River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-02-19
Judge E. Van pnren Of Chicago q dead

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Mrs. Lizzie sibert dropped dead in a Bloom
ington, Ind, church.
The weeks failures numbered 273 against
$50 the week previous.
At Hallidaysberg, Pa, DR.. L. n Beach was
hanged for wife murder.
William Harrington died near New Orleans
the 0th inst, aged 100 years
Milwaukee merchants protest against New
Works attempt to abolish interior ports of en-
ty.
A man supposed to DO Joseph Pierce, Of the
St Peter asylum was killed by the cars near
Ottawa
The brother of Con Murphy, the lynched
Montana horse thief, was found on a cowcatch
or at Dubuque
President Adams informs Secretary Teller
hat the Union Pacific is ready with cash for
settlement with the government
The banking house of Harris & James, Of
Ste Genevieye, Me, has made an assignment
Liabilities, $4,000; assets, 100000
William ]. White, a married man, OF Dover
Plains, n. H., killed Samuel Proctor. They
/ qnarreled over a woman. White was arrested
George Schneider of Hamilton, Ohio, has been
found guilty OF murder in the first degree. He
was charged with killing and robbing his moth
I er.
I TIE Dakota legisl AZURE has sent memorial
asking fer division Il reached the senate a
| month too late. In the house j falls on bar
rem ground
I The eightieth anniversary Of David Dudly
Field, the eminent lawyer and jurist was cele-
brated in the residence of Cyrus W. Field
| Friday evening.
gambler named Henderson, who LIGHTS his
cigars with S. bills and throws hackmen $50
1 gold pieces, has just taken $4,000 to $20,WU
| cut of Louisville.
At Binghamton, n Y, fire broke out in
/ Pratts rag warehouse. The owners of the
stock sustained an aggregate loss of So5,OOO
/ The building was worth So, OOu
Baltimore society has a sensation in the re-
! cent secret wedding of Miss Lily Banks, daugh-
/ ter of Mr.. Morton ID. Banks, and Mr. Frank II.
! Larned, Jr, son of Mai Larned, of the United
States army.
! Rev John Dufield, D. D., professor of
mathematics in the College Of New Jersey for
thirty years, and member of the faculty for for
/ ty years, has resigned on the ground of long
service, but the trustees refuse TO accept
il is learned that the sentence of the court
martial in Col. Morrows case is that he be rep
rimanded by the secretary of war and that he
retain his present grade for two years. The
case will be referred to the president for final
action.
Ex-Alderman Wilson, one of Winnipeg most
prominent citizens, has been arrested, charged
with appropriating 81 900 trust money to his
! own use The money was from the estate OF
Dan Mills, until late doing business in Mime
apolis.
Several weeks ago il was given out by Mrs
Richard Trump, living near Terre Haute, Ind.
that her husband had killed himself while she
was out in the coal shed getting coal Recent
ly she was arrested and confessed that she her
self had committed the murder.
On the LIST of March last year there were 81
saloons in operation in different portions o.
Minneapolis. The number of licensed saloons
at present is only 27S, showing falling off o
nearly half under the dead line aud high
/ license ordinance enacted last summer at th'
suggestion of Mayor Pillsbury.
Attachments aggregating about $1,000 havt
been made at Bozeman, Mont, on the proper
ty Of Maj d. s. Gordon, IT, S. A., formerly
commanding officer at Fort Ellis, now stationed
at the Presidi, California. GorG0n led fas
/ life while in Bozeman, and these debts are the
outcome Oh sucA 6AtIdfdSdACSs
Never before in the history vi the marine
world have so many steamships aud sailing
vessels been so long overdue as al the present
time. There are upward of 100 ships at sea
bound to New York port which have not YET
been spoken or otherwise heard from The
majority of them should have arrived
many days ago and some fortnight ago
Recorder Smytne of New York sentenced Miss
Jennie Elmore to five years in the penitentiary
for forgery The woman eloped from Minneap.
oils with man who is described gam
bier, He had poor luck in this city and lltreat-
ed his companion He finally, according to her
story, induced her by threats to take forged
checks for small amounts and pass them to Sc.
/ cure food
Startling revelations have been made regard
ing the British war establishment whom the
troops were inspected recently many Thousand
men were found to exist merely on paper,
Regiments which were reported at their full
complement proved to be mere skeletons, anC
cooks servants and camp followers Were
hastily crowded into the ranks to satisfy the
inspectors.
Five men were asphyxiated in Chicago sew
err Four were dead when brought UP and an
other died soon afterward. The names Of the
dead are Mcheel Laski, Joseph Gill, James
NErhCtNs 5afIGl OurClS ana IhdticW mdSOA. AL
were married except Gill The survivors say
their first intimation that anything was wrong
was when Gill dropped dead.
O. Rolette. Jr., and Charles Bouttineau are
here with delegation of chefs and head men
Of the Chppewas, and recently Moose Dung
and other Red Lake chiefs came in from tht
West They say their erraDd is 10 notify thu
government that they will not treat with tht
United States or seed foot of ground unless
they are protected by military force, if nee
essary, from the inroads of white men The
Turtle Mountain chiefs for some reason objec
to Encouragement of the Devils Lake lane
district
Maj. Gen William Earle, G. s. l., who was
killed at BERT, recently, entered the British
army in 1851, and reached the rank of major
general in 1880 He served with the Forty.
| ninth regiment through the Crimean way, anC
participated in the battles of Alma and mixer
man. the seige of Sebastopol, the sortie of Oct
2G and the result of the Redan In the Brit
ish campaign in Egypt against the army OF
/ Arab Pasha Gen. Earle was in command d
the lines of communication, and rendered ex
cellent service.
George Colgraye, accused of the murder o
John Atkins at Waukesha, says a Milwaukee
dispatch, has stated that he was innocent Of thu
crime This is the first statement he has made
having previously refused to say anything. III
said that his friend Braddon committed thu
| crime and came to him and asked him TO draw
the officers away from the scent He had dom
= 30 for q sufficient time to allow Brandon to ge
away, and he now p opposed TO prove his lnno
cence. Braddon disappeared after the murder
and has not been heard from since. Colgray
viii be tried at Juneau.
A number of unpublished letters of Lort
and Lady Byron have been offered for sale a
public auction In one letter Lady Byrol
writes: Lord Byron married me with tn
deepest determination of revenge, which h
avowed on the day of our marriage, and whicl
{ he executed ever since with systematic and in
creasing cruelty. There are other letters il
the same strain: also correspondence of Lad.
Byron with Augusta, the poets sister refer
/ ring to family differences. The letters sug
gest nothing to support the scandalous Charge
| of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Wisconsin senators have asked time il
executive session to look over the papers il
the charges against Marshal Botkin OF Montana
Senator Cameron SAYS he will vote for Mr.
. Kriedler's confirmation when he is Statistic,
| the judiciary committees report is in accord
; anee with the facts Senator Lapham Of New
York is pushing Mr. Kfiedlers confirmation
! and after due courtesy TO the Wisconsin sena
tors expects the senate to vote for MI. Kreid
Ter 1t should go into history, by the way, tina
Kreidler was not Gov Crosbys candidate HI
, had another man in view for the place, but tn
president knew hTeidler's efficiency and select
ed him.
! Some days ago Miss Cox, residing nea
Okone, Westva, was seized with neuralgia o
the bowels. A physician administered dos