River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS News Notes.
Helena. Ark, settles $3.50, 600 debt at 50

Helena, Ark, settles s250, 600 debt at 50 cents.
Gen Gibbon is in command Of the depart
ment of the Platte in Gen. o. o. Towards alb
sence
The trustees of Dartmouth college have
voted TO erect library building at a cost of
$4,000
Newport. Ky. relief soup houses still dole
out 3, 900 loaves of bread aud 6,o00 pounds of
meat daily.
All goods hereafter made hy New Jersey
convicts will be stamped Made in the New
Jersey state prison.
Henry Ward Beeeher said at a high license
meeting III New York that it is impossible to
enforce total abstinence
E. DERRICK & Co, (E. Detriek aud J. H.
Nicholson), dealers in bags and twine in San
Francisco, assigned on the 29th to Jacob E.
Faber. Liabilities s5S0,OOO
Mrs Roosevelt Schuyler of Philadelphia has
begun suit for divorce She charges her hus-
band with desertion Both parties are widely
known in New York society.
In Boston beer saloon, with free drinks for
the crowd, a wealthy New Yorker, named Col.
r. J. Fox, was married TO Hannah J. Slverett,
on one DAYS acquaintance.
The banks of New York have since Wednes-
day drawn s., 100, COO in gold coin from the sub
treasury evidently in the belief that the yellow
metal is soon to leap to premium
Resolutions wereintroduced in the Mississippi
house, looking to the impeachment of Cen J..
Argyle Smith. state superintendent of educa-
ton, on account of his Incorporate use of
whisky
Joseph Duffree of Cleveland, Ohio, has
brought suit against syndicate of West Virgin
ia men. headed bv x-Goy Farnsworth, to re-
cover $4,000 tho value of some land whose
title proves defective
A Venstreforening has been organize al Eau
Claire for the purpose of collecting $1,000 as a
gift to Johan Sverdr1lp, the untring leader of
the Liberal party in Norway. The plan Is meet
ing with general fovor, and one man iIas sub
scrihed $3.50
Frank Young who was sentencedto be hanged
at Helena Mon, for the murder Dan Nc
Carly last July, has been rcspited by President
Arthur unit jlDcc u, inorder that his attorneys,
Vivian and Mayhew, can take his case to the
United States supreme court
Samuel MeElroy, the well-known engineer,
has let ont the fact that the big Brooklyn bridge
is not entirly perfect He says: THAT the
cables of the East river bridge have very con-
siderablv heightened Is shown by the fact that
the suspender bands have been slipped nearer
the towers by several inches.
Further advices from the Cnur d'Alene dis
trict confirm the opinions already expressed as
to the advisability Of waiting for better weather
before giving way to an attack of the gold fe-
yer. At present the cost of living il excessively
high. accommodations are extremely bad, and
the cold weather and deep snow preclude any
efforts in the search for gold
At San Francisco two women horseWhipped
D. L. Begenberger. a prominent attorney. Re
genberger was walking ON Kearney street when
the pair sprang out of carriage, performed
the deed, re-entered and drove away. The
cause Is said to be expressions of the attorney
resenting the intrusion Of the women in his So
ciety at Aardi Gras ball the night before.
Two weeks ago Virgins the weather pro
phet, advised Canadian and United States pa
pers along the seaboard of two heavy storms,
dangerous to shipping, that would happen in
the near future, one beginning the 9th of Feb
ruary. and the second and greater of the two
on the 26th of March The first was true, and
Friday. the Doth, blizzard almost unprece-
dented took place, and is now blowing.
There were 237 failures reported to Brad
streets during the past week, nineteen more
than the preceding week. which had one holi-
day. tw enty-tiiree less than the corresponding
week Of 1885, and eighty i've more than the