River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-18


seven peaks on the Blue Ridge mount
aims in North Carolina had been smok-
ing for some weeks. As this occurred
just before the Charleston earthquake
persons In the neighborhood were
alarmed.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations we're
made on the 18th as follows: Wiscon-
sin, First district. o. Il. Thomas Qep)
renominated. Tennessee, Third DIS
trict II. Clay Evans (Repl rcnomi-
mated. Ohio, First district, Otway ].
Cosgrove DEM. Illinois. Ninth dis
trict, Robert Steivan (Pro.). Montana,
First district Thomas II. Carter Qlep)
renominated. Ohio, Second district,
Oliver Brown tDem.). Minnesota. Sec
ond district. o. NJ. Hall (Dem.l; Third
district Morton ). Wilkinson lDem.).
Maryland, First district. Horny P.go
(Dem.l.
FIRE on the nth at Park CT ', u. T.,
destroyed the business portion of the
town, which is the principal mining
camp in Utah.
GEORGE BATTER and Steve Crump
(coloredD we're taken from Jail by mob
and lynched at Annoy, Miss. on the 18th
after being convicted of an assault on
two white women.
r. X. TuIMAN was nominated for
Governor by the Democratic State con-
vention at Columbia ). C., on the 18th.
The Washington Legislature adj
journed on the 18th, having pas ed a
reapportionment bill.
TIE first snow-storm of the season in
the United States was reported from
Fort Assiniboin, Mont, on the 18th.
Miss ANNIE ADAMS, aged IS years, and
her nephew. aged years were asphyxi-
ated on the 18th by gas from gas stove
at Mansfield, O.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 18th as follows: Missouri,
Seventh district w. ID. Barnett (Rep.);
Wisconsin, Seventh district, Frank Co.
burn (Dem.l; Kentucky, Third district
Lewis Jones tRep.).
GREAT da cage by floods was reported
from Pennsylvania, Ohio and several
Southern States on the 18th, caused by
the recent heavy rains.
The death of Joseph Bell occurred at
Cincinnati on the 18th, aged II years.
lie was disting uished as builder of
machinery and as the first to take a
steamboat across the Gulf of Mexico.
RETURNS from tho election in Wy
oming on the 18th announced that the
Republicans had carried the State by
from ., 900 to $500 majority. The State
ticket. majority in both houses of the
Legislature and the Congressional can
didates were elected.
REPUBLICANS of Nevada in State con-
vention at Reno on the 18th nomi-
mated Theodore Winters for Governor.
For the week ended on the 18th
the percentages of tho baseball clubs in
the Players League were: Boston. .629;
Brooklyn, ISL; New York, ISL; Chic
ago. .5S6; Philadelphia, .5SS; Pittsburgh,
.4s2; Cleveland. 1897; Buffalo, 27L The
clubs in the National League stood:
Brooklyn. .655; Boston, .6l6; Philadel-
phia, COS; Chicago, 500; Cincinnati, .5s7;
New York, .466; Cleveland, .295; Pitts
burgh, .172.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on tf.e 18th as follows: Ken
lucky, Third district, o. II. Goodnight
(Dem.); Lewis Jones Rep). Wisconsin,
Fifth district, Thomas NJ. Blakstak
(Rep.).
LEMUEL PENDLEToN and his wife, an
aged couple, we're instantly killed at
st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 18th by being
run over by passenger train.
Rev. w. Il. MILES, president OF Jesu-
it's College at New Orleans, dropped
dead just after retiring from the pulpit
on the 14th.
AN epidemic, supposed to be genuine
Asiatc cholera. was reported at Carroll
ton, @ on the 14th. Six deaths had oc-
Cured and many were down with the
disease
l.. X. Looms, Chicago broker. dis
appeared on the 18th with SIS, coo be-
longing to his customers 1t was sup
posed he had gone TO Canada.
MAXWELL. the murderer of Charles
Decker at Morris, H., was found guilty
of murder in the first degree on the 18th
and sentenced TO be hanged.