River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-07

and Edward Rudder had both of his ewes
blown out by premature explosion on the
18th ult. in the Norway mine near Mar
quette. Mich.
IKE Governor of West Virginia on the
2sth nit issued certificates of election to J.
d Anderson DEM from the Third Con-
gressional district and To J. VI Jackson
DEM from the Fourth Congressional dis
trict
TIE Democrats in STATE convention ON the
18th ult at Grand Rapids Mich, renomi-
mated T. r. Sherwood, Of Kalamazoo, for
Justice Of the Supreme Court, and W. J.
Daily and John s Lawrence for Regents Of
the state University
The failure of George Morley. a wholesale
lumber dealer Of Detroit, Mich occurred
IN the lst for sl00.0A
THE Arizona Legislature lassed a bin on
the LIST making train robbery a capital crime.
HoG-PACKING in Cincinnati as compared
with last season fell OF during the past
winter 9 so head
FIRE destroyed Gibson. Parish & Co S fur
niJure trimming establishment in Chicago
on the ist. Loss sl50,o0J Three firemen
were injured, one fatally.
OK the LIST two veterans of the National
Soldiers Home at Dayton, o.. We're asphyxi-
ated at the Union Hotel They became in
toxicated and before going to bed blew out
the gas
Mrs JOSEPH LEDBETTER and her two little
sons were drowned near Republic, No, on
the 1st while attempting TO cross a swollen
stream.
ON the Ist Bert White. the seventeen-year
old boy who shot and killed Willie Els
worth at Lafayette, Ind, last August, WAS
sentenced to imprisonment for life
AT the session in Baltimore on the lst of
the National League of Republican clubs
John NJ Thurston of Nebraska, was elected
president, f. =. Humphreys, Of New York,
was reelected secretary, and p. G. Louns-
berry of Connectict treasurer.
TIE doors of the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank at Carleton, Neb.. We're closed ON the
list on account of inability 70 collect what
was due The assets and liabilities were
each about s25,OCO.
ERNST HUDsoS and his family. consisting
of his wife and seven children. were
drowned on the ls1 while fOrding a creek
near New Earl Tenn
Is quarrel over a girl at indianapolis,
Ind. on the I'd Jack Daglish killed Thomas
Downey
THEODORE GRUBB, sentenced TO be hanged
at Nincennes, Ind, April -, escaped from
rjail on the 2d by drilling his way through the
top OF his cage.
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living near Okeechobee, Fla became crazy
on the ID, and killed seven persons before
he was shot himself
The death OF Ex-CongresSman Henry $
Magoon occurred on the Sd at Darlington,
Wis He represented the Third district in
Congress from 1872 10 81
THE wife of Samuel Luture a farmer liv-
ing near Columbus. Ind. was burned to
death on the ID her clothing catching fire
from the CRATE.
SILVER counterfeit dollars were on the %
being circulated in Cincinnati. The ring OF
the metal was the only test that would de-
tect them, and il required a Government
expert to 10 that.
The Merchants National Bank of Dcs
Moines, Ia, was closed on the ID it not hav-
ing sufficient money to meet its obligations
NEWTON WATT, confined in the Joliet
IN penitentiary Tor the great Roe
Island express robbery died ON the 4th
consumption. He made no disclosures
concerning the crime for which he suffered.
DURING a quarrel on the 9Th at Helena,
VI. T., the mistress of Joseph Anderson
threw lighted lamp in his face, which ex-
plOded and both his eyes were burned ont.
The death OF Dr. Edwin Judson the first
dentist To locate in Chicago. occurred In that
city on the 4th lie was born in Hartford,
Conn in lN9
At Lo9ansport lad, Mrs. James Harper
committed suicide on the 4th by throwing
herself into a cistern Poor health and
jealousy was the cause.
: l. BUTLER. of Tennessee, was hopeless
II in debt six wears ago. He changed his
name. became practicing dentist at Louis
VILE. Ky, and ON the 18th took his own name
again and paid his debts.
OK the 9TH one hundred Mormon converts
left Chattanooga. Tenn, for Utah The
conversions were made in the Alabama and
Tennessee mountains.
OK the 9Th Nathan Golf ll;cp.) and Pres
ident Il. :. Carr, OF the State Senate Union
Labor. took the oath of office as Governor
of West Virginia and made formal demand
upon Governor Wilson To vacate, but that
gentleman refused and referred the two
aspirants tn the courts pending the contest
between Golf and Fleming