River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-26


Ar news agency in London a letter
signed Jack the Ripper" was received on
the 18th in W ich the writer stated that In
about a week another murder would be
added 10 the list of Whiteohapel horrors
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that the
province XII, In the southwestern part OF
Japan had been visited by one OF the
greatest disasters in the history of the
country Probably more than fifteen
thousand people were killed, several towns
were wiped completely off the face of the
earth and others were nearly demolished.
The catastrophe was occasi0ned by floods
in the western part of the province and
by the crumbling OF a mountain which
buried six villages under a huge mass OF
rocks and earth In the eastern districts.
Over twenty thousand persons were re-
ceiving relief
CHINA advices of the 18th state that the
boiler OF a launch burst In the river at
Shanghai and twenty persons were killed
SEVERAL thousand tons OF rock slid at
Quebec, Can, on the 18th from Cape
Diamond at the end of the Dufferin terrace
to Champlain street, three hundred feet
below, demolishing in its course seven
dwellings Thirteen dead bodies had been
recovered from the ruins, and fifty more
were supposed TO be buried in the debris
The property loss would exceed 500, 600
wATERsPoUT burst over the city of
Cerro GordO, Mex, on the 18th, drowning
several persons aud sweeping away horses
and cattle
OK the 10Th eight cotton mills IN Preston
and fourteen in Blackburn, Eng, shut Town
owing To poor business, and as a result
thirty thousand looms and ten million spin
dies were idle.
THRoUGHOUT Austria there was n heavy
fall of snow on the 10th and hundreds Of
peasants cottages in the vicinity of Vienna
were completely showed under Much
damage was done to crops.
On the 10th the steamer Florence found
cred in the Irish sea while en- route from
Carston to Belfast. and nine persons were
drowned
From the Rhine wfne-growing district re-
ports of the 10Th indicated that this years
vintage would be the best of the century.
RIO GRANDE advices of the 3th state that
Mexican citizens had a desperate battle
with Mexican officers and soldiers In Mex
leo. in which four hundred participated,
and many were reported killed.
THE British war-ship Lily struck a rock
on p lint Armor and sank on the 10Th, and
seven o. her crew were lost and the vessel
was n total wreck Considerable money
and valuables went down with her.
TIE elections in France on the I'D re-
suited as follows: Republicans ~; Anti
Republicans, IS; re-ballOts necessary, 90.
BouIanger was said to have been chosen in
the Montmartre district, but a second bal
lot would be necessary in his case.
THE fercest forest fires ever seen on
Prince Edward Island ragged on the 2lst
west OF Summer Side Three saw-mills
and large number of dwellings and out
buildings were destroyed
A CYCLONE on the 2lst partially destroyed
the town of Chicintepec. Mex
DECREE was issued by the Sultan OF
Zanzibar on the 2lst declaring all men in
his domintons free after November. The de-
cree also authorizes English and German
men-of-war to search Zanzibar vessels in
search OF slaves
FIRE destroyed the business portion of
Kensington, Prince Edwards Island, on the
2lst.