River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-11-11
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

The Republic of Uruguay is passing
through political crisis.
Nj. Milaud succeeds Nj. Baihaut as
French minister of public works.
Gen. Garcia dc la Cadena has been
shot in Mexico for high treason.
Osman Diena with large force is
marching to relieve Tokar, Egypt.
The population of France has in
creased only 100000 in five years.
The Governors of States are Issuing
Thanksgiving proclamations for Nov.
20.
Mrs. Kendall. The leading actress of
England, is said to pride herself on her
homeliness.
Senator j. Donald Cameron and his
daughter are travelling to Washington
in carriage.
Lord Salisbury has refused a socialis
tic request to receive a deputation of
unemployed workingmen.
The Michigan copper mines have
yielded up $l75.000,O00 worth of ore,
according to d recent estimate.
1t IS reported that the czar has open
y
to English intrigues in Bulgaria.
The widow of the late Secretary
Chandler is one of the most lavish of
Entertainers in Detroit society.
Mime. Gerster-Gardiene has become
insane in consequence, it is reported,
| of loss of voice after her recent coniine-
ment.
Prof. Wetrim, of the pharmaceutical
academy in COnstantinople. has disap
peared, and is thought to have been
murdered.
The Central Labor Union OF New
York proposes to organize permanent
ly and form a new party to take an ac-
tive part in the canvass of 1888.
Pasteur informed the academy of
sciences that he treated during the past
year 249 persons who had been bitten
by animals, and only 10 died.
Laredo (Tex.) Times: A dance on
Grant street Saturday night was partial
ly broken up by drunken horseman
who rode through the house.
The new shade of bottle-green is
called Russo. The green supposed to
have been worn bv Robin Hood and his
merry outlaws will also be in high fav-
or.
Some rowdies turned a blind horse
loose in the opera house at Nashville,
Mich, where it roamed all night,
breaking chairs and destroying seen
cry.
This question is constantly upper
most in the minds of English military
men; Where, in case of a war, could
enough horses be REQUIRED for the
troopsP
At Salina, Kansas, Adam Head was
shot dead by Watt Chiloon in polti-
cal quarrel, Both were prominent
farmers and politicians. Head was a
relative of Gov. Foraker and native
of Ohio.
Heavy storms have prevailed
throughout Scotland. In Edinburgh
the gable of new building was over
thrown Three workingmen were
killed and five injured.
Zig-zag lightning seized by the cam
era of M. Mousette in Paris proved to
be spiral. T1e streak corkscrewed its
way from the cloud instantly to the
much-smitten earth.
The smallest residence in Washing
ton is that just built by newly-mar-
ried couple. Their cottage has a front
age of SIX feet eight inches and depth
of about twenty feet, and contains four
rooms.
In the superior criminal court at
Lowell, Mass, Mary j. Davis, the IA
year-old colored girl who attempted to
poison a family in Wilmington last
summer, was sentenced to seven years
Imprisonment.
The demand for minor coins is so
great that the Philadelphia mint has
untitled orders for $780, 600 in iive-cent
and one-cent pieces alone. The Treas
ury Department is making every effort
to meet the demand.
There are now in the state of North
Carolina / ,236 convicts, of whom only
164 are white aud .099 colored. There
are !, 197 men and &c women. OF the
men 1853 are white and 1.03S colored,
while of the women 81 are colored and
only ) are white.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin esti-
mates the loss by fire in the United
States and Canada for October at Sl2,-
900, 600, which is 30 per cent more than
the average of October fire losses dur
ing the past ten years. This makes
$95. 600, 600 as the fire waste for ten
months of 1886.
American Shakers, who number
about 1000, are worried over their own
wealth, which is valued at about $l2,-
600. 600 The elders begin TO feel like
monopolists, and that the possession of
so much property is contrary to the
gospel scheme which they desire to fol-
low.
At St. Louis the decision of the low
er court in the case of Robert A. Gray
er, colored. who killed Williams Evans
some years ago, was affirmed by the
supreme court and the murderer was
sentenced to be hanged Dec. 10, This
is the fifth time that CIR er has been
sentenced to death.
Charles Coughlin, of Philadelphia,
had So, 200 stolen from him. A neigh
boring woman dreamed that it was
hidden away in a hayloft, and she
climbed up and found all but 81 900 in
a handkerchief She was at once ar
rested for not dreaming where the bal
ance was. and search OF her house
brouUht the MISSING sum to light