River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29

murderer was arrested.
Railroad traffic throughout the flooded dis
trct of the state of Texas still is generally sus
pended. No mail from the north for two days.
No accurate estimate of the damage To various
railroads is yet obtainable
| Clarence Wade, photographer Of Mt Glenn
ems, Mich, and William Douglass, the son Of a
| prominent physician Of Romeo we're drowned
/ in the Clinton river, while returning from
| fishing excursion Their boat capsized
| The Sultan OF Turkey was SO well pleased
with the band OF the United States steamer
| Quinnebang, which serenaded him, that he
| presented the leader with valuable diamond,
and each musician with fine piece of jewelry.
| Capt Henlach, condemned to nine-years
servitude, has been placed in prison at Berlin
Hole Krs.zewski, condemned TO three and a
| half years Imprisonment in fortress, has pc
| titioned to be placed in the fortress of hoenig
| stein.
Tracy Gould, who was the principal for the
defense in the trial of DR. Gallagher, has start
ed for Birmingham to take charge of the de-
tense of DAILY Egan and Mcdonnell, who are
now on trial there on charges of treason and
| felony.
The Paris Republique Franchise condemns
cereals and cattle, as beneitting the agricultur-
lists at the expense Of the consumers. If the bill
! passes it urges other industries TO demand
similar advantages.
petition for the pardon Of the Polish poet
Kraszewski who was sentenced to imprison-
ment at Lcipsic. is being circulated in Germany,
and it is believed the movement will be success
full if the Polish newspapers will stop their
anti German raving.
! At Port Huron, Mich, a row boat WAS upset
on the river and Train Dispatcher Charles
| Mooney. Baggageman John Ford and Thomas
! Melvin, all Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad
employees, were drowned. Their bodies have
not yet been recovered.
Ex-senator Chaffee has sold four lots on the
south side of Fifty seventh street, between
Ninth and Tenth avenues, New York, to Abra-
ham II Jonas, for 100000. The property con-
| veyed is that passed from Ulysses S. Grant, Jr,
| to Mr. Chaffee on the It'll instant
| At Nashville, Tenn, Judge Allen re-
fused motion of William Spence, charged
with the murder of E. f. Wheat, for a new trial,
and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged July
| IL. Spence's counsel announced they would
bring the case before the supreme court
"Corneil Vanderbilt" said broker at the
Windsor hotel in New York, the other night,
''cabled 800 words to his father day, explain
| ing the situation and asking what should be
| done. William H. took just three words to
answer. They were, Feed my lambs !"
A decree of absolute divorce was granted by
Judge Donohuo in the New York supreme court
the other day, to Charles dee Sing, prom
| inent member of the Chinese community His
wife, Emma, an English oman, to whom he
was married in 1876, became enamored of Fon
| Que and left him in 1880.
II. c. Blanchard coffee merchant at Rich
mond, Va, has failed. His liabilities are $223,
| 600. Among the creditors are: Barring Bros.
/ & Co, Boston $147, 600; Massachusetts, National
bank of Boston $4,000; State Bank OF Rich
mond / $50; +. G. Truman of Baltimore s 400;
The failure is due to heavy dealings in futures.
Charles Blake, Philadelphia, arrested in
Wilmington, Del, for burglary, last November,
| but convicted only of larceny last week, has
| been sentenced for the stealing of an umbrella,
! to pay the costs of the prosecution fine of 50,
| to be one hour in the pillory to receive twenty
| lashes, and spend three years IN Newcastle
1 Jail
London Special: Rev. Henry Thomas Ed
wards, dean of Bangor, committed suicide re-
Gently by hanging himself to his bedpost
! There is no doubt that he was insane He had
| 3,
| but being apparently harmless it was no,
! deemed necessary to put him under suryeil-
/ lance.
| The number of English visitors to the Uuited
States and Canada this summer promises to be
unprecedented. One thousand sayants alone,
| including 100 members of parliament, have al
ready applied and secured tickets for attend
| ance at the meetings Of the British Association
| of Montreal large number of these visitors
| will go prepared to look into and enter Aneri-
can investment
The French brig Senorine sank on the cast
ern ledge of the great banks some time in the
| first week Of May. An English trading schoon-
er, which recently arrived, brought portion
of her wreckage in trunks, bedding and cloth
| ing-aIl identifying the lost vessel She sailed
from St Malo, France March 3, bound for st
Pierrie Miquelon, laden with general cargo.
The crew of nine men with, fifty three passen-
gers, all persisted.
James r. Keene told New York reporters Fri
day he expected to pay his debts in full if his
creditors would give him little time. To this
end he makes a proposition to holders of his
obligations, adjusted and unadjusted to accept
his notes dated May /, 1884, for the full sum
due them on that day, payable in twelve and
eighteen months for privileges not matured on
| that day He proposes to give notes for the
amount received by him when the privileges
| were issued.
An invincible informer who testified at the
inquiry at Sligo Ireland, recently, is an access
ory to the Phoenix Park murders. Patrick
Delaney testified that Fitzgerald attended Fe-
| MAN meetings in 1880 as a delegate for the Su-
preme Council brotherhood. Delaney said his
only object i'll giving information was to save
innocent lives and prevent others from being
| trapped He was duped into assisting in the
! Phoenix Park murders and was giving evil
dence for money or liberty. Heexpected tore
turn to life servitude, and admitted he richly
deserved it
London Dispatch There is a strong feeling
of disbelief among investors in American Sc
curities that the present low prices of American
stocks can possibly continue Looking from
this distance the causes of the present depres1
sion appear trivial, and there has been great
deal of quiet buying, many heavy investors as
sorting that the integrity or good dividend pay
ing stocks cannot possibly be ultimately affect
| ed by the uncovering of few rogues and the
| wedding out of mushroom growth, whose very
| existence, as matter of fact, has depended on
the general prosperity
Justice Bradley. in the United States circuit
court at Pittsburg, Friday the I'D, handed
down decision in the case of the wife of Lord
! !,
| against the administrators of confirming the
| trust deed disputed by the contestants convey
| ing valuable real estate in Illinois, Pennsylva-
MIA, Nebraska Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas
and other states. besides money judgments and
personal effects, to his daughter Mrs. Finley,
| and her child Mrs Linton, who now lives IN
Europe. The estate is very valuable and has
been in litigation severaly years.
Father Boniface, of the Italian society or ST.
| Leonard's Catholic church, Boston, whose
| name was associated with certain alleged Curl
ous money transactions, has brought suit
| against the Herald of that city, claiming 500,
900 damages. Counsel for Father Boniface
| states that the charges in the offensive article
arc entirely false: that Father Boniface has de-
| creased the church debit that he will probably
enter suits against other papers IN New York,
| Winsted Conn., Allegheny, Pa, Buffalo and
| Hartford many of which published verbatim
the Herald article, while some have made state
ments calling Father Bonifaee a swindler and
| a rascal
London is threatened with small pox scare.
The malady is alarmingly prevalent in several
of the metropolitan districts, and is spreading
from the city to the adjoining provinces, sew
eral of which are already badly inf scted Some
idea Of the present prevalence o. the plague
may be formed from the magnitude Of the eff
| forts which have already been forced upon the
authorities to combat the disea7e. The city o.
| London alone since the plague last November,
has expended S250,00O for additional accom-
mediation for the constantly increasing number
of afflicted 1t is now proposed to erect new
METROPOLITAN small pox hospitals at a cost OF
$3.50, 600, making total of 100000 600 added
| to the public expense by the persistent rayages
of this malady alone
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