River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-14

ship I2l, range "A. Aberdeen land district:
also the decision of the same officer, hold
ing for cancellation the homestead entry
OF Edgar Ilbbitts OF the northwest quarter
section 30. township 1853. range -, Bis
marck, Oak, land district.
The business failures occurring through
out the country IN the last seven days end
ing Oct 5, as reported to X. G. Dun & Co.,
number. for the United States To-, and for
Canad4 .. or a total of $50 failures, which
is about up % the average OF the last six
or seven weeks. The failures in New York
aBd the east are light, the bulk of the
week casualties being reported from the
southern and western states aud Canada
Mrs. Parsons, wife OF the anarchist under
sentence Of death in Chicago, addressed
meeting of his supporters Sunday night.
She spoke in defense of an ITchism. and its
martyrs IN Chicago. The proceeds oft
nights meeting are for her personal needs,
while she viii endeayOr 20 raise money in
other ways for the benefit of tue condemned
anarchists
The Ottawa, Ont, Ministerial journal
announces that the Dominion govern
ment's efforts TO induce French Canadians
u return from the United States to Canada
Is meeting with CREST success Special
agents employed by the government are
operating N the New England states urg-
ing French Canadians to go 70 Manitoba.
All the cotton mills at Frankford, the
northwestern section cs Philadelphia,
have closed and 4. O0O hands thrown out Of
employment. This Is the enforcement Of
the rule Of the manufacturers association
that provides that when strike cannot
be settled amica5ly - close ali the mills
OF the same character in the city.
N. j. Neeld, partner in the Chicago
packing house Of J. c. Ferguson d Co,
has raised s3e0.OGJ by bogus warehouse re-
eeipts and led TO Canada. Ferguson was
his brOther-iu-ie.s and furnished the cap
ital but IS low ruined. His loss falls en-
tireiy on the banks, the y. Y. Commercial
exchange bank losing 500 0OJ.
The October crop report makes the aver
age yield Of wheat from 100000 acres
l154 bushels per acre. The average of oats
per acre 90, showing a crop OF over 600,
t0O,G00 bushels; rye 3i,hOO.000; corn l.Gj0,-
gao,uuo bushels. The October potato aver
age Is 81, against - last year.
Destructive prairie fires have been
ranging in tie Northwest and Southwest
Manitoba. Around Morden scores of
settlers have lost all they possessed, in
Guiding barns and live stock. One lady,
aged fifty five years, Is reported as being
fatally burned.
The colored people of Washington met
to take action on the death of Chief Justice
Chase and passed resolutions in favor of
setting apart day - be called Chief
Justice Day" to be observed hereafter by
the culored race with prayer aud thanks
giving.
At Franklin Falls. y. Il, on the Sth,
while walking upon his farm, U. s. Senator
Austin F. Pike suddenly fell dead. de had
not been out Of health He passed his 9th
birthday on ths6th of October. His term
in the Senate would have expired in leeS.
Ex-May0r Edson Of New York, chairman
Of the grain committee of the produce ex-
change. decl ares that the steam rates for
carrying grain across the Atlantic are SO
high as To check foreign demand. The
grain elevators are overstOcked.
The steamer La Mascotte exploded her
boilers on the 9Th opposite Neeiey's land
ing near st. Louis. and burned to the
waters edge. Tire full list Of the missing
cannot be ascertaiued, but It is thought il
will foot up 10 twenty or more
At the trial Of Garnett, the Prince
Albert mail robher, at Regina the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner
was sentenced 10 fourteen years inn
prisOnment at the Strong Mountain pen
itentiary.
The acting secretary Of the treasury
wants to know whether the tax on cleo
margarine is on the completed article OF
whether, in edition, tax is to be levied
on each ingredient composing the article
On the 6-h, over 1900 visitors were in
Frankfort assisting the capital city o.
KeutuckY 10 celebrate the one hundredtf
anniversary Of her birth, and the city
under the hill was filed % Overi0wing.
Tie state dedsrtment has been notified
by the American consul general of Canads
that the American schooner. Marion
Grimes, was seized by the Canadian
authorities on Saturday at Shelburue.
Senator Evarts, Chief Justice v ate an,
ex President Hayes are among the execu
committee chosen 10y the Peabody
nd association. Ten thousand dollar
was allotted ID South Carolina.
1t is said the water from the artesiar
wells At Charleston has not been the slight
est degree cCiOTed by matter forced IN from
below This indicates that the earthquake
was o. less depth than the wells.
Tns cases o. four indicted doodle
Aldermen in New York ha, e been set dow
for an early trial, that OF oayles cOmmenC
ing Monday. ana the others 10 follow a
speedily as possible
The United State, Supreme Court, IA.
+ heLcb, meet az Washington on the llth
The nuHR5Ti ltes called on at the so presiden
I n tine afternoon.
Z The New York state assessors foot up tn
total value 81 property in the Empire stat
a. S2.S.9 s99C6- real, and Ss2f, 9s3 81 per
souai- he value OF New York county i
sl,,-iJ -5o-S4-
TX Senator Yulee Of FSorids, died in New
York city on the 10th. He was born in 1911
and was elected 10 the United States sen
ate in l>i5. He withdrew from the senat,
IN ISL.
Round trip Florida railroad rates vii
not be sold a tGe usual rates this winter
the railroads complaining that too many
Of the tickets found their way into scalper,
hands
Il is said that 2l,CD5 persons are thrown
out Of employment in Cuba by a strik,
among the C5Sar makers OF Havana. High
way FgUberits and demonstrations occur
nightly
Gen. Booth, Of the Salvation army. ar
rived in Halifax, y. :, on the 10. He was
received az the iuterc0loniaI station bv an
immense crowd. Booth delivered au ad-
iress.
A movement Is on foot On the part Of tht
agricultural depart nents OF tie differeue
states 20 get a universal law giving better
facilities Tor the suppression Of cattle dis
ease.
The NeT Orleans exposition managers
have confessed bankruptcy aud asked the
treasury department. TO allow them to ex-
port foreiga articles back sgain free.
a : Gage, large wholesale and retail
millinery and dry goods house in Chicago,
failed on the SOth Of sept. with liabilities Of
over three quarters Of q million.
1t is claimed that the attitude taken by
the Knights Of Labor on the negro ques-
ton viii ALLEVIATE all the white -orking-
men OF the South from the order.
An unknown man was picked up on the
streets Of New York sufTeri3g from hydro
phObis- he was taken TO hospital, where
be was very violent
The government has been asked by the