River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-31

claims that fair count will elect him by
I over ), 900 majority.
JAMES A. MOORE, of indianapolis, Ind,
prominent citizen, and for sixteen years
agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance Company, was on the oath dis
covered to be a defaultar to the extent of
S500.OO0
FLAMES on the 24th in the business por-
ton Of Jackson, Miss, caused great dam
age
AT Memphis, Tenn. Henry Ovington
killed Thomas Swerning on the oath in
quarrel over the ownership of a lantern.
They were switchmen on the Kansas City
road.
OK the oath Charlie Young fifteen years
old, was killed at Durand, Ill. by the ac-
cidental discharge ot pistol Ia the hands
Of playmate.
MARTIN HoUsENAS, Of Elkhart, Ind,
was building a fire on the cath when a
can of gasoline he was using exploded,
and he and his wife were probably fatally
burned.
the oath providing that after January /,
1890. all criminals in Ohio sentenced TO
death shall be executed by electricity AZ
the Ohio peniteutiary.
Is a riot between the Pocahontas and
Eikhorn miners in the West Virginia coal
regions on the oath five white men and
two negroes were killed and several
others were wounded.
OK the oath a company of United States
troops drove over SIX hundred families of
boomers" out of the Oklahoma country.
WHILE chasing COW on the oath Clarke
Stanley. young farmer near Shelbourne,
Ind. fell on a stick which he carried in his
hand and was killed.
On the gath Mrs. Elenore Richter, pro-
prietress Of the Lenox, one of the most
fashionable apartment houses in Cleve-
land, o., fell down the elevator shaft and
was killed.
EARLY on the morning of the 25th Mrs.
r +. Latimer, wealthy widow, was mys-
teriously murdered in her residence at
Jackson, Mich, being shot twice. Moth
ing was taken from the house, and the
motive Of the murderer was unknown.
PETER j. CAMPBELL, a promnen Dalti-
more (Ms) politician, VIII lie fooliug with
pistol supposed to be unloaded on the
18th, shot and k He'd Edward Gordon,
bar tender.
THE following executions took place on
the 25th: Charles McGill, at Cameron,
Tex, for the murder of Willie Leonard:
Richard Smith, Choctaw Indian, a. Fort
Smith, Ark, for the assassination of
Thomas Prindle; John Yancey (coloredl,
at Yanceyville. n. c, for the murder of
Bob Oliver: James Seams (colored) at
Eutaw, Ala, for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Autroy; Edward Fry, at MariettJ,
Ga, for killing his wife.
FREIGHT trains collided on the 18th on
the Baltimore a Ohio road near Paw Paw,
W. Va, eau ing a damage of 100000 No
lives were lost
ALL over the ranges in South Florida cat
tie were dying on the 25th from starva-
tiOn. the fttlands where they usually feed
being nearly all submerged by continuous
rains.
a sAw-MLL boiler exploded on the 25th
at Tar Hollow, near Chillicothe O, killing
George and James Desrth, and John w.
Arlidge and Ebenezer Startling were fatally
injured.
Four small children who were left in a
house at OglethOrpe, Ga, on the Goth by
Mary Potter (colored) while she went to
work were burned to death.
OK the Goth w w Boatwright was ar
rested at Sullivan, Ind, charged with
counterfeiting, and a complete counter
feiter's outfit was found in his possession.
ADvICEs CT the Both say that Major
Lille (''Pawnee Bill'') intended to invade
Oklahoma early in February with Ten
thous md men.
A MILL1oxAIRR banker of Baltimore, ia
cob Tome, on the .Gth donated , 500 900
for a boys and girls training school
FLAMES on the night of { 9 21th, in Du-
luth, NJ nm. destroyed the Grand Opera
House, waived at 1900, 900, the post-of1ice
building a. other structures
Is Perkins mill near POPLAR Bluffs. Mo-.
a boiler exploded on the Goth. killing three
men, and nine others were injured, three
fatally.
OK the night Of the 36th tramps brooks
into a country school house near Cincin-
natl o, and burned up all the books in
the house to make fire at which to warm
themselves.
SEvENTY-FIvE White Caps destroyed
three houses in JeromevilIe, o., on the
26ta.