River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-18

Fort Pierre railroad. but the paymaster
killed one and mortally wounded another.
TIE quarantine ~ Jackson Miss,
against yellow fever was raised on the
18th, stores were reopened and business
generally was resumed
PAULINE MCCoY (c0l0red), aged nineteen
years, was hanged on the 18th at onion
Springs Ala, for the murder Of Annie
Jordan, fourteen-year-old white child in
February last.
ANALOGOUS person put poison in the food
al the South Hotel in johnson City, Tenn,
on the 18th, and fourteen guests were poi
soned. three having died
Is the American Association the per.
centage OF the base ball clubs FOR the
week ended on the 18Th was as follows;
St Louis. .esl; Brooklyn, .624: Philadel
phia. GIG; Cincinnati. 600; Baltimore, 46l
Cleveland. $50. Louisville. $50. Kansas
City, .SI5 Western Association De
Aoines. 64s, Kansas City, .3I5; 81. Paul,
60. Omaha .567; Milwaukee. .4s5, Sioux
City, .s;S5: Chicago. -S53. Davenport, .295
OK the 18Th the National League base
bah season closed, the clubs coming out
Of tie contest in the following order:
New York, .64l per cent; Chicago, $40,
Philadelphia. so; Boston. SO; Detroit,
5l9; Pittsburgh, 49,, Indianapolis, $40;
Washington. $50
THE two thousand miners employed by
the Como a Coal and Mining Company at
Bocton, Ala, struck on the 18th against
reduction from fifty ID forty five cents per
ton.
OWING 10 a quarrel Scott Willard,
wealthy farmer living near l. ma, o., shot
and instantly xii ed his wife on the 18th.
ALLEN e. TRUMAN on the 18th gave TO
the press his letter accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for the Vice Presidency
The Chicago North SIDE street railway
employees strike came to an end on the 14th,
the men returning to work al an advance
of six per cent. in wages, and the new
meu 70 be given work on line by them
selves
The Kansas wheat crop this year was
N the 18th said 10 be 10, ~, 7l7 bushels;
corn crop, lCS, "a. 0S7 bushels.
Oh the 18th Bishop Weed reported that
there were three Thousand persons at Fer
nand.na. Fla, who were in extreme need,
among the number being nine hundred col
ored stevedcres cut of work
= LITTL- daughter of David Dumont Of
Bishopsville, = G., tripped on "A rug on the
18th and fell against a trundle- bed, break
ing her neck. Upon witnessing the child's
death her fifteen -year-old sister was pros
trated md died OF the shock
The Democrats renominated Congress.
man J. l. Chapman on the 18th in the First
Michigan district. In the Seventh Texas
district the Republicans nominated C. J.
Brewster for Congress.
Ok the 18th strikers and hoodlums on
the North side in Chicago attacked the
new drivers and conductors on the Gar.
field avenue cars and several OF the men
were severely injured. One STRIKER had
his wrist bro ken and another was shot in
the foot.
OK the 18th Judge Sawyer, of San
Francisco, decided that the Chinese Ex
clusiou act is constitutional and that it ap-
plies 20 To ose now in port on board ships
10 those on the way from China and &c
those still in China. This decision affects
about irty-three thousand Chinese
y COMPANY was Incorporated on the l5tt
to publish newspaper in the IcelandiC
language al PemOina, CIT in the extreme
northern part of Dakota which has large
Icelandic population.
JoHS CuAFFEF. one of the largest cotton
planters in the United States, died on the
18th at New Orleans, aged seventy eight
years
JoHS NJ. BARRETT. for some years an
editorial writer en- the San Francisco Er-
0tR0,rI. and "a veteran journalist, died on
the 18th at ST. Paul. Mimi
JOSEPH JOINER tcoloredl VS. lynched
at Hulto. Tex, on the 18th for an attempt
eli assault upon u twelve ear-old white
girl