River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
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In San Francisco a shock of earth
quake shook buildings quito severely.
The railway shops of the Santa Fe
road were burned at Galveston, Tex,
causing loss of 500, 600.
LIGHTNING killed two children, aged
IS and 10, of Mrs. Susan Hardwick, re-
siding near Little Rock, Ark.
Mrs. GEORGE BENNETT, of Ottumwa.
Ia, was burned to death. She was
standing by a bonfire when her cloth
ing caught fire.
AT scores of points in the upper pc
ninsula of Michigan forest fires were
burning on the sth and heavy damage
was reported. Several farmhouses and
other buildings were burned. In Wis
consin fires were raging all through
the northern portion of the state, doing
immense damage, and in Minnesota a
wide area had been burned over. the
village of St Louis being entirely
swept away.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, Minnie Whit
taker. aged Is years, committed sui
eide because her father had been sent
to prison.
Miss JENNIE TUPPER was burned to
death in Chicago by a gasoline explo-
sion and Miss Clara Peng met like
fate from burning alcohol.
The failure of the Western Farm
Mortgage Company of Aberdeen. 5. D.,
with a capital of $3.50, 900, was an
nounced.
AT Marshall, Mo-, William Price was
hanged for assaulting Miss Alice Ninas,
who later committed suicide rather
than testify at the trial.
In Michigan the villages of Walker
vile. Foxville and Morley were de-
stroyed by forest fires, and at other
points many houses and barns were
burned and millions of feet of timber
were reduced to ashes.
IN quarrel with his wife James e.
Stewart, a miner at Mansfield, O.,
threw a lighted lamp at her and she
was burned to death.
IN the National league the percent
ages of the base ball clubs for the week
ended on the 9Th were: Chicago, 500;
Boston, 900; Cleveland, .562; New
York, $50; Pittsburgh, 456; Philadel-
phia, .43s; Brooklyn, .43S; Cincinnati,
.3l2. The percentages of clubs in the
American association Were: Boston,
.6g5; Baltimore, 652: St Louis, SOP;
Louisville, 535; Columbus, 444: Cincin-
natl. 42S; Athletic, 800; Washington,
22T.
THE monument at the center of pop
ulation of the United States 20 miles
east of Columbus, Ind, was unveiled
at p. m on the 10th, and the event
will go into history as the second of the
kind in the past hundred years, the
first being in 1910, and the place %
miles west of Washington, ID. c.
AT Logansport, Ind, Martin Griner
shot and killed his mistress, Mrs. Anna
Keister, and then killed himself.
FLAMES at Manning, Ia, destroyed
almost the entire business portion of
the city. Loss, SIPS, 900.
The loss of the steamer Lucy Lowe
in the straits of Juan de Fuca with
fifty-five colonists on board was re-
ported The party left Tacoma April
81 to settle on land near the GuestaheS
river.
AT Ottawa, Ill, Charles Ford was
hanged for the murder of David Moore
in June, 1890
ROBERT ENNIS barn was burned near
Ruthven, Ia, and boy and ten horses
persisted in the flames.
IRWIN DUNCAN and his brother VIII
liam, Of Dayton, o., were instantly
killed by passenger train on the Big
Four roao at East Cumminsville, o.
Or the Santa Fe road stock train
was wrecked near Trinidad, n. NJ, and
800 head of cattle and four men were
killed.