River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-11
crops by frosts, and appeals for aid were

crops BY frosts, and appeals for aid were
male.
A FIRE destroyed J. B. ouiun's dry
/ goods house at Little Rock, Ark, on the
/ 4th. The loss % stock and building was
/ sls0 900, and the insurance about Sla9, 900
CHARLES MoKToN. Of St Louis, was
/ elected president Of the American Bank
ers' Association at its meeting at C!ncin-
/ matt on the 4th.
/ THE death at Pitts Point. Ky, of Mrs
| Sarah Crutcher, widow of James Crutcher,
Revolutionary soldier, was announced on
the 4th. She was eighty eight years old,
and had drawn pension since 1853
The drivers, conductors and gripmen OF
the North Chicago Street Railroad Com-a-
I ny struck on the 5th for shorter hours ana
/ increased pay.
The semi-annual Mormon conference
1 opened at Salt Lake or the 9th, Apostle
Lorenzo Snow presiding In all their
I speeches the apostles and elders insisted
upon polsgamy.
az explosion Of accumulated gas oc-
CURED on the 9Th in the new water-works
tunnel at Cleveland, o., and five men were
horribly burned and were taken out in a
dying condition.
ADvICEs of the 9Th say that there would
! only De one half rice crop in South Caro-
lima this season.
JONI DIETRICH shot and killed himself
on the 9Th in Cincinnati because two young
women whom he had asked to marry him
had each refused him.
AT Boston, Col, man named Hickman
shot ana killed j. F. Booth on the stu in
quarrel over woman, and was lynched
an hour afterward
IGNATIUs DoSNELLY withdrew on the 5th
as a candidate for Governor Of the Mime
sofa Labor party
FoR the week ended on the 9th, the
/ percentage Of the base. ball clubs in the
National League was as follows New
YORK, go, Chicago. .572; Detroit, .524;
Boston. .524; Philadelphia. .523; Pittsburgh,
800; Indianapolis 1885, Washington, .353.
American Association: st Louis. .69O;
BROOKLYN, GA; Philadelphia, COS; Cincin-
matt, col; Baltimore 40; Cleveland. 4Ol:
Louisville, .343; Kansas City, .324 West
ern Association: Des Moines, .65l; Kan
sas CITY, .637; st. Paul, .6lO; Omaha, 572;
Milwaukee, .4Si; Chicago .357; Sioux City,
.S55; Davenport, .295
OK the 9th John Porter, a colored man
who resided at Howland's Station, near
indianapolis. Ind, died at the age of one
hundred AMI seventeen years
NEAR Geneva Neb., the house of a farm
er named Richter was destroyed by fire
on the 9Th, and himself, wife and five chill
I
them persisted in the flames.
THE failure of H Zimmerman & Co,
cloak manufacturers of Chicago, occurred
on the 9th for $4,000.
IL North Carolina frosts had on the 9th
damase the tobacco crop twenty five per
cent Of the entire crop, and the damage by
rains to the cotton crop was placed at
twenty per cent
THREE negroes working ON "a railroad
near Norfolk. Va, were shot dead on the
9th by Section master Williams, whom
they attacked
JIM SCOTT, a negro desperate and ex
convict of Lynchburg, Va, on the 9th shot
and probably fatally wounded three men
without provocation anu escaped to the
woods.
Ok the 9th the Western Kentucky tobac-
co-growers resolved to refrain from plant
ing any tobacco next year.
THs Utah Supreme Court on the Sth de-
clared the Mormon church property for
feited and entered a decree for its escheat
to the United States.
Miss BoYsoNG was kindling fire by the
use Of coal oil on the sth at Brazil, Ind,
when the oil in the can exploded, burning
her sister Mabel, four years old, to death.
On the sth John T. Game Dem was re
nominated for delegate in Congress from
Titan. The Republicans OF the Third
Louisiana district nominated r. G. Jolly
Tor Congressman.
OwISG to trouble over money matters
" b, Wade. Of Knightstown, Ind, on the
Sth killed his mother, his sister, Mrs
Gates, and after setting the house on fire
killed himself.
A FIRE destroyed Shoeneman & Co.'s
packing house and butterine mandatory
in Chicago on the Sth. Loss, 500. 600
THE South Carolina earthquake was fol-
lowed in Colleton County by fourteen
months Ct drouth. At the expiration of
that time rainy season set in and for the
fifty-seven days ended on the Sth there
were only two when it did not rain.