River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-07-15
NnRrHMEsTEKN NEWS.

The President has vetoed the bill appro-
priating 100000 for a custom house and
post office at Duluth. he says in his veto.
After quite careful examination OF the
public needs at the point mentioned, / am
entirely satisfied Il at the public building
provided for in this bill, IS not lmme
diately necessary. Not a little leglStai ION
has lately perfected, and very likely more
will be necessary, to increase mscalcu-
/ lated appropriations for and correct
1 blundeTs in the construction Of many OF
/ the public buildings now in process OF
/ erection While this does not furnish a
/ good reason for disappearing the erection of
/ other buildings where actually necessary
Z il induces close scrutiny, and give rise TO
I the earnest wish that new projects for pub
I lie buildings should for the present be
+ limited to such a. are required by the
most pressing necessities of the govern
ment's business.
/ The Storm X ng seems possessed of an
i insatiate affect on for the Northwest. I'm
some sections OF Minnesota and Dakota,
principally in Swift Co, Mimi, and be
/ tween Big Stone City aud Milhauk, OAK,
+ the wheat was ruined by wholesale on the
+ Sth and 9th, by hail storms. From 5000 to
200 acres were destroyed in Swift Coun-
I ty. The area of the storm in Grant Co.,
+ OAK, was ten miles wide ald twelve IN
I length and two thirds of the standing grain
was destroyed. At Sleepy Eye, Hancock,
7 Madison, MankatO, kasota, Bird Island,
/ New Ulm and other places hail and light
/ ming did great dams ge, which will amount
I to many thousand dollars when all summed
up.
I &. r. Gleason has been appointed pos
master at Eau Claire, Wis. Extensive
forest fires are raging thirty miles up the
Eau Claire river, the worst devastation so
far occurring to the standing pine on Coon
fork an important tributary. There are
quite a uutaber OF yindfalls on the ands,
besides valuable pines, which are prin-
cipally owned by the Eau Claire and North
western Lumber companies. OF Eau Claire
and y. G. Foster Of, Fairchild, near where
the fire originated.
Among the numerous vetoes of the Presi-
dent : as one on the eth of the bill which
gave the right to build railroad through
the indian reservation in Northern
Montana. IL was understood when the
bi passed that he ST. Paul a Manitoba
road designed building "A line connecting or
tapping both the Canadian and Northern
Pa fife but the veto kills the projects for
the present.
The Minneapolis post Office was burglar
ICED on the night of the Sth. The safe was
blown open and $4,000 in postage stamps
aud about slO0 ia money secured. There
were as many more postage stamps and
$1,000 or - 900 in money which they did
not secure. The loss will fall upon Mr..
Larawsy, the postmaster, unless he Is re-
lieved by a special act of Congress.
A sad drowning accident occurred at St.
Francis, AnOka county, MINI, on the 9th.
Two daughters Of Joseph s. Gaslin, aged
respectively IL and Il years and Jennie
Joy aged L., daughter Of ). H. JOY, OF
Minneapolis, went into lake TO bathe and
waded ont beyond their depth, and were
drowned.
Gov. Swineford OF Alaska was married
to Mrs. Z. Smith at Pequaming Mich OK
the 18th. The marriage was very quiet
aud the Governor intimate frients at NJ 4
quette did not know it until after the core
mony. He goes TO Alaska alone and viii
return for his wife in the fail.
The Cloquet (Minn.,) Lumber mills are
having serious strike and on the lO;h the
I strikers endeavored to compel the mills TO
stop by force. The rioters were driven
away by the authorities and some Of the
workmen s'hp remained.
VIM. Oswald, who killed Patrick Nc
/ Weeney at Devils Lake last Spring has
been sentenced to u years ia the peniten-
tiary at Bismarck.
Gov. Hubbard's residence at Red Wing
( was damaged by fire on the 18Th to the
extent of 5000 lt was covered by
insurance.
Two boys, sons Of ID. b. Harrison aud r.
Nelson we're drowned on the 10th, while
bathing in the river near la Crosse.
CLARK County. u. T., had a hard hail
storm on the 10Th which did a good deal o:
/ damage 10 srops.