River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-13
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MINES at NesquehOming, Pa. we're flooded
on the 5th, causing great damage, and
Philip Stevens and William Pitcher were
drowned
GOVERNOR SPRAGUE's mansion at Mar
ragansett Pier R. l., Canonchet, was sold
on the 5th for $4,000 1t would be used
for hotel
On the 9th John Chistigan and wife were
suffOcated by coal gas in their house near
Tonawanda. y. y.
IL New York City on the 9th five sui
cides Occurred-fOur Germans and a
Frenchman-
CLERGYMEN met at New York on the 9th
and made arrangements for religious
services in churches throughout the coun-
try on the morning of April 30 next being
the centennial of the inauguration of
President Washington.
SCHEME 10 organize federation of all
railroad employees in the country excepting
conductors was reported on the 9Th.
The death of Thomas Thompson, aged
ninety-four years, a pensiOner Of the war
Of 1872, occurred at ROckport, Mass, on
the 9th
OK the 9th little daughter of Charles
Tinesdell, OF Luzerne, \. Y, had gone
twenty-one days without food. The child
was confined TO her bed with spinal
trouble.
BIZ the will of Rebecca F. Robertson,
admitted to probate in New York on the
7Ih, 500, 900 are given to establish home
to enable poor families TO have brief
summer outing free Of charge.
OK the 9TH George W. Seward died at
Florida, y. Y, aged eighty years. He was
a brother Of the late William II. Seward,
Secretary OF State under Lincoln.
On the 9Th Henry V Tucker, a wealthy
/ farmer residing near MiddletOwn, Conn,
was robbed of a tin safety-box containing
$40 90 which he had locked IN closet in
his house.
The death of General William ii. Blair
occurred on the 9Th at Bellefonte, Pa, al
the age Of seventy SIX years. He was
made Brigadier-General for bravery at
Autietam
A FIRE swept away the Central State
Normal School building at LOckhaven, Pa
on the 9th, entailing loss of SlJOOO0, with
small insurance.
The death of Alexander Mcmillan, edi
I tor Of the New York Commercial Bu liotiH,
occurred at his residence in Brooklyn on
I the 9Th. at the age of sixty three years.
IT has been decided by the Welsh choral
Z societies Of the anthracite coal region OF
+ Pennsylvania 20 form one immense chOiI
I OF five hundred voices TO sing in Washing
/ ton on the uay OF HARRISON ; IT duEuratlOn.
OK the 9th Elisha Atkins, railway mill
/ iOnaire, died in Boston. aged sevensy-siS
years. He was director of the URiOp Pa
cific road from its inception and was also
one Of the heaviest sugar refiners in the
country.
OK the Sth steamer that transfers cars
F across New York bay was burned, with its
load. causing a loss Of 500 600
MANY people along the Massachusetts
coast recovered a winter stock Of Hour and
meal from vessels wrecked duriu : ne re
cent storm.
a SWIMMING match OF sixty hours be
I tween Leavitt and Stone was finished in
Boston on the sth, Leavitt covering fifty
miles and eleven laps, breaking all pre-
vious records
THE death of Rear-Admiral Leroy, oil
the United States Navy, occurred in New
York on the 10th. at the age Of seventy
wears. He entered the navy in ISL
A FREIGHT train crashed into the real
{ OF a passenger car near COalmOnt. Pa, on
the 10Th and dozen persons were hurt
OF whom SIX sustained dangerous injuries
TIE Newark ~. j. chief Of police on
the 10Th notified all clairvoyants and fort
uue-telIers that II they do not leave the
city they would be arrested as frauds