River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

girls, aged and b years, were knocked
from a railroad bridge near Nicholas
vile, Ky, to the rocks 60 feet below by
an engine and instantly killed.
AN old trunk which belonged To Ed
ward Baker who died recently near
St Louis, was found, and $4,000 in
money discovered. Baker left a widow
and three children, none of whom sus-
pected his having the money.
GEORGE DECKER, of Williamson, o.,
while handling a gun supposed to be
unlOaded, shot and instantly killed his
15-year-old sister.
ABOUT one-half the village of Charles
ton, Ark, was swept away by fire, in
GLIDING the courthouse and all the
records.
AT Tacoma, Wash, Edward Albert
son, secretary ana teller of the Fidelity
Trust Company bank, took 50, 900 from
the safe and fled.
WILL LEWIS (colored), aged is years,
was taken from Jail at TullehOma.
Tenn, by eight masked men and
hanged. Lewis was drunken rowdy,
but had been guilty of no great crime.
AN old soldier named Saltzgaber,
while preparing papers at Marion, Ind,
on which to secure a pension, walked
in front of a moving train on the Clover
Leaf railroad and was instantly killed
FLAMES destroyed the business por-
ton of Grand Mound. Ia
A BARN belonging to Mrs. DIR.
RICHTER, near Columbus, Ind, was
burned and nine horses persisted in the
flames.
In Detroit the Morton Backus Lum-
Der Company failed for 100000.
ATRsIN was wrecked near Grants
burgh, Mimi, and twenty persons were
badly injured.
AL MORGAN and Walter Lomax,
prominent business men and politicians
of North Arkansas. fought a duel at
Little Rock with revolvers and both
were fatally wounded
A. III. WHITNEY. of Quincy, Ill, and
A. III. Whitney, of Toronto. Ont, both
died suddenly in the Russell house at
Detroit within a few hours of each
other. These brothers in death were
neither relatives nor known to each
other.
The death of DIR. Lyman c. Draper,
the noted historian, occurred at his
home in Madison, Wis, of paralysis,
aged IS years.
AT the national encampment at
Cleveland. o.. ). ;. Yoder was elected
president Of the Union Veterans union.
j. H. MoRRIsoN's two daughters,
aged II and Is respectively, were
drowned near Birmingham, Ala, while
bathing.
NEAR Pomona, Cal, eastern capital
lists have bought $40 acres of land and
will set out $4,000 fig trees.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Fonda, Ia
AT independence, Ia, Faustino won
the s.. 600 stake for 5-year-olds, making
the last three heats in PISA, 2:17 and
2:1SJ5, the best three heats ever trotted
by a 3-year-old-
SOME 500 san Francisco employers
have formed an association to fight
trades unions.
IL the northwest frosts greatly dam
aged wheat and other crops. In por-
tions of Minnesota and the DakOtas ice
formed, the thermometer marking four
degrees below the freezing point
Is a joking way Mrs. Tillie Reck-
man. of Ironton, o., pointed a revolver
supposed to be unloaded in the face of
Mrs. Dora May, who was visiting her
from Ashland. nv. The weapon went
off. killing Mrs. May instantly.
A CALL has been issued for state
hood convention to be held at Okla
hOma City September "a next
On the Western North Carolina rail
road passenger train jumped trestle
and went to the bottom of a deep
ravine near Statesville, killing forty
passengers and injuring thirty others,
nine seriously.
THE death of Newton Bacon, the
oldest member Of the masonic order in
Wisconsin, occurred at Oshkosh, aged
90 years The deceased had been a
mason siNty-seven years
BARLOW ;. WEEKS. of New York,
was elected commander in chief at the
national encampment in Minneapolis
of the Sons of Veterans.
NEAR Red Oak. Mich. James Burns
and his.dlughter Alice were found dead
in their house. 1t was thought they
took their own lives.
IN street fight a. J. Montgomery
and two brothers named Jarvis were
killed by Milton Kendall and his four
sons at Georgetown, Ky.
MARYLAND republicans in state con
vention at Ocean City nominated w. Ct.
Van Mort, of Kent county. for gov
ernOr.
The failure of the Bremaker-M Moore
Paper Company of Louisville. Ky,
with liabilities of $500, 900. was re-
ported