River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-19
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II. L. SPRINGER d BROTHERS. livery
stable at Buffalo, y. Y, was burned on the
nth, ami two men and twenty horses
persisted in the flames
Ar the session of the Republican Nation
al Committee in New York City on the 18th.
NJ $ Quay, Of Pennsylvania, was elected
chairman, and J. :. Fassett, OF New York,
secretary
Tue rise in the MOnOngahela river and
other near streams and the freshets
Throughout the vast territory Of which
Pittsburgh is on the border. were on the
nth almost without parallel in that por-
ton Of the country. The rushing waters
had wiped OUT over S2,O0O.OO0 worth of
property, and there had been loss of life
as well Millions Of feet Of lumber. scores
OF coal craft. fences. barns and buildings
Of every description had been destroyed,
and hundreds Of people had been driven
from their homes.
On the 18th the -,eys Eo=.s s,tatu -. Al
ton Of Republican clubs met at Saratoga
Sprihgs and elected four delegates TO at
tend the National convention in Chicago
d'he secretary's report showed that there
was $50 Republican clubs in the State. wi h
an aggregate membership of eighty thou
sand
The death of Hiram Sibley. one Of the
founders of the Western Union Telegraph
Company and a we'll known capitalist and
scotsman. occurred at Rochester. y. Y,
on the nth. at the age Of eighty years.
OK the eth snow to the depth of foot
fell on Mount Washington, " H.
Oh the 18th the waters that had been
sweeping the valley of the MonOngahela
and the valleys of its tributaries for sixty
hours were falling into their natural chan
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would not fan short Of S30O0.no0. a large
proportion Of which fell upon the people
Of the counties Of MOnongalia. Marion.
Taylor. Harrison Lewis. Barbour Upshur
and Randolph. in West Virginia. and the
counties Of Allegheny. Washington, West
mOreland, Fayette and Greene, in Pennsyl-
vania
a CYCLONE swept over New England and
Eastern New York on the l2th. The great
est havoc in Massachusetts was done in
Waltham, Cambridge, WATERFOWL, Ded-
ham, Brighton and Winthrop Between
Pittsfield and Albany, y. Y. clear path
was swept, three paper mills and many
houses being leveIed.
The statement that General Sheridan
was able to leave his bed was denied on
the 18th by the Generals brother, who
said the sick man was still too week to
Aea-o- us +aNehNT SNN t-seAh III vas EoAAAAiE
slowly
uv tho 18th the Latin & Rand powder
works at CressOna, Pa, exploded, killing
George Gilman, Charles Reed and Henry
Bcrnich
\ FIRE destroyed the old Ben Holiday
stone mansion on the I4th three miles from
White Plains y Y, now owned by White
law Reid. Of the New York Tribune The
building was one of the famous landmarks
in Westchestcr County, having been stand
ing for over two hundred years Loss,
s3nO.0Q0
FIRE swept away the principal portion Of
Avon, Mass. on the 18th.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was reported TO be
steadily improving on the 18th, and his re
covery was confidently expected.
The strike If irOn-wOrkers at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was practically over on the 18th. But
few manufacturers remained who had not
signed the scale.
Ok the 10th Mr., and Mrs Wentworth,
who were spending their honeymoon at the
farm of Edward Davis, in New London, y.
H.. were drowned by the upsetting of a
boat
THE Grant locomotive works at Pater-
son, y J.. We're on the 10Th compelled TO
shut down, owing 10 excessive competition.
THE death Of Lester A Bartlett. presi-
dent Of the Spencer Arms Company, oc-
CURED on the 10th at Atlantic City. y. j.
He was the first student to enlist from
Oberlia -uiversity at the outbreak Of the
war