River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
GENERAL NEWS GOSSIP.

Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker again threatens to
become national issue. She has been dis
charged from the pension office as incom-
petent and a nuisance. Mary asserts ii is
because of her pants, but Commissioner
Dudley SAYS she is an annoyance and a
crank, and has rendered herself intolerable.
Mary has long worn tie correct male attire
in everything but her parasOl, and even
that she occasionally changes for a cane.
She has written the commissioner vicious
letter, aud says she will resent herself for
duty as usual, and go to congress for her
pay. This worked with great success with
Gen. Spinner, and she thinks of trying it
again. If she persists in this course, she
will be shut out of the building, and must
content herself with reporting at the office
door.
Ellen S. Hines aged fifty-three, of st.
Paul, has commenced proceedings for di-
vorce from Samuel C. Hines, aged ftty-four.
The complaint sets forth that they were
married in Knox county, ILL.,, in 1850, and
lived together until 1877. when he deserted
her. There were five children, of whom
two are alive and selfsupporting. The plain,
tiff has resided in Ramsey county for ten
years and does not know the whereabouts
of the defendant.
slssippi grange, charged the supreme judges
of the State with applying for and accepting
free passes. At first they denied it, but later
all with one exception, wr tie a public
letter acknowledging that they have fire.
quently travelled on free railroad passes, and
even now carry them. Darden says there
are but two judges in the whole State who
do not carry free passes.
The sensation in Newburg. n Y, is the
elopement of Mr.. j. e. Wells, a married
man about thirty eig hit years old, with Miss
Nettie Vail, a niece of his wife, who had
lived with them for the past ten or twelve
years Wells is farmer and cattle dealer
who did large business. He leaves Credi-
tors to the amount of $4,000. The runa-
way pair is thought to have gone west.
Postoffices have been established as fol-
lows: Dakota-AtlaAtis Day county; Kate,
Mcpherson county; Sargent; Sargent county;
Tomlinson, Foster county. Nebraska
Filing, Sherman county. The office at
Ridge, Pipestone county, Mimi, has been
discontinued; mail to Pipestone. Post
masters have been commissioned as follows:
Henry G. Rising, Redheld, OAK, Charles H
Roser, Philip, Wis.
DR.. Dawley of Amigo, Wis, wrote NOR
phine by mistake for quinine in prescrip-
ton, and killed his patient, Bohemian
boy, recently. There is great excitement at
Amigo among the Bohemia $, and threats
of violence are made 1t is not thought
that Dawley will be prosecuted.
The German-A American bank of st. Cloud
has been organized with the following of
6cers: President c. A. Hull; vice president
f. f. Searle; cashier, Edgar Hull. The act
usl capital of the bank is $50 600, author
lied capital 800, 900. 1t will be opened for
bus hess on or about Aug. /.
The family of the late DR.. Joseph Priestley
of Northumberland, Pa, the great grand
son of the celebrated discoverer of oxygen,
DIR. Joseph PrIeStley, have presented near
" all the philosophical, chemical, and as
apparatus of the great scientist
to the Smithsonian institution.
Private Bockelman of the Fourteenth reg
iment, New York National guards. Nho was
recently drummed out of the state camp at
has brought suit in the Brooklyn
supreme court against Col. u. f. Austin, |
by whose orders he was drummed out. He
lays damages at $4,000.
George Purcell found midde-aged wom- |
an recently. wandering around in the woods |
near MOUNT hOtiy, NY, perfectly uuue. 1t I
is claimed that she is the woman who, I
year ago. confessed the murder OF her in |
fsnt while patient at the city hospital at |
Louisville.
William Taussig of Chicago. dealer in leaf !
has made an assignment. Liabili- /
les $50, 900; preferred creditors S.. 600 The /
assets are unknown. but are believed to be +
small. The creditors are chiefly in New /
York
Private Bockleman of the Fourteenth /
New York regiment who was drummed
,ut Of the state camr at Peekskill by order
Of Col Austin, has brought q suit against
he colonel, laying daying damages at SIS
,0O
Five OF the old Minnesota bonds, which
we're held by the Thompson estate. but lost
n transit by rail, were adjusted By the state
auditor recently. The accrued interest on
ZACH was about $500.
Coal Oil Johnny, who squandered mill
ions in few months, and has sirce been
poverty stricken. has recently found SIS, 600
which be left at a hotel several years ago.
4 daughter of the lale Admiral Joseph