River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-23
killed three other men patients on the

Killed three other men patents on the
18th.
THOUSANDS Of negroes were on the
18th said to be migrating from South
Carolina to Oklahoma, and by spring
there would be fifty thousand colored
people in that district.
AK Afro-Ameriean League of the
United States was organized in Chicago
or the 18th with J. C. Price, of Salisbury,
y. c., as President The objects Of tho
league are to encourage all State and
local leagues in their efforts to break
down color bars, and in obtaining for
the Afro-Amercan al. equal chance with
others in the avocations of life.
:. +. HOLMES. Congressman from the
1865, died at r. City, Mich, on the
18th, aged % y rs.
OK the 18th Thomas Coughlin and
William Mcdonald inmates Of the Sol
diers Home at Sandusl1y, o., were
frozen 70 death while drunk.
Az order Vas issued by Sheriff Bar
ton, of Denver, Col, on the 18th to the
effect that hereafter all saloons must be
closed Sunday.
ISAIAH and Charles Dent (colored).
were hanged on the 18th at Clinton, La,
for the murder last July of Mr.. Prae-
torius, and at st. John, La, james Hol-
combe (coloredl was hanged for the
murder of little girl.
ON the 18th j. A. Cameron's livery
stable and thirteen horses were burned
at Luverne, MINI.
FIRE on the 18th destroyed the
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largest Of the kind in the United States.
FIRE destroyed the principal part of
the business portion of Ferdinand, Ind,
on the 18th.
NEAR Xickshurg, Miss, a steamer and
a barge collided in the river on the 18th,
and four sailors were drowned.
Ar Concordia, Kan, Frank Mason and
Theodore Mickey attempted to rescue a
horse that had fallen into the river on
the 18th and all were drowned.
JoHN KUNZE, one of the Cronin muir
der convicts 70 whom Judge Mcconnell
granted new trial, was released on the
18th in 1000 bonds.
OK the goth five Indians were drowned
in Flathead lake, Mont, while trying to
cross the lake on horseback. They were
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way.
The residence Of Louis McCalment at
UnioEville, Mo-, was destroyed by fire
on the 20th, and Mr. McCalment's aged
mother and his two little children were
burned to death.
Is the new State of Washington the
Okanagan country was on the 10Th COW
cred ger with two feet of snow, and
the blizzard which lasted five days
caused a large amount of damage to
property, killed much live stock and
caused the death of at least ten men.
THE barn and stables of W. +. Hart,
near Fredericksburg, Va, was burned
on the Goth, and twenty-one horses, q
number of cattle and a great quantity Of
grain and hay were burned.
NEWS of the goth from Kansas colo
nists in Topolobampo, Mex. stated that
the cooperative colonization scheme had
proved to be a great fraud and many of
the colonists were starving.
ONE Of the greatest now-blockades in
the history Of Oregon and California
prevailed on the 20th the snow being
drifted in many places from ten to thir-
| ~ feet high, and railway travel was en-
tirely suspended.
Az application was received at the
4 Post-Odice Department on the both from
I jefferson County, H., for the establish
ment of a new post-otiice to be named
La Grippe.
PETER PADYANT's sale stable at st.
Joseph, Mo. was destroyed by fire on
the goth, and thirteen horses persisted
in the flames.