River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03
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The Republicans OF New York met in State
convention ON the 18th at Saratoga and nom
mated a ticket headed by John Gilbert, of
Malone, for Secretary OF State The reso-
buttons affirm faith in the tariff, congratu-
late President Harrison upon the success of
his Administration, and arraign Governor
Hill for bis various yetOes
FIRE destroyed the Columbia Hotel at
Cape May, y J., on the 18th Loss, $4,000
IL was 4 new building
On the 18th six men who had served five
years in prison at Scottsdale, Pa, were
discharged, their innocence OF the crime
having been established
ALL the Pennsylvania railroad divisions
east OF the Pittsburgh and Erie showed on
the 18th an increase in net earnings for the
past eight months over the same period in
iSSS OF Sass 005. The divisions west Of
Pittsburgh and Erie showed a gain of s32l, :
~ over the corr responding time last year.
Il the Ives case at New York the Jury
failed to agree and were disc arged on tie
18th They stood ten for conviction and
two for acquittaL
REPUBLICANS OF Massac husetts met in
state convention at Boston on the eth, aid
J. Q A. Brackett was nominated for Gov
ernor
AFsRNEE named Hornberger, of Mohrs-
vile. Pa, went TO New York and paid $500
for queer greenbacks. He expressed the
bundle TO his address at home, and on
opening il on the 10Th found sawdust and
clay
Miss ANITA Mccormick. of Chicago,
daughter OF the late Cyrus Mccormick, in
ventOr OF the reaping machine. was mar
ried to Mr.. EmmOns Blaine, son of the
Secretary Of state, at Richfeld Springs n
Y. On the 26th
By an explosion at Latin & Rand's pow
der mill NJ CressOna. Pa. on the 18th three
men were killed and several others in
iured
TIE firm of Pagensticker & Co, of New
York, the largest exporters OF petroleum in
the country. failed on the 26th for S3o0. 900
ON the 18th seven men were horribly
burned by molten metal at the Edgar
Thomson steel works in Braddock Pa
One had died and three others were fatal
Is injured
NEAR Palatine Bridge, v Y, the rear
sleepeTs OF an express train on the New
York Central railroad were telsscOped by
another train on the night of the 9th
and the number of killed was placed at
twenty-five and many others were injured
JOHN II. QUINN, who recently murdered
his wife at Alton, Pa, committed suicide
in Jail on the 27th by hanging himself with
a sheet
LOUIS DUBoTs. aged ffty-three years;
Nathalie Dubois, his niece. aged thirty
eight years; Mrs. George Michaud, her
daughter Leah Michaud, aged seven, and
Rosanna Lev1tere, aged eight years. were
al drowned on the 9th near Fall RIVER,
Hass, by the capsizing of boat.
Oh the 25th the Cold Springs Presbyterian
church. the oldest in New Jersey, cele-
brated its one hundred and seventy h
anniversary. Ii was founded in l7l4
AT JohnstOwn, Pa. two more bodies were
taken from the debris on the 9th
FIRE damaged the building of the West
inghouse Electric Light Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, to the extent OF 100000 on the
9th
IL a quarry at Wrightsville. Pa. boiler
exploded Gu the 2Sth ult, killing Lemuel
Barnes and his wife.
on the 18th ult the Worcester Mass }
Baseball Club won the Atlantic Associa-
ton championship
The two years cruise Of the United
States dispatch steamer Dol. hin came to
an end on the 18th ult, when the steamer
arrived in New York
On the 18Th uIt Anthony Walker, a river
pilot successfully made the dangerous trip
down the rapids from Grass Island to
Goat Island. above Niagara falls It was a
perilous undertaking
HARRY WALTON and Albert Nelson, aged
ten and twelve years. respectively, were
killed on the 18th ult at ElkhOrn. y. l., by
an explosion OF giant powder
FcUE persons were killed outright and a
dozen injured by the recent accident on
the express train on the New FORK Central
road at palatine Bridge. y \.