River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-27

IN New York City the Tammany
democrats have renominate5 John Il.
Fellows. Amos J. Cummings, Bourke
Cochran and Timothy j. Campbell for
congress.
IL New Jersey Attorney General
John f. Stockton struck blow at the
Reading coal combination by asking
for the appointment of a receiver for all
the combined roads.
WHILE en- route to Chicago to attend
the worlds fair dedication, Bernard j.
Green. a select councilman from Phila-
delphia, fell from the platform of the
train near JOhnstOwn, Pa, and was
killed.
JOIN MCGARRY and William J. Neary
engaged in a prize fight in New York
/ and Neary died soon after from the ef-
/ fects of blow in the chest.
THE telephone connecting New York
with Chicago was formally opened by
an interchange of greetings between
the mayors of the two cities
/ THE letter of Whitelaw Reid has been
given out accepting the republican NOM
ination for vice president.
II. II. FINLEY and Otis Greye skipped
/ from New York after swindling many
persons out OF 500, 600 in a Florida land
deal
THE legislature of Vermont elected
senator In fill out the unexpired term
of Senator Edmunds, also for six years
I from March l, 1898.
THERE was a large attendance upon
/ the centennial celebration in Buffalo
+ of New Yorl1's canals, delegates com
ing from nearly a hundred organiza-
I tions along the Erie canal.
Az indictment has been found by a
/ New Jersey grand jury against Chief of
/ Police O'Mara, of Pittsburgh. for taking
| Frank Mollick out of the state on sus-
/ picion that he was an accomplice of the
anarchist Bergman.
| THE ste amer City of Paris made the
I quickest time on record from Queens
town to New York-5 days, IA hours
and - minutes.
DANIEL BUTTERFIELD has been nomi-
mated by the republicans for congress
in the Twelfth New York district and
| c. c. Shane in the Fourteenth.
/ ONE HUNDRED children were injured
/ BY the collapse of stand where a re-
I hearsal was taking place in West
/ WinSted. Conn.
/ The stallion RayOn dor, belonging
I to the estate OF the late w. i. Scott,
I was sold at public auction in New York
/ to August Belmont for So, 600
FLAMES at Altoona, Pa. resulted in
( the destruction Of a dozen buildings and
causing a loss of $780, OOO
/ IL their weekly trade review R. G.
I Dun Il ca. say: There is still no cloud
/ in the business sky. All home trade is
of enormous volume, making an aggre-
gate of bank exchanges thus far in Dc
tober never equaled in the same month
of any previous year"
IN Caruegie's mill at Pittsburgh nom
union men were set upon and terribly
beaten by strikers, a man named Smith
being fatally injured.
THE firm of C. Burkhalter & Co,
wholesale groeers in New York city,
failed for 500, 900.
FIRE destroyed the steamers James,
town and City of Erie and a private
naphtha launch at James, Town. y. Y.
IL Atlantic county, y. J.. forest fires
I have done damage II the extent of
100000 and are still raging.
IL New York the piano playing con-
test between james VI. Waterbury and
| Miss Ada Melville resulted in victory
for the former. he playing the instru-
ment for seventeen consecutive hours.
IL New York Edward J. Denning,
senior partner of the retail dry goods
house of f. Denning & Co, successors
/ to A. I. Stewart & Co, died suddenly
/ in his bathroom.
FLAMES destroyed the Sands Point
/ hotel at ROslyn, n. Y. owned by
I George Ehret. the brewer, the loss
/ being Sl0O.O5O.
4 Ir is said that Edwin Booth has posi-
lively decided not TO appear again upon
the stage. He has fortune of $3.50, 600,
, which he does not appear ambitious to
/ increase.
THREE men were fatally injured and
twelve cars wrecked in head-end col
lision on the Reading road at Ellen
wood, Pa