River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-16

THE fast mail train on the Union
Pacific was wrecked near Sidney, Neb.,
on the 9th by broken rail, and the
cars caught fire and the two mail-cars
and the baggage-cars were burned.
FERDINAND CASTING, living near
Winamac, Ind, as the result of feud
shot and killed Charles Kuryart on the
9th and then took his own life. Both
were farmers.
IN Southern Illinois many farms were
on the 9th almost submerged with
water. the result of a long-continued
rainfall.
On the 9th caisson Of the new bridge
near Louisville, KY, gave way. crush
ing 70 death fourteen workmen.
Iowa Prohibitionists held a State
Temperance convention in Des Moines
on the 9th which was largely attended,
and a series of resolutions indorsing the
prohibitory law and demanding its re-
tention. intact were adopted
THE attorneys for the Cronin defense
in Chicago filed their bill Of errors on
the 10th in a motion for a new trial.
THOMAS HENDERsoS's house at Web
ster Springs, Va, was burned ON the 10th
and Mr.. Henderson and two children
were cren'ated.
THE report of the National Woman's
Temperance Union for 1889, made pub
lie on the 10th, shows a membership of
la, S4s, gain of 1891 over the previous
year.
OK the 10th ]. C. Parish, forty-two
years of age, was hanged at Raleigh,
y. C.. for criminal assault upon his own
daughter. He died protesting his limo
cence.
THREE children of J. w. Brayden, liv-
ing near Donaldsonville, La, died on
the 10th from taking strychnine by
mistake for quinine.
On the 10th John and Pole French, ar
rested at London, KY, for murder com
mitted in Virginia seventeen years ago,
were identified as the guilty parties and
taken TO Virginia.
OK the 1Ith Wesley Elkins, the
twelve-year-old boy who a week age
murdered his father and mother in Elk
township. Ia, and made a complete con-
fession of the crime, was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
In Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska a
severe blizzard ragged on the 12th doing
much damage and blockading all rail
ways.
A coLoRED youth of Barnwall County,
y. C., named William Black, who was
charged with stealing, was tied 20 a
tree bya white man named David Ready
on the 11th and shot to death.
AT Sardis, Miss, storm on the 18th
/ wrecked two churches and several stores
and residences.
On the 18th a cyclone struck the
southwestern section of St. Louis and
swept on through to the northern limits
wrecking dozens of dwellings and
stores, killing four persons and injurinp
many others.
FIRE destroyed the Monarch distil
lery at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 12th. Loss
Sl6l, 500.
AT Ingersoll. Tex, Mrs. L. f. Page
the wife of well-knOwn citizen, on the
18th gave birth to four girl babies, and
the quartette were strong and healthy.
II the stables of the Macy Brothers,
at Versailles, Ky, fire on the 18th de
stroyed thirty-five out of tbirty-eight
horses. among them one recently sold al
auction for s51,0 The entire loss was
$3.50. 900.
! Two YOUNG men while riding a rail
road velocipede on the Fort Wayne road
on the 18th near Wheeler, Ind, were
struck by locomotive and instantly
I killed.
A BUSINESS block in Muncie, Ind, wa:
burned on the nth. Loss, 100000.
! Oh the 18th John Richmer. aged thir
teen years, and Elsie Westlake, aged
eleven years and six months. were mar
ried near Raleigh, n. c. The parents
of the children were present at the
ceremony.
The Kansas Supreme Court on the
18th decided against the sale of liquor
! in original packages in the State.