River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-02-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARIZED.

Iowa bee keepers will have convention at
| Davenport Feb. 10 and 19.
The Klingle block, Burlington, Wis, burned
Loss, 5000; insurance, $1,000
At Montreal the Grand Trunk authorities are
| discharging Irish Catholic employees.
Treasury officials at Washington think that
the worst of the depression is over.
The residence of A T. Gault, Montreal, was
| burned. Loss. 1000; fully insured
O. b. Wright of Philadelphia gives $50 to the
Annie Wright seminary at Tacom a, Wash
At Shelton, CT, Adams Cotton Mill No. 1
was partially burned. Adss, $4,000; insured
W. b. Emerson, prominent citizen of Mas
aillon committed suicide, the result Of drunk
ness.
A new baby elephant is expected soon at
Bridgeport Conn, where Barnun's show is
wintered.
/ The Wisconsin legislature is asked to pay
2,0OO for rebuilding the collapsed south
wing of its capitol
John Hoberg of Appleton, Wis, who failed
with liabilities of $4,000, has settled for so
| cents on the dollar.
Mrs Cole, widow of Judge James L Cole,
aged sixty nine, was found murdered in bed
at Plaquemine, La.
Near Glenco, Oregon, James Smith shot and
fatally wounded William Johnson, his brother
in law. johnson is still alive, but tits said will
die.
John l. Sullivan was fined sl15 in the muni,-
ipal court Boston for fast driving and cruelty
beating his horse.
P. J. Seaman, dry goods merchant of Free
port, Ill, has failed. His assets and lisbil-
ties are unknown. His preferences amount TO
$4,000
E H Price, grocer. was closed up. Attach
ments aggregating $4,000 were issued upon
his goods. His assets are between $1,000 and
$1,000
Robert Trembling OF Blunt, OAK, accused
Of land frauds there, has been arrested at
Dwight Ill
There is a great religious revival in Central
Pennsylvania, and Methodists, Mennonites and
Salvation Armyites have made hundreds of
converts.
New York grand jury declines to indict
any one connected with the dIsgraceful pro-
ceedings attendant on the recent change of city
administration.
A fire the livery stable of Charles E. Smith,
Philadelphia, completely destroyed the build
ing and thirty nine horses were burned to
death. Loss, -, Geo
Certain charges have been preferred against
Hon. l. D. Thoman, member of the civil
service commission, rejecting upon him both
personally and officially.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company of Milwaukee is contemplating erect
ing on the site OF the burned Newhall house
fine building, to cost $780, 900.
The Connecticut legislature has resolved TO
return the flag of the Fourth Mississippi cap
tured by the Ninth Nutmeg regiment at Pass
Christian during the urpleasantness.
The Rev. John Armstrong, pastur Of the
Methodist church at Algonac, Mich. has been
detected in plfering the money drawer of the
store of G. J, Dowswell & Co of that place.
At Salt Lake, Utah, Aggie McMurrin was
held in 81 900 bonds for perjury She falsely
swore she married Royal B. Young, who is
held in $1,000 bonds for poiygamy. In 1881.
| The Evening Star building in Washington
was partially burned The paper, however,
was published as usual, and the loss will not
exceed $4,000; fully covered by insurance
Secretary Chandler has ordered the war
steamer Wachuset 10 proceed to Ecuador for
the protection of Julia r. Santos naturaized
American citizen, now suffering Imprisonment
4 for completely IN the rebellion.
At Swan Lake, Oak, fire consumed Jerry
Murphy's store, o. c. Stewards building and
all the records of the probate judge and the
postofice. Loss, Sl5G00; no insurance. 1t is
supposed to be the work of incendiaries.
/ In the New York senate the committee on
commerce and navigation reported favorably
Arkells resolution requesting congress to ap-
propriate $4,000 for the Hennepin canal At
ter long debate the resolution was adopted
Is to 5.
Osborn D. Seavey of Boston has failed and
gone into insolvency Liabilities unknown.
Seavey is in the hotel business at Waterville,
Me. Magnetic, MATS. and st Augustine, Fla,
and in summer he managed the Maplewood
at Bethlehem, n. H.
Gel. Morrow, soon to be tried or the charge
Of duplicating pay accounts, has decided to
plead guilty to the charge of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman. The &C
cused denies any dishonest intent in the acts
with which he is charged.
Jens Simonson, living near Audubon, Mimi,
returned home drunk and finished his orgie
with quarrel with his wife and dose of
strychnine, attempting to aid its digestion
with shotgun, and passing to the great beyond
with neatness and dispatch.
Fire at Eau Claire destroyed the grocery
store of Clnlds & Co, Sixth ward. The build
ing, valued at 81 900, is a complete wreck, in
sured for $500 in the Allemania of pittsburg,
Pa Loss on stock 81 coo with 81 900 insur-
ance in the Phoenix of Hartford
Iowa has been awarded gold medal and
sweepstakes for the best creamery butter made
in the world Iowa was also given the first
| premium for the largest and best display of
potatoes and other vegetables, and the first
premium for fruits from Northern states.
/ Prof. Huxley, is wintering at Florence and
trying to regain his health, much impaired by
incessant mental work He, like Herbert
Spencer and other great thinkers is temperate
/ in all things save brain work Huxley while
resting is yet working six hours day
'Father" Sabin died at Sycamore, Ill, re-
Gently He had been in charge of church in
his town for thirty five years, member of the
house and senate of Vermont, secretary of stats
of Vermont, and member of congress from that
state. He was in his ninety second year.
While a party of Italians were enjoying
themselves in the barber shop of Lorenzo
Janero, in Brooklyn, Janero unwittingly hand
ed a bottle containing poison to his friends.
/ Three mon drank of it, and Castlnze Terzes of
Philadelphia and Ereste Egisto Of New York
/ died soon.
/ Wah Lee, milwaukee Chinese laundryman,
vainly attempted suicide by poisoning, because
Emma Mapes of Oakfeld, Wis, violated her
promise to marry him and refused to have
anything more to do with him. Wah Lee is
said to have given her $500, besides valuable
presents.
Eddie Cunningham, fourteen months old,
was accidentally set on fire by his three year
old brother at Omaha with a lighted piece of
paper, with which he was playing. The child
was taken out by his little brother and rolled
in the snow, but was fatally burned, and soon
afterwayd died
F Shawano correspondent of the Milwaukee
Sentinel saws il 1880 Lieut Jefferson Davis was
stationed at Fort Winnebago, Wis, and had
pretty MenOmonee squaw for mistress, and
that JEFF Davis, Jr., living now on the Menom-
+ once reservation, Is a son of the ex-president
OF the confederacy.
Nothing is known definitely or officially of the
finding in the Swain court martial. 1t is re-
+ ported, nevertheless, that the verdict was adj
I verse to Gen. Swain by the vote of to on
+ all the charges Nothing can be known, how
ever on the matter until the papers have been
/ received by the secretary of war.
/ At a conference of representatives of British
/ Industries in London on the subject of wages,
Charles Bradlaush proposed a novel measure