River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

4 IN many parts Of Wisconsin heavy frosts
were reported on the 18th, freezing Gran
berries and damaging the corn and tobac
/ co crops.
/ ALMOST the entire business portion OF
| Berne, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
18th.
/ OFFICIAL returns from the recent Arkan
] sas election were all in on the 18th, and
/ the majority for Colonel Eagle, Democrat
I ic candidate FOR Governor is 1881
Z WILLIAM WARNER, of Kansas City, was
elected Commander in Chief at the G.
/ 4. r. encampment in Columbus, o., on the
/ 18th, and Milwaukee was chosen as the
/ place for the next annual gathering.
Ok the 18th nominations for Congress
were made as follows: Wisconsin, Third
I district, r. NJ La Toilette (RepD renom-
! mated; Eighth. S. C. johnson Dem-)
} Ohio, Eighteenth district, G.. p. Ikert
/ DEM. Iowa, Fourth district, J. II.
/ Sweeney (Repl. Mississippi, Seventh
/ district. Henry Kornogan (Rep.). Ken
| lucky, Third district, w. G. Hunter rep
renominated. Arkansas. Third district,
Z r c. McRae DEM reuominated. Ten
: nessee. Sixth district ;. E. Washington
Z tDem. rcnOminAtcd.
AT Decatur. Ala. the outbreak OF yellow
/ fever had on the 18th caused the greatest
/ excitement among the people, who wefe
Z leaving the town in large numbers
THE Green back party National Commit
tee met at Cine nnati on the 18th and de-
I Cided not 10 put ticket in the field Res
olntions were adopted against fusion with
any party.
The entire business section OF Wash
burn. Wis, was burned on the l4th. Loss,
S50Oaa. small insurance.
II a "a of jealousy Charles Klein, night
Waterman at Fort Wayne, Ind. shot his
wife fatally on the 14th and then killed
himself
II the section surrounding Mason City,
Ia. heavy frosts had on the 14th killed the
grass and damaged corn severely. reduc-
ing the average acreage, Il was estimated,
by twelve bushels.
AT Hendersonville. y. e, yellow fever
broke out on the 18th among the refugees
2 from Jacksonville.
\ BOAT upset on the 18th al Cary, Ill,
and Walter Graham aud his two sisters,
Maria and Sarah, were drowned. Their
home was in Chicago.
Is Areuac County, MCh.. the drought
/ and forest fires continued unabated on the
18th Lumber camps had been destroyed,
and the damage already u timber. stand
ing and manufactured, was estimated at
/ slO0.000
OK the Baltimore & Ohio railway a pas
: senger train jumped q switch on the l4th
/ az AukinCtOwn. O. and ran into a freight
. train on the side track. and the boiler Ct
7 the freight engine exploded. Two persons
were killed outright and thirtv-two others
: were more or less seriously injured. The
majority Of the victims were members OF
the &. 4 K. who were returning from the
Columbus encampment
The execution Of Alexander Goldeusen
took place on the I4th at san Francisco FOR
the murder Of Mamie Kelly, a fourteen
Z year-old schoolgirl. because she refused
20 accept his attention. and Dock DanCan
Z tcoloredl was hanged al Columbus. 5. C.,
for the murder Of William +. Coke, a
white boy.
CONGREsSIoNAL nominations were made
Z n me 18th as follows; Charles Barwig,
by Second Wisconsin district Democrats;
I b b. Godfrey. BY Fifth Michigan district
I ProhibitiOnists-
THE Roanoke river was on the l4th food
I ing Northampton and HalifaN counties,
y. c. destroying the entire corn and cot
ton crops in the Iowlands II al estimated
loss OF $4,000. drowning cattle, tearing
houses from their foundations. and, il was
| feared. causing much loss Of lunar LIFE