River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-02
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A MAN named Ogert killed Frank ouiss
(coIored) at Eden, Miss, on the 27th for
insulting his family. Two friends of Guise
then set upon Ogert and hacked him to
pieces with axes.
On the 27th Bruce Younger (colored)
was lynched near Meadsville Va. for q
criminal assault upon Mrs. Robert Dodge.
AT Byrnville, Ind, White Caps visited a
meeting conducted by Mormon mission
airy on the 27th and caused stampede Of
the congregation.
AFTER an illness Of ten days General NJ
r. Patrick, governor of the National Sol
diers' Home at Dayton, o., died on the
9th, aged seventy seven years.
WAHPEToS ID. tt citizens on the 27th
lynched Deputy Sheriff Elmer, who shot
Mollie Korbet domestic in the family Of
the sheriff, because she would not marry
him
ADvIcEs of the 27th say that seven men
were killed in an encounter between Hugo
County, Kan. The trouble grew out of
county seat matters
Oh the 9th six of a gang cf nine thieves,
who had been robbing Vieo County nnd.)
farmers, were arrested at TeTre Haute.
GREAT many Chinese were OIL the 9TH
reported 70 be entering Washir gton Terri
tory from British Columbia.
A MOB hanged Eli Bryant (colored) on
the s7th near Starkville, La. for Grimm
ally assaulting a white woman.
WHILE wrestling at Cincinnati on the
29th, Luke Muldoon threw Patrick Fla
herty and broke his neck.
JOHN p ANDERSON, of Jamestown, Neb.,
after a nine days burial fifty feet under
ground by the caving in of a well was res
cued alive on the 2Sth.
FoR the week ended on the 18th the rec
ord # the base ball clubs in the National
Lcatue was as follows: Detroit (games
wonb. A; New York, AZ; Chicago, As;
Boston, 81; Philadelphia, "a; Pittsburgh,
-; indianapolis, 2s; Washington. % The
American Association clubs stood: St
Louis (games won), 40; Brooklyn. so;
ncinnati, a.; Philadelphia, 43; Balti-
more, "a; Louisville. 2s; Cleveland, q;
Kansas City, p In the Western Asso-
citation the following was the order: St.
Paul games won). 40; Des Moines. %;
Omaha, "a; Milwaukee, 30; Kansas City,
"a; Chicago, p; Sioux City, 10; Mime
apolis, ~
JoHN PHILLIPS, a butcher, and Richard
Larkins, a blacksmith, were shot dead on
tn 29th by August Diedlouf for creating a
disturbance at a Polish wedding in Chi
cago.
THOMAS CARNEY, who was the war Gov
ernor Of Kansas, died suddenly at his
home in Leavenworth on the 2Sth Of APP
oplexy, aged sixty-four years.
A CYCLONE passed near Paramount, Ill,
on the 10Th, destroying property in the vi
cinity.
The National Labor party will hold their
convention in Chicago September II.
THREE Of the men charged with the Chi
cayo Burlington & Quincy dynamite con-
spiracy. Bsuereisen, Cooling and Koegel,
had hearing at Aurora, Ill, on the Both
ult.. and were held to the grand jury.
IL the basement of the new Commercial
Bank building at st Joseph, Mo, dyna-
mite bomb was found on the 30th ult
AT Nebraska City, Neb., the thermome-
ter registered los degrees in the shade on
the 30th ult., and there were two cases of
sunstroke, one fatal. At Sioux City, Ia.
10 in the shade was recorded, and there
were five cases of prostration by heat.
MASKED men entered the house of Con
rad Doup, a farmer in Knox County, o., on
the 3Oth ult., and robbed him of e., coo.
THE dead bodies of Henry Heesch and
wife were found in their residence in
Chicago on the 30th ult. Heesch had killed
his wife with knife and then hung him
self
FRED and Alden Rohrig Cbrothers) were
drowned while boating in the river at
Abilene, Kan, on the 30th ult.