River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-06-21
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UNE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Mormon immi-
grants arrived in New York on the 18th,
and Immediately left for Utah.
HENRY 81. DUBLEDAY, of South Royalton,
Vt, was on the 18th victimized to the OK
tent Of 5000 by the gold brick swindlers.
The parties escaped 20 Canada
REPUBLICANS of the Twenty fifth Penn
sylvania district nominated Charles c.
Townsend for Congress on the 18th.
WILLIAM WARD, of Newark, n. j., was
chosen Supreme Chancellor, at the session
Of the supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at Cincinnati or the 18th.
On the l4th Tim Williams, a Lebanon
Conn hermit, aged seventy six years,
was stung 10 death By bees which he was
trying to hive.
OK the 18th Isaac Bronson and wife, of
POkeville. Conn, were found dead in their
farmhouse. 1t was thought Bronson
killed his wife and then took his own life
FIRE destroyed the main building of
the Salcm Mass Lead Company with its
contents on the l4th. Loss, Sll5,OO0
TIE window glass factories of Pitts
burgh, Pa. and the West closed down on
the 18th 10 remain closed until September
l, or longer, unless the workers and EN-
pIOyers agreed on a scale of wages.
a FIRE destroyed twenty four freight cars
filled with general merchandise on the 18th
at Pm iladelphia. Loss, SI00,GO0
On Staten Island, y. V, tempest ragged
on the 18th, causing great destruction of
property.
on the 18th Mary v Prescott. the gifted
and widely known authoress and poetess,
! died at the residence of her brother-in law,
Richard = SpOffOrd, at Deer Island, Mass.
OK the 18th bronze equestrian statue
of Israel Putnam. the Revolutionary hero,
IL. 4
/ lyn. Conn.
The ice-hOuse of English & Best, a. Al
| bany, y Y, was struck b. lightning on the
18th and burned. Loss $iC9OOO
OK the 18th the American mills at Fall
River, Mass, were struck by lightning and
! destroyed BY fire. loss, 100000.
GREAT damage was done by cloud bursts
/ at Titusville. Pa. aad vicinity on the 10th
/ Ten miles of track of the New York q
/ Pennsylvania railroad south of Titusville
/ were pRcd up with dirt, rocks, fallen trees,
/ etc.
OK the 18th Albert f. Purdy, prominent
business man of Perry, y. Y, aud Miss
/ Iettje NJ Strauss were drowned in Silver
lake by the upsetting of their boat.
/ MIS- FRIEDMAN. of Providence, r. l., on
/ the 10th poured kerosene over her bed and
| burned herself and an eight-ycar-Ol
daughter to death. She was crazed with
| grief at the reported death of her husband
IL the COnnellsville pa region sever
/ coke works shut down on the 18th on ac
| count of a strike Of the employees. Tive
/ thousand men were thrown out Of work.
MAGGIE WELLS, aged eleven years, ar
| rived in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th from
| Yorkshire. England. having made the triT
| unacCOmpanicd by any one. Her father
fastened tag to her dress, bearing the
address Of her uncle in that city, and by
| this means she arrived safely.
4 FIRE at Danbury, Conn, burned Over
twenty acres on the 18th, destroying q
| number Of business blocks and lumber
/ yards Loss, SI25.OO0.
| On the evening Of the 18th Captain Will
! lam A. Andrews started from Point Of
! Pines, near Boston, on avoyage to Queens
/ town in his fourtccn-foot dory. Twenty
thousand people sax him OF. He crossed
| safely ten years a. ~ in a similar boat.
DUBOIS Pa, was almost wiped out of ex
istcucc on the 18th by fire. Nearly three
| hundred houses were in ruins and foul
] thousand people arc homeless