River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-08-05
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ON Wednesday Of last week. the body ct
Charles W. Hinkley, an old and esteemed
resident was found IN the harbor at Oswego.
The sad intelligence threw his daughter Mary
T. Hinckcy, aged nineteen, Into commissions
and she died on the following day, it il be-
heyed, OF broken heart.
Tim mortality report Of the Board Of Health
Of 81. Louis for the week ending Saturday
evening shows the total deaths TO be 253
decrease from previous week. 80. Deaths from
cholera q increase 7. Cholera morbus 81
decrease, 81
lN New York, on Saturday night, TIE dry |
goods store of j. j. Simpson a Co., Gl9 and
62l Eighth avenue, was destroyed by fire. |
Loss on stock and building $4,000 insur-
ance, $4,000
On the night Of July 18th man named |
Hall, living on the plantation Of Thos Reed,
in Madison county, Tennessee, was taken out
of bis bed by mob Of fifteen negroes dis
gused as ku-klux, aud hung TO a tree. They
charged him with having outraged an old
negro woman living IA the ncighborhood.
Hall was from East Tennessee and the ne
groes say he boosted OF having been BUSH
whacker during the var
EARLY Sunday morning engineer Conway,
OF the Baltimore aud Ohio Railway, lost CON
troll Of his engine ON down grade two miles
east Of Element and forty. five west Of Bait.
more, when the engine ran away, aud while
running over forty miles an hour, struck the
rear Of freight tram, demolishiug twenty
cars loaded with corn, cotton and tobacco
H"m the west, scattering tho contents ali over
the track Engineer Conway, aud two men.
named MARITIME aud Elliott, droyers from Bar
bour and Harrison counties. West Virginia
were killed. T. Burke, the conductor. and e.
Cooney, brakeman, both OF Piedmont. and
droyer named Reynolds, were badly injured.
A TELEGRAM from Bangor, Me-. states that
on Saturday evening two spans Of the bridge
ON the European and North American Road
between Old Town and Milford, three hun.
dred feet long, were blown completely away
by a tornado which swept over that section
Of the state. An engine and tender, with five
men, which was crossing from Old Town.
plunged into the river. The engineer, Geo
Mcclellan, was drowned. The others escaped.
Az old man named Peter Kister and his two
sons, George aud August, were arrested on
Saturday, charged with stealing mnls in Cali
away county Missouri. Their huuso, situated
twelve miles in tho country, was searched,
aud a large quantity 81 jenal,s. consisting Of
watches and chains, earrings, breastpius,
bracelets, rings and general assortment 81
jewelfy, together with burglars tools, were
found
TnE inst car load Of new Illinois spring
.ti,a n -
the Illinois Central Railroad.
80 ,0o0 FIRE ia raiut and Oh warehouse
occurred At Toledo on Tuesday
aioRms ROCHELLE drank punt Of whisky at
Antwerp, OHIO aud died
FuRTHRR adyices from Louisiana. Mo. say
the cholera has abaied. but some thirty pr.
sons have died with il since It 6rst broke out.
including some Of the most prominent citizons
In Prlireyille aud Troy, Mo-, the scourge
ragged fearfully, the towns being depopulated
by tho disease ~ the people fleeing from their
homes. 0ut ct one family Of niue persons ia
the former place, aIl Of whom were wrli last
Friday onls two remain 10 bury the dead.
The disease also prevails IN other towns near
by
DEATHS ~ Chicago, last week. 1873 ~ m
crease Of l07 over thu proceed ing week.
Two Young men named titzhugh were
t""ued Monday while swimming, at Aul- |
Werp uhlo.
Two brothers named Canoyurs we're drowned
at Long Braneh ou Saturday.
BtNj kAuuuN, whose lotgtrl,- IN New /
York stat, made hun 80 notorious 10 years
ago died IN New York city, On Monday aged
eightytwo
lhh funded audho nied debt Of the Dnstu !
OF Columbia, including tbose 1T the late cor /
porauons, amounts 10 81. 33G.s9l.
CHoLEKA deaths al Cincinnati. Mopd,,
three. The disease Is spreading threu.b M
interior a Indiana.
mcmahon, of Rutland. won he ,ptsrn,.
uonal wrestling match With Copeland. IT can.
ia, on Tuesday.
NORWEGIAN named osmord vas run over
by train near Madison. Ni-.. aud 1u.d
while sleeping on a railroad track IA an iptnx,.
Gated condition
The Texas cattle fever, which broke out m
Davies county, IN the northern portion al
Missouri i spreading. A kdder, On the
Hannibal aud 81. Joseph Railroad. IA Caldwell
h'NA''t W. WV HNHttltN NtdU ui UNflAN cat
tie have diedin thu past week There i great
excitement aud much indignation t,lt against
the importers 1T Texas cattle who have
violated tho Law by bringing them IN during
the spring and summer months.
rhE Kansas lrottor Smnsglrr, after being
enc year 10 training, has made 4 rsllc IN
210a.
Tut first ca 81 ~ wheat VAS shipped from
San Francisco last week
Caplf lsRAEL ", prNNis was drowned A
West Point, TUESDAY, while ~ bathing. peu-
mis- represented the Fifteenth Con r,ssiunal
District Of Illinois.
DIFFICULTY occurred ON Monday evening
at Concord, Nv, between T.. W. Stfvnlrtt aud
VIM. King, contractors on the Kentucky aud
Great Eastern Railroad. Slnrnleu fired two
or three times, whon King turned and fired.
instantly killing Striculett.
AS explosion and fire IN a tlistillery al Clp,e.
land, Thursday blew two men into The street.
and burned $40, 900 worth ofwinesand liquors
OsE Of the survivors Of the wrecked steam.
or Atlantic has brought suit against the own