River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-23
THE EAST.

IL Providence, L L, one of the best bust
ness blocks was destroyed by fire on the
18Th, caus No a loss OF over $500. 900
FIEE destroyed the Collins PIPER Manu-
featuring Co S factory at North Wtibraham,
Msss, on he 18th Loss, $3.50 600
The state Temperance Alliance OF Della
W r in annual convention al Dover on the
10Th deci led to 90 mo politics. and dele
gates 70 The NatiOna. Prohibition cOnveD-
ton in indianapolis were elected
On the 18Th he Saco tMel Bank was put
in possession OF tie S2U5, 600 in bonds
s-o.ea last August by Frank {. MeNeaIey.
TIE American Lives Ok Express Com
psny, 10 ship cattle by fast express between
Chicago and HobOken and Jersey City, was
organized IN New York on tie I5-h
II & NJ Of jealousy on tie 15sh Oliver 2.
Truett of York, Pa, shot his wife and then
sho1 himself
a IRE on the 18th in the Adeeriissr office
at E.mirn, y u spread TO adjoining Luild-
ings, causing a loss of $50. 600
NERMONT's seventy seven Republican
clubs organ d a State Lsague in Aontpe-
! er on the 10th with Ex-Governor Proctor
as president
ToR the parp0se Of restricting production
and maintaining prices twenty-five per
cent of the coke ovens in the Connsllsv lie
Pa region were shut down on the 16lh,
rendering fifteen hundred men idle
GEORGE ". DAREOw, a ho;e proprietor,
fell into "A railroad cut at Union City, y l.,
on TIE I6th and VS. injured so that he
could not move. and froze TO death
An error in the constitution OF New Jersey
which would liberate ali prisoners connie
ted since 1873 was on the 10TH said TO have
be n discovered
VERMONT ProhihitiOnists VII hold their
State convention June II at Montpelier
Oh the l7lh Fanny Wye, aged thirteen
years. was married at North s;onington,
Conn. 10 Charles Drake
AMONG the strik NJ miners at Shenandoah
Pa. terrible destitutiOn was discovered on
the I7Ih. several families having been
without food for two days Most of the
con ributions intended tor them were alb
sorhed by the railrOaders for whose benefit
they struck
HIRAM WEIssMAS's house at Newark. " J..
wss des royed by FIRE on the 18th, and Mr.
Weissnan. his wife and child were fatally
burned
sEvERAL business buildings al Westerly, Z
l.. were destroyed by fire on the 18th, en-
failing a loss OF S15O.OO0
The sti fixing miners in the Schuylkill pal
reg on were on the 18th ordered by Master
Workman Lewis to return 10 work
The Governor of Pennsylvania on the
18th signed the death warrants for the
hanging Of three murl erers. the dates for
executions being March -, 2S and %
II Boston the license % retail liquor-deal-
CTS was raised on the 18Th from $500 TO
81 600
A YRS on the 10Th in Providence, r L,
Destroyed the L n,els building, occupied by
business firms. ceusing .oss OF $3.50, goo
TIEE Ges Toyed the Lebanon cotton mills
near P,vtucket. r L, on the 10Th Loss.
SiJO.UOO
AUSTIN CoRRTS. president Of the Reading
railway, on the 18th sent To PottsvIlle, Pa
4 personal contribution Of $50 coo, to be
distribu-ed among the miners for the relief
OF he families
Rogers 4 sHELDOS's iron works at Br dye
water. Mass. were destroyed By ire on the
18th. involving = !oss OF 500, 600
LADY living in New York, formerly Miss
Calian. Of County Csysn. he'aud. said On
the 18th that General sheridan was the
heir to a fortune Of $50. 600, left HIM by
a relative in Ireland
NATIONAL conference Of Anti-saioon Re-
pnIlic rs viii be held in New York City
Apri Is nd 10
THE Cylindrograph VI nufacturing Com
pany AMI other firm were burned ont in
New York on the 20th. causing a loss of
500, GOO
o. tie 2oth nine men started in a six-day
twelve hours per dayl bicycle race at the
Elite rink in philadelphia.