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

DICK SlSEx. a local tough ut Richmond
Ind in fight on the 18th with John Bris-
tow, a wandering soldier, bit the latter's
nose of II was an unprovoked assault.
HEAVY fall of snow in Minnesota and
Dakota occurred on the 18th.
OS the 14th the Supreme Lodge of the
knights of Honor met in sixteenth annual
session at Indianapolis The secretary's re
port showed a total membership of l27.O00
divided among ,. so lodges which paid So
cicero death benefits last year.
AT Dayton, O.. Walter Keller nine years
old. fell into vat Of vinegar on the 18th
and was drowned
JOz HOOKER the famous trotting horse
killed himself at Parkersburg ". Va, on
the 18th by running away and cutting his
head nearly off against barbed- wire fence
At IsUmbertOn. = C.. a gale on the 18th
unroofed many small houses and utterly
obliterated the crops
4 CYCLONE did great damage on the lith
at Danville. Va. to roofing. fences. shade
and fruit trees Three tobacco factories
were unrOOfed, The bridge over the Dan
river damaged. aud house in course of
construction and the ColOre1 Baptist
Chu-ch were blown down.
ATtne annual conference of the Hotel
Mems Mutual Benefit Association of the
United States in Chicago on the 18th VI ;
Gibson Of Portland, Ore, was chosen pres
ident for the ensuing year
IL the vicinity Of Norfolk and Ports
mouth. Va. hail and wind storm on the
18th did great damage The vineyards and
orchards suffered severely. vines and trees
being cut terribly and the fruit destroyed
swath of five or six miles broad was cut
through Norfolk aud Nansamond counties
by the storm Barns were blown down by
The wind and many horses and cattle were
killed The losses were placed at sl,O0, -
90
CHARLES HUE aged seventy-twO years,
in q family quarrel on the 18th at Marion,
Ind. shot his daughter in-law, fatally
woundIng her He was arrested.
REAR-ADauRAL EDWARD DONALDSON died
on the eth at Baltimore. Md. at the age of
seventy three years He entered the navy
in 1S51
Is Chicago ON the 18th the Wabash rail
way was sold by order of Judge Gresham to
a committee representing a majority of the
bondholders for SIS. 50o,OOo
TINS death Of General Volney 4 = lward,
n prominent LAWYER occurred on the 18th
at santa Monica. Cal He was born in
Maine in lSa, and was elected TO Congress
several times from Texes.
A TIx mine was discovered on the 18th
twenty miles from Topeka Kan.
ONO Republicans viii hold their state
convention al Columbus June y and 26
JOIN SCHROEDER. a German saleOn-
keeper at indianapolis. murdered his wife
with a razor and then killed himself on the
18th while insane
AL over Northern Wisconsin aud Michi-
gan a binding snow-storm prevailed on
the 18th
NEARLY fivc hundred dollars in counter
felt ten-dollar bills were circulated in
Rushviile Ind. on the Eth hv two stran-
gers They Travelled in a buggy AMI left
town before their game was discovered
At Carthage. \ NJ George ". Richards
superintendent OF the Santa Fe mines was
murdered by two Nexicans on the 18th and
robbed Of Ss.OoO which he had lust received
70 pay the miners
TINS National Editorial Association will
hold it, next meeting IN Detroit. Mich.
August 2s-Sl
THE loss az sea of Cape Bianc0 OF the
iron Side-wheel steamer Alaskan, Of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company.
and the drowning OF fve OF the crew. was
reported on the 10th The steamer was
valued at $50. 90.
4 scHEoEE was being perfected on the 10th
for long-,iiStance telephoning which con-
templated the connection by telephone Of
s. Paul Minneapolis. Omaha, ST Louis and
Kansas City with each other, and with the
East through Chicago.
IT was voted at the STATE council in
Luxembourg. Va. on the 10th Of the Prot
estaut Episcopal church to Xt'uie the col
ored people from place in its councils
RoBERT DAY, ayoung farmer at Ioyeland,
O.. while drunk on the 9th sho; and killed
his aged father, fatally shot his divorced