River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-19

Oh the 18th great suffering was reported
as the result of the recent floods I'm West
Virginia. Fully five hundred persons were
completely destitute of the necessaries Of
life
IL Chicago the examination of the alleged
dynamiters, arrested at the instance of the
Burlington railroad, was begun on the 18th,
and some very startling testimony was
brought out. Witnesses swore that they
sold dynamite TO BOwles, and Informer
Kelly declared that he had seen the dead
ly stuff in Chairman Hoge's room at the
hotel
o. the l4th two brothers NAMED Reedy
made fhn Of q SICILY young man named
Williams, in Lexington County, 8 C., and
Williams shot and killed them both.
For the week ended on the l4th the
record of baseball clubs in the National
League was as follows: Chicago games
won, AZ; Detroit, 80; New York. 81; Bos-
ton, IS; Philadelphia, 81: Pittsburgh. %;
indianapolis, %; Washington. 81 The
American Association clubs stood:
Brooklyn games won). AZ; ST. Louis, 40;
Cincinnati, 40; Philadelphia, IS; Baltimore,
81; Louisville, "a; Cleveland, 2l; Kansas
City, %. In the Western Association the
following was the order: st. Paul games
wonl, 35; Des MOines, 20; Kansas City, 25;
Omaha, "a; Chicago, %; Milwaukee, p;
Sioux City, ); Minneapolis, 10.
FRANK STONE (coloredl was lynched at
Pell City. Ala, on the 14th for assaulting a
white woman, and James Farney (colored)
met like fate for clipping with little col
ored girl
A TAwL with ten excursiOnists on board
capsized of North Point, near Baltimore,
on the 18th, and Frank Veasax. William
Finn and Joseph Lutz were drowned.
A BANK at La Junta, Col, was robbed by
a cowboy on the l4th Of S25,O 900. He pre-
scented pistol at the cashier and made
him deliver the cash.
Oh the 18th John Hawkins, his wife and
two children were drowned near Spring
field, Mo, while trying to ford a swollen
creek
The National Centennial celebration Of
the establishment Of civil government in
the territory northwest OF the Ohio river
commenced at Marietta, o., on the 18th.
THREE men and three women were
drowned while crossing the Arkansas
river near Fort Smith, Ark, on the 14th
by the upsetting of a boat Their names
were John Logan, Jess Morris, Tom Davis,
Sallie jackson, Mary Pettis and Carrie
Davis. All leave families.
JOSEPH SoUP, of Charleston, S. C., in a
fit of insanity on the 14th killed his wife
by driving file into her head and then
cut his own throat.
CONRAD JACKSON (colored) was executed
at Waco, Tex, on the 18th for the murder
of John Talley, prominent white planter,
one year ago.
The bark Magnolia, from Rio Janeiro,
was quarantined at Ship Island, Miss, on
the 10TH the captain and four of the crew
having died Of yellow fever during the
voyage.
WHILE bathing on the 10th in Wilkes
lake, near Battle Creek, Mich. Frederick
Gleason, aged twenty years; John William
son, aged eighteen years, and Louis Burn
am, sixteen years old, were drowned
AN express train went through bridge
on the Fort Worth road near Clarendon,
Tex, on the 10Th, killing the engineer aud
fireman.
LEE EANEs tried 10 drive his mule over
Hannibal Turner at Danville, Va, on the
18th, and in the quarrel which followed
both Eanes and his brother Gus were fatal
~ shot by d. f. Davis.
FIRE destroyed the Brush electric light
plant at New Orleans on the 10th. Loss,
100000
AT meeting of the Grand Council of
the Independent Labor party at Detroit on
the 10Th Harrison and Morton we're Ill
dorsed. President Cleveland was de-
nounced for his free-trade ideas and for
his pension vetoes.
Ok the 10th fire at Brewton, Ala, de-
stroyed about half the town. consisting Of
sixteen stores.
A FIRE on the 10th at Ozo, Cal, nearly
destroyed the entire town.
Or the 10Th eighty-five head of cattle be-
longing to DIR. Bates, near Jonesboro Ind,
were poisoned by paris green which boy
carelcssly sprinlkled on the grass