River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-22

Oh son. Topeka & nta Fe system struck On
the 18th a. all pc nts on the lines The
strike created great SURPRISE - IN TO ID
hal no heen nliing Buil ng on ire ghL
ARKANSAS Democrats WI no d their ssale
convention at Little Rock Nav 81
AT ire in Mlwaukee on the 18Th fall
ing wall killed two firemen ami nj re FIVE
Others. BY the IRE about $500, 900 worth
OF proper y was destroyed
TIE LIMOS Union l. Dor party viii hold
their State convent on for the nomination
Of officers at d ctiur on he 26th of April
IL tue ONO RIVER at Browns Island, O. d.
coal boats col.iied on the I5sh and nine
foais and eighteen barges were wrecked.
Over four hundred thousand bushels OF
co l were scattered along the banks or
burieI IN the bed OF the river No lives
were lost.
INDIANA Prohibitonists held tier State
convention at In Annapolis on the 18th and
nominal d full ticket, with Rev J. &
Hughes for Governor. and adopted pla =
form demanding strict prohibition and
woman suffrage
On the I5sh formers at Winchester, o. Il,
tarred and feasherei two Mormon elders
and then chased them TO the Ohio river,
which the fugitives safey crosssd.
The Wisconsin Democrats will hold their
State convention May at Madison, to elect
delegates 10 St Louis
REPUBLICANS of Kansas will meet at
W cnitA on Nav to elect delegates to the
National convention The conven lion for
the nomination of State officers will be held
at Topeka. July 2A
The engineers strike on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road was ON the 18th
pronounced a complete failure by the Off
Gals n Chicago. Passenger and freight
trains were running with regulari v and
there were no indications of dissat sfacii1n
apparent. The Union Pac fic engineers who
S ruck at Council Bluff Ia, IA; her than
draw Burlington cars, had returned to their
engines
TIE strike Of the engineers on the Santa
Fe system was spreading rapidly on the
/ 10th, its effect having extended TO points
on the Pac fic coast, and other road seemed
certain to share in the Il fficulty The d =
termination seemed to be to COMPEL the
Burlington road 10 surrender o the Broth
erhocd
WHILE insane on the I6h John Den of
BelleVi,le o., a retired farmer, seven v
/ years and worth $4,000, killed his
W fe and then committed sue d.
| The Wisconsin Republican L .ague at the
convention at NJ u son on the 1G-h elected
Stnator SpoOner pres nj.
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| S'ats CONVENTION at WmnemuccL on the
I Is h of May.
THIRTY POUR Michigan counties had up TO
/ the 10 b declared ag-inst liquor licenses
and two Tor license
AT ackshe II. Ca, the fast-mail tr lin on
| the A l,nt Co st line went through a
I trestle On the 18th and all ths cars W re
/ demolished Tween v wO persons W r.
/ killed outright and about forty injured OF
whom Two wer3 sxpec ell 10 die. GeHgs
Gould and his vile, OF NV York, were
81. ong the injured
| MARTIN J. CLARK and Hez skiah Bes', two
crooked &C ION "a iges IN B fillmore. were
on the l7tl sen enced TO two years i'm
1 prisonmeat
/ A COUNTERFEIT hv dol ar silver cert. fl cate
datei 1856. W being extensively c. rcu-
Lated among store-keeperi in Chicago on
the l7.h
! OK the II n Samu Il Wilson his wife and
four C il ren, living near Calhoun, Nv.
were killed bv eating meat VIII CT had be N
I poisoned for wolvea
! INDICTMENTS were founi on the 18th
ag 4insy SIX more OF the ln1i napo is Qnd
| election conspra, ors. and warrants Were
issued Tor tie.r arrest
IL recommendations in Chicago an incen-
diary fire on the 17tl US ed the q cath Of
two p rsons-Sar h Dalton. thir Us We lrs
OF ags. and her daughter Lucy. aged four
years
On the Slnta Fe system the strike en- led
on the Is b and the engineers and firemen
returned to their POSTS THIS move WAS
made IN accor lance with request OF Chief
! Arthur The Burlington 70 was hav ng
very Ii tie trouble Judge Dundy decided
at Omaha that Union Pacific eng nsers were
liable TO arrest and imprisonment for he.
! fus-ng 10 handle Burln ston uslness
OS the 18th Convict CaIlin, who escaped
from the penitentiary a. st l.water. MINI,
last fall, ana who WIS recently cap ured IN
! Chicpgo and taken back, announced him.
SET as the murderer of Amos }. Smell. the
Chicago milliona.re. and for which murder
! William Tasco.t is und Indictment