River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29
Nnrer ann enIfrH

The following United States Senators
were elected on the 21st: Indiana. d.
w. Voorhees, (Deml; Missouri, George
q. Vest CDem.); Arkansas, j. X.
Jones (Dem.): Colorado, III. NJ. Teller
(Rep. Washington. w. C. Squire (Rep);
Oregon, j. III. Mitchell (Rep.); North
Carolina. z. Il. Vance (Dem.).
THE State Bank at Kawalxa City,
Kan, went into the hands of a receiver,
making the fourth bank failure within
a week in Mitchell County.
A coLORED woman named Rosa Bar
ton died at Galesburg, Ill, on the 2lst,
aged IFS years.
AT Orc, Col. an unruly horse threw
wagon containing Mrs. Henry Smith
and Mrs. Nehslin over an embanknent
100 feet high and both women were
fatally hurt.
THE Office of De Grondwet. the larg-
est Dutch paper in the United States,
was totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire at Holland, Mich.
Oh the 21st Nathan Whitney, of Rock
ford. believed to be the oldest Mason in
Illinois, celebrated his Tooth birthday.
THE troops in the field at Pine Ridge,
5. d., were reviewed by General Miles
There were 5000 men and $40 horses in
line.
OK the 22d the funeral of King Kala-
kaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, took
place in San Francisco. and the remains
were placed on the steamer Charleston,
which sailed Immediately for Honolulu.
AT Hamilton. O.. John X. Aydelotte,
editor of the Daily Democrat, was
- -, hA
room and instantly killed.
THE death of Thomas Meirs occurred
on the 22d near Akron, o., aged 100
years and months.
DURING "A lovers quarrel at San An
tonic, Tex, Bertha Gross shot and
fatally wounded James Hartley and
then committed suicide.
NEARLY seventy letters belonging to
the Northwestern National Bank of
Chicago, and supposed to contain over
500, 600 in drafts, etc, were delivered
to stranger by clerk in the Chicago
post-ofiice and were missing.
The town of Seaville, Ky, was al
most totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire.
Mons have driven all Chinese laundry
men and laborers from the towns of
Western Alhene and Adams. i'm Oregon.
Ar Helena, Mont, f. a. Street. a tel
egraph operator, sold TO ex-senator
Tabor for 100000 placer claim which
was said to be worth SIS. 900, 900.
AT Richmond, Ind, James A. Wood,
an attendant at the hospital for the in
sane. was found guilty of the murder of
JAY Blount, an inmate, and sentenced
to twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
In North Dakota III. C. Hansbrough
| Rep was elected United States SEN
ator to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce. His
term commences March next.
THE death was announced of Balm
bridge Wadleigh. well-known Boston
/ law err and ex-United States Senator
from New Hampshire.
AT Niagara Falls man supposed to
ne c. f. Stanley, of Cleveland, o.,
dressed in a well-made black suit and
wearing silk hat, deliberately jumped
/ over the falls from the Goat island
bridge.
New YORK was visited by a de-
/ structive wind and snow-storm on the
/ 25th which filed the streets with
fallen trees and telegraph poles and
/ stopped all traffic. No such work of
devastation had been known in that
city since the great blizzard of March,
4 1855
AT the age of 102 years Martin Yogen
died on the 25th at Rutland, VT He
was probably the last survivor of the
I battle of Waterloo. He was the father
of twenty-one children.
/ Ar Richmond. Va, A. Harris. jew
/ ish rabbi, fell dead in his pulpit just
after delivering a sermon.
AFTER an absence of twenty years
| Ira Moss returned to his home at Mi
monk. Ill. During these years his par
ents had never heard from him. lie
ran away when he was 10 years old and
now resides at Tacoma, Wash, having
acquired large fortune.