River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Miscellaneous News Notes.

Bliss & Elliot, Minneapolis lumbermen, fail
ed for $4,000
Iabouchere says Mgr Capel received CON
verts to the amount of 81 600, 600 in New York.
Every print cloth mill in Fall River was shut
down on Monday, and 1880 operatives are
idle
A prayer hospital has been opened at Eric,
Pa, where patients are to be cured by faith and
prayer
Garvin & Hume, millers and dealers in hard
ware and groceries, at Gait Ont, have sus-
pended Liabilities, $4,000
Schedules of the insolvent New York iewelry
firm of Goldman & Rosenberger shows liabili-
ties s1O0,004, nominal assets SCI, 900, actual as
sets $4,000.
Henry Hall, Sr., of the manufacturing firm
of Henry Hall & Sons, Newburg N Y, has
failed for from 100000 to $4,000 and fled.
The money was raised on notes, eight tenths
of which were bogus.
The Winnebago Indians, 1000 in number,
are receiving their annuities $50 each at Black
River Falls, Wis, and are sqiandering their
wealth on billiards, lemon extract, bay rum,
and like substitutes for whisky.
Gerald Eyre, actor, and member of the Mad
ison Square Theater company recently in St
Paul, was brought before Justice German in
the Jefferson Market police court New York,
Yesterday TO answer the charge of abandonment
preferred against him by his wife.
Augustus Tyler, was confined in the jail in
Monticello, Sullivan county, N. Y, on Feb. 9,
1850. on an execution for costs amounting to
s24sS0, and since then has refused all offers of
release by friends paying the amount
This is great season for record smashing
in the domain of sports At Watkins, the Ar
gonauts of Toronto beat the famous time of
the Hillsdale four by ten seconds, winning the
race in S:22 with the Cokmbias second $50,
and the Wahwahs $685..
Arrangements had been made to open the
casket containing the remains of Sergeant
Cross, of the Greedy expedition, and make a
post inortem examination of the body, but the
plan was abandoned because of the objections
Of the widow and the mother of the deceased.
The committee of lunacy of the Pennsyl-
yania board of health, having discovered two
outrages on insane people by private parties,
have issued circular to the medical profess
sion of the state requesting that where cases of
insane are in the hands of private parties they
send them TO the state hospital
Failures throughout the country for the past
seven days, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co,
number: United States 2O3: Canada, Il; total
DO, as against 2l3 last week, showing de-
crease of T. Casualties are still heavy in the
Pacific states, and other sections of the eoun-
try are about up to the average, and light in
Canada
A suit filed in the circuit court at St. Joseph,
Mo, by the Dr. S A. Richmond Medical com
psny against winslow Judson, attorney of this
ritv and III 2 Hubbard advertising agent of
New Haven Conn. wherein plaintiff demands
$40, 600 damages for conspiracy, as alleged in
petition, to wreck the business of said medical
company.
The appraiser am special agent at New York
have been instructed to make investigation Of
alleged undervaluation of silk imported from
switzerland 1t is charged that frauds are
perpetrated by invoicing perfect goods as job
lots and putting largo discounts on invoices.
Manufacturers OF American silks have been in
yited to aid the investigation,
Specials from Ottawa Ohio tell of the mar
riage OF Miss Jennie Pugh to Edward l. Vail;
of a brief wedding trip to Cincinnati; the de
sartion of the bride and her return 70 her home.
The dispatch saws Vail represented himself as
printer and a so-called editor of the East
Grand Forks Courier, the proprietors of which
we're Hoge Il Vail, and which was published IN
Dakota Territory
Mr.. Storla, appointed receiver Of the
Crookston land office, has not yet taken charge
of the Office, for the reason that his appoint
ment was not sent in by Secretary Teller until
the president had left for his CatSkill trip. The
president viii sign Storla's commission as soon
as he returns 10 Washington. Meanwhile some
impotence exists at Grookston on account Of
the receivers Office remaining vacant