River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-21
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l Martin, in a hotel in Evansville. Ind.
/ Martin was not aware of Mckinley's pres
/ ence, who sneaked up behind him.
On the evening Of the 18th, fire origin
| ated in a barn in the village OF
/ Salisbury, Wicomico Co, Maryland,
which swept through the town producing
damage amounting to sl,O0O,OO0, practic-
ally destroying the business portion. TIE
population of the place is 1900 and its
principal business lumber, grain and
vegetable supplies.
| At Toronto, Ont, great havoc was doae
by the late storm. Bui dings were blown
into the bay. A section of the Crib torn
of and carried into the lake and a number
of tenement houses wrecked.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the German National Bank Of
/ Lincoln, Neb, and the Passaic National, of
/ Passaic, n. j =, To commence business, each
with capital ofsl00,OO0.
Charles A. Dana, of the Sun, paid
claim for embalming the body of General
Grant amounting to $500. Col Fred Grant
/ sent his check to Dana for the amount, but
4 nc was returned
An unknown villain entered the room of
Role Williams and bride while they we're
asleep in hotel in a small town near
| Houston, Mo, blew the brides brains out
| and escaped.
The supreme court of the United States
| is considering the case of the Southern
railroad VS. the United States, involving
the title to about 10000 acres of Kansas
/ land.
| At Kankakee, ILL.,, Harry Goff, formerly
of Chicago, was sentenced to two years in
the renitentiary for bigamy. Three wives
with their children appeared against
| him.
President Cleveland and cabinet will at
tend the inaugural ceremonies attending
the unwilling OF the Bartholdi statue in
New York GA Wednesday of next week.
The national convention of laundry men
held their annual meeting in Cincinnati
and resolved, among others, to have
nothing To do with the Chinese.
During a storm on Lake Erie, within
| sight of Erie, Pa, an unknown schooner
was wrecked and went to the bottom with
all on board, on the 10th
The German officers Iuartered at Metz
have boycotted several tradesmen because
of their hostile attitude toward the crown
prince ca his rece1C visit.
A Parneiitc member of the English par
diets that home rule in Ireland will soon
be an established fact.
A large amount OF cabin furniture and
wreckage washed ashore at Erie, Pa,
shows that some vessel has gone down
with all on board.
Visiting physicians just returned from
Biloxi, La, report three patients, and found
them all with weN defined symptoms of
yellow fever.
John Stetson has rescended his contract
with the Violet Cameron troupe, AID will
not permit them to play at his Boston
theater
Chief Justice Chase's remains which were
originally buried in Washington, were
Thursday reinterred at his old home in Gin
cinnati.
A gang of brakeman on the Missouri
Pacsc & Iron Mountain railroad, have
been caught in a series Of systematic rob
berries.
Twenty five Chicago milk dealers have
been Joined from selling milk, owing to
the impurity of the article they furnished
Mrs. Parsons, wife of the Chicago an
archiSt, has taken to the lecture fisld, and
will speak in New York city On Sunday.
A complete re-establishment Of the tele
graph monopoly between Gould aud Mac
key is believed to have been effected.
Three villains at Louisville, Ky,
poisoned a blacksmith aud stole $50 he had
on his person. They were arrested.
Reports from Sherman, Tex, are to the
effect that destructive fires are sweeping
through the Indian territory.
At Chicago, Waller, the anarchist who
turned states evidence. was assaulted by
four men who were arrested.
President Gonzales, Of Mexico, is
alive and well and the rumors Of his death
are totally uufounded.
The Central labor union of New York has
| started a newspaper of its own to boom
/ Henry George for mayor.
Mrs. Greenwell, aged seventy, OF cunt
/ Sterling, H., was attacked and killed by
hogs, being half-devoured.
The report of the first assistant post
/ master-general shows a steady increase in
the country's business.
Prospects for a compromise and settle
ment between the Chicago packers and the
strikers are good.
Five hundred miners IN Pennsylvania,
on the 10th, determined to strike if wages
were not raised.
New York Prohibitionists held a rally
ing meeting in Chickering hall, New York,
Sunday evening.
Jay Gould proposes to concentrate the
shops OF the Missouri Pacific railroad at
Kansas city.
At the sale of Pierre Lorillard's horses,
Iroquois, winner of the English Derby,
brought $4,000.
Lawrence Donovan, who jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge, is to jump over the
Genesee falls.
Theodore Roosevelt is the nominee of the
committee of one hundred for mayor of
New York.
Two United States officers at Somerset.
KY, quarreled, and each slot the other
dead.
Thirty buildings have been destroyed by
fire at Eastport, Me. Loss, S5OO,OOO
The British steamer Robinson burned in
the harbor of Galveston Sunday.
Detective Pinkerton is positive the man
Adams, caught in Chicago few days ago,
is the principal in the Minneapolis post
| office robbery.
Michigan's wheat yield is 26,5O4,5l4
busbels-about l415 per acre.
The law taxing Spanish imports is to be
rigidly enforced.
General Master Workman Powderly has
| been reelected.
Secretary Manning, arrived at Washing
1 ton on the 18th.
Neeld, the Chicago defaulter has gone to
Europe.
OCTOBER STORM
The storm which occurred on the 14th
inflicted great disaster at numerous points.
! At Chicago the Western Union people pro-
nounced 1t the worst storm they had en-
countered in five ears, and for hours the
| wires were useless A number of build
| ings were wrecked and damaged and in
] in nrOpscG NJ arapfion raZpd tn the prOuud