River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-05


In St Louis assignation house Thomas
Bostwick a saloonkeeper, killed Mrs. T. b
| McGue and committed suicide.
William Jackson Moore Of Triadelphis, Pa.
claims to have escaped from an eleven years
imprisonment by his relatives.
The first ripe strawberries of the season have
| just made their appearance in Charleston, anG
| the quality is said to be delicious
Goldman Bros & Co wholesale hardware
dealers, of Columbus, Ohio, has assigned; as
! sets, $4,000; liabilities, S22 900.
Labouchere says that the Princess Beatrice
and Prince Henry will reside with Beatrlce's
mother The queen will keep an eye on Henry.
| Mrs Gen Tom Thumb finds her widow.
| hood irksome, and is going to marry Count
| Magri who is q WEI formed pigmy Its love
| match.
! DR. Joshua Thorne has presented TO a Kan
sas City Masonic lodge the Masonic apron worn
| by George Washington, who was presented With
| it in 1874.
| Little Rhode Island sports an army of 70t
men, commanded by five brigadier generals,
fifty-five staff officers and sixty-seyen inferioi
officers.
T. NJ. Samuel 4 Son and Benjamin W. Lewis,
wheat operators at st Louis have gone under
Also HUM & Esch and j. W. Belcber of Mil
waukee.
7. H. Tracy & Co, dealers in dry goods and
| general merchandise, at Edward, Ill, made an
assignment Nominal assets, S4S, 800; iabili-
ties, $4,000
An effort will be made at the present session
of the Canadian parliament to have Manitoba
and the Northwest Territory represented in the
dominion cabinet
Congressman Prices amendment to the river
and harbor bill, increasing the appropriation
for Superior harbor from S12, 500 to s2S, 00G
| passed the house
Mr.. r. R. Hotchkiss, the inventor of the eel
ebrated Hotchkiss machine shell gun, whose
| death in PARIS recently has been announced,
left fortune Of s5,0O000O.
Bishop Gillespie, of the Episcopal diocese OF
| Western Michigan, is vigorously opposing tho
skating Kinks, but is inclined to let the pro-
| gressiYe euchre craze slide.
Justice Harlan, when practicing law in Lou,
| isville, once charged an insurance company
| $4,000 for advising the president of the com.
| pany to change four words in policy. Anc
the judge got the check.
A petition for the release of Edmund Yate,
from prison in London on the ground of il
health has been favorably received by Har-
court, home secretary. 1t is thought the re.
lease of Yates will soon be ordered
The Irish Times asserts that threatening let
tiers have been received at Marlborough house
and at the home Office from professed Fenians
warning the officials that the visit of the prince
OF Wales viii be attended with danger.
In the suit brought in New York by Mrs.
Catherine NJ Burnham against Macy & Co., for
jecting her to the humiliation of a search, the
jury gave the plaintiff Verdictfor $1,000
In the divorce suit brought in London by
the young earl of Durham against his wife, nee
Miner, on the ground of insanity, the arch
bishop of York deposed that Miss Miners
conversation reached the ordinary standard Of
intelligence.
Under the mediation of the grand duke OF
SAKE Weimer the emperor of Germany has Of
fered to recognize the right of the duke of
Cumberland to the throne of Brunswick, on
condition the duke renounces his claim to the
throne of Hanover
The Minneapolis building appropriation was
passed in the civil sundry bill in the house.
The Grand Marais lighthouse appropriation
also passed This gives 1852 to fully com
plete the house according to the estimates of
the army engineers.
Bishop Warren of the methodist church,
who married Mrs Lift, the widow of the Cat
tie King, is laboring hard on behalf of the
Denver university fund. Mrs. Warren has
agreed to give 100000, on condition that the
citizens subscribe like amount.
Forty thousand dollars is appropriated by
the civil sundry bill for the care of the Yellow
stone Park This covers every expense for
its protection and improvement, including the
pay of the superintendent and his assistants,
his salary being fixed at 81, 900 and the others
at $500.
John Smallwood prominent member of the
law and order organization of Letcher county,
Ky, met HcClelland Adams, a desperado, and
a quarrel ensued. Pistols were drawn and
Adams was killed Adams killed two men in
January and defed the authorities. Small
wood was not arrested.
The National Theatre in Washington burned
on the 26th inst The theatre building, of which
only the crumbling walls remain, was owned
by W. w. Rapley who also managed the thea
tire. He estimates the value of the building at
100000, and furniture, scenery and proper
ties at 1000, and says his insurance is about
$4,000
Postoffices Washington Terri
tory: Lackman, Kitsap county Postofices
Discontinued-W Wisconsin: Stoner's Prairie,
Dane county; mail to Verona Postmasters
missioned-DanlelR r. Johns Groton, Oak
c. K Ingam, Alton, Iowa: N. W. Simmons,
Boone, Iowa; T. ]. Ross, Nevada, Iowa; L. M.
Purtell, Cumberland, Wis
Combinations George H. Craig, United
States district attorney, Northern and Middle
districts of Alabama; Francis E. Warren, gov
ernor of Wyoming; James 7. Kelcher, Ken
lucky, first assistant engineer, revenue ser
vice; William l.. Scruggs, Georgia, minister
plenipotentiarv to the United States of Column
bia Post chaplains, Rev B. c. Hammond of
Iowa and Rev. Joseph A Potter of Indiana.
A terrible explosion occurred at the British
royal school of gunnery at Shoeburyness,
while artillery officers and scientists were test
ing a new patent fire fuse. Three men were
killed outright and several fatally wounded.
Among the latter were some of the most promi-
nent officials of the government laboratory at
Woolwich The victims were frighdully man
gled.
The supreme court of Oregon affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case of Nell
son Bennett against the Northern Pacific Ex-
| press company. Bennett sued for SIS, 600, the
value OF package of moneyIshipped from Port
! land to Ainsworth and stolen from the agents
safe on the night of arrival The lower court
found for Bennett in full amount
| Col Fox Strangways, commandant of the
royal school of gunnery at Shoeburyness, and
| Col Lyon head official of the government
| laboratory at Woowich, who were wounded by
! the explosion at the royal school of gunnery,
are dead Each had both legs blown OFF
| Three more of the injured have also died
| Capt Adams experiment officer; Sergeant
| Dakln and Gunner Underwood
In an interview in Paris, Stephens, the Feni-
an leader, affirmed that he was invited to at
| tend a conclave recently Since then he had
seen leading delegates, who were determined
| men, with one object in view-the liberation of
| Ireland He has induced several delegates to
| suspend further dynamite operations until an
| other conclave can be held, which he viii call
| at Paris He will then expound plan for an
organized rising III Ireland.
Excess of values of exports over imports Of
merchandise for January, $3e, 345, 969; sever
months ended Jan 81, 1885, $147, go SOY;
! twelve months ended Jan. 81, 1885, S13S, 756
| 652 Total values of imports of merchandise
! for twelve months ended Jan 81, 1885, S6l7,
! 166, 92S; preceding twelve months, $6S4, 405,
e35 Total value of exports of merchandise
| fortweIve months ended JAN 81, 1885, 100, 925,
| $50; previous twelve months, SIS, SlS,670.
Senator Dawes, with several other men,
bers of his committee on indian affairs, had a
| lengthy pleasure trip to the Pacific cost last
summer at the expense of the govern ment, on
! pretense of examining into the condition OF
/ certain Indian tribes Now, on further pre-
| tense that more information is needed, the SEN
/ ate has voted permission to Mr.. Dawes, and
| such of his friends in the committee as he may
| select TO make another pleasure trip of the
4 same character next summer
Representative J. Warner received con-