River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-15
THE EAST.

FIVE convicts in the Dannemera IN.
" State prison who recently protected
the warden from a murderous assault
By a fellow-convict were on the eth
pardoned by the Governor.
On the 9TH A. f. Lancaster, young
reaI-estate agent of Philadelphia, dis
appeared. lie was charged with en-
bezzling about $4,000.
The big plant of the F. A. Kennedy
Cracker Company at Cambridge, Mass.
was purchased on the 9TH by a syndicate
for 81. 500. 600.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, a gang of thieves
who had stolen goods valued at over
S25, 900 from freight cars were arrested
on the 9TH.
TRAINS collided in Allentown. Pa, on
the 18th. and Miss Emma Hall was in
stantly killed and ten other passengers
were more or less seriously injured.
FLAMES destroyed forty houses at
Scranton, Ia. on the eth, rendering $50
persons homeless. Loss, $500. 900.
DELAWARE Prohibitionists in conven-
ton on the sth at Dover nominated
William T. Kelhum. of Dover, for Gov
ernor, and Daniel NJ. Green, of New
port, for Representative in Congress
The platform favors the Australian bal
lot system; denounces high license as a
fraud, and favors prohibition through
amendments to the National and State
constitutions.
FLAMES destroyed the Chenango
County Insane Asylum at Preston. n.
Y, on the sth. and nine insane persons
persisted In the flames.
Ar Braddock, Pa. four Greek work
men we're fatally injured on the sth by
a new smokestack falling on them.
A CONCURRENT resolution proposing
4 prohibition constitutional amendment
was passed in the New York ASSEMBLY
on the sth by vote of So to H.
PENNSYLVANIA Prohibitionists will
hold their State convention at Harris
burg on July Is.
WoRKMEN found five bodies Victims
of the food one year agol at Johns
town, Pa. on thu Sth. Two of them
were mother and child clasped in each
others arms.
THE school board of Providence, r. l.,
decided on the 9th to Danish the Bible
and devotional exercises from the city
schools.
FLAMES destroyed Masury & Sons
large paint factory at Brooklyn, n. Y,
on the 9Th. Loss, SlO0.00
IL a dispute on the 9th Thomas
Lynch, one of the Rochester IN. " de-
tective force, shot and killed a man
named samuel Stoddard and his wife.
IL Grove City. Pa. twenty-five bust
ness houses and dwellings werc burned
by an incendiarv fire on the 9Th.
THE discovery was made on the 10th
that George +. Whitney. a book-keeper
in the City National Bank of Albany,
y. Y. had embczzled $50. 600.
BY an explosion in a powder mill at
Winton. Pa. on the 10th, three work
men we're killed and several others i'm
iured.
\ CLoUp-BUIssT flooded Greenville,
Pa. to the depth of two feet on the
10Th.
Ar Cambridge Mass, the oxford Club
stables were totally destroyed by fire
on the 10th. and thirty blooded horses
persisted in tire flames.
NEAR oil City. Pa, cyclone on the
10Th killed Mr. and Mrs Noah Jackson
and two childrenO of William Nurmmak-
or and wrecked houses, barns and other
out-buildings.
OK the 10th the Iron Car Company,
doing business at Carlisle, Pa, failed
for SI50. 600.
FIRE on me 10th in a large Govern
u1ent warehouse at Willet's Point l..
T.. destroyed property valued at $1,000
0Oa.
FLAMES on the 18th at Ellicottville,
y. Y. destroyed one-half of the bust
ness portion OF the village.