River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-24
THE EAST,

AT Pittsburgh on the night Of the 18th ].
NJ Deely, while drunk. threw his five-year-
old boy into the river, the fall being forty
five feet The child was rescued. but could
not recover
THE passengers on the ocean steamship
Ems which arrived in New York on the 18th
encountered fearfully rough weather. hav-
ing been two days in hurricane lust be-
fore sighting Sandy Hook
AT the session Of the Episcopal conven-
ton in New York on the 10th it was decided
not TO change the name of the church from
Protestant Episcopal" and it was de-
clared that there was no distinction of color
recognized in the church
On Pelee Island Lake Erie, smallpox
was epidemic on the 10th. about two hun
dred persons being afflicted with it Can da
had quarantine the mainland against the
island, which had become a vast pest-house.
Ex- PRESIDENT HAYES was re-ele ted
Chief at the annual meet
ing Of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion held In Philadelphia on the 10th
AT the session in New York on the 18th of
the Episcopal convention the resolution
presented by Rev. DR. Huntington pro-
viding for joint committee to prepare a
standard prayer-book for 1892 was adopted
Or the 18th tho First Unitarian Church
of Quincy. Mass. celebrated it's two hun
dred and fftieth anniversary John Han
cock, father or the signer of lie declaration
or independence, was ord famed its first
pastor in I796
Or the 18th two men were killed and
three severely injured by an explosion Of
boiler at Riverberg packing house, near
Crystal Lake, Pa
The death of General John F. Hartranft
Ex-Governor OF Pennsylvania. occurred at
NOrristOwn on the 18th Deceased was
torn in Montgomery County, Pa, and was
hfty-nine years OF age.
PREFER . stockholders of the Northern
Pacific on the 18th at New York voted on
and approved 'Ihe Willard plan, " authoriz-
ing the issue of . 100, OJO,OOJ new five per
cent bonds, payable one hundred years
hence.
IT was announced on the 18th that Mag
gle Mitchell had married in Boston Charles
Abbott the leading man OF her company
on the 18th the first game of the eleven
for the worlds baseball champions hip be-
tween New York AMI Brooklyn was p aged
at New York in the presence Of S, AIS people.
Brooklyn won by score of u to 10.
II the Ep soopal convention a. New York
on the 18th the committee on oanons pre-
sented report that they deemed it mex
pedient 10 establish a missionary episcopate
II session at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
barb-wire and wire nail manufacturers de-
cided 10 advance the price OF barb-wire
five per cent and the price OF wire nails
from seven TO eight per cent
o. the 10th the second game of the
worlds series for the baseball champion
ship between the New YOrks and BroOklyns
took place az BROOKLYN and resulted in a vic
tory for the New Horks by a scOre of to ,
CLAUS SPRECKEIs stated on the 10Th at
Pittsburgh. Pa, that he would fight the
sugar trust TO the bitter end. and that he
would soon bring them TO terms.
The firm of T. & A. Batcheller & Co, of
Boston. who failed a short time ago for
over Sl.WO,OoO, compromised with their
creditors on the 18th by paying seventy-fve
cents on tho dollar
The seniors of Harvard College at Boston
on the l9th elected Clement Garrett Morgan
(cO Oredl as class orator. This is q high
honor and never before bestowed on a col
ored mau
b T. BABBJTT, the celebrated soap man
ufacturer, died On the 2Oth at New York
City. aged eighty years. The cause of his
death was old age.
AT J0hnstOwn, Pa, two hundred persons
were reported on the 18th TO be sick with
typhofd fever