River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-13

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Noble, of Ringgold County.
MRS QUIGLEY, the wife of a well-to do
farmer living near Peotone, Ill. gave her
two children dose of Rough on Rats"
and took some herself on the 9th while in
sane.
OK the 9th Lon Barrett a notorious horse
thief and general crook, was arrested at
Terre Haute, Ind, for passing counterfeit
money.
OK the 9Th the western part of Sedgwick
County and the eastern part of Kinginan
County, in Kansas were swept over by a
cyclone. and all the buildings in a space
twenty miles long by five miles wide were
wrecked and the crops destroyed A
farmer named Rogers and all the members
OF his family were killed
DISPATCHES of the 9TH say that the recent
fire in Seattle, W. T.. caused loss OF SIS
UOO, 900, with not more than one-third COW
cred by insurance. The entire business
portion of the city and part OF the resi-
dence neighborhOod was destroyed, and
hundreds of people were homeless Anum-
Der of lives were reported lost The burned
district comprised sixty-four acres.
FLAMES on the 9Th at Livingston, Ala de-
stToyed half of the town
IL the Dr. Cronin inquest in Chicago on
missing and could not be found by the
coroner's agents Daniel Brown. police
man. admitted that he was the man who
cited Dr. Cronin to trial for treason. Brown
was placed under restraint by the coroner,
who intimated that he was the man who
drove DIR. Cronin TO his death on the night
of May 4. Luke Dillon denounced Alex
ander Sullivan as the instigator OF the
crime
FLAMES swept away eleven business
houses and Offices in Syracuse, Kan, on the
9TH
The will of Mary j. Kennedy was pro
bated ON the It'll at Indianapolis, Ind, end
it was found that the only heirs 20 her es-
tate were two sons who are both serving
life sentences in prison for murder.
CHARLES r. CALs2oN and John FeasteK
were hanged ON the 9Th at Charlotte, & c.,
for the murder of W. c. Abernethy, a ner-
chant, in January last
The percentage of the baseball Gibbs in
the National League for the week ended on
the Sth was as follows: Boston, Isl; Clere-
land, .G21, Philadelphia. oil; New York,
.529; Chicago, 42S; Pittsburgh :sS2t
indianapolis, .3l2; Washington, g q. Amer
lean Association: St Louis, al; Ath-
letic. CPS; Brooklyn, .5S5; Baltimore, So;
Cincinnati, $40: Kansas City, 800; Colum-
bus, $50; Louisville. .2S4. Western Asso-
citation; st Paul, SIP; Omaha. .666; Sioux
City. .6O6; Minneapolis, As; Denver, .437;
Des Moines. .4S3; St Joseph, .S22; Milwan-
kes .233
MORMON missionaries who had for
month been holding forth at Hindsboro,
Ill. were driven out of town on the 9th by
citizens.
On the sth the Clay County Bank. the
oldest institution of the kind in Topeka,
Kan, failed for 100000,
On the Sth the Cleveland. Cincinnati,
Chicago & st Louis Railway Company
was formed by a consolidation of the Cleve-
land, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis
and the indianapolis, st Louis & Chicago
companies
Is portions of Eastern Illinois severe
storms prevailed on the Sth accompanied
by hail, doing much damage to growing
crops
IN Seymour, Spencer, Brazil, Crawfords-
Vile, Columbus and other Indiana towns
high water had done great damage on the
9th.
o. the Sth a cyclone swept through
Arkansas City, Ark, wrecking the Metho-
dist and Baptist churches and ten stores
and residences. Two persons were killed
SALOONS and theaters in Cincinnati were
closed on the 9th, and no ball-playing was
allowed
THE death of Leonard SWEET, the noted
Chicago lawyer, occurred ON the Sth OF a
kidney trouble. He was sixty -four years
old For third of century he was one of
the most prominent lawyers of the North
west
KANSAS CITY, No, was visited by a severe
storm of wind and rain on the Sth, break
ing windows, uproOting trees, etc.