River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
The Iowa republicans in convention
at Cedar Rapids nominated /. NJ Shaw
for governor. J. c. Millimar for lieuten-
ant governor. Charles NJ. Waterman for
supreme court judge, c. L. Davidson
for railroad commissioner and II. G..
Barrett for superintendent of public
instruction. The platform indOrses
the national and state administrations
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels
spoke on the need of currency reform
al the meeting in Detroit of the Amer
lean Bankers association Marked
improvement in business conditions
and indications for better things in the
future were characteristic features of
all the state reports as detailed by the
delegates.
On the Louisville 4 Nashville road
freight trains collided near Dahlgren,
H.. and six men were killed.
During a quarrel near Hyden, Ky,
Mrs. Minerva Young killed Mrs. Jane
Young. her sister-in-law.
In the Jail at Memphis Harvey De
berry (colOreD was hanged for at
tempting to rape seven-year-Old girl.
This is the first legal hanging for this
crime in Tennessee.
On Stewart river and Henderson
creek. tributaries of the Yukon. several
hundred miles above the Klondike river,
strikes of gold rivaling those on the
klOndike have been made.
The democrats opened the campaign
in Iowa by holding / meetings, one in
each congressional district.
Infatuated farmers of Leyden town
ship. near Chicago. lynched an I'M
known man for assaulting Mrs. Felina
Fcnske. the wife of Carl Fenslle. truck
grower.
In state convention in Des Moines, Ia.
the middle-Of-the-road populists NOM
mated the following ticket: For gov
ernor. Charles \. Lloyd; lieutenant
governor. ID. L. Perkins; Judge of the
supreme court. J. \. Lowenburg; su-
perintendent Of instruction. William
Elaine: railroad commissioner. J.. ii.
Griffith. The resolutions reaffirm the
platforms of the peoples party adopted
at Omaha and ST. Louis and declare in
favor of the initiative and referendum.
In the glucose works at Davenport.
Ia. an explosion of dust killed John
Rapp, John Hamm. William Wolf and
his daughter Paula.
Mrs. Lena Collinsworth died in Clai-
borne county, Tenn, after fasting 80
DAYS She quarrelcd with her huS-
band. they separated. and sre vowed
no. cd -,
her.
In Detroit the twenty third annual
convention of the American Bankers
association came to an end after elect
ing as president Joseph c. Hendrix, OF
New York
Fire wiped ont nine business build
ings in Ortonville. Mimi, the total loss
being S25O.OOO.
At Lynchburg, Va, the prohibition
state convention nomir ated Rev. l.. a.
/ Cutler. of Louisa. for governor.
The doors of the private banking
house OF G.. \. Rice at Eureka. Utah,
were closed with liabilities Of $4,000.
James Mccullough. Will Lipps and a
teu-year-Old boy were killed by the eN-
I plosion of a thrashing engine boiler
near Hastings, Neb.
In all portions Of the country improve
meut in business was reported.
After passing the bill revising the
statutes Of the state the Firty-third
Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine
/ die
Vt Springfield. O.. the national en-
campment of the Union Veterans union
elected as commander in chief II. l..
Street. of New York
Heavy frosts did some damage 10
growing crops in Illinois. Indiana and
Michigan.
Near Lima. O., an excursion train was
wrecked and % persons were injured,
some seriously.
4 call was issued by the national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers for a conference of organized
labor in st. Louis August 50. The % ard
rejected the proposition of the Pitts
burgh operators for a conference TO ar
bitrate the wage dispute.
At Mount Pleasant. Mich, the Peo-
Piles Savings bank closed its doors with
| liabilities Of $4,000
In Niles. Mich. ars. ]. c. McCabe. OF
Coloma. was instantly killed and Mrs.
r. s. Bailey fatally injured in runa-
way accident.
II the home Of her mother in Nash
VILE. Tenn. J. B. Rich slot and killed
his wife. killed his brother-in-lsw and
then shot himself. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
4 mob took Elcany Sullivan. con-
victed Of asss ulting Sarah Lawson and
sentenced to 20 years in prison. from
jail a. William sburg. KY, and hanged
him.