River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-03

s C., was burned early on the morning OF
the 26th, and four of Stromans' children.
two boys and two girls, persisted in the
flames
Iowa Prohibitionists met at Des Moines on
the 26th and made the following nomina-
tons: For Secretary of state, james Nick
elwait; Tr asurer, Rev X II. Dolliver; Au,
ditor. Malcolm Smith; Clerk of the Supreme
Court Z O Sharpe The resolutions de-
clare for total constitutional prohibition.
both State and National, and woman suf-
frage.
o. the 26th the City Council of Delphos
Kan, passed an ordinance closing all bill
lard and pool-rooms This was a direct re-
suit OF the woman's suffrage movement
While the officials OF the Bank of Amigo
Wis, were az dinner on the 26th burglars
entered the bank and took SO, 900 from tho
safe
A GASOLINE explosion at Topeka. Kan, on
the 9Th killed Annie Evans and a six-year-
old daughter of james Mclaughlin.
OK the Burlington 4 Missouri road pas
senger train went through bridge on the
27th at Alma. Neh, killing two persons and
iniurlng seven others The mail and ex
press cars with their contents, were
burned.
At school exhibition on the 27th in
Runsy;vania, O., the floor OF the hall gave
wsy, killing four persons and injuring
many others
Is the SIX h-Ilinois district the Republic
ans on ths 9th renominated Robert r Hit
for Congressman.
OK the 9th executions took place as fol-
lows: Jack Crow, George Moss aud Owen
d. HIll Tall coloredl at Fort Smith, Ark, for
crimes committed in the Indian Tertlrory;
John d. Biscoe tcolorod) at Leonardtown,
Md, for the murder OF Captain r p Divon;
Jack Prater lcolored) at Columbia, s c.. for
killing Andrew Jackson, and Jasper Davis
ct Columbia. s c. for numbering his wife
HENRY KLEEscHULTE. living near o'Fallon,
No. killed his wife on the 9th, from
whom he had been separated for two years
injured one OF his young sons fatally and
another seriously, and then killed himself
AFARAiEB nauIed Arch Stolt committed
suicide near Richmond, Ky. ON the 9th by
taking rough on rats," and his brother
William, seeing the corpse, took the re-
mainder OF the poison aud died in a short
time
BY the upsetting OF a boat George Newly,
Mary Wilson and her sister Emily were
drowned on the 9th near salt Lake City
A CYCLONE on the 2Sth at Millbrook, Kan. =,
destroyed tive houses and three barns No
one was killed.
of Minnesota and Dakota on the 2Sth.
Ok the 29th tbs worst flood ever known
in Northern Texas was sweeping over that
country from thu Red river, and more than
one hundred miles of the Sante Fe railroad
were under water.
NEAR Des Aoines, Ia, q nine-year-o
child was attecked by ferocious dog on
the 2sth and literally devoured alive.
EARTHQUAKE shocks wer felt on the 2Sth
at Biggs and Stockton, Cal
On the 2Sth Governor Gray, OF Indiana
pardoned Mrs Ann LongneclEer, the first
and oldest inmate of the Women's Reform
atory. who was sentenced in Nav, 1868, to
life imprisonment fof the murder of her
husband in indianapolis.
PAYMENT was suspended on the 2Sth by
the South End Bank at Columbus, o. owing
20 oyerdrafts made by former cashier
amounting to $4,000
GEORGE L ADAMS YVES renominated for
Congress on the 2Sth by the Republican,
of the Fourth district of Illinois
A FIRB destroyed the offices Of the Daily
Lender and omeSteGd at Des Moines, Ia, on
the Both ult., causing loss of S44 coo, with
insurance OF SD, 500 Many persons had mar
row escapes.
Coon sleighing was reported on the 30th
ult al Sioux Falls, D. T.
The Cincinnati boss coopers on the Goth
ult declared lock out against all employees
who had sustained the Coopers' Union in
its boycott of beer made by non union brew
cries.
OK the S0th ult. the steamer Queen of the
Pacific, valued at $4,000, sank of Port
Hartford, Cal. All the passengers were
saved
AT Eau Claire, Wis, the flood had on the
30th ult. driven nearly two hundred fam
lies from their homes. and - Porterville
the Inhabitants were camped "a sheds and
warehouses. The losses would be heavy
a BOILER exp'odcj IN mill at Nashville,
Ind. on the 30th ult. killing two men aud
fatally injuring two others.
THE Arkansas Union Labor party met in
Little Rock on the Both ult. and nominated
c. NJ Norwood for Governor and a full
State ticket.
A SEVERE snow storm prevailed at Che
boygan, Mich, on the 30th ult.
Il the Seventeenth district OF Illinois
the Republicans on the Both ult. nominated
John J. Brown for Congress.