River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-17

there. and nearly all OF the twenty fac
tories depending upon water power had
been compelled to shut down.
Adv CEs OF the 10th say that at least SEQ,
0o0 pounds of tobacco IN Fleming County.
Ky, had been entirely destroyed by frost
WILLIAM MOORE, n negro train hand, wa.
taken from the train at Jesup, Ga, on the
10th nv posse OF men and lynched His
only offense was throwing a stone the day
before at a citizen
FIRE destroyed the large livery barn
of Oxby Bros at Corwith. la. on the 10th,
ana six horses, including a 81, 800 stallion,
were roasted in the flames
OFFICIAL returns on the 10th of the re-
cent election in North Dakota showed to-
tai vote of 81, 500 HansbrOugh tRep), for
Congress, received a majority OF 5000,
while Miller (Rep), for Governor. has IL.
600 majority. The majority in favor OF
prohibition is l,loO Eighty per cent OF
the total vote was in favor of the cousti-
tuition. and seventy per cent was the av-
erage Republican vote
AT Portland, Ore. William Jones. a roll
Ored porter on a Pullman sleeper. shot and
fatally wounded Thomas AcDevitt and his
little son on the 18th. Jones was disorderly,
and McDevitt was trying TO arrest him
when the shooting took place
DEMOCRATS OF the Second Congressional
district of Nebraska on the Ilth nominated
G. Il. Casper TO fill the vacancy created by
the death of James Laird
PRoHIBIIIoSIsTs in convention on the 18th
Mt Hastings, Neb., nominated Rev c. T.
Bentley for Congress
FREIGHT trains collided near bridgeport.
o., on the 18th. both locomotives, two
coaches and eight freight cars being
wrecked One man was killed, three were
fatally injured and dozen others badly
wounded.
AxTELL the famous three-year-oid cole
trotted mile on the 18th at Terre Haute.
Ind, in 2:l2 thus beating al three-year-Old
records and the record for stations Of all
ages Axtell's owner, c. l. Williams. OF
Independence Ia, sold him after the race
to Colonel j. W Conley, OF Chicago, for
Sos, 900, the highest price ever paid for q
horse. The colt cost Mr. Williams $50.
Oh the 18th Judge Robert Bailey, OF Car.
rollton, o., fell from an apple uee fifteen
feet upon q picket fence and was killed
One OF the pickets was driven into his
lungs
On the Panhandle road pickpockets
went through a train ON the 18th near
Newark, o.. and obtained nearly 81 200
Mrs LOUISA ERNST, of st Louis. while
temporarily insane on the 18th attempted
suicide by jumping from the St Louis
bridge into the river, a distance of one
hundred feet but she was taken from the
water uniniured
IL the American Baseball Association
the standing of the clubs was as follows
on the l2.h: Brooklyn, GO; St Louis. 6G6;
Cincinnati, 55l; Athletic 80; Baltimore,
.526; Columbus. .4i2; Kansas City, AS;
Louisville, .l9l.
THR official vote of South Dakota at the
recent election was as follows: Total vote
for Governor, 1852 Mel cite (Rep) re.
ceived 80, l29; Mcclure DEM, %, AL Fol-
Congress Clifford (Rep.) received Abs:
Picker Rep.). %, III; Jeffries Dem.), 20 +.
so; Booth DEM, -, $50. For prohibit.
ton. SO, 500; against. Sc. 456
Oh the 18th Robert Biggs (colored) wac
lynched at HERNANDEZ Miss, for criminals
assaulting Mrs J. n. Raines
j. HANKS and Mark Soloman (bailiffsl
F. W Smith. Tom Kavanaugh, jeremiah
0DOnnell aud Joseph Konen were indicted
by special grand Jury on the 18th for at
tempting to bride jurors in the Cronin mur.
der case in Chicago TO assist the defend.
ants. The two bailiffs confessed their
crime.
FLAMES swept away the village OF Nor
wood. Ky. on the 18th, only one house be-
ing left.
BERT MEYERS made the fastest time ever
made on bicycle In America for mile in
Peoria, Ill, on the 18th. The time wa.
2:l3
DERRICK fell on the 18th at Lansing.
Mich, killing Peter Quinn, George Ruby
and John T. Vest
Tue death of General Thomas 3. Van
Buren,, Consul-Geueral to Japan from 1874
70 1875, occurred on the 18th at san Fran.
cisco
AT Rico, Col, the st. James Hotel was
burned on the 18th, and three men persisted
in the flames
OS the 18th Harry Van Arsdall, of Lin
coin, Ky, who stole the same horse nine
times and sold il eight times, was sent to
prison for five years