River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-06-21

Z. T. PLANK, of San Francisco was
elected president of the International
Typographical Union on the 14th at Kansas
City.
on the 14th Bert Stewart. Of Decatur,
Ill, who was nominated by the Union La
Dor party for Secretary Of State, declined
the nomination.
OK the Wisconsin Central road train
wreckers turned switch on the 18th at
Westboro, Wis, and sleeper was thrown
from the track, severely injuring several
persons
MoLLIE GARFIELD was married 10 J. Stan
ley Brown, formerly President Garfield's
private secretary, at the Garfield home
stead in Mentor, o., on the 14th, and her
brother Harry married Belle Mason, eldest
daughter Of Hon. James Mason, famous
as a railroad LAWYER.
IL the Armstrong cement works at Kan
sas City a powder explosion on the 18th
killed three men.
AT Lexington, Ore, a wiz 'orm on the
18th wrecked seven buildings and killed
ing many pupils, was totally destroyed and
many pupils were injured.
MILLIONS of grasshOppers appeared in
| Southern Indiana on the 18th and were de
stroying all vegetation.
NEAL STARK, aged sixteen years, was
convicted at Atlanta Ga, on the 18th, of
numbering his elder brother, and was sen
fenced TO life Imprisonment.
| LANE BRITToN, a notorious desperate,
who had been fugitive for five years and
who was wanted TO answer for the killing
of eight men. was captured on the 18th al
\ Mansfield, No
The death of Benjamin T. d. Hubbard,
the defaulting cashier of the Monmouth
| 0n.) National Bank, occurred in the Joliet
| penitentiarg on the nth of heart trouble
A TRAIN on the Midland road ran of the
track on the 10Th at Popes Head Run, Va,
and four men were killed and several per
sons badly injured.
The record OF the baseball clubs in the
National League for the week ended on the
10th was as follows: Chicago tgames
| won), -; Detroit, 26, Boston, %; New
| York. "a; Philadelphia, %; Indianapolis,
! Is; Pittsburgh, IA; Washington, -. The
| American Association clubs stood: Brook
Ign (games won, "a; ST. Louis, %; Phila-
dclphia, %; Cincinnati. %; Baltimore, %;
Cleveland, Il; Kansas City, i3; Louisville,
| l3. In the Western Association the fol
| lowing was the order: st. Paul (games
won. 81; Des Moincs, 10; Milwaukee, 10;
Kansas City, 20; Omaha, Is; Chicago, Is;
Minneapolis, TO- st. Louis, a.
OK the 10th the wife of Joseph Holmes,
| a well TODD farmer residing near Ran
dolph, Tenn, in fit of mental alteration
took her children, one aged ten months
and the other girl of ten or twelve
years, and drowned them in Ballard s
slough.
AT Bailey Bros q Co.'S warehouse at
GAINESVILLE, O., an explosion on the 10th
killed two men and seriously injured sew
eral others.
THERE was great excitement at Ishpem-
ing, Mich, on the 18TH over the discovery
of a rich vein of pure gold in the mines OF
the Lake Superior Iron Company of that
city.
| AN express train on the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad was robbed by seven
masked men at VerdiCris Bridge on the
10th, and one passenger was killed and the
mail agent and train boy were wounded
The amount of money secured was moi
known.
OK the 18th Washington Ives (colored)
who recently attempted TO outrage a white
woman, was lynched near Natchez, Miss.
FIRE destroyed the Sparta House al
Wakefield. Mich, owned by Edward Bow
Ter. on the 18th, and his two little boys per
| ished in the flames.
MARY AULIs, wearing mems clothes, was
| arrested in st. Louis on the 18th with q
man named John Orrick. Under pressure
the woman said Orrick had murdered hel
| husband and stepson at Gad's Hill, Mo-, anc
| she had eloped with him.