River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-07-22
NORTHM Extern NEWS.

A paper mill at kOcktOu, Ill. owned by
Bradner, Smith a Co, of Chicago, aud
operated by W. I. Randall OF BelOit, Wis,
was burned on the 10th The mill was
known as the Kelney mill, and was also
burned a few years ago. Mr.. Randall has
run the mill two years and was burned out
in the Northwest Paper mill fire two years
ago. Only by hard work were the other
mills of Bradner, Smith q Co, saved. The
loss is $4,000 to $4,000; well insured.
The upsettiDg of lamp was the cause.
sad drowning case occurred at Fronte-
nae, Mimi, on the 18th, Frontenac is little
town on Lake Pepin "a widening of the
Mississippi about 80 miles below st. Paul
A party of st. Paul young ladies had gone
there on the 18th, for months vaca-
went in bathing. Nettie Mickey, daugh
er of Joseph Mickey of the Boston Cloth
ing house, Edith Bend, daughter Of Col. w.
b. Bend, and Mamie Horn, daughter of
ii. ii. Horn, prominent attorney,
were together when Miss Horn got beyond
her depth and the other girls went to her
rescue. ny a strange fatality Miss Horn
turned upon her back and flOated while her
two would be rescuers were drowned The
lost girls were each about rs years old. The
body of Miss Mickey was found ia twenty
minutes but life was extinct. Miss Bends
body was not found for several hours.
Inc duhudA stsrAou VI tue
national conference Of charities and cor
rections began at St. Paul on the 18th.
ex President Hayes, president Of the
National Prison association was in at
tendance The conference continues until
Wednesday evening, 2lst inst
w F. Church, associate justice of the
supreme court of Dakota, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect upon the APP
pOintment of his successor Judge
Church s.district included that bart ofDako
Ia lying west of the Missouri, and his resi-
dence is at DeadwOod.
Miss Lizzie Yates, a young lady residing
at Okaboji, Sullyi county, ID. T., was
thrown from horse she was riding on the
20Ih and dragged two miles with her foot
in the stirrup. Her head was mashed to
jelly and her body terribly mangled.
Safe blowers entered the grocery store of
Gilbert EversOn in Hudson, Wis on the
morning OF the Goth. They blew open the
safe door and the front of the building as
well. $50 was she amount of booty they got
away with.
The National Board of Charities began
its annual session at st. Paul on the 10th.
This humanitarian work brings together
many notable men among them ex-Presi-
dent Hayes and ex-governor Hoadley of
Ohio,
Henry Search, a wealthy farmer,
seventy-six years old, and his wife aged
sixty five, living mile and half west of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, were murdered on the
night Of the 18th, for their money.
The Glyndon elevator burned on the
l4th from incendiary fire. Two other
buildings burned. Loss $1,000, insurance
SaOO0. The GlyndOn authorities offer
$500, reward fUr the incendiaries.
The Republicans of Hughes County, d
=, haze instructed their delegates TO the
territorial district convention To favor The
nomination Of Hon. ~. ). Clifford as de e
gate to Congress.
The great railroad war is over and pas
sage rates which have been Is. between st
Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago. and 81.
from Des MOines to Chicago have been re-
stored.
Boomer, Wis, had a narrow escape
from destruction by fire ON the 18th inst.
The loss was confined TO s}O00 owing TO
favorable wind and a good water system.
In the kourth Minnesota Congressional
district the convention has been called to
meet at Minneapolis on 25th Aug. There
will be IS delegates.
Highwaymen stopped a stage on the 18th
800 miles northwest of Winnipeg and Sc
cared $40, 00O.
Lightning killed four Indians aud s
white settler and his wife near St Hilaire,
Kim, on the 18th.
The president has regrieved Woods, sen
fenced to be hanged July %, at Bismarck,
TO Nov. l.
Albert Scheffer OF St Paul hes decided
not to be 8 candidate for Governor ~ Min
nesota-