River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-11
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/ OK the LIST ex-President Woolsey. OF Yale
/ College. died at New Haven, Conn. aged
eighty eight years
/ LYDIA FERRIS celebrated at Charlestown.
/ Mass, on the lst he one hundredth birth
/ day. in the home to which she went as a
bride when nineteen years old She was
I well and active
I The official majority given against prohi-
/ bItiOn in Pennsylvania at the recent cleo
/ ton was Is, O21
/ Is the United States the total number OF
| failures during the past six months. as re-
ported by Bradstreet's, was 5,9lS; assets,
I So. SO $40; liabilities S67, Al, al. against
/ Gjl failures in the first half OF 1888
/ Ok the 2d the Chautauqua Assembly be-
| gan It's siXtee nth annual session at James
/ town y l.
Al his own request Colonel John G. Paine.
| superintendent OF the Military Academy at
West Point. having served forty years was
/ retired ON the Cd
At Lockport y. Y, on the 2d Lizzie
/ Hawkes. aged sixteen years, and Mary
/ Hawkes., aged eight years, were struck by
/ lightning and killed
/ OK the I'd a waterspout broke over Al
| tOona, Pa. dong great damage.
NEAR JohnstOn's Station, Pa an oil tank
| was struck by lightning on the I'd and
/ twenty-siN thousand arrels of oil were
| burned
OS the 4th the towns of Cushing and
I Freeport, in Maine, celebrated the centen-
NAL OF their incorporation
uS the 9Th four young people were
! drowned by the upsetting OF boat at the
I picnic 81 the Arch Street Methodist Church
/ Of Allegheny City at Forest Grove, Pa
At Johnstovn, Pa, cholera morbus in its
worst form had made its appearance on the
18th Tn re We're over one hundred cases
among the workmen, and General Hastings
and Colonel Douglass were sick in bed
At Johustown, Pa, six more bodies were
/ found on the 5th. but they We're unrecoe-
nizahle. Governor Beaver senta communi-
cation 70 Mayor Grant. Of New York, saying
that they had expended ,I,O0OO0O for the
relief of the sufferers in food clothing.
shelter and furniture. No distribution OF
money had been made Every thing posi-
/ bic was being done 70 give prompt relief
/ 4 CARRIAGE containing Mrs. Joseph Ward
I AIr. Heating. a New York hat manufacturer,
I his daughter and her nurse, was struck by
I an express train and smashed to pieces
near Long Branch, y j., and all were
/ killed
The failure OF the Goodyear Rubber Boot
l and shoe Company, OF Providence, T. L,
Tor $4,000 was announced ON the 9Th.
ONthe 9Th one hundred Mormon disciples
at once shipped to salt Lake CITY
OS the 9TH Frank Hoyt paying teller of
the First National Bank of HoboIlen n J.,
was arrested on a charge OF embezzling
slS.ts0 Of the banks funds.
HESEE ANTOINE NoLIE. who stole l63, 600
francs from the Paris banking house of
Belisaire. Journal & Co, while acting
cashier, was arrested ON the 5th in New
/ York
ON the 6th Prof David p Todd. of Am
| herst College Observatory. received notice
/ from Washington Of his appointment as
chief of the expedition to observe the total
eclipse 81 the sun. visible next December
in southwestern Africa.
The death Of Mr. Ludwig. who had the
KEY. the only thing remaining of the Ger
man Lutheran church at JohnstOwn. Pa
| occurred ON the eth of grief at the loss of
/ his three sons and one daughter
NEAR Buffalo, y. y. by the upsetting of a
/ boat. four young men were drowned on the
/ 9Th
| TIE cgroner's jury y JOhnstown, Pa, re-
turned verdict on the 9Th holding the
landowners responsible for the less Of life
resulting from the great flood
President CoEBIN of the Reading railroad
! gave notice at Reading ON the 9Th that the
| =. 50 employees of the Reading iron works.
/ which was recently purchased 10y the rail-
road company, could expect resumption
I NJ an early dav He notified them that none
/ would be employed who belonged to labor
/ organizations or who INDUCED in strong
/ drink