River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-26
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OK the 18th the Nicely brothers, con-
demned murderers who recently escaped
from the Somerset Pa jail, were recapt-
ured
PIANO and organ manufacturers held a
convention In New York on the nth for the
purpose OF forming a protective associa-
ton
burn, n T., was pardOned by Governor
He'll He Is forty seven years old and had
been In prison since he was sixteen
PLANES destroyed the business portion
of the village OF Nashville, n Y, on the
18TH
THE bursting OF a dam on the 18th at
springtOn Forge near Coatsville, Pa
flooded the district and caused farmers to
fee to the hills for safety
Mas. ELIZABETH s MCCLELLAN, aged nine
" years. mother of General George B. Nc
ClellIn, died ON the 18th at Philadelphia
Tn. house of Martin Freeman, farmer
near NapOh. y. Y, was entered by burglars
on the 18th and robbed of 81 coo that had
been hidden in various places in the house.
FIRE at Seaford, Del. on the 18th de-
strOyed the town hall, Masonic and Odd
Fellow halls. ten stores and several dwell
ings
N the vicinity of Orange, y. j., great
The death o. DR.. Louis Mas, a famous
pianist and composer, occurred ON the 18th
in his residence at Jamaica Plain, near
Boston, of peritonitis
JESSE W. PAYsoS. the well-knowu author
and publisher OF school copy books, died
on the 18th at his home az Hyde Park,
Mass, aged seventy -four years
THE recent wet weather has done meal
culable damage TO the peach crop in New
Jersey.
on the 18th Eva. the alleged wife of Rob
ert Ray Hamilton, was convicted at Mays
Landing. y. J.. of stabbing Nurse DOnneIly,
and sentenced to two years in States prison.
JOSEPH DE BARRON. an eight-year-O
boy stabbed and killed Herrick Lopez
aged thirteen years. during quarrel on
the 18th at Wareham, Mass.
SPEAKING OF newspaper advertising the
Buffalo ~. " Courier says: The charac
ter and quality of the advertising material
which the New York Central has been put
ting ont this season is much superior 10 any
thing the company has offered its patrons
in some time IL is an evidence of the pro-
gressive. enterprising and liberal policy
which has marked the administration of
the passenger department since George II.
Daniels was appointed General Passenger
Agent Mr. Daniels is a man OF ideas and
kuu NV - EAfS tAAGAlA fAs4CN-tdh4E
NEAE Danbury. Conn, a heavy bridge
fell on the 2lth, carrying down n wagon,
two horses aud ten men distance of TWEEN
" feet One man was killed and four
fatally hurt
MAGGIE ToBTS. aged ten years, of Phila-
delphia on the 2Oth shot and killed her six
yeaT-oId sister Ellen while playing with
revolver that had been carelessly left in
her reach.
NEAR IrviBgton, " J., the discovery of
gold in a rocky ledge caused a sensation in
that village on the 18th
THE death of Mrs Catharine Burbank,
aged ninety-one years. pensiOner Of the
war of 1872. occurred on the sJth at Cont
cooke. y. II
FIRE damaged Leonard & Ellis oil refin-
err at Shady side, y. J., on the 10th to the
extent OF $4,000
On the 20th sam" King and Mary Vein
er, two of the most notorious shOplifters in
the country, were arrested in New York
The ffty-fve windOw-glass factories in
the country ON the 2lst formed trust, with
a combined capital OF s3.0oO,0O0.
Sicily HOPKINS, aged twenty five years,
shot and killed his wife and mOther-in-law
in a quarrel ON the 29d at Phillipsburgh, Pa
and then made an unsuccessful atten'"t TO
kill himself
The entire executive board of the Knights
of Labor had, IL was said on the 2lst. been
suspended because there was no money in
the general treasury to pay their salaries