The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-17
General.

Placer gold has been discovered IN
the State of OaXaca, Mex, at the head
waters of CoatazoaoolOOS river.
The battleship Indiana has been sue
cessfully placed in dry dock at Hall
fax, n. S.
Authority has been granted for the
Milliken National Bank of Decatur,
ILL.,, with a capital of 100000.
The Iowa Pain Manufacturing Com
pany of VintOn has decided to move
its works to Fort Dodge.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt has dealt
naval red tape a hard blow. He has
issued an order that reduces at one
sweep the number of reports required
to be made by these officers from 217
to 80.
Thomas H. Lynch of Wichita, Kan,
has just returned from Ireland, where
he succeeded in establishing his claim
to an estate valued at 100000, which
has been in the family for twelve cen
turtles.
The commissioners of public lands of
Wisconsin have requested the leg1Sla-
ture to fix the minimum price OF pub
lie lands at So per acre, to direct that
all be appraised, and that thereafter no
lands be sold at less than the ap-
praised value.
An immense structure is in process
of construction near Easton, Pa, for
the use of the Edison Concentrating
company, which separates the iron ore
from dirt and rock by the Edison pro-
cess.
A general advance of Is per cent,
benefting every branch of the trade,
will be asked by the Window Glass
Workers association at the annual
wage conference with the manufac
turers at Chicago next Wednesday.
The record for the fastest trans Pa
cific ocean trip was made by the Royal
Mail steamship Empress of japan on
her last voyage from Vancouver to
Yokohama. The time consumed was
ten days three house and thirty nine
minutes.
A board of officers headed by Capt.
Baird, SiXtieth cavalry, has been or
dered to meet at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, Sept. for the competitive ex-
animation of about twenty enlisted
men for promotion to commissioned
grade.
The building of the Siberian rail-
way has been of great benefit to the
lumber trade of the Pacific coast The
Glen Turrett, new freight steamer of
3,026 tons net, now at Shanghai, has
been chartered to take lumber and rail-
road ties from the Columbia river to
Vladivostock.
At a meeting of the supreme officers
of the Catholic knights of America at
Vincennes, Ind, DR.. e. ]. Brennan of
indianapolis was elected supreme med
ical examiner and DR.. J. A. Mudd of
Washington, D. c., was chosen editor
of the Bulletin, the official organ of
the order in this country.
The officers of the interior depart
ment are preparing a public notice to
be posted at point on the borders of
the forest reservation adjoining the
Yellowstone National Park, warning
all persons against trespassing on the
lands, especially against hunting on
the reservation and shooting the game.
AS result of having sold goods
manufactured in the Minnesota state
prison, several merchants in Hudson.
Wis, are to be arrested nthe charge
of violating the state prison labor law.
The arrests will serve as test cases
for the new law, which demands that
all prison-made goods must be fully
labeled.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco has telegraphed the navy depart
ment asking permission to supply the
armor for the battleship Wisconsin.
which they are building, just as the
Cramps have done in the case of the
Alabama. In reply the firm has been
notified that the department will enter
into correspondence with them on the
subject.