River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-26
their REVEALS there. and burned them in

their reviyals there. and burned them In
the stove
Four masked men attempted on the 10Th
to rob an express train on the Wabash rail-
road, east OF Knnsas City. but were foiled by
officers who had received notice Of the in
tended attempt
WISCONSIN Prohibitionists will hold their
State convention at Madison May %
II Dakota. Minnesota. Nebraska and Iowa
another great storm was raging on the
19gh, with the mercury far below zero
Or the 10th near Little Rock, Ark, two
farmers by the name OF Baker and Hit
quarreled while dividing their land be-
tween a son and daughter of each. who
were about to be married and stabbed each
other fatally with bowie-knives
AN epidemic of menng It's was on the
ooh depopulating Asheville. n. c., at the
rate OF a dozen deaths day, all attempts
to check it proving futile Many inhabit-
ants were leaving town.
strong resolutions were adopted by both
branches of the Ohio Legislature ON the
ooh condemning the FIRE trade views of
President Cleveland.
The corn crop of 1887 in Illinois was the
smallest since 1868, the total being l29,-
600. 900 bushels.
GOLD of high grade and paying quanti-
ties was found ON the 10th near Omaha,
Neb
In the Michigan woods deep snow has in
terfered with numbering operations. and
many mills had shut down on the Goth
PAPER in St Paul stated on the 10th
that 235 persons persisted in the recent
blizzard.
was felt on the 2lst
OVER two thousand people were present
at the reception tender ed to General FIRE.
mont at Los Angeles, Cal. on the 2lst, on
the occs S on of his seventy-fifth birthday.
liz Wisconsin spirit thermometers ON the
21st regist red 6S degrees below zero at
Chippewa Fails, SO below at GAINESVILLE, 50
at Hudson, 81 ut hartford, 53 at Princeton,
80 at Sparta, 81 at Green Lake, and ex-
IRENE cold was reported in other portions
of the State In the northern portions OF
Michigan it was 40 degrees below, and in
Iowa from 80 to 40 degrees below zero In
Minnesota and Dakota from 40 to % below
was also reported
IN livery stable at Clyde, Kan, John
Brownles was burned to death on the 2lst
and nineteen horses and two cows also per-
ished
FoUR raftsmen were drowned on the 21st
in The French Broad river. near Knoxville.
Tenn.
The death of Mrs Eliza b. Garfield
mother of the assassinated President. oc-
Cured at i've O'Clock on the morning of the
21st at the family homestead in Mentor,
near Cleveland o. She was born in Rich
mond. Chester County, ~ IL, September
%, 1901, and was therefore eighty-six
years. three months and twenty-six days
old She had been a widow for tifty-tive
years She was the first mother to witness
the Inauguration of a son as President
In Western Nebraska coal famine ex-
listed on the 21st. and coal trains on the
Union Pacific were being stopped and
robbed
BREWER ARENsDoRF, who was twice tried
at Sioux City, Ia, for the Haddock murder
spent fortune. His defense cost him over
SI75. 600, and he is nov reduced TO trav-
cling for a Milwaukee colcern
An Apache Indian at San Carlos, A. T.,
got drunk on the 2Ist, killed his wife and
child, and was shot by a sergeant OF the
guard
NELSON BARNABY's clearinghouse at
Tower, Mimi, was burned on the 2lst and
ten persons persisted in the flames
The Iowa State Prohibition convention
will he held in Des Moines February 8.
Mrs. ELIZA BALLoU GARFIELD's funeral
took place at Mentor. O., on The 23d, the re-
iAaAho bcAhE p'1S1O ucSAAc SAOso VI AAN'A-
dent Garfield in the vault at Lake View
Cemetery. Cleveland
WILLIAM G. PORTER, aged ono hundred
and i've years, died &C A.s home IN Litchs
field. Ill. on the 23d
GOVERNOR MARTIN. of Kansas, authorized
the statement on the 23d that great distress
! prevail ed in the extreme southwestern
part of he State owing to the failure OF
the crops last year and the rigOr of the
winter
JOHN T. ALIEN, ex-Treasurer of Texas,
died at Austin on the Odd, aged eighty
years He bequeathed $500, 900 to the city
for an industrial school for boys