River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-11

executive committee of the farmers al
lance to withdraw its state electoral
ticket from the political contest.
REPUBLIcANs of West Virginia in con-
vention at Huntington nominated
Thomas Z. Davis for governor. The
platform Endorses Harrison and Reid,
the republican national platform, es-
pecially protection; favors the policy
that protects the laborer, and believes
the Mckinley act one of the best ever
passed by an American congress.
AT Creston, Ia, Mrs William Hoeft
attempted to quicken a slow fire with
kerosene, and she and her little daugh-
ter were killed by the explosion that
followed.
IN convention at Kearney the peoples
party of Nebraska nominated ex-
United StatessSenator c. IL. Van Wyck
for governor.
NELLIE ZoLLINGER, Blanche Simon
sin and Grace Maxwell, young ladies.
were drowned at Port Byron, Ill.
while wading IN the river. The last
named lost her life by trying to save
the other two
The Frisco express, south bound. on
the Southern Pacific, was held up by
four highwaymen near Coils, Cal, and
the express car was robbed of a sum
estimated at from $40, 900 to $40, 900.
AT Burlington and other Wisconsin
towns an earthquake shock was sc
severe that houses were toppled over,
people were made ''seasick" and bells
were tolled in the church steeples.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Julius Clemens
shot and killed Mrs. Philipena Morgen-
thrallen and then blew his own brains
out. Trouble over an arrest was the
cause.
A MOB took Allen Carter (colored),
who was arrested on a charge of as
saulting his 14-year-old daughter, from
jail at Wynne, Ark, and lynched him.
SULTAN. the great trotting stallion,
valued at $40. 900, dropped dead at Gym
thiana, Ky, after being driven a mile.
The Nebraska republicans in conven.
ton at Lincoln nominated Lorenzo
Crounse for governor. Mr.. Crounse Is
assistant secretary of the United States
/ treasury department Rev. j. q. Tate
, was chosen for lieutenant governor.
1IE following nominations for con.
gre were made: Missouri, Fifth dis.
t4iet, A. j. Powell (pro.); Florida, See.
ond district, c. NJ. Cooper (dem. }; Mich.
igan, Eighth district, w. 5. Linton
(rep); Mississippi, Second district, j.
C. Kyle (dem.) renominated.
AT Benton. Mo-, four masked meu
entered bank and made the cashier
hand over $1,000 They then took tc
their horses and escaped.
The lumber mill at Saltwater Mimi,
/ of the Schulenberg & Boeckeler Com
pany was destroyed by fire, the loss
/ being SIPS. 900.
BY the official count of the Alabama
election. Jones (dem.) for governor has
about TO- 900 majority. Kolb (alliance)
/ still claims that an honest count will
make him the next governor.
! TOBACCO warehousemen in Cincinnati
I have effected a combination under a
single management, six great houses
/ signing the agreement Their capital
stock is So, 500, 900.
/ THE legislature of Michigan in special
session at Lansing passed new appro-
! priation bill and adjourned.
NEAR Buena Vista, KY, four mem.
| bers of family named Mcintyre, to.
! gether with their cook. were poisoned
by eating cabbage which had in some
unknown manner been cooked with
poisonous snake, and all died in few
/ hours.
ESTIMATES place the loss of stock,
crops and farm property in Hancock
county, H., from the spring floods at
SS43, 900.
In the First Illinois district the dem
ocrats nominated Robert i. Hunt for
congress, and in the Fourth district
Julius Goldzier was nominated.
Tom JOHNSON was killed and Harry
Parish and James Walker fatally in.
jured by fall from a scaffold at louis
vile, Ky.
LIGHTNING instantly killed George
L. Gowdy at Shelbyville, H., and his
wife and infant daughter We're prob
/ ably fatally injured.
/ FIRE destroyed eight business build.
ings. including the post office anG the
Alliance Times Office, at Alliance, Neb.