River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-16
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STEPHEN J. MEANY, the Irish patriot, who
was editor of the EUsHiR7 Democrat at Water
bury Conn, died in that city on the sth
JOHN WEIsER, of O'Hsra township. Pa,
committed suicide on the SIN He was
worth 500 600 and his wealth weakened
his mind
CUSTOMS officials on the Sth captured
$50. 900 worth of opium being Struggled
over the Canadian line at Redwood, n Y
OK the Ssh the British steamships Algitha,
Lufra and Darien, all bound from England
for Philadelphia, were given up as lost with
their crews. numbering eighty men
PROF. FRANCIS PATTON, d. D., IL D., of
Chicago, was on the 9th elected president
OF Princeton u. j. College.
At KutztOwn, Pa, four houses were
burned on the 9th, John HOpp, his daughter,
aged fifteen years, and his son, aged nine
years, perlshing in the flames.
OK the 9th Clement a. Day was hanged at
Utica. y l. He was convicted of the muir
der OF his mistress. Johanna Ross Crow, of
whom he was insanely Jealous.
Is the Dupont powder works st Wap-
wallopen, Pa, an explosion on the 10th
blew four men 70 pieces and wounded
forty others, dozen of whom were not ex-
pec-ed 10 recover Nearly every building
in the place was wrecked
d. II.
Jones. OF p ttsburgh, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee. tied Flor
ence, Italy, January -, 1883. and made
pubic on the I2sh inss. announces his
declinaiiOn TO permit the use of his name
IS a Presi lential candidate before the Re
publ can Nation / convention
A JURY on the 11th in New York brought
in a vrTd ct thai The heirs of a su eide, in
sursd for SIO,O 900, were not entitled to any
benefit
OS the evening of the 1 Ith the Republican
Club OF the city of New York held a dinner
Ut DelmOnicO's in honor of the seventy
ninth birthday Of Alraham Lincoln Ad-
dresses We're made by Senator Eyarts, Sher-
man, Allison and others
SIX whites and seven negroes convicted of
petty larcenies were whipped with from
five to ten lashes each on the IIth at New
C.s-le Del
ON the 18th Nh. and Mrs NJ B. Merrill
who reside near Meadville, Pa, celebrated
Their diamond wedding Mr. Merrill is
nnety-sevcn years old and his wife is
eighty-n m.
At Allegheny City, Pa, an association Of
women was formed on the 18th to boycott
ali stores win ca keep open later than six
o'clock in the even ng
o. the IIth James Albert, of Philadel-
phia. came Out first in the six days walking
match in New YORK, making 62ll2 miles
and beating the previous best record of go
miles Herty finished second, $50 miles
Of the fOrty-four who started in the race
only twelve were at the finish
In the E.stern States another heavy
snow-storm prevailed on the 18Th. The
snow in Z stern New York was four feet
deep on tie level. with drifts thirty and
forty feet high
SEVERAL cOllieries in the Reading Pa)
district resumed operations on the 18th,
but the majority Of the mines were still
idle
BEPUBIICASs Of Maine will meet in State
convention at Bangor on April 26 TO nOmi-
nate Presidential electors and delegates TO
the National convention at Chicago
HUNGAEIASs, while drunk. overturned a
lamp on the 18th at Silver Brook, Pa, and
the place catching fire i've men and girl
were burned TO death and other persons
were not expected 10 recover