River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-04-05

W tullkDou. anu utter lUnEIal HtlN1lcH III
Trinity Church were taken TO Forest Gem
etery for intsrment
FIRE destroyed Davis / Rankins five.
story brick building in ChicNgo on the 18th
Loss. $3.50. 900
NATURAL gas exploded in mine Ne, o OF
the Keith & Perry Coal Company. near Rich
HUI, Mo, on the Goth, killing forty-five
miners, most of them negroes
II Chicago on the 29th August Krakow
shot and instantly killed HIS wife and then
killed himself. thus ending long years Of
family troubles Twelve children are left
orphans
STRIKERS attacked freight train en- the
Burlington road in Chicago on the 29,h.
throwing fifteen cars from the track and
badly iniuriEg some of the employees Two
of the rioters were arrested All The SWITCH
men, eng neers and fTemeu IN the local
yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee & S.
Paul road struck. rather than handle Bur
lington cars
The Oregon Prohibition State convention
It Portland on the Goth nominated Prof Il
~ Miller for Con FRESHMAN
IL quarrel on the Goth in saloon M
Bernardino. Cal, the ar-tcnjcT, Oliver
Grffit n. and two other men were shot dead.
VIRGINIA Republicans will hold their con-
vention to elecs National delegates at
Petersburg May IA
Henry LANE. a farmer. killed - wife
and then committed suicide, in a quarrel
on the :iOth ult near Eningham, H.
TIE six children o. F4rmer Jacob KraEs,
near Forrest, o, found and ate some will
parsley. from the effects Of which one died
on the 30th nit. and the Others could not
recover
Il quarrel over a n excl on the :j0Lh ulr.
at Auant'. Ga. Neil Stark shot dead his
brother. Flaentz Stark
o. the 3O.E ult the engineers. hremen
switchmen and brakemen in Chicago on the
Milwaukee < ST P,lul road were ~ ordered
ont, caus ng general tic M Several
freight trains on the Burlington road were
pelted with stones at the Sock Yards and
one man was badly injured Cars were also
set on fire. Chief Arthur. OF the Brother
hood Of Engineers, left Chicago for Cleve-
/ land, hut before leaving disclaimsJ any
knowledge of ths action of the ST Paul
men, and said that as the men acted rs in
dividua's they would not receive q dollar
Of assistance from the Brotherhood. and
not a dollar of brotherhood money would
be applied to assist the switchmen now ON
/ strike
4 IN Wayne County. Mich, sixty bridges
] had on the 3Oth ulr been washed away and
much land flooded by freshets
| SOME children set fire to barn near Ma
/ con, Mo. on the 30th ult., and three young
| sons of DIR. l. s Richardson persisted
| J. l. GILLESPIE and his wife fought with
| knives and both were fatally wounded in
/ a quarrel or The 30th ult at Chilllcothe
/ No
REPORTS from the wlnter-wheat sections
/ of Illinois and Missouri on the 3Oth ulk
showed the wheat to be damaged from
/ twenty 10 thirty per cent
I
/ ult at Ashley. ~ T, for the murder of
I three prospcc. ors.
! J. " CHAPLIN, the Findlay tO) bigamss,
/ under sentence to 4 term in the peniten-
/ tiary fer marrying eleven women, Mt
/ tempted 10 commit suicide or the LIST, but
/ failed
In Chicago the railroad strike had spread
/ on the Is; from the Burlington until it in
I Guided the Milwaukee & st Paul and the
/ Pittsburgh 4 Fort Wayne roads The freight
traffic OF the ST Paul was almost COM
p!elely tied up An unconditional surren-
/ der and an immediate return to work were
the only terms held out to the striking en-
! plOyes
/ BENJAMIN F. HOPKINS, resistant cashier
/ of the wrecked Fidelity Bank Of Ctncm-
nat, was on the 3lst ult sentenced to
] eight years in the penitentiaTy
OK the Is: f lswOrtl Letter, a Kansas
I City tsamster. shot his wife and killed HIM
self in quarrel over money.
DURING a storm ut Warren, Ark, few
I days ago the colored Baptist church was
I demolished, and great damage WAS lone in
the surrounding country
THE barn OF John McCrun at Wheeling
/ W Va, was burned on the 3lSt ult., and
I twenty-five cows persisted in the flames
/ The cost Of the Western railway rate war,
/ which lasted tfty-oue days, was on the 3Ist
ult. estimated at Sl5. 600, O0O 10 the conf
! panies involved The loss on business in
and ont of & e two cities of St Paul and
/ Minneapolis alone "; S nearly $500, 900.