River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-07-09

The republican nominee for vice
president, Garrett A. Hobart. visited
Maj. Mckinley at his home in Canton. o.
In Cleveland troops were called on to
suppress labor riots.
The Nebraska republican state con-
vention at Lincoln nominated John Nc
Coll, of Lexington. foe governor, and
adopted a platform indorsing the work
of the national convention.
In Cleveland one mRn was killed and
dozens were wounded in a riot between
striking workmen and the police in the
vicinity of the works If the Brown
Hosting and Conveying company, and
the troops were called out to stop the
fracas.
In Richmond the c'wing day Of the
encampm Mt of the United Confederate
Veterans was devoted 70 the laying of
the cornerstone of a monument to JEFF
ferson Davis.
Flames destroyed the Mallory steam
ship line wharf at Galveston, Tex, the
loss being $4,000.
Republicans of the Fourth district of
Arkansas nominated Judge c. C. Wa
tiers, Of Little Rock, for congress.
In the Birmingham (Ala.) district
10000 coal miners received an advance
of seven per cent. In wages.
Wisconsin silverites will hold state
silver convention in Milwaukee on July
Is TO elect delegates tn the national sill
YER convention to be aeld in st. Louis
on July %.
Yawls of the towboat Fallie capsized
at Cincinnati and threw seven men into
the river, two of whom were drowned.
After an absence of two years in
Asiatic waters the cruiser Charleston
has returned TO San Francisco.
Managers of the centennial celebra-
tion 70 be held July % at Cleveland,
O.. have asked the war department TO
detail government troops to take part
in the ceremonies.
railway engine boiler exploded near
Hartsville, Ala, killing Engineer James
brakeman j. Jenkins.
At Borden, Ind, a cloudburst swept
away several houses and stores and Ia
the surrounding country many bridges
and all the crops were destroyed.
Near Hillsboro. H., Mrs. Robert Young
end one child were burned to death in
their home, which was DESTROYED by
fire. Mr.. Young and five other children
escaped.
II. III. Harmon, the town marshal, and
Dick Younger, an outlaw. killed each
other in a duel near Adairville, Ky.
At Farmville, Va, Solomon Marable
was hanged for the murder of Mrs.
Lucy Jane Pollard, June Il, 1895.
In a storm at Hardin's Valley,
Tenn, Arthur Peake, young farmer,
and two sisters named Swan were
killed by lightning.
Bessie Youngren and Rachel Mog-
stad, two young Norwegian girls, took
their own lives in Chicago because of
poverty.
At Rockville, Ind, Sidney Randolph.
a negro, charged with the murder of
little Sadie Buxton. was lynched ny
mob.
Fire nearly wiped out Whitehouse.
a town of 500 inhabitants II miles south
of Toledo. o.
Near Santa Barbara, Cal, Mrs. X. II.
Richardson. aged SIS, and her 17-year-old
daughter Ethel were murdered. Sus-
picion points to Scott Richardson, the
dissolute stepson of Mrs. Richardson.
A waterspcut in the interior of Ohio
and Marshall counties, w. Va. caused
great loss of property and a suspension
of railroad traffic.
For hazing Robert Cherry Foy, a
cadet at the Annapolis military acade-
my from Alabama, has been sentenced
to close confinement for one year.
In the Eighth Wisconsin district
John w. Evans, of Waupaca. has been
nominated for congress by the national
party.
Frank Wallace, a street car conductor
in Lexington, Ky, has fallen heir to
$4,000 by the death of wealthy uncle
in Ohio.
The valleys bordering Wegee and
Pipe creeks, south of Bellaire, o., were
deluged by flood that carried away
100000 worth of property and drowned
James Berry and his wife and baby.
Hundreds of people escaped death by
taking to high ground.
Alonzo J. Walling. convicted of the
murder Of Pearl Bryan. was sentenced
at Newport. Ky, to be hanged August Z.
Fire ruined the chlorination works of
the Consolidated Mining and Milling
company at Deadwood, S. D., the loss be-
ing 100000.