River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

IL Detroit, Mich, Clotilda Robinson
died at the age of lO6 years. Her hus-
band died thirty years ago. aged lis
years
MINNEAPOLIs and st. Paul were del
uged with counterfeit one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates and silver quar-
tiers.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Noun
81 fabulous rich gold bearing quartz
lodges in the Dixie district.
MEXICAN prospeetors about so miles
from the new camp of the Ilarqua
Hala, 4. T., found the famous French
mems mine, which has been lost for
thirty wears.
NOMINATIONS for congress We're made
as follows: Indiana. Ninth district, l..
y. Mering (rep), James Brown (dem. j;
Ohio, Twentieth district, w. J. White
(repl; Minnesota, Sixth district, w.
Il. Baldwin (dem.l; Iowa Eighth dis
trict. W. :. Scott lpeople's).
NOMINATIONS for congress We're made
as follows: Ohio. Fourteenth district.
o. II. Wakeley (rep); Kentucky, Sec
Ond district. W L. Ellis (dem.l; West
Virginia. Second district, j. y. Wisner
(rep.); Iowa. Third district, J. ii.
Shields (dem.l; Rhode Island, First
district, Isaac ). Turner (pro.), Second,
E. A Lewis pro-.
FLAMES at Lorain, Cal, destroyed six
buildings, and Mrs. l.. ID. Howe and
three men were burned to death.
AT Eagle Lake. Mimi. Mrs. Martha
Kesler. a Milwaukee woman. poisoned
her month-old babe and threw her
S-year-old boy in the well and drowned
him.
IL convention at Atlanta the Georgia
democrats renomihated w. J. Northen
for governor.
THE communication of the death SEN
tence of Col. ii. Clay King by Gov.
buchanan so aroused the Indignation
of the people of Memphis that they
hanged the chief magistrate of Tennes-
Sc. in effigy and then burned the dunn
my.
Bob JORDAN, a negro accused of at
tempting an assault on a white woman.
was seized by a masked mob and shot
20 death while being taken to jail at
Camden. Ark.
Az Green Bay. Wis, l.. Il. Sale and
two sons were drowned in Fox river.
The boys got beyond their depth and,
the father going 10 their rescue, all
were drowned.
THE Michigan prohibitionists in
session at Owosso nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: Rev John Russell. of
New Haven. governor; +. l.. Brewer,
of Owosso. lieutenant governor; u. r.
Malone. of Lansing. secretary of state;
David Il. Taylor. treasurer; II. F. w.
Adams, auditor general; Myron II.
Walker, of Grand Rapids. attorney
general; A. NJ. Benedict. commissioner
state land Office; Robert ID. Avann,
superintendent of public instruction;
nr. VI. Webster. of IoscO, member state
board of education.
AT Oak Grove. Del. Mrs. Rustin. her
6-year-old daughter and her brother
were fatally poisoned by arsenic placed
in the well. IL was thought the di-
vorced husband of Mrs. Rustin put the
poison in the well.
AT the cOnclave in Denve-, Hugh Nc
Curdy. OF COruuna, Mich. was elected
grand master of the knights templar
aud Boston was chosen as the place for
the next meeting.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Texas, Tenth district,
Walter Gresham tdem-l; Thirteenth, J.
V. Cockerill dem Nebraska. Fourth
district, W. NJ. Doch lind }; Sixth. James
Whitehead (rep.); Wisconsin, Third
district. John w Babcock rep }: Wash
ington. John L. Wilson and W. ii. Doc
little. (reps- }; Indiana, Twelfth district,
a J. Yew (rep.l.
REPUBLICANS of Washington in state
convention at Olympia nominated a