River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-09

On his death-bad he confessed to her
that hs was Charles William Quantrell,
the famous Missouri outlaw, who was
supposed to have been killed in fight
with Federal soldiers in Kentucky near
the close OF the war.
TEEMER defeated Hanlan in a one
mile sculling race at East Liverpool. O.,
for purse of $1,000.
CONGRESSMAN were nominated as fol-
lows on the I'd: Indiana. Third district,
w. J. Durham (Rep.l. Kentucky. Tenth
district. X. c. Hill (Rep). Louisiana,
Second district. Matthew ID. Logan
(Dem.l; Fourth. 7. J. Guice Farmers
Alliancel. California, Fourth district,
John T. Cutting (Rep). Ohio. Eighth
district w. y. Liken Farmers AL
liancel.
WHILE in tree near Guthrie. o. T.,
j. j. Mitchell mistook his brother for
catamount and shot him dead.
Two YOUNG men, Louis Griggs and
John Carroll. stabbed each other to
death over a slight quarrel at New AL
bany. Ind.
On the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleve-
land railway two men entered an ex-
press car near Urbana. o., tied the mes
senger, took eleven money packages
and escaped.
MANY acres of timber, grain and
buildings have been destroyed by prairie
fires in the vicinity of the Black Hills
in South Dakota.
The death is announced at Portland
of George w. Ebberts, aged so years, the
great trapper and scout, who was the
first to bring Oregon into notice.
The Legislature of Oklahoma has
passed bill locating the permanent
capital at Oklahoma City.
TIE caterpillars have eaten every
leaf from twenty-five acres OF oak trees
rear Kalamazoo, Mich. The worms
were moving westward.
IL the Illinois and Iowa League, the
Ottumwa la Baseball Club has won
the pennanG
crop was said to be the largest on
record.
FIVE men were instantly killed at
Chewalla. Tenn, by the explosion of
saw-mill boiler
For the murder of his wife w. !. Mar
tin. aged 81 years. was hanged at RAJ
leigh Court-iouse. Md.
IL the First Kentucky district on the
Sd the Republicans nominated Edgar
L. Franks for Congress, and in the
Eleventh John X. Wilson was the Re-
publican nominee.
The baseball season closed on the 4th,
the clubs finishing in the following
order: Players League-Boston. .632;
Brooklyn. $50: New York, .565: Chi
eago. .547; Philadelphia, .51l; Pitts
burgh, .46s: Cleveland. 1923; Buffalo.
.2T2. National League Brooklyn. .666;
Chicago, $40; Phil ,delphia, sos; Gin
cinnati. .5S3: Boston, SIS; New York,
$50; Cleveland. 1913; Pittsburgh. III.
In the American Association Louisville
won the pennant.
A NEGRO man aged 20 years and his
daughter. aged 40. were found murdered
near Bellevllle. III.
THE population of indianapolis, Ind,
is given by the Census Bureau at 1O7, AS.
an increase of 81, $50 in the past ten
years.
FIRE destroyed the Il. S. Heath oat-
me al mill at Des Moines, Ia, causing a
loss of Sl25.O00.
AT Nashville. Mich. Andrew YerlSes
died suddenly and his uncle, Clark Girls
void. while standing gazing at the
corpse tOttered and fell dead.
Is Marquet g County, Mich, 10, 600
miners struck for a reduction of work
ing hours.
Is ST. Louis William O'Donnell and
John Feeney fought about a Won an
named Mrs. Anna Myers at her house
and both men were killed.
CoNGREs SIGNAL nominations on the
4th were: Ohio. Fifth district, John
Smith Farmers Allancel; Twenty
first Thomas L. johnson (Dem.l. Vir-
ginia. Sixth district. w. S. Shelburn
iPro.). Wisconsin, Eighth district. w.
T. Murray Pro-. Missouri. Ninth dis
trict. Seth w. Cobb (Dem.l. Kentucky,
Fourth district. A. Il. Montgomery
(Dem.I renominated. Illinois, Fifth
district, Jabob Hash (Dem.).
AT the Marlboro (O) fair Bismarck. a
s.. 600 stallion. was killed in a collision
with buggy and Driver Myers was
fatally injured.
4 PRAIRIE fire destroyed a large por-
ton of the town OF Lawrence, Grant
County. MINI.
JoHN McBEE's residence at Dubuque,
Ia. was destroyed by fire, and his wife
and three children persisted in the
flames