River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-13

AT tire session of the American Forestry
Congress on the 9TH at Atlanta, Ga, Gov
ernor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, was elected
president
ADoLPHUs WHEELER and Sam Phifer,
colored murderers, were executed on the
9TH at Yorkville, s C. Both confessed
their crimes on the gallows and acknowl-
edged the justice of the sentence.
The official vote of Colorado was de
clared on the eth as follows: Harrison,
81, 766; Cleveland, 80, $40; Prohibition, 2, 100;
Labor, l,2J6. This shows an increase over
the vote of 1854 Of over SIS. OO0
SUITS were entered on the 9TH by the
United States Government against various
corporations and individuals of Eureka,
New, for amounts aggregating Sl3 900, 900
for cutting wood from unsurveyed Gov
eminent lands
ABOUT seventy Kansas sportsmen were
arrested on the 9TH in the Indian Territory
by Tn ted States scouts for trespassing.
IL and near Thin, o., typhoid fever was
epidemic on the 9TH. One man had lost his
wife. mother and two daughters, and an
other daughter was dying.
JAMES LEMONS a farmer of Cozad Neb..
and his wife became insane on the Sth be
cause Of gossip among the neighbors con-
Meeting them with a murder committed
month ago.
Tus private bank of Isaac Lauferty in
Fort Wayne, Ind, was robbed of 81 600
while the proprietor was at lunch on the
the Sth.
FIRE in the shipyard aud buildings of
the Globe Iron works at Cleveland, O d,
consumed 200 600 worth of property on the
Sth, and one thousand workmen were
thrown out of work.
OK the Sth Chief-Of Police Hubbard an
nounced very emphatically that no more
Anarchist meetings would be permitted In
Chicago. either in doors or outdoors.
On the sth an incendiary fire at Bevier,
No, destroyed ten buildings.
Ton WHITE, alias T. w Watson. one of
the most notorious hotel thieves in the
country, was arrested on the Sth at In
dianapolis, Ind.
A MOB bent upon lynching Hawts,
| charged with the murder of his wife and
child, attacked the Jail at Birmingham,
[ Ala, on the night of the Sth. The sheriff
and his officers fired upon the mob, killing
nine men, some of them prominent citi-
zens, and wounding thirty others, some
/ fatally.
On the Sth Clark Ours was killed in try
/ ing to escape from the Ohio penitentiary
| at Columbus He slipped from the roof
aud fell four stories
NEAR Edmonton, KY. the eleven-year-
old son of James Demumbrum attacked
/ two men on the Sth who had fatslly
wounded his father and drove them of at
| the point of arevOlver.
4 On the 10th William Benson, aged TWEEN
/ ty-one years, confessed that he killed
/ Jacob Motweiler and wife recently near
dwardsville. Ind. because they objected
/ 70 his paying attention TO girl named
I Sallie Snyder, who lived with the family.
JOHN MARTIN, boarder at the house OF
/ b. w Merrill, in Chicago became insane
/ ly infatuated with Mrs. Merrill, who re
/ PEELED him and told him on the 10th &c
/ leave the house, whereupOn he shot heI
dead and then killed himself
/ OK the 10th the case of Fotheringham
against the Adams Express Company for
I illegal Imprisonment in connection With
/ the Jim Cummings" express robbery in
/ 1885 was settled by the company paying
/ Fotheringham IS, 800
OK the 10th Robert L. Jones, sheriff OF
/ Grant County, Ind, was shot and fatally
wounded at jerome by John Fleming,
who had escaped from Jail.
| AN explosion of flour dust in David Oil.
ver's oatmeal mill in Chicago on the 10th
/ wrecked the building and destroyed -four
other structures adjoining. Three men
were killed and several others were in
/ iured. The money loss was $4,000.
The steamer Taquina Bay, owned by
/ Colonel Egerton and valued at 500, GEO.
was wrecked on the Oregon coast on the
/ 10th.
An attempt was made on the 10th to
| blow up Shufeldt's distillery in Chicago
with dynamite, but little damage was
done. The crime was charged to the
whisky trust, Mr. Shufeldt being opposed
I to il.
BRICKLAYERs of Leavenworth, Kan, quit
work on the 10th because their employers
refused TO pay eight hours wages for sew
I en- hours work.