River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-11
TIE EAST.

Snow fell on the 20 in the Mohawk val
ley. New YORK St4te
At the Philadelphia Baptist Association
meeting on the 81 il was announced that
Robert J. Buriette, the humor ST, had been
licensed 70 preach by the church at Lower
Marion. Pa
THE fifteenth annual meeting OF the Va
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
tnen will be held in the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York City, from DC
tCber - 70 - inclusive. Miss Frances F.
Willard. president Of the society. VIII de
liver the annual address, and other prom
inent temperance workers will speak
COSGREssIoSAL nominations were made
On the 81 as follows: Rodney Wallace by
Eleventh Massachusetts district Repub-
licans. VI. z. Atkinson by Eighteenth
Pennsylvania district Republicans.
On the 81 Hon. George Bancroft. the his
torfan. celebrated his eiyhty-eighth birth
day at his home in Newport, r l.
THE Legislature Of Vermont convened
On the 4th AZ Montpelier
THE following nominations for Congress
were made on the 4th: Massachusetts.
Third district J. f. Andrews Dem /;
Pennsylvania. Twenty district, Nor
man Hall Dem. New York, Fifteenth
district. NJ u. Strivers fDcm1.
BR0oKLYS IL W adv.ces OF the 4th
state that Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton was be-
coming blind She was living with her
mother. Mrs. Morse in that city.
ABRAH ) HEWITT was renominated for
mayor at a citizens meeting in New York
on the 9Th.
PHILIP PALEDoSI. an Italian who muir
dered his brother on the evening Of June
=, 1Ss5, was haI ged on the 5th at Bridge
port. Conn.
Eu-rrrs. Hen i
for mayor Of New ork on the 5th by Tam
many Hall, in opposition to Mayor Hewitt
Ok the 5th a long distance telephone
communication was successfully accom-
pIished between Portland Ne, and Phila-
delphil, via Boston, Providence and New
York
OK the lth the disappearance of W. H.
fngham from New York brought to light
a speculative swindling scheme of his by
which thousands Of people had been robbed
in the aggregate Of sIOa,0O0
DEMOCRATS made the following Con
Cressloual nominations on the 9Th: Massa-
chusetts, Eleventh. District, William
Skinner. Pennsylvania, Nineteenth dis
tr.ct, Levi Maish, reuominated.
On the 9TH the County Democracy nomi-
mated Abram 5. Hewitt for mayor Of New
York
Tue Polish Catholic church cornerstone
At Reading Pa. was laid on the 1th, and
during the ceremony the floor, on which
two thousand men, women and children
were standing, gave way. precipitating
several hundred persons to the basement,
a distance Of fifteen feet. Ninety per-
sons were severely injured. ten probably
fatally
COS the stn Walter ). Pickney. formerly
one Of the most prominent lawyers Of New
York City. died In a hospital from the
excessive use Of liquor
Il New York on the Sth permission was
granted 70 bring action against the Have
meyer s Elder sugar Refining Company
10 auuul its charter. This is blow aimed
at the "t-ust"
Transactions in wheat on the New York
Produce Exchange during the week ended
on the J.A were unprecedented in its his
tory over twenty-oBe million bushels
changed hands. This was four times the
quantity Of the visible supply Of the United
States
On tine Sth five Cinnamon returning
through Canada 10 New York from visits
To Western States were refused admission
rs the customs officers at Suspension
Bridge uadcr tho new Exclusion act, and
wouId probably be forced 10 become citi-
zens If Canada
JoHS BLtNT, teamster. was made blind
en- the >th by 4 ssh II ehtniHg in New
York