River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-24

A BILL giving women the right 70 vote
at al municipal elections was killel In
the Ohio House Of Represen tatives on the
18th.
AMAS named Ridenour. who had twice
been convicted and sentenced to death.
NJ on his Z ird trial on the 18th at Win
c..ester, Va, was acquitted
Ok the 18th Andrew Shuman. who
for nearly thirty-three years had been
editorialIy connected with the Chicago
Evening Journal twenty eight years as
its managing editor, announced his retire
ment on account Of poor health
BoLAR tMol advices of the 10Th say that
two daughter of Henry Thomas,
farmer, attemnted to elope with Samuel
and Charles Hasburn, brothers, when the
old mar made his appearance and shot and
killed the young men and one OF his daugh-
tiers. Soon after the farmer was lynched
BY m b.
WHILE three boys were hunting on the
Goth near Eckert, Ind. they dug INTO an
old log after rabbit and scovered pot
of gold coins. The treasure counted out
$4,000
\ TRAIN was derailed on the 18th near
Elwood. Mich, md j. H. Macdonald, of
Escanaba. Lieutenant-Govern Of the
State; Horace futile. pre- ideDt of the
Commonwealth Iron Compans, of Cleve-
land, o.. and VIII am S. cnrane, OF Es-
CANADA, president of the Cochrane Mining
Company, were killed, and many 9th =
crs0ns were injured.
CITizgXs Of 7 ptonville. Tenn, hanged
three men on the 18th who were guilty OF
murder
MISS FLORA ROM, a pretty girl Of six
teen years, at Fayette. Mo- killed Mrs.
Johnson. the mother of her youthful
sweetheart, who I'D steadily opposed the
mat b, and then comm tied suicide.
NEAR Brookfied, Mo. Mrs. Malinda
Hall, a widow and her four small chill
dren were murdered on the 18th by the
woman's cousin, Joseph HIVE. a school
teacher. be fired the residence and ere
mated his victims.
Ix indianapolis on the I9.h the Federal
grand jury indicted some sixty persons
for elect on frauds.
A RIOT occurre on the 18th at Ty Ty,
Ga. between whites aud negroes in which
two OF the latter were killed
A FIGGT occurred at an attempted lynch
ing on the 10Th in Young County. Tex. be-
tween lynchers an the sheriff7s posse, Ia
which SIX OF the former were killed and
many wounded.
Ok the 2lst Parker Bros, OF Cincinnati,
building contractors, who mad been boy
tied by the Br ckiayers' Union OF that
city, were awarded So, 200 damages against
the union BY a jury.
FURTHER advice' OF the 2lst say that
only four men were killed by the falling
Of a bridge recently at Spott vi le, Ky.
AFTER stealing S20, 600 George A Pearce.
secretary Of the Planters insurance Com
pany at Mobile. Ala, fled on the 2lst.
THE deadlock ia the West Virginia
Senate was broken on the 2lst by the &C.
ton of II. :. Carr. Union-Labor Senator
from Charleston, President of the Sen
ate. on the one hundred and twenty sixth
ballot At caucus Of the Republicans
General Coz was nominated for United
States Senator.
OK the 2lst Governor Foraker, OF Ohio,
committed the sentence of the condemned
murderess, Mrs. Garrett, to imprisonment
! for life.
FLAMES swept away the Grand Opera
House It 81. Paul, MINI. on the 2lst
[ Loss 100000.
/ u G. WALLACE, Man zield (O.) dentist,
while pulling patients tooth on the 2lst
/ dropped in an aponlectic ct and died an
/ hour later. He was sixty five years old.