River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-25
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WARRINGTON.

THE president has approved tho act
providing for the sale of lands of the
Miami Indians in Kansas.
GUITEAU will be hanged on the 30th of
June. The court in banc," after very
careful consideration of Mr.. Reeds ex-
ceptions, overraled them, and sustained
the sentence of the criminal court.
WILLIAM H. MAUREY, who has been
nominated assistant attorney general OF
the United States, is Washington law
yer, whose wife is cousin of President
Arthur.
THE congressional joint committee on
the library has purchased Mr.. +. f.
Andrews full-length portrait of President
Garfield for the white house. 1t is the
same picture which was in the h all of rep
resentatives, over the speakers desk, on
the day of the Garfield memorial services,
February a..
THERE has been a good deal of comment
upon the fact brought out in the investi-
CATION into the affairs of the Soldiers
Home near this city, that certain individ-
ual members of the Board of Commission
ers, particularly the Surgeon General and
the Commissionary General of the army,
were furnished regularly with a certain
amount of vegetables and flowers from
the home weekly.
SENATOR MITCHELL, OF Pennsylvania,
after Don Cameron had refused to accom-
pany him, went to the executive mansion
with copy of the civil-service plank OF
the Pennsylvania republican conference.
and asked President Arthur to withdraw
nominations to internal revenue collector
ships in the Keystone state which dis
placed worthy officers. The chief mag
lstrate promised to take the subject under
consideration.
In the star-route cases at Washington a
deputy marshall reported that he had
been I'M able to arrest John w. Dorsey or
to learn of his whereabouts. Judge Wy
| lie ordered the crier to call Dorsey's name,
when that individual walked up to the
bar to plead not guilty. The hearing was
| adjourned to May 25, the marshal being
reminded that be was responsible for the
safe-keeping of Dorsey until bail was fur
nished. Afterwards the culprit gave
bonds in $4,000.
The following army orders have been
issued: Leave of absence for three months
is granted Second Lieut.. Edward T.
Brown, Fifth Artillery. The following
medical officers will represent the Medi-
cal Department of the army at the annual
meeting Of the American Medical Associa-
ton, to he held at st. Paul, on the 9Th OF
June. 1882: Lieut.. Col. Glovar Perrin
surgeon; Maj William C. Spencer. sur.
geon; Capt. Phillip F. Harvey, assistant
surgeon. The Superintendent of the gen.
eral recruiting service will cause twenty.
six recruits TO be prepared and forwarded
under proper order to Fort Brady, Mich
for assignment to the 10th infantry as fol
lows: 10 to company B and 10 to company
Col. STILwELL H. RUSSELL, formerly
| United States marshall for the Western
district of Texas, has been here for some
| time seeking a reappointmeRt. Col. Rus
sell is one OF the leading republicans in
the state of Texas. He has taken ar
active part in the political campaigns Of
that state, and his general record as ar
official is good. He came here during the
first month of the Garfield administration
and sought an appointment as second as
slstant postmaster general. Gen. Garfield
gave him to understand that he would
give him this appointment. He remain.
ed here for several weeks, and then when he
found that someone else was given the
place he went back to Texas. He be-
came afterwards a candidate for reap
pointment TO the Office of United States
marshal.