River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-24
The delegates are uninstructed, but favor


Blaine.
THE Republicans of Maryland met at
Easton on the 18th and Walter b. Brooks,
Adam Z. King, William ID. Burchinal, Dan
iel ID. Dickson, W. G.. Tuck, Milton G.
Crner and Thomas Gorsuch were selected
as delegates at-large to Chicago. They
were uninstructcd. The resolutions de-
nounce the Presidents free trade message.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan decided
on the 18th that the Local Option law,
which has been adopted by over forty coun
ties, is unconstitutional, on the ground that
the act was entitled to regulate while il
really meant prohibition, and therefore
conflicted with the constitution.
FoUR men were lynched on the 18th near
the western border of the Cherokee strip,
in Indian Territory, by vigilantes. They
were charged with robbery, thievery and
murder in the neutral strip and in Southern
Kansas.
Is the family of A. j. Murray, prominent
business man of Hastings, Neb., four per
sons were fatally poisoned on the 18th by
eating tomatoes taken from corroded tin
cans.
GREAT restitution and suffering were re-
ported on the 18th in the district flooded by
the Mississippi river At Indian Grove
there were one hundred and fifty families
homeless, the majority being partially smell
tered in barns and other buildings on farms
not inundated The destruction was said
to be great from Keol1uk, Ia, TO the remote
parts of Arkansas.
IL the Fifteenth Illinois district the Pro-
hibitionists on the 18th nominated James
d. Sheldon for Congress.
FIRE on the 18th at Palouse City, w. r.,
destroyed seven business blocks, at a total
loss Of S250.000
THE Prohibitionists in the Eighth In
diana district on the 18th nominated J. j.
l. Myers for Congress.
JOSEPH II. ANDERSON. of Bristol, Tenn,
died on the lSth. He was nominated for
Governor by the Prohibitionists few days
ago
OK the 18th a hail-storm passed over
Pratt, Kan, destroying fruit and killing
cattle over an area of many miles.
A GAS explosion on the 18th wrecked the
First National Bank building at st. Cloud,
Mimi, the front being hurled across the
street and shattering buildings on the OPP
posite side.
WILLIAM LLEwELLYS's house at Clcve-
land, o.. was destroyed by fire on the 18th,
and their three young children and Mrs
Lewis, the mother of Mrs. Llewellyn, per
ished in the flames.
A wIND-sToRN swept over the mining
town of Aurora, Mo, few days ago, leav-
ing hundreds of people without shelter. A
great deal of stock in the surrounding
country was killed by falling buildings
OK the 10th Rev. Richard Breeden and
his wife were fatally injured by a Chicago
& Rock Island train near Waterloo, la.
A. NJ. FORBES barn in Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth, and seventy
horses persisted in the flames. Two years
ago barn in the same spot was burned
and over sixty horses were smothercd.
EDWARD WILMAN, iivingne St. Charles,
Mich, on the Goth fatally shot his wife be-
cause She Joined a church in opposition TO
his wishes, and then shot himself through
the heart.
IL St Louis the law closing the liquor
saloons on Sunday was generally obeyed
on the Goth, and il was the first "dry"
Sunday that this city ever experienced.
QUiNCY Qll) dispatch of the Goth says
that the mighty flood in the Mississippi val
ley, which would be remembered as without
precedent in the destruction and suffering
created, was slowly abating. Hundreds
of families were homeless and thousands
of acres of growing crops ruined, TO say
nothing of the loss entailed by demol-
ished dwellings, wrecked fences and wash
outs The total loss was estimated at
81 100000.
IDGE HPEER uctlutu IN inc Onllet OtdleS
District Court at Macon, Ga, on the 10Th
that when a dishonest postal clerh opened
dccOy letter he broke no law and was not
amenable to punishment.
WHILE Offering prayer on the 18th OF the
opening of the German Baptist conference
at North Manchester, Ind, Elder Quinter,
prominent clergyman of Huntington,
Pa, was struck dead with apoplcxy He
was seventy-two years of age, and entered
the ministry at the age of twenty years.
Two DWELLINGS and two large stables
were set on fire at Anderson, n. c., on the
3lst, in a deliberate attempt to burn the
town.
From nearly every county in Indiana re-
ports of the 2lst showed that the condition
of crops was much below the average.
w. L. BANCROFT, of Port Huron, Mich,
was appointed general superintendent of
the railway mail service on the 2lst, vice
I. f. Nash, resigned.
FoUR boys attempted on the 3lst in Gin
cinnati TO break open sealed package
which they had found, when it exploded,
fatally injuring three of them.
FROM many points in the Northwest
reports on the 2lst showed that the late cold
rains and light frOsts had done much dam
age to growing crops.
SAMUEL MOORE was drowned i'm the In
dian Grove levee district by the foods on
the 3lst and two children of William John
son in the Sny district met the same fate
On the 2lst Francis T. Nichols was in
augurated Governor of Louisiana at Baton