River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-31
NEST ann sOIIrA.

FREDEEICA h >AyEL, aged seyenty-seve n
years. was married at Lima. o., on the 22d
to Mrs Martha Eaton, seventy-hve years OF
age.
THE President will start the machinery of
the Southern ExpOsit on at Montgomery,
Ala. November ), by electricity from Wash.
ingtOn-
The L c. Porter Company Touring mill
at Winona, Mimi, was burned on the sd
10 s, sl5OW0
FLAMES on the I'D at Columbus, o., al
most wiped out the Patton hollow ware
manufacturing works and damaged other
manufactures. Total loss. slOO.OJ0
WILLIAM FoUsT, of Columbus, Ind, was
taken with ut OF coughing on the 2Sd and
dropped dead
ALONG the south Atlantic coast the worst
stOr N Of the year was raging on the 23d,
and many vessels were ashore and several
lives were reported los.
An engine on the Grand Trunk road ex-
pIoded on the 25d at Wabash Ind, instant
ly killing Engineer Thomas Callahan and
Fireman John Maddox.
The death o, Miss Annie E. Johns. of
Leaksville, y C., occurred on the 24th.
During the war she spent much time in the
hos itaIs and vas known as THE Angel OF
Mercy"
SOME five hundred men employed by the
firms composing the Chicago Diapers and
Tailors' Exchange quit work on the 2ith
because a member Of the exchange refused
TO discharge foreman whom his workmen
didn't like
Is Chicago on the 9th the trial OF FIVE of
the men accused of the murder of DR. Gro
min was 70. mally begun, states Attorney
LOngenecker making the opening speech
for the prosecution. The men on trial are
COughiin. Osullivan, Beggs. Burke and
Kunze Woodruff is to be tried separately.
In the afternoon a dozen witnesses were
examined
FLAMES swept away six business houses
at Fayetteville. Tenn. on the cath
o. the 34t Mrs Ann Balda celebrated
her one hundredth birthday at Terre Haute,
Ind. and was presented with a silver dol
lar by each OF one hundred old residents OF
the town
OFFICIAL figures on the 24th from WASH
ingtOn Territory showed the total vote In
the recent election 70 be 3. 443; Republican
msiorfty, 9.53I The majority against
woman suffrage was iSoOO; against pro-
hibition, II, gO,; for the constitution. Is 273
FIBs at Port Clinton. o.. on the 24th
destroyed planning mill, lumber yard. ele-
yatOr. coal warehouse and two dwellings.
Loss. $4,000.
THE first reunion ever held in Maryland
OF colored troops took place at Baltimore
on the 9th 1t was that OF the Seventh
regiment
FoR the third time In q year fire on the
18th destroyed the greater part of the town
Of Downs. Ill
ALL the evidence presented by the pros
ecution in the Cronin murder trial In Chi
cago on the 2jth was directed 70 the tden-
tihcation of the remains found in the Lake
View eaten basin as those of the murdered
doctor The defense tried to break this
down on cross-examination. but failed
AT Girard, o.. the roof OF the hot blast of
the furnace collapsed on the 18th. fatally
burning William Anderson and his two
sons and badly wounding four other Per
sons
OK the 25th a marble bust of the late
Oliver p Morton. Indiana's war Governor.
was recsivsd at Indianapolis from Sculptor
simmons. Of Rome. Italy. and arrangements
had been made 10 place it in position at the
grave November
Il the Northwest freight business had
reached such proportions on the 25th that
ali of the roads were short OF ears and en-
gines Never in the history of railroading
IVES 20 much freight being handled