River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

marie van Landt Is recovering the
use OF her paralyzed limbs.
Mary Anderson was % wears old the
Sd inst, and w J. Florence was So
years the same day.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes photo
graphr are displayed in all the London
shop windows.
Tho King of Portugal will visit Der
i'm next month and attend the grand
I, parade.
kaskaskia was once the Capital Of
Illinois, with population OF 1000
Now ii has but $50 Inhabitants.
A swarm OF Dakota grasshoppers
stopped twenty minutes for refresh
ments and ate up fifty-acro field near
Fargo.
There are 100000 Italian settlers in
the Argentine Republic, $4,000 in
Brazil 10000 in Uruguay, and G,000 in
Mexico.
There is a place in Pennsylvania
called Economy" 1t is probably a
summer-resort for editors. -Nc10 HaUen
Nelrs.
Rev J. T. McCrory Of Pittsburg, an
aggressive Prohibitionist, like Had
dock, Is receiving letters threatening
assassination.
Russia is negotiating for n loan Of
100000, 600 rubles Mt Amsterdam. but
does not meet with favor with tho
Amsterdam bankers.
Since 1891, 1920 Mormons have
arrived in this country from Europe.
ant il is said that the rate of immigra-
ton is on the increase.
One hundred and fifty thousand new
subscribers have applied for the new
bonds issued by the Panama Canal
Company.
A terrible explosion of gasoline took
place in the cellar of Einboer. a mer-
chant, at Stuttgart. Six persons were
killed and many wounded.
The memoirs of the Able List are
full of piquant details, written by him
self They will be published soon un-
der the title of My Life. .
Mr. George Augustus Sala is about
/ 70 write his life. No man can write
his own life as satisfactorily as other
/ people can DO ii for him.
Mrs Gen Grant entertains no COM
pany at her Long Branch residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w Chiids her
next door neighbors, excepted
The great Hollerich ir0n-works az
Luxembourg have failed. This inoreas-
cs very largely the prevailing depres-
sion III the iron market.
The female college Of the Episcopal
Church, Bethany, Of Topeka, Kansas,
has just conferred Pm ID. on Miss
Amelia b. Edwards, of England
Miss Minnie Hauk has rented her
! Swiss castle on condition that the Stars
and Stripes are kept flying. Minnie is
flyer herself and always on the wave.
More than , per cent of all the
| privates in Russian army were pun
/ ished by court-martial last year.
Among the offenses were 5000 rob-
4 berries.
At wedding in Grinnell, Ia, re.
Gently the groom was a native of Bath,
n. Y, the bride of Bath ~ H., and
the officiating clergyman, DR.. Magoun,
Of Bath, Me.
/ The Gar, it IS said, sent 4 special
/ Embassy to Tehcran to negotiate with
/ the Shah of Persia for an alliance.
/ Russian influence is very great At
Tchcran at present
At Brussels. Germany, the Socialists
/ Wagner and Ruytens have been sen
fenced to five years penal servitudo fer
melting violence and pillago during
/ the riots at Liegc last March.
10 Howard in the Boston Globe says
/ Mr. Tildcn's death is directly traccable
| TO nine ounce peach which he
plucked from one of his trees and ate
against the advice Of his attendants
/ Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle. ON the az
/ jOurnment of congress went to Deer
( Park, Md, for n stay Of a week or
\ two; thence 90 10 COvington, their
I home. for few days, and afterwards
/ 10 Wichita, Kan, to visit their sons.
( The value of the estate of the late
! ;. j. Tilden is said to be 81, 500, 900.
His sister Mrs Pelton, is his nearest
relative, and there are about twenty
| persons who expect TO share in the di-
vision of the property, among them
two nephews aud four nicces, chill
drcn Of his dead brother Berry.
Lord Londonderry, the new Lord
Lieutenant of ireland, is q descendant
of Lord Castlercagh, tho man who
dragged England into the war with
France for which she is still paying
and who, after being curse to Great
Britain and ireland, cut his throat.
A scheme is alleged to be under con-
sidcration by the Governments of the
Central American Republics Of Saliva
Dor. Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica,
and Guatemala to consolidate under
one national confederacy, with view
of annexation to Mexico.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor Of the
New York World. is credited with the
possession Of $500, 900 in registered +
percent bonds, and his income for the
current We is estimated ut $500 900,
indicating the possession Of property
TO the amount of $1,000, 600. Twenty
years ago he was a pennicss boy in
St. Louis
The Inflated yacht Sarah Craig was
named in honor OF Mrs. Sarah Craig
AuchiGcloss Of New York, and by
sad aud strange coincidence it happens
that wi,hiu a few hours Of the disaster
20 he Philadelphia pleasure party Mrs.
Auchiucloss died, too, never hearing
al the accident.
GraGasir Merrill was a nold-time
saint who always BACKED his boots
Saturday night, and if he found Sab
bath morning hat he had little too
much gloss on hem for Christian he
carefully removed some of the shine
before going to meeting. - Boston Rec
prd.
The little town Of Iippchcne, in the
New Mark, erected the other day large
obelisk in enumeration of the brave
act Of the then LANDOWNER lieutenant.
now Prince-C Chancellor Won Bismarck
in saving, at the risk Of his own life
drowning calvaryman.
David S. Terry, husband of the
notorious Sarah Althea Hill, and prime
instigatOr of the assassination of
Senator Broderick, has petitioned the
California Legislature to remove from
office Judges Morrison and Sharpstein
of the Supreme Court, on the ground
that disease has rendered them physic-
ally and mentally unfit to perform the
duties Of the position
The Acting Secretary of the Treas
urv, has amended the instructions
heretofore issued in regard to minor
coins, so as to provide that one-cent
bronze pieces and fiye-cent nigkels viii
be forwarded from the Mint of the
United States at Philadelphia in sums !