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

IN Chicago oscar Grundman shot and
killed his wife while she was sitting at
the breakfast table and then shot him
self through the temple. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
THE Wisconsin league baseball pen
nant for 1891 was given to the Mar
quette club.
AT hebOygan, Wis, James A. Mead,
a well-known banker, fell dead from
heart disease while walking on seventh
street
WILLIAM LEWIS shot and killed Molly
Sells and John Moore in Chicago. They
were all colOred.
PETER FOSTER, George Broken and
Ernest Carlo, young boys. who were
stealing a ride on freight car loaded
with lumber, were crushed to death
in Chicago by lumber sliding upon
them.
THE death of DIR. b. G. Bruce, editor
of the Live Stock Record and an
eminent authority on live stock, oc-
CURED at Lexington, KY, at the age
of "a years.
HENRY WEHERKANP in a quarrel at
Carthage, Mo-, attempted to shoot his
instead.
FLAMES swept away the entire bust
ness portion of Bradley. 5. ID.
"HoKE" ADAMS, of Elizabeth. Md, a
wealthy farmer, committed suicide by
taking poison because his wife insisted
on going to a circus.
OWING to i'll health Albert =. Moore
house, aged IS wears, who was COVER
nor of Missouri in 1887, committed sui
eide at his home in Marysville.
THOMAS JOHNSON and Daniel Sulli-
van and his brother persisted in the
prairie fires at Hinekley. Mimi.
The North Dakota wheat crop was
estimated at 50. 900, 900 bushels
PRAIRIE fires ruined the towns of
Perley and Comstock. in Wisconsin.
AT Haldsburg. Cal. a very severe and
long-continued shock of earthquake
was felt
The department of agriculture re-
port ON the condition of the corn crop
of Wisconsin. Iowa and Illinois indi-
Gates a very favorable condition.
OWING to jealousy Thomas Carr, a
farmer living near Quincy, KY, killed
his wife and sister-in-law with a corn
cutter. fatally wounded his mother-in-
law and then took his own life
The Nebraska republicans in state
convention at Lincoln nominated A. VI.
Post for associate justice of the SUI
preme court and Charles MARBLE and ii.
=. Shumway for regents of the state
university. The platform approves of
President Harrison's administration. in
dorses reciprocity, demands protection
of American industry. denounces trusts
and the free coinage of silver and ar
raigns the democratic party as the
enemy of labor.
WHEN J. X. Cumberland was arrest
ed in St Joseph. Mo-, he confessed
that ne murdered James Robertson and
his son Jasper at Harlan, la, two years
ago.
A NATIONAL Women's Alliance was
organized at Topeka, Kan The object
of the association is to establish bu-
reau for the better education of the
women in economic, social and polit-
zeal questions.
The forest and prairie fire. in Min
nesOta. Wisconsin and the Dalxotas
were burning mor,' fiercely than ever.
and several towns seemed to be doomed
to destruction. Loss of life was reported
from several places Many farmers
had lost their all
II the town Of Chandler, Just plated
in the land opened in Oklahoma terri
tory, two lots were offered for sale for
a ham sandwich, but no buyers were
found
GREAT suffering was reported among
the settlers in the newly-opened Okla
hOma lands owing to the lack of the
necessaries of life. Water was twenty
five cents a glass. bread fifty cents a
loaf. lemons twenty-five cents each.
ham and bacon one dollar a pound and
other things in proportion
FLAMES destroyed a railroad elevator
and other buildings at Minneapolis.