River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-10

u Chicago thirteen alleged an
archists were fined from $40 to 500
/ each by Justice Woodman.
/ In Kansas City, Kan. a new bard of
holiness has been organized which has
/ fixed the end of the world TO come off
/ Christmas day of this year.
IN Minneapolis the first attempt in
the history of the country to afford re-
lief to the famine-stricken peasantry
of Russia has originated The scheme
/ is TO send a shipload of fl our to Russia
by the middle of next January, and
/ the 5000 merchant millers of America
| are to be asked TO help.
A SOLDIER named Frank Palmer. who
murdered Tremaine. an Indian scout,
near Fort Suliy, ). d.. in 1878. was
captured in Bonham, Tex.
A TRAIN on the East Tennessee. Vir-
1 ginia q Georgia road near Rome, Ga.
was held up by robbers who secured
81, 900 from the express car.
By the upsetting of a lamp Mrs
! George Martin and her son, aged IL
years, were burned to death at Denver
/ Col
DURING the absence OF Mrs. Clement
| Kits, of Lima, O.. the house caught
| fire and her two little children were
burned to death.
By the capsizing of boat four ne
groes were drowned in the river at
Memphis, Tenn.
/ AT Creston, Ia. Jasper Mans. his
wife and their two children were fatal
ly burned by gasoline explosion in
their house.
/ THE death of James Sanderson. who
was said to have killed 40 Indians in
the last twenty years, occurred at Fort
Sumner. n VI.
/ By the collapse of the wall of the
burned building recently occupied by
Farwell, Ozmun & Co. in ST. Paul
nine men were killed and six injured.
three fatally.
A BOILER explosion at Pope & Pull
ley'S mill near Hornellsville. Mo.
/ killed three men and demolished the
building.
/ EDMOND DICK TAYLOR, the father of
greenbaclx currency. an intimate per-
sonal friend and adviser of President
Lincoln. died at his home in Chicago.
aged 50 years.
MIR AND Mrs. LEVI Minis, an aged
couple near Liberty Center. la, were
cremated by the burning of their home.
/ AT Mount Vernon. Mo, Charles NJ.
Seaton was hanged for the murder of
Lewis Channel at Joplin, Mo, July 5,
/ 1888
/ OK his death bed Dr. Felix Roam, a
| prominent citizen of Caswell county,
/ y. C., confessed that he killed senator
John W. stephen twenty years ago.
4 SHOCK Of earthquake was felt at
/ Cincinnati and windows were broken
in some instances
THE bank at Belle Center, o., was
| robbed of Sl2,eOO
/ ONa trestle near Evansville, Miss,
| passenger train jumped the track and
| fell distance Of 30 feet, injuring six
teen persons, some of them fatally.
IL fit of jealousy Prof W. II. Nc
| Cubbins, of Maysville. Ark, shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself.
DURING the season just closed fifty
seven sailors lost their lives on the
great lakes. This was the largest num-
her of deaths of any year since the
| axes were navigated.
| THE cashier of the West Bend Ia.l
| Exchange bank. j. NJ. Daniels, left
town with his accounts $4,000 short,
besides owing $4,000 TO various per-
sons
FIRE destroyed the cotton mill at
| Des Moines. la, the only one in the
state. causing a loss of SIPS. 600
IL a livery-stable fire in Durango,
| Col, thirty -four horses persisted