River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-29
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
The Treasury reports on the 10Th showed
that only 20 OOo 600 of the 334, 900. 600 stand
l ard silver dollars coined remained in the
/ treasury unrepresented by silver certih-
/ Gates National bank notes were being
retired at the rate of about three million
/ dollars per month, and silver certificates
/ Issued at nearly the same rate.
REPORTS on the 22d from all the seed
leaf tObaccO-growing sections Of the United
States indicated a fair yield of average
/ quality,
Reports of the 22d say that this years
cotton crop promises TO be the largest ever
/ produced in the United States
Word was received at the Treasury De-
/ partment on the I'D OF the discovery of a
counterfeit two-dollar silver certificate
which had Just made it's appearance in the
/ West
| IL the United States there were 100
business failures during the seven DAYS
ended on the sd, against Isl the previous
seven days
AT the leading clearing houses in the
Z United States the exchanges during the
week ended On the 24th aggregated
I s956, 537. 40 against s9Il. 800. 542 the pre-
viOus week As compared with the cor
responding week of 1855 the increase
amounted TO la
THE EAST.
| IL the lumber yard of b. & J. Godkin,
near Tonawanda, y. T., FIRE on the Goth
/ destroyed about ., 80 600 feet of lumber
/ CITIZENS Of Titusville, Pa, on the Goth
celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the
discovery o. the first oil well in that State.
THE New York Democrats will hold their
State convention at Syracuse October l.
SAMUEL AYERS. of Worcester. Mass, an
Adventist. predicted on the Dist the end of
the world on the night of October Z, 1889.
The suspension OF the Wsuregan Wooden
/ Company of Providence, r. L, operating
! several mills, was announced on the 2lst
with liabilities Of sl,O0O,0O0; assets,
I s., 10000
/ A CYCLONE passed over Winthrop, Me, on
7 the 2lst, doing great damage to crops and
leyeling trees and fences.
An explosion ignited y, 600 barrels of oil
at the oil refinery of 4. d. Miller & Son at
Allegheny Pa. on the 2lst. and the entire
plant was burned Loss, 81, OUO. Two men
were consumed in the flames
THE death of Horace Seaver, editor of the
Boston Investigator for the past fifty-one
years, occurred in that city on the 21st at
the age of seventy-nine years.
OK the 2lst the $500, 600 appropriated to
clean the streets and cellars of Johnstown,
Pa, was exhausted, and unless there was
more money forthcoming the work would
have to be suspended DR. Lee was of the
/ opinion that there were hundreds of bodies
still buried IN the cellars of houses.
OK the 2lst the British bark Onaway,
which sailed from Philadelphia June ) for
BiIbOa with crew of fifteen men and 124.
234 gallons OF crude petroleum, was given
up as lost
CROWD gathered at the dock in New
York on the 2lst to witACs, nc big racers
Teutonic City of New York, Saale and City
of Rome set out on their trip to Queens
town
IL a wreck on the 23d in the Lake shore
yard at Erie, Pa, an oil tank exploded, and
property valued at $4,000 was destroyed
and two men were fatally burned
NEw HAMPSHIRE was on the 22d pro-
nOunced out OF debt.
AT gathering OF American publicists in
Saratoga y Y, on the 22d National league
was organized for the protection of Amer
lean institutions, with John Jay, of New
York, as president
JIMMY HOPE, the famous bank robber.
was discharged from prison at Auburn n
l., on the 2:jd his term having expired,
but he was rearrested while on his way to
! -fth ApAA oA aluAASA IAdA g VI Ao1oAnS
bank
Is New York on the sd tNyenty-eight
vagrant Arabs were denied the privilege of
landing and the steamship which brought
them owes was ordered to take them back
Four muTderers. Patrick Packenham,
Jack Lewis tcOlOred), James Nolan and
Ferdinand CarOlln, were hanged in the yard
OF the TOmbs in New York City on the morn
ing of the 23d Packenham and Carolin
killed their wives and the other two their
mistresses.
On the sd the animal train of Fore
paugh's circus was wrecked near Potsdam,
y \. on the way TO Montreal, and twenty
four trick horses. valued at many thousand
dollars, were killed. and seven chariot
horses and other animals
OK the afternoon of the 25th Carlisle ID.
Graham made successful trip through the
whirlpool rapids &c Niagara Falls in bar
rel-shaped boat
TIE death of James Tunny occurred in
Boston on the 24th at the age of one hun
bred and three years He came to this
country from Ireland sixty-One years ago.
His wife survives him
DURING the month of July p, ZIG immi-
grants arrived at Castle Garden In July,
ISSS, >, go arrived
The Democrats of MassaC husetts will hold
their State convention at Worcester DC
tOber ,
o. the 25th the Spring Lake reservoir
near Fiskville, r. J., gave way, and three
persons were drowned and some property
destroyed