River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-21
W.. llansons News Notes.

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The Ohio legislature appropriated $4,000
for flood relief
Letters sent BY courier from Coer 4 Alenc
cost 80 cents EACH
The first state election Of the year will be
that Of Oregon June 2
A Boston man has portraits of his family
painted on his china
On the New York oil exchange, f6,o00,0o0
barrels were sold recently.
n It. Bullock Dallas, Ga. has lost three
daughters by elopement this winter.
The house in which Cen Grant was born. at
Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken off ia the food
At New York, George Parsons, toy dealer,
has assigned Liabilities, $50, coo; assets, $50,
COO
solomon Isaacs and Jacob samuels, clothing,
New York, give liabilities as SOL, 900; actual as
sets, S32, COO
Edward Pilsburyvs Sons, cotton commission
merchants, New Orleans, have failed Liabili-
lies, $4,000
Gen. 10 Shelby Of Missouri The noted ex-eon-
federate, has just been fined $50 foI carrying
concealed weapons,
Seventeen hundred Chinese ON the Green
River road, near Seattle, struck because
OF reduction from 81 10 50 cents a day.
John Hadley, Albany, N Y, left sl00,I00 to
Miss Louisa Whipple, a young lady Of good
name IN Troy Hadley's divorced wife objects,
The amount Of relief funds thus far forward
ed from Philadelphia is So, $50. The Pennsyl-
yania railroad company transports al goods
free
James E. Scripps, the publisher of the De-
troit Evening News, has paid to DR. Donald
Aclean $4,000 judgment awarded Mclean in
libel suit
A Hartford, Conn, drum major can toss his
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet up
and catch it again without breaking step iii the
procession.
Two handsome negroes attended fashion
able white folks masquerade in Stamford,
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted when
they unmasked:
In Atlanta there are 81, 600, 600 worth of new
buildings in the hands of contractors and arch
fleets, besides the new capitol, which viii be
started during the spring.
In Savannah, 81 600 has been expended
during the past year in improvements, much
Of which has gone into the river front and
much into private residences
Treasurer Wyman received from an Ohio
bank two packages purporting to contain
81, 600 each. One was found 500 short, and
the other contained two pieces of flannel.
The Etna Life and Travellers Insurance
companies Of Hartford have each subscribed
$500 for the relief of the flood sufferers making
total of about 81, 800 subscribed there.
Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
Ting the affairs of Rev DR.. Mercer, the mil
honnaire clergyman of Newport, r. l., because
he cannot snpplya $500,000 bondsman.
T. ID. Mowry g. Son, cotton factors, Charles
ton, $. c., have suspended Liabilities, $50
600; nominal assets, S225,000 The suspen-
sion is due to bad crops and investments
Schedules in the assignment of John Paret &
Co, clothing dealers, New York, show habil-
tiles of $2l1 600: actual assets, $4,000 Two
hao1 a1 Nv TobT, De- Len
signed
The will of Col Hunt, a millionaire Tuner
man Of RoscomInon county, Mich, contains be-
quests of 5000 to Caroline Brown, m9ther of
Artemus Ward, and similar amounts t. Eli Per
kins and Josh Billings.
The committee Of citizens in Philadelphia
raising a fund for the sufferers has decided to
make Galhpolis the distributing. point for sup
plies. The chairman announced contributions
to date amounting to S5,646
Louis J. Jennings is engaged in writing life
of John Wilson Croker, prominent politician
of a generation ago He Will give letters from
the duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
written during the early reform agitation
The supreme court Of Georgia hollis in case
against the Western Union Telegraph company
that the company is responsible fol the gross
negligence of its agents in transmitting mes
sages, no matter what is printed at the head Of
It's blanks
Judge Dickey Of the supreme court of ILL
nois, has granted a super sedeas III the case
of Frederick NJ Ker, sent to the penitentiary
for ten years for stealing $50 600 from Preston,
Kean Il Co, Chicago bankers, which neeessl-
tates new trial
In case before the Michigan supreme court
where the point in controversy was whether
the elopement of a wife from her husband,
with another man, bars her from claim to
her rights in her deserted husbands estate, the
court claimed that it did
Gov. Butler has profound disregard for
petitions. ''You could gd in Massachusetts -, :
600 men to sign petItiql to have me hanged,
he says, "and half the number would sign q
petition to have Themselves hanged without
knowing what they Nere doing
Mr. Douglass, WHO has had charge of this
district as special agent of the treasury de-
partment for some time past viii hereafter
have his headquarters at St Paul, Mimi. His
district now includes Minnesota, Dakota Mon
tana and Idaho and HE port of La Crosse.
