River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-27
WEST AND snIIra

JACK BEANscOMB and two youps
ladies, aged Is and Il, respectively,
daughters of DR.. Hamilton. were
drowned by the upsetting of boat in
lizard County, Ark
THE National commissioners of the
worlds fair decided at a meeting in
Chicago that the exposition should be
located on the Lake Front and at Jack
son Park
OWING TO poverty Joseph Boyd, of
Kansas City, Mo, fatally shot his wife
and child and then killed hin self.
FLAMES at Evanston. ILL.,, destroyed
Turner's livery stable, and seventeen
horses were burned to death.
THE Nickel-Plate railway managers
at a meeting in Cleveland decided to
gage-men and brakemen.
THE National Assembly F. NJ. b. A.,
in session at Springfield, Ill. elected
W. ]. Stillwell. of Fort Branch, Ind, as
president. The secretary reported the
total number of lodges in the United
States as 4,947, with membership of
IO7,7S5.
THE leading manufacturers of harvest
ing machinery in the country met in
Chicago and consolidated under the
name of the American Harvester Com
pany. with capital of SD. 900, 600.
IN Chicago John Keller, a real-estate
dealer, was robbed OF 500, 900 worth of
deeds. notes and mortgages. the thief
taking them from a box under a seat in
his buggy.
IL a jealous rage Frank Vokey, cab
inet-maker residing at Pullman, Ill,
shot and killed his wife and himself
MRS T. J. PHINNEY. of Cleveland. o..
was reelected president at the session
Of the Nom Partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ar 81. Louis Alfred Dougherty was
sentenced TO four years in the peniten-
tiary tor attempting TO obtain pension
from the Government under fraudulent
claims.
NEAR Gainesboro. Tenn, A. NJ.
LOTUS shot az killed his father, b. C.
LOTUS. in + personal difficulty. acct
dentally killing his brother at the same
time.
AT Charlottesville. Ind. the jury in
the Rev. W. r. Petit wite-poisoning
case returned a verdict of guilty. fixing
the punishment at imprisonment for
life.
OWING 10 domestic trouble E. Seaold.
% Charlotte. Mich. attempted TO kill
his wife and then com nitted suicide.
The Worlds Columbian Exposition
lady managers effected a permanent or
ranization 10y tie election of Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer. Of Chicago. as president
and Miss Phebe Couzins, of 81 Louis,
secretary.
II lecture in Chicago DIR. Charles c.
Abbott OF the University of Pennsyl-
vania, gave many instances that had
come under his observation OF the abili-
" Of animals TO think and even reason.
II LuptOn's saw-mill near Catletts-
bu-g, Ky. the boiler exploded and
killed James Lupton. w. E Morg and
Smith liosmer.
RAID on the mOonshiners of the in
terror moGntain counties in South Caro-
lima resulted in the capture of forty
three prisoners
The grand jury at New Orleans re-
ported finding true bills against the
seventeen men Inder arrest charged
with Tho murder OF Chief Of Police
David e. HenneSsy on October Is.
DCFING the past season the baseball
losses s,cre: Players League, SIPS, 600;
National League. S2SI. 600.
AT the san Francisco mint nearly a
million dollars in Australian gold
sovereigns were deposited and melted
down.
THE dispatches of the 2lst from the
Pine Ridge agency in South Dakota
showed an extremely critical condition
of affairs. The Indians continued their
crazy dances, and several chiefs had
uttered threats against the whites.