River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
WEST AND SOuTH

o. the 2ith the owners Of the schooner
Kate Win-!Ow were fined s;aajO by the
custom officer at Cleveland o. for employ
ing two Canadian mates.
THE celebrated horse Long Chance
stumbled and fell at hurdle at the West
Side Driving Park in Chicago on the 9th,
breaking his neck.
The cotton crop of Texas this year was
on the 2ith estimated at two million bales,
and the corn crop would be enormous
GEORGE LEWIS tcOloredl, living near Bel
den. Tex. was lynched on the 24th for poi
soning the well OF William shaw.
JESS OGIEJAN. aged twenty-five years. of
Xenia, Ind, shot Miss Madge Smith. aged
eighteen years on the 3ith, killing her in
stantIy, and then killed himself
OK the 24th the twentieth anniversary Of
the formation of the Prohibition party in
Ohio was celebrated at GAINESVILLE.
On the 9th the body Of Jacob Alkire.
victim of the recent food in the Kanuwha
W Va. valley. was recovered, raising the
number of lost to twenty-five, of whom
fourteen had been recovered
By an overflow OF Shuganinga creek hun
dreds OF houses in Topeka, Kan, were on
the oath under water as far as the first
story. while the suburbs known as Walnut
Grove. ParkdaIe and Oakland. thickly pop
ulated by the Iaboring classes were all I'M
der water
TIE directory of Minneapolis. issued on
the 24th. contained 5000 names. from
which it was estimated that the population
of the city was -. 200
FLAMES destroyed Chinatown, a suburb of
Sacramento, Cal, on the 24th.
MONTH ago dog bit Willie Thyme, of
Kansas CITY. and on the oath he died of
hydrOphObia in its most yirulent form.
THE most terrific thunder and rain-storm
for years occurred on the 18th at Anoka,
Mimi Three wooden buildings were
washed into the river Much damage was
reported from the country by the wind,
which appeared in the form Of a cyclone
EXPLORERS on the 18th unearthed a num-
Der Of human skeletons buried in Chalk
Bluff. ten miles east OF YanktOD, d. T., on
the Nebraska side Fifty skulls and two
hundred headless skeletons were found
which local physicians pronounced TO be the
remains OF white people, children and
adults Indications were that they had
been buries forty or fifty years
News received OF the 18th from the re-
cent Hood in The Kauawha tW Va valley
gave a sad story OF wreck and ruin Every
store from the head to the mouth OF the
forks was gone OF ruined Houses, fences
and crops We're washed away and several
ported long list of houses and property,
bri 1ges and cuIverts gone. The loss in Lee,
Tygart. Slate and Steele counties would
reach $4,000.
on the 25sh the troubles of the Times
Newspaper Company in Chicago eliminated
in the retirement Of Mr.. James J. West He
not only resigned from the editOrship of
the paper but surrendered also his entire
interest in the property.
OHIO ProhibitiOnists in state convention
on the 18th at GAINESVILLE made the follow
ing nominations. For Governor, Rev. J. b
Helwig, of Springfield; Leute- ant-GOv-
ernor l. B. Logan. of Stark c unity. Su-
preme Judge, Gideon T. Stewart, Of Nor
walk: Treasurer. ID. NJ TrOwbridCe, of To
ledO: Attorney General + Jay Pinney, of
Ashtabula
OK board the Atlanta on the 25th C @.
TalcOtt. a,sista2. engineer Of the United
states navy, committed suicide by shooting
himself with pistol
Ara meeting OF the Saloon Keepers As
ISOLATION Of Cincinnati on the 18th a limited
number Of them agreed TO defy the law by
keeping open en- sunday. the association
agreeing 70 stand by them financially in the
courts.
On the 25th a tornado two hundred feet
wide passed half n mile west Of Prague.
MINI. anu one mousse v a. utsueN 70 pteCcS,
i've railroad cars. wheat laden, were thrown
twenty feet from the track, and crops In
the path OF the storm were utterly demol-
ished No lives were lost
TIE Toledo 4 Western, the Detroit &
state Line. the Wabash. the Wabash & East
ern Of Indiana. tie Wabash & Eastern Of
Illinois nd the Wabash Western were con-
soIidated on the a6th under the name Of the
Wabash Railway Company.
E BAUGH SONS fertilizing works at
IndI annapolis were destroyed by hre on the
18th Loss estimated 1t Si00.0,O.
OK the nth VOlney Fullerton, 8 young
farmer living near Carthage, No, died Of
hydrophObia Ayear ago he was bitten by
a rabid dog, but felt no evil effects until .
day or two before his death