River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-02-06

Trains which had been snow-bound
for seventeen days in the Sierras began
moving on the S0th ult, resulting in
popular demonstrations at Reno and
other places.
A FIRE on the 3Oth ult. at Covington,
Neb., destroyed most of the business
part of the town.
THE Democrats of the Ohio Senate by
a party vote on the 30th ult ousted
Lampson, the Republican Lieutenant
Governor elect, and decided TO seat Mar
quis, the contestant The case would
be carried to the Supreme Court
HANS LEANDER shot and killed Annie
Carlson, who had refused his attentions,
and then shot himself fatally on the
30th ult at Sioux City, Ia
FLAMES destroyed three wholesale
business houses and eight saloons at
Stanton, Neb., on the 30th ult.
On the 30th ult George Tober was
hanged at Fort Smith. Ark, for the
murder last September of Irwin Rich
ardson. Both men were colored.
FIRE destroyed a packing-house at
Kansas City, Mo-, owned by Boston cap
italists on the 31st ult. Loss, 5000, 900.
EFFoRrs were being made by English
buyers on the S1st ult- to purchase the
sash and door factories of this country,
and several mills throughout Missouri
and Kansas had been negotiated for.
On the Slst ult the Mississippi Legis-
lature passed bill doing away with
the convict lease system.
MAJOR WILLIAM SIMS was on the 31st
ult. appointed by the Governor Treasur-
er of Kansas, vice James w. Hamilton,
resigned.
Is the Iowa House nine ballots were
taken on the 31st ult. for speaker with
out breaking the deadlock, and settle
ment seemed to be far off.
OK the 31st ult. Henry A. Schmidt, a
merchant tailor of st. Louis, was fined
So. 900 for violating the alien contract
labor law.
THE Legislature of Mississippi on the
3lst ult. decided to memorabilia Con-
gress asking for the repeal of the Fiji
teenth Constitutional Amendment.
AT DETROIT preliminary report was
made on the 31st ult. by the committee
auditing the accounts of DIR. O'Reilly, of
the Irish National League, which
showed receipts since the Chicago con-
vention of 1856, to January last, of
S257, 922; RENTED to Ireland, S237, PAS;
expenses, S22, 225; balance January 1,
$50, 1856.
Ar Elwood, Ind, an incendiary fire
on the LIST destroyed eight stores.
A MAN named Kelley near Alligator
bay, in Arkansas, shot and killed his
wife and young man on the LIST in fit
of jealousy.
IN ten-mile race at Eau Claire Wis,
on the I'd Hugh Mccormick. of New
Brunswick, defeated Alex Paulsen and
took the title of the champion skater of
the world, which Paulsen had held for
eight years. Time, 49, minutes.
On the I'd the three sons &c James
Bright, of Kirkland township, Ind.
were found dead in their beds. They
had been i'll with influenza, but when
they retired the previous night their
condition was not thought to be danger
Gus.
Two LARGE buildings, the water cure
and the German church were burned on
the I'd at Kenosha, Wis. Total loss,
SIPS, 600
JOSEPH BACON, negro boy IL years
old, killed his sister. years old. and
his brother. 8 years old, on the list at
Louisiana, Mo.
ALLEN BUYE and Duncan Thompson,
boys of Is. quarreled on the 1st at
Winnsboro. La, and young Buye
stabbed and killed Thompson and then
killed himself
OK the Chicago & Alton railroad a
train left the track at Alma, Mo-, on the
LIST, ditching sixteen cars, and five Of
the trainmen were fatally injured.