River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22


AT Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 10th J.
Frank Cullom, the prominent lawyer al
legged to have Committed extensive for
geries, was released on 500, 900 bail
DAMAGE to vast amount was done on
the 10Th by a cloud burst in South Carolina
The release of DR.. ]. Milton Bowers. con-
victed and sentenced to death at San
Francisco in 1855 for poisoning his wife in
order to obtain $1,000 life insurance, was
ordered on the 10th.
On the morning of the 10th a freight
train was wrecked near Columbus. O.
James Mears, stock dealer of steuben.
vile, o.. who was in the caboose, had his
neck broken.
A DESPERATE wanted for moonshining shot
his wife and her mother and then killed
himself on the 10th ten miles northeast of
Jackson, Tenn.
on the 10th the Chicago Burlington &
Quincy railroad declared a dividend Of one
per cent.
AT a conference between the Illinois
mine operators and miners at Chicago on
the 10th a compromise was practically ef-
fected The settlement made was on the
basis Of reduction of seven and one half
cents ton, with two and one half cents ad-
vance on October1.
IT was decided by North Dakotans in
convention on the 10th at Bismarck that
that city should be the State capital
ATAastin, Tex, on the 10th two employers
pleaded guilty to the importation of skilled
labor from Europe and were fined one
thousand dollars and costs in each of sixty
four cases
AT a race war which took place at Rich
mond, Tex, on the 10th several men were
killed Troops had been called out. One
girl was accidentally killed
T. H.
OF the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the nth was as follows: Boston, .636;
New York. .621; Philadelphia, 500; Cleve-
land, .52l; Chicago sos; Pittsburgh, .4l9;
indianapolis, .4U2; Washington, S3Z Ameri-
lean Association: St Louis, $50; Brooklyn,
.6j2; Baltimore, $50; Athletic, 81; Cinein-
natl, .546; Kansas City, .4l0; Columbus
1858; Louisville. 200 Western Association:
Omaha, .6S2; st Paul, OH; Minneapolis,
.517; Sioux City, 40; Denver. .465; ST Jo-
seph, 456; Milwaukee. .i04; Des Moines, 1913
The North Dakota and Montana constitu-
tional conventions finished their work on
the 18th and adjourned sine die
On the 18th the one hundred and third an
niversary of the birth of David Crockett
was celebrated at his birthplace, strong's
Springs, Tenn.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN was sentenced at
Purvis. Miss. ON the 18th to years i'm
prisonment for prize-fghting. He was re-
leased on bail until the motion for a new
trial was decided
On the 18th Rev. r. d. Robinson, ID. D.,
one of the most prominent Methodist min
listers OF Indiana dropped dead at his home
in indianapolis from apoplexy
CosfMANDER-IN-CHIEF WAnNER, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, completed
his report on the 18th for the last year. It
shows a total membership of al DIS, an in
crease of 59,0l2 members during the year.
On the 18th mail-pouch containing at
least $1,000 was stolen from a train at
Terre Haute, Ind.
AT Pooler, Ga, Walter Asburg (colored)
was lynched on the 18th for assaulting Lulu
Kissman. aged seventeen years
On the Burlington 4 Missouri road a pas
senger train was wrecked on the 18th pear
Lincoln, Neb., and eighteen persons were
injured
On the 18th James Laird died at his home
in Hastings Neb., aged forty years. He
served in the Army of the Potomac during
the war, and was elected to the Forty
eighth, Forty-ninth and Fift eth Congresses
as a Republican.
JOHN C. Brown, Governor of Tennessee
for four years from 1870, died on the lsth
at Red Berlin Springs. Tenn, aged sixty
two wears