River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

MANY acres OF celery in the vicinity OF
Kalamazoo. Mich, were destroyed by the
recent hard frosts
Is the CrOnin murder case in Chicago
four more jurors were sworn in on the sth,
making eight jurors secured since the case
opened seven weeks ago
NEARLY all the business portion of
Rocky Mount, Va, was destroyed by fire on
the Sth
THE death Of Zephaniah Webster Bunce
occurred on the Sth at Port Huron, Mich,
at the age OF nearly one hundred and two
years. He was born in Hartford Conn,
November IL l7S1. During his life he held
many public offices.
EXCITEMENT existed at Mexico. No. on
the sth over an organized attempt made TO
burn the principal resident portion of the
town
IL Chicago on the Sth Mrs Fritz Katz
aged twenty-seven years. killed her six
weeks-Old child and herself with carbolic
acid Insanity was the cause.
ON the 9th Robert Branton shot his wife
fatally and killed himself IN a drunken
Jealous fit at salt Lake CITY
On the 9Th occurred the eighteenth
anniversary of the great Chicago fire, in
which s2O0, Oo0, coo worth Of property wac
destroyed
FIRE DESTROYED Taylor & loves hydraulic
cotton congresses, six cotton she > and :,
80 bales of cotton at Savannah, Ga, on
the eth Loss. 500. 600
Az appeal for fuel. food and clothing
was made on the 9th in behalf of the peo-
pie of stevens County, Kan, where four
successive failures of crops had left the
farming population without means of sup
port
OK the 9th the FIRE department. of
Pasadena. Cal. refused to go TO a fire in
the suburbs, and three children lost their
lives in the burning building
N the Ohio valley natural gas was he
coming scarce on the 9th. and the majority
OF the largest manufacturers at Pittsburgh
were gradually resuming the use Of coal
An epidemic of typhoid fever prevailed on
the 9th at Aurora, ". Va. the entire neigh
bOrhood for miles around being infected
AT Piqua. o., Henry Hoffman shot and
killed Lawrence Huter on the 9th and then
killed himself Jealousy over a young
widow caused the deed
The sS1a.OOo residence Of Mr.. Glenn Stude-
baker, at South Bend. Ind, was almost to-
tally destroyed Nv fire early on the morn
ing of the 9th There was only s15,oOO in
surance on the building. Mrs. Studebaker
was dangerously burned
o. the 9th samuel Garraum, aged one
hundred and four years, left AacOupin
County. III for Kansas 70 live with his
sons. Mr.. Garraum was hale and hearty.
sud was never so III as 20 need tie services
of a physician.
IN Baltimore on the 9th John Eisenberg.
a wife-beater. was given thirteen lashes at
the iail whipping post
G. OBER SoNs & Co.'S fertilizer factory at
Locust Point. Md. was burned on the 10th.
Loss. 500. Oo0
AT the session OF the Woman's Congress
on the 10th AZ Denver, Col, Julis Ward
Howe. OF Rhode Island, was reelected
president
VALUABLE mail pouch, weighing 80
pounds. was stolen from truck in the
Grand Central depot at Cincinnati on the
10Th and its contents rffed
OFFICIAL returns on the 10th from all the
legislative districts in South Dakota
showed that in the recent election the Re-
publicans elected lS5 OF the 40 members
and would have a majority Of Is on joint
ballot in the Legislature
AT Rockford, Ill. the Rock river was on
the 10th lower than ever before known