River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-04
THE EAST.

GEORGE MCCAIN. who was awaiting trial
/ for the murder OF his wife at Philadelphia,
I hanged himself on the 18th IN his cell
/ The New York Supreme Court decided on
/ the 18th in the case OF the murderer Kemm-
/ Ter, sentenced to die by electricity. that
| evidence should be taken as TO the effect of
/ the electric current of the human body.
| Council for the condemned man set up the
/ plea that death by electricity was cruel
| OS the 2Gth the Pennsylvania Railroad
/ Company estimated its loss in the Johns
town food at 81, 5000
5 ROBINS & SOS, iron and steel manu-
facturers of Philadelphia, failed on the 96th
| for $4,000
AT eight O'Clock on the evening of the
26th General Simon Cameron died at his
home in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pa,
aged ninety years Mr. Cameron was first
elected United States Senator in lS45 and
reelected in 1S6 When Mr.. Lincoln
formed his Cabinet he made Mr. Cameron
Secretary of War. In 1862 he was appointed
Minister to Russia, but returned to the
United States the same year He was re-
elected to the Senate in 1856 and again in
$50. In 1917 he resigned Is seat, which is
now held by his son. J. Doelld Cameron.
FREIGHT trains collidef On the Goth at
LatrObe, Pa. and an engineer and fireman
and eleven were seriously injured
PENNSYLVANIA Prohibitionists have de
cided on August 2S as the day for holding
their State convention.
o. the 18th the monument TO Captain
John Mason, the Defender of New En-
gland in 1851" was unvailed on the site of
the old Pequot Fort near Mystic, Conn.
The boat race on the 27th at New London,
Conn, between the freshmen crews of
Harvard and Columbia was won by Harvard
by two lengths.
THE death OF John P yerre, who was a
Representative in Congress from 1858 to
1867, occurred in Philadelphia on the 9th
at the age OF seventy-three years
o. the 9th Eugene Thayer, doctor of
music. eminent New York organist
committed suicide at Burlington, Vt No
cause was known
THE Democrats OF Iowa have decided to
hold their annual State convention at Sioux
City on September Is
FIVE bodies were found at Johnstown on
the 27th. of which two were identified.
The work of clearing up the debris was
being pushed forward rapidly.
The grand meeting of the six nations of
the tribes of Indians in New York State was
being held on the Tuscarora reservation in
Niagara County on the 18th
AT Paterson, =. j., Tunis Labee was hanged
on the nth for the murder of his wife
JOIN GOTTFRIED, four unknown women
and one man were found dead in the apart
ments of Gottfried at Paterson, \. j., on
the 18th ult. They had all been smOthered
by inhaling gas after a drunken debauch
FOR the eighth time in the series of four
teen races on the Thames at New London,
Conn, between Harvard and Yale the latter
crew won a victory on the 2Sth nit by six
lengths, the time being 81 30; distance, four
miles
TIE death of Maria Mitchell. the noted
astronomer, occurred in Boston on the 2sth
ult, at the age of seventy years
ADJUTAST-GENERAL HASTINGS said in a
report submitted to the Governor on IA
18th ult that the State would com~.,ete the
work at Johnstown, Pa, in to, davs This
included the removal Of me debris in the
Conemaugh river and the clearing of the
streets ar ,,1,v.
aE death of Abram Wakeman, one of the
oldes It lawyers and Republican politicians
in New York City. occurred on the 18th
ult at the age of sixty-fiye years. He was
postmaster of that city under Lincoln, and
surveyor of the port under Grant
GENERAL SIMON CAAIERoN's funeral took
place on the 29th ult. at Harrisburg Pa
LIMITED express train was ditched near
New Haven. Conn on the 18th ult, and
three persons were killed and several
others were badly injured