River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-09
THE EAST.

EMPLOYEES of Carnegie's Homestead
pa steel works were notified on the
S0th ult of an advance of sixteen per
cent in wages to go into effect imme-
diately.
Miss DoLLIE Brown. aged seventy-one
years, died on the SOth ult- while kneel-
ing in prayer at her bedside at Middle
town, \. Y.
BRADsTREET reports total of II, 71e
business failures in the United States
the past year, against 10,5s7 in 1sss.
The total liabilities were Sl4O, $50, 400,
against S12O. 242, 400 the previous year
The assets the past year were $40, 500, :
769, against sol. 999, 9II in 1883.
On the 3lst ult Mrs. Mary Smith. a
giantess, died in New York. aged forty
eight years. She weighed seven hun
bred pounds.
CHARLES KING, of Middleton, Mass,
celebrated his one hundred and ninth
birthday on the LIST.
AT Castle Garden, New York, immi-
grants arrived last year to the number
of 315, 22s. which was falling off from
the year before of 6s. S67.
OK the 31st ult. Mrs. Polly French
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
at East Templeton, Mass.
GOVERNOR BRACKET in his annual
message TO the Massachusetts Legisla
ture on the I'd commended the Austria
liam system of voting, which was en-
ployed at the last election, and recon-
mended the extension of a similar
method to the primaries.
FLAMES on the ID in the shops of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
at New York caused loss of 500. 200.
On the ID Horatio Allen, who invent
ed the Allen paper wheel. and who ran
the first locomotive ever propelled over
a track in this country, died at his home
near South Orange, \. j., aged eighty
eight years
SOME unknown person on the I'd cut
| the Threats of Sarah Kelly and Ann
Kelly, aged respectively eignty-one and
seventy-nine years, who lived alone in a
/ little frame house in Philadelphia
Robbery was the motive.
CURTIS & Co.. an iron firm at Roland,
| Pa, failed on the I'd for 5000, 900. The
firm was established in 1910.
| STATISTICS of locomotive building for
L A00H .AAuM = SAAAAE AdAAAnE ph AIOu tue
product of ISIS. Reports from about
half the car-building companies show a
decline of 20 per cent from the product
/ of 1Sss.
THE death Of Hon. George II. Boxer,
/ ex-United States Minister to Turkey
and Russia, occurred at his home in
| Philadelphia on the I'd.
BURGLARS entered the residence OF
/ DIR. Kniffln. a Trenton IN. j. dentist,
on the night of the I'd. chloroforming
/ his wife and young lady visitor. In the
morning Mrs. Kniffin was found dead in
her bedroom. Her companion was I'M
conscious, but vas revived.
THE Portuguese schooner Veluria,
which sailed from New York September
=, was on the Sd given up for lost. She
had ten men in her crew and carried
nine passengers.
THE death of John Carlisle, aged
| eighty-five years, was announced al
Portsmouth, " H., on the Sd. He was
Past Worshipful Grand Master Mason OF
New Hampshire and was the oldest act
/ i've member of the thirty-third degree OF
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in
/ the world.
The schooner Joseph Southern. of
/ ThomastOwn, Me. with crew of eight
men was reported lost on the 5th.
AT Williamsburg. y. Y. Louis NJ.
! Frsnken killed his wife and child on
| the An and then took his own life.
OK the 5th Rev. Ebenezer Dodge. ID.
/ D.. IL. D., president of Madison Uni
versijy. died at Hamilton, y. ", of peri.
7 tonitis, aged sixty years.
STEPHEN LIZ Plant. q Frenchman
/ eighty years old, while drunk on the 4th
] two of his sons children.