River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-23
tally destroyed it, killing one man

stantially destroyed it, killing one man
instantly.
VIM. Fl. Goddard, the Minneapolis mer
chant who was arrested few weeks ago
for embezzling $4,000 fifteen years ago
while clerk of the Corbin banking company
of New York, has been released and viii
return to his business at Minneapolis.
Influential friends interceded ami the fact
that he has led an exemplary life ever
since the act saved him.
When the First Regiment, Minnesota
militia broke camp at White Bear after a
weeks service ON the tented field, the boys
burned Mccarthy, Adjutant General of the
State, in efTigy and burned the remains
This was because Mccarthy ordered their
Colonel BEND to be court martialed and
thus prevented his being in command
at the camp
A tragedy occurred in Buckeye township,
four miles south of Alden, Iowa, on the
nth Geo. johnson, married man %
years of age killed his sister-in-law, beau
tiful girl of nineteen, by cutting her throat
and then killed himself in similar manner
His wife and her sister were sleeping to-
gether when the deed was committed
The first prisoners were received at the
new penitentiary at Bismarck, ID. T. on the
18th. They numbered five and were sent up
from Fargo. Bismarck is anxious to secure
more residents of that kind and is negotiat
ing with the Montana authorities for the
contract of keeping the prisoners of that
territory.
A. II. Reed, a prominent grain dealer of
Miller, DIT, while ON his way home was
struck by lightning and instantly killed
The horse was uninjured and proceeded
home with the buggy, when the dead body
of Mr.. Reed was found by his wife.
Grading is in progress on the Minneap
oils, Saul Ste. Marie a. Atlantic, between
Bruce and Main creek, distance of twenty
five miles. On this section of the road
bridges will have to be erected over the
Chippewa and Flambeau rivers.
The secretary of the interior has
appointed Samuel N. Holiday, Jr.,
of st. Louis, Mo-, and William r
Henderson of Martinsville Ind, assistant
superintendent of the Yellowstone Nation
al park
David Hill and his sixteen-year old son,
were drowned few days ago in West
Silent Lake, near Fergus Falls, Mimi.
Their row boat upset and the father
drowned in trying to save his son.
At Bedford, Iowa, July 20, Ida Kimball, a
beautiful child aged l5 daughter of a lead
ing business man, shot and killed w. Il.
Giles a prominent music dealer She
claims Giles seduced her
Six robberies were committed at Apple
ton while the procession of Fore
paugh's circus was parading. j. B. Bushey
was the heaviest loser, being robbed of $50
in jewelry, silverware, etc.
County, Minnesota, has committed a Pail
Mall Gazette crime upon his daughter elev
en- years old and the neighbors are looking
for him to lynch him.
During a thunder storm at Larimore,
ID. r., on the evening of the 18th, James
Burns and Jennie Lagard were struck by
lightning at the Commercial hotel and
killed.
The St Paul Chamber of Commerce urges
that the public schools of the city be limited
10 nine mouths session, instead of ten on
both sanitary and financial grounds.
After August 1st two passenger trains
will be run daily between St Paul and Chi
cago over the Minnesota and Northwestern,
Freight trains are now in operation
Three men were badly injured at Valley
City, d. T., on the 2lst, by the breaking of
scalfolding at an elevator they were
building. Two of them will die
Gov Pierce has issued an order transfer
ring fifty prisoners from the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, d. T., to the penitentiary at
Bismarck, ID. I.
A. Bierman, the new revenue collector
for Minnesota proposes to remove the
deputy collectors office from st. Peter to
Sleepy Eye.
At Redwood Falls, MINI. July 10Th, Israel
Alexander shot his father-in-law, Charles
Mower, to death, the result of domestic
trouble.
John A. Manning, hardware dealer at Du-
luth has failed st. Paul creditors who
wanted their money forced that result
Ole jacobson was fatally stabbed Monday,
by Carl Eklund, in a sudden quarrel, at
Alliance, MINI. The men were blowing.
By lightning ten Of twenty eight head of
fat cattle were killed in a field near Still
water, July 10Th. Loss $500
The Fair and circuit races of the Hastings
Industrial association take place September
?, 3 and 4.
At Starbucl1, Mimi. Mrs J. E. Johnson
was killed by lightning Monday evening.
w. H. Desmond has been appointed U. S.
Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa.
July 10Th there were more deaths in New
York city, than any other day this year.
Thirteen deaths were reported at St Paul,
July Goth, five from cholera infantum.
Business men of Dubuque Ia, have
been swindled by advertising sharks.
A woman was killed by lightning at Sa-
cred Heart, Monday
Gen. w. 7. Sherman is summering at
Lake Minnetonka.
st. Paul has bicycle riding school.