River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-26

the age OF one hundred years He never
rode on a railroad train. and though he
could not read nor write he amassed quite
a fortune
THE West Virginia 6reenback- labor party
wiz meet at Charleston on the Sd Of May
to nominate State ticket.
n b. LESTER was hanged at Lebanon,
Tenn. on the 10th for the murder OF Lieu
tenant J. T. Lane
EIGHT horse-thieves were caught the
other day BY an armed posse thirty miles
from Turccll, l. T.. after a running fight,
and strung mp
AT the opening OF the National League
championship season of 1855 on the 10th
the games resulted as follows: Chicago, 5;
indianapolis. {. Pittsburgh, ;; Detroit, .
New York. O. Washington, Boston, 4;
Philadelphia, 3
FRED SrovER's house at Portland, Ore
was burned on the Goth, and Mrs Slower
and her baby were burned 10 death.
NEAR Iabad.e. No. blast explosion on
the goth fatally injured five men
On tie 10th three men were burned TO
death and several others were injured by
the burning OF the Bethel House In ST.
Louis
EIGHT men on the Goth surrounded the
Yesquiias ranch near Brownsville, Tex,
and binding the men and women robbed
the house OF about 50, 900 in money and of
a quantity of lewelry.
Miss MARY COLLINS died on tho goth ut
Darlington, Wis. agel one hundred and
ten wears
LathrOp, father mother and three chill
dren, occupants OF farm house near Wolf
river, at EmbarTass. Wis, were swept away
by the floods ana drowned
ALL the saloons in Cleveland. O., were
closed on the 22d, owing 70 the new liquor
law
TIE southern limits OF Duquoin, Ill,
were visited by cyclone on the 22d, which
demolished fences, barns trees, outhouses
and dwellings Several persons were in
iured
IL the Twelfth district of Illinois the
Union Labor party on the 2ist nominated
1. y. Wise. of White Hall. for Congress
OS the I'D the safe in the store of Bolts
& Quisenberry. at Santa Fe, Wis, was
broken open and robbed of -, 900 In notes
and $500 In cash
FIRE nearly destroyed the business por-
t:on OF Winone, Miss. on the 2lst
THE new State House of Texas, at Austin,
the largest Stats capitol building in the
United States, was opened on the 2ist 10
the Legislature and citizens
The Montezuma irrigating tunnel. which
VIII reclaim two hundred thousand acres
OF land in Colorado YVES completed on the
2Ist IL IS over a mile long, running under
one of the ranges of the Rocky Mountains
MAN named l. kin$ at CaboOl, Mo,
killed his little boy and girl with an axe
ami then cut his own throat ON the 2lst
OK the 2lst Thomas Sullivan end Henry
Yondergotten, 10th advanced in years, COM
mitoed suicide at Indianapolis, Ind. No
cause wes known in either casa
JOIN A. RICE. of Chicago, proprietor OF
the fremont House. ana a widely known
hotel man, died on the 2lst after pro-
trsoted illness
BRLow Ryau's packing house in Dubuque
the levee gave way on the 2lst, and the
water rushed In upon the flats, flooding
thirty houses and doing much damage
AT Hot Springs. Ark, the fOur-year- old
boy of William Stringer was attacked by a
game-cock on the 23d and so badly injured
that ne died in few minutes
On the 23d the ex-Soldiers' Mutual Assur-
ance Company of the Northwest was or
/ ganizei at Goshen lnd., with capital OF
| %2O0,O0
TIE death of Rev George n. Croker, fol
! hfty-one years a Baptisl clergyman. and
! from lsGl TO 1855 chaplain in the United
I States army. occurred on the 23d at Kan.
/ kakee III.
I CSIoN soldiers IN favor OF n Law making
I every soldiers honorable discharge his
/ pension certificate for life win meet in Gin
I cinnati Nay IL
OK thc 2:II General Rea, COMMANDMENTS
I Chief of the q. \ L.. said at st. LOUIS that
I in the past three months fourteen thousand
names had been added 10 The rolls of the
/ Org zatiOn
JoHN PARSONS house at Centervi'le. Ky,
was struck by lightning on the 23d, and
4 Parsons. his wife and two children were
/ killed
HEAVY hail and rain-storm did great
damage a. and around Mobile. Ala, ON the
/ Odd
SEVERAL miners were thawtng out dyna-
mite in the oven OF stove az Baraga
Mich, on thu 23d when an explosion oc.
CURED which killed three men and injured
| two others
FIRE destroyed eight large barns and
several thousand tons OF hay at the STOCK
/ Yards in Chicago on the - l. Loss, SIOU,-
/ 600
! At Chippewa Falls. Wis. John Shay and
/ VII lam Williams were dOwned on the I'D.
( Each men leaves wife NJ seven children.
! H. F. BoYDsroS on the 23d shot Miss
| Lulu Frazier fatally at Cooper, Tex. and
| then blew on. his brains The postpone
ment of. their marriage by the young lady
caused the deed