River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.


Ex Senator Mitchell of Oregon islocated in
shington as the resident attorney for the
Northern Pacific company.
The senate committee on public lands unan-
imously instructed Chairman Plumb to report
the nomination of W. j. Anderson for the recei-
The district of Columbia's total debt is s2l,-
$1,000 The issue of IS per cent bonds up TO
date is s14, 200, 600 The reduction of the debt
since July lst, 1878 is 81 10000
The treasurer OF the United States is signing
about | 900 checks a day in payment Of the re-
bate of tobacco tax, aud viii have TO keep up
this average for two months or so.
Representative Maybury was instructed by
the house committee on Judiciary to preparean
adverse report on the joint resolution propos-
ing constitutional amendment TO confer the
night of suffrage on women.
George Bliss, the star route counsel for the
government had 10 testify before Springers
committee. that he had already received
$50 7Z2 Is with 50, 400 still due him, making
Sol, Az Is as compensation for his services.
Mr. Strait was before the subcommittee OF
the committee on military affairs in favor of
the bill for the relief of James IL Bacon of
Iitchfield. Mimi The subcommittee agreed
TO report the bill favorable to the full committee
Combinations Col David s Stanley, Tween
ty-second infantry, brigadier general; J. A
for Wyoming; James G. Tracey, Texas, mar
shal OF the United States, Gastien district,
Texas
Il is related that Representatives George d.
Wise of Virginia and Townshend of Illinois,
and Senator German OF Maryland were once
pages In congress, along with the actor, Stuart
Robson; and Gormon was afterward president
Of the National Base Ball club.
President Arthur and his cabinet, together
with Generals Sheridan, Sherman and Hancock,
Postmaster General Gresham, and Hon Lionel
Sackville West, the British minister, and his
family, have promised to attend the Cincinnati
dramatic festival, beginning April %
The attorney Of the notorious Maj. Nicker-
son, late of the army has filed his answer to the
divorce suit, brought by his original wife, in
court II is sworn to before the United States
consul at St Catherine, Canada. He swears
that he il not fugitive from justice but is in
on account of his health But his answer to
the petition is that the original divorce, which
he secured in Philadelphia while his wife was
IN Europe, is legal, and that his wife has no
further claim upon him
The famous Bill Jones, the man on the gray
mare, who tried to shoot Gufteau while on the
way from the court house to the jail, about two
years ago, appeared in court the I'd, to answer
an indictment for assault with inten to kill
When the case was called the court remarked
sententiously that he believed the prosecuting
witness was dead. The district attorney re-
piled that he understood 80, but they had as
witnesses several policemen to prove the act
The attorney for Mr.. Jones asked that the case
ben0lled, in order to save expense to the gov
ernment, as he would be able TO show that Vii
liam not the man on the gray mare who
Hired at the assassin, but his suggestion was
not adopted, and the case was set for trial
on the 18th of the month.
The experts at the signal office study
ing the characteristics of the recent destructive
wind storms and gettiag all the laws that I'm
derlie this phenomena. According to these
gentlemen, the connection between the storms
and the prevalence of sun spots, if any can be
said to exist at all, is very remote. They ex-
plain that tornadnes, which should not be con
founded with cyclones, due TO a collision
of warm and cold currents of air, and are apt
to be found in southern ATTITUDES. Therefore
in tho early spring. following the advance of
warm weather naathward, most of the cyclonrs
originate in the Northwest Kansas is pre-
eminently the cyclone state, having had as
many destructive storms of this description
during the century as the South