River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29
APApER in San Francisco reported on

the slst an alleged scheme to capture
Lower California, interested capitalists
being at the bottom of the plot After
Wrestling independence from Mexico II
was planned to secure annexation to the
United States
THE Montana Supreme Court decided
the Silver Bow County sheriff's contest
on the 21st in favor of John E. Lloyd,
the Republican candidate.
NEVADA Republicans will meet In
state convention at Virginia City Sep
TENDER 4.
JAMES HENDRIcKsoS, of Chicago, IA
tally shot his wife and then killed him.
self on the 21st while drunk. Nine
children were left orphans
The death of Mrs. Lydia Brown
Smith, of Adrian, Mich, occurred on the
21st, aged 1O2 years.
| IN the Calumet and Hecla mine al
/ Calumet, Mich, five miners were killed
on the 2lst by falling rocks.
A wIND-sToRM struck Hammond, Ind.
on the 22d, SCATTERING windows, unroof
| ing houses, tearing down awnings and
/ filling the streets with debris.
FIRE destroyed a large portion Of
/ Milford. Utah, on the 22d.
THE Grand Lodge of odd Fellows Of
the State of Missouri voted at St. Louis
on the 22d to expel all members OF the
order who are saloon-keepers.
| On the 22d Elzo Allen, confidential
clerk at Kansas City of the Austin In
/ vestment Company, fed to Canada with
I $40, 900 of the concerns money
THE failure of the Bank of Middle
| Tennessee at Lebanon, Tenn, occurred
on the ed for 500, 600, with assets oil
| Sos, 900.
IN Chicago on the ed Mrs Sarah
/ Rothschild celebrated her 1924 birth
day. She was in excellent health.
DEMOCRATS in Georgia will hold their
State convention upon August at At,
/ lanta.
EDWARD LANE (Dem.) was renomi
mated for Congress on the 22d in the
I Seventeenth Illinois district
GEORGE PATTERSON and his wife and
their two children were killed by light
ming on the ed while standing under a
tree at Salineville, o.
NEAR Green Isle, Mimi, Il. ]. Nc
MahOn, farmer, fatally shot his wife
and then himself on the Esd. Domestic
/ trouble was the cause.
Iowa Indians on the 23d were willing
TO sell their lands to the Government at
Sl.25 per acre, retaining sixty acres for
each member of the tribe.
IN Chicago on the 23d the American
Baptist Missionary Union held its sixty
sixth annual convention in Emmanuel
Baptist Church. The treasurer's report
/ showed receipts of $3.50, 527, and liabili-
/ ties of S567. 1862 Rev. G.. w. Northrup,
Of Illinois. was reelected president
THREE severe shocks of earthquake
were felt on the Esd in the vicinity OF
Billings, Mont, houses being shaken
and some of them being cracked from
top TO bottom.
PATRICK MALLOY, living near Hamil-
ton, o., shot and killed his son George
and then took his own life on the Esd
during a quarrel.
AT ST. Louis on the cath the Method
list General Conference declared the
Scriptural ground to be the only true
one for divorce.
NEAR Memphis. Tenn, John Brown,
butcher, his wife and 5-year-old
daughter were drowned on the cath.
THE trip of George Francis Train
around the world was finished on the
9th, he arriving at Tacoma, Wash, al
p. m. The time from start to finish
was 81 days, l3 hours, 3 minutes and 3
seconds. Nelly Bly's time was ~ days.
hours. IL minutes and IA seconds.
NEAR Fall River, Kan, Samuel
Whites and wife, Henry Whites, Sam
uel Whites, Jr., Levina Buckley,
Willie Buckley, Frederick Buckley and
Willie Turner were drowned on the 25th
by the upsetting of boat.
AT Martinsville, Ind, James and Cur
tbs Roland were on the cath sentenced
to eighteen months in the penitentiary
for stealing chickens and disfranchised
for ten years
In Chicago on the cath the grand jury
returned indictments against twenty-six
men for election frauds.
AN attempt to blow up the Haymarket
monument I'm Chicago which marks the
scene of the Anarchist riot May 4, 1856.
was discovered on the cath. Two gal
Ions of dynamite and a number of half
burned fuses we're found.
FLAMES started by tramps destroyed
every house in the city of Coolidge, n.
NJ, on the cath.