River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-07

house at Evansville. Ind. on the 31st
ult. were thrown to the ground. dis
| tance Of seventy feet, by the breaking of
a bracket. and killed.
JUDGE PARKER passed sentence of
| death, at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 1st
| upon nine murderers, setting the date of
| hanging for January 10, 1890. Two are
negroes and six are full-blOoded Indians.
/ \ sNow-sToRM had ON he LIST been rag
ing for three days in various parts of
/ Colorado and Nebraska, and trains on
/ the mountain roads were delayed.
THRoUGHoUT Northern Iowa a heavy
| snow-stOrm prevailed on the lst.
THE corn crop of Kansas the past sea-
son was 276, Sal, 33s bushels.
IL Southern Colorado thousands of
horses and cattle were on the st driven
from their ranges by a blizzard and
| hundreds of the weaker animals had
persisted.
NEAR Easton, Col, passenger train,
snow-bound, was run into by freight
| train on the LIST, and q fireman, an en-
gineer and passenger were killed.
OK tho LIST States Attorney Longe-
necker said the story told by Gillette,
a fellow prisoner of Burke in Winnipeg
| that Burke made confession to him of
the murder Of DIR. Cronin, was without
| foundation.
ONE of the most important witnesses
at the Cronin trial in Chicago on the LIST
was Jonas Carlson, the owner of the cot
| tage whore DIR. Cronin was murdered. He
detailed the renting of the cottage by
/ Frank Williams" and then pointed out
Martin Burke aSAhe man who had passed
under that namcs
WHILE taking eight Apache Indians
and one Mexican 20 the Yuma peniten-
tiary On the I'd. Sheriff Reynolds. w. A.
Holmes and Eugene Middleton were
| shot dead by their prisoners near River
side, 4. T.
On the Santa Fe road a train went
down an embankment on the Sd near
Brownwocd. Tex, and eighteen passen-
gers were injured, five fatally.
Del PINo BROTHERS, cigar factory at
Key West, Fla, containing over mill
ion cigars, besides a large quantity of
Havana tobacco. was completely con-
sumed by fire on the Sd. Loss. 500, 900.
FIRE on the Sd destroyed thirteen
buildings at Luther, Mich.
BURGESS & JoHNsoN's drug store at
Eminence, Ind. was destroyed by dyna-
mite on the I'd. The citizens are op-
posed to saloons, and it was asserted
that at the drug store whisky was sold
too freely.
GOVERNOR LYMAN l.. KNAPP, Of
| Alaska. in his annual report on the I'd
estimated the white population at 5, 500.
| lie said the Government schools were
influences for good, and recommended
that Alaska have a representative in
Congress.
WOMEN masked themselves on the I'd
and wrecked an obnoxious clubhouse
on the Alton road between Independ-
ence and Kansas City.
THE death of Hiram Chilson, soldier
Of the war of 1872, occurred at Niles,
Mich, on the ID, aged ninety-three
years.
ROBBERS on the I'd tortured Jasper
James and his wife, an aged couple liv-
ing near Hume, Mo-, and robbed them
of $500. Mrs. James died from her in
juFies.
OK the I'd Jacob Carter and his wife
were suffOcated by escaping gas in their
home near Moor Park, Mich.
THREE new witnesses at the Cronin
trial identified Martin Burke on the I'd
as being the man who, under the name
OF Frank Williams, rented and occu-
ped last spring the Carlson cottage where
DIR. Cronin was murdered.
Ar st. Louis a sharp shock of earth
quake was felt few minutes before two
o'clock on the morning of the I'd. Tall
buildings were shaken and their in
mates profoundly frightened, but there
was no damage. Oscillations were also
perceptible atJacksonville and Cairo, III.
On the ID Joseph II. Brown. whole
sale grocer at Tort Worth, Tex, failed
for SSlO. 600