River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-23
THE EAST.

A NoNUMENTin city hall square, New York,
10 the memory Of Horace Greeley, is 10 be
erected
At the annual meeting in Boston on the
18th Of the WOman's Baptist Home Mission
airy Society Mrs J. y Grouse, of Chicago.
was elected president
Is Wayne County, Pa. valuable copper
ore was discovered on the f4th
OK the l4th + IL Plat and John Allen
the former a riding instructor and the lat
ter a hOtel-keeper. started from New York
% ride To San Francisco on horseback
TIE New York Legislature ON the 18th re-
iected the bill prohibiting the importat lon
OF dressed beef from other States
The death OF William H. Harding, fo-
twenty years publisher OF the Philadelphia
Enquirer occurred in that city on the 18th
On the 18th Mrs. Catherine Storey. aged
eighty years, was burned to death at Lynn
Mass
MINISTER LINCoLS. with his family. sailed
from New York for England on the 18th on
the steamer city OF Paris
The seveEty-ffth anniversary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union was
celebrated in Boston on the 18th. The
union has a constituency of nearly 40 80
church members, and is the largest mis-
siOnary society in the world
II Philadelphia hotel ON the 18th Gen
eral Adna Anderson, of Sing Sing, n Y,
aged sixty years, and one of the best
known railway men in the country. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in his
room. The cause for the deed was I'M
known.
The newly appointed United States Min
lister to Russia. Allen Thorndike Rice. died
suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York on the 10th from throat trouble. Mr..
Rice was thirty-six years of age, was a
bachelor, and was very wealthy.
The Legislature of New York adjourned
sils di' on the 10th.
The general assembly of the Presbyterian
church began its one hundred and first an
nual session in New York City on the 18th
OK the 9th james DoTan, OF Maltby. Pa =,
killed his wife with an axe and then took
his own lie. Domestic trouble was the
cause
STAE-FIsH were on the 10th said to be
making heavy deprcdations ON the oyster
beds in Long Island sound
JoHN HENGIE in a mt of jealousy on the
18th at Newark, \. J.. fatally stabbed Mrs
Scherzsr and then cut his own throat
At a festival IN st Luke's Episcopal
Church on the 18th at South Glastonbury.
Conn. over one hundred persons were
made sick by eating ice cream. and thirty
four were reported to be beyond recovery
THE failure of the Amy Wooden Manu-
featuring Company OF Philadelphia occurred
on the 18th for $4,000
Il Boston experiments were being made
on the 18th with n magnetic car with which
it was proposed to transport mail matter
and probably passengers. long distances al
the rate of about four miles minute.
Al Erie, Pa, Miss Jennie EngstrOm n
young lady, was shot by her brother on the
18th with q revolver that he lid not know
was loaded"
TIE strike at the National tube works al
McKeesport, Pa, which involved two thou
sand men. came to an end on the 18th
Is New York On the 10Th Miss Fanny Dav-
export the actress. and MelbOurne Mellow
ell leading man in her dramatic company
were married
OK the 18th the ''tapewOrm" railroad at
Gettysburg. Pa, commenced by Thaddeus
Stevens half century ego. was finished.
thus connecting that place with Blue Ridge
summit on the Western Maryland main
line
Is the vicinity of Albany, y. T.. a ter
rife hail-stOTm on the 18th killed stock and
greatly damaged fruit trees