River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-08
LATER MEMS.

Heat caused so prostrations and 10
deaths in Cincinnati. O., the 4th. At
| st. Louis the Thermometer registered
| 100 degrees. At Cleveland. O., there
were two deaths.
During the storm at Minneapolis, the
night of the Sd. the wind reached We
locity of 60 miles per hour and nearly
half an inch Of water fell in 10 min
utes.
There was a severe snow storm at
Leadyille, Col, the Sd.
Erastus Brown, a negro, was hanged
by a mob at Wharfage. Mo-, for as
saulting Miss Anna Foerwing, a farm
ers daughter.
A tornado damaged a number of
buildings at Princeton, MINI.
Henry B. Stone. formerly president
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road, was killed at Chicago by an ex-
plosion of fireworks.
A party of seven young people start
ed to cross the bay at West Superior,
Wis, and the skiff. being overladen,
capsized. Dan Mcdonald, Mamie Nc
Donald, Christie Mcdonald and Burton
McCreary were drowned.
A number of people were injured at
Macon, Ga.. by fireworks.
Severe rains did damage to the
amount of 5000. 900 at Duluth and vi
cinity. Two miles of city paving were
washed out, also 90 of the city bridges.
The st. Paul and Duluth railroad was
rendered impossible from Duluth to
Sandstone.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Athens says that the government
has already negotiated loan and that
the moment the peace conditions are
signed the indemnity will be paid cash
down.
There were nine deaths and 2s pros
trations from heat in Chicago the 5th.
AT Detroit Mich, there were four
deaths.
The Americans in London celebrated
the Fourth through the medium of
dinner at the Royal Palace hotel.
| The extreme heat beating down
through a skylight at Detroit Mich,
caused the blowing out of two automa-
tic fire plugs. The torrent of water
thus released flowed down through the
building damaging the dry goods stock
of Burnham, Stoepel e Co., and the
clothing stock of the Peerless Manu-
featuring company to the extent of
nearly 500, 600.
Captain General Weyler's special de-
cree at Sancti Spiritus makes fresh
offer of amnesty to insurgents and
pacifcos IN Santa Clara province who
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A cyclone passed oyer the village of
Lowery, a small town on the 500 rail-
way in Minnesota, and almost wiped
the place out of existence. The num-
Der of deaths is reported from four to
ten. The new brick residence of Tom
Lauder, near Alexandria. was demol-
ished.
| Four people were fatally injured in
street car wreck in Pittsburg, Pa. In
coming down hill the car jumped the
track and a second car crashed into it.
A boiler explosion occurred on the
farm of w. A. Allen. near Huntsville,
Tenn, which killed nine men. Mr..
Allen and his men had just finished
threshing when the explosion occurred.
During a storm at St. Cloud, Mimi,
the 9th, the Mississippi river rose
foot in an hour. Much damage was
done to streets and culverts.
George Weston and II. 5 Coulton,
two aeronauts, were frightfully man
gled at Eureka, Cal, while making a
parachute jump from a balloon.
Lightning struck church at John
quiers. Canada, while mass was being
celebrated, causing panic, in which
one man was trampled under foot and
killed.
II is said strong effort will be made
to arbitrate the miners wage dispute
Colonel w. p Rend of Chicago is said
to be at the head of this movement
Colonel Rend operates four mines in
Ohio and three in Pennsylvania. lie
has advocat arbitration.
w. f. Culkin of Buffalo. Mimi, was
confirmed ny the senate as register of
the Duluth land office.
Secretary Gage, in a letter to the
senate finance committee recommends
tax of l cert per pound on refined
sugar made from the raw material i'm
ported prior to the passage of the inn
pending tariff bill.
There were five deaths in Cincinnati,
O., the 9th. from heat