River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
GENERAL NOTES.

A PARTY of fifteen Russian Jews, mostly
old people, were recently sent back from
New York.
BRIGHT's disease swept off Rear Adj
miral David S. McDougall, at San Fran
cisco.
THE trustees of the mammoth hotel at
Rockaway Beach have leased it to syn
dictate for long term.
THE democrats of Alabama elected
eighty out of one hundred members of the
lower house, and all but three senators.
JOSEPH E. MCDONALD has been elected
chairman Of the democratic state commit
tee of Indiana, and Joel Riley was chosen
secretary.
A Boston dispatch records the death of
General Gouverneur K. Warren, of the
engineer department, from complica-
ton of liver troubles.
GEN. BUTLER has proposed to the dem
ocratic managers in Mass achusetts that
they ratify his nomination by the indie
pendent republicans.
In railway circles in Chicago it is ru-
mored that the Alton road is negotiating
for entrance into Hannibal. over the
tracks of the st. Louis, Hannibal and
Keokuk road.
TEE election in Utah went over be-
cause of the non-arrival of the commits
sioners, and Governor Murray is given
power 10 fill all important Offices by APP
pointment.
EDWARD l.. OWEN, a stock-broker of
New York, has brought suit for IS, 055
against Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., for
margins on disastrous speculations in
Wall street.
THE 9TH regiment of Wisconsin militia,
Colonel Gabe Bouck, will on August %
go into camp for week at Oshkosh or
Green Lake.
T. b. BAIRD, of Columbus, o., became
exhausted while swimming at Long
Branch, but was saved from drowning by
a bather.
THE iron manufacturers in Pennsyl-
vania are engaged in a simultaneous effort
to start their works with men from out
side the unious, and have thus far met
with success.
The trotting horse St. Julien is under
treatment by a veterinary surgeon at Mil
yankee, although he is exercised daily.
His owner recently refused an offer of
$4,000 for him.
The British house of lords assented to
the reamenGments OF the mouse OF co1u-
mons to the arrears bill, after protests by
he marquises of Salisbury and Waterford
and the Earl of Limerick.
THE lord lieutenant informed the DO
licemen at Dublin that ESQ 600 would be
Immediately distributed among the force
throughout the country. A commission
will also be appointed to inquire in their
grievances.
<IN the house of commons Mr.. Glad
stone said that an indefinite occupation
of Egypt is not contemplated. Addition
81 embarkation of troops for Egypt is re-
ported.
By an arrangement with the widow of
William Euston, the city OF Charleston
has come into possession of n portion of
100000 left by him TO found a refuge for
aged poor people Eight acres of ground
have been purchased on which TO erect
neat cottages.
The Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific are endeavering 10 beat each
other : time in the transportation of over
land freight. Two trains loaded with tea
came over the former route from San
Franc isco to Chicago in six days and
fraction.
JOHN l. BLAIR. the railway king. states
that company has been organized. with
a capital of $1,000, 600 to bridge the Mis-
souri, river at Blair. Neb., giving connec-
ton to his roads in Iowa and Nebraska
and affording the Chicago and Northwest