River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-21
THE EAST,

Mashed robbers terroriZetl the village of
McClellandtown, Ia, on the night OF the
18th They entered a number of houses.
and after tDstTing the inmates until they
gave NJ whatever money they had in their
possession ransacked the houses and in
some cases burned them.
Oh the 18th SCHUYLER Moses, the Oldest
Freemason in the State Of New York, died
at Rochester, aged ninety years.
AT the election in New Hampshire on the
18th the prohibition amendment to the
constitution was defeated by about 800
majority
OS the 18th the Catholic Total Abstinence
News. issued at Philadelphia, came out
squarelv against prohibition on the ground
that il would open the flood gates of illegal
sale and take us back TO the anti-high Ii
cense period
IT was decided by the Paradise Club of
Anglers OF New York on the 18th to pur-
chase seven hundred acres of forest and
fifty trout lakes in various parts Of the coun-
try. This would make the largest fish and
game preserve in the world
NINE freight-train robbers were captured
on the 18th near PhilHpsburg. Pa
TIE death Of d Il Jerauld. proprietor of
the Cataract House at Niagara Falls, " u,
occurred on the 18TH He had been hotel
keeper at the Falls fifty years and was
widely known.
THE Connecticut Legislature passed a bill !
on the 18th prohibiting the use of tobacco
for smoking by minors under sixteen years
of age The bill makes the delivery of to-
baccO to a minor a crime, as well as the sale
oft
SIX miners were imprisoned in the Black
Diamond collierv at Mount Carmel, Pa, on
the l4th by a fall OF rock
A. - a
the West Point boiler works Of Monroe &
Sons ~ Pittsburgh. Pa. five men were
killed and eleven injured
AT Utica " y. Virgil Jackson was hanged
on the 18th for the murder of Norton Met
cali on the 18th OF January 1855.
THE six miners ent0mbed the other day in
the Black Diamond colliery near Mount Car
mel Pa. We're rescued alive and well on the
18th
DoSALD KENNEDY. the famous patent
medicine man. who made a fortune by the
sale of -- DR. Kenncdv's Medical Discovery, :"
died on the 18th in Boston.
GREAT excitement was caused on the 18th
by the discovery Of new oil wells ut East
Titusville, Pa. the home of the famous
''grasshopper wells ~ Of old, and every foot
of land within a mile Of the little settle
ment had been gobbl6d up 10y SPECTATORS.
SEVERAL counterfeiters in New York City
who for several weeks past had been sue
cessfuIlv putting spurious silver dollars in
circulation were arrested on the 18th
A Confession was made by George 8.
Reese. foreman OF the sQuib factory AZ ply
mouth Pa. which exploded recently. kill
ing ten girls and wounding many others.
before diving on the 18th that it was he and
not Katie Jones who caused the explosion.
He was smoking and spark from his pipe
ignited a key Of powder
On the 18th Mrs Anastasia Parsells. of
Bayonne. n J.. celebrated her one hundred
and third birthday. She was in good health
and always prided herself on the fact that
when twelve wears OF age she was kissed by
George Washington
THF steamer Caroline Miller arrived in
New York on the 10th from Cape Haytien,
and the captain said that twelve OF Legit-
lines soldiers who had been taken prison
ers by Hippolv.a were shot I'm the public
square at Cape Hayden
MsEY ANDERSON was seriously i'll in Phil
adelphia or the l1th and her theatrical en-
gaCements for the rest Of the season had
been cancelled
4 STORM did damage TO the extent of
sl0oOe % property in 2 q vicinity of Asbury
Park y j, on the l6tl.
TIRE bark T. L Pettis ill, with her crew
Of thirteen men, was reported - the nth
rs lost in Chesapeake hay. The bark
hailed from Portland Ne.
THE q .scovery was made on the 10th that
Edward Swan. paving teller Of the Nation
City Bank Of Lynn. Mass, was a defaulter
TO the extent OF SIS, Oo0