River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05
WEST AND 6OuTH.

WILLIAM MOORE tcolOred) was taken
from the Jail at Charleston, Ill, on the 26th
by mob and hanged for an indecent as
sault on Mary A. Bingardina, a weak
minded girl of sixteen years
MANY houses were wrecked by wind
storm in Southwest Georgia on the 9th
Miles Of fences were blown down.
AT Syracuse, Kan, Wallace Mitchell
was hung to a telegraph pole on the 21th by
an angry crowd for having killed Oscar
johnson, a lad Of thirteen years.
REFUBIICANs Of the Twentieth Illinois
district nominated George ". Smith for
Congress on the 21th.
OS the 95th four men were killed and six
injured by train falling through bridge
near Tensas. Ala.
IL Central Illinois, near Tuscola, ten
thousand acres Of growing corn were
flooded by the heavy rain of the 21th, and
part Of that city was submerged, fifteen
families being compelled 10 move
FIRE destroyed the Mexican Central
freight depot in Paso del Norte, Tex, on
the 25th. and also about seventy loaded
freight cars. Loss, S2Oo,OO0.
CHARLES DEckLER, aged fifty five years,
a farmer. living at Buena Vista, ILL.,, shot
his wife dead on the 27th and then killed
himself Family troubles were the cause
Nine children were left orphans.
MIC hlasAE 7 tuhiHlAlUhA0AN lltt III t9AaNN
convention at Detroit on the eth and NOM
mated the following ticket: For Governor.
A. r. Cheney, Lieutenant Governor. Stew
art b. Williams. Secretary Of state, Peter
NJ HaCel. Treasurer Alfred Wise, At
tOrney General. LemUel Clute; Auditor
General. H. 4 Waterman The resolutions
adopted indorse the platform and the can
didates placed in nomination by the Indian
apolis convention
MARIoS STEWART shot and killed his wife
and his brother John in a quarrel over a
game Of cards on the 2sih at Harlan, Ky.
OK the 2Sth the new home for Confeder-
ate soldiers at Baltimore was opened.
Ok the 2Sth Thomas b. Lincoln. 'the only
man tried for treason during the rebellion,
died a; EIkton. Md, aged seventy five years.
Ar Columbus, O. on the 18th Alien G..
Thurman was officially notified of his nom
ination for the office Of Vice President by
the ID mOcratic party.
4 scAFFoIpISG fell on the 3Sth on new
building az Kansas City, Mo, killing three
bricklayers
IL the town Of Freedom, IL. Louisa
Gamback aged eighteen years. and Louisa
D-emer. aged sixteen years. were drowned
on the 18th while attempting to ford a
swollen stream.
TIE official canvass Of the vote Of Oregon
al the recent election was completed on
the 18th. and gives the official vote on Con
gresham a. follows. Hermann tRepl. b
S9o. John NJ Gearin DEM. .. 4iS. George
NJ Miller pro-, 1874 Hermann's plu-
rality. 5.4O7
MICHIGAN Republicans will meet in State
convention at Detroit August and9
ON the 2Sth Chubb Mccarthy, the muir
derer Of Michael Dorsey, was taken from
iail BY a mob az Minneapolis. Kan, and
hanged. This made four lynchings IN Kan
sas in twenty four hours.
THERE were four indictments returned
on the 18th al Frankfort. Ky, against
James " Tate. late state Treasurer, for
euihe Element. the total amount set out
being StNt. 0SS -
Two MEX killed and six others seriously
injured was the result Of riot on the 18th
between members Of the Mormon congrega-
ton al Bowman Ridge. ". Va.
IL the san Pedro n. NJ region miners
were iubilant On the 18th over the discOv-
cry Of ore which ran Sis 70 the ton in clear
silver
THE explosion Of a boiler on the 2Sth in a
mill near Vandalia. H., killef Samuel
King and Daniel Logue.
CoNcKFssroSAL nominations were made
as follows on the 18th: Minnesota. Third
district. D. ). Hall Rep; Indiana. Elev-
enth district A n Martin DEM, fhir-
teenth. B. F. ShiveIy DEM Kansas,
Second district, John Burri DEM; Ar
kansas, First district. W. H. Cate Dem
Illinois. Seventeenth district, Rev. j. l.
Dou.hit Pro-.
Iowa Republicans viii hold their State
convention =; DeS MONIES August -
TaIKTy years ago Daniel Mssser aissp-