River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-17

Michigan, carrying with them seventeen
| homes along the stream.
Ar Winslow Siding, Ind, sixteen cars
were blown on their wheels during a tor
| nadO on the 18th, and at Wanatah Ind,
roofs, chimneys, fences and trees suffered
severely
OK the nth some one stole from a hotel
at Lexington, KY, the cash-box owned by
| William Riley, the Chicago book maker,
which contained about 5000
The execution OF Rev. George McDuffie
| lcoloredl, married man, who murdered
another negro who was counting a woman
/ OF whom McDuffie was enamored, took
place on the 18th at Greensboro, Ga
On the 18th a cyclone passed south Of
| FreepOrt, Ill. demolishing the brewery
/ buildings OF Haegele q Roth, causing
| loss Of $1,000, and running the brick resi-
| dence and barns of William Brockhausen.
few rods distant, and causing an equal
/ loss.
| At Quincy, H., the Mississippi river was
ten miles wide on the nth. The farms
| across in Missouri were inundated To the
/ bluffs and an immense amount Of damage
| had been done to the crops.
/ THE Pratt National Bank at Pratt, Kan,
was entered by burglars on the nth, while
/ the officers were at thinner, and stole 81. 0l6.
| Ar Rock Island and Moline, Ill, high
water had on the 18th caused damage
| amounting 10 about Sl00,OO0 and at Galena
nearly all the streets were navigable by
/ boats.
\ PRE- destroyed WOodward's coffin fac
| tory at Owosso, Mich, on the 18th. Loss,
| 100000. Over seven thousand Baskets
were burned.
| Is the South Memorial Day was gener-
| ally observed on the 18th.
WILLIAM SPENCER, seventy-six years OF
| age. and Mrs. Mary Shaw, aged seventy
| two years, were married at Shelbyville, Ill.
/ on the 18th. The groom has been married
/ four times and the bride five times
| MRs. ANN TYER, of Wabash, Ind, over
one hundred years cid, fell down cellar re-
I Gently. receiving probably fatal injuries.
\ FIRE on the 18th destroyed thirty
| torres and dwellings and the gas-worlls at
/ BOT Springs, Ark, causing a loss of $780,
COO
| NEAR Nogales, a T.. six Mexicans
I stopped train on the l2th, killed the con
/ ductor and express messenger, fatally
/ wounded two passengers aad escaped with
/ a booty of $50.
Tue signal service will use carrier
pigeons rs a means Of bringing weather re
/ ports from the Bahamas to Key West.
/ IL Chicago, on the 18th Zephyr Davis, the
/ young negro who murdered Maggie
/ Gaughan. working girl, was hanged in
/ the county jail.
IL the Mississippi and other rivers high
water was doing great damage on the 18th.
| 1t Alexandria, Mo, the town and adjacent
/ country was submerged, and in Daven-
/ port. Dubuque, Clinton and Muscatine, Ia,
/ and in Quincy and Rock Island, H., foods
were causing much distress and loss of
( property.
2
| cisco. operating the largest establishment
4 in the world for canning fruits and vege-
| tables, failed on the 18th for s300.000.
| OS the l2th il was announced that a reign
/ of terror existed in Chambersburg Ind,
/ on account Of the use of dynamite by
/ whisky men against leading Prohibition
/ lists Several buildings lad been blown up.
IL portions OF the Northwest heavy frosts
Were reported on the 18th, and in several
/ Illinois towns a May snow-storm was wit
messed.
THE Sny and Indian Grove lcvees above
/ Quincy. IL, broke on the l4th. and thou
sands Of acres Of winter wheat on bottom
| lands were flooded and hundreds of head of
| stock drowned Late at night the dam at
\ Rock Island gave way, and two or three
| hundred families were reported in danger.
REPUBLICANS made the following Con-
| gressional nominations on the 18th: Ten
/ nessec, Second district, l.. c. Houck ire
I Eominatedl Nebraska. Second district,
/ James Laird trenominatedl Third dis
/ trict, George W. Dorsey (renominated)
| Missouri. Sixth. district. J. b. Upton.
| A PASSENGER train was standing at the
depot al Fountain, Col, on the I4th when
/ il was dashed into by several freight cars,
one of which contained naphtha and an
| other powder, and an explosion occurred
I which killed six persons. injured many
| others and totally destroyed twenty build
ings. The loss to property was estimated
| at sl00,0)0
IL sections of Nebraska frost on the l4th
/ did much damage to crops.
By the giving way Of the dam on Hamlin
river. eight miles north of Ludington,
/ Mich, on the 18th tweuty-three dwell
/ ing houses were carried out into Lake
/ Michigan. The people had all moved
| GRANDMA TYER died at Wabash, Ind. on
/ the l4th, aged one hundred and one years,
/ from injuries received by falling down
! cellar stairs
! THE convicted Indiana tally-sheet forgers,
/ Coy and Bernhamcr, must serve out their
sentences Of eighteen months in tho peni-
| tertiary Their application for a writ of
I habels corpus was denied on the 18th by
/ the United States Supreme Court.
/ Ok the 18th James Smith. of Lorain, o.,
was placed il Jail on the charge of kicking
/ his wife to death.
| Is Northern Michigan several towns
were visited by severe snow-stOrms on the
| 18th.
| FIRE at Goldendale, W. T., on the 14th de
| stroyed the entire business portion of the
/ town.