River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-05-19

FLAMES ruined the TERRITORIAL cdpltOA
at Santa Fe, \. NJ. Loss, $780, 900; no
insurance. The records were saved.
AT Colorado Springs, Col, the Childs-
Drexel national home for INDECENT
printers was dedicated. The building
cost $4,000.
EVERY tent and house in the new
town of Cheyenne, in Oklahoma, were
blown down by a cyclone. No one was
killed but several were badly hurt.
The national convention of the peo-
pies party viii be held at Omaha, Neb.,
July 4.
FIRE destroyed twentv-seven houses
in ono of the best residence portions of
Savannah. Ga. Loss about slO0. 900.
"a STATEMENT for April shows that the
total receipts for the worlds fair rom
all sources TO April 80 were s.. 1885,
7lT.22. The disbursements were S.
e7T, ss322, leaving a balance of So
pos. sSA
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama. and
Justice Harlan have been selected az
Behring sea arbitrator by President
Harrison.
IL session in Chicago the Federation
of .Vomen's Clubs reelected Mrs. Char
lotte Emerson Brown, of New Jersey,
as president.
IL Milwaukee Sandelin Harter, fire.
man at the Pabst building. shot himself
because of domestic trouble, and his
wife killed herself by taking poison.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows:
Etienne Deschamps at New Orleans for
the murder of 13-year-old Juliet Deitsch;
Elijah Cheavers in Ware county, Ga,
for the murder of Sheriff Culpepper,
and Coleman Wilson, who murdered u.
f. Adkins, in McDuffy county, Ca.
IN Maryland during the season just
closed 1854, $50 bushels of oysters were
measured.
THE bodies of all the victims of the
recent gas explosion in the mine al
The total number is forty-three. About
ESQ children are left fatherless.
Ar Eden, H.. Charles Jones, aged 81.
shot and killed Anna Devan, aged 10,
because she refused to marry him, and
then took his own life.
UPON the arrest of James Dooler for
numbering his aunt, Mrs, Coons, and
his cousin, at Prescott, la, he confessed
his crime Deoley's aunt had scolded
him for getting drunk, and this caused
the deed.
WALTER FITCH's dwelling house at
Spades, Ind. was burned and Mrs.
Leah Fitch and Mrs. Knapp. the house
keeper, were burned TO death.
A CYCLONE tore fifteen residences 70
kinGling wood and scattered them far
and wide at Augusta, Kan. No lives
were lost.
IN the Eighth Indiana district the
prohibitionists have nominated John L.
Shields for congress.
ALONG the low lands of the Missis-
sippi and the Missouri rivers continued
rains caused great floods. At st.
Louis factories and railroad property
suffered great loss, and in Kansas
many buildings in Kansas City, Ar
mourdale and Argentine were swept
away.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the I4th were: Boston, .iSSi
Brooklyn, $50; Cleveland, .b1li Louis.
vile, sos; Pittsburgh, SAP, Chicago,
522; Cincinnati. a22s Philadelphia, 455;
New York, .l5e, Washington, $50;
St. Louis, .292; Baltimore, 200. The
percentages in clubs of the Western
league were: Milwaukee, .7S6; Column
bus, 1871; Kansas City, SIS; Toledo,
$50; Omaha, 400; St. Paul. 1888: Mime
apolis, 23l; indianapolis, Ill.
The peoples party of Oklahoma held
their convention at Guthrie and dele
gates were chosen to the national con
vention who favor James B. Weaver fof
president
NEAR Shasta, Col, Buck Montgom-
cry, Wells Fargo express messenger,
was fatally shot by highwaymen, who
afterwards obtained boxes containing
$50, 600 in money.
BY the forgetfulness of Charles Smith,
the station agent of the Big Four rail
road at Cleves, o., a passenger and
freight train collided and seven men
were killed and eight other persons
were injured
IT was said that John Anderson, sem
fenced to seven years in prison at Cleve-
land, o., for larceny, had 100 wives in
various portions of the country.
AT the Aconds mine in Butte, Mont,
cavern eaused the loss of eleven lives.
HENRY DICKERsoN and Thomas Davis,
two negroes. were hanged at Nashville,
ILL.,. for the murder of Marcus Dietrich
at Richvlew December 26, 1891.