River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-29
GENERAL NOTES

| A PARTY of twenty persons near Fort
| Totten, Dakota. is trying to hold a fine
timber tract of s 800 acres, and intrudert
are driven away with revolvers.
| A LETTER from Fort Mckinney states
| that cattle valued $15 100000 are camly
! grazing in what was six years ago absolute
ly an Indian country.
THE Canadian government obtained in
the recent elections majority OF from So
| to 90. Prince Edward Island is the only
province in which the opposition has d
majority.
) THE fifth great well in the Warren
county oil-feld was struck June "a, the
yield being 800 barrels. One large vel
is on fire, causing loss of 81 900 per day
The flames rise to height of so feet.
On farm along the Big Miami river
in Ohio, has been found human skeleton
of enormous size, surrounded by a tofna.
hawk, chisel spear-heads and clam-shelIs
SIXTEEN fat bulls, worth $50 per head
were shipped from Cincinnati to Jersey
| City without an attendant, and consequent.
| ly received no care on the voyage. Three
were found dead when the car was open.
ed, and three more expired when released
A TRACT of 81 acres on the Hudson
river, near Peekskill, has been leased for
camp-ground for the militia of New
York. The 23d regiment, of Brooklyn
will embark July /, for a week under
canvass.
THE resignation of the off GERS of FIVE
companies of the original 2nd regiment Of
Chicago are to be accepted at Springfield
and the men mustered out of service.
Recruiting for the 1st infartry is very ac-
| tive, and 100 men have been secured for
! the honary corps.
ABOUT 400 Russian Jews are being
sheltered around Castle Garden in New
York, as the Aid society houses are fill
| ed. The commissioners of emigration
have given fifty acres of land near the
| quarantine on which to erect accomoda-
tions, Five thousand immigrants arrived
on Sunday.
BUSINESS men of New England, repre-
senting over $200.000,00 of capital. who
urged General Francis Walker for place
J on the tariff commission. have sent to the
senate a strong protest against making
John l.. Hayes the chairman.
ONLY twenty miles of track remain to
be laid on the new road between Chicago
and Buffalo. President Cummings takes
w. Fl. Vanderbilt to task for his recent re-
mark that the New York, Chicago and St.
Audu was uuiil W sell, anu mas Dt6U
cheaply constructed.
THE election in Canada, resulted in a
victory for the government. The main
features of the contest developed 80 far
are the defeat Of Sir Richard Cartwright,
finance minister of the late reform govern
ment, and of Hon. T. w. Anglin, the
speaker IN the Mackenzie government.
WIN. II. VANDERBILT and a party of ten
associates passed over the Northwestern
railway through Wisconsin on the 2lst
inst. Mr.. Vanderbilt says the object of
his visit is an examination of the lines of
the Northwestern, with an inquiry into
the traffic sources of the west. The party
intends to go as far north as Winnipeg,
returning to Chicago in a week. Mr.. Van
derbilt admitted having a large Individual
interest in the Rock Island, Burlington,
Santa Fe, and Union Pacific roads, but
stated he desired no voice in their man
agement. lie improved the opportunity
to deny that he ever unloaded Lake Shore
stock on his friends, and remarked that
he had this year increased his holding in
that road by 10000 shares. He said he
had given no one assurance that the Lake
Shore road would pay per cent. quarter
", nor would he pretend that the New
York Central was at the present time
earning s per cent. per annum. He de-
clared that he held the same interest in
Michigan Central az for several years
past.