River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-31
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OK the 25d an old gentleman named Fort
ginger committed suicide in the town of
Conemaugh. Pa He was respondent over
his great losses by the flood
Oh the sd bicycle TOad-race from Buff
falO TO Rochester. n Y. seventy four miles,
was won by the West End Club of Roches-
ter. The best time was by c ). Ives, i've
hours and thirty-nine minutes.
AT POttsville Pa. Pietre Baranovski was
hanged on the sd for II drdering the wife
OF Anthony Putlavitch, fellow miner, and
their maid-servant. and robbing and burn
ing their house on May -, 1873
The death OF John q. X. Truair. for thirty
years publisher OF the Syracuse n. "
Journal, occurred on the sd, aged seventy
two years.
Is Brooklyn on the 29d the fourth game
OF the world series for the base ball cham
pionship between the New YOrks and
Brooklyns took place and resulted in a
victory for the BrOOklyns by a score of 10
tot
IL a quarrel at Boston on the 25d over one
dollar bet on a horse race Rodericl5 Mckin-
non. aged twenty-eight wears, was stabbed
and Killed by an unknown man.
ABOUT two hundred Cinnamon left New
York on the sd for China TO return no
more.
LYMAN DAVIS. aged one hundred and
fourteen years, died in the town of Sails
bury. y. \, on the 23d He was a farmer
and had lived in Salisbury for nearly a
century.
o. the 2ith Rev Dr. CYRUS A Barthol, for
fifty years pastor of the Old West Church in
Boston. resigned on account of poor health
AT Milton. \. Y. Mrs Robert d. Dickey
and her mother, Mrs Murray, were thrown
from carriage and fatally injured on the
24th
TIE loss OF the steamer Brooklyn, en-
route from DarIen, Ga. to Brooklyn, with
her captain aud crew OF thirteen men, was
verified on the 9th
o. the 24th the fifth game of the worlds
series for the baseball championship be-
tween the New Yorks and BrOOklyns to k
place at Brooklyn and resulted in a victory
for the New Yorks by score of IL 70 8
FIRE destroyed the business portion OF
the village OF Felt's Mills, n Y, on the
9th
ONE HUNDRED acres of the NE4te Oak
cOlliery near Archibald, Pa, caved in on
the 18th, and the mine was | Tactically
ruined
FLAMES on the 18th at Port Leyden, n. Y
wiped ont the Opera-house. Douglass House.
ght stores. the post-office and several
dwellings. many persons having narrow
escapes Fifteen families were rendered
homeless
A NUMBER OF school-children near Frank
lin, Pa. on the 18th found a dynamite
bomb which they exploded in attempting
to open it with knife, and two boys were
fatally hurt and eight others were in a
critical condition.
TIE sixth game of the series for the base
ball championship OF the world between
the New YOrks and Brooklyns took place at
New York on the 18th and resulted in a
victory for the New YOrks by score of . TO l.
OS the 18th the schooner Forest Fairy,
which sailed from Boston for the Azores
August -. was given up as lost She had
thirty seven people on board, mostly POr-
tuguese. returning home.
CHARLES McILyAISE, a nineteen-year- old
murderer, was on the 25th sentenced to
death by electricity in Sing Sing prison,
/ New York, some time during the first week
/ IN December.
ANNIE PRICE, FOrepaugh's fat woman,
/ died in New York on the Goth. She was
4 forty-seven years old and weighed 525
/ pounds.
On the Goth the seventh game of the
worlds series for the baseball cham
/ pionship between the New Yorks and
Brooklyns took place at New York and
/ resulted in a victory for the New Yorks
4 by a score of IL to :.
| FIRE destroyed the business portion OF
/ the village of Findlay's Lake, y. Y, on
+ the 2Tth.
AT Irwin, Pa, four men were playing
cards on the 9th under a Car when an
engine pushed train back against the
{ car. moving it, and the four men were
/ crushed 10 death.
FLAMES swept away the business por'
I tion of StOneboro, Mercer County, Pa,
ON the Goth.