River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-14

Cronin trial in Chicago on the sth that
late on the night of the murder Cough
lin, Burke and O'Sullivan came into his
place and had several drinks
COLONEL ARMsrEAD NJ. SwoPE was
killed on the sth at Lexington, KY, by
Colonel William Cassius Gocdloe, owing
10 an old feud. and Goodloe was badly
wounded
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued the proc
lamation admitting Montana as a State
on the sth, and when the news was re-
ceived at Helena Governor ToOle was
sworn in, and the Legislature was called
to meet on the Goth TO elect two United
States Senators.
OWEN ANDREWS tcoloredl, eighteen
years of age, was taken from Jail by
armed men at Leesburg, Va, on the
eth and hanged for attempting to as
sault Miss Leith, white schoo, girl
aged seventeen years.
OS the sth silver mine which as
saved $4,000 per ton was discovered in
San Gabriel canyon in California.
4 BOAT capsized on the sth at Yaquina
City, Ore. and the wife and seven chill
dren of a man named Parker and a man
named Wagner were drowned.
FLAMES on the sth in the Houston
block at Columbus. o.. destroyed $780,
600 worth OF stock
TUE Won.an's Christian Temperance
Union commenced its sixteenth annual
meeting in Chicago on the sth. There
were about five hundred delegates in at
tendance.
THE st. Paul (Minn. Roller Mill Com
pany's Touring mill was set on fire
through the carelessness of a workman
on the Sth and destroyed. Loss, $780,
600; insurance. sos.
PFC e. NANN was hanged at Summer
vile, Ga, on the sth for the murder, on
May /, lsSS, of North White. Louis
Nujent (colored) was executed at West
Baton Rouge. La, for the murder of
Hamp Suttield (coloredl in August last,
and at Abbeville, Ga. Willie Williams
(eolOred) was hanged for the murder of
Conductor Whitman last June
In the courthouse at Brownsburg.
Va, on the Sth DIR. +. J. Walker and
his wife and Daniel Miller were shot
dead and Miller's two sons were fatally
wounded. All were prominent citizens,
and the trouble arose over Walkers
charging Miller with insulting Mrs.
Walker.
SJ'NoI, three-year old, trotted mile
in 2:1Oil on the 9th in San Francisco,
thus beating all records for colts of that
age.
AT Lexington. Ky, Colonel GoodlOe,
who shot and killed Colonel Swope re-
Gently and was himself shot. died of his
injuries on the 10Th.
IL Clinch County. Ga. man named
Page, seventy-eight years old, and his
aged wife were found murdered in their
house on the sth. Robbery was the sup
posed motive.
OK the 9th George Bell, alias Will
Jams, one OF the most notorious forgers
in America, was released from the
Maryland penitentiary at Baltimore,
having completed ten-year sentence.
For the first time in nine days the
sun was shining on the 9th at Dayton,
y. NJ. and the storm had abated. The
loss of life was as yet uncertain, but
over a score of men were missing.
IL the Cronin murder case in Chicago
expert witnesses testified on the 9th
that the hair and blood found in the
Carlson cottage were those of a human
being.
IL Baltimore the Roman Catholic CEN
tennial celebration was opened on the
9th. Two Cardinals, fifty Bishops. a
delegation from the vatican and other
nOtables were in attendance.
AT Kansas City the Peter III. Herman
and bindery and the \.
y. Kellogg Newspaper Company's IS
were burned on the 9th.
Loss, $50, 900: partially insured
IL - Louis, Chicago and other cities
the second anniversary of the execution
Of the Chicago Anarchists was commem-
1rated by their friends on the 10th.