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

SEVERAL boys aged from twelve to six
teen years were arrested on the 25th at
Lafayette, Ind, for committing numerous
rObberies. and they confessed to belonging
to an organized gang for that purpose.
In Allegan County. Mich, local option
was carried on the 25th by ever 1900
majority This makes fourteen counties in
the State that have voted for local option.
TIE wheat in the hands OF Northwestern
farmers on the 25th was estimated at thir-
teen million bushels surplus beyond seed
ADvIcEs OF the 25th say that Browns VAL
ley, MINI, had not had a railroad train for
four weeks. and there was no sugar. cofee
or kerosene in the place and but very little
coal Families were living together to hus-
band supplies
OK tho morning OF the 25th Mrs A. J.
Ellis, OF Kansas City, woke mp to discover
that her twin children. a month old, had
been smothered during the night
HAPPY MEDIUM a famous stallion, died on
the 25th near Lexington, Ky He was
twenty-four years old and valued &C $40
600
NJ PRIBYL, of Chicago, a wholesale
dealer in guns and cutlery, failed on the
26th for 100000
On the 26th Grant Martin, aged fifteen
years, and Grace Silvers, aged thirteen
years, were married at Fairmount, nj, with
the consent Of the parents of each
C. G. Bradley was on the 20 h sold under
the vsgrant law. for a term of six months,
TO William McClanahan, of Milan, Mo. for
thilty-five cents
Two woRKMES named McDermott and
Fowler fell to the bottom of the hot-air
oven of the FIoodwood furnace at Athena
o. on the 26,h, and were baked to death
While miners were boring for coal on the
26th near Carmi, III. oil was struck at a
depth Of l. 12l feet which was gushing TO
the surface at the rate of over fifty barrels
an hour
TEN tons of Texas cotton seed were
shipped on the Goth from Galveston, Tex,
TO Zanzibar, Africa, where cotton-growing
will he tried
DYsASuIE explosion on the 26th at the
Carbon Limestone Company,s quarries. ten
miles from Youngstown. o., killed three
men
OK the 26th the Republicans of the
Eleventh Michigan Congressional district
in convention at Ishpeming. nominated
Henry W. Seymour, of Sault Ste Marie, to
succeed the late Seth G. Moffatt
AT St Paul a street-car cable train be
came manageable on the 9th, and when
descending n bill the cars shot downward
at great speed, ran Of the track and were
smashed TO pieces Three persons were
fatally injured and fourteen were badly
hurt
OK the 10Th C B. Hitchcock and wife
were found murdered on Their farm in Los
Angeles County, Cal Robbery was the mo-
tive
C. p MAYsEY, one of the best-known men
in Western Arkansas, was shot and killed on
the 9th in Golden City by Oscar Coulter.
the outcome of quarrel of six years stand
ing
MASKED men took three negro prisoners
from the jail at Plymouth, n. C., on the
9th and shot them to death.
BUSINESS was resumed on the 9th by tho
San Francisco Bridge Company, which
assigned recently, with liabilities of $780,
600
HENRY PBKrRE, of Tyler, Mimi, was
burned to death In his brn on the 27th.
and ten horses, seventeen cattle and
twenty hogs were also cremated
THE Chamber of Commerce building at
Peoria. Ill, was burned on the 29th- Loss,
SI5O,OO0
On the 2sth Frederick Auschlag. a young
German of Los Angeles. Cal. confessed to
the recent murder Of Charles B. Hitchcock
and wife. near Garden Grove, Cal
MRS BRIDGET NIHILL died on the 2Sth at
Hudson, Ill, aged one hundred years
On the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau-
kee road an express train was derailed on
the 2Sth at na1ald, Mich and one passen-
ger was fatally and SIX others were badly
injured
TRr thermometer on the 2Sth regis cred
fOrr degrees below zero a Winchester, Va
A CoLoRED man named b EN- Edwards, who
ass lulted Catherine Hayes. a white girl, was
taken from jail at Amite City, La, on the
29tl and lynched
DENNIS CLIFFoRD's house at Tawas City,
Mich, was burned on the 2Sth. and Clifford
and his wife. an aged couple. persisted in
the flames
IN the trial of the election-workers at In
dianapolis. Ind, the jury returned verdict
on the 18th finding Simon Coy and W F. A
Bernhamer gu lty.
DEMOCRATS of the Eleventh Congressional
district of Michigan on the % h met at
Marquette and nominated B-rtley Breen,
of Menominee, to succeed the late Seth c.
Moffatt The Prohibitionists met the same
day at Ishpeming and nominated s
Steel, of SchoolcrafG
FIRE destroyed the printing and bind
cry establishment OF H. w. Rocker at
Springfield, Ill, on the 2Sth Loss, $780,
600