River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19

Mrs. AURNsBAUGH shot and killed
her husband, Grant Aurnsbaugh, and
then blew her own brains out on the
18th, near Lebanon, Ore. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
AT Big Springs, Neb., John Tueston
and wife while driving across the rail-
road track on the 18th were struck by
train and instantly killed.
On the 1871 the house of a family
named Esther, located on Bull creek,
near Marysville. KY, was swept away
/ by flood, and Mrs Esther and her three
daughters and two sons were drowned.
About oxen other persons living on the
ba uks az the creek were also drowned.
On April 10 ]. $. Hartman left Wa
bash, Ind, on a walk of 5000 miles
across the continent for a wager OF
So, 600. He arrived in San Francisco on
the 18th, having finished the trip in
sixty-one days. four days less than the
time stipulated.
In the vicinity of Sibley, Ia, during
storm on the 18th, buildings were
wrecked, crops DESTROYED and numbers
of horses and cattle killed.
A CALL was issued by Governor Fifer
on the 18th for special session of the
| Illinois Legislature to convene at the
capitol in Springfield July 2S to con-
slider worlds fair matters
The Republicans OF Missouri will
meet in State convention in st. Louis
on July $
At Richmond, Va, a census enumer-
ator found colored woman named
Martha Gray on the 18th who has had
thirty-seven children since 1865. She
has given birth to triplets six times, to
twins six times and to seven others
singly.
| On the l4th Homer +. Newton. one of
the most prominent farmers of Northern
] Ohio, died at his home in West Rich
| field from the effects of eating twenty
six hard boiled eggs on a wager.
FoR the week ended on the 14th ult
the percentages of the baseball clubs in
the Players League were: Boston. .62S;
Brooklyn. sos: New York. .535; Chica-
go. sic; Philadelphia, SIP; Pittsburgh,
| .464; Cleveland, .421; Buffalo, 1921.
The clubs in the National League stood:
Cincinnati, .69l; Philadelphia, .651;
Brooklyn, .595; Chicago. $50; Boston.
.465: New York, 432; Cleveland, 1873;
Pittsburgh, .225.
THRTY-TIREE houses were unroofed
and three persons were killed during a
| wind and rain storm on the 18th in Gin
| cinnati.
The cath of Nancy Warren occurred
| in Centralia, Ill, on Ihe 14th at the
| age of nearly los years. rAc deceased
was born September 6, 1882, in North
| Carolina, and remembered to have seen
| Washington.
| FLAMES on the 14th at Menasha, Wis,
| destroyed the sawmill and immense new
| playhouse of the Woodenware Company.
| Loss. $780, OOO
AT Omaha, Neb.. the Carter white
lead works were burned on the 18th.
Loss, $50, 900.
| NEAR Knoxville, Tenn, a number OF
persons were poisoned at picnic on
the 14th, by the ice-cream, which had
stood too long in the freezers. Sixteen
women and children were critically ill.
REPUBLICANS of the First Illinois dis
trict on the 14th renominated Abner
Taylor for Congress, and in the Fourth
district George f. Adams was renomi.
mated.
On the 14th three young men while
bathing in the river at St Louis we're
drowned.
PoRTIoNs of Illinois were swept by a
| cyclone on the 14th, great damage being
done to property at Frederick, Bluff
| Springs, Monmouth. Rock Island, Au-
rora, Elgin and Beardstown. At Rock
ford high water inundated the city,
causing a loss of $500, 900.
LIZZIE MURPHY, Nellie Mahoney and
the latter's 1O-year-old brother were
drowned on the 18th at Anoka. MINI.
IN Cleveland, o., 200 persons were
| hurled from a broken foot bridge a
distance of sixty feet on the 18th, and
forty were injured, some fatally.