River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-17

men were killed. In Richmond severai
houses were destroyed and number OF
persons badly injured.
In Colorado a storm of sand on the 9th
did great damage in several towns ane
all railway traffic was stopped.
In the Iowa Senate bill providing
for the execution of condemned Grim
inals by electricity was defeated on the
9th
Two LITTLE children of John McCloy
living at Jersey, Ark, were burned &c
death in their home on the 9th in the
absence of their parents.
AT Webb City. Mo-, four boys-Ed
Severn, A. d. Cannon, a son of Mrs.
Stoner and Joe Wright-were killed On
the 9th by the falling of slab of rock
on them.
In Chicago on the 9th Harry p. Ly-
ons, aged is years, was found guilty of
murder by Chicago jury and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
ARBoR DAY was observed throughout
Kansas on the 10th.
HIGHWAY robbers captured in Jack
son County, w. Va, on the 10th proved
to be two women.
On the 10th Emma Stark, under ar
rest for poisoning the Newland family
in Chicago. admitted that she put poison
in the food lust to see how strong it
was"
WHITE caps brutality beat Isaac
White, an old veteran living near
Leavenworth, on the 10th for no known
cause.
CoNGREssMEN HoUK and Taylor were
renominated in Tennessee on the 10th.
Mr.. Taylor's nomination was bolted by
faction which nominated ex-Congress-
man Butler.
CALIFORNIA Prohibitionists in session
on the 10th at San Francisco nominated
General John Bidwell, of Chico for
Governor.
Helvington, KY, flames on the 10th
destroyed seventeen buildings and a
large tobacco factory.
A COUNTERFEIT $40 bill on the Ger
mania National Bank of New Orleans
was in circulation in Chicago on the 10th.
The street-car stables at Arkansas
City, Ark, were destroyed by fire ON the
10th. and twenty-three horses and four
cars were burned.
THIRTY hogs slew and devoured
heifer and calf near Columbus, Ind,
on the 18th. A drove of cattle in a
neighboring pasture, Infatuated by the
smell of blood, broke an intervening
fence down and charged upon the
swine. eighteen being killed and ten
wounded.
A FREIGHT collision on the 18th at
Mansfield, o., on the Baltimore & Ohio
road. smashed seventeen cars and loss
of $50, 600 was caused.
IL the Missouri river bottoms five
miles below Liberty, Mo-, forest fires
were raging on the 18th.
AT Fredericktown, o., Mrs. C. Lever
ing and Miss Hill were thrown from a
wagon by a runaway on the 18th, the
latter being killed and the former fatal
ly injured.
THE Governor of Wisconsin on the
18th sent a magnificent floral anchor &c
Springfield, ILL.,, to be placed on the
tomb of Lincoln on the 18th inst.
OK the 18th Charles Simmons (col-
oredl was hanged at Mount Pleasant, S.
c., for the murder of Otto Fishang
(white) October Ii. lie confessed his
guilt
W do UonC Oh bAAt ipNb
in Mclean and Warren counties, Ill,
by terrific wind and hail-storm.
By a sudden rise in Fox river the
city of New London, Wis, was flooded
on the 18th.
On the 18th Samuel Shinn, aged 80
years, and Mrs. Jane Patterson, aged so
years. were married at Parkersburg
w. Va. This was the groom's first marri-
age.
NEAR Cape Canaveral, Fla, the Brit
ish schooner Ethel was wrecked on the
18th, and the crew of five persons were
drowned
CHILLY & CRANsToN's livery stable at
Leavenworth, Kan. was burned on the
18th, and thirty-seven horses persisted
in the Games.
WILLIAM BELDEN shot and killed
Chief-of-Police Houston and Officer Mas
sey and then killed himself on the
18th in a courtroom at Brunswick, Ga.
On the 18th the steamer Handy Boy
ran into a railway bridge at East Sagi-
nav, Mich, and the upper cabin was
swept off, seven persons being drowned.
ALEXANDER CUDDY, a well-to-do car
penter of Detroit, Mich, killed his wife
with an axe on the 18th and then took
his own life by hanging. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
NEAR Emporia, Kan, prairie fire on
the 18th devastated the farms of ID. b.
Wise, Randolph Wirts and Henry Plum
berger, all of whom lost their barns aud
some of their cattle.
AT Denver, Col, seventy saloon-keep-
-
liquor on Sunday.