River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-10
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WILLIAM Hicks and Robert Mccoy
(colored) were hanged on the I'd at
bonneville. Ga, for the murder of Will
lam Hughes and his wife last Noyenn-
Der.
THREE children OF William Brown.
who had been locked in their home
near Huron, S. d., were burned to death
on the Sd.
A CYCLONE at Galena. Monmouth and
Champaign. in Illinois. on the Sd I'M
roofe1 houses, leveled fences and up
rooted trees. causing great damage. No
lives were lost
THE retirement of Murat Halstead
from the editorial management of the
Cincinnati commandments was re-
ported ON the Sd.
DEMOCRATS in Tennessee will meet in
State contention at Nashville July Is.
On the 81 the female crusaders at
Pennington, Mo-, destroyed another
wagon-load OF beer and attempted TO
enter several saloons but found them
barricaded.
PLANTATIONS near Greenviile, Miss,
which were always considered above
high-water mark, and were never before
submerged, were inundated on the Sd,
the flood being the highest on record.
TIE death of Mrs. Elizabeth Price,
said to be the oldest person in Central
Illinois, occurred on the Sd at Blooming
ton in the Tooth year of her age.
AT Lima. o., Adam Beach had his
eyes blown out on the 4th by natural
gas explosion.
IT was said on the 4th that six revenue
officers had been shot by moonshiners
at Fleminsburg, Ky.
EAGLE Horse. an Indian, shot and
killed Frank L. Lewis, a school-teacher,
on the attn at Pine Ridge agency, in Ne
braska. and then killed himself.
A TORNADO on the 4th at Thomaston.
Ga, blew down several buildings, and
in its track through the country the
ground was swept as il by brush. and
the crops would have to be replanted.
IL st. Louis. Chicago and Cincinnati
new counterfeit $40 bill was in circu-
lation on the 4th. 1t is on the Germania
National Bank of New Orleans, letter
&c" bank No. $50. series of 1882.
On the 4th a severe storm of wind and
rain prevailed at Arkansas City. Ark,
and nearly every house was flooded to
depth of ten OF twelve feet Two
churches and three or four residences
were blown from their foundations.
FoRTY-FIvE directors of the worlds
fair were chosen in Chicago on the 4th.
THE relief for the cyclone sufferers at
Louisville, KY, amounted on the 4th
TO slS5. 900. Eight hundred applications
for aid had been received.
On the 4th the sixtieth general an
nual conference of the Mormon church
opened at Salt Lake CITY with President
MILFORD Woodruff presiding.
IL tunnel near Santa Paula, Cal, an
explosion of gas on the 4th killed six
men.
NEAR st. Charles, NO., fifteen pas
sengers were injured on the 4 tn by the
plunging down an embankment OF an
express train.
CN the 9th two deputy sheriffs at
tempted to arrest a crowd of negroes
at Irondale, Ala, on a charge of lar
ceny, and in the fight which ensued
one of the deputies and three negroes
were shot dead.
CNthe hth Mrs. Windiate died at
Pontiac. Mich. aged lO3 years She
was the oldest person in the State.
f. w NEwLAND. of Chicago, died on
the 5th from poison mixed in food by
servant girl named Emma Stark, and
eight hours later his wife passed away
in great agony. The two remaining
members of the family, Francis ID. and
Grace Newland, the former 81 and the
latter IG years of age. were dangerous
" ill No cause for the deed was
known.
WHILE attempting to escape in a skifi
from the overfiowed section near Green
willie, Miss. twelve negro women were
drowned On the 5th.
THE liquor saloons in Kingman, Kan,
were raidcd on the 5th by members of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union-and Salvation Army lassies and
the whisky was poured into the streets.
Is the South Confederate Decoration
DIV was observed on the 9th.