River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-23

wife. and then set FIRE TO the place Day
was arrested
On the 10th Joseph Pelz, who keeps a
restaurant at Horton, Kan. was taken from
his home by two hundred men and given
seyenty-five lashes on his bare back for
brutally beating hts step-daughter.
IL Middle Tennessee seventeen-year To-
Gusts had made their appearance on the 10th,
and grave fears We're entertained for the
safety of vegetation.
A FIRE destroyed Stewart Brothers pack
mg-house at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the 10th
Loss, slOO.Oa
The Michigan Senate ON the 10th defeat
ed the woman's Municipal Suffrage bill.
which had passed the House.
TIE depot warehouse of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad Company at Norfolk, Va, was
burned on the 18th. Loss, Sl0O.e00
AT Nebraska City, Neb an old man named
Crume burned a bedtick on the 18th in
which his wife had placed $50 for safe keep
ing. The money was destroyed and the old
couple LETT penniess
on the 18th Nelson Colbert lcoloredi was
hanged at Washington for the murder OF
Philip Wentzell in October last
LOUIS PALMER's house at Rockdale, Tex,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th and Mrs
Palmer and her two little boys persisted in
the flames Mr.. Palmer was also badly
burned
on the 18th Firmino Opepago, an Indian,
was hanged at Tucson. A. T., for the muir
der of Patrick Ford, prospector.
ARTHUR l. THOMAS took the oath of
Office as Governor of Utah on the nth
SEVERAL buildings in the western portion
of Morgan County, Ill, were destroyed by
a cyclone on the evening of the nth.
A HAu.-sToRM passed over Buckyille Ark,
on the 18th, doing great damage to growing
crops.
On the 18th Raney Teater. nine years old,
committed suicide near HarrOdsburg, Ky
because his parents insisted upon his going
to work
OK the 18th the schooner Merrick was run
down and sunk by the steamer r p. Ran
ney on Lake Huron, near Pressure Isle, and
five Of the crew were drowned
uOAT upset ON the 18th at yicksburg,
Miss. and nine negroes were drowned
Is Fort Wayne, Ind, all the saloons closed
on the 18th, and for the first time in over a
quarter of a century not drink was OBJ
tainable under any preteuse. Cigar stores
and drug stores were also closed.
AT San Francisco a severe earthquake
shock was felt early on the morning of the
l9th The shock was general, and in the
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down.
THE percentage of the baseball clubs in
the National League for the week ended on
the 18th was as follows: Boston, .796; Phil
adelphia, .6s4; New York. $50; Chicago,
.523; Cleveland, AS; Pittsburgh, 400;
indianapolis. $50; Washington, .235 Amer
lean Association: st Louis, .75S; Kansas
City, els; Brooklyn, .5S3; Cincinnati, .iSl I;
Baltimore, $50; Athletic, AIS; Columbus
3,S3; Louisville, go. Western Association:
st Paul, So; Omaha, .665, Sioux City. .:SS;
Denver. 500: Minneapolis, .453; st Joseph,
4S7; Des Moines, .3I2, Milwaukee, 200
IL riot at the polls on the 18th in
Forest City. Ark, Marshal +. NJ. Folbre, T.
H. Parham and Sheriff d. NJ Wilson were
killed
IL Northern Texas a cyclone on the 18th
destroyed number of buildings and killed
several children.
OK the 18th a wagon containing George
Wright his wife and two children, was struck
by train near Workman, Tenn, and the en-
tire family were killed.
NEGRO was arrested on the 18th for par
ticipation in burglary at Colombia, La,
and party took him from the sheriff and
hung him to a tree.