River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-15
THE EAST.

JAMES G. BLAINE in a letter TO the
republican state committee of Maine
says that the tariff. reciprocity and ma
tiOnal currency are the issues that
should be discussed in the national
campaign.
Is state convention at Concord the
New Hampshire republicans nominated
John T. Smith. of Hilsboro. for gov
ernOr. Presidential electors were Sc
leeted and resolutions were adopted
which reaffirm the Minneapolis plat
form
EIGHT new eases of cholera and one
death were reported among the quar-
antine passengers at New York A
large fleet arrived in port. but none of
them brought additional infection.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: New Hampshire, First dis
trict, Henry W. Blair (rep.); Second.
Il.sr,-y- n Ral-e.,. (-af. Das1laess rai..
I Third district. William McAleer trep)
JOHN &. WHITTIER, the Quaker poet,
I whose songs and rhymes the world has
I by heart. died at his home in Hampton
/ Falls, y. H., aged 81 years.
] The American Protective league, a
7 five years benefit order, was reported
I at Lowell, Mass, as owing 3. 900, 600
and had only SOL, 900 in its benefit
/ fund.
/ THE large factory in Philadelphia
I owned by John Williams was burned.
| the loss being $500, 900.
THE death of Francis Herman. who
/ was United States senator from New
I York from 1873 TO lsS.. occurred at his
home in Utica, aged IS wears.
/ IL tit of jealousy Henry Hayner, a
canal boat captain at Jersey City, n.
+ J., shot nus wife and a man named
+ Michael Adams.
CoSNECTICUT re sublicans in conven-
I tion at New Haven nominated Samuel
/ L. Merwi in for governor.
The peoples party in Massachusetts,
/ has nominated Henry VIM for gov
ernor.
4 OK the Sth five deaths from cholera
[ and ten new cases were reported from
among the crew and steerage passen-
( gers Of the Normannia and Eugia on
board and on Swinburne and Hoff-
man islands There were no cases in
! New York city.
NEAR Altoona. Pa. the engineer and
/ fireman of a passenger train and seven
I foreigners on work train were killed
T by a col isiOn.
THE democrats of New Hampshire
have nominated Luther +. Mckinney.
of Manchester. y. IL. for governor.
HAVING lost all his money and prop
erty on the result of the SullIvan-Cor-
bett fight. Thomas Rooney, of Plym-
Outh. Pa, committed suicide.
JACOB H. SwARTz died at New Bloom
field. Pa, after hiccoughing ten days.
despite the efforts of physicians to
save him.
JAMES CooNFT. IN drunken frenzy
at Chepachct, Mass. murdered Erastus
Phettepiace and his wife, an aged
couple.
TIE steamer Scandal of the Ham
burg-American line arrived in New
York on the 9th loaded down with
cholera. Thirty-two deaths occurred
during the voyage and many others
were sick. There were two deaths
from cholera reported upon the steamer
Wyoming lying at quarantine. making
a total of eighteen deaths which have
occurred in New York harbor since the
Moravia arrived August -.
THE death of Thomas II. Hadaway,
known TO the theatrical profession as
the oldest actor in the country, occurred
at Montgomery. y. v, aged 81 years.
ARTHUR ZIMMERMAN rode n.ile on
I bicycle at Springfield, Mass, in 2:Cs 4-5.
FRANK GARvIN. at artist at Pitts
/ burgh, shot and instantly killed his
newly-married wife at their home in
! Allegheny City. Jealousy was the
cause.
( The percentages of the baseball clubs
/ in the second series of the national
league for the week ended on the 10th
were: Cleveland, .529. Pittsburgh. .592;
I Boston,. 5s3; Brooklyn. .53l; Philadel-
[ phia, .53i; Cincinnati, 80; Chicago.
+ 400: Louisville, .479. New York. ass;
4 Baltimore, .426; ST. Louis, 49,; Wash
I ington, 800.
/ IN railroad accident on the Fitch
burg road near West Cambridge. Mass,
I ten persons were killed and upwards
/ of twenty more or less injured.
/ The returns from all of the 243
i towns in Vermont except two give
I Fuller (rep.) for governor plurality
/ of 1900.
,JOHN G.. WHTTIER's funeral took
/ place at Amesbury, Mass, on the 10th.
The services were held under the trees
! at the old homestead so that the hun
dreds of friends of the Quaker poet
! might be the better accommodated
FLAMES at Albany y. Y, destroyed
the state printing Office, two hotels and
other property, the total loss being
Z $500 600