River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16

| THE death of Captain Peter Foster.
| the eldest member of the g. A. r., oc.
CURED at Mount Pleasant Ia, aged 90
years.
| CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the
9th were as follows: Tennessee, Eighth
district, George T. Mccall (Rep.). Mis-
souri,, Ninth district, Seth w. Cobb
| (Dem.). North Carolina, Sixth district
r NJ Norment Qnd.). Utah, John I.
Cain (Mormonl.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, G. J. Hamlin's
team, Belle Hamlin and Justina, driven
by J. w. Andrews, trotted a mile in
2:l5. beating the worlds team record.
THE Republicans of the Seventh Ohio
district have nominated James Nj. Ash
ley for Congress.
| AT Brainerd, Mimi, flames destroyed
| fifteen business buildings. causing a
loss OF 500. 900.
IT has been decided by President
Palmer, of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position, not to accept the salary of $i2.-
900 year attached to his Office. All he
asks Is the payment of his expenses
while engaged in transacting business
connected with the fair.
The indianapolis Car Manufacturing
Company has failed for $500, 900.
AT Decatur, Ind, the 6-year-old son OF
James Niblich fatally shot his baby
brother with a revolver as the little fell
low lay asleep.
FoR robbing the First National Bank
of Columbus, Ind, of $500, 900 William
A. Schrieber has been sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary and to
pay fine of $500.
THE execution of Steve Jacobs, a no
torious negro criminal and desperate,
took pl ace at Lumberton, N. c., for the
murder of three women near there sew
eral months ago.
The official canvass of the vote in
Wyoming at the recent election gives
Governor Warren (Rep) a majority of
1926. The entire Republican ticket
was elected. The Legislature stands
forty one Republicans and eight Demo
| Gratis.
AT Macon, Ca. the Empire Lumber
Company failed for 5000. 600.
AT Sandusky, o., Judge j. L. Dewitt,
OF the common pleas court was run
over by train and instantly killed.
JoHN ScHAEFFER quarreled with his
step-father. William Schaeffer, at Lima,
| O., and in the fracas both were fatally
shot
In Franklin township, Ia, August
Schultz, a prominent young farmer.
fatally shot Lucy Boegmann because
she refused to marry him and then blew
out his own brains
In the trial of James Wilson at Co
lumbus, Kan, for breaking into sa-
loon and stealing a quantity OF beer and
whisky. his guilt was clearly proven.
but the jury acquitted him on the
ground that as the selling or keeping
of spirituous liquors was contrary to
law and was crime the act of taking
the goods was no crime.
DURING fire in the Putnam House
in Chicago Edward Peyton, Mrs. Min
ME Robinson, Kirk Salms and Thomas
Dowler lost tn cir lives.
LOUIS SANDS mill, salt block, salt
sheds and !, 1000, 900 shingles at Msnis-
tee, Mich, were burned and about 50,-
900 barrels of salt were ruined. Loss.
$3.50, 600.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the
18th were: California, Fifth district, Z.
Il. Louu lhep. j. lnuisha, lWeiitn us
trict, J. ii. Babcock (Rep.). Missouri.
Eighth district, J. J. O'Neill (Dem.).
Ohio, Twentieth district Henry L.
Stewart (Dem.). Wisconsin, Fourth
district Robert Schilling (Labor);
Eighth, w. c. Jones (Pro.l.
The population of Arkansas is given
by the Census Bureau at /, les, 1856, an
increase of 322, $50 in ten years. and
North Dakota, 1s2. 1875; increase, las. SIG.
Four men stopped train on the Mis-
souri,. Kansas e Texas railway near
Schell City. Mo-, and robbed the ex-
press messenger of several money pack
ages.
THE death OF Mrs A. C. Bradley oc-
CURED at Latneryille, Dubuque County.
L., at the age of 100 years.