River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-12

Fifty delegates, representing about thirty
counties. assembled at Birmingham on the
5th and recognized the Greenback party
of Alabama
As result of the race war in lie Flors
County, Miss, twenty-five negroes had
been killed on the 5th. The negroes
threatened to burn every house in LIE Flors
County. and all were being closely guarded
| FIRE on the 9th destroyed the livery and
sale stable of d. I. Hodges at Sioux City,
Ia, and about thirty horses were burned &c
death
Ok the 9th Henry Puterbaugh, a pioneer
farmer near Logansport Ind, dropped
/ dead, and when found he was resting ON
his knees in a furrow, with one hand grasp
( ing the round of the pillow.
Oh the 9th a sleeping-car was thrown
from the track by a misplaced switch at
Pymatung, O., and five passengers were
| badly injured
| NEAR Albany Ga, nine men were struck
/ BY lightning and killed in thunder storm
on the 9th.
! ALLEN MARVEL was elected president of
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railway
on the 9TH.
| KANSAS Baptists met in annual conven-
/ ton at Topeka ON the 9Th, and AMONG the
resolutions adopted was one indorsing the
/ prohibitory law and declaring that its re-
peal was not TO be thought of.
| AT Bourbon, Ind, Mira Thomas Myers
/ threw vitriol in the face Of DR.. T. T. Linn,
a prominent physician of that place on the
9Th, putting out his eyes. The woman
claimed that the doctor had criminally as
saulter her.
JEFFERSON HoGUE, twenty-five years of
age, was Jailed on the 9th at Fort Smith,
Ark, on a charge of having six wives
The State fair of Iowa closed at Des
Moines on the 9th, having been the mosu
successful financially in the history of the
society.
The business portion Of Linkville, Ore,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on the
9th Loss, about 900, 600
EARLY on the morning of the 9th over
fifty neg oes were scourged with whips
near Last Point, Ga, by regulators . the
victims making night hideOus by their
screams
IL the National League the percentage
OF the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the 9Th was as follows: Boston,
.65s; New York. $50; Philadelphia, SCI;
Chicago, .5i3; Cleveland. .4Sl; Indianap-
oils, .433; Pittsburgh, 400; Washington,
.S55 American Association: Brooklyn. .6Si;
St Louis, $50; Baltimore, .5s3; Athletic
SOS; Cincinnati, sos; Kansas City, AS;
Columbus .405; Louisville, .2O3. Western
Association: Omaha. ~; St Paul, 6l9;
Sioux City, 800: Minneapolis. 800; MIL
waukes, $50; Denver, AZ; St Joseph,
.422; Des Moines. .336.
OK the sth Anton Brown and benjamin
Cable, both of Cincinnati, committed
suicide through dependency.
FRANK BLEwITT and Frank Cowen fell
asleep on the It'll on the Alton track at
Marshall, No, while drunk, and were killed
by train.
The death of Dr. J. NJ. Bun, of Terre
Haute, Ind. occurred suddenly of heart
disease on the 9TH. He was eighty-nine
years of age. had practiced medicine for
over sixty years, and was the oldest Knight
Templar in the United States
| Is Northern Wyoming Territory the Big
| Horn mountains were ablaze on the 18th and
the loss from the destruction of timber,
ranches and other property would reach
| $500, 600
TRE death of Mrs. Elizabeth wallingford,
aged ninety-three years. occurred on the
eth at Mankato Mimi She was the only
surviving widow of a soldier of the revolu-
/ ton in Minnesota and was the Oldest except
/ one in the United States.
W. B. BOYD shot his wife near Charles
/ ton, s. C., on the Sth and then killed him.
self
GEORGE BUSH (coloredJ, aged seventeen
| years, charged with assaulting a white girl
/ of five years, was taken from the Jail al
Columbia. No, on the eth by a mob ane
/ hanged
AT Jacksonville, Ind, Joseph Stulte wai
I sentenced to ten years in prison on the It'll
because he ~swore Carrie Ashby, whom he
married, was of age when she was only
I fourteen years cl3.