River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-27
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ON the 18th Pennsylvania voted on the
question of the adoption of a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoXicants in the State, and the
returns indicated a majority OF Ia, coo
against prohibition. An amendment in
favor of abolishing the poll tax was de-
feated
WILLIAM T. CHANDLER was elected United
States Senator by the New Hampshire Leg
stature on the 18th
IL New York Antonio Ricomio was re-
leased from prison on the 18th. where he
served a term Tor having stabbed his wife.
returned home and crushed her skull with
fiat-irOn, killing her He was arrested.
THE Baltimore 4 Ohio Telegraph Company
on the 18th conveyed to the Western Union
Telegraph Company all its telegraph lines
and property OF every nature and descrip-
ton.
RETURNS on the 10Th from every county
in Pennsylvania showed that the prohibi-
ton amendment was defeated in the re
cent election by IS 10 majority. Reports
from all but twelve counties showed a
majority Of 1i6. 996 against the amendment
providing for the repeal of the poll-tax
qualification
TUE flood loss in Williamsport, Pa, was
estimated on the 18th at slOOOO.0oO
OK TIC 18th the Cunard steamer Bothnia
sailed from New York for Liverpool
crowded with delegates for the Worlds
sunday school convention 70 be held in
London July , TO \
THE death of Charles S Collins. for many
years leading editorial writer on the
Troy Times, occurred at Troy, n Y, on the
10Th
AT stelton, n J.. the Baptist church, the
third oldest in the United States. cele-
brated its two hundredth anniversary on
the 10Th
Ok the 18th sixteen bOdie, were found at
JOhnstOwn, Pa, and Immediately buried.
\ train consisting OF eighteen freight cars,
loaded with provisions of all kinds, arrived
from Caldron. Neb
AT West Mystic. Conn. Alvin Park, a wild
over aged forty-one years, murdered a
fourteen year-old girl named Littleheld ON
th0 10th because she refused TO marry
him
Is Rhode Island the fifth amendment TO
the constituUion-the prohibitOry amend
mens-was on the Goth repealed by a vote
of ), 469 more than the three-fifths of the
total vote necessary to carry the amend
ment The question before the people was
the adoption OF an amendment repeating
the prohfbitOry amendment adopted three
years ago Thu total vote was: Approve,
:, +i9; reject. 9S53
OK the 2Oth Andrew Grimes CcoIored)
was hanged 1t Mays Landing, y. J.. for the
murder of John Martin. mate of a schooner.
OS the 21st thirty-two bodies were taken
from the wreckage at Johnstown, Pa, the
largest number found for several days. Six
of those recovered belonged to one family
and were found in one foundation near their
former home. Besides these several parts
Of human bodies were found
The official returns from every county in
Pennsylvania on the 2lst showed the ma
iority in the recent election against the
prohibitory amendment To be lS9030. The
majority against the suffrage amendment.
providing for the repeal of the poll tax
qualification was D. 30.
Is New York ON the 21st William E
Howard was sentenced to nine years and
eight months imprisonment az Sing Sing
for completely in the Electric Sugar Rein
ing Company frauds
Is New York City on the 2lst James Riley
u Is sentenced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary for stealing ten cents from James
McGlory The theft took place on the
street
FItSK miller, aged eleven years, of
Long Island Cisv. y. Y, died on the 2lst of
hydrophobia lie was bitten nine weeks
ago by rabid dog
FIRE destroyed Heyer Bros. works
establishment at Boston on the 2lst, and five
persons persisted in the flames. The loss on
building and stock was $4,000.
OS the I'D Cashier Weight, of the defunc [
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Pitts
burgh. Pa. was sentenced to six years i'm
prisonment for embezzlement
Two YOUNG ladies and two young men,
whose names had not been learned were
drowned ON the sd in the Schuylkill at
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia their row.
boat being carried over the dam
o. the I'D was celebrated the two hum
bred and fiftieth anniversary of the es-
tabH hmeut of the first public school in the
United States supported by direct tax on
the people. the honor of which is claimed
by Dorchester Mass
On the I'D Harry B. Flamm. an employee
Of the Marine National Bank of Pittsburgh,
Pa. was lodged in Jail on the charge of
having embezzled SSJ,uO4.
TIE local physicians of Johnstown, Pa,
met accidentally at the Bedford Street Hos
pital on the I'D They represented all
parts Of the stricken city. and after discuss
ing the calamity al Joined in the conciu-
sion that not a soul less than ten thousand
people were lost in the flood On account
of the general knowledge of the people pos
sessed by the physicians the estimate was
| looked upon as reliable.
The Legislature of Connecticut adjourned
/ sine die on the odd
AT Franklin. Pa, Mrs Mcdowell aged
| sfxtv-six wears widow o. the late Colonel
Alexander Mcdowell, was burned to death
/ on the I'D by the explosion OF lamp.
THE death of Mrs Margaret Quinn, aged
/ one hundred and-one years. occurred on
I The 23d at her home in New York City.