River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28


was nominated for Governor of that
State on the ed by the Independent
Labor and Farmers Alliance eonven-
ton.
THE air-brakes of a freight train
standing on a grade at Summit, Cal, on
the 22d gave way and the train dashed
into another freight train at Cascade,
killing four men,
IL jumping from an engine that had
become manageable on thu Denver,
Utah & Pacific railroad on the ED near
Lyons, Col, three men were killed and
others seriously hurt
Two HUNDRED engineers firemen and
switchmen employed by the Union
Stock Yards Switching Association of
Chicago struck on the ed for an in
crease in wages and more rest on Sun
days.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER (coloredl, aged
Il years, was lynched near Baton
Rouge, La, on the ed for attempted
assault on a 1l-year-old white girl.
THE special agent sent to Oklahoma
by Secretary of the Interior Noble re-
turned on the 22d and confirmed the re-
ports Of restitution existing there and
Sdiu ntlD SuOulu Ut Stub al OItt-
In was reported on the ED that great
restitution prevailed among the farm
ers in Arapahoe County, Col, and that
between 500 and 500 people were in
starving condition, the entire failure of
crops being given as the cause.
SEVERE frosts were reported in North
Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba on the
22d, and fears were entertained that
great damage had been doLe to crops.
For the week ended on the Esd the
percentages of the baseball clubs in the
Players League were: Boston. 500;
Brooklyn. .5S4; New York, .574; Chica-
go. .543; Philadelphia, .524; Pittsburgh,
.446; Cleveland, 422; Buffalo. .2se. The
clubs in the National League stood:
Brooklyn, 1888; Boston, .627; Philadel-
phia, .613; Cincinnati, 600; Chicago,
.53I; New York, All; Cleveland, .Sl6;
Pittsburgh, $50.
AN insane man named Quinn killed
his wife and five children on the esd
near Livingston, Mont, and was him.
self killed while resisting arrest
BAYARD WooDs and George Early
(colored) were executed on the 23d at
Ro, Ky Mount Va, for setting fire to a
warehouse, which was burned to the
ground.
DEMOCRATS on the esd nominated
John Il Long for Congress in the Sec
ond district of Texas, and J. IL Beeman
in the Fifth Mississippi district In
the Second Indiana district the Farm
ers' Alliance nominated Sampson Cox.
FLAMES destroyed the sugar mills at
$780, 600.
On the 2Sd Edward Checkley arrived
in Chicago from New York on bicycle.
having made the trip in fourteen days,
six hours and twenty-five minutes.
FIRE ruined the business part of
Penn broke, o., on the cath.
THE Missouri Union Labor party in
session on the 25th at Jefferson City
nominated A. Huntington for Supreme
Judge, Russell Fox for Superintendent
of Public Schools, and Patrick Shannin
for Railroad Commissioner
AT the stock yards in Chicago the
engineers and firemens strike ended on
the 25th in a victory for the strikers.
Soon after this result was announced
the switchmen struck for higher wages,
anu al OASiAtNS Nv AhN 1aAao hoo
stopped.
Is the First Illinois district the Pro-
hibitionists ON the 25th nominated |.
III. Pedrlck for Congress
THE board of education in Cincinnati
decided on the 25th to hereafter cease
to employ married women as teachers
in the Pablo schools.
A BOILER in the -four and saw-mill of
G. c. White, near Columbus, Ind, ex-
ploded on the 25th. killing three en-
plOyes and injuring five others.
FREIGHT trains on the Burlington IL
Missouri River road collided at Mullen,
Neb., on the 25th, killing three persons
and injuring six others.
FIRE ruined the greater part of tho
village of Pinkstaff, ILL.,, on the 25th.
A FIRE broke out at 500 on the morn
ing of the Goth in the basement of Nc
Vicker's Theater in Chicago and soon
the elegant structure was in ruins,
causing loss of over 5000, 900.
FULLY one-third of the people in
Oklahoma were on the 25th said TO be
destitute and in need of aid.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the 25th the
supreme council of the Federated Rail-
way Employees decided not to order
strike in aid of the New York Central
railway Knights of Labor, as such &C
ton would be against the rules of the
Federation.