River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-08
WEST AID SOUTH.

IN the .lSi u4L- Alr. Barnard, OF the LICK
Observatory in san Francisco, announced
the discovery of another comet-the second
discovered b. Il m " th.u twl month.
WILLIAM HsJ I-Js. Of H-IcsvIlle, Ca,
in a fit cg ic u s Un the 5lst Mt, killed
his niece stu :.t-u, wounded his sister.
o. tIs -isL ult- Joseph DIckenh II, aged
seventy years, was assaulted by Kh way
men at Akron. O., and robbed of s., 300
which he carried in q vaIise.
4 GANG Of negroes in Mercer County, w.
Va, waylaid four white travellers recently
ami shot and killed two of them and robbed
them Of 5000 Tae other two escaped
UNOPENED registered packages were
stolen from the pOst-ofiice at Topeka, Kan,
on the 3lst ult All the clerks were de-
coyed from the building BIZ fire alarm.
AT Wichita Kan, Mrs. Striebel was ia
tally burned on the 3lst ult. and her five
year-old child was burned to death by their
clothing catching fire from a burning
brush-pile
OK the 3lst ult. the fourth crop Of straw
berries for this year was being gathered in
the Walla Walla valley, W. I. pear trees
had yielded three crops, apple trees their
second crop, aud the second crop of nu-
merous other fruits was reported.
A REToRT containing $40 900 in gold was
placed in a bank for safe keeping at Cen
tral City, Col, on the 3lst ult The gold
was all produced in a single day by one
mine. The amount was the greatest ever
taken from any mine in the same length Of
time.
A BUILDING in San Francisco occupied
by several lumber companies was burned
on the 3lst ult-, caus ng a less of 500, 900.
RORBERs On the 31st ult. held up Next
can Central express train sixty miles be-
low n an aF
and fireman to leave the engine and I'm
couple the passenger cars, and then Sc
cured about $4,000 from the express car.
ALADY descended at Lexington, No, on
the 3lst ult into a twenty-foot cistern and
rescued "a child who had fallen into the
pit. \ number of men, who had refused to
attempt to aid the little one, watched the
heroic exploit.
JAMES LoNGoNErTI. Of Denver. Col, a
bartender who shot and killed A. O. Case
and was imprisoned, died in cOnvulsions
on the lst, thinking his victim was tor
turing him.
THE firm of Jenkins, Hutchison d Co.,
dealers in notions and white goods at
Baltimore, Nd, failed on the lst for
SlO0,O0O
A FIRE destroyed the works Of the
Columbus Bridge Company at Columbus,
o, On the lst, causing heavy loss
Oh the 1st the Northwestern Military
Academy aud the private residence of II.
C. Sampson at Highland Park, Chicago
suburb, were destroyed by fro, the total
loss reaching ;90OJQ
FIRE on the lst at Bowling Green. o,
destroyed hotel, two printing offices and
twenty other buildings.
ANDREW JOHNSON, living near Red Hill,
XIV, while digging in the ground on the
lst unearthed a copper kettle filed with
gold and silver coin worth over $500
a CYCLONE at Laporte, Ia, destroyed
several buildings and unroofed many
others on the Ist, causing loss Of over
S55. 600. In the surrounding country great
damage was also done No lives were
lost
THOMAS SAVERS (colOred), who murdered
and robbed two peddIers in Mercer Coun-
t., W. Va, was caught and lynched on the
"a.
IL quarrel on the ID over settlement
Of accounts at Yoakum, Tex, Fayette
Berry and John Hawks shot and killed
each other.
IL prairie fires in jackson township,
MINI. FIVE persons lost their lives on
the ID
BES RrssEII- James Bell and George
W. Griffin. all eolorei, were killed in Van
LAAAA county, AcAr VI tue - II a poAAAASaA
quarrel
ApvIcEs Of the ID say that in the recent
cyclone in Iowa the NJ. E Church and B..
& r 4 y depot az Mt Auburn were
blown down and an elevator unroofed. and
a man was killed by flying timberS.
JUDGE BREWER decided at Topeka, Kan,
on the I'd that land in Allen County be
longed to a railroad, and over five thou
sand settlers. many Of whom had occupied
the land for ten If Zen years and had
made extsn ivs i'm ,rovemeutS, would be
compelled 10 give possession
ESTiMAT : ( this years ) uthern cotton
crop laced the aggreE gate yield on the 2d
II about three per cent less than that Of
las year
A F1EE on the 4ih destroyed the Month
cello Ladies Seminary in Godfrey, Ill. in
volviug loss Of Sl50,O00 on the building
and contents. besides the loss on the per-
sonal effects Of the pupils and teachers
DURING a political rally on the 81 Joe
Middleton was killed and Gideon Percifield
was fatally wounded BY Jacob Brennan,
town marshal Of Hope. Ind.
OK the 81 Lizzie Hill aged ten years,
aud a servant girl aged seventeen years,
were burned 70 death By the explosion OF
q gasoline stove in the house OF Jonathan
Hill at Independence. Mo.
Az earthquake shock occurred at Vi
emma. IL. AZ $50 o'clock OF the morning Of
the 81 IL was distinctly felt and lasted
several Seconds.
WulLE a SANDER suit was progressing