River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

Watson tEem.l. Maryland, Sixth dis
trict William McCraig (Dem.). Vir
ginia, Ninth district, G. T. Mills rep J.
Colo ado, Hosea Townsend tRep.l re
nominated. illinois, Seventh district
j. w. Blee tDeml.
THE Society of the Army OF the Cum
berland in session at Toledo elected
| General w. ;. Rosecrans as president.
A LETTER was read at meeting IL
Chicago of the trustees of the baptis
University of Chicago from John ID
Rockefeller, of Cleveland, O., which m
nounced the gift of $1,000, 900 to tn,
university. Prof W. r. Harper wa,
elected president of the university.
AT Long Prairie, Mimi, Fred Pau
shot Mrs. Louis Buelow and cut off he
ears, and then went home and shot him
self. He was insane.
NEAR Manning, la, cyclone killed
two persons and injured several others
and near Emmetsburg and at Vintor
great damage was done to property.
ARIZONA has a population of 59,691,
an increase OF 49, PSI in ten years.
COLORADO Republicans have renomi
mated John L. Routt for Governor.
SHARPERs swindled Henry Burris, Z
wealthy farmer near Smithheld, O., out
of s.. 600
THE South Carolina Republicans have
decided to put no ticket in the field.
In a jealous rage Charles Drumm. pro-
prietor of a wine-house at Springfield,
o., shot his wife and then ended his
own life.
ABOUT forty persons in Minneapolis
have been indicted for participating in
census frauds in that city.
CINCINNATI's population is announced
as 296 309, an increase of LILO.
COLONEL GEORGE K. DAVIS, of Chica.
go, has been elected director-general oil
the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The Congressional nominations on
the 10Th were: Illinois, Fifth district
Rev. f. +. Farmiloe pro-. Wisconsin,
Second district. ID. C. Van Brunt rep. }.
South Carolina, Second district, George
o. Tillman (Dem.l renominated.
AT South Haven, Mich, an incendi
ary fire resulted in the destruction OF
eleven business buildings
An incendiary fire destroyed the prin-
cipal business portion of Whitehall,
Mich, and about thirty dwellings.
NEAR Evansville, Ark, six persons
were drowned by cloud-burst
IN the village of Bergholz, O., chol-
era has become epidemic.
For the week ended on the Goth
the percentages of the base bali clubs in
the Players League were: Boston. .63s;
Brooklyn. .5SS; New York, $40; Chica
go. 53s; Philadelphia, $40; Pittsburgh,
.452; Cleveland. .4O5; Buffalo, .264. The
clubs in the National League stood
Brooklyn, .65S; Chicago, eos; Boston,
sol; Philadelphia, 500; Cincinnati. 5s5;
New York, Az; Cleveland, .405; Pitts
burgh, .264
In railway smash-up on the Bur
lington tracks in Chicago, five person.
were crushed to death and nearly s
score of others more or less badly hurt.
NEAR Minola, Ia, freight train
went through burning trestle. killing
Engineer Mark Eskridge, Fireman
George Burk and Brakeman Williams.
GEORGE DAVIDSON, of Mentor, Ind,
lost five children in two days of dis
ease that was unknown to the local ply
sicians
THE Congressional nominations on
the 2Oth were as follows: Illinois,
Second district, Lawrence McGann
fDem.), Indiana; Fourth district, John
T. Rankin Farmers Alliancel; South
Carolina, First district, w. ID. Crum
,Rep).
By flood in ravine in the Boston
mountains in Arkansas. seven members
Of strolling band of showmen were
drowned.
THE Secretary of che State Board of
Health of Ohio, who went to Bergholz
TO investigate supposed cases of cholera,
saws the disease is not cholera.
THE young son of James Ledenham,
of Merrivale, Tex, while playing with
gun shot and killed his little brother
and sister.
The death of Charles c. Stevenson,
Governor of Nevada, of typhoid fever.
occurred at Carson, aged ga years.