River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-05

IL session at Denver, w. w. Tracy,
of Illinois. was reelected president of
the National Republican league and A.
Il. Humphrey. OF New York, was re-
elected secretary. The platform de-
clares in favor of protection to Ameri-
can labor. American industries
and American homes. reciprocity
with foreign nations, the use of
gold and silver as money met
ais maintained on a perfect par
ity and interconvertibility. de-
mands that new safeguards be
incorporated in our immigration and
naturalization laws. and commends to
the favorable considera ton of the re-
publican clubs of the United States as
a matter of education the question of
granting suffrage 10 women.
JACOB lsING shot and killed Mary
Tefolt, the daughter of wealthy Ger
man farmer by whom he was employed
near Nichols. la. because she refused
To marry him and then shot himself.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were re-
ported as follows: Indiana, Eleventh
district. A. \. Martin DEM; Twelfth,
j. ID. Leighty rep. Illinois, Twelfth
district. Samuel Lerath lpop.). Iowa,
Fisrt district. ;. NJ. Clark (repl. Wis
consin. Eighth district. +. ;. Miner
rep. Ohio, Fourth district, w. ID.
Davies (repD; Seventeenth, A. ID.
Richards tdem.l. Kentucky, Fourth
district, J. w. Lewis (repl. North
Carolina, Second district, q. II. White
rep }.
IN convention at Grand Rapids
Michigan democrats nominated the
following ticket: For United States
senator dong term. Edwin +. Uhl; for
United States senator tshort term,
John Strong: for governor. Spencer o.
Fisher; lieutenant governor, Milton +.
Jordon: secretary of state. Lewis +.
Ireland: state treasurer. 0ttoC, Kerste;
auditor general, James O'Hara; land
office commissioner, Peter Mulvaney;
superintendent public instruction, AL
bert J. Jennings, member board educa-
ton. Michael Devereaux.
THE Wisconsin democrats will hold
their state convention September in
Milwaukee.
A TORNADO which swept over Min
nesOta and South Dakota killed ten
persons and five others were fatally in
jured.
The death OF Mrs Sallie Chapman
Gordon-Lav,, known in the south as
1.-The mother of the confederacy." oc-
Cured at Memphis.
\ MOB took Ulyssus Hayden. a negro,
from the sheriff at Monett, Mo-. and
hanged him. He was arrested for
shooting Boltz Greenwood.a brakeman.
THE strike of railway employees
against Pullman cars was said to be
assuming vast proportions, trains be-
ing held in many places. At Cairo,
ILL.,. troops were called for, and at
Hammond, Ind, no trains were allowed
to move. The managers of the vari-
Gus railroads centering in Chicago de-
cided to fight the strikers TO the bitter
end.
john CLARK and Harry Jones were
hanged for the murder of Nine. Wright
in Kansas City. Mo.
GEORGE THOMPSON shot Police Super
intendent Morrissey in the face, at
Logansport, Ind, and was himself
killed.
AT sulphur Springs. Tex. John VIII
liams was lynched by a mob for the
murder of Albert Waits and his wife.
PoPULIsTs of the Sixth Iowa district
nominated Rev. J. NJ. Baugh, of Oska-
loosa, for congress.
Louis BRUNER received fifty lashes
on the bare back at South McAlester,
l. T.. for stealing bell off a cow.
Howard SULLIVAN, aged IS, aud
William Wilson, aged %. were killed
by the accidental discharge of their
guns while hunting near Alliance, o.
THE democrats of the Seventeenth
Ohio district nominated James A. ID.
Richards for congress