River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-01


| (dem.); Eleventh district. Don Camp
bell (people's); Eighth district, Thomas
l.. Maxwell tdem.l.
GERTIE CAIRNS, the female aeronant
who has been making ascensions at the
Detroit exposition grounds, was killed
by falling from great height.
The National Letter-Carriers' asso-
citation in session at indianapolis, Ind,
elected Frank +. Smith, of San Fran
cisco. president, and Kansas City was
selected as the next place of meeting
GEN. BIDwELI, prohibition nominee
| for president, has issued his letter of
acceptance. lie declares the liquor
traffic TO be the cause of about all the
evils of the land.
NEAR East Liverpool. o.. n man
named Unger shot and killed his broth
er-in-law and then killed himself. Fam
lily trouble was the cause.
FIRE totally destroyed the Hotel Bel
mont at sulphur Springs, n. c. Loss,
slOO. 900.
w. w. BLACKWELL, of Kentucky, was
elected supreme chancellor at the bien-
NAL session of the supreme lodge,
Knights of Pythias, at Kansas City, Mo.
The ladies' auxiliary, Pythian Sisters
of the World, chose as supreme chief
Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson.
Mrs. JENNIE MORTON. who was bitten
by pet dog thirteen years ago. died in
great agony of hydrophobia at her home
near Brazil. Ind.
DEMOCRATS in state convention at
Boise, Idaho, nominated John NJ. Burke,
of Shoshone county, for governor.
THREE workmen lost their lives by
the caving in of a sewer at Huntington,
W. Va.
AT Muncie, Ind, fire destroyed the
rail mill, resulting in a loss of $1,000
X. L. GRAVES, of Seattle, was nomi-
mated by the prohibitionists of Wash
ington for governor.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Arkansas, First dis
trict, Hugh Sinsmore (dem. }; Third dis-
trict. J. o. Bush (people'sl; Illinois,
Nineteenth district, ]. ID. Hooker
| (pro); Fifth district. Henry Wood
pro }; Georgia, Fourth district, Charles
l.. Moses (dem.); Louisiana, Seventh
district. +. J. Guice (people's); Iowa,
Ninth district, A. L. Myers (people's);
| Kentucky, Seventh district, w. c. +.
Breekinridge (dem.); Texas, Fourth
district, David H. Culbertson (dem. J;
Alabama, Fourth district, CASTOR A.
Robins (dem.l.
w. +. CowAN, carriage manufacturer
of jackson, Mich, made an assignment
| with liabilities estimated at 500, 900.
Four children in the family of a man
named Wilson were fatally bitten by
rattlesnazes near Athens, Ga.
H. J. SNIvEIY, of Yakima, was nomi
mated by the democrats of Washington
for governor.
The dispatch that Hiram w. Sibley and
his party had been drowned in Georgian
bay turns out to have been false. The
story was started by a discharged
cook of Mr.. Sibley.
| HUMPHREY Best was shot and killed
in free fight near Lancaster, Ky, by
John Campbell, who in turn was badly
wounded. Two little children were
killed by stray bullets.
On the 500 line a west bound passen
ger train went through a trestle neal
Barrett. Mimi, and six persons were
killed and about forty were more OF
less seriously injured.
FLAMES in the Northern Michigan
Lumber Company's factory at Fander
age. Mich, destroyed property valued
at SlOO. 900.
IN fight at a dance near Haughton
La. Maurice Miller and Bob and JohI
Carter were killed.
MASSEY BEAsLEY, who had married
over 5000 couples during his twenty
one years service as justice of the
peace, died at his home in Aberdeen
| O. AGED II years.