The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-12-07
General.

Cooks Inlet, Alaska, have exceeded all
estimates by about 100000.
The New York legislature will be
asked to pass law legalizing Sunday
base ball.
Dividend payments have just been
made by the Silver King, Swansea,
Mercur and South Swansea, III all,
$4,000.
John S. Barnes, formerly of the Min
neapolis Western League Base BAH
team, is now matchmaking for a box
ing club in Birmingham, England.
Pitcher Lewis, of the Boston club, is,
like Billy" Sunday, religious worker.
A few days ago he preached sermon
at the Boston Y. NJ. G. A.
The total product of the Randsburg
district, in Southern California up to
the present time is about 100000. The
monthly product is now averaging
100000
George A Reynolds of Saginaw,
Mich, grand secretary of the order OF
Elks, announces that the annual con-
vention will be held in New Orleans IN
May, 1898.
Leslie WaShburn of VermilliOn, 5. D.,
died of consumption. He was jock
ey of national reputation, and was also
known in Venezuela, where he rode
last year.
Letters of administration on the es-
tate of the late John E. Liggett, the
millionaire tobacconist. were taken out
at st. Louis by his widow, who was
made executrix The estate was val
ued at $3,500,O00.
Persons in from Utica report a small
stampede to Upper Sage Creek ana
Indian Butte, Mont. A gold ledge is
said to be discovered, some OF the
quartz assaying 500 TO the ton.
Many claims have been staked out.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
the last $4,000 of the 100000 needed
to build a suitable home for the Ginter
Mechanics institute at Richmond. Va.
The 100000 is being raised by sub
scription, to supplement $4,000 be-
queathed the institute by Maj. Ginter.
The outlook for successful winter
meeting of the Crescent City Jockey
club at New Orleans is very encourag-
ing, Notwithstanding the postpone
ment of the opening to Dec. 4, on ac-
count of yellow fever. There are al
Mrs. Matilda Delialan Shields, a
granddaughter of Richard Henry Po-
tomax, an Indian chief, died at Wash
ington aged 113 years. She leaves one
son and two daughters, thirty grand
children and thirty-fiye great-grand-
children.
Chief Justice l.. G. Kline will re-
tire from the Iowa supreme bench on
Jan. 1. He has formed law partner
ship in Des Moines with j. G. Hume
and Charles S. Bradshaw and expects
to go into active practice. He went on
the supreme bench in 1891.
DR.. George d. Horn, who for Q num-
Der of years was secretary Of the
American Philosophical Society, died
in Philadelphia, aged So years. He
was president of the American Ento-
biological society.
III. I. Lewis of Greensboro, Ga, has
been appointed judge of the supreme
court of the state, to succeed Judge
Spencer r. Atkinson, who resigned to
accept a place on the Georgia State
railroad commission.
Maj. Geo. S. Merrill, until recently
insurance commissioner of MaSSachu-
suIance departments of a number OF
states, not including Massachusetts, as
an expert adviser.
The Union Pacific has made another
record for fast running. A mail train
has been shot across the country from
Cheyenne to Council Bluffs, $40 miles,
in $50 minutes. This is actual elapsed
time, and includes all stops.
The president has appointed George
III. Harris of Washington, D. c., to be
brigadier general of the militia of the
District of Columbia, to succeed the
late Gen. Ordway, former commanding
officer OF the District National guard.
The Moosehead Pulp and Paper Com
pany of Scion, Me-, has gone into in
solyency with unsecured claims
against it aggregating 100000. Plans
are being perfected to reorganize the
company and reopen the mills which
have closed since last spring.
DR.. Nansen is aid to have a strong
dislike to all the teas and receptions
to which he has been treated in this
country, and would prefer, instead, to
being lionized, to keep his lecture en-
gagements and to live quietly and pri-
vately.
There is in Chicago young Japan
csc girl who is attracting attention not
only by her brightness and cleyerness,
but as we'll by the literary ability she
possesses. Onoto Watanna is the
name she is known by among her home
folk.
The dry goods firm of Hilton, Hughes
& Co., New York, which failed in '96,
to-day notified their smaller creditors
that their claims will be paid. The
larger claims. it is stated. have been al.