInIa.
A COMMITTEE of % ex-union soldiers has
been designated to press the claims of Il.
w. Oyster to the pu bile Partnership.
ALEXANDER BoYDEN, the inventor of
malleable iron, who for years has been in
the almshouse at Fox boro, Mass, passed
away at the age OF 81.
CHUNG IsAo JU, the new Chinese min
lister 10 Washington, with his wife and Il
suite of fifteen persons, has arrived
at San Francisco.
THE chiefs of police of various cities
throughout the country are holding a con-
ference in Chicago to form permanent
national organization.
DR.. RAUCH, secretary of the Illinois
board of health, alarmed over the spread
of smallpox through immigrants, urges
the national board to carry out quarantine
regulations in Chicago.
THE steamship Anchoria brought to
New York an invoice of three hundred
tons of Scotch potatoes.
THE Northern Pacific road has finished
It's track OH Tie w lSCOHSlU ulNlHlOH INFO
Superior City two weeks in advance of the
contract, thus securing title to two miles
of river front property.
joan II. KNOX. nephew of the comp
trolIer of the currency. came TO Chicago
some months ago and opened a law Office,
but recently mysteriOusly disappeared.
1t is feared that some insane freak has
caused his departure.
TIE directors of the Mechanics bank OF
Newark, n. j., have raised 100000 h
which to reorgauize. Small depositols
will be paid in full, while rs per cent. will
be DISTURBED on large sums.
CHRIS gibson, the oldest scout in the
government service, reports to Gen. Pope
that there will 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.
SENATOR PLUME has introduced bill in
the senate to amend the bill providing
for the issuance Of gold certificates so as
to substitute the word directed" for "au-
thorized,' and so as to make it mandatory
on the secretary of the treasury to issue
certificates upon deposits of gold coin and
bullion.
THE grand jury in session at Council
Bluffs, Ia. are invest eating a case in
which the bogus gold brick game was at
tempted on an innocent citizen who was
supposed to have $1,000 to invest. The
confidence men wee raided while nego-
tiating, and two of the numbar, DOC"
Watson and On as. Stevens were arrested.
AMONG those II attendance at the Patri-
archs ball in New York, he other even
ing, were Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris and Sir
Saville Crossley, of England, General and
Mrs. Grant, and Senator and Mrs. Cam
eron.
6 NININGER & CO., the bankrupt mer-
chants Of Miles City, show up assets of
$4,000 and Liabilities sf nearly 100000.
1t is said hat some of the attorneys have
endeavored II brighten the head of the
firm into flight to st. Paul, where he
could be arrested for obtaining goods I'M
der false pretenses.
HENRY WILLARD is TO expend $1,000, 900
in the erection of a residence on Madison
avenue, near Fiftieth street, New York
Sidney Dillon is building n mansion
which will throw Vanderbilrs into the
shade. Bonanza Macksy is arranging to
outrival all by palace at Central park.
THE only witness in the Guiteau trial
the other day was DIR. f. c. Spitzka, of New
York, who thought the face of the accused
showed him to be a moral i'm beetle or
monstrosity. After a careful examina-
ton, Sunday, the doctor became convinced |
that the assassin is insane. Wormles, the !
colored juror, appeared with a bandage |
over his right eye. Early in the day some |
one cried out: ''Shoot Guiteau now ~ |
Warden Croker has been repeatedly adj |
yised that attempts will be made to blow /
no the Jail with dynamite.