River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-26

DEMOCRATS of the Third Tennessee dis
trict on the 10th nominated Greed F. Bates
for Congress on the 34Sth ballot
ALL over Arenac County, Mich, heavy
forest fires were raging on the 10th and
all the way between Deep river and Glad
win. Timber of all kinds had been de-
stroyed, fences had been burned and other
property damaged.
1T was said on the 10Th that one of the
three Chicago Anarchists under arrest for
conspiracy TO murder Judges Gary and
Grinnel and Inspector Bonfield had made
a confession.
Is the Eighth Iowa district George c.
Calkins was nominated for Congress on
the 10th by the Union Labor party.
Is the Lake Superior Company's mine
near Ishpeming, Mich, a single blast on
the Goth dislodged mass of gold bearing
rock, weighing three hundred pounds, the
gold in which was valued at $4,000 to $50, :
600
Hicks CARMICHAEL (coloredl was ex
ecuted on the 10Th in Knoxville, Tenn, for
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Shipe.
LINvILLE COMBS, aged eleven years, was
on the Goth imprisoned for life at Frank
fort, KY, for killing his three year
sister.
A BOILER explosion on the 2ist at the
coal shafts of Williams 4 Moss, at Zion,
KY, killed four men.
Ok the 2lst a sal! boat containing four
young men was upset on Lake Minnetonka,
opposite Northwood, Mimi, and all were
drowned.
FoR the week ended on the 21st the rec
ord Of the base ball clubs in the National
League was as follows: Chicago (games
won. A; Detroit, 49; New York, 40; Bos-
ton. 81; Philadelphia, "a; Pittsburgh, %;
indianapolis, p; Washington. % The
American Association clubs stood !:
Brooklyn (games won), As; st. Louis,
IS; Cincinnati, 43; Philadelphia, 40;
Baltimore, 80; Louisville, 25; Cleve
land, p; Kansas City, 2l. In the West
ern Association the following was the
order: st. Paul (games won), 80; Des
Aloines. 81; Omaha, q; Chicago, 2S; Kansas
City, 26; Milwaukee, %; Sioux City, s.;
Minneapolis, p.
THERE were seven cases of yellow fever
at Plant City, Fla, on the 22d.
On the 22d Mrs Thomas Hartwig, a
widow with six children, was accidentally
drowned in the river at Logansport, Ind.
FRANK WILLIAMS was harged at Black
foot. |. T., on the 2lst foT the murder of
Charles Reed and Captain Winn near Carl
bou, December Il, 1856
FREIGHT trains collided on the Norfolk &
Western road on the I'D, near Lynchburg,
Va, and both engineers, one fireman and
five Of the crews were killed. The prop
erty loss was SlO0,0O0.
Two RoUGHs attacked Allen Collins, of
Marietta, Ind, on the 22d, and in defend
ing himself fatally cut both of them.
MRs. OSCAR W DoRAN, of Columbus
Ind, was arrested on tho 2lst, charged
with numbering her husband by pouring
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asleep.
A BANDIT held up stage near San Luis
Obispo, Cal, on the 2lst, took all the val
uables of the passengers, amounting to
$500 and also secured the express box con-
tanning 81. 600 and mail packages.
FIRE on the 2lst In a mine at Sunny
South, Cal, caused the death Of six miners.
Is fight on the 2:d over the enforcement
Of prohibition at Harlan Court House, KY,
five men were badly wounded.
On the 23d Samuel Baldwin made a sue
cessful leap with a parachute from a bal
loon four thousand feet above the earth at
Quincy, Ill.
a FIRE destroyed the town of Roslyn
W. T., on the 2Sd, 30 houses being burned
and 800 inhabitants made homeless. The
loss was SJ0O,O0J.
WISCONSIN Republicans will hold their
oldte convention at MiiWduhee on inc z@a
of August
OK the 231 eleven thieves attempted to
rob a passenger train between Ashtabula
o., and Geneva, but they were overpow-
cred, and nine of them were captured and
placed in jail.
q LABOR Congress, composed of trades
unions, met at Dubuque, Ia, on the 23d
and formed an organization, electing James
White. of the Knights of Labor, president
The object is to see all labor laws en-
forced
WHILE drunk on the 23d at Mobile, Ala,
Ide Lambert, a white man, shot and killed
T. ID. Hestle and two negroes. He was ar
rested
FoUR naval cadets were dismissed from
the service at Annapolis. Nd, on the 23d
for hazing. Their names are Richard II.
Leigh. Mississippi; George H. Shepard,
Wisconsin; Bion b Bierrer, Kansas, and
Charles W. Lyle, Virginia.
NEAR Benham, Tex, Jack Walker (col-
ored) was lynched on the 23d because he
struck the wife of German in quarrel
over a horse