River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-03

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others The path of the cyclone was
about a square and half in width.
AT the Farmers convention at Column
bia. ;. C., on the 9th Il. Il. Tilman wa:
nominated for Governor and c. Colt foI
Lieutenant-Govern
AT Jacksonville, Ind, hundreds Of
houses were wrecked by cyclone or
the 27th, and the loss of life was esti
mated at from $50 to 200.
IN Maumee bay, near Toledo, o., the
tug May French was wrecked on the
eth, and Captain Tom Cary. Engineer
George Reynolds and two deck hand,
were drowned.
AT Birds Point, Mo-, tornado on the
9th blew down several houses.
OK the eth James Hubbartt, living
near Maple, Ind. was los years old.
He was in good health.
ADvICEs of the 27th say that Metrop
oils, a small village in Illinois, had beer
destroyed by cyclone and that severa
hundred people were killed and injured
Many buildings at Olny and Nashville
Ill. were also wrecked.
ALASKA advices of the 2sth say that
four whisky-smugglers-Frank Muzzy
John Ackerson, William Bennett and q
man named Mitchell-were drowned
near Douglass island.
LATER advices OF the 2Sth say that
| the number of lives lost in the recent
cyclone at Louisville, KY, was pretty
definitely known to be seyenty-five.
The property loss would be about 81,
| 500, 600 The wrecked portion of the
city lies between Eighteenth, Broad
way. Seventeenth and Main streets
The storm passed diagonally across the
section, which is probably mile square
Some $500 buildings were wrecked.
IN the recent cyclone twenty-five per
SONS were killed in Jackson County. Ill.
over 100 were killed and injured II
Posey County, Ind, and many live:
were lost in Metropolis, Ill. The town
of Bowling Green, KY, was wiped out
and many buildings were wrecked ant
several lives lost at Evansville, Ind.
| On the 2sth the first Legislature of the
State of Washington, after having beer
in session 14S days adjourned sine die.
PoRT ROYAL KY, was entirely swep
away in the recent cyclone.
A HEAVY wind-storm on the 2sth a
Stanton. Va. unroofed houses, uprooteC
trees and blew down fences.
ADvICEs of the 30th ult. say that il
the recent cyclone every building be
tween Bledsoe and Eulia in Macon Coun
ty. Tenn, was blown away, the town o.
Dixon Springs was entirely destroyed
and many persons were killed. The
property loss was estimated at g., 000
600. In jackson County over sixty per
sons were killed.
IN Boone, Lincoln and ad joining coun
ties in West Virginia hundreds of cattle
were dying from want of food on the
30th ult.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, John Owsley, II
years old and ten years ago a million,
aire, was on the Goth ult sentenced tC
the penitentiary for burglary.
IT was said on the Goth ult that The
defalcation of Archer. State Treasurer o.
Maryland. would be nearly 100000.
LATEST estimates on the S0th ult.
placed the number of persons killed boy
the cyclone at Louisville at 103. and the
number of injured at 500. of whom about
sixty were expected to die from then
wounds. Dispatches from other points
in the State report great damage aad
some loss of life. The towns of Gale.
donia and Grand Rivers were entirely
destroyed; in West Louisville every
business house and half the residences
were wrecked, and Blackford was nearly
wiped out.
On the 30th ult. the town of Hunting
ron Miss was from five IN Saven faet
under water and the water was still ris
ing.
C. ID. MILLER, farmer living near
Lima, o., was robbed by masked men on
the 29th ult. as he was returning from
town with $500 he had drawn from the
bank.
AT Pittsboro, n. c., James P. Davis
was hanged on the 2sth ult. for the muir.
der of John Horton. He confessed his
crime. said his real name was Shack
ford. and that while living in South
Carolina several years ago he murdered
his six children.
FLAMES on the Goth ult. at Mitchell's
Station, Va, almost destroyed the town,
and Marshfield, Mo, met like fate.
The John w. Huffman Milling Com
pany's elevator at st. Louis was burned
on the Goth ult, causing loss of $780,
600.
HUNDREDS of houses in Jacksonville,
Ind, were wrecked in the recent cy-
clone, causing loss of S750.0O0 No
lives were lost. In Gibson County fifty
buildings were destroyed and much
stock killed