River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-11

THE following congressional NOM
inations were made: Ohio, Tenth dis
4 trict, j. o. Yates (dem.). Michsga n,
I Eleventh district, w. +. Hudson (dem. }.
/ Minnesota, Second district. III. s. Kel-
I logg tpro. }; Fifth, T. Reinstadt (pro. }.
Maryland, Fourth district, Il. II. smith.
r. Hull trep.). North Carolina. Fifth
district. w. Merritt lpop.).
OWING to his unpopularity, William
y Atkinson tdeml was elected gov
ernor of Georgia by reduced major
ity.
THE firm of G. Herman & Co. fruit
dealers at Tehichipi, Cal. failed for
$3.50. 600.
The steamship Chattahoochie. over
due at Savannah from New York. was
reported as lost with all on board
A COUNTERFEIT five dollar national
bank note was discovered on the Citi-
zens' national bank of Niles. Mich,
check letter b. series of 1882. The en-
tire face of the note is brown instead
of black.
GEN. GRENvIILE ". dodge, OF Iowa,
was elected president at the annual
meeting in Council Bluffs, Ia, Of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
FLAMES destroyed an entire bushes,
block in the village of Buckhannon,
W. Va.
TUE safe of the bank at Bloomfield,
Ind, was blown to pieces by robbers
aud S., 800 carried away.
FURTHER reports from the Georgia
election show that the populists made
gains in almost every county in the
state and that the democratic ma jority
would probably not be more thar
$4,000. against nearly 70, 600 at the last
general election.
THE City of Athens sailed for the
United Kingdom with the first cargo
of wheat shipped from Tacoma, Wash,
amounting to i,sO0 tons.
BY the collision of a locomotive and
street car in st. Louis six persons
were injured. three of them fatally.
BODIES of fifty persons, victims OF
the recent tropical storms, were
washed ashore near Key West.
FIRE swept away the axle works of
J. L. johnson & Co at Richmond, Va,
the less being 100000.
IN baltimore the first of the seven
baseball games of the Temple cup Sc
ries between the New York and Baltil
more clubs was won by New York by
score of to /.
AT Chillicothe. O., Flying I'D paced
mile with running mate in 1:5S14.
The previous best record at this style
of going was 2:Ol =.
IL a freight wreck at Southfeld,
Mo-, Engineer Michael Ketchum, Fire
man Thomas Warren and Brakeman
NJ. f. Hummel were killed.
AT indianapolis company was or
ganized which viii practically give
them the monopoly of the wheel busi-
ness in the country. d. \. Smith, OF
jackson, Mich. was elected president.
IL a quarrel George Neorr, aged 90.
saloonkeeper at indianapolis, Ind.
fatally shot his wife and then killed
himself.
IT was said that William Vance, SEN
ten, ID to a term of twenty years at
st. Joseph. Mo, for attempted murder,
was innocent.
By falling walls during a fire in
furniture store in Detroit, Mich. six
persons We're killed and number in
iured.
u Schultz's sawmilI near Parkers-
burg, w. Va, the boiler exploded, kill
ing three men and fatally injuring
two others.
AT Fontanet. Ind, five men were in
dicted for wrecking Big Four pas
senger train during the great railroad
strike.
Two FAlMERs, Charles Perky and
Jones Overton. fought over the line of
fence near Knoxville. Tenn, and
killed each other.
On the Georgia Southern road a train
was wrecked in a cut near Bristol,
Tenn, ten passengers being injured
and eight coaches burned.
THE four young children of John ID.
Chandler. of Smithsonia, Ala, were
cremated. The parents left the house,
locking the little ones in, and when
they returned the dwelling aud all its
contents were i'm ashas.
a RoBBER held up EdR ard Garnet,
treasurer of Bre wster county. Tex, at
Alpine and robbed him of SO 600.
SLvEN negroes were killed at Pow
er's Station, Ky, for insisting upon
riding in a car with white men.
FLAMES i'm a frame barn in Chicago
caused the death of thirty-fve horses.
THE discovery was made that prison
contract labor had been abolished in
Michigan by an error of the legisla-
ture.