River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-06-04
At ocala. yIa.. the Gunby-chubb

At Ocala, tla., the Gunby-Chubb
wing OF the republican party. represent
ing 30 out of As counties. met in conven-
tion. and nominated f. II. Gunby for
governor.
= terrible cyclone swept over st.
Louis. + = ST. Louis and immediate vi
cinity and the loss of life was estimated
at from 500 to 1000. The injured list
will include hundreds, il not thousands.
Hotels and business buildings were
wrecked. the east end of the great Eads
4 bridge was destroyed. the roof of the
republican convention hall was taken
off. and steamers on the river were sunk
with all on board. At Drake. ILL.,, a
schoolhouse was said TO have been de-
molished am so pupils killed.
/ In tornado which struck the village
of Lasaa'ie, Mo-. ten persons were
Killed.
The famous prima donna. Mime. Nov
dica, or Lillian b. Norton. 10 use her
real name, and Zaltain II. Doene, Ger
man tenor VIII om she met while sing
ing at Bayreuth last year. were married
in the Dennison hotel at Indianapolis.
Wisconsin republicans will hold their
convention for the nomination of state
ticket in Milwaukee on August S.
In Chicago the Northup. Eraslan,
Goodwin company. dealers in seeds,
] failed for S20O,0OO
The Louisiana legislature elected ex-
Gov. S. ID. McEnery United States sena-
ator.
1t was reported that the schooner Lin
coin. of San Francisco, was lost in Alas
kan waters with her crew of 80 persons.
The democrats of the Eleventh Ken
lucky district renominated George T..
Stone for congress.
Republicans of the Eighth district of
Michigan renominated w. S. Linton for
congress.
The latest reports from the storm
that swept over st. Louis, East ST. Louis
and towns in the vicinity place the loss
of life at 400 and the number injured at
us. The property loss was estimated
at between $4,000. 900 gnd SIS, 0o0, 900. The
total number of families who were
without homes and whose every article
of household effects was swept away by
the storm was variously estimated at
from 500 to SOC.
The populists of the First district of
Indiana nominated Rev. Josephus Lee.
of Oakland City, for congress-.
In Indiana hurricane did immense
damage at Elwood. Lapel, Alexandria,
Middletown, Muncie. Frankton. Lin
wood and Yorkton.
Fifty lives were lost in Clinton, Wash
ington and Jefferson counties, H.. in
the recent cyclone and a vast amount
of farm property wasdestroyed.
Fred Burmeister and Julius Burmeis-
ter were fatally injured by the prema-
ture explosion of powder at Waterloo,
Ia.
Matt Warner shot and killed four
men in a dispute over mineral claim
at Browns Park, Utah.
At Seneca, Mo-, many buildings were
wrecked by cloudburst and 25 persons
were drowned.
The Illinois socialist labor party in
convention in Chicago nominated full
state ticket headed by Charles Bastian,
of Chicago, for governor.
Principal real estate dealers state
that they have figured that the actual
real estate loss in st. ouis by the cy-
clone will not exceed s12. 100000.
In ST. Louis the United Isleva Jr COM
pany was placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver with liabilities of So. 100000.
At Marysville, Kan. George Mock
killed his wife and then took his own
life. A quarrel was the cause.
Near Norfolk. Va, a sloop capsizcd
and six colored persons were drowned.
Throughout southeast Kansas floods
destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
On the exposition grounds at Nash
vile, Tennessee, the third state added
to the original ID, celebrated her 100
years of statehood.
Democrats of the Sixth district of
Georgia renominated Charles L. Bart
lett for congress.
Nearly all the candidates, headed by
Alva Crabtree, of Springfield, nominee
for secretary OF state. have withdrawn
from the prohibition state ticket of
Ohio as n result of the split at Pitts
burgh.
The wholesale dry goods firm of
Wolff q Sharp Mt Macon, Ga, failed for
s25O.0OO
Jesse Slayton and William Miles, both
color,d were hanged by mob at Co
lumbus. Ga, for assaulting white
women.
Sixteen persons lost their lives in
Missouri towns adjoining st. Louis in
the recent cyclone, and &c in Illinois
towns, total of GO, and property valued
at So 900 600 was destroyed.