River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-24
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TIE season OF the American Baseball
Association closed on the 18th. the clubs
standing Is follows: Brooklyn, .67S per
cent ST. Louis .G'6; Athletic. 1853; CiRcin-
natl $40; Baltimore, .525; Columbus. .43i;
Kansas City, 401; Louisville. 100
The death OF Ex-Governor Perry. of FiOri-
da. occurred on the 18th at Kerrville, Tex
Or the evening of the 18th the wheels of
a train at Eminence. Ky, cut four toes
from the LETT foot OF Secretary of State G.
" Adams. who narrowly escaped being
crushed to death
At Omaha. Neb., the Mercer Electric
Street railway was purchased on the 18th
BY the Consolidated street Railway Gem
pany for $4,000 The purchase gives
the Consolidated company monopoly of
all street-car lines in the city, aggregating
seyentY-twO miles
THOMAS BRoOKs was found guilty at
Council Bluffs. Ia, on the 18th of murder
ing Frank De Goode last March The jury
recommended imprisonment for life.
UNITED STATES officers on the 18th seized
the distillery Of Freiburg & Workum at
Lynchburg. o, on a charge OF defTauding
the Government The amount of whisky
seized is more than a million gallons
Is riot at DOth-n. Henry ounty. Ala. on
the /. tn over the arrest OF q member of the
Farmers Alliance, a brother of the man ar
rested drew a knife aud attacked the mars
hal Several persons then drew revolv-
ers. and two men were instantly killed
and six wounded, three of them fatally.
a CAR on the Mount Auburn Inclined
Plane road az Cincinnati dashed down the
hill on the 18th owing To the disarrange-
ment OF the machinery and was totally
wrecked by striking the bumpers" at the
bottom OF the nine passengers on board
four were killed instantly, another utee in
few minutes and five others were injured,
ssme fatally.
OK the 10th an east bound train on the
Indiana Midland road WAS wrecked at Leb-
anon, Ind and sherman Moon. of Chica-
go. was killed, and several persons were
wounded
The National Board of Trade convened
IN twenty-firsJ annual session at Louisville,
Ky. on the 10th.
wv HARDY and = H. LamsOn quarreled
near Lebanon. Mo. on the 10Th over the at
tentions of Lamson 10 Hardy's daughter,
and both slashed each other fatally with
knives
JUDGE IRyIS rendered a decision at In
dianapolis on the 10th declaring the dressed
beef act passed by the last Legislature to
be unconstitutional.
Is the South Dakota Legislature az Pierre
on the 10th r F. Pettigrew and G. C. Moody
were elected United States Senators by the
Republicans
THE street railway presidents in session
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on .he 10th de-
nounced the Knights of Labor for their al
legged attempt 10 dominate street-car lines
and the crime and bloOdshed committed in
its name.
on the 10th Charles Heidenreich aged
twentT-One years shot his wife dead and
then zilled himself in Corryville, o.
JoRS OLSON and William Drager were
hanged at Plscerville, Col, on the 10th for
the murder in March. 1855. of John Lowell
Mas EFFIE 1 ScHoLL. OF Santa Ana Cal,
was found with her throat cut on the 10th,
and her two children. boy aged i've and
girl aged three years. were found dead be-
side her with their throats also L Mrs
scholl had killed the children and at
tempted suicide.
AT Denver. Col, the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers commenced their
twenty-sixth annual convention on the
18th Chief Arthur addressed the delegates
present
On the evening Of the 10th two passen-
ger trains on the Burlington a Missouri
road crashed together near Gibson, Neb,
the two engines. a chair car and a COM
bination car being completely wrecked
One passenger was killed and two or
EnEGo OLueEe were = NNlEA
In all. over fifty persons were wounded
AT the session of the National Board OF
Trade at Louisville. Nv, on the 18th the
Torrey Bankruptcy bill was Endorsed
Henry watterson addressed the meeting
and the convention then adjourned
THE south Dakota Leg stature on the
18th declared MessTs Moody and Pettigrew
fthe Republican Senator's elected The
body then adjourned TO meet In January.
On the 18th pr irie fires were doing vast
damage in the low-ia1ds near Fort Wayne,
Ind. and many land owners would be
ruined
OSthe night Of the 18th sO-called respec-
table citizens OF Murray City. O, burned
the house OF George Washington, colored
man because no more blacks were wanted
I In the town
GEoRGE HAzLEToS, formerly Republican
member OF Congress FROM Wisconsin. was
on the 18th appointed attorney for the Dis
tKict Of Columbia