River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-01
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON. :

SENATOR Logan has returned, looking in
perfect health.
TIE Hon. Simon Wolf, United States
Minister to Egypt, who is here on leave,
was banqueted tonight by the members
| of the Elijah Lodge, l. o b. b.
| 1T is reported that Assistant States At
| torney General McCammon, of the Inte-
rior Department, will give up that posi-
ton and accept that of commissioner of
railroads.
SENATOR WINDoM's committee to in
vestiQate the existence of whisky ri ng
to affect legislation has appointed clerk
and stenographer, and issued subpenaes
for Messrs. Anterior of Louisville, and
Shufeldt of Chicago.
THE secretary of war has been advised
| that troops sent out from Fort Reno cap
tured Payne and twenty-nine colonists in
indian Territory and escorted them back
to Kansas.
| HALLETT KILBoURNE's amended plead
ngs in the case against ex-Se rgeant-at,
arms Thompson, for false imprisonment
have been filed, in which he claims $35 o.
600 damages. Thompson has employed
Judge McSweeney. of Wooster, Ohio, and
Samuel S. Shellabarger as additional
counsel.
| THE house committee on judiciary
adopted the report of the subcommittee
declaring that the lands granted the
Northern Pacific railway were MONITOR
| feitable. The minority of four will pre-.
sent dissenting report. Chairman Reed
was authorized to submit the majority re.
port to the house.
The negotiations between this govern.
ment and the republic of Mexico have
| been transferred to the capital of the lat.
| ter country. The Mexicans are willing
that our troops should cross the frontier
under certain conditions, the same right
| being given to their troops. 1t is believed
| that if the arrangement is made to have
the troops of each follow hot trail, re-
gardless of the border line, until the other
takes it up, it will put stop to maraud-
| ing.
THE cabinet families have not decided
upon their summer sojourDings, as the
| session of congress affects the whole Off
cial world, and in a measure holds them
here until adjournment. 1t is probable
that this year Mrs. Lincoln will go west,
and regain her health in the life-giving
regions CT the Rocky Mountains Mrs.
Teller will not return to her Colorado
home this summer, but visit her old home
in New York State for the few months
that she will spend out of the city.
THE Agricultural department is this
week sending off the last of 800, 600 worth of
field and garden seeds purchased with the
appropriation made by Congress to supply
the food sufferers on the lower Mississippi
The time for putting up in suitable pack
ages the seed was short, but the agricult-
ural department put nearly 200 persons
to work. The department is advised that
the seeds are arriving in ample time, as
the subsistence of the floods is very gradual.
and that much of the submerged lands are
not yet being in condition for blowing
and planting.
A BILL is in the senate and house COM
mittees on post-offices and post-roads pro-
viding private message card that will
replace the open postal now in use. This
card is very simple, with about the same
writing surface and rate of postage as the
open card, but its advantage is the flexible
fiaD that conceals the message and secures
the privacy desired. 1t is said that it can
be furnished the government as cheaplv
as the open card, and if adopted it would
give to the public convenience, privacy,
and cheapness of postage combined.