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

A TRAITS was deTaIled ON the 18th on the
Frisco line near Leon, Kan. and one
man was instantly killed and over dozen
other passengers were injured, four proba-
bly, fatally.
ON the 18th Ed Ahearn. the principal in
the recent prize fight in st LOuis, was held
without bail TO answer charge OF murder,
and the referee, tiInekeepers, seconds, ETC.,
were held as accessories.
Ii the vicinity Of Portland, Ore, forest
fires were doing great damage on the 18th.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the Amer
lean National Baptist convention OF cOiored
ministers in session on the 18TH at Indi-
annapolis. Ind, advising the cOlored people
OF the South to emigrate into the West and
take up lands
OS the 18th provision STIMULATING that
every voter shall be able 70 read the docu-
ments framed by thu Constitutional con-
vention now in session at Cheyenne. Wy.
T.. was adopted by that body.
MRS EMMETT r. WILSON shot and killed
herself at indianapolis on the 18th while
playing with a revolver. She had been
married only two weeks.
At Jacksonville, lad. a genuine case Of
leprosv was discovered on the 18th in the
person of Louis Drain
OK the 18th Tuey Gwok Ying. the new
arrived at san Francisco.
Fms on the 18th at Macon. Ga. destroyed
the establishments of Payne & Wtilingham,
furniture and s : Parmelee. carriages
and harness the losses aggregating SID Ou
The Democrats Of Iowa met in State con-
ventfon at Sioux City on the 18th and nom
mated Horace BOies. OF Waterloo, for Gov
ernOr; ; L BestOw for Licutenant-GOv-
ernor. W II BTannan for supreme Ju'ge:
Thomas Irish for Superintendent o. Public
Instruction. and David Morgan for Rail-
road Commissioner The resolutions de-
nounce the tariff. oppose prohibit on and
the pharmacy law. declare TO $40 Ii
cerse and favor the Australian system OF
voting
MRs HIRAM SMELL gave birsh 10 SIX chill
dren on the 18th at Malad, I y equally
divided as to sex-and all promised 10 live
FIRE destroyed the house ot Mrs Bacon,
n vi low. NJ Pasadena, Cal oa tn i1th. and
her three Young children persisted in the
flames
MAX supposed Il be ii A. Deu>more, OF
Rushville Ind. shot his wi through The
heart on the 18th at Windsor. Ont and then
sent n bullet through his own brain
Mas EDWARD yAPF. OF free.o-t. Ill. i
wealthy widow aged fifty-fOur years. com
mitted suicide on the 10Th by hanging.
manner several years ago.
JoHS ALLEN and f II Pratt arrived al
Sacramento. Cal, on the 10Th They left
New York on May Il and made the entire
distance on horseba
EEv T. X Lone Of Savannah, Ga. said
AZ the close Of the National COlored Baptist
convention az indianapolis ON the 18th that
out of . 80 CO.. Baptists in the United states
81. 273 were cOl0red; and that when the
emancipation proclamation was issued
there we're but so colOred Baptists in the
country
GENFEAL RosEcEASz was reelected
president OF the Society Of the Army OF
the-C cumberland AZ the meeting in Chat
tanool-a. Tenn. ON the 18th
Tar residence of Mrs A. Senbower neal
Oakland Md, was burned on the 18th, and
her two little children lost their lives in
the flames
OK the Ipth Fert Hays Kan. was aban-
doned as a military post. and would be
turned into a soldiers cottage home.
on the I9sh the new Government dry
dock at Por tsmouth- Va. the largest on the
Atlantic c Jast. was formally opened
on tbs a0th an accident TO the electric
railway up Mission Ridge. near Chatta
noova. Tenn. resulted in serious injuries q
t,.enty-one persons from Illinois and In
diana who were attending the reunion Of
Wilder's Brigade.
Az express car OF the Pacific Express
Company was entered BY ROBBERS az Bolton
Tex. on the 10Th, who opened the safe ano
stole $1,000
FLAMES on the spth burned Blackmar
Bros sash factory al Snohomisb Ore
causing loss OF SI25, 90