River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-06

GEcRGF WILLIAMS. butcher. was
ereInated and "a negro cook and his
wife sustained fatal injuries in a fire at
Seattle. Wash.
IT was said that William Kepke,
farmer residing at Melke, Mich. had
confessed that seventeen years ago he,
with other citizens of Pressure Isle
county. formed an oath bound compact
to assassinate Albert MolIter who was
murdered at that time. His clerk,
named sullivan, was also slain.
A TRAIN on the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE
& Cincinnati Narrow-gauge railroad
left the track near Bellaire, O.. and two
cars filed with passengers overturned
and dragged some distance. injuring
fourteen persons. one fatally.
CATTLE in the vicinity of HilIsboro.
H.. were said to be suffering from a
fatal disease. The mouth gets sore.
the legs become swollen and stiff, and
the animals die of starvation.
The 5-year-old son of Mrs. Whitner
living at Creston. o., caught his foot in
cattle-guard while walking on the
track, and his mother. while attempt
ing to rescue him, was run down by an
express train and killed
i. l.. PRATT, a somnambulist of Fort
Smith, Ark. sat down on the railway
track while asleep and was killed by
freight train.
RECENT rains throughout Arkansas
have swollen the streams TO such an
extent that thousands of acres of corn
and cotton land were inundated.
IL the National league the percent
ages of the base ball clubs for
the week ended on the LIST were:
Chicago, .6l4; Boston. .575; New York,
$50; Cleveland. .49i; Philadelphia, 400;
Brooklyn. .46S, Cincinnati, AZ; Pitts
burgh, .4O7. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .GS2; 1t. Louis CAS-; Balti-
more, .5s5; Columbus, .494: Athletic,
ass; Cincinnati, .43O; Washington, $40;
Louisville, $50.
a CYCLONE at Checotan, /. T.. dam
aged buildings in the town and crops
in the neighborhood several thousand
dollars.
Rev. f. JUNKTN, of Houston, Tex, a
brotC er-in-law of Stone wall Jackson,
died suddenly on a passenger train near
johnson City, Tenn.
a GANG of Italian laborers near Cat
lettsburg, Va. after numbering a family
of seven persons named Brunfield, con
sisting of father. mother and five
children. set fire To the house, and their
bodies were burned to a crisp
TEXAS fever was said to have broken
ont among cattle in Arkansas City,
Kan. and many of the animals were
dying.
MORRIS GODFREY, aged II years.
afflicted with hydrophobia as the re-
suit of "a dog bite on July 4, died in
great agony at Saginaw. Mich.
DIR. GEORGE EsrEY, pioneer physi-
clan of central Illinois, died at Bloom
ington, H.. aged 20 years.
JOHN FROG and jackson Wolf, Sem
mole Indians, were executed at Newa-
lxa, /. T.. in the peculiar fashion of the
Seminoles for the murder of John
Harg
The wife of William Brown, a rich
Cherokee living in the strip south of
Arkansas City, Kan, with her two lit
tie girls, was gored to death by a mad
steer.
THE death of Hon. Bayless Hanna,
ing the Cleveland administration, oc-
Cured at Crawfordsville, Ind.
COMMANDER MCGREGoR, of the United
States navy, died at Cincinnati, aged 56
years.
LUCINDA BELL. a colored woman of
Fort Dodge. Ia. better known as Aunt
Cindy, celebrated her 1OOthbirthday on
the LIST