River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-15
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NEW YORK State reports on the 9th that
the hop crops had been almost, if not quite,
ruined by blight In many localities the
crops would not pay for the picking.
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans met in State
convention at Harrisburg on the 9TH and
nominated Henry K Boyer. OF Philadel-
phia, for State Treasurer The platform
adopted rejOices in the victory of 1855 in
dorses the Administration of President Har
risOn and Governor Beaver and expresses
regret at the death of General Simon Cam
eron.
The president of tire Forty-second
Street Car Company of New York, Eben s
Alien, was arrested on the 9Th pr forging
certificates of stock representing seven
hundred shares. He had been connected
with the company for twenty five years.
Or the 9Th President Harrison arrived at
Boston on his way TO Bar Harbor and was
banqueted by the citizens
ONE man and three children persisted on
the 9TH at Buffalo, " Y, by the explosion
OF a boiler on a yacht owned by l. b
Croker, superintendent OF the New York
Central stock wards.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was met by Secre-
tary of state Blaine at Mount Desert ferry
on the Sth on his way 10 Bar Harbor. and
together they proceeded to Mr. Blaines
cottage. where they were welcomed by
Mrs. Blaine. Immense crowds of people
greeted the President all along the line.
BELLE HASuIN beat Harry Wilkes at
Buffalo. n. y. on the Sth in two straight
heats. Time. 2:l5 and 2I7I4.
HE head of the gunpowder-m making firm
of Dupont. de NemOurse & Co, of Whining
ton, Del, General II snry Dupont died on
the Stb, aged seyenty-seyen years. His
fortune is computed at 5.O0.0OO.
EXCAVATION among the ruins at Johns
town, Pa, resulted in the finding of three
more bodies. one little girl
STRIKING workers in the region of
EversOn, Pa scored a decided victory on
the Sth. The strike was settled on the
ninety Eve cents per hundred-bUs rate,
which is an advance of not less than an
average Of from fifteen to twenty cents in
some instances and fifty per cent in others
At the TOmbs police court New York
City. Eben Allen. the president of the
Forty-secOnd and Grand Street Ferry Rail
way Company. was arraigned on the Sth
and held in default of s1O0, 900 bail for trial
Ferdinand W. Hoefie, partner of Allen,
was arrested on the same day
THE American Dental Association in ses-
sion at Saratoga n Y, ON the 9th elected
W NJ Foster. Of Baltimore, Md, president.
and decided to hold the next meeting at
Excelsior Springs, No, in 1870.
AN explosion OF a nalufai-Gas mann OF the
MonOngahela Natural-Gas Company at
Pittsburgh on the night of the 9th caused
the death of two men, two were fatally
injured and about twenty were seriously
hurt
NEAR Edenburg, Pa. ON the afternoon of
the 9th a train on the Pittsburgh & Western
railroad left the track and the cars all
turned over. The passengers were all more
or less injured, but none seriously.
BAR HAEBoR. Ne, society was on the 10th
greatly excited by the visit of President
Harrison, and numerous fetes and enter
tainments were being planned in his honor.
AT Connellsville. Pa. on the 10th riOting
HungaTians caused the death of several
men who had been sent 10 take their places
at the cOke-wOrks III that region
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT saloOn-keepers
were arrested in New York City on the 18th
for violation of the excise law.
The Adirondack N " region reported
being sited by an earthquake on the 10th
The earth move was from west to east. and
forests were swayed as by a mighty wind