River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-20
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iHE EAS
LUCIEN FREEMAN killed his mother Mrs
Daniel Freeman, and a neighbor, John
Morgan. with an axe ON the llth at Meriden,
y II. lie was insane
oNE Of the canal banks gave way at
HOlyoke, Mass, on the llth undermining
the foundations of the Cabot mills. which
collapsed, causing a loss of slC0 60
At JOhnstOwn, Pa. more che srful and
hopeful feeling prevailed on the 18th The
work all over the valley was being pushed
with vIgOr The channel of the river above
tue stone bridge was being fast cleared, and
While comparatively little impression had
been made on the great mass of debris near
the bridge. the results along the channeI
were very marked.
Is New York City and Brooklyn a storm
of wind and rain ON the 18th did consider
able damage, and three persons were killed
by lightning.
CALVIN ; BRtcE was on the 18th elected
chairman OF the National Democratic Com
mittee
At Wilkesbarre. Pa, mine cave in on
the 18th made cracks in saIne of the prin-
cipal buildings and caused gas 10 escape in
great volume. Ihe men and boys i'll the
mine underneath TIA, = v narrowly escaped.
The los to property owners was placed at
S:F0.OOl
w inc A-lu TIE WORK OF IcStOItl- Ofuer
in JOhnstOwn passed into the hands of the
Pennsylvania state officials, with Adjutant-
General Hastings in charge The report of
the registration bureau showed nearly thir-
teen thousand persons vet unaccounted for
THIS Army Of the Potomac held its
twentieth annual reunion on the 18th at
Orange. y J.
The Legislature of Massachusetts on the
( 18TH passed bill making il penal Offense
to dock horses tails.
On the 18th the American Relief Assocfa-
ton, an organization to succOv and assist
communities in distress or calamity OF any
nature, was formed in Johnstown, Pa, by
prominent Pennsylvania and Ohio gentle
men with General AXline, of Ohio, as pres
idcnt
ANoSG well-pOsted people at JOhnstOwu.
Pa the general opinion on the 18th was
that the loss of life IN the flood would BE-
between i,CUJ and 1910. The total of bodies
recovered % date was 800
TIE death OF BENJAMIN Watson Good
speed, an eccentric citizen OF North Pitts
ton, Me. vino had been voluntarily fasting
for five week. occurred OF the 18th
Mrs KLACHSIAN aged seventy years, and
Esther Goldberg. eleven years Of age, were
harmed to death in a fire in New York on the
18th, and the latter's mother and Mrs Ruth
Kowslly and her little daughter were fatal
" burned.
REy WILLIAM Y ScHAII. D. D the oldest
English Lutheran clergyman. died on the
18th ut Canajoharie \ Y, aged eighty
years
OK the l4th the Standard Sugar Refinery
Of Boston purchased twenty-five thousand
tons OF sugar in Cuba for s.. -Ol.D,O
oN the 18th the exercises of the one hun
bred anil forty-second annual commence
ment OF Princeton y J. College took
place
DISPATCHES al the 18th from New Jersey.
| Delaware. Eastern Pennsylvania. New York
and New England indicated extensive dam
age to property and some loss of life by
/ storms. accompanied by lightning.
TEE woman who recently threw herself
over Niagara Falls was ON the 10th found to
/ DE Mrs Frederick Stanfeid, wife OF re-
I tired wealthy scene painter in Buffalo. She
I was insane at times.
/ SERVICES were held in the few churches
remaining in Youngstown. Pa. on the 10TH
I but the largest meetings of the day took
place IN the open air. The weather was
/ fair and the men seemed glad of an oppor-
/ tuntty U rz-R from hard work to religion
/ They gathered about the rough pulpits by
/ the hundreds. During the day six bodies
| were recovered, but they could not be
/ Identified
/ II Jersey City, " j.. an oii-sank was
/ struck by lightning on the 18th, and two
/ hundred thousand gallons of petroleum
+ were burned