The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-02-08
Sporting Items.

tWenty-rOund draw before the Ameri-
can Sporting club in Scranton.
G. G. Smith, the colored boxer of
Buffalo, n. Y, and Peter Maher have
been matched to box twenty rounds at
Sanger hall, Philadelphia, Feb. 10.
George Kerwin of Chicago and
Kid McPhartland have been matched
to fight on next Monday night in To
ronto, Can. The men will fight at
1876 pounds.
]. j. McCafferty has sold his famous
race horse Requital to E. G. Cowden,
who will probably retire him to the
stud
The consolidation of the Trades
mems National bank and the Clinton
bank was announced in New York.
An examination of the duplicate GER
tificates of discharge shows 10000
veterans who have not asked pensions.
An epidemic of measles in Kingston,
Mo-, has caused the closing of the
schools there for two weeks.
The third annual convention of the
National Association of Cooperative
Mutual Insurance Companies was held
at Chicago.
Failures in the recent examination at
the Kansas university were the cause
of forty-seven students dropping out
of the school
On a bet of 5000, Charles WurZ, of
South Bend, Ind, has undertaken to
eat one goose a day for thirty days.
He is now on his tWenty-fourth goose.
A special to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune from Lexington, Ky,
says the Blue Grass Building ard
Loan association has made an assign
ment to Bishop Clay, its secretary.
Pat DUNES good horse Captive is
thought to be hOpelessly broken down.
He has been priced to Charley Boots
and may become stud companion TO
Brutus at ElmwOod Stock Farm.
Secretary Long has ordered the trial
by court martial Of Civil Engineer A.
G. Menocal on charges of culpable in
efficiency, growing out of the faulty
work on the New York dry dock.
According to the monthly weather re-
port issued by Chancellor Snow, of the
Kansas university, the January just
past was the warmest one since 1882,
and the wetteSt in thirty-one years.
A woman who wishes to conceal her
identity has donated to the Volunteers
of America an orange orchard OF TWEEN
ty acres, situated at Thermalito, Cal,
valued at $4,000.
Miss Ollie Maddox, a teacher in Avil-
la, Jasper county, Missouri, was Sc
yerely whipped by two brothers, aged
twelve and fourteen, while trying to
punish the younger one. She resigned.
Emile ola and the Aurore have re-
quested the French ministry of justice
to subpoena Gen. Billot, minister of
war, as a witness for the defense in
the coming prosecution of M. lola.
An inheritance of 100000 in Vir-
ginia will be turned over to Frank
FLOYD and Mrs. Joseph Martin, OF
Highland, Kas., next March, according
to notice just received by them.
A damage suit for $15O,OOO has been
filed at Wheeling, w. Va, by the Alex
ander Lumber company against the
r. G. Dun company. The bill of par
ticulars alleges a false and malicious
rating.
Some of the grain dealers on the corn
exchange of Cessna, province of For1l,
Italy. who accepted reduced prices,
were violently attacked by the mem
bers for attempting to corner the grain.
The troops had to clear the exchange.
Ice men at Atchison, Kas., are hav-
ing difficulty finding cutters enough to
do their work, Swift & Co. and the
Yatse Ice company, who own big ice
houses at Bean and Sugar lakes, hay
ing put up almost none at all so far.
The pope will celebrate mass at st.
n En11
tieth anniversary Of his first mass.
The ceremony will be the same as
was observed at the jubilee mass OF
his holiness in 1888.
On Dec "a the Japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on a hidden
rock of the Pescadoe group, and sank
Immediately. Of her eighty passen-
gers and crew, seven only reached the
shore. The drowned men were all Jap
aneSe.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Diamond Match colnpa-
nv. at Chicago, the $I97,797 lost to the
stockholders of the company through
the failure of the Moore Bros. in 1896,
and heretofore carried as an asset, was
erase dfrom the books.
The proposed issue Of postage stamps
on account of the Omaha exposition
will not displace the regular issues
during the period of the exposition, as
was the case with the Columbian eX-
position stamps at the time Of the Chi
cago worlds fair.
Nearly every dog and many of the
COWS and horses in the village OF
Uyalde, Tex, were bitten recently by
wolves, which attacked the town in
pack. Soon after some OF the dogs
showed signs of hydrophobia, and all
bitten animals were promptly killed.