River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-25

THE worst disaster which ever befell the
Little Kanawha valley in West Virginia oc-
CURED ON the 10th in the shape OF cloud
burst which flooded the country, destroying
many lives, carrying on thousands of dol
lars in property and running crops for many
miles. At Chesteryille, a small town half
the residences were carried on and left in
corn-felds At Morristown the cloud
burst concentrated in all its fury, coming
down on the village and totally destroy
ing IL, together with many of its people.
At Londonderry. Pill Brush and other places
great damage was also done and lives wers
lost
On the 18th Rev. Dennis Spurrier, pastor
of the Methodist church at Greensboro.
Tenn, died suddenly while visiting the
Mammoth Cave He was on his bridal tour.
IN the western part of Jefferson County,
Ala, pitched battle occurred on the 10Th
between the Simpson and Houghton fam
lilies and friends of both sides in which two
OF the HOGghtons one of the Simpsons and
Sheriff Morgan were killed An old feud
was the cause.
Mr.. RICHARD LYMAN and Miss Bertha
Head went ont for ride on the lake at
KenOsha- Wis on the 10Th, and both were
browne I by the capsizing OF their boat
AT COldwater, Mich. Prof. Craig made a
balloon ascension on the 10Th and dropped
with a parachute from height OF four
thousand feet, falling in the lake He was
rescued unframed.
On the 18th James T. Daily. a St Louis
gambler, shot and killed Lille Davis, an
inmate of a house of ill-fame, and then
killed himself
NEAR the Standing Rock Indian Agency in
Dakota a wigwam containing five Indians
was struck by lightning on the 10Th and
three were killed
IN Montana on the 10Th a thunderstorm
flooded the entire Milk river valley from
Assiniboin to a point twenty-five miles
east of Chinook, doing immense damage.
The percentage OF the baseball clubs IN
the National League for the week ended on
the Goth was as follows: Boston. .65l;
New York, $50; Cleveland, coo: Philadel-
phia, $50; Chicago, .47l Pittsburgh, .3S2;
indianapolis, so; Washington, 81 Amer
lean Association: St Louis. .6S4; Brook
lyn, .625; Athletic 80; Baltimore, $40;
Cincinnati. $40; Kansas City. 40; Co
lumbus, .3Is; Louisville 2l6 Western
Association: Omaha, .69S; St. Paul. .65l;
Minneapolis, sis; Sioux City, 4S4; Dem
yer. .46s; Des Moines, 4S5; st Joseph, 400;
Mi waukee .:S}S
In Cincinnati. O., and Kansas City. NO.,
all the saloons were closed on the 2lst
The death of Nelson Dewey, the first
Governor of Wisconsin, occurred on the
10Th at Cassviiie, Wis, at the age OF seven
ty-fiye years
On the 10Th fifty tons of provisions raised
in Chicago for the relief of miners famt-
lies at Braidwood, Braceville and Coal City,
ILL.,, were delivered.
IN a cave near st. Helena, Neb. eight
skeletons were found on the 2Oth. 1t was
thought they were the skeletons of early
&c, -Ns,c ba chalfar Of
cave when attacked by Indians years ago
and that they were either killed in a body
or starved TO death
A PACKAGE of registered letters said to
contain sl0 600 was stolen from the Milwau-
kee pOst-offiee by a sneak-thief at noon on
the 10Th
NEAR Savannah Ga, the steamer st
Nicholas, with five hundred excursionists
on board. ran into a closed draw bridge on
the goth, demOlishing the forward part of
the steamer and killing two women ana in
iuring twenty eight men and women, some
of whom would die.
The fifth annual session of the National
Editorial Association will be held in De-
troit August %, IS - ans -
HIRAM HoADLEY, JR., sh2t and killed his
wife and her father, farmer named New
man, and en- killed himself on che 2lst nj
Edgerton, o. HOadley's wife n~d applied
for divorce and was living with her pa
rents
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE J. SUssNrLcH an
aged couple of Rockford, Ill, each over
seventy -hve years of age, who for some
time had been in poor health, committed
suicide on the Goth by drowning in the
river.
DISPATCHES of the 2lst from the recent
flood near Parkersburg, W. Va, say that
nineteen dead bodies had been recovered,
that hundreds Of people lost all they pos
sessed, and that many families were home
less
On the 10Th Auditor Al Graham. of Leb-
anon, o., decamped with $4,000 belonging
TO the county, and County Treasurer C. +.
Coleman was arrested on a charge of EN-
bezzlng $4,000.
On the 10Th Captain John Oliver, the dis
coverer of Michigan iron mines, died at
Norway Mich.