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

Prominent co!ored people held meeting
at Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the 25th TO arrange
for National emancipation holiday. and it
was decided TO hold convention at Wash
ingtOn july 4
GREGG & Co, extensive manufacturers of
agricultural implements at Ithaca, N Y,
assigned on the 25th
FIRE in Barber & Co.'s thread-mill on
the 25th At Allentown. Pa, caused loss OF
S25O,O00
Tue death OF Mrs. Anna Parmlee, who
was born in Vermont April %, 1854. oc-
CURED on the 26th near Clinton. n Y.
Her maiden sister. Thankful Stanton, died
two years ago aged ninety nine years
Two OF the Reading Ps. lCompany's mines
were worked on tue 26th. about two hun
dred men being employed All the other
mines belonging 10 the company were SOL
idly closed down
MASKED men entered the house OF Henry
Merritt, near Huntington, Pa, on the Goth,
and tortured him until he was unconscious.
when they secured 81. 500 he had hid
under the floor and left
In New England, New York and Penn
syivania n severe Orm was raging on the
10Th The snow was piled IN o mountain
Gus drifts. and travel on country roads was
impossible Passenger trains were snow
bound Along the coast a fierce gale was
raging, and many vessels were reported in
great peril
STEAMERS which arrived at New York on
the 10Th reported very severe weather on
the Atlantic.
OS the 26th ex-Judge Joseph Nelson,
who became famous for presiding in the
| Beecher-TiltOn trial in 1873. died at bis
home IN Brooklyn, aged seventy-Lve years.
GEORGE ". ALLEN, Of Jamaicl. I. L. a
wealthy marble lie der, was married ON the
26th TO Mss Kate Ludlam after a courtship
Of twenty-One years
NEAR Holyoke, Mass, four railway en-
ploycs were killed on the 9th by an
engine dashing into them while they were
sh0veling snow four were killed in the
same manner near Williamstown. Mass.
AMI threa were killed by a collision AT
Jersey City. y J.
Is Philadelphia on the 27th 1t was esti-
mated that the effect % tie high-license
law. fixing the fee at $500 would be to re-
duce the number OF saloons from six thou
sand TO thirteen hundred
OK April Is and 10 next a National anti
sll3on Republican conference VIII be held
in New York City
A GAS explosion on the 9th in a mine at
| Plymouth, Pa. killed one man and fatally
I burned four o.Eers
/ burgh. Pa, on the 29ih caused a loss OF
! 500 600
II ths Est the snow blockade still pre-
I vailed on the SOsh and WAS said 10 be the
worst ever known Railway traffic wa:
| suspended. and many trains were fast in
/ snow-drifis thirty feet deep
/ AT Malone. y \, the Empire block, in
/ clu Ting n hotel, opera-houss and seven fine
/ stores. was burned on the 291h Loss
/ 500. COO Isaac Chesley. a prominent
merchant. was killed by an explosion in the
hotel
CHRISTIAN FEcx,- of Snowden, Pa, &
miner, killed his wife and himself on the
29.h II was though poverty drove him
4 insans They leave SIX salall children
THE death Of Rev David LsthrOp HUM
occurred at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 29th in
his ninety-ninth year. Before his demise
be was the oldes, living graduate Of Yale
| College
JAMES HAssEY, of Beaver Falls, Pa. who
was kidnapped in 1865. VS. found IN Phile-
delphia on the 2Sth by his father.