River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-27

The few hundred troops that had
reached the agency were said 10 antici-
pate an attack from d 0OO TO 5000 WE'LL
armed redskins at any moment.
OFFICIAL notice was given Governor
elect Boyd, of Nebraska, that his cleo
tion was to be contested by the Farm
ers aud Independents.
JASPER YARBER completely sramped
the eyes out of John Bayliss, an old
citizen, in a drunken row at Eagle
Rock, Idaho.
RAGsDALE & Co, bankers of Okla
homa City, O. T., who also have banks
at Guthrie. Norman, Kingisher and Ell
Reno in that Territory, failed 70 open
their doors, and announced that ali pay
ments were suspended
AT Knoxville. Tenn, Jack Naples
| tcoloredl was hanged for criminal as
sault, and Dorsey Edwards tcolored)
was executed at Yazoo City, Miss, for
the murder OF his wife September 5
last
DURING battle with horse thieves
near Cairo. Kan, two OF the robbers
were shot dead by the officers.
IN several Missouri counties a pc
culiar and fatal disease was raging
among cattle and horses. Over 100
horses had died, and the disease bafiled
the skill Of the veterinary surgeons.
THE official canvass of the recent
election in South Carolina shows that
b. r. Tillman Dem was elected Gov
ernor by majority of 4, 1881 over A. c.
Haskell. the Independent Democratic
candidate. The Democrats also elected
the six Congressman by ma jorities rang
ing from 8, 800 to 9. 600.
Two BANKS in Kansas, the First Ma
tional, at Alma. and the Bank of Waiver
~. closed their doors.
On the ed John b. Drake, of the
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago gave his
thirty-fifth annual game dinner. Over
500 guests were present
AT Council Bluffs. Ia, Colonel w. r.
Sapp died, aged GO years. He was .
member of the Forty-tif.h and Forty
sixth Congresses.
A DOZEN business houses at Carey, O.,
were raided by gang of thieves.
In a Massillon (0.) bank n stranger
grabbed s., 600 in bills from a desk, and
in the pursuit which followed the thief
scattered the package of bills in the air
and while his pursuers were looking
after the money he made his escape.
FIRE destroyed three of the seven
factories at the Illinois glass works at
Alton. H., causing a loss of $4,000
Four sheep herders were killed in
the Gallinas mountains of New Mexico
by hail-storm and sixteen others and
/, 900 head of sheep were missing.
BURGLARS entered the post-ofiice at
Pocatello, Idaho, and carried off $500 in
money. $500 in stamps and 5000 in regis
tered packages.
OVER 6, 900 coal miners, nine-tenths of
all the miners in Alabama, resolved to
strike for higher wages.
THE vote of Methodist churches on
the eligibility of women TO places in
the general conference of the denomi-
nation stood on the 22d: Yeas, 49, $50;
nays. 1l,O2O.
NEAR Jellico. Tenn, mountain fires
surpassed any thing in the memory OF
the oldest inhabitant The Pine mount
aims were almost a solid mass of fire.
Thousands of dollars worth of tint Der
and fences had been destroyed.
Is Chicago the United States Rolling
Stock Company went into the hands of
a receiver with liabilities of SIS. SIG, 900;
assets, S6,O5S. 900. The tight money
market caused the failure. The trou-
BILE would only be temporary, and there
would be no stoppage OF business.
OFFICIAL returns received by the Sec
rotary of State of Wisconsin from all
the counties in the State show that the
total vote for Governor at the recent
election was sos, All, a decrease OF 49,
297 from the vote of 1855. Peck's plu-
rality is IS 3IS