River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-04

took place on the 2Sth uIt The services
were simple and transformations. Rev. L ID.
McCabe LII D., who performed the mar
rage ceremony for Mr.. Hayes and his wife,
delivering a brief funeral address, after
which the remains were laid to rest in Oak
wood Cemetery. All business in Fremont
was suspended during the services.
A CYCLONE, water-spout and hail storm
combined passed through WinOna, Houston
and Fillmore counties, Minnesota. on the
2sth ult. laying waste a belt of country
thirty miles long and two miles wide Two
persons were drowned, and the damage to
property was estimated at 100000.
The Legislature of Michigan adjourned
sine de on the 2sth ult after a session OF
six months
SHERIFF RAMSEY, assisted by Deputy Roi-
Inns and a man named Blouse, near Cam
bria, Ia, attempted on the 2Sth ult to take
charge of w. l. McGinnis, who was insane
McGinnis shot and instantly killed Ramsey,
fatally wounded Rollins, and was himself
fatally injured by Blouse.
SANFORD JoHNsoNBoUGH, of Monticello
Ind. was at work about his stable on the
2Sth ult, when he accidentally struck his
twelve-yea old daughter with a pitchfoEk
Tho prong entered her brain, producing
death almost instantly. The father is
nearly crazed with grief.
IT was decided by the Illinois division
Sons of Veterans on the 2sth ult to erect a
monument at Petersburg, Ill, over the
grave OF DR.. b. F. Stephenson, the founder
of the q. A. r. Association in the United
States
The house Of David Reynolds near Fort
Wayne. Ind, was entered by burglars early
on the morning of the 2sth ult, who
chloroformed the entire family and secured
81 100
THR percentage of the base ball clubs In
the National League for the week ended on
the 10Th ult was as follows: Boston, 693;
Cleveland. .629; New York. .6O4; Phfla-
delphia, SO; Chicago, ASP; Pittsburgh,
.4Sl; indianapolis. $50; Washington, .276.
American Association: St Louis, Gel;
Athletic 696; Brooklyn. .596; Baltimore,
SCI; Cincinnati, $50; Kansas City, .446;
Columbus. .403; Louisville. .166 Western
Association: Omaha, .7OS; ST Paul, 6s7;
Sioux City, SIS; Minneapolis, .4S9; Den
yer, 400; Des Moines, .43l; St Joseph, $40;
Milwaukee, 900
FIRE destroyed the Academy of Music the
Oldest place of amusement IN Cleveland, O.,
on the 30th ult
An Indian tramp who criminally assaulted
Mrs Frank Glassman at Bedford, Ia was
taken from Jail by a mob on the 29th ult
and hanged
An election on the Goth alt resulted in
the towns of Lake and Jefferson, the viii
lage and township of Hyde Park, the city
of Lake View and strip of Cicero being
annexed to the city of Chicago, thus giving
that city a population of l,l0O,O0O, and
placing it second in the list of American cit
les as to population, with an area of 10
square miles
REPORTS on the 29th ult. to the Illinois
State Board of Agriculture showed heavy
damage TO the corn pant throughout the
State by excess of rain.
The city of Joliet (Ill) Common Council
passed an ordinance on the 18th ult that
all owners of public billiard halls must pay
a license OF 5000.
THE Ohio Union Labor party will hold a
convention at Lima July Ia, and will put a
State ticket in nomination.
TnE trial at Mount Vernon, Ky, of J.
Logan Sigman for murder committed at
the beginning of the war ended on the 18th
ult in an acquittal
In the Cronin murder case in Chicago
the special grand Jury returned indictments
for conspiracy and murder against the fol-
lowing persons on the 18th ult: John T.
Beggs. lawyer and senior guardian of Camp
~; Dan Coughlin, ex-detective; Patrick
O'Sullivan, zee man; Martin Burke, labor
er; F. J. Woodruff. alias Black, the horse
thief; Patrick Cooney, alias the Fox"
bricklayer; John kunze laborer