River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-02-27
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State ticket headed by r. M. Blount. OF
Marion County, for Secretary of State.
JAY GOULD had, it was said on the
Goth, acquired nearly all the coal fields
in the Southwest.
THE death of John r. Lett, said to be
the oldest resident of Southern Indiana,
occurred at Columbus on the Goth at the
age of 9s years.
j. b. KELLY, arrested in st. Louis on
suspicion of being implicated in the
murder of DIR. Cronin. was discharged
in Chicago on the goth.
AR Springfield, Ill, the Farmers Co
! Operative Brotherhood of the United
States was incorporated on the Goth
with a capital stock Of $50, 600, 900. Its
object, as stated, is to do general farm
ing business, buy and store grain and
protect the farmers against trusts of all
kinds.
FLAMES on the cist at Helena. Mont,
destroyed the Granite block and all the
records and journals of the Legislature.
REV. HENRY DUNCAN, a white min
lister, was executed on the 2lst at Ozark,
Ala, for the murder of his wife, and
John King (colored) was hanged at
Osceola, Ark, for the murder of Mrs.
Warrenton Ia widow and her two chill
dren, a boy of IA and girl of 10 years,
in May, 1855.
IN a thunderstorm on the 21st Saun-
ders Buckley, of Jackson, o., and his
cousin, Miss Letitia Buckley, were
struck by lightning and fatally burned.
Mrs 5. L. RAYS barn near Raywick,
KY, was burned on the 21st, and
twenty-nine head of horses and mules
and 81, 600 race-horse persisted in the
flames.
A NoN-PARTIsAN Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was organized in
Chicago on the 21st.
AN accident on the 2ist near Susan,
Cal, killed large number of railroad
employees and three were seriously in
jured.
firms at Toledo. o., were burned on the
21st. Loss, $3.50. 900.
STATE TREASURER w. l.. HEMINGWAY,
of Mississippi, was on the 2lst found to
be over $3.50, 900 short in his accounts.
A WIND and hail-storm passed over
Parkersburg, w. Va, on the 2lst, doing
thousands of dollars worth of damage.
and Sandus Buckley was killed and sew
eral other persons were badly injured.
On March II Miss Regina Rothschild,
of Port Townsend. Wash, will start on
Francis Train, in an endeavor to make
the circle in sixty days.
Al Prescott, A. It, forty persons
were drowned on the ED by the giving
way of the large strong dam built
across Hassayampa river two years ago
at cost of hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
THREE tobacco factories at Richmond,
Va, were destroyed by fire on the ed.
Total loss, SEQ, coo.
AT Spring Hill, Mo-, George Dowell
set a spring gun in his barn for thief.
Mrs. Dowell, unaware of what her hus-
band had done, opened the barn door on
the 22d and was shot dead. She had
been married but two months.
IN Chicago on the god jeremiah
ODonnell was convicted OF conspiracy
to bride jurors in the Cronin trial and
his punishment fixed at three years in
the penitentiary.
AN explosion on the 22d at the South
Omaha (Neb.) packing-house of Armour
& Cudahy killed three persons out
right, seven were seriously or fatally
injured and a number were hurt.
On the 22d the sixteen women on trial
for destroying a saloon at Spickards-
Vile. Mo-, were found guilty and fined
five dollars each.
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dicted on the 22d by the grand jury sit
ting at Lafayette, La.
On the 21st Gilbert Lowe (colored)
was hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for
killing j. w. Meadows (white).