River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-02

was named Tor secretary OF state.
THE execution of George Scott, con-
vieted of assaulting his sister and then
numbering her, took place at Hender-
son, Tex. Edward Speers, who muir
dered :. c. Hunt near Camden July /,
1891, was hanged at Magnolia, Ark.
The death of Gen. A. ID. Streight,
who concocted the plan by which los
men escaped from Libby prison during
the civil war, occurred at his home near
Indianapolis, Ind. aged 6S years.
IN state convention at Indianapolis
the peoples party of Indiana nominal
ed the following ticket; Governor, Lee
roy Templeton; lieutenant governor.
DIR. j. A. Houser; secretary of state,
Jesse l.. Hobson; auditor of state. Lew
is Kaston; treasurer. Townsend Coke;
attorney general, f III. hernandez; SUI
perintendent of public instruction, J.
III. Allen; state statistician, &. III. Bliss;
reporter of supreme court, w. III.
Dewey; supreme court judges, Adam
Stockman, Silas NJ. Sheppard and n. j.
Boart
THE peoples party in the Twelfth IL
inois district nominated William Hess
for congress, and in the Second Indiana
district the republicans nominated b.
NJ. Willoughby.
NEAR Lone Tree, KY, a widow named
Scott and her four daughters, Fanny,
Alice, Kate and Emma, aged 10, Is, %
and 20 respectively, were found muir
dered in their home. A negro, who
probably committed the crime, was
found in the cellar with his throat cut
II st. Joseph hospital at Joliet, Ill,
Mrs. Johanna Mertens died, aged lis
years.
THE courthouse and Jail at Hender-
son, Ky. were burned by an incendiary
THE White and Arkansas rivers floods
in Arkansas entirely swept away the
towns of Hollendel. Chicot City. Red
Fork and Pendleton. All the big plan
tations for 40 miles in the Arkansas
valley were utterly ruined and many
persons were drowned.
News from regions affected more seri-
ously by floods point to an aggregate
loss of property in five states of S32, O00,-
OOO Illinois and Missouri suffered the
most.
FIFTY or more persons were killed
by cyclone at Wellington, Kan. and
scores of others were injured. The
storm passed directly through the cen
ter of the town. wreclIing everything in
its path. Hundreds of dwellings were
either totally destroyed or more or less
damaged. The devastation in the
country was frightful.
Gus HALLGREN, John A. Benson and
Swan Soderbird, three young men,
were drowned in the river at Red Wing,
Mimi. by the upsetting of boat.
THE percentages of the base ball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 2sth were: Boston, 1928;
Brooklyn, .645; Chicago, .594; Cleve-
land. $40; Cincinnati, $50; Pittsburgh,
.514; Louisville, 500; New York, .479;
Philadelphia, .424; Washington, .4l9;
st. Louis, 1874; Baltimore. $50. The
percentages of clubs in the Western
league were: Columbus, .75s; Milwau-
kee, .666; Kansas City, .541; Toledo,
$40; Omaha, Isl; Minneapolis, 1858;
Fort Wayne. 3l3; indianapolis, .125
IN Chicago an oil syndicate to rival
the Standard has been formed with a
capital stock of -. 500. 600.
a CYCLONE did great damage at Har-
per. Kan, seven persons being killed
and $50 houses totally wrecked. Five
lives were lost at Argonia.
IL the valleys Of the st. Francis,
White and Arkansas rivers in Arkan-
sas one hundred villages and hamlets
have been swept away and will never
be rebuilt until adequate protection is
provided against floods.
AT Caldwell, Medicine Lodge, Corwin,
Olathe. Attiea, Mound City, and Sterl-
ing. in Kansas. a tornado and rainstorm
did great damage.
AT Webb City, Mo, a cloudhurst flood
ed all the lead and zinc mines nearly 10
their tops and the loss viii be enormous.
The governor of Virginia has appoin-
ted Gen. Eppa Hunton as United States
senator to succeed the late John S.
Barbour.
IL Audrain county Mo. cyclone did
enormous damage and seriously injured
eleven persons.
CHARLES BLOCK opened the grave of
his wife in Halle wood cemetery, near
Montezuma. Ia. ant founa the remains,
that had been buried eight years,
turned to stone.
REPUBLICANS of the Thirteenth Mis-
souri, district have nominated Thomas
b. Whitledge for congress.
TWELVE persons were injured, one IA
tally, and Engineer Isbell was killed
by a collision on the Santa Fe road near
Iemont Ill