River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-28

A PASSENGER train was boarded by five
men on the 22d near Pixley, Cal. who
robbed the express car. and made their es-
cape after fatally shooting two passengers.
JAMES NJ LANE, treasurer of Pickaway
County, o., was on the 22d said to be s47, 600
short in his accounts
GEORGE DUNSAwAY, of I.ascassas, Tenn,
had been paying attention 10 Miss Melissa
Dunnaway, daughter of his uncle and aunt.
who objected TO his advances On the 22d
Dunnaway went TO the house and shot both
husband and wife, killing them.
A MOB lynched Wesley Thomas (coloredl
on the 22d at Port Gibson, Miss, for a Grim
inal assault upon young white lady.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest extremely
cold weather prevailed on the 22d, the
thermometer ranging from degrees below
in Chicago 10 . degrees below in Minnesota,
Nebraska and Dakota
THOMAS INNS house at Winfield, Ia, was
burned ON the 2}d, and his mother-in-law,
Mrs TOrbftt sixty years old, and his eleven
year-old daughter. were burned 10 death.
Mr.. and Mrs Innis and six other children
escaped in their night-clothes, but were
badly frozen before reaching a neighbours
house.
j. G. BREsLIN who was at one time Treas
urer of Ohio and embezzled large sum Of
the States funds, died ON the 23d at Hunt
ington. W Va
THE death Of Henry McShane. widely
known bell-founder, Of Baltimore, occurred
on the 2}d at the age of sixty-two years.
On the 23d C. H. Williams. general cashier
of the Cleveland Columbus, Cincinnati,
and indianapolis and Erie railroads. at Gin
cinnati, was said to be S20OOO short in his
accounts He was missing
AT Belmont, NJ T., two children named
Callahan were burned To death on the 2lth
and a third would probably not survive.
The mother was absent, and the house
caught FIRE.
Two MORMON missionaries were logged by
citizens of Dubois County, Ind, on the 23d,
and driven out OF the county.
Ok the 23d W. A. Prag, one OF the most
noted hOrse-raisers and dealers of Missouri,
was kicked to death by a vicious stallion at
Nevada, Mo.
While partially insane, John J. Holmes,
the mayor of Iowa City. Ia committed
suicide on the 18th by shooting himself
LITTLE girl and boy, the children of
Ernest Young, living near Battle Creek,
Mich. We're burned to death on the 18th.
They were left alone in the house and set
it on fire
J. c. CLARKE, aged ffty-five years. com
mitted suicide ON the 2jth at New Orleans
owing to a shortage in his accounts He was
TO have been married in the evening to
Florence Smith, aged eighteen years
FLAMES swept away Kel V a Lysle flour
ing mill at Leayenworth, Kan, ON the 18th,
together with a stock of two thousand
barrels of flour. Loss $4,000.
OK the 25th 4 Heggeland, president of the
Second National Bank of Mcpherson, Kan.
was instantly killed while in his bank by
the accidental discharge of arevolyer In his
own hands
OK the afternoon of the 18th President
elect Harrison babe farewell to his old
nome and started on his Journey to Wash
ington The special train carrying himself
and his party left indianapolis at 3:l9 p. m
amid great enthusiasm
ON the 25th the Legislative committee of
Indiana appointed to investigate insane
asylum affairs discovered deficit of sl2,0O0
in the accounts of Treasurer Casper
IN Black Jack, Tex, eight business houses
We're burned on the 18th.
In Chicago on the 18th Mrs Ida Macauley
killed her two little children and herself by
inhaling gas. Remorse at the death of her
husband. whom she shot and killed in fit
of jealousy year ago, was supposed to have
been the cause