River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26


1t is semi officially stated in Paris that Bis
marck has offered to arbitrate for settlement
of the dispute between England and Russia in
regard to the Afghan boundary.
The senate has resolved that Barrios ought
not to be permitted to establish Contra
American dictatorship.
Gen. Rosser, Ignatius Donelly, and Col
Shelly called to pay their respects to Secretary
Lamar in Washington.
Mayor o'Briens errand in connection with
the plans for the new bridge at St Paul has
been wholly successful
Tive brothers named Kerr, living near Mat
toon, Ill, quarrelled, when one shot the other,
inficting wound from which he died
David Allen, one ofthe wealthiest men in
Monroe county, Ind, shot W. W. Pitts twice,
near Bloomington. Pitts 10 mortally wounded
1t was the elimination OF an old quarrel
The highest figure obtained at the auction
sale of Charles OConors library was $1S per
volume for Wallace's three volumes of Third
circuit reports The sale will realize about
IS, 600.
Hon Bayliss W. Hanna of Indiana who was
said to be an applicant for minister to Mexico,
has turned his telescope toward Japan, and he is
being urged for the place now filed by john A.
Bingham of Ohio.
The late G. w. McCune of the Buffalo
Courier, left his residence and life interest in
800 coo to his wife, the interest on $50 600 10
his sister, and 81, 600 to his private secretary
and business manager.
Gen William Preston of Kentucky is a can
didate for the Spanish mission-a position he
held under a former Democratic administra-
ton, long ago He is seventy years old but
vigorous and straight as pine.
Louis Hubbef, living in the country near
Elkhart, Ind, was about to be removed to an
asylum on account of alterations of the mind,
but, taking advantage of fLis Waterman, he shot
his wife and then himself dead
In the court martial, Gen Hazen's friends
manifested their sympathy with HIM not only
by their presence, but by loading the table at
which he and his counsel sit with baskets and
bouquets of choice cut flowers.
AT Emmettsburg, Md, 81. Joseph's academy
was burned. 1t was the mother house of the
Sistera Of Charity and the finest building of the
kind in the United States. 1t covered very
large area Loss, $5O0,OOO; insured.
The Iowa Supreme court passed upon the
State vs. O. l. Hale, appellant, from the Lucas
district court Inc uGfGnudub WIS tOuNlGAbu
of forging and sentenced to the ponitentiary.
| The judgment of the court below was affirmed.
A certificate has been issued to Director Gen
eral Burke, of the New Orleans exposition, by
the controller of the treasury, showing thatthe
returns, vouchers, ETC., made to the governs
ment by the exposition management as TO the
disposition of the sl,0OO,OOO government loan,
are correct
DR. Francis Wharton If Philadelphia has
been appointed legal adviser upon questions
of international law in the state department.
to succeed Judge Henry 0Connor. DR..
Wharton resigns from the chair OF mterna-
tional law, Boston university, to accept the
position.
| George Hood, brakeman on tho Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul railroad caught his foot
between the main rail and guard rail of a
switch at Clear Lake station, Iowa, while UNI
/ coupling cars, and before he could extrlcate II
I the freight train backed on him crushing him
/ to death
/ T. A Marcher, a jeweler of Woonsocket, Oak.
! was arrested for buglarizing Smith Bro. Is safe
j and stealing money therefrom. He confessed
1 that he got hold of one of Smith Bros keys TO
i their private drawer in the safe, drew model
j of the key on paper and manufactured an ex-
act model out Of 50cent silver coin.
