River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-07-06
WEST AND sOuTH.

By the collapse of steamflue on the
steamer st. Paul near Elsah, H., five
men were fatally scalded.
South, west and central Texas were
visited by terrific transforms and many
hundreds of acres of farming land were
under water, and much cotton was bad
j damaged.
At the age of n years Judge James
D. Cleveland, one of the oldest MEM
bers of the Ohio bar, died at Cleve-
land.
During q heavy gale the steamer
Margaret Olwill foundered in Lake Erie
off Lorain, o., and nine persons were
drowned.
At Muskegon, Mich, Mayor James
Balbiornie was assassinated by j. w.
layer, disappointed office-seeker,
who committed suicide by taking poi
son.
In the last six months about 1900
miles of new railroad track have been
constructed in the United States.
In Cincinnati the national North
American saengerfest opened with a
grand concert.
There is not single case of yellow
fever in Havana, a most remarkable
condition for the place.
Estimates of the Indiana wheat crop
are that the yield will not exceed 17,000,-
600 bushels.
Rev. f. Y. Mullins, of the Newton
Center (Mass.) Baptist church, has
been elected to the presidency of the
d., 80 ,.x.
at Louisville, Ky.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad, after
being in the hands of receivers for over
three years, has been restored to the
stockholders.
In Chicago, ILL.,, Leonard Roeder cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday. He
was in the Mormon and Black Hawk
wars and is in good health.
As divorce mecca North Dakota is a
thing of the past, the law requiring a
years residence having gone into eff
feet.
While on train at the Fredonia mine
near Carterville, ILL.,, colored miners
from Pana, Ill.,, were attacked by min
ers and the wife of one of the miners
was killed and 20 other persons were
wounded. The negroes then set fire to
Union City, a settlement of the strik-
I ing miners, and 100 families were left
homeless.
A negro named VIII Ables, who at
tackled a Mrs. Edgarton, WAS hanged at
Baxley, Ga.
Near Mount Vernon, Tenn, William
F. Wilkes, farmer, cut his IS
throat and then his own.
At Birmingham, Ala, Frank Cook
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
John Blackburn, railway conductor.
At Cape Nome, Alaska, German
whose name is not given stole $4,000 in
gold dust from a miners cabin and was
hanged by mob.
The great carnival in Milwaukee end
ed with a splendid pageant, the most
beautiful and spectacular of all the
carnival attractions.
At Bay City, Mich. Spencer o. Fisher,
an ex-congressman and formerly a
wealthy lumberman. filed a petition IN
bankruptcy with liabilities of S750,000
and assets of $1,000.
In southern Texas remarkably heavy
rains for four days have done damage
amounting to millions of dollars.
At Omaha the gates of the Greater
American exposition, the first colonial
F., exposition of the republic, were
thrown open for term of four months.
The democratic national committee
will meet in July 90 in Chicago.
At Hinsdale, H.. William Cody shot
and killed his young wife, and then
killed himself. Mrs. Cody had left her
husband because of his brutality.
John and Bert Hoover and Roy Har-
baugh were drowned at Waterloo. Ia,
while bathing in Cedar river.