River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-23

THE southern Minnesota counties or
Jackson, Martin. Faribault, Freeborn,
Blue Earth. Mower and Fillmore were
swept by cyclone and at least seventy
lives were lost The destruction of
property was enormous.
IN convention at Parlxersburg the
peoples party of West Virginia nom
mated ;. A. Houston for governor.
James BASEBALL was nominated for con-
gress in the First district and n. w.
Fitzgerald in the second.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Iowa, First district.
John III. Gear trep.): Indiana, Eleventh
district, William johnson (rep.); North
Carolina, Ninth district, w. L. Craw-
ford (dem.l renominated.
THE peoples party of North Carolina
in convention at Raleigh made the fol-
lowing congressional nominations: Sec
ond district, +. A. Thorne; Fifth, w.
Il. Lindsay; Eighth, r. l.. Patton.
Two MEN and one woman were in
stantly killed and several others were
injured by bolt of lightning that
struck the Grant statue in Lincoln park,
Chicago, during a storm The statue
itself was not damaged
NEAR Sedro, Wash, four Italians
were lynched for numbering John A.
Nelson, mine foreman.
THE Nebraska grand lodge of masons
in session at Omaha decided that no
liquor dealer could become a member
of the order.
Ar the age of 100 years Mrs. Eliza
beth Stilgenbauer died at the home of
her son near Columbus, Ind.
IL Mississippi the grasshoppers were
destroying many cotton fields.
A JUDGE at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, has
decided that the women members of
the school board could not hold office
AT Vermont, H., j. Marsh & Co, pri
vate bankers and merchants, failed for
s1OO. 600.
The supreme court of Michigan rem
dered decision sustaining the consti-
nationality of the Miner election law.
which T. as passed by the last legisla-
ture.
The execution of Joe Wallace, the
murderer OF Henry Cote, took place
near Jasper, Marion county, Tenn, and
was witnessed by 10000 people.
PRoHIBITIONIsTs of the Sixth illinois
district have nominated X. J. Hazelett
for congre s..
IL the store of w. ii. Ryan at Parm-
leysville. KY, lightning struck and ex-
ploded two kegs of powder, and fifty
persons were injured, some fatally.
OK Lake st. Clair near Detroit, Mich,
boat .apsized and Lizzie Mogg. aged
Is, Carrie Bieber, aged 10. and Henry
Floethe. aged %. were drowned.
Mrs. SARAH RoTHscHLD, aged l04
years, died in Chicago.
LIGHTNING k He'd two sons and
daughter of John Hartman, residing
near Sardis, o.
A MOB lynched John Johnson. one of
Merchant Colquhoun at McComb City,
Miss.
FLAMES destroyed part of the Ken
lucky Mailing Companys plant at
Louisville, the loss being sl35, OOU
4 TRAIN was ditched near Gladstone,
H.. and Engineer Robinson and three
Italian laborers were killed and twenty
others were injured.
Ar the town of Bayou Sara, La, the
levee gave way and the whole town
was under from to IL feet of water.
No lives were lost, but the property
loss would be heavy.
ENoCH MORRISON (colored) shot and
fatally injured two negro women on a
train near San Francisco and then
killed himself.
THE sudden death of Emmons Blaine,
the eldest son of james q. Blaine, eX-
secretary of state, occurred at his home
in Chicago of Inflammation of the
bowels. aged IS years.
DEMOCRATS of the Fourteenth Illinois
district have renominated Owen Scott
for congress.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: Boston, .692;
BROOKLYN, 1921; Philadelphia, ST.;
Cincinnati. 500; Cleveland, $50; Chi
cago, $40; New York, 400; Wash
ington, $50; Pittsburgh, ,455; Louis
Vile. .4O4; ST. Louis, .353; Baltimore.
.294. The percentages of clubs in the
Western league were: Columbus, .739;
Milwaukee. oil; Toledo, .5l4; Kan
sas City, .5l2; Omaha, ass; Minneapolis,
.424; Fort Wayne, 343; indianapolis,
.25s.
At a colored picnic near Memphis,
Tenn, three negroes were killed and
dozen were seriously injured in a riot.