River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-05-25
THE EAST.

AT Concord. y. H., Frank l.. Almy
was hanged for the brutal murder at
Hanover ON July II, 1891, of Christie
Warden.
TnE late Rufus Hatch, of New York,
leaves most of his property to his chill
dren, and in the will he warns them
not To use tobacco in any shape OF
form, nor to touch, taste or use wine OF
liquor in any way and to refrain from
gambling.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, paid
81 200 to Settle for his assault on Law.
yer NJ. L. Lizette, at Biddeford, Me
AT Erie, Pa. food caused by heavy
rains did damage estimated at $1,000
600. Many houses were swept entirely
away and 100 families We're rendered
homeless. At Titusville, Oil City. Beaver
Falls. New Castle and other Pennsyl-
vania towns great losses were also re-
ported from high water.
IL Flatlands, L. l., the old Schencli
farm. purchased originally for jug OF
whisky. was sold at auction for S277,-
9S6- The property consists of lis acres
and has been in the Schencz family for
nearly 500 years.
DURING freshet over 1000, 900 logs
We're swept down the river At Fairfield,
Me-. causing a heavy loss.
The steamer Maria Christina, having
on board the Spanish Infanta Eulalie,
the official representative in this coun-
try of Queen-Regent Christina, arrived
in New York.
HARRIS BLANK and Isaac Rosenweig
were hanged at Tunkhannock, Pa.
They were both Russian peddlers and
each % years of age. They murdered
Jacob Marks, a peddler, on Dutch
mountain, Wyoming county, March IS,
1872
THREE men attempted to shoot the
rapids at Sewall's Falls, Me. in boat,
but the boat capsized and all were
drowned.
ID. w. c. SHELTON. of Hartford, Conn,
was elected president at the twenty
seventh annual meeting in New York
of the national board of underwriters.
NEAR dubois. Pa, freight train was
wrecked, the cars took fire and three
trainmen were burned to death.
A FIRE in the Arbuckle Brothers cot
fee mill in Brooklyn, y. V, caused q
loss of $25O,OO0.
IL the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 2lst were as follows:
Cleveland, $50; st. Louis. 49,; Phila-
delphia, -5Ss; brooklyn, SIS; Pitts.
burgh. .5SS; Boston, go; Cincinnati
40; Washington, .474; Baltimore, .42l
New York, .42l; Chicago, PCS; Louis
vile, 100.
The American Tubing e Webbing
company's works at Providence. r. L.
were burned, the loss being s25O,OOO.
II New York the Archer & Pancoast
Manufacturing company, probably the
largest concern engaged i'm the manu-
facture of gas and electric light fixtures
in the United States, failed for 81 600,
OOO.
o. the New York Central road Tn,
I Empire State express made the run 81
/ l46 miles from Syracuse to East Buffalo
in l41 minutes. At one point a speed Of
/ leo miles an hour was reached.
iron her trial trip off Cape Ann the
/ cruiser New York developed the re
/ msrkable speed of nearly q knots an
/ hour.
\ FIRE destroyed the AK polishing anC
+ finishing departments of the American
/ Ak 4 Tool company at Douglas, Mass
causing loss of 500, 900.
THE house of John Downey in Buffa
/ 10, y. Y. was harmed and three chill
/ dren persisted in the flames.
4 HAU.sTORM at Pittsburgh, Pa. anC
vicinity did damage estimated at $500,
/ 600.