River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-25

trains ccllided on the 18th on the Chicago,
81 Paul & Kansas City road, and three
stori-men, Edward Hickey, of Fairbanks,
MINI. James Orr. of Larrimore, Mira,
and John Brown, Of st, PauL Minn., were
killed.
A MEETING Of representative farmers
was held at Princeton, Ky. on the 18th.
and resolutions were adopted in favor Of
planting no tobacco next year, owing TO
over production.
Oh the 18th Charles B. Wilson lcolored)
was nominated for Congress by the Re
publicans OF the First Louisiana district,
Mr.. Pinchbsck declining TO run.
RAIN on the 18TH completed the dscour-
agement of the ex-striBers Of the Chicago
North Side Street Car Company, and they
acknowledged defeat and said that an.
other tie-up would not be attempted. Inc
new men still found ha-ricades on the
tracks and were riuch abused and insulted
=. Stow iel al various places in Northern
Michigan on the 18th.
CHARLES and William Weller, MIXERS,
while digging their way through the snow
from L. Juta basin 70 Telluride, Col, on
the 10th wefe caught in a snow slide, car
ried Fifteen hundred feet down the mountain
and buried under twenty feet Of snow and
rocks
HIM UPHAN, age..t Tor an express COM
pany at s5fey vile, Kan, received a pack
age Of dynamite on the 18th marked
glass" which exploded, tearing a hole in
his house and fatally injuring his wife
and another lady.
a DYNAMITE explosion or the 10Th is a
quarry at Frankfort. Ky, fatally injured
Hanson Graham, John Glorn, Robert
Giore and W y Williams.
IN a sugar house at Houma, La, a boiler
exploded on the 10th, killing one white
man and three negroes
THROUGHoUT Northern Iowa and at Ne
brasks City. Neb-, snow fell quite heavily
oc the 2ist. II was the earliest snow storm
within the memory OF old settlers
A STATUE Of General Ulysses s. Grant,
presented to the city Of ST. Louis by the
Grant Acncment Association of Missouri,
was unyailed on the Goth.
GOLD assaying ten thousand dollars to
the ton was discovered on the Goth near
Bozeman. NJ T.
CLUBS in the American Base Ball Asso-
citation closed the season in the following
order. 81. Louis, Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati. Baltimore, Cleveland, Louis
vile, Kansas City. The following was the
order at the close OF the Western Associa.
ton; Des Moines, Kansas City, st Paul.
Omaha. Milwaukee, Sioux City, Chicago,
Davenport.
1uE death of Mrs James Ellis, of Belle
vile. Ky, occurred on the nd OF fatty
degeneration. She was probably one OF
the largest women in the world, beng six
Feet four inches tail and weighing eco
pounds
WHILE engaged in friendly wrestling
match on the 22d on board an oyster boat
at Cooks Point. Nd. Ca tain Powell and
Charles Wdrfield fell overboa q, both
being drowned
TIE hoGsts on the Felicite plantation in
~. James Parish. La, were wrecked on
the s9d by a cyclone The entire cane crop
estimated to make eight hundred hogs
heads of sugar. was destroyed.
A WAGON load of seven persons was
struck by a locomotive on the 2sd at
crossing near Hooper, Neb., and Henry
Shaffer, David Minnick and Percival Shat
Ter were instantly killed. and Thomas Roe
and Mr. Lenig were fatally hurt
An explosion of natural gas on the I'D at
Findlay, o., wrecked the pressed brick
works and fatally injured J. NJ. Mcclellan
and ". c. Wilson, Jr.