River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-27

Blaines plurality in Wisconsin was ASH.
That Of Gov. Rusk was 9,343.
George Glass, harnessmaker, Hamilton, Oak
has been closed out by his creditors.
TORY, Davidson l. Grossieup, wholesale
grocers of Abeline. Tex, were closed attach.
ments aggregating $4,000.
Gov Brown OF Rhode Island has appointed
William s Sheffield to succeed the late Senator
Anthony.
Albert Manning, wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturer of Boston, has gone into insoly.
vency
The reduction of wages of ingram carpet
weavers in Philadelphia viii effect probably
1000 persons.
of Eau Claire are placed at s316, 235 IS, and the
liabilities at SOS, 3l567.
Michigan was an uncomfortably close state,
too. Blaine's plurality over the fusion eIector-
al ticket is less than 5000
S. H. Bradley. proprietor of the Mention
mills at Mention, H., has failed. Liabilities.
$40, 1000; assets nearly as much
John Healy of Chicago, clerk of the superior
court-elect, thinking himself beaten just after
the election, bet $4,000 on his own defeat and
lost
David Eastman of Harlem, III, lost So ,00t
farm by betting on Blaine, and long after cleo
ton day refused an offer of $500 To draw the
wager.
Ashton, author of ''Social Life in the Reign
of Queen Anne" accuses Justin Mccarthy OF
plagiarism in his recently issued History OF
the Four Georges
Julius Blank of New York, convicted of il.
legally registering before the late election,
was sentenced to Sing Sing prison eighteen
months. Emil Godfrey, who aided him, go'
two and half years.
The supreme court of the United States de
cided that it had no power to reverse the de-
cision of Virginia court holding that insur.
ance companies were not liable for property
burned at Richmond at the time of its capture.
There arrived at st Paul depot recently in
charge of George II. H. Moore, a special car
belonging to the United States fish commission
containing a large plumber of small fish fol
distribution throughout the Northwest and
1000 spawn for the Minnesota hatchery, near
st Paul.
In a contest for purse in Helena Boyd Dick
inson, of the firm of Hagdman & Co., and
AhOAA1S 1uhA VI D1dhS q 4nECio HCio tiit
contestants. Fifteen sheep were dressed by
each man IN an hour. But Murphy was at
work on the sixteenth when time was called
and about one minute ahead so was therefore
declared winner, and the money, about $3.50 in
all was turned over to him
The suspension of the banking house OF
Hyatt Levings and Co. of Washington, Davies
county, Ind, announced recently has created
much alarm throughout that section, as the
establishment was considered in frst-class
condition and the stockholders gilt-edged.
The institution was a private house, and a
large part of the business men of Washington
deposited with it J. c. Billheimer, one of the
assignees, states that the liabilities will proba-
bly, reach $122, 600, and assets about 100000.
B. c. Winston & Co, dealers in hard wood
lumber, with main office in St Paul, have
turned over their property to three trustees,
E. G. Long, Sardinia, N. Y, d. Tozier, Still
water, and w. A Culbertson, St Paul The
firm consisted of b. c. Winston, st Paul, and
S. r. Stimson, Saltwater, and succeeded to the
business of Long & Winston in September,
1885. The liabilities are placed at $50, 600 and
assets 100000