River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-29
MESI AND SOuTH.

DAM at the top Of the hill above Duluth,
Mimi burst on the Goth in consequence OF
a heavy rain, and the business portion of
the town was flooded
AT Louisville. Ky, the largest sale OF
tobacco ever made at auction in one day in
the United States and probably in the world
was made on the 2lst The total number
of hOgsheads sold was U92 This amounts
to about ! ,J0O,O 600 pounds. worth in the
hogsheads over 100000.
NEAR Rush City. Mimi, twelve freight
cars were ditched on the 2lst by washout
on the Duluth railroad, and three men were
killed.
Ok the 2lst Adolph Brandt one Of the
most prominent Hebrew lawyers in the
South dropped dead while attending
meeting OF the Grand Lodge of OddFellOws
at Rome Ga
A FIRE destroyed nearly the whole bust
ness portion of Samoa, Cal, on the 2lst
AT Minneapolis the fourth annual exposi-
ton was opened on the DIST with an inn
| posing street parade and formal ceremonies
at the exposition building.
on the 2lst the Governor, Attorney Gen
eral and Chief Justice of Kansas said that
/ woman suffrage at municipal elections in
/ Kansas had proved such great public ben
/ eft that they advised other States to adopt
/ it.
THE President arrived at his home in In
{ dianapolis on the evening of the 2Ist to as
sist in laying the cornerstone of the state
soldiers monument He was warmly well
coined by thousands of persons
The death Of DIR. f. Parsons said to be
the oldest practicing dentist in the United
! States, occurred at his home in Savannah,
/ Ga. on the 2lst He was born in North.
amptOn, Mass. in 1896.
THE Alabama Greenback party will hold
State convention at Birmingham on the
9TH of September
on the 22d Lieutenant Governor II. C.
Davis. OF Nevada, fell dead in his garden at
Carson from heart disease
MoSTANA Republicans met in State con-
vention on the 22d at Anaconda and nOmi-
mated T. c. Power. of Helena, for Governor;
J T. Richards. Of Butte, for Lieutenant-Gov-
eInOr and T. H. Carter, of Helena, for
member OF Congress
The Republicans of rginia in session
on the 22d at Norfolk nominated the fol-
lowing State ticket: For Governor. Cen
eraI William Malone; Lieutenant Gov
ernor- Colonel Camnbeu e Slemp; Attor-
ney-GSSaar;l. Captain Warren 5. Lurty.
THE CreStx - bluegrass palace was
formally openeN szs S<dicated by Gov
ernor Larrabee on the I'D
The North Dakota Republicans nomi-
mated the following state ticket at Fargo
on the 22d; For Governor. John Miller;
Lieutenant Governor. Alfred Dickey; Sec
rotary Of state John Fiittie; supreme
Judges G L II. COrlks, Alfred Watkin,
Judge Bartholomew: Auditor. John o.
BRAY; member Of Congress l. c Hans
brough
The Washington Territory Constitutional
convention adjourned sine do on the 2ll
AT Purvis. Miss Bud Remand. manager
of the sullivan -Kilrain prize-hght was
found guilty on the I'D and fined $500 for
participation in that affair.
The cornerstone OF the monument dedi-
Gated 70 the memory of the Indiana soldiers
and sailors who fought in the late war was
successfully layed at indianapolis on the
I'D, President Harrison assisting in the
ceremonies
By an explosion OF FIRE damp in cOlliery
I near Scranton, Pa. five men were fatally
burned on the ed
At Shawneetown. IL. Emanuel Brooks
shot and killed his wife on the I'D and
then shot himself and jumped into the Ohio
river and was drowned
on the I'D " L Denny, the Ascending
assiEtan. postmaster Of BOonville. Ind
was arrested at Kansas City. No He con-
fessed 70 having emhezzled s5.ue1
OK the I'D the first train over the new
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville
railway was thrown from the track near
knoxville. Ten. and Judge Andrews,
Sheriff Reed sr and s T. Powers were killed
and forty-oI.e other prominent men were
seriously injured