River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-28

900 to build was dedicated Tuesday by the
grand lodge of OHIO Several thousand
p ople attended the services.
There are hundreds Of Idle sailors in San
Francisco unable TO obtain employment,
and the return Of the whalers from the
North ia a few weeks will throw GOO more
men on the market.
There are more daily papers in Philadel-
phia than in New York city and Boston
combined. while New York has more
places OF amusement than Boston and
Phi. adelphia combined.
In the second game Of the series for the
worlds baseball championship the st.
Louis Browns turned the tables with Chi.
eago, the score standing II to nothing, in
favor OIL Browns.
General Master Workman Powderly, has
gone 10 Lawrence. Mass, 10 prevent, if
possible, it is said, the threatened with
drawal from the order of a number of
local assemblies.
New Haven, Conn, celebrated on the
2lst, the anniversary OF its incorporation.
salute of 100 guns was fired at sunrise,
followed by allegorical and trades pro-
cessIons-
The effect OF prohibition in Atlanta has
been TO encourage the jug trade. On
every train reaching the city there is a
large consignment OF jugs filed with
whisky.
a corouer's jury will determine the
responsibility Of the death OF the strikers
in Chicago shot down. PiLkerton's men
say they believed they were in danger of
their lives.
James Wheeler, while assisting in firing
a salute in honor of the President, while
passing through Fredericksburgh, was ia
tally injured Ey premature discharge.
The total loss at the Oakland. H., fire
will aggreg gate between 100000 and $500,
600. The individual losses range from $500
60 $50 COO; insurance ABOUT one-third.
A young man was poisoned at.Saco, Me-,
by drinking cider out of barrel that had
formerly been used by an undertaken and
had contained an embalming fluid
The national convention of laundry men
held their annual meeting in Cincinnati
and resolved, among others, to awe
nothing TO do with the Chinese.
The Cincinnati Price Currents review of
the wheat trade shows the wheat supply to
be i 600 go bushels less than the average
OF tine past six years.
A vicious Italian living in New York,
was beating his wife cruelty when the des-
perate woman seized revolver and shot
her husband dead.
s. j. Tilden's will has been probated at
White Plains, n. Y. A suit is to be soon
begun to contest the will on the ground of
indefiniteness.
The Blue mountains in Berks and
Schuylkill counties, Pa, are on fire and
the dry timber burns as fercely as prairie
stubble.
Lieut. Metcalf and soldier were blown
to pieces in the ordnance yard at Sandy
Point n. j., ry the explosion of shell
Thursday.
jake Sharp and John W. Foshay, who
hribei the New York aldermen, have been
arrested ard are ED in $4,000 bail each.
The Schooner C. E. W. Rathburn, with
cargo of coal, was wrecked near GOODRICH,
Ont. The crew we're saved by life boat.
John Roach, the ship-builder, is said to
have a caucerous trouble in his throat
stAA4lAaA W lIAl Va hCAEAtAt ant
The glass manufacturers of Pittsburgh
are about to establish syndicate to ad
vance aud maintain prices.
Jay Gould, who is on tour Of bis iEspec
ton over his railroad lines, was rendered
a reception at Memphis.
Svitchmen at Louisville who were EN-
ployed on the Louisville & Nashville road
have gone on a strike.
The larger portion of the business dis
trict of Pennington he, was burned on
the 22nd
a beggar's house in New York was brok-
en- into the other night and robbed Of
s2,C0.
Hon. j. B. Clark, a prominent New
Hampshire congressman, committed sui
eide.
The whole amount of the Grant Monu
ment fund up to this time is 1928 503.lS.
number Of desperate couvicts escaped
from the Maryvill Mo. all Tuesday.
A Boston couple have been arrested for
poisoning their deformed infant.
The Knights of Labor raised Powderly's
salary from $500 to 5000.
At Howell. Mich, girl 10 years Of age
has been sent to the reform school for
horse stealing.
The erection Of a 100000 opera house is
talked of at San Diego, Cal.
Agricultural clubs are being formed in
all parts of South Carolina.
Divorce cases will hereafter be heard in
open court in Rhode Island.
Charleston, Columbia, Augusta, Raleigh
Atlanta and other southern points x
perienced slight earthquake shocks on the
22nd.
Secretary Manning, arrived at Washing
ton on the 18th.