River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

BETWEEN La Crosse, Wis. and Hous-
ton. Mimi. a sudden rise in Root river
on the 25th did great damage to the
Milwaukee railway, and farms we're
Oyerfiowed and hundreds of head of
stock we're drowned
MINNFsoTA PrOhibitionists met at st.
Paul on the 18th afd nominated J. p.
Pinkham, of Minneapolis, for Governor;
J. O. Barrett for observation-disclosures
: II. Hillidow for Secretary of State;
y II. Frost for State Treasurer: Ole
Kron for State Auditor and Robert
Dodge for Attorney General
THIRTY-oNE persons were Frustrated
by the heat in Chicago on the 18th and
four died.
THE United States District Attorney
for Kansas declared on the 25th that
the State prohibitory law was absolute
IL null and void, made so by the re-
cent Supreme Court decision.
The Republicans of Iowa met in con-
vehtion'at Sioux City on the 25th and
nominated state ticket with William
McFarlan nd for Secretary of State. The
platform indorses President Harrison's
administration. favOrs just pension
laws. denounces trusts. declares against
compromise with saloons. and demands
protection for American industries.
THE explosion of boiler in Frank
GARDENERS stave mill at North Star,
Mich. on the 18th killed three men and
four more we're fatally injured.
REPUBLICANS Of the Fourteenth dis
trict of Illinois on the 25th renOminated
j. H. Rowsll for Congress. Democrats
Of the Fourteenth Ohio district nomin-
ated Michael ID. Harter
NINE deaths from the heat and six
teen prostrations were reported at St
Louis on the 26th.
ON the 36th William Brookes was
hanged at Pine City. Mimi. for the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Coombs in No
vember last.
EN-STATE TREASURER HEMINGWAY
was found guilty at Jackson. Miss,
On the 26th of embezzlement and SEN
fenced to FIVE years imprisonment
THE following Congressional nOmin-
ations were made on the Goth: Arkansas,
First district. W. II. Cate, dem. };
Third. T. c. McRae (Dem.l renomi-
mated. Ohio. Ninth district. Joseph H..
OAAHM ate ALtuts AtntAuAhHN'Ns 1NfSh
teenth. Joseph f. Taylor Rep renomi-
mated. Indiana. Eighth district. Oliver
VI. Curry. nominated by farmers and
workiugmen.
\ PISTOL. in the pocket of a street-car
driver at indianapolis was accidentally
discharged on the 26th, killing Thomas
Liddy, passenger.
THIS first meeting of the National
Worlds Fair Commission occurred in
Chicago on the Goth. Temporary otfi-
GERS were chosen. and in the evening a
banquet was given the commission at
the Palmer house
THREE Italian Quarrymen named
John Staueher. Joseph Stancher and
Michael Milausky were drowned on the
10th while bathing at Joliet. III.
On the 10Th the eighth annual con-
vention Of the Travellers Protective
Association in session at Denver elected
+. : McGreat. of st. Louis. IS presi-
dent.
RsIN-IS -rHE-FACE. the noted Sioux
chief. ranking next to sitting Bull in
renown. was fatally stabbed by his wife
on the 26th at Standing Rock, \. D.
Jealousy was the cause.
CHARLES DECKER. a wealthy farmer.
and his aged mother, we're fatally beaten
BY burglars OF the night Of the 26th AZ
their home in Morris. III
HARRY BoUoHToS. farmer of Cstlin,
III. on the Goth received notice that he