River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-27

ON the 20th three hundred and twenty
1 five Mormon proselytes. under the guild
ance of Elders Ellis and Anderson, arrived
in New York from Utah and left Immediate
/ ~ for Utah
/ AT Miami University in Oxford, O.. the de-
I gree Of l. Id was on the 10Th conferred
on Pre- ddent Harrison aud Secretary of the
/ Interior J. W. Noble, both alumni of the
university
I THE Democratic State Committee Of Ohio
on the 10Th changed the date for holding
the State convention to August &c and q
/ Is Putnam County, W. Va, three murders
occurred on the Goth. James d. PAUL was
/ killed by a man whose daughter he had Sc
duced. John Moore killed neighbor, Hen
~ Bradley, and Doc Lawrence, miner,
I killed Tom stevens. fellow miner.
I OK the 10Th Mrs Phoebe yennum died at
I Morrison, Ill, aged one hundred and four
/ years, eleven months and twenty-six days.
/ She retained her mental faculties TO the
I last
/ AT Yermillion, D. T.. a wind-sto n on
I the 20th wrecked the Catholic church Snd
other buildings, entailing losses aggregat-
/ ing $4,000
OK the 2Jth the steamer City of Cleve-
/ lind went ashore ON the north shore of
I Lake Superior, causing a loss of s125,o00
/ IL jealous rage on the goth Conrad Bau-
man, of Carbon. Ind. killed his wife and
then shot himself dead
| ON the 2lst William J. Hilton, wealthy
miser living at Franklin, Ky, burned about
/ syo,0 coo in greenbacks and Government
/ bonds to prevent their falling into the
hands of his wife, from whom he had sep
arated and his dissolute son.
THE house OF a Mr. Emerson. near Clin-
ton, Ark, was flooded during a recent
storm, and Mrs Emerson and seven chill
dren were drowned Mr.. Emerson and two
children escaped
AT Baltimore ON the 2lst Charles
Randolph Uncles, the first negro to be
ordained in the Catholic church, was
ordained by Cardinal Gibbons.
J. b. HENDERSON. while drunk at Santa
Barbara Cal, on the 2lst shot his landlady
and then suicided by shooting himself in
the mouth.
FLAMES nearly wiped out the village of
Quiiotoa, A T., on the 2lst
THOUSANDS of acres of wheat and other
grain in southeastern Kansas were on the
3lst submerged by the NeoshO river. The
damage 10 CROPS in NeOsho County alone
was estimated at sJ0a0O1
IL Fergus County. IL T.. the remains of a
family of FIVE immigrants were found on
the 2lst Every thing by which the bodies
might be identified was destroyed.
OK the afternoon of the 2lst the wife OF
ex- President r. i. Hayes was stricken with
apoplexy at her home in Fremont, 0.
A CYCLONE near Albany. No, on the 2lst
killed three persons and three others We're
fatally injured Many buildings were de-
strOyed
IL the Braidwood IN coal regions thou
sands of miners were on the 2lst said to be
ON the verge of starvation, owing-to an ex-
tended lockout
IL st. Louis seventeen politicians, includ-
ing city officials, were indicted on the 2lst
for crooked work at the recent election.
The percentage OF the baseball clubs in
the National League for the week ended on
the I'D was as follows: Boston, 761; Cleye-
land, 63j; Philadelphia .517, New York
547; Chicago. .4l6; Pittsburgh, .317
indianapolis. sos; Washington, 2,i3 Amer.
lean Association; st Louis. .GSl; Ath.
letic. CO.; Brooklyn, COZ; Baltimore, .5ig;
Cincinnati $40; Kansas City, .49o; Colum
bus. 3S7; Louisville, .i4S Western Asso-
citation: 81. Paul, ~; Omaha. 81. Sioux
City. ISL; Minneapolis, 40; Des Moincs,
.4Gl Denver, 40; St Joseph, .3)1; Milwau-
kee, .26l.
TWENTY families, consisting O. thirty-one
persons, were poisoned on the 22d at Find
Law o. from eating pressed corled beef
IL was thought that all would recover.
EIGHT of the eleven m smbars OF the Wes-
sen family living In Van Barren County,
Ark. lost their lives in a recent flood.
MOB on the 22d lynched Nick Foley,
who recently shot and instantly killed Mrs
Clark. the sister OF his sweetheart, near
Eigin Neb
STATE TREASURER BAMBERG dropped
dead at his home in Columbia. S C., on the
22d
Az incendiary fire destroyed thirty build
ings in the business portion of Vancouver,
W T., on the 22d
REV WILLIAM HENEY BEECHEE, the oldest
brother of the famous Brooklyn preacher,
died on the PSI at his home in Chicago, aged
ei-hty-seven years.
EMMA IsfBAsCHE, aged thirteen years, COM
mitted suicide on the 22d near Berry Vii
lage. Ill. by hanging herself to a 5edpOst
with her mothers apron.
Ok the 22d John Collins. wealthy farmer
living in Oswego township, H., was conf
denced out OF 5000 by three-card monte