River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-06-14

eth. When seen they fired pistols, fatally
iniuring Baggage Master Ketchum, and
then jumped from the train.
The Atlas paper mill was burned on the
sth at Appleton, Wis.
On the 9th the Mormon church closed ne
e0tiations for four hundred thousand acres
of land in chihuahua, Mex
A WIND and rain-stOrm passed over Fort
Yates, ID. T., on the 9th, and many houses
we're blown down or unrOofed. Shellking,
an Indian chief, his son and several set
tiers were killed
ON the 9th the last brewery in Sioux
City, la, was closed under the Prohibitory
state law
The record Of the base ball clubs in the
National League for the week ended on
the 9th was as follows: Chicago games
won, 26, Detroit, pa New York, -; Bos-
ton, %; Philadelphia. Il; Pittsburgh,
IA; indianapolis, II; Washington, o The
American Association clubs stood: Brook
lyn games won), 81; St Louis, y; Cincin-
natl, "a. Philadelphia, 81; Baltimore, 10;
Cleveland, 10; Kansas City, IL; Louisville,
H. In the Western Association the fol-
lowing was the order; Des Moines (games
won. "a; Omaha, Is; Kansas City, Is;
Milwaukee, Is; st. Paul, IA; st. Louis, IA;
Chicago. 10; Minneapolis, II.
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9th near Columbia, s C., at the age of
ninety nine years. She was the mother Of
sixteen children.
DANIEL LYoN. Thomas Purcell and Fred
Moeck three labOrers, were killed on the
9th by the caving in of a bank at Omaha,
Neb.
a FIRE destroyed several large factories
and number of dwelling houses at Gin
cinnati on the 9th. Loss, $4,000.
REroRTs from Michigan stated on the
10Th that heavy rain storm had done great
damage. All the country flom the Wiscoh-
ain line ID The UPPER range and the whole
width VI the peninsula suffered. Houses
were undermined and swept away, culvertS
and bridges were destroyed, and miles of
| fences and sidewalks were ruined.
OK the 9Th Mrs Annie Roush, living near
Selait, W. Va. celebrated her one hundred
and first birthday. She possessed the use
of all her faculties.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the 9th
at Greenfield. No, over the discovery that
a lad named George Static, who was
thought to have committed suicide, was
hanged by his inhuman mother.
NORWAY, Mich, was almost destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Thirty buildings were
burned, including the main business sec
ton. Many families were homeless. Loss,
s800O6
JANIS FOSTER, tcolored) was taken from
Jail at Henderson, XIV, by mob on the
lit. and hanged for criminally assaulting
a little girl.
IL Detroit on the 18th John Munich
thaler. keeper of candy and cigar store
in Detroit shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself.
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that recent
severe rains had caused the greatest hood
ever known in Northern Minnesota.
Along the banks of logging streams tribu-
tary to the 81 Louis river millions of
arres Of laird were oterflowed. Sixty-five
families were forced to leave their homes
al CroOkstOn by the rise of Red Lake river,
and many lost their effects, At Cloquet
only the tops Of houses were visible.
PETER SHANNON, aged sixty years, of
Portland, Ore, shot and killed his wife,
aged ffty-five years, on the 18th, and then
killed himself, from a fit of jealousy. They
had been married only year.
OK the 18th Colonel Abner Taylor was
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the First district of Illinois