River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
THE FAST

john Tons, of New Brunswick. y. j.,
was robbed by thieves of So and then
hung up by the wrists. He was found
forty-eight hours afterwards in an al
most dying condition.
IL the rolling mills at Bristol. Pa.
Charles Carpenter was killed by a red
hot iron being driven clean through his
body
THE New York Equitable Insurance
Company viii wind up its own affairs
and quit.
The famous English setter dog Count
Noble, owned by T. +. Wilson, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, and valued at $4,000,
is dead.
AT Boston a finely-bred cow owned
by DIR. ii. f. bennett gave birth to three
fully-develOped calves. They were
marked so much alike that it was diff
cult to tell one from another. This
freak of nature was one seldom heard
of in cattle history.
THE match in New York between
Steinitz and GunSberg for the chess
championship OF the world, which had
been going on since December Q, was
decided in favor of Steinitz. The score
was: Steinitz. 8; Gunsberg, 4; drawn. o.
Mrs. LUDWIG ANDERSON poisoned
herself and three children at Broclton,
Mass, ON being told by a medium that
her husband was faithless.
ON the ed what had been long known
as the oldest horse in the world died in
Buffalo. y. Y. He was owned by Mr..
Braun. who bought him when he was Z
years old and had him forty years.
AT the age of 100 years Mrs. Mary
Ruaane died On the I'D at Jessup, Pa.
She retained all her senses up to the
century mark and then became blind.
II the New England and the Middle
States freshets were reported at many
points. Bridges were swept away in
Duchess County, y. Y. and at Wassaic
two women and team were drowned
Over one-third of Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
under water and traffic was completely
suspended
BUILDING destroyed at Morristown,
y. J., by high water was the one in
which the first telegraph instrument
invented by ;. L. Il. Morse was sta
toned when the initial message over a
telegraph wire was sent to Boston in
1855.
AT Boston the Tooth anniversary of
the admission of Vermont into the
Union was celebrated by the Vermont
Association
II Buffalo. y. v. Stephen f. Sher-
man. prominent member of the board
of trade who was convicted of grand
larceny. was sentenced To five years in
prison at hard labor.
A COMMERCIAL agency in New York
reported a steady increase in the vol
ume of trade throughout the country.
IL the Housatonic river in Connect
cut the flood had subsidized. The break
in the dam at Ansonia caused a loss OF
$500. 200.
FIRE destroyed the new building
owned by Warner Bros. at Buffalo, y.
Y. causing a loss of 100000. Three
firemen were killed by a falling wall.
on the Red Lake reservation in the
vicinity of Thief River Falls. Mimi,
the 1,2O0 Indians were engaged in
ghost dances and had ordered all set
tiers to leave the country under PEN
atty of death.
THE eighth wife of Brigham Young,
Lucy Decker Young, died at Salt Lake
City. There were only seven left, in
GLIDING Amelia Folsom, the favorite.
THE Senatorial situation in the Illi-
nois Legislature after twenty-t, bal
lots, remained on the cath as it was at
the beginning: Palmer. 101; 0glesby,
100; Streeter. 5.
= TERRIFIC wind and snow-storm ex-
tended over the entire region from Bos-
ton through the lower Eastern States.
Southern New York. New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and Delaware.