River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-15

aeIlNeflllS an opinion Inc likeness IS pro
nounced excellent
Condensed kilograms.
New York special According to inform
alton received the liabilities of the North
western Car company are largely in ex-
cess of the amount stated in the original dis
patches There is said TO be outstanding, and
principally in the Chicago banks, over S., co.
100 of the paper of the concern, and some has
been put upon the New York markets The
failure is regarded as significant of the bad
condition of things in the West and Northwest,
and due primarily to the low prices obtained
for grain and hog products, Gripping the farm
ing section, and thus indirectly resulting In
disaster TO business of all kinds
The Carver, Mimi, bank was broken into on
Thursday night the Sth inst, but the safe IS
burglar-proo and therefore withstood the at
also entered by the burglars the same night
and ransacked thoroughly
Jesse Mower, aged twenty-three. and Mrs
Alexander Belsinger, his aunt, aged fifty-fiye
were arrested near Mount Auburn Iowa
charged with shooting Alex Belsinger, the
woman's husband, The woman waved examin-
alton and was bound over on 81 900 bonds
Mower had an examination, but there was no
evidence TO connect HIM with the shooting
He was then arrested on charge Of threaten
ing to shoot Besinger, and is held in $500
bonds. Neither viii get bail
Since SulIivan's return from the West, Mer-
vine Thompson, the blower, has subsidized and
skulked away to certain mineral springs IN
Michigan claiming to have the rheumatism.
Sullivan offers him 81 600 and the entire gate
receipts if he will stand ZIP fcr four rounds
but Meryine doesn't show up. lie isn't 50
anxious for fight as when Sullivan was sep
arated from him by l,000miles. Mr.. Thompson
is dufTer.
Victor FIsbouig, Waterloo veteran, is dead
in Few York at ninety one.
Sorrow has again invaded the home of Gen.
]. A. Williamson, in the form of the almost
hopeless illness of his little grandson, the child
of Mrs. d. X. Trip.
Arrangements are being made under Col.
Caseys direction for the difficult task of con-
structing the pyramidal top to the Washington
monument The construction of this pyramid
will be far from an easy task at this giddy height
and one of the greatest Of engineering feats.
A Sunday paper says Mrs, Ayira F. Byers
of Minneapolis, who was visiting in this city
as the guest Of Mrs Stuart died very sud
denly on Friday night of Brights disease,
Mrs Byers was in the prime of life leader of
cultured society ' Minnesota, and during her
visit here has made many warm friends The
remains will be taken to Minneapolis.
When Henry Irving reached Queenstown he
cabled the following to Whitelaw Reid
Correcting to American friends The Aurania
is a splendid boat Al matinee on board for
the benefit of the Seaman's orphanage, $50
were realized. Scalchi sang, and Irving and
Miss Terry read Iennyson's Cup.
While in the opera house at Erie, Pa. Chris
Hinman heard it announced from the stage
that he was required at the court house me
jury having agreed in a murder trlal OF which
he and James Webber were principals. Hin
man went and learned of his conviction of
manslaughter Weber was acquitted.
Sunday was a great day among the members
of the Baptist church (colored1, One hundred
and twenty-five of them were baptised IN the
Potomac river Washington is noted for the
great crowds that turn out on every occasion,
and at least fifteen hundred people went to the
scene of the immersion, near Washington mon
ument A great many small boats and mud
scows were packed with them and they were
stretched along the banks for fully mile.
great many white people were also present
Every duck shot in New York between May
/ and Dec costs SO fine.
At Rome. Ga. f. D. Hightower, of Paulding
county, a breeder of blooded stock was tossed
by the horns of Jersey bull fifteen feet In the
air and killed.
IT is announced that the new West hotel at
Minneapolis will be completed and in readin SIS
for the reception of guests by the 10Th day or
June. Some of the more unimportant work
upon the interior will be prosecuted after the
formal opening OF the house, but this can be
done without causing inconvenience to the
management or the guests.
Visitors at the copitol evince the greatest in
terest in the Jeanette investigation. The
most conspicuous of the interesting group IS
Mrs De Long She dresses in deep mourning.
and engages the sympathy and attention of all
visitors She has her husbands diary and re-
cord together with the records of the naval
court-martial, and astonishes every one by the
promptness with which she meets and refutes
the accusations against her husband. 1t Is
said that James Gordon Bennett has given her
$4,000 Beside this she is said to have realized
considerable by the sale of the book on De
Longs expeditions. The wife Of seaman Mn
derman is one of the agents for the book,
james russell, wealthy young Montrealite
en- route to St Paul, saw too much of the Mil
waukee elephant and went crazy
When Mrs. Wright died in a dentists chair
at Atlanta, Ga, from the administration of
chloroform, while her body was beng carried
out. Mrs Williams of AGREE, with seven faulty
teeth, came in and said: Give me chloroform
and pull away. Only one in a thousand dies,
and the rest of THIS thousands safe now.
Hudson & Co. bankers at Tombstone, have
made an assignment to L. l. Stiles. Assets
about $350000; liabilities, 100000 II the
mortgages can be realized on, there will be
surplus of assets.
Mr.. and Mrs H. Vesey and Col. Clough of
Dublin, Ireland, who have spent the winter in
Washington, expect TO leave soon Tor st Paul
Mimi. where Col ClOugh intends TO pfactlce
law
of New York affirmed the judgment of $40,
600 in favor of Rev. Samuel d. Human, against
Bishop Hare of NiObrara. This is another step
in case which has been in the courts several
wears, which readers are familiar IN all Its de-
tails The case was submitted to the court,
after argument, on the 14th of January last
Bishop Hare has one chance left-a resort to
the court of appeals.
The German rechstag Saturday passed by
1S9 to ISL the anti-socialist bill to the second
reading. The national liberals and conserya-
tives voted for the measure, as did also twenty
five independents and thirty nine of the center
party The rest of the independents, tifty-three
of the center party voted against the bill this
SUCCESS of the measure surpassed all eXpec-
tation The bill viii undoubtedly be passed to
a third reading on Monday. The emperor has
postponed his departure for Weisbaden to await
the result of the vote.
The vatican is sounding American dioceses to
learn whether the appointment of NJ Capel as
bishop or coadiutor would be acceptable. tits
considered doubtful whether Capel would ac-
cept an American bishopric if offered him.
Henerv Irving, in an interview, says it is inn
possible for Engshmen who had visited
America to conceive of the feeling of Ameri.
cans toward the mother country
Barna S. Snow & Co, wholesale fish dealers
of Boston, have failed Liabilities, $4,000 I'd
100000
S. p. Burt, one Of the wealthiest and best
known citizens Of Milwaukee, died suddenly at
Metropolitan, Mich.
B. b Strang member of congress two terms
killed himself Saturday at Almra, n. T., in the
presence of his wife and son. He had been i'll
fora long time He was United States mar.
shall for Dakota in 1881.
Thomas c. Jones' president of the Railroad
Conductors Life Insurance company Of the
United States died at Toledo, Ohio
The railroad committee of the Massachu-
sets legislature has reported adversely on al
lowing telegraph and telephone companies to
use lands along railroads for erecting lines of
wire
A large number of beautiful residences are
to be erected here this summer. and some o.
diem will present new features IN architecture.
The designs of the houses which John Hay and
Henry Adams are to build have not yet been
shown. but are said to be very unique and
handsome DR. William A. Hammond, former
ly surgeon of the general army and the great
specialist in nervous diseases has bought lot
on Columbia heights, on which Don Cameron
originally intended to locate his house, and will
introduce there the Mexican style of architec-
ture The house will be of stone, 100 feet