River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-05
WEST AND SOuTH.

The death OF John : Marmaduke, Gov
ernor Of Missouri, occurred on the evening
OF the 2sth at jefferson City from pneu-
monia. at the age OF ifty-fOur years
THE failure OF G. W. Meade & Co, of San
Francisco. one of the largest exporting
firms on the Pacific coast occurred on the
2Sth
At saltwater. Mimi, fourteen horses en-
gagged IN scraping ice on the Eau Claire
river broke through the ice on the 2Sth and
We're drowned
TWELVE stores at BOzeman, NJ T.. were
destroyed by fire on the 2Sth
A FIRE in the Enterprise rice mill at New
Orleans caused a loss on the 2Sth of $780,
600
Ok the Toledo. Ann ArbOr & North Mich
igan road a passenger car was upset at
Alma, Mich, by a bad frog ON the 18th,
AMI six persons were fatally injured
TIE Battle Creek Michj Adventists. fully
persuaded that the end of the world If
close at hand. were discarding jewelry and
max ny other preparation on the 2Sth
o. account OF low water in the Ohio
river Louisville and other towns were suf-
fering ON the 18th from lack OF coal, ano
the price had risen one hundred per cent
KANSAS Prohibitionists met at Topeka on
the 2SLh and elected delegates to the Ma
tiOn8l convention.
Ok the 2~th the Thermometer ranged
from 70 I , degrees below zero in Iowa,
from to 10 below in Illinois, from 2 tC
10 below i'm Wisconsin. from 10 20 - be
low in Nebraska, from TO Is below in
Kansas. and from 70 L below in Mime
sofa
AT indianapolis the Western Society OF
Naturalists was formed on the 29sh, TO in
c,ude naU1ralists by profession from Ohio,
Ind lana Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota
Early the other morning Patrick 0Brien,
Of Iowa, having Sl4. 900 on his person. was
picked up BY officers in Cincinnati almost
frozen % death He had been ON a de-
bsuch
II portions Of Minnesota the thermometer
marked 10 degrees below zero on the 29th,
an q az DEBORAH. Iowa. IL was s. below.
JAMES BEIcKLET Of Newport. Ky, won 8
bet a few DAYS ago by drinking seven glasses
OF whisky and two Of eggnOg in five minutes,
but died soon afterwards
FoR jumping a claim John Jennings, s
former Hour merchant OF Pittsburgh, Pa
was lynched by miners in the Black Hills
on the 29lh
AT Houma. La. a fire on the 29th de
sroyed one hundred buildings and twenty
stores
Al Jefferson City on the 29th Lieutenant
Governor Albert T. MOrehOuse was sworn
in As Governor of Missouri 10 finish the I'M
expired term of the late Governor Marina
duke.
ELISHA MUsDEN, OF Lexington. Nv. while
going 10 Saluda with a team drove over .
cliT lsO feet in height on the 10Th and es-
capeI uniniured
NEAR Austin. Tex. for the first time in the
history OF that section. man froze TO death
OF the both
OS the S0th ult Laura Webster. aged
eighteen. Of san Francisco. had been asleep
for seventy days Her physicians admins
tered liquid food to her through tube
Tbs Legislature of Kentucky convened or
tie SOlh uIt at Frankfort
AFANIIY named Kelly, accused Of horri-
bic murders at Oak Creek. Kan, were
captur ed recently in Texas and killed The
son was hung and the mother and daughter
shot while the posse was endeayoring tC
capture them The old man escaped
TIE following exections took place on
the S0th ult: William Finchum. at Har-
risonburg, Va, for the murder of his brother
Gus Edmunson. at somervilie, Ala. fol
killing his wife; Albert Peters. at Mariana
Ark, for the murder of William Johnson
and John Strickland, az Conway. $ c.. fol
killing his mother
An election 10 I'll the place of Seth Mot
fat, the late Congressman from the Eleventh
Michigan district, has been ordered fol
February Ia