River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-01

Robinson, of Pomona. Jackson County, for
Congress-
THE Oregon Republican State convention
will be held at Portland April IL
JAM CoPLEY, a Cleveland (Ol par
tender. died on the oath from cigarette
smoking.
The steamer Isle Of Martha sank on the
9th at New Orleans. carrying with it a dry
dock, csusing loss of 100000
FRANK NJ k-EGEI4 assist mt cashier of the
Metropolitan BaRk of Cincinnati, charged
with being an embezzler for large
amount was arrested on the 9th
JOIN DoNAHUE. who lost both his legs in
a railroad accident brought suit at Troy,
o., to recover $50, 900, and the Jury ON the
24th awarded him SIC 600
MURLoCK BROTHERS Exchange Bank of
Canon City, Col, failed on the oath for
SI44, 500
On the oath Senator StOckbridge. of Mich
igan. sold his famous trOtting stallion Bell
Boy TO Kentucky parties for S35. 900 The
Senator purchased the horse one year ago
for 50 coo
OFFICIAL returns of the oath from Oceana
County, Mich, showed that it had gone for
local option, making thirty-one counties in
the State so far declared dry
On the oath Daniel j. Wren, one of the
convicted Chicago boodlers. was taken TO
the penitentiarY at Joliet under a sentence
of two years
FRANCIS HERBERT, of Detroit, Mich, who
assaulted a thirteen-year- girl, was on
the 24tn, under the new law, sentenced
for life in the penitentiary at hard labor.
JoHN LEE PAcHE. late treasurer of Colfax
County, Neb, was reported missing on the
oath, and his accounts were said to be short
$50. 600
A WINDS STORM on the oath at Hauhstadt,
IND, Brew down several cottages, unroOfed
houses and barns and killed several cattle.
TREASURER DICKSON, OF Marion County,
o., charged with being a defaulter to the
extent of $4,000, was arrested on the
oath
RAIN on the oath caused great suffering
among the people at Mount Vernon, Ill,
who were made homeless by the recent
cyclone
On the morning of the 9th the two thou
sand locomotive engineers and firemen on
the Burlington system between Chicago
and Denver struck for higher wages. and
all passenger and freight traffic was at a
standstill Fully fifteen thousand employees
were directly affected by the strike
GUSTAV WINKLER, of Milwaukee, during a
quarrel on the 10Th shot his wife dead and
then killed himself Three little children
were left destitute.
AN express train on the Union Pacific
road dashed into freight train ON the 10Th
near Cotton, Neb, wrecSing eight freight
cars and two Pullman and two passenger
coaches Loss, 100000 One man was
killed and eighteen persons were serious y
injured
Republicans of Kentucky will ho'd their
State convention at Louisville on tbs "a Of
May to elect delegates to the National con-
vention
DEPUTY SHERIFF Coz of Brownsville,
Tex, was attacked at L CuerO ranch by
five bandits on the 25th and he killed four
of them and badly wounded the other.
oN the 18th freight trains collided on the
Fort Wayne ro2d at Bourbon, ind, and two
boys who We're stealing a ride were KILLED
p P. MILLER's three children We're burned
to death on the 25th at Annandale, Mimi
They ere alone in the house when it took
FIRE
on the Goth one OF the most severe storms
of the season ragei through Minnesota,
Northern Wisconsin, Eastern and Central
Dakota and Iowa, with the mercury away
below zero
AT Cedar Hill, Tenn, a wind-storm on the
255n swept away houses. barns and fences
and did other damage
THE Georgia Republicans will meet in
State convention al Atlanta on the 18Th of
April to elect delegates to the National con-
vention
OWING to the strike of the engineers but
very few passenger trains on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road were running on
the 27lh. and freight traffic was entirely
suspended
OFFICIAL returns on the 9th of the
special election held recently in the Elev-
Il !. If
give Seymour Rep) plurality of 400.
The boiler of petroleum tank exploded
on the 27th on a crowded ferry-boar az
Vallejo, Cal, and between thirty and forty
lives were lost and over twenty others
were injured
AT Shreveport. La, the Tilley Hotel was
destroyed by fire on the 9th, and r. C.
Craig, a Cincinnati commercial traveller
persisted in the flames
BURGLARs fatally shot Charles Baum, Tro-
prietor of the Baum House at Miamisburg,
O., on the 27th and robbed his safe of 500
THE death of Colonel L B. Cash, of Column
bia, s. c., noted for having killed four men
in duels. occurred on the 9th, at the age of
siXty-siX years.
On the 27th joan A Beal, a thrteen-year-
old boy who murdered his mother near
Eaton, o, about q year ago, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life
A FIRE destroyed the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum OF Missouri at Fulton on the
9th, causing loss of $500, 600