River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-22

on the 18th In Indianapolis General Master
Workman Powderly delivered his address
in which he declared that the order had
engaged in many foolish strikes, that tie
order had maintained an existence in the
face OF the most discouraging circumstan-
ces. and that. although the membership
had greatly decreased, 1t would still con-
tinue 20 ex ST.
IN the recent election the Republicans OF
Michigan elected nine Congressman and
the Democrats twa
THE rece at OVERT Wv Of the Wabash and
Ohio rivers near Evansville, Ind, de-
stroyed ever one hundred thousand bush
els OF corn.
J. X. WOODRUFF and T. Matthews, prom
inent c zens OF Pc ut Cooper. La, killed
each other on the 18th in a gu .rrel over q
land purchase.
The sessions of the woman's Con gress
close at Detroit on the 10Th. Mrs. Julia
Ward we WAS reelected president
OFFICIAL returns On the 10th Of the
Presidential and 6ubernator al vote in
Missouri at the recent election give these
totals: Cleveland, 26l e57; Harr son. 1885,
s25; Fisk. 4954; streeter, l5,s5S; total,
5l9,OS9; CleveISn 3 plurality, %. 6S3;
Francis DEM. e55, s22; Kimbau tRenl,
24l. SOL; Msnring Labor. 15,349; Lowe
(Prol. 3,076; Francis plurality. IL, 23l.
OFFICIAL returns on the 10Th from the
Con gressional districts made the Indiana
delegation stand ten Democrats aud three
Republicans, a Democratic gain Of four
A LONE highw yman stopped the stage
near San Lou Obespo, Cal, on the 18th,
and secured about fifty dollars from four
passengers. He alsJ took all the regis
tered mail matter
Ok the 10Th several sheer belonging to
C. J. Myers, wing near Cincinnati, o.,
died OF hydrophobia, three weeks after
they were bitten by a dog.
CAPTAIN JoHN MILLER was killed in
quarrel on the 10Th on his far N near
Jamestown, lad. T.. by James Ables a
tenant Miller was regarded as danger
Gus man. being credited with having
killed no less than thirty-two persons.
1HE two young sons Of John Marvin,
wealthy farmer living near st Cloud,
MINI, broke rough thin ice while skat-
ing on the 10th and were drowned.
On the 10Th the report that five men had
been lynched by Bald Knobbers" ia
Christian County, No, was pronounced
false
A FREIGHT train on the Missouri Pacific
railroad went through a bridge on the
10Th near Eldorado, Kan, and the engine
and tel cars were completely wrecked, one
ers crippled
The frm OF Lindauer Brothers & Co,
wholesale dealers In Chicago, failed on the
18th for tlO00O0
The Supreme Court Of Illinois on the
10th reversed the decision of the Cook
County criminal court and granted Ed
Mcdonald, the Chicago "boodler," q new
trial.
o. the 17th Alexander Messer, one Of
the Hatfield-McCoy murderers in West
Virginia, was captured after a six years.
chase. He confessed 70 having killed
twenty-seven meu.
A CoUNrERFEIr of the SILVER dollar was
being circulated in c icago on the 18th.
Az earthquake shock was felt on the
18th throughout Central California In
some places houses were wrecked aud
children were rolled out of their cradles
AFTER four years OF m rried life Jaoon
Wells, a prosperous farmer liv ng near
Birmingham. Ala. discovered on the nth
that his Wi e j. his half sister
OFFICIAL returns on the 18th from all
the unties in Tennessee showed the fob
loving result OF the recent election;
CIeve and. l59 org; Harrison, lS9. SIS; Fisk,
669; Streeter Is. Cleveland's plurality,
10 2S4; majority, 1887.
FIRE destroyed several buildings at
Little ROCK. ARK on tue lttn, causing
loss Of 500 coo.
TIE son If Porterfield Brooke, a farmer
near stanton, Va, IN a fit Of insanity on
the 18th shot and killed his father and
then committed suicide.
MAJOR J. b THOMAS was appointed gov
eruor Of the Dayton (O) Soldiers HONS
on the 18th.
IL Omaha Neb, Henry W. King, Jr.,
son 81 "A wealthy Chicago cloth ng manu-
fscturer, was shot dead on the nth By
Elizabeth Beechier, who claimed TO be is
wife. The occasion was his mar riage 10
Miss Duffy, of Louisiana. Mo.
AT Damascus. Nd. William Davis COM
mitted su eide on the nth through worry
over his mothers illness. TIE news OF his
death proved sus h a shock 20 the mother
that sc died in a few m ments
II the vicinity Of Albuquerque, n ",
grass on the ranges was short on the nth.
and q hard winter on cattle was expected.