River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-11

/ AT St Louis on the Sd four negroes were
arrested for the killing of seven white men
in an election riot at Marion, Miss, in No
vember, 1881.
THE Mobile Insurance Company at lIo.
/ bile, Ala. made an assignment on the I'll
/ 1t was the last of eighteen life insurance
/ companies started in the South about 1870.
/ THE North and South Dakota, Washington
and Montana constitutional convention,
met on the 4th TO adopt State constitutions.
/ On the Chesapeake x Ohio railway a train
was wrecked near Ona, W. Va. on the 4th
and George w. Walsh the Oldest engineer
on the road, and his fireman were killed
/ AT Adair, Ia, seventy-five people wer
I seriously poisoned on the 4th by eating ice
cream which was made in vessels that ha6
not been properly cleaned Several would
die and all were suffering badly.
In Milwaukee the large Falk, Jung &
Borchert brewery, with fifty-two thousand
barrels of beer in stock, was burned on the
ith. Loss. $4,000; insurance, $3.50, 600
Il the North Dakota Constitutional con
vention on the 9Th at Bismarck J. r. Fan.
cher tRep) was elected permanent chair.
man. In South Dakota, at Sioux Falls. A.
J. EdgertOn (Repl was made permanent
chairman In Montana, at Helena. W. A
/ Clark DEM was elected chairman and in
I Washington, at Olympia John l. Hoyt
/ (Repl was chosen as chairman The Idahe
convention met at Boise City and chose
Judge Morgan Rep as chairman.
FRANK BBEDIsH killed his wife az Mem.
phis. Tenn, on the 5th because she refused
TO live with him, and then took his OWL
I life
FLAMES destroyed the business district
and large part of the residence section
& of al,
of the 9th One hundred families were home.
4 less and pennil esG, and financial help wai
asked The city was practically wiped out
SHERIFF BRANsoN attempted to arrest
William and James Mills on the 5th. al
ki"hyyille, Mo, for carrying concealed
weapons The Mills brothers opened fire
on the sheriff and Ed Frenk, his deputy
killing them both
From crop reports received on the 5tl
I Secretary Mohler, of the Agricultural De.
/ partment OF Kansas, estimated the totn
yield Of wheat at "a Co., coo bushels, iusi
double that OF last year
THE Ohio Union Labor party in State
convention at Lima on the 5th made the
following nominations: For Governor, j
w Rhodes; Lieutenant Governor, C. T.
Rice; Supreme Judge, H. A. Tuttle
Auditor, Martin Krumm; Treasurer, d. d
. r.
Commissioner of Public Works, OSWALD
Dietz
TIE percentage OF the base-ba clubs IL
the National League for the week ended or
the 9th was follows; Boston. .6j4
Cleveland, $50; New York, .592; Philadel
phia, 800; Chicago. .49I; Pittsburgh, .456
indianapolis, 3.2; Washington. .245. Amer
lean Association: St Louis. .616; Brook
lyn, go; Athletic, GO; Baltimore, .5j7
Cincinnati. SO; Kansas City, Az; Co
lumbus, .395; Louisville 100. WestcrI
Association: Omaha, .7Q3; st Paul, 703
Sioux City, 81; Minneapolis, .4S1; Den
yer, .433; Des Moines, 43l; St Joseph, $50
Mi waukee .307.
The discovery was made on the 9th tha
hiel d. Miller, cashier of the Nationa
Bank of Malta, O., was a defaulter to the
extent of ST., 600
NEAR Frankfort, Ky, an express train
collided with a freight train ON the eth
wrecking the locomotive and several pas
senger coaches of the express, and cigh
persons We're killed outright and eleven
were severely injured
AT Geneva, O., eight business houses, in
Guiding the pOst-oftice, were burned or
the 9TH
Ok the 9th the oldest clothing house in
Chicago, established thirty-two years age
! by James NJ Harvey and afterward con
Quoted by his sons was closed up by tn,
sheriff
IL a conflict on the 9Th at Duluth Mimi
between strikers and the police two of the
former were shot dead and many other
We're wounded
FIRE destroyed every business house
and forty dwelling houses at Bakerfield
Cal, on the 9TH, causing a loss Of 81 ,00O000