River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

At Shell Lake, Wis, Smiths confectionery
and root beer mandatory was burned.
society for the eradication of profanity is
the latest moral reform movement in New
York.
Gen. Grant has aged very fast the past few
months, and his hair and beard are nearly
white
Col John NJ Frye, father of United States
Senator Frye, died at Lewiston, Me-, aged
eighty two,
At Cory, Pa, fire destroyed l. Hammond
& Co. 5 planning mill and large lot of lumber.
Loss, $4,000
At Sparta, Wis, the large grain elevator of
J. l. Way q Co, at the Chicago & Northwest
ern depot, was burned.
Harrison, the boy preacher, has in ten days
in Toronto converted thousand people, and
the collections aggregated g., O00
Gen, and Mrs. Logan New Years day, held q
reception in Washington at which /, 400 mem
bers of the G. A. r. attended in body.
Bridge, Barber, & Co, dealers in hops. lime
and lumber at Huntsville, n. Y, have assigned.
Liabilities, $4,000; preference, S25,oOO.
E. R. Hearn, deputy superintendent in Lorill-
ards tobacco establishment, is said to have a
hobby for dogs, which has cost him 100000.
Fire at Eau Claire destroyed the barn and a
portion of the contents belonging to Dr. Char
les Alexander, resulting in total loss of 81,
$40,
The wife of Fred seethner, we'll known
photographer of Milwaukee, left her husband
and skipped with travelling man from Chica-
go.
The Glen wooden mill at North Adams, Mas,
was burned The engine and boiler rooms and
picker house were saved Loss, $780, 600; in
sured
1t is said that one of the signs Of the hard
times in Boston is the unusually large num-
Der of young girls seeking employment as
models.
Rev. Mr.. Wilder, aged eighty three, has re-
turned to the University of Vermont to COM
plete his studies. He was once member of
the class of -
The pope has consulted American bishops as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of appointing an American
rector instead of an Italian for the North Amer
can college at Rome
1t is stated that the managing committee of
the New Orleans commission need at least
$500, 900 to tide them over until the expected
rush of visitors begins.
Near B'akesbury Iowa, Pleasant Anderson
was lynched for the murder of Chris McAllister
more than two years ago. and for which he was
tried and acquitted year ago.
The New Orleans Picayune has suspended
publication of its evening paper, which it has
issued for nearly half century The States
and City Item will occupy the field
Children, who were playing on the ice at
Manchang, Mass, broke through The two
girls of Mitchell Van SAINT and son of Levi
Debrious, aged nine and eleven, were drowned
Mrs Mary E. Cody, step-daughter of Sol
White, prominent Canadian politician and
member of parliament, was arrested at Detroit
$3.50
Lieut. P. Ray of the signal service, who COM
manded the Point Barrow expedition of 1881,
will ask that he be released from signal duty in
Washington before spring in order to join his
regiment
Uncle Peter Burritt of Elgin, Ill, worth
$3.50, 600 and seventy years of age, was married
a few days ago to Miss Rebecca Mcbride, a lady
of twenty three The marriage created quite a
sensation.
l. F. Huffer, the absconding mayor of Davis
City, Iowa, was captured by Sheriff Brown of
Decatur county, near Ottawa, Kan. Huffer is
alleged to be defaulter, and a reward was out
for his apprehension
John IL Miller, an Englishman forty-two
years of age, was arrested in Milwaukee for
the theft of team of horses and hack from
a Chicago livery stable on Dee. Is Miller &C
knowledges the theft
Jacob Greener of Elmira claims that he holds
patent for the mechanism known as the
''sOft pedal" III piano fOrtes and has notified
al piano manufactures that he will hold them
responsible for Infringement
The police authorities believe that the re-
cent robbery of $50, 1000 from Lefever's Jewelly
store on Notre Dame street Montreal was
planned and carried out by Jones, a noted
chief among American burglars.
Fire broke out recently in the female de-
partment of the insane hospital at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, which contains over 500 patients, A
panic ensued, but the flames were soon ex-
tinguished, and no one was hurt
The coinage at the Philadelphia mint during
last year aggregated ), 227, coo pieces, repre-
senting a valuation of SIG, 94S, coo. OF this
amount 81 FAC, eco were gold pieces, s14, 49,
COCO silver, and s796, coo in base coins.
Elder William H. Kelly of Ramoni, Iowa,
one of the twelve apostles and of the high
council of the Josephite Reorganized Church
Of Latter Day saints, arrived in Boston recent
ly on business connected with the church.
One of the drivers on the Rapid and Custer
line left Hill City for Custer Monday evening,
Dec. q, and two weeks later his body was
found leaning against q tree, frozen stiff, while
his dead horses were near by.
Hattie Drummer, aged forty-fve, haiIing from
Milwaukee and known by the name of Guerin,
is in Jail at Topeka on the charge of inducing
some girls of about thirteen years of age to de-
sert their homes and adopt a life of shame
The following report of the Illinois depart
mentof agriculture shows the area of growing
crop of winter wheat in Illinois is S.3l7, coo
acres a decrease of 70, 500 acres from the pre-
vious seeding. Tho condition of the growing
crop is fair
The American art students at Munich unite
in statement correcting a correspondent from
that city who asserted that one could live there
comfortably on $3.50 year They say S345 is
the very least, and $500 Is cosidered moder-
ate allowance.
The entire Northwestern country was visited
by blizzard The wind attained a great
velocity, and as a consequence much drifting
occurred causing great interruption to travel
of all kinds. The blizzard originated in the
extreme Northwest
H. W. Oliver, one of the heavy iron manu-
facturers of Pittsburg, believes the industrial
depression has reached the lowest point He
SAYS: within a short time all our works
will be running full as will nearly all other
manufacturing establishments here.
The corpse of Capt Greene, of the tug
Admiral, blown TO pieces on the Chicago river
was found in a lumber yard near the scene of
the explosion The body was thrown 200 feet,
divested of clothing, the left leg broken and
the head nearly served from the body.
The Pittsburg Bessemer Steel works, at
Homestead Pa, have posted notice that they
will soon reduce the wages Of the employees i'll
their rail mill So per cent those in the convert
ing mill 20 per cent and laborers 10 per cent
The works employ about one thousand men,
Col Boudinot of the Cherokee nation, says
that 6. 500 eco acres of the lands of that nation
are now held under leases for grazing purpo-
ses Outside of that nation about T. O00,OUO
acres belonging to the Cheyennes, ArapahOes
and other tribes are leased TO owners OF cattle.
The Western reports at Rrainerd are that
blockade is still on The whole complement
of the Northern Pacific snow force has gone TO
Oregon 10 help the Oregon Railway and Navi-