River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-07-13

Later advices from Texas say that the
flood district has length of over 500
miles and a breadth of so miles, and in
all this vast space damage incalculable
has been done. The number of lives lost
is placed at 100, and the property loss
at over S10,0OO,000.
The aggregate receipts from customs
in Cuba for the past IA weeks were So,
949,s14.
The supreme court of Michigan says
that Gov. Pingree's plan for municipal
ownership of Detroit street railways
is unconstitutional.
A. G. Hildreth, Of St. Louis, was elect
cd president at the national convention
in Indianapolis of osteopathists.
At Carthage, Mo-, James McAfee was
hanged for the murder of Eben Brewer,
a merchant of Joplin, whom he at
tempted TO rob July 80, 1897.
In n quarrel over getting married
Charles Saltzman and Miss Kate Hor-
foldsteimer fought a duel with revolv-
ers in buggy near Seatonville, H.,
and both were fatally injured.
At the age of 102 years f. NJ. Chap
man died at Kingston, Tenn. He was
the first captain to operate steamboat
on the Tennessee river.
Reports from $50 cities and towns in
the United States show that 33 persons
were killed and 1870 injured by acct
dents on the Fourth of July.
In California a severe shock of earth
quake was felt from San Francisco to
Monterey.
In kentucky the socialist labor party
met in Louisville and nominated state
ticket headed by Albert Schmutz, of
Louisville, for governor.
The latest news from Texas says that
the entire valley of the Brazos, from
BRENNAN on the north to its mouth al
Quintana, is flooded, and its current is
filed with the debris of wrecked
houses. stock and farming implements.
Secretary of War Alger has placed at
the disposal Of the governor 10000 ra-
tons to be supplied to the destitute
and furnishing sufferers.
A hail and windstorm devastated the
country for miles around Kendalls,
Wis, running large tracts of valuable
timber.
Fire wiped out the mining town OF
Coulterville, Cal.
At Bakus, Mimi, Ed Cinch, dealer
in general merchandise, shot his wife
and then committed suicide.
In Chicago August Albert Becker
was found guilty of wife murder and
sentenced to be hanged.
Several persons were injured in a
wreck on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad at Waldron, Mo.
The chairman of the reorganization
committee of the Wisconsin Central
railway lines bid in the system in en-
tirety for s7.3OO,0OO.
The oldest savings institution in Min
nesota, the Savings bank of st. Paul.
closed its doors with deposits of nearly
81 100000.
At Medina. o., burglars tried to rob
the country treasury, but were fright
ened away after they had blown of
the outer door of the safe.
In Texas many plantations are still
under water and hundreds of persons
who had taken refuge on mound three
miles below Scaly are slowly perish
ing for want of food.
In Columbus state organization to
be known rs the Ohio Association of
Democratic Clubs was formed TO dis
semiuate democratic principles as
enunciated in the last democratic plat
form.
The death of John Fl. Stallings, los
years of age, occurred near Sevierville.
Tenn
At the age of So years George W.
Julian, several times a congressman
and AT one time one of the most prom
inent men in national affairs in the
west, died at his home in Irvington,
Ind.
Yellow fever caused the death in
Santiago of Maj Joseph Heatwole,
chief commissary Of Cuba. He was a
resident of Indiana.
In session in Portland, Ore, the Ma
tionaI Editorial association elected r.
/ II. Henry. Of Jackson, Miss, president.