River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-16


AMOS ]. SMELL. a well-known citizen and
millionaire of Chicago. was murdered by q
burglar in his residence on the West side
about two O'Clock on the morning of the
9Th.
JoHS WILLIAMS, of Delaware, O., on Ele
Sth accidentally struck his son with an axe
while splitting wood, killing the boy in
stantly.
JOHN JASAUscHEK, n farmer living near
New Prague, Mimi. killed his wife on the
8 h, fatally wounded his ten-year-old
daughter and killed himself quarrel
over money was the cause
COLD weather WAS reported on the 9th as
follows; Duluth. Mnn, 81 degrees below
zero; Pembina, d. T., 81 degrees below;
Crookston. MINI, 81 below; Teche, D. T..
90 below; Moorehead. MINI. fl below; St
Paul. Mimi. 30 below; Ishpeming. Mich,
80 below; Sycamore, Ill, 80 below; Water
town, Wis, 80 below; Des Moines. Ia. 80
below
Or the 9th Albert J. Smell, son OF the
millionaire killed by burglars in Chicago,
offered reward of $50, 600 for the arrest
and conviction of the criminals
JUDGE PARKER sentenced in the United
States Court at Font Smith, Ark. on the 9th
Owen d. HUI, George Moss. JEFF Hilder-
brand, Emanuel Patterson, Richard Suther-
land, JACK Crow and William Alexander to
be hanged ON April "a for murder.
The Mississippi Republican State conven-
ton to elect delegates to the National con-
vention will be held ut Jackson on April f.
TENNESSEE Republicans will hold their
State convention az Nashville May Is next
JOHN BUTTERY, If Mechanicsburg, Ind, on
the 10th shot his step-sister, Eta Mullen,
with whom he was in love- killed Frank
q, IL.
killed himself
On the 10th a gang of counterfeiters, who
had been wording of a large amount OF
spurious coin in the southwestern part of
Kansas. We're captured at Wichita
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER n T. SMITH, of
Dakota. said on the l0,h: AS far as
lie ,rned the following is an authentic sum
mary of the loss of life in the recent storm:
Beadle County. g; Bonhomme. 10; Coding-
ton, 3; Jerauld. q; Clark, 2; Edmunds, g.;
Brown, .; Hand, z Kingsbury, S; Lincoln,
%; Sphinx, 4; Turner, Is; Yankton, 3; total.
ia
Is Chicago on the 10th the Republican
Subcommittee of the National Committee
arranged the preliminary details for the
National convention, and chose General
Ftz-Simons for sergeant-at-arms and May
or Roche as chairman of the executive and
man OF the Subcommittee. said he had
already received over two thousand appli-
cations for tickets
OK the 10th Conrad Rautebach, a life con-
vict received at the Columbus (0) peniten-
tiary eight years ago, was pardoned by the
Governor, it having been shown that he
was innocent
KANSAS Prohibitionists will hold their
State convention, to name Presidential
electors and candidates for State offices, on
June 13 next
A FIRE on the 10th destroyed the princi-
pal business places of Deerfeld, Wis
PATRICK JOHN HART. who murdered John
Pitts, miner, was hanged on the 10th at
Helena. NJ T.
A TRACTION engine exploded on the 10th
in the woods in Liberty township, near
Wabash, Ind. causing the death of three
men
A BILL was introduced in the Maryland
Legislature on the 18th making it penalty
for registered voters to fail to vote
WILLIAM KELLY, aged seventy seven
years, died in Louisville, Ky, on the 18th.
He was the inventor of the Bessemer proc
ess of making steel, and tbs first importer
of Chinese labor into America
COUNTY TREASURER HILL. of Pamela Coun-
ty, Tex, was murdered on the 11lh and his
Office robbed of So, 600
IN the business center of ronton, o., a
fire on the - h destroy ed the opera house,
post-office, Merchants block aud six stores,
causing a loss of 100000
FOoTE, SCHULTZ & Co, boot and shoe deal
ers at st Paul, Mimi, were burned out on
the 18th, causing loss of S25O,000
On the 18Th General Harvey, at Pass
Christian Miss, celebrated the SEVENTEEN
anniversary of his appoin tment to the
army.
MISS CARRIE SHELLEY, while carelessly
handling gun on the 18th near Newton,
H., shot and killed Edward Joy. The
couple were soon to have been married
REPUBLICAN clubs of Wisconsin will meet
in Madison March 10 for the formation of a
State League.
A sKIFF was submerged by the swels OF
steamer a short distance below New
Orleans on the 18Th, and seven Of the
eight persons on board were drowned
AT Colfax La, colored family of five
persons died from poison on the 18th In
stead of soda Rough on Rats had, by mis-
take, been put into pot of green's
THE death of p II. Rock occurred in Osh-
kosh, Wis, on the 18th, at the age of one
hundred and two years.
II Southern and Central Dakota another
blizz srd ragged on the 18th At Aberdeen
the mercury suddenly dropped from %
above to II below zero.
A FIRE destroyed the business portion of
AngO ,la a small town in Carroll County,
O., on The 18th.