River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IL Paris Michael Eyraud, the muir
dercr of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined.
PIRATES attacked two war junks by
mistake near Ningpo, China. and six
were captured and beheaded.
The Canadian Governor General has
dissolved the House of Commons. The
new Parliament will assemble March
next
IL Vienna 10000 shoemal1ers went on
strike for an increase in wages.
NEAR Schrieber. Ont, a sleeping-car
was thrown from the track and fell
distance of sixty feet, severely injuring
the nine passengers inside the ear. z
DURING January 1,225 Italian emf
grants left Trieste for America.
AT a fire i'm Moscow (Russia) orphan
asylum nine children were burned to
death and several fatally injured.
TWENTY-FIVE wood-cutters working
on a mountain side in the province of
Glarus. Switzerland, were buried by
an avalanche.
MITCHELL. Il SHEPARD. manufacturers
of woolens at Bradford, Eng, failed for
Sil5, 600
THE death of +. H. Morse, United
States Consul General to London under
President Lincoln. occurred at Surrey,
Eng. where he had lived since his re-
tirement, aged 81 years.
orr the Sicily islands the steamer
Chiswicl1, bound from Cardiff to St
Nazaire. struck a sand bank and the
captain and ten seamen were drowned,
FIRE i'm the McLaren lumber-mills at
Ottawa, Ont, caused loss of Sl50,00O
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
United States Senate on the 9th
calling upon the President fC~ CORE
spondence relative to the imr ortation
of products of the United STATES of Bra
ill A hill to authorize the construction
of a bridge across the -. Louis river
between Wisconsin and Minnesota was
reported. In the House bill was in
troduced to prohibit aliens from obtain
ing title to public lands. The sundry
civil bin was passed. A Joint resolu-
ton was favorably reported prohibiting
| the manufacture, importation, eXporta-
ton. transportation and sale of all alco-
| holic liquors as beverage in the United
/ States.
IL the recent blizzard ia Omaha five
1 persons persisted and many others were
missing.
| 4 PASSENGER train was thrown from
! the track near Randalia. Ia. by a
broken rail. fire Immediately broke out
and the entire train was consumed.
No one was injured.
| HELENA, Ala. was swept by cy-
| clone, several buildings being wrecked
| and three persons badly injured.
THREE miners intombed by the rush
! of water in the Susquehanna coal col
liery at Grand Tunnel. Pa, were res
cued after going five days without
/ food.
; FISHER CoCLTER's saloon in the mo-
! license town of fredericksburg, o., was
blown up by dynamite.
THE frozen body of Joseph Freeman.
editor of the Daily Progress of indie
4 pendence, Mo. was found in a corn
/ field near his home
AT Leopolis, Wis, Charles Knock
killed his wife and committed suicide.
They were an aged couple and had fire.
quently quarreled.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, Premier OF
/ Canada. in a manifesto to Canadians
SAYS the reciprocity idea is vailed trea-
son. and says that unrestricted trade
means annexation 70 the United States.
BARON HIRsCH, of Paris, has created
trust fund of $500, 600 to aid immi-
/ grafton of Jews to America.
OVER 1900 miners in the Connells-
vile pa coke regions struck for an
advance of II per cent in wages. The
| fight promised to be a long and bitter
i one.
/ CHARLES MowRY. imprisoned for for
gerry at Columbus. Ind. was fatally
shot while attempting to escape.
EXPLORER STANLEY denied at Akron,
/ O., the story that he intended to pre-
/ sent to the Salvation Army all the val
liable presents, diamond, etc, which
he had received from monarchs and
others.