The Virginia senae and house, by strict
party vote, passed fill redistricting the state
for representativesln congress. The bill was
Immediately enrollid signed by the presiding
officers, and sent . the governor. The redis-
tricting shows eight districts democratic and
two coalition.
At Buffalo Mrs Prendergrast has sued Mrs.
Anna IL Fargo, tie former wife of W. O. Far
go, and now Off i, Fargo, to compel her to
surrender the possession Of the twin children
OF W. G. Fargo Jr, and wife, both deceased.
The twins are both bright children and are
said to be equally fond of both grandmothers.
At Kansas City Glessner & Ross, cracker
and candy factor1 was closed by the sheriff
on an attachment suit Of SIS, COO for money
loaned by Nathan Hill. The firm has not yet
assigned. The ilbilites are supposed to be
so, 900: assets unknown. A receiver has been
appointed The liabilities are $50, 600, and as
sets about $4,000
lee which wentout on the 18th gorged just
below the city of Albany. rapid rise of the
river was checked by cold weather Many of
the lower streets IRE flooded, and much ineon-
yenience is caused the railroads, merchants,
and others Mary business houses are flooded,
bu the damage il not heavy The lumber dis
trist is eompletelI under water,
DR. George Marshall, charged with attempt
ing to blaclmail Mary Anderson, was acquitted
in the United States district court at Pittsburg
recently The ooart ruled that the offense did
not come within the proyisioos of the law pro-
yiding penalties for using the mails for the
purpose to defraud, and, under instructions of
the court, verdict of not guilty was rendered.
George w Gable recently told friend, who
warned him that he travelled too much, that he
would rather be in the cars than at hotel.
His reason was that in the former case he
wasn't bothered bg visitors. All sorts of peo-
pie. he said hunted him outlook agents,
people with pet hobbies which they wanted
him to take up and advocate, and other varIe-
ties of genus bore
Mars. Marion Laverre of New York, offers
part of mausoleaim which she possesses at
Eastport j. J.. as a resting place for the body
Of Commander d. Long Mrs. De Long re-
Piled that she understood that arrangements
were pending to bury her husband in Wood
lawn cemetery and that steps would be taken
to erect monument over his grave. Other
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offer.
Advice from Hampstead, Tex, give meager
details of a fearful encounter IN which one
man was killed and two others MORALLY wound
ed For some reason or other, VIII Wheeler
and John Ellison, late city marshal, commenced
shooting at each other in Hewes bar-room
Friday night, the 18th Capt James T. Brown
ing interfered and tried to make peace. When
the firing ceased It was discovered that Brown
ing was shot dead and Wheeler and Ellison
were in such a condition that they Will prob
ably die.
There was an exciting scene at a circus at
Cairo, Egypt An Italian acrobat unfurled an
Italian flag whaeupon an English officer
walked into the arena and seized it amid great
excitement The acrobat soon recovered the
flag. however, snd waved it triumphantly
when he was struck by Erenchman- Anelee
ensued. Finally some English officers managed
to separate the c0nlbatants and Gained the tu-
mutt The Italian consul demanded satlsfae-
ton for the insult to the flag. 1t is hoped the
affair viii be amicably settled.
The following formal challenge was issued
from Cleveland to pugilist Sullivan: Il, Dun
can c. Ross, will match Meryine Thompson OF
this city to spar John l. Sullivan with hard
gloves to finish, for from $1,000 to $1,000,
ring rules to govern l will deposit the money
in the Ohio National bank, or with any respon-
sible party agreeable to Mr. Sullivan, as soon
as notified of his acceptance Any eommunl,
cation addressed to this city will be attended
to The challenge is signed by Ross. The
man and money are ready to meet Sullivan any