River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-01

A FIRE ruined the business portion OF
Greenwood, Miss. on the Esd, and two
lives were lost.
The Legislature of Ohio on the Esd
enacted a law which requires the officers
of all State and county institutions to
purchase native stock for consumption.
The law defines native stock TO be that
which has been in the State 100 days be-
fore being killed.
AT San Francisco and neighboring
localities severe shock of earthquake
was felt early on the morning of the
cath. Plaste ring fell from the walls
and houses were swayed four inches.
RUIN and desolation met the eye on
every side in Pointe Coupee parish in
Louisiana on the cath. Not a planta-
tion was left above water, not levee
unbroken, while hundreds of families
were homeless and thousands of cattle
had been drowned.
On the cath DIR. y. +. Paine, superin-
tendent of the State Insane Hospital at
Westboro, Mass, reported that four fe-
male and three male patients suffering
with acute mania were cured by the re-
cent epidemic of influenza.
THE Oregon Democrats at their con-
vention in Portland on the cath renomi-
mated Governor Sylvester Pennoyer and
nominated A. K. Miller, of Jackson
Vile, for Congress.
EXTENSIVE quarries of fine marble. es
per cent pure, were discovered on the
gath at lola, Kan
The South Da kota Democrats will
meet in State convention at Aberdeen
on June IL.
JERRY TEEL and Sim Garrett, who
were in Jail at San Augustine. Tex, on
charge of attempting to poison Colonel
John ". Brooks and family, were
lynched on the cath.
On the playground at school in
Brazil, Ind, Ben Corbery, IS years old,
shot little Cora Brubach on the oath
because she had told the teacher of his
misconduct
MICHAEL LANE, San Francisco
stone-cutter. shot and killed his wife on
the gath and then blew out his brains.
In the lumber yard of Paine & Co,
at Northern Pacific Junction. Mimi, a
fire on the 25th caused loss of $780,
900.
THE country around Gainesville,
Tex, was flooded by cloud-burst on
the 25th to a depth of several feet. One
woman was drowned and forty dwell
lings we're wrecked.
By A runaway on the 25th near Lima,
O.. Minnie and Gertie Pierce were
killed, and Ella and Will Hawkins and
Cliff Church received fatal injuries.
The wife of DIR. Thomas Hatchard, of
Milwaukee, on the 25th charged him
with having murdered more than
twenty infants.
In North and West Texas heavy
rain had on the 25th caused loss of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Crops
had been ruined and railway bridges
and tracks destroyed.
AT Whitehall, Ill, child born on the
Goth had a full set of teeth. 1t died
soon after birth.
STATEMENTS from the flooded district
in the South on the both were to the
effect that the appropriation of $3.50, 600
by Congress would prevent any actual
snasring.
DURING a hail-storm on the 2Tth over
hundred thousand panes of glass in
skylights and windows were smashed in
Baltimore. Md.
A TORNADO nearly swept away the
village of Yorkville. Ark, on the Goth.
Houses. barns, fences and structures of
all kinds were taken up by the wind
and carried some distance, and hun
dreds of cattle were killed.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, Philip Vassen,
plumber, upset pot of molten solder
on the 25th, some of which spattered
in his face and burned out both his
eyes.
THE Trinity river overfowed on the
9th causing the most destructive flood
ever known in the history of North
Texas. The city of Dallas was partly
under water.
SEVEN negroes were drowned near
Rolling Fork, Miss, on the Goth in the
Il cd which covered that country