River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-08-15
WEST AND souTH.

II Cleveland, o, A. +. Kelley, a
commission dealer, shot and killed
himself at the grave OF his wife.
WHILE drunk Eli Xix. laborer at
Bigstone Gap. Va. set fire to his home
and he and four of his children were
cremated.
The Iowa democrats in state conven-
ton at Marshalrtown nominated the
following ticket: For governor, Judge
W. |. ia bio, of Mount Pleasant; lieu
tenant governor, ). l.. Bestow. of
Charlton; superintendent of public in
struction, Lyman i. Parshall, of Ma
quolSeta; railroad commissioner, Col.
George James. of Dubuque; supreme
Judge, Senator Thomas G.. Harper. of
nes Moines. The platform reaffirms
the national platform of 1892, indoors
Sing the money plank therein adopted,
urges the repeal of the mulct law and
the enactment Of local option meas
ure, favors the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people and favors just and liberal pen
sions TO all deserving veterans.
THE death of Mrs. Archibald Thack-
er. aged IO4 years, occurred at her
home in Martinsville, Ind.
THE doors of the Rocky Mountain
savings bank at Denver were closed,
with liabilities of 100000.
A SCHOOL census of Nashville, Tenn,
shows the population to be So of
which 1854 are negroes, an increase
in one year of s,26s.
On Monday and Tuesday, September
Is and Il, 1895. the twenty-seventh re-
union of the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee will be held in Cincin-
natl.
MISSISSIPPI democrats "a convention
at jackson nominated A. J. McLaurin
for governor.
l.. F. ELLIS. of Cleveland, was elect
ed commander in chief at the national
convention in Lima, o., of the Union
Veterans union.
railroad at Grant Station. \. NJ. twelve
persons were reported killed and TWEEN
ty-five wounded.
THE Nebraska republican convention
will be held at Lincoln October :.
AT Toledo, O, the old established
book and stationery house of Il. +.
Wade * Co. failed.
IL mass meeting the miners rescinS
ed resolution expelling all neg les
from Spring Valley. Ill.
AT a railway crossing in Decatur,
Ind, Mrs. Henry Johnson and her
three children were struck by an en-
CINE and one child was instantly
killed and the others were fatally in
jured.
FLAMES At Pendleton. Ore, consumed
the Transfer hotel and several build
inEs and four persons los; their lives.
Is Logan. Trego and Thomas coun-
ties in Kansas. black rust was s1.d TO
be ru'uing hundreds of fields of spring
wheat
AT Peoria. Ill. Hearst, Dunn & Co..
a large agricultural implement firm,
failed for Sl22. 435; assets. Sll5.6f9.
IN railway wreck near Denver, Col.
Rev. Z C. Wheeler. a Baptist evan.
gelist, who had been in California with
his car Emanuel, was killed. Several
other persons were hurt.
In session at Minneapolis the United
Typothetse elected F. X. Andrews. Of
Rochester. y. Y, president and de-
cided 10 meet ii Rochester in August,
1870.
AT his home in Lowell. Ind. Peter
Surprise celebrated his iO2d birthday.
AT jacksonville. Fla. f. A. Smith. a
barber. dropped dead. Since his death
il has developed that he was married
10 seven women
Ar Rome. ia. the Merchants ma
tional bank which suspended payment
April - 1S95. was authorized to re-
sumo business
IL the oath year OF his age Howell
E1munds jackson. associate justice of
the supreme court ~ the United States,
died at his residence at West Meade.
Tenn. II consumption.
I'EFWEE-, the summit OF Pixies Peak
% nd ARMY headquarters in Denver,
,.i>t-ace ott1 miles, hel:o ~raph COM
munieatiOns were exchanged.