River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-05


Detroit, Mich 90. and all over the North
west the weather was extremely hot and
rain was badly needed.
TIE American Bar Association al its clos
ing session in Chicago on the 3Jth ult
elected Henry Hitchcock. OF St. Louis, presi-
dent, TO succeed David Dudley Field, Of
New York
The G. A X National encampment at
its closing sess on in Milwaukee on the 3)th
nit adopted resolutions .gvoring the Disa-
bility Pension bin and also calling for the
passage OF per-diem service pension blu
JoHS TURNER (coloredl who killed
Charles Walker at Rush Run. W Va. il
July. was taken from Jail on the Slth ut
and lynched by mob
TIE following executions FOR murder
took place on the S1th ult. William Walker
tcoloredl and Jack Spaniard, a Choctaw
Indian. at Fort smith. Ark, or killing
Deputy United States Marshal Erwin Sep
TENDER Is. 1885; Milvin C. Garlitz at Cum
berland, Nd. for the killing OF his wife
March 80 last. and Wilson Nickum colored}
at Plaquemine, La, for killing Ben Fisher
last March.
THE death of Mrs W E. Christian. only
child of General StOnewail jackson. oc-
CURED on the 3ith ut at Charlotte. y c
Is session on the 31th alt at Detroit the
National Editorial Association elected
Charles A Lee, OF Rhode Island, as presi-
dent
AN immediate trial was agreed upon by
the parties to the Cronin murder case IN
Chicago on the 3lth ulL and the haiitfs
were summoning a special venire OF tales
men from which TO choose Jury.
OK the 3lIh nit A. A. Amidon, a prom p
nent lawyer Of gainesville, o. was shot an I
In H. H. -
facturer Jones wife is an applicant for
div 1rce and Amidon was her counsel
* Montana forest fires had on the 3oth
ult burned over millions OF acres of land,
causing loss OF thousands OF dollars
Is the National League the percentage
OF the baseball clubs Tor the week ended
on the oath was as follows: Boston,
ca; New York. 60; Philadelphia. SPA;
Chicago, SIS, Cleveland. $50; Pittsburgh,
.44S; indianapolis. 434; Washington, 1876
American Association. st Louis 663;
Brooklyn .663, Baltimore. $40; Athletic
So; Cincinnati, 81: Kansas City. 4Ol;
Columbus, .3,l; Louisville, 2l2 Western
Association: Omaha. .7us; st Paul 60;
Minneapolis. 49,, Siolx City. .4S9; Denver
.459. st Joseph, 49,; Milwaukee. .427; Des
Moines. -3js.
Is Montana forest fires on the lst de
Gardner. and the flames were still raging
Mrs. PHOEBE HODGES. living near Burling-
ton la, died on the 5lst ult at the age OF
one hundred and eight years.
MINNEsoTAs wheat crop was on the 81 ST
nit estimated at fifty million bushels, the
largest in many years.
DR. J. IL HozEN, OF Marshall, III.
soldier OF the war Of lS12. and probably
the last of the heroes OF Perrys victory on
Lake Erie in 1873, died on the SIst ut,
aged ninty-one years
Or the LIST three new Methodist churches
were dedicated at Grand Rapids. Mich
Ok the 3lst ult Reimund Holzhay, the
highwayman and train-robber who has op-
Grated in Northern Wisconsin and the upper
peninsula of Michigan for the last eight
months. was captured at Republic, Mich,
and placed in Jail
At Evansville, Ind. Paul G. Branch,
promir snt attorney, and Frank J. Dudley
a business man, were killed in "A railway
accident on the 81 Both were drunk
EDMU,D PETTIFoED, a colored man. died
on the Sist near Marion, Ind, aged one
hundred and four years
OS the - Samue' c. Showalter, aged
sixty-nine years died al Dayton, O., from
the effects OF the elixir OF life" admin
istered in the hope Of relieving him O.
rheumatism
The Wyoming convention TO frame
constitution met in Cheyenne on the I'd
TIE death of Ninian Writ Edwards, son
of the first Governor of Illinois and /;
brother-in-law Of Abraham Lincoln. and
an eminent lawyer occurred at Springfield
IL. on the 2d. at the age OF eighty years
JU1 5E THAYER decided in the United
States Circuit Court at St Louis ON the %
that the counterfeiting OF union cigar
labels could not be prevented, nor the
parties punished for so doing
Oh the ID the post-otfice building a
Lawrence. Ala, was burned by white citi-
zens. who were indignant at the appoint
meat Of a colored postmaster.
OHIO's State fair opened at Columbus OF
the second with the LARGEST number of en-
tries in live stock. farrI products. machin
-ry and fine arts ever before made in lis
history
MoNrIcEIIo KY advices Of the I'd say
that a young negro who had assaulted hi
employers daughter was caught in the
woods by a posse, tied TO a stake anu
burned to death
FLAMES nearly swept away the town o
Barker. NJ T, on the I'd, and a man nance
Ellis. his wife and four children and tire
other men persisted in the flames
TIE closing OF l. = Brooks bank a
L9nox. Ia, caused a sensation on the Sd
No one knew the condition OF the bank.
TnE patriarch Of Kansas City. No. John
c. Mccoy. died there on the ID. in the saN
enty-etghtn year of his age He was til,
last Surviving member of the original tow
company and the original surveyor OF Kan
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