River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

The burial of John H. Gear, United
States senator from Iowa, took place
in Aspen Grove cemetery at Burling-
ton. his home city.
Andrew. John and Charles Noting
ham, three brothers, living near Glen
wood. w. Va. were drowned while
bathing.
At Southwest City. Mo-. George Fish
er, who shot and killed Sheriff Garrett,
was riddled with bullets while resisting
arrest.
BY cloudburst at Long Run. o.,
Mrs. John Lingo and her son and Mary
Berhock were killed.
The North Dakota democrats have
nominated NJ. \. Wippoimann. of Rich
land, for governor.
The president has returned to Can
ton. o. from Washington.
The Kentucky democrats have nom
mated j. w Beckham. the present in
cumbent, for governor.
At Chatfield. o.. lightning struck
church during a funeral and one per-
son was killed and % seriously hurt.
The commander of the department
of the lakes. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, has
asked the war department to assign
him to duty in China.
President Mckinley has appointed
Gen. George Maginnis postmaster of
indianapolis, Ind.
The death of Sydney Edgerton. aged
50 years. occurred in Akron, 0. He was
the first justice Of the supreme court of
Idaho and the first governor of Mon
tana.
The Florida republicans have nom
mated j. ~ Combs. of Franklin coun-
~. for governor.
In fire in the stables of the Garden
City box factory in Chicago Is horses
were cremated.
Democrats of the Eleventh Illinois
district have nominated E. \. Holly for
congress.
In Cuba elections will be held Sep
TENDER IS to elect delegates to con
vention TO form constitution for an
Independent government.
In Nebraska the middle of the road
populists nominated a ticket headed
by Taylor FlecE. of Custer county,
for governor, and Endorsed Wharton
for president.
Bessie Anthony. of Evanston. H.,
won the woman golf championship of
the west.
1t is announced that the American
Steel and Wire company intends to
treble it's plant in Cleveland. o.
At Marshall Mich. and vicinity
snow fell.
In Burlington, la. s. p. Dahlman
confessed to killing his wife three
years ago in st. Louis.
All employees of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad have been prohibited
from holding any political Office or
taking part in the coming campaign.
Fire destroyed Castle Crag tavern,
fashionable summer resort i'm Shasta
county, Cal, causing a loss of 100000.
In Chicago John G. WoolIey was for
mally notified of his nomination for
the presidency by the national prohi-
bition party. Samuel Dickie making
the speech. to which Mr.. Woolley re
sponded.
The last surviving member of the
confederate congress, Judge Robert
Pleasant Trippe. died in Atlanta. Ga.
Rains are said TO have been worth
slo,0Co,OO0 to the growing crops in Ne
braska.
In Cincinnati Lucinda TAYLOR (col-
ored). aged no years. ex-slave. was
sent TO the iBfirmary.
At Mansfield, o.. crowd seized
Elder Fockler. a disciple of Dowie,
The Iowa republicans will hold their
state convention in Des Moines on
August /.
Cora and Ruby Townsend and Pearl
Flack. three young women, were
drowned near Hamburg. Tenn.
At Mineral Ridge. O.. n street ear
jumped the track. and 20 persons were
injured
At Evansville. Ind, Herman Strasser.
aged IS wears, a railroad man. shot and
killed his divorced wife and then killed
himself
an appeal issued by the American
Federation Of Labor urges the unions
throughout the country to organize
under one head.
William Wilson and Charles Kuhn
and the two horses they were driving
were Killed by train at crossing in
Tifiu. o.
David Brown. a hostler at Newtown.
o.. killed Mark Robinson and Frank
Murphy. An old family quarrel was