River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-15

THE packing house of Parker, Webb
& Co. in Detroit was damaged by fire
to the extent of 500. 600. One man was
burned to death and about a dozen
others were more or less seriously
burned.
FIRE destroyed the Olympic theater
at st. Paul. the loss being Sl00, 600.
JUDGE JOHNSON. in the circuit court
at Topeka. Kan. decided that an ar
rest made on a letter or a telegram was
not due process of law.
AILERroN defeated Nelson in the
stallion trot at Grand Rapids. Mich,
for purse of $4,000 taking the Sec
ond, third and fourth heats.
IN New Orleans the case against Pri-
waite Detective ID. c. o'Malley, who was
charged with bribing the Hennessy
jury, was dismissed.
The Army of the Tennessee, in ses-
sion in Chicago. elected Gen. q. NJ.
Dodge, of Iowa, president of the society.
THE marriage of A. Il. Froman and
Miss Emma J. McHalc, of Colorado
Springs. Col, took p4ace on the top of
Pixies Peak. This was the highest mar
riage on record.
AT Greenup. H., William Kisser, an
aeronaut of Louisville, Ky, was killed
by falling $50 feet while making an
ascent.
4 MOB took Joe Coe, a negro, from
the Jail at Omaha and lynched him for
assaulting Lizzie Yates. ) years of age.
THREE men robbed the National
bank at Enterprise, Ore, in broad day.
/ light of S.. 800.
. Al
| ecuted at Rush, Tex, for numbering
Vance Thompson, Angus, II, 1890, and
Ed. Neal was hanged at Omaha, Neb.,
for the murder of Allan and Dorothy
Jones. lie confessed his crime on the
| scaffold.
WILLIAM EVANS, secretary of the
Morse Wool Securing Company of St.
Louis. was said to be short So, 900 in
| his accounts.
/ A FREIGHT elevator fell in the works
of the Shelby Cabinet Company at
Shelbyville, Ind, killing Joseph Schott,
Clinton Neeley and ii. Thayer, work.
men.
The Kansas crop report shows the
| yield of wheat to be $3.50. $40 bushels;
| oats. Sa,65S. 045 bushels, and corn 145,-
/ As 9lS bushels.
AT BRENNAN, Tex, Aunt Ann Gala
han died at the age of 115 years.
FIRE destroyed the storage ware
house of Hunter 81 Co.'S compress at
Montgomery, Ala, with $500 bales of
cotton. Loss, 1925, 900.
THE oldest Hebrew in Maryland,
/ Raphael Pines, died at his home in Bal
timore at the age of 10l years months
and twenty days.
THREE children of Charles Smith
were burned to death in their home
near Charlottesville, Ca, during the
absence of their parents.
HENRY SCHULTZ has been nominated
| by the prohibitionists for congress
from the Fifth district of Michigan.
SINGERS mill and Heads bark mill
at Lynchburg. Va, were burned, the
loss being Sl5O,0Oo.
AT Napa, Cal, an earthquake shock
wrecked the masonic temple and badly
damaged several other buildings.
/ IL Baltimore the Sunday laws, which
are 100 years old, were revived. and
neither candy, cigars nor any merchant
able things except ice or milk was al
lowed to be sold.
FIRE destroyed large part of the
! business portion of Dwight, H.
In a gale off Assateague island, Va,
/ the United States steamer Despatch
was wrecked. The crew of seventy
I five men were saved.
IN Texas the alien land law, which
excludes foreigners from buying or
loaning money on Texas land, has been
declared unconstitutional.
SAMUEL SINGERLAND's dairy farm at
Manistee, Mich, was burned, and
twenty three cows and three horses
persisted in the flames.