River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-22

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of 1884, 1888, and 1882 respectively About "a
per cent were those of small traders, whose
capital was less than $1,000 Among those
embarrassed were: John j. Cisco & Son,
bankers, and Joseph r. Wallach, wholesale
ribbons, New York city; Oliver Bros & Phil
Pittsburg; Gregg & Son, shoe manufacturers,
Binghamton, n T.; James B. Hall, dry goods,
Troy n. Y; Farmers Bank, Elizabethtown,
Pa; r Moog, wholesale grocer Mobile; The
John W. lowell company, agricultural imple-
merits, Salt Lake City.
James G. Blaine Jr viii enter the Yale cleas
of1SS0
The Hudson river Is free from ice to within
twenty miles of Albany.
Miss Mackey's dowry as Princess Colonna, it
is said is to be 100000 francs
John Russell Young, backed by.John Mackay,
is said to banker for the New York Times.
The house committee on military affairs re-
fuse to call up the Grant retirement bill.
Fire in No 50 West Fifty third street owned
bye. Van Yechten, caused loss of $4,000.
A Verdict of $500 was obtained in New
York against the Central Railroad of Minneso-
The libel suit of Edwin Locke VS. The Brad
street Company resulted ina verdict for the de-
PENDANT.
The agricultural appropriation bill will rec
ommend the expenditure of Sl00,000 less than
last year
The Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific are
fighting Tor the control of the south shore Of
the st Lawrence.
at Koukouna, the Twin City hall and two
buildings adjoining were burned Loss, S.
GOO; insurance, 81, 200
The body of Jerome, a well-known merchant
of Lincoln, Neb., has just been found on dis
secting table in that city.
The will of Glarissa Rindge of Cambridge,
Mass, disposes of property worth $4,000, 900,
most of il going to her son.
Sanford s. Voorhees,, convicted of wrecking
a train near Hubbell, Neb., has been sentenced
to fifty years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Mary Hewitt, the famous wife of man
also famous in literature, still lives at the age
Of eighty-fve years, in her Tyrolese home.
T. D. Welldone and wife, young couple
from South Carolina, were drowned while
fishing OF Lake Mineola, near Altoona, Ala.
A B. Campbell, claiming to be nephew of
Sir Alex Campbell of Canada is under arrest
ion mails.
The steamer Lord Give sailed from Phila-
delphia for Liverpool with seventy thousand
bushels of grain recently-the largest cargo
for months.
Benjamin F. TAFT, clerk of the Cincinnati
police department was arrested on warrant
charging him with emb9zzling $4,000 of the
city funds
Miss Emma Bond, or Milwaukee, who never
fully recovered from the horrible outrage of
two years ago, IS now in dying condition from
the Objects of a fall.
Fire broke out in the store of F. W. Thorn
ton, Fayetteville, n. c. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000 Warren Prior's jewelry store
was also burned
The total amount of the Harvard college
fund is s4S03, 93S; income for the year, $780,
$50; against expenditures, $751; S4; receipts
for the year S256, 43&
Samuel l. Williams farmer, near Red Key,
Ind. has been murdered The presumption
is that he was killed for a large sum of money
he was bringing from Buffalo.
Sarah Bernhard will petition for a divorce,
having had an offer of marriage from an Eng
lishman under circumstances so strange and
romantic as to be almost incredible.
Damasi Desarmicos, the Catholic priest from
Canada who two weeks ago attempted to out
rage three young girls in Milwaukee, had his
trial and was found guilty by the jury
Miss Della McGill, girl of eighteen, living
at Whitewater, Wis, eloped with Joseph Bish-
op, q chimney sweep The girl had for some
time been confined i'll an insane asylum
Frank Van Amburg, deaf and dumb man,
committed suicide at Anamosa, Iowa, recently
by throwing himself before Chicago & North
western freight engine, while switching.
\ charivari party was fred into by some one
in the house of Joseph A. Dibble, farmer and
fruit tree agent of Osceola, Mich, Ed Mann
was killed and three others were wounded
Rev Kennedy Kreighton, pastor of a Toron-
to chp.ch, was preaching on Paul's conversion
aud had just finished reading the words ''and
he fell to the earth" when he fell, stricken
with paralysis.
Hirrm Richardson. one of the oldest citizens
of Rockford, Ill, died recently. A year ago he
arranged the details of his funeral, selecting
his pail bearers; but three of them, old settlers
died before him.
The nephew of Sir Alexander Campbell of
Canada, arrested at Chicago on charge of
being concerned in conspiracy to rob the
back to Canada.
Prof Benjamin Siiliman, of Yale college,
died at New Haven Heretained consciousness
almost to the last His death was caused by
heart disease, which induced dropsy and
uraemic poisoning.
At Durand, Ill, half dozen young men en-
gagged in a drunken row in a billiard hall
Cues, balls, pistols and knives were freely
used john Van Yalkenburg and Matthew
Doyle cannot recover
Frank Hawk, who skipped from fletcher,
Oak, last fall, with $500 belonging to Basset,
Hunting & Co. was lodged IN jail at Mitchell.
He was arrested in Minneapolis recently, by
G. C. Weed of Sioux Falls.
\ man named Henry Wurst, the agency bar
Der at Standing Rock, Oak, was found recent
ly by some Indians, with his hands, face and
feet frozen. He was unconscious all day, and
is considered to he past recovery.
Frank and Nathan Rainsbarger have been
arrestes at Eldora, Iowa, on suspicion of the
murder OF Enoch Johnston Nov. II. Frank is
the son-in-law of JOhnston and inter ested in
the large insurance on the murdered mans
life.
The strike of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne, &
Chicago brakemen, which was inaugurated re-
Gently still continues the strikers being rein
forced to some extent by the arrival of the
brakemen who were on the road when the
strike began.
Allen Brewer, farmer residing about two and
half miles south of Riehland Center, Wis, not
having been seen since he left his home on the
9Th INST 10 60 to Muscoda, search was insti-
tuted, which finally led to the finding of his
body in a slough near Muscoda.
The oldest and most extensive stock bell fac
tory in the United States, at Collinsville, H..
was burned Fifteen thousand dozen bells
were destroyed The loss is SIC, 0O0 with no
insurance The factory was known as the |.
c Moore factory, but owned by o. B. Wilson.
Lieut. Johr S Pa1ke, of the Twenty-first
United States infantry, stationed at Sydney
| Barracks, Neb., was married Thursday to Miss