River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-11

IL collision on the Louisville Nashville
! road ON the 4th near Decatur, Ala. three
pen were killed and many persons
/ wounded
OS the 4th Dwight L. Moody, the evan
/ gelis,. opened convention for ChristiaB
workers at tls Chicago Avenue Church
+ Chicago, on the 4th- The meetings would
continue from thirty 10 sixty days, accord
ing 20 the interest manifested
MRS. BRIDGET DooDY, of Mineral Point,
Wis, on the 4th celebrat d her one hun
dred and seventeenth lfrthday She was
born in hnockmahon, Ireland in l772 and
was still in good health
UNITED STATES MARsHAT.s who attempte
on the 18th to make evictiOns from Des
Noines river lands near Fort Dodge, la
We're met with armed resistance and driven
from the field
PRAIRIE fires had on the sth completely
wiped out three towns in South Dakota. and
hundreds of farm-houses had been de
strOyed, also barns, with all their contents
and many persons We're homeless and en-
tiresy destitute The losses were placed
at s2,O0O.00O Several lives were lost
PROF HARRY LEROY, am aeronaut. made
an ascension at Quincy, Ill. on the 4th, and
when at a height OF four thousand feet
dropped from the balloon and, with tine aid
of parachute, landed safely
REPORTS on the 5th to the Indiana Board
of Agriculture from all over the state in
dictated that the growing wheat was in
splendid condition.
OS the 9Th Daniel Baugh, a pioneer OF
Seymour, Ind, reached the age of one hun
dred years. He was in good health.
The discovery was announced on the eth
OF rich placer diggings in the Bear Paw
mountains, fifty miles north of Fort Benton,
Mt
AT Fordyce, Ark. on the 5th the sheriff
OF Titus County, Tex. arrested Frank Shulze.
( a young man. on a charge OF having in De-
cember last murdered J. ". King, his wife
and six children, and then burned their
dwelling
WILLIAM PRAY shot and killed his wife at
! Frankfort, Ind, on the 5th and then killed
+ himself Domestic troubles caused the
deed
/ OK the 5th John wolfnbarger, who muir
dered Sheriff Greenbe, was taken from Jail
at Rutledge Tenn, by masked men and
/ hanged to a tree.
| CONGRESSMAN RYAN. of the Fourth district
OF Kansas, resigned his seat on the 9Th, hay
ing been appointed Minister to Mexico
/ FLAMES destroyed six business blocks at
/ Attica. o., on the 9Th.
/ SIX Winamac tlnd men were on the 9Th
] etnNthctu 10 u year edCn ia inc ptnlltulldIN
/ for robbing freight ears.
Al Lima, o., Bette German a two-year-
4 old child. was scalded to death on the 18th
1 by her older sister. who accidentally upset
a pot of boiling water ON her face and
breast
A EAIN-sToRM on the 9th at Norfolk, Va,
/ submerged the lower portion OF the city.
causing a loss OF sJO0O0O to business men.
/ FLAMES swept away the principal bust
ness portion of Clarksdale, Tenn, ON the
/ 9th
/ HEAVY snOw-storm prevailed ON the 9Th
at Charlottesville, Va, accompanied by
/ thunder and lightning.
/ Two HOTELS and several business houses
were burned ON the 9th at Somerset, Ky
causing a loss of sl0O,OOO.
OK the 9th W. IT, McGinnis. of Ohio. was
/ appointed superintendent of the Railway
/ Mail Service.
On the 6ts P. f. Pratt, cashier of the First
/ National Bank of Anoka, Mimi, was miss
ing. and so was 100000 of the banks
/ money.
/ IL the business portion of Savannah, Ga.
a fire on the 9th destroyed property valued
at s15OOCO