River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-24

OK the nth Albert +. Allen was nom-
mated for Congress by the Farmers
Alliance of the Second district of KAN
sas.
OK the 18th Cyrus Craig, of Marys-
willie. Mo, local agent for Bortle Bros,
brokers and real-estate dealers in ST.
Joseph, Mo-, was charged with having
defrauded his employers and others out
of Sl25. ZOO.
The mystery concerning the robbery
of $40 900 from the United States Ex-
press Company in Chicago last March
was virtually cleared up on the 18th by
the confession of John Ehret. the driver
of the delivery wagon, who took the
money.
THE negotiations were completed on
the 18th between the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians and the Cherokee
commissioners by which 1000, 900 acres
of land in Indian Territory will be
thrown open to settlement
AN attempt was made ON the 18th to
rob train on the Cincinnati. Jackson
& Michigan road near Enterprise, o.
Engineer Vandevender was killed and
the fireman fatally wounded by the rob-
curing any plumber.
In the Democratic State convention
at Nashville. Tenn, the deadlock was
broken on the 18th, John T.. Buchanan,
the candidate of the Farmers Alliance,
being nominated for Governor on the
twenty-fifth ballot.
In fracas on the 18th at Tuscumbia,
Ala. Mayor Steele was shot dead and
John Goodwin and w. =. Chalen were
probably fatally wounded.
Mrs. w. Il. Bishop died at Atchison,
Kan. on the 18th. and physicians united
in declaring that Asiatic cholera caused
her death.
IN the Second Minnesota district tho
Farmers Alliance on the 18th nomi-
mated James II. Baker for Congress, and
in the Sixth Illinois district Andrew
Ashton was nominated by the farmers.
Ar Fort White, Fla, Green jackson
(coloredl was lynched on the 18th by
neighbors of Mrs. Robert Pritchard, a
white woman whom he had assaulted.
NINE men were sentenced to be
hanged for murder in the Federal Court
at Paris, Tex. on the 18th.
THE percentages of the BASEL ball clubs
in the Players League for the week
ended on the 10Th were: Boston, 600;
BROOKLYN, .5S4: Chicago, .555; New York,
.542; Philadelphia, .533; Pittsburgh,
.456; Cleveland. .426; Buffalo. .273. The
clubs in the National League stood:
Philadelphia. .654; Brooklyn, .649; Bos-
ton. .6ls; Cincinnati. .592; Chicago,
5O7; New York, AT; Cleveland, .292;
Pittsburgh, 23S.
IL an electric storm on the Goth at
Milneburg, La, Ed Williams, Louis
Morris, Victor Marchard and Edgar
Charles, mulattoes, were killed by light
ming.
Ar Pacific Junction, Ia, cyclone on
the 18th destroyed several buildings
and did other damage. One man was
killed.
A PROCLAMATION was issued by Gov
ernor Warren on the 10Th calling the first
Wyoming election for September IL
The Democratic and Republican State
conventions are called for August IL in
Cheyenne.
JOHN JOHNSON saved the lives of a
dozen girls during fire in the CONNER
cial Hotel at Denver, Col, on the 10th,
but lost his own life in trying to save
two drunken men.
FoUR men were killed in another out
break of she Smith Messer feud in Knox
County, KY, on the 10Th.
IT was said on the 10Th that five of
the Apache Indians who murdered
Sheriff Reynolds and deputy recently
in Arizona had been killed by cowboys.
Mrs. HENRY RIVERS and Mrs. Will
lam Prairie were fatally burned by an
explosion of kerosene stove on the
10Th at Three Rivers, Mass.
The Kansas corn crop had, ii was said
on the 10Th, been entirely destroyed by
the hot. dry weather.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES WALKER, of the
Fourteenth Missouri district, died on
the 10Th at Dexter.
FIRE recently in Toxic, Japan. de-
stroyed about 1000 houses, and rendered
many persons destitute.