River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-03-19
MEsT AND souTH.

DOMESTIC trouble caused Mrs O. c.
Hanson. Of Pelican Rapids Mimi, to
hang herself and her year-old babe.
Is their home At Ellsworth. Wis,
Thomas Ecker. who was too sick to
move. and his 3-year-old boy were
burned To death.
\ CYCLONE struck the little town of
salem. Ala. and some fifteen houses
blown down. No lives were lost
The reported loss of the steamer
Buckeye on Puget sound with crew
OF twenty men was untrue.
WHILE rowing IN canal near
Augusta. Ga. Henry c. Lamar and Miss
Louise King Connolly were drowned.
NEAR Holly Oak, Del. Jonn Glover
and his wife Sarah were struck by a
raiload train and killed.
AT Memphis, Tenn. Col. II. Clay
King shot and MORALLY wounded At
torney David Poston.
The death Of Celestine Kaltenbach,
the oldest postmaster in the northwest,
occurred at his home in PotOsi, Wis,
aged =. He had been postmaster there
since ls3S.
HIRAM MCC0NKEY. of Springport,
Mich. woke on the 18th after sleep
ing ii hit months. He remembered
nothing since he went into the sleep,
but could recall everything previous to
that time.
At dance at Kilgore, Ky. ten men
were shot. six Of whom would die.
retail. lumt or dealers of ST Louis,
owing To trouble with wholesale firms.
propose 10 organize an interstate asso-
citation from the lakes To the Rocky
mountains, 70 offset the encroachments
OF the big concerns.
FLAMES burned ont eight business
firms in Chicago. the total loss being
S250,OJO.
BY the explosion Of a sawmiu boiler
near Efingham. H.. three men were
killed
jouN VI. PALMER was elected United
States senator ON the 154th ballot at
Springfield, Ill. receiving the votes of
Farmers Moore and Cocllren and the
I0I democratic members Mr.. Taube-
neck voted for Streeter. and the repub-
licanS east their ballots for Cicero y.
Lindlcy.
Is passenger ear in Texas James
>ewell president Of a bank at Ozark.
Ark. was robbed by two men of - O42
in bank notes
The I0-year-old ~nn of John Wiggiu-
ton has confessed that he and a broth
or. obeving th.ir fail er's instructions,
poisoned William Ferguson. r. c.
Watts and Miss Bcyd at Mount Ster-
ling. Nv. by putting arsenic in the
coffee
A LrvEF on the Mississippi river at
Coulev's lake. Tenn. gave way and
the village was completely flooded.
freaks in the river at other points were
reported
FIEE destroyed the Bohn sash and
door factory AZ Omaha Neb., causing a
loss Of $4,000: insured for $3.50. 600
N a wreck at Bethpage. Tenn, a
mail ear and contents was burned.
TWENTY passengers were injured by
the derailing Of train ON the Bellaire
4 GAINESVILLE road near Caldwell. o.
THE firm Of August Heintz & Co,
merchants at La Grange. Tex, has
assigned with liabilities of 500. 900 and
assets unknown.
The death was announced Of Thomas
u. Hall. If Columbus. Ind. who had
held a position in the United States
treasury az Washington since 1902. His
height was only ~ inches.
On a wager OF - 900 that he will
make the trip within six months Will
liam Brotherton left Napa. Cal. for
New York. trundling a wheelbarrow-
THE Ohio supreme court has decided
that the law creating the board of city
affairs 81 Cincinnati Is demonstrations
al being special legislation. The old
board Of public improvements at once
took charge Of affairs at Cincinnati