River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-01

causing a loss OF S5UO.OOO. Nine nrc-
men were injured, some probably fa-
tally.
AT Topeka. Kan. Elijah Watt shot
Miss Kate Halloran because she re-
fused to marry him and then killed
himself.
RoBBERs cleaned out every store and
the post Office in San Antonio, Mo.
FLAMES destroyed 5. Guckenheimer
Il Sons wholesale grocery and liquor
building at Savannah, Ca, causing a
loss of $3.50, ZOO.
ALLERToN started at Independence,
Ia. To beat the stallion record towagon
of 900, and beat all records by going
without a skip in 2:I5. II was the first
time the king of stations was ever
hitched to a wagon and the perform
ance was almost phenomenal.
IN Minneapolis Jacob Brown con-
fessed to committing a murdes in Gen.
tralia, ILL.,. eight years ago. for which
Thomas Gray is serving a life sentence
in the Chester penitentiary.
IN a quarrel with a negro named
Rankin Fred Tyler was killed near
Asheville, n. c. Friends of Tyler
soon after hanged the colored man to
tree.
AT Charleston. s. c., ten negroes
were sentenced to be hanged October
% for the murder of another negro.
IT is claimed by Peter johnson, of
Dassel. Mimi, that he has rediscovered
the lost art of tempering copper.
The percentages OF the baseball clu bs
i'm the National league for the week
ended on the 26th were: Chicago. .62S;
Boston. .6l5: New York. .567: Phila-
delphia, .517; Cleveland, $50; Pitts
burgh, .426: Brooklyn, .42O; Cincinnati,
$40 The percentages in clubs of the
American association were: Boston,
.697; St Louis. $50; Baltimore. .531;
Athletic. $50; Columbus, .455; Milwau-
kee, .45f; Louisville, .3S4; Washington,
.3lS
Ar a crossing near Centreville, Ind,
Joseph Black, his wife and three
daughters were killed by the cars.
FLAMES burned eleven stores and a
bank building at Maquon, Ill.
In st. Louis fire destroyed the ware
house and mill of the Plant Milling
Company. the loss being $3.50, 900.
IL Milwaukee John Schwulst cele-
brated his Tooth birthday at the homo
of his SON
JAMES O'NEILL killed Michael Col
Inns and fatally wounded his two
grown sons, in a quarrel at Faxon,
Mimi, over the dividing line between
two farms.
A FIRE at Greenville, ILL.,, destroyed
the export mills, the | oss being $780,
900; insurance, $4,000.
AGRICULTURAL authorities in Iowa
report that this year proved the best
all-round crop year in the history of
the state.
HUNDREDS of families were homeless
in Emmons county, n. d., from prairie
fires and six persons were burned to
death. In Wisconsin whole villages
were destroyed, and in Minnesota a
vast area was burned over and several
lives were lost
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Buffalo, n. d., and Engineer Curtis,
Fireman Dodge and sixteen ears loaded
with cattle were burned to death.
In Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Tennes-
see, Missouri and Kentucky earth
quake shocks were felt, and in some
places buildings were rocked and per-
sons fled to the streets.
WHITE CAPS tool, a defenseless wom-
an from her home at Birds Eye. Ind. +,
and nearly flayed her alive.
IN the counties OF Beltrami and Itas-
ca, in Minnesota, a cyclone destroyed
200, 600, 900 feet of pine timber.
JACOB BROWN now denies the confess
sion he made at Minneapolis that he
had murdered tramp in Centralia,
H., for which crime another man is
serving a life sentence.