River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-12

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bachelors life
AT Louisa CouF,-House, Va, FIRE on the
9th destroyed twenty houses and several
business blocks
Mrs LAURA ROBERTS. aged eighty years,
living at Lima, o., slipped ON banana
! peeing on the sidewalk on the 9th, and in
falling broke her neck
DR. REILLY. of Detroit, treasurer, during
the six months ended on the 9Th received
| from various Irish National League branch
es throughout the country and other sources
an aggregate of 1929, las for the benefit OF
the league in Ireland
Oh the 9th typhoid fever epidemic was
raging in the penitentiary at JacksC n,
Mich, with thirty-seven eases
The house OF Aunt Kitty Pendergast,
/ over ninety years of age. was destroyed by
/ fire on the 9th in Dubuque. Ia, and she
l persisted in the flames
At Oakland, Ca, Nathan b. Sutton was
I hanged on the 9Th for the murder of Alex
ander MARITIME, a ranchman, in September,
/ 1856
| FIRE destroyed the Union railway depot
/ al Atchison, Kan, on the 9th Loss, Sl25,-
/ 600: insurance. 500. 900
II Northern Michigan snow fell to the
depth of TWO feet on level on the 9TH.
I THE spirit thermometer registered 90 de-
4 grees below zero az Belgrade, NJ T.. on the
/ 9Th
Z Ok the Sth Harry l. Edwards New Or
I leans lawyer shot and fatally wounded DIR.
I l. l. Eudk endall and then turned upon his
wife and shot her through the right lung
/ niiicting fatal wound jealousy was the
cause
THOMAS murray shot and killed his wife
Z er- EsFIa IA ha
shot himself dead Domestic trouble was
the cause
/ NEAR OJtumwa, Ia, an unsuccessful at
Z tempt was made on the 9TH to rob the ex-
I press ear OF the west-bOund train on the
I Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
THE thermometer showed 30 below zero
at Huron, D. T., on the 7th and there was
[ two feet OF snow on the ground
AT Lima, o. Samuel Bowman and wife were
I fatally burned on The Sth by an explosion
/ of a eoal-oil can which Bowman had placed
[ On a stove 10 heat
4 MARY You've (colOredl, of Knoxville.
/ Tenn, died on the 9Th at the age of l24
I years. She was born at Fairfax Va, and
I lived there most of her life as a slave.
TIE Detroit Omnibus Company's stables,
/ together with twenty-five horses, we've
/ burned on the Sth.
I OK the 9TH the Toledo tOl Insane Asylum,
/ the largest in the world, was formally
I opened
/ On the 9th freight train ran into the
rear end OF a Union Pacific passenger train
at Edison, wv. T., killing two persons and
Z seriously injuring eleven others
The Legislature of Iowa met in twenty
! second general assembly ON the 9th at Des
M0ines
Is the Ohio Legislature a b. as in
4
AZ two cents per mile on all railroads in the
Safe.
FIRE destroyed the courthouse at
Grantsburg, Wis. on the 9th. and many of
! the records We're burned
The deathOf James S Rollins, an ex-
member OF Congress, occurred ON the 9th
at his home in Columbia, Mo, aged seventy
nine years
GOVERNOR FORAKER was inaugurated on
the 9th at Columbus, O., IN the presence of
I "A large assemblage.
( GENERAL WAsHTNGToN SEAwELI. of San
/ Francisco, died on the 9th. aged eighty-six
years lie served IN the army nearly half a
/ century, and at the time of his death was
the second oldest General on the retired
/ list
The Utah Legislature convened on the
4 Och az Salt Lake City. There are three Gen
/ tiles and twenty-one Mormons in the lower
/ house and two Gentle and ten Mormons in
+ the upper house.
/ OK the 9th John Arensdorf, the acquitted
chief defendant in the famous Haddock
/ murder case, left Sioux City, Ia, to become
\ a resident OF Milwaukee, Wis
! AT Lima, O., Henry Brown and wife were
I asphyxiated on the 9th by natural gas.
/ THREE men named Yolz Miller and Lewis
We're drowned by the capsizing OF a boat on
I the oh near Mobile, Ala
! FIRE destroyed the Vicksburg (lliss) Com
/ Dierci4l- Herald building ON the 9TH, causing
J q heavy loss.