River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-15
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NORTawEsTEES NEWS.
Minneapolis was the scene of very de
structlve fire at noon on the l2th inst, the
Boston block, a SIX story buildiu &, costing
$4,000 and one OF the finest IN the city be-
ing burned The fire originated in the
hardware store room of Miller Bros a
Fle.cber, on the third floor, but how IL be
geu is unknown. The building contained the
postuliice, and Miller Bros. a Fletcher hard
ware store ON the first floor and was chiefly
though not entirely occupied by law Offices
on the upper floors. The law library OF III q
city which little over a year ago was
destroyed in the Academy of Music block
was in the upper part of the Boston block
ami was again destroyed, involving
loss of s25 900. The post office moved cut
without much less but the handling OF
mails was badly disarrauged. There were
quite q number of narrow escapes. ana
several girls working on the upper floors
were rescued by tiremen with their ladders.
sIhc walls stand, but the inner part of the
building was practically destroyed. The
loss on the building is $4,000, with inSur-
auce of sl35,000. The total loss is esti-
mated AT over S2O0,Uo0 with insurance of
nearly 1000. The fire department Of st.
Paul went mp to assist.
Among the combinations on the 18th
were the followiug n. q. Barney of Wash
iugtOn Territory, receiver at Spokane Falls.
W. T.; NJ ID. Baldwin OF OHIO, agent of
the Biackfeet ageuCy, Montana. Post
masters NJ. ". Ryan, Medford Wis: ".
Rmgle, Wausau, Wis: II. C. Hunt, Reeds
burg. Wis; NJ. II. Mould, Barab0o, Wis;
W. II. Dawley, AutiZO, W is; j. Dave,
Edgerion, Wis: ID. q. Craig, Fort Atkiu-
son, Wis; ". II. Cannon, Merrill, Wis j.
" Beattie Marshfeld. Wis. =. n. Fad,
Fond du Lac, Wis; H. {. Moon, Broadhead,
Wis.
Contracts have been let by the Mil
waukee q st. Paul r. r., TO d. c. Shepard
4 Co., of 81. Paul for the grading Of the
following lO2 miles Of new iiue in Dakota
From Scotland "a est, "a miles; from
aforesaid line to Mitchell, 81 mites; and
from Ipswich west, IS miles. Scotland is
situated tweuty-SeyeI ii,iIts northwest of
HanktOn, and Il the terminus OF the Sioux
City and Dakota division. Ipswich is the
western terminus OF the Hastings a Dakota
division. The grading will be completed
this season.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, experienced labor
riot on the l2th. About 200 Italians have
gathered in the city in response to adver-
tisements of the Canadian Pacific for la
borers A portion Of them accepted work
at 81 - per day, but the larger num-
Der refused and gathered at the depot
to prevent the 81 p men leaving for the
Rockies where the work was to tie done.
4 serious riot eusuei aud the 81 p italiauS
were driven away and many Of them bad
~ damaged.
Ellington, Iowa, about twenty five miles
from Mason City has murder and suicide.
Joseph White, 80 years old, and +. : North
rup 60 wears old quarreled over Whites
sister-in-law. White killed N6rthrup with
a knife and then shot himself dead. Both
were well to do farmers.
A river Improvement convention was
held at Mankato. Mimi, ON the 18th and
resolutions adopted asking Congress to
order a survey of the the Minnesota river
and the Red River of the North and also to
make liberal appropriations for their i'm
provement.
Chas. J. Gibbon agent for the Woods
Harvester company at Austin Mimi, dis
appeared last Christmas with 81 20 Of the
c0mpauy's money. lie has just been di--
covered at Dennison. Texas and brought
back
The Oriental hotel at Mcmillan, Wis,
burned on the 10. A man named Bert Al
drich who was stopping over night at tie
hotel was burned TO death.
J. B. Wakefield, member of congress
from the second Minnesota district, de
NJ. l.. Mccormack has been confirmed as
Secretary Of Dskota and f. b. Miller as
postmaster at Pierre.
THE ORDER OF SPARKS REVERSED.
The secretary Of the interior has revoked
the order of Commissioner Sparks Of the
general land Office of April g. 1875, suspend
ing final action upon entries upon the pub
JIG lands. The following is the secretary's
letter To the commissioner:
On the 81 of April 1855, you issued the
following order;
Final action ia this Office upon all entries
of the public lands, except private cash
entries and such scrip locations as are not
dependant upon acts Of settlement and
cultivation. is suspended in the fol-
lowing localit Is, viz: All west
Of the first guide meridian west in
Kansas: all west Of range Il west, in Neb-
raska, the whole OF Colorado, except land
ia the late L tie reservations: all of Dakota,
idaho, Utah, Washington New Mexico,
Montana, Wyoming and Nevada, and that
portion of Minnesota north of the
indemnity limits Of the Northern Pacific
railroad and east Of the indemnity limits
Of the st. Paul, Minneapolis q Manitoba
railroad. Ia addition. final action in this
office viii be suspended upon all timber
entries under the act Of June 3, 1873. also
upon all cases of desert land entries.
w. A. j. SPARKS.
iAHAIIs REASONS.
Whatever necessity may have exis ed at
the time of the PRONUNCIATION has
ceased to h sufficient 10 longer continue an
order Of suspeuding all actions and iuyOlv-
ing in "A common Inflammation the innocent
and tire guilty, the honest and the dishOn-
est. While l earnestly urge the exercise of
the strictesr vigilance 10 prevent by all the
agencies within our power the &C nsumma-
tiou Of wrongful land claims vet, when the
vigilance Of all the agencies shows no sub
Sta1tiai evidence of fraud or wrong, hon
est claims should not be delsyed or their
consideration refused ON general reports or
rumors. The above order as issued by YOU
Is therefore revoked, and you viii proceed
in the regular. orderly and lawful consider
alton and disposal Of the claims suspended
by il. Very respectfully,
L. Q. c. LAMAR,
Secretary.
I suffered with rheumatism in the shout
der for months and the only thing / found
that did me any good was Salvation Oil.