River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-19

were draped in black, and there was .
large parade Of military and civic bodies
The settlers of Big Horn Basin, john
son County, Wy. T., attacked Kettle
Jacks gang Of thieves and cut-throats
on the 18th, lynched eleven of them and
drove the rest out of the country.
HUNDREDS of families in North and
South Dakota were on the 18th said to
be suffering for want of food.
AT Perry's Mills, Cal, a cloud-burst
on the 18th washed away five houses,
and Joseph Z. Eastman was drowned,
and at Colusa, Cal, the levee gave way,
flooding thousands Of acres and drown
ing c. I. Jones.
In the vicinity OF Cambridge City,
Ind, a cyclone on the 18th wrecked
several houses and destroyed other prop
erty.
Iowa Prohibitionists will hold State
convention at Des Moines on the 9th of
January next
SEVERAL opium smugglers, with S22,-
900 worth Of the article in their posses
sion, were captured on the l2th near Ia
coma, Wash.
JOHN ZIMSERMAN's farm barn near
Wooster, o.. was burned on the 18th,
and twenty-five head of blooded cattle
persisted.
SOME two hundred and fifty families
in Norton County, Kan, were on the
18th reported to be in a destitute condi-
ton.
DE-. REILLY, of Detroit, treasurer of
the Irish National League, on the l2th.
1ad 20 H.
of the Irish League, for use of the ten
ants defense fund.
TWELVE thieves were captured on the
18th near Cairo, Ill, and much valuable
plumber recovered.
In the vicinity OF Elkhorn, Wis,
farmers were blowing on the 18th, the
weather being warm and no frost APP
pearing.
NEAR Kent City, Mich. James Gill
more, farm hand, killed Mrs. James
Mcdonald on the 18th aud then took his
own life. The refusal of the woman TO
elope with him caused the deed.
The Office of the Huron mine at Han
cock, Mich, was burned on the 18th.
The second story was used as boarding
house and two Finnish women and a six
NtthH -OAu pCEAcuCu lut fAAultS.
THE damage by the recent Goods in
the vicinity of Colusa, Cal. was on the
18th stated at $1,000, 600, mostly to
crops.
JOHN GILMAN, the murderer of Mrs.
Ettenhover and her child. was executed
at Empire City, Ore, on the 18th, and
Carter Williamson was hanged at
Plaquemine, La, for the murder OF his
wife at Dorseyville.
In Madison County. Ind, much excite
ment prevailed on the 18th, because of
the discovery of silver in paying quanti-,
ties.
On the Wabash railway, near Graham,
Mo-, three men were killed and four
badly injured in a railway wreck on the
18th.
A DOMESTIC in a family at Madison.
Wis, apparently died a month ago of
diphtheris and was hastily buried. On
the 18th her parents prepared to remove
the body to the country, and upon open
ing the cssket they discovered that the
body was lying on its face, the hair
wrenched from the head and the flesh
literally torn from the face and hands.
NEAR Warren, o., three nitro-glycer-
inc magazines exploded on the 14th,
causing loss of 500, 400.
THE business portion of New Carlisle,
o., was nearly destroyed by fire on the
14th.
THE death OF Carl Formes, once con-
sidered the greatest basso singer in the
world, occurred in San Francisco on the
18th.
On the 18th Mrs. Lorinda b. Smith,
of Lynn, Knox County, ILL.,, celebrated
her one hundredth birthday.
AT Purvis. Miss, Jake Kilrain, on
trial for fighting with Sullivan, was on
the 14th sentenced TO pay fine OF $500
and Imprisonment for two months.
NEAR Dallas, Tex, Farmers who had
been robbed by highwaymen captured
two OF the robbers on the 14th and
hanged them.
IN Suffer County, Cal, thousands OF
acres of land were damaged to the ex-
tent of $3.50, 900 by floods on the 14th.