River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-21

aged fourteen years They had been lovers
for four years, and received parental con-
sent 70 marry
FLAMES on the I4th at Newman, Ca. de
Etroyed the principal business square
Az order was issued by Mayor Broatch,
of Omaha, Neb, on the 18th for the strict
enforcement of the Sunday saloon-closing
law. The law had never been enforced.
ON the 18th Magruder Fletcher tcoloredl;
who criminally assaulted Mrs. Obadiah Mac
Creedy, was taken from the Jail at Tasiey,
Va, by a mob and lynched
WILLIAM BUFFALO (colored), only six years
of age, was arrested at Norfolk, Va. on the
18th for the murder OF Riddick Harrison,
ten years old, also colored
WILLIAM FLOWERS house at Hollow Rock
Tenn, was burned early on the morning OF
the 18th and Flowers and his wife and two
children persisted in the flames
TIE Legislature of Tennessee on the 18th
passed bill transferring the Hermitage,
the old home of President Andrew Jackson,
at Nashville. to the Confederate Veterans
Association for twenty five years.
The death Of Prof A s WEIGH, for many
years president of the State Agricultural Col
lege at Ames, Ia, occurred on the 18th at
Pasadena, Cal. where he had gone on ac-
count of falling health. He was about sew
enty years of age, and during the recon-
struction period was United States Sena-
Tor from Florida
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed Kelly Bros
warehouse at Greenville, S c., with twelve
thousand bales of cotton.
Oh the 18th James LaffeTty, stock dealer
of Wyoming County, W. Va, was waylaid,
killed and robbed of 81 goo near Rockville
creek
AT Chill, Ind Michael Null was married
he e. Cot
wns seyonty-one years old and the groom
sixty-nine years of age
THREE colOred men, Willie Green. Ander-
son Mitchell and Daniel Jones, were hanged
on the 18th at Arkadelphia. Ark, for the
murder of a negro preacher named Arthur
Horton, May 81, ISIS
SAMUEL RUMBLE, of Italian Canyon, New,
on the 18th shot and killed his father-in-
law, George Hosking, and his wife, his
brother in-law, aged fifteen, and then killed
himself Family trouble caused the crime.
s. @. WHEELoCK, a wealthy ST. Louis
produce dealer, aged seyenty-one years,
was married on the 18th to Mary Hancock,
poor orphan girl, aged fifteen years.
TIE Supreme Court of Illinois on the 18th
denied the claim OF Messrs. Fielden. Schwab
and Neebe the imprisoned Chicago Anarch-
lists, that their sentence was illegal
HE uedbu OF Juu2e NIanJ GOOuTlcn,
Chicago pioneer. who lived TO see hamlet
of eight dwellings grow to the present
city, occurred ON the 18th at the age of
seventy-eight years
MEYER & METHUDY one of the oldest
lumber firms in St Louis, failed on the 10th
for $4,000
THE Legislature of California adjourned
sine die on the 18th
OKLAHOMA boomers were on the 10th
driven from the forbidden territory by
United States troops.
In Lower California terrific cloud-burst
occurred on the 10th, killing several per-
sons and destroying vast amount of prop
erty.
INDIANS lar Reno, Cal, being deter
mined to break up drunkenness among
their people, stoned to death squaw on
the 10th who persisted in getting intoxi-
Gated
JOHN VI Gardner, a farmer, seventy-eight
years of age, was burned to death near Sey-
mOur, Ind, while trying to extinguish a
fire on the 10th that was burning his fenc-
ing.
AT Cincinnati on the 10th DIR. Carver de
feated Al Bandle in the gun contest for the
world championship. Carver's score was 90
and Bandle's 90.