River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Lima u. MIS- carrie vernon was
burned 10 death ON the 2lst while filling a
gasoline stove.
GrSEnar. HARRISON KEf1Er tRel) was
elected a me u.ber OF Congress in the Fourth
district Of Kansas on the 2lst TO succeed
Thomas Ryan, recently appointed Minister
to Mexico.
OS the 2lst Rev Ellen Rinkle, regu-
larry ordained minister of the United
Brethren Church at Wooster, o., was
granted a license TO perform marriage
ceremonies She was said TO be the first
woman ever given such authority.
THROUGH the trucking region o. Princess
Ann County. Va. n hail-storm ON the 2lst
did great damage TO crops.
AT Trimbell. Wis, disease supposed to
be hydrOphObia was epidemic ON the 2lst
and the children We're strictly forbidden
10 leave home. Men lad been engaged TO
Sill ali the stray dogs in town.
\ WAGON in which were Thomas Yeach.
his wife and four children was struck bv
lightning near Stella, Neb.. Oh the 2lst and
all Of its occupants were killed
JAMES MAY, aged fifty years. Of Jones'
bOrO. Tenn. took oil all his clothes, folded
them neatly. and put a bottle of whisky on
them. Then he hanged himself 10 a tree,
where his body was found on the 2lst
AT a meeting on the I'D in Indianapolis
of the Grand Lodge OF Odd-FellOws it was
shown that there were 554 lodges in the
state with total membership OF 81, So.
The mystery concerning the disappear
ance Of DIR. L. H. Cronin. OF Chicago ON
May 4, was cleared up on the I'D, his dead
body being discovered by agang OF labOrers
in a catch-blsin at the northeast corner of
Fifty ninth street and Evanston avenue,
Lake View There were six deadly wounds
-. -
Twenty-Five of Dr. Cronin's friends identi-
fed the body. which was badly decompOsed.
ELSIE Fowler. an eighteen-year-ol girl
81 Hopkinsvil e, Nv. tearing her lover would
desert her committed suicide on the ed
shooting herself through the heart
FOR highway robbery, Minnie Moses, a
negro woman in Alabama, was on the 22d
sentenced u be hanged June y
GovERNoE Luce. OF Michigan, on the I'D
issued 4 proclamation prohibiting the i'm
portatIon OF Texas cattle into the state un-
I'll November I next
THEorGHoUT Eau Claire County, Wis
immense damage was done to crops BY a
hard f,Cst On the night of the 2lst. Ice
formed and potatoes. corn, strawberry
plants and othe- garden crops were de
strurcd ev rywhere.
IL the Carter divorce case. which had
been on ri 4 IN Judge JamiesOn's court in
Chicago Tor over five week. the jury re-
turned a verGict for the defendant, Leslie
Carter on yhe 91d
NEAR santa Monica. Cal. two thousand
acre 81 wheat cauglS fire on the I'D and
the entire tract was destroyed
Two STRANGERS managed to pass $500 in
counterfeit money in two hours on the I'D
ON the merchants OF Nashville. Ind
DAVID : WATSON was sentenced at Rock
vile. Ind. on the I'D to the penitsntiary
Tor life for the murder of John Hudson at
Judson on September y
TACOMA m t. adyices Of the I'D say
one Robert Shields had secured Judgment
from the United States Supreme Court for
2.oOO. 600 for his rights To land partly occu-
pied by the city Of Omaha, Neb., amt which
was acquired by him twenty or thirty years
ago and jumped" by the Omaha Town site
Company.
THE hsuse Of Rev. F. e Clarke. a Baptist
minister. near Virginia Beach. Va. was
burned early ON the morning of the 23d.
and he his two daughters and a son and a
niece visiting him were consumed by the
flames. His wife and two children escaped
The ire was of inceudiary origin.
PERRY JoNES. of Seymour Ind wss az
the circus with his family on the sd when
his house was entered bv thieves who
stole $50 worth Of money and iewelry.
NEAR MuId0ck, III. George Cutler and
the team he was diving were instantly
killed Nv lightning on the sd Not an
abrasion OF the skin could be found ON
either man or horses.
TX the I'D three brothers named Read
and their wives celebrated their golden
wedding at the old homestead near SCOTS
vile. XIV Ii was probably the most re-
markable event OF the kind in the history
OF the world
NEAR PIaquemine. Ia. forest fIres were
doing great damsge ON the I'D
DANIEI. COLLINS. OF Alliance. @, aged
seventv-five wears. made desperate by cruel
acts Of his wife and her brother hanged
himself in an orchard on the sd.
TnE death OF Judge II J. Albeit said 70
be the oldest Odd-Fellow in the United
States. occurred on the sd at Warsaw. by,
at the age OF ssventv-nine years
FIRE destroy ed nine business houses at
EIkhart III. on the 23th
OK the s4th she monument 70 the COnfed-
crate dead AZ Alexandra Va. was unvaiied
By Governor Zee
on the 81 louis { San Francisco railroad
q passenger Tain was derailed on the aith