River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-04

boWef Brule Agency. D. T, dissolved, ana
the commissioners left for the East their
efforts 70 make treaty being unEuccess-
fuL
p O. WILKINS & Cos furniture house
in Chicago was destroyed by FIRE on the
5oth. Total loss about Sc, 600 One man
persisted in the flames
FIRE swept away the village Of Romeo,
Wis, on the 18th, only four houses being
left standing
IL Northern Minnesota freezing weather
was reported on the esth, killing frosts
from the southern portions Of Michigan
and Wisconsin. and light frosts in the
Northwest as far south as Southern Mis-
sour
A GREAT secret league was on the 18th
said 20 have been formed in Indiana the
sole object Of which was 70 prevent the
casting Of illegal aud fraudulent ballots
II was alleged 20 be non. "a rtisaD.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed the Ohio
Falls oak leather tannery al Louisville,
Ky Loss Sl25. 600.
o. the 3Oth nit Peter Straubb Chica-
go nachinist, gouged out both his eyes at
y attOon, Ill, in obedience to the command
4 spirits with whom he was communing
JAMES SMITH and william Eastman,
while drunk on the 30th nit attempted to
tear down a shanty at Magnolia, Tenn, be
longing 10 James Conley leolored), and
were shot dead by the negro.
AT Wheeling, w. Ia, Louis Hildebrand
went home drunk on the 30th ult., and
when his wife told him there was nothing
70 eat In the house be shot her dead
WESLEY WILLIAMS (coloredl. aged
sixty years, was hanged on the 18th ult.
at Morton, Tex, for wife murder.
BARNARD REcHNUTER. and John Tester
at Wapakonita, o., were on the 29th ult.
found guilty Of poisoning the husband Of
the woman and sentenced 70 fifteen years
In the penitentiary
JoHs PEARoE and John =. Caperton were
drowned in the Ohio river near Louisville,
KY, on the 30th ult. by the capsizing Of a
boat
DEMOCRATS Of the Fifth Illinois distri (
on the 18th ult nominated James Her
ringtOn for Congress; the Democrats OF
the Fourth Wisconsin district nominated
Henry Smith; in the First Ohio district
Thomas l. johnson DEM was nominat-
ed, aud IN the First South Carolina dis
trict the Republicans nominated S. W. Nc
Kinley
A WEALTHY German farmer named Adam
Lake, living near Evansville, Ind, was
shot and killed on the 18th ult. by a neigh
Dor who mistOok him for burglar
IL some portions Of Indian Territory set
tiers were on the 29th ult said 10 be in a
starving condition owing TO the depreda-
tions of thieves, who have driven OF their
stock.
H. C. COOLEY after eight years wander
ing returned 10 Bevier, Mo, TO ind his
wife married 10 another man He made
love to her again ana they eloped from hus-
band No . on the 29th ult.
FIRE on the 3Oth ult az Toledo, o.. des
stroyed the Armeda Touring mills. Loss,
SIOO, 600
on the 10Th ult a little son Of Robert
Kirkman, of Springville, Y. T., while play
ing with gun accidentally discharged the
weapon, killing his little sister and a
daughter Of Charles Bradford, aged three
years.
On the LIST Jacob Heber, a St Louis
matchmaker, shot and killed his wife and
blew OF his own head. Domestic troubles
caused the deed.
IL the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
heavy snow fell on the lst
OK the ist fourteen head Of horses aud
fourteen hundred bushels of grain were
consumed By fire in barn near Britt, la.
AT Norfolk, Va, the skeleton of Alonzo
Lewis, the missing salesman OF a New
York firm. was found on the lst with
every particle of flesh eaten OF by buz-
Yards.
OK the Chicago Board of Trade two fail
ures were reported on the lst as the result
of the recent wheat corner. The unfortu-
mates were Frank Clifton & Co. and s c.
Orr.
A TRAIN was thrown from the track on
the Wabash road on the LIST near Mexico,
No, by train-wreckers, and several Of the
passengers were badly injured.
STORM swept over Columbus, o, on
the LIST, and roofs were blown away and
trees leveled- The damage at the Exposi-
tion grounds was estimated at $40 600
On the lst Roger Q. Mills was renomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats Of
the Ninth Texas district
FROM many counties in Kentucky ad-
vices OF the 1st say the tobacco crop had
been seriously injured by frost