River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-01-26
GENERAL NOTES,

THE product of precious metals last
| year in the region west of the Missouri
| river is estimated bv Wells. Fargo & Co.
at $31 1859, 6S6 in gold and $45, 077 1929 in
| silver.
A VEIN of petroleum has been discov-
cred at Pomeroy, a few miles north of
Leavenworth, Kan.
THE Iowa legislature has elected James
| F. Wilson senator for the long term, and
Judge McDill for the Kirkwood vacancy.
PANAMA advices are to the effect that
| work on the canal has been stopped by a
general strike of laborers for $3.50 per
day.
THE dry goods house of W. K. Bird, at
| Des Moines, was closed few days since
| by H. 3. Clafin & Co., of New York, on
account of past due paper for $27 900.
THE sugar-re6uing firm of Eccles,
| Thoms & Co., of Baltimore, whose llabili-
| ties are $67, 900. has offered it's creditors so
cents on their claims.
| IT is rumored at Lcavenworth that Cen
| eral Sheridan will establish at that point
the headquarters of the division of the
| Missouri, and place General Pope in COM
mand at San Francisco.
| THE special train bearing the remains of
| Senator Wagner from New York reached
| Albany at noon, W here eight coaches of
| legislators were attached, the cortege pro.
ceeding to Palatine bridge.
| AN exiled Hungarian nobleman, Count
Franz de la Forest, practicing medicine in
! New York, died in abiect poverty the
other day, although the owner of large es-
| ates and coal mines.
| A LIVELY fight is in progress at Leaven-
worth over the enforcement of the occupa.
ton tax of 80 per month. Several law
yers who were arrested took retaliatory
steps by causing Mayor Fortesque and the
members of the council to be hauled up
| for neglecting to pay.
| BRAKEMAN MRLIUs, who is charged
with criminal earelessness in the New
York Central disaster, admits that he can
neither read nor write. He has been on
the road or quarter century.
RAILROAD officials in Texas report
very heavy immigration from the Pacific
slope. California capitalists are purchas-
ing large tracts of land between the Rio
Grande and the Staked plains, for wheat
raising and grape-culture.
AT Bennington, VT, the funeral of Park
Valentine and wife, who were killed in
the railway accident near New York the
other day, was conducted by the clergy
man who married them the day before the
accident.
BEFORE commencing his sermon Sunday
evening, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher re-
called sentence in recent discourse re-
lectipg upon the Brooklyn board of educa-
ton, and repudiated the construction
placed upon it by the public.
The old railway bonds of Minnesota
were burned in the capitol at st. Paul, re-
Gently, in presence of Governor Hubbard
and Ex-Governor Pillsbury. As they bore
interest Tor twenty-three years, it required
81, 103, 900 in cash and new bonds to replace
them.
The postmaster at Wilmington, O., re-
ports to the department the presence of
fifty virulent cases of small pox. The au-
thorities at Indianapolis have ordered the
vaccination Of every resident within thirty
days. In the twin cities of Pittsburg and
Allegheny thirty new cases developed
since Saturday, and six are reported at
Grand Rapids.
New England has practical polyga-
mist-a rascally drummer-who is now
in fair way to receive his deserts. His
name is George w. Bristol. He has a
wife in Meriden, Conn, wife in Wor-
cester, Mass, and wife in Providence,
r. l., to all of whom he has been reg
ularly married within few years. As
mis- business was that of a travelling
agent, he was for time able to conceal
his bigalny by visiting each one of his
homes in turn. The wives are young,
uniformly pretty, and belong TO respect
able families. They are united in their
desire to punish him, now that they
have found him out, and he has been
arrested just in time to prevent his
union with another girl at Middletown,
Connecticut.