River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-16

dentials indicated a majority II the
delegates in favor of Harriss. The
platform was reported and adopted.
DURISs a storm three negro men and
a woman were killed by lightning on
plantation 10 miles from Canton, Tenn.
The business portion of Belmont.
H.. was flooded by cloudburst and
considerable property was swept away.
IN session at Montgomery the regular
Alabama democratic convention renom-
mated Thomas 6. Jones for governor,
five supreme court judges and a candi-
date for attorney general.
THE democrats in the Seventh Ohio
district nominated James ID. Richard
son for congress, and in the Fifth Kan
sas district the peoples party nomi-
mated John Davis.
Observation-Disclosures, the noted
Usage chief, died at .PawhuslSa, Kan,
of Bright's disease. He was just clos
ing his second term as principal chief
of the Usage nation.
BENJAMIN HARRISON was renominated
for president of the United States on
the first ballot at the republican nation
al convention in Minneapolis on the
afternoon of the 10th, the vote being:
Harrison, 535; Mckinley, 1872; Blaine. ISL;
Reed, 4; Lincoln, 1. Whitelaw Reid,
of New York. was nominated for vice
president by acclamation, after which
the convention adjourned sine die.
A NEGRO named lobe Cook was
banged in the Jail at Bastrop, Tex, for
the outrage and murder of Miss Ida
Moore, young white woman.
OK the new Chattahoochee electric
line. two cars were wrecked near At
lanta, Ga, and three mn were killed
and two fatally injured.
FLAMES destroyed Woods, jerks &
Co. s planning mill at Cleveland, O., the
loss being S2500O0.
AT Kansas City. Mo-. the thermome-
ter marked 9s degrees in the shade and
three persons were fatally sunstruck.
THE king of rustlers, Jack Bliss, was
killed near Arland, Wyo., by Deputy
Sheriff Trey and posse.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: Boston, .739;
Brooklyn, $50: Cincinnati, .574; Chi
cago, $50; Philadelphia, seq; Cleve-
land. 800; New York, 4s9; Pitts
burgh, 40; Louisville, .44i: Washing
ton, 1872; 1t. Louis, $40; Baltimore,
.267. The percentages of clubs in the
Western league were: Columbus, 721;
Milwaukee, $50; Kansas City, 52s;
Toledo. .4s5; Minneapolis, asa; Omaha,
.457; Fort Wayne, 1913; indianapolis,
222
STRIKING miners killed Charles Dam
iels. a mine capt ain, and Charles Dun
geison. laborsr, at Marquette, Mich. q.
FIRE DESTROYED the whole business
portion OF Rocheport, Mo. 81
In Cas- county, Tex, George Whit
stone killed his two small children with
a Ratchet and then shot himself
The Peoples theater at Denver, Col,
was burned. the loss being $1,000
The safe in the Office of the Bedeau
Lumber Company at Genese, Ark, was
robbed of S51, 100 in cash.
Two men held up John ellison. secro-
tary of the Judson iron works, on the
Berkeley train at II street station in
Oakland, Cal, and robbed him of Sl6,-
600 in cash. ~
FLAMES destroyed the Crescent paper
mill at Hartford City. Ind, owned by
Fort Wayne capitalists, the loss being
500. 600
AT Guthrie, o. T., great excitement
prevailed occasioned by two criminal
assaults by negroes upon white women.
One of the fiends was captured and shot
to death
AT Oakland. Cal, Frank Waller, of
the Acme Bicycle club. rode 1868 miles
ON bicycle in twenty-four hours,
breaking the worlds record of Sol
miles held by NJ. A. Holbein.