River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08

Brooklyn, n. ", was short $50, 900 in
his accounts.
THE loss of the fishing smack Ada, of
Pensacola, Fla, with a crew of six
men, was announced.
AT Palo Alto, Cal, the Leland Stan
ford, Jr., university, which has an en-
dowment of $40. 900. 900, was formally
opened with an enrolment of 440 stu
dents
IN gale ON Lake Superior of YER
million Point the schooner Frank Pc
rev was lost and the captain and five
of the crew were drowned.
THE Baltimore city marshal gave no.
tiee that the sale of cigars, candy, soda
or mineral water in fact everything
except milk or ice, would not be per-
mitted on Sunday hereafter
IN session in Chicago the Irish Ma
tlonal League of America elected NJ. V.
Cannon. of Omaha, as president The
report of the secretary scored Parnell
and the parliamentary party, and de-
clared that Parnell and his followers
were more anxious for American dol
lars than anything else.
THE marriage OF Charles ii. Coleman,
aECo - anu A-Edhs dENi To-
took place at Shelbyville. Ind. Mag
gle is the youngest American wife on
record.
A BULLETIN from the census office
showed that the real estate mortgage
debt in force in Illinois January !, 1890,
was 1854, 200. 260.
GREAT fields of grain in North DalSo-
ia would be ruined through the inabil-
ity of farmers to secure thrashing ma
chimes and help.
LATER reports from the scene of the
labor riot in Lee county, Ark, show
that fifteen negroes were killed by the
mob
THE supreme court of Minnesota has
declared that contracts in futures are
not valid and therefore persons who
get caught on the boards of trade may
repudiate their contracts unless they
buy and sell real grain.
FIRE destroyed the great hucl>leberry
marsh west of Walkerton, Ind, entail
ing loss of many thousands of dollars
JOHN Brown, a well-to-do colored
farmer at Childersburg, Ala, was
lynched to prevent his testifying
against two white men in a barn-burn-
ing ease.
SPENCER CAME RON and William
Houser, farmers living near Kenton,
O., fought duel and both received
fatal wounds
GIANT powder exploded in a mine
at Butte. Mont, wrecling fifty houses
and iniuring several persons, three
fatally.
THE season of the National baseball
league closed with Boston in the lead,
the percentage of that club being $50.
The other clubs stood: Chicago, .607;
New York. .53S; Philadelphia. .495;
Cleveland. 46S: Brooklyn. AS; Cincin-
natl. 400; Pittsburgh, .407.
FRITZ Form, an old soldier at Walla
Walla, Wash, shot and killed his wife,
MORALLY wounded his mother-in-law
and then shot himself.
A THRAsHING machine which was be-
ing taken across a bridge near Bluff
ton, O., fell through and crushed Frank
c. Goss and Emanuel Rink to death.
The tug C. W. Parker exploded its
boiler on the river in Chicago, killing
instantly eight persons and injuring
ten more, some OF them fatally.
THE American Baseball association
season has closed. The clubs stood as
follows: Boston, .692; St Louis. 1925:
Athletic, $50; Baltimore, .52S; Mil
waukee. All; Columbus, .437; Louis
Vile. 800; Washington, .32s.
AT Corpus Christi, Tex, Horace
Hamlin, a prominent business man,
drowned himself and his three chill
dren-
FLAMES destroyed Elevator A of the
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad Company's
system. situated at Locus Point, Md.
Loss, 5000. 600.
FIRE destroyed the canning works of
the Van Camp Packing Company at
indianapolis, the loss being $500, 900.
FREIGHT cars were run off a transfer
steamer at Memphis, Tenn, and four
men were drowned.