River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-02-13

Missouri Prohi bitionists in State con-
vention on the 5th at Sedalia adopted
platform denouncing the maintenance
of the liquor traffic, the high license
laws of Missouri and the local option
law. State and National.
THE river front and several streets in
Portland, O'e, were under water on the
9Th, caused by the swollen condition of
the Willamette. and merchants we're
compelled to sus end business. Through
out the willamette valley and in
Southern Oregon heavy losses were re-
ported, bridges. houses, fences, mills,
etc. having been swept away.
THE Virginia Legislature defeated
bill on the 5th TO revive the old whip
ping-post law.
LYON CITY, a mining camp in Mon
tana, was completely buried by a snow
slide on the 5th, and two miners were
killed and large amount of property
destroyed.
THE secretary of the agricultural de-
partment of Kansas stated on the 9th
that the value of crops in the State for
1889 was S104, 572, 49s. The value of live
stock for the same year was SIG, l26, 400.
A WRIT of error was granted by Chief
Justice Shope, of the Illinois Supreme
Court on the 9th in the case of Fislden
and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago
Anarchists, in order that the question
of the right of the condemned men TO be
personally present in court when the de-
cision of the State Supreme Court was
rendered may be determined.
AT Charlestown A. T. Fleming was on
the 9th inaugurated Governor of West
Virginia.
OREGON advices of the 9th say that
the floods had washed away fifty houses
in Oregon City. fifteen buildings at
Salem, and caused considerable damag
at other places. The waters were sub
siding.
THE death of Joshua Sexton, founder
OF the Urbana Citizen and the oldest
editor in Ohio, occurred at Urbana on
the 9TH, aged So years. He had been in
the publishing business since 1921.
NEARLY fifty women, representing the
best families in Lathrop, Mo-, visited
two gambling dens on the 9TH and COM
pletely guttea them, emptying out near
ly 1000 worth of liquor into the street
MURDERERs were hanged as follows
on the eth: Sam Dill (colored) at Jack
sonvillo Ala; Lige Moore at Green's
boro, ;. c.; John Wilson in Yancy
County, n. c., and Malen Hankey in
Montgomery County, n. C.
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Dallas, Tex, on the 9TH, and most of
the records were destroyed. Loss, $780,
600.
A. -
blizzard prevailed on the 9TH, and the
storm was said TO be the worst since
1882.
GEORGE LUMMIs, aged % years, of
Hamilton, O., on the 9TH made an un-
successful effort to murder Effie Long
necker, aged 10 years, because she re-
jected his suit. and then killed himself.
By the capsizing of boat seven boys,
whose ages ranged from Is to Is years,
were drowned in the river at New Or
leans on the 9th.
DICK HAYES confessed at Birmingham,
Ala, on the sth that he paid John
Wylie under sentence of DEATH 5000 to
get mis- wife and children out of the way.
NEAR Stevenson. Ala, the dwelling of
a farmer named Roth was burned on the
sth, and Roth and his family, consisting
of wife and four children, persisted in
the flames.
OK the Sth four corpses riddled with
bullets were found twenty-five miles
west of Purcell, Kan. near a covered
wagon. The victims were supposed to
be a family of movers killed by Terri
tory desperadoes.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, and vicinity
the overflow of the river had on the Sth
caused loss of over $3.50, 600.
In Kane County, Ore. the damage by
the recent flood was on the 9th placed
at over 500. 1000.
THE sheriff closed the Planters House,
the Oldest and most famous hotel in St.
Louis, on the sth. Dull business was
the cause.