River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.


Charles Holden was hanged at Petersburg,
Ill, for the murder of his wife,
Bradstreet reports continued dizziness in
the movement of merchandise.
The striking quarrymen at Lemont, Ill, re-
turned to work, and the trouble Is believed to
be over.
At Locust Gap, Pa, Miss Julia Kramer,
eighteen years old, was shot and fatally in
jured by Peter Knobanch, rejected lover
The court at Saltwater affirmed the sale of
the assets of the lumber firm of Walker, &
Veazie to certain of the creditors for SOC
Editor Houston of New Orleans gives Sem
ator Gibson and Representative King lively
raking, and gently intimates that they dare not
take it up
The governors of the Metropolitan club,
Washington, in response to largely signed
petition from its members, have abolished
poker playin in the club
Gen. Butler is the principal owner of the
Great Falls or rapids water power of the Poto-
mac fourteen miles from the city, which de-
sends about one hundred feet in mile, and
which, it is claimed, is worth 81, 100000.
The management of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad has designated Dr. Fl. II.
Sutherland of Iowa City as veterinary surgeon
to inspect cattle which may be offered for
shipment into or through the state by that line
from quarantined states.
The vote taken in the eastern part of Kidder,
Dakota, and the western part of Stutsman in
regard to forming a new county and calling it
Stanton was carried by seyenty-one majority.
Happen will probably be the seat of the new
county.
The contract for erecting the main exposition
building on the state fair grounds has been
awarded to Charles Hamilton of st Paul.
Architect Brodie declines to state what the
amount of the successful bid was, or to give
ont any particulars. The contract for build
ing the barns has not vet been let
The Mccormick reaper company at Chicago
has reaceived answ srs of 400 correspondents
in the winter wheat states 1t estimates that,
if the ratio thus far is maintained, reports will
show falling OFF of 10 per cent, in the condl-
ton of winter wheat compared with the estl-
mate of April, which put the crop at IS per
cent, of full yield, VIII decrease of 20 per
cent in acreage sown.
Miss Jane Holmes Of Pittsburg in her will
left s270,0 to fourteen existing institutions
and $4,000 each is left for an institution for
the blind, and a hospital sor children; also
$50 OO0 for a Protestant home for boys, pro
viding that all three institutions are organized
within two years. The reslduRry estate Is 10
be divided pro rata between all except three of
the seventeen institutions named. Tbs estate
amounts to over s1,uC0,oo0
Henry CIews, banker and broker, has adj
dressed letter 10 the chairman Of the COM
mittee on admission of securities of the stock
exchange, protesting against listing the rev
issue of Georgia bonds. Clews says ne has
suffered to the extent of several million dollars
by Georga's bad faith il unwarraniably repu-
dating bonds which have full right to equal
standing as representing the credit of the state
as the new bonds and protests against the adj
mission of any new securities until Georgia s
repudiated bonds are recognized and provided
for.
The sixty ninth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bible society was held recently at New
York The issues during the year of Bibles
Testaments, and portions were ,54S, 175, OF
which sos, 719 were circulated in foreign lands
The total issues were Is, 440, FOG. Forty-eight
new auxiliaries were recognized The receipts
for the year were s5S7, 9l4.S and the expendl
lures s6ia. $50 S. For the foreign work of the
society to be expended the coming year, STR,
so has been appropriated Hon F. T. Freling
huvsen was elected president, and William
Gammell, IL D., and Hon John Jay vice
president