River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-31

SAILORS from the wrecked steamer Earn
moor who arrived in Baltimore on the 18th
con essed 70 having practiced cannibalism
while at sea in an open boat with nine COM
rades without food or water for fifteen
days Two sailors died and their flesh was
consumed by the survivors One of the
relators OF the horrible tale said an attempt
was made to kill him in order that he
might be eaten
a FREIGHT train was hurled from the
track on the 18th at Kokomo. Ind, by
wreckers, and twelve oil tanks exploded,
setting ire 10 the cars, and three train
hands were burned to a crisp.
Oh the 18th Joe Harold (coloredl was
lynched near Columbus. Miss He had con-
fessed that he assaulted white woman.
The marriage of NJ W Chapman, aged
ninety years. a surviving drummer boy of
the war of 1872. took place on the 18th at
Cedar Falls, Ia, TO Mrs G. B. Goodfellow,
aged sixty five years
A FIRE on the 25th at Forth Worth, Tex,
destroyed thirty frame houses, rendering a
number of poor people homeless.
THE schooner Lizzie S. Haynes, from
Savannah to Baltimore, was wrecked on
the Goth on Bodies Island, and five men
were drowned.
OK the Goth the Independent Repub-
licans of Virginia met at Alexandria and
nominated an anti-Mahone ticket with
John f. Lewis, of Rockingham, for Gov
ernor.
A TWENTY years feud between the
Doud and McKenna families, living near
New Hampton, Ia, terminated in a gen.
eral battle on the 23th, in which Thomas
Doud and Peter McKenna were shot
dead and several other persons were
wounded.
OK the 26th the schooner George T.
Simmons, of Camden, n. j., was wrecked
off False Cape, Va, and five of her crew
were drowned.
IN his annual report on the Goth Cow
ernor White, of Montana, estimates the
white population of Montana at 10, 900
and the Indians at $4,000. The total
wealth is given at $3.50, 1000, 600. The
Territory is out of debt as a whole. The
assesspent shows an increase of S47,-
600. OOt in eight years. The value of live
stO.k is $50. DOC, 900. There are SIG
scAool-houses, Az teachers and $4,000
scholars. There are $1,000, 900 acres of
land. The actual mileage of railroads
in operation is given at 1884 miles.
II bicycle tournament at San Fran
cisco Miss Baldwin completed Isl miles
on the 26th in forty-eight hours, beating
the record.
An entire block of business buildings
in Selma, Ala, was burned on the 27th,
causing a loss of 5000. 600.
MILTON HEALY and Green Mccoy,
members of the famous McCoy-Hatfield
gang, were taken from Jail at Hamlin, w.
Va, on the Goth by members of the Hat
field party and hanged.
DISPATCHES received on the Goth at
Norfolk, Va, say that the schooner A.
E. Blackman rolled over two hundred
miles at sea, and five of her crew were
drowned.
SEVEN years ago Ellis Rhodes was
sent to prison from st. Clair County, ILL.,,
for murder. On the Both il was discov-
cred that he was innocent of the crime.
Local switchmen on the ten railroads
entering Memphis, Tenn, went on strike
on the 26th for higher wages.
OK the Goth John Barnard and his
four sons, accused of the murder OF Hur-
ley Sutton at Knoxville, Tenn, were
sentenced to hang November 23.
THE defalcations of Major Burke, the
Louisiana ex-State Treasurer, were fixed
on the 26th at S37S, 900.