River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-26


twenty-four hours ended on the 10th.
IN Lawrence, Kan, the first original
package house was opened on the 10Th.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union declared they would tear the
houses to pieces should others be
opened.
CHARLES A. HILL (Rep.l was renomi-
mated for Congress in the Eighth Ill
inois district on the 10Th, and John
Heard DEM was renominated in the
Sixth district OF Missouri.
FLAMES destroyed the business part
of Harlem. Mo. on the 18th.
IN the Seventh Illinois district tina
Republicans on the Goth renominated
Thomas n Henderson for Congress,
and like honor was conferred upon j.
L. Dolliver (Rep.) in the tenth Iowa
district.
DISPATCHES of the Goth say that
flood at Atchinson. Kan, destroyed five
of the largest railroad bridges in the
city, six large wagon bridges, eighteen
dwelling houses and other property. the
total loss being estimated at 500, 900.
NEAR Earlville, Ill, terrible cyclone
and cloud burst occurred about o'clock
bii Ailt dAhtAiADVh Va bbb ~NAAf hAANh At-
suited in a terrible loss of life and
property, no less than thirty persons
being killed and the whole country from
near Earlville to Paw Paw, in Lee Coun-
ty. being marked with ruin. At least
fifty farm houses and other buildings
were wrecked. Over one-half the viii
lage of Sublette was destroyed and over
a hundred persons injured. Paw Paw
was ruined
NEAR Moberly, Mo, creeks overflow
ed their banks, bridges were swept
away, fences leveled and many small
buildings carried off on the goth.
FLAMES swept the town of Milaca,
Mimi. on the Goth and it was almost
wholly destroyed.
OK the Baltimore 81 Ohio railroad a
train was wrecked near Childs, Ind,
on the goth, and the engineer and fire.
man were killed and thirteen passen-
gers injured.
Iowa Democrats will hold their State
convention at Cedar Rapids August 6.
AT meeting on the Goth of the local
worlds fair directors in Chicago the
lake front was declared TO be their
preference as the site for the fair.
THERE were heavy rains in Northern
Iowa on the Goth, and the small grain
was badly down and much of the corn
washed out. Many bridges were also
swept away.
IT was reported on the Goth that tho
village of Higbee, Mo-, had been de-
stroyed by fire.
JOSIAH Porrs and Elizabeth his wife
were hanged on the Goth at Elko, New,
for the murder of Miles Fawcett in Jam
uary, 1855.
on the Goth the Park National Bank
of Chicago suspended payment, with
liabilities estimated at $50 600.
AT Indian Springs, Ind, a vein of
gold was struck while drillinga we'll on
the Goth which is said to be so per cen .
pure.
FoR the week ended on the 21st the
percentages Of the base ball clubs in the
Players League were: Boston, 900;
Brooklyn, $40; Philadelphia. 500;
Pittsburgh, $40; New York. 800; Chi
cago, 500: Cleveland. 400; Buffalo,
.SOa. The clubs in the National League
stood: Cincinnati, .7Os; Philadelphia
.6l2; Brooklyn, 500; Chicago .533; Bos
ton, 500; New York, .42s; Cleveland.
$40; Pittsburgh, $50.
THE wheat crops in Tennessee, Ala.
bama and Georgia we're on the 2lst said
to be almost failure.
CHARLES CARO- shot and killed Lizzie
Mitchell on the 22d at Birmingham,
Ala. and then took his own life, and
William Taturn killed Mary Barnett
and himself Jealousy caused both
crimes.
H. NJ. CHAMBERS, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of st. Louis
who shot and killed Frank j. Bowman,
a prominent attorney, in October, was
acquitted on the 2lst
CYCLONES ruined the villages OF
Pleasanton and Sweetwater, in Ne.
braska, on the 22i. No lives were lost
The three children of John Lober, a
well-kuown farmer living near Wichita,
Kan. were burned to death on the 21st
during the absence of their parents.
WORTH DICKERsoN Dem was elected
to Congress in the Sixth Kentucky dis.
trict on the 2lst to succeed John G. Car
Isle.
THE Republicans of the Third district
of Illinois on the 21st nominated Will
lam +. Mason for third term in the
lower House of Congress.
THE death of Henry Il. Woolls. the
oldest newspaper man in Southern In-
diana, occurred at Seymour on the 21st,
aged so years.