River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-20

from the Orient on the l4tn without nav
ing on board a single Ch naman bound for
that port-the first instance OF the kind In
years.
A DENIAL of the reported judicial shoot
ing in Indian Territory Of Lyman Pulsee
an Indian, for murder. was made on the
18th respite having been received from
the Governor Of the Choctaw nation at the
last moment
A TRAIN was derailed on the I4th near
Tallahassee, Fla, and Eng Scott Sea
brook and Fireman James Convers were
killed and Brakeman Rice was fatally IL.
iured.
OK the i4th the American Federation of
Labor in session at 81. Louis fixed May 1.
1890. for the in; ugurdtion of the eight
hour rule throughout the country
On the 18th he express car attached 10
a passenger train OF the Illinois Central
road was robbed Of 1000 b two masked
men near Duck Hill. NJ IS. Many shots
were fired. Charles Hughes, a passenger,
being killed.
The death Of DR.. james Scott. author of
the famous Scntt liquor law, occurred at
h home at Lebanon, o, on the 10th, at
the ags Of seventv-tare' years.
ON the 18th Rev. Frank Alfred, of
Jasuer, Ark. n Method ST minister, and
his two children. age ten and years
respectively died from the effects of
drinking m TX from a diseased COW.
FIRE destroyed the plants Il the Rech-
told Printing Company Little & Becker
and the Nixon-Jones Company in St
Louis on the 18th. Total loss. Sl5O0OO.
ADDISON WORKMAN, a Lebanon lind }
10y, had his left hand cut OF while play
ing with a saw on the 18th.
SAMUEL GONPERs was reelected presi-
dent of the American Federation OF Labor
In sessi' II at St Louis on the 18th.
The United States District Court grand
jury for Northern Iowa on the 18th found
seventy-four indictments against persons
selling liquor without a Government
license.
The farm residence of J. s RUSSELL near
Charles c ~ Ia, together with large
barn. forty tons Of hay, thirty head Of cat
tie some horses and hogs, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th. No insurance.
The death of Charles Boyle, recently ap-
pointed Chief Justice of Washington Ter
ritory, occurred on the 18th at Seattle.
AN Iniian callel pretty Boy while
drunk killed his squaw, shot dead three
Indian pol cemen and then took his own
life az the Fort Peck Indian agency in
Montana on the 18th.
IL the South Carolina Legislature the
House Committee on Elections on the 10th
recommended a constitutional amendment
TO provide an educational qualification for
voters II was said such amendment would
disfranchise over thirteen thousand whites
and fifty thousand negroes
OK the 18th William BARLEY. his wife.
daughter and Mrs. David BARLEY were
K lied by the cars at Santa Ana, Cal.
PAYMENT was suspended by the Cal
ifornia Bank OF san Francisco on the 18th,
on account of unfortunate loans made by
| the cashier, - II Ramsdon-
WHILE Temporarily insane Frank I.
sweenie, chief of the town of Lake Ill. }
fire department, cut his throat on the 18th.
He was fifty-two years old.
FIVE white men were killed and six
wounded in a negro riot on the 18th at
/ Wahalak. Miss.
RICE finds of gold in the Harqua- Hula
mountains IN Arizona were reported on
| the 18th.
The death Of James c. Morford, aged
nfnety-three years, the last member of the
Association Of the Old Defenders of Balti.
more, occurred on the nth.