River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-23

DEMOCRATS OF West Virginia met az
Huntington on the 18th ana nominated A.
Brooks Fleming, Of Marion County, for
Governor. The platform indorses the Ma
tional ticket and platform
o. the 10th NJ l. Smyser, Of Wooster,
o.. was nominated for Congress by the
Twentieth district Republicans.
REPUBLICANs OF the Fourth Missouri dis
trict on the 10th nominated Major Il. W r.
Hartwig for Congress
Is Northern Minnesota and Dakota a
heavy frost fell on the l1th
GEORGE owens and his son were killed
while digging a well on the 18th near
Steubenville O, and Mrs. Owens died soon
after from the shock.
AT the session of the National Com
mandery Of the Sons Of Veterans on the
18th in Wheeling V. Va, George r. Alb
bott, Of Illinois, was elected Commander
in-Chief
AT Little Rock, ARK. Hugh Blachman
was hanged on the 18th for the murder Of
a friend in May last, and Alexander Wood
fcoloredl was executed at Blackfoot, l. T.,
for the murder OF his wife in March. 1851
Is Nermilion, New iberia and Lafayette
parishes in Louisiana the race war cul-
minated on the 18th in the killing of thir-
teen negroes.
FoR the week ended on the lSth the per-
EthAaEt Oh INC NAeC-Datt ttlD1 IN the Nd
ti0ual League was as follows: New York,
.t5j: Chicago, 50; Detroit, .53i Philadel-
phia. s21, Boston, 30: Pittsburgh. 400:
Washington .352, indianapolis. Sol. Ameri-
can Associations St Louis Isl; Philadel-
phia. .6i2; Cincinnati. Gi2; Brooklyn, 606;
Baltimore. .4si: Cleveland. 3,f5: Louisville,
.3d5; Kansas City, .835 Western Associa-
ton Des MONIES. .G5l; St Paul. .G51 Oma-
ha. .553; Kansas City. .595; Milwaukee,
Al; Sioux City, IA; Chicago, az; Min
neapolis. ..f33
THE White Cap investigation in Indiana by
Attorney General Micheuer resulted on the
18th in one Of the gang turning States ey-
ideucc He charged the order with being
influenced in their acts by revenge for pri-
vate wrongs The headquarters of the
order is near English. The White Caps
had issued circular threatening 10 resist
the States investigation with bloodshed.
PROHIBITIoNIsrs of the Fourth Illinois
district on the lSt minated l.. ID. Rogers
for Congress
WILLIAM and Louis Nagler (brothers),
ranchers and stockmen. were lynched by
outlaws in Pleasant Valley, A. T., on the
18th, ana Noah Griffin (colored) was
lynched at Ocheehcs, Fla. for insulting a
white woman.
THE Democrats nominated Robert Bull
2
oud Florida district
FRANK LrNNEBERG, OF Vernon. Mo, shot
and He'd his wife on the 18th ana then
fatally shot himself Trouble over prop
erty was the cause
DEMOCRATS Of the Fifth Missouri district
on the 18th nominated John c. Tarsney for
7 Congress
OK the 18th Phil c Coghlan, Jr. was
nominated for Congress by the Union
Labor party in the Eighth Missouri dis
trict and Michael Rathford in the Tenth
district
WuLIAN COLE was lynched at Guide
Rock, Neh. on the 10Th for shooting two
men.
Mrs PHGRE CLARK (coloredl, died in
Detroit. Mich. on the Goth, aged one hun
dred and three years. She was native
/ of Delaware and born in slavery.
CYCLONE on the 20th at Donaldson
vile, La. destroyed churches and school
houses, ble,v down barns and stables and
completely demolished fences. Several
persons were injured.
AT Terre Hautc, Ind. Mrs Christina
Eecfer and her married daughter Lena
Wilhelm, were arrested on the Goth for
+ raising dOlIar-notes TO ten by clipping the
/ cipher from cgar-box stamps and FASTING
/ il next the figure l.
I An easterly gale in New Orleans and
vicinity on the 2Uth unroofed several
buildings, blew fences down and upTooted
trees. and the Pittsburgh and Southern
coal combination lost fifty vessels valued
at BAN each.
1 OK the 10Th General Harrison passed his
ffty-tifth birthday quietly at his home in
/ Indianapolis