River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-09

port on the ID show that in 1887 the num-
Der OF pounis OF fish caught in Lakes Mich
igan and Superior was z. 500. 746; valu,,
$252, go
A FIRE on the I'd destroyed several bust
ness blocks, including the post-offics and
Gazette office, at Cour land, o.
Two CAR LOADS of potatoes, corn and food
were s nc to the X tnsIs sufferers from
Pierre. d. t.. on the pa
TIE discovery of gold in Alaska was re-
Gently reported
her home near Pancoastburg. o., aged Ill
years Size leaves two sisters. one in Iowa,
aged 1O6 years. and the other in Dakota
aged los years
NEAR Long View, Ga, Hubbard Harrel. a
cOlOred boy ten years old. was made drunk
by party OF men on the 81. and going "a
the home OF his brOther-in-law, James
Pope. killed three children
JAMES CORNELIUS Ecolored; fourteen years
old. was hanged on the Sd at Minden, La
for the murder yesr ago of Ernest Wren,
aged four years
DURING January the product of the Michi-
gan copper mines was 3. l52 tons
IN the Federal Court on the Sd at Indian
apolis the motion for a new trial in the
cases OF Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted
Coy was sentenced to the penitentiary for
eighteen months and to pay a fine OF 800
and Bernhamer for one year and fine of
81. 600
Two sAw-MLLs, the largest on Puget
Sound, We're burned on the Sd at Fort
Blakely, W. T., at a loss of S250.0 with
no Insurance.
On the 81 Governor Oglesby was at the
State prison in Joliet. and accorded an in
terview 10 Fielden and S hwab, the Chi
cago Anarchists, who expressed their graft
tude 10 him for saving them from the gal
lows
A coLoRED farmer named Amos Grant.
living near Macon, Ga, murdered his wife,
his boy end his wifes sister on the Sd and
then killed himself Family troubles caused
the crime
ERNST BRoCKoB, a thirteen-year-old Chi
cago Toy, died in great agony on the Sd Of
hydrophobia He was bitten by a dog q
mon h ago
A BOILER explosion on the 4th in saw
mill near Belmont. o.. killed five men and
fatally injured two more.
DURING the absence on the 4th of Lester
Singiet3ry and his wife from their home
near Columbia S. C., their house was de-
srroyed by fire, and their six children, who
We're locked in the building. persisted in the
flames
On the 4th Vines Hicks celebrated his one
hundredth birthday at his home in White
ball, Ill He W born or the James river,
Va, February 4, 1888, and was one OF
nineteen children.
BURGLARS entered The jewelry store of
Chapm IN 4 Gale. at Norfolk, Va, early on
the morning of the 5-h and stole property
valued at $50, 900.
X ,,orrfnua of Taxos terribla ,porfalftv
among cattle was reported on the 4ch.
TIE store of Calm, Wampo d & Co. in the
business center of Chic go, was entered by
burgl RS on the 4th, who made way VITA
money and bonds to the value of 50, 900
A MEETING or the Republican cubs of
Illinois will be held al Springfield on the
Sth of M.rch.
On the 4th Thomas Els, editor of TIE
Birmingham a Al Herald. was fatally shot
by De ect;ve sullivan for publish NJ a libel
The doors OF the Metropolitan National
Bank OF Cincinnati We're closed on the 9Th.
The b INKS trouble was traced to the in
crease of stock from $500, 600 TO 81, 00u,-
600 1t was thought depositOrs would be
paid in full
AT the dynamite works 1t Woodside.
Mich an explosion on the 6 b destroyed
two pack lighthouses ana killed three men.
AN Iowa farmer named CHI rles Tierson,
living near Hamburg, Shot and killed two
men on the 9th who were steIling his hogs,
and his neighbors talked of G wing him
gold watch for breaking up the gang of
tn ewes
IL HALyERsoN. aged eighty-three years,
hung timself on the 9th under a bridge at
JanesY lie VS. lie was partially insane
DIsPAIo les of the 9th say that the En-
e ism bark A ercorn, with cargo of iron
ore, was wrecked on the coast of Washing
ION TER tory, and twenty yes were lost
The money loss WIS 1928 600