River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
Ar Denver and CHEYENNE thrce-fourths

AT Denver and Cheyenne ce-fourths
OF the inhabitants were on the Goth said
to be suffering from Russian influenza.
OS the Goth the Indiana Afro-Ameri-
can League was organized at Indian
apolis, the object being to protect the
colored race against outrages.
In California floods had on the Goth
caused loss OF 100000 along the line
of the Santa Fc railway and $50, 900 loss
on the Southern Pacific lines.
MIS-. LENA ScHIP's three children
we're burned to death in their home at
Omaha Neb., on the 2eth. The mother
was absent and the house caught fire
with the little ones locked in it.
OK the 10Th the Wabash Manufacture
ing Company, large dealers in stationery
in Chicago, failed for $4,000
A FIRE destroyed the main building
of the Western College at Toledo, Ia,
on the Goth. Loss. $3.50. 900.
THE Douglas County KAN Farmers
Alliance on the 27th adopted resolutions
boycotting dressed-beef men or butchers
who handle the products of the so-called
beef combine.
On the 27th Rev. John Stanley, of ST.
Paul; Rev. James Mcdolricl<, of Mime
apolis. and Rev. Joseph Ii. Cotter, of,
Winona, were consecrated as Roman
Catholic Bishops at st. Paul on the 27th.
WILLIAM HARGRAvE met his wife in a
street at Evansville, Ind, on the 9th.
cut her throat with pocket-knife and
made his escape.
JoHN FRANCE and John Clark were on
the 25th sentenced to two years in
prison and DISTINGUISHED for five years
for burglary at Kouts, Ind.
GOVERNOR LARRABEE in an address
at Dubuque, Ia. on the 27th said that
the prohibition law was a success "a the
State, that il decreased crime and was
depopulating the jails and peniten-
tiaries.
An Apache Indian named Randiezaz
was hanged on the 9th at Globe. A. T.,
for the murder OF Lieutenant Mott last
March.
THIRTY post-office clerks at Baltimore
were suffering from influenza on the
27th and we're unable to work.
Oh the 27th Bud Wilson, a negro ac-
cused of an assault upon a white woman,
was lynched near Tuscaloosa. Ala.
Oh the 2sth Mrs. Jane Erwin and her
two daughters were asphyxiated by gas
at Oakland, Cal.
SIX THOUSAND bales of cotton, worth
$500. 600, were destroyed by fire on the
2sth at Yazoo City, Miss.
NINE men were horribly burned at
Dallas, Tex. on the 2sth by an explo-
sion of molten metal in foundry.
In the district around Los Angeles,
Cal, damage to the extent of $500, 900
was done to fruit land on the 2sth by a
river overflow.
An explosion on the 2sth in the show
case mandatory of Schmitt & Co. at
Cincinnati killed three men.
THE annual report of the coroner on
the 2sth showed that 259 persons wee
killed last year in Chicago by the rail-
roads.
THEODORE GROSS family, consisting
of the parents and eight children, with
one visitor, Miss Lena Erbst, were ere
mated by the burning of the house in
which they lived at Hurontown, Mich,
on the night of the Goth.
OWING to domestic troubles William
Major. farmer living near Mount Yer
non, Mich, on the 2Sth killed his wife
and his daughter, Mrs. Depew, and her
child. and then took his own life.
AT Barnwell, S. C., eight negroes were
taken from Jail BY a mob on the 2sth
and shot. They were accused of murder.
On the Goth Mrs. Elizabeth Price, OF
Normal, ILL.,, celebrated her ninety
ninth birthday. She was in good health.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed
throughout the Northwest on the Goth,
blocking all the railways. In Stevens
County, Kan, there was much suffering
from lack of fuel and food, and many
were on the verge of starvation.
On the Chesapeake & Ohio road pas
senger train was wrecked by broken
axle near White Sulphur Springs, w.
Va, on the 2sth, and ten persons were
killed and ten wounded.
An old man named J. +. Clarke was
cooked alive in a bath tub at Peru. Ind,
on the 2sth, due to the bath proprietor's
carelessness. Clark was a paralytic.
An unknown assassin killed Jerry
O'Neil and his wife on the Goth in their
home at Mount Sterling, Wis.