River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-27

11IE President on the 2lst nominated
General Parkhurst, of Michigan, to be
Minister to Belgium 10 succeed Lamoe!.
Tree. who had been transferred TO st.
Petersburg.
yHE Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in annual
session at Los Angeles, Cal, on the 21st
decided to hold its next years session az
Columbus, o.
Two BALTIMORE & Ohio freight trains
collided near Belleville, %, on the 2ist
through an operators cafelessness, doing
damage 10 the amount of $4,000
WHILE cutting corn with mower on the
slst Henry Bauer, of Center. Wis, fen 10
front Of the knife, was cut on the leg ana
bled 70 death.
MAMMOTH SPRINGS, Fulton County, Ark,
was visited BY a cyclone on the 2lst which
did con Siderable damage TO crops. Several
people were injured.
AT Kansas City, Mo, Mrs William B.
Murphy was found dead on her husbands
grave on the 2lst, having committed sui.
eide.
TnEhE were lis new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, during the
twenty-fOur hours ended on the 2lst and
IA deaths. Total cases TO date, l,52s; total
deaths. 1876
LEWIS DAVIS, confined for six months in
jail on the charge of numbering David
Miller. at Cuba, Mo-, was taken from the
prison on the 22d by a mob and hanged
ALMOST every village in Mississippi had
on the 23d established a shotgun quaran-
tine against yellow fever refugees.
For the week ended on the 23i the per-
centage OF the baseball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: New
YORK, .G29; Chicago. SO; Detroit SIS;
Boston .525; Philadelphia, .521: Pittsburgh,
.4S2; Indianapolis, .366; Washington, 964
American Association: st Louis, CSC;
BROOKLYN, .63l; Philadelphia, .6l2; Cinein-
natl. .59l; Cleveland. AS: Baltimore. .40I;
Louisville, .355; Kansas City, $50 West
ern Association: Des Moines, 663; st.
Paul. .647; Kansas City, sol; Omaha .57I;
Milwaukee, .463; Sioux City, 800; Chicago.
.313; Davenport. .2S3
SEVEN whites and ten negroes were
whipped for various crimes in the Jail at
Wilmington, Del, on the 22d. One man got
forty lashes. nine others ten, and three
others five lashes.
FIRE destroyed the stables of the Con-
sOlidated Street Car Company at Column
bus, o., on the 23d, and thirty-five horses
persisted in the flames
I. E b. RTON was nominated for Con
gress on the ed by the Republicans Of the
Twenty -ItsA ulekElCL OF Onlg.
CP TO noon on the 23d the total number
Of deaths from yellow fever at jackson
vile. Fla, was 212, and the total number
of cases ISIS The city of Memphis, Tenn,
and the adjoining country was panic
stricken, and all who could get away were
leaving for the North
AT St. Louis on the 22d the switchmen's
convention adopted resolutions asking all
railways in the United States to observe
the Sabbath.
THE National Labor party has postponed
its National convention until October :, at
Chicago
BY the upsetting of boat four sailors
ing. Miss.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, while fooling with a
gun on the 24th at Princeton, Ind, acct
dentally shot his little sister fatally.
OWING 70 the yellow fever scare the run
ming OF trains on the Alabama and Missls-
sippi had been abandoned on the cath, the
whole region was panic stricken, and the
people along the Nicksburg & Shreev port
road seemed TO be one vast mob.
AT crossing near Versailles, KY, Mrs
Eva Gately, wealthy widow. and her two
children were killed by train on the 24th
They were out riding and the team became
unmanageable.
AN armed mob on the oath took posses
sion of Rio Brande City on the Texas Dor
der because of the killing of Mexican BY
a custom officer
On the oath Anton Cerny. a Chicago
iron molder, shot and fatally wounded his
wife and then blew out his own brains. He
had been out of work for long time and
had become respondent.