River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-10
| State by vote OF "a TO u. me plll

has already passed the House.
JOHN CHAPMAN, a young man, shot
his sweetheart and a man who tried to
save her on the LIST at ST. Louis and
then put bullet through his own
heart Temporary insanity caused the
deed.
THE monument to the memory OF
Thomas A Hendricks was unvailed at
Indianapolis on the LIST in the presence
of great throng. Speeches were made
by senator Turpie, of Indiana. and
| Governors Hill IN W, Francis MOI
ana Campbell (O).
AT Des Moines on the Cd Judge
Kavanaugh, of the district court, de-
cided that aliens could not inherit land
in Iowa.
IN COshocton County. o., cloud
burst on the I'd caused the loss of thoa-
sands of dollars.
REPUBLIcANs of the Seventeenth dis
trict of Illinois on the I'd nominated +.
/ II. Chapman for Congress, and Walter |.
/ Hayes was renOminated by the Second
Iowa district Democrats.
OK the I'd the National Commissioners
of the Worlds Columbian Exposition
voted as to III to accept the lake front
and jackson Park site as proposed by
the local directors.
In an encounter on the I'd between
revenue officers and moonshiners in
Rowan County, KY, three men were
/ killed.
ALONG the Ohio river and Musi1in-
gum valley terrible storm prevailed
4 on the "a. The big Government dam at
| Marietta, o. which has cost the Govern
ment already over $3.50, 900, was torn to
pieces and carried away At Church.
Vile, o.. the whole village was badly
damaged. Crops over wide area were
ruined.
| Tt National Music Teachers Asso-
/ citation in session on the 4th at Detroit
/ elected j. III. Hahn, of Detroit, presi-
/ dent.
| AT Columbus on the 4th the Union
/ Labor party of Ohio met and nominated
a State ticket with Ezekiel I. Curtis, of
Pennington, for Secretary of State.
On the Sd the National Columbian
Commission appointed committees on
/ title and judiciary in Chicago and adj
/ journed to meet on October S next in
/ that city.
On the 4th Samuel Black, an aeronaut,
made balloon ascension at Boards
town. Ill, and the air-ship took fire
when at height of 400 feet and Black
/ fell and was killed.
I THE Masonic fraternity laid the cor
nef-stone of the new capitol of Colorado
/ at Denver on the 4th.
REPUBLICANS of the Seventh Iowa
/ district on the Sd nominated J. A. T.
/ Hull for Congress. In the Nineteenth
| Illinois district the Democrats renomi-
mated James K. Williams.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
/ portion of Pullman, Wash, on the Sd.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the Players League for the week
ended on the 5th ult were: Boston, Coz;
| Chicago, 600; Brooklyn, .523; Philadel-
| phia, sos; New York, 500; Pittsburgh,
.49l; Cleveland. .4S6; Buffalo. .3l5. The
clubs in the National League stood:
Cincinnati, .672; Brooklyn, .612; Rhila-
delphia, sos; Boston, .57l; Chicago,
525; New York, ALB; Cleveland, .S2s;
/ Pittsburgh, .262.
JOSEPH TREBLE was arrested at
/ Wathena, Kan. on the 5th for the muir
der of Thomas Kincaid twenty-nine
/ years ago.
GEORGE SEALS recently killed his
/ wife in Crawford County, Ind, and he
shot and killed Sheriff Gardiner on
the 5th who was trying to arrest him.
REPUBLICANS of Wisconsin will meet
| in State convention a. Madison on the
/ goth of August next.
FLAMES destroyed the principal pcr-
/ ton of Livermore, Ia. on the 9th.
Ok the-5th Frederick Blank, farmer
/ living near La Porte. Ind, was found
dead in his barn, and John Canning, ex-
/ city treasurer of Columbus, Ind, was
found dead in stable. Whisky killed
/ them both.
/ On the 5th frost was seen at Holland.
Mich. and at Black River Falls, Wis.
TEAM ran away on the 5th at Port
/ Huron. Mich, and the wife of Henry
/ Henderson was thrown from the wagon
| and fatally injured and his son and
| daughter were killed.
NEAR Parkersburg, w. Va, a heavy
storm on the 9Th caused great damage
to crops. The valleys of the Konawha
and Muskingum were flooded, the dam
age reaching $500,
IL Richland County, Wis, floods had
on the 9Th caused loss of several hun
| dred thousand dollars.
/ REV. =. l.. RUSSELL, of Cherokee,
was nominated for Governor on the 9Th
by Alabama Prohibitionists.