River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-29

convention on the 2lst at Des Moines and
elected delegates to the National conven-
tion. the delegates at-large being David h
Henderson, J. Clsrkson, George D. Per-
kins and ]. p Dolliver The resolutions
Simply set forth the qualifications and at
taiDments of Senator William b Allison,
and recommend him as a 1t candidate for
the Presidency.
On the Upper Missouri in Montana great
floods prevailed on the DIST The country
in the vicinity of Wolf Point was one vast
sea. FERNS being under four feet of water
AT Wheeling. W. Va. one Of the iercest
gales ever experienced ragged on the 2lst.
Several houses were unroofed and many
persons were blown OF their feet on the
street.
OK the 2Ist cold weather, with one of the
severest storms of the season, was re-
ported from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Da-
kota.
OHIO Democratic clubs met in Columbus
on the DIST and formed a State League
THOMAS Brown. aged sixty yelrs an in
mate of the Soldiers Home at Milwaukee,
was found near the grounds frozen to
death on the 22d
IN Northern Michigan all railways were
blockaded by snow on the 22d, and in
some towns the thermometer registered
twenty-five degrees below zero
IT is estimated that over forty thousand
dollars in counterfeit fiye-dollar silver GER
tihcates have been put in circulation in
Chicago in the past few days
The Pettibone Touring mills at Milford
Mich. were burned on the 22d Loss
500, 900.
THE death or Mrs jeanette Loewenberg
aged one hundred years and nine months
and six days. occurred in Chicago on the
22d
INVESTIGATION of the treatment of Arkap-
sas convicts in the Coal Hill mines revealed
on the 22d brutaliues even more horrible
than at first reported Warden Scott
whipped seventy-fve men in one night
till all were bleeding. the men ad gone
without shoes all winter and one had been
murdered
PRoHIBITIoMsTs Of West Virginia will
/ meet at Parkersburg July Is TO nominate a
State ticket and elect delegates to their
Nat onal convention at indianapolis
The strike of the engineers on the Bur.
lington road has cost the Brotherhood up
TO the 22d over $500, 600. and the railway
company over 81. 900 600
FIRE destroyed the William II. Schmidt
Sash and Door Company's factory at Nil
waukee on the 22d Loss 100000
| Oh the I'D the pension claim OF Cyphert
| T. Gillette. of What Cheer, Ia, was allowed
/ by the Pension Department The amount
/ Gillette will receive is about $4,000 in
arrears and monthly pension OF $72
| This was said to be the largest sum ever
| paid to private soldier as pension
AT the Lake Erie depot in Lima. O.,
lanes Search was knocked down on the 23d,
robbed of 81, 500 and seriously injured
| The burglar escaped.
J The Jury in the tally-sheet forgery case
at Columbus. o., disagreed on the 23d,
/ after having been out four days, and was
I discharged The ballot stood at ten to two
/ for conviction
The Prohibitionists on the 23d nominated
Green Clay Smith for Congressman of the
| Eighth Kentucky district
| ALONG the line of the Burlington system
| the switchmen quit work on the sd in
order TO help the engineers and tiremen Of
/ that line
| The Texas Legislature will meet in extra
| session on April 10. to dispose of the sur
| plus money in the State treasury.
| WILLIAM MCCLURE, aged sixty-tive years.
| OF Timber Ridge, Va. murdered his wife
/ and then killed himself on the 2Ith in a
gu o.
| AT woodlawn, Ala, convIcts revOlted on
| the oath and two were killed by the guards.
SIXTEEN Mormons were on the 24th sem
| fenced at Provo. L. T., To six months in the
Penitentiary for living with more than one
/ wife.
RAILWAY traffic for the third time in ten
/ days IN Minnesota was at a standstill on the
25th, ON account of snOw-stOIms
DIR J. NJ CHAPLIN, arraigned on the 24th
| for bigamy at Findlay, o., was said to have
/ at least nine wives living.
4 LEE RICE. 4 wealthy citizen, and Judge T..
/ b Hami ton ended their lives by suicide
/ ON the 25Jh near 0wensville, ny. Ill health
| was given as the cause in both cases
! FRED KuCH, aged twelvs years. was killed
by Car, his older brother ON the 25th at
| Peru, Ind by the discharge of pistol sup
| posed 10 be unloaded
| o. the 255h James and Samuel Doyle
| (brothers) were drowned while fishing in the
! Arkansas river some miles below Fort Glib
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