River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-01-12
GEN ERAL NOTES

GoTTLIEB ENGEL, the Milwaukee law
yer charged with heavy forgeries, has sur
rendered himself.
SMALLPOX of a violent type is prevail
! ing to an alarming extent in the city anc
suburbs of st. Louis.
In a cushion-carom billiard game al
New Y ork, for 5000 and gate money
William Sexton defeated Jacob Schaefel
| by score Of ego to $40.
THE Illinois board OF health has advices
of the development of ten cases of small
pox in two families at WOODLAND, Iroquois
| county.
THE pews in Beecher's church have
been sold at auction for $38, 1929. There
was a marked decrease in the premiums
paid.
A FALSE report of the death of Piercy
the actor, from smallpox, in Boston
caused half the theatrical people in New
York to offer their arms for vaccination
THE Boston Memorial Society has de-
cided to erect a monument to President
Garfield, at cost of not less than 0,000
and the sculptor Ball has offered his SER
vices gratuitously.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by
Jacob Schaefer and William Sexton for a
cushion-carom game of billiards. SOC
points, for $500 a side. to be played in
New York in April.
THE business men of st. Adams, VT.
are generally signing a petition to the no
tel proprietors to resume operations. All
places of entertainment were closed by
the temperance crusade.
THE standing committee of the Episco-
pal church of Maryland declines 10 rec.
ommeDd the ordination of colored grad
uate of the theological seminary of New
York, named c. Bishop.
AT Worcester, Mass, by invitation of
the city council, and in presence of the
governor and chief justice of the state,
Senator Hoar delivered an eloquent eu-
logy on President Garfield.
The first purely republican victory in
the south under President Arthur's adj
ministration was at Pensacola, where Col
onel Tarbell was reelected mayor by 275
majority.
OSCAR WILDE. the English esthete, who
arrived in New York the other day, by
the Arizona, is 90 years of age and six feet
four inches in height. He says he came
to lecture and see the country, and will
not return until he does.
THE youngest daughter of William III
anderDllt was married TO the son OF JeD.
James Watson Webb, at St. Bartholomew
church. N. York. Three rectors officiat-
ed, and Bishop Potter delivered the beue-
diction.
The message of Governor Cornell to
the legislature of New York will an
nounce a surplus of 81, 800, 900 in the treas
ury, which will permit the reduction Of
the state tax to the lowest rate in half a
| century.
MAYOR GRACE reports the debt Of New
York as over $99000000. but SAYS the
| city possesses sufficient wealth to cancel
! the Indebtedness twice over. He favorS
| the construction of new aqueduct from
| the Croton basin, to cost $l5, 100000.
THE territorial division convention OIL
Dakota has recommended the division Of
the territory on the forty-sixth parallel
admitting the southern part as state
and the northern part as a territory. to be
called South and North Dakota respect.
lively.
THE full bench of the supreme court OF
Kansas, in passing upon an agreed case
has made decision which will invalidate
nearly all the laws passed by the legisla
ture of that state in 1877 and 1879. The
ground of the decision was that the act
was passed with the aid of the votes OF
four members who were not legally elect.
ed Among the laws thus made void is
the prohibition constitutional amend
ment.