River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-15

in q murder and suicide. Allen shot Carter
dead and then killed himself
CHARLES PARKHURsr. aged twelve years.
while fooling with gun on the Sth near
Attica. Kan. shot and killed Charles Slep-
py and fatally wounded George Sloppy
DEMOCRATS Of Indiana will hold their
State convention in Indianapolis April %
to elect delegates to the National conven-
tion.
ONE Of the buildings of the Williamson
County TENN poor-house WAS burned on
the sth, and William johnson and Dora
shannon (colorell, both insane. persisted in
the flames
Or the sth the Mississippi Legislature adj
journed sine die
FIRE ON the 9th at Harrisburg, Ill. de-
stroyed eleven business houses and five
dwellings
The Methodist University building at
Mitchell, d. T., was burned on the 9th, and
ont Of forty inmates ten were badly in
iured, one having died. while others were
thought to be fatally hurt
FIVE men and four women committed sui
eide in Chicago during the seven days end
ed on the 9th, and three other persons fail
ed in their attempts TO take their lives
IN the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
strike there was no change on the OH In
Judge Greshams court in Chicago action
on the petition of the Burlington Company
for an order compelling the Wabash road
TO transport and deliver cars rendered by
the Burlington was postponed until the
18th In Omaha Judge Dundy issued an
order enjoining the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and its engineers from refusing
to perform their duties under the Inter
State Commerce law and enjOining the en-
gineers from organizing or combining to
direct any strike.
At Emmettsburg, Ia. the veterinary
stable of DR.. Hayes was burned on the 9th,
and several valuable horses were lost
On the 9th the Illinois League of Repub-
lican cubs was organized at Springfield,
with William W. Tracy, of that city. as
president
FIVE Italian counterfeiters were captured
on the 9th at Norfolk, Va. They had flooded
the city with silver counterfeit dollars
MACY WARNER was hanged on the 9th at
Jacksonville. Ind. for the murder april
Is. 1887. of Frank Harris
A NEGRO named Tom Roof, who assaulted
Mrs Morrison in Trenton. Ga. was taken
from Jail on the 10th and lynched by a
mob of women.
Oh the 10Th Mrs Henrietta Smell, of Chi
cagO. widow of Amos J. Smell, the muir
dered millionaire. offered reward of $40
ONU loI the aIISsi oI hlAitain d. IdhCOlt,
the supposed murderer.
HAIL-sToRM on the 10 h along the Mis-
sissippi coast caused ruin TO the vegetables
growing fruit, etc
IT looked on the 10th as if the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy strike was nearing an
end and rumOrs were current that the
strikers We're anxious to return TO work.
The fact that the Bro herhood was unable
to control competing roads had been disas-
trous
The Legislature of Utah adjourned sine die
On the 10th All the cd bills designed to
protect the polygamists and aid them in
fight ng the United States laws heretofore
passed and vetoed by Governor Murray
were again PASSED at This session and vetoed
by Governor Wes1
RUDOLPH HELLER's wife and child were
suffocated by natural gas on the 18th at
Finlay. o.
The Ch'c7go. Burlington & Quincy rail
way strike as regards the prospects of its
ex tension TO other roads was in abeyance
on the 18th pending Judge Gresham's Dis
cision in the Wabash case The arguments
had been concluded and the case taken I'M
der adv.s ement
The Legislature of Wyoming adjourned
sine die on the II h
MORMON elders who had been making con-
yerts In small districts of Botecourt Coun-
ty Va. were notified on the 18th to leave
or be lynched
NEAR Mason City, Ia, the family of H. L
Brown, nine in all. were taken violently
sick az supper on the ltb, and Mr. Brown
and one child had died. How their food
was poisoned had not been discove' ed
FIRE destroyed the works of the Grand
Detour PlOw Company at Dixon, Ill, on
the l. h, causing loss of over 800, 600