River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
WEST AND SOuTh.

Is the municipal elections on the 10th
| throughout Illinois candidates in favor of
I liquor licenses were victorious in majority
/ Of the towns
| Ok the 10th Governor John 5. Pillsbury,
I OF Minneapolis, presented to the Minnesota
/ state University. of which he is a regent,
/ the sum OF sl500Ol
/ No less than five persons committed sui
/ eide in Chicago on the 18th Sickness and
I dependency were the causes
{ Al Fletcher, O., Dora Webster. aged six
I teen years. was shot and killed by her
cousin. Joseph Heath with a revolver
/ which he thought 10 he empty
/ 4 JURY in Chicago on the 18TH found Mrs.
/ Josie Gurley guilty of kidnapping little
[ Annie Redmond. and the jury fixed her
Y punishment at five years in the peniten-
tiary.
/ FIRE ON the 18th ut Muir. Mich. destroyed
I twenty seven buildings
BLAST fired revealed vein Of copper
/ ore OF great richness, while eNcavating at
\ Duluth. Mimi. on the 10th for new Mason
I ic temple
I FLAMES on the 18th at Iynchburg, Va
I DESTROYED the tobacco warehouse of J. W.
ChlIds. together with q large quantity OF
I leaf and manufacture tobacco stored
therein
Al santa Fe on the 18th L Bradford
Prince was duly installed Governor OF New
Mexico
NEAR Bainbridge. Ga. 1--WE men were
drowned ON the 18th by the capsizing of a
boat
THE schooner Eva. with her captain.
Henry Parks. and 1--WE men. VS. reported
a. lost on the 18th az Baltimore, Nd
PrRrY VINE. OF Brocton County, W. Va.
was Telling a tree on the 18th when il broke
across the stump and fell, demolishing his
house and killing his wife and three chill
dren.
OK the 18th George Kramer and Charles
Heidke. two Oklahoma boomers. quarreled
at Kiows. Kan, over the right IN certain
claim and during the fracas both were
killed 4 fight also secured between cat
tiemen and boomers west Of oklahoma City,
and four men lost their lives
AEt1S and vind-stoyln passed over sum-
mer County. Kan. ON the lith doing great
damage 10 crops end property. Several
houses at wellington were unrOofed and
others were blown down, and a Mr.. Hacker
was killed
wHuE fighting the fores: fires in Patrick
County. ". Va on the 18th Dr. Abe Robert
son was overcome By smoke ard burned 70
death Over fifty farmers were burned out
by the flames
TIN death ol Felice Wait. aged seventy
tWo years. professional hcggar. occurred
Z IN New orleans ON the 18th OF debility and
neglect IN a. old shanty where she had
.tNed twenty ySarS She was supposed 20
7 De very poor. but the coroner \, insoectiDg
t.S circumstance OF her death discovered
hi1,ien aro.lnd her shanty So 500
c- ~ tng farm OF Richard Davidson. near
/ trawtordsville. Iud a lar~e 49,, -
esrned On the 18Th with il confe,,ts :,
oa4sllns siS horses and a number Of cattle
-, - seNEs leoioredl broke nearly everv
og,e N the body Of his four-year-oid child
Win an ron bar and then beat his ,yife :,
death on the iSth az JackSanville Fl. n
canned 70 be subject 70 fts. and that he haf
one Ak the time ~ 'i'1''
a Tramp assaulted Mrs Henry Bennehoff
seyenty-five years old ON tie lSfb ,,ear
linn, q. and so badly injured her ~, -
died in short time
OK the 18th the steamer Everett rafs
beat belonging 70 the Burlington Ia. In,n
Der Company, was sunk at the head OF otter