River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-04-28

HENRY WERNDr while leaving the
Ohio national bank in Cincinnati was
robbed by two men of $3.50.
INDIANA democrats in convention at
indianapolis nominated Claude Mat
thews for governor, Mortimer Nye for
lieutenant governor, w. Il. Myers for
secretary of state, Albert Gall for treas
urer and Green Smith for attorney
general. The delegates to the national
convention were instructed for Cleve-
land first and Gray afterward. The
platform arraigns President Harrison's
administration, declares for tariff re-
form, and favors the election of United
States senators by the people.
REPUBLICANS of the Eleventh Indiana
district have nominated W. +. DAILY for
congress. In the Sixth district IL. U.
johnson was renominated.
AT the age of "a years Rev. DIR. John
c. Burroughs, formerly president and
one of the principal founders of the old
Chicago university, died at his home in
Chicago.
IL the Twentieth Illinois district
George Smith was nominated for con-
gress by the republicans.
IN California another severe earth
quake shock did great damage at Sacra-
mento. Winters. Dixon and other towns.
AT Selma, o., the city council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting girls
from being on the streets after o'clock
at night.
JOSEPH MCCALIIsTER and John Rooney
were shot dead and Jim Knichen, ne
gro, fatally injured in a fight between
farmers near Henderson, Ky.
AT Jonesboro, Tenn, three men
were instantly killed by the collapse of
a brick wall in the courthouse and
three others were fatally injured.
JUDGE FOLEY decided in a test case
at Sioux City Ia, that street ears were
necessity and could therefore run on
Sunday.
GEORGE and Henry Kelly, of Salem,
o., have fallen heirs to property -alued
at $40 600, 900 in the Lehigh vale, coal
region.
Ar New Orleans Philip Baker was
hanged for the murder G Mrs. Nelson,
the wife of his employer, az Carrolton.
THE execution of Charles Miller, aged
Il, took place at Cheyenne, Wyo., for
killing Waldo Emerson ana Ross L.
Fishbaugh in box car on the Union
Pacific railroad.
The death of Joseph Bertrand, half
breed Indian, occurred at South Bend,
Ind, aged 10 years.
The damage to property by the Cali
fornia earthquake was placed at $780,
900. One man was killed.
IL the Green river in Indiana high
water flooded and ruined thousands of
, acres of wheat and oats, and many
farmers had their fences and small out
buildings carried away.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Esd were: Louisville,
SIS; Boston, .S57; Pittsburgh, $50;
Brooklyn, .7l4; New York, .667; Gin
cinnati, 800; Cleveland, 500; Wash
ington, 400: Philadelphia, .2s6; Chica-
go $50: st. Louis, .I43; Baltimore, 1875.
4 SCHOONER was capsized during a
tornado near Money Point. Va, and
Mrs. 5. W. Rowley, her little daughter
and two of the crew were drowned.
Two LARGE barns were burned at San
Francisco by incendiaries, and John
Hand, a teamster, and sixteen horses
persisted in the flames.
WHIT man named Freeman was
lynched by a mob in the parish of Pointe
Coupee, La, for killing G.. Cotton, a
merchant.
MORTIMER LEWIS, an old grand army
man at Fern Hill. Wash, quarreled
with his wife and shot her fatally and
then blew his own brains out.
AT Henrietta, Tex, an incendiary
fire destroyed the best portion of tho
town. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The death of Charles III. Reed, tho
counsel for Guiteau, the assassin, oc-
CURED in Baltimore, aged IS.
THE official returns from the recent
election in Louisiana give Foster, the
anti-lottery candidate for governor, a
plurality of S0.l70.
FRANCES A. Arm, colored woman,
died at New Orleans, aged l04 years.
IL drunkem row three men wero
killed at Fairmont, w. Va.