River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-19
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homes by a rapid rise in the river
| EXECUTIONS took place as follows on the
/ 18th: Al Wsrs4w, y. T., Robert Van Brunt,
I for the murder OF " lliam Roy, October s.
! 1856; At Fergus Falls, MINI, Ne.s Olsen
4 Holoug, for the murder OF Lilly Field Nav
4 2s 1857. AMI Chillers Banks tcoIoredl at
/ Wallisyglle, Tex, for the murder OF Martha
/ henderson. June 10 last
A FIRE destroyed the California House
( and twenty other buildings a. Depere. Wis,
I on the 18th loss, $40 GOO
/ The Red river was on the rampage IN
/ Dakota on the 18Th At Wahpeton the
water was running through the main
I streets, while Brecknridge. just across the
{ river. was completely inundated. and great
T damage had been done at both places
IL railroad wreck on the l3.h near Bir-
mingham Ala. four persons were killed
and ten injured
On the 18Th forty houses al New London
/ Wis. were surrounded by water, owing 20
+ freshet in the Wolf river. and the country
/ roads were washed ont and other damag :
{ had been don.
! REPUBLICANS OF the Eleventh district Of
/ Ohio on tie l3r;i renominated A. c
Thompson for Congressman.
/ ATBoE DAY was generally observed N Hi
I nois on the 18Th At Springfield eight hun
+ ured trees were planted, Governor Oglesby
! ass sting, N az Normal the pupils Of tie
+ Soldiers Orphan Home planted 5 Xty trees.
The wife and hye-y ear-old daughter Of
Thomas Baker, living near Wellsville, o..
were burned TO death on the 18Th
I Two BOILERS used by the ARMS cad Lum-
F Der Company at Paiahatchee Miss. ex-
{ plOded on the 18th killing four men
+ Is the Ohio Legislature the bill for clos
.ng saloons ON sundays and taking from
municipal author ties the power to permit
f saloons TO le open ON that. day was passed
+ on Inc ban
/ JoHS BEoTHERs, farmer living n Ear Can
I ton. o was swindled ont Of -. 600 on the
( 18Th by bunco msn
CHARLES f. TETS OF Akron, o., quar-
relied with his wife over money matters ON
+ the Ii-h, and then ki led her with club.
/ after which be drowned himself
At Springfield. Ill tie twenty-third an
niyerssry OF the death OF Abraham Lincoln
was observed on the 1jth by exercises at
I the Genet terry which contains the Lincoln
monument
TROUBLED conscience caused August
/ Anderson to XII I himself on the 10Th in
SEeltyvilie, Ky, Nv shoe ing He murdered
. his wife and two children in Norway eight
years ego
SWIFT caps in Indi n1 had on the l4th
+ become very offic.Ous ag.i ia ne1r New Al
( bany, whipping hr-e men almost to death
Z ana w-Ining Others 10 leave the country.
{ MAD dogs at Baldwin. Kan. and in the
/ adjoining territory had on the lIth bitten
/ many cattle and horses. and two boys and
( one man who were also bitten had died of
/ hydrophobia
+ Is tire Crows Forl. district near Fulton,
/ No. fores. fres had destroyed six miles Of
valuable timber ON the 18th
+ NEAR Fremont. Wis. boom containing
/ Fl teen mill on feet of logs was carried
I away by a flood on the 10Th. and the logs
we're scattered over an area OF over two
/ miles square Fremont was inundated
/ he people being obliged to travel about in
[ boats
The death of Grandmother Price oc-
+ CURED 40 her home at Fillmore, Ind, on the
/ 14th, in the one hundredth year of her age.
/ BUKGLAts entered Phelps College at
/ Fairbaul', Mimi. early on the morning of
f the l6-n, chlOrofouned the students and
CARRIE. of about =. 900 worth OF watches,
I iswe'rv fn1 money
j At vi iona, MINI, the Mississippi river
/ WIS twelve feet above high-water mark on
/ the 10th and rising rapidly A large part
] Il the civ was under water, AMI very
+ heavy image " ould result
THE L egisla,ure of Ohio on the 10th adj
/ journed its regular session until January =
Z 1859
4 A TIRE on the 10th at Owensboro, KY, de-
/ s.royed h1'f n block in the business center
/ OF the town Loss, $50. 900
4 MHUE insane on the I6 D. A. Hoffman
: living near Jackson. Mo-. set his house on
/ fiIe, ami three of his children persisted in
4 the flames an himsalf and three other
/ children We're flta.ly burned
The LEGISLATURE Of Texas convened on the
/ rs h in special sc Is Ou to take action look
Z ing toward a reduct on OF the $40. OOO,-
( 600 surplus in the treasury
] Is the Seventh Congressional district Of
4 Georgia the Republicans on the 16,h nomi-
I mated Major Z 3 HarErove, Of Rome, for
Congress