River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11

| Superintendent, Joseph w. Stewart;
Railroad Commissioner, b. S. Bishop;
Insurance Commissioner. Charles Haten.
The platform demands State ownership
of all public improvements, the abo-
litioI of child labor in factories. the
abolition of convict labor, compulsory
education in the English language, and
the establishment OF a bureau of agri-
cultural statistics.
TEXAS Republicans in State conyen-
ton on the 5th at San Antonio NOM
mated full ticket with Webster Flan-
agan for Governor.
AT Laurens, 5. c., Bob Shelton (col-
ored) was hanged on the 5th for the
murder of William Ray Ford.
AT Ganey, Kan, freight train was
wrecked on the 5th and the engineer
and four tramps were killed and the
| fireman fatally scalded. Six cars of
hogs were killed and eighteen cars of
grain were burned.
The name of political organization
formed at ST. Louis on the 9Th is the
National Reform party The plat
form demands the abolition Of National
banks, prohibition, Government con-
troll of railroads, uniform marriage laws,
protests against the alien ownership of
lands, favors tariff reform and the re-
striction of pauper immigration.
FoR the week ended on the 9th
the percentages of the baseball clubs in
the Players League were: Boston .625;
New York, 1896; Brooklyn, $50; Phila-
delphia, $50; Chicago. SEQ; Pittsburgh,
444; Cleveland. 400; Buffalo, .272. The
clubs in the National League stood:
Brooklyn. 500; Boston, $50; Philadel-
phia, $50; Cincinnati. $50; Chicago, $40;
New York, 40; Cleveland, 1898; Pitts
burgh, .l75.
BUTTE CITY, Mont, was excited on
the 9Th over the discovery of silver
lead sixteen feet wide and ASA ing
about 500 ton. LaboTers eXcavating
a cellar for business house struck the
ore at depth of twelve feet
BY the collision of freight train and
an electric motor car on the 9th at
Cleveland. o, a dozen persons were ter
bly, injured, one fatally.
NOMINATIONS for Congress were made
on the 9th as follows: California, First
district, J. A. Barkham Rep.l. Wiscon-
sin, Seventh district, T. W. Russell
(Dem.l. Arkansas, Second district. Rev.
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FIFTEEN men were killed and many
seriously injured by the premature ex-
plosion of a blast at Spokane Fails,
Wash, on the 9th.
Roy WILKES paced a half mile in
1:0Ij a at Independence. Ia, on the 9th,
being the fastest time on record.
FREIGHT train ran upon a half-open
switch on the 9th near Summit, in the
Cherokee Nation, killing the engineer.
The fireman and three tramps were
burned to death in the wreck.
JERRY CRAIG (colored), whose age is
given at lI2 years, died at Beloit, Wis,
on the 9th.
A YOUNG woman at Hudson, Wis,
coughed up a shingle-nail on the 9th
that had been in her lungs several
years.
RICH's distillery at Uniontown, KY,
was burned on the 9th. Loss, $50 600; in
surance, S4S, 900.
DURING a funeral service on the Sth
in the Baptist church at Pikestown,
Md, the floor gave way, letting the
corpse. undertaken and two pall-bearers
fall into the cellar. The congregation,
thinking the church was about to coll
lapse, rushed from the church, many
being hurt.
The following Congressional nOmina-
tions were made on the Sth: Wisconsin,
Fourth district, John l.. Mitchell
(Dem.l. Tennessee, Fifth district, p.
C. Smithson (Dem.l.
FREIGHT trains collided on the Balti-
more & Ohio road at Board Tree Jun-
mel. near Wheeling, w. Va, on the sth
and three men were killed. Both en-
gines and dozen cars were entirely de-
stroyed.
J. G. WILSON, a private banker of
Streator, ILL.,, failed on the sth for
ST5 900.
Isaac u. CHRIsrIANcY, ex-United
States Senator and ex-Minister to Peru,
died at his home in Lansing, Mich, on
the sth, aged rs years.
The National convention of Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen convened
in annual session at San Francisco on
the Sth.