River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-14

where there has been several. fatal cases.
also at Bloomington, Cincinnati, La Crosse
and Milwaukee.
FAIRcHILD. the man recently arrested
in Chicago, charged with the murder of
French, in Harper county, Kansas, has
confessed the crime.
CHARLES kEHIE, a Ligonier, Ind,
butcher, kicked his wife in the stomach, in
the course of a quarrel over a trivial mat
ter. Inflammation set in, and the woman
died.
A PLOT TO release large number of
prisoners from the state prison at Concord,
Mass, was discovered on the Sth inst, and
frustrated Some OF the convicts have OBJ
tanned possession of false keys to nearly
every door in one division.
Mrs FRANK CROKER, of Milwaukee,
Wis, the well-known disturber of woman,s
rights meetings, attempted to shoot Mrs.
j. b. Smith, her stepmother, but succeed
ed only in shooting off one of her own fin
gers. She was arrested.
PARIS has settled down to the belief that
NJ. Herold's mother-in-law set fire to the
Tuileries, the other night. 1t is not sup
posed that the old lady did it on purpose.
but there is no longer a doubt that the
flames first appeared in her bedroom.
A GHosrLY-LooKING party of armed
men, wearing black masks and robes and
riding horses covered with white sheets,
recaptured lot of property seized by gov
eminent officers for violation of the reye-
nue. laws of Dalton, Ga.
NEGRO dock laborers at Houston, Tex,
to the number of several hundred, have
struck for higher wages, and threaten to
create disturbance If their demands are
not granted. Two companies of militia
are on guard.
Mrs. GEO. HAMILTON of San Francisco,
sent a note asking an interview with her
husband from whom she had been separat-
ed. He called on her and during the CONVEX
sation she shot him dead. Cause jealousy.
Last winter she shot and severely wounded
young girl, who had exc tied her jealousy.
A BOX containing 1l2 pounds of dyna-
mite has been found under the dam across
the Wabash river at Pittsburg, Ind Far
mers living upstream whose lands have
been flooded BY the back-water have re-
peatedly attempted to blow up the obstruc-
ton and the present discovery shows that
they are still of the opinion that the dam
must go.
GREAT excitement prevails in Colorado
over the mysterious disappearance of
Young Jackson, who shot ard killed the
Ute Chief johnson the other day, and who,
when last seen, was en- route to Gunnison
in the custody of Agent Berry, Captain
Kline and one Hoyt Warrants are out
for the arrest of these persons on charge
of murder, and it is believed that they will
be iynched if captured.
THE jury in the case of Mrs. Mack,
| tried at J e1ersOn, for the murder of her
| husband in conjunction with man named
! Dickerson, failed to agree after an alb
scence of tifty-three hours. This was the
woman's second trial She was convicted
at the first, but the supreme court gave
| her another chance. Dickerson, to whom
| the same clemency was not extended, is
now serving out heavy sentence in the
penitentiary.
Two random guests of Kreisch landlord
of the Republican House, Milwaukee.
Wis, levied upon the personal effects of
several of the dodgers before daybreak, on
| the 9th inst, having conducted their I'M
! dertaking so discreetly that the clandestine
! confscations were not discovered until the
breakfast bell aroused the drowsy victims.
! Key nippers had ena5led the covetous
! ones to enter the several apartments with
| out noise or other embarrassments. 1t is
estimated that the swag of thieves would
aggregate about 81 200.
A DARING attempt to burn the records of
La Sale, Illinois, in the courthouse at
! Ottawa, was made on the 4th inst. On the
| arrival of the fire department the record
| office was broken open and the flames,
! which had not made much Roadway, were
promptly extinguished. Several books
were on the floor, and in different parts of
! the room were found a torpedo and four
| or five cans of nitro-glycerine. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the intention of the conspirators to
wreck the building in the hope that the
records would be more effeotually destroy
! ed. Fourteen books were consumed, but
all the rest, valued at S3,000,000 were
saved.
A FEARFUL tragedy is reported from
New Canton, Pike county, H., on the Sth
| inst, caused by love and resulting in a
| double murder and suicide. Six miles
| from New Canton lived a family named
/ Baker, consisting of father, mother and
| two daughters, the eldest 10 years old. A
/ Young man named Sellers had been work
ing for the family. About o'clock last
evening, while Mr.. Baker was absent, he
insisted that the daughter should promise
to marry him. She refused, whereupon
Sellers drew a revolver aid shot the dog,
then the mother and finally the girl. He
/ then placed the muzzle to his own temple
and fred each shot was instantly fatal
/ The youngest daughter witnessed the
whole tragedy and gave the above facts
before a coroner's jury.