River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-03
THE EAST.

Or the 2Jth John E Doughty, committed
to the penitentiaTy in New York City for
six months on = charge of bigamy, died at
the prison. leaving seven widOwR
REPUBLICANS OF Pennsylvania and Massa
chusetts held their State conventions on
the 18th and chose delegates 10 the Ma
tional convention Resolutions were adopt
ad in favor OF protection and denunciatory
OF President Cieveland's free-trade mes
sage and the Mills bill: demanding free
elections in the South and coudemning the
manner IN which Offices have been parceled
out for party purposes in disObedience of
the civil-seTyice laws
IL the Third district Of Maine the Repub-
l3cans on the 25.h renoniaated Seth +.
Mill ken for Congress, and in the Tenth
strict Of Pen nsylvania the Democrats
nominated n I. Haldeman
on the 255h the bursting of water pipe
caused a sewer ditch at Yonkers, Y Y, TO
cave IN on the workmen, six OF whom lost
their lives
II a Mt OF jealousy William Bullock, Of
Newark, y. J., fatally shot his wife and
himself on the 25th
Ok the 26th George Mcclellan Durham
was hanged in the Jail at Woojbary, n j.,
fOr the murder of his mother-in-Iaw in
November last
C A. BOUTEILE was renopiua:ed for
Congress On the 26th by the Republ leans OF
the Fourth dis,r.c, OF Maine
1HR Republicans % Maine met % Bangor
on the 26th and selected delegates u TIC
National convention who were uninstruct-
Ell The platform demands protection OF
American industries, z revenue sufficient
for Government demands, and praises Mr.
Blaine for his letter in answer 10 the free
trade manifesto OF the President"
IHE failure Of Clarke Radcliffe & Co.
dry-gOOds commission merchants at New
York, occurred on the 26.h for $500, 600
Mr. AND MRS ERNEsr ErcsFELD. OF Pnila-
delphia, an eyed couple. hung themselves
in their dwelling on the 26th No cause
was known
AF1RE destroyed one-half of the town of
GOldsboro. Pa, on the 9th.
OS the 9th Nelson Dingley, Jr, was re-
nominated Tor Congress BY the Republicans
OF the Second district Of Maine
For the week ended on the 2Sth the
record OF the Iase-b5lI clubs in the Nation
al League was IS follows: Boston (games
won. :. Chicago. &. New York. >, Pitts
burgh. !, Detroit. =; indianapolis 2;
Washington. l Philadelphia L
THE death o. Seth Thomas. the we'll
known iaInufaC Urer OF clocks, occurred
az his home in TfomastoH. Conn. "a the
2S5h. at the age Of seventy-one Tesrs
THE dyn m o. cruiser Vesuv Us and the
gun-hOat YsnktoB, new navy vessels. were
launched at Ph.iadeiph!a on che 2Sth In the
pvesence Of three hundred members OF Con-
gTess and MANY other persons
EDwaso STovER's dry-.Oods establish
saent IN BroOk.va. \. Y VS. destroyed by
ire on The 29th Loss, $500 COO
Az express train was badly wrecked on
the 2Sth ae2r W.its House. y Y. and
nineteen persons were severely iGiGre
The death Of Alien 3. Wilson. perfector
and part inventor Of the sewing machine,
occurred on the 9eth nit. At Woodmont,
Conn, a. the agc Of sixty-oue years.
On the aCth nit. the Tweedy Manufac-
turing Conpany's hat factory at Danbury.
Conn. the largest in America. shut down
for the first time in twenty years. Eleven
hundred employees were thrown out OF
woVk
u the Kane Pa oil fields forest fires
were raging on the 30th nit. and they had
destroyed oii-tanks and saw mills and wiped
ont Swamp Lod-e. q suburb of Kane
A DEFALCaTICN OF $4,000 was discovered
in the National ARK Sank OF New York
City on tho Slth att
TuE explosion eff q kerosene lamp fatally
burned Mrs Faist aud her three children
in New York ~ Inc So;h ult
From many points in New England,
freshets were reported on the nth ult., pro-
duced by the rapid melting Of Snow in The
mountains