River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-11

By the explosion of tank In a cnem-
ical mandatory at Cincinnati three
workmen were fatally injured.
NEAR Pickens, ) c., Henry johnson
CcoloredD was lynched for criminal
assault upon Mrs Thomas Walters a
white woman.
A BLAST furnace of the Illinois Iron
& Steel Company at Joliet collapsed.
and nine men were killed and nine
others were injured.
THE State Board of Health of Indiana
in its annual report to the Governor es-
Inmates that the grip epidemic in In
diana in 1890 caused money loss Of
more than 81, 600 900.
RESIDENTS of Rawlins County. Kan.
were said to be in destitute condition,
and many would starve unless assisted.
THE Inauguration of Governor Till
man and the State officers of South
Carolina took place on the 4th al
Columbia.
WOMEN crusaders destroyed stock
of liquor that was to be used in opening
a saloon at Kyana, Ind.
AT Lockwood, Mo-, violent earth
quake shock was felt, houses we're
shaken and the whole population fed
into the streets for safety.
THE Chicago Safe & Lock Company
made an assignment, scheduling its as
sets at 500, coo and its liabilities at $780,
O)0
A BAND of ten thieves who for two
years had robbed planters and burned
much property, was captured near Mem
phis, Tenn.
The firm of V. & A. Meyer. cotton
dealers at New Orleans, suspended with
liabilities aggregating 81. 500, coo and
assets 5000, 600. This was the third
largest cotton house in the country.
WHILE attempting to cross the chan
mel from the islands to Santa Barbara,
Cal, the schooner Undine was wrecked
and its crew of three men were drowned.
Four men were also drowned by the loss
of the schooner Ida Florence near the
same place.
L. l.. Polk was reelected president
of the National Farmers Alliance in
session at Ocala, Fla.
GOLD in large quantities had been dis
covered. it was sad, in a gulch eighteen
miles southwest of Columbus, Ind.
FIRE nearly destroyed the city of
Sikeston, Mo
THE reward OF $50, 900 has been re-
newed bv Mrs. Henrietta Smell, the
widow of Amos J. Smell. the murdered
Chicago millionaire. for the capture of
William b. Tascott, the supposed muir
derer Of her husband.
FIFTY-FIvE boomers were driven from
the Cherokee strip near Caldwell, Kan.
MAMIE STARR was sentenced In Chi
cago to life imprisonment for killing
Mr.. and Mrs. Newland by putting poison
in their food
The death of Rev. J. c. White, the
oldest Presbyterian minister in Cincin-
natl, occurred at the age of So years.
He had been stationed there nearly
fifty years.
The American Harvester Company
perfected an organization in Chicago,
CYRUS H. Mccormick being chosen pres
ident The company comprises twenty
five mower and reaper factories, all the
cutter-bar factories in the country and
many Irvine and cordage works. The
capital stock is SIS, 900, 600. and it will
do the mower and reaper business Of
the world
OFFICERS captured three counterfeit
ers and over $50, 900 in spurious money
near Newmarket. Mo.
The jewelry store of ]. c. Woodlief
at Waxahachie, Tex, was entered by
burglars who secured from S12. 600 to
$500 worth of jewelry.
FIVE MILLION acres of land in the So
quatchee valley, Tennessee, have been
purchased BY English capitalists for
/ 100000.