River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

Tue new directory of the city of
Cleveland. o, makes the population
2g9.455. against "a, 496 the previous
year.
THE assessed value of Illinois prop
erty for 1891 is S737, sic. 4O5, against
SI25. as. 7O7 in 1899.
OFF Pressure Isle, Mich, yacht was
struck by a squat and capsized, and
three young ladies were drowned.
on the Grand Rapids Il Indiana rail-
way an express train ran into freight
at Briant, Ind. and Engineer Dick and
Fireman Brown were killed
IL Minneapolis r. Ii. Gurley, of the
San Francisco Examiner, dropped dead
in a street
A FIRE in the wool houses of George
caused a loss of 5000, 600.
Is the bay at Toledo, O., a yacht
capsized and Miss sullivan. Mr.. Oberly
and Mr.. Fitzgerald were drowned.
EFFORTS to produce rain by the firing
of dynamite in balloons sent up for
that purpose were successful at Mid
land, Tex.
AT Redlands, Cal. n cloudburst
flooded all the business houses and
washed away many small buildings.
On the 18th Mrs. Asenath Miller. of
Chicago. celebrated her 1O4th birthday.
She was in good health.
\ BULLETIN from the census Office
shows the population of West Virginia
To be 49,, "a, au increase of IA, 1877
over 1880.
While smoking cigarettes boys set
fire tn the barn 80 Sanford Moss at An
derson. md. and three horses and a
large amount of hay. grain and farming
implements were DESTROYED.
NEAR Melrose. Mimi, a hailstOrm
leveIed thousands of acres of wheat,
many farmers losing all their crops,
even corn and potatoes
Az investigation of the National Cap
ital Savings. Building and Loan asso-
cations books in Chicago shows that
over 3. 100 victims were swindled out of
sums aggregatipg S90.O
THE failure was reported of William
4. lowering, a lumber merchant of
Philadelphia. for Sl50, 900.
TuE national Farmers Alliance con-
vention will be held in indianapolis
November l..
BURGLARs killed Mrs. James Il. Rob
ert>on and her daughter. Miss Belle
Robertson. in their house at St Mar
tinsville. Ia
EXHIBITS of tie Columbian exposi-
tion in Chicago are to be insured for
something like SSo0. 600. 600.
FIEE destroyed the factory of the
Henry q. Hart Manufacturing Com
pany in Detroit causing a loss of $780,
900.
\ TORNADO nearly wrecked the vii
laEe of Ellsworth, Mimi.
AT Leadville. Col, thick vein of
extremely fine grade of silver ore was
struck which asSayed from 1000 to
5000 ounces to the ton
THE failure 81 the St John & Marsh
Lumber Company, of Chicago. for
$4,000 was reported.
THE eN-Secretary of the Camp Wash
ington building association of Cincin-
natl. Jacob FranZer, was charged with
embezzling $4,000
II Illinois the peoples party was or
ganized AT Springfield and a state cen
trail committee chosen.
y AalaAN ~ ~ " - AAsAA-NA a. A@NNAAA-@
ton. Mo. for the murder of George
Ferguson. and Henry Henson, a WIFE
murderer. was hanged in -. Louis.
NEAR Gaylord. Mich, \. W. Wilcox.
well-to-do farmer aged 20 years,
killed his I9-vear-old granddaughter
with an ak and then OF himself dead.
Is Denver, Col. Mr.. and Mrs Eugene
Bonnicb committed suicide by taking
morphine. Domestic infelicity was the
cause.
\ TORNADO at Keobuk. Ia. blew
down over one-halt of the shade trees
in the city and wrecked several build
ing>
BANKERs in Indiana have decided to
fight the proposed effort of the state
board Of tax commissioners to compel
them 70 expose the accounts of the de-
pOsitors-
The marriage OF Anthony C. Man
ming. aged g, and Mrs Amelia Thomp-
Son. aged -, took place at Elkhart.
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