The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-12-28
General.

Three Princeton seniors have Deen
suspended indefinitely for hazing.
Colorado's fruit crop for 1897 is estf-
mated to be worth 100000.
A man near Corvallis, Or, has gone
into the business of raising terrapin.
1t cost 1925, $50 to run Montana for
the late fiscal year ending November
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This season Santa Clara county, Cal,
produced 50.0O0.OO0 pounds of pruneS
against 100000 pounds last year.
Morgan & Carroll, one. of the oldesH
the largest firms of Bellaire, Ohio, have
made an assignment.
The date of the national encamp-
ment, G.. A. r., at Cincinnati, has been
fixed for Sept. 5 to 10.
The CoShocton Bank of CoShocton,
Ohio, has been authorized to begin
business with a capital of $4,000
La DIinerve, the only French morn
ing newspaper in Montreal, has sus-
pended publication after an existence
of nearly fifty years.
Speaker Reed will go to Philadelphia
during the holiday recess and denver
an address at the celebration OF the
semi-centennial of Girard college.
Walter G. Sanger broke his own
worlds indoor record for half a mile
unpaced, riding the distance in one
minute flat.
The United States gunboat New
port, with the members of the NC
araguan canal commission on board,
has arrived at Graytown, Mic. All the
members of the party were well.
Jack Bennett of McKeesport, Pa,
knocked out Billy Ernest of Brooklyn
in the thirteenth round at the Olym-
pic club at Athens, Pa. The bout
was scheduled for fifteen rounds and
was Benefits from start to finish
At meeting of the creditors and
stockholders of the GAINESVILLE Electric
Railroad company in Akron, Ohio, it
was decided to terminate the receiver
ship. The road is owned by Akron
parties principally.
Just one month ago Miss Annie
| Smedley of Oshkosh disappeared, and
not a single trace Of her has been
found. The police believe she fell or
jumped into the river, and this theory
is now generally accepted.
The grain receipts at the port OF
Buffalo for the year will reach the
enormous total of nearly 2O0,OO0,0OU
bushels, as against 154 100000 bushels
in 1896, and 105, 100000 bushels in
1895.
What is claimed to be the record IN
knock outs was made at the HOFFMAN
club at Lynn, Mass, when Mike Hlg-
gins of that city put Tom Foran OF
! Maiden out in five and a half SECONDS.
| The previous record was six seconds.
! The Berner- Mayer Company of
| Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers OF
beer faucets, with branch houses all
over the country and Europe, made
an assignment. Assets and liabilities
| | Unknown.
Ore worth $4,000 per ton is regularly
/ shipped from the Rock of Ages in Nav
aio basin, where two months ago new
/ vein was struck by means of cross
cut tunnel. A sackful of this ore is
worth $40.
Joseph Auercher of Shenandoah
| Iowa, has begun suit against the Bur
| lington and Omaha & st. Louis rail-
ways for $4,000 for reimbursement OF
| financial losses sustained by him III
| his business as a buyer and shipper OF
grain through discrimination.
The Kent-Stanley company, limited
| of Providence, r. l., which was re-
/ Gently placed in the hands of a recelv-
/ err. has been adjudged insolvent in the
appellate court. The liabilities amount
| to about 100000, and the assets, may
| bring nearly 100000.