River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

REPUBLICASs of Wisconsin met in State
convention at Milwaukee on the 22d and
nominated rhe following ticket: For Gov
error, W. ID Hoard Lieutenant Governor.
G.. w. Ryland; Secretary Of State Ernest
G. Timme; Treasurer, H x. Harshaw; At
torney- General C. f. EstaDrook; Superin-
tcndent of Education, J. Z. Thayer; Rail
road COMMISSIONS. ALLEY Peterson; In
surance Ccmmi ssioner, Philip Cheek, Jr.
The platform indOrses the Republican Ma
tionai r.atform and candidates. praises Re
publican administration Of State affairs
and eulog zes Governor Rusk.
DURING a fog in San Francisco bay on
the 22d the steamer Oceanic ran into the
City Of Chester, damaging her so badly
that she went down in five minutes, and
thirteen persons were drowned.
THkoUGTOUr Ohio and West Virginia
the damage by floods had on the 23d
reached 100000 Six lives were lost in
Ohio.
NINE new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Jacksonville, Fla, but no deaths
during the twenty four hours ended on the
22d
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the I'D: Fifth OHIO district,
Wilson Vance Rep; Second Indiana, T.
Y. BraxtOn Rep; Tenth Indiana, Judge
Paynter CDeml.
The Republicans OF West Virginia met in
Charleston on the I'D and nominated Gen
eral y. Coz for Governor by reclamation.
Mr.. Goff now represents the First district in
Congress
ADvICEs Of the POI say that nine persons
lost their lives in the recent cyclone at
Still Pond, Md, and others were badly in
iured.
DEMOCRATS of Missouri met at jefferson
City on the 23d and nominated ID. r.
Francis, now Mayor Of st. Louis, for GOV
ernor.
OK the I'D candidates for Congress were
nominated as follows: Ohio. First dis
trict. Benja Butterworth (Rep) re
nominated. Second. John \ Caldwell
Rep; Fifth. Nelson J. Vance (Rep).
Indiana. Second district, Thomas W Brax-
ton (Repi. Kentucky, Ninth district
Thomas H. Paynter DEM. Iowa. Third
district. David B. Henderson tRepl re
nominated: seventh. W. l. Carruteer
Union Labor. Virginia. First district,
II b. Browne Rep renOminated. Mary
land. Fifth district Sidney + Mudd
Rep: sixth. Louis f. McComas fRepl
renouiinated- Idaho, James G. Hawiey
DEM
IL MuskinEum County. o. a storm on
Esse I'D WasEe1 away Drl0&e- anu taAFeEl.
and crops sustained considerable injury.
GOVERNOR THATER was renominated BY
the Nebraska Republican State convention
az Lincoln on the sd
APAPER-NILL caught fire on the 2Sd at
Menasha Wis, and when the firemeu
turned water On the immense revolving
bleach in the heatiag-room an explosion
resulted and ten tons Of boiler debris were
hurled into the crowd Of spectators. kill
ing fourteen persons outright fatally in
turing seven and woundlng many more.
OK the sd Nicolo Femmenetta was
hanged at Buena Vista. Col, for the mur-
der Of Michael d. Casey at Granite in
March last
OK the s4th J. II. McGinnis was nom
mated for Congress BY the Republicans Of
the Third district Of West Virginia, and
C. A Mathews received 4 like honor in
Dakota
ANONs the negroes on the rice planta
tions on the Santee river near Columbia
S. c. black measles Of virulent type pre-
vailed On the 24th. Fifty deaths had oc-
cnrred, and the disease had become cpl
denic, creating panic.