River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-12

A BOAT capslzed on the 5th on Lake Jo-
hanna, Mimi, Harry Tucker, night clerk
at the Ryan Hotel in St Paul, his father,
aged sixty-fOur years and Mrs. Stephen
Dysinger were drowned.
FIRE on the 5th in the business portion
Of Marysville, Cal, caused fire of 500, 900.
OK the 9Th Mrs. William Elwell, aged
sixty five years, and her son, about forty
years old, were killed by train near Liv-
erpool, %.
JUDGE A. NJ. PUILIAM. in his Office in the
court house at Hardinsburg. KY, shot and
killed James Miller, a wealthy farmer, on
the 9Th Cause unknown
SONE one placed number of planks on
the track of the Elgin, Joliet & Eaton
railroad near Plainfield, Ill, on the 9th,
and work train struck the obstruction,
killing three Italians.
Az express package containing 81. 900,
sent from Bolton, Kan, to Little Hooking,
W. Va, was found on its arrival on the 9th
10 contain nothing but pieces of paper.
GEORGE DoBBs' farmhouse near Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, was burned early on the
morning of the 9th, and George Dobbs,
aged seventy-two years; David Merrifield,
aged twenty-one years; Alice Thompson,
aged nine years, and another child per
ished in the flames.
The brewers strike at Cincinnati, which
was begun April IL, was declared on on
the 9Th.
Five men were found dead in the Kin
uishi mountains. Ind. T on the 9th. They
were probably killed by Indians.
Ex-GOvERNoR HoUsER, of Helena, NJ. T.,
says that this year the Territory would
produce gold, silver and copper to the value
of $4,000, 600
OK the 9th William Landreth was hanged
at Dallas, Ore, for the murder of his step
daughter. Simmie Ellis Antle, and Gus
Bogles, bootblack. was executed for the
murder Of William Morgan at Fort Smith,
aT.s.
For the week ended on the 9TH the rec
ord of ball clubs in the National League
was as follows: Chicago (games won), IS;
Detroit, IS; New York "a Boston, "a; Phil
adelphia, %; indianapolis, 2l Pittsburgh,
10; Washington, ~ The American AssO-
citation clubs stood Brooklyn games
won, q; St Louis, 50; Philadelphia, 80;
Cincinnati, 35; Baltimore, "a; Cleveland,
20; Louisville, 20; Kansas City, Is. In the
Western Association the following was
the order: st. Paul (games won, 81; Des
Moines %; Kansas City, %; Omaha, 81;
Chicago, -; Milwaukee, 81; Sioux City,
2; Minneapolis, IL
j. r. BoLCH, of Fairfield, s. C., after
seven days of terrible suffering, died on
the 9TH from hydrophobia caused by the
bite of a cat.
A HAIL and rain-storm on the 9Th de
stroyed nearly all the crops in Sharp and
Independence counties, Ark.
RAIN STORM in the vicinity of Wabash,
Ind, on the 9TH raised streams, and many
bridges were swept away. On the Cincin
natl & Wabash road the track for six
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ingtOn the damage TO crops was great.
On the sth David Clark and his wife were
found hanging in a corn-crib on A. Cages
farm near Sandwich, Ill. They left a
paper signed by each saying that they died
for each other.
EXCESSIVE heat on the 9TH caused the
death of Margaret Kelly, aged one hun
dred years and six months, at her brothers
house in Omaha, Neb
On the 9TH II. B. Parrish, of Louisville,
XIV, once worth 500, 900, committed suicide
because he could not pay five-dollar debt.
FIVE men were shot on the 9TH at Rising
Sun, Tenn, as the result of feud, two be
ing killed instantly and the other mortally
wounded.
The first trial under the Prohibition law
at Alliance, o., on the 9th resulted in a
conviction and the closing of the last sa
loon.
on the 9th three bootblacks crawled
under a box-car at Canton, o., to escape
the rain, and were run down by switch
engine and killed.
OK the 9th Henry W. Moore, the St
Louis editor, who recently fled with the
wife of John w. Merton, was arrested al
Topeka, Kan, on q warrant charging hin
with stealing SIS, 900 in money and about
$500 worth of diamonds.
A BAND of seventeen moonshiners was
captured by revenue officers in the Cumber
land river counties on the 9th near Nash
vile. Tenn.
A STORM visited Kansas City on the 9th
and several streets were flooded, the dam
age amounting to $4,000. 1t was reported
that family of four were washed away
and drowned.
IL the Marion 0nd.) district heavy rain
falls on the 9th damaged wheat and oats
TO a serious extent.
IL Central Illinois rain had on the 9th
damaged the oat crop so that IL would
scarcely pay for cutting. In Douglas Coun.
" twenty thousand acres of corn were
submerUed