River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-23
HISTORY OF A WEEK.

July Goth was universally hot summer
day The thermometer at Chicago regis
tered 81 q in the shade;" Omaha SO; Des
Moines %; Pittsburg 92; Cincinnati 80;
Detroit, Mich, So; Cleveland So; Indianap-
oils "a; St. Louis 90; Philadelphia 90
Washington, ID. c. %; Baltimore l0l; Day
ton, Ohio 10l Richmond, Va, 1914; Madi-
son, Wis, %; Dubuque Ia, 1914.
The iron strikers to the number of 1000
formed mob at Cleveland, Ohio, and at
tempted to close a plate mill which was in
no manner involved in the contest for
wages, no reduction having been made.
The police fought the mob desperately with
their clubs, and dispersed them leaving -
upon the ground, two or three fatally in
jured.
There was one case of sunstroke at In
dianapolis Monday, at Baltimore, Md,
three deaths from sunstroke, three at Day
ton, o., seven deaths occurred Sunday and
Monday at Philadelphia, from sunstroke.
Three deaths occurred at Dubuque, Ia.
The marriage of Theodore Frelinghuysen,
son Of the late ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen,
and Miss Alice Coates will be celebrated
next month at the summer residence of
Mr. Coates. at New York.
At New Brighton, L. l. King and Co.'S
plaster works burned on the 10Th. Loss
$4,000. The fire it is said, will advance the
price of all plaster of Paris on the Atlantic
coast
The President will leave Washington
about Aug LIST and spend month or six
weeks in the Adirondacks. Miss Cleveland
has already left for her summer vacation.
$4,000 worth of property of the Wells
and French ear and bridge company
burned at Chicago Tuesday morning
Origin, spontaneous combustion.
Rev DR.. Samuel Irenaus Prime, the vet
eran editor of the New York Observer, has
been stricken with paralysis and can not
recover. He is % years of age.
A newspaper building in Washington oc-
cupied by the Post, Republican, Critic, and
Sunday Gazette, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. The loss is 100000.
John Mccullough, the actor, has been
declared incurably insane with the
probability that death from paralysis will
ensue within six months.
Rev Dr. Irenaeus Prime the veteran
editor of the " Y, Observer, died at Man
chester, Vt, of paralysis on the 18th. He
was % years Of age.
For the week ending July 18th, the issue
Of standard dollars from the minis was
Ss39gs1, against $215, iss for the correspond
ing week of 1884.
Prof Adams of Ithaca, n Y, has ac-
cepted the presidency of Cornell University,
n. Y, vice Andrew d. White resigned.
In the contested election case of Mayor
Harrison Of Chicago the mayor has been al
lowed forty days to file his answer.
Naval officers SYM athise with John
Roach, and think he has been badly treated
by the navy department.
Senator Henderson says there is too much
ignorance in New Mexico to allow its ad-
mission as a state
Carshops of the New York and New Eng
land r r. at Norwood, Mass, burned July
10. Loss 100000.
At Douglas, Kansas, six persons were
drowned Monday in attempting to ford
the Walnut river.
There are indications that the difficulty
with the Cheyenne Indians will he AMIGA
bly, settled
A 10 per cent reduction on wheat has
been made by the Colorado and Utah pool
railroads.
Miss Cleveland's book is to be translated
into Italian and French for publication.
Rates on wheat west of the Missouri river
are to be reduced from 20 to II cents.