River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-02
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Rusk We're killed
/ FAILING TO get claim in Oklahoma Ter
/ ritory, Silas B. Kennedy, Of Ruma Ran.
/ dolph County. III, committed suicide By
cutting his throat with a razor at Winfield
! Kan, on the 25th
/ TIE death Of l. e. Ieavis the man who
wrote a history Of St Louis, and caused the
/ city TO become know as the future great y
+ occurred on the 18th, aged nfty-seven
years
+ THE death of Lester H. Thompson. ex-
Senior Vice. Commander Of the New York
+ Department G. A. r, occurred at Denver,
+ Col, on the 18th. aged forty-eight years.
+ HENRY AND JoHN HILL OF Somerset, Ky,
Z We're arrested on the 25th charged with the
murder of two peddlers, which occurred
about a year ago.
TANK OF petroleum exploded in Chica-
go on the 18th, doing great damage 10 sur
rounding property and injuring several
people
+ II was said on the 18th that Andrew J.
F Culver. an evangelical preacher of shannon,
+ H. had been arrested at Dixon ILL., on
/ the 18th for forgery. His practice was TO
borrow money giving prominent farmers as
I security.
OK the 9th during a heavy storm at
( Washburn. Wis, a boom containing goo =
+ coo feet Of logs was broken and the timber
E sent adrifL
+ MEMORIAL Day was Observed throughout
the Southern States on the 18th
Mrs. MOODS and Curtis TAYLOR OF Lin
coin, Neh. charged with numbering old
man Woods, were taken TO the peniten-
tiary on the night OF the 26th tor safe
keeping A mob surrounded the county
jail al day and threatened TO lynch the
prisoners
THIEVES entered the store Of D. Smithurst,
I of Seneca. Wis. on the night of the 36th
and took from the safe about So Ol0 in cash
belonging 10 the Town of Seneca, Of which
Alr Su.i-hurst was treasurer
Us a fit Of dependency over financial diff
fcalties Farmer Mcleod. of High Bluff.
Man. on the 18th killed his eight-year-o,d
daughter and fatally woundei his son with
an exc and then committed suicide by
cutting his throat
a CoLoBED man named Cesar Frazier was
hanged az Charleston $ c.. on the 18th for
the murder Of Holdenburg February O.
TIE new mill OF Brooks Joslyn & Co, at
Port Huron, Mich. was burned on the Goth.
loss s30. $50; insurance. 5000
JOSEPH NENNEwuscH. a farmer eighty
years old, suic!ded at Caledonia, Wis, on
the 18Th by hanging himself in his barn.
NINE men were on the eth said to have
been killed in a fight between cowboys and
settlers in the old soldiers cCiony in the
western part OF oklahoma
TIE mountains near Greenbrier, W. Va
We're mass of fire on the 18th and millions
% feet Of valuable hard timber had been
consumed. with tens of thousands OF rails
aud other property
A STRANGE aud fatal disease prevailed on
the 2ith at Paulina. Ark, and the citizens
of the town were terror stricken
OK the eth the Grain Gambling bill
passed both branches OF the Missouri Legis-
Iature The bill makes oil option business
unlawful
Tou AVERY. a well-known local prize
FIGHTER. fell dead in the ring during a spar
ring exhibition ON the 9th at San Francisco.
JAMES HANNIsH's house near Hooker
vile. Vs. Va was bGrned on the 9th and
his wife and two children were burned to
death. Hannish was away from home.
BRIDGE across an artificial lake at
Chelsea Park. a summer resort near
Kansas CITY gave way on the 2Sth and
urecipitated about seventy i've persons
into seven feet Of water All were rescued
but several were badly injured
OVER forty houses We're destroyed by q
FIRE on the sth at JonesbOro, Ark, causing
a loss OF $4,000.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bills. United
States note Of the series Of 1885, letter G,
were in circulation in st Louis on the 9th
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed IN
Saline County. No on the 2Ith over the dis
coyerv of gold near Arrow Rock, Cali
fornia expert having pronounced it rich
find