River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-20
THE EAST.

THE republican state committee of
New York nominated Judge Charles f.
Andrews, of Syracuse, for chief judge
of the court of appeals
CLIFFORD CALvERLEY. a Canadian
aged - years. crossed the gorge of Nj
agara at point between the cau:ilever
and railway suspension bridge on
three-quarter-inch cable in less than
seven minutes
BERGMAN. the anarchist, recently
sent To the Western penitentiary of
Pennsylvania for twenty-five years for
his assault on II. c. FriclS. attempted to
escape and was shot in the leg.
GEORGE CHEsTEB'S flour mill at Lock-
port. y. Y. and John Little's flour
and feed mill were entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss estimated at Sl5O.0Jc.
The New York democratic state com
mittee acquiesced with the republicans
in The nomination of Judge Cherries
Andrews for chief judge OF the court of
appeals.
TIE house of John Fox. non-union
mar at Homestead. Pa. was set on fire.
and the family were aroused just n time
to save their lives
II the circuit court at BallstoD Spa,
y. Y. Judge slower rejected six appli-
cants for naturalization because they
could not read or write the English
language.
on the 18th New YorlI's Columbian
celebration eliminated with the IN
yelling of the Columbus monument.
~. immense street parade preceded the
cesemonv.
~ Port ROYAL. Pa. six miners died
fry n, tEe effects of drinking beer from
beg in which was found a dead snake.
dis court of appeals by vote of 5
t. Z decided that the recent appor-
tieument of the state of New York by
( the last legislature was legal and valid.
NEAR Shamollin. Pa, carriage con-
I t5sting \. D. Maxwell, two Misses
\ Taylor and Miss Kate HoughNwent
wa5 struck by train and Maxwell
an- the Taylor girls were fatally in
jured.
The republicans OF the Tenth New
/ York district nominated Charles +.
/ Coon for congress. Mr. Coon was as
sis+ant secretary of the treasury under
President Arthur's administration.
~ explosion of gas at the Sterling
I coiiierv near Shamol5in, Pa. killed one
man, four were injured and sight
others eutombed.
One of New Yorl's society leaders,
Charles Lownder Cottenet. was killed
I by falling from his horse while hunt
| ing with the MeadowbrooL IL. -
I hounds.
/ AFTER a stay Of niuety-ive days the
/ troops at Homestead, Pa. have left for
/ home.
/ SEARCH for the bodies at the Sterling
/ Run cOlliery near Shamokin. Pa, re-
vealed the fact that Ave miners were
killed by the explosion and six were
taken ont alive but fatally injured.
FREIGHT trains cUllided on the New
/ London x Northern railroad near New
f.ondou. Conn, and four men and three
race horses were killed in the wreck.
Is New York the republicans made
the following congressional nominal
tons: Second district, W. y. Grace;
Fourth. c Il. Hobbs; Fifth, G. G. Ben
uett: Sixth. John Creamy.
1UGAN. Clemens and Gibson, three
s.-lkc~s. were arrested at the Home
stead Pa steel works on suspicion OF
dynaUite plot.
The baseball seP son of TIE national
I league ended with the Clevelants
/ champions of tie sscond series They
and Boston, winners OF the first division
of games. will play off tor the cham
pionship. The clubs finished as follows.
| Cleveland, .697 per cent; Boston, .65S;
Brooklyn, .5T1; Pittsburgh. .55s: Phil-
adel phia, $50: New York, .5I9; Chi
cago. BIB; Cincinnati. 500; Louisville,
Z 449: RaitimOrc. -3I6, st. Louls, 1858;
/ Washington, 305.
The death of Edward W. Seymour, a
/ judge OF the supreme court and mem
Der Of congress from 1ss2 to 1887, oc-
Cured at his home in Litchdeld, Conn
aged 60 years
a LETTER has been written by Veto
ria Woodruff Martin accepting the
women suffragist nomination for presi-
I dent
/ Is Pittsburgh. Pa. a cable car
I crushed into a political club. Killing
! two persons and injuring a dozen 9th
Z ers.
FACTORIES and other buildings were
burned at Bethel. Conn. the loss being
Sl25 CSC
AT Conemaugh Furnace, Pa, Mrs
I sadie RessIer and her 12-year-old
/ daug hter were struck 10y train and
! instantly killed.
! \ WALL fell in a sluiceway at senasa
/ Falls. y. v, and five men were killed.
IL Brooklyn, y. Y, Peter Wagner. a
stoueeutter. fatally shot his wife and
then blew ont his own brains. Veal
ouSv was the cause