River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-22

FLAMES In the large building of tho
Union Transfer and Storage Company
at indianapolis caused a loss of $4,000.
AFTER fireworks at the state fair IL
Colum bus. o., a section of pavement
gave away and over fifty persons were
precipitated distance of about 10 feet,
and many were seriously injured.
IL session at Indianapolis the Anal
gamated Association of Street Car En-
ployes elected j. f. Hustled, of Toledo,
o., as president
THE following nominations for con-
gress were made: Indiana, Ninth dis
triet. Milton Bell (dem.). Wisconsin.
Fifth district, q. ii. Brickner (dem.1.
Iowa. Fifth district, J. T. Hamilton
(dem.). Ohio, Eighteenth district, l..
p. Chliger ldem.). Texas, Eighth dis
trict, c. c. Drake (rep.); Tenth, A. J.
Rosenthal (rep); Thirteenth, A. q.
Malloy (rep). Alabama, Sixth dis
trict r. f. Turpin (rep.).
THE South Dakota prohibitionists
have nominated A. b. Callington for
governor.
FIRE destroyed the grocery establish
ment of j. ii. Menge & Co. at New
Orleans, causing a loss of SIPS, 900; in
surance. slO0. 600
COMPLETE returns from the recent
election in Arkansas give the follow
ing vote for governor: Fishback (dem.),
81. 92O; Whipple (rep.l. 33, 500; Carnahan
(populistl. 80, 40; Nelson (pro.). 1,300.
IL head-end collision on the North
western railroad near Marshalltown.
la, four men We're killed, as follows:
Engineer Tom Howes, Fireman VIII
liam Limbaugh, Engineer Jack Ash
ton, of Clinton, and w. E. Carlen, of
Powell, Mich.
AT Bonita, La, a mob lynched black
James Patton for numbering Eli Lind
sey, white.
IL Ashe county, n. c.. the wife of
Charles Billings gave birth to six chill
dren, all boys
NINETEEN men have lost their lives
by accident since work began year
ago ON the worlds fair buildings in
Chicago, and 8, 500 men have been either
permanently or temporarily disabled
by accident or illness in the service of
the exposition.
SAMUEL p. SPARKS, the author of the
election law now governing elections in
Missouri. committed suicide at his
home in Warrensburg, Mo. Financial
trouble was tine cause.
In session at Baltimore the National
Association of Naval Veterans elected
Il. = Osborn, of New York, as rear
admiral.
WHILE insane John j. Van Metre.
about 50 years of age, killed his wife
aud child near Idaho. o.
IL Montezuma. la, DIR. j. III. Mullen
dropped dead at his home as he was
preparing to visit patient.
MoQUETTE broke the worlds mile rec
ord for 4-year-old stations, going
mile in 2:IO at Richmond, Ind, over
regulation track.
The sudden death of Thomas ii. Watt:
occurred at Montgomery, Ala. He was
attorney general in the confederate
cabinet and was governor of Alabama
during the civil war.
A BULLETIN from the census bureau
gives the number of foreigners in Ohio
at 459, 293, in Indiana, lac, POS, in Hi
nois. S42, 81, in Michigan, 54S, $50. il
Wisconsin, SIG, 100, and in Minnesota,
467, $50
MASKED men took John Lennon from
his house near Little Rock, Ark, anc
gave him fifty lashes for whipping hi;
wife
In Alabama the peoples party mad,
the following congressional nomina
tions: First district, w. Il. Mason
Second. Frank Daltzell; Third. ]. +
Tate; Fourth, A. p. Longshore; Fifth
W. c. Whatley; Sixth, John NJ Davis
Seventh. w. NJ. Wood; Eighth, Rev. Z
T. Blackwell; Ninth. J. L. Parsons.
IL the family of Mrs. Nelse Erchen
back four children were burned Il
death at Missouri Valley. Ia, in a fir,
that was accidentally started by theii
mother while trying to fill Lighted
gasoline stove.
PETER RICHARDSON and Hiram Feath
erstone. two farmers at Bonnie Terre
Mo. who had had a long-standins
grudge against each other, fought will
knives and both were killed.
THE death of David Mckinley, VIII,
served from 1881 to 1885 as Unite,
States consul at Honolulu and VIII,
was the oldest brother of Gov. McKin
lev. of Ohio, occurred at his home il
San Francisco.
FIRE destroyed Fatout & Sons plan
ing mill at indianapolis, the loss being
$4,000
a LITTLE child and three men wer
drowned in the lake at Chicago by TN,
capsizing of small row-boat.