River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-11-19
HISTORY OF A WEEK.

ragged with fury for twelve hours. high
wind was blowing and within an hour fifty
dwellings were ON fire. From that the
flames swept on until ninety blocks had
been burned, and 800 families made home
less The flames were only stopped by
reaching the gulf and finding no more to
burn. The fire was in the residence por-
ton of the city which was nearly all wood.
The loss is S2,G00.0W, and insurance less
than half the amount.
the widow of Gen Custer has been pre-
scented by friends a candidate for pension
agent at Detroit, Mich. She lives in New
York and has just returned from Washing
ton much disappointed. She does not want
the Office herself she is engaged in liter
AIRY work which pays her better, but she
went to Washington to urge the appoint
ment of Mrs. Calhoun, sister of Gen. Custer
and widow of lieutenant killed at the time
of the Custer massacre. Her visit was in
effectual.
Six years ago VIM. Thomas was sent to
the Illinois peniteutiary for Il years, for
killing DIR. Allen, of Sandwich, ILL.,, being
convicted on the testimony of a Chicago
female detective, though then and since
protesting his innocence. James Young,
recently sent To Joliet for burglary, says he
IS the man who killed DR. Allen, and he has
been taken before the De kalb Co, Circuit
court for trial for that murder.
1t seems to be conceded on all sides of
the telephone controversy that the sec
rotary of the interior will recommend that
the department of justice assume the
responsibility of a suit to test the validity
of the Bell patent, and that the case,
whichever way it goes, will be taken to the
supreme court and be fat thing for the
lawyers, as there is plenty of money on
both sides
Two hundred delegates are attending
the National Free Trade conference at
Chicago. David A Wells presiding There
are auxillory organizations i'll - states,
and 10000 is to be raised for the congress
sional election of 1886. Among the speak
ers are Frank Hurd, Henry Watterson, j.
Sterling Morton and Henry Ward Beecher.
Cyrus W Field has sued the n Y,
Herald and A. Oakley Hall its London
correspondent for libel, laying damages at
500 The correspondent sent cable that
Field was about to be expelled from the
Anglo American cable company because
unworthy of any portion of trust or
confidence.
A misplaced switch on the Baltimore
and Ohio road threw an express train
bound from Baltimore to Pittsburg off the
track when near the latter city on the 18th.
A sleeping car rolled down an embank-
ment into the Yonghiegheny river inJur-
ing seventeen, but killing no one out
right.
Ex-senator William Sharon died at
San Francisco on the 18th. His last
months were made notable by the suit of
Miss Hill who claimed to be his wife by
contract instead of legal ceremony. The
court decided in her favor and gave her
share in Sharon'S estate.
The coroner-s jury in the case of Mrs.
Pratt, killed on the West Shore r. Z. near
Little Falls. Nov 9th, charge the railroad
company with gross negligence at not pro
viding culvert at the place of the accident.
Three Italians were hung together in the
county jail at Chicago on the 18th. The
crime they committed was the murder last
April of one of their comrades. He was
killed for his money and his body shipped
in a trunk to Pittsburg, whore it was dis
covered.
Or John NJ. Riggs, one Of the most ia
nous dental surgeons of the country died
at Hartford, Conn, on the llth, aged -,
His body will be cremated, by his direction
The governor of Indiana has issued an
uro-pneumonia proclamation, and
I, into
furnish proof that they are not infected
Gen McClellan's viii gives all his real
and personal estate to his wife, and after
her death to his two children. He appoints
VIM & Prince his literary executor.
John ". Bookwalter, of Springfield
Ohio, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernoI four years ago, is about to remove to
Washington to reside permanently.
Horace 3. Clafiin, one of the leading
wholesale dry goods merchants of New
York, died suddenly of paralysis on the
l4th inst He was a years old.
A movement is anoat to abolish the
Brooklyn postoftice. but reduce it to
branch Office under the jurisdiction of the
New York office,
Sixty students of the Ohio Wesleyan
University are suspended for going TO see
Fred Wood play Richard Third.
Joe Mackin, the Chicago ballet box fine
worker" has been denied new trial and
goes to the penitentiary for two years
An explosion in a silver mine in Colo
RADIO occurred on the 18th, and ten miners
lost their lives.
County Treasurer Topper of Atchison,
Kansas, is $4,000 short, and suspended from
office.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, forty persons are
i'll from drinking water from a poisoned
well.
John Bright says the present is the most
critical period England has witnessed since
1892.
DR. Herman, of Morris, will not leave for
his Russian appointment before January
list.
The grand jury in Philadelphia recon- !
mends the whipping post for wife heaters
The total number lost by the Isle Royal
disaster was - and the saved II.
A slnelter costing S3O00O0 is to be built
at Ell Paso, Texas, an English company
furnishing $4,000 of the money, and citi-
zens the balance. The supply of ore from
Mexico will more than keep the smelter
running, night and day.