River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-08
TIE EAST.

Is New Jersey a Tain-stOrm ON the 30th
ult did great damage in the city of New
ark In South Orange several buildings
including the Post-oilice, We're carried
away. In Orange valley the water was up
TO the seconG-storr windows and much
damage was done 10 the numerous hat
factories there Bloomfield and Montclair
also reported great destruction OF property
Ia Piainfield the loss was very great. two
or three square miles OF thickly settled ter
ritory being submerged
J.. & A II. BArCREiLER. one OF the largest
boot and shoe firms n Boston failed ON the
5Jth ult. for = 20 90
THE statement was made on the 30th Mt
that the Standard oil Company had bought
all the whitehead companies in the United
States the estimated sum paid being 500
ONUo
DURING rain-storm and high wind at
Concord y H on the 3lth ult the arsenal
and five houses were unr0Ofed and several
Others destroyed An elm tree one hundred
and twenty-five years old was torn up by
the roots and blown across Main street
4 CYCLONE on the 3Oth ult RI Ellis
Corners, lister County \ \, destroyed
a large amount Of property and injured a
number of persons
On the 3pJh alt DR. " p Roberts. the
originator OF nitrn-glvcerine torpadoes for
blasting In ell wells. died at Titusyil.e, Pa
he left an estate valued at S5uUOOJA
Il session at 3 ooklyn y Y, on the Slst
ut the ipUrueymen plumbers aud gas and
steam-fttcrs' unions OF the United States
and Canada voted To leave the Knights Of
Labor and establish an independent organi-
zation This viii take thirty thousand
members from the Knights OF Labor
TIE death of ex Senator T. H. Rollins, of
New Hampshire, occurred at the Appledore
House Isle Of Shoals. on the 5lst ult lie
passed away without recovering conscious
Hcss from a paraiytic stroae he suffered
four days before. lie was sixty-tour years
Of age
THE failure of the Connecticut Rubber
Company OF Norwich, Conn, occurred On
the 3ist Ult for slOlU0l
REPUBLICANS OF Massachusetts, viii hold
their State convention in Boston on the
Eth OF september.
Tax relief commission met in JohnstOwn.
Pa, on the 5Ist nit and a statement Of the
moneys in the hands OF the Governor was
rendered. showing that Governor Beaver
had received a total OF s2,aAi il4.46. and
that of this $50 5.6 O. had been paid cut,
leaving ~ his hands l.j54.Ol1. NJ.
FEASCIs l. CAPEN noted as a weather
prophet, died in Boston on the 3lst ult,
aged seyenty-two years
Is New York on the 5lst ult. John l. Sui
livan was arrested on requisition from
Governor Lowry, OF Mississippi for par
t'cipating in the fight with Kiirain, alsd
locked un at police headquarters.
At Plymou'h, Mass. National mouu-
ment in honor Of the Pilgrim Fathers was
dedicated on the lst The corners one Of
the -onumenJ was laid August /. lslq
f. Completed il has cost over $4,000, col
lected from all parts of the country. Ii is
. II solid granite throughout
joins l. SULLIVAN, the prize-fighter said
before Judge O'3rien in New York on the
ls- that he was willing Ia GO South. and the
Judge ordered that he be turned over to
the Mississippi officers who caused his ar
rest lie left for the South in the evening
Is the Connellsville Pa. district foUr
thousand cOke-vOrkerS went on "a strike OF
the lsU
FEEn pAEE. an engineer NJ Carthage. y
y on the ! st sAo' his wife and himself both
dying iHsta.tly. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
v. JoHNsoS 1 Co, Of Boston, leather
dealers. failed on the ist for s2JscJ0
At Watkins Glen. near Watkins : T.. a
c'oud- hu 81 on The i>y vrsrlv made com
pletc wIeck az lhes famous locality The
town Wa Hocded and bridges were carried
avs,
lfA tAttAn % -fsAb ls2llat-l Nftl'A-e- HSNttA
known as Father Chase the MiLierite
occurred at his home in trtover, Mass, on
the 2d aged eiphi, Hine wears
HEEsIAN PEThHsUN and his wife. IN aged
couple, penuuass. ragged ana hungry, ar
. rived az New FORK from Pittsburgh. Pa,
having walked tho entire distance in
twenty DAYS They would be sent
TO their home IN Denmark
Ss-Pf:ES GIEAED's niece and erlndnie &c
have. il was stated on the I n. Irocght suit
ut Philadelphia tor ths property amour
ing 10 about $50 o,oOl ale 1ing hat the
terms OF the will OF the dec 'ased philau-
Jhropis have not been carried ouN
OS the night Of the 81 New York CITY
was visited by heavy rainfall. two inches
OF water falling in fifty mHuteg