River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-22
THE EAST,

Ok the l4th the steamer Japan from the
Mediterranean ran into the piiot-boat Star
buck of Barnegat, and the latter sunk with
five men
REPUBLICANS Of the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
v. MIA d stric5 on the I4th nominated
Myron b. Wright for Congress
ATEastern points the great snow blockade
was gradually giving way on the 14Gh.
and in New York City uiffis was
partially resumed Il was feareI that
eighteen pilot boats with their crews, were
lost The financial loss in that city alone
Will b. 5000, 600 In Philadelphia it was
still siorming. but the weather was milder
and trade was being resumed The total
loss TO sh piping at TINT port was estimated
at $500, 0Ol Near Newark, y J., three
persons frozs to death In the States of New
York New Jersey. Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania the tot1l losses by the bIizz I'D was
placed al $50. OOJ, 900.
AT Benton. Ne, Darius " Warren, under
arrest for the murder of his wife, asked on
the 18th TO see his two daugh.er aged
eight and three years respectively He was
taken into the presence by an officer.
when he drew a revo yer and shot them
both Itally aud then lied hi nselE
On the 18th the tnOw-blockade in New
York City was broken, and the steam and
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One of the incidents Of the blockade was
the building of immense bontires in the
middle of snow-drifts StOre-keepers lib
orally contributed Loxss. and the big heaps
of snow We're US melted away.
IT was thought on the 155h that twenty
persons per shed in Essex County, n J.,
during the recent s.orm At New Haven,
Conn, seven persons per sled and there
were over tw.nty deaths in towns diacent
New Haven. while hun Ireds Of psop.e
/ sun rcd from frOst-biteS
OVER two thousand employees OF Mcclure
& Co. coke operators at Scottdale. Pr.
struck on the 10 n because the firm refused
to grant the demands of the men for a d.
vision OF the work
IL Pnil d pJia on the 15.h fire destroyed
property va ned a $500 600
A-RAILwAY snow-plow was wrecked on
| the l5tu mel sh ron, y u. and fot T men
W re killed IN SIX wounded. two fatally.
IT was repor ed on the 16 b that or at
d maze was done 10 the oyster feet IN the
Chesapeake by Y the mt storm. Over
one hundred vessels were wrecked and
about thirty people drowned Inund on
OF the lOwlan IS OF Marylan Z. Delaware and
Y,rg MIA peninsula also cIussd great loss
IHE Republicans OF RhOIe Isl nd met in
State convent on on the IL n at Providenc
anu mum Il LEA - AsiAA, VI 4Aoh AEDC-
for Governor The platform adopted favors
protection 10 home labor and home indus
/ try, and a reduction OF the acknowledgements
/ tlxation.
NEAR Bingiamton, n 7. q passenger
/ ira n fell down a IN rty-foot embankment
on the 18th. and the cars caught ire and
were consumed One man l e-isbed n the
/ flames. 4 half-dozen persons were probably
I IA al V hurt an Inany Others were wounded
ESTIMATES on the 16 b were 10 thu effect
/ that II V persons los, their lives IN the re-
cent IL II I'd in y w YORK CITY.
Or the I7.h RichaId Mason and wife.
living near ithaca. n Y. were murdered by
q farm hand named Robert Barber an their
house was subsequently fred Barber was
under arrest
The South Afr'c'n comet W = on the
/ in Wis bic at tie Warner o. servasory at
/ ROch ster, y Y for the frs. time
A DISCHARGED b r-tender ct Bridgeport,
Conn, YIsi ed his former work-pl on the
/ l7El. fired five shO.s from a revolver and
/ fatally wounded three men.
TEE Vermont Democrats viii hold their
Safe convent On in Montpelier May 10 for
the nomination of Site officers and the
election OF four delegates to St Louis
The death OF Ex-Governor Fairbanks, of
Vermont, who was visiting in New York ~oc-
CURED at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the
17Jh He was 5 xty- EIGHT years OF age