River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02

nfty houses were destroyed 3OO persons
were being fed by the relief committee.
From Storm Lake TO Cherokee the
country had the appearance of one vast
lake, and not a bridge ON any of the
country roads could be seen. The
counties which suffered the worst by
the floods are Clay. 0'Brien. Buena
Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury.,
Ida and Monona.
NEAR Rosebud. Mont, a sleeping car
was derailed and sixteen persons were
injured. among the number being Fran
els Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
whose nose was broken.
The streets in the lower portion of
the city of Omaha, Neb., were flooded
TO a depth of 5 feet by heavy rains
which had also done great damage and
entirely suspended railway traffic in
the state.
In Chicago Mrs. Sylvia Hartnett,
aged los years, started to walk to her
old home in Cumberland, Md, but was
found sitting on a curbstone by the po-
lice and taken to the home of her son.
Miss ELIZABETH MCVEY, the wonder
full faster of Rose Hill, Ind, died after
going forty-three days without any
food whatever.
Mrs. A. NJ. TATRo and Mrs. G.. f.
Haney, while crossing trestle at Graf
ton, Neb., were struck by a train and
killed.
MRs. PHILO, arrested in Chicago for
forgery committed in Denver, Col,
jumped from rapidly moving train
near Ashton. III, and escaped
WHILE playing football stephen
Stakenberg a student at Normal col
lege at Marion, Ind, dropped dead.
IN the Nelson lumber yards at Clo-
quet. Mimi, flames burned over 10, 0O0-
600 feet of lumber, the loss being $780,
600.
WHITE SEWARD and Sidney Smith
were fatally shot in quarrel over a
girl at Pleasure Ridge Park, Ky.
AT Shreveport, La, Thomas Harris
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
Ella Franklin on May ~ last.
IL powder houses at Galveston, Tex,
an explosion wrecked several buildings
and killed one man and fourteen head
of cattle.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the weeiS
ended on the 9th were: New York,
.596; Chicago. .592; Boston, .545; Cleve-
land, $40; Philadelphia, 500; Brook
lyn, .464; Pittsburgh, .40S; Cincinnati,
1868. The percentages of clubs in the
American association were: St Louis,
Gal; Boston. .633; Baltimore. 900; Gin
cinnati. .4oi; Columbus, .46l; Ath-
letic, 442; Louisville, All; Washing
ton. .327.
THE firm of r. Gregg & Co.. millers
at Cannon Falls, Mimi, assigned. Their
liabilities were $3.50, 900.
IL Iowa the loss to the growing crops
by the floods was estimated at 81, 000,-
900.
EAST of Denver. Col, a cyclone de-
strOyed houses and crops, injuring a
dozen persons and killing $50 sheep.
NEAR Holstein, Ia, tract miles
wide and 10 miles long was swept by a
hailstorm, totally destroying barley
and badly damaging wheat and oats.
WHITE CAPS gave John Torbett, liv-
ing in Patoka township, Ind, fifty
lashes because of failure 20 provide
for his family.
ALL the counts have been quashed in
the indictment against George J. Glib
son. the secretary of the whisky trust,
who was charged with conspiring to
blow up the Shufeldt distillery in Chi
cago.
ANGERED at the action of the Oregon
| Improvement Company at Seattle,
/ Wash, in taking negroes to the New
castle coal mines, white strikers
started to clean out the negro camp,
and in the scrimmage four persons were
| killed.
MAYOR BLOOM has made an appeal
| for aid for the persons made homeless
1 by the floods at Cherokee, Ia, and
vicinity