At Quincy, Ill, young colored man, ]. @
/ Henson, swore out o warrant charging Elder
! II, G. Henderson. pastor of the African Metho-
| dist church, with having committed rape upon
! Henson's sister on the 18th of October last
/ Henderson, whose standing in the community
is above reproach, gave bonds to appear at the
examination.
i Ed Dolittle and John Schonbach, the two
railroad strikers arrested at Hannibal Mo-, a
few days ago by United States Marshal Couz-
1 ms for interference with the operations of the
! Wabash railway, had q hearing before Judge
/ Brewer, of the United States circuit court, and
were each sentenced to sixty days in jail
The Senate confirmed the following appoint
ments: Col Nelson H, Davis inspector general,
| with the rank of brigadier general; Lieut. Col
Absolum Baird, inspector general, with the
/ rank of colonel; Edward ID. Clark, Mississippi,
! assistant secretary of the interior; Sidney ID.
4 Jackman, Texas United States marshal West
ern district of Texas.
/ When Miss Cleveland, now lady of the White
House, left her position as teacher in the Leb-
anon high school some years ago, the pupils
| gave her surprise in the course of the chorus
/ sung at the concluding exercises. They amend
| ed the lines, ''We are ready to fight ready to
| die, for our fatherland, and sung, "We are
ready to fight ready to die, for Miss CleVe-
! land"
! T. W. Henderson, the colored pastor OF
/ Quincy, Ill, who was charged with rape,
proved an alibi, and the prosecuting attorney
| dismissed the case Henderson was. then ex-
/ amined on a charge of bastardy, sworn out by
] the woman Henson. Although the same eyi-
/ dence was given, the justice bound the accused
/ over to the June term Of the county court IN
/ $4,000.
The principal gift of the Emperor William
to Bismarck on the occasion of the latter's
seventy-f birthday-the 1st proximo-wlll
/ be a copy by Won Werner of his famous his
| torical picture entitled ''The Proclamation of
| the German Empire at Versailles The original
| was presented to the kaiser by the reignlng
sovereingns of Germany at the time of the
| unification.
Applications for foreign missions continue
to pour in at the state department and it takes
/ about the whole time of one man tc index snd
1 file them. Some of the requests are in regular
application form, but many are concealed in
| personal letters to the secretary. The MAORI
| ty are for eonsulships, but the more import
ant Offices are not sighted and many applica-
lions are made for the most important missions
| in the gift of the government
Mary Baker, the sixteen year-old daughter
Of William Baker, a German comedian, and
Justin Segrist, both of Buffalo, were arrested
/ in Cleveland while on the way to St Louis
/ Segrist is nineteen, and was a clerk in BUffa-
/ 10 wholesale house. Segrist lamented his fate
| and accused the girl of getting him into trou-
| BILE The girl says she is determined to marry
/ Segrist She was taken back to Buffalo, and
| the young man. being released, proceeded to
! St Louis.
Two new senators-Gray OF Delaware and
! Wilson Of Maryland--were sworn in the senate.
! Senator, Wilson is about five feet eight inches
( tall, looks to be about sixty years of age and
/ has a scant head of hair, which is as white as
/ snow. His face, which is very pale, is smooth
/ shaven. He was given seat in the second tIei
from the rear and to the right of the vice pres
/ ident There are still vacant chairs IN the sen
ate to be filled by senators chosen from Hi
I nois, Arkansas and Oregon.
Joseph Shelton and George X Osborn were
! Swallowed by United States detectives at Chi
! ago. and arrested while passing counterfeit
/ quarters. In some part of the house Capt
! Hall unearthed Sl30 in counterfeit quarters
/ IS in imperfect silver dollars, put aside to bt
| remelted one face die for the dollar issue Of
/ 1884, two back dies for silver dollars and 8
/ face and back die for quarters of 1877, and two
strips of German silver or composition II
! which standard silver of 80 per cent value il
/ found
/ Congressman Wellborn of Texas is not wei
| pleased with the civil service reform HI
wanted Democratic constituent appointed to
| a postoifice This is what he says of his in.
1 terview with Gen Villas: The postmaster
| general looked at me as if / was a public
| enemy, and said only one way could any Of
| ficer be removed who holds Office for 3 foul
wear term, and that is by filing III one form
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