River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-12
PERSONAL MENTION.

Gen. John a. Halderman, the United
States minister to Siam, recently had The
pleasure OF presenting to the raiah of Zulu.
ban handsome gold medal and gold in
laid Winchester rivfe-tokens from the
United States government in appreciation
of the raiah's kind services 20 the officers
and crew Of the American bark Coringa
which wrecked on the coast of Siam in No
VEN Der 1880 Gen Halderman visited the
raiah at Tuuban, going thither in the King
OF Slams steam yacht Volant, which was
placed at his service by his majesty, and
wa accompanied on the voyage by Kun
Bin, son of the prime minister and Mr.
BaIfour, experimenting engineer ofthe 81
amese navy,
A Washington paper says NJ. window
will sail Tor ffur6pa THE week, aud be gone
meth Or niGfe. His voyage is for bus
inees purposes only, and is perhaps in con-
nection with the placing of a large lot of
Mexican railway bonds in England. The
ex-secretary is in fine health and spirits
He experiences a pleasure in his new Eusi.
ness enterprises altogether greater tEsn that
derived from political aOusce1. lie has I'M
bounded confidence Ii the future of railway
enterprise Ii the southwest.
Mrs. Mary Apthrop Gould, who diel re-
Gently in Quincy, Mass, was q daughter OF
the late Josiah Quincy. She had hht re
Gently returned with her husband from a
thirteen years absence in the Argentine
Republic, where Or. Gould had hceD par
suing his Astronomical work.
James HarkeI, president of the First Ma
ional k4nk of Storm Lake, Iowa, died sud
denly on the 7tb inst. He was formerly a
member of the Wisconsin legislature and
was widely known in that STATE, Cause of
death, apoplexy.
Society in Hartford, Conn, is confused
with horror at the marriage OF Christopher
Spencer, the millionaire inventor of the
Spencer rifle, TO Geargette Rogers, his lite
wife's nurse girl. She IS twenty-five Re
fifty.
Senator Wiad0m and family are still in
Wellington. The New York press erred in
saying that they left for Eurohe 5n the 9th
of June Mr.. Windcm writes that they vx-
pect to SIS. ON the 25th of the present
m"ntn.
Gen. W. d. Washburn has left for his I'D
home at Livermore, acco'Nfenied nv his
brother, Hon T. s. Washburn of Hin
DIS, Nh" two are to erect library building
mt AivermOre as memorial to their father
The Rev, A. L. f. Riggs, principal of
the Santee Indians Normal school, hes bnen
offered the position Of interpreter for Sena-
Tor Dawes Sioux eostt mission, and has the
matter crce' advertisement.
Col. W. s King of Minneapolis and wife
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary OF
their marriage at the Lyndale hotel, on the
evening OF the 18th, the entire family being
participants.
Ezra Daggett, who trotted his horse Bos-
ton, ninety miles in a race with a catamar-
an and was arrested at New Haven for cruel
ty, has been released.
It is believed that Bishop O'Hsra of Penn
ylvapia is to receive the palium from
Rome rs the successor OF Archbishop
Wood.
j. a. Fitzpatrick, son OF Mr.. Thos. Fitz-
patrick, OF St Paul, received minor re
ligious orders at Issey, near Paris, recently.
Sutler, Milwaukee photographer, has
discovered a successful method of using the
electric light for photoeaaphing.
Senator Bayard is three doctors OF laws,
having received the degree from Hazard,
Yale aud Dartmouth.
Or. Woodbridge OF Brooklyn, Conn, has
a cheese that has been in brandy sixty
years.
Mr., Window will sail for Europe next
week.