River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-29

NEBRASKA Prohibitionists made the fol-
/ lowing nSminations on the 22d at Lincoln:
For Supre1e Judge, s p Wigton, of Nor
folk; for caiversity Regents, Mrs Jennie
F. Holmes Of Tecumseh, c. b. Palmer of
Hastings
FLUx was raging in Charleston, W. Va,
on the 22d, over fifty deaths, mostly chill
/ dren, having occurred
jim McCoY, noted desperate of South
ern Texas. was hanged on the 23d at San
I Antonio for the murder of Sheriff Nc
/ Kinney on December %, 1885. and Harry
/ Roberts was executed at Butte, NJ T., for
/ the murder of J. w. Crawford
A SOLDIERS monument was unvailed at
/ Elkhart. Ind, on the Esd in the presence Of
/ the largest gathering ever seen in that
/ city. Governor Hoyey, all the other State
officials and many other notables partici-
pated-
GARRETT F. FRIscHE, seventy-two years
/ old, and Louisa Krupp. aged sixty eight
/ years, both very wealthy and with large
/ families were married on the 23d at Sey-
mUur, Ind
THREE men were killed and fifteen other
persons were badly injured by an accident
/ on the sd on the Baltimore & Ohio road
near Parkersburg, W. Va
/ THE wonderful three-year-oid trotter.
/ Axtel, made mile in Chicago on the 23d
/ in 2:l4, his previous record having been
/ 2:l49I.
/ The Sherman escort composed of the
men who formed the personal command
/ around General Sherman when he marched
/ from Atlanta to the sea, held their annual
reunion on the sd at Findlay, O.
| OK the 23d J. r. Cunningham. the post
master at Coffeysburg, No, who absconded
with $500 on June !, was captured at Ben
/ tonville, Ark
/ FLAMES on the 2Sd at Paramount, Ill, de-
stroyed Halls Hotel and livery stable, five
business blocks and several residences
! ELF KING. with record of 2:25 and
/ valued at $1,000, fell dead on the track
4 during a race on the 23d at Sabina, o.
/ Oh the sd Tandy II. Trice, ex-treasurer
/ of Buchanan County, Mo, was said to be
/ sS6, 900 short in his accounts.
| The President on the 23d attended in In
/ dianapolis the reunion of his old regiment,
/ the SEVENTEEN Indiana, and left in the
afternoon for Deer Park. Nd
FoR the week ended on the oath the
/ percentage of the baseball clubs in the
I National League was as follows: Boston,
I 645; New York. .6l7; Philadelphia 54l;
Chicago, sos; Cleveland, 800; Pittsburgh,
Al; Indianapolis, 4l4; Washington, 1897.
American Association: st Louis. $40;
/ Brooklyn, .663; Baltimore, 5Sl; Athletic,
552; Cincinnati, .533; Kansas City, 400;
Columbus, .375; Louisville. POS. Western
Association: Omaha, .692. St Paul, 63S;
Minnea polls 49,; Sioux City. 4S9; Denver,
/ 461: ST Joseph 453; Milwaukee. All; Des
4 Moines 3iS
/ FIRE DIES royed the Union furniture works
in Rockford, Ill, on the 9th, causing loss
of s12j, CO., A fireman named Emerson lost
/ his life
AFTER a search of seventeen years Mrs.
n A. Warner found her runaway husband
on the Path at Topeka, Kan, where he was
living with another wife.
OK the 25th K C. Lybarger, postmaster at
MilwOod, o., fatally shot his wife and then
blew his own brains out The cause of the
shooting was an old family trouble.
FLAMES on the 18th among business houses
at Columbus, o.. caused loss of s10O, 600
A CYCLONE wrecked John Robinson's cir
Gus while exhibiting at Toledo, o., on the
9th and many persons were badly injured.
The J. H. Mailer Company, carriage man
ufacturers at st Paul, Mimi, failed on the
oath for s40O,OOO.
FIRE destroyed Swift & Co.'S packing
house at Kansas City, Kan, on the 18th.
Loss, s15O,OO0
PERRY THRAIL, who died at Macon, No,
on the 9th, confessed just before his death
to having committed the crime for which
William Duley suffered the death penalty
/ in 1854
Ok the oath Governor Waterman of Cali
fornia. directed the Attorney General to
dismiss the charge made against Justice
Field in connection with the shooting OF
Judge Terry.
ALPHoNsE v PHILIPS, a prominent New
Orleans lawyer, was on the 9th charged
with having squandered something like
500. GOO of other people smoney, his mother
being the greatest sufferer
THE cashier of the Mount Girard 90 Ma
tional Bank, r. p. Holiday, was on the 24th
found to be s2j,O short in his accounts