River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-06
TIE death Of DIR. Martin B. Anderson

THE death OF DR.. Martin r. Anderson,
LII d., for thirty-five years president
of the University OF Rochester, Ny,
occurred on the Goth at Lake Helen,
Fla. aged IS years
AT Bowlder. Mont. the temperature
fell 70 IS degrees below zero ~on the
26th, freezing to death herd OF 100
cattle in-the stock yards belonging to
the Miner Cattle Company.
Bon PoPE and his 1i-year-eld son. OF
Hampton County, S. weFe-shet and
killed on the Goth by unknown parties
OK the 27th ult a tornado did great
amount OF damage at Torrance, Miss.
The loss of life by the recent bursting
Of the dam in the Hassayampa valley in
Arizona was on the 27th ult. placed at
$50.
On the Norfolk & Western road pas
senger coach was wrecked on the 27ths
ult at Roanoke, Va, and ten persons
were injured
AT Lexington, Ky, Thomas o. Brien
was hanged on the eth ult for the
murder Of Bette Shea March 81. 1889.
TnE through mail for San Francisco
on the mail storage car of the west
bound fast-mail train was DESTROYED by
fire on the 27th ult.
AT Des Moines. Ia, Governor Boies
and observation-disclosures Poyneer were
duly sworn into Office on the 27th ult
Az attempt TO wreck the limited ex-
press on the Baltimore & Ohio road
near independence, O.. was made on the
2Tth ult, three ties wedged into cat
tle-guard being found and removed a
few minutes before IL arrived. 20 a.a
SEVERAL train-robbers and consider
able OF their plumber were discovered
on the 27th ult near Spencerville, o.
FIFTEEN lives were on the 9th ult
said 10 have been lost in the recent
blizzard in Southwestern Kansas, and
many persons were destitute of food and
fuel.
On the night of the 9th ult. an I'M
successful attempt was made by an I'M
known man to assassinate Dr. Alexander
Neil at Columbus. o.
On the 9th nit. the house Of Daniel
Hebron lcoloredl was burned at Lynch
burg, Va, and his two children. aged IS
months and years, persisted in the
flames.
A MOB lynched Brown Washington
tcolored) on the 2sth ult at Madison,
Ca, for ASSEMBLING little girl.
OK the 2sth ult Richard Halves was
hanged at birmingham, Ala, for the
murder of his wife and two daughters
in December. 1888
The thermometer marked 20 degrees
below zero at Austin. Tex, on the 2sth
ult., and growing corn, oats. fruit and
vegetables were destroyed and hundreds
of fig trees were killed
RESIDENTS of Enterprise and Scuffie-
town, Ind, on the 2oth ult. had been
driven TO the hills by foods, and thou
sands of bushels of corn had been ruined.
SLcoTT, the defaulting cashier of the
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House at
Washington, was reported captured on
the 2sth ult at Toledo. Wash.
A MAN named Holmes, his wife and
two children were found dead on the
2sth ult. few miles west OF Shawnee,
Ind. T. Burglars were charged with
the crime.
ISDIANA's total Indebtedness was on
the 9sth ult said TO be 50, 043, 14O.
BELOW vicksburg. Miss, private
levee broke on the 2sth ult., inundating
several plantations
THE Thermometer registered 80 degrees
below zero at Geneseo. Idaho, on the
2Sth r.. Heavy losses of stock were
reported.
A CYCLONE partially destroyed the
town of Carthage, Miss. on the 2sth ult
IL the Centenary Methodist Church
at Richmond, Va. flames on the 2d
caused panic, and several persons
we're badly injured. The fire damage
was small.
FLAMES destroyed the Wholesale boot
and shoe house of Noyes. Norman & Co
at St Joseph, Mo-, on the I'd. Loss,
Sis. 600.
OWING to domestic trouble August
Groth, employed in brewery at Still
water, Mimi, killed his wife with a
razor on the I'd and then took his own
life.
A. VI. WAssES killed a railroad man
in a quarrel on the 1st at Msllie. Col, /
and soon after mob lynched Wassen.
On the LIST 1863 OF the 1875 saloon-keep-
ers in Covington. Ky, were indicted for
selling liquor on Sunday contrary to an
old statute of the State.
THE bank Of Hicks & Gephat at Val I
ley Falls, Kan, was robbed OF SO, 900 by I
a man named Robert Robinson on the /
LIST, who held up the cashier In few
hours afterward the robber was shot
dead while resisting arrest and the mon /,
ey recovered.