River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-18
WEST AND SOUTH,

Francis f. WARREN was inauguTated
Governor Of Wyoming on the 9Th, at Chey
enne, with military and civic hOnOrs.
The recent storm which ragged ia Balu-
more swept over the lower Chesapeake bay,
causing great disaster to shipping. over
dozen seamen lost their lives and thirty or
forty vessels were wrecked.
NEAR Edgemont, Md. mountain fires were
raging ON the 10th, and great damage had
been done.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th pri-
waite car containing party of seven Boston
people returning from a tour of California
was wrecked in a collision on the Santa Fe
road near Joliet, Ill, and Miss WinslOw,
Henry Hartt, Harry, the porter and Smith,
the cook, We're instantly killed, and the 9th
ers were dangerously wounded
I On the 10th Farmer McClaughrey, one
I of the Cook County Ill boodlers, was re-
leased from the penitentiary, his sentence
of two years having been reduced one month
by the Governor He went direct to his
home at Palos
FLAMES swept away almost the entire bus
mess portion of Camden. small town in
Jay County, Ind, ON the 10th.
AFTER five minutes dcliberatiOn the Jury
at Omaha Neb., in the ease OF Elizabeth
Beechler. VINO killed Harry W. King, Jr.,
Of Chicago. returned verdict on the 10th
of not guilty.
JUDGE THArrE decided at st Louis, No.
on the 18th that stealing papers from the
top OF a mail box was no more an Offcnse
against the mail laws than taking package
from the steps of the post-office.
EIRE ON the Iith destroyed the stable of
Macarthur Bros. contractors at Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich. and seventeen mules burned
FIRE nearly destroyed the village OF
Cannonshurg Mich. on the nth.
Ok the nth the evidence of Des Moines
river land settlers in Iowa were stopped
Z hv a cOurt order pending an investigation
instituted by the Secretary Of the Interior.
I Irwas said on the nth that Samuel w.
Myers. business manager for the Booth
+ Packing Company NJ indianapolis, was siO,
/ GO short in his accoun, He had fled
& THE three children Of Sebastian Meridian,
I a Bavarian farmer NJ II Joseph. Mimi. were
poisoned ON the 18th by eating Wild parsnip
roofs which their father had plowed up, and
T all tied in q fcw hours
+ / J. FAEwEII Governor OF Wisconsin in
+ ISL. died ON the 18th at Grant City, Mo.
az ed seventy years lie was noted poll
ticisu OF the Northwest forty years ago.
FARNEE named Henry Eoan, living near
Mount Vernon lud. was called 70 the door
OF his house on the llth and fata ~ shot by
Joseph Maynard. neighbor with whom he
E was NJ Nslll1NCe
DURING IN" absence on the ilth Of W. +.
Wood. a carpenter living in Robin County.
Ga. his house was burned and his entire
family. con listing Of a wife and i've chill
dreu. persisted
GOVERNOR FrFER issued call on the 18th
for an election in the Nineteenth Illinois
t district on the 3lst OF May Of a successor TO
( CONGRESSMAN T0wnshend
WILHEININA SETDERICK and Jacob Schal-
I er were found dead in the formers farm
( house near Bramin Hill Kan. on the 18th.
I II was thought 70 have been case Of mur-
der and suicide.
; OK the nth twenty-three horses and cows
were burned IN q IRE which destroyed the
barn Of W IL Emmons az Eden, III The
IRE was OF incendiary origin
A FIERCE gale struck lama City, Ia, on
/ the 18th. uuroofing and raising many bctld-
I inCs. No one was injured
IT was discovered on the 18th that Ahet
Z Lodge. the village and township II sSurer
Of New Lisbon, o., was s9,Wo short IN his
accounts
THE death Of ex-Congresslnan William F.
# Cutler occurred on the 18th at HIS home in
Marietta. o. at the age Of severty-seven