River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-28
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EAELY ON The morning OF the 3Oth the car
and paint shops Of the Central railroad OF
New Jersey II Ashley. Pa, We're destroyed
by fire Loss. 2iaWQ
ELEVEN collieries operated by the Ie-
high 4 Wiikesbarre Company near Wilkes
barre. Pa, which had been idle since Feb
ruary =. resumed work ON the 10Th, Civ
ing employment To nearly six thousand
persons
ABEAW : HEWITT and Edward Cooper
proprietors of tine New jersey Steel and
Iron Works at Trenton. Y J.. would. it was
said on the 18th, move their works to Chat
tauooga. Tenn They employ thirteen hun
bred men, paying them sl,UJU,0U0 yearly in
wages.
Two BOYS and three women were arrested
on the 2Ist ar York. IA. charged with the
responsibility OF rec ent series of fires in
that locality
At Atlantic City, y J., four houses Were
wrecked ON the 2lst by high water and other
dam age 70 property was done
OK the 2lst Robert Craven. of Philadel-
phia treasurer of the Philadelphia. vii
miHgton & Baltimore Railroad Company,
was said u be $1,000 short in his accounts
CH8ELEs NIER. of Scranton. Pa, ran a
needle into his foot a week ago, and
surgeons sought in vain for it. On the 2lst
Nier was taken 20 the plant Of an electric
railway. his foot held near one of the
dynamos. and in fifteen minutes the needle
was drawn out
RHODE ISLAND Republicans ON the 2lst
nominated Herbert ". Ladd, OF Provi-
denee. for Gov raor, and Daniel G. Little
field for Lieutenant Governor.
JUDGE BENEDICT on the 2lst sentenced
Robert SigeI. son of General Franz Sigel
who pleaded guilty to forging pension
checks in New York to six years impTisOn-
meut al hard labor in the Erie County
peniteutiary.
E THE two thousand miners Of the Pennsyl
[ yauil Coal Company were informed as theJ
We're leaving work near Scranton ON the ~
I that "A shutdown" had been decided upon
/ 10 take place at once
/ UNUSUALLY high tides as heavy seas had
I on the 22d. wrought sad havoc along tn,
/ New Jersey coast. and the damage to prop
I erty would amount 10 hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars
/ FIEE lie troyed the court house and cit,
\ hall Al Dover. y. H.. Oh the 23d
{ HERR VoS BULow. the great musician. ar
rived at New York from Europe on the 23d
{ ON the 24th Albert EindstrOm shot Emily
/ Schemckle and killed himself at Worcester
Mass The woman had refused TO MARI
him
F EoUE steamships landed ,!ri1 Immigrant
at Castle Garden. New York, on the 18th
TIE failure OF the Bullard Art Publishing
f Company Of Worcester. Mass. occurred OF
the ed for sl5OWo
The house and barn of Henry Wesson
near Grafton Mass, were burned on tn,
18th and So .G)l in money in the house. anC
Y eleven head of cattle in the barn, were de
I stroyed By the flames.
/ Is the Pittston Pa region all the collier
T les notified the men on tine 18th OF a suspen
sion Of six weeks duration About ten thou
sand men and bows were affected by tn,
suspension
THE mind of the famous authOress Mrs
Harriet Beccher Stowe, was on the 18th salt
IL have become clouded. and she was as re
CARDS intellectually. a mere child
ON the 18th Thompkins Warner. farmel
Of Cliff on Springs y Y. fell into a pig pei
and was SET upon and killed by hogs.