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

AT East St Louis freight trains collided
on the 4th, seriously iniuring five men and
killing the trotter Lady Gay. valued at SIS
600, owned by George Mcfarland, OF
Boone. Ia
Ok the 4th traction engine went through
bridge near GAINESVILLE. Ind, and John
Sparks and Henry Wright were pinioned
beneath the boiler and scalded to death by
escaping steam.
AT fredericksburg Va, Paul Keys (col-
oredl was hanged on the 18th for criminal
assault upon little white girl He died
protesting his innocence
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE WHITE and Joseph
d. Marcus, New Orleans gamblers, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th because OF Mayor
Shakespeare's order that the gambling
houses must beclosed.
The death of Colonel Peter Roberts.
veteran of the Mexican and Black Hawk
wars, occurred on the ith at Jacksonville,
Ill
FIRE destroyed the Hastings Brewery
Company's buildings at Hastings, Neb on
the attn, and six hundred barrels OF beer
we're burned.
Ok the : tn the National Ieague baseball
season closed New York winning the pen
nant The climbs hnishsd in the follow ing
order: New York, 6 per cent; boston,
.e4S. Chicago. SIS; Philadelphia, 496, Pitts
burgh, 462; Cleveland, .469; indianapolis,
i4J; Washington. so. American Associa.
ton; Brooklyn, ia. St Louis, $50 Ath-
letic go; Baltimore, .543 Cincinnati,
80; Kansas CITY, ~; Columbus, .42i;
Louisville. 1872.
Ok Lake Huron a terrific gale prevailed
on the 5th, causing loss to shipping at yari-
Gus ports. aud at Sand Beach three men
lost their lives
Mrs u Cook and Mrs. Samuel Abbey.
two highly-reepected ladies of Sandwich,
ILL.,. were struck by train while driving
across the track on the 9TH and killed
At Burlington, Ia there was a severe
frost on the 9TH which effectually killed
most KINDS of vegetation
Il a gale on the 9Th ut the mouth of the
Lake superior ship canal the steamers
Bessemer and SchuylkiI were wrecked,
causing loss of sl00,uU0
TIE restaurant OF L. L. Lott. at Winona,
Miss, was burned on the 5th. and four men
sleeping in apartments above persisted in
the flames
FELIX KAMPF, while drunk, stabbed his
son and daughter to death on the 5th at
Charleston, W. Va
KELLOGG. JoHNsoNS BLISS Of Chicago,
hardware dealers, altered a loss of $780,
coo by fire on the -
FATHER BOYLE Catholic priest, was con-
yictad in Raleigh, y. c., on the 9Th of Grim
iual assault on Miss Geneva Whitaker, and
was sentenced To be hanged November %.
IL the vicinity of Emmett County, la,
prairie fires on the 5th destroyed thou
sands OF tons OF hay, causing great distress
among the farmers. The wife of A. n.
Garde lost her life by inhaiing smoke
NEAR indianapolis, Ind, three men en-
gagged in making counterfeit ten-doliar
gold pieces were captured on the 5th. The
leader, J. NJ Mcbride, confessed that they
had been engaged in the business for sew
eral months, and had got rid Of large
amount OF the stuff in Indiana, kentucky
and Illinois
Ok the 9Th General J. Il. Chalmers, the
Republican candidate for Governor of Mis-
sissippi, withdrew his name from the ticket.
ALONG the line OF the South Shore road
near Superior Wis. forest fires weEe raging
on the 9th, and large amount of farming
property was being destroyed.