River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-12
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IL Chicago on the 4th delegates repre-
senting cattle commission men from all
parts OF the country met and organized
National Live Stock Exchange.
W. w. NvIsoN confessed at Youngs-
town, o., on the 5th to robbing the
United States Express of $500 five
years ago. a sad feature of the case is
that his chief clerk was driven insane
over being suspected of the crime.
AT East Tawas. Mich, the Miner
the 5th. Two charred bodies were found
in the ruins and five men were injured
in fighting the flames.
THE death OF jefferson Davis, the
leader of the Southern Confederacy, oc-
CURED in New Orleans at 1915 o'clock
on the morning of the 9Th, at the age
Of eighty-one years. He had been i'll
for some weeks. His wife and several
friends were present when the end
came.
A BOILER in Calhoun's gin at Colfax
La. exploded on the 5th, killing six
men and two women and wounding
many others-all negroes.
THREE Apache Indians, sentenced to
ut nanENA III AAAuAaNAs AtAftlH
selves in their cells on the 5th in the
Jail at Florence, A. T.
Ar Portland, Ore, Mrs. Smith, wife
of Judge Seneca Smith, and Mrs. James
Roach were thrown from a buggy on the
9Th by a runaway horse, and Mrs.
Smith was instantly killed and Mrs.
Roach was fatally injured.
THE Apache murderers Na-Con-Qui-
Say and Kah-dos-La were hanged at
Florence, A. T., on the 9th.
CHARLIE JOHNSON (colOred) who killed
Policeman Kenney in Gadsden, Ala.
in November, 1858, was hanged on the
9th.
THE forgeries and populations of w.
II. Fursman, the absconding real-estate
dealer and broker of Pontiac, Ill,
would, it was said on the 9Th, reach
5000, 600
IL Chicago on the 9th Mrs Knudson
and Miss Lee were killed by coal gas.
THE Farmers and Laborers' Union
and the Knights of Labor formed an
alliance on the 9th at st. Louis
ENGLISH capitalists on the 9th bought
for 81, 900. 900 the nine coal mines on the
railroad in Macon County, Ga.
JOHN ARNOLD shot his wife Carrie at
indianapolis, Ind, on the Sth. inflicting
fatal wounds, sent two bullets into John
Poe and then shot himself, but not fa-
tally. Jealousy was the cause.
THE failure of the Capital Loan & In
vestment Company of Lincoln, Neb., for
over S5.OOO.OOO was reported on the 9TH.
CASPER CLIPsY, a machinist at st.
Louis, entered the house of John Arson
while the family were at breakfast on
the 9Th and fatally shot Arson and the
latter's two daughters. Mary and Agnes,
and then blew out his brains He was
a lover of Mary Arson, but'had been
forbidden the house because of his bad
habits.
Ir was said on the eth that Charles o.
Ostrom, the defaulting cashier of the
Pioneer Press Minneapolis department.,
started the recent fire which burned the
Tribune building in Minneapolis in
which seven men lost their lives.
on the 9TH the United States steamer
Thetis arrived in San Francisco from
the Arctic, having completed an eight
months cruise.
IL Cleveland, O., IL was discovered on
the eth that between $500, 900 and $780,
600 had been diverted from the city
treasury in the shape of bogus commits
sions and expenses paid in negotiating
| bonds.
THE -four mills of Lindsey e Robson
at Humboldt, Kan, were destroyed by
fire on the 9TH. Loss, 500, 600; insur-
| ance. $4,000.