River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

.442; Washington, 1857; Cleveland. .165.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The next meeting of the information
al Typographical union will be held in
Milwaukee, Wis.
1t is announced that the first national
convention of the Young Peoples Chris
tan Temperance union is called to meet
in Chicago September 81 and %. This
claims to be the first temperance organ
ization to Systematically unite the
ability of women and the voting power
of men. Rates of fare and a third have
been granted from nearly all parts of
the country.
In convention at Lexington, Ky, the
anti-Goebel faction of the Kentucky
democracy placed a full state ticket in
the field headed by John Young
Brown for governor. Resolutions
adopted declare the Louisville nominees
not the nominees of the democratic
party. They indorse the principles and
platform of the Chicago convention in
1896 and Bryan for president in 1900.
The Iowa democrats held their state
convention in Des Moines and nom
mated the following ticket: For gov
ernor, Fred L. White, of Keokuk; lieu
tenant governor, NJ. L. Bevis, Mont
gomery county; judge of supreme
court, A. Van Wagenen, Woodbury.
county; railway commissioner, w. IL.
Calhoun, Marshall county; superin-
tendent of public instruction. b. r.
Hoist, Boone county. The populist
state convention also met and indorsed
the above ticket. The platform in
dorses the Chicago platform in its en-
tirety, denounces the Philippine war
and opposes trusts.
Near Washington, Ind, six persons
were drowned in White river. They
were Mrs. Albert Heimsel, her four
children, Able. aged 16; Andy, aged ii;
Thomas, aged ten, and Nellie, aged one,
and Miss Amy Dillon, aged IS. The
wagon in which they were seated was
being driven onto a ferryboat, but over
water.
At ar elevator in Beatrice, Neb.,
Frank Bangs fell into a corn shelter
and was torn to pieces.
John Davis and Stezer Toney were
killed by an explosion of dynamite in a
storeroom of the Cumberland Electric
Light and Power company at Nash
Vile, Tenn.
The governors of Iowa and Missouri
have issued proclamations calling
upon the people of their states to con-
tribute money and clothing to the suf-
fering people in Porto Rico from the
recent hurricanes.
In Chicago Richard Prendergast,
former judge of the county court, eX-
trustee of the sanitary district and an
eminent member of the bar, died at the
Chicago hospital.
At Kansas City, Mo-, contracts have
been closed for the sale to a syndicate
of eastern commission merchants of 20
car loads of eggs now in store at To-
peka, Abilene and Concordia. Kan. The
eggs are to be shipped by three special
trains next week. The deal is estimated
to cover 10,0S0,00O eggs.
Near Sandusky, o., David Ewing was
fatally injured by hogs. He was taken
with a stroke of paralysis, and before
help could reach him the hogs had al
most devoufed him.
The Brewers association of Milwau-
kee. Wis. will contribute $1,000 to the
Dewey home fund.
Fire of an incendiary origin de-
stroyed an entire block in the heart OF
Sidney, Ncb.
The Oldest man in northern Illinois,
Cornelius Sullivan, died in Belviderei
aged i01 years.
Thomas Emboden and Robert Cren-
shaw, two young farmers near Provi-
dence, KY, shot each other fatally in a
fight.
\ mob at Fulton, Ky, hanged SQUAD
Bolin. a negro charged with robbery
and attempted murder.
Rain and wind did great damage to
property in DEBORAH, Ia. and vicinity.
Orders were given the Twenty-sev-
enth. Thirty-first and Thirty-fourth
volunteer regiments of infantry TO pro-
coed to Manila.
In Florida a combination of all the
principal fish dealers, with the excep
tinii Ot tifIESs HdS Ottit it4AA6Q-
At state expense the First Nebraska
volunteers, who reached San Francisco
from Manila three weeks ago, will be
taken home on a special train.
Two large tracts of land near Homo
lulu have been set aside by the war de-
partment as military reservations.
A call has been issued by the Inter
state Good Roads association for a
series of conventions TO be held during
September and October in Illinois,
/ Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
At Dawson two Indians and white
man were hanged for murder. 1t was
the first legal execution in the Klon-
dixie.
| Because or family trouble Mrs. Jen-
ME Weston drowned herself and her
fomsyear-old son in cistern at Pierre.
S, D.