River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-13

Chicago. Brooklyn, Philadelphia. WASH
ington, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and
Indianapolis
OK the 9th w. III. Farnham, OF Mil
waukee, for twenty-seven years assist
ant cashier of the Northwestern Mutual
Insurance Company. shot himself TO
death. Temporary insanity was the
cause
AT Anderson, Ind. the American
wire, rod and nail mills were burned on
the 9th. Loss, $1,000 600.
The Illinois Democrats will hold their
State convention at Springfield June
next
THE house OF Mrs. Eliza Moore at
Columbus, Ind, took fire during her
absence on the 9th and two of her chill
dren were consumed in the flames
AT her home in Baltimore Mrs. Eliza
beth Sands. widow of one of the ''Old
Defenders" celebrated her 101st birth
day on the 18th.
THE failure OF the private banking
firm OF Belloc Freres, at San Francisco,
Cal, occurred on the eth for 500, 000
AT Charleston, w. Va, Felix Kampf
was hanged on the 18th for the murder OF
his daughter Mary, aged 20 years, and
his son William.
FLAMES consumed the village Of
Liberty, KY, on the eth.
/ A DIAMOND thief FAMED Patrick Grove,
of Omaha, was arrested in Chicago on
the 9TH by Officer Linville on Clark
street He shot the officer twice, shot
man named Cole, who interfered,
and then kept an immense crowd at bay
until he reached the Pullman building.
fatally wounding Officer Briscoe on the
way, who had attempted TO stop him.
A BOAT capsized on the 9TH near Knox
Vile. Tenn, and the two sons of Will
lam Naples and son of William Baker
were drowned.
runaway accident on the 18th at
Baldwin, Wis, eight persons were seri-
ously in ured, some of them fatally.
A sAND-BANK caved in on the 18th
near Petersburg, Va, killing Lewis
Stewart, John Dawson and Archer
| Griffin.
| On the 9TH John c. McGregor, reading
clerk OF the Ohio House of Represent
atives. died at GAINESVILLE, aged 43 years.
This made six members of that family
who had died of diphtheria in less than
three weeks.
JONI n. HODGsoS, a book-keeper at
Cleveland, O., shot himself on the 9TH
with a revolver causing death instantly.
| No cause was known. lie had only been
married few hours
FRED SACHS, George Crawford and
Willie Cheatham, three boys, were
burned to death on the 9TH in fire in
/ the Armstrong furniture factory at
Evansville, Ind.
JAMES MCISTosH, of Spirit Lake, Ia,
and two daughters of James Evans were
drowned on the 18th ny driving into an
air-hole in Lake Okobogi.
On the sth Al Graham, formerly au-
ditor of Warren County, o., was SEN
fenced at Cincinnati to eighteen years
Imprisonment and to pay fine of Sl26,
422. His guilt was embezzlement
THE death Of Matilda Ruby at Ray
wick, KY, aged 1913 years, occurred on
the sth.
AT Lima, O., Thomas Todd was locked
up on the sth for drunkenness. He set
fire to the bed-clothing in the cell and
died from suffocation.
MARY GALLAGHER died on the 9th at
Cleveland, o., aged 102 years.
NEAR Galena, Kan, Charles Will
Jams and his 12-year-old son were found
murdered in their bed on the 9th.
FLAMES destroyed Gray & Baffy's
furniture factory and other buildings at
Detroit on the 9th; loss, $3.50,
FIVE renegade Apaches who MUIR
dered George Herbert in Arizona recent
ly we're overtaken by troops on the sth
near Globe, A. T., and two of the In
dams were killed and the others cap
tured.
THE village Of Jonesville, 5. c., was
nearly destroyed by fire on the 9th.
ii. III. Cook, supposed to have CON-
mitted suicide in Omaha three months
ago, was on the sth found to be living
in Oklahoma. The suicide was iden-
titled and buried as Cook.