River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-16
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Newport, Ill. J. II. Phillipston
and his son were killed by passenger
train while crossing the tracks of the
Big Four road.
DELEGATES to the number of over
J 900 from the young peoples societies
of the Baptist churches in all the states
of the union met in Chicago and organ
lied the Baptist Young Peoples union.
CAPT. JOHNSON, his wife and child
were drowned by the capsiziug of the
schooner Silver Cloud in Lake Michi-
gan off Port Washington, Wis.
ABE DOwNING, the noted trotter,
with a record of 2:2O2i. died at Waiver
ly. la The animal was valued at SlO,-
OOO.
CARL NJ. RoFF was killed by light
ming at EastDOrt. Ind. His wife and
child beside him in bed were un-
harmed
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railway directors say that the great
fight of that corporation against the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
cost $1,000. 900.
AMONG papers belonging to the late
Z c. w Perry, of Lamar. Mo. a letter
was found written by himself a short
I time before his death, acknowledging
that he killed J. r. Cash. near Paris
I H.. twenty-four years ago. lie had
been tried and acquitted of the crime.
/ Is gale at Galveston. Tex, Robert
Z Frankovich. Frank MiltOvich. Pete
I Straugle and J. Speech were drowned.
Is western Washington the wheat
crop was being greatly damaged by
gophers and squirrels.
/ A. T.. BURKHARDT & CO., in Cinciu-
/ Hdti. largest fur dealers in the country,
suffered a loss of $3.50. 900 by fire. and
I the clothing firm of Geiershofer & Co
/ lost $3.50. 900 by the same fire.
T TUE extent of navigable water of the
Z Ohio river and its tributaries is given
/ by a census bulletin at 92s miles. ex-
/ Guiding 500 miles from Cincinnati to
the mouth Of the Ohio river.
On the sth light frosts were reported
I in portions of Iowa and Illinois.
BY the upsetting of a boat Henry
KelS, a saloon keeper at Sanduslxy, O..
and Joseph Braunlich, of Cleveland.
were drowned in Lake Erie.
AT Newburg. q. freight trains coll
lided. and five men were hurt, two ia
tally.
The legislature of Georgia met in
summer session at Atlanta
EDWARD MCTHERY, of indianapolis,
. in a Fl of jealousy, fatally shot his wife
I and then shot himself dead.
;. T.. ANDERsON's house IL miles west
Of Clifton. Tex. was struck by light
ming. and his wife and three daughters
we're killed.
Ar Lamar Ark. Eliza Ryan. aged so
? years. was restored to sight after be-
ing blind thirty years by having a tooth
extracted.
/ OK the 9th the tenth international
I convention Of the Young Peoples So
I cietv OF Christian Endeavor opened at
Minneapolis with $1,000 delegates in
attendance. The secretary's report
showed that there were in the country
I6.a94 societies with a total member
ship of i.01S. $50 Among the denOni-
nations the Presbyterians have 4.Ol9
societies. Congregationalists S.545, Ball-
fists ASH. MethOdisGs 2.06S. Christians
sol During the year -. 500 mem bers
of the societies became church MEM
berS-
- #ltNlA ~ aaAAANNA =" AAAA nancy ~
who assaulted Mrs. Folsom at Beebe.
Ark.
NEAR Olney. H.. Mrs Raymond and
her 4-year-old son were struck by a
Z passenger train on the Ohio & Missis-
sippi road and instantly killed
NEAR Olmsted. Ill, Pat Moss and
Eddy Davis. both eolored. and white
boy. aged Is years. named Harry Odel,
were beaten 10 death with a club by
Daniel Welsh an insane negro.
FLAMES which started in Mitchell
Bros lumber yard at Jennings Mich.
destroyed 100000 feet of lumber. a
planning mill. engine house and four
dwellings. Total loss. $3.50. 600.
REPUBLICANS Of Nebraska viii meet
in state convention at Lincoln on Thurs
lay. September -
UPoN her dying bed Mrs. Grisley. OF
Lancaster. WIS, confessed that